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The USMNT will play their biggest game of the World Cup in terms of casual fan interest on Friday as they take on England in group play, a game that’s been circled on calendars since the draw put the two squads in the same group.

After getting just a draw against Wales despite dominating action for much of the game, the U.S. could really use a result against England to have the best chance of advancing, which isn’t the ideal scenario considering the Three Lions come in looking very dangerous after a 6-2 win over Iran and are heavily favored (-205 to win) over the Americans. Securing a point by way of a draw would be huge, particularly after Iran beat Wales, setting up a scenario where beating Iran on Tuesday will be a must if the U.S. is to advance almost no matter the result against England.

All of that serves as the backdrop for Friday, where there’s not an awful lot of need for forced efforts to hype up the game, but that didn’t stop the USMNT’s Twitter account from sending out a painfully cringey tweet attempting to draw a retweet from Taylor Swift — one of many tweets the account sent to various celebrities on Friday morning.

This is the type of tweet you’d expect from a stan account desperate for some acknowledgement from their favorite artist, not the official Twitter account of the USMNT. On top of that, they couldn’t even manage to make a reference to anything off of her most recent album. With American soccer fans already on edge about their chances against England, this tweet did little to raise their confidence and many fans have decided that if the team loses they can blame this pitiful effort at some Twitter engagement for their misfortune.

Maybe they’re just trying to take some heat off the squad, because if the team gets rolled by England plenty of folks will just retweet this and blame the account rather than the players in a game they’re favored to lose. That’s the most charitable reading of an otherwise desperate attempt at a little engagement.

Stanley Kubrick was an incredibly demanding director, infamous for doing dozens of takes that drove each actor to their breaking point. Perhaps no shoot was as grueling as his final one: Eyes Wide Shut still holds the record for the longest continuous shoot, taking a whopping 15 months in production. According to supporting player Vinessa Shaw, even the famously energetic Tom Cruise was a bit exhausted by the end. It lasted so long that they had to recast one of the roles after the original actor was fired. That actor was no less than Harvey Keitel.

Keitel originally played Victor Ziegler, one of Cruise’s character’s wealthy patients. The role eventually went to Sydney Pollack, but only after Keitel had done some filming. There are two versions of what went down. In a recently unearthed interview, Gary Oldman recounted the version he heard: that Keitel had shot a scene of him walking through the door dozens of times. By take 68, he allegedly had it.

“Harvey Keitel just said, ‘I’m outta here. You’re f*cking crazy,’” Oldman recounted. Then, Oldman said, he left.

In another, also unearthed interview, Keitel was a little cagier. After calling Kubrick a “genius,” Keitel said that he “did some things I objected to.” What did he do? He didn’t go into specifics. But he said Kubrick did some things “I didn’t like,” that he found “disrespectful.” He still didn’t elaborate, saying, “I won’t be disrespected by him or anybody.” He added, “If any actor can help it, they should help it. You don’t want to be fired.” He then admitted that he was fired, by Kubrick.

The interviewer then asked Keitel, “Is that the Brooklyn in you?” Keitel simply responded, “It’s the sense of worth in me.”

So which is true? Did Keitel simply get sick of shooting dozens of takes doing mundane things? Or was Kubrick rude to him on set? The latter isn’t unlikely. Kubrick alums have spoken about getting into clashes with him, though few resulted in them getting canned. There is a behind-the-scenes documentary from the set of The Shining, which features a scene where the director blows up on Shelley Duvall for missing a cue. She didn’t fight back. Perhaps Keitel did.

Eyes Wide Shut, a fine Christmas film that could have starred Woody Allen instead, currently streams on Netflix. Happy holidays.

A couple days ago, Jennifer Lopez made some noise online when she set her social media profile pictures to blank images, an act that has become a clear indication that a musician has something new on the way. Indeed, that is the case: Today (November 25), Lopez announced that a new album, This Is Me… Now, is coming.

The project is an apparent follow-up to her 2002 album This Is Me… Then and will be her first album since 2014’s AKA. There is not yet an announced release date, but Lopez’s teaser video indicates it’s arriving in 2023.

Lopez previously said of the album, “This album is the most honest thing I have done, a culmination of who I am as a person and an artist. People think they know things about what happened to me along the way — but they really have no idea, and a lot of times they get it so wrong. There’s a part of me that was hiding a side of myself from everyone. And I.”

She also shared the project’s tracklist, so check that out below.

1. “This Is Me… Now ”
2. “To Be Yours ”
3. “Mad In Love ”
4. “Can’t Get Enough ”
5. “Rebound”
6. “Not. Going. Anywhere.”
7. “Dear Ben Pt. II”
8. “Hummingbird ”
9. “Hearts And Flowers ”
10. “Broken Like Me ”
11. “This Time Around ”
12. “Midnight Trip To Vegas”
13. “Greatest Love Story Never Told”

Move over, Paula Patton — Marjorie Taylor Greene may have just taken the title of America’s Most Unjustifiably Proud Chef. On Thursday, the conspiracy theory-loving Georgia congresswoman posed with her Thanksgiving turkey, which, like so many of her crackpot theories, looked woefully undercooked. The internet, of course, noticed.

The irony of just how white the turkey was was not lost on anyone:

Some people were shocked by how such a culinary abomination could have even happened:

Guessing games were made of the instant meme:

While others seemed concerned about the well-being of whoever at this pan full of food poisoning waiting to happen:

And many people helpfully pointed out to Greene what a turkey should look like when properly seasoned and browned:

There’s always next year — provided her turkey doesn’t plot an insurrection in the meantime.

Additionally, it’s probably worth noting that Greene’s Twitter was just reinstated a few days ago, so this marks one of her first “viral” moments since being allowed back in the platform by Elon Musk, who seems hellbent on allowing everyone ever banned from Twitter back on — well, except Alex Jones.

One account Musk has said he won’t allow back on Twitter is that of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was banned in 2018 for abusive behavior.

“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted Sunday in response to calls for Jones’ reinstatement. “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

How was your Thanksgiving? Did you spend it at a dicey resort filled with weird dentists and an owner who yelled at you? Then maybe you’re Kanye West. The rapper, who recently torched his career by dabbling in anti-Semitism, has been doubling down on his infamy, surrounding himself with all manner of dodgy characters. He’s even thinking of running for president in 2024, which was not taken well by someone who recently launched his own campaign.

West, who recently rebranded as “Ye,” said he spent the year’s most glutinous holiday down south, having dinner with Donald Trump. When the subject turned to Ye’s presidential aspirations, Trump exploded.

“When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose, I mean has that ever worked for anyone in history?” Ye said in a video he posted on Twitter. “I’m like, ‘whoa hold on, hold on, hold on. You’re talking to Ye.’”

Trump has been critical of Ye before. During his meltdown in October, even the former president said he was acting “crazy.” Takes one to know one! He came back around on him again, though, after Ye said some nice things about him, as that’s all it takes to get in his good graces.

Ye’s Trump story wasn’t the only shocking bit about his Mar-a-Lago jaunt. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed a bit where Ye walked through the airport next to white nationalist incel anti-Semite twerp Nick Fuentes. Between this and him hiring fallen MAGA creep Milo Yiannopoulos for his campaign — to say nothing of a guy who helped incite an attack on democracy — Ye is really surrounding himself with bad company.

(Via Yahoo!)

Phoebe Bridgers pumps out exemplary new lyrics all the time, but some of the best can come from unconventional places. In a recent British Vogue interview, Bridgers was asked where she looks for “creative inspiration” and she answered, “Misheard lyrics. I heard a song on the radio that I thought said, ‘I’m gonna kill you,’ so I wrote [‘Kyoto’] with that as the chorus.”

The song’s first chorus goes, “I’m gonna kill you / If you don’t beat me to it / Dreaming through Tokyo skies / I wanted to see the world / Then I flew over the ocean / And I changed my mind.”

Elsewhere in the Q&A, she noted that she spent last Christmas with boyfriend Paul Mescal’s family in Ireland and it was “a full rom-com.” Her best songwriting tip was, “Tell the truth, even if it sounds funny. Try to put the actual, literal truth – it’s fun.” Speaking of advice, she also noted, “Don’t fall into the modesty trap. Believe that what you’re making is great.”

As for the album that gets her through tough times: “Muna’s self-titled album. If I want to make myself cry, I’ll listen to ‘Home By Now.’” She also cited Sloppy Jane as an up-and-coming artist people should listen to, saying, “They made their record in a cave. I’m obsessed with albums that are an album — I sound like Harry Styles… records that aren’t single-based but a whole adventure.”

Check out the full piece here.

Earlier this month, Brockhampton released their “final” album, The Family, only to immediately follow it with TM. It does appear that the later project truly is the group’s final release, though, as their new video for “Man On The Moon” indicates.

The clip is a real farewell and a look back at the Saturation era, as it’s a compilation of various behind-the-scenes clips from that point in the band’s history. After dropping the video, Kevin Abstract declared that the band is officially finished, tweeting, “Thanks for everything. The rollout is officially done and the band is over appreciate y’all idk what else to say yeah idk.” Sharing the video, the band wrote, “OUR FINAL VIDEO. THANK YOU.”

In a recent letter about The Family, a portion of it that feels like a farewell reads, “I feel like whoever is reading this — whoever has been with Brockhampton since the beginning deserves some sort of closure. The album is an attempt at that. Thanks for giving us a chance. For holding me up. Holding me down. For being everything I needed when I was just some n**** from Texas. I still am. Yeah, this show is over, but the furnace is still glowing. What a blessing this has been.”

Watch the “Man On The Moon” video above.

TM is out now via Question Everything/RCA. Get it here.

After Halloween, Thanksgiving is the last holiday roadblock standing in the way of full-blown Christmas festivities. So, Mariah Carey made sure she was at the biggest Thanksgiving event to say bye to turkeys and hello to mistletoe with a performance at the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday (November 24).

Performing in the street, Carey stood on a star-shaped platform, holding an umbrella and donning a tiara and red dress as she sang “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” All the while, dancers added some visual interest with choreographed dancing, all making for a fun holiday spectacle.

As for how the performance went, some people online thought Carey’s appearance lacked energy or enthusiasm:

Some also criticized Carey for apparent lip-syncing, but one user pointed to a 2018 tweet from John Legend that notes, “Fun fact. We all have to lip sync on this parade because the floats don’t have the capacity to handle the sound requirements for a live performance.” Carey was not performing on a float, but perhaps similar technical limitations still applied.

Announcing her performance a few days ago, Carey wrote, “My childhood dream is coming to life! I’m going to be opening for the one and only, SANTA CLAUS, at this year’s @macys Thanksgiving day parade!”

Check out the performance above.

Thanksgiving week in the U.S. is a time for practicing gratitude, and we want to take just a moment to give thanks to you.

You, dear readers, are a big part of Upworthy’s mission to celebrate the best of humanity and to show how people can be a force for good. Every time you share our stories, drop a positive comment on a post or tell a friend about something you saw here, you help create the world we all want to live in. A world where kindness and compassion are the norm, where humanity flourishes in all its beautiful diversity and where genuine joy and laughter abound.

Without you, we’d just be throwing all this good stuff into the ether, so we are so very grateful you are here.

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However you’re celebrating and whoever you’re gathering with this week, we hope you’re being stuffed full of joy. And if you need an extra serving or two, here’s our weekly collection of happy finds to fill you up.

1. The absolute best—and cutest—example of thoughtfulness and caring.

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I assume they are brother and sister, although a lot of siblings would have fought to the pain over that dumpling. Such selflessness and love on display here.

2. People are feeling emotional over this teen haka send-off at the airport.

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The Māori haka is always powerful, but seeing these young people carrying their culture forward is really something. As one commenter wrote, “I love how they transform from modern teens to timeless warriors, in spirit with their ancestors. So incredibly moving and significant.” Read the full story here.

3. Tariq the ‘corn kid’ is still the most delightful interviewee ever.

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Another corntastic interview #corn

Is it even possible for Tariq to answer a question without being unintentionally fabulous? Tariq has been making the most of his unexpected virality and has even partnered with Green Giant. Get it, kiddo. Read the full story here.

4. Mahale the mama chimp reuniting with her newborn baby moved people to tears.

Baby Kucheza had to get oxygen for a couple of days after his C-section birth, so Mahale wasn’t able to be with him. That moment he put his hand up and she scooped him right up—gracious. Every mama felt that.

5. Speaking of mamas and babies, watch these tiger cubs nuzzle up to their mom.

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— Buitengebieden (@Buitengebieden)
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Cutest cuddle puddle ever.

6. This mama greeting her baby who just had her own baby … oof.

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It’s the way she went straight to her own daughter first to see how she was doing before meeting the grandbaby. Mamas gonna mama. Such a sweet moment.

7. Pink nailed ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ in Olivia Newton-John tribute.

Pink can pretty much sing anything, but I don’t think I’ve ever truly appreciated Olivia Newton-John’s effortless range on this song. Dang. Beautiful job from Pink here. Read the full story here.

8. Speaking of hopelessly devoted, the way this doggo gazes at its human is everything.

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— Buitengebieden (@Buitengebieden)
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If “Find someone who looks at you like…” were a dog video.

9. The giggle on this little guy as he’s being mildly water tortured is too cute.

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How can he be that good-natured first thing in the morning? And while having water rubbed all over his face? That laugh is too precious.

10. The way this toddler runs to daddy every time he comes home is pure love.

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Assalamualaikum Sayang ❤️❤️❤️ Selamat hari lahir yang ke 29. Semoga you sentiasa diberikan kesihatan yang baik, panjang umur dan dirahmati selaluu. I doakan jugak semoga Allah murahkan dan limpahkan rezeki you. Semoga Allah makbulkan segala doa dan impian you. I nak ucapkan terima kasih untuk segala pengorbanan yang you dah buat untuk i and Liam. Eventhough sometimes i rasa nak kick you dari belakang, but youre also the most lovely person that i want to hug and kiss everyday 😚 You are the BEST BEST BEST husband and daddy!!! Look at our son. He grow up to be such a sweet and lovely boy. He really takes it from you 🥹 I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, HUSBAND ❤️❤️❤️ #birthdayboy #daddyandson #fyp

That dad must so look forward to opening that door every single day. Dang these onions!

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Brazil is viewed as one of the favorites to win the 2022 World Cup. A big reason why is the team’s star-stuffed attack is capable of pumping in goals early and often, with names like Neymar, Vinicius, and many more giving the Brazilians perhaps the most entertaining team to watch in all of international football.

One of the biggest names in the squad is Tottenham forward Richarlison, who started at striker for the side in their World Cup opener against a pesky Serbia side. He managed to repay the faith placed in him by scoring the goal of the tournament to give the team a 2-0 lead.

Vinicius played a ball into Richarlison, who tried to take a touch with his left foot. It wasn’t the best decision, as the ball just got away from him, but instead of letting it fall to the ground in the box and hoping something good would happen, Richarlison decided to go at it on his own. He attempted an absolutely ridiculous overhead right footed effort that Vanja Milinkovic-Savic had zero chance of stopping.

Here are the alternate angles of the goal, which really hammer home that it’s one of the best goals you will ever see.

Brazil would go on to win, 2-0, with both goals scored by Richarlison.