South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone caused a stir earlier this week when they announced that the show’s first episode to air since the shooting death of Charlie Kirk would be delayed, with many fans wondering if the episode had been pulled by Comedy Central. Announcing the delay on X, Parker and Stone said, “Apparently when you do everything at the last minute, sometimes you don’t get things done.” Speaking to The Denver Post, Stone confirmed that this one really was on them, telling the newspaper, “No one pulled the episode, no one censored us, and you know we’d say so if true.” Echoing the explanation posted on social media, he added, “We just didn’t get it done. When you always cut it close, sometimes you mess up. That’s the price of being a procrastinator.” South Park, which is currently airing its 27th season, made fun of Kirk in an episode that was aired last month, with Eric Cartman playing a version of the 31-year-old conservative influencer, leading fans to worry the show had been censored in the wake of Kirk’s killing. The next new episode will now air on September 24.
A writer on the Star Wars Emmy winning show Andor slammed President Trump’s effort to cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live! in a Friday op-ed for Deadline. Dan Gilroy, who writes for the Disney+ drama, called the FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s successful bid to get Jimmy Kimmel’s show pulled off the air a “siege.” He said he sees “parallels” between the “fascist takeover” that is depicted in the sci-fi show and “Trump’s tools of governance.” Gilroy writes, “Disney now stands at a crossroads: terminate Kimmel’s contract and become pavement for the road to a brave new Trumpian world; or stand for the First Amendment and take the onslaught.” Gilroy, who wrote and directed the 2014 film Nightcrawler, made comparisons to President Vladimir Putin’s control of the media in Russia. “The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most,” he wrote. Gilroy concluded his cautionary op-ed with a call to action. “Educate yourself. Organize. Speak truth to authority,” he wrote.
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Senator John Fetterman was caught by a fellow plane traveler eating a sandwich off the floor at an airport on Friday. The Pennsylvania Democrat had the photo snapped, seemingly unbeknownst to him, as he reached below his terminal seat to grab the quick meal, which sat on top of its wrapper, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The person posted it on X, writing, “Senator John Fetterman enjoying a nice floor sandwich this Friday afternoon at DCA.” An eagle and U.S. flag emojis concluded the caption. Many people were quick to criticize Fetterman for his lunching decision. “Gross, also a sandwich on the floor doesn’t sound too appealing,” one person wrote. “Just nasty,” another person added. But several people were quick to come to his defense, even relating to him. “One of us!” one person wrote. Another said, “Those among us who have not enjoyed a nice floor sandwich shall cast the first stone.” Fetterman co-sponsored a number of bills and resolutions the day prior.
Stan Lee will make an unsettling AI holographic appearance at this year’s L.A. Comic Con in September. The Marvel comic book legend died in 2018 at 95, but fans will be able to speak with him again — at least sort of. The Stan Lee Experience at the Los Angeles comic convention, which runs from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28, will cost between $15 and $20 to enter, depending on whether tickets are bought in advance. A hologram of the co-creator of Spider-Man will use AI to converse with fans in a 1,500-foot enclosed booth. “Fortunately, with decades of footage capturing his thoughts on so many subjects, we can build a voice that stays true, not always word for word, but always faithful in spirit, context, and intent,” said Bob Sabouni, Head of Stan Lee Legacy Programs for Kartoon Studios and a former Marvel executive. But if fans don’t want to spend their three minutes just talking to the projection, they can take photos with it too. The creepy creation was developed by the realistic avatar creator company Hyperreal and Proto Hologram, which recently helped make interactive mirrors in malls from The Conjuring.
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Actor and director Rob Reiner told CNN, “This may be the last time you ever see me,” after speaking out against President Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Reiner, star and director of This Is Spinal Tap, remarked to anchor Brianna Keilar after launching criticisms over Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled off the air. Kimmel’s show was pulled by ABC’s parent company after FCC Chair Brendan Carr expressed disapproval of the show host’s comments regarding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Reiner followed up his comment by saying that “there’s only a couple of us that are speaking out in this hard way.” Reiner, who was recently on Kimmel’s show to promote Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues, called himself a “friend of Jimmy’s.” He added, “And what happened to him is unconscionable. It just can’t happen.” Reiner said Trump’s move “has declared war on this democracy.” Reiner suggested that Kimmel could potentially launch a lawsuit against the Trump administration for forcing his show’s suspension. “If I’m Jimmy Kimmel, I’m suing the Trump administration,” Reiner said. “I’m suing them for abandoning my First Amendment rights.”
Pamela Anderson has some unfinished business. The former Baywatch star is going back to her roots to reimagine a TV version of Barb Wire, the 1996 superhero flick she starred in that tanked at the box office. It’s the first project for And-Her-Sons Productions, the company the 58-year-old blonde bombshell launched with her two sons, Brandon, 29, and Dylan, 27. The character of Barb Wire was created by Chris Warner for Dark Horse Comics, and first appeared in print in 1993. The 1996 film, in which Anderson’s character has dual roles as nightclub owner and mercenary in a fascist United States two decades in the future, underperformed at the box office and received generally poor reviews at the time. Anderson “won” the award for Worst New Star at the 1997 Golden Raspberry Awards. Anderson won’t reprise her role, Deadline reports, adding that it’s too soon to know if she’ll appear in another form. Anderson’s most recent big screen credit was as Beth Davenport, the love interest of Lt. Frank Drebin (Liam Neeson) in this year’s The Naked Gun. She also scored several awards show wins and nominations for her leading role in the 2024 drama The Last Showgirl.
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle took to social media to defend himself after a fabricated quote about Charlie Kirk was attributed to him. On Tuesday, a Facebook fan page called “Red and Gold Legacy” posted a photo of Kittle along with a quote that read, “I love football because it unites people. But lately, I’ve seen politics being dragged into it far too often. Charlie Kirk may matter to some, but he has no place in the NFL.” On Wednesday, Kittle posted a screenshot of the photo to his Instagram story and told his 1.6 million followers that it was fake. “That above account only posts fake news/reports, please ignore them,” Kittle wrote. “The wild messages I’m receiving from people made me have to address it.” Meta took down the Facebook page after SFGate, a local California publication, pointed out the misinformation on it to the company. However, the post has continued to circulate, prompting Kittle’s wife Claire to call out the false rumors on her Instagram. “How sick is the world that someone actually took the time to write and post this,” she wrote. “Leave us alone and goodnight.” Kittle is a six-time Pro Bowler.
Dan Brown, the creator of The Da Vinci Code, is engaged to his former mistress. In 2020, Brown’s ex-wife Blythe Newlon filed a lawsuit alleging that Brown, 61, engaged in four expensive affairs during their 21-year marriage, including with his horse trainer, Judith Pietersen. Now, Brown and Pietersen, 34, are set to be married. Brown’s most recent book, The Secret of Secrets, features an acknowledgment message to “my fiancée, Judith Pietersen.” Brown has sold more than 200 million copies of his thrillers, most of which revolve around Robert Langdon, a fictional Harvard professor of symbology. The Da Vinci Code became a 2006 blockbuster film starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard, with the pair collaborating on two more adaptations of Brown’s books in 2009 and 2016. Brown has said that Newlon inspired him to create the series, which has earned him a fortune of more than $100 million. “I probably wouldn’t have written The Da Vinci Code without her,” Brown in 2017 said of Newlon, who he once called “without a doubt the most astonishingly talented woman I have ever known.” The Secret of Secrets is already being developed into a Netflix TV series, with the book due out in September.
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President Donald Trump has been flayed by the American people in a brutal poll portraying widespread frustration with his handling of key issues. The Washington Post-Ipsos questionnaire asked citizens their opinions on six major topics of the day, yielding overall disapproval by double-digit margins in all of them. At the bottom of the pile, with just 34 percent approval, were his far-reaching tariffs, which have stung consumers with increased prices on imported goods. With 64 percent disapproving, it was only four points worse than his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war. Just 38 percent approve, after he promised to end the conflict within a day of his inauguration. Some 40 percent of the 2,513 surveyed backed his management of the economy, 19 points down amid disapproval on inflation and relentless pressure by the administration on the Federal Reserve to cut rates. The White House’s strongest approval ratings came on immigration and crime, with a 44 percent approval rating in two areas Trump has claimed to prioritize.
Woody Allen is speaking out about his marriage to Mia Farrow’s daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. “If anyone had told me years ago that I would be married to a girl much younger than me with no background in New York, or none of the similar interests growing up, and that she’d be a Korean orphan, I would have said, ‘No chance. I’m going to be married to a New York actress,’” Allen, 89, told the Wall Street Journal. “But it didn’t work out that way.” The director—who met Previn, 54, while in a relationship with her adoptive mother—also described his wife as “disciplined,” “decisive,” a “larger-than-life personality,” and a “wonderful mother” who “finds [his] writing style high-falutin.” Allen was with Farrow from 1980 until 1992, when she discovered his affair with her daughter. He married Previn in 1997, and the couple shares two adopted daughters, Bechet, 26, and Manzie, 25. Allen is also father to three of Previn’s younger siblings: son Ronan, 37, and adopted children Moses, 47, and Dylan, 40. Dylan has accused Allen of sexually abusing her as a child, which he denies. Previn, meanwhile, has accused her mother of physical abuse and of pressuring her sister to make false allegations. Allen told WSJ he has “many regrets,” but they’re all film-related.