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  • Outrage Erupts After Artist Changes National Anthem Lyrics from ‘Home of the Brave’ to ‘Home of the Gays’ [WATCH]

    07/01/2025 1:17:57 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Trash Panda ^ | July 01, 2025 | Staff
    A recent performance by singer and performer Uché has ignited a firestorm of criticism after a video surfaced of him singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with a controversial twist. In place of the time-honored closing line, “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Uché deliberately changed the words to “land of the free, home of the gays.” The moment, which was captured and shared on TikTok during Pride Month, has prompted widespread backlash from Americans who see the alteration as a blatant sign of disrespect toward a cherished national symbol. The video, posted to Uché’s TikTok account...
  • Disney/Pixar’s ‘Elio’ Is a Flop But Original Queer-Coded Version of the Film Would Have Done Much Worse

    07/01/2025 6:35:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    twitchy ^ | July 01, 2025 | Warren Squire
    AP Photo/Chris Pizzello The latest Disney/Pixar animated film, 'Elio', has a dubious distinction. It has the worst opening weekend ever for a Pixar film, making only $21 million domestically and $14 million overseas. This is against a budget reportedly ranging from $150 million to $300 million. Yikes! Would you believe us if we told you things could have been even worse at the box office? Before some major changes, the 11-year-old title character was going to be gay ('queer-coded') and, for fun, put on fashion shows with clothing made out of trash he found on the beach. Oh, and he...
  • Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Delivers Apple’s First Box Office Hit With $55.6 Million Debut, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Fizzles With $10 Million

    06/30/2025 5:22:44 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 74 replies
    Variety ^ | June 30, 2025 | Rebecca Rubin Plus Icon
    It’s lights out and away we go at the box office as “F1,” a big-budget racing drama starring Brad Pitt, impressively revs to $55.6 million in its domestic opening weekend. With great reviews and a promising “A” grade on CinemaScore exit polls, “F1” landed in the middle of expectations of $50 million to $60 million. At the international box office, the film collected a strong $88.4 million from 78 markets. Those initial ticket sales are significant given “F1” is an adult-skewing tentpole that’s not part of an existing film franchise — a rarity in today’s I.P.-dominated movie theater landscape. Directed...
  • Binghamton Remembers Rod Serling 50 Years After His Death

    06/28/2025 11:16:11 AM PDT · by Borges · 78 replies
    CNY News ^ | 6/27/25
    Residents of the Binghamton area have been visiting the statue honoring Rod Serling 50 years after The Twilight Zone creator died. The six-foot statue in Recreation Park on the city's West Side was unveiled last September. It stands in the southeast section of the park, just a short distance from Serling's childhood home on Bennett Avenue. Although Serling was born in Syracuse, he considered Binghamton to be his hometown. The legendary television writer and producer died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester on June 28, 1975. He was 50 years old. Serling had undergone heart surgery two days before his...
  • It's June 27th! Time to play... The Lottery

    06/27/2025 8:03:17 PM PDT · by Ciaphas Cain · 49 replies
    The New Yorker and YouTube ^ | 1948 | Shirley Jackson
    1969 film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic horror short story.Click hereNo doubt that Old Man Warner is praying he doesn't win again.
  • Scripps News (Recommend)

    06/27/2025 3:40:33 PM PDT · by EliRoom8 · 7 replies
    Sling Tv ^ | 06/27/2025 | self
    Scripps News: This seems like a refreshing, polished, impartial alternative to the tired faces and boring production of FNC. Imho, its perfect for those wanting to take a break from all those personalities who are so full of themselves (eg; the peacock, Jesse Watters; and the motor-mouth Hannity) Guttfeld, who is the silly-class clown on The Five seems easier to take late at night.
  • Debra Messing Says Zohran Mamdani 'Sides With Terrorists'

    06/27/2025 4:20:05 AM PDT · by C19fan · 50 replies
    Huffington Post ^ | June 26, 2025 | Paige Skinner
    Actor Debra Messing wrote an Islamophobic comment on her Instagram in reference to New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, claiming that he “celebrated” 9/11. “I have nothing against Socialism, don’t know where you got that,” Messing, who is known for her role in the sitcom “Will & Grace,” wrote in an Instagram comment replying to a user who called her out for sharing a reel denouncing socialism. “I voted against M because he celebrated 9/11. Let that sink in. I love my country. My reasoning is not Islamophobia. I’ve chosen to live in the most beautifully diverse city...
  • Cringeworthy moment socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s rap video played during live interview: ‘Didn’t think it would be on CNN’

    06/27/2025 3:57:00 AM PDT · by Libloather · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/27/25 | Shane Galvin
    That was not music to his ears. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s 2019 rap video reached a national audience Thursday night — during an incredibly awkward moment on a live CNN interview that left the New York City mayoral hopeful visibly uncomfortable. Mamdani appeared on “Erin Burnett OutFront” and the eponymous host used the C-grade hip-hop video as an introduction to the 33-year-old lefty pol who performed under the name “Mr. Cardamom.” **SNIP** In the 2017 track “Holy Land Five,” the presumptive Democratic mayoral candidate praised five men — known as the “Holy Land Five” — from the Holy Land Foundation...
  • MSNBC Suggests SCOTUS Allowing States To Dump Planned Parenthood Might Increase Cancer

    06/26/2025 10:38:30 PM PDT · by Morgana · 17 replies
    mrc NewsBusters ^ | June 26, 2025 | Alex Christy
    On Thursday, the Supreme Court greenlit South Carolina’s efforts to remove abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from the state’s Medicaid reimbursement program. Naturally, MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports freaked out over the decision, with Law Prof. Leah Litman warning the move could lead to a rise in cancer. Cabrera put the ball on the tee when she asked, “So, Leah, what do you see as the ramifications of this decision?” Litman began by painting a gloomy scene, “I think the practical implications of this decision are going to be momentous. I mean, Medicaid serves as an important, you know, source...
  • A Yank In The R.A.F. (1941) Tyrone Power & Betty Grable [HD video]

    06/26/2025 5:02:32 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 5 replies
    YouTube ^ | 01/19/2025 | Monica
    Starring Tyrone Power, Betty Grable and John Sutton, A Yank in the R.A.F. was 20th Century Fox's second-most successful film of 1941. Released three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into World War II, it follows an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force (RAF), during a period when the United States was still neutral. Grable's a crying scene reportedly took more than six hours to film. A Yank In The R.A.F. (1941) Tyrone Power & Betty Grable [HD video]
  • Disney Layoffs Continue, Hitting Product and Technology Division Hard

    06/26/2025 8:20:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | June 26, 2025 | Warner Todd Huston
    Entertainment giant Disney is continuing its campaign of employee layoffs with its latest round of cuts hitting its product and technology division. While Disney insists that the P&T division is critical to its future success, the layoffs nonetheless cut an additional two percent of the company’s workforce, The Wrap reported. This latest round of cost cutting is just one of a long series of cuts lasting several years. Indeed, it isn’t even the first round of layoffs this month. Early this month the company pushed out several hundred workers from its marketing for both film and television, television publicity, and...
  • Amazon Eying Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon for ‘Bull Durham’ Sequel: They Can ‘Top’ the Original

    06/25/2025 8:56:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    www.closerweekly.com ^ | June 17, 2025 | Nicholas Erickson
    Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner had sizzling chemistry in 1988 romcom Bill Durham and a source exclusively tells Closer they’re being wooed to reprise their roles and team up for more spicy on-screen fun almost three decades later! “Kevin and Susan are incredibly different personalities on every level, but they both know they had all time great chemistry on Bull Durham almost forty years ago,” the insider says. “Over the years they have both had talks about doing a sequel or revisiting that world in some way.” The late-80s hit was a product of writer/director Ron Shelton, who found fame...
  • "Mississippi Masala" directed by Mira Nair, mother of candidate-elect for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani

    06/25/2025 8:39:49 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 11 replies
    The Indy ^ | Sep 2022 | Iman Husain
    When I was a little girl, my mother used to call me her “Mississippi Masala.” A term of endearment and, as I would later come to find out, a reference: the nickname almost perfectly encapsulated my particular diasporic experience. My Pakistani parents moved to the United States in the 1990s, settling down in Mobile, Alabama—a town that is just about as south as you can get before plunging into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. People are shocked when my birthplace is revealed. To many, a Muslim South Asian family has no place in the flattened conception of...
  • June Lockhart Turns 100: A Celebration Of The Beloved Actress

    06/25/2025 7:16:54 AM PDT · by Borges · 8 replies
    Forbes ^ | 6/25/25 | Marc Berman
    Today we wish June Lockhart, the veteran actress and television icon a Happy 100th Birthday! Naturally, we immediately think of June Lockhart for her roles as TV mothers. First there was Ruth Martin in Lassie, young Timmy’s (Jon Provost) Mom from 1958 to 1964. Ms. Lockhart replaced Cloris Leachman (who in turn replaced Jan Clayton). Then there was Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, mother to Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright) and Will (Bill Mumy) from 1965 to 1968. And, finally, Janet Craig, the surrogate Mom of sorts to Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae), Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) and Betty...
  • June Lockhart Turns 100: A Celebration Of The Beloved Actress

    06/25/2025 6:11:40 AM PDT · by DFG · 51 replies
    Forbes ^ | 06/25/2025 | Marc Berman
    Today we wish June Lockhart, the veteran actress and television icon a Happy 100th Birthday! Naturally, we immediately think of June Lockhart for her roles as TV mothers. First there was Ruth Martin in Lassie, young Timmy’s (Jon Provost) Mom from 1958 to 1964. Ms. Lockhart replaced Cloris Leachman (who in turn replaced Jan Clayton). Then there was Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, mother to Judy (Marta Kristen), Penny (Angela Cartwright) and Will (Bill Mumy) from 1965 to 1968. And, finally, Janet Craig, the surrogate Mom of sorts to Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae), Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) and Betty...
  • Engaging With the Culture Must Be the Future of Conservative Media

    06/24/2025 6:16:18 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 22 replies
    Chronicles ^ | June 2025 | Mark Judge
    I really wish I could stop reading the Sunday New York Times. The political content is pure communism, but it’s the arts coverage that lures me in every week. A recent Sunday edition of the Times offered stories about a new film honoring Nat King Cole, a review of a documentary about the lives of ballerinas, a fantastic profile of the British band Pulp, and an interview with Mia Threapleton, an actress in the new Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme. Then there’s the book review section, which included books about the history of spies in American high society, how...
  • Tucker Carlson Claims FOX News Made Him 'Fat'

    06/24/2025 1:38:18 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 63 replies
    WLAC ^ | 6/24/2025 | Jason Hall
    Former FOX News host Tucker Carlson claims he "got fat" due to the demand of his former job while discussing it with former colleague Clayton Morris on his YouTube show Monday (June 23). “I just got fat,” Carlson said. “It’s incredibly hard physically. Everything about it is the hardest job I ever had.” Morris added that "people get cancer regularly" from working in "miserable" morning television during the discussion. Carlson's comment was the latest in his apparent rift with his former employer since his departure in April 2024. "What they’re doing is what they always do, which is just turning...
  • Doctor Who actor David Tennant wears trans rights T-shirt by Canadian designer: 'You will have to go through me'

    06/24/2025 12:16:08 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6/24/25 | Elianna Lev
    Stevie Brocksom is still floored after actor David Tennant, best known for his work in the Doctor Who series, wore one of the trans-positive T-shirts they sent him on a whim. The photo has led to a massive spike in sales of the London, Ont., designer's activist T-shirts which help fund a scholarship for transgender students in Ontario. Brocksom and their graphic designer sell a series of T-shirts with trans-positive messaging on their website, "Stevie Safe Spaces." The T-shirts, which are available in sizes S up to 6XL, have slogans on them like “you can’t erase us,” "protect trans kids"...
  • Bobby Sherman, Teen Idol and ‘Here Come the Brides’ Actor, Dies at 81

    06/24/2025 12:13:12 PM PDT · by DFG · 50 replies
    Hollywood Reporter ^ | 06/24/2025 | Mike Barnes
    Bobby Sherman, the pop singer and Here Come the Brides actor whose image graced bedroom posters, lunch boxes and fan magazines as a heart-fluttering teen idol of the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Sherman’s death was announced Tuesday by his second wife, Brigitte Poublon. It was revealed in March that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. “Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage, and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage. I was his Cinderella, and he was my Prince Charming,” she wrote. Discovered...
  • White House calls CNN 'fake news' for report claiming Democratic leadership wasn't briefed on Iran strike

    06/23/2025 1:09:54 AM PDT · by Libloather · 7 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/22/25 | Lindsay Kornick
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded CNN retract a story on Sunday that claimed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were not briefed on President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran. Trump launched "Operation: Midnight Hammer" on Saturday and struck three of Iran’s key nuclear facilities in a surprise attack. The White House announced the success of the attack later that night. CNN reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, both Republicans, were briefed on the strikes ahead of time, with Schumer and Jeffries, both Democrats, receiving notifications only before...