Years from now, when our children read about the 2016 Presidential election, the textbooks will chronicle how both candidates regularly threw shade and *clapped* *back* at one another on Twitter. That seems to be the situation we are in until the general election in November, so buckle up, folks.
As reported earlier this week, Donald Trump tweeted an anti-Semitic image of Hillary Clinton over a backdrop of money, alongside the Star of David housing the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!" It was not subtle.
Trump justified the image by insisting that star in the picture is actually just a "Sheriff's star," which would be a funny explanation for a five-year-old who doesn't know any better, but is a pretty horrifying one for a grown man who wants to run the country. In the end, Trump's camp edited the image by crudely sticking a big circle over the star, but if you think that Trump can just "Let It Go" and move on from this scandal to focus on bigger things, you are obviously not well-versed in the ways of Donald Trump.
Yes, the man who wants to lead the free world brought adorable Disney movie Frozen into his anti-Semitic mess. He literally tweeted a pictured of a children's sticker book and asked the world where the outrage was. Donald, that inanimate object isn't trying to run the country.
Hillary Clinton, or more accurately, whatever young intern runs her Twitter account for her, was probably anxiously awaiting another misstep from Trump, and was locked and loaded with the perfect response.
This was a parody of the song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" from the movie, and if you have ever seen the film before, you definitely sang it as you read it. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a straw man is defined as "a weak or imaginary argument or opponent that is set up to be easily defeated."
Hey, instead of a debate this year, maybe both candidates should hire writers to sling insults at one another over Twitter. It will be like the digital version of that show Yo Mama, but much whiter.
On June 30, Variety's new chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote a piece about how Renée Zellweger looks in her upcoming movie, Bridget Jones' Baby. Not about the movie, mind you—just about the trailer. In his piece, titled"Does Renee Zellweger: If She No Longer Looks Like Herself, Has She Become A Different Actress?" (short answer: no. Long answer: also no), Gleiberman writes about how while he's totally fine with actresses changing their looks in general (how gracious of him), he's not okay with the beloved character of Bridget Jones looking different. Not different as in another actress altogether, just different as in, the actress who's always played her may or may not have had some plastic surgery on her eyelids a few years ago.
Then he wrote 1400 words about how, actually, he's not really okay with an actress changing her looks, with the exception of those who do it only to make themselves look younger, and in that case, they better get a wonderful surgeon so no one can tell. If that's you, you get a pass. Everyone else, line up because Old Man Gleiberman has a few words for you.
Surprisingly, women everywhere were a little "what the—?" about the whole thing. The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece written by actress Rose McGowan to Gleiberman, in which she points out that his article makes him look like a tool. You can read the piece in full on THR website, but here's an excerpt:
Renee Zellweger is a human being, with feelings, with a life, with love and with triumphs and struggles, just like the rest of us. How dare you use her as a punching bag in your mistaken attempt to make a mark at your new job. How dare you bully a woman who has done nothing but try to entertain people like you. Her crime, according to you, is growing older in a way you don’t approve of. Who are you to approve of anything? What you are doing is vile, damaging, stupid and cruel. It also reeks of status quo white-male privilege. So assured are you in your place in the firmament that is Hollywood, you felt it was OK to do this. And your editors at Variety felt this was more than OK to run.
You are an active endorser of what is tantamount to harassment and abuse of actresses and women. I speak as someone who was abused by Hollywood and by people like you in the media, but I’m a different breed, one they didn't count on. I refuse and reject this bullshit on behalf of those who feel they can't speak. I am someone who was forced by a studio to go on Howard Stern, where he asked me to show him my labia while my grinning male and female publicists stood to the side and did nothing to protect me. I am someone who has withstood death threats from fan boys, had fat sites devoted to me. I've withstood harassment on a level you can’t comprehend, Owen.
Let’s talk about Hollywood writers: Joan Didion, John Fante, Raymond Chandler, Robert Towne, Dorothy Parker, John Gregory Dunne, Preston Sturges, I.A.L. Diamond, Pauline Kael and Billy Wilder. These were writers on Hollywood.
She also took his argument (or whatever it was) about Zellweger, and therefore Bridget Jones, looking different, and applied it to male actors.
RYAN GOSLING had won the lottery, had been plucked from semi-obscurity by the movie gods (or, actually, by the daring of Cameron Crowe), but not because it was so unusual to see a non-famous actor starring in a major movie.
JOHNNY DEPP was no flash in the pan, but after 'Edward Scissorhands,' he struggled to find roles that could complete him. It wasn’t until 'Pirates of the Carribean,' five years later, that he hit his stride by finding a role that jelled with his image as an extraordinary ordinary guy.
Gleiberman hasn't commented on his original "review" or on McGowan's response, and he might not ever. But hopefully the response his piece is getting will convince him to stick to reviewing movies and not women's faces.
Looking for love online isn't just for weirdos and pervs anymore. They're still there, of course, but now pretty much everyone else is swiping for their soul mates. Even the rich and famous are turning to dating apps to find true love. Here are 13 celebrities who've been lonely enough to brave the world of online dating.
She's dating Orlando Bloom at the moment, but after her break up with John Mayer, Perry admitted to being "deep into Tinder." That's how low dating John Mayer will take you.
2. Lily Allen
Despite being married, Lily Allen tweeted this praise (?) for the dating app.
Britney has a song called "Email My Heart," so it's no surprise she'd be up for using technology to find love. The singer let Jimmy Fallon set up a Tinder profile on her behalf. Hey, it can't be any worse than marrying K-Fed.
You'd never believe Halle Berry had a hard time finding men to date, but back in the days of dial-up internet, she used to anonymously use dating chat rooms. She told the BBC she didn't have much luck. "When I decided to say: 'Oh by the way, the person you've been chatting with for a week is me, Halle Berry,' they thought I was just some kook." Wait… did Halle Berry invent catfishing?
Sometime between his relationships with Demi Moore and Mila Kunis, former That '70s Show star Ashton Kutcher reportedly swiped around a lot on Tinder. Pretty sure you'd feel Punk'd if you saw his big dumb face pop up on your screen.
Hilary Duff was spotted on Tinder, but maybe it was a publicity stunt? The music video for her song "Sparks" was basically a commercial for Tinder—it contained clips of her setting up a Tinder profile and going on successful Tinder dates. Maybe Tinder paid her?
Note: Tinder is not paying Someecards for this post, but maybe they should.
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As she posted on her Instagram, Lindsay Lohan had that moment we all dread… running into a family member on a dating app. She came across her brother on Tinder and took a screen shot. Yikes. At least it wasn't her dad.
In her memoir, Adele admitted she signed up for eHarmony after a breakup. She must not have wasted too much time on there, because during that time she also wrote a little album called 21 that got the rest of us through our breakups.
Andy Cohen isn't shy about having a Tinder account. The Watch What Happens Live host told People, "I like it. It's fun. You know, it's to me: Where am I going to meet an architect who lives in Brooklyn besides Tinder at this point? … It's the modern-day singles bar."
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The Dancing with the Stars judge admits she got engaged to someone she met on eHarmony. They're no longer together, but as far as online dating goes, that pretty much counts as a success story.
Between her divorce from husband Nick Cannon and her engagement to BILLIONAIRE James Packer, Mariah Carey tried out online dating. Her Match.com profile is still active, but unless you're a jillionaire, I don't think she's interested.
Amidst the seemingly endless cycle of police brutality and hashtag upon hashtag marking yet another death, a lot of people are asking "what can I do?" Actress Issa Rae was one of these people, so she did something.
Yesterday, hours after the news broke that Alton Sterling, 37, was fatally shot by police while selling CDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rae tweeted:
Can we got a scholarship fund going 4 #AltonSterling's son/kids? Some of us feel helpless when these things happen, but that's a small step.
Rae is a 31-year-old actress and creator of brilliantly hilarious web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (watch it for a little much-needed levity!), who also created and will star in upcoming HBO series Insecure. An hour after her initial tweet, she created a GoFundMe page to raise money for the family of deceased Alton Sterling:
"If you feel helpless, but want to play a small part in easing the burden of #AltonSterling's family, consider donating to this scholarship fund for his 15-year-old son (and his other kids)," reads the page (Click here to donate). "*ALL* funds raised will go to Alton Sterling's family."
Within four hours of creating the page, Rae had raised $40,000 for the #AltonSterling Family Scholarship Fund. Within six hours, the amount reached $100,000. She continued to raise the goal as funds poured in and as of this morning, the page has reached $301,665, far exceeding its $200k goal.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with… who just happens to look a lot like the one you love. That seems to be Justin Bieber's plan. Earlier this week, the 23-year-old mega-star was spotted in Miami Beach "canoodling" on a chartered yacht with model Alexandra Rodriguez, who US Weekly is calling a "Selena Gomez lookalike." Or maybe they just have similar hair and Latino-sounding names?
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Either way, Bieber seems pretty happy to be with the doppelgänger of his on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again girlfriend, pop star Selena Gomez. Later that same day, US Weekly reported that the 24-year-old Rodriguez took a solo trip to South Beach, where she wore a"flaunted her curvaceous frame in a sexy oxblood" bikini.
Emily Ratajkowski posed nude on a horse for the most recent issue of Harper's Bazaar. The model and actress is best known for her role as the other woman in the movie Gone Girl, and for her role in the music video for "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke (now stuck in your head again after a three-year hiatus). She spoke with feminist author Naomi Wolf and discussed promoting body positivity for all women and theimportance of owning her sexuality.
Ratajkowski has never been shy about her sexuality or her body. Her 2013 appearance in the "Blurred Lines" video featured her half-naked holding a lamb.
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In case anyone was wondering if she subjected her bare lady parts to the actual back of a horse, the answer is no. She's wearing a thong which was later retouched. As evidence, here's a classy black and white video of her riding the horse in her thong:
Despite the retro silliness of posing naked on a horse, Ratajkowski made an excellent point about her experience with Kim Kardashian and the public response when women get naked:
Kim said that to me. You know, when Lena Dunham takes her clothes off, she gets flack, but it's also considered brave; when Justin Bieber takes his shirt off, he's a grown-up. But when a woman who is sexual takes off her top, it plays into something.
She also made sure to mention that while she and other celebs with great bodies are the ones drawing attention, she's trying to make a point for all women and body types:
...the world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies. The whole idea is that when Kim takes a nude selfie, she's just seeking attention. That's not the issue. A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
For all those haters and trolls that might take offense to her posing nude, or posing nude with animals, here she is fully and modestly clothed with yet another animal:
Hopefully, Ratajkowski can keep fighting the good fight for all women and body types, because not everyone has the time or resources to arrange a nude photo shoot on a horse.
On Wednesday, Gretchen Carlson, the former host of Fox News' The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson, filed a complaint against Fox's chairman and CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. On Wednesday night, Carlson's lawyer Nancy Erika Smith told CNNMoney that Ailes' harassment of Carlson was "very consistent and very pervasive."
According to the Huffington Post, at least 10 other women have contacted Smith about Ailes’ behavior in the hours since the news about Carlson's lawsuit was released. So apparently this old man wanted to share his harassment with a whole bunch of women at the station. That's what they call an equal opportunity employer (no, it's not).
One woman, who asked to remain anonymous, claims that Ailes asked her to turn around so he could see her ass. Another woman said Ailes told her she was only allowed to wear dresses on air. That same woman also described Ailes' hiring process:
He always brags to people about how he doesn't do polling or testing when he chooses his on-air talent. He told me that if he was thinking of hiring a woman, he'd ask himself if he would fuck her, and if he would, then he'd hire her to be on-camera. He then said if it was a man he'd think about whether he could sit down for a baseball game with him and not get annoyed of him. If he could, then he'd hire him.
Ailes allegedly feels it's important to consider whether or not he'd like to have sex with a person when making hiring decisions. Whether or not they want to have sex with him is unimportant. If a woman does get hired, does she also get a little sticker to put on her ID that says "Roger wants to screw me!"?
Ailes has denied the allegations, but Fox's parent company 21st Century Fox is looking into the claims Carlson made against Ailes as well as against her former Fox & Friends cohost Steve Doocy. But right off the bat, sounds like they're sort of on the side of Ailes and Doocy. The company released a statement saying:
The company has seen the allegations against Mr. Ailes and Mr. Doocy. We take these matters seriously. While we have full confidence in Mr. Ailes and Mr. Doocy, who have served the company brilliantly for over two decades, we have commenced an internal review of the matter.
Maybe "an internal review" is what Ailes told Carlson he wanted to do to her. Either way, she should be really proud that she passed the alleged Ailes "screw test." That looks really impressive on a résumé.
It's well documented that Drake is the softest rapper out there, but the truth is, he's even softer than that. Drake has been singing about muffins.
On the outside, it seems Drake has been rapping about being sad over a woman or about the hardships of being rich, but just like the teeth you use to bite a muffin, it's all a front. Most music lyrics are really metaphors for the artist's inner thoughts and workings. For Drake, his inner thoughts are mostly just about baked goods. And those workings? Specifically, they're muffins. Consider these 18 examples:
1. "Started From The Bottom"
Most people eat their muffins starting from the top, and that's why they're not Drake. This is a song about delayed gratification, wherein he has already put in the hard work of eating the bottom of the muffin, and now he can finish off the experience by enjoying the textured, sugar-covered top.
2. "The Motto (YOLO)"
You only live once, so if Drake wants a muffin, he'll eat that muffin. And he's 'bout it every day, every day, every day.
3. "HYFR"
Here, Drake raps about how, instead of his music, people only ask him about his love for muffins:
Do you love this shit? Are you high right now? Do you ever get nervous [that you could run out of muffins]? Are you single? I heard you [ate a muffin], is it true? You getting [muffins]? You think them [muffins] you with is with you?
Drake answers all these Qs in the affirmative:
And I say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah Fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright And we say hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah Fuckin' right, fuckin' right, alright
4. "Best I Ever Had"
Why does Drake never reveal which woman he is talking about in this song? Now we know—it's not about just one girl.
5. "Hold on, We're Going Home"
You know how hard it is to buy a muffin and then not eat it immediately? Drake vents all our frustrations with this tome, singing to a muffin about trying to find the strength to wait until he can get home and be alone with it.
6. "Back to Back"
This is the only way to eat two muffins. Drake's theory is that if he eats them back to back, they'll count as just one muffin.
7. "Pound Cake"
Slang for a very cakey muffin. Think streusel topping. This song is about how he and Jay-Z love to pound muffins.
8. "Look What You've Done"
Here Drake is acknowledging the negative health effects of consuming too much muffin:
But maybe I wouldn't have worked this hard if you were healthy and it weren't so bad.
9. "Feel No Ways"
A breakup song -- Drake's attempt to break ties with his muffin habit. He sings, "I tried with you. There's more to life than sleepin' in and gettin' high with you."
But he eventually breaks down. There really isn't more to life than sleeping in, getting high, and eating a muffin.
10. "I Get Lonely Too"
Don't tell anybody what we do when I get lonely.
Drake, like the rest of us, is a boredom eater. When he's alone, he stays eating muffins.
11. "Too Much"
12. "Too Good"
When that muffin was too good.
13. "Hotline Bling"
And I know when that hotline bling That can only mean one thing
Here, the "hotline bling" is the beeping of an oven timer, and the only thing that can mean is that the muffins are done.
14. "One Dance"
The hit of the summer, he opens this song with the lyrics, "Grips on your waist. Front way, back way."
He is talking about a muffin top. Because he loves muffins.
15. "Forever"
"In your city, faded off the brown… I want this shit forever man."
Here, Drake is talking about the golden color of an oat bran muff. In Ontario, when you buy liquor from the LCBO it comes in a brown bag that just fits the bottle. You see people drinking from the brown bag with booze in it and they are “faded off the brown.” Drake is saying that a brown muffin can be so good, it's almost like getting faded off dark liquor.
16. "Take Care"
This song, featuring Rihanna, is about how Drake "takes care" of her by sharing his muffins.
Big girls all get a little taste Pushing me away so I give her space
Cause you know Rihanna is a bad b**ch who needs some room to eat a muffin.
17. "Make Me Proud"
When he sings that he's proud of a girl because she's "running on a treadmill and only eating salad," it's because he has just eaten a muffin.
18. "Controlla"
Drake here illustrates the importance of giving up power or “control” in order to eat a muffin.
May your life flashing before your eyes at the end of your life be less disturbing than this supercut of all the times Fox & Friends' Gretchen Carlson had to endure her co-hosts' blatant sexism on air. Bloomberg Politics put together the video after Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes that also alleged misconduct by her co-host Steve Doocy.
"HR is on the phone because you called me a skirt," she says in one clip to Doocy, who in another clip she calls a sexist.
"But I'm a jest sexist," he responds, laughing like the dimwitted idiot he is.
"Jest in time," adds the clueless host to her left. Helpful contribution, tweedle-dum.
What's that saying about there being truth in jest? Does that quote end with a smart woman grinning through her teeth while she pushes through a bog of male-driven douchebaggery?
Naturally, the internet blames all of society leading up to this point the woman.
Yes, we know Fox News is America's leader in going backwards, but what are women supposed to do, not even try? We can't let the ignorant pervs hold microphones unchallenged.
At one point, Carlson pretended to call HR on her co-anchor on air.
The next step is to make that call to HR with an actual phone.
It turns out Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin gave a hint about Jon Snow's parents way back in 2002. Martin was doing an AMA (ask me anything) with fans of the books on Reddit (which was then a little-known online forum). This was three years before the third book had been released, and almost a decade before the A Song of Ice and Fire novels became an HBO series. Back then, only a few dedicated nerds had any theories regarding Jon Snow's lineage. As always, spoilers for the books and TV series lie ahead.
A fan asked Martin a simple and seemingly unimportant question to regarding how characters received their names when their mothers died during or after childbirth:
Since all of their mothers died, who gave Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Tyrion Lannister their names?
Fair question. Here's Martin's clever response, with a big old clue dropped in there if you read it carefully:
Mothers can name a child before birth, or during, or after, even while they are dying. Dany was most likely named by her mother, Tyrion by his Father, Jon by Ned.
Very clever Mr. Martin, very clever indeed. Way back in 2002, he implied that Ned was not Jon's father, which has now been confirmed. This means that fans of the books with lots of time on their hands are now scouring Reddit for any more clues about future plot points.
It is no surprise that Clarkson and Jenner are seeing each other. The Jenner/Kardashians love to date athletes and athletes love to date famous models (for publicity). It is like a match made in heaven Hollywood. Plus, both Jenner and Clarkson are really hot, so it only makes sense that they would bone.
A police officer has bravely spoken out about police brutality, and you will want to hear what she has to say. Following the July 5 killing of Alton Sterling by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there has been noticeable silence from one group: the police force. This "blue wall of silence," an unwritten rule that police refuse to condemn one another's actions no matter how egregious, was called out yesterday on air by Hot 97 radio host Peter Rosenberg.
Then, someone shattered that blue wall. Nakia Jones, a police officer from Warrensville Heights, Ohio, took to Facebook Live yesterday to record her reaction to the video of Sterling's death. The 37-year-old father of three was fatally shot on Tuesday while selling CD's outside a Louisiana convenience store.
In the seven-minute video, Jones says she was "so furious and so hurt," after watching the video of Sterling's death, because "I wear blue." She talks about being first hired as an East Cleveland officer in 1996, and how she has worked her way up in the force while being a wife and mother of six.
An impassioned Jones then urges racist cops to remove their uniforms and don KKK hoods instead. "How dare you stand next to me in the same uniform and murder somebody," she says. "How dare you. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. If you're that officer and you know you have a God complex and you're afraid of people who don't look like you, you have no business wearing the uniform. Take it off."
The video has been viewed 2.7 million times in less than 24 hours. It's not hard to see why.
There’s a certain cliché that children of the wealthy grow up soft and spoiled. But it must be at least partially true, because a shocking number of children of beloved entertainers and captains of industry have tried to become rappers. Who knows the streets better than some guy who grew up in a mansion in Beverly Hills, along with one in the Hamptons?
1. Chet Haze.
Tom Hanks has three sons. One of them is the equally delightful Colin Hanks, who stars in really good TV shows like Fargo,and made a documentary about Tower Records. There’s also Chester Hanks, or as he is known on tha streetz, Chet Haze.
2. Chilly Tee.
In the ‘70s, Phil Knight co-founded Nike, more or less creating the premium athletic shoe industry. His son Travis grew up in want of nothing… except to be heard. In 1998, under the name Chilly Tee, he released this dope jam.
(Knight got over this phase. He’s now the head of Laika, the animation studio that made Coraline.)
3. Rich Hil.
For a while there, all the rappers wore Tommy Hilfiger clothes to show off how wealthy they were. The one rapper who could get away with it more than any other: Rich Hil. The “Hil” is short for “Hilfiger.”
4. Scott Caan.
James Caan's son is an actor in his own right—he co-stars on the remake of Hawaii Five-O (that show your parents call NCIS Hawaii). But before he found legit acting work, he was just a kid on the streets of Beverly Hills trying to keep it real. He formed a rap duo in 1991 called the Whooliganz with another 90210 teenager named Alan Maman. Maman called himself Mudfoot. Caan went by Mad Skillz, which is somehow not Jamie Kennedy’s character’s name in Malibu’s Most Wanted. The Whooliganz were signed to Tommy Boy Records (home of House of Pain!) and were dropped after their single “Put Your Handz Up” flopped.
5. Gabe Day.
Perhaps he’s following in his father’s footsteps and he’s just deep into his Method acting process of living like a wannabe rapper. But Gabe Day really is the son of Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani. In 2013 he released a song called “Green Auras” that’s probably about weed.
Blac Chyna is loving pregnancy, and looking at her Instagram, it seems pregnancy really loves her right back. The future Mrs. Robert Kardashian is pregnant with her first child with her fiance, but she's also mom to 3-year-old King Cairo (who she had with her ex, Tyga, who just got back together with Kylie Jenner, who is Robert Kardashian's half sister. Don't think about it too hard, you'll get brain strain). On Thursday, Chyna posted two pictures on Instagram showing off her baby bump all her lady lumps.
She captioned the shot "Why should I watch my weight when I'm pregnant." Lady's been pregnant before, she knows what she's doing. And she's looking great while doing it.
Wearing the same salmon-colored bandage dress, Chyna captioned this shot "Y'all Know That I Don't Play" which is true, she does not. Except maybe playing dress up, but that probably doesn't count.
Actor, writer, producer, and all-around girl boss Mindy Kaling knows better than anyone that when you live your life in the public eye, you're bound to attract a few haters. Most of hers happen to fall in the white male category. White men hating on a successful woman of color who has her own TV show? Shocking! Lucky for us, Mindy relishes getting shade and gave a special Twitter shout out to all her dude-bro haters yesterday.
Thanks for all the psyched tweets on the season 4 of #TheMindyProject! And for white men shading me, love you guys too! 😘
How could they not be jealous of her? Mindy is awesome. She acts, she writes, and she still finds time to make fun treats for her co-workers. She actually does it all.
Leonardo DiCaprio has a Russian look-alike that looks so much like DiCaprio, he now stars in a Russian vodka commercial. He basically looks like Leo if he got stung by a bunch of bees. The doppelgänger was discovered in January when his picture went viral. He works at the Russian Ministry of the Interior, and just like the real Leo, can now add "actor" to his resume. This commercial is a weird one:
It looks like it could also be a car commercial, except for that bizarre ending. Who needs an attractive date or a nice car when you have vodka and a rowboat?