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Who Are The Openers For Paramore’s 2023 North American Tour?

Just a few days ago in Alabama, Paramore kicked off their North American tour — which will continue through August at various massive venues, arenas, and music festivals like Bonnaroo. For those who are attending one of Paramore’s summer shows and are hoping to prepare, here’s what to know about their opening acts.

Paramore is bringing four different acts on the road with them for select dates. The first, Bloc Party, will join the band in cities like Toronto and DC. This is also special because their last album was inspired by the opening act.

Foals, another indie rock group, will open for the two Los Angeles dates, along with additional stops in the Midwest.

Genesis Owusu served as the opening act for Paramore’s two sold-out Madison Square Garden dates, among others, and was praised by BrooklynVegan for welcoming the crowd in a “grand fashion.”

Finally, The Linda Lindas — the viral band that gained traction after a library video — will be continuing the rock energy as another opener on Paramore’s tour.

In a recent interview with The Cut, Paramore’s lead singer Hayley Williams talked about her tour views and what it’s like being on stage.

“There’s absolutely no reason to have any sort of manners onstage other than…” she said. “I will say, if I ever spot people fighting at a Paramore show in the crowd, I become like the worst teacher that you’ve ever had, because I will embarrass you and make you feel like what the f*ck are you doing here?”

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Taika Waititi Is Fine With Being ‘Obsolete And Irrelevant’ One Day: These Days, ‘No One Knows’ Who Directed ‘Casablanca’

Taika Waititi has been at the forefront of many successful franchises over the last decade, but he doesn’t seem to care if you know of him or not. The man wears many hats: writer, actor, and director, and even created Air New Zealand’s successful safety instruction videos. He quite literally does it all, while also voicing a Star Wars character.

Even though he has had his name attached to various Marvel films, he doesn’t seem to think that his name has any staying power. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Waititi claims he doesn’t really “expect” to be remembered down the line, or go down in history as the guy who directed a Sour Patch Kid ad campaign.

“Here’s the thing: No one’s going to remember us,” Waititi told the publication, referring to directors. “What’s the name of the director of Casablanca? Arguably one of the greatest films of all time. No one knows his name. How the f*ck do I expect to be remembered? So who cares?” The director concluded. In case you ever feel the need to join a trivia night at your local bar, the director of Casablanca is Michael Curtiz.

Instead of turning his job into a popularity contest, Waititi says that the films should speak for themselves. He continued, “Let’s just live, make some movies. They’ll be obsolete and irrelevant in 15 or 20 years. And so will I, and then I’ll die and someone else can do it. This whole idea of chasing, chasing, chasing this life. It’s like, do we have to actually work this hard? Maybe not.” Though it sounds a bit pessimistic, he has a pretty good point. Will anyone remember James Cameron in 20 years? Avatar 3 probably won’t even be out by then, though.

On the other hand, the internet is forever, so we will always be able to trace Thor: Love and Thunder back to Waititi. For better or worse. Just because he didn’t remember that Natalie Portman was in Star Wars doesn’t mean that everyone else forgot too!

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

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An AOC Twitter Parody Account Has Surfaced And It Led To A Warning From The Real AOC After Elon Musk Interacted With It

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is putting Elon Musk on notice after learning that not only is a parody Twitter account impersonating her sporting a verified blue checkmark, but Musk has been interacting with the account, which has significantly boosted its reach.

“FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral,” AOC tweeted. “The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.”

The account in question is @AOCpress and has been tweeting under the screenname “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody).” Granted, the word “parody” is in the screenname, but since it’s so long, the “parody” label is not visible when viewing tweets on the timeline.

As for Musk interacting with the account, all it took was a stroke of his ego. The parody account tweeted, “This might be the wine talking, but I’ve got a crush on @elonmusk,” which prompted Musk to respond with the fire emoji.

While AOC hasn’t specified what move her team is deciding, legal action could be on the table. The new Twitter verification system under Musk has been rife for abuse and impersonating a United States congresswoman could be the final straw that prompts yet another expensive lawsuit for the embattled CEO.

(Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter)

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A Casa Bonita Superfan Has Been Camping Out In The Parking Lot And Vows To Remain Until They Invite Him In: ‘Someone Inside Will See My Dedication’

May has nearly come and gone. That was the month that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone pinpointed to grand-reopen their improved Casa Bonita in Lakewood, Colorado. This has led to a fan theory, which has since been proven wrong, that the eatertainment venue would reopen on the (fictional) Kyle Broflovski’s birthday, May 26. Earlier in the month, people crossed fingers for Cinco de Mayo to open those sopapilla floodgates, but there was no dice there, either. What gives?

This week, the Denver Post reported that Casa Bonita’s soft-opening (for lack of a better word on my behalf) would include test runs with lottery-based invitations, which would be followed by ticket sales for initial guests. However, there’s one very dedicated fan who is hoping that he can hop to the front of the list. Denver’s ABC affiliate passes on word that Lance Castillo has been camping out in the parking lot for over a week with full gear and everything. He even dedicated his time off work to this cause, and although he’s a bit bummed about the lottery system, he vows to stay until he’s invited inside:

“It was a bummer but I have my hopes up that someone inside will see my dedication and say, ‘Come on in bud,’” Castillo said.

He said he has already subscribed to that list.

“I’ll be here until the invitation comes out,” he said.

He’s not alone in his enthusiasm. Local press has already chatted with people who planned vacations to the Denver area in case they get lucky enough to be there on opening day. As well, there’s a massive camp-out event planned in the parking lot for whenever the official grand opening day is announced. In other words, don’t expect to have a quick in-and-out dinner there (anytime soon) if you’re in the area.

(Via Denver Post & Denver’s ABC 7)

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Duncan Robinson’s Phone Got Blown Up By Celtics Fans Ahead Of Game 7 Of The Eastern Conference Finals

After a regular season where he struggled to find his jumper, Duncan Robinson has been back to his sharpshooting ways for the Miami Heat during their run to the 2023 NBA Finals. Robinson’s up to 44.6 percent from behind the three-point line during the postseason, and hit double-digit scoring in five of the seven games Miami played in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics.

Robinson’s most notable moment in the series didn’t come after a made three. Instead, it came during Game 7 in Boston, when the New England native scored on a back cut to give the Heat a 21-point fourth quarter lead and then held his hand up to his ear, signifying that he couldn’t hear the opposing crowd. On a new episode of JJ Redick’s “The Old Man and the Three” podcast, Robinson explained why he decided to do this, and revealed that it had something to do with his phone getting blown up by Celtics fans after Game 6.

Robinson said that he only wanted to do something like this if he was “relevant enough in the game to warrant that,” which led to him debating if he should do it after a back cut to get his 10th point of the game.

“But, I don’t know how this happened, but maybe somebody that I went to high school with or something — cause I still have the same number from when I was in high school,” Robinson said. “My number got put in a group chat somewhere, and it was like a massive group chat. So after we lose Game 6, my phone is blowing up from all these random New England numbers … ‘get f*cked, get f*cked, Celts in 7.’ They’re sending me memes of the Curt Schilling bloody sock, and it’s just all these random numbers, it’s like 70 texts. I’m like, ‘What is going on?’”

Robinson mentioned that all of this happened after a heartbreaking Game 6 loss in which he missed shots to help put the game away and left the door open for Boston to win on a Derrick White putback with no time remaining. All of this, Robinson says, really wound him up.

“I’m like, who the f*ck gave out my number? How the f*ck did this happen?” he says. “So then I start thinking, I’m creating all these scenarios in my head, I’m like, if I get the chance and I go into the Garden, I’m gonna do something. And I didn’t know what it was gonna be. Honestly, probably a little underwhelming, but you would be shocked at how many people that really bothered.”

Apparently, Robinson “heard from a lot of people,” many of whom really hated it for being “classless.” It is unclear if these people believe getting a stranger’s phone number and heckling them is also classless.

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Machine Gun Kelly Reportedly Went ‘Apesh*t’ On All American Rejects Singer Tyson Ritter Over Megan Fox

Today, in the category “Bizarre Celebrity Beefs We Didn’t Know We Needed,” comes the news that Machine Gun Kelly is reportedly feuding with All American Rejects frontman, Tyson Ritter.

Now, the knee-jerk response might be to shout, “Who cares?!” at your screen before scrolling over to Twitter to see why Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek is trending. (if you do find out, we’d really like to know.) But wait, before you go, let us make the case for getting invested in this tiny squabble between two boy band rockers who insist on dressing like it’s still 2005.

First, and this is key information you need to log deep in the recesses of your brain because it will absolutely come in handy at a dinner party someday: Ritter is an actor. No, really. He’s been doing little on-screen bits since he played himself on the CW’s Smallville — that show that inadvertently helped spawn a cult. A good actor? Who knows? But an actor nonetheless, and one nabbing enough work that he ended up sharing the screen with Megan Fox in an on-demand B-list crime movie where she plays a nasty mob boss and him, her equally demented henchman.

It was on the set of this film that the altercation between Ritter and MGK, a.k.a. Colson Baker, occurred. According to the “Dirty Little Secret” crooner, he came to Fox’s trailer one day with the genius idea of putting his fingers in her mouth during her climactic death scene as a way for his character to “get revenge” for all of her character’s taunts during the film. MGK, who was with Fox when Ritter’s artistic lightbulb went off, did not like the idea. Chaos soon ensued.

“I go over [to Fox’s trailer] and there’s her man in there with her. This Colson guy, who you know as Machine Gun Kelly. I call him ‘Pistol Pete,’” Ritter said on a recent podcast appearance. Why the eye-roll-earning nickname? We’re still not sure. Perhaps he’s giving Donald Trump a run for his money. “I was like, ‘Hey Megan, you know, I wanted to talk to you about this moment where when you die, because you’ve been teasing me, putting your fingers in my mouth, that when you’re dead, I put my fingers in your mouth.’”

Gross, but sure. Lean into the artistic process and all that.

“Colson like just goes from zero to like rage and awesome, super angry,” Ritter continued. “He was super bummed about me asking if I could put my fingers in Megan Fox’s mouth and I knew she was right there and he just went ballistic. He kind of went maniac mode.”

Though there were no reports of champagne glasses being smashed, Ritter says he and MGK never officially made up. It’s all good though because, for his next role in which Ritter has a “zero to ape s–t” moment on screen with Kate Beckinsale, the rocker channeled his new nemesis’ freak out to great effect.

“I remember when ‘Pistol Pete’ started going ape on me, I was like, ‘This is really confrontational, but also, like, thank you, dude,’” Ritter said. “He had this like baby’s arm of a joint dangling out of his mouth and he was fully unhinged and I was just like, ‘OK man, I’ll just receive you.’ ’Cause obviously it wasn’t gonna be anything crazy. But yeah that was … holy s–t. It was the greatest gift.”

(Via Page Six)

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DaniLeigh Reportedly Had An Open Bottle Of Don Julio Tequila In Her Car When She Was Arrested For A DUI

A new report has shed light on further details about DaniLeigh‘s recent arrest for drunk driving, revealing that not only did she have a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit at the time of her arrest, but she also had incriminating evidence with her in the car — namely, an open bottle of Don Julio 1942. XXL has acquired a police report detailing the arrest and the collision that led to it; after allegedly hitting a man on a moped and dragging him for a block before he shook free of her G550’s grille, police said that she initially refused to pull over for officers.

Once she did, the officer who arrested her reported that both she and her passenger appeared inebriated while insisting they had not drunk any alcohol. The empty tequila bottle appeared to contradict their assessment, as did both a field sobriety test and a breathalyzer examination. DaniLeigh’s BAC was reportedly 0.148, which is way more than the legal limit of .08. The man she allegedly hit with her car went to the hospital with a fractured spine and lacerated kidney, while DaniLeigh was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury and DUI damage to property.

DaniLeigh was previously investigated for assault after an altercation on Instagram with DaBaby, with whom she has a child.

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The Detroit Pistons Are ‘Seriously Pursuing’ Monty Williams As Their Next Head Coach

According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania and James Edwards III, the Detroit Pistons are “seriously pursuing” Monty Williams and “are preparing a significant offer” for him to become their next head coach.

Charania and Edwards reported that the offer is worth roughly $10 million per year and the franchise “is hopeful that Williams would consider accepting the job.”

“Initially, Williams told teams — including the Pistons — that he was interested in taking a year off,” Charania and Edwards wrote.

Williams, who was fired by the Phoenix Suns earlier this month, is still owed approximately $21 million over the next three years by the Suns.

If Williams elects to bypass the offer, Milwaukee Bucks associate head coach Charles Lee “is expected to emerge as the likely choice,” according to Charania and Edwards.

Williams spent the past four seasons as head coach of the Suns. He helped snap their decade-long playoff drought, guided them to their third ever NBA Finals appearance in 2020-21 and was named Coach of the Year in 2021-22, when Phoenix won a franchise-record 64 games. However, the Suns have bowed out of the playoffs with second-round exits the past two years, including blowout losses in each of their last two elimination games. Shortly after the Denver Nuggets bounced Phoenix in six games, Williams was let go. The Suns went 194-115 and won five playoff series during Williams’ four seasons at the helm.

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The Detroit Pistons Are ‘Seriously Pursuing’ Monty Williams As Their Next Head Coach

According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania and James Edwards III, the Detroit Pistons are “seriously pursuing” Monty Williams and “are preparing a significant offer” for him to become their next head coach.

Charania and Edwards reported that the offer is worth roughly $10 million per year and the franchise “is hopeful that Williams would consider accepting the job.”

“Initially, Williams told teams — including the Pistons — that he was interested in taking a year off,” Charania and Edwards wrote.

Williams, who was fired by the Phoenix Suns earlier this month, is still owed approximately $21 million over the next three years by the Suns.

If Williams elects to bypass the offer, Milwaukee Bucks associate head coach Charles Lee “is expected to emerge as the likely choice,” according to Charania and Edwards.

Williams spent the past four seasons as head coach of the Suns. He helped snap their decade-long playoff drought, guided them to their third ever NBA Finals appearance in 2020-21 and was named Coach of the Year in 2021-22, when Phoenix won a franchise-record 64 games. However, the Suns have bowed out of the playoffs with second-round exits the past two years, including blowout losses in each of their last two elimination games. Shortly after the Denver Nuggets bounced Phoenix in six games, Williams was let go. The Suns went 194-115 and won five playoff series during Williams’ four seasons at the helm.

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Sam Smith And Madonna Plan To Get ‘Vulgar’ On Their Upcoming Single

Two pop icons are gearing up for a steamy collaboration. Today, Madonna and Sam Smith announced that the two are dropping a new single in June, just in time for Pride Month. The song is called “Vulgar,” which, of course, has fans shivering with anticipation.

https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/1663896592469086210

On the cover art appears to be images of Smith and Madonna’s backs, as the two are wearing bustiers. Purple letters reading “S&M” cover the art, which, ostensibly stand for “Sam Smith and Madonna,” but could also be alluding to sadomasochism.

This collaboration arrives as a full-circle moment for Smith and Madonna. Back in January, ahead of the release of their fourth album, Gloria, Smith revealed during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that they get starstruck seeing pop divas.

“If I see Rihanna or Madonna, I fall to the floor,” they said.

The following month at the Grammy Awards, Madonna introduced Smith, along with their collaborator, Kim Petras, ahead of their performance of “Unholy.”

It appears the song may have been co-written by Ryan Tedder, as he has commented “LETS GOOOOOOOOOO” on both Smith and Madonna’s posts.

“Vulgar” is out 7/9 via Capitol Records. Find more information here.

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