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Cosby, 78, could get 10 years in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless he can convince the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that a previous district attorney made a binding promise that Cosby would never be prosecuted, the comic and his cadre of high-priced litigators will be back in court Tuesday for his long-delayed preliminary hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosby also is contending with two sexual assault lawsuits, two disputes over whether his homeowner policies should cover his legal expenses, and a dozen defamation claims brought by women who came forward too late to sue over sexual assault but say they were smeared by Cosby or his representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal and civil cases have generated countless spinoff battles over such things as whether Cosby’s wife can be questioned at a deposition and whether Constand’s recent cooperation with police violated the confidentiality agreement surrounding the financial settlement she reached with Cosby in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stretch from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh to Worcester, Massachusetts, not too far from where Cosby and his wife, Camille, have a home. 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In an episode in which Jane goes to her high school reunion, Mendez’s voice swoops in to introduce us to Stephanie Kovakovich, a mean girl who Jane used to beef with. A string of text — as if the narrator is typing it — appears on screen: \u003cem>Stephanie Kovakobitch\u003c/em>. “Oops,” the narrator apologizes, correcting his typing. “No, I meant it,” he says, changing it back to \u003cem>Kovakobitch\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Real-life Mendez is just as playful as his character. Before I arrive at his apartment, he posts a humble-braggy video to Snapchat and Instagram, in which he announces he has to clean his apartment before his NPR interview. 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He studied architecture — the most creative major he thought he could get away with — for a short while at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. After that, he tried pursuing a career in producing reggae, struggling so much in the early 2000s he thought he’d be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In your mind, you’re like, ‘No, I’m gonna show them, I’m gonna show them,’ ” Mendez recalls feeling about his parents, who hadn’t wanted him to leave their business. “But, you know, it takes eight to 10 years to show them, so at the beginning when I was struggling, they said, ‘Come back to the family business,’ and I actually agreed to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez said he had a nightmare that stopped him from returning. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>But his journey in finding this voice — one that encourages him to play with an accent instead of dampen it — came after years of career change and trying to fit himself to a mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding His Voice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>A typical kid, Mendez loved comics. They fed his imagination and were a break from a more serious, less typical childhood: He sold headstones at the family business — and even designed a six-crypt mausoleum as he got older. Mendez’s dad, who immigrated to the states from the Dominican Republic, worked in a tombstone factory before opening his own business, and hoped Mendez would take it over with his three other brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez had other ideas. He studied architecture — the most creative major he thought he could get away with — for a short while at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 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People always said there was a Mendez voice — his grandfather, his father, his brothers all had it — that was deep and booming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school when I would read in Spanish, especially, some of the girls would ask me to do it again … and that kind of took me back, like, ‘Huh, there’s something there,’ ” Mendez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He signed up for voice-over classes and learned his Dominican-New York-New Jersey upbringing made things complicated. During one class, he’d just finished recording a track in the studio and his classmates were on the other side of the glass, observing. They thought he couldn’t hear their reaction to his voice-over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard everyone in the room talking about, ‘What accent is that?’ where they had never heard someone in voice-over who had an urban, Latino, New York, New Jersey mixture. So they were like, ‘That’s urban. That’s urban,’ ” Mendez says. This insistence on labeling him one thing — which \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-mendez/any-voiceover-actor-american-latino-need-follow_b_8281352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he’s written about before\u003c/a> — was an issue he ran into with talent managers, too. He was sent African-American voice-over roles and Spanish-speaking ones, but rarely received ones meant for the general market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Managers] were like, ‘Oh, you’ve got an accent. You’re not gonna do it,’ ” Mendez says. 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He studied how people’s inflections and tongue placements change depending on what accents they’re taking on. “Grandmother” in standard American English has different syllable emphasis — “GRAND-mother” — than the word spoken with, say, English with a Dominican accent — “Grand-MO-ther.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/477737210/478209804\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked. Mendez began booking gigs with brands like \u003ca href=\"http://www.bustle.com/articles/47235-who-is-the-jane-the-virgin-narrator-youve-definitely-heard-anthony-mendezs-voice-before\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN, Miller Lite and Target\u003c/a>, lending his voice to ads in both Spanish and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, he got an email invitation to audition for a TV show — \u003cem>Jane the Virgin\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11587906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0395_custom-16bb71b61bea4f4b12ea43c0a15edb74f84a07d8-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"Mendez reads from a 'Jane the Virgin' script in his bedroom recording studio. 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There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idUxTqmCFR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cypriot rockers performing\u003c/a> in smoke-filled cages, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgGahKsBtts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British boy bands\u003c/a>. There \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL066Rp7J7k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were capes\u003c/a>. (Unfortunately, there were no \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM07r57QqGg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holograms of wolves\u003c/a> – Belarus was eliminated in the Semi-Final.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual contest pits more than 40 countries against each other, as the Two-Way has reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477810126/lightshows-fire-nudity-glitter-wolves-welcome-to-eurovision-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this handy primer.\u003c/a> It draws tens of millions more viewers than the Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you missed the live event yesterday, you can catch it on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.logotv.com/full-episodes/51pift/eurovision-song-contest-2016-the-61st-annual-eurovision-song-contest-grand-final-ep-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> via its U.S. broadcaster, Logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ukraine’s Jamala was the unexpected winner with her haunting song “1944,” which recounts the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars under Stalin’s orders during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rnM-MwRHY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To say this song is serious is an understatement. In fact, this is how it opens: “When strangers\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are coming / They come to your house / They kill you all, and say ‘we’re not guilty.’ … You think you are gods, but everyone dies.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics are never far from the glittery surface at Eurovision – indeed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/14/ukraine-wins-eurovision-jamala-1944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian says\u003c/a> it was “seen by many as the most politicised version of the competition to date.” Many have interpreted “1944” as a thinly-veiled anti-Russian anthem, considering Russia’s annexation of Crimea two years ago. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477810126/lightshows-fire-nudity-glitter-wolves-welcome-to-eurovision-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As we reported,\u003c/a> Jamala, who is Tatar, maintains the song is “personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, speaking to \u003cem>the Guardian\u003c/em> after her win, she says it has current relevance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Of course it’s about 2014 as well. These two years have added so much sadness to my life. Imagine – you’re a creative person, a singer, but you can’t go home for two years. You see your grandfather on Skype, who is 90 years old and ill, but you can’t visit him. What am I supposed to do: just sing nice songs and forget about it? Of course I can’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After her win, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eurovision.tv/live/live_the_winners_press_conference_with_jamala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told reporters that\u003c/a> “I was sure that, if you sing about truth, it can really touch people. And I was right.” She added that she dedicated the performance to her great-grandmother and said she prepared for the performance by listening to the soundtrack of \u003cem>Schindler’s List.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian officials have complained about the song, \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/11/jamalas-ukraine-eurovision-song-stirs-up-russia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>the Telegraph \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a>, but “the Geneva-based organisers decided the song was not in breach of the competition’s rules against political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia is probably particularly unhappy with the result considering it was their entry that was heavily favored to win. Sergey Lazarev deployed particularly strong visuals (Wings! Glaciers! Lightning! Space!) in his performance of “You Are The Only One:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e94dst20C9Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia ended up in third, and Australia took the second-place spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Andrew Jones was in the arena in Stockholm and describes the suspense to The Two-Way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“There was lots of tension in the reveal. It’s a new format, which meant that it wasn’t clear until the very last result was read. So people were hunched forward in their seats staring at the results screen, unsure of what was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He adds that Australia had actually been in the top spot with only the votes of industry professionals counted, “and people were genuinely surprised when they lost their lead when the tele-voting was factored in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Australia’s entry, Dami Im’s soaring ballad “Sound of Silence,” which was the critic’s favorite:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymFX91HwM0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering why Australia is a part of the European contest? As we reported: “it’s basically because the Land Down Under is obsessed with the contest — and has been for a long time — so the [European Broadcasting Union] gave them an honorary membership of sorts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eurovision also confronted the weighty topic of the refugee crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtF5WL5fhjA&index=6&list=PLxeDWjW-1i33tiF8CDPL40cQQC41sKmwm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a dance highlighting their plight\u003c/a>. The performance (which aired during the U.S. broadcast between a Justin Timberlake interview and a spoof rendition of a perfect Eurovision act) shows the dancers apparently going through traumatic events before they are eventually presented with water to wash their ash-covered faces. They are then embraced by audience members and disappear in the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mans Zelmerlow, this year’s co-presenter and last year’s winner, says: “It is more necessary than ever before that we unite and join together, and that is literally what we do in Eurovision, where most of the countries in Europe meet together. …We obviously want to touch upon [the crisis]: anything else would be to bury your head in the sand,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/08/eurovision-2016-latex-chiffon-politics-joe-jake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winning act gets to host the next year’s competition – so that means next year’s event will take place in Kiev. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B-rnM-MwRHY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B-rnM-MwRHY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>To say this song is serious is an understatement. In fact, this is how it opens: “When strangers\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>are coming / They come to your house / They kill you all, and say ‘we’re not guilty.’ … You think you are gods, but everyone dies.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics are never far from the glittery surface at Eurovision – indeed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/14/ukraine-wins-eurovision-jamala-1944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian says\u003c/a> it was “seen by many as the most politicised version of the competition to date.” Many have interpreted “1944” as a thinly-veiled anti-Russian anthem, considering Russia’s annexation of Crimea two years ago. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477810126/lightshows-fire-nudity-glitter-wolves-welcome-to-eurovision-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As we reported,\u003c/a> Jamala, who is Tatar, maintains the song is “personal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, speaking to \u003cem>the Guardian\u003c/em> after her win, she says it has current relevance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Of course it’s about 2014 as well. These two years have added so much sadness to my life. Imagine – you’re a creative person, a singer, but you can’t go home for two years. You see your grandfather on Skype, who is 90 years old and ill, but you can’t visit him. What am I supposed to do: just sing nice songs and forget about it? Of course I can’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After her win, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eurovision.tv/live/live_the_winners_press_conference_with_jamala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told reporters that\u003c/a> “I was sure that, if you sing about truth, it can really touch people. And I was right.” She added that she dedicated the performance to her great-grandmother and said she prepared for the performance by listening to the soundtrack of \u003cem>Schindler’s List.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian officials have complained about the song, \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/11/jamalas-ukraine-eurovision-song-stirs-up-russia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>the Telegraph \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a>, but “the Geneva-based organisers decided the song was not in breach of the competition’s rules against political speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia is probably particularly unhappy with the result considering it was their entry that was heavily favored to win. Sergey Lazarev deployed particularly strong visuals (Wings! Glaciers! Lightning! Space!) in his performance of “You Are The Only One:”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/e94dst20C9Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/e94dst20C9Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Russia ended up in third, and Australia took the second-place spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Andrew Jones was in the arena in Stockholm and describes the suspense to The Two-Way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“There was lots of tension in the reveal. It’s a new format, which meant that it wasn’t clear until the very last result was read. So people were hunched forward in their seats staring at the results screen, unsure of what was going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>He adds that Australia had actually been in the top spot with only the votes of industry professionals counted, “and people were genuinely surprised when they lost their lead when the tele-voting was factored in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Australia’s entry, Dami Im’s soaring ballad “Sound of Silence,” which was the critic’s favorite:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5ymFX91HwM0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5ymFX91HwM0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Wondering why Australia is a part of the European contest? As we reported: “it’s basically because the Land Down Under is obsessed with the contest — and has been for a long time — so the [European Broadcasting Union] gave them an honorary membership of sorts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eurovision also confronted the weighty topic of the refugee crisis \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtF5WL5fhjA&index=6&list=PLxeDWjW-1i33tiF8CDPL40cQQC41sKmwm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a dance highlighting their plight\u003c/a>. The performance (which aired during the U.S. broadcast between a Justin Timberlake interview and a spoof rendition of a perfect Eurovision act) shows the dancers apparently going through traumatic events before they are eventually presented with water to wash their ash-covered faces. 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Peters raised more than $101,000 on Kickstarter to make the first film, and Axanar Productions says they’ve raised more than $1 million in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movies are set in the Star Trek universe and serve as a prequel to the original series from the 1960s. \u003cem>Axanar\u003c/em> takes place 21 years before Captain Kirk came on the scene and tells the story of Garth of Izar, “the legendary Starfleet captain who is Captain Kirk’s hero.” For the true Trekkies, here are more \u003ca href=\"http://www.axanarproductions.com/about/the-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details from the filmmakers\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Axanar tells the story of Garth and his crew during the Four Years War, the war with the Klingon Empire that almost tore the Federation apart. Garth’s victory at Axanar solidified the Federation and allowed it to become the entity we know in Kirk’s time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fan films exist in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103673352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal gray area\u003c/a>. There have been several \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_fan_productions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fan productions\u003c/a> of Star Trek shows over the years. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2014/07/star-trek-axanar-fan-film/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Wired\u003c/a>, Paramount “has traditionally allowed these fan-made projects to move forward, as long as they agree not to sell anything — including tickets, merchandise, or copies of the finished film or series.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in December 2015, the studios filed a complaint against Axanar. In a follow-up brief, they identify “infringing elements,” including original Star Trek characters, races and species (like Klingons and Vulcans), uniforms, planets, the Starship Enterprise (which is of course the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCC-1701\u003c/a>), logos — and the Klingon language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the court decides on the last item on that list has big legal implications. The Language Creation Society \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/310744493/035-1-Brief-of-Amicus-Curiae-1?secret_password=I5JAsrdYbwE8oTIe5zPx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed an amicus\u003c/a> brief in support of the filmmakers. It argues that since Klingon was invented in the 1980s, the language has expanded beyond its origins — there’s even a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kli.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Klingon Language Institute\u003c/a>. They say there’s enough vocabulary in the language to translate Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>. Klingon “took on a life of its own — a life that the Copyright Act has no power to control,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The studios say they own the “fictional language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason this matters — whether you can copyright a language — is related to programming. Is computer code a language, and can you copyright it? It goes to a long-running case between Oracle and Google. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/paramount-claims-crowdfunded-star-trek-874985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood Reporter summarizes\u003c/a>: “In a nutshell, Oracle looks to protect its Java API code from Google’s attempt to use some of it for its Android software. A federal appeals court ruled in May 2014 that one could indeed copyright an API, leading to a collective freak-out by many in the tech industry.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/06/oracle_v_google_klingon_and_copyrighting_language.single.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Duan at Slate\u003c/a> explains that “computer networking technology depends on languages, like the Wi-Fi protocol, so that multiple computers can communicate and understand one another.” If languages can be copyrighted, it would stifle innovation and create monopolies, he argues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court didn’t take up the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a court date in the case involving Paramount, CBS and Axanar is set for May 2017. The filmmakers picked up some big endorsements, though. 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It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Gpt12psAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. Here’s New York’s Kim Zolciak with “Tardy For The Party,” closely resembling that friend of your mom’s that always drinks too much on national holidays, then passes out on the front lawn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeb7tY3Z6s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another NYC housewife, Countess Luann, went one step further with “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” a track that features so many layers of Auto-Tune, it sounds like she recorded it with her face submerged in a mop bucket. Money can't buy you talent either, sweet cheeks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEDvlSAMhQU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bit-players from \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> got in on recording singles. Do you know who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0#t=20\">Simon Van Kempen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcQq1sbWsM#t=63\">Miss Lawrence\u003c/a> are? We don’t either. But someone let those fools into recording booths because, apparently, being on reality television erases the ability to feel shame. Truly, it would now be an impossibility for a reality star to record anything worse than this exercise in humiliation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s possible for actors to cross over into legitimate and nerd-approved music careers in a way that simply wasn’t permitted a decade ago. Perhaps many actors’ efforts just don’t seem so bad now that we’re so consistently exposed to the bottom of the barrel by reality stars. That’s not to say many people are clamoring to listen to \u003ca href=\"http://www.baconbros.com/\">The Bacon Brothers\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/\">Kevin Costner & Modern West\u003c/a>, and sweet baby Jesus, we wish we'd never found out about Jada Pinkett Smith’s metal band, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56ZtXrx_nw\">Wicked Wisdom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, the established actors who have succeeded in recording music that isn’t just tolerable, but legitimately great, have done so by collaborating with respected artists and not pandering to the biggest potential audience. The two best examples are Zooey Deschanel’s collaboration with indie darling M. Ward, for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sheandhim.com/\">She & Him\u003c/a>, and Ryan Gosling’s foray into artsy horror-themed experimentation with the surprisingly excellent \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Bones\">Dead Man’s Bones\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpYwHfB7eds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Gosling and Deschanel have in common: You can tell that they’re recording music truthfully and with not a small amount of skill. Neither of them has made their music to get their egos stroked (see Russell Crowe’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfomuY2ysg\">30 Odd Foot of Grunts\u003c/a>) or to live out some rock star fantasy (see Jared Leto's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcps2fJKuAI\">30 Seconds to Mars\u003c/a>) -- they’ve done it because they were compelled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, reality TV's favorite tattoo artist Kat Von D emerged as a guest vocalist on a single by \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_(rock_duo)\">Prayers\u003c/a>, an underground electro-goth outfit that is garnering a fair amount of underground buzz right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA_ADv9J_8\">Black Leather\u003c/a>\" is Von D’s first foray into music since promising the world an album in 2014, then never actually coming through with one. If she can forge a path into music following her passions rather than her bank balance, she might actually be the first reality star to pull off a real career in music. Also in her favor is the fact that she’s no longer on our televisions every day -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/la-ink/\">\u003cem>LA Ink\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ended all the way back in 2011, and that fact alone gives Von D a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-v2FDhHbI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Von D is certainly, currently, the reality star most likely to succeed when it comes to branching out into music (she has a multitude of musician friends in respected places and can play actual instruments). But if she can’t do it? Well, I'm not holding my breath -- but it'd be nice to see this trend come to an end, once and for all.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the good old days, the music-career-on-the-side was an endeavor only attempted by actors. The TV actors did it in an attempt to take their careers to the next level -- we’re looking at you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5h8jrceec\">Brian Austin Green\u003c/a> and giving you serious side eye, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ti8-vEM3U8\">Uncle Jesse\u003c/a> -- but the movie guys often did it in an attempt to claw back some street cred after accidentally becoming millionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ‘90s, this meant watching Keanu Reeves staring at his feet in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TSnE1b-Bs\">Dogstar\u003c/a>, and Johnny Depp collaborating with a Butthole Surfer and trying to look casual about it (that band was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKkWvNQzxE\">P\u003c/a>, in case you erased it from memory). At the time, we all assumed these lackluster attempts to break into rock ‘n’ roll were just about the worst things we’d ever deal with in the world of celebrity music crossovers – but that’s because, at the time, reality TV was just a \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/19177327\">\u003cem>Real World\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-shaped twinkle in MTV’s eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keanu Reeves, in Dogstar.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the advent of reality television, however, celebrities who were famous for nothing more than living with a camera crew started consistently assuming that the fastest way to a more credible career was via the medium of music. In the early days, this happened repeatedly and, without fail, each and every reality star thought that their music career would be different; that they somehow would get one over on a public who, they refused to acknowledge, really, really didn’t want to hear them sing in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this phenomena first started in the early 2000s, it became apparent very quickly that even when reality stars made a real effort to put out something musically solid -- or at least something that wouldn’t immediately get you scrambling to the mute button on your TV--- they were still met with indifference and not a small amount of disapproval from the peanut gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, emerging on the back of the enormously successful \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes\">\u003cem>The Osbournes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Kelly Osbourne’s wooden performance in the video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUb5JihqZZQ#t=70\">Papa Don’t Preach\u003c/a>\" might have erred on the side of cringeworthy, but the actual song was on par with -- perhaps even better than --anything Avril Lavigne was doing with more success that year. Osbourne’s follow-up singles, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8nng0Anvig\">Shut Up\u003c/a>” and “Come Dig Me Out”, certainly out-paced and outsmarted Lavigne’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE\">Complicated\u003c/a>\" and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k\">Sk8tr Boi\u003c/a>”:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q_qE8_BHMrI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Still it came to naught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Paris Hilton -- who occasionally seemed like an actual Real Human Girl in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362153/\">\u003cem>The Simple Life\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- had a crack at music stardom with “Stars Are Blind” -- a song that was received across the board with a kind shrug, a gentle nod and a muttering of “This actually isn’t that bad.” Which, of course, is code for “I’d listen to this song if Gwen Stefani had recorded it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/joWpYsKere8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/joWpYsKere8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2008, Heidi Montag (poor, dear Heidi Montag) did put some effort into her \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hills_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Hills\u003c/em>\u003c/a>-adjacent foray into music, copying Paris Hilton’s beachy video and being hailed (by people who were surely being paid to do so) as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgA5D10Hvg\">The NEXT Britney Spears!\u003c/a>\" Sadly, Montag's attempts to not sound like a balloon deflating in slow motion failed. (Poor, dear Heidi Montag.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wHZYGrC40Ko'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>All three stars were forced to abandon their music careers shortly after they’d begun, to the disappointment of almost nobody. But what followed was a contagious idea among other reality stars that (a) anyone could have a go, and (b) since it was clearly going to be short-lived, they could just release any old nonsense. The reality star singles that followed were both infuriating in their laziness and -- silver lining! -- a goldmine of unintentional comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, there was Daisy De La Hoya, one of Brett Michaels’ playthings from his (consistently gag-worthy) \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_of_Love_with_Bret_Michaels_(season_2)\">\u003cem>Rock Of Love\u003c/em>\u003c/a> dating show. Ms. De La Hoya decided in 2009 that the quickest way to a rock ‘n’ roll career was singing a song titled “Suck It” featuring the immortal refrain: “Girls, they wanna be me! Boys, they wanna do me!” It was just as head-desk terrible as you might imagine, but there was, at least, also a strong possibility that every time you heard this, you laughed until the breath left your lungs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8tul_1hRphI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8tul_1hRphI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Not to be outdone on the trashiness scale, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)\">\u003cem>Jersey Shore\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Pauly D decided to release “Beat Dat Beat” a year later. It was a Pitbull-inspired tropical house nightmare with spoken word sections about tanning, being Italian and “only dealing with 9s and 10s in the DJ booth.” It was like Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch went on a bender, stopped being able to do backflips and just started complaining about ugly people:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/y0Gpt12psAA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/y0Gpt12psAA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” half-emerged. That’s right! This atrocity was so bad, not even the Kardashians wanted it released, even after airing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uzScEbcws\">Kim in the recording studio\u003c/a> during an episode of \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians\">\u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. To this day, it’s impossible to find an entirely finished video to accompany the track. Not even The Dream, a vat of body oil and Kim K’s perfect derriere crawling through a service tunnel could disguise the fact that her singing(?) voice was even more profoundly irritating than the one she speaks with. But hey, rosé up in the air, everybody! (ROSÉ!)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gHp7sq1Tzn0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Astonishingly, in the years that have followed, we’ve only seen the bar set increasingly lower, thanks almost entirely to the squawking banshees of \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> franchise. Here’s New York’s Kim Zolciak with “Tardy For The Party,” closely resembling that friend of your mom’s that always drinks too much on national holidays, then passes out on the front lawn:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gIeb7tY3Z6s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gIeb7tY3Z6s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another NYC housewife, Countess Luann, went one step further with “Money Can’t Buy You Class,” a track that features so many layers of Auto-Tune, it sounds like she recorded it with her face submerged in a mop bucket. Money can't buy you talent either, sweet cheeks!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kEDvlSAMhQU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kEDvlSAMhQU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even bit-players from \u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em> got in on recording singles. Do you know who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRlRUlXWz0#t=20\">Simon Van Kempen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcQq1sbWsM#t=63\">Miss Lawrence\u003c/a> are? We don’t either. But someone let those fools into recording booths because, apparently, being on reality television erases the ability to feel shame. Truly, it would now be an impossibility for a reality star to record anything worse than this exercise in humiliation:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nbRlRUlXWz0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nbRlRUlXWz0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, it’s possible for actors to cross over into legitimate and nerd-approved music careers in a way that simply wasn’t permitted a decade ago. 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