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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
NBA's first openly gay player Jason Collins marries partner Brunson Green
Former NBA star Jason Collins has married partner Brunson Green. Collins became the NBA's first openly gay player when he came out in 2013 in an open letter published by Sports Illustrated. The 46-year-old's basketball career spanned 13 seasons and six teams and included two trips to the NBA finals with the New Jersey Nets in 2002 and 2003. Green, 57, is a Hollywood movie producer and earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination for the movie 'The Help'. The couple even had one of the stars at their wedding. Octavia Spencer posted a picture of the happy couple walking down the aisle, captioning it: 'Welcome to the family @jasoncollins_98. You've chosen well, and so has he! Love you, B!'. Her co-star, Viola Davis, added: 'Aaaaahh!!!! Congratulations' with a series of love heart emojis. Collins and Green have been together since 2014, not long after he announced his retirement from the NBA. They reportedly got engaged in 2023 at the Los Angeles Lakers Pride Night. When Collins first came out, he also became the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. 'When I was younger, I dated women,' he wrote at the time. 'I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. 'I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.' As well as playing for the Nets, Collins represented the Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards.
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jamie Lee Curtis kisses True Lies costar Arnold Schwarzenegger 30 years after she stripped for him
Jamie Lee Curtis planted a kiss on her True Lies costar Arnold Schwarzenegger 30 years after stripping for him in the blockbuster action romance film. The 66-year-old Oscar winning actress - who recently made an emotional plea to Mark Zuckerberg over AI - was joined by the 77-year-old action man at Amazon's Upfront 2025 presentation in New York City on Monday night. The two definitely seemed happy to have a reunion as Jamie planted a kiss on Arnold backstage at the event held at the iconic at Beacon Theatre in the Big Apple. The two chatted it up backstage and posed for a few snaps together before hitting the stage together. On stage the two couldn't keep their hands off one another as the Everything Everywhere All At Once actress even grabbed the Predator star by the face like she was going to smooch him on the lips. Jamie was later joined by Elizabeth Banks and Octavia Spencer on stage. A few years ago Jamie Lee said her iconic striptease in the 1994 action-comedy flick True Lies was completely improvised. During a June 2021 episode of the People In The 90's podcast, the actress opened up about the famous scene. 'The thing that nobody knows: There was no rehearsal, there is no choreographer. Jim [ James Cameron ] said to me, "What do you want to dance to?"' The actress said she asked for the John Hiatt song Alone in the Dark and she spent the next three days on set dancing like 'nobody [is] around'. 'We were doing it over and over and over, and it got quieter and quieter,' Curtis said of filming the scene. The Knives Out actress also pointed out that the fall in the middle of the performance was also unscripted and was the result of a suggestion by Cameron. She recalled: 'We were doing it over and over and over, and it got quieter and quieter, and at one point, Jim walked up and whispered in my ear: "If I get a pad, will you let go of the pole?" And I said, "sure."' Curtis added that the scene was a major hit with audiences upon the feature's release and expressed that it 'will be forever the single biggest laugh I will ever get in my life.' The two definitely seemed happy to have a reunion as Jamie planted a kiss on Arnold backstage at the event held at the iconic at Beacon Theatre in the Big Apple The actress noted that Cameron, 70, made the last-minute suggestion as a way of making the scene less serious and more accessible to a wider audience. 'It's because Jim knew that the dance was too sexy, it was too knew he needed to break the spell of what the husband had put his wife through. I think we did two takes where I let go of the pole,' she said. The Halloween star revealed that Cameron had written the script with her in mind, which she particularly appreciated. 'The reason why that was spectacular for me was because Jim wrote it for that happens, there's a reason somebody writes it for you. They hear you in their head,' she said. Curtis went on to note that, as she was the project's intended leading actress, she was given the impression that Cameron was willing to let her experiment with the role and truly make it her own. Specifically, she expressed that, while working on both True Lies and A Fish Called Wanda, she was grateful for 'the most freedom that I've ever felt as a performer.' The Freaky Friday star also revealed that she was informed about the role months prior to being officially cast which 'meant by the end of August, I was going to be dancing around in my nether beings, in my little undies. True Lies was originally released in July of 1994 and was a remake of the 1991 French film La Totale! True Lies was met with a generally positive critical reception upon its initial release and grossed nearly $380 million at the box office on a budget of over $100 million The feature was centered around a government agent, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is conflicted about balancing his professional career with his personal life. The film also starred Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku and Charlton Heston, among other performers, in various supporting roles. True Lies was met with a generally positive critical reception upon its initial release and grossed nearly $380 million at the box office on a budget of over $100 million. Development on a sequel began shortly after the film's debut, and a script was written for the project, although it was eventually canceled following the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. A television series based on the original flick is currently being planned, and a pilot is expected to be filmed later this year, with Cameron remaining involved as an executive producer.
Boston Globe
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Eva Longoria follows up ‘Searching for Mexico' with a trip to Spain
Over eight episodes, Longoria will travel everywhere from Seville to Barcelona to the Basque region to sample each region's signature delicacies. As Longoria makes her way around Spain, she'll reach even further back into her family tree than she did in 'Searching for Mexico.' 'Eleven generations ago, one of my ancestors left Spain for the New World and a new life,' she says in the series' trailer. '400 years later, I'm back!' Does this mean her ancestors were conquistadors…? Whether the show will risk harshing the 'Eat, Pray, Love' vibe by answering that particularly thorny question in between paellas remains unclear. Either way, there's no doubt Longoria's personal relationship with the subject matter provides not just a useful anchor for the show, but a crucial connection for her audience to latch onto as well. Advertisement Choosing to tour a single country immediately sharpens the show's focus. But in recent years, the 'celebrity puts their passport to work' format should be familiar to anyone who's even so much as glanced at their TV listings. Before she became the new host of 'Top Chef,' Need more proof? Look no further than the timeslot directly following 'Searching for Spain,' when CNN will premiere the new series 'My Happy Place.' As you can probably guess from the title, this particular variation on the travel show theme will follow people like Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and 'The Traitors' host Alan Cumming to their favorite destinations (New Orleans and the Scottish Highlands, respectively). Obviously, I'd prefer to take all these vacations — and eat all that fabulous food — myself. In the meantime, though, I guess I'll just keep torturing myself by watching others do it for me. Caroline Framke is a media analyst who previously served as Variety's Chief TV Critic. Her other work can be found at The Atlantic, Vulture, Vox, and more. A Smith College graduate, Framke is currently based in New York City. Advertisement
