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Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Legacies episode called The Story Of My Life. Read at your own risk!

Hopes continued fight against Aurora is chugging along, although the situation definitely got more complicated in the latest Legacies episode. In short, we now have another supernatural entity added to the mix, and Hope realized after tussling with one of them that she needs an ally if she wants to achieve her goals. If Hope is going to take down Aurora and risk scuffles with demi-gods and gods, she needs Lizzies help. Lizzie didnt want to help, but as we learned in the latest episode, she didnt have a choice.

Lizzies transition to Heretic (witch and vampire hybrid) gave her more strength to take on Hopes Tribrid abilities, but it came at a terrible price. Because the blood Lizzie ingested was that of Hope, shes now sired to Hope and cannot disobey any order that Hope should give. As such, Lizzie doesnt really have a choice but to tag along when Hope asked her to join, though its worth noting that Hope didnt need to force Lizzie to come along despite her objections of risking her newfound immortality on a suicide mission.

We didnt learn the identity of the slacker student who Hope suspected was a god after the girl blasted the Tribrid aside like she was nothing and flew away. Legacies did, however, reveal that Ben, the person who the teens back at the Salvatore School helped, was actually the god Prometheus. Prometheus is known in mythology for giving humans fire and being punished for it by the gods in a rather gruesome way. Thankfully Ben confirmed some of that is a myth, though didn't go deep into specifics.

In this telling, it appeared Legacies credited Prometheus with awarding humans the ability of magic. Ben was grateful the Salvatore kids helped him out and seemed to forge a close bond with Jed. It seemed like something a little deeper than a bromance could form on that front, but its too soon to tell.

Legacies adding gods to the mix is an exciting development, though its not known exactly how big of a role theyll play in the story at this point. For example, next weeks episode, called Follow The Sound Of My Voice, takes the typical show detour, and it seems the heroes will wind up at some random carnival that is anything but normal. Check out the synopsis for the episode, which doesnt mention gods once.

Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) and Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) find themselves at a carnival with an unusual cast of characters. Back at the Salvatore School, students are speaking their minds without knowing why, which makes Jed (Ben Levin) reveal a secret, and Cleo (Omono Okojie) works on protecting one of their own. Meanwhile, Kaleb (Chris Lee) and MG (Quincy Fouse) set out on a mission, which does not go as planned.

At least based on the episode description, we can safely say that Lizzie is actually forced to stay by Hopes side, because I doubt the Legacies character would stick around if she didnt have to. Who knows, though? Perhaps Hope can benefit from teaming up with someone who is always willing to embrace her humanity. Lizzie could just convince Hope to return to her normal self, but thats going to take time.

Legacies airs on The CW on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. ET. Its just one of the few returning shows worth checking out this year, and hopefully, one that is better than when it went into break.

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Legacies Revealed Another Supernatural Entity, And A Surprising New Ally For Hope - CinemaBlend

Golf Channel personality David Feherty will host next months World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

The ceremony will be held March 9, on the eve of the Players Championship. The event will air live on Golf Channel at 7 p.m. ET.

Tiger Woods is among the four Hall of Fame inductees, along with Tim Finchem, Susie Maxwell Berning and the late Marion Hollins.

The ceremony will be held at the PGA Tours new headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

As someone who has been around golf practically my entire life, I know firsthand that the highest possible honor in our sport is the immortality that is reserved for members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Feherty said in a release. Im thrilled to contribute in some small way to what will be a historic evening as the Hall of Fame honors its new inductees.

The Hall ceremony will also recognize Peter Ueberroth and the late Dick Ferris as recipients of a newly created lifetime achievement honor. Renee Powell will also receive the inaugural Charlie Sifford Award for advancing diversity in golf.

Feherty, an Emmy-nominated golf personality, has been with Golf Channel and NBC Sports since 2015.

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On Thursday, Russia, in spite of its assurances that it would not, launched an offensive against neighboring Ukraine. At least 57 have been killed and 170 others injured according to an update on Thursday by Ukraines Minister of Healthcare Oleh Lyashko.

Russia has become an international pariah, and the cost to the countrys citizens will be high in lives and in money after the western world has unleashed substantial financial penalties upon the country. The Russian stock marked plummeted 33% on Thursday, its biggest-ever drop, as Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his countrys investors that they must pay their part for this war in lost wealth.

And why? Because he feels like Ukraine belongs to him, and Russia, and his legacy. As former American soldier and politicianJason Kander said on Thursday: 19 year old Ukrainian boys and 19 year old Russian boys are going to die because of Putins futile search for immortality through legacy.

What does this have to do with swimming? FINA, the world governing body for sport, is planning to host two of its major 2022 competitions in the country: the World Junior Swimming Championships and the Short Course World Swimming Championships.

In fact, with legs of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series and FINA Diving World Series coming up from April 8-10, FINA will take at least four trips to Russia this year.

The awarding of these events was always questionable for reasons more directly related to sports: Russia was supposed to be barred from hosting international sporting events because of the failure of their doping system, a threat that was ultimately proved empty.

But now, with the invasion and bloodshed in Ukraine, FINA has another reason.

Its not that Russia is the first country to be involved in armed conflict in the last decade. The United States and others have been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq for nearly 20 years. China and India have been involved in border skirmishes over the last two years and have resulted in at least 24 deaths (and as many as 60 deaths, depending on which side is to be believed).

But those military actions all had reasons, be them good reasons or bad reasons. They werent the unilateral decision of a deranged dictator citing a false revisionist history to describe an inalienable right to another sovereign countrys allegiance.

Sport governing bodies like FINA cant take sides in every international conflict. That would be an endless spiral. But some actions are so egregious as to warrant it.

Putin will, of course, assure the world of the safety of athletes, including those from the Ukraine, at the events his country hosts. But he also said that claims in January that Russia would invade Ukraine were ridiculous. The whims of Putin cannot be trusted.

SwimSwam reached out to Ukraines best active swimmerMykhailo Romanchuk, and he said he didnt want to discuss the events in his home country and their future hosting, because this war is about more than swimming, it is about peoples lives.

Romanchuk won silver in the 1500 and bronze in the 800 at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.

And hes right: the hosting of swimming competitions seems silly and trite in a time where dozens have lost their lives and where many more could in the coming days and weeks.

But swimming is also the only avenue that we have to put pressure on Russia, to alert them that these actions are not acceptable in a peaceful global community. It is the only thing that FINA can do that matters, it is the only thing that Romanchuk can do that matters, and it is the only thing that I can do that matters.

Will FINA move? Probably not immediately. The governing body, which has already been locked in a quagmire of moving meets driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, wont react until they see what each countrys next moves are. Brent Nowicki, the new CEO, is an American, while Husain Al-Musallam, the new President, is a Kuwaiti. Kuwait, incidentally, stands to profit dramatically from the conflict: oil accounts for nearly half of the countrys GDP, and the conflict has already sent the price of oil skyrocketing, peaking at $102-a-barrell on Thursday.

But Al-Musallam of all people should appreciate whats happening in Ukraine, which is reminiscent of Saddam Hussains 1990 invasion of Kuwait at a time when he was a captain with Kuwait Airways.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has blocked all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country in the event that they need to be conscripted for a military response. Romanchuk is currently training in Ukraine.

FINA is already in a competition with the International Swimming League (ISL) for the hearts of athletes. The ISL is owned by one Konstantin Grigorishin, who was born in the Soviet Union and obtained Ukrainian citizenship amid a tax dispute with Russia. Russias military action is wildly unpopular in most of the world, and it is going to be a tough pitch to convince athletes to attend the events in that country.

Thats not to mention the technical difficulties that could come with hosting, and paying vendors or federations, if some of the most severe financial sanctions come to fruition, including removing Russia from the SWIFT financial system.

FINA must remove its events from Russia. Its the right thing to do for its athletes, for the sport of swimming, and for the people of Ukraine.

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LONDON Opposite art world titans attract in The Collaboration, a new play that opened Thursday at the Young Vic Theater here. Chronicling the creative partnership between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat during the 1980s, Anthony McCartens play offers bravura performances from Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope as the two cultural icons.

And if the writing isnt fully the equal of its star turns, well, a film version of this play is already planned. A movie should give McCarten the opportunity to sharpen a script that, as of now, only begins to deliver on its promise in the second act.

This writers track record with biopics certainly bodes well for Bettany and Pope when they transfer to the screen: The movies McCarten wrote about Stephen Hawking (The Theory of Everything), Winston Churchill (The Darkest Hour) and Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody) brought Oscar wins for each of their leading men. His 2019 film, The Two Popes, earned nominations for the co-stars Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins and is the closest of those movies in structure to The Collaboration.

Like that film, with his new play McCarten imagines a duos conversations and conflicts. At the beginning, Bettanys lean, languid Warhol isnt sure about the commingling of talent that the Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger (an excitable Alec Newman) has in mind for him and Basquiat: a joint exhibition to decide which of the two is the worlds greatest artist. Bischofberger has an eye on publicity and regards painters, he says, as boxers.

Gee, Warhol objects to the gallerist, you make it sound so macho, like a contest. Popes initially indrawn, pouty Basquiat, 30 years Warhols junior, isnt any more certain that he wants to be part of a double act: Hes old hat. Does anyone really care about Warhol now? One man traffics in brands and pop culture iconography (we see Warhols signature Marilyn Monroes on the walls of Anna Fleischles flexible, white-walled set), the other sees logos as the enemy. Art, Basquiat maintains, has to have a purpose.

The material follows a dramatically predictable course from mutual wariness to admiration, leading eventually to love. In fact, that very word is voiced in the penultimate line. Dismissive of Warhols attraction to surfaces at the expense of substance, Basquiat comes to adore him as a protective rival turned father figure, of sorts.

I hope you dont die, Jean, Warhol cautions, insisting that the addiction-prone Basquiat clean up his act. The younger artists reply is to insist on his own immortality, unaware, of course, that both men would die not long after, within 18 months of each other. When they do actually collaborate on a sequence of paintings its given surprisingly little stage time; you miss the specific attention to the artistic process that fueled a play like John Logans Tony-winning Red, about Mark Rothko.

The director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets up close and personal with Warhol and Basquiat as the duo move beyond some fairly labored exposition (like when Basquiat, on cue, details his Haitian-Puerto Rican parentage) to achieve real power. The two actors manage to find something primal beyond the boilerplate writing.

Pope, an Emmy and two-time Tony Award nominee, fills with fury as we see Basquiat at work on Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), a painting created in response to the police brutality that resulted in the death of a young graffiti artist in 1983. The canvas inevitably chimes with the Black Lives Matter movement Basquiat never got to see, and lends The Collaboration a wrenching topicality.

A springy, restless stage presence, that sweet-faced actor communicates the heightened edginess of a man hurtling toward disaster. Its a shame, therefore, that the belated arrival into the play of Basquiats girlfriend Maya (Sofia Barclay) seems perfunctory, as if McCarten werent sure quite how to broaden the story beyond the artist duo.

Bettany, in turn, is a marvel in his first stage role in several decades. The Englishman, a longtime U.S. resident, has starred in Marvel movies and recently impressed as a forbidding Duke of Argyll in the BBC TV show A Very British Scandal, which will come to the United States in April.

A figure of white-wigged insouciance still reeling from having been shot by Valerie Solanas some years before the play starts, this Warhol reveals an insecurity and disgust that take the part well beyond caricature. Survival, you sense, is no less precarious for him than it is for Basquiat. The two legends are hellbent on self-laceration, reminding us that, no matter how great our cultural legacy, were all mortal.

The Collaboration.Through April 2 at the Young Vic in London; youngvic.org.

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The Awakener

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The Brazilian federal agent Miguel Montessant (Kiko Pissolato) has just arrested a corrupt governor, Sandro Corra (Eduardo Moscovis), on charges of embezzling public funds from hospitals. But Montessant knows that regardless of the mountain of evidence facing Corra, he will go free, aided by a corrupt government. Worst yet, an errant bullet strikes Montessants young daughter while she is on the way to a Brazilian soccer match. Although the slug injures her, what kills her is the inadequate care provided by an underfunded hospital. Now the once straightedge agent wants revenge.

Based on the Brazilian graphic novel O Doutrinador, the directors Gustavo Bonaf and Fbio Mendonas vigilante superhero film features bloody and brutal murders set to a raucous punk score. During a protest, Montessant dons a gas mask with red-lighted vision and beats the governor with his bare hands to a bloody pulp. He later teams with a hacker (Tain Medina) to hunt down the other dishonorable governmental string pullers. The glut of American superhero films can obscure the richness of the genre, especially its potential for political statements. But The Awakener, even in its depravity, refreshingly restores that power of meaning.

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In the director Sukumars epic action flick, a low-wage laborer named Pushpa (Allu Arjun) is forced to illegally harvest a rare wood that only grows in the Seshachalam Hills of southeastern India. Despite his unkempt appearance, Pushpa is the prototypical action hero: stoic, egotistic and defiant of authority figures, particularly the local capitalistic businessmen and corrupt cops. Hes the kind of Joe cool, who, when offered water after a merciless beating, extends the refreshment to his huffing torturer.

Pushpa: The Rise is an origin story. The single-named hero advances through the ranks of the smuggling operation, wrestling power from a ruthless dealer along the way. The big musical numbers and clean, fluid fight choreography are enrapturing. Pushpas escape from underworld thugs is so hilariously outlandish (he careens through a jungle blindfolded), I immediately wanted the sequel.

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On its face, the story of a genetically engineered being created to foster immortality in humans would seem primarily like science fiction. But the film has more up its sleeve. The dehumanizing scientists call this creature the Specimen, yet his real name is Seobok (Park Bo-Gum), a clone made from stem cells, impenetrable to disease. With his higher brain function he can even manipulate matter. The latter ability puts him in the terrain of mutants, making the South Korean director Lee Yong-jus film another crisp, adventurous reimagining of the superhero subgenre.

The American and South Korean governments would rather this clone did not exist. They believe an immortal world, filled with ambivalent humans, could lead to extinction. Chief Ahn (Woo-jin Jo), the head of an intelligence agency, brings on the former operative Ki Heon (Gong Yoo) to help transfer Seobok to a safer location.

Massive, Christopher Nolan-style set pieces fill Lees film (Ki Heon drives a semi-truck through a brick wall). Unlike other blustery superhero flicks, however, an existential dread consumes this movie: If dying is like sleep, then why arent we afraid to sleep? asks Seobok. These kinds of poetic reflections set the poignant Seobok: Project Clone apart from other, slighter action flicks.

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An Indian adaptation of Tom Tykwers Run Lola Run, the director Aakash Bhatias Looop Lapeta features a similar visual playfulness, gleefully experimenting with smart, dynamic compositions, while managing to add new, plentiful layers. After the former sprinter Savi (Taapsee Pannu) attempts suicide, she falls in love with the gambling grifter Satya (Tahir Raj Bhasin), a man with a smile for every occasion. They live a devil-may-care, albeit penniless life, often upended by Satyas misguided get-rich-quick schemes.

When Satya loses $5 million of his underworld bosss money on a bus, however, they discover a trouble that may be too big, even for them.

Much like Lola in the original, Savi, in trying to save Satya, becomes stuck in a time loop while learning to be a kinder person to the people around her. Fascinatingly, Bhatia maps the ancient myth of Savitris deception of Yama (the god of death) onto Tykwers Eurocentric concept, adding a uniquely Indian resonance to the action. Mixed with sharp comedy, screwball characters and idiosyncratic split screens, Looop Lapeta is a fun yet introspective entanglement of romance and action.

Sami Najjar (Ziad Bakri) was once a well-respected translator. But following a gaffe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when he mistranslated the words of his childhood friend, a Syrian boxer, he was banished from his homeland to Australia. Now, a decade later during the Arab Spring in Syria, with his activist brother Zaid kidnapped by pro-regime forces, Sami returns to find him.

The directors Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalafs film, a subdued political action-thriller doubling as a character study, hinges on Bakris gripping performance. Sami comes back to a frightening world of random death: Snipers patrol buildings, killing squads hunt indiscriminately and the unrelenting governmental surveillance makes every move made by Sami a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. A twitchy camera, as startled as the viewer, translates Bakris frenetic body and his arched anguish.

Family drama ensues too: Samis sister Karma (Yumna Marwan) despises how Sami has hidden in Australia rather than fight, making this film about the pain of being left behind and abandoned both by family and the greater world. That potent mix of hurt and anxiety makes The Translator wholly unshakable.

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The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl for the first time in more than three decades. After two rebuilding seasons, the Bengals are looking to prove they're not underdogs anymore.

It was only two seasons ago the Cincinnati Bengals were the worst team in the NFL, finishing with only two wins. Now, they're one game away from being Super Bowl champions.

The excitement surrounding the Bengals this year is both palpable and unexpected. Football fans around the country are rooting for the underdogs this Sunday, and yes, that even includes some fans of the Cleveland Browns, their in-state rivals.

A lot of the excitement revolves around Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. On social media, you can see him wearing funny sunglasses or smoking cigars. On the field, you'll see him leading game-winning drives and commanding the offense. On Sunday, he could become the first quarterback to ever win a Heisman Trophy, a College Football Championship, and a Super Bowl. Bengals radio play-by-play announcer Dan Hoard says Burrow is exactly what the franchise has been looking for.

"A great leader, a tremendous quarterback, and perfect for Cincinnati," Hoard said. "The Bengals were fortunate to be really bad two years ago and be in a position to draft Joe Burrow."

The stunning turnaround certainly caught Cincinnati by surprise. And now the city is abuzz for its underdog team. Buildings are lit up orange; people are lining up to buy limited edition Bengals beer; and some are even chugging cans of Skyline Chili in the streets. The last time the Bengals were in the Super Bowl was 1989, where they lost by four points to the San Francisco 49ers. That was the last game of Pro Bowl receiver Cris Collinsworth's career, who's calling the Super Bowl for NBC this Sunday.

"I think for a Midwestern city, when they get this kind of opportunity, when they get the chance to go on the world stage in many ways for the first time in over 30 years that theres a buzz and an excitement and a coming together for a city," Collinsworth said.

The Bengals have only managed nine winning seasons since their last Super Bowl appearance. Katelyn Snyder was born after that season and has been a fan her whole life.

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"You have to just keep telling yourself that next season's going to be the season, that we're going to do better next season," Snyder said. "I feel like every season, you know, 'OK, we're going to do better this season. This is the season."

And this season, not only is the quarterback shining, but so is the kicker. The rookie Evan McPherson kicked game-winning field goals in the Bengals' last two playoff games. Shortly before taking his kicks, a nun from Old St. Mary's Church in Cincinnati knelt and prayed. Sister Marie Cecile says they see how much the Bengals are uniting the city. She saw that firsthand after they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs.

"Walking outside on Monday morning going for a walk, everyone was saying, 'Who dey! Who dey!' They don't even know each other," she said. "They've never even seen each other, probably sometimes, but just the joy and reaching out and seeing each other again and recognizing each other, that is something you don't see often."

And it's not just the team's success uniting the city, but also its underdog status. Dan Hoard says the team is embracing that.

"Tight end C.J. Uzomah famously said at the beginning of training camp at a fan gathering, 'Why not us?' That kind of became the rallying cry early and then at the end of the year, Joe Burrow flipped it and said, 'You know what? I don't like that anymore. We're no longer underdogs. We've proven we can beat anybody on our schedule, so let's change it from, 'Why not us?' to 'It is us.' "

Fans here will be cheering on their team at multiple gatherings throughout the weekend. After years of shortcomings and rebuilds, Bengals fans finally get to experience something few expected this year: a shot at winning the big game.

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History will be made at Croke Park today.

The pandemic meant there was no All-Ireland club hurling championship last year but Ballyhale Shamrocks can become the first team to win three consecutive titles if they beat Ballygunner.

Their opponents would be the first club from Waterford to claim the Tommy Moore Cup in the 52-year history of the competition and are only the third Dise finalists after De La Salle in 2009 and Mount Sion in 1982.

Incredibly, Ballyhale havent lost a knockout match since 2017. James OConnor took over from Henry Shefflin after the 2020 All-Ireland triumph but the conveyor belt of trophies hasnt slowed they collected their fourth Kilkenny and third Leinster on the trot before Christmas.

That they are slight underdogs rather than hot favourites is down to two things.

Firstly, they are somewhat fortunate to be there.

Galways St Thomas must surely have felt they had avenged their 2019 final hammering by the same opponents before TJ Reid fired a last-gasp 20-metre free to the net in the All-Ireland semi-final.

They had also needed a late Eoin Cody goal to force extra-time in the Leinster semi, before eventually overpowering Offaly champions St Rynagh's.

Reid said of his stunning strike that "It was pure luck that it went in" but it also spoke to the determination to fight till the bitter end that has long been the hallmark of Kilkenny teams.

The other reason todays contest is not expected to be a cakewalk is the calibre of their opponents.

Ballygunner have won eight Waterford titles in a row. Tallows four-point defeat in 2015 is the closest anyone has come to catching them in those finals. De La Salles eight-point reversal in 2019 is next.

Ian Kenny, Peter Hogan and Dessie Hutchinson are all starters for Waterford. Pauric Mahony is back after missing the last two seasons with the Dise while the trio of Stephen OKeeffe, Barry Coughlan and Philip Mahony are not long retired from inter-county duty but are barely into their 30s.

They hammered 2017 All-Ireland finalists Ballyea and Limerick champions Kilmallock in Munster. Loughmore-Castleiney did give them some trouble in the semi-final until both Noel and John McGrath had been sent off and Slaughtneil were dogged opponents in the All-Ireland semis but they have led from the start in every game.

It will be interesting to see whether they can do the same today, and whether it would even bother a team comfortable coming from behind like Ballyhale,which also has the likes of Adrian Mullen and Colin Fennelly alongside Reid.

"I think the pendulum has moved towards Ballygunner," Anthony Daly told the RT GAA podcast.

"With the way Dessie Hutchinson is playing and the space that thats creating for the likes of Peter Hogan, Billy OKeeffe, the Mahonys I think they have more balance and are at the peak of their powers.

"I could be wrong, youd nearly want to be bringing the cup in the gate of McGinn Park to make sure you have this Ballyhale team bate because we saw the defiance the last day.

"But I just think, overall, good in Kilkenny but so lucky to beat Rynaghs and struggled against Mount Leinster (in the Leinster quarter-final) as well.

"The last day they were hurled off the field in lots of ways but they did take over the match in the last 15 minutes."

The two clubs are just 30km apart, Ballyhale village being situated halfway between Kilkenny city and Ballygunners base on the southern fringes of Waterford city.

However, they have only met competitively once, when Shamrocks won a scrappy All-Ireland semi-final in 2019.

The neutrals will hope for a better contest today but either side would settle for whatever it takes to write a new page in the record books.

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The fourth time indeed is the charm for Richard Seymour.

The New England Patriots great was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Thursday as part of the 2022 class.It was Seymour's fourth year as a Hall-of-Fame finalist.

The Patriots drafted Seymour with the sixth overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. The Georgia product spent his first eight NFL seasons in Foxboro, racking up 357 tackles and 39 sacks while earning three Super Bowl titles. He played his final four years in the league with theOakland Raiders and totaled 496 total tackles and 57.5 sacks for his legendary career.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick penned a letter advocating for Seymour to be elected to the Hall of Fame in 2019.

"Richard had a rare combination of size, speed, strength and athleticism," Belichick wrote to the Hall of Fame selection committee. "He was a smart player who understood game plans and adjustments on the field. His length, strength and quickness allowed him to match up on any offensive lineman favorably. Although primarily a defensive end in our 3-4 defense, Richard also played nose tackle. In the four-man line, Richard could play defensive end or defensive tackle depending on the situation and desired matchups.

"His physical and mental versatility, as well as his ability to master multiple techniques, made him dominant as an inside or outside player. As an example of his skills as a complete football player, Richard was a force on field goal blocks for us and, early in his career played on the punt return unit. Richard was effective versus the run and pass from a variety of alignments. It is extremely uncommon to see a player of his size, at any position, be capable of doing so many things so well. In addition, Richard was a well-conditioned athlete with the Patriots and he had the stamina to compete for an entire 60 minute game.

"Richard Seymour was unquestionably one of our key players and I do not believe we would have won three championships without him."

Seymour was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame in October. Now, he'll finally achieve NFL immortality.

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It's been more than 35 years since the schlocky Wilmington-shot horror movie "Maximum Overdrive" debuted in theaters back in 1986. But what might've seemed at first like a forgettable, if occasionally fun film, has achieved something close to immortality, not to mention a cult following,online.

The latest internet action keeping our collective memory of "Maximum Overdrive" alive? Avideo on The Daily Woo, a YouTube account with more than 600,000 subscribers. Run by a YouTuber who goes bythe moniker Adam the Woo, the series features "everything from abandoned theme parks to movie locations to wacky roadside attractions."

The Daily Woo recently featured a video aboutlocations of the fifth "Scream" movie, which was filmed in Wilmington and released earlier this year.

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Posted Friday, as of Valentine's Day the half-hour video titled "Maximum Overdrive FilmingLocations" was close to surpassing50,000 views.

"Maximum Overdrive" was basedon "Trucks," a novella by Stephen King about a passing comet that somehow causes all manner of motor vehicles and machinery to gain sentience. The machines'first instinct, naturally, is to start attacking and murdering any human that crosses their path.

The movie is the only one that King, the author of dozens of books and screenplays, ever directed. King himself has joined the cultural chorus mocking "Maximum Overdrive," admitting that, not onlywas he anovermatched and inexperienced director, but was also in the throes of a cocaine addiction he later sought treatment for.

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The movie was a box office flop, and it also got twoGolden Raspberry Awards, or Razzie,nominations:one for Emilio Estevez asWorst Actor and one for King asWorst Director.

Still, as the Daily Woo videos shows, "Maximum Overdrive" which starsEstevez, Yeardley Smith (of "The Simpsons") and character actor Pat Hingle, who became a Wilmington resident after making the movie herehas its devotees.

The YouTube video takes anexhaustive, very deep dive into some of the movie's locations, starting with a formerATM at the since-demolished Wachovia bankdowntownon Princess Street between Water and Front streets. (King himself makes a cameo inthat scene, in which the ATM's screen calls the writer an unprintable name.)

Adam the Woo and amohawked video cohort named Scott also visitthe Isabel Holmes Bridge (which theymistakenly callthe Isabella Holmes, something that even locals do from time to time). In the movie, the drawbridgeopens up, spilling cars into the Cape Fear River.

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They also stop by the Wilmington neighborhood at19th and Princess where one character is killed, and the neighborhood atShirley Road and Kenwood Avenue, where various scenes take place, including one with a lawnmower thatpartly blinded the movie's cinematographer and led to a lawsuit.

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Also featured in the video is The Kicking Mule, a store at Fletcher andLanvale roadsin Leland that plays a gas station in "Maximum Overdrive."

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In addition, thevideo spends some time off U.S. 17, where the movie built a set that served as the Dixie Boy truck stop. The set was torn down after filming was finished, but thanks to the Daily Woo, the site has been memorialized for posterity.

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A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, starring the creatures of the dark.

We all will die one day. Some, however, slip the clutches of the Grim Reaper and live forever. They become immortal, either through their actions, the tales they tell, or by turning into the creatures of the night.

Mercedes-Benz has brought all three of these possibilities together in its new eight-minute film - a tale of love, the chance of immortality, and the fangs of a vampire biting into your neck.

Made for its near invulnerable G-Class, which the German auto giant claims is Stronger than Time, the film is a tale of Rimon, an up and coming singer, whose love for an ordinary man called Nathan, infuriates her manager.

Hes a stranger. He is the enemy, the David Bowiesque manager tells Rimon.

Rimon is a vampire and Nathan is a human being. As the film goes on, were witness to the struggles of love versus those we count on as our very own. We know what happens to Romeo and Juliet, what will happen to Rimon and Nathan?

The film is the brainchild of antoni, the European lead agency for the car division of Mercedes-Benz. Sebastian Strasser has directed it.

As you watch the film, the G-Class plays a quiet role, especially when Rimon makes a decision that changes things forever.

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Mercs heady tale of illicit romance, immortal love, and the G-Class lust - afaqs