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Costume Designer Janie Bryant Reveals Private Colon Cancer Battle

Costume Designer Janie Bryant Reveals Private Colon Cancer Battle

Published by Daniella Wilson

Emmy winning costume designer Janie Bryant was knee deep in the Taylor Sheridan universe last spring when she started experiencing “weird stomach aches.” The jabbing pains were sometimes followed by vomiting, leading Bryant to brush it off as food poisoning or possibly irritable bowel syndrome. “Then I did like a little research and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m anemic,’ because when you’re anemic, you can throw up sometimes or have jabbing pains,” Bryant explained on the latest episode of Lisa Guerrero Unleashed, hosted by her close friend. She tried copper and other remedies to no avail. “When I got to Montana, I was like, ‘OK, enough is enough. I got to go see a GI specialist.’ When I went in for my appointment, the doctor said to me, ‘Oh, you probably have an ulcer, but let’s do a colonoscopy and also let’s find out what’s going on.’ As I was coming out of sedation, my doctor, Dr. Walsh in Bozeman, looked at me and said, ‘Janie, you’re really sick.’” Dr. Walsh confirmed to Bryant that …

Kid Rock invokes Kobe Bryant for response to backlash against conservative Super Bowl halftime show

Kid Rock invokes Kobe Bryant for response to backlash against conservative Super Bowl halftime show

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Kid Rock has addressed outrage over Turning Point USA’s rival Super Bowl halftime show by invoking the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Mentality, sharing a quote about learning to “love the hate.” The controversial country singer and Donald Trump loyalist, 55, was announced as the headliner for the right-wing organization’s All-American Halftime Show, created in protest of the NFL’s selection of Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny as its 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer. The alternative halftime show, scheduled to take place the same day — February 8 — has been the subject of much criticism and mockery. Meanwhile, Rock’s 2001 song “Cool, Daddy Cool,” which contains several unsavory lyrics, has resurfaced ahead of his performance. The song, featured in the 2001 children’s film Osmosis Jones, includes the line: “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage/ See, some …

Bryant Simmons’s Frenemies Call Him a Scammer. He Says They’re Just Jealous.

Bryant Simmons’s Frenemies Call Him a Scammer. He Says They’re Just Jealous.

Published by Sam Flores

After a brief stint in Los Angeles, Simmons returned to New York, where, in January of 2023, according to the NYPD detective on the case, he “turned himself in” on the charges that had been brought against him by Buccini. In Simmons’s telling, however, “I went to the precinct…and I dealt with it with them,” he says, “and I actually left.” “What’s also crazy is that they reached out to me to come back and work there last year,” Simmons tells me—a claim Buccini denies. A screenshot she shared with Vanity Fair purports to show their last messages to each other: “Okay so now I’m out of a job lol,” he texted her on June 28, 2024. “Are you willing to just put the past behind [us] and let me come back?” She never responded. At the same time that he was working at Kirna Zabête, Simmons was living in a Gramercy apartment, where he also allegedly paid rent for only a couple months. A desperate sublessor agreed to a less formal agreement, but just …

Here are 24 Kobe Bryant murals in L.A. and 8 in Orange County to visit

Here are 24 Kobe Bryant murals in L.A. and 8 in Orange County to visit

Published by Sam Flores

Artist Jonas Never was downtown Feb. 24, 2020, the day of the memorial celebration for Kobe and Gianna Bryant at Staples Center. He passed by a mural of Kobe that he and fellow artist Droycela painted four years earlier. It looked different than he remembered. “I couldn’t even believe how much writing was on it,” Never told The Times in a recent phone interview. That spot had become a gathering place for mourning fans in the aftermath of the Jan. 26, 2020, helicopter crash that killed Kobe, Gianna and seven others. Many of those fans had written simple messages to the beloved icon — like “RIP Kobe & Gigi,” “We love you,” “Thank you for everything,” and “Mamba out” — all over the mural. “I’ve never really seen that done with a mural before,” Never said. “And it’s sort of unique because that mural wasn’t a memorial mural. It was just a straight Kobe mural because he was still alive” when it was painted. But at some point since then, Never said, “it kind of …