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In the June 14 newsletter: 
Kawhi and the Raptors are NBA champs, the St. Louis Blues are Stanley Cup champs, and an inside look at the craziest Nicolas Cage movie of all time.
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Must-reads from The Ringer ... 

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- SPORTS -
 
Toronto won its first championship! Now what? [Justin Verrier]

The St. Louis Blues went from worst to first to win the Stanley Cup. [Katie Baker]

It's time to appreciate the dominance of the USWNT dream team, whether you like it or not. [Rodger Sherman]

Kawhi Leonard and the new championship blueprint. [Jonathan Tjarks]

Want to be an NFL GM? Well, you might find that a head coach wields more power. [Robert Mays]

In an era dominated by superteams, a team built around a single star on an expiring contract overthrew the league's most dominant force. [Dan Devine]

Klay Thompson and the Game 6 moment that rocked Oracle Arena one last time. [John Gonzalez]

 
- POP CULTURE -

The suspicion that Bill Murray is to some extent always playing “Bill Murray” is not a singular phenomenon. It’s now customary. [Adam Nayman]

Chernobyl is the best show ever, according to IMDb. But what does that even mean? [Alyssa Bereznak]

#ReleasetheSnyderCut is an uncommonly passionate and quixotic movement ... for a filmmaker who is an acquired taste. [Rob Harvilla]

When did Chris Hemsworth become "the funny man"? A look back at his long journey to get to this point. [Miles Surrey]

What is up with the detective on Big Little Lies? And what is she going to do with that lighter?! [Kate Halliwell]
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The Finals are over, but this is just the beginning …

The NBA Finals created more questions than answers about KD’s upcoming free agency. Plus: Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are now playing the waiting game. [Paolo Uggetti]

Here’s how the events of the NBA Finals may affect the forthcoming decisions for Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, and Klay Thompson. [Rodger Sherman]

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The NBA Free Agency Ripple Effects of Kevin Durant’s Achilles Injury

 
 
Chris Ryan and Justin Verrier react to Kevin Durant’s Achilles injury during Game 5 of the NBA Finals and discuss how it will affect the upcoming 2019 free-agency class.
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FEATURE:

The Secret History of Vampire’s Kiss, the Craziest Nicolas Cage Movie of All Time

The most famous story from the set of Vampire’s Kiss involves a cockroach. A real one. The script had called for Cage’s character—in the throes of madness—to suck a raw egg. Bierman and Cage thought this was too tame.

Cage “said to me, ‘The thing I hate most in the world are cockroaches. They are my Room 101. … So let me eat a cockroach,’” Bierman recalls. “He wanted to eat the most frightening thing for him. I thought, ‘This is terrific!’ I sent my prop people down into the boiler room. … They brought me a box, divided up into little sections with tissue paper. The cockroaches were there lined up for me to cast. I think they’re actually called water bugs—they’re bigger than cockroaches.”

What you see on film is all nauseatingly real: Cage snatching a live roach, lifting it tentatively, chewing it like a madman. “I really [wanted] to do something that would shock the audience, something you would never forget,” Cage explained. It’s the only change he made to Minion’s script, which never underwent a single rewrite.

[Zach Schonfeld takes us inside Vampire's Kiss, the bizarre cult classic that became the blueprint for Nicolas Cage’s career of wild and absurd performances.]
 

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