Meet Mason Brian Barclay, a teen and self-described “very homosexual male.” He recently wanted to attend a sleepover at his “new best friend” Houston’s house, because teens are gonna teen. But he’s a boy, and everyone knows boys aren’t allowed to attend girls’ sleepovers, because of cooties/patriarchal norms.
She hates this picture but idc. I’m in love with your soul. You pretty cute too. https://t.co/YVL0GzrlcR
So he behaved more maturely than most adults, and crafted a long text message to Houston’s mom, Mrs. Shelton, in which he politely asked for permission to attend Houston’s sleepover.
“I think the common meaning behind only allowing the same sex to share sleepovers is due to the typical interest in the opposite sex, when, in this case, I do not like the opposite sex,” he explained in the text.
Mrs. Shelton’s response was so good that Mason tweeted it out and it went viral:
I TEXTED HOUSTONS MOM TO ASK IF I CAN STAY THE NIGHT FRIDAY HAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/Ovr74V869W
“Hmm. Well my husband is hot. Should I worry?” she responded.
Evidently Mason found Mrs. Shelton’s text hilarious. So does Twitter.
Hahahahahahaha I don’t know what exactly is going on here but I’m lol’ing — Trever (@itstreverr) September 19, 2017
That took guts, and this mom acknowledged it *fabulously*! I wish you a fun night with your friends! Stay away from Houston’s dad, now. 🤣💖 — Julie Martineau (@JulieBonjour) September 22, 2017
And others are just wondering if the sleepover is on, or not??
@itstreverr @maymaybarclay @TheEllenShow Wait. Did we ever learn the answer??? Lol
Chris Hemsworth is the 35-year-old star of “Thor: Ragnarok,” or you may know him as the brother of equally attractive actor Liam Hemsworth. But did you know he’s also a father-of-three? Well, he is. And it turns out, he’s pretty much the coolest dad ever.
In a clip from a 2015 interview on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Hemsworth shared an interesting conversation he had with his 4-year-old daughter India.
“My daughter’s kind of envious of my boys,” Hemsworth told Ellen. “She came to me the other day, and she’s like ‘You know, Papa, I want one of those things that Sasha and Tristan have.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘You know the things in between their legs that you have.'”
Hemsworth said he tried to explain the differences between male and female bodies, but his daughter wasn’t having it.
“She goes, ‘I really want one!’ Hemsworth said. “I’m like, ‘A penis?’ And she’s like, ‘I want a penis!’
And then, Hemsworth had the best possible response. He recalls:
She’s four and I’m like, ‘You know what, you can be whatever you want to be.’ And she goes, ‘Thanks, Dad.’ Runs off into the playground and that was it.
And then, I cannot confirm, but I’m pretty sure the Ellen audience did this:
For anyone who thinks stories of sexual harassment and assault are complicated, writer Maura Quint has a story for you. Actually, she has quite a few.
Quint posted a thread on her Twitter account that quickly went viral in which she talked about a number of real-life encounters with men that started out sexual, involved her expressing disinterest, and the men responding appropriately.
It wasn’t an unrealistic hero’s tale of men handing over the keys to their autonomy. Rather, Quint’s incredible thread made it clear that the only variable in cases of assault vs. non-assault are when a man doesn’t respect the autonomy of the woman he’s propositioning.
Her thread opens up in an all-too-familiar tone, where we’re led to believe it will go to an incredibly dark place:
Instead, Quint says her indifference to his proposition was met in kind with a guy just acting in a basic, non-rapey way:
She goes on to offer several other examples of being in sexual or potentially sexual situations with men who also managed to not sexually assault her:
And here’s the real kicker, Quint says she has been assaulted. To her, the difference isn’t hard to pinpoint:
Her thread has been re-tweeted nearly 50,000 times and “liked” more than 100,000 times. Other women and some men jumped in with their own tales of drinking, partying and still, somehow, managing to not assault or even harass the women they encountered.
It’s a stark contrast to the half-baked defenses of Brett Kavanaugh and other men like him. There are incredibly rare exceptions where a man is accused of assault or harassment and he is entirely free of guilt. But for women, or anyone for that matter, who has survived sexual assault or experienced sexual harassment, there is no “gray area.”
There’s being OK with assault and then there’s everything else. Whether or not we’re consciously aware of this, we’ve all chosen a side. But if you’re on the wrong side, it doesn’t have to be that way forever.
Few people in the public eye have been as universally beloved as Bob Ross, especially across multiple generations. The first time my husband and I shared “The Joy of Painting” with our kids, they were almost instantly mesmerized. Just as I had remembered from my own childhood, Ross’s calm voice and “happy little trees” commentary as he painted felt almost like a form of therapy.
So naturally, when Netflix announced the release of a new documentary titled “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed,” people (me, I am people) freaked out a bit.
With a title like that, how could you not? Bob Ross is up there with Fred Rogers and Steve Irwin in the “pure, wholesome, and untouchable” category, and even just seeing the words “betrayal” and “greed” so close to his name is enough to make a fan plug their ears and yell, “Na na na na, I can’t hear youuuuu!”
@NetflixFilm This is such a 2021 title.
That thing you thought was great? HAHA NOPE! LIFE SUCKS AND EVERYTHING IS A LIE.
But fans needn’t worry. The betrayal and greed referred to in the title aren’t about Bob Ross himself, but rather the key players in the management of his business after his death.
If you’re looking for a purely feel-good film about Bob Ross, this isn’t really it. Thankfully, you won’t walk away with a tarnished view of the man himself—the most “scandalous” thing you might learn is that he permed his hair to get that famous ‘fro. But many people are walking away feeling angry and frustrated over the way his art and name have been handled by the Kowalski family who manages them. You’ll still love Bob Ross as much as ever, but you might feel some not-so-happy little feelings about Bob Ross, Inc.
The documentary was produced by actress Melissa McCarthy and her filmmaker husband Ben Falcone, and the couple spoke with NPR about some of the making the film and some of the legal perils they faced.
Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed | Official Trailer | Netflix
“Bob certainly wanted it to go to — most of the business — to his son,” McCarthy said. “He left it to his son and his brother. And very quickly, that was kind of taken through litigation. And because at the time [Bob’s son] Steve was so young, Bob thought, you know, let’s have an adult still guiding him with where he’s going to take this company. … But he didn’t get to take hold of it at all.”
The crux of the film is how Ross’s business partners, the Kowalskis, have held a tight grip on Bob Ross, Inc. and how Ross’s son, Steve, has allegedly been shut out of his father’s business. Getting to the bottom of it all posed a challenge, however, as apparently few of the people involved wanted to speak to the filmmakers.
“Everyone’s afraid of getting sued,” Falcone said. So that’s neat.
Now the Kowalskis have responded to the accusations in the film with a statement defending their role in the business they started in partnership with Bob Ross. They wrote, in part:
Bob Ross Inc. never pursued or threatened legal action against Steve Ross, and, in fact, no one at Bob Ross Inc. heard from Steve Ross for almost twenty years, until 2017 when Steve filed suit against the company without any prior communication.
Bob Ross may not have shared the inherent structural features of his company with family and friends – which are very common in small private companies – resulting in many of the unsubstantiated accusations made in the film.
They also claim that the merchandise they sell with Bob Ross’s image on it is meant as a way to share the late painter’s message of positivity. “Bob Ross Inc.’s hope is that items bearing Bob’s likeness and messages prompt smiles as they remind people of the love of painting Bob shared with all,” they wrote.
At the very least, we can all still agree that Bob Ross himself was a national treasure whose love of painting and positive outlook were genuine. Nobody mess with the legacy of the man himself, please. None of us could handle that. Let us keep our happy little memories of him pure and untarnished.
For Deuntate Copeland, the work he’s doing off the court is just as important as what’s happening on the sidelines.
Copeland’s nonprofit, the National High School Basketball Association or NHSBA for short, uses the sport he loves to reach underserved kids where they’re at. For many, that just so happens to be on a gym floor or a concrete square.
“We’re using basketball to get our message across,” Copeland told Dime.
He launched the NHSBA after a trip home during his senior year in college sparked a desire to help the youth in his community. “I loved playing basketball and I always wanted to help kids,” he said. “I remember being like, ‘Man, I wonder if there’s something we can do for those kids that don’t [have] a school team? Can they learn those skills as well? [Can we] kind of help them to do other things?’
The program started in Arkansas, quickly spreading to surrounding areas like Memphis, Tennessee before migrating to bigger cities like Atlanta, Ga. Its goal was simple: invite kids to play ball, get them to stay to work on their future. Copeland recruited high school and community coaches and eager-to-help educators and volunteers, all with a passion for mentoring the next generation who could foster both a love of the sport and an interest in other career paths.
“Some of the kids think they’re going to be the next Michael Jordan or LeBron James or Kobe Bryant,” Copeland says.
But the NHSBA is less focused on churning out future NBA stars and more interested in helping young teens discover potential jobs and forms of higher education that speak to their unique passions. To do that, Copeland connects with companies and celebrities who have a direct tie to the game, even if they aren’t necessarily playing it as their day job.
This past year, as COVID forced most gyms to close their doors, Copeland and his team took their program virtual, hosting Zoom sessions with kids who were stuck inside and missing that time on the court. Instead of reaching them at the free-throw line, the organization invited guest speakers to hop on virtual conference sessions to expose them to potential careers they never would’ve imagined for themselves.
“We had speakers from Ralph Lauren. We had speakers from ESPN. We had folks from Adidas. We had folks from the NBA. We had folks from Turner Sports,” Copeland recalls. “We had all these different people that talked to the kids about [their] careers and [the] things they dealt with.”
The medium might have been different, but whether it’s on a computer screen or on the court, Copeland’s goal has always been to use basketball as a gateway for a better future for kids who might have a hard time envisioning one.
“A lot of kids come in because they just want to play ball, but then you have people that pique their interest and they get engaged,” Copeland explains. “So like, ‘I want to be in broadcast and media,’ then when ESPN comes to talk to them, they get engaged. You have folks that want to design clothes. Okay. Well, [someone from] Ralph Lauren comes into the mix and talks to them, then they get engaged. You have people from the NBA that may talk to them, they work in different departments like maybe marketing. They get engaged behind that because they see there’s more than just being an NBA player.”
For Copeland, the goal is to improve these kids’ game and their prospects. His coaches teach valuable skills on the court, and some former players have even gone on to play college ball, but they’re just as invested in forging connections with universities and businesses, helping these teens to network in the hopes of placing them in college or a fulfilling career once they graduate.
“It’s about helping them to essentially ignite a passion,” Copeland says. “A lot of kids we deal with, they come from unserved communities, and they don’t know what’s out there. They haven’t spoken to these types of people.”
And while the NHSBA continues to broaden its players’ horizons off the court, the time they spend in the gym is used for instilling life lessons that transcend basketball.
“I think basketball brings so many things to the table,” Copeland says. “I mean, you learn everything from how to work with other people to how to deal with adversity. How do you adapt to certain situations? All these things you learn from playing ball. I think that basketball is designed to bring folks together.”
For now, the program itself is learning how to adapt to changing times. There’s a huge demand across the country for organizations like the NHBSA that go out into underserved communities and help inspire the youth to dream big. The group has drastically expanded its operations in recent years, receiving funding from organizations like the NBA Players Association Foundation. As we hopefully return to some kind of normal post-pandemic, Copeland is excited to add more programs, more speakers, and more opportunities for the kids coming back to his courts but his motivation for using the game to reach the next generation remains the same as it’s always been.
“It’s always great to see kids better themselves,” Copelands says. “Whether they’re going to college to play, going academically [or] able to go get jobs and better themselves. It’s a great feeling to know that you had an impact on helping them get there.”
With a quick “accio” (and realistically a whole lot of discussions, deal-making, and, you know, boring muggle stuff), the Harry Potter films are making their way back on to HBO Max. According to Variety’s report, the return comes following the series’ 11-month stay over on NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, and is sure to make an HBO Max look a whole lot more appealing to a pretty massive audience. The Harry Potter series is set to hit the streaming service on September 1, where it will reside indefinitely alongside a large number of Warner Bros. other films, such as the DC Cinematic Universe collection.
Included in the series are all eight mainline Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2. As of now, there’s no news on whether or not the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series will be joining the rest of the films in a move to HBO as well.
For those wondering why the iconic Warner Bros. series weren’t already on HBO Max — especially considering Warner Bros. owns the streaming service — if was for a pretty good reason. Prior to the establishment of HBO Max, the studio had sold the streaming right to the series to NBC for their service Peacock. Therefore, when HBO Max first launched in May of 2020, it only had access to the movies for three months before the deal went into effect and all eight films were transferred over to Peacock.
However, Warner Bros. has since reclaimed the rights and is bringing the enchanted series back to its own service in a massive move for the company. You see, as of right now, the Harry Potter films rank as the third highest-grossing movie franchise of all time, with a worldwide value of $7.7 billion. This puts the series behind only Star War and the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchises, both of which reside on competitor streaming service Disney+.
Another silver lining of this deal? Fans of the series who have been seriously let down or hurt by J.K. Rowling’s continuous and increasingly more disturbing comments on the Transgender community will no longer have to buy the series and support the author to give it watch. All in all, it seems a pretty big win for all parties and is just in time for a Holiday marathon.
The Daily Show isn’t currently airing new episodes, but that doesn’t mean Trevor Noah can’t troll the far right while he’s enjoying his time away from the at-home studio. The host of Comedy Central’s political programming put a real ad in real newspapers for a very fake law firm hoping hapless insurrectionists give him a call.
Billed as an ad for “Trevor Noah & Associates & Sons” the full-page ad ran in Thursday’s edition of both the Los Angeles Times and New York Times and encouraged those who “did an insurrection” to “storm our offices today” for help getting off on charges.
Kudos to Trevor Noah & Associates & Sons for today’s NY Times full page ad for Insurrection Protection! pic.twitter.com/4kieLpq53Q
The ad, which went viral in a “post a picture of the newspaper to social media” kind of way, wants those who did some crimes on January 6 at Donald Trump’s behest to “seek legal counsel for the myriad of alleged crimes that may or may not have been committed that fateful day.”
The ad includes a real phone number that’s a bit cheeky as well: 1-85-OOPS-JAN6 (1-856-677-5266).
It’s unclear if anyone will actually call the number and seek legal help at this point, as not many MAGA rioters read the New York Times or LA Times these days. But it’s certainly a cheeky way to keep buzz going for a show that’s been off the air for the summer.
Right now the hottest travel destinations in America are US National Parks, and it’s easy to see why. With the Delta variant postponing international travel plans and making the idea of going overseas feel like more trouble than it’s worth, people are turning their sights to the ease of domestic travel. And what greater escape is there than hopping in your car with a few essentials, taking a scenic drive, and trekking deep into your favorite national park?
The problem is that because national parks are so alluring right now, everyone is taking a trip to them. This means the most popular national parks are often swamped with other people — something our own US National Parks expert, Emily Hart, has covered extensively.
In hopes of helping you find some more off-the-beaten-path options, we reached out to J.P. Boneyard and the rest of the team at the Fifty-Nine Parks project. Boneyard and his crew know our national parks intimately, the Fifty-Nine Parks project is an ongoing screen-printed poster series that produces unique and beautiful artworks inspired by vintage WPA posters meant to showcase each of the US’s 59 national parks. They also just dropped a hardcover book, The Art Of The National Parks, through Insight Editions that features artwork from over 50 artists from around the world who have attempted to capture the visual wonders of The Great Smoky Mountains, The Grand Tetons, Olympic Glacier, Zion, and other wild spaces.
All this to say that their credentials for recommending parks are impeccable. Just like their design sense.
For this guide, Boneyard and his team made sure to highlight the national parks they love with low visitation numbers, making sure to cover each region of the United States.
Great Sand Dunes is such a surreal experience. You can hike, swim, and get some of the best views of the stars at night! This park contains over thirty square miles of mysterious and surreal sand dunes, some soaring as high as 750 feet before plummeting back to earth. The juxtaposition of the tundra with rich forests and warm wetlands creates a profusion of flora and fauna in the park. Yucca and prickly pear cactus grow right beside pine trees and myriad wildflowers. Bighorn sheep, pronghorns, and marmots prance alongside salamanders, toads, and frogs.
Designated an International Dark Sky Park, the Milky Way is visible from Great Sand Dunes National Park, particularly during moonless nights from midsummer to late fall. Just like the soaring heights and swooping lows of the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park is a place where the earth can change right before your eyes!
With over 200 lakes and ponds, Lassen is the perfect park to hike all day and cool off with a swim. Home to over 216 bird species, it’s also a bird lover’s paradise! We haven’t even mentioned all of the volcanoes and sulfur pools! This was once the most active volcanic region in America; today, only Lassen Peak, the world’s largest plug dome volcano, is still active. With elevations ranging from 5,300 feet to 10,000 feet, the park offers visitors many different landscapes, including lakes, meadows, mountain peaks, volcanoes, and waterfalls.
Elsewhere, the park includes over 27,000 acres of old-growth forests. Grassy meadows teeming with wildlife surround the beautiful, deep-blue Manzanita Lake. Lassen Volcanic National Park is a living example of how creation and destruction exist side by side in nature.
One of the coolest parks is also one of the most overlooked. Over the course of millions of years, the Rio Grande’s mighty waters carved their way through the limestone walls of these towering canyons deep in the beating heart of Texas. Hike the valleys of Big Bend with the Chisos Mountain Range looming in the background and take in rock formations so varied in size, shape, and appearance that they rival the clouds. Canoe along the Rio Grande and its tributaries and see red-eared slider turtles tottering along in the shadow of the Santa Elena Canyon.
At night, the wildlife comes alive with black-tailed jackrabbits, roadrunners, and mountain lions roaming the desert. Whether you are interested in dinosaur bones or the stars, Big Bend National Park offers a gateway to the wonders of the American desert.
It takes a certain kind of adventurer to explore a place as remote as Isle Royale National Park, but those who make the trip always come back for another visit. In fact, Isle Royale might have the most return visitors of any national park. This forty-five-mile-long island of glacier-scarred volcanic rock is the most remote national park in the contiguous United States, located deep in Michigan’s Lake Superior. Seventy-three miles north of the Houghton area of Michigan, the island can only be accessed by boat or plane. Moose weighing as much as a thousand pounds wander with carefree abandon, the true leaseholders of this remote wilderness. They can often be seen feeding in the lakes and ponds of the island or roaming through the shady forests.
The moose are no longer alone here, either. These days, gray wolves stalk them for food. Though the island may be remote, it is full of life. Isle Royale has long been considered the best-kept secret of the national park system!
Stunning yet understated. New River Gorge is perfect for rafting, rock climbing, and hiking! Though millions of years old, the ferocious New River continues to carve out the longest and deepest river gorge in the Appalachian Mountains. The West Virginia stretch of the New River is a whitewater rafting mecca. The fifty-three miles of free-flowing river beginning at Bluestone Dam and ending at Hawk’s Nest Lake features an array of possibilities for rafting enthusiasts.
The southern section of the river offers smoother jaunts and long pools, while the lower gorge offers some of the most challenging Class V rapids in the country. Towering 876 feet above the river stands one of the longest and highest single-span bridges in the world. The soulful spirit of Appalachia echoes throughout this deep river gorge.
Another park that features amazing camping, swimming, and plenty of space for yourself! It’s also an awesome park for fishing. A mere five-hour drive from the Twin Cities brings you to the northern border of Minnesota where more than 900 islands surrounded by glinting sapphire lakes make up Voyageurs National Park. The main island is accessible only by boat. Boating is the appropriate way to experience Voyageurs, as kayaking is integral to the history of the park.
The park consists mainly of four lakes: Rainy Lake, Kabetogama Lake, Namakan Lake, and Sand Point Lake. The smell of fresh pine trees permeates the air in this unspoiled landscape of pristine lakes and islands. It’s enough to make you sing while you take in the sights!
Swim with sea turtles and take in a 175-year-old fort? Yes, please! Accessible via a two-hour boat trip off Key West, this collection of tiny islands is located in the Straits of Florida. This national park is 99 percent water, save for a few tiny ultra-remote islands. The island known as Liberty Key has a rich history; it hosts a Civil War–era fort that was later turned into a prison. Fort Jefferson remains the largest brick masonry structure in the United States.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt designated the area a federal bird sanctuary. During low tide, when the sandbar is not submerged, visitors can walk along the thin strip between the bush and the Garden Key and watch for the more than 300 species of birds residing there. The water surrounding Garden Key hosts some of the most vibrant and colorful coral reefs in the United States and houses myriad species of fish and turtles, including the leatherback, loggerhead, and hawksbill sea turtles.
The variety of marine life rewards anyone who is up for this adventure!
With epic Mountains, tons of great hiking, and plenty of lakes for swimming—North Cascades National Park is just a three-hour drive from Seattle. Nowhere else can you find such vast, desolate wilderness so close to civilization. Here, mountains and glaciers surround over 500,000 acres of preserved wilderness. Peaks tower to over 9,000 feet. It’s no wonder that famed Beat author Jack Kerouac escaped to this wilderness on his quest for a Zen state of mind.
At one end of the park, you’ll find yourself in the snowiest place in the United States, where mountain tops wear a shawl of powder year-round. Elsewhere, visitors can marvel at a menagerie of waterfalls, from roaring waves of whitewater to trickling ribbons of turquoise. The sound of chirping birds and babbling rivers and streams creates a feeling of deep tranquility, even if the surrounding mountains have names like Mount Terror, Poltergeist Pinnacle, and Ghost Peak.
You come here to hike, bike, and climb. You come here for peace… and peace of mind.
Arches National Park often gets most of the shine in this region of Utah. However, Canyonlands is just as awe-inspiring and is only thirty minutes away. Southern Utah is rich with natural canyons preserved within national parks, but the sheer variety of geological formations at Canyonlands National Park makes it especially crucial to see for any aficionado. The Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries eroded the canyons, mesas, and buttes that make up this gigantic 337,598-acre park.
The park offers casual and backcountry hikes alike. You’ll be able to discover prehistoric rock paintings, amazing vistas, and technicolor spires. Canyonlands is a choose-your-own-adventure that offers something to astound every type of explorer.
White Sands is such a magical spot! It’s even excellent for sledding in the summer! Located in central New Mexico, the park features the world’s largest gypsum dune field. These blinding white dunes are a marvel of nature so foreign to the human eye that visitors regularly get lost while exploring them. These dunes are otherworldly. They look more like snow than sand and feel like powdered sugar.
Despite a desert climate that averages ninety-seven degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, the sand remains cool due to its reflective hue. Visitors often treat the dunes like mountains of snow and use plastic sleds to slide down the winding slopes. The park encompasses more than 275 square miles of powdery dunes that stretch up to fifty feet tall. There are few places you’ll encounter in the world quite like White Sands National Park!
Critics called out “Modern Family” actor Eric Stonestreet for being a Hollywood stereotype on Sunday and he cleverly proved they had him all wrong.
Stonestreet celebrated his engagement with his longtime girlfriend, Lindsay Schweitzer, on Sunday by sharing a series of photos of the two posing with her engagement ring on Instagram.
“She said, ‘She’d have her people call my people,'” Stonestreet joked in the caption.
Stonestreet and Schweitzer, a pediatric nurse, met at the Big Slick charity weekend in Kansas City in 2016. In 2017, Stonestreet told Ellen Degeneres that his new fiancée is a calming force in his life.
“Your girlfriend is lovely — I met her backstage,” said DeGeneres. “She’s a nurse. That’s a good thing for you, because you’re a hypochondriac.”
“I’m a big baby, too. She calms me — she calms my nerves. I’m a very high-strung person,” confessed Stonestreet.
Most of the responses to his engagement were extremely positive.
“Congrats you beautiful couple you,” singer Michael Buble wrote. “Yes!!!!” responded sportscaster Rich Eisen.
One fan was confused by his post. “Wait…..so you’re not gay?” Stonestreet is best known for his “Modern Family” role as Cam, a gay man with a husband named Mitchell.
However, there were some who accused Stonestreet of being just another Hollywood guy who can’t seem to marry someone his own age.
More than a few fans thought that Schweizter was his daughter or called her that to criticize him for not marrying someone his own age. “I don’t get it? Is his daughter getting married? What is the event?” one wrote.
via Eric Stonestreet / Instagram
via Eric Stonestreet / Instagram
via Eric Stonestreet / Instagram
via Eric Stonestreet / Instagram
Stonestreet responded to the critics on Wednesday night with a set of heavily-edited pics that made Schweitzer appear to be older than her husband-to-be. He also made note that he is only seven years older than her. He just appears to be a lot older.
“Apparently a lot of people think I look too old, as a 49 year old man, to be engaged to my almost 42 year old fiancé,” he wrote in the caption. “Look, she can’t help that she looks so great at 42 and I can’t help that I apparently look like her grandad so, I fixed it for everyone.”
He then referenced his show which features a May-December romance between Ed O’Neill, 75, and Sophia Vergara, 49. “I assume these are the same people who love Jay & Gloria’s relationship,” he wrote.
Stonestreet had two options for his humorous response. He could have either made himself look younger or make his fiancée appear to be older. By showing her as older it appears as though he was making a bold point about his relationship: It doesn’t matter how old she appears, he loves her all the same.
If that’s the case then they are going to have a long and happy marriage, because that’s what true love is all about.
While the first ten minutes of Pixar’s 2009 animated film Up might have left most of us a blubbering mess, the rest of the film left many folks simply wanting more. Now, 12 years later, Pixar and Disney are teaming up to deliver just that in the new Disney+ spinoff series Dug Days. Set to launch this fall, the upcoming series consists of a collection of shorts following “the humorous misadventures of Dug, the lovable dog from Disney and Pixar’s Up.” According to the trailer’s accompanying description, each short features Dug, Carl, and Russell — an unlikely but endearing family — getting caught up in “everyday events that occur in and around Dug’s backyard.” Of course, all of these stories will be told through the “exciting (and delightfully distorted) eyes of our favorite talking dog.”
Emmy award-winning Pixar veteran and Up writer/co-director Bob Peterson is back on board as the project’s writer and director, while long-time Pixar producer Kim Collins is set to produce. In addition, Edward Asner (Elf, American Dad) is also returning to the series to reprise his role as the crotchety-but-sweet Carl Fredrickson. However, Russell’s original voice actor, Jordan Nagai, will not be returning to voice his character. As of right now, it has not been confirmed who will be taking over as the role of Russell.
In addition to Dug Days, two other Pixar series are also coming to Disney+: Cars and Win or Lose. Whereas Cars, much like Dug Days, follows an existing property (and its iconic characters, Lightning McQueen and Mater), Win or Lose is Pixar’s first long-form animated series, and tells the story of “a co-ed middle school softball team in the week leading up their championship game.” As of now, the Cars series is scheduled to release next year, while Win or Lose is not slated to hit the streaming service until Fall 2023. Fortunately, you won’t be waiting too much longer to catch Dug Days, as the series is set to premiere later this year exclusively on Disney+.
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