A true friend. During Matthew Perry’s decades-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction, his costar Jennifer Aniston was someone he could lean on.
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Matthew McConaughey is opening up about the behind-the-scenes work he did to amplify the stories of the Uvalde victims that led to policy change in June. The "Dazed and Confused" actor revealed in a new op-ed that his experience working with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., led him to realize that the majority of Americans aren't on the political fringes.
He encouraged lawmakers to work together on issues in the same way they worked on gun legislation following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Writing for Esquire, McConaughey started from the beginning, May 24, the day of the tragic shooting that left 21 dead in his hometown.
"I’m sickened by the spate of mass shootings in America – especially those at schools, which are supposed to be some of the safest of spaces for our children and the closest extensions of our own homes," McConaughey wrote. Matthew McConaughey detailed his work with lawmakers ahead of the passing of gun reform in June and called out politicians for losing sight of their "values and vision." (Gary Miller/Getty Images) "But this time felt different, more personal," he recalled feeling.
"Now, for the first time, my innocent childhood memories of Uvalde felt naive – more like dreams than memories, slightly hazy and suddenly overly sacred.Times like these make us all feel a bit more foolish. We hug our kids a little longer, knowing their innocence won’t last as long as ours did, hoping their children won’t know the same." After meeting with families of the Uvalde victims and before traveling to Washington, McConaughey called for "gun responsibility" and laid out where he stood on reform.
A true friend. During Matthew Perry’s decades-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction, his costar Jennifer Aniston was someone he could lean on.
Ralph Fiennes, who played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film franchise, says the “verbal abuse” directed at Potter author JK Rowling over her statements on trans women is “disgusting” and “appalling.”
Always in his corner. As Matthew Perry struggled with addiction, Friends costar Jennifer Aniston was there to lend her shoulder.
Matthew Perry remembers one Friends costar who tried to help him with his drinking problem – Jennifer Aniston.
believed to have allowed — their trans-identifying children to access gender-affirming medical treatments. In one Orwellian example, a transgender eighth grader was pulled from class by state child welfare agency officials and grilled for an hour about their identity, home life, and gender dysphoria — all without informing his parents.In Florida, Republicans are best known for having pushed the state’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, dubbed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits discussions of LGBTQ content in primary grades, and only permits discussion in secondary grades if the content is considered “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate.” The law has been blamed for censorship of textbooks, as well as efforts to ban books that are not currently being used as part of in-class lesson plans but deal with LGBTQ content — either directly or tangentially — from school libraries.Some students claim that they’ve had their free speech rights censored or have been barred from certain school activities due to their pro-LGBTQ advocacy, with teachers and administrators citing the law’s provisions as justification.
Fresh from the emotional rollercoaster that was the latest series of Married at First Sight UK, Matt Murray jetted off overseas to Turkey alongside 2021 bride Marilyse Corrigan to relax and unwind after a stressful few months. The pair, who are said to have struck up a firm friendship since appearing on the show, headed off to the sunny paradise on Tuesday 18 October, with Matt even sharing a photo from the plane window of his Jet2 aircraft prior to take off.
BamBam, Jeon Somi, EXO’s Kai, LAPILLUS, Taeyeon and Zion.T — would not be present at the festival due to “unforseen US work visa issues and circumstances outside of the artists’ and promoters’ control”. Most of these artists were scheduled to perform on the first day of the festival on October 15.A statement from KAMP Los Angeles.
Residents have called for a 20mph speed limit amid fears for the safety of schoolchildren in Trafford. The growing clamour for cutting the speed of motorists was evident for the second successive meeting of Trafford council where petitions in favour of slowing traffic have been presented and voiced.
Rob Schneider claimed during an interview on SiriusXM's show that Bill Murray was difficult to work with and he «hated us» when the famed actor returned for one of his several hosting stints on Norton was in the middle of discussing rumors of an actor being difficult on the set of, when the 58-year-old actor and comedian interjected and mentioned he had a similar experience with Murray, who was an cast member from 1976 to 1980 and served as a host five times. «That's the same thing with Bill Murray,» said Schneider on Thursday while promoting his new comedy, Daddy Daughter Trip. «I won't say who the filmmaker was, but 'Bill Murray is gonna come, he's gonna change the dialogue. He's gonna change things, and it's gonna be great but you don't know who you're gonna get.
Matthew McConaughey has called on society to "build better people". The 'Dazed and Confused' actor campaigned to change gun legislation following a school shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year and though he welcomed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act introduced by President Joe Biden in the summer, he thinks people need to change in order for everyone to live more safely. He wrote in a lengthy piece for America's Esquire magazine: "If we want safer communities, more freedom, and better leaders, we’re gonna have to build better people.
Geena Davis' first interaction with her "Quick Change" co-star Bill Murray involved being greeted with a device she calls "The Thumper." In an interview with The Times on the precipice of her new book release, "Dying of Politeness," Davis recounted meeting Murray for the first time in a hotel suite. She alleges the "Ghostbusters" actor introduced himself with "a massage device he insisted on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing.
Scarlett Johansson is opening up about her career in Hollywood and how she feels being «hypersexualized» from a young age threatened her success. On the 500th episode of Dax Shepard's podcast, the actress got candid about being a woman in the spotlight. «I kind of became objectified and pigeonholed in this way where I felt like I wasn't getting offers for work for things that I wanted to do,» Johansson explained. «I remember thinking to myself, 'I think people think I'm 40 years old.' It somehow stopped being something that was desirable and something that I was fighting against.»Johansson made her screen debut in 1994 at nine years old in the film .
Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson has been busy shaking hands and holding babies — but not in the name of politics. The 50-year-old actor recently shut down any possibility of a presidential run, saying it was «off the table» so that he could focus on being a present father to his youngest daughters. Meanwhile, the star went viral earlier this month for doting over a tiny baby girl who had essentially crowd surfed her way to the stage during a press event for his new film. In a new interview with ET's Nischelle Turner, he's addressing both situations with his signature good humor.«It was crazy,» he says of the viral moment with baby Luciana, which he shared on his personal Instagram page.
Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan has spoken to NME about returning from the brink to make new album ‘Memento Mori’, and life after the loss of bandmate Andy Fletcher. Watch our video interview with the frontman above.Yesterday (October 4) saw the electro icons announce details of their 15th album and an upcoming world stadium tour from a press conference in Berlin.