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Anne Hathaway Endorses Harris While Belting Out Queen Song For Broadway Fundraiser
Academy Award-winning actor Anne Hathaway endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris while belting out Queen's "Somebody to Love," a song she also sang in the 2004 movie Ella Enchanted, during for a Broadway for Harris fundraiser on Monday.
A video from the fundraiser captured Hathaway on stage wearing a black shimmery tuxedo jacket, matching shorts, and thigh-high leather boots as she voiced her support for Harris ahead of November's presidential election.
Before she broke out into song, she said:
“In case you didn’t know, I am voting for Kamala. Is anyone else here voting for Kamala?”
“America is a very big place and not everybody is decided, especially in an election like this when passions are rightly so intense because the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s still very important to remember that you have to meet people where they’re at."
“We thought that it might be nice to make a little space tonight for the undecided voter and contemplate a question that they might be struggling with."
You can watch what happened in the video below.
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Hathaway last sang the song in the 2004 film Ella Enchanted, in which she played the titular character.
Many loved her performance—to say nothing of her endorsement.
The Broadway for Harris fundraiser featured an impressive lineup of performers, including Hathaway, Whoopi Goldberg, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Ana Gasteyer, Audra McDonald, Billy Porter, Wilson Cruz, and others. The event was part of a broader initiative led by Broadway for Harris, a volunteer coalition of theater professionals and supporters working to elect Harris, Walz, and Democratic candidates in key races this November.
This grassroots organization is committed to increasing voter participation in swing districts by organizing fundraising events featuring Broadway talent. To date, Broadway for Harris has rallied hundreds of volunteers, made over 150,000 calls, and knocked on more than 11,000 doors in swing districts in Pennsylvania.
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Pharrell Williams Gets Candid About How Writing The Song 'Happy' Actually 'Broke' Him
Music artist Pharrell Williams divulged the surprising origin for his optimistic bop "Happy," written for the soundtrack of the Dreamworks animated film Despicable Me 2.
Williams showed up with filmmaker Morgan Neville for an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to discuss their latest collaboration, Piece by Piece, an upcoming biographical documentary film about the musician's life and career rendered in Lego animation.
The 13-time Grammy winner, who also won the Academy Award in 2014 for Best Original Song for "Happy," revealed that writing the uptempo crowd-pleaser "broke him."
Lowe asked Williams to recount a time in his life when he felt "ready to grow" and to "embrace life" differently. Williams replied that it was when he was 40 around the time his commissioned songs "Get Lucky," "Blurred Lines," and "Happy" hit the airwaves.
He expanded on the pitfalls of rising to the occasion for penning commissioned tunes and said:
“I had written 9 songs that were rejected."
"It was only until you were out of ideas, and you asked yourself a rhetorical question, and you came back with a sarcastic answer, and that’s what ‘Happy’ was."
Williams continued:
"How do you make a song about a person that’s so happy that nothing can bring them down?"
"And I sarcastically answered it and put music to it, and that sarcasm became the song, and that broke me.”
You can watch the discussion here.
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People were fascinated by the songwriting process for "Happy" despite its bitter beginnings.
He waxed philosophic and said that "the universe is a part of everything that we do," adding:
"It's so crazy for us to think like individuals everything comes from us. Your ideas and everything that you get is coming from a library of existence."
"Nothing is new under the sun. In fact, the sun that look up at every day is one of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of other stars."
Williams explained that "once you understand the insignificance of yourself, then you understand what your actual significance is."
"Happy" was written, produced, and performed by Williams, and was the only single on the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack in 2013.
The song peaked at number 1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the best-selling song in 2014 with 6.45 million copies sold that year.
However, listeners eventually grew weary of the song, including the artist himself.
When a user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote “No song annoyed me like Happy by Pharrell did, " Williams shared the post and replied, “Same.”
Piece by Piece is currently playing in theaters to a positive reception from critics and audiences.
Rotten Tomatoes describes the film as, "A highly unusual twist on the documentary format that somehow works seamlessly, this kaleidoscopic overview of Pharrell Williams' career is a lively testament to the power of self-belief."
Sydney Sweeney Hilariously Responds To Oregon Mascot's Flirtatious Sign At Football Game
Actor Sydney Sweeney has no plans of becoming romantically linked with anyone else but her fiancé, businessman Jonathan Davino, to whom she got engaged last year.
Still, that didn't stop the football mascot for the University of Oregon Ducks, Puddles, from shooting his shot at winning her affection.
During ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday, Puddles photobombed a broadcast by popping up behind the show's hosts and guest, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor Kaitlin Olson, with a placard for Sweeney.
The sign was handwritten:
“Sydney Sweeney call me back.”
He may have a bill for every occasion, but he turned out to be one unlucky duck.
Sweeney saw the sign and replied with a cheeky message for her plucky paramour on her Instagram story.
The Immaculate star wrote:
"“Sorry. Changed my number haha."
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At least the No. 3 Ducks won 32-31 against No. 2 Ohio State, marking Oregon's first win against an AP top-two challenger.
As far as Puddles goes, well, social media users had plenty of wisequacks.
You never know unless you try.
Waddle he do now?
Josh Hawley Posted A Pic With BFF Harrison Butker On National Coming Out Day—And Here Come The Jokes
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley raised eyebrows after sharing a photo on X of himself with conservative Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on a football field on October 11—which just so happened to be National Coming Out Day.
Hawley's post came after Butker endorsed him over the weekend while announcing he'd launched UPRIGHT PAC, a political action committee designed to court Christian voters.
He wrote that he and Butker arrived at Poplar Bluff when their photo was taken.
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It's worth noting that Hawley has said that reading the Bible is the key to addressing a crisis of "disappearing manhood" and "traditional masculinity" that is taking the country by storm. And it's very much worth mentioning that Butker made headlines earlier this year for delivering a misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ commencement speech criticizing working women, reproductive rights, surrogacy, and LGBTQ+ rights.
The fact Hawley's photo was posted on National Coming Out Day, a day that serves as an opportunity for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate their authentic selves and advocate for their rights, prompted many to post cheeky comments.
Earlier this year, Hawley faced mockery after sharing a photo of himself and Butker sitting across from each other, smiling, and looking like they stepped out of a modeling catalog—or a gay club on Saturday night. They look preppy and the "masculinity crisis"-obsessed Hawley's muscles were popping.
Hawley's post came just days after Butker made headlines for his speech, in which he urged male graduates to "fight against the cultural emasculation of men," claimed that "abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerative cultural values in media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder."
Hawley has made similar remarks in the past, urging women to give up their careers for their husbands and declaring that "the Left" is hurting "the future of the American man" and went on to claim that the "deconstruction of America begins with and depends on the deconstruction of American men."
'I, Robot' Director Puts Musk On Blast After New Tesla Designs Bear Striking Similarity To Film
If you took a look at Elon Musk's new Optimus robots and self-driving vehicles and thought "where have I seen this before?" you are not alone.
You might be thinking of the 2004 futuristic Will Smith sci-fi film I, Robot, because the film's director is convinced that's where Musk got his design ideas.
Filmmaker Alex Proyas is calling out the CEO for ripping off the look of the robots and vehicles from his film, which really do bear a striking resemblance to each other.
Tesla's new products were instantly controversial on social media when Musk unveiled them. Many felt the robots, which Tesla has marketed as in-house servants and replacements for workers like bartenders, struck many online as creepily dystopian.
Then there were the Cybertaxi and Robovan, the latter of which reminded people more of a toaster (or a tape dispenser) than a cool new automobile. All three were such duds after their big debut that they caused Tesla's stock price to dip.
But for Proyas, the products are more than creepy and ugly—they're direct rip-offs of the designs from his film. The robots themselves are a bit of a stretch—they just sort of look like generic humanoid robots, really.
The Cybertaxi and Robovan on the other hand? Yeah...those look a lot like Proyas' ideas. And it doesn't help that the big launch event where they were unveiled was literally called "We, Robot." So you can't really blame Proyas for tweeting:
"Hey Elon, Can I have my designs back please?"
It certainly isn't surprising to see that Musk seems to have jacked someone else's style—he is still often known, especially by his bamboozled fanboys, as the founder of Tesla, an inaccurate superlative he has done little to dispel.
Of course, Musk's hordes of right-wing sycophants mocked Proyas as a man who "feels you inspired the future yet you're trying to dunk on the person who made it a reality."
But many others saw what Proyas saw, and definitely weren't impressed.
Anyway, a horde of human-like robots created by an openly fascist far-right weirdo will surely go much better than the robot-takeover from I, Robot that obviously inspired it. What could go wrong?!