What’s on Netflix and Amazon in April

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

Bill Nye the Science Guy tackles various topics from a scientific perspective in his new Netflix series “Bill Nye Saves the World,” debuting in April. Here’s at look at more of what’s new in the streaming world.

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“The Get Down” Season 2: Baz Luhrmann and his team take on the emergence of hip hop in New York City in the 1970s in this musical series returning for its sophomore season. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On”: Actress Rashida Jones is one of the producers of this series based on the documentary about the porn industry. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Chelsea” Season 2: Chelsea Handler returns with a new season of her comedy and culture talk show.(Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Louis C.K. 2017”: The comic and TV star talks religion, eternal love, giving dogs drugs, email fights and more in a live performance from Washington, D.C. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“An American Tail”: Fievel Mousekewitz and his family immigrate to the United States from Russia in this beloved animated film. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Kubo and the Two Strings“: This Academy Award-nominated animated film follows a young boy searching for a magical suit his father wore. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Dear White People” Season 1: Based on the movie of the same name, this series revolves around a diverse group of students trying to navigate life at a predominately white university. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Tropic Thunder”: A group of actors filming a war movie end up having to become soldiers in this comedy. (Netflix)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Bosch” season 3: Titus Welliver plays LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch in this drama. (Amazon Prime)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Almost Famous”: Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit star in this film about a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Chaplin”: Robert Downey Jr. won critical acclaim playing silent movie star Charlie Chaplin in this 1992 movie. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Eddie Murphy Raw”: Eddie Murphy’s epic stand up special is still a fan favorite years later. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Tommy Boy”: David Spade and Chris Farley star in this 1995 comedy about a slow-witted auto parts company heir trying to save his company. (Amazon Prime,Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Election”: Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this 1999 dark comedy about a high school election. (Amazon Prime)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Mulholland Falls”: John Malkovich, Nick Nolte, Chazz Palminteri, and Treat Williams star in this thriller about a special crime squad of the LAPD investigating the murder of a young woman in the 1950s. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Saturday Night Fever”: Donna Pescow and John Travolta both want a better life for themselves beyond their New York City neighborhood in this classic film that gave the world a killer soundtrack. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Kiss the Girls”: Ashley Judd stars as a woman abducted by a serial killed in this 1997 thriller. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo”: Rob Schneider and Marlo Thomas star in this comedy about an aquarium cleaner who becomes a gigolo. (Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Days of Thunder”: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were still a real life couple when they starred in this race car driving film. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” : Matthew Broderick found stardom in this now iconic comedy about a high school student who plays hooky. (Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“RoboCop” : Peter Weller stars in this 1987 thriller about a wounded police officer who returns to the force as a cyborg. (Amazon Prime, Hulu)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” : Rose Byrne and Oprah Winfrey star in this drama based on the best-selling nonfiction book about a woman whose cells are still being used in medical research. (HBO Now)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” : Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders reprise their roles as Patsy and Edwina in this comedy based on Saunders hit TV show. (HBO Now)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Kicks” : Christopher Jordan Wallace, Christopher Meyer, and Jahking Guillory star in this drama about a teen on a mission to get his beloved sneakers back. (HBO Now)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“War Dogs”: Miles Teller and Jonah Hill star as unlikely arms dealers in this crime drama which was based on a true story. (HBO Now)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“Suicide Squad” : Will Smith and Margot Robbie are part of an ensemble cast in this comic book adaptation. (HBO Now)

What streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in April

“French Fields”: This lighthearted empty nester Brit-com stars beloved actors Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers about a couple who decide to move to France. (Acorn TV)

Dear lupus, I want me back

It’s an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks healthy tissue. It can cause damage to many parts of body such as joints, skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, blood vessels and the brain. Lupus is one of the most complicated and cruelest autoimmune diseases. Simply put: It’s difficult to diagnose, hard to live with and challenging to treat.

If I could write a letter to lupus, I would say “I want me back, I’ve had enough.”

As a junior at Kent State University, I felt like I was on top of the world. I went to a great school, I was doing exactly what I love (journalism), and then on September 11, 2001, I began to get unexplained illnesses one after another.

Eventually, I landed in a hospital bed with an IV pumping a cocktail of drugs meant to cure “a series of infections” ravaging my body. When I finally felt reasonable enough to go to class, I couldn’t remember things. My essays, as one professor told me, suddenly “read like ramblings.” I wasn’t me.

In April of 2014 Lauren Lee spent time in the hospital getting infusions to help deal with a flare up of Lupus. A flare is a period of heightened disease activity.

That semester, I ended up taking incompletes in all of my classes. My doctors and professors declared I was overwhelmed with catching up in my classes and the anxiety of it all consumed me. Little did I know that it would be a decade later before I would officially find out it was really systemic lupus erythematosus.

My diagnosis came as I was entering what I considered the magical part of my life. I had married, had a beautiful daughter and was working my dream job (CNN) and finally felt like I was walking in my purpose.

Abnormal levels of waste can build up in the blood, and edema is often the first sign of lupus nephritis.

I began to have horrific migraines, excruciating nerve pain down my left arm, and bruises and rashes started to appear more and more often. Initially, I thought I was just tired and it was the allergies and the bruises. I simply attributed it to being anemic.

This was until my esophagus began to feel as if it was closing up. I went to a physician, and he said I had a tumor on the shoulder and that must be causing everything I was feeling.

When I went to the surgical oncologist, she said “it’s not cancer” and referred me to an amazing internist.

I had already gone through the gamut of diagnoses: leukemia, thoracic outlet syndrome, sarcoidosis. I was completely over the diagnosis portion of the process. My life had become work, bed and repeat. They ran multiple tests. I remember the appointment like it was yesterday.

When I came back in for my follow-up, I was told I had lupus. A disease that has no cure. To me, that diagnosis was not a death sentence, but a sentence to feel the way that I felt at the moment for the rest of my life. I felt pain, I felt exhausted and I was not me.

Having lupus has been like having a horrific hangover while doing two-a-day workouts — #exhausting.

No one knows what is wrong unless you tell them. There is no escaping the pain, and the only way out is to sleep or die. I’ve felt like lupus at times has sucked the life out of me. It’s shifted my priorities, taken away many of the things I love because I’m stuck in a holding pattern just treating the symptoms. Never being cured.

Fighting this disease has been no easy ride.

The disease has affected my brain, GI system, lungs and heart. I take twelve medications to get through the day.

Those drugs include chemotherapy, an antimalarial, a beta-blocker, an anticonvulsant, chemotherapy and a monthly infusion of a biological drug. Only one of these drugs is specifically meant to treat lupus.

When people see me, they always say, “You don’t look sick.”

This has sort of been a gift and a curse for me. On one hand, I didn’t want people to look at me as if I had a disability. On the other, I wanted people to know what I’ve been able to accomplish in spite of the disease. It’s an invisible fight for me, but now is my time to make some noise so we can find a cure. If no one is aware of my struggle, we can’t get there.

I want me back, and I’ve realized that every breath I take is blessed with a responsibility. A responsibility to raise awareness about life with lupus and the need for a cure. Every day, this is what keeps me going.

Lupus is one of America’s least recognized major diseases, although 1.5 million Americans are living with it.

Research is not keeping pace with the research for other diseases of similar scope and devastation. A study conducted by the Lupus Foundation of America found 72% of Americans from 18 to 34 (those most at risk for lupus) have either not heard about lupus or know nothing more than the name.

In the past century, only one drug has been developed and approved to treat the disease. With the ebbs and flows of the economy, this disease has taken the backseat to research investment priorities.

The Lupus Foundation of America is the oldest and largest nonprofit organization focused on improving quality of life and finding a cure for lupus. To find out more information about the disease or to make a contribution, head over to lupus.org.

Opinion: How Trump should be using Twitter

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Hillary Clinton gives her most political speech since election

“There is no place I’d rather be than here with you,” Clinton said, before adding: “Other than the White House.”

During her keynote address at the annual conference hosted by the Professional BusinessWomen of California, Clinton spoke largely about women’s equality and peppered in criticism of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

“Obviously the outcome of the election wasn’t the one I hoped for, worked for, but I will never stop speaking out for common sense benefits that will allow moms and dads to stay on the job,” Clinton said.

Besides a few comments in public gatherings and tweets from her personal account, Clinton has largely laid low since the election. She was spotted after the election in the woods near her New York home and, along with her husband former President Bill Clinton, she attended Trump’s inauguration.

She called Republicans’ attempted replacement for the Affordable Care Act “a disastrous bill,” adding that the Trump administration has been “met with a wave of resistance” that indicates the protests against Trump’s policies are just getting started.

“People who had never been active in politics told their stories at town hall meetings.” Clinton said. “They were people who had something to say and were determined to be heard.”

During the question and answer portion of her appearance, she grew incredulous at the GOP health care debate.

“Really? Take away maternity care?” Clinton said. “Who do these people talk to?”

Clinton also focused on issues like inclusivity and diversity of women in the workplace and the need for the private sector to make better efforts to bring more women to the table.

“Advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century,” she said, while noting that women’s representation in Washington is “the lowest it’s been in a generation.”

‘A lifetime of practice’

The former secretary of state also responded to racially charged incidents directed at two prominent black women today.

In one, White House press Secretary Sean Spicer told April Ryan, a longtime White House correspondent and one of the few black women journalists in the press briefing room, to “stop shaking your head” and accused her of being “hell-bent on trying to make sure that whatever image you want to tell about this White House stays.”

In another, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly came under fire for racist comments mocking Rep. Maxine Waters’ hair, saying her hair looked like a “James Brown wig.”

O’Reilly later apologized, but not after a slew of controversy. Tuesday, Clinton said Waters had been “taunted by a racist joke about her hair.”

Women of color, said Clinton, have “a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride.”

‘Resist, insist’

On the policy front, Clinton criticized the US for still not having a national paid family leave policy and said those who do benefit from such policies are often among the highest income workers. Clinton called on the private sector to do more to help.

“You’re the people who figured out how to fit computers in the palms of our hands,” she said. “You have the power.”

But overall, Clinton offered an optimistic tone in the face of Trump’s victory.

“Where some see a dark vision of carnage, I see a light shining on creativity and opportunity,” she said, referencing the inaugural address.

She offered the audience her new mantra: “Resist, insist, persist, enlist.”

She encouraged the audience to “resist actions that go against our values as Americans,” insist on “putting people first,” “persist” like Sen. Elizabeth Warren did when she was prevented from reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King about Sen. Jeff Sessions, and “enlist” others by running for office or opening a business.

“I’ll be right there with you every step of the way,” she said.

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It’s time for Devin Nunes to step down

Story highlights

  • Paul Callan: Democrats and others want intelligence committee chair to resign for odd late-night visit to White House
  • Callan: Nunes should do so; US has right to expect more circumspect behavior from head of committee in charge of America’s secrets

In the full technicolor version of this fantasy, the cuffs would next be fastened on Trump, ending the progressives’ enduring Trumpian nightmare.

It’s clear that a lot more information is required before anyone can fairly judge the propriety and legality of Nunes’ actions. What we do know is that shortly after this visit to view classified information, Nunes perhaps surprised even the President by requesting a meeting. He failed to tell the House Intelligence Committee about this meeting with the President, an action for which he recently apologized.

Nunes tried to explain all of this to Wolf Blitzer earlier today, fielding specific questions about the White House visit. The chairman hedged on some questions and flatly declined to answer other inquiries, invoking the need to protect “sources and methods” and still “classified” information.

As chairman of the intelligence committee, enjoying among the highest of security clearances, the chairman would clearly be committing a crime if he publicly disclosed classified information. Answers that appear to be specious and deceptive may fit that description or in fact just be an intelligence chairman trying to protect classified information as well as “sources and methods.” This can only be legally evaluated when more is known about the contents of the mysterious documents that are now causing such a controversy on Capitol Hill.

Many Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee as well as others in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are calling for Nunes’ resignation, or recusal from any further role in the House committee’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Russians and the issues relating to the President’s Twitter-announced claim that President Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower.

Nunes should seriously consider stepping aside, as his own actions have now become the center of an ever-widening and distracting controversy.

Though at this point there is no evidence that the chairman acted illegally, the country has the right to expect far more circumspect behavior from the chairman of the House committee in charge of America’s secrets. It’s a little late for him to be learning that secrecy is paramount in the business of investigating the intelligence community.

The missteps of Nunes and the inappropriate tweets of the President appear to be drawing both men into the dark fantasies of Trump opponents across the country. One lesson they both should have learned by now is that the denizens of America’s spy apparatus are nicknamed “spooks” for good reason.