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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• Jimmy Kimmel, on his first night back after his tear-inducing talk about his newborn son's heart condition, slammed health-care critics who attacked the talk-show host as "an out-of-touch, Hollywood elitist creep." [The Daily Beast]

• "American Idol" is coming back, with ABC winning a bidding war to revive the singing-competition show that ran 15 seasons on Fox. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Robert De Niro, in accepting the Chaplin Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, excoriated the Trump administration's "mean-spirited" efforts to kill federal arts funding. "I call it what it is: Bulls—-," De Niro said. [Entertainment Weekly]