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Jaylen Brown Says One Game ‘Feels Like I Played Three’ After Suffering From COVID-19

Prior to the beginning of the 2021-22 NBA regular season, Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown tested positive for COVID-19. He missed the team’s final three tune-up contests during the preseason, but has suited up for four of Boston’s five regular-season games and even dropped 46 points on opening night against the New York Knicks. However, Brown said he’s experiencing residual effects of the virus, per Chris Grenham of Forbes Sports.

Brown is not the first Celtic to report long-term effects of a bout with COVID. Last season, in January, teammate Jayson Tatum contracted COVID and said he had to start taking an inhaler before games, which he’d never previously done.

“I take an inhaler before the game since I’ve tested positive,” Tatum said, according to ESPN’s Tim Bontemps. “This has kind of helped with that and opened up my lungs.”

Similarly, Philadelphia 76ers guard Seth Curry contracted COVID in January and was transparent about the lengthy process required for him to regain rhythm and his athletic capacity.

Brown has not said anything to indicate he wants to take time off to get back to 100 percent. So far this season, Boston’s 25-year-old All-Star is averaging 24.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in 37.5 minutes per game, with his scoring and minutes marks second on the team only to Tatum.

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Let’s Keep ‘Dune’ It: Denis Villeneuve, With ‘Dune: Part Two’ Set, Is Already Making Plans For A Third

Despite a scorching op-ed written by director Denis Villeneuve after it was announced that Dune would be included in the highly controversial decision by Warner Bros. to release its entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max the same day as theaters, the film performed admirably at the box office. More importantly, Dune‘s success secured a green light for Dune: Part Two just a few days after the first film’s release, and from the sound of things, Villeneuve seems to be much happier with his relationship with Warner Bros. now.

For starters, Dune: Part Two has been guaranteed an exclusive 45-day theatrical window, which was key to Villeneuve, who told The Hollywood Reporter, “The theatrical experience is at the very heart of the cinematic language for me.” Notably, earlier in the year, Villeneuve was concerned that the HBO Max move had killed the Dune franchise before it even started, but now he’s talking about possibly even coming back for a third movie. Via THR:

“If things go well with Part Two, I could foresee the idea of maybe doing … Dune Messiah. That would make sense to me,” Villeneuve says when asked about his career plans. “After that, I think that I will make some other movies — let’s call them big movies, regarding their ambition and scope. And later on, when I’m too tired to do that, I will go back to some smaller projects. But for now, I have the energy to do this.”

Of course, before Villeneuve starts figuring out how to tackle the third installment in Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi series, he has to get to work on Dune: Part Two, which starts filming in Fall 2022, according to the director. However, he assures Dune fans that the production won’t take nearly as long because a lot of the groundwork was laid down making the first film, but he and cinematographer Greig Fraser will still be pushing the sequel’s visual style.

“I don’t want to have the impression that we are just repeating ourselves,” Villeneuve said.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

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Teen bullied for loving books gets an avalanche of support from those who love reading, too

This article originally appeared on 03.04.20

There are few more fulfilling hobbies than having a love of books.

Reading isn’t just a great way to have a good time. Reading increases brain connectivity, makes people more empathetic, reduces depression symptoms, improves vocabulary, and may even cause you to live longer.

It’s a huge benefit for a child’s development as well. According to Parent.com, reading “stimulates the side of the brain that helps with mental imagery, understanding, and language processing, and that brain activity.”

Sure beats wasting time playing video games.


Thirteen-year-old Callum Manning wanted to share his love of reading with the world, so on February 23, he created an Instagram account where he posted photos of the books he’s read. It started with a post about Stephen King’s “The Shining.”

“So I guess I’m going to start this account off with one of my favourite books, Callum wrote. “This book was the first book I read in 1 day. And I was like 10. So yeah it scared me.”

He would go on to fill his pages with books such as “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, “1984” by George Orwell, and current classics such as “A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” by J.K. Rowling

Kids Callum’s age can be exceptionally cruel. A group of them created a group chat where they bullied him for his love of books and then invited him to join. After subjecting him to emotional abuse, they kicked him out of the chat.

“I don’t tend to cry that often but I think that was the first time in a while I’ve actually cried,” Callum told PA Media.

His older sister, Ellis Landreth, was understandably upset about the cruelty, so she tweeted about the group chat, hoping about “20 or 30 of my friends [would] like a few of his posts or follow him or give him some words of encouragement.”

Her tweet would go viral, receiving over 180,000 likes.

She was bombarded by responses from people who wanted to support her brother.

Just a few hours after the tweet, Callum received thousands of followers on his page. In just three days, he’s up to nearly 400,000 followers. He’s also received countless messages of support through the page.

English novelist Matt Haig sent Callum a collection of books, adding: “Hey let’s all follow Cals Book Account on Instagram and show him some support.” A book store near Manning’s home in northeast England promised him a book on the house.

Callum’s story was shared on Instagram by authors Caroline Kepnes and Malorie Blackman.

The teenager has received over 15,000 messages in his DMs. “He’s absolutely overwhelmed,” Landreth told CNN. “He can’t even get through all his DMs.”

Callum’s mother is over the moon about the response. “She’s so happy people are spreading positive messages about these issues,” Landreth said. “No matter how small some things seem, they can stick with kids forever.”

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A popular optical illusion with a mindbending twist proves we can’t trust our senses

This article originally appeared on 02.21.20


Optical illusions are universally beloved for how they trick our brains and blow our minds. There’s a reason we enjoy magic shows and Escher paintings and are mesmerized by fake oases in the desert. We love seeing things that bend our perceptions of reality, and the science behind the magic always proves fascinating as well.


The Ames window is a pretty well-known optical illusion, but it’s always cool to see. When spun, the angled window appears to oscillate back and forth instead of spin all the way around. But this video adds a twist that makes the effect even more mindbending—our brains simply can’t process objective reality mixed with an optical illusion.

The YouTube channel Curiosity Show explains the science of the illusion and gives a DIY demonstration for making your own Ames window. But wait until the pen gets taped to the window and spun. This is some real-life magic right here. Mind. Blown.


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This simple ‘test’ can help identify potentially abusive partners early in a relationship.

This article originally appeared on 02.11.19


Most abusers don’t start their relationships by hitting their partners. That’s why early warning signs are vital to recognize.

I know two women who recently left abusive partners. Both men seemed sweet and likable—even gentle—each time I saw them. Both had some lovely qualities as people and even as partners. And both turned out to be controlling, increasingly abusive partners behind closed doors.

The thing about domestic violence is that most people don’t enter into relationships with someone who abuses them from the get go. It’s often like the analogy of the frog in boiling water. If you place a frog into a pot of boiling water, it’ll jump right out. But if you put it in a cool pot and gradually increase the temperature, the frog won’t recognize that it’s being slowly cooked until it’s too late.


Abuse usually comes on gradually, with plenty of opportunity to manipulate and forgive and justify the water getting warmer. That’s why many stay in abusive relationships far longer than they should.

A domestic violence counselor suggests a simple test to help identify potential abusers early in a relationship.

Rob Andrews is a domestic violence counselor in Australia. He told ABC News that he advises people to use what he calls the “No Test” to identify potential red flags early on in a relationship.

“The No Test is basically to watch out for the way your partner responds the first time you change your mind or say no,” Andrews said.

“While expressing disappointment is OK, it’s not the same as annoyed. Annoyed is ‘how dare you,’ a sign of ownership or entitlement.”

Ownership, entitlement, control—these are red flags that often lead to increasingly abusive behavior. And though women can definitely be abusers, the reality is that women are much more likely to be the victims of domestic violence and male abusers tend to be more dangerous to their partners.

“A lot of the women who will present to services will see themselves as part of the problem,” Andrews said. “They’ll ask themselves why they’re always attracted to abusive men, blame themselves for not being assertive enough, blame themselves for pushing their partner’s buttons, causing their anger.”

“With the No Test, we’re not trying to give women knowledge that they didn’t already know,” he said, “but when they see it in black and white in front of them like that, they realize they of course have the right to say no, that they aren’t to blame.”

Andrews describes our patriarchal history as “the nut of the problem.”

Andrews said that some people erroneously tell women that they should just be more assertive with their partners, letting them know they won’t stand for controlling or abusive behavior, but that’s not always the best tack to take.

“Being assertive with a man who’s threatening to bash you is not a very good idea,” he said. “It almost comes from what I’d call ‘deficit thinking,’ that somehow these women need to be trained up so that the people won’t abuse them. The only person who can stop the abuse is the person who is doing the abusing.”

Andrews works with men who are struggling with their own behavior and want to change. He has them think about what kind of man they really want to be and work with them to align their behavior with that vision.

“I hear a lot of people saying how it’s so hard for men now, it’s all so confusing,” he said. “It’s very easy to be a man. Just be polite and respectful to people, it’s not that difficult really.”

“But in saying that,” he added, “we are to some extent dealing with 2,000 years of history of women being a second-class citizen. That’s the nut of the problem and we’ve got to keep chipping away at it.”

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Kylie Minogue And Jessie Ware Continue Glorying In Disco Revival On Their New Collab, ‘Kiss Of Life’

Kylie Minogue launched a return last year that clearly had the blessing of the Disco Gods. The aptly-named Minogue comeback, DISCO, had fans of ’70s dance floor jams rejoicing, and songs like “Say Something” and her remix of “Real Groove” featuring Dua Lipa got even more people interested in pop’s recent revival of the groovy format.

Apparently, Minogue realized after Dua hopped on that remix that adding new collaborators and guests to her already-pristine rework of ’70s vibes was a great way to connect the past with the present, and her new version of the record drops in a few weeks. DISCO: Guest List Edition includes guests like Years & Years, the legendary disco icon Gloria Gaynor, and extended mixes or remixes from Basement Jaxx, Purple Disco Machine, and Syn Cole.

Luckily for Jessie Ware fans, it also includes a collaboration between Minogue and Ware on “Kiss Of Life.” For her part, Jessie was getting into the disco revival vibes herself last year with the shimmering What’s Your Pleasure?. “Kiss Of Life” is a sweet spot between the two records, and further proof that this ’70s throwback emphasis isn’t going anywhere soon — the music that’s coming out of it is just too good! Check out the collab up above and look out for DISCO: Guest List Edition dropping on November 12.

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The Pros And Cons Of Watching Every Movie In A Long-Running Horror Series

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is my favorite horror movie ever, but beyond some of the later (and mostly dreadful) Michael Bay-produced installments, I never bothered with the sequels. This was partially by choice, as I wanted to preserve the integrity of the original, but mostly, every time I thought about putting on Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, I decided to watch something else instead. (“Re-Animator for the 47th time? Sounds good, me.”) But this being the spookiest time of year, I decided it was time to make my way through the entire Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, from director Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic to 2017’s instantly-forgotten Leatherface and the six movies in between. This proved to be both a rewarding and unpleasant experience.

Here are three cons and three pros of watching every Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie and, by proxy, every installment in any long-running horror series.

CON

There are 12 Friday the 13th movies. 12 Halloween movies. 10 Hellraiser movies. Nine A Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Nine Saw movies. Eight The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. That is SO many movies. It’s a time-sucking commitment to marathon many of the most iconic horror series. Want to watch every Leprechaun movie, for some reason? That’ll set you back over 12 hours. This, among many other reasons, is why the Gremlins series is perfect. Two movies, both five out of five stars. Also, this guy.

PRO

It’s fun seeing famous people before they were famous. Did you know future Oscar winners Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey are in the wildly weird Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation? There’s also Leonardo DiCaprio in Critters 3, Paul Rudd in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Adam Scott in Hellraiser: Bloodline, Jack Black in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and George Clooney in Return of the Killer Tomatoes? I’m sorry that I sat through Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, but I’m not sorry for turning into the Leo pointing meme when I saw Charlize Theron in Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest.

CON

This children’s drawing of Leatherface haunts me.

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If I hadn’t watched Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, I never would have been subjected to this. There’s a lesson to be learned here (don’t watch a movie where “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” comes after the semicolon).

PRO

This time last year, I was midway through watching every Best Picture winner. Did I mention I have an obsessive personality? Anyway, one of the joys of the project was seeing how movies have changed over the decades, whether through technological advances or the rising and declining popularity of certain genres. It’s impossible to imagine The Shape of Water being named Best Picture if it came out in 1988, and it’s equally difficult to picture the 1988 film that did win, Rain Man, still winning in 2018 when The Shape of Water took home the honor. Context matters and tastes change, for better and worse, and the most successful franchises adjust to shifting audience expectations. Child’s Play started as a relatively straightforward horror series, what with the slashing and murdering, but Bride of Chucky took a Scream-inspired turn towards self-referential comedy and it’s the best movie in the dang franchise. It’s fun to see the evolution.

CON

Sitting through bad movies is — and I cannot stress this enough — bad! Think of all the canonical horror movies you (I) haven’t seen because you were (I was) busy watching Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. Once I grow attached to a TV show or movie series, I have a hard time disconnecting myself from it — it’s why I have seen all 700-something episodes of The Simpsons. It’s also why I find myself getting irrationally annoyed with confusing continuity. “Wait, what’s Leatherface’s real name in this one?” (Luckily, there are timelines to calm me down.) Horror inspires deeply loyal fans, but that loyalty is often put to the test the further you go into a franchise. That being said…

PRO

The best thing about watching a long-running horror series is that you’re (usually) guaranteed at least one very good-to-great movie. There’s a reason The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Scream, and Halloween were all turned into franchises. Sometimes there are even many good movies, like the Evil Dead trilogy or the Alien franchise (if Paul Thomas Anderson thinks it counts as horror, it’s horror). You have to deal with a lot of dreck to be a horror movie completist, but it’s worth it when something like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors comes along… bitch.

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Those ‘NBA Jam’ T-Shirts Came From A Lifelong Love Of The Game

Ryan Vesler and Mike Pacini aren’t exactly subtle about how much they love NBA Jam. The founder/CEO and wholesale sales manager, respectively, of the Ohio-based t-shirt company Homage have a vested interest in other folks loving the game — “your customers are gonna decide and give you a vote with their dollars if they like something,” Vesler tells me — but even if no one ever purchased a single t-shirt the company makes celebrating the game, you get the sense that both guys would spend their free time pouring over the lore of the series that first released in 1993.

But of course, it helps when you are in a position to take what you like and make something special out of it. Vesler, who calls it “the greatest video game of all time,” always wanted NBA Jam to be part of the Homage experience. Long before the line of shirts were launched, he wanted there to be a classic NBA Jam machine set to free play in each of the company’s stores. Back in 2009, prior to the company having a single brick-and-mortar location, Vesler purchased a machine off of Craigslist and hosted a tournament at a sneaker store in Columbus, where 20 or so people gathered around and played.

Fast forward to July 27, 2021 and this love of a silly little video game found its way into the biggest story of the NFL’s offseason. Aaron Rodgers, on the heels of a few months of discontent that culminated in his wanting a trade, decided to report to the Green Bay Packers. He did so wearing one of numerous off-shoots of the NBA Jam line, a t-shirt depicting Kevin Malone from The Office and a pot of chili, with the unmistakable Homage “H” logo on the shirt’s left sleeve.

“Maybe that’s like, the body of all the work coming together in like, the apex moment, Aaron Rodgers,” Vesler ponders. “Because it’s like, years of planting seeds with original duos in the game, the evolution of pop culture, and then this moment that’s kind of riddled with offseason drama about like, is he gonna sign, are they gonna trade in, what’s the deal? I’m sure there’d be a way to connect the dots in another year from now. But I think there’s probably some something to that moment that brings it all together.”

The story behind tossing NBA Jam duos was as easy as the idea being floated in a meeting one day in 2017. At the time, Homage already was an NBA licensee and worked with Philly-based company Mitchell & Ness on Hardwood Classics gear. It didn’t take long for people to fall in love with some of the iconic duos from the game, like John Stockton and Karl Malone, or Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen.

One year later, right on the verge of the 2018 NBA playoffs and with a licensing agreement with the National Basketball Players Association in their back pocket, a lightbulb went off over Vesler’s head: What if we do this with current players, too?

Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics got a shirt. Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum of the Portland Trail Blazers did, too. They wanted a Cleveland Cavaliers one with LeBron James on it, but that didn’t come to fruition. Instead, it was Kevin Love and J.R. Smith.

“We hit this moment of playoff fever with these tees and it went berserk,” Vesler says. “So that was a good indicator. Because you know, retail, you kind of read and react. When you launch something, you never quite know how it’s gonna perform. But the energy of the playoffs was very much alive in that spring and we just hit it at the right time. Let’s say we had launched those in November or at the start of the season, I don’t know if we would have had the same effect. So that moment we knew, like, okay, we have something here. Let’s start rolling this out to more teams, because that just became a gradual exercise over the next couple of seasons.”

Now, all 30 teams have at least one NBA Jam shirt. Teams sell them in their arenas, and they’ll come up with pairings that might sell better with their fans — Pacini recalls that, when Brook and Robin Lopez were teammates on the Bucks, they had a shirt with one another at Fiserv Forum. It’s bled into a number of other places, with MLB reaching out after a 2019 article about potential duos and asking if MLB Jam t-shirts were possible. Homage made it happen. That was also the case when WWE requested “WWE Slam” shirts.

It’s not just a sports thing: Some shirts, like the one Rodgers wore, are an opportunity to provide a crossover into the world of pop culture. There are shirts inspired by The Office, Rugrats, and Saved by the Bell.

“I just think it’s like, a really irreverent, fun way to present like duo’s or partners in crime, and so the two people that are side-by-side, it’s unexpected for customers to see them depicted in that way,” Vesler says when asked about why this concept has gone beyond the world of basketball. “And then there’s some declaration with the stats of like, how funny they are as a character, or like, how well they can dunk. I think the stats create a conversation. Once you’re kind of lured in with the artwork, there’s this secondary discussion around like, oh, what are those stats? And like, oh, that’s funny.

“I think the best t-shirts create conversation,” he continues. “That’s ultimately why everybody works at Homage and loves Homage, because it’s a catalyst for storytelling. So I think this particular aesthetic is probably the most on display in terms of creating a conversation beyond a team logo.”

Those stats can be particularly tricky. Sure, when the graphics were inspired by the game, it was easy enough to just copy those and toss them onto a piece of fabric. But current players present a different challenge, while pop culture shirts require a special kind of creativity.

The general policy is to consult whomever is the “in-house expert” on a given topic. For the various pop culture and wrestling shirts, that can be any person who really loves a television show and can figure out a way to take little jokes and Jam-ify them. For sports, that’s Pacini’s turf, who mixes watching a whole heck of a lot of basketball with pouring over stats in a part-art and part-science approach to figuring out what’s going on a shirt.

“It’s really imperfect because you could have the seventh man on the team who’s a 45 percent three-point shooter and takes four a game, then you could have Trae Young, who’s more around 35 percent but hits big three-pointers,” Pacini says. “Are you gonna put that guy as a better three-point shooter than Trae Young? Probably not, because you have to factor in big shot making, clutch ability, whatever the case may be. You shouldn’t just look at the stats — like, Damian Lillard is pulling up from the logo, where other guys are just shooting from the corner and they’re wide open. There’s no formula you use.”

Figuring out what to do with rookies can be tricky. That’s also the case for guys whose skills have diminished — think Blake Griffin going from an all-time dunker to someone who doesn’t exactly put opponents on posters every night. While there’s never been, to their knowledge, a player who threw a fit over their ranking, they were once told of a Hornets radio staffer getting in an elevator with Kemba Walker, who saw they were wearing an NBA Jam shirt he was on and asked “why are my dunks so low?”

The good news is that, while both admit they’ve made mistakes, Vesler points out that there’s a uniqueness to this collection because of how things change. Stats are part of them, stats change, and as such, there can be tweaks to a player’s speed, three-pointers, dunks, and defense as they continue to show up on shirts.

They’ve managed to become popular with some athletes. Jamal Murray wore one featuring himself and Nikola Jokic during a postgame press conference during the 2019 NBA playoffs, while Mike Conley was once photographed paying — pardon the pun — homage to fellow Utah Jazz standouts Stockton and Malone. Recently, Pacini worked with former New York Mets teammates Doc Gooden and Daryl Strawberry around the release of the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Once Upon a Time in Queens. Gooden, Pacini says, had a blast with the project, as he used to play NBA Jam back in the 1990s, and was willing to have a critical eye so his stats were as accurate as possible.

“In most cases, it’s not direct with the players, but in some cases, it is,” Pacini says. “And it’s cool for them to have input. Most players will be extremely honest with themselves after they have the chance reflect on their careers and they’re not in the moment anymore. And if you look at the stats, I think we got it spot on, who knows better than the player himself?”

Throughout our conversation, ideas pop up for shirts — a Tony Kornheiser/Michael Wilbon one for the 20th anniversary of Pardon the Interruption, Boban Marjanovic and Tobias Harris, Mario and Luigi, Beavis and Butthead — that they either want to see or, in the case of PTI or Bobi and Tobi, would have liked at a time when it was more appropriate. It is very obvious that this entire project stems from a place of love, and even if they were not a business that has seen great success from the Jam line, producing shirts based on a video game they have played throughout their lives exist would still be a source of constant excitement.

For Vesler, it’s easy to draw parallels between the shirts and all their various spin-offs from the original idea and the uniquely fun game that inspired them.

“When that game came out, there was nothing like it, and arguably today, it’s every bit as playable and fun as it was,” he says. “Games often don’t stand the test of time, this game has. And it’s a new twist on player tees. Player tees have been done and are out there, and you can manipulate the graphics. This is something that’s never been done before. So it’s way fun … except for managing the stats.”

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‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Says She Has ‘No Idea Where The Live Rounds Came From’

It has now been more than one week since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was tragically killed on the New Mexico set of the new Western Rust, when she was fatally shot and killed by a bullet from a gun fired by Alec Baldwin. While authorities continue their investigation into the incident, new details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the production. One of the names that keeps popping up is that of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the set armorer, who was in charge of overseeing the production’s weaponry.

In the litany of claims that have been leveled against the production, which was reportedly plagued by complaints of poor working conditions and more than one accidental gun discharge, Gutierrez-Reed’s lack of experience has been a major point of contention. She had worked as an armorer only once before, on the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie The Old Way, and according to some accounts was once reportedly chastised by the actor due partly to her inexperience. But now Gutierrez-Reed is finally speaking out.

As The Wrap reports, Gutierrez-Reed issued a statement via her attorneys, Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, in which they claim she had no knowledge of how a live round ended up in the gun. The 24-year-old is “devastated” by the incident, according to the statement, as Hutchins was “an inspirational woman in film who Hannah looked up to.” She issued the statement in order to set the record straight as far as her own culpability goes, to “address some untruths that have been told to the media,” and to make it clear that the responsibility for this tragedy lies with the film’s producers.

“Safety is Hannah’s number one priority on set,” according to the statement. “Ultimately this set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced. Hannah has no idea where the live rounds came from.” It also stated that she “never witnessed anyone shoot live rounds with these guns and nor would she permit that.”

Gutierrez-Reed’s statement reasserts claims from others involved with the film there was an overarching complacency toward safety issues on the Rust set. The Wrap writes that:

“Hannah was hired on two positions for this film, which made it extremely difficult to focus on her job as an armorer.” Gutierrez-Reed also asserts that she “fought” for gun safety and maintenance training and for “proper time to prepare for gunfire,” requests that were “overruled by production and her department.”

Gutierrez-Reed and her lawyers will be addressing the incident further next week.

(Via The Wrap)

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YG Leads A Lowrider Caravan In His Sunny ‘Sign Language’ Video

YG is back with a new G-Funk banger to take advantage of the unseasonably warm weather in California. “Sign Language” is exactly what its title suggests: A gangbanging anthem encouraging listeners to talk with their hands, whether throwing up their sets or throwing punches at foes. With a drop-top-worthy beat from Realmind and Terrace Martin, YG leads a caravan of lowriders through the streets of LA, shows off some tricky footwork in a parking lot, and posts up at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro to soak up some sun at the picturesque basketball court.

“Sign Language” is YG’s first solo single of the year, but far from his only output so far in 2021. He’s actually had quite the prolific 2021, releasing a pair of projects including Gang Affiliated, a compilation showcase for his 4Hunnid label’s new signees Day Sulan and D3Szn; and Kommunity Service, YG’s joint mixtape with Sacramento rapper Mozzy which featured a string of breakout singles including “Perfect Timing” with Blxst, “Vibe With You” featuring Ty Dolla Sign, and “Dangerous” with Chicago rapper G Herbo. YG also appeared on OhGeesy’s solo single “Big Bad Wolf” and is booked to perform at Snoop Dogg’s Once Upon A Time In LA Festival. Could all this activity mean a follow-up to My Life 4Hunnid is coming soon?

Watch the “Sign Language” video above.