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Extra, Extra: Filmmaker Terry Gilliam Is NOT Dead
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- The L.A. Times' publisher and chief executive, Austin Beutner, was ousted today. He wrote alengthy Facebook post about how he was "not departing by choice" and was "fired."
- A member from K-pop group, GFriend, just couldn't stop falling down during a dance performance over the weekend.
- An police chief from Clatskanie, Oregon retired after other officers accused him of being "openly racist" and comparing African-Americans to monkeys.
- Here's a crazy video of the fireball that streaked over Bangkok, Thailand.
- The Rock is a real-life hero. He saved two French bulldog puppies after they fell in his swimming pool.
- After Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was released from a five-day stint in a Kentucky detention center for not issuing marriage licenses to to same-sex couples, she went to a rally in her honor. She came out to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." Welp.
- A guide on taking good man selfies.
- Verizon is planning on offering a free TV mobile streaming, aimed at millennials.
- Whoops! Variety mistakenly released an obit for filmmaker Terry Gilliam, who is not dead.
- And finally, this cockatiel whistling the Game of Thrones theme song is really impressive:
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