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Kanye West recently declared that he intends to run for president, which has prompted much conversation. The rapper doesn’t seem to have a ton of support for his POTUS bid: Elon Musk was originally on his side, but he seemed to change his mind. Chance The Rapper defended Kanye’s bid, but later acknowledged “the improbability of Ye winning” the election. It appears that voters might not have Kanye’s back either, according to the results of a recent presidential poll.

Citing data from Redfield & Wilton Strategies, Political Polls — “a non-partisan group” focused on “trusted political polls, predictions and election night results” — notes that in a voting intention poll conducted on July 9, 48 percent of respondents said they will vote for Joe Biden, while 39 percent supported Donald Trump. West did not fare well in the poll, earning only two percent of the votes. 2,000 registered voters in the United States were polled, meaning that Kanye earned the support of about 40 respondents. That ties Kanye with Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen.

Kanye has involved himself in more than politics lately. He recently signed a huge deal with Gap, teased an animated show with Kid Cudi, shared a new song with Travis Scott, unveiled a streaming platform, and paid tribute to his late mother with a new song.

Colin Jost’s memoir A Very Punchable Face is out today, and in it, the SNL head writer discusses growing up in Staten Island, the time Jimmy Buffett saved his life (though, in a way, “Math Suks” saved all of our lives), and his relationship with Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson. The couple, who got engaged in 2019, first met in 2006, but Johansson’s first memory of her future-husband came four years later when she guest-hosted SNL.

In November 2010, Johansson starred in a parody of MTV’s then-popular Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant reality series called “MTV: Maternity Television.” The sketch was pitched and written by Jost, whose confidence ScarJo was immediately drawn to. “It was some dumb parody that he had written, and he was in there partly directing this segment we had to do,” Johansson told the Hollywood Reporter. “That’s my first memory of him. He seemed very confident at the time. I don’t know if he felt that way, but in that environment, if you’re not confident as a writer, your stuff just never gets produced.”

This is their meet-cute.

Jost was also recently asked by Entertainment Weekly to name his favorite ScarJo performance (this is obviously his favorite — and most uncomfortable — ScarJo impression). “She’s made a lot of great movies,” he answered, wisely, “but I would say Lost in Translation. When I saw it, I guess in the theater, I just thought her and Bill [Murray] together was such a great performance. It was a beautiful movie. It’s funny now looking back, because I obviously never watched those movies thinking, someday I might marry someone in this movie.” What if he said “We Bought a Zoo“? Is that grounds for calling off the marriage?

(Via EW)

Kanye West’s presidential bid has been a big topic of conversation in recent days, and now John Legend appears to have addressed the situation.

Legend began a series of tweets last night by explaining why he believes not every artist needs to speak out about politics, writing, “Reporters always ask me if more artists should speak out about politics. I always say ummmmmm not necessarily. It ain’t for everybody. If you’re more comfortable just making bops, do that. We need that in our lives too! If you are going to speak out, try to do your homework. Read about it. Talk to activists and organizers and people impacted. Be open to evolution and changing your mind. Be intentional and strategic. And think about the impact of your words on the real lives of real people.”

He then seemed to more directly address the Kanye situation, discussing “the real world implications of rooting for a futile 3rd party bid” and how it’s important to have an impactful leader during these trying times:

“Part of an artist’s job is to imagine a different future. I appreciate the desire to break free from the strictures of the 2-party system in America, for instance. But you can’t divorce that conversation from the real world implications of rooting for a futile 3rd party bid. And the real world implications of electing (or reelecting) someone who doesn’t know how to run the government are particularly urgent and impactful in the middle of a pandemic that’s been so much more deadly due to an incompetent President.

This is not merely an intellectual exercise. It’s life and death.”

Find Legend’s tweets below.

Last week, the Los Angeles Police Department revealed they had arrested five suspects who were allegedly involved in the murder of Pop Smoke. Now, charges have been handed out: the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced yesterday that four men, all teenagers, have been arrested and charged with murdering the late rapper.

Two of the accused are adults: Corey Walker is 19 years old and Keandre Rodgers is 18. Additionally, a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old, who were not named due to them being minors, were each charged with one count of murder and robbery in juvenile court. If Walker and Rodgers are convicted as charged, they could potentially face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. The DA’s office notes that “a decision on whether to seek capital punishment will be made at a later date.” Currently, the case is still under investigation by the LAPD.

The announcement did not include any mention of Jaquan Murphy, a third adult man who was previously named as a suspect and was booked for attempted murder.

LAPD Captain Jon Tippet previously confirmed the department believes the defendants got Smoke’s address from a photo that Smoke had posted on Instagram, and that they did not know the rapper personally.

TMZ reports Tory Lanez was arrested Sunday morning after an altercation at a Hollywood Hills house party apparently turned violent. Police charged the Canadian rapper with possession of a concealed weapon. Megan Thee Stallion was reportedly also in the car and suffered a minor injury to her foot from broken glass.

Police were called to the party in response to a “disturbance” around 4:30am which witnesses reported began with an argument near an SUV parked outside and ended with gunfire. After someone fired shots in the air, the SUV fled the scene. Witnesses gave officers a description of the vehicle, from which they were able to locate it shortly afterward. Police searched the vehicle and found gun. Tory was charged with a felony, carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle.

Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion previously got into some trouble while spending time in each other’s company during quarantine. Fans noticed during a livestream of Tory’s Quarantine Radio that the two rappers weren’t observing social distancing rules and teased the two with dating rumors. Those rumors will likely be exacerbated by the news that they were partying together, but considering how their last few rendezvous have turned out, they might want to stick with “Netflix and chill” for their next few “dates.”

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On Monday, news broke that Glee alum Naya Rivera, who had gone missing last week, was confirmed dead following a multi-day search. It appears to have been a tragic accident. Rivera had gone boating with her four-year-old son on Lake Piru in Ventura County, California, but by late afternoon her son was discovered without his mother. She was 33 years old.

Though she was best-known for playing the singing cheerleader Santana Lopez on the beloved musical comedy show, from its pilot on, Rivera had a long and diverse career, starting when when she was a baby who appeared in Kmart commercials. The younger Rivera made appearances on everything from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to Family Matters to Baywatch to CSI: Miami. After her Glee breatkthrough, she moved into music while acting on shows like Lifetime’s Devious Maids and YouTube Red’s Step Up: High Water.

In other words, she amassed a lot of friends and fans, many of whom took to Twitter after the news of her passing broke to memorialize the newly departed performer. That included fellow Glee colleagues:

It included bands whose songs Rivera covered on Glee.

It included people who worked with her, even if briefly.

And people who met her.

Or knew her.

It included fellow performers.

And people who were just fans.

And it included people she inspired.

Some people posted a short film she directed for Immigrant Heritage Month — a fitting way to say farewell to someone who should still be with us.

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state would experience a significant rollback of its reopening process as California continues to struggle with record high COVID-19 case numbers. Governor Newsom ordered all indoor operations at restaurants, wineries(though they may still operate outdoors), movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums, and cardrooms to be closed statewide, with bars ceasing all operations.

Additionally, 11 more counties across the state must join a list that includes cities from San Diego to Marin that must also close salons, barbershops, places of worship, offices in non-critical sectors, malls, and gyms, including Los Angeles County.

The city of Los Angeles, with its 134,000 cases, is home to nearly half of the state’s total cases and has been particularly hard hit. According to the Los Angeles Times, the LA Unified school district, the nation’s second-largest school system, which is home to half a million students and over 75,000 employees, will not reopen campuses at the start of the school year in August due to the high case number in the county.

As of July 12, 2020, California has a total of 320,804 cases of COVID-19, with over 7,000 deaths, 6,322 hospitalizations, and 1,806 people currently in intensive care units, according to data from the California Department of Public Health. The state seems to be entering its second lockdown, and as the first state to shut down its economy back in March when the pandemic began, it might be a harbinger of things to come as the country continues to battle rising infection rates in various cities.

Thor: Ragnarok is widely held up as one of the strangest — and arguably one of the best — of the MCU titles, in large part because it was helmed by Taika Waititi. The actor-filmmaker — of comedies like the What We Do in the Shadows film and the Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit — was really allowed to bring his singular sensibility to the ripped Norse god’s third solo outing, and bring it he did. But even the most eccentric style is informed by other works, and Waititi recently revealed there were two chief influences that helped make Ragnarok what it is.

As caught by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Waititi recently made an appearance on “Pizza Film School,” the YouTube series hosted by Anthony and Joe Russo, and he told his Marvel colleagues that one film that really inspired the third Thor was the John Carpenter classic Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell as a reluctant — and not always successful — hero.

In the 1987 cult fave, Russell’s truck driving Jack Burton finds himself unwittingly embroiled in skirmish with magical warriors. Meanwhile, Thor is none-too-happy to be stuck on a garbage-strewn planet, forced to fight his way back to Earth.

“[Thor] just wants to get home,” Waititi said. “[H]e’s willing to leave people but also he’s trying to keep everyone together. He’s trying to be charismatic, and he’s trying to be a hero. He fails a lot, and tonally, that’s something from Big Trouble that I carried with me into Ragnarok.”

There was another thing that greatly influenced Waititi, but it wasn’t another movie. It was a song, namely Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” off their third album, from 1970. Though it was influenced by the band visiting Iceland, the lyrics include references to Valhalla, aka Thor’s home.

“That song is basically about Thor,” asserted Waititi. He added:

“Just knowing the tone, knowing that it had to be playful and over the top … that this is unapologetically a space opera, and I’m going to pump this with colour and life and energy and humour, and cool music. And the way I feel about that film is like if you’d ask a bunch of 10 year olds what they want in that movie; we basically said yes to every idea. On paper, it doesn’t make any sense. But with Thor, I think it makes perfect sense.”

Waititi also said, in forcing Thor to team up with characters like Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk/Bruce Banner, Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, and Korg, the rock-man voiced by Waititi himself, he “wanted to capture a road trip of people who had no business hanging out with each other.”

The filmmaker will be returning for the character’s fourth at-bat, Thor: Love and Thunder, though, given the state of the world, who knows when that will begin filming. But Waititi said he’s grateful, in a way, for the setback, as he now has plenty of time to hone the script.

“There are a few positive things I can take away. One of them is that a lot of these films, and films in general, are rushed or you don’t have as much time as you’d want to have on the script and things like that,” he told the Russos. He continued:

“We’re still writing Love and Thunder and I think it’s good to just keep writing and then you know, we’ll have a really, really good script. And with writing, especially, you should use as much of that time as possible to get your story right, because you never really get it later on. Film is an industry where you’re always complaining about not having enough time. I think, right now, we’ve given ourselves a huge amount of time to work on all sorts of things so we may as well use it.”

(Via St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Shocking footage taken in Alpharetta, Georgia last Thursday shows a mother relaxing by a pool while her two sons play in the water. The scene quickly changes from fun to frightening when one son warns her about a tree about to fall on her.

“I was sitting at the pool relaxing and reading a book while watching my two sons swim, when I heard a tree cracking and then my son yelled ‘Run mom!’ so I bolted out of my chair right before a huge tree fell right on the chair I was sitting on,” the mother said, according to Viral Hog.

“Our home security camera captured the whole thing!”

Quick Footed Mother Escapes Falling Tree || ViralHog

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Unworthy will update this article with more information as it becomes available.

The WNBA released its 2020 schedule on Monday. The teams will play 22 regular-season games in the “Wubble,” with two games against all opponents. All 12 teams will be in action during opening weekend at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida where training camps are already underway.

Opening weekend will be dedicated to Black Lives Matter and honor victims of police brutality and racial violence, and the first game of the season will be a marquee attraction. Sabrina Ionescu, the first overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft, is set to make her debut as the New York Liberty will face off against the Seattle Storm and returning stars Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart on July 25 at 12 p.m. ET on ESPN.

Ionescu averaged 18 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7.7 assists last season with the Oregon Ducks as she completed one of the all-time great college basketball careers. After an MVP season in 2018, Stewart missed the entire 2019 season due to a ruptured Achilles injury she suffered overseas. Bird missed last season as well following arthroscopic surgery on her left knee in May 2019. The Storm went with 18-16 without Stewart and Bird last season, but will look to return to championship contention in 2020.

Following the opener, the Los Angeles Sparks will go head-to-head with long-time rival Phoenix Mercury at 3 p.m. ET on ABC. All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith will make her debut with her new team as she pairs up WNBA’s all-time leading scorer, Diana Taurasi in the Mercury backcourt. Diggins-Smith was acquired by the Mercury in an offseason trade with the Dallas Wings. Taurasi only appeared in six games last season due to a back injury. The Los Angeles Sparks will be without Chiney Ogwumike and guard Kristi Toliver will be sitting out for the 2020 WNBA season due to health reasons.

The last national TV game of opening day will feature the Indiana Fever against the Washington Mystics on CBS Sports Network at 5 p.m. ET. The 2019 champion Mystics will tip off their 2020 campaign potentially without a number of key players, including MVP Elena Delle Donne who still awaits the results of a medical evaluation.