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Idris Elba Would Really Like You To Stop Asking Him About Playing James Bond

For the last time, please stop asking Idris Elba about James Bond.

The Beast actor has heard rumors about playing 007 since at least 2018, and he’s tired of it. “I have no more answers for it,” Elba said on the Jemele Hill is Unbothered podcast. “I just tell people, ‘Aw, don’t ask me that.’ Because a lot of times it’s really lazy journalism. And people try to use it as clickbait like ‘what’s he gonna say this time?’ I try to say the same things.” He admitted that he occasionally enjoys trolling people, like with this 2018 tweet, and “every now and then, I’ll give them some philosophy on why I don’t want to do it or why it’s a rumor. But most times now, I tend not to talk about it.”

Tell me about it. People are always demanding to know if I’m playing Bond, too. I’d like to take this opportunity to set the record straight: I have not been officially asked (yet).

It’s for the best that Elba isn’t interested in the role, anyway. A recent rumor claims that the Bond overlords are looking for “someone probably in their 30s” and “taller than 5’10” to be in at least “the next three movies.” I know just the tall 30-something for the job.

You can listen to the Jemele Hill is Unbothered episode below.

(Via Screenrant)

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Demi Lovato Regrets Making Three Documentaries About Herself In Her 20s: ‘I Wish I Would Have Waited’

A few days ago (on August 20), Demi Lovato turned 30 years old. Ahead of then, in the final days of her 20s, she looked back on that decade of her life and reflected in a new Alternative Press interview, about the new album Holy Fvck and more. When it comes to regrets, one Lovato has is she wishes she hadn’t made so many documentaries about herself in her 20s.

Lovato said:

“Honestly, I’m really sick of watching myself, and I think other people probably are, too. And if they aren’t, then they can watch my music videos. […] I wish I would have waited until I had my sh*t figured out more because now it’s cemented. Sobriety is what works for me and nothing else. […] My story’s not done, so I want to be able to say by the time I’ve written a book, ‘OK, this is me grown up.’”

Lovato has three documentaries to her name: 2012’s Demi Lovato: Stay Strong, 2017’s Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, and 2021’s Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil.

Elsewhere, she talked about a dream collaborator, saying, “I’ll always dream of collaborating with Hayley Williams and Paramore. I don’t know if they do a lot of collaborations, but I think that’s something I’ll always dream of.” She also noted of her previous album, 2021’s Dancing With The Devil… The Art Of Starting Over, “I’m proud of the last album that I did, but it just didn’t feel like me. I wanted to put music out that I would have fun touring with, and I can’t say that about my last record.”

Check out the full interview here.

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The Trailer For Hulu’s ‘Reboot’ Shows Off An Interesting Premise And A Heck Of A Cast

It’s 2022, and it feels like every show that you loved as a young, carefree child either has a reboot or a podcast (or both). It’s a lot, and yet they just keep coming. But what if there was a show about how every show has a reboot? Would that be too convoluted? Maybe, but who cares! And that is the premise for Hulu’s new comedy, Reboot.

Reboot brings back the cast of the fake wholesome 1990s sitcom Step Right Up after they had all gone on to pursue other projects, like a low-budget sci-fi series or a failed movie career. The studio wants the show to be rebooted for a modern audience, and chaos ensues! Old co-stars are reunited, there are topical jokes about diversity in writer’s rooms, and of course some commentary on social media. But most importantly, there is Johnny Knoxville.

The series features a delightful ensemble cast, including Key and Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key, the iconic Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville, Paul Reiser, Rachel Bloom, former Disney Channel star Calum Worthy, and Krista Marie Yu.

The comedy comes from Modern Family’s Steve Levitan in his first show since the hit series ended in 2020. Earlier this year, Levitan said that he was excited to venture into a different form of comedy. “it’s really fun representing the old school,” the showrunner said at TCA. “That’s a really funny area to me. The generational thing is so clear. Here are young people and here is the old guard. These are struggles everybody has. I can’t say that? What can I say?”

Reboot premieres on Hulu on September 20th. Check out the trailer above.

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Kanye West Won’t Face Charges For The Alleged Battery Of A Fan

Back in January, Los Angeles police began investigating Kanye West after he allegedly punched a male fan who approached him outside of the Soho Warehouse in downtown LA. Had he been convicted of misdemeanor battery, he would’ve faced up to six months of jail time. However, today, Rolling Stone reports Ye is no longer facing those charges.

“Regarding the incident involving Kanye West that took place January 13, 2022, after a thorough and careful review of all the evidence, our office is declining to file based on no reasonable likelihood of conviction,” Rob Wilcox, a spokesman for Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, said in a statement to the publication.

Ye has not admitted to punching the fan, however, he revealed in an interview with Hollywood Unlocked‘s Jason Lee that he was aggravated by the fan’s attitude.

“It was 3 a.m. in front of [Soho] Warehouse,” Ye said. “I’m saying, ‘You don’t know what I’m dealing with right now.’ I just finished these two songs, I came from the studio […] and this dude, he just had this real attitude, like, ‘Whatchu gonna do?’”

Ye recently made a surprise appearance at Rolling Loud Miami, despite having dropped out of the festival and being replaced by his once-protege Kid Cudi. He is also set to appear on DJ Khaled’s new album, God Did, on a remix of “Use This Gospel,” which also features Eminem.

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Student Loan Borrowers Who Still Owe More Than They Borrowed (After Paying For A *Long* Time) Are Not Thrilled With The Latest Report

No one wants to talk about student loans. It’s a depressing subject, but people have (long ago) reached the point where they have to talk about student loans, and this probably shouldn’t happen the way that Marco Rubio once did (by only wanting to forgive loans for people who survive terror attacks) or the way that Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos did it (by almost delighting in how screwed people feel by the system). Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to push for total cancellation of student loans, but everyone knows that won’t happen. However, President Biden is about to announce something, and we’ll likely hear about this plan within a few days.

As the current memoriam is set to expire on August 31, NBC News reports that Biden is prepared to announce what people essentially expected to hear. That would be a $10,000 trim off balances for those federal borrowers whose incomes don’t exceed $125,000. Reportedly, Biden will also extend the moratorium through midterm elections, but (obviously) none of this is set in stone until Biden makes the announcement.

True, this outcome is better than no forgiveness at all, and an extension on the due date will help Americans during a time of ridiculous inflation, but people cannot help but feel disappointed. Their disappointment sources from the predatory terms of these loans, and so many people are sharing how this isn’t simply a matter of “you pay what you borrowed plus some reasonable interest.” In fact, a lot of people have been paying (on time) for several years, or over a decade, or even longer, and they still owe more than they borrowed despite the payments stretching them to the limits.

This is disappointing and heartbreaking, but there’s at least some collective awareness that comes from sharing these stories, along with hearing how underwhelmed people feel by the reported upcoming announcement:

(Via NBC News)

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Ron DeSantis Is Taking Heavy Fire For His Super Corny New ‘Top Gun’ Campaign Ad

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is definitely getting eyeballs on his new campaign video, but for all the wrong reasons. In the super cringy spot that was tweeted by his wife ahead of the Florida primaries, DeSantis does his best Top Gun cosplay while touting his superior fighting skills when it comes to engaging the enemy: the media. However, don’t be fooled by “Top Gov” (yes, it’s really called that), or rumors that DeSantis was a SEAL. While he did serve in the Navy, his military career was all legal work. In other words, he wasn’t flying fighter jet missions. He was working a desk.

Via Mediaite:

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen this is your governor speaking. Today’s training evolution—dog fighting, taking on the corporate media,” DeSantis says in the ad after being shown in the cockpit of a fighter jet.

“The rules of engagement are as follows: Number one—don’t fire unless fired upon but when they fire, you fire back with overwhelming force. Number two—never ever back down from a fight. Number three—don’t accept their narrative,” he continues.

When a United States governor pretends to be Tom Cruise for a campaign ad, you can already guess the reactions on social media. On top of flaming DeSantis for playing pretend fighter pilot, a surprising amount of Twitter users were old enough to remember Michael Dukakis driving around in a tank during his ill-fated run for president against George H.W. Bush. While it’s extremely likely that DeSantis will cruise through the primary, that doesn’t make the ad any less weird.

You can see some of the “Top Gov” reactions below:

(Via Mediaite)

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Texas man takes down alligator using techniques he learned from Steve Irwin

When a headline mentions anything about “wrestling gators,” you might expect it to be the shenanigans of a “Florida Man.” However, this gator story takes place further west in Missouri City, Texas … and it was indirectly brought to us by the late great “Crocodile Hunter” himself, Steve Irwin.

“What a morning,” Mike Trinh wrote on his Facebook post. Trinh had been preparing to take his youngest daughter to her first day in middle school when the girl ran to him yelling that an alligator was at the front door.

Thinking it a get-out-of-school ploy, Trinh didn’t take it seriously. That is, until he saw the creature himself.

Luckily, Trinh knew exactly what to do, thanks to a certain wildlife icon.


“All my years watching Steve Irwin, I figured I can deal with any wildlife as long as it ain’t a stingray,” Trinh wrote. He shared with ABC 13 that Irwin was one of his “heroes” and he’d been watching him since childhood.

Trinh might have used what he dubbed “Steve Irwin tactics” including covering the alligator’s eyes and pinning its mouth closed, but he also added his own spin, using Brazilian jiujitsu.

“Once I got closer, I put my knee on it. In jiu-jitsu, it’s called ‘knee in belly.’ I had a knee on it, spun to the back, sat on it, and then grabbed the mouth,” Trinh told ABC 13.

And as Trinh learned from Irwin, “Once you grab the mouth, that’s it. It’s done.”

How does Trinh’s technique compare with Irwin’s? Judging by this video below, not bad.

Here we see Irwin making sure the the crocodile’s eyes and mouth are incapacitated, and making sure to stay on top of it. Although that second part wasn’t so easy—two other full grown men had to come in and assist.

Of course, the obvious caveat in all of this is Irwin was a trained professional and had been catching crocs since the ripe old age of 9. The man had successfully rescued hundreds of them, according to the Irwin family’s official website.

Plus, the Crocodile Hunter had the utmost respect and reverence for the creatures he worked with. Even in the above video, he put his own life on the line in an attempt to rescue wildlife.

Bottom line: Maybe don’t try this at home. Even if you’re the biggest Irwin fan of all time.

Still, it did make for a cool story. And it seems to have been a success. Trinh applied everything he learned from Irwin and even gave his daughter a lesson too, as she had to “tie up the mouth.” Seems like the kind of hands-on teaching style Irwin would be proud of.

Like many of “The Crocodile Hunter”’s famed catches, this Texas alligator got a happy ending, as Trinh was finally able to load him in a truck and relocate him to a nearby pond.

Sometimes you never know when the things you learn will come in handy. But when they do, it just might be a surprise that’ll make you say “Crikey!”

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Titanic crew member’s firsthand account of ship’s sinking is an incredible video artifact

The sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, is one of the most talked-about tragedies in modern history, and not only because of the James Cameron film. When a ship that’s been marketed as “unsinkable” literally sinks on its maiden voyage, it’s automatically a riveting story, even without any other details.

But the details matter. Each life lost and each life saved on that fateful night was a unique human whose story impacted everyone connected to them.

We don’t need a Jack and Rose romance to be transfixed by stories from the Titanic. One thing Cameron’s film did well was show what it must have been like as the ship hit the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. and sank in slow, dramatic fashion for the next two and a half hours, but hearing an account from someone who lived it brings that event to life in on a whole other level. When we’re watching a movie, even about a true historical event, our brains can easily pretend it’s not real. Hearing it described by someone who lived it doesn’t allow for that sort of mental game.


There are no living survivors of the Titanic left to share their stories anymore, but we do have recordings of them. One of those recordings came from a 1979 interview with Frank Prentice, the ship’s assistant purser.

The film footage from the BBC archive shows Prentice describing the moment the ship hit the iceberg—how it felt like slamming on the brakes in a car—and the part he played in helping people get onto the lifeboats. (There was space for 800 people on the lifeboats, but only 500 made it into them in the chaos and confusion. Even if they’d filled every space, that would have barely saved a third of the 2,240 passengers and crew on the ship.)

Prentice’s delivery sounds so calm, belying the traumatic experience he’s describing from 67 years prior. But at the end of the segment, the interviewer asked if it bothered him to talk about it. “I should probably dream about it tonight,” he replied. “Have another nightmare. You’d think I’m too old for that but you’d be amazed.”

Anyone who knows the full story of the Titanic likely wouldn’t be surprised that reliving that horror would have an impact no matter how much time had passed. Only 705 people total survived the sinking, either being lucky enough to snag a space on a lifeboat or rescued from the water in time. More than 1,500 perished. Those who survived were fortunate, but they had to experience and witness so much fear and loss.

Even close to seven decades after the fact, we get a glimpse of that pain in Frank Prentice’s interview.

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Netflix (Finally) Drops A Release Date For ‘Big Mouth’ Season Six (And A New Nick Kroll Standup Special)

The sixth season of Netflix’s raunchy adult animated series Big Mouth is hitting the streamer this fall, almost exactly a year after the iconic Shame Wizard graced our screens for season five.

The upcoming season will focus more on the individual journeys of the central characters as they navigate growing up, getting older, and dealing with family problems…all while hormones are raging inside and hormone monsters raging outside. The series stars Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jason Mantzoukas, Ayo Edebiri, and Jessi Klein and will premiere on October 28th, with the potential for some guest appearances from the Human Resources cast.

Co-creator Kroll will also make his Netflix stand-up debut in Nick Kroll: Little Big Boy, which will premiere globally on September 27th. The special will feature Kroll comically describing his first heartbreak, his journey to fatherhood, and farting (obviously). From Variety:

“I could be wrong, but I don’t know if people think of me really as a stand up, because I’ve been doing sketch and animation and acting and the writing stuff,” said Kroll, who beyond “Big Mouth” and his voicework is perhaps best known for “The League” and “The Kroll Show,” as well as playing the geriatric Gil Faizon, opposite John Mulaney, in the “Oh, Hello” sketches that eventually turned into a Broadway show (also taped for Netflix).

“But I’ve always done stand up,” he said. “It’s always been in the background. It was 2018 and my girlfriend at the time, now my wife was like, ‘why don’t you do a special? How come you haven’t done an hour?’ I didn’t really have a good reason. Except of being busy with other stuff. And at that point, I decided to really commit to do a special.”

Netflix renewed its deal with Kroll’s animation company and co-creator Andrew Goldberg, Brutus Pink, which will continue to produce more animated projects down the road. A second season of the Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources was also ordered earlier this year, so it’s safe to say we will have some more hormone monster content for years to come. Hopefully with more Keke Palmer! Check out the Big Mouth season six teaser above.

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Report: Dennis Schroder Returning To The Lakers Is A ‘Legit’ Possibility

The Los Angeles Lakers are among the many teams that have yet to completely fill out their roster, with a variety of factors as to why that is even with camp just a month away.

Like many teams, L.A. was waiting to see what happened with Kevin Durant’s trade request before inhibiting flexibility by filling out their roster. That door closed on Tuesday with the statement from the team that Durant was going to return to the Nets for this season and lift his trade request, which would all but assure Kyrie Irving is likewise off the market, removing a major trade target of the Lakers. Still, L.A. has designs on trading Russell Westbrook if able, and moving him likely means bringing multiple players back given his salary, and keeping at least one roster spot open remains important for that reason.

The Lakers currently have 14 players on the roster, meaning one open spot currently, along with a pair of non-guaranteed deals in Wenyen Gabriel and Austin Reaves. There are a few spots of bother on the roster, but among them is the point guard position where it’s Westbrook and Kendrick Nunn (who missed all of last season with injury) — and, LeBron James. If they trade Westbrook, they’ll certainly want to add another point guard but even if they don’t, that last roster spot may very well go to point guard depth.

Among the options for the Lakers is a familiar face, as Marc Stein reports Dennis Schröder, who rather famously turned down a 4-year extension in L.A., is a “legit consideration” for the Lakers with that final roster spot.

Schröder was dealt from Boston to Houston in the Daniel Theis trade at the deadline last year and has once again found himself without much of a free agent market — although, he’s not alone there as there are still 100 players waiting for a deal who had one last year. While he wasn’t tremendous in his tenure with the Lakers, he’s still an upgrade over the alternatives and does have at least some understanding of what it takes to play with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, which is going to be important for a point guard. Schröder also has history with coach Darvin Ham from their shared time in Atlanta early in Schröder’s career.