In the series premiere of Apple TV‘s new historical drama, Franklin, the founding father can be seen passing gas or having a “fart moment” as it’s been described. Michael Douglas would like you to know that was all his doing.
During a recent appearance on The Jess Cagle Show, Douglas was thankful when co-host Julie Cunningham brought up the flatulent event and accurately noted that Benjamin Franklin was a hilarious guy who wrote an essay titled “Fart Proudly.” Apparently, Douglas, who plays the titular character in the series, has already been battling it out with critics who took issue with the gassy scene.
“That was my addition to the script was actually, because I read this book,” Douglas said. “I mean, we did get a couple of criticisms of this show about, ‘Ugh, they try to show him farting,’ and I said, ‘Well,’ so I’m sending him this. I’m sending people these critics who brought this up to send him this book on Franklin. This is ‘Fart Proudly,’ okay? So, he learned about this, and he was very proud. He wrote a whole book about it.”
“I like the fact that you’re sending critics books about farting,” Cunningham said with a laugh. “Something about that is very funny, Michael Douglas.”
Here’s the official synopsis:
Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s book, “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America,” Franklin explores the thrilling story of the greatest gamble of Benjamin Franklin’s career. In December 1776, Franklin is world famous for his electrical experiments, but his passion and power are put to the test when — as the fate of American independence hangs in the balance — he embarks on a secret mission to France.
Lana Del Rey will be returning to Coachella this Friday for the last of the festival’s two weekends. As one of the headliners, Del Rey brought her all during the first weekend, heading to the stage on a motorcycle and performing fan-favorite selections across her catalog.
However, some who are going for weekend two might be wondering if she’ll keep things the same — or have some other surprises in store. Here’s what to know.
Will Lana Del Rey Have Surprise Guests At Coachella 2024 Weekend 2?
Right after, she shocked the crowd by bringing out Billie Eilish, and the two covered Eilish’s “Ocean Eyes” before dueting on “Video Games.”
Her final guest of the set was welcoming her collaborator Jack Antonoff to do “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have, But I Have It,” only she was a hologram and he was at the piano.
While it’s unclear still if Del Rey will be able to bring the exact same guests this time around, as nothing has fully been confirmed, fans are still in for an incredible show no matter what.
One of the best Apple TV+ shows on the streaming service isn’t winding down anytime soon. For All Mankind, the alternative-history take on the space race, which the series envisions as lost by the U.S. back in 1969. That hook has lasted throughout four seasons thus far, which is longer than some other first-gen Apple TV+ series, and the audience keeps coming for the different make-believe eras as headlined by Joel Kinnaman’s U.S. astronaut. If you feared that the show would run out of steam 40 years into its alternate timeline, then you can formally put those worries aside.
Variety is reporting that For All Mankind will live for at least another season, and not only that, but Apple TV+ has announced a spin-off revolving around the Soviet side of the space race. The series will be called Star City, and Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert (two of the For All Mankind creators alongside Ronald D. Moore) will be showrunning. As the principal series continues to move forward, the spin off will go back to when the Soviets planted their flag.
According to the series’ logline, the new show will “explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
More good news: a straight-to-series order means that the spin off has received a full-season greenlight, so it’s full rocket-steam ahead. Stay tuned for word on release dates and more.
Fontaines DC has announced their fourth studio album, Romance. The album is scheduled for release this summer via XL Recordings, and was primarily produced by James Ford.
Ahead of the album, Fontaines DC has shared the song, “Starburster.”
Inspired by a panic attack, the clashy, trippy “Starburster” features lead vocalist Grian Chatten approaching unhinged territory, before arriving to clarity. The song’s accompanying video follow a man finding serenity amid the chaos through his day-to-day routine.
Chatten shared that the album was partially inspired by the anime Akira and the concept of finding love as the world is falling apart.
“I’m fascinated by that – falling in love at the end of the world,” said Chatten in a statement. “The album is about protecting that tiny flame. The bigger armageddon looms, the more precious it becomes,” while O’Connell adds “This record is about deciding what’s fantasy – the tangible world, or where you go in your mind. What represents reality more? That feels almost spiritual for us.”
You can see the video for “Starbuster” above and the Romance cover art and tracklist below.
Fontaines DC’s Romance Album Cover Artwork
XL Recordings
Fontaines DC’s Romance Tracklist
1. “Romance”
2. “Starburster”
3. “Here’s The Thing”
4. “Desire”
5. “In The Modern World”
6. “Bug”
7. “Motorcycle Boy”
8. “Sundowner”
9. “Horseness Is The Whatness”
10. “Death Kink”
11. “Favourite”
Romance is out 8/23 via XL Recordings. Find more information here.
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If you’re a bourbon fan, there’s a good chance you enjoy a little corn sweetness paired with vanilla, caramel, and toasted-oak flavors. When made well and matured properly, bourbon can be mellow, borderline velvety, and sublimely warming. There’s nothing wrong with sticking solely to bourbon if that’s your thing, but if you aren’t branching out to similarly aged spirits, well… your palate is missing out.
While bourbon fans likely will enjoy a glass of extra añejo tequila, mature mezcal, and many other styles of whisk(e)y, we prefer dark rum. When aged in charred oak barrels, this sugarcane juice or molasses-based spirit gains aromas and flavors like dried fruits, bananas, tropical fruits, toasted coconuts, caramel, vanilla, candied nuts, and rich oak.
Below, you’ll find eight of the best dark rums for bourbon fans, ranked based on how well they match a classic bourbon profile.
Appleton Estate is one of the biggest names in the rum world. Its 15-year-old Black River Casks Rum is named for the limestone water used to make Appleton Estate rums. This blend of pot and column still rums were matured for a minimum of 15 years and is known for its notes of tropical fruits, candied nuts, vanilla, and oak.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of toasted vanilla beans, molasses cookies, candied orange peels, caramelized pineapple, and rich oak. The palate is filled with notes of vanilla beans, caramel candy, almond cookies, light coffee, molasses, dried fruits, and oak. The finish is warming, sweet, and memorable.
Bottom Line:
While this rum has more tropical fruit flavors than many bourbon drinkers are used to, it carries a ton of vanilla, caramel, and oak.
The El Dorado 15 is so much more than simply a 15-year-old aged rum. It’s a blend of EHP Wooden Coffey, the Metal Coffee, the Port Mourant Double Wooden Pot Still, and Versailles Single Wooden Pot Still rums. All rums included were matured for at least 15 full years. The result is a rum featuring notes of candied nuts, tropical fruits, chocolate, vanilla, and oak.
Tasting Notes:
This Guyana-made rum begins with a nose of dried fruits, honey, vanilla beans, brown sugar, butterscotch, and oak. Sipping it reveals notes of toasted vanilla beans, brown sugar, honey, raisins, candied nuts, tropical fruits, and oaky wood. The finish is sweet, spicy, and warming.
Bottom Line:
Like a great bourbon, this highly complex, flavorful dark rum deserves to be sipped neat or on the rocks.
This Venezuelan-made rum is a blend of copper pot still rums that were all made with sugarcane juice. They’re matured for as long as twelve years in barrels that formerly held bourbon whiskey. This results in a complex, sippable rum with notes of caramel, vanilla, brown sugar, fruit, and oak.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’ll be met with a nose of wintry spices, toffee, cinnamon, oak, brown sugar, and vanilla beans. Drinking it brings forth notes of butter caramel, toasted vanilla beans, cinnamon candy, pineapple, candied nuts, chocolate, and charred wood. The finish is warming, sweet, and nutty.
Bottom Line:
If you’re all about sweet caramel and nutty flavors when it comes to bourbon, you’ll love this dark rum just as much.
This highly prized dark rum is a blend of specifically selected rums that have been aged for up to ten full years in ex-bourbon barrels. It’s known for its sweet, smooth, sippable flavor profile featuring classic flavors like dried fruits, vanilla, caramel, and rich oak.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of dried fruits toasted vanilla beans, caramelized pineapple, candied nuts, toffee, oak, and light spices greet you before your first sip. Drinking it reveals notes of chocolate, vanilla beans, butterscotch, candied nuts, tropical fruits, spices, and oak. The finish is loaded with vanilla and fruity sweetness.
Bottom Line:
Nutty, sweet, and fruity, this rum has a flavor for every palate. It’s a great choice for bourbon drinkers.
Named for the famed Prohibition-era rum runner Bill McCoy, The Real McCoy 12 Year is a molasses-based rum. It’s a blend of pot-distilled and column-distilled rums that were matured for at least twelve full years in deeply charred ex-bourbon barrels. This results in a complex, rich, award-winning rum perfect for bourbon drinkers.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find notes of bananas, chocolate fudge, oaky wood, brown sugar, dried fruits, and spices. The palate is filled with flavors like candied orange peels, dark chocolate, charred oak, vanilla, toffee, and bourbon sweetness. The finish is a mix of peppery spice, oak, and caramel sweetness,
Bottom Line:
This rum is a must-buy for bourbon drinkers looking to get into rum. It has everything fans of both styles crave.
Flor de Caña is matured in small white oak ex-bourbon barrels that are sealed with plantain leaves. Mature for up to 18 years, this award-winning dark rum is known for its mix of vanilla, caramel, and oak bourbon-like flavors as well as tropical fruits, and dried fruit rum-centric flavors.
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this rum’s nose. There are scents of candied orange peels, butterscotch, brown sugar, cinnamon candy, and toasted vanilla beans. On the palate, you’ll find notes of toffee candy, wintry spices, chocolate, vanilla beans, dried fruits, and rich oaky wood. The finish is a mix of candied nuts, caramel, and wood.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to smooth, sippable dark rums for bourbon whiskey drinkers, you can do much worse than this sublimely balanced sipper.
You might look at Zacapa No. 23 and assume it’s a 23-year-old dark rum. It was made using the Solera aging system of rotating barrels. It’s a blend that runs between six and 23 years old (hence the name). The barrels used for maturation include those used for American whiskey, and various sherries including Pedro Ximenez casks.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of candied nuts, toasted vanilla beans, butterscotch, pineapple, sticky toffee, and oak make for a welcoming start. The palate is filled with bourbon-centric flavors like pipe tobacco, fresh leather, raisins, toasted vanilla beans, cinnamon candy, toffee, and spices. The finish is a warming mix of sweetness and spice.
Bottom Line:
Zacapa No. 23 is a great dark rum choice for bourbon fans. While it has some of the tropical fruit flavors you’d expect from a rum, it’s heavy on the aromas and flavors bourbon fans crave.
This limited-release rum was made using the Solera aging method. Matured completely in ex-Jack Daniel’s barrels, the oldest rum included in this blend spent 30 years aging. The result is a nuanced, rich, sippable dark rum worthy of the biggest bourbon fans thanks to flavors like caramel, vanilla, tobacco, and dried fruits.
Tasting Notes:
Candied orange peels, pipe tobacco, toasted vanilla beans, sticky toffee, dried fruits, and charred oak, this rum’s nose has everything bourbon drinkers value. The same goes for the palate as it’s loaded with flavors like vanilla beans, honey, dried fruits, toffee, gentle island spices, oak, leather, and caramel candy. The finish is warm and lingering.
Bottom Line:
If you only try one of these rums, make it this one. It ticks all the bourbon boxes and is one that you’ll not want to miss.
If you need a little more push, we’ve scouted all the major booking sites and aggregators to secure the cheapest nonstop flights out of nine major cities in the United States that you can buy today. Scroll down to see Uproxx’s top picks of cheap nonstop flights — international and domestic — today through Sunday, April 21st. You might even be able to nab these flight deals for an even better price by using these strategies for securing super cheap airfare deals by seasoned travel experts.
See you in the air!
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The Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet connection goes further than Dune. He got his big break (and first Oscar nomination) in Call Me by Your Name… which was directed by Luca Guadagnino… whose new film stars… Zendaya.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, this ain’t.
Before signing up for Guadagnino’s sexy tennis movie Challengers, Zendaya reached out to Chalamet about working with the director. “He said wonderful things,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “Luca is brilliant and I’ve wanted to work with Luca for a very long time and this just seemed like the absolute perfect thing.” She added, “When we first met about the script he had such a keen, deep understanding of the characters from the beginning and a clearer idea of the kind of movie he wanted to create.”
Here’s the official synopsis for Challengers:
From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win.
Challengers opens in theaters on April 26. See it.
It’s been a moment since Succession star Brian Cox has come out guns blazing with a scorching hot take. The brash, battle axe of an actor has never held back his thoughts when it comes to his colleagues or even his own Emmy-nominated show. And don’t even get him started on Method acting a.k.a. “that Amercian sh*t.”
This time around, Cox randomly took aim at Napoleon, specifically Joaquin Phoenix‘s performance in the film. He didn’t like it. In fact, Brian Cox knows an actor who could’ve really done the role justice, and that actor is, of course, Brian Cox. We are as shocked as you are.
“It’s terrible,” Cox said of the Oscar-nominated historical drama, per The Standard. “A truly terrible performance by Joaquin Phoenix. It really is appalling. I don’t know what he was thinking. I think it’s totally his fault and I don’t think Ridley Scott helps him. I would have played it a lot better than Joaquin Phoenix, I tell you that. You can say it’s good drama. No — it’s lies.”
Cox took things even further by making light of Phoenix’s name. Why just kill a man when you can also salt the earth beneath his feet? That’s the Brian Cox method.
“I think he’s well named,” Cox quipped. “Joaquin … wackeen … wacky. It’s a sort of wacky performance.”
Napoleon is available for streaming on AppleTV+. Don’t let Brian Cox see you watching it, obviously.
The former president still hasn’t gotten over Kimmel, who hosted the 2024 Oscars, taking time during the ceremony to read aloud a Truth Social post where Trump called him the “WORSE HOST” ever. Kimmel responded, “Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still — isn’t it past your jail time?”
Earlier today, Trump woke up from his nap to rant on Truth Social about “Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year.’” He continued:
“It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS.’ Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope. Supposedly his wife, and even management, begged him not to do it, ‘DON’T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY, PLEASE DON’T DO THIS,’ they said. He was made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!”
Trump seems to be confusing Kimmel with Al Pacino, who presented Best Picture — not “Picture of the Year” — to… and my eyes see… Oppenheimer.
Kimmel once again had a solid response to Trump:
In fairness to our former President, many stable geniuses confuse me with Al Pacino…. pic.twitter.com/dOLT8Q2sSO
(WARNING: Spoilers for BMF episode will be found below.)
BMFseason three is nearing an end with just three episodes left. The good news is that means the string of episodes will be an exciting and dramatic bunch while the bad news is after these next three, it’ll be a while until new episodes of BMF arrive. Despite that, the show has been renewed for season four so it won’t be the end of the road for BMF (unlike Power Book II: Ghost after its upcoming fourth season). Back to the present though, BMF season three, episode eight is just a few days away and here’s what you need to know about it.
When Will BMF Season 3, Episode 8 Come Out?
The sixth episode of BMF season three, titled “Code Red,” will arrive on April 19. The episode will be available on Friday, 4/19 on the STARZ app starting at midnight EST/PST. The episode will later air on the STARZ TV channel at 8 pm ET/PT. A synopsis for “Code Red” can be found below:
Meech returns to Atlanta to learn that the city and his love now belong to Glock; he is determined to take the city from his competitors, yet he learns to do this in a smart manner.
New episodes of ‘BMF’ are available on the STARZ app on Fridays at 12 am ET/PT and on the STARZ TV channel at 8 pm ET/PT.
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