Новости за 22.05.2024

A wild week for me entails getting drinks with friends or doing something after work multiple times in a work week. In light of recent events over the last several days, it's safe to say that Rudy Giuliani—once "America's Mayor," now better known as Donald Trump's former, crooked lawyer and an alleged sexual predator and election conspiracist—cannot relate. This week, Giuliani's latest legal troubles, this time stemming from charges in Arizona that he conspired to steal the 2020 election for Trump, seemingly reached their boiling point. Читать дальше...

The legal team for a Utah mom accused of poisoning and murdering her husband—then writing a celebrated children's book about grief—is no longer representing her as of this week, citing an “irreconcilable and nonwaivable situation," the Associated Press reports. Kouri Richins is charged with murder for allegedly killing her husband, Eric Richins, by giving him a Moscow mule cocktail with fentanyl in March 2022. Richins was arrested in May 2023, months after self-publishing Are You With Me?, an illustrated... Читать дальше...

If you grew up during the era when appointment television was still a thing, and your life revolved around passionately watching a new episode of “your show” every week, then writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s made a movie just for you.   I Saw the TV Glow is Schoenbrun’s follow-up to their haunting 2021 Sundance release We're All Going to the World's Fair. Glow follows the friendship of social misfits Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Owen (Justice Smith). Maddy’s the slightly older, intriguing loner... Читать дальше...

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has been totally outlawed across Louisiana. Still, the state appears poised to take this a step further and threaten not just doctors who provide abortion but almost anyone who possesses abortion pills with prison time.  On Tuesday, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to pass a bill out of the state House that would criminalize possession of mifepristone or misoprostol pills—which are used to facilitate medication abortions but are... Читать дальше...

Finally, millennials everywhere can rejoice because Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's new reality show—very notably not The Simple Life—is officially filming. On Monday, Hilton confirmed the news in a TikTok with someone called TaraYummy (I don't know, I'm thirty years old), after the *checks notes* "social media personality" told her The Simple Life is her "favorite show of all time." Ms. Yummy looks about 16 but OK! Kudos to her for knowing her herstory. "Thank you, we're shooting tomorrow," Hilton deadpanned in response. Читать дальше...