Sometimes you have have to dip into it - I could watch this ALL NIGHT!!

EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.

Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. https

Here’s the thing though

This type of person would have never been elevated within an organic Black liberation or Palestinian liberation activist group, or even a traditional Left (workers rights) group

The conditions in which such a person would be elevated would have to be extremely specific. He/she/they could have only risen at an Ivy League school in New York City. (This wouldn’t fly at the University of Chicago or Georgetown). This is Frankenstein’s monster turning on its creator.

More than 20 "sexual predators" have been given jail sentences of up to 30 years for sexually exploiting girls in West Yorkshire.

The abuse, which included rape and trafficking offences, was described by police as "abhorrent in the extreme".

The prosecutions took place after officers investigated the sexual abuse of eight girls in the north Kirklees area between 1999 and 2012.

Police said the operation was centred around Batley and Dewsbury.

Reporting restrictions covering a series of trials held over two years were lifted on Friday, following the latest sentencing of seven men at Leeds Crown Court.

Four of the men convicted in the series of trials received sentences of more than 20 years in prison.

West Yorkshire Police said juries had heard details of "absolutely shocking offending", with victims treated as "defenceless commodities to be abused and traded at whim".

Arrests were conducted from late 2018 across West Yorkshire, with suspects charged in December 2020.

Sarfraz Hussain Riaz, 40, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 15 years; Zafar Iqbal, 38, from Batley, sentenced to 17 years; Nasar Iqbal, 38, from Batley, sentenced to 10 years; Mohammed Tauseef Hanif, 39, from Dewsbury, jailed for nine-and-a-half years; Ali Shah, 38, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 10 years; Moshin Nadat, 38, from Heckmondwike, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years

Mohammed Chothia, 47, from Batley, sentenced to 17 years; Bilal Patel, 42, from Leicester, sentenced to 13 years; Asif Ali, 53, from Batley, was sentenced to 24 years; Safraz Miraf, 49, from Dewsbury, sentenced to four-and-a-half years; Mohammed Nazam Nasser, 38, from Batley, sentenced to seven-and-a-half years; Amir Ali Hussain, 45, from Batley, sentenced to eight years

Khurum Raziq, 42, from Heckmondwike, sentenced to 22 years; Nasar Hussain, 46, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 18 years; Zafar Qayum, 44, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 30 years; Michael Birkenshaw, 37, from Wakefield sentenced to eight years; Amran Mehrban, 40, from Batley, sentenced to 13 years; Sarkaut Yasen, 38, from Dewsbury, sentenced to 15 years

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My Spidey senses tell me these men have something in common, but I just can't quite put my finger on it

Will Illinoise (which opened today) sweep awards season or will the industry be irritated by this last minute opening?

As always, please close MSNBC - Part 55, before we post here.

Meghan Markle’s podcast has been “pushed back” until next year, according to reports.

Reportedly, Richard Eden, the editor for Mail Online, said that Archetypes would be published next year 'at the earliest' in collaboration with Lemonada Media. Eden wrote for the Daily Mail, "A source [who is based in California] tells me there is not expected to be any work broadcast this year.

The relaunch of Meghan's Archetypes podcast got pushed back to 2025." Additionally, Eden said that Lemonada did not want Meghan's upcoming (cooking and gardening) Netflix series, which is currently shooting, to 'overshadow' the podcast's debut.

Jim Stryker was a blonde, blue-eyed, physique model who epitomized an era of muscle-headed beefcakes, free-spirited playboy jocks, and beach boys.

Jim Stryker was discovered by photographer Walter Kundzicz and was one of the very first “Beefcake” models.

Stryker was fresh out of high school when he met photographer Walter Kundzicz (a.k.a. Champion) in the summer of 1952. In search of new subjects for a growing portfolio of young male models, Champ traveled specifically to a rural swimming hole to meet the beautiful blonde youth. Upon arrival, he was greeted with the breathtaking sight of a fully naked 18-year-old in a tree, laughing uproariously as he urinated on a friend standing below.

Jim and Champ hit it off at once and the photographer proceeded with the first of 21 separate photo sessions with the boy. These photographs quickly turned him into the first (and still most enduringly popular) gay icons of all time.

Kundzicz’s first catalog was dedicated only to Jim Stryker, who turned out to be his best-selling model for over seven years. These works were captured on Fire Island and remain some of the most searched to this day.

Champion’s magazines of Stryker were every gay boy’s fantasy. In a time where sexuality was repressed in the mainstream, Fire Island came to represent a place of mystery and a gay haven for many. While much about Jim Stryker remains unknown, his blonde beauty against the liberated setting of Fire Island remains a snapshot in time of a refuge for young gay boys of the time.

He's kinda cute but he complains that people he befriends aren't really his friend because they're attracted to him and wanted to have a relationship with him and he calls that a betrayal. He sounds like a drama queen. You can't help being attracted to someone and wanting to have a relationship with someone. He's kinda bragging that everyone he meets is attracted to him. I'm not sure I feel sorry for him.

What does the datalounge say- Should be sympathize ?

Is he cute? or is he AS cute as he thinks he is?

Let's discuss gay actors from the past!

Who are your favorite gay actors from days gone by?

I always had a thing for Tom Drake

Our boys!!!

How exciting! And he got to hold his balls in jars.

With lot of glass to clean on 50 acres of hilltop, so there's views; a hanger for your plane and a garage big enough for a car collection AND the only private FAA-approved landing strip in the entire state. I know they probably have to leave some of the lawn clear, but the landscaping is particularly uninspired. Three million ask and the taxes are only $25k? In Connecticut?

The angles in the kitchen photos made me dizzy, the (Chinese red or is that a burnt something?) color in the dining room doesn't flatter the diners and the kitchen pass-through's a bit more informal than I'd like, plus a lot of the decor has a kind of uninspired Bob's Furniture vibe to it. You could fix that: Eames Lounge Chairs instead of the "Stressless" numbers shown for starters. I dunno, though: 30 minutes to NYC or Boston by plane. You could live like a super hero (or villain) in your hilltop lair.

As the longtime co-anchor of “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live, Colin Jost has made plenty of jokes about President Biden. But this weekend, Jost gets to make these jokes directly to President Biden.

The annual White House Correspondents Dinner – aka the White Tie event where a comedian roasts the staff of the White House, the press that covers them, and the Commander in Chief – takes place Saturday, April 27. Here are all the details, including where to watch the WHCD on DISH

Meet the queens video below.

They are so fucking boring. Except the Philly queen.

My mom watched The Young and the Restless and As the World Turns faithfully for many years.

Nadia's Theme will forever remind me of my early childhood.

I saw Jaclyn on HSN yesterday. She was having a sales push with her affordable yet fashion forward sports wear line. Today she’s attending her grandson’s 1st birthday party which is supposed to be a big party.

And they wanna add Zendaya to become a bisexual throuple!

Omg I’m DYING TO SEE THIS!!

We're hearing very little about it.

Golda Meir was ousted after the Yom Kippur War caught Israel by surprise in the early 70s. I'm surprised that hasn't happened with Netanyahu and Oct. 7th.

He's come up a few times in recent days--in the Theatre Gossip thread discussion of Victor/Victoria, and in the William Hurt thread as an Oscar nominee in '85--and he really deserves a thread of his own. Incredibly handsome, an underrated actor, and by all accounts a good man.

Any other fans? Share your appreciation here!

He’s not that funny

Apparently, this was shunted from Max to Netflix earlier this year. It's technically a spinoff of Doom Patrol, although the leads were recast. The comic it's based on is a Sandman spinoff, and Neil Gaiman has said one of the Endless (I assume Kirby Howell-Baptiste's Death, although he was vague) will show up.

Jayden Revri who plays Rowland (who was played by DL Icon Sebastian Croft on Doom Patrol) gives some baby gay vibes, and DL Icon Lukas Gage has a recurring role.

2 more weeks for Joe on Broadway. Kit buzzcut era. Heartstopper Season 3 on October 2024.

Stop. This is actually really good 🤣

I'm the Southfork barbecue.

Tell us all the details. I almost fucked Andy Cohen once after meeting at an event but schedules didn’t allow it.

Ann Wilson, 73, TEARS IT UP in the original key from 1977. She’s still belting high Es! Not to mention those descending low notes. No autotune or lip-syncing needed, they are the real deal.

If someone who isn't a part of your life anymore, but once was (decades ago) gets in touch to ask a favour, do you prefer it I'd they just ask outright, without even asking how you are/making conversation?

The sad thing in the situations which prompted me to bring this up, is that if we were in touch regularly and close, they'd know that their requests were futile.

One such person has just resorted to messages without even asking or using a greeting, just: "Please do such and such for me on this date." Another person - who we've lent money to before and done other favours for - recently asked out of the blue for $50K. We do not see either of these people socially or through work.

It puts us in a really awkward position being asked, as we are not in a position to help, and if they knew where our lives are at, they wouldn't ask.

These people are Gen Xers, BTW.

Is it now the norm/socially acceptable to ask anybody you know to do things for you? Sorry, in the case of the first person I'm thing of, just tell them to do something, but preface it with please, yet no hi, no thanks, do you mind, etc?

Well, it's tomorrow, but I'm getting a head start.

President Biden's approval rating average is lower than any other president in recent history at the same point in their time in the White House, data released Friday found.

The president averaged 38.7 percent job approval in his 13th quarter in office, which ran from Jan. 20 to April 19, according to averages aggregated by Gallup.

In the same quarter, former President Trump had a 46.8 percent approval rating average; former President Obama's was 45.9 percent and former President George W. Bush's was 51 percent, according to Gallup.

The second-lowest to Biden's in that time was former President George H.W. Bush, who had a 41.8 percent mark.

The highest 13th-quarter number was former President Eisenhower, who had a 73.2 approval rating average at that point in 1956.

Which memoirs have increased your appreciation—or your dislike—of the author?

Work began on Bad Girls in December 1978, with the singer teaming up with Moroder and Bellotte once more. The sessions, which spanned four months, were prolific. Instead of following the usual album-making approach of writing, demoing, and then recording a final version, the team would come up with ideas for melodies and hooks, flesh them out into full songs and then hit the booth immediately to record them.

“As soon as I was done with the mix of one song, we went right in and recorded,” Moroder explained in the liner notes of Bad Girls’ deluxe reissue in 2003. “While I was recording Donna… Pete would be recording a basic track for another song. But we had our sounds; we were on a roll. Donna is a great artist, very easy to work with. She could complete two or three songs a day, easily, without straining her voice or getting tired.”

After just one week of release, it was certified platinum by the RIAA. It topped the Billboard 200 for six weeks and the R&B Albums chart for three. It also spawned two Billboard Hot 100 No.1 singles – “Hot Stuff” and the title track – and one No.2, “Dim All The Lights.” Summer became the first female artist to have two songs in the Top Three of the Hot 100 at one time. Later, the album was listed in Rolling Stone’s 50 greatest albums by women, with the publication saying that Summer “pull[ed] out all the stops for an album that sums up Seventies radio, from ladies-choice smooch jams to filthy funk.”

She looks RADIANT. Amazing!!!

I don't think we've really analyzed the arc of her career; how she managed one of the most high-profile marriages of the late 20th century, became a box office draw and prestige goddess, seamlessly adapted to prestige TV, and is now firmly embedded in pop culture via the AMC ads.

Kent Franklin McWhirter on September 26, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in the San Gabriel Valley town of Baldwin Park, California. A child of hard-working parents, Kent learned responsibility at an early age. He was handling his first horse, Toby, at the age of eight. At ten he began working at his father’s Richfield gas station that was located near what is now the intersection of the 10 and 605 freeways. In 1954 Kent got a job at Brackett Field Airport in La Verne, California with the help of a family friend. Unable to be legally paid at twelve years old, he instead was given flying lessons in exchange for his work. For the next five years Kent worked weekends and summers at the airport.

Kent starred on the football team at Baldwin Park High School. After graduation, he attended Citrus Junior College and then accepted a football scholarship to the University of Utah in 1962. It was during this time that perhaps the two most important events in Kent’s young life occurred.

In February of 1961, a friend asked Kent if he would like to participate in a touch football game. This was no ordinary game, as Kent would be playing on a team captained by Ricky Nelson, and none other than Elvis Presley would lead the opposing squad. As a result of this game, Kent began a friendship with Ricky Nelson that quickly led to his first acting job on the immensely popular series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. At first a background player, Kent soon became a regular on the show, and would appear on 44 episodes. Kent began to take acting much more seriously, and finally made the decision to pursue a career as an actor. During this time he worked on a mulitude of films and television shows doing bits, background and stunts.

The next big moment in Kent’s life took place on July 14, 1962. This was the day that he married his high school sweetheart, Cynthia Lee Doty.

While working on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Kent was asked to screen test at Universal Studios for a long term contract. While waiting for the studio to sign him, he continued working on other shows including several of Elvis Presley’s films, Viva Las Vegas, Girl Happy, Kissin’ Cousins, and Roustabout.

Finally, in November of 1965, Universal put Kent under contract and immediately sent him to work. He appeared in shows such as McHale’s Navy and The Virginian. Kent also tallied several appearances on Jack Webb’s Dragnet. It was his appearances on Dragnet that led Bob Cinader and Jack Webb, the producers, to cast Kent as one the stars in their brand new series: Adam-12. This would be his huge break and make him a star. With partner Martin Milner, Kent helped propel Adam-12 to the top of the ratings and into television history.

A worldwide phenomenon, Adam-12 aired from 1968-1975, a span of 174 episodes

Appearing on a top rated television show offered Kent many tremendous opportunities. Among his favorites was being a guest at the Indianapolis 500 and being trackside for the race itself. A lifelong racing fan, this was a special moment for Kent and led to his continued involvement in the sport. He has competed as a driver in automobile races such as the annual Toyota Pro Celebrity Challenge in Long Beach, California, and Watkins Glen, New York. He has also competed in several professional racing series in the Sports Car Club of America and IMSA, in such events as the 12 Hours of Sebring.

After Adam-12, Kent starred with Barry Van Dyke in the ABC series Galactica 1980, and in the 1989 NBC series UNSUB. He has recently appeared in recurring roles in the NBC series Seaquest DSV, and the USA Networks Renegade, Silk Stalkings, and Pacific Blue, as well asthe SCI-FI Channels Farscape and the hit CBS series Jag.

Or anyone you hate right now.

If so, describe the fantasy. Have you ever actually gotten revenge on somebody?

That’s a lot of bulge! But why are his pants so low?

Talented actor and very handsome man. I had no idea he was a recovered heroin addict.

How would she put her face on for a night on the town?

I have deeply fond memories of sitting in the bathroom choking on cigarette smoke and Elizabeth Arden Red Door, handing her one hot roller at a time in her half-slip while she cursed at eyelash strips. When my father poked his head in to hand her a spritzer, that meant she had 30-minutes to get her ass in the car.

What the world?

Someone sic Officer Lesbian Nan onto the nonce.

Which one's the top?

I found out a week ago that I have to move, I mentioned it in another thread. I have lived here 18 years and have until the end of July to find an apartment in a town with less than 1 percent availability rate. I knew my rent would go up by at least 50 percent.

I looked at half a dozen apartments, I would have had to get rid of at least half my stuff and my dog would not have had an ideal likely last few months.

I found one only listed on Facebook, 2 bedrooms FUCKING ENORMOUS yard, I mean huge, all utilities included for $2000. Figured it was a scam. not a scam! Viewed it tonight and its perfect. perfect.

owner just pmed me that they'd love to have me as a tenant.

I have to pass a background /credit check. background is fine, my credit is GARBAGE. I did tell him it wasn't great but obviously my rent always gets paid (18 years tenant).

then I just need to come up with $5000 plus moving expenses. I could do so much gardening. ALL the gardening!

She claims she’s been blacklisted.

Mark Wolff (who used Blake Onassis as a stage name at first) was born in Canada in 1967. He was a wrestler and performer in Canada before he became a nude model and then made a few solo porn vids. His years active as a nude model and porn performer were from 1995-2008. He began directing porn from 2003-2008. In 2008 he retired from the industry and never went back.

He is 5’11, brown hair with blue eyes and a wrestlers build.

I have met some very interesting, bright and successful graduates of Emerson College in Boston. This is not a reflection on them. But there are always others who don't understand how the real world works.

Jennifer Aniston is ready to pour herself a cup of ambition.

Aniston and her Echo Films partner Kristin Hahn are producing a “9 to 5” reimagining for 20th Century Studios, Variety has confirmed.

The film is currently in development, with Diablo Cody (“Juno,” “Lisa Frankenstein”) working on the latest draft of the “9 to 5” reimagining. Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The original “9 to 5” follows three female office colleagues who decide to exact revenge on their sexist, egotistical boss. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Dabney Coleman starred in the 1980 office satire, directed by Colin Higgins and written by Patricia Resnick. The hit comedy film spawned a sitcom of the same name, which aired on ABC from 1982 to 1983, and in first-run syndication from 1986 to 1988. Parton, Tomlin and Fonda participated in the 2022 documentary “Still Working 9 to 5,” which focuses on the impact of the classic film 40 years later.

Drew and her queen react

(I didn't see a continuing link from the previous thread and the DL Search feature/engine is a waste of time)

I'm very glad that Morning Joe is featuring Chris Matthews more. Basically, they're bringing him out of obscurity. BUT, this morning, I noticed how thin Chris is. He is so thin that it made me wonder if he might be suffering from some sort of illness.

I've been wanting to see it for quite some time now and I'm not disappointed. 🤤

The need to be underwhelmed rises in direct proportion to public anxiety. Discuss.

With her felon 'ex' Paul Richard Soliz. Is it 2007 again? What could they be doing in the San Fernando Valley?

Madrid, Roma, Paris ... Tu te souviens?

Can anything replace our beautiful Richard Chamberlain ?

He tells Stern about the time when he contemplated suicide and tells of when women sent him salacious pictures of themselves.

Apple TV series premieres 5 April.

Does Farrell still have it? I do like his guyliner!

Apologies if this has been posted. I searched for both Dahmer and Noem.

“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.

She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.

By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.

Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”

When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.

Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.

“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

Incredibly, Noem’s tale of slaughter is not finished.

Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes

Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.

At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.

“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

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I suddenly want to visit Old Williamsburg. I love American history and I want to visit some historical points of interest related to revolutionary times.

I’m Bill Frawley getting sloshed in his dressing room.

Who thought this was a good idea?

Why would ANYONE want a thirty-three million dollar home in Chicago?

They struggle to cope with 1,000s of unread messages: ‘Hardest part of my job’

It’s just not clicking for them.

For millennials and older, the “You Got Mail” notification rarely incited stress.

In fact, most folks over thirty can still remember feeling a flush of excitement upon receiving an email — be it from work, family, friends or even advertisers — during its early stages in the early aughts.

But to the digital natives of Generation Z, getting electronic correspondence, namely from the office, is apparently as anxiety-inducing as getting sentenced to the electric chair.

Babbel researchers recently conducted a survey of 2,000 U.S. office workers to determine that employees between the ages of 18 to 24 are the most likely to let emails pile up.

The findings indicated that more than a third, 36%, of Gen Z professionals say they have over 1,000 unread emails in their inbox, compared with 18% of office workers overall.

For youngsters on the job, the accumulation of unanswered missives creates a hefty layer of pressure to open, read and properly respond to the messages. And once they finally reply, a whopping 1 in 5 Gen Zs report “very often” regretting the emails they send.

The formality of emailing, compared to the laissez-faire nature of texting or social media direct messaging, too, makes twenty-somethings feel uncomfortable.

“Gen Z’s communication preferences are heavily influenced by the prevalence of instant messaging platforms and social media,” said Touma. “Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, for example, prioritize instantaneous communication, informality and visual cues.”

“The structured and formal nature of email communication may feel unfamiliar and more complicated to many [Gen Zers],” the insider added.

And he’s right — the kids are not alright.

The formality of emailing, compared to the laissez-faire nature of texting or social media direct messaging, too, makes twenty-somethings feel uncomfortable.

“Gen Z’s communication preferences are heavily influenced by the prevalence of instant messaging platforms and social media,” said Touma. “Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, for example, prioritize instantaneous communication, informality and visual cues.”

“The structured and formal nature of email communication may feel unfamiliar and more complicated to many [Gen Zers],” the insider added.

And he’s right — the kids are not alright.

The trailer is here for Part Two of our new fav season of AHS! Looks good.

This may be a swing of the pendulum too far in the opposite direction.

While many of the other accusations turned out to be less credible, he was clearly a scumbag predator with you want to call what he did "rape" or not by the legal definition of it.

A delightful little interview!

I have been reporting my hatred of midgies for weeks!

It was solidified with that little lump, Meryl from Traitors UK...

Just want to say, if any of you have not watched Season 1- UK-

It is so worth it. An ending that I was never suspecting- and a moving and satisfying one , at that.

I may have been slightly wrong- but not totally wrong,

An extremely satisfying and heartwarming end.

i pray Trump will be similar.

I don’t see a thread on this. Just watched it last night and I feel as if the actor (and writer) is too old looking to suspend disbelief. He looks the same age as the stalker and the abuser. But I thought it was an interesting perspective on loneliness causing people to be complicit in their own suffering. What thinks the DL? Richard Gadd looks too scrawny and bug eyed haunted for my taste.

Doin' the the Senior Thug Rap...

How much are you willing to put up with?

People get queenier when they get older, don't they?

Maybe the joke is on you.

The White House Correspondents Dinner is beginning....

The movie was inspired by the real life story of friends of director Herbert Ross and his ex-ballerina wife Nora Kaye. Ross has said: [They were] "A dancer named Kelly Brown, who was so marvelous in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954), and a ballerina named Isobel Miro, a distant relative of Nora's. They met, married, gave up ballet, and opened a dance school in Phoenix. They had four children. The marriage eventually dissolved (though it doesn't in the film), and Isobel and the kids moved to New York, where they could study ballet. Over the years, she'd send us pictures of the kids, and Nora and I would talk about the family."

Grace Kelly was on the board of directors at 20th Century-Fox and the script treatment was sent to her for her reaction. Director Herbert Ross said: "Grace loved the story, and said she'd come out of retirement to play the ballet dancer who opts for marriage. Then Grace showed the script to Prince Rainier and he told her he didn't want her to go back to work."

In one scene, Anne Bancroft throws a drink in Shirley MacLaine's face. The moment was scrupulously rehearsed by director Herbert Ross, up to the point where Bancroft throws the drink into MacLaine's face. During rehearsal he had the actress set the glass down on the counter without tossing its contents every time; then continuing with the scene. When everything was ready, Ross took the shot in one take -- the scene you see on film, where Bancroft throws the drink into MacLaine's face. Having only been hit the one time, the look of shock on MacLaine's face is real.

"The Turning Point" was the first of two Academy Award Best Picture nominees to receive 11 nominations without winning any Oscars. This film jointly holds the record with "The Color Purple" (1985) for the film with most Oscar nominations without a single win.

Anyone watching this? I confess to liking it more than i thought. Bennng is always good, but Sam Neill looks spectacular for his age.

Also, can Jake Lacey play anything otner than assholes?

Is it because funny lines are being added so late in the process that the actors don’t have time to process them in rehearsal?

Well done.

Nicholas Galitzine at Mary & George premiere

The Fallout fandom is crushing hard on The Ghoul.

Since my girlfriends want to post this picture I thought I might as well too…

My darling friends Irena and Red gave me the most magical intimate tea/luncheon with my dearest and closest friends and family. Some of my oldest girlfriends look so young and of course, the youngest, my five year old granddaughter who was able to write me her own card this year!

And then all the other people in my life. I stayed up until 5:38am writing thank you’s to all the wonderful people who seem to never forget my birthday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I love you all.

Barbra

Part 1 is linked, below.

Trump gave Republican candidate Trent Staggs his 'golden endorsement' to win the seat in Utah, which means Staggs will inevitably lose. Why ? Because every time Trump endorses someone, it's the kiss of death.

I’m the comment she leaves below a picture of a group of fat hippo bitches that says “Beautiful Ladies!”

Says what we're all thinking.

Who’s going to see it?

I’m sure audience reviews will be up on Twitter and various theater sites by tomorrow.

Jacob Elordi in the style of George Hurrell…doesn’t really resemble him but I like it…

I'm lazy and having Beecher's World's Best Mac and Cheese (image below), a salad and Talenti Raspberry Sorbetto later.

She’s going full disco diva and will be dropping her first album in 15 years this summer. “Legs” was written by the same team who composed Vanessa’s early hits “The Right Stuff” and “The Comfort Zone.”

I love it, it reminds me of Paula Abdul!! This one is definitely for the gays.

But everyone just loves the Middle East now, right?

I must admit, "Fantasia" is my all time favorite. I saw it as a kid and loved the cartoony experience with the dancing hoppos, elephants, ostriches and gators. Later, when I was stoned, I loved all of the flowing colors and incredible music. Even now, I appreciate all the different themes in the movie and, of course, the music.

Beauty, elegance, and not being Audrey Hepburn made her an international star.

Her screen career was short but legendary: High Noon, The Country Girl, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Swan, and High Society. Then, at the height of her career she became a literal princess when she married Rainer III, Prince of Monaco.

As Princess of Monaco, she focused on bringing ballet, opera, fashion, and horticulture to the People of Monaco. She was also the first female board member of 20th Century Fox, an author on both poetry and horticulture, and she sought to historically restore Newport, Rhode Island.

However, tragedy struck in 1982 when she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while driving and drove off a mountain at the age of 52.

From MY SPACE in the early 2000s to the more recent GOOGLE+ : what happened to these social media platforms ? Tell us your stories - which platforms did you use before they went kerplunk ?

Her Tortured Poets album leaked and she's attacking the 1975's Matty all over it!

29 years ago, Glenn Close wrote a scathing letter to producer Andrew Lloyd Webber when she returned to 'Sunset Boulevard' after taking a two-week vacation in March. Her understudy Karen Mason took over the role for 16 performances, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Really Useful Group' praised Mason's performance in a press release towards the end of her run, and claimed the box office was not hurt by Close's absence. The press release also said Mason was receiving standing ovations after every performance. A copy of the press release was also sent to the cast and crew before Close returned, but Close was able to get her hands on a copy. Cast members said she was 'trembling with anger' when she read the PR, and took to her dressing room to write a scathing letter to ALW.

On April 4, 1995 a copy of the letter was 'leaked' to the press. VARIETY printed the whole letter, while other papers printed a portion of the letter. Here's the portion which was circulating:

"I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that my performance turned 'Sunset Blvd.' around. I made it a hit. It existed on my shoulders, and yet a representative went out of their way and lied to try and make the public believe that my contribution to this show is nothing, that Karen's performance is equal to mine, and that my absence had absolutely no effect whatsoever on all the thousands of dollars that supposedly kept pouring into the box office. It sickens me to be treated with such disregard. If I could leave the show in May, when my contract says I can, believe me I would. At this point, what is making me stay is my sense of obligation to all the people who are holding tickets until July 2."

A few days later, ALW publicly said his team 'made a mistake' and inflated the box office numbers during Close's absence. The two of them 'made up' and Close and ALW publicly said they were 'dismayed' that private communication between the two of them made it to the press, as this was not the intention (sure).

Many Americans talk about her as a pinnacle of taste and elegance. Was there any American more elegant than she was? Do Europeans have a similar view of her, or is she more average in a European context?

I thought Amy Roloff was an ugly and nasty little bulldyke. A sample sized lesbo.

NOW. I am watching Traitors UK- Season 1- and I hate that useless little Meryl creature.

She is DUMB, useless, and simply a personality free little shit!

My apologies to the little people.

I may need counseling.

I loved those little munchkins in the Wizard Of OZ and NEVER turned down a munchkin from Dunkin Donuts. (Their coffee is disgusting).

The last one filled up

Continue discussing the show

I got a bag of salad and making Chicken Fried Rice with all the left overs in the house. Oh, and breaking open a a box of weekend wine!

South Dakota governor and Republican vice presidential contender Kristi Noem on Friday responded to a news report about a section of her forthcoming book where she describes killing her 14-month-old dog.

“We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm,” she said in a post to X above a headline from The Guardian, which obtained a copy of Noem's upcoming book, “No Going Back.”

The Guardian's article describes a section of Noem's book, set for release next month, in which she recounted shooting her dog after deciding it was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.”

In her account, Noem grabbed her gun and led the dog, named Cricket, to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” Noem wrote.

She then went on to kill a family goat, which she called “nasty and mean.” Noem also led the goat to a gravel pit, where she said her first shot wounded but did not kill the animal. She got another shell for her gun and killed the goat, according to the book.

Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner is being investigated on allegations he sexually assaulted a preteen, Sheriff Donny Youngblood said during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

On Tuesday night, Youngblood said, he received a call from District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer, Scrivner’s aunt, saying she was concerned about him, he appeared to being having some type of psychotic episode and was armed with a gun.

deputies learned Scrivner had been involved in a physical altercation with his children and was stabbed twice in the upper body, Youngblood said. The altercation occurred over the sex assault allegations, the sheriff said.

[bold]Thirty guns[/bold], electronic devices and psychedelic mushrooms were seized from the home, Youngblood said. He said forensic studies will determine whether Scrivner was under the influence.

There is a criminal protective order barring Scrivner from having contact with his children.

Let's discuss the film that continues to win the worldwide affection of millions since it's premier almost 60 years ago.

Released in 1965, the musical follows an eccentric nun as she governs the seven children of a strict captain in the months leading up to the Third Reich's annexation of Austria. Based on the stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Directed by Robert Wise

Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer

With Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Ben Wright, Anna Lee, Marnia Nixon, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath, Daniel Truhitte, Gil Stuart, and ELEANOR PARKER as the Baroness

A woman whose face is covered in tattoos and piercings claims she was denied a job at TJ Maxx over her body art. Ash Putnam aired her grievances in a viral TikTok after she applied for a job with the off-price retailer but received an automated email saying she wouldn’t be considered for the position without the company explaining why.

ATTENTION ZOOMER: NO COMPANY OWES YOU AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THEY DIDN'T CHOOSE YOU FOR A POSITION. MOVE ON.

I’m having some symptoms that make me need to pay more attention to sodium in my diet.

Guidelines say keep sodium under 2000 mg per day.

Most of the foods I typically have for lunch are too high in sodium. Does anyone have any low sodium lunch suggestions?

I don't care much for it even though it's 20,000 sq. ft. & cost $8.7 million.

Too much brick, no pool & lots of dated 90s stuff that didn't hold up.

Discuss.

For those of us not quite ready to say good night to our esteemed panel.

Discuss your favorite mellow/easy-listening music.

The Alan Parsons Project had some gems.

And did Blanche get the job???

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has slammed the student protesters engulfing the University of Texas at Austin campus calling their actions ‘hate-filled.

“Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.”

Lempicka vs. Suffs: Which will close first?

Former CNN host Don Lemon offered tough words for the Diversity Equity and Inclusion crowd, warning that woke backers of the concept are moving off the reservation.

“There are some great things about DEI, but it’s not all roses and we need to take a look at it and do some rejiggering. It’s gone too far. It’s become a religion and if you don’t abide by the religion you get kicked out of the church,” Lemon said during an interview on “Real Time” with Bill Maher on Friday.

Lemon made his remarks during a discussion with NYU professor Scott Galloway about recent accusations that NPR had gone off the woke deep end.

Its CEO Katherine Maher has come in for extensive mockery for thousands of X posts espousing liberal pablum.

“I think a lot of media companies need to do some self-examination about what’s happening inside the company,” Lemons said.

“I am going to get a lot of s–t from liberals for saying what I said,” Lemon laughed. “I like DEI, but when it becomes a religion it can be used as a cudgel.”

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The New York Police Department began clearing an encampment of students protesting the war in Gaza at Columbia University on Thursday, a day after demonstrators had set it up.

Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation

How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.

By Adam Iscoe April 22, 2024

Everyone needs to eat somewhere, and in New York City that place is often a restaurant. New York is a city of long hours, tiny kitchens, cramped apartments—and dining out, a lot. There is, improbably, always an occasion: date night, working late, friends in town, New Year’s Eve, too tired to cook, in-laws, layoff, anniversary, breakup. But getting a decent dinner reservation here is a challenge. Any well-reviewed Italian joint? You’d better have one. Gourmet burger place? Good luck. The new French-Korean fried-chicken spot? Booked solid for months.

In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore. At Sailor, April Bloomfield and Gabriel Stulman’s new spot in Fort Greene, reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of SoHo, Aspen, and East Hampton, who likely saw the place on some list, or while doomscrolling TikTok or Eater. The majority of diners log on to a restaurant’s Web site at 10:59 a.m., two weeks before they want to eat out, then wait, click, and pray. Pete Wells, who gave Sailor a three-star review in the Times, wrote that although the bar and two booths in front are set aside for walk-ins, reservations “disappear within minutes of being offered.” Locals are politely quoted a three-hour wait. Of Roscioli, a downtown outpost of the famous Roman restaurant, the Post wrote, “New Yorkers are risking their lives, begging, bribing and pleading to get a table at the Italian eatery.”

Do you believe that claim?

They were such a trashy couple, no different to other junkie couples aside from being rich and pretty. They still seemed cool, though.

OMG what happened to her?

She lost a bunch of weight, but I actually think she looked better fat.

Now she looks horrible.

I mean, kudos on the weight loss, but....

Molly Ringwald

While there are 90 or so more expensive apartments for sale in Chicago, this one takes the prize for me.

At 7900 square feet, No. 13 at 1325 N. Astor has 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and 12 principal rooms. There are three good terraces on the lower level, and lots of David Adler classic touches: circular foyers, choice marble and wood parquet floors, apse-ended rooms, arcades, colonnades, antique-style raised panel molding, and an interesting, well-conceived floor plan. It even has (for once) a great kitchen with a huge semi-circular arc of glazed pantry cupboards.

It is more likely a disadvantge for others, but I like that its position two blocks from the lake means that it has views of the lake at a distance and (for me) a more interesting and embracing skyline view of other tall buildings framing city and lake views beyond.

If the price (reduced by a half-million) seems reasonable enough, certainly considering the square footage, the monthly HOA fees are close to $10,000 and figure a further $4200/month for property taxes.

The hits just keep on coming for this guy.

Does he get dizzy when he pops a boner?

He was mediocre at best .

I'm so fucking sick of them.

They have great lives. They're in love. They're affectionate with each other.

They have dogs, maybe kids, beautiful homes, travel.

I was at a restaurant with a pal the other night and I said to him after the server walked away: "Is she...is she being rude to me? Or am I imagining it?" He said, "No. She's not." I said okay and then we went on but I couldn't shake it especially after a few more interactions. "The bread is COMING," she snarled at one point.

Later, he said, "Well, yes, she was pretty rude to you."

How in the FUCK can I find a boyfriend when I can't even share a pleasant interaction with a total stranger who is invested in making me happy so she'll get a nice tip?

With Valentin now in charge of Pikeman, how long before Anna figures it all out?

Will Jason and Carly continue their longtime friendship or succumb to their feelings?

Will Sonny go full-on manic before they discover his meds have been switched?

Plus, who all will be exiting the show in the coming months?

So many questions to be answered. Continue your discussion here.

Go!

Gather round and talk about the good old days. Go ahead.

Beige is in. I just bought a suitcase the color of Gosling’s suit.

Twix

2019 in a movie theater.

2018 in a Mall.

MERCHAN: You have the right to be present during the trial and to assist your attorneys….do you understand?

TRUMP: “Yes."

MERCHAN: If you disrupt the proceedings, you can be excluded from the courtroom and committed to jail based on your conduct and the trial will continue on in your absence…do you understand?

TRUMP: “I do.”

MERCHAN: If you do not show up there will be an arrest...do you understand?

TRUMP: "I do."

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Yes, I think we all know about paella and jamon.

But what else?

You never hear about it.

When does Bav arrive on the (in)continent?

These guys are spending their entire lives in the gym. Five, six, seven days a week, lifting weights for hours. Nothing else matters to them.

Beau de Mayo was fired after finishing two seasons, so they probably put up with his cray cray for as long as possible knowing they had a hit on their hands.

Good idea or sign of weakness?

I’m too young to remember the days of radio, when dramas, mysteries and comedies were widely listened to. Born in the early 60s, I grew up on tv, not radio.

But the idea that people tuned in and listened to these sagas gained new interest for me during the pandemic, when I began to listen to audiobooks. Old time radio is very similar in some ways.

Speaking of old time radio, there’s actually a 24/7 website playing many different serials — see link attached. Have any of you ever “tuned in” there? It’s a fascinating peek into the past.

Tell me about your grandfather! Share fun memories and stories

Full movie here. You’re welcome.

I enjoyed it very much. It’s terrific. I love watching these tiny budget indie flicks and how they have to be more creative with the films than a big studio film with huge budget.

It’s a terrific drama with horror undertones. I recommend it greatly.

Continue discussing Trump, his legal troubles, his treasonous ways, his asshole sycophants and everything else.

The Nylands: Kirsten was a cunt, played by two bitchy actresses. She bitched about the will, had issues with her mom’s friends and was just a bitch.

Holly, her sister, fucked her friend’s boyfriend.

Bridget, her youngest daughter was a snobbish whore and flat chested.

Her father was a monk who abandoned her.

Charlie was a bum who was a loser in business.

Sven (Swen) was in an arranged marriage.

Rose was an awful mother.

“Instant Replay” by Dan Hartman is one I’ve had stuck in my head for days.

Politics/Sports/Business/Tech/Music/Hollywood - whatever? Who is gay/bi and not out?

I’m overhearing their conversation where they all guess the size of the UPS guy’s dick. That is apparently perfectly fine behavior, but Tom from the supply department saying “Good Morning, Girls!” will elicit 5 HR complaints and a possible lawsuit.

Link to Part I

Damn is he hot!

Looks like a whitey ass cracker to me. Delusional bitch.

A scoop from nonagendarian [quote]gossipkünte[/italic] Cindy Adams.

Congrats, boys! Will Chris Cuomo be there?

Take my poll please and discuss.

Shiv, I mean Shari, has been unable to save Waystar, I mean National Amusements. It will be probably be sold to Skydance, who will do… something with it. No one knows. In all likelihood, the TV business (CBS, one iconic and now useless MTV Networks) will be spun off to be sold for scrap. Paramount Plus will shut down. Paramount Pictures, which was burnt to the ground by Brad Grey, does not have significant IP to make it a lucrative acquisition. It could be whittled down to barebones (Netflix would like a nice lot) and simply exist as a dealer of content to other companies.

OR… Can anyone remember a time when six large companies dominated a single industry, and then something really BAD happened which made them lose a lot of money, and everybody panicked, so then the six companies all paired off and became three really large companies that are still around today?

As the algorithms keep throwing me folk-pop (heavy on the autotune) recommendations, I want to listen to more rock music.

I’m not usually a Spotify user but I went to their Billboard Modern Rock chart playlist for inspiration. I have no idea if these are actually the best selling/most listened to rock tracks of the week, but it took me right back to high school, being crammed with Green Day, Pearl Jam, Metallica and Linkin Park (how are they still a thing?).

So what contemporary rock does DL like? Hozier, Phoebe Bridges?

Never liked Bruce Willis until he played Ernest Manville in "Death Becomes Her."

Disliked Gwyneth Paltrow until she played Marge Sherwood in "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

The other thread has had its monthly cycle.

Tripp, Wendy & Paulina all got their dead-cast-walking papers from Salem Hospital.

Jude's special day brought a record amount of Salemites together for the uplifting event.

Brady's new barber has aged him overnight by at least a decade.

Justin has joined Bonnie, Tony & Anna on the back of milk cartons everywhere.

Discuss.

I've got the itch to shop for telephones. Let's go to the GTE Phone Mart!

Shelby and Dolly had nothing on this!

[quote] In a six-figure civil lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast, Akin Gump associate Taylor Leighton says he wants back his pet—who is named for onetime child actress Raven-Symoné and a member of The Real Housewives of New York City cast—plus more than $200,000 in damages.

[quote] “Raven is more than a dog to me,” Leighton wrote in an affidavit submitted alongside a complaint filed Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court. “I consider her to be my child. As an illustration to this Court of my love for Raven, I planned an extravagant first birthday party for her in the apartment. I spent several days planning and decorating, including blowing up hundreds of balloons and placing decals on the wall to give Raven a special day. Defendant, of course, participated in the festivities but it was me who took the lead on all planning and implementation.”

MARY!!!

I don't have a Tesla, so I wondered how the FSD (Full Self Driving) feature was working in it since Tesla is supposed to be introducing Robotaxis in August.

This is a video of the latest release of the software and it looks rather amazing. Even if it really won't be ready this year, you can see where all this is going. Will the AI software eventually be a better driver than a potentially distracted human driver?

The driver in this video is using FSD to drive through a road construction site in San Francisco. The driver is really enthusiastic about this updated software (which may be irritating to some), but he explains that last year he would consider the software "the worst driver on the road." It apparently has really improved.

If you look at the display behind his steering wheel, you'll see what the FSD software sees: cartoonish representations of cars, trucks, people and other obstacles as they move about the road.

Like $10s of millions. I’m going to start outing people’s misdeeds. Just issuing a statement to avoid karmic retribution.

[QUOTE]Drew Baglino, a top VP who played a key role in the company’s rise, has resigned. Tesla is also laying off 14,000 workers due to declining sales. As investors question Elon Musk’s focus, its share price has lost one-third of its value.

I am a fake smile. I stay in place no matter how many times a man tells me how to do my job.

I've been squawking for years that we have so little info on this woman who had the office next to him. She was barely mentioned during the 1/6 hearings and except for a couple repeated profiles, avoided as a topic by the media. Repeatedly, when her name comes up, there's an awkward pause and the host bails out. WHET to Michael Wolfe who called it from day 1?

She saw everything, everyday and she's BARELY been discussed, until now. IMO, Sshe's the star (fucking) witness. The scripts are already being written.

Deaths by boredom in Genoa City are down slightly thanks to a homicidal maniac intent on destroying the Newman family. Plus, a woman with multiple personalities is drawn to a man who another of her personalities rejected.

Then there's the newly discovered long-lost adult child reunited with her parents who thought she died as a days-old infant.

Meanwhile, the battle over Chancellor Winters continues as they anxiously debate whether to add Abbott to the company name or whether to split the company into separate units.

Continue your discussion of all the Genoa City happenings here.

Get up Domicakes, we love you

So many Americans go to Europe and other places then get over their digestive issues and lose weight. Foreigners come here and get fat and develop IBS. What the fuck are they putting in our food?

Get your bids in!

Jollof rice. Fried plantains. A red fried chicken stew. It was delicious.

Why isn't this more popular?

Weird, the Republicans who claim to be concerned about antisemitism aren't sending the cops after these guys

Cute pic of cute guys, no?

I'm really loving it.

Jared the Bosun is hilarious and weird. He seems stoned most of the time.

Fraser is being an absolute cunt this season. What crawled up his tight ass? And why does he keep calling himself "Mother?"

At first I didn't like Cat, but after hearing her story, I feel bad for her. I'm almost forced to like her.

Barbie is a feisty Latina firecracker.

Not sure what's the trip with Xandi, but she's just odd.

Sunny is cute. She and Ben would make a nice couple, if Ben didn't keep throwing her under the bus.

Kyle is cute too. His Irish accent makes him better looking than he actually is, though.

Speaking of Kyle and Ben, I am LOVING the shots in their cabin, where they keep exposing their bare asses to each other (and us)! On the show, Ben comes across as a total womanizer, but I swear, something about him is very gay. I especially loved the scene where he was rubbing lotion all over Kyle's back - all the way down to his exposed ass!

And the French Chef. He's tres gay, even though he is trying to pretend that he's straight.

I loved his hilarious story about how he got married at 26. Then his uncle offered his wife a job on a yacht as a Stewardess, and she never contacted him again. So he said now it's just him and his cat. Rofl!! Honey, your wife knows you're gay!

This season is very entertaining.

The old thread is impossible to post on . Let’s keep this unsolved homicide going. Dr Hoover deserves justice.

I thought this was an interesting read. Lots of little known right wing celebs are talked about here including John Ritter's father country singer Tex Ritter & basketball star Wilt Chamberlain.

I heard so many times that the religious right had started in the 70s but it seems like rev. Billy Graham ushered it in with endorsing Nixon for Prez in the late 60s (I always thought he was neutral when it came to political endorsements).

Connie Francis has now endorsed both Nixon & Trump for the White House during her lifetime due to being concerned about America's image in the 1960s & "moral order".

Has she ever distanced herself from either of these two losers?

Discuss.

Can someone please overlay the Tara theme to this?

It just occurred to me that one of the reasons that the backlash to campus protests has been so swift is because the protesters have adopted the visuals of American homelessness through the use of tents. Americans view homeless tents as something to be ignored or cleared.

My go-to is the bloated, barely conscious, Britney Spears at the 2007 VMA Awards. So many things wrong here: The exposed hair extensions, the ill-fitting bra and panties, the obvious lip-syncing(as usual), stiff dancing, and the stone faced celebrities in the audience. Still her most talked-about performance, but not in a good way.

At the beginning of the movie- the woman is driving at high speed then stops at a gasoline station to make a phone call yet she has time to take a cigarette out of the packet and smoke it.

Actress Kimberly J. Brown is married! On April 19, 2024, the Hallmark alum, who appeared with lifelong bestie Lacey Chabert in 2019’s “Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder,” married fellow actor Daniel Kountz more than two decades after they starred together in Disney Channel’s “Halloweentown II,” according to People.

In front of 92 guests, Chabert served as a bridesmaid at the couple’s nuptials in Camarillo, California, per People. She also threw a lavish bridal shower for Brown in March, sharing on Instagram that their friendship “has blessed my life since I was about 8 years old and I love her dearly!”

What would your ass tell us about you?

"But these days, some in Columbus are finding it difficult to justify a trip to a gauzy version of the city’s past without accounting for the suffering, injustice and violence associated with the slave labor that built and ran these homes. That has led to competing ideas about the scope of Pilgrimage and the story it is supposed to tell.

A theatrical production staged by a local high school every year during the weekslong event now depicts the plights of enslaved African Americans and 19th-century immigrants who lived in Columbus. The local synagogue has been added to a church tour. Other events feature the region’s Choctaw and Chickasaw history."

I agree. I'm here for the Whole Story!

I think there is a connection between chicken pox at an early age getting to the brain via the optic nerve on that side, which causes left eye wonkiness and homosexuality.

The optic nerve goes to the optic chiasm is located at the base of the brain, below the hypothalamus, and above the pituitary gland, in the middle cranial fossa. It's about 10 mm above the pituitary gland and 1 cm above the pituitary fossa. This attack also hits the pituitary gland affecting hormonal output. This might be a cause of homosexuality.

Oh, crikey! A nicotine-free British population?

[quote] MPs have voted to back the government's plans to create a "smoke-free generation", and reduce the number of smoking-related deaths.

[quote] It means that people born in or after 2009 will never be able to legally buy cigarettes, leading to an effective ban.

Source in the next link because I can’t keep up with Muriel’s hit list.

Gross.

Keith Olbermann offered ESPN an ultimatum: silence Stephen A. Smith or fire him.

Olbermann uploaded a video detailing his orders Monday, including a meandering 393-word caption. In short, he called upon ESPN to take immediate action after Smith appeared on Fox News last week.

"WHY ESPN MUST EITHER SILENCE OR FIRE STEPHEN A. SMITH: Its longstanding policy - no, you can't be a sportscaster on one station and an advocate for a presidential candidate on another station - is right. I know: I helped to author it because the day when you (or I) could straddle both worlds is long gone," started Olbermann.

For background, Sean Hannity asked Smith about polls demonstrating the growing support for Trump among black voters. Smith attributed the trend to black Americans relating to how the law has been weaponized against the former president.

"By Donald Trump’s statement weeks ago, talking about how he’s hearing that black folks find him relatable, because what he’s going through is similar to what black Americans have gone through. He wasn’t lying," Smith told Sean Hannity.

"He was telling the truth. When you see the law enforcement, the court system, and everything else being exercised against him, it is something that black folks, throughout this nation, can relate to."

You are likely wondering at what point during the segment Smith "endorsed," as Olbermann stated, Donald Trump. Here's the catch: he never did.

In fact, Smith is open about neither supporting Trump nor planning to vote for him.

He simply answered the question Hannity posed with analysis supported by polling. Anyway, Olbermann wants him fired for that.

Secondly, ESPN allows Smith to discuss politics on Fox News (and other cable news networks, like CNN) because he negotiated a clause in his contract that allows him to operate a political/cultural podcast outside of ESPN. In doing so, Smith bypasses ESPN's standard booking restrictions.

Olbermann didn't have that clause in his contract during his several stints at ESPN. Most commentators don't. Stephen A. Smith does because he has leverage over ESPN, as the biggest drawing card at the company.

Notice below the logo behind Smith during his appearance on Fox News. Notice how the chyron reads "Host of the Stephen A. Smith Show" and not "ESPN Host."

Thirdly, Olbermann promises that he'd insist on the same ultimatum if Smith "were campaigning for Biden." Hmm.

So how come Olbermann didn't call for Stephen A's job when he appeared on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program last month and criticized Trump?

Likewise, Olbermann had little to say when ESPN contributor Pablo Torre mocked then-Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on MSNBC late last year.

KO only screeches about ESPN's tolerance for political discourse when it involves Sage Steele (a moderate conservative) or Smith (who, occasionally, departs from the pre-approved liberal orthodoxy).

Lastly, there was a time when Olbermann could inflict real damage on one's career.

(both male and female)

Think of something that pops into your head and type it into an AI Prompt (bing is free)

don’t overthink it. Just whatever pops into your head. just let it flow organically.

This was “a rabbit and a cat shop for groceries at Whole Foods and are dismayed by the prices”

He is strikingly gorgeous. I have followed him for a while. He is from Spain, 6’2, an ex footballer turned model, has a gorgeous lady and a new baby. He lives a rather charmed life.

He is one of those people who I look at and think about how unfair it is for a single person to come out that beautiful. Lol.

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Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department was always destined to enjoy a massive welcome on streaming platforms. Less than a day after it was released, the set has already broken an important record—one which few could have predicted she’d shatter so quickly.

According to Billboard, The Tortured Poets Department has already earned the honor of being the album with the most streams in a single day on Spotify so far this year. The streaming platform confirmed the news to the music industry-focused outlet.

The report didn’t state a number of plays, but it must be massive. Before The Tortured Poets Department arrived, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter stood as the title with the most streams in a single day. That project scored its lofty debut just a few weeks ago.

Well, this is it, final season.

Starts April 4th.

It’s for GYPSY. I’m reading Herbie and Jocko. I’d be thrilled with either part!

I'm not going to post a MARY!!!!, but I really miss my mom. Every day, something happens that I wish I could tell her, talk to her about, commiserate over, etc. Or I'll hear a song she liked and think of her.

Does one ever really get over losing a mother?

(And my mom is, technically, still alive, but in late-stage Alzheimer's. The person who was my mother is long gone.)

I’m “read for filth”.

He looks alright, better than usual.

As a OP of that thread I enjoyed all the tea spilled about this cute but messy bitch. But somehow that thread got blocked so I did pt 2.

It made sense for American college students to protest the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s because some among them were being drafted to fight in an unpopular war. But what in the end do American college students ahve to do with the Israel-Hamas War? How significant is the investment of most colleges and universities in the Israeli government? Would divestment really make all that big of a difference to Israel's financial health?

Students are protesting on their campuses because it's a very safe way to make displeasure with global politics heard, but it's ultimately pretty meaningless. It becomes a distraction for both the American left and (particularly) the right, so they can wring their hands over the state of post-secondary education in the US today. It helps no one in the Middle East.

I guess is Becky ok with it?

SAN FRANCISCO (TND) — San Francisco thieves broke into the car of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Thursday, making off with his luggage and leaving him without formalwear for a major campaign event, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The vehicle was reportedly parked in a downtown San Francisco parking garage for several days while Rep. Schiff visited the area on campaign business. The Golden State representative currently has his sights set on the Senate vacancy left by the late Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif.

Thursday's campaign dinner featured powerful attorney Joe Cotchett, among other supporters hoping to boost Rep. Schiff's Senate odds, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The representative was reportedly advised not to leave anything in the car, but a press agent told the publication he “was in a hurry and didn’t want to be late.”

Without a suit, Rep. Schiff attended the event in “his shirt sleeves and a hiking vest while everyone else sat in suits,” the publication wrote.

“I guess it’s ‘Welcome to San Francisco,’” Cotchett’s press agent Lee Houskeeper reportedly noted in response to Rep. Schiff’s plight. “Adam really showed himself tonight,” Cotchett told the publication of the representative’s demeanor through the ordeal. “He’ll be a great senator — he’s going to change the Senate tremendously.”

Rep. Schiff reportedly appeared calm, telling the San Francisco Chronicle “yes, they took my bags, but I’m here to thank Joe.”

READ MORE | Calif. Dem slams 'soft' prosecutors over rampant crime: 'This is not normal'

Neither San Francisco police nor Rep. Schiff's office immediately responded to a request for comment from The National Desk (TND) Friday.

The incident comes just days after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's home was broken into by a city resident. 29-year-old Ephraim Hunter was arrested Sunday after allegedly smashing a window of the mayor's home while it was occupied.

Rep. Schiff isn’t the only member of Congress to fall victim to swelling crime in major metro areas. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, in October was carjacked at gunpoint in Washington D.C.’s Navy Yard.

"I do have a black belt, but I recognize when you got three, three guns, yeah, I looked at one with a gun another with a gun, one behind me,” Cuellar said of the incident. “So they said they wanted my car, I said, 'Sure.' You got to keep calm under those situations and then they took off.”

Princess Beatrice’s former boyfriend turned up dead in a Miami hotel earlier this year from a suspected drug overdose, Florida cops confirmed to The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

Cops said they were called to a downtown hotel room on Feb. 7 at the citizenM Miami Worldcenter, where the 41-year-old Paolo Liuzzo was discovered and pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m.

An official cause of death is yet to be released, but Miami cops said his death is being “investigated as an overdose death.” Cops did not say whether foul play was suspected or not.

Insiders told The Sun that Liuzzo, who began dating Beatrice in 2005 when she was 17 and he was 24, had long struggled with drugs and had plunged into a “vicious cycle” of gambling-related debt.

Born April 27, 1959 in Bellshill, Scotland

Let's discuss Lee Marvin. A staple of films from the 1950's to the 1980's. He always seemed calm, cool, collected, and having the time of his life.

The Wild One, The Comancheros, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Killers, Cat Ballou, The Professionals, The Dirty Dozen, Paint Your Wagon, The Iceman Cometh, The Spikes Gang, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, Dog Day, and The Delta Force. A lifelong smoker and drinker, he died too soon at the age of 63.

When I think of Lee Marvin, I always think of my grandfather, who told me "There are only three actors worth a damn: John Wayne, Charles Bronson, and Lee Marvin."

Cunt.

It’s Kirsten Kish

Omg I can’t wait to watch!!!!

There was only one hotel room available with 2 queen beds. How would they sleep?

It's a new year, so time for a new thread! Let's start from where we left off in 2023...

It’s the waning days of April 2024, and this backwater swamp of website seems totally deserted, with tumbleweeds floating gently through

There’s only 8, or so queens. I guess it means the only thing eliminated is their old faces.

And does not give a damn if you recognize her

Brianna was the 15 year old male born trans girl stabbed to death in February this year that saw a wave of vigils in the UK. A male and female teenager aged 15 were charged with the murder

The UK has very strict contempt of court laws so the information presented to the jury is the first time it has been made public.

As was suspected at the time Brianna wasn't killed simply because she was trans. The 2 perps have been diagnosed with autism and had an unnatural obsession with torture and murder and the girl attempted to kill Brianna by giving her an overdose, which she recovered from.

The perps then planned to kill a boy by strangling him and stage it as him hanging himself, but they couldn't afford the rope. The girl perp had told the boy perp that she really liked Brianna and she became the next target.

Parts of the court testimony made me think of Heathers.

In the Mary & George threads quite a bit of disappointment was expressed.

Werk it, gurl.

King Charles is reportedly not doing great amid his cancer battle -- so much so, in fact, that his aides are apparently dusting off his funeral plans and updating them regularly.

The Daily Beast put out a story Thursday that says His Royal Highness is in poor health as he continues ongoing treatments for his cancer -- which, at this point, remains a mystery. The only thing the Palace has said is that it isn't prostate cancer ... but it's unspecified.

While KC has been seen out and about these past few months after his diagnosis -- seemingly looking healthy and robust -- the Beast reports it's dire behind the scenes.

What reporter Tom Sykes says he's been hearing from friends of the King in recent weeks is that it's "not good." In fact, it's apparently so bad ... that Buckingham Palace is said to be updating Charles' funeral plans on a regular basis these days.

Those plans are written down somewhere, per the Beast, and it has a code name ... Operation Menai Bridge. There's also this ... the Beast reports that a separate document which has dos and don'ts from Queen Elizabeth II's funeral has also been floating around lately.

If true, it's pretty stunning ... especially since Charles has been carrying on with his Royal duties and putting on a brave face in public. Based on this ... it suggests that's all for show.

So I am a bottom who really loves big dicks and uses my 7" dildo religiously. However, after taking my first 9" dick the other day, I literally cannot stop playing with my hole, and I think it's becoming a problem. My ass has literally been sore for days and I don't know how to stop. Fellow bottoms, please help me. 🙏🏻😭

26 March: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce his running mate at a rally in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, as his campaign seeks out new support amid increasing concerns among Democrats over his impact on the race.

He has no chance of winning, and he will do nothing but help Trump.

Drop out RFK, you loser whack job.

Gayface thread.

Suki Sandhu always insists Manuel Heichlinger “made a beeline” for him that first evening in Berlin.

When Manuel entered the Kaefer restaurant, a rooftop spot on top of Germany’s Reichstag parliament building, Suki noticed him right away.

“I saw him walk in and I thought, ‘He’s quite hot. He’s quite handsome. That must be someone from the German office,’” says Suki. “But I always ignore the hot guy – I’m like, they probably already get enough attention as it is, just ignore them.”

Suki genuinely had no intention of speaking with Manuel that night. But the next thing he knew, Manuel had unexpectedly made eye contact with him. Then, more unexpected, Manuel was smiling at Suki.

And then – Suki truly couldn’t believe it – Manuel was crossing the room, walking in his direction. Suki held his breath.

I've been to Missouri. This ain't gonna be his crowd.

I think so. Harrison Osterfield's a lot prettier than Tom to me.

She really covers many different types of genres.

Tired.

Go off DL travel snobs.

I want to see Shawn Mendes’ cock. It probably not big but I’m very curious to see it.

I'll always love him for God's Own Country.

In 2021, Nassib – then playing for the Las Vegas Raiders – became the first active NFL player in league history to publicly identify as gay.

Nassib said he agonized over the decision for 15 years, adding that he was a private person and wasn’t seeking any publicity.

Months later, he became the first active NFL player identifying as gay to feature in a regular season game, starring in the Raiders’ thrilling 33-27 win over the Baltimore Ravens.

When he announced, Nassib pointed towards The Trevor Project – a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth – and how it had helped him.

On Friday, Nassib will continue that partnership, as he announces the second round pick of the Cleveland Browns – the team with whom Nassib began his NFL career in 2016 – at the 2024 NFL Draft.

As the team’s guest picker, Nassib will be joined on stage in Detroit by The Trevor Project’s founder and interim CEO, Peggy Rajski.

He was more important in your teenage life than you have ever admitted! Discuss.

Since we’ve got the lesbian thread…

I’m mother’s ashes, pride of place in the centre of the mantle, underneath the portrait of her and Pookums, her beloved Pomeranian.

Poppy Harlow, the once-rising-CNN-star, has announced she's leaving the network next week after 16 years at the news channel. The move comes one year after the 'shake up' at CNN's morning show, which saw her co-host Kaitlan Collins was moved to prime-time and co-anchor Don Lemon was abruptly fired. The morning show has suffered in the ratings and has gone through more shake-ups in the past twelve months, the latest being this past February. Harlow's last day is scheduled for next week.

It's that time of year again, and they got NEW RULES!

And here's why.

I got a chocolate cake from Goldbelly around the holidays.

Chocolate with Chocolate Frosting.

It sucks balls. The frosting is sparse and a very weak milk chocolate type frosting.

So I just came up with a brilliant idea.

I am making my own frosting (the basic Hershey's recipe but using Ghiardelli Dark Cocoa)

And will REFROST the cake slice by slice as I see fit.

I realized that I am the officially most unattractive man who ever lived. On every level.

Little Fat Boys are always fat inside!

“ Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter and his late brother Aaron Carter — and the controversies and accusations swirling around both of them — will be the subject of the latest high-profile documentary series on Investigation Discovery. Coming off the tremendous success of the recent “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” ID and its sister streamer Max will jointly run the four-part docuseries “Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter” over two nights, on Monday, May 27, and Tuesday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET.

In particular, the series will investigate the accusations of sexual assault against Nick Carter by three women, and will also dive into younger brother Aaron Carter’s struggles with mental health and substance abuse, leading to his death in 2022. “Fallen Idols” will additionally look at the relationship between the brothers, which took a turn when Aaron Carter began criticizing Nick Carter for those allegations and supporting his accusers.”

That car sounds creaky and none of them put on their seatbelts. By 1977 we were always wearing our seatbelts.

Oy vey! Maybe the kosher cafe ran out of schnitzel that day.

See it here, since you won’t catch this anywhere on mainstream media!

They certainly do seem to be enjoying the performance.

Can’t make this shit up.

Those commercials have convinced me. The ones where the invisible hand whips up some SPAM fried rice, I’m sure you’ve seen it.

Does anybody else have any great SPAM recipes?

Mom was looking like Anne Murray and trying to impress other women with her Saturday Night Fever blouse.

I remember in the 80s, she’d talk about female troubles and depression and not being able to have kids.

And she acknowledges she’s tattooed to mask scars.

Of course some scars are from plastic surgery. But I wonder if there are other causes too.

He's got the stick you want if you've got the puck.

…mostly white.

Idiots.

How the hell does one accidentally leave bullets in their luggage? Like, how?

Anyway, I guess some people need to learn that the rest of the world isn't as gun crazy as some Americans are.

The original production had more than 1,000 performances. It made stars out of Michael Jeter and Jane Krakowski.

It requires a big cast, but the set can be done as it was in the original fairly cheaply.

Mine was 'Night of the Living Dead'. I saw it when I was a young teenage and it took me weeks to get over it. I don't watch horror movies anymore. Real life scenarios are enough.

Watters is the product of a Quaker education. Born in Philadelphia, he attended William Penn Charter School, the oldest Quaker school in the world. The school emphasizes Quaker values — empathy for others and an appreciation for people from diverse racial, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds. Watters’ father and mother, Stephen and Anne, clearly believed in the school’s mission: They served as director of the middle school and director of lower school admissions, respectively.

When Watters was in high school, the family moved to Long Island, New York, where his father got a job as headmaster at The Green Vale School, an exclusive private school that runs through eighth grade, and his mother got a job as director of admissions. The Watters family lived on campus, but Watters was too old for Green Vale, so his parents sent him to nearby Friends Academy, another prestigious Quaker school attended by many Green Vale graduates.

Even before Watters’ first day at the school, there were signs he would follow a different path.

As part of the application process, Watters visited for something of a tryout, one of Watters’ former classmates recalled. “It was a school that a lot of people got rejected from,” said the classmate. “You kind of understood that if you were there for the day, you had to present yourself a certain way.”

But when class began on the day of his tryout, the gregarious Watters suddenly put his head down on his desk, the classmate said. It was a small class and a small room, and he was right in front of the teacher. But he didn’t appear to care, and it didn’t matter either. He got in.

“Obviously as the headmaster of Green Vale’s son, he was never going to be rejected,” said the classmate.

Watters repeated his junior year during his first year at Friends Academy, which Fox News explained was because of his family’s move from Philadelphia to Long Island. Once there, he immediately made his presence felt. He liked to debate the best way to wear the collar of a polo shirt, his friend Michael Shlofmitz said over email. Others said he would joke about his “hippie” parents, and people described him as friendly and charismatic. He played football and lacrosse. Parents generally liked him.

“He was surprisingly popular,” a second former classmate said.

But Watters was far from a star student, and he could occasionally display a shamelessness his peers found jarring. At one of his friend’s parties, Watters was told there was only one rule: Don’t go into Dad’s bedroom. He did anyway, and stuck chewing gum on the wall and left a burned hole in the carpet, according to two people who were there.

When the father found out, he chased Watters out of the house. “I would have killed him if I had caught him, he was so disrespectful,” the father said. (Watters denied the incident ever took place.)

Watters was often dismissive of authority figures, teachers included, multiple classmates said. “He wasn’t very troubled by shame,” the first high school classmate said.

“It was instantly recognizable, the sort of entitlement, the flippancy, the sort of ego-driven smile,” a third high school classmate said.

Watters’ time at Friends Academy was cut short his senior year after he and a friend got in trouble for leaving campus during school hours. But the school did not formally suspend or expel Watters. Instead, it allowed him to spend his final semester interning at a publishing company while still receiving his diploma on time.

Classmates wondered whether Watters’ father’s influence at The Green Vale School, which fed many students into Friends Academy each year, helped him and his friend avoid harsher punishment. “With his father being in that position of power, I don’t know if he ever had to deal with consequence,” the second classmate said.

The situation was part of a familiar pattern for Watters. “He was just one of those people,” said the third classmate, “that just sort of sailed through life.”

Israel should level Gaza.

Who will win, Yvonne & Melissa or Ricky & Cesar?

I had a good feeling about Rohan and his sister, but alas, ‘‘twas not to be.

I was so happy Team Mom & Son rallied to a respectable finish.

Sonja Christopher, who was the first person in Survivor Season 1 to be voted off the show, has died at 87, according to a current contestant. No cause was revealed.

Liz Wilcox, who stars in the current season 46 of Survivor, posted the news on X. She met Christopher over Christmas and shared a photo of the two talking on FaceTime on her account.

“Today, the legend herself Sonja Christopher of Season One passed away. I had the pleasure of meeting her on Christmas. She had so much spunk + love for Survivor and what the show brought to her life. I hope you’re singing + playing your heart out somewhere beautiful, Sonja.”

Wilcox said people shouldn’t send flowers, but advised donations to Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, California, the Cancer Support Community in SF, or the Sjogren’s Foundation.

Sonja competed on Survivor: Borneo in 2000, and was voted out after several missteps led to her team losing that first week.

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Lovers of Anthony's giant ass. Apparently he's been talked about on DL before, but I just discovered him. What's your favorite pic of him and his plump ass?

Oh the 90s so much fun

Discussion about the Lardos Niall Hogran, Lewis Fataldi and Fat Niko continues here.

Blubbery Niko and Gainer Gemma are getting ready for the Booze Cruise.

The FDA has approved Eli Lily's tizerpatide for obesity treatment. It will be marketed as Zepbound for chronic weight management. The drug is already approved for type 2 diabetes, and marketed as Mounjaro. Mounjaro has gained massive popularity being prescribed off label for obesity, competing directly with Novo Nordisk's Wegovy (Ozempic).

Eli Lily's stock immediately jumped on the news of the approval.

Some of CNN’s biggest liberal stars who were pushed out under previous leadership have been making their return on-air in recent weeks, marking another shift away from a mission to make the network less partisan.

It has been nearly one year since CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, canned the network’s beleaguered CEO Chris Licht, who was brought on to restore the journalistic credibility CNN had lost during the Trump era.

Among the changes Licht made were of personnel, particularly jettisoning some of the most anti-Trump voices who had helped redefine CNN as a news organization aligned with MSNBC, which has openly embraced its far-left stance.

However, at least three of them have crawled their way back on CNN’s airwaves.

Nursing home?

See now this is what we need.

It’s not what we’re getting, but it’s what we need.

But again, not what we’re getting.

We haven't had a thread to talk broadly about British shows and/or the PBS or Britbox viewings of them in the US for a while.

Starting off with something that apparently happened a few months ago....the sexy guy that played Spiros on The Durrells has been ACCUSED! of sexual harassment/assault/rape. (He was serving as a rep in EU parliament.)

to discuss all things Howard and Bababooey

Question: Why isn't Jon Hein on the wrap up show anymore?

Girthmasterr vent viral in the last few days on Twitter

The Twitter link is NOT paywalled for a PHONE browser

You are welcome

A naturalist, when she was 26 she traveled to Africa to fulfill a lifelong dream and study animals. At a place called Gombe on the shores of Lake Tanganyika she dreams became reality. From her observation of the chimpanzees who lived there came the realization of how close we humans are to our animal ancestors, and life devoted to man's relationship with the planet he inhabits. Her critics have called her anthropomorphic, unscientific, but she is unrepented.

"I have tried to assuage some of the guilt we all must feel for our inhumanity to man and beat alike, and I will go on trying until the end."

Let's discuss Dr. Jane Goodall.

While Trump is currently on trial for fraud.

The former First Puttana turns 54 years old today. I wonder how she and her family will celebrate today ?

Let's all wish her a Happy Birthday !

I am 62 years old and diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. I had more tests done because the symptoms are becoming more noticeable. Extensive blood work was done, moreso than has ever been done before. I find out I am HIV negative, which I predicted, and lo and behold, I have syphilis.

I haven't had a sexual partner in 20 years, only ten or so more in the 20 years before that. The doctor told me the virus gives you an immediate sore and a rash. I never noticed that back then. Then it goes dormant in your body and can reappear at any point in the rest of your life.

Here's the kicker. It can interrupt brain and nerve function, hallmarks of frontotemporal dementia. I may have been misdiagnosed all these years, with no hint I should have been going to an infection specialist all along. I wonder why my primary doctors never did these tests on me.

I am shocked! I feel guilty and dirty. How am I going to tell my family this?

Have you experienced this?

Gee. When you start vaping at 15, you can expect to start aging prematurely in your twenties!

Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics recently released its Spring 2024 poll of young voters 18 to 29 years old and offered some surprising findings regarding the 2024 election and how young people view the Israel-Hamas conflict.Of the 16 issues polled, “Israel/Palestine” ranked as the 15th most important compared to the others – only viewed as more important than student debt.

Inflation, Healthcare, Housing, Gun Violence, and Jobs ranked as the top five most important issues – in that order. “The only issue time that inflation did not win its individual match-up was when it was paired with women’s reproductive rights. Women’s reproductive rights was considered the more important issue, 57% to 43%,” noted the poll.

In terms of how Israel has prosecuted its war against Hamas, a plurality was unsure whether or not Israel had “gone too far.”

“When young Americans are asked whether or not they believe Israel’s response so far to the October 7 attack by Hamas has been justified, a plurality indicates that they don’t know (45%). About a fifth (21%) report that Israel’s response was justified with 32% believing it was not justified.

The poll found that Biden’s approval rating among young voters was at 31 percent overall. On the Israel-Hamas conflict, Biden landed at a dismal 18 percent approval and at 30 percent on the economy in general. Biden still leads Trump by 8 points among all young Americans and 19 points among those who are likely voters, which is down from 30 points at the same time in 2020.

Produced by her son.

FAYE Laurent Bouzereau 2024, 1h31, United States

A Nedland Media, Amblin and HBO production.

The first feature-length documentary about Faye Dunaway who speaks about her career, with landmark roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. Joining Faye are her son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, James Gray and many others.

Screening in the presence of Faye Dunaway and Laurent Bouzereau.

On the April 19 episode of her podcast misSPELLING, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 50, shared her response when fans ask why she hasn’t been cast on the hit Bravo series.

"I'm like, I don't know," Spelling said. "Once, I asked Andy Cohen, who I love and have known forever, been on his show many times. He was like, 'Yeah, we keep getting this question.'"

"And I'm like, 'So, Andy, what's the answer?'” she continued. "He was like, 'Ehh, I don't know. You and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? I can't see it.'"

The actress recalled Cohen, 55, asking her if she already knew the cast of the series.

In response, she told the Housewives executive, “Every single one of them I am friends with and have known forever and have a history.”

Only the last few years I think, like 2019. I think it's an age thing. And a broader cultural thing.

He's very knowledgeable, and he's on MSNBC constantly. He goes from one news show to the next.

That is all.

How 538's new 2024 presidential general election polling averages work.

It looks amazing and has an all star cast!

I'm having a hard time sleeping lately. If I just repeat a word over and over in my mind, sometimes it bores me to sleep. "One" seems to do the trick for now.

Yahoo Entertainment Jennifer Aniston Is Jealous of Julia Roberts’ Plastic Surgery Work, Says Source Michael Gioia Wed, April 3, 2024 at 7:10 AM MST 1 min read

Julia Roberts' subtle and strategic nips and tucks are giving Jennifer Aniston a serious case of sour grapes, an insider exclusively tells Life & Style.

Roberts, 56, "is quietly boasting she's found a way to turn back the clock without going over the top," the source says. "She looks fantastic. You can see that she's had a little work on her eyes, but nothing too extreme. It's done wonders for her self-esteem and her marriage because her husband, Danny Moder, can't keep his hands off her."

But Roberts' youthful glow is causing Aniston, 55, to turn green with envy, according to Life & Style sources.

"Jen's getting trolled for the work she's had done, while Julia is being feted as this forever young sex symbol. She is frantically trying to find out who Julia's doctor is, but she's getting shut out," says an insider.

"It looks like Julia's had Botox to her lower to the forehead and her upper eyes done," says top Chicago plastic surgeon Dr. Otto Placik. "I think she's likely had Botox and filler to the lip region and maybe in the cheeks as well."

He also points out some plastic-surgery fails on the former Friends star. "I think Jennifer got filler eyelids that is not sitting well, and it looks as though her lower eyelids have been tightened," says Placik, who has not treated either star.

"It looks like she's got undesirable filler in what we call the tear trough. And then she looks like she's definitely had some filler to her lower lip."

Based on what they said, co-workers testimonies,gossip and "performance".

Dawson-bisexual- was cumming from fucking Lucas,Josh and few other guys, self-admitted to liking muscular bodies.

Sean(R.I.P)-bisexual- openely bisexual(probably due to family's mentality and gay father), came from fucking Zeb, Kenny(gross) and few others. Looked gay af.

Connor-straight- adamant about being straight, mechanical af, his dick is probably result of trimix, when his pervy wifey suggested having MMFs he declined. Married to woman.

Josh- bisexual- self described on xpeepes as "18yo closeted bisexual into older guys, do what you want with me" cum hungry whore, came from fucking Reagan. Married to woman.

Trey-bisexual- admitted to fucking guys off camera, came from fucking Greyson, looks and sounds gay af. Single.

Tom- bisexual- came from fucking Ellis and Josh, probably closet now and then. Married to woman.

Harper- bisexual- hooked up off camera with Quinn, self-identified bisexual, said you have to have at least some attraction to do gay porn. Married to woman.

Cain- bisexual- came from fucking Brody, Colby and Aiden, was equally into gay, bi and straight sex. Now married to latina with little gurl.

Aiden- bisexual- came from fucking Cain and Marc, addicted to prostate orgasms, there is a lot of conflicted informations about his off screen attitute. Has a gf.

Quinn- gay- one of the few homosexual guys- came from fucking Colt,Josh and many other guys, had one MMF threesome but was visibly disgusted by woman, only had boyfriends, hooked up with Harper,Chandler,Sebastian and few others.

Kellan- bisexual- openely bisexual, actually a gay guy who turned bisexual, hooked up with several costars both men and women, came from fucking Kent,Marc, Greyson and many others. Spill the tea on tiktok.

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Thank god for the British invasion and New Wave.

He's former soap star from "Home and Away"

Roadside Attractions has nabbed domestic rights to Castille Landon's feature that also stars Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.

A remake to the 1993 Ang Lee romcom, which earned a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination, is underway and it found its two leads!!!

I don't remember divers having quite the nice packages as these guys. Anyone else like to watch diving?

Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School's former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors. Dazhon Darien was charged with disrupting school activities, after investigators determined they'd faked his voice and circulated the audio on social media in January, according to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office. Darien's nickname, DJ, was among the names mentioned in the audio clips he allegedly faked.

The original Fallout games which came out in the late 90s had excellent storytelling, but the modern entries have left much to be desired. That being said, the setting and world itself has always been compelling in the games. The universe of Fallout is an alternate timeline of Earth's history. It's a retrofuturist world with a 1950s sci-fi aesthetic. i asked chat gpt to summarize the setting to make it easier.

'In the Fallout universe, an alternate history unfolds where the world diverged from ours after World War II, adopting a retrofuturistic aesthetic centered around atomic technology. The United States and China become embroiled in a resource war, escalating into a devastating conflict. The Great War of 2077 culminates in a nuclear apocalypse, transforming the world into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Vault-Tec, a pre-war corporation, constructs underground vaults to shelter select citizens from the devastation.'

vault-tec is a company that built nuclear survival shelters all across the usa, but most of them are actually designed to be cruel social experiments with human guinea pigs. Most of the games have you leaving a vault to explore and interact with the outside post-apocalyptic world - with humans trying to rebuild society amongst mutants and monsters created by radiation. The games are highly acclaimed and Fallout is considered to be one of the greatest franchises in gaming history. fallout 1, 2, and new vegas are particularly known for good writing.

It's never been clearer that the Supreme Court is in desperate need of reform.

Here are three key reforms Congress should enact to restore the trust and legitimacy of our nation’s highest court.

The saga continues

How come American old ladies don’t wear turbans anymore? I’m watching the Belgian version of Professor T and there have been at least two older women who have worn turbans.

Continuing our discussion.

Voice of the Night's prior thread:

What the hell is this? My mother just said she was accepted and can't stop talking about it.

I love that she’s still doing her thing!

Every adolescent/teen girl and gay boy in the early 2000s knew this film (and was probably in love with Jesse Bradford—I know I was). I rewatched it recently and found that it has held up extremely well—it's an excellent comedy and "feel good" entertainment in the truest sense of the word. The script is witty and there are so many funny moments throughout. As far as teen comedies of this era go, I cannot think of a better one.

"Hello, Carol Burnett, it's Bradley Cooper," the video begins. "I just wanted to wish you a very happy 91st birthday. I've been such a massive fan of yours ever since I was a kid, watched your show religiously, and it's a thrill to leave you this message. I hope to meet you one day and maybe even work together. I hope you have a great day, see ya."

Burnett was delighted by the message, telling Kimmel, "Oh, that is hysterical. I love that."

Carol's show aired 1967-1978. Bradley was born in 1975. How was he watching The Carol Burnett Show "religiously" when he was only three years old when it went off the air? And there were no TV Land type networks in the '70s and '80s where he could have even been watching reruns of Carol's show.

I'm the smell of lingering splooge!

I'm Billie Eilish

I'm friends with gay people so I'm obviously part of the queer umbrella!

They're chipping these junkies now.

[quote]Ahead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use tracking chips on their journey. Reputed companies were already using them but now it’s been mandatory for all climbers. It will cut down search and rescue time in the event of an accident. Climbers will pay $10-15 apiece for the chips, which will be sewn into their jackets. Once the climber returns, the chip will be removed, given back to the government, and saved for the next person.

[quote]Last year, Nepal gave out a record 478 climbing permits. Twelve climbers were confirmed to have died on the mountain, while another five remain officially missing.

I’m the provision in his will that leaves nothing to his daughter Khloe Kardashian for reasons that are well known to her.

[QUOTE]The barely visible grave of Donald Trump's first wife was also cordoned off, preventing well wishers from approaching the area to pay their respects on Friday.

The last David Tyler Muir thread maxed out, continue the discussion here!

Well?

Now he's an expert on US politics.

"So if Trump wins, the US will calamitously miss the emissions target set by Biden.

Whereas if Biden wins, the US will catastrophically miss the emissions target set by Biden.

This ingenious piece of political campaigning will surely win over disillusioned voters"

It’s the first female led series in the NCIS franchise and it’s died an early death.

Ellen DeGeneres opened her 'Ellen's Last Stand...Up Tour' with a set at the Largo in L.A. last night, addressing her "devastating" public cancellation and revealing the act will be taped for a Netflix special later this year

Let's make a list.

Nancy Olson.

Let the grocery witch tell you how to save!

They're around 40, popular, handsome and strong armed against criminals.

But not everybody agrees with their tactics.

LANGE OPENED LAST NIGHT IN "MOTHER PLAY" ON BROADWAY. BELOW I WRITE ABOUT THE NIGHT 30 YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WON THE OSCAR - AND MY SAD HEART.

KEVIN SESSUMS APR 26, 2024

Paula Vogel’s Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions has opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway in a Second Stage Theatre production directed by Tina Landau. It stars Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and Celia Keenan-Bolger, and has received a slew of raves - especially for Lange. I will be in New York from June 14th - 20th and have a ticket to see its last scheduled performance at its matinee on June 16th, the afternoon of the Tony Awards. I have been lucky to have seen Lange in all her previous Broadway appearances in three of the greatest female roles in the American theatre canon: Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, and Mary Tyrone in Long Days Journey into Night. She was magnificent in all of them, but this is the first time she has been able to create a role in a play.

Movie stars, whose faces find the light that longs to find the facial planes that make each, illumined, less plain, know also how to stay incongruously simple so that little snippets of simplicity can then be enlarged, arranged; screen performances are segmental until edited together into a whole after actors have finished doing their jobs. The performances that ultimately result are both static yet, if all the ingredients artistically coalesce, ever stirring having been technologically stirred together. Few movie stars and great screen actors (not always the same) can translate that transitory weigh-station scene-by-scene beat-by-beat mode of recorded acting onto the rigorous evanescence of the stage. Not Lange. She’s a stage creature. She knows not only how to embody a character but also how to live within her own body on a theatre stage and sustain an arc of a characterization without a director calling, “Cut.” She rhythmically rearranges her artistry from beat-to-beat to a symphonic whole.

I wrote a cover story on Lange for Vanity Fair thirty years ago - 29 to be precise, precision also a hallmark of Lange’s artistry - that conflated with her winning her Oscar for Best Actress for Blue Sky directed by Tony Richardson. Our paths have crossed often over the years. I am friendly with her daughter Hannah who was an upstate New York neighbor of mine when I lived up there for five years and whom Jessica often visits. We shared a mutual friend in the late writer and raconteur Julia Reed, each bonding over their singularity and fascination with the south . Julia, like me, was from Mississippi and Lange, a stunningly talented photographer, published a book of photographs of the state she took on the many road trips that she and Julia would take up into Mississippi. I hung with Jessica in Julia’s book-lined place in New Orleans’s Garden District one memorable night. Another mutual friend recently directed her in an upcoming film in which she, in fact, plays a stage creature. He and I were talking about her in London a few months ago - he claims she is giving an astonishing performance in the film, even for her - and I shared an anecdote about how I ended up in the back of a limo with her Oscar between my legs that night she won it almost 30 years ago, which coincided with my birthday, and I tried to explain to him (and to me) why it might have been the saddest moment of my life. “You and Jessica have something in common,” he told me. “Neither of you can let go of your loneliness.”

A reasonable, real world figure. And by comfortable life, I mean you can pay your bills, go on a couple of trips a year, have good healthcare, live where you want, and not worry about any sort of emergency. Plus, you don't have to be retirement age.

I'm curious about what the range of numbers will be.

I didn’t know the movie was booed at Cannes 💀

Continue your discussion of each day's Jeopardy! game here.

“After three beautiful years together”, he and his girlfriend have parted ways but “they plan to stay in each other’s lives and support one another’s endeavors”.

You microwave the gunk, stick it up your nose with a stick in it, wait for to harden and then pull it out with all the hairs attached.

Unsightly nasal hair really is unsightly.

I have nothing in my new place, except for a few small knives.

No tools or kitchen appliances of any sort.

But I have a bottle of wine (with a cork) that I desperately want to open.

Any ideas?

I checked out this linked site, but I either don't have what they recommended, or the idea sounds too sketchy.

On Thursday, April 25, Shore, 56, shared a lengthy Instagram response to Simmons’ latest message about the film.

“You guys, I was up all night crying regarding Richard Simmons’ tweet,” the comedian wrote, alongside a screenshot of Simmons’ Facebook statement. “Richard, how do you not approve of this movie? I mean, really, who’s better to play you in a movie than ME?”

Shore went on to say that Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt were not likely to play Simmons, joking that “Everyone already thinks I’m you. We’re the same. Beautiful, inside and out.”

Next, Shore invited Simmons, 75, to hear his and writer Jordan Allen-Dutton’s pitch for the biopic, offering to bring “some warm matzo ball soup and a pastrami sandwich with dark mustard from Canters” to Simmons’ house.

“I know you, Richard. We used to hang out back in the day,” Shore wrote. “I’d always see you at The Comedy Store. You’re my old buddy. Richard, you’re going to love our movie. We’re going to make the most beautiful cinematic masterpiece that’s going to honor you in a way that you’ll drop to your knees and cry with joy and happiness.”

The first time I saw this commercial all I could think about was ripping this guy’s shirt off and flossing my teeth with his chest hair. Men like this ooze masculinity and sex appeal in a natural and realistic way.

Gen Z Newsreport:

The Pokémon game called "Pokémon Go" which was released on smartphones in 2016, allowed every player to create their own ingame avatar which they were able to show off amongst each other. The latest update however uglified their creations and most if not all gamers are angry now at what Nintendo has done to them! What is your opinion on the new character models? An improvement or a product of new age fat acceptance?

He definitely surprised the crowd. In oversized cargo pants, a sweatshirt that swallowed his thin frame and a baseball cap pulled down low, Justin Bieber joined Tems for a song during her Coachella set in Indio, California, on April 14.

“He looked like he just stepped out of the audience,” a witness says of the singer, who has only performed sporadically since canceling his Justice tour after a viral infection caused partial face paralysis in June 2022. “It’s a good sign he felt comfortable enough to get ​on stage, and a lot of fans are hoping this means he’ll be making his music comeback soon.”

But judging by his erratic behavior offstage, they may have a while to wait. It’s been exactly one year since Justin regained mobility in his face, but “he’s still fragile and seemed checked-out all weekend,” a source says of the singer, who has a history of substance abuse and violent rages. “He finally got his health back, but now friends are worried that he’s spiraling again.”

The past few years have been a roller coaster.

“He has severe ups and downs,” says the source.

Justin, 30, has struggled with Lyme disease, depression and anger management, and has also admitted to daily use of alcohol, marijuana and “pretty heavy drugs” during his lowest points.

A few New York City restaurants are experimenting with virtual staff members, who greet customers onscreen via Zoom from the Philippines.

Kern County supervisor Zack Scrivener is being investigated for sexually assaulting his daughter after his other child stabbed him

Hey, pizzagate and QAnon followers, are you paying attention?

I'm five foot nine which is average I guess, but my brother's six foot three and my dad's six four and I've always been a little eyerolly about it. I was robbed! I always wonder what people's vantage point is, those who are well above six feet tall. A little minor and stupid thing, but something I think about nonetheless.

Video of a drag queen in Massachusetts leading a group of young kids to chant “Free Palestine” has sparked fierce backlash — with some calling it “indoctrination” that is “wrong on every level.”

The encounter, which unfolded at a “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.

“Today what we’re going to do is shout ‘Free Palestine.’ Can I hear that?” the drag queen, known as “Lil Miss Hot Mess,” was filmed telling the children in the 30-second clip.

“If you’re a drag queen and you know it, and you really want to show it, if you’re a drag queen and you know it, shout ‘Free Palestine.'”

The kids could be heard mimicking the drag queen by repeatedly chanting, “Free Palestine.”

Furious critics were quick to point out the hypocrisy of a drag queen touting the phrase given the harsh treatment of LGBTQ people in Gaza.

“The harsh reality? Members of the LGBTQ+ community are often murdered in Gaza and other Palestinian areas such as Ramallah,” Stop Antisemitism tweeted alongside the recording.

“Often times members of the LGBTQ+ community seek refuge in Israel as their lives are endangered and their families excommunicate them. Were these children taught these points?”

Others, too, piled on.

“An indoctrination double whammy: ‘Free Palestine’ meets ‘drag queen story hour,'” Eitan Fischberger, a former Israel Defense Forces sergeant, tweeted.

“If people can’t see that drag queens teaching kids to chant ‘Free Palestine’ is wrong on every level, then they seriously are part of the problem,” British TV host and politician Nigel Farage raged in a post on X.

Meanwhile, Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, quipped: “Seriously. Yahya Sinwar, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollah are laughing so hard (and sharpening their knives).”

“Drag Queen Story Hour somehow just got worse,” the Citizen Free Press declared.

The organizers of the event had earlier shared a slew of photos on an Instagram account of the young children and their parents watching and smiling as the drag queen performed for them.

The group also boasted of the “important lessons” the kids learned during the storytime event.

“We came together today in joy and solidarity and learned some important lessons about being ourselves, using our voices to speak out against injustice, and being fabulous while we do it,” a caption on the post read.

Valley Families for Palestine and the drag queen didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment about the backlash.

“In putting her mother onstage, Vogel effectively puts her on a kind of pedestal. She’s not just a character; she’s a star. And not just any star; she’s Jessica Lange. Keenan-Bolger and Parsons are very good indeed in Mother Play, but there’s no question to whom it belongs. Lange is magnificent, especially in this production’s most moving scene: a long passage that the script calls the Phyllis Ballet. Phyllis is alone onstage, because she has pushed everyone away. There is no dialogue, because she has no one to talk to. She stares out motionless at the audience for a discomfiting amount of time, letting us project onto her face like an actress in a film; then, in a silky magenta robe, she enacts a kind of sad silent comedy, setting a dignified dinner for herself and dousing her food in hot sauce. She has fallen down the well of loneliness. Bringing decades of experience to bear, Lange is riveting—and so, by extension, is Phyllis. In this painfully honest tribute, Phyllis’s pain is part of the picture. Vogel does her mother dirty, but she does her mother proud.” —TimeOut New York

“Lange is magnificent in her depiction of a woman who, across the decades, can’t quite reconcile what her life or her children have become.” — Variety

“Jessica Lange returns to the Broadway stage with a sensational performance in Paula Vogel’s Mother Play. …In a roughly 10-minute, wordless solo scene, Lange’s Phyllis wanders the now empty rooms, busying herself while suffering the inevitable consequences of utter self-involvement. Lange holds the stage for every last second of the scene, doing what might seem impossible: The monster, she shows us, is human after all, and maybe even worthy of the grace Vogel offers.” — Deadline

“‘Mother Play’ is of course a showcase for Lange. Her Phyllis, dressed in Toni-Leslie James’s chic costumes, is on the blousy end of elegant. Nearly parodic in her feminine grace, she is also as hard as buffed, polished nails. … Another actress as Phyllis might have done more to communicate the small ravages of time, but Lange concentrates instead on her ageless ferocity and charm.“ — New York Times

“Jessica Lange triumphs!” — New York Daily News

“‘Mother Play’ marks Lange’s fourth engagement on Broadway but the first time she has originated a role there. In its excellence, her work in ‘Mother Play’ recalls what she did on stage as Mary Tyrone in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ in 2016. The only difference is that Vogel gives Lange a few more notes to explore, most of them above the staff in the comic stratosphere.” — The Wrap

“The Tony winner [Lange] is as captivating as ever.” — The Guardian

“The actors’ respective physicality shine here, and they each find every comedic beat available to them, particularly Lange, who is clearly having a blast. … In the last ten years, Lange has remade her career by playing people’s awful mothers, so it’s not surprising she can convey the level of vitriol the character demands. But I was surprised at how much empathy she was able to create too. Phyllis could easily be reduced to a Ryan Murphy-esque caricature, yet Lange instead gains the audience’s sympathy in unexpected moments. In an extended, single-person scene, Phyllis faces an evening at home alone after alienating both of her children. Lange wrings the most emotion possible out of the smallest actions, somehow making your heart break by simply taking out a deck of cards, shuffling once, then putting them away again. She cycles through nonchalance, extreme anguish, distraction, and even moments of contentment – though of course, they’re very fleeting.“ — TheaterMania

“Lange is as good as you might expect playing an embittered aging woman pained by the way society has brushed her aside.” — Entertainment Weekly

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) abruptly announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection, after initially planning to run for another term.

Posey’s announcement — if made earlier — could have easily attracted a spirited Republican primary, with politicians from the state’s Space Coast region already eyeing the seat once Posey retired. Florida’s 8th congressional district is a solid Republican seat.

A few weeks ago my laptop started being really, really slow, mainly when I first start it up. I ran the chkdsk command, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I have not added any new software or big files lately. Anti-malware software starts up automatically and runs, so I don't think it is a virus. So what could be causing this?

You in danger, girl.

Roughly three-quarters of Americans (76%) have visited at least one other country, including 26% who have been to five or more. About a quarter (23%) have not traveled internationally, though most in this group say they would if they had the opportunity.

To analyze how Americans’ travel experiences relate to their attitudes on other questions, we placed people into three categories:

+Globe-trotters have traveled to at least five other countries. About a quarter of the U.S. public (26%) falls into this category.

+Casual travelers have traveled to between one and four other countries. Half of Americans fall into this category.

+Nontravelers have never left the United States. This category includes 23% of Americans.

Is international travel related to views of global engagement?

International travel experience is also linked to Americans’ views about international affairs and their feelings of connection to other people around the world.

When asked which comes closest to their view, 57% of globe-trotters say the U.S. should be active in world affairs, while 43% say the U.S. should pay less attention to problems in other countries and concentrate on problems at home. In contrast, most casual travelers and nontravelers say the U.S. should focus on problems at home.

Do you recommend it? Would you do it again? Did it cause you any issues?

Don't care for her style...

Like loosey loose. Is this normal? I’m not using dildo or anything. Fuck by a dick yes but not everyday maybe once a week. But I feel like my hole is naturally relaxing and getting bigger. I could probably try 2 or more fingers. Heck a fist idk. Should I try?

I’m loving the techno/electronic score Reznor and Ross created. Bop after bop. Especially when you’re watching the film. One of my favs!!!!

The title should really read

Bear Shaming In The Gay Community

Homes are cheap there. Parts of it looks okay. If you were to mind your business would it be an okay place to live? You’d be close to other cities for shopping.

Barbra Streisand, who turns 82 on April 24, will release her first single in 6 years the day after her birthday. Streisand announced this week she has recorded "Love Will Survive" for the last scene / end credits of the Peacock /Sky series ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’, a six part series which premieres May 2. Streisand said she wants the last scene 'to be memorable'.

“Because of the rise in antisemitism around the world today, I wanted to sing ‘Love Will Survive’ in the context of this series, as a way of remembering the six-million souls who were lost less than 80 years ago. And also to say that even in the darkest of times, the power of love can triumph and endure,” Streisand said in a statement.

The song “Love Will Survive” is produced by Walter Afanasieff and Peter Asher, with Streisand, Jay Landers and Russell Emanuel executive producing.

For those who are locked out of Part 5 (which is now open for subscribers only).

Stung by the criticism of the Hate Crime law that protected trans people but not women Yousaf has announced plans for a misogyny law, but many people have pointed out that anyone who identifies as a woman will be covered by it.

The most widely ridiculed part of the statement was the line "If a man threatens to rape a woman, he is unlikely to know if the victim is born a woman or a trans woman.

That tweet has1500 replies and 120 likes.

One of my favorite old movies is Sullivan's Travels (1940) starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.

I saw it when I was very young then after maturing and a little sexual experience I saw it again and realized what a hunk he was in his prime in Hollywood. He was born in 1905 and died in 1990. He played a variety of roles but after 1950 he exclusively did westerns.

“…So how long do we have to do this?”

Here we go.

Today's the day ! Barbra Streisand, 82, releases her first single in six years ! "Love Will Survive" from the Peacock series "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is now available for streaming. Enjoy !

I’m worried he’s too busy with all of his successful endeavors. I fo not want him to breakdown since I idolize him and find him irresistible. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I look for scenes where top ejaculate right after pulling out; I find it really hot instead of this bs with several cuts between cumming pulling out etc.

The Channel 4 doc, titled 'Spacey Unmasked,' will feature interviews with several men about their experiences with the actor.

Max and ID have acquired U.S. rights to a Channel 4 documentary about Kevin Spacey.

The two-part doc, titled Spacey Unmasked, is billed as a “forensic look” at Spacey’s career and the allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct against him. Spacey was acquitted in July 2023 of nine charges in a U.K. criminal case against him.

The documentary will also include interviews with “multiple men unconnected to that case about their experiences with Kevin Spacey, almost all of whom have never spoken before,” along with other previously unseen archival footage and interviews with the actor.

Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, faced nine criminal charges from four different men in his U.K. trial, ranging from unwanted touching to, according to testimony from one man, performing oral sex on the man while he was asleep. The charges stemmed from alleged acts that occurred from 2001 to 2013; Spacey was artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theatre from 2004-15.

Spacey Unmasked is set to air on Channel 4 in the U.K. on May 6 and 7. Premiere dates for the U.S. and other territories haven’t been announced yet. All3Media International is handling international sales of the documentary and struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery for rights to the United States (where it will stream on Max and air on ID’s cable channel) and several other countries.

Katherine Haywood directed and produced Spacey Unmasked. Dorothy Byrne and Mike Lerner are executive producers. Roast Beef Productions (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) produces in association with All3 Media International.

Aaron Sorkin is writing a sequel to the smash hit.

She bearded Austin Nichols & Jake Gayllenhaal (Toothy Tile) for years.

She's had an unusual career in the number of resurgences she has had even though she's still fairly young: she was a popular actress as a child (Little Women, Interview with a Vampire), and then as a teen (Bring It On, Virgin Suicides, and the Spider-Man trilogy). Then she came back as an adult indie darling, with big roles in Al Good things and Melancholia. She got an Oscar nomination a few years ago for "Power of the Dog," and she's been seriously talked about as Best Actress for "Civil War."

So few child actors make it as adult actors, and when they do it's usually because they're genuinely beautiful as an adult as well as a child (like Natalie Wood or Elizabeth Taylor or Winona Ryder). Or in some cases they had to take time off to unlearn their child's bag of tricks and learn all over again how to be a serious adult actor, like Jodie Foster. But other than a year off to treat serious depression, she's really had a steady career, and she's been pretty much a critics' darling. And though she was a pretty girl as a child and a teenager, she was never truly beautiful--and usually gravitates as an adult to non-glamorous , plain Jane roles.

She wants to change her name back to Emily, her actual name. She’s over EMMA.

I know people say that DLers think every guy is gay...but some of these straight guys in the "manosphere" seem to think like 98% of the male population is queer

Having sex with women for fun? You're a fag, dude!

Dating a woman your own age instead of a 19-year-old? You're a total queen!

They're ridiculous

Why the long face? Ozempic.

Amid the weight loss treatment’s skyrocketing popularity, surgeons believe that Hollywood is experiencing a spike in the side effect known as “Ozempic Face.”

Several doctors claimed to the Daily Mail that celebs from John Goodman to Sharon Osborne are among those hit hardest by the alleged condition.

For the uninitiated, some side effects of taking Ozempic include sunken eyes, gaunt cheeks and saggy skin, often making the user appear older and more deflated.

Last night Dubai was hit by the worst rains since 1949. The last time it was flooded like this it was still a teeny-tiny town.

Let's pray that Lindsay Lohan and other Dubai Porta Potties survived the terror.

The new single marks Williams' return to pop music after 15 years.

'The Legs Are The Last To Go' was the title of the 2008 memoir by the late stage and screen actress Diahann Carroll, and it was that title that inspired Williams' return to the studio. “Diahann played my mother in a movie I produced, The Courage to Love, and has always been a huge inspiration for me,” shared Williams. “I remember seeing her talking to Oprah about her autobiography. She spoke so beautifully and confidently about her age and power and the fact that beauty fades but your legs give you strength and are the last to go.”

Watch the 'Legs' video...

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[QUOTE]The King is set to resume his public duties next week after being diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace revealed Friday. To mark his public return, Charles and Queen Camilla are set to visit a cancer treatment center on Tuesday.

Mary Jenkins was a bitch to daughter, Brenda.

Madame Blavatsky has spoken to you in a dream that your 15K GoFundMe campaign will be a quick and complete success. And you deserve a Glow UP.

Continue the cunting here.

Evil bitch Kathy lumbers to the stage in part 3 of the reunion and Sutton faints at the site of the old cow.

-Will Andy put Dorit on the basket of his bike so they can fly over the moon and get home to the tristate area?

-Will Annemarie headbutt Crystal with her big ass forehead?

-Will Avi faint when he sees Sutton being loaded into an ambulance?

Tune in and find out!

I'm planning on going to Vegas for the first time. I love poker and sitting poolside. What hotel would you recommend to a first timer? What's your absolute favourite?

Norway's 'trillion-dollar-man' believes America's attitude towards failure is helping propel the nation ahead of its European counterparts—where workers may have a better work-life balance but aren't as ambitious.

Nicolai Tangen leads Nordic behemoth Norges Bank Investment Management, which governs the revenue earned by Norway’s oil and gas resources, with the aim of ensuring its benefits are distributed fairly between current and future Norwegian generations.

Under Tangen's management since 2020, and over the past decade, the $1.6 trillion fund has invested more and more heavily in the U.S. instead of its closer neighbors in Europe—and it's no coincidence.

America's performance, particularly in innovation and performance, is "worrisome" in contrast to Europe, Tangen told the Financial Times.

Part of comes down to mindset, Tangen added, and how accepting each continent is of mistakes and risk: "You go bust in America, you get another chance. In Europe, you’re dead,” he said.

But it goes deeper than that—there's a difference in the "general level of ambition," he added. "We are not very ambitious. I should be careful about talking about work-life balance, but the Americans just work harder,” Tangen continued.

Just rewatched on TCM …

Thread 1 here

"Wowsers." Adults who say this really need to go fuck themselves.

Do you agree?

Or bi. Fucking finally! It's been a long time coming.

Seems like that would get this thing under control.

Who had the bigger career?

She says she just started her period and she is so excited.

Leaves the BBC "on medical advice."

I am reading his collection “Happy go-lucky” and I haven’t even smiled. I don’t love the fact that he fits into each story how rich he is. It is obviously true, but makes him a little more unlikeable.

About 30 million American employees are currently held into the dreaded 'non-compete clause' : from CEOs to hairstylists. It's an agreement some employers make new hires sign forbidding an employee (in some cases, even fast food workers) from leaving the company and working for the competitor within a certain amount of years, or from leaving a company and opening your own competing business (usually with a certain mile radius or zip code area). It's been the crux of many small-claims lawsuits, and the former employer (plaintiff) always wins.

“It is so profoundly unfree and unfair for people to be stuck in jobs they want to leave, not because they lacked better alternatives, but because noncompetes preclude another firm from fairly competing for their labor, requiring workers instead to leave their industries or their homes to make ends,” FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter (D) said in prepared remarks.

Now that clause is no longer legal, thanks to a 3-2 vote today by the FTC banning such clauses. Employers who have these agreements with current and past employees must tell employees they are no longer in effect. The law takes effect 120 days after it's entered in the Federal Register.

The earrings.

"There is simply no substitute for the candidates debating with each other, and before the American people, their visions for the future of our nation," the statement reads.

The offender removed their license plate which would suggest premeditation, with an alibi of “the dog fell out”

The dog chases the owner’s car thru traffic as it speeds away

The dog was rescued and rehoused

Mark’s in danger.

Yikes

Not as sad as it sounds. I’m a recent widow and I want to practice anal masturbation. My late husband wasn’t interested, he was solely oral. With my abundant free time, this retiree would like to develop my anal sensitivity. In accomplishing that, what would be the best product to try? I’m very tight of course and have only been satisfactorily pegged less than half a dozen times.

That belt is not doing Brianna any favors.

What now?

1. Dunk Steve Bannon into a vat of hot boiling oil

A new single and music video from Vanessa Williams has dropped. She looks and sounds fantastic!! Yay!!!!

Our democracy is about to disappear. Was fun while it lasted.

“Ghosts” may be the unlikeliest comedy hit in recent CBS history. It’s a single-camera half-hour, adapted from a cult U.K. series, and it’s not from Chuck Lorre. Yet the show, which was just renewed for a second season, has already become a breakout for the Eye network, averaging 8.1 million viewers season-to-date, and improving its time period 15% from last year.

And that’s just on linear, where “Ghosts” is the No. 2 comedy on broadcast, behind only CBS’ “Young Sheldon.” It is also performing well on Paramount Plus, which reports that it’s the No. 1 comedy on the streamer.

“It’s the most pleasant kind of surprise,” says CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl. “Material we fell in love with, a pilot we fell in love with. It’s like most hits, nothing screamed that, ‘hey, this is gonna be a breakout hit.’ We hoped for it. We always do. But it was a little bit of a departure from what we normally do. So it’s enormously gratifying to see the show that builds a little each week, increasing audience, the delayed viewing, the streaming numbers, and just the buzz.

“It’s also gratifying to put a big four-quadrant, mass appeal hit back on broadcast TV,” Kahl adds. “It’s fun reading the tweets. We have to take it as a compliment that a lot of people are saying, ‘I can’t believe this show’s on broadcast TV.’ ”

The series stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Sam and Jay, who inherit a mansion in the countryside that they plan to turn into a B&B. But when Sam hits her head in an accident, she starts to see the ghosts from different eras who inhabit the manor, including an American Revolutionary War officer (Brandon Scott Jones), a 1920s jazz singer (Danielle Pinnock), a Viking (Devan Chandler Long), the home’s original owner Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), a Lenape Native American (Román Zaragoza), a hippie (Sheila Carrasco), a 1980s Boy Scout leader (Richie Moriarty) and a late-’90s wolf of Wall Street (Asher Grodman).

Just like the original 2019 BBC series, “Ghosts” takes full advantage of that large ensemble, diving into each character’s backstory and the comedic give-and-take among the spooks, the “living” who can see them and Sam’s husband, who cannot. “We have a lot of very interesting characters and great actors, and that gives us a lot of places to go,” says executive producer Joe Wiseman. “We like to do stories that sometime take place in the past. Sometimes they take place in the present or a mix of the two. It really gives us an opportunity to start digging in deeper.”

CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson says “Ghosts” is also gaining traction in social media, appealing to a younger audience that isn’t normally known for their love of content on the Eye. “The really interesting that’s happened this year is with ‘Ghosts,’ it’s got a very broad diverse audience where we not only see our core 45-plus CBS audience watching but we also are seeing teens watching,” Benson says. “TikTok is blowing up over ‘Ghosts,’ which you might scratch your head and say ‘really, CBS has a show that’s doing really well on TikTok?'”

“It’s been really gratifying,” says fellow EP Joe Port. “People are telling me that they watch it with their families. That’s awesome; you can get things on different levels.”

In some ways, “Ghosts” is a modern, sophisticated version of the high-concept premises that once dominated sitcoms like “I Dream of Jeannie.” But the producers say the fact that their lead character shares a name with Samantha of “Bewitched” is a coincidence. “Although this is a show about ghosts, we want the stories to be real,” Wiseman says. “Ultimately, the show isn’t about the supernatural: We consider the ghosts as people — they live lives, and we want to tell stories that are relatable to everyone.”

There are ghosts everywhere on “Ghosts,” but don’t expect to see a spinoff just yet. “We’re concentrating on this one right now, but yes, this does seem like something that could be franchised anywhere,” Port says.

Hard or Soft?

WE LIKE EM' HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And writing first person narrative again - at least he’s mixing it up.

I think foster families are too unstable.

Kids should be removed from bad families and just stay in one environment. I think it would be better for them than going from foster home to foster home.

Lincoln, Nebraska: TyIer Goodrich, husband & father of two adopted sons vanishes after an argument and call to 911. Looks like the gays are about to get their very own episode of Dateline!

What are the guy there like? Is it a poor country, even for people who have good jobs?

35 years ago today, DL fave Lucille Ball died in the early morning hours. The morning shows on the East Coast broke the news to audiences, and it was most of the headlines throughout the day. Less than a month before, the public saw her for the last time as she was a presenter at the Oscars.

Her close friend, Carol Burnett, was celebrating her 56th birthday that day. She and her daughters were planning on going out for lunch and spend the day together shopping and having fun doing 'girly things' (as Burnett later explained). When her daughters arrived at her home early that morning, the news was breaking on television on the West Coast. Burnett had said she started sobbing uncontrollably, as did her daughters (who were also close to Lucy, as though she was their grandmother). She wanted to cancel her plans with them that day, as she was in no mood to celebrate her birthday - but the daughters talked her out of it. They said Lucy wouldn't want that - she'd want them to go out and celebrate, so they did.

Shortly after, she got a floral delivery - a beautiful bouquet of flowers sent by Lucy. Every year, Lucy sent Carol a beautiful bouquet for her birthday, and this year was no different. When Burnett called the florist to see if they were really sent by her, they confirmed Lucy had ordered them a few days before.

"My dude"

"Bro"

"Establishment"

"Cute"--the word evvery American women loves to use for EVERYTHING they like. So fucking childish. I've never heard women in other countries use cute so profusely.

She feels that because she has compromised certain things for him and his disability etc. that he should be willing to pay half of the parking costs despite him not being able to drive legally as he is legally blind, and feels be still benefits from her having the car.

I tried to google it but it won't tell me, I live in Michigan.

‘Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall’ Despite her decades’ long disappearance, Ms. Duvall’s filmography has thrived. Instagram users regularly source new Shelley material from an apparently bottomless archival trove.

“Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall,” a line Ms. Duvall would utter as she presented each episode of “Faerie Tale Theatre,” is sampled ad nauseam in posts. Yet there are no books, no documentaries, no star on the Walk of Fame. Seemingly dismissed and forgotten by the filmmaking establishment, she has become a cult figure for the quirky, the alternative and the misunderstood — and they seem to want to protect her, and her legacy.

There.

Now you know.

Whole lotta crazy in this story about Enty

[quote]Soaring costs, safety concerns and noise complaints are strangling after-dark economies from London to Montreal — but campaigners aren’t going down quietly.

A report from [Bloomburg] City Lab on the disappearance of bars, nightclubs, live music venues and other commercial nightlife points to a steady and international decline, even as cities like London attempt to become '24-hour cities.' Despite some recovery from losses due to COVID in 2020-2021, 2023 was a record year for closures in London and the UK. Cities such as Berlin are still climbing back slowly.

Polished. So far my favorite is the airy and glamorous "Feel".

Lara Trump, fucked Eric twice, said there are 81 states in the US.

I mean, I guess if she said it, it is God's holy truth, just like every other MAGA remark.

My guess is West Kentucky, East Dakota, New Carolina and Old Maine are all in there someplace.

Jury selection has begun for alleged Winnipeg serial killer Jeremy Skibiki.

I remember her becoming famous in the late 90s/early 00s when she was a kid. I never listened to her much but did like that one song “Dream a Dream”. I remember hearing her sing “Bridge Under Troubled Water” and thinking she sounded amazing. And then out of nowhere she abandoned her classical singing and she came back as a pop artist in 2005 with her song “Call My Name”.

I always assumed she turned off most of her audience when she tried transitioning over.

in the Rosemary’s Baby prequel

Um. What?

I don't know a lot about the Israeli-Pakenstinian conflict. Still, it seemed that the general message I always got from the media and public opinion in general was Israel good Palestinians terrorists and bad. Now it seems like the image or US public opinion is split and maybe even leaning towards the Palestinians. What the heck happened for what seems like an overnight dramatic change?

The Twitter / X page of the group (Shirion Collective) is now protected. Shocking.

Ya'll gon' leave wif yo' azz beat.

You read that right! The “Anatomy of a Fall” breakout star will be getting his own short series, set at Cannes.

“The program will allow viewers to experience the Cannes Film Festival from dawn until late night “through the eyes and the voice of Messi,” D18, which referred to the pooch as “the canine George Clooney,” said in a press release. In our book, that’s high praise for George Clooney.

“This will be an opportunity for Messi to ask his guest any questions with the innocence of a dog,” it continued. “When you’re the current international star, you can do anything… and Messi dares to do it all!”“

I guess the beard makes a difference.

She has always intrigued me. From Mission Impossible to Space 1999 where her make up gave her the anemic look.

Who's going?

And plans to “change” the porn industry

Everyone pack your condoms and head to Little Rock this weekend !

Last night I watched the first two episodes of this three-part National Geographic series on the octopus.

I highly recommend it.

They are fascinating and intelligent creatures.

Comedienne and TV host Carol Burnett blows out 91 candles on her cake today. She was a guest on Kimmel a few nights ago, and the ol' gal still has it.

We can use ignoredar to determine your obsession, but let’s get these things out in the open. It’s the waning days of Datalounge before this website goes tits up, and we have nothing to lose.

I am the ❤️TIMMY♥️, and I’m proud of it.

Confess. Let your secret shame out and be free of it.

I have an afternoon to kill.

Something not quite mainstream. I like things that are unsettling but not necessarily scary. Foreign entries are fine.

GO!

Make up a shocking Enquirer headline.

Dr. Deborah Birx is looking utterly scared out of her mind...more than you may remember.

This is a 60-second horror film. Omg.

The Baboon of Northwest Georgia filed a motion to oust him.

Great to hear…

Right wingnuts are furious at Pete Buttigieg again. This time they’re upset with him for, wait for it, making it easier for travelers to get refunds on canceled flights.

The 42-year-old Transportation Secretary just announced new federal rules that say airline customers are entitled to automatic cash refunds, not vouchers or travel credits, whenever an airline screws up.

“From now on, when your flight is canceled for any reason, you are entitled to an automatic cash refund and it has to be prompt,” he told CNN today.

“If you get delayed significantly, that means three hours domestically, six hours internationally, or if there’s another significant change to your itinerary–like maybe you were going to go into one airport, they actually changed the airport on you or something like that–you’re going to get your money back.”

Sounds fair to us!

The new rules also require airlines are more transparent about about fees for baggage, seating upgrades, or changing flights (a.k.a. “junk fees”), as well as issue refunds on fees for bags that arrive more than 12 hours late on domestic flights or 15 to 30 hours late on international flights. Refunds must also be issued for in-flight WiFi fees if the internet goes down mid-flight, and upgraded seat fees if the seats are no longer available at boarding time.

In other words, airlines will actually have to provide the goods and services they charge people for. Also, no more hidden fees!

Read and weep…

Yes, please.

I’ll be watching his new TV series, Tracker, immediately after the Superbowl on CBS.

Still not over it . That idiot Dottie lets herself be manipulated by that crybaby insecure selfish bitch of a sister so much that she throws the game and screws over her friends and teammates, all to appease that bitch that didn't up learning a damn thing?

God Kitty has got to be one of the most unintentionally punchable characters in movie history.

Enjoy your full-fat dairy, you fat whores!

Delicious and satisfying full fatty-fat-fatso dairy products are not worse than low fat and no fat. They just have more calories.

If your total calories per day stay reasonable, no need to avoid full fat dairy!

Richard Gadd is unquestionably brilliant, funny, unflinching and brave.

But is he hot or not?

From the first episode of Baby Reindeer, I wanted to take Richard Gadd apart and devour him. His attractiveness runs deeper than his appearance, and I need to be in him and to save him.

What do you think? Would you relentlessly rough fuck Richard Gadd and make a cup of tea for him afterward and wipe the tears from his eyes?

“Partly because it’s hot, but it also makes me have such a raw, deep connection to myself and my body, and have a love for my body that I have not really ever had. I got to say, looking at yourself in the mirror and thinking ‘I look really good right now’ is so helpful… I have learned that looking at myself and watching myself feel pleasure has been an extreme help in loving myself and accepting myself, and feeling empowered and comfortable.”

The AFL has handed Jeremy Finlayson a three-game suspension for words said during Gather Round. He directed a homophobic slur toward an Essendon Bombers’ player which was picked up on an AFL umpire’s microphone and was also later self-reported by Jeremy Finlayson.

That seems like a reasonable consequence to me. Clearly it's unacceptable to use homophobic slurs (he's reported to have said "faggot") while playing and there has to be some consequences otherwise others will think it's OK.

However, what disappointed me is how many supporters thought the three-game suspension was too extreme of a punishment. Most seem to think it's normal to trade insults on the pitch and that homophobic slurs aren't a problem. I know sport gets a homophobic reputation, but I had thought it was overstated in the past. However, the reaction to this incident showed it's likely a majority hold homophobic views.

It's no wonder there's huge reluctance for professional sports players of pretty much any sport to come out, even in countries that most would think are more accepting.

He keeps changing into a different person in every new photo.

Queen. Love her!!!!! I still don’t buy her and Holland as a couple but hopefully that contract is up soon.

Such as “Zionists don’t deserve to live”

In a public social media post.

Oh, honey.

There was a point midway into the movie where I thought to myself, “this movie is fucking awesome”, and it is, for the most part.

The writing is strong and “tightly knitted”, as I like to call it. There aren’t tons of subplots etc like can happen with movies like this. There is one focus and the film remains focused on that from start to end, and that is these 3 character’s relationship.

Zendaya is a fucking force. I think she’s talented but she surprised me in this. She is manipulative and a boss bitch and bodyslams the role. Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor are both amazing as Art and Patrick, and their chemistry is off the charts. I personally LOVED Josh as Patrick. He was soooo good as the no-good asshole who women still feel drawn to, but he’s the guy you fuck, not marry. Art is the opposite. Very boring for Tashi and her lapdog, as opposed to Patrick who she gets into arguments with and goes head to head with her, which seems to turn her on. The score is brilliant. It’s a character of its own in this film.

The film is fun and energetic. There is so much energy you can feel it.

There is a scene where we finally meet Tashi in the past (the first time the boys see her play in person) that got me excited. When she walks out music starts bumping and it’s pure energy. Zendaya looked so beautiful in this. There are a few salacious scenes and some people in the theater reacted. You could hear “omg Zendaya!” like people were genuinely shocked to see her straddling a man. It was funny but makes sense as she has such a clean image and always plays teens.

There are two moments I disliked, one being the way the film ended. Just no. And two, the scene with Tashi and Patrick in the wind storm. I thought the scene was cool until it went all weird. But besides that, amazing.

There are a lot of homoerotic undertones in this from early in the film and I don’t see many straight men liking this unless with their girlfriends or cinephiles. That’s one of the things I liked about the film too. You could feel that atmosphere without actually seeing anything like that happen. It was interesting.

Honestly, I would give it a 4/5. It’s awesome but that ending was a no for me and it started to become too stylistic toward the end.

Hit it, maestros

I hit 50 this year. I still have a sex drive but can’t interest anyone in getting with me. I’ve never had much luck but it’s worse now. I have tried apps and websites, targeted guys I thought were in my range (old, fat, average tools…basically me), been polite and forthcoming. I have some physical issues that make me particularly unappealing and which I can’t really change.

I don’t want to hire escorts, just my preference. I don’t blame anyone for this predicament except for me. I’m lucky in most other ways in life and will be fine, but this has been a thorn in my side. It’s just not in the cards for me.

I’m not really looking for suggestions about improving my chances for sex. If there are others who were forcibly retired from the kind of sex they want out there, how did you get over it and find some peace? Or is that impossible?

It has its own government. Hamas is elected.

Anyone watching the second season of this show on Prime? It’s completely different from season one, which I loved, and skews more towards full-on horror. I really enjoyed it.

Pits and dong. Feeling the feels and moaning the man dong pleasure. Feel it, sing it, let it flow.

Alec Baldwin confronted in a coffee shop:

“Why did you kill that lady… no jail time?”

Begs him to say: “Free Palestine! Fuck Israel!”

*Punches camera*

This is Hashbrown and Squash. Beaver sisters.

"I am really only attracted to women and while sticking dick into dudes doesn't really do anything for me I am not against it" "I wouldn't call myself straight because obviously I am fucking dudes but I wouldn't call myself gay or bi".

It is so sad.

If you have been to a bathhouse- what were your adventures there?

I went a week ago and I had sex with this guy who sucked on my toes and fingers besides my cock which he said was HUGE but I noticed a bit later that his penis was impressively small- I would say that full erect he was only about 3.5 inches.

On Earth Day chef Mollie Engelhart took to social media with an announcement that rocked L.A.’s vegan community: Her pillar of plant-based dining, Sage Vegan Bistro, would become Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery and begin serving meat and dairy.

Following a vegan diet, the chef-owner said, is no longer enough to combat climate change, so the new iteration of Sage will focus on sourcing and proselytizing regenerative farming practices. That, along with years of post-pandemic financial losses, moved Engelhart to introduce beef, bison, cheese and eggs from regenerative farms into her Echo Park, Culver City and Pasadena restaurants.

The backlash on social media was swift. More than 3,000 comments have poured in, some calling it “a sham,” “deeply disturbing,” “a bummer announcement,” “a huge betrayal to animals,” “devastating,” a “horrific transition” and “profit disguised as environmental progress.” Dozens of vegan and animal-wellness organizations and influencers have shared the news, some calling for a boycott.

“I understand their passion and I understand their sadness and I understand their anger,” Engelhart told The Times. “I had the same views of the world that they did before I shifted my ideas based on my experience in farming, and I have compassion for what they're feeling. I hope that the vegan community and the regenerative community can really come together because I think they're both powerful, powerful pathways for change.

“It's vulnerable to publicly say, ‘I believed one thing, and maybe I was wrong and now I believe something else,’” she continued, “but I hope that it inspires people in their own lives to be willing to be open-minded when something else makes more sense to you.”

Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service, called the incident a "medical matter," adding that the agency wouldn’t be commenting further.

"At approximately 9 a.m. April 22, a U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice President’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing," Guglielmi said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

He added, "The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned. The Vice President was at the Naval Observatory when this incident occurred and there was no impact on her departure from Joint Base Andrews.

"The U.S. Secret Service takes the safety and health of our employees very seriously. As this was a medical matter, we will not disclose any further details."

The agent, who had been acting "erratically," began punching the special agent in charge after getting on top of him, Real Clear Politics reported.

The agent, who was handcuffed after the incident and treated by medical staff, had previously been a subject of concern by staff, the outlet reported.

Premieres October 4th on SYFY and USA Network, next day on Peacock.

while your friends all roast me? This is ❤️ no? 🐽

We all know Tom loves getting plowed and fucked senseless, and I doubt his husband is doing the job and hitting it the way he likes. He has to be getting it from somewhere, young hotties wrecking him on the low.

When do you think is the last time he had his insides rearranged? He can get so much hotter than DLB. I won’t say better because DLB seems to be good to him, which is most important I suppose.

who said that romanticism was dead?

ppl be calling me a loose hole faggot thinking i’m insulted.. baby thank you for the best compliment ever you just made my pussy WET and my hole even looser 💋

Settle a disagreement between friends.

According to police, the old man had been contacted that day by phone scammers claiming they had kidnapped a relative of his and would kill them unless Gramps paid a ransom. Around the same time, someone (perhaps the same scammer) requested an Uber package pickup at the old man's house. The job was claimed by 61 year-old Lo-Letha Hall, who showed up minutes later to pick up the package she was sent to retrieve. When she arrived, Old Fart pulled an ancient pistol on her, accusing her of being in cahoots with the scammers. He grabbed her phone and held her at gunpoint. When she tried to flee back to her car, he blew her away. The whole thing was captured on the woman's dashcam.

He's being charged with murder, and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Senile degenerate.

Somebody needs to take phones away from old fucks. And driver's licenses. And handguns. Just put them in nice little morgue drawers and let them wait out the inevitable without killing normal people.

I think I’m addicted to taking cock after getting both their loads🤤

And he's hosting a D.C. fundraiser, too. Gotta love the guy. He's also helped make TFG $91M poorer by telling E. Jean Carroll she had a case and introducing her to Robbie Kaplan who represented her

The programme is announced. I am surprised Francis Ford Coppola’s film is in competition. I guess I’m looking forward to seeing Sebastian Stan play Trump if only for shits and giggles.

Anne is a woman in her 40s and single mom who gets to live out a teenage girls dream: fucking the 23 YO lead singer of the biggest boyband in the world, played by Nicholas.

This looks cute!!!

"We're passing through the magnetic field. Put your deflectors on full front."

This Bay Area teen of billionaire parents has gone missing, and Yashar Ali Tweeted about it and referred to the teen's mom as his friend. Do these people not read? He's conned so many rich people on the west coast I'm surprised he's still finding easy marks.

Bombs away!

Im assuming his music isn’t very memorable

Wow, paying off his wife really worked out well!

So, I’ve developed a thing for older guys(silver fox, gray or white haired formal types), and I’m wondering how I should go about approaching them in public spaces. I catch some of them looking but, I can’t tell if the look is because they want to get it on or if they want to hang me. They tend to have RBF.

Of course, when one thinks of Spring, one thinks of Paris.....and when one thinks of Paris, the gem that IS Adrian Leeds comes to mind!

Anyhoo.....more HGTV talk here.

...for the first time since it originally aired. It was a show I enjoyed watching with my parents in the early/mid-90s. I was in elementary and middle school during its best seasons, so a lot went over my head. Rewatching it now, I'm struck by how at its best, the show was in a class of its own -- infinitely funnier and , at times, more moving than the average 90s sitcom. Many episodes feel like these touching, funny slice-of-life one-act plays. The Conners felt like a real family. And, what I didn't recognize or appreciate when I was a kid, is how progressive the show was. It's such a shame that she became such a right wing lunatic in the past decade.

DEI strikes again. Financials don't lie.

Madonna's attorneys on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the pop superstar for starting a concert two hours late, arguing the plaintiffs didn't demonstrate any clear injuries, court documents show.

Plaintiffs Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden filed the lawsuit earlier this year after attending one of Madonna's global Celebration Tour shows in Brooklyn in December, alleging they were "misled" by the 8:30 p.m. advertised start time.

They also sued Barclays Center and Live Nation for "wanton exercise in false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices."

The plaintiffs argued they wouldn't have purchased tickets if they'd known the concert was going to start at 10:30 p.m. They also claimed the show's end time of about 1 a.m. possibly inconvenienced or injured concertgoers as a result of limited transportation options and being forced to stay up later than planned.

Madonna's lawyers argued that concerts rarely start on time, and that hers in particular are well known for their late starts. They also pointed out that Hadden posted on Facebook the day after that concert that he had "never missed a Madonna Tour" and that he later told CNN he had "been to every Madonna tour since 1985," making it clear the late start time couldn't have come as a surprise, the motion read.

According to the court documents, Hadden also praised the show on Facebook, calling it "[i]ncredible, as always!"

"Mr. Hadden's press interviews at best suggest he may be irritated that one of his favorite acts takes the stage later than he would prefer," the lawyers said, arguing that this was not sufficient grounds for a claim of injury.

Madonna's lawyers also alleged there was no proof the late start time injured any concertgoers, including the plaintiffs, who they argued stayed to watch the whole show instead of leaving early.

"Fans got just what they paid for: a full-length, high-quality show by the Queen of Pop," Madonna's lawyers said.

January's lawsuit wasn't the first time fans tried to take action over Madonna's late start time. In 2019, a Florida fan sued over Madonna's delayed start in Miami Beach.

"There's something that you all need to understand," Madonna told her fans during a Las Vegas concert in 2019. "And that is, that a queen is never late."

Now's it Penn's campus.

Find out and watch Finian's Rainbow (1968)

Starring Fred Asraire , Petula Clark , Don Francks, Tommy Steele, and Keenan Wynn

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Lucy Lee Flippin should have had a much bigger career. This is a fantastic - restrained and coiled.

Matt Mahan, Mayor of San Jose, was accosted on the street by an extroverted constituent who then attacked his security detail.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's security detail got involved in a physical altercation while he was downtown for a restaurant opening.

The altercation broke out while Mahan was getting interviewed by local news station KRON 4. The entire interaction was captured on video.

In the beginning of the video, the pedestrian is seen walking by Mahan's right shoulder, talking on the phone as he approaches the security detail.

The mayor politely tells the man that he is in the middle of an interview, to which the pedestrian said, 'Yeah man, I work right there, I was just talking on the phone, you got a problem?'

Mahan's security detail, an officer for the San Jose Police Department, tried deescalating the situation as the pedestrian became more aggressive.

The pedestrian snaps at the officer, telling him to 'mind your f*****g business.'

“I was going to do what the f**k I was going to do right before you walked up to me,” he said to the security guard.

From there, the situation escalated, turning physical in a matter of seconds. The pedestrian threatened the officer, telling him he would smack him.

The brawl continued as the pedestrian landed a right-hand punch to the officer's head.

Bystanders called the police for backup, and the pedestrian was eventually detained.

The officer involved in the altercation suffered an injury and was taken to the hospital, where he stayed overnight with head and neck pain.

Continue our discussion about former Judge, Gregory “CumFarts” Locke, his erratic dalliances, and his sensual Only Fans account.

My friend already posted this- but I am also posting to get more traction. Near hickory and 28th street, this man was seen m*sturbating in broad daylight with his car windows down. He sped off when he noticed her taking photos. Please beware!

Be careful who you name on here. Some stars have unlimited power and no sense of humour.

It looks really good. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

As requested on the "What's My Line?" thread ...

[quote]Do we need a separate TTTT thread or can we piggyback here? I'd like to discuss religious Bud Collyer, Tom Poston and his 17 yr old girlfriend, creepy Orson Bean, gracious Southern belle Kitty and Peggy Cass' weight fluctuations.

I also loved TTTT, from the 1950s version ("you'll get a carton of Salem cigarettes on your way out") through the groovy Pucci-inspired set and swingin' theme song of the 1960s.

Later iterations included a 1980s version variously hosted by Alex Trebek, Joe Garagiola, and Lynn Swann, as well as a dimly remembered 2000s remake with an all-gay panel.

The current version with Anthony Anderson is not worth mentioning or watching.

As midnight ticks around and the fireworks burst in the skies of my hometown, it’s time for the first reading thread of the New Year, where DataLounge friends share what they are reading, good or bad. Short stories etc are welcome.

As per the previous thread, I am still listening to Moby Dick, but not during chemotherapy, there are too many interruptions and I am enjoying the story far too much for stopping and starting. So it’s on my commute.

I wanted a big, easy to read saga to read over the holidays so I am rereading Gone With The Wind for the first time since childhood. Scarlett has less of Vivien Leigh’s devious intelligence, and Melanie isn’t a beatific and sickly sweet as per Olivia de Havilland but guileless, plucky and almost immature. Reading now, they are very much sheltered teenagers.

I read the CWA Gold Dagger winner every year so The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green is on my list.

[quote] It hasn't always been this way for Marc Rocke, 33, used to have a manhood measuring 8 inches in length and 5 1/2 inches in girth. But now after two experimental surgeries, his penis measures 14 inches in length and 12 inches in girth.

That's nearly $1 million out of the pocket for this lifelong Repug. He is serious in defeating Trump, and tomorrow night will host a fundraiser for the reelection campaign of a Democratic president.

He says he is taking it out of his kids' inheritance--but the most important thing his kids can inherit is a country with its democracy intact.

Has George Conway now redeemed himself after helping to elect Trump and defending him in the first place?

It's such a wonderful portrayal of young gay love in the city.

Christian Campbell was a cute Twink and Jean Paul Pitoc was a handsome stud.

The world still seemed full of possibilities back then.

I remember enjoying this movie as a young teenager and had not seen it in years. I had a friend who owned the unrated version on DVD which had the ridiculous "Penis Song" scene in it, which was always memorable. I've been on a nostalgia kick lately and am revisiting a lot of these early 2000s comedies, so I decided it was time to watch this again. I was surprised by how terrible it actually is. The cast is great (Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair) and while there are many funny moments to be had, the entire movie feels like a bunch of disjointed gags strung together. No cohesion. Very ridiculous. Also very entertaining. In summary: Entertaining trash.

To continue our nice chats and bring you more photos of Sir Chonks-a-Lot.

Wild animal crossings aren’t uncommon in Florida. However, it’s not every day you see a large reptile wrestled off the road. Florida resident Mike Dragich, who is also a licensed trapper, answered the call to remove an alligator that was sunning on a busy street in Jacksonville. Dragich said he was at a hockey game with his family when he was called into action. Video shows him catching the 8-foot gator in true Florida fashion, with his bare hands and bare feet.

It’s the male ‘Barbie’ must see movie event of summer 2024 with box office king Ryan Gosling and America’s sweetheart, Emily Blunt.

Opening weekend: $65 million US box office: $700 million Worldwide: $1 billion

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito complained Thursday about the concept that a "special" former officeholder like Donald Trump could be expected to be "subject to the criminal laws just like anybody else."

Alito made the remarks to special counsel attorney Michael Dreeben during oral arguments in Trump's presidential immunity appeal to the high court. Trump's attorneys had argued the former president could not be charged with election interference because the office gave him immunity.

Dreeben, however, asserted Trump could be charged for trying to subvert the election.

"Well, Mr. Dreeben, do you really, I mean, the presidents have to make a lot of tough decisions about enforcing the law, and they have to make decisions about questions that are unsettled, and they have to make decisions based on the information that's available," Alito said.

"Do you really, did I understand you to say, well, you know, if he makes a mistake, he makes a mistake. He's subject to the criminal laws just like anybody else?"

"You don't think he's in a special, a peculiarly precarious position?" the justice asked.

"He's in a special position for a number of reasons," Dreeben explained. "One is that he has access to legal advice about everything that he does."

"He's under a constitutional obligation to, he's supposed to be faithful to the laws of the United States and the Constitution of the United States, and making a mistake is not what lands you in a criminal prosecution," he continued, noting that Trump was accused of interfering with "the certification of the next president."

Alito said he didn't want to argue the specifics of Trump's case.

"It's difficult to think of a more critical function than the certification of who won the election," Dreeben observed.

"You know, I'm not, as I said, I'm not discussing the particular facts of this case, but it applies to any fraud that interferes seriously with any government operation, right?"

"So what the government needs to show is an intent to impede, interfere, or defeat a lawful government function by deception," Dreeben explained. "These are not the kinds of activities that I think any of us would think a president needs to engage in in order to fulfill his Article Two duties and, particularly in a case like this one."

I can’t stand hearing it. It’s used far too often and inappropriately. There’s a few people at work that include it in some form in practically every sentence with zero discretion regarding the circumstances or audiences.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a sign of a limited vocabulary and a lacking upbringing. Coarse words for coarse people.

I just don’t get Taylor Swift. There, I said it. It’s freeing to just … not care about something, isn’t it? When friends start to wax poetic about the Eras Tour or their favorite Taylor Swift song, I listen politely as if they were talking about professional darts or French cinema, and a feeling of peace washes over me.

However, the days of Taylor Swift as an ultimate cultural barometer may be waning. While Swift fans were thrilled with the release of her new double-length album (again, good for them!), critical reception was more mixed. Following the feverish media whirlwind of “The Eras Tour” and her impact on the NFL, people seem ready to talk about Swift in tones more tempered than slavering ardor or hardened, pointless hatred.

If you don’t love Taylor Swift, if you don’t hate her; if she is simply not something that affects your life whatsoever, it’s probably safe to come out now. Go, take your apathy, and be free.

A new thread for us to discuss all the Weatherfield happenings for 2023..

The ensemble could be accidental but the colors, shorts and choice of graphic tee appear to be creating a visual pun, referencing an imaginary gender-swapped version of Hooters.

My new favorite song.

“The Talk” is going silent. CBS has canceled the long-running daytime chat show after 15 seasons, and the final episode will air in December.

"Love Will Survive"

It's very nice as a movie theme, but I wish she would release a record with the upbeat tempo of "Stoney End."

The new season debuts on Feb. 28.

Has anyone seen it? It isn't playing anywhere near me, unfortunately. "The film centers on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife as they strive to build a dream life next to the concentration camp."

Oy vey.

Shhhhhasta!

"One Tree Hill" alum Sophia Bush is opening up about finding new love with former soccer player Ashlyn Harris.

"I didn't expect to find love in this support system. I don't know how else to say it other than: I didn't see it until I saw it," wrote Bush in her cover story with Glamour that was published Thursday.

Bush filed for divorce from husband Grant Hughes on Aug. 4, 2023, noting the date of separation as June 27, 2023 -- just over one year after they tied the knot on June 11, 2022. Bush cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

Bush explained how friends in her support group, which was formed to help each other through the life change, began to point out the obvious compatibility forming between her and Harris. Harris filed for divorce from her ex-wife, former professional soccer player Ali Krieger, in September 2023.

"It really took other people in our safe support bubble pointing out to me how we'd finish each other's sentences or be deeply affected by the same things," she wrote.

After much consideration, Bush said she finally asked Harris to spend time individually.

"It took me confronting a lot of things, what felt like countless sessions of therapy, and some prodding from loved ones, but eventually I asked Ashlyn to have a non-friend-group hang to talk about it," wrote Bush.

Thanks to him the National Enquirer is a shadow of its former self.

What do you take? (No worries the island has electricity.)

7 ft 1 with size 18 feet.

I'm in love.

Oh boy. Hope this ends well but his track record with the type is not good.

I assume "catastrophic" means death or grievous bodily injury, hence the "near" part. But the footage and photos really are dramatic.

Blood on pavement and smashed vehicles after horses tear through London

All the runaway military horses that became loose this morning in central London have been caught

Noise from builders near Buckingham Palace caused the horses from the Household Cavalry to bolt during a rehearsal

An Army spokesman told the BBC that five horses ran loose and four soldiers were unseated

The Army says "a number of personnel and horses" are injured - the ambulance service says at least four people are hurt

Horses collided with several vehicles, including a double-decker tour bus left with a smashed windscreen

Two of the horses were caught in Limehouse - five miles away from where the incident began

Dear lord, just DIE already!

We've had sufficient.

Well, it was two days ago.

But we can still talk about her, anyway.

After all, she IS Judy Davis!

Because r125 asked for one, and another one created a few years ago was closed.

This one is super rich and super delicious. From the much lauded recipe files of Miss Marguerette Allen.

1 8 oz pkg cream cheese

12 oz (3 sticks) butter softened

3 cup sugar

6 lg eggs

1 tsp Watkins vanilla

1 tsp almond extract

1 tsp butter flavoring

3 cup Swan’s Down brand cake flour

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a Bundt pan and tube pan

Cream butter and cream cheese together until fluffy. Blend in sugar, add eggs, one at a time, blend well. Mix n flavorings then cake flour. With an electric mixer, beat for 3 min. Pour into pan and bake 90 min, until toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean.

Serves 16

449 cal per serving.

“It doesn’t come out right if you don’t use cake flour” according to Marguerette.

Praise or criticize but do it with vigor.

It was really a good show. Mary, Brenda, Lester, Sandra, Rose, Pearl and Calvin.

15 years ago, in the early morning hours of April 25, 2009, Emmy winning actress Be Arthur passed away from lung cancer at her Los Angeles home. She was 86 years old, and died just a few weeks before her 87th birthday (May 13). Her remains were cremated, and given to a family member. Arthur was the second cast member of the hit NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls" to die, less than a year after actress Estelle Getty, who died in July, 2008.

They’re saying Nick Carter is a rapist.

#IStandwithNickCarter is trending. Debbie Gibson is supporting him.

Thread started by request. Anyone got pics?

Donald Trump, if you take it from him, is cherishing the opportunity to stand trial on criminal charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. “I’m very proud to be here,” he told reporters before heading into court on Monday, calling the proceedings an “assault on America” that his presence, presumably, would serve to expose. “I’m very honored to be here,” the former president added.

Trump hasn’t been taking to martyrdom very well behind the scenes, though, three sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. He has privately raged over everything from reports that he can’t stop dozing off, to how the court sketch artist is rendering him, to late-night talk show hosts joking about his legal troubles. The former president is reaching levels of fury over the judicial process and all it entails that are “maxed out, even for him,” says one source who has had to personally endure Trump’s recent rantings about his trial.

The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee has a lengthy track record of getting volcanically angry, and often allowing his rage to dictate political, legal, and policy decisions. But with the historic first criminal trial of an American president now underway, his public and private wrath has become particularly multi-faceted, and sustained to the point that longtime confidants have taken notice.

Told Ortho-pee-dick Doc to fuck off. (It’s Kaiser-not a real hospital)

I’m enjoying the first season. I like the hot nerd.

Who were the craziest?

Cause of death unknown.

Scarface for me.

Broadway favorites Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will announce the 2024 Tony nominations April 30, beginning with a selection of categories on CBS Mornings at 8:30 AM ET. A full nomination list will broadcast live beginning at 9 AM ET via the Tony Awards YouTube channel as well as on Playbill.

Winners will be named at the 77th Annual Tony Awards, set for June 16 at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater. Ariana DeBose will be back for the third consecutive year to host the festivities, which will be broadcast worldwide. In the U.S., The Tony Awards: Act One will stream for free via Pluto TV in partnership with CBS. The 77th Annual Tony Awards will follow on CBS and streaming via Paramount+.

Make your Tony predictions now...

I mean she falsely accused her own father for a little attention so why not do it again?

Details to come

Scotland's devolved lawmakers are set to confirm Humza Yousaf as the new first minister on Tuesday, after he narrowly won the contest to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scottish National Party (SNP) leader.

Yousaf beat out two SNP rivals Monday to clinch the party's top job, vowing to rejuvenate its signature policy of pursuing independence for Scotland which has stalled in recent months.

The 37-year-old will be the youngest first minister since devolution created the Scottish parliament in 1999, and the first leader of a national UK party from a minority ethnic background.

"We should all take pride in the fact that today we have sent a clear message that your colour of skin, or your faith, is not a barrier to leading the country we all call home," Yousaf said after winning the SNP leadership race.

Promising to be a leader "for all of Scotland", he pledged to "kickstart" a civic movement that would "ensure our drive for independence is in fifth gear".

"We will be the generation that delivers independence for Scotland," he declared in his victory speech.

Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) will vote to confirm a new first minister at lunchtime, with Yousaf ensured of succeeding Sturgeon given the SNP is the largest party.

He will then be sworn in at a ceremony Wednesday.

The seismic shift in Scottish politics follows Sturgeon's surprise resignation announcement last month after more than eight years at the helm.

The 52-year-old said she was quitting because she felt unable to give "every ounce of energy" to the job.

But it followed a difficult period for her government, during which support for independence has slipped.

Recent surveys show around 45 percent of Scots support Scotland leaving the United Kingdom -- the same tally recorded in a 2014 referendum which London insists settles the matter for a generation.

Yousaf said Monday he would continue Sturgeon's policy of pushing the Conservative government there to allow another vote.

That was immediately rebuked in London, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman telling reporters that the new SNP leader should focus on economic and policy issues "that matter" to Scottish voters.

"That's what the (UK) government will be focused on," the spokesman noted.

Yousaf, who was health minister in Sturgeon's last cabinet, narrowly topped the SNP contest with 52 percent of members' preferentially ranked votes.

During campaigning, he argued the party needs to create a better vision for an independent Scotland.

Despite ultimately emerging victorious, he attracted criticism over his record in several roles in government.

He now faces a bigger challenge to win over the wider Scottish electorate, with a UK general election expected within the next 18 months.

According to Ipsos polling, Yousaf enjoys a favourable opinion among just 22 percent of voters.

Despite winning a succession of elections under Sturgeon, the SNP could also be in need of a boost following the divisive three-way leadership battle.

Sturgeon's last months in power were also overshadowed by the backlash to a new law allowing anyone over 16 to change their gender without a medical diagnosis.

The law would have allowed a transgender woman who was convicted of rape before she began transitioning to serve a prison sentence in a women-only facility.

As debate raged, the UK government used an unprecedented veto to block the legislation.

The UK Supreme Court last year also ruled that Sturgeon's government could not hold a new referendum on sovereignty without London's approval.

The twin setbacks prompted rare criticism of Sturgeon's leadership and tactics.

Fully straight ex- gay pronstar EFinn known for his miserable fucki..PERFORMANCE and torn hairy asshole is also known for Q&A where he spill some tea. One of his more viewed ones was about sexuality of guys working in gay pron. Q: Have you ever work with a straight guy on set? A: Yes, but like I was saying there are very few straight guys in industry; most are bi or gay themselves [insert retarted face].

While for 99.9% of society its obvious that most guys who take dick in their ass with a hardon and cum like gayzer(lol) are not straight we have some [older] guys who will desperately cling to allerged "fact" those guys are 100% HETEROSEXUAL. Just little reality check.

So let's again discuss this already 1 milion times discussed topic cause its funny.... like people discuss about God and afterlife since forever and nobody seems to be bored by this shit.

All the same tired bitches are back.

Doesn't look like Teresa and Melissa are interacting at all, but it does appear the big focus is on psycho Luis and his pissing away Teresa's money, which should be fun.

It also appears Dolores' overly inflated Irish boyfriend is still married. Oops! And Marge's marriage may be on the rocks.

Other than that, same ol' boiler plate drunken antics and bitching.

It getting to be overwhelming here.

Any gossip about him, past or present? Was he your favorite in the group? I’ve been looking at pictures of him from over the years and sometimes he seems attractive and sometimes he seems ugly. Interesting.

If she won't go away, at least she provides a lot of material.

He reportedly said that it was a mistake early on which he tried to have corrected but the Bieber name had already stuck... who knew?🤔

Did we discuss this at the time?

It’s juicy!

Buried in the Worst Performances at an Awards Show is this question. I googled it and there isn't an answer. Just that she died in her sleep in a Seattle hotel room. In the few videos shot before her death, she sounds very, very ill.

Reinking is an interesting talent. Married four times, including one of the richest men in the world. Had a severely disabled son. Ruined her Hollywood career at the Oscars. Thought to be a conservative. Buried in Florida where she missed the churches.

Reba’s performance of her controversial song ‘She Thinks His Name Was John’ at the 1994 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards is haunting. She put a straight woman's face and perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, people who were removed for the first time imagined themselves in that position. Very powerful.

I’m the Little Richard sample.

Get a load of her.

A friend of mine once pointed out the three central characters are like Freud's division of the mind, except for a gay man. Edina is the ego, Saffy is the superego, and Patsy is the libido.

Plus there's also Mother and Bubble.

Be honest. Many an actual Saffy would like to pretend he's a Patsy.

It's Thursday at the local sheltered workshop catering to cognitively and intellectually disabled gay men. Don't you just hate when Nurse Jonathan plunks those village idiots at the computers for hours? How is typing endless claptrap on Datalounge for hours a structured and therapeutic activity, Jonathan? Well?

Yes, it was a hit at the time but it seems mostly forgotten today. It certainly isn’t one of his highly regarded classics people listen to all the time and still gets airplay.

What an amazing song!!! Beautiful. And one of his best videos.

This is an eating disorder.

In honor of her 90th birthday this month, I thought it would be fun to discuss the great American actress Shirley MacLaine.

The older sister of Warren Beatty, her professor parents pushed her to be a ballerina, where she was successful, until she broke her ankle and was told she "didn't have the ballerina look." She then set her sights on acting and couldn't be stopped.

Her first film was with Hitchcock, her second with Dean Martin, and by her third she was nominated for an Academy Award. By the early 1960's she was a star, appearing in a wide range of films such as The Apartment, The Turning Point, Terms of Endearment, and Bernie.

By the mid-2020's, she is still at the top of the Hollywood A-List. She is still quick witted and brutally honest. And she is still having the time of her life!

What is your opinion in evaluating this, already famous, ass?

Stay tuned to find out, but prepare now to miss all the action..

Was shot at in her bathtub.

…

“Living with DaVita catalyzed some personality changes in her,” the authors write. “She developed a foul mouth to match his own and those of his hoodlum friends.”

Later, while auditioning for roles in Times Square under the stage names Montana Ball and Diane Belmont before settling on her given name, she scrounged to survive, including partaking in nude modeling and turning the occasional trick. She often ate food left over by diners in local cafes, and brought a handbag with a plastic liner on dates so she could take home half-eaten steaks.

She was briefly cast in the popular theatrical revue “The Ziegfeld Follies,” but was fired after two weeks because, she was told, “You’ve got no tits, and you can’t dance.”

Distraught, she briefly considered a life as a gun moll for DaVita, thinking, “I could join Johnny on his liquor runs down from Canada, with the police chasing after us.”

She eventually found work as a model, and as she sought acting roles, received advice from Lela Rogers — mother of her good friend Ginger Rogers — that she would later follow.

“If you want to be a star within two years, get auditioned on the casting couch,” Lela told her. “That’s the advice I gave my own daughter.”

Becoming one of Manhattan’s most popular models, Ball was a regular at hot nightspots like the Cotton Club. She dated Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, who would go on to produce the James Bond films, then spent time with his cousin, Pat DiCicco.

DiCicco, a rumored associate of Lucky Luciano, would later marry film star Thelma Todd and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. Ball told friends at the time that she had hoped to marry him, and confided to actress Joan Blondell, “Pat taught me tricks in bed I think he learned in a brothel in Shanghai.”

But her association with gangsters almost had dire consequences. Dancing in Harlem one night, she suddenly sensed danger, grabbed a friend’s hand and ran from the club. The man she was afraid of wound up gunning a man down.

And while staying at Manhattan’s Kimberly Hotel, she was taking a bath one night and “while she was soaking in the tub, she was fired upon and the bathtub was riddled with bullets,” the authors write. “Miraculously, she escaped injury, but the room downstairs was flooded.”

For Ball, it was a matter of practicality. “I’ve resisted so far, but other gals like Joan Crawford did all right,” Ball told a friend. “At a party one night, I heard her tell some people that the casting couch was better than the cold hard floor.” After sleeping with Cohn, Ball began to get cast in better movies. But her career still evolved slowly, as she was repeatedly told by casting agents and others that she had no talent for acting, and was not large-breasted enough to become a sex symbol.

Taylor’s new album is getting slammed left and right for being trash and inauthentic. After so much piled on praise for just breathing will this be her descent from top of the Pop stardom universe? I think she is highly overrated and can’t wait to see it.

Barr claims around 25 years ago that Biden raped her in a dressing room.

More from Walford here.

He looks great.

There, I said it.

What's he doing with that ugly old horse face anyway?

Tom can find a much more attractive (and younger) husband.

Who is your pick?

Ryan Murphy

Bryan Singer

Pedro Almodóvar

François Ozon

Dustin Lance Black

Jodie Foster

Baz Luhrmann

Roland Emmerich

Lee Daniels

Tyler Perry

Meredith Stiehm

My vote goes to Pedro Almodóvar.

I liked the scenes from Baby Reindeer, but would have liked something romantic.

Right-wingers are trying to weaponize anti-Semitism while ignoring Islamophobia

Sure, they can “divest.” Good luck with that. Biden will sign it today. Where will the antisemitic assholes go now?

I'll begin: Natalie Portman. Always complaining about how the industry screwed her as a kid and all the evil men are always after her.

Bambi.

I reject Bambi.

I detested "Duckling" for Bomer, too.

And I'm not on board with "Bearking". Fuck off, failed DL meme creators. You suck.

It takes a while to get to the part that makes it gay.

Marco Dane owes me some money and I need to get it from him......

They’re in Vegas right now. Looking ridiculous.

I don't find the RUssian twink appealing. But he is good looking.

Greene is the representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. She has served since Jan 3, 2021. Greene is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 49 years old.

Now that she's been dead for a while I have to confess, I don't think she was a very good Queen. She was a cipher. People projected a lot, invested a lot in her outward behavior, but basically she seemed deeply ordinary. Nothing much to her at all. I don't miss her and in a way, I am embarrassed at how I was sucked in by the hype. The only true claim she can make is that she served longer than anyone else. I guess that's something. I was remembering what George V admonished his sons. "Without the mystery, the monarchy will die." He didn't want the people to become too familiar with them. But in Charles I feel like he is a much better king, already, than his late mother was. And Anne, Sophie Edward William and Catherine look much happier and enthusiastic about their duties. I'm certainly seeing more smiles from them and less formality. I will go so far as to say Elizabeth II was an old stick in the mud bound to tradition and stifling in her rigidity. I wish she had retired 20 years before she died.

Kmart Subs- They do look good.

FAT WHORES REJOICE!

Vegans pissed.

School administrators in New Jersey are warning parents about another concerning social-media challenge that can put kids in danger.

Lynn Irby Hill, the principal at the South Orange Middle School in South Orange, sent out a letter to parents Tuesday about the "blackout challenge" becoming popular on TikTok.

The challenge involves students holding their breath until they pass out and there have been deaths reported as a result of kids participating in the challenge.

"These incidents are very scary and very avoidable. We will continue to warn our students about the dangers of the 'blackout challenge' and most, if not all, challenges promoted on social media," Hill said in the letter.

The school reported two incidents of students passing out.

Aid was rendered to one of the students by the school's nursing staff while the other had to be transported to the hospital after having difficulty breathing once they regained consciousness.

Hill asked parents to help by discussing the dangers associated with the social media challenge with their children at home.

Terrible idea

Vegans outraged but does anyone really think a niche market restaurant can do well?

One of a rare row of Gothic Revival townhouses, the house is the surviving residential half of Madison Place, originally a boulevarded triangle of which Bleecker Park also survives. Between 1965-1972, the area just beyond Bleeker Park to the Northeast was redeveloped as Empire State Plaza, part of Nelson Rockefeller's plan for a consolidated, modern state capital complex.

The house has 6776 square feet arranged over four floors with a high raised basement level, principal rooms on the raised main floor, then two floors of bedrooms and artist studio above. The house was restored in 2005 and has a great Gothic Revival facade which detailing continues throughout the main spaces of the raised ground floor.

The house next door to the right clearly had a nearly identical facade but for the oriel window at the 2nd floor above the main door; it's still recognizably Gothic Revival but you can see that the windows have been simplified and the cornice likely simplified as well (the oriel above its door is slightly different.)

The facade and the main floor are terrific. I don't mind the galley kitchen at all, in fact I think they are ideal for everyday use, but I would change the flooring to something better and replace the countertops in butcherblock probably, or marble. The succession of spaces living room--dining room--family room/breakfast nook is very good. Aside from repainting, I would repaint the gothic woodwork on the main floor and extending up through the stairhall: the reflectivity of the white loses a lot of the gothic detailing. The principal bedroom suite occupies all of the second floor. It's huge but aside from the front window nothing exceptional; removing all that wall-to-wall carpeting would improve the space. The top floor has four main spaces and a bathroom. Now used as extra bedrooms and artists studio, you could use the rooms as you please, and likewise the raised basement level which appears to be in use as an AirBnB type space with separate entrances front and back.

Google Streetview shows an alley and brick garage behind the house though this is not mentioned in the listing; perhaps subdivided from the original parcel? There is one photo of a pleasant brick patio at the rear. The listing describes the neighborhood as part of the 'Mansion Area" with Albany's downtown area on the other side of Bleecker Park..

Just because.

The movie thread has been fun. Let's do it strictly with soaps.

Days of Our Hives.

Sza, Doja Cat, Swiftie...their songs have this annoying echo-like effect that's annoying as hell.

It's like someone put the mic at the front of the studio, then told the pop tarts to go all the way to the back of the studio and start singing.

Is it meant to be "brave and artistic," or is it really meant to minimize the weak vocals?

Biden is doing better than Trump

Malcolm Kenyatta won the Dem nomination for Auditor General (He's openly gay)

She is an actress.

At the age of 13 she sang at a Royal Command performance. Before she was 20 she became a Broadway star, playing the lead roles in The Boyfriend and My Fair Lady. She won an Oscar for the first film she ever made, Mary Poppins, and the worldwide affection of millions for her second, The Sound of Music.

What more is there to be said? She is, of course, Julie Andrews.

How to reheat pizza the perfect way....is it in a microwave ? Is it in the oven ? Is it in the air-fryer (my way) ? Nope, nope, and apparently no...

The centrists are feuding

Hottie from Criminal Minds. What do we know? 44, never married, single, no kids. Eternal twink looks. Some interesting comments about him on other threads. Just wrote his 2nd children’s book.

Gets a public vote of confidence from Sir Paul himself.

Bey is COMING for that Grammy, heifers!

Let's continue to discuss here!