Clutching a badly frayed passport and a Nike duffel, former rebounding legend and Michael Jordan acquaintance Dennis Rodman entered a rehab facility in New Jersey. The trip to rehab comes after the latest of Rodman’s slumber parties with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and an ugly meltdown in front of CNN reporter Chris Cuomo.
Rodman’s brand of “basketball diplomacy” — he recently led a group of former NBA players in a very special exhibition game for Kim Jong Un’s birthday — has attracted lots of criticism from people who think a bygone celebrity extolling the virtues of one of the world’s most repressive regimes is a pretty crappy publicity stunt. As for his mission to convince the world that Kim Jong Un is really a swell guy, Rodman has been less than successful, insinuating recently that Kenneth Bae, an American imprisoned in North Korea, probably did something to earn his sentence. When pressed by Cuomo as to what kind of a thing Bae did, Rodman freaked out and now we’re all here, wondering the same thing: So, is Michael Jordan going to un-retire again, or what? [CNN, TMZ]
- Deongelo Holmes, one of the Ying Yang Twins, has been charged with “family violence” in Georgia after his wife accused him of punching her in the head. [TMZ]
- An unambitious supervillain is scamming concert promoters who think they’re booking Miley Cyrus but are really just giving money to a stranger. [TMZ]
- Juan Pablo Galavis is really sorry all those people were offended by those crappy things he said about the gay menace. [CBS]
- Uh, so this dude who played one of the white supremacists on Breaking Bad apparently flashed the Nazi salute — as a joke, y’all! just for giggles! — last night at the SAG Awards after Bryan Cranston thanked his cast for being the “nicest bunch of white supremacist Nazis I have ever worked with.” Yikes. [Mediaite]
- And that, as it just so happens, was only one of the wacky things that happened at the SAG Awards. The other [hyperbolic ableism] thing that happened was that Matthew McConaunghey won for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club, took the stage, and said this about his craft (acting): “It feels like they could put a blindfold on you and put you in a spaceship and take you to Neptune and you can hop off on the planet and they better have the sprockets running when you get off that spaceship because you are going to behave as your man. That is a glorious feeling.” [People]
- Margot Robbie, who played Leonardo DiCaprio‘s wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, will soon be starring in every movie that calls for a female lead. [The Wrap]
- Natalie Dormer shaved part of her head. It looks cool, if you’re into partially sheared heads. [People]
- FLOTUS celebrated her 50th birthday last night with dancing and a Twitter post about her new AARP card. [The Grio]
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