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  • Naya Rivera: ‘Glee’ Star Expecting First Baby

    Naya Rivera–best known for her role as Santana Lopez on the hit TV show Glee–is expecting her first baby with husband Ryan Dorsey. Dorsey plays the role of Earl on the FX show Justified.

    Rivera and Dorsey met about five years ago, but didn’t go public with their relationship until Naya officially split up with rapper Big Sean back in April of 2014. The couple got married in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in July of 2014.

    Naya Rivera was very creative when it came to announcing her pregnancy. She started with a post on her Instagram account that directed followers to her website.

    The photo itself, however, was a dead a giveaway.

    “Ryan and I feel so blessed and can’t wait to welcome the newest member of our family,” Naya Rivera wrote.

    In a strange coincidence, the news about Naya Rivera and Ryan Dorsey’s baby-to-be came on the same day that Big Sean released his latest album.

    Big Sean and Naya Rivera made news recently when she accused the ‘I Don’t Fu*k With You’ singer of having stolen her Rolex. It’s uncertain if that issue was ever resolved.

    It will be interesting to see what Naya Rivera does for work in the coming months. Filming for the final season of Glee ended last weekend, with its final episode airing in March.

  • Elmore Leonard, American Crime Novelist, Dead at 87

    Sad news this morning out of Detroit: one of America’s greatest crime novelists and the executive producer for the Eastern Kentucky crime drama Justified on FX has died at 87.

    Leonard passed on at 7:15 in the morning today at his home in Bloomfield Village due to complications of a stroke. The announcement was made via his Facebook page, accompanied by the main image, and read: “The post I dreaded to write, and you dreaded to read. Elmore passed away at 7:15 this morning from complications from his stroke. He was at home surrounded by his loving family. More to follow.”

    Few writers who get their break have the clever tongue for writing both the police and the crooks with equal measure given to both sides of the law, but Leonard was also famous for his dry wit, noir, and westerns like 3:10 to Yuma. The crew of Justified wore bracelets bearing the letters WWED, meaning “What would Elmore do?”

    A boy from the bayou, Leonard was born in New Orleans but his family moved around a lot and he ended up in Detroit in 1934 when he was just 9 years old. He went to the Blessed Sacrement School on Belmont, where was teased about his southern accent. He graduated from the University of Detroit in 1950 with a major in English and he dove headfirst into the Detroit advertising industry.

    In an office that his son describes as “looking like a prison cell,” Leonard would often write western novels between 5 and 7 in the morning, and after he quit advertising, he would write from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. with no lunch break. While Leonard could have capitalized on himself and moved to Hollywood, he preferred his quieter life in Bloomfield Village.

    The novelist’s character of Marshal Raylan Givens is not a new one, and the recent success of the crime show based on the novella “Fire in the Hole” tickled Leonard. He recently wrote a novel about Givens under the title Raylan.

    Other famous examples of Leonard’s work that have been adapted to the screen include Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Jackie Brown.

  • Amazon Nabs Exclusive Rights to FX’s Justified

    Another day in February, another exclusive content grab from Amazon.

    Today, the company announced that their Prime Instant Video service will be the exclusive online streaming home to the FX hit Justified. Also part of this new deal is the now-completed FX series The Shield.

    Justified has already been available to purchase from Amazon at $1.99 an episode, but now the series will be able to be streamed by Amazon Prime customers for no additional cost.

    “Justified and The Shield are two fan-favorites on Amazon,” said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. “We’re consistently looking for ways to make Prime even better – and one of the ways we’re doing that is adding shows like these that we know customers love. Prime members have tens of thousands of episodes of their favorite series like Downton Abbey, Falling Skies, and now Justified and The Shield, to enjoy on hundreds of devices, at no additional cost.”

    Earlier this month, Amazon made a big play for the megahit PBS series Downton Abbey. They snatched it away from competitors like Netflix and Hulu, nabbing exclusive rights to past, current, and future seasons of the show.

    A week or so later, Amazon announced that they will be the exclusive streaming home to CBS’ upcoming drama Under the Dome. Episodes of the new series, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, will become available just three days after they air.