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Tom Cruise, the star of one of the biggest movies of 2022, didn’t attend Hollywood’s biggest night. The Top Gun: Maverick actor skipped the Oscars because he was filming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part II, or he reportedly didn’t want to see his ex-wife (somehow, heartbreak does not feel good in a place like the Dolby Theatre), or maybe it was vague “personal reasons.” It was definitely one of those three, unless it was something else.

Whatever the case, David Letterman isn’t buying Cruise’s excuse.

The former Late Night and one-time Oscars host appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he called Kimmel the “Prince of Hollywood” for presiding over an incident-free evening at the Oscars on Sunday. Letterman also congratulated him “because you resurrected this carcass, and the network and the Academy ought to be very grateful, nice going.” He then brought up Cruise, or the lack thereof.

“Here’s something that may be a little sensitive,” Letterman said. “Where was Tom Cruise?” After a short pause, Kimmel replied, “We don’t know where Tom Cruise was. We heard ‘production issues.’” When Letterman called that “nonsense,” Kimmel said, “Exactly, it’s very non-specific, but we have no idea what happened.”

Letterman added, “Tom Cruise should have been there, celebrating his big jet pack maverick show.” Top Gun: Maverick made a lot of money at the box office, but it would have made even more if it had been titled Big Jet Pack Maverick Show. Two billion dollars at least.

You can watch Letterman on Jimmy Kimmel Live above.

(Via the Daily Beast)

People sure have been talking about The White Stripes drummer Meg White a lot lately. This current wave of discourse started earlier this week, when journalist Lachlan Markay wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having sh*tty percussion.”

That drew a number of responses from people like The Roots drummer Questlove and Jack White’s ex-wife Karen Elson. Now, Jack himself has weighed in.

Instead of directly addressing what’s been said, though, he came to Meg’s defense via a poem, which he shared on Instagram last night (March 15). It reads:

“To be born in another time,
any era but our own would’ve been fine.
100 years from now,
1000 years from now,
some other distant, different, time.
one without demons, cowards and vampires out for blood,
one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.
an empty field where no tall red poppies are cut down,
where we could lay all day, every day, on the warm and subtle ground,
and know just what to say and what to play to conjure our own sounds.
and be one with the others all around us,
and even still the ones who came before,
and help ourselves to all their love,
and pass it on again once more.
to have bliss upon bliss upon bliss,
to be without fear, negativity or pain,
and to get up every morning, and be happy to do it all again.

III.”

Jack’s post came about a day after Markay walked back his initial statement, sharing a multi-part apology on Twitter that begins, “By now you’ve probably seen an ill-advised (and since-deleted) tweet I sent out yesterday about the White Stripes and Meg White. It was an over-the-top take on TWS and White as a drummer, and was, let’s face it, just truly awful in every way. Petty, obnoxious, just plain wrong.”

Meg has been dealing with this sort of criticism for decades now: In a 2002 interview, she said, “I appreciate other kinds of drummers who play differently, but it’s not my style or what works for this band. I get [criticism] sometimes, and I go through periods where it really bothers me. But then I think about it, and I realize that this is what is really needed for this band. And I just try to have as much fun with it as possible.”

Find Jack’s post below.

People sure have been talking about The White Stripes drummer Meg White a lot lately. This current wave of discourse started earlier this week, when journalist Lachlan Markay wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible and no band is better for having sh*tty percussion.”

That drew a number of responses from people like The Roots drummer Questlove and Jack White’s ex-wife Karen Elson. Now, Jack himself has weighed in.

Instead of directly addressing what’s been said, though, he came to Meg’s defense via a poem, which he shared on Instagram last night (March 15). It reads:

“To be born in another time,
any era but our own would’ve been fine.
100 years from now,
1000 years from now,
some other distant, different, time.
one without demons, cowards and vampires out for blood,
one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.
an empty field where no tall red poppies are cut down,
where we could lay all day, every day, on the warm and subtle ground,
and know just what to say and what to play to conjure our own sounds.
and be one with the others all around us,
and even still the ones who came before,
and help ourselves to all their love,
and pass it on again once more.
to have bliss upon bliss upon bliss,
to be without fear, negativity or pain,
and to get up every morning, and be happy to do it all again.

III.”

Jack’s post came about a day after Markay walked back his initial statement, sharing a multi-part apology on Twitter that begins, “By now you’ve probably seen an ill-advised (and since-deleted) tweet I sent out yesterday about the White Stripes and Meg White. It was an over-the-top take on TWS and White as a drummer, and was, let’s face it, just truly awful in every way. Petty, obnoxious, just plain wrong.”

Meg has been dealing with this sort of criticism for decades now: In a 2002 interview, she said, “I appreciate other kinds of drummers who play differently, but it’s not my style or what works for this band. I get [criticism] sometimes, and I go through periods where it really bothers me. But then I think about it, and I realize that this is what is really needed for this band. And I just try to have as much fun with it as possible.”

Find Jack’s post below.

Showtime’s Yellowjackets arrived in 2021 amid an overstuffed streaming schedule. Within weeks, a sleeper hit emerged after the show landed like a jackhammer and then unfurled like slow-burn splatter art, parceling out tiny fragments of happened in the woods after a high-school female soccer team survived a plane crash. Soon enough, we saw that fighting one’s way back from a traumatic situation might only be the beginning of the horror.

I’m starting off on a dark note here, I realize, and how dare I do that during Women’s History Month?

Yet Yellowjackets is not exactly a bouquet of tulips, y’all. No “proper” lady behavior went down in those Canadian woods, and those terrors have yet to fully emerge in the eyes of the present-time public, but this show’s sleight of hand continues to be masterful. For one thing, it’s hard to describe the show to the uninitiated. It cannot be reduced to a survival drama or fairly compared to Lord of the Flies other than the framing. And sure, there’s cult-like spookiness and physical brutality, but stressing those side effects feels like a disservice. Frankly, the show also surpasses its own gruesomeness to give us fascinating characterization, proving that Yellowjackets has more to offer than bleakness and gore and horror with a side dish of the supernatural.

The show pulls off nearly impossible storytelling feats in this way, which is why I’ll resist doing a “standard” review. I won’t even come close to dissecting all of the themes that really make this show tick. Because yes I am rambling and yet I realize that this series has so many layers that I cannot adequately address all of them in one go. Avoiding spoilers is also paramount, and soon enough, there will be fan theories floating around that we can dissect.

It will be a good time, I promise.

Yet let’s begin here: you will feel anxious while watching this new season, and it will be worth it. Also, I recommend rewatching the Season 1 finale for a few reasons. The first, obviously, is to refresh on the story’s various threads. The second, almost equally important reason, would be to recapture the vibe of the central four — Natalie (Juliette Lewis), Misty (Christina Ricci), Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), and Taissa (Tawny Cypress) — slo-mo walking into their high school reunion to the admiration of every man in the room.

This clip brings me to the first of a few points for why this season remains as strong (if not stronger) as the first one.

– Yellowjackets continues to *chef’s kiss* all over the soundtrack: As the above clip illustrates, this show manages to be the best at weaving in those earworms that you may not have realized dominated the background noise of your own 1990s. Offspring’s “Keep ‘Em Separated” is at once a frivolous set of lyrics that could mean more, and it transformed into such a ridiculous party anthem, much like the juxtaposition of the Yellowjackets entering this silly reunion party. Few people were aware at that point of the clean-up job that had just taken place after Shauna’s lover met a violent end. And Season 2 does well at highlighting both darkly humorous and profound moments with music, too, which I expect that we will dissect as the episodes wear forth. I am, however, pleased to report that the promise of a perfect Tori Amos moment does come through, and this part of the show remains a high point.

– No other recent show on TV can do multiple timelines this well: One side of the story nearly always gets the shaft in shows with dueling timelines. One set of characters always runs thin. Sh*t usually gets confusing, and two timelines tend to start to be more of a gimmick than a useful strategy. I would invite you to prove me wrong here, but please don’t tell me that The Witcher or Westworld did it better. I will laugh. (True Detective Season 1, perhaps? Sure, I’ll give you that, but I’m talking about recent shows.)

The Yellowjackets writers did the thing. They made the past and the present gel in a seamless way. Likewise, the young and older version of these principal characters feel true to their counterparts, and the second season amplifies this strength. Sophie Thatcher delivers a teen Natalie who’s well on her way to be the burned-out version portrayed by Juliette Lewis. Samantha Hanratty is equally as unhinged and terrifying as the sight of Christina Ricci’s version lethally spiking cigarettes and naming a bird Caligula. Jasmin Savoy Brown gives us a teen Taissa whose cutthroat scrimmaging feels natural for a political candidate with a thirst for sacrificial rituals. And Sophie Nélisse gives us teen Shauna with so much pent-up rage boiling underneath her meek and socially acceptable surface that we find it easy to believe that adult Shauna fell into a deadly affair that’s spilling into Season 2.

— That thematic tightrope: Three of these ^^ figures are suffering from PTSD in the present. And Yellowjackets‘ treatment of trauma aftermath stands far apart from something like, say, Room. Remember how dreary that movie was? Bree Larson’s character expected to celebrate freedom, and instead, she fell into severe depression. Reintegration is hard, and that’s not easy to witness by nature. Recovery is also not linear. It’s not terribly fun to watch in real life or in a lot of movies. Yet Yellowjackets does such a fine job of punctuating any “backsliding” moments with dark humor that all of the dismal details wash away. Instead, we want to know what’s next, and how these characters will manage to cover up their latest f*ck up in an attempt to bury the past.

And my goodness, do these actresses ever milk these roles. Decades of experience lie underneath Juliette Lewis’ and Christina Ricci’s belts, and Yellowjackets arguably gives them (especially in the case of the latter) the roles of a lifetime. Ricci chews her role up (both she and Hanratty get even nuttier this year), and I’m so gleefully happy for her that she found it. And don’t even get me started on how Melanie Lynskey is finally getting her due because I’ll keep going if you allow it.

— About that lady stuff: Sure, the title of the show is a cheeky nod to Lord of the Flies, but these are stinging hellions who will not only mercilessly attack under threat but also unprovoked. Dealing with dumb social hierarchies is difficult enough in conventional surroundings. In the woods, these ladies can escape expectations, but even worse pressures erupt. As grown women, they haven’t been able to move on, not with public perception and hangers-on and everything. It’s no wonder that they can never adapt, and you can expect that struggle to grow messier for Shauna and Taissa, and more complicated for Natalie. Only Misty never hides who the really is — someone willing to amputate and maim and poison and kill to capture anyone’s attention.

I’m really not sure who is most terrifying.

Season 2 also gives us more of a textured look at the messiness of human interaction. Take Shauna and Jackie’s best-friendship, which came to a tragic crescendo when Jackie literally got frozen out of the group. This season picks up with Shauna and the group deciding how to move past this incident. That guilt clearly stays with Shauna through adulthood and informs every relationship that she has, including the one with her prom-king husband (and ex of Jackie), Jeff. You might guess correctly that he’s going through some stuff this season after what Shauna did, and you’d be correct. He might even be afraid of his wife while incredulously asking, “Are you Rambo?” I’d watch a spinoff of these two, yet I’m not sure that both of them will survive this series.

— Season 2 is what you expect, thank god, only more amplified: The physical elements are more brutal in Yellowjackets in Season 2. The sense of desperation grows greater in both timelines. Also, yes, that Season 1 finale moment goes somewhere: “Antler Queen” Lottie Matthews is still alive (and semi-well) and plays a large role as portrayed by both Courtney Eaton and Simone Kessell, whose grown-up version presents a very different way of healing from the past. This dichotomy went to rage-filled places where I did not expect. The whole season is full of surprises, in fact, and we are all lucky to have Yellowjackets back.

Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ returns on Sunday, March 26.

Arguments start to take off when one partner begins to get defensive. So, therapist Lauren Consul shared her relationship-saving tip to “stop an argument in its tracks” when one partner goes into self-preservation mode.

Lauren Consul is a couples and sex therapist who’s developed a following of nearly 160,000 people on TikTok and has received over 5.4 million likes. She is an infidelity expert and hosts retreats to help people “survive and thrive” after one partner has strayed.

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“The next time you and your partner are talking, and your partner becomes defensive, I want you to do this: Pause, and say, ‘I want to understand what happened there. What did you hear me say?'” Consul says in her TikTok video with over 42,000 views.

“This question is key because it does one of two things,” she continued. “First, it can allow for clarification. A lot of times when we’ve become defensive, we’ve interpreted something our partner has said incorrectly. We’ve run it through a filter, we’ve told ourselves a story about it, it’s triggered something… So we’re not actually hearing what our partner says, and it allows for clarification.”

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“The second thing: If your partner did interpret what you said correctly, it gives you an opportunity to slow things down and understand what is happening for them and address the underlying issue, rather than get caught in a spiral of defensiveness,” she continued.

Consul’s advice for stopping arguments before they explode is helpful because it clears up any potential misunderstandings. The key is to remember the tactic in the heat of the moment to prevent things from getting out of hand.

The 1989 film “Look Who’s Talking,” starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, made comedy gold out of the simple question…what’s going on inside a toddler’s head?

Actor and dad King Keraun is proving that this premise still provides endless laughs, one hilarious TikTok at a time.

Keraun told Today.com that he had been inspired to create his own version of “Look Who’s Talking” with his son Keraun Jr., saying “I thought it would be fun to get inside my kid’s head.”

Keraun was not wrong—a now-viral TikTok clip showing their indoor mall adventure in Los Angeles is tickling everyone’s funny bone.

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“My dad took me to the mall so that I could be stimulated because he says I’m a COVID baby and I need to see the world. And man, it was crazy!” Keraun says in a voice-over.

Crazy indeed. The dad and son shopping day included “magic stairs that move,” aka an escalator, as well as a “woman with no head.” Adults might refer to this headless woman as a mannequin.

Apparently, Keraun Jr. was “having too much fun” because he lost a shoe. But hey, he got three new pairs. Plus he had a “great idea” to go for a swim in the water fountain…until dad stopped him.

Next was lunchtime in the food court. Which was particularly exciting, because Keraun Jr. loves pizza.

“I was tearing that Sbarro up. You hear me?” the voice-over says.

“Then I got thirsty and I realized old boy next to me ain’t been drinking his drink—he wouldn’t mind…” it continues, showing Keraun Jr. walk right up to a stranger’s soda. Keraun can be seen making a swift interception.

Finally, it’s time to head home, but not without Keraun Jr. pretending like he forgot how to walk and being carried out by the arm. And thus concludes our mini-movie.

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The video has racked up a whopping 11.8 views, with several joking about how “COVID babies are built different.”

Keraun feels like our modern-day culture of convenience has also deprived kids of visceral experiences once plentiful in his own childhood.

“My son is growing up in the COVID era—but it’s not only that. Everything comes to us now. Amazon packages arrive at my house every day, we order DoorDash instead of going out to restaurants,” he told Today.com.

Keraun plans to give audiences a few more “sequels,” including a trip to Chuck E. Cheese. It’s sure to be some wholesome and hilariously relatable entertainment, so give his TikTok a follow here.

The second quarter between the Warriors and Clippers in Los Angeles got a bit feisty, and it involved the two players on those teams you would expect to get into it, as Draymond Green and Marcus Morris both earned some time off in the span of one minute.

First, it was Green picking up his 16th technical foul of the season after he threw the ball off of Russell Westbrook seemingly in frustration after Westbrook crashed into him boxing out.

Green then lit into the refs for calling it, but it seems unlikely that will get taken away and he will have to miss the Warriors next game against the Hawks to serve the mandatory one-game suspension for reaching 16 Ts in a season.

On the very next possession, Green and Morris got tangled up boxing out, with Morris swinging his left arm at Green and hitting him in the head, knocking Green to the ground. That led to a bit of a kerfuffle and a review to see if the foul needed to be upgraded to a flagrant.

Morris’ wind-up and the fact that he hit Green in the head led the officials to not only bump it up to a flagrant, but to hand him a flagrant 2, meaning his night was over. The initial look didn’t seem as dramatic as a flagrant 2, but he certainly winds up and because he hits Green in the head, that is a focal point for officials in recent years and earned him an ejection — Morris’ history probably didn’t help him either in terms of trying to determine intent.

Guillermo del Toro just won his third Oscar Sunday night, for his way outside-the-box stop-motion take on Pinocchio. (Meanwhile, Robert Zemeckis’ more faithful — to the classic Disney movie, that is — version won Worst Remake/Rip-Off/Sequel at the Razzies.) He also has a Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water, under his belt. He can pretty much do anything. And so he’s making an adaptation of a novel that’s already produced at least two of his favorite films.

As per Deadline, del Toro is reportedly in early talks to reunite with Netflix, who funded his Pinocchio, so that he can tackle Frankenstein. How far afield he’ll go from Mary Shelley’s source, if at all, is still up in the air. What is known is that he’s already landed his three leads: Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac, and Mia Goth. Which one will play Dr. Frankenstein and which his creature, whose names generations of people have gotten confused. Goth, meanwhile, will likely be playing the mad scientist’s love interest.

On his 2012 Sight & Sound list, in which he picked his 10 favorite films, del Toro included the classic 1931 Frankenstein, which introduced the world to Boris Karloff. For his 2022 poll, Frankenstein was gone, replaced by its campy-sad and even better sequel Bride of Frankenstein. Neither is particularly faithful to the source, which has been (mostly) faithfully adapted by the oddly titled 1973 TV movie Frankenstein: The True Story and by Kenneth Branagh’s over-the-top Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, from 1994. Where will del Toro’s take on the “Modern Prometheus” (from 1821) fall? Hopefully one day we’ll see. And hopefully it will continue to make people further forget the woebegone twist on Frankenstein with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe.

(Via Deadline)

(WARNING: Spoilers for this week’s episode of Snowfall will be found below.)

Even without looking into the storylines of season six of Snowfall, it was quite apparent that the downfall of Franklin’s empire would take place at some point during the season. For one, the historical account that this story is loosely based on says so, as we know how the United States eventually turned and handled the crack epidemic. Secondly, with the disappearance of Franklin’s $73 million to end season five, it was clear that Franklin wasn’t as invincible as we’d perceived him to be through the series. So far into season six, Franklin has managed to not only stay afloat but also bounce back somewhat. However, with the events that take place following episode four of the new season, it’s clear that we have reached the turning point in season six.

In episode five, “Ebony And Ivory,” four of the show’s main characters reach their respective breaking points in the new season. Franklin, more frustrated than ever at Teddy’s refusal to return his $73 million, devises a plan with Veronique and Cassandra to track down Teddy’s father and use him as ransom to get the money back. When it doesn’t work, we see Franklin (who’s already burned a worker’s face and later shot him) take a knife to McDonald and kill him — all while Teddy is on the phone. This moment also serves as a breaking point for Teddy. Elsewhere in the episode, we see the return of old Leon after he successful won a fight with Deon to take back control of the projects. This leads to Deon confronting Jerome, and though he’s unsuccessful in getting Jerome to side with him, the conversation does lead to the unraveling of Jerome which is showcased through a narrowly-avoided shootout and a later moment where he wallows in frustrations while drinking liquor.

Here are some of the biggest takeaways that we have after season six’s episode five, “Ebony And Ivory”:

Franklin Will Always Find A Way, But Did He Go Too Far?

In the second half of this week’s episode, we see Franklin, Veronique, and Cassandra begin their mission to get back Franklin’s $73 million from Teddy. It begins with Veronique and Cassandra venturing out to Kansas City in search of who we later learn is Teddy’s father Colonel McDonald. In a grand scheme, the mother-daughter duo breaks Teddy’s father out of the nursing home he was staying in and take him to his home. Franklin eventually joins them and makes a phone call to Teddy to let him know that he is currently with McDonald. Franklin warns Teddy that his father will be killed if his money is not returned, and when Teddy says he’s unable to do that, Franklin takes a knife to McDonald’s neck and kills him. This scene proves one thing about Franklin: he will always find a way. However, did he go too far this time? If there’s anyone in this show that is just as, if not more powerful that Franklin, it’s Teddy. We can certainly expect Teddy to retaliate, especially with Franklin’s own family in close proximity. Then again, there is the suspicious — one that Franklin believes — that Teddy killed his father Alton. Either way, the worse is yet to come between Franklin and Teddy.

Leon’s Turn Was Unexpected — And A Bit Disheartening

The look in Wanda’s eyes said it all. After cursing out the people within the projects who he believed had an issue with him, Leon — with a gun in hand — declared himself the new leader of the projects while daring anyone to take a shot at him. It’s quite the turn from the man we watched leave Ghana to return to Los Angeles in hope of creating change in his community. It now seems like the plans for change he had have gone out the window. Old Leon is back, and maybe, just maybe, he still has his eyes set on that change he wanted to put through. However, after fighting Deon and forcibly taking back the throne of the projects, Leon has to know that keeping it will bring back the fighting spirit that we saw within him in earlier seasons of Snowfall. This is probably why we get this look from Wanda after Leon’s daring call to the cohabitants of the projects. They worked so hard to grow and improve from their past ways, is it all about to be thrown away now?

Jerome Is At His Breaking Point

Things have not been going well in Jerome’s world, but it gets far worse than before in “Ebony & Ivory.” In short, he gets confronted by Deon, who also made sure to disrespect Louie to her face multiple times. Next, Jerome nearly guns down some who he suspects is following him, and he ends it off by wallowing in frustration and drinking his life away while seated on his newly repaired car. In Jerome’s world, the fight he’s put up usually yields results but in this case, especially in his battle with Franklin, he hasn’t made the progress he would’ve liked. Franklin has yet to return the money he stole from Jerome and Louie, and now, Leon is back in the picture as he’s taken over the projects where Jerome and Louie were selling product. The latter is less of an issue for him as he told Deon that there are no plans to stop selling to the projects because Leon is in charge. However, it appears that it’s part of a bigger feeling that Jerome has which he expresses to Deon during their conversation as his club. “These young n*****s, they ain’t got no respect, no code, no honor. They ain’t us.” It remains to be seen if those values are pointless to keep in their current war or if they’ll be worth it in the long run.

Is Veronique Prepared For The Worst?

“Ebony & Irony” opens with the Veronique and her mother Cassandra having a conversation inside a car as they stake out to find who we later learn is Teddy’s father Colonel McDonald. Cassandra asks Veronique if there’s an “exit plan” in place if their current one fails. Veronique assures her that “it’ll work,” but Cassandra isn’t about to let her daughter slip around the question. While it eventually goes unanswered as they’re distracted by the sighting of Colonel McDonald, Cassandra is absolutely warranted in her question… but it depends on how it’s being asked. Veronique hasn’t exactly worked her way into the trusting graces of viewers, probably because of her surprise appearance at the start of season five and her suspicious demeanor since then. Cassandra isn’t exactly trustworthy either, simply because of her past and the fact that Veronique — who, remember, we don’t really trust — had issues with her mother in the past.

So if Cassandra is asking this question in terms of Veronique the individual and mom, and not Veronique the girlfriend of Franklin, then our suspicions for the future are warranted. However, we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment. We eventually get an answer to Cassandra’s question at the end of the episode and it’s a nonverbal response. Veronique sits in McDonald’s living with her mouth wide open in shock as she watches him bleed out after Franklin took a knife to his neck. She may not have expected things to reach this point, but what she must now understand is things are only going to get worse from here. So yes Veronique, for the sake of you and Franklin, is there an exit plan in place? Are you prepared for the worst?

New episodes of ‘Snowfall’ are available on FX on Wednesdays at 10pm EST/ PST.

As is the case in seemingly every game involving the Kings, Sacramento’s visit to Chicago was decided in the final seconds.

The cardiac Kings can’t help but find themselves in close games late this season, but the good news for them is that has become the time where De’Aaron Fox is at his best. Fox entered Wednesday with the most points in clutch moments in the league (inside five minutes of a game that’s inside five points), and he added to his growing legend as a clutch shotmaker in Chicago.

The reason Fox’s heroics were needed was due to DeMar DeRozan getting a four-point play down 114-110 with just under 12 seconds to play, as he got fouled on a bit of a questionable call at the top of the key as he buried a three.

That four-point play tied the game and meant the Kings would need to make a shot rather than simply icing things with free throws, and naturally they turned to Fox, who pulled up for three just before the buzzer to give Sacramento its 41st win of the season in style.

Fox finished the night with 32 points to lead the way for Sacramento, as their balanced attack otherwise was enough to topple a Bulls team that got 33 from DeRozan, 25 from Zach LaVine, and 20 from Nikola Vucevic in the loss. With the win and a Grizzlies loss earlier in the evening, Sacramento pulled back even with Memphis for the 2-seed in the West, while Chicago slipped back a half-game behind Washington in the race for the final play-in spot in the East with the loss.