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Donald Trump might be going to jail. Most people would be terrified of that, even if they scored some swanky white-collar prison, as a former president certainly would. Reports are that the big guy is, too, which almost makes him seem human. (Almost.) But in public Trump has always tried to appear stronger than he is, even getting mad when Fox News uses photos that show him looking like crap. So of course when asked by a reporter about his potential jail time, he tried to play it cool.

Trump sat down for a rare mainstream press interview, chatting with Meet the Press’ Kristen Welker for a piece that ran Sunday. When asked if he worries about being thrown in the slammer, he gave a not-very-convincing answer.

“I don’t even think about it,” Trump said. “I’m built a little differently, I guess, because I have had people come up to me and say, ‘How do you do it, sir? How do you do it?’ I don’t even think about it.”

Trump then shifted to the “corrupt” law enforcement he’s “dealing with,” who he claims are “destroying our country” with their “third world indictments.” He also again claimed President Joe Biden ordered Attorney General Merrick Garland to go after him because of his strong polls, which prompted Welker to point out “there’s just no evidence of that.”

He also slammed Biden for allegedly lying about his handicap at golf. “He says he’s a six, he’s not a six,” Trump charged.

Later in the interview (in which he again bragged about how he “aced” a basic cognitive test three years ago), he returned to the idea of losing sleep over his ambiguous future.

“When you say, do I lose sleep? I sleep,” Trump said. “I sleep. Because I truly feel that, in the end, we’re going to win.”

Last month, Page Six spoke to an insider who claimed that the indictments are “showing signs that it’s wearing on him,” and that they’ve “brought about a change” in him. They added, “He’s not so confident anymore. He’s not acting so cocky anymore. He’s not lashing out so much. The arrogance is gone.”

Still, Trump’s base famously buys anything he tells them, so they’ll happily swallow the line about him not being worried about prison. Heck, they’d probably buy his claim that Biden is leading us to “World War II.” Everyone else, though…

(Via NBC News)

Drew Barrymore has amassed a ton of good will over her long career, but last week she nearly lost all of it: She dared bring her daytime talk show back on-air. The move caused instant backlash, not just from the WGA but from fans, some of whom called her a “scab.” The furor was such that she recorded an emotional video defending her decision. She eventually took that down, then went one further.

“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” Barrymore wrote on Instagram, as caught by Variety. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today. We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.”

Barrymore’s decision to effectively cross the picket lines was baffling to many given that when the WGA strike began all the way back in May, she bowed out of her gig hosting the MTV Movie and TV Awards in solidarity with the strikers. Jump some four months later and she was bringing back a writer-less version of her strange yet endearing chat show.

“I own this choice,” she said at the time. “We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind. We launched live in a global pandemic. Our show was built for sensitive times and has only functioned through what the real world is going through in real time.”

Chaos ensued. At a taping of the maiden return episode last Monday, audience members wearing pins showing solidarity with the WGA — some of whom were striking outside Barrymore’s show, some of whom were staffers on her show — were ejected from the building. Barrymore herself was later removed as the host of the National Book Awards. But perhaps this mea culpa will be a good first step in rehabbing her quickly tattered image.

(Via Variety)

Drew Barrymore has amassed a ton of good will over her long career, but last week she nearly lost all of it: She dared bring her daytime talk show back on-air. The move caused instant backlash, not just from the WGA but from fans, some of whom called her a “scab.” The furor was such that she recorded an emotional video defending her decision. She eventually took that down, then went one further.

“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” Barrymore wrote on Instagram, as caught by Variety. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today. We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.”

Barrymore’s decision to effectively cross the picket lines was baffling to many given that when the WGA strike began all the way back in May, she bowed out of her gig hosting the MTV Movie and TV Awards in solidarity with the strikers. Jump some four months later and she was bringing back a writer-less version of her strange yet endearing chat show.

“I own this choice,” she said at the time. “We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind. We launched live in a global pandemic. Our show was built for sensitive times and has only functioned through what the real world is going through in real time.”

Chaos ensued. At a taping of the maiden return episode last Monday, audience members wearing pins showing solidarity with the WGA — some of whom were striking outside Barrymore’s show, some of whom were staffers on her show — were ejected from the building. Barrymore herself was later removed as the host of the National Book Awards. But perhaps this mea culpa will be a good first step in rehabbing her quickly tattered image.

(Via Variety)

What does a Republican have to do to get trashed by other Republicans in 2023? Apparently groping your boyfriend’s crotch during an all-ages production of the Beetlejuice musical is one way. Last Sunday MAGA lawmaker Lauren Boebert did just that while in Denver, and though she’s tried to deny and spin it, video footage keeps emerging to make her look even worse. She’s yet to face any serious blowback, but already even Republicans are starting to turn on her.

Ann Coulter — who’s no stranger to trashing the Trump wing of her party — called Boebert a “Totally embarrassing bimbo,” adding, “Can’t Colorado find SOME Republican not trashy and stupid to represent them in the 3rd congressional district?”

Meghan McCain didn’t mince words either. “Lauren Boebert is trash,” she wrote on the joint formerly known as Twitter. “She lectures everyone about the LGBT community being a threat to children while getting caught performing a lewd sex act in a public theatre where children possibly were. This is ‘family values’? This is why people think the GOP are all hypocrites.”

Far right dude Erick Erickson called out her dishonesty. “On Boebert, the tribe will defend what the tribe will defend, but she denied it until exposed,” he wrote. “She behaved badly. Excuse it all you want — she behaved badly, denied it till exposure, and there’s no excuse except tribally.”

Former Virginia representative Denver Riggleman simply had a joke. “Lauren Boebert seems a bit confused about Freedom Caucus members telling her to ‘reach across the aisle,’” he zinged.

Boebert apologized for her theater antics, though only after security video footage emerged that debunked her attempts to deny or downplay what she did. One fun detail is that her frisky date was no less than a Democrat owner of a bar that’s open to drag queen performances — one of the biggest targets of today’s GOP, who accuse them of exposing children to sex. Unlike someone like Lauren Boebert, of course.

(Via The Daily Beast)

What does a Republican have to do to get trashed by other Republicans in 2023? Apparently groping your boyfriend’s crotch during an all-ages production of the Beetlejuice musical is one way. Last Sunday MAGA lawmaker Lauren Boebert did just that while in Denver, and though she’s tried to deny and spin it, video footage keeps emerging to make her look even worse. She’s yet to face any serious blowback, but already even Republicans are starting to turn on her.

Ann Coulter — who’s no stranger to trashing the Trump wing of her party — called Boebert a “Totally embarrassing bimbo,” adding, “Can’t Colorado find SOME Republican not trashy and stupid to represent them in the 3rd congressional district?”

Meghan McCain didn’t mince words either. “Lauren Boebert is trash,” she wrote on the joint formerly known as Twitter. “She lectures everyone about the LGBT community being a threat to children while getting caught performing a lewd sex act in a public theatre where children possibly were. This is ‘family values’? This is why people think the GOP are all hypocrites.”

Far right dude Erick Erickson called out her dishonesty. “On Boebert, the tribe will defend what the tribe will defend, but she denied it until exposed,” he wrote. “She behaved badly. Excuse it all you want — she behaved badly, denied it till exposure, and there’s no excuse except tribally.”

Former Virginia representative Denver Riggleman simply had a joke. “Lauren Boebert seems a bit confused about Freedom Caucus members telling her to ‘reach across the aisle,’” he zinged.

Boebert apologized for her theater antics, though only after security video footage emerged that debunked her attempts to deny or downplay what she did. One fun detail is that her frisky date was no less than a Democrat owner of a bar that’s open to drag queen performances — one of the biggest targets of today’s GOP, who accuse them of exposing children to sex. Unlike someone like Lauren Boebert, of course.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.

TIE: 10. The Morning Show (Apple TV+ series)

One of the first Apple TV+ original series bought us this team-up of former Friends siblings and remains a crowd pleaser. Reese Witherspoon’s brash co-anchor bounces delightfully up against Jennifer Aniston’s more mainstream-leaning counterpart, and Billy Crudup remains the Kermit The Frog of this series. This season, the network’s future might be in jeopardy due to a tech titan’s presence. Those darn chaos agents keeps showing up in the art that reflects life these days.

TIE: 10. The Nun (Warner Bros film on HBO Max)

Does James Wan’s unofficial muse, Patrick Wilson, appear in this installment as paranormal investigator Ed Warren? An equally important question: does Vera Farmiga pop into view as Lorraine Warren? You gotta watch to find out, but do expect to see Taissa Farmiga walking right back into Hell on Earth. As well, Bonnie Aarons is still here to make you pee your pants as Valek, and these movies sure do love their jump scares, but director Michael Chaves and Wan know how to pull them off well, so they are forgiven.

9. Power Book IV: Force (Starz series)

Do you have to watch Power before heading into Book IV? We’ve got you covered on that front, and long story short, it’s a good idea to watch the first Power (with Book II and Book III being optional) to see necessary background context about Tommy Egan. We are ranking the power players each week this season, which follows Tommy descending upon Chicago on his way to California. You can probably guess that the Windy City’s drug game distracts him.

8. The Other Black Girl (Hulu series)

This Rashida Jones-produced show has humor with bite, rather than being a fluffy little comedy. The satiric story, which takes on takes on tokenization and racial identity in America, is based upon Zakiya Dalila Harris’ same-named NYT best-selling novel about an editorial assistant, who is initially thrilled to no longer be the “only Black girl” in the office. However, something sinister is afoot as the novelty of Hazel’s arrival gives way to the unexpected.

7. The Little Mermaid (Disney movie streaming on Disney+)

Disney appears to be committed to live-version redos of their most beloved classic stories, and this particular reimagining stars Halle Bailey as Ariel. Bailey earned rave reviews with Rob Marshall directing, and you’d be ready to sit down for the starring lady’s performance of “Part of Your World.” Expect this incarnation to be more overstuffed than its predecessor, given that it expands on some issues. Additionally, the ocean is a very different place in 2023 than 1989, so there’s that darker vibe, too.

6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount film streaming on VOD and Amazon Prime)

This is not one of the Michael Bay movies, so expect less “boom” from Jeff Rowe, and Megan Fox does not appear whether, but you will be able to enjoy the voice of Ayo Edebiri (as April) to lessen your craving for the next season of The Bear (it will be awhile on that note, so stay patient). Our own Mike Ryan called this installment the best theatrical TMNT film, so there is no shortage of cowabunga on hand.

5. The Wheel Of Time (Amazon Prime series)

Rosamund Pike is a gem at portraying sociopaths, but she’s in more morally grey territory here. She portrays Moraine, part of the Aes Sedai organization, and she is one of the few choice women in this world who can wield magic. Under her watchful eye, the prophesied Dragon Reborn could either fix humanity or do the opposite. Jeff Bezos may have actually scored his own Game of Thrones with this series, rather than with Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, and The Wheel Of Time‘s viewership appears to be stronger at this point. No matter your preference, it’s an overall good time to be a fantasy-lit loving watcher of TV.

4. No Hard Feelings (Sony Pictures movie on VOD and Amazon Prime)

It’s a nice week to catch up on some side projects starring The Bear cast. In this case, Ebon Moss-Bachrach can be seen as an ex-boyfriend to Jennifer Lawrence’s fail-hard character, Maddie, who needs to make some money, fast, so she answers a Craigslist ad from parents who would really like a nice woman to boink their 19-year-old unsociable son. Cue the raunchy shenanigans that we’ve been missing in movies. Long live the filth, y’all.

3. One Piece (Netflix series)

Netflix has had a few anime-to-live action misses (Cowboy Bebop and Death Note) over the past handful of years, but they hit a home run with this stab at adapting a beloved anime/manga with Monkey D. Luffy searching for an elusive treasure and aiming to become the pirate king. Season 2 has already been greenlit, only a few weeks after the show’s debut. And for those who love to tangle with the dub-vs-sub debate, you can enjoy a bonus with the Japanese dub that features the voice cast behind the anime series.

2.. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC series streaming on AMC+)

Norman Reedus began The Walking Dead with an ensemble character who didn’t originate in the comics and appeared to be the “hillbilly” little brother. Following a wealth of development, the crossbow-wielding earns his “Big Ass Kicker” nickname and receives the European “vacation” that he never asked for. This happens to be the only “solo” spinoff in the franchise, and Reedus carries it with some impressive supporting nuns and an absurd amount of French landmark chaos and eye candy, often at the same time.

1. Barbie (Warner Bros. movie on VOD and Amazon Prime)

This film isn’t streaming as part of a service package yet, but Warner Bros. smash box-office hit of all time is now available to rent or purchase, so you can enjoy the Barbies, Kens, and one Allan in the privacy of your own living room. Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling pull off impressive satire and an unexpected amount of thematic heft about the most iconic plastic doll. They do not scrimp on the pink in a mainstream-friendly beach house for the ages but also do not shy away with grappling with the famed doll’s legacy. It’s a blast to watch and apologetically feminist at the same time.

One of the biggest reasons for Colorado’s early season success has been the play of Travis Hunter, the former No. 1 recruit in America who followed Deion Sanders from Jackson State to Boulder. Hunter has been a star on both sides of the field, as he’s been a productive receiver for the Buffaloes’ offense and a dominant cornerback for the team’s defense.

On Saturday night, Colorado played host to Colorado State in a game that had a whole lot of excitement. Unfortunately for the home team, their star two-way player wasn’t able to finish the game due to a late hit. Hunter was playing wide receiver in the first quarter when Shedeur Sanders lobbed one up to him. There was a whole lot of contact and Hunter wasn’t able to bring the ball in, and after the play was over, Rams defensive back Henry Blackburn came in and laid him out.

It’s as clear of a late hit as you’ll see, and it left Hunter in some obvious pain. While he kept trying to play, during the game’s third quarter, Hunter was taken to a local hospital to get evaluated.

Losing Hunter would, in general, be a gigantic loss, but it’s an extra tough pill to swallow because the Rams have given the Buffs quite the game. At the time of his departure, Colorado State had a 21-14 lead over Coach Prime’s squad.

Sylvester Stallone has never really shied away from telling us what he thinks, about anything really. Especially his past movies. There’s an SNL sketch from 1997 when Stallone hosted while promoting Cop Land. Stallone, playing himself, is involved in an auto accident with another driver played by Norm Macdonald. The entire length of the sketch is Stallone trying to help while Macdonald is crying out in agony, not in pain, but remembering another bad Stallone movie like Rhinestone*, as Stallone tries to defend the thinking around each one. (Stallone tries to explain Cobra had a lot of problems in editing.)

*For the record I kind of like Rhinestone.

In the new documentary about his life, Sly, which closed the Toronto International Film Festival, we don’t really get the blow-by-blow of what Stallone thinks about each and every movie he’s ever made. If you want Stallone’s thoughts on, say, Nighthawks or The Specialist, this isn’t that kind of film. And to be fair, Stallone has made a lot of movies so something like that would be a very long movie. Also, as stated, Stallone hasn’t been shy about talking about his past films and what went wrong, so that information is already out there.

Instead, director Thom Zimny carves out a few select areas of Stallone’s life to cover. With a big one, of course, being the release and success of Rocky – but then interestingly focusing on Stallone’s two followup films that come between Rocky and Rocky II that were both critical and box office disasters: F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley. This is an interesting time period for Stallone when he decided to take some huge chances. And neither of them worked, which seems to have taught Stallone to just give audiences what they want, which in this case was another Rocky movie. (Stallone would give audiences four more Rocky movies after that.)

Ans this becomes the heart of the documentary, Stallone, as a force of nature, knowing what audiences want to see. A lot is made out of Stallone’s rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger (who appears in Sly as a talking head), and this documentary touches on it, too. But Stallone and Schwarzenegger have very different mindsets when it came to making movies. Schwarzenegger sought out great directors. During Schwarzenegger’s prime run, he worked with James Cameron three times, John McTiernan twice, Ivan Reitman three times, Paul Verhoeven, and Walter Hill. Schwarzenegger’s mindset was to find great filmmakers and put his faith in them to make a great movie.

Stallone is the opposite. Stallone’s faith was in himself, to the detriment of most directors he wound up working with. Just go to the “production” tab on Wikipedia of almost every movie Stallone did. It starts to become funny how, like clockwork, there will be the section on how Stallone and his director “didn’t see eye to eye” and Stallone wound up taking over the production. If Stallone was going to be in a bad movie, it was at least going to be on his terms.

Movie-wise, the doc circles in on Stallone’s three franchises: Rocky, Rambo, and The Expendables. The first two make a lot of sense, but with all due respect to The Expendables, it’s just a franchise that doesn’t have the cultural importance of the other two. But, I get it, it kind of bookends Stallone’s career after the doc dives into Stallone’s last true attempt at critical acclaim in Cop Land. (Stallone is legitimately great in Cop Land, which was pretty much ignored by awards at the time. Stallone would finally get another Oscar nomination for playing Rocky again in Creed.)

Stallone on his father is interesting. And I’ve never really heard him talk about his father at length like this before. It was an obviously complicated and fraught relationship – Stallone often describes his father as “physical” – that also informs Stallone’s entire career. Stallone gets pretty emotional discussing his love for Polo – and how he was becoming pretty good – but his father’s jealousy and insecurities stopped Stallone from playing. There’s really interesting footage from the mid-1980s, of Stallone setting up a polo match in which he brought in a bunch of top-ranked players so he and his father could play against each other. At one point, Stallone’s father takes a cheap shot, hitting his son in the back with a mallet. Stallone even comments on this at the time in the post-game press conference, kind of making a joke about it but also laced with a lot of truth. We cut to current-day Stallone who says, after that day, he sold all the horses, all the equipment, and never played again. What was supposed to be a nice moment for him and his father, his father once again ruined. And we can tell this still really bothers Sly. And all of these emotions about his father are used to frame Stallone’s relationship with his late son, Sage, who died in 2012. Stallone doesn’t talk a lot of about Sage – the little he does, it’s obvious this is still a very raw subject – but the clips used from the time the two co-starred together in Rocky V are pretty heartbreaking.

Sly is about as good a documentary on Sylvester Stallone can be without being a Ken Burns’ length saga. (Though, I’d for one love to watch something that long about Stallone; also, bring Greta Gerwig in as a talking head) I’d love to hear his updated thoughts on Rhinestone, why he didn’t do Beverly Hills Cop, what was the deal with the awkward shower scene with Sharon Stone in The Specialist, why he felt he had to take over so many productions. (Though, of all movies, Sly does get into some details about Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.) Stallone seems like someone who still has a lot to say and will tell his stories to anyone who wants to listen. And I’d like to hear some more.

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Joe Biden has gone light on Donald Trump, his (for now!) likely rival in the 2024 presidential election. Perhaps he doesn’t think he needs to say much yet. Indeed, the last time he dragged him in public he didn’t even have to say his name. He barely had to say much about the big guy’s historic mugshot. Speaking of names, he debuted a new, unflattering nickname for his predecessor, tied to one of his more humiliating milestones.

As per The Hill, Biden was speaking at a Maryland college Thursday, talking up his “Bidenomics” program that he hopes will help the whole country, not just the top one percent. The nation’s job numbers under his watch have been excellent — a major comeback from what happened during the height of the pandemic. In fact, Biden couldn’t help resist but slam the guy before him for doing such a lousy job on that front.

“Folks, it wasn’t that long ago we were losing jobs in this country,” Biden told the crowd. “In fact, there were only two presidents in American history with fewer jobs the day they left office than when they started. One was President Hoover, and the other was Donald ‘Hoover’ Trump.”

Sure enough, when Trump left office in January 2021, the nation had a whopping three million fewer jobs than when he started four years earlier.

And yet Biden’s approval ratings have been crappy anyway. In a RealClearPolitics poll, just 38 percent of those surveyed approved of how he’s doing, with 58 disapproving.

That hasn’t stopped Biden from touting the good job he’s doing anyway. “Seriously, we’re living through one of the greatest job-creation periods in our history. And, folks, it’s not an accident,” Biden told the crowd Thursday. “That literally is our economic plan in action. Bidenomics in action.”

It also hasn’t stopped the Biden team from seeming to mess with Trump’s mind. After they bowed a “Dark Brandon” mug in early August, Trump was so convinced they were trolling him that he filed a frivolous court complaint.

(Via The Hill)

It appears there may be beef between former Migo Offset and Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty.

Over the course of the weekend, some video footage surfaced of Petty with a group of friends calling out for Offset on an empty street in New York City’s Theater District.

“Offset, where you at?” said an affiliate of Petty. “We outside.”

According to HipHopDX, Offset and his wife, rapper Cardi B, were allegedly staying at a hotel in the neighborhood where this took place. But neither Offset nor Cardi reportedly stepped out to confront Petty and crew directly.

In another clip, Petty is heard threatening to “knock the veneers” out of Cardi’s mouth.

Shortly after the footage — the date of which it was shot unclear — surfaced, Offset took to his own social media platforms, where he seemingly addressed these alleged threats.

“I’m getting off a jet, and he’s funny,” Offset said. “F*ck they talkin’ about? We hoppin’ off jets. Talkin’ bout ‘outside.’ Extremely broke!”

Later, a screenshot of an Instagram DM from Offset was shared by an affiliate of Petty. In the screenshot, Offset appears to asking for the affiliate’s location, seemingly wanting to confront him in person.

At the time of writing, it’s unclear when or where this alleged beef began.

You can see clips above.

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