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LMPC via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — While the country anxiously awaits the results of the election, the website MovieMaker.com lowered the heat by digging through some old interviews with President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden to find the answer to a real softball question: what is each candidate’s favorite movie? 

Not surprisingly, the candidates didn’t agree: President Trump, in an interview with Movieline in 2012, once pegged the legendary Citizen Kane as his top pick. “It is one of the greats of all time,” Trump said at the time.

“The acting, the story, the production values are all superb. The fact that it was Orson Welles’ first feature film is also impressive…Hard to beat,” he noted. 

At the time a reality show star with The Apprentice, Trump also listed The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, and The Godfather to round out his top five. 

For his part, in an interview with CBS News back in 2008, Biden listed the Oscar winner Chariots of Fire as his top choice. The then-vice president said of the 1981 film, about two runners in the 1924 Olympics, “The thing about it, there is a place where someone put personal fame and glory behind principles. That to me, is the mark of real heroism, when someone would do that.”

Considering he eventually entered politics, which many consider a blood sport, perhaps its no surprise that Mr. Trump was also fond of a certain 1988 martial arts movie: Bloodsport. 

He told the New Yorker in 1997 that it was, “an incredible, fantastic movie,” though at the time, Trump admitted he knew it was no Citizen Kane, calling it a “ridiculous Jean Claude Van Damme movie,” that he had his sons fast-forward through just to get to the action scenes.

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L-R – Dave McCary, Emma Stone — Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Emma Stone found love, and reportedly marriage, so is a baby in a baby carriage next? It might be. 

While speaking with Entertainment Tonight about her upcoming animated film The Croods: A New Age, Stone revealed her thoughts on starting her own “pack” just like the family in the movie. 

“I feel pretty good about starting my own pack,” the actress admitted. “Although I don’t think that my pack would be quite as physically capable as the Croods are. …They’re pretty rough and tumble and I don’t know if my pack would be as rough and tumble.”

Though Stone, 31, hasn’t officially confirmed that she’s a married woman, multiple outlets reported that she tied the knot with Saturday Night Live segment director, Dave McCary, 35. The two were first romantically linked in 2017 after meeting on set of SNL in 2016. They announced their engagement in December 2019. 

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Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are in talks to star in a sequel to the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, according to Entertainment Tonight. 

“Owen and I and the director of Crashers have been talking for the first time seriously [about] a sequel to that movie,” Vaughn tells ET. “So there has been an idea that is pretty good. So we are talking about that in the early stages.”  

Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper and Jane Seymour also starred in director David Dobkin’s rom-com about two divorced men — Wilson and Vaughn — who, as the name implies, crash weddings with the goal of meeting and seducing women.  The film grossed almost $300 million worldwide.

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ABC/Jill Greenberg(LOS ANGELES) — Sofia Vergara is letting fans know that some things in life are more important than Election Day.  For women, it’s going for their annual mammogram.

The Modern Family alum took to Instagram on Tuesday to hilariously share her mammogram experience.  As it turns out, she enjoyed hers as much as the next person.

“And just to make today more stressful I went and got my mammogram,” Vergara deadpanned in the caption of the candid snap, where she’s seen rolling her eyes as she waits by the machine.  Although a mask is covering half her face, her expression is abundantly clear: she was not having fun.

Thankfully, her appointment ended with good news as seen in her subsequent hashtag, which stated “#AllGood.”

The 48-year-old Emmy nominee then encouraged her female fans to book their screening appointments if they haven’t already done so, concluding with the hashtag “#DontForgetYours.”

The American Cancer Society strongly recommends all women should start having mammograms once they turn 45, but can seek them out “as early as age 40 if they want to.”

Breast Cancer, according to the ACS, is one of the most common cancers affecting American women — next to skin cancer.

Current statistics find that women in the U.S. have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer.

In addition, 276,480 American Women were diagnosed with breast cancer last year and an additional 48,530 were diagnosed with the earliest form of breast cancer, carcinoma in situ, or CIS.

Each year, roughly 42,000 women lose their battle with breast cancer. 

To date, there are over 3.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States.

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Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for TIFF(LOS ANGELES) — Meryl Streep isn’t a journalist but she supports them, which is why she’s lending her voice to the present Amal Clooney with the prestigious Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award at the 2020 CPJ International Press Freedom Awards.

Clooney, a 42-year-old human rights lawyer and activist, will receive the award for her work as counsel to many endangered journalists during the online ceremony on November 19.

“In times of unprecedented uncertainty, it’s journalists who are out there, gathering the facts and trying to help us make sense of it all,” Steep said. “By asking tough questions, and pursuing the truth at any cost, they are essential workers – serving the public and protecting democracy.”

The 71-year-old Oscar Award-winning actress added, “That’s why I’m proud to take part in this year’s International Press Freedom Awards, and to continue supporting the vital work of the Committee to Protect Journalists.”

In addition to Clooney’s award, the CPJ will honor four journalists from Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria and Russia who have been arrested or prosecuted for their work. 

According to their website, the Committee to Protect Journalists is “an independent, nonprofit organization” that promotes freedom of press across the globe and defends journalists’ right to report the news safely and without fear of retaliation. 

The 2020 International Press Freedom Awards will be broadcast online on November 19 at 8 p.m. EST at www.ipfa2020.org, as well as, other major networks including ABC, NBC, and CBS.

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