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Image: Disney/20th Century StudiosIs there a family in media who’s persisted quite so much as The Simpsons? Matt Groening’s five-person (and one dog!) family of yellow oddballs has been going on strong since 1989, as long as some of our parents have been married, if not alive altogether. Depending on who you are, time hasn’t entirely been kind to the show, whose 34th season is presumably due to air in a couple of months. And in the case of its first and surprisingly only theatrical film, time has proven how everlasting…

The woman who accused Bob Dylan of grooming and sexually abusing her in 1965, when she was 12 years old, has dropped her case, Billboard reports.The woman, identified as JC, had been accused by Dylan’s lawyers of destroying evidence after she failed to hand over emails and text messages by a deadline set by the court. She had also recently discharged her own legal representatives.At a hearing on 28 July, a request was made to dismiss the case with prejudice.Dylan’s lead lawyer, Orin Snyder of Gibson Dunn, said in a…

An unnamed woman who claimed Bob Dylan sexually abused her as a child in 1965 has withdrawn her lawsuit permanently, a day after Dylan’s attorneys accused her of destroying key evidence and “irretrievably” compromising the integrity of the case. In a lawsuit filed last year, the woman alleged that Dylan abused her over a six-week period in 1965, leaving her “emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged.” The artist’s lawyers quickly called the case “false, malicious, reckless and defamatory” and a…

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By Colleen Slevin and Lindsey D. Bahr | Associated Press DENVER — Bob Rafelson, an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s who was nominated for two Oscars for “Five Easy Pieces,” has died. He was 89. Rafelson died at his home in Aspen on Saturday night surrounded by his family, said his wife, Gabrielle Taurek Rafelson. Rafelson was responsible for co-creating the fictional pop music group and television series “The Monkees” alongside the late Bert Schneider, which won him an Emmy for outstanding comedy…

Influential New Hollywood era director and co-creator of The Monkees Bob Rafelson has died. He was 89.The filmmaker died peacefully and surrounded by his family at his home in Aspen, Colarado on Saturday (23 July), his wife Gabrielle Taurek Rafelson said. Rafelson co-created the hit TV series The Monkees alongwith the late Bert Schneider, and the sitcom premiered on NBC in 1966. The idea for The Monkees, which follows the eponymously titled, fictional rock-and-roll band, predated The Beatles and the musical comedy A Hard…

Alongside the so-called “movie brats” – Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg – who rode the crest of the American new wave in the late 1960s and early 70s, were other figures less readily assimilated into the mainstream. Of these, few were as influential as Bob Rafelson, the writer-producer-director, who has died aged 89 after suffering from lung cancer.He was characterised by a counter-cultural sensibility and an eye for fruitful collaborations, notably with the…

Of all the creative energies and commercial synergies that swirled around Hollywood at the end of the 1960s, surely the strangest was the one between the Monkees, actor Jack Nicholson and the producer-director who was to become a presiding genius of the American new wave: Bob Rafelson. Yet if Rafelson had not co-created pop music’s great boyband in his capacity as a TV producer, his company would not have been as madly successful as it was: he would not have been able to produce Dennis Hopper’s countercultural classic…

Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of the Monkees who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died. He was 89. Rafelson died at his home in Aspen on Saturday night surrounded by his family, said his wife, Gabrielle Taurek Rafelson.Rafelson was responsible for co-creating the fictional pop music group and television series The Monkees alongside the late Bert Schneider, which won him an Emmy for outstanding comedy series in 1967.But Rafelson was perhaps best known for his work during the New…

Image: Courtesy of 20th Century StudiosIf you missed The Bob’s Burgers Movie while it was in theaters—or if, perhaps even more likely, you’re dying to watch it over and over again while eating burgers in your own home, this is your time. The meaty murder mystery comedy arrives on digital July 12, with a Blu-ray and DVD release July 19—and io9's got an exclusive peek at one of the special features.Yeah, the animation and the performances (including the sound effects) are definitely in rough-draft mode, but how cool is…