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Peter Weber Fired Back At Critics Who Trolled Him and Kelley Flanagan—Then Deleted His Comments


Former Bachelor Peter Weber has been supplying tons of quarantine content lately. After keeping his fans amused with singalongs on his Instagram stories, he started sharing a few videos that offer a glimpse into his lockdown situation with Kelley Flanagan—who he’s been quarantining with in Chicago.

On April 18, Weber shared a new TikTok video where he climbs onto Flanagan’s shoulders (it’s actually pretty impressive), but some people who are hyper-aware of Weber and Flanagan’s past had thoughts. Basically, they started trolling the pilot in the comments, reminding him that he’d kicked Kelley off of his season and chose Hannah Ann (and eventually Madison Prewett, who he only dated for approximately two days.

However, Weber was not about to let the critics get to him. He went through the comments and responded cheekily to a lot of them and tried to make light of the whole situation, according to Cosmopolitan. For example (because there were a bunch), when a social media user teased, “Kelley sweetie blink twice if ur ok,” Weber hit back with the wide-eyed emoji. “Kelly = CEO of being the last possible option,” another user wrote.

To that, Weber responded, “Ok, it’s not like I sent her home the night one…”

One screengrab of his comments section from April 18.

However, it seems he changed his mind about feeding the trolls and decided to delete his comments. He didn’t reveal why, but this is what the same TikTok comments section looked like just a day later:

Screengrab from Peter Weber's TikTok.

A screengrab of the same comments section from April 19.

His initial responses might be a hint that Weber and Flanagan are getting serious, but speaking to Nick Viall on the podcast The Viall Files, he insisted they’re still not putting a label on things.

“Are we dating? No. Do I love spending time with her? Absolutely,” he said. “We’re not dating. Could I see that in the future? Yeah, of course. I’d be extremely lucky and very happy if that happened. I’m the last person that needs to rush into any kind of relationship. I just had an engagement that didn’t work out. I just was trying to pursue things with another woman that didn’t work out. That’s why right now. I’m just taking it really, really slow.”

Keep an eye on his TikTok account for updates…and magic tricks.



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Critics Are Calling the New ‘Mulan’ Disney’s ‘Best Live-Action Remake’


Disney’s highly anticipated live-action remake of Mulan hits theaters on March 27, and if early reviews are any indication, it may just be one of the best movies of the year.

The film’s Los Angeles premiere went down on Monday, March 9, and from the looks of Twitter, critics dug it. Like, really dug it. As in, some are saying it’s Disney’s best-ever live-action remake. That’s quite the compliment, seeing as how Disney is rebooting just about every single one of its classic animated films.

Movie journalists are shouting out the film’s star, Yifei Liu, and director, Niki Caro, specifically. “I’ve seen MULAN twice now and I must say it is grrrreat,” Yahoo! Entertainment’s Kevin Polowy tweeted. “Easily Disney’s best live action reboot. I think it’s also Disney’s first battle epic? It is beautiful & absorbing & rich & empowering. The cast is excellent and Niki Caro’s direction is just breathtaking.”

Mashable’s deputy entertainment editor Angie J. Han added, “#Mulan is the best of the Disney live-action remakes since Cinderella—I didn’t even miss the songs. Finds new notes in a story we already know while delivering gorgeous action, heart, and humor. Liu Yifei is ??.”

See some more reactions from industry people who have checked out the movie, below.

Pop singer Hayley Kiyoko also saw the movie in advance—and loved it. “I LOVEEDDDD MULAN!!!!! It’s very different but it’s just as good I promise!!! So empowering and so important for the newer generations to see it,” she tweeted.

Fans of the 1998 animated movie were sad to hear that this live-action remake wouldn’t be a musical (though Caro did tell BuzzFeed the original music will be honored in a “significant” way). On this decision, Mulan producer Jason Reed told Collider, “It will not be traditional ‘break into musical’ [songs]. They’re not going to stop their workouts to do a big musical number to camera. However, there are a number of songs that are iconic for the movie and tell a great version of the story, and they are very helpful to us in how we’re putting the movie together.”

He continued, “It gets a little easier in animation to keep the tension and the reality in place and still have people break into song and sing to camera. We made the decision that we wanted to keep the world—even though it’s a fantasy—more grounded, more realistic so those emotions really played and the threat is very real. So we are using music in a slightly different way.”

It seems this movie is superb, music or no music. I can’t wait to check it out.



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‘Little Women’ Movie Reviews: Critics Are Calling It ‘Brilliant’


The Hollywood Reporter: “[Gerwig’s] gratifying take on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women brings freshness, vitality, and emotional nuance to source material which has been etched for generations into the popular imagination, shaking up the chronology to reinvigorate the plot’s familiar beats.”

Entertainment Weekly: “Pugh, so good in this year’s Midsommar and Fighting With My Family, brings welcome layers to her willful pigtailed Amy; Cooper, Odenkirk, and Meryl Streep, as the girls’ ornery Aunt March, duly make the most of their small turns…. But it’s Ronan’s fierce, tender Jo who carries nearly every scene she’s in; a fourth Oscar nod for the Irish actress, still somehow only 25, seems both inevitable and earned.”

Los Angeles Times: “This is a film in love with its characters’ passions, a rich and effortlessly vibrant examination of the four March ‘little women’ and the ways…they’re practically bursting with the innocent it’s-happening-right-now joy of being young and alive.”

TheWrap: “In an era in which sentimentality is a seasoning that filmmakers either shun entirely or employ with too heavy a hand, Gerwig crafts a work that is moving without being manipulative. This is a Little Women for the ages.”

Vulture: “It doesn’t just brim with life; it brims with ideas about happiness, economic realities, and what it means to push against or to hew to the expectations laid out for one’s gender.”

USA Today: “A tremendously resonant, sometimes heartbreaking and always entertaining hoot.”

Daily Mail: “What it is, is a joy from start to finish, a ravishingly shot, exquisitely acted emotional roller coaster that at times, I don’t mind admitting, didn’t just activate my tear ducts but had me gurning wildly to stop myself from blubbing audibly.”

Thrillist: “One of the most brilliantly staged adaptations of any literary work. [Gerwig’s] film takes your assumptions and undermines them without ever straying from the text. It somehow acts as both a reappraisal and slight reinvention of Alcott’s work while remaining a gorgeous tribute to it.”

Little Women hits theaters everywhere on December 25, 2019.





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'Hustlers' Movie Reviews: Critics Are Already Calling It the Movie of the Year


If Hustlers arrived in theaters to lukewarm reviews, I’d probably still see it. After all, it’s based on a true story that’s inherently cinematic: A tale of New York City strippers who swindle Wall Street men out of their money after falling on hard times in the 2008 recession. On top of that, it features powerful leading women including Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lizzo, and Lili Reinhart in the cast.

Early reviews are putting any doubts about Hustlers‘s merit to rest. Critics don’t think Hustlers is merely “good”—they think it’s already an Oscars contender. Hustlers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous reviews. Over on Twitter, #Hustlers was trending on Sunday, September 8, with hundreds of resoundingly positive comments. Ahead of its wide release in theaters, it has a 92% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Much of the praise for Hustlers is dedicated to Jennifer Lopez, who fronts the film as the ringleader Ramona. In fact, some reviewers say she could likely be in the running for her first Academy Award. Frankly, it’s thrilling to see a criminally underrated performer get her due from prestige film outlets. (Super Bowl planners, I hope you’ll finally give her that rumored half time show after this.)

Plus, early reviews suggest that Hustlers expertly examines the nuances of stripping as a profession. The women in the film aren’t one-dimensional objects dancing for patrons at a club: They’re entrepreneurs, parents, friends, and fully-realized women trying to make the most of their line of work. Much of that distinction was made possible by director Lorene Scarfaria, who adapted the film’s script from the New York story it’s based off of and hired consultants to advise on the film.

Hustlers wasn’t made in a vacuum; it’s the latest movie in a string of standout projects that are led and performed by women. And we need more women-led success stories like it in Hollywood. Women account for 51% of moviegoers, yet they’re 4% of directors and 15% of writers in the entire industry. In a world where some studios hold onto the belief that women can’t lead critical darlings or box office successes, it’s thrilling to see critics lending their support to a movie without a single leading man.





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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Outlive All Her Critics


People should know by now not to mess with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The tenacious, 86-year-old Supreme Court Justice has served on the bench since taking the oath of office in 1993, and her tough-as-nails opinions and unwavering battles for equal rights have made her a superstar lovingly referred to as the Notorious RBG.

Even while grappling with some recent health scares (she fractured three ribs during a fall and underwent surgery for lung cancer), she’s remained incredibly dedicated to her duties on the bench. She even worked from her hospital bed, opposing restrictions to the immigrant asylum system.

This week, she sat down for an interview with NPR, in connection with an event for the American College of Surgeons. (Ginsburg will serve as the organization’s new president.) She discussed her health and her thoughts on the Supreme Court today, and she pretty much skewered the people who have cruelly predicted that she won’t be around much longer. Without naming him, she referenced the late Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning Kentucky, who said after she was diagnosed with cancer that he believed she would die within a year.

“There was a senator, I think it was after the pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I’ve forgotten, is now himself dead. And I am very much alive,” Ginsburg said.

While her comments show she’s as sharp as ever, she opened up about balancing work and her health. Ginsburg has said that she wants to retire when she’s 90, like her colleague Justice John Paul Stevens, who passed away recently. People have worried that she’ll retire sooner when news of her illnesses have featured in headlines, but RBG explained that her career actually keeps her going.

“The work is really what saved me,” she said, “because I had to concentrate on reading the briefs, doing a draft of an opinion, and I knew it had to get done. So I had to get past whatever my aches and pains were just to do the job.”

Spoken like the boss she is.





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Serena Williams Had the Best Response for Critics Who Think She Should Stick to Tennis


Serena Williams might have lost the final women’s singles showdown at Wimbledon on Saturday, but she’s not about to let that defeat—or any others—throw her off. Speaking in a press conference after the match against Romania’s Simona Halep (final score: 6-2, 6-2), Williams powerfully defended herself against recent critiques, including from tennis legend Billie Jean King, that she should focus more on tennis and less on her activism work and “being a celebrity.”

“There have been a few comments made in the last couple of weeks from people like Billie Jean King that maybe you should stop being a celebrity for a year and stop fighting for equality and just focus on the tennis,” a journalist asked her at the end of the press conference. “How do you respond to that?”

Williams, of course, had the perfect answer ready. “The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me will be the day I’m in my grave,” the 23-time Grand Slam champ responded.

For context, King had said back in June that it was a “wish” she had to see Williams just focus on tennis. “She’s got business, a baby, she’s trying to help gender equity, particularly for women of color, she’s actually on the Billie Jean King leadership initiative, she and Venus are both advisors for it. [It makes winning a Slam] much harder,” she told the U.K.’s Metro, highlighting that there’s a lot on Williams’ plate. “I would like her to put everything else aside, because she’s got people working on those things. I wish she would just make a commitment for the next year and a half to two years and say, ‘I’m going to absolutely focus on what’s necessary for my tennis, so when I look in the mirror when I’m older then I can go back in my mind and know I gave it everything I had.'”

“If she’s happy doing it this way, then that’s fine. It’s whatever makes her happy, it’s not about us,” King added.

After Williams’ response at the press conference, King clarified her words on Twitter: “I would never ask anyone to stop fighting for equality. In everything she does, Serena shines a light on what all of us must fight for in order to achieve equality for all,” she wrote.

King is herself a staunch advocate for gender equality: She won the historic 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match against Bobby Riggs, which went a long way toward breaking down the cultural perception that women’s sports are somehow “less than” men’s, though that fight is far from over. In the Metro article, King also admitted that it’s “not fair” to ask Williams to devote herself only to tennis—and she referenced how difficult the sport became for her as she aged past 40 (Williams is 37).





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