The Washington Commanders are, improbably, 7-5 on the season and on the fringe of a playoff spot in the NFC after beating the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
It’s been quite a year for the football team in the nation’s capital, as Dan Snyder prepares to sell the team amid various investigations into the organization, but on the field they’ve been remarkably resilient. The defense is the headliner for the Commanders, with arguably the best defensive line in the NFL, but offensively they’ve followed the lead of Taylor Heinicke, who just keeps winning since stepping in for Carson Wentz, and leaned on a rushing attack spearheaded by rookie Brian Robinson.
Robinson missed the start of the season after being shot twice in the leg in an attempted carjacking, and his return has been nothing short of incredible as he entered Sunday with 362 yards and two touchdowns on the ground before cracking the 100-yard mark for the first time in beating the Falcons. However, after the game his 105-yard performance was secondary to his postgame outfit in which he wore a gigantic baseball hat, telling reporters his friend makes them and “if you want a big hat, let me know.”
Brian Robinson said his friend has a “big hat” company. “If you want a big hat, let me know.” pic.twitter.com/KXm3GCJWO1
Taylor Swift‘s music is the gift that keeps on giving this season. For the fourth non-consecutive week, her 10th studio album, Midnights is sitting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Over the past week, Midnights pulled in 177,000 album unit equivalents, according to Billboard‘s independent data source, Luminate. Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss, which pulled in 119,000 equivalent album units this past week, is sitting at No. 2 for the second week in a row. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti and Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me came in at No. 3 and 4 on the chart, respectively.
Making a remarkable re-entry into the top 10 is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which jumped from No. 115 to No. 7 this past week, upon the album’s 40th anniversary. Last week, Jackson’s estate put out a special 40th-anniversary edition of the album containing additional demos and remixed recordings.
Debuting on the chart is Rod Wave’s eight-track album, Jupiter’s Diary: 7 Day Theory, which hit No. 9. At No. 10 is Michael Buble’s Christmas, which was first released in 2011. Buble’s Christmas album has placed in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 charts at least once every year since its release.
Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Denver Broncos have been one of the biggest disappointments in the NFL this season. After trading two first round picks for Russell Wilson and then giving him a massive $245 million contract extension, the Broncos offense sits near the bottom of the NFL in most every category.
Sunday provided a rare opportunity for a win for Denver, as they traveled to Carolina to face the lowly Panthers in a battle of 3-win teams. Once again, the Broncos offense no-showed, falling behind 23-3 before scoring their first touchdown in the fourth quarter with the game already decided. Prior to that scoring drive, the Broncos defense had some frustrations with the offense boil over as defensive tackle Mike Purcell walked off the field and couldn’t help but give Russell Wilson a few choice words as he screamed at the star QB briefly before heading to the bench.
Mike Purcell had some words for Russell Wilson has he returned to the Broncos sideline pic.twitter.com/FL6RaFwAT8
As the Fox crew notes, it’s not clear if Wilson said something that got Purcell’s attention or if he just decided in that moment he needed to give a piece of his mind to Wilson, but either way it’s unsurprising to see given how this season has gone. Denver’s defense has allowed 23 or fewer points in 10 of their 11 games this season, but will somehow fall to 3-8 with another loss to the Panthers. Also, the best drive of the day by the Broncos came after this, so maybe the defense needs to yell at the offense more and they’d turn things around.
“Harry… that was a huge moment because on one end I’m having this really bad emotional day, and on the other end you see the power of music. You really do. And how music has this visceral effect on me,” Lizzo told the publication. “And the funny part in the end where I was like, ‘Music is so powerful,’ and my makeup artist Alex was like, ‘You should really go to a Lizzo show.’ [Laughs] And I just think that that’s like such a real moment, you know? And it’s like, I can’t — I can never experience a Lizzo show, but just showing how much music is transformative and how the fans may feel about my music is how I felt about that Harry Styles song. I feel it too. I go there too.”
Lizzo also evaded a question about whether her house is on property formerly owned by Styles. “No comment,” she said, laughing and eating a cookie. When pressed, she added, “Harry’s House is a great album.”
Those who can fully experience a Lizzo show seem to have overwhelmingly approved of her Special Tour, which wrapped its first North American leg last weekend. “Lizzo has the BEST show on earth,” SZA tweeted after making a surprise on-stage appearance at the Special stop at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on November 19. “I cried. Pls go to a Lizzo concert for your own mental health.”
More people will have that opportunity in 2023. Lizzo will kick off her European and UK Special Tour dates in February, and then she will return stateside for a second North American leg dubbed the Special 2our.
Read Lizzo’s EW interview here, and watch her Love, Lizzo trailer below.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Michael is protesting a series of bills across the U.S. and Canada that, if passed, would ban men like him from using men’s restrooms and leave him no choice but to use the women’s room.
Bizarrely, these laws have been proposed as a way to protect the privacy and safety of women.(I know. It doesn’t make sense, but hang with me.)
Michael is a transgender man, meaning that when he was born, the doctor looked at him and labeled him a girl.
As Michael can tell you, he’s not a girl and he’s not a woman.
Inspired by a woman from Canada, Michael has been snapping selfies in women’s restrooms to show people just how out of place he looks.
If these types of bills become law, people like Michael and other trans men would be forced to use women’s restrooms.
Is this the type of guy you want in your restrooms and locker rooms, ladies?
Several states have proposed laws legalizing discrimination against transgender people this year alone.
The main focus of these bills has been whether trans people should be allowed to use public restrooms, though they’re often part of a larger effort to deny rights to trans people.
Texas’ bill would have denied trans people entrance to public restrooms, showers, or changing rooms.
The penalty for using a restroom that doesn’t match the gender “established by the individual’s chromosomes” is up to a year in prison and a fine up to $4,000.
Even worse, the bill stated that an “operator, manager, superintendent, or other person with authority over a building” who willfully allows a trans person to use restrooms that match their actual gender will be charged with a felony and could serve a minimum of 180 days in prison and be fined up to $10,000.
The bill remains in committee awaiting action.
Florida’s language would have established gender as one’s “biological sex, either male or female, at birth.”
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Frank Artiles, brushed off backlash by arguing that going to the bathroom is a choice.
The punishment for a trans person who uses the correct bathroom in Florida would have been up to a year in prison and a fine up to $1,000. The bill died in committee, and did not become law.
Kentucky’s bill would have denied trans students the ability to use the correct restroom.
The bill came in response to a Louisville school’s decision to allow a trans student to use the restroom that matches their gender.
While the bill didn’t specify punishment for using the “incorrect” restroom, it did put what some are calling a “bounty” on catching trans students in the “wrong” restroom. The bill did not become law.
The groups pushing to deny trans people the ability to use restrooms simply spread misinformation.
Opponents of trans-inclusive environments argue that allowing trans people to use restrooms that match their gender invites and allows men into women’s restrooms to leer and assault women at will.
Their arguments aren’t based in reality.
(Still with me? The laws are pretty ridiculous, but now you know why they’re being proposed.)
It’s just as ridiculous for a trans woman to have to use the men’s restroom as it is for Michael to have to use the women’s restroom.
Trans women are not men, and Michael is not a woman.
When it comes down to it, trans people just need to pee. That’s all.
Watch Michael Hughes’ appearance on MSNBC’s “Out There” with Thomas Roberts below:
Drake is stepping into the shoe game. For his latest venture, the “Jimmy Cooks” rapper is partnering with Nike to drop his Certified Lover Boy Nike Air Force 1s.
He took to Instagram yesterday (November 26) to share a preview of the sneakers. In his post, he revealed that the shoes were largely inspired by his mother.
“Love You Forever AF1 dedicated to my incredible mother and our favorite book,” read the post’s caption, referring to Robert Munsch’s children’s book, Love You Forever. In the book, a mother sings a lullaby to her son at various stages of his life. “I love you forever, I’ll love you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be,” sings the mom in the book.
This particular Air Force 1 pair comes in white, and contains an etching reading “Love you forever” toward the heel, and three bejeweled hearts hovering above the message.
In the post, Drake also shared a note written to his mom, which read, “For my mother, Your perennial care and nurturing is never lost on me. This book is the time capsule of our love. I long for the days when it was this simple. — Aubrey.”
According to Sole Collector, Drake’s Air Force 1s are set to hit shelves on December 2.
Sunday marked 15 years since Sean Taylor was tragically killed when he was shot in the leg by intruders at his Miami home in 2007. At the time Taylor was in his fourth season in Washington, a young star safety who had made the Pro Bowl a year prior.
Prior to hosting the Falcons on Sunday, the Commanders unveiled a new memorial to Taylor at FedEx Field, with much of Taylor’s family on hand for the unveiling, and what was revealed left many fans upset by what felt like a hastily thrown together tribute to Taylor, with his uniform on a wire mannequin.
Considering the various issues facing the franchise currently, headlined by Dan Snyder selling the team amid a number of legal probes into allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment, as well as financial improprieties, there were plenty who called out the Taylor memorial’s unveiling as a PR stunt aimed at deflecting from that negative news. On top of that, it wasn’t even a well put together memorial, as there was an opportunity to honor a beloved player who was tragically killed and the best they could seemingly do was put his uniform on a mannequin in a glass case.
Both Commanders fans and fans from around the NFL in general lambasted the organization for the memorial that could’ve been something so much more, as the best part was a mural created by his fiancee’s uncle, Vic Garcia, that he worked on all the weekend while the team came up with a uniform on some wire.
Coming off Twitter vacation briefly to say this is remarkably embarrassing. They put a uniform on a wire mannequin and called it a memorial. Just awful. https://t.co/kglWrSgihV
Film history is riddled with name actors who turned down key roles. Tom Selleck didn’t want to play Indiana Jones. Eddie Murphy didn’t want to play Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Halle Berry wasn’t feeling what became the Sandra Bullock part in Speed. John Travolta didn’t say yes to American Gigolo and Forrest Gump. Then there’s Matthew Modine, who’s kind of the Zelig of missed film roles. He recently talked about three (3) iconic parts to which he said no, though for at least one he had an excellent reason.
During a recent appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, Modine was game when his host brought up some of the big roles he turned down. Perhaps the biggest one: He could have been Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun (and presumably its even more money-gobbling sequel). But he didn’t want to do a film that glamorized the nation’s war machine.
“I grew up with the war, watching the Vietnam War on television. And then my oldest brothers and my sister participated in the war,” Modine explained. “There’s nothing sexy or romantic about war. So the idea of making a movie like Top Gun, that would make it look fun and glamorize it? Yeah, I just didn’t want to participate in that kind of storytelling.”
If his excuse sounds familiar, that’s because it’s also the reason why the film’s ultimate star, Tom Cruise, was adamantly against doing a sequel — at least for three-and-a-half decades. (One could argue that the belated sequel is considerably less jingoistic, less about patriotism and more about the greatness of Tom Cruise.)
So Modine had a good excuse for turning down Top Gun. But what about Back to the Future? After the production fired original star Eric Stoltz, he was one of the actors they approached to replace him. Modine fumbled around to excuse why he turned that down, saying that “when you see Michael J. Fox, you see why I turned it down.” (Not even Ross was buying that one.) He also says he didn’t know who director Robert Zemeckis was, though he had just had a big hit with Romancing the Stone.
As for turning down the lead role in Big, Modine admits “that was really stupid.” That role, of course, went to another Tom, Tom Hanks, who scored his first Oscar nomination as a kid whose wish to become an adult is granted, with funny/heartwarming results. Still, Modine has had a good career. He even wound up doing another film about war, albeit a very different one from Top Gun: Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick’s grim depiction of the Vietnam War, and an instant classic of the genre.
Dua Lipa is often called a British pop star. And that’s correct. She was born in London, but the most accurate descriptor is British-Kosovar Albanian. Lipa’s parents, Anesa and Dukagjin, emigrated to the UK from Pristina in Kosovo. Lipa was named an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo ahead of her annual Sunny Hill Festival in August, and today (November 27), she celebrated the ultimate step in honoring her Albanian heritage.
Lipa took to Instagram this morning to share footage of gaining Albanian citizenship. “Thank you President Bajram Begaj and Mayor @erionveliaj for this honor ~ got my Albanian citizenship!!” she captioned to carousel, adding a sentence in Albanian that translates to, “Thank you, I am feeling very proud.”
Rina Lipa, the 27-year-old’s sister, commented four heart emojis. DJ Snake and Major Lazer were among those showing Lipa love in the comments section.
“Everything was Albanian at home, and English was my school life,” Lipa told Vanity Fairas the publication’s July/August 2021 cover star. “I had so much family in Kosovo, but also because of the situation and not being able to go back, I had never really met my family.”
Lipa continued to explain that she wasn’t aware as a child of the ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and open conflict in the region that forced her parents to flee. “I guess my parents also didn’t want to upset me at such a young age,” she added. “After the war, my dad’s father passed away, and my dad couldn’t make it back in time, because obviously all the borders were closed, but it was just one of those things they didn’t tell me until a little bit later on.”
Earlier this year, this time on the cover of Vogue, Lipa further detailed her international childhood — moving from London to Kosovo at age 11.
According to Billboard, Lipa’s Albanian citizenship comes ahead of the country’s 110th “anniversary of independence from the Ottoman Empire,” and the ceremony recognized how Lipa has used her platform to uplift Albanian people. The three-time Grammy winner spearheads the Sunny Hill Foundation, “a charity organization set up in Prishtina-Kosovo under the patronage of” Lipa.
Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Men struggle to comprehend the pressures women feel. The same is true of women!
Gah! We’ll never get along.
This conversation between comedian Neal Brennan and Amy Poehler is a pretty good example of how hard it can be to figure life out sometimes.
Neal, the genius who co-created “Chappelle’s Show,” sat down with Amy for his show “The Approval Matrix.” The topic? WHAT are men supposed to be now? Cool? Adorkable? Both? Neither?
It’s maddening, dealing with constantly opposing messages about how to be and how to act.
And Amy, in all her hospitable magical greatness, is straight-up like, “Yeah, bro, welcome to the party! We’ve been here a looong time.”
“This feeling that you’re having right now — which it’s like, ‘I have to be all things,’ — it’s a feeling that women have everyday in their whole lives. So you’re just starting to experience it now. … I’m glad you’re finally experiencing it as a white male.”
Yass, queen! A magical combo of speaking your truth and inviting your friends to the party. That sounds like Amy.
“If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.”
Living up to arbitrary and impossible standards is nothing new, but now that we’re all in the same boat … let’s rock the boat! Together!
Ladies and dudes, rocking the boat together. I like that.
Here’s the full video:
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