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Netflix has now released The King, its new imagining of starring Timothee Chalamet as the bowlcut-sporting English king. As any Shakespeare fans know, the Henry V story reaches its peak of excitement during the Battle of Agincourt, the battle between Henry's troops and those of the French dauphin, memorably played in the new movie by Robert Pattinson.
Fox on Sunday (October 20) will air "Treehouse of Horror XXX," the 30th Halloween special from The Simpsons , which is also coincidentally the 666th episode of the show. For a special that was at first only going to last for two seasons, "Treehouse of Horror" has become a yearly Halloween tradition, with fans eagerly awaiting the latest appearance of Kang and Kodos and the latest horrible happenings.
Helen Mirren may be one of Britain's great acting dames, but the actress, born Helen Mironoff is actually half-Russian. "It's my bottom half that's Russian," she joked to Newsweek. Mirren's heritage was part of the reason she took on the role of Catherine the Great, one of Russia's longest-reigning and most famous rulers, in the HBO series Catherine the Great, premiering Monday on HBO.
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It is an image that is completely intertwined with the fabric of America as a nation, as defining of the country's history as Neil Armstrong on the moon, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima or any official portrait of Washington or Lincoln.