Jessie Bates still hasn’t had a bye this season and is now joining a Jaguars team that already had theirs.
If Bates suits up right away, there’s a scenario where he plays 18 games this season.
#Colts RB Jonathan Taylor gave a farewell to Indianapolis and Colts fans after today’s game, in case it was his last with the organization.
Don’t see this often.
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Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.
In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.
In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.
It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.
On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."
The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.
She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."
The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.
Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."
$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.
Every day, one star's real paycheck.
Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?
7 Weeks AFTER Cops Murdered Dillion, THEN they said he was a suspect in a murder. Convenient. This was outright murder. Of course Da handled the grand jury so there was none. Don’t worry, though, it’s just a few bad apples… And then the entire system covers for them. This Pig should’ve gone to prison.
THROWBACK: When in 2009, Michael Vick made his return to the #NFL with the Philadelphia #Eagles after spending nearly two years in federal prison.
Vick was given a second chance by Andy Reid and the Eagles after many believed his NFL career was over.
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Sean Taylor tried to take out Andre Johnson on the first play of the game. 🤣
Clinton Portis: “We go to Houston for a preseason game and Sean's talking to Dre, hey, Dre, how’s your mom? Oh, she’s good, she’s good. Hey, good to see you brother, good to see you. First play, the Texans always ran Dre on the dig route. He’s the master of the dig route.”
“I see Sean on the field. I see Dre, I’m like, oh, man, this the play they about to run the dig... and Dre come across the field, and I’m looking, I’m thinking, like, uh, I don’t think Sean that crazy. And I look at Sean like this, it seemed like it happened in slow motion.”
“I look at the quarterback, and I see the ball coming, and I’m like, no, he’s not gonna do it. He, I hope he’s not gonna do it.”
“Luckily the ball was, like, low, Dre dove for the ball, and Sean come across Dre head like Superman, and he knocked over the first down marker.”
“Dre rolled over and said, Sean, what the fuck you doing? And he get up and jog off the field. And I look at Santana, like, hey, that boy is crazy. Like, he really crazy, something wrong with him.”
“In the first play of the game, he tried to kill Dre, and it’s a preseason. I’m like, man, this boy is crazy. He’s special.”
Ladies, when you say it, you mean the bus is coming. When we say it, the bus is already here. 😂
Watch the full special, Joy in the Trenches, on Netflix.
Brazil 2016: An absolute must-watch.
Full wet tyres, extreme weather conditions and a grid full of F1 world champions.
And then there was teenager Max Verstappen, in his first season with Red Bull, putting on an absolute masterclass.
I went to VIP for free. No bottles, no bill, nothing. I was just there. And honestly, I was loving it.
Then the club told me someone had bought my table. As I was being walked out, I saw who it was. I've never been so embarrassed, happy, confused, and excited at the same time. 😂
Full episode with Michael Che on my YouTube. Link in bio.