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From Variety: Leonard Landy, 'Our Gang' actor, dead at 84

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Bluer Than Blue singer Michael Johnson dies at 72

From TV Guide: Embedded Video in this Tweet in which the cast & producers at the San Diego Comic Con panel share their ideas for titles of the potential sequels to Psych: The Movie

From EW.com/Entertainment Weekly: (Canadian Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau Reveals How The West Wing Influenced His Career Canada's current, second generation, Prime Minister (he's 1 of the sons of the late 2-time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau & his then-, much younger, wife Margaret Trudeau) is the guest on the newest ep of The West Wing Weekly podcast, which discusses the Dead Irish Writers episode of TWW. Presumably this appearance ties into the subplot where Donna is somehow refused admittance to Abbey's gala White House birthday party because it's discovered she was born in Canada instead of the US; but Prime Minister Trudeau is also on because he's apparently a big fan of the show.

From NOLA.com: Dolores Marsalis, wife of jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis and mother of 6 sons including jazz musicians Branford, Wynton, Ellis III & Delfeayo Marsalis, dead at age 80 due to pancreatic cancer

Mother of The Walking Dead Stuntman Thanks Fans, Starts Memorial Site

From The Hollywood Reporter: David Letterman and Norm Macdonald lament the sameness of late night TV Also... Here's info on tickets, the TV airdate on PBS, the presentation date, and the performers saluting David at this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor presentation.

From TV Guide: Rob Lowe says you haven't seen the last of The Grinder

From People: Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst remembers Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

From USA Today: Frank Sinatra's widow Barbara Sinatra, "Lady Blue Eyes", Dies at 90

Introducing Iron Chef Showdown... The new iteration of the show. Alton explains in the video embedded in the Tweet.

From E! Online: How Grace Park Prepared for Battlestar Galactica Comic Con Reunion After Hawaii Five-0 Exit This is in both print & embedded video versions on the same page. I read the print version & watched the video version. Having watched the video, & having heard her actually be asked about it, I got the feeling that H50 may now be firmly in Grace's past--a feeling I didn't necessarily get from just reading the same interview in print. And, honestly, if I got the correct vibe she was giving off about her current feelings about H50 that makes me kinda sad (& yeah I get that some actors aren't as emotionally invested in their characters & the works those characters come from as [at least some of] the fans are/can be). Where DDK, in the letter to the fans he posted on his Facebook after his leaving was announced, seemed perhaps sad to not be playing Chin anymore, Grace seemed, to me, to be more like "That's finally over! Let's move on to the next thing!" here. Towards the end of the interview she makes the interesting (to me anyway) comment that she doesn't want fame. If she doesn't want fame, why continue to be an actress (which I assume she's doing, continuing to be an actress) & sometime fashion model? Surely there might be something else she could do that's equally fulfilling to her, as the acting may be, but that could be done with little to no fame involved (or at least way less fame than having been on the BSG & H50 reboots has given her). I don't know...

Unfortunately it doesn't include the 8 minutes of video from the movie; it just talks about those 8 minutes. The video embedded in the article is the preview teaser with Dulé & James trying to get their Psych mojo back in regards to the catchphrases & some of Dulé's gestures.

From NBC News: Linkin Park releases statement on last week's death of band member Chester Bennington. (Sorry the type in the statement is so small)

From The Wrap-- Hawaii Five-0: Can the Show Survive Without Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park?

From MattCarter.com--Hawaii Five-0 Season 8: What Should the Ratings Expectations Be?

But Grace also didn't wanna do 18 eps this season (or however many Scott ends up doing this season--I based my figure of him doing 18 on there being 23 eps this season, which I've heard they're doing, & Scott still sitting out only 5 eps per season; 23 - 5 = 18); she wanted to do less than half of the eps (less than 11 or 12, based on a 23 ep season) so, like, no more than 10 probably (since 11.5 is half of 23), then get written out after the 10 (or however many) eps, & make the same amount per ep as Alex & Scott for that. At least that's the way I've always understood it when I've seen her "demands" in print. And I can be crappy at math, so maybe I'm figuring it out wrong & have been figuring it wrong all the time (& I also did "show my work", as it were, explaining why I think it's this way). I'm starting to think they should've just kept her on & then killed her off in or before Ep 10; there's canonical precedent for killing Kono off--the actor who played the original, male version of Kono was killed off in the 4th season of the original show because he either said or did something/behaved in some other way that pissed off Jack Lord, so Jack Lord had him fired.

@pinkglove: Oddly enough, Scott's absence from some episodes came up in Peter Lenkov's Twitter feed earlier today. The short conversation is above.

From The Star-Press, Muncie, IN: David Letterman's alma mater still sorting through his donated material

This isn't about the show per se, so I'm posting it here. From CNN: First woman enlists to become a Navy SEAL

From EW.com/Entertainment Weekly: Linkin Park sets up website in tribute to Chester Bennington

Embedded Video: In which Dulé Hill & James Roday fail to psych each other out

From People: Oscar Winner Jared Leto posts tribute to Linkin Park's Chester Bennington

Yes, but the character was apparently killed off before the show ended & they won't say if Mary's dead or alive in the movie (I hope that makes sense).

From NPR: Hawaii Five-0 Casting Announcement Doesn't Fix CBS's Larger Diversity Problem This includes some (I think) interesting comments from Masi Oka, both in support of DDK & GP & perhaps alluding to the issue of money being 1 of the unspoken reasons as to why he left the show & his character Max was written out at the last midseason.