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Martin Shkreli‘s attorney used a pair of Lady Gaga lyrics during opening statements on Wednesday to defend the embattled former pharmaceutical CEO as his trial on fraud charges begins.

The 34-year-old is facing eight counts of securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors and illegally using funds from a biotech company he once ran, the New York Times reports. And his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, gave an attention-grabbing speech to the Brooklyn court, in which he described Shkreli as an awkward, “odd duck” who often wore bunny slippers around the office.

“As Lady Gaga said, he was born this way,...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: Los Angeles" episode 17 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Savoir Faire,” and it turns out that we're going to see some intense and interesting stuff go down when the team has to track down foreign soldiers before they're forced to leak very important information, and more! In the new, 17th episode press release: When one of three foreign soldiers training in the U.S. is found dead and the other two are missing, the team will have to find them before kidnappers extract classified military operations. Press release number 2: While the team investigates the death of one of three Afghanistan soldiers who are training in the U.S., they are going to discover two other soldiers are missing and will have to find them before they’re forced to reveal classified military operations to their captors. Also,...

Shorts Program 6: Comedy Shorts includes 11 individual short films of various comical style, for a total running time of 80 minutes. Played consecutively, these films offer a broad and entertaining showcase for independent comedy filmmakers in the St. Louis area.

Fluff (4 minutes)

Directed by Anthony Meadows and shot by Tim Bowe, Fluff is an awesome action-mystery-thriller ode to all the kick ass genres of cinema. The comedy is inherent, as the film is cast entirely with colorful, handmade puppets. The central character, a stuffed bear, meets up with a stuffed horse named Lewis (voiced by Tim Gowan) about a strange black disc (a button). As they flee from danger together through the woods, they run into a freaky shot-out stuffed bear-thing named Martin (voiced by Tyler Meadows), who joins them in a violent fight to the death with two sock monkeys seeking the black disc. Carnage ensues, culminating in an open-ended “what happens next” moment.