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Remember when all those IDIOTS said New York City was dead?!? Well name another city on the planet where you can live in a rap video and ride anywhere in the capital of the world for $2.75? You can't.

Those utopia memes seem like a cool place when you take a quick glance at them.

But as an Old that watched enough of the Jetsons growing up, I realize that flying cars and cities in the sky aren't all they're cracked up to be. Give me this very real 2022 with young ladies dancing on slip n slides, liquor being poured down the throats of random strangers, and Captain America getting caught red handed being the person recording the whole damn thing since we all saw his shield in the background on what his hometown L train growing up.

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Yeah, I see you trying to be slick Steve-O. You may be able to take the kid out of Brooklyn but you can't take the Brooklyn out of the kid, even though there is something inherently beautiful about America's ass filming American asses in a video that proves New York is #BACK which ipso facto means America is #BACK.

Truth be told, I didn't think I'd end up talking about the MCU when I started this blog. But it just feels right.

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Sometimes there are moments when history passes us by, when an event of great importance gets buried in the third or fourth page of our Tuesday morning newspaper, behind stories of the presidents latest faux pas or a movie stars new baby. We will invariably look back and ask ourselves how it happened, how something so monumental got drowned in the 24/7 news cycle.

I get the sense that history passed us by this week when Russia announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of the decade. Russias announcement is the latest in a death by a million cuts for the aging and increasingly expensive-to-maintain spacecraft, so it doesnt come out of nowhere.

But that doesnt change the importance of Russias withdrawal. The International Space Station was always about more than that particular hunk of metal in low-Earth orbit.

Like most kids, I had a phase in elementary school where I got really excited about outer space and enthusiastically set off to memorize every factoid I could find about Jupiters moons (now numbering 80, but only 64 of them had been discovered at the time). Space was quite literally a never-ending mystery that expanded every day, and we humans were just beginning to explore its vast cosmic reaches. A new era of human history had begun in the past century, one that people would still look back and learn about in hundreds, maybe thousands, of years.

The International Space Station was one of that centurys crowning achievements, primarily because of the vision that it stood for. It symbolized the legacy of U.S.-Soviet space cooperation, the promise of a post-Cold War world and a vision of space as the common inheritance of humanity. The I.S.S. showed a generation of young people that outer space was a place for all of us, a place where every country could come together, no matter their squabbles and disagreements on Earth.

That idealistic vision seems all but dead now, as a generation of international research in space across geopolitical lines gives way to commercialization and tribalism. The Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA will surely launch their own new missions into space after this saga is through, and when those spacecraft go up, they will be launching into a vastly different outer space, one that may eventually be visited more frequently by the world's latest billionaire of the week and maybe eventhe U.S. Space Force.

I cannot help but feel a deep sense of tragedy at this sign of the death of international cooperation in the face of our common challenges and new frontiers. After all, outer space isnt the only realm where this 20th-century idealism seems to be dying. Take arms control. Bit by bit, the 21st century has watched the erosion of nuclear control measures like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which the Trump administration scuttled in 2019. The steady pace of disarmament over the past few decades has stalled significantly, and most nuclear powers are now expanding their arsenals.

The spirit of international cooperation, though it may have lost some of its gleam in our more cynical times, is still the best expression in our modern age of what Catholic principles of solidarity look like, and its the vision of human fraternity that Pope Francis has spent his entire pontificate working to resuscitate. Francis seems to have been prophetic when he lamented in Fratelli Tutti that [i]n todays world, the sense of belonging to a single human family is fading, and the dream of working together for justice and peace seems an outdated utopia. What reigns instead is a cool, comfortable and globalized indifference, born of deep disillusionment concealed behind a deceptive illusion: thinking that we are all-powerful, while failing to realize that we are all in the same boat.

Seen through the lens of that central problemour lack of solidarityso much of what Pope Francis is doing comes into view. His work to negotiate the end of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, his focus on environmental action, his refusal to take sides in the Russia-Ukraine War, his work to lift up non-European voices in the Curia, and so much more.They all come down to the same visiona firm commitment to viewing the world as one family, in spite of and across political or cultural differences. The pope sees a world where international cooperation is fragmenting and is trying to offer a different path forward.

I am sure that if Pope Francis pontificate had an official playlist (it does have an unofficial one, by the way), Russians, by Sting, would be on it. A classic Cold War protest song, its lyrics bear a haunting relevance on our modern world: We share the same biology/ regardless of ideology/ Believe me when I say to you/ I hope the Russians love their children too.

The I.S.S., in all likelihood, is dead, and that should be a wake-up call for everyone committed to the vision of human solidarity for which it stood. There are still so many common challenges we all facea global arms race, a climate crisis, the rise of a digital world and our own fragmenting sense of human solidarity.

Our century has to once again come up with answers to all of these problems and more. Are we going to solve those problems together, or are we going to let them splinter us further apart?

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As the next Hennepin County attorney, I have two major priorities: to rebuild trust and to restore effectiveness in the office. Yes, the plan is that simple. I am not a politician, and I had never imagined running for political office after more than 20 years as a prosecutor, deputy city attorney and district judge. Then, in 2020, the world changed.

First, George Floyd was murdered. That nine-minute video affected me deeply. I was depressed. I had a familiar feeling after 60 years in this country as a Black person: Things still haven't gotten better for us. My colleagues and I tried to put out a statement, but we were prohibited from doing so as judges.

Then the Minneapolis City Council pledged to "defund and dismantle" the police. I lived in north Minneapolis in the early 1990s. I know what it's like being neglected by public servants including police. We are left to solve our problems on our own. It is not the utopia that these young activists envisioned when they attempted to stand in solidarity with my community at Powderhorn Park. But as a judge, I had to be careful, so I held my tongue publicly for the next year.

One weekend the following summer, four people were shot within a mile of my house, one of them was a young child. There were no protesters, no TV coverage, just an article on an inside page of the newspaper. Around that time, I decided it was time to get off the sidelines and run for Hennepin County attorney.

I am new to politics, but I thought politicians were supposed to be accountable to the voices of regular people in the community. Even in the midst of a record violent crime surge, not a single state legislator in Minneapolis came out against the failed ballot question that grew out of the Minneapolis City Council's pledge to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. This charter amendment, supposedly advanced on my behalf as a Black person, lost 64-36 in my neighborhood and 2-0 in my household. Our politicians, once again, listened to a few loud voices over the majority. They are out of touch with reality.

When we had fully staffed police departments and a low rate of crime, Hennepin County voters were pushing for the county attorney to prioritize criminal justice reform over all other goals. And I was, too. But the real-life circumstances have changed.

In 2009, we had seven homicides in north Minneapolis. Last year, there were 46.

Unbeknown to many outside the criminal justice system, Minnesota and especially Hennepin County already takes one of the most progressive approaches to prosecution anywhere in the country. We have the fourth-lowest incarceration rate in the country.

I believe that our more lenient approach to prosecution is good as long as we fulfill our core responsibilities as prosecutors and law enforcement. Over the last two years, we have not. Car thieves know they will be released on the same day without bail; juvenile carjackers have nowhere to be placed for short-term detention or treatment, and dozens of homicides in Minneapolis from 2021 remain unsolved. And our leaders stood on a stage and told the world that we would end policing in Minneapolis. Since the murder of George Floyd, many criminals have heard the message that we don't care about their actions, and they have acted accordingly.

My first priority right now is to restore the effectiveness of the office by emphasizing our core responsibility: swift, effective and fair prosecution. And we need to send a clear message that we care about crime and that we will prosecute. We should also give people who make mistakes second chances, bolster alternatives to incarceration and continue the fight for reform.

My second priority is rebuilding trust in the office. We need to rebuild trust with everyone: law enforcement, public defenders and, most important, community members. You cannot accomplish your mission without the support of your partners.

While other candidates talk about this work, I've actually done it. We brought crime down from "Murderapolis" highs in the late 1990s to record lows in the early 2000s by getting the police and the prosecutors into the community. We might not have made the headlines, but our work was extremely successful in terms of both building trust and effectively lowering the rate of crime. I'm confident that we can do it again if the next Hennepin County attorney holds the effectiveness of the office above their own political agenda. This is an important job. Let's take it seriously.

Martha Holton Dimick is a former assistant Hennepin County attorney, former deputy Minneapolis city attorney and former Fourth District judge. She is one of seven candidates in the nonpartisan race for Hennepin County attorney. The top two finishers in the Aug. 9 primary will move on to the general election in November.

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The Old Vic and Sonia Friedman Productions have announced the cast and creative team for Jonathan Spector's multi award-winning Eureka Day, which has its European premiere at The Old Vic this September, directed by Katy Rudd (The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Camp Siegfried).

Joining the previously announced Academy, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets, The Sessions, Mad About You) are Kirsten Foster (Life of Pi, The Sandman) as May, Mark McKinney (The Kids in the Hall, Superstore) as Don, Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief, Pride) as Eli and Susan Kelechi Watson (This is Us, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood) as Carina.

Set against the backdrop of a mumps outbreak at a progressive private elementary school in California in 2017, Eureka Day is a satire on the quest for consensus; the central question of 'to vaccinate' or 'not to vaccinate' taking on a whole new meaning in 2022.

The creative team are also announced with Set and Costume by Rob Howell, Lighting by Jon Clark, Sound by Donato Wharton, Video by Andrzej Goulding, Music by Jherek Bischoff, Casting by Jim Carnahan, Voice by Charlie Hughes-D'Aeth and Dialect by Penny Dyer. The Baylis Assistant Director is Aaliyah Mckay.

Eureka Day will play from 06 September to 31 October 2022 at The Old Vic.

Every child is welcomed at the progressive Eureka Day school in Berkeley, California - it's a point of pride for the parents on the Executive Committee.But when a public health scare erupts, it turns out tolerance and togetherness are no match for mumps...In Jonathan Spector's timely and hysterical comedy, polite debate descends into ideological warfare, as a democratic utopia tears itself apart.

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Television has provided unrealistic standards of lifes many truths for as long as its existed from being able to hang out in a coffee shop during the work day to going on thousands of dates in a single year. But one of the most bothersome standards TV has warped audiences into thinking is what kind of apartment New Yorkers today can realistically afford.

Millions of residents live in the five boroughs, and more people move there every day with dreams of getting a 212 area code and a mailing address in the big city. If only they knew what they were actually in for. The 15 TV characters ranked below lease or own apartments that have become characters in and of themselves, leading New York natives and newbies alike to think they can afford an apartment like Monica Gellers from Friends or Hannah Horvaths from Girls. So, exactly how fictional are these fictional TV apartments?

TheWrap has ranked the most realistic contemporary TV apartments to the least realistic apartments, featuring favorites like billionaire Logan Roys penthouse abode in Succession to TV writer and producer Liz Lemons digs in 30 Rock.

As the most realistic apartment on the list, Logan Roys (Brian Cox) is also the most extravagant and ostentatious. Of course, the Roy family is not your typical family. Theyre regularly shown taking helicopters or private jets to their various homes around the world, including Season 3s Italian villa. The Roys simply exude wealth. Therefore, the patriarchs main home, a luxurious Manhattan penthouse, is the most realistic home based strictly on who Logan is. As a billionaire media mogul, having a$23 million Manhattan penthouseis just a rite of passage.

Contrary to what her co-workers might think, Ilana Wexler (Ilana Glazer) does technically work. Picking up a paycheck from various odd jobs and side gigs be that it babysitting gigs, a Deals! sales associate or cleaning strangers homes Ilana does live within her means. A Gowanus, Brooklyn, resident with a roommate, Ilana lives in one of the most reasonable units on this list. Its a bit cramped, slightly messy and theres limited space for more than two people in the living room.

Charlotte Yorks (Kristin Davis) apartment is realistic by New York standards because, well, she won it in her divorce. The Park Avenue penthouse has become a staple in the Sex and the City world, and its thanks to Charlottes Season 3 arc where the former art gallery curator marriedand divorced the old-moneyed cardiologist Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan). Trey gifts Charlotte the apartment after their divorce since he was unable to give her the family shes always dreamed of. Charlotte makes the apartment her home throughout the series, the films and the And Just Like That reboot.

Will Truman (Eric McCormack) is a corporate lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side. His home because the main locale for he and his friends Grace Adler (Debra Messing), JackMcFarland (Sean Hayes) and Karen Walker (Megan Mullaly) to come for breakfast, a night in or even a prolonged stay. Wills two-bedroom apartment is one of the more lavish apartments on this list, but it still remains realistic for the era, location and characters profession.

Formerly a father living in the suburbs, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his new wife Megan (Jessica Par) move to an apartment on Park Avenue in New York City. As an advertising Creative Director and Junior Partner of Sterling Cooper & Partners, Don could shell out a few more dollars on a beautiful Manhattan apartment, but since the shows conclusion, NYC real estate agents have revealed Don really couldnt live in the magnificent mid-century apartment today.

Gossip Girl may be a New Yorkset series that mostly takes place on the Upper East Side, but it detoured to Brooklyn with the Humphrey family. Located in Brooklyns DUMBO neighborhood, Dans (Penn Badgley) family loft requires a slight stretching of the imagination. Dan and Jenny (Taylor Momsen) reside in the three-bedroom unit with their father Rufus (Matthew Settle), a former musician and current gallery owner. While the spacious apartment wasnt as luxurious as Serena van der Woodsens (Blake Lively) or Blair Waldorfs (Leighton Meester) on the Upper East Side, its location and size did leave some viewers wondering if a divorced dad could afford it while taking care of two teenagers. But the Humphreys home mostly did make sense, given the success of their fathers former and present careers.

As a former writer for Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey brought some realism to 30 Rock and her character Liz Lemon. While the entertainment industry sitcom rolls out some of the most outrageous plot lines, Lizs apartment is one of the few elements that teeters on the edge of realism. Like many of the characters on this list, she lives on the Upper West Side, providing a realistic neighborhood for the comedy writer. But when Season 4 features Liz buying the unit above to her current place, thats when the line of the characters finances becomes a bit blurry.

Jerrys apartment in Seinfeld also teeters on the edge of realism. As a successful stand-up comedian, the reality of Jerry Seinfelds life behind the camera seemed to slip into the fictional world of Seinfeld. The character isnt quite starving-artist material, but even as a semi-famous comedian on-the-rise, performers at that level typically live in quainter spaces before making it big. Then again, if Kramer could live there, Jerry could definitely swing it.

New York City OB-GYN Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) lived in one of the most colorful sitcom apartments in television history. And as colorful as Mindys apartment was matches its lack of realism. The one-bedroom apartment in a Manhattan Brownstone has both a walk-in closet and a staircase that leads to another unit. Kaling knowingly created an unrealistic bachelorette pad, and provides cheeky quips about the unreasonable NYC housing market early on in the series. By further introducing the apartments of other characters, including Danny Castellano (Chris Messina) and Jody Kimball-Kinney (Garret Dillahunt), the rom-com sitcom provides a picture-perfect world of expansive and well-decorated lower-Manhattan homes.

Yes, rent-controlled apartments are the caveat to some of these units, but Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) seems unable to make his monthly payments at the Arconia. The amateur detective (and retired theater director) has lived on the Upper West Side for decades; however, hes positioned himself as a bit of a late-stage struggling artist. The theater director has failed to helm a successful production, despite repeatedly receiving investments from his neighbors, including Teddy Dimas (Nathan Lane). While Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) starred on a successful network TV show and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) resides in her late Aunts home, Olivers place in the Arconia is constantly put up for questioning even facilitating a possible criminal motive in Season 2.

Ted Mosby (Josh Randor) is an architect-turned-professor who lives on the Upper West Side for the duration of the How I Met Your Mother series run. Teds apartment has a rotating door, with the main characters, Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), and Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) consistently occupying the two-bedroom unit. With roommates, Ted could possibly swing the rent, but given his roommates rocky employment histories, it doesnt seem as likely. Teds apartment was large enough to house a telephone booth, entertain a fencing duel and to host many, many parties. How I Met Your Mother fueled young 20-somethings moving to the big city with very unrealistic expectations for what their first apartment might look like but the latest spin-off How I Met Your Father definitely nails the realistic aspect of NYC living.

Fans and savvy NYC residents have long refuted the plausibility of Carrie Bradshaws (Sarah Jessica Parker) Upper East Side apartment. As one of the only characters to actually name the price of her rent (around $700), its extremely unlikely shed have found a space to live alone in that neighborhood for that price, even when considering rent-controlled opportunities.

Venturing back to Brooklyn, Hannah Horvaths (Lena Dunham) two-bedroom apartment in Greenpoint, which she shares with Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams),stands as another writer living in a completely unrealistic apartment given the location, era and character. Hannah is very open about her finances and is willing to admit when she hits financial struggles which makes Hannahs fictional Brooklyn fantasy utopia is just that: a fantasy. Contradicting the fantasy of Hannah and Marnies shared apartment, Marnies Chinatown stbox studio poses as the most realistic home on the HBO series.

Yes, technically, Monica Geller (Courtney Cox) from Friends inherited her iconic, rent-controlled apartment from her grandmother but even so, the unit stands as one of the most famous unrealistic homes across film and TV. Monica was a line cook, then unemployed, then founder of a short-lived catering company, and eventually a chef. But she still managed to live comfortably in a massive NYC apartment in a trendy downtown neighborhood. The Greenwich Village space boasts two large bedrooms and a huge living room and joint kitchen; who watched Friends and didnt dream of jumping onto Monicas lease?

Although the cult-comedy Search Party is a satire, the absurdity of the show doesnt stop with the characters or the storylines and of course extends into the main characters homes. More specifically, unemployed scam artist Elliott Goss (John Early) who lives in Brooklyn near his old college friends Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat), Portia Davenport (Meredith Hagner) and Drew Gardner (John Reynolds). Even while professing that he doesnt enjoy working, Elliott has a number of on-again, off-again jobs through the series five seasons. He begins Search Party as the founder of a charity called Water Bottles for Africa, then he receives a book deal, then he becomes a right-wing news pundit but hes never able to stay with this gigs and actually build a career. Therefore, spending frivolously with no consistent paychecks and living in an enormous Brooklyn apartment with a staircase and enough room for Portia, Drew or Dory to stay over as-needed is one of the least plausible housing scenarios in television today.

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BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Line Cinemas Dont Worry Darling, the highly anticipated second feature from director Olivia Wilde, is set to make its out-of-competition world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, running from 31 August to 10 September, 2022. The announcement was made today by Alberto Barbera, Director of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.

In tandem with the announcement, Wildewho will attend the Festival, along with co-stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan and Chris Pinestated, I am honored and thrilled that Dont Worry Darling will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. When we dreamed of making this movie, we imagined Venice as our ultimate goal, and we can hardly believe its really happening! From our cast led by the formidable Florence Pugh and Harry Stylesto the design of this world and the kinetic cinematography, the film was crafted for viewing in the collective setting of the theatrical experience. For this first screening to take place in the jewel-like surroundings of the Venice Lido and in the presence of some of international cinemas most accomplished artists is beyond exciting. I look forward to sharing the visceral ride of Dont Worry Darling with the world, beginning with the Venice Film Festival, and I wish to thank Alberto Barbera and the Biennale for the selection. This is truly a dream come true.

The Venice International Film Festival is officially recognized by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association). The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.

From New Line Cinema comes Dont Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde (Booksmart) and starring Florence Pugh (Oscar-nominated for Little Women), Harry Styles (Dunkirk), Wilde (upcoming Babylon), Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians), KiKi Layne (The Old Guard) and Chris Pine (All the Old Knives).

Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950s societal optimism espoused by their CEO, Frank (Pine)equal parts corporate visionary and motivational life coachanchors every aspect of daily life in the tight-knit desert utopia.

While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, working on the development of progressive materials, their wivesincluding Franks elegant partner, Shelley (Chan)get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every residents needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause.

But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive faade, Alice cant help questioning exactly what theyre doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is Alice willing to lose to expose whats really going on in this paradise?

An audacious, twisted and visually stunning psychological thriller, Dont Worry Darling is a powerhouse feature from director Olivia Wilde that boasts bold performances from Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, surrounded by the impressive and pitch-perfect cast.

The film also stars Nick Kroll (How It Ends), Sydney Chandler (Pistol), Kate Berlant (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood), Asif Ali (WandaVision), Douglas Smith (Big Little Lies), Timothy Simons (Veep) and Ariel Stachel (Respect the Jux).

Wilde directs from a screenplay penned by her Booksmart writer Katie Silberman, based on a story by Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke (Chernobyl Diaries) and Silberman. The film is produced by Wilde, Silberman, Miri Yoon and Roy Lee, with Richard Brener, Celia Khong, Alex G. Scott, Catherine Hardwicke, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke executive producing.

Wilde is joined behind the camera by two-time Oscar-nominated director of photography Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born, Black Swan), production designer Katie Byron (Booksmart), editor Affonso Gonalves (The Lost Daughter), Oscar-nominated composer John Powell (Jason Bourne), music supervisor Randall Poster (No Time to Die) and costume designer Arianne Phillips (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood).

A New Line Cinema presentation, Dont Worry Darling will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and is set to open in theaters internationally beginning 21 September 2022 and in North America on September 23, 2022.

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Spider-Man was a superhero that Andrew Garfield once dreamed about being. But when he was finally able to play the character, it wasnt what he imagined it would be.

Garfield was already fairly well-known in the entertainment industry before Spider-Man. His role in David Finchers The Social Network helped further propel him into Hollywoods spotlight. But it was his turn as Spider-Man in the titular film The Amazing Spider-Man that helped catapult Garfields superstar status.

It was a character Garfield had his eye on since he was still an aspiring actor. But after obtaining his dream role, the Oscar-nominated actor was introduced to the darker side of fame. And it was a side-effect of his newfound celebrity that he wasnt prepared for.

It was a character that I wanted to play my whole life and not one part of me was indifferent but I got incredibly uncomfortable with the attention that just came with that job. It was nothing to do with me, it was to do with this idea of celebrity, he once said in an interview with Vulture.

It didnt help that, at the time, Garfield was still in the process of figuring out who he was as a person.

Its like, Oh, f***, my life is now great! But in fact, Im still f***** up in my own ways, and insecure, and scared, and dont really know who I am. Celebrity is the new religion, as far as I can see, along with money, power, status. Its all the same umbrella the seductive forces of evil, really, he said.

When Garfield first heard the news that hed be cast as the iconic superhero, he was more than enthused. But that level of enthusiasm waned a bit when he realized he wasnt actually going to be Spider-Man.

When I found out about being cast in Spider-Man, it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, Well, Im just an actor. I dont get to actually be Spider-Man. But maybe Ill have moments where Im convinced that I am and those periods of fantasy will get me through, he once confided on Interview Magazine.

Apart from that, Garfield also began to miss the simpler times of being an actor after his popularity skyrocketed thanks to Spider-Man.

[I liked] struggling auditioning and getting turned down and wondering if Im ever going to get another job. To achieve what you set out to achieve and realise its not what you want, its disappointing, Garfield once told Radio Times (via Contact Music).

Garfield assumed that roles like Spider-Man would have him set for life, living in his own utopia.

But you never get to utopia. The dream has become reality, he added.

Garfield was eventually replaced as Spider-Man by Tom Holland, who made his debut as the superhero in 2016s Captain America Civil War. There were a few conflicting reports about Garfield leaving the franchise, including the speculation that he intentionally self-sabotaged his role. In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, although he didnt give a definitive answer, Garfield did offer his perspective on the matter.

What Ill proudly say is that I didnt compromise who I was, I was only ever myself. And that might have been difficult for some people, he said.

Garfield also touched on what his original vision for his Spider-Man film was. But it was a vision that might have gone against the studios.

I thought, if I can infuse all this ancient knowledge and wisdom into [Spider-Man], it could be profoundly affecting for young people in the audience. That was always my intention and what I tried to do, he continued. I was 25 and I was naive not because of that, but because I was naive to the whole process of making one of those big-budget films.

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The first two weeks of Big Brother 24 were brutal to watch. Many viewers accused the houseguests of unfairly targeting Taylor Hale based on her race and gender. And a lot of the behavior could be traced back to Paloma Aguilar declaring her dislike of Taylor on night one of Big Brother 24. Now that she is out of the house, fans want Paloma to own up to her controversial actions.

The moment that Paloma saw Taylor in the Big Brother 24 house, she didnt like her. She partnered up with Alyssa Snider, and they routinely made fun of Taylors pageant past. They also determined that she wasnt a girls girl, so they preached women empowerment while trying to target a woman.

After Paloma started spreading lies about Taylor, the hatred for her grew. Many claimed that Taylor would explode once put on the block and that she was aggressive, so they needed to get her out. However, Taylor never showed such behavior.

Microaggressions ran rampant throughout the Big Brother house, and many fans criticized Paloma for starting the Taylor hate. But during the first week, Palomas mental health took a hit, and she pulled herself from the game. Now, she has to address the allegations of racism fans have thrown her way.

On July 26, Paloma made an Instagram post where she discussed her experiences in the Big Brother 24 house. It contained photos of the cast and videos of her in the game. It also originally included a meme that read, My face when I realized Ive been labeled a racist and vilified after leaving the BB house. Paloma deleted it from the post, but you can find it on Twitter.

Palomas Instagram caption reads:

Nothing but love for this beautiful cast. I genuinely have come out of this experience with only good things to say about each individual; aside from any game play that was talked. It is such a shame how social media tries to tear a person down through cancel culture because of the way things were being portrayed to fit a narrative for good TV. People see it as the ultimate truth of reality when in actuality everything is cut to fit the narrative they want, even the live feeds cut from room to room when things are said that can jeopardize the storyline their going with. (studied at Berkeley MediaST10). I left because of an ongoing mental health battle I faced which began once inside the walls of an idealistic utopia of a reality set. A reality that was far from the reality of my San Diego life. I became so quickly obsessed with the game I forgot how to take care of myself. FOMO consumed my every move. I would get 2-4 hours of sleep at night no normal human could function off of (sleeping hours are 10pm-10am but everyone keeps each other up gaming), I did not see the sun for 5 days so I began to loose touch with reality, theres no windows, and 100 cameras working 24/7 even when youre sleeping ate me alive. No one understands the psychological challenge of reality television unless you have first hand EXPERIENCED it. Mental health is something I believe I must stand up for with my platform because it is so stigmatized and belittled in a world where the majority of us face something mental health related in secrecy. I will be addressing more of my time in the house little by little but I want to thank everyone for their love and support during an extremely hard time.

Since Paloma deflected the criticism of her behavior in Big Brother 24, fans continue to condemn her.

In one Reddit post, a fan wrote, Seems like she didnt learn a lot. I wish her well with her recovery, though. It would probably be better for her mental health to stay off social media for a bit Also not sure what else she plans on revealing little by little considering she was in the house for 20 minutes.

Another person added, I wish her well, but I was hoping she would take more accountability. They cant edit things in that she hasnt done.

Shes legit gaslighting the public, one Reddit user said. The edit on the show painted her in a very sympathetic way too.

A different fan commented, She cant even explain the things she said that the feeds DID show. Girl is in some serious denial.

New episodes of Big Brother 24 airs Sundays and Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET and Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.

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