Jamie Lee Curtis has an Oscar now, and that’s great for the longtime scream queen and always welcome screen presence. Hers was one of seven trophies earned for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which went from sleeper hit to becoming a semi-unlikely awardsseasonbehemoth. Where to put it, though? Well, she found a perfect place.
As caught by Entertainment Weekly, three days after winning her Oscar, the actress shared an image on Instagram of her latest win sitting beside two other recent gets. One was her Screen Actors Guild award. The other was an Everything Everywhere prop she got to take home, namely the butt plug-shaped trophy her character got for being “Auditor of the Year.”
The award had a brief but fun role in the film. During one of the fights with Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn Wang, one minion winds up inadvertently launching himself upon the unfortunately shaped trinket.
Curtis is really enjoying her fancy new trophy. She recently told Today that, in support of her trans daughter, she’s refusing to give her Oscar a gender.
“I’m having them be a they/them. I’m going to just call them them,” Curtis said. “They/them, and they are doing great, they’re settling in, and I just, in my life, I never saw it in a million years that I’d have this couple days, and I’m very moved by the whole thing.”
So congrats on the trio of trophies. Few others can say they scored two acting awards plus a butt plug.
Cash App customers got the first crack at tickets during Wednesday’s (March 15) presale, giving the everyone else their first look at the It’s All A Blur stage setup and seat map. Guys, Drake is giving us a 360-degree rotating stage. (As a byproduct, “Spin Bout U” live is likely to go crazy.)
Drake’s “It’s All A Blur” tour will have a rotating 360 degree concert stage design pic.twitter.com/jukIxh0iNO
See all of the announced It’s All A Blur Tour dates below. More dates are expected to be added, including Toronto.
06/16 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
06/19 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
06/21 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
06/24 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
06/28 — Miami, FL @ Miami-Dade Arena
07/01 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
07/02 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
07/05 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
07/06 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
07/08 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
07/11 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
07/12 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
07/14 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
07/17 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
07/18 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
07/25 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
07/26 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
07/28 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
07/31 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
08/12 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
08/13 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
08/18 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
08/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
08/22 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
08/25 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
08/28 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
09/01 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
09/05 — Glendale, AZ @ Desert Diamond Arena
Don’t cross PinkPantheress. Obviously, the pop powerhouse can easily write a hit about you, but she’s also got other forms of revenge up her sleeve. In an interview with Power 106, she shared a story about getting back at the person who inspired her famous tracks “Boy’s A Liar” and “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2.”
When asked if she was thankful that the boy was a liar, PinkPantheress laughed. “Actually, funny enough, I didn’t write that song about a boy actually being a liar, but the boy ended up being a liar after the song came out,” she said.
“Foreshadowing,” the interviewer said, “or manifestation.”
“I think it was the manifestation,” she said. “But I am thankful that he did lie, kind of. Although it did annoy me so much that I threatened to hex him. And I tried. But I don’t know if it worked. But my point is, yeah, I guess, in a way, I am happy. Every experience just makes you better.”
“I think if I lied to a girl, and then she wrote a song about it, and it became the No. 1 song, that’s a hex in itself,” the interviewer countered.
PinkPantheress agreed: “That is the hex, isn’t it?”
Donald Trump ain’t doing so hot right now, but even though he’s right now on the cusp of a potential indictment (plus a new look into possible money laundering), he has to be doing better than he was in late 2020 and early 2021. Losing re-election snapped something in his already weird brain. You might recall he even inspired supporters to try and overturn democracy. He was also believing some deeply strange things about alleged voter fraud. But according to one of his closest pals, it could have been even worse.
As per the Atlanta Journal Constitution (as caught by The Daily Beast), Lindsey Graham spoke to a grand jury last year investigating Trump and team’s attempts to flip the vote in Georgia. Five members of the 23-person panel spoke with the local paper, telling them about some of the more shocking things they learned. One tidbit came from the state’s senator, who delved into how frazzled Trump’s brain was after the election leaned towards the winner, Joe Biden.
“He said that during that time, if somebody had told Trump that aliens came down and stole Trump ballots, that Trump would’ve believed it,” the juror revealed.
That shouldn’t come as too much of a shock. Clearly Trump will believe in anything that benefits him. Even the kookiest voter fraud hucksters have stayed away from aliens. But would anyone be surprised if they started using that line, especially given Tucker Carlson is known to float alien conspiracy theories? You could even argue MAGA extra-terrestrials is more likely than some of the tinfoil hat nonsense spouted by the likes of Mike Lindell. Perhaps if he loses the next GOP presidential ticket, Trump will finally crack the seal on an alien invasion.
There’s something weird about watching Shazam: Fury of the Gods in terms of stakes. Now, it can be debated is any superhero movies as of late feel like they have actual stakes or not, but this entry is especially interesting because it feels like, quite possibly, watching a lame-duck franchise. With James Gunn taking over DC at Warner Bros., Shazam: Fury of the Gods has the lowest stakes possible: basically just don’t damage an already polarizing cinematic brand. During the course of this movie, we see an appearance from another, more famous, superhero that I won’t give away, even though it doesn’t matter – but knowing that his or her last appearance in that role might come as a Shazam cameo is pretty weird.
Anyway, these current DC movies just kind of feel like the game is over and the other team has taken a knee and is running out the clock. And under those circumstances, I kind of feel bad for these movies. In the end, people worked hard on them. To the point that when I went to my screening, before the movie started, it felt like I was wasting my time. What’s the point of this?
Now that you know what my headspace was the day I saw Shazam: Fury of the Gods, having said all that, yeah I kind of found myself enjoying it. At least, my expectations were low enough that the four or five laughs I had while watching felt like, “good enough.”
(I can’t help but feel for director David Sandberg, who seems like a genuinely nice guy. And since he started directing these two Shazam movies, he’s worked under multiple regimes and edicts at Warner Bros. Think how stressful it is at your job when you get a new boss. He’s had to do that a few times now. He mentioned how he just kind of wants to make a small horror movie next. Yeah, I don’t blame him for feeling that way.)
It’s not as good as the first Shazam movie, which explored what it’s like to be a superhero when, in reality, you’re still just a kid. In this sequel, that aspect is still mentioned quite a bit, but not really explored. There’s a lot of Billy Batson saying that he can’t do something, then figuring out a way to do it pretty quickly. But where the first movie gave us a lot of Asher Angel as the young Billy, this one really does not give us much of him at all. To the point, there’s a scene late in the movie where Zachary Levi’s Shazam turns back into Billy for what felt like just an excuse for poor Angel to have one more line of dialogue. The same could be said for Adam Brody’s unnamed superhero that goes by Captain Marvel Jr. in the comics, but can’t here for legal reasons. (Though he starts referring to himself as Captain Everypower a few times, which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.)
Obviously, the filmmakers wanted to tap into the chemistry between Zachary Levi’s powered-up Shazam and Jack Dylan Grazer’s unpowered-up Freddy Freeman, so many, many excuses are made so one of them is using the Shazam powers and the other is not. (Two things here. First, Jack Dylan Grazer looks about twice the height compared to what he looked like in the first movie and he’s the best part of this movie. Also, I bet Adam Brody and Asher Angel had a couple of heart-to-hearts about not being in this movie very much.)
The plot is so convoluted it barely matters. Like, honestly. Three immortal sisters (Helen Miran, having a ball; Lucy Liu, and Rachel Zegler) need a magic staff so they can find something they refer to as a seed and avenge the death of their father, Atlas. Standing in their way is Shazam and his family of superheroes. I guess, writing it out, it’s not that complicated. But, boy, this movie sure makes it feel complicated. By the end, there are goblins and monsters and unicorns and a fire-breathing dragon and it all feels like a lot, but there’s a lightheartedness to the whole proceedings that makes it enjoyable and amusing enough. But, at one point, I thought the goal of the sisters was to take away Shazam and his family’s powers? Which happens on and off the entire movie. But it seems they just do that as a means to “the seed” and don’t care about it much one way or another. But like I was saying earlier, once I stopped caring about following the plot, it was a much better experience.
But knowing that, most likely, these movies will end up folded into “the prior regime,” what’s it matter if Philadelphia gets destroyed? (At one point Philadelphia is trapped inside in an inescapable bubble and I found myself thinking, I don’t know, would that be the worst thing?) What’s it matter if Shazam somehow doesn’t live through this movie? The chances of another Shazam movie ever happening looks iffy at best, so watching this under these conditions, it actually wasn’t the worst thing. It truly felt like something that has no repercussions to any future movie, because it probably certainly won’t.
To the point, at my screening there was no post-credit scene because I was told they weren’t done yet, so I do wonder if there were plans for one to exist that teased an eventual showdown between Shazam and Black Adam, because that seems to be where all this was headed until recently. (Though, director David F. Sandberg says this isn’t the case.)
Anyway, I guess it doesn’t really matter. The whole concept of superhero universes, especially recently, is to create a feeling of importance, even when that really isn’t the case. So it’s weird and strangely refreshing to watch one of these where that’s 100 percent not the case.
’Shazam: Fury Of The Gods’ opens on March 17th in theaters everywhere. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.
Detective shows used to be all the rage. Now it seems like they could be again. Poker Face, with Natasha Lyonne as an amateur sleuth and human lie detector, just wrapped its first season, scoring a much-deserved second. Peacock must be happy about the ratings because they’re doubling down, bringing back one of the most beloved detectives of the modern age.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the streamer just greenlit Mr. Monk’s Last Case, which brings back — that’s right — Tony Shalhoub’s Adrian Monk, the brilliant detective with OCD. As per THR, the plot “will find Monk attempting to solve a very personal case that involves his beloved stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.”
Shalhoub’s not the only one returning: Cast members Ted Levine, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Melora Hardin, and Hector Elizondo are all on board as well.
The original show had a good, long run over on the USA Network, lasting eight seasons and 125 episodes. During its tenure, Monk was not just a Boomer staple. It was a critical darling as well. The always welcome Shalhoub won three separate Emmys for his work, as did guest stars John Turturro and Stanley Tucci.
The title suggests this will be the last time we see Adrian Monk, but who knows? Maybe everyone will have such a good time making it that he’ll return every now and then, just like Peter Falk did with Columbo.
Football, depending on who is coaching, can get very complicated. There are complex defensive schemes that mesh man and zone principles, offenses with 20-word long play calls, and option concepts that can turn one play into four or five, depending on what the defense does.
However, the best coaches take the complexities of football and simplify them as much as possible to make them easier to understand and execute. They create ironclad principles that make it very easy for players to determine what they are going to do based solely on what they see the opponent do, allowing them to execute with minimal processing time — just read and react.
The same thing goes for those who make decisions on the roster and who to sign. You can get lost in a sea of data trying to find guys who do what you want to do, matching the stats and testing data with what you see on film. The best talent evaluators have a knack for blending the two and tend to know exactly what they’re looking for at each position group. That’s the case with Bill Belichick, who goes to the NFL Combine every year and ignores who is running the fastest and jumping the highest in shorts, and instead is looking a different, well, asset, as Kirby Smart explained at a coaching clinic.
Kirby Smart said at a coaching clinic that Nick Saban taught him that Bill Belichick goes to the combine to scout players with huge asses. pic.twitter.com/JcmJY6zCxl
“I was at the Dolphins coaching, so we go to Indianapolis for the Combine and I’m sitting there with Coach Saban and he’s trying to teach you the ropes of how to evaluate guys at the Combine…he said, come over here with me, I want you to sit by Bill. I’m like, Bill who? And he’s like, Bill Belichick, I want you to sit by him and listen to him during the Combine as they talk about players. When they get to where the 40 yard dash is…they got behind ’em where the thing starts at. I’m like, why are we here? You can’t time the finish. And he’s like, no, Bill likes to look to see how big their ass is when they get down into that 40 yard stance cause he wants to sign the biggest ass defensive linemen that he can sign. Cause those backers want to line up behind those guys and be protected by ’em, and they wanna have an anchor.”
This tracks with the fact that Belichick built a championship winning defense around noted gigantic human Vince Wilfork as the nose guard. It also clearly left an impact on Smart, whose teams at Alabama, where he was the defensive coordinator under Saban, and Georgia have always had massive defensive tackles — most recently Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter.
Sometimes, football can get unnecessarily complicated, and you gotta just get back to basics, like looking for big asses at the Combine and just signing those guys to be your defensive line.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week sent the country into a tizzy. If a moderate-sized bank like that can fail, is that a bad omen for the entire country? To make matters worse, during a discussion with super-businessman and Shark Tank “shark” Mark Cuban on The Problem with Jon Stewart, the former’s connection cut out at the most awkward and ominous time.
Stewart and Cuban were joined by FDIC chair Sheila Bair, who, like Stewart, was not happy that SVB’s rich stockholders are being bailed out. Cuban argued they were in fact losing big. Stewart didn’t like that.
“The shareholders have taken a haircut of a loss and they are last in line,” said Stewart.
“They’re not even in line,” Cuban pushed back. “It’s not like there was this big saving where we bailed out and the shareholders and all the tech bros came out okay. They got crushed, they got crushed.”
Stewart interrupted him, saying, “Well, I think that’s a little misleading because these are not average depositors so for the people that are going to be getting their money back because it’s not fully guaranteed by the United States, there are people there who had hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean you’ve got Roku that had, I don’t know, $500 million in there. These are not mom and pop investors.”
That’s when something foreboding happened. Cuban was in the middle of saying something about “the entire banking system of the world” when his connection abruptly dropped. That left Stewart and Bair on edge.
“Oh, did we lose him? Son of a bitch,” Stewart joked. “He just said ‘the entire banking system of the world’ and then we lost him! Holy sh*t! Now what do we do? Mark Cuban just created a bank run! The entire banking system of the world…”
“I’m sure he was going to say that it’s perfectly safe and sound,” Bair chimed in.
Cuban, who was doing the chat from his plane, did return to blame the collapse on regulatory failure, only to have his call dropped again.
When news of SVB’s collapse was revealed last week, a lot of people freaked out. Some took their anger out on Jim Cramer, the frequently wrong Mad Money soothsayer who, of course, advised people to buy stock in the bank only last month. There were worse places to direct it, for sure.
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the platform, is currently being probed by federal prosecutors for its ties to Russia’s number one warmonger, Vladimir Putin. According to a report from The Guardian, $8 million in funds were wired to Trump’s company between 2021 and 2022. The money allegedly came from “two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
This isn’t the first time Trump’s media company has come under fire. Back in 2022, it was set to merge with the SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. to become a publicly traded company. That deal would’ve given Trump’s organization $1.3 billion in spending money but it was put on hold after the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC got wind of the merger. Apparently, Trump Media & Technology really needed that money to keep the company afloat, which explains why it may have accepted multi-million-dollar infusions from some shady sources. According to the report, Trump’s company was on the “brink of collapse” with just $12 million in cash at the time.
But the Feds weren’t investigating the former president when they uncovered the laundering scheme, they were looking into where the money came from — Paxum Bank — and Anton Postolnikov, who serves as one the bank’s directors. Postolnikov is believed to be a relation of noted Putin ally Aleksandr Smirnov and his bank is known for servicing “pornography and sex worker industries” that have a high rate of illicit financing.
We all knew Trump as a corrupt businessman, we just didn’t realize he had so many Russian friends.
After spending the past decade fronting the surfy garage rock group La Luz, Shana Cleveland began putting down roots in rural California with her partner and newborn child. Moving back to California not only allowed Cleveland the chance to write music outside year-round, but it also gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in the natural world. The result of her outdoor songwriting sessions is her resplendent third solo album Manzanita.
Nature creeped into this record not only in its title (Manzanita trees are evergreen plants native to California), but also in her use of synthesizers. “They are actually the best vehicle for conveying the sounds of nature (bugs, wind, birds, chainsaws—rural white noise); we used synthesizers as a way of recreating the atmosphere of being outside in the natural world while in the studio,” Cleveland said in a statement.
Throughout most of the tracks on Manzanita, synthesizers hum and lull in the background of the music, while Cleveland’s hypnotic vocals narrate snapshots of domestic life. Songs like “Faces In The Firelight” and “A Ghost” exemplify her’s charming and spectral folk songs led by her nimble fingerpicking.
To celebrate the release of Manzanita, Cleveland sat down with Uproxx to talk Richard Brautigan, Smashing Pumpkins, and the one time her band slept in a former slaughterhouse in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Supernatural, Love, Haunted, California.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
I would like for people to feel at peace with mystery when they listen. And I would like to still be alive and making it.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Seattle.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Hard to choose one. Maybe Richard Brautigan.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Istanbul. Every meal I ate while there with my band La Luz was the best.
What album do you know every word to?
Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Solange at the Hollywood Bowl.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
My stage style is in flux since coming back after Covid and becoming a mom. Lately I gravitate toward outfits that are loose and comfortable and ideally one-of-a-kind.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
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