Snoop Dogg has been accused of sexual assault & battery, he’s already called the woman a “golddigger” and on top of that, he bought Death Row Records. [Dlisted]
Anne Hathaway: bangs, legs and Valentino. [RCFA]
Look at my beautiful beardy bb Chris Pine. [Just Jared]
Today is Jennifer Aniston’s birthday, celebrate among yourselves. [LaineyGossip]
Jenna Dewan did an artsy bath pic. [Seriously OMG]
So The Book of Boba Fett was… bad? [Pajiba]
I’ve never heard of/read Lurlene McDaniel either. [Gawker]
Wordle saves lives! Or just one woman’s life. [Towleroad]
Irina Shayk’s latest ad campaign isn’t great? [Egotastic]
Venture capitalists are buying your prayers (or your prayer apps). [Buzzfeed]
If Chris’ beard wasn’t gray and was more styled I’d swear that was my son, so I’m having a bit of a problem drooling over him at the moment. He does look damn fine in leggings and flip flops, though. Not many men do.
Please ma’am. Tell us more about this Chris Pine son.
LOL!!!
Lol!!
Yikes. Chris Pine has never been my preferred Chris, but in this pic he’s not my preferred anybody. The hair and beard remind me too much of the Covid shut-ins I see in my Zoom meetings.
Yea it’s for a role but he just looks really unkept and dirty. Plus his legs are too skinny for me.
I thought it was Bigfoot at first……
No thanks!
His legs are super thin…he has no calves at all, and it doesn’t appear he has thigh muscles either. I guess he is just a very wiry man. Not at all what I expected.
He looks like Mel Gibsons son. The thing Is you can’t really see his face; it’s all hair and shades. Guys get to look like that and get called hot.
The Book of Boba Fett was really good. It’s set up differently than is usually done and is more like multiple series tied together beyond just one-off crossover episodes.
It also doesn’t see him hopping around the galaxy constantly fighting, so for those who were expecting that, they’re going to struggle with it.
I agree with the Pajiba review. Boba Fett was not a compelling character and he just didn’t seem like the total badass associated with his image. Then it switches to the Mandalorian, when maybe they just should have made another season of the mandelorian. In the end you kinda just don’t care about Boba Fett and I’m not interested in a second season.
I agree with MrsBanjo on all she said. And I also agree with Normades’ statement that Boba Fett doesn’t come across as a total badass. BUT the series was good and got me into the Mandalorian and, dare I think it, even watching any Star Wars movie.
I don’t understand why the victim was assaulted and then left with her abuser to go see Snoop. Was there no Other way of transport? Was something left out? Or how the victim felt Snoop’s dominance by his ability to “hire or fire” her. Why work for your abuser?
I think the lawyer phrased her ordeal terribly and it does not help public opinion. That said I believe he’s always been capable of this and does it.
Whaaaaaat. That’s your take?
I was also confused after reading the linked article. The timeline/chain of events was unclear?
Certainly not questioning the validity of her claim but the information conveyed via her attorney was not articulated well.
I agree KBeth. The verbiage is structured improperly. The report is either she was forced to perform oral sex on him or he performed oral sex on her. What followed was Snoop then masturbated in her presence. That’s what I tried to deduce. Plus there are 2 separate sexual assaults, I gather.
But Snoop is being a pr!ck about the lawsuits with his claims of “gold diggers”, as men usually do. Always claiming that women are trying to extort money when THEY have been sexually abused by powerful men. One lawsuit alleges that Snoop or Don were pressuring not to report the sexual assault due to her future in the industry with their power. Sounds like all of the pr!cks that have been coming out of the woodwork for the last 5-10+ years. Powerful man v powerless woman.
This. Men can and do learn how to weaponize that type of hatred of women to inflict harm, control women they’ve tried to harm, and get away with all kinds of other awful things. It really isn’t entertaining or something that should be encouraged.
All this. The industry is insulated to allow this behavior.
I hope she gets a better attorney.
I wish I was joking, but I truly think that Lurlene McDaniel’s books are why I am terrified of doctors. I have anxiety (childhood traumas that I don’t need to get in to), so I generally worry about anything and everything, it started when I was a kid, who also happened to be an avid reader. I picked up a couple of Lurlene McDaniel’s books at a book fair, and there began my anxiety about health. Seriously, when I’d bruise my leg, I would assume I had leukemia, or if I was thirsty, I’d assume I had diabetes… If you know young readers who have anxiety, please don’t let them read Lurlene McDaniel’s books.
I’m glad I never discovered these books when I was a kid, or I would have been a wreck. I’ve always been able to read a set of symptoms & think yeah, I have that, or I had that. I’ve been managing my anxiety lately & now recognizing disordered thinking for what it is, but yikes! These books. I can only assume the author thought she’d be helping teens faced with similar situations?
It’s the same as when WebMD came out.
I LOVED Lurlene McDaniel’s books! I have not thought about them in decades, but this just brought it all back. @Kelly: exact same about the bruises!! Luckily my mother was a nurse and she knew what book I was reading, so she was like, “you’re fine 🙄”
I’m guessing I was in the wrong generation to have these books inflicted on me. (I graduated high school in 82.) And thank goodness. My Grandma bequeathed to me her worry wart instincts and I suffer from lurking hypochondria as it is. It doesn’t help that I have what is (genuinely) termed White Coat Syndrome as a result of having surgery on my left hand at 4 years old. I don’t like knives and needles and try like hard to avoid having a reason to see a doctor except for my check up.
Those books would have messed me up!
Thank you for sharing and for the trigger warning. Due to childhood trauma and actual serious illnesses, I do have lurking hypochondria – this would be a bad read for me. I nearly crawled out of my skin years ago when a friend popped “The Doctor” (movie with William Hurt) into her VCR (he’s a curmudgeon doctor that gets an illness and he ends up seeing the mean side of medicine – it’s meant to be satire/tongue-in-cheek…I had to ask her to turn it off – I was SO embarrassed). My sister worked for a firm that did insurance billing and she ended up reading tons of medical reports…to this day she is in therapy as she identified with symptom she read. I truly feel for her.
Am laughing at the Lurlene McDonald induced trauma (not at anyone, with you!) because my teens were spent reading Flowers in the Attic and it’s sequels…I wonder of Lurlene was being pushed by certain factions of parents who wanted their daughters to “be sweet”
I have also always viewed all Nicolas Sparks books the same way…I look at the movie promo, or book jacket and put instant odds on which character dies.
I was surrounded by a lot of dying adults growing up,so perhaps it’s best I focused on trapped in incestuous teenage siblings…
Holy cow I haven’t thought about Lurlene McDaniels in years! But I’m pretty sure there’s a shelf full of dead teenager books somewhere at my parent’s house.
Dead teenager books is the perfect description of of her work. So much emotional trauma.
I am a voracious reader and have never heard of LurlenecMcDaniels.
LMcD was a huge deal when I was a kid (I’m 42 if that helps). So many dead teens lol
I was born in 83 and was a huge reader – lurlene McDaniels books, phew. Loved them. Throw in some sweet valley books and that was my childhood.
I’m incredibly surprised by how attractive I find grizzled Chris Pine, wow 😳 He looks scruffy but like he’s still showering, and I’m here for it.
Same! Was not expecting to be like whoa over scruffy Chris Pine.
I thought Disney did a good job with Boba Fett — I could have done without the kid but Mando showing up made sense . I like that they pulled in Ashoka Tano and that line about being just your father to Luke, she would know …also Cad Bane!
I will watch a season two.
Furry Chris — would
Laurene McDaniels were a staple of my young adult years. YA tragedy born. Her books are so sad, but they have stuck with me after all these years.
Great dress on Hathaway, too bad it’s blurry though!! I do love purple and red!!!
I went through a real “tragedy porn” phase at around age 12-13, and Lurlene McDaniel was at the centre of it. So. Much. Death.
Is anyone surprised by the allegations against Snoop? Didn’t he admit to being an actual pimp? They’re not known for treating women particularly well.
I feel like Snoop and Ozzy are kind of similar. Both have violent criminal pasts, and were considered scary boogeymen that parents did not want their children listening to back in the day. But now it’s like the public sees them as cuddly grandfather figures (awww, look at Snoop shilling for Corona! He doesn’t even know where he is!).
Big difference being that I absolutely love Ozzy’s music.
Yeah, I had thought there were prior allegations of rape against Snoop, or at the least, highly questionable conduct towards women. His response (dismissively calling her a “gold digger”) is misogynistic and shows how he sees women.
Chris Pine has 2 very good movies on Netflix.
Outlaw King and I can’t recall the name of the other one, but I think Jeff Bridges is also in it.
Very good, and he is good in both.
Pass on Chris Pine as Cpt. Kirk.
I’d go #1. Chris Evans (needs the beard and his dog in the pic)
#2. Chris Pine
Very distant last place Chris Pratt. A no talent actor with a solid paycheck coming in, IMO, he is easily replaced with any other tall, under 45 y/o, white actor.
Sorry, ignore this comment, somehow replied to the wrong thing.
Matthew Perry has written a book, coming out Nov. 1.
I immediately went to Amazon to pre-order it.
Hardcover is $32+, more costly than most new releases.
Matthew Perry is so talented.
He has looked unwell for years now, hope he pulls himself together.
I loved lurlene McDaniel books when I was a kid and I totally forgot that fact until I saw this link today, and it all came flooding back. Read every book my local library had
I guess all the juvenile and teen/young adult science fiction and science fantasy I read was actually protective against the likes of Lurlene McDaniel. No dead or dying teens in anything I was reading, that I recall. Also completely missed out on the stacks of teen/young adult romance novels my best friend trudged home from the library.
I love that Chris Pine look! He looks so Big Sur raw food chef or Santa Cruz surfer. Reminds me of my college days in the 70s.