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Justin Timberlake breaks silence on recent driving while intoxicated arrest
Justin Timberlake made his first public statement on Friday night concerning his arrest earlier this week for drunk driving in the seaside town of Sag Harbor, NY.
“It’s been a tough week,” the 43-year-old, multiple Grammy award-winning pop star, producer and actor told fans during a performance at Chicago’s United Center arena — his first since his Tuesday arrest. “But you’re here, and I’m here. And nothing can change this moment right now. I know sometimes I’m hard to love. But you keep on loving me, and I’ll love you right back.”
The crowd cheered in response to the baggy brown suit-wearing, guitar-wielding Timberlake’s confessional moment, which quickly segued into a request for concert goers to sing along with him.
“I know sometimes.. I’m hard to love. But you keep on loving me and I love you right back.”
– Justin Timberlake speaking to his SOLD OUT crowd in Chicago tonight!
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— AdoreJT (@adorejt_ig) June 22, 2024
According to an earlier story from NPR, the Sag Harbor police department pulled Timberlake over soon after midnight on June 18. He was driving his BMW through the picturesque Hamptons enclave, allegedly after leaving a party.
The artist was was held overnight on Tuesday and arraigned in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court later that morning. Timberlake was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated. He also received citations for failing to stay in the right lane and stop at a stop sign. Timberlake refused to take a breath test following his arrest.
The Sag Harbor Police Department told NPR they would not be able to provide further comment on the case over the weekend.
Timberlake is scheduled to perform another concert in Chicago on Saturday as part of his ongoing Forget Tomorrow World Tour, and then appear at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 25 and 26.
He is expected to appear virtually for an initial court hearing related to the incident on July 26. Timberlake’s attorney Edward Burke Jr. did not respond immediately for NPR’s request for comment. But in a statement shared with various media outlets earlier this week, Burke said: “I look forward to vigorously defending Mr. Timberlake against these allegations.”
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Trump Debates Stormy Daniels With Biden, 'I Didn't Have Sex With a Porn Star'
CNN
Presidential candidates’ sexual relations — or lack thereof — with porn stars are now a topic of national debate … yes this is Trump vs. Biden 2.0.
Stormy Daniels found herself smack in the middle of Trump and Biden during Thursday’s debate … when Biden started taking shots at Trump’s felony conviction.
It all started when Biden told voters, “The only person on the stage that is a convicted felon is the man I’m looking at right now,” a clear reference to Trump being found guilty of making hush money payments to Stormy.
In the soundbite of the night, Trump shot back … “I didn’t have sex with a porn star!!!”
Fox News
5/31/24
Yes, this is where America is in 2024.
Trump’s the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony, and he’s going up against Biden, who is still going to be dogged by questions about his age after his debate performance.
CNN
Before the old folks got all fired up over Stormy, it was mostly a dull debate … aside from Trump pouncing the moment Biden struggled to hold it together.
When Biden seemed to lose his train of thought and trail off, Trump took his shot … “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
TMZ.com
Something tells us there’s more ammo for Stormy’s stand-up act here.
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Sharply funny 'Janet Planet' perfectly captures the feel of a long, hot summer
Amid the current crop of summer movies, I can’t think of one that captures the feeling of summer more evocatively than Janet Planet. Much of the story takes place in a rustic house in woodsy Western Massachusetts; by day, sunlight streams in through enormous windows, and at night, chirping crickets flood the soundtrack. The celebrated playwright Annie Baker, here writing and directing her first film, has uncanny powers of observation and a talent for evoking time and place. She also has two memorable lead characters and a sharply funny and moving story to tell.
It’s the summer of 1991. The story begins when 11-year-old Lacy, played by the terrific newcomer Zoe Ziegler, calls her mom from camp and demands to be taken home early; her exact words are “I’m gonna kill myself if you don’t come get me.”
Lacy is a shy misfit with big owlish glasses and a flair for deadpan exaggeration. She and her single mom, Janet, who’s played by a subtly luminous Julianne Nicholson, are extremely close, as we can see when Janet duly comes to fetch Lacy and bring her home. Later at their house, Janet puts Lacy to bed and listens to her vent.
Baker isn’t one to hurry her characters along. Her plays — the best known of which is her Pulitzer-winning 2013 drama, The Flick — have been justly praised for bringing a new kind of naturalism to the stage, especially in the way the actors retain the stammers and silences of normal conversation. She brings that same sensibility to Janet Planet.
Baker includes a few loving nods to her background in theater; at various points, Lacy plays with a small puppet theater, complete with handmade clay figurines, and in a later scene, she and Janet attend an outdoor performance featuring actors in elaborate costumes. But the movie never feels stagey. It was shot on 16-millimeter film by Maria von Hausswolff, who previously filmed the visually stunning Icelandic drama Godland, and her use of natural light and precise, fine-grained details feel transportingly cinematic.
The movie is divided into three loose chapters, each one focused on a friend or significant other of Janet’s who becomes a houseguest for a spell. First up is her boyfriend Wayne, played by a gruff Will Patton, who has a daughter around Lacy’s age but doesn’t take too kindly to Lacy herself. He’s soon out the door.
In the second chapter we meet Regina, played by a wonderful Sophie Okonedo, a free-spirited drifter who comes to stay with Janet and Lacy after leaving a local hippie commune — basically a cult, though everyone is careful not to use that word. Regina initially brings a breath of fresh air into the house, though she proves insensitive and tactless, especially around Janet, and soon overstays her welcome.
The third houseguest — Avi, played by Elias Koteas — is Regina’s ex-partner and the leader of that hippie commune. Avi is the most mysterious presence in the movie, and it’s through his short-lived relationship with Janet that we fully grasp how profoundly unhappy she is.
The title Janet Planet has many meanings — it’s the name of the acupuncture studio that Janet operates out of the house. It’s also a passing reference to the nickname that Van Morrison gave the singer-songwriter Janet Rigsbee, who inspired a lot of his love songs during their five-year marriage. But the title is most meaningful as it frames our understanding of Janet, whose quiet magnetism really does seem to draw other people, especially men, into her orbit. As we see in Nicholson’s heartbreaking performance, it’s been as much a curse as it is a blessing.
One of the movie’s subtlest achievements is the way it clues us into Janet’s perspective, even as it keeps Janet herself at a bit of a distance. Much of the time we’re studying Janet through Lacy’s eyes, and what’s uncanny is the way Baker captures a sense of the girl’s growing disillusionment — that intensely specific moment when a child begins to see even a doting parent in a clear and not always flattering new light. By the end of Janet Planet, not much has happened, and yet something momentous seems to have taken place. You want Baker to return to these characters, to show us how Janet and Lacy continue to change and grow, together and apart, in the years — and the summers — to come.
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Every Southern California theme park ride, ranked
Times theme park critic Todd Martens was handed a wild assignment: Rank every theme park ride in Southern California. The mission was dizzying, literally, as he spent months fastening his seatbelt and zipping through mountains, strapping on AR goggles and floating into fairy tales. He judged each attraction not just on sheer entertainment, but on artistry and historical significance.
Here are the results. Below you’ll find guides to Disneyland, Universal Studios, Knott’s Berry Farm and Magic Mountain, with their rides ranked from best to worst. Use them to plan a trip to the park — or to start a debate. What would be your No. 1?
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