The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer) brings us plenty more psycho-sexual drama, as well as the nude debut of Oscar winner Emma Stone! … read more
A$AP Rocky is giving some eclectic musical vibes here, quite a bit different than what we’re getting from the average rapper these days. Are you feeling this one? Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty
The entire World Wide Web is stanning Ellen Pompeo right now over her comments about diversity and inclusion in Hollywood. During a panel discussion for NET-A-PORTER’s “The Big Television Debate”, the Grey’s Anatomy star sat down with Gabrielle Union , Gina Rodriguez , Emma Roberts and revealed that she has no problem calling out the lack of color/ diversity wherever she is — including the NET-A-PORTER set where the panel was conducted. “This day has been incredible, and there’s a ton of women in the room, but, I don’t see enough color. And I didn’t see enough color when I walked in the room today.” As she continued on, Ellen got emotional when speaking on how Caucasian folks can be better allies. “As Caucasian people, it’s our job. It’s our task, it’s our responsibility to make sure we speak up in every single room we walk into. It’s our job because we created the problem.” Shout out to Ellen P. for keeping it G. Gabrielle Union’s face is a whole mood, too.
K ansas Governor Jeff Colyer on Saturday jumped on the bandwagon of voices calling for the removal of a white county commissioner who told a Black woman on Tuesday that he’s part of the “master race.” SEE ALSO: White Georgia County Commissioner Refuses To Resign After Calling John Lewis A ‘Racist Pig’ “Racial and discriminative language have no place in our society, and most especially when spoken by someone holding a public office. The inappropriate remarks made by Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp are unacceptable and do not reflect the values of the county which he represents. As such, I call on him to step down as County Commissioner,” Colyer, a Republican, said in a statement posted on Facebook. In Kansas, white official tells black woman he belongs to ‘master race’: Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp says comment to a city planner at board meeting was intended to be a joke https://t.co/8m8ygRTD7c TimesofIsrael pic.twitter.com/bCIUSgoXBJ — Jewish Community (@JComm_BlogFeeds) November 15, 2018 The racist remark came at a Nov. 13 board meeting after city planner Triveece Penelton explained development options for the County Road 1 corridor south of Tonganoxie, The Kansas City Star explained about the context to Klemp’s comment, which was recorded and posted on the county’s YouTube channel. He was dissatisfied with the African-American consultant’s presentation. “I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you, because, we’re part of the master race,” Klemp said, pointing to his own teeth. “You know, you got a gap in your teeth, you’re the masters, don’t ever forget that.” News of Klemp’s remark ignited widespread condemnations on social media. Leavenworth County commissioner Louis Klemp should not just apologize, he should step down. He wasn’t elected and he’s clearly not fit to hold the office even if it is only until mid-January. https://t.co/uHrWi84iZb — Revolution Resolved (@RevResolved) November 16, 2018 The Kansas GOP has not yet repudiated the remarks of Louis Klemp (rhymes with Brian Kemp) an official who made racist remarks at a public meeting https://t.co/0PSuFhMv1U — nonviolence news (@nonviolentnews9) November 16, 2018 Leavenworth County commissioner Louis Klemp needs to be fired immediately. Call. Commission: 855-252-3455 Human Resources: 913-364-5755 County Attorney's Office: 913-684-0480 https://t.co/r8NHnuKtcf — mmarlo (@mmarlo) November 15, 2018 By Friday morning, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas added its weight to the storm brewing against Klemp, calling his comment “abhorrent.” “Mr. Klemp has a First Amendment right to express himself—just as his community has a right to hold him accountable to his toxic words and the ideas behind it,” the organization said in a statement posted to Facebook. “At a time when hate-based violence is on the rise across the country, we must make it clear that we stand together as diverse communities and that we do not tolerate hate-based speech, especially not in local government.” Several local lawmakers also denounced Klemp’s master race statement, calling for his resignation. Apparently, the governor saw which way the wind was blowing. It’s unclear what steps Colyer will take if the commissioner refuses to resign. SEE ALSO: Macy’s Dragged For How It Portrays Black Fathers In New Holiday Ad Kim Porter’s Family Breaks Silence After Her Tragic Death [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3836986″ overlay=”true”]
This week's 90 Day Fiance news has been dominated by Larissa's arrest as we've learned more and more about what happened. But now we have not one but two new sneak peeks for this weekend's episode. Which two couples had huge fights? Take a look: First, let's start with Jonathan and Fernanda. After Fernanda exits the bathroom to find Jonathan seemingly dancing with another woman, she goes ballistic. She confronts them (that's a bit of an understatement) and storms out. Jonathan is clearly, visibly intoxicated but upset that she's upset. She demands the keys to the car. “Do you want to get married with me?” Fernanda asks. His behavior has, just as when she found another woman's thong in his apartment , made her second-guess everything. Jonathan tries to address her doubts and insecurities. “Of course I do,” he insists, assuring her that he wants to marry her. We're not shaming anyone for drinking, and we don't doubt his sincerety, but he would have sounded more convincing if he'd been less under the influence. “Well show me!” Fernanda suggests. “Because I don’t feel that!” Fernanda is clearly feeling hurt and angry and cannot help but wonder, once again, if she uprooted her entire life for nothing. Jonathan is clearly distressed, but in his current state, isn't exactly helping his case. “She's not even my type,” he protests. He means to sound sweet, but it totally misses the point. And Fernanda wants to leave — but she's not ready to talk about it. Jonathan shares with the 90 Day Fiance cameras that this is caused by Fernanda's immaturity. He admits that this sort of thing is exactly what they had warned him about. He, too, is beginning to second guess their plans to marry. Real talk: Fernanda is 19 years old. Jonathan is in his early 30s. Of course there is a maturity gap. They're both adults, but they're at different points in their lives. Did Fernanda overreact? Yes. That's not super surprising coming from a teenager. That said, the two of them met in a club in Maxico in the first place. Maybe Jonathan should be more sensitive of his fiancee's feelings and take a proactive approach to addressing her insecurities. That said, the nice thing about these two is that neither of them is the bad guy. Kalani and Asuelu's engagement is complicated by a baby and by Kalani's family. Their fight, however, comes from a place of misunderstanding about baby safety. Maybe it's a cultural difference, as Kalani suggests, or maybe Asuelu is just newer to being a parent. But their precious baby begins crying while Kalani is driving. (Also she's eating cheetos with her hands while she drives which makes me recoil; I use chopsticks for those) Asuelu responds by wanting to comfort the baby, who is clearly in distress, but he does it in the wrong way. Asuelu removes their baby from the car seat. Car seats for babies are not optional or suggestions. Babies are small and delicate. If you're going to have a baby hurtling along at 80 miles per hour, neither a seatbelt nor a parent's arms are sufficient protection. Kalani tells him this — actually, she yells this at him. All the time, their baby is crying. Kalani is eventually able to pull over, still very frustrated with Asuelu. Asuelu says that he didn't know about that, and feels hurt that Kalani was less than gentle about educating him on it. Once again, there's no real bad guy here — but it looks like Asuelu needs ot learn some more if he's serious about being a father.
Is it us or does it seem like Wiz Khalifa got a new visual dropping every week or every other week? We ain’t complaining, just sayin.’ For this week’s installment of “Holyfield,” the Pittsburgh spitter gives viewers a look at his life when he isn’t performing or recording and simply meeting fans, peers, and putting in that MMA work to keep himself in shape. We pity the fool who picks a fight with Wiz. Work hard and play hard must be Wiz’s motto cause in the visuals to K Camp’s “Clouds” the two rappers lay back and burn on some sticky icky while models blow bubble in the air. As ancient as that toy is it’s still pretty useful in 2018, right? Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Asher Roth, Lil Durk featuring Young Dolph and Lil Baby, and more. WIZ KHALIFA – “HOLYFIELD” K CAMP FT. WIZ KHALIFA – “CLOUDS” ASHER ROTH – “MOMMYDOG” LIL DURK FT. YOUNG DOLPH & LIL BABY – “DOWNFALL” MASTA ACE & MARCO POLO – “KINGS” MAXO CREAM – “ROACHES”
Folks, we’re gonna step into the Wayback Machine for a moment and transport you directly to 2009. A fresh-faced Barack Obama had just moved into the White House; the global economy was still reeling from the Great Recession; and the Tiger Woods cheating scandal dominated tabloid headlines. For our younger readers who may not remember the revelation that Woods’ obsession with holes extended beyond the golf course, allow us to summarize it thusly: Tiger Woods slept with all the women. Actually, to be fair, it’s not totally clear if he was still sleeping with his wife with any regularity, but in 2009, he was definitely banging everyone who wasn’t his wife. Another figure from the bygone oughts who factors into today’s sordid tale is Duane Chapman, otherwise known as Dog the Bounty Hunter. There was a time when networks were allowed to produce reality shows that focused on things other than real estate and reproduction. During this time, Dog reigned supreme, combining the most bonkers elements of Cops and Intervention to form a weird hybrid product in which he would tackle people and then lecture them about their life choices. How do the tales of these two fallen heroes intersect? Well to explain that, we need to introduce you to Jamie Jungers. Jungers was one of Woods’ mistresses , and it seems her life hit the skids in a major way in the years since she parted ways with the golfer. Fortunately, Dog emerged from retirement to come to Jamie’s rescue. In a wild interview with Radar Online, Chapman tells the tale of saving Jungers’ life by rescuing her from a drug house where she was exchanging sexual favors for heroin: “She was 88 pounds when we got her and the handcuffs wouldn’t even go on her wrists because they were so skinny. She was going to die in the next few weeks,” Dog tells Radar. “These guys were holding her in a house where she was giving sexual favors for drugs,” he adds. “She told me she was trading drugs for sex with guys at four or five houses.” Hilariously, Chapman thinks we need to know the professions of Jamie’s johns: “One was the top investigator for one of the biggest insurance companies in the U.S. Another guy was in construction,” he tells the website. Champman goes on to say that Jungers fully blames Woods for the current state of her life: “She said she blames Tiger,” he reveals. “She said all these dirty motherf–kers wanted to f–k me just because I had f–ked Tiger Woods, and before I knew it all these people were coming into my life because of drugs and I’m a f–cking junkie now and I hate it.” Well, Tiger might be partially responsible, but it seems like there’s a lot of blame to go around in this case. This has been the first in what we hope will be many installments of Dog vs. Tiger . View Slideshow: Tiger Woods Mistresses: Playing All the Holes!
Source: Jean Whiteside / Fox Season 5 of Empire finds the Lyon empire in a dark place. The family business was stolen, money has dried up and Cookie and Lucious are scrambling to figure out how to get back on top. However, one of the brightest spots is Jamal’s new love affair with Kai. We knew it was meant to be after Kai managed to escape a hostile situation in Nigeria, and even before that, he saved Jamal from being drugged and assaulted. Jamal and Kai’s chemistry is undeniable and the actor who plays the latter, Toby Onwumere, is excited to take on such an important storyline. Audiences were first introduced to Onwumere as Capheus on Netflix’s Sense8 , but with Empire , his second major role thus far, he’s helping to shift the narrative about how characters with HIV are portrayed. Hello Beautiful caught up with the USC grad about how he landed his latest role and the impact he hopes to have on the culture. —Starrene Rhett Rocque What do you look for in the roles you go up for and how did Kai match up to that? Considering that this is my second real role, I guess in general I like to look for some type of variety from the last one. Right. Because you’re in Sense8 and that’s completely different. Exactly. But I like both in like the storytelling and the character, and how it’s done, and I appreciated the juxtaposition between Sense8 and Empire . You know, something kind of, super niche on Netflix and this one is like, Empire is empire, as the name suggests. It is an empire. So, yeah, I really like that, and as far as Kai goes, I kind of knew, I didn’t have the script, but I knew about the character, and I definitely knew kind of the subject matter that we were trying to delve into. And, the manner in which that happened, telling the story is important. One, to the LGBTQ community and to educating the general populous at large. I think that’s important. The thing about Kai that I really like is you know with him and his HIV status—the character doesn’t feel sorry for himself and he’s not played in a terminal fashion. You see him hospital bed once as of now, but it’s not really due to the HIV, it’s more due to the injury he sustained when he was abroad, and he’s a character with integrity and with purpose and the HIV is not the totality of his life. And he still finds love. He finds love with one of the biggest pop stars in the world and they still have a very robust relationship despite the ailment. What was the process of getting the role like, did you get to meet Lee Daniels then? I didn’t meet Lee Daniels. It’s funny, I auditioned for it for maybe like two or three days. Then I [was] in New York about to go see some musicals and like kick it with some people I know, and I get a call from my agent, like, “You need to come home [to LA] because you have this chemistry read with Jussie.” So, I get my plane ticket back, and I think the next day I meet Brett Mahoney, some other producers, and then I meet Jussie. But, then I realized, the date that I was auditioning, Jussie was in the casting office with Leah Daniels Butler, and he passed by and I remember him saying, “Oh, I want to see who’s auditioning for this.” I remember that vividly. I always joke about it with him. I was like, “I saw you the first day”, and I looked at you like we’re about to do this together.” And then we had the chemistry reading; it was fantastic and I go home and I’m talking with my roommate later that night, and my agent and manager called me that I got it. That is awesome! You guys really do have amazing chemistry. Kai is actually my favorite boyfriend of Jamal. Talk that talk, please! Talk about their storyline and why it’s important. Well, you know that we meet in London and then we come over here. And then I get to see firsthand the quote-unquote energy of the Lyon family and how it’s affecting Jamal. And the beautiful thing about our relationship is, by telling the story I think we break a lot of stereotypes about relationships in general. We’re showing two normal people, and we’re really big on the normalcy of their relationship. And then if you bring the HIV into it—in mainstream culture—I don’t know that you see a relationship like ours. Somebody whose HIV positive, but it’s not treated in this super medical way. And I know that Jussie is really big, very very big on that. To like change the narrative of what it is to have, it can be undetected and bringing up things like PrEP. I just think we are changing the narrative a bit. Did you learn anything new because I think the PrEP thing is new information to a lot of people? I had known about PrEP, because I have some friends, I have maybe like two or three degrees of separation from people that have HIV so I know about PrEP. I know about being undetectable, but there are still quite a bit of people who maybe have outdated information on HIV. They might think it’s more terminal than it really is. That goes back to the 80’s propaganda of what HIV was and how it was a disease for the disenfranchised, and the LGBTQ community, but I do think that the scene with Cookie is such an amazing scene because it shows that nobody’s really immune to the lack of information. And there are people in your family who mean well, they mean the most positive, but due to the lack of information or the misinformation they kind of lead in the wrong way. What’s been the feedback thus far with you doing this role? Especially because, you know how sometimes, people see you in a role, and they think that you are actually that person. Oh, I get it so much, which is par for the course [and] that’s totally fine. My DM’s have been blowing up. Somebody even inquired if I really had HIV, which was interesting, but I think it’s all par for the course. The feedback has been, a sea of great stuff, it’s been fantastic, and that’s what I like. I’m actually interested somewhat in hearing it all. How’s your family reacting? My parents are in Nigeria right now, and my dad is a professor at this university in Imo State, and he is up to date. I was talking to him yesterday, and that’s so, pardon my language, that’s so fucking cool! He tells me, all the girls in his class watch the show religiously, and when they see the opening credits, they recognize the last name as the same name as their professor, and they’re like, “Wait, is that your son?” And my dad is like “Yeah, yeah, that’s my boy.” And they are like, “NO, I’m marrying him, I don’t know, what do I have to do, but we’re making it happen!” It’s just cool having my dad recap the events to me, and he’s like, “Why you let him talk to you like that?” Having him invested in the story like that, and talking to me about it, it really is special because I feel like my parents in particular afforded me this life. Empire can take you in twists and turns, so how can we brace ourselves to feel after tonight’s episode? You should brace yourself emotionally and hold onto people dear to you. I’m so bad at this part because I feel like if I say anything I’ll give it away. But we know it’s going to be a doozy, right? Always, it’s empire. We just want Jamal to have nice things, though. We’re gonna take care of him. RELATED POSTS ‘Empire’ Recap: Cookie And Lucious Kill Kingsley With Kindness ‘Empire’ Recap: Cookie Lands A Promising New Signee
Kehlani Talks Queerness And Motherhood With Nylon Kehlani shocked her fans and the industry when she popped up pregnant about a month ago . The singer has received all sorts of head-scratches and commentary since then, largely because her sexuality has been so publicly fluid…and nobody even realized she had a man at the time. As Kehlani covers this month’s issue of NYLON Magazine (alongside a spread she did just one day before announcing her pregnancy with no one on set even realizing she was knocked up), she gets into all the energy she’s received surrounding her romantic interests and taps into the excitement of new motherhood. I’ve gotten everything from “I thought she was a lesbian” to “she was using queerness to promote her career, then went and betrayed us with a man” to “her baby father is just a sperm donor.” One, I never identified as a lesbian. I’ve always been pansexual. My first mixtape included songs about males, and songs about women. My first album had songs about a nonbinary ex, an intersex ex, and male/female exes. I don’t always make it a point to identify pronouns in the music because that isn’t the focal point. I think what steered everyone in the direction of categorizing my sexuality (which is still really narrow-minded) was my song “Honey,” and a couple of the features I’d done after. Although she doesn’t want to define her sexuality in any concrete terms to make others comfortable, she’s VERY clear on what motherhood means to her and what it should mean for other young people pursuing parenthood. My overall dreams and goals for my life are to love to the highest limits one can experience love. The highest forms of happiness, and graciousness. I believe creating life is one of the highest forms of love! I’m accomplishing one of my biggest goals as we speak. Make sure this is what you want for unselfish reasons. It’s unfair to bring a child in the world with the burden and unspoken task of mending you, a relationship, or improving your happiness. Although a child will usually naturally bring a deeper meaning of happiness into your life, that isn’t the sole reason for that child’s existence. This is about them. She’s also a big proponent for all-natural birth. Given the plight Black women face when dealing with medical professionals , she believes it’s important to take control of your own childbirth process. People, especially black women, are dying at very high rates from hospital complications and medical malpractice (or just f*cking blatant racism). People have been giving birth naturally for ages, obviously, way before hospitals existed. Way before machinery, way before all these procedures. Your uterus, and vagina, are built and designed for birth. You deserve to be in charge of your birth, to be comfortable and listened to, not rushed or prodded at. You deserve to feel 100 percent at peace with full support, in the driver’s seat and not the backseat. This is your body, your baby, your ceremony. Kehlani certainly sounds assured about her path as a mother. Do you agree with her stance on all natural birth? Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Natt Lim/Getty Images for Coachella
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