Less than one month ago, The Wire and John Wick star Lance Reddick collapsed at his home and was later pronounced dead at age 60. On Thursday, TMZ reported that Reddick’s cause of death, via the actor’s death certificate, was “Ischemic Heart Disease as well as Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease.” Within hours of that report, PEOPLE relayed a statement from Reddick’s family attorney, James Hornstein, and on behalf of his wife, Stephanie, the statement disputes the coroner’s listed cause of death on the certificate.
It further follows from the family, via Hornstein, that the Coroner’s statement “is not a result of an autopsy” because “[n]o autopsy was performed on Lance.” Hornstein also declared that he had no knowledge of heart or coronary disease ever surfacing in Lance’s medical history. That final detail wouldn’t rule out the possibility of heart disease (nor would being as physically fit as Reddick appeared to be), but with no autopsy being performed and Reddick reportedly being cremated, the subject is a complicated one. Hornstein supplied more information via Reddick’s family and PEOPLE:
“Lance was the most physically fit person I’ve ever known. He exercised daily at his home gym, including extensive cardio work, and the availability of gym facilities was a contractual requirement for his work away from home. He ate as if a dietician was monitoring his every meal. The information appearing on the death certificate is wholly inconsistent with his lifestyle.”
Upon initial reports of Reddick’s death, TMZ relayed law enforcement’s word that the actor appeared to have died from natural causes. Mere days later on the John Wick 4 red carpet, co-star Keanu Reeves got choked up over his good friend’s passing and declared, “It f*cking sucks that he’s not here.”
Drake is back, and he’s bringing Kim Kardashian with him. Okay, so, technically, it’s just a sample of Kim from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but Drake’s dad swears the song isn’t trolling Kanye West, Kim’s ex.
However, Drake just shared the cover art for “Search And Rescue,” his new song dropping at midnight, and fans have already noticed a resemblance between Kim K and the woman in the cover photo with him. “Search And Rescue” is produced by BNYX, who has contributed to songs from Coi Leray and Yeat, and Sadpony, who produced for Lil Yachty on Let’s Start Here and crafted the “Jumbotron Sh*t Poppin” for Drake and 21 Savage last year.
“Search And Rescue” appears to be Drake’s first new solo track since last summer, when he surprised fans with his EDM album, Honestly, Nevermind, and his first solo RAP track since Certified Lover Boy, released the year before. It could also signal that Drake is already prepared to follow-up Her Loss, his joint project with 21 Savage from last fall, as he has been hinting he could do sometime soon.
Either way, Drake fans will surely be relieved that he doesn’t appear to be making that “graceful exit” he talked about with Lil Yachty anytime soon. “Search And Rescue” is out tonight at midnight ET.
Stormy Daniels sat down for a new interview with Piers Morgan, and the adult film star opened up about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. The former president was indicted this week in New York on charges that his hush money payment to Daniels reportedly constituted business fraud and violated campaign finance laws.
Naturally, Daniels’ involvement in Trump’s arrest has made her the target of rabid MAGA fans, who have attacked her credibility and gone so far to make death threats. Daniels explained to Morgan why allegations that she was a “prostitute” and/or slept with Trump “for attention” just don’t add up.
“It wasn’t a kiss and tell. In fact I took the money because I didn’t want anyone to know.”
You have these people that want to say I was a prostitute and paid that night. And I have this whole other subset, I don’t even know if you know about this, of sex workers and escorts who are pissed at me for ruining business. You know, it’s like a doctor, lawyer, client/privilege thing.
If that had been the case, I wouldn’t have said anything. If I just wanted to get attention, I’ve had sex with way hotter people who are famous. I would’ve told one of those stories. It wasn’t a kiss and tell. As a matter of fact, I took the money because I didn’t want anyone to know.
As for allegations that she was paid for sex, Daniels rebutted that claim.
“If there was a transaction that was arranged and that’s what I went there for, then why was I paid over a decade later?” she said. Although, that argument isn’t as solid given Trump’s penchant for not paying people at all, but Daniels does have a point.
The Scream movies have been consistent draw at the domestic box office. 1996’s Scream made $103 million, while 1997’s Scream 2 and 2000’s Scream 3 brought in $101 million and $89 million, respectively. 2011’s underrated Scream 4 weirdly dipped to $38 million, but the franchise rebounded with 2022’s confusingly-titled Scream and its $81 million box office total.
That’s four out of five films between $81 million and $103 million. Actually, make that five out of six: Scream VI will cross $100 million in ticket sales on Thursday. By the end of the weekend, it will become the highest-grossing film in the series, not adjusted for inflation.
Paramount and Spyglass brought the sixth chapter to the big screen in March, crushing franchise records with its $44.5 million debut. Scream VI has also collected $56.25 million at the international box office, bringing its global tally to $156 million. The first Scream still stands as the biggest worldwide earner of the bunch with $173 million, followed by the sequel with $172 million.
Scream VI only cost $35 million to make, so a $156 million and counting worldwide total is [puts on glasses] [checks notes] [snuffles papers] good. It helps that Paramount, the Scream VI studio behind recent hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Smile, doesn’t dump its titles on streaming after, like, three weeks. Movies making money in theaters? What a concept!
Justified creator Graham Yost doesn’t only have the upcoming Justified: City Primeval revival that will soon make TV an even better place. The showrunner is also preparing to launch Silo, the Apple TV+ series that will bring Hugh Howey’s dystopian novels to life. From the looks of the promotional material thus far, the show will begin as the books did with Wool, which will attempt to scrub away the secrets that plague the final 10,000 or so humans left on earth after an apocalyptic event.
The story takes place with mankind residing in a massive 150-story silo, which sits underground except for the very top stories. The outside world is understood to be too toxic for life, and a no-nonsense engineer, portrayed by Rebecca Ferguson, works to keep the engines running, so to speak, but she also hears things. And she forms suspicions, which could lead to her death if she’s not careful. David Oyelowo plays the Silo’s sheriff, Holston, and the show also stars Rashida Jones and Tim Robbins.
Oh, and Common is there and still wearing an outfit that doesn’t look like it belongs in a self-sustaining silo, but this is also a pretty advanced society, so perhaps it’s a pleather jacket. As I recall, the books take place several generations into the future, where a trip to the past leads to the 2040s, so I suppose anything is possible. Whatever the case, the silo looks remarkably rendered, and the world-building of this series feels very literal.
From the synopsis:
“Silo” is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.
Saying that little girls are made of “sugar, spice and everything nice” might not be something one would readily do today, as many feel it projects outdated, sexist limitations onto children. But still, maybe there’s something in the spirit of the phrase that still rings true. There’s this tender couple of years, during the early stages but before true adolescence, where young girls kind of have the best of both worlds, where emotional maturity meets an unencumbered enthusiasm. There was a whole slew of 90s movies dedicated to girls at the magical age, for crying out loud. Remember “Matilda?” “A Little Princess?” “Madeline?”
It is this “sweet spot” that pediatrician and dad of seven Dr. Michael Milobsky has interacted with time and time again, bringing him to the conclusion that, by far, girls around 8 years old are the “highest form of humanity.”
In a now viral TikTok clip, Milobksy makes a heartfelt ode—using all the absolute best adjectives—that just keeps getting more impassioned.
“Eight-year-old girls are magnanimous. They’re sympathetic. They’re empathetic. They’re emotionally mature. They love to help. They love to give. They love to do for others. They’re accepting of everybody. They always, they’re the ones who see the sign for the lost cat and want to go find it!” he said.
Milobsky even goes so far as to say that Congress should actually be made up of 8-year-old girls. “Honestly, the country would be a better place. I said what I said,” he quips.
Others were quick to expand Milobsky’s ingenious proposal. One person joked in the comments that “congressional bills would be passed by exchanging friendship bracelets and pinky promises.”
Um…yes, please.
Others noted how they too had witnessed some of these amazing qualities possessed by girls at that age.
“The little girls around this age in my neighborhood regularly put handmade cards in our mailboxes to remind us to smile or have a nice day,” one person wrote.
Not wanting to leave 8-year-old boys out, Milobksy posted a follow-up video where he praised their special superpower, otherwise known as “intense collaboration to accomplish something.”
“Eight-year-old boys are out there in the neighborhood with packs of bicycles going to…have an experience or have an adventure. Give them a river to cross, give them a bridge to build. Eight year-old boys can ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ almost any situation.”
In fact, in Milobksy’s ideal government each of these strengths would be acknowledged and used to their highest potential.
“If 8-year-old girls should be running Congress, 8-year-old boys should be running the Army Corps of Engineers.” Sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
There’s nothing more annoying than walking into a room and completely forgetting why you went in there in the first place. Well, maybe having a friend that constantly forgets your plans or forgets to text you back…that might be more annoying. But memory lapses are a pretty common symptom of ADHD, and believe me—your resident card-carrying ADHDer—it’s friggin’ frustrating. Especially when you want nothing more than to remember whatever the thing was that you forgot.
Since it’s frustrating to us, we are hyperaware that it’s frustrating to those around us when we constantly forget. That’s why when Jessica McCabe, the creator behind “How to ADHD,” put out an explainer on why people with ADHD struggle with memory, I sat down and paid attention. (Well, listened to the highlights. I do have ADHD after all.)
Turns out, people with ADHD struggle to remember things because that’s the job of our working memory, and (surprise) working memory is severely impacted by ADHD.
But what is working memory? According to VeryWell Health, “working memory is the brain’s short-term storage space,” which allows your brain to hold onto new information like someone’s name, a deadline or important details to a conversation for a short period of time.
This temporary storage is there to allow your brain time to decipher the new information and move it to a more permanent location as useful data. Some would argue this is a fairly important function of the brain. It certainly helps make adulting a little easier to navigate…unless you have ADHD. In that case, your brain yeeted that function into the dumpster.
“Ok yeah, I forgot my keys or I forgot to stop and get gas, but everybody forgets stuff, right? This is a universal human experience. Everybody forgets stuff,” McCabe explained. “What I didn’t know at the time was that that’s true, but not everybody forgets things to the extent that those with ADHD do. It doesn’t impair their lives on a daily basis in the same way.”
Before you fret or completely write off your friends and family who have ADHD, check out McCabe’s tips that have helped her supplement her barely existent working memory in the video below.
When the Barbie trailer dropped this week, everyone was rightfully enamored with Margot Robbie‘s bubbly portrayal of Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s accurate portrayal of Ken (who is known to be a bit of a Goof). But while the pink-coated world might seem like a dreamscape for some, there was one character with a controversial past that appeared for a split second in the footage. And that split second was enough to stir up nearly 50 years of unearthed drama. That character is Allan, played by real-life doll Michael Cera. Though he is referred to as “Just Allan” let it be clear: this man has done irreversible damage to Barbie’s world with his dark and complex history. He is not “Just” Allan. Just look at his face. This man has seen true darkness.
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Allan is not just a regular doll. He was first marketed as “Ken’s Buddy” and quickly revealed to be a man of complex familial trauma who falls under the pressure of societal expectations. Ken is just…Ken.
First introduced in 1964, Allan existed solely so that Ken would have a friend, and, in a larger sense, so that Mattel could sell more of Ken’s clothes since the two were the same size. Allan’s story is simple: he and Ken worked together at the soda fountain where they became best buddies and shared clothes (this is normal if you don’t think about it too much). Allan was also paired with Midge, Barbie’s best friend and confidant at the time. Nobody really liked Allan, and he was quickly discontinued, or fired from the soda shop, who really knows? But Midge liked him enough to marry him in 1991, when he was reintroduced in a very special collectors edition set. Barbie was the maid of honor! This really happened. And then things quickly went downhill after the wedding.
In 2002, in what should have been a joyous and monumental occasion, Midge became pregnant with her and Allan’s (allegedly, we don’t know what went on during all those unaccounted-for years) second child. Midge was sold with a removable belly that included a fetus named Nicki (?) in order to show real-life children the wonders of childbirth. This didn’t land well with parents, who thought the doll was promoting teenage pregnancy.
The doll was quickly and quietly removed from shelves before the holiday season. Soon, Allan and Midge became the face of everything impure in the world. Midge’s image was tainted, Allan was devastated, and PR Queen Barbie said nothing about the controversial event. Where did Nicki go? We don’t know. What about their other child? He exists but has no personality, much like Allan. Allan never even got to wear his holiday formalwear. Ken never mentioned him again. Their days of laughing at the soda fountain were numbered, all because Allan wanted to procreate. A true tragedy that many people have tried to forget, aside from the handful of Barbie reenactors on YouTube. But Greta Gerwig wants you to remember this.
Despite Mattel trying to cover up AllanGate and erase his memory from the world, Gerwig seemed to make a very specific choice by including both Midge and Allan in the movie. The biggest surprise of all is that Midge is wearing her maternity outfit in her movie poster, meaning that the discontinued doll still appears and exists in Gerwig’s Barbie-Verse. So she was, as it seems, knocked up by Allan, even though Barbie and Ken clearly don’t understand how conception works.
In reality, Allan was named after Mattel founder Elliot Handler’s son-in-law, Allan, who married Barbie’s namesake, Barbara Handler. Unfortunately, the real-life couple split up around the same time Allan disappeared, which is the real reason for his noticeable absence. But bringing him back was certainly a choice.
Did Gerwig decide to bring Allan back in order to repair his formerly squeaky-clean image? Is Midge finally going to have her baby that was shunned all those years ago? Does he deserve a second chance after going in and out of Ken’s life oh so many times? Do their clothes still fit each other? These are all questions that I, at this moment in time, cannot answer. Because nobody has really asked me yet.
But we will know more once the real, untold story of Barbie hits theaters in July. Or maybe they won’t mention it at all. One thing’s for certain: this man has seen so many things. Terrible, terrible things. Maybe he’ll get to meet his kid someday.
West Coast rap legend Coolio’s death in September 2022 shocked the music world. Today, TMZ reports that investigators have determined the cause of his death: A fentanyl overdose.
Sometimes, it happens: A celebrity’s Twitter account gets compromised. That happened to Japanese Breakfast’sMichelle Zauner recently, but the whole experience turned out to be not that bad… “wholesome,” even, per Zauner.
On April 4, the Japanese Breakfast Twitter account (@Jbrekkie) shared a photo of Zauner standing by a shelf containing copies of her hit book, Crying In H Mart. The post read, “What an eventful day this was. Thank you to everyone who showed support.” That was apparently not legitimate social media activity, though: Later in an Instagram Story, Zauner wrote, “@jbrekkie Twitter has been hacked [sad emoji] I’ve been locked out so if you receive a message from the account it is not me!!!”
The next day, Zauner returned to Twitter and offered an update, writing that the experience of being hacked actually wasn’t too bad at all. She tweeted, “And I’m back! Honestly a pretty wholesome hacker experience. They just posted a pic of me at Powells and thanked people for their support? Maybe an extreme plea to become my social media manager?”
And I’m back! Honestly a pretty wholesome hacker experience. They just posted a pic of me at Powells and thanked people for their support? Maybe an extreme plea to become my social media manager?
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