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Carrie fever is gripping teenage girls – and exposing an uncomfortable truth about their lives | The Independent

Amazon's 2026 Carrie remake has become a hit with teenage girls, and this opinion piece reads that success as a response to current anxieties about female friendship, bullying, social media and powerlessness amid threats to women's rights. Drawing on a media lecturer who prefers the 1976 film (where the power belongs to Carrie, not to social media as villain), an author on teenage friendship, and quotes from 15-year-olds, the writer argues that girl-on-girl cruelty squanders power that would be better spent on alliances. She cites research linking close female bonds to better mental and physical health, and reads Carrie as showing that girls' power can be either destructive or positive depending on how they treat one another. The author runs The Respect Project, which works with adolescent relationships, and her piece ends as a plea for kindness over cruelty.

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New Echo Show 16 (newest model), Kitchen command center and productivity hub, Built-in Fire TV and night vision camera

This is Amazon's product page for the Echo Show 16, a wall-mountable or stand-mounted smart display with a 13MP camera, built-in Fire TV, and a dashboard for smart home devices and Ring cameras. Its main pitch is Alexa+ (free with Prime), which it says handles multi-step requests, remembers context across conversations, and gives step-by-step help, especially for family scheduling, meal planning, and recipe storage. It also covers streaming across rooms and privacy features such as a physical mic and camera off button and the ability to delete voice recordings.

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The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer

The Ringer updated its 2018 ranking of the 100 best TV episodes of the century to reflect seven years of new television, a period during which streaming services fundamentally changed how shows are made and consumed. The revision added 27 new episodes while maintaining the original list's commitment to representing television's full range of genres rather than limiting itself to prestige dramas. The methodology remained consistent: staff submitted favorites, with one episode per show allowed and only episodes released after July 2018 eligible for inclusion or replacement.

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Best James Bond Movies of All Time, Ranked | Men's Journal

This article ranks all 25 James Bond films from worst to best, beginning with Timothy Dalton's *The Living Daylights* and culminating in Sean Connery's *Thunderball*. Each entry includes a brief assessment of the film's strengths and weaknesses, behind-the-scenes trivia, and memorable quotes, spanning from the franchise's 1962 debut through Daniel Craig's 2015 *Spectre*. The rankings reflect both critical perspective and the evolution of Bond's character across different actors and eras, acknowledging shifts in tone from campy to gritty to the influence of competing spy franchises like the Bourne series.

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Esquire

Best TV Shows of 2026 So Far

This is a roundup of television shows from 2026 recommended by Esquire editors, covering a range of genres from prestige dramas like *Furious* (a psychological thriller about an FBI agent hunting a female serial killer) and *The Bear*'s final season to comedies like *Chad Powers* and *Ted*, as well as sci-fi shows such as *Silo* and *Lanterns*. The piece highlights both new series and returning favorites, with particular emphasis on *Widow's Bay* as the year's standout hit and discussions of why various shows succeeded or disappointed viewers. It serves as a viewing guide for people overwhelmed by streaming options and looking for curated recommendations across multiple platforms.

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Texas Football Coach's Ex-Stripper Wife Threatens To Sue Viral Instagram Account For Posting Their Photo

Dani Banks, the wife of Texas special teams coordinator Jeff Banks and former exotic dancer known as "The Pole Assassin," is threatening to sue the Instagram account @collegefootball for reposting a photo of her from the field without permission. The image, which originated from a Twitter burner account, was shared among college football meme pages and reignited attention on Banks, who became a notable figure in college football lore after an incident involving her emotional support monkey in 2021. Banks, who has over 70,000 Instagram followers and has largely retired from dancing, is leveraging the threat of legal action to protect her image rights as her likeness continues to circulate on social media.

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WIRED

This Man Has a Cult Internet Following Over His Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass | WIRED

Braden Sinclair is one of only 50 people ever to win an Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass, a no-expiration card earned in 2019 that grants him unlimited pasta, breadsticks, and soup or salad—a distinction he's documented obsessively on his website Lifetimepastapass.com, which tracks his 112 visits, 152 bowls eaten, and nearly $1,900 in meal value since winning, while letting internet strangers vote on what he orders next. Though he's been a devoted Olive Garden fan since childhood (he even has a tattoo of the chain's cheese grater), the pass has proven somewhat isolating, as the pandemic prevented Olive Garden from connecting the 50 winners and few of his friends share his enthusiasm for repeat visits to the restaurant.

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Rolling Stone

The 20 Most Anticipated New TV Shows of Fall

A fall-through-Christmas preview of about twenty new scripted TV series, set in a year already strong for television and deliberately leaving out returning shows like Slow Horses, Lupin, and Yellowjackets. Each entry gets a short blurb with premiere date and platform, spanning Netflix's Lizzie Borden installment of *Monster*, a *A Different World* reboot, and Zoe Kazan's *East of Eden*, along with Sharon Horgan's *Youth*, the Mike Flanagan *Carrie*, the Schur/Poehler comedy *Dig*, and HBO's *Harry Potter* reboot on Dec. 25. Useful as a dated watchlist, with a lot of true-crime, horror, and reboot material among the picks.

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Rolling Stone

The 50 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2026

A fall movie preview that picks 50 titles from Labor Day to Christmas, framed as a way through awards season's glut of prestige drama. It mixes the likely Oscar contenders (Cannes and Sundance favorites like *Fjord*, *Josephine*, and Hamaguchi's *All of a Sudden*) with franchise events (*Avengers: Doomsday* and *Dune: Part Three* opening the same day), odd pairings like Fincher directing a Tarantino-written Cliff Booth sequel, and a run of biopics and true-story dramas, including the *To Catch a Predator* origin film *Primetime*. Each entry gets a blunt blurb with cast, director pedigree, and the writers' enthusiasm or skepticism, so it works as a dated checklist of what to watch for rather than an argument.

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Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987)

I don't see a saved article here to summarize. What you've shared appears to be a kottke.org post about a clip from Dolly Parton's late 1980s variety show in which she performed "Everyday People" with Kermit the Frog. If you'd like me to summarize this post, the content is already quite brief: it documents a musical performance featuring Dolly Parton and the Muppet character, provides links to watch the clip on multiple platforms, and notes that the full episode is available on YouTube with several guest stars. If you meant to share a different article for me to summarize, please paste the text and I'll be happy to help.

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