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If you know anyone who identifies as a femme with an intense sense of malaise, you should really give them a call: A new beef in the music industry has mooed between the singers Ethel Cain and Lana Del Rey, and it’s distressing sad girls everywhere. The two, who often are referenced in the same breath, considering that they’re both female artists exploring Americana ideals and imagery through music, were revealed to be in a standoff when Del Rey dropped a snippet of an unreleased song to her Instagram account last week. As internet sleuths piece together evidence pointing to the likelihood of years of friction between the singers, concerned members of the public are left wondering what to even make of the allegations and brewing fan wars. Now everyone from Nicki Minaj to Jack Schlossberg is weighing in on this new line drawn in the sand. But don’t worry if you didn’t understand a single word I’ve said so far: Here goes my best attempt at breaking it all down.
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Kendra Hilty, who has gone viral on TikTok over the last two weeks for a series of videos where she admits she fell in love with her psychiatrist, is speaking out.
On Aug. 1, the 36-year-old ADHD coach from Arizona uploaded a video to TikTok, claiming, “I fell in love with my psychiatrist and he knew that and he kept me for years as a patient and I was brave enough to leave him.”
The video spawned a 25-part (and counting) series of TikTok posts, where she claims her psychiatrist was “manufacturing everything” so that she “could fall in love with him” — and when she confessed her love, he didn’t end the professional relationship as she believes he should have.
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The Age of Scorpius and its premise became a TikTok sensation in 2021 with over 3.5 million likes and 8 million views. This highly-anticipated YA fantasy debut by Audra Winter is filled with magical mysteries, found family, forbidden powers, and strong, rebellious women. The Age of Scorpius is a unique blend of the sword & sorcery, dystopian, mystery, and romantacy genres, featuring a sapphic protagonist and diverse cast of characters.
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American Eagle’s “great jeans” advertising campaign with actor Sydney Sweeney is at the center of the latest political firestorm online, drawing accusations of racial undertones in its messaging.
Sweeney, who rose to fame for her starring roles in HBO’s “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” is the star of the clothing retailer’s latest denim-focused fall campaign, with the tagline, “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.”
It’s a play on words for Sweeney’s “great genes.” Indeed, in one clip, which accrued more than 1.1 million views on American Eagle’s Instagram page, Sweeney stands before a poster of herself titled, “Sydney Sweeney has great genes,” before the word “genes” is crossed out and replaced with “jeans.”
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The Fantastic Four and the Fab Four came along at around the same time in the early 1960s, and thinking of The Beatles helped Vanessa Kirby find the right mindset for her Marvel movie superhero group.
As in the original comic books, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (in theaters July 25) explores its heroes not just as do-gooders but also as wildly popular public figures. So Kirby, who plays invisible woman Sue Storm, would send her co-stars – Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach – old videos of the British band at the height of Beatlemania.
Jon Stewart ended his “Daily Show” monologue last night about CBS’ recent cancellation of “The Late Show” with a suggestion for those corporations, advertisers, law firms and universities who — like CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global — “pre-comply” with President Donald Trump’s demands. Backed by a skillful gospel choir, the host sang, rapped and chanted his suggestion — which we cannot reprint in these august pages due to profanity policies. Put gently, Stewart proposed that capitulating institutions like Paramount should administer vigorous self-love to themselves.
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JoJo Siwa is in her retro era — and TikTok has some questions. Specifically: when did the once-rainbow-clad queer icon enter the trad wife pipeline?
Last week, the 22-year-old shared a TikTok of her singing the 1981 Kim Carnes hit in full vintage glam, down to a curled blonde wig and raspy, fried vocals. “Should I drop it on Spotify?” she asked in the caption. What followed was a frenzy of reactions — some nostalgic, others deeply confused.
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5:28 Pacing, Tone, Characters (No Spoilers)
13:27 Heavier Plot Spoilers!!
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The new “Superman” movie is facing a steady wave of criticism from the right after the film’s director called out a political message he hopes viewers will take away from his reboot of the legendary DC Comics character.
Star filmmaker James Gunn, who led the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise and is now trying to recharge the DC brand, angered some conservatives with comments made to British newspaper The Times calling Superman “an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country.”
Asked about viewers who might find a portrayal of the character Superman as an immigrant to be offensive, “Screw them,” Gunn said.
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Natasha Lyonne is at the forefront of Hollywood efforts to get the government to address creators' concerns about AI infringing on their work.
"My primary interest is that people get paid for their life’s work," Lyonne said in a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The story detailed Lyonne's efforts to lobby Hollywood heavyweights to sign onto her letter to the Trump administration in March, urging against the loosening of regulations around AI, which they deem a potential threat to their intellectual property without proper protections in place. A Florida store is now selling Dubai chocolate Labubu items
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8:14 (Un)Ethical Consumption
10:15 The Cult of Cringe
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Tom Felton is returning to the Wizarding World. During an interview with “Today,” the actor revealed he will be reprising his role as Draco Malfoy later this year as part of the cast of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway.
Felton’s run will begin in November and last for 19 weeks.
“It’s very much a pinch-me situation,” Felton said on Thursday. “I keep thinking I’m dreaming. I let go of that character 16 years ago, and now I get to step back into his shoes, as a father this time, in a new story.”
Pedro Pascal said in a new Vanity Fair cover story that “bullies make me fucking sick” when the topic of J.K. Rowling was brought up. The “Harry Potter” author has regularly courted controversy since 2020 for sharing anti-trans views on social media. Pascal’s younger sister, Lux, came out as transgender in 2021. The actor made headlines in late April for slamming Rowling’s “heinous loser behavior” after she celebrated the U.K. Supreme Court’s anti-trans ruling that transgender women are not legally considered women and transgender men are not legally considered men.
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Patti LuPone's recent comments in the New Yorker, about her fellow actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald, has continued to send shockwaves throughout the theatrical community. After individual Broadway artists, and even McDonald herself, responded, an open letter has now been circulating throughout the industry. The letter has received over 500 signatures, including from Tony winners James Monroe Iglehart, Maleah Joi Moon, and Wendell Pierce. The letter can be read in full here.*
In what may be one of the year's most ironic moments, President Donald Trump will spend Wednesday night attending the opening of the musical “Les Misérables” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. No, this isn’t some presidential obligation that Trump is reluctantly fulfilling. Rather, as he told Fox News Digital last week: “I love the songs, I love the play. I think it’s great.”
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Abel Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd, may be a charismatic singer-songwriter, but he’s a severely bland screen presence, as he demonstrated in 2023’s HBO flop The Idol and now reconfirms with Hurry Up Tomorrow.
Despite its title, Trey Edward Shults’ theatrical companion piece to the Weeknd’s 2025 album of the same name moves at a snail’s pace. Were that its only shortcoming, A vanity project that’s pointless, redundant, and infinitely more satisfied with itself than anyone else will be, it’s a feature-length ego-stroke of monumental hubris that instantly assumes pole position in the race for year’s worst movie.
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Benson Boone turned his American Heart tour dates announcement into a career-defining moment.
The Beautiful Things singer revealed that his upcoming 29-show world tour sold out in just nine seconds after tickets went on sale.
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4:02 What Is Redwood about?
11:12 The Nuts, Bolts (And Branches)
15:24 Performances & Final Thoguths
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The new Broadway musical Redwood, a brand new original show starring Idina Menzel, has announced an early closing.
Idina helped conceive the idea for the musical and brought it to Broadway in early 2025. She was scheduled to star in the musical through August 17, 2025, but producers have decided to end the run early after being shut out by the Tony Awards.
Redwood earned zero nominations from Broadway’s biggest awards show. Nominations usually help shows grow their audience and a Best Musical nomination secures airtime on the Tony Awards. The musical will now close on May 18 after 127 performances, including 17 preview performances.
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Katy Perry is the butt of online jokes again after the choreography for her Lifetimes Tour went viral.
The 40-year-old singer kicked off her international tour in Mexico City on Wednesday, and footage from parts of the performance led many to poke fun at the “I Kissed A Girl” singer.
In a clip shared on TikTok, Perry, dressed in a space-age cone bra and thigh-high boots, can be seen showing off what appears to be robot-inspired moves to her song “Part of Me,” before dropping to the floor and lifting one leg in the air, all while continuing to sing.
LOS ANGELES — Beyoncé wasn't the only superstar to own the stage on opening night of her "Cowboy Carter" tour; her daughter Blue Ivy Carter blew fans away with her fierce performances and stellar moves throughout the show.
The singer's 13-year-old daughter floored the audience as she took the stage as a lead dancer during her mom's debut Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit concert at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on April 28. The next day, fans were still talking on social media about Blue Ivy's jaw-dropping performances.
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Gayle King had choice words for critics of her Blue Origin flight.
"Space is not an either or, it's a both and, and because you do something in space doesn't mean you're taking anything away from Earth. And what you're doing in space is trying to make things better here on Earth," King said on CBS Mornings Tuesday, April 15 of the flight that saw her and the first all-female crew head into space.
"What Blue Origin wants to do is take the waste here and figure out a way to put it in space to make our planet cleaner. Jeff Bezos has so many ideas, and the people that are working there are really devoted and dedicated to making our planet a better place. That's number one," the host continued.
Katy Perry has gone above and beyond with her extravagant “Lifetimes” tour looks.
The “Teenage Dream” singer, 40, kicked off her fifth concert tour in Mexico City on Wednesday, rocking several over-the-top outfits and referencing her Blue Origin space flight earlier this month.
For one space-inspired look Perry stepped out in a futuristic two-piece ensemble made of multi-colored metal that looked like the inside of a switchboard.
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When Charli XCX fans go to Coachella, they want to hear those club classics — and the pop singer more than delivered this weekend with a star-studded set that officially revived "Brat Summer."
The 365 party girl turned the Indio, Calif., music festival's main stage into a kinetic club on Saturday night, bringing her Brat tour to the desert. And she didn't do it alone — Troye Sivan, Lorde, and Billie Eilish all joined her on stage at different points during her energetic performance as surprise guests, drawing major reactions from the crowd.
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Justin and Hailey Bieber look like they mean business!
The couple, who have been married since 2018, dressed in matching casual, all-black outfits as they enjoyed a Los Angeles lunch date on Saturday, April 5.
While the “Yummy” singer wore wide-legged joggers and a hoodie, his Rhode founder wife opted for a sleeveless tank and low-slung pants. Both covered their heads as they headed into the eatery arm-in-arm, with Hailey, 28, choosing a baseball cap printed with the word “Rendezvous," while her 31-year-old husband kept things cozy in a baby pink beanie.
Model Hailey also held onto an oversized black leather clutch from luxury fashion house Bottega Veneta.
It looks like Selena Gomez can’t keep her hands to herself in the bedroom with fiancé Benny Blanco.
The “Only Murders in the Building” star accidentally shared a little TMI regarding the couple’s sex life in her April 6 Instagram post.
In one of the pics featured in her carousel of images, some eagle-eyed fans noticed a bottle of KY Jelly lubricant sitting on the windowsill above the couch Gomez was lounging on.
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Chappell Roan isn't one to stray from speaking her mind, and this time, she's talking about parenthood.
During a recent interview on the comedy podcast "Call Her Daddy," Roan said that all of her friends with children under the age of 5 "are in hell."
"I actually don't know anyone who's like, happy and has children at this age," said the 27-year-old singer of "Pink Pony Club" and "Good Luck, Babe." "I literally have not met anyone who's happy, anyone who has like, light in their eyes, anyone who has slept.
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Whether you like the new Snow White film or you hate it, it's hard to escape the debate around its lead actress, Rachel Zegler.
The 23-year-old star has dominated conversation about the film, as people either blame her for its poor reviews or leap to her defence, saying she's being unfairly maligned.
And this debate is not new for Zegler.
Others defended her, and expressed discomfort at seeing such a young actress suffer a pile-on.
Film critic Kelechi Ehenulo calls Zegler a victim of "culture wars", and warns actors from underrepresented backgrounds (Zegler is Latina) often find themselves becoming "targets for backlash".
So how did we get to this point – and where does Zegler go from here?
Ariana DeBose shared a post on Instagram directly quoting criticism of her West Side Story costar Rachel Zegler from Jonah Platt, the son of Zegler's Snow White producer Marc Platt.
DeBose later deleted the post and issued a clarification via an Instagram story, which read in part, "I did not do any research on where this quote came from."
Platt initially criticized Zegler for posting in support of Palestine shortly after the release of the Snow White trailer, a move he described as illustrative of Zegler's "narcissism."
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If you’ve scrolled through TikTok in the last week, you’d be hard-pressed not to stumble across a Cameo message (or 12) from Nikki Blonsky, the star of the 2007 musical hit Hairspray.
Although it’s kind of iconic that Blosnky is making bank from a role she had 17 years ago, I think many of the Gen Z angels in the chat don’t know the full story of why Blonsky — who was plucked out of obscurity for the triple-threat role of a lifetime — suddenly fell out of the public eye.
In short: Blonsky and her family got into a physical brawl at the airport with a contestant on America’s Next Top Model and her family.
After that, as Blonsky would discover years after the incident, you can’t stop the (news) beat.
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Gwen Stefani has once more riled the internet with her latest public image reincarnation, with some accusing her of taking on the role of Christian MAGA loyalist.
On the eve of the deluxe edition of her album Bouquet's release, Stefani has been on the receiving end of a robust bundle of online criticism. The former No Doubt singer recently praised actor Jonathan Roumie for his interview with right-wing talking head Tucker Carlson, leading some online commenters to label her a “right wing grifter.”
Roumie, who plays Jesus Christ on the series The Chosen, discussed Christianity with Carlson, drawing Stefani’s admiration.
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Millie Bobby Brown is continuing to speak out against the tabloid media, particularly when it comes to criticizing her appearance in relation to her age.
In the latest episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, the 21-year-old “Stranger Things” star told host Alex Cooper that the press “love to go in on me with certain things,” including saying “that I look a lot older” and pointing out changes in hr British accent.
“A thing that I get a ot is like, ‘Oh my God, she looks like 40,'” Brown said. “And I’m like, well yeah, you did meet me when I was 10, so I understand. Now I’m 21, it’s been 10 years. She grows. My face like, grew. What do you want me to do about that?”
Millie Bobby Brown is determined to "start a family" with Jake Bongiovi.
The 21-year-old actress is focusing on her career in the short-term - but Millie has revealed that she's determined to have a child with Jake one day.
The 'Stranger Things' star said on the 'Smartless' podcast: "My mom actually had her first child at 21, and my dad was 19. And you know, it's been my thing since before I met Jake.
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On Sunday night, “Anora” director Sean Baker made Academy Awards history by winning four Oscars in the same year for the same film, collecting gold statues for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.
How did Baker do what other legendary directors, whose films have won twice as many Oscars, could not? How unique is it that he wears so many hats? And is there anything to be gleaned from his four wins as the Oscars continue the trend of increasing the premium on auteur-driven filmmaking?
A director winning Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay is not unusual. If Baker didn’t win Best Original Screenplay category this year, another director would have: Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), Jesse Eisenberg (“A Real Pain”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), and Tim Fehlbaum (“September 5”).
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This season is Doechii’s first time attending Paris Fashion Week, but you’d hardly know it judging by the Grammy winner’s front row style. After her viral runway debut and performance with City Girls rapper JT at the DSquared2 show in Milan, Doechii and her stylist Sam Woolf quickly got down to business over in Paris.
A top 10 single, Grammy award and a breathing exercise that's gone viral.
The last few weeks for American rapper Doechii have been quite something.
Or, in her words: "It's like now my dreams aren't dreams anymore. They're reality.
"I just feel like I'm walking on the ceiling right now," she tells Radio 1's New Music Show.
The 26-year-old won this year's best rap album Grammy for Alligator Bites Never Heal - only the third female artist to do so.
And the infectious "breathin' exercise" outro from her hit single Denial is a River has got millions of people trying to emulate the "Uh-uh-ooh, uh-uh-ah, uh, uh, uh, ah…" lyric.
After all that, you could forgive her for wanting to take a step back and reflect, but she insists that's not her style.
She says her first thought when she woke up, post-Grammy win, was that she "wants to work and get in the studio".
Indie musician Beabadoobee recently found herself at the center of an online debate following a meme juxtaposing her singing style with rapper NBA YoungBoy in an imagined opera performance.
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forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/07/heres-what-blake-lively-alleges-against-it-ends-with-us-actor-director-justin-baldoni
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Blake Lively’s attorneys filed an amended complaint Tuesday against “It Ends With Us” director and actor Justin Baldoni alleging other unnamed witnesses had raised allegations of misconduct on set, support her claims of a retaliation campaign and are willing to testify about it.
In a 137-page filing, Lively’s attorneys, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, include new assertions of alleged misconduct saying, “Ms. Lively was not alone in raising allegations of on-set misconduct more than a year before the film was edited,” as well as evidence of alleged threats, harassment and intimidation of Lively and others in “defendants’ retaliatory campaign.”
Throughout the entire production of It Ends With Us, a persistent and peculiar rumor circulated on the set. According to this rumor, Justin Baldoni and It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover shared a spiritual bond. Both were supposedly members of a small, obscure Iranian religious community known as Baha’i. It was this shared faith — or so the rumor went — that helped the 41-year-old director initially secure the rights to It Ends With Us.
None of that was true. Hoover grew up in a small town in Texas filled with Southern Baptists, and a source close to the novelist insists she has never been part of the Baha’i community. Nor was there anything spiritual about the way in which the rights to Hoover’s book were secured. It was Hoover’s former editor turned literary agent named Johanna Castillo who brokered the rights agreement of It Ends With Us with Baldoni. According to a source close to Hoover, when the 45-year-old best-selling author became aware of the rumor shortly after the production wrapped, she was upset but ultimately decided it was easiest to just let it go (a spokesperson for Hoover’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, declined to comment).
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:47 Gaga, An Abbreviated History
7:55 Stream Abracadabra
10:35 Recession Pop Discourse
17:45 Notes on Nostalgia & Authenticity
CNBC's Recession Pop Explained
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In her new single "Abracadabra," Lady Gaga warns listeners that "the floor's on fire" — so, too, was Mother Monster's mouth in her new appearance on Hot Ones, but not just because of the flaming-hot sauces touching her tongue.
Since Sunday night’s 2025 Grammys, the talk of TikTok, the dolls at any gay bar, and the music industry at large is Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” a record-shattering third single off her forthcoming studio album Mayhem, which critics have already dubbed a sensational return to form for the pop icon. Written by Gaga and Gaga only, “Abracadabra” explores the duality of an artist battling with the desire to constantly evolve sonically, aesthetically, and as a human, while faced with the extraordinary pressure to release bop after bop after bop. As she recently told Elle Canada, “the song is about facing the challenge of life and the challenge of the night and finding the magic in it all.”
The single itself is best enjoyed at full-blast, hopefully with a dance floor nearby. Yet, it’s the “Abracadabra” music video—reminiscent of thematically dark Gaga projects like “Marry the Night,” “Alejandro,” “Applause,” “G.U.Y. (An ARTPOP Film),"911,” and of course, “Bad Romance”—that has the world’s paws all the way up. A feast for the eyes, the video finds Gaga going to war with “the lady in red,” Mayhem, a version of herself that symbolizes her artistic struggles, as more than 40 dancers swirl around her to the electro-dance track.
Lady Gaga joined in the revelry on the 30 Rock stage during “SNL50: The Anniversary Special," which aired live on Peacock.
She kicked off her performance at the piano with Andy Samberg in a "Shallow" parody that quickly pivoted into a duet-medley of the Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box," and "Motherlover."
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0:00 Setting The Stage
4:40 Ahoy, Cultural Appropriation!
8:09 The Kim Kardashian Likability Complex
11:36 sliiide to the left, sliiide to the right
14:16 Notes On The Power of Celebrity
18:06 Counter Culture?
20:00 What's Next?
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Kim Kardashian has made her stance clear on the ongoing drama surrounding her ex-husband Ye, formerly Kanye West, and his new spouse, Bianca Censori.
The 47-year-old rapper and his 30-year-old wife caused global outrage this past weekend when the latter left nothing to the imagination on the Grammys red carpet as she posed naked wearing only a sheer, see-through dress.
Kim Kardashian is showing up for Black-owned businesses, despite recently stirring controversy online with her support of first lady Melania Trump.
The reality TV star and media mogul was spotted at the Fifteen Percent Pledge gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles. The Fifteen Percent Pledge is a racial equity and economic justice nonprofit advocacy organization that lobbies major retailers and corporations to commit 15% of their purchasing power to Black-owned businesses.
In the fashion department, Kardashian stunned in a backless black dress by Balmain, which featured a crocodile scales imprint on the bodice and sequined, sheer embellishments.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The Brutalist AI Drama
7:21 Emilia Perez Roundup
9:34 Who Put All These Elephants Here Oh My God
15:38 Anora Intimacy Coordinator Recap
17:37 Challengers Snubbed, Category Fraud
21:54 Yay, movies!
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vulture.com/article/the-brutalist-ai-controversy.html
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people.com/adrien-brody-claims-he-wasnt-banned-from-snl-after-infamous-jamaican-bit-but-has-never-been-invited-back-8770407
theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/06/zoe-saldana-sorry-nina-simone-biopic-film
Kara Sofia Gascon’s old tweets have resurfaced where she’s openly racist and calls “moros” (historically the Muslims who ruled the Iberian Peninsula, nowadays a pejorative word that’s used to refer to Muslims in Spain).
The ongoing controversy surrounding the France-filmed Emilia Pérez, which leads this year’s Oscars nominations with 13 total nods, has led to the release of a Mexican short film that playfully flips the script in direct response to the lack of Mexican actors and crew members in Emilia Pérez.
Titled Johanne Sacreblu, the short, helmed by Mexican trans woman Camila D. Aurora (a.k.a. Camiileo), spans 28 minutes and has become something of a hit on Letterboxd, where it’s been logged as watched by nearly 18,000 users as of this writing. In terms of reviews on the platform, its current weighted average rests at 4.6 after just over 16,000 ratings. The film is notably about France, the home country of Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard, but was made in Mexico, and only stars Mexican performers.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Setting The Stage
2:03 It All Started With TikTok
3:52 In The Name of Bipartisanship
7:11 Time's Up on TikTok
8:44 The Creator Economy
13:37 Rise of RedNote
15:08 Inevitable Trump Layup
16:41 Vibe Check???
21:26 The Wrap Up
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The tech giant Meta has launched a slew of updates to its Reels shortform video platform — and is offering sizable cash bonuses — in an effort to lure TikTok creators to its platform while the ByteDance-owned app remains in a stare of limbo.
For starters, Meta is launching what it calling the “Breakthrough Bonus,” which will award TikTok creators up to $5,000 for posting new videos to Facebook and Instagram Reels. And the company plans to “offer some TikTok creators content deals to help grow their communities on Instagram and Facebook,” potentially delivering more cash into creators pockets.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What is Emilia Perez about?
4:17 What a mess!
9:00 Production Controversies
13:25 Casting Controversies
17:17 Trans Representation
23:00 Awards darling?
Music:
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End Slate:
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Sources:
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rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/emilia-perez-movie-controversy-jacques-audiard-1235227073
At the Golden Globes on Sunday, Emilia Pérez walked away with one of the biggest prizes of the night: Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. But as Karla Sofía Gascón took the stage for a speech about self-actualization, the internet flamed the Netflix movie for what many called an inauthentic portrayal of Mexican culture and trans experience. Jacques Audiard Fernanda Torres I’m Still Here
“When Mexicans tell you that a movie… is portraying a Mexico full of stereotypes, ignorance, lack of respect and is profiting from one of the most serious humanitarian crises in the world,” wrote Mexican actor Mauricio Morales in an X statement. “Maybe… just maybe, believe Mexicans.”
Another X user called the film’s Golden Globe wins a “joke,” adding that “it’s a racist, xenophobic mess with awful Mexican representation made by a French director who didn’t even bother to research our culture.”
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Setting The Stage
3:06 Kayla Learns About Appropriation
9:17 Intent or Ignorance?
14:31 The Cut of It All
17:25 Body Image Discussion
20:08 The Wrap Up
Ariana Grande teased spreading some sunshine in the future.
Ahead of the Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, the Wicked actress told Access Hollywood about an "attachment" to her 2024 album Eternal Sunshine when asked if she had "time for any new music right now."
"It’s not something I’m thinking about right now," Grande, 31 said, according to a clip shared on X. "But, you know, there’s something I made last year that will come out eventually. It’s an attachment of Eternal Sunshine. So, that does exist, and that will be coming out at some point."
"But no, I’m not in the studio at the moment," she added.
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0:00 This Squid Is Cooked
3:26 Enter The Beast
7:28 Suffering As Spectacle
11:54 Let's Talk About Season Two
14:28 Overexposure To The Max
Music:
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End Slate:
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YouTube sensation MrBeast, widely known for his jaw-dropping stunts and philanthropic giveaways, has faced a rare stumble with his latest venture, the Beast Games show.
At the age of 26, MrBeast—real name Jimmy Donaldson—holds the record for the most subscribers on YouTube, which as of press time was 340 million. In January 2022, Forbes ranked him as the highest-earning content creator, with an estimated annual income of $54 million, drawn mostly from ads on his videos.
The social media star has now ventured into TV with the highly anticipated launch of his Prime Video show Beast Games, which offers a grand prize of over $5 million and a private island.
MrBeast even dished out $100 million of his own cash to invest in the project. The show is inspired by Netflix's South Korean hit Squid Game, a survival thriller series in which cash-strapped characters fight for their lives as they compete for a gargantuan cash prize.
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The first season of Squid Game is the biggest show in Netflix‘s history. Season two is shaping up to be just as huge.
The Korean hit drew a record-high number of views over its opening weekend, the streamer says. Internal figures from Netflix show Squid Game season two racking up 68 million views worldwide (as measured by the total viewing hours, 487.6 million, divided by its run time of 7 hours, 10 minutes) in the four days after its Dec. 26 premiere. That smashes the previous week-one record set by Wednesday (50.1 million views) in November 2022.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Falling In Love
3:09 Quick Recap
5:22 Sponsored By RocketMoney!
6:33 The Lawsuit
12:38 Blake Lively Disclaimer
14:04 You Are Not Immune to Propaganda Redux
16:35 The Wrap Up
NYT Article:
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On Friday, Blake Lively filed a legal complaint against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, accusing him, his production company and partner, and several PR experts of mounting a smear campaign against her after she complained about misconduct on set. The filing comes months after a flurry of drama surrounding the film’s release pointed to a messy rift between Lively and Baldoni.
Lively’s filing, a precursor to a lawsuit, casts him in a very different light. She lists Baldoni, the film’s lead producer Jamey Heath, their production studio, and a handful of public-relations agents and firms and included thousands of text messages and e-mails that were reportedly obtained through a subpoena and also reviewed and published by the New York Times. The messages appear to show Baldoni and his PR team communicating in detail about a plan to damage Lively’s reputation — because, she claims, he was worried about her airing her issues with his on-set behavior during the press tour.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Setting The Stage
2:10 So Much Gender, So Little Time
3:32 Actual Controversies
4:59 The Legendary Meme Run
7:24 Bro Who Left All This Gender Here
10:56 Help Me Pls
Music
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End Slate
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Apparently it’s not Christmas without Chalamet. This year’s Timothée Chalamet Best Actor vehicle, A Complete Unknown, opens on Christmas Day. And on Friday, A24 announced that next year’s Timothée Chalamet Best Actor vehicle, ping pong period piece Marty Supreme, will open on Christmas Day next year, Deadline reports.
Marty Supreme is a sports drama inspired by, but not directly based on, the life of table tennis professional Marty Reisman, a New Yorker who was a world champion in the 1940s and 1950s and revolutionized the sport with his unique playing style. The film is directed by Josh Safdie in his solo debut (his brother Benny’s solo debut is another A24 sports drama coming in 2025, The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as UFC fighter Mark Kerr, setting up a Safdie smackdown at the 2026 Oscars). The script is by the director and Ronald Bronstein.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 How Did This Movie Happen
5:11 The Plot
6:10 A Disjointed Mess
7:39 Mid Music
9:16 M(oana)CU Spoiler
10:41 MuppetVision 3D Detour
12:33 The Live Action Remake
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Moana 2 continued to surpass all expectations and finished with $389 million as the top animated movie opening weekend of all time at the worldwide box office, besting Inside Out 2’s own record-setting bow this summer by almost $100 million.
Previously, Moana 2 was already blowing the doors off the box office and besting estimates with a projected $375 million as of Saturday, which in turn was a big bump past initial pre-holiday predictions pegging the film’s performance somewhere closer to $250-300 million globally.
Instead, Moana 2’s domestic ticket sales alone almost hit those figures, with more than $225 million in North America. Additionally, Moana 2 put up the biggest Thanksgiving gross in cinema history and biggest post-Thanksgiving day as well.
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0:00 Setting The Stage
2:05 Sponsored by ColonBroom!
3:16 Wrestling History With Cassie
9:45 Acting Career
13:03 How Bizarre
16:00 The Rock's Politics
19:39 Wrestling History With Cassie Part II
25:50 The Wrap Up
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theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/05/dwayne-johnson-no-biden-endorsement
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may be brawny, but even he gets a little bit of help sometimes.
After photos published of Johnson on set of the live-action version of “Moana,” he confirmed he wears a bodysuit in project.
Johnson spoke with “Extra” about his role as Maui in movie, based on the animated film franchise, and confessed that he couldn’t take full credit for how buff he looks in the forthcoming film.


