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Here's what is happening in pop culture:
• The journalism drama "Spotlight" won top honors at the Gotham Awards, the first of the end-of-year movie awards. Paul Dano ("Love & Mercy") and Bel Powley ("The Diary of a Teenage Girl") were surprise winners in the acting categories. [The Guardian]
• Linda Ellerbee — the acerbic newswoman who made NBC News smarter in the '70s and '80s, then went on to explain news events to kids on Nick News for 25 years — will retire from TV this month, at the age of 71. [AP, via The Huffington Post]
• A teaser for a trailer? What rabbit hole of endless hype have we jumped into now? (That said, the image of an angry Superman unmask a chained-up Bat-fleck is pretty cool.) [The Hollywood Reporter]