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Vin Diesel Compares Fast & Furious Franchise to The Lord of the Rings
"There's a reason why Tolkien stopped writing after a while," Diesel quipped. Vin Diesel Compares Fast & Furious Franchise to The Lord of the Rings Eddie Fu
Paul Rudd Let His Son Think He Just Worked at a Movie Theater for Years
When the A-lister's son first saw Dad on a movie poster, the younger Rudd assumed his employer was AMC, not the MCU. Paul Rudd Let His Son Think He Just Worked at a Movie Theater for Years Abby Jones
Armie Hammer Breaks Silence on Abuse Allegations in New Interview
The actor denied allegations of sexual abuse, but admitted to being emotionally abusive. Armie Hammer Breaks Silence on Abuse Allegations in New Interview Carys Anderson
Senate Judiciary Committee “Watching” Ticketmaster Ahead of Beyoncé Ticket Sales
The Taylor Swift pre-sale fiasco prompted the committee to host a hearing about Ticketmaster earlier this year. Senate Judiciary Committee “Watching” Ticketmaster Ahead of Beyoncé Ticket Sales Abby Jones
Patti Smith Pens Heartfelt Eulogy to Television’s Tom Verlaine: “There Was No One Like Tom”
The frontman of the seminal post-punk band Television died earlier this week at 73. Patti Smith Pens Heartfelt Eulogy to Television’s Tom Verlaine: “There Was No One Like Tom” Abby Jones
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: We Need “Normalcy in Washington” Before a Veep Reboot
Since Veep premiered in 2012, the happenings of Vice President Selina Meyer and her colorful cohorts have hit increasingly closer to home. A lot has happened since the political sitcom’s 2019 finale, but its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus thinks the ship has sailed on a reboot: “I don’t know how we could,” she told Variety. The former Seinfeld actor said that she’s been asked to reprise the role of Selina Meyer before, but she’s turned it down: “[Americans need] multiple years of normalcy in Washington before we could revisit something.” Veep certainly took inspiration from real-life events on Capitol Hill, but Louis-Dreyfus thinks satirizing something along the lines of the January 6th, 2021 insurrection would be in bad taste. “I don’t know how we could,” she said, unable to think of ...
Nick Cave Doesn’t Appreciate “Bullshit” AI-Generated Nick Cave Songs
Stop sending Nick Cave those AI-generated “in the style of Nick Cave” songs made from ChatGPT because he’s just not into them. In his latest The Red Hand Files newsletter, the songwriter made that opinion very clear while tearing into a fan’s submission of one such ChatGPT song based on Cave’s own lyrics. “Since its launch in November [of] last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ created by ChatGPT,” Cave began. “There have been dozens of them. Suffice to say, I do not feel the same enthusiasm around this technology.” He continued, “I understand that ChatGPT is in its infancy but perhaps that is the emerging horror of AI — that it will forever be in its infancy, as it will always have further to go, and the...
Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor Talks Cancer Diagnosis: “I’m Gonna Live Life”
Last year, longtime Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage four metastatic prostate cancer. Now, in a new interview with Channel 5 News, the artist shared a positive outlook on the situation, promising that “I’m gonna live life” despite dealing with an incurable disease. Taylor was diagnosed with prostate cancer about four years ago, and said he originally didn’t think much of the pain he was experiencing before getting it checked out. “I was out jogging, and I started to notice what you would think was a kind of arthritic sort of pain, and I never thought more of it than that,” he recalled. “I started having these symptoms, didn’t recognize them for what they could be, and then I noticed, on my neck, I had what felt like tumors.” Upon receiving hi...
Donald Glover Isn’t Retiring Childish Gambino After All: “He’ll Be Back”
Now that his acclaimed FX dramedy Atlanta has come to a close, Donald Glover has a lot of time on his hands — enough time, in fact, that he just might resurrect his musical alter ego Childish Gambino. Speaking to E!’s Laverne Cox on the Golden Globes red carpet last night, the multi-hyphenate said that he’s been working in the recording studio and that Childish Gambino “will be back.” “I’m making music right now, I love it,” Glover said. “I’m actually working, I’m in the studio. I’ve been bringing people in, like secret people, working on little things. But I’ve just been making it for fun right now. But soon something will happen, I promise. Something will happen.” Cox made sure to clarify that Glover’s new music would, in fact, be released as Childish Gambino, the moniker he sa...
The Chainsmokers Say They’ve Had Threesomes Together with Fans
The Chainsmokers are putting the “meh” in menage a trois, saying in a recent appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast that they’ve had multiple threesomes together with fans. The duo of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart clarified that it was never “die-hard” fans, or as Taggart put it, “No one wearing merch or anything.” But they did say these events — Chainbangs? — had happened a few times while touring Europe. “It’s been a long time,” Pall hastened to add, “but in the early days — It was also the days when we — we used to have to share the hotel rooms. We’d be in Europe, they have the two beds, they don’t even split them apart. They literally have two singles. So it’s almost like we were forced,” he said, “By the European government because they don’t separate their bed...
Gwen Stefani: “I’m Japanese”
Despite all the bops born out of her Love.Angel.Music.Baby. era, we must acknowledge that Gwen Stefani’s objectification, fetishization, and infantilization of Japanese people was really, really weird. But what’s even weirder is that nearly two decades later, the No Doubt singer still stands by her overwhelming Harajuku obsession — going so far as to declare herself Japanese in a bizarre new interview with Allure. For readers who may have been too young at the time, “Love,” “Angel,” “Music,” and “Baby” weren’t just the words Stefani cobbled together for the title of her solo debut; those were the nicknames she bestowed unto the “Harajuku Girls,” Stefani’s crew of four Japanese-American dancers who appeared alongside her on stage, in music videos, and…nearly everywhere she went, almos...
Nicolas Cage “Not Really Down” to Act in Star Wars: “I’m a Trekkie, Man”
You won’t catch Nicolas Cage in a galaxy far, far away anytime soon. In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the actor thespian said he’s “not really down” with acting in the Star Wars films or series, explaining, “I’m a Trekkie, man.” Cage was responding to comments made by The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal, his costar in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, who noted at D23 last year that he had been trying to recruit Cage to appear in the Star Wars universe. But according to Cage, “I’m not really down. I’m a Trekkie, man,” he said. “I’m on the Enterprise. That’s where I roll.” Caged added that he “grew up watching [William] Shatner. I thought [Chris] Pine was terrific in the movies. I think the movies are outstanding...
