#judd apatow with friends

[dorothy16]

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[d-criss-news]

juddapatow: Photo drop from our benefit at @largolosangeles for @ doctorswithoutborders. Photos by @tylerossity

[saintmeghanmarkle]

📋 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐌 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐑𝐎, 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟒𝟎𝐱𝟒𝟎 📋

📌 ARO jam recipients (as of May 27th, 2024)

Tracy Robbins (designer, wife of Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins) *

Delfina Balquier (Argentine socialite, wife of Nacho Figueras) * and Nacho Figueras (professional polo player) *

Kelly Mckee Zajfen (friend, Alliance of Moms founder) *

Mindy Kaling (actress and comedian) *

Tracee Ellis Ross (actress, daughter of Diana Ross)

Abigail Spencer (friend, Suits co-star) *

Chrissy Teigen (television personality, wife of John Legend)

Kris Jenner ('Momager') *

Garcelle Beauvais (actress, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) *

Heather Dorak (friend, yoga instructor) *

📌 Archetypes podcast guests

Serena Williams 🏆

Mariah Carey 👑

Mindy Kaling (actress and comedian) *

Margaret Cho (comedian and actress)

Lisa Ling (journalist and tv personality)

Deepika Padukone (Indian actress)

Jenny Slate (actress and comedian)

Constance Wu (actress)

Paris Hilton (entrepreneur, socialite, activist)

Iliza Shlesinger (comedian and actress)

Issa Rae (actress and writer)

Ziwe (comedian and writer)

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (former wife of Canadian PM Trudeau)

Pamela Adlon (actress)

Sam Jay (comedian and writer)

Mellody Hobson (President and co-CEO of $14.9B Ariel Investments, Chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation, wife of George Lucas)

Victoria Jackson (entrepreneur, wife of Bill Guthy: founder of Guthy-Renker, leading direct marketing company)

Jameela Jamil (actress, television host)

Shohreh Aghdashloo (Iranian and American actress)

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (actress and singer)

Candace Bushnell (Sex and The City writer)

Trevor Noah (South African comedian)

Andy Cohen (talk show host)

Judd Apatow (director, producer, screenwriter)

source

📌 40x40 participants

Adele 🌟

Amanda Gorman (poet and activist)

Amanda Nguyen (activist)

Ayesha Curry (actress, cooking television personality)

Ciara (singer and actress)

Deepak Chopra (author and alternative medicine advocate)

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris (former Surgeon General of California)

Elaine Welteroth (former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue)

Dr. Ibram X Kendi (professor and anti-racism activist)

Fernando Garcia (creative director of Oscar de la Renta)

Gabrielle Union (actress)

Gloria Steinem (feminist journalist and social-political activist)

Hillary Clinton (politician, wife of former US President Bill Clinton)

Katie Couric (journalist) *

Kerry Washington (actress)

Chef José Andrés (founder of World Central Kitchen)

Melissa McCarthy (actress)

Princess Eugenie (member of British Royal Family)

Priyanka Chopra (actress)

Sarah Paulson (actress)

Sofia Carson (actress)

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (former wife of Canadian PM)

Stella McCartney (fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney)

Dr. Theresa "Tessy" Ojo - CBE, FRSA (Diana Award CEO)

Tracee Ellis Ross (actress, daughter of Diana Ross)

Unconfirmed - Edward Enninful (former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue)

Unconfirmed - Daniel Martin (makeup artist) *

An official list of all "40x40" participants was never disclosed

source 1 // source 2 // source 3

📌 Notes:

Names with an asterisk (*) indicate that they follow ARO on Instagram

Notably missing from these lists: Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and wife Nicole Avant, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, Beyoncé, Tina Knowles, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Kevin Costner, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia Rossi *, Brooke Shields, John Travolta, Kelly Rowland, Holly Robinson Peete, Misan Harriman *, Michael Bublé

Wedding guests missing from these lists: Jessica Mulroney, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham, Idris Elba and Sabria Dhowre, James Blunt and Sofia Wellesley, Janina Gavankar, Elton John and David Furnish, James Corden and Julia Carey, Patrick J. Adams and the rest of the cast of Suits, Joss Stone, Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford [Source]

Sunshine Sachs must've called in a LOT of favors to get so many famous names on board the Archetypes Podcast and the 40x40 project. Vanity projects that went... nowhere.

Without Sunshine Sachs, IMO it's highly unlikely that M will ever be able to reach the same level of celebrity access on her own.

If there are any names missing from these lists, please comment below 👇

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[a-member-of-minuteswithmandm]

So this is a Grey's Anatomy post because I can't help but marvel at the number of doctors that are related to each other in this show 😂😂

You know how Kylie and Kendall Jenner only got famous because they're related to Kim Kardashian? And the Scarlet Witch (AKA Elizabeth Olsen) probably wouldn't be who she was without Mary Kate and Ashley? Or even how Maude Apatow (Euphoria) and Jaden Smith struck lucky with their parents - Judd Apatow and Jada Pinkett/Will Smith?

Some people get all the luck - they are connected to the right people and it makes their lives a thousand times better than the rest of us 😭. Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital has it's own share of family and friend drama most of the time (remember the Link - Amelia - Owen - Teddy - Tom drama? or Meredith and her surprise sisters?), but sometimes even these characters take it too far and we have to call it out!

So just to lay out the family relationship (not including romantic relationships) on this show:

Meredith: 2 sisters (Lexie & Maggie), and her mom Ellis Grey

Derek: 1 sister (Amelia) and 1 nephew (Lucas Adams Shepherd)

Owen: 1 sister (Megan)

Andrew: 1 sister (Carina)

Jackson: his mom (Catherine Fox) and his grandad (Harper Avery)

Richard Webber: his bio daughter Maggie (this is a technicality but still!)

I won't even get into the tangled web that is the dating chart of the doctors at the hospital! So many characters have gotten jobs that they really weren't qualified for based on the relationshipsnthey have

Join us as we talk about the characters who have basically had everything handed to them on a platter with virtually no effort (cough cough Amelia Shepherd). The rich and/or connected doctors that have a guaranteed cheat sheet to success! What do you think, did we leave anyone out?

Please watch the video and let us know what you think!

[tsunami--tsunami]

"Paul Reubens' Friends, Family Members and Loved Ones Celebrate His Life on What Would Have Been His Birthday" - People

On Sunday, Aug. 27, Reubens' memorial was held on what would have been his 71st birthday and was attended by 350 of his friends, family members and loved ones at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California.

Speakers included Conan O'Brien, Phil Rosenthal, Lynne Stewart, Joe Manganiello, Abby Rubenfeld, David Arquette, Maya Rudolph, Elida Berry-Donat, John Moody, Natasha Lyonne, Lily Alberts, Josh Meyers and S. Epatha Merkerson, a rep for the actor confirms to PEOPLE. Judd Apatow, Jimmy Kimmel, John Waters and The B-52's shared their remarks through a pre-recorded video. Pee-wee's Playhouse star Lynne Marie Stewart and Reubens' best friend, Elvira actor Cassandra Peterson closed out the celebration and led guests in singing "Happy Birthday."

"Guests were were able to appreciate and pose within two installations of his memorabilia and collectibles created by close friends Marc Balet and Prudence Fenton."

The jelly bean portrait from the Playhouse kitchen! And the 'wallpaper' is made from TOPPS Pee-wee trading cards. All the attendees wore tiny red bowties. This seems like an event planned by a very particular man who knew his time was coming.

(Photos swiped from Instagram and People).

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: David Moulton

Published: Mar 10, 2023

Last month, GLAAD wrote an open letter to The New York Times protesting the paper’s coverage of trans issues. In particular, the group took issue with the way the paper has covered medical sex changes or “gender affirmation” for minors. Contrary to clinicians and experts quoted in the Times, GLAAD asserted the science behind this practice is “SETTLED.” The letter was co-signed by a wide array of human rights groups as well as celebrities like Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow.

GLAAD is a media watchdog group that was founded in the ’80s to protest what they saw as the media’s homophobic coverage of the AIDS crisis. Their name was originally an acronym for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, but in 2013 they formally dropped the words “gay and lesbian” to reflect their advocacy for transgender people and the broader “LGBTQ community.” This shift in emphasis has been typical of gay rights organizations over the past decade, as what was once a movement focused on securing the rights and safety of gay men and women has transformed into a movement with different goals altogether.

The first time I announced my pronouns, “I’m David, he/him,” I was a freshman in college attending a transgender discussion group. It was 2005. At the time it seemed quite progressive—even for me, an openly gay 18-year-old volunteering at my liberal college’s resource center for gay rights. In the most progressive clique at one of the country’s most progressive schools, being transgender was still mostly a theoretical concept—a new frontier that college kids were just beginning to discover.

My next “trans encounter” happened half a decade later when I was living in San Francisco. My best friend in the city was another gay man, about 15 years older than me. In the late ’80s and ’90s, he had been involved with ACT UP, the confrontational activist group fighting against AIDS stigma, and he served as my guide to both the new city and its politics.

He had studied recondite critical and cultural theories at Berkeley and later in New York at NYU and Columbia. I looked to him as a mentor and a model of what it meant to be gay. His homosexuality was not just a random fact like eye color but rather a vehicle to defy and critique social norms. Put differently, he wasn’t just gay, he was queer. This entailed, among other duties, being the first person to explain the word “cis” to me.

Despite his militancy—or perhaps because of it—my friend had a wicked sense of humor, and could be quite cutting toward the left-wing activist milieu that came to dominate queer and trans spaces. I remember once, when I was a bit under the weather, I complained about being congested and then apologized for whining. My friend deadpanned, “Sounds like a cisgender problem.” I laughed. “Trans people never get a stuffy nose?” I asked. He replied, “No, because they’re too busy snorting drugs to dull the pain of living in a transphobic world.” At the time (this would have been around 2012) it was still practically impossible to imagine these terms—cisgender, queer—being embraced and affirmed by Wall Street and the Pentagon. But my friend traveled in circles that had already moved beyond the mainstream acceptance of gays, and were advocating for new, more radical sexual and gender identities.

If trans was going to be the next civil rights movement (and make no mistake, before it was officially announced by Hollywood and the DEI offices of corporate America there was a vanguard pushing for it), it required not just an oppressed class but also an oppressor class. “Cis” filled this role even though it didn’t really mean anything other than “not trans.” Cis society became a battleground whose rules and norms had to be subverted.

It was in fact my friend who introduced me to the concept of “misgendering” as a personal offense. He told me that someone in his circles had been talking about me behind my back in glowing terms. He said that this person had been referring to me as “they,” so as not to assume my gender. I asked my friend if this person did that when talking about everyone. Not everyone, my friend said, just people who seem like they’re with it. This was deeply flattering. I was seen as cool and edgy enough to have a flashy new gender identity.

I started dating a man and my life became more stable and domestic. I ceased to desire being queer in the radical sense. I just happened to be a homosexual living my life. Meanwhile the public fortunes of gay people kept getting better and better. Obama became the first president in history to endorse gay marriage and it seemed to actually help his reelection campaign. In 2015 the Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell, identifying marriage as a fundamental right for all Americans, including gay ones. I had to marvel at the change in attitudes toward gay people in my lifetime. I first came out at 14, in 2001. My family was accepting, but there were still anti-sodomy laws on the books in some states. Homosexuals were not allowed to serve openly in the military. No viable presidential candidate from either party supported gay marriage. By 2015, in just a little over a decade, gay rights had won a total and unequivocal victory.

Today support for gay marriage is at an all-time high, with 71% of Americans backing it, including most Republicans. While left-wing causes like economic justice and equality have stalled, progressives can confidently claim to have won this culture war. If anything the victory was perhaps too sudden and total. In the fight for gay marriage, an activist infrastructure was built up; after Obergefell, the activists needed a new cause and found one in gender ideology.

The embrace of the transgender cause by America’s gay organizations is often presented as a matter of natural allyship between the closely related members of the LGBTQ coalition. In my view this is a misunderstanding. The interests of legacy gay rights organizations have increasingly become divorced from their traditional constituents, gay men and lesbians. For example: By 2016, the Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest gay rights organization, was using the word “transgender” more than “gay” and “lesbian” combined in its annual reports.

A number of states now have laws banning the practice of “conversion therapy” and an even broader stigma exists against efforts to medically alter the sexuality of gay people. But the same is not true when it comes to gender, where the situation is roughly reversed. Gender has become the point at which the interests of a professional activist class intersect with those of the pharmaceutical and medical tech industry.

According to GLAAD, gender identity is “one’s own internal sense of self and their gender,” and is separate from biological sex. This emphasis on the immaterial over the physical can lead to the body becoming fungible material for medical experiments. Physically healthy people can be turned into lifelong medical patients for profit. In the business press, trans tech is touted as a budding industry. One savvy entrepreneur has estimated the transition market as “in excess of $200B.”

The executive branch of the U.S. government actively supports pediatric gender transition. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine is a vocal proponent of medical transition as the appropriate treatment for youth with dysphoria; furthermore, the administration supports the right of K-12 public schools to socially transition students with or without their parents’ consent. Social transition is the practice of treating a prepubescent child as if they were literally a member of the opposite sex. While it does not involve any direct medical intervention, social transition has been shown to make it less likely for the child to resolve their dysphoria on their own. This can in turn lock them into a lifelong path of medicalization involving the off-label use of cancer drugs to block puberty as well as cross sex hormones and surgeries.

Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford, has said: “Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs … in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children.”

Gender is big business, but it would be a mistake to say this is all about the money. The ideology also provides a framework for young people coming of age in an increasingly disembodied culture. As a millennial born in the second half of the ’80s, I can remember adults warning me and my peers against spending too much time on the screen. Video games, TV, the early internet—the responsible adult world tried to ration our access to these things. They were united in their message that the real, physical world was superior. With the ubiquity of smartphones this became harder to maintain, and then in 2020 there was a normative shift with the pandemic response. Social distancing became the virtuous thing to do. The physical world was dangerous.

It should not be a surprise that a generation raised to think of physical reality as secondary to the personalized experience of digital reality would latch onto gender. According to one poll, 21% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ+. This is an astonishingly high figure, but it makes sense when you consider that in its current use identity is conceived as an inner essence that has very little to do with sex or the body. The figure is consistent with other research showing teenagers today have much less sex than previous generations. In place of embodied experience, young people increasingly have incorporeal “identities.”

I can relate. I was as confused as anyone when COVID hit and San Francisco suddenly shut down in late March 2020. At first, I believed that I was just following the science, and was unaware of existing pandemic preparation guides that stressed the importance of maintaining a normal life as much as possible during an emergency. The new lockdown paradigm was to act as if it were possible to simply freeze society and move life online. This may have worked for some people but not everyone could see lockdowns that way. I had been working in the tourism industry and almost immediately lost my job. My boyfriend and I got into screaming fights that summer. Living in a cramped apartment I had always needed other places—cafes and bars—I could escape to. Without that our relationship unraveled.

I needed a vibrant city, and it was gone. San Francisco had been turned off like a light switch, and transformed into a faceless place. The life I’d built for myself after 10 years in San Francisco, humble as it was, had ended. By the end of the year I’d moved to Minneapolis where my family lived.

In summer 2020, before leaving the city, I would occasionally take to Facebook to voice doubts about the official COVID response. I was startled by the vehemence with which people I knew defended the lockdown model. I was accused of spreading Koch brother propaganda when I shared an article on herd immunity by Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff.

Virtually all the leftists I knew were strongly in favor of closing schools—and keeping them closed indefinitely. I found this hard to square with their supposed belief in public education as a human right. Any questioning of the official narrative, however, was caricatured as eugenics, science denial, or simply wanting people to die. The world came to be divided between the good people who “followed the science” and locked down and the bad ones who didn’t. I was on one side of that divide and the majority of the people in my life were on the other.

Seeing a pseudoscientific consensus manufactured in real time, I began to question everything else I thought I knew. Inevitably this brought me back to gender. Even before COVID I’d noticed that it was becoming more and more common to introduce your third person pronouns at the start of a meeting. The eccentric practice I’d first encountered as a teenager was widespread—sometimes even mandatory—by 2019. Now it was no longer just a select few; seemingly everyone had a gender identity.

As with COVID lockdowns, this is a radical new experiment being passed off as firmly established consensus. Researchers and clinicians who dissent are targeted by activists. Borderline fraudulent studies are trotted out as definitive proof. Just as it was for COVID, the manufactured consensus on gender gets enforced politically by the progressive left. It’s as if my old comrades on the left have given up on any optimistic vision of democratic social transformation. In lieu of that, they make do with technocratic social engineering.

I could choose to stop being a leftist but can’t stop being gay. It’s still the most fundamental part of who I am. I have to face the sickening fact that much of this medical abuse is being carried out in my name. All the major gay rights organizations support an affirmative model for transitioning minors. They could have closed shop after achieving full equality, but no. “Gay rights” became institutionalized and morphed into a permanent LGBTQ+ industry. The public goodwill built up for gays and lesbians over the past generation is now being channeled into an entirely different cause.

I think back to my old friend and mentor in San Francisco, always on the cutting edge of every social movement. In my 20s I wanted to emulate his wisdom and radical disposition. I could not foresee the ways this disposition would be coopted in less than a generation. These days, seemingly all of society is becoming “queer,” and Pride is now something that everyone is expected to celebrate, even NASCAR. This new regime is appallingly humorless and literal-minded, lacking my old friend’s intensity, creativity, and wit. Yet it uses a lot of the vocabulary I first learned from him—“cis” and “trans” as well as “misgendering,” and coopts this former vanguard’s moral courage.

We, as gay men, have gone from being outsiders to mascots of an ideology that’s pushing hideous medical experiments on children—the wedge, it almost seems, to a new medical dystopia. If I now feel the need to once again make my sexuality a political issue, to speak “as a gay man,” it’s for the sake of disavowing this turn of events.

[michellezagenda]

neill patrick harris is so high up on my list of celebs that give me an ick.

his nasty meat plate that was supposed to resemble amy whinehouse's rotting corpse was criminal. his ick is more gross human being than it is sexual predator vibes (now that i think about it, he might have said weird things about underage models)

timothee just gives me the vibes of a rich fuckboy who acts soulful to get into your pants. his "arthouse" it boy status helped a lot. also him dating one of the kardashians, i can't stand how they don't give their kids any privacy whatsoever.

seth rogen acts like he doesn't talk to james franco anymore but i'm convinced that's just for show. there's no WAY he didn't know about the things he did.

judd apatow and his daughter have racist vibes (he's definitely a racist and one of her friends is too), he is OBSESSED with bill cosby for some reason. he's never spoken as much about a famous rapist as he has with him. he also said that "the black community needs to hold him accountable" which is.... rich coming from a white man.

or his comments on the will smith slap, saying chris rock could have been killed 🤡 he also mentioned how violence in hollywood should never be tolerated when he himself did nothing about james franco assaulting busy phillips on set.

i grew up in the same town as a famous celebrity and their mother was really racist to mine on one occasion so i side-eye them and their family in general.

one of my mothers close friends met a celebrity when she was working and she said that she was horrificly rude and brought up her status as an excuse. i never tell that story because she's had a misogynistic hate train against her so a lot of people's criticism is just sexism but she really was terrible lol.

yes to all this…men are terrible but give them a little power and it’s over

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The King of Staten Island (2020, Judd Apatow)

03/11/2023

The King of Staten Island is a 2020 film directed by Judd Apatow.

The film narrates the fictionalized life of Pete Davidson himself, co-author of semi-autobiographical screenplay.

Scott is twenty-four years old and lost his father when he was just seven; he spends his life smoking marijuana and practicing as a tattoo artist on friends, trying to overcome the trauma and understand what his path is, while he has to learn to live with his younger sister in her first year of college and his mother who has found a new partner 17 years after her husband's death.

The project was announced on January 29, 2019 by Universal.

The first trailer of the film was released on May 8, 2020.

The film was distributed on demand in the United States starting from 12 June 2020, while in Italy from 30 July both in cinemas and on demand rental.

On the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has received 75% positive and professional reviews with an average rating of 6.9 out of 10 based on 279 reviews, while on Metacritic it has obtained a score of 67 out of 100 on 50 reviews.

Giorgio Viaro, of Best Movie, places the film in ninth place among the best of 2020.

[steampunkforever]

Most of you who pay attention when I write on movies have heard me talk about this mysterious figure named “Adam McKay.” Yet I’ve yet to write a filmposting on any of his works. Naturally, the best film to start a creative retrospective of McKay’s mythic work with is the Will Ferrell vehicle “Step Brothers.”

Step Brothers is deeply stupid. Step Brothers is hilarious. Step Brothers is an oddly intelligently unintelligent comedy exploring the themes of blended families, delayed adulthood, and what constitutes the idea of success. There’s also a sequence in which a 13 year old makes Will Ferrell lick dog poop.

Again we come to “did the movie achieve what it set out to.” I’m starting to sour on this as a solid definition of a good movie, though Pacific Rim is still good and anchors that metric. Regardless, I loved it. Another triumph for Adam.

As simply a Will Ferrell vehicle (albeit one produced by 00s comic king Judd Apatow), Step Brothers is just a slapstick romp, but McKay (who I didn’t realize directed it until after the film was well on its way) takes it a step farther. The dialog, while stupid, is cleverly stupid, where you may laugh in spite of yourself but it won’t be out of pity. It’s a ridiculous movie but it isn’t bad.

Rather, this is a surrealist film taking your classic blended family plot of two young boys becoming friends an uniting against an older bully sibling and turning it on its head. The young boys are in their late 30s, their bullying brother has a family, a land rover, and is younger than they are, and the titular step brothers still act like they’re 12, down to crying at the table until their parents tell them to stop fighting.

I don’t mean this in a “grown men act childish” way that many comedies handle the manchild trope. In every metric, these are Man Children and that’s what distinguishes this from any other Jason Segal or Vince Vaughn “adult man never grew up” comedy from this era. They’re stuck in the “child of the 80s who never left” personalities that we’re seeing span into the 90s and also start to collect funko pops, and they’re building an injurious DIY bunk bed.

Of course I’m being pretentious about Step Brothers and it’s really not that deep. Director I have a love hate relationship with in an extremely parasocial way happened to make a good movie that’s best enjoyed with three beers in you and a grilled cheese about to join them (another win for theaters with alcohol). Surprise. But the thing is, though definitely sophisticated by any means, Step Brothers put a twist on this specific genre of comedy that’s special and should be pointed out. Maybe it’s just Adam McKay who can pull it off, but he pulls it off with just enough balance that it’s great and simultaneously not that deep. And I think I can get a tad pretentious about that at least.

[magentagalaxies]

Thank you for tagging me, @iamidentical!

favourite colour: aqua or purple (currently a bit more into purple but it changes a lot, basically if you've seen a picture of me it's the colors i always dye my hair)

currently reading: i actually can't talk about it bc it's an unreleased project by a friend 👀 BUT the next thing i read will probably either be bruce's book or "sick in the head" by judd apatow

currently watching: how to with john wilson (it's so good y'all, plus my mom and i now have a running joke of saying "wow" in his voice)

sweet, savoury, or spicy?: out of these? sweet. but in general i love salty most of all

currently working on: so much stuff! but mainly buddy cole doc (getting the crowdfunding page set up to launch next month), writing original sketches and music, and just generally being like what the fuck is my life rn

[allthingsgrunge]

Pearl Jam. Not many bands have achieved a status needing no adjective or description. Pearl Jam has. And fewer still have had an insider, much less a member, obsessively capture onstage and offhand pics of the experience-the friends, family, and fans...and one very famous plastic toy. Luckily for uslead guitaristMike McCreadydid-trusty Polaroid camera in hand.

Documenting years of touring and travels, McCready snaps meetings with heroes and inspirations from all walks of life; time spent with crazy friends and family; and momentsfeaturing wildly artistic takes on art, nature, and architecture. Also: he once rocked a fab grey shift. And true to form for one not taking things too seriously, Mike sometimes had his pal, Mr. Potato Head, pop in and share in the fun.

As wonderfully intimate as group "selfies" with the likes of Neil Young, Questlove, Jimmy Page, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, The Edge, Ben Harper, Peter Buck, Paul McCartney, Mike Mills, Sting, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Carrie Brownstein, Robert Plant, Peter Frampton, Dave Grohl, Gene Simmons, Bono, Jack White, Danny Clinch, Lady Gaga, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman, Judd Apatow, Will Ferrell, Leslie Mann, Jimmy Fallon, Mira Sorvino, Tim Robbins, Hugh Jackman, Venus Williams, and Kate Hudson are, it's the massive homage to the band's fans taken from stage view, in places from the Pacific Northwest to Peru, from Brussels to Bolivia, that brings McCready's manic intimacy come roaring to life.

Of Potato Heads and Polaroidsis the scrapbook for our rockstar world-friends, family, and fans. With some wattage. And a great deal of fun and good times.

[d-criss-news]

largolosangeles: #JuddApatowAndFriends benefit for #DoctorsWithoutBorders was a smashing success!! Look at this amazing line-up 👀 Comedy and music, our favorite combo 🧡 Thank you to an amazing audience and to all of these players! #JuddApatow #MasonAlexanderPark #KevinNealon #AparnaNancherla #Marcus #KumailNanjiani #AdamSandler #DarrenCriss #largolosangeles #largocomedy #largomusic #largobenefit #largodjs

[auncerra]

“And Just Like That...” Sexual Iconography Left the Studio

It’s inevitable some sequels will jeopardize the integrity of the original. While the fanfare for a Sex and the City re-installment had some of us naively convinced in Michael Patrick’s capacity for keeping the nostalgic momentum alive, it rather played out like a dismal Judd Apatow commentary on the nearing middle-aged (à la a very tactless, banal, and frankly unnecessarily depressing blow of “This is 40″, in which audiences are left feeling like the concept of aging is the equivalent of a death row inmate’s last pile of reheated mashed potatoes, or in the case of over-acting, emphatic Parker (Season 2) - poached eggs, friends-with-benefits breakfast of one?)).

Season 1 (AJLT) introduced audiences to everything Sex and the City conceptually opposed, the original series almost diametrically opposite to the concepts of female and sexual empowerment, friendship, resilience, and heart-touching, resonant storylines and intimately-crafted, beloved characters viewers came to know and praise semi-religiously. While there are many areas to nitpick, including the dismal costuming, unnecessary, unresolved side-plots, vacant added characters integrated merely for their ‘woke’ box-ticking capacity and not for social value or plausible commentary, what I came to love of Sex and the City had been drowned like a newborn kitten in a self-praising writers’ bleach bath. We lost sex to hearing aids and ice cream toppings, or gained it in unappealing, almost grotesquely invasive showboating - i.e. Miranda’s ‘fingering’ in Carrie’s studio kitchen by the much-loathed, and not ‘somewhat’ polarizing, ‘Che Diaz’. Did we need Carrie bedwetting, a loose stream into an emptied Snapple bottle? Miranda’s conditioned facial reactions alone were enough to transport viewers to desires of chastity, of hillside convents somewhere in Romania where those CW-styled dream montages of the repellent, narcissistic Che can’t virtually survive. Note 2 (of loss) - style. Did we need Carrie’s vainglorious, bizarre hat display as she burbled out her apartment window, did we need rubber gardening gloves for a walking smoke-break? Do we need to be assaulted with plaid and tartan, pigeons for purses (thank you, Jen), Charlotte’s over-billowed poof-sleeves and polka-dotted, infantilizing displays, do we need a silver-haired Cynthia Nixon who reads more Paula Deen than tirelessly chic Miranda Priestly? ‘Gray hair don’t care’, as it were, embracing age, as it were, but should be that a singular note of character development - that the bold, independent, autonomous career-driven Miranda we knew and respected has driven toward total absence of discernment, dry as a withered martini olive for a non-committal new beau with zero attributes of integrity or general likability? And why style her (Miranda) as though she were being embalmed in prints, can ‘older’ women not show skin, have avid sex lives, exude standards beyond accepting consequences of bad backs and Peloton-claimed husbands (realistically, did Carrie’s shock need to last several minutes of screen-time, has she never heard of a heart attack?)...

Lines were crossed with Brady’s sex life and Miranda’s questionably appropriate presence throughout, lines were crossed with Porta Potty tampon insertion challenges, lines were crossed with daytime bathroom blowjobs (has that ever been identifying of the hyper-attentive, traditional Charlotte), lines were crossed with rehashed, overplayed attempts at racial justice and white martyrdom - yes, let’s address the concerns, but maybe not in the context of unfunny comedy and a socially-unhinged spin on Miranda - again, Michael Patrick, do native/residential New Yorkers really not have interactions with POC/the queer and gender-diverse in today’s age? Do we need props of characters for this representation, who are as scripted feeling as the tired attempts at the writing - do we need the original cast to become the most egoistic versions of themselves in decades of television, do we need a money-grabbing “Max” Series that respects less its audience of - generations - and their valid, informed takes on a, frankly, garbage-fire, catastrophic spinoff, do the writers need to make relevant social issues - like racism, like sexism, like transphobia, like gender and sexual expression - feel trite, tired, exasperating, and with the ambiance of capitalistically-targeted Pride ads? Che isn’t funny, isn’t remotely likable, and while perhaps not a reflection of Ramirez’s personal life (despite some apparent synonymous attributes and social media feeds), Che’s being non-binary does not make them suddenly exempt from being situationally-inappropriate, selfish, callous, and just plain ‘ick’. Che makes broader viewers want to curl up into a congealing ball, return to embryonic fluids to avoid their “comedy” shows (if the quantity of who they have fucked, will fuck, want to fuck of their - pause for emphasis - live audience members - is qualifiable as humor at all...). Che is not a queer cosplay of Amy Schumer, there are no human or relatable characteristics that make viewers embrace a character so visibly and audibly shallow, not to mention entirely exploitative (the entire subplot of uprooting Miranda from her city for a Los Angeles move, for example, which, if you have forgotten, Michael/millennial-coded writers, completely betrays the Miranda archetype - so, career, long-invested internship, scrapped, for a romantically-ambivalent, narcissist Diaz?). Did audiences need “Rock”, pacifying elementary rhetoric, did audiences need a bigoted hit on one of the few redeemed, likable original characters, Anthony - i.e. advising Charlotte against utilizing preferred pronouns, making an analogy to a dog?

While this is mostly a blurb, a working draft, a tunnel of quality-abandonment-fueled-apathy, Season 2, so far (from what I’ve discerningly, limitedly glimpsed), took “L.T.W.”’s barber-shop painting ensembles, Carrie’s (again, the most self-involved - in the pejorative - character of the show) “user” attributes and poor-me-sloppy-grieving arc, steadily unlikable roundabout cast of diminishing characters to new, (love-to-hate) lows, without the glimmer of a blip of Cattrall resurgence, the only remarkable term to describe this train-wreck of a ‘reinstatement’ return is abysmal. Frankly, I’d have more intrigue in a Seema-driven plot-line, nil-Carrie-Che-L.T.W.-Dr.-Nya-Wallace-couch-coital-post-separation-Bridgerton-Netflix-dupe-streams, re-introducing a viable Miranda in the acting capacity we’ve seen of Nixon (who is by all measures, extremely talented in alternate roles) - or merely limiting the sheer, inarguable box-ticking strategies to reveal something more human, watchable, intimate, and real, like the SATC that charmed viewers over concurring, mingling generations, that comparatively, was successful with good cause. This is another classic example of the media industry exploiting devoted audiences with nostalgic whims of shows that in reality have been massacred by weak writing, a cacophony of plot, and a favoritism towards the emblematic assholes (excuzes mon francçais) of its series - referring, of course, to the effortlessly problematic Parker (who I, with little hesitation, can see as far more of a modern-exploit Carrie than she’d care to own), of dropping unsubtle breadcrumbs of the beloved, real, irreplaceable Samantha, likely cajoling Cattrall into a payout for her four-minutes of other-cast-members non-interactive virtual series presence as a tactic to attract views, and up subscriptions. Frankly, by Episode 1 of Season 2, by Miranda awkwardly, anti-sexily adorning a full-bodied strap-on harness (in 2023, really?) as though viewers had been thrown into the rank, antiquated sex shop of some National Lampoon-era film, for one unamused, indifferent Che, by Che’s hasty, box-check-positioned assistant complaining over the status of their not wearing a jacket (namely, not a glaring, dated, sequined one) / the shrill “non-binary”-cooing mirror harlequin-dance exchange (bizarre to witness), by Carrie once again insisting all life resolve around her and her everlasting grief plot-point with the painfully, awkwardly-timed, shit-written kitchen egg, Charlotte pop-in entrance scene, I was already exasperated.

And Just Like That is the epitome of the negative denotation of ‘woke’, it plays as turbulently and as polarizing as its core characters, and is a dreary, complacent attempt at modernity, it is the flatulence of yet another capitalistically-motivated acquisition, it is not worth your continued patience that solely a Patricia Field, Cattrall, Chris Noth, zany-glitzy-Manolo-steel-jungle-Cosmos-wonderland epitome of Sex and the City, Sex and the City alone could and will ever seemingly be capable of delivering. And Just Like That...Cattrall’s heart-wrenching cancer performance is traded for Snapple-piss and Los-Angeles-beach-cleanup-chronic-codependency, for narcissistic writers, lead creators, and yes, in some cases, eye-roll-icon, socially-liked actors.

I don’t subscribe to cancel culture, but let’s communally hold this embarrassment of unglamorous television accountable, let’s make a commitment to peer deeper at the integrity of shows that capitalize on the marginalized to produce, in sincerity, sugar-coated bullshit.

[thelonesomequeen]

Seth Rogan is honestly one of those celebrities that kind of bothers me and I can’t exactly put my finger on why. Once upon a time I used to think he was pretty funny, but lately it’s like the more I hear about him the more I dislike him. Is that weird? No offense to any big fans of his out there. I don’t know much about him, but something just kind of rubs me the wrong way 🦎

I like Seth Rogen’s work, but I think what rubs me the wrong way about him is that he enabled James Franco for so long and then only cut him off when he realized that he was getting dragged for enabling him. Both Seth and Judd Apatow allowed James Franco to get away with a lot, so I think that’s what bothers me the most about them. While I don’t think either of them are entirely responsible or deserved to be cancelled, I do think they should just admit to their wrongdoings of not calling out Franco’s behavior earlier. Then again, I don’t know the nature of their relationship, so maybe they were only work friends and didn’t really know what Franco was up to behind closed doors. Who knows tbh.

For sure. Sometimes in situations like that I always wonder what all of these other men who are friends with a guy who did something shady knew. How much did they know? When did they know? And did they speak up or not? You know? It always just makes me wonder. 🦎

[13eyond13]

4 and 13 for the movie ask please :)

4. An actor/actress it took you time to warm up to:

Robert Pattinson is up there, probably! Back in the day all I really knew him as was his small part as Cedric in the Harry Potter movies, and then he really blew up as Edward in Twilight. And of course bashing Twilight and hating on Edward and Bella was all the rage during the height of its fame, so back then I just rolled my eyes at him and never really paid much attention to him otherwise.

I specifically remember that I started seeing him in a slightly different light around the year 2009 or so, while Twilight was still going on, when my friend told me he was actually a pretty good singer. She showed me some sort of Windows Movie Maker slideshow on YouTube of him soulfully singing along to a guitar, which made me go "oh ok, maybe he has a bit more going on than I thought he did, then..."

Then I started noticing how funny and odd he is in his interviews, and what he said about how he chooses his acting roles based on how much of a freak the character he's going to play is made me laugh. I was convinced he has some impressive range and talent as an actor once I saw him in a few of his newer movie roles the past few years like The Lighthouse and The Batman. Definitely somebody that I am always glad to see onscreen now! I hope I'm not so mindlessly swayed by the bandwagoning hate trains again (I feel like other actors who are kinda getting this treatment nowadays are your Timothee Chalamets - where they're cool to like and have a crush on at first until they get a bit too mainstream and start doing things like playing a hot young version of Willy Wonka, and then people start hating on them and getting sick of them and memeing on them instead, whether or not they actually have any genuine acting talent underneath it all or whatever... I imagine that ol' Timothee will probably have a similar sort of comeback where it's cool to like him again a few more years down the road, so now I'm just gonna skip over the hate train and be like: "you know what, I always appreciate me a lil Timothee onscreen!")

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Another one for this "had to warm up to them" category for me is Jason Segel. I think probably the first thing I ever saw him in was Forgetting Sarah Marshall when it first came out in theaters? I was just really young and innocent back then and possibly too shocked by seeing his dick flapping around on the big screen to really warm up to him too much, haha. Then I grew up a bit more and also watched the show Freaks and Geeks, the first thing he ever acted in, and his performance as Nick Andopolis in that show is just SO GOOD to me, my god. He's just such a big goofy soft sincere enthusiastic open book of a guy, makes me laugh so much, and also genuinely kills me in the scenes where you watch him going through something super humiliating or heartbreaking, too (there's this one particular scene where his girlfriend's mom accidentally crushes him while trying to be nice to him that just breaks my heart every time I see it).

I love this tape of him auditioning for the role, too:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is now also one of my all-time fave dumb 2000s romcoms now too! I rewatched it older a few years back I did a complete flip on it, and was like: "wtf I kinda love this actually." Apparently Jason Segel wrote the script for that movie himself based on his own personal experiences, which I think gives it a bit more heartfelt charm than your average generic Judd Apatow gang flick. Much of it is based on his breakup with his Freaks and Geeks costar Linda Cardellini... He really WAS dumped butt naked while he really was in all seriousness working on writing a Dracula muppet musical that he thought was going to be his next big thing after Freaks and Geeks got cancelled (a Dracula muppet musical which unironically sounds like it's full of bangers from what you see of it in that movie, ngl)... I feel like I had to actually have a bad breakup/get cheated on myself to fully appreciate how funny and relatable parts of that movie are and just how excellent he is at portraying a person going through that kind of stuff. I just love him so much now, though at first I wasn't a fan.

13. Name a movie adaptation you thought was better than or equal to its source material:

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

This is a super strange and creepy little movie that I also read the book for, but the movie definitely sticks out in my mind quite a bit more than the book did! It got me back into obsessing over movies again for a bit when it first came out, because after I watched it I was just like "wtf I need to talk to somebody about this and try to interpret it with other people"... I LOVE Jesse Plemons and Toni Collette as actors in everything I've seen them in so far, and they're both great in it, and it made me want to see more stuff featuring Jessie Buckley as well. I think certain things about the aesthetics of the movie just felt strikingly familiar to my own rural Canadian upbringing as well, like the driving through a blizzard to visit your folks on their farm, and the polite reserved social interactions, and the stopping to get Dairy Queen even though it's like minus 40 degrees outside, idk...

[MOVIE ASKS]

[getbudslegalize]

The Best Netflix Stoner Movies and Shows to Watch In Your High Time

The Best Netflix Stoner Movies to Watch In Your High Time

Are you looking for some fun and relaxing stoner movies to watch on Netflix? Whether you're celebrating 420, having a chill night with your friends, or just want to enjoy some quality entertainment while you're high, we've got you covered. In this blog post, we'll share some of the Best Netflix Stoner Movies that will make you laugh, think, and maybe even learn something new. From classic comedies to secret stoner movies, from trippy documentaries to stoner shows, there's something for everyone on this list. So grab your popcorn, light up your joint, and get ready for some of the best Netflix stoner movies to watch in your high time.

The Best Funny Movies to Watch Stoned on Netflix

If you're looking for some fun to watch high on Netflix, you've come to the right place. Here are some funny movies to watch high on Netflix: 1. Pineapple Express (2008): - 6,9/10

This hilarious action-comedy stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two stoners who get caught up in a drug war after witnessing a murder. The movie is full of weed jokes, crazy chases, and hilarious situations that will keep you entertained from start to finish. Regia: David Gordon Green Sceneggiatura: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow Star: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole VM14 1h 51min 2. Superbad (2007): - 7,6/10

This classic teen comedy follows two best friends, Seth and Evan, who are about to graduate from high school and want to lose their virginity before college. They plan to attend a party where they hope to hook up with their crushes, but things go wrong when they have to deal with a fake ID, a pair of incompetent cops, and a drunken friend. The movie is full of raunchy humor, awkward moments, and hilarious dialogue that will make you laugh till you cry. Regia: Greg Mottola Sceneggiatura: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Star: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse VM14 1h 53min 3. The Hangover (2009): - 7,7/10

This blockbuster comedy follows four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, but wake up the next morning with no memory of what happened the night before. They have to retrace their steps and find their missing friend while dealing with a tiger, a baby, a stripper, and Mike Tyson. The movie is a wild and unpredictable ride that will keep you guessing and laughing. Regia: Todd Phillips Sceneggiatura: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore Star: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha T 1h 40min 4. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008): - 6,5/10

This raunchy comedy stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as two broke friends who decide to make a porn movie to pay their bills. However, things get complicated when they realize that they have feelings for each other. The movie is full of crude jokes, awkward situations, and heartwarming moments that will make you root for the unlikely couple. Regia: Kevin Smith Sceneggiatura: Kevin Smith Star: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson VM14 1h 41min 5. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006): - 6,8/10

This musical comedy stars Jack Black and Kyle Gass as two aspiring rockers who form a band called Tenacious D. They embark on a quest to find a legendary guitar pick that will give them the power to rock the world. The movie is full of hilarious songs, absurd adventures, and cameo appearances by famous musicians. Regia: Liam Lynch Sceneggiatura: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Liam Lynch Star: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed VM14 1h 34min 6. The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018): - 6,9/10

This documentary comedy follows Rodney Hyden, a Florida businessman who hears a story about a hidden stash of cocaine worth millions on a Caribbean island. He decides to recruit a team of misfits and go on a treasure hunt to find the drugs. The movie is full of twists, turns, and laughs as it shows how far some people will go for a dream. Regi: Theo Love Star: Bo Butterworth, Bri Bryant, Edward Craig TV-MA 1h 23min 7. Special Correspondents (2016): - 5,9/10

This satirical comedy stars Ricky Gervais and Eric Bana as two journalists who fake their own kidnapping in Ecuador to boost their careers. However, they have to deal with the consequences when their hoax goes viral and they become the center of attention. The movie is full of witty humor, social commentary, and hilarious situations that will make you think and laugh. Regia: Ricky Gervais Sceneggiatura: Ricky Gervais, Jacques Labib, Simon Michaël Star: Ricky Gervais, Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga TV-MA 1h 41min 8. Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012): - 6,9/10

This stoner comedy stars Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa as two unlikely friends who bond over weed at their high school. Mac is a 15-year senior who has never graduated, while Devin is a valedictorian who has never smoked. They decide to help each other out by teaching each other about life and weed. The movie is full of weed references, funny scenes, and catchy songs that will make you groove. Regia: Dylan C. Brown Sceneggiatura: Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Pooky Brown Star: Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Mike Epps R 1h 15min 9. Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020): - 6,9/10

This documentary comedy features celebrities like Sting, Sarah Silverman, Nick Kroll, and more sharing their stories and insights about psychedelic drugs. The movie is full of animations, reenactments, and humor that will make you learn and laugh about the effects of psychedelics on the mind and culture. Regia: Donick Cary Sceneggiatura: Donick Cary Star: Nick Offerman, Sting, A$AP Rocky VM14 1h 25min 10. Reefer Madness (2005) : - 6,9/10

This cult classic is a parody of the 1936 propaganda film that warned about the dangers of marijuana. The movie follows a group of teenagers who fall victim to the evil weed and end up in a spiral of madness, murder, and mayhem. The movie is full of over-the-top acting, ridiculous scenarios, and musical numbers that will make you laugh at the absurdity of it all. Regia: Andy Fickman Sceneggiatura: Kevin Murphy, Read the full article