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25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Top Jonathan Bailey Moments That Show His True Charm
Jonathan Bailey is having a great career run with back-to-back successes: Wicked, Bridgerton, Fellow Travelers, and now Jurassic World Rebirth, as the lead! And his online activity and interactions for his projects have caught the eyes of hundreds of fans. It's so thrilling to watch him succeed. Look, we all fell hard for his brooding lover era in Bridgerton (that eye contact? the angst?). But lately, Jonathan's been causing a full-blown internet meltdown with his chaotic but cute energy on press tours, interviews, and more. And I have to say—it has us HOOKED. So let's dive right into some of Jonathan's most endearing, wholesome, and chaotic moments on the internet, which are too good to miss! 1. When he gladly accepted the "sl*tty little glasses" move, while also crediting Blakely Thornton for this phenomenon. It's official: Jonathan Bailey admitted he knows about the trend and is going to support it. It's a win for us; we will get to see more of Jonathan in those little eyeglasses, and I cannot complain. Next, we need Andrew Garfield to also champion this, and the two of them need to become the ambassadors of this trend. And if you haven't already seen it, here is Jonathan rocking those tiny eyeglasses: It's a look. 2. When this friendly peck between him and Scarlett Johansson led to the internet melting—not once, but TWICE. God really does have his favorites, and these pictures prove it. And obviously, people were quick to react in the most relatable manner. 3. This sweet hug between Josh O'Connor and Jonathan Bailey got fans hyping up a possible collab between these two as co-leads of a film. Even though they interacted only for a photo shoot, that sweet hug between the two immediately sparked casting wishes amongst fans. And honestly, both of the actors are at the peak of their careers, and who wouldn't love to see them together in a film? The comments said all that needs to be said. If any Hollywood casting director is looking, this is the duo we need on-screen next! 4. The time he playfully took part in Alison Hammond's joke about safety rules in sex scenes and got her rightfully blushing throughout! Alison Hammond, a famous British TV presenter known for making celebrities and guests quite literally die with laughter, took her chances with Jonathan, and honestly, it was so relatable. And as always, Jonathan Bailey is charming in whatever he does—he's 90% perfect hair, 10% jawline, and 100% babygirl. I mean, who wouldn't like a demonstration by the one and only Anthony Bridgerton on practicing safety on set? You can watch the entire interview here! 5. When he casually dropped how he handpicked the prosthetic p*enis for Fellow Travelers—and it's King behavior, honestly. I have quite literally never seen a man approach prosthetic p*nis selection with this much emotional depth and Oscar-worthy intention. Jonathan Bailey turned it into a full-on art form. This is exactly why I signed up to be his fan. So humble and iconic. 6. When he wore these shorts for the Wicked premiere and sent the internet into a frenzy. Men in short shorts is not new, with Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor rocking shorts in paparazzi pictures. But we didn't know Jonathan Bailey would rock this look so effortlessly. But then again, how could he not? And once again, he has managed to rile up both straight and gay people on the internet. Although the dig at Jeff Goldblum is unwarranted, this X user summarized all the fans' wishes in one sentence. I could always listen to these two belting out vocals. Seeing these two is like pure dopamine—it always makes my day to see two icons having the best chemistry at their press tours. 8. And saving the best for last: when he wore flip-flops to the Jurassic World Rebirth premiere, and now we have some glorious feet pictures of Jonathan Bailey. Flip-flops at a premiere? Only Jonathan Bailey can pull it off. It got photographers clicking snaps of his feet, and now the internet is flooded with them (for free as well). Looking effortlessly cool is not learned but inherited, and Jonathan has aced it. Jonathan Bailey's success is only beginning, which means we will be seeing a lot more precious and chaotic moments of the actor in interviews and press tours. And will I ever get tired of seeing him on my screen? Never.
Washington Post
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Why artists should perform at Trump's Kennedy Center
A number of artists have chosen to pull previously planned acts from the Kennedy Center lineup. Two prominent examples are the tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' and Washington National Opera's production of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce's 'Fellow Travelers,' an opera about a gay couple trying to find their way during the McCarthy era's Lavender Scare (supported by WNO but withdrawn by members of the creative team). Likewise, some audience members have chosen to shun the venue, regardless of the nature of the performance.
Los Angeles Times
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Post-Trump purge, can the Kennedy Center save itself? How Mark Morris showed the way
Washington, D.C. — Like much else in the nation's capital, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in a state of uncertainty. For 53 years, this massive performance complex has served — with bipartisan grace and, at its best, conspicuous American flair — to honor a single U.S. president. But in February the center was appropriated by another president who now also rules as chairman of a board of trustees, all of whom are his appointees. The takeover resulted in the firing of the center's long-serving president, Deborah Rutter, one of the country's most impressive arts leaders. Over the last decade, she expanded an already vast institution's offerings. The center's new temporary president, Richard Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany, lacks arts management experience. In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal. Diversity and drag are out, which has led to the disinviting of, among others, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., from performing on the premises. Celebrating Christmas, promises Grenell, is very much in, as will be striving for profit-making programming. One suggestion is commercializing the center to take advantage of its real estate value and prime location on the Potomac. On a recent afternoon I wandered the Kennedy Center's grand hallways leading to an opera house (home of Washington National Opera), concert hall (home to the National Symphony) and the Eisenhower Theater (suited for drama and dance), all overseen by a super-sized bust of JFK. I visited the galleries and shops and restaurants, the Millennium Stage (where a free chamber music performance was taking place) and checked out a recent addition, the Reach, a $250-million complex of flexible venues, an investment the new administration bemoans. It was a beautiful spring day, and the Kennedy Center appeared to be well-tended but unusually quiet. Other than a small crowd listening to members of the National Symphony perform chamber music, I felt like I had the building practically to myself. A clerk in one of the gift shops was thrilled to finally have a customer. I was the only one in the galleries. Exhibits still reflected diversity. Rainbow flag Kennedy Center T-shirts remained for sale. There have been cancellations in protest of the takeover — notably Rhiannon Giddens, the Broadway production of 'Hamilton' and what was to have been the Washington premiere of Gregory Spears' moving opera 'Fellow Travelers,' based on the Lavender Scare, the 1950s federal persecution of gay men and lesbians in government. But Mark Morris' potentially controversial new ballet, 'Moon,' was having its world premiere that evening as planned. Morris may be America's leading choreographer, but he also can be a fanciful bad boy of dance. Tell him he can't do something and, I've been told, look out. It would be hard to imagine the current Kennedy Center welcoming Morris' manner of dispensing Christmas cheer. His brilliant yuletime hit, 'The Hard Nut,' based on Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker,' has been delighting audiences of all ages for three decades, but it does happen to include a comedic maid in drag. When the Kennedy Center last fall commissioned Morris to make an evening-length centerpiece for its vast 'Earth to Space: Arts Breaking the Sky' festival, nothing more was intended than to honor JFK's initiative that led, in 1969, to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin being the first Earthlings to walk on the moon. The festival is an exuberant example of the sweeping events that Rutter created. It includes concerts, opera, dance, film, talks, installations, exhibits, interstellar musical journeys of one oddball sort or another, appearances by astronauts and space-specialist celebrities, not to mention daily screenings of a new film, 'The Moonwalkers,' featuring Tom Hanks. All of this takes on new meaning, especially if we recall JFK's 1962 speech at Rice University in Houston. In it he defended the enormity of the Apollo 11 mission's expense by noting, 'There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet,' and warned that 'its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again.' NASA is preparing for a moon landing again in 2027. The temptation, this time, goes beyond scientific curiosity to colonization, mining rare elements and using the moon as a waystation to Mars. The two most zealous space buffs on Earth loom large in Washington, with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in a moon race with their respective rocket enterprises, Blue Origin and Space X. Enter Mark Morris. He had been cagey all along about what he had in mind, other than to include the moon landing and the Golden Record, the disc that astronomer and media personality Carl Sagan made for Voyager 1 and 2. Launched in 1977, these two NASA spacecraft were the first intended to leave our solar system. The recording includes sounds, voices and music of the Earth's peoples, in hopes that it just might reach intelligent life somewhere out there. 'Moon,' which is a series of short dances that lasts just under an hour, begins with an animated display of five-pointed stars in a semicircle on a screen that served as the backdrop for the Eisenhower stage. The stars slyly become the circumference of the U.S. presidential seal. But rather than leading to outrage, an image of JFK appeared beneath the seal, and then one of the moon. The audience laughed and then warmly applauded. Morris' silvery moon was a place of mystery and wonder. Musical choices were agreeably eccentric. Beyond the Golden Record's greetings in many languages to aliens, Morris turned to gloriously schmaltzy swing, bluegrass and country recordings from the '30s, '40s and '50s. These included Al Bowlly's 'Roll Along, Prairie Moon,' Bill Monroe's 'Blue Moon of Kentucky,' Bonnie Guitar's 'Dark Moon' and Hildegarde's 'Honey-Coloured Moon.' Pianist and organist Colin Fowler, joined by bassist Jordan Frazier, added their contributions from the pit. A few of György Ligeti's startlingly strange solo piano numbers from 'Musica Ricercata' showed up. Dancers rolled by on wheeled stools like little space people to some of Marcel Dupré's eerie '24 Organ Inventions.' With gorgeously impressionist lighting (by Mike Faba), intriguing outer space projections (by Wendall K. Harrington), elegant costumes (by Isaac Mizrahi) and little toy spacemen scattered about, the Morris 'Moon' became a luxuriant dreamlike escape from Washingtonian reality. Most important of all, his company had never been better, and the dancers themselves provided the real fantasy. Otherworldly movement somehow matched the different music in ways that seem rational but not needing to make sense. Movement, itself, was adventure, around every turn an imaginative new surprise. To walk into a newly uncertain Kennedy Center can feel fraught. But in his program note, Morris asks us to 'observe and enjoy Moon and Space, without understanding a thing.' The genius of 'Moon,' however, is to remind us that wonder can be around the least expected corners. Can 'Moon' remind NASA to go to the moon to wonder, not to plunder? Probably not. But it can remind artists that if 'Moon' matters, so still must a Kennedy Center that nourishes and produces such work. Following the three Kennedy Center performances, 'Moon' will be visible in the next seasons over parts of America, including Southern California, where Morris has a large following and favored status in many venues. (The head of the Broad Stage in Santa Monica came to D.C. for the premiere.) In the meantime, Morris' 'Pepperland' reaches the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills next month and the Music Center Plaza in downtown L.A. is offering daily two-minute afternoon breathing and Morris-choreographed movement 'microbreaks,' meant to help us 'pause, reflect and recharge.' Kennedy Center, please, before it is too late, pause, reflect and recharge. America needs you. And you, if you decide to understand a thing or two, will need us.
The Independent
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Matt Bomer reflects on being ‘unfairly' outed by media
The actor Matt Bomer appeared on Monday's episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson 's podcast, speaking about how he felt when the media outed his sexuality. Bomer came out as gay publicly in 2012 during the Chase Humanitarian Awards, thanking his partner, Simon Halls, during his speech. However, Bomer told Ferguson that outlets such as Perez Hilton took 'over [his] own personal narrative before [he] even had a chance to'. Speculation around Bomer's sexuality was rife before he came out, with tabloid media outlets discussing his personal relationships before he ever had. 'It wasn't because I didn't want to,' Bomer emphasised, 'I didn't even have an opportunity to.' The actor also spoke of his concern that he didn't want his family 'to feel like they were some kind of shameful secret or something I was sweeping under the rug so I could have a great career'. Although Bomer had never 'officially' come out to the media, he never hid his sexuality when out in public. Bomer said he didn't feel that he had the platform to actually announce his sexuality, adding that his right to come out publicly was 'stolen by people who did have a microphone at the time'. As well as not being given the agency to come out on his own terms, Bomer also previously claimed that being outed as gay meant he lost out on the chance to play Superman in the 2000s. However, Bomer found success as Neal Caffrey in White Collar and, more recently, as Hawkins in Fellow Travelers. Fellow Travelers, which aired on Paramount in 2023, explores the effects on LGBTQ people who are forced to live in the closet in the 1950s. Set in Washington, DC, Bomer stars opposite Jonathan Bailey. The two start an intense affair as Senator McCarthy (Chris Bauer) launches the 'Lavender Scare', a persecution of gay people in the United States. Bomer said it was refreshing to play the part of a gay man, particularly after both White Collar and Magic Mike cast him in the mold of ' a straight leading man'.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Signs Executive Order To Remove 'Improper Ideology' From Museums, National Monuments
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order titled 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.' The document asserts there has been a 'widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.' More from Deadline Trump White House Deploys 'Blame The Media' Strategy As It Deals With Fallout Over The Atlantic's Bombshell Report The Atlantic Publishes Attack Plans That Pete Hegseth Shared On Signal Messaging App Nikki Glaser Says She Now Considers Possibility Of Death Threats Or Being "Detained" Before Doing Political Humor: "It's Like A Real Fear" Claiming the Biden Administration fostered a 'corrosive ideology,' Trump's order asserts that, 'rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame, disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe.' The order names the Smithsonian Institution specifically, saying the directive's purpose is 'to remove improper ideology from such properties,' including the Institution's museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo. The order directs that the Vice President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget work with Congress to 'prohibit expenditure on exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy.' It also says the Smithsonian is will 'not recognize men as women in any respect.' It further directs The Secretary of the Interior to 'determine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior's jurisdiction have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.' If those conditions are found to exist, the secretary is to 'take action to reinstate the pre-existing monuments.' Said monuments cannot, under Trump's declaration, 'contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times).' In recent weeks the president has sought to cleanse another American institution: The Kennedy Center. Earlier this year, Trump ousted the board of the center and had himself named himself as its new chairman. Among his grievances are what he calls the institution's 'woke' programming. Since Trump's takeover, dozens of high profile productions have canceled performances. Just today, the composer and lyricist of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel about the anti-gay lavender scare of the 1950s, withdrew the work from the 2025-26 season. The producers of Hamilton pulled out of a staging next year, and comedian Issa Rae canceled an appearance, while Ben Folds and Renee Fleming withdrew as Kennedy Center advisers. In a 26-show list of total cancelations put out by the Kennedy Center earlier this month, the center notes that most have been canceled by the artist or artist availability, or by the producers. Greg Evans contributed to this report. Best of Deadline '1923' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us' Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far
