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Shortly after Mark Hoppus revealed his cancer diagnosis, former Blink-182 bandmate Tom DeLonge shared a message of support. Now, the two have reunited on Hoppus’ Apple Music 1 show After School Radio for a conversation. During their chat, the two spoke about the time DeLonge approached M. Night Shyamalan about directing a Blink-182 video, an idea the director seemed to have taken seriously.

DeLonge said (as Billboard notes):

“Within half an hour, we’re all sitting together and he’s coming up with ideas for a Blink video, and I mean, he did come up with a whole treatment and everything. It was going to cost, whatever it was, $20 million, but I mean, just on your gumption or I don’t know, no f*cks to give, just walk up to somebody and say, ‘Hey, I want you to direct a Blink video.’ I think when he found out what music video budgets really were, he was like, ‘This is so beneath me.’ No, he didn’t say that, but of course, he was like, ‘I’m not going to do this, this is a nightmare.’”

They also reminisced about how they bonded over phallic humor. DeLonge said with a laugh, “We appreciate d*ck jokes in a way that no one else does. It boils down to only that, there is nothing else. It’s that, in my opinion.” Hoppus added. “I think so, because the first time that we met, I think it was d*ck jokes from the beginning in your garage.”

Find the full After School Radio episode here.

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When Meghan McCain announced on July 1 that she’s leaving The View, there was some confusing wording as the conservative commentator said she was not coming back for another season and that her last day would be at “the end of the month” when the show goes on hiatus. However, like all things Meghan, that timeframe wasn’t entirely accurate. The end of July has came and gone, and McCain is still on the air. That’s because her last day is August 6.

According one of her home state’s most prominent newspapers, The Arizona Republic, the daytime talk show has a special episode planned for McCain’s last day, which should be interesting considering she’s been getting routinely shaded by Whoopi Goldberg over the past week. Via AZ Central:

Her last episode co-hosting is Friday, Aug. 6. Among the scheduled guests is her mother, Cindy McCain, a frequent guest on “The View.”

McCain announced her departure at the beginning of July. Among her plans after leaving the show include producing a Lifetime movie, “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff,” starring Heather Locklear.

McCain’s exit will be an unusual time for The View. While her co-stars have made it clear both on the air and in media reports that they don’t particularly care for McCain’s penchant for going on off-topic rants that typically make her the center of attention, the outspoken Republican makes The View trend on social media on a nearly daily basis. Just this week, McCain made Mary Trump trend on Twitter after the conservative co-host bailed on an interview with the former president’s niece, which resulted in a war of words between the two.

As for her replacement, The View is reportedly taking it slow. However, original cast member Debbie Matenopoulos has been publicly angling to fill McCain’s seat.

(Via AZ Central)

The New York Knicks have been awfully busy during the NBA’s free agency period, agreeing to contracts that’ll keep Alec Burks, Nerlens Noel, and Derrick Rose in the Big Apple while coming to terms on a deal with Evan Fournier. On Wednesday morning, the team reportedly positioned itself to make its biggest splash yet, bringing one of the city’s favorite sons to New York for the first time in his career.

Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that the Oklahoma City Thunder would come to terms on a buyout with Kemba Walker. Once that got all sorted out, Walker, a native of the Bronx, would make his way to the Knicks.

The report was confirmed shortly after by Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Walker joined the Thunder earlier this year in a trade that sent Al Horford to the Boston Celtics. He had two years and $74 million remaining on his deal, but instead of playing out that deal, Walker is set to head to Manhattan. While there are concerns about Walker’s ability to stay healthy due to lingering knee issues that plagued him last season, he was a productive player when he took the floor for the Celtics. Walker averaged 19.3 points and 4.9 assists in 31.8 minutes per game last year while connecting on 36 percent of his attempts from three.

The top restricted free agent of this summer was, undoubtedly, John Collins after what he did in his fourth season with the Atlanta Hawks, helping to lead them to the Eastern Conference Finals. While it wasn’t clear if Collins would take whatever offer Atlanta brought to the table — thanks in large part to the fact that he had turned down offers from the team to extend before hitting free agency — the big man was able to come to terms on a deal to stay with the team that drafted him.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the two sides came to terms on a five-year deal with a player option that will pay Collins $125 million.

Collins turned down a 4-year, $90 million extension prior to the season to pursue possible max money this offseason and made that decision look smart as he backed up the best year of his career with a similarly impressive campaign on a winner, which he parlayed into one more year and a little more cash. Collins averaged 17.6 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in 2020-21, shooting 55.6 percent from the field and 39.9 percent from three-point range, as he has established himself as a legitimate deep threat.

That ability to pop out to the three-point line, as well as being a significant rim threat as a roll man makes him incredibly valuable next to Trae Young, and any questions those two could coexist to lead a winner were answered with Atlanta’s run to the ECF.

Rihanna hasn’t been active in music for a few years now, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been working hard. The opposite is true, as she has been busy building Fenty into a huge empire. All that work has paid off, as Forbes now declares that she is a billionaire.

They estimate her worth to be $1.7 billion, with $1.4 million of that value coming from Fenty Beauty, of which Rihanna owns 50 percent. Savage x Fenty (which has an estimated value of $270 million) and her music career make up the bulk of the rest of her value. All in all, this makes her the richest female musician in the word and the second-richest female entertainer (behind Oprah).

Meanwhile, Rihanna previously hinted that she’d like to do something with music this year, saying, “2021 is a little unknown for everybody and nobody is sure what restrictions there are going to be. My creativity is within my control, though, and I want to take my music and my brands to a different level.” Before that, she noted, “I’m not just going to put music out because people are craving it. I’m going to make it worth the wait – and it will be worth the wait.”

Check out our recent ranking of Rihanna’s songs here.

Annette is so much more than the movie where Adam Driver sings while performing cunnilingus on Marion Cotillard. It’s also a musical from Leos Carax, the brilliant director of Holy Motors, with music from Sparks (it’s been a big year for brothers Ron and Russell), and the “weirdest A Star is Born riff ever.” But yes, it’s also a movie where two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver sings while performing cunnilingus on Oscar winner Marion Cotillard. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper would never.

“I just met someone,” Driver’s stand-up comedian character says about Cotillard’s opera singer in the trailer above. “She looked at me and smiled. What I see in her is obvious. What she sees in me, that’s a little more puzzling.” She probably sees a centaur.

Here’s more:

Los Angeles, today. Henry (Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny, will turn their lives upside down. A film by director Leos Carax (Holy Motors), with story and music by Ron & Russel Mael of Sparks, this original musical is a journey of passion, love, and fame.

Annette premieres on Amazon Prime Video on August 20.

We all copied her hairstyle back in the mid-1990s, even though her hairstylist was “stoned out of his mind” when he created it and she herself hated the cut. Now it’s time we take another life lesson from Jennifer Aniston and cut the people who won’t get vaccinated against COVID — or refuse to share their vaccination status (which, let’s face it, means they haven’t been vaccinated) — out of our lives and daily routines.

InStyle sat down with the Friends star for the cover of their September issue to talk about a wide range of topics, which eventually came around to COVID and how she’s been dealing with the lockdown. Aniston admitted that, like so many of us, she’s spent too much time watching the news, which is probably a bad thing. But that she cannot wrap her head around the number of anti-vaxxers that still exist, even after witnessing the havoc the COVID pandemic has wreaked on the world:

“[T]here’s still a large group of people who are anti-vaxxers or just don’t listen to the facts. It’s a real shame. I’ve just lost a few people in my weekly routine who have refused or did not disclose [whether or not they had been vaccinated], and it was unfortunate. I feel it’s your moral and professional obligation to inform, since we’re not all podded up and being tested every single day. It’s tricky because everyone is entitled to their own opinion — but a lot of opinions don’t feel based in anything except fear or propaganda.”

If only Aniston’s stance of COVID vaccines could catch on like “The Rachel.”

(Via The Wrap)

The reports of Harley Quinn’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Actually, that’s not entirely true: she died in Batman’s arms in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, unbeknownst to Margot Robbie, who has played the character in two, soon-to-be three movies, Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, and The Suicide Squad. The Oscar-nominated actress recently said that she needed a break from Harley because she’s “exhausting,” leading fans to wonder when she’ll appear in her next movie.

Turns out, it might not be too long.

“No, I’ve had enough of a break. I’m ready to do her again,” Robbie told Entertainment Tonight. “I did Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad back-to-back, so that was a lot of Harley all in a one year period, but that was a while ago now.” Filming for Birds of Prey took place in early 2019, while The Suicide Squad took up the end of that year into 2020; it wrapped just before the pandemic hit. She added, “I’m always ready for more Harley!”

Robbie has said that she would “love” to see what Harley and Poison Ivy have in the Harley Quinn animated series be depicted on the big screen, which is a much better idea than the seemingly scrapped Harley/Joker movie where they kidnap Dr. Phil. I would also be happy with a Harley and King Shark road trip buddy comedy. Make it happen, James Gunn.

(Via ET)

Want to make someone crack up? Remind them of the time that Selena Gomez, who suffers from lupus, had to have a kidney transplant. Because debilitating autoimmune diseases are hilarious! For the second time in less than nine months, the actor/singer was forced to call out people who should know better for making light of the life-threatening surgery she underwent in 2017 due to a debilitating autoimmune disease. As Variety reports, the joke was made in an episode of The Good Wife spin-off The Good Fight, in which a group of lawyers attempt to write some jokes but first have to figure out which topics are too taboo to joke about. They come up with three things: necrophilia, autism, and Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant.

The scene sparked immediate outrage with Gomez’s fans, and on Tuesday the 29-year-old tweeted her own thoughts on the matter:

“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently. I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.”

But rather than issue an apology, The Good Fight team seems to be taking a cue from its own legalese and making the argument a semantic one—at least if an insider who spoke to Variety is to be believed:

“If you watch the episode in full, the reference to Selena Gomez is part of a discussion the characters are having about topics that are not okay to make fun of and the idea of cancel culture and being canceled for telling a bad joke. The reference is that Selena Gomez’s transplant is not something you can joke about.”

Yeah… it doesn’t quite work that way. And if the show was trying to make a statement on cancel culture, there were plenty of other avenues to take that didn’t yet again turn a young woman’s health issues into a punch line. Back in late November, Gomez found herself in a similar predicament when Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot made a joke at her expense and ended up issuing an apology, editing the episode, and making a donation to Gomez’s charity. Gomez has spoken openly about her health problems, her battles with depression, and being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It’s your move, The Good Fight.

(Via Variety)

There has been an outpouring of support for universally beloved rapper Biz Markie since his recent death. Now, Barack and Michelle Obama have shared some words as well, via a letter sent to the rapper’s widow, Tara Hall.

The July 30-dated letter, a photo of which Hall shared with TMZ, is signed by both Obamas and reads:

“Dear Tara:

We wanted to extend our heartfelt condolences to you as you reflect on Biz Markie’s life. We didn’t know Biz Markie as long or as well as you and your loved ones did. But like others who admired him, he holds a special place in our hearts as one of rap’s most innovative stylists and as a great man.

Biz Markie brightened every room he was in, and we will always appreciate him for his early support in 2008, bringing people together to ‘Party with a Purpose’ and get out the vote. His legacy in hip hop will span generations just as it has for nearly four decades.

We hope you take comfort in all the fond memories you have with him. Please know that we are holding you, Averi, and your entire family in our thoughts and prayers.”

Hall told TMZ she was “stunned” after receiving the letter and plans to have it framed. She’s also starting the Biz Markie’s Just A Friend Charity Fund to support organizations the rapper was already helping, including food banks in Maryland, Bread For The City in Washington DC), and Soles4Souls.