Pierce Brosnan Does Not Love the Netflix Warner Bros Merger

Pierce Brosnan has been a steady presence on Netflix as of late, but that’s not going to stop him from speaking his mind when something isn’t right. The objectively handsomest Bond was recently asked about the streamer swallowing up Warner Bros. Discovery, and it was as unsettling to him as casting Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist. - (Deadline)

MELANIA documentary director Brett Ratner turned up in the latest DOJ files photo dump, and literally not one person was surprised by this news.- (PEOPLE)

James Ransone, known around here mostly as Ziggy on The Wire, has died. He was 46. He will be missed. - (Variety)

The Widow Kirk —who is not at home raising her babies like a woman is supposed to, according to her late husband— Freudian slipped while speaking at the annual Turning Point USA Fest (which, by the by, features a replica of the tent where Charlie was killed… so, yeah. Tell me how this isn’t a weird cult?). - (PEOPLE)

Oh, look what other trash, oops, Freudian slip, I meant Nicki Minaj, showed up at that weird cult event. - (THR)

Is he The Grinch or a Gen-X man at Christmas? - (McSweeney’s)

Oh, so this is where the Gemstones got their idea for the Christmas show. Wow. Also, as an aside, not mentioned in this article, one of the camels in this year’s Christmas EXTRAVANZA kicked an attendee in the head and knocked her out. Probably just like when Jesus was born! - (The Barbed Wire)

It’s very sweet that Macaulay Culkin is able to share Home Alone with his young children, and he enjoys it! And they don’t recognize him! Adorable. - (SM)

From Alexander: Second most I’ve ever been turned on by an octogenarian. (Reddit)

Beckham Update: Victoria has started to like Brooklyn’s posts again! Wait! But not if Nicola is in them. - (Lainey Gossip)

Oh, hey, Gisele got married! - (Celebitchy)

I meant to link this interview with Senator Andy Kim last week, but I got distracted when I was linking the commenter/reader stores (I hope folks bought some good stuff!) and overlooked it. It’s a couple of weeks old, but I don’t think that matters. It’s still a good read. - (VF)

It’s a little later than usual, but here is Amy Sedaris’s 2025 Gift Guide. - (NY Mag)

Awwww, Bowen Yang gifted SNL staffers Moo Deng hippo plushies on his farewell. - (LateNighter)

ASKreviews regretted that she wasn’t reading a physical copy of Amanda Montell’s Wordslut so she could underline and annotate the author’s thesis that English is designed to uphold Patriarchy. “But also more insidious things, like creating gendered qualifiers for words that theoretically are gender neutral, suggesting again that the default boss is male (hence ‘girl boss’).” Which book do you wish you had underlined and annotated? (Cannonball Read 17)

Comet *better* be getting so. many. sticks for Christmas and that can ONLY be the reason, right?

This is Comet. She had an unsatisfactory walk experience today. Decided to file a complaint with management. 13/10 (IG: peachycomet22)

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