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Jon Hamm is crushing it right now, which is great news for fans of Mad Men, a show that ended a bit under a decade ago. He could have coasted on the Don Draper vibes his whole life. Instead look at him now. He’s the new Fletch, he’s added a steroid injection to The Morning Show, and he’s even wearing (fake) nipple rings. Speaking of, he did that for the new season of Fargo, on which he’s a Trumpy sheriff. But did you know he also rides a horse? Whose name may or may not be Larry David?

In a new chat with Collider, the actor opens up about his equestrian history. “I’m very comfortable on horses,” he revealed. Granted, he’s not as horse-friendly as Sheriff Roy Tillman, his Fargo character, who he says grew up around horses and how “that’s something that very much informs his day-to-day existence.”

Still, having some history with horses helped him slip into the role. What’s more, the horse he rode (maybe) had a neato name, too.

“My horse’s name was Larry, which was also very cool,” Hamm said. “I thought his last name was David. That wasn’t confirmed to me. But I did tell Larry David that my horse’s name was Larry and he was very pleased about that.”

A horse named Larry David! Why didn’t the guy from America’s “A Horse with No Name” just call his horse that? Seems like a good horse name, even if that song was recorded a couple decades before Seinfeld, let alone Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Mind you, it doesn’t sound like the horse was really named Larry David. But as they said in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Ergo, Jon Hamm rode a horse named Larry David.

(Via Collider)

Even back in 1992, when air travel was a lot less TSA-heavy and stressful, it still seemed unlikely that a kid could pull a Home Alone 2, which is to say board the wrong plane, bound for the wrong destination. And yet some three decades later, when air travel is incredibly TSA-heavy and stressful, a young boy miraculously managed to go full Kevin McCallister.

Per CNN, an unaccompanied six-year-old boy at Philadelphia International Airport was supposed to fly to Fort Myers, in southwest Florida. Instead he was “incorrectly boarded” on a plane to Orlando. The airline, you might be wondering? Spirit Airlines.

This isn’t as egregious as in Home Alone 2, in which Macaulay Culkin’s sociopathic bad seed was supposed to fly from Chicago to Miami but instead wound up in pre-Giuliani New York City. For one thing, Orlando is a “mere” three-hour drive from Fort Myers.

For another, the gaffe was quickly caught by Spirit Airlines staff.

“The child was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit Team Member,” Spirit Airlines told CNN, “and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them.”

After landing, the child called his grandmother, who had arrived at the Fort Myers airport and panicked when her grandson did not emerge. After the call, she drove the 160 miles to pick him up. The airline reimbursed her for her travel costs, if not her time.

For contrast, in Home Alone 2 no one realized that Kevin had boarded the wrong flight until everyone was on the ground. Kevin didn’t even realize he wasn’t in Miami till he saw the New York City skyline from the airport.

Spirit Airlines did not address how they put a six-year-old kid on the wrong plane. They’re conducting an internal investigation into how life, instead of being stranger than fiction, instead imitated it.

Until Spirit figures out how they brought the third highest-grossing picture of 1992 to life, please enjoy these tweets dragging them for their efforts.

Home Alone has been back in the news of late, not just because it’s the holidays but because a new New York Times report tried to figure out exactly how wealthy those neglectful McCallister parents really are.

(Via CNN)

The year is 2009: Obama is president, James Cameron is gearing up to release his little passion project Avatar, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the number one show amongst nursing homes and doctor’s offices everywhere. It also happened to be Taylor Swift‘s favorite show. She was 19 at the time.

“For about three years I’ve been saying to everyone that my favorite show is CSI,” Swift told Rolling Stone back then. It was her “dream” to die on the show, and it ended up coming true all those years ago, before she singlehandedly changed the friendship bracelet industry.

Rolling Stone journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis revisited an interview with Swift for the Infamous podcast (caught by People). In the resurfaced interview, Swift described how her on-screen persona was different from her 2009 self, who had just released her second album Fearless. “I’m black-haired, have a nose ring, earrings, spikes, combat boots…” Swift told Grigoriadis. This is the opposite of what Swift’s 2009 persona was.

She continued, “And you end up figuring out that there’s this whole back story, and that my parents had a child that ended up dying and I was the second replacement child. And my mom never really loved me… and there are so many different intricate storylines that come into play,” she added. Swift knows a thing or two about intricate storylines so she was right at home.

The interview also revealed that Swift’s mother Andrea was not a fan of her (spoiler alert) corpse scene after she ended up dying in the episode. “My [own] mom was a little freaked out. I was open-eye dead, literally had to stare off into nothing and not breathe during the close-ups… not flinch or anything,” she said. That would have been a whole other show if she had flinched.

Nowadays, Swift is really good at acting. She acts like she cares about her boyfriend’s little ball game every week.

(Via People)

There are home renovation horror stories and then there’s The Curse, Showtime’s dark satire starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone as a married pair of house flippers determined to gentrify their New Mexico neighborhood despite the bad vibes that follow them.

The show, created by Fielder and Benny Safdie, is an exercise in cringe comedy, filled with awkward moments that linger too long and set to a narrative rhythm that viewers can never fully pin down. That, paired with some muted and sinister performances from Fielder and Stone has propelled it to the top of our must-watch list. Thankfully, Showtime and Paramount+ have decided to ignore the sanctity of the holiday season and allow this weird-as-hell TV experiment to stream uninterrupted, meaning fans won’t have to suffer through a winter hiatus before the show’s next episode airs.

After dropping its seventh episode on Christmas Day, The Curse’s eighth episode is scheduled to premiere on Dec. 29th at 12:00 p.m. PT. Streaming fans can catch it then while traditional cable watchers will have to wait until Sunday to watch the hour-long installment titled, “Down and Dirty.” The episode’s synopsis hints that Asher (Fielder) and Dougie (Safdie) enjoy a boys’ night out while Whitney (Stone) explores her artistic side — which sounds harmless enough until you remember this is the same show that gave us micro-penis think pieces and truly bizarre late-night talk show appearances and promo feuds.

The Color Purple had a Christmas to remember at the box office. Variety reports that the musical, which grossed $18 million on Monday, had the “largest Christmas Day opening for a film since 2009, and the second-biggest Christmas Day opening of all time” behind only 2009’s Sherlock Holmes. (If there’s one thing the late 2000s loved, it’s anything and everything Sherlock Holmes.) But The Color Purple is not only a hit among theatergoers. It’s also been praised by critics (89 percent “Fresh” ratings with Rotten Tomatoes), many of whom have singled out Fantasia‘s performance as a highlight.

The singer and former American Idol winner plays Celie Harris-Johnson in 2023’s The Color Purple, a role she reprised from the Broadway musical the movie is based on. The character was formerly portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg in an Oscar-winning performance in 1985’s The Color Purple.

When asked by Entertainment Weekly about her experience making The Color Purple, Fantasia replied, “I feel like there was once a time in my career where things were not so good. Days were not so bright, but I kept going and I never gave up. Through Celie, I caught my breakthrough and I’m grateful for that. If they can’t see it through me, then I allow myself to be a vessel so they can see it through Celie. I’m most proud of myself for standing up and doing things that I never thought I could do and bouncing back. It feels like Idol again. But I’m just wiser. I’m grown now.”

The Color Purple is out in theaters now (and streaming eventually).

(Via Variety and Entertainment Weekly)

After rolling the dice on feature film adaptations of his beloved book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, author Rick Riordan has teamed up with Disney+ for a series adaptation that he hopes will be more faithful to the fan-favorite novels. Riordan has been intimately involved with the new Disney+ series and has not been shy about battling online trolls who have criticized the show’s casting decisions.

Based on the early Rotten Tomatoes scores, Riordan’s involvement has been a huge boon to Percy Jackson and the Olympians following its December 19 debut. The series is sitting at a whopping 96% fresh with critics and an audience score of 88%, which has to be music to Disney’s hear. The House of Mouse is hoping Percy Jackson will be a major hit for the streamer.

With the first two episodes already available on Disney+, fans are clamoring to know when Episode 3 will arrive. We got you covered.

When Does ‘Percy Jackson And The Olympians’ Season 1, Episode 3 Come Out?

Following in the footsteps of Ahsoka and Loki Season 2, which brought a notable change to how Disney+ streams its shows, Percy Jackson and the Olympians will stream new episodes on Tuesday night during primetime. Previously, the streamer used to drop new episodes at 3 AM, which was not the most convenient time.

That release schedule means Percy Jackson Season 1, Episode 3 will come out on Tuesday, December 26 at 9 PM ET.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Percy Jackson and The Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians streams new episodes Tuesday night at 9 PM ET on Disney+.

If you’ve seen more of Andrew Scott (Fleabag) and Paul Mescal (Normal People) on your timeline lately that’s because the Irish actors’ latest film, All Of Us Strangers, has finally landed in theaters. The pair star in director Andrew Haigh’s Queer love story that follows a lonely, middle-aged man (Scott) who strikes up a relationship with his neighbor (Mescal) and ends up revisiting his childhood in the strangest of ways.

The film, based on a book by author Taichi Yamada, will likely earn more than a few Oscar nominations which is why it’s releasing now — and why both Mescal and Scott are promoting it via cutesy Vanity Fair interviews and curated Spotify playlists. But, if trekking to the theater to catch this fascinating, bittersweet ghost story doesn’t fit in with your holiday plans, don’t worry — the film will probably land on streaming before awards season ends.

Haigh’s drama dropped in theaters on Dec. 22nd. Currently, the film doesn’t have a streaming release date but here’s what we know: the movie was produced by Searchlight Pictures. Searchlight Pictures is owned by Disney, which also owns Hulu now. A handful of Searchlight movies have landed on Hulu once their theatrical windows closed and, it’s likely All Of Us Strangers will do the same. As for when, we’d imagine Searchlight and Disney would like to drum up buzz for the film before Oscar voting begins and the best way to do that is to make it more widely available, i.e. streaming so look for the movie to pop up on the platform in early 2024.

Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens made a major statement on Monday Night Football this week. Baltimore went on the road to take on the San Francisco 49ers in a matchup of the two best teams in the NFL, and thanks to Jackson and a monster performance from their defense, the Ravens were able to pick up a 33-19 win that sure makes them look like the team to beat once the postseason rolls around.

Baltimore actually entered the game as 6.5-point underdogs, while San Francisco rode a 6-game winning streak into Monday’s tilt. As such, a whole lot of people picked the Niners to win the game, and in the aftermath, the Ravens decided to single out one particular prediction that came from Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.

“As long as the key players are healthy, they’re gonna kick the sh*t outta everybody they face,” Florio said before the game. “The quest is for second place. That’s it, as long as those people stay healthy, they’re currently healthy. The 49ers kick the sh*t out of the Ravens on Monday night.”

The clip got the attention of Lamar Jackson, who hopped onto Twitter after the game and decided to troll Florio.

Florio did end up accepting this L on Tuesday, saying that he admits he was wrong about the Ravens in the lead-up to the game.

Hovvdy dropped their new single, “Portrait,” today, on the heels of their two previous singles from this year. Opening with a chill, acoustic guitar, the vocals are distant with a little country twang, giving the instrumentals and lyrics a chance to shine.

From an Instagram post, they released it to help ring in the new year.

“It is hard to forget how it went that night / Silhouettes burning out / Broken like glass from the second floor / Washed by a rush when the flooding came down, down, down,” the duo opens the song.

“Your eyes are talking / And they don’t seem fine to me / May as well be walking / Away with your eyes turned from me / Away with your eyes turned from me,” Hovvdy adds in the chorus. As Stereogum noted, it feels similar to a John Mayer track — making it a likely addition to a nice coffee shop rotation.

The band appears to be working on their fifth album, according to Genius, with the few songs providing fans with a glimpse of what’s to come. Their past single, “Bubba,” focused in on two different perspectives of siblinghood. “It’s tough and time flies and we grow older and process in our own ways; and this song is about how that feels,” band member Charlie Martin previously shared.

Next year, they will also be supporting Cold War Kids on tour. More information can be found here.

Check out Hovvdy’s “Portrait” above.

Most people celebrate holidays with their families and loved ones and Will Ferrell. Celebrities like to celebrate with over-the-top ensembles and rich people food. Hugh Jackman, who is a mix between “most people” and “celebrity,” decided to go his own route and embark on a new holiday tradition by getting in trouble near the Rockefeller Christmas tree.

Jackman took to Instagram to tell his followers about his little “holiday hack” without taking into consideration the fact that he’s literally Hugh Jackman, so of course a security guard is going to let him go with a warning or else he would whip out his finger knives and attack.

The actor posted a video of himself taking a video (this is the celebrity part of him) of the tree, with the caption, “I highly recommend getting up really early on Christmas morning and taking a walk to see the Rockefeller Christmas tree. It’s so beautiful and not crowded at all,” he wrote, though anyone who had to pass through Grand Central on Christmas Day knowns this is simply not true.

Jackman added that he did have a run-in with the law: “I did get in trouble for going beyond the barrier but the security guard was nice and let me go with just a warning.” How nice that a tree has its own security guard. Jackman also added other shots of himself in full Dad Mode:

Now you know where Hugh Jackman will likely be at 7 am on Christmas Day next year, so feel free to use that information however you see fit!!! He also hung out with Will Ferrell, too.

(Via People)