| | | | | | | | | | | | "There is a light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it’s not a freight train!'"
-Mariah Carey
To sign up for this newsletter click here. "There is a light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it’s not a freight train!'"
-Mariah Carey
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | Did anyone know that Dax Shepard has directed three films? Did anyone know his latest, a comedy update of the old TV show CHiPs, premiered this weekend? Wait, are we all even aware of who Dax Shepard is? He was on Punk’D. He’s married to Kristen Bell. He’s somehow been famous for well over a decade now. Anyway, not enough people seemed to care enough to see CHiPs—it brought in just $7.6 million at the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, Life didn’t fare much better with $12.6 million (this despite everyone’s new fascination with bromance of co-leads Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal). Obviously, the weekend belonged to two big ‘90s kid-beloved franchise. Power Rangers debuted with a solid $40.5 estimated take, but it was Beauty and the Beast that won the race with a monster $88.3 million. That, folks, is the fourth best second weekend take of all time. | | |  | | | |  | | Not a particularly wonderful weekend for people who yell at television cameras about politics for a living. Sean Hannity, one of Fox News’ earliest and most enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump, found himself on the receiving end of a stern talking to from legendary newsman Ted Koppel in a clip that quickly went viral. Koppel, interviewing Hannity for a special on America’s ever deepening political divide, said that the Fox News host and other opinion-over-fact broadcasters are “bad for the country.” “You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts,” said Koppel. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the right wing rage-sphere, Tomi Lahren, the young blonde who has made a name for herself with performative conservative outrage finds herself the target of conservative outrage herself. Indeed, she’s been permanently suspended from her job at Glenn Beck’s online outlet The Blaze after admitting last week on The View that she was pro-choice and other conservatives were hypocrites for opposing reproductive rights. Incidentally, Page Six insinuated it was Beck himself, who had previously apologized for his own hyper-divisive broadcasting past, who ultimately handed Lahren the pink slip. | | | | | | Disco At the Library of Congress | | | | | Well, at least someone is going to have some fun in D.C. The Library of Congress is gearing up for a series of events celebrating disco ahead of the introduction of Gloria Gaynor’s dance floor classic “I Will Survive” into its National Recording Registry. The “Bibliodiscotheque” events include a series of film screenings (with everything from a marathon of the original British Queer as Folk to a Celia Cruz documentary and Saturday Night Fever, duh), academic talks on the influences of ABBA, Tim Gunn discussing the significance of disco fashion, and, of course, a dance party in the library itself featuring Gaynor singing her iconic hint. While Gaynor’s hit may, on a surface level, be about a bad breakup, the song has been adopted as a gay rights anthem and a battle cry during rough political times (something we underscored when we got Emma Stone, Natalie Portman and more to put their own spin on it earlier this year). Seems like the perfect song to celebrate in D.C. right now. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems like just yesterday when the One Direction boys were practically babies themselves, and now two of them have actual kids. Liam Payne welcomed his first child over the weekend, a son (whose name is yet to be determined or publicly revealed). Mom is Cheryl, Payne’s 10-years-older girlfriend best known as a member of British girl group Girls Aloud. The couple originally met when Payne was just 14. He was auditioning for the British series X-Factor. She was a judge. | | | | | | | | | | Mariah Carey, 47 (You Know Her) Fergie, 42 (You Remember Her) Jessie J, 28 (You Don’t Know Her) Quentin Tarantino, 53 (What a Weird Person To Share This Birthday | | | | | | | | |
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