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Scotsman
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Watch: Mark Wahlberg's surprise video call with Scottish brothers attempting Pacific Ocean rowing record
American Mark Wahlberg has spoken to three Scottish brothers rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a surprise video call. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The American actor - the star of The Departed, Planet of the Apes and The Italian Job - surprised the trio with a video call, saying their adventure had left him "inspired". Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Eldest brother Ewan Maclean, said receiving a video call from Mark Wahlberg was 'bloody surreal' | Submitted In the video call with Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean, Wahlberg praised their mission to row 9,000 miles non-stop and unsupported from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia, raising funds for clean water projects in Madagascar. "I'm so inspired by you guys," Wahlberg told the brothers, who are now 54 days into their row. "You're badasses doing something no one else would even think of. (Left-right) Jamie, Lachlan and Ewan Maclean, three Scottish brothers aiming to become the fastest people to row across the Pacific, have received a surprise video call from Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg, who told them their record-breaking bid "could be a movie". Picture: The Maclean Brothers/PA Wire | PA "This could be a movie. The best films I've done are based on true stories - ordinary people doing extraordinary things. No way I'd row an ocean, but I'd play one of you guys in a movie." As they battle salt sores, relentless weather, a broken watermaker,and a faulty autohelm - with more than 5,000 miles still to go to reach Sydney, and more than £900,000 left to raise towards their £1 million target - the brothers said the call with one of their heroes was a welcome and "surreal" boost. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Wahlberg connected with the brothers over faith, family and resilience, and pledged to help raise awareness for their mission. The Perfect Storm star, who is the youngest of nine siblings, shared his own experience of life at sea. On hearing the brothers had a tuna on the line, Wahlberg recalled nights spent sleeping on a tuna boat with squid as a pillow while filming for the true story he starred in alongside George Clooney. "When I was preparing to do The Perfect Storm, I went out on a sword boat - in Ocean City, Maryland, a longliner, and we were actually fishing,' Wahlberg recalled. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad "We caught some pretty big tuna - 500, 600 pounder. I don't know how you guys are gonna wrestle that thing onto that boat, man." Wahlberg on going to the 'next level' Wahlberg added: "What you guys are doing is next level. You're living out a sense of purpose - combining passion with impact. That's rare and it's humbling to watch. People need to hear about what you're doing. "I couldn't be more inspired by the grit, the determination, the resiliency. What you guys are doing for such an amazing cause, and how hard you're willing to sacrifice yourself and your own wellbeing for the good of others, is so inspiring. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad "For you guys to do this under your own free will - it's pretty crazy. Some would say we might need to give you a couple of psychological examinations." The actor, who owns restaurants in Sydney and the Gold Coast, also promised the brothers a meal at the finish line - a welcome reward after about four months of freeze-dried meals. The record-breaking mission The Macleans expect to spend more than 100 days on board their 28-foot carbon fibre boat, Rose Emily, named in memory of their late sister. With no engine, no sail and no support crew, the siblings row in two-hour shifts, surviving on freeze-dried meals and desalinated water. "It's been much harder than we expected," said Ewan Maclean, 33, who left his job as a Dyson engineer to help design and build the boat. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad "But today we had dolphins surfing near the boat, and that lifted our spirits - and then we hear we get to speak to Mark Wahlberg, so spirits are absolutely through the roof.' Lachlan, who will turn 28 next week and is the youngest of the trio, added: "We're all operating in such little sleep that we thought it all could have been a hallucination."
Miami Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Scott Galloway sends strong message on Morgan Stanley and work
Scott Galloway, the popular podcaster and New York University professor, spoke with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on June 3 and revealed his path to success. The discussion involved some words of weakness and strengths that Americans may find important and inspiring. Significantly, Galloway revealed why he decided to leave Morgan Stanley. Don't miss .the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter "The reason I left the corporate world was I literally recognized, 'I don't have the skills for this.'" Galloway told Roslansky on LinkedIn's The Path. "I was too insecure. People would go into a conference room at Morgan Stanley, and I would assume they were talking about me." "I couldn't handle people getting promoted that I didn't think were smart," Galloway continued. "It was a jambo of nerves and insecurity and I realized I am not cut out for the corporate world. I'm just not good at it. It wasn't because I thought, 'I'm so awesome. I need to let my freak flag of entrepreneurship fly.' I just knew I wouldn't be successful at a big company." Related: Scott Galloway warns Americans on 401(k), US economy threat Galloway talked more about how he found his calling, including some bad advice from wealthy people that he suggests people might not want to follow. "The worst advice the billionaires give is 'follow your passion.'" Galloway said. "Anyone who tells you to 'follow your passion' is already rich." "What I would say to anyone in their twenties is: 'Your job is to workshop.' If you're one of those people who knows exactly what you want to do and gets traction in it right away, that puts you in the 2% most fortunate," he said. "The key is just to keep trying, be resilient until you land on something you think you could be great at." Galloway explained his personal past and how it led to making choices that many would see as out of the ordinary. "I was raised by a single immigrant mother who lived and died as a secretary. Neither of my parents graduated from high school," Galloway explained. "Our household income was never over $40,000, so it wasn't a given that I was going go to college." Galloway talked more about his weaknesses and the fact that those problems did not discourage him. "I was remarkably unremarkable but America used to love unremarkable people," he said. "I got into UCLA with a 2.27 GPA and spent most of college watching Planet of the Apes. Now, you have to weigh off your economic situation, the value of the degree and if you could go out and make more money on your own." More on the U.S. economy: Dave Ramsey sounds alarm for Americans on Social SecurityScott Galloway warns Americans on 401(k), US economy threatShark Tank's Kevin O'Leary has message on Social Security, 401(k)s Galloway also discussed his warnings and about being an entrepreneur, particularly about romanticizing the notion. For Galloway, it appears he had some fears about leaving the Morgan Stanley and the corporate world. Related: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary sends strong message on Social Security Galloway explains his experience with teaching college students about their hopes and dreams. "A ton of kids come to my office hours and they'll say, 'I have offers from Google and Salesforce, but I really want to start my own business,'" he said. "And I'll say, 'Don't be an idiot, go work for Google.'" Galloway clarified more about his thoughts on advising students. "They don't expect to hear that from me. We have a tendency to romanticize entrepreneurship," he said before asking a vital question. "Just ask yourself, 'Are you willing to risk public failure? Are you willing to be emotionally stressed? Are you willing to strain your relationships? Are you willing to borrow money from your in-laws?'" "With a prospect, you might have to show up at Thanksgiving having lost it," Galloway stressed. "Are you willing to sell everyone all the time?'" Related: Dave Ramsey sounds alarm for Americans on Social Security The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Atlantic
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
When Mission: Impossible Had No Mission
Every major movie franchise has boxes to check. In Jurassic Park, dinosaurs must run amok; in Planet of the Apes, apes have to meditate on intelligence; in The Fast and the Furious, Vin Diesel absolutely has to evangelize the benefits of family, Corona beers, and tricked-out cars. But Mission: Impossible took four films to fully establish its franchise must-have: the ever more blurred lines between its death-defying, stunt-loving star, Tom Cruise, and the superspy he plays. For more than a decade, the series was defined instead by its lack of definition—at least, beyond having Cruise in the lead role as Ethan Hunt, and Ving Rhames recur as Hunt's ally. Each installment felt made by a director with a specific take on the material, and Cruise was their versatile instrument. But the four Mission: Impossible films that followed—culminating in the eighth and purportedly final installment, now in theaters—have taken a different approach. Instead of relying on a select few characters and story beats to link the films together, the movies have abided by a stricter canon. Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, which earned a record-setting $63 million at the box office over its opening weekend, represents the most aggressive pivot away from the saga's more freewheeling origins: It self-seriously inserts supercuts of footage from its predecessors, reveals the purpose of a long-forgotten plot device, and turns a bit player from 1996's Mission: Impossible into a crucial character. In the process, it streamlines those earlier, delightfully unpredictable stories to the point of overlooking their true appeal. That tactic may be familiar to today's audiences, who are used to cinematic universes and intersecting story threads, but the Mission: Impossible franchise initially distinguished itself by eschewing continuity. New cast members came and went. Hunt lacked signature skills and catchphrases. The movies were messy, and didn't seem interested in building toward an overarching plan. Yet in their inconsistency, they prove the value of ignoring the brand-building pressures that have become the norm for big-budget features today. Like the 1960s television show on which they're loosely based, the early Mission: Impossible s were stand-alone stories. The first two movies in particular stuck out for their bold authorial styles. First came Brian De Palma's film, which he drenched in noir-ish flair while also deploying vivid color and Dutch angles. It arrived at a time when blockbusters such as Independence Day and Twister leveled cities and prioritized world-ending spectacle. Without a formula in place, De Palma got to challenge genre conventions—for instance, by mining tension out of mere silence during the central set piece, which saw Hunt's team staging a tricky heist. The second film, 2000's Mission: Impossible II, went maximalist under the direction of John Woo, who punctuated almost every sequence with slow-motion visuals and dizzying snap zooms. The filmmaker also asserted that Hunt himself was malleable: Whereas in the first film, he fights off his enemies without ever firing a gun, in Woo's version, he's a cocksure Casanova mowing down his targets in hails of bullets. Woo also indulged in the action pageantry that De Palma had avoided— Mission: Impossible II seemed to contain twice the amount of explosions necessary for a popcorn film—but the climactic stunt is perhaps the smallest Cruise has ever had to pull off: When the villain stabs at Hunt with a knife, the point stops just before reaching his eye. The two films that followed conveyed a similar sense of unpredictability. For 2006's Mission: Impossible III and 2011's Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, Cruise, who also served as a producer, picked unconventional choices to direct: J. J. Abrams, then best known for creating twisty TV dramas such as Alias and Lost, took on the third entry, while Brad Bird, who'd cut his teeth in animation, handled Ghost Protocol. Like their more accomplished predecessors, both filmmakers were entrusted by Cruise and company to treat Mission: Impossible as a playground where they could demonstrate their own creative strengths. Where De Palma and Woo focused on visual panache, Abrams and Bird stretched the limits of tone—and in doing so, revealed the adaptability of the franchise. Mission: Impossible III is unnervingly sobering amid its shootouts and double crosses; the film features a memorably chilling Philip Seymour Hoffman as the villain, a character's disturbing death, and a subplot about Hunt getting married. Ghost Protocol, meanwhile, is essentially a screwball comedy: Simon Pegg's character, Benji, provides a humorous button to many of the film's biggest scenes, and Bird treats Hunt like a marble caught in a Rube Goldberg machine packed with goofy gadgets, whether he's pinballing through a prison or being launched out of a car in the middle of a sandstorm. (Hunt even declares 'Mission accomplished,' only for the film to play the line for laughs.) In the years since Ghost Protocol, much of big-budget filmmaking has come to feel made by committee. Studios offer fans remakes, legacy sequels, and spin-offs that connect disparate story threads, bending over backwards to ensure that viewers understand they're being shown something related to preexisting media. (Just look at the title of the upcoming John Wick spin-off.) The new Mission: Impossible suffers by making similar moves. It struggles to make sense of Hunt's story as one long saga, yielding an awkwardly paced, lethargic-in-stretches film. The Final Reckoning insists that every assignment Hunt has ever taken, every ally he's ever made, and every enemy he's ever foiled have been connected, forming a neat line of stepping stones that paved the way for him to save the world one more time. Taken together, the first four Mission: Impossible s were compellingly disorganized, a stark contrast with Hollywood's ever more rigid notion of how to construct a franchise. They didn't build consistent lore. Each new installment didn't try to top the previous one—a popular move that's had diminishing returns. Although some observers critique their varying quality, the lack of consensus emphasizes the singularity of each of these efforts. They remind me of the instances of an individual filmmaker's vision found amid major cinematic properties these days, such as Taika Waititi putting his witty stamp on a Thor sequel, Fede Alvarez turning Alien: Romulus into a soundscape of jump scares, and on television, Tony Gilroy ensuring that the Star Wars prequel Andor never included a single Skywalker. If the older Mission: Impossible movies now feel dated and incongruous—whether within the franchise itself or as part of the cinematic landscape writ large—that's to their benefit. They let creative sensibilities, not commercial ones, take the lead.
New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Roseanne Barr makes explosive claim that ABC ‘spied' on her before firing
Roseanne Barr is speaking her truth. The comedian-turned-Hollywood pariah has made explosive claims about her former employer, ABC, with which she worked for over 10 years. Barr, 72, first graced the network with her sitcom 'Roseanne' in 1988. The hit show, which also featured John Goodman (Dan Conner), Sara Gilbert (Darlene Conner), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie Harris), Johnny Galecki (David Healy) and more, lasted 10 seasons until 1997. Advertisement ABC revived Barr and her TV family's characters for a 'Roseanne' reboot over two decades later — but her comeback was short-lived. 14 Roseanne Barr on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' in 2018. Getty Images for NBC 14 Roseanne Barr attends the premiere of ABC's 'Roseanne.' Getty Images Advertisement The star was abruptly fired for her outspoken tweet about former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, which she said the political aide looked like the offspring of the 'Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.' ABC bosses killed the show despite its high ratings, blasting Barr's comment as 'abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.' The network later created the spinoff 'The Conners,' featuring several of Barr's former co-stars and killing off her character. The spinoff lasted seven seasons and recently ended, with the finale airing in April. However, Barr is now addressing the fourth wall in a defiant new interview with the Daily Mail published on Friday, May 30, claiming the cancel culture mob — which she alleged included her bosses — came for blood. Advertisement 14 Roseanne on the spinoff show. ABC 14 Roseanne and co-stars in a scene for the reboot. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 14 Roseanne Barr claims her ABC bosses were watching her every move. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'They were waiting for me to slip up,' the comedian alleged in the interview, confirming she meant the left-leaning executives at the network, who she claimed were already on high alert about her outspoken support for Trump. Advertisement 'They spied. They monitored everything I did,' she claimed. 'They wanted to censor me from the very beginning.' She also accused her ABC liberal bosses of allegedly hijacking her words about Jarrett. 'They hijacked that tweet and made out it said something that it didn't,' Barr insisted. 14 Roseanne was fired after she tweeted about Obama's political aide. Getty Images Still, Bob Iger, chief exec of the Walt Disney Company, ABC's corporate parent, said at the time, 'There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.' The comedian said she was unaware of Jarrett's background, which includes being born in Iran and having African-American parents. Following the backlash, Barr blamed her prescription medication for the comment, claiming she was 'Ambien tweeting' when she published her tweet. 14 She claimed the left-winged ABC execs were 'monitoring' her. Getty Images Advertisement 14 She later apologized for the tweet but it was too late. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection However, the former star who fell from grace now insisted it wasn't about race at all. 'I'm not stupid. I would never refer to a black person as the product of an ape,' Barr told Daily Mail, insisting it was about Obama's Iran nuclear deal, which the comedian opposed. 'The Planet of the Apes movie is about a fascist takeover of the world – and that is what I was talking about. The tweet was intended as a humorous political statement and not a racial one. But liberals in Hollywood are so racist, they automatically think of a black person,' Barr explained. Advertisement She's also taking back her apology for the tweet, in which she claimed she was 'truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and looks,' saying her joke was 'in bad taste.' 14 She nows says that apologizing was a mistake. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Roseanne also claimed she had behind the scenes drama with men in charge during her 'Roseanne' days. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'The worst mistake you can do is apologize to the left. Then they are on a crusade against you,' she said in the new interview. 'Once you admit a mistake, they will keep on until you're dead.' Advertisement Barr said she was butting heads with several men behind the scenes of 'Roseanne' decades before the tweet, insisting they had no grasp of what the average person at home wanted to watch. She wanted a more humorous presence on the sitcom, accusing them of saving the best and most funny lines for her TV husband, Goodman. 14 Roseanne claims she wanted to tackle the political divide in the reboot but Goodman allegedly refused to play the Republican. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'They were aghast. They said people are not gonna go for this. I go, 'working class people are like this – they are not like your wife. They don't have servants,'' Barr said. Advertisement 'It's all just elitists from Harvard. They did think the audience was deplorable, [whether] Democrat or Republican, at that time,' she continued. At one point, Barr — who became the second-highest-paid woman on TV behind Oprah Winfrey — began rewriting her lines and threatening to boycott scenes. 14 She has since moved out of Hollywood and is living in Texas. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I thought to myself, when this show goes to number one, here are the people I will fire. So I named everybody,' the comedian revealed. Once it happened, Barr followed up on her word. 'Right after that, everyone who was on the bad boy and girl Santa list, they were fired as a motherf–ker,' she shared. The comedian said that when she threw her support behind Trump in 2016, people were up in arms that she wasn't voting for the female candidate, Hillary Clinton. 14 Roseanne's character was killed off in the revival. Disney via Getty Images 'It was vaginal politics. It made me sick,' she said, adding that she wanted to tackle the political divide on the 'Roseanne' reboot. 'I wanted a Trump hater and a Hillary hater. They were pissed at each other but they loved each other,' she explained of her and Goodman's characters. Barr shared that she wanted Goodman to play the Republican supporter to take some heat off of her and the idea that she was a MAGA mouthpiece. 'John refused. It fell to me. I looked like a crusader,' she stated. 14 She's gearing up for her new documentary, which will be released next month. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection Barr also claimed that her Republican forward tweets made her ABC bosses sweat, claiming they allegedly asked her to delete several of them. The Post reached out to ABC for comment. Barr has since left Hollywood and is living on a ranch in Texas with her son, Jake, his wife and their daughters. She has no plan to return to Tinsel Town. 'It's a very liberal city, that's why I live outside of it,' the comedian said. That doesn't mean she won't be back on the TV screen. Barr is telling her side of the story in an upcoming documentary, 'Roseanne Barr is America,' by conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert, releasing on several streaming platforms on June 10.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tim Roth Opens Up About Making 'Poignant' Film About Bereavement Months Before His Son Cormac's Death from Cancer at Age 25
Tim Roth spoke out about filming a movie about bereavement just months before he lost his son Cormac at age 25 'The film was actually dealing with something which now is very, very poignant as far as our family is concerned,' the actor told The Guardian of his film Poison Cormac died on Oct. 16, 2022 after "a courageous battle with cancer," his family previously said in a statement obtained by PEOPLETim Roth is opening up about dealing with grief after losing his son Cormac Roth to cancer at age 25. While speaking to The Guardian, the actor, 64, discussed his new film Poison, which is about an estranged couple who reunite a decade after the death of their son. Filming on the movie — which Roth stars in as Lucas alongside Trine Dyrholm's Edith — wrapped just a few months before Cormac's death in October 2022, the outlet noted. 'The film was actually dealing with something which now is very, very poignant as far as our family is concerned,' Tim told the U.K. publication. 'There is no one way of grieving. People react differently — everyone does — otherwise there would be a cure for it." In the film, the couple's son "must be exhumed because toxins are leaking into the cemetery." The majority of the movie was shot at a real cemetery in Luxembourg, The Guardian stated. Before reuniting, the characters had been "torn apart by bereavement." Tim, who lives in Los Angeles with his family, admitted he considered dropping out of the film but said that Cormac insisted that he continue filming. 'He was unfazed by me doing the film. He thought it was a good thing. He was probably wanting to get me out of the house as well,' the Planet of the Apes star told the outlet. 'It had his seal of approval, otherwise I wouldn't have done it. If he needed me to stay close, I would have been staying close,' he added. 'At that point we were trying to remain positive because he was still with us." Discussing how the movie portrays grief, Tim said, 'The film has such a truth to it because it shows that how you grieve is as individual as a fingerprint. Now with my friends and family I see that everyone is doing and handling that differently and need to be respected for it.' The Roth family confirmed in a statement shared with PEOPLE that they "lost our beautiful boy Cormac after a courageous battle with cancer" on Oct. 16, 2022. Cormac announced in a July 2022 Instagram post that he'd been diagnosed with stage three germ cell cancer in November 2021. "He died peacefully in the arms of his family who loved and adored him," the Roth family's statement continued. "He fought with incredible bravery for the past year, and maintained his wicked wit and humour to the very end." The family described Cormac as "a wild and electric ball of energy" whose spirit "was filled with light and goodness." "As wild as he was, Cormac was also the embodiment of kindness," the statement continued. "A gentle soul who brought so much happiness and hope to those around him. The grief comes in waves, as do the tears and laughter, when we think of that beautiful boy across the 25 years and 10 months that we knew him." "An irrepressible and joyful and wild and wonderful child. Only recently a man," the family shared. "We love him. We will carry him with us wherever we go," they insisted, revealing that Cormac was a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont and "was an exceptionally gifted and extraordinary musician whose passion and love for making music stretched back to when his guitar was bigger than he was." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Cormac shared his final Instagram post in August 2022. In it, he urged his followers to "just sink your teeth in and remember that life is short" while thanking them for their continued support. "You don't always get to choose your destiny and you don't always get to choose your future, but be an undeniable force that lives and breathes," he said in the video post. "[Take] that thing that you claim that you love and are, and really do it. If it makes you happy, really do it." A U.S. release date for Poison has not yet been announced. Read the original article on People
