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.

Read more at Daily Mail






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

Read more at awful announcing.




CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Dune 2 is Chalamets Biggest Hit

Maybe he can use his new clout to make some good movies.

Read more at Collider


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?

Read more at EW


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.

Read more at People.


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

Read more at THR


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.

Read more at Variety


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

Read more at avclub


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.

Read more at deadline.


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?

Read more at Deadline



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.

Read more at wsj



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