Month: September 2022

Mila Kunis is out promoting for her new Netflix movie, Luckiest Girl Alive, but she’s also dropping some details about That ’70s Show spinoff that reunites (most) of the old cast. However, working on That ’90s Show meant Kunis would have to act alongside her real-life husband Ashton Kutcher, and to her surprise, their characters (Jackie and Kelso) are now married on the show, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to Kunis.

As fans of the Fox sitcom know, Jackie and Kelso broke up, sending her into the arms of Danny Masterson’s Hyde and then later Wilmer Valderrama’s Fez. Obviously, Masterson isn’t returning for the show and will stand trial on sexual assault allegations. However, Valderrama will be there, and Kunis admitted to Access Hollywood that she doesn’t get why Fez and Jackie aren’t together.

Via The A.V. Club:

“You know what, I called BS. I was like, ‘My character would be with Fez.’ I think that I ended up with Wilmer’s character. And I was like, ‘Why are you and I together?’ And also, he was married when ’70’s ended to Shannon Elizabeth’s character, I think.” (Elizabeth played Brooke, the mother of Kelso’s child, for whom Kelso moved to Chicago at the end of the series.) “And now we’re like, 20 years—no, 16 years later, whatever it is, and now we’re married with a kid. And I was like, ‘I don’t know about this one,’” Kunis concludes skeptically.

On top of being forced to stay married to Kutcher on the show, Kunis had one more issue: “My kid in it is too damn old,” she laughingly told Access Hollywood. “I would not birth such a child at my age!”

(Via Access Hollywood)

There has been some tension between Kanye West and Kris Jenner in recent times, so it seemed like more may have been on the way yesterday (September 28) when West changed his Instagram profile photo to an image of Jenner, the same one Jenner currently uses as her own profile picture. It appears West had good intentions here, though.

Yesterday, fans noticed that West had changed his profile picture; The first mentions on Twitter of Ye’s new profile image are from around 5:20 p.m. ET yesterday. Hours later, at around 10:30 p.m. ET, West took to his Instagram Story to explain what was going on, writing, “I posted Kris with thoughts of peace and respect. Lets change the narrative.”

This comes about a month after West shared screenshots of what appeared to be text conversations between him and Kim Kardashian. One of the texts apparently from Kardashian read, “From my mom- PLEASE Tell him to stop mentioning my name. I’m almost 67 years old and I don’t always feel great and this stresses me to no end.”

Meanwhile, West recently sat down for an interview with Good Morning America/ABC News Live, in which he said of Kardashian, “This is the mother of my children and I apologize for any stress that I have caused.”

Yesterday, the world learned that Coolio, the legendary rapper behind “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died at 59 years old. Reactions have since poured out, including a meaningful one from “Weird Al” Yankovic. He shared a photo of Coolio and himself (more on the picture in a bit) and wrote simply, “RIP Coolio.”

Coolio is of course a major part of Yankovic’s legacy thanks to the latter’s “Amish Paradise.” The song, a parody of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” is one of Yankovic’s biggest hits: It’s his most-streamed song on Spotify and one of a handful of Yankovic songs to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The rapper was initially not pleased with Yankovic’s parody but later expressed regret over his response to it on multiple occasions. In a 2011 interview, for example, he said, “I sat down, and I really thought it out. I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I was like, ‘Coolio, who the f*ck do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn’t get mad..’ […] I’ve since apologized to him. Again, that was so stupid. […] That was a stupid thing for me to do. That was one of the dumbest things I did in my career.”

As for the photo Yankovic chose to share, it’s a significant one. The pic shows the two hugging at the XM Satellite booth at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. As Vulture notes, this occasion marked the pair’s public reconciliation after years of tension between them due to “Amish Paradise.” Yankovic later said of the encounter, “I don’t remember what we said to each other exactly, but it was all very friendly and after a minute, he was gone. I turned to the next person in line and said, ‘Did that really just happen?’”

Revisit our 2016 interview with Coolio here.

Kid Cudi is preparing for the release of his next album Entergalactic, whose tracklist was just unveiled. The closing track is titled “Burrow,” a nod to Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals. As per a new tweet from Team Reporter Marisa Contipelli, the quarterback appreciated the gesture.

She wrote, “Kid Cudi texted Joe Burrow to let him know a song on his new album was named after him. Burrow smiled pretty big when telling us that.”

In a recent interview, Kid Cudi divulged that he’s going to be stepping back from his music projects to focus on other endeavors. “I think I’m going to take a step back from the Kid Cudi stuff and focus a lot more on developing my own things,” he told Popsugar. “Writing — whether it’s movies or TV shows — producing things, putting stuff together. Just really getting my production company [Mad Solar] up to a place where, in the next three or four years, we’re a household name. I really have goals. We’re off to a great start with the documentary, X, Pearl, and now, Entergalactic. I mean, we have four bangers so far, so I just want to see what else we can do and keep going.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a congresswoman for over a year-and-a-half, and it’s not clear if she ever does her job. Early into her tenure she was booted from committees over past (and present) inflammatory comments. But she still finds time to fill her day. She gets into fights, online and in person. She goes on places like Newsmax and OANN. She makes threats about what she’ll do when (or if) she becomes Speaker of the House. It’s exhausting to watch, and it may have exhausted her husband, too.

As per The Daily Beast, Perry Greene, who married her in 1995, filed for divorce on Tuesday, starting that their nearly three-decade marriage was “irretrievably broken.” He also stated that they’d been separated for some time.

In a statement provided through a spokesperson, Greene is quoted as saying, “Marriage is a wonderful thing and I’m a firm believer in it. Our society is formed by a husband and wife creating a family to nurture and protect. Together, Perry and I formed our family and raised three great kids. He gave me the best job title you can ever earn: Mom. I’ll always be grateful for how great of a dad he is to our children. This is a private and personal matter and I ask that the media respect our privacy at this time.”

Perry also released a statement: “Marjorie has been my best friend for the last 29 years and she has been an amazing mom! Our family is our most important thing we have done. As we go on different paths we will continue to focus on our 3 incredible kids and their future endeavors and our friendship.”

Shortly after her House stint began in early 2021, rumors broke that Greene was cheating on her husband with a “polyamorous tantric sex guru,” as well as the manager of a gym. She denied these claims, but the former stated that he was sad at what she’d become.

(Via The Daily Beast)

There are few things that feel more awful than being stranded at the altar by your spouse-to-be. That’s why people are cheering on Kayley Stead, 27, from the U.K. for turning a day of extreme disappointment into a party for her friends, family and most importantly, herself.

According to a report in The Metro, on Thursday, September 15, Stead woke up in an Airbnb with her bridemaids, having no idea that her fiance, Kallum Norton, 24, had run off early that morning. The word got to Stead’s bridesmaids at around 7 a.m. the day of the wedding.

“[A groomsman] called one of the maids of honor to explain that the groom had ‘gone.’ We were told he had left the caravan they were staying at in Oxwich Bay (the venue) at 12:30 a.m. to visit his family, who were staying in another caravan nearby and hadn’t returned. When they woke in the morning, he was not there and his car had gone,” Jordie Cullen wrote on a GoFundMe page.

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Stead spoke with the groom at 4 p.m. the previous day, but they stayed the night with their respective parties to save some mystery before the big day. “The groom and I had already agreed not to speak the night before the wedding anyway, so I didn’t know what was happening on his end, I didn’t have a clue,” Stead told The Metro.

Stead was in absolute shock after hearing the news. She had paid for nearly the entire wedding herself, using up all of her life savings on the £12,000 ($13,000) affair. “As a joke, the videographer said ‘Why don’t you carry on, girls? You’ve spent all this money, you’re not getting it back, all your guests are there, why don’t you just go?’” Stead told The Metro.

So, she did just that. Stead decided that the wedding would go on without her fiance.

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— The Daily Record (@The Daily Record)
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“That’s when I was like, I’m going to do it,” she said. “I’d spent all this money, I’d been looking forward to the food, a dance with my dad, spending time with my family, so why not?”

Stead, her friends, family and even the groomsmen didn’t let things go to waste and they enjoyed her wedding entrance, food, speeches, dances and even posed for photos. “I didn’t want to remember the day as complete sadness,” she said.

“She was the most beautiful bride we had ever seen,” Cullen added.

The good news is that after the party, Cullen set up a GoFundMe page to help Stead recoup her losses and it has already reached its goal of £10,000 ($10,830). Almost two weeks after the event, Stead still doesn’t know why she was stood her up on her wedding day.

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The Sun caught up with Norton and he refused to apologize. The only thing he had to say was, “I don’t want to talk about the article.”

While it’s terrible that Stead was stood up on her wedding day, she should be applauded for making the best of the worst day ever. It’s also wonderful that her bridesmaids and family stood by her side and supported her as she dealt with a serious blow. Let’s hope she finds someone better soon. It shouldn’t be too hard—standing someone up at the altar and then not even explaining yourself is a pretty low move.

Last night, the second of two Taylor Hawkins Tribute concerts took place in Los Angeles. It was full of special moments. There were wonderful performances from Miley Cyrus, Alanis Morisette, and more great artists, as well as a hawk flying over the Kia Forum that some fans believed to be the drummer himself.

Another artist on the lengthy roster of performers was Josh Homme. The Queens Of The Stone Age frontman took the stage with the frontman of The Cars, Elliot Easton, as well as the Foo Fighters to cover some songs by The Cars, including “Just What I Needed” and “Shake It Up.” The renditions were vibrant and pleased fans in the audience who were excited to witness the hits live.

The show was nothing short of amazing. It had a 53-song setlist and a wholesome anecdote from Jack Black about Hawkins at Dave Grohl’s 45th birthday show: “I snuck backstage before the show started. I poked my head into Taylor’s dressing room and he was just f*cking practicing as hard as hell. It was a beautiful thing to see, ’cause he was serious, no f*cking around. He really meant it and it was important to him. He didn’t want to do a good show. He wanted to f*cking blow people’s minds. And he did it.”

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Di Caprio. Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson. Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst. Cinema history is rife with director-actor teams — pairs that inspire the best in each other, who can’t stop teaming up. After over two decades in the industry, Ryan Reynolds seems to have found his director: Shawn Levy, who directed him in two of his most recent movies, namely Free Guy and The Adam Project. But what is Levy’s role in one of Reynolds’ next big films, Deadpool 3?

As per Collider, Levy is taking the reins of the threequel, which has changed directors with each entry. The first was helmed by Tim Miller; the second by John Wick 1’s David Leitch. How will Levy — who started off with family comedies like Big Fat Liar, Cheaper by the Dozen, and the Night at the Museum trilogy, as well as Stranger Things — handle a renegade superhero movie that gleefully leans into the R rating? It will remain to be seen.

Technically, Ryan Reynolds as playing Deadpool well before he made 2016’s Deadpool. The actor’s comic book movie debut came in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he played Wade Wilson, aka Weapon XI, better known to Marvel readers as — that’s right — Deadpool. With Deadpool 3, Reynolds comes full circle, in a way: It reunites him with Wolverine star — and his own fellow fake feudee — Hugh Jackman.

Deadpool 3 is due to his theaters on September 6, 2024.

Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run on Wednesday night in Toronto, tying Roger Maris’ American League record and reaching seventh on the Major League Baseball single season list.

It was a huge moment that came a week after he hit his 60th, as the sports world watched as Judge went 33 plate appearances between home runs as he crept up on the AL record. As has been part of the conversation for major baseball records for years, there was a lot of discussion in recent weeks about what the value of Judge’s 61st home run ball would be and what a fan might be able to get for it if they caught it. There would’ve been plenty of money out there for the ball if they put it up for auction, or a lot of compensation from Judge and the Yankees if the fan were to be willing to negotiate to give the ball to him.

However, that won’t be an issue this time around as three fans reached out for the ball with a glove but missed, as the ball ended up in the bullpen in Toronto.

At first, it looked like it might’ve just missed all of them, but other angles showed that the one fan in the Bo Bichette jersey actually got a glove on it, only for the ball to bounce out and, well, let’s just say the man was absolutely sick afterwards.

That man is absolutely going through it, as he just threw his glove away and spent the next few minutes melting down and getting consoled by fans around him to no avail. He is going to run that moment through his head for…ever? Just waking up in a cold sweat months from now after yet another dream of the ball bouncing off his glove.

After three years of development at Apple+, Taika Waititi‘s Time Bandits series has got a cast and a greenlight. According to Deadline, Lisa Kudrow will lead the cast, playing a character called Penelope. She’ll be joined by Kal-El Tuck (Unseeing Evil) the precocious young history buff pulled into the wild world of time looting.

The cast also includes Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up), Tadhg Murphy (Conversations With Friends), Roger Jean Nsengiyumva (You Don’t Know Me), Rune Temte (Eddie the Eagle), Kiera Thompson (Martyrs Lane) and Rachel House (Hunt For The Wilderpeople). Presumably, these are the bandits, but it’s unclear if they’re being led by Kudro’s Penelope, or if she factors into the story in some totally different way. They’ve altered all the names from the original Terry Gilliam film, so it’s difficult to tell who’s who in the temporal scofflaw clan. Also, none of the cast are listed as “Supreme Being” yet, so they might be saving that little tidbit for later.

Waititi, who is directing the first 2 of 10 episodes, is co-writing the series with Jemaine Clement. This is one of those nostalgia-smothered properties that may be impossible to reboot without grumblings, but it’s difficult to think of better personnel for giving it the best possible shot. At the very least, Waititi should bring a singular comedic (and heartfelt!) vision to the project, which is reassuring in an era where any and all IP is stripped down for parts. It might not end up being the original fans’ cup of tea, but at least it will have flavor.

(via Deadline)