Cassie is going to be a mom for the first time ever! The 32-year-old singer broke the happy news on June 12, and even revealed the baby’s gender. Meanwhile, boyfriend Alex Fine penned the sweetest letters for both Cassie and their child.
Add one more person to that “Me & U” track! Singer Cassie, 32, will be welcoming a child with new boyfriend Alex Fine, 26 — they’ll both be first-time parents. The lovers broke the news on their respective Instagram accounts on June 12, and Cassie kept her announcement short but sweet. She shared a professional photo of her and Alex in the front seat of a retro car [SEEN HERE] with the caption, “Can’t wait to meet our baby girl 💗 Love You Always & Forever.” That’s right — Cassie is having a daughter! Now, buckle up and play an emotional track — we suggest Cassie’s “King Of Hearts” — because Alex penned letters for both the mother of his child and daughter.
Alex made a total of eight promises in his “Letter to Cassie,” with vows such as “I promise that you will never be alone” and “I promise that I will be the best father/baby daddy.” The personal trainer ended the sentimental list with an equally touching note: “You two are my greatest loves I have and will ever have. I cannot wait for the rest of our lives together and to raise a beautiful happy child in our beautiful happy life. ❤️ 📸.”
That’s not all Cassie’s beau had to say, as he next shared a picture of him kissing Cassie [SEEN HERE], along with a “Letter to my Daughter.” He aimed right for our heart strings off the bat, beginning the letter by writing, “I will be the first man in your life and will show you the greatest love and affection now and forever. I never thought my heart could grow bigger after meeting your mother… then I found out we were having you and I instantly felt a love that is so indescribable.” Like his letter to Cassie, the fitness aficionado then listed off a number of promises to his future mini me — you can read the whole letter below, bu you better have a box of tissues on hand.
Cassie broke her pregnancy news with this Instagram caption on June 12, 2019. (Courtesy of @cassie/Instagram)
Alex Fine penned a letter to his daughter with Cassie, after the parents revealed they’re having a child on June 12, 2019. (Courtesy of @alexfine44/Instagram)
Congratulations to this beautiful couple! Cassie and Alex truly knew they were right for one another, as Cassie just became Instagram official with her boyfriend in Dec. 2018. She had split with her on-again, off-again boyfriend of 10 years, Sean “Diddy” Combs, 49, earlier that year (they were last pictured together at the 2018 Met Gala). Alex personally trains many of Riverdale’s cast members, and is a professional bull rider!
It will happen "sooner [rather] than later," says the source.
The Oscar winner will be questioned on a forcible touching complaint filed by a 29-year-old woman who claims he grabbed her breast at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in Manhattan on Sunday.
The actor has denied the claims, telling TMZ he did nothing wrong and has evidence to prove it.
"There's a tape that shows what really happened," Gooding Jr. said. "I believe in the system and let the process speak for itself."
The woman in the alleged incident told police she was with friends when she was confronted by a male patron whom she described as Gooding Jr., according to the law enforcement source.
"The male allegedly groped her breasts," the source said. "The victim later told cops she protested at the unwanted touching and they argued about the encounter."
The female left the bar and called 911 to report the alleged incident, according to the source, and NYPD Manhattan Special Victims Squad is investigating.
CNN has contacted representatives of Gooding Jr. for comment.
In 2012, Gooding Jr. faced similar trouble when a New Orleans bartender accused him of pushing her. The unnamed female bartender told police Gooding Jr. stopped by the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter and soon became angry with other patrons who recognized him and wanted to take pictures with him.
The bartender told police she asked Gooding Jr. to calm down, at which point he allegedly pushed her away. Another employee called 911 and told Gooding Jr. to leave, and as he left, he pushed the bartender again, police said.
Last month, Gomez showed some skin at the soon-to-be-released movie’s premiere. The 26-year-old “Wolves” singer wore a white, two-piece Louis Vuitton slit dress and dazzled photographers with Bulgari diamonds. She wore her hair in a sleek bun and opted for natural-looking eye makeup and red lips at the event. The appearance marked both Gomez’s debut at the festival and her biggest red carpet event of the year, Elle reported at the time.
Actors Selena Gomez and Bill Murray attend the opening ceremony and screening of "The Dead Don't Die" during the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Getty)
During the event, photographers were quick to snap photos of Murray seemingly whispering something to Gomez. The secretive exchange quickly went viral. On Tuesday night, during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Gomez finally revealed what Murray, 68, said to her.
Host Jimmy Fallon, after showing Gomez a photo of the viral moment, noted many fans were wondering what was said.
"It wasn’t even—first off, that kind of looks weird," Gomez began. "But he was just saying dumb things, like he would just lean in and be like, ‘You look great tonight.’ And then he’d look back seriously and be like, ‘Where are you from?’ And I would just sit there, and I’m trying to be poised. It was fine.”
Gomez added: “That’s what he did with all the time. In press conferences, he’d try to hit me with things. Yeah, it’s just he’s fun. He’s a big kid."
The singer later went on to tell Fallon she recently completed her upcoming new album, which she said is pop-centric.
“I have to do a few finishing things with it but I’m just relieved. It took me four years now to even feel at a good place with this album, and it’s just because I had such huge moments that happened in my life personally that ‘how was I going to capture that?’ and ‘how was I actually going to feel good about what I was saying?’ So I just kept going, and I’m relieved,” she said.
Gomez’s last album — “Revival” — was released in 2015. And the star has been through a lot since that time. In the summer of 2017, she underwent a kidney transplant due to her ongoing battle with the autoimmune disease Lupus. Just over a year later, in October 2018, she was hospitalized and entered a treatment facility for anxiety and depression. The month before, she announced she was taking a break from social media. In January, she returned, sharing a series of black-and-white photos of herself on Instagram.
A 30-year-old woman claimed that Gooding, who she described as "highly intoxicated," grabbed her breast as they were talking at the club. She told investigators they got into an argument and security got involved.
The woman reportedly called 911 around 1 a.m., according to the news outlet. Police were unable to find Gooding when they searched the area for him.
Gooding told TMZ: "I was at the club, I left. I met a bunch of people, I said hello, I took pictures and … you know, you have to have faith in what people are saying … now I’m giving the process the chance to show what happened, what went down."
Gooding also told TMZ that he plans to surrender to police on Thursday. An attorney for the actor did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment.
Fox News' Nicole Darrah contributed to this report.
The Dead Don’t Die, the new zombie comedy from indie legend Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes, Ghost Dog), puts a very tall, very large Adam Driver in a very small, very compact Smart car. The image defines Jarmusch, whose dry humor excels with juxtaposition. Driver is big. The car is little. That’s the joke.
That oddball sensibility makes The Dead Don’t Die a pleasure, if also one of the stranger entries in Jarmusch’s filmography. Polar fracking, and the resulting shift in the Earth’s rotation, causes the dead to rise from their graves, stumbling through the sleepy little town of Centerville in search of what they loved during their living days. The resurrected town lush groans about chardonnay, while other zombies amble towards coffee, free cable, or a stable wifi connection.
The local police — Chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray) and officers Ronnie (Adam Driver) and Mindy (Chloë Sevigny) — find themselves at the center of the storm, trying to keep order while figuring out what’s going on. That’s about as much of a plot as there is, as the film is mostly composed of little vignettes around town, introducing us to various locals and tying it all together with the officers’ investigation into the aftermath. Brief interstitials focusing on local recluse Hermit Bob (Tom Waits), who observes it all unfolding from a safe distance, serve as makeshift bookends, helping give the effective chapters shape.
Tilda Swinton as a katana-wielding mortician.
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The oncoming apocalypse — by way of flesh-eating undead, no less — usually demands a sense of panic or hysteria. The Dead Don’t Die is largely devoid of that urgency, save in brief moments in which Mindy, the only character who reacts in a remotely human way, expresses her increasing anxiety. Jarmusch isn’t trying to prevent (or rush towards) the end of the world; like Hermit Bob, he’s inclined to watch it happen.
Given just how odd Jarmusch’s foray into vampire territory, Only Lovers Left Alive, was, The Dead Don’t Die’s idiosyncrasies shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. They’re also the key to the movie standing out in a crowded genre. Train to Busan, the 2016 South Korean zombie movie, made a splash by setting the action on a speeding train, thereby toying with character tropes, reactions, and escape plans. Though Jarmusch’s latest work isn’t as much of a shake-up, his refusal to rush and succumb to extremes of emotion in an extreme situation turn The Dead Don’t Die into something unique.
There’s a tinge of melancholy to almost everything Jarmusch has ever made, and The Dead Don’t Die is perhaps his most hopeless. It’s not devoid of warmth or tenderness, but it takes its take on the end of the world seriously. The world is ending. People die. That’s that. That pervading aura of nihilism has a depressive effect, particularly in combination with Jarmusch’s penchant for slow burn; what is the point of fighting the tide if we’re doomed no matter what? (It’s telling that Jarmusch’s version of the end of the world doesn’t include any scientists — nobody seems to be working to find a zombie cure.)
Selena Gomez as an unsuspecting “hipster.”
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That environmental change is the cause of the zombie uprising is fairly on the nose, as is the “Make America White Again” hat sported by a local farmer (played by Steve Buscemi) and just how many of the zombies are still glued to their phones. The commentary on the shallow and consumerist nature of contemporary society is made explicit in the film’s eleventh hour in a way that feels unnecessary and ultimately undermining.
Dourness of message aside, The Dead Don’t Die doesn’t lack for charm. Its cast, which includes Tilda Swinton as a katana-wielding mortician, Iggy Pop as a coffee-seeking zombie, Selena Gomez as a so-called “hipster,” and the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA as a wisdom-dispensing “WuPS” delivery man, is a delight, as is the use of a Sturgill Simpson song (“The Dead Don’t Die,” presumably written for the film) as the movie’s theme. Other little character details — Swinton’s character takes multiple right angle turns instead of taking diagonal paths, for instance — add to the sense of a lived-in world.
That tenderness goes some way towards mitigating the effect of the overall story arc, and will likely be more of what you remember when you leave the theater. And thank goodness for that — there’s still something left to cherish in this world, even if it is all going to hell.
The daytime talk show host, 54, was first spotted with Tomblin this week in Los Angeles, where we’re told they met through mutual friend Blac Chyna. He has since made his way back to New York with Williams, and he’s been photographed around town with her.
Page Six has confirmed that Tomblin was convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon on Jan. 29, 2013, in North Carolina. We’ve also confirmed that he was convicted of felony breaking and entering in May 2013. The incidents took place within weeks of each other, with the robbery occurring on Aug. 21, 2012, and the breaking and entering occurring on Aug. 10 of that year.
Tomblin works in finance, according to his LinkedIn page.
Williams told TMZ that she was aware of his record, but it wasn’t going to stop her from seeing him.
“I am a 54-year-old grown-ass woman,” she said. “I know what I’m doing.”
Williams first alerted fans to her first romance since splitting from Kevin Hunter on her Instagram page, where she shared a photo of her cozying up to a man who couldn’t be seen. Many speculated it was DJ Boof, who spins tunes on her show, though he quickly shot down those rumors.
Tomblin then appeared by Williams’ side when she was asked by photographers about her ongoing divorce, which resulted in an emotional breakdown.
Put them in suits all the time, please.Photo: Giles Keyte (Sony)
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Men in Black: International will not be the best movie you see this year. There are plot issues, character arcs go unfinished, and the ending felt rushed. But it’s still a campy, cool sci-fi spy thriller—one that coasts on the natural charisma of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, who may be one of this generation’s best comedic duos. In a sense, it kind of feels like the perfect sequel to the original Men in Black. It’s an entertaining movie made better by the people in it.
The latest Men in Black sequel stars Thompson as Molly, a young woman who encountered an alien when she was young and has spent her life obsessing over the mysterious “men in black.”She wants to know who they are—and, more important, become one of them. She spends decades trying to uncover the truth, and succeeds. She’s recruited by Emma Thompson’s impeccable Agent O into the Men in Black. Molly, now called Agent M, is fun, smart, and thinks fast on her feet. It’s a role that definitely plays to Tessa Thompson’s strengths, and she was a delight to watch. However, her training scenes were practically non-existent, and there were times she seemed a little too prepared. Come on, not even one misfired gun? I wanted to see her fuck up and learn from her mistakes a bit more. One thing the original Men in Black did well was show Agent J struggling to learn the ropes.
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Instead, the movie decides to cast much of its fuckery onto Agent H (Hemsworth). He’s a seasoned agent whose life took a downward spiral a few years earlier, after saving the world from a mysterious enemy called The Hive. It’s clear something’s changed about him (mostly because the movie loves reminding us of that over and over) and he’s become kind of a reckless playboy. Hemsworth’s scenes were a blast to watch, even if they sometimes felt like they were borrowed from other movies. There’s quite a bit of Kingsman in there, and some of Hemworth’s one-liners felt like they were trying to bring back that Thor: Ragnarok magic. Though it’s hard to tell how much of that was from the script, or from Hemsworth being Hemsworth.
A shot from one of the movie’s coolest action sequences.Photo: Giles Keyte (Sony)
Agents M and H are thrust into the middle of a conspiracy, which they fear could involve the Men in Black itself. When there’s no one else to trust, the two of them are forced to rely on each other. This is where the movie shines. I know some fans will be disappointed that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones aren’t back for this movie (although there’s a lovely tribute to them), but Thompson and Hemsworth were the right actors to don the shades and become the new tag team.
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Things start a bit awkward between them but the pair settles into a comfortable rhythm over the course of the film, similar to the one they established in Ragnarok—with Thompson playing the quirky but confident hero, and Hemsworth the arrogant doofus with moments of wisdom. The movie doesn’t build their relationship that much, but it doesn’t need to. The chemistry is already there.
The international setting gives the movie a distinct James Bond vibe, which was an excellent idea. The fight choreography and action sequences are solid, and use the film’s new alien species to their full potential. Speaking of which, the alien designs in this movie are fantastic, with some creative choices harkening back to one of the things the original did so well (though this time they’re mostly CGI). The bad guys we come across early in the film, for example, look like a couple of Doctor Manhattans surrounded by swirls of emission nebula. I was in awe every time they were onscreen, and their abilities were used to their fullest potential to make an incredibly vivid visual.
And goddammit, I loved Kumail Nanjiani’s stupid pawn alien, as much as I wanted to loathe him. He felt tacked on, to the point where I think they added dialogue for him in scenes that had already been shot, but I didn’t care. Nanjiani is a delight, and got the most laughs at the screening I went to.
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However, as previously mentioned, the story leaves a lot to be desired. Some scenes felt like they dragged on too long, others felt rushed or left on the cutting room floor. And while the main plot line was solid, the ending was way too rushed. I think Agent H’s relationship with his mentor, High T (Liam Neeson), was the biggest victim here. The movie acts like their relationship is important but we don’t see it in action enough to justify its significance. I get that the movie wants to spend time with H and M, they’re the stars, but if you’re going to center H’s emotional arc around his relationship with High T, it has to be earned.
I also had a problem with one of M’s main conflicts in the film centering around romance, falling back on a tired trope. The movie does acknowledge her priorities (to stay detached for the sake of her job) and never asks her to compromise them. But I think her story could have been served much better by creating more parallels between her and Agent O and the relationship between Agent H and High T.
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But Men in Black: International isn’t a movie that needs to be perfect in order to be worth your time. Hell, the original wasn’t perfect either, but that doesn’t matter. It’s about the experience, and the experience I had watching Men in Black: International was fun and I think viewers of all ages will feel the same. I had a great time, plot issues and all, and I would love to see more from Agents M and H in the future. The movie does end on an ambiguous note about their future, but as Annie would say: The giant portal laser will come out of the Eiffel Tower tomorrow. Betcha bottom dollar.
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