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One of the best Stephen King movies isn’t all that Stephen King-y. It’s Stand by Me, and despite revolving around a corpse, it’s a (sometimes funny) drama — a bracing coming-of-age yarn where the kids talk like real kids. (That’s to say they cuss a lot.) Real King heads know, though, that the source isn’t named after the Ben E. King song. It’s called, simply, The Body, a short story found in his collection Different Seasons (which also produced The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil). That’s not a very catchy movie title, though, and you may have two of its stars for the switcheroo.

Per HuffPost, Kiefer Sutherland — who played ne’er-do-well Ace, the film’s closest thing to a baddie — told an anecdote from the film’s set during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show.

“We were making ‘Stand by Me,’ which was a Stephen King short story called The Body, and River Phoenix was learning guitar and playing guitar and he was actually very, very good,” Sutherland recounted. “And I was playing ‘Stand by Me’ and singing that song, and he said, ‘Oh, I love the melody of that song,’ and he hadn’t heard it before.”

Sutherland continued, “So I was teaching it to him and Rob Reiner walked by and said, ‘Oh, I haven’t heard that song for a long time, I love it.’”

Does that mean Sutherland and Phoenix are responsible for the film’s catchier title? Sutherland couldn’t say with exactitude, but he could say what they did “was part of that conversation.”

Stand by Me was a biggie for both the young actors. It was only Phoenix’s second film, after Joe Dante’s Explorers, and it was only Sutherland’s fourth, paving the way for the even more villainous character he played in The Lost Boys the following year. As for Reiner, it was his first non-comedy, paving the way for the even funnier-scarier Misery some four years later.

Stand by Me currently streams on Netflix and on AMC+.

(Via HuffPost)

Lizzo‘s legal woes are heating up. Although not much progress has been made in the sexual harassment and hostile workplace lawsuits, the attorneys representing her have continued to file proactive motions on Lizzo’s behalf. In October, her representatives reportedly attempted to get the case tossed.

According to Radar Online, on December 21, the team allegedly filed paperwork requesting that the courts seal the documents from the matter due to privacy concerns. In the explanation, the outlet reports that Lizzo’s attorney noted:

“The documents, correspondence, and testimony that contain sensitive, confidential information and/or proprietary business information, including employee compensation, contract negotiation, and third-party sensitive contact information… These records, including portions of Declarations supporting the Motion and attached exhibits, should be ordered sealed to avoid any harm to the parties through their public disclosure.”

As of Saturday, December 23, the judge has not yet decided on the matter. Lizzo has maintained her innocence, writing in a statement shared on her official Instagram page, “Usually, I choose not to respond to false allegations, but these are as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous not to be addressed. These sensationalized stories are coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behavior on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional.”

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

People love to dunk on Joe Biden’s allegedly broken brain, but — hear us out — what if it’s Trump whose mind is mush? After all, it’s the former president who doesn’t seem to know who his successor is, who thinks Biden might get us into “World War II,” who once let slip that’s he’s “waging an all-out war on democracy.” (This was before he admitted he wants to be a dictator.) Heck, even Joe Rogan sometimes can’t tell their gaffes apart.

Per Mediaite, Joe Rogan received a brutal fact check during a recent discussion with MMA fighter Bo Nickal. Rogan was dunking on Biden for something he said something about airports existing during the Revolutionary War.

“If you had any other job, and you were talking like that, they would go, ‘Hey, you’re done,’” Rogan thundered.

There was one problem: It wasn’t Biden who’d said that. Rogan’s producer Jamie Vernon chimed in to play a clip in which Biden had called out Trump, who’d dropped the Revolutionary War airport line.

“The same ‘stable genius’ said the biggest problem we had during the Revolutionary War is we didn’t have enough airports,” Biden said in the clip, adding, “Whoa.”

Vernon then played the clip to which Biden was referring. It’s from back in 2019, a year before he was telling those suffering from COVID-19 to treat it with bleach. In it, the admitted non-history buff tried to talk history:

In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York and named after the great George Washington, commander-in-chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the airp… It ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do…

Alas, Rogen — who’d pounced on Biden earlier for allegedly saying this — gave Trump a pass. “Oh okay,” Rogen said. “So he f*cked up.”

Trump has tried to explain why his brain doesn’t work sometimes, although frankly he only made things worse.

(Via Mediaite)

A mother on TikTok shared a heartfelt moment when her 9-year-old daughter opened up about her self-image concerns, wondering about her appearance as she grows up. The story was a wonderful example of a mother delicately dealing with an issue that far too many young women face. It was also a difficult moment because the conversation brought up the mother’s body issues as well.

The conversation happened while the two were clothes shopping at Target. “My 9-year-old’s saying she’s fat, and this is because she has to wear adult sizes versus kids ’cause she’s really tall, just like me,” Mackenzie Waddell told her 222,000 followers.

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“She kept calling herself ‘fat’ and that she had too big of a butt and that the other kids her age don’t have to wear adult clothes,” Waddell continued. “I reminded her that I, too, had to wear adult clothes when I was her age ’cause I was really tall just like she is.”

@missmommymack

Im so devastated that she feels that way about herself. 💔

The discussion led to a question that was hard for the mother to hear.

“… she asked me if she was gonna look like me when she grew up. And I asked her, ‘Do you mean big like me? When you grow up?’ And she said, ‘Yes. I’m not trying to be mean mom, but I want to look like Aunt Sarah, not you,’” she recalled.

Her daughter’s remarks hit her right in the heart, but she responded with perfect composure. “I kept a brave face and said, ‘As long as you are happy and healthy, and you love yourself, that’s all that matters. No matter what size you are,” Waddell said.

The mother was sure not to take it personally, but it still cut close to the bone. “And was I hurt? Yeah, I was. But she didn’t mean to hurt me. It just really sucked. Yeah,” she concluded.

The post went viral, receiving over 1.7 million views and over 2,000 comments. The most popular commenter thought that Waddell should tell her daughter to avoid commenting on people’s weight.

“You should tell her she hurt your feelings. She needs to know. You did a great job supporting her in how she feels. She has to learn that skill also,” Char8201 wrote.

However, many women responded with nothing but love for how Waddell handled such a challenging situation. “You responded beautifully, momma. She’s still learning and these are the moments where we provide that guidance, even when it hurts,” Mavv13 wrote. “Oh mama. Thank god she feels comfortable to talk to you openly,” tirrelltribe added.

After the tremendous response to her video, Waddell responded with another post, educating people about how one’s weight doesn’t necessarily mean they eat unhealthy. “A lot of people like to assume that plus-size people don’t know how to eat healthy or are unhealthy. When, in fact, we’re not,” Waddle said.

She added that her daughter lives a healthy lifestyle but avoids having conversations about weight with her because “That’s what traumatized me.”

@missmommymack

Replying to @user3838812846970 she will always be perfect, no matter what.

This article originally appeared on 9.28.23

Ten months after a man’s wife passed away, he finally got the courage to read a letter she left him, which contained a devastating admission. The 4-year-old son they had together may not be his.

“My ‘darling’ wife passed away 10 months ago,” the man wrote on Reddit’s Off My Chest forum. “She wrote a letter for me before she died, but I couldn’t bring myself to read it until now. She told me how sorry she was that she didn’t have the guts to tell me this to my face when she was alive.”

In the letter, the wife revealed that there was a “good chance” that the son he thought was his wasn’t his biological child. A few weeks before their wedding day, the wife got drunk at her bachelorette party and had a one-night stand with another man. Soon after that night, she became pregnant but was unsure who the father was.

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The man was torn whether or not to have the paternity test done. The child had only one parent in this world, and he would have to take care of him regardless. He also thought it was cowardly that his former wife would wait until she was no longer around to share the truth with him.

“So she thought she’d rather drop this bomb on my life when I could no longer confront her about it,” the man wrote. “Now that my son would only have one parent looking out for him, and she’d have no idea how I would even react. Maybe I should not have got the paternity test done. Maybe it might be better to live in ignorance. But I just had to know.”

The man took the paternity test and learned he wasn’t the child’s biological father.

“I’m devastated. This doesn’t change how I feel about my son,” he wrote. “He’s my whole world and he’s innocent. But boy, does it hurt. There’s so much going on in my head right now. I haven’t stopped crying. Thank god my son is at my parents’ place for the day. I’d hate for him to see me like this.”

Facing a pain nearly too much for him to bear, the only outlet he had at the moment was reaching out to Reddit to find some solace. “I just needed to let this all out. Don’t have it in me to tell anyone in my life about this right now,” he wrote.

The commenters send him hundreds of messages of support to get him through the shock of first learning the truth about his family.

The most popular message was straightforward and honest. “All your feelings are valid, a lot of people will react with some kind of toxic positivity to things like these. Your feelings are valid. Each and everyone,” femunndsmarka wrote.

Another commenter added that someday, his son will appreciate how he stepped up and did what was right in a very trying circumstance. “He is going to find out the truth one day. Imagine how much more he will love you knowing you didn’t leave him, even though he wasn’t yours,” ImNotGoodatThis6969.

Another commenter provided valuable insight from the son’s perspective.

“As an adopted child, I just want to thank you on behalf of your son. I deeply believe it changes nothing, family is not about blood, its about who you love, want to have by your side, and care for the most. Sending hugs, strength and gratitude,” Mariuuq wrote.

The father at the heart of this story is understandably devastated because his life was upended almost overnight. But the hope in the story is that his trials also taught him a powerful truth—his love for his son goes much deeper than blood.

This article originally appeared on 9.28.23

The fanfare surrounding Spotify’s annual Wrapped data reveal has dwindled. But the streaming giant always has something in the pipeline to keep users engaged. Earlier in the week, it was the unveiling of its latest feature, AI playlists. However, All Of Us Strangers star Paul Mescal prefers his mixtapes curated the old-fashioned way.

The actor curated a personalized playlist for the film exclusively on Spotify. He noted that the 47-song mix is described as “Songs that make Paul Mescal feel something.” Across the over three-hour run time are songs from the film and a blend of other indie favorites.

Even though the playlist is nearly twice the length of the film, it contains no filler. Hozier’s “Butchered Tongue,” Mitski’s “I Guess,” Julien Baker‘s “Claws In Your Back,” and Samia‘s “Kill Her Freak Out” are among the songs. The National, The Beths, Ye Vagabonds, Lankum, Adrianne Lenker, Sharon Van Etten, Pinegrove, and more also appear on the playlist.

Listen to the entire playlist below.

All of Us Strangers is showing in theaters now. Find more information here.

The fanfare surrounding Spotify’s annual Wrapped data reveal has dwindled. But the streaming giant always has something in the pipeline to keep users engaged. Earlier in the week, it was the unveiling of its latest feature, AI playlists. However, All Of Us Strangers star Paul Mescal prefers his mixtapes curated the old-fashioned way.

The actor curated a personalized playlist for the film exclusively on Spotify. He noted that the 47-song mix is described as “Songs that make Paul Mescal feel something.” Across the over three-hour run time are songs from the film and a blend of other indie favorites.

Even though the playlist is nearly twice the length of the film, it contains no filler. Hozier’s “Butchered Tongue,” Mitski’s “I Guess,” Julien Baker‘s “Claws In Your Back,” and Samia‘s “Kill Her Freak Out” are among the songs. The National, The Beths, Ye Vagabonds, Lankum, Adrianne Lenker, Sharon Van Etten, Pinegrove, and more also appear on the playlist.

Listen to the entire playlist below.

All of Us Strangers is showing in theaters now. Find more information here.

There’s a new Banksy, but you had to be lucky to see it. Per The Guardian, on Friday a stop sign located in south London was festooned with some curious annotations. Attached to it were three model drones, an apparent commentary on Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza. It was later confirmed to be a Banksy by the artist themself. And then, less than an hour later, it was gone.

In videos shared on social media, two men are seen dismantling the piece, which was located at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham. They then walk away with the adorned stop sign as onlookers gasp and comment on its theft.

It’s not believed that Banksy was involved with the piece’s removal.

London police are aware of the incident and are searching for those who absconded with Banksy’s piece. Jasmine Ali, deputy leader of the Southwark council, which lords over the area that briefly housed the piece, was appalled by its removal.

“We’d like it back so everyone in the community can enjoy Banksy’s brilliant work,” Ali said.

Though sometimes Banksy is involved in the mysterious disappearance (or shredding) of his work, sometimes it’s mere theft. That’s the case in 2015, when a tribute to the those lost in the Bataclan terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 90 people, was straight-up stolen.

(Via The Guardian)

There’s a new Banksy, but you had to be lucky to see it. Per The Guardian, on Friday a stop sign located in south London was festooned with some curious annotations. Attached to it were three model drones, an apparent commentary on Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza. It was later confirmed to be a Banksy by the artist themself. And then, less than an hour later, it was gone.

In videos shared on social media, two men are seen dismantling the piece, which was located at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham. They then walk away with the adorned stop sign as onlookers gasp and comment on its theft.

It’s not believed that Banksy was involved with the piece’s removal.

London police are aware of the incident and are searching for those who absconded with Banksy’s piece. Jasmine Ali, deputy leader of the Southwark council, which lords over the area that briefly housed the piece, was appalled by its removal.

“We’d like it back so everyone in the community can enjoy Banksy’s brilliant work,” Ali said.

Though sometimes Banksy is involved in the mysterious disappearance (or shredding) of his work, sometimes it’s mere theft. That’s the case in 2015, when a tribute to the those lost in the Bataclan terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 90 people, was straight-up stolen.

(Via The Guardian)

Dolly Parton is indisputably the mother of country music. While Parton serves as a maternal figure to many musicians and even the Godmother to Miley Cyrus, in her personal life, she and her notoriously private husband, Carl Thomas Dean, have never had a baby of their own.

On Saturday, December 23, in conversation with Exceptional, Parton revealed that she doesn’t regret that decision even now, at the age of 77. “I haven’t missed it like I thought I might,” she said. “When you’re a young couple, you think you’re going to have kids, but it just wasn’t one of those burning things for me. I had my career and my music, and I was traveling.”

Parton added, “If I’d had kids, I’d have stayed home with them, I’m sure, and worried myself to death about them. With everything that’s going on, I’d hate to be bringing a child into this world right now. I always say God didn’t let me have children so that all kids could be mine.”

During her chat, Parton also emphasized that her outreach work through Imagination Library has allowed her to support children worldwide. The initiative helped to deliver 220 million books to children across the globe. Find more information here.