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Costumed fans of the Star Wars franchise wait in a massive line outside the Orange County Center, in Orlando, Fla., to attend the 2017 Star Wars Celebration, Thursday, April 13, 2017, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1977 Star Wars film. Thousands of fans waited for hours in the line, estimated to be more than a mile long. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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This photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment shows, Mark Hamill, from left, as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa, and Harrison Ford as Hans Solo in the original 1977 "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope." The four-day Star Wars Celebration kicked off Thursday, April 14, 2017 in Orlando, Fla., marking the 40-year anniversary of Lucas’ space saga. (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment via AP) ** FILE **
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A Star Wars fan, with her daughter dressed as Princess Leia, reacts to seeing the line outside the Orange County Center, in Orlando, Fla., at the 2017 Star Wars Celebration, Thursday, April 13, 2017, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1977 Star Wars film. Thousands of fans waited for hours in the line, estimated to be more than a mile long, to access the convention. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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Costumed fans of the Star Wars franchise wait in a massive line outside the Orange County Center, in Orlando, Fla., to attend the 2017 Star Wars Celebration, Thursday, April 13, 2017, marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1977 Star Wars film. Thousands of fans waited for hours in the line, estimated to be more than a mile long. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2006 file photo, jazz and blues singer Linda Hopkins performs during a ceremony unveiling a new postage stamp honoring Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone With the Wind,"in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hopkins, who won a Tony Award in 1972 for the musical "Inner City," has died Monday, April 10, 2017, in Milwaukee, Wis., according to her great-niece Hazel Lindsey. She was 92. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2006 file photo, jazz and blues singer Linda Hopkins performs during a ceremony unveiling a new postage stamp honoring Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone With the Wind,"in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hopkins, who won a Tony Award in 1972 for the musical "Inner City," has died Monday, April 10, 2017, in Milwaukee, Wis., according to her great-niece Hazel Lindsey. She was 92. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2012, file photo, documentary subject Damien Echols, from the film "West of Memphis," poses for a portrait in Park City, Utah. Echols, who spent nearly 18 years on Arkansas' death row before he and two others were freed in 2011 as part of a plea deal in which they maintained their innocence, is a vocal critic who plans to be in Little Rock, Ark., on Friday, April 14, 2017, for a rally to protest the scheduled executions of seven death-row inmates before the end of the month. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2015, file photo, Sister Helen Prejean, famous for the book "Dead Man Walking" about her work with death-row inmates, greets students and signs books after speaking at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Prejean, a death penalty opponent, has taken to Twitter to fight the scheduled executions of seven Arkansas death-row inmates before the end of April 2017. At times she has tweeted the phone numbers of Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren sat down with ABC News' "Nightline" on April 12, 2017. ("Nightline" screenshot) ** FILE **
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Screen capture from a BBC video about classified advertisements offering housing in exchange for regular sexual encounters.
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FILE - In this July 9, 2009, file photo, musician Dave Carroll, of the pop-folk band Sons Of Maxwell, holds his repaired Taylor guitar in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Carroll become an internet sensation after posting a revenge song about airline customer service on YouTube with his song "United Breaks Guitars." Carroll's guitar sustained serious damage while traveling on United to a performance in the United States. The United fiasco where a passenger was dragged off a United Express flight on Sunday, April 9, 2017, is just the latest example of bad behavior by a company or its employees called out by witnesses with a smartphone. As smartphone cameras and social media have shifted power to consumers, they are forcing companies to be more nimble in handling matters they might have tried to sweep under the rug before. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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FILE - In this June 12, 2016 file photo, Andy Blankenbuehler, winner of the award for best choreography for "Hamilton" poses in the press room at the Tony Awards in New York. Blankenbuehler is directing the new musical “Bandstand." (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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British actor Peter Capaldi, in costume as Doctor Who, and Pearl Mackie as his new companion Bill Potts, pose with a replica of the TARDIS, to promote the new Doctor Who TV series on the Southbank in London, Wednesday April 12, 2017. After three seasons of zooming through space and time, Peter Capaldi is preparing to hang up his sonic screwdriver and depart "Doctor Who." (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
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FILE - This is a Sunday, 29 March, 2015 file photo of British actor Peter Capaldi as he poses for photographers upon arrival for the 20th Jameson Empire Film Awards at the Grosvenor Hotel in central London. After three seasons of zooming through space and time, Peter Capaldi is preparing to hang up his sonic screwdriver and depart "Doctor Who." (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, William Hardy, who is homeless, poses for a portrait with Kathleen Edmundson, left, a philanthropist who gave him a digital camera, Sarah Parks, director of outreach for Grace at the Greenlight and Christy Wood, gallery owner, right, at the Lemieux Galleries, in New Orleans. Hardy was given the camera and his works are part of an exhibit by artists, who are or were previously homeless, currently on display at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans' Arts District. The show runs through Saturday, April 15. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo William Hardy, who is homeless, holds his camera as he poses for a portrait where he sleeps with a crate and a cardboard box under the Pontchartrain Expressway, in New Orleans. Hardy was given the camera and his works are part of an exhibit by artists, who are or were previously homeless, currently on display at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans' Arts District. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, William Hardy, who is homeless, poses for a portrait where he sleeps with a crate and a cardboard box under the Pontchartrain Expressway, in New Orleans. Hardy was given a camera and his works are part of an exhibit by artists, who are or were previously homeless, currently on display at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans' Arts District. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In this April 11, 2017 photo, William Hardy, who is homeless, poses for a portrait in front of one of his photos, at the Lemieux Galleries, in New Orleans. Hardy was given a camera and has sold prints in the gallery. His works are part of an exhibit by artists, who are or were previously homeless, currently on display at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans' Arts District. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This April 11, 2017 combo shows William Hardy, who is homeless, posing for a portrait both at the Lemieux Galleries, left, and where he sleeps with a crate and a cardboard box under the Pontchartrain Expressway in New Orleans. Hardy was given a camera and has sold prints in the gallery. His works are part of an exhibit by artists, who are or were previously homeless, currently on display at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans' Arts District. The show, which opened April 1, runs through Saturday, April 15. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux displays 1946th Cannes festival books during a press conference for the presentation of the 70th Cannes film festival, in Paris, Thursday, April 13, 2017. A Civil War film by Sofia Coppola, a Ukrainian road movie and a film about AIDS activism are among 18 films competing for the top prizes at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which organizers hope can help counter nationalist sentiment. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
