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New York Post, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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Eddie’s ‘SNL’

homecoming

Comedian Eddie Murphy

will host “Saturday Night

Live” on Dec. 21 — making

his first appearance on the

show since he left in 1984,

it was announced Monday.

The Sept. 28 45th-season

opener will be hosted by

Woody Harrelson, with

Billie Eilish as the musical

guest.

The hosts for the next

two episodes, Oct. 5 and 12,

will be Phoebe Waller-

Bridge and David Harbour,

with musical guests Taylor

Swift and Camila Cabello,

respectively.

The musical guests for

the rest of the season have

not been set, but Kristen

Stewart will host on Nov. 2.

Murphy and Joe Piscopo

are credited by many with

restoring the show’s popu-

larity after the disastrous

1980-81 season. Variety

Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat have nothing on Taylor
Swift as she hits the red carpet at the
MTA VMA Awards at the Prudential
Center in Newark Monday night.
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Dorian could

be ’cane today

Tropical Storm Dorian

could strengthen into a hur-

ricane as early as Tuesday,

as it roars deeper into the

Caribbean — with Barbados,

Puerto Rico and the Domin-

ican Republic in its sights.

The storm was 60 miles

southeast of Barbados on

Monday evening, with 60-

mph winds and downpours

of up to 10 inches projected

for the island Tuesday, the

National Hurricane Center

said.

A tropical-storm watch

was issued Monday in Pu-

erto Rico, where Dorian is

expected to hit Wednesday.

It’s the fourth named

storm of the hurricane sea-

son. Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

By JACKIE SALO

It’s Kentucky Fried “Chicken.”

The fast-food chain will soon

have Colonel Sanders-approved

meatless options with the arrival

of plant-based faux fried-chicken

meals.

The company has partnered

with Beyond Meat to test a vege-

tarian chicken substitute at one of

its Atlanta loca-

tions as part of a

pilot program,

KFC announced

on Monday.

“The new plant-

based Beyond

Fried Chicken of-

fers the finger

lickin’ good fried

chicken flavor

only KFC can de-

liver as a perfect

choice for those

searching for

plant-based meat

options on the

go,” the chain said

in a statement.

As part of the

partnership, KFC will have on the

menu Beyond nuggets and bone-

less wings, which it boasts will be

identical in taste to traditional

chicken.

“KFC Beyond Fried Chicken is

so delicious, our customers will

find it difficult to tell that it’s

plant-based,” KFC President

Kevin Hochman said.

“I think we’ve all heard, ‘It tastes

like chicken’ — well, our custom-

ers are going to be amazed and

say, ‘It tastes like Kentucky Fried

Chicken!’ ”

For now, Beyond fried chicken

will be available beginning Tues-

day only at the Cobb Parkway lo-

cation in Atlanta.

“KFC has a history of frequently

testing unique and craveable

menu items as a part of the

brand’s food-in-

novation strategy,

considering food

trends and evalu-

ating customer

feedback to KFC’s

test offerings,” the

chain said.

Beyond Meat

said it developed

the new product

specifically for

KFC. It’s made

with wheat pro-

tein coated in a

proprietary

breading.

The Los Ange-

les-based startup

sells plant-based

burgers, sausages and meat crum-

bles at grocery stores and at some

fast-food chains, including

Dunkin’ Donuts, Carl’s Jr. and Del

Taco.

Frozen plant-based chicken

strips were the first product Be-

yond Meat sold, starting in 2012.

But the company pulled them off

the market this year to improve

the recipe. With Wire Services

TASTES

LIKE

CHICKEN

KFC tests meatless

Latino film representation lags

Latinos make up 18 percent of the US population and 24 percent of its

moviegoers — yet they rarely see themselves on movie screens.

A study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative finds

that Latino representation in film lags significantly behind

the US population and that, over the past decade, the number

of Latino characters in the most popular movies is virtually

unchanged.

The report, released Monday analyzed the 1,200 top-grossing films

from 2007 to 2018 and some 47,268 speaking or named characters. It

found that in that 12-year period, 4.5 percent of all speaking or named

characters and just 3 percent of leads or co-leads were Latino. AP

moviegoers — yet they rarely see themselves on movie screens.

unchanged.

The report, released Monday

from 2007 to 2018 and some 47,268 speaking or named characters. It

found that in that 12­year period, 4.5 percent of all speaking or named

characters and just 3 percent of leads or co­leads were Latino.

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