Thirty-six women who worked with Al Franken on Saturday Night Livebothchastised and expressed solidarity with the former comedian and current Minnesota senator after he was accused of groping radio/TV host, Leeann Tweeden. The letter featured the signatures of writers and members of the production staff, including longtime producer Marci Klein …
Read More »Inside Ron Jeremy Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Last June, a woman named Ginger Banks posted a YouTube video that circulated widely among those in the adult entertainment industry. In it, Banks, dressed down in a topknot and spectacles, calmly addresses the camera as her dog sleeps in the background: “There have been allegations of rape and sexual …
Read More »Kathy Griffin Not Sorry Over Trump Photo: 'I Knew What I Was Doing'
Kathy Griffin is more adamant now than ever before that she was not in the wrong when she posted a graphic photo of herself holding up President Trump‘s bloody head in her hand earlier this year. In a new interview with BBC World News program HardTalk set to air Wednesday, …
Read More »Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Hired Spies to Get Info on His Accusers
Ronan Farrow revealed new details surrounding the massive Harvey Weinstein scandal in a secondNew Yorkerexposé published Monday, alleging that the now-disgraced producer had an entire network of individuals helping him to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct. In his 5,300-word piece, Farrow alleges that Weinstein enlisted the help of private security …
Read More »Wim Hof Says He Holds the Key to a Healthy Life – But Will Anyone Listen?
Wim Hof’s position on big-big-name celebrities like Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise is that they are going to help take him and his far-out, revolutionary, health-restoring way of deep breathing, known as the Wim Hof Method (WHM), to the next level. The level it’s at now is disappointing. …
Read More »Jose Altuve's Singing Turned the Backstreet Boys Into Astros Fans
Thanks to a video that went viral of José Altuve singing “I Want It That Way,” the Backstreet Boys are rooting for the Houston Astros to win the final game of the World Series. “There was an Internet sensation video that happened with José Altuve from the Astros, the second …
Read More »George H.W. Bush Apologizes to Second Actress After Groping Allegations
UPDATE: A second woman came forward to accuse the former president of inappropriate behavior Wednesday. This time, New York actress Jordana Grolnick recounted to Deadspin an incident back in August 2016, when she was working at a theater in Maine. During the intermission of a performance of The Hunchback of …
Read More »'American Horror Story' Inspired Australian Woman to Kill Grandfather
An Australian woman who has been accused of stabbing her grandfather and then letting him bleed to death in his kitchen as she washed the dishes claims that American Horror Story inspired her to commit the crime. At a pre-trial hearing Wednesday, Brittany Jane Dwyer’s attorney said that the hit …
Read More »Hurricane Maria: Inside a Puerto Rican Barrio's Fight to Survive
On a hot and cloudless afternoon in mid-October, the eight San Juan barrios known collectively as the G8 look a lot like other neighborhoods in the hurricane-battered capital. Uprooted trees lean against roofless homes. Piles of storm detritus and soggy furniture crowd the streets, an odd diesel generator providing a …
Read More »How Playing 'Madden' Helps High School Football Players Learn the Game
Two-a-day workouts, studying a playbook, watching locker room footage: these are some old-school ways for a young football player to improve their knowledge of the game. The newer, and much more popular way, however, is picking up a video game controller. In a report from the Washington Post‘s Jesse Dougherty, …
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