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In this June 25, 2013, file photo, actor James Woods attends the "White House Down" premiere party at The Frick Collection, in New York. Woods is asking a court to dismiss an Ohio activist’s defamation lawsuit against him over a comment he retweeted during the presidential campaign season. The Columbus Dispatch reported Portia Boulger, a Chillicothe resident and supporter of Bernie Sanders, filed the federal lawsuit in March. Boulger is seeking $3 million in damages. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Terrence Howard, a cast member in the FOX series "Empire," poses for a portrait during the 2017 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Ron Eshel/Invision/AP)

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Terrence Howard, a cast member in the FOX series "Empire," poses for a portrait during the 2017 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Ron Eshel/Invision/AP)

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Seth MacFarlane participates in the "The Orville" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Chad Kuhl delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Chad Kuhl delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame performs at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. (Erica Bruce / Special to The Washington Times)

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This Oct. 28, 2013 mugshot provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows rock 'n' roll music producer Phil Spector, mostly bald with just a bit of hair, and completely free of the huge hair that was so striking during his murder trial. In a June 2017 mugshot the 76-year-old music producer is smiling broadly, completely bald and wearing hearing aids on both ears. He was convicted in 2009 of killing actress Lana Clarkson, and is serving a sentence of 19 years to life. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

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FILE - In this May 23, 2005 file photo music producer Phil Spector appears during his trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. A June 14, 2017 mugshot provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Spector completely free of the huge hair that was so striking during his murder trial. The 76-year-old music producer is smiling broadly and wearing hearing aids on both ears. He was convicted in 2009 of killing actress Lana Clarkson, and is serving a sentence of 19 years to life. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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This June 14, 2017 mugshot provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows rock 'n' roll music producer Phil Spector, completely free of the huge hair that was so striking during his murder trial. The 76-year-old music producer is smiling broadly and wearing hearing aids on both ears. He was convicted in 2009 of killing actress Lana Clarkson, and is serving a sentence of 19 years to life. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)

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David Letterman has conducted 20 interviews with business man-turned-president Donald Trump; The pair talk it up here in 1988. (NBC)

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Andy Samberg participates in the "Tuesday Twosomes (Lethal Weapon, The Mick and Brooklyn Nine-Nine)" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

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Andy Samberg participates in the "Tuesday Twosomes (Lethal Weapon, The Mick and Brooklyn Nine-Nine)" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

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Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame performs at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. (Erica Bruce / Special to The Washington Times)

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This July 23, 2017, photo shows the Pickwick Mill in Pickwick, Minn. Pickwick Mill is a flour mill built in 1854 that has been restored and is open daily for tours. (Holly Galbus/Agri News via AP)

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Melissa Hinton of Mankato waits in line for an autograph on the last day of Minnesota Vikings training camp, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017 in Mankato, Minn. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP)

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Members of the Arkansas Stop the Violence movement hold a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, near a home, at right rear, where a man was killed early Sunday in a home-invasion robbery. Daniel Lewis was the city's 39th homicide victim this year. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)

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Earnest Franklin of Little Rock prepares to erect a cross in the front yard of Daniel Dewayne Lewis, on Tuesday, August 8, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. Lewis was killed Sunday in a home-invasion robbery. His death was the 39th this year in Arkansas' capital city, putting it on a pace to approach a murder rate last seen during Little Rock's 1990s gang wars. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)