It was a great honour to be asked by @PORTERmagazine to pay the deepest respect to the legacy of Dr Savita Halappanavar, whose death powered the determination of activists to change Irish abortion laws & fight for reproductive justice all over the world. https://t.co/KZWRpp7btOpic.twitter.com/yLDXgcHKyh
PORTER invited Emma Watson to write a letter in honor of Dr. Savita Halappanavar, who died following a septic miscarriage in 2012. An investigation revealed there were 13 opportunities to save Halappanavar’s life over the seven days she was under medical supervision, and that she would not have died if she had been allowed to abort the 17-week-old fetus.
Savita's preventable death was one catalyst for Ireland’s historic May 2018 referendum repealing the country’s eighth amendment (which gave an unborn fetus the same protection as its mother, making abortion nearly impossible).
You can read Watson's full letter at the link in her tweet. A few excerpts:
You didn’t want to become the face of a movement; you wanted a procedure that would have saved your life.
[I]t is rare that justice truly prevails for those whose deaths come to symbolize structural inequality. Rarer still is a historic feminist victory that emboldens the fight for reproductive justice everywhere.
Your family and friends were gracious and galvanizing in their sharing of your memory. [...] Celebrating repeal, your father expressed his “gratitude to the people of Ireland”. In reciprocity, I heard Ireland’s ‘repealers’ say that they owe your family a great debt.
A note on your memorial in Dublin read, “Because you slept, many of us woke.” That the eighth amendment enabled valuing the life of an unborn fetus over a living woman was a wake-up call to a nation.
In your memory, and towards our liberation, we continue the fight for reproductive justice.
Rocketman is a musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John’s breakthrough years, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard.
On Saturday, Asia Argento posted to her Instagram story as she got tattooed. The fresh ink covers a dot tattoo that she got with Rose McGowan, who has a matching one. In case the intention wasn't clear, she added a message on top of the photos: "bye bye @rosemccgowan" and "Significato: vendetta consumata" ('Meaning: revenge complete').
Lindsay Lohan is standing by her decision to "rescue" refugee children she believed were in danger, following a bizarre encounter on her Instagram live this weekend where the actress accused a homeless family of trafficking their children.
- Sources tell The Blast the actress didn't believe the adults in the video were the actual parents of the children, after they refused her help despite the children wanting to go to a safe hotel. - Lohan is telling friends her intentions were to just bring the children to safety and get them off the street. - She's not concerned with the backlash online because she witnessed the situation first-hand and is adamant the children were in danger.
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Lohan believes the two children in Moscow were in genuine danger.https://t.co/R2hDZOW6uj
During the Sept 30 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim explained that she has to work harder to make sure her older kids feel special when a new baby arrives — which took away from the time her husband usually got. She says, “I think so many husbands feel neglected when you start having kids and then all of their attention gets taken away."
Sister Khloe says that Kim needs to make Kanye a priority: "Sometimes men still want to be treated as, like, the first baby. I know Kim is so overwhelmed and I think sometimes it’s easy to get distracted, but your husband still wants you to take care of him. I’m sure with three kids you’re tired at the end of the day and you don’t make that a priority, but she really has to.”
Kanye also tries to curate Kim's social media, which is "like, the one thing" she takes a firm stand on: “He’s always right in the end, but I’m just like, it’s my Instagram — you can’t tell me what to post. No one will tell me what to post. I’m allowed to have an opinion.”
EW released the first pics for the second season of the show starring Derek Wilson, Eliza Coupe and Josh Hutcherson. Preview to come on NYCC. This season they are returning to the future 2162 and seeing the consequences of all their missions in the past.
A poster for the Hellboy reboot from Lionsgate just premiered. More details will be announced at their panel at NYCC.
David Harbour stars as Hellboy, Iam McShane as his adoptive father Prof Bruttenholm, Daniel Dae Kim as Ben Daimio, and Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan. Neil Marshall will direct. This will not be related to Guillermo Del Toro's films.
Some iPhone XS users are reporting problems charging their new $1,000+ device in a discussion thread on Apple’s online forums. When attempting to charge the iPhone XS using the Lightning charger, the charging doesn’t seem to start.
Users either need to tap and wake the display for the charging to begin or in some cases, unplug the cable and plug it back in to start any wired charging.
Of course the device has wireless charging and so far no problems there have been reported, but if you don’t have the proper set up for that the Lightning cable is your only option right out the box.
YouTube channel Unbox Therapy carried out multiple tests on video showing the iPhone XS and XS Max units suffering from the problem. Some say it’s a software issue which can be fixed with a firmware update, but the problem does not seem to affect any other iPhone models with that same firmware leaving some to believe it’s a hardware problem.
Fans got some footage of Jake Gyllenhaal dressed to the nines as Quentin Beck / Mysterio on the Czech Republic set of "Spider-Man: Far from Home". The Marvel/Sony hybrid starring Tom Holland in the title role hits theaters Fourth of July weekend of next year.
I'm assuming this was shot days ago as Gyllenhaal was in NYC this weekend to promoting his movie at the NY Film Festival.
For some reason, Sky still hasn't uploaded either a straight episode 4 preview or this "what's coming up in the back half of Season 1" rundown to YouTube, so a shaky Instagram version is what I have for you.
Most of the scenes don't make that much sense out of context, but if you're trying to avoid spoilers you may want to skip it.
Otherwise, please enjoy a montage of people in shadowy rooms saying vague things while our two heroes make out in various locations.
And, of course, Lindsay Duncan being fabulous.
Here's a quick synopsis for Episode 4: ( Collapse ) Source
Kanye West scrapped plans to drop his 9th album, Yandhi, this weekend, choosing to postpone the project until Nov. 23rd in order to "draw inspiration and energy from the Earth" in Africa and continue recording.
Kim Kardashian also revealed on last week's Keeping Up with the Kardashian's that she and Kanye got into an explosive fight because he didn't like the bandaid that Kim picked out for him.
– ICYMI:A woman named Meagan Boyd made a few Instagram posts last week about how Dýrason sexually assaulted her in January 2013 after meeting in a club in LA, motivated by Dr. Ford during the Kavanaugh hearings. Boyd has since made her account private; in a post before that, she said she removed one Instagram post of photos of emails between her and Dýrason (and him denying what happened) for fear of violating Instagram's terms of service, and said she wanted to talk with lawyers for legal advice. Dýrason has been in the band since 1999, which formed in 1994. – One excerpt of Meagan's account describes what happened: [Account of asasult (tw: rape)]I also engaged in a kiss with him before falling asleep in the same bed, after that I completely knocked out. I woke up with the feeling of being penetrated without my consent during a deep slumber.. it happened twice that night, and I wondered myself why I didn’t leave after the first time- but I was drunk, dead tired, in shock, and this was right before I ever heard of anything like Uber/lyft … but none of that should matter because no one deserves to be raped/touched/licked/fucked without CONSENT. – Band members Jónsi Birgisson and George Hólm wrote a short statement on Facebook earlier today: In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dyrason to allow him to deal with this privately. Jónsi & Georg – Dýrason released a statement on facebook: [Full statement (tw: gaslighting)]I begin with thanking my friends and relatives for the support you have shown. It is good for me feel for your trust, despite the serious public allegations against me.
This matter has undeniably taken its toll on me for the past few days. Justifiably, some will say, and I do not intend to argue with those people. However, I sincerely ask the same people to steer their anger into the right path and abstain from dragging my family, and especially my wife, into this matter. At the same time, I ask people to stay calm and not to be divided into two battling armies, these are not court proceedings, just Meagan’s words against mine, on the internet. Loud and provocative words are in nobody's favour – neither to me or her.
In light of the scale of this matter, I have decided to leave Sigur Rós. That is a difficult decision for me, but I cannot have these serious allegations influence the band and the important and beautiful work that has been done there for the last years. A job that is so dear to me.
I will do anything in my power to get myself out of this nightmare, but out of respect for those actually suffering from sexual violence, I will not take that fight public.
– Robbie Tripp, self-described "author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and influencer" who went viral last year for an Instagram post where he described his wife as "a curvy goddess", which quickly became a meme, is the author of creative self-help book "Create Rebellion". His website bills the book as "an avant-garde stream of consciousness that seeks to inspire creative minds to listen to their inner desires to create, to be disruptive with their creations, and to disregard those who don't see the beauty of their inspired vision." – Tripp quickly became a wholesome brand icon (?), earning six figures from working with companies like Chase Bank, Alaska Air, L'Ocittane, McDonalds, five star hotels and more, sock and toothpaste brands and more, something he achieved solely through posting about his wife, which he still does, describing her since as "a sensual goddess" and "the world's comfiest pillow". This earned the ire of Babe.net, which posted an article titled "Our standards are so low, we’re celebrating a man for being attracted to his wife", which Tripp showed a screenshot of in a NowThis video talking about the backlash to his viral Instagram post. – Babe.net has since followed Tripp's life in detail, culminating in Tripp's lawyers threatening to sue the site for releasing a negative review of his book. Titled "Bet you can’t tell the difference between Curvy Wife Guy’s book and the Unabomber manifesto", Hary Shuckman writes, "Disturbingly, a lot of Create Rebellion reads like this – an angry, right-click-synonym-heavy screed against Curvy Wife Guy's haters," [...] "His imagery is pretty clear: he sees himself as a Christ-tier genius whose veins are pumping with pure creativity, everyone else is a disease-ridden leper reeking of 'complacency and whoredom' (sounds pretty metal, tbh)." – One excerpt of Tripp's book reads,"Be careful and act swiftly as you operate among their spiteful hostility; their infection can quickly turn you into a diseased member of their epidemic of complacency and whoredom. These nasty symptoms of free-flowing hatred and negativity are ones that can so easily taint your own mind. Revolt against this faction's pathetic pornography and shatter their closed doors into splinters, exposing their pastime of staying on porches of criticism and enjoying lounge chairs of scorn." – Babe.net released an article summarizing the incident. In it, Shuckman, the author of the review, writes among other things, "We will not be intimidated! We will not be silenced! We will stand up for our – and your – First Amendment rights! You, the readers of babe dot net deserve to know that in our opinion, the Curvy Wife Guy's book sucks an entire ass." – Babe.net released a statement to Buzzfeed News, saying,“Congress shall make no law preventing the trashing of a dumb book, or prohibiting the free shading thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of babe dot net to peaceably critique 'abstract manifestos for disruptive creativity' written by an Insta-famous weirdo obsessed with talking about his wife’s thiiiiccness.”
– Tripp spoke with Buzzfeed News, stating,"Sensational and completely uncredible snark blogs like the one in question typically wouldn't warrant a response from me, but when full pages of my book are being photographed and published online without my knowledge or permission it becomes necessary to inquire," he said. He added that babe's "obsession" with him has become "deplorable." "My number one goal on social media has always been to spread positivity and encourage others to love themselves and chase their dreams, and I just find it sad that there are people out there who choose to spend their time and energy trying to tear others down and conjure up controversy," he said. "I'll never understand that type of negative energy and I'll continue to stay positive!"
A source from the taping of snl said Kim was speechless as the rest of the cast behind the scenes when Ye the artist formerly known as Kanye went on his tirade. “Having all this backlash against Kanye is embarrassing for her and her family, but she will never say that,” kristhe source says. “She supports Kanye through and through and truly does think her husband is entitled to his own opinion.”
Kim has always been ride or die for Kanye and clapped back to all the haters when he spewed slavery is a choice comments. This time around Kim has been silent following Ye's remarks last saturday. Kim has not combated against many who had said Ye was a dumb fuck including Chris Evans and Lana Del Rey (who sang at their wedding).
Mostly talks about how the last three years have been a time of personal and political upheavel since she got divorced, got together and broke up with Captain America, and watched Donald Trump get elected
Cut her hair into a triangle because she realized her long hair was just her conforming to the male gaze because a guy she didn't even like had told her years ago women with short hair weren't attractive
Traces her symptoms back to childhood when her parents divorced and she became focused on being a people pleaser
At some points during her life she didn't mind knowing that her anxiety would ruin her day because at least she knew what was coming
She began seeing a therapist when she became pregnant in order to get her shit together to be a mother
Professional success has not helped her as much as she thought it would and she remains anxious and insecure about her ability
Even though she remains an anxious person she says that therapy has given her better coping skills and she has confidence in her ability to take care of herself
Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union thank you for allowing your son to grow up spiritually free. Allowing him to be himself and showcase his own individuality.
As a Black gay man who almost drown in my truth love to see Black Parents be this open
The shaderoom posted a pic of Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade’s son. People had a problem with the way the boy was dressed. The comments on the post were horrific so they deleted it.
Damn shaderoom is so bogus for posting Gabrielle union and her son knowing what kind of toxic people they have in their comments
the way people talk shit about Gabrielle Union’s step son.... like that’s a whole child and these adults sit on Instagram posting nasty comments that’s so pathetic 😭
A new TV promo for Bradley Cooper's 'A Star Is Born' was released today and features a stunning new ballas from Lady Gaga titled "Always Remember Us This Way."
The movie remains at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with 109 critic reviews and only 5 of them rotten.
'A Star Is Born' officially hits theaters this Friday, October 5th.
Grimm's David Giuntoli (currently starring in ABC's A Million Little Things) and Bitsie Tulloch - who is set to play Lois Lane in the upcoming Arrowverse crossover - are expecting their first child. The baby is due in February.
-"“I wish there was always a clear, artistic line, but at a certain point, you have to square with the fact that you’re getting older, you live in the world and you have needs." -"In my twenties, I wasn’t cognizant of retirement, the housing market or college tuition; I just did whatever the fuck I wanted to do." -"Now, I sometimes do what I want to do, but I also have to make decisions that take care of my family. So, the decision-making is all over the place. It used to be one thing, but now it’s many things.” -Says Kelly Reichardt (Director she's worked with a lot) had trouble getting financing for her films. Michelle says that by joining big franchises, she'll get the chance to help bring some finance to support smaller films. -Her character's wardrobe in the film was something she looked out for too. Wanted her character Anne to be in suits and if she was in a skirt wear it with suspenders. -Also wanted the story to have nods to the male female interplay occurring right now.
Honestly, I think any actor who claims they took a role in a major superhero franchise just for the art is lying. It's a good gig to make money on, no shame. I hope it finds 5 more Kelly Reichardt films for Michelle. https://t.co/Z3yfxFPyJn
Romance, rage and revenge. Been So Long is a neon soaked, modern day romance set on the streets of London’s musical hot-bed of Camden. We follow Simone (Michaela Coel), a dedicated single mother who, on a rare night on the town is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger, Raymond (Arinzé Kene), igniting old and new feelings. Set against the backdrop of an ever-changing city, Been So Long is a fresh take on love, life and moving on.
In the 1980s, “rape” meant an attack from a stranger in a dark alley, not something that acquaintances did to each other at house parties. Just look at Sixteen Candles: https://t.co/u4PC3tGuvL
-The film Sixteen Candles is a revered teen classic of the 1980s. However, several decades later the films stance on racism, classism, and date rape in particular are abominable and despicable depictions of those matters.
-"Sixteen Candles, Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds, The Breakfast Club, Animal House. Your favorite '70s and '80s movies helped to not only condone rape culture, but normalize it."-Diana Crandall (Writer for Forbes, Washington Post, and The Atlantic)
-Comedies from the 1980s presents serious subject matter and turns it into a montage that makes light of the situation. It presents the notion that if you're friendly with that person, then those rapes are just harmless jinks which is wrong on every level.
-In the film, Jake Ryan is presented as a teen/dream idol in the 1980s, but he’s also an accessory to date rape when he hands over a female character who is visibly drunk over to his friend played by Anthony Michael Hall. The film presents it as Caroline's fault and something of a joke. -Jake Ryan presents the epitome of a fantasy that it instantly made Sixteen Candles iconic, and for decades was seen as the ideal dream boy of every teenage girl’s deepest fantasies.
-“She had to have a feeling about it, rather than a thought,” wrote Molly Ringwald in the New Yorker last year, in a long, empathetic reexamination of her work with John Hughes, “because thoughts are things we have when we are conscious, and she wasn’t.” -"The dominant cultural narrative at the time of Brett Kavanaugh’s high school experience was the one offered by Sixteen Candles."
Cedric the Entertainer plays Calvin, a man whose world is rocked when a white family — Dave (Max Greenfield), Gemma (Beth Behrs), and their son Grover (Hank Greenspan) — moves in to his predominantly black neighborhood.
What are their pet peeves about white people? - white people “tattle” too much, - white people have a “sexually uncomfortable” love of a certain iced beverage. - white folks who want to “educate” him about how to pick up his dog’s droppings.
Last night's Bob's Burgers season 9 premiere was a special musical episode, and it featured a duet between Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who played best friends (wearing suspiciously Mormon-like underwear?) in the episode. Their fellow "Mormon" Rory O'Malley and Hamilton's Daveed Diggs also guest starred.
This, of course, was reminiscent of their famous roles as companions/eventual best friends in The Book of Mormon's original Broadway cast.
Awww’d yeah! It was bound to happen, but it finally did. Last night the new Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty met and joined the Phillie Phanatic for a dance together. No jealousy or animosity here! Everything is Love! 🧡 💚 The pair was trying to pump up the crowd at the Braves-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park.
And it worked. The Phillies beat the Braves 3-1. Can Gritty help the Flyers this hockey season? 🤔 Probably not, but fans and non-fans alike will surely enjoy the Gritty ride. Stay tuned.
- Louis C.K. performed another surprise set at NYC’s Comedy Cellar last night around midnight. - A few people walked out and Louis did not address the allegations made against him. - This is after Louis did a surprise set at the Comedy Cellar one month ago, causing an uproar.
last night was the season finale of Fear but by the looks of it nobody gave a damn because it's now evening and nobody has posted about it 💀 welp, if you haven't seen it, don't sweat i'm here to tell you how it was! [Spoiler (click to open)]it literally sucked. there you go
ontd, have you ever experienced such a frustratingly awful second half of a season in your life? do you actively hate gimple? will you even be tuning in next season? 💀
-French songwriter Charles Aznavour died at 94; -He was born in Paris to Armenian immigrants who fled the country's genocide; -He sold more than 180million records and recorded more than 1,200 songs in seven different languages; -He married three times and had six children.
Fifth Harmony’s Ally Brooke Hernandez is hard at work on her debut studio album. She decided to put all the men in the manpen and had an all women writing camp to help write and compose new music for her upcoming solo album. She shared her writing experience on Twitter.
“GUYS. I’ve had the most amazing few days. I’ve had an ALL FEMALE camp with me in the studio. FEMALE engineers. FEMALE producers. FEMALE songwriters. A diverse group of phenomenal, talented women!!!! Together we have been writing and creating amazing music. Sharing our hearts and instantly becoming friends. Been pouring out my soul in such a safe, beautiful environment. It’s been powerful. I can’t wait for y’all to hear. So happy to be apart of something so special supporting these incredible women. Our industry should do more of that. Female energy is the best. Thank you Amanda Hill, sonyatvmusicpub, and all these spectacular ladies.”
Brooke was also recently in the recording studio with legendary songwriter Diane Warren.
Netflix is developing several choose-your-own-adventure style movies and tv episodes, and Black Mirror will reportedly be the first test of the technology outside of children's programming.
Series creator Charlie Brooker has been eager to implement the technology into the show for a while, he initially suggested using it in the season 3 episode Playtest.
do you think this is a good idea? would media be more interesting if you had control over the plot?
Mariah's new single 'With You' produced by DJ Mustard, will be released this Thursday. She'll then perform the song live for the first time ever at the American Music Awards on October 9th. Can't wait, tho I'm still not over bopping to 'GTFO'.
