Category: 5. Entertainment

After rewatching Glee in its entirety, Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz are sharing what it was like to see their late costars, Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera, on screen again.

While guesting on a recent episode of How Rude, Tanneritos! hosted by Full House stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, McHale and Ushkowitz — who played Artie and Tina on Glee, respectively — agreed that rewatching Ryan Murphy’s musical dramedy series for their own And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast was unexpectedly “healing and therapeutic” when it came to revisiting their friends’ performances. Monteith died from an overdose in 2013 in the middle of filming for season 4, while Rivera died seven years afterward in an accidental drowning.

“I just appreciate their talent more in addition to loving the humans that they were,” Ushkowitz said of the pair. “For Cory, especially, we had to mourn all of that in the show, while we were filming it, and move on without him in the show.”

“Some moments it’s hard, especially with the storylines or the songs they’re singing,” added McHale. “It really is a gift that we get to watch this, and we got so many moments of how great they are as people [that] shine through.”

The actor also explained that he and Ushkowitz had previously decided to rewatch Glee years ago on a different podcast called Showmance, but they scrapped the project after Rivera died at the age of 33 while on a boating trip with then-4-year-old son Josey. Shortly afterward, authorities concluded that the vocalist, who played Santana Lopez on Glee, likely used her last moments to get Josey safely back on their boat after taking a swim before she disappeared beneath the water.

Even before that happened, however, McHale said it was difficult to take in Monteith’s scenes as lovable jock-turned-show-choir-geek Finn Hudson. “It was hard for me to even watch Cory,” he recalled. “Up to that point, I couldn’t really listen to the songs he was singing on, but watching it really helped [us] get through it.”

“When Naya passed away, we were like, ‘We can’t do this anymore,’” McHale added. “We just ended the show.”

When it came time to revisit the idea of a Glee rewatch podcast, McHale noted that he and Ushkowitz decided that they wanted And That’s What You REALLY Missed — which premiered in September 2022 — to be a “celebration” of their friends’ lives and talents. The actress also noted that going back through the episodes allowed her to give their cast and crew more “grace” when it came to how “off the rails” the show’s plot went almost immediately after losing Monteith, to whom they paid tribute in a season 4 episode titled “The Quarterback.”

Listen to McHale and Ushkowitz’s full How Rude, Tanneritos! episode below.

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(Web Desk) – Deepika Padukone will no longer play the female lead in the Hindi adaptation of the 2015 Hollywood film The Intern.

After remaining attached to the project for nearly five years, she has decided to step back from acting entirely.

Instead, Deepika will focus solely on producing the remake under her KA Productions banner, overseeing its creative and logistical execution.

The Hindi version was initially planned with Deepika Padukone starring alongside Rishi Kapoor, but his passing altered the casting process significantly.

Following his death, Amitabh Bachchan was brought on board.

Now, according to reports, a fresh search is underway to cast a new leading lady.

It is believed that The Intern will be the first of five films Deepika Padukone aims to produce in 2025.

She has reportedly expressed an interest in backing stories with themes she believes can resonate with audiences worldwide.

The actress was last seen in the 2024 Diwali release Singham Again, which marked her return to the big screen after motherhood.

Her decision comes months after she walked away from Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Spirit, starring Prabhas, over reported creative differences.

Her exit from Spirit was allegedly linked to conditions including an eight-hour workday, profit sharing, and substantial pay.

Reports also claimed she declined to speak her lines in Telugu for the film, leading to her replacement by Triptii Dimri.

Speculation later emerged suggesting Deepika might also step back from the Kalki 2898 AD sequel due to similar scheduling and workload preferences.

These rumours hinted that her reduced availability after becoming a mother might result in her role being cut or recast.

Kylie Kelce revealed some relatable reasons why she is not a fan of letting her daughter wear two-piece swimsuits.

In a recent chat with Today, the mom of four shared that she never dresses her daughters in two-piece swimwear when they go to the beach.

Sharing the reason, which moms around the world can relate to, Kylie admitted, “I have to be honest, I’m against the bikinis because I don’t want to have to sunscreen that many spots.”

The former Hockey player went on to say, “I’m a big proponent of the long-sleeve swimsuits, specifically on the beach because even when we have a two-piece with the long-sleeve sun shirt, I still have to like re-sunscreen their belly and back.”

Another reason Kylie noted was that when kids move around and play in sand, this can make their swimsuit move, so it becomes a “hassle” to reapply sunscreen all over again.

“You know how much their swimsuits move while they’re digging in the sand and playing in the waves,” Kylie said, noting, “It is a hassle and a half.”

“I mean, modesty is great for kids, but ultimately I don’t want to have to screen you any more than I already do,” Kylie remarked.

“It’s torture,” she added jokingly.

It is pertinent to mention that Kylie shares daughters Finnley, 4 months, Bennett, 2, Wyatt, 5, and Elliotte, 4, with her husband, Jason Kelce.

Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there’s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot.

During an appearance on Toon’d In with Jimmy Cummings, Tudyk said that with test screening audiences, he tested higher than the film’s star Will Smith.

“They were doing test audiences with the movie and they score the characters and I got word back, ‘Alan, you’re testing higher than Will Smith,’” Tudyk recalled on the podcast from June 15. “And then I was gone. I was gone. There was no publicity and my name was not mentioned.”

He continued, “I was so shocked, I was like, ‘But wait, nobody’s going to know that I [play the robot].’”

Tudyk voiced Sonny the robot and was motion-captured for the CGI character, saying that he “put a lot into” his performance, adding, “At the time, I was very upset.”

Directed by Alex Proyas, I, Robot is set in Chicago 2035 as robots fill public service positions around the world. Will Smith plays Detective Del Spooner as he investigates the death of the U.S. Robotics founder, who believes that Sonny the robot murdered him.

The film also stars Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Shia LaBeouf, Fiona Hogan, Terry Chen, Adrian L. Ricard, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Shinkoda, Emily Tennant, and David Haysom.

I, Robot was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Visual Effects, which it ultimately lost to the Sam Raimi-directed superhero action film, Spider-Man 2.

Watch Tudyk’s interview below.

Ozzy Osbourne’s longtime friend Andrew Watt recently reacted to the rock icon’s tragic death.

Watt, 34, who collaborated with the Paranoid singer in 2019 on the album Ordinary Man, paid tribute to the departed legend.

Taking to Instagram, the Grammy-winning American record producer shared a past video of the Prince of Darkness alongside a heartfelt caption.

He wrote, “Still processing saying goodbye to @ozzyosbourne. …. Someone said “Grief is the price of Love”. I say that to myself everyday but at the end of the day I just miss my friend so much. There is a new hole in my heart, something I will learn to live with…The music is obvious…how lucky I was to share in a little of Ozzy’s magic, but the friendship was the greatest gift of all…I will miss laughing with you forever Boss… Do you want a kick in the balls?”

This comes after the Crazy Train hitmaker passed away on Tuesday, July 22, at the age of 76.

Earlier in June, Watt reflected on his connection with Osbourne.

Speaking to Guitar World, he said, “Ozzy and I have a connection that’s unlike anything else I’ve never experienced. We made some music together that we really love, and we’ll continue making music together forever. More importantly than that, we talk every day and we’re really close friends.”

For the unversed, the Burning Man singer helped Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne produce a rock album. 

Deadline was the first to tell you that Lily James would be playing Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, the first to bring you a production photo and now we finally get the trailer.

The Hulu film Swiped also stars Myha’la, Jackson White, Dan Stevens and Pierson Fode, as Deadline previously announced. It begins streaming September 19.

Plot details for the film remain vague, as it’s said to be somewhat loosely inspired by Herd’s life and career journey, rather than a beat-for-beat recounting. Famously launching the online dating platform Bumble after co-founding and departing Tinder, Herd became one of the youngest self-made billionaires at age 31 when Bumble went public in 2021. While she stepped down as CEO last year, the app continues to be popular amongst the single crowd.

The trailer follows Herd’s rise among the Twitter boys club, her disillusionment and departure, and her effort to “change the rules of online dating” by empowering women to choose on Bumble.

Watch the trailer above.

In the past few weeks, rap fans have celebrated legendary mixtapes from Lil Wayne and Rick Ross being uploaded to streaming platforms, but their time on these services may be cut short. A source close to Wayne told Rolling Stone that his Dedication and Da Drought mixtapes, recently removed from Tidal and Apple Music, were “not legal [or] legitimate uploads,” even though they were on his official artist pages. (Reps for Tidal and Apple Music did not respond to requests for comment.) 

These uploads reflect potential flaws in the process of adding music to Digital Service Providers (DSPs). Streaming services like Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify require artists to utilize third-party music distributors such as Distrokid, TuneCore, and RouteNote to upload music to their platforms. However, the scale of music regularly uploaded to self-service distributors means anyone can upload a song or album without official rights, attribute it to any artist they choose, and sometimes have these uploads slip through regulation onto artists’ official pages. 

Coach Bombay 3000, a Brooklyn music manager for rapper Rome Streetz and several other acts, believes that it’s “pretty easy” for anyone to upload music to digital music distributors and have it appear on an artist’s official page. “There’s been times where there’s so much shit that says Rome Streetz [and] we never uploaded [it],” he says. “We’re like, ‘Who the fuck is this?’ We got to issue strikes to get it taken down.” Bombay says he’s dealt with people trying to upload music to Rome’s streaming pages “three times” in the last month. 

He explains that when people use one of the digital music distributors, they can type Rome Streetz or Lil Wayne in the “primary artist” category of the upload form, add a link to the URL of the official artist page on the streaming service, and have a chance of the music bypassing quality control functions. He says that once the music is uploaded to streaming providers, his team has to ask the official distributor (an independent distributor or record label) to issue a takedown notice, which can take days. In the case of Wayne, it took almost a week for his mixtapes to be removed from Apple Music and Tidal. 

Another anonymous source, who works in the streaming world, confirmed the ease of illegitimate uploads, adding “it happens that way all the time,” and they’ve seen a “crazy influx of fraud” in recent months. Sometimes users upload unlicensed music onto artists’ official pages, while other times they use accounts featuring the artist’s misspelled name or a nickname as the “primary artist.” The source also notes that artists sometimes take it upon themselves to add their legitimate collaborators as a “primary artist” without permission. “Some artists don’t like being added as a primary artist without their permission because whatever they’re tagged on as a primary artist shows up as their latest release.” 

The source says that they’ll occasionally see these pending uploads fast enough to contact the music distributor or streaming platform, but sometimes they’re “not quick enough,” resulting in them going live on the platform. “It would likely come down to a shitty distributor or one with too much volume,” they said, likening the process to whack-a-mole. Bombay bemoans the “free-for-all” atmosphere on streaming platforms. “There’s no filter system,” he says. “There’s no process to make sure that everything that’s being uploaded is quality.”

While the mixtape scene allowed artists and DJs to release songs to blogs and sites like Datpiff and LiveMixtapes without regulation, streaming services are more stringent with unlicensed music, especially from popular acts. Wayne’s Dedication and Da Drought mixtapes feature him freestyling over beats from other artists who would have to clear them being used — ditto for his collaborators, who would have to approve their appearances for the projects to avoid copyright strikes. 

In recent years, artists have re-released their early career mixtapes on streaming services. In 2020, Lil Wayne dropped a truncated version of 2011’s No Ceilings, Drake celebrated the 10th anniversary of So Far Gone with a 2019 release on streaming platforms. Nicki Minaj reissued her seminal 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty in 2021, and Travis Scott commemorated the 10th anniversary of Days Before Rodeo with an official release on streaming last year, while J. Cole went on to re-release a trio of his early mixtapes two months later. In each case, the artists announced the impending releases; the mysterious recent appearance of Wayne’s mixtapes, as well as Rick Ross’ 2011 Rich Forever project, made some fans skeptical. 

When Ross was asked in May about clearing Rich Forever for streaming services, he said, “I really don’t wanna do it. That was at a certain point, I just wanted to do that for the streets.” There’s an entire wing of canonical mixtape music that’s available on YouTube, as well as platforms like LiveMixtapes and Datpiff, but isn’t officially on streaming platforms. 

In 2021, the late Prodigy’s friend and engineer Joe “The Engine Ear” told Complex about the tedious process of getting the rap legend’s music cleared for DSPs. Joe noted that after Prodigy’s 2017 death, his estate removed his music from streaming to ensure that samples were cleared, publishing splits were correct, and all credits were properly attributed. “It’s hard to explain the amount of work that it took to get The Book of Heroine near the finish line,” he said.   

While fans may sometimes circumvent overloaded or shoddy digital distributors to release unlicensed music, they usually won’t last long before being flagged. Still, Bombay notes, “the digital streaming platforms have no control over what goes out and what comes up.” The anonymous source expressed a slightly different sentiment, saying, “I think folks are trying to eliminate this issue. The problem is with rapid fans and hypebeasts, I feel they’ll always find a way.” 

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