Sunday March 24 Daily Links
SUNDAY 3.24
NEWS STORIES
Is the Panhandle the New Miami?
Pensacola is having a big uptick in home sales over $1m as the ladi back lifestyle and great beaches seem to be making this region the new Miami.
Hate to tell you guys but that’s hurricane alley. May want to rethink this.
SPORTS
Barkley Gets Deep
Charles Barkley uses Auburn disappointment to share deeper message.
The deeper message is: you win some, you lose some.
It’s only deep if you’re a sports fan
CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT
Dune 2 is Chalamets Biggest Hit
Maybe he can use his new clout to make some good movies.
Drake Bell Says His Abusers Supporters Have Not Apologized
Dozens of celebs wrote letters to support convicted child molester Brian Peck who abused Drake Bell in the early 2000s. Not one of them have reached out to Drake to say they were sorry.
Have you at least heard from Lake Bell?
Cameron Diaz Had a Baby
Diaz and her hubby Benji Madden welcomed their first son, and they named him Cardinal Madden.
It could have been worse, they could have named him coach.
Joni Mitchell Back on Spotify
She boycotted the service for years, but now just a week after Neil Young’s return, Joni Mitchell’s music is once again available on the platform.
Well you sure brought them to their knees
Joker 2 Musical
Insiders say Todd Phillips Joker sequel is going to be a jukebox musical with 15 cover songs planned.
Okay, maybe we are in the Matrix.
Kevin Bacon Going to Footloose High Prom
The High School where the movie Footloose was shot launched and elaborate campaign to get Kevin Bacon to return the school for their prom. He was so impressed with their efforts that he said yes.
Nowadays they call him foot stiff
Steve Martin Looks Back at Prank that Hurt His Feelings
In the new documentary STEVE!, Martin looks back on an incident where a YouTube pranker asked him why he’s not funny anymore. “It hurt because I was at a very vulnerable moment in my career,” Steve says in the doc.
Steve got hurt cause he’s not used to hanging around with other comics.
Dana Carvey Sorry For Sharon Stone Sketch on SNL
On his Fly on the Wall podcast, Dana Carvey apologized to Sharon Stone for an “offensive” sketch when she hosted the show in 1992. “I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” he said, adding, “It’s so 1992, you know, it’s from another era.”
Stone said she wasn’t bothered by the sketch, but agreed it was created in a different time.
Did anyone even ask for an apology?
STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS
Trapped in The Matrix
The first Matrix premiered 25 years ago today, and the movie was clearly 25 years ahead of its time. This year, possibly for the first time, most of us ask ourselves on a regular basis, was that a glitch in the Matrix, and we aren’t making a joke.
After 25 years you’d think we’d finally stop hearing references to the Matrix.
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