It has now been about six and a half years since Jay-Z asked and answered, “What’s better than one billionaire? Two,” on “Family Feud” from his confessional album 4:44. In that time it’d be reasonable to wonder whether his wife Beyoncé has joined him in billionaire status since he crossed that threshold in 2019. With her Renaissance World Tourgrossing half a billion alone — before you throw in a $22 million opening weekend for the film project that came out of it — she can’t be far off, right?
So…
Is Beyoncé A Billionaire?
Not yet, but she is close. According to Billboard, which reported on Forbes‘ latest estimates of Beyoncé’s wealth, the “Flawless” singer’s net worth has grown since Forbes listed her at No. 48 on its annual ranking of “richest self-made women” (ha) in America. Back then, she sat around $540 million. But then the receipts for the Renaissance tour came in, adding $100 million after taxes. Then, Forbes took another look at its valuation of her catalog, putting that at around $300 million. Finally, adding in Parkwood Entertainment and her joint holdings with Jay-Z — such as a $200 million mansion in Malibu — Forbes estimates Beyoncé’s net worth to be around $800 million. Not to poke any sore spots but you have to wonder if she’d have cleared that last $200 million with a renewal of her Adidas deal, which ended in February with a loss on Adidas’ side. Maybe she’ll be able to get Ivy Park back up and running and clear that final hurdle.
Earlier this year Apple TV+ dropped the limited series Platonic, which reunited Neighbors couple Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. The two were a fantastic pair the first time they teamed up, for the Neighbors films, and for their second they decided to do things a bit differently: Instead of playing spouses, they were, well, just really, really good friends. The results were so charming that people demanded more, despite it, again, being a one-off. So any word on that? Yes and no.
Rogen and Byrne recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, who asked them, point blank, if there were would be Season 2, the whole “limited series” classification be damned.
“Yeah, it looks like we’re going to do more,” Rogen replied.
Alas, following Rogen’s positive response was a more pragmatic editor’s note, pointing out that Apple TV+ has not confirmed more Platonic is en route.
Rogen admitted that he was simply being practical, if not paranoid, about wanting to do more Platonic before it was even seen by the public:
“Honestly, we had talked about it during the first season, but I get really nervous about how it’s going to be received. I’m not a count-your-eggs-before-they-hatch guy. I’ve done that thing where I drive around Friday night of opening weekend for my movies and go to the theaters and there’s no one in them. I really just wanted to see if we were happy with it when it came out — and if everyone else was happy with it. I was kind of nervous about how high my standards were for what we were doing, and I wanted to make sure that we could actually do it. And then once I saw that we could, I was like, “OK, we should keep doing it.
So if you liked Platonic, or simply enjoy how Byrne, a serious thespian who’s proven herself skilled at comedy, and Rogen, a comic actor who’s a pretty good serious thespian himself, there’s (probably, maybe) going to be more of them together.
In a new interview with Zane Lowe, SZA revealed that she first started making music to prove a point to her ex-fiancé. She’s talked about this mysterious individual before — at least, in print — but for many fans, the real surprise of this story was that SZA has an ex-fiancé (because nobody reads anymore, y’know?).
In the quote, she said, “Some people choose music as a career and they feel very certain about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it… I really only did music to prove a point… When I started making music, it was to my ex-fiancé, because he was paying for everything… I was a college dropout still bartending at the strip club, so I felt like I lacked value. So when I started trying to make music, it was this thing I didn’t have to try at, that I was randomly good at.”
So, who is SZA’s ex-fiancé? Well, she hasn’t revealed many details about him. In this interview, she says he was a “designer” and his ex-girlfriends were all lawyers, businesswomen, and artists. That doesn’t exactly narrow it down. Meanwhile, when she’s previously talked about him, as she did in a Rolling Stone feature earlier this year, she noted that he’s a Capricorn, which… again, tells us less than nothing (I’ll save my zodiac girlies rant for another article).
Rolling Stone also noted that the SOS song “Nobody Gets Me” is about this mysterious suitor, and says he proposed before she went on tour. However, per the line, “You was feelin’ empty, so you lеft me,” it seems that he couldn’t handle her newfound fame and broke things off. There aren’t any other identifiers in this song, but perhaps when the deluxe version of SOS, Lana, drops soon, SZA will reveal more.
In addition to the Power spin-offs, 50 Cent, STARZ, and company have another hit on their hands with BMF. The show, which recounts the story of Detroit’s notorious Black Mafia Family, completed its second season in spring 2023. After releasing just two episodes in season two, STARZ went ahead and renewed the show for a third season. Fast-forward to today and we’re just months away from the start of the third season which comes complete with new cast members and an official premiere date.
With all that being said, here’s everything you need to know about BMF season three:
Release Date
BMF season three premieres March 1, 2024 on STARZ. The show’s third season will debut less than a year after season two concluded on March 17, 2023, with a season finale that watched Meech pack his things and head south for Atlanta.
Cast
Most of the main cast will return for the show’s third season. This includes Demetrius Flenory Jr. as Demetrius “Meech” Flenory, Da’Vinchi as Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, Russell Hornsby as Charles Flenory (Meech and Terry’s father), Michole Briana White as Lucille Flenory (Meech and Terry’s mother), Eric Kofi-Abrefa as Lamar Silas, Myles Truitt as B-Mickie, Steve Harris as Detective Von Bryant, La La Anthony as Markaisha Taylor, Kelly Hu as Detective Veronica Jin, and Laila Pruitt as Nicole Flenory.
The recurring cast for season three is also expected to stay the same. Some of the expected names include Snoop Dogg as Pastor Swift, Serayah as Lori Walker, Jerel Alston as Kevin Bryant, Mo’Nique as Goldie. Season three will also feature some new names in the cast including 2 Chainz as Stacks, Ne-Yo as Rodney “Greeny” Green, and Michael King as RIP.
Plot
Here is the official synopsis for season three of BMF:
Season three of BMF resumes the storyline inspired by brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory (Demetrius Flenory, Jr.) and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory (Da’Vinchi), who established one of the most infamous crime families in the country known as, Black Mafia Family. We kick off Season Three in the early ’90s when the Flenory Family has reinvented themselves. Meech has moved to Atlanta on a mission to build up the BMF empire in the south that he and Terry created in Detroit. The series continues to humanize the choices of the brothers’ business and their pursuits of the American Dream.
Trailer
STARZ has yet to release a trailer for season three of BMF. The platform did share a small preview as a part of STARZ’s fall and winter 2023/2024 trailer, which you can watch below:
How Many Episodes Are In BMF Season 3?
Season three of BMF is expected to have ten episodes, just like the show’s previous two seasons. Here is the expected schedule for episodes in the third season of BMF:
March 1: Episode 1
March 8: Episode 2
March 15: Episode 3
March 22: Episode 4
March 29: Episode 5
April 5: Episode 6
April 12: Episode 7
April 19: Episode 8
April 26: Episode 9
May 3: Episode 10
How To Watch BMF Season 3
BMF season three episodes will be available to stream weekly through the STARZ app. They will also air weekly on the STARZ television channel.
When Do New Episodes Of BMF Season 3 Come Out?
New episodes in BMF season three are available to stream on the STARZ app every Friday at 12 am ET/PT. The new episodes will also air on the STARZ TV channel at 8 pm ET/PT.
‘BMF’ season three debuts on STARZ on March 1, 2024. Seasons one and two are available now to stream on the STARZ app.
Green was given a Flagrant 2 and is likely going to be given another suspension by the league, as this incident came less than three weeks from his return to the Warriors after serving a 5-game suspension for putting Rudy Gobert in a chokehold. Green apologized after the game to Nurkic, saying he was just trying to sell a call, which isn’t a great excuse for clocking someone upside the head when the initial contact was a hand on a hip. Nurkic said he was just glad he didn’t get choked like Gobert, noting that it seems Green has some issues going on right now that extend beyond the basketball court he needs to sort out, saying succinctly “that brother needs help.”
Considering Green is fresh off a 5-game suspension that clearly did not have the intended effect of curbing these kinds of actions, many have been speculating on how long the league will have Green sit after this latest incident. On ESPN’s NBA Today, Kendrick Perkins called on the league to send a serious message, saying Green should be suspended for “at least” 25 games.
Now, it would be shocking if the league handed out a 25-game suspension to Green, but Perkins isn’t alone in being fed up with Green’s antics and calling for the NBA to bring the hammer down. The NBA has typically not handed out long suspensions for plays like this, as it was not escalating an ongoing scuffle like when he choked Gobert, but was something that happened in the run of play (but clearly was excessive and unnecessary). That said, they’ve made it clear his past actions are being counted against him and will be considered in future punishments. As such, it’s hard to know what exactly the league will do here, and it’ll be impossible for the league to satiate everyone when it comes to what they decide.
He may go by Dwayne Johnson nowadays, but to some of us he’ll always be The Rock. He was the first wrestler to transition into a successful film career (sorry, Hulk Hogan), paving the way for the always welcome John Cena. When Johnson started doing movies full-time, he not only dropped his nom de plume, but he also wouldn’t do movies where he did some wrasslin’. (The exception: playing himself in 2019’s Fighting with my Family.) But now, at long last, he’s doing a movie where he kicks some butt in the ring, albeit for a different sport.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson has signed on to star in The Smashing Machine, which concerns real-life MMA star Mark Kerr. What’s up with that title? For one thing it’s Kerr’s nickname, due to his “no holds barred” style of fighting. It’s also the title of a 2003 HBO documentary that chronicled his storied career, which spanned from the late ‘90s through the late aughts, as well as his addiction to pain killers.
So that’s cool, but also cool is who will make it: Benny Safdie, aka one-half of the Safdie brothers, aka one-half of the team that made Good Time, Uncut Gems, as well as excellent movies like Heaven Knows What and The Pleasure of Being Robbed. Benny’s been off on his own lately, away from his brother Joshua, mostly to do acting. He made a very good Edward Teller in Oppenheimer, to say nothing of his work on The Rehearsal opposite Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone. This will be his first solo directorial effort, so we’ll see what a Safdie brothers movie is like when it’s only one bro.
What’s your favorite part of eating at Olive Garden? Easy — it’s the cheese. Who doesn’t love that moment when the server comes to your table and grates some fresh cheese on your pasta? You hear those six sweet words “let me know when to stop,” and then watch it pile and pile and pile until that block of cheese is no more.
Oh, are we the only ones who do that? We can’t be!
Anyway, did you know that the cheese they grate isn’t parmesan? Don’t worry, we’re not here to go on and on about how Olive Garden isn’t “authentic Italian food” and say that they don’t even use real cheese, and what you’re eating is some sort of artificial parmesan product — what we mean is the type of cheese straight up isn’t parmesan. It’s another cheese.
Romano to be exact. I know this for three reasons.
I love cheese enough to know that it doesn’t taste like parmesan. It lacks that fruity, nutty, complexity of a great parm, instead it’s much milder and a bit more salty with a softer texture.
The last time I was at Olive Garden I straight up asked the server, and they said “It’s Romano.”
When you order Olive Garden to-go you get packets of grated romano cheese, not parmesan. It’s not the same cheese they grate at the table, but the flavor is identical.
Swapping parmesan for romano makes sense when you consider romano is much cheaper and is somewhat in the ballpark of parmesan flavor-wise.
This is important to know because the holiday season is coming up and you might be considering buying that OG Cheese Grater — which the brand now sells on its website —as a gift. Since a lot of people assume the cheese is parmesan, you should probably inform whoever you’re buying the grater for that if they want to recreate the experience of eating at Olive Garden, they’re going to want to load up the grater with romano.
According to Reddit boards and TikTok’s the exact brand Olive Garden uses is Lotito Romano Cheese. We think the brand doesn’t matter here, and suggest you just go with a high-quality pecorino romano for best results.
Atlanta rap legend André 3000 threw his fans one hell of a curve ball with his new album, New Blue Sun. Technically, it’s his first solo album after years of making cultural classics with Outkast, but rather than rapping, which is what every wanted from him 15 years after Outkast called it quits, it’s a whole album of him playing flute music.
As it turns out, that was just fine for plenty of us, especially after he’d spent the last decade popping up and playing his flutes in random locations, but it did leave fans with a few questions. Fortunately, we’ve got Questlove to ask those questions for us, which he did in a brand-new episode of his long-running podcast, Questlove Supreme, recorded in LA with 3 Stacks but without his usual co-hosts.
In the interview, which finds Amir tossing off what he calls “non sequitur” questions to Dre’s delight, 3K reveals why he started playing the flute in the first place and how he learned.
Why Does André 3000 Play The Flute?
André explains that he “chose” the flute “because of the ‘mobileness’ of the flute.” He says he tooled around with acoustic and bass guitars but because flutes are so portable, he can just pull it out and start playing anytime — including in the backs of Ubers.
How Many Flutes Does André 3000 Have?
He says he has about 30 flutes, all from different makers. The style he has the most of is based on Mesoamerican instruments that were originally made of clay.
How Did André 3000 Learn To Play The Flute?
Dre says he “got schooled by Uber drivers,” since he would often play during rides and learned different cultural approaches to the instrument (it does seem like every culture in the world has a version of the instrument). “If I’m playing and it’s a Chinese driver,” he elaborates, “He’ll turn around like, ‘That reminds me of my country!’ Or if it’s a Japanese driver… or if it’s an African. I’m playing the same flute, but every nationality of driver will turn around and tell me it reminds them of their country.
Does André 3000 Play Flute By Ear?
Quest asks Andre, “When you play… are your hands telling you what to do or do you know that this particular position will yield this note and that note?” André calls this the “fun and scary part” about how he plays, saying he knows that holding his hands a certain way, it makes a certain sound, but musical theory is beyond him.
Dakota Johnson may be the next spider-adjacent hero thanks to her upcoming movie, Madame Web, but she’s also a strong practitioner of the ancient art of sleeping the heck in.
While promoting her latest project, narrating The Hite Report documentary for IFC films, Johnson opened up about her love of sleep and how she needs a whole bunch of it just to function. Celebrities, they’re just like us.
What time do you get up on Mondays, and what’s the first thing you do after waking up?
I don’t have a regular [wake-up] time. It depends on what’s happening in my life. If I’m not working, if I have a day off on a Monday, then I will sleep as long as I can. Sleep is my number one priority in life.
How many hours a night do you aim for?
I’m not functional if I get less than 10. I can easily go 14 hours.
After all of that sleep, surely, Johnson will want a hearty breakfast. Wrong. She’s not a big breakfast eater. What she does need is sweet caffeine. Johnson tries to have a coffee as “quickly as I can” because, again, the agony of the waking world is much too harsh to bear.
We dare you to find a more relatable celebrity (not counting the famous parents, famous boyfriend, and even a famous grandmother) than Dakota Johnson. It’s impossible.
Dakota Johnson may be the next spider-adjacent hero thanks to her upcoming movie, Madame Web, but she’s also a strong practitioner of the ancient art of sleeping the heck in.
While promoting her latest project, narrating The Hite Report documentary for IFC films, Johnson opened up about her love of sleep and how she needs a whole bunch of it just to function. Celebrities, they’re just like us.
What time do you get up on Mondays, and what’s the first thing you do after waking up?
I don’t have a regular [wake-up] time. It depends on what’s happening in my life. If I’m not working, if I have a day off on a Monday, then I will sleep as long as I can. Sleep is my number one priority in life.
How many hours a night do you aim for?
I’m not functional if I get less than 10. I can easily go 14 hours.
After all of that sleep, surely, Johnson will want a hearty breakfast. Wrong. She’s not a big breakfast eater. What she does need is sweet caffeine. Johnson tries to have a coffee as “quickly as I can” because, again, the agony of the waking world is much too harsh to bear.
We dare you to find a more relatable celebrity (not counting the famous parents, famous boyfriend, and even a famous grandmother) than Dakota Johnson. It’s impossible.
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