Snoop Dogg 'Giving Up Smoke' Campaign Backfires, CEO Out at Solo Brands
John Merris thought he had a brilliant idea: Snoop Dogg shilling for Solo Brands' smokeless fire pit. But now he's out of a job.
John Merris thought he had a brilliant idea: Snoop Dogg shilling for Solo Brands' smokeless fire pit. But now he's out of a job.
Like Lenny Bruce, Pete Davidson's personal life is an open book. In his latest Netflix special, "Turbo Fonzarelli," the stand-up discusses his addiction to ketamine and other drugs.
CelebStoner Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Bruce Willis and Kevin Spacey are among the celebs mentioned in court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates. However, none of them knew Epstein, who name-dropped them.
New York and New Jersey are opening new legal adult-use stores at a rapid pace. We visit Dagmar Cannabis in Soho, Cannabis Emporium in The Bronx and Hashery in Hackensack, NJ.
Musical celebrities who passed away this year include Tony Bennett, Tina Turner, Robbie Robertson, Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Buffett, Sinead O'Connor, Gordon Lightfoot, David Crosby, Tommy Smothers, Astrud Gilberto, Burt Bacharach, Tom Verlaine, Jean Knight, Shane MacGowan, Wayne Shorter and Jeff Beck.
The four-part miniseries "Willie Nelson & Family" tops off a terrific year for the country music legend. Among the major reveals: Busted for cocaine in 1978, Mark Rothbaum went to jail and then was hired as Nelson's manager after his release because he refused to snitch on Waylon Jennings, who the coke was for.
Much has been made of the prosthetic nose Bradley Cooper wears in "Maestro" (now streaming on Netflix) to look more like his Jewish subject, Leonard Bernstein. It's a big one, kind of pudgy, excellent apparently to snort cocaine with, which Lenny does at a party in this exasperating biopic.
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"Hundreds of people were under the influence of psychedelics," says one attendee of the Nova Festival in Israel on October 7. Another says, "The acid helped me survive." More than 350 people were killed by Hamas during the early-morning attack.
CBS celebrated Willie Nelson's 90th birthday with an edited version of the two-day Willie Nelson 90 concerts in Los Angeles on April 29-30. The spirited two-hour show aired December 17.