Tuesday, February 27, 2024
On Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart offered up a serious and quite thoughtful proposal for a potential peace between Israel and Palestine. But Stewart also brought some levity to an otherwise very bleak topic by giving his proposal the worst possible name: METO, pronounced “Me too.” “Now, obviously I have not worked out the exact verbiage,” Stewart quipped after noting to the audience how his name for a hypothetical NATO analogue in the Middle East was pronounced. We assume you understand the joke here. As for the proposal itself, it was rooted of course in a “The…
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Judge Robert Adrian faced immense backlash after reversing an 18-year-old’s rape conviction that he had handed down months earlier. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Monday, February 26, 2024
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced a new initiative aimed at ensuring health insurance benefits for every qualified producer working full-time in the film and television industry. The initiative was revealed on Sunday night by PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line during the 35th annual PGA Awards in Los Angeles. Production companies Blumhouse, Legendary, MACRO and Berlanti Productions have already pledged their support for the historic health care initiative. “Producers, unlike unionized creative professionals in the industry, lack guaranteed health insurance benefits. No one should go without these essential benefits. Producing is challenging enough without the added…
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Nearly 5 years after being fired from “SNL” before making his debut (following the resurfacing of a ton of bigoted jokes), Shane Gillis, for some reason, was brought back this week to host the show for the first time. But if you expected the comedian to address what happened, or perhaps illuminate why he was asked to host considering the context, expect again. Gillis brushed off the whole thing with a couple of blithe jokes at the start of his monologue that only alluded to what happened. “Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was actually,…
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Melody Hoffman’s Apple Watch helped investigators track her location — and showed the moment it stopped tracking her heartbeat. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Saturday, February 24, 2024
On Friday’s episode of his ABC show, Jimmy Kimmel began his monologue with a comment on the big space news this week — the Odysseus moon lander’s successful trip to the moon. It’s a commercial spacecraft and after it arrived, NASA confirmed it with an Amazon Prime joke, prompting Kimmel to respond, “At long last, humanity has finally begun Amazon-garbaging the surface of the moon.” Other topics Kimmel touched on include Florida’s teen ban on social media. You can watch the whole monologue at the top of the page right now. “After more than fifty years, I don’t know if…
Friday, February 23, 2024
Around four hours before police were called to a house fire, Bernadine “Birdie” Pruessner posted that her kids were “peacefully sleeping” in her bed. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Friday, February 23, 2024
The South African man narrated as he recorded a cellphone video of the woman dying. He was found guilty of killing her and another Native woman. Source: Huffingtonpost feed
Thursday, February 22, 2024
We invited some of the art world’s most talented to create portraits of some of Hollywood’s most fabulous. Delving deep beyond the oft-photographed visages, these artists bring to their subjects a unique depth of perception. Their art goes places a headshot could only dream of. MARGOT (2024) CHARCOAL CHALK AND PASTEL ON GREY TONED PAPER SUBJECT: MARGOT ROBBIE RYAN (2024) CHARCOAL CHALK AND PASTEL ON GREY TONED PAPER SUBJECT: RYAN GOSLING Richard Phillips Artist Richard Phillips debuted his first celebrity portraits at the apotheosis of the paparazzi era. And there were no doubt some sent to capture the opening of…
Thursday, February 22, 2024
“She was excited to be a mom,” her cousin told a local TV news affiliate. Source: Huffingtonpost feed