Friday May 19 Daily Links

FRIDAY 5.19


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Disney Scraps One Billion Dollar Orlando Office Complex

If you fuck with the mouse, you get the ears. Disney informed employees that based on new leadership and changing business conditions have led to the decision to ditch plans to build a one billion dollar office complex in Orlando.

Well it’s worth it to be mean to trans people, amirite Desantis?

Read more at Variety


There's a Cancelled Club- an Actual Club- in NY

Once a month a gathering of “thought criminals” meets up in NYC organized by 56 year old psychologist Pamela Paresky. If she approves you, you’re in and you can spend time hanging out with others who have been cancelled for their unpopular opinions and statements.

You’d be better off hanging at a crack house.

Read more at NewYorker.com


Mexican Law Turns Cereal Boxes Into Hilarious Memes

The country decided to get rid of mascots who lure kids in to eating sugar cereals, but instead of redesigning the boxes, the mascots have just been erased.

Yeah this aught to keep kids from eating it.



SPORTS



Ja Morant Sneakers Pulled From Nike Sites

The Ja 1 sneaker has only been on the market for about a month and now you can’t buy them. Nike pulled them off their app and website after Morant was involved in a second gun incident.

I know a club in New York where he’s more than welcome.

Read more at TMZ


The Walls are Caving in Around Brett Favre

Ole number four claims he really wasn’t a part of a scheme to defraud a welfare fund. He was just on the periphery and unknowingly caught up in it. Well Sports Illustrated took a closer look and says that’s a bunch of buillshit. With a cover story that says “WHAT HE DID AND HOW HE DID IT” SI showcases Favre in an issue that will sell more copies than Martha Stewart in a bikini.

This just means Aaron Rodgers is about 8 years away from doing something this dumb.

Read more at SI.com


Superstar Billy Graham Dead at 79

Ric Flair broke the news that the wrestler who went by the name Superstar Billy Graham had died, thanking Graham for his influence on his own character and career.

What a life. Pro wrestler AND a minister at a mega maga church?

Read more at NY Post



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Man Stole Ruby Slippers

A Minnesota Man stole a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland from her Grand Rapids museum in 2005 and he’s finally been indicted for the crime.

Why didn’t he get a shock when he tried to grab em?

Read more at AP News.


Zaslav Has a Brilliant Idea: Bundling Streamers

The Warner Brothers CEO has been criticized for his ridiculously high paycheck but now we know why he earns the big bucks. “It seems very clear that if we were to package this great product that we have with others, we would wake up tomorrow, and in each market, if we are the number one, or two, or three product, if we were marketing with the number two or three for a specific price it would be great for consumers. It would probably reduce churn. We would [all] be marketing one product. And it would provide a meaningful consumer experience.”

Where have we heard of that before? Oh yeah its called a cable company.

Read more at deadline.


Screen Actors Guild Now Recommending a Strike

The National Board of SAG-AFTRA unanimously agreed to recommend that the guild go on strike as the time for contract negotiations approaches in June.

Sorry folks. You’re never going to see Law and Order SUV again.

Read more at IGN


Priscilla Wants to Be Buried Next to Elvis

During negotiations with her granddaughter Riley Keough over the disposition of Lisa Marie’s trust, Priscilla said she wants to be buried next to her husband. The king is currently spending his eternal rest between his parents.

This would be the first time she knew where he was.

Read more at Daily Mail.


Cooper Hoffman Scores His Next Big Gig

It’s been announced that Lucy Liu and Coop will join Christoph Waltz in the upcoming movie Old Guy. This is Cooper’s first big film since his breakout role in Licorice Pizza.

WTF took you so long Hollywood? This kid is a star.

Read more at THR


Roseanne Barr Calls Sara Gilbert Backstabber

In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Roseanne Barr blamed her tv daughter for the shitstorm that ended her tv career. “It wasn’t enough that she stabbed me in the back and did what she did to me there. But then she would go on her talk show every day and talk about how shocked she was at my racism on top of it.” Roseanne said she called Gilbert on it. “I said … ’You better shut your blankin’ mouth about me. I’m telling you, you better shut your effing mouth.’ And she did,” Barr claimed.

Maybe but you’re still a fucking racist.

Read more at NY Post.


Hyphenates Deal With the Question: So What Exactly Is Writing?

If a script is already finished but you’re also the director and you make minor changes- is that writing? Do you become a scab if you change a word? What if you’re a writer producer and you’re at a showrunner meeting? Are you writing?

One thing we all agree on…if you’re getting a check from Ted Lasso season 3, you’re not writing.

Read more at THR



TRENDING & VIRAL



Delivery Robot Sexually Assaulted

Let’s face it, she was asking for it.

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