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Tommy Lee has revealed a lot lately, and he revealed even more this weekend at a show in Las Vegas with Motley Crue. After he shared a picture of his penis on Instagram last month, which was later removed, Lee shared that he has joined OnlyFans.

“In case you guys are f*cking living under a rock, I’ve been in trouble a little bit lately,” Lee said to the crowd in a fan-captured video. “I wanna see what kinda trouble we can get into tonight. We are in f*cking Las Vegas, right? And I think that we should dispel that f*cking bullsh*t ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.’ F*ck that. Let’s f*cking share it with the world.”

He continued, saying “I showed you my sh*t. They took it down off the internet…What I’ve done is I have now gone over to a place where you can be free as f*ck. And you can show anybody whatever the f*ck you want, and they don’t f*cking take it down.”

He then pulled down his pants, revealing the word “OnlyFans” written on his butt cheeks in marker.

Later that night, Lee shared a NSFW Instagram post, containing a video clip of himself mooning his followers. The link to his OnlyFans can be found in the post’s caption.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers did something they’ve never done in their long history as a college football program on Saturday night, when they scored 42 points at home and still lost to Georgia Southern — a team they paid $1.4 million to come to Lincoln to play the game.

Nebraska was 254-0 in program history when scoring 35 or more points at home prior to Saturday night, and having that streak snapped was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Trev Alberts and the Nebraska athletic department. On Sunday, embattled head coach Scott Frost was fired, which everyone had expected was coming later this season, but happened earlier than expected after dropping to 1-2 in dismal fashion.

What makes the timing so stunning is that Frost’s buyout drops from $15 million to $7.5 million if he was fired after October 1 of this year, so most everyone anticipated Nebraska would just gut it out until then. However, the team was so bad coming off a 3-9 season that they just couldn’t wait and clearly some wealthy boosters stepped up and said they’ll cover the extra $7.5 million.

Frost went 16-31 in his four-plus seasons at his alma mater, failing to come close to replicating the success he had at UCF prior. His Huskers were famously terrible in one-score games, which is usually an indicator of poor coaching, and eventually bad luck could no longer be reasoned as the excuse for their struggles executing in close games. Where Frost’s career goes from here is a fascinating question, as he was once a rising star who now figures to go back to a coordinator gig for awhile before getting another crack at a head coaching job given how disastrous his Nebraska tenure was.

For the Huskers, their search begins for another new coach, as they find themselves lost in the morass of the Big Ten West, despite still striving to recapture the glory days of old. Whoever steps into this vacancy will have their work cut out for them, especially as the Big Ten only figures to get more difficult with the addition of USC and potentially others.

Like a lot of us, the pandemic has not been kind to the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, having a rip-roaring time here once again). Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion (which had its world premiere Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival) is set in 2020 during the worst part of the pandemic (don’t worry, I don’t like “pandemic” movies either, but this does it a great way … I’ll explain in a bit). And Benoit Blanc spends most oh his time hiding in his bathroom, soaking in his bathtub, reading books and playing games on Zoom with a group of friends that includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Then, one day, a mysterious box arrives that, after Benoit solves a few puzzles, opens up to reveal an invitation to a private island with a mansion called the Glass Onion, to attend “a murder mystery party” hosted by “a disrupter” named Miles Bron (Edward Norton, in full-on fast talking asshole mode here, which is fantastic). Seemingly bored, Benoit Blanc decides to venture back out into the world and accepts the invitation.

The others invited to the game are also all considered “disrupters”: There’s Claire Debella, the governor of Connecticut (Kathryn Hahn); entrepreneur Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe); Lionel Toussaint, a scientist (Leslie Odom Jr.); Birdie Jar, a fashion designer (Kate Hudson); and social media star Duke Cody (Dave Bautista). When Benoit Blanc arrives at the island, a problem arises: Miles Bron recognizes the famous detective, but informs Benoit he wasn’t invited and asks what he’s doing there in the first place. (Which sets up a funny back and forth about if the murder mystery game has already started.) “Is you telling me I’m not invited part of the game?”, he asks, with Miles frustratingly assuring Benoit Blanc that this is not the case. Benoit then concludes that one of the other guests has invited him there, and that can only mean whoever it was believes a real murder will happen while on this island. And it will most likely be Miles as the victim. Miles then extends a formal invitation to Benoit Blanc.

I mentioned earlier this takes place in 2020 during the worst of the pandemic. I usually don’t like these handful of movies. Being in New York City at that time was, let’s say, not fun. But the way Johnson handles it is the perfect way to do it. For instance, Kathryn Hawn accepting her invitation from a delivery driver but forgetting to wear a mask then doing that “tuck your shirt over your mouth” move we’ve all done at one point or another. Or Kate Hudson showing up in a “mask” that only consists of a few strings. It also would explain why all of these seemingly busy people would be so eager to travel to a private island for a weekend where the rules of the pandemic no longer apply. So far, this is the best use of the pandemic I’ve seen in a movie, used for comedic effect using daily situations we’ve all had to endure.

As you might have guessed from the title, this is a movie with many layers that aren’t what they appear to be and become more clear as everything is pulled back. (Also, the walrus was Paul.) This is about as far as I feel comfortable going with the actual plot of the movie other than that there is a stellar 2010: The Year We Make Contact reference that I laughed very hard at, then realized no one else was laughing. (I guess I’m the only one who has watched 2010: The Year We Make Contact recently. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a lot better than you probably think it is.) Also, Glass Onion makes great use of the word “fiddlesticks,” which I’ve decided to add to my daily vocabulary.

It’s so great Daniel Craig has found a role he really loves. He’s walked back some of the things he’s said about playing Bond, but it’s pretty obvious his heart wasn’t in it anymore. I truly believe he appreciates what Bond did for his career, but he had grown tired of the strain it takes to play Bond. In these Knives Out movies he doesn’t really have to do any stunts. Instead he gets to do a fun voice, make funny faces, and just have a great time. I hope Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc forever.

And on that same note, Rian Johnson, inexplicably, became one of the most polarizing directors working today. (I’m going out of my way not to say the name of the particular movie in question because I don’t want it popping up in a Google search, and then people start yelling at me on Twitter.) If you would have told me this in 2012, there is no way I’d have ever believed this. It’s truly baffling. But having said that, it’s so great he has this series, born from his love of the murder mystery genre. Last month, he programmed a few movies at the Paris Theater in New York City and I went to the 1978 version of Death on the Nile and a World War II-era film called Green For Danger – and you can see where a lot of his influences for these Knives Out movies comes from. Obviously the genre itself, but I’m talking about specific scenes. (He also programed The Last of Sheila, a movie I watched somewhat recently, but it’s also a movie where there are specific moments he’s referencing.)

Glass Onion is just a great time watching a movie. It’s a rare movie (especially at a film festival where I have places I have to be) in which I wished it were longer. I would have gladly spent more time with these characters, played by actors who are all obviously having a wonderful time. I already miss them. Make more movies like this. What fun.

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This article originally appeared on 01.15.21

Server Flavaine Carvalho was waiting on her last table of the night at Mrs. Potatohead’s, a family restaurant in Orlando, Florida when she noticed something peculiar.

The parents of an 11-year-old boy were ordering food but told her that the child would be having his dinner later that night at home. She glanced at the boy who was wearing a hoodie, glasses, and a face mask and noticed a scratch between his eyes.

A closer look revealed a bruise on his temple.

So Carvalho walked away from the table and wrote a note that said, “Do you need help?” and showed it to the boy from an angle where his parents couldn’t see.

The boy shook his head, no. “I knew it that he was afraid,” she said.

Carvalho made two more attempts until the boy nodded yes.

The server then called the owner of the restaurant to let her know that she was going to call the police on the boy’s parents.

“SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING: An Orlando waitress saw a family withholding food from a boy at a table. She noticed bruises on his body and created this sign to secretly ask the child if he needed help. When he signaled “Yes” she called us. The stepfather & mother were arrested.”

u201cSEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING: An Orlando waitress saw a family withholding food from a boy at a table. She noticed bruises on his body and created this sign to secretly ask the child if he needed help. When he signaled “Yes” she called us. The stepfather & mother were arrested.u201d

— Orlando Police (@Orlando Police)
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The police arrived and arrested the boy’s father

on one count of third-degree child abuse. His mother Kristen Swann was arrested with two counts of child neglect. A four-year-old girl was taken from the family by authorities. They say she showed no signs of abuse.

Detectives spoke with the boy and learned his parents frequently withheld food from him as a form of punishment. He was 20 pounds underweight. After searching his body, they discovered that he was nearly covered in bruises.

His father had recently beat him with a broomstick and back scratcher.

The boy told detectives that he was once hung upside down from his ankles in a door frame by his father and had been restrained by being strapped to a furniture dolly.

“To be honest what this child had gone through was torture,” Detective Erin Lawler said. “There was no justification for it in any realm of the world. I’m a mother and seeing what that 11-year-old had to go through, it shocks your soul.”

“Chief Orlando Rolon, @OrlandoPolice, with waitress Flavaine Carvalho (middle) who saved an abused 11yo when he was dining with his family. They say the boy was “tortured.” The full details of his salvation on @fox35orlando at 5/6pm. #FOX35 #news #crime #update”

u201cChief Orlando Rolon, @OrlandoPolice, with waitress Flavaine Carvalho (middle) who saved an abused 11yo when he was dining with his family. They say the boy was u201ctortured.u201d The full details of his salvation on @fox35orlando at 5/6pm. #FOX35 #news #crime #updateu201d

— Matt Trezza FOX 35 (@Matt Trezza FOX 35)
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Carvalho’s quick thinking and bravery may have saved the lives of two children.

“This could have been a homicide situation if she had not have intervened,” Orlando Police Chief Orlando Rolon said.

“The lesson here for all of us is to recognize when we see something that isn’t right to act on it… This saved the life of a child,” he added.

The restaurant’s owner, Rafaela Cabede, hopes that Carvalho’s bravery inspires others to look out for signs of abuse as well.

“We understand that this has to encourage other people that when you see something, say something,” Cabede said. “We know when we see a situation that is wrong, we know what’s the right thing to do. We know that speaking up is the right thing to do. But it takes more than acknowledging it. It takes courage.

This article originally appeared on 01.27.21

There are few things as frightening to a parent than losing your child in a crowded place like a shopping mall, zoo, or stadium. The moment you realize your child is missing, it’s impossible not to consider the terrifying idea they may have been kidnapped.

A woman in New Zealand recently lost her son in a Kmart but was able to locate him because of a potentially life-saving parenting hack she saw on TikTok a few months ago.

The woman was shopping at the retailer when she realized her two-year-old son Nathan was missing. She immediately told a friend to alert the staff to ensure he didn’t leave through the store’s front exit.

“Another friend searched the area he was last seen,” the mom wrote in a Facebook post.

The mother began looking for him by rummaging through clothes racks and running through the aisles.

It was the “scariest 10 minutes of my life” she later wrote.

But then she remembered a parenting hack she saw on TikTok by blogger Jess Martini. “If your child goes missing, screw the stares and start calling out their description,” the mother recalled.

“I’m missing a little boy, he’s wearing a yellow shirt and has brown hair. He’s two years old and his name is Nathan!” she called out to the rest of the store while reminding herself not to “break down” in tears.

“You need people to understand you loud and clear,” she said.

The mother’s calls immediately deputized everyone who heard them to begin looking for the child. It was like multiplying the search by a factor of 10. “I turned an aisle and heard ‘He’s here!'” she wrote. “I turned back the way I came and there he was. A man had walked past him after hearing me calling out.”

She immediately thanked the man, realizing that if she hadn’t called out he may have never known the child was missing. “Nate would have walked past him and he wouldn’t have blinked,” she said.

In November, parenting blogger Jess Martini posted a video sharing the best way for parents to locate a missing child. It’s great advice because the knee-jerk response is usually to just call out their name or silently run around looking.

@jesmartini PSA that I feel can save kids and I’ve used- if your child goes missing in public #momsoftiktok #PSA #nojudgement #fyp #4up #besafe #parentsoftiktok ♬ original sound – Jess martini

“To all parents out there, if your child goes missing, do not search in silence or just call out their name,’ Martini says in the video. “Shout out loud and clear. Say they’re missing, give a description and repeat, repeat, repeat!”

“Everyone will be on alert, and if someone is trying to take off with your kid, it will decrease the chances of them getting away,” she added.

The advice is a great reminder to make a mental note of what your child is wearing when you go out, so if they go missing, you can easily provide a description. It also proof that when a parent needs help, most people are more than willing to lend a hand.

Episode three of Pod Yourself The Wire is now available early at Patreon.com/frotcast. Episode two is now available for free.

This week on Pod Yourself The Wire , D’angelo and the boys are playing chess, but Matt, Vince and their guest are playing 3D checkers (3D=3 dads). Comedian and host of the Out For Smokes Podcast, Mike Recine stops by to talk about The Wire season One episode Three, “The Buys.”

“The Buys” marks the first appearance of late great Michael K. Williams’s iconic stick-up man character, Omar Little. Omar’s whistling, robbing, smoking, and generally looking cool as hell while McNulty continues to be everyone’s favorite irish f*ckboy who would literally rather get wrapped up in a months-long wiretap investigation than go to therapy. He also has sex. The scene is long, breathy, and hotter than a fresh order of Baltimore’s favorite lunch, lake trout.

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Gucci Mane and Keyshia Ka’Oir’s family is growing by one. In a post shared to their one-year-old son Ice‘s Instagram page, which is managed by Gucci and Ka’Oir, the two couple revealed the news this past Friday.

“I’m gonna be a big brother,” read Ice’s post. In the post is a video clip of Ice pushing a Little Tikes car, with Gucci’s song “Mrs. Davis” playing in the background, notably, the lyrics, “Changed your name to Mrs. Davis, and our bond is super sacred / Let’s have another baby / Ice needs somebody to play with.” Also in the post is an image of a sonogram.

In an interview with Billboard last year, Gucci opened up about fatherhood, revealing that he enjoys the day-to-day challenges that come with being a parent.

“I never knew how much attention you got to pay to a baby,” said Gucci. “It’s not easy. It’s a great thing and I love it, but it’s definitely challenging to be a parent.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Gucci said, “Having a baby definitely made me less critical of my parents. Now I see that we’re all humans and do the best we can.”

Gucci Mane is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

It was supposed to be over quickly. When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, everyone expected the neighboring nation to fold within days. Instead Ukraine fought back. Instead one nation after another turned on Russia. Instead Russia faced untold sanctions and fleeing businesses. Throughout it all, state TV — and a handful of Americans — have tried to spin it as a win. But now, amid ongoing defeats, even some of Vladimir Putin’s biggest cheerleaders are turning on him.

As per The New York Times, bloggers who’ve stuck by Putin’s side over the last six months-plus have finally been complaining. When the Russian president threw a big to-do for the 875th anniversary of Moscow — while the nation’s soldiers were hastily retreated from parts of northeastern Ukraine they once controlled — some were appalled by the dissonance.

“You’re throwing a billion-ruble party,” one pro-Putin blogger wrote. “What is wrong with you? Not at the time of such a horrible failure.”

While Russian State TV has simply been merely depressed by the setbacks, they stop short of criticism. Not so on Telegram, where content can’t be policed and where attacks on Putin and military leaders have reportedly been growing. For one thing, bloggers — some of whom are embedded with the troops — been reporting on the difficulties Russian soldiers face, from poor leadership to supply shortages. It was bloggers who first reported that Ukraine may push back against Russian forces in the northeast, which they then did.

“It’s time to punish the commanders who allowed these kinds of things,” another blogger wrote after Russian forces were driven out of the northeast. Another called the retreat a “catastrophe.” One, Yuri Podolyaka, told his 2.3 million Telegram followers that Russians may “cease to trust the Ministry of Defense and soon the government as a whole.”

Mind you, this does not mean that the tide is turning against the war amongst Russians. As Dmitri Kuznets, an analyst who reports for the Russian-language news outlet Meduza, explains, “I think the biggest group among these people believes that it is necessary to fight harder and carry out a mobilization.” In other words, they don’t want Russia to give up the fight.

(Via NYT)

In The Fabelmans, we basically spend two and a half hours watching Steven Spielberg going through self-therapy. After its premiere Saturday night here at the Toronto International Film Festival, Spielberg himself alluded to the audience that this, indeed, served as therapy. At this point, if Steven Spielberg wants to make a movie an explore how he became the person he did through the lens of his parents’ (played by Paul Dano and Michelle Williams as Burt and Mitzi Fabelman) fraught relationship, he’s certainly earned that right. It’s an interesting scenario here because, on its surface, a young man watching his parents slowly break up over a few years while, at the same time, discovering what he truly loves (in this case, if you didn’t know, “making movies”) isn’t all that unique of a concept. But the fact we know Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle, who is terrific and somehow really does encompass the spirit of Steven Spielberg) is a stand-in for the most successful director of the last 47 years and literally shaped the definition of popular culture, yes, this seems like a topic worth exploring.

This is a strange thing to say, but I thought about Weird: The Al Yankovic Story a few times while watching The Fabelmans and these movies are direct polar opposites of each other. (Both Steven Spielberg and Weird Al would probably be happy to hear that.) Whereas Weird is Weird Al’s fictional account of his origins that purposefully leans into the trope of, “Here’s how I came up with the idea for ‘My Bologna,’” for each of his songs, there’s none of that in The Fabelmans. There’s no scene of Sammy Fabelman at the beach seeing a shark and saying, “Boy, that thing sure has some jaws, [wink wink].” (Though, now that I think about it, maybe I would also like to see Weird Al take a crack at a Steven Spielberg origin story, too.) Actually, the closest this comes to happening is a funny “wink wink” moment to The Fabelmans becoming a movie someday. (Spoiler, it does become a movie someday.)

Young Sammy Fabelman lives with his parents and two younger sisters in New Jersey. Sammy is taken to to his first movie, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth.* The movie sticks with him, especially the climatic train crash, to the point he can no longer sleep at night. His father buys him a train set in an effort to show him how they work. Worried he is going to break the nice, new train set from crashing the cars into each other so often, Sammy’s mother suggests he film the train accident, so that he can watch it as many times as he wants without breaking the train set. So Sammy picks up a camera and goes to work. (In the future, Sammy will direct Minority Report.)

*I recently watched The Greatest Show on Earth when I was watching all the Best Picture winners before this year’s Academy Awards. It’s not a very good movie and somehow won Best Picture over High Noon. But, damn, that train crash is really something else. And I can totally see how a scene like that would affect a kid for weeks. I saw The Empire Strikes Back around that same age and I’m pretty sure it messed me up for life.

Also hanging around a lot is Sammy’s “Uncle Benny” (Seth Rogen), who is not actually Sammy’s uncle (this is usually a bad sign) who seems to be really great friends with Sammy’s mom, Mitzi. When Sammy accidentally films Mitzi and Benny in an intimate moment years later, it sets off a series of cascading events that tears apart the fabric of every single one of Sammy’s family relationships. But he still loves making his movies, a “hobby” that Sammy’s dad, Burt, thinks is sort of a waste of time and wishes Sammy would concentrate more on algebra. “Uncle Benny” even, strangely enough, winds up moving to Arizona with the rest of the family after Burt gets a better job offer.

So, Michelle Williams will get a lot of attention and, yes, very well might win the Oscar for Supporting Actress. But I want to talk about Paul Dano here. This is a super interesting performance. From the above description, you might think Dano’s performance hinges on a lot of yelling about “that damn camera,” or whatever. But Dano really does present Burt as one of the nicest people to ever walk this Earth. Constantly internalizing his son’s waning attention and his marriage falling apart at the hands of who he thought was his best friend, while all the time remaining a pleasant human being. This seems extremely difficult to pull off. We see the pain in Dano’s face, but he rarely tells us about that pain or emotes that pain. He’s a good father who is just trying to be realistic that his son isn’t going to grow up one day and direct Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. (Even though Sammy would grow up to direct Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.)

Also of note is Judd Hirsch who shows up for a brief moment as Sammie’s great uncle Boris, who is actually a relative and has worked in Hollywood and convinces Sammy to chase his dreams in maybe the most aggressive way possible. And, well, Boris’s advice? It paid off because Sammy will one day grow up to direct Munich.

My favorite part of The Fabelmans is when the family moves to northern California. Sammy is constantly hounded by high school bullies and also starts dating an extremely Christian girl who wants him to accept Jesus into his soul. It’s here that Sammy uses his filmmaking skills to seek revenge on his bullies. It’s also here that Steven Spielberg uses his filmmaking skills to finally exact revenge on his bullies 58 years later. I truly believe part of the reason why this movie exists is for revenge. There are a couple people out there who are going to feel pretty lousy about themselves after seeing a movie in which the most famous filmmaker of a generation publicly calls them out. This is a sweet movie that has a mean undercurrent and I admire that about it. Revenge against bullies is a good thing.

After the premiere, Steven Spielberg assured the crowd this was not his last movie and any reports of such were false. I can see why people might think that though, on the surface. He turned down another Indiana Jones movie to make this and it does feel like one last look back. There’s even nods in The Fabelmans to why Spielberg shoots movies at the angles he does and who gave him that advice in the first place. But after you see The Fabelmans you realize this man will never stop making movies. It truly his his life. And, here, he is inviting us in to see how and why that all happened. (Well, “inviting” … with the purchase of a one ticket, please.)

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Week 1 of the NFL season started on Thursday with the Buffalo Bills thumping the Los Angeles Rams, and on Saturday night, the Rams got some company in being knocked out in the early season.

Longtime NFL running backs Adrian Peterson and Le’Veon Bell faced off at the Social Gloves boxing event on Saturday night and, while it was sparsely attended, it did feature quite the finish for those who did venture out to watch. The two former All-Pros traded blows with Peterson ending up on the losing end, as he got knocked out cold by Bell in the fifth and final round with a vicious straight right hand that bent Peterson backwards.

You can see on the slow motion replay from behind Bell that Peterson goes out on his feet almost as soon as the punch lands, falling straight back with glossy eyes.

Hopefully Peterson is alright, as he surely took enough damage as an NFL running back, but while it seems the celebrity boxing bubble has burst a bit (or at least, interest has declined considerably) those that tuned in did get some fireworks in the final round. Bell very well may continue pursuing boxing, but I hope Peterson hangs up the gloves after this one.