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Austin Butler’s life changed with Elvis, but to some he’s the guy who cut his teeth on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon fare. To others, though, his breakthrough was as Tex Watson, convicted Manson murderer, in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As the killer, he’s alternately terrifying and pathetic, even before he’s gruesomely dispatched by Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth. (Note: In real life Watson is still very much alive and still very much incarcerated.) It’s not a huge role, but it was juicy enough that Butler shot down another big, very different movie.

“I ended up having to choose between going to the screen test for Top Gun: Maverick or saying yes to Quentin Tarantino,” Butler revealed on a recent live episode of the podcast Happy Sad Confused (as caught by IndieWire). “I’d already met with [Tarantino], so I did that.”

Butler didn’t reveal which Maverick character he would have tested for. Was it the gung ho show-off Hangman, ultimately played by Glen Powell? One of the others with fun code names? Whatever the case, he would have had to undergo some truly painful-sounding training and flown in actual planes? Instead he got to have Brad Pitt fake-beat the crap out of him while one of the 2019’s best movie dogs gorged on his nuts.

Besides, he got to do some piloting later anyway, in Apple TV+’s new show Masters of the Air, so it all worked out in the end.

(Via IndieWire)

It’s incredible to imagine that Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime. “The Red Vineyard” sold in Brussels a few months before his death for just 400 Francs.

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Now, he’s celebrated as one of the greatest artists who ever lived.

In this incredible clip from “Dr. Who” we get to see what his reaction may have been if he saw his art today.

This article originally appeared on 02.21.20

To most indie rock fans, Morrissey canceling a show wouldn’t come as a shock. The Smiths’ former frontman reportedly once pulled out of a concert in Los Angeles because he was “too cold.” But when Morrissey announced that he would be hitting the road to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his album, You Are The Quarry, folks held out hope.

Unsurprisingly, both scheduled gigs were canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Following pushback from ticketholders, Morrissey’s tour manager, Donnie Knutson, took to the musician’s official Facebook page to explain why the performances were pulled.

“Morrissey is receiving medical supervision for physical exhaustion,” he wrote. “He has been ordered to rest for two weeks, and he will remain in Zurich.”

Given the medical reasoning behind the You Are The Quarry anniversary shows being canceled, supporters have begun to ease up on Morrissey. The explanation post has since been flooded by fans wishing Morrissey a speedy recovery. It is unclear if the shows will be rescheduled. As of January 27, Morrissey nor the previous venues set to host the shows have shared any additional information.

With no performance on the books, fans hope that his previously announced album, Bonfire of Teenagers, will finally receive a release date.

When Jimmy Kimmel takes to the street, you know you’re in for a good laugh at just how little we actually know about, well, seemingly anything. That goes for anatomy too. In this case, female anatomy.

In a segment called “What Do You Know About The Female Body?” men try—and hilariously fail—to answer even the most basic questions, like “does a female have one uterus, or two?” much to the amazement of some of their female partners.

Here are some of the very best bits of nonwisdom:

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Woman have LOTS of fallopian tubes and ovaries, apparently.

When asked, “how many fallopian tubes does the average lady have?” one man prefaced with “I know I’m gonna be way off,” before answering “four.”

He was right about being way off, indeed. Women usually have one fallopian tube on either side of the uterus, making that two fallopian tubes.

Another guy guessed that a woman has not one, not two, but six ovaries. Which, in case you didn’t know, is three times more than the correct answer (two ovaries, one on either side of the uterus). Where would a woman keep four extra ovaries? Her purse?

A mammogram examines the stomach.

The interviewer also asked: “What part of the body does the mammogram examine?”

“The lower half…” replied one man. Yikes.

And when asked to demonstrate where exactly the “lower half” is, he gestured toward the uppermost part of his belly, seemingly avoiding the actual area a mammogram covers entirely.

PMS is all in the mind, but only annually.

The next question up was “What does PMS stand for?”

One man shyly answered, “Post…mental…syndrome?”

One outta three ain’t bad. But the correct answer is premenstrual syndrome.

And it definitely happens more than “once a year.”

An IUD is a “mammogram device.”

Oh, and a NuvaRing is a “pap schmear,” and a speculum is the actual “IUD.” Holy moly, if you thought IUDs were uncomfortable before…

Things really took a turn once the graphics came out.

And men were asked to point to where the cervix is. Plenty of things were pointed at—like the uterus. But sadly, no cervix findings.

Changing gears, the interview instructed the men to “point at something you know.”

To which one man replied (inaccurately) “uh…that’s a baby?”

Unless the woman is giving birth to a colon, that was incorrect.

Later in the video, a man is asked “where does the baby go?”

“In there,” the man answers after pointing to the ovaries. (Spoiler alert: It doesn’t go there. A fetus grows in the uterus, which this man thought was the cervix.)

His wife, a gynecologist no less, chuckled “I’m mortified…I’m apparently not a very good educator at home for my husband.”

Though this is just for pure fun, it is food for thought.

A woman’s autonomy over her own body has been the subject of much controversial discussion lately. And I can’t help but wonder how certain politicians/leaders would fare if given the same questions. Perhaps it is unwise to try to govern that which is not fully understood, just saying.

You can catch the full segment here:

This article originally appeared on 01.14.22

In Maestro, stars Bradley Cooper (who also directed) and Carey Mulligan have great chemistry. Of course they do: They had a great meet-cute of sorts. Per HuffPost, the two went on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, where they revealed how the first time they met, he had to take her straight away to the emergency room.

The incident happened back in 2018, when Cooper went to see Mulligan’s one-woman performance of Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys in New York City. Things went a bit sideways, though, after the show.

“I went to meet her backstage and she was prone … because one of the sets had hit her in the top of the head halfway through the play,” Cooper recalled. “I went back and I was like, ‘Are you OK?’ “And she was not OK, at all. And so we went to the emergency room.”

Mulligan then told the story from her perspective, saying that no one had noticed she’d been hit because it happened during a blackout of the stage. Since no one had seen it, she just “carried on.” Only after the performance ended did she realize, through tears, how much pain she was in.

“I just couldn’t stop crying, and I thought I was really a goner,” Mulligan remembered. “You know, you get it in your head with a head injury, like, ‘Well that’s it.’ And then I was sobbing on the floor and … someone came in and said, ’Sorry, so sorry — Bradley Cooper [is here].”

She explained, “So he came in and looked me in the eye, and was like, ‘You’re not all right.’ And we went to the emergency room.”

It all worked out in the end. Mulligan obviously recovered and continued doing the play. And a handful of years later she earned her third Best Actress nomination as Felicia Montealegre, esteemed actress and Leonard Bernstein’s wife of 27 years.

You can watch Cooper and Mulligan discuss their memorable first meeting in the video below. Maestro‘s up for seven Academy Awards, though Cooper would have rather had an Eagles win.

(Via HuffPost)

Following her faith-altering health scare in 2023, Madonna’s Celebration Tour has taken on a whole new meaning. Unfortunately, two concertgoers weren’t feeling the love when the “Open Your Heart” singer stopped in their selected city.

At Madonna’s show on December 13 at the Barclays Center, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, were so peeved off by the star’s lateness — a nearly two-hour delay — that they filed a lawsuit against her. Back in December, a source close to the matter told People that the delay was caused by spillover technical issues from soundcheck. However, fans who attended shows in Europe echoed Fellows and Hadden’s anger, claiming Madonna was also late to those performances.

Now Madonna’s management is clapping back at the lawsuit and the growing narrative that Madonna is excessively tardy to performances. Representatives for her reached out to EW to comment on the legal filing. “The shows opened in North America at Barclays in Brooklyn as planned,” said the source. “With the exception of a technical issue on December 13 during soundcheck. This caused a delay that was well documented in press reports at the time. We intend to defend this case vigorously.”

Madonna’s Celebration Tour is still in full swing. View the remaining tour dates here.

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Over the past few days, Nicki Minaj has been tangled up in a nasty feud with her former collaborator Megan Thee Stallion, with the two leading ladies of rap exchanging vicious blows over their songs. But they weren’t the only folks hitting the recording studio to air such grievances. Political pundit Ben Shapiro also decided to put his haters on notice with a diss record of his own.

Shapiro’s song “Facts” has earned him his first No. 1 on iTunes’ music charts (according to Pop Vortex). On the single, the far right pundit takes aim at several musicians, including Nicki. After gaining wind of the accomplishment, instead of slamming Shapiro, Nicki took to X (formerly Twitter) to congratulate her frenemy on the milestone.

“I just listened to it, Ben Shapiro, not bad,” she wrote. “Congrats on #1. But it definitely sounds like ‘Roman’s Revenge’ when the beat first came in… I don’t know.”

Nicki couldn’t help but find humor in the matter. “Ben Shapiro put out a diss record,” she wrote. “He said his comment sections are filled with woke Karens. The song is #1 on US iTunes. What is really happening, and who is that other man rapping? Is this real life? He said, ‘Nicki, take some notes.’ Nah. Ayo nah.”

Shapiro rushed to X for his own victory lap. “I just want to thank God, Tom MacDonald, and my parents, who paid for 15 years of classical violin lessons so I could become the #1 rapper in America,” he wrote.

The song also features jabs at Cardi B. Listen to Ben Shapiro’s song “Facts” below.

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It’s been a wild Sundance — wilder than usual. There was Kristen Stewart’s lesbian thriller. There was 94-year-old June Squibb doing her own stunts. There was Will Ferrell’s documentary about his road trip with his trans bestie. There was also that documentary about Christopher Reeve, best known for playing Superman and whose life was upended by an accident that left him paraplegic. Surely the film is deeply moving, which is probably why it’s become one of the fest’s most coveted titles.

Per The Wrap, the film, entitled Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, has “multiple buys” who are “circling” the film. How high are the offers? Pretty high! Sources say they’re in the $10 million range, which is high but not quite as enormous as the $17.5 million Fox Searchlight forked over for the 2016 docudrama The Birth of a Nation. Still, it’s in the range of other all-time purchases, such as Little Miss Sunshine ($10.5 million in 2006), Manchester by the Sea ($10 million in 2016), and Hamlet 2 ($10 million in 2008).

Reeve was but an esteemed Juilliard grad and theater rat when he was tapped to play the Man of Steel in 1978’s Superman: The Movie, the first big-screen live-action comic book movie that took the material seriously. Reeve returned for three more outings, all while juggling more serious films. Indeed, at the doc’s premiere Reeve’s kids said when their hometown theater wanted to hold a screening in their father’s honor, they insisted they play 1993’s Remains of the Day, in which he had a supporting turn of which he was extraordinarily proud.

In 1995 Reeve was thrown from a horse, an accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair and on a ventilator. He died in 2004, aged 52.

(Via The Wrap)

For years, rap fans have held out hope for The Fugees to reunite. While the legendary trio was able to perform a special set during the 2023 Roots Picnic, their previously announced tour plans were continuously disrupted. Last year, founding member Pras Michel’s legal battle was the one causing the disruption.

In April 2023, after a long-fought case, Michel was formerly found guilty of money laundering. Sadly, he isn’t the only person connected to the case facing blowback from the heavily publicized trial. According to Rolling Stone, Michel’s defensive attorney, David Kenner, is also facing the music.

The outlet reports that on January 25, Kenner reportedly pleaded guilty to leaking evidence related to the case to members of the press. As media professionals were required to sign a protective order to prevent information from being shared with the public, Kenner allegedly handed off confidential files to multiple reporters from Bloomberg.

While appearing before the judge, Kenner reportedly apologized for his misconduct. “[This is a] low point,” he said. “Obviously, I made a terrible mistake.”

Michel’s spokesperson, Erica Dumas, released a statement regarding the matter. “Mr. Kenner argues that he was merely trying to mount the best possible defense for Pras,” she said. “Mr. Kenner’s reckless actions crossed critical ethical lines, failed his duties as counsel, and ultimately have cost him dearly. This plea conviction represents a breach of client trust that strikes at the heart of the attorney-client relationship.”

It is unclear if Kenner will face time behind bars for his actions, but he has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine.

Since the early ’90s,Snoop Dogg has built an impressive discography filled with the who’s who of music, including the late Tupac, Dr. Dre, Pharrell, and 50 Cent, to name a few. But there was one legendary collaboration that fans may never have the chance to listen to.

On January 26, during an interview on Sirius XM’s Radio Andy, Snoop revealed that he and the late Michael Jackson worked on music long before his death. “We have a record that never came together,” he said.

When host Andy Cohen asked about the record’s status, Snoop confessed that he had no clue. “I gotta find out [who has the masters],” he said. “It’s a record that we did for — you know, he made records for the world — a peaceful, whole lot of artists on its record. He called me one night, and it was crazy because of the way his voice came through the phone.

Jackson was actually the one who suggested the two team up. “He was like, ‘Snoop, it’s Mike. I have this song I want you to get on,’” he recalled. “I’m like, man, whatever you want. It ain’t no problem. Talk to me. After we got past the song, he was like, ‘My mom always said that you look like someone in my family. I think we’re related.’”

Surely the King of West Coast Rap and the King of Pop teaming up on a song would’ve been epic.

Watch the full interview above.