‘Tis the season for Cartoon Villain Roger Stone to be back in the spotlight. He’s reportedly been under investigation (by the Department of Justice) for possibly masterminding the Jan. 6 insurrection. That update arrived after Trump commuted Stone’s seven-felony sentence, and it’s all so surreal when one considers that we’re talking about a guy with a Nixon tattoo. This week, we heard that Stone was nursing some major MAGA paranoia while cautioning his fellow “patriots” not to attend the “Justice for J6” rally in Washington, D.C., and especially not to do so while carrying a firearm. As he told Russia Today during an interview, Stone firmly believes, “It’s a setup.” Well, Stone’s wild ride continues, regardless of his decision not to attend that rally.
As revealed in a clip posted by Republican lawyer Ron Filipkowski (who recently distanced himself from Florida Gov. DeSantis’ antics), sh*t got real for Roger Stone’s paranoid mind on Wednesday morning. While speaking live on the air with a St. Louis radio station (and propping up the idea of Trump 2024), he paused to answer the door to receive lawsuit papers. This all goes down in a matter-of-fact way.
“Hold on a second, I have a process server at my front door, about to serve me in the latest lawsuit,” Stone proclaimed. “Good morning sir! How are you? Yes, of course, I’ll be happy to accept your… oh yes, a civil court in the District of Columbia!”
While Roger Stone was live on the air this morning with ‘Real Talk 93.3’ (St Louis) doing an interview about the 2024 election, he gets served by a process server with the January 6 lawsuit. (Audio) pic.twitter.com/pnXBPQh3Vn
Also worth noting, as Salon’s Zachary Petrizzo pointed out in the below tweet: Stone has been claiming that his rising legal bills have led him to put his Florida home on the market and reside within an apartment. However, Roger Stone must have been living at his old address because, hey, that’s where the lawsuit papers were delivered ^^.
Roger Stone keeps claiming that he had to sell his Florida home and move into an apartment due to his mounting legal bills – but that appears to be false after I checked out the address listed on the court documents he was served today.
Video games have to get delayed sometimes, that’s just a part of the development process. As much as developers wish they could meet deadlines and schedules perfectly, the truth is that the creative process fluctuates constantly, and video games are incredibly difficult to make. However, 2021 in particular has been brutal when it’s come to delays. The already difficult development process on top of the year that was 2020 has led to many developers being forced to delay their games from the original release dates.
Unfortunately for EA, this delay happened to be way worse than they could ever be expected because the delay got leaked beforehand. One reporter, Jeff Grubb of Venture Beat, got wind that the delay was coming down the line, so he tweeted out the info he had. He did not say the game, he did not even indicate it would be EA. He just said that a video game was going to be delayed soon.
Welcome to delay season. More delays coming this week.
Of course, Grubb was not the only person to get wind of this leak. Leaks like this usually get out to multiple people well before they’re officially announced. The information on that leak must have made the rounds, though, because suddenly, EA’s stock fell $2 billion in a day, which of course sent everyone back to the source. Jeff Grubb you have tanked an entire company’s stocks with a single tweet!
This was before everyone knew that the game was only being delayed a month, but the damage had been done. EA’s stocks were plummeting because everyone heard that a delay was going to happen — at least, that’s how it looked.
I refuse to believe that I’m responsible, but also, that’s an insane overreaction. https://t.co/uO8efucuOw
Then when the delay was officially out it turned out to only be for a month which means, if the stock for EA really did plummet because one reporter did their job, then it was a little bit of an overreaction.
After being away on vacation for the last part of the summer, Jimmy Kimmel missed out on Mike Lindell‘s disastrous Cyber Symposium, which ended in humiliation as Lindell’s own cyber security expert debunked the MyPillow’s CEO claims that he has a cache of data that proved the 2020 election was stolen. There was also lots of yelling at reporters and accusations of being attacked by Antifa. Basically, classic Lindell stuff, and Jimmy wanted to hear all about it.
Naturally, Kimmel didn’t talk to the real Lindell, but instead, to Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s resident “MyPillow Mike” impersonator James Adomian who, as always, delivered a pitch-perfect performance that captured just the right amount of nonsensical ranting. In the segment, Kimmel startles “MyPillow Mike” while he’s in the middle of a hammering away on a Red Box vending machine, prompting to late night host to ask what he’s doing.
“What the hey does it look like I’m doing?” MyPillow Mike said. “I’m cracking open this Dominion Voting Machine to extricate the bogus ballots.” After Kimmel points that it’s a Red Box, MyPillow Mike couldn’t agree more. “You’re right it’s a red box. It’s a red communist Chinese box and it’s here to steal the presidency from our Donald J. Trump.”
After some back and forth on how MyPillow Mike got the date wrong on Trump being reinstated because he was looking at his 1999 Kevin Spacey calendar upside down, Kimmel finally got to ask Mike what went wrong with the Cyber Symposium. According to Mike, he couldn’t expose the real evidence because it was too “dangerous” as proven by the attempt on his life.
“Dominion sent an assassin to viciously attack me in the lobby of my hotel. He came right up like Lee Oswald, and he said, ‘Hey Pillow,’” Mike told Kimmel before revealing that he knows the identity of his attackers. “It was the Ninja Turtles.”
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
This Gillian Anderson-starring series returns, so that the X-Files and The Crown actress can continue embarrassing the heck out of her TV son, Otis (Asa Butterfield), who is apparently now having casual sex. Jemima Kirke is officially on board, too, as a headteacher named Hope, who desperately wants to restore Moordale Secondary School to its former sterling reputation. Uh, good luck with that? Also, Anderson’s character is pregnant. Oh, Mom. Watch it on Netflix.
The Other Two returns after a long, long wait following a one-year shutdown on production for… you know why. The result of that time away? Brooke and Cary are still assholes (but assholes who are advancing in their lives and dealing with the chaos of that), Chase is giving the Stranger Things kids a run for their money in the “let’s pretend these growth spurts didn’t happen” department, Streeter has gone blonde, and Molly Shannon has been UNLEASHED as Pat Dubek becomes a star in her own right. The results are somehow equally scathing and heartfelt, allowing the show to climb another wrung in the “you really need to watch this” hierarchy. Watch it on HBO Max.
B.J. Novak (The Office, Inglourious Basterds) writes all of the episodes on this show, which aims to use dark comedy to tackle tough topics, including sex, social media, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and immigration. Along the way, there’s apparently the “the worst sex tape ever,” and a lot of this show aims for satire (which is not easy to pull off, especially with such hot-button topics) with mixed results. Watch it on FX on Hulu.
Netflix really has the market cornered on wildly popular European heist shows between Lupin and this series, which follows a criminal mastermind named “The Professor” and a group of associates with a collection of very specific skills as they attempt to rob various banks and literal money-printing operation in Spain. It’s a juicy binge-watch with drama and slick thieves and misdirection, all you need in a fun heist series. And hey, if you get into the action deep enough and pay close attention to the English subtitles while the characters are talking, you might end up learning Spanish by accident. That would be cool. Watch it on Netflix.
The Devil is back for one last dance-of-a-rodeo in Season 6, and naturally, Lucifer Morningstar is still a total pain in the tush, and you’ll love him for it. Fortunately, he’s no longer attempting to be a detective. Lucifer is now God (don’t ask), and if he doesn’t get with the new program, he’s liable to trigger the apocalypse of all apocalypses. This is one last, fan-requested hurrah for a Netflix-resurrected series, and Neil Gaiman’s creation will live on in fans’ hearts and, most likely, their pants as well. Watch it on Netflix.
The expectation game and buzz should be a lot louder for this show which seemingly had a dozen starts and stops on its way to getting adapted from the Brian K. Vaughan/Pia Guerra Vertigo comic from the early aughts. And yet, it seems to be actually coming into existence with a low roar — a shame as the first few episodes do the kind of world-building that promises to pay off down the road. If the Walking Dead never existed, we’d all be losing our minds over the debut of this post-apocalyptic plague series about the literal last man on earth and the women who protect, tolerate, and are chasing after him. Maybe we should take that as a sign, because the potential exists for this to break out in a big way as it expands into aspects of the source material that are more interesting than the origin story. Watch it on FX on Hulu.
Taika Waititi’s follow-up to What We Do in the Shadowsbrings us a comedy series that’s co-written by Native American filmmaker Sterlin Harjo. Yes, the lead quartet in this show rocks suits that look strikingly similar to the characters of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, yet they’re four Indigenous teens who want to commit crime and simply can’t pull it off. The show was shot in and near Okmulgee, Oklahoma, and these teens hope to make it all the way to California. The cast and crew come from indigenous communities, from where Harjo and Waititi are aiming their storytelling styles as well. Watch it on Hulu.
Selena Gomez stars alongside the legendary Steve Martin and Martin Short, and the three portray NYC neighbors who aim to unravel an apparent murder inside their apartment building. Yes, they’re all podcasting because everyone does it (duh), and before long, the killer might be after them, too. Martin hasn’t written a feature film since the Pink Panther movies and Shopgirl, and we don’t wanna come out and call this trio a “much cooler Three Amigos” update, but Martin wrote that, too, so why not? Watch it on Hulu
There are moments in the early stages of season two that feel like they’re doubling down on the show’s signature positivity and niceness, but there’s no such thing as sweetness overload here as the show grows our affection for characters that are clearly taking a step forward in their arcs. Especially Ted, even though it seems like there may be some challenges ahead. Watch it on Apple TV+.
Critics of season one of The Morning Show won’t have an easy time credibly claiming a lack of action or interest in a second season that picks up the thread from the last while also servicing even more characters and the lingering threat of COVID. This is a heavyweight fight all over again with Aniston and Witherspoon leading the way, but look for more of Billy Crudup lounging in the chaos to spark the show once more. Watch it on Apple TV+.
Well, well, well. Guillermo turned out to be a vampire killer, which sure as heck came as a surprise to Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo, and Colin. The four Staten Island roommates must figure out how to handle this conundrum, along with tackling the other challenges of this season. Those include dealing with wellness cults and gym culture, along with gargoyles, werewolves who play kickball, casinos, and more. In other words, this is still one of the funniest shows on TV. Watch it on FX and Hulu.
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish movies available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
10. (tie) Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, and Greed (Netflix)
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Bob Ross is beloved worldwide for his landscapes and peaceful vibes, but this new Netflix documentary reveals that things weren’t all sunsets and smiles when it came to his fortune and estate. Money will do that, even when the money comes from someone as sweet as Bob Freakin’ Ross, apparently. Watch it on Netflix.
Though the plot gets a bit convoluted in the second half of the movie, the dazzling, movie star-esque performances here by The Rock, Emily Blunt, and Jesse Plemons make this an entertaining movie well worth watching. Set in 1916, this movie about a race to be the first to get to a tree with magical healing powers has a distinct Indiana Jones/Raiders of the Lost Ark vibe to it. In fact, a couple of the scenes play like homages to those earlier films. And Jesse Plemons appears to be having the time of his life portraying the villain in this film, and who on God’s green Earth doesn’t love Jesse Plemons?! Watch it on Disney+.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and a world-famous opera singer (Marion Cotillard) have a child that turns out to be a wooden marionette doll, and the doll begins taunting them with its own singing voice after their marital problems lead to chaos. It sounds… weird. It sounds weird. There’s no way around that. But it does have an interesting cast and is getting solid reviews so maybe give it a run if you’re in the mood to have your mind bent a little. Watch it on Amazon.
Some of us have been waiting an entire year to see a glowed-up Dev Patel play a troubled, handsomely rugged knight in this trippy take on an Arthurian legend, but now that The Green Knight is finally streaming everywhere … well, we all win. Patel plays Gawain, the film’s should-be hero who must fulfill an oath and face off against a myth-like creature who demands his head. Talking foxes, blood magic, and literal giants all pop up, inhabiting a mystical, terrifying, otherworldly landscape from the twisted, creative genius of director David Lowery. Find it on your VOD outlet of choice.
Well look at that, it’s a vacation romp featuring mismatched couples, one a party animal pair played by John Cena and Meredith Hagner, the other a more straightlaced duo played by Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji. They’re all in Mexico. One assumes hijinks will ensue. Watch it on Hulu.
It’s a hell of trick, the way Michael Keaton went from being just a little more alive and electric than everyone else on the screen to how he now fades into roles where he’s at the center of slow-burn David and Goliath stories that mythologize the dogged pursuit of justice. It’s like he pointed his jets inward to melt away any sense of movie star sparkle to become the son of Pittsburgh everyman that he was born to be. One expects we’ll see that in the upcoming Dopesick, we certainly saw it in Spotlight, and from the producers of that film comes this story about the effort to compensate the families of 9/11 victims and the fight to not have that effort lose the thread of empathy and respect when confronted by such titanic loss. Watch it on Netflix.
It is time, apparently, once again, time for a new take on Cinderella, the classic story of a girl and her evil family and how magic and some rodents make her a star. This time around, we have Camilia Cabello in the lead role and Billy Porter as her fairy godparent and Idina Menzel as the evil stepmother and, look at that, Pierce Brosnan as the king. The whole thing basically puts a series of small twists on a story you’ve seen a few dozen times, but sometimes that’s okay. The cast is strong enough to make it all worth a shot. Watch it on Amazon.
What we have here is an old-school erotic thriller — think Basic Instinct or Fatal Attraction — with White Lotus star Sydney Sweeney as one half of a curious couple who spends a not-insignificant amount of time spying on their exhibitionist-type neighbors. Things get weird and twisted and steamy, as they do in these kinds of movies, which were super popular in the 1980s and 1990s and have since just about disappeared. Might be worth it to give it a try, but think about closing your own blinds first. Watch it on Amazon Prime.
Clint Eastwood is back as an actor and director in Cry Macho. A movie with a razor-thin plot, where nothing much at all happens, but is still strangely enjoyable. There’s something irresistibly pleasant about the whole thing – which is just an excuse for Clint to star in a movie that could loosely be described as an “action” role. (Though, Clint does make sure he gets to throw a punch. With the assistance of a rooster named Macho.) Watch it on HBO Max.
Granted, this movie sounds a whole lot like Crank (those infamous Jason Statham flicks), but it’s got Mary Elizabeth Winstead kicking enormous ass, so are we really complaining about derivative stories here? Nope. Here, Winstead stars as the title character, who’s taking revenge upon a criminal organization after being poisoned and only having 24 hours to live. Woody Harrelson’s also on board here (he makes everything better), and let’s hope that Kate gains some vengeance before the clock expires. Watch it on Netflix.
James Wan, he of the Saw and Insidious and Conjuring movies, is back with a new horror film. This one focuses on a woman who has terrifying visions of brutal murders, which are ruining her life a little (as terrifying visions of brutal murders will do) and are also –surprise — actually happening in the real world (which is bad). None of it sounds like a good time for her. For you, though? Maybe. Watch it on Netflix.
There’s maybe no position in the NFL that is deeper than the wide receiver position and, as such, it’s easy to find talent all over rosters across the league. However, it also means making decisions on who to start and who to bench in fantasy can be very difficult.
There’s nothing worse than the frustration of leaving the wrong player on the bench, which is why you pore over projections and opponent ratings and target counts each week. We’ll be compiling a consensus projection ranking of the top 40 receivers based on the average of ESPN, CBS, NFL, FantasyPros, and FFToday‘s projections each week in an effort to help. Here are the rankings for Week 2:
Tucker Carlson isn’t the only right-winger who can’t stop talking about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s balls. During a press conference on Wednesday, Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh, the health minister of Trinidad and Tobago, shot down claims that the rapper’s acquaintance developed “swollen” testicles after receiving a coronavirus vaccine. “It is, as far as we know, at this point in time — there has been no such reported either side effect or adverse event. And what was sad about this is that it wasted our time yesterday, trying to track down, because we take all these claims seriously, whether it’s on social media or mainstream media,” he said. “As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported such side effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad or, I dare say, Dr. Hinds, anywhere else. None that we know of anywhere else in the world.”
Dinesh D’Souza — who is not a doctor — isn’t so sure.
“How would the health minister know this? Did he measure the guy’s testicles? There is no indication in this article of what type of fact checking was involved here,” tweeted the testicle-knower/director of such fine films as Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, AOC Is Not A-OK: The Socialist Nightmare, Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (one of those titles is fake — can you guess which?).
How would the health minister know this? Did he measure the guy’s testicles? There is no indication in this article of what type of fact checking was involved here https://t.co/w8H1oY3bot
The NFL season is underway and as Week 2 approaches, there are plenty of questions still being asked. For fantasy football players, those questions revolve mostly around touches and opportunity when it comes to the running back position, as Week 1 offered a glimpse at the potential workload each back might have this season.
The expected workhorses are out there for the brunt of the snaps, but there are plenty of others who how they split time (and how they’re used in the passing game) means the most to their efficacy as a fantasy player. Beyond that, injuries are always looming and finding out who steps up in place of an injured starter is always on the mind for those in the fantasy space.
Each fantasy site has its projections each week taking those factors, opponent ratings, and more, and we are going to round up rankings averaging five sites (ESPN, NFL, CBS, FantasyPros, and FFToday) weekly projections.
On Monday evening, while the world’s biggest stars uncomfortably shuffled their way into the Met Gala in outfits that could not have been comfortable or allowed for sitting, all eyes were on Nicki Minaj. Or at least her Twitter account, where she was posting about not being at the Met Gala… and dropping a drive-by mention of her cousin’s friend’s swollen testicles.
My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied
While we certainly feel bad for any guy whose gnads have gone all gnarly, Trinidad & Tobago’s minister of health says they have no record of such an incident and cast doubt on the tweet’s accuracy (while trying to keep a straight face behind a face mask). Whether it’s true or not doesn’t seem to matter to Tucker Carlson, who is seemingly obsessed with Nicki’s cousin’s friend’s engorged nutsack. And just like us, Stephen Colbert is loving every minute of Carlson’s coverage of Gonadgate.
“Tucker was one of the first to jump on the story on Monday night,” Colbert said, “but he had gotten a crucial detail wrong.” On Tuesday, Carlson apologized for his misunderstanding of the original tweet, and corrected his original reporting by explaining that: “Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s testicles are not swollen. As far as we know, he’s fine. It’s Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s testicles who are swollen.” Colbert, for one, appreciated the correction:
“I’m glad to see Fox News is finally coming to terms with some of its dangerous misstatements. And this time… it’s not trivial stuff like, ‘Was the election stolen?’ or ‘Should I huff horse medicine?’ No, Fox viewers; you’ve got to squirt that straight up your butt.”
According to Colbert, “Carlson has been reporting on Minaj’s tweet because he’s desperate for any proof that the vaccine is not safe.” He even went so far as to invite Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend—or Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s swollen-ball-hating ex-fiancée—to come on his show to tell their story. And promised that he would come to them. Colbert was suitably impressed by Carlson’s dogged dedication to the truth.
“That’s right, Tucker’s willing to go anywhere to get the important stories,” Colbert said. “It reminds me of when Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to interview Jimi Hendrix’s cousin’s friend, who claimed the polio vaccine gave him a micro-taint.”
You can watch the clip above, beginning around the 6:20 mark. Here’s hoping that this won’t be the last we hear from Carlson on the topic.
Norm Macdonald was a cherished comedian and entertainer. Following his death on Tuesday at the age of 61 after a near-decade-long battle with cancer, friends and fans have been sharing stories about the former SNL star and the impact both he and his comedy had on their lives. Among the most enlightening of those tales have been the ones to come from fellow comedians and colleagues like Seth Meyers and Andy Richter. On Wednesday, Macdonald’s former SNL colleague Jon Lovitz was a guest on The Rich Eisen Show, where he told a story about the time Macdonald got banned from a casino for telling dirty jokes.
The two comedians often toured together over the years, and at one point they ended up doing a show at a casino in Biloxi, Mississippi for a crowd of comped customers. Lovitz said that while he and Macdonald weren’t alike in many ways, neither one of them liked being told what to do. “If you say to me, ‘You can’t say that or talk about a certain thing,’ I’m like: Well now I have to. It’s just sort of your instinct as a comic—to bug people.” Which is how this particular show, which Lovitz opened and Macdonald headlined, ended up going sideways.
“So he’s doing the show—and he’s very funny, but he’s dirty. So someone yells out, ‘We don’t like that kind of talk.’ So there’s about 400 people there and he goes, ‘Well how many of you don’t like that kind of talk?’ and it was practically the whole room. Then he goes, ‘Well how many of you don’t mind?’ And it was like 10 people. So he goes, ‘Well, I’d hate to disappoint those 10 people because the rest of you don’t like it.’ And then he just got dirtier. And I was just crying laughing. The audience wasn’t even laughing, but that was typical him.”
While the casino itself wasn’t named, suffice it to say they weren’t clamoring to book Macdonald for a second show.
You can listen to the full clip below (including Lovitz talking why Macdonald decided to bomb at Bob Saget’s Comedy Central Roast).
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