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Extra, Extra: The Sixth Street Bridge Immortalized On Film
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- The Sixth Street Bridge will soon be torn down, but it will live on forever in film and TV, including a Madonna music video, Grease, Terminator 2, and To Live And Die In L.A.
- R.I.P. French director Jacques Rivette, who made masterpieces such as Celine And Julie Go Boating and the 13-hour Out 1.
- The University of Kentucky now offers a college course on tacos 🌮.
- The Oscar winners broken down by factors such as genre, race, and budget. Surprise! White people have won the most acting awards.
- If you're one of the people that have ordered McDonald's new mozzarella sticks, you're probably wondering where's the cheese?
- KCET has mapped all the coyote sightings in Los Angeles. They're everywhere!
- Run All Night and Non-Stop are both highly underrated modern action masterpieces, so we're very excited about the forthcoming collaboration between Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra.
- Thousands (thousands!) have signed a petition calling for Snoop Dogg to narrate Planet Earth. The people demand it!
- And finally, @Seinfeld2000 answers the question, "What if Seinfeld was The X-Files?"
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— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) January 25, 2016
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