In a brand new and weird marketing campaign advert, Donald Trump’s head takes the place of the moon and blocks out the solar in a nod to Monday’s photo voltaic eclipse.

The marketing campaign video was shared on Fact Social on Sunday, and begins with the phrases, “a very powerful second in human historical past is happening in 2024.” It reveals a picture of the glowing solar as astonished crowds collect to observe the photo voltaic eclipse with protecting eyewear on.

As an enormous shadow is forged on Earth, Trump’s head involves the fore. “We are going to save America. And make it nice once more,” the video concludes, a nod to his 2024 presidential marketing campaign.

The video invokes visuals and the opening rating from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A House Odyssey.

The eclipse is about to brush throughout Mexico, america, and Canada on Monday afternoon. Because the moon passes between the solar and Earth, a second of virtually whole darkness can be forged for a lot of minutes. 

The occasion is not going to happen once more in North America till 2044, however it final occurred seven years in the past, in the course of the first 12 months of Trump’s presidential time period. Trump made headlines and meme pages after he ignored the recommendation of specialists by wanting immediately on the eclipse with out protecting eyewear. His spouse, then First-Woman Melania Trump and their son Barron have been additionally current, and each wore glasses to watch the eclipse.

Specialists say that wanting on the eclipse with a unadorned eye could cause blurred imaginative and prescient, floaters, blind spots, or low imaginative and prescient. In some excessive instances, the place publicity is prolonged, retinal burns can result in blindness.

Learn Extra: The right way to Safely Watch the Whole Eclipse

“Photo voltaic retinopathy is a photochemical harm to your retina,” Dr. Nicole Bajic, a surgical ophthalmologist on the Cleveland Clinic, beforehand instructed TIME.

Sunday’s video marketing campaign is the newest in a string of bizarre statements the previous President has made not too long ago. Throughout a Saturday night time fundraiser in Palm Seashore, FL, Trump claimed that the incumbent President Joe Biden “actually” dirty himself within the Oval Workplace on the White Home.

Trump’s speech on the fundraiser lasted 45 minutes, throughout which he mocked Biden’s insurance policies, earlier than referencing the extensively recognizable Resolute desk, a present from Queen Victoria in 1880.

“Ronald Reagan used it, others used it. And he’s utilizing it,” he stated of Biden. “It’s been dirty. And I imply that actually, which is unhappy,” he commented.

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis left their 127-117 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves early on Sunday night time after he aggravated a watch damage.

Davis took an inadvertent shot to the face from Timberwolves ahead Kyle Anderson late within the first quarter of the sport at Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles. Davis picked up a rebound and was going for a put-back dunk when Anderson made contact together with his eye. Whereas Davis accomplished the dunk, he hit the ground laborious after and was clearly in ache.

Davis left the sport as a result of damage, and the workforce then dominated him out within the second half with a left eye damage. He completed with 4 factors and 4 rebounds in 12 minutes.

The hit to his eye aggravated a corneal abrasion he first sustained in a loss to the Golden State Warriors final month after Trayce Jackson-Davis hit him within the eye. Davis left the sport early that night time, too, and he noticed a specialist after his imaginative and prescient was impaired and his eyelid was swollen shut.

Whereas it’s unclear how extreme the damage is, there may be “optimism” that Davis will have the ability to return for the Lakers’ subsequent recreation on Tuesday night time, in line with McMenamin.

With out Davis and LeBron James — who was dominated out with flu-like signs — the Timberwolves rolled previous the Lakers on Sunday night time. They outscored the Lakers by 19 factors within the second quarter and held on to seize the 10-point win behind 31 factors from Naz Reid and 26 factors from Anthony Edwards. The Timberwolves improved to 54-24 with the win, which has them in first within the Western Convention standings.

Rui Hachimura led the Lakers with 30 factors within the loss. Jaxson Hayes added 19 factors and 10 rebounds off the bench, and Spencer Dinwiddie completed with 18 factors. The Lakers fell to 45-34 after the loss. They now sit ninth within the Western Convention standings with simply three video games left within the common season.

I’m nonetheless affected by Trump-era-induced mind soften. However even towards the uncontrolled spigot of dumb that produced my illness, one particularly dumb second stands out: former President Donald Trump’s peek at a photo voltaic eclipse.

As I wrote on the time, it was a deeply Trumpian incident that, true to character, defied each science and customary sense from the literal highest perch of presidency, the White Home. However returning to this second seven years later, a wierd tingling connection emerges—and I can’t assist however relate. There’s one thing comprehensible concerning the silly curiosity with which he ignored the foundations for a fleeting second. The joys! (However I communicate as somebody who touched a portray on a dare throughout a faculty journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.)

So on the eve of one other complete eclipse, I talked to Dr. Viola Kanevsky, a famend optometrist primarily based in New York, to make sure that I had the details straight on what the eyes can take, ought to my very own mischief lead me to endure a really totally different form of soften.

Right here’s what she needed to inform me concerning the potential for eye injury—and Trump’s notorious 2017 flip towards the solar.

What one security measure would you need individuals to pay attention to throughout Monday’s photo voltaic eclipse?

Ideally, you could have a pair of photo voltaic eclipse glasses. You may additionally go surfing and discover ways to create a pinhole digital camera so that you simply view the eclipse not directly. However if you wish to view the eclipse immediately, you really want an permitted pair of glasses.

The primary piece of recommendation I’ve is for individuals not to take a look at it immediately, particularly: susceptible individuals, like younger youngsters; individuals who have lighter eyes; or individuals who have had cataract surgical procedure not too long ago. Usually, in case you have a look at the solar, you’d both sneeze or shut your eyes. When there’s an eclipse, particularly earlier than it’s partially obstructed, it’s not brilliant sufficient to power you to shut your eyes. However it’s nonetheless intense sufficient to trigger everlasting retinal injury.

Take me by way of what scientifically occurs to the attention when it seems to be at an eclipse. Does the attention actually burn off? And in that case, what does that really feel like?

Sadly, retina injury seems like nothing. For those who pinch your pores and skin, you could have receptors that trigger ache, and you are feeling ache. However in case you burn or tear the retina, you would possibly see flashing lights, however it’s a painless occasion. 

The injury doesn’t start to manifest till hours or generally even days later. The sunshine damages the retinal pigment epithelium with the retina, which causes swelling of the retinal layers and releases free radicals that proceed to break the retina as time goes on. So it’s continued the injury continues past the publicity time. The results of that’s diminished acuity, distortion of the imaginative and prescient, a blind spot. You may get any of these signs. Any of those ought to immediate you to go to your physician of optometry and get it checked out immediately.

So to be clear. Precisely how quickly after publicity do these signs seem?

It may begin anyplace from an hour to every week after the publicity that you simply begin to see the indicators. 

Are we speaking about everlasting injury?

Usually it’s everlasting injury. If it’s very temporary and really gentle publicity, most circumstances will resolve inside about six weeks, which means you’ll get again your imaginative and prescient. However typically the metamorphosis that accompanies it, which is that waviness, a distortion of the imaginative and prescient that generally stays completely.

I’ve sufferers who’ve had photo voltaic burns or photo voltaic holes which have 20/40, 20/80, or generally even worse imaginative and prescient—and completely. However worse than that could be a blind spot within the central imaginative and prescient, which signifies that they’re truly lacking a picture proper smack in the course of their imaginative and prescient.

Are there procedures that undo that injury?

Sadly no. We’ve tried issues like steroid remedies, however one of the best therapy is prevention.

So in speaking about all this, Donald Trump’s peak on the solar involves thoughts. What have been your preliminary ideas after seeing the President of the US ignoring the warning to not look?

It was unlucky. After all, I don’t know his ocular historical past. But it surely units a poor instance, particularly for individuals who don’t know and don’t have the knowledge, like younger youngsters, who would possibly then wish to do the identical. They have been made susceptible. 

Trump regarded on the eclipse in 2017. It’s now seven years later. So whereas many issues may be off about him, his imaginative and prescient does appear intact.

Effectively, how would I do know? I haven’t checked his eyes. There is no such thing as a approach to take a look at somebody and know that they solely have 20/40 imaginative and prescient or a blind spot in a single eye. And, at his age, you ought to be carrying studying glasses on a regular basis as an alternative of squinting. He’s not doing that both. 

Any recommendation for him for this upcoming eclipse?

I are likely to not give individuals imaginative and prescient recommendation. However what I’d advise anybody to do at any age is ensure that they’re getting a checkup yearly to ensure their eyes are wholesome. Actually, as individuals grow old, to ensure that their eyes are wholesome to rule out indicators of situations like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and cataracts—issues which can be preventable and treatable. 

Okay, superb. The rest we must always know?

The one different suggestion I’ve for youths is to learn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Courtroom by Mark Twain. There’s an eclipse in there, and realizing the date of the eclipse manages to save lots of somebody’s life. It’s a enjoyable story.

Actor Jonathan Majors should endure a yearlong counseling program, however averted jail time when he was sentenced to probation Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star’s profession.

The previous Marvel franchise star had confronted as much as a 12 months behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault by a Manhattan jury in December.

As a substitute, a decide dominated that Majors shall be on probation, should pay a $250 nice and endure a 52- week in-person counseling program accredited by Los Angeles County’s probation division.

If Majors is arrested any time throughout his probation, he might be pressured to spend a 12 months in jail. He’s additionally not in a position to possess, apply for or personal a firearm as is typical with home violence instances.

As a part of the ruling, a full order of safety will stay in place for his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. A pattern of Majors’ DNA may also be taken as a part of his sentence.

Following the responsible verdict, Majors was instantly dropped by Marvel Studios, which had solid him as Kang the Conqueror, a task envisioned as the primary villain within the leisure empire’s films and tv reveals for years to come back.

The conviction stems from an altercation in March 2023 wherein Jabbari accused him of attacking her within the backseat of a chauffeured automobile, saying he hit her head together with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her again and squeezed her center finger till it fractured.

Majors claimed the 31-year-old British dancer was the aggressor, flying right into a jealous rage after studying a textual content message from one other lady on his telephone. He maintained he was solely making an attempt to regain his telephone and escape Jabbari safely.

The jury finally convicted him of 1 assault cost and a harassment violation, although acquitted him on a unique assault cost and of aggravated harassment.

Majors was initially slated to be sentenced in February, however his attorneys sought to dismiss the conviction. A Manhattan decide denied the movement final week.

Majors had hoped his two-week prison trial would vindicate him and restore his standing in Hollywood.

In a tv interview shortly after his conviction, he mentioned he deserves a second probability.

“As he eagerly anticipates closing this chapter, he appears to be like ahead to redirecting his time and vitality totally towards his household and his artwork,” Majors’ attorneys mentioned in an announcement final week after shedding their bid to have the conviction tossed out.

However the 34-year-old California native and Yale College graduate nonetheless faces different authorized hurdles. Final month, Jabbari filed a civil go well with in Manhattan federal courtroom, accusing the actor of assault, battery, defamation and inflicting emotional misery.

She claims Majors subjected her to escalating incidents of bodily and verbal abuse throughout their relationship, which lasted from 2021 to 2023.

Majors’ attorneys have declined to answer the claims, saying solely that they’re making ready to file counterclaims towards Jabbari.

The actor had his breakthrough position in 2019’s “The Final Black Man in San Francisco.” He additionally starred within the HBO horror collection “Lovecraft Nation,” which earned him an Emmy nomination, and because the nemesis to fictional boxing champ Adonis Creed within the blockbuster “Creed III.”

As for Marvel, a looming query stays whether or not the studio will recast the position of Kang or pivot in a brand new path.

Majors’ departure was amongst a latest collection of high-profile setbacks for the vaunted superhero manufacturing facility, which has earned an unprecedented $30 billion worldwide from 33 movies.

[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned.”]

Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s ending was lengthy within the making.

After 12 seasons and greater than 20 years, Larry David’s HBO comedy gem signed off on Sunday evening with a basic callback to the Seinfeld sequence finale, which aired in 1998. And the general reception to date brings to thoughts a well-recognized Larry phrase: It was a fairly, fairly good method to wrap.

Even David — the star and creator of the sequence that sees him taking part in a loosely fictionalized model of himself — was comfortable after the display minimize to black, his longtime collaborator, government producer Jeff Schaffer tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Talking the morning after the top-secret sequence finale was unleashed onto the Curb viewers, Schaffer and star Susie Essman (who performs the indefatigable Susie Greene) can lastly converse freely in regards to the genesis of Curb‘s ending, how lengthy the thought to rewrite the Seinfeld finale had been within the works and the way this places a “cussed exclamation level” on all of David’s work to lastly inform his naysayers that sure, this present is de facto, actually ending.

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You saved the key. How does it really feel? And, do you are feeling you caught the touchdown?

SUSIE ESSMAN I had not seen it till final evening. I’d seen all of the episodes besides the finale, and I couldn’t be happier. I assumed it was such an incredible ending. Simply excellent. It wrapped up the entire sequence in a stupendous means.

JEFF SCHAFFER I’m so comfortable to not should be evasive about how we’re ending the season and the sequence. I really feel like I’ve had this deep, darkish household secret that I’ve been carrying round for a 12 months and a half now. However, it feels nice. On the present, half the time individuals are watching via closed eyes, going like, “Oh my God, Larry goes to interact,” or, “Larry goes to show again round and reengage.” And you’ll’t consider he’s doing it. I really feel like this season was that writ massive.

It was like, “Wait. They’re not likely going to do this, actually? They’re not likely going to do the Seinfeld finale. I can’t consider they’re doing it!” After which we subvert it ultimately, I assumed in an ideal means. I used to be very comfortable, as a result of ultimately, it was an ideal Larry David ending.

You weren’t absolutely trustworthy with me about Seinfeld earlier within the season once we talked in regards to the echoes! Larry spoke to Willie Geist (who visitor starred on the ultimate season) this morning about how he was getting too outdated to play this character, which prompted the present ending. How a lot of it was Larry saying it was time, and the way a lot of it was realizing that taking part in this Seinfeld card was the true ending-ending?

SCHAFFER Approach again in July of ‘22 we had been writing the season and we had been speaking about this. It was a joke scene with Larry: A child throws a ball or kicks Larry and he has to become involved on this lesson, and he doesn’t wish to be concerned on this lesson: “I don’t have time to your lesson, I don’t want a lesson. I’m 76 years outdated, I’ve by no means realized a lesson in my life.” And when he mentioned that we had been like, “Hey, maintain on. We at all times joke about you by no means studying a lesson. What if we simply flip that into the meta joke of the whole finale?” [The series finale is titled “No Lessons Learned.”]

As a result of a trial was a attainable ending. We weren’t certain what we had been going to do for an ending, however that was a risk. And as soon as we realized we might do that meta joke of Larry by no means studying a lesson — and oh by the way in which, he’s going to steer the Titanic proper again into that [Seinfeld] iceberg — that’s once we knew that was the top of the season and that’s once we knew that was the top of the sequence. From that time on, all the things was simply determining the way to seed issues in. How a lot and the way little we needed to. However from that second on, we knew that needed to be the top of the sequence, as a result of that was the funniest finish of the sequence.

ESSMAN I’ve a query, Jeff. So then you definitely went again and peppered within the little strains in regards to the Seinfeld ending, like Ted [Danson] making that remark to Larry [about him returning to write the series finale and judging him over it]? You went again after which added these in, proper?

SCHAFFER Sure, a few of these hadn’t even been written but. Then we began to slip these issues in and it was like, “Oh, after all, Leon [JB Smoove] by no means would have seen Seinfeld” and we are able to speak about that and get him concerned on this form of meta navel-gazing.

ESSMAN That’s the genius of those two collectively, Jeff and Larry, and the way they determine this stuff out. I learn all of the outlines earlier than we start, so I knew what the entire storyline was and what the ending was going to be, and I used to be there as we had been taking pictures it, after all. However to see all of it put collectively is a complete different factor.

SCHAFFER I’m pleased with the way it occurred and the way it got here out. It was such a foolish factor, but it surely was form of formidable in its laziness, progressive in its intransigence and distinctive in its repetition. We bought to swing and miss on goal, after which hit it out of the park.

Larry has clearly had emotions in regards to the Seinfeld ending for years and years, and everybody has made their emotions identified. However right here it’s circling again in an epic method to provide the ending to this present. So, it was fairly price it?

SCHAFFER In the end, this ending was about greater than the present. It spoke on the contrary DNA of Larry, and it form of spans his whole profession and makes it a becoming finish to the sequence and places a cussed exclamation level on all of its work. That’s the opposite factor I preferred about it. It spoke about not simply the sequence however in regards to the creator of the sequence.

It does really feel like a cussed exclamation level, one you possibly can’t revisit and open again up. Do you are feeling it’s too excellent and to ever revisit Curb? How last does this really feel?

ESSMAN I feel it’s last. It feels last to me, however in a optimistic means. We’ve accomplished 12 seasons, we’ve accomplished this for twenty-four years. It’s been wonderful, it’s been the best skilled expertise of my life and I consider everybody who has been on the present and, it’s over. And it’s over in an effective way and we are able to have a good time it. I bought so many texts final evening, “This have to be bittersweet.” It’s actually not that bittersweet. It’s over and that’s a optimistic factor, to have been a part of this creation for all this time. Nothing can final ceaselessly — we’re all getting outdated!

SCHAFFER We made certain once we had been doing this that it didn’t finish within the jail. It didn’t finish with Larry and Jerry tying up the profession stuff. We needed to finish with all of our solid. We finish with them how we started with them: just like the alpha and omega of bickering. I beforehand advised you, Jackie, a number of occasions — there have been scenes that now we have shot earlier than that we’re truly utilizing on this season. I couldn’t let you know this on the time, however the last scene of the sequence, we’ve shot twice earlier than. We shot it as soon as in season 9 and once more in season 11 on the way in which to Mexico: Susie opened the shade and bought right into a struggle with Larry on the aircraft. And every time it was like an additional joke in a scene that was already jam-packed and, how lengthy can we keep on a aircraft? So we minimize the scenes. Now, now we have this scene that we shot twice, minimize out of the present twice, and it turned the proper method to say goodbye to all of our guys.

You additionally spoke about scenes you reshot after getting back from the strikes. What had been these scenes?

ESSMAN The scenes within the reshoots had been me within the wheelchair within the courtroom, and a few the courtroom issues.

SCHAFFER It was additionally actually essential that, if we’re going to place everybody in courtroom, we needed it to be a Curb episode with Curb tales. So, wanting to determine what that salad dressing is and Leon speaking about sympathy. And all of it comes collectively in courtroom the place Susie will get to do that wonderful wheelchair efficiency; Larry and Susie get to staff up after which all of it goes to shit, culminating in an Auntie Rae [Ellia English] scream for the ages and a sentence that I don’t assume has ever been mentioned on planet Earth.  

ESSMAN She’s unbelievable. And, I don’t know if I’m appropriate about this Jeff, as a result of I by no means requested you or Larry, but it surely felt prefer to me once I learn the ultimate episode, a 12 months and a half in the past, that you simply guys gave every of us one thing particular in that final episode, as a present to every of us.

SCHAFFER We needed to verify everybody had their story, had their second. It wouldn’t have felt proper to have a last episode the place you didn’t get to see all of our sensible stars shine.

So when Jeff Garlin talked about you, Jeff, calling minimize after the ultimate scene and he started weeping, that was the aircraft scene?

ESSMAN Sure, that was the very last thing we shot within the last season.

SCHAFFER I keep in mind when Jackie [Schaffer, his wife] and I had been within the last season of The League, we had been speaking to Matthew Weiner in regards to the finale of Mad Males and he mentioned certainly one of his huge regrets was that the ultimate taking pictures scene of Mad Males didn’t have all of the solid collectively. Jon [Hamm] was in California and this and that. So we we actually remembered that. It was crucial right here that the ultimate day, no matter it was, had all of our solid collectively to have a good time an incredible accomplishment.

ESSMAN It’s the household. It’s an ensemble. It’s Larry’s present, however we’re his present household. And particularly once you’re improvising, you actually should have super belief and respect for one another.

While you took this concept to Jerry Seinfeld, was it a simple sure or did it take convincing?

SCHAFFER Larry known as Jerry and he goes, “I’m in.” And by the way in which, Jerry was so excited once we had been doing it. After we completed taking pictures that jail scene, he was so jazzed about it and he mentioned, “That is wonderful. It is a joke that’s 26 years within the making.” He was enthusiastic about what this was doing, too. I’m simply glad all of us stayed in showbiz lengthy sufficient to truly pull this off.

Now we perceive that remark Jerry Seinfeld had made within the press — the place he mentioned he and Larry had been as much as one thing about Seinfeld, and Jason Alexander mentioned he didn’t have a clue what they had been speaking about. Had been you freaking out when that occurred, or was all of it stirring the pot?

ESSMAN And, he didn’t know!

SCHAFFER I knew the place it was coming from, which was that he was very excited. And that made me comfortable, that he was enthusiastic about this. It was nice to see Larry and Jerry in a scene collectively taking pictures the shit, it was like watching Seinfeld Adam and Eve simply fucking round within the Comedy Backyard of Eden. It’s like, “Oh, that is how Seinfeld bought made, you guys chatting about nothing. About bearded women.”

One factor I wish to say about our solid is that that is an improv present and it’s so exhausting to do tales and be humorous. What they do is a stage of problem that’s simply unimaginable. I’ve the utmost respect for it. With different issues they’re scripted; you say the stuff. The stuff that we bought on this episode alone from this grasp class of comedians, it made it a extremely, actually humorous present. Not only a finale present, however a humorous present.

You’ve talked in regards to the life cycle of Curb, the way you at all times really feel you guys are accomplished after a season. However now we all know that the door is extra shut than you let on. Firstly, in Curb world, the place do you see Larry going from right here in his future? And secondly, now we have Susie and Leon and many individuals you possibly can spin off. Is there something being severely thought-about for branching off and persevering with this universe?

ESSMAN Not that I do know of. I wouldn’t fear about Larry. His creativeness is so fertile. He’s not one to only sit round and play golf and watch the Yankees. He’ll do this, too, however there’s a mind there that doesn’t cease. And similar with Schaffer. There will likely be nice issues from this younger man over right here, Jeff Schaffer!

SCHAFFER After we knew this was going to be the ultimate season and this was going to be the ultimate episode, I mentioned, “Look, there’s going to be quite a lot of press about this. There’s going to be quite a lot of hoopla. However there’s nothing extra Larry David than taking a last victory lap after which slinking again.”

In order that’s your last reply, Jeff?

SCHAFFER At present!

ESSMAN As I’ve mentioned earlier than, none of us truly die ultimately. (Laughs.)

SCHAFFER Yeah, that aircraft didn’t go down! It landed again in L.A. and so they bought on with their lives. Susie had one other banquet and for some unbeknownst cause, she invited Larry once more.

ESSMAN Once more!

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Curb Your Enthusiasm is now streaming on Max.

NEW YORK — Actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to 1 yr of home violence counseling after he was discovered responsible of harassing and assaulting his ex-girlfriend in New York Metropolis. 

The decide granted a full protecting order for Grace Jabbari, Majors’ ex, at Monday’s sentencing. If Majors violates any phrases of the sentencing, he faces a yr in jail.

The fallout from Majors’ conviction on misdemeanor assault and harassment has proved to be a lot larger than any formal sentence. 

Majors was caught on digicam shoving Jabbari again inside an SUV on Canal Road in Decrease Manhattan following a heated argument in March 2023. 

The jury discovered he twisted and injured Jabbari’s arm, and that he recklessly, however not deliberately, injured and harassed her throughout the altercation that led to his arrest. 

Majors, 34, is understood for his roles in “Creed III” and Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” Marvel and Disney lower ties with Majors and dropped him from future initiatives following the decision. He additionally misplaced sponsorship offers. 

In February, Majors’ legal professional filed a movement asking the decide to put aside the decision and acquit him of all fees. The movement was denied. 

Jabbari begged the courtroom to carry Majors accountable. She additionally filed a civil go well with in opposition to Majors, alleging he dedicated assault, battery and defamation in opposition to her. 

“He isn’t sorry. He has not accepted accountability and he’ll do that once more. It is a man who believes he’s above the legislation. Subsequently, he stays a hazard to these round him,” Jabbari mentioned Monday. 

CBS New York tried to talk with Majors after the sentence was handed down, however he didn’t reply to questions. 

Majors was acquitted on two fees that required prosecutors to point out he deliberately dedicated the acts. He’s interesting the conviction. 

Earlier than the ultimate season of Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered this winter, I requested Larry David through e mail if he had taken any classes from Seinfeld’s famously divisive finale. His reply was easy: “I realized that disappointing individuals en masse could be very pleasing.”

Clearly, David was joking. However possibly he type of wasn’t. All through Curb’s twelfth and final season, it was clear that David and govt producer Jeff Schaffer had been establishing a cheeky redo of Seinfeld’s conclusion—during which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer unintentionally break a foolish Good Samaritan regulation, then discover themselves roped right into a trial during which memorable characters from the sequence’ previous reemerge to testify about what horrible individuals the sitcom’s predominant characters are. The sequence ends with the foursome being sentenced to precise jail time; its anticlimactic ultimate moments see Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander repeating a trivial dialog they’d had in Seinfeld’s pilot.

In Curb’s case, the damaged regulation is barely extra significant: Larry is arrested within the season’s premiere episode for handing a bottle of water to a lady ready in line to vote in Atlanta, which is someway an precise crime within the state of Georgia. Alongside detours about relationship Sienna Miller and hitting Troy Kotsur with a golf ball, the season follows Larry as he bumbles into a very avoidable trial, which lastly begins within the sequence finale. 

Identical to the Seinfeld crew, Larry finds himself staring down a bunch of Curb visitor stars as they rave concerning the horrible issues he’s accomplished over the course of the sequence: killing a black swan, peeing on a portrait of Jesus Christ, stealing a number of objects from a number of lifeless individuals, yada yada yada. The result appears predetermined: Larry is, in actual fact, discovered responsible. It seems that he was sure to shut the present behind bars, simply as Jerry and co. as soon as did.

Besides Curb had one ultimate curveball in retailer. The episode winds to an in depth with Larry in a cell, beginning a foolish dialog about pants with a fellow inmate—when immediately, Jerry Seinfeld himself enters and tells his onetime collaborator that Larry is definitely free to go. 

Why? As a result of Seinfeld, who was on the town to assist Larry throughout his ordeal, noticed a juror from Larry’s trial out and about in Atlanta when all members of the jury had been alleged to be sequestered. After a basic Jerry-and-George-style back-and-forth (“He broke a sequester?!” “Broke a sequester!”), the Seinfeld star tells David {that a} mistrial has been declared, and his sentence has been thrown out.

“You don’t wish to find yourself like this. No one needs to see it,” Seinfeld says slyly simply earlier than Larry leaves his cell for the final time. “Belief me.”

And so the 2 go away the jail, although not earlier than David throws up his palms and turns to Seinfeld. “Oh, my God,” he says. “That is how we should always have ended the finale.” For the document, Seinfeld—or his onscreen alter ego, a minimum of—agrees. 

J. Cole mentioned there’s one a part of his new album that he isn’t happy with: a observe by which he disses Kendrick Lamar. 

The artist, who dropped his album “May Delete Later” on Friday, launched a observe titled “7 Minute Drill,” which encompasses a verse that takes goal on the fellow rapper.

“I’m so happy with that venture, aside from one half,” Cole said Sunday at his music pageant, Dreamville Fest. “It’s one a part of that s— that make me really feel like, ‘Man, that’s the lamest s— I ever did in my f—— life.’ And I do know this isn’t what lots of people need to hear.” 

Lamar, the primary rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2018, had taken pictures at Cole and Drake in a visitor verse on the tune “Like That,” by rapper Future and producer Metro Boomin. 

Within the tune, Lamar responds to a line in Cole and Drake’s tune “First Individual Shooter,” by which Cole had deemed himself, Drake and Lamar because the “Huge Three” of rap music.

After the discharge of “Like That” on March 22, Lamar’s verse blew up on-line, prompting hypothesis round whether or not or not Cole or Drake would reply. Many followers believed Lamar’s verse was too scathing for Cole and Drake to not reply. 

Cole on Sunday instructed the gang that he tried to “jab” Lamar again in a pleasant approach, however that it didn’t “sit proper.” He mentioned he hopes that Lamar “didn’t really feel no approach,” however that he would take one other dis “on the chin” if Lamar was offended. 

Footage from Cole’s onstage feedback circulated on X, the place many have spent days discussing his dis observe. Within the tune, Cole says Lamar’s second album “To Pimp a Butterfly,” which gained greatest rap album on the 2016 Grammys, put individuals to sleep.

Some rap followers on-line felt that Cole’s dis was weak as a result of “TPAB” has been critically and commercially acclaimed. 

Cole instructed the Dreamville Fest crowd that he felt pressured to hit again at Lamar.

“I felt conflicted as a result of I’m like, ‘Bruh, I do know I don’t actually really feel no approach,’ however the world desires to see blood,” Cole mentioned to the gang.  

He additionally expressed regret for downplaying Lamar’s discography in his dis.

“How many individuals assume Kendrick Lamar is likely one of the best motherf—— to ever contact a f—— microphone?” Cole mentioned, garnering applause from the viewers.

He additionally mentioned he felt “blessed” to face beside Drake and Lamar as friends.

Drake has indirectly responded to the dis. He appeared to reference it at a latest live performance in Florida. 

Representatives for Cole, Lamar and Drake didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.