For Chad Johnson, a weekend confrontation with his wife has led to repercussions beyond a misdemeanor charge and NFL unemployment.
VH1 pulled the series “Ev and Ocho” from its schedule, citing “the seriousness of the allegations” against Johnson. The network said Monday it had no plans to air the show.
The Dolphins terminated Johnson’s contract Sunday night, about 24 hours after he was arrested in a domestic battery case involving his wife, Evelyn Lozada, who is on the reality TV show “Basketball Wives.”
Coach Joe Philbin says the decision to release the six-time Pro Bowl receiver wasn’t based on any single incident and wasn’t made to send a message. Instead, Philbin decided Johnson and the Dolphins were simply a bad fit.
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Adored by generations of Red Sox fans, Johnny Pesky was so much a part of Boston baseball that the right-field foul pole at Fenway Park was named for him.
Pesky, who played, managed and served as a broadcaster for the Red Sox in a baseball career that lasted more than 60 years, died Monday. He was 92.
”The national pastime has lost one of its greatest ambassadors,” baseball commissioner Bud Selig said. ”Johnny Pesky, who led a great American life, was an embodiment of loyalty and goodwill for the Boston Red Sox and all of Major League Baseball.”
Pesky died just more than a week after his final visit to Fenway, on Aug. 5 when Boston beat the Minnesota Twins 6-4.
Yet for many in the legion of Red Sox fans, their last image of Pesky will be from the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park on April 20, when the man known for his warmth, kindness and outstanding baseball career was moved to tears at a pregame ceremony. By then the former shortstop was in a wheelchair positioned at second base, surrounded by dozens of admiring former players and a cheering crowd.
”I feel like part of the Red Sox tradition just died because when I think of Johnny I think of him hitting fungos at spring training. We will all miss him so much,” ex-pitcher Pedro Martinez said in comments provided by the Red Sox. ”He was such a representative of everything that happened in Boston. It’s hard to think of the success, defeat, and all we went through without Johnny. You couldn’t do anything without Johnny Pesky.”
It was at another ceremony less than six years earlier that Pesky’s name was officially inscribed in the rich history of the Red Sox and their home, a fitting tribute to a career .307 hitter and longtime teammate and friend of Ted Williams.
On his 87th birthday, Sept. 27, 2006, a plaque was unveiled at the base of the foul pole just 302 feet from home plate, designating it ”Pesky’s Pole.”
The term was coined by former Red Sox pitcher Mel Parnell, who during a broadcast in the 1950s recalled Pesky winning a game for him with a home run around the pole. From there, a legend seemed to grow that Pesky frequently curled shots that way actually, only six
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The United States men’s soccer team ended a 75-year drought Wednesday night, defeating Mexico, 1-0, in a friendly for its first win on Mexican soil.
Michael Orozco Fiscal after scoring in the 80th minute in Wednesday’s 1-0 exhibition victory.
The victory at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, which stopped a 24-match winless streak, was the second breakthrough result for the United States and Coach Jurgen Klinsmann this year. In February, the United States defeated Italy for the first time, 1-0.
“It’s huge for, I think, all American fans, it’s huge for the team, and it’s historic,” Klinsmann said. “We were very well aware that we’ve never won here at the Azteca Stadium. This is an amazing experience for all the players. We told them before the game, ‘This moment is for you; go and grab it.’ We are all aware that it was a lot, a lot of work.”
The decisive moment came in the 80th minute as three substitutes combined to score.
Brek Shea, who has struggled this year for F.C. Dallas in M.L.S., initiated the attack with a move down the left wing. He wound up crossing the ball into a congested area in front of the Mexican goal.
Although he was surrounded by defenders, striker Terrence Boyd sent a nifty backheel toward defender Michael Orozco Fiscal, who slotted the ball past goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
Mexico stepped up its attack in the final 10 minutes, pushing forward with waves of players. Javier Hernández, known as Chicharito, twice had clear chances in front of goal, but in both instances United States goalkeeper Tim Howard made saves.
On the first, Hernández’s left-footed shot ricocheted off defender Maurice Edu. Howard changed directions, sprawled to his left and pushed the shot wide.
A few minutes later Hernandez had an even better chance, this time on a point-blank header. But Howard parried the shot.
“Tim Howard kept us in the game I don’t know how many times,” Klinsmann said, adding, “Eventually, you need a little bit of luck, too, and I think in some instances we were lucky tonight.”
Even though it was only a friendly, the United States players ran onto the field at the final whistle, hugging and celebrating as the stunned crowd looked on in near silence.
The victory was even more impressive given that Jozy Altidore, Michael Bradley, Carlos Bocanegra, Steve Cherundolo, Clint Dempsey and Clarence Goodson were left off the roster because of club obligations or minor injuries. Mexico fielded a team featuring most of its top players.
The game was not particularly riveting until the tense final moments. Klinsmann deployed a 4-4-2 formation that featured a very inexperienced defensive corps. Fabian Johnson played out of position at right back, while Edgar Castillo played on the left. Geoff Cameron and Edu, typically a central midfielder, played central defense.
Perhaps because of the patchwork nature of its back line, Klinsmann also employed three defensive-minded midfielders, who frustrated the Mexico attack but could not muster any offensive cohesiveness.
Mexico had the better opportunities in the first half, but after 45 minutes, neither side looked particularly dangerous.
That changed after intermission as Mexico started to press down the right flank, exposing Castillo. Mexico’s Elías Hernández delivered a series of dangerous crosses, but steely defending from Cameron and some poor finishing from the Mexico attackers kept Mexico off the scoreboard.
The United States’ attack was poor throughout the match, but when Shea came on in the 78th minute, the Americans started to maintain a bit more possession. Just before the goal, Shea waved his hands frantically, asking for the ball. He received it, made a fabulous maneuver and delivered the pass that set up the decisive goal.
A version of this article appeared in print on August 16, 2012, on page B13 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Wins in Mexico for the First Time.
Blossom star Mayim Bialik was seriously injured Wednesday in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Bialik, 36, was driving in L.A. when a car with three tourists from Chile turned into her vehicle at Hollywood Boulevard and caused the crash, LAPD Sgt. Monte Houze tells PEOPLE.
“From what I was told, there was a lot of blood at the scene,” says Houze.
He says Bialik suffered “a severe injury to her left thumb” and was taken to a local hospital. The tourists were not cited or detained.
But the star won’t be losing a digit. On Wednesday afternoon, Bialik posted a message on Twitter saying, “(husband typing) In pain but will keep all my fingers. If u wanna see pre accident me watch The Soup tonight lol.”
Blossom star Mayim Bialik was seriously injured Wednesday in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Bialik, 36, was driving in L.A. when a car with three tourists from Chile turned into her vehicle at Hollywood Boulevard and caused the crash, LAPD Sgt. Monte Houze tells PEOPLE.
“From what I was told, there was a lot of blood at the scene,” says Houze.
He says Bialik suffered “a severe injury to her left thumb” and was taken to a local hospital. The tourists were not cited or detained.
But the star won’t be losing a digit. On Wednesday afternoon, Bialik posted a message on Twitter saying, “(husband typing) In pain but will keep all my fingers. If u wanna see pre accident me watch The Soup tonight lol.”
When American chefs start serving
lion even the animal-rights activists give foie gras a reprieve.
If only momentarily.
Taste & See, a Latin-fusion restaurant in Wichita, Kansas,
expected to serve the king of beasts tonight as part of an
exotic-game tasting.
Responding to protests from animal-rights groups, chef
Jason Febres removed the big cat from the menu — he 86ed it, in
restaurant lingo.
“We wish to note that the small percentage of people who
genuinely and intelligently pleaded their case was what
persuaded us to reconsider,” Taste & See said in a release.
As of Tuesday morning, a petition on Change.org to cancel
the dinner listed nearly 11,000 electronic signatures.
Kangaroo is on the bill of fare, along with Scottish hare,
crocodile, alpaca, water buffalo, antelope and foie gras. The
Change.org petition is still calling for the meal’s cancellation
because of the presence of those “exotic animals.”
Here’s the thing: It’s legal to eat African lion in the
U.S.
Liver Nixed
It’s the sale of foie gras that’s illegal, at least in the
state of California.
The law has a few loopholes that some chefs like to
exploit.
Restaurant Thir13en in Sacramento has served “
brioche” with a “complimentary” side of duck liver as part of
a semantic effort to subvert the ban, as the New York Times
reported earlier this week.
Activists were the force behind California’s foie ban,
which went into effect in July. But there aren’t any petitions
against Thir13en on Change.org just yet.
One prominent Texas chef defended Taste & See’s initial
plans to serve big cat.
“As long as it’s responsibly sourced, I have no problem
with what Chef Febres wants to serve,” said Tim Love of the
game-centric Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth. Love,
in an e-mail, said he tried lion years ago.
“I liked it. It was pretty thrilling,” he said.
No lion on Love’s menu just yet. But there are elk sliders,
among other southwestern delicacies.
“My job is to create a memorable experience for my guests,
and if it’s serving kangaroo nachos or rabbit rattlesnake
sausage, so be it.”
Memorably Unmemorable
Chef Brad Farmerie, of the Michelin-starred Public in New
York, wasn’t too happy with his big-cat experience.
“It was memorably unmemorable, fairly neutral, like the
other-other white meat,” he said of lion, adding that he
probably wouldn’t serve it.
Farmerie, like Love, does cook kangaroo.
“We have fielded calls from ‘reactionists’ who were angry
that we were serving these cute, cuddly creatures, and then got
‘raided’ by some government agents a few years back because
kangaroo was accidentally included in a New York list of
endangered animals.”
Taste & See declined to name the source or supplier of the
lion meat.
“Due to the extreme response and threatening nature of
some, I do not wish to subject anyone else to the barrage of
anger that we have endured,” a spokesperson for the restaurant
wrote in an e-mail.
Exotic Meats, an online purveyor, currently lists its lion
meat supplies as “out of stock.”
The website for Czimer’s Game & Seafood, an Illinois-based
butcher, advertises African lion legs, loins, steaks, ribs and
burgers, ranging in price from .95 to .95 a pound.
For now, however, it’s lions 1, ducks zero.
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Boroff on tennis.
NEW YORK Evelyn Lozada is ending her 41-day-old marriage to Chad Johnson after the football star was arrested for allegedly head-butting her over the weekend.
A rep for the VH1 reality star confirmed reports that Lozada filed for divorce Tuesday.
“Given the recent events that have taken place, Evelyn has decided to file for divorce and move on with her life,” Lozada’s lawyer, Michael B. Gilden, told the TV show “The Insider” in a statement.
Johnson released his own statement the first since his arrest on his official website, OCNN, and reaffirmed his love for Lozada.
“I am going to let the legal process run its course. I wish Evelyn nothing but the best, I have no negative words to say about her, the only thing I can say is I love her very much,” said Johnson, who was dumped by the Miami Dolphins a day after the arrest.
“I will continue to be positive and stay training hard for another opportunity in the NFL. I appreciate all my fans and supporters and if I have disappointed you in any way, you have my sincerest apologies. Once again I will continue to stay positive and appreciate all the support during this tough period in my life.”
The marriage imploded Saturday after an argument between the two ended with Lozada being treated at a hospital for lacerations to her head.
According to Davie, Fla., police, Lozada found a receipt for condoms and confronted Johnson about it at dinner. The argument continued during their drive home, and when they arrived at their driveway, he allegedly head-butted her.
In a 911 call released by authorities, a neighbor told police that there was an incident involving a “high-profile person” and is heard telling Lozada to wipe the blood from her head. Lozada is heard saying that Johnson head-butted her, and the caller says Lozada will probably need stitches.
However, Johnson told police she head-butted him.
Earlier Tuesday, Lozada said in a statement: “I am deeply disappointed that Chad has failed to take responsibility for his actions and made false accusations against me, it is my sincere hope that he seeks the help he needs to overcome his troubles. Domestic violence is not okay and hopefully my taking a stand will help encourage other women to break their silence as well.”
Johnson is a six-time Pro Bowler who last season was on the New England Patriots.
His July 4 wedding to Lozada whom he courted publicly on the VH1 series “Basketball Wives” was taped for a spinoff show called “Ev & Ocho.” It was due to debut Sept. 3, but VH1 shelved it after Johnson’s weekend arrest.
Johnson formerly known as Chad Ochocinco and Lozada were prominently featured in the recent first episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Miami Dolphins.”
Lozada was the former fiancee of former NBA player Antoine Walker and has been one of the main stars of “Basketball Wives,” which also features Shaunie O’Neal, the former wife of former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal.
In court papers filed on Tuesday, Lozada says the two had a premarital agreement but asks Johnson pay for her attorney fees associated with the divorce.
Besides ending her marriage, Lozada also was mourning the loss of her brother-in-law, who walked her down the aisle and was to be a part of the “Ev & Ocho” show.
Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images”Cosmopolis” actor Robert Pattinson and director David Cronenberg pose at France’s Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2012Eric Packer, the icily charismatic asset manager played by Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis, does a great many interesting things in a single, fateful day. In his white stretch limousine, he attempts to traverse Manhattan in gridlock traffic amid violent Occupy-like protests, and all in search of a haircut. He forfeits hundreds of millions of dollars in a suicidal currency-speculation bid. He enjoys afternoon sex with a comely security specialist wearing a body-armor vest with a stun gun on hand. He also has sex with Juliette Binoche. He also endures a weirdly erotic prostate exam while staring into the eyes of a sweaty associate. He gets a pie in the face from a “pastry assassin” who travels with a crew of paparazzi. He is stalked by an actual would-be assassin as well.
So much to talk about! But overshadowing Pattinson’s press tour for Cosmopolis - directed by the great David Cronenberg and adapted from Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel is the recent tabloid frenzy surrounding his breakup with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart. (The final film in the Twilight franchise is out in November.) TIME sat down with Cronenberg and Pattinson fresh-faced, sweet, totally affable, smoking an electronic cigarette in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood the day after the New York City premiere of Cosmopolis. We mostly stayed on topic, if occasionally tiptoeing awkwardly around the heartbroken vampire-elephant in the room.
TIME: Cosmopolis was published in the first year of the war in Iraq, and in a wave of novels that were all described as being “post–Sept. 11” in one way or other, but now the story maps on remarkably well to Occupy Wall Street and other protest movements around the world in 2011. David, at what point did you encounter the book, and when did you know it was a movie?
David Cronenberg: It was about three years ago, and the attraction wasn’t that the novel was prescient or because of its historical place. It was the characters, the dialogue, the intensity, the humor it’s constantly funny. I wasn’t looking to make any kind of statement. Inevitably, though, if you’re making something with integrity, it will say something about the time it’s being made in. When the novel came out, people were saying, “All this demonstrating-on-Wall-Street stuff isn’t very convincing.” Now it’s obvious.
Robert, DeLillo’s dialogue is hyperstylized, very formal and often steeped in theory. How did you approach it?
Robert Pattinson: The first thing I connected to was the humor. Everything else seemed kind of arbitrary. I liked that it was absurd and unrelatable in a lot of ways. I thought that Eric doesn’t understand himself, so that was my angle play the part as if you don’t understand the part. [Cronenberg laughs merrily.] Try to remain lost. I noticed that every single time I came into a scene with an idea or an angle about how to do it, it would feel wrong, and David would know it was wrong. When I was kind of somewhere else, not thinking at all that was when it felt right.
What’s relatable about Eric might be that his world is so mediated by technology he experiences the world at a remove, through screens, and so he’s struggling to feel something, whether it’s through sex or shooting a gun or gambling away his fortune. Do you think people can relate to that kind of alienation and wanting something real?
DC: One of the investors in the movie is a genuine French billionaire named Édouard Carmignac. He’s known as the French Warren Buffett. He wanted to be involved with this movie because he said it was absolutely accurate. He knows many people who are like this character, who have created this strange bubble that they live in. Within that bubble, they’re very alive and in control, and yet they’re completely disconnected from normal humanity, normal relationships. So Eric Packer says things to his wife like, “This is how people talk, right?” He’s trying it out, because he really doesn’t know. He’s dealing with billions of dollars, but he’s never actually touching real money, and he doesn’t know how to actually pay for things. Of course, Carmignac doesn’t think of himself as that person, but he recognizes it completely. So I take him at his word that it’s not such a stretch. People create a limo for themselves, a little spaceship, a little bell jar in which they insulate themselves from things that hurt.
RP: I think Eric is confused between genuine power and ego. He’s mixing the two up. I think a lot of people in that job find that empathy is a weakness, so he realizes that it’s a strength. I’ve read things that describe Eric as a monster, but I always thought the story was a hopeful progression. His biggest problem is that he’s totally self-obsessed. But he’s taking baby steps toward coming to terms with it. He’s had an extended adolescence in a lot of ways, and he’s really smart he’s a savant. Some people are so entrenched in what they think they are, and he realizes that the only shock that can snap him out of himself is that someone is going to kill him.
Do you also see Cosmopolis as a story about fame? Eric is in a bubble, people he doesn’t know know him, they spin narratives in their head about him, and -
DC: No, I don’t think so. It’s like the London whale nobody knows what that guy looks like, nobody knows where he lives. That’s his strength as a trader: nobody can predict him, nobody understands him. I think Eric is like that. On the outside, his limo looks like everyone else’s. He just got this one guy who wants to “pie” him, who’s got the paparazzi with him. But Eric can have dinner and no one’s around, he can go to the diner with his wife and nobody bothers him. He’s got the one security guy, but that’s it. He doesn’t have fans.
RP: The world would be a much better place, I think, if all these bankers and billionaires were followed by paparazzi and studied as carefully. As soon as people look at something very closely, the whole thing just crumbles.
I might be thinking about Cosmopolis as a parable of fame in part because Robert is cast in the role, and Robert has a very intense and specific kind of global celebrity.
DC: The element of that that’s important is, you want to finance the movie. To attract investors, you can’t do that without an actor who is known. Beyond that, we want to disconnect. When we are making the movie, we are in our limo, our little bubble. There’s nobody else around. It’s just us. At that point, Rob’s other movies are nonexistent and my movies are nonexistent. I’m not thinking about the connections between them.
Speaking of your other movies - Cosmopolis has some affinities with David’s film Crash, in that it takes place inside a car, and the car is a very eroticized space. There’s an amazing sex scene with Eric and the security specialist, Kendra. Is a scene like that highly choreographed down to every movement, or is there room for improvisation?
RP: That was probably one of the most difficult scenes in the movie. It wasn’t a sex scene in the script. In the script, we’d finished having sex, and we were getting dressed. [To Cronenberg:] I think you only told me like the day before or something. [Laughter.]
DC: Well, I don’t think it pays to panic my actors. There’s nothing you can do to prepare anyway. It’s not like if I’d told you the week before -
RP: I’d have done some sit-ups.
DC: Yeah, well, that wouldn’t have helped. I said that the scene becomes more interesting and trickier and better if you’re actually having sex. When Kendra says that it’s erotic to be so close to a man somebody wants to kill, it’s obviously better than if they’re on opposite sides of a room getting dressed.
RP: I like the moment of climax it seems so obvious to have the peak and then his line is, “Do you find this interesting?” I kept laughing.
Tell me about the limo. It’s amazing like J.G. Ballard designed the Death Star. Robert, was it claustrophobic to spend so much time acting in that space?
RP: The seat was kind of tilted back, so you could never look entirely comfortable and powerful, so from any angle, you were kind of like [slumps and leans back slightly, looking befuddled]. I was constantly trying to present power, but I was always sort of halfway in between positions. I liked that after a while, but I remember the first time I sat down, I thought, [whispers] “S-, I can’t sit in this, it’s like a throne, it doesn’t work.”
DC: It was designed like a throne. I wanted there to be a visual equivalent to his sense of power and the idea that he’s created a bubble in which he is the absolute master, and he forces people to come into that space for sex, for conversation, for business. The car was a set, and it all came apart into about 25 pieces, so you could get angles and lights in there and take it apart. I was shooting with very wide-angle lenses.
RP: Most of the time the camera is on a crane, so it’s remote-controlled. Normally, if there’s a camera there, you’re trying to connect with the eye looking through the lens. But to have that removed, it becomes a strange thing where you have a relationship with a machine, and there’s a dehumanizing even the sound inside the limo was so dead, it was like being in a recording studio. Everything was like, “I’m numb.” The sound guy was always crawling on the floor and squished into a corner, and that was the only person who was there most of the time. I’m just looking at this little French guy squirming away from me, and that’s my only other major relationship on the set.
DC: I was helping him with the disconnect thing. I like to help my actors.
How did you help Robert with the prostate-exam scene? There doesn’t seem to be as much choreography involved with that one.
DC: There was! It was kind of complex. Finding the right angle wasn’t easy.
Robert, do you have any tips for actors who have to play a prostate-exam scene?
RP: I was about three inches from Emily [Hampshire]‘s face, which made it easier because if there was any distance she could have judged what I was doing, but the fact that it was so close meant that I had the upper hand -
DC: As it were!
RP: In a very humiliating situation. That was probably the most powerful I felt during the making of the whole movie. I only found out later that a prostate exam only takes, like, a few seconds.
DC: They literally take 12 seconds. If it goes on longer, then your doctor is trying to seduce you.
What are the next movies you have going into production?
DC: I’d love to work with Rob again, and particularly I think Rob and Viggo Mortensen [star of Cronenberg's A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method] would be fantastic together. But I’d have to sit down and write my Rob-and-Viggo movie. I don’t have my next movie. At one point Eastern Promises 2 was possible, but that’s fallen apart for various reasons. Bruce Wagner wrote a script called Maps to the Stars; there’s a role for Rob in it, and Viggo too. We’ll see if we can get it financed. It makes Cosmopolis look easy to finance, and it wasn’t.
RP: I’m going to make this movie [Mission: Blacklist] about Eric Maddox, an Army interrogator who was one of the major people responsible for finding Saddam Hussein. He was working with JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command], which isn’t supposed to exist, and they found Saddam Hussein by themselves but they couldn’t say it was them. The story is crazy, absolutely bizarre. It’s a really cool director called Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. We’re going to shoot in Iraq next summer. In January, I’m doing this other movie [The Rover] with David Michôd, who did the Australian movie Animal Kingdom - a futuristic western with Guy Pearce.
Before we wrap up forgive me for this, Robert, but I have to ask: What is it like to have millions of people worrying about you and hoping you’re O.K.?
RP: I guess if people think they’re worried about you, it’s sweet. It’s kind of odd.
DC: They’re reacting to what they think they know, but they don’t know. And they have a huge investment in so many lives that they aren’t connected with at all. Talk about a disconnect.
RP: But at the same time, the world is a pretty cruel place, so whatever inspires people to suddenly feel this kindness, hopefully they’ll look at themselves and they’ll look at their own lives and realize, [awestruck, Eureka-moment voice] “I have the ability to to empathize with people!”
“My ability to empathize with a total stranger has helped me empathize with people I actually know!”
We can all breath a collective sigh of relief: Robert Pattinson is just as charming and witty as ever.
The stoic actor visited The Daily Show tonight, as good a place as any to both promote a film and not worry about being asked “So, how did you feel when you found out Kristen Stewart had been unfaithful?” questions.
Because Jon Stewart knows not (nor would he care) to go there, right?
After The Daily Show, Rob hit up the Cosmopolis premiere
Ha, not exactly!
Stewart handled his business-as-usual interview turned major get with comedic flair, beginning mock-awkwardly with, “What have you been up to?”
“I had a joke prepared!” Pattinson protested, feigning dismay. “God damn it. I was all set up and ready to go.”
Kristen Stewart all smiles at Marie Claire shoot
“OK, let’s just do this,” the host continued, busting out two pints of Ben & Jerry’s (Cherry Garcia for him, Karamel Sutra for his guest) and a couple of spoons.
“Now, we’re just a couple of gals talking,” Stewart said. “All right…Tell me everything.”
“I’m trying to avoid eating this, I’m going to split my Spanx,” the Cosmopolis star deadpanned.
No On the Road premiere plans for K.Stew
“So what are we doing here? Are you all right? Is everything OK? I’m worried about you,” Stewart continued things along.
“My biggest problem in my life is I’m cheap, and I didn’t hire a publicist,” Pattinson revealed. “I’m going to hire a publicist.”
“I think you should,” Stewart agreed, “although, unless you have a time machine…”
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“Either way,” Pattinson replied.
After discussing the fans lined up to see Pattinson outside the building, Stewart leaned in confidingly and said, “Listen, the last time I had a bad breakup, Ben and Jerry got me through some of the tougher times. So, I thought you and I could bond over this and talk about, ‘Boy, you are better off, kick her to the curb. Whatevah!”
“When you are young and you break up,” Stewart continued, his voice returning to normal, “it’s powerful and it feels like the world is ending. This is the first time I have seen the world actually react that way. It’s insanity. Here is my wish for you, that you get to handle your business in private, in your personal life, and I wish you all the best.”
“I should’ve talked about Cosmopolis!” Pattinson said, smiling.
Cosmopolis, which he and Stewart then proceeded to talk about, is in theaters Friday.
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Smoking isn’t allowed inside Kansas public spaces like bars and restaurants, but it’s OK to smoke in state-owned casinos. A coalition of health advocates wants to change that at least in the Kansas City area.
Smoking isn’t allowed inside Kansas public spaces like bars and restaurants, but it’s OK to smoke in state-owned casinos. A coalition of health advocates wants to change that at least in the Kansas City area.
The Kansas City Star reports Clean Air Metro KC, a group that includes the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association of Kansas, is meeting with casino representatives and elected officials to promote a change in the ordinances and state laws that allow smoking in casinos.
Though the Miami Dolphins released WR Chad Johnson on Sunday, one day after he was arrested on a domestic violence charge for allegedly head-butting his wife, Head Coach Joe Philbin indicated Monday that the decision wasn’t wholly predicated on the weekend incident.
“It was more a body of evidence from June 11th forward,” said Philbin, citing the date Miami signed Johnson following his release from the New England Patriots.
“When he came in on June 11th, we sat down, and we talked, and I was very clear as to the expectations of the program. It just didn’t work out.
“It’s more about the fit; in my gut I didn’t think the fit was going to be beneficial to either party moving forward, whether in the short term or the long term. That’s really what it was all about. It wasn’t about one specific thing; it just wasn’t going to work.”
MORE: Did Miami send wrong message by cutting Johnson? Teammate thinks so
Johnson, who is 34 and coming off his worst NFL season, dropped the only pass thrown his way Friday in Miami’s preseason opener.
But perhaps worse, he seemed to agitate Philbin with a profane press conference early in training camp, and the coach’s displeasure was documented in the premier of HBO’s Hard Knocks. Johnson and his outsized personality assumed a starring role for much of the show, including revelations about his sex life with his wife, Basketball Wives star Evelyn Johnson.
“It was not reactive, nor was it based on one single incident,” Philbin said of Johnson’s release while claiming the move was not designed to send a broader message to the team.
“In making these decisions we base our evaluations on a set of criteria that support our organizational goals and include a player’s performance both on and off the field. Essentially, we take into account the overall body of evidence to determine whether an individual is the right fit for this organization, and more specifically this football team.”
As for Dolphins LB Karlos Dansby, who said during a radio interview Monday that the locker room was disappointed that the team didn’t give Johnson more support, Philbin countered: “I believe this — let’s be honest, you have a boss, I have a boss. I don’t always agree with what the boss says every time. I’m of the opinion that you should keep things in house in that regard.”