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Prince Harry made the rounds with extended interview on ITV in England and 60 Minutes in the United States as he promotes his new book, Spare. Here are some of the big takeaways: Harry said he never called his family racist – He said, “After our Oprah interview, they said that they were going to bring in a diversity tsar. That hasn’t happened. Everything they said was going to happen hasn’t happened.” Harry said he pointed out the Royal Family’s “unconcious bias” which needs to be worked on. Harry believed his mother was still alive – After Princess Diana’s death, a young Harry came to grips by believing she wasn’t dead, but just away from the public eye. He said, “I just refused to accept she was gone. Part of ‘She would never do this to us’ but also ‘This is all part of a plan.'” Harry turned to drugs to deal with grief – Harry tried marijuana, alcohol, and cocaine. He used psychedelics in a controlled environment to cope with his pain. He said, “I would never recommend people to do this recreationally, but doing it with the right people if you’re suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief, or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine. For me they cleared the windscreen, the windshield, the misery of loss.” Harry says Camilla used him to build her image – Harry accused Queen Consort Camilla of leaking bad stories about him to the press to make her image better. He said, “The need for her to rehabilitate her image, that made her dangerous because of the connections she was forging within the British press. And there was an openness on both sides to trade in information, and with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.” Harry is doing these interviews to hopefully communicate to his family – The public airing of laundry is a message to connect. Harry said, “Every single time I’ve tried to do it privately, there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife. Trying to speak a language that perhaps they understand, I will sit here and speak truth to you with the words that come out of my mouth rather than using someone else, an unnamed source, to feed lies or narrative to a tabloid media that literally radicalizes its readers to potentially cause harm to my family—my wife, my kids.” When country stars make TMZ, you know it must’ve been something good (or bad). Morgan Wallen was filmed pouring a drink down a woman’s blouse at a Nashville bar after showing frustration when she tried to pull him away. Wallen was hanging out Friday night downtown at Aldean’s bar on the famous Broadway strip. Fans whipped out their cameras, hoping to catch something good, and they did. One clip shows Morgan coming over to take pictures with people having a good time. There’s an entourage behind him, including one woman (a blonde in a black top and white pants) who’s hovering in the background watching over Morgan as he mingles. In another clip, there seems to be some tension between him and the blonde as she tries to pry him away from a group of guys he’s chatting with. When she grabs his hand, he pulls it away. She walks away (and appears to slip) as Morgan creeps over and pours a drink down her shirt. She pushes him back a little, and Morgan’s cheesin’.
Netflix Announces ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 in Teaser Trailer
More misery awaits Wednesday Addams behind the doors of Evermore Academy. On Friday, Netflix released a trailer for the second season of its hit series Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega. Here’s the teaser And just after that, they reveal, “More misery is coming.” The teaser is soundtracked by Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary,” which shows the brooding teenager being driven away from the school for the supernatural, flashing back to her incredibly strange and danger-driven first semester there. No word on when we will get season 2, but we know it’s coming!
50 Cent Announces He’s Collaborating with Eminem on ‘8 Mile’ TV Show
50 Cent dropped some news on Friday that he’s adapting the 2002 film 8 Mile into a TV series with the help of Eminem. “I’m gonna bring his 8 Mile to television,” the rapper said in an interview with Big Boy TV about Em’s semi-autobiographical film. “We’re in motion.” 50 also confirmed that Eminem would also be involved in the project. “It’s gonna be big,” added 50 Cent. “I’m working. I ain’t got no duds. I’m batting 100. I think it should be there for his legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.” This is not the first time Eminem and 50 Cent have teamed up on a television series. In 2021, Em did a cameo on the 50-produced BMF playing White Boy Rick.
Adam Rich, best known as the youngest of the Bradford family on “Eight Is Enough”, died yesterday. A cause of death wasn’t announced. He was 54. Here’s a scene from the popular ’70s show, when he saw a minor league baseball player. (He would later marry Nicholas’ sister Susan on the show.)
The “Stranger Things” cast got a substantial raise for the fifth and final season. Winona Ryder and David Harbour will make $9.5 million, and the original kid actors will get over $7 million. Millie Bobby Brown probably makes the most due to a special deal with Netflix that includes other projects.
Variety asked (LINK) Steven Spielberg his favorite Seth Rogen stoner movie, as he stood next to Seth on the red carpet. This is how he answered, referring to “Superbad”. (Seth’s stoner laugh ends, with him saying “one day”.)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” crossed (LINK) the $1.7 billion mark globally this weekend, and that means James Cameron will make the rest of the sequels. With all the fake humility he could muster, Cameron said, quote, “It looks like just with the momentum that the film has now that will easily pass our break even in the next few days, so it looks like I can’t wiggle out of this. “I’m gonna have to do these other sequels. I know what I’m going to be doing the next six or seven years.” Cameron noted that “Avatar 3” is already finished, and parts 4 and 5 have been written. (Hollywood Reporter)
In the 1986 classic “Stand By Me”, Corey Feldman’s character Teddy has a deformed ear as a result of abuse by his father. Corey saved the prosthetic ear, and auctioned it off several months ago. And the winning bidder was . . . Jordan Peele. On “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Friday night, Peele said, quote, “I very creepily bought it. In saying it out loud, I realize how creepy it was. That’s not the thing you should share.” He added, quote, “I have a new friendship with Corey Feldman, very proud of this.” (New York Post)
M3GAN Makes A Great Debut; Avatar Remains Number One
There’s a new queen of scream at the box office. The horror flick M3GANcame through with an unexpected $30.2 million at movie theaters over the weekend. The movie set some milestones. It was the biggest opening for the first weekend of January since 2018, the best opening for an original horror movie since Jordan Peele’s NOPE, and the biggest opening for a PG-13 horror movie since A Quiet Place II. M3GAN’sdebut wasn’t enough to overtake Avatar: The Way of Water. The film remained on top of the box office for a fourth straight week earning $45 million.
SZA’s SOS Remains At Number One
SZA’s reign at the top of the album chart continues. Her SOS album is number one for the fourth week in a row. The project moved 125,000 equivalent album units last week. SZA becomes the fir woman to spend at least four consecutive weeks at the top since Adele’s 30.
Radiohead Plans to ‘Get Together’ in 2023
Radiohead drummer Phil Selway says his band will “get together” in 2023. The band’s last studio album, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’, dropped in 2016. Selway told ‘Spin’ “We’re going to get together at the start of the year and I’m sure we’re going to start looking at other ideas for what comes next. ‘Hail To The Thief’ — it’s a long time since that record, isn’t it?” It’s been twenty years since ‘Hail To The Thief’ was released. Radiohead band could be planning a disc of rarities to celebrate like they did with 2021’s ‘Kid Amnesia’ which highlighted their groundbreaking ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ records.
Steve Perry Drops Journey Trademark Claim
Former Journey vocalist Steve Perry has dropped his lawsuit against his band over the trademarking of 20 tunes. Guitarist Neal Schon revealed he got a letter in the mail from the US Patent and Trademark office saying Perry canceled his petition without plans to ever relaunch his claims. That’s one less legal battle Schon has to worry about; he’s still fighting with keyboardist Jonathan Cain over a band credit card. Both members of Journey are accusing each other and their wives of living large on the band’s dime. The band starts touring in two weeks. Original keyboardist Gregg Rolie will be on the tour but Schon didn’t explain what that means for Cain.
Have you ever seen those SHREDS videos? They’re a bit older now but this reminded me of those and is equally funny and weird if you ask me. Someone removed the music from Kevin Bacon’s warehouse dance in “Footloose”, and added realistic sound effects. It’s weird. (Full Story)
Ron Jeremy will reportedly be declared unfit to stand trial for more that 30 sexual assault charges, per People. Jeremy is suffering from “severe dementia,” and is likely to be placed in a state-run hospital shortly after being declared unfit January 17. “As a result of the agreement of the experts, the defendant will be declared incompetent to stand trial … his prognosis for improvement is not good,” L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson wrote in a letter obtained by the L.A. Times.
Sometimes it takes forever to film a TV or movie scene, because the actors can’t keep a straight face.
Here are some examples:
- “Seinfeld”: Jerry is interrogated by a “library cop” over an unreturned book. Jerry couldn’t stop laughing because he found the concept “so ridiculous.”
- “This Is 40”: Melissa McCarthy’s character berates and threatens Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, and Joanne Baron. Leslie and Paul could not keep a straight face as Melissa hurled nasty insults at them.
- “Parks and Recreation”: When Chris Pratt lists off all his medical problems at the doctor’s office. Aubrey Plaza couldn’t keep it together . . . particularly when Pratt says he sometimes wipes a hundred times and there’s “still poop.”
- “Stranger Things”: Hopper lies about there being something wrong with Mike’s grandma, just because he wants to get him away from Eleven. David Harbour busted up every time he said the word “grandma”.
- “The Usual Suspects”: The lineup scene. Kevin Pollak says they had trouble getting through it . . . in part because Benicio del Toro farted 12 takes in a row.
- “Friends”: Pivot! Ross, Rachel and Chandler are trying to get a massive couch around the corner of a stairway . . . and Ross keeps yelling, “Pivot!”
- “Friends”: Ross plays the bagpipes, and Phoebe tries to sing along.
You can check out more examples here.
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