Chadwick Boseman had a mystery benefactor who helped send him to Oxford to study the theater. Years later, he discovered it was Denzel Washington. Washington produced Boseman’s final film, which will air on Netflix later this year
kanye saying that he wants the 13th amendment (which abolished slavery) to be repealed and for america to stop outsourcing labor... from a private jet while wearing a trump hat and decked out in yeezy (made in china)... is too much confusion for me
funny thing about kid rock: he grew up on a sprawling estate, his dad was a millionaire, and he’s not from detroit. entire image is bullshit. he’s also a racist.
olivia is POC, grew up working class, appeared at the white house/in a big promo for the covid vaccine, was the face of a national STEM campaign, supports a number of women’s orgs, and performed “fuck you” with lily allen at glasto when roe v wade was overturned. also she’s 20.
Literally writing an article right now about how skinny pretty rich girl pop and corporate-approved rebellion without politics is a sign of an extremely dire ethics vacuum in our culture, with Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey, and Ariana Grande in my crosshairs 😈
150 ppl who went to college with this guy signed a letter labeling him a sexual predator. there were a total of 300 ppl in his class and he was only there for a semester
Protesters gathered outside Republican Madison Cawthorn's district office, demanding his removal from office, citing his role in the January 6 rally before the mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Disney heiress Abigail Disney to Disney CEO Bob Iger: "If you have $65M in your pocket, and there are people in your company who are struggling to put food on the table, that should not feel good to you. You shouldn't be able to sleep well at night."
my favorite interview with michael k. williams was on latifah's show (they've been friends since they were 17) and he discussed how janet jackson's "rhythm nation" video made him get into showbiz, then latifah pulled a clip from his days as a backup dancer
the sheer amount of people who would rather get an exotic disease that they believe the chinese bioengineered in a lab over a remarkably effective vaccine created by the U.S. is pretty staggering
michael jordan retired from basketball for several years (at the height of his career) after his father was murdered. why do these culture war clowns know nothing
has **anyone** been on more great TV series than Michael K. Williams?
--The Wire
--Sopranos
--Alias
--Boardwalk Empire
--Community
--The Night Of
--When They See Us
--Lovecraft Country
--Law & Order
--Hap and Leonard
John Oliver: "If police are trying to convince the public they’re not guilty of displaying excessive force, it’s probably *not* a good idea to repeatedly display excessive force on national television"
John Oliver to Sinclair: “Nothing says ‘we value independent media’ like dozens of reporters forced to repeat the same message over and over again like members of a brainwashed cult.”
Dave Chappelle: “Watch the tape. Watch that crowd that told Colin Kaepernick he can’t kneel during a football game try to beat a police officer to death with an American flag.”
‘Black Panther’ not only made $1.35 billion but is objectively one of the best Marvel movies quality-wise and the only one to be nominated for Best Picture. If you have an issue with ‘Black Panther’ it has nothing to do with its performance.
Michael Cera opens up about almost marrying & divorcing Aubrey Plaza in Vegas when they dated during/after 'Scott Pilgrim': "I think the idea was to then get a divorce right away, so we could call each other 'my ex-husband' and 'my ex-wife' at like… 20."
Jon Stewart's address to Trump: “Clearly, we’re not going to be able to negotiate or shame you into decency, but there is one place where I draw the line: I won’t allow you and your sycophants to turn your cruelty into virtue.”
candace owens claims she's going after chrissy teigen because she cares deeply about suicide... when she openly mocked meghan markle for having suicidal ideations and kurt cobain for taking his own life
Jim Carrey's Biden: “Now, just imagine if science and karma could somehow team up and send us all a message about how dangerous this virus can be. I’m not saying I want it to happen. Just imagine if it did...”
#SNLPremiere
Seth Rogen on the packed, mask-less
#Emmys
: “I would not have come to this. Why is there a roof? It’s more important that we have three chandeliers than that we make sure we don’t kill Eugene Levy tonight. That is what has been decided.”
John Oliver on Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse: "Let’s be clear: a 17-year-old vigilante with a rifle cannot maintain order, because a 17-year-old vigilante with a rifle trying to maintain order is himself the definition of disorder"
John Oliver: “There is something utterly infuriating about watching them hugging each other when many in this country haven’t seen their families for months or have died alone in a hospital”
Latest: Canada 🇨🇦 will require all commercial airline passengers to be fully vaccinated for
#COVID19
(including for all domestic flight passengers, all intl flights to/from Canada, etc).
John Oliver on Trump's El Paso hospital visit: “Look, we all know how much Trump struggles to do the bare minimum of being a president, but it’s still genuinely shocking just how much he struggles to do the bare minimum of being a fucking person”
shaun king stealing someone’s work (again) will always remind me of the time he plagiarized a daily beast article and then proceeded to block our whole newsroom on twitter for pointing it out
Jane Roe's shocking deathbed confession: Her anti-abortion turn was "all an act" perpetrated by the Christian right, who paid her close to a half million dollars and fed her anti-abortion scripts to read
Exclusive: Laid-off HBO Max execs say that Warner Bros. Discovery is killing off diversity in an effort to court Middle America: “I don’t think anyone knows just how white the staff is”