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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘I cried a lot': Rob Delaney on the heart and humor in FX's ‘Dying for Sex' — and Neighbor Guy's kick in the ‘zone'
"Worst case scenario, he's this annoying, gross collection of sights, sounds, and smells," jokes Rob Delaney about his character, simply known as Neighbor Guy, in FX's limited series Dying for Sex. The tragic comedy stars Michelle Williams as Molly, a woman diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, who abandons her husband (played by Jay Duplass) of 15 years and begins to fully explore her sexuality. More from GoldDerby Directors open up about identity, risk and emotional storytelling at Disney's FYC fest 'M*A*S*H' star Loretta Swit dies at 87, and more of today's top stories 'Maybe Happy Ending' star Darren Criss on his Tony nomination for playing a robot: 'Getting to do this is the true win' After reading the script, Delaney realized that Neighbor Guy develops into a "pretty fantastic character" — one who ultimately provides Molly with the kinky outlet and emotional connection she craves. "It's funny that he does not have a name," Delaney tells Gold Derby, "but he definitely leaves more of an impression than a lot of people with names do." Delaney says he's in a "sweet spot" in his career — auditioning for roles, pursuing opportunities that excite him, and occasionally receiving direct offers. Neighbor Guy was one such offer. "They thought I had the right brew — the right pervert-kind ratio — to play this wonderful character," he jokes. Working alongside Michelle Williams was a "dream come true" for the actor. Upon meeting the five-time Oscar nominee, Delaney was relieved to find her "just a good person." He adds, "She's an incredibly generous scene partner. She also produced the show, steering a ship that was both enjoyable and accommodating. I can't say enough positive things about her." Sarah Shatz/FX Thankfully, the two forged a strong bond, especially given Molly and Neighbor Guy's intense on-screen interactions — enter the intimacy coordinator. "I sort of feel like me and Sharon Horgan invented intimacy coordination with our show Catastrophe," Delaney says. "We wrote it, produced it, and then every season — without fail — we'd be like, 'Oh, we're in it too?' So all of our stuff would say things like, 'Request permission to caress your face.' We kind of did all that stuff — luckily I've had plenty of experience with that type of coordination and choreography." SEE 'We didn't want Molly to die': 'Dying for Sex' creators on finding the comedy in cancer In one particularly memorable scene, Neighbor Guy reveals he enjoys being kicked in…"a sensitive area." Delaney recalls, "I really do get kicked, but not actually in my private parts. There's a thing you can wear that offers a 'zone' to be kicked, but it's several inches below your gear. So, Michelle got to genuinely kick and I got to react to real physical 'stimuli.' Neighbor Guy likes to be kicked in the nuts, I don't," he laughs. Sarah Shatz/FX Although their relationship begins as purely sexual (and often hilarious), Delaney found the more intimate and heartfelt scenes in the hospital — where Molly is dying — to be the most impactful. "The way they lit the hospital room, combined with the fact that it was often raining outside, really made it feel like we were in some kind of antechamber between the living world and whatever comes next," he recalls. "It was a very different kind of acting than I'd ever done before. I really tried to not act — I cried a lot. I would have to budget my crying for the day. It was pretty intense." Reflecting on why the relationship between Molly and Neighbor Guy worked, Delaney says, "They're very lucky to have found each other. She's having a series of sacred or magical experiences as she consciously moves toward death. Neighbor Guy has met her at the right time — so he can get sort of a contact high from what she's going through. He's a big beneficiary — she really gives him a gift. I must imagine that after Molly dies that Neighbor Guy has a much richer and better life having known her." Looking back on his experience working on Dying for Sex, Delaney considers it his favorite acting job to date."I don't count Catastrophe because I [co-created] that show, but this show was of that stature for me," he says. "I love my career and I'm very grateful for it, but I often am put in stuff to be funny — nothing wrong with that, I'll do it for the rest of my life if they let me — but to do something like this, that was such an educational experience, it spoiled me. Now I just want to do stuff where everybody's firing on all cylinders. This was an example, for me, of what a show can be." Dying for Sex is available to stream on Hulu. Best of GoldDerby TV directors roundtable: 'American Primeval,' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,' 'Paradise' 'Paradise' directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra on the 'chaos' of crafting 'the world coming to an end' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' director Charlotte Brändström on Gandalf's 'big reveal' and which scene required 'the most prep' Click here to read the full article.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
League of Ireland has escaped ‘difficult child' tag – but recent spats prove there's nothing wrong with childish scenes
JOHN DELANEY'S 'problem child' followed him around like a bad smell — much to his annoyance. For starters, he called the League of Ireland the FAI's 'difficult child' instead, and was describing the financial basket case it was and how he believed it had progressed. 2 John Delaney infamously called the League of Ireland a 'difficult child' Credit: Michael P Ryan/Sportsfile 2 St Pat's players taunt Stuey Byrne after winning the league The last time I spoke to Delaney was in 2018. I asked him if he was surprised that he could appoint a manager — He snapped back: 'There's been so much made about that. I came from the 'I didn't mean it in that context and people should know that. It was where it was to where it is.' But the way the Association sometimes dealt with naysayers from within the League of Ireland around that time showed that the Read More on League of Ireland The now FAI President Paul Cooke was once an ally of Delaney but became persona non grata after asking questions about finances — Cooke is an accountant — at an AGM. Roddy Collins was another who was hit with a fine for a comment on RTÉ in 2011, and another when he called the league a 'shambles' in a 2016 column in the Irish Daily Star . He was fined by the FAI as he was working for Monaghan United in 2011 and Had he not been in football , any sanction would have been legal. Good luck proving that calling the league a 'shambles' at that time was not fair comment! But 2016 was also the year that FAI Competitions Director Fran Gavin went on RTÉ and said the Association had 'created the atmosphere' for successes such as those of Most read in Football But the sad thing is it was often an atmosphere of silence. Stadia were often quiet due to lack of numbers, and the managers all — publicly at least — got on with it and largely didn't complain. FAI invite Ireland fan, 11, who was stabbed at Dublin school to training before Bulgaria clash Thankfully that has all changed. The crowds are great — though that may change if The FAI has got it in the neck at times, but that is nothing compared to the WWE-style shenanigans between managers. There has been Stephen Kenny, meanwhile, At the same time, Virgin Media must be delighted that their guests are in the story as it is a rarity in Ireland. PUNDIT POPS Personally, I can only recall a couple of times when pundits got it in the neck from LOI managers or players. And St Pat's players never forgot when Stuart Byrne said Saints were a side to play when the sun came out. They posed for a team photo in hats and scarves after winning the league. Managers — and some fans — may complain about the sideshows taking centre stage when there are so many great games, great goals and great players. But it should be embraced if it keeps people talking about the league. The league is no problem child, but there is nothing wrong with some childish moments now and then.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Only On: Sheriff T.K. Waters weighs in on arrests during Jacksonville City Council meeting
Only on Action News Jax, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters weighed in on the arrest of three people during Tuesday night's City Council meeting. Video shows Jacksonville Sheriff's officers pulling protester Conor Cauley over a seat and taking him into custody during the meeting. The agency claims he refused to leave council chambers when ordered and put his hands on an officer. Two others, Leah Grady and Teagan Belloit, were also arrested and charged with resisting without violence. Cauley was charged with resisting with violence, a felony, and slapped with a misdemeanor weapons charge after JSO claimed to have found a knife on him. During his first appearance, though, a judge found no probable cause for the resisting with violence charge after reviewing video of the incident. Jacksonville mayor: Small 'credit card' knife found on 1 of 3 arrested during City Council meeting 'We had community members who were peacefully engaging and civil engaging with the public meeting who were completely, unjustly attacked and brutalized by the police,' Ryan Delaney with the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network said. Delaney and other supports waited outside the jail all night in solidarity with the three who were arrested. He argued the arrests were politically motivated. 'This is political repression. This is the state that we live in right now. Especially people who want to speak out about Palestine. We are constantly being attacked by the state for speaking out for the human rights of Palestinian people,' Delaney said. 'We are constantly being attacked by the state for speaking out for the human rights of Palestinian people.' But Waters argued that's not the case. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] He pointed to the fact that others were removed from council chambers without incident that same night. 'You try to be as patient as you can, but in situations like that, especially when there's a lot of people around. You know, sometimes these situations, when you have one group saying no, it causes, it gets almost like it causes everyone else to start uprising a bit. To avoid that from happening, you take care of the issue,' Waters said. 'You take care of it quickly, as efficiently as possible, as safely as possible and you get out. And everyone left there without any injury.' And while supporters of the three suspects want to see all the charges they're facing dropped, Waters told Action News Jax he wants to see prosecutions move forward, to discourage others from disrupting council meetings moving forward. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] 'If you continue to signal that it's going to be a slap on the wrist, you're not going to do anything about it, all it does is make people want to continue to do those things and show that they're going to be disruptive when they want to be disruptive,' Waters said. 'And I'm sure, whoever that judge is, I don't know who it is, if that's the case they would not allow someone to act out in their courtroom.' While the judge did not find probable cause for Cauley's resisting arrest with violence charge, she set his bond at $1,503 for the weapons charge. Belloit was released without bond on her charge of resisting without violence. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
The Kansas City Chiefs' jersey number no one dares to wear — and the heartbreaking reason why
In a league dominated by stats, rings, and highlight reels, the Kansas City Chiefs have chosen to honor one of their own in a far more meaningful and quiet way. While jersey retirements are often grand public gestures, there's one number in Kansas City that hasn't seen the field in over four decades — and that's by design. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Joe Delaney 's heroism transcended the game of football Jersey No. 37, once worn by Joe Delaney, holds a legacy so profound that Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and the franchise have made it an unspoken rule: no player, not even Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelce, will ever wear it again. Delaney's NFL career may have been short, but his impact remains unmatched. Drafted in 1981, Delaney burst onto the scene with Pro Bowl-caliber talent and the heart of a warrior. But it's not his performance on the field that forever etched his name in Chiefs history — it's the selfless act that cost him his life. In 1983, Delaney jumped into a Louisiana pond to save three drowning children, despite not knowing how to swim himself. One child survived. Two did not. Neither did Delaney. His sacrifice stunned the nation and prompted then-President Ronald Reagan to say: "He made the ultimate sacrifice by placing the lives of three children above regard for his own safety." Why the Chiefs have quietly kept No. 37 out of circulation Although the team has never held a formal jersey retirement ceremony for No. 37, the number has been quietly removed from the roster for more than 40 years. Chiefs beat writer Pete Sweeney once confirmed this subtle tribute: "Head coach Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs have made sure no player will ever wear No. 37 again, even if it's not officially retired." There's no banner in the stadium, no announcement at press conferences — just an unspoken, unwavering respect for what Delaney stood for. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now In an era where greatness is often defined by Super Bowl wins or MVP titles, the Chiefs' decision reminds us that true heroism lies in character. Joe Delaney's story is not about touchdowns or tackles — it's about courage, sacrifice, and an enduring symbol of humanity. Also Read: By never reissuing No. 37, the Chiefs honor a legacy far greater than football. And that silent tribute might just be the loudest message of all.
Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Health
- Boston Globe
A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut.
Two scientists — Scott Delaney and Noam Ross — took it upon themselves to document the extent of NIH grant terminations. By combining government information with crowdsourced submissions, the pair have gathered what appears to be the most detailed, public accounting of projects halted by the world's largest funder of biomedical research. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'The community of affected scientists is really what drove this. That's really what created it. We wouldn't have been successful if folks weren't willing to step forward,' Delaney said. Most researchers are uncomfortable openly discussing political issues, he added. 'Yet they did, because they shared their information with us. They let us post it publicly online for everybody to see, and many of them even stepped forward and started taking more prominent roles in advocacy, talking to lawmakers, to interest groups, to journalists.' Advertisement The Advertisement Now, Delaney himself has been swept up in the wave of grant cancellations because of the administration's targeting of funding for Harvard University. He is a research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and all the grants supporting his research, which examines the ways that climate change can exacerbate Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, were terminated this month. STAT spoke to Delaney last week about the impetus for Grant Watch, and the escalating battle between the Trump administration and Harvard. This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hearing you say that you study climate change-related health disparities feels like a lot of buzzwords that this current administration doesn't prioritize. When I say it's health disparities and it's climate change, that's jargon. What I'm really talking about is making sure that everybody has an equal opportunity to be well. So that's the health disparities piece. Some groups don't have an equal opportunity, and we can use more jargon, like socially marginalized, this, that, and the other. But the bottom line is not everybody has the same equal opportunity to be healthy because of the communities that they live in or based on where they live, based on laws. I don't think what I do, when I speak plainly, is controversial. I hope this isn't naive, but I don't think that trying to help folks with Alzheimer's be healthier, have better days, should engender controversy. One thing that we can do to ensure that we communicate what motivates us every day better is to stop using these weaponized words that weren't controversial but are now and just have a more kind of simplified conversation about why I get out of bed every day, why I sit down and analyze data every day, and why I write every day, Advertisement When did you have the idea for Grant Watch? At the very beginning of March, there were news stories that I had read that said the federal government was terminating a large number of NIH grants. As I read these stories, my first question was, 'Which grants?' You want to know that, especially because I don't necessarily trust everything the government says. I looked, and there wasn't much information. There were only a couple of folks that had been willing to go on their record and share their story. So there were only, you know, a few examples of grants that I could find. My first thought was, 'This is surely illegal,' but it's going to be really hard to file a lawsuit if we don't have a record of what's happened. We need details. Litigation, especially at the trial court, is fact-intensive. I put my lawyer hat back on, and I thought if there was a way that anybody was going to bring a lawsuit, or if there was a way that anybody was going to sort of organize any other kind of advocacy … we needed a common factual record, and that's why I started it. You mentioned litigation — what do you view as your goal in the next couple of months? Advertisement Right now, our core goal continues to be to curate a record. It's really important to document and establish what happened in the first place. I think that's especially important because the government has taken steps that obscure that record. Through the beginning of April, not so much anymore, the government was putting forth information about which grants it terminated. They stopped doing that. But for five or six weeks, they did do that. The only thing that they've done since then is updated the document … by removing grants that had been reinstated. So if there's a lawsuit, and there's an injunction in a particular lawsuit, and there's a court order that says 'reinstate this grant,' then what the government does is they comply, they reinstate the grant, but they remove it from any federal database and from any other record any indication that it was terminated in the first place. So unless you have our Last week, I assume, this became very personal for you, watching . Can you walk me through what last week was like for you? Last week was surreal for a couple of reasons. Because I've been tracking these grants, I have a front-row seat to everything that the NIH has been doing to science generally. That includes grant terminations. That also includes these grant freezes. So they've said in a couple of instances, we're freezing all the grants to specific universities. What they mean by that is that they stopped paying their bills. They stopped paying out money on grants. So if a scientist spent some money, either on salary or for supplies or for whatever it was, then they would submit that, basically an invoice to the government, usually on a monthly basis, and then the government would pay them. When they freeze payments, they stop those payments. Advertisement The federal government had already frozen payments on all NIH grants, as well as many other types of grants, to Harvard back in April. And the reason that that matters is that the terminations from last week, on some very practical level, didn't have a huge impact. Things were already frozen. It was always going to take a court order or a negotiated settlement, which probably wasn't going to come to undo the freeze. It's still going to take a court order or a negotiated settlement to undo the terminations. All the grants were terminated, but the request from Harvard [to scientists] is to continue doing the research as if the grants were not terminated. That's important, because if you stop doing that research, and then later the court orders the government to start paying its bills again, then you can't collect, right? You can't collect money for work you didn't do. So it's a very long way of underscoring that the practical impact of the terminations was limited, and yet they had a huge impact for a couple of reasons. The terminations felt like a much bigger deal, and a freeze always felt temporary, whereas the terminations felt in some sense final. Even though I know on some cognitive, intellectual level that there wasn't a huge impact, it shook me. I told my colleagues, I was like, I know this doesn't change much, and yet I'm gutted. I just had to take some, take some time away, get outside. On my colleagues, it had a really, really, really profound impact, and was extremely demoralizing. Advertisement But the other thing that it did was it sharpened people's response. During a freeze, it feels a little temporary. We're still kind of moving along as if things are going to be unfrozen, maybe we'll reach a settlement. It didn't have that finality. As a consequence, I don't think people were ready to stand up and fight, not like they are now. These grants are the manifestations of a life's worth of work. You terminate that and now everybody's ready to fight. It takes a minute, right? It takes getting knocked down. You get the wind knocked out of you. But then when you get up, you're ready to go, frankly, in a way that people weren't before.
