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Here's what's happening today in pop culture:
• The MacArthur Foundation has announced the 21 recipients of its annual MacArthur Awards — the so-called "genius grants." Among this year's recipients: Graphic memoirist and author Alison Bechdel, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer and pioneering LGBT attorney Mary Bonauto. [NPR]
• Olympian Lolo Jones was the first celebrity eliminated on this season's "Dancing With the Stars." [Entertainment Weekly]
• Tom Hiddleston (Loki from the "Thor" and "Avengers" movies) will star in "Skull Island," a King Kong movie set to be released Nov. 4, 2016. [Vulture]