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Independent Spirit Award Winners + Blue Carpet

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The Independent Spirit Awards were held today at the Palladium in Hollywood, CA, moving inland from their usual home on the beach in Santa Monica. Ego Nwodim took over hosting duties after a few years of hosting from another SNL vet, Aidy Bryant, and Train Dreams was one of the big winners of the day, taking home Best Feature, Best Director for Clint Bentley, and Best Cinematography for Adolpho Veloso. Read on for a complete list of winners, and check out the looks from the blue carpet. Please don't ask me how a TV series can be indie - no one knows!

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Dark Winds S4 premiere



4x1: Kǫ'Tsiitáá' Álnééh (Baptism by Fire)
Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee search for a runaway boarding school student; Manuelito considers returning to the NTP; a menacing killer comes to the reservation in search of a target close to the investigation.

New cast members for S4 include Franka Potente, Isabel DeRoy-Olson, Titus Welliver, Luke Barnett, Chaske Spencer, Udo Kier, and Linda Hamilton.

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The first three seasons are on Netflix!

Great Pottery Throwdown 9x7



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9x7
The seven remaining potters create floral posies and vases, and take on a surprise embellishing challenge. Who'll bloom into the next round, and whose posy isn't all rosy?

main make: hand build a realistic floral posy (minimum of 4 different types of flowers) and throw a vase
who made what: [Spoiler (click to open)]

Angharad - gran's hedgerow flowers with cow milk jug, daisies, buttercups, poppies
Bill - wilting arrangement with poppies, dandelions, daisies, bluebells, pussywillows
Elham - winter wedding bouquet with pussywillows, red roses, hypericum berries, thistles
Emily - Scottish meadow wildflowers with foxgloves, moonwort
Fynn - tropical leaves with bromeliad, hibiscus
Kayleigh - healing flowers with dandelions, daffodils, chamomile, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lungwort leaves
Naveed - allotment arrangement with savoy cabbage vase, artichoke, courgette, & chive blossoms


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spot test: embellish a plant pot (guest judge Jo Taylor)
rankings: [Spoiler (click to open)]

1 - Kayleigh
2 - Angharad
3 - Fynn
4 - Elham
5 - Bill
6 - Emily
7 - Naveed


potter of the week: [Spoiler (click to open)] Kayleigh
eliminated: [Spoiler (click to open)] Emily

best posy

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Bill
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Elham
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Emily
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Fynn
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Kayleigh
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Sochi Fail

Milano-Cortina Primetime + Day 10 FFAO

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Sunday scaries don't seem so bad when you've got another full week of Olympics ahead
Primetime coverage will begin on NBC at 8pm EST, and the live events run from approx 9am-11pm CET, 8am-10pm GMT, 3am-5pm EST, and 12pm-2pm PST.



Primetime includes: speed skating, freestyle skiing, alpine skiing, figure skating
Live events include: alpine skiing 🏅, bobsleigh 🏅, curling, figure skating 🏅, freestyle skiing 🏅, ice hockey, nordic combined (training), short track speed skating 🏅, ski jumping 🏅

A schedule of all events can be found here, and today's page lets you toggle between Milan/Cortina and your local time zone using the filter button on the right.
For all American viewers, NBC's schedule page has listed all events and what TV or digital platform you can watch on, including TV reruns.



[Alpine skiing spoilers, cross country skiing]





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fingers crossed the figure skating gods aren't in full force again. this is going up a little early tonight, sorry!

Jimmy Fallon ends pasta sauce collaboration with Tommy Mottola due to Epstein file documents

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Longtime friends Jimmy Fallon and record executive Tommy Mottola (perhaps better known as Mariah Carey's ex-husband) were often seen dining together at Italian restaurant Rao’s. The two were planning a pasta sauce collaboration that was tentatively planned to launch in 2027. On Thursday, an anonymous source reported that the project was "on pause" due to Mottola's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but now it is being reported that the pasta sauce collaboration has been shelved. Both Fallon and Mottola declined to comment.

Mottola is mentioned over 600 times in the Epstein file documents that have been released to the public. The documents show that from 2010 until Epstein's death in 2019, Mottola and Epstein were in close contact about things like travel arrangements (Mottola requested helicopter rentals in 2014), emails in 2017 (circa the huge #MeToo push) where Mottola allegedly discussed needing to "shut up and lay low," and helping Epstein find a private detective after a Miami Herald exposé on his private island.

The files also show Mottola making dozens of calls and visits to Epstein’s properties in Manhattan and Paris, most of which occurred between 2006 and 2008 (during this time, Epstein was already serving time for soliciting minors following his first arrest). Email correspondence shows that Mottola appeared to have visited Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion several times, years after Epstein had been convicted of sex crimes in Florida. The files also show that Mottola and Epstein were close enough to exchange gifts. Mottola gave Epstein "a huge box of Bridgewater Chocolates" in December 2011 and a gift basket in September 2017.

In addition to managing Hall & Oates, running Sony Music, and working with Universal Music, Mottola also branched out into movies, music, and television. His media group produced several Broadway musicals including Jersey Boys, A Bronx Tale, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and Groundhog Day.

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Taylor Swift re-releases Opalite 7" vinyl single



A week and a half ago, Taylor Swift released Opalite as a 7" single for 48 hours. This morning she announced that the same vinyl single is back in her store for 10 hours only.

During the February 4 pre-order for the 7" vinyl, the website stated that it would ship on February 9. But on February 9, Swifties in the United States who had ordered received a notification that shipment of their Opalite vinyl singles had been delayed until February 23. Of course shipping delays do happen so this seems totally normal, right? Except for the part where international customers have not only had their Opalite vinyls shipped but they have already received their orders and posted pics/videos of these records. So what's the hold up with the American orders not being shipped yet?

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Per Billboard rules, pre-orders for physical media do not count toward the charts until the items are actually shipped. So far, Taylor has done several pre-orders for Opalite but none of them have actually shipped to customers in the United States yet, which means she is most likely stockpiling pre-orders so that she can ship them all at once and get Opalite to #1 on the Hot 100 chart. As of today, she has released Opalite on physical media eight times (and none of these versions have been released as digital singles yet):

1. album version & instrumental version - CD (1/21 - 48 hours), 2/16 ship date
2. Life Is a Song acoustic version & acoustic instrumental version - CD (1/21 - 48 hours), 2/16 ship date
3. album version & Life Is a Song acoustic version - blue pearlescent 7 (2/4 - 48 hours), 2/9 ship date (rescheduled for 2/23)
4. Chris Lake remix - CD (2/13 - 48 hours), 2/23 ship date
5. BUNT. remix - CD (2/13 - 48 hours), 2/23 ship date
6. Skream remix - CD (2/13 - 48 hours), 2/23 ship date
7. Ely Oaks remix - CD (2/13 - 48 hours), 2/23 ship date
8. album version & Life Is a Song acoustic version - blue pearlescent 7" vinyl* (2/15 - 10 hours), 2/23 ship date

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