Americans love football, but differ on whether kids should play

Football may be America’s most popular sport, but the nation is deeply divided about whether youth should play the tackle version of the game.In a new study, about 45% of Americans agreed that tackle football is appropriate for kids, while 50% disagreed. The remainder didn’t know.The findings come as participation in youth tackle has decline...
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Academy Starts Disciplinary Proceedings Against Will Smith, Expulsion on the Table

Days after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the 94th Oscars telecast on Sunday, the Board of Governors held an emergency meeting to discuss the consquences for the best actor winner. He now fac…
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/will-smith-academy-expulsion-possibility-chris-rock-1235219383/?source=Snapzu

For centuries, the Ukrainian language was overshadowed by its Russian cousin. That's changing

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by the dozens of students awaiting him. The Polish trade unionists of the Solidarity movement, who were defying Soviet oppression on the opposite side of the planet, had inspired Americans to learn.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-03-30/la-ent-ukrainian-language?source=Snapzu

Chris Rock Briefly Addresses Will Smith's Slap at Boston Comedy Club

Chris Rock kicked off his comedy tour in Boston to thunderous applause, but he said he's still processing what went down at the Oscars so he'll talk about the slap later, but he did tease the crowd. Chris played to a hyper-enthusiastic, sold-out crowd at the Wilbur Theater in Boston, and joked, "How was your weekend?" The crowd loved it.
Read more: https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/30/chris-rock-addresses-slap-comedy-club-boston/?source=Snapzu

Zoë Kravitz slammed for "inappropriate" remarks about Jaden Smith in resurfaced interview

Will Smith fans have resurfaced an old Zoë Kravitz interview where she made 'inappropriate' comments about his then 14-year-old son Jaden Smith after she criticised him for slapping comedian Chris Rock. On Sunday (Mar 27), Will Smith walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars after Chris made a joke about Will's wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia. The clip went viral, the internet made memes and celebrities weighed in with their hot takes and think-pieces.
Read more: https://www.popbuzz.com/celeb/zoe-kravitz-jaden-smith-age-interview/?source=Snapzu

‘Tokyo Vice’: Everything to Know About the HBO Max Drama

It’s been seven years since Michael Mann last directed something. Soon audiences will get an opportunity to see what he’s been up to.
Read more: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/tokyo-vice-hbo-max-explained-plot-cast-1234712259/?source=Snapzu

Jim Carrey Calls Oscar Audience ‘Spineless’ For Will Smith Standing Ovation

Jim Carrey has something to say about Will Smith’s behavior at the Oscars. While appearing on CBS Mornings, Carrey said he was “sickened by the standing ovation. Hollywood is just spine…
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/jim-carrey-calls-oscar-audience-spineless-will-smith-standing-ovation-1234990109/?source=Snapzu

Oscar Isaac’s ‘Moon Knight’ Is a Refreshing Change of Course for Marvel: TV Review

Last year, Marvel made a serious run at using streaming TV to do something qualitatively different than what it does on the big screen.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/moon-knight-oscar-isaac-marvel-disney-plus-1235217473/?source=Snapzu

NFL is requiring teams to hire women or minorities as coaches for 2022 season

According to league data, the percentage of people of color in coaching positions increased from 35% in 2020 to 39% in 2021.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089386609/nfl-diversity-dei-women-minorities-owners-meeting-coaches?source=Snapzu

Kim Kardashian’s Widely Mocked ‘Nobody Wants To Work’ Comments Taken Out Of Context, She Says

Kardashian apologized for the remark and said “it wasn’t a blanket statement towards women.”
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/03/28/kim-kardashians-widely-mocked-nobody-wants-to-work-comments-taken-out-of-context-she-says/?source=Snapzu

Gillian Anderson Signs First-Look Television Deal With Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)

Award-winning actor and producer Gillian Anderson has signed a first-look deal with Netflix via her production company Fiddlehead Productions. The deal is for television producing with an initial t…
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/gillian-anderson-netflix-first-look-deal-1235217619/?source=Snapzu

Disney+ Drops ‘Simpsons’ Episode in Hong Kong Because of Tiananmen Square Joke

The 2005 episode features the Simpson family visiting Beijing, where they drop by the landmark, finding a placard that reads: “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/simpsons-china-censorship-1235053711/?source=Snapzu

Michael Che Denies Rumors He's Leaving Saturday Night Live: 'Just Jokes'

Michael Che spoke out amid rumors that he's leaving Saturday Night Live after he joked about a potential departure during a comedy show
Read more: https://people.com/tv/michael-che-denies-rumors-hes-leaving-saturday-night-live-just-jokes?source=Snapzu

Chris Rock Plots First Stand-Up Tour in Five Years

After a five-year break, Chris Rock is making his return to the live comedy circuit with the Ego Death world tour. The trek — which will begin with a 38-date North American leg — marks Rock’s first run since his Total Blackout stand-up tour in 2017 and 2018 (at the time, that was his first tour in nearly a decade).
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chris-rock-ego-death-tour-north-american-dates-1310771/?source=Snapzu

Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Bitter History That Led to the Oscars Slap

About two and a half hours into an already off-kilter show, things at the Oscars got drastically weirder when Best Actor nominee Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-smith-and-chris-rocks-bitter-history-that-led-to-the-oscars-slap?source=Snapzu

Benjamin Franklin | Official Trailer

Ken Burns explores the revolutionary life of Benjamin Franklin.
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‘Violence isn’t OK’: Hollywood reacts to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

It was the bombshell moment of the Oscars. Not feelgood best picture winner Coda, or historic wins for the Afro-Latina actor Ariana DeBose or deaf actor Troy Kotsur, or the Academy hiring not one but three hosts – Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall – for the first time since 2018. No, by far the most talked-about moment of the 94th annual Academy Awards was when the best actor winner, Will Smith, took offense to a joke by presenter Chris Rock and slapped him onstage.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/28/will-smith-slap-how-did-hollywood-celebrities-react?source=Snapzu

Canada advances to World Cup for first time in 36 years

TORONTO (AP) — Cyle Larin, Tajon Buchanan and Junior Hoilett scored and Canada secured its first World Cup berth in 36 years with a 4-0 victory over Jamaica on Sunday. Canada has been to the World Cup just once before, in 1986.
Read more: https://ottawa.citynews.ca/around-ontario/canada-advances-to-world-cup-for-first-time-in-36-years-5203076?source=Snapzu

HBO Canceled Game of Thrones Prequel Even After Spending $30m on Pilot

A pilot for HBO's first Game of Thrones prequel series cost a staggering $30 million before the series was ultimately canceled.
Read more: https://www.ign.com/articles/game-of-thrones-cancelled-prequel-even-after-spending-30-million-dollars-on-pilot?source=Snapzu

Travis Scott Performs for the First Time Since 2021 Astroworld Tragedy

The rapper put on a brief show at a private pre-Oscars party in Bel Air, California
Read more: https://pitchfork.com/news/travis-scott-performs-for-the-first-time-since-2021-astroworld-tradgedy/?source=Snapzu

Death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins may be tied to drugs, Colombia police say

Hawkins, 50, was found dead in a hotel room at the Casa Medina in Bogota, Colombia Friday, where heartbroken fans gathered outside in shock.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/taylor-hawkins-death-may-be-tied-to-drugs-police/?source=Snapzu

Nicolas Cage Says He Doesn’t ‘Understand the Conflict’ Over ‘Masterful’ Marvel Movies vs. Art Films

Nicolas Cage doesn’t see eye to eye with his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola. After Coppola again slammed comic book films as “one prototype movie that is made over and over and over and over and over again to look different,” Cage revealed in a March GQ interview that he doesn’t “understand the conflict” between Marvel and independent cinema. “Yeah, why do they do that?” Cage posited to GQ regarding directors like Coppola and Scorsese bashing comic book films. “I don’t understand the conflict. I don’t agree with them on that perception or opinion.”
Read more: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/nicolas-cage-defends-marvel-criticisms-coppola-scorsese-1234710626/?source=Snapzu

Deleted Scene From ‘The Batman’ Hints At A New Direction For The Joker

Warner Bros. has released a deleted Joker scene from The Batman, hinting at an intriguing new role for the well-worn character. The scene is one of two featuring the Joker, but didn’t make the final cut of The Batman as Reeves believed the scene was repeating information and muddying the plot. In fact, Reeves almost cut both Joker scenes, being unsure if he even wanted Joker to play a significant part of Batman’s big reboot.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/03/24/the-wrong-joker-scene-was-cut-from-the-batman/?source=Snapzu

'I lost my eye, my career and my identity'

As Michael Bisping walks into the room for this interview, he spills a cup of coffee on the floor. For most, it would be an innocuous incident. For Bisping, there is a life-changing, career-defining reason behind the spillage - he is blind in one eye.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/60838662?source=Snapzu

The Atlanta mindset is still like nothing on television

Atlanta’s third season, arriving four years after its last, is set almost entirely in Europe. This is the first of the show’s many ironies, a sly joke of geography that reminds audiences, in case they’d forgotten: Atlanta is bigger than a place. It’s a mindset.
Read more: https://www.polygon.com/22996732/atlanta-season-3-review?source=Snapzu

Ukrainian President Zelensky in talks with Academy to make Oscars appearance

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in talks with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make a video appearance during Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards
Read more: https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/ukrainian-president-zelensky-in-talks-with-academy-to-make-oscars-appearance/?source=Snapzu

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died, band says

Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the legendary US rock band Foo Fighters, has died, the band said Friday. He was 50.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/entertainment/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-obit/index.html?source=Snapzu

Amazon’s Fallout TV series goes into production this year

Please stand by.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/7/22871637/amazon-fallout-tv-show-prime-video-series-production?source=Snapzu

Drake's roulette win leads to $1M gift to Lebron James' foundation

Drake teamed with online gambling house Stake.com to make a massive donation to the LeBron James Family Foundation, TMZ reported. The Canadian-born artist recently hit it big playing one of their online roulette tables and he shared the love with his NBA star pal. Drake posted video on social media on Wednesday from the Harbour 60 steakhouse in Toronto talking about winning after placing a massive bet on black 11.
Read more: https://thegrio.com/2022/03/24/drakes-roulette-win-leads-to-1m-gift/?source=Snapzu

Italy to miss World Cup again after loss to North Macedonia

Italy missed out on the World Cup finals again after losing 1-0 at home to North Macedonia in their playoff semi-final on Thursday as Aleksandar Trajkovski's last-gasp strike earned the visitors a fa…
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/sport/20220324-italy-to-miss-world-cup-again-after-loss-to-north-macedonia?source=Snapzu

Machine Gun Kelly Performs Outside Paraguay Hotel After Deadly Storm Cancels Show

Machine Gun Kelly's turning hotel bellmen into tour roadies and proving the ol' show biz adage is true ... even in the face of a deadly storm in South America.
Read more: https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/23/machine-gun-kelly-performs-paraguay-deadly-storm-concert/?source=Snapzu

Lisa Kudrow Says She Also Doesn’t Remember Filming Scenes from ‘Friends’

Lisa Kudrow doesn’t have many memories from Friends! Over the weekend, Courteney Cox revealed in an interview with Today that she struggled to remember certain scenes or episodes during the reunion last year.
Read more: https://www.justjared.com/2022/03/21/lisa-kudrow-says-she-also-doesnt-remember-filming-scenes-from-friends/?source=Snapzu

Even When the Oscars’ Ratings Are Awful, the Money Is Still Very Good

You might have heard that the Oscars are facing a bit of a wobble. Ratings are dreadful — so bad that the Academy snipped eight categories from the live presentation to appease the network gods at ABC. Producer Will Packer tapped skateboarding and snowboarding legends Tony Hawk and Shaun White as presenters, presumably in hopes that their younger fans will follow. (As Packer noted to IndieWire’s Anne Thompson: “Everybody’s got an opinion about this damn show.”)
Read more: https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/oscars-ratings-awful-revenue-strong-1234709923/?source=Snapzu

Ted Cruz May Have Just Boosted Sales For The Anti-Racist Children's Book He Attacked

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a big production on Tuesday about how wrong it is that children’s books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-anti-racist-baby-ketanji-brown-jackson_n_623b4907e4b0f1e82c52288e?source=Snapzu

You Officially Begins Production on Season 4

You season 4 is officially underway! A post on the Netflix horror drama's official Instagram account revealed the news on Tuesday, featuring an image of a film slate to mark the occasion. "Feeling YOU-4-ic. YOU Season 4 is now in production," the caption read. Among the celebratory comments was one from Ambyr Childers, who played Candace in the show's first two seasons.
Read more: https://people.com/tv/you-season-4-begins-production-netflix?source=Snapzu

Ashleigh Barty: World number one makes shock call to quit tennis

Australian player Ashleigh Barty - aged only 25 - says she will retire to "chase other dreams".
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-60843870?source=Snapzu

A 1986 dystopian Russian novel basically predicted Vladimir Putin

"Moscow 2042," by Vladimir Voinovich, envisioned a future in which Russia was ruled by an ex-KGB agent who eerily resembles the current Russian president.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/21/moscow-2042-voinovich-putin?source=Snapzu

Johnny Carson Series Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt From David Milch & Jay Roach Hits TV Marketplace

The story of one of America’s most beloved TV personalities, Johnny Carson, may finally be coming to the screen. A high-profile series, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Carson, written by Deadwood creator David Milch and to be directed by Jay Roach, was recently taken out and has been heating up the premium marketplace. The project, titled King Of Late Night, is a co-production between wiip and Anonymous Content.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/johnny-carson-series-joseph-gordon-levitt-king-of-late-night-david-milch-jay-roach-1234983801/?source=Snapzu

Mickelson to miss Masters for first time since 1994

Phil Mickelson will not compete in the Masters next month, marking the first time since 1994 that he will miss the tournament at Augusta National.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/33566516/phil-mickelson-compete-2022-masters-golf-tournament?source=Snapzu

‘My Brilliant Friend’ Renewed for Fourth and Final Season

“My Brilliant Friend” is set to close the book on Elena and Lila’s journey. The Italian- and Neapolitan-language television series has been renewed for a fourth and final season by co-producers HBO and RAI.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/my-brilliant-friend-hbo-final-season-elena-ferrante-1235211105/?source=Snapzu

Why 'Flee' Deserves to Win All Three of Its Major Oscar Categories

We make the case for why Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s extraordinary look at one refugee’s story should walk away with the Best Animated, Best Documentary and Best International Feature award…
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/flee-oscar-best-documentary-1265273/?source=Snapzu

Netflix green-lights pandemic series from Money Heist creator Álex Pina

Because there's nothing more dramatic than reality
Read more: https://www.techradar.com/in/news/netflix-green-lights-pandemic-series-from-money-heist-creator-alex-pina?source=Snapzu

Book bans and the threat of censorship rev up political activism in the suburbs

A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest "culture war" battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087000890/book-bans-and-the-threat-of-censorship-rev-up-political-activism-in-the-suburbs?source=Snapzu

Netflix's new password-sharing fee is just the tip of an expensive iceberg

I was recently watching a dating segment on some TV show (don’t judge) and noticed one of the key questions for all the potential suitors was, "Do you have your own Netflix account?” What an odd question, I thought. Why would that make a difference -- and why wouldn’t these guys have Netflix?
Read more: https://www.techradar.com/news/netflixs-new-password-sharing-fee-is-just-the-tip-of-an-expensive-iceberg?source=Snapzu

‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 Will Have “A Bunch Of Surprises, Some Curveballs”

Ted Lasso fans rejoice, Season 3 is underway. “We started [shooting] a week ago,” producer Kip Kroeger told Deadline on the PGA awards red carpet Saturday night. As for what we can expect to see of the new upcoming season, producer Liza Katzer said:
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/pga-awards-ted-lasso-season-3-interview-1234982509/?source=Snapzu

Windfall: How an Idea From Jason Segel Inspired the Netflix Thriller

Windfall screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and Justin Lader talk about the making of the Netflix thriller and why the characters don't have names.
Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/windfall-netflix-andrew-kevin-walker-justin-lader-interview/?source=Snapzu

Box Office: ‘The Batman’ Rules Again, Crosses $300 Million in North America

Robert Pattinson’s gritty superhero adventure “The Batman” is the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row.
Read more: https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/the-batman-box-office-300-million-milestone-1235209949/?source=Snapzu

This is why you should get a Kindle if you don’t read.

Just like productivity resonating with me, so does the idea of reading. I like the appearance of it when someone is head down, engrossed and oblivious to the world around them. I like the fact that it is portable and can be done anywhere, on the beach, in the bath, in bed or on the toilet if you so desire. I like the perceived intelligence, the demeanour and the aura that reading emanates, no matter how much of a load of shit that may be.
Read more: https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/this-is-why-you-should-get-a-kindle-if-you-don-t-read?source=Snapzu

‘Cobra Kai’ Creators Say Season 5 Will Have “A Lot Of Insanity”; More Seasons “Already Planned Out”

“Season 4 everyone knew that we were heading toward a tournament — Season 5, no one knows where we are headed,” said Cobra Kai co-creator Jon Hurwitz. “We do, because we already made it,” he teased about the Karate Kid Netflix series to Deadline tonight at the PGA Awards. “There’s a lot of insanity; if you’re a fan of the franchise, maybe some familiar faces show up, maybe not; there’s going to be a lot of karate.”
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/cobra-kai-season-5-spoilers-pga-awards-1234982591/?source=Snapzu

Kanye West Pulled From Grammy Awards Performance, Rep Cites “Concerning Online Behavior”

Kanye West has apparently been pulled from a planned live performance at the upcoming Grammy Awards with one report in Variety quoting his represenative as saying the action was taken because of …
Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/03/kanye-west-grammy-awards-performance-pulled-for-online-behavior-1234982456/?source=Snapzu