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Over the last couple years, Sydney Sweeney has emerged as both a sex symbol and a serious actress. In that sense, she’s not unlike Jane Fonda, except that Fonda had to pivot away from lighthearted roles to get her Oscars, whereas Sweeney has been able to be both a modern equivalent of a pinup and a two-time Emmy nominee at the same time. Now she’s effectively going to become Fonda, or at least take on one of her most iconic roles.

As per Deadline, Sweeney is set to star in and executive produce a remake of Barbarella, the 1968 sci-fi camp classic in which Fonda played a scantily-clad interstellar adventurer in the far-flung future. It’s not clear what direction this version will take. Will it be a more progressive rehash of a prurient original, which seems to be what’s happening to the Emmanuelle redux with Léa Seydoux and Audrey Diwan, the latter of the French abortion drama Happening? Whatever happens, it currently has no director or writer(s) yet attached.

Barbarella was directed by Fonda’s then-husband, French director Roger Vadim, and while it wasn’t a smash hit at the time, its combination of kooky Space Age visuals and Eurotrash seediness helped turn it into a cult item. It was the last movie of Fonda’s sex kitten era. Her next film, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? — in which she played a desperate, Depression-era loner who looks ready to give up on life even before she gets involved in one of those demonic dance marathons — rightly earned her her first Oscar nomination.

Perhaps Sweeney can follow in Fonda’s path and do a remake of Horses next — or Klute, or A Doll’s House, or The China Syndrome. As for New Barbarella, it will be Sweeney’s first producing credit. Considering she’s revealed that she doesn’t get paid enough to take time off, maybe moving up in the industry will earn her a well-deserved vacation.

(Via Deadline)

Joji‘s upcoming sophomore album, Smithereens is set to arrive next month. But while we wait, YouTube food critic Uncle Roger pulled up a 2018 video of the “Glimpse Of Us” singer cooking instant noodles with his friend and 88Rising labelmate Rich Brian, and add hilarious commentary.

Early on the video, Joji and Brian keep some of the ingredients pixelated, as a way to maintain a surprise.

“This is not Japanese porn, don’t pixelate your meat,” says Roger.

Throughout the clip, the buddies are seen adding ingredients, making their noodles their own.

“Is that Nemo?” Brian asks as Joji scoops a red caviar called salmon roe ikura.

“By the way he scoops up stuff with the ladle, you can tell Nephew Brian [has cooked] before,” says Roger. “And by the way he [made a] Finding Nemo joke earlier, you can tell he’s never had sex before.”

Shortly after, Joji dances gracefully in the kitchen, tossing ingredients into the pan.

“Nephew Joji just throwing random sh*t in pan now,” Roger says. “So, I guess he’s the same level of cooking as Rachael Ray.”

Are the boys’ cooking skills as good as their music? Check out the clip above and find out.

Smithereens is out 11/4 via 88Rising and Warner Music. Pre-save it here.

Joji and Rich Brian are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

After a midseason trade with the Sacramento Kings that brought Marvin Bagley III to Detroit, the Pistons wasted no time signing the former No. 2 overall pick to a three-year contract on June 30. Bagley, who is still just 23 years old, has something of a fresh start in Detroit after falling short of pre-draft expectations in Sacramento and, by all accounts, Troy Weaver and the Pistons are high on what the former Duke standout could bring to the table. Unfortunately, Bagley left Tuesday evening’s preseason game against the Oklahoma City Thunder with what appears to be a non-contact knee injury.

Within the first minute of the game, Bagley slipped on the floor and, within seconds, he was being helped off the floor

Shortly after his exit, Chris Haynes of Yahoo reported Bagley has a right knee injury and would not return to action.

It remains to be seen how serious the injury might be, and it seems likely that Detroit will set up imaging on the knee to take a deeper look. Hopefully this will not be a long-term setback for Bagley and the Pistons, but it did not look good in the moment. In his stead, the Pistons do have options in the frontcourt, including rookie Jalen Duren and veterans like Isaiah Stewart and Nerlens Noel, but Bagley is clearly in the team’s plans and it would be best for all if he avoided serious injury.

Episode seven of Pod Yourself The Wire is now available early at Patreon.com/frotcast. Episode six is now available for free.

“I’m old enough for all of this.” -Dan From The Internet

On the latest episode of the Pod Yourself The Wire, Matt and Vince welcome a frustratingly young guest, Dan from the internet, to talk about The Wire season one episode seven, “One Arrest.” Dan is a Gen Z content creator and news commentator. He’s a host on Good Morning Bad News on TikTok, as well as his news & culture show Power Report and Audioface where he and his co-host reviews new music almost every week. To keep up with everything Dan does everywhere, follow him on Twitter.

It’s appropriate that Dan introduces the podcast to the concept of ugly bastard hentai, because there is a lot of ugly bastard behavior from the various characters in David Simon’s Baltimore in this episode. Landsman pranks a desperate Santangelo into enlisting a low-rent psychic to help him clear cases, drunk Bunk implores a woman to “rub ‘em together like that,” and even Judge Phelan is vocalizing his desire to “throw a f*ck” into a peer. ACAUB.

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Riding the highs of his latest viral hit, “Poland,” Lil Yachty has shared a second visual for the lean-inspired anthem.

Like the song’s first music video, the second sees Yachty on a “walk” through Poland, this time, during the day. He is wearing a green hoodie, with some sort of contestant number printed on the front. Yachty also spits bars sitting on a stoop and dances in a garage.

Though it was only officially released this morning onto streaming platforms, the original video for “Poland” had already received over 4.3 million views on YouTube.

Yachty has previously described his upcoming album as more “alternative” sounding. In a recent interview with Complex, Yachty revealed that the album is complete, however, he is unsure as to when it will arrive.

“My album is done,” he said. “It’s mastered and done. When you’ll get it, I don’t f*cking know. My date has been pushed back like five times. The disappointing thing is that it probably won’t be on this side of the year unfortunately.”

He didn’t say much else about the album, though it’s likely we may hear a Drake collaboration.

“That’s my f*cking guy,” said Yachty about the Canadian rapper. “I talk to Drake every day.”

Check out the new video for “Poland” above.

Technology is so good right now that it’s bad. By “bad” we mean that now more than ever it’s easier to trick people into believing something fake is real. Deepfakes? They’re really bad. DALL-E AI images? Less bad, but still worrying. A more lighthearted version of digital subterfuge can be seen in a series of posters, made in part with DALL-E, that were so good some people were convinced Netflix was making a Legend of Zelda movie with Tom Holland, Emma Watson, Idris Elba, and more. Spoiler: They’re not.

As per Kotaku, someone posted a handful of posters for this fake, definitely not real Netflix production, featuring big names dressed up like characters from one of Nintendo’s first sensations. They’re pretty realistic-looking! Holland, as Link, has blonde hair, elfish ears, and an earring. Watson looks like how Watson would look like if she was playing Zelda. Elba makes for a menacing Ganon. Again, none of them are playing any of these characters, in a movie that doesn’t exist.

But the fakes were spot-on. They should be: In his post, their creator, one Dan Leveille, said they were made with such AI tools as Midjourney, in painting with DALL-E, Tencent ARC, and a “bunch of Photoshop.” Leveille even said as such, revealing that they were fakes.

That didn’t stop the post from getting almost 300,000 shares of this writing. The comments board was lit up, with some of the usual unwelcome suspects. There were fans complaining that Netflix was ruining their childhood. There were racists making jokes about how a Zelda movie in 2022 would have to be even more diverse.

So to reiterate: There is no Zelda movie with Tom Holland and Emma Watson and Idris Elba. There’s just some painstakingly designed fakes from someone with some real skills and some real time on their hands. Hopefully Holland didn’t catch wind of them, long as he’s still on his social media break.

(Via Kotaku)

Adam Sandler has gone serious plenty of times before. Indeed, today is the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of maybe his finest film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love. But the most popular of his non-Happy Madison productions is Uncut Gems, the unbearably intense gambling thriller he made with two of New York City’s most New York City filmmakers, Ben and Josh Safdie. There’s been talk of the three reuniting for yet another panic attack of a movie. But not only is that actually happening, it’s actually happening very soon.

Sandler spoke with Vanity Fair, where he up and revealed that he’s teaming back up with the Safdie brothers, and that they’re going to “start in the late winter.” Whether that mean they’re starting pre-production or actual shooting is unclear. Nor is there any indication about what it will be about. Some poor shlub suffering through one of NYC’s brutal winters?

What we do know is that Sandler is stoked. “I love those guys, I know we’re going to dedicate ourselves into working our asses off and making sure it’s as good as it can be, and I know that takes a lot of time,” he said. He also talked about getting into the zone. “Like everybody, when you work hard you’re tired, you’re knocked out, and you miss out on some stuff that you wish you could’ve seen. But ultimately, I know it’s going to be a few months of going after a goal that we all feel the same about. We want to do the best we can.”

When asked if it will be as “intense” as Uncut Gems, he said, “Yeah, because of how much these guys care.” That’s a bit cryptic. Does he mean the film will be as intense or it will be an intense shoot? Perhaps both? It’s probably both. What he will say is he doesn’t “want to let them down,” adding, “And I see how hard they work, and just like when I’m working on my comedies with my friends, it means a lot to us. Every joke means a lot. The Safdie boys, every word means a lot to them, every frame of the movie means a lot. So I don’t want to walk through anything. I care about it, and I respect those guys so much.”

When Uncut Gems came out in 2019, it instantly scored Sandler the best reviews of his career. There was Oscar talk, which, alas, came to naught. It would have been deserved. After all, he allowed himself to almost get choked for real during one of the many tense scenes. Still, even though the Academy snubbed him, he won plenty of other trophies and became a welcome, goofy presence on the awards circuit, delivering delightful speeches such as the one below.

(Via Vanity Fair)

When EST Gee dropped his new album I Never Felt Nun last month, one track that drew a lot of attention was “Death Around The Corner” as the track featured the seemingly unlikely pairing of the Louisville native with another Midwestern mainstay, Machine Gun Kelly. Today, they’ve capitalized on that attention with the release of the fiery music video for “Death Around The Corner,” which shows rapper-turned-rocker-turned-rapper-again MGK fitting right in with Gee’s gritty aesthetic and ominous portrayal of street life.

While the MGK collaboration confused fans, some of Gee’s other album features were praised for displaying strong chemistry. Fans loved the combination of EST Gee and Jack Harlow, favorably comparing their track “Backstage Passes” to the two Kentuckians’ prior team-ups, while “Shoot It Myself” with Future counts NBA star James Harden as an admirer — one who even appeared in the duo’s music video for the song.

EST Gee’s been on a roll for a while now, thanks to a string of successful mixtapes over the past two years including Ion Feel Nun, I Still Dont Feel Nun, Bigger Than Life Or Death and its sequel, and the joint project Last Ones Left with CMG labelmate 42 Dugg. Gee also offered some standout contributions to the CMG compilation album Gangsta Art. The man’s been plenty busy and shows no signs of slowing up anytime soon.

Watch EST Gee’s video for “Death Around The Corner” featuring Machine Gun Kelly above and check out his album I Never Felt Nun, out now via CMG/Interscope, here.

Longtime Lizzo lovers are likely aware of the Special singer’s affinity for astrology but it turns out, even she wasn’t aware of her actual sign. She was informed during her appearance on Vanity Fair‘s infamous lie detector test, during which she answered questions about her best performances and how her former classmates responded to seeing her become a star. When the interviewer informed her of her “true” zodiac sign, though, she was less than enthused to find out she’s not a Taurus, as she’s believed all along.

“I really love being a Taurus,” she said, in response to the question “What do you think your new zodiac sign would be?” “I think I could get down with being a Pisces. I think I could get down with being a Libra, for sure… Why? Don’t f*ck with me today!”

Upon learn that she’s (supposedly) actually an Aries, though, she looks visibly appalled at the revelation. “Bitch, no,” she exclaims, kissing her teeth. “I’m not an Aries. I’m not a f*cking Aries… I’m not gonna say it’s my least favorite sign but it’s the least likely I would ever wanna be — high-key. No shade. All tea. An Aries? No shade, ewww! I don’t like Aries men!” Sorry to all those Aries guys out there, I guess.

You can watch Lizzo’s full lie detector test above.

Earlier this year, Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn was narrowly ousted in a North Carolina Primary race. The loss wasn’t surprising. For months leading up to the race, Cawthorn had suffered embarrassment after embarrassment in the press — from giving bizarre interviews in which he accused his fellow GOP members of participating in orgies and doing cocaine to speeding tickets, driving with a revoked license, and trying to carry a loaded gun into an airport (twice).

Now, The Washington Post is asking what’s next for Cawthorn, once his term ends next month. And his fellow Republicans are answering, though Cawthorn might not want to hear what they have to say.

In a new report from the paper, several Washington insiders and GOP analysts admitted Cawthorn’s going to have a tough road to redemption after hanging his party members out to dry, behaving badly in the press, and suffering leaks that included videos of him simulating sex acts on another man and wearing women’s lingerie.

“He’s not anywhere to be found,” the former chair of Cawthorn’s district, Michele Woodhouse, said. “I don’t hear from anyone that there’s any great interest in what Madison Cawthorn is doing.”

In fact, Cawthorn’s offices in his home state and in D.C. are empty, his voicemails aren’t being checked, his website hasn’t been updated in nearly a year, and he’s voted by proxy over 80 times in 2022.

“After all the shenanigans, he deserved to get beat,” pro-Trump radio host John Fredericks said. “In two years, he demonstrated an incredible lack of maturity.”

Cawthorn has allegedly said he’s taking a break from politics to focus on building a family despite announcing he and his wife were getting a divorce late last year, but even if he wanted to launch a comeback, it sounds like he’s burned too many bridges in North Carolina. The House Ethics committed opened a probe into Cawthorn’s unusual spending — thousands of campaign dollars went to cigar bars, shooting ranges, taxidermist “gifts,” and steak houses — and his more local supporters seem to have washed their hands of him because of it.

“All he has done is fly around the country and live high on the hog,” said George Erwin, a retired Henderson County sheriff who supported Cawthorn early in his run. “He could have gone up there and been something, but he blew it. Nobody talks about him anymore. As time goes on, he will fade away.”

Few would complain about that, it seems.

(Via The Washington Post)