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The Independent
31-07-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Oreo and Reese's are teaming up to bring you these two new treats
Oreo and Reese's are coming out with a pair of mashup products for all the candy-lovers out there who don't want to decide between the two. The popular sweets brands — Oreo, owned by Mondelēz International and Reese's, owned by the Hershey Company — are putting out two new snacks that combine their beloved products. One of the collaborative snacks will be the Reese's Oreo Cup, which will replace usual chocolate exterior of a Reese's cup, with Oreo's milk chocolate and white creme. The interior will be Reese's peanut butter mixed with Oreo cookie crumbs. According to a company announcement, the product will be a permanent addition to the Reese's lineup, and will be sold in standard, king, and miniature sizes. The mashup cups should hit store shelves in September. Oreo will release it's own branded product which is actually a revival of a 2014 cookie variant using Reese's peanut butter. Michelle Deignan, vice president of Oreo U.S. at Mondelēz, told CNN the 2014 run of the cookies was "hugely successful." The new version will vary slightly by including Oreo cookie crumbs in the peanut butter filling. The cookies will be available in September, and will be a limited run initially. The flavor will become a permanent addition to Oreo's offerings beginning in January 2026. 'What we have seen since 2014 is that consumers have been begging us to bring this product back,' she told CNN. Dan Mohnshine, vice president of U.S. Confection Marketing for Hershey, shared similar sentiments: the mashup has been frequently requested from both companies. 'Essentially, what consumers often start riffing on in social media is 'What would go great in a Reese's cup?' The top brand that they consistently mention time and time again is Oreo,' he told CNN. He said cookie and peanut butter cup lovers have been asking for the collaboration for a "number of years." The team-up is surprising, considering not only are Oreo and Reese's direct competitors, but Mondelēz tried — and failed — to take over Hershey last year. It's not the first time Oreo has teamed up with a rival sugar slinger: last year, the cookie company paired with Coca-Cola to release an Oreo cookie-flavored soda and a soda syrup-flavored cookie.
The Independent
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York meet in `The Comet/Poppea' at Lincoln Center
Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of 'The Comet/Poppea,' an intriguing combination of Monteverdi's 1643 opera 'L'incoronazione di Poppea' and George E. Lewis' 'The Comet,' a Pulitzer Prize finalist this year. The mashup conceived by director Yuval Sharon began a five-performance run at Lincoln Center's Summer for the City on Wednesday night. First seen in Los Angeles last year, the American Modern Opera Company production unfolds on a turntable that completes a spin each 2 minutes, 8 seconds. An audience of 380 is split into sections on opposite sides of the set on stage at the David Koch Theater while the venue's 2,586 auditorium seats remain empty. 'It's an unstable ride over the course of 90 minutes, and the power of the interpretation is up to each and every spectator,' Sharon said. 'Whether you're on one side of the seating bank or the other, you're going to have a totally different experience and you may miss a really important piece of action that your imagination is going to have to fill.' In Monteverdi's final opera, created to Giovanni Francesco Busenello's libretto, Nerone exiles his wife Ottavia, leaving him free to crown Poppea empress. Lewis composed 'The Comet' to librettist Douglas Kearney's adaption of W.E.B. Du Bois' dystopian eight-page 1920 short story in which a working-class Black man, Jim (Davóne Tines), and a society white woman, Julia (Kiera Duffy), believe they are the only survivors of a comet and can join to form a prejudice-free society. Their aspirations collapse when they learn people outside New York remained alive and segregation was unconquerable. 'People can make the leap between the music they're hearing and the kinds of tensions that are inherent to modern life and the tensions that the opera presents and the text presents, particularly around the dystopian aspect of white supremacy,' Lewis said. 'White supremacy is a kind of dystopia and it's a dystopia that we continue to live with today." Different styles for different eras Mimi Lien's two-sided set, illuminated strikingly by John Torres, is tiered with a bath at the top level on the Roman portion and a red Art Deco restaurant evoking the Rainbow Room on the other, where Jim and Julia find three dead bodies slumped. 'Jim is confronted with what it means to be the only man left alive, what it newly means to be a Black man allowed into spaces he wasn't before, but then have that dream crushed by the reality of Julia also inhabiting that space," said Tines, a commanding presence as Jim and the smaller role of Mercury. 'The Comet/Poppea' debuted at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA last June and also was performed with a student cast in Philadelphia in November. It is part of a Run AMOC(asterisk) festival of 12 productions at Lincoln Center that include 10 New York premieres. Friday's performance can been viewed on a live stream on Lincoln Center's Facebook and YouTube channels. Planning, writing and funding took years Sharon first discussed the project in 2018 with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, who sings Nerone and Julia's father, a stuffed shirt dressed like Mr. Monopoly. 'It fell apart so many times,' Constanzo said. 'First, the pandemic came, and so all of our plans we'd put together were dashed. Then we had one co-producer who was giving a lot of money and they pulled out. Then we got another co-producer to put that much money in again and they pulled out." Sharon had met Lewis at a 2018 Columbia University conference and approached him with the idea of concentrating on Poppea's upward mobility and creating 'a secondary story to complicate and to make a mess of this idea of authoritarianism.' Sharon trimmed 'Poppea' to its essence. Lewis' music, filled with dissonance and a snippet of jazz, mixes with the Monterverdi's baroque, which Jim first hears from the restaurant jukebox. 'The conception was one in which you knew from the beginning that there are moments of overlap, there are moments of exchange, of sequentiality,' Lewis said. 'It could stand alone by itself, `The Comet,' certainly." Lincoln Center is presenting a more ambitious offering of classical events after drawing criticisms in the first three seasons of Summer for the City that emerged from the pandemic. There are 266 scheduled events from June 11 through Aug. 9. Programs are set to include jazz, Latin music, R&B, Broadway, pop, Caribbean, dance and more.
Geek Tyrant
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Mrs. Doubtfire Amusingly Vacuums in Scenes From Other Movies and TV Shows — GeekTyrant
Here's an amusing mashup from The Bell Brothers, which seamlessly inserts Mrs. Doubtfire (Robin Williams) happily vacuuming and cleaning up in scenes from other movies and TV shows. She's a hip old granny who can hip-hop, bebop, dance till ya drop. The soundtrack features the Cee Lo Green song 'I'll Be Around', and some of the other movies and TV shows include Ghostbusters , The Joker , Back to the Future , Seinfeld , and Scrubs .
Geek Tyrant
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Elaine's Hilarously Awful Dance From SEINFELD Inserted Into Scenes in TV Shows and Movies — GeekTyrant
Here's a funny mashup video titled 'The Bizarro Elaine Dance' that seamlessly inserts Elaine's terrifible dance moves from Seinfeld into scenes in several other TV shows, movies, and music videos that also involve dancing. The mashup includes footage from Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' music video, Full House , Grease , The Office , The Addams Family , Reservoir Dogs , Arrested Development , and more. Enjoy the video!
