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DALLAS — It all started with a Plano mom, Sheryl Leach, who drew inspiration from her dinosaur-loving son to bring a stuffed toy to life. Today, 35 years after Barney’s debut, the friendly dinosaur is the subject of a docuseries on how people turned against it, seemingly rejecting its values of inclusion and respect. The two-part docuseries, titled "I Love You, You Hate Me," premieres Oct. 12 on Peacock, the NBCUniversal streaming service. Peacock dropped the trailer this week. In it, multiple personalities from NBC’s Al Roker to Bill Nye share accounts of how quickly the world turned against Leach’s creation. In the 80-second trailer, Bob West, a Barney performer who put on the 70-pound puffy purple costume, said death threats were made against his family. “They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,” West said in the trailer. “They were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me.” Another man who wore the suit also said the … [Read more...] about Barney docuseries traces the unexpected hatred for TV’s best-known dinosaur

David Kenner still remembers the lyrics prosecutors shared for the Los Angeles courtroom during the 1996 murder trial of his client Calvin Broadus, better known as the rapper Snoop Dogg. "'Cause it's 1-8-7 on an undercover cop" - a reference to California's penal code for murder - from Snoop Dogg's hit single "Deep Cover" performed with Dr. Dre. It was the prosecution's way of inferring that Snoop Dogg's creative output indicated criminality - and guilt - Kenner said. In reality, the song was recorded for the soundtrack of the 1992 crime thriller of the same name in which Laurence Fishburne stars as a police officer working undercover to bust a West Coast drug cartel. "It was baloney," Kenner told The Washington Post. "[Killing a cop] was the theme of the movie - that's what they asked him to do in the recording." Snoop Dogg was acquitted, but researchers estimate more than 500 cases over the past 30 years have shown prosecutors using rap lyrics against defendants at trial. … [Read more...] about California makes it harder to use lyrics as evidence against rappers

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 "Saturday Night Live" is back to making fun of its audience. The cold-open sketch in the show's 48th season premiere played to "SNL's" strengths - political humor, making fun of the Manning brothers and commenting on its own demise. Fans began to fear the fate of the Emmy-winning series after an exodus of eight cast members at the end of Season 47. Missing from this season's opening credits (noted: updated show font and design) are Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Chris Redd, Kyle Mooney, Melissa Villaseñor, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari - with the loss of McKinnon being particularly lamented. "The way the series has survived is by that level of renewal. The price of success is that people go off and do other things," "SNL" creator/producer Lorne Michaels told the New York Times last month. Instead of ignoring those concerns, "SNL" got weird with it. Peyton Manning … [Read more...] about ‘SNL’ opens 48th season with a meta comment about its current condition