Timberlake added, “If we plan to move forward, these monuments must come down… Removing these statues does not erase our country’s vile history of oppression—removing them is a symbol of respect for Black people in America and it’s a step towards progress and actual equality for all.”
His plea was not nearly as impassioned as fellow Tennessean Taylor Swift’s, and I suspect he won’t be spray-painting ACAB on anything anytime soon (coward!!!!) but, you know, something is better than nothing:
Good for you, Justin! And if you’re really interested in dismantling white supremacy, maybe we can take a second to talk about how you built up your music career… [Variety]
Zach Braff dedicated an episode of his
Scrubs podcast, “Fake Doctors, Real Friends,” to friend and Broadway star
Nick Cordero, who
died this week after a lengthy and horrifying battle with covid-19. Braff met Cordero in 2014 while working with him in
Bullets Over Broadway, and told co-host
Donald Faison that watching Cordero’s illness progress was absolutely horrifying.
“Just for clarity’s sake, he didn’t have COVID-19 anymore,” he said, according to Us Weekly. “What COVID did to Nick is what it does to a lot of people, it comes in and wreaks havoc on your body. Then it leaves and you don’t have it anymore, but you’re left with what the doctors called ‘lungs that look like Swiss cheese.’”
Braff added that the health complications were so severe that if Cordero had survived, he’d have required extensive medical care—he already had his leg amputated, but would have probably lost his fingers and toes to keep up his blood pressure. Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, said he was waiting to hear about a double lung transplant as well.
Per Us Weekly:
“He just deteriorated, deteriorated, deteriorated, until the point where they put him on the ventilator and then he never came back,” the Wish I Was Here director added. “He kind of woke up for a little bit and there was some exciting moments where they would say, ‘Nick if you can hear us look up,’ and he would do that, but he wouldn’t do it all the time. It was only occasionally.”
Please, for the love of god, wear a mask. [Us Weekly]
- Cardi B did a little spa treatment. [NY Post]
- Duchess Kate enjoyed the lockdown, I guess??? [Celebitchy]
- Rob Kardashian went to a party. [Page Six]
- More news from the Royals. [People]