Stephen Colbert’s band, Louis Cato & the Great Big Joy Machine, plays “Linus & Lucy”, theme song of ‘Peanuts’: “‘Peanuts’ is a powerful brand and corporation in and of itself. Anyone illegally using that music is going to have to pay through the nose” “Oh no! I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!”
Penn Badgley: “When I watch things now, I’m sorry, call it what it is, all I can think of is ‘oh there’s that famous person delivering a performance’. Like celebrity culture is actually robbing us of stories”
Milly Alcock on backlash she received for saying “simply existing as a woman is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership over women’s bodies”:“I didn’t even say ‘men’ - I said ‘people!’ And they got so angry. I was like, ‘You’re proving my point’”
The media mistaking Jo In-sung for other Korean actors - Go Soo, who is not even at Cannes and is not a cast member of ‘HOPE’ (the film he’s promoting at Cannes) and Hwang Jung-min, his co-star in ‘HOPE’
Swatch had to clarify that their “Royal Pop” collection with Audemars Piguet is not limited edition after people were causing chaos and fighting in front of their stores. They also closed several store locations for these reasons
Vulture/NY Magazine reports on “clipping” and paid campaigns being promoted on Discord, including Justin Bieber’s Coachella performances where clippers were offered up to $1 per 1,000 views for clips
Jet Li: ”I say that while the physical part of her has left us, mentally, she's always here. She's always in my heart. Every time I come to the States, people still talk a lot about Aaliyah. I say she's still in my heart. I always feel that she's there. She's living on in a lot of people's hearts”
Lushious Massacr on the hill she’s willing to die on: “I do not like it when drag queens get to a point where they are so, they feel like they’re so famous they don’t have to get in drag anymore”
Ang Lee sets cast for next film 'Gold Mountain': Chedi Chang, Sophia Xu, Yao, Zine Tseng, and Owen Teague. It’s set during the dying embers of the American Gold Rush and centers on two newly orphaned Chinese immigrant children as they traverse a hostile California frontier