Month: November 2022

Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert surely didn’t imagine that she’d have a rocky road to reelection. In the harsh light of day, she may have lost her bid even as Colorado’s 3rd district remains too close to call. For at least a month, relatively unknown Adam Frisch gained momentum and even achieved a statistical tie in polls after essentially running as “not-Boebert.” Not to be deterred, the Sarah Palin doppelgänger continued her usual method of dragging Democrats with a bizarre taxation “lesson” for Halloween, and she unintentionally pulled her best imitation of a The Daily Show correspondent when The Denver Post begged readers not to hand “toxic” Boebert their vote.

As Election Day began, Boebert projected an air of condescending confidence while predicting that Democrats would be the “losers!” of the election during a “#RedWave.” Is this poetry that she tweeted? I’m not sure. “They called you cockroaches,” she began. “They called you cult members. They called you extremists. They called you terrorists. Today, we call them losers!”

As well, Boebert gave off an early evening celebratory vibe with a “The red wave has begun!” in reference to Anna Paulina Luna’s House victory in Florida.

Well, a slam-dunk Boebert victory doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards. The New York Times is reporting that she still has a shot, but the Associated Press declares that results are still too close to call after Frisch grabbed an early lead and is still hanging on with 50.6% of the vote while Boebert trails with 49.4%. It’s a nail biter for sure.

Let’s just say that people enjoyed throwing the “losers” back in Boebert’s face. This included a remark (from The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson) that “Lauren Boebert going down harder than Donald Trump on the Mar a Lago waffle station.”

And the deluge began. Is Boebert the real loser? People are pouncing on that potential outcome already.

It ain’t over yet! There may very well be more routin’ and tootin’ to come.

In one of the nation’s most contested elections, Democrat John Fetterman triumphed over his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, in the Pennsylvania Senate race, despite the TV doctor/”puppy killer” spending a reported $27 million of his own fortune.

“We launched this campaign almost two years ago and we had our slogan. It’s on every one of those signs right now. Every county, every vote. Every county, every vote. And that’s exactly what happened,” Fetterman said in his victory speech. “And that’s exactly what happened. We jammed them up. We held the line.”

As noted by @MarlowNYC, “jammed them up” could be a nod to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Fetterman has spoofed the Pennsylvania-set comedy before; he’s also very good at pop culture references, as evidenced by his social media comparing Dr. Oz to Dr. Nick from The Simpsons. Judge for yourself with the Sunny scene in question:

A user on the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia subreddit notes that on the Always Sunny Podcast, hosts Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day revealed that “NYPD Blue was where they got that phrase from.”

Or maybe it’s a Parks and Recreation reference:

Either way, Fetterman should get Oprah to appear on Sunny. It worked for 30 Rock.

(Via Twitter/@MarlowNYC)

Over the past year, 50 Cent has really taken to making fun of Madonna on social media. Now, he’s at it again.

On November 5, he shared a screenshot of an article about Madonna titled, “Madonna Using Rap Music For Clout On TikTok Is Pathetic And Truly Disturbs My Spirit.” 50 wrote, “I told y’all grand ma was on bullsh*t! like a virgin at 64. LOL.”

This comes relatively soon after a June post from the rapper, in which he shared a photo of Madonna and wrote, “I hope she didn’t make her kids take this picture. LOL at 63 somebody tell her to chill out please.” The post was actually a gallery, and accompanying the Madonna pic is three images of aliens.

Towards the end of last year, Madonna posted some risqué photos on Instagram and 50 re-shared one, writing, “yo this is the funniest sh*t! LOL That’s Madonna under the bed trying to do like a virgin at 63. she shot out, if she don’t get her old ass up. LMFAO.” Madonna responded at the time, writing, “I guess your new career Is getting attention by trying to humiliate others on social media. […] You’r just jealous you won’t look as good as me or have as much fun when you are my age!”

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Results from yesterday’s (November 8) election are starting to roll in and there’s a particularly notable result down in Florida: 25-year-old Democratic candidate Maxwell Alejandro Frost (who was previously the national organizing director for March For Our Lives) won a seat in the House Of Representatives. This makes him the first Gen Z member of Congress and he plans to celebrate in a particularly Gen Z way: by seeing The 1975 in concert.

When the race was called last night, Frost tweeted, “WE WON!!!! History was made tonight. We made history for Floridians, for Gen Z, and for everyone who believes we deserve a better future. I am beyond thankful for the opportunity to represent my home in the United States Congress. #FL10.” A few hours later, he added, “I am Congressman-Elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost and I will be the first member of Generation-Z in the United States Congress. WE MADE HISTORY!!! Don’t count young people out.”

He then concluded in all caps, “I’VE BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR OVER A YEAR THIS IS WILD!! I’M GONNA SEE @the1975 ON THURSDAY TO CELEBRATE!!!”

On Thursday (November 10), The 1975 is set to perform in Washington, DC. Frost will probably get an eye-full at the show, as so far, The 1975’s concerts have seen Matty Healy smoking, eating raw meat, and touching himself.

Beabadoobee is out on the road now, bringing her latest album Beatopia to life. The tour — which is one of the most anticipated ones of this fall — kicked off on October 25th, in Washington DC, and it will take her across the US, into Canada, and then back to the East Coast in December. Joining her is Lowertown, an indie duo from Atlanta.

The setlist features a good chunk of Beatopia as well as her debut Fake It Flowers. About the newer record, she previously said, “It’s a lot of different vibes. There’s not one song that sounds the same as the others. I’ve been really getting into a band called Stars, and I’ve always loved Stereolab as well. I’ve been working with my guitarist Jacob and using a lot of teenage engineering, drum machines, mixtures of guitars. It’s been really fun. I don’t know how to explain it, but it sounds very 2006 [laughs]. I feel like this new album is what I am meant to sound like.”

Check out the average setlist below.

1. “Worth It”
2. “Together”
3. “Care”
4. “Charlie Brown”
5. “He Gets Me So High”
6. “10:36”
7. “Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene”
8. “The Perfect Pair”
9. “See You Soon”
10. “Sorry”
11. “She Plays Bass”
12. “Talk”
13. “Back to Mars”
14. ‘Coffee”
15. “Last Day on Earth”
16. “Dye It Red”
17. “Cologne”

For months MAGA Republicans have been playing Chicken Little with the Midterms. They still claim — absent of anything approaching hard evidence — the 2020 election was stolen, at least from Donald Trump. Heading into this year’s elections, they prepared themselves, announcing they were ready to call out voter fraud, at least if they don’t win. But when maybe the most prominent election denier — who’s not a certain former president, that is — tried to do live election policing, he ran into some IT issues.

As per The Daily Beast, Mike Lindell — the pillow salesman who’s spent the last two years torching a fortune spewing incoherent nonsense — hoped to hold a “real-time crime” livestream show as the results poured in. Alas, everything went sideways, at least from a technical end. As the evening progressed, his Frank Speech site kept crashing, displaying one of those “1020 Access Denied” messages.

During the show, Lindell tried to address the problems, but sounded like an aging professor fumbling with YouTube. “I didn’t expect—I thought we were immune to sabotage, but I guess not…the app is not working!” he spluttered to whoever was watching him.

At other times, he struggled to get working audio from his fellow voter fraud sleuths, among them Nixon tattoo enthusiast Roger Stone. “On my end, the feed is terrible,” Lindell fumed at one point. “I couldn’t hear anything!”

Lindell has been in rare form in the lead-up to the election, even for him. He vowed that he had “cyber guys” who can see “inside” the voting machines, which definitely doesn’t sound illegal (or impossible).

(Via The Daily Beast)

Few in Hollywood have been as enthusiastic cheerleaders for Ukraine during the Russian invasion as Sean Penn. The Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker was there on the ground from the start. He was even told, two months later, to “get the f*ck out of there” or risk life and limb. At one point, he even threatened to “smelt” one or both of his Oscar trophies if president Volodymyr Zelensky was not invited to appear on this year’s disastrous Academy Awards telecast.

Speaking of, Deadline reports that Penn is back in Ukraine, during which he gifted Zelensky with one of his statues.

“It’s just a symbolic silly thing, but if I know this is here then I’ll feel better and strong enough for the fights,” Penn told Zelenskyy in a video the latter posted online. “When you win, bring it back to Malibu, because I’ll feel much better knowing there’s a piece of me here.”

So does this mean Penn didn’t smelt his Oscars? Did he only smelt one and leave the other, perhaps hoping one day to lend it to Zelensky? And which one did he give him? Was it the trophy he won for Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River? Or for playing Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk? As of now, that’s unclear.

Penn didn’t leave empty handed. In return, Zelensky awarded him the Order of Merit honor “for his sincere support and significant contribution to the popularization of Ukraine in the world.” Penn also gushed to Zelensky about Ukraine, saying, “there are three places in the world that all the pride of my life will be. The place where my daughter was born, the place where my son was born and this.”

(Via Deadline)

Concert camping culture seems to only be getting worse and worse these days. Take the recent story of two Harry Styles fans making a video about waiting in line in a parking lot for nearly a month to see him. A new outrageous scenario has arisen as of tonight, November 8, after a Twitter user shared a video of people in tents outside during a storm to see the “As It Was” singer at the Kia Forum in California tomorrow.

The clip shows the tents blowing in the intense winds, getting soaked under a downpour that doesn’t look like it’s ending any time soon. Most of the reactions to this are fans expressing frustration that other fans are willing to risk getting sick and then spread that sickness at the show — a totally fair argument.

Unfortunately, Styles’ fans can often be inconsiderate and just plain odd. In August, an audience member chucked a chicken nugget at the singer, to which he responded, “Interesting, very interesting approach.” When a chant broke out encouraging him to eat it, he said, “I don’t eat chicken, sorry. I don’t eat meat.”

Tomorrow’s show will be his first show since postponing three of his Los Angeles shows due to having the flu.

Over the last few years, a specific job has gained a lot of traction in the entertainment industry: the intimacy coordinator. As per SAG-AFTRA, they’re the people on set whose jobs are to act as “an advocate, a liaison between actors and production … in regard to nudity and simulated sex.” If a show or movie has a sex scene, they’re there on set, choreographing intimate action, ensuring closed sets stay that way, even working with costumes and prosthetics. They’re even there during pre-production, helping plan what kind of intimacy will be captured on camera. It’s a job that’s become especially pronounced in the #MeToo era. But not all films use intimacy coordinators, even ones with tabloid-grabbing sex scenes.

One such film was Don’t Worry Darling, director Olivia Wilde’s highly anticipated — then tabloid-grabbing — follow-up to Booksmart. One of the first attention-nabbing bits of the film, which purports to be about a closed community in the 1950s, was some torrid action between stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, including a roundelay on a kitchen table. So did they use an intimacy coordinator?

The answer: Nope. The Cut studied the film’s end credits, and while there were 11 people in the “health and safety” section — including COVID-19 precaution gigs — there was no intimacy coordinator to be found.

Wilde has not specifically addressed the lack of that job on her latest film, but she has spoken about the film’s sex scenes. She told AP that “we still live in a really puritanical society,” she argued that “the lack of eroticism in American film is kind of new,” perhaps alluding to the decline of erotic thrillers and other films that prominently feature sex — once a significant part of the cinematic and TV landscape.

“Then when it comes to female pleasure, it’s something that we just don’t see very often unless you’re talking about queer cinema,” she added. “You know, it’s interesting because in a lot of queer films, the female characters are allowed to have more pleasure. Audiences aren’t as puritanical as corporations think they are.

“And yet people get upset,” she continued. “I mean, people are upset with me already over this. I think it’s a testament to the film. We want to be provocative. The idea is not to make you feel safe.”

Still, it’s clear some would prefer intimacy coordinators on set. Over the summer, Amanda Seyfried lamented the lack of those positions on films she made when she was younger. And Sean Bean earned scorn when he lambasted the job, saying they ruin sex scenes — a take that prompted many to take umbrage.

Don’t Worry Darling now streams on HBO Max.

It’s finally happening. After teasing her fans all year, saying it will be out in the summer and then admitting in October that she’s not rushing the release, SZA’s album seems to be very much on its way. The icon unveiled “Shirt” at the end of last month, and today she shared a breathtaking, explicit preview clip called “PSA.”

In it, SZA sits in a bikini inside a ring of green fire, looking at the camera seductively as her hypnotizing rap plays in the background: “I don’t want nobody calling me anything but number one / I got problems, I don’t know how to take losses.” The sound is ethereal and enchanting. The camera flashes back and forth between that scene and another scene of her pouring a glowing substance onto herself — and that includes her chest, and — NSFW warning — toward the end she goes full-on topless.

SZA tweeted the clip, writing, “happy birthday to me. Clock starts now.” It immediately went mega-viral, but her replies are turned off. The comments on the YouTube video are full of all-caps level excitement.

Last month, SZA disagreed with Punch’s description of her album. @szaoncharts tweeted: “.@sza’s new album is called a continuation of Ctrl but with a completely different sound. While Punch describes the new album as ‘somebody who’s lost and then discovered themselves.’” SZA replied, writing, “Ion agree w this at all.”

Watch the “PSA” teaser above.