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Sex and the City was no stranger to crazy sex scenes and showcasing kinks not often seen in pop culture (shout out to Roger Sterling wanting Carrie Bradshaw to pee on him), but one R-rated moment was too much — and too gross.

On Thursday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, star Cynthia Nixon, who played attorney Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City and its horror show spin-off And Just Like That, told host Andy Cohen, “Miranda dated a really hot detective who she was very intimidated by, he was really out of her league, so she got wildly drunk.” The basic plot made it to air, but “they cut the sex scene where she’s really, really drunk and then vomits all over him.”

Earlier this month, Nixon opened up about being “fairly game” for filming revealing sex scenes in the franchise. “I feel like I was always fairly game for it,” Nixon said. “It’s just one of the main subjects of the show is sex — people having sex and people having great sex and people having terrible sex and people having hilarious sex.”

But no puke sex (terrible band name). However, if you want to watch a sex comedy where someone pukes, you freak, check out No Hard Feelings.

You can watch the Watch What Happens Live clip above.

(Via ET Online)

Happy 52nd day of the WGA strike! As is tradition, this is the day that a popular actor in a massive budget superhero show asserts some solidarity by telling the studios to figure out something genuinely equitable. Tomorrow’s traditional gift is tin, followed by lace.

Speaking with Inverse, Anthony Mackie had some sharp words about the potential Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike, which would add actors to the picket line. The current SAG contract expires at midnight tonight (June 30th), but it’s possible that SAG will authorize an extension if talks are productive.

“It’s a shit show if we go on strike,” Mackie said, adding that the only remedy is studios striking a fair deal. “They’re going to have to. Unless they get a bunch of fucking YouTubers to make Avengers 5!”

“Once the studios went public and were bought out by major companies, we were fucked,” the new Captain America said. “It’s no longer about art. It’s no longer about interesting, fun work. It’s about end-of-the-quarter profit sharing. It’s about shareholders. So you’re literally just raping and pillaging the industry. It’s cannibalism.”

Mackie is currently filming Marvel‘s Captain America: Brave New World for a summer 2024 release. In the upcoming film, he takes over from Steve Rogers as the new Cap while Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez) takes over as Falcon.

(via Inverse)

Human bobblehead and meatball Ron DeSantis might be the most awkward presidential candidate we’ve seen in a long time (and that’s saying something after Jeb Bush). His recent campaign trail moves have also been downright cringeworthy, including moments with a sweaty dress shirt and him allegedly bussing in supporters to beef up his (pitiful) presence in Iowa.

Don’t even get us started on his food thing. There’s that reported habit he has of eating pudding with his fingers, which DeSantis has denied, albeit while debuting his unsettling laugh, so one can imagine that eating pizza the “right” way might not come naturally to him. But DeSantis presumably wanted to capitalize upon right-wing claims that “[l]eftists and extremists are trying to ban pizza ovens” due to a proposed rule change on carbon emissions, which would present hiccups for less than 100 pizzerias in NYC. Still, Republicans are still mad about their gas stoves, so accusing Democrats of wanting to take away pizza will only aid their cause.

So, DeSantis hustled up to Manhattan, where he sat down with Fox News’ Tucker-Carlson-hour replacement Jesse Watters at Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria on 6th Avenue. Getty photographers were on the scene and captured the whole disturbing affair, in which DeSantis looks as though he may have never enjoyed a slice in his life. Is that possible? Well, he had to make room for pudding, so stranger things have happened. Witness:

Nope, this was surely not at all rehearsed. Maybe this video clip will help.

Ugh, the video made it worse. Well, at least you aren’t craving pizza on a Friday? Gotta save a few calories for the Fourth of July cookout.

ESPN went through another round of layoffs on Friday, this time with 20 of their highest paid on-air personalities being let go. Word of the layoffs came from Andrew Marchand of the New York Post in the morning, and a slow trickle of names began to emerge.

Two of the longtime faces of the company’s NBA coverage are apparently among the group that had been let go, as Jeff Van Gundy is out as lead game analyst, while Jalen Rose is being let go from his role on NBA Countdown and appearances on the network’s various morning shows, per Marchand. Rose had been at ESPN for over a decade, including 10 years on the Countdown desk where he has been a constant presence while various hosts and other analysts have changed around him.

Now, however, with Jalen & Jacoby ending earlier this year and Rose having a more limited role with the company, his large annual salary made him a target for cuts. Marchand notes the network is high on some of their newer analysts like Kendrick Perkins, JJ Redick, and Richard Jefferson, who figure to be in the mix for Countdown — the latter two of whom are also potential replacements for Van Gundy on game broadcasts.

Rose has been doing sports media for two decades as he was one of the first to begin doing media work while still playing in the NBA, before transitioning full-time to the TV and podcasting world. He figures to have a variety of opportunities from other networks, and may wait to see how this next round of NBA broadcasting contract negotiations go before settling in on a new home for his NBA work.

It turns out not everyone had as enthusiastic a response to Drake‘s book of poetry as DJ Khaled did (and even his was a little noncommital). After Complex got a few full-time poets to review the book, Drake learned that he wasn’t being taken quite as seriously as perhaps he’d hoped.

With a title like Titles Ruin Everything, you’d think he’s in on the joke, but as New York Times bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib pointed out, it’s kind of hard to tell. “None of these strike me as poems, because they’re not even attempting to push against any unknown in order to offer something revelatory or at least somewhat beautiful,” he says in the piece.

“Some of these are so absurd that they’re actually funny,” he continues. “But it’s hard to tell if he also understands that they’re bending into absurdist humor, and understands that there will be people who find it profound. Or if he’s convinced himself of the profundity. Really, it’s kind of just a book of puns. Silly lil’ jokes. It is a struggle for me to tell how in on the joke he is… I’m not personally offended by anything that masquerades as poetry, because it happens so often in every possible arena of entertainment and consumption, but this is essentially a coffee table book of one-line jokes.”

Houston poet laureate Aris Kian echoed Hanif’s thoughts, musing, “Drake’s poems operate within an excess of white space, a reduced set of images and limited punctuation. The tools of tension, breath and play are only explored through the typical two-line set up/punchline format.”

Of course, if any of this ruffled Drake’s feathers, he seems reluctant to show it. In his Instagram Story, he posted a response of sorts with a meme calling the critics “Randomly angry poets” (despite, y’know, the author calling them to ask their opinions and neither seeming all that angry) and shrugging off their criticism. Of course, this could just be a case of Drake coping with receiving pushback on yet another of his creative endeavors — even if it is, as one of my colleagues put it in Slack, “not poetry, it’s merch.”

Lil Uzi Vert just unleashed Pink Tape. With 26 tracks, an unexpected cover of System Of A Down’s “Chop Suey,” and features from Nicki Minaj, Bring Me The Horizon, Don Toliver, and more, it’s a must-listen. However, the most exciting collaboration on the album might be “Aye” with Travis Scott.

“Aye” is sure to be a hit as a live performance. The track is invigorating all the way through: “I put them diamonds my teeth (Aye) / Might put somе diamonds my nose (Aye) / Aye, I put them diamonds my teeth (Aye) / Might put some diamonds my nosе (Aye, huh?).” The two rappers together bring a lot of energy to the table.

The unveiling of this song is a relief for fans of the “Sicko Mode” performer, whose highly anticipated new album Utopia still doesn’t have an official release date. However, billboards recently intimated that the album might be arriving on July 21. The ongoing delay is a result of the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, which he will not face charges for: “He never encouraged people to do anything that resulted in other people being hurt… Travis is not responsible,” his lawyer Kent Schaffer said. There were 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Listen to “Aye” above.

Pink Tape is out now via Atlantic Records. Get it here.

Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Every month, Uproxx cultural critic Steven Hyden makes an unranked list of his favorite music-related items released during this period — songs, albums, books, films, you name it.

1. Jason Isbell, Weathervanes

It should go without saying that there are some real tearjerkers on this record. If the fractured relationship at the heart of “King Of Oklahoma” doesn’t get you, the school shooting lament “Save The World” will. Or maybe you will be able to hold out until the gut-punch that is “White Beretta.” But while the emotional haymakers are potent, Weathervanes leavens the devastation with some of the breeziest and loose-limbed music of Isbell’s career. After 2020’s very good but fraught Reunions, this album positively breathes with an ease and confidence that signals a potentially fruitful middle age for one of our best singer-songwriters.

2. Feeble Little Horse, Girl With Fish

I am happy to report that 2023 has been an excellent year for young rock bands that set deadpan-funny lyrics to heavy, woozy, and grunged-up guitars. Girl With Fish is among the latest entries in this crop, and it immediately landed on my favorite albums of the half-year list. I am doubly happy to report that this Pittsburgh-based act signals another promising trend — they come from a great local scene situated outside the NYC/LA axis. Might regionalism be making a comeback in indie-rock circles? I can only hope!

3. Queens Of The Stone Age, In Times New Roman

It seems impossible that these guys will ever touch the sleazy majesty of their first three records. But on In Times New Roman, Josh Homme manages to reconnect with the weird stoner vibes of Queens’ self-titled 1998 debut, which is an upgrade from the “slightly left-of-center Foo Fighters” sound that marked 2017’s Villains. Given the turmoil in Homme’s personal life of late, you might expect the songs to have a more mournful vibe. But musically speaking, this is the most flat-out fun music he’s put out in a minute.

4. Ratboys, “It’s Alive”

Earlier this month this winning Chicago band announced a new album, The Window, due in August. I’ll have more to say about that later this summer, but for now I have to shout out the lovably crunchy single “It’s Alive,” which spotlights what Ratboys do well — delectable guitar tones, perfect ’90s alt-girl vocals, infectious choruses.

5, Slaughter Beach, Dog, “Strange Weather”

This rootsy outfit from ex-Modern Baseball member Jake Ewald has been steadily moving closer to dad-rock nirvana since launching nearly a decade ago. On this recent single, Ewald just might achieve it. Over a leisurely mid-tempo stroll that layers vintage guitar and keyboard sounds, he affects his best approximation of a mid-period Wilco barbecue jam, like an outtake from Sky Blue Sky that Jeff Tweedy somehow has kept under wraps until now.

6. Bonny Doon, Let There Be Music

Speaking of dad-rock nirvana, this low-key Michigan band finally released the follow-up to 2018’s Longwave this month. For a while they were sidetracked as the backing band for Waxahatchee on her excellent 2020 album Saint Cloud and the accompanying tour. But on Let There Be Music, Bonny Doon picks up pretty much where Longwave left off, with a mellow barrage of simple, strummy songs that sound like they were recorded on a boat dock outside of northwoods cabin at dusk in the summertime.

7. Militarie Gun, Life Under The Gun

At some point, hardcore bands stopped sounding like hardcore bands and started sounding like rock bands who were played nonstop on KROQ in 1998. For some people, this might register as a sellout. For others, including me, it sounds like an improvement. On their debut album, Militarie Gun bring plenty of volume and attitude, but what makes Life Under The Gun are the type of undeniable bubble-grunge hooks that sound smuggled from a Third Eye Blind record.

8. Bruce Hornsby & The Range, “The Show Goes On” (from The Bear Season Two soundtrack)

Like a lot of people, I happily binged this month on the latest season of this FX dramedy, which happens to have one of the most distinctive soundtracks on television. Anyone who thought that The Bear might change gears from the dad-rock sounds of Season One were immediately informed otherwise at the very start of Season Two, with this needle drop from Hornsby’s (excellent!) 1988 album Scenes From The Southside. As much as I love the writing and the cast of The Bear, this musical aspect — which informs the characters and helps to shape the show’s world — makes watching the show feel to me like doing a late-night deep dive for musical favorites on YouTube with a serious buzz on.

The Indiana Pacers have been mentioned as a team to potentially watch as the NBA’s free agency period begins. The team is flush with cap space, has one of the league’s premier young guards in Tyrese Haliburton, and is built around a roster that sure seems like it’s only a piece or two away from being able to make a run at a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

With that in mind, Indiana is apparently on the verge of pulling off a deal with the team that sent them Haliburton in the first place. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Pacers and the Sacramento Kings are close to a trade that will send Chris Duarte to the Western Conference. In return, Indiana will get draft compensation.

The move would reunite Duarte, a 26-year-old guard whom the Pacers selected with the 13th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, with Domantas Sabonis, the player that Indiana moved in the deal that landed them Haliburton. After getting an All-Rookie Second Team nod during his first year in the league, Duarte saw his role decrease during his sophomore campaign in part due to injury woes. He appeared in 46 games with 12 starts while averaging 7.9 points in 19.5 minutes per game and connected on 31.6 percent from his attempts from behind the three-point line.

ESPN will be making some major changes to its NBA coverage next season, as their longtime lead booth of Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, and Mark Jackson will no longer be together.

On Friday, word broke from Andrew Marchand of the New York Post that 20 on-air personalities were going to be part of this latest round of layoffs. Among those is reportedly Jeff Van Gundy, who will no longer be the network’s lead NBA analyst after being in that role for the last 16 years with the network. There are expected to be other big names among the layoffs, as this latest round was meant to trim those making near or above seven figures to limit the behind the scenes jobs that would get cut, per Marchand.

While Van Gundy’s propensity for on-air rants were grating to some viewers, he has always been one of the best at breaking down the X’s and O’s of the game as it is happening when calling an engaging game and not caught in a tangent. Losing that from the lead booth is a considerable loss, as is someone with the tenure and stature to call out the league when he sees fit, as Van Gundy regularly did.

As for replacements, Marchand notes Doris Burke, JJ Redick, and Richard Jefferson are all considered internal candidates to be bumped into the lead booth, with Burke having obvious rapport with Breen and Jackson having worked with that group as a sideline reporter for years. Doc Rivers is also floated as an external candidate to return to the broadcast booth, as his cost could be mitigated by the money still being paid out by his Sixers contract.

The coolest teen in rap is back with another trunk thumper. “Brand New Blues” fits right in with the rest of Luh Tyler‘s oeuvre, featuring swaggering verses and no hook to speak of, laid over a ghostly combination of synth sounds and a thundering kick drum. “I told you I don’t need no pen and pad, I’m comin’ off my top,” he smirks. “These n****s chasin’ hoes before the bag, that sh*t gotta stop.”

Those are the sort of priorities that ensured Luh Tyler a place in XXL‘s 2023 Freshman Class alongside other breakout stars like GloRilla, Lola Brooke, and TiaCorine. While there’s likely more content to come on that front, Tyler himself has stuck to his own grind, dropping the “Weeks” video just a couple of weeks ago and joining Moneybagg Yo on the Larger Than Life Tour later this summer. Tyler’s solo My Vision Tour is wrapping up this week with a show tonight in Orlando, just four hours from his hometown, Tallahassee, and the finale in Tampa tomorrow. Then, he’ll be headed overseas for Rolling Loud festivals in Portugal and Germany before a triumphant homecoming to RL Miami. That’ll be a sight to see.

Listen to Luh Tyler’s “Brand New Blues” above.

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