Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Even Trump’s Chief Science Adviser Is Confused by That Dumb Vaccine Executive Order (Video)
On Tuesday, Trump tried to push back against reports that his administration found an entirely new way to completely drop the ball on COVID-19 with a confusing executive order about vaccine distribution. And hilariously, when asked about it, even the chief science adviser for “Operation Warp Speed” wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. “Frankly, I don’t know. And frankly, I’m staying out of this. I can’t comment,” Dr. Moncef Slaoui told “Good Morning America” when asked about it Tuesday morning. Ouch. Little background: Earlier this year, the U.S. government arranged with Pfizer to pre-purchase 100 million doses of its…
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Charlize Theron Would Love to Star in Lesbian ‘Die Hard’ Remake: ‘Where Do I Sign?’
Who knows if we’ll ever actually get any kind of remake or reboot of “Die Hiard” — it seems somewhat unlikely with Bruce Willis still in the picture — but the fans are certainly free to dream of a non-hetero, gender-swapped version of the Christmas action classic. And one of them did just that on Monday, fan-casting Charlize Theron in the lead role of such a hypothetical enterprise. And Charlize was on board with the idea. “Lesbian Christmas rom coms are all well and good but what I REALLY want is a Die Hard where Charlize Theron goes on a…
Monday, December 7, 2020
David Sedaris Catches Heat for Suggesting People Should be Able to Fire Service Workers
Acclaimed author and satirical humorist David Sedaris is getting slammed online this weekend after publishing a short video essay for CBS in which he suggests ordinary people like himself should be able to fire service workers who don’t perform to the customer’s standards. Sedaris framed the idea — which he called “citizen’s dismissal” — as a way to free up jobs for other, more competent people looking for work. But that didn’t exactly translate to the majority of people who read his commentary. The citizen’s dismissal, Sedaris said, would be “like a citizen’s arrest, but instead of detaining someone, you…
Sunday, December 6, 2020
‘SNL': Pete Davidson Freaks Out on Santa in Parody of Eminem’s ‘Stan’ (Video)
The first new episode of “Saturday Night Live” in weeks also happened to be the first episode of December, so naturally there were a ton of references to Christmas throughout the night. And the best came early on courtesy of regular cast member Pete Davidson, who did a parody of Eminem’s song “Stan,” only with the subject of the song changed to Santa Claus. Watch it above. It’s one of the most famous songs of the last several decades and even gave us a new term — to stan — for being a fanatical fan, but just in case you…
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Pamela Tiffin, ‘State Fair’ and ‘One, Two, Three’ Actress, Dies at 78
Pamela Tiffin, star of the 1962 remake of “State Fair” who enjoyed major success in the 1960s in both the U.S. and Italy before retiring from acting in 1974, died Friday of natural causes. She was 78. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffin was hospitalized at the time of her death. Born Pamela Tiffin Wonso in Oklahoma City in 1942 but raised in Chicago, Tiffin began a public career as a teen model in the late 1950s. Her film career began during a trip to Los Angeles in 1961 when, while visiting the Paramount lot, she was spotted by powerhouse…
Friday, December 4, 2020
Colbert Gives a Deathly New Peek Into Trump’s Very COVID Christmas Party (Video)
Donald Trump and the folks in his administration have been downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic from the very beginning, scoffing at any and all measures to restrict the spread of the virus and carrying on as if everything was normal. The latest example: An indoors Christmas party at the White House on Tuesday, which “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” mocked in a skit that opened Thursday night’s episode. The party was notable not just because it took place inside and few attendees wore masks — a combination that has proven deadly for many Americans as thousands die each day. The…
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Trump Election Fraud Witness Says We Need Voter ID Because ‘All Chinese Look Alike’ (Video)
The Michigan state legislature held a wild hearing on Wednesday evening as Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis continued their crusade to defy the will of the American people by overturning Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump. And some of the witnesses Giuliani trotted out did indeed make headlines, but not necessarily for the reasons that Trump and friends would have liked. One of the witnesses, a naturalized American citizen from India, served as a Republican poll watcher at the TCF Center in Detroit on election day, and she spoke at length about various interactions she had with…
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Trump Threatens to Veto Defense Bill in Apparent Tantrum Over Mean Things Said About Him on Twitter
On Tuesday night, Donald Trump took a break from his so-far failed attempts to subvert the 2020 election and instead threatened to veto an annual military funding bill unless congress repeals rules protecting websites from liability for content created by third party users. “Section 230, which is a liability shielding gift from the U.S. to “Big Tech” (the only companies in America that have it – corporate welfare!), is a serious threat to our National Security & Election Integrity. Our Country can never be safe & secure if we allow it to stand,” Trump tweeted. “Therefore, if the very dangerous…
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Steven Spielberg Gets Protection from Alleged Stalker
Steven Spielberg just got court-ordered protection from a woman he believes is threatening to murder him. The famed movie mogul filed legal docs seeking a restraining order against a woman named Sarah Char, who he claims has been harassing him for… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Shut Down of Los Angeles COVID-19 Test Site for Film Shoot Sparks Social Media Backlash
UPDATE, 1:00 AM, Dec. 1: Early Tuesday morning, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reversed a decision to cancel COVID-19 testing at Union Station to make room for a film shoot, and said that all 504 scheduled appointments have been restored. “Working with @LAFD, @Curative & @MetroLosAngeles, my team has worked to reopen testing at Union Station on Tuesday. The 504 Angelenos who were scheduled for a test there can visit the kiosk as originally planned or any of the other 14 City sites, where we offer 38K tests daily,” Garcetti said in a statement posted to Twitter. “Since March 20,…
