I am impressed by this. Not by their climbing or bypassing security. But to be such a specific kind of crazy, that requires not just bravado but also great skill, and to find someone exactly as crazy, as skilful, as willing, who even happens to look like you and to have them be in love with you... few people will ever be so lucky, few people will ever live life so fully. To be lucky to find this, you don't need to live 80 or 90 years. They have already lived a hundred lives.
Karl-Anthony Towns talks about feeling the presence of his late mother and the support he's gotten from his fiancé, Jordyn Woods:
"Her presence is always felt in my life. You always pray you're going to pick the right woman for you and I know I did in my fiancé. I damn sure know now with that bag, that bag held it down. Shout-out to Woods by Jordyn.
It's crazy, when she passed, there was so much turmoil in my life. Funny enough, my fiancé was the one, who was a friend at the time, was the only person I got to call before I had to go out there and say bye to her at the hospital. Me and her have a real bond that goes deeper than just physical features and everything like that. We've got a true friendship that was built from the ground up.
I remember just always asking her if this was going to be my last time seeing her in the physical, let me feel her spirit at all times. In moments of true pressure and a lot of things going on, I always feel this calming come to me and it's always her. It's just great to always feel her arms around me and always to feel her love in my life, in so many different ways.
It's a testament. I haven't felt love from a woman like that until I met my fiancé. It really means a lot that, in a way - without sounding weird - Jackie Jr. was able to be here celebrating this moment with me.
It's amazing. It's truly a humbling feeling when you know you have walked the path. I stayed faithful. In every decision that I was supposed to make, I made the right one. Feels good to be at this moment."
The biggest scam in Msian cafe culture today (apart from really terrible coffee beans) is the big breakfast. Cafes like Lisette and Kenny Hills selling toast, eggs, beans, mushrooms for RM40. I don't know if they're delusional or Msians have no sense of value. Like, wtf?
Freddie Mercury was worth $50 million when he died at 45. His will is the most revealing document in rock history.
Mary Austin got 50% of everything. His ex-fiancée. He proposed to her in 1973. Told her he was gay in 1976. She said, "I think you're gay." They broke up. They never stopped being the most important person in each other's lives.
She got Garden Lodge, a Kensington mansion now valued at $38 million. She got 50% of all future Queen royalties. After Freddie's parents died, her share rose to 75%.
Jim Hutton, Freddie's boyfriend of seven years who held his hand as he died, received £500,000. A fixed sum. His chef got £500,000. His personal assistant got £500,000. His driver got £100,000.
The royalty math is where this gets wild. Queen generates roughly $50 million per year. The Bohemian Rhapsody biopic grossed $910 million and tripled their streaming catalog overnight. The catalog sold for $1.27 billion in 2024. Mary Austin's 75% cut of the royalty stream has been compounding for 35 years.
She auctioned 1,400 of his belongings at Sotheby's in 2023. Expected haul: £6 million. Actual haul: £40 million. The piano he composed Bohemian Rhapsody on sold for £1.7 million alone. His sister Kashmira spent an estimated £3 million at that auction buying back family items.
Before he died, Freddie told people that all his lovers had asked why they couldn't replace Mary. His answer was that she was irreplaceable, the only real friend he had, and nobody else came close.
The men in that photo got the nights. Mary Austin got the estate, the royalties, the mansion, and the century.
Javier Bardem calls his wife Penélope Cruz “amazingly f*cking beautiful”: “When I see her being photographed in magazines, I go, ‘Is that my wife? Jesus, is it? It must be!’”
"She’s a woman I’m so blessed by having had the chance to be at the same time, in the same place, in life. It’s important that you respect and support your partner, but also that you admire that person for what she is, for what she does. Penélope is an amazing, beautiful, good human being — the way she relates to her family, to her friends, to our kids, to me, to herself. It’s been a lot of years, and I haven’t seen a hint of malice in her."
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