Weekend News Roundup! If you don’t want to know the answer
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April 20, 2015
Happy Monday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you mayhave missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.
• Bobbi Kristina may have woken up from her coma. According to a TMZ video, Bobby Brown announced that his daughter was awake while on stage Saturday night. [TMZ]
• Michael Shannon and his band will perform The Smiths’ 1986 album The Queen is Dead in Evanston, Illinois this June. [Pitchfork]
• There won’t be any red carpet selfies at Cannes this year. [Complex]
• Furious 7 won the box office for the third week in a row. [BOM]
• Canadian actor Jonathan Crombie, who played Gilbert Blythe in CBC’s adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, passed away from a brain hemorrhage. He was 48. [Variety]
• Some details were revealed about the other upcoming Star Wars film, Rogue One. Apparently the film will be set in between Episode IV, the original 1977 film, and Episode III, the last prequel. [Variety]
• Ben Affleck went on Find Your Roots, a show that traces your ancestors hosted by Henry Louis Gates, and subsequently tried to cover up the findings. [The Guardian]
