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If you’re not familiar with James Corden’s popular “Toddlerography” segment, you’re in for a treat.

As the name suggests, celebrity guests on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” take a dance class taught by kiddy instructors. Sure, the “students” are usually pretty seasoned performers, like Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, and Jason Derulo, but their experience doesn’t make learning the moves any less intense. Anyone who’s tried to keep pace with a toddler knows it’s a helluva workout.

Billy Porter was the latest guest invited to participate in this wholesome fitness trend, and he did not disappoint.

The acclaimed dancer was at first a tad cocky, ignoring Corden’s warnings that the instructors were “ruthless.” Then again, anyone who looks that good in a black, glittery tracksuit has the right to be.

“That’s cute, James, but I’ll be fine” quipped Porter, just before the first toddler rolled in.

Then, one by one, about a dozen more teeny tiny dancers came in to have Porter and Corden mimic their moves, all set to Harry Styles’ “As It Was.” In other words—it was the greatest dance class ever taught.

The clip ends showing Porter and Corden exhausted from their “intense” workout and rehydrating—Corden with a juice box, and Porter with a martini snuck into his bag.

Seriously, where do the rest of us sign up for this class? Watch the adorable clip below.

We may be just months away from having the first-ever pill to help treat postpartum depression (PPD). The drug, called Zuranolone, was developed by Sage Therapeutics and Biogen, two companies out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The FDA has given the drug’s application priority review and the period ends on August 5, 2023.

Currently, there is only one FDA-approved medication for PPD, Zulresso, which is only available through a 60-hour, one-time infusion and can cost up to $35,000 per treatment.

If the medication is approved, it can also be used to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).

What’s unique about the drug is that it is fast-acting. “We feel a tremendous responsibility to patients with MDD and PPD to deliver a potential new treatment option, which is so desperately needed. Most current approved therapies may take weeks or months to work. We are committed to advancing treatments that could help physicians and patients by addressing depression symptoms quickly,” Dr. Laura Gault, chief medical officer at Sage Therapeutics Inc., said in a statement.

Zuranolone causes full remission of clinical depression within 45 days in 53% of women versus 30% who received the placebo, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry.

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The new drug could be a godsend to the 500,000 women who suffer from PPD every year. In these women, what starts as a typical case of the “baby blues” can linger and become more intense and lead to an overwhelming loss of energy, irritability, inability to concentrate or make decisions and thoughts of harming themselves or their babies. It also severely inhibits their ability to care for their newborn child.

Symptoms of PPD can begin as early as during pregnancy and as late as a year after giving birth. In rare cases, it can develop into postpartum psychosis, an extreme mood disorder.

PPD is caused by the intense hormonal changes that happen within a woman’s body before and after giving birth. It can also result from numerous anxieties women feel after giving birth, such as the stress of being a “perfect mother,” the effect that pregnancy has on their bodies, being overtired and a lack of free time.

Zuranolone could also provide faster relief for people dealing with MDD. In 2020, over 14 million Americans were diagnosed with MDD, which creates a persistent feeling of sadness and a loss of interest in things they used to enjoy. It can also affect their ability to have happy, healthy relationships.

In rare situations, MDD can lead to suicidal ideation. Studies show that MDD accounts for up to 89% of all suicides.

If Zuranolone is approved, it will give doctors another vital tool in improving people’s mental health that can relieve debilitating depression in less time. It will also help countless babies that need extra care in their early days from a loving and healthy mother.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential support.

Chrissy Teigen clapping back at Donald Trump is now a matter of congressional record thanks to a hearing with former Twitter executives on Wednesday. At issue is a 2019 tweet in which Teigen called out Trump for referring to her as John Legend’s “filthy mouthed wife” while notably not tagging the prolific Twitter user.

“lol what a p*ssy a** b*tch,” Teigen tweeted. “tagged everyone but me. an honor, mister president.”

While the back and forth with Teigen is pretty indicative of Trump’s time on Twitter before his account was suspended following the January 6 attack, the supermodel’s tweet resurfaced in an embarrassing moment for both the former president and Elon Musk, who along with conservatives, have accused the social media platform of censoring free speech at the request of Joe Biden. (It didn’t.)

According to The Daily Beast‘s Justin Baragona, while still in office, Trump was reportedly so angered by Teigen’s tweet that he demanded Twitter remove it or face consequences, which for the record is a textbook violation of the First Amendment.

“Twitter executives verify to the House Oversight Committee that the Trump White House tried to get Twitter to take down tweets from Chrissy Teigen that made fun of Trump,” Baragona tweeted. “Former Twitter executives, after confirming that Trump threatened the company with regulation and tried to get tweets taken down, testify that the Biden White House didn’t contact them to censor any tweets.”

As video of the hearing started bouncing around Twitter, particularly the part where the phrase “p*ssy a** b*tch” got verbalized inside the walls of Congress, Teigen couldn’t help but respond to the situation.

“I… oh my god,” she wrote along with a clip of executives confirming Trump’s demand to remove her tweet, which apparently hurt his feelings.

(Via Chrissy Teigen on Twitter)

As Top Dawg Entertainment’s leading lady, SZA has shown herself to be one of the label’s most promising acts. But this almost didn’t come to be. In a recent profile for New York Times, the “Nobody Gets Me” hitmaker revealed she initially wanted to join a different hip-hop collective.

In the weeks leading up to the release of SOS, SZA reflected on releasing her debut mixtape, See.SZA.Run. independently 10 years prior. The bulk of the mixtape was Brandun DeShay, a former member of Odd Future.

Odd Future was comprised of several acclaimed rappers and singers, including Syd, Frank Ocean, and Tyler The Creator. At the time, SZA found herself wanting to be part of the group too.

“Quiet as it’s kept, I wanted to be with like, Odd Future,” she said. “I felt more like a Clancy girl.” Christian Clancy and his wife, Kelly Clancy, are the founders of 4 Strikes Management, which has worked with Tyler, as well as Ocean.

Before she got signed, she recalled spending days with her Top Dawg associates in the home of Mac Miller.

She eventually signed with TDE in 2013, reasoning, “Punch believed in me.”

This week, SOS sits at the top of the Billboard 200 for the seventh week. It’s safe to say signing with TDE paid off.

On the heels of dropping the tickets for her 2023 Renaissance Tour, Beyoncé is keeping fans excited with her upcoming Ivy Park x Adidas Park Trail collection and campaign.

Starring everyone from Ice Spice to Devon Aoki, the new drop from Bey’s athleisure company is perfect for the outdoors. Using camouflage, orange, and purple colors on the varied puffers and outfit styles in the current promotional photos, there’s something for every type of weather.

Fans can shop the new Ivy Park x Adidas Park Trail starting tomorrow (February 9) at your local Adidas store or online through the company’s website. However, according to Elle, those who want to immediately purchase the drop need to download the Adidas Confirmed app and wait in a virtual queue.

The following day, February 10, Ivy Park’s new collection will be available through other selected retailers. This could include previously stocked stores like ASOS and Foot Locker, as well as Ssense, Finish Line, and Snipes, per the publication.

According to Adidas’ website, the new drop will have 56 apparel styles between the company’s inclusive sizing, twelve accessories, and three footwear styles.

“The campaign is centered around embracing exploration and adventure to the fullest and guides us to a place of wonder and revelation through time, space and self-transformation,” the site notes. “This experience depicts both the natural and the metaphysical, which can be as literal as an exhilarating walk down a nature path or a city sidewalk or more abstract, exploring inward and discovering new dimensions.”

More information about Beyoncé’s upcoming Ivy Park x Adidas Park Trail is available here.

As Valentine’s Day approaches, love is in the air. However, based on whispers across social media, hip-hop and R&B’s hottest young couple DDG and Halle Bailey may be sending the lover’s holiday apart. The pair began their romance in January 2022 and have been publicly spotted in public ever since, including on the red carpet at the BET Awards.

Rapper and YouTuber DDG has spoken about how the singer has motivated him, centered his love for her in his past music videos, and used his platform to speak out against racist trolls targeting her starring role in Disney’s The Little Mermaid live-action adaptation. However, after fans noticed that DDG was no longer following Bailey on Instagram, they began questioning if the pair had quietly called it quits.

In a now-deleted tweet, DDG wrote, “All girls are the same.” Without context, the internet began to think that the singer had stepped out of the relationship, but Bailey’s oldest sister took to social media to clear Halle’s name. In the video, she said, “you’re not going to come on social media and insinuate that she was doing something that she wasn’t doing. You need to pipe down and get yourself together.”

After pushback, DDG retired to Twitter to seemingly address the rumors of the singer cheating, writing, “The internet so gullible.”

So, did they break up? It looks like the jury is out for now — but all the signs are there. We’ll have to wait until they confirm it one way or another; ’til then, it’s all just speculation.

Brendan Fraser has been making the rounds lately sharing fun stories, and surprising Mummy superfans, all after starring in an acclaimed Oscar-worthy movie. For someone who has been acting for over 30 years, he sure has a ton of fun behind-the-scenes tidbits from the pre-social media days, when privacy still existed.

Fraser recently spoke to Howard Stern about his prolific career, beginning with School Ties, the teen drama that followed Fraser as David, a young Jewish teen who wants to play football in a school of anti-Semitic students. One of those students is Charlie, played by Matt Damon, who learns of David’s religion and challenges him to a fight in the locker room, where the boys wrestle fully nude in the shower.

Of course, with movie magic, it’s easy to assume that they weren’t actually naked, but Stern was surprised to learn that the boys were really bare. When asked if they really shot the scene naked, Fraser said, “Oh yes. Absolutely,” Fraser admitted, much to Stern’s surprise.

School Ties was one of Fraser’s first films, so he added that he wanted to please the director. “It’s scary to do that. When you’re an actor and you’re just starting off, you’re pretty much game for anything. They say ‘jump,’ you say ‘how high?’” he continued.

Despite being naked in the shower with Matt Damon (which sounds like a dream to some, a nightmare to others), Fraser said that he admired how easy it was to shoot. “I appreciated that this isn’t really for wow or a scintillating factor of going, ‘Hey, look at that. Naked people,’” he explained, adding that nudity played an important part in showing the intensity of the moment.

He added, “The point of it was that when Damon’s character says what he says about David, he just reveals who he is. His anti-Semitism and his prejudice is stripped down naked and it’s ugly. And the door is locked and they fight over it like shaved apes that need to be pulled apart because they’ve run out of things to say to one another, and it just turns into an ugly knuckle-dusting fit.” The movie also starred Ben Affleck and Chris O’Donnell.

Fraser’s naked breakout role helped him then land the lead in Airheads, so we all won here! You can check out the rest of the Howard Stern interview here.

(Via EW)

Cate Blanchett is a two-time Oscar nominee and for over three decades, she’s been one of the best working actors in the film industry. Blanchett is the master of subtly and glamour, with an aura reminiscent of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She takes big risks and is a generous scene partner, two qualities that have earned her two Oscars and several nominations.

Here are the best Cate Blanchett performances to watch ahead of the 2022 Oscars, where she is nominated (and very likely to win) for her career-best role in Tár.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), streaming on Paramount+

While Cate Blanchett does not have much screentime in The Talented Mr. Ripley (one of the best films of the 1990s with one of the best casts of any decade or century), she delivers a subdued but powerful performance that is indicative of her prowess. In the film, Blanchett plays Meredith Logue, an American socialite who befriends Matt Damon’s Mr. Ripley, who is lying to her about his identity. Her character is not in the novel the film is based on, but was added to the film specifically with her in mind by director Anthony Minghella, who expanded the role even further. Entrancing and glamorous as always, Blanchett shows her signature strength in restraint: in Talented Mr. Ripley she knows she’s irresistible, but also knows she is not the main event amongst a cast including Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And yet, despite her limited role, the film would not be the same without her.

The Aviator (2004), streaming on Netflix

Katherine Hepburn was a legend. The actor, who starred in classic comedies including Adam’s Rib and The Philadelphia Story, had a lot in common with Cate Blanchett: tall, slender, and glamorous. Blanchett’s performance as Hepburn in The Aviator, which won her an Oscar for best supporting actress, is so good because it’s not mimicry. Instead of doing an impression of Hepburn’s recognizable raspy Mid-Atlantic accent and demeanor, Blanchett created an aura of Katherine Hepburn. But most importantly, Blanchett let her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio do a majority of the heavy lifting.

Notes on a Scandal (2006), available to rent on Amazon

In Notes on a Scandal, Blanchett successfully faces off with Judi Dench, one of the best to ever do it (it being scenes so tense you need the world’s biggest, sharpest knife to cut them). In the psychological thriller, Blanchett plays Sheba Hart, an art teacher who has an affair with a student. Sheba’s friend and co-worker Barbara, a veteran teacher played by Dench, discovers the dark secret and their friendship and lives unravel. Blanchett’s choice to let Dench take control benefits both their performances, but especially her own: restraint is a common theme in Blanchett’s career, and this performance is the best example: like her performance in Tár, she is so restrained that she is explosive.

I’m Not There (2007), streaming on Amazon via Freevee

Todd Haynes’ eccentric ensemble film I’m Not There is an experimental biopic of Bob Dylan, that tells the singer-songwriter’s story through various vignettes with the Dylan-type character played by a different actor in each. It’s also Blanchett’s biggest, boldest performance to date, right in front of her role as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Blanchett plays the most iconic version of Dylan in the film: the messy brown hair, and the black square sunglasses. Although Blanchett at this point was known for playing glamorous feminine roles with a hint of masculine energy as Hepburn in The Aviator and as Queen Elizabeth II in Elizabeth, Blanchett is still alluring. She deepens her voice but not too much, changes her physicality but not too much (her precision remains), and allows herself to be the biggest performer in the room. Blanchett received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for the role. She should have won, but she did not.

Blue Jasmine (2013), available to rent on Amazon

Unfortunately, one of Blanchett’s best performances, which won her an Oscar for best actress, was written and directed by alleged sex predator Woody Allen and co-stars Alec Baldwin and Louis C.K. But Blanchett, who excels at playing glamorous women in dire circumstances, especially mentally, is the titular Jasmine (blue figuratively, not literally), a New York socialite who flees to San Francisco after her marriage to a wealthy man falls apart. Jasmine, distraught from the loss of a comfortable, wealthy, lifestyle, tries to adjust to a more low-key life. Blanchett uses every part of herself to convey Jasmine’s struggle from the blink of an eye, the twitch of a finger.

Carol (2015), streaming on Amazon via Freevee

This is the film that turned Blanchett into a lesbian icon. In the best Christmas film ever made by director Todd Haynes (who directed her in I’m Not There), Blanchett plays Carol, an elegant but stagnant 1950s housewife whose friendship with a young photographer she meets at a department store gets complicated. Blanchett’s mystique is a perfect match for the mysterious character, but also for Haynes’ unique approach to filmmaking. Together, Blanchett and Rooney Mara carefully capture melancholy, fragility, and attraction in a modern masterpiece.

Tár (2022), streaming on Peacock

Cate Blanchett’s performance as Lydia Tár, a disgraced lesbian icon and EGOT winner who threatens a German child in Todd Fields’ Tár, is the best, most committed performance of her career, which I have popped off about elsewhere. It earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress. If she wins – which is likely – it will be her third win.

You don’t have to be a market analyst to know that the price of eggs has skyrocketed. If you’re just an average person buying eggs for breakfast, it may seem ridiculous that egg prices are so high when it appears that the local Tractor supply always has baby chicks for sale.

But with an outbreak of avian flu infecting nearly 58 million birds while people move away from meat protein and consume more eggs, the price increase makes sense. It’s painful to people’s budgets, but it’s how the market works, and families aren’t the only ones feeling the pinch.

Small businesses that rely on eggs are also experiencing their budgets busting due to egg prices. Sweet Anna’s Bakery in Dallas, North Carolina, already had to raise prices due to the cost of eggs and other ingredients, but owner Courtney Johnson discovered she had a connection. Fifth grader Rylen Robbins has 21 chickens that were producing too many eggs for his family to eat. (You see where this is going, right?)

The chickens produce 18 to 19 eggs a day according to Rylen, who was interviewed on Fox & Friends. That’s a lot of eggs for one family, so Rylen’s dad took to social media to unload them, which is how Johnson became aware of the surplus of eggs.

“He had posted that Rylen Robbins had some eggs, and egg prices just kept going up every week and I just couldn’t do it anymore, so I reached out and said, ‘I will take as many as you can give me,’” Johnson told Fox & Friends.

Before long, the unlikely duo had become business associates. Rylen was able to sell Johnson eggs much cheaper than cartons of eggs from the store. Johnson revealed to Fox & Friends that she used to only pay $2.42 for five dozen eggs but now, “The highest I’ve seen [eggs] has been about $6 to $7 a dozen. They have started to come down, but he [Robbins] is cheaper at $3 a dozen.”

That’s a pretty significant jump in prices, and while the price of eggs is starting to fall, they’re still expensive. The baker has tried finding other ways to cut costs so she doesn’t have to keep raising prices on her baked goods. It’s a business venture that just makes sense, even if the person she’s doing business with is only 11 years old. But this isn’t the first time Johnson and Rylen have crossed paths.

Turns out, Johnson has made birthday cakes and other baked goods for the Robbins family’s parties in the past, so the business relationship is a little more personal. In a way, Rylen is helping the entire community by selling eggs to Sweet Anna’s Bakery, because it helps keep costs down for everyone, not just the owner.

The entire story is so sweet and you can check it out for yourself below:

Cocaine Bear would have a good cast even without its star, a bear on cocaine.

The ensemble includes Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Character Actress Margo Martindale, Kristofer Hivju, and Ray Liotta in one of his final roles. But the main draw is the titular nose candy-addicted bear, as well as the film being (very loosely) based on a true story.

“The movie flashed before my eyes,” director Elizabeth Banks told Variety about her reaction to reading the script for the first time. She’s best known for comedies like 30 Rock and Wet Hot American Summer, but she took Cocaine Bear seriously. “I don’t recommend anyone do this, but if you go down the internet hole of looking at actual animal attacks on humans, it’s f*cking gnarly as sh*t,” she said. “I love gore. I grew up on Evil Dead. The gore is part of the fun of the ride.”

Banks’ embrace of the carnage in Cocaine Bear also stems from her conviction that the movie would work only if the audience believed the animal was real. “It had to feel like a NatGeo documentary about a bear that did cocaine,” she says. “It couldn’t be something silly. It couldn’t seem animated in any way.”

Fun fact. Cocaine Bear has already made history: it’s the only movie to ever have “cocaine” and “bear” in the title. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Cocaine Bear opens on February 24. Make it a late Valentine’s Day present.

(Via Variety)