By the end of the Cold War, the varying strains of explicitly political music developed during the ’60s and ’70s (soul, funk, and rap in black music, punk and metal in white rock) had come to a point where uniting them in a single major band seemed very difficult, if not impossible. Yet the improbable did occur then, and more than once. First there was New York’s Public Enemy, a rap unit whose explosive sound fed on a diet not only of soul and funk, but metal as well; soon after, there emerged Rage Against the Machine, a Los Angeles rap-rock band whose inaugural self-titled album, released 24 years ago on Election Day of 1992, introduced an element of raw political ideology into a rock music that had long contented itself (even in punk and metal) with intransigent posturing.

At least 42 Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa fans were injured — with one in critical condition — following a railing collapse during the duo’s concert at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, last night. About halfway through the concert, the rappers rallied the crowd to “get up,” moments before the rail collapsed, causing dozens of concertgoers to fall several feet to the concrete pathway below. (The railing in question separated the outdoor lawn and semi-enclosed secondary stage.

At last night’s live-read of the Breaking Bad pilot at L.A.’s LACMA, Jason Reitman addressed the screenwriters in the audience first: “Hide the knives tonight. This is so good you’ll never want to write again. You fucker, Vince.” Breaking Bad is the first TV show to be included in Reitman’s Live Read series, in which the director puts together readings of classic films; he most recently staged an all-female Glengarry Glen Ross with Robin Wright, Catherine O’Hara, and Carla Gugino.

I had no idea that Rampage was based on a video game until, somewhere around the point where a giant flying wolf eats Joe Manganiello, an arcade cabinet makes an extremely conspicuous cameo in the background of the villains’ penthouse lair. I have since learned that Rampage, a King Kong knockoff starring a trio of city-smashing mutant animals, was an arcade staple in the mid-’80s, and more importantly, one of the many properties acquired by Warner Bros.

A Ramy by any other name would still be a hit TV series. Ramy Youssef joined Seth Meyers on Late Night to discuss the latest season of Ramy and how his personal experiences blended into season three. Much like a department store, the two discussed Christmas in October and how because Youssef grew up Muslim, therefore, he didn’t believe in Santa Claus, unlike his peers in his childhood, and it caused him to distrust the government.

If you don’t know Randall Emmett for his empire of “geezer teaser” movies that (briefly) feature older stars like Bruce Willis and Al Pacino, you might recognize the Hollywood producer as the ex-fiancé of Lala Kent from Vanderpump Rules. But per a June 30 report from the Los Angeles Times, Emmett is also known for something else: the alleged mistreatment of multiple women, assistants, and business partners. The Times’ lengthy report includes several allegations of abuse and fraud against Emmett, who denied all claims through a spokeswoman.

This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Justified. Justified finished its six-season run last night not with the explosion-filled deathfest some came to expect, but rather with an explosion-filled survivalfest. (When Boyd Crowder has dynamite, Boyd Crowder will use dynamite, thank you.) The episode was filled with callbacks and allusions, which crystallized the sense of completion and conclusion that any finale would aspire to. Now Justified joins the hallowed ranks of former FX dramas — as good a lineup as one can picture, really; HBO has more duds, Showtime fewer hits.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. On July 25, Warren B. Kanders, a.k.a. the “tear-gas CEO,” quit the Whitney Museum board after months of protests culminating in several artists’ deciding to withdraw their work from the Biennial halfway through its run. It was just the latest callout to rock arts institutions, which — at least since the age of the Medici — have relied on the largesse of the very wealthy. (Today there are also tax advantages.

Photo by Moviestore/Shutterstock (1601010a) When Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! hit theaters 20 years ago (May 16, 2001 to be exact), the visionary director’s kitchen-sink spectacle wowed audiences with its lavish costumes and set pieces, its chart-topping soundtrack single (“Lady Marmalade”), and its general air of star-studded, must-see Hollywood glitz and glamour. Though critical reaction was initially mixed (our own critic didn’t hold back, saying, “It’s like being trapped inside a fever dream of Oscar-night production numbers”), the movie went on to gross more than $150 million at the box office and later found new legs on the Great White Way as a beloved Tony-nominated musical.

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