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Damar Hamlin’s collapse on the field on Monday Night Football shook the sports world, as the 24-year-old defensive back went into cardiac arrest and needed CPR on the field to have his heartbeat restored. Hamlin remains in critical condition at UC Medical Center and the league has confirmed the game will not be resumed this week, as the Bills returned to Buffalo and the NFL world as a whole tries to deal with the emotional toll of the situation.

Initially, while Hamlin remained on the field it was reported on the ESPN broadcast by former official John Parry that the league had told teams they would have a 5-minute warmup period to get ready to resume play. From there, the two coaches met again with the officials and it was eventually determined that the game would be suspended temporarily (and ultimately postponed) as both teams would go back to the locker room, with Joe Buck noting multiple times it was a shift from the initial plan to resume play.

NFL EVP of football operations Troy Vincent was asked about the plan to resume play and the 5-minute warmup report on a Tuesday morning conference call and vehemently denied that ever crossed the league’s mind (via Pro Football Talk).

“I’m not sure where that came from,” Vincent said. “Frankly, there was no time period for the players to get warmed up. Frankly, the only thing that we asked was that [referee] Shawn [Smith] communicate with both head coaches to make sure they had the proper time inside the locker room to discuss what they felt like was best.

“So I’m not sure where that came from. Five-minute warmup never crossed my mind, personally. And I was the one…that was communicating with the Commissioner. We never, frankly, it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. And that’s not a place that we should ever be in.”

However, ESPN and Joe Buck each stood behind that being what they were relayed by the league, as John Parry was in communication with the league office and was the one who initially made that statement on air, before it was repeated by Buck, as he told Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.

After Hamlin was taken to the hospital, there was a point when Buck said on the air that the teams were told they would have five minutes to warm-up. The information about the game resuming, Buck said, came from ESPN’s rules expert John Parry, who was in direct communication with the league. (NFL EVP Troy Vincent later denied the NFL was going to resume the game, but did not say anything in real time). ESPN showed Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow throwing as if he expected the game to continue.

“They said they’re going to give five minutes of a warm-up to these players to get ready,” Buck said via phone.

ESPN backed Buck’s statement up, stating there was no speculation on air and they were relaying information as it came in and changed throughout the situation.

Buck wasn’t the only one that relayed the 5-minute warmup information, as it was likewise stated on ESPN Deportes and by Rich Eisen on the Westwood One radio call.

It’s quite possible that these broadcasts were following the lead of the main ESPN feed, and it’s also possible that those at the very top of the league were not discussing a return to play. If Parry was in contact with someone further down the hierarchy of the league office, they might have been simply relaying the protocol for a lengthy delay, without knowing that Goodell, Vincent, and the teams were discussing a longer stoppage and suspension of play.

That said, the video of Burrow warming up certainly seems to indicate the initial report was correct and further discussion led to the suspension of play, but questions remain about the NFL’s process and, if nothing else, the league needs to address its communication and have a more defined policy in place for such a situation, now that this is no longer uncharted territory.

Towards the end of last year, Netflix arrived with an announcement for the platform’s upcoming series Kaleidoscope. News about the show quickly proved that it would much different than anything that viewers watched on most platforms. Kaleidoscope is a brand new anthology series on Netflix that follows a crew of masterful thieves who aim to crack into a seemingly unbreakable vault to gain their biggest payday ever (throwback to Money Heist). It’s loosely based on the real-life story of seventy billion dollars in bonds going missing in downtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy. The special aspect of Kaleidoscope is that it allowed viewers to watch the series’ eight episodes in any order. While that certainly intrigued viewers, it also begged the question: What’s the best way to watch Kaleidoscope?

The best way to watch Kaleidoscope would be in near-chronological order, which goes as follows:

• “Violet” (24 Years Before the Heist)
• “Green” (7 Years Before the Heist)
• “Yellow” (6 Weeks Before The Heist)
• “Orange” (3 Weeks Before the Heist)
• “Blue” (5 Days Before the Heist)
• “Red” (The Morning After the Heist)
• “Pink” (6 Months After)
• “White” (The Heist)

The only episode that is out of chronological order is “White” as that is meant to be the last episode watched in the series regardless of how it is viewed. However, it will still make sense if you slide “White” in between episodes “Blue” and “Red.” The ending may be a bit anticlimactic compared to the previously mentioned order if you watch it this way.

‘Kaleidoscope’ is streaming now on Netflix.

The late style icon Vivienne Westwood was ahead of her time in so many ways. Her career was made up of one groundbreaking feat after another—bringing us punk fashion, mohawks, towering pumps and, last but certainly not least, boob T-shirts.

In a resurfaced interview, we see just how forward thinking Westwood really was, after she predicted the future of fashion around 25 years before it actually happened.

The video clip, posted to Twitter by magazine contributor Bri Malandro, shows a younger Westwood explaining how “pressure from the mass market” would be the biggest challenge in the industry.

She follows with a statement that’s more than a little eerily accurate.

“There’s a process whereby technology … the machinery’s been developed so much that they can more or less stamp these things out and they’d never want those machines to stop. Because they want forever and ever to be making money,” she explained.

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— BRI (@BriMalandro) December 30, 2022

This need to mass produce and continuously profit would be why more plain and “conforming” clothes would be marketed by various platforms.

“Everybody collaborates in this,” she told the interviewer. “Magazines then get these ordinary jeans or an ordinary white shirt or an ordinary little tube dress with two spaghetti straps and then it’s all photographed as if somehow it’s ‘lifestyle.’”

She added: “You see it all the time on a cover, constantly on the same beautiful women who presumably you feel that if you wear this clothing, this minimal, puritan, awful stuff then you’re going to look like that.”

Today, we have a term for this business model: fast fashion.

Sure, fast fashion companies sell a whole lot more than white T-shirts and jeans, but the essence of Westwood’s prophecy remains true. Fast fashion companies like Shein, Forever 21 and H&M mass produce an overwhelming amount of new (and cheap) styles coming in week after week. These companies now offer 52 “micro-seasons” rather than the standard summer, spring, fall and winter collections. That’s kind of bonkers.

This need for constant output results in, as we know, horrendous working conditions, not to mention it wreaks havoc on the environment. However, the products offer instant gratification at a fraction of the cost. Plus the internet and social media have joined in as “collaborators” to incentivize consumers. So it’s the exact money-making machine Westwood foretold—and business is booming.

Westwood would be the first to say that purchasing and wearing clothing was a vital expression of joy. However, as she famously once said, fashion, “like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” Her suggestion? “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last.” Coming from one of the biggest names in fashion history, it seems like substantial advice.

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Westwood died on Dec 29, “peacefully and surrounded by her family,” at the age of 81. Her eccentric, bold and controversial clothing choices were, at their core, a form of activism, as she used the runway to voice her opinion on various social topics such as environmental issues, human rights and climate change. She continued creating and working for a better world until the day she died. May we all live so courageously.

Emily Ratajkowski and Pete Davidson were doomed as soon as they caught a New York Knicks game. The pair, who reportedly started dating in November, are “already over,” according to Page Six. “Their fling has moved into the friend zone,” a source said, and that’s “fine with both of them.” That gives Davidson more time to appear in every other commercial during football games, and Ratajkowski the freedom to work on her podcast.

In the latest episode of High Low with EmRata, the model and author revealed that she “hate[s]” going on dates with men who “truly think they want” an independent partner. “They’re like, ‘You’re special. You’ve done it.’ They slowly get emasculated, and they don’t know what to do with those feelings, and they resent you, and then they start to tear you down,” she said. “And then you’re just back to square one.”

Ratajkowski wasn’t speaking about Davidson specifically (she and her husband of four years, Sebastian Bear-McClard, divorced in 2022), but following their split, she might take a break from guys to find her “lady crush.”

After calling the dynamic “f*cked up and unfair,” Ratajkowski noted that she can “understand dating women” instead and having mutual “respect” in a relationship. “There might be competition… but it doesn’t feel like somebody’s taking something away from someone else,” the actress, who referred to herself as a “bi woman” in the episode, explained to her guest, Olivia Ponton.

Davidson feels that competition often happens in “heteronormative relationships” where the “strength and the power is associated with the masculine, and once the woman has that, the man doesn’t know what else he has. But I’m like, ‘How about you just be better at expressing your emotions and being there emotionally?’ That would be great.”

You can listen to the podcast below.

(Via Page Six)

Since bursting onto the rap scene in March 2020, 4HUNNID Record’s first lady, Day Sulan, has hit the ground running, refusing to let the pandemic slow down her career. After experiencing success with singles “Bailar” with YG and “Big” featuring Rubi Rose, the Compton native has begun to find her footing in the hip-hop community. Now with the support of her label owner, frequent collaborator, and fellow Compton native YG, she’s ready to conquer the game one track at a time, starting with her UPROXX Sessions performance of her single “Teach U How To Play.”

Sulan’s determination to be rap music’s next top act is fueled by the many obstacles she faced growing up in South Central Los Angeles. From her past as an exotic dancer to finding herself tied up in California’s vicious gang culture, the Black and Vietnamese recording artist hasn’t let that hinder her from accomplishing her goals.

In an interview with Kazi Magazine, Sulan reminisced on her trials, stating, “I did not have much guidance, so I had to figure everything out on my own. It was hard, but I knew it was best for me to get it done.”

Or, as she explained to REVOLT, “I have some sh*t to accomplish because of how much he’s done for me,” adding, “[YG] making me the first lady of 4HUNNID… I have to go crazy. It’s not an option, it’s a mandatory thing.”

Watch Day Sulan’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “Teach U How To Play” above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

Billie Eilish, a noted superfan of The Office, is set to make an upcoming appearance on Jenna Fischer (Pam) and Angela Kinsey’s (Angela) podcast, Office Ladies. In the first teaser, Eilish recreates the beloved party-planning scene from the first season of the show — with Fischer and Kinsey playing their respective characters.

The pop star recites Phyllis’ lines. “Well for decorations, maybe we could do… No, that’s stupid, forget it,” Eilish says as the character while the committee debates whether or not to have streamers in the office. “But that’s dumb, everybody has streamers, never mind.”

After the three successfully recreate the scene, Fischer tells Eilish that she’s officially one of them. “You’re officially in the PPC,” she exclaimed, referencing the party-planning committee.

Eilish’s appearance on Office Ladies feels like a long time coming and frankly, it’s surprising that it hadn’t happened yet. From sampling Michael Scott for the song “My Strange Addiction” on her debut album to claiming she’s seen the entire series fourteen times, she has cemented herself as a serious fan. In 2020, she did, however, appear on Steve Carrell (Michael Scott) and Brian Baumgartner’s An Oral History Of The Office podcast.

“Every time I watch it, I understand something new because I started at 12,” she said. “And honestly, if you asked my parents, this makes me sound so stupid, but the most of the things that I know are because of The Office.”

Listen to Eilish’s clip from the Office Ladies podcast above.

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan‘s Dutton-fueled world shows no signs of slowing down with 1923 riding high while the O.G. series continues churning away as the top scripted series of last year. Although Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford made waves on the range as Dutton ancestors, they still can’t beat Kevin Costner’s popularity as John, so naturally, viewers (some of whom have reacted strongly to that lesbian kiss) want to know how long they must wait for more as the franchise goes on hiatus.

There’s a wait alright, but that wait shall end, definitely before the end of this year. Summer 2023 (as revealed in the below teaser) has been confirmed as the magic range, which would fit along with how the series initially debuted on Paramount Network in June 2018. From there, it was off to the races, which reminds me that I once overheard a man saying that he sold his horse at an astronomical price, given the popularity of this show. As far as actual plot teases go, though, don’t expect too much in the immediate future. Paramount Network has only provided this montage of already seen moments while pointing towards the show’s official podcast for those who simply can’t wait for more insight.

As TV Guide notes, star Piper Perabo suggested (in mid-December) that filming may not have begun yet for the back half of the season. She also discussed how kissing Kevin Costner wasn’t as amusing as the real-life fair that they built on set, complete with funnel cakes and a Tilt-a-Whirl. Never a dull moment, it sounds like, but more Yellowstone will definitely be on the way.

In her second show of the year (January 2) Kelly Clarkson to The Kelly Clarkson Show stage for another one of her iconic “Kellyoke” covers. This time, she put her own spin of a Katy Perry fan favorite.

Joined by only guitarist Jaco Caraco, Clarkson delivered a stripped-back rendition of Perry’s “The One That Got Away” from her sophomore album, Teenage Dream.

While her backing band wasn’t behind her, as they usually are, Caraco’s soft guitar-playing, paired with Clarkson’s powerful vocals, allowed for the pure emotion of the song to shine through.

“In another life / I would be your girl / We keep all our promises / Be us against the world / In another life / I would make you stay / So I don’t have to say / You were the one that got away,” sang Clarkson, flawlessly executing each note.

Clarkson has a big year ahead of her. On top of her talk show, she revealed in an interview with Variety last year that she plans to drop a new album at some point in 2023.

“I had some time, finally. I’ve never had a summer off since I was, like, 16, and I was like, ‘I need it off,’” she said. “I think that created the space for me to really have time to go, ‘What am I comfortable with? What do I want to release?’

Check out the performance of “The One That Got Away” above.

Kelly Clarkson is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

2023 is shaping up to be the year of the big-budget video game adaptation. Between The Last Of Us and the upcoming Fallout series, there will be something for everyone this year — unless that something is the next season of House of the Dragon. But, if you were a child at any point between 1985 and now, you are in for a real treat with a familiar face. The world’s most famous Italian-American plumber is heading to the big screen in The Super Mario Bros Movie.

Despite the general distress at Chris Pratt offering his voice to the character, the rest of the cast is pretty well-rounded, and Nintendo has been working hard to keep their precious IP intact, so the movie can’t be awful, right? Here is everything we know about the upcoming film.

Release Date

The movie is set to hit theaters on April 7th, 2023, just weeks after Mario’s American theme park debut. What a year for the little guy!

Cast

Mario will be portrayed by Chris Pratt, whether you want it or not, so we might as well just embrace it.

As for the rest of the cast, there is an all-star team of voices coming out of the woodwork for the movie, including Jack Black as the protagonist turtle Bowser, Anya Taylor-Joy as the delightful Princess Peach and Charlie Day as Mario’s cooler and arguably better plumbing professional brother, Luigi. Also starring is Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.

Plot

The plot details are under wraps, though but from the over-the-top trailer, we can assume that Mario is doing some damsel-saving, though it might be Luigi instead of Princess Peach. It’s about time Peach gets her own adventure, honestly. The inclusion of Donkey Kong might imply that we get a little more backstory and worldbuilding. Or it means that Seth Rogen just really wanted a cameo. We shall see!

Trailer

With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever having spent two months in theaters, the big question is when can Marvel fans expect to stream the highly-anticipated sequel on Disney+. For a brief while, Marvel was toying with 45-day theatrical windows, but that gap immediately started to widen with Thor: Love and Thunder. Considering Wakanda Forever has been a box office juggernaut, it only makes sense that Marvel would want to capitalize on its time in theaters and wait a little longer before making it available for streaming.

According to reports, Wakanda Forever could have a Disney+ release date of January 20. However, we should caution that at the time of this writing, we could not find any official confirmation. There is no listing on Disney+ or Marvel’s official website, and the film’s social media accounts have not verified a release date. In fact, Polygon is reporting that Wakanda Forever may not hit Disney+ until February 1. In short, the situation appears to be fluid, but the film is most likely heading to streaming sometime near the end of January and before the film’s Blu-ray release, which also has no official street date.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with Nakia and Everett Ross to forge a new path for their beloved kingdom.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is currently playing in theaters.

(Via Collider)