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- 0:02Speaker 1: The Shaw Report. Actress Selma Blair has appeared in court
- 0:09Speaker 1: after her mid-air meltdown that ended in her arrest on
- 0:11Speaker 1: several assault charges. And the story she's telling is she
- 0:15Speaker 1: was confused and disoriented after missing several doses of the
- 0:20Speaker 1: powerful medication she takes for her in remission multiple sclerosis. Right.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I was reading some stories about her this morning. She
- 0:28Speaker 1: has form. She has a history of biting. In recent years,
- 0:32Speaker 1: in the past, she has bitten, for various reasons at
- 0:35Speaker 1: various events, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, and Seth MacFarlane. Which
- 0:40Speaker 1: is very choosy on who she bites. In her memoir,
- 0:43Speaker 1: maybe too much information she gave in the memoir because
- 0:46Speaker 1: she's sort of cancelled herself out of some of these
- 0:49Speaker 1: excuses she's giving now. She says when she feels overwhelmed,
- 0:52Speaker 1: she bites. I've heard the same story about kids in daycare,
- 0:56Speaker 1: but not, you know. That's right. And puppies. Anyway, she
- 0:59Speaker 1: was arraigned in court on two assault charges for allegedly
- 1:02Speaker 1: repeatedly kicking a cop in the head and then attacking
- 1:05Speaker 1: a nurse when they got her to hospital after her
- 1:07Speaker 1: violent outburst on a Delta Airlines plane where she hit
- 1:10Speaker 1: one flight attendant and bit another. She's facing between two
- 1:15Speaker 1: and seven years in jail if she's convicted of these charges.
- 1:18Speaker 1: For now, she's been released on bail to appear in
- 1:20Speaker 1: court again in mid-January. The man convicted of the 1996
- 1:25Speaker 1: murder of rapper Tupac Shakur has been sentenced to 40
- 1:29Speaker 1: years to life in prison. Dwayne Keffie D. Davis was
- 1:32Speaker 1: in court to hear his fate overnight. The judge acknowledged
- 1:34Speaker 1: how long it took for justice to be served in
- 1:36Speaker 1: this case before announcing the sentence. Lena Dunham has announced
- 1:41Speaker 1: her HBO series Girls is going to return for a
- 1:43Speaker 1: new season next year, 10 years after its original run
- 1:46Speaker 1: wrapped up. The show, created by and starring Lena Dunham
- 1:49Speaker 1: and executive produced by Judd Apatow, will return for five episodes,
- 1:54Speaker 1: picking up where the characters left off a decade ago.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Most of the original show's main cast are back on board,
- 1:59Speaker 1: with one exception, Adam Driver, who played Dunham's character's on-again,
- 2:04Speaker 1: off-again boyfriend. She spilled the tea on her tumultuous relationship
- 2:08Speaker 1: with Driver in her recent memoir, revealing that after filming Wrapped...
- 2:12Speaker 1: They never spoke again. Oh, God, that went well. Speaking
- 2:17Speaker 1: of reboots, there's also this on the way. Oh. Ryan
- 2:23Speaker 1: Coogler's reboot of The X-Files has been ordered by Disney +. Now, Coogler,
- 2:29Speaker 1: who directed Sinners and Black Panther, to name just a
- 2:32Speaker 1: couple of his movies, has been developing this reboot for
- 2:36Speaker 1: several years. Coogler, who wrote and directed the pilot, expressed
- 2:39Speaker 1: his longstanding admiration for the original series. created by Chris Carter,
- 2:43Speaker 1: saying he intends to honour its legacy while offering a
- 2:46Speaker 1: fresh perspective. It will still be about two FBI agents
- 2:50Speaker 1: who form an unlikely partnership in a division dedicated to
- 2:52Speaker 1: unexplained phenomena. The original X-Files aired from 1993 to 2002,
- 2:57Speaker 1: won numerous awards, gained a cult following and starred Gillian
- 3:02Speaker 1: Anderson and David Duchovny. It does feel like the talk
- 3:06Speaker 1: of X-Files coming back has been around for a long,
- 3:08Speaker 1: long time. Oh, yes. He's been working on this for
- 3:10Speaker 1: a while. Finally, they may arrive.