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BBC News
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'Should museums still display mummified remains?'
"Should mummified remains still be on display in museums today?"That is a question Egyptologist Dr Angela Stienne has dedicated a large portion of her work to, exploring the topic "without judgement".The museum ethics specialist led a debate at Derby Museums - which has the remains of two Egyptian mummies on display - to explore the "complex and often controversial" presence of ancient Egyptian human remains in European Stienne told the BBC: "We need to create a space to have these conversations." Mummification - the preservation of bodies through embalming or natural processes - was most famously practised in ancient Egypt. The technique, which evolved over centuries, typically involved removing internal organs, treating the body with resin, and wrapping it in linen. "These are bodies that have been moved from Egypt, usually a long time ago, and have been put in a museum, whether that's in England or elsewhere," she said."It's about how they got there, so there's a historical side, and then what is it that makes us go and see them."What we have in museums, whether it's bodies or objects, represents the wealthy."Other cultures, including the Inca of South America and communities in the Torres Strait, between Papua New Guinea and Australia, also practised forms of mummification. Dr Stienne also said one reason why people disassociated mummies from actual people was partly down to popular culture over the years."Once you step back, you say 'why is it we go and see dead bodies in museums?'"But if you grew up watching Scooby-Doo, there's a mummy there [represented in] and other cartoons and movies. "We don't really investigate this, that's what I like to do, but in a non-judgemental way, because a lot of the time when we ask this, we feel like what we are doing is wrong. "I like to ask these questions out of curiosity." Tony Butler, executive director at Derby Museums, said Dr Stienne's visit to the city asked probing questions about how to showcase mummified remains."Over the last year or so, we've been looking at different ways of telling that story."Because these are real people, you put them in a museum and you disassociate them from the culture that they lived."Would you want to be put in a museum when you die?"
Cosmopolitan
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt 'Run in Different Circles' After Rumored Feud
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt may have a long history since they starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer together in the '90s. But that doesn't mean they've always remained tight. Freddie opened up about the nature of his relationship with Jennifer after a rumored feud between them was recently debunked. During an interview with Variety, Freddie admitted that before reuniting with JLH for the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, they hadn't seen each other in nearly three decades. 'We run in different circles,' he explained. 'I hadn't seen her since we wrapped the second movie in '98, but we care a lot about these characters, and it was all still there. After we finished that first scene, we had a chance to say, 'Oh, you have kids. And you have kids.'' The Scooby-Doo alum, who has been married to fellow IKWYDLS star Sarah Michelle Gellar since 2002, added, 'Honestly, I think the first scene we share in this movie, where Ray and Julie confront the reality of their relationship, is the best work we've done of all three. I'm really proud of it. Our director, Jenn Robinson, three-dimensionalized these characters.' Per Us Weekly, fans have long speculated that Jennifer had a tiff with SMG after the first film and requested that her character be killed off from the franchise. The Ghost actor debunked the rumor during a 2024 appearance on the I've Never Said This Before podcast, saying, 'I was 18. They were not taking script notes from me, guys.' She also clarified that she was 'totally' friends with Sarah back then, adding, 'All of us were in that experience together and, kind of, figuring it all out and everything. I root for her and Freddie and think it's the cutest thing in the world that they've been married for 100 years, and have kids. It's adorable. It's just been really funny to see all of this stuff that people think.' After the premiere of the latest IKWYDLS movie, Sarah entered the chat in her Instagram comments section to clarify where she and Jennifer stand. 'For everyone asking—I never got to see @jenniferlovehewitt who is fantastic in the movie. I was inside with my kids when the big carpet happened. And unfortunately JLH didn't come to the after party,' she wrote. She added, 'If you have ever been to one of these it's crazy. I sadly didn't get pics with most of the cast. But that doesn't change how amazing I think they all are. Unfortunately some things happen only in real life and not online.' The film's reboot, which stars Gen Z powerhouses Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauer-King, Gabbriette Bechtel, and Sarah Pidgeon, continues in the same timeline as the original 1997 movie. Director Jenn Kaytin Robinson brought Freddie and Jennifer's OG characters back for the legacy sequel and shot down theories that the pair shot their scenes separately amid their longstanding feud rumors. 'They absolutely shot their scenes together. Hope this helps,' Jenn wrote in response to a social media post that sparked a debate between fans of the iconic franchise. TL;DR: it seems like there isn't any bad blood between these scream queens and kings.
Buzz Feed
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Howard Stern's Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Bet
Back in 1997, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. met on the set of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and basically lived happily ever after. As a quick recap, the two didn't actually start dating until they worked together again in 2000, when they played love interests in the Scooby-Doo movies. But after that, things moved pretty quickly. Sarah and Freddie got engaged in 2001, and then married in 2002. They welcomed their first child, Charlotte, in 2009, and a son, Rocky, in 2012. And on Monday, they appeared to be more in love than ever as they walked the red carpet for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel, which Freddie stars in. Needless to say, hopeless romantics everywhere were obsessed to see the couple still standing strong almost 30 years after the first movie brought them together. But as fans fawned over their love story on a pop culture Reddit forum, it didn't take long for Freddie's 2001 interview with Howard Stern to come up. Suffice to say, it has not aged well. In the interview, which took place shortly before Freddie and Sarah got married, Howard warns the actor that the relationship 'won't last.' 'So, you will marry [Sarah] even though you know that it won't last?' Howard began, going on to tell then-25-year-old Freddie: 'You think you gonna know how you feel at 35? You're going to be a completely different dude.' 'And she will be a completely different woman, but it's all good,' Freddie breezily replied. 'And you will probably talk to each other through lawyers!' Howard's cohost Robin Quivers added. Howard later told Freddie: 'I want to make a written bet with you now: In about 10 years, you're gonna hunt me down and go: 'Howard, I owe you money.'' He then bet Freddie $1 million that he and Sarah won't stay together for longer than five years. Both Freddie and Sarah have acknowledged Howard's bet over the years. In a 2016 interview with Build, Freddie said: 'He bet me a million dollars that we would break up in under five years… You have not paid that bet, young man!' And on their 20th wedding anniversary, Sarah posted the interview to her Instagram story, and wrote: '@SternShow I think you owe us.' Freddie reposted this at the time, joking: 'She will not forget.' So, it's pretty unsurprising that it has resurfaced again amid Sarah and Freddie's latest loved-up display, with a popular Reddit comment reading: 'they are a living embodiment of howard stern being wrong about everything so i have no choice but to be a fan.' 'Did he ever pay FPJ?' somebody else asked, while another wrote: 'he was acting like they were 19 and had literally no idea what they were doing.'While one more mused: 'I hate when people who's relationship fell apart project that everybody else will also have a relationship fall apart.'Others just couldn't help but gush over the long-lasting celeb couple, with one person writing: 'They appear to be a blessed couple. They still look great and they appear to be enamored with each other.' While somebody else concluded: 'The way she looks at him 😭 This is the celebrity relationship I'll always root for, I wish all the happiness for them.' Let me know your thoughts on Howard's bet in the comments below!
USA Today
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar step out at 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' premiere
It's the moment you've been waiting for. The cast of the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer," including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., hit the red carpet for the film's Los Angeles premiere on Monday, July 14, nearly 28 years after the original slasher hit. Prinze was joined on the carpet by his wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar. The actors met working together on the original "I Know What You Did Last Summer," the 1997 horror film in which they played friends who accidentally run over a pedestrian and are then stalked by a killer who knows their secret. Speaking with USA TODAY about the new movie, which hits theaters on July 18, Prinze recalled how he and Gellar grew close on the first film. "Sarah and I became really, really good friends on that movie, long before we ever went on a date together," he says. "We were just cool. I was always grateful for that relationship, even before we started dating. We started dating by accident. It just kind of happened." Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. share sweet photo for wedding anniversary Prinze and Gellar, who married in 2002, went on to work together again starring as Fred and Daphne, respectively, in 2002's "Scooby-Doo" and its sequel, "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed." Gellar's fan favorite "I Know What You Did Last Summer" character, Helen Shivers, was killed off in the original movie. But Prinze reprised his role of Ray in the film's 1998 sequel, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Almost three decades later, he now returns in the latest film, which reunites him with Hewitt and mixes the veteran actors with a new cast of stars who are stalked by a killer once again. In November, Gellar caused a stir among fans when she posted a photo from the set of the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer." But she later clarified on "Live with Kelly and Mark" that her character is "dead" and noted she didn't realize she wasn't supposed to share the behind-the-scenes look. How Sarah Michelle Gellar pays homage to 'Buffy' in supernatural drama 'Wolf Pack' "My husband's starring in the movie, and it was Thanksgiving, so I took our kids to Australia to go out there and visit him," she said. "I was sitting on set and I was like, 'Oh, what a great picture.' Then I posted it, and then I found out that they hadn't posted any pictures from the set yet, hadn't announced they started filming. That was (an), 'Oops, my bad!'" Gellar added that it was "really cool" to bring her kids to set but admitted, "I got in a little bit of trouble."
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Media Math: 91% of Adults 18-49 Spurned TV as NBA Finals Wrapped
Nostalgia is in many ways a shoddy parlor trick, a cheap form of time travel that generally serves to mythologize one's own past at the expense of an admittedly debased present. Of course everything was better when you were younger; for one thing, you didn't make noises when you sat down. Sports nostalgia is one of the more insidious forms of the whole misty-watercolor-memories racket, as that first flush of fandom tends to coincide with a time when most of us lack so much as a nodding acquaintance with critical thinking. (Because they're innately enthusiastic about the dumbest things—Scooby-Doo, finger foods, the Ickey Shuffle—little kids make for ideal fans.) For reasons that aren't entirely clear, probably no sports property is disadvantaged by our habit of conjuring a false Golden Age out of the stuff of remember-when than the National Basketball Association. If you happened to reside in the greater metropolitan Boston area in 1984, you are perhaps justified in your lingering enthusiasm for Larry Bird (wicked pissah!) and the rest of that year's Celtics roster. Pretty much everybody who played on either side of the '84 NBA Finals is now enshrined in Springfield, and Boston's triumph over the Lakers in Game 7 is one of that sports-crazed town's happiest moments. While Nielsen did not make a habit of reporting absolute audience figures at the time, CBS's 19.3 household rating suggests that the broadcast averaged more than 42 million viewers. The game itself was a sloppy slugfest, with both teams combining for 31 turnovers (Magic Johnson coughed it up no fewer than seven times, with two of those fumbles occurring in the final minute) and the Celtics shooting 39.5% from the field. And while the temperature inside the Garden didn't graze the 100°F mark, as was the case in Game 5—at times, Bird resembled a freshly parboiled Maine lobster—on-site conditions were still pretty gnarly. Welcome to Hyperhidrosis City, population 14,890. Here's the thing about that long-ago Celtics victory: While NBA commish Adam Silver would probably blow up the moon for a shot at a TV turnout of 42 million people, the reality is that a delivery of that magnitude is effectively impossible in this day and age. Reverse-engineer the Nielsen data and marvel at just how many American households were huddled around the tube 41 years ago. In light of a total universe of 84.9 million TV homes (a pittance compared to today's 125.8 million) and CBS's 19.3 rating/33 share, we can extrapolate that 49.7 million residences had their sets switched on as the Celtics were closing out the Lakers. That translates to a staggering 58.5% HUT level, or if you'd prefer to dispense with the media measurement jargon, a usage rate of nearly 59%. Now, any guess as to what the HUT/usage rate was during Fox's Feb. 9 broadcast of Super Bowl LIX, a game that served up some 114.1 million traditional TV impressions? How's 50.5% grab you? You read that right; on television's biggest night, about half of the country may as well have unplugged their TV sets. All things being equal, CBS's broadcast of the 1984 Raiders-Redskins title tilt coincided with an interval during which 65.4% of all Americans had their TVs in use. Setting aside the outsized role out-of-home measurement now plays in arriving at the present-day Super Bowl deliveries, Fox would have reached approximately 82.3 million TV homes last February if it had been fortunate enough to broadcast the Chiefs-Eagles scrap while 65.4% of all sets were up and running. That would have been good for a net gain of 18.7 million households, and while the OOH factor makes for an apples-to-road-apples comparison (approximately 21% of the Super Bowl LIX audience watched the game from someone else's couch/banquette/barstool), a 65.4% usage rate would have powered Fox past the 150 million-viewer mark. History buffs will note that the HUT levels for the Watergate hearings maxed out at 93.9%, or just a hair shy of the usage rates during the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Given that level of tune-in, Fox's Super Bowl broadcast would've been viewed by something like 296.3 million Americans—and only one of these events was staged! (Do you really expect us to believe that Patrick Mahomes would stink up the joint that badly? Only Stanley Kubrick and the CIA could dream up a scenario in which Mahomes' 11.4 QBR would pass the smell test.) While we're having fun with math and parallel-universe theories, let's have a look at the deciding game of this year's NBA Finals. ABC was the beneficiary of a huge Game 7 spike, as its broadcast of the Thunder's breezy 103-91 clincher over the Pacers averaged 16.6 million viewers, a step up from the preliminary returns and good for a 79% lift compared to the previous game. (At the risk of telling tales out of school, even a few NBA execs were surprised by the big boost, given the series' overall stasis between Games 1 and 6.) More to the point, Game 7 of Indy-OKC drew a 7.64 rating/26 share, which translates to 29.4% TV usage on the night of June 22. A HUT level hovering near the 30% mark is about as good as it gets on an early-summer Sunday, although each year has seen those numbers slide ever closer to the doldrums. In 2019, while the Raptors were putting the Warriors to sleep in Game 6 of their Finals showdown, 48.6% of the TV universe had their sets in use. If ABC had been fortunate enough to air the Pacers-Thunder finale when nearly half of the TV-owning crowd had their units switched on, this year's broadcast conceivably would have clocked in at around 24.9 million viewers. All of which is a somewhat roundabout way of suggesting that the NBA's TV numbers were a lot stronger than they looked on paper. But drill down another level and the challenges facing the legacy networks are grim indeed. Using the same ratings/share calculus that informed the greater audience dynamic, a somewhat alarming demographic picture begins to emerge. While nothing gets a marketer's heart racing like the quixotic desire to overcome scarcity, the vanishing dollar demos should discourage this kind of self-defeating strategy. As Shai Gilgeous-Alexander raised the O'Brien Trophy to the rafters, only 8.9% of the 134.1 million adults 18-49 were perched in front of their TVs. That's quite a bit off the pace from the analogous night in 2019, when nearly 20% of all adults under 50 were watching TV, and worlds apart from the 30% rates that were standard throughout the aughts. And even the mighty NFL isn't impervious to the ravages of demographic drift, although the league's absolute deliveries of the under-50 set remain the gold standard. On Dec. 29, 2024, the 17th Sunday of the NFL's regular-season campaign, primetime and late-afternoon usage among adults 18-49 came in at 9.4%. When fewer than 10% of this all-important audience segment is watching TV during a crucial NFL weekend, there's no use in trying to look the other way. Predictably enough, the situation with younger adults is more dire still. Despite boasting a whopping 71% share of viewers in the 18-34 demo, ABC's absolute delivery during Game 7 clocked in at a somewhat understated 3.13 million adults under 35. You can lead a Millennial to water, but you cannot make him drink (unless of course there's some sort of TikTok hydration challenge going on), and ABC's broadcast coincided with a night in which only 6.2% of the 18-34 universe was parked in front of a TV. Just six years ago, the average 18-34 usage rate for the month of June was 13.4%. Already the hardest-to-reach of the primary TV demos, the under-35 set is now about as inaccessible as the sunward side of Mercury. Fortunately, the various streaming platforms that ride sidecar with the primary ratings engine of TV are recapturing a healthy percentage of the younger crowd who represent the future of sports consumption. All but immune to the lean-back charms of traditional TV, the 18-34 demo hasn't tuned out entirely, although given their mounting importance in the overall scheme of things, the great digital transition can't happen soon enough. Given enough time, they'll be the ones mooning over an unattainable Golden Age, only instead of waxing nostalgic about demolished sweatboxes and the Hick from French Lick, this ascendant wave of fans will be remembering a far more virtual universe. The rest of us will play out the string to the sound of a mule chomping into a soggy carrot whenever we bend any of our synovial joints. Call it what it is: Nostalgia is merely a sort of homesickness for a time when you weren't all harried and creaky. More from Advertisement Best of Sign up for Sportico's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
