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of women admit they do

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LIFELINE

Everyone’s favorite foul-mouthedcrime �ghter is back.

Ryan Reynolds squeezes back intoWade Wilson’s red leather bodysuit forDeadpool 2 (in theaters Friday), theR-rated sequel to the surprise smashhit that sliced o� $783 million at theworldwide box o�ce in 2016. This nextinstallment manages to pack in evenmore laughs, violence and pop-culturereferences than the �rst as the sword-wielding mercenary assembles hismutant X-Force team to save anabused teen (Julian Dennison) fromunleashing his �ery powers on theworld.

Reynolds, 41, who co-wrote with theoriginal movie’s writers, Rhett Reeseand Paul Wernick, tells USA TODAYwhat you can expect from Deadpool’slatest.

Move aside, Colossus

The bromance between metallicmutant Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) andthe “Merc with a Mouth” is alive andwell in the sequel, complete with tinnytush grabs and a spot-on Say Anything... boombox parody. But the story’s corerelationship is that of Deadpool and cy-borg assassin Cable (Josh Brolin), whostart as enemies but eventually �ndcommon ground in their tragic backsto-ries.

“I love that we introduce Cable intothis �lm as our big baddie and that ittakes a bit of a turn,” Reynolds says. “Bythe end of their journey, Cable has givenan inch and Deadpool takes a mile withtheir relationship.”

Marvel, DC are both fair game

The sequel wildly ups the ante formeta, self-referential humor, withDeadpool tossing out playful (and of-ten expletive-�lled) quips about fellowMarvel superheroes including Wolver-ine, Black Widow and Black Panther.But one of the most memorable one-liners comes at the expense of Mar-vel’s comic-book movie rivals, asDeadpool taunts a foe, “You’re so dark.Are you sure you’re not from the DCUniverse?”

“We’re certainly not above pokingfun at the distinction people draw be-tween the universes,” Reese says.

Reynolds used Canadian tie

French-Canadian songbird CelineDion is the last person you’d expect tohear in a Deadpool movie. But her leg-endary pipes make an appearance inthe James Bond-style opening credits,which roll over her delightfully over-wrought Ashes.

“The studio presented us with a tonof hyper-talented, Millennial-friendlysingers and we thought, ‘Let’s just gostraight to the legend �rst,’ ” Reynoldssays. The actor emailed her “and mayhave dropped that I’m also Canadian.”

More blood, guts and baby legs

If you thought the �rst movie wasgruesome fun, then you’re in for a treatthis go-around, as Deadpool decapi-tates his adversaries to the tune ofDolly Parton’s 9 to 5, gets blown topieces in a gas explosion and is vi-ciously torn apart by a monstrous mu-tant. Fortunately, one of the Merc’spowers is regenerating limbs.

“He got his arm cut o� in the �rstone and we wanted to step it up just anotch by ripping him in half,” Wernickjokes. “I don’t know what we’re goingto do on the third one.”

Streisand and snowmen cameos

The �lm begins with Wade and girl-friend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin)plotting to start a family and watchingBarbra Streisand’s Yentl as ... foreplay?“It’s open to interpretation,” Reynoldsdeadpans. The Oscar-nominated songPapa, Can You Hear Me? becomes arunning joke, after Wade marvels thatit sounds like Do You Want to Build aSnowman? from Disney’s Frozen.

MOVIES

Ryan Reynolds takes no prisoners as the “Merc with a Mouth,” mocking

everyone, especially himself, in “Deadpool 2.” 20TH CENTURY FOX

Deadpool is an unabashed fan of

Disney’s 2013 animated musical

“Frozen.” AP

‘Deadpool 2’:Snark, babylegs, ‘Yentl’ Patrick RyanUSA TODAY

A new biography of Robin Williamschronicles the comedian’s topsy-turvypublic and private lives, which in-volved in�delities, groping and �ash-ing of his Mork & Mindy co-star PamDawber, rehab from drug and alcoholabuse, and a rare brain disorder diag-nosed only after his suicide by hangingin 2014. He was 63.

In Robin (Henry Holt, out May 15),author Dave Itzko� writes that Wil-liams’ �rst wife, Valerie Velardi, tolerat-ed his liaisons: “Valerie could never

quite bring herself to con-demn Robin for his in�-delities; she seemed to ac-cept them as an occupa-tional hazard of stardom.”

That changed, howev-er, when his two-year af-fair with a cocktail wait-ress ended, and the other

woman, Michelle Tish Carter, suedhim for $6.2 million, alleging (inaccu-rately, it turned out) that he had givenher herpes. The suit became public in1988, and Velardi divorced Williamsthat year.

In 1989, Williams would marry Mar-sha Garces, who had risen from beingthe family nanny to his professionalassistant. But by 2006 his drinkingand drug use led to the unraveling ofhis second marriage. That summer hebegan a stint at the Hazelden Founda-tion center, a rehab facility in Oregon.

The 400-plus-page biography alsodocuments an insecure star who for allhis successes (an Oscar, plus Emmysand Grammys) could be worried by therise of rival comic Jim Carrey, as well asover his personal �nances — despitepulling down as much as $15 million a�lm.

BOOKS

Bio unmaskscomic RobinWilliams’tormentedbody, soulDavid HolahanSpecial to USA TODAY

Williams was found hanged in his

bedroom on Aug. 11, 2014. 2008 PHOTO

BY GETTY IMAGES

His behavior became increasinglystrange into his early 60s. He was mis-diagnosed with Parkinson’s diseaseand in June 2014 entered rehab eventhough he was not drinking or doingdrugs. It was a move inspired by des-peration: Nothing else seemed to behelping.

(Williams’ behavior was later at-tributed to “di�use Lewy body dis-ease”; the diagnosis came from analy-sis of his brain tissue after his death.)

Itzko� writes that Susan Schneider,Williams’ third wife whom he marriedin 2011, became seriously concernedabout his health, physical and mental,in fall 2013. On the night before hehanged himself, the author writes,Williams “began to �xate on some ofthe designer wrist watches that heowned and grew fearful that they werein danger of being stolen.” He took sev-eral of them and stu�ed them in a sockand drove them to a friend’s housenearby for safekeeping.

He went to bed the next nightaround 10:30, and his wife, who sleptin a separate bedroom, let him sleep in.When he didn’t answer her late thatmorning of Aug. 11, she forced the lockand found him dead, his belt aroundhis neck.

After her husband’s death and diag-nosis, Schneider told Good MorningAmerica: “It was like this endless pa-rade of symptoms, and not all of themwould raise their head at once. It waslike playing whack-a-mole. ... We’rechasing it and there’s no answers, andby now we’ve tried everything.”

Don't count Late Night with Seth

Meyers writer Amber Ruffin among

one of the millions enjoying ABC's

revival of Roseanne. In her opinion,

the show starring Roseanne Barr is

"better than ever... at being racist."

During the NSFW segment dubbed

"Amber’s Minute of Fury," the come-

dian ripped last week's episode of the

series. “In this tired-(expletive) epi-

sode, (Roseanne) has Muslim neigh-

bors, and she thinks they’re terror-

ists, until they give her their WiFi

password and then she decides

they’re OK and saves them from a

different racist person, proving that

she is no longer racist,” Ruffin said,

giving her summary of the episode.

Amber Ruffin LLOYD BISHOP/NBC

MAKING WAVESRUFFIN ON ROSEANNE

Here's something Star Wars fans

have long known about Lando

Calrissian: He's likely the most charis-

matic character in the galaxy. Here's

something they just learned, via Solo:

A Star Wars Story writer Jonathan

Kasdan: Lando (played by Donald

Glover and, earlier, Billy Dee Williams)

is pansexual. When explicitly asked

about Lando's gender identity by

Huffington Post, Kasdan said,

"There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy

Dee's (portrayal of Lando’s) sexuality."

Donald Glover JONATHAN OLLEY/AP

HOW WAS YOUR DAY?LANDO CALRISSIAN

Sam Smith is 26. Yo Gotti is 37. Peter

Mayhew is 74.

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAYWHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY