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Rebecca Ferguson kicked off a wave of speculation this week as the Dune: Part Two actress revealed that she was once screamed at by an “absolute idiot” of co-star before telling them off.

Ferguson shared the anecdote on the latest episode of the Reign with Josh Smith podcast where she made it very clear out of the gate that the culprit was not Tom Cruise or Hugh Jackman. However, outside of revealing that incident took place in the last 10 or 12 years, Ferguson did not name the actor who berated her.

“This human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” Ferguson said via The Daily Beast. “But because this person was number one on the call sheet, there was no safety net for me.”

Once she realized that no one on set was going to stand up for her—“No one had my back,” she said—she started to cry, after which she was berated further, according to her retelling of the incident. “This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say ‘You call yourself an actor? This is what I have to work with? What the fuck is this?’ And I stood there just breaking.”

Finally, Ferguson had enough and took action.

“The next day I walked on and I said, ‘You get off my set,’” Ferguson told Smith. “It was the first time I’d ever spoken [back to that person]. I was so scared. And I looked at this person and said ‘You can f*ck off.’”

However, the producers couldn’t send away their “number one” so Ferguson came up with a solution. “The person can turn around and I can act to the back [of their] head. And I did.”

Naturally, the internet went wild trying to figure out the actor who screamed at Ferguson, and so far, the list includes Hugh Grant, Michael Fassbender, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Ewan McGregor, and Chris Hemsworth. The Rock‘s name was also in the mix thanks to working with Ferguson on Hercules. However, The Rock made it very clear that it wasn’t him, and he’d sure like to get his hands on whoever it was.

“Hate seeing this but love seeing her stand up to bullshit,” The Rock wrote on Twitter. “Rebecca was my guardian angel sent from heaven on set. I love that woman. I’d like to find out who did this.”

(Via The Daily Beast, The Rock on Twitter)

It was revealed a few days ago that Diddy (real name Sean Combs) is facing a sexual harassment and assault lawsuit filed against him by former collaborator Rodney “Lil Rod Madeit” Jones. Since then, some have made note that Meek Mill and Usher appear to be referenced in the lawsuit.

Why Was Meek Mill Mentioned In A New Diddy Lawsuit?

Mill is not directly mentioned in the lawsuit. However, one excerpt from it reads, “Mr. Combs informed Mr. Jones that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with rapper[5] (REDACTED), R&B singer[6] (REDACTED), and Stevie J.” This is according to a report from XXL, which obtained a copy of the lawsuit, and also according to a video of internet personality DJ Akademiks looking over the actual lawsuit. The footnote for 5 reads, “He is a Philadelphia Rapper who dated Nicki Minaj,” and the footnote for 6 says, “He performed at the Superbowl and had a successful Vegas residency.”

Some people connected the dots and came to the conclusion that the notes seem to identify Meek and Usher as the redacted names.

In a statement shared with XXL, Diddy’s attorney Shawn Holley responded to the suit, saying, “Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday. His reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines. We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair was one of the more promising (and eerie) debut films in recent memory. Now, director Jane Schoenbrun is returning with their follow-up, I Saw the TV Glow.

The Emma Stone-produced A24 film stars Justice Smith (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) as Owen, a teenager who is “just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own,” according to the official plot synopsis. “In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.” The cast also includes Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Fred Durst (!), and Danielle Deadwyler.

You can watch the trailer above.

Schoenbrun told the Hollywood Reporter that I Saw the TV Glow was inspired by their love of television. “It’s a very strange phenomenon that I don’t think people take seriously, but certainly as a dissociated queer kid in the suburbs, many of my closest emotional relationships were with characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” they said. Amber Benson, who played Tara on Buffy, even makes a cameo.

I Saw the TV Glow, which I will never not want to call I Saw the TV Warming Glow, opens in theaters on May 3rd.

“Texas Hold ‘Em” has proven to be a major song for Beyoncé. It recently became the first song by a Black woman to lead the Billboard country charts, and a few days ago, it became her ninth No. 1 single on the Hot 100. Some, though, couldn’t help but notice some similarities between Beyoncé’s single and the theme song of Franklin, the classic turtle-starring kids show from the late ’90s and early ’00s.

Here’s a video comparing the two songs:

As TMZ notes, the comparison has generated some attention on TikTok. Now, Bruce Cockburn, the beloved Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote and performed the Franklin theme, has shared his thoughts. He told the publication, “I think Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ is a good record. Unfortunately, I can’t claim to have had any part in writing it. The rhythmic feel is similar to my theme song for the Franklin TV series, but to my ears, that’s where the similarity stops. ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ is her song, and I wish her success with it!”

So, it doesn’t look like Beyoncé is about to get dragged into a legal battle over her new music. Kanye West can’t say the say the same thing right now, though, as it looks like he’s getting sued by Donna Summer’s estate.

Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest on Monday during a taping of Late Night With Seth Meyers with President Joe Biden as a guest. She joined other protesters with the organization Jewish Voice for Peace, which “envision[s] a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.”

The New York Post reports that the actress, who also appeared in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, was “participating in the protest demanding a cease-fire to Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza.” She was photographed outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza wearing a “Cease-Fire Now” shirt while being escorted by an NYPD officer with her hands restrained behind her back.

Following the arrests, Jewish Voice for Peace wrote on Instagram, “Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews and allies just took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt President Biden’s appearance on @LateNightSeth. Biden’s deadly foreign policy has funded and fueled genocide in Gaza.” The post continued, “The President needs to start listening to the American people – not the far-Right Israeli government indiscriminately bombing the people of Gaza, destroying 70% of infrastructure, including hospitals, universities and the electricity and water grids.”

Schafer was reportedly issued a summons for trespassing.

(Via the New York Post)

One of the most recognizable and most-heard pieces of music of the past 40 years was written by Koji Kondo. You may not know his name, but you know his work: Kondo is a composer for Nintendo, and his best-known piece of music is the original Super Mario Bros. overworld theme song. It’s an inescapably catchy tune, so much so that it even has an admirer in one of the greatest songwriters ever: Paul McCartney.

A new Washington Post feature on Kondo tells the story of the time Kondo and the former Beatle met in Japan. It explains:

“Super Mario Bros. released in 1985, and just one year later, Paul McCartney was humming the tune. The Beatle was on tour in Japan when he learned that Kondo and Mario’s creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, were in attendance. He asked to bring the two game creators backstage. He and wife Linda McCartney approached the gentlemen, and the first noises that escaped their lips were those same six notes. Kondo recalls it as an ‘incredible moment.’”

McCartney was clearly a big Nintendo fan, even beyond this one meeting: A 1996 Time feature on Miyamoto notes, “Shigeru Miyamoto, 43, has reached the top in the rarefied world of video-game designers by consistently creating games that kids can’t resist. As a result, he’s as revered as a rock star — and not just in Japan. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and movie directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have all traveled to Nintendo’s famed E.A.D. (Entertainment Analysis and Development) lab in Kyoto to meet the man known as the Spielberg of video games.”

There’s also the time that Miyamoto visited The Tonight Show and performed the Mario theme with The Roots:

Buddy Duress, who earned raves for his portrayal of a rattled ex-con in the Safdie brothers’ Good Time, has died, reports People. He was 38 years old. His death — which, according to his brother, stemmed from a “cardiac arrest from a drug cocktail” — occurred back in November 2023 but it’s only being made public now.

Duress had never acted on film before he met the Safdies — a fairly common occurrence in their movies. When they met, Duress had recently been released from Rikers Island for drug charges. He was also on the run after skipping out on a drug in-patient program. They cast him in their 2014 addict saga Heaven Knows What, in which he played a low-level drug dealer. After production wrapped, Duress was caught and sent back to Rikers.

“You know, I still look back at it. If I had went to that program, I wouldn’t have been in Heaven Knows What, and I probably wouldn’t be an actor right now,” Duress told SSense. “That’s the honest truth. I wouldn’t.”

Upon his release the Safdies cast him in Good Time as Ray, a just released ex-con who accidentally gets embroiled in the film’s shenanigans. He oozes authenticity, frequently stealing the movie from its dressed-down movie star. At one point he goes into his wild back story about how he got those nasty bruises on his face.

Duress appeared in a number of other indies and short films, including Person to Person, with Michael Cera and Abby Jacobson; The Mountain, with Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan; PVT Chat with fellow Safdies alum Julia Fox; and Owen Kline’s Funny Pages.

He also continued to be in and out of prison. In 2019 he was arrested for grand larceny and returned to Rikers. Later that same year he was arrested for threatening to burn his mother’s house to the ground. He was arrested again for menacing and criminal possession of brass knuckles and a controlled substance.

“What happened is a tragic and frustrating loss of visceral talent,” Jon Karales, who directed Duress him in the forthcoming feature Mass State Lottery. “He lived like a cowboy and carrying the weight of that kind of life informed his skills and performances in a way that made him irreplaceable as an actor. He has unfortunately become the John Cazale of our generation.”

So pour one out for a complicated figure who burned but briefly.

Good Time now streams on Netflix and Tubi.

(Via People)

Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign‘s Vultures 1 collab album may be a hit among fans, but the album has not arrived without its controversies. Today (February 27), Billboard reports that Donna Summer’s estate has filed a lawsuit against West for interpolating Summer’s hit song “I Feel Love” on the Vultures 1 track “Good (Don’t Die).”

According to the lawsuit, West requested permission to sample the song, but was denied by the estate. West then rerecorded portions of “I Feel Love” to use on “Good (Don’t Die).”

“Summer’s estate … wanted no association with West’s controversial history and specifically rejected West’s proposed use,” attorneys for the estate wrote. “In the face of this rejection, defendants arrogantly and unilaterally decided they would simply steal ‘I Feel Love’ and use it without permission.”

The song has since been removed from streaming platforms, however, Summer’s estate is continuing to pursue legal action, as the song has already garnered many streams.

“This lawsuit is about more than Defendants’ mere failure to pay the appropriate licensing fee for using another’s musical property,” the estate’s lawyers wrote. “It is also about the rights of artists to decide how their works are used and presented to the public, and the need to prevent anyone from simply stealing creative works when they cannot secure the right to use them legally.”

Though the portions West used were re-recorded, Summer’s attorneys maintain that West copied the song, as the tunes sound too much alike,

“When listening to both songs, any average listener can immediately hear the distinctive similar melody and compositional elements present in both songs, which sound so identical that it appears Defendants may have gone so far as sampling the original master recording of Summer,” the attorneys wrote.

At the time of writing, neither West nor Ty Dolla Sign have directly commented on the matter.

Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Adele is putting her Weekends With Adele Las Vegas residency on hiatus. Today (February 27), the “Easy On Me” hitmaker took to Instagram to share a message with fans. In the note, she explained that she had been sick for a while and hasn’t had a chance to fully recover. As a result, she was ordered by doctors to take a break.

“Sadly I have to take a beat and pause my Vegas residency. I was sick at the end of my last leg and all the way through my break. I hadn’t quite gotten the chance to get back to health before shows resumed and now I’m sick again, and unfortunately it’s all taken a toll on my voice. And so on Doctors orders I have no choice but to rest thoroughly. The remaining 5 weekends of this leg are being postponed to a later date. We are already working out the details and you will be sent the information asap.”

The post notes that the shows scheduled for March 1 & 2, 8 & 9, 15 & 16, 22 & 23, and 29 & 30 are the dates affected by Adele’s impending hiatus.

Since beginning the Weekends With Adele residency back in November of 2022, Adele has performed over 80 shows. She is scheduled to perform 100 shows by the residency’s end.

When Beyoncé dropped two songs from her upcoming album of country tunes, Renaissance: Act II, she may not have expected to make history, but that’s exactly what happened. Her first single from the album, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” shot to the No.1 spot on the Billboard country music charts, making her the first Black female artist to hit that top spot. The catchy tune also topped the Billboard Hot 100 the last week in February 2024, a week after it debuted at No. 2.

Presumbaly, Queen Bey didn’t expect her song to become an Irish stepdance hit, though that’s also exactly what happened. And surely she didn’t expect it to be sung by Kevin Bacon to a bunch of farm animals, yet that also has happened.

Perhaps we should all have expected that, though. There’s a precedent here, after all.

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Back in the summer of 2022, Kevin Bacon surprised the world by singing and playing a cover of Beyoncé’s “Heated” on his guitar while being surrounded by goats on his farm. At that time, many people had not yet discovered that the “Footloose” actor and his wife of 35 years, Kyra Sedgwick, have been living their best life on their Connecticut farm, singing and dancing together with their goats, pigs, alpacas and miniature horses. Now their little videos together regularly become viral delights.

Witness the joy of Kevin Bacon—or King Beycon, if you will—as he strums the mandolin and sings “Texas Hold ‘Em” with a little backup from his wife and pigs.

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Seriously, whenever you need a break from the challenges of life, head on over to Kevin Bacon’s Instagram. It’s the quickest way to put a smile on your face, practically guaranteed, and there’s frequently some kind of fun surprise. (Like, who knew Kevin Bacon played the mandolin?!)

Unsurprisingly, people are loving it.

“I love how much fun you too have. Loving life,” wrote one commenter.

“A couple of goats singing a goat’s song on a farm full of goats,” wrote another.

“Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra live on their farm, mind their business and spread joy. Occasional acting. 11/10,” shared another.

“I just want the kind of joy Kevin and Kyra have, for real,” wrote another. Don’t we all?

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have long been seen as #couplegoals by those who follow them. After all, most marriages don’t last 35 years, much less those that have been forged in the fires of fame. The two met and married as actors in Hollywood, but have managed to avoid the relationship pitfalls many of their colleagues have fallen into. If their videos are any indication, they are genuinely happy together in a way that all couples strive for, which is inspiring to see.

Perhaps the key is music and farm animals and living far away from the glitz and glam. Or maybe as Sedgwick has said, they just got lucky. Whatever the secret of their sweet relationship, we are here for it.

You can follow Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick on Instagram for more adorable musical farm animal fun.