Monday, April 24, 2017
Drake & Travis Scott Perform "Portland" in Portland
Travis Scott Performs "Goosebumps"
Drake and Travis Scott gave fans in Portland a fitting tribute on Wednesday (Apr. 19). The duo teamed up for a surprise performance of Portland at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the Oregon city.
Although Quavo wasnt in the house for his verse or hook, La Flame and the 6 G*d kept the waves flowing. Meanwhile, the crowd filled in for the Migos spitter on the chorus.
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the performance of their More Life banger was part of Drakes impromptu surprise on Travis Birds Eye View Tour stop. But Portland wasnt all Drizzy had planned for La Flames fans. He also launched into a performance of Gyalchester.
Earlier in the day, Drake also made an appearance in Nicki Minajs regal No Frauds video along with Lil Wayne. This past weekend, he also popped up at Coachella during Futures set, shortly after surprising fans at a 21 Savage concert in L.A.
The Boy is currently celebrating the success of his ultra-popular More Life playlist. Despite not being an official album, the effort has surpassed 1 billion streams and has topped the Billboard 200 for multiple weeks.
Meanwhile, Scott just performed on Ellen and is headed back to Coachella for Weekend 2 on Saturday (Apr. 22). Following the platinum certification of Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, La Flame is now gearing up to drop AstroWorld.
Source: http://www.rap-up.com/2017/04/20/drake-travis-scott-perform-portland-in-portland/
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Celtics notebook: Avery Bradley"s defense throws off Jimmy Butler"s game
Chicago Bulls vs Boston Celtics - Full Game Highlights | Game 2 | April 18, 2017 | NBA Playoffs
CHICAGO Though Avery Bradley gives up five inches when he guards the Bulls Jimmy Butler, the Celtics guard doesnt see the difference.
Size doesnt matter. Its heart, Bradley said following yesterdays practice at Roosevelt University.
In Fridays Game 3 of the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series, Chicago increasingly turned to Butler to run the offense in the absence of Rajon Rondo (broken thumb), and going forward that means Bradley will apply even more on-ball pressure. Bradley had a strong hand in Butlers 7-for-21 shooting (0-for-4 on 3-pointers) to go with zero assists in the Cs win that made it a 2-1 series in the Bulls favor.
Im just trying to make every shot tough on him hes a good player and I just want to speed him up a bit and force him into some tough shots, Bradley said.
Bradleys work can certainly be must-see viewing for his teammates.
Im trying to figure it out so I can try to figure out what hes doing, Gerald Green said. I just think he has the instincts of it. He just knows how to read. To be honest, Ive been in the league 12 years and Ive played overseas, Ive played D-League, Ive played a lot of basketball. And he might be the best defender Ive ever had, probably besides Tony Allen (the former Celtic now with the Memphis Grizzlies).
It should be quite a show in tonights Game 4, with Butler intent on elevating the challenge.
You wouldnt say anything if I was making them, Butler said yesterday of his shots in Game 3. Ill continue to take what the game gives me, take jumpers if Im open.
Rondo in Leg-gate
A source said the NBA is looking into Leg-gate, after Rondo was caught on camera sticking his leg out as the Celtics Jae Crowder ran in front of the Bulls bench in Game 3. Rondo, deadpanning his response, blamed it on an old Celtics injury.
When you tear an ACL, your leg gets stiff every once in a while, Rondo said. I had to stretch it out.
Green was willing to take Rondos word for it.
He may have had to stretch his leg out. I dont know. I aint no snitch, so I dont know, Green said. Thats not something I grew up being a part of. Where Im from they know snitches get stitches. So I dont know. . . .
Green is nursing a sore left ankle, but hes not about to let it get in the way.
If I can play without a finger, I can play with that, he said, referring way back to a childhood accident.
As a child he suffered permanent damage to his right index finger after getting it caught in a nerf hoop attached to a door in the family home in Houston.
KG motivates em
Prior to Game 3, the Cs got a taste of what sharing a locker room with Kevin Garnett must have been like, via a motivational audio message from the 2007-08 NBA champion a pep talk the team admitted had an effect.
Coach Brad Stevens wasnt with the team when KGs booming rave-up was played over a speaker system. But he had listened a day earlier.
Obviously everybody looks up to him and he had a great impact and continues to have a great impact as a former Celtic, Stevens said.
Said Marcus Smart: It was big. Everybody felt a little spark that started a fire for us and got us pumped and it was something we needed to hear. Its always good when you got a guy like KG delivering that message. We took that to heart. I just remember it was on the speaker and everybody knows when KG talks, his voice is very demanding and you just listen. So everybody was quiet, just listening to what he had to say.
Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/celtics/2017/04/celtics_notebook_avery_bradley_s_defense_throws_off_jimmy_butler_s_game
Ren�e Elise Goldsberry Hopes "Henrietta Lacks" Movie Will Start Conversations
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Official Trailer (HBO)
Henrietta Lacks (Goldsberry) died from cancer at the age of 31, leaving behind four children. Quantrell Colbert/HBO hide caption
toggle caption Quantrell Colbert/HBOHenrietta Lacks (Goldsberry) died from cancer at the age of 31, leaving behind four children.
Quantrell Colbert/HBOBack in 2010, science writer Rebecca Skloot published a book that sounded like science fiction except it was real. Skloot told the story of how a tissue sample from a young African-American woman in Baltimore, taken without her knowledge or consent, went on to become "immortal." Her cells contributed to scientific breakthroughs across disciplines and around the world, and they even went up with some of the first space missions.
The woman"s name was Henrietta Lacks. She died from cancer at the age of 31, and while her cells were helping to change the world, her four children were struggling to hold on to their memories of her.
skloot"s book, the immortal life of henrietta
Lacks, became an international best-seller and now it"s also a movie on HBO. Lacks is played by Rene Elise Goldsberry, who also appeared in the original Broadway production of Hamilton.Goldsberry says the movie isn"t meant to replace the book. "It"s designed to be the gateway into more exploration into who Henrietta is and to really kind of see ... where we are in terms of how we"re dealing with people"s tissues."
Interview HighlightsOn the most surprising part of Lacks" story
Here"s what"s surprising to me today, right now, in April of 2017, is that there"s not really anything that happened to her that wouldn"t be able to happen to me today. Legally, they do not have to get your consent to research your tissue samples. If you went and had a mole biopsied, anything that has been done to you, if that tissue is not connected to your body there is no need to ask for your consent to study it, to research it, to have it stored. There are banks all over this world filled with human tissue for researchers to study. And so, yes, today, right now today, we have not resolved this question. And if it disturbs you, this is something you should talk about and we should continue to have a conversation about.
On how what happened to Lacks could have happened to anyone
This is not an example of something that only happened to her because she was a poor black woman. I think that"s important to know. ... They were doing this with everybody, whether you had a lot of money to pay for your doctor or not, the same things would have happened. They would have taken those tissues and they would have studied them. So I think it"s important to just distinguish those things, because if we miss that then we fail to be able to address what"s going on with privacy right now.
On what Lacks and her Hamilton character, Angelica Schuyler, have in common
These are two stories that are about two women who actually existed, who are hugely important and nobody really knew who they were. The writers, you know, both [Hamilton"s] Lin-Manuel Miranda and Rebecca Skloot I should actually say and Ron Chernow, since he wrote the biography for Hamilton brought something to our consciousness that I can"t believe wasn"t there already. ... So as an actor it feels like the opportunity to perform a service, to portray somebody that the world really needs to know about.
On how both the HBO movie and the Broadway play are meant to start conversations
It"s funny, I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level. And ... I think there will always be a relevance to Hamilton. It"s nutritious. It"s really hard to be commercially successful doing something that I think is so good for us. I feel that way about Henrietta Lacks as well.
There are endless conversations we could have about the themes that are brought up in Hamilton and the characters that we get to explore in Hamilton, and I feel the same way about Henrietta Lacks. And I am honored to be able to say that what I"ve done with my life is start some of those conversations, you know, and play some people that have really made me bring to the surface some things that I actually really aspire to be as a woman. I love that as well.
Radio producer Elizabeth Baker, radio editor Ammad Omar and digital producer Nicole Cohen contributed to this story.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2017/04/22/525044439/ren-e-elise-goldsberry-hopes-henrietta-lacks-movie-will-start-conversations
From Coffee Shop Barista to Hollywood Stardom: Unforgettable"s Bad Boy Shares His Journey to Stardom
UNFORGETTABLE - OFFICIAL TRAILER [HD]
Simon Kassianides was ready for a change.
The University of Edinburgh graduate had been planning on a career in finance, but when that didnt feel fulfilling to him the Brit decided to open an organic, fair-trade coffee shop.
I had the shop for about a year and a half, a producer would come in and we would talk about movies, says Kassianides. One day he just said, Why dont you come make coffee on set?
From there, Kassianides whose parents are Greek began working as an office and production assistant.
While doing that I was spotted, he says. So I decided to go to drama school. I was there for a month or two when an agent saw me rehearsing and offered to represent me.
My first gig was on the West End with Woody Harrelson doing The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, says Kassiandes. That led to steady steady TV and film work and [a role as Vespers boyfriend in Quantum of Solace,] which brought me to the States and now Ive worked consistently here for the last few years.
now the actor stars in unforgettable opposite Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson.
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I dont play the best guy, says Kassianides, who plays a devious man from Dawsons characters past. But getting to work on this with such an amazing cast was incredible. It was an amazing environment to create in.
But even as his star continues to rise in Hollywood, Kassianides hasnt forgotten where he came from.
I can still make a a great cappuccino, he says with a laugh.
Unforgettable is now in theaters.
Source: http://people.com/celebrity/simon-kassianides-unforgettable-bio-coffee-shop-hollywood/
Damian Lillard savors win over doubters with belief in Blazers
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- On April 9, Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard sent a text message my way. It was a picture of himself and his backcourt mate CJ McCollum high-fiving each other with the caption "Clinched."
Lillard has a great memory. He was alluding to an exchange we had almost four months ago.
The Trail Blazers were a night removed from suffering a horrific 45-point loss at the hands of the Golden State Warriors on Dec. 17. Lillard told ESPN it was one of the lowest points of his season.
The next evening, the two-time All-Star tried enjoying some leisure time at Spin, a popular pingpong social club in downtown San Francisco. I was a guest of the social club that night. He was seated in a private area at the bar, overlooking McCollum dominating the pingpong field. When Lillard saw me entering the club and approaching him in the roped-off section, he said, "Uh oh. What you got to say?
He cracked a smile. It was one of the rare times that evening. The night before, he had questioned the heart of his team and challenged them to compete at an elevated level. The Bay Area, specifically Oakland, is where he was born and raised. He was humiliated in front of friends and family.
Proving doubters wrong is something Damian Lillard enjoys. Getting past Golden State would be, too.Sam Forencich/NBAE via Getty ImagesPortland had lost six of its last seven and was an underwhelming 13-16 while possessing the second-highest payroll in the association.
I"ve tried to give it to him straight from my time covering him during his first two years in the league. This time was no different. "You guys aren"t making the playoffs," I said.
He understandably wasn"t in the mood to hear that, but he reluctantly asked for my opinion, so I gave it to him.
Then a couple of fans moseyed over, requesting pictures. He graciously agreed. He stood up and made their night. For roughly a minute, he was off the hook from hearing me out. He sat back down and could see me staring at him from the corner of his left eye.
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We continued our discussion about some of the Blazers" problems, but Lillard had heard enough.
"Man, f--- that," he said. "We"re making the playoffs, with or without help."
McCollum then made his way over after completing his round of pingpong. "What are y"all talking about?" he asked with a smile. But he already knew the answer. Lillard filled him in. McCollum busted out in laughter.
"We"ll be all right," McCollum said. He departed briefly to resume his game.
The next five minutes or so was pure quiet. During this time, a confused male clubgoer, who was observing all the fans scoping out Lillard, whispered in my ear, "You think Stephen Curry would let me get an autograph?" Had Lillard been in a good mood, I would have told this guy that it was indeed Stephen Curry. This wasn"t the time.
Lillard finally broke the awkward silence. "You"ll see," he said out of nowhere with a deadpan expression on his face. He was looking straight ahead and not in my direction when he said it. I gazed at him, puzzled. He said, "You"ll be surprised by what I can handle."
In February, Portland acquired center Jusuf Nurkic via a trade from Denver for big man Mason Plumlee, and the team took off on a hot streak. With a new inside-out DNA, the Trail Blazers owned the second-best record in the NBA since March 1.Can Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum cook up some realistic upset plans of the No. 1 seed Warriors?Garrett Ellwood/NBA/Getty Images
Lillard registered career highs in points (27.0) and rebounds (4.9) this season.
On April 9, Portland clinched the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference standings. Lillard"s text was essentially an "I told you so" message. He still gets amped up proving the doubters wrong. I was one of them.
"I took the challenge of what everyone thought we couldn"t do," Lillard told ESPN this week. "I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. For me, at that time, I was like, "Right now, everybody can say whatever they want." And if we didn"t make the playoffs, they"re going to say they had a disappointing season. But I was looking towards the end, saying, "Well, we had our struggles. If we can pull ourselves by the time the end of the season comes and we sneak into the playoffs, they"re going to say this happened, this happened and this happened, but at the end of the day, we still got the job done. A lot of other teams had the same opportunity, but they just couldn"t bring themselves to do it. We did. There were never any doubts in my mind that [we were] making the playoffs.
"I"m a believer. I don"t think people understand that a lot depends on what you put into your results, and I felt like we weren"t getting the results that we wanted, but we were working hard, we were locked in and we were trying. Guys really cared. And when you"re expecting things to just happen, then you don"t know what kind of results you"re going to get, but I was a part of what happened every day. I knew our team was really together. We"re not just saying, "We"re together."
"I know we were really together, and we were on board the same thing. And as long as we stayed true to that, I knew that eventually, that"s the way life is. It comes back in your favor. Sometimes you"ve got to go through those dark moments. And we went through it, and we were true to it. And because of that, once again, we rose above the struggle and the hard times and we got it done."
Now Lillard and the Trail Blazers face another dark period, and it"s inflicted by the Warriors once more. They"re down 0-2 with the series shifting to Portland on Saturday night (ESPN, 10:30 p.m. ET). Golden State was without Kevin Durant, but Lillard"s squad still lost by 29.
The task of advancing to the second round is a strenuous process, one that can appear unattainable. But this is Lillard"s habitat. He relishes these predicaments. The odds are against him, but he has made it clear that he"s ready for the challenge.
Since the NBA instituted the current 16-team playoff format in 1983-84, no team has come back from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series to defeat the No. 1 seed in its conference in either of the first two rounds, going 0-62 in those series.
"We were in a tough spot in December, and we worked our way out of it," Lillard told ESPN. "We knew coming in it was going to be hard to win on their home floor. We had an opportunity in Game 1, and they closed the game out. In Game 2, we didn"t play a good game. They took advantage of that, and they took care of home court. It was a blowout, but the scores don"t carry over. We"re not going to start Game 3 down 19-0. We"ve got to understand that, but we also got to really believe that we"re going to win and that we"re supposed to win. i believe in us. always have."
source: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19217167/2017-nba-playoffs-facing-warriors-damian-lillard-enjoys-proving-doubter-wrong
Shades of grey! Salma Hayek is a smart traveler in casual chic outfit and chunky boots as she departs LAX
"Beatriz at Dinner" Official Trailer (2017) | Salma Hayek, John Lithgow
She"s been busy promotingher latest movie How To Be A Latin Lover.
And it seemed as though Salma Hayek was continuing her press tour as she jetted out from the LAX airport on Tuesday afternoon.
The 50-year-old Frida star traveled in style wearing a long charcoal grey shawl and Grey State"s Poor Boy Rib Tee with black chunky leather boots.
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Flying high! salma hayek was all smiles as she jetted out from the LAX airport on Tuesday afternoon
The Academy Award-nominated actress showcased her svelte figure in a matching form-fitting sweater.
She slipped into skintight light wash grey denims that encased her slender pins.
A black leather Gucci belt with the Italian luxury brand"s insignia cinched around Salma"s waist, further highlighting her flawless physique.
Traveling in style: The 50-year-old Frida star donned a long charcoal grey shawl and Grey State"s Poor Boy Rib Tee with black chunky leather boots
Pricey purse! A black leather Gucci belt cinched around Salma"s waist which she teamed with a tan handbag by theItalian luxury brand
The Fools Rush In starlet teamed the designer belt with a matching Gucci tan canvas shoulder bag.
Salma kept her gorgeous brown eyes concealed behind a pair of oversized dark movie star shades.
She styled her silky chestnut tresses in relaxed waves which parted down the center for a dramatic effect.
The mother-of-one made time to stop and sign several autographs for awaiting fans.
Slender star: The Academy Award-nominated actress showcased her svelte figure in a dark grey form-fitting sweater
Fan-atical! The brunette beautymade time to stop and sign several autographs for awaiting admirers
Meanwhile, the brunette beauty has been promoting her upcoming comedy which tells the story of a man who gets dumped after 25 years of marriage.
After making a career by seducing rich older women, Maximo - played by Eugenio Derbez - must now move in with his estranged sister, where he begins to learn the value of family.
Salma plays Maximo"s sister Sara in the lighthearted comedy, which is due to be released in theatres on April 28th.
Other stars in the big screen project include Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Raquel Welch and Rob Riggle.
Touching down: Salma beamed as she touched down later at JFK Airport in New York Cityu
Going grey: The actress wore an all-grey ensemble for her cross-country flight
Flawless complexion: The natural beauty had her flawless complexion on display under sunglasses
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4423210/Salma-Hayek-smart-traveler-casual-chic-outfit-LAX.html
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