Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.

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But there Wolf was, onstage for another year at the Television Critics Association press tour, welcoming new cast members Jeremy Sisto, Alicia Witt and Adam Beach, as well as his new boss, network entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman, with open arms.

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Friend Adam Stevens said the Thursday beach service was run by indigenous Maori who removed the "tapu" or spiritual restriction at the beach.

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The ceremony was hosted by Adam Samberg at the awards' usual venue, a tent along the beach in Santa Monica just west of Los Angeles.

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