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Susan Eubanks, the mother of late Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, said the band promised to tell her if the group was getting back together.

Hughes is a more relaxed, social person, if ultimately more hamstrung by moral certainty.

If there is such a thing as a perfect objective for a Keoghan character, Arnold may have found it.

If it’s too much to ask of Arnold that her bid for heightened naturalism make a ton of sense, “Bird” at least maintains a heartbeat of ache and affection for youth in all its rudeness, revealing a filmmaker who isn’t afraid of losing her claws if she traffics in the thing with feathers.

So as the Lakers get set to open their title defense of the NBA Cup on Friday in San Antonio with virtually the same roster as a year ago, it’s more than fair to wonder what, if anything, these stretch of games means to them.