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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ryan Reynolds worried he'd go to jail over prank on 'Just Friends' set: 'I got in trouble'
Ryan Reynolds once worried he was going from "just friends" to "just cellmates." Reynolds shared the comical memory from his time making the 2005 comedy Just Friends during an appearance on the latest episode of SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast. The Deadpool star told O'Brien that the film, which also starred Anna Faris and Amy Smart, was filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan. "It's one of my few times that I've ever been scared of going to jail, because we, just as a joke, me and the art department, we made a sign that would go over, it would snap over the 'Welcome to Regina' sign," he recalled. "And it just said, 'Welcome to Regina, which rhymes with fun.' And I got in trouble, though." After O'Brien and his podcast team stopped laughing at this story, he asked his guest, "You got in trouble?" Luckily for Reynolds and the film's art department, the town's officials had a sense of humor about it. "They thought it was funny because it snapped off," Reynolds replied. "So at first it was vandalism, and then it was class." Joked O'Brien: "Then it was an art installment that could come down." Directed by Roger Kumble and written by Adam "Tex" Davis, Just Friends follows Chris Brander (Reynolds), a formerly overweight nerdy high school student who is secretly in love with his popular best friend, Jamie Palamino (Smart), who has put him firmly in the friend zone. As adults, Chris — who's now a successful record producer (and shameless womanizer) — tries to win her over when the two reconnect when he visits his hometown for is known for his on-set pranks such as this one. Just ask Hugh Jackman, with whom Reynolds has been in a prank war of sorts since at least 2015. A highlight includes the time Reynolds hit Jackman's film The Front Runner with a fake awards season attack ad. In the spirit of the movie, in which Jackman plays 1988 presidential campaign frontrunner Gary Hart as he's swept up in a scandal, Reynolds decided to post the fake hit ad against his longtime X-Men buddy to dissuade "some people" from giving him awards. He and wife Blake Lively also frequently troll each other publicly on social media, often with dueling embarrassing photos or jokes. For more with Reynolds and O'Brien, watch the full conversation in the video above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
The Guardian
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Barbara Underwood obituary
My wife, Barbara Underwood, who has died aged 78, had a full and colourful life, the two main strands of which were her career as a jazz vocalist and her love of philosophy. She performed in public from the age of five, singing Shine on Harvest Moon with her father in local pubs and also doing Lonnie Donegan covers for her cousin Ray's skiffle band. In the 1970s and 80s, under her stage name Barbie Benson, she sang in many of the main London jazz venues, including the Dover Street Wine Bar where she had a residency: Barbie was sad that all the places she performed in are now long gone. She also had a successful portfolio as a singing teacher. In later life she produced four CDs, ranging from jazz standards to bossa nova to versions of Bob Dylan's religious songs. Her last album, Just Friends, came out in December. In the mid-80s she discovered an interest in academic study and, especially, in philosophy. This was in spite of having been expelled from school at the age of 14 without qualifications. Born in Hackney, London, to Gladys (nee Steed), a seamstress, and Ted Cooper, a railway worker and then a postman, Barbie went to Tollington Park secondary school in Islington. After leaving school, and while working as a musician, she had a daughter, Paula, in 1966. Barbie went on to have three marriages, all ending in divorce, before she and I met in 1989 at York University, where she was a mature student and I was working in administration. We got married in 1991 and eventually settled in Barnes, south-west London. Barbie had got the academic bug through the Open University Arts Foundation Course in 1986. From there, under an accelerated admissions scheme, she went to York, where she gained a philosophy degree aged 44, and then to Manchester University for her PhD (2001). Despite all her musical and academic achievements, Barbie was possibly most proud of creating the Barnes Philosophy Club. Its first event, in 2011, attracted eight people to a room at the local Methodist church. By the time she gave it up 10 years later, the meetings, now at the OSO arts centre in the village, attracted 60 to 70 people each time and the mailing list had more than 300 names. Barbie ran the club single-handedly and chaired all its meetings. It was one of the most successful clubs of its kind in Britain, and one of the very few outside university departments to gain funding from the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Illness and the pandemic forced Barbie to give it up, but it was taken on by others and is still flourishing. Barbie is survived by me, by Paula, and by three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
BCB After Dark: Schedule blues
Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the grooviest gathering of night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. For the first time this week, there's no game happening right after we go live, and we won't have another early-morning game for a few years at least. But come on in and join us anyway. There's no cover charge. The hostess will seat you shortly. Bring your own beverage. BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon. Advertisement Yesterday I asked if you Shōta Imanaga should have stayed in the game past the fourth inning in the season opener. The vote was close, but 53 percent of you thought it was the right move to pull Imanaga when Counsell did. The other 47 percent thought he should have stayed in at least one more inning. Here's the part where we listen to music and talk movies. You can skip that if you want. You won't hurt my feelings. Tonight we're featuring a performance from 1983 featuring trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker with saxophonist Stan Getz. This is 'Just Friends.' In honor of the Cubs' trip to Japan, I thought I'd ask you to tell us about your favorite Japanese films. I'm going to define 'Japanese' films loosely, so it can either be your favorite film from Japanese creators, such as a Toshiro Mifune picture, Godzilla or a Studio Ghibli movie. Or it can just be a film set in Japan, such as Hiroshima mon amour, which is a terrific French film that I keep meaning to write about here but every time I try to re-watch it, I get stuck on the first 20 minutes of footage of atomic bomb victims. But Hiroshima mon amour is the kind of French New Wave film that makes you think these guys and gals were utter geniuses or just plain nuts. (I tend towards genius.) Advertisement So tell us your favorite Japanese films—either made by the Japanese or set in Japan. Welcome back to everyone who skips the music and movies. There wasn't a good photo of the Cubs schedule—I suppose I could have screenshotted one—but that Pikachu photo was too good to pass us. So this has been floating around the internet the past few days. I hope you can read that, because it ranks the projected difficulty of schedule for each MLB team for the year and for each month. As you can see, the Cubs have a projected below-average difficult schedule for the entire season—23rd hardest out of 30 teams. On the other hand, and this has been mentioned many times around here and even on the Cubs' broadcasts, the Cubs' first month of the season is brutal. The projected record of Cubs' opponents in March and April is .546. Only one team has a single month within .010 of that winning percentage. Advertisement After that, things get a lot easier. The Cubs have the easiest schedule in the game of any month in May and no other team is within .010 opponents projected winning percentage. The Cubs play 30 games in March and April and they're already 0-2. Coming up, the schedule for the rest of the month is: 3 @ Arizona 3 @ Sacramento 3 San Diego 3 Texas 3 @ Dodgers 3 @ San Diego 3 Arizona 2 Dodgers 3 Phillies 2 @ Pirates So at what win total on May 1 do you start to panic? I know Jim Deshaies said on the Marquee broadcast that if the Cubs go .500 through the end of April, they'll be in good shape the rest of the year. But do you agree? If the Cubs are 13 and 17 at the end of April, do you think the season is in trouble? Advertisement Remember, games in March and April count the same as ones in September. If the Cubs fall too far behind, they might not be able to catch up. Thank you for stopping by this week. It's been an unusual week for all of us around here and we're glad you came around for the ride. Please get home safely. Recycle any cans and bottles. Tip your waitstaff. And join Sara Sanchez tomorrow night for more BCB AFter Dark. More from
