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Sidney Prescott and Ghostface are the Laurie Strode and Michael Myers of the Scream-verse. One’s the protagonist; the other’s the slashing villain who’s constantly threatening her life. But just as Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t in every Halloween, Scream VI is the first film in the franchise without Neve Campbell.

2022’s Scream and Scream VI star Jenna Ortega discussed Campbell’s absence in an interview with Elle. “It was really unfortunate,” the Wednesday actress said, “especially because Neve is the coolest, sweetest, most talented lady. The franchise wouldn’t be what it is without her.”

Campbell made the tough choice to not return for Scream VI over a salary dispute. “The offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise. It’s been a very difficult decision to move on,” she told Variety. Campbell continued that “if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man.”

She added, “In my soul, I just couldn’t do that.”

Scream VI, which doesn’t have Campbell but does star Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere, Courteney Cox, and Samara Weaving, opens on March 10.

(Via Elle)

Australia’s Sydney WorldPride 2023 festival just wrapped up over the weekend, and helping to close things out was a set from Kim Petras. Her setlist was full of sex-charged songs like “Slut Pop,” “Treat Me Like A Slut,” and “They Wanna F*ck,” but perhaps the highlight was “Throat Goat.” It’s a banger, sure, but it was the on-stage sign language interpreter who ended up the star of this song.

For those unaware, the phrase “throat goat” has an NSFW meaning, but Urban Dictionary has the definition. The interpreter conveyed this meaning well with their signing, doing a lot of suggestive gesturing with their hands near their mouth.

Some Twitter users noted the interpreter pulled through during other parts of Petras’ performance, too, like during “Coconuts” and “Superpower B*tch.”

As for the meaning of Petras’ “Throat Goat,” it’s pretty clear what’s going on here with lyrics like, “I can take it all, love it big or small / Make it hit the wall, I’m the throat goat / I just sucked my ex, no gag reflex / I just had to flex, I’m the throat goat,” and, “These b*tches can’t suck like me / Walk in, I’m the sucking queen / Look around, all eyes on me / Jack it off, I’ma suck it clean.”

2023 has already been huge for Rihanna thanks to her kicking the year off by performing the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Some folks thought the performance was obscene enough to file complaints with the FCC, with at least one viewer likening it to pornography. Residents at Arcadia Senior Living Bowling Green in Kentucky were apparently cool with it, though, so much so that they re-created the performance themselves (and earned the attention of Jay-Z in the process).

A TikTok video shared back in February starts with two rows of white-clad seniors lined up, parting to reveal the Rihanna of the video, wearing all red and enthusiastically mouthing along to Rihanna’s “Rude Boy.” The clip was a viral hit and has since been viewed over 30 million times.

Jay-Z was apparently tickled by the video, as he sent a bouquet of roses to the Arcadia Senior Living memers. Arcadia resident Sue Evans told Bowling Green’s WNKY, “There’s 100 of them. And they’re from Jay-Z. My granddaughter was worried and she told her mother, ‘I hope she knows who Jay-Z is!’”

Fellow Arcadia resident Dora Martin also said, “My grandchildren and I watched and there were flips and flops and I was standing there thinking, ‘Wow, I wish I could do that,’ and then I did do that.” She added, “I went to the doctor the other day and the nurses, as soon as I walked in there, knew who I was.”

Martin also said of Jay-Z’s gesture, “I thought that was wonderful, very nice of him!”

Anytime you look at the news, it’s about death, destruction, abductions, natural disasters…

That kind of thing can mess us up. It makes the world look scarier than it is. It’s like wearing the opposite of rose-colored glasses.

Feel like you’ve fallen into the Matrix yet?

It’s time to stop giving awfulness the power to bend our lens. Here’s how.

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Shawn Achor studied happiness at Harvard.

When he tells people this, they say: “Shawn, why do you waste your time studying happiness at Harvard? Seriously, what does a Harvard student possibly have to be unhappy about?”

But the crazy truth is, Harvard kids are as unhappy as anyone else. What’s going on in your life — from health, to money, to relationships, to prestige — predicts only about 10% of your happiness.

So … if I had a million dollars … I wouldn’t be any happier?

Shawn’s work flips our understanding of happiness inside out.

You don’t get happy by achieving success. You achieve success by getting happy.

Dopamine, which your brain makes when you’re happy, has one important side effect: It makes you smarter. A positive brain is 31% more productive. It’s better at sales, faster and more accurate at diagnosing problems.

So how can you up your dopamine?

Take two minutes every day and do one of these things:

1. Write down three new things that you’re grateful for.
2. Journal about one positive experience you’ve had in the last 24 hours.
3. Try meditation, to teach your brain to focus.
4. Use the first email you write every day to praise or thank someone you know. Spread the happy.

And it wouldn’t hurt to disrupt the endless barrage of bad news by sharing this with your friends, right? Everyone needs a little more happiness.

Remember…

Watch Shawn Achors’ Ted Talk in the video below:

This article originally appeared on 04.10.15

Sesame Street is a national treasure.

I think we can all agree on that.

Sesame Street invented the idea that television could teach children, not just entertain them.

It taught kids letters and numbers and introduced them to talented and famous people, from Savion Glover to Kofi Annan.

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But the curriculum on the Street was always bigger than counting and Weimaraners. From very early on, its creators showed the world as they dreamed it could be. Black people, white people, and furry blue monsters lived in the same neighborhood. At a time when people with Down Syndrome were regularly institutionalized, Jason Kingsley was a frequent guest. Moms breastfed their babies in public, and all anyone had to say about it was, “That’s nice.” The whole neighborhood knew enough sign language that they could talk with Linda. They welcomed a new neighbor with a song about how happy they were to have a new friend.

The most important message Sesame Street sent to its millions of young viewers was this: You matter. You are an important person. You are valuable.

In 1971, a young Jesse Jackson stood on the steps of 123 Sesame Street and got a bunch of kids to chant “I Am — Somebody,” a poem by civil rights activist Rev. William Holmes Borders Sr.

These kids chant a message that we should give to every kid on earth.

Did I say kid? I mean human.

I may be poor. But I am Somebody!
I may be young. But I am Somebody!
I may make a mistake. But I am Somebody!
I must be respected, protected, never rejected.
I am God’s child.
I am Somebody!

So say it loud. And pass it to someone who needs a reminder that they are Somebody.

P.S. Are you dying to learn a thousand wonderful facts about Sesame Street’s origin story? I highly recommend “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” by Michael Davis. I’ll never watch the show the same way again.

This article originally appeared on 04.27.15

Sesame Street is a national treasure.

I think we can all agree on that.

Sesame Street invented the idea that television could teach children, not just entertain them.

It taught kids letters and numbers and introduced them to talented and famous people, from Savion Glover to Kofi Annan.

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But the curriculum on the Street was always bigger than counting and Weimaraners. From very early on, its creators showed the world as they dreamed it could be. Black people, white people, and furry blue monsters lived in the same neighborhood. At a time when people with Down Syndrome were regularly institutionalized, Jason Kingsley was a frequent guest. Moms breastfed their babies in public, and all anyone had to say about it was, “That’s nice.” The whole neighborhood knew enough sign language that they could talk with Linda. They welcomed a new neighbor with a song about how happy they were to have a new friend.

The most important message Sesame Street sent to its millions of young viewers was this: You matter. You are an important person. You are valuable.

In 1971, a young Jesse Jackson stood on the steps of 123 Sesame Street and got a bunch of kids to chant “I Am — Somebody,” a poem by civil rights activist Rev. William Holmes Borders Sr.

These kids chant a message that we should give to every kid on earth.

Did I say kid? I mean human.

I may be poor. But I am Somebody!
I may be young. But I am Somebody!
I may make a mistake. But I am Somebody!
I must be respected, protected, never rejected.
I am God’s child.
I am Somebody!

So say it loud. And pass it to someone who needs a reminder that they are Somebody.

P.S. Are you dying to learn a thousand wonderful facts about Sesame Street’s origin story? I highly recommend “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” by Michael Davis. I’ll never watch the show the same way again.

This article originally appeared on 04.27.15

When dad and blogger Mike Julianelle compared a photo of himself to a photo from 10 years ago, he noticed a big difference.

Yes, he looked a little older — after all, a decade had gone by. But there was something else: a deep, deep look of utter exhaustion.

Life has a way of asking a lot of us. How we cope and manage the moments at work, our personal goals, the friendships, and our loved ones.

All these daily routines navigated that bring the best and ask the most. But what was that other thing which had changed over those 10 years?

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Julianelle had two kids.

You’ve probably seen all sorts of before and after concepts on your social media feeds. If you missed this one, you’ll see why they all became a “thing.”

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When he posted the side-by-side comparison on Instagram, it was an instant hit. So he invited other parents to share their own “before and afters.”

The results were hilarious and oddly inspiring. They also revealed a bunch of important truths about what happens to you when you become a parent.

Like…

After kids, a blanket becomes your favorite outfit.

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You are frequently at risk of getting accidentally walloped in the nose.

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Your glasses become a favorite toy.

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So does your entire face, actually.

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When your baby decides to take a nap, thou shalt not move.

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Alcohol can go from an indulgence to a necessity.

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Did we mention you’ll be tired? Like really, really tired?

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Most days, doing your best is all you can really do.

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But, at the end of those days, it’ll all be worth it (at least, most of the time).

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The project went viral, with Julianelle receiving hundreds of submissions from other parents via Instagram.

While not everyone has been brave enough to publicly share their no-sleep, just-got-barfed-on selfies with him, Julianelle says the response has been hugely positive.

“I hope people take away a few laughs and a little solidarity,” he writes in an email. “Parenting is awesome but it also sucks and there shouldn’t be any shame in admitting that.”

And as the photos show, he’s absolutely right. Parenting is hard but rewarding work, at its best. It’s also exhausting, frustrating, frightening, and anxiety-inducing.

Julianelle sums it up perfectly in an interview with Huffington Post: “Kids are the worst best thing that’s ever happened to us. If we don’t laugh about the havoc they wreak we’d have to cry instead.”

You can see more hilarious before and afters over on the Got Toddlered Instagram account.

LeBron James is a very proud father, and sometimes proud fathers say some wild things about their children because of their immense belief in them.

Late Monday night, James did just that as he declared on Twitter that his son Bronny, a current high school senior, was better than some of the players he had been watching in the NBA that night bouncing around League Pass.

That got a lot of attention and led to plenty of people wondering who, specifically, inspired this tweet. Given there were only 12 teams playing on this Tuesday night, we’ve decided to help narrow down the options to players who got minutes for their teams on Monday evening by the time LeBron had fired off this spicy take, so James would have seen them and had this epiphany.

Blake Griffin
Mike Muscala
Marcus Smart
Derrick White
Jaylen Brown
Grant Williams
Sam Hauser
Luke Kornet
Malcolm Brogdon
Payton Pritchard

Evan Mobley
Isaac Okoro
Jarrett Allen
Darius Garland
Donovan Mitchell
Dean Wade
Lamar Stevens
Cedi Osman
Ricky Rubio
Caris LeVert

John Collins
DeAndre Hunter
Clint Capela
Trae Young
Dejounte Murray
Onyeka Okongwu
Saddiq Bey
Jalen Johnson
Bogdan Bogdanovic

Jimmy Butler
Bam Adebayo
Gabe Vincent
Tyler Herro
Max Strus
Duncan Robinson
Caleb Martin
Cody Zeller
Victor Oladipo

Jalen McDaniels
Joel Embiid
Tyrese Maxey
James Harden
De’Anthony Melton
Georges Niang
Danuel House Jr.
Paul Reed
Shake Milton

Jordan Nwora
Myles Turner
Andrew Nembhard
Tyrese Haliburton
Buddy Hield
Jalen Smith
Oshae Brissett
Isaiah Jackson
TJ McConnel
Chris Duarte
Bennedict Mathurin

Drew Eubanks
Jerami Grant
Cam Reddish
Damian Lillard
Matisse Thybulle
Trendon Watford
Nassir Little
Shaedon Sharpe

Marvin Bagley III
Isaiah Livers
James Wiseman
Jaden Ivey
Alec Burks
Eugene Omoruyi
Cory Joseph
RJ Hampton
Hamidou Diallo
Jared Rhoden

Pascal Siakam
OG Anunoby
Scottie Barnes
Jakob Poeltl
Fred VanVleet
Chris Boucher
Precious Achiuwa
Will Barton
Gary Trent Jr.

Aaron Gordon
Michael Porter Jr
Nikola Jokic
Jamal Murray
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Jeff Green
Bruce Brown
Thomas Bryant
Reggie Jackson

Brandon Ingram
Herb Jones
Jonas Valanciunas
CJ McCollum
Trey Murphy III
Naji Marshall
Jaxson Hayes
Kira Lewis Jr.
Dyson Daniels

Domantas Sabonis
Harrison Barnes
Keegan Murray
Davion Mitchell
Kevin Huerter
Trey Lyles
Chimezie Metu
Matthew Dellavedova
Malik Monk
Terrance Davis

If you are one of these ~100 players, I’m very sorry to tell you that you may be the person LeBron thinks his son is better than.

The Toronto Raptors were in control for most of the night in Denver on Monday, but as the fourth quarter came to a close the Nuggets were able to close the gap and, ultimately, take the lead and get their 46th win of the season.

Part of how they got to that 118-113 win, in which the Raptors never had a shot in the closing seconds to try and tie the game or take the lead, was due to Scott Foster deciding it was time to interject himself into the proceedings. After calling a foul on Jakob Poeltl for contact on Aaron Gordon under the rim, something Barnes said got the attention of Foster who spun around, did a little crowhop, and then hit Barnes with an ejection (giving him a double toss motion) to the dismay of last year’s Rookie of the Year.

Barnes had no idea why he got ejected, as he and Raptors coach Nick Nurse tried to get some details from Foster. After the game, Barnes insisted he was talking to himself when Foster spun around and ejected him, and, while I’m not exactly sure I buy that, unless he said some truly magical words, that’s a wild time to toss someone when they aren’t even being particularly demonstrative in complaining.

Even one of the other referees on the floor seemed stunned by the ejection, as he was wide-eyed as Foster gave Barnes the heave-ho.

We’ll have to wait for a pool report, if we get one at all, to find out what exactly Barnes said to earn the ejection, but after Denver got three free throws on that possession, making them all, it became a four-point game and Toronto wasn’t able to even get a look at a tie.

Considering all of the unnecessary controversy that followed the announcement of Halle Bailey‘s titular role in The Little Mermaid, wholesome content has been needed. Luckily, that arrived just today, March 6, when the singer and actress shared exciting news.

She took to Twitter to show that she has her own Ariel doll. “OMG the little girl in me is pinching herself right now,” she wrote. “I have my own Little Mermaid Ariel doll !!! I can’t believe how much she captures my version of this iconic character brb gonna go cry now …” In the video, she has a bright smile as she holds up the doll.

“This is the new Little Mermaid doll,” she says. “I am literally choking up because this means so much to me. To have one that looks like me — that’s my favorite Disney character — is very surreal.”

Fans are speculating that Beyonce was present as she took the video because of a voice off-camera saying, “I want one!” Plus, a comment from her cousin Angie Beyince reads: “I’m with [bee emoji]. I want 1!”

There was no mention of whether or not the doll would be available for purchase, but we shouldn’t be surprised if it goes on sale. Meanwhile, The Little Mermaid arrives in theaters on May 26.