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But would they rent or buy?
With Sunday night’s Season 5 premiere behind us, we finally can focus on what’s to come for the feuding families of Westeros. Though, to be honest, with the iffy climate and burnings at the stake, the seven kingdoms don’t actually seem all that great. So the folks over at real estate site Redfin made some predictions of where each “GoT” clan would settle in in five U.S. cities. Here in Chicago, they had the Baratheons moving to Edgewater, while the flashier Lannisters shacked up somewhere in the Gold Coast. Here’s hoping they remembered to reserve the freight elevator—that Iron Throne would be a bitch to lug up flights of stairs.
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Ouch
This is why you get stunt doubles, people. Promoting their new movie, “Hot Pursuit,” on Ellen Monday, Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara recalled an on-set incident that sent the former to the ER, People reports. “I push her and I push her, and I kept telling her, ‘I think I’m pushing you too hard,’ and she was like, ‘No do it real,’ ” Vergara said. Welp, she did. And Witherspoon ended up with internal bleeding and a popped ovary.
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Hot date: Nov. 18, 2016
That’s when “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” an “extension” of Harry Potter’s wizarding world, is set to hit the big screen—and it’s looking like it might be Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne in the starring role, Variety reports. Sources are saying Redmayne is the frontrunner to play magiczoologist Newt Scamander, whose adventures studying magical creatures are at the center of the “Fantastic Beasts” trilogy.
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We all know lots of crazy [bleep] goes down at Coachella. But even Drake wasn’t expecting this. The singer brought Madonna on stage with him at the California festival over the weekend and things got, well, weird. During the performance, Buzzfeed reports, the Material Girl laid a big, and what appears to have been, unplanned kiss on Drizzy. Much to the delight of Internet users everywhere, his bewildered face afterward has already launched many a reaction GIF.
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The digit: 77.6 million
That’s how many times NPR’s true crime podcast “Serial” has been downloaded since it premiered six months ago, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The 12-part series, about the 1999 murder of a Baltimore teen, has totally changed the way podcasts are perceived, “This American Life” host Ira Glass says. Research shows the number of people who listened to a podcast last month jumped 25 percent from the same period in 2014 and programmers are taking notice. “There’s an audience that’s still discovering podcasting even exists,” Glass said. “It’s like advertising a movie … only it’s 1910, and people have never been to a theater: ‘We’re going to be sitting in the dark?’ “
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Go big or go home
David Letterman’s last few Top Ten lists really should just be a roster of all the big names he’s landed to appear on his last shows. Before the late night vet’s May 20 finale, the host will sit down with Oprah, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin and John Travolta, among others, deadline.com reports. Successor Stephen Colbert’s star-studded send-off will be hard to top, but it sounds like Dave’s gonna give it a whirl.