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Paris after husband Kanye West held
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shows during Paris Fashion Week.
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caramel latex suit from designer Bal-
main’s Fall/Winter 2020-2021 col-
lection, complete with matching
gloves, light-colored sandals and a
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Dean Norris is happy to revisit Hank

Schrader, his “Breaking Bad” charac-

ter, on AMC prequel “Better Call Saul.”

He’s even happier with the version he’s

playing in two episodes starting Mon-

day (9 EST/PST): the cocky, gung-ho

DEA agent from the early part of the

original series.

“I told (producers) it’s going to be

fun to play Hank before all the depres-

sion, before he took a turn for the

worse” after killing a drug lord in “Bad,”

Norris says. “You know, the loud-

mouth, strong, tough, not-a-care-in-

the-world kind of guy that I only got to

play in the first two seasons.”

In “Saul,” which is in its fifth and

penultimate season, Hank appears

years before the Tuco Salamanca

shootout, which marked the start of a

PTSD spiral for Hank that rubbed off

on Norris, who lost both his parents

during that show’s run.

“You can’t play that level of depres-

sion without it affecting you a bit,” says

Norris, whose bond with Hank extends

to producing a real-world version of

the DEA agent’s home brew, Schrader-

bräu. “So it was great to come back and

play him fun again.”

The “Saul” episodes reunite Norris

and Steven Michael Quezada, who

played Hank’s DEA partner Steven Go-

mez on “Bad,” which ended in 2013.

“Batman and Robin back together!”

Norris says.

The original series, which claimed

Hank’s life in the final season, “meant

a lot to me in my life, so it was kind of

emotional to be back there and recon-

nect with all the people” on “Saul” who

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Walter White (Bryan Cranston, left) and Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) were brothers-in-law on opposite sides of the law

in “Breaking Bad.”LEWIS JACOBS/AMC

Norris is happy to

break back to Hank

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In “Better Call Saul,” Norris reprises his “Breaking Bad” role as Schrader, a

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much charisma it practically jumps off

the screen. With a short first season and

great star, it has the potential to stand

out from Netflix’s weekly dump of new

series.

Set in a small town in Pennsylvania

(reminiscent of “Stranger” locale Haw-

kins, Indiana), “Okay” centers on Syd-

ney Novak (Sophia Lillis), an angry,

misanthropic teen who recently lost her

father to suicide. She hates her mother,

is protective of her younger brother and

has just one friend, Dina (Sofia Bryant),

for whom she may have more than just

platonic feelings. When Dina starts dat-

ing preppy jock Brad (Richard Ellis), Syd

is even madder. Lonely and upset, she is

drawn to Stanley (Wyatt Oleff ), a part-

time pot dealer who embraces his dor-

ky, awkward aesthetic.

Oh, and when Syd’s anger gets a little

too intense? She destroys things

Netflix series such as “Stranger Things”

and “Sex Education” into a new one de-

signed to keep viewers’ eyes glued to

their screens as long as possible. But

“Okay” uses familiar story beats and

characters to craft a story that has so

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‘Not Okay With This’ is more than OK

Kelly Lawler

Columnist

USA TODAY

While watching Netflix’s new teen

supernatural series “I Am Not Okay

With This,” it’s easy to be reminded of

all the TV shows and movies it bor-

rows from.

There’s a hefty dose of “Carrie,” a

“Breakfast Club” homage, a bit of the

Spider-Man origin story and the teen

drama of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

But unlike most of the other 1980s

and 1990s pastiches that have become

popular in Hollywood these days,

“Okay” is more than just a generic

copycat trying to get your attention via

a streaming algorithm.

Don’t get me wrong: There are ele-

ments to the excellent new series (now

streaming) that make it seem as if it

were created in a lab, by combining

Sophia Lillis stars as Syd in “I Am Not

Okay With This.”NETFLIX

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The actor, who owns Aviation Gin,
helped an 84-year-old woman cele-
brate her first “legal drink.” Thanks to
being born on Leap Day, Arlene Man-
ko has only had a true birthday every
four years. 2000 marks her 21st offi-
cial birthday. To celebrate finally be-
ing of legal drinking age, Manko
starred in a new ad for the liquor
brand, joking she was “technically 5
years old when I got married. ... I had
seven kids in 10 years. Did you think
sometimes I didn’t want a drink?”

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