Actor Jeff Bridges has lymphoma
The actor announced Monday he has started treatment.
Jeff Bridges, the actor known for his roles as Bad Blake in “Crazy Heart” and The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” announced on Monday that he has lymphoma.
“Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good,” Bridges tweeted. “I’m starting treatment and will keep you posted on my recovery.”
He said he’s grateful for the love and support from his family and friends during this time.
“Thank you for your prayers and well wishes,” he said before urging people to vote.
— The New York Times
Toobin suspended, steps away from CNN
Author- commentator Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker and is stepping away from his job as CNN’s senior legal analyst pending what the cable network is calling a “personal matter.”
Vice reported earlier Monday that Toobin had exposed himself during a Zoom meeting with staffers of the New Yorker and WNYC radio.
In a statement Monday afternoon, the New Yorker said Toobin had been “suspended while we investigate the matter.” It declined further comment.
A CNN spokesperson said in a statement that “Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.”
The 60-year-old Toobin has been a New Yorker
writer for more than 20 years and joined CNN in 2002.
— Associated Press
Beach Boys splinter over politics again
God only knows that, two weeks out from the presidential election, the stakes are high.
On Sunday, a version of the Beach Boys — he touring incarnation of the group led by co-founder Mike Love — performed at a last-minute fundraiser for President Donald Trump near Newport Beach in Orange County, California.
Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, two other founding members of the beloved California band, were less than happy about the news.
“We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero,” Wilson and Jardine told Variety through a spokesperson Sunday.
“We didn’t even know about it and were very surprised to read about it in the Los Angeles Times.”
— Los Angeles Times
‘Rumours’ still has it – 42 years after release
The last time Fleetwood Mac’s classic LP “Rumours” was in the Top 10 of the Billboard album chart, in February 1978, Jimmy Carter was president, disco was king and the primetime soap opera “Dallas” was still more than a month away from its premiere.
But thanks to a viral TikTok video, “Rumours” has climbed back to the chart’s upper rungs for the first time in 42 years, landing at No. 7 with the equivalent of 33,000 sales in the United States, including more than 30 million streams, according to Nielsen Music.
Its return was set in motion late last month, when Nathan Apodaca, a potato worker in Idaho, filmed himself languidly singing along to “Dreams” while skateboarding down a road and sipping from a bottle of Cran-Raspberry juice.
The clip caught on in the way that random, joyful TikTok videos do — it has been viewed more than 60 million times.