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NEW YORK — You have to hand it to actor Matthew Gray Gubler: When he goes, he goes all-in.
That's whether he's chasing serial killers on CBS' “Criminal Minds” or putting the word out about his new children's book.
To publicize “Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging and Being Yourself,” Gubler donned a full-body costume of his character, a peculiar green monster who hides because he fears he's weird.
The story centers on the lonely Rumple Buttercup, who hides from the world because he has crooked teeth, three hairs and an asymmetrical body.
Gubler says he wrote the “book for anyone that feels like they don't quite fit in.”
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PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby says his insurance company is settling another accuser's lawsuit without his permission, a week before his scheduled deposition.Cosby in a statement accuses American International Group of “egregious behavior.” He says he could have proven he was in New York during the alleged 2008 encounter with 18-year-old Chloe Goins at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.Goins says Cosby drugged and molested her. Cosby was set to give a deposition in the case in prison next week.Lawyer Craig Goldenfarb says Goins is pleased with the confidential settlement.The 81-year-old Cosby is serving a three- to 10-year prison term near Philadelphia for sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.AIG this month has also settled defamation lawsuits filed in Massachusetts by seven other Cosby accusers.———NEW YORK — “Today” show co-anchor Hoda Kotb's family has grown.In a telephone call on Tuesday, the 54-year-old told her colleagues that she has adopted a second child. Hope Catherine joins 2-year-old sister Haley Joy.Kotb adopted Haley Joy in 2017.Kotb says Haley is marching around saying “I'm a big sister.” She says Haley wanted to feed Hope raspberries for breakfast.———ROME, Ga. — A zombie movie actor is accused of beating two women and forcing one of them to taste his blood.The Rome News-Tribune reported Saturday that 30-year-old Eliot Ryan Rutledge has been charged with false imprisonment and aggravated assault.Rutledge allegedly trapped a woman inside his home in Rome, Ga., between June 2017 and October 2018. The paper says Floyd County Jail reports accuse him of picking her up by her neck, slamming her into the ground and choking her.He's also accused of hurting and choking another woman in January, choking and biting her and forcing his cut hand into her mouth to make her taste his blood.IMDB.com credits Rutledge with producing and acting in the 2017 short films “Gangsters and Zombies” and “Gangsters and Zombies II.”
