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| | Zooey Deschanel & Jonathan Scott 'bonded over shared love of music' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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| | Felicity Huffman is 'contrite and humbled and accepts the outcome' of her sentence | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Felicity Huffman has some time before she?s sent to prison? for fourteen days. That was her sentence, as part of the plea deal she took from the federal prosecutor. Felicity was scamming her daughters? SAT scores, and because Felicity immediately admitted guilt, she?s walking away with two weeks in prison, a $30K fine and 250 hours of community service. So now that the court-proceedings part of this sh-t is over, how does Felicity feel? According to People Mag, she?s just spending time with her family.
Now back home in L.A. after being sentenced to 14 days in prison on Sept. 13 in a Boston courtroom, Felicity Huffman is focused on regaining her family and the public?s trust. The Desperate Housewives actress, 56, who pleaded guilty last May to paying disgraced admissions consultant Rick Singer $15,000 to have a proctor change her oldest daughter Sophia?s SAT answers after she took the test, is scheduled to report to prison on Oct. 25.
In the meantime, she is focused on spending time with her husband William H. Macy, 69, and daughters Sophia, 19 and Georgia, 17.
?The family is hanging in there, spending time together and doing their best to heal,? a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. ?Felicity is getting everyone together, so they can spend time talking, and healing with each other.? After receiving her sentence, which also included a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service, plus supervised release for a full year after serving, a source close to Huffman?s team told PEOPLE she felt ?humbled.?
?The sentence Felicity received is not about a victory or a defeat. She is not disappointed or relieved about the outcome. She is contrite and humbled and accepts the outcome,? said the source adding, ?She is resigned to the fact that she has to serve her sentence and pay her dues to society.?
[From People]
?She is contrite and humbled and accepts the outcome.? I don?t know. I accept that, I guess. Of all the ways this could have gone down, Felicity seems to have chosen the smartest path. I?m not talking about her actual crime, of course, I?m just talking about what came after the crime. Yes, there are conversations about white privilege and criminal justice inequities, but I think Felicity?s punishment actually fits the crime. The problem isn?t that Felicity got off light, it?s that black people of color are punished to such extremes. And as I?ve said for weeks now, it?s also pretty clear that Felicity treated her daughters like g-ddamn science experiments and she had no idea how to actually raise them to be productive members of society. That?s another punishment for Felicity seeing how badly she?s fked up as a mother.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Sarah Silverman on the political left: 'It's almost like there's a mutated McCarthy era' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sarah Silverman is up for an Emmy for her (now canceled) series I Love You, America. I?ve never watched it because A) I don?t like Silverman and B) I find the premise to be? cloying, I guess. The premise of the show was that Silverman travels around and talks to people who are generally terrible, and she tries to understand where they?re coming from. She also interviewed people who were not terrible too. The idea is to embrace the diversity of opinions and beliefs and intolerance in all of America. Even though the show was canceled, Sarah still spoke to the LA Times about her Emmy nomination and what?s happening in comedy these days. Her comments are already being widely panned. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
On connecting with people she disagrees with: ?I just think this is a time to connect with people. I feel so cocky talking about it, it?s just a stupid show, but the whole point of this administration is to divide us. I also think it?s interesting what?s happened on the left. It?s almost like there?s a mutated McCarthy era, where any comic better watch anything they say. If you have a special and someone doesn?t agree with every single thing you say on that special you know, [Dave] Chappelle says it at the beginning of his special [?Sticks and Stones,? on Netflix], and he still gets so much ? for it. I loved it. There were things in it that I did not like. But has there been a special you love and agree with across the board? That?s comedy: You overstep. You say things you might not even believe by the time it comes out. You?re always changing. It?s art. It?s not politics.
On cancel culture: ?I?ve said it before, there?s this kind of ?righteousness p0rn? going on with canceling people over their past, a thing they said or a moment they had, with no earnest hope that they may be changed. We see Megan Phelps-Roper, who grew up in the [anti-gay] Westboro Baptist Church, and we love her because she?s changed. But if we met her seven years ago, would she just have to be someone we had no hope for? She changed because people on social media talked to her warmly. Christian Picciolini was on the show, who was a neo-Nazi skinhead and was changed because someone gave him compassion even though he didn?t deserve it, in his words. So I always [ask myself], ?Is this a ?before? Christian Picciolini?? It?s not very Jesus-like to just cancel people.?
On wanting to be right: ?I have to ask myself sometimes too, ?Would I want this person to be changed or do I secretly want them to stay wrong so I can point to them as wrong and myself as right?? And that?s dark. And I see it. I see it in people I love or agree with on lots of things. So many hard lines ? things need to be black and white and you need to know the answer. It can?t be ambiguous. And I think that?s a mistake. And that?s why, when you see transcripts of, like, a comic?s joke, or two different people who said the same thing ? in one case it could be OK and in one case it could be up. Why? Because the intent matters, and what the person?s soul is.?
[From The LA Times]
I?m going to be generous for a moment and say that I don?t have an issue with people trying to connect and understand each other on a personal level. But that presupposes that both people are honest brokers and are willing to meet halfway to have an honest conversation, and both are open to learning and listening. And my concern if I was in Silverman?s position, trying to do this as entertainment is that instead of a promotion of learning, listening and understanding, you?re instead giving a platform for hate speech, and you?re promoting the worst ?bad actors? in society. At some point, I don?t really give a sh-t if I neo-Nazi is just some dude in pain. He?s still a fking neo-Nazi, you know?
As for what she says about ?righteousness p0rn? and cancel culture? whenever people complain about how comedians can?t get a fair shake or so-and-so didn?t deserve to be ?canceled,? I just think about all of the people who were genuinely hurt, or how stupid it is to be an aggreived white man who thinks ?comedy? is punching down and/or abusing women. Some people deserve to be fking canceled.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Mandy Moore releases her first new single in 10 years | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hey, guess what! We finally got new music from Mandy Moore. I really like Mandy and always have. I don?t even follow her career that closely, she?s just someone that I find myself rooting for every time I see her. Anyway, she teased us that she was recording new music for a while now. It?s been 10 years since she released her last album, Amanda Leigh. Sure we had the Tangled soundtrack and she covered Willin a while back, but yesterday, she released a brand new single that?s all hers. And it has a video to go with it:
I?m happy with it. I always forget how much I like her voice and it?s really strong here. The song itself is fine. The tune isnt all that complex, but I the lyrics are. As we know, Mandy was one of the victims of her ex Ryan Adams. In addition to the emotional manipulation, Ryan sabotaged Mandy?s career as a way to assert his control over her. Not only did he convince her she wasn?t ?a real musician,? he would fall apart if she worked for any real stretch of time, requiring her to come home and see to his needs. In this context, the lyrics from When I Wasn?t Watching take on more weight, ?My favorite version of me disappeared/ Through longer days/ And shorter years,? and ?What I became/ When I wasn?t watching/ A little lost/ A little rough/ I ask myself/ Have you had enough?? It?s powerful, right? And I love that the video has just Mandy in it. Even though Mandy gets all the credit for getting herself back to this place, it?s also nice to know that she made this music with the love and support of her new husband, musician Taylor Goldsmith. She?s in a better place all around.
Shes already tackled Mt. Everest. We can look forward to more music. Plus she has her award-winning show, This Is Us and the film Midway coming out in November, that I am very excited about. So Mandy?s standing tall after taking back her life. Good for her, she?s earned this moment. I hope she enjoys the hell out of it.
Photo credit: WENN Photos and YouTube
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| | Andie MacDowell on men's bad behavior: 'I?m so trained to be submissive' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Andie MacDowell, 61, has a new interview with Jezebel to promote her role in the underappreciated horror movie Ready or Not. She plays the snobby rich mom to a young man who brings his bride-to-be home for a violent vetting process that?s family tradition. I say it?s underappreciated but I haven?t seen it yet, I?ve only seen the trailer and positive reviews. I put Andie?s age right in the opener because she?s one of those actresses I keep thinking is at least 5 to 10 years younger, no matter how many times I look up her age.
Her Jezebel interview is just three minutes long but it?s full of great quotes. She talks about ageism in her industry, about MeToo, and about how she?s been conditioned to just accept men?s bad behavior. Heres what she said and you can see the video here.
When I was in my 30s I had projects coming to me. Now I?m just hoping to find a project. Every once in a while a miracle happens. Most roles are written around 30 year-olds. They don?t explore the life of mature people. We?re somebody?s mother or grandmother. Every once in a while we get lucky and we?re an interesting mother or grandmother.
Every journalist asked me ?How does it feel to turn 40 and know you?re not going to work anymore.? It?s the same thing as when Hillary was talking about running and everyone was saying ?Are we ready for a woman president??
Me Too and Times Up has changed a lot of things. People are starting to think before they behave. It?s also a personal level what I?ve had to accept. I?m so used to being treated a certain way, my time period, where I come from, I?ve accepted certain behaviors that it?s hard to remember I can stand up for myself.
It?s hard to react appropriately because I?m so trained to be submissive and polite.
[From video on Jezebel]
I like what she said about having trouble responding to men?s bad behavior because we?re trained from a young age to be nice. I especially like how she phrased her response, because it?s completely appropriate to call men out. My aunt?s ex husband was telling my mom at a wedding how beautiful I was and I told him it was creepy. My mom kind of kicked me to shut up but it was creepy! He was saying it lasciviously. Say I?m a lovely young woman (I know I?m not that young) or I turned out great or something vague, don?t comment on my looks like you?re attracted to me. Thats gross from anyone but especially someone who is practically family. Men suck. (Not all men, yada yada.)
Andie MacDowell has always been one of my favorites and I?ll watch anything she?s in. I especially love her voice. Take note casting directors.
Photos credit: Avalon.red
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