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Britney Spears’ wedding this summer had quite the guest list, including Donatella Versace, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Selena Gomez, and Drew Barrymore. In an Instagram post shared late last night/early this morning (September 15), she took time to honor one of those attendees, Barrymore, with a message of gratitude.

Spears starts the post by talking about enjoying her time in Hawaii and her recent interest in carrot juice before continuing, “@drewbarrymore – thank you for bringing light to my wedding !!! Yes there was so much light in the room !!! We have both been through so much and you declaring my cry for freedom in a country where we are all equal is not only in verb with HUMANITY !!! It calls for every person who fought for me in a time where just a silly and childish ‘Free Britney’ shirt actually had more meaning to me than just that !!! You reminded me of the night of my wedding to just one and one thing only !!! A smile with my eyes closed !!!”

While Spears doesn’t mention why she decided to show love for Barrymore last night, the post did arrive not long after Barrymore was on The Tonight Show talking about the bond she and Spears have built over the past year-and-a-half.

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It has been said that “behind every strong man is a woman,” yet often times the latter doesn’t get the full credit they deserve. John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen regularly love each other out loud, but his latest video for “Wonder Woman” may be one of the most heartwarming things he has ever done for her.

In the video, the R&B veteran stands shirtless in a room and stares through a window at Teigen through weeds. In later scenes, she is shown caring for their two children poolside while Legend looks at her and smiles.

Switching between his charming tenor and captivating falsetto, Legend sings “You make me wonder, woman, how do you do it? / Some superpower, I don’t understand / You make me wonder, woman, how do you do it? / You’re superhuman, and I’m just a man.”

In a world of toxic R&B and male hedonism, this type of reverence toward one’s partner is refreshing. It can be found on John Legend’s latest LP Legend, released this past Friday. The album features Saweetie, Rick Ross, Free Nationals, Amber Mark, and more.

Check out the video for “Wonder Woman” above.

Legend is out now via John Legend Music and Republic. Listen here.

This year’s Emmys didn’t have anything approaching a certain shocking Oscars moment. But the night wasn’t without controversy. The thing that most people talked about — along with Sheryl Lee Ralph’s passionate, musical acceptance speech — involved another Abbott Elementary win: Quinta Brunson getting slightly upstaged by Jimmy Kimmel pretending to be dead even after she won for Writing for a Comedy Series.

As it happens, Brunson was already scheduled to be on Jimmy Kimmel Live! a mere two days later. On Wednesday night, the two hashed it out. First, she jokingly interrupted Kimmel’s opening monologue. Then, during their formal chit-chat, he formally apologized.

“I feel like I just saw you,” he cracked as she sat down opposite him. About her speech, he joked, “I missed it. How did it go?” He then got serious, calling what he did a “dumb comedy bit.,” adding, ““I’m sorry I did do that, actually. And also, the last thing I would ever want to do was upset you because I think so much of you. And I think you know that — I hope you know that.”

Brunson accepted Kimmel’s apology, saying, “It is very kind of you to say that,” and adding that she was “wrapped up in the moment” of having won her first Emmy and “just having a good time.” She then added, “I had a great night!”

Kimmel then blamed it all on Will Arnett, his co-presenter, to which Brunson said, “Screw Bojack Horseman.”

Brunson addressed Kimmel’s antics after her win, saying that it “didn’t bother me and pointing out that he was one of the first person to see Abbott Elementary and had long been a supporter of hers. “Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him,” she added.

As for Sheryl Lee Ralph, well, she wasn’t as forgiving.

(Via THR)

Nav has been applying heavy pressure ever since the release of his latest album Demons Protected By Angels. In an effort similar to Drake’s 2015 smash diss record “Back To Back,” he has shared new videos over the last two days for “One Time” featuring Don Toliver and Future, and one of the lead singles “Never Sleep” featuring Lil Baby and Travis Scott.”

“One Time” opens with Toliver sitting on the roof of a Buick in the desert while singing the hook. Women walk past him and enter a desolate bar before the video transitions to Nav sitting in a motel room with a woman laying on the bed next to him. Future later appears on television, rapping in front of a beaten-down home.

“Never Sleep” follows the Toronto rapper through a fun night in Las Vegas. Scott appears in place of Abraham Lincoln on the back of a penny while performing his portion of the record, before appearing on a jumbotron and on a playing card. Nav shrinks his size and raps atop the blackjack table with chips scattered around him before Lil Baby appears, sitting atop a stack of chips while getting his bars off. The Weeknd also appears in the video, laughing next to Nav as they play blackjack.

These records follow Nav’s video for “Lost Me” featuring Realest K which was released on Saturday, just a day after Demons Protected By Angels was shared with the world.

Check out the video for “One Time” above and “Never Sleep” here.

Demons Protected By Angels is out now via XO and Republic. Listen here.

The Fast and Furious franchise has this habit of casting one actor then adopting them into Dom’s ever-growing family. Even the villains tend to stick around, sometimes even joining the team. So who’s new with Fast X, the 10th in the main series and the 11th overall (counting the spin-off Hobbs & Shaw)? Glad you asked.

As per CinemaBlend, there are five big new additions to the next film’s increasingly large ensemble. There’s Jason Momoa, on tap to play the, as he describes him, “sadistic” and “very flamboyant bad boy.” (It’s unclear if he’ll be teaming up with Charlize Theron’s Cipher, who’s also back.) There’s Daniela Melchior, who played Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s bloody The Suicide Squad, though it’s not clear who she’ll be playing. Ditto one of the biggest gets: Brie Larson, who confirmed her role in the new film via a photo with Vin Diesel in July.

Then there’s Alan Ritchson, known for playing the title character in Amazon’s show Reacher, taking over a character previously embodied by Tom Cruise. As it happens, he shares something with fellow new cast member Momoa: He’s also played Aquaman, albeit ages ago, on the aughts CW show Smallville.

Oh, and they also got the legendary Rita Moreno. Why not!

They’ll be joining the returning cast, which includes [deep breath]: Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris and Nathalie Emmanuel and Sung Kang and Theron and Jordana Brewster and John Cena and Jason Statham and Helen Mirren and Michael Rooker and Cardi B. Alas, Dwayne Johnson is sitting this one out.

Fast X hits theaters on May 19, 2023.

There’s a chance — a small one — that Donald Trump could have won re-election. Had his response to the COVID-19 outbreak been good, or even competent, or even barely-assed, he might have wormed his way into the hearts of more than simply his rabid and sometimes violent supporters. Alas, he’s Donald Trump, and his response was to mostly ignore it, to mock masks, to give absurdly bad medical advice. Maybe things would be different had he listened to his own wife.

As per CNN, a new book — The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by New York Times’ Peter Baker and CNN’s own Susan Glasser — claims that Melania tried to talk some sense into him as cases and deaths skyrocketed.

“‘You’re blowing this,’ she recalled telling her husband,” Baker and Glasser write. “‘This is serious. It’s going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you’re taking it.’ He had just dismissed her. ‘You worry too much,’ she remembered him saying. ‘Forget it.’”

And so, cases and deaths stayed high, in part because half the country — the Trump-voting half — were convinced by the president and his cronies that it wasn’t worth taking seriously. Even when vaccines became available, many didn’t take them. When Trump advised getting vaxxed, they booed him, even as deaths overwhelmingly affected his supporters.

As for Trump, he now rants to strangers in a resort where he now lives, all while fending off an ever-growing number of headaches that may leave him broke and/or in prison. But at least he can still run a third time from jail.

(Via CNN)

Eminem is decades into his historic rap career and showing no signs of slowing down. With such a storied and prominent career, many details still remain unknown to most. The Detroit rapper, in celebration of XXL‘s 25th anniversary, penned a personal story recounting all he has been through and how drug addiction spanning over multiple years affected his 2004 album Encore.

“My drug usage started at the beginning of that first album,” Eminem said, in reference to 1999’s The Slim Shady LP. “I didn’t take anything hard until I got famous. I was experimenting. I hadn’t found a drug of choice. Back then you went on tour and people were just giving you free drugs. I managed it for a little while. And then, it just became, I like this shit too much and I don’t know how to stop.”

He continued: “Encore took a whole f*ckin’ different trajectory because Encore was during my addiction. I was realizing I’m getting addicted to these f*ckin’ pills. I was just coming off The Eminem Show and the 8 Mile soundtrack and I started recording and had about seven or eight songs that were very much in the vein of what I do. But we ended up putting them out as a f*ckin’ bonus disc because the songs leaked. If those hadn’t leaked, Encore would’ve been a much different album.”

The rapper explained how “We As Americans,” “Love You More,” “Bully,” and “Evil Deeds” all leaked, with “We As Americans” originally intended to be the album’s opening song. “If that would’ve been on Encore and the other couple songs that leaked,” he wrote, “to me it would’ve been right there with The Eminem Show as far as its caliber.”

In having to start the recording process all over again, Eminem’s addiction grew and he was soon in a “goofy mood.” Said mood caused a change in the music he was making. “So now, I go make ‘Ass Like That,’ ‘Big Weenie,’ ‘Rain Man,’ all those silly songs, which I’m writing in f*ckin’ seconds at that point in time,” he wrote. “I was just writing high and feeling good about what I’m doing because I got f*ckin’ 20 Vicodin in me and this is fun to do, and I’m having fun, so f*ck it.”

Eminem had a hard time coming to grips with the fact he didn’t do his best after the album was released. Worst of all, for him, was the critical reception. “I released what I had at that point in time, and I feel that put a kind of a mark on my catalog,” he said. “Encore did some decent numbers, but I was never that concerned with numbers. I was more so worried about what people think about the album. Critics and fans were important to me, and they were always at me about that project.”

Check out Eminem’s full story on XXL here.

Few trailers have wanted you to know that the monster is an internet meme as much as this one for Grimcutty. The funny thing is that it’s not a specific internet meme in the real world being movie-ized (like Slender Man), but the big bad of this teen tech horror (a totally real genre!) is a thing spread from youth to youth over whatever app they’re into these days. Microsoft Excel probably?

If anything, it feels like it’s copypastaing from the Momo Challenge, a challenge that wasn’t a challenge at all, just like tons of moral panics that parents buy hook, line, and sinker because they don’t know that kids stopped using Excel to message each other years ago. A creepy picture and children compelled to do something because they saw it.

Time for an official synopsis:

“Directed and written by John William Ross (The Birch), Grimcutty follows a suburban teen girl (newcomer Sara Wolfkind) and her little brother (Callan Farris) who must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents, played by Usman Ally (VEEP, A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Shannyn Sossamon (Wayward Pines, Sleepy Hollow). Alona Tal (SEAL Team) also stars, as a mother whose son (Kayden Koshalev) is affected by the memetic monster.”

That creature design is super fun and horrifying. It seems like they kept saying “make it bigger” when they saw each incarnation of the face. But can we talk about the most disturbing part of the trailer?

Who stores knives in a horizontal pile inside a plastic food storage container on a high shelf? Monsters.

Grimcutty hits Hulu October 10th.

The story of the week in the NBA has been the league finally releasing its findings from its nearly year-long investigation into allegations of Suns owner Robert Sarver making racist and sexist comments while fostering a hostile workplace environment in Phoenix.

The league’s investigation confirmed what had originally been reported by ESPN’s Baxter Holmes, which at the time Sarver vehemently denied as false reporting only to now come out and try to express remorse. Sarver was slapped with a $10 million fine and a year-long suspension, with Adam Silver citing that newfound remorse and him “evolving” as a person as a reason for the lighter punishment in a rather dreadful press conference trying to explain how the league landed on this as Sarver’s penalty.

As many have pointed out, Sarver’s use of the N-word (which he was first told not to say in 2004 and then said repeatedly in 2017, showing a lack of evolution) and sexist comments certainly doesn’t seem far off from Donald Sterling, who was ousted by the league and forced to sell the Clippers for similar comments (that just happened to exist on tape that could be run over and over on networks). Along with Sterling being on tape saying horrific things, one of the biggest reasons for his removal from the league was the threat from players to sit out during the playoffs and their public outcry against Sterling.

Up until today, we hadn’t had much of that given it’s the offseason and the report just came out, but on Wednesday two of the league’s most prominent voices, including a Suns star, called the league out for not doing enough to Sarver. First it was LeBron James, who flatly called the league “wrong” for how it handled the situation, with Chris Paul following suit by first making sure to that he felt for the victims of Sarver’s words and actions, while also saying the league “fell short” in addressing his “atrocious behavior.”

Paul’s statement is notable for a number of reasons, as he is, along with Devin Booker, one of the top stars on the Suns, which Sarver owns, so speaking out on this comes as no small thing. He’s also the former president of the NBPA, and his voice, along with James’, carries tremendous weight around the league as one of its most respected veterans. Paul has also, unfortunately, found himself in this position before as a member of the Clippers as the Sterling tapes became public and he was forced out (in no small part due to the Clippers threatening not to play in a playoff game).

For its part, the NBPA likewise has made clear it feels the league did enough, with Tamika Tremaglio issuing a strong statement on Wednesday as well calling on the league to do more.

The NBA obviously hoped the $10 million fine would suffice in the minds of many, but the findings of the investigation are too damning for that to be the case. As pressure mounts from players, we’ll see if the NBA adjusts course or if players take a more proactive stance to force such action.

Summer 2021 saw the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years at war with the Taliban. The speed at which the Afghanistan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control of the capitol city Kabul shocked the world, leaving American forces scrambling to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghan citizens amid chaos and violence.

Directed by Jamie Roberts, Escape From Kabul chronicles those harrowing 18 days in August.

The official synopsis: “This deeply immersive and emotional documentary combines never-before-seen archival footage from those on the ground at the airport, with exclusive interviews with people who were there throughout the period, including Afghan citizens attempting to flee, U.S. Marines tasked with managing the evacuation, and Taliban commanders and fighters who had recently taken the city.”

The shock moment of the trailer is when it shifts from American perspectives to interview with representatives of the Taliban. That angle alone promises a very different documentary.

Escape from Kabul lands at HBO Max September 21st, a little over a year after the evacuation. Hopefully it will shed some light on the days and months after, even as the Afghanistan War Commission continues to explore the full scope of the 20-year-long war.

No stranger to chaos, Roberts’ Four Hours at the Capitol provided a mob’s eye view into the January 6th insurrection when then-president Donald Trump attempted to get followers to stop the certification of Joe Biden‘s election.