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This Saturday night live on Showtime from the Cintas Center in Cincinnati is a welterweight fight between hometown favorite Adrien Broner (32-2, 24 KOs) and Adrian Granados (18-4-2, 12 KOs). This bout was originally scheduled for a catch weight of 142 pounds, but broner was having trouble making weight and his team negotiated the new 147-pound limit. This is an important bout for both fighters but maybe more so for Broner, as a loss could relegate him to gatekeeper status and a win by Granados could propel him to a future big payday and showdown with one of the welterweight champions.
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Walt Disney World has been gearing up for the grand opening of Rivers of Light, the first nighttime spectacular at Animal Kingdom. But this past weekend, theme park guests were able to see the full production for the first time as part of soft opening presentations.
What they saw on the Light side: floating lotus blossoms that morph into colorful, prancing fountains, oversized animal sculptures that could well be from a species of Tiffany lamps and gigantic water curtains featuring splashy wildlife projections.
What audiences didnt experience: a complicated story, animated characters or bombastic pyrotechnics common with Disney World finales.
As a kiss goodnight, Rivers of Light could be considered a peck on the cheek. Thanks for coming by; now, off to your cars, folks. See you real soon.
Sunday nights show, for invited guests and visitors who secured FastPass+ reservations, appeared to be smooth sailing. It began with the floating flowers that change colors with the music and eventually blossom to reveal fountains that shoot water streams in various forms and all directions. In the final moments of Rivers, the largest lotus sprouts a blazing tower, probably the most memorable segment of the show.
The floating fountains arent as sexy an effect as, say, 300 drones in the sky, but that doesnt mean they arent complicated. The units are in near-constant motion while traveling on the theme parks Discovery River, simultaneously spinning and spewing.
In the beginning, dramatic lighting on distant trees frames shadowy figures of animals. (Audience members also can hear them, allowing minds to wander to the real residents of Disneys Animal Kingdom.) Later, barges carrying boxy, internally lit animal figures drift into the picture. The one with two elephants brings to mind Stella, the calf recently birthed at the theme park.
Wildlife also take the spotlight on large, arched water screens, sometimes running across multiple sprays. Down on the waters surface, there are animals baby bears, assorted birds virtually splashing, thanks to technology tucked into the floating lotuses.
The show also has live humans on its watery stage, although they can get lost among the oversized imagery. A boat floats by with a drummer, but a silhouette on its sail commands attention.
All of this is set to an enjoyable, if evenly paced, soundtrack. The vibe is similar to the middle section of IllumiNations, the long-running nighttime show at Epcot.
Its been a long journey for Rivers of Light, which was announced in October 2013 as part of a push to add after-dark entertainment at Animal Kingdom. In March 2016, a debut date of April 22 was announced.On April 19, media members were shown a portion of Rivers of Light, but also were told that a limited-run show named Jungle Book: Alive With Magic would be the first production to appear in the new 5,000-seat amphitheater.
But Rivers, set to have its official debut Friday, should help to entertain the masses expected to check out Pandora, the Avatar-inspired landscheduled to open at animal kingdom on May 27.
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Julie Andrews made her grand return to the Ed Sullivan Theater for The Late Show Friday night, having appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961 to perform a song from My Fair Lady. The beloved actress recalled her time auditioning for the role with Stephen Colbert, and an amazing true story about what Richard Rodgersof Rodgers and Hammerstein told her.
After auditioning for her now iconic role in My Fair Lady withlyricist Alan J. Lerner, she went over to audition in front ofRodgers for the musical Pipe Dream. I gave an audition in a very empty theater and belted out my little aria as hard as I could, Andrews said, and I knew that somewhere out there Mr. Rodgers was sitting all alone or maybe with somebody and he came up on stage after. Id never met him, and he said to me,That was absolutely adequate."
Notinghe was just teasing, Andrewsrecalled being asked if she was auditioning for anyone else. When she mentioned the role in My Fair Lady, Rodgers generously responded, I tell you what, if they ask you to do the show, I think you should take that one. If they dont ask you, come back and see me because Id very much like to use you.
watch andrews tell the story in the clip above.
Elsewhere, Andrews previewed her Netflix childrens show Julies Greenroom, reminisced about herstunts filmingMary Poppins, and challenged Colbert to perform vocal exercises through a mouthful of grapes.
Without chewing them, Colbert had to recite as clearly as possible,With blackest moss, the flower pots were thickly crusted, one and all.
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Donald Glover continues to score roles that bring cinematic icons into the 21st century as the Childish Gambino rapper will play Simba in the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney"s The Lion King.
James Earl Jones will also reprise the role of Mufasa in the film, which will be directed by Jon Favreau.
Like Favreau"s remake of the The Jungle Book, the film will utilize CGI technology and green screen to transform the beloved 1994 animated movie into a live-action movie.
In addition to voicing simba, glover has also been cast to portray Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Star Wars anthology film about a young Han Solo. The Golden Globe-winning multi-hyphenate will also return to his Atlanta in 2018.
As the Hollywood Reporter notes, Favreau and Glover previously met during a panel discussion on creativity, with the filmmaker admitting to the rapper, "By the way, full disclosure: I see your face every day when I wake up my 15-year-old son because on his door is a portrait of you."
The Lion King joins a wave of live-action Disney films adapted from the company"s legendary catalog, including The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, the upcoming Beauty & The Beast and the planned Little Mermaid remake. A sequel for Favreau"s Jungle Book is also in the works.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) A Texas judge says a lawsuit against the widower of slain Tejano star Selena can proceed as her father seeks to block a TV series about her.
Lawyers for Perez wanted the lawsuit dismissed based on free speech grounds. They had no immediate comment on Fridays ruling.
Quintanilla is suing Perez and two companies planning to adapt the widowers memoir into a series. The lawsuit says that after Selenas 1995 slaying, Perez signed a deal that gave all rights to Selenas likeness and name to her estate.
Selena Quintanilla-Perez was shot by her fan club president, now serving life in prison.
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Now in its 60th year, theWorld Press Photo contest highlights images that visually capture events of the prior year. And this year"s winners are no different, including refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean, children wounded by the war in Syria and Olympians pushing through the finish line.
Butthe images also depict triumph and turmoil in the animal world, where many of the winning selections show how humans come into conflict with naturewith plants and animals usually falling on the losing side of the equation.
The winner of the single image nature category, by Spanish photographer Francis Prez, depicts a sea turtle photographed near Tenerife in the Canary Islands wrapped up in afishing net. Despite many attempts tolimit the use of plastics, the troubles with marine debris have persistednot only wrapping around sea lifebut also poisoningthem.
A wild leopard takes a nightime stroll through Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a protected area in the northern part of Mumbai, India, in September 2016 (World Press Photo/Nayan Khanolkar)
navigate the human-mediated world. The shot, captured with a camera trap by Indian nature photographer Nayan Khanolkar shows a leopard hunting in the alleyways of a village in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, just on the edge of the huge metropolis of Mumbai.
Khanolkar, who has been doing wildlife photography for 20 years, strives to "tell the story of how wildlife is coexisting with city life," he says toVijay Singhl atThe Times of India. The shot capturesan area where humans commonly coexist with leopards, Khanolkar notes. But venturing deeper into the city, where fear of the creatures is high, is hazardous for leopards to prowl.
Monarch butterflies on the forest in El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary, in Michoacn, Mexico, after strong snowstorm in March, 2016 (World Press Photo/Jaime Rojo)
The third place single image is by Mexican photographer Jamie Rojo depicts the forest floor covered in monarch butterflies that froze to death after an intense winter storm hit their wintering grounds in El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary, in Michoacn, Mexico, west of Mexico City last March. The storm destroyed 133 acres of pine forests in the core wintering area for the butterflies, killing 6.2 million of the winged insects, about 7.4 percentof the 84 million butterflies that overwinter in Mexico, theAssociated Pressreported at the time. Climate change is a major threat to the butterflies, influencing their migration patterns and weather conditions at their overwintering grounds. That, along withillegal logging and pesticide useare the biggest threats to the species.
Brent Sirtons photographs of poaching and poachers in South Africa, which took the top prize in the nature stories categories, document another human-created threat to animals. On assignment forNational Geographiche took a series of images capturing the rhino-horn trade in south and eastern Africa. Sirton writes that while South Africa is has the largest reserve of rhinos in the world, a battle is taking place along the South Africa and Mozambique border. If an animal crossed into Mozambique, he explains, its life expectancy drops to less than 24 hours.
Sirtons images chronicle the carnage fromthe rhino-horn trade, including a freshly slaughtered black rhino left to rot at a watering hole and the recovery of Lulah, a one-month old black rhino who was attacked by hyenas after her mother was poached. Though she lost her ears, part of her nose and was injured in the legs by the attack, she was expected to recover.
Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, at a conservation center in Wolong Nature Reserve in China (World Press Photo/Ami Vitale, for National Geographic Magazine)
Not every featured image of human interactions with nature, however, isso negative. Ami Vitales second place story-telling entry chronicles the efforts to breed and return pandas to the wild. Also on assignment forNational Geographic,Vitale documents the techniques perfected by Chinese researchers in the past quarter century tohelp the iconic animals procreateand prepare them for life in the wild. Its a great success story, which resulted in the recent controversial decision todowngrade pandasfrom endangered to vulnerable status.
The third place winner in the story category actively tries to avoid any human interactions with wild animals. Hungarian photographer Bence Mt is known asthe invisible wildlife photographerbecause of the elaborate hidden blinds he constructs to get close to his subjects without their notice.
For his winning series of images of African animals ata watering hole at night,he spent 18 nights at the Mkuze Estate, KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa, he tellsNational Geographic. Using a remote-control camera, he took about 15,000 images using a 40-second exposure, which capturesghostly images and blurs of his nighttime visitors, including fallow deer, elephants, water buffalo and hippos.
Continuing a long-standing trend, millions of dollars worth of winning tickets for popular games like Powerball and Mega Millions went unclaimed during the fiscal year that ended June 30.(Photo: Bonnie Lutzewitz/Post-Crescent Media)Buy Photo
MADISON - Someone who bought a Powerball ticket worth $1 million has until Thursday to cash in.
The ticket was sold in Madison for the Aug. 6Powerball drawing. The ticket matched the first five numbers drawn, but not the Powerball. Still, the combination entitles the owner to $1 million, but the ticket holder needs to act quickly.
The winning numbers of the Aug. 6 drawing were20, 33, 36, 47 and 52 with a Powerball of 12. The Power Play number was 3.
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"Once lottery numbers are drawn, winners have 180 days to claim their prize," said Casey Langan, Wisconsin Lottery spokesman.
The ticket owner must claim the prize by 4 p.m. Thursday atthe Wisconsin Lottery"s headquarters at 2135 Rimrock Road in Madison. The owner can also mail the ticket to the state lottery headquarters, but the letter must be postmarked before Friday.
The unclaimed ticket was sold at Kelley"s Market, also known as Aberg Avenue Mobil, at 2601 Shopko Drive in Madison.
"If the ticket goes unclaimed, then the $1 million prize is returned to all Wisconsinites in the form of property tax relief," Langan said in a release.
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