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HEADLINER–May 10
You’re Fired Immediately! That escalated rather quickly. To catch you up, its only Wednesday and #45 and his administration have been doing the absolute most. FBI Director James Comey was fired, his termination letter read to him via phone because he was in LA at an FBI employee event; Comey thought it was a prank when he saw the news flash on TV (does he have to do the box of stuff fired employee walk of shame?). As soon as the news hit, it was time for some offensive damage control, enter the once missing Kellyanne Conwayappearing on Anderson Cooper. Comey’s firing isn’t just raising eyebrows from the Dems, some GOPers are also wondering about the timing of this and what will happen to the Russian election meddling investigation. The Nixon library sent out a subtweet when comparisons to Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” of 1973, firing of an independent special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, was made. Did you know Comey was 6’8″ tall? Andrew McCabe is now acting FBI director…..Read more
MORE NEWS
• Inmates, pre trial ones, at Cook county jail can now order pizza that will be delivered directly to their cell. Tocco’s Chef Bruno Abate runs the “Recipe for Change” program in the jail and sales from the $5-$7 pies will go back to the program.
• Popular ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman lost his wife Cathy, 67, in a car accident Tuesday. The two car crash happened in rural Connecticut. They were married for more than 33 years,
• Penn State frat bros that were involved in the death of Beta Theta Pi pledge Timothy Piazza were in court Tuesday. Security camera from the frat house shows how Piazza’s skin began to turn gray. The bros did not call for help until about 12 hours after Piazza was seen falling and hitting his head. Alcohol was involved and also the elephant walk, a frat initiation was apparently involved.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Snapchat rolled out some new updates on the app Tuesday ahead of its first Q1 earnings report expected Wednesday. The most significant is what they are calling limitless snaps, where your snap will exist longer than 10secs.
• There was a Daily Show reunion on The Late Show With Stephen ColbertTuesday night. Recap of it here.
FASHION
• A new Creative Director for Roberto Cavalli has been announced. Paul Surridge, formerly of Z Zegna and consultant to Acne Studios will take responsibility for “all of the group’s brands and for all creative functions.” Peter Dundas, left the Cavalli role late last year and he is starting his own shop with his partner, Chicago native Evie Bousis. In other fashion news, Creatures of the Wind have partnered with System magazine on a four-piece capsule collection of weed themed merch launching Friday. Lastly, Givenchy will not produce a runway show for Paris Men’s fashion Week.
“Smiling doesn’t win you gold medals.”― Simone Biles
SPOTTED ON THE SCENE: David Schwimmer & Jeremy Piven were spotted catching up and enjoying cocktails at brand new Italian cocktail bar, Otto Mezzo.
West Virginia journalist arrested after asking HHS Secretary Tom Price a question
Christopher ‘Big Black’ Boykin of hit MTV show “Rob & Big” is dead
45 Celebrities Issued Warnings by FTC over Instagram Endorsements
A Trump supporter, and his cab, play unexpected role in escape to Canada
LOOK OF THE DAY
Kaia Gerber @ Daisy marc Jacobs LA event
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