While the conservative world went hog wild protesting a Bud Light campaign featuring trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, one major Republican figure stayed notably quiet during the whole ordeal: Donald Trump. While MAGA acolytes like Kid Rock and Sarah Huckabee Sanders spurred on a boycott and propped up right-wing beer companies, the former president didn’t say a peep about the controversy.
Granted, Trump has his hands full with a myriad of legal issues and a potential primary challenge from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, but there’s reportedly a more specific reason why he may have avoided the Bud Light fracas. He owns a whole lot of Anheuser-Busch stock.
According to data reviewed by The Independent, it’s possible that Mr Trump’s reluctance to criticise the company that makes the middling American beverage stems from his personal financial interests. Mr Trump’s most recent financial disclosure shows he holds a significant financial interest in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the company that produces Bud Light.
The disclosure form, which is on file with the Federal Election Commission, shows the twice-impeached former president owns between $1m and $5m in Anheuser-Busch InBev stock under an account listed as “DJT Trust — Investment Account #2”.
While Don Sr. stayed out of the Bud Light fiasco, Don Jr. did enter the fray in a move that’s even more eyebrow-raising. In an odd departure from his fellow Republicans, Junior actually came out against the Bud Light boycott.
“I’m not for destroying an American, an iconic company for something like this,” Junior said on his web show. “Frankly, they don’t participate in the same woke garbage that other people in the beer [industry] actually do, who are significantly worse when I look into it.”
You’ll surely be shocked to learn that Don Jr. did not disclose that his father owns Anheuser-Busch stock. Funny how he forgot to mention that. Probably just a coincidence.
Samuel J. Seymour was one of the approximately 1,700 people at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He was also the last to live long enough to talk about that historic night on television.
Seymour was 5 years old when he went to see the play “Our American Cousin” with his nurse, Sarah Cook, and Mrs. Goldsboro, the wife of his father’s employer.
When Booth shot Lincoln, he pulled the trigger during the biggest laugh of the night so that it wouldn’t be heard. What caught Seymour’s attention was when Booth fell from the balcony after a scuffle with Henry Reed Rathbone.
Chaos erupted in the theater and Seymour was ushered out by his nurse. While they fled he overheard people screaming, “Lincoln’s shot! The President is dead!”
“I saw Lincoln slumped forward in his seat,” the old man later recalled. “That night I was shot 50 times, at least, in my dreams—and I sometimes relive the horror of Lincoln’s assassination, dozing in my rocker as an old codger like me is bound to do.”
Two months before Seymour’s death at the age of 95, he appeared on the game show “I’ve Got a Secret,” where panelists tried to guess his secret: “I saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865).”
Seymour didn’t speak much during the show but he did make a historic understatement when panelist Jayne Meadows asked if his secret was “a pleasant thing,” to which Seymour replied, “Not very pleasant I don’t think. I was scared to death.”
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, once of the most prominent non-Simpsons on The Simpsons, has been a background character since 2017. Hank Azaria stopped voicing the dad of eight following the release of The Problem with Apu, a documentary starring and written by Hari Kondabolu about Hollywood’s portrayal of South Asians. A new voice actor has not been cast.
Azaria, who is white, doesn’t appear in The Problem with Apu, a decision he now regrets (although not as much as The Simpsons should regret their crummy response to the controversy).
“I was afraid,” he admitted to Kondabolu on NPR’s Code Switch podcast. “I was really freaked out. You’re a comedian. And some of your stuff is ‘gotcha.’ It has bite to it, as it should. It’s hilarious and it makes good points. But being on the other end of that really scared me. At the time, I didn’t feel safe to have the conversation privately, let alone recorded.”
Azaria is “grateful” for Kondabolu “dragging and pushing” him into the conversation, though The documentarian and comedian replied, “It means a lot to hear you say that. I know you’ve told me privately the impact that I’ve made, but to hear that publicly is a really big deal to me because one of the things that frustrated me after the film came out is that I was getting death threats.”
Kondabolu continued:
“Initially it bothered me that you didn’t mention me because I had to deal with all this crap to get it there…There is a history of white folks talking about what they’ve learned and sharing the knowledge without giving credit to the people of color that actually got them there. Like, you put in the work and then you get never get credit for the work. And at the end of the day, I’m talking about this way more than I wanted to.
And I know it’s a different experience for both of us, because for you it’s opened up all these new ideas and you’ve grown in incredible ways and I can see your excitement about the work you’re doing now. To me, this was old hat when I made the documentary. So it’s the double whammy of being stuck here without also getting props. So for you to say it now does mean a lot.”
Ed Sheeran’s trial pertaining to the lawsuit from Marvin Gaye’s estate has started. For those who might not be aware of the situation, here’s why it’s causing some waves.
The copyright infringement lawsuit against Sheeran is over his 2014 song, “Thinking Out Loud,” which Gaye’s estate has claimed copies the late singer’s “Let’s Get It On.” It was officially filed by the family of the song’s co-writer and composer Ed Townsend.
It claims that Sheeran’s song used the same instrumental progressions and “repeated it continuously throughout ‘Thinking’ — this incontrovertible musical similarity has been observed by music industry professionals previously, as embodied by various social media and articles about the matter,” according to the filing.
“For far too long, Black artists have created, inspired and spread music all around the world,” the Townsend’s lawyer, Ben Crump, told CBS News. “Mr. Sheeran’s infringement of Black artists is merely another example of artists exploiting the genius and the work of Black singers and songwriters.”
Sheeran is also facing two other lawsuits tied to copyright infringement on the song — these filed by Structured Asset Sales, a company that holds a stake in “Let’s Get It On,” according to Vulture.
And, while most copyright lawsuits get dismissed, Gaye’s estate has a track record of being successful in past cases. They were awarded over $5 million in 2015, after claiming Robin Thicke and Pharrell’s “Blurred Lines” borrowed from “Got To Give It Up.”
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It would be tough to do a television remake of the ’80s thriller Fatal Attraction and not have a sex scene. In fact, that is basically half of the plot anyway. Without it, you’d just be left with the “fatal” part, and we already have too many shows about that. But even though some actors are shying away from the sex of it all, Joshua Jackson still thinks that it’s an integral part of filmmaking these days, as long as it’s done right.
“The sex scenes are of great importance” Jackson recently told Variety. “Because they’re furthering the narrative. You have to believe that these people want to f*ck each other.” In reality, sex scenes are logistically challenging, which kind of takes the spark out of it, according to Jackson. But yes, making it look like two actors actually wanna get it on might be challenging, to say the least.
Fatal Attraction used intimacy coordinators on-set for scenes between Jackson and his obsessive love interest Lizzy Caplan, which has become more and more common in the last few years. Jackson said that having open communication with everyone involved is the key to a good sex scene, in addition to good directing. “God bless [director] Silver Tree for being amazing and coming at this from the female gaze. There are so many ways to tell the story of a sex scene that don’t need to be about certain pieces of a woman’s body. There are so many different ways that this can give you all of that stuff without it having to be exploitive of the women’s body.”
As for Jackson’s wife, actress Jodie Turner-Smith, he says she actually doesn’t mind the sex scene aspect of the job. “Jodie is not fussed about my sex scenes,” Jackson says, adding a personal anecdote, “The sex scenes themselves, Jodie kind of enjoys them, actually. It’s a weird thing where she’s like a voyeur. So that works! If that’s your thing — excellent.” Hey, whatever works!
Fatal Attraction premieres on April 30th on Paramount+.
In an interesting turn, many of the nominees for the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards are musicians who have nailed the art of double duty. Over the course of the past few years, several musicians have gone on to host daytime shows of their own, while continuing to make music.
Clarkson, who is gearing up for the release of her 10th studio album, Chemistry, is leading the talk field nominations with 11 to her name. She has secured nominations for Daytime Talk Series, Daytime Talk Series Host, Writing Team For A Daytime Non-Fiction Program, and more.
Singer, actress, and EGOT holder Jennifer Hudson secured six nominations, also for Daytime Talk Series, as well as Technical Direction (Camerawork And Video), and Costume Design/Styling.
Gomez secured a single nomination for Culinary Series, with her HBO Max cooking show, Selena + Chef. She is likely to land some nods at the other Emmys following the premiere of the third season of Only Murders In The Building: The series was nominated last year for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Elsewhere, Kings Of Leon are under consideration in the Arts And Popular Culture Program category for Kings Of Leon @ O2. Michelle Branch also makes an appearance on the nomination list, as Tamron Hall is nominated in the Promotional Announcement category for “Women Reclaiming Their Power: Michelle Branch & Angela Simmons.”
Spring has sprung, and if you’re hiding from allergy season, Netflix is here for you. The streaming service is roundly tackling the quadrants this month, too. Fans of bodice-clad drama will be thrilled for a Bridgerton prequel series while comedy lovers will want to tackle the return of Tim Robinson’s show and new standup specials from Wanda Skyes and Hannah Gadsby, which follow up on April’s John Mulaney offering. And the dads out there will be happy to see Arnold Schwarzenegger in his own TV show while playing a dad who can still kick a little ass.
Speaking of Arnold, the Netflix back library receives some of the action star’s most beloved movies along with the Austin Powers films, so you can fully head into intentionally cringey nostalgia mode. A bevy of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movies will simultaneously surface as well, which must be a coincidence, and a new animated series will arrive from the minds behind Unbreakable Jimmy Schmidt and 30 Rock.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in May.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix series streaming 5/4)
The corset-filled, 19th century, soap-operatic juggernaut returns for more of what Shondaland already delivered. The principal series will bring us third and fourth seasons, but for the time being, viewers can tuck into Charlotte’s origin story, on both historical and personal levels. Expect to see some familiar faces from the original show with younger Charlotte portrayed by India Amarteifio and Golda Rosheuvel as her present-day incarnation. Fingers crossed for a lot of Snorting Habit details, but the main thread will follow Charlotte’s arranged marriage to King George. She’s not thrilled at first, but the trailer suggests that she warms up to the idea.
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 5/30)
The Emmy-winning leading man of this sketch comedy series is back with even more absurdist comedy sketches, will make his legions of fans throw all the memes onto Twitter for years to come. If Twitter lasts that long, that is. If you haven’t taken a gander at this series yet, do consider it if you’re fan of Nathan Fielder’s painfully awkward brand of humor. This show’s variety of chaos isn’t for everyone, but the people who love it… really love it.
Hannah Gadsby: Something Special (Netflix standup comedy special streaming 5/9)
Still best known for the highly successful and revelatory Nanette, Gadsby is back with a third Netflix special that aims at the feel-good crowd. This installment includes talk of weddings, and bunny-related trauma. You read that correctly.
FUBAR (Netflix series streaming 5/25)
This series looks like Mr. and Mrs. Smith but with a father-daughter pairing. Naturally, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a CIA operative who would love to retire but gets pulled back in for one last job, and this somehow involves teaming up with said daughter and growing confused by her lipstick vibrator. Ugh, dad.
Mulligan (Netflix series streaming 5/12)
This animated series hails from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, so perhaps there’s some spirit of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or 30 Rock that will be echoed. It’s also a satiric take on Earthlings aiming to survive the aftermath of an alien attack, although the trailer doesn’t give us a hint on how well it lands punches. The voice cast includes Fey, Nat Faxon, Chrissy Teigen, Sam Richardson, and Dana Carvey.
Avail. TBA
Siren: Survive the Island
Avail. 5/1 Above Suspicion
Airport
Airport ’77
Airport 1975
American Gangster
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Black Hawk Down
The Cable Guy
Captain Phillips
Chicken Run
Cliffhanger
Conan the Barbarian
The Croods The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dawn of the Dead
Flight
For Colored Girls
Girl, Interrupted
The Glass Castle
Home Again
Hop
Igor
Kindergarten Cop
Last Action Hero
Legends of the Fall
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Léon: The Professional
Marshall
Paranormal Activity
Peter Pan (2003)
Pitch Perfect
Rainbow High: Season 3 Rugrats: Seasons 1-2 The Smurfs: Season 1 Starship Troopers
Steel Magnolias
The Tale of Despereaux
This Is the End
Traffic
Vampires
The Wedding Date
The Young Victoria
Avail. 5/2 Love Village
The Tailor
Avail. 5/3 Jewish Matchmaking
Great British Baking Show: Juniors: Season 7
Avail. 5/4 Arctic Dogs
Larva Family
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Sanctuary
Avail. 5/6 A Man Called Otto
Avail. 5/8 Justice League: Seasons 1-2 Justice League Unlimited: Seasons 1-2 Spirit Rangers: Season 2
Avail. 5/9 Documentary Now!: Season 4 Hannah Gadsby: Something Special
Avail. 5/10 Dance Brothers
Missing: Dead or Alive?
Queen Cleopatra
Avail. 5/11 Royalteen: Princess Margrethe
St. Vincent
Ultraman: Season 3
Avail. 5/12 Black Knight
Call Me Kate
The Mother
Mulligan
Queer Eye: Season 7
Avail. 5/13 UglyDolls
Avail. 5/16 Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me
Avail. 5/17 Faithfully Yours
Fanfic
La Reina del Sur: Season 3 McGREGOR FOREVER
Rhythm + Flow France: Season 2 Working: What We Do All Day
Avail. 5/18 Kitti Katz
XO, Kitty
Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune
Avail. 5/19 Astérix & Obélix: The Middle Kingdom
Kathal – A Jackfruit Mystery
Muted
Selling Sunset: Season 6 Young, Famous & African: Season 2
Avail. 5/22 The Batman: Seasons 1-5 The Boss Baby
The Creature Cases: Chapter 3
Avail. 5/23 All American: Season 5 MerPeople
Victim/Suspect
Wanda Sykes: I’m An Entertainer
Avail. 5/24 Mother’s Day
Rhythm + Flow France: Season 2 The Ultimatum: Queer Love
Avail. 5/25 FUBAR
Avail. 5/26 Barbecue Showdown: Season 2 Blood & Gold
Dirty Grandpa
Tin & Tina
Turn of the Tide
Avail. 5/30 I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: Season 3
Avail. 5/31 Heartland: Season 15 Mixed by Erry
Rhythm + Flow France: Season 2 The Ultimatum: Queer Love
And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:
Leaving 5/4 Pup Star: World Tour
Leaving 5/10 Bordertown: Seasons 1-3
Leaving 5/13 Weed the People
Leaving 5/14 Booba: Food Puzzle: Season 1
Leaving 5/16 Side Effects
Leaving 5/18 The Last Days
Leaving 5/27 Collateral Beauty
Leaving 5/29 The 2nd
Leaving 5/31 Barbershop 2: Back in Business
The Boy
Edge of Seventeen
Galaxy Quest
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
Little Boxes
Midnight Diner: Seasons 1-3 My Girl
Rango
The Space Between Us
The Stolen
We Die Young
Given his long track record of lawsuits, not to mention his recent indictment and arrest, you’d think Donald Trump would be pretty good at court by now. But you would be wrong. Just one day into E. Jean Carroll’s civil trial — surrounding Carroll’s claims that Trump raped her in the dressing room of Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s — and the judge has already been forced to reprimand the former president. Who opted to forgo even showing up to the trial… as he didn’t want to cause any traffic jams?!
Still, as Raw Story reports, Trump’s looming presence is certainly being felt in the courtroom — in part because of what he’s doing outside the courtroom. Shortly before Carroll was set to begin testifying, Trump began attacking her on TRUTH Social. First there was this:
The E. Jean Carroll case, Ms. Bergdorf Goodman, is a made up SCAM. Her lawyer is a political operative, financed by a big political donor that they said didn’t exist, only to get caught lying about that. Just look at her CNN interview before & after the commercial break – Like a different person. She said there was a dress, using the ol’ Monica Lewinsky “stuff”, then she didn’t want to produce it. The dress should be allowed to be part of the case. This is a fraudulent & false story–Witch Hunt!
Then came essentially more of the same, about an hour later:
They got caught lying! The Miss Bergdorf Goodman case is financed by a big political donor that they tried to hide. Does anybody believe that I would take a then almost 60 year old woman that I didn’t know, from the front door of a very crowded department store, (with me being very well known, to put it mildly!), into a tiny dressing room, and …. her. She didn’t scream? There are no witnesses? Nobody saw this? She never made a police complaint? If I was seen there with a woman-BIG PRESS. SCAM!
Given the immediate nature of social media, and that such messages could be considered a form of witness intimidation, Carroll’s lawyer didn’t hesitate to bring up Trump’s posts essentially as he was sharing them to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who deemed them “entirely inappropriate.”
Joe Tacopina, Trump’s lawyer, took the brunt of the reprimand and — already knowing that his client will do and say what he wants — told the judge that he’d “try to address that with my client” and ask him to stop speaking about the case publicly.
“Well, I hope you’re more successful,” the judge replied, seemingly unconvinced that a talking-to would do much to dissuade Trump from saying whatever thought pops into his orange-tinged brain. Kaplan did warn Tacopina that his client “may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability … And I think you know what I mean.”
For the moment, Trump has gone back to the well for his most recent TRUTH Social posts, including sharing a video about Hunter Biden’s laptop and another about the rigged 2020 presidential election. Whether or not he will be able to resist posting about the trial again, however, remains to be seen.
A recurring co-host of Fox News’ The Five, Rivera felt free to place much of the blame for the Jan. 6th insurrection at Carlson’s feet naming him one of the biggest instigators of dissent and voter fraud conspiracies at the network.
I don’t wish ill on anybody, but there is no doubt-as I said at the time-Tucker Carlson’s perverse January 6 conspiracy theory was “bullshit.”
Having lost the election President Trump incited an insurrection that sought to undermine our Constitutional process.
“I don’t wish ill on anybody,” Rivera wrote, “but there is no doubt — as I said at the time — Tucker Carlson’s perverse January 6 conspiracy theory was ‘bullsh*t.’ Having lost the election President Trump incited an insurrection that sought to undermine our Constitutional process.”
Rivera is one of the more famous Fox News talking heads to square up against Carlson post-firing. Staffers also claimed Carlson’s penchant for calling women “c***s” was one of the determining factors in his termination while other insiders have said Rupert Murdoch wanted him ousted for personal reasons.
So, despite the network taking a nosedive in the ratings department after the news broke, it sounds like Fox and Carlson are never ever ever getting back together.
We’re still a few weeks away from the start of the 2023 NBA Finals. As of Wednesday afternoon, only three teams have clinched a spot in the conference semifinals — the Philadelphia 76ers swept the Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference, while the Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns took care of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Clippers, respectively, in five games on Tuesday night in the Western Conference.
Wednesday night could be big for some more conference semifinal contenders, as the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Miami Heat can all punch their tickets to the next round. All of it, of course, is done in pursuit of a berth in the NBA Finals, and on Wednesday afternoon, ESPN announced the full schedule and tip times for this year’s games. The biggest news is that none of the games will have a later tip time on the east coast, as every game either starts at 8 or 8:30 p.m. EST.
Here is the full schedule:
Game 1: Thursday, June 1, 8:30 p.m. EST
Game 2: Sunday, June 4, 8 p.m. EST
Game 3: Wednesday, June 7, 8:30 p.m. EST
Game 4: Friday, June 9, 8:30 p.m. EST
Game 5 (if necessary): Monday, June 12, 8:30 p.m. EST
Game 6 (if necessary): Thursday, June 15, 8:30 p.m. EST
Game 7 (if necessary): Sunday, June 18, 8 p.m. EST
A common complaint among basketball fans on the east coast is that games that tip at 9 p.m. EST (or, with how pregame stuff works, a few minutes later than that) will oftentimes end close to midnight, which can make it hard to justify staying up for games, especially on a weekday. While we’ll have to see just how long pregame stuff runs with the new tip times, it’s good to see the league and ESPN attempt to remedy this while still tipping weekday games late enough so folks on the west coast can hopefully get home from work in time to watch.
All of the NBA Finals games will take place on ABC.
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