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Halle Berry Is Pregnant

By Lesley Messer

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Last year Halle Berry said that her daughter Nahla had been hoping for a younger sibling and the 4 year old is finally getting her wish ABC has confirmed that the actress 46 is pregnant.

Nahla says God please bring me a bunk bed and a baby sister she said last fall. I say I can do one of those things I know for sure. The other one we ve got to keep praying on.

Berry and her fianc Olivier Martinez 47 are expecting a baby boy TMZ reported though her rep would not confirm that detail. The couple was engaged in January 2012.

I have an amazing daughter that I m wildly proud of who s the love of my life Berry said in October. In my life I think about what images I m modeling for my daughter decisions I m making and how that will affect her in her life.

Surely that will continue with baby number two as well.

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Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago today

Nineteen years ago Friday the singer for the most important American rock band of the '90s died of a self inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home. Kurt Cobain was only 27 leaving behind his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain.

His legacy includes recording one of the most influential catalogs in rock music upending the music business by proving an indie inspired act could become a blockbuster defining a generation's style and proving that the loudest heaviest band in rock could also be one of its most feminist and introspective. His death prompted an outpouring of grief and tributes from fans that continues today.

As his bandmate Dave Grohl makes the rounds promoting his Sound City documentary which featured extensive footage of Nirvana recording Nevermind Friday is a sad but worthy occasion for a deep dive into some classic Nirvana.

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You don't need Pop Hiss to remind you of the hits the intro drum fill to Smells Like Teen Spirit is perhaps the most instantly rousing sound in the last 20 years of music.

So instead let us send you to their Live at Reading concert film the famed 1992 show where Cobain performed in a hospital gown to a sea of fans with nothing more than his songs and presence to carry that huge stage. It's hard to imagine anyone will reach these heights of fame influence sounding as brutal and thoughtful as this again.

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Evil Dead Blood soaked remake scares up mixed reviews

That means the new Evil Dead remake directed by Fede Alvarez in his feature debut has its work cut out for it even with Raimi and original star Bruce Campbell on board as producers. This time around critics are divided on whether the new version stakes its own claim to the Evil Dead mantle.

The Times' Mark Olsen says it does writing that the remake has a gleeful exuberance of its own analogous to the mad invention of the original and adding that it nimbly walks the fine line of tribute update and doing its own thing. Alvarez nails the tone scary without being downbeat fun without being too jokey and delivers plenty of over the top gore great gushing geysers of it.

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The New York Times' Manohla Dargis however finds the film a bit lacking. Specifically she says it doesn t have the original's wooden performances puffy clothes and hairdos or its amusingly crude special effects and as such it has none of the first movie's handmade charm or hilarity intentional or otherwise. What the remake does share with its predecessor is a lust for blood as Alvarez gets his gore on and makes handy sport with an electric meat knife and a nail gun among other convenient and preposterous household items. Dargis ends with an endorsement of supporting actor Lou Taylor Pucci who deserves a boost.

NPR's Ian Buckwalter concedes up front that the remake can't hold a candle shotgun or revving chainsaw to the original which was a masterpiece of punk filmmaking. Fortunately he continues Alvarez doesn't try to replicate the practically accidental glory of that film. Instead this 'Evil Dead' is polished and meticulously planned and it benefits from the attention to detail as well as from Alvarez's obvious love for the spirit of the source material.

In a measured review for the Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips calls Evil Dead a grim outlandish remake whose gore goes straight to 11. Alvarez manages a shrewd narrative variation or two on the original Phillips says and indeed the new one is better acted more carefully composed. On the other hand it feels like a lot of other remakes of '70s and '80s horror titles. Competent craftsmanship vacuous slickness. All in all It's not bad.

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post would disagree. He claims he was tempted to walk out of the film writing if it hadn t been my paying job as a critic to watch Fede Alvarez s remake of 'Evil Dead' all the way to the end I probably would have headed for the exit door long before the point where somebody cuts off her own arm with an electric carving knife. That said Gorehounds will have a field day with the plentiful mutilations decapitations and other blood drenched moments in the redo.

If that's the case perhaps the Village Voice's Chuck Wilson is a bit of a gorehound. He calls Evil Dead a wittily gory remake and a virtuoso feature debut. The new film honors the motifs of the original and the plotting as a whole feels fresh as does the emphasis on women strong enough to defend themselves. He ends his review with a challenge Dare ya not to look.

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