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The suspected homophobic attack on two men after the Unity Day celebrations in Bremen is now being investigated by the state security service. The attackers are alleged to have first insulted their victims in Arabic and then assaulted them with blows.

Two gay men were attacked in Bremen on their way home from the Unity Day celebrations because of their sexual orientation. Police reported that the two men, aged 29 and 33, sustained minor injuries in the attack on Saturday evening.(article continues at link)

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Mine will be Ricky Martin’s *Me*.

For starters, he couldn't even be bothered to narrate it himself; another man did the reading.

Secondly, it was so hollow. He had absolutely nothing to say — despite a wild youth. He comes across like an empty vase.

Instead, he rambled on about everything and nothing, spouting pseudo-philosophy. And I’m certain it wasn't even him doing it, but his ghostwriter—probably just to pad out the length. Maybe Ricky simply didn't share any real stories, so they had to fill the page count somehow, and the ghostwriter just churned out nonsense.

I read a lot of celebrity memoirs, and I remember how infuriated I was by that book—by just how empty it was.

Update: I also remembered that I couldn't finish listening to Selma Blair’s *Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up*, even though I had been looking forward to it. She talked about herself in such a boring way that I eventually started fast-forwarding. I realized I simply wasn't interested in what she was saying, so I just turned it off.

I also found Matthew McConaughey’s *Greenlights* hard to read and gave up on it. Right now, I’m giving Jessica Simpson’s *Open Book* a second chance—this time as an audiobook. I tried reading it before but found it boring, so I decided to try the audio version since everyone was praising the book. I’m listening to it slowly for now, though it is a bit dull. And Jessica speaks so strangely, as if she has a mouthful of nuts. Has she always spoken like that? It’s distracting. I didn't know she almost made it into the *Mickey Mouse Club* alongside Gosling, Britney, Christina, and Timberlake.

Liza was born in the wrong era. She should have been in the era where musicals were all the rage but instead, she got CABARET which won her the Oscar but she didn't do another film musical. Sure, the musical genre was considered a risk in the 70s. Most musicals flopped. Even CABARET wasn't a conventional musical. But still, did they try? I mean, Liv Ullmann could have done one less musical.

Liza was also a good dramatic actress, Pookie got her fist Oscar nomination. She did a couple of dramas, the Junie Moon movie flopped. A Matter of Time was a epic disaster but what brainiac genius thought Liza could do a period film? Thank god for ARTHUR. But after that, it was dunzo for Liza. Her movie career was finished, her singing career had a brief hit period with the Results era. But then the David Gest marriage, the snorting live performances which made her a laughingstock and pawning her hideous clothes on the HSN or laughing maniacally on Larry King or "dancing" on Sex and the City 2, Liza became a joke.

So many happy ex-fatties on the horizon. We'll all be svelte when they start packing us onto trains.

>Retatrutide is a first-in-class "triple agonist" that targets receptors for three hormones – GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon – setting it apart from existing treatments like tirzepatide, which targets two.

>Those on 4mg of retatrutide lost 11.9% of their body weight on average, increasing to 16.8% with 9mg and 18.8% on 12mg. Among those on the 12 mg dose, almost half (47%) shed at least 20% of their starting weight and almost a third (31%) lost at least 25%.

>"It rivals gastric bypass surgery without the surgery," said Dr. Susan Spratt, an endocrinologist and senior medical director at Duke Health, who was not involved in the trial.

Is it true she passed on many projects because of her last husband?