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Reese Witherspoon has done her share of darker fare. One of her Oscar nominations is for 2014’s Wild, in which she plays a damaged woman trying to overcome a grief-induced self-destructive patch. But at the movies, at least, she mostly does rom-coms and nice escapist fare, like Netflix’s Your Place or Mine from earlier this year. There’s a reason for that: She thinks that’s what her fans want.

“I’m not meant to be doing dark, heavy, intense, horror, gore, darkness movies,” the actress said at an event for her media company Hello Sunshine this weekend, as per The Hollywood Reporter. She elaborated:

“People like to see me do light movies, and I was like, OK. It doesn’t put you in the cool kids club a lot but I don’t care, I don’t want to be in the cool kids club. I want to make optimistic stuff that makes girls excited to be women in this world, because it is a wonderful thing to be a woman in this world.”

At the event, Witherspoon also talked about launching her company in 2016, which she did after noticing how few female-centric movies and shows were being made at the time.

“After I did a whole lot of soul searching and a lot of complaining to anyone who would listen, namely my mother, I realized what so many people in this room have realized, is that if you want to fix a problem, you have to be part of the solution. I would like to also point out women are always part of the solution,” Witherspoon said. “We’ve had enough of people telling our stories for us. One of the biggest rules in my family is you get to tell your own news, and a version of that in Hello Sunshine terms is women get to tell their own stories.”

Of course, Witherspoon is on a dark-ish TV series, namely The Morning Show, which can get pretty intense, with or without Jon Hamm.

(Via THR)

Neil Young has released nearly three dozen studio albums as a solo artist and with other artists throughout his career. Now the “Love Earth” singer’s discography is growing yet again. On Friday, October 20, he took to social media to announce that he would share tracks from his vault.

Young’s forthcoming album, Before & After, is slated to be dropped on December 8. In a statement he teased what fans can expect from IT. “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way,” he wrote. “This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, and separation only for listening. That says it all.”

Although Before & After will feature several reworked versions of some of Young’s more obscure songs, he guarantees fans will enjoy it. “Sometimes buried by hits, these are songs from my life 1966-2022, newly recorded, in a music montage with no beginnings or endings,” he wrote on X.

View the official artwork and tracklist below.

1. “I’m The Ocean”
2. “Homefires”
3. “Burned”
4. “On The Way Home”
5. “If You Got Love” (Previously Unreleased)
6. “A Dream That Can Last”
7. “Birds”
8. “My Heart”
9. “When I Hold You In My Arms”
10. “Mother Earth”
11. “Mr. Soul”
12. “Comes A Time”
13. “Don’t Forget Love”

Before & After will be available for purchase in four formats: vinyl LP, clear vinyl LP, Blu-Ray disc, and CD. Before & After is out on 12/8 via Reprise Records. Find more information here.

Neil Young is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The list of NFL players who are more terrifying than Cleveland Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett is extremely short. Over the course of his career, Garrett has shown the incredible ability to impose his will on a game — whether he’s blowing up a run or sacking a quarterback who thought he had way more time to get the ball down the field on a crucial third down, Garrett has a knack for making a big play when the occasion calls for one.

During Sunday’s game between the Browns and the Indianapolis Colts, Garrett showed that he’s able to make game-changing plays on more than just the defensive side of the ball. Colts kicker Matt Gay lined up for a 60 yard field goal, which would normally be difficult enough even if Myles Garrett wasn’t out there trying to ruin your afternoon.

Unfortunately for Indianapolis’ special teams unit, Garrett was, indeed, out there trying to ruin their afternoon. Showing off the freakish athleticism that has turned him into an All-Pro, Garrett jumped over the line of scrimmage shockingly easily and swatted the kick away like he was Evan Mobley trying to send a layup into the third row.

Might be a bit of a hot take here but Myles Garrett is extremely good at football.

Despite Drake’s best attempt to rain on Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s post-baby bliss (with a messy diss record), the pair remain unbothered. After the track was released, fans rushed to social media, hoping that the two would issue a response to Drake’s throwaway bars. Although they have yet to do so, that day may soon come. Rocky’s forthcoming album, Don’t Be Dumb, is nearly complete, and according to Mirror, Rihanna is gearing up for a significant comeback.

The outlet alleged that Rihanna inked a $32 million deal with Live Nation to kickstart her return. In the report, they suggested that the deal terms included a world tour. But with no album out, such a venture wouldn’t make sense. However, the publisher suggested that Rihanna will drop two new albums over the next two years.

Following her Super Bowl LVII halftime show performance, Rihanna told British Vogue she planned to drop a new album in 2023. However, her second pregnancy put that on the back burner.

“I want it to be this year,” she said at the time. “Honestly, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this year. But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make videos. And I need the right background music with the visuals. I can’t just go shoot a video of me talking.”

Fans took to social media to react to the alleged news. Check out a few of them below.

Hollywood is still in a bit of a pickle right now. No sooner had they started to rebound from the early days of the pandemic did the AMPTP allow a two-pronged strike to slam on the breaks once more. Studio execs settled with the WGA a few weeks back, but they’ve yet to do the same with SAG-AFTRA. They’re not the only ones in the industry dragging their feet.

In a new interview with The Guardian (in a bit caught by Deadline), the producers of the long-running Bond franchise gave an update about their latest reboot. Surely there’s some big news given that No Time to Die, the one that ended the Daniel Craig era with a bang, came out two dang years ago. And yet here’s producer Barbara Broccoli, telling the publication that they “haven’t even begun” to work on it.

And yet Broccoli admits they have “a big road ahead” of them when it comes to reinventing a character who’s been repeatedly reinvented over the last six decades. Still, she’s optimistic that they can nip this one in the bud, again.

“I go back to GoldenEye when everyone was saying ‘the cold war is over, the wall is over, Bond is dead, no need for Bond, the whole world’s at peace and now there’s no villains’ – and boy was that wrong!” Broccoli told the paper.

The last time they modernized Bond, with the tougher, more brooding, less gleefully sexist Daniel Craig, they “wanted to focus on what a 21st-century hero would look like”.

Craig, Broccoli said, “gave us the ability to mine the emotional life of the character … and also the world was ready for it. I think these movies reflect the time they are in, and there’s a big, big road ahead reinventing it for the next chapter and we haven’t even begun with that.”

Broccoli also vowed to avoid one modern trend: They won’t be world building across movies and television.

“Our focus is making the feature films. When we get going on a Bond movie it takes our full attention for three or four years so that’s our focus,” she said. “We make the Bond movies for the big theatrical screen and everything about the Bond movies is for audiences to see around the world on that format, so we’ve not wanted to do television.”

In the meantime, if it’s Bond you’re hankering for, there happens to be dozens of movies — and even books — that will get you through till whenever there’s yet another reboot.

(Via The Guardian and Deadline)

The Memphis Grizzlies will not have the services of Steven Adams during the 2023-24 season. In a statement released on Sunday afternoon, the team announced that Adams will not play this year due to surgery on his injured right knee.

“Grizzlies Center Steven Adams will undergo season-ending surgery on his right posterior cruciate ligament, after non-operative rehabilitation did not resolve ongoing knee instability,” the team announced. “Adams is expected to make a full recovery ahead of next season.”

Adams, who started all 42 games in which he appeared for the team last season, suffered a knee injury last January and has not appeared in a regular season game since. The decision to now go under the knife comes after Adams attempted to play during the preseason, as he took the floor in two games while Memphis got ready for the start of the 2023-24 campaign. He’s one of two key members of the team’s frontcourt who will be sidelined due to an injury, as big man Brandon Clarke is working his way back from suffering a torn achilles in March.

Adams is also not the only member of the team’s starting lineup who is slated to miss an extended spell, as the Grizzlies will play the first 25 games of the year without standout point guard Ja Morant due to suspension.

Kelly Clarkson has made a rather lucrative career belting out ballads about heartbreak. However, as she’s made clear multiple times on her Emmy award-nominated namesake talk show, she doesn’t wish that emotional trauma on anyone else. So when rumors began circulating on social media that she wasn’t a fan of her friend Taylor Swift’s budding romance with Travis Kelce, she took to her official Instagram to set the record straight.

On Saturday, October 21, Clarkson denied that she dissed Swift and Kelce’s relationship with a stark note. “Just a quick public service announcement, everybody, since this seems to be breaking news,” she wrote. “Do not fall prey to clickbait, trash reporting, or twisting the facts again. I did not bash anyone’s romance.”

She continued, “I am pro-romance. Yay, romance. Did you even watch what I actually said on my show? I just said I want to watch football when I tune in to watch football. [It] seems [like] an appropriate request.”

She also made sure to shout out her favorite football team, writing, “Okay, carry on, and go Cowboys.”

The rumor was sparked when Bowen Yang dropped by Clarkson’s show on October 19 to discuss the SNL sketch in which they poked fun at the NFL’s obsession with Kelce and Swift’s relationship. You can watch the full interview below.

Jada Pinkett Smith sure has been busy lately. She’s been everywhere, promoting her new memoir Worthy, and dropping one shocking revelation after another. Among the most jaw-dropping was that she and her husband, Will Smith, have been technically separated for years — though it appears him slapping Chris Rock on live television may have at least partially healed those wounds. During its second episode of the season, the newly returned SNL had some fun with this mess.

During Weekend Update, Ego Nwodim made an appearance as Pinkett Smith. She began by apologizing. “Sorry if I seem a little tired,” she said. “I’ve been on the Today Show 14 times in three days.”

She then talked about always knowing their union was doomed. “The day we got married, I knew there was going to be trouble. At our wedding, someone stood up and objected,” she said. When co-host Michael Che asked who that was, she admitted it was herself.

“But it’s OK,” she went on, “because 23 years later, Will and I are still a unit. And it’s because we have learned that the secret to a successful marriage is: Never go to bed happy.”

Che brought up that Pinkett Smith has described her marriage as “brutiful,” a portmanteau of “brutal” and “beautiful.” Nwodim’s Pinkett Smith added another: “brunhealthy.”

After trying to talk Tupac Shakur yet again, Nwodim’s Jada went back to herself, saying, “Nothing makes me feel stronger than publicly cucking my millionaire husband.”

You can watch Nwodim send up Pinkett Smith in the video above.

Donald Trump didn’t have as epically bad week as Jim Jordan, the man he endorsed for Speaker of the House. But he’s not doing great either. He has multiple criminal cases on his docket, and his antics surrounding those inevitably caught the attention of the newly returned SNL.

During Weekend Update, co-host Colin Jost began with Judge Tanya Chutkan, who, if you can’t keep track of Trump’s many criminal trials, is overseeing the one involving Jan. 6. Judge Chutkan slapped him with a gag order over his repeated, illegal attempts to smear law enforcement officials. He inevitably responded to that as well, claiming that he “basically” didn’t “have the right to speak” anymore.

“Then he added ‘She’s like literally killing me,’” Jost told the crowd, making Trump sound like a petulant brat. “Then he yelled ‘You’re not even my real mom’ and slammed his bedroom door.”

Jost then moved onto an even stranger Trump antic: him sharing an doctored court sketch of him sitting next to Jesus Christ. Trump has compared himself to the son of God before — and SNL has dragged him over that before as well — but this one was even more inexplicable.

“Because if there’s one guy whose trial famously ended well, it’s Jesus,” Jost quipped.

Elsewhere in Weekend Update, Michael Che tackled Jim Jordan, who he said was “dropped” as a nominee for Speaker of the House by his fellow Republican representatives. But he should be “used” to that, Che joked, “because he was dropped a lot as a child.”

You can watch Che and Jost cover Joe Biden’s remarks about the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, George Santos, Ron DeSantis, Netflix, and a kangaroo getting punched by a man in the videos above and below.

Wow, Jim Jordan had a crappy week, huh? The MAGA lawmaker learned the hard way that not everyone can be Donald Trump. In fact, no one but Donald Trump can be Donald Trump. The former president can be repeatedly indicted, and his polls soar, not plummet. Meanwhile, Jordan can’t even get elected Speaker of the House. His rank humiliation was inevitably the subject of SNL’s latest Cold Open.

Mikey Day took the reins of Jordan, who’s introduced brooding over being thrice rejected by his Republican colleagues in the House. “All I want to do is get Congress back to work so I can shut it down again,” he steams. After a visit from a baby-wielding George Santos (Bowen Yang) and a call from theater fanatic Lauren Boebert (Chloe Fineman), he receives a far more powerful visitor: James Austin Johnson’s top shelf Trump.

“Yoo hoo, is this the Loser’s Office?” Trump says upon entering. But he wasn’t there to comfort him. “I prefer the Jordans who win, okay? Like the great Michael Jordan. Or the even greater Jordin Sparks.”

Trump even dragged him over his bizarre sartorial choices, which is to say his aversion to suit jackets. “You don’t look good,” he told him. “You look like the night manager at a two-star steakhouse.”

Still, Jordan couldn’t understand why he was so epically rejected, even with Trump’s endorsement, and even after he aped his style. “Intimidation, threats. Why didn’t it work?” Jordan wondered.

But Trump knew why. “You’re not me. You’re no fun. I’m hilarious,” he told him. “You’re little Jim Jordan, I’m Donald Trump. I’m Coke, you’re Shasta.”

As of now, the House still has no Speaker, nearly three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster and despite the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. But at least it won’t be a Trump crony — or so it seems.

You can watch the SNL Cold Open in the video above.