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Scarlett Johansson called out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in a lengthy statement, Saturday, joining numerous stars to call out the group for sexism recently. The HFPA is the body that determines the winners of the Golden Globes.

“As an actor promoting a film, one is expected to participate in awards season by attending press conferences as well as awards shows. In the past, this has often meant facing sexist questions and remarks by certain HFPA members that bordered on sexual harassment. It is the exact reason why I, for many years, refused to participate in their conferences,” the actress said in a statement to Indie Wire. “The HFPA is an organization that was legitimized by the likes of Harvey Weinstein to amass momentum for Academy recognition and the industry followed suit. Unless there is necessary fundamental reform within the organization, I believe it is time that we take a step back from the HFPA and focus on the importance and strength of unity within our unions and the industry as a whole.”

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The HFPA came under fire earlier this year for having zero Black members among its 87-person group. The organization has said it plans to increase its membership by 50% and invite more “underrepresented groups.”

The Golden Globe-winning actor continued:

Now is the time to step up and right the wrongs of the past. Our industry is embracing the opportunity for greater equality in this beautiful moment. It is not perfect and long overdo but it is clear what must happen and how. The Justice Movement is offering all of us, the HFPA, and every other entertainment entity, a good way forward. We should all follow suit. It is our audiences and our highest sense of decency that we are ultimately serving with these changes. They are both deserving.

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New York Jets’ quarterback Zach Wilson spoke with reporters during the second day of rookie minicamp, Saturday, and explained that the starting job has to be earned, despite the team drafting him with the second overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.

“In this position, the coaches want to play the best player. That position has to be earned,” he told the press, according to ESPN. “I have to do what I’m supposed to do. That’ll take care of itself.”

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Jets’ new head coach, Robert Saleh, said he was impressed with Wilson’s performance thus far.

“He did a really nice job,” Saleh said. “The ball was in and out of his hand very crisp. He was in rhythm and was on time; the players were running the right routes. The ball was barely on the ground.”

The only other quarterbacks on the team’s roster are Mike White and James Morgan, neither of whom have played in a regular-season game.

Wilson also told reporters that he’d be moving to number two with the Jets, after playing with the number one on his jersey throughout college: “Mixing it up, doing something new. I like single-digit numbers. I think it’s kind of cool that I was the second pick. That’s kind of a cool reason to shake it up.”

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Joe Rogan and Dave Chappelle discussed Elon Musk’s upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live, during a new episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

“No one is woke enough,” Rogan said. “They can’t appreciate the fact that you’re dealing with one of the most brilliant men that’s ever lived.”

Musk has appeared on two episodes of Rogan’s podcast.

Chappelle added that his interactions with Musk have all been very positive.

“Like you said, no one can be woke enough,” the comedian said. “I’m torn because I like a warrior for a good cause, but I’m really into tactics. You’re not gonna nag people into behaving … In fact, if you continue with this tone, even if you’re right, you’ll be very hard to hear.”

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The two comedians also discussed The Chappelle Show, and how Chappelle got the rights to it back, recently.

“It wasn’t a court of law,” Chappelle said. “I don’t believe I would have got anything in a court of law. I think, in the court of public opinion, it was a good time for me to say my piece and through the years it wasn’t something I would harp on…It was something I was actually reluctant to talk about.”

Musk will host tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, and be joined by his partner, Grimes.

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Vivica A. Fox recalled meeting former President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, while on Celebrity Apprentice, and says that she made a racist comment towards her. Fox discussed the incident with Andy Cohen in his series For Real: The Story of Reality TV.

“I’ll never forget that when I did Celebrity Apprentice and Ivanka Trump, she said, ‘Wow, you speak very well,’” the Empire star recalled.

“No, Andy. I hate to say it,” Fox continued. “I don’t think she knew at the time that she was insulting us. I really think that she thought she was complimenting us. That it was like, ‘Oh, wow, you guys are intelligent.’”

“I don’t think she knows now,” responded Cohen.

He added: “Think of the layers and layers of white people that saw a cut of that show and aired it and they said, ‘Oh, this is great.’”

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Fox’s appearance on Celebrity Apprentice came in 2015, one year prior to Trump’s Presidential election.

Earlier this week, Fox made headlines when she criticized Khloé Kardashian for being a doormat for Tristan Thompson.

“It’s time for Khloé to stop being a damn doormat for Tristan,” said Vivica. “First of all, you are a Kardashian, girl. I’m sure it’s plenty of brothas lining up. They all just wanna take a trip, you know what I mean… At this point, do you really want this kind of man to be a parental father figure to your children? The fact that he can’t even respect mama?”

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Experts expect a large Chinese rocket to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere, at some point this weekend, as it is spiraling out of control towards the planet. The Long March 5B rocket measures 100 feet tall and weighs 22 tons; however, much of the debris will likely burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

“The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small — not negligible, it could happen — but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN this week.

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China’s rocket is a part of a growing trend towards more and more space debris becoming a concern. There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris orbiting Earth, most of which burn up in the atmosphere.

“We expect it to reenter sometime between the eighth and 10th of May. And in that two-day period, it goes around the world 30 times,” McDowell continued. “The thing is traveling at like 18,000 miles an hour. And so if you’re an hour out at guessing when it comes down, you’re 18,000 miles out in saying where.”

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Dave Bautista says that Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 will most likely be his last appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the character, Drax. Bautista appeared in numerous Marvel films as Drax including Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, on top of the previous Guardians films.

“I don’t know what the script of the third film is, to be honest with you,” Bautista told Digital Spy in a recent interview. “There was a script years ago that obviously is going to have to change because the whole direction of the Marvel universe has changed.”

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The former wrestler added that there were talks of a spinoff film with Drax, but it’s gone silent for some time:

There were talks for a while about a Drax and Mantis film … It was really because it was James Gunn’s idea. He really wanted to do a Drax and Mantis film. He laid it out to me. I thought it was such a brilliant idea, but I haven’t heard any follow-up from the studio. I don’t think they’re very interested, or it doesn’t fit into the way they have things mapped out. But other than that, no. I mean, as far as my obligations, I’ve got Guardians 3, and that’s probably going to be the end of Drax.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is scheduled to release on May 23, 2023.

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Mariah Carey clapped back at RNB Radar CEO Tommy Banks on Twitter, Friday, after Banks shared a snippet of Baltimore rapper YTK’s new track “Let It Off,” which samples Carey’s 2005 song “Shake It Off.” 

“Mariah Carey has 24 hours to respond,” Banks captioned the one-minute video.

“How about y’all have 24 hours to respond to my lawyers,” Carey tweeted in response.

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After the post went viral, Banks clarified that Carey was just joking and shared a screenshot of a DM with Questlove about clearing the sample.

“Hey I want to reiterate that Mariah was joking, please stop saying rude s— to her,” Banks captioned the screenshot. “She told that same joke to Quest Love hours before she responded to the tweet and put us in contact with the people who can help us clear it! so it’s not a problem on her end.”

Questlove tweeted about the incident saying that it reminded him of a situation with Erykah Badu and her song “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long.”

“I’m DYIN,” Questlove wrote. “I helped w the Mariah sample cause 11 years ago we were in the same situation in which Erykah has 24 hours to clear ‘Gone Baby Don’t Be Long’ w Paul McCartney & Lenny Kravitz saw the tweet & hit up Stella to hit her pops & the song was saved!”

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Grimes says that she will be appearing in tonight’s polarizing episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by her partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

“Tune into SNL tonight to watch me try acting!” the Miss Anthropocene singer wrote on Instagram, Saturday.

She added that her phone thought she was referencing the cryptocurrency Ethereum while writing the post: “Wow my auto dictation was on while I was talking to friend trying to write this post, so this is what my phone thinks I said ‘SNL but I think the toilet and Ethereum are not jumping to buy its not a long-term thing like it might be a couple like a year or something before they get bigger butt I would do it I don’t know which one yeah I think a pretty good bet.'”

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As for what to expect on tonight’s episode, Musk posed some sketch ideas on Twitter, last week. Among them included “Woke James Bond,” “Baby Shark Tank,” and more.

Ahead of Musk’s appearance, Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency he has promoted in recent months, has rocketed up to $0.75. He also teased on Twitter that he could reference Dogecoin on the show, which many have speculated will affect the price.

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