Pretoria News Weekend 2021-11-13

Shonda Rhimes has written eight different endings to Grey’s Anatomy. The 51-year-old screenwriter has revealed that she’s been agonising about different endings to the long-running medical drama – but she’s struggled to really commit to any. She told Variety: “I’ve written the end of that series, I want to say, a good eight times. “I was like, ‘And that will be the end!’ Or, ‘That’ll be the final thing that’s ever said or done!’ And all of those things have already happened. So I give up on that, you know?” Shonda previously handed the show-running reins to screenwriter Krista Vernoff, meaning she might not actually be able to decide on the final scene. Krista, 50, recently revealed she has numerous ideas for the ending of Grey’s Anatomy. She told the…

When the lead singers of the rock band Linkin Park noticed the mosh pit in front of the stage was getting unruly, they instructed their bandmates to stop playing. “We got to look out for safety first, for real. Nobody gets hurt – that’s number one,” Mike Shinoda can be seen saying in a video shared on Twitter over the weekend. “We know we’ve been stressing all night about being cool, and this is the reason why,” the late Chester Bennington added. “Let’s go over it one more time: When someone falls, what do you do?” “Pick them up,” the crowd responded in unison. The clip went viral on Twitter, racking up over 6.1 million views as of early Monday. Online critics are pointing to the Linkin Park video as…

There is a moment in The Harder They Fall that director Jeymes Samuel can’t stop smiling about. It arrives with a locomotive around the end of Act 1 and subsequently barrels through every preconceived notion of what a Western is supposed to be. In the scene, a white male character gets just the tip of a racial slur out of his mouth before he’s cut down by the outlaw Treacherous Trudy, played to woman-in-the-black-hat perfection by Oscar winner Regina King. Trudy’s fellow gunslinger, Cherokee Bill (played by an impossibly cool LaKeith Stanfield), feigns admonishment. “He might coulda said ‘nincompoop’,” says Bill. “We ain’t no nincompoop,” counters Trudy as she fixes her bowler and stalks toward the train the gang is about to rob. “If they say something that even starts…

“If only we could find the dumpster before they light the match.” That was the joke circulating a few years ago when it emerged that Burberry had burned millions of dollars worth of pricey designer goods that it couldn’t sell. But the practice of destroying unsold luxury products is no laughing matter. Tapestry’s Coach apologised recently after a story broke on TikTok about the US label slashing its handbags and dumping them. High-end retailers have traditionally sought to destroy goods they couldn’t sell in order to preserve their exclusivity. It was deemed better for unwanted designer handbags, shoes and dresses to go up in smoke than to get marked down, end up in down-market stores or be worn by the less affluent. Seeing a brand’s logo in any of these…

Bang Showbiz Kim Kardashian West had a “little fashion emergency” at the WSJ Innovator Awards. The 41-year-old reality star and businesswoman was named WSJ Magazine’s 2021 Brand Innovator at the awards ceremony at the Musem of Modern Art in New York earlier this week, and fortunately Fendi’s Kim Jones was on hand to assist Kim when her Fendi x Skims brown leather gown became unzipped, revealing her nude shapewear. The mother of four – who has North, 8, Saint, 5, Chicago, 3, and Psalm, 2, with 44-year-old rap legend Kanye West – quipped: “Thank you to Kim Jones because I just had a little fashion emergency. “Thank god I had Skims on, or this would have been a very different kind of show tonight.” The Keeping Up with the Kardashians…

Facebook’s parent company said yesterday it had unblocked the hashtag for celebrity chef Nusret Gokce’s nickname “#saltbae”, having found the tag had been blocked globally days after a video was posted online of Gokce feeding a gold-encrusted steak to a senior Vietnamese Communist Party official in London. “We’ve unblocked this hashtag on Facebook and we’re investigating why this happened,” a spokesperson for Facebook operator Meta said, confirming the tag had been blocked for all Facebook users around the world, not just in Vietnam. It wasn’t immediately clear why the tag had been blocked, and the spokesperson declined to comment on potential reasons. While it was blocked, a search for the hashtag generated a message saying community standards had been violated. In a US Congress hearing earlier this year, Meta chief…