Thursday, May 25, 2017
UFC's Angela Magana Says She's Suing Cris 'Cyborg' Justino Over Punch Incident (VIDEO)
[[tmz:video id=”0_lcqg1b7b”]] UFC fighter Angela Magana says Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino is gonna pay for punching her in the face this past weekend … telling TMZ Sports she’s lawyer’d up and is ready to sue. We spoke to Magana who says she’s “most… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The Left/Right Challenge To The Failed 'War On Drugs'
More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called “war on drugs” needs serious rethinking. First, we should define our terms. The “war on drugs” that was started by Richard Nixon in 1971 and persists to this day, refers to illegal “street drugs” – cocaine, heroin, marijuana and variations thereof. It is not used to mean a war on legal pharmaceuticals, whose excessive and often inappropriate prescribing takes over 100,000 lives a year in our country. Ironically, prescription opioids alone took 35,000 lives last year –…
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
‘The Beguiled’ Cannes Review: Sofia Coppola, Nicole Kidman Deliver a Southern Gothic Hoot
There’s a moment about an hour into Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled” when you just know that things are about to get lurid. Until then, her version of the book that also produced a 1971 potboiler starring Clint Eastwood has been relatively restrained – more slow burn than hysterical, all mood and menace instead of melodrama. But then Colin Farrell, playing a wounded Union soldier who’s been taken in by a girl’s seminary in Virginia during the waning years of the Civil War, beds one of the girls and incurs the wrath of a couple of others … and gets pushed…
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Chuck D's Suing Company Producing Public Enemy Documentary
Chuck D’s getting screwed by a deal that’s shutting down his effort to tell Public Enemy’s story … so he claims in a new lawsuit. The legendary rapper’s suing Alt House Productions because he says he agreed to let the fledgling company to… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Flynn Takes The Fifth: Just How Far Can The Law Be Stretched?
General Michael T. Flynn says he won’t give the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee the information they want unless they guarantee him immunity from criminal prosecution. The Committee is investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election. They previously asked him to volunteer the information, but Flynn refused and the Committee upped the ante by issuing a subpoena. The high stakes game of legal strategy is being played out in the Capital between the Congress and the retired Army general who was, until fired, President Trump’s National Security Advisor. It’s not exactly clear how much immunity Flynn seeks, but it’s probably…
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Chris Brown Will Be A No-Show at Karrueche Restraining Order Hearing
Chris Brown’s lawyers will have a steep mountain to climb Tuesday when they essentially tell a judge, “Who you gonna believe, us or your lying eyes?” We’re told Chris will not appear in the hearing where Karrueche is gunning for a permanent restraining… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
‘Baywatch’ Review: Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron Sink in the Shallows
We have come to think of Dwayne Johnson — former pro wrestler, action star with a sense of humor, Disney animated singer, just-kidding-maybe presidential candidate and self-described “franchise Viagra” — as the movie star this generations needs, and for the most part, he is. But as the saying goes, he can heal the sick but not raise the dead. And make no mistake: “Baywatch” is dead on arrival. A summer franchise movie that can’t decide if it wants to be a hard-R bawdy comedy, a d-bag-comes-of-age tale or a fairly unironic reboot of the glossy TV show (which ran from…
Monday, May 22, 2017
‘Killing of a Sacred Deer’ Cannes Review: Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell Get Dark and Freaky
In the annals of 2017 Cannes Film Festival weirdness, “Jupiter’s Moon” gave us a Mexican immigrant who could fly after he was shot, “The Square” put Elisabeth Moss’ character in a perfectly normal roommate situation with a chimpanzee and “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” introduced Elle Fanning as an innocent alien falling in love with a punk-rock wannabe. And then, bright and early on Monday morning at the Grand Theatre Lumiere, along came Yorgos Lanthimos to say, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” His film “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” started with a close-up of open heart surgery…
Monday, May 22, 2017
Michael B. Jordan Robbed Blind, Another Victim in Celeb Burglaries
Michael B. Jordan is in good company … with some of the biggest names in Hollywood — unfortunately what they all have in common is being burglary victims. Law enforcement sources tell us someone broke into Michael’s San Fernando Valley pad a few… Permalink Source: TMZ Feed
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Sing Sing Prisoners Redefine 'Paying A Debt To Society'
With an overwhelming 2.2 million people behind bars, it’s tempting to focus reform efforts on those convicted of non-violent offenses. And sure, they represent about half of the incarcerated population. But what about the other half? A few months ago, I met five men serving life sentences for violent crimes, ranging from robbery to murder, at New York’s notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility. They took turns introducing themselves. Each started with a heavy litany of numbers: “arrested at 16, convicted at 20, served 24 years.” Having spent most of their lives incarcerated, naturally they were all very different from who…
