Новости за 17.05.2021

Along with those horrible tiered ruffle skirts and awful Hollister henleys (probably), the latest aughts trend to re-emerge afresh is using Jake Gyllenhaal as a stand-in for real-life literary scammers who somehow became more interesting after news broke that they were lying Ps of S.

A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe and her iconic billowing white dress is coming back to Palm Springs, California after a seven-year absence. But NPR reports that some locals are petitioning against the return of the statue they’re calling “misogynistic” due to its prominent exposure of Monroe’s underwear.

Ariana Grande, the princess of high ponytails, is now happily married to her real estate agent fiancé Dalton Gomez. Grande and Gomez were married in a private ceremony in Grande’s home in California over the weekend and TMZ reports that the event featured no more than 20 guests, consisting entirely of family and…

Remember Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich? I only just flushed the taint of that blatantly sexist and alarmingly exploitative account of Epstein’s many alleged victims out of my system. Right on time, too, because the menace behind it, producer and author James Patterson, has been greenlit on a new docuseries about the…

In this week’s New Yorker is a sparkling, not-at-all stuffy profile of talk show host/influential neologist Wendy Williams. Michael Schulman’s piece hits a lot of the beats of the recent Lifetime movies about Williams’s life that it references (the infamous Whitney Houston interview, Williams’s on-air fainting, her…

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, currently under federal investigation for potentially violating sex trafficking laws after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paying for her travel, is chillin’.

Hacks, an HBO Max show about a floundering comic legend and sort-of-canceled television writer, is genuinely enjoyable television, if not entirely groundbreaking, which for now I think is just fine for me. This is helped greatly by the addition of Jean Smart in a starring role, delivering what is shaping up to be the…

The hoop/key combo that dangled from Janet Jackson’s right ear for much of her Control and Rhythm Nation 1814 eras sold for $43,750 at an auction that concluded Sunday (which just happened to be Jackson’s 55th birthday). The auction was hosted by Julien’s Auctions and boasted more than 1,000 items from throughout…

In April, Bolu Babalola released the much-anticipated Love in Color, a collection of folklore retellings from around the world, with a focus on stories from West Africa but ranging into characters like Pyramus and Thisbe and Scheherazade, as well. A romance fan, Babalola recommended some summer selections for Jezebel…

On Monday, the Supreme Court finally announced it would hear a case on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, a rule that directly challenges Roe v. Wade’s mandate that states cannot ban abortion before a fetus is viable. If Mississippi’s 2018 ban is upheld by the now-staunchly conservative court, it would not only…

Not but five days ago, a few very unsavory tweets from Chrissy Teigen’s past resurfaced, causing the famous lady to rescind the terrible things she said about Courtney Stodden a decade ago. But are there some real-life repercussions for Mrs. Cravings? Let’s see here.

New York City Pride organizers are barring police officers from marching in the annual parade for at least the next four years. They will also seek to limit law enforcement’s security presence, asking officers to maintain a distance of one block between themselves and the event at all times.

Executives at one of the country’s biggest drug distributors in the United States regularly made fun of the Americans who became addicted to the opioids they marketed.

It’s been just a couple of weeks since Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce and we’ve already learned quite a bit about the factors that may have contributed to the split. (Presumably thanks to Melinda Gates’s divorce lawyers and apparently dogged public relations team.)

Could it be? New breakup music from Jennifer Lopez???

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