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Two teenagers madly in love with hopes to marry after high school graduation is a tale that probably goes back to the invention of high school itself. Sometimes high school sweethearts do end up getting married and raising a family together, and other times life gets in the way. Paths diverge, and the once deeply in love couple become strangers.

But first love stories don’t always end there, as life has a way of surprising people when they least expect it. Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm dated in 1956 when they were both in high school, falling deeply in love with one another. Lamm was older than Reeves and graduated with plans to join the military while Reeves finished high school.

The two knew their time with each other was coming to an end but had no idea how long they would be apart. There was no letterman’s jacket or class ring given to Reeves to signify commitment. In fact, Lamm didn’t even say goodbye. He couldn’t bring himself to do it. Their last date together ended with a kiss and a broken heart.

“I opened that car door and I got out of that car and ran up the steps and slammed the door and went upstairs and cried all night,” Reeves told CBS. “That was it.”

After spending a lifetime apart, both marrying other people, having children and experiencing the death of their spouses, they never forgot their first love. In April 2022, the remnants of their bond was tested when Lamm, who was living in California at the time, decided to call his long-lost high school sweetheart—nine times. Like most people, she didn’t answer unknown calls.

When Reeves finally answered, it didn’t take too long for her to get comfortable talking to her old beau, and it didn’t take him long to profess his feelings.

“After the second day, it was comfortable. It was natural. By the third day, that third night, he told me he still loved me. And I knew my life had changed. And then the next morning, he calls and he says, ‘I apologize for being so forward last night,'” Reeves told CBS.

At 81 and 84, they wasted no time taking a second chance on their love. Lamm flew to Nashville to see Reeves in person, and within five days, he’d asked her to move to California with him. Three months later, he proposed, and Reeves finally got the class ring she had hoped for more than 60 years ago. Watch their beautiful love story below.

Nearly every era of SNL has at least one future-comedy star on the roster, but the late 2000s had multiple superstars. Look at season 34, for instance. There was Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, and Kristen Wiig, all of whom have gone on to make classics like MacGruber, Parks and Recreation, Bridesmaids, Documentary Now, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

As part of a conversation with the Wrap, Bill Hader, who recently wrap up his terrific HBO series Barry, and Late Night with Seth Meyers host Seth Meyers reflected on their time on SNL, and gave their respective era a nickname.

“I believe our era was ‘benevolent snobs.’ Everybody had a snobbery but not about style. I think everybody appreciated that there were different voices in that era of the show, so the only thing people were unsatisfied with was any writer not writing to the height of their talents,” Meyers told Hader, who added, “Seth was the person who taught me that the DNA of SNL was competitive, but we don’t have to be competitive with each other.”

That explains why there’s so much crossover between the ex- cast members in other shows and movies, like Fred Armisen on I Think You Should Leave, created by underused SNL great Tim Robinson… and Will Forte on I Think You Should Leave… and Vanessa Bayer on I Think You Should Leave. There needs to be a fourth season so Bill Hader can make a cameo. We know he’s good at screaming.

(Via the Wrap)

The ladies of The View did not hold back their downright lusty glee over the 44-page indictment against Donald Trump. The documents were unsealed on Friday afternoon, so the co-hosts had to wait until Monday morning to dig in, and man, did they.

As a former prosecutor, Sunny Hostin particularly enjoyed the scathing legal document, which she agreed was a “rock solid” case against the former president thanks to an overwhelming amount of “receipts.”

“What I found most interesting about it is the most significant evidence in the indictment — because of course, I read it gleefully,” Hostin said as co-host Sara Haines agreed that it was “gleeful.” However, Ana Navarro took things to a whole new level by comparing the indictment to a certain provocative romance series.

Via The Wrap:

“I haven’t had this much fun reading anything since I read ’50 Shades of Grey,’” she said, prompting loud cheers from the audience and agreement from her co-hosts. “I mean, this was the best reading you can imagine.”

While The View ladies might be going a tad overboard, the indictment is pretty “damning,” and that’s coming from Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley. Adding insult to injury, Trump’s own attorney general, Bill Barr, had his own dire take on the charges, which he also shared with the conservative network’s massive audience of Republican voters.

“If even half of it is true, he is toast,” Barr said on Fox News Sunday. “It’s a very detailed indictment.”

(Via The Wrap)

“Largely, Coachella has become the place to put on the best show of your life,” Uproxx’s Philip Cosores surmised after attending Coachella 2023.

Excitement for this April’s edition of the annual festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California began in earnest when Coachella revealed the lineup in January, and the anticipatory cycle for Coachella 2024 started over again today, June 12.

“Wherever you are, the desert isn’t far,” Coachella tweeted. “Coachella returns April 12-14 and April 19-21.”

The tweet includes a video of a magical, mirror-like door appearing in several recognizable metropolises worldwide to transport music fans back to Coachella. It announces that registration is now open for access to the 2024 Advance Sale, which is scheduled to begin this Friday, June 16, at 11 a.m. PT.

It just takes one click to Coachella’s official website to arrive at the “Register Now” portal, and while there, fans can go ahead and purchase hotel packages and Safari Campground reservations here. Accompanying shuttle passes will become available this Friday, June 16, and registration for access to those is available now.

There are several hotel package options: La Quinta Hotel Packages, Indio Hotel Packages, Indian Wells Hotel Packages, Palm Desert Hotel Packages, and Palm Springs/Rancho Mirage Hotel Packages. Prices range from $3,099 (plus fees) to $10,999 (plus fees).

Information about payment plan options is also available here.

For one reason or another, it’s not uncommon to see Billie Eilish making headlines. Today, she’s on people’s minds and news feeds because of a new bikini photo, which shows off a previously unseen chest tattoo of hers. What is the ink of, though?

The photo was shared on Instagram by Annabel Zimmer (the daughter of iconic composer Hans Zimmer). In it, Eilish wears a Miaou bikini top, Versace sunglasses, a necklace, and earrings while smiling and looking off to the side. It’s not Eilish’s post, but she commented on it simply with a see-no-evil monkey emoji.

Due to the size of the tattoo on Eilish’s body and in the frame of the photo, it might be hard to identify what it is. Eilish has already done that for us, though. In 2021, though, Rolling Stone reported the ink reads “Eilish” in “an ornate, gothic font” and that she got it the day after the 2020 Grammys, so on January 27. Meanwhile, Eilish noted while pointing to her chest in a Vanity Fair interview from the same year, “I have three tattoos now. I have one here that says ‘Eilish.’ Yes, I love myself.”

Meanwhile, Eilish generated some attention earlier this year after lingerie photos invited comparisons to a Breaking Bad character.

Jerry West had a special relationship with Kobe Bryant, as he was the general manager of the Lakers when they traded for Kobe Bryant in the 1996 NBA Draft.

That relationship was apparently strong enough that Bryant once looked into following West to the Memphis Grizzlies in 2004, but the Hall of Famer talked Bryant out of considering the move despite being Memphis’ GM. West told that story on this week’s episode of Podcast P with Paul George, explaining that he told Kobe “No, you belong somewhere out here.”

“He became a free agent. Ok? And he called me and his agent then was Rob Pelinka. And so I met them in Orange County in a hotel room and he said he wanted to come to Memphis and play basketball. And I looked at him, I said, are you kidding me? And he said no, and I said, ‘Kobe, no, no. You know, it’s just you belong somewhere out here.’ And even though he would have never played there, I just want to reassure him that don’t feel like you have any obligation with me or the Grizzlies to play here and because he would have never played there, it wasn’t gonna happen.”

The stories of Bryant nearly joining the Chicago Bulls are well known, but apparently they weren’t the only destination he was considering leaving L.A. for.

It’s very funny when West goes “I guess that might’ve been tampering,” but instead of tampering to help his team at the time he was helping Bryant and the Lakers. Memphis was coming off of a 50-win season in 2003-04, before getting swept by the Spurs in the first round of the playoffs, and it would’ve paired Bryant with Pau Gasol four years before the Spanish star was traded to the Lakers and helped Bryant win two more championships in L.A.

Coachella was a rousing success in April, Frank Ocean’s unfortunate ankle injury and subsequent canceled Weekend 2 headlining set that reportedly cost the iconic annual festival millions of dollars notwithstanding.

Coachella 2023 made history with headliners Bad Bunny and Blackpink, and the Coachella powers that be are surely already brainstorming how to one-up itself in 2024. We won’t know who next year’s headliners for a while still, but today (June 12), we at least learned the dates to circle on the calendar.

“Wherever you are, the desert isn’t far,” Coachella tweeted. “Coachella returns April 12-14 and April 19-21. Register now to access the 2024 Advance Sale beginning Friday, June 16 at 11 am PT at coachella.com.”

The official website provides loads of ticketing information, including the chosen platform (AXS). “Festival passes are valid for the full weekend (and only the weekend) you purchased,” it reads, additionally noting a payment plan option of $99 down at the initial checkout this week while the remaining balance can be paid off over six equally divided payments through this December.

There are also hotel packages and Safari Campground available to reserve now here. The accompanying shuttle passes will go on sale beginning this Friday, June 16 at 10 a.m. PT, but registration for access is available now.

Nike bringing back one of its classic sneakers, the Nike Mac Attack — the signature model worn by tennis legend John McEnroe — and has tapped one of its key collaborators to make the re-release even more special. The 1984 sneaker is being redesigned for Travis Scott with his trademark reversed Swoosh.

Travis was seen performing in his updated Mac Attacks in May, and today, the NikeSportswear Instagram account began the official rollout with a genuinely stylish print ad layout featuring the rapper and the tennis star side-by-side in tailored suits and Travis on the court taking a two-handed forehand in a white Nike windbreaker and shorts combo (I, for one, would love to find out the results of that).

A detail of the ad Travis Scott fans might appreciate is his briefcase, which bears the scrawl “Utopia” — the name of Travis’ long-awaited comeback album, which he’s been teasing for the better part of the past two years. While anticipation for the album is sky-high among Scott’s diehards, it was set back by the tragedy at his Astroworld Festival in 2021, which generated nearly 5,000 injury claims in addition to ten deathsand prompted the rapper to spend much of last year lying low.

Travis was said to have recently played the album for his hometown Houston Astros, implying that it could be nearing release. With Nike helping to raise his profile to pre-Astroworld levels, it could mean that Utopia‘s release is imminent. Meanwhile, the Mac Attacks have an official release date of June 23 — although the remixed Travis Scott signature version has not been announced.

BTS have been omnipresent for the last decade, and their unparalleled presence is on unique display this week. The K-pop group is supposed to be on hiatus, but they’re making an exception to recognize their 10-year anniversary.

Tomorrow, June 13, will officially mark a decade since BTS’ debut, and a commemorative single “Take Two” arrived last Friday, June 9, as part of a larger celebration.

Billboard reported on May 24 that BTS 10th Anniversary FESTA is slated for this Saturday, June 17, in Seoul, South Korea, which will be “open to the public” at Yeouido, Seoul.

Seoul is ramping up anticipation (not that BTS needs any help with that) by turning the city purple throughout this week, as shared across Twitter.

“The purple mark of BTS and their ARMY will shine on Seoul’s City Hall, multiple Han River bridges, the 123-story Lotte World Tower, and the cultural hub Dongdaemun Design Plaza,” relayed Rolling Stone‘s Larisha Paul. “They’ll also infiltrate the postal service beginning on Tuesday [June 13] when authorities will start issuing stamps marking the anniversary. By Saturday [June 17], fireworks will explode over a Han River park following a live talk from BTS’ RM.”

In March, RM opened up to EFE about how he was experiencing BTS’ indefinite hiatus allowing for each member to serve South Korea’s mandatory military service.

“After 10 years as a member of BTS, I didn’t know who I was and I wanted to know,” RM told the outlet. “I started out as a teenage rapper, then BTS came along and it was all very intense. Now that the group is inactive, I’ve gone back to thinking about the beginnings and the real reasons why I joined BTS.”

This week will be a particularly reflective time for all BTS members, although Jungkook just wants to be able to sleep.

Reddit experienced a “major outage” on Monday as thousands of subreddits took part in a coordinated “blackout” to protest the platform’s new API pricing. Reddit’s new plan is reportedly similar to the new API price increase at Twitter, and the new policy at Reddit is what prompted Monday’s wide-scale protest.

The blackout plan was put into place last week, and as promised, the protest kicked off on the morning of June 12. While Reddit knew about the blackout plans (reportedly involving at least 7,000 subreddits), that still didn’t prevent the site from crashing.

“A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” a Reddit spokesperson told The Verge after the publication reported.

As for the reason for the protest, subreddit moderators heavily rely on third-party apps to maintain and customize their communities. The API price increase will potentially eliminate a significant chunk of those apps. Via the r/Save3rdPartyApps subreddit, which kicked off the protest:

Even if you’re not a mobile user and don’t use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn’t only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.”

As of this writing, Reddit has moved from “major outage” to “operational,” but the subreddits still remain private in protest of the API pricing plan.

(Via The Verge)