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Actress Takes Back Apology For Working With Woody Allen
‘JUDGE AND JURY’
Published 11.18.24 1:15PM EST 
Rebecca Hall smiles tight-lipped.
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Passing actress Rebecca Hall “regrets” condemning Woody Allen, she said in a new profile for The Guardian. “I don’t think it’s the responsibility of his actors to speak to that situation,” Hall told the magazine, so “I kind of regret making that statement.” Allen gave Hall the role that catapulted her career, in 2008’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. But in 2018, she took to social media to share that she’d donated her salary on her last film with Allen, 2019’s A Rainy Day in New York, to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, and regretted that working with the director again “made another woman feel silenced and dismissed.” Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow had just resurfaced her accusations of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, prompting several stars to condemn the director or be side-eyed for working with him. Hall told The Guardian, “It just became, ‘another person denounces Woody Allen and regrets working with him, which is not what I said actually. I don’t regret working with him. He gave me a great job opportunity and he was kind to me.” She added, “I don’t think that we should be the ones who are doing judge and jury on this.”

Read it at The Guardian

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YouTuber Grows Marijuana Plant in Dad’s Ashes-Then Smokes It
END UP IN SMOKE
Published 11.18.24 2:10PM EST 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 23: Rosanna Pansino attends an exclusive screening event for YouTube Originals newest learning shows, "Could You Survive The Movies?" and “Mind Field” on October 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for YouTube) (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for YouTube)
Rosanna Pansino. Presley Ann/Getty Images for YouTube

YouTuber Rosanna Pansino fulfilled her father’s dying wish—to be grown as a marijuana plant and smoked. The internet star shared in her new podcast “Rodiculous” that her father, who died five years ago, wanted his ashes to be mixed in with soil and grown into a marijuana plant. She said that her mom was at first a bit hesitant, but as time went on, they decided to go for it. “We just really think that it’s the right time to do what dad wanted and to honor him the way he wanted,” Pansino said. At the beginning of the episode, she showed footage of her and her mom planting the marijuana with his ashes, and called the backyard occasion “emotional and special.” Pansino held a pink joint, saying that she couldn’t believe she was doing this while laughing. She was joined later in the episode by her mom and sister, who smoked the special strain off-camera. “The blunt that we smoked was delicious,” Pansino said after the smoke sesh. “If Papa Pizza could see this... he would get a huge kick out of this.”

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Updated 11.18.24 2:04PM EST 
Published 11.18.24 12:00AM EST 
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Duct-Taped Banana on Sale for $1.5M But Comes With a Catch
SIMPLY BANANAS
Published 11.18.24 12:02PM EST 
A banana duct-taped to a wall.
A banana duct-taped to a wall. Han Haidan//China News Service/Getty Images

An urgent message to starving artists the world over–why eat your groceries if you can lob them on the wall for a $1,499,999 mark-up? The viral duct-taped banana art installation ‘Comedian’, brainchild of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is headed for auction at Sotheby’s on Nov. 20, where it’s expected to fetch anywhere between $1 million and $1.5 million from some perfectly sensible, presumably potassium-deficient bidder. “We are looking at an ordinary banana and an ordinary piece of duct-tape. However what makes the ordinary extraordinary is the intention of the artist who put this together,” as Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, David Galperin, so convincingly explains it. “There is, simply put, no other artwork of the past 100 years that has provoked the kind of response that Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ did upon its installation at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019.” Which is a good thing, obviously. In any case, whoever does eventually walk away with the piece, which has already fallen victim to hungry gallery-goers, naturally won’t be buying the notorious original fruit, which has long gone the way of fertilizer. Instead, they’ll be forking out a pretty penny to not only regularly replace the banana themselves, but also the tape affixing it to the wall of their home. If you’re pressed for cash you might consider the budget alternative–but then that’d be missing the ‘point’, wouldn’t it?

Read it at Associated Press

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Cruise Line Offering Depressed Anti-Trumpers a Four-Year Getaway
JUST SKIP IT
Published 11.18.24 2:01PM EST 
Cruise ship on the water.
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Many have expressed a desire to leave the country after Donald Trump’s election win, and one cruise company has packaged a convenient way to miss his entire White House term with its Tour La Vie program. Florida-based company Villa Vie Residences‘ four-year “escape” option allows guests to visit over 425 ports in 140 countries. While shorter time periods are available at one to three years, the program’s “Skip Forward” option will ensure you never touch American soil during Trump’s term. Packages start at around $40,000 a year aboard the Villa Vie Odyssey, which fits 600 residents. Food, drinks, WiFi, and housekeeping are all included, along with the option to have friends and family on board for $129 a day. Mikael Petterson, the company’s chief executive officer, told Newsweek that the company would’ve marketed the cruise the same way even if Kamala Harris had won. “We came up with this marketing campaign before we even knew who would win,” he said. “We don’t have a political view one way or the other. We just wanted to give people who feel threatened to have a way to get out.”

Read it at WFLA

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Updated 11.18.24 1:59PM EST 
Published 11.18.24 12:00AM EST 
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Governor Condemns Brazen Neo-Nazi March Through Ohio Capital

ON PARADE
Published 11.18.24 11:39AM EST 
A video still shows a group of neo-Nazis marching in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
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Ohio officials have condemned a group of neo-Nazis who marched through a downtown neighborhood in Columbus on Saturday. Videos posted to social media show 11 men, clad in black from head to toe, with face coverings, walking in unison in the city’s Short North area. Four of them carried black flags with red swastikas—videos posted to social media show they chanted white nationalist slogans and racist slurs. One clip shows one of the marchers raising his arm in a Nazi salute. “There is no place in this state for hate, bigotry, antisemitism, or violence, and we must denounce it wherever we see it,” Gov. Mike DeWine said. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther called the march a “cowardly display.” Keon Tullius, who witnessed the group “screaming racial slurs,” recorded them from inside a restaurant where he was eating and posted the footage on Facebook. After the social network took his video down, he posted it again, writing, “This behavior is completely unacceptable and must be documented and called out.”

Update: The comments section has been disabled and will remain that way. The focus shifted from what this video represents to a variety of personal and political disagreements. These disagreements quickly became aggressive (on all sides honestly) to a point that it distracted from what this post was meant to be. Documentation of a demonstration on a public street in America by a group dressed as they were screaming racial slurs. This behavior is completely unacceptable and must be documented and called out. For some reason Facebook themselves took this video down, I will share it repeatedly. I will not be silenced nor will I allow someone to cover the actions of Nazis in some polite shroud. This video was recorded at 1:09PM on Saturday November 16th, 2024 from my seat at Bakersfield tacos in the Short North Arts district of Columbus Ohio

Posted by Keon C Tullius on Saturday 16 November 2024
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Embattled Ex-Marvel Star Jonathan Majors Engaged to Actress Meagan Good
FEELING GOOD
Published 11.18.24 12:20PM EST 
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Embattled actor Jonathan Majors has gotten engaged to girlfriend Meagan Good, People magazine reported. The former Marvel star and the Shazam: Fury of the Gods actor announced news of their engagement at the EBONY Power 100 Gala on Sunday. “We’re feeling great,” Good told the magazine. “It’s a season of joy,” Majors added. The couple began dating in May 2023, not long after Majors, 35, was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Many predicted the actor was on the verge of superstardom at the time thanks to his portrayal of villain Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But after Majors’ arrest, his PR and management companies dropped him, and several high-profile projects—including a new Avengers movie he was slated to lead—fell through. In December, he was convicted of misdemeanor assault and harassment, and sentenced to a year of domestic violence counseling. Good, 43, attended his court appearances and stood by him even as more women came forward with allegations of abuse—claims that Majors has denied. Despite his legal troubles, in June Majors landed a starring role in a new film from director Martin Villeneuve. “It’s a season of all good things,” said Good, who most recently starred in Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, at the EBONY gala. “Amen,” Majors agreed.

Read it at People

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Nicole Kidman Reveals the Actual Stories Behind Her Most Famous Memes
‘MEME ME’
Published 11.18.24 9:08AM EST 
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Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Nicole Kidman has some bad news for anyone who is strongly invested in the idea that she claps like a seal. Or that she celebrated her divorce from Tom Cruise by throwing open her arms, tilting back her head and cheering. Or that she reacted to Will Smith smacking Chris Rock at the Oscars by rising up out of her front-row seat with her mouth agape. “There’s always something behind the actual images that go out there,” and none of is actually what is being speculated, the Oscar-winning actress told GQ magazine about her most famous memes. At the 2017 Academy Awards, she was filmed clapping just her palms, her long fingers curved back like a marine mammal’s fins. “I had a massive heavy borrowed ring on and it was really painful, and I was scared of wrecking the jewelry,” she explained. As for the picture of her “celebrating” her divorce, “That was from a film, that wasn’t real life,” she said. She also confirmed that she wasn’t really reacting to Smith’s infamous slap at the 2022 Academy Awards. The photographer who shot the viral image had previously said it was taken hours before the ceremony started, when Kidman saw actress Jessica Chastain. But there’s one meme that Kidman is fully on board with: the infamous “Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this” line from her AMC Theatres ad urging movie-goers to return to theaters after the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ll do anything for cinema, so you can meme me as much as you want,” she said.

Read it at GQ

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Netflix Taps Beyoncé for Christmas Day NFL Halftime Show
HOUSTON HOMECOMING
Updated 11.18.24 3:09AM EST 
Published 11.18.24 12:27AM EST 
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Beyoncé will performer songs from her album 'Cowboy Carter' at the halftime show in December. Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood

Beyoncé will be performing the halftime show at NRG Stadium in her hometown of Houston when the Texans play the Baltimore Ravens during the first of two games being streamed live by Netflix on Christmas Day. Netflix announced the performance with a trailer posted on social media. According to the company, the halftime show will be the “first live performance of songs from genre-bending and record-breaking album Cowboy Carter.” Netflix will broadcast two NFL games on Christmas Day, the latest venture in the company’s attempt to break into live sports broadcasting. However, critics are skeptical of Netflix’s ability to seamlessly stream the events after the primetime boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson broadcast last Friday was beset with streaming issues, including frozen loading screens and long buffering times for the prize fight. About 60 million households tuned in to watch the fight, Netflix announced on Saturday. Adding one of the biggest pop stars in the world to the bill could attract even more viewers in December.

Read it at Netflix

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This Vibrator Claims to Help Boost Prostate Health
VIBE CHECK
Updated 11.07.24 5:03PM EST 
Published 11.07.24 4:51PM EST 
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Apparently, boosting prostate health can actually be pleasurable—at least, that’s what premium sexual wellness brand MysteryVibe says. The Molto, an ultra-slim and bendable prostate vibrator designed by a doctor, is engineered to be the same size and width as a doctor’s finger and to mimic similar motions to that performed during an exam, allowing for not only intense prostate (the prostate is often hailed as the male ‘G-spot’) and anal stimulation but also a release of prostatic fluids. According to the brand, some studies have found that excess prostatic fluid can lead to inflammation and pressure, so not only is this a sex toy, but it’s also possibly an investment in your prostate health. Think of it almost like a lymphatic massage for your prostate—except one that can give you intense orgasms, too.

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Republican Kari Lake Settles Defamation Case With Election Official
THROWING IN THE TOWEL
Published 11.17.24 7:42PM EST 
Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake speaks at her Election Eve Rally outside the Yavapai County Courthouse on November 4, 2024 in Prescott, Arizona. Lake is running against Arizona Democratic Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ).
Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake speaks at her Election Eve Rally outside the Yavapai County Courthouse. Mario Tama/Mario Tama/Getty Images

Republican Kari Lake has settled a defamation case filed against her by an Arizona election official she falsely tarred for rigging the state’s 2022 governor race. According to court documents viewed by The Washington Post, the settlement details are confidential. “An agreed upon settlement disposition has been reached as to all parties and claims,” the documents stated, without disclosing further details. The lawsuit was brought on by Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder. Richer told the Post on Sunday that “both sides are satisfied with the result.” Lake just lost the 2024 Arizona Senate race against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego. In 2022, Lake wouldn’t concede, attempting multiple times to overturn the results—failing each time. “For two years I’ve been sounding the alarm about our broken election system here in Arizona,” she said at the time. “Our election officials failed us miserably. What happened to Arizonians is unforgivable.” Last year, Richer told the Washington Post the attacks took a mental and physical toll on him.

Read it at The Washington Post

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NBA Star Fined $100K for Anti-Gay Slur During TV Interview
‘VERY APOLOGETIC’
Published 11.17.24 6:20PM EST 
LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets talks to the media after a game against the Milwaukee Bucks.
LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets talks to the media after a game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Kent Smith/Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images

NBA star LaMelo Ball was fined $100,000 over the weekend after uttering an anti-gay term during a televised post-game interview. The 23-year-old Charlotte Hornets guard was “very apologetic” after the incident, which took place following the team’s nailbiter of a win over the Milwaukee Bucks Saturday night, according to Hornets coach Charles Lee. “As an organization that is obviously not something we condone, our standards and what is required of our players in the environment we create is really important to us,” Lee said. “I spoke to Melo and he’s obviously very apologetic. From what I’ve seen since I’ve been around him, he loves everyone. He’s a joy to have around the facility and it’s not typically how he operates. He and I talked about the seriousness of the situation and how he needs to conduct himself going forward.” Ball was not made available to reporters prior to the Hornets’ game against the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday night.

Read it at ESPN

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