Новости за 22.08.2018

On Wednesday, TMZ published a photo of Asia Argento and Jimmy Bennett reportedly taken after Argento allegedly sexually assaulted him in a California hotel room in 2013. (You can see it here.) Bennett, now 22, was 17 years old at the time. The age of consent in California is 18. Argento was 37.

Lifetime has announced its movies for the upcoming fall, and the channel appears to be leaning hard on its early 1990s “true tales of peril” playbook.

Idris Elba will not be the next James Bond—at least, that’s what he told a reporter at the London premiere of his new film, Yardie. According to OkayAfrica, Good Morning Britain’s Divya Kohli asked Elba if she were “looking at the next 007” when he passed her on the red carpet. The actor-slash-director said “No”…

Listen, I’m not your mother, but please stop eating wild mushrooms—anything you find on the ground outside, really. It might be free, but it might also kill you.

Who’s the biggest grifter in Congress? For your consideration: Republican congressman and vape enthusiast Duncan Hunter, who, along with his wife and “campaign manager” Margaret, were charged on Tuesday by federal prosecutors on numerous counts, all related to their stealing $250,000 from Duncan’s campaign funds to…

Pleased to report that you can now turn to your chart dividing Feminist Things from Not Feminist Things and cheerfully add LAND O’ LAKES BUTTER to the former column!

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Listen carefully: Are you an NYC-based Associate Producer (Senior) working for PBS on a reality or documentary TV show? If so, are you okay? Are you being held against your will in your office? Do you have access to running water and your phone? Do you need help? Based on the following tweet and screenshot of a PBS…

Earlier this week, 33-year-old Christopher Watts was charged with the murder of his pregnant wife, Shanann, and his two young daughters, Celeste and Bella.

That all-but-confirmed Crazy Rich Asians sequel is officially underway.

In a recent interview with Politico’s Women Rule podcast, Lea Márquez-Peterson, a Republican primary candidate for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, said that when it comes to Donald Trump, “I kind of separate the man from the policy.”

The term “gross-out humor” doesn’t conjure up much subtlety or imagination. But for artist and illustrator Lisa Hanawalt, there’s something profoundly funny in the gap between the grotesqueness of everyday life and the inevitability of its existence. In one of her best-known comics, originally drawn for the…

Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle is leering on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter this week, and we all know what that means: 2018 awards season is officially in season, sweeties! Chazelle (the filmmaker responsible for La La Land, which I despise, and Whiplash, which I love) is one of the many men behind the…

A new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force suggests HPV tests can replace many pap smears.

In May 2017, Jezebel reported that Los Angeles-based indie brand Valfré, founded by Mexican-born artist and designer Ilse Valfre, sent a cease and desist to Forever 21 and Rue 21 for apparently lifting their designs. And it looks like the bullshit continues: Valfre says that online fast-fashion retailer Shein, known…

Scott Lloyd, the anti-abortion zealot who is the head of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, has made it his personal mission to stop every migrant teen under his custody, including rape victims, from getting abortions—going so far as to personally intervene when an…

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is trying, once again, to defund Planned Parenthood.

In May 2018 it appeared that China’s censors had descended on beloved cartoon Peppa Pig, removing over 30,000 videos from a popular streaming service and banning the hashtag #PeppaPig, the New York Times reported. After bootleg Peppa Pig streetwear began to grow increasingly popular among Chinese youth (who claimed…

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The BBC announced that Michaela Coel will bring her magical brain to the network, writing and starring in a new show surrounding issues of sexual consent. According to the Guardian, the show is currently titled January 22nd and will center on Coel’s character Arabella and her “experience of consent,” as well as her…

I love tour drama, mostly because it’s typically just insider tour sources arguing (via the tabloids) with celebrities who will understandably never admit their live shows aren’t selling well and instead using an excuse from a bucket containing lines like “I want to make the best show for y’all,” “I’m exhausted,”…

On Thanksgiving we join together with family and friends and wait for the turkey to gestate. That is what we do. “When will the turkey be done gestating?” you ask your aunt. She sighs; the turkey will be gestating for another two hours, at least.

Earlier this summer, Lena Dunham’s Sphynx cat, Gia Marie, died suddenly. Now, she has lost yet another pet—Bowie, a 13-year-old Yorkie. Dunham announced Bowie’s death on Instagram:

A boy broke my heart the week before my freshman year finals, and watching Veronica Mars was only way I managed to pass my classes. My friend had all three seasons on DVD, and each night, after I spent a few hours studying, she and I would watch a few episodes. I loved the characters, the mysteries, and Logan Echolls,…

Aretha Franklin reportedly had $80 million to her name when she died on August 16, but it appears she didn’t make plans for that fortune’s future—according to a report in TMZ, the Queen of Soul didn’t leave a will.