A video of a man introducing his new puppy to the neighborhood cat is a wonderful piece of optimism. Why? Because the man shows he believes that if we make an effort, even nature’s fiercest enemies—dogs and cats—can get along.
Heck, it’s the type of thinking that could solve a lot of problems between humans as well. Maybe if we took some time to understand one another and get past negative stereotypes we could coexist without any trouble.
A TikTok user named Cheyenne caught the “pure moment” on video and says she hasn’t “stopped smiling since,” she captioned the video. After she posted the video it received more than 7.7 million views and 1.4 million likes.
It even caught the attention of the dog’s owner who commented on the video as Ted’s Dad.
“I should point out that I had petted the cat first and assessed how this might turn out. Ted is 4 months old and has been introduced to cats before,” he commented.
“Hope you enjoyed the video! Sorry if it’s intrusive but the moment was too sweet not to record! Glad it found its way to you! Ted is lovely,” Cheyenne responded.
According to Ted’s Dad, his dog is a woodle, which, according to Wag Walking, is “a hybrid designer dog that is created by mixing the Welsh Terrier with the Poodle.” Woodles are known for being “loving,” “caring” dogs who are exceptionally calm. Given the dog’s temperament, it’s no wonder Ted’s Dad thought it’d be OK to introduce him to the cat.
Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather endured boos and abusive jokes at the Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is issuing a formal apology. In 1973, Littlefeather refused Marlon Brando’s Best Actor Oscar on his behalf for his iconic role in “The Godfather” at the ceremony to protest the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans.
She explained that Brando “very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award, the reasons for this being … the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee.”
Littlefeather is a Native American civil rights activist who was born to a Native American (Apache and Yaqui) father and a European American mother.
The unexpected surprise was greeted with a mixture of applause and boos from the audience and would be the butt of jokes told by presenters, including Clint Eastwood. Littlefeather later said that John Wayne attempted to assault her backstage.
“A lot of people were making money off of that racism of the Hollywood Indian,” Littlefeather told KQED. “Of course, they’re going to boo. They don’t want their evening interrupted.”
The Academy is apologizing for what she endured with “an evening of conversation, reflection, healing, and celebration with Littlefeather” on September 17, 2022, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, it announced on its blog.
“The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified,” former Academy president David Rubin wrote in a letter to Littlefeather, CNN reports. “The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable. For too long the courage you showed has been unacknowledged. For this, we offer both our deepest apologies and our sincere admiration.”
Littlefeather said in a statement that the event is “a dream come true” and joked that “we Indians are very patient people—it’s only been 50 years! We need to keep our sense of humor about this at all times. It’s our method of survival.”
It’s sure to be a cathartic evening for Littlefeather.
“People don’t realize what my experience was. They had absolutely no idea—none—of what my experience was, what I went through,” Littlefeather told the Academy. “And now, I’m here to tell my story the way that it was from my point of view, from my experience.”
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“It feels like the sacred circle is completing itself before I go in this life,” Littlefeather, 75, added. “It feels like a big cleanse, if you will, of mind, body, and spirit, and of heart. It feels that the truth will be known. And it feels like the creator is being good to me.”
Brando passed away in 2014 but would probably be excited for Littlefeather’s long overdue apology. Three months after she refused the award on his behalf, he explained his rationale for rejecting the Oscar on “The Dick Cavett Show.” The interview was historic because Brando was known for avoiding the media, it was also far ahead of its time given the climate in Hollywood surrounding people of color in 1973.
“I felt that there was an opportunity,” Brando calmly told Cavett about the awards ceremony. “Since the American Indian hasn’t been able to have his voice heard anywhere in the history of the United States, I felt that it was a marvelous opportunity for an Indian to be able to voice his opinion to 85 million people, I guess that was the number. I felt that he had a right to, in view of what Hollywood has done to him.”
“The Godfather” star then expanded his thoughts on representation to include all people of color.
“I don’t think people realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, and as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites,” he said. “So when someone makes a protest of some kind and says, ‘No, please don’t present the Chinese this way.’ … On this network, you can see silly renditions of human behavior. The leering Filipino houseboy, the wily Japanese or the kook or the gook. The idiot Black man, the stupid Indian. It goes on and on and on, and people actually don’t realize how deeply these people are injured by seeing themselves represented—not the adults, who are already inured to that kind of pain and pressure, but the children. Indian children, seeing Indians represented as savage, as ugly, as nasty, vicious, treacherous, drunken—they grow up only with a negative image of themselves, and it lasts a lifetime.”
Hollywood is still far from ideal when it comes to being truly representative of America at large. But it is miles ahead of where it was in 1973 when the film industry, including some of its biggest stars, was outwardly hostile toward the idea of representation.
The Academy’s public apology should give some closure to Littlefeather and provide hope to countless others. Because when an industry honestly confronts its past mistakes, it makes a promise that it’ll be less likely to commit them in the future.
(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan will be found below.)
At long last, after almost a year without a new episode, Power Book III: Raising Kanan finally made its return to STARZ this past weekend. The series altogether details the early days of Kanan Stark, who was played by 50 Cent in the original Power series, and in just one season, we’ve already seen what drove Kanan to enter the drug game. Kanan’s desire to protect and provide for his family is what motivates his entrance into the drug game, but he may have underestimated how ruthless it can be, something we see at the end of season one.
The inaugural season of Power Book III: Raising Kanan ends with Kanan, his mother Raq, uncles Lou-Lou and Marvin, best friend Jukebox, and others in a state of panic as Kanan attempts to murder Detective Howard following orders from Raq. Kanan’s attempt is unsuccessful and the aftermath of that is where we begin in this week’s newly released episode to start season two. Following the shooting, Kanan spends the summer in Virginia until things cool off, and it’s not until Raq returns to pick him up that he’s told Detective Howard survived the shooting. With that being said, Kanan returns to Queens where the city remains tense following the shooting. Elsewhere, Lou-Lou struggles to make a profit with his record label, Marvin is tasked with somehow earning his daughter Jukebox’s trust back, Raq looks to expand, and Detective Howard works to get back on his feet.
Here are some of the biggest questions we had after the first episode of season two:
Does Detective Howard Actually Not Remember Anything From The Shooting?
After Raq and Kanan head back to Queens, we see Detective Howard get rolled in a wheelchair out of his hospital room to be officially discharged after the shooting. In a conversation with the doctors as Howard is being discharged, Detective Burke, Howard’s fairly new partner, seems to question the fact that Howard can’t remember anything from the shooting. While the doctor assures her that memory loss in trauma cases is normal, her skepticism is completely warranted as we see in multiple scenes in the episode. Howard stakes out at Kanan’s home before slyly driving away, but not without Kanan noticing him in the vehicle. The episode also closes with a meeting between Raq and Howard. All signs point to Howard remembering everything from the night he was shot, and it seems like his memory loss is all an act as he looks to get back to investigating Raq, Kanan (who is still unaware that Howard is his father), and others on his own terms.
Can Marvin Repair His Relationship With Jukebox?
It turns out that Kanan is not the only person who spent a summer away from home. Jukebox also moved out from under her father Marvin’s roof and it’s for good reason too. In the second-to-last episode of season one, Marvin brutally attacks Jukebox after he finds out about her romantic relationship with Nicole through pictures in her room. Marvin confronts her about it and even taunts Jukebox about Nicole’s death and that leads to Jukebox spitting on him which was followed by Marvin’s attack. In season two, Marvin seems to be remorseful about his actions, especially after three months without his daughter at home. He tries to talk to her, but Jukebox wants nothing to do with him. Marvin has a lot of work to do to repair his relationship with Jukebox, and that work will involve a lot more than a simple apology and half-assed promise to do better.
How Much Did Kanan And Jukebox Change In A Summer?
A lot can change in a summer and that couldn’t be clearer between Jukebox and Kanan. After reconnecting in this episode, Kanan and Jukebox sit outside the former’s house for a conversation. It’s here that Kanan questions cigarette-smoking habits, which earns quite the telling response from Jukebox. “The world didn’t stop spinning when you left kid.” Problems, trauma, and a need to survive still remain, and with that, brings expected and unexpected changes for the people and the world around you. While Jukebox’s smoking habits and broken relationship with her father are new to her, Kanan’s heightened fear of the drug game’s realities is new for him, especially when you remember that he begged Raq to bring him into it. Traumatic moments will change you, and we can slowly see that between Kanan and Jukebox. The question that remains is how will it further change them as both individuals and in regards to their friendship?
We Know Scrappy’s Weakness, What’s Everyone Else’s?
Raq details her plans to expand the drug operation into New Jersey, but until that’s underway, she wants everyone to be on their toes with making money and also making sure nothing attracts police officers to their new operation headquarters. With that comes Raq’s request for Scrappy to put his gambling ways on pause. Of course, he doesn’t listen, and that results in him being at the wrong place at the wrong time as a police raid goes down during poker night. With Scrappy’s weakness clearly being his gambling itch, it leaves one to wonder what everyone else’s weaknesses are. Well, Raq’s might be her overzealous expansion goals which could result in her missing the smaller details. Lou-Lou’s upstart record label is taking away from time and production in the drug business, something that frustrates Raq as it could hinder their growth. Marvin’s anger continues to get the best of him which could cause irreversible damage if he’s not careful. Kanan is hesitant about continuing in the drug business, but it may be too little too late as he’s caused enough damag. This hesitance could also make him a liability to the family.
How Do Raq’s Short-Term Goals Change Now That Unique Is Out?
For Raq, Detective Howard’s attempted murder was not only a way to get rid of a nuisance to her operation, but it was also a way to get rid of the competition. That’s because Raq framed Unique (played by Joey Badass) for the shooting by having Kanan wear Unique’s trademark jacket during the shooting before having it quickly placed in Unique’s hotel room. Raq’s plan falls apart as Unique is released from jail and allowed to get back to work. We can assume that Raq’s plans to expand will only infuriate Unique who looks to elevate his own crew in the drug game. Raq hints at compensating Unique’s crew in order to have her plans go uninterrupted, but that can only happen if Unique is willing to work with her, which in itself is a tall thought. It may have been smooth sailing for Raq during the summer, but things could get real cold, harsh, and brutal with winter around the corner.
What Are Raq And Detective Howard Meeting About?
Well, this happened a bit sooner than expected. At the end of episode one, Raq and Howard and briefly shown meeting in the same park that Kanan shot him in. Throughout season one, Howard spent much of his time investigating a shooting that he believes (rightfully so) that Kanan was responsible for. Howard’s investigation fails to amount to any arrests, and he spends the rest of the season keeping a close eye on Raq, Kanan, and everyone else in the operation. His close watch is also a result of him being Kanan’s true father, information that Raq desperately wants to keep away from her son. So, this random meet-up between Raq and Howard could be about anything. Is it about the shooting? Is it about Howard wanting to tell Kanan that he’s his father? Is it about both? Or is there something new in store for us? Well, we’ll just have to wait until episode two to find out.
New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ are available to watch on Sundays at 12:00am EST.
A League of Their Own was pretty progressive for 1992. The film told the story of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), which helped keep the nation’s favorite pasttime alive while many male ball players were overseas fighting in World War II. It was enthusiastically pro-woman. It was also pretty white and pretty straight. The Abbi Jacobson-led TV reboot on Amazon fixes that, adding people of color and queer characters. But some people aren’t having it.
On Monday, Jacobson — who is wisely not on Twitter — used the show’s account to express her gratitude about all the strong reactions her show’s received…and slam those steamed about its diversity.
“I’ve been pretty blown away by the response this weekend. I was really changed learning about this generation of women. I feel really proud of this show + to know its resonating with people really means a lot,” Jacobson wrote. “On the flip side,” she added,”I have seen a lot of people angry and mad at our inclusion of more experiences (POC, QWOC, queer) and that anger (aka fear) has only made me more sure about why this reimagining needed to be made. Why representation matters so much.”
In a recent interview with Uproxx, Jacobson, who created the show with Mozart in the Jungle showrunner Will Graham, said they were always talking about how they were “not remaking the movie,” that instead they were “trying to reimagine it and tell those stories that weren’t told in the film.”
A League of Their Own now streams on Amazon Prime.
Following ASAP Rocky’s arrest in April at LAX in connection with a shooting on November 6 last year, the rapper was formally charged with assault with a firearm on Monday, August 15, according to Rolling Stone. The news was announced by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. Rocky’s arraignment is Wednesday and he could face up to nine years in prison if found guilty.
In a statement, Gascón said, “Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood. My office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.”
This follows ASAP Relli — a talent manager, producer, and a member of the hip-hop collective ASAP Mob — stepping forward as a victim of the shooting last week. His attorneys Jamal Tooson and Brian Hurwitz claimed that Rocky lured Relli to central Hollywood and showed up with semi-automatic handgun. “After arriving at the location, a conversation ensued whereby without provocation, warning, or any justification, ASAP Rocky produced the handgun and intentionally fired multiple shots at Mr. Ephron,” they told Rolling Stone.
It’s been obvious since Drake surprise-dropped Honestly, Nevermind that he’s in grind mode. Immediately after the release, the musician began discussing a poetry book and a Scary Hours pack. Now, on the first episode of Nicki Minaj’s Queen Radio on Amp, he confirmed that he’s not looking to stop any time soon and hasn’t considered retirement.
“I’m not at that point where I even consider that being an option,” he said. “One of the best feelings I have in my life is completing a song or project. And by the way those things are painful as well. A lot of nerves, a lot of confidence wavering. But I feel like I’m reaching a new level of fun. I’ve reached a new level of comfortability where I want to try things. Like this last album, I put out something I wanted to do to challenge myself.”
The “Headlines” performer is not only reaching new levels of fun; he’s reaching new levels of fame by continuously breaking records. Just today, claimed his 30th top five song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, surpassing The Beatles, who held the record for 64 years. Now he’s alone at the top, staking a claim one of the world’s greatest hitmakers of all time.
The FBI currently has a problem: Someone they’re investigating keeps saying things that inspire his supporters to threaten their agents. Donald Trump is furious that federal agents searched the resort he now calls home. Details on what they were looking for are currently hush-hush — it is an investigation, after all — but that hasn’t stopped Trumpworld from making baseless accusations, including that the feds planted evidence. Even Fox News hosts have pleaded with Trump to stop the anti-FBI vitriol amidst outbreaks of death threats and even an attack. Now the former president has finally offered to help…sort of…not really.
As per The Daily Beast, Trump did an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday in which he basically did the “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” bit from I Think You Should Leave.
“The country is in a very dangerous position,” Trump lamented. But he wasn’t blaming himself for the unrest he’s helped unleash. He thinks people are mad because of the nonsense claims he’s spread. “There is tremendous anger, like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and this new one — years of scams and witch hunts, and now this.”
He then offered to help, though it’s not clear how if he was misdiagnosing the problem. “If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people would certainly be willing to do that,” he said.
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Trump actually did reach out to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who’s played a part in the FBI’s current investigation. He reportedly told him, “The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?” Trump said he “has not heard” back from Garland just yet.
If you were wondering how useful Trump could be in putting out the fire he’s started, well, wouldn’t you know he went and further insinuated that the FBI could have planted incriminating evidence. “They could take anything they want, and put anything they want in,” he said. He then went back to saying “the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen. The people of this country are not going to stand for another scam.”
Just to recap: The president says “terrible things” are bound to happen, likely enacted by his violent supporters by baseless claims he keeps repeating, if authorities keep investigating his suspicious actions. Luckily he’ll do anything to help, shy of actually telling his violent supporters to stop or ceasing from spreading inciting nonsense. But at least so far they won’t even show their faces in D.C.
Lifetime‘s 2019 doc-series Surviving R. Kelly showed the extent of the abuse and harm the rapper caused, leading to a moral reckoning within the music world. Now as Kelly faces his second federal trial, he wants jurors who’ve seen the series to be banned from participating.
In documents obtained by TMZ, Kelly’s legal team wrote, “Any potential juror who has watched any portion of this docuseries must be disqualified for cause on whether they can be fair, too great a risk exists that such a juror would base their verdict on matters not introduced into evidence in the courtroom.”
They continued, “Any potential juror who has seen any portion of Surviving R. Kelly is prejudiced where there’s no scenario which an individual exposed to the contents of Surviving R. Kelly can be impartial.”
The trial has been hard to watch as it’s unfolded. Just last month, Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell pled guilty to stalking and harassing one of the singer’s sexual abuse victims. The 47-year-old was accused of harassing and intimidating a Jane Doe victim and her mother using emails, phone calls, and text messages to keep her from pursuing justice against Kelly. Russell was previously accused of making gun threats in an attempt to stop a screening of Surviving R. Kelly in New York City.
The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last week has been met with both excitement and trepidation. On one hand, there’s a chance Donald Trump might finally pay for some of his alleged wrongdoing, for the first time in his life. On the other, there’s fear it could re-energize his base, even after it appeared Fox News was giving him the boot. Could there be another Jan. 6-style riot? Whatever the case, the pro-Trump protest scheduled for last weekend wasn’t it.
As per The Daily Beast, not a single soul bothered to show up at a heavily promoted protest that was supposed to take place on Sunday outside the FBI branch in Washington, D.C. The gathering had been heavily toted on right-wing media. Alas, there was also talk that the protest might be a “trap,” meant to ensnare Trump supporters and land them in the slammer just like such Jan. 6 protesters as the QAnon Shaman and the “influencer” who filmed herself in the Capitol building and then served time in the clink.
Whatever the explanation, the protest was worse than a dud. It was like a movie bombing so hard that literally no one sees it. It’s more bad news for a former president who’s already in deep doo-doo, and whose anti-FBI rhetoric has not only helped inspire violence but also pissed off Fox News hosts.
Back when Drake broke a more curious record by The Beatles of hit songs, the Toronto rapper tattooed the Fab Four on his arm. Well, he might have to hop on the phone and call his tattoo artist because he’s just done it again and might have just staked claim as the world’s greatest hitmaker in the process.
With the song “Staying Alive” by DJ Khaled and featuring both Drake and Lil Baby, Drake just claimed his 30th top five song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He was previously tied with The Beatles — who held the record for 64 years — at 29, and now he’s alone at the top. With this record, he can finally accurately claim that, “I got more slaps than The Beatles.”
Other artists who are in the running for most Top 5 singles of all time include Madonna with 28, Mariah Carey with 27, Janet Jackson at 26, Rihanna with 23, Elvis with 21 and then Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, and Stevie Wonder with 2o top five songs on the Hot 100. For what it’s worth, The Beatles still hold claim to the most number one singles of all time with 20. Mariah Carey has 19 Elvis has 18 and Drake is further down on the list with a modest 11 No. 1s.
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