If you missed it...
In a week when the Bay Area was deluged with rain and Donald Trump was showered with attention, we also saw:
Philadelphia news station Fox29 wished boxing legend Joe Frazier a happy 73rd birthday on Thursday. It would have been much happier, though, if Frazier hadn’t been dead for five years.
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman ripped the gender pay gap in Hollywood, saying that Ashton Kutcher got three times as much as she did for filming “No Strings Attached” in 2011, People magazine reported. “Compared to men, in most professions, women make 80 cents to the dollar,” she told People. “In Hollywood, we are making 30 cents to the dollar.”
Researchers in China claim they have identified a new species of gibbon in the remote forests along its border with Burma — and have named it after “Star Wars” hero Luke Skywalker. Actor Mark Hamill, who plays Skywalker, tweeted several good-natured responses and photos, including, “So proud of this! First the Pez dispenser, then the Underoos & U.S. postage stamp ... now this! #GorillaMyDreams #SimianSkywalker #JungleJedi.”
Speaking of Hamill, he has starting recording tweets from Donald Trump, but using the voice of Batman’s nemesis, the Joker. To celebrate “America’s Funniest Home
Videos” having its 600th episode Sunday night, Entertainment Weekly asked the producers to create a video: 600 groin shots in 600 seconds. And, of course, they did.
“I worry there’s a part of Silicon Valley that is hyper-politically correct about sex,” notorious venture capitalist Peter Thiel told the New York Times, talking partly about Trump’s even-more-notorious recording with Billy Bush. “One of my friends has a theory that the rest of the country tolerates Silicon Valley because people there just don’t have that much sex. They’re not having that much fun.”