There have been a lot of great recent vinyl releases, especially since Record Store Day just passed. Now, Rhino is launching their new High Fidelity vinyl series today. The iconic label is starting off strong with the seminal 1978 self-titled album by The Cars as well as John Coltrane’s 1964 LP Coltrane’s Sound.
The records are exclusively on Rhino’s website, limited to only 5,000 individually numbered copies. About the process, mastering engineer Kevin Gray said, “It will be an honor to master this series! There is so much variety to explore in the Rhino catalog — everything from Jazz to Rock to R&B. Rhino has a very deep catalog spanning across 5 decades. The possibilities are incredible! I look forward to all of it.”
“It’s like being in your studios,” said The Cars guitarist Elliot Easton about the pressing. “It’s like listening to a studio playback… It just blew my mind. We felt like we were doing something that hadn’t been done before, like we were breaking some ground and making some sounds that hadn’t been recorded before. That was very exciting. It was just completely the chemistry of the five of us. It’s nothing you can calculate or plan. It just either happens or doesn’t. It’s magic.”
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The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.
ITEM NUMBER ONE – Hello, Raylan
Justified was a good show. There are, I suspect, a number of more eloquent ways than this to open up a weekly column about the goings-on in the world of entertainment, but that doesn’t make the sentence any less true. It had just about everything you could ask for: Timothy Olyphant in a cowboy hat, a story from Elmore Leonard, Walton Goggins as an explosives-loving criminal with wild hair, Patton Oswalt sometimes, a one-off female hustler character named Jackie Nevada, all of it. I am not exaggerating at all when I tell you it was one of my favorite shows ever. I still dive into a rewatch every now and then, if not in full then at least to hit the highlights. Chadwick Boseman was in an episode. So was Alan Ruck. The show had range.
This is one of the many reasons I’m excited about City Primeval, the Justified continuation series that’s coming to FX this summer. The first little teaser for it dropped this week. Very little happens. I still made the kind of sound you make in a restaurant when a waiter walks past you with a sizzling plate of fajitas destined for another table. Look at this.
And look at the official description, too. Find me one single thing about this that does not sound appealing.
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.
I’m ready. I’m ready right now. Give it to me. Let me see Raylan get all tangled up with Detroit maniacs. Put it on my television before I finish typing this paragraph. Do it. Do it now. Do it… now. Now!
Hmm. Dammit. That did not work. I guess we only have one option then: Let’s all kick off a Justified rewatch this weekend. We have about two months until this new series hits the screen. There are 78 episodes of the show. That’s a little over one each day if you want to do it from beginning to end, which is doable, but I won’t be mad if you bounce around a little bit. Hit the highlights. Watch Dickie Bennett’s hair get progressively more mangled. Watch Dewey Crowe do… whatever exactly it is Dewey Crowe does. I’m a little sad that we won’t get to see any of these Kentucky rascals in the new show but I’m thrilled about all the new Michigan criminals we are going to meet. It’s exciting.
Let’s just keep doing this. Let’s check in with Raylan and this world every 5-10 years, just as a one-season limited series. Send him to a new city each time. Have him track down a crook in New Orleans. Get him tangled up with a gang that rides dirt bikes through the streets of Philadelphia. Break Boyd Crowder out of prison and send Raylan on a globe-circling manhunt that culminates with a showdown in Paris. It would be great. I would love it. That’s the important thing here.
Hey, speaking of Justified and things that are thrilling to me, personally, look at this picture Walton Goggins posted on Instagram of his dad.
Going caps-mode for this next part because it is very important to me…
CAST THIS MAN IN THE NEXT JUSTIFIED SERIES
I DO NOT CARE WHO HE PLAYS
MAYBE HE IS THE LEADER OF A BIKER GANG
OR MAYBE HE IS A RETIRED LAWMAN WHO IS BACK FOR ONE LAST JOB
A 76-year-old man has been charged with stealing a pair of ruby red slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids — the ones that the actress wore in “The Wizard of Oz” and that remained missing until they were recovered 13 years later.
A few things:
I had no idea that the iconic ruby red slippers had been stolen in the first place
I have been thinking about this pretty much non-stop since I saw it a few days ago
I am so mad none of you told me that there was apparently a decade-spanning nationwide hunt for them
I would absolutely watch an action-comedy television series — like a Justified, to choose an example that’s on the top of my head — titled Slipper Hunters about a team of investigators who spend 13 years on the trail of a genius criminal who stole probably the most famous footwear in the history of cinema
I like to picture the thief selling them to a reclusive billionaire collector who keeps them in his office behind a remote-controlled trick wall that he slides open so he can marvel at them every now and then, alone, just for the thrill of it
I told you I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
Terry J. Martin, who lives about 12 miles south of the museum named for the hometown girl, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Minnesota on a charge of theft of major artwork in connection with breaking in overnight in 2005, smashing a plexiglas case and taking the size 5 ½ slippers that were then on loan to the museum from a Hollywood memorabilia collector.
Reached by phone Wednesday at his home, Martin told the Star Tribune, “I gotta go on trial. I don’t want to talk to you.”
I mean… yeah. This is fair. Tough to argue with the logic here.
As for where the slippers are now, the museum’s Heitz said federal officials still have them. “We’ve been waiting to get them back,” she said, revealing that there is a replica pair on display in the meantime.
Look. I’m not saying anyone should set up an elaborate roadblock — loose farm animals in the street, fake cop uniforms, radio-related trickery — to steal these again while they are in transit back to the museum. I would never say that. I don’t want you to think I am condoning any sort of illegal activity, even if it’s nonviolent and/or hilarious. I am not telling any of you to steal these slippers.
What I am saying, however, is that if it did happen, through any sequence of events, possibly involving loose livestock and fake cops using official-looking walkie-talkies…
I mean, it would make a really great little scene for the season one finale of that Slipper Hunters show I just joked about and now want desperately. Get Jere Burns from Justified. Let him straight-up play Wynn Duffy again. These are good ideas. Someone please listen to me.
ITEM NUMBER THREE – Mission: Impossible is going partial John Wick, apparently
This is the full-length trailer for the next Mission: Impossible movie, which has a very long title that I do not feel like typing out right now, but which I will very much see in the theater the first weekend it is out. These movies have been a blast for like 20 years now. Tom Cruise is out of his mind. Dude is like 60 years old and driving motorcycles off of cliffs just to try to convince you to go see a movie on the big screen. Imagine being that committed to… anything. I can’t think of any reason good enough for me to drive a motorcycle off a cliff on purpose. Maybe if you promised me the Philadelphia 76ers would win a championship. And that I would not die. And that I could sit in the front row with Allen Iverson and the Phillie Phanatic and a cool dog whose name is, like, Detective Rex Raygun. Maybe then. Maybe.
That’s not what this is about, though. This is about the part of the trailer when Tom Cruise — the character is named Ethan Hunt, but come on — goes to some sort of glowing neon Euro discocastle. This one.
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And the thing where a lady inside the glowing neon Euro discocastle pulls out a sword.
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This is… this is some extremely John Wick stuff, right? The use of the bright colors and the thumping party and the swords and all of it? It feels like some extremely John Wick stuff. And it brings up an interesting question: Do you think Ethan Hunt, with all of his resources and gizmos, could have stopped or captured a mid-rampage John Wick?
I don’t have an answer to this one. Mostly, I just typed it to ruin your weekend a little bit. Like, you’ll be sitting around Sunday morning and the thought will shoot into your brain and you’ll spend the next 30 minutes thinking about it and then you’ll be all “Jesus Christ, Brian.” That’s all I’m looking for here. You are welcome and I am sorry.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR – This is the most adorable damn thing I have ever heard
Henry Winkler is a sweet man who loves to act and fish. I know this because I got to interview him a few years ago and we talked about all of that. And because the man posts big smiley pictures of himself with fish every summer on Twitter, which never fails to crack me up, because Twitter is a cobra pit filled with anger and sarcasm and then blammo, Henry Winkler has a fish. Truly one of my favorite things on the internet. I’m not a complicated person.
Anyway, I bring up the Winkler thing for two equally important reasons: One, I really like bringing it up; and two, look at this freaking adorable answer he gave to a question from Jess Cagle about the final days on the set of Barry.
So I felt, now of course, you know, in my imagination, this is what happened. It could very well not be the truth. But truly, I was the last shot of the last scene of “Barry.” So I’m in my cabin by myself. I come out, the crew is there, and I make a little speech, say, “Thank you for taking such good care of me.” And Bill hugs me and whispers in my ear, “I love you. Thank you for being such a great collaborator.” Now, he could have said that to everybody. I don’t know, but I flew out of my body. I flew out of my body because Alec Berg and Bill Hader are two, they’re indescribably talented men. And I got to work with them, say their words, and be directed by them, go on this journey with them. Oh my God.
Absolutely the sweetest man alive. Everyone try to be more like Henry Winkler. Schedule a fishing trip and invite me. I don’t actually fish. I don’t really do boats or water or the woods. But I’ll hang out in the cabin. As long as it has a television and a refrigerator. And wireless internet. Maybe don’t invite me, after all. But you should go!
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Good for Selena Gomez, man
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I’ll tell you who seems to be doing great right now: Selena Gomez. She seems to be doing really great. She’s got a new season of Only Murders in the Building dropping soon where she’s on-screen with everyone from her regular co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short to guest stars like Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep. That would be enough for most of us. But she also has two cooking shows coming to the Food Network, too. They look pretty fun.
The multi-hyphenate star is working on two projects for the cooking channel, it was announced Wednesday. The first will be a “celebration-focused series just in time for the holidays,” which will launch later in 2023.
The second will debut in 2024 and will have her meeting up with some of the best chefs in the country in a quest to cook their most popular dishes when she visits their kitchens.
I don’t know, man. I just think this seems cool. Get more celebrities on the Food Network. Show me Tom Cruise and Guy Fieri skydiving into the parking lot of a little greasy spoon. Give me Miley Cyrus and Giada De Laurentis whipping up a nice Italian lunch for a party. Give Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg a cooking show and let them… wait. No. That already was a show. I wrote about it and everything. I still kind of can’t believe it was real.
Anyway, I’m happy for Selena Gomez. This seems like an excellent use of fame after a career filled with child-acting on various Disney-Nickelodeon-type shows.
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From Rachel:
New list of names dropped!
Tag yourself. I’m Patience Rawbone.
To be clear, Rachel is referring to this tweet, which about a half-dozen people sent me this week, which I really, really enjoyed and made me feel like I’m doing something right out here.
I’ve come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I’ve worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it’s time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I’ve found (in alphabetical order): pic.twitter.com/Qj18jPELMI
I’ve been looking at this list for days now and my favorite name keeps changing, but the one I always come back to is Israel Jelly. Something about that one just flows right off the tongue. It sounds like the name of a hitman in a Danny McBride show.
James Balcombe’s desire to be number one in Melbourne’s jumping castle game has seen him jailed for up to 11 years over a series of arson attacks on rivals.
Two things:
“Jumping castles” are what they call bounce houses in Australia, which is a really funny cultural difference I had not been aware of until this week
Please make this the plot of the next season of Fargo
Moving on.
The county court of Victoria heard that Balcombe, whose company Awesome Party Hire was ranked number one on Google after he commissioned the attacks on rival businesses, was arrested after he ordered that his own shed be torched.
Just a perfect sentence. I have read it maybe 60 times and I have yet to find a flaw. The owner of a bounce house business called “Awesome Party Hire” was arrested after going on a firebombing spree that ended with his own facility. I almost don’t want to know why.
Almost.
But I do.
A lot, actually.
The court heard that Balcombe had commissioned another man, Craig Anderson, to burn down his own Kangaroo Flat factory as he was concerned police would be suspicious that his business had not been targeted by arsonists.
Perfect.
All of it.
Right up to the thing where the firebomb-loving owner of a bounce house operation in Australia called Awesome Party Hire had his headquarters in “Kangaroo Flat.”
You could not make up anything better if you tried. I know because I have. Pretty much every day of my life in my daydreams.
Many of the fires were unsuccessful, but A&A Jumping Castles was totally destroyed. The court heard that Anderson threw a molotov cocktail through a smashed window at that business, causing a huge blaze that engulfed the factory and destroyed 110 jumping castles.
I’m sorry. I know this is an actual crime and livelihoods might have been ruined. I hope everyone is okay and has insurance and can be made whole in all of this as soon as possible.
But.
I cannot stop thinking about a man firebombing a storefront to destroy over 100 bounce houses. I cannot think of a funnier business to be involved in fire-related sabotage. I keep picturing him pouring gasoline all over the warehouse and then flicking a lit cigarette toward it and walking away in slow motion as 100 plastic inflatable bounce houses go up in flames and the opening notes of “Gimme Shelter” by The Rolling Stones slowly build in the background. We call this “the full Scorsese.”
A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was found living in Perth, running a fraudulent stamp operation under the name Paul Johnson, before pleading guilty once extradited back to Victoria.
Perfect.
No notes.
One note, actually. I’m a little disappointed in his choice of fake name. He could have done so much better than Paul Johnson. He could have used Israel Jelly if someone had sent him that tweet we just had fun with a minute ago. It actually makes me a little sad.
(WARNING: Spoilers (or maybe not?) for this week’s Power Book II: Ghost episode will be found below.)
Power Book II: Ghost just aired the most explosive episode of its third season with episode nine, “A Last Gift.” And that’s saying a lot considering that last week’s episode ended with the death of Cooper Saxe, a role that was played by Shane Johnson over the last decade. This week, however, the drama is at a season-high. Effie was just arrested for the attempted murder of Lauren, and that means everyone knows Lauren is alive now. Brayden and his family are in legal trouble after a Ponzi scheme was uncovered at Weston Holdings, and Tariq learns that his mother is in danger despite her being in witness protection.
Another big moment in the episode came when the Tejada children – Dru, Cane, and Diana – learned that their mother Monet was responsible for their father Lorenzo’s death. It leads to an explosive verbal attack from the kids as they lash out at Monet for her actions. This was especially true for Diana who had plenty to say to her mother, someone she’s had a very up-and-down relationship with over the course of Power Book II: Ghost.
Fresh off the release of “A Last Gift,” UPROXX caught up with LaToya Tonodeo, who plays the role of Diana Tejada, to speak about Diana’s relationship with Monet as well as others like Salim and Tariq. She also spoke about the Tejada family’s dynamic and her favorite moments of season three.
What does Diana want the most from her relationships in ‘Power Book II: Ghost?’ That being those with her mom, family, Tariq, and others?
When it comes to Monet, I feel like she wants to be seen for who she really is and valued. When it comes to Tariq, I feel like it’s a little bit of appreciation and also wanting to be seen. When it comes to her brothers this season, she genuinely feels that she fits in with them. All three of them are very different, but I don’t really feel that there’s this high-intensity relationship between those three, but definitely with her mother and Tariq, it’s very hot and cold. With Monet for sure, she wants to be seen and I feel like that’s been the running theme since we first met those two in season one.
One relationship that caught viewers by surprise was yours with Salim. What about Salim attracted Diana to him?
He was different than anyone — at least she thought — that she is normally around. She grew up in this drug life and this drug family, and she never really had the opportunity to be around outside people. When Tariq came around, it’s like, oh whoa, this guy’s interesting. We understand each other, we both want a higher education and we both understand the drug game, this is nice. But Tariq says one thing like, “No, I would but you know, I can’t be with you. Your mom, your family, we can’t do that?” So it’s like okay?… So when she finally goes to school, and she’s finding her independence there, she comes across Salim who, to her knowledge, is completely different. He’s not in the life, he’s a smart, educated teacher’s assistant. This is different for her. I feel like that’s what attracted her initially to Salim because he’s totally different from the Tejadas, he’s different from Tariq. That was appealing to her.
We see their relationship rise and fall pretty quickly, what does Diana learn about herself through their time together?
I would say loosely, maybe to not trust, but at the same time, you could tell that Diana’s wheels have been turning with Salim because she didn’t really trust him fully. He was always asking questions and she was over that. So I feel like if anything it’s not to be so ready to put the guards down so fast. Even though her guards weren’t all the way down, she did let them down a little bit to let him in. And I mean, clearly, they had sex so like she let her guard down, but like just to be more cautious if anything.
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Season three really dives into the cracks of a family, how they happen, how they widen, and how (if it all) they get repaired. With everything that’s happened, Lorenzo and Zeke’s death, finding out Monet’s responsibility for it, and your arrest, how do you think things will be for the Tejadas going forward?
Definitely messy, chaotic, confusing, emotionally draining, and feeling betrayed. This whole time they were under the impression that our father, Papi, was murdered, but definitely not at the hands of Monet’s hit. So for Diana, it’s very much a roller coaster of emotions and confusion. What do I do now? How do I look at my mother? She took away my father, how can I even move forward with that? So to watch her journey from that point, to see where how she’s going to navigate that, that’s going to be a beautiful thing to see. I can’t really say yet, but it will be nice to see her navigate that. With Dru, he killed Gordo thinking — it was just a whole mess load of just chaos. So (sigh) emotionally confusing and draining for sure.
Earlier this season, Monet stops by Diana’s dorm to ask her for help with taking down Detective Whitman. It’s there that she “apologizes” but not in the most sincere way, do you think that Monet was genuinely apologetic in that moment? What makes her worthy of forgiveness at that moment?
I don’t believe Diana thought that was a genuine apology at all. But like I’ve been saying recently, after going over all the episodes again and just taking in everything, I feel like with Diana, her weakness is matters of the heart. It’s always family over everything, family first. So even though Diana didn’t believe that Monet’s apology was genuine, it’s not the most pressing matter because my family is in trouble. So fine, whatever, I’ll take this apology, but at the end of the day, I know that there’s something bigger there and it’s my family. I have to protect my family and she does what she needs to do regardless of if Monet was genuine or not. She can’t watch her family fall, not on her watch. Not if there’s something that she could do about it.
Where does the love exist between Diana and Monet?
Oh wow, good question. Well definitely, from Diana to Monet. I feel like there’s a heap load of admiration there. I mean, that is her mother. As for Monet to Diana, I believe Monet loves her daughter for sure. At the same time, it’s that tough love and maybe Monet was brought up that way, so she feels that she needs to try to instill those types of qualities into Diana, but Diana is a different type of person. She’s not as hard and cold as Monet, so Diana takes it like she’s not feeling seen by Monet, but there’s definitely love there. It’s just… I don’t know, damn that’s a good question. Definitely admiration, wanting to impress, and wanting to show her mother that she can be like her. She can be powerful and that she has strength, but at the same time, it’s like I’m not you and I’m going about it a different way. She just hopes she could that Monet can realize that.
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How likely do you think it is that things get better, if not more normal, between Diana and Monet?
I don’t believe that’s likely at all. Diana is Lorenzo’s baby girl, she’s a daddy’s girl. So to find out that her mother was behind that? When she truly believed it was an accident? Diana does not believe that Lorenzo would have killed Zeke, not at all. So for her to be so callous and cold, that’s going to change the way Diana sees Monet. I think it will only lead to a mess.
If you, LaToya, were a friend of Diana’s at Stansfield, what is some advice you would give her with everything that’s happened?
I would definitely tell Diana to put herself first. At this point, she has to come to a place where she needs to only worry about herself. Forget everything else because it’s pulling her down in a way.
What were your favorite scenes of season 3?
Oh, my gosh. There are a few, I’m just gonna say two that I can think of — everything’s going so fast. One would be the time when I got to go off on Salim, that was fun. We had a lot of fun with those pictures and ad-libbing and stuff. Then also, episode nine where we finally confront Monet. To see everyone just pour out their emotions and how they’re feeling about finding out that information, everyone took it differently. Cane was very much hurt, but resolved. Dru was lashing out, and lashing out yes about Papi, but also what Monet made him do in regards to Gordo. Then with Diana, it’s strictly parental. Monet, my mother, killed my father. I’m done with you at this point and she lets it out. I believe this is the first time, besides the dinner table scene, that she really just had enough and she was fed up and she just let it rip. That felt so good and so rewarding. So that was definitely one of my favorites or my highlights for me of season three.
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The Philadelphia 76ers are in the midst of a gigantic summer. The team has already entered the NBA’s coaching carousel following the decision to part ways with Doc Rivers, while a report on Friday morning indicated that the Houston Rockets feel very good about their chances of landing James Harden in free agency.
As for Joel Embiid, there is no word on what his future holds, as he is about to enter the first year of a 4-year supermax extension that runs through 2027 and features a player option on the final year. Like any major star on a team that has struggled to get over the hump — he’s still never played in the conference finals — reports are beginning to pop up about other teams being interested in acquiring his services, with Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News reporting that the Knicks are keeping a close eye on the league MVP.
Been told since midseason that Joel Embiid is the guy to watch for the Knicks, and Philly’s playoff flame out only intensified that belief. https://t.co/DNjttfh6Vp
It’s important to mention that there’s no indication that Embiid wants out or that the Sixers would trade him, particularly to a team within their own division. Regardless, as the Knicks showed during their ultimately failed pursuit of Donovan Mitchell last summer, the team has plenty of young players and draft capital to try and acquire a gigantic name on the trade market.
It was only two months ago that Love Island UK series nine came to a conclusion with Kai and Sanam being crowned as the winners. The couple, who only began their relationship after Casa Amor, beat out Ron & Lana, Shaq & Tanya, and Tom & Samie to collect the series 9 win. In the months that followed, Love Island UK fans have kept an eye on the couples from series 9 to see who is still together (spoiler: Tom & Samie reportedly called it quits) while others have their eyes set on what’s to come in series 10. The summer season for series 10 is set to kick off in the coming weeks, but is there an official premiere date for it?
Is There A ‘Love Island UK’ Series 10 Release Date?
At the moment, Love Island UK has yet to reveal an official premiere date for series 10. However, a source spoke to The Sun and revealed that the Love Island UK summer season for 2023 is expected to launch on June 5, 2023. The source said, “It is hugely exciting and those working on the show cannot wait to get started,” adding, “This series will be eight weeks long, meaning the couple who win the show will be in the villa for two months.”
It is also being reported that ITV, the company that airs Love Island UK seasons, has already selected a final cast and will fly them out to the villa in the coming days to begin series 10. Whether all of this is true or not remains to be seen, but stay tuned for more updates on series 10.
Just days after the explosive finale of Vanderpump Rules, it seems Maren Morris is getting involved — by turning one of the viral quotes into a song.
During the episode, Tom Schwartz tells his ex-wife, Katie Maloney, why he couldn’t tell anyone that he knew his friend was cheating. (This friend, Tom Sandoval, made headlines and has since been synonymous with the title “Scandoval.”)
“My health, my wealth, my family,” Schwartz said. “There’s f*cking man-eating now crocodiles in Florida now.”
“You sound like a country song,” Maloney responded.
After seemingly seeing this convo, Morris took this as a challenge. She picked up her guitar in a new TikTok and performed Schwartz’s speech word-for-word… And, to no one’s surprise, it sounds better than the original.
Fans are loving her creative spin. “The Bravo fans are genuinely some of the best. I mean A1 content every day!” one user wrote. “Maren Morris is so iconic love her beyond,” another added.
The country star is also no stranger regarding her love for reality TV. Last year, Morris appeared on Watch What Happens Live, where she revealed which Housewife she’d want to see come back. “Okay. Lisa is going to hate this. But I would say Vanderpump,” she said. “Because I think maybe becoming a grandmother has like softened her.”
Check out Maren Morris’ new Vanderpump Rules TikTok song above.
Harrison Ford has been doing this “acting” thing for quite a while, and he has fans from every generation lining up to see his on-screen antics, whether it be for his roles in Star Wars or Blade Runner or, his best movie of all, Working Girl. But many could argue that his most iconic role, which he has been playing for over forty years, is the snake-hating archaeologist, Indiana Jones.
The latest (and final)(???) installment in the Jones saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is heading to theaters this summer, and a lot has changed since the first movie was made back in 1981. This time, Jones has to head back in time, which isn’t that surprising once you recall 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull brought aliens into the mix. Of course, it might be challenging to bring Ford back to his younger self, but he said it was all him. Mostly.
While at Cannes this week (per Variety) Ford explained the process of “de-aging” which has been popular amongst the older generation lately.”It’s not Photoshop magic. That’s what I looked like 35 years ago,” Ford insisted. “[De-aging technology] is just a trick unless it’s supported by story. I think it was used very skillfully. I’m very happy with it.”
But not everything had to be digitally altered. One journalist remarked about how “hot” (her words!) the 80-year-old is when he took off his shirt at one point in the movie. Ford replied, “Look. I’ve been blessed with this body. Thanks for noticing,” he joked. He’s a body-positive icon!
The latest flick involves Jones and his goddaughter, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as they chase down an elusive artifact that can rewrite the course of history. Even though we can’t really rewrite history (if we could, Ford would already have an Oscar), we can marvel at the fact that this man has been to hell and back for every role he plays. And that’s even more impressive than a CGI six-pack.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny heads into theaters on June 30.
Coi Leray‘s a little over a year removed from the release of her debut album Trendsetter. Since then, her profile has grown by leaps and bounds, with her Grandmaster Flash-sampling single “Players” landing in the top 10 of the Hot 100 and soundtracking the upcoming WNBA season.
She’s as popular now as she’s ever been, so the time is ripe for a new album, which she announced today on social media. Titled Coi, the album’s due on June 23 via Uptown Records and Republic, with features from David Guetta, Giggs, Lola Brooke, Saucy Santana, and Skillibeng. Her more recent singles, “Bops” and “My Body,” will also appear among the new album’s 15 tracks, which will run the gamut of genres from rap, rock, pop, reggae, and even dance, according to the press release. Check out the cover art below.
Coi’s been a hot topic of discussion lately, thanks in part to a mention from Latto’s new single “Put It On Da Floor.” After Coi took issue to having her name mentioned in the lyrics, she received a good-natured shout-out from Latto during the Atlanta rapper’s performance at Coachella. This not only ended their “beef,” but established that they appear to be on good terms. Still, that didn’t stop some fans — you know the ones — from speculating that the two rappers had gotten into a fistfight, although that rumor was quickly debunked. As they say, all publicity is good publicity, and Ms. Leray will have plenty heading into the roll out of her new album, which should out-sell her debut now that she’s got some momentum.
Coi is due 6/23 via Uptown and Republic. You can get more info here.
When the first John Wick film hit theaters, it was a modest hit that made $86 million at the box office on a roughly $30 million budget. Not exactly blockbuster numbers, but still a very solid return. However, a funny thing happened. The film hit home video where audiences couldn’t get enough of Keanu Reeves creatively murdering everyone to avenge his dead pup.
A sequel was greenlit, and it nearly doubled the box office of the original with a $174.3 million haul. Not long after, John Wick: Parabellum smashed into theaters and continued the trend of almost doubling the box office of its predecessor. That film brought in $328.3 million globally.
Which brings us to John Wick: Chapter 4. While the latest film did not double the box office take of Parabellum, it certainly surpassed it with $425 million in ticket sales, making it the highest grossing John Wick film to date. It also pushed the box office total for the entire franchise past the $1 billion mark, which is pretty impressive for a series that started as a small little revenge movie about a dead dog.
“This milestone is a testament to the incredible work of Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves, alongside Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who have made it their mission to outdo themselves with each successive film in this franchise,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Joe Drake said. “We could not be more grateful to global moviegoers for bringing us to this incredible achievement.”
Of course, the big question is will Reeves and Stahelski try to top themselves again with a fifth movie. As of right now, John Wick 5 is not officially greenlit, or even hashed out, and they ending of the fourth did seem to put a wrench in future plans. However, the star and director have teased that after Chapter 4 debuts in Japan later this year, they’ll have a bottle of whiskey and decide if there are more bodies for John Wick to drop.
For months, there has been speculation that James Harden could leave the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency this summer and return to the Houston Rockets. Harden has never explicitly shot down any rumors linking him with his old squad, instead opting to focus on what was going on this season.
While the regular season went well for Philly, the team was unable to get past the Eastern Conference Semifinals, which once again proved to be their biggest hurdle. Now, the Harden to Houston rumors are back by way of Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who brings word that the expectation in Houston is that a reunion with Harden is in the cards.
Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta “loves” the 76ers point guard. The franchise expects to reunite with him, sources say. Before hiring Ime Udoka on April 25, head coaching candidates were asked for their opinion on coaching Harden during the interview process, according to sources.
A logical guess is that this is a ploy by Harden to get a better deal from the Sixers, which can offer him a larger deal than anyone else on the open market. Despite that, Pompey reports that Harden’s interest in rejoining the Rockets “is mutual and not a ploy to get a lucrative deal out of the Sixers.”
After spending the first three years of his career as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Rockets traded for Harden in 2012. He spent a little more than eight years with the franchise, where he turned into one of the most productive offensive players in the history of the game and a league MVP. During his end of season press availability this week, Sixers GM Daryl Morey addressed Harden’s potential free agency, telling the press that “Scenario A would be to bring James back. Scenario B, if he’s not back, will be we’ll have to get creative. And we feel good about the tools available to us if that happens.”
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