AMC Theaters and Regal are bringing two Dolly Parton films back to the big screen for limited screenings honoring the country music icon.
Parton died Tuesday at age 80.
AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron announced Thursday that approximately 200 <a href="https://x.com/AMCTheatres/status/2093066938461151607">AMC locations</a> would offer showtimes for 1989&#8217;s &#8220;Steel Magnolias&#8221; and the 1982 musical comedy, &#8220;The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,&#8221; from Friday through Wednesday.
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To honor the one and only Dolly Parton. AMC will bring back two of her movies to about 200 of our theatres. Tomorrow through Wednesday.
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989): 
the acclaimed comedy-drama starring Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis and…
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&#8220;To honor the one and only Dolly Parton. AMC will bring back two of her movies to about 200 of our theatres,&#8221; Aron wrote.
Aron described &#8220;Steel Magnolias&#8221; as &#8220;the acclaimed comedy-drama starring Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis and Daryl Hannah.&#8221; He called &#8220;The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas&#8221; a &#8220;hit musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.&#8221;
Regal Movies offered a <a href="https://x.com/RegalMovies/status/2093108753193169398">similar tribute</a> exclusively in Parton&#8217;s home state of Tennessee and, soon after, took it a step further by adding that all proceeds from the screenings would go to Parton&#8217;s Imagination Library.
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This weekend, witness some of Dolly’s greatest moments on the big screen. Regal is remembering Dolly Parton’s legendary career with a tribute screening of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Steel Magnolias exclusively in Dolly’s home state of Tennessee. Tickets are $9.25, and… <a href="https://t.co/7xpq9gT9i4">pic.twitter.com/7xpq9gT9i4</a>
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&#8220;This weekend, witness some of Dolly’s greatest moments on the big screen,&#8221; the theater chain wrote. &#8220;Tickets are $9.25, and all proceeds will go to the Imagination Library via the Regal Foundation.&#8221;
Parton said in a Rolling Stone <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-dolly-parton-235443/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that once she was cast in &#8220;The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas&#8221; and realized she&#8217;d be playing opposite Burt Reynolds, she pushed for more romantic emphasis between the characters.
&#8220;When they started askin’ for suggestions, I said I would like to see more of a romance. Wouldn’t you feel like you wasted five dollars if you paid to see &#8216;Wh0rehouse&#8217; and you didn’t see me and Burt kiss? I was makin’ a joke, and I stuck to it. I’m not going to miss my chance to kiss Burt Reynolds,&#8221; she said.

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Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter doubled down on his decision to bar Enes Kanter Freedom from future WNBA games at Wintrust Arena, claiming the former NBA player was no more entitled to a warning than someone who would &#8220;shoot a gun at someone.&#8221;
Alter told OutKick that Freedom had been identified as a threat when he stood up and approached the court, hands raised — at Sunday&#8217;s game featuring the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky — in response to comments shouted at him by Sky guard Natasha Cloud. He went on to suggest that Freedom had not been given a &#8220;warning&#8221; before he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enes-kanter-freedom-banned-from-chicago-sky-home-games-as-potential-threat">ejected from the game</a> because the threat he represented was so serious.
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Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter says Enes Kanter Freedom became a “potential threat” when he stepped toward the court, defending the decision to eject him without warning.
Asked why Freedom wasn’t warned first, Alter compared it to shooting a gun: “Certain threats don’t get… <a href="https://t.co/95l3PP8Iir">pic.twitter.com/95l3PP8Iir</a>
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&#8220;He wasn’t given a warning because certain threats don’t get warnings. He was given a lot of leeway, as I was saying, he was sitting there and he was trash talking her and all that, so he was certainly given leeway, but at a certain point, when somebody — I mean, to use an extreme example, when you shoot a gun at someone, you don’t get a warning, ‘Don’t do that again.’ Your action doesn’t deserve a warning. You take action that becomes a threat, you don’t get a warning,&#8221; Alter said.
Freedom responded to the wild comparison, saying of Alter, &#8220;I mean, he needs to check himself.&#8221;
The former NBA player — who has declared for the 2027 WNBA draft based on the league&#8217;s vague guidelines regarding gender identification — said he may pursue legal action against the team and its owner.
&#8220;I’m not talking about against the WNBA, but I think against Michael Alter and the Chicago Sky for sure. Like, I don’t think they know what they’re talking about,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Me and my legal team will definitely be taking actions against Chicago Sky and Michael Alter.&#8221;
Freedom said he was at the game to support Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham, whom he calls a friend, who has been the target of harassment since she went public with her support for biological women and girls in athletics.

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CNN had to apologize to the family of the late country music icon Dolly Parton after accidentally using a photo of a Las Vegas tribute artist in a report on her death.
&#8220;We regret the error and apologize to the Parton family,&#8221; the network told <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/media/cnn-apologizes-to-dolly-partons-family-for-using-photo-of-las-vegas-impersonator-in-coverage-of-icons-death/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">the New York Post</a> on Thursday.
The photo featured Parton impersonator Kelly Vohnn, and aired during &#8220;Laura Coates Live,&#8221; hours after the country legend&#8217;s death had been confirmed by her family.
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Vohnn learned of the mistake shortly after the photo aired, telling The Post that her phone began blowing up with people telling her that they&#8217;d just seen her on CNN: &#8220;I started getting all these texts in from friends saying that I was on CNN, and I couldn’t believe it &#8230; I was already heartbroken at losing Dolly because of how much she has given to me as a woman and an artist.&#8221;
&#8220;But then to see these images of me on screen was just weird. Somebody at CNN really messed up and didn’t do their research,&#8221; Vohnn added. &#8220;I felt so sorry and apologetic for Dolly, because over her career there are so many wonderful images and moments that they could have chosen from — and CNN just picked something not appropriate. To be clear, I have never represented myself as being Dolly ever in my life. I have always been known as a tribute act for her and many other stars. It was quite embarrassing, to be honest.&#8221;
Vohnn told The Post that she had considered reaching out to CNN herself to address the mistake, but that she&#8217;d been so upset by the news of the icon&#8217;s passing that she hadn&#8217;t done so: &#8220;I thought about calling CNN, but was really consumed by the grief of losing Dolly [and] I just wanted to be at home with my thoughts, raising a glass of wine to that brilliant woman.&#8221;
Parton passed away after a brief battle with cancer, leaving behind a legacy of music and philanthropy that touched millions around the world. She was 80 years old.

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Actor Mandy Patinkin, whose role in the cult classic film &#8220;The Princess Bride&#8221; made him a household name, is taking on a new role ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California: honorary Team Captain for USA Fencing.
“When Mandy and I first spoke, what struck me wasn’t the movie, though we got there eventually,” Phil Andrews, CEO of USA Fencing, explained. “It was how deeply he understood what this sport gives people: discipline, confidence, a community and a lifetime of joy. We could not ask for a better honorary Team Captain to lead our fencers, and our sport, into a home Games in Los Angeles.&#8221;
After being named as the organization&#8217;s <a href="https://variety.com/2026/sports/news/mandy-patinkin-usa-fencing-princess-bride-team-captain-1236841653/">first-ever honorary team captain</a>, Patinkin said, &#8220;Fencing is a true craft, a genuine art form, a thrilling discipline. It requires every cell of your mind and body, but particularly your mind. It’s a form of meditation. It’s not just your physical abilities that count, and they certainly do, but I think the real fun is to get inside the other person’s mind and being, and know when and where they’re going to move before your opponent even knows it.&#8221;
And while acting might be Patinkin&#8217;s primary job, his fencing skills are legitimate.
Patinkin and his costar Cary Elwes — for their respective roles as Spanish swordsman Inigo Montoya and Westley the farm boy/The Man in Black — trained for months under Yale fencing coach Henry Harutunian, stunt coordinator and fencer Peter Diamond, and British Olympic fencer Bob Anderson so that they could deliver the film&#8217;s iconic fencing scene without the use of stand-ins or stunt doubles. Both Patinkin and Elwes spent eight to 10 hours a day training as they learned to fence both right-handed and left-handed.
In 2022, Patinkin recalled the scene with fondness. He said that when director Rob Reiner had given the inevitable direction to &#8220;cut, and print,&#8221; he&#8217;d been devastated because he knew that it was over. &#8220;I&#8217;m such a f*ckin crybaby,&#8221; he laughed, choking up as he remembered how he&#8217;d felt in the moment.

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Legendary songstress Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times — from two different presidents.
Parton, who passed away on Tuesday after a brief battle with an unspecified type of cancer, had the award offered to her twice during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term and a third time during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration. All three times, she respectfully declined the honor.
After Biden offered her the award, the country legend explained why she turned down the honor during a 2021 appearance on &#8220;The TODAY Show,&#8221; telling hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that she&#8217;d ultimately been offered three times.
&#8220;To be honest — in all fairness — I got offered the Freedom Award from the Trump administration,&#8221; Parton revealed. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t accept it because my husband was ill. Then they asked me again about it, and I wouldn&#8217;t travel because of the COVID.&#8221;
&#8220;So now I feel like if I take it I&#8217;ll be doing politics, so I don&#8217;t — I&#8217;m not sure,&#8221; Parton added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t work for those awards. It&#8217;d be nice, but I&#8217;m not sure that I — you know — that I even deserve it, but it&#8217;s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.&#8221;
Kotb pushed back, saying she believed &#8220;everybody thinks you might deserve it.&#8221;
Parton always <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/08/26/dolly-parton-awards-presidential-medal-of-freedom/91471344007/">eschewed politics</a>, saying that she certainly had her opinions but chose to keep them to herself because she valued both her privacy and her fans.
&#8220;First of all, I have as many Republican fans as I do Democrats. I don&#8217;t want to offend anybody, I have a right to myself,&#8221; she said.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom was not the only honor she turned down. Also in 2021, Tennessee lawmakers were considering a bill to have a statue of her placed on the Capitol grounds — and she reached out to them, asking that the bill be removed from consideration.
&#8220;[I don&#8217;t] think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time,&#8221; Parton said. &#8220;I hope, though, that somewhere down the road several years from now or perhaps after I&#8217;m gone if you still feel I deserve it, then I&#8217;m certain I will stand proud in our great State Capitol as a grateful Tennessean.&#8221;
She also asked to have her name removed from the 2022 list of nominees to the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, saying that she had not &#8220;earned&#8221; the right to be added. The organization declined to remove her, however, and she was inducted anyway.
&#8220;I feel honored that all the people that voted for me did,&#8221; Parton told <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/dolly-parton-rock-roll-hall-fame-interview-1235066988/">Billboard</a> after she was inducted. &#8220;I never meant to cause trouble or stir up any controversy.&#8221;
Trump honored the late singer by having the flags lowered to half-staff for a week following her passing.
&#8220;There has never been anyone like her, and never will,&#8221; Trump said.

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Bryan Kohberger will return to court next summer as he tries to undo the guilty plea that sent him to prison for life for murdering four University of Idaho students.
Judge Steven Hippler, who accepted Kohberger&#8217;s guilty plea and later sentenced him, scheduled a status conference for June 3, 2027, as the court considers Kohberger&#8217;s petition for post-conviction relief. The court also reserved June 17 for an evidentiary hearing.
Kohberger, 31, is currently serving four life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 2022 murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, in addition to 10 years for breaking into the home.
But one year after admitting in court that he killed the four students, Kohberger reversed course and claimed he was innocent, arguing in a handwritten petition that ineffective assistance from his attorneys led him to falsely confess.
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<a href="https://people.com/bryan-kohbeger-signed-confession-revealed-following-guilty-plea-idaho-murders-11768607">Kohberger</a> claimed that he&#8217;d had &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel” from court-appointed attorney Anne Taylor — who is one of only a few Idaho litigators approved to represent defendants in death penalty cases.
Kohberger claimed that he had not entered his guilty plea &#8220;knowingly or voluntarily because [it] was induced by unkept promises&#8221; and &#8220;because of threats asserted by [his] legal counsel.&#8221; It is unclear what those &#8220;threats&#8221; might have been. In addition, ABC News reported that Kohberger said there was some information withheld prior to his plea agreement that could have helped him.
The prosecution has filed a response to Kohberger&#8217;s petition as well as a motion to dismiss it in its entirety, but Kohberger&#8217;s attorneys have not yet responded.
Kohberger entered his guilty plea on July 2, 2025, just weeks before his trial was supposed to begin — and signed a written factual basis document one day prior in which he took full responsibility for the murders and said that the crimes he&#8217;d committed were &#8220;willful, unlawful, deliberate, with premeditation, and with malice aforethought.&#8221;

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More than 50 Americans are among the missing after deadly flash floods swept through several areas along the border between Nepal and China.
The flood was <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/world-news/flood-hits-china-nepal-border-leaving-many-dead-and-missing/">reportedly triggered</a> when a wall of rock and mud collapsed into a river near the border between Nepal and China-controlled Tibet. Police in Nepal have already reported at least 157 dead on the Himalayan side — according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-flash-floods-7262dac22e31258955efa5c28c8fe917">report</a> from the Associated Press — and over 300 are still missing, including 54 American tourists.
Nepal’s foreign minister Shisir Khanal said on Wednesday that the landslide and subsequent flooding had been triggered by an earthquake — one the United States Geological Survey had identified in the region around the time the flooding began — but the USGS later confirmed that the rock wall collapsing had actually been what instruments had recorded as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an extensive search to find the 265 people that state media has confirmed are still missing.
So far, more than 391 foreign nationals have been reported missing since the flooding began — the majority of them tourists. According to Nepal&#8217;s tourism board, 54 hail from the United States; 142 are from India on pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet; 34 are from Australia; 33 traveled from the United Kingdom; and 24 are Canadian.
The U.S. Embassy has instructed all remaining American tourists in the region to seek out higher ground and listen for alerts and instructions from local officials: &#8220;We extend our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this disaster.&#8221;
Flash floods in Trishuli Bazar, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, destroyed dozens of homes and left more either partially or fully submerged beneath the mud and debris.
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Videos circulated across social media showing the devastation in a number of small villages.
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More and more moms are getting diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) alongside their children, saying that when they saw what their kids were going through, something just clicked.
The New York Post shared the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/25/health/moms-are-being-diagnosed-with-adhd-because-of-their-kids/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter">story</a> of one woman, Cassie Blakely, who was diagnosed at 37 — all because she recognized things from her own childhood as her daughters went through the process of getting answers for themselves: &#8220;I realized through them &#8230; watching both of my daughters struggle kind of felt like my own childhood was being repeated in front of me.&#8221;
Blakely is one of many adults living with ADHD — which is officially classified as a <a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd">neurodevelopmental condition</a> that can change how the brain is able to regulate things like focus, attention, impulse control, and physical activity — and the number of adult diagnoses has grown dramatically in recent years, nearly doubling between 2018 and 2023 to over 15 million.
So why the explosion in diagnoses? Many of the adults being diagnosed in recent years grew up in the 1980s and 1990s — when such diagnoses were relatively scarce, particularly among women. In the 1980s, approximately one child in 20 was diagnosed with the condition — but current numbers are closer to one in nine.
The major factors driving increased diagnoses among children include greater awareness of the condition itself, better diagnostic tools, and a broader range of indicators that can trigger further examination.
For example, in the 1980s, the typical ADHD case was most likely a boy who routinely displayed behavior that was disruptive enough to land him in the principal&#8217;s office at school.
But because girls with ADHD typically present with different symptoms — they&#8217;re often inattentive rather than disruptive — they were simply labeled as &#8220;lazy.&#8221; Teachers and parents would lament that the girls were smart, but still somehow failing to live up to their obvious potential. Girls who were dismissed as daydreamers or space cadets were struggling internally with other ADHD symptoms like executive dysfunction — meaning that they could fully understand how to execute a task but feel paralyzed when it came to either starting the task or seeing it through to completion.
<a href="https://www.calgaryadhd.com/post/why-your-adhd-was-missed-in-the-80s-it-wasn-t-just-neglect">Diagnoses were also missed</a> in part because the parenting landscape was very different in the 1980s and 1990s. The Baby Boomers were raising children during those decades, and most of them had been raised by World War II veterans and survivors of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, meaning that they had all been taught to tough things out — and expected the same from their own children.
Inattentiveness or daydreaming — which today might be flagged as a sign of executive dysfunction — was written off as laziness. Physically acting out was often, at least at first, attributed to a lack of discipline or respect.
Children were different in those decades as well — raised primarily without technology, they were often expected to entertain themselves and encouraged to solve their own problems. Many found ways to mask their ADHD symptoms, either by becoming perfectionists or by procrastinating and relying on adrenaline surges to help them get things done at the last minute.
So what is the <a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/03/adult-adhd-diagnosis">benefit</a> of getting a diagnosis years later? Many of the children who slipped through the diagnostic cracks in the 1980s and 1990s grew up feeling like they had done something wrong. After years of being called &#8220;lazy&#8221; or being told that they just needed to work harder, they can finally get some answers that explain why their brains did not function the same way other kids&#8217; brains did.

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Legendary actor Tim Curry died late Tuesday night after suffering from several health issues over the last decade. He was 80 years old.
Entertainment site TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/">reported</a> that Curry passed away at his Los Angeles home. Police arrived on the scene just before midnight. The outlet also reported that foul play is not suspected in the actor&#8217;s death. The British-born actor had been dealing with a series of health complications since suffering a stroke in 2012.
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“Tim Curry, the iconic actor and entertainer globally beloved for his dynamic contributions to the stage and screen, passed away peacefully at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, on Aug. 25, 2026, confirmed by his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz,” a rep for the actor <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead-rocky-horror-picture-show/91474037007/">confirmed</a> to USA Today.
“Though widely known for his inimitable, flamboyant characters and colorful stage performances, his greatest legacies to those who knew him were his curious, expansive mind and generous, gentle heart, both of which remained open and filled with anticipation until his final breath.”
<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/us-news/tim-curry-dead-at-80-after-legendary-film-career/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">Curry</a>, whose last appearance was in the 2024 slasher film &#8220;Stream,&#8221; got his first acting credit in 1968 but became a household name after his turns in cult classics like &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; (1975) and &#8220;Clue&#8221; (1985). He went on to terrify a whole generation of children with his performance as Pennywise the clown in the adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;It.&#8221;
His acting career spanned almost 60 years, including voice roles in two projects that had not yet been released at the time of his death.
The character actor <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_cst_t_9">worked consistently</a> over the years, taking numerous guest roles in popular serial shows like &#8220;Criminal Minds,&#8221; &#8220;Monk,&#8221; &#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; &#8220;Will &amp; Grace,&#8221; and &#8220;Psych&#8221; — and dozens of movies, from the &#8220;Scary Movie&#8221; franchise to &#8220;Muppet Treasure Island.&#8221; His voice was heard across generations in dozens of animated series like Disney Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Phineas and Ferb&#8221; and Nickelodeon&#8217;s &#8220;The Wild Thornberrys.&#8221;
On Broadway, Curry was nominated for three Tony Awards: &#8220;Amadeus” in 1981, “My Favorite Year” in 1993, and “Spamalot” in 2005.

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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has been banned from future Chicago Sky home games after a confrontation with guard Natasha Cloud led to his ejection from Sunday&#8217;s game.
Sky owner Michael Alter told local reporters on Tuesday that Freedom would not be allowed to attend the team&#8217;s games at Chicago&#8217;s Wintrust Arena unless he was first &#8220;able to prove to our satisfaction that he is able to abide by our rules without being a potential threat.&#8221;
&#8220;He has demonstrated to us, unequivocally, that he has the potential to be a threat,&#8221; Alter said.
&#8220;The fact that we&#8217;re having this conversation to me is just really sad,&#8221; Alter continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame that we&#8217;re spending as much time as we are on this and not the wonderful things that are happening in our league — or even some of the not-so-wonderful things, like the Sky not making the playoffs for the third year in a row. I&#8217;m sure those are the things we should be talking about.&#8221;
Alter accused Freedom of attending the game to provoke a reaction and attract attention.
&#8220;It was pretty clear to us that his purpose of coming here was trying to be provocative, to see how much attention he could get and stir up,&#8221; Alter said.
Alter <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky/2026/08/25/sky-ban-enes-kanter-freedom-from-games-according-to-principal-owner-michael-alter">added</a> that he interviewed people seated near Freedom who told him that Freedom initiated the exchange by directing basketball-related trash talk at Cloud.
Freedom, who attended the game wearing a shirt reading &#8220;WOMAN. Noun. Adult human female,&#8221; claimed that he&#8217;d attended the game to support Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham, who&#8217;s been the target of protests since she declared her stance on defending biological females and girls in athletics. Sunday&#8217;s confrontation came after he raised both arms in celebration of a Cunningham three-pointer.
He said that during the next possession, Cloud approached the baseline where he was seated and shouted at him, saying that Cunningham was never going to sleep with him. Freedom, who said that Cunningham is just a friend, stood up and stepped toward the court — but a number of players and officials stepped between him and Cloud, and he was escorted from the arena before things could escalate further.
After a brief conversation with security, Freedom left the venue.

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Legendary country star Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but she made a prediction more than four decades earlier about which one of her famous &#8220;Dolly-isms&#8221; might show up on her tombstone.
In 1982, while filming &#8220;The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,&#8221; Parton coined a phrase that she would repeat on numerous occasions — so often, in fact, that she told <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/michael-hogan-d?srsltid=AfmBOorbIpVOaVLPIik29oUfXvLs2UDQaGIuGpzDWRvgO4xNcGwIi5GL">Vanity Fair</a> 26 years later that she expected to see it on her headstone one day.
The phrase in question? &#8220;It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.&#8221;
Parton made no secret over the years that she&#8217;d modeled her signature look after the town tramp — declaring during a number of interviews that she&#8217;d grown up in awe of this confident woman with &#8220;peroxide-blonde hair&#8221; who wore tight clothes and red lipstick. Her mother had told her at the time that the woman was &#8220;trash,&#8221; a &#8220;tramp&#8221; — but Parton said she&#8217;d known immediately that was what she wanted to be when she grew up.
&#8220;I kind of patterned myself after what they called the town tramp in my hometown, when I was little,&#8221; Parton explained to CBS anchor Julie Chen on &#8220;The Early Show&#8221; in 2006. &#8220;She left a big impression on me, and I would talk about how beautiful she was and different ones would say, ‘Oh, she’s just trash.’ And I thought, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up. I’m gonna be trash!’ And that is how I look.&#8221;
Parton also said her flashy outward look was an attempt to match her flashy personality.
But as flashy as she was, Parton never took herself too seriously — and routinely delivered self-deprecating quips about her flamboyant style and multiple cosmetic procedures.
&#8220;It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world,&#8221; she said more than once — and she told The Guardian in 2011, &#8220;If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I’ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it &#8230; It’s like what I always say: I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.&#8221;
When asked how she still looked so young, she quipped, &#8220;Well, good lighting, good doctors and good makeup.&#8221;
The country music icon was 80 years old.

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TikTok has banned a video — citing a &#8220;violation of Community Guidelines&#8221; — that challenges the narrative suggesting that Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
Very few people appear to have mixed feelings about the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy: most either believe that she&#8217;s guilty and knew exactly what she was doing, or that she was out of her mind due to postpartum psychosis and did not fully comprehend her own actions. But it&#8217;s the ones who have declared their support for Clancy — even taking to social media to claim that her husband was the guilty one — who were the target of the video in question.
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt laid out the case in a video posted across multiple platforms on Sunday, arguing that the wave of people defending Clancy were suffering from &#8220;mass psychosis&#8221; — and he traced its origins to well before the Clancy trial, tracing the origins instead to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rules that must be obeyed but never questioned.
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&#8220;Our institutions completely eviscerated their own reputation and dignity,&#8221; Pratt said, adding, &#8220;If you went paddleboarding, alone in the middle of the ocean, you needed to be arrested for killing Grandma. But of course, if you riot with 500,000 people, that&#8217;s totally fine, because viruses take a timeout when it comes to social justice.&#8221;
The constant bombardment of narratives that objectively did not make sense, Pratt said, did more than breed mistrust: they rewired the way people processed information — and even reality. Every tragedy started to look like a conspiracy — and people who fed on conspiracy quickly capitalized on that for profit.
He pointed to the &#8220;fans&#8221; who&#8217;d emerged when Luigi Mangione gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood — and then pivoted to address Clancy. In her case, he said, it was a mass hijacking of maternal instinct and unconditional love &#8220;reallocated towards whatever group the algorithm has designated as the vulnerable class.&#8221;
Instead of feeling empathy for the three small children who were strangled to death by their own mother — or for the father who came home with takeout for dinner and discovered his babies unresponsive and near death — the empathy was being directed solely toward the woman whose actions had been the source of that pain.
Popular movies and television shows had primed the population for the redirection of empathy, taking objectively awful characters — like a chemistry teacher who became a drug kingpin and destroyed his own family — and making them sympathetic.
Disney’s “Maleficent” held up a character who embodied evil for the sake of evil in the original “Sleeping Beauty” and portrayed her as the betrayed lover who only took the wrong path because she was in pain. “Wicked” turned the good-vs-evil narrative on its head. “Dexter” made a wide audience identify with a sociopathic serial killer. And those are just a few examples among thousands, all designed to qualify — and thus minimize — objective evil, making it more difficult to identify.
While that trend is certainly problematic, it’s also protected as free speech and free expression. The real problem arises when challenges to the narrative are censored — or, in the case of COVID, targeted as “misinformation.”
TikTok moved to do just that when the platform banned Pratt’s video — which also should have been protected as free speech and expression.
“Child-murderer supporters on TikTok are mass-reporting my video on the Clancy insanity. It&#8217;s wild to see the allergic reaction people have to truth. It&#8217;s like when a demon gets sprayed with holy water,” Pratt responded on Tuesday.

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