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One of the splashiest signings of the WNBA offseason was the Los Angeles Sparks landing former Aces star Liz Cambage, but less than a season in, the two sides have decided to part ways.

On Tuesday morning, a report from Khristina Williams of Girls Talk Sports TV indicated that Cambage wanted out of L.A. and had “quit on the team,” which created quite the stir among WNBA fans.

Cambage’s brand manager denied those reports as being the cause of the split.

All of that was followed by an official announcement less than two hours later that Cambage and the Sparks had agreed to a “contract divorce,” similar to what happened with Tina Charles in Phoenix earlier this season. The official statement was complimentary of Cambage and appeared to try and make this seem as amicable as possible, although it’s clear it wasn’t exactly a clean break if someone with the Sparks is willing to tell a reporter Cambage “quit.”

“It is with support that we share Liz Cambage’s decision to terminate her contract with the organization,” Sparks Managing Partner Eric Holoman said. “We want what’s best for Liz and have agreed to part ways amicably. The Sparks remain excited about our core group and are focused on our run towards a 2022 playoff berth.”

It continues what has been a tumultuous year for Cambage, who is facing allegations of using a racial slur towards the Nigerian basketball team that led to her exit from the Australian national squad prior to the Olympics. It’ll be interesting to see who looks to bring the former All-Star in, as she averaged 13.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game for the Sparks prior to her exit.

Jim Hopper had a Gandalf-like resurrection during season four of Netflix’s mega-hit series Stranger Things. But at one point, the actor who plays him would have been fine if Hawkins’ newly svelte former-police chief never made it to Russia.

“There were several times I thought he should die,” David Harbour told Variety. “I certainly thought that in the beginning, because he was so destroyed and hell bent on destruction. Then when it seemed like he went in season three, I was happy for him.” But the Emmy nominee had a change of heart, probably when he learned he would hold a sword in the latest season. “As he’s being resurrected as the man he wants to become, it would almost be nicer to keep him alive. Let’s see what they choose,” he said.

Harbour also discussed his dramatic weight loss. “I don’t want to play the same notes. So I said let’s go for it and have him lose weight and shave his head and do something that is such a dramatic difference from season three,” he said. Harbour apologized to all those who are mourning his dad bod, but don’t worry, “I will tell you this: David Harbour will have dad bods in the future, I have no doubt,” he joked.

The only thing I want for Christmas is for Harbour’s Santa to not be ripped.

(Via Variety)

It’s been over 16 years since That ’70s Show aired its series finale, but the show has never stopped being a popular mainstay in syndication and on streaming networks. Knowing that the Fox sitcom is still a powerhouse with viewers, Netflix greenlit a new spinoff series, That ’90s Show, which reunites almost all of the original cast (with the obvious exception of Danny Masterson).

Among the returning cast are real-life couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, who met on the show that launched both of their careers. So when the offer came to reprise their roles on That ’90s Show, the two knew it was the right thing to do.

“Mila and I were contemplating it,” Kutcher told Variety at the red carpet premiere of B.J. Novak’s Vengeance. “We thought, ‘Listen, we’re only in the position that we’re in because of that show, so let’s just go back and do this. We just went back and had fun for a week. It was so random and fun.”

While Netflix has yet to announce a release date for That ’90s Show, more details about the spinoff have been trickling out. Via Variety:

“That ’90s Show” is set to follow Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna’s (Laura Prepon) daughter Leia Forman (Callie Haverda) as she visits her grandparents for the summer. Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp are returning from the original cast to once again play Red and Kitty. The series, set in 1995, will follow a new generation of Point Place kids and includes newcomers Haverda, Ashley Aufderheide, Mace Coronel, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Reyn Doi and Sam Morelos.

According to Variety, Kutcher and the original cast will make guest appearances throughout the series, which will prominently center on Red and Kitty trying to wrangle another generation of youngsters. “It’s really funny,” Kutcher said. “The new cast is phenomenal.”

(Via Variety)

The latest season of Stranger Things is full of musical connections, most notably with the use of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” At the center of Season 4’s musical universe, both within the show and beyond it, is Joseph Quinn, aka Eddie Munson: He famously performed Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” on the show, Doja Cat took an interest in him, and the “Chrissy, Wake Up” remix is a viral phenomenon. Now, Quinn has made his late-night TV debut on The Tonight Show and talked about all those things (except Doja, unfortunately) with Jimmy Fallon.

During the chat, Fallon made the not-so-true claim that after Stranger Things, “Master Of Puppets” became “the No. 1 song in the country.” (It was No. 1 on the iTunes rock chart earlier this month, but the real “No. 1 song in the country” is whatever is on top of the Billboard Hot 100, not a genre-specific chart from a single platform. “Master Of Puppets” did, however, enter the Hot 100 for the first time earlier this month, debuting at No. 40.)

In response, Quinn quipped, “I get no royalties, though.” He went on to say of performing the song, “It was kind of nerve-wracking. It was at a weird point in the pandemic where no one had seen any live music for ages. It was me and Gaten [Matarazzo] and it was so fun. I was nervous but it was kind of like a rock concert and I got to feel like a rock star for one night, and that was pretty great.”

Fallon then played the famed “Chrissy, Wake Up” remix from Schmoyoho (aka The Gregory Brothers, who are also known for remixes like “Bed Intruder Song“). Quinn commented, “I think I probably got about 15 minutes today where that wasn’t flying around in my head, so it’s nice to have it back. Yeah, I think it’s so funny, well done.”

Check out Quinn’s full Fallon interview above.

During her appearance at Rolling Loud Miami this past weekend, Saweetie gave fans a taste of new music. Ahead of her hotly anticipated, oft-delayed full-length debut, Pretty B*tch Music, the multi-hyphenate previewed a new track called “Don’t Say Nothin’.”

While the sound in the video footage is a bit hard to hear, fans immediately made out the lyrics, “He must have got excited when I FaceTimed him with nothing on / Same h*es that’s talking be the same ones I nutted on / 100k? You know much paper I be touching on? / That’s light, baby check my net worth.”

The lyrics seem to be in response to rumors that Lil Baby took Saweetie on a $100,000 shopping spree, after Hollywood Unlocked reported that they were seen shopping together last year. Shortly after the news broke, Lil Baby took to Twitter to clarify that at the time, he was single.

This performance at Rolling Loud will be her only performance this summer. After her Rolling Loud slot, she confirmed to Spotify that she would be spending the rest of the summer finishing Pretty B*tch Music.

“This is the first time ever in my career where I’ve actually been recording consistently,” she said. “…I told my team I’m not performing this summer. I need to focus on my music and that’s what I’ve been doing.

Saweetie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

With less than a month to go until the world of Westeros comes roaring back to life, House of the Dragon made a strong showing at Comic-Con where George R.R. Martin was on hand to answer questions about the prequel series. As shown in the most recent trailer, there is a great deal of concern over a woman potentially sitting on the Iron Throne as the male characters do everything in their power to prevent such an outcome. According to Martin, he and the writers are just sticking to history even though the show is infused with fantasy elements.

“I don’t think Westeros is particularly more anti-woman or more misogynistic than real life and what we call history,” Martin told Entertainment Weekly before diving into the real life events that inspired Westeros.

“I get inspiration from history, and then I take elements from history and I turn it up to 11,” the fantasy author said. “Games of Thrones is, as many people have observed, based very loosely on the War of the Roses. [House of the Dragon] is based on an earlier period in history called the Anarchy.”

Martin cited the life of Henry I, who was left with one illegitimate child, whom he named his heir. Once he died, her claim to the throne was challenged by her cousin and civil war broke out. Sounds pretty similar to the synopsis of House of the Dragon.

While that’s well and good, House of the Dragon has already stirred up controversy after showrunners Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik recently revealed that, like Game of Thrones, the prequel series would depict sexual assault. Like Martin, the showrunners cited history as their template.

“[We] don’t shy away from it,” Sapochnik told The Hollywood Reporter. “If anything, we’re going to shine a light on that aspect. You can’t ignore the violence that was perpetrated on women by men in that time. It shouldn’t be downplayed and it shouldn’t be glorified.”

House of the Dragon starts streaming August 21 on HBO Max.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

At the end of April, Chaz Bear, more commonly known as Toro Y Moi, released Mahal, his seventh album under the moniker. The project was his first full-length release since 2019’s Outer Peace, which was also his last release under Carpark. Toro Y Moi soon inked a deal with Dead Oceans, where he released Mahal. The new label also meant a bit of a new direction for Toro Y Moi and that was clear on Mahal as it presented moments of funk and others of rock. In a continued effort to keep the project alive, Toro Y Moi stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Millennium” from the album.

Toro Y Moi was nothing short of silky and smooth for his performance on The Tonight Show. Blue and purple lighting flooded the stage as Toro Y Moi appeared with sparkles glued below his eyes to add to the aesthetic of the set.

The performance on The Tonight Show comes after Toro Y Moi debuted Goes By So Fast: A Mahal Short Film. With help from comedian Eric Andre, Toro Y Moi sought to create a world around his seventh album as he and Andre embarked on a journey throughout the Bay Area.

You can watch Toro Y Moi’s performance in the video above.

Mahal is out now via Dead Oceans. You can stream it here.

In A24’s X, one of the best (and seediest) horror movies of the year, Mia Goth played two roles: Maxine, an aspiring adult film star, and Pearl, a sexually repressed elderly woman who lives on a farm with her cranky husband. It was a career-best performance from the actress, one that she’ll further explore in the X prequel, Pearl.

Pearl is set decades before the events of X as Pearl discovers her sexuality — and love of murder. “It is very much a story about Pearl. So you will learn more about her,” director Ti West told Bloody Disgusting. “It is stylistically very different from X. You do not need one without the other, but they enrich each other in a specific way. In the way that X is affected, let’s say by 1970s horror independent filmmaking and Americana cinema, Pearl is influenced by a very different era of filmmaking.” There’s also more goose killing.

Here’s more:

Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.

Pearl (which is hopefully better than every Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel) opens on September 16.

Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert famously did not graduate high school and holds a GED. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this; however, Boebert refuses to brush up on the U.S. Constitution and only really pays attention to the Second Amendment because Guns. That puts her right in line with the current Supreme Court mix, but nonetheless, Boebert has a willful lack of a grasp about the branches of government (as laid out by the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause ) and why those powers are so important to separate.

Previously, Boebert strutted onstage at Cornerstone Christian Center and declared, “The church is supposed to direct the government.” She clearly doesn’t give a hoot about Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s celebration of the “wall of separation between Church & State.” Yet Boebert declared, “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution.”

Yet she characteristically ignores the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, and Boebert’s now back to promote her book, My American Life. In doing so, she stopped by to visit with conservative podcaster Graham Allen (host of Dear America), to whom she expressed more Church vs. State confusion:

“The church is supposed to direct government, not the opposite way,” Boebert stated. “The church is supposed to influence govt .. The Bible says that government rests on God’s shoulders.” Yet Boebert (who seems to believe that everyone should be Christian) forgets that Founding Father James Madison declared that no religion should reign superior or be established as a national requirement:

“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.”

Granted, this is not too surprising of an outcome, given that Bobert’s someone who can’t separate Samuel Adams and John Adams separate in her own mind. Also, she’s gotta sell those books to the MAGA crowd before they jump ship like Fox and Friends has done. Rough stuff!

In recent weeks, Britney Spears’ Instagram page has been mostly free of family drama. That changed last night, though, when in a now-deleted post, Britney chose to highlight some text conversations from when she was allegedly forced into a mental health facility in 2019 and detail the night before that happened.

The post itself reads, “It’s a little different with proof … Here are my text messages to my mom in that place 3 years ago … I show it because there was no response … When I got out, her words were ‘You should have let me visit you and give you a hug.’ The second picture is a message to my friend from home … She was supposed to help me get a new lawyer … I never heard back from her … The last picture was a message to the lawyer I didn’t get to pick … I had nobody … PS My sister’s text after not texing for 3 days was ‘They’re not gonna let you go so why are you fighting it’ …”

In a series of texts sent to her mother Lynne Spears, Spears wrote, “He was saying he wants to UP the seraquil and I’m like whoaaaaaaa horsey go f*ck yourslwf. Seraquil i thought was a sleep aid but it’s for bipolar and is WAAAAAY Stronger than lithium. I literally feel all the sick medicine in my stomach … I feel like he’s trying to kill me. I swear to god I do.” Britney’s screenshot shows no response from Lynne.

She also shared a similar conversation with a friend named Jansen, asking for the number of somebody named John Bell and adding, “Also what about the lithium levels in your opinion and it being monitored for so long…. of course they can MAKE UP any excuse to keep doing it but is it really healthy and ok to give blood for THAT LONG … I have a feeling you will say I will be ok but it still doesn’t make sense.”

In a text to her former court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingham, Spears wrote:

“Great I want to talk about going to court when this is done and getting my medical rights ,,, my boyfriend the right to spend the night with me,,, how can I leave early ,,,, the plan I have u for last month or whatever the f*ck these f*cking people want from me … In court my boyfriend needs to be able to see my children …. I’ve been in the for 12 years I want it over …. I woudk like to replace. Two security guards with new …. would like to to have a day in who comes to my house for security … when this program is over I don’t want to work at all … I want to live for me and have an adventurous life … I want asswhole benson to let me drive again I want to go on three vacations this years …. Miami ,,, New York And [illegible].”

Lynne later shared the other side of the story, posting what appears to be a screenshot of Jansen’s Instagram Story. In it, Jansen shares a screenshot indicating they did respond to Britney’s lithium concerns, writing, “This is what I read about it so I at least think u are in a safe range at least. It says they monitor the blood levels so they can keep it in a certain range. I don’t know tons ab lithium so I had to research it. It said if it gets toxic to u u have the symptoms listed in the last text. I texted Mrs Donna and got her quick return ‘out of office’ message that said they were in Washington DC this week and to leave a message and they would return calls when they got back so no luck on getting his number this week and I don’t know anyone else that would have it or give.”

An overlay on the post reads, “The full message and I did respond!! I have always felt like some of my messages were deleted. Please read the bottom.” As for the bottom text, that says:

“My heart is a little broken this morning so I would like to clarify some things….I love my friends more than life itself and would go to the ends of the earth for them. This msg along with THOUSANDS of msgs were sent to the court investigator in 2019 in order to help my friend Britney Spears. We talked daily when she was in her last facility and her mom and I even went to New Orleans and met with an attorney to try and help her because we knew they wouldn’t let us near her! We were also very cautious of what we would write in messages because we had a feeling her phone was being monitored. When she left the facility my phone number was blocked from her and we have never spoken again! I have tried to reach her through every possible outlet and always failed.”

Lynne captioned her post, “Britney, I have all the ‘whole conversations’ as well! I hurt for you that you feel the people who love you the most betrayed you! Let me come to you! I love you!”

After Lynne’s post, Spears fired back. In another post, Spears wrote about alleged mistreatment from her mother and about the night before she entered the mental health facility:

“Yo ma did you also let people know that’s one of the only times you text me back ??? Did you also tell people how you hid coffee every single morning ??? Did you tell them every morning when I would try to find coffee there were no pictures of me up in the kitchen, just Maddie and Jamie Lynn ??? Every single morning I would put a picture of me by you guys … and every morning you would put it away before I woke up !!! Did you tell them how you were at my beach house when I couldn’t even have the keys to my car ??? Did you tell them I was doing 3 AA meetings a week when I hate alcohcl ??? Play the responsible perfect parent and go to church in Louisiana … it’s a joke !!! You all ruined it for me … I don’t ever remember getting a text from you !!! Did you tell them when the conservatorship first started you and Bryan’s wife went out every night and drank wine and got your stupid pictures taken when I couldn’t go anywhere or have my boyfriend anymore ??? You have some nerve showing your texts when you know you guys hurt me so bad its not even funny !!! Did you tell them two weeks prior to the conservatorship being started it was already planned ??? I had you, Miss Jacky, Allie and another friend over the night before they took me away!!! I had done nothing wrong and you kept telling me on my couch we need to go to Malibu cause I think people are coming to get me and I said ‘WHY???’ !!! I didn’t believe you guys … we had a f*cking sleepover the night before !!! It was all planned and you acted like you had no idea what was going on !!! Two weeks later you released a book and showed my heartbreak when Kevin took my kids … you abused me … yes I will say it and it blows my mind that you still play the prayer loving mom !!!”

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