As the daughter of stars Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith could do whatever she wanted with her life. The singer, actress, and model — who turns 15 on Oct. 31 — has chosen to whip her hair, rock the red carpet in bold ensembles, and steal the spotlight from her A-List parents, as evidenced by these snapshots from over the years.

By the time she was 6, Willow was showing up the rest of her superstar family in pictures. No one else is so serious about their smile, even though they have a lot more teeth! (Getty Images)

The little lady was right at home while being lifted up by two of the biggest movie stars in the world at the 'I Am Legend’ premiere in 2007. (Getty Images)

Red carpets might seem intimidating to some entertainment newbies. When Willow walked one for her first movie without her dad, 2008’s 'Kitt Kittredge: An American Girl,’ she was just fine. (Getty Images)

Willow, who was all of 8 at the time, owned the place at the release party for 'Hannah Montana: The Movie.’ She wasn’t even in it! (Getty Images)

At the Kids Choice Awards in 2013, Willow tried on a more sophisticated expression for the camera. (Getty Images)

Since “Game of Thrones” first aired, it has faced a steady stream of criticism for depicting women as sexual objects and displaying violence against the show’s female characters.

Last year, the controversy reached a fever pitch when a scene portraying Sansa Stark’s brutal rape inspired heated debate over the popular HBO series’ purported sexism, even prompting reclusive author George RR Martin to weigh in.

The latest episode, however, depicted its leading female characters seizing power — arguably the highest order of power demonstrated on the show to date.


The final sequences of “Blood of My Blood,” which aired last Sunday, couldn’t overstate it, positioning Sansa (Sophie Turner), Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), and of course Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) as the brains behind what looks to be a brewing battle in the seven kingdoms that will be led by — ahem — women!

One clear example of a woman usurping a man’s power involves Sansa — whose anger fuels her vengeful plot against tormenter and estranged husband Ramsay in a bid to win back her ancestral home. Reunited with Jon Snow — and on his turf at Castle Black — she clearly calls the shots in battle strategy sessions, even using her status as a full-blooded Stark to undermine his position and lead the charge. Snow is, after all, only her half brother, and therefore half Stark.

We’ve gotten used to Daenerys being in charge, and now she’s more dominant than ever, bent on conquering all of Westeros as she announced atop one of her full-grown dragons.

But Sansa’s rise to power is new, and shares similarities to that of Cersei, who is also guided by rage. She seizes her power through back channels, guiding her brother (and lover) Jamie to wage war against the High Sparrow who is in control of King’s Landing and their son, King Tommen.

The episode also portrayed power plays by Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), fleeing the House of Black and White on an apparent revenge quest. Even the normally docile Gilly (Hannah Murray) revealed her strength when attacking Sam’s wildling-hating father.


Still, Westeros’ most powerful women had to face shame and humiliation before their rise to dominance. There was Sansa’s aforementioned rape (and, as she has indicated on the show, there was much more than just one sexual assault committed against her); Cersei’s nude walk of atonement; and Daenerys’ forced confinement by the Dothrakis, who taunted her and threatened rape.

As Martin said last year, “Game of Thrones” depicts a patriarchal society based on the Middle Ages. That era — along with all of human history, really — wasn’t known for its fairness toward women.

Seeing the women of “Thrones” emerge is, at the very least, an example of how get a wide audience on board with a story of female empowerment. With the episode foreshadowing their preeminent power to come, “Game of Thrones” may finally win over its feminist detractors.

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We're days away from the Love Island final, and Megan Barton Hanson is still in the villa. Despite a number of Twitter campaigns to "get her out", she's still going strong (even if that is down to Wes Nelson's decision to save her).

A large number of viewers seem to have forgotten the all-important conversation surrounding the dangers of social media trolling – and the lessons that should have been learnt from Sophie Gradon's passing. There's been a narrative around Megan that veers into the realms of sexism and slut-shaming, poking fun at her cosmetic procedures and branding her a "praying mantis" for her behaviour towards the lads.

At just 24 years old, this Love Island contestant has shown clear signs of a young woman who doesn't quite know who she is, what she wants or where she fits in. A self-confessed "shy" girl, she arguably latched onto any attention that was thrown her way – a sign, in our humble opinion, of someone who's had their confidence knocked more than once in the past.

She may look like a classic pin-up, a total babe and a model who's been known to take her clothes off, but that doesn't make her fair game in the court of public opinion.

We can't help but be reminded of Jessica Hayes from Love Island 2015. She too found herself to be the underdog; a Page 3 model who, by her own admission, was often judged for the work that she did, Jess coupled up with a few different fellas during her time on the show. Like Megan, she was also criticised on the outside for her "flirty" ways – hands up who remembers that controversial date with the Italian twins?

Mirroring the current series, Jess was also up against a couple who had been together from day one – Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer are basically this year's Jon Clark and Hannah Elizabeth. Everyone thought that it was a done deal that Jon and Hannah would be crowned the '15 winners – they even got engaged on the show, for goodness sake.

But it was Jess who ultimately won the nation over, going from one of the most hated contestants to the most loved. Why? Because everyone wants to see a phoenix rise from the ashes.

Like Jess, Megan has gone through a journey on the show. Facing up to her insecurities, she's opened up about her concerns regarding her past and how people might judge her. Having previously claimed that she's "never had female friends", she's also learnt what it means to have the support of close girl relationships.

And she's done all of this in full view of the cameras, taking viewers along for the ride and imparting valuable lessons about judging someone on their looks or vocation of choice.

Yes, she has made mistakes – we're sure that everyone is in agreement that the whole Wes and Laura Anderson triangle could have been handled better. But that just makes her all the more relatable, right?

Megan has not only started to find herself on the show, but she's found her "love" in Wes – and that's what the show is all about, right?

Although she is playing a villainous character in her first Hollywood film, "Skyscraper", Hannah Quinlivan admitted that she enjoyed playing such a role very much.

As reported on Sohu, the actress who shed her bubbly cheerful personality to play deadly assassin Xia in the aforementioned movie, shared, "My character is very cold. She loves to kill and is good at it. She doesn't care about anything but to complete her task. She's a killing machine."

She admitted that it was exciting playing the bad guy as they are more interesting as characters.

"You just can't get this kind of experience in real life," she said.

Hannah, who gave birth to son several months before she shot the movie, revealed that she made a lot of effort to play a convincing assassin, including taking fight classes a month before the shoot.

"I had no martial arts skills. Compared to a giant like Dwayne Johnson, I am too petite. But I did a lot of homework," she said.

On the other hand, director Rawson Marshall Thurber said that he has a lot of confidence in Hannah.

"I bet if she fights with other people, she won't lose. Definitely," he said.

"Skyscraper" opens on 12 July.

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Breast cancer self-exams are controversial. (Photo: Getty Images)

If you’ve ever been intimidated by breast self-exams, a live tutorial on a morning talk show just clarified the procedure in a revealing demo.

On Friday, morning news show Lorraine, which airs weekdays on iTV in the United Kingdom, posted a Facebook video of a live breast exam conducted on a topless model. “The key thing is to examine your own breasts, to know if there’s any change in what’s normal for you,” said Dr. Hilary, a male physician, standing beside a female volunteer named Hannah, who was wearing a bathrobe.

Hannah then drops her robe and stands topless while the doctor takes viewers through a standard breast self-exam.

The video has been viewed 14,000 times on Facebook, and women have praised the show for the visual guidance: “That’s the first time I’ve done it properly, thank you”; “Well done, this was very informative. Thank you”; and “Very useful, thank you. I’ve been checking mine the wrong way. Glad I [saw] this.”

While the idea of live, televised breast exams aren’t really new, the concept is still controversial. In 2015, when a doctor demonstrated how to perform a self-breast exam on a female volunteer on iTV’s This Morning, viewers condemned the candid segment, particularly for featuring a male physician. (In previous years, This Morning aired live testicle and rectal examinations for cancer awareness.)

An Australian talk show called Mamamia also did a live demo on a topless woman in 2015. “Due to the nature of this topic we warn viewers that there will be some nudity, but we’re all adults. We think it’s really important to show exactly what’s going on rather than just talking about it,” host Sarah Harris told viewers.

And on Thursday, a doctor demonstrated a breast exam on a model wearing a sports bra, on Megyn Kelly Today.

There’s lots of confusion surrounding breast self-exams, a concept that originated in the 1930s, with the aim of educating early detection for breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer death among women (aside from lung cancer).

According to U.S. News and World Report, until the 1970s, self-screening was promoted by most doctors and breast cancer prevention organizations, until research suggested they were ineffective and actually increased the number of unnecessary biopsies and false-positive tests. For example, two large studies conducted in Russia and China showed similar death rates for breast cancer between women who did and those who didn’t perform regular self-exams.

“It’s important to separate out the public health implications from the implications for an individual woman,” epidemiologist David B. Thomas, MD, who authored the Chinese study, told NBC News in 2008. “If a woman is highly motivated — let’s say her mother or sister has been diagnosed with breast cancer — then of course she should practice breast self-exam. But that’s a different situation than trying to reach women on a mass scale. Our study shows that that’s probably a waste of time. You’re not going to get women sufficiently motivated to practice it well enough and frequently enough to make that big of a difference.”

Still, many doctors suggest that women, who are familiar their own bodies and their associated changes, conduct self-exams as a preventive measure and for lack of better options.

Televised breast cancer screenings are a matter of opinion, but for the 60 percent of women who hesitate to seek medical advice about their breasts in part due to embarrassment, a little nudity in the name of public health is probably worth it.

We’ve just passed the halfway point of the year and already there have been a host of gasp-inducing, screamworthy, jump-out-of-your-chair-and-fling-your-remote-at-the-screen scenes that remind us we’re in the second Golden Age of Television. So many, in fact, that we can’t wait for December ? here are our 10 favorite firework moments of 2016 so far.

Lexa Is Shot ('The 100')
Lexa was one of a kind. A fierce warrior, she united the 12 grounder clans in an unprecedented coalition and forged a truce with Clarke and the Sky People. Lexa quickly became a favorite among fans, many of whom were happy to see an openly gay character on the show. Her death was shocking and unexpected — by accidental shooting after finally consummating her romance with Clarke. And though fans were in an uproar, Lexa's death was a seismic event with major repercussions on Clarke, on the grounders, and on the entire human population of Earth. — Kelly Woo

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Norman Kills Norma ('Bates Motel')
Sure, you were expecting "Mother" Norma Bates would meet her end at some point in the series, but not now, and not this way! Fed up with their failure to build a happy life running the motel, with his own mental illness, and his mom's new husband, Norman Bates lit the Bates' home's furnace, shut all the vents, and assumed he and Norma would succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning. She did; he lived, and this all happened in the penultimate episode of the series' penultimate season. The Season 4 finale, then, confirmed Norma's new death was no storyline trickery? she's really dead, and Norman has already brought her body back to their home, so they can continue to live as (dead) mother and son. We can't wait to see what strange, wonderful, and always darkly hilarious twists the Bates gang cooks up for its final season. — Kimberly Potts

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Battle of the Bastards (‘Game of Thrones’)
Sansa warned Jon that Ramsay wouldn't follow conventional battle etiquette when the Stark forces faced down the Bolton army on the fields outside Winterfell. But did he listen to his sister? Of course not. And Jon's mistake very nearly costs him the fight, until Sansa helps him snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in fist-pumping fashion. We wouldn't have wanted to have been anywhere near that battlefield, but viewed from the comfort of our couches the "Battle of the Bastards" instantly joins our list of Game of Thrones' biggest and best action sequences. — Ethan Alter 

The Slap Heard 'Round the World ('The Good Wife')
Alicia Florrick is ride or die for her family, even her cheating, shady husband. Hey, it's right there in the title of the show! She stood by him during his first scandal, and she stands by him again during the second one (even though their marriage is long dead). There's nothing she won't do to protect her family, even if it means betraying her friend and mentor, Diane Lockhart. In return, Diane slaps her. It's a stunning moment showing just how much Alicia has changed since she was that meek victim in the glare of the cameras. — KW

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White House Down (‘House of Cards’)
Considering his long list of enemies, it's perhaps not a huge shock that someone would take a shot at President Frank Underwood. What is surprising is how close this particular assassination attempt came to succeeding. The bullets fired by disgraced journalist Lucas Goodwin put Frank in a hallucination-filled coma and his favorite Secret Service agent, Edward Meechum, six feet under. Fortunately, POTUS pulled through, which was a huge relief: After all, as much as we're supposed to hate him, we can't imagine an America (or House of Cards) without Frank Underwood. — EA

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White House Down (‘House of Cards’)
Considering his long list of enemies, it's perhaps not a huge shock that someone would take a shot at President Frank Underwood. What is surprising is how close this particular assassination attempt came to succeeding. The bullets fired by disgraced journalist Lucas Goodwin put Frank in a hallucination-filled coma and his favorite Secret Service agent, Edward Meechum, six feet under. Fortunately, POTUS pulled through, which was a huge relief: After all, as much as we're supposed to hate him, we can't imagine an America (or House of Cards) without Frank Underwood. — EA

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Duel of the Fates (‘Outlander’)
Visiting King Louis on a mission of mercy –springing Jamie from his jail cell — Claire winds up having to pass judgment on two other men: her friend Master Raymond and her nemesis, the Comte St. Germain. Relying on her quick mind and 20th century know-how, she concocts a fake poison to test their guilt or innocence to the charges of sorcery. But her best laid schemes, to quote a certain Scottish poet, go awry in highly dramatic fashion. — EA

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Horse Sex, But Was Afraid to Ask (‘Silicon Valley’)
Since Silicon Valley's quintet of tech geniuses very rarely get laid themselves (Gilfoyle excepted), the show has to look elsewhere when it wants to, in the immortal words of Borat, make sexy time. And things definitely got X-rated in the second episode when Richard became an accidental witness to an intense horse breeding session. "They cut around even more gross stuff," Thomas Middleditch told us. That means that Silicon Valley could be the first HBO sitcom to win an AVN Award. — EA

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Mike's Punching Bag ('Suits')
When Mike first got arrested for fraud (you know, for being a fake lawyer), it seemed impossible that he'd actually go to jail. Surely, he'd find a legal loophole. Or Harvey would intimidate someone. Or Donna would Donna. But instead, Mike takes a plea deal, against Harvey's advice — though the jury would've found him innocent. When Harvey needles him about how Rachel will fare while he's gone, Mike loses it and POW! He starts punching his mentor, each hit adding to the realization that he's about to go to prison. — KW

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Glenn Dies… Oops, No, He’s Alive ('The Walking Dead')
TWD fans were crushed when it looked like Glenn, the beloved former pizza boy who has become one of the series' most consistently selfless, heroic apocalypse survivors, had fallen into a pit of hangry walkers as his thanks for helping hapless coward Nicholas. There was a dumpster nearby, and Nicholas's dead body — after he shot himself — had fallen on top of Glenn? was it Nicholas's body the walkers were chomping on, then? Could Glenn have possibly scooched to safety underneath that dumpster? Viewers treated the "Thank You" episode footage like the Zapruder film, watching and re-watching from every angle, and even measuring the space beneath real-life dumpster in hopes of proving Glenn could have survived. And after nearly a month of speculation, it was revealed Glenn had hidden under the trash bin, he had managed to avoid being chomped on, and the show had pulled off a pretty major cliffhanger. Of course, that only served to fuel viewer disappointment and outrage when the writers went back to the cliffhanger well for the Season 6 finale cliffhanger with Negan, but the Glenn non-death remains one of the year's boldest TV twists. — KP

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We’ve just passed the halfway point of the year and already there have been a host of gasp-inducing, scream worthy, and jump-out-of-your-chair-and-fling-your-remote-at-the-screen scenes that remind us we’re in the second Golden Age of Television. So many, in fact, that we can’t wait for December to round them all up, so here are our 10 favorite firework moments of 2017 so far.

Hannah Commits Suicide (’13 Reasons Why’)
Netflix courted controversy with the 13-episode series about Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), a teenager who commits suicide after leaving taped messages explaining what (and who) caused her to do it. Angry parents and suicide prevention groups slammed the series for how it handled the sensitive subject both before and after the teen character’s death, while others were upset over an extremely graphic scene that showed Hannah slashing her wrists in a bathtub. Still, the show caused enough fireworks to get renewed for Season 2. — Victoria Miller

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Rachel Tells DeMario to GTFO (‘The Bachelorette’)
We’ve seen Bachelorettes send suitors packing without a rose ceremony, but this is the first time we saw a star of the ABC franchise tell a guy to get the eff out. When Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay found out DeMario Jackson didn’t dump his hometown girlfriend before courting her in front of ABC’s cameras, she was beyond pissed. The ghosted ex showed up in the middle of a group date, and Rachel later let DeMario have it in one of “the most dramatic” F-bomb-filled Bachelorette banishings ever. DeMario went on to find even more drama on Bachelor in Paradise, but you probably won’t ever see that scene play out on ABC. — VM

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Oh, Brother (‘Bates Motel’)
Big brother Dylan couldn’t save Norman from their smother, Norma, but Dylan was the one who granted Norman Bates‘s last wish: that he be reunited with Norma. Tragically, that required Dylan to shoot him — in self-defense, as Norman came at him with a knife — and hold Norman in his arms as he died, thanking Dylan as he drew his last breaths, just a few feet from dead Norma’s long-preserved body. Creepy? Yes. The perfect ending? Yes, especially since the deaths of his dysfunctional family provided the only chance Dylan had to forge a successful life of his own with wife Emma and daughter Kate. — Kimberly Potts

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Chuck Amuck (‘Better Call Saul’)
Other people realizing the truth about his electromagnetic sensitivity wasn’t the only cause of Chuck McGill’s breakdown in ‘Chicanery’; it also forced him to acknowledge that this — thing — that had ruled his life, tarnished his professional reputation, and made his life so small and closed off from the rest of the world was actually a product of his own mind. The scene — which featured one of the best performances of the year from Michael McKean — led to tragic consequences just five episodes later, and, it’s a safe bet, will continue to reverberate all the way to Jimmy McGill’s final descent into his full-on Saul Goodman persona. — KP

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The Party Fall (‘Big Little Lies’)
The question of who died and how at the school’s trivia night fundraiser loomed over the entire season of Big Little Lies. Finally, the big night came in the finale — cue the emotional fireworks. Celeste’s plan to leave her marriage was discovered by abusive husband Perry, who angrily confronted her at the party. Madeline and Renata leapt to her defense, but the shocker was Bonnie running into the scene to push Perry down the stairs (and onto a construction spike). That’s what friends are for. —Kelly Woo

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Party Stopper (‘Dear White People’)
Tensions were already running high when Winchester U. campus cops enter a house party where Reggie is taking a white friend to task for uttering the “N” word. Rather than de-escalate the situation, the officer only makes it worse by pulling a gun on the outspoken black student who is atypically stunned into silence. It’s an unbearably tense and timely moment where the real world intrudes on this collegiate bubble, and gives all the students on campus — both white and black —
a common cause to protest as the rest of the season unfolds. —Ethan Alter

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Pain in the Glass (‘Fargo’)
The McGill brothers of Better Call Saul weren’t this year’s only tragic twosome among TV siblings. Fargo Season 3 brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy each expressed a desire to end their bitter rivalry — sparked by a valuable stamp collection bequeathed to Ray by their father, but sneakily procured by Emmit — throughout the season. Pride, greed, and stubbornness kept the two apart, until the far, far more successful Emmit finally tried to return the most valuable stamp, encased in a glass frame, to his younger bro. But decades of mistrust were too much to overcome, and during a struggle, the frame slipped, the glass cracked, and a shard punctured Ray’s jugular, leaving Emmit watching as his hapless sibling bled to death. The stamp? Emmit later tossed it — the cause of so much alienation and death — to the ground, like a piece of useless garbage, as his life continued to spiral out of control. — KP

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BFFs No More (‘Girls’)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that good friends grow apart as they grow up. So it goes with Soshanna and Hannah, with the latter cutting the former out of her life to the point where Hannah didn’t even realize that Sosh had gotten engaged. While Marnie attempts to play peacekeeper between the battling buddies, it’s fairly clear that the Girls foursome is splitsville. Just as well: We can’t picture Sosh enjoying Hannah’s rural upstate digs. — EA

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They’re Not in the Good Place (‘The Good Place’)
With a show this sweet, yet slyly subversive, the one thing you don’t expect is to have the rug pulled out from under you after an entire season. Eleanor and company bring all their earthly insecurities into Heaven, only to find that old Sartre had it right: They’re actually in Hell and Hell is other people. It’s shocking, but also makes complete sense. Through Eleanor’s struggles to be a better person, we slowly learn that everything seemingly good is actually awful. While The Good Place had a grim view of the afterlife, it was a surprisingly optimistic view of human nature. —Robert Clarke-Chan

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Grey Sloan Memorial Goes Boom (‘Grey’s Anatomy’)
The Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital has been almost everything, from blackouts to shootings. The season 13 finale rocked the hospital with a new trauma: an explosion and resulting fire. Patients had to be evacuated, doctors had to treat them in the parking lot, and all while Dr. Stephanie Edwards was trying to save herself and a little girl. Edwards braved the flames and got burned for her heroic efforts — but the near-death experience led her to quit medicine to travel around the world. —KW

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Living on the Edge (‘The Handmaid’s Tale’)
Hell hath no fury like a Handmaid scorned. After being forced to give up her eye, her freedom, her body and, worst of all, her infant daughter to her jailers in Gilead, Janine lashes back in The Handmaid’s Tale‘s penultimate episode. Reclaiming her child from her lying lover, Warren, Janine makes it clear that she prefers a watery oblivion to life in this “godly” society. In the end, it’s up to Offred to tell Janine just how much she matters to the world, if not this misguided republic. Her words aren’t enough to pull Janine back from the ledge, but they do ensure that her act of brave defiance will resonate going forward. — EA

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Quinn’s (Final) Death (‘Homeland’)
He survived being shot (several times). He survived a brain hemorrhage. He survived poison freaking gas! It seemed like Peter Quinn was immortal, but he finally ran out of his nine million lives in the season 6 finale. Always the hero, Quinn drove through a line of fire to save the lives of Carrie and the president-elect. One bullet? Not a problem. Only a hailstorm of bullets could bring Quinn down. —KW

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Rayna Dies (‘Nashville’)
Nashville‘s country music queen already survived one terrible car crash — fate wasn’t going to let her survive another one. After escaping the clutches of a maniac stalker, a relieved Rayna was on her way home when — bam! She made it to the hospital, but her injuries were too severe. At least she got to say goodbye to her true love, Deacon. It was the day country music died. —KW

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Best Picture Mixup (The 89th Annual Academy Awards)
In February, movie lovers witnessed a history-making live TV moment when an envelope mishap at the Oscars resulted in presenter Faye Dunaway announcing the wrong winner for the evening’s most important category. After Dunaway announced La La Land as the winner for Best Picture, producers for the musical rom-com film were interrupted mid-spiel and told they actually didn’t win. Oops. Lala Land producer Jordan Horowitz graciously handed over the trophy to the real winner, Moonlight, while host Jimmy Kimmel tried to lighten the mood by blaming Steve Harvey for the whole mess. — VM

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Jason Blossom’s Killer Is Unmasked (‘Riverdale’)
Forget “Who killed Laura Palmer?” The question on everyone’s lips for the first half of 2017 was, “Who killed Jason Blossom?” The list of suspects behind the murder of Riverdale High’s King Bee was as long as the standing ovation following a Josie and the Pussycats concert. As with Laura, it ultimately proved to be a case of filicide, with Jason’s father, Clifford, doing the bloody deed. Unlike Ray Palmer, he didn’t have an evil demon to blame it on — unless it emerges that he was possessed by that pesky spirit known as MSH (Maple Syrup Hunger). — EA

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Mary Is Killed (‘Sherlock’)
John Watson’s wife has a murky past, but it’s her desire for a future that proves her undoing. Sherlock promises to protect Mary and John from her vengeful ex-mercenary teammate, but his over-confidence goads the real threat — an unassuming secretary who is the actual mastermind — into shooting Sherlock. Mary leaps in front of the bullet, knowing it’s the only way to protect John and their daughter from a never-ending stream of past misdeeds coming back to haunt them, leaving John to blame Sherlock for her death. —RCC

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Jack and Rebecca’s Explosive Fight (‘This Is Us’)
The first season finale of This is Us showed an ugly side of TV’s favorite throwback couple. The Pearsons’ perfect marriage cracked in the episode “Moonshadow,” when Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) threw shade at wife Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and her singing career, describing her as “40-year-old woman singing covers in a pub.” In return, Becks called out Jack’s “convenient” bouts of alcoholism that only seemed to crop up when she took a minute for herself. The blistering scene was shot in one long take and paved the way for the couple’s heartbreaking decision to give their marriage some air. — VM

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The President Is an Alien (‘Supergirl’)
Supergirl is steeped in the tradition and 80+ year history of DC Comics, and the writers delight in references both obscure and grandiose. Casting Lynda Carter as the president counts as the latter. Who wouldn’t want Wonder Woman as president? But it goes deeper than that; early in the season, we see her face flicker briefly, revealing that she’s a shapeshifting alien. Here to destroy us? No, to help guide us away from the fate that befell her planet. The layers of identity — woman, alien, refugee — all feed into one of the show’s primary themes: that we’re stronger together. —RCC

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Dougie Kicks Ass (‘Twin Peaks’)
“Dougie” has been a source of increasing frustration for Twin Peaks fans this season. We’re forced to watch Agent Cooper trapped in an addled, childlike state as his evil doppelganger continues to wreak havoc. But in a very Lynchian moment of surprising violence, Dougie/Cooper leaps into action, thrusting his wife aside to protect her from a gun-toting assassin. “Squeeze his hand off!” screams the electric tree from the Black Lodge, and Dougie/Cooper does — squeezing so hard that the police have to peel off a chunk of Ike’s hand fused to the gun’s grip. Agent Cooper, we knew you were in there somewhere. —RCC

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Flying Tiger (‘The Walking Dead’)
Just as Carl was about to lose his head — literally — and Rick was about to lose his hands to Negan and Lucille, Ezekiel’s pet tiger Shiva saved the day in The Walking Dead Season 7 finale. Negan was already into his batter’s stance and beginning his swing when Shiva flew out of nowhere and began her nosh of what appeared to be a tasty Savior soldier’s head. Her surprise attack allowed Ezekiel, Carol, Daryl, Maggie, and the rest of the anti-Negan faction to ride into Alexandria and put an end — until Season 8, anyway — to the Saviors latest attempt to control Rick and company. — KP

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Monica Bellucci is set to guest star on the upcoming Season 3 of “Mozart in the Jungle,” Amazon announced on Friday.

The “Spectre” Bong girl actress will play opera singer Alessandra on the Golden Globe-winning Amazon original series. According to the official character description, “Alessandra is as famous for her passionate performances as she is for her erratic life off the stage. After years away from the spotlight, she enlists Rodrigo to conduct her grand return performance.”

The series, which was picked up for a third season in February, recently won two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical for series star Gael Garcia Bernal.

Inspired by Blair Tindall’s 2005 memoir “Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,” it was developed by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers. Bernal stars along with Lola Kirke, Malcolm McDowell, Saffron Burrows, Hannah Dunne, Peter Vack and Bernadette Peters.

Italian-born Bellucci also starred in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions,” and played Mary Magdalene in the 2004 biblical drama “The Passion of the Christ.”

“Mozart in the Jungle” Season 3 begins production later this month.

Taiwanese star Jay Chou recently featured his baby daughter Hathaway in the new music video of his song, "Lover From the Past".

As reported on Hi Net, the MV, which was released by JVR Music on 29 May, started with a disclaimer, saying, "There is a girl, her name is Hathaway. When she was four months old, she played a melody. I am so proud of her. She is my daughter."

The music video was presented in a series of moving silhouettes, including one of Jay playing on the piano, a girl playing a violin, his wedding to wife Hannah Quinlivan, and finally a home video of then four-month-old Hathaway tinkering about to similar melody on a piano app.

According to Jay, it was wife Hannah and several fans who suggested that he used the melody to create a song for Hathaway. It was named "Lover From the Past" based on the old Chinese saying that all daughters were their father's lovers in their past lives.

(Photo source: instagram.com/_jaychou_)

This week’s “Game of Thrones” started right where last week’s left off. Meera (Ellie Kendrick) is dragging Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) through the snow, but isn’t having much luck.

Bran, still within one of his visions, sees several moments from the past, including the death of the Mad King. When they are attacked by wights, a mysterious rider appears and kills them all. He scoops them up and takes them to safety.


To the south, Sam (John Bradley-West) and Gilly (Hannah Murray) arrive at Sam’s childhood home, where they are greeted by his mother Melessa (Samantha Spiro) and sister Talla (Rebecca Benson). Later at dinner, they sit with his father Randyll (James Faulkner).

Faulkner does a superb job of capturing the stern father figure that is Randyll Tarly. He continually mocks Sam for always having his head in a book.

When Gilly defends Sam, Randyll deduces that she is a wildling and becomes outraged. Later, Sam decides he cannot leave Gilly and her son with his father. So he leaves his family home, but not before stealing his family’s Valyrian steel sword.

In King’s Landing, Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman) is finally able to speak with Margaery (Natalie Dormer). She is to make the walk of atonement, just like Cersei (Lena Headey). She has clearly fallen under the sway of the Sparrows and tells Tommen the gods have a plan for all of them.


Arya (Maisie Williams) is still tasked with killing Lady Crane (Essie Davis), a player in a Braavosi acting troupe. Despite some misgivings, she poisons Crane’s rum as instructed.

Bran comes out of his vision to learn that his long-lost uncle, Benjen Stark (Joseph Mawle), has returned. He tells Bran that he was killed by a White Walker north of the wall. But the children of the forest found him and saved him. He is going to help Bran become the new Three Eyed Raven.

The episode ends with Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) leading the Dothraki to Meereen. She rides ahead of the group and returns atop her dragon, Drogon. She declares that the Dothraki will help her destroy her enemies across the sea.

The controversial singer has popped up again in yet another iteration of Miley, this time the barely recognisable, laid back, bad a** version for the cover of
W magazine

Granted, the bad a** part is nothing new given her multiple controversies last year including a twerking scandal at the MTV Music Awards, lighting up what was believed to be a joint at the European Music Awards and of course a multitude of scantily clad photo shoots intent on pushing the envelope further and further from her Disney days as Hannah Montana.

Today, the new bad a** version of Miley sees her with longer ice-blonde locks (which straggly though they look, they actually suit her), bleached brows and a general demeanour that suggests should you tell her you don't like her or her music she'd tell you exactly where to go.

This ice cool siren look is backed up by an extensive interview with Ronan Farrow for the mag, covering a range of topics, the highlights of which can be found below.

"I don’t love them because, I mean, I think I was around too many kids at one point -- because I was around a lot of kids."

She continues, "Sometimes I hear kids with their parents, and I want to go over and, like, smack them myself…Like if they meet me, they’ll be like, ‘Mum, don’t you know how to use an iPhone? Like, can you take the picture?’ I'm like, ‘Dude, if I ever talked to my mum like that when I was a kid, I would have had no phone, no computer, no TV, no anything.’ And so, yeah, kids are just mean.”

Miley Doesn't Have Time For The Haters

"I don't give a s**t. I'm not Disney, where they have, like, an Asian girl, a black girl, and a white girl, to be politically correct, and, like, everyone has bright-coloured T-shirts. You know, it's like, I'm not making any kind of statement. Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they’re just jealous of what you have."