It’s been about a month since Matthew Perry’s unexpected death, and we’re still learning — or just remembering — things about him. Last week Lauren Graham, a longtime friend, revealed that the publication of his memoir brought him happiness in what proved to be his final year. After an old Entertainment Weekly interview with him was rehashed, people discovered his favorite Friends episode — and it’s one where the normally verbose Chandler Bing barely has any lines.
As caught by People, the interview hails from 2004, and it finds Perry picking, out of Friends’ 236 episodes, “The One with the Blackout.” It’s an early one, from Season 1, and it finds the city suffering the titular calamity. (In real life, New York City hadn’t had a blackout since 1977, and wouldn’t have another until 2003.) Most of the gang is safely sequestered in Monica and Rachel’s apartment. Chandler, though, is trapped inside an ATM vestibule with an attractive woman, played by model Jill Goodacre. For once the quippy Chandler is tongue-tied.
“The interesting thing about that episode was I didn’t speak much; it was mostly in voiceover,” Perry said at the time. “We prerecorded what I said, and I had to react.”
He also had a great screen partner, who helped him act awkward.
“Let’s face it: Jill Goodacre is hot, so it wasn’t that difficult,” Perry recalled. “I [remember] spitting my gum out, and it stuck to the wall. It was my choice to just stay frozen in fear and embarrassment. … What was great about that night was that I was also able to watch the other three quarters of the show, which was these five great actors doing ensemble work that was amazing. This was the first time I realized, ‘Gee, this is really clicking.’”
Perry was found dead at his Los Angeles home on October 28. Tributes quickly poured in, with fans and colleagues alike praising his comic chops and his blunt honesty about his struggles with addiction.
While some of the rap game’s most legendary record labels, including Roc-A-Fella, Ruff Ryders, and Death Row Records, are being immortalized with signature throwback jerseys, “Turn Yo Clic Up” rapper Future wants to showcase the culture’s impact on high fashion.
Although Future is often seen sporting designer duds, his new fashion collaboration marks a first for him. In June, WWD revealed FutuFuture announced as Lanvin Lab’s first guest creative. With the line officially available for purchase, here’s how you can buy Future’s inaugural Lanvin Lab collection.
Future’s first line includes unisex pieces (jumpsuits, t-shirts, pants, footwear, handbags, and other accessories), which can be purchased on Lanvin’s official website here and in stores.
Items in the collection range in price from $250 (graphic t-shirts) to $23,000 (signature studded jacket). In the pieces, Future injects notes of his staple look, such as a bold leather jacket. He also incorporates his record label, Freebandz’s eagle logo.
When detailing the collection, Future said in a statement, “I created a vibe with this collection, something you can feel when you wear it. Jeanne Lanvin drew inspiration from her life and lifestyle. We are the same in that way we create from experience.”
There’s an old Simpsons episode in which the Sea Captain opens an all-you-can-eat seafood joint. Big mistake. With his bottomless stomach, Homer handily exploits their deal, leading to a lawsuit. Maybe “all-you-can-eat” is a garbage idea in real life, too, as one Beyoncé-approved seafood eatery chain recently discovered.
Per Restaurant Business Magazine, back in June Red Lobster took one of its more popular limited-time offers — Ultimate Endless Shrimp, which promised just that for a mere 20 clams — and made it a permanent fixture of their menu.
The good news: Traffic at the chain grew by 4% in this year’s third quarter. The bad: In the same quarter they posted a loss of more than $11 million, with a $20 million loss expected for the year.
Thai Union Group, which owns the chain, is citing the endless shrimp offer as a key reason for the financial losses.
“We knew the price was cheap, but the idea was to bring more traffic in the restaurants,” Thai Union CFO Ludovic Regis Henri Garnier told investors recently. “So we wanted to boost our traffic, and it didn’t work.”
So Red Lobster is expelling the deal from their menu, at least full time, right? Alas, they’ve since simply upped the price to $25.
“We want to keep it on the menu,” Garnier said. “And of course we need to be much more careful regarding what are the entry points and what is the price point we are offering for this promotion.”
Perhaps in another quarter or two we’ll see if Red Lobster has changed its tune. But at least you can always get endless amounts of the real star of their menu: those rockin’ cheddar biscuits.
With the release of their 2004 album American Idiot, Green Day stamped themselves as punk rocker unafraid to criticize the US government. Since then, the group has used its platform to highlight several social causes and to criticize politicians they feel are unfit for office. However, in their last few albums they seemed to have dialed back their commentary.
On November 21, Green Day revealed the reasoning behind that decision during an interview with 102.1 the Edge. As they chatted about their forthcoming album, Saviors, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong talked about their sharp-tongued lyrics.
“For ‘Father of All,’ we didn’t want to go political because it was so obvious, and it was such low-hanging fruit,” said Armstrong. “We had such terrible politics and terrible division in the United States. We got away from the politics for a while… we just didn’t want to be, you know, another pundit on CNN finger-pointing.”
He continued, “But songs, political songs, it takes a lot of heart to do that, and I think if you keep doing it for the sake of doing it just because you’re angry, then you take the heart out of it. Then it just becomes part of what everyone is complaining about.”
Armstrong admitted that the group will return to their political roots in the future. “This time, we brought it out, and we felt like it was the perfect time for it,” he said. “It takes those special, inspired moments to have a moment like ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me.’”
Listen to the full interview above.
Saviors is out 1/19/2024 via Reprise Records. Find more information here.
Green Day is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Was turning Squid Game into a reality show really a good idea? Wasn’t the point of the dystopian South Korean original that late capitalism has gone south, making the masses so desperate for money that they’d risk life and limb just to get by? However you feel about it, the British Squid Game: The Challenge is here, and it’s already led to contestants seeking compensation for alleged injuries.
Per Entertainment Weekly, anonymous contestants have sent letters of claim to the show’s producers, alleging that they suffered hypothermia and nerve damage due to poor health and safety regulations. In England, letters of claim are sent before official legal action is taken.
“From what we’ve been told they pushed the boundaries of safety in the name of “entertainment,” said David Slade, CEO at Express Solicitors, who sent the letters. “Production companies need to ensure that health and safety standards on their shows don’t leave people at risk of harm.”
A spokesperson for the show insisted they take the “welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.”
The injuries were first reported back in January, when filming on The Challenge commenced. One game in particular — the “Red Light, Green Light” one, seen in the original show, in which some characters died — was alleged to have been filmed in freezing weather conditions. The led to serious injuries, including frostbite.
“Everybody was warned that it was going to be cold, we took all the necessary steps to prepare them for that,” show officials said at the time. “Yes, a few anonymous people were unhappy about the fact they had been eliminated and it had been a cold, quite long experience. But it was no worse than many unscripted shows… when you’re giving away a huge prize it is always going to be clear to us it was going to be a tough show to take part in.”
“Contestants thought they were taking part in something fun and those injured did not expect to suffer as they did,” Slade told The Sun. “Now they have been left with injuries after spending time being stuck in painful stress positions in cold temperatures. One client describes seeing someone faint, then people shouting for medics. We have a case where someone complains of hypothermia. One had his hands turn purple from the cold. Such injuries can have very serious long-term health implications. One of our clients complains of being given ill-fitting clothing despite the cold conditions.”
Squid Game: The Challenge hit Netflix on Wednesday. It’s modeled on the show, with over 450 contestants battling for a grand prize of $4.56 million.
Diddy has seen better days. Although the “Act Bad” musician and DeLeón Tequila mogul is no stranger to out-there rumors, in the past few weeks, the allegations Diddy, real name Sean Combs, has found himself could land him in substantial legal troubles.
On Friday, November 24, a spokesperson for Combs echoed that stance in a statement shared with AllHipHop. “These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute,” they said. “This is nothing but a money grab. Because of Mr. Combs’ fame and success, he is an easy target for anonymous accusers who lie without conscience or consequence for financial benefit.”
Diddy hasn’t directly addressed the slew of allegations mounting up against him. However, his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told TheHollywood Reporter, “Mr. Combs’ decision to settle the [Cassie] lawsuit does not in any way undermine his flat-out denial of the claims.”
In Season 6 of The Crown, the show finally got to the most dreaded part of the modern Royals history: the death of Princess Diana. How did they do? Uproxx’s Kimberly Ricci thought they handled it with “impressive grace.” Those depicted on the show, though, understandably disagree. Indeed, one insider is already torching their depiction of the history-altering event.
Deadlinespoke with Dickie Arbiter, Queen Elizabeth II’s former press secretary, who slammed the way the show’s writers depicted the events in Season 6 as ““dramatic license gone bonkers.” Arbiter took umbrage with one scene in particular.
“The sequence of Charles telling his sons of their mother’s death was so insensitive, it was so unnecessary,” Arbiter said. “The scenes between Charles and his mother, in which he blurted out that she wanted Diana to come back in a Harrod’s van were absolute nonsense. It just didn’t happen like that. Of course an aircraft was going to be made available [to bring her body home from France]. The Queen was the first one to agree to that.”
Abriter also debunked the way The Crown depicted the planning of Diana’s funeral. The show claims the Queen decided to make it public, not private. Arbiter said it was actually her brother, Charles Spencer, who did that.
“I was in charge and media arrangements for that week,” Arbiter explained. “Spencer thought that because Diana was a public figure, because she was very popular and people adored her, that it should be something handled by the royal family to make it a public event rather than a private family event.”
As The Crown‘s slithered its way towards Diana’s death, there’s been plenty of anxiety over how they would handle it. The show’s staff has said they tried to handle it sensitively, though it’s such a powder keg event that it was bound to ruffle some feathers. Surely others in and around the Royal Family will be speaking up…or simply damning it with silence.
Fear of flying—aerophobia, in technical terms—is an extremely common phobia, affecting around 25 million adults in the U.S. alone. Some people grit their teeth and white-knuckle their way through their fear, while others find themselves unable to get on an airplane at all because of it.
Such a fear is understandable, really. Hurtling through the sky at 500 miles per hour, tens of thousands of feet above the Earth’s surface, isn’t exactly the way humans were designed to get from place to place. (We may have evolved with the brain power and ingenuity to make it happen, but that doesn’t mean we automatically go along for the ride without our sense of self-preservation kicking in.)
One of the triggers for people with aerophobia is turbulence—the occasional shaking and pitching of an aircraft when it hits certain conditions in the atmosphere. Even people who are comfortable flying can find turbulence disconcerting sometimes, especially when it creates a sudden dropping sensation. Turbulence is normal, but it doesn’t feel normal when you’re sitting in a chair 30,000 feet from solid ground. It feels chaotic and out of control.
Anna Paul, a popular TikTok star from Australia, has shared a helpful visual for people freaked out by turbulence in a video that has more than 19 million views.
Paul explains that a pilot shared the analogy of a plane flying through the air being like an object suspended in jello. There’s pressure on all sides, so even if the jello is shaken—and the object shaken along with it—the pressure suspends the object.
In other words, a plane is not going to suddenly drop down out of the sky due to turbulence, in the same way that an object won’t drop out of the middle of a bowl of jello.
The jello analogy is also used by aerophobia experts. Therapist Les Posen specializes in flying phobias, and he shows his clients a model airplane suspended in raspberry jello to illustrate the fact that turbulence won’t cause a plane to drop out of the sky. He even goes a step farther by having clients smell the jello, and then advises them to eat some raspberry candy or juice on the plane to remind themselves of the analogy, using their senses to calm their nerves.
At the end of her video, Paul said there’s never been a plane crash from turbulence, but that’s not quite true. In 1966, a flight (BOAC 911) coming out of Tokyo broke apart in midair due to unexpected severe turbulence. However, that was a very long time ago. Monitoring of meteorological conditions has greatly advanced since then, as have the designs of modern aircraft and the skill of pilots, so experts will tell you that turbulence is not something to worry about.
If imagining air pressure as jello doesn’t really work for you, it may be helpful to have a visual of what turbulence actually is. For that, Captain Stuart Walker, who has been flying for 30 years, explains the four main types of turbulence, what causes them and what pilots do to avoid them or reduce their impact. He also explains what passengers can do to minimize their chances of feeling turbulence on a flight, such as sitting over the wings or toward the front of the plane and flying earlier in the day when temperatures are not as likely to cause air disturbances.
Whether you prefer hospital-food-based analogies or no-nonsense, scientific explanations, the bottom line is that turbulence feels far scarier than it actually is. A shaking plane is not going to drop from the sky, modern aircraft can withstand a great deal of movement midair and pilots are highly trained to handle turbulence.
And remember: Commercial airline travel really is the safest way to get to where you’re going, statistically speaking. So next time you fly, kick back, relax and imagine you’re suspended in jello, knowing you’re in capable hands when the turbulence starts.
There is one request that unites all women and girls no matter their political affiliation or socioeconomic status, and that’s telling them to smile when they’re just minding their business. Think of it like a fairly universal “don’t” when interacting with women, unless you’re a photographer hired to take their photo.
A mom on TikTok found herself reaping the consequences of telling her 9-year-old daughter to smile when she was rehearsing a performance for her school. To say her daughter was not amused would be an understatement. The mom, whose TikTok name is Anniesgotabun, shared a video before and after her daughter’s performance.
The caption of the video read “mistakes were made” complete with the facepalm emoji and the hastag #parentingfail. In the first part of the video you can clearly see her daughter going through the motions of the musical production looking unenthusiastic. The mom explains her error via text overlay explaining “my daughter had her final rehearsal for the school musical yesterday.”
The video cuts to the mom with text that read, “Afterward, I regrettably said the one thing that no female *ever* wants to hear. ‘Try to smile more.’’’ The result was interesting to say the least and it certainly made the mom rethink her well-meaning advice. During the actual show, the little girl made sure her point was made by staring directly in her mother’s eyes the entire time … smiling.
You may be thinking, well then the advice worked and it did, if her plan was to have her daughter look like the Joker while staring deep into her soul the entire performance. Because that’s exactly what happened and the internet cannot unsee it and the parents of the other children on stage are probably wondering whose child that was.
Check out the funny video below and for the love of everything you cherish, please remember this mom’s mistake should you ever get the urge to tell a woman or girl to smile.
Every human being is unique, and yet we seem to be hardwired to want to fit in with others. Sometimes, that longing for a sense of belonging can cause us to put too much stock in people’s opinions of us and lead us to change who are to please others.
One mom has taken that tendency to task in a viral video in which she uses fruit to teach her daughter a lesson in being herself. In a video shared on Facebook by the Chinese Embassy in the U.S., a Chinese mom and her daughter speak to the camera while using a dragon fruit, a banana, and two different colored peppers as props.
First, they over the difference between a fact and an opinion. “This is a dragon fruit,” is a fact. “A dragon fruit is tastier than a banana,” is an opinion. Simple enough.
“Similarly, if a kid tells you your drawing is not good or that your hairstyle doesn’t look nice, that’s just their opinion. It doesn’t mean it’s a fact,” the mom says. “We don’t need to feel sad or unhappy because of someone else’s opinion.”
Next, the mom holds up a green pepper and asks if her daughter likes it. After the girl says no, the mom asks if she’d like if she changed the green pepper to a yellow one. Again, no.
“So we shouldn’t change ourselves because of someone else’s preferences,” the mom says. “Just like you have people you like and don’t like.”
She finishes by asking her daughter what she’ll do in the future if a kid doesn’t like her or doesn’t want to play with her.
“I will find friends who like me, or friends I like, to play with,” the girl replies.
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It’s a simple analogy, but an effective one. Even adults need to be reminded sometimes that people’s opinions of us aren’t facts and shouldn’t be internalized as truths about ourselves.
“This is absolutely beautiful,” wrote one commenter. “A perfectly simple way to educate all people, not just children.”
“Everyone needs to do this with their child, wrote another. “This is a good parent teaching their child about the real world and social interactions. Someone’s opinion is just that. An opinion. No need to get upset, offended or angry about it. Take it as an opinion, the same or different from your own, and move on.”
“Agreed—and when you work on yourself it shouldn’t be for other people’s acceptance, but for yourself,” shared another.
Sometimes the simplest lessons are the ones we need to hear, whether we’re 9 or 49.
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