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AGT judge Simon Cowell says advice from his dad inspired his success
Speaking at an event in London this week, the British entrepreneur recalled being 12 years old when his dad offered him the advice.“He said: Everyone has a sign on their head and it says ‘make me feel important,’” the now-63-year-old recalled at Advertising Week Europe.At first, Cowell said, he was confused. But then understood what his dad meant.“At the time, I was like, ‘what are you talking about?’ And then I got it. If you’re involved in something, every single person has a role in part of that. A
Source: AGT judge Simon Cowell says advice from his dad inspired his success
R.I.P. Neal Adams
The great Neal Adams has died at the age of 80 from complications of sepsis.
My first encounter with Neal was not from Batman or Superman or Deadman. It was his creator-owned titles in Continuity Comics.
I found these on the street for a buck an issue back in the 90s. The art is what caught my eye.
Read more »Neal Adams Was a Father
“Neal Adams’ most undeniable quality was the one that I had known about him my entire life: he was a father,” Josh Adams wrote on Twitter. “Not just my father, but a father to all that would get to know him.”
Source: Neal Adams, comic book legend and defender of artists’ rights, dies at 80 : NPR
Britney Spears’s Father Remains in Control of Conservatorship, for Now – The New York Times
At a hearing on Tuesday, a lawyer for the pop singer said that Spears was afraid of her father and would not perform while he was charge of her career.
Source: Britney Spears’s Father Remains in Control of Conservatorship, for Now – The New York Times
Paul Sorvino Has Words For Harvey Weinstein
I always wondered why Mira Sorvino didn’t work more as an actress after winning the Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite“. Allegedly it is because Harvey Weinstein did everything in his considerable power to keep her off the silver screen.
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Cover of Mighty Aphrodite [DIVX]
I've been waiting for this….Paul Sorvino on Harvey Weinstein harassing and blacklisting his daughter Mira Sorvino….
"He ought to hope he goes to jail…cause if not, he has to meet me and I will kill the motherfu**er" https://t.co/q6PWec3jxD pic.twitter.com/kkov60WdBx
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 3, 2018
Would you want Paul Sorvino pissed off at you? I wouldn’t. And yes, I know this is a scene from a movie.
One thing that has made me nuts with regard to the current wave of deserved firings and comeuppances of powerful men is the response some guys have made — “if it was my daughter/sister” etc. Actually… no. Whether or not you are related to a woman does not matter. No one deserves to be treated this way. Hell, if it’s true that Harvey Weinstein kept Mira Sorvino from being cast in movies because she wouldn’t sleep with him… jesus.
HOWEVER. If the woman wronged *is* your daughter, I think it’s fair to expect, shall we say, an extra level of outrage. Look at it like this — “imagine if it was your daughter”? No. It’s bad no matter what. But when it actually is your daughter? I don’t blame you for getting more mad. On the TMZ video, Mr. Sorvino is rather calm in my opinion.
Also, make sure to read through to part 5 of the tweet quoted above, which features video of Ms. Sorvino at a 2011 Senate briefing about sex trafficking. I will attempt to embed said Tweet here but as I admitted online I can thread a needle but tweets, not so much.
5. By the way, you should know that @MiraSorvino has been fighting sex trafficking, especially the trafficking of minors, for years…long before she spoke publicly about Harvey Weinstein. Here she is in 2011 at a US Senate briefing. pic.twitter.com/R7jwyLcLRL
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 3, 2018
h/t Yashar Ali
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Dear Kevin Hart, I Bathed My Kid
Kevin Hart needs to learn that it’s not the 1950s anymore.
Watch his monologue from SNL on December 16, 2017.
Ha ha. Very funny. But what’s that bit about “I gotta give it up for the women”? “You take care of the bathing” or whatever the hell it is?
Dude. I hate that I have to keep saying this but MEN DO THAT TOO. And I don’t just mean in general. In my case, I was — and am still — the primary caregiver.
What I would have preferred he say is “I gotta give it up for my wife.” Would that have been less funny? I don’t think so.
Just so there’s no confusion, I am not hyper offended. I’m not even offended. I would just prefer that the idea that only women can take care of kids, as in not work and take care of kids, would stop. It’s not going to. But I’d like it if it did.
Brad Pitt Stops A Kid From Getting Crushed By Fans (Video)
This is kinda nice. Brad Pitt stops a kid from getting crushed by fans in Spain, or to use the lingua franca of the place where it happened, “Brad Pitt rescata a niña en rodaje de Allied”. Allied is the movie Mr. Pitt was filming, and he took a break in order to say hello to a crowd. More specifically, he waved at a rather large group of people who were clearly REALLY stoked to see him.
But perhaps they were a little bit too stoked. According to the story, and the video backs this up, a little girl was being crushed against the fence. Mr. Pitt saw this and had his bodyguards pick her up and pull her out of the crowd, then comforted her until medical staff arrived. Here’s the video.
I think this is an example of how having kids changes a person. Not that I don’t think Mr. Pitt would have done this before becoming a dad. But the behavior, to my eye, looks very parental. There are things that become instinctual after you have children of your own. In this case, that was a good thing.
Via Time
