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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lynx's Courtney Williams reacts to coach's hilarious ‘Finding Dory' nickname
The post Lynx's Courtney Williams reacts to coach's hilarious 'Finding Dory' nickname appeared first on ClutchPoints. Minnesota Lynx guard Courtney Williams scored 20 points in a 76-62 win over the Las Vegas Aces. After Napheesa Collier left the game with an injury, Williams stepped up. She led the Lynx to their 11th win of the season, but Minnesota head coach Cheryl Reeves pointed out one thing her point guard needs to work on; remembering plays. Advertisement In their postseason press conference, Williams and her teammates laughed about Reeves calling her Dory. The head coach likened her lead guard to the forgetful fish in 'Finding Dory' because of her struggle to remember plays out of timeouts. Williams defended herself, saying that she needed to get aggressive once Collier left the game, according to Lynx beat reporter Andrew Dukowitz. 'I have to forget about it man, once Phee went out I was like 'hey look everything out the window'(laughing)… Everything that feel good got to go up' Reeves didn't miss the opportunity to poke fun at her veteran guard. She also said that she would not have it any other way. 'Every game is a Dory game, every day with Courtney for me is Dory. Drawing up a play in time out and then ten seconds later I'm dealing with Dory and need to tell her again(laughing) so it's fun, i enjoy that' Advertisement Forgetful or not, Williams was key to the Lynx's win over the Aces. The 31-year-old might need to maintain her aggression as Minnesota looks ahead to the Commissioner's Cup Final against the Indiana Fever. Collier's back injury could hold her out for an extended period. If she misses time, it is a big blow to one of the best teams in the league. Without the MVP favorite in the lineup, the pressure to produce is on their backcourt. Williams and Kayla McBride are capable of picking up the scoring slack. However, Minnesota wants their superstar back as soon as possible. In the meantime, Reeves will rely on Williams, no matter how forgetful she may be. Related: Lynx offer key Napheesa Collier injury update Related: 'Concern' over Napheesa Collier injury clouds Commissioner's Cup final return
Perth Now
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Margaret Cho slams 'not nice' Ellen DeGeneres
Margaret Cho has slammed Ellen DeGeneres for being "not nice" to her. The 56-year-old comic first crossed paths with the former talk show host on the stand-up circuit in the 1980s, so she always found it "really weird" that Ellen would pretend they had never met when she appeared on her eponymous daytime programme. Speaking on The Kelly Mantle Show, Margaret said: "Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career. "I opened for her in the 1980s, when she was a headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s, she would act like we just met. "And I'm like, 'B****, what?' That's weird. We go way back. It's so creepy and weird." Margaret will never forget one particular incident when, after she had attended a David Bowie concert in a "Chinese emperor outfit", the 'Heroes' hitmaker - who died in January 2016 -praised the elaborate costume during an apeparance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the following day, but his remarks were edited out of the final broadcast. She said: "It made me so mad. "The producer, who was a really good friend of mine, had to call and tell me, 'I can't believe she did this but she cut it out of the show. But you need to know that he was going on and on about your outfit! God said your name.' '[It's] so rude! I don't know if it was personal, maybe it was [cut] for time. But still, I'm going to take it personally just because I decided to.' Margaret isn't the only comic to have criticised Ellen because Rosie O'Donnell recently admitted there is still unresolved "stuff" between herself and the Finding Dory star - who she previously accused of pretending she didn't know who she was - but insisted she doesn't bear any "malice" towards her. Rosie told Us Weekly magazine: 'I don't want to fight against another gay woman. It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to each other. We're just very different people. "We have had some stuff in the past that we never resolved. And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that, just as friends and comedians, but I wish her the best. I seriously do."
The Hindu
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Five films that got neurodivergence right, and why ‘Sitaare Zameen Par' might join them
On the cusp of Sitaare Zameen Par's release this Friday, the freshly invigorated conversation around neurodivergence in cinema feels long overdue. Marketed as a spiritual sequel to Taare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan's latest venture brings ten neurodivergent individuals into the spotlight as people with stories of their own. That this release follows Autistic Pride Day 2025 feels quite timely. For too long, neurodivergent characters in cinema have either been flattened into saintly savants or trapped in caricature. Their complexities are also often sanded down for neurotypical comfort. But if autistic pride teaches us anything, it's that the real challenge is the lens through which the world insists on viewing the disability, rather than the disabilty itself. So, in honour of June 18, and of a film that is trying to imagine something more inclusive, we revisit five films that have portrayed neurodivergence with empathy, nuance, and a refusal to tidy up their themes. A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard's classic biographical drama A Beautiful Mind was an earnest attempt at making sense of schizophrenia—for both the person inside the condition and the people orbiting him. Russell Crowe's John Nash does succumb to certain tortured genius tropes but they rarely exist in a vacuum. He's a husband, a colleague, and a man trying to trust what's real when reality keeps shifting under his feet. The film's actual trick isn't the twist about his hallucinations; rather, it's the manner in which it presents love, routine, and stubborn willpower. It's messy and it simplifies things, but at its core it's a genuine effort to portray what it means to live with, and not despite, mental illness. Margarita with a Straw Shonali Bose's Margarita with a Straw steers clear of syrupy inspirational blurbs and gives us a bildungsroman that's brimming with life. Kalki Koechlin plays Laila, a young woman with cerebral palsy, who wants the same things everyone else does — love, sex, independence — and the film lets her want them without judgment or pity. Bose subverts both Western and desi stereotypes of disability by making Laila's neurodivergence the engine that propels her and the narrative across continents, into relationships, and towards a vivid understanding of her own queerness. My Name is Khan My Name is Khan is often heavy-handed, but it comes from a place of real compassion. The film centres on a man with Asperger's syndrome in a geopolitical epic, and does so with a degree of earnest dignity rarely afforded to neurodivergent characters in mainstream Indian cinema. Shah Rukh Khan avoids caricaturising Rizwan, and shapes him by the way he sees the world with deep empathy. Finding Dory Finding Dory reflects a long-standing Pixar tradition of addressing social issues under the guise of children's entertainment. The film treats the talkative, titular Blue Tang fish with short-term memory loss with sincerity. She forgets things, but she also adapts, repeats, invents workarounds and 'keeps swimming'. The film isn't about curing her or changing her, but about the fish around her learning to understand and support her. Everything Everywhere All at Once Everything Everywhere All at Once feels exactly like what it's like to live in a brain that doesn't always play by the rules. In fact, one of the directing duo, Daniel Kwan, came to realise his own undiagnosed ADHD during the writing process. Evelyn and Joy are never explicitly labelled, but the film's take on identity, perception, and meaning feels deeply familiar to anyone who's ever felt like their mind is a bit too loud. The multiverse here is a metaphor for every 'what if' and 'should have been' that clutters the average ADHD brain. The film leaves us with the tender thought that maybe clarity isn't about fixing the noise, but learning how to sit with it.
Edinburgh Live
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Cast of popular animation Finding Nemo now from tragic death to ditching acting
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Disney's Pixar studios hit a milestone with the multi-award-winning Finding Nemo, which became a cherished part of many childhoods thanks to its groundbreaking animation. The film follows Marlin's quest to find his missing son, taking him on an adventure through and beyond the ocean, meeting a host of characters voiced by a star-studded cast. But what has happened to the cast of Finding Nemo more than 20 years after its 2003 release? Albert Brooks - Marlin Taking the role as the lead character, Marlin, Brooks voices the clownfish in his desperate search for his son. Outside of Finding Nemo, Brooks is no stranger to voice acting, he's picked up credits on The Secret Life of Pets and various roles on The Simpsons over the years. He came back in 2016 to reprise his role in Finding Dory, but outside animation, he appeared in some big-budget films. He's picked up credits in Taxi Driver, Drive and Concussion, but now, aged 77, has dialled his appearances back slightly. (Image: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) A huge name in the industry for his work as a comedian and a filmmaker, in 2023, a documentary, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, was released with interviews with Larry David, Ben Stiller and Conan O'Brien all sharing stories about working with Brooks. Ellen DeGeneres - Dory (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Bringing her a memorable performance to the forgetful Dory, DeGeneres picked up a few other acting credits during her career but became much more famous from her wildly popular talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which aired across 19 seasons with 3294 episodes. The show wrapped up in 2022, but after being "cancelled" for allegations that she created a toxic workplace on her show and the star moved to the Cotswolds for a quieter life alongside her wife, Portia De Rossi. The pair are thought to live in the same village as Jeremy Clarkson and are known to drop into his pub in the quiet Oxfordshire village. Alexander Gould - Nemo (Image: Sipa/REX/Shutterstock) Just nine when he voiced the film's title character Nemo, but now, more than 20 years later, he has taken a step back from acting. After the Pixar classic, the former child star picked up a role in the comedy TV series Weeds, but when that came off the air in 2012, Gould was now 18 when he chose to attend college over continuing to pursue acting. In Finding Dory, he picked up a cameo as delivery truck driver, Carl, but was recast as the lead role. Speaking on Good Morning America, Gould said: "People ask me to do the voice and then I have to explain that I was, you know, 9 years old and my voice has changed a little bit since then." Willem Dafoe - Gill (Image: Getty Images for BAFTA) Dafoe played the wise, old and crafty fish Gill, stuck in a dentist's fish tank, and Nemo finds himself stranded in it. Since his smaller role in the film, Dafoe has gone on to become one of the most recognisable actors of the past few decades. He has earned four Oscar nominations for his roles in Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project and At Eternity's Gate, but also gained fame for his parts as the Green Goblin in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films. Geoffrey Rush - Nigel Playing the lovable and extremely Australian pelican, Nigel, the Oscar-winner went under the radar and marked a much more casual role for the award-winning actor. He may be best known for his roles as Shakespeare in Love, Quills, The King's Speech and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Joe Ranft - Jacques The writer and voice actors played the lovable and eccentric French shrimp who is obsessed with the fish tank's hygiene. Known more for his writing talents, Ranft played a big part in the creation of Toy Story, for which he also earned an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. He also helped write the story for A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Cars. The writer was killed in a car accident in 2005, with the Pixar film he was working on becoming dedicated to his memory. Andrew Stanton - Crush Stanton was the director and co-writer of the original film, but also picked up a voice-acting role as the surfer-dude sea turtle crush. In his 20 years since the film he directed, Wall-E, Finding Dory, as well as a host of TV episodes. He remains at the studio where he is now the Creative Vice President.
Daily Record
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Cast of Finding Nemo now from tragic death and ditching fame to huge stardom
The hit Pixar film played a key role in many of our childhood's but since its release in 2003 many of the A-list cast have had a change in career The multi-award-winning Finding Nemo was a landmark film for Disney's Pixar studios, becoming a much-loved part of many people's childhood with it's animation way ahead of its time. Marlin's mission to search the sea for his lost son finds him trekking through the ocean and, at times beyond, meeting a wide array of characters that created a huge cast full of big names. But more than 20 years since its release in 2003, the cast's careers have gone-off in several different directions - so what happened to the cast of Finding Nemo: Albert Brooks - Marlin Taking the role as the lead character, Marlin, Brooks voices the clownfish in his desperate search for his son. Outside of Finding Nemo, Brooks is no stranger to voice acting, he's picked up credits on The Secret Life of Pets and various roles on The Simpsons over the years. He came back in 2016 to reprise his role in Finding Dory, but outside animation, he appeared in some big-budget films. He's picked up credits in Taxi Driver, Drive and Concussion, but now, aged 77, has dialled his appearances back slightly. A huge name in the industry for his work as a comedian and a filmmaker, in 2023, a documentary, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, was released with interviews with Larry David, Ben Stiller and Conan O'Brien all sharing stories about working with Brooks. Ellen DeGeneres - Dory Bringing her a memorable performance to the forgetful Dory, DeGeneres picked up a few other acting credits during her career but became much more famous from her wildly popular talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which aired across 19 seasons with 3294 episodes. The show wrapped up in 2022, but after being "cancelled" for allegations that she created a toxic workplace on her show and the star moved to the Cotswolds for a quieter life alongside her wife, Portia De Rossi. The pair are thought to live in the same village as Jeremy Clarkson and are known to drop into his pub in the quiet Oxfordshire village. Alexander Gould - Nemo Just nine when he voiced the film's title character Nemo, but now, more than 20 years later, he has taken a step back from acting. After the Pixar classic, the former child star picked up a role in the comedy TV series Weeds, but when that came off the air in 2012, Gould was now 18 when he chose to attend college over continuing to pursue acting. In Finding Dory, he picked up a cameo as delivery truck driver, Carl, but was recast as the lead role. Speaking on Good Morning America, Gould said: "People ask me to do the voice and then I have to explain that I was, you know, 9 years old and my voice has changed a little bit since then." Willem Dafoe - Gill Dafoe played the wise, old and crafty fish Gill, stuck in a dentist's fish tank, and Nemo finds himself stranded in it. Since his smaller role in the film, Dafoe has gone on to become one of the most recognisable actors of the past few decades. He has earned four Oscar nominations for his roles in Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project and At Eternity's Gate, but also gained fame for his parts as the Green Goblin in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films. Geoffrey Rush - Nigel Playing the lovable and extremely Australian pelican, Nigel, the Oscar-winner went under the radar and marked a much more casual role for the award-winning actor. He may be best known for his roles as Shakespeare in Love, Quills, The King's Speech and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Joe Ranft - Jacques The writer and voice actors played the lovable and eccentric French shrimp who is obsessed with the fish tank's hygiene. Known more for his writing talents, Ranft played a big part in the creation of Toy Story, for which he also earned an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. He also helped write the story for A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Cars. The writer was killed in a car accident in 2005, with the Pixar film he was working on becoming dedicated to his memory. Andrew Stanton - Crush Stanton was the director and co-writer of the original film, but also picked up a voice-acting role as the surfer-dude sea turtle crush. In his 20 years since the film he directed, Wall-E, Finding Dory, as well as a host of TV episodes. He remains at the studio where he is now the Creative Vice President.
