There’s already been a great film adaptation of Alice Walker’s beloved novel The Color Purple. Steven Spielberg directed it. It helped make Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey into stars. Now there may be two great Color Purple films. On Monday, the trailer for the musical version dropped, and it promises a vibrant and emotional affair.
There are some big names in the cast, and they have big shoes to fill. Fantasia follows in Goldberg’s footsteps as Celie, a young woman trapped in an abusive marriage to Colman Domingo’s “Mister” Johnson (a role first played, terrifyingly, by Danny Glover). Danielle Brooks plays the lifeforce Sofia, a role that netted Winfrey an Oscar nomination. Teraji P. Henson takes over for Margaret Avery as Shug, the showgirl who enters Celie’s life and helps open her up.
The cast also includes Halle Bailey, as the younger version of Celie’s beloved sister Nettie, as well as H.E.R. (in her screen acting debut), Jon Batiste (ditto), Corey Hawkins, David Alan Grier, and Louis Gossett Jr.
The latest film, which retains Spielberg, Winfrey, and Quincy Jones as producers, tackles the Broadway musical adaptation, which first bowed in 2005 and returned in 2015.
The new Color Purple movie hits theaters on December 25. You can watch the trailer above.
Last month, Donald Trump became the first U.S. president in history to be indicted on criminal charges. This month he was found guilty of sexual assaulting and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. He has plenty of other legal and financial woes still in the works. All the bad news would sour most people on a politician. Not Trump fans. They apparently love it when he’s found guilty of crimes. Now there’s yet another reason for them to adore him.
As per The New York Times, E. Jean Carroll is once again suing Trump, this time only for defamation. On May 10, one day after the trial ended, Trump took part in a notorious CNN town hall. There he addressed the verdict — which again was in part about defamation — calling Carroll’s story “fake” and “made-up.” He also called Carroll a “wack job” and declared the trial a “rigged deal.”
After Trump’s rant, many expected Carroll and her attorneys to drag him back to court. And so they are. The court filing on Monday said that Trump’s latest defamatory comments “show the depth of his malice toward Carroll, since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite.”
In the filing, Carroll and her lawyers say they seek a “very substantial punitive damages award,” so as to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.”
In a brief interview with the press, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta A. Kaplan stressed that Trump’s statements came “literally the day after the verdict,” which made the filing all the more pressing. “It makes a mockery of the jury verdict and our justice system if he can just keep on repeating the same defamatory statements over and over again.”
Perhaps Trump will respond to the news with further defamations, trapping himself, Carroll, and their respective lawyers in a permanent defamation loop.
Childless women in the public eye are often plagued by the question: “So, why don’t you have any children?” It’s a deeply personal question that cuts right to the bone, and there can be many answers. But, if the woman doesn’t want children and says so publicly, she is bound to face some judgment.
“[I don’t] like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women—that you’ve failed yourself as a female because you haven’t procreated. I don’t think it’s fair,” Jennifer Aniston told Allure. “You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t mothering—dogs, friends, friends’ children.”
On the Monday, March 6 episode of “The Diary Of A CEO” podcast, host Steven Bartlett asked actor Seth Rogen about why he’s childless, and it was a rare moment where a man in the public eye was challenged on the topic. Rogen gave a thoughtful explanation for his and Lauren Miller’s decision to be child-free.
Rogen and Miller were married in 2011.
“There’s a whole huge thing I’m not doing, which is raising children,” Rogen told Bartlett. The host attempted to play devil’s advocate and asked Rogen if he considered whether having children might have made him and his wife “happier.”
Then, as if anticipating the question, the “Pineapple Express” star upended one of the arguments that people who have children often make: that people who don’t have children have no idea what it’s like.
“I’ve been around obviously a lot of children; I’m not ignorant to what it’s like…Everyone I know has kids. I’m 40, you know? I know,” Rogen said. “Some of my friends have had kids for decades. Some people want kids, some people don’t want kids.”
He added that many people seem to have kids without considering the issue.
“I mean, a lot of people have kids before they even think about it, from what I’ve seen, honestly,” he said. “You just are told, you go through life, you get married, you have kids—it’s what happens.”
Rogen and his wife have only grown stronger in their decision and they believe that it has helped their relationship.
“Now, more than anything, the conversation is like, ‘Honestly, thank God we don’t have children,’” he continued. “We get to do whatever we want.”
“We are in the prime of our lives. We are smarter than we’ve ever been, we understand ourselves more than we ever have, we have the capacity to achieve a level of work and a level of communication and care for one another, and a lifestyle we can live with one another that we’ve never been able to live before. And we can just do that, and we don’t have to raise a child—which the world does not need right now,” Rogen concluded.
Everyone has the right to choose whether or not to have children, and no one has the right to judge them. Rogen and Miller have thought their decision through and should be applauded for living how they see fit. It’s cool to see Rogen with such a thoughtful opinion on the matter. It’d be even cooler if celebrities never had to discuss the topic in the first place.
Gunna may be planning a triumphant comeback to the rap business, but he may find the environment much more hostile than when he was arrested for racketeering with several other members of Young Stoner Life back in 2022. There are plenty of fans who believe he violated a code of honor in accepting a plea deal in exchange for his freedom, and at least one of his peers feels that it went even further than that.
Lil Durk told gossip blogger DJ Akademiks he’s convinced that the Atlanta rapper cooperated with authorities’ investigation. “I don’t sit up here and play games,” he said. “That man told. You should have went in there and kept your mouth closed.”
Gunna has denied that he “snitched,” agreeing only to plead guilty to one count of racketeering — an acknowledgment to the government’s insistence that YSL is actually a street gang. Several members of the collective were also offered so-called “Alford pleas,” which are reportedly common in such cases, as they can help strengthen prosecutors’ cases against the primary targets of an indictment — in this case, Young Thug, the founder of YSL.
“If you rewind the clip a little bit, I looked into the camera and I told you, if you a rat, I f***ing hate you,” Durk said. “Because I love Thug.”
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Ted Cruz is best known these days for the constant stream of Cancun jokes that he even inflicts upon himself, but he’s still the master of the self own on other subjects. Recently, he’s stepped in it while attempting to outwit Stephen King and clutching his pearls over Sam Smith. Now, Cruz is wading into the mess created by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has been sacrificing the economic well-being of his entire state (by irrevocably feuding with Disney) to win over a few MAGA voters for the GOP presidential primary race.
Not only have DeSantis and cronies been attacking the LGBTQ+ community, but the NAACP has seen more than enough regarding the state’s new discriminatory laws, including the yanking of funding for diversity programs in higher education and expanding concealed carry rights. Over the weekend, the NAACP responded by formally issuing a travel advisory for the Sunshine State. As relayed by CNN, the group warned against “DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson added, “Beware that your life is not valued.”
Ted doesn’t see the big deal here. So, he decided to put words into Martin Luther King Jr.’s mouth over the fiasco. “Dr. King would be ashamed of how profoundly they’ve lost their way,” he lamented on Twitter.
This is bizarre. And utterly dishonest.
In the 1950s & 1960s, the NAACP did extraordinary good helping lead the civil rights movement.
Today, Dr. King would be ashamed of how profoundly they’ve lost their way. https://t.co/F9EAiEfDP6
Not so, responded Bernice King. She took umbrage with Ted for attempting to speak for her father, and she insisted, “What my father would be deeply concerned about is the harmful, discriminatory legislation in Florida.”
Ahead of her villainous performance as the iconic Ursula the Sea Witch in the live action remake of The Little Mermaid, comedic superstar Melissa McCarthy opened up about her lengthy career in Hollywood and some of the experiences that did not go so swimmingly.
While McCarthy has nothing but praise for her co-stars over the years (she’ll make a Bridesmaid sequel “right now,” she says), there was one notable acting gig that made McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone insist on a “crazy check” for all of their productions where they “demand” kindness.
“You know, we were so astounded and grateful at getting to build our own little worlds, we were like, “We have to build the one we’ve always talked about, where everybody gets to have an opinion and everyone is really nice. It’s going to run a lot better with no screamers or crazy egos bumbling around. Why would we risk destroying that?’” McCarthy said before revealing more about her toxic experience.
“I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill. My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness.” What did it look like? “There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person. And I think that’s why the manipulation worked, because to get to me, this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet. It was very effective. Then one day, I was like, ‘It stops today!’ I just kept saying to them, it stops, it stops. And I know now I’ll never keep quiet again.”
True to her word, McCarthy has been gushing about her The Little Mermaid co-star Halle Bailey for almost a year now. Here’s McCarthy talking about the first time she heard Bailey sing, and that it was so powerful, she literally started crying. (And may have freaked Bailey out a bit.)
McDonald’s French fries are so good that just a few are enough to convince you that you’re eating the best fries in fast food. A year ago, I would’ve told you that this was just hype — McDonald’s taking the top spot because no one dares to doubt them. But we pitted McDonald’s fries against five other fast food favorites in a blind taste test and the winner was undeniable. There is just something special about McDonald’s fries that sets them apart.
Originally, I was convinced they added just a hint of sugar to make them so addictive (I still sort of believe this) and I know in the past McDonald’s fried their French fries in beef tallow, but that’s something they gave up in the ‘90s (for a recipe to try tallow fries yourself, see here). I made reference to my “sugar theory” in our original blind taste test and received a lot of emails from McDonald’s fans who were happy to tell me that the fries are still fried in some sort of beefy flavoring — so shout out to the readers for putting this on my radar: McDonald’s French fries are fried in vegetable oil and something called “Natural Beef Flavor.”
“Natural Beef Flavor” is a lot like the “natural flavors” you find on other food labels. It is an umbrella term designed to shorten ingredient lists and can generally contain a bunch of different ingredients or chemical additives that might otherwise confuse consumers. The rule is, as long as it’s recognized as safe by the FDA and doesn’t contain a common allergen, it’s all good. When Eater spoke to a food chemist Gary Reineccius, they learned that: “Natural beef flavoring isn’t necessarily from beef at all… Food scientists identified the amino acids found in beef, added some very common sugars — starch hydrolysate — put it in a pot, added some citric acid to drop the PH, controlled moisture content and heated it to the same temperature as meat.” And that gives you “natural beef flavor.”
Sounds… natural. Right?
If you’re a vegetarian or vegan who loves McDonald’s fries and now you’re jumping for joy, sit down, because according to McDonald’s ingredient list, the brand’s “natural beef flavor” contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk. In their own fine print, the brand states “We do not promote any of our US menu items as vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free.” So while we can’t say for sure if McDonald’s “natural beef flavor” actually has meat in it, the fact that they aren’t willing to say otherwise makes it pretty safe to assume that the food isn’t handled in a fully vegetarian or vegan manner.
This is unfortunate news if you’re a strict vegan or vegetarian. Luckily, there are a few fast food options that are safe for you to eat and just as delicious. Here are some of our favorites!
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Five Guys’ has an incredibly simple menu that features hot dogs, bacon, burgers, and French fries. That’s it, as such the fries aren’t sharing oil with any other food products and are fried in 100% peanut oil.
Although McDonald’s won our fast food French fries blind taste test, Five Guys were absent from that tasting, and had they been included I’m sure they would’ve taken the number one spot. These fries are perfect — fresh and cut on sight, perfectly crispy on the outside, and soft and buttery on the inside. Five Guys twice fry these things and it makes all the difference.
They might not be as eerily addictive as McDonald’s fries, but from a flavor, texture, and quantity standpoint, you get a whole lot more here. Unfortunately, they’re triple the price.
In-N-Out’s French fries are some of the most polarizing in all of fast food and call me crazy but, I don’t get it. Do you mean to tell me you have a problem with a potato that is peeled and cut daily and fried in 100% sunflower oil? Why? Who hurt you?
Yes, sometimes In-N-Out fries can be over or undercooked, especially when the restaurant is busy. This gives them a cardboard-like or mushy texture, that’s not ideal, but more often than not these are pretty solid French fries that just need a bit of black pepper and salt to turn them from bland to delicious.
Chick-fil-A is one of the rare chicken places that use a completely separate fryer for its fries and hash browns. The brand has an entire website page dedicated to identifying which of its menu items are vegetarian and vegan. Chick-fil-A is known for frying its chicken in peanut oil, the fries are actually fried in canola.
The results are still pretty damn good. They’re always hot and fresh, and have a buttery potato-forward flavor with a crunchy exterior and a soft fluffy inner.
Taco Bell’s nacho fries are fried in soybean oil and as of now, there aren’t any meat options in the menu that are sharing oil with the fries. This isn’t always the case though, Taco Bell has had wings on the menu in the past, and we’re willing to bet they’re going to have them again.
On those occasions, we think it’s pretty safe to assume Taco Bell isn’t adding a whole new fryer to fry the chicken in. So you’ll have to pay attention to the current promotions but if you’re willing to do that extra level of work, what you’ll get in return are some pretty good French fries!
The fries are seasoned with a mix of paprika, salt, garlic, onion powder, and cayenne pepper, which offers a zesty, slightly spicy, and sweet flavor that are as addictive as McDonald’s “natural beef flavor,” without all the mystery.
Is it the “natural beef flavor” that has made McDonald’s so dominant over Burger King? The brand was once McDonald’s greatest competitor and now the King consistently ranks among the worst restaurants in the fast food universe. I blame the burgers. But we’re not here to talk about how the Whopper falls short, we’re here for the fries, and BK’s are… pretty good.
They can be over-salted, but when they’re fresh they’re delicious. Slightly thicker than McDonald’s, Burger King’s fries are crispy and buttery, with a decadent greasy flavor that makes them pretty addicting if you like greasy food. The brand advertises these fries as ‘vegan’ and has separate fryers for the french fries, here is the but…
The fryers share an oil filtration system which “creates a risk of cross-contact when the oil passes through the filter.” So these fries are vegan and vegetarian but there may be the slightest amount of cross-contamination there. That won’t be a big deal for everyone, but it will for some so we felt like we had to point it out.
It’s remarkable, really, that the Succession team was able to keep Logan’s death a secret. (Please do not yell at me for “spoiling” the big man’s death now. It’s been a month.) It wasn’t an easy endeavorer.
“HBO were fantastic with their resources and the advice they gave with the benefit of their experience, trying to keep a secret in the social media universe,” director Mark Mylod told the Hollywood Reporter following Logan’s funeral episode. To prevent his death from leaking, Team Succession replaced every “Logan” in the scripts with “Ewan,” his brother played by James Cromwell. “We played it as if Jamie’s character had passed. When it came to the funeral in episode nine, we billed it in all of our scripts, and even in posters outside the church, as if it was Ewan’s funeral,” Mylod said. “That was phase one.”
Phase two involved hundreds of non-disclosure agreements.
“The next thing was the classic non-disclosure agreements we asked all of our background actors to sign. When you have literally many hundreds of background people for several days, their ability to stick an anonymous Reddit post up … there are ways, I’m sure. But nobody did.”
Mylod appealed to their humanity. “Let’s not spoil the enjoyment for fans of the show. Let’s have this as our little secret. Let’s not tell anybody. Keep it quiet. Obviously, tell your partners at home, but please keep it under your hats,” he told the extras. It worked. Probably because if they said anything, HBO would sue them for everything they’ve got. But, sure, the other reason, too.
Late last year and early this year, Matty Healy was making headlines for various on-stage antics. Now, The 1975’s singer is all the rage as rumors about a Taylor Swift relationship swirl. The whole situation is a major conversation topic online, which prompted a parody from Lewis Capaldi on TikTok.
Text superimposed on the video reads, “Random people on the internet preparing to give their thoughts on the ‘Taylor swift/Matty Healy discourse.’” As Carl Orff’s iconic “O Fortuna” symphony plays, Capaldi adopts an overly serious disposition as a number of clips with various video effects applied rapidly and hectically transition from one to the next. Capaldi captioned the post, “the world must hear what i have to say.”
For the record, Capaldi is clearly a Swift fan. He covered “Love Story” at a gig earlier this year, saying, “I was going to sing one of my songs next, but I thought it would just be better to play a Taylor Swift song.” He’s also declared that he “would LOVE” to collaborate with her.
Capaldi also spoke highly of Healy in a December 2022 interview, noting that they collaborated on material that ultimately didn’t make his latest album, last week’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. He said, “Listen, we wrote together for this album. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before. So I love 1975. I think my favorite band just now. I just love how he is and how they are as a band in terms of the way he is now especially, he doesn’t give a f*ck.”
Once again, the people are furious and fast, though this time, they are doing it in Italy so they can grab some gelato on the way out. The latest Fast movie, Fast X, crashed into theaters last week, and now that you’ve seen it 14 times, you probably know about the two big cameos that made it into the final cut which feature The Rock and Gal Gadot returning to play Hobbs and Gisele, respectively.
The cameos were mostly kept a secret until now, though Vin Diesel is just happy that he cant finally talk about it. “I’m so excited to have them back home and even more excited to see fan reactions and to see how happy it makes people,” Diesel said. He truly is so happy.
But having the crew back home was a long time in the making. Michelle Rodriguez said that Gadot’s “back from the dead” storyline had been in the works for some time, which Diesel confirmed. Gadot even went as far as filming scenes for past Fast movies (after her death in Fast and Furious 6), though they ended up on the cutting room floor.
“We have shot other things a long time ago that might not have fit that specific movie as a finale,” Diesel told Variety. “Doing tags is a very tricky thing because you want your great talent but at the same time you have to be very careful to maintain the emotional state of your audience at the end of the movie. So that’s what you’re juggling,” he added. It seems like considering the emotional state of your audience is rare these days, so it’s nice that Diesel is giving the people what they want, but not too much.
Now that Fast X is finally here, fans can look forward to the next generation of Fast movies, including a female-led spinoff that’s currently in the works. Where will they go next? Speeding down Route 66? Launching cars into space? There really is no limit here.
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