Film after film has been made into a Broadway musical, from Mean Girls to Legally Blonde. But who would have thought you could make a musical from Sully?
For a new segment dubbed “Fraudway,” Jimmy Kimmel made up a musical version of the 2016 film starring Tom Hanks, inspired by the emergency landing made by U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, after it struck a flock of geese.
Kimmel’s team asked folks passing through Times Square in New York to review the fake musical, dubbed Hudson, We Have a Problem, with pretty hilarious results.
But not to make liars out of their participants, Kimmel then presented an actual number from his Sully-inspired musical on Tuesday night’s show, performed at the Howard Gilman Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
And Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger himself? Played by none other than Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick.
Gotta love those dancing geese — until they meet their sticky end.
BOSTON — One year ago, Jayson Tatum was sitting in a Ritz Carlton hotel room high above downtown Cleveland, fretting over his looming matchup against LeBron James.
Within a span of five months, he’d gone from college student to NBA player, and now his regular-season debut was hours away. Alongside his father, Justin, and godfather, former NBA player Larry Hughes, Tatum sat there scrolling through Instagram and trying to distract himself with the ambient noise of ESPN.
A lot has changed since then.
Tatum spent the first half that night coughing up the ball and clanking jumpers. LeBron—who Tatum had messaged on Twitter six years earlier begging for a “follow back”—swatted his first shot out of bounds.
But then Gordon Hayward, the Celtics’ marquee free-agent signing, shattered his leg. Six months later, Kyrie Irving, the Celtics’ marquee trade acquisition, went down with a knee injury.
Suddenly, Tatum was thrust into a new role.
It’d be inaccurate to say he carried the Celtics on his back into the playoffs, but he did become the go-to weapon for a Boston team that came within one win of knocking off LeBron’s Cavaliers and making the NBA Finals.
Which leads us to Tuesday night and the Celtics’ convincing 105-87 home win over the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA’s season opener. Because there was Tatum, just a year removed from that afternoon in the Cleveland Ritz Carlton, but on this night, that timid kid was nowhere to be found.
There were silky jumpers, slick crossovers and nasty slams. Also, a sly wink.
Tatum was relaxed yet confident, aggressive yet patient, the seemingly conflicting package of traits that only superstars possess.
“I’m a lot more comfortable and relaxed and knew what to expect,” said Tatum, who finished with a game-high 23 points on 9-for-17 shooting in only 29 minutes. “Last year, I was new.”
A few minutes later, Tatum was standing outside the Celtics locker room, dapping up Sixers star Joel Embiid and sharing a laugh. The two spent the summer sparring in trainer Drew Hanlen’s Los Angeles gym. Despite their different positions, they were often matched up against one another Tuesday night.
As far as metaphors go, this was pretty strong: the heart of the Sixers dueling the future of the Celtics. That Tatum was able to repeatedly come out on top—including with a off-balance 18 footer off the glass, followed by a staredown—was symbolic, too.
It’s strange to think of a 20-year-old as his team’s steady hand, but that’s what’s so striking about Tatum. On a night in which Irving went only 2-of-14 and Hayward resembled a player still trying to shake off rust, Tatum took control.
“Our best player didn’t hit shots tonight and we still win by 20,” he said.
That the Celtics did so, particularly against one of their primary Eastern Conference challengers, is a testament to the impact Tatum can have. It’s also something that should terrify the rest of the NBA.
It’s particularly troubling for the Sixers, who are seemingly destined to spend the next few years chasing the Celtics. They could forever be haunted by the decision last summer to pass on Tatum in favor of Markelle Fultz.
Tatum is the rare 20-year-old who’s worthy of being discussed for what he can do right now. Hayward, after all, is still on a minutes limit. Irving won’t have many repeats of his Tuesday night performance, but it could take him some time to resemble Uncle Drew again.
Granted, no one should overreact to one performance on opening night. There’s still a whole season ahead, still battles to be had against Kawhi’s Raptors and the rising Pacers and Bucks. Yet over the past year it’s become clear that for Eastern Conference teams the path to the Finals goes through Boston.
The Celtics are deep, perhaps deeper than any other NBA team. They don’t need Tatum going one-on-five. Yet on Tuesday night, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said of him, “We need him to be great.”
On most nights he is. The only question worth asking now is how great can he become.
Yaron Weitzman covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow Yaron on Twitter@YaronWeitzmanand sign up for his newsletterhere.
So Calle opted to pay tribute to her cat in a way that she only could: An all-star concept album full of songs dedicated to Souris.
On Souris Calle, the likes of Bono, Pharrell Williams, The National, Michael Stipe, Jarvis Cocker, and Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes, to name a few, contributed songs about the cat, or wider themes of loss and grief.
About 10 artists on the album knew the cat personally, but Calle told the Wall Street Journal she met these artists through chance encounters, or through friends of friends.
In the first track, Bono leaves a voicemail message which is actually a poem to Souris. Williams contributes a short instrumental in “A Cat Named Mouse,” while The National’s “Le violon blanc de Monsieur Souris” sounds like one of the band’s songs, but about a cat.
Calle wanted to challenge people’s view of grief for pets.
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Calle challenges the idea that “we seem ridiculous” when we grieve for our pets in a way that’s similar to grieving for humans.
“When you say you’re sad about the cat, it’s a bit obscene for people,” she told ArtNet.
“You can’t say that. I mean, if I say my mother or my father is dead, everyone tells me ‘Oh, poor thing, she lost her mother, oh, poor thing, she lost her father,’ but if we say that about our cat, we seem ridiculous. It makes me laugh, when for me, in my daily life, it was almost more violent, because I lived with my cat. I didn’t live with my parents.”
The 37-track, 95-minute album, which debuted at Calle’s solo show last week, is available to stream.
“This is not a rivalry,” Embiid said following the Sixers’ 105-87 loss to the Celtics on Tuesday night, per Sporting News’ Sean Deveney. “I don’t know our record against them, but it’s pretty bad. They always kick our ass.”
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The big man has a point.
The Celtics went 3-1 against the Sixers during the 2017-18 regular season, and they dispatched them in five games during a heated—albeit rather lopsided—Eastern Conference semifinals clash in May.
For what it’s worth, Sixers shooting guard JJ Redick is with Embiid.
“I’m a firm believer having played ACC basketball that one side has to beat the other side for it to be a rivalry and vice versa,” Redicktold reportersprior to Tuesday’s season opener. “It’s not a rivalry until we knock them out of the playoffs. For now, they’ve got the upper hand. It’s not a rivalry.”
The Sixers will get their next crack at the Celtics when the two sides hit Boston’s parquet floor on Christmas Day.
A rocket was fired into Israel from the Gaza strip on Wednesday causing unspecified damage in a southern city. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
“At 4am [01:00 GMT] Israelis in the city of Beer Sheva were running to bomb shelters after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel,” the Israeli army said on Twitter.
“We will defend Israeli civilians,” it added, suggesting there would be a military response.
It is one of the first rockets fired in recent weeks from the Palestinian territory under Israel’s devastating blockade and comes at a time of renewed tensions between Israel and Palestinian armed groups.
“A rocket struck the city of Beer Sheva a few moments ago causing damage,” the Israeli police said, without specifying the extent.
The rocket fell into the garden of a house occupied by a family with three children who were being treated for shock, local media reported.
The Israeli army reported another rocket was fired towards the sea.
Palestinians in Gaza face mounting mental health crisis
It was unclear who fired the projectiles but the Israeli army says it holds Hamas accountable for what is happening in the territory under its control.
The rocket fire comes after months of violent Palestinian protests on the Gaza border, sparking deadly gunfire from Israeli troops and fears of an all-out conflict between Hamas and Israel, which have fought three wars since 2008.
Since protests began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed at least 205 Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave.
The protesters are demanding to be allowed to return to land now inside Israel, from which their families fled or were displaced during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of the Jewish state.
Cutting off fuel
Israel’s defence minister said on Tuesday the protests could not be allowed to go on.
“We are not prepared to accept the level of violence we see week after week,” Avigdor Lieberman told troops and commanders at an army base near southern Israel’s border with Gaza.
He also suspended shipments of fuel that had been trucked daily into Gaza over the previous week under a deal brokered by the UN and backed by the United States, Israel and others.
It had seen thousands of litres brought into the fuel-starved Gaza strip.
The UN says Israel’s 11-year blockade of the enclave has resulted in a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation.
Gaza’s two million residents endure dire living conditions including a shortage of safe drinking water and regular power cuts, partly because of the lack of fuel for the strip’s power station.
Many foreign governments stepped up their lobbying to reach the Trump administration, but the Saudis have been especially successful, securing a visit from the president with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Lobbying firms, think tanks and investors all are coming under scrutiny over their ties to the kingdom.
The growing diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi is shining a spotlight on just how integral the country — and its cash — have become to Washington, with lobbying firms, think tanks and investors all under scrutiny over their ties to the kingdom.
The Saudis have exerted influence in Washington for decades, from shelling out millions on lobbying firms to sending high-powered members of the royal family to serve as ambassadors and social figures.
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The kingdom doled out cash to Washington think tanks such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The Emerson Collective, which has helped fund D.C. media organizations, also has links to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco, the national oil company, has hired its own consultants and public relations firms, including for a planned $100 billion initial public offering.
Saudi Arabia’s outlays have increased in the era of President Donald Trump, a report from a left-leaning Washington think tank found, with U.S. lobbying spending in 2017 nearly three times what it was a year earlier.
“They use every vehicle, and more and better than most countries, I think,” said Trent Lott, the former Senate majority leader who has lobbied on behalf of Saudi Arabia.
But now, amid heightened tensions after Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident, disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, at least three of the kingdom’s squadron of high-priced lobbying and public-relations firms have dropped it as a client. And it’s unclear how much more the crisis will diminish Saudi Arabia’s influence in Washington.
One person familiar with Saudi Arabia’s lobbying efforts pointed to Sen. Lindsay Graham’s (R-S.C.) call Tuesday for the Trump administration to “sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia” as evidence of how much the crisis has shaken lawmakers’ faith in the Saudis.
“Restoring that faith is going to be very difficult,” the person said.
Saudi Arabia won’t have to do it alone; the kingdom’s handsome payouts have assured it has plenty of help in Washington. While at least three of its firms have quit, the kingdom continues to retain several prominent lobbying organizations, including Hogan Lovells and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
A forthcoming report from the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the left-leaning Center for International Policy, which was shared with POLITICO, found that registered foreign agents working on behalf of Saudi interests contacted Congress, the White House, the press and think tank analysts more than 2,500 times in 2017.
“A big part of what Saudi Arabia is doing is image management and trying to make sure the narrative crafted in the west is a positive narrative,” said Ben Freeman, the report’s author. “Saudi Arabia has been so influential in D.C. because they hit every lever of influence.”
Many foreign governments stepped up their lobbying to reach the new administration after Trump took office, but the Saudis have been especially successful, securing a visit from the president on his first overseas trip and earning his loyalty with plans for a major arms deal.
He appeared to side with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies during a 2017 rift with Qatar, a key U.S. ally. Both sides scrambled to hire Washington lobbying muscle to convince lawmakers and the administration that they were in the right in that battle.
Trump’s affinity for Saudi Arabia appears to be surviving the current crisis for the moment: He told the Associated Press Tuesday that blaming the kingdom for Khashoggi’s disappearance appeared to be a case of “guilty until proven innocent.”
But Saudi Arabia’s open pocketbook has not always translated to success in Washington. In 2016, Saudi Arabia mounted an all-out lobbying push to kill the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which allowed victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks to sue the kingdom. Congress ultimately passed the bill over President Barack Obama’s veto, despite the money Saudi Arabia poured into trying to defeat it.
“I wish I had a dime for every $1,000 Saudi Arabia has spent on futile public relations efforts over the past 20 or 30 years,” said Thomas Lippman, a former Washington Post reporter who’s now an affiliated scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank that said this week it would no longer accept money from the Saudi government.
One person familiar with Qatar’s lobbying strategy speculated that the current skepticism toward Saudi Arabia in Washington could wind up benefiting its regional rival.
“I think it changes everything,” the person said.
On Tuesday, it seemed as if attacks on the Saudis were coming from all quarters.
Fred Ryan, the Washington Post’s publisher and chief executive, urged the Trump administration to “push harder for the truth” about what happened to Khashoggi.
“Until we have a full account and full accountability, it cannot be business as usual with the Saudi government,” Ryan said in a statement.
A Washington Post spokeswoman also confirmed Tuesday that the paper told BGR Group chairman Ed Rogers he would have to stop writing an opinion column for the PostPartisan blog if he continued lobbying for Saudi Arabia. The firm has dropped Saudi Arabia as a client.
Steve Schmidt, a former vice chairman of the public relations firm Edelman who’s been a critic of the Trump administration, tweeted that the kingdom’s lobbying efforts were “a poster child for the corruption that runs rampant in Washington DC”
Some lobbying firms and think tanks are waiting to see how the administration responds to the crisis before they decide whether to terminate their relationships with the Saudis.
While the Middle East Institute said this week that it would no longer accept money from the Saudi government, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said it would hold off on deciding until it was clear what had happened to Khashoggi.
“We will be waiting for evidence to emerge from that process, and to see how the Saudi government and our own government responds to such evidence, before we make a decision on the future of CSIS’s relationship with the Kingdom,” H. Andrew Schwartz, a spokesman for the think tank, said in a statement.
The Sweetener singer has been largely off of social media since news broke that she and Pete Davidsoncalled off their engagement this weekend. She hasn’t publicly commented on the split, though she did post a pic promoting her upcoming appearance on A Very Wicked Halloween, an NBC special celebrating the 15th anniversary of Wicked‘s Broadway debut. And in her first Instagram Story posted Tuesday afternoon (October 16), Grande shared how she’s been feeling these past few days, sending a strong message about battling anxiety.
“Can’t believe I almost let my anxiety ruin this for me today!!!” she wrote, alongside a selfie that shows off the bold green makeup she sported for the taping of the NBC special, airing October 29. “Not today Satan. Not tomorrow or the next day either not no more u can suck my big green dick. Finna sing my heart out and be a big walking vessel of love bye.”
So… it’s not explicitly a response to her recently ended engagement, but it does seem to speak to how Grande’s feeling in the wake of the breakup (and it is most definitely explicit). The singer reportedly canceled a planned performance at a cancer benefit over the weekend, but she seems to be happy getting back to work now. That’s great news for fans itching for that new music she’s been teasing — as well as that promised video for “Breathin,” her rumored next single, which, appropriately enough, is all about fighting anxiety. Hopefully, Grande can channel some of that BDE she was clearly feeling today and channel it into her work.
Elsewhere on Instagram, the 25-year-old posted another selfie of her dramatic Wicked look (peep that above), and sleuthing fans have been posting footage of Ari performing Elphaba’s “The Wizard and I” during Tuesday’s taping. See one of those posts below, and bask in the positive vibes of that green-lipped vessel of love.
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