DDG jokes about using fertility clinic to avoid drama

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DDG has claimed he will have his next child via fertility treatment to "alleviate" against any potential issues. The 27-year-old online personality is currently locked in a bitter battle with former girlfriend Halle Bailey - with whom he has 18-month-old son Halo - and he's joked about using his wealth in order to fund having another baby with the intervention of medical specialists. During a livestream on Twitch, he said: 'If I'm 29 or something like that, and I ain't got the time… I'll just go to that little place, do my little one-two, put my s*** in a cup. Take a little egg from somebody, throw it in another little body. Cook that motherf***** up for nine months, ya know? You can do that type s*** when you got money. That'll alleviate a lot of s***.' Last month, DDG failed in a bid to secure a domestic violence restraining order against Halle The streamer had alleged the 25-year-old actress posed a risk to Halo and sought to prevent her from taking the little boy with her to Italy, where she had filming commitments. In response, the Little Mermaid star filed to deny DDG's request and asked for permission to take Halo out of the US, as well as requesting her former partner, his family and friends, stop posting about her, their son, and their court drama on all platforms. According to TMZ, the court sided with Halle. In court documents obtained by PEOPLE magazine and other outlets, DDG had accused his former partner of being an "an imminent emotional and psychological risk to the minor child based on repeated, documented threats of self-harm". He alleged that if Halo left the country, the child wouldn't have the protections of the court or any "emergency intervention mechanisms". DDG - whose real name is Daryl Dwayne Granberry Jr. - also claimed Halle has made "repeated threats of suicide and self-harm" and alleged she "routinely used emotional coercion and manipulation to exert her control over me, often threatening me by using self-harm or ending her life" during what has been referred to as an almost three year "on again/off again" relationship. DDG claimed she allegedly "threatened to end her life using my legally owned firearm" in 2023, as well as stalking him during their relationship, and physically and verbally abusing him. He wrote in the filing: "Given these threats to self-harm, I believe the Petitioner is a threat to our son's safety such that she should not be allowed to take Halo out of the country to Italy for a period of two months." In May, Halle was granted temporary sole physical and legal custody of Halo, along with a temporary restraining order which expired in line with a planned court hearing on June 4. She had accused DDG of domestic abuse, while previous court documents obtained by Page Six, saw her allege that she filed for sole custody without notifying DDG because she was "afraid that the violence would reoccur" and that "the other party would take the children out of the area".

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AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes' of ads and trailers

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The Verge

AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes' of ads and trailers

AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of their film screening and avoid sitting through lengthy ads. A new notice has started appearing when people purchase tickets via the AMC website, warning that 'movies start 25-30 minutes after showtime.' This already mirrors the estimated runtime of AMC's preshow content, which includes ads and trailers, but now customers will be better informed if they want to arrive a little later without missing the start of their movie. This small change also tracks with a report made by The Hollywood Reporter last week that said AMC will soon start 'addressing the preshow on its ticketing platforms.' Starting today, AMC will also show more ads than before, meaning its preshow lineup may have to be reconfigured to avoid exceeding the 30-minute mark. The company made an agreement with the National CineMedia ad network that includes as much as five minutes of commercials shown 'after a movie's official start time,' according to The Hollywood Reporter, and an additional 30-to-60-second 'Platinum Spot' that plays before the last one or two trailers. AMC was the only major theater chain to reject the National CineMedia ad spot when it was pitched in 2019, telling Bloomberg at the time that it believed 'US moviegoers would react quite negatively.' Now struggling financially amid an overall decline in movie theater attendance and box-office grosses, AMC has reversed course, telling The Hollywood Reporter that its competitors 'have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance.'

David R. Slavitt, Poet and Critic With a Side Gig in Pulp Fiction, Dies at 90

New York Times

24 minutes ago

New York Times

David R. Slavitt, Poet and Critic With a Side Gig in Pulp Fiction, Dies at 90

One day in 1966, not long after he wrote a scathingly funny review of Anya Seton's novel 'Avalon' in The New York Herald Tribune, David R. Slavitt arrived for lunch in Manhattan with the publisher Bernard Geis. Mr. Slavitt was an up-and-coming poet and novelist with a preference for the classics. Mr. Geis specialized in the opposite: He had just hit it big with 'Valley of the Dolls,' a salacious novel of sex and secrets by Jacqueline Susann. Having thrilled at Mr. Slavitt's work tearing down 'Avalon,' Mr. Geis asked him to write his own 'Valley of the Dolls.' Mr. Slavitt protested. He said he had a 'serious' novel, 'Rochelle, or, Virtue Rewarded,' coming out later that year, and didn't want to undermine it with something much lighter. Plus, he said, he was a highbrow author and translator of classical poetry, not a paperback hack. But the chance to try a new genre was too tempting. He hit on a solution: writing under a pseudonym, Henry Sutton. The result, 'The Exhibitionist,' about an actress and her rich father, appeared in 1967. Tame by today's standards, it was decried as near pornography. And it sold four million copies. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

NBC's Savannah Guthrie shrugs off bias accusations against journalists in conversation with Monica Lewinsky

Fox News

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Fox News

NBC's Savannah Guthrie shrugs off bias accusations against journalists in conversation with Monica Lewinsky

NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie addressed questions of media bias in a new podcast interview with Monica Lewinsky, dismissing the criticism as mainly in the "eye of the beholder." Lewinsky, who hosts the weekly podcast "Reclaiming" and is friends with the longtime morning show host, praised Guthrie for doing her job with integrity and wondered how she works to keep her personal and political views to herself. "It's interesting in our world now that there will be people, probably people listening right now, who might say 'Oh well she isn't dispassionate at all,'" Guthrie said. "You know, bias is really in the eye of the beholder. All I can tell you is what I try to do, which is to be straightforward, to be accurate, to be fair, to be precise. We used to say it's 'down the middle,' but it's not really, it's more nuanced than that." "There is no 'down the middle,'" Lewinsky said. "It's not down the middle," Guthrie said. "It's not like you do a story, and you say, 'Some say the sun came up this morning, others say it didn't.' That would be wrong, that would be factually incorrect." Guthrie joked it was "adorable" how there used to be normal policy disagreements in politics, but now things had become "so personal." While Guthrie and Lewinsky didn't specifically discuss accusations of liberal bias against the industry, her rhetoric about not simply covering both sides evenly all the time was reminiscent of recent arguments from other mainstream journalists. In 2021, Guthrie's NBC colleague Lester Holt was praised in liberal media circles for saying, "I think it's become clear that fairness is overrated ... the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in." His remarks were widely interpreted as not giving equal shrift to conservatives and Trump supporters for the sake of fairness. Outside the media, Guthrie also questioned whether there is an inherent bias from news viewers who may be looking for their beliefs to be confirmed by those reporting the news. "What I would just challenge people to think about when they are analyzing — whether you're again, consider yourself of the left or the right or whatever you are — is when you're identifying bias in the people that you are receiving your news from, just to ponder and ask yourself whether it is your bias that is determining that the person you're receiving the news from is biased," she proposed. Guthrie continued, saying that the bias some viewers claim to see may actually be their own and that everyone is now a "couch media critic." "Maybe the bias that you're feeling is that you wish that you were watching someone who agreed with your view of the world and that's okay," she contended. "But you're hearing something different, and you know … we live in a time, where everyone's kind of a couch media critic and I think there's good things about that because it challenges everyone to be better — and then there's some parts about it that just really aren't on the level, and it's not an honest critique," Guthrie added.