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Black America Web
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Method Man Flexes His Muscles At Concert, Sends Lady Fans Into A Frenzy
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Method Man sent the internet into a frenzy on June 26, when the rapper appeared on the Love B. Scott Instagram page lifting his shirt for a crowd of rowdy fans. The hip-hop icon was performing onstage for a recent stop on the 'Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber tour' when he flashed a glimpse of his perfectly sculpted body for the crowd, sending the audience crazy. Ladies on social media were hot and bothered too, as they couldn't get enough of seeing the rapper's impeccable abs and pecs in the short but sweltering clip. 'I've already rewatched this at least 69 times!' Dr. Catrise Austin-Veneer penned in the comments section. Another user mentioned that the 54-year-old rapper was 'always the fiiione one' out of his Wu-Tang entourage. A third fan simply penned, 'Daaaamn!' While Method Man may be admired by fans for his chiseled physique, fitness holds a much deeper meaning for the Grammy-winning rapper. In a 2020 interview with Men's Health , Clifford Smith—his real name—revealed that his commitment to working out began as a way to combat a severe bout of insomnia. What started as a health necessity has since evolved into a disciplined daily routine that he's maintained ever since. His typical workout begins with a warm-up of wide-grip pull-ups and close-grip chin-ups, followed by an intense strength-training session that includes deadlifts, bent-over rows, seated cable rows, straight-arm pulldowns, weighted neck extensions, and core-focused exercises like ab rollouts and cable crunches. For Method Man, fitness isn't just about looks—it's about mental clarity, consistency, and overall well-being. 'My goal is to get to a point where I can take my shirt off in any setting, basically be the Rock without the tattoos and the movie accolades,' the Hempstead native told the outlet at the time. Well, mission accomplished, Mr. Man! Method Man's dedication to health and fitness has fueled a creative resurgence, giving him the energy to dive into a wave of new music and film projects as of late. In May, he starred alongside Kyra Sedgwick in Bad Shabbos , a Tribeca award-winning comedy that marked a major leading role for the rapper-turned-actor. Just a month later, he dropped a new track titled 'Ricky Bobby' with Rome Streetz and Conductor Williams, proof that Method Man is still at the top of his game, both in the studio and on screen. DON'T MISS… Tamron Hall Lost All Composure When Method Man Visited Her Show And We Don't Blame Her Method Man Makes Us Swoon + More Moments From The 2024 Essence Festival That Everyone Is Talking About SEE ALSO Method Man Flexes His Muscles At Concert, Sends Lady Fans Into A Frenzy was originally published on
The Irish Sun
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Rarely seen nepo baby celebrates his birthday with A-list Hollywood parents – but can you guess who he is?
A HOLLYWOOD nepo-baby has marked his birthday with his superstar parents. The 36th milestone comes after a huge family film project featuring the entire high-profile clan. Advertisement 7 A Hollywood nepo-baby has celebrated his 36th birthday Credit: Instagram/@kevinbacon 7 Their famous dad shared a series of images of their son in a sweet birthday message Credit: Instagram/@kevinbacon 7 Travis Bacon is the eldest child of Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick Credit: Instagram/@kevinbacon 7 They have collaborated on a series of joint projects together as a family Credit: Getty Travis Bacon, the rarely-seen son of Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon, 66, and wife Kyra Sedgwick, 59, was seen beaming as he posed by a slice of cake with a candle on top. A chef had written the words 'happy birthday' in icing on the plate and Travis appeared chuffed to be at the heart of the celebrations. He wore a black logo top for his special day, with his black hair styled poker-straight over his shoulders. His famous actor pop Kevin was quick to upload a grid post on Instagram and put: "Happy birthday TSB! Boy I love my Boy." Advertisement read more nepo baby Music composer and artist Kevin added: "Thanks Dad!" The images also showed the family enjoying some quality time together, with a trip to the caravan, before images showed tattooed Travis sleeping on a cuddly toy skeleton and wielding an axe. Meanwhile, Bad Shabbos actress Kyra, 59, also shared a snapshot to Instagram to celebrate her eldest and posted: "Happy birthday to my baby boy @svrtcntraclt." Travis, who is known for Space Oddity and Carry The Darkness, then shared his own celebrations from Texas. Advertisement Most read in Celebrity He posed topless by a car and wrote: "This is 36," before posing by his car with his burlesque performer girlfriend Angelina Sambrotto. FAMILY AFFAIR Travis, who will soon appear alongside little sister Sosie, 33, on horror movie Keep Coming Back, has a history of collaborating with his famous family. What is Kevin Bacon's TikTok footloose challenge? His parents directed and starred in Family Movie - which also starred both Travis and his sibling. The plot captured a family of real-life filmmakers who became embroiled in their own horror flick Advertisement 'There may not be a more compelling Hollywood family than the Bacons,' said Dark Castle co-CEO and fellow producer Norman Golightly at the time. 'We can't wait to bring their unique dynamic to the screen and then wildly turn it on its head for audiences.' Kevin Bacon Films Kevin Bacon has enjoyed a long career as an actor. He rose to fame in the late 70s, and continues to appear in movies to this day. Kevin has appeared in some of the most iconic films to date and is beloved by fans. Here's a look at his filmography. National Lampoon's Animal House Friday the 13th Diner Footloose Quicksilver She's Having a Baby Flatliners Tremors He Said, She Said JFK A Few Good Men The River Wild The Air Up There Murder in the First Apollo 13 Sleepers Wild Things Stir of Echoes Hollow Man My Dog Skip Trapped Mystic River The Woodsman Death Sentence Frost/Nixon X-Men: First Class Crazy, Stupid, Love Black Mass Patriots Day The Darkness MaXXXine They also starred in 2005 flick Loverboy. Talking about his parenting style to Advertisement Meanwhile, Kevin has spoken out about enjoying his high-profile life with his brood. In a 2017 interview with Good Morning America, Kevin shared a time he went incognito, and he said he "hated it." He said: "It's better to be well-known. Everyone complains about it, saying, 'My life is so hard.' "But every day people say 'I love you'. Isn't that a great thing?" Advertisement 7 Travis has followed in the footsteps of his famous movie star parents Credit: Instagram 7 He spent his birthday in Texas with partner Angelina Sambrotto Credit: Instagram/@angiealaska 7 His little sister Sosie has carved out a career as a film star Credit: Getty
Boston Globe
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Bad Shabbos' is a mediocre movie
Advertisement Jordan's favorite tenants are Ellen (Sedgwick) and her husband Richie (Paymer), who reside in apartment 10B with their slacker son, Adam (Theo Taplitz). Their other children, Abby (Milana Vayntrub) and David (Jon Bass), and David's fiancé, Meg (Meghan Leathers), are arriving for Shabbat dinner when the film opens. The title of the movie is a play on the 'good Shabbos' greeting everyone offers as they arrive. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Method Man in 'Bad Shabbos.' Menemsha Films The entire neighborhood, including Jordan, knows that Meg's Catholic parents, John (Lloyd) and Beth (Catherine Curtin) will be meeting David's family for the first time at this dinner. They're not happy about their daughter converting to Judaism, and Ellen is equally unhappy that her eldest son isn't marrying a nice Jewish woman. Meg's folks are coming all the way from Milwaukee. Abby's boyfriend, Benjamin (Ashley Zukerman), is coming from Williamsburg, which is a far shorter commute. Benjamin and Adam have a vituperative hatred of one another, which will prove fatal before a single loaf of challah is broken. Advertisement In the screenplay by director Daniel Robbins and Zach Weiner, Jordan serves the same purpose as Winston Wolf: There's a dead body that needs to be disposed of before John and Beth arrive at the house, and time is running out. 'Bad Shabbos' shoots itself in the tuchus by telling us what happens to the dead body in the opening scene, robbing the frenetic goings-on of any suspense. The body belongs to Benjamin, who cracks his skull when a prank pulled by Adam goes horribly awry. From here, 'Bad Shabbos' becomes an endless series of scenes where these unlikable characters bicker and fight while trying to dispose of the body. Once Jordan gets involved, the film manages some laughs and a hint of cleverness, especially during the dinner scene that serves as the centerpiece. David Paymer and Kyra Sedgwick in 'Bad Shabbos.' Menemsha Films Dead body disposal comedies like this either lean into their darkness, like the dreadful Christian Slater movie, 'Very Bad Things,' or go for broad situation comedy laughs like 'Weekend at Bernie's.' This film is too chicken to aim for the former, so it has to make Benjamin a bigger louse than Adam so that our loyalties remain with a family covering up involuntary manslaughter. That ploy doesn't work, and the constant family bickering yields only intermittent chuckles instead of the desired cringe comedy shudders. Paymer seems to be having a ball as the self-help book quoting patriarch. Bass and Vayntrub are convincing as siblings, but Taplitz is too off-putting to generate any sympathy. Sedgwick is saddled with a stereotypical role, but her character's disproving facial expressions and passive-aggressive attitude toward her future daughter-in-law ring true. Advertisement I didn't expect the characters to turn on one another like in Danny Boyle's darker dead body comedy 'Shallow Grave.' But I also wasn't expecting the rather offensive deus ex machina or the resulting tacked on happy ending that followed it. Neither did the film any favors, because these elements felt like a cheat. Thank goodness for Method Man, who understood the assignment and made the film watchable and fun whenever Jordan showed up. When he isn't on screen, 'Bad Shabbos' is a mediocre movie. ★★ BAD SHABBOS Directed by Daniel Robbins. Written by Robbins, Zach Weiner. Starring Kyra Sedgwick, David Paymer, Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Cliff 'Method Man' Smith, Theo Taplitz, Milana Vayntrub, John Bedford Lloyd, Catherine Curtain, Ashley Zukerman. At Coolidge Corner. 84 min. Unrated (profanity) Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe's film critic.
UPI
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Kyra Sedgwick: 'Bad Shabbos' reminds families of 'what's important'
LOS ANGELES, June 6 (UPI) -- Kyra Sedgwick says her comedy Bad Shabbos, in theaters now, holds a relevant message about making time for family. She plays Ellen, a mother hosting a Friday night Shabbat dinner for her family and future in-laws, in the new film. The dinner goes comically awry, but Sedgwick said families should prioritize making time for each other. In a recent phone interview with UPI, the actress, 59, said her family does not allow phones during meals. "That's a really good habit to get into with your family and your kids," the star said. "It's the time to really download about the day and let people be reminded about what's important but also to be like, 'You're a priority for me. I'm going to hold space for this and hold space for you.'" The family in Bad Shabbos follows Jewish traditions, such not driving on the sabbath and not using modern technology like cell phones. Sedgwick, who is married to actor Kevin Bacon and mother to Sosie and Travis Bacon, said taking a break from phones is a good idea regardless of religion. "I just don't think that our nervous system is set up for it and I think we're really hurting our bodies with the amount of connection to moment-by-moment news," she said. "Remember that family comes first, that we have our priorities but connection and being a human being is better than being a human doing." Sedgwick has been acting since she was a teenager herself on the soap opera Another World. She sees her early roles still impact audiences despite preceding modern technology. For example, 1992's Singles, Cameron Crowe's second movie as director, is about men and women in their 20s living in a Seattle apartment complex looking for love. "Twentysomethings come up to me now and say, 'I just saw Singles and it's exactly like my life,'" she said. "Even without the social media piece, [Crowe] still was able to tap into some core feelings of what it is to be in your 20s, looking for love and connection." Now that Sedgwick has a family of her own, other aspects of Bad Shabbos became relevant too. Ellen's daughter, Abby (Milana Vayntrub), accuses Ellen of making a face when Abby shares news of her life. "My daughter is constantly thinking I'm making faces so she's probably right," Sedgwick said. "I think that we think we're better actors than we are with our kids and I think they see right through it." The way Ellen treats her three children also demonstrates the different relationships between family members. Ellen struggles to be polite to her David's (Jon Bass) non-Jewish fiance, Meg (Meghan Leathers), while she gushes over her other son, Adam (Theo Taplitz), a loner who dreams of joining the Israel Defense Forces. The family lives in New York. "Everyone plays a role in a family," Sedgwick said. "Someone needs a little bit more of the gentle mom and someone else needs to be pushed a little bit more. Someone else needs to be given the benefit of the doubt. Some people don't." Sedgwick's own mother, Patricia Rosenwald, was Jewish and married art dealer Ben Heller. Sedgwick said her stepfather introduced Passover seders into their family, but they still celebrated Christmas instead of Hanukkah. "My connection with Judaism is really my ethics, my ethical culture," she said. "I really don't know very much about the religion at all but I do know you're allowed to question things. It's not just because God says so. The Torah is all about asking questions and having conversation. I think that it felt like a spiritual connection for me in that way." Another one of Sedgwick's earlier movies speaks to spiritual healing. In Heart and Souls, she plays a ghost who died before accepting her fiance's proposal. Through a living man (Robert Downey, Jr.), she and three other ghosts are able to correct their mistakes. "I think the idea of being able to make amends and go back and fix things feels really good to me, and is a universal thing that we can all be aspirational about," she said. Sedgwick is currently in production on a movie with her own family. Family Movie stars Kevin, Kyra, Sosie and Travis as a family of filmmakers, though they are not playing the Bacons. "We're definitely playing characters, but they may or may not have a certain meta aspect to them," she said. Kevin and Sedgwick initiated the idea of making a movie as a family. The couple took four pitches and Dan Beers was hired to write the script. Sedgwick said the inspiration for a project with the entire family came from making the short film Until at home during COVID-19 lockdowns. Released in 2022, Kevin and Sedgwick directed Until and Travis composed the music for it. "We're definitely both workaholics and we wanted to keep creating," she said. "We thought maybe we could do something together with the whole family."
New York Times
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Kyra Sedgwick Wants More Middle-Aged Sex Onscreen
Kyra Sedgwick can relate to the Upper West Side matriarch she portrays in her latest film, 'Bad Shabbos.' 'I very much have all the trope attributes of Jewish motherhood,' she said. 'I really want to know that you've eaten, and if you're hungry I'll make you something. I want to make sure you're not too cold or too hot. I want to know what you had for breakfast.' 'Bad Shabbos' centers on a Shabbat dinner that goes spectacularly off the rails, but Sedgwick finds the sentiments it evokes to be universal. 'Like them or not, they're your family,' she said in a video call from Austin, Texas, where she and her husband, Kevin Bacon, and their children, Travis and Sosie, are making a comedy-horror movie about a family of filmmakers. 'It is not us, but it is inspired by us,' she said before elaborating on why '90s rock, 'All Fours' by Miranda July and the meditation teacher Tara Brach are among her must-haves. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Bess Wohl is extraordinary. Basically it's about this woman who's now in her 30s trying to figure out who her mother was in the genesis of women's lib. And she's imagining what that was like and asking, 'What did we get wrong?' I think the message of the play is: We didn't get it wrong. The world got it wrong. I'm just heartbroken because they stopped making it. I'm not a big perfume person, but I've been wearing it for 20, 25 years, and all of a sudden they're putting it in the vault. And there's really not much to say except that I just loved it. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
