Trump Tariffs on Mexico Irk Key Republican Allies in Congress

The president’s announcement Thursday surprised many Republicans who hoped to focus on passing a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada known as the USMCA. Trump said he will impose a 5% tariff on all imports from Mexico -- ramping up 5 percentage points every month until hitting 25% in October -- unless Mexico takes "decisive measures" to stem migrants entering the U.S.

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Tony Soprano’s TV Home On The Market In North Jersey – You Gotta Problem With That?

A bit of television history is now available, as the house prominently featured on HBO’s The Sopranos is for sale. The North Caldwell, NJ home portrayed on TV as the Soprano home for Tony, Carmela, AJ and Meadow is listed at a “starting price” of $3.4 million. The home was featured weekly on the intro to […]

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‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Was Also Disappointing for Producer Ron Howard

Plenty of Stephen King fans are still waiting to see an epic big screen adaptation of the book series The Dark Tower. That’s because the meager attempt to bring the books to life back in 2017 was a total disaster. Clocking in at only 95 minutes, the adaptation didn’t deliver the kind of epic fantasy they’d been hoping to see, and the movie was totally forgettable. If you’re one of the many disappointed fans out there who wished The Dark Tower turned out to be even better, you’re not alone. Producer Ron Howard also ended up being unhappy with the final product.

Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider) while making the publicity rounds for the new documentary Pavarotti, filmmaker Ron Howard admitted that there were several shortcomings when it came to the final cut of The Dark Tower. Howard said:

“I think it should’ve been horror. I think that it landed in a place—both in our minds and the studio’s—that it could be PG-13 and sort of a boy’s adventure… I really think we made a mistake not—I mean I’m not sure we could’ve made this movie, but I think if we could’ve made a darker, more hard-boiled look and make it The Gunslinger’s character study more than Jake. I think in retrospect that would’ve been more exciting. We always felt like we were kind of holding back something, and I think at the end of the day it was that.”

Howard has even more insight into the process of bringing The Dark Tower to the big screen than most. Development began on an adaptation of the book series back in 2010 with Ron Howard attached to direct a feature film trilogy that would have involved a connected TV series. It was quite the ambitious project, and it never got off the ground because no studio was ambitious enough to fully finance it. And that’s what resulted in the adaptation going to the other end of the spectrum with an abridged version of the books into a single feature film. Howard laments the fact that they didn’t take the TV route and admits they might have compromised a little too much:

“The other thing might’ve been to just straight-on tackle it as television first. Disappointing because I poured a lot of myself into it, and sometimes this happens on these projects where everybody’s best intentions—you’re all pulling in a direction, and then you sort of say, ‘Was that the right direction?’ And I wouldn’t say it was all compromise. I do think it was just a sense of maybe too much listening to what you think that the marketplace is calling for instead of the essence of what Stephen King was giving us.”

I think we can all agree that The Dark Tower movie we ended up with was the worst direction to take, other than maybe a CBS sitcom adaptation where the Gunslinger moved into a small New York apartment with his mother. But maybe the forthcoming Amazon series adaptation of The Dark Tower, which will act as a prequel to the movie, will treat the source material with some respect.

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‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Was Also Disappointing for Producer Ron Howard

Plenty of Stephen King fans are still waiting to see an epic big screen adaptation of the book series The Dark Tower. That’s because the meager attempt to bring the books to life back in 2017 was a total disaster. Clocking in at only 95 minutes, the adaptation didn’t deliver the kind of epic fantasy they’d been hoping to see, and the movie was totally forgettable. If you’re one of the many disappointed fans out there who wished The Dark Tower turned out to be even better, you’re not alone. Producer Ron Howard also ended up being unhappy with the final product.

Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider) while making the publicity rounds for the new documentary Pavarotti, filmmaker Ron Howard admitted that there were several shortcomings when it came to the final cut of The Dark Tower. Howard said:

“I think it should’ve been horror. I think that it landed in a place—both in our minds and the studio’s—that it could be PG-13 and sort of a boy’s adventure… I really think we made a mistake not—I mean I’m not sure we could’ve made this movie, but I think if we could’ve made a darker, more hard-boiled look and make it The Gunslinger’s character study more than Jake. I think in retrospect that would’ve been more exciting. We always felt like we were kind of holding back something, and I think at the end of the day it was that.”

Howard has even more insight into the process of bringing The Dark Tower to the big screen than most. Development began on an adaptation of the book series back in 2010 with Ron Howard attached to direct a feature film trilogy that would have involved a connected TV series. It was quite the ambitious project, and it never got off the ground because no studio was ambitious enough to fully finance it. And that’s what resulted in the adaptation going to the other end of the spectrum with an abridged version of the books into a single feature film. Howard laments the fact that they didn’t take the TV route and admits they might have compromised a little too much:

“The other thing might’ve been to just straight-on tackle it as television first. Disappointing because I poured a lot of myself into it, and sometimes this happens on these projects where everybody’s best intentions—you’re all pulling in a direction, and then you sort of say, ‘Was that the right direction?’ And I wouldn’t say it was all compromise. I do think it was just a sense of maybe too much listening to what you think that the marketplace is calling for instead of the essence of what Stephen King was giving us.”

I think we can all agree that The Dark Tower movie we ended up with was the worst direction to take, other than maybe a CBS sitcom adaptation where the Gunslinger moved into a small New York apartment with his mother. But maybe the forthcoming Amazon series adaptation of The Dark Tower, which will act as a prequel to the movie, will treat the source material with some respect.

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Trump would be 'in handcuffs' if not president, says Democrat Warren

Democratic White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that if Donald Trump were not protected by his presidential status, he would be "in handcuffs and indicted" for obstructing the investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference. The progressive US senator from Massachusetts, one of the leading Democrats for the party's 2020 nomination, was the first presidential candidate to speak out in favor of launching impeachment proceedings against Trump. Warren had called for an impeachment inquiry the day after the April 18 publication of special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report on Moscow's election interference.

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New Mexico town gets death threats after halting crowd-funded border wall

A New Mexico mayor on Thursday said he and his staff received multiple death threats after they briefly halted construction of a crowd-funded, private border wall by a group that then urged supporters to tell the city to "stop playing games," and alleged it was tied to drug cartels. The Florida-based group has raised $23 million via crowd-funding site GoFundMe.com to build private border walls to halt smuggling and a surge in undocumented migrants, after funding for President Donald Trump's promised wall was blocked. Perea described the tactics of We Build the Wall as a "cheap blow," and the American Civil Liberties Union accused it of pursuing a "white Nationalist" agenda.

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