Grammy Award-winning singer and Sing 2 actress Tori Kelly has been gearing up for her big return to music. In March, after she hinted that fans would be treated to a taste of her R&B side, the musician released her latest single, “Missing U.” However, her plans to jump into the fast-paced marketing cycle for her forthcoming album might have just been put on hold.
According to TMZ, Kelly has reportedly been rushed to the hospital after she collapsed while attending dinner with friends. The outlet alleges that she frightened her confidants after suddenly appearing unresponsive. A source said that instead of her friends calling for an ambulance to transport her to the closest medical facility, Kelly was carried and then loaded into a personal vehicle to avoid a delay in treatment.
The same source went on to say that Kelly was taken to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California, due to the facility’s expertise in treating blood clots, which supposedly led to Kelly’s sudden collapse. An authorized representative for Kelly has not yet issued a statement about the reports. However, the source ensured that while receiving care, medical staff discovered clots in several parts of Kelly’s body, including her legs and lungs.
If you’re out in public and notice a pair of colorfully-clad Black girls just take off running while rapping about synonyms, Kanekalon, and cinnamon, don’t panic. That’s probably just Flyana Boss, the rising new rap duo currently taking over timelines with an endless supply of video clips promoting their ultra-viral June single, “You Wish.”
When I say “taking over,” I mean it. The group’s videos, in which they run toward the camera while rapping their cheeky lyrics, are bound to appear on nearly every social media platform’s endless scroll with enough swiping. And, given every platform has adopted some version of TikTok’s signature move, that’s a lot of engagement for the quirky duo. The places they’ve taken over include a grocery store, the Happiest Place on Earth, and even the headquarters of Google and TikTok.
Now, they’re facing down the bog standard accusations of being “industry plants” — they’ve been signed since 2019, but are only just now gaining traction despite what they call some “baby viral” moments. Obviously, it takes a while to catch on, and once you do, the haters are bound to come calling.
But what struck me about the duo — which consists of two best friends, Folayan Kunerede of Dallas (she’s the one with bleached eyebrows usually wearing elf ears) and Bobbi LaNea (swimmin’ in deals like Michael Phelps) from Detroit — is just how keyed-in they appear to be with not only the youth zeitgeist, but also the true spirit of old-school hip-hop.
During a Zoom interview with Flyana Boss, I mention how their creative incorporation of nursery rhymes harkens back to a simpler time, echoing the back-and-forth rhymes of groups like Run-DMC or Beastie Boys. They note in return that it’s all intentional. With the 50th anniversary of hip-hop coming up, their sudden glow-up appears to be very much right on time.
Throughout our interview, it’s clear that their friendship is no gimmick or label-forged connection. These two genuinely enjoy each other, bouncing off each other’s energy for a fun, kinetic conversation that covers everything from viral fame to anime. For a pair of self-declared “weird Black girls” who insist they’re introverts, they prove as captivating in conversation as their viral videos.
How do people react when you just take off running in these public places?
Folayan: So we’re in the mode, so we don’t really pay attention.
Bobbi: We’re laser vision.
Folayan: But we notice that people usually move out of our way. That’s one. Smile or…
Bobbi: And every now and then it’s like, “Stop running.”
Has anyone recognized you before you started running and been like, “It’s those girls, it’s those girls?”
Bobbi: Yes, absolutely.
Folayan: So every time we run, we at least get three people come up to us either before or after, during, whatever, just to say, “Oh my God, I love you guys.”
Bobbi: Or “Y’all about to run? Are y’all about to run?” And we’re like, “Yeah.”
Folayan: You’ll be like, “You want to be in the video?”
The thing that really caught my attention when I started seeing you guys over and over again was the look. I think that people are attracted to the look of the group, particularly the elf ears. You look like you escaped from Anime Expo and you’re trying to get away as hard as you can. What inspires the look behind you guys’ elf ears, bleached eyebrows?
Folayan: Yeah, exactly. I love anime.
Bobbi: She’s an anime queen.
Folayan: We also just love the beauty supply.
Bobbi: Beauty supply stores, seeing new packs of hair, seeing new accessories. So it’s just whatever we’re feeling at that time.
Folayan: But we’ve always decorated ourselves throughout our whole entire lives.
Bobbi: And it’s an important expression for both of us.
Folayan: Especially being from African descent, decorating yourself, it’s been a part of our culture for centuries. We just add colors in it and stuff.
Bobbi: We just modernize.
I actually asked this cousin of mine who I love dearly with all my heart, what questions she would ask you guys. Because she thinks you guys are the best. She wants to know what kind of nerdy stuff you guys are into, and if you are, what fictional world would you want to run through for “You Wish?”
Bobbi: That’s a good question. She is really more traditionally nerdy than I am. I nerd out over Motown documentaries and stuff like that.
Folayan: But she’s a pop history nerd.
Bobbi: I nerd out on music stats and facts.
Folayan: And how people developed their careers. And she can tell you stories about Marilyn Monroe.
Bobbi: Everyone. So that’s what I nerd out. But she is like a traditional… You have traditional nerd things like anime.
Folayan: Or video games. So I think I would want to run through, there’s a video game called League of Legends. So I would want to run through the League of Legends Rift, the world.
Bobbi: I would want to run through Oz, but The Wiz Oz.
After watching both Arcane and The Wiz, both of those are a “no” for me. Flyana Boss is such a cool name. I’m always a big fan of rap names that are puns of real people’s names. Are you allowed to reveal which of you came up with Flyana Boss, and what were some of the rejected names?
Folayan: So Bobbi came up with Flyana Boss. She had a dream, and she woke up and there’s this poster of Diana Ross in her room. And so she was like, “Flyana Boss.” But the other contenders were Double Dare.
Bobbi: Double D, because we’re both from D cities.
Folayan: Halle Berry.
Bobbi: Just Halle Berry. Right out, no pun.
That just would have been confusing!
Bobbi: Do you remember? I think I wrote down Flower Power or something like that too. Wow. I had this notebook when I was by myself writing out these names and seeing how they looked.
Folayan: You probably still have it.
Bobbi: I probably have it somewhere. But I woke up from this slumber after we were brainstorming all day, and then I was like, “Diana Ross. Flyana Boss.” And it just came to me. And I texted her right away. I was like, “What do you think of Flyana Boss?”
Folayan: I was like, “Love it.” She actually said Cryana Boss or Flyana Boss, because we’re emotional beings. But we were like, “Let’s go on the positive side and let’s go Flyana Boss.”
So while “You Wish” is the one that’s getting a lot of attention, I did go back and scan through the discography proper. There’s this one called “Miss Me” that I thought was really, really fun. Can you tell me a little bit more about that one?
Bobbi: We wrote it during Covid.
Folayan: My brother produced it alongside with our executive producer, Marky Style. And it’s just a silly fun song. I love Shrek. So there’s a part in Shrek where they’re like, “They’ll grind his bones to make your bread.”
Bobbi: No, there’s so many good lines in there.
Folayan: So we were just like, “Let’s go fairytale. Let’s go just bad bitch fairytale.”
Bobbi: This is one of the songs, this is our voice memo days. So she pulled the beat up that her brother sent, got on her phone, and rapped, “Fee fi fo fum.” And then she sent it to me. I’m like, “This shit is hard. I need to write another verse right now.” So then that’s how that went.
Folayan: And so this was our first little bubbly moment on social media.
Bobbi: We call it baby viral. That’s when we went baby viral.
It reminded me a lot of the olden days of hip-hop. So you guys probably think I’m old, but I remember when I thought Run-DMC was back in the day. And they used to just rap nursery rhyme stuff. There’s this wholesome back-to-basics approach that you guys are almost supplying.
Folayan: There’s a Run-DMC song, it’s like, “Peter Piper picked a pepper, but Run rapped rhymes…” We love studying the old stuff that’s also very quirky and cool.
Bobbi: And we like paying tribute to what hip-hop truly is. Also, we like making puns too, in references to all these fairytales. We love that because it’s something familiar to the ear.
That’s what I like to hear. I like it when there’s an exchange between the generations rather than, “You kids need to grow up,” and “Well, you old people need to let us live.”
Bobbi: We don’t feel that way about any. We love the old school. We love what people are doing now. I’m sure when we’re old, we’re going to love what the kids are doing. We’re not judgy like that. It’s expression. It’s music. Wow, it’s such a great opportunity to be able to create music in itself. So, anybody who does that, my hat goes off to you.
Folayan: And the hip-hop world is so eclectic and beautiful and silly and fun.
Bobbi: It’s not just one thing.
Folayan: It’s not just serious all the time. It’s a whole world. So we’re happy we can be even a little bit part of it.
So what makes y’all “weird Black girls?”
Folayan: We just feel like we have a lot of quirks. We don’t necessarily fit the archetype that’s being painted in mainstream media of what Black girls are or who Black girls are.
Bobbi: Exactly. Blackness in general is not a monolith at all. We come in all different shapes and sizes just like any other group. But it does seem like sometimes, especially for Black women, it’s an even narrower viewpoint that you get. So we want to represent everything outside of that narrow box.
Folayan: And there’s so many of us everywhere, and I think that’s why it’s taking off right now because there’s so many of us.
Bobbi: Which is what we wanted. We always knew there was an audience out there for us, even though we don’t do stripper rap or gangster rap. We knew there was an audience out there. So every time we see people make a video —
Folayan: It’s so cool.
Bobbi: It’s so exciting because they look like us. They’re weird like us.
Conservatives are incensed about Barbie right now, but, as always, they have plenty more anger to go around. In fact, they’re also losing their stuff over Disney’s in-the-works live action redo of Snow White. Why are they so mad? Because, partially thanks to Peter Dinklage, the seven dwarves are no longer dwarves. And Snow White? She’s no longer white, even though, name be damned, there’s no reason she has to be. But tell that to a recent Fox News guest.
“Snow White is not even a white woman anymore even though her name is Snow White… We are going too far out of the way to make things super diverse and inclusive.” pic.twitter.com/u90XmDe3ac
On Monday, Outkick host Charly Arnolt joined host John Roberts to talk about how Hollywood movies haven’t been doing so well in one of its once-mighty markets, China. The problem, Arnolt claims? They’re too “woke,” thus driving away audiences. She cites The Little Mermaid, whose crime was casting a Black actress, Hailey Bailey, to play Ariel — a move that got Bailey pelted with all manner of racist attacks.
Arnolt then moved onto the Snow White remake, which stars West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler, a Latinx actress. That — and her revamped septet of companions — made her furious.
“The seven dwarves aren’t even dwarves anymore because they thought that to be too politically incorrect. Snow White is not even a white woman anymore, even though her name is Snow White,” Arnolt railed.
“We’re just going too far out of the way to make things super diverse and inclusive,” she continued. “It’s no longer about high-quality film production anymore or entertainment.”
Arnolt’s comments went viral, leading to many jokes about her thinking a character’s name requires a certain skin color.
The new Snow White is due in theaters on March 22 of next year. Perhaps by then the GOP will have calmed down about who plays a fictional character in a movie meant for kids. Or not.
As a beauty influencer, Sabrina Hassan is no stranger to creating viral makeup videos on TikTok. But one video that’s taking off is more than just a beauty tutorial.
The clip, watched over 7 million times, shows Hassan giving a spontaneous makeover to Linda, an older woman she just met on their shared flight via American Airlines. It’s an interaction full of smiles, warmth, laughter, connection…all the feels promised by a makeover scene in a movie, really.
“She’s an Instagram make-up artist, so I made her do my make-up!” Linda says with a chuckle to the flight attendant as Hassan dabs her cheeks with blush and paints her lips with a sheer rosy tinted gloss.
Those who watched the clip couldn’t help but be moved by how these two women from completely different walks of life were able to effortlessly bond over the simple joys of beautification.
“Moments like this make me love being a girl,” one person wrote.
Another seconded, “Glad we have phones to capture moments like these.”
Watch below. The moment Linda gets oh so excited with the spray makeup is the epitome of wholesome.
The sweet interaction turned out to be healing for both Linda and Hassan.
In an interview with Insider, Linda, 56, shared that she had recently been undergoing chemotherapy due to stage 4 colon cancer, and because of that hasn’t been able to wear much makeup, which has taken a toll on her self-esteem.
“I’ve lost my eyebrows, I’ve lost my eyelashes, and I can’t really wear mascara. My skin looks like I have a sunburn all the time. I don’t look like my former self. But that day on the plane, Sabrina made me feel like I was that woman again,” she recalled.
At the same time, Hassan told Insider that she was dealing with her own self-worth issues during their flight.
The 23-year-old was flying into California, where she would be doing makeup in front of other people—including other influencers. She revealed to Linda that the upcoming event was making her nervous. But after receiving such a hype up from her seat mate, those feelings of doubt soon dissipated to uncover a new sense of purpose.
“My favorite part of this was being able to help let Linda know that she is beautiful,” Hassan told Insider. “I had no idea I could change her life the way she changed mine. I wish everybody could meet her.”
And thus, the two women reclaimed their confidence, thanks to a totally impromptu moment. The unlikely friends hope to reconnect again in the near future and hope their story inspires others to simply spread kindness.
As Linda said to Insider: “Everybody is fighting some kind of battle that you can’t see. My battle is a little bit more apparent. Sometimes I use a walker. I’ve gained almost 70 pounds since I started treatment. It’s been extremely traumatic. But then there’s Sabrina, who on the outside looks like she has everything. She’s young, she’s beautiful—so it’s shocking that she was feeling nervous and insecure.”
In a time when headlines of unsavory airplane etiquette run rampant on the internet, refreshing anecdotes like these are a lovely reminder that the friendly skies do still exist. The stresses of traveling can certainly bring out the worst in all of us, but at the end of the day, I think it’s safe to say we would prefer to create endearing memories just like Hassan and Linda. Perhaps all that takes is a little kindness…and a great contour.
Way back in 2015, The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus received his own hog-focused road-trip series, Ride With Norman Reedus. The show is still kicking and hasn’t yet been eclipsed by fellow franchise stars’ own AMC reality series, including Colman Domingo’s Bottomless Brunch At Colman’s and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Friday Night In With The Morgans. Perhaps that’s because Reedus’ series theme appears to go hand in hand with Daryl Dixon’s own preference for riding, which is one of the reasons why the previews for the Daryl In Paris spinoff have been somewhat confusing due to no motorcycle or Vespa on the scene.
Still, never fear because Reedus himself keeps riding even when Daryl does not, and somehow, his motorcycle series is now in Season 6 and will continue to air after The Walking Dead Shows, which keep multiplying and extending themselves with every given update. There are so many more stories of humanity among the undead coming your way, but in the meantime, here’s ^^^ a trailer, which proves that Keanu Reeves is aboard as a guest.
From this season’s synopsis, which sounds like the rest of the show, only with Keanu and a Jackass star in tow:
Join Walking Dead star and motorcycle enthusiast Norman Reedus on epic road trips around the world. Each episode features Reedus and a riding companion – a fellow actor, musician, or friend, exploring local culture and seeking adventure on the road. Guests this season include Keanu Reeves, Adri Law, Josh Holloway and Johnny Knoxville.
What did you do this past Saturday night? If you’re Elon Musk, you spent it suddenly announcing you were doing a complete rebranding of the social media service you semi-reluctantly purchased late last year. By Monday, Twitter was no longer Twitter. It was “X.” The friendly bird logo was gone, replaced by a dark, vaguely authoritarian depiction of the English language’s third-to-last letter. There were other strange changes to the company, though some you’d only notice if you were one of the few employees he didn’t unceremoniously fire months back.
A new piece by The New York Times offers some insight into what greeted Twitter — sorry: X! — employees when they returned to work on Monday:
Inside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, X logos were projected in the cafeteria, while conference rooms were renamed to words with X in them, including “eXposure,” “eXult” and “s3Xy,” according to photos seen by The New York Times.
Why a conference room would be called some variation on “sexy” is currently unknown.
Musk didn’t stop by putting “X” everywhere he could at his company’s main base. As promised, he had the big Twitter sign removed from the corner of the building where he’s not always paid rent. Even that proved a chaotic mess.
Early reports claimed Musk had failed to get a permit to remove the sign, but TheSan Francisco Standardsaid it was a different internal screw-up: They did have a work order but they never told Twitter security nor the building’s property owner. As such, the police showed up and temporarily halted the removal.
HBOHBO Max Max just released its August streaming lineup and there are a few original series worth getting excited for.
A second season of the flashy, LA Lakers biopic Winning Time arrives early in the month to deliver one of the most riveting sports rivalries of all time while Issa Rae’s hip hop comedy, Rap Sh!t brings the laughs as it embarks on a cross-country tour. More Abbott Elementary, a few great films from the Warner Bros. vault, and plenty of docuseries are also on the menu this month.
Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Max this month.
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty: Season 2 (streaming 8/6)
Magic Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and the LA Lakers defend their title this season, facing off against familiar rivals like Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics. But the drama isn’t just reserved for the court. Season two of HBO’s breakout sports biopic sees everyone from Adrien Brody and John C. Reilly to Michael Chiklis and Jason Clarke pushing the Lakers to greatness as coaching shakeups and ownership succession questions threaten the magic happening in the paint.
Rap Sh!t: Season 2 (streaming 8/10)
Self-made rappers Mia and Shawna are hitting the road for a cross-country tour that promises the chance at superstardom if they can get past their dislike for their headlining artist and figure out their voice in an industry determined to make them conform.
Abbott Elementary: Season 2 (streaming 8/21)
Who knows when we might see a third season of this Emmy-winning comedy series so, for now, take comfort in the fact that you can re-watch all of season two on Max.
Coming to Max this August
Avail. 8/1 A Hologram for the King (2016) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) A Royal Affair (2012) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) American Gangster (2007) Amsterdam (2022) Angel of Mine (2019) Animal Kingdom (2010) Annie Hall (1977) Antitrust (2001) Before Midnight (2013) Best Man Down (2013) Beyond the Reach (2015) Blown Away (1994) Body of Lies (2008) Bulletproof Monk (2003) Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) De-Lovely (2004) Deadfall (2012) Death Wish II (1982) Death Wish 3 (1985) Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) F/X (1986) F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion (1991) Fame (2009) Fargo (1996) Flash of Genius (2008) Good News (1947) I Am Not Your Negro (2016) Ice Station Zebra (1968) Infinitely Polar Bear (2015) Inside Job (2010) Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) Kill Your Darlings (2013) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) Kingpin (1996) Leaving Las Vegas (1996) Love Is Strange (2014) Maggie’s Plan (2016) Miss Congeniality (2000) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) My Scientology Movie (2015) Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) Night Catches Us (2010) Night Moves (1975) Ocean’s Eight (2018) Ocean’s Thirteen (2007) Ocean’s Twelve (2004) Our Family Wedding (2010) Out of Time (2003) Restless (2011) Ronin (1998) Rubber (2010) Searching for Sugar Man (2012) Shattered (1991) Soul Plane (2004) Spaceballs (1987) Spawn (1997) Stage Fright (1950) Stan & Ollie (2018) Star 80 (1983) Stealing Harvard (2002) Take Shelter (2011) The Age of Adaline (2015) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Amityville Horror (2005) The Assistant (2020) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) The Bronze (2015) The Comedian (2016) The Dirty Dozen (1967) The Exception (2017) The Fluffy Movie (2014) The Getaway (1972) The Good Lie (2014) The Goodbye Girl (1977) The Hollars (2016) The Hunted (2003) The Illusionist (2010) The Iron Giant (1999) The Killer Elite (1975) The Mean Season (1985) The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) The Omega Man (1971) The Phantom (1996) The Prince & Me (2004) The Seagull (2018) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) The Wash (2001) The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) This Is Elvis (1981) Till the End of Time (1946) Torpedo Run (1958) Transcendence (2014) Travels with My Aunt (1972) Twister (1996) Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) Whiteout (2009) Wild Wild West (1999)
Avail. 8/3 House Hunters, Season 200 (HGTV) House Hunters International, Season 172 (HGTV) Vlad and Niki, Season 2B
Avail. 8/4 Khun Pan 3 (2023)
Avail. 8/6 Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia, Season 2 (Magnolia Network) Evil Lives Here, Season 14 (ID) Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Season 2 (HBO Original) Worst Cooks in America: Love at First Bite, Season 26 (Food Network)
Acail. 8/7 Kim vs Kayne: The Divorce (Discovery Networks International) Ugliest House in America: Summer Road Trip, Season 4 (HGTV)
Avail. 8/8 Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 1F Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets (HBO Original)
Avail. 8/9 Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 1 (Discovery Channel) Doubling Down with the Derricos, Season 4 (TLC) Get Hard (2015)
Avail. 8/12 Belle Collective, Season 2B (OWN) I Survived Bear Grylls, Season 1 (TBS)
Avail. 8/14 Forensic Files II, Season 4A (ID) Signs of a Psychopath Season 6 (ID)
Avail. 8/15 90 Day: The Last Resort, Season 1 (TLC) Good Bones, Season 8 (HGTV) House Hunters International Season Volume 8: Season 188 (HGTV) Scent of Time (Max Original) What’s Wrong With That House?, Season 1 (HGTV)
Avail. 8/16 Battle of the Decades, Season 1 (Food Network)
Avail. 8/17 Avatar (2009) I Love You, And It Hurts (Te Quiero y Me Duele) (Max Original)
Avail. 8/18 American Masters: Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000) MarkKim + Chef (Max Original) Time of Essence, Season 1 (OWN)
Avail. 8/20 Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters (ID) Sister Wives, Season 18 (TLC) Stand Up to Cancer
Avail. 8/22 Bobby’s Triple Threat, Season 2 (Food Network)
Avail. 8/23 BS High (HBO Original) Why The Heck Did I Buy That House?, Season 2 (HGTV)
Avail. 8/24 Bargain Block, Season 3 (HGTV) Save My Skin, Season 4 (TLC)
Avail. 8/25 Tracked, Season 1 (Discovery Channel)
Avail. 8/27 Disappeared, Season 11 (ID) We Baby Bears, Season 2B (Cartoon Network)
Avail. 8/29 Bugs Bunny Builders: Hard Hat Time, Season 1C (Cartoon Network)
Avail. 8/30 Design Down Under, Season 1 (Magnolia Network) In With the Old, Season 4 (Magnolia Network)
Leaving 8/5 Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions (HBO Original)
Leaving 8/12 A Very Venture Christmas (2004) From the Ladle to the Grave: The Shallow Gravy Story (2011)
Leaving 8/13 Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House (2008) (HBO Original)
Leaving 8/28 Tokyo Revengers (Dubbed & Subtitled) (2021)
Leaving 8/31 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) 3:10 to Yuma (2007) 93Queen (2018) A Vigilante (2019) Acts of Vengeance (2017) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) Anger Management (2003) Basic (2003) Best of Enemies (2015) Big Daddy (1999) Blue Bayou (2021) Brokedown Palace (1999) Bullitt (1968) Cobra (1986) Deep Blue Sea (1999) Demolition Man (1993) Dolores Claiborne (1995) Dragonball Evolution (2009) Dunkirk (2017) Eagle Eye (2008) Enter the Dragon (1973) Finding Forrester (2001) Ghosts of Mississippi (1986) Godzilla (2014) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Going in Style (1979) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Heist (2015) Hellboy (2004) Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996) Hellraiser V: Inferno (2000) Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005) Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002) Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) House at the End of the Street (2012) Hunter Killer (2018) I Am Love (2009) I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) Iris (2015) Jackson (2016) Jersey Boys (2014) Johnson Family Vacation (2004) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Just Cause (1995) King Kong (1933) Lemon (2017) Lethal Weapon (1987) Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) Letters to Juliet (2010) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Make Your Move (2003) Miss March (2009) Miss Sloane (2016) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) My Bloody Valentine (1981) My Bodyguard (1980) My Week with Marilyn (2011) Netizens (2018) Never Grow Old (2019) Norma Rae (1979) Outrage (2009) Over the Garden Wall (2014) Paparazzi (2004) Ready Player One (2018) Results (2015) Robin Hood (1991) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) RocknRolla (2008) Rush Hour (1998) Rush Hour 2 (2001) Rush Hour 3 (2007) School Life (2017) Sinister (2012) Sleepers (1996) Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) Squidbillies (2004) Tangerine (2015) Taxi (2004) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) Tequila Sunrise (1988) Thanks for Sharing (2012) The Accused (1988) The Animatrix (2003) The Big Hit (1998) The Card Counter (2021) The Cold Light of Day (2012) The Crazies (2010) The Pick-Up Artist (1987) The Ring Two (2005) The Sentinel (2006) The War of the Roses (1989) TMNT (2007) Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) What a Girl Wants (2003) What Lies Beneath (2000) Whip It (2009) White God (2015) Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) Wild (2014) Wild Hogs (2007) Woman Walks Ahead (2017) Yogi Bear (2010)
Ever since Jamie Foxx was hospitalized with a mysterious medical complication back in April, there has been no shortage of rumors and conspiracy theories about what’s really going with the actor.
Due to his notoriously private nature, Foxx has not yet disclosed the exact nature of his health issues, but he did recently share a video thanks his fans for all of their love and support. That video arrived after Foxx was spotted around Chicago in a series of surprise public appearances.
However, despite Foxx clearly being very much alive, alert, and cognizant, that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theories from running wild on social media. The latest rumor claims that Foxx has been “replaced” because he looks different in his thank you video to fans. Ice-T caught wind of these crackpot theories and immediately shut them down.
People would rather believe that Jamie is now a Clone or Ai, than the man was just seriously sick and damn near died… Cause he doesn’t look EXACTLY the same??? YOU look different after a bad cold! Smh weirdos.. https://t.co/EWklg56bnW
“People would rather believe that Jamie is now a Clone or AI, than the man was just seriously sick and damn near die,” an exasperated Ice-T tweeted. “Cause he doesn’t look EXACTLY the same??? YOU look different after a bad cold! Smh weirdos.”
While Ice-T hit the nail on the head that Foxx has been sick for over five months now, and the actor candidly revealed that his recovery has been difficult, another Twitter user pointed out another contributing factor for why Foxx looked different: Camera angles.
People don’t understand how camera lenses work. Probably lost a little weight and the lighting is different. But 90% of the difference is just a telephoto lens (probably a 70-200mm) vs the super wide selfie camera on your phone. pic.twitter.com/fCER16zWad
“People don’t understand how camera lenses work,” Jared Monroe tweeted. “Probably lost a little weight and the lighting is different. But 90% of the difference is just a telephoto lens (probably a 70-200mm) vs the super wide selfie camera on your phone.”
Long story short, no there isn’t a sophisticated Jamie Foxx AI clone running around, you dorks.
While in Iowa for the Hy-Vee IndyCar Race over the weekend, David Letterman dropped by a Hy-Vee supermarket in Grimes. “This is my first time in a Hy-Vee store. We don’t have them where I live and I’ve known of them through the racing team, but what I’ve known of them is the tip of the iceberg,” the former late-night host said, according to the Des Moines Register (he co-owns a race car sponsored by Hy-Vee). “So I walk in here and it’s the world of the future.”
Letterman spent roughly an hour in the store, where he “filmed a series of skits with two store employees, Caden Grimes and Elyse McIlhon. They played with a gumball machine, bagged groceries in the self-checkout area, and organized soup cans.” Letterman also ate (drank?) soup straight from the can, which should become a new tradition in the midwest.
Letterman posted about the experience on his Instagram. “I spent spent a considerable amount of my life in a grocery store in Indianapolis, and it was the last of the singular, independent owned grocery stores and I loved it,” he said in the video. And if I can give something back to the marketing community, I would like to do that – but I don’t have all day, of course.”
You can watch footage from the trip below.
I can’t wait to find out which random celebrity will be spotted pumping gas at an Exxon in West Virginia next!
As K-pop gets more and more popular stateside, more artists in other genres have become more eager to collaborate with K-pop stars to increase their own reach, and it’s paying off. The latest is Latto, who teamed up recently with BTS’ Jungkook (or Jung Kook, as he’s apparently presenting himself to US audiences) to release “Seven” — and in the process, reached her biggest career milestone yet.
The latest week’s Billboard charts have arrived and guess who’s landed at the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100. That’s right: Jungkook, Latto, and their collaboration “Seven,” which has become both artists’ first-ever No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart. That accomplishment has them overtaking Jason Aldean’s Jim Crow anthem “Try That In A Small Town” (I guess the power of diversity and globalism is still stronger than thinly veiled dog whistle racism).
“Seven” is, of course, thought to be the first single from Jungkook’s speculated solo debut; its success indicates that the appetite for said project is just as high as fans could expect from a solo member of BTS, one of the most popular boy bands in the world. It’s also just one of many crossovers between hip-hop and K-pop recently, including J-Hope’s J. Cole collab “On The Street,” FIFTY FIFTY’s Kaliii crossover “Barbie Dreams,” and Blackpink’s “Bet You Wanna” with Cardi B.
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