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Oh, you thought festival season was over? Think again. LA3C Festival is coming to Los Angeles on December 10th and 11th, with a lineup of previously announced headliners in Megan Thee Stallion and Snoop Dogg, which now also features Colombian singer Maluma, K-pop group Seventeen, Free Nationals, Mustard, and more. The music festival is going down at LA’s State Historic Park, the same venue that hosted Primavera Sound LA last month.

LA3C represents the first ever “culture & creativity” festival put on by Penske Media, which owns publications like Rolling Stone and Variety. Now with their fully-announced slate of headliners, the festival is touting its diverse lineup as a reflection of Los Angeles being the, “Capital of creativity and culture.”

“Our goals were to create a lineup that celebrates the range of musical genres Los Angeles offers including pop, hip-hop, R&B, K-pop, Regional Mexican Music, EDM and more, and for attendees to discover new artists while enjoying names they know and love,” LA3c CEO Juan Mora said in a statement.

Other acts on the main stage lineup include Gerardo Ortiz, Fonseca, Marc Seguí, Shawn Wasabi, Monogem, Shea Diamond, and Chicocurlyhead.

The festival is promising an all-encompassing cultural event with a core focus on food and art, as well as music. LA3C will be announcing more of its lineup later this month, including celebrity chefs, restaurants, and “surprises.”

Tickets for LA3C Festival are on sale now at LA3C.com.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Anna Kendrick recently got real about her film that recently premiered at TIFF. That would be Alice, Darling, which is a darker project than we’re used to seeing from the Oscar nominee. The film revolves around emotional abuse, and while we usually see Anna in lighter (or at least punchier) fare, don’t expect her to brighten up right away. Instead, she’s about to make her directorial debut in the true crime genre. Kendrick is also set to star in The Dating Game, which is based upon a real-life horror story.

The film is so-named for the infamous 1970s show that preceded the likes of FBoy Island and Dated and Related. And certainly, no reality-based story like The Bachelorette wants anything truly unsavory to happen, so vetting processes attempt to leave no stone unturned. However, something particularly awful slipped through the cracks on The Dating Show, and serial killer Rodney Alcaca ended up landing in the dating pool. He was a dubious charmer, and here’s a CBS News clip that noted his death (from natural causes while on death row) in 2021.

The story’s a fascinating one, and The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the Anna-attached project launched a bidding frenzy at TIFF. International sales poured in as well, and fortunately, the female bachelorette (Cheryl Bradshaw) who chose Alcaca did get out alive. The fact that she lived could partially be down to luck, given that Alcaca was a prolific murderer who reportedly took 130+ lives. He frequently posed as a photographer in order to charm women into dating him. A chilling portfolio of the 200+ women that he photographed could lend further clues to other (still undiscovered) crimes, although the public jury’s still out on that note.

Don’t expect a rom com out of this project, for sure. The Dating Game will use a blacklisted script from Ian McDonald and will no doubt target the same audience who’s been rabidly devouring projects like Netflix’s Dahmer, which has already reached the all-time top list for the streamer. No set release date for The Dating Game exists as of yet, but those who find serial-killer content to be irresistible will be waiting.

There is nothing more New York City than … handcuffs, studded belts, and spiked skulls. The first teaser for the eleventh (yes) season of FX’s horror anthology American Horror Story (titled American Horror Story: NYC) dropped on Thursday. The teaser is as ambiguous as it is creepy, as vague as it is kinky. It also very much feels like this is a season of television for the goths (everyone deserves representation).

The trailer starts with a shot of New York City itself (hey, that’s the name of the show) then a shot of a DJ at a dark, busy club. Then the teaser gets progressively gets creepier with shots of club goths in black leather, spiked or studded belts, chokers, chains, and such. Intertwined are shots of NYC things, like the dreaded A train, which is a horror show on its own.

The teaser includes the teasing text “the deadliest year” and “a season like no other.” The series premieres on FX on Wednesday, October 19.

Details about the plot are currently unknown, and the same goes for most AHS seasons. The cast of AHS: NYC includes some AHS vets including Billie Lourd, Isaac Cole Powell, Zachary Quinto, Sandra Bernhard, Broadway legend Patti Lupone, Denis O’Hare, Leslie Grossman, Rebecca Dayan, Nico Greetham, and Dot-Marie Jones. AHS newcomers in the cast include Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey, and Charlie Cover.

At this point, the GOP has been in bed with Herschel Walker for far too long to abandon their support of the wannabe Georgia senator now. Put a gun to his wife’s head? Sure, he’s done it. But brushed it off as something that happened more than 15 years ago, then invoked Jesus. Now, amidst revelations that the fiercely anti-abortion advocate may have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion — with a check, inside a thoughtful get-well card — Republicans are doubling down on their backing of the former football player, and Jimmy Kimmel, for one, is amused by how Walker’s supporters are trying to spin this story.

On Wednesday night, Kimmel shared how some of the Republican party’s most prominent leaders are finding a way to defend Walker’s continued bad behavior. Donald Trump decided to re-point the finger at Walker’s opponent, Raphael Warnock, saying that he has “heard many horrible things” about the incumbent senator, then played coy describing these “things” as so horrible that “nobody should be talking about them — so we don’t.” (Because if ever there was a man not to blab about something, it’s definitely Trump.)

The stakes of Walker’s campaign are high, Kimmel explained, as “losing a seat in Georgia could cost the Republicans control of the Senate. So now all the bastions of family values are coming to Herschel’s defense.” But it was former congressman and one-time Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s response in particular that really amused Kimmel.

While appearing on Fox News, Gingrich described Walker as “a remarkable person” and “the most important senate candidate in the country, cause he’ll do more to change the Senate just by the sheer presence — by his confidence, by his deep commitment to Christ.” As for those abortion rumors? Listen, nobody’s perfect. And, as Gingrich explained, Walker “had a lot of concussions coming out of football.”

“That’s the first time I’ve ever heard the ‘our candidate has brain damage’ defense,” Kimmel admitted. But he seemed to agree that concussions are a nasty business and, sure, “sometimes they can cause abortions.”

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 5:30 mark.

This article originally appeared on 02.04.19

As much as we’d like to pretend every phrase we utter is a lone star suspended in the space of our own genius, all language has a history. Unfortunately, given humanity’s aptitude for treating each other like shit, etymology is fraught with reminders of our very racist world.

Knowledge is power, and the way we use and contextualize our words can make a huge difference in the atmospheres we create.

1. Thug

According to Meriam-Webster’s dictionary definition, a thug is “a violent criminal.” Obviously, this definition leaves the word open to define people of all ethnicities.

However, given the frequent ways this word has been used to describe Black Lives Matter protesters, the 17-year-old murder victim Trayvon Martin, and sadly, almost every black victim of police brutality — there is an undeniable racial charge to the word.

When you consider the people who are called thugs — groups of black protesters, victims of racist violence, teenagers minding their own business, and flip the racial element, you’d be hard-pressed to find examples of white people being called thugs in earnest by the media (or really by anyone).

let me get this straight. Marshawn Lynch is “thug” because he doesn’t talk enough, & Richard Sherman is a “thug” because he talks too much?

— Coach Ray Hubbard (@Coach Ray Hubbard)
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Several prominent activists and black writers have written about the phenomenon of thug replacing the n-word in modern culture. In a popular press conference back in 2014, the Seattle Seahawks player Richard Sherman explained his feelings about the word.

“The reason it bothers me is because it seems like it’s an accepted way of calling somebody the N-word now. It’s like everybody else said the N-word and then they say ‘thug’ and that’s fine. It kind of takes me aback and it’s kind of disappointing because they know,” Sherman said.

If a 1400 SAT score and a degree from Stanford makes you a “thug” then I want my kids to be thugs. @RSherman_25pic.twitter.com/MWuWWPNSWh

— Bipartisan Sports (@Bipartisan Sports)
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If you’re talking about an actual criminal, there are so many descriptive words to invoke besides “thug.” Given its current use as a negative, racially-coded word, avoiding its use seems like an easy and obvious move.

2. Grandfather Clause

When most of us hear the term “grandfather clause” we just think of the generalized description: a person or entity that is allowed to continue operating over now expired rules. But the literal meaning reveals the “grandfather clause” was a racist post-Reconstruction political strategy.

This is the historical definition, according to Encyclopedia Britannica:

“Grandfather clause, statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans. It provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting. Because the former slaves had not been granted the franchise until the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, those clauses worked effectively to exclude black people from the vote but assured the franchise to many impoverished and illiterate whites.”

In modern speak, this basically meant the Grandfather Clause let white people off the hook for new voting requirements because their ancestors were already registered voters. Meanwhile, black people were required to fill out impossible literacy tests and pay exorbitant poll taxes to vote. This in turn, meant many black people were unable to vote, while white people weren’t held to the same standard.

3. Gypsy or “Gyp”

The word “Gypsy” was (and is) a racial slur referring to the Roma people. The Roma people are descendants of Northern India who, due to severe marginalization and threats of violence by others, lived a nomadic lifestyle of forced migration for centuries.

During a fraught history, Roma people were taken as slaves in Romania and were targeted for genocide by the Nazis.

The word “Gypsy” is a slang word perpetuating stereotypes of Roma people as “thieves, rowdies, dirty, immoral, con-men, asocials, and work-shy” according to the Council of Europe.

In a similar vein, the term “Gyp” or “getting gypped” means to cheat or get conned, and many connect this meaning as another racist extension of Gypsy.

4. No Can Do

The saying u201cno can dou201d and u201clong time no seeu201d came from Westerners mocking Chinese immigrants https://twitter.com/trashyewest/status/995768305003610112u00a0u2026

— Justin Beauchamp (@Justin Beauchamp)
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According to the Oxford Dictionary, the very common phrase “no can do” was originally made popular as a way to make fun of Chinese immigrants.

“The widespread use of the phrase in English today has obscured its origin: what might seem like folksy, abbreviated version of I can’t do it is actually an imitation of Chinese Pidgin English. The phrase dates from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries, an era when Western attitudes towards the Chinese were markedly racist.”

5. Sold Down The River

“The phrase ‘sold down the river’ came from Louisville, Kentucky, where the enslaved were traded in one of the largest slave markets of the 19th century.”https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/02/louisville-confronts-its-redlining-past-and-present/517125/?utm_source=twbu00a0u2026

— Pedro da Costa (@Pedro da Costa)
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Upon first hearing, many people associate the phrase “sold down the river” with the notion of being betrayed, lied to, or otherwise screwed over. While these definitions all technically apply to the origin, the root of this phrase is much more bleak.

According to a report from NPR, being “sold down the river” was a literal reference to slavery, and the families that were torn apart in the south.

“River” was a literal reference to the Mississippi or Ohio rivers. For much of the first half of the 19th century, Louisville, Ky., was one of the largest slave-trading marketplaces in the country. Slaves would be taken to Louisville to be “sold down the river” and transported to the cotton plantations in states further south.

This heavy connotation sadly makes sense, but also makes casual use of the phrase feel way more cringe-inducing.

6. Welfare Queen

The GOP argument on Obamacare has more than a whiff of Reagan-era racial “welfare queen” politics —> http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/a-brutal-translation-of-the-disincentive-to-work-20140206u00a0u2026

— Ron Fournier (@Ron Fournier)
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The term “welfare queen” was first popularized by Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign in which he repeatedly painted a picture of a Cadillac-driving welfare queen.

This straw woman in Reagan’s campaign served as a racially-charged exaggeration of one minor case of real welfare fraud used to pedal his platform for welfare reform.

Needless to say, the term has sadly lived on as a racially-charged vehicle used to undermine the importance of welfare programs, while peddling gross stereotypes about black women.

On top of all the other offenses, this stereotype is of course ignoring the fact that poor white Americans receive the most welfare out of any economically-disadvantaged demographic.

7. Shuck And Jive

Obama’s Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies http://fb.me/1m3q5c2IR

— Sarah Palin (@Sarah Palin)
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The term shuck and jive is both common and very obviously rooted in the language of slavery.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the phrase shuck and jive refers to:

“The fact that black slaves sang and shouted gleefully during corn-shucking season, and this behavior, along with lying and teasing, became a part of the protective and evasive behavior normally adopted towards white people in ‘ traditional’ race relations.”

Likewise, the modern usage of this phrase refers to pandering, selling out, or instances in which black people go along with racist white people’s wishes. Again, not a phrase to be thrown around lightly.

8. Long Time No See

The very commonly used greeting “long time no see” first became popular as a way to make fun of Native Americans. The phrase was used as a way to mock a traditional greeting exchanged between Native Americans.

This is the official definition, according to the Oxford Dictionary:

“Long Time No See was originally meant as a humorous interpretation of a Native American greeting, used after a prolonged separation. The current earliest citation recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) comes from W.F. Drannan’s book Thirty-one Years on Plains (1901): ‘When we rode up to him [sc. an American Indian] he said: ‘Good mornin. Long time no see you’.”

The act of committing genocide is not limited to human lives, but also translates to a normalized cultural violence. Deconstructing, mocking, and erasing someone’s language contributes to this pattern of colonialism.

9. The Peanut Gallery

Did you know the phrase ‘peanut gallery’ has racist origins?nnIt was the cheapest and worst part of the theater, and the only option for Black attendees. No one wanted to sit in the peanut gallery and today, no one wants to hear from the peanut gallery. #RewriteBHM #BHMpic.twitter.com/vwHHHWLeVP

— Nat’l Urban League (@Nat’l Urban League)
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Most modern uses of the term “the peanut gallery” is in reference to a group of people who needlessly criticize or mocking another person. However, the historical roots of this term are much more racist and painful.

Originally, this term referred to the balconies in segregated theaters where black people were forced to sit. The nickname “peanut” was given due to the fact that peanuts were introduced to America at the same time as the slave trade. Because of this, there was a connection drawn between black people and peanuts.

10. Uppity

MINORITIES MUST STAND UP TO ABUSE:nKneeling to protest at games is tasteful yet effective. But white owners and racists think blacks are too uppity. n”UppitynWord used by racist old white Southerners to refer to any black person who looks them in the eye.” –URBAN DICTIONARYpic.twitter.com/CrRQJqTyTl

— LJ Rochelle (@LJ Rochelle)
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As of now, the word “uppity” is often used as a synonym for “stuck up” or “pretentious” or “conceited.” But the roots of the word are far more specific and racist.

The word Uppity was first used by Southerners to refer to slaves who did not fall into line, or acted as if they “didn’t know their place.”

So, basically, any black person who overtly stood up to racism. Given the heaviness of this origin, it seems best to leave this word at home when looking to describe a pretentious acquaintance.

Sadly, given our ugly history, there are many more words and phrases I could add to this list. In the meantime, hopefully this list is helpful for navigating the racism innate in our language.

The article was originally published by our partners at someecards and was written by Bronwyn Isacc.

This story originally appeared on 1.05.19

It started with a simple, sincere question from a mother of an 11-year-old boy.

An anonymous mother posted a question to Quora, a website where people can ask questions and other people can answer them. This mother wrote:

How do I tell my wonderful 11 year old son, (in a way that won’t tear him down), that the way he has started talking to me (disrespectfully) makes me not want to be around him (I’ve already told him the bad attitude is unacceptable)?

It’s a familiar scenario for those of us who have raised kids into the teen years. Our sweet, snuggly little kids turn into moody middle schoolers seemingly overnight, and sometimes we’re left reeling trying to figure out how to handle their sensitive-yet-insensitive selves.

Jo Eberhardt, a fantasy writer and mother of two from Australia, penned a reply that is so spot on that it keeps repeatedly popping up on social media. When you nail it, you nail it—and this mother nails it.

“Ah, puberty,” she wrote, “It changes our sweet, wonderful little boys into sweet, eye-rolling, angsty, accidentally disrespectful, but still wonderful young proto-men.” Yup.

Eberhardt then described a discussion she had with her 11 1/2 -year-old son when he started going through this stage—a conversation they had in the car, which is usually the best place to have potentially uncomfortable discussions with kids.

She told her son that she’d messed up in the way she’d talked to him about puberty, then explained exactly what was happening in his brain.

“I’ve spent all this time talking to you about the way puberty changes your body,” Eberhardt told her son, “and what to expect as you go through the changes, but I completely forgot to talk to you about what’s going on in your brain right now. Puberty is the time when your brain grows and changes more than at any other time in your life — well, except for when you’re a baby, perhaps. So I really let you down by not preparing you for that. I’m so sorry.“

Her son accepted her apology, then asked why is his brain was changing.

“That’s the amazing thing,” she told him. “Did you know that your brain grew and developed so quickly when you were little that by the time you were about five or six, your brain was almost as big and powerful as an adult’s brain?”

“But here’s the thing,” she continued, “Even though your brain was super powerful, the instructions were for a child’s brain. And all the information about building an adult’s brain was a bit… let’s say fuzzy. So your brain did the best it could, but it didn’t really know what kind of person you were going to be back then, or what shape brain you were going to need.”

“Now we come to puberty,” she went on. “See, puberty is amazing. Not only is your body being transformed from a child’s body to an adult’s body, your brain has to be completely rewritten from a child’s brain to an adult’s brain.”

“That sounds hard,” her son responded.

“Yeah, it is,” Eberhardt replied. “That’s why I wish I’d warned you first. See, it takes a lot of energy to completely rewrite a brain. That’s one of the reasons you get tired quicker at the moment — and that, of course, manifests in you being crankier and less patient than normal.”

Eberhardt paused, then added, “That must be really frustrating for you.”

Her son looked over at her, wiping his eyes. “It is,” he responded. Sometimes I just feel really angry and I don’t know why.”

It’s amazing what happens when we explain to kids the physiological reasons for what they’re going through.

Eberhardt continued, “The other thing is that one of the first parts of your brain that gets super-sized to be like an adult is the amygdala. That’s the part that controls your emotions and your survival instincts. You know how we’ve talked about fight/flight/freeze before, and how sometimes our brains think that being asked to speak in public is the same level of threat as being attacked by a sabre tooth tiger?”

Her son laughed. “Yes. So you have to tell your brain that there’s no sabre tooth tiger to help you calm down.”

“That’s right,” Eberhardt replied. “Well, that’s what the amygdala looks after: sabre tooth tiger warnings and big emotions. So, the thing with puberty is that all of a sudden you’ve got an adult-sized amygdala hitting all your emotion buttons and your sabre-tooth tiger buttons. That must be really hard for you to manage.”

Her son nodded and said, “Sometimes I don’t know why I say the things I do. They just come out, and then I feel bad.”

This is the moment where what a parent says can make or break a kid’s spirit. But Eberhardt handled it with empathy and expertise.

“I know, Sweetheart,” she said before explaining:

“See, the last part of your brain that gets rewritten is right at the front of your head. It’s called the frontal cortex. And that’s the part of your brain that’s good at decision making and understanding consequences. So you’ve got this powerful adult amygdala hitting you with massive emotions, but you’ve still got a fuzzy child frontal cortex that can’t make decisions or understand consequences as quickly as the amygdala wants you to. It pretty much sucks.”

“So it’s not my fault?” her son asked.

“No, it’s puberty’s fault your brain works the way it does,” Eberhardt answered. “But that doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility to recognise what’s going on and change your actions. It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible, either. Your feelings are your feelings, and they’re always okay. But you get to choose your actions. You get to choose what you do with your feelings. And, when you make a mistake, you get to choose to apologise for that mistake and make amends.”

Eberhardt said she then paused for dramatic effect. “That’s how you prove that you’re becoming an adult.”

It’s also remarkable what happens when we empathize and communicate with our kids instead of simply chastising them.

Her son responded with a perfectly understandable and relatable, “Puberty sucks.”

“Puberty absolutely sucks,” Eberhardt responded. “I’m not in your head, but I can only imagine that it’s a mess of confusion and chaos, and you don’t know from one minute to the next how you feel about things.”

Her son looked at her in surprise. “Yes! Exactly!”

“If it’s confusing for you living inside there,” Eberhardt continued, “imagine how confusing it is for me, when I only see your actions.”

“That must be really confusing,” her son agreed.

She nodded. “Do you know what that means?”

“What?”

“It means sometimes I’m going to make mistakes. Sometimes I’m going to get upset at things you do because I don’t understand what’s going on in your head. Sometimes I’m going to forget that you’re halfway to being a man, and accidentally treat you like a child. Sometimes I’m going to expect more from you than you’re able to give. This is my first time parenting someone through puberty, and I’m going to make mistakes. So can I ask you a favour?”

“What is it?”

“Can you just keep telling me what’s going on in your head? The more we talk, the easier it will be for both of us to get through this puberty thing unscathed. Yeah?”

“Yeah,” her son said.

When we let our kids know that we’re going through these various phases together, it’s easier to work with them instead of against them.

Eberhardt said they “had a cuddle” before they got out of the car. She also said this conversation didn’t magically make her son always speak respectfully or make her remember that he’s not a little boy anymore. However, it did open up lines of communication and gave them a shared language to use.

For example, she wrote, “He knows what I mean when I say, ‘Sweetheart, I’m not a sabre tooth tiger.'”

Ebehardt wrapped up her excellent answer by saying that she and her son are “muddling through this crazy puberty thing” together, and that she’s “completely confident that he’ll come out the other end a sweet, wonderful young man.”

It’s always so helpful to see examples of good parenting in action. Ms. Eberhardt’s response is something all parents can tuck away for the appropriate time. It’s also a great reminder that our tweens aren’t trying to try us—they’re just trying to get used to their new and improved brains.

Joe Biden was in Florida on Wednesday to meet with state officials and personally assess the damage left by Hurricane Ian. But another storm seemed to be raging in the state in the form of the president himself. At least that’s the way it seemed when a hot mic caught Joe announcing that “No one f*cks with a Biden.”

As Mediaite reports, it’s not exactly clear to whom — if anyone — the comment was being directed at individually. But given that the line was uttered to Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy following a joint presser in which Biden and possible soon-to-be-opponent Ron DeSantis praised one another for their response to the needs of Floridians in the wake of the storm, it’s hard to rule out either DeSantis or Ian itself as the intended recipient of that promise/threat.

Prior to their meeting, there had been a lot of speculation on social media about how Biden and DeSantis might greet each other, given their deeply opposing political views — not to mention the fact that DeSantis recently trafficked dozens of migrants. Some people anticipated a fist bump, but a firm handshake ended up winning the day.

Ultimately, both Biden and DeSantis played nice, with each man lauding the other for their hard work and support in helping Floridians recover from the devastating storm, which took the lives of more than 100 people.

“We are cutting through the bureaucracy,” DeSantis said of the massive relief effort currently underway in Florida. “We are cutting through the red tape. And that’s from local government, state government all the way up to the president, so we appreciate the team effort.”

Biden, for his part, said that what DeSantis has done so far “is pretty remarkable.”

(Via Mediaite)

That ’70s Show was a hit TV show. Black Swan was nominated for a bunch of Oscars, including Best Picture. And Ted and Forgetting Sarah Marshall made well over $100 million at the box office. But in terms of popularity and longevity, voicing Meg on Family Guy is probably the biggest role in Mila Kunis‘ career.

Kunis did one of those retrospective videos with Vanity Fair where she discussed how she got involved with the animated series. “I remember my manager at the time being like, ‘There’s a show called Family Guy.’ The actress [Lacey Chabert] quit because she didn’t find the show to be in line with her ethical beliefs. You wanna audition for it?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, what’s the show?’ It hadn’t aired yet,” she said. Kunis was a nervous teen at the time, and she remembers creator Seth MacFarlane telling her to “slow down.”

She continued:

“I guess I naturally speak really fast. When I record now, I’m really good at knowing to slow down. But when you’re 15, you just wanna get this ball rolling. You’re like, ‘I got places to be, people to see. Let’s go, go, go.’ And so for whatever reason, MacFarlane was down enough to be like, ‘Slow down, slow down.’ Because he easily could have easily hired anybody to do the voice.”

Over 20 years later, Kunis still has the “the greatest job ever” (and a pretty great bank account) thanks to that tip. You can watch the video above.

Even though Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian unfortunately called it quits at the end of the summer, we still have the footage of their short-lived romance to look back on fondly, reliving those carefree moments of the Pete and Kim Saga. Remember the ice cream? Those were the good old days.

While Davidson has yet to appear on the current season of The Kardashians, either due to editing or Davidson’s hesitation to appear in the show, Kim still loves to gush about her then-BF. Earlier this year, Davidson was in talks to go to space on a Blue Origin flight right while he was feuding with Kanye West, you know, normal celebrity things, which Kardashian discussed in the latest episode of Hulu’s series. Before giving her blessing, Kardashian needed to speak to Jeff Bezos to be sure that it was safe.

Kardashian recalled the Challenger Explosion of 1986, which claimed the lives of seven on board, including one civilian, a schoolteacher. “I remember sitting in my kitchen with my dad, with my sisters, and the teacher was on that rocket ship in the ’80s and it exploded,” Kardashian recalled, which is the main source of hesitation for Davidson’s trip. “I remember watching that and I remember what that felt like and my parents crying. Then you hear all these other spaceships crash and it’s, like, really scary.”

It seems like Bezos was able to convince Kardashian that her boyfriend would be fine during the 11-minute space flight. “After talking to Bezos about it and hearing how safe it is, and all the testing and everything they do, I felt comfortable with him going.” Still, Kardashian said she would not go due to having four kids. But she was fine with her boyfriend going!

Despite the major anticipation, Davidson did not end up going on the space excursion due to “scheduling conflicts.” Perhaps space just isn’t ready for that BDE yet.

(Via Collider)

Viggo Mortensen will direct and star in the western The Dead Don’t Hurt, which will also star Luxembourgish actor Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), per Deadline. Mortensen in a western is about the closest thing we can get to his sweaty, wet, and hot Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, so we’ll take it. Mortensen begins directing himself in the project, which he also wrote, next week.

Here’s a description of The Dead Don’t Hurt:

Set in the 1860s, the film stars Krieps stars as the fiercely independent French Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, Vivienne agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, where they start a life together. The Civil War separates them, leaving Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by powerful rancher Alfred Jeffries and his violent, wayward son Weston Jeffries, aided and abetted by corrupt Mayor Rudolph Schiller. Olsen’s eventual return challenges their relationship as they have to confront and make peace with the person each has become.

“My aim is to do justice to the story of a uniquely resilient woman living in a lawless and isolated part of the U.S. Southwest in the 1860s,” Mortensen said in a statement provided to Deadline.

Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon), Danny Huston, Garret Dillahunt, Tom Bateman, Lance Henriksen and W. Earl Brown will appear in The Dead Don’t Hurt alongside Krieps and Mortensen.

(Via Deadline)