Aubrey Plaza Finally Get Perfect Showcase with Emily The Criminal
Aubrey Plaza is badass as Emily The Criminal and it's about time #netflix #A24 #emilythecriminal
As a college grad, I perpetually lived with the fear that those credit card collectors strategically dodged over the phone would roll up on my apartment and cart me off in cuffs for my lack of financial responsibility. Very naive…I know. But, it’s the desperation mixed with feat that makes one in this position do and say some crazy things.
Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is saddled with student debt…
Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, Meta and more media companies have confirmed they will cover travel costs for employees seeking abortions following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Disney reached out to employees on Friday to stress that they recognize the “impact” of the Supreme Court’s decision and “remain committed to providing comprehensive access to quality and affordable care” for all Disney employees and their families, which includes family planning and reproductive care, “no matter where they live,” an internal source told Variety. For Disney employees unable to access a medical service, including abortions, in one location, they have a travel benefit that allows for “affordable coverage for receiving similar levels of care in another location.”
A Netflix spokesperson told Variety: “Netflix offers a travel reimbursement coverage for full-time U.S. employees and their dependents who need to travel for cancer treatment, transplants, gender affirming care, or abortion — through our U.S. health plans. This is a $10,000 lifetime allowance per employee and/or their dependents per service.”
In light of the Supreme Court decision, Warner Bros. Discovery has expanded its “healthcare benefits options to cover transportation expenses for employees and their covered family members who need to travel to access abortion and reproductive care,” a spokesperson said. The company’s chief people and culture officer, Adria Alpert Romm, said in a memo: “Our number one priority is the wellbeing, health and safety of our employees.”
Variety has confirmed that Comcast has a travel benefit that covers Comcast and NBC Universal employees’ medical services and procedures that aren’t available near an employee’s home.
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and Chief People Officer Nancy Phillips sent a memo to staff on Friday, obtained by Variety, confirming the company’s intentions to cover travel costs for employees seeking abortions, writing, “Reproductive health care through company-sponsored health insurance, including coverage for birth control, elective abortion care, miscarriage care and certain related travel expenses if the covered health service, such as abortion, is prohibited in your area.”
A Meta spokesperson said: “We intend to offer travel expense reimbursements, to the extent permitted by law, for employees who will need them to access out-of-state health care and reproductive services. We are in the process of assessing how best to do so given the legal complexities involved.”
Sony employees in the U.S. receive reimbursement for travel if it’s required to access healthcare services available under its health plan, which includes reproductive healthcare, a source has confirmed. "Sony Music Group and Live Nation are known to have insurance policies that provide reimbursement for travel if it is required to access healthcare services, including reproductive healthcare services."
The Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Institute, which are based in Utah, announced several weeks ago that they augmented its healthcare benefits to include covering travel expenses for services not available where they reside. Utah is one of the states expected to implement abortion bans following the Court decision.
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti told staffers: “Effective immediately, we will provide a stipend for anyone residing in the 13 states with triggering abortion ending laws to cover the cost for travel and expenses required for access to safe abortion. The process around this will be completely confidential.”
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said in a note to his staff on Friday that the company has “made enhancements to our U.S. health benefits to assist covered employees and their covered dependents in obtaining access to reproductive care regardless of where they reside. Employees who need abortion, infertility or gender-affirming services who cannot obtain that care locally are now eligible for reimbursement on travel and lodging.”
Earlier Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending federal protections of abortion rights. The final opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, fully repudiates the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights. It also effectively strikes down the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that largely maintained the right established in Roe.
Variety has reached out to additional Hollywood studios and media companies, but has not yet heard back. Some companies who did respond to a request for comment, such as Amazon and Lionsgate, said they did not have a statement at this time.
Here’s the Paramount Global memo in full:
Team,
We know that many of us have been closely following the news regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, which struck down Roe v. Wade and repealed constitutional protections for abortion. Across the country, we have entered a moment of profound uncertainty – from a legal and a policy perspective, as states pursue different paths regarding reproductive rights, but also on a personal level, as we try to understand what services will be accessible, when, where, and to whom.
In the face of this uncertainty, we want to be very clear about what will not change at Paramount.
First, as a community: wherever we stand on this or any other difficult issue, we will continue to treat one another with empathy and respect.
And second, as a company: Paramount will support – as we always have – the choices our employees make about their own health care. This includes the reproductive health and family-building benefits* that help make our company a welcoming place to work. A few benefits I’d like to highlight include:
Reproductive health care through company-sponsored health insurance, including coverage for birth control, elective abortion care, miscarriage care and certain related travel expenses if the covered health service, such as abortion, is prohibited in your area.
Fertility and family building support through Progyny including coverage for IVF, egg freezing and other fertility treatments and services and reimbursement of up to $30,000 for adoption or surrogacy expenses.
Free access to Health Advocate, a confidential service to help you and your family find medical providers, resolve health insurance issues and navigate the healthcare system.
Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave for a delivering parent (includes 6 weeks of Short Term Disability), up to 12 weeks of paid leave for adoption care or foster care and up to 10 days of paid bereavement leave including pregnancy loss.
24/7 lactation support, including milk shipping for traveling employees, through LifeCare.
Free access to a dedicated behavior expert for support raising children with developmental disabilities or learning, social or behavioral challenges.
We encourage you to visit the Paramount Total Rewards portal for additional details, including parenting information on the Family Planning Resources page. If you have questions about your benefit eligibility, please email the Paramount HR Employee Support Team at [email protected].
We also understand that some reproductive health care events and decisions can be particularly challenging, so we want to remind everyone of our professional counseling and other mental health services, available 24/7, through our CCA Employee Assistance Program (Company Code: paramount).
All these resources are here for you and your loved ones. We encourage you to explore your options and take advantage of what’s available in order to make the medical decisions that best suit your needs. As ever, we are here to support all members of our community––and will give you and others the space to process this news.
Best,
Bob & Nancy
*Please note that you must be in an eligible employee classification for each of the benefits noted; employees whose employment is governed by a collective bargaining agreement are eligible for benefits under that agreement.
Cooper Raiff Fires on All Cylinders with Cha Cha Real Smooth
Few films address unrequited love and mental illness as bluntly as Cha Cha Real Smooth - but Cooper Raiif knocks it out of the park #chacharealsmooth #appletvplus
Almost everyone has been that person fresh out of college and not having a clue as to what the future holds — but now what? 22-year-old Andrew (Cooper Raiff) had a clear life path moving forward out of college, now he’s stuck at home with his family in New Jersey. If college taught him one thing, it’s drinking and partying, the perfect skills making him the perfect candidate for a job…
Managed to get my first art fight attack of this year in today!! It's a revenge for @battychaichilla featuring a few of her Old West OCs. Julio is currently committing another theft but he doesn't even know he's doing it...!
Left to right is Harris Houndsworth, Julio Sundance and Bathalia Ballesteros.
[ID: A digital drawing of three cartoon animals in a saloon with drinks. Sitting at a table in the foreground facing away from the viewer is Harris, a pale brown dog with dark brown ears and tail and white snout in an expensive white suit with slicked back hair, and Bathalia, a Honduran White Bat in a yellow halter neck top with a long blue skirt. They are watching Julio, a rattlesnake dressed like a western outlaw accidentally tilt his chair too far back in the background and fall over, knocking over his own drink and losing his hat in the process. Harris is frowning and saying "I just can't fathom it; how is a buffoon such as himself so adept at thievery?". Bathalia is blushing with an affectionate smile and saying "...I don't rightly know." Julio has a wide eyed flat expression and saying "oh ssss-!" End ID.]
Le film Brisé (2022) avec l’acteur Jeffrey Donovan.
Titre V.O. : Breaking
Autre Titre : 892
Site Officiel - #BreakingMovie -
Date sortie U.S. : août 2022
Date sortie Fr : 2023
Distribution : Michael Kenneth Williams, qu’il a retrouvé la même année dans le film Surrounded ...
sources : imdb, moviesoflakeworth et @suzejp
Ce film a obtenu le Prix Spécial du Jury pour sa distribution au Festival du Film de Sundance, deux prix au Festival du Film d’Annapolis, un prix au Festival du Film de Cleveland, et a été sélectionné au 4ème Festival du Film LightReel.
Autres actualités cinéma 2022 :
- R.I.P.D. 2
- First Love
- Surrounded
Exclusive Interview: Alan Cumming & Jono McLeod on telling "the perfect high school movie story" with My Old School
Exclusive Interview: Alan Cumming & Jono McLeod on telling “the perfect high school movie story” with My Old School
With his intriguing and innovative feature documentary My Old School, filmmaker Jono McLeod revisits the now legendary, stranger-than-fiction story of a Scottish high school student who went by the name of Brandon Lee. A former classmate of McLeod’s, Lee had enrolled at Bearsden Academy in Glasgow, Scotland in 1993. After leaving the school the following year, an incredible secret about Lee was…
My four pregnant mares have gotten pretty fat. Not fat-fat though, it's just their baby bump!
I thought I had three pregnant mares, and then two who didn't get pregnant, but apparently Mexico Nightmare got pregnant anyways. She just didn't show any signs before she got HUGE!
So now we have three pregnant warmbloods, and a pregnant Shetlandspony mare. Which gives us a total of five pregnant mares, which is of course a lot of work. The Shetlandspony offspring is already sold. But the four other is for keeping for now.
Little Sundancer has also gotten quite fat from being pregnant. But that doesn't stop the little ball of energy from running around with her daughter (on the right) and her daughter's best friend.
I purposefully blocked it wide rather than long. It’s now close to 32” wide and about 6 feet long.
The first picture on that table it’s just folded in half, after blocking it was folded in quarters.
I bought the yarn at Webs in August 2022 - 2 skeins of Juniper Moon Farm, Finley Dappled - color 153 (Sundance). I started knitting using the Botanical Lace Pattern on December 1, 2022. I finished it on October 30, 2023. A lot of that time it was knit in bursts and rests. Between July and October of this year I did 2 rows each day, but then I was getting excited and could see the end was getting close and did more than that on days I could get to it. Each rows is patterned (no plain purl across rows) and there were 660 rows. I started with about 200g of yarn and only have 1.6g left after bind off.
The shawl feels like a small blanket, and kept me pretty warm in the cold, post-Halloween air. I look forward to using it over the fall/winter!