Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Oscars.ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The hairstylist behind “G.I. Jane” said he didn’t understand Jada Pinkett Smith’s Oscars reaction. Enzo Angileri discussed Pinkett Smith rolling her eyes at Chris Rock’s joke about her shaved head. Angileri said that he didn’t know Pinkett Smith had alopecia and that she looked […]
Could the Wayans brothers have predicted the viral Oscar moment between Will Smith and Chris Rock? At least that’s what some folks on social media appear to think after veteran comedian Marlon Wayans uploaded a vintage sketch in which his brother Shawn, who’s impersonating Rock, gets beat up by a group of some of the […]
The AV Club Chris Rock apologized to Wanda Sykes after the Oscars: “It was supposed to be your night” Three days on, the Online Panopticon continues to have its watchful and infinite eyes trained almost exclusively on the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. Somewhere, deep in the laboratories of Twitter, fifth […]
Infowars founder and host Alex Jones had offered $120,000 to each of the 13 plaintiffs who sued him for defamation.Sergio Flores/Getty Images Relatives of the Sandy Hook shooting victims have rejected Alex Jones’ settlement offer of $120,000 per plaintiff. The relatives said the offer was an attempt by Jones to “escape public reckoning.” Jones had […]
A couple of metal beams. That’s it. The Czech hedgehog is a simple antitank defense that, for Americans, Europeans and Russians alike, evokes images of World War II. Allied soldiers had to navigate beaches sprinkled with them during the Normandy landings. Moscow has a monument of Czech hedgehogs to mark the farthest that Nazi soldiers […]
A video of the woman undergoing the procedure has been making its rounds on Chinese social media.Weibo A woman in Shanghai, China, had her eyelid surgery stitches removed at the gate of her residential complex. Dr. Zhou Zhaoping said he was forced to perform the procedure this way as the building was under a COVID […]
David Letterman has weighed in on Sunday’s Oscars fiasco in only a way he can. The longtime late night television host posted a brief video on his Youtube channel to offer his thoughts — however tangential — on Will Smith slapping and cursing out Chris Rock on stage live during the Oscars telecast Sunday night. […]
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rowdy spring break crowds have forced curfews and led some establishments to close their doors from Miami Beach to Florida’s Panhandle. Law enforcement officials in Bay County, Florida, said Sunday that they won’t tolerate the bad behavior from spring breakers after a 21-year-old from Alabama was shot in the […]
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — A strawberry-scented air freshener dangled from the Ukrainian military’s latest vehicle to head to war. In a welding shop in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, workers were adding steel plates to a donated pickup truck so a volunteer could drive it to the front. “Our victory depends on us,” said Ostap […]
Chris Rock and Will Smith onstage at the 94th Academy Awards. (Myung Chun/Los Angeles Times) After a long and controversial road, the 94th Academy Awards are finally here. Final predictions are in, with “Power of the Dog” and “CODA” expected to battle it out for the night’s top prize, and all eyes — including ours […]