Rudy Giuliani is really broke. (How broke is he?) He’s reportedly so broke that he can’t afford a new car to fart in — and that was before a judge ordered him to immediately pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of manipulating ballots after the 2020 election. He’s also being sued by one of his former lawyers, Robert Costello, for lack of payment,” not to mention that whole messy election interference case in Georgia.
To make some quick cash, Giuliani is hawking FDA-unapproved supplements on his America’s Mayor Live show.
The Daily Beast reports that after ranting about how America has turned into “fascist territory,” Giuliani read promotions for Balance of Nature supplements, which have received warnings from the Food and Drug Administration over the “the company’s claims that its products could be used to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent diseases such as cancer, heart disease, cirrhosis, diabetes, asthma, and COVID-19.”
Giuliani, apparently getting into the holiday spirit despite the staggering financial judgment against him, urged followers not only to take the supplements every day but also to use the empty bottles to decorate their Christmas trees. “Last night I showed you how to put one together,” he said on Wednesday’s show, holding up a Balance of Nature bottle with a wire hook inserted into the top. “This one’s going on the tree now. I’m going to have two on my tree!”
I’ll give him this: he keeps finding new ways to hit rock bottom.
First of all, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom is a movie in which Aquaman gets peed in his mouth three times. I just want to get that part out there first.
Soooo … this run of DC movies had to end eventually, one way or another. And, frankly, it was probably always going to be like this: an overwhelming spectacle of a thing, with a plot that doesn’t really approach coherent, that I’m pretty sure isn’t even finished, in a movie Aquaman gets peed into his mouth three times.
But, you know, this is how all these franchises will end … puttering out. It’s never going to end on some celebratory note. No corporation can resist the urge to over-saturate the market to the point no one cares anymore. Which is, partly, why the MCU is where it is now. When the MCU eventually ends, it won’t end on an Avengers: Endgame. It will end when no one goes to see the Hobgoblin solo movie, or whatever.
This is a strange one, because I usually really like James Wan movies. I don’t know if he just wasn’t given the time or resources to finish this thing, the the result is pretty mind-boggling. There are scenes that, like the first movie, just honestly rip in a hilarious, nonsensical way. Then there are scenes in which Randall Park’s Dr. Stephen Shin just does a voiceover explaining the plot and what they all did next, because the scene doesn’t exist. Randall Park is always a welcome addition to any cast, but his job here seems to be to just explain what’s happening. And even with this helpful footnote reader of a character, I was still pretty confused.
(I’ll be honest, I’m not a “watch movies high” person. But this is a movie I would actually recommend such a thing. Maybe an Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom and Heavy Metal double feature.)
I’ve been filibustering a bit because I don’t want to write about the plot. I’m really dreading writing about the plot because I’m not sure I understand it completely. Oh, you know what, I’m going to delay it just a little bit longer. Remember Challenge of the Superfriends? If not, you probably know Superfriends. For 16 glorious episodes in 1978 (I saw the episodes in syndication), it was rebranded Challenge of the Superfriends and it features a sort of full on Justice League of America (hey we got The Flash and Green Lantern) versus The Legion of Doom, which was my introduction to Black Manta. And in Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta is awesome. And the suit, like in the first movie, looks dynamite. Every time Black Manta was on screen, I was transfixed.
Okay, enough dillydallying, here we go: Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) is bored of being king of Atlantis. It’s much more bureaucratic than he expected and nothing gets done. While this is going on, Black Manta is searching for an ancient, and also very harmful, energy source called orichalcum. (Yes, the way it’s pronounced is probably the way you think it is – and it got a laugh every single time that last three letter syllable was, strangely, emphasized.) Why? Who’s to say. But while searching he finds an ancient trident, broken in two. Once the two sides are reunited, Black Manta is possessed by an ancient leader of the Lost Kingdom (the one in the title) who wants Black Manta to release all the orichalcum into the Earth’s atmosphere so it will melt the glaciers and free the Lost Kingdom from its icy grave.
To do this, Arthur has to free his brother, Orm (Patrick Wilson), from prison so the two can begrudgingly team up to stop this. You see, Orm knows people who run the black market who can tell them how to find Black Manta. The creature they have to negotiate with is kind of a cross between Boss Nass from The Phantom Menace and Dexter Jettster from Attack of the Clones. Also this character is voiced by Martin Short, who I had no idea was in this movie. Along the way, the two learn to like each other and learn about themselves a bit. Also, Arthur tricks Orm into eating a cockroach.
I think by the end I found myself having a good time even though I was watching a movie that wasn’t very good. But, also, it’s the holidays, I knew this was the last thing I’d be writing for a couple weeks, so I was in a pretty good mood. But, good grief, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is overwhelming. It just keeps coming AT YOU until you submit to its buffoonery. And I think that’s what happened to me. Hey, but fun is fun, right?
The DCEU started ten years ago with Man of Steel, which begins with Russell Crowe’s Jor-El sending his only son, Kal-El, off in a spacecraft towards Earth before their planet dies. As I was walking out, I overheard someone say, “The DCEU ends with Patrick Wilson eating a roach.” RIP, DCEU.
If you are a Bob Dylan fan in Europe, you just might need to go on a scavenger hunt now. Some internet users have discovered that Dylan secretly released a 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 CD in record stores all over the continent, without any promotion. According to NME, the CD spans 28 tracks that are outtakes from 1973’s Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid soundtrack sessions.
For those who aren’t in Europe and can find a copy, some are reportedly popping up on eBay but will cost at least a few hundred dollars. Some fans have sparked bids on one to $500, as it does feel like a pretty exclusive find.
One UK record store, Badlands, listed it on their website, but it has since sold out. However, they did post photos of the front and back cover, and other spots could follow suit by making it available for online purchase.
As for why Dylan released the CD, NME notes, “The release of the CD was due to a stipulation within European copyrights which states that all sound recordings will be sent into the public domain if they aren’t released 50 years after their creation. This stipulation has led to the tradition for artists to share studio rarities to avoid having them enter the public domain.”
See Dylan‘s 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 CD tracklist below.
“I don’t hate Christmas,” Don Draper once said on Mad Men. “I hate this Christmas.” The actor who played Don has merrier thoughts on the holiday.
Jon Hamm, who portrayed Santa in a World Cup commercial, dropped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday to sing Christmas carols in the most dramatic way possible with host Jimmy Fallon. He started with “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” before moving on to “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” “Let It Snow” and an anxious performance of “Must Be Santa.” Like everything else he’s done lately, including a sex scene with Jennifer Aniston on The Morning Show, Hamm crushed it.
You can watch The Tonight Show video above.
Hamm was nominated for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film at the Golden Globes for his performance as a right-wing sheriff on Fargo. “I’m thrilled to be able to act in all aspects of what we get to do comedy and drama, dark and light, and play all the 64 colors in the Crayola box,” he told Variety about the FX series. “I’m glad people are responding to it and I think once the season goes on, and people start seeing it, they’ll be even more surprised.”
In September, The Rolling Stones announced their new album, Hackney Diamonds, with a Sydney Sweeney-starring video for “Angry.” In the visual, vintage imagery of the band performing can be seen on billboards as Sweeney, wearing chaps and a corset, dances and sings along, driven down Sunset Boulevard in a convertible. Some thought the video sexually objectified Sweeney, and now she has responded in a new Glamour interview.
Of starring in the video, Sweeney said, “I felt hot. I picked my own outfit out of racks and racks of clothes. I felt so good in it.”
When asked about the claims of sexual objectification, Sweeney responded:
“One of the questions I get is, ‘Are you a feminist?’ I find empowerment through embracing the body that I have. That’s sexy and strong, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I’m in a Rolling Stones video. How cool and iconic is that? I felt so good. All the moves, everything I was doing was all freestyle. I mean, who else gets to roll around on the top of a convertible driving down Sunset Boulevard with police escorts? It’s the cool things in this career that I had no idea I’d get to do.”
This comes after Blur and Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn shared some criticism of the video, saying, “I listened to their new song and watched this horrible music video showing them at different stages of their lives on billboards. And this young woman objectified. What the hell is this? There’s something completely disconnected.”
Check out the “Angry” video below.
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Cameron Diaz retired from acting almost a decade ago, and for some reason she came back. Not that her return isn’t welcome; it’s just, like, why would one un-retire if they didn’t have to? Besides, she seemed pretty happy not having to do that whole Hollywood grind thing. She’s been back doing press recently, although her comeback film, the action comedy Back in Action, with Jamie Foxx, isn’t due on Netflix for a while still. And now that she’s back she has some interesting, outside-the-box ideas about life.
Per People, Diaz joined Molly Sims and her best friend Emese Gormley for their podcast Lipstick on the Rim, where the two talked about health and, eventually, life partners. One of them confessed that her husband snores. That prompted Diaz to reveal why she doesn’t have to worry about that.
“We should normalize separate bedrooms,” Diaz said. “To me, I would literally, I have my house, you have yours. We have the family house in the middle. I will go and sleep in my room. You go sleep in your room. I’m fine.”
She added, “And we have the bedroom in the middle that we can convene in for our relations.”
Diaz, who’s been married to Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden since 2015, has spoken about this before. Still, she clarified that she doesn’t actually do that herself.
“By the way,” she said. “I don’t feel that way now because my husband is so wonderful. I said that before I got married.”
Still, is that such an awful idea? Does a couple constantly have to sleep together? Maybe even having the option to take a night off, just for some alone sleep time, shouldn’t be grounds for divorce. We’re just spitballing here.
A video of a preschool-age girl is capturing hearts because of the incredibly confident way she responded to a boy who didn’t like her hair. Leila Danai, who was 3 and a half when the video was taken, is one of the only Black children in her school, and her mother, Mildred Munjanganja, prepared her for comments people might make about her hair.
In the video, Leila tells her mother that a boy in school said he didn’t like her hair, “I said, ‘I like it!'” she responded. “He said, ‘I don’t like that hair — it’s crazy.’ And I said, ‘My mommy made it. And if you don’t like it, I’ll keep it for myself,” she continued.
“Oh, baby! I’m so proud of you,” her mother exclaimed. “You stood up for yourself. That’s what matters. What matters is that you like it — it’s your hair.”
I love hearing about Leila’s day! Today she shared how her classmate didn’t like her hair and she replied ‘well I like it!’ – I have never been more proud! I am glad she didnt need anyone’s validation to feel complete, she knew she loved her hairstyle and that’s what mattered. She stood up for herself, she confidently and honestly communicated her point of view and she didn’t allow someone else to affect her self confidence. I am so proud of her – at 3.5years she stood up for herself and didn’t allow the ent to affect her. We will continue to have a democratic household where her opinion matters! We will continue not forcing to do things she does not want to do and allowing her to speak her mind. I will continue to listen, to guide and be an excellent example. I am so proud of Leila! Strong women, may we be them, may we know them, may we raise them! . . . . . . . . . #kidsselfconfidence #diversity #blackhair #blackkidshairstyles #toddler #momanddaughter #toddlerlife #modelface
“I am glad she didn’t need anyone’s validation to feel complete. She knew she loved her hairstyle, and that’s what mattered,” Munjanganja wrote. “She stood up for herself, she confidently and honestly communicated her point of view and she didn’t allow someone else to affect her self-confidence. I am so proud of her. At 3.5 years, she stood up for herself and didn’t allow the [comment] to affect her.”
Mother and daughter were applauded in the comments.
“We should all have this type of self-esteem. A beautiful young lady. I love her hair!” Armando Lopez wrote. “She is beautiful and will be a fierce force as she grows! Go Momma!!!” Rugby added.
The holidays are supposed to be a magical and cozy time of joy and togetherness, when families gather for annual Christmas card photos and dress up for holiday events, with everything feeling merry and bright…right?
Tell that to parents trying to wrangle their little cherubs into scratchy sweaters, uncomfortable dress pants and inexplicably difficult-to-put-on snow boots.
The ideal vs. the reality of the holiday season is the premise of an Saturday Night Live spoof ad that aired in 2019 and is making the rounds on social media. It starts as a normal Macy’s holiday sale commercial would—seriously merry and bright—then devolves into a hilarious representation of the behind-the-scenes reality parents deal with every year.
“Tis the season for wrestling your wiggly little monster into thick winter clothes,” a woman says in an upbeat, sing-songy tone, before announcing sale prices on “hard, shiny shoes that hurt” and “holiday rompers she’ll never get off in time.”
“The romper one is real. I damn near had to get cut out of one of them things,” wrote one commenter on TikTok.
“Now that I’m the parent of a young child, this made my night,” wrote another.
“The couple arguing about the boots is the most relatable thing,” shared another. “Nothing tests a marriage more than getting your kids ready to leave for something.”
“‘You don’t wear jeans to church’ is ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERCENT my dad,” shared another.
Several commenters loved how the little girl was laughing while the parents were arguing over the boots, which others had to go back and watch again to catch.
“Clothes they’ll hate create the memories you’ll love.” That about sums up dressing kids up for the holidays, doesn’t it? Fabulous job on this one, SNL.
The Houston Rockets have had a very strong start to the season, and Dillon Brooks has played a big role in their success. He’s enjoyed a bounce back season after a rather disastrous end to his tenure in Memphis raised questions about what his place in the league was going forward.
This year he has brought the Rockets the best parts of his game and mostly avoided the antics that made him a headache for the Grizzlies. However, late on Wednesday night the little green goblin voice that lives deep inside Brooks was able to find its way out as he broke out one of his signature moves, hitting Oneyka Okongwu with a low blow as he ran over a screen in the fourth quarter of a Rockets loss to the Hawks.
Brooks wasn’t ejected for this one, but was given a Flagrant 1 and you can bet the league will take a look at it to decide whether it should result in a suspension. It is the fourth time this calendar year that Brooks has hit an opponent in the nuts, as Donovan Mitchell, LeBron James, Daniel Theis, and now Okongwu have felt the wrath of Brooks, with his preseason shot on Theis earning him a $25,000 fine. Now we’ll see what the NBA decides is an appropriate punishment for his latest low blow.
There is something to be said for having the confidence to keep shooting. You can, assuredly, think of at least one NBA player who hit a slump and let their confidence go in the tank, which meant they did not let it fly when they had good looks, which negatively impacted both their performance and their team.
Tim Hardaway Jr. is not one of those players. Hardaway, who has seen a whole lot in his NBA career and has carved out a pretty good niche as one of the league’s best bucket getters off the bench, is actually in the midst of a season where he’s getting more shots up per 36 minutes than ever before. And during Wednesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Hardaway padded those stats a bit on one possession, as he missed three shots in a row, kept getting good looks off of offensive rebounds, and eventually knocked down a triple.
It is, legitimately, commendable that Hardaway kept letting it fly. There are all really good looks! He’s also the kind of player who can hit any of these — it’s not like Shaq is being asked to get up a bunch of threes on one possession or anything — and you can tell that the crowd was fully on his side the entire time. Shout out to Tim Hardaway Jr. for giving all of us a pretty fun clip that had no downside other than what it did to his field goal percentage.
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