Thursday May 9 Daily Links

THURSDAY 5.9


NEWS STORIES

 



RFK and His Brain Eating Wormf

The New York Times got ahold of a 2012 deposition when Robert Kennedy Jr said he had a worm in his brain, that it ate part of his brain and died there.

So that’s how it is in their family

Read more at Rolling Stone


MTG Attempt Against Mike Johnson Fails

The House voted swiftly Wednesday evening to kill Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership post.

Congress is finally united.

Read more at CNN


TikTok Suing the US

TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance sued in U.S. federal court on Tuesday seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the app.

Prepare for a 5 year struggle.

Read more at Yahoo



SPORTS



Boomer Predicts a Netflix NFL Xmas

According to Boomer Esiason, the league might be looking to sell a Christmas Day package of games to Netflix.

You’re just mad at the NFL

Read more at awful announcing


WNBA to Use Charter Flights

Until now WNBA teams have always had to fly commercial airlines like the rest of us slobs. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced on Tuesday, “we intend to fund a full-time charter for this season.”

Thanks Caitlin.

Read more at Us Magazine


Travis Kelce Gets First Major TV Role

The younger Kelce brother has been cast opposite Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville in the FX series, Grotesquerie

His fifteen minutes is about 14:30.

Read more at Variety
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/travis-kelce-joins-grotesquerie-ryan-murphy-1235995278/



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Did Kevin Spacey Ignite Male #MeToo

The new documentary, Spacey Unmasked, is bringing a fresh wave of allegations against Kevin Spacey by men who claim they were abused by him. The House on Wednesday voted to table – or kill – Greene’s push to remove Johnson by a tally of 359 to 43.

Brothers are finally doing it for themselves.

Read more at Daily Mail


Michael Douglas Knocks Intimacy Coordinators

He believes that the job is nothing more than a way to ‘control’ directors.”It’s interesting with all the intimacy coordinators,” Douglas said during the interview. “It feels like executives taking control away from filmmakers — but there have been some terrible faux pas and harassment.”

Yea that’s what they’re supposed to do. ll you creeps need to be controlled.

Read more at indiewire


Bette Midler Thinks She Should Have Sued Lindsay Lohan

Back in 2000s Lindsay Lohan bailed on Bette’s sitcom “Bette” and now she’s blaming Lindsay for the series failure. She says she didn’t know at the time that she could have sued, and regrets that now.

If you need the money can’t you just tour like a normal person?

Read more at TMZ


Netflix Censored One Thing on the Brady Roast

So you can mock Tom mercilessly, talk about his ex-wife’s sex life, say the R word and the F word, but you cannot boo Kim Kardashian.

They should have just replaced it with screams.

Read more at pagesix.


Chris Pine Cant Believe Wonder Woman 3 Aint Happening

“I’m stunned that they said no to a billion-dollar franchise and decided to pivot elsewhere,” the Poolman director said. “I don’t know what the reasoning was behind that; it’s above my pay grade, but Wonder Woman is an incredible character. Patty [Jenkins] is such a thoughtful director.”

Who would have thought Chris would be pining.

Read more at THR


Whats Coming Soon This Summer?

CNBC gives us a preview of all the movies with a release planned for the Summer of 2024, so you can plan out your trips to the movies.

Is it even summer if you don’t have a big summer movie?

Read more at CNBC



VIRAL & TRENDING



Apple Releases Upsetting iPad Ad

The new ipad is really thin, and the marketing geniuses over at Apple thought it would be clever to act like they’re squashing all sorts of incredible things into this tight little package. But with AI fears rampant, it came across like the ipad is literally crushing everything from musical instruments to camera lenses because you don’t need them anymore.

Even Ray Bradbury couldn’t imagine anything this dark.





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