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The Review Geek
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Smoke – Season 1 Episode 4 Recap & Review
Strawberry Episode 4 of Smoke begins with David Gudsen giving a presentation about arson. All the other officers are in attendance, including Calderone who watches from the back. It's a rather unconventional speech, especially when Dave mentions how chaos beats order every time and starts a couple of small fires. After, Calderone heads off to visit her brother, Benji. He's organizing underground cockfighting and he apologizes for lashing out at her. He's off the booze now (two whole days!) and the pair get along well. Being here does give Michelle another idea though and that comes from the bird tags. She believes they can place the tags in bags and stack them in numerical order, have a clerk write down the numbers while working, and when they find a tag from the arsonist, trace it back to the CCTV footage and count the number of customers. It's pretty ingenious and Englehart also goes for it too. Meanwhile, things between Emmett and Dave are still awkward. Ashley tries to stick up for her partner but Emmett is convinced that he's two-faced. Gudsen is avoiding heading home though after their big fight, and instead winds up drinking with Calderone in the office. As they talk, they discuss the different paths in life people are given and the changing fortunes therein. Dave opens up here, admitting that when he was 15 his mum just disappeared. They called the police and had a search party out but she wound up skipping town and head off with a substitute teacher because she wanted a fresh start. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, Gudsen decided to pretend she was dead and moved on. Now, Gudsen won't be in town for the weekend either, given he's got an arson conference in Leighton When he does head home and speaks to Emmett in the morning, he tries to apologize, in a roundabout way. Ashley throws a lifeline out, suggesting he pick up his stepson up from practice after school. Unfortunately, Gudsen loses track of time and he shows up at the office, where she bumps into Michelle. As for Calderone, she finds old business cards in her desk belonging to an agent called Ezra Esposito. This is the man Dave was working with before she showed up. The files have been sealed and there's no getting in right now. Michelle offers to give Emmett a lift home, which is probably just as well given it gives her a crucial clue. Emmett tells her that 'nobody knows Dave Gudsen' and he also has no knowledge of this Esposito character. Naturally, Michelle decides to butter Englehart up and find out about Esposito. Apparently he shot himself in the foot and he sued the department. To try and keep this quiet, they gave him the entire retirement plan. However, he became convinced that Gudsen was their arsonist. It doesn't help that inside the house, Dave and Ashley are in the middle of a fight. Dave thinks Emmett needs to 'man up' and it causes Ashley to snap. She lashes out at his mediocre, pedestrian book and leaves him stunned. Meanwhile, Freddy shows up to see Brenda and wants her to change his hair. He no longer wants to be seen, so Brenda encourages him to come back after 5. He doesn't, instead cutting his own hair back home, before setting up a whole bunch of jugs, ready to hit the town. It's Gudsen who heads out first though, meeting a woman at the store who winds up flirting with him. He looks like he's about to set fire to the chips again but this time things are different. Gudsen still has the desire to burn so he introduces this woman to the world of 'streaking'. He ties her down, drops oil on her stomach and sets fire to it. He promises this won't leave any scars, and after putting it out, wants him to burn her again. He nods, and the episode ends. The Episode Review Although Smoke's latest episode is the slowest and doesn't have much in the way of plot development, what it does showcase is rather important. Not only are we seeing more of Michelle's ingenuity and her ability to dive head-first into this case, but also the extent of Dave Gudsen's mental issues. Whether his sociopathic tendencies stem from his mother leaving and snapping something deep inside him, or if this occurred later on through the pressures of life, it's clear that he's wound tighter than a two dollar watch. We know that he's going to snap at some point, but so too is Freddy it seems. With all those jugs in his closet, wrapped in black bags no less, it'll be interesting to see who snaps first. Either way, the second half of this series looks like it's going to pick up in a big way. Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lady Gaga Reveals Alter Ego Jo Calderone 'Is No Longer with Us' After Portraying the Character in Her 'You and I' Video
Lady Gaga has some devastating news for Jo Calderone fans. During her lie detector test with Vanity Fair published on Feb. 19, the "Abracadabra" singer, 38, shared what happened to her edgy chain-smoking alter ego that was part of her Born This Way era. When asked what happened to "this person" as a picture of Jo Calderone is shown, Gaga hesitates. "Oh, this person is no longer with us," she said without setting off the polygraph test. Related: Lady Gaga Will Do Double Duty (Again!) as SNL Host and Musical Guest, Shane Gillis and Tate McRae Also Return Gaga debuted Jo Calderone in 2011. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Calderone is "supposedly a mechanic from Sicily" and starred alongside Gaga in her "Yoü and I" music video. The character made his first live appearance at the 2011 MTV VMAs in a white T-shirt, black jacket and a mess of curly dark hair. Calderone performed "Yoü and I" with Queen's Brian May joining for a guitar solo and presented Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award that evening. As far as inspiration for the music video transformation went, Gaga wrote on X in 2011: You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. She also told V about how Calderone came to be in 2011. "Beginning as an invention of my mind, Jo Calderone was created with [British fashion photographer] Nick Knight as a mischievous experiment," she began. After working together tirelessly and passionately for years, eating bovine hearts, throwing up on ourselves, giving birth to an alien nation and an AK-47, Nick and I began to wonder: how much exactly can we get away with?" Gaga further contemplated: "How can we remodel the model? In a culture that attempts to quantify beauty with a visual paradigm and almost mathematical standard, how can we f--- with the malleable minds of onlookers and shift the world's perspective on what's beautiful?" "I asked myself this question. And the answer? Drag." Calderone would appear on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan and after the cover was printed, Knight told Gaga, "I believe Jo has to sing." Related: Lady Gaga Confirms 'Telephone' Video Continuation Is Still Coming 15 Years Later — but Will Beyoncé Join Her Again? Gaga concluded after performing as Calderone and spending "as him," that by "remodeling the 'model artist,' 'model citizen,' or 'supermodel,' we can liberate the present. " Gaga, whose album Mayhem comes out on March 7, hasn't seemingly spoken about Calderone since. Read the original article on People
New York Times
18-02-2025
- Health
- New York Times
Answering Life's Health Questions, One Week at a Time
There are certain questions in life — about relationships, work or health — that can feel too intimate to ask even a friend. Sometimes, though, you're just wondering: Does hot water with lemon really have health benefits? Well, maybe, according to experts — but it's not a miracle drink, as some social media influencers might have you believe. That answer came from nutrition experts featured in Ask Well, a New York Times column that aims to fill in the gaps surrounding health topics like allergies, microplastics, toxic chemicals in home goods and depression. Julia Calderone, the column's editor, fields questions submitted by readers or posed by colleagues. She then taps journalists from the Well section or health and science freelance writers to report the answers, with the help of experts and research. The column, which publishes every Tuesday morning, aims to provide a judgment-free zone for people to pose even their most personal health concerns. (The questions are published anonymously.) In an interview, Ms. Calderone spoke about how she picks questions, what topics she won't assign and what she hopes people take away from the column. This interview has been edited and condensed. Do you look for questions that are topical? Or is it whatever strikes your interest? It's a combination. Sometimes, it's seasonal — like if we're in allergy season, I'll look for questions around allergies. Then it's based on what we've published in the past and what we're running that month. I try to create a nice mix. One week I'll do mental health; another week, I'll do nutrition. I try to have a good variety. I also look at what other stories we published in the Well section that week to make sure there's no overlap. Do you notice general themes with reader questions? Often what will happen is we'll publish an Ask Well and then readers will ask more questions about that topic. One that was really popular was 'How Much Advil Is Too Much?' Then we heard: 'Do it for Tylenol.' We get a lot of those thematic questions. If there's something happening in the news, we'll get a lot of questions around it. If ultraprocessed foods are in the news, for example, we'll get a ton of ultraprocessed questions, or stuff related to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., like, are food dyes or seed oils going to kill me? When you assign an Ask Well column, is there a stable of experts that you rely on? Or do reporters research people to speak with each time? It depends on the topic. Everyone we work with is an established health and science reporter — this is what they do, and they've been doing it for many years. They all have their own vetted experts that they rely on. This didn't happen with a story, but if someone reached out to a chef and asked, 'Does lemon water have health benefits?' The chef is not an expert on the health benefits. I'd say, 'You need to find someone with a Ph.D. who has studied this, or maybe a dietitian.' But our reporters know how to find good experts. Are there any questions that you won't assign? There are some stories I won't assign because I know that there's no way we'll be able to have nuanced conversations about the topics in 850 words. There was a recent pitch about the health risks of hair straighteners like Brazilian Blowouts and keratin smoothing treatments, many of which contain formaldehyde. The question is, How can I think about the risk of getting these treatments? Much of the science is not clear, and a lot of it is very preliminary. We really don't know much about the true health risks. I don't think we could take the reader through the science and the nuance of this topic in 850 words, and I don't think we could answer the question in a helpful way. Have you read a question that made you raise an eyebrow? We did one recently on dental X-rays. I grew up in the '80s and '90s, and the technology then was a lot different; you were exposed to more radiation. This reader asked if getting dental X-rays at regular checkups would increase the risk of cancer. Going into the story, I thought, For sure, it's bad for you and it might cause cancer. Actually, I learned through the reporting and the story that the technology is a lot better now, and you're exposed to much less radiation than you used to be, and at levels far lower than what is considered risky for cancer. It's such a good example of a simple question that probably many people have when they go to the dentist. Addressing it gives people peace of mind that they probably otherwise wouldn't have. Would you say that's the mission of Ask Well? It's letting people know that they're not alone in having health questions that are sometimes really intimate or maybe embarrassing to ask. Sometimes they don't want to ask their doctors or people in their family. Submitting a form semi-anonymously maybe feels a little bit easier. Ask Well stories are some of our most popular stories. So, clearly, lots of people have these questions that they're maybe too afraid to ask or didn't think to ask, and we're supplying that service. Do you have a question for our health and science editors? Ask us here.
