Herschend Enterprises, partner owner of Dollywood and the nation’s largest privately owned themed attractions operations, announced on Feb 8th that it would cover 100% of tuition, fees, and books for employees to pursue further education.
Considering that the popular Rocky Mountain theme park currently has 11,000 employees (including seasonal and part time workers) that is quite a feat.
The initiative, Herschend’s GROW U., offers over 100 programs, many that focus on high-demand fields like business administration and leadership, culinary, finance, technology and marketing. The company will also provide employees up to $5,250 per year for additional programs in fields including engineering, hospitality, art design and human resources.
Needless to say, this kind of financial support can be life changing.
Andrew Wexler, CEO of Herschend Enterprises, defines the investment as the company’s “love culture in action.”
The CEO added, “we care about our employees’ personal and professional growth, because we believe that their futures should be grown with love, not loans.”
This kind of culture really does permeate. According to CNN, employees also receive access to Dollywood Family Healthcare Center, free meals for every work shift, and apprentice and leadership programs. And where other corporations like Chipotle and Best Buy have made contributions to employee education, it’s only a fraction compared to Herschend GROW U, according to the Washington Post.
Breaking Good News Alert:
Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Parks & Resorts has announced it will pay all tuition costs, fees, and books for employees who pursue higher education.
It includes all part-time, full-time, and seasonal employees from day one on the job.
Still, the fact that this is a growing trend feels promising. With over 36 well known companies already helping with tuition, and now with Herschend GROW U. making headlines, perhaps compassionate corporations are becoming the new standard.
The program launches Feb 24th, but is already giving us something to smile about.
When world champion gymnast Simone Biles opened up out about her struggles with mental health after dropping out of the Tokyo Olympics last summer, the world heard something we rarely hear from superstar athletes: I’m human, too.
It’s easy to see someone who excels at the top of their field, doing things no one has done before, as superhuman. We even use that word to describe their feats sometimes, but it’s important that we remember every person is a complex mix of mind, body and spirit. We know it takes an enormous amount of resilience and mental fortitude to make it to an international podium in any sport, but no one is immune to mental health ups and downs. And the top of the podium is sometimes where athletes feel those ups and downs the most intensely.
21-year-old Chloe Kim just won her second Olympic gold medal for the U.S. in the snowboard halfpipe at the Beijing Olympics, becoming the first woman to take home back-to-back gold medals in sport. But after she met that goal in PyeongChang in 2018, she began to question if it was all worth it. In fact, at one point, she even threw her first gold medal in the trash at her parents’ house.
“I hated life,” Kim told TIME. International fame had hit hard and fast. At 17, despite being known as a prodigy in the snowboarding world, Kim was used to living a normal teenage life. Suddenly, going to her favorite bakery to grab a bite to eat became an ordeal.
“The minute I come home, I can’t even go to my goddamn favorite place,” Kim said. “It makes you angry. I just wanted a day where I was left alone. And it’s impossible. And I appreciate that everyone loves and supports me, but I just wish people could understand what I was going through up to that point.”
She did fish her medal out of the trash, but the mental toll of high-pressure competition and overnight fame remained.
And it wasn’t just having all eyes on her that was the issue. Some of those eyes were accompanied by mouths spewing anti-Asian hate her way.
“I experience hate on a daily basis,” Kim wrote in an ESPN op-ed last April. She shared that she sees maybe 30 hate-filled messages a day, such as “You dumb Asian b—-. Kiss my ass.”
“I still don’t know how to talk about all of this,” she wrote. “It’s difficult to talk about these things. In snowboarding, all my friends are white and no one had these conversations.”
In a recent powerful video, Kim shared the role her father played in helping the shape the confidence and determination to become the Olympic champion she is today.
Kim shared that when she won her first X Games medal at 13, she started hiding parts of her identity—like the fact that she speaks Korean fluently—after people belittled her accomplishment because she’s Asian. She felt embarrassed by her heritage due to people’s responses, but now she feels guilty about how disrespectful that was to her dad who came to the U.S. to give his family a better life. Being in the spotlight at such a young age put her in an uncomfortable position in dealing with the racism that came her way, both internally and externally.
“I was expected to speak up and be an activist,” she wrote. “It was a lot of responsibility. I still don’t know how to talk about all of this. It’s difficult to talk about these things. In snowboarding, all my friends are white and no one had these conversations.”
In addition to—or perhaps because of—the racism, the sudden fame and burn-out from competition, Kim felt “an emptiness” after her gold medal win in PyeongChang. That’s when she decided to take a break from snowboarding to go to college at Princeton in the fall of 2019.
She couldn’t escape her fame, however, and the first part of the semester was rough. She’d frequently call home crying. Soon she started making friend who didn’t know much about her, however, which helped broaden her own horizons. Her time at Princeton also allowed her to see other driven, talented people struggling to succeed—and sometimes failing—which was good for for her, she told TIME.
“Everyone around me was falling apart when it came time to do an exam,” Kim said. “It’s a sh-t show. People are hiding away in the darkest part of the library until 3 in the morning, and then coming out like zombies at 7 and doing it all over again. That was great. It was just like, ‘I need this. I need to see other amazing people fall apart.’”
After the pandemic hit and in-person classes were canceled, Kim returned to snowboarding—and embraced therapy for her anxiety.
“It’s been a big improvement in my mental health,” she told Shape magazine. “I’m learning to open up more and communicate my feelings with people around me.”
And that’s part of what makes Kim’s victory in the Olympics so significant. It’s an inclusive victory for countless millions who work to overcome adversity, mental health challenges and the rigors of every day life. Very few of us will stand as Olympic champions but we can all appreciate Kim’s incredible journey as a person deserving of respect.
Now I am so proud to be Korean Americans,” she wrote on ESPN.com. “I was nervous to share my experiences with racism, but we need to hear more about these conversations. I’ve received so many messages from people saying they are inspired by me sharing what I’ve been through and that makes me feel hopeful, and like I can still do so much more.”
“Don’t take me for a fool. There’s a woman inside of me; there’s one inside of you, too.”
These were some of the first words many of us heard from Big Thief, when they hit the indie-folk scene in 2017 with their breakout sophomore album Capacity. On its opening track, “Pretty Things”, singer/songwriter Adrianne Lenker expertly explores and then tears down all that gender is preconceived to be. “There is a meeting in my thighs / Where in thunder and lightning, men are baptized / In their anger and fighting, their deceit and lies,” she claims, over sparse, roomy acoustic guitar. Then, closing the song, the kicker: “There’s a woman inside of me / There’s one inside of you, too / And she don’t always do pretty things”.
The album, unsurprisingly, blew people away. It racked up end-of-year accolades and festival appearances, and positioned Big Thief as one of the biggest new names in indie music. Two albums followed in 2019, U.F.O.F. and Two Hands; they’re now set to release their fifth, the double-LP Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, tomorrow.
Not yet five years on from Capacity’s release, to evaluate Big Thief’s impact in 2022 is to look at the entire shape of indie rock and folk music. Their combination of Americana sounds with noise rock, dream pop, and psych has effectively cracked wide open the perception of modern folk, revitalizing a genre that had grown somewhat stale in its mainstream offerings. Their influence is increasingly visible in the upper echelons of singer/songwriter music; from eminent indie artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Bachelor, all the way to megastars like Paramore’s Hayley Williams (who is a Big Thief fan, and made her folk debut with solo album Flowers For Vases/Descansos last year), and Taylor Swift, whose 2020 albums folklore and evermore are indebted to Big Thief’s atmospheric folk. She even enlisted Big Thief drummer James Krivchenia to play on her 2021 re-recording of Red.
But looking beyond the sonics alone, the perspective which Lenker and Big Thief bring to the genre with their lyrics grows even more vital. The band’s philosophy is one that embraces fluidity in all senses; in musical identity, in self-identity, even in concepts of time and nature. And within that fluidity, the theme of gender is returned to again and again. It’s with her trademark openness, spirituality, and poetry that Lenker’s lyrics tend to the subject, and it results in a point of view that feels both universal and entirely new.
“Pretty Things” is one example, with its tale of a sexual encounter building up to a complex study of what the word “woman” truly means. There’s a similar crisscrossing of gender stereotypes on Capacity’s closing track, “Black Diamonds.” “Should I let you make a woman of me? / Should I let you take the mystery from me?” she sings, then later: “Come on, let me make a man out of you […] You could cry in my arms like a child.” It’s a potent encapsulation of the difference between gender as restriction and gender as freedom.
Gender becomes even more fluid and abstract on the 2019 album Two Hands. On closing track “Cut My Hair,” Lenker sings: “Tell me I’m pretty, tell me I’m rare / Talk to the boy in me, he’s there,” while on the squalling lead single “Not,” she makes reference to “The boy I’m seeing, with her long black hair”.
Meanwhile, across Big Thief’s discography, there’s a tradition of songs addressed to first names — “Paul,” “Randy,” “Lorraine,” “Haley,” “Mary,” “Betsy,” “Jenni.” While on one level these often refer to lovers, on another they come to stand for Lenker herself. “In my songs, more than just writing about the other person, I’m often identifying parts of myself that were born or died through the arrival or loss of their presence,” Lenker explained to She Shreds Magazine. So Lenker is Paul as much as she’s Lorraine, Randy as much as she’s Mary. If all of us are built from the numerous little jigsaw pieces of love and community that make up an identity, then perhaps we can all say the same.
The resistance to gender roles extends beyond the music, too. On the album cycle for Capacity, Lenker sported a shaved head, which, she told The Guardian, was an effort to remove herself from gendered beauty expectations. In a 2019 story for the LA Times, Lenker is quoted: “I think I am both man and woman, and neither. I listen to the heartbeat of the pulse of the source of the universe. I identify with that, so why am I ripping myself away from the deepest part of myself?” The fluidity even stretches to the relationship between Big Thief’s four band members, three male and one female; in interviews, they frequently express a bond beyond music and simple friendship. In that LA Times story, bassist Max Oleartchik expresses that they’ve “melted into each other.”
All in all, it’s an approach by which a new generation of musicians has been inspired to cultivate a radical openness to fluidity in their own work; plus, through which legions of Big Thief’s queer or LGBT fans, whether they’re artists themselves or not, have been given a lens through which to untangle their own identities.
Manchester, UK-based singer-songwriter Lindsay Munroe speaks to Lenker and Big Thief’s influence on her: “As someone who hasn’t generally found labels around gender and sexuality to be helpful to me, it’s freeing to hear someone write so extensively and so naturally about fluidity. That has spurred me on in my writing; valuing my own honesty above my perception of how I might be perceived when I put songs and ideas out into the world.” Callie Marino, of Minneapolis folk-rock band Dad Bod, expresses something similar: “It’s human to want to understand things, but [Big Thief’s] songs have helped me settle in the ambiguity of my own gender – coming to understand I won’t ever understand, and that’s the virtue of it. Adrianne’s work has invited me to stop overthinking what I write, and explore queerness on my own time, in my own way.”
Meanwhile, Philadelphia-based Ava Mirzadegan, who self-releases music as Pen Palindrome, explains Big Thief’s holistic effect on her life. “Creatively and personally, it is [Big Thief’s] fluidity that I am inspired to cultivate. I want to hold space for and respect any expression that feels good, value any being as a lovable vessel for life, and pay little mind to the usual context of constricting roles and structures. Adrianne inspires me to no longer worry about what makes sense and instead act instinctively—keeping anything I find precious close to my own heart.”
It’s heartening that, before they’re even a decade in, Big Thief have made a mark as a folk band with the power not only to change the musical landscape, but to change lives, too. It’s a model for both songwriting and existence as a human being that flips everything upside down, like the best of artists have always done. The long, rich history of folk music is a little richer for it.
The Philadelphia 76ers have been waiting for months to find a trade for Ben Simmons, and just before the NBA’s trade deadline on Thursday, that trade came to fruition. The Sixers will send Simmons and additional players/draft capital to the Brooklyn Nets for James Harden and Paul Millsap, giving the team a high-scoring backcourt running mate alongside MVP candidate Joel Embiid.
As for Embiid, the big man has been asked about the Simmons saga seemingly endlessly since things kicked off — ever since it was evident that Simmons wasn’t gonna play for Philly this year, Embiid has essentially acted as the locker room spokesman, and has made clear that the group that the team has right now is pretty tightly knit. Now that the Simmons saga is over, Embiid, as he is wont to do, fired up Twitter and posted an image that is pretty common when something happens to another person.
If you don’t know what this means, you can click on this right here.
Anyway, in recent days, reporting indicated that Simmons took issue with what Embiid said about him after his performance in the Sixers’ playoff loss to the Atlanta Hawks last year, which Embiid said on the record was off-base. Embiid has sent some posts that could have been taken as being shots at Simmons, even if they were not about his now-former teammate. This one, however, seems pretty clear-cut.
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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the market. We’ve finally arrived! Today marks the first legitimately exciting week we’ve had in this so far sorry year for sneakers. This week we get New Jordans, holiday specials, and even a new Bad Bunny sneaker!
The good news doesn’t stop there, we’ve peeked ahead at some of the planned releases for the rest of the month and it’s looking like it’s all smooth sailing from here — so long as release dates don’t get shuffled around. But that’s the future, we live in the present and this week there are a lot of dope sneakers to be had, from the latest Nike Union collaboration to one of the coolest Air Jordan 6 colorways we’ve ever seen. Straight up.
So without further ado, let’s dive into this week’s best picks.
Nike WMNS Air Huarache Purple Punch
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The Huarache has enjoyed a recent resurgence this decade, and now the sneaker is getting a clean women’s exclusive Purple Punch makeup. Featuring a shimmering neoprene accented leather upper that combines deep purples and cloud white, this Air Huarache is oozing with ‘90s sensibilities. It’s a bit of the past in the present.
The Women’s exclusive Air Huarache Purple Punch is out now for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Bad Bunny x Adidas Forum PWR
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With Kanye West, Beyonce, and Bad Bunny, Adidas has a pretty strong roster of celebrity sneakers. After a strong debut last year, it’s looking like Bad Bunny is getting yet another sneaker, this time shaking things up a bit by ditching the Adidas Forum for … the Adidas Forum Power.
Okay, it’s not the most exciting thing the pair could’ve done, but Bad Bunny’s latest Adidas sneaker, like the previous three, is pretty dope, which makes us feel confident about the longevity of this partnership.
Starting with an ‘80s inspired design, the Forum PWR features a letter upper with a sand and acid orange colorway, ruffled three stripes, reflective details at the tongue, and some blue contrast panels at the heel. Instead of the Forum branding, this sneaker simply reads ‘Benito,’ which, if you don’t know, is Bad Bunny’s actual name.
The Adidas x Bad Bunny Forum PWR is out now for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Adidas Confirmed App.
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Air Max 95 Ironstone
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It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a notable Air Max 95, but this week brings a new colorway to the classic silhouette and we’re all about it. The Ironstone features a mixed suede, canvas, and jacquard upper, reinforced to handle those harsh winter elements. We love the intricate jacquard webbing on the upper’s shroud, the colorway is laid out across the wavy upper like a gradient with deep browns at the bottom ascending to gradually to white.
The Air Max 95 Ironstone is out now for a retail price of $185. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Nike x Union LA Passport Pack Pistachio Dunk
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This is hands down our favorite release of the week, but that is usually the case when LA streetwear institution Union does a Nike drop. The label has a perfect track record of amazing Nike collaborations and this week’s Passport Pack was no different. The sneaker, in its pistachio colorway, was previously only available during an in-store raffle and it will now be released online on February 10th and is already floating around on aftermarket sites.
The Pistachio features a ripstop upper with exposed stitching and a muted pistachio nut-esque color. The concept behind the Passport Pack was to give a modern take on classic ’00’s Dunk colorways exclusive to the cities of New York City, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.
The Nike x Union LA Passport Park Pistachio Dunk is set to drop on February 10th for a retail price of $150. Pick up a pair at the Union LA webstore (watch the site for the countdown timer) or hit up aftermarket sites like Flight Club.
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Nike Air Trainer 1 Coriander
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As the weather continues to warm up, a lot of us are about to get eager to start spending more time outdoors, which means hitting nearby trails and hiking spots. So you’re going to need some new footwear if you want to trek comfortably and in style. This week Nike will launch a new outdoor-inspired colorway of the Air Trainer 1, dubbed the Coriander. The design features a forefoot strap for a strapped in fit with Air cushioning and a mid-height collar that should supply you with more ankle support as you hit that rugged terrain.
The Air Trainer 1 Coriander is set to drop on February 11th for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Nike WMNS Air Jordan 5 Low Girls That Hoop
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If you can count on one thing from the sneaker industry, it’s that Valentine’s Day is going to bring out the pink shoes. We say bring them on. If you can rock pink shoes, you’ll always turn heads with your fit. In celebration of the large and underrepresented community of women’s b-ball players, Nike is launching this soft leather low-cut Jordan 5 in bubblegum pink.
Arctic Orange and Siren Red accents round out the design and a black contrasting shark tooth and matching Jumpman logo at the heel really add some stark interest to this otherwise pretty pair of sneakers. All I want to know is why Nike didn’t launch this in a full-size run? Us big feet folks want to rock them too.
The WMNS Air Jordan 5 Low Girls That Hoop is set to drop on February 11th for a retail price of $170. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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Nike Air Jordan 5 Racer Blue
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It’s not pink, but we’re not going to deny that this Jordan 5 in Racer Blue isn’t dope. Featuring a moody deep black nubuck upper with contrasting Racer Blue accents represented on the Jumpman logo, mudguard, and inner tongue, the Racer Blue sits on a cool icy blue outsole with a reflective quarter panel cage and matching black laces.
It will go down as one of the dopest Jordan 5 colorants of all time. We can guarantee you that!
The Air Jordan 5 Racer Blue is set to drop on February 12th for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.
It’s been an eventful day for TV shows that took long breaks between seasons coming back to give us something to finally look forward to. AMC announced that the sixth and final season of Better Call Saul will premiere in April, followed by the second half of the season in July, while IFC’s wonderful Documentary Now! is returning… eventually. There’s no exact date — “the series is returning with six new episodes and is currently is production” is all the press release says — but it will be sometime in 2022.
A trio of season four episodes from the Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas-created series, including the documentaries they spoof, have been revealed:
-Paying homage to fashion documentaries 3 Salons at the Seaside and The September Issue, Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport is a fly-on-the-wall portrait of a hair salon owner and her staff in the small coastal village of Bagglyport as they prepare their yearly stylebook.
-In the vein of When We Were Kings and other great explorations of sport, How They Threw Rocks chronicles the Welsh sport of Craig Maes, also known as “Field Rock,” and the iconic 1974 bout dubbed “The Melon vs. The Felon.”
-Drawing inspiration from My Octopus Teacher, My Monkey Grifter follows a filmmaker who forms a deep, emotional, and financially taxing relationship with a monkey who may have ulterior motives.
I need the monkey grifter documentary… now.
No casting has been revealed, but Helen Mirren is returning as host and previous seasons have featured Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Maya Rudolph, Michael C. Hall, and in one of the funniest TV episodes of the past 10 years, John Mulaney, Richard Kind, Paula Pell, Taran Killam, James Urbaniak, Alex Brightman, and Renée Elise Goldsberry. I hum “Christmas Tips” to myself at least once a week.
That deal seemed to open the floodgates, as the rest of the league could move forward with the two biggest dominos knocked down, and the race for the Atlantic Division heated up even more in the minutes following. The Boston Celtics, which had spent the days leading up to the deadline and the morning of getting off of contracts to get under the luxury tax, found themselves a suitor in San Antonio to get the point guard upgrade they’ve been desperately seeking, trading Josh Richardson to the Spurs for Derrick White, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania, with Chris Haynes reporting a first round pick and Romeo Langford are also headed to San Antonio.
The Boston Celtics are trading Josh Richardson to the San Antonio Spurs for Derrick White, sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium.
The Spurs have become sellers at the deadline, already swapping Thaddeus Young to Toronto for Goran Dragic (who they will waive) and a first round pick, and now pick up another first for White. The Celtics get a defensive minded guard in White who is a capable secondary creator but is very comfortable working off the ball, which is an important thing when being put next to Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
It isn’t a blockbuster like the Nets and Sixers made, but it is a nice trade for both sides, as Boston isn’t ready to give up on their dreams of contending just yet.
Social media has been a bit of a double-edged sword for Charli XCX. It was integral to the creation of her 2020 album How I’m Feeling Now, which she made in 2020 with heavy input from fans online. Now, though, being online is taking its toll on her, so much so that she’s thinking about taking a break from it.
In a post shared today, Charli wrote:
“I’ve always had a pretty open dialogue with you guys and so I just wanna mention a few things that have been on my mind recently. I have been feeling like I can’t do anything right at the moment. I know social media isn’t exactly a haven for kindness and positivity but generally speaking I always felt pretty safe with you guys on here. I’ve noticed lately that a few people seem quite angry at me – for the choices of songs I’ve chosen to release, for the way I’ve decided to roll out my campaign, for the things I need to do to fund what will be the greatest tour I’ve ever done, for things I say, things I do etc. I’ve been grappling quite a lot with my mental health the past few months and obviously it makes negativity and criticism harder to handle when I come across it and of course, I know this is a common struggle for most people in this day and age. But yeah anyways.. I just wanted to get on here and say, hey I’m really out here trying my best and working my ass off to make things that are hot and exciting and there’s honestly so much more insane stuff to come 🙂 !
In the meantime I’m thinking of just drafting tweets from a far when I feel like saying something and having someone else post them, just for a little while, because I can’t really handle it here right now. Eternal love, Charli x.”
Shortly after that post, Charli shared a teaser clip promoting a new video for her Rina Sawayama collaboration, “Beg For You.” The video is set to premiere tomorrow.
While he was originally aided in his inanity for a while by Fox News, even they bailed on the pillow magnate/conspiracy theorist after both of them got smacked with billion-dollar defamation suits from Dominion Voting Systems for their continued, and unfounded, insistence that there was widespread voter fraud. Eventually, Fox News gave Lindell the whole “it’s not you, it’s me” blowoff then refused to let him appear on the network, which he’s had trouble accepting. Back in November, he attempted to stage a protest outside the company’s New York City headquarters, and no one (not even Lindell himself) showed up. Now, as Raw Story reports, he has publicly floated the idea of hacking into Fox News’ broadcasting system and taking over its airwaves.
It sounds like a plotline from a bad sitcom because it probably was one at some time. Lindell, speaking via his own Lindell TV, hatched a plan to get his latest big idea out to Fox News listeners:
“Maybe we should get our cyber guys… to hook up our stream to Fox’s. Can you imagine? ‘This is Sean Hannity…’ All of a sudden, breaking news right out of Georgia! The evidence is pouring in, pouring in! Arizona, pouring in, pouring in, Wisconsin! And Fox, you’d have the Murdochs going, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do?! The truth is out, we’re the liars!’”
Mike Lindell went on an insane, manic rant tonight. He says that since Fox won’t run any of his “evidence” of voter fraud (lawsuits), he is going to have his cyber experts hack Sean Hannity’s show and air it during his time slot on Fox. pic.twitter.com/g5RhJCKJKt
Robert Pattinson, who will make his debut as the weirdo freak Batman next month, had so much fun playing the emo-caped crusader, he doesn’t want it to end.
The Twilight alum recently spoke about his desire to be the flawed hero for as long as director Matt Reeves will let him. “I’m down to do it as many times as people want to see it really. I mean, I gotta get this one out first.” Pattinson joked in a sit-down interview with his co-stars. “I talked to Matt about the idea of doing a trilogy. And that would be wonderful, I really enjoyed the process. It’s such a fun character to play. That’d be lovely.”
Paul Dano, who plays The Riddler in the upcoming film, agrees, saying that “there is so much room for this Batman to grow,” to which Pattinson exclaimed, “Yes! Big time.”
“Bruce is such a recluse in the film,” Zoe Kravitz, who plays the elusive Catwoman, said. “To see Bruce evolve into the person he knows he has to perform, that’s a really fun journey to go on.”
Pattinson’s Batman, who is taking on an interesting persona of a late ’90s emo rockstar, has been highly anticipated since the actor admitted he was inspired by Willem Dafoe for the character’s iconic raspy voice. That, along with a string of bizarre press bits about Pattinson’s inability to make pasta, make the upcoming Batman movie truly the most eagerly awaited movies of the year.
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