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If you have been itching to head back to Wisconsin in the late 90s to hang out (down the street) in the Forman’s basement, then you are in luck! Netflix’s That ’70s Show spinoff, That ’90s Show, dropped this week on the streamer, featuring both new and returning members of the Foreman clan.

Though the series focuses on Eric and Donna’s teenage daughter Leia, many familiar faces make an appearance in the series, including Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, Mila Kunis, and Ashton Kutcher. Of course, Debra Jo Rupp is back as Kitty and Kurtwood Smith returns as Red, who seem to be having way too much fun jumping right back into their roles. But one key player from the original series won’t appear, and that’s Hyde, the edgy stoner portrayed by Danny Masterson.

Masterson has a long list of sexual assault allegations against him, which caused Netflix to cut ties with him and led to him being charged with three separate accounts of rape in 2020. The actor pleaded not guilty to all three charges in January 2021, but last month, it was declared a mistrial after the jury said they were unable to reach a verdict on any of the three criminal charges.

Throughout Masterson’s accusations and ties to Scientology, he has not been cast in any projects, including That ’90s Show. The series does not even attempt to address where Hyde’s character would have ended up after the series ended, and we likely will never know.

(Via People)

Paramore are preparing for the long-awaited release of This Is Why, their first album since 2017’s After Laughter. The singles so far include the title track, “The News,” and “C’est Comme Ça.” Even though it feels like a triumphant comeback, Paramore keep reiterating that they were never broken up in the first place. And bandleader Hayley Williams even feels like they’re “the most annoying band” for all that they do, according to a new Billboard interview.

“At this point, I don’t understand how we’re still doing it,” Williams told Billboard. “Because it just feels like against all odds every single time — which, honestly, I feel like we’re the most annoying band in the world because it’s always like, ‘Oh, we overcame this, and now we’re making this album.’”

This Is Why grapples with all sorts of themes about overcoming. About “C’est Comme Ça,” Williams previously said in a statement, “I’m trying to get un-addicted to a survival narrative. The idea of imminent doom is less catastrophic to me than not knowing anything about the future or my part in it. The guys and I are all in much more stable places in our lives than ever before. And somehow that is harder for me to adjust to.”

This Is Why is out 2/10 via Atlantic. Pre-save it here.

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Austin Butler won Best Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama at last week’s 2023 Golden Globes for his popular portrayal of the late Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, but the real prize was learning that Butler has not abandoned his Elvis accent during his acceptance speech.

Everyone clamoring for Butler to speak like Elvis forever will be happy with what Irene Bartlett, Butler’s Elvis voice coach, told ABC Australia’s “Gold Coast” about the future of the beloved accent.

“He was never going to be — and [director] Baz Luhrmann didn’t want him to be — an Elvis impersonator, that’s the last thing they wanted him to be,” Bartlett said. “What they wanted was a true connection with the personality of Elvis and his story and that’s what Austin worked on.”

She added, “What you saw in that Golden Globes speech, that’s him. It’s genuine. It’s not put on. […] I feel sorry people are saying that, you know, it’s still acting [but] he’s actually taken [the voice] on board. I don’t know how long that will last, or if it’s going to be there forever.”

Butler addressed the hot topic at the Golden Globes:

“I don’t think I sound like him still,” he said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “But I guess I must because I hear it a lot. I often liken it to when somebody lives in another country for a long time, and I had three years where that was my only focus in life, so I’m sure that there’s just pieces of my DNA that will always be linked in that way.”

Norman Reedus stopped by Jon Bernthal‘s podcast to catch up with his old pal and reminisce about their days working together on The Walking Dead. During the REAL ONES episode, the two recalled getting up early to drive to the Atlanta set of the zombie series and listening to Howard Stern the whole way there. Apparently, Reedus is a huge fan of the shock jock, but that appreciation has been a one way street.

“He still won’t have me on his show,” Reedus said. “I don’t know why!”

However, Bernthal wasn’t letting Reedus off the hook. The Punisher actor argued that Reedus “knows full well” why Stern doesn’t like him, and it could have everything to do with the radio host’s wife. Via Comic Book:

The two actors have a friendly argument about the time they were at some kind of premiere event, and Reedus got seated next to Howard Stern and his wife, actress/model/author/activist Beth Ostrosky Stern. While Bernthal makes it seem like Reedus and Ostrosky hit it off maybe a little too well, Reedus insists that they only bonded over their shared love of cats (the Sterns foster hundreds of cats in their home on Long island every year), and that was it. Nonetheless, Bernthal points out that Stern was clearly bothered by the encounter, and talked about it “for like two hours” on his show.

But, wait, there’s more. Reedus also did a promotional drop for Stern’s show, and The Walking Dead star reportedly didn’t bring his A-game. Stern noticed the lackluster effort and made it a point to comment about it on the air. So while it seems like Reedus won’t be on the show anytime soon, there’s also the potential for one heck of an episode if he gets to make things right with Howard. That could be the hook to finally making Reedus’ dream of being a Stern guest come true.

(Via Comic Book)

Dak Prescott had one of the best games of his career during the Dallas Cowboys’ 31-14 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round. Prescott completed 25 of his 33 pass attempts for 305 yards and four touchdowns, while the Cowboys never seemed to be especially threatened in a road playoff game against Tom Brady and the Bucs.

Of course, Prescott’s play was not the biggest Cowboys-related story of the game. That belonged to the team’s kicker, Brett Maher. While Maher has been extremely reliable for Dallas this season, he had an historically bad game against the Bucs, missing each of his first four PAT attempts before converting his fifth and final attempt of the game.

Maher missed his third PAT just before halftime after Prescott hit Dalton Schultz to make it an 18-0 game. As it turns out, Prescott was mic’d up during the game, and in the 50-second mark of the below video, his frustration with Maher’s bad night seemed to really boil over.

The Cowboys signed veteran kicker Tristan Vizcaino to the practice squad on Wednesday. Despite that, the team has made clear that Maher will be the team’s kicker for their divisional round game in San Francisco this weekend.

“I believe in the hot hand, and I believe in the yips, absolutely,” Dallas special teams coordinator John Fassel said, according to Todd Archer of ESPN. “And you know, you wonder sometimes how you get into the yips, and you wonder sometimes how you get back into the hot hand. I think it’s keep stepping up to the line and shooting that thing. We missed a couple of free throws [Monday] … He had a hot hand. Let’s face it, he only missed [six] kicks all season. The yips happen, so I expect a hot hand coming up.”

Aubrey Plaza will soon host SNL, long after she bombed her audition for the Lorne Michaels mainstay. She’s frankly everywhere lately, and this feels long overdue. From her foreboding turn on The White Lotus to her shattering performance in Emily The Criminal, she will always be the Parks And Rec star that I’d most like to have a drink with, even though our combined mutual awkwardness into one room could cause the world to implode.

The above-mentioned film, however, will stick with you, and although Jimmy Fallon doesn’t ordinary get too heavy, he and Aubrey got into the thick of the plot around the 4:30 mark above. In the movie, Emily descends into a sinister underworld to pay off her student loans while saddled with an old felony conviction. Notably, the film does not include gun violence despite many terrifying scenes and attacks. Early on, Emily protects herself with pepper spray, and later, Theo Rossi’s “mentor” character gives her something stronger: a stun gun. That becomes her weapon of choice, and she wields it well. While speaking with Fallon, Plaza expressed pride in how the movie might actually be more tense without those deadly weapons:

“But I think it actually makes it more anxiety-inducing because you’re like, ‘How is she going to take these guys down without a weapon like that?’ … I was kind of proud of that because I don’t think you need guns. We don’t need guns.”

She’s not wrong. The film’s close-quarters use of a stun gun makes the story’s most dangerous scenes feel more intimate in the most tension-inducing way possible. Emily The Criminal surfaced as one of Barack Obama’s favorite movies of 2022, and it’s a horrifying story that puts the focus on why Emily feels driven to do the crime that she does, nothing more and nothing less. That doesn’t include shooting anyone, which makes the film’s central message even more devastating. And it certainly doesn’t hurt to avoid gun violence in Hollywood wherever possible, especially considering the ongoing fallout from Alec Baldwin’s Rust production.

Kali Uchis is waiting to collaborate with Ariana Grande, but she isn’t waiting to roll out new music. Earlier this month, Uchis tweeted, “My third album & the next are both finished, one is an English album one is a Spanish album.” She confirmed both will drop in 2023 but left the order up to her fans. It would appear that the fans chose to hear Uchis’ English album first because Uchis dropped “I Wish You Roses” today, January 19.

“This song is about being able to release people with love,” Uchis said in a statement, per a press release. “It could be a friend, a lover, or someone else, but the point is to celebrate releasing people from your life without being resentful or bitter.”

Uchis has been teasing the sensual, hypnotic single all week, including snapshots from the Cho Gi-Seok-directed video that earned comments from boyfriend Don Toliver, Omar Apollo, and Snoh Aalegra.

The colorful video leaves little to the imagination. Uchis appears shirtless — her skin tastefully painted — as she sings, “When I’m here, I’m someone to honor / When I’m gone, I’m someone to mourn.” Elsewhere, she’s laying in a field of roses and aptly singing, “Never thought I would be without you / I wish you love, I wish you well / I wish you roses while you can still smell ’em.”

As Uchis told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, “I Wish You Roses” marks Cho Gi-Seok’s first-ever music video.

“He basically already has this concept that he does flower studies and the flower studies felt so perfect for the song. Obviously the song, how much he wrote, I got it so locked into my mind,” Uchis told Lowe. “I need to work with this person to do flower studies for this music video. So I had told him, he was immediately like, ‘Yes, let’s make it work.’ And I went straight to Korea. So, it ended up being a really intense video shoot — like 24 hours, we were on set.”

Will Uchis add this to her upcoming Coachella set list?

Watch the “I Wish You Roses” video above.

Yung Miami‘s podcast, Caresha Please, returns this week with special guest Trina, the Miami rap pioneer whose influence can be heard throughout the City Girls’ catalog. Fans were delighted by a new teaser previewing the interview, which promises to get into all the spicy details of Miami’s industry relationships — including one that seemed to confuse a few observers.

In addition to addressing rumors about Trick Daddy and more, one of the names Miami throws out is Missy Elliott. “Why would Caresha ask Trina if she dated Missy Elliott?” asked one bewildered fan.

As it turns out, though, that particular rumor is actually a parody of the kind of celebrity-obsessed speculation that flew around even in the pre-social media days of the internet from Missy’s 2002 single “Gossip Folks.” In the song, a series of the titular folks discuss silly pitches like, “I heard she only eats one cracker a day,” and “I heard the bitch was married to Timb, then started f*ckin’ with Trina.”

And some interpreted this as another one of Yung Miami’s journalistic faux pas, it could also just as easily be read as the City Girl’s commitment to leaving no stone unturned in her search for the hottest of tea. After all, that song did drop when Miami was all of eight years old. Try explaining satire to one of them. You can check out more responses to the Caresha Please trailer below.

Last year around this time, Robert Pattinson was gearing up to make his Bruce Wayne debut in The Batman, when he got into all sorts of trouble for talking about how he didn’t really work out to prepare. Of course, we are all used to watching Christan Bale and other movie stars transform themselves into buff superheroes, but Pattinson did not really care to explain how the role affected his body. Which is nice! But his trainer did not like that.

Pattinson recently admitted that his team didn’t appreciate him downplaying his Batman routine. “I got in so much trouble for saying that I don’t work out, even from my trainer, who was like, ‘Why would you say that?’” Pattinson told The Evening Standard in a new cover story via Variety.

The actor, who has been in the spotlight since he was a fresh-faced teen in Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire, says that it’s hard for him to work on roles that affect his body and routine. Even though certain action stars love to hype up their obsessive routines, Pattinson says that it can be dangerous.

“Even if you’re just watching your calorie intake, it’s extraordinarily addictive — and you don’t quite realize how insidious it is until it’s too late,” Pattinson explained. He then admitted that he “basically tried every fad you can think of, everything except consistency.”

Pattinson then described some of the wild diets he has tried for his various roles, including keto, which he didn’t like due to the unfortunate lack of beer, and a steady two-week diet of potatoes: “I once ate nothing but potatoes for two weeks, as a detox. Just boiled potatoes and Himalayan pink salt. Apparently, it’s a cleanse… you definitely lose weight.”

As for his current role, Pattinson is filming the highly anticipated Mickey 17, Bong Joon-Ho’s first project post-Parasite, where he will portray a clone of himself. Hopefully, he is now eating enough potatoes for two of himself.

(Via Variety)

The Golden State Warriors haven’t quite been themselves this season. While the defending champions are among the favorites to make the NBA Finals out of the Western Conference, the team sits at 22-22 and are much closer to falling out of the postseason altogether than they are pushing the Denver Nuggets or the Memphis Grizzlies for the No. 1 seed.

As is oftentimes the case, there’s no one reason why Golden State hasn’t been at its high-flying best. But during a conversation with Jamal Crawford on his podcast, Draymond Green identified himself as the source of “a lot of our shortcomings this year.”

Green and Crawford both believe that the Warriors have a switch they can flip, but Green made it a point to say that he doesn’t believe that’s why the team has had such a stop-and-start campaign.

“I think a lot of our shortcomings this year are my fault,” Green said. “Why is it my fault? Because I have not been the leader that I am and that I need to be for this team. And the reason I have not been that leader is also my fault.”

Green, unsurprisingly, alluded to his incident in a practice before the season where he punched Jordan Poole before saying he’s needed to “kind of walk a fine line of not really being Draymond, and when I’m not really being myself, that’s not the best thing for this team.” As a result, he says, there has been an issue with accountability on both ends of the floor.

“You know the accountability that it takes to have a winning team, and that’s my role on this team, and I fell short in that area,” Green said.