Lionel Richie wrote Kenny Rogers‘ classic song “Lady,” and he just revealed on TheDrew Barrymore Show that he finished the tune in a very unlikely place — the bathroom.
“I’m working with Kenny Rogers — this is back in the day — and so Kenny calls and says, ‘I want you to write a song for me,'” Richie shared on the show. “And, of course, I wrote ‘Lady.'”
Richie explains that at Kenny’s request he also prepared a second song, “Goin’ Back to Alabama,” but midway through writing it, Rogers decided he wanted to record “Lady” first.
“Now, what he didn’t know was I only had written the first verse of ‘Lady,’” Richie revealed. “So, I said, ‘Excuse me for a minute. Let me, uh, go to the bathroom.’ I’m sitting in the stall writing the second verse to ‘Lady.'”
Barrymore couldn’t believe Richie was able to finish the classic tune in such a short period of time, but he noted, “You will do some amazing things when you’re scared to death.” He added, “The idea of telling Mr. Rogers, ‘I don’t have the second verse,’ was not going to happen in my lifetime.”
“Lady,” released in 1980, became a number one hit for Rogers, spending six weeks on top of the chart. As for “Goin’ Back to Alabama,” Rogers did eventually record it for his 1981 album, Share Your Love.
(WASHINGTON) — An unusual cross-section of lawmakers has emerged against a TikTok ban, with usual ideological foes employing similar language to denounce what they say would be censorship.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is the latest to voice opposition to a total prohibition of the popular social media app — joining the ranks of progressive “Squad” members such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and others.
Paul effectively shut down an attempt Wednesday from his Republican colleague Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., to get unanimous consent to ban the Chinese-owned app.
“If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them,” Paul said in a 12-minute floor speech. “But don’t think that any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them.”
Paul argued a ban would amount to violations of the First Amendment, adding, “The Constitution actually prohibits bills of attainder. You’re not allowed to have a specific bill against a person or a company.”
“So this fails on two egregious points,” he said, cautioning people should “beware of those who peddle fear.”
Hawley argued Paul was advocating for a “right to espionage.”
“I have never before heard on this floor a defense of the right to spy. I didn’t realize that the First Amendment contained a right to espionage,” the Missouri Republican shot back.
TikTok has faced growing bipartisan scrutiny from government officials, with the animosity coming to a head last week in a testy hearing between CEO Shou Zi Chew and House members.
Lawmakers and Biden administration officials have questioned who has access to data stored on the app, with some describing the platform as a threat to national security due to its parent company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
“Every accusation of data gathering that’s been attributed to TikTok could also be attributed to domestic Big Tech companies,” Paul said.
Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman and a handful of other progressives have also argued that a ban on TikTok raises free speech issues and wouldn’t solve the broader problem of data gathering on various Big Tech platforms. Bowman similarly invoked First Amendment concerns when voicing his opposition to a ban.
“The First Amendment gives us the right to speak freely and to communicate freely and TikTok as a platform has created a community and a space for free speech for 150 million Americans and counting,” he said last week.
Ocasio-Cortez offered her defense of the company in her first-ever TikTok video last week. She told viewers a ban “doesn’t really address the core of the issue, which is the fact that major social media companies are allowed to collect troves of deeply personal data about you that you don’t know about without really any significant regulation whatsoever.”
The New York Democrat also noted the United States has never banned a social media app and that Congress hasn’t received a classified briefing — as is normally the case — regarding national security concerns.
There are several attempts to ban the app working their way through Congress, including the DATA Act from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and the RESTRICT Act from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he expects the House will move forward with legislation to address TikTok but didn’t detail when such action would take place.
(NEW YORK) — The recent mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, that left six people dead — including three children — was carried out, at least in part, with semi-automatic rifles.
According to Nashville police, the shooter walked into the private Christian elementary school Monday armed with a handgun, but also an AR-15-style rifle and a semi-automatic pistol-caliber carbine.
While handguns have the potential to seriously harm people, sometimes fatally, semi-automatic rifles can cause even more damage.
“Disturbingly, in mass shootings, the AR-15 or the AR-15-style rifle seems to be the weapon of choice,” Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a pediatric and critical care surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, told ABC News. “That’s not to say that there aren’t other rifles that can cause quite a lot of damage in the human body, but this type of injury is devastating and unique to many military-grade weapons.”
Trauma specialists explained what the injuries look like, how they’re treated and why they can be even more devastating for a child than an adult.
Wounds from handguns vs. semi-automatic rifles
Traditionally, bullets fired by a handgun will cause clear entrance and exit wounds — both of fairly the same size — and will often travel in a straight line into and out of the body.
“A conventional handgun will typically create a relatively small, round wound that sort of conforms to the size of the bullet,” Dr. Michael Shapiro, chief of trauma and critical care surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Illinois, told ABC News. “If it passes through the patient, the exit wound is typically a little bit larger with the skin edges everted a little bit.”
He continued, “As a rule, if you can line up the holes, you’re likely to see a sort of picture of what organs are in between those two wounds and it gives you a pretty good sense of what you need to be concerned about.”
However, the same can’t be said for a wound from a semi-automatic rifle.
Bullets from these firearms do not create the same size entrance and exit wounds, and often one can be much bigger than the other.
“The degree of tissue destruction will be considerably greater, so rather than a bullet simply passing through an organ, it may inflict a more destructive wound to the organ itself,” Shapiro said. “So, you may, instead of seeing a small wound through the stomach, for example, you may see much larger wounds and that’s typically consistent with both with the skin wounds as well.”
“You may see a relatively small entrance wound and a very large, destructive, blown out skin wound on exit,” he added.
Sometimes bullets from AR-15s and AR-15-style weapons can yaw, or tumble, before they hit a person, meaning there is not a linear path through the body.
“Instead of just being sort of point on straight through, there’s more erratic passage of the bullet through the victim so the extent of tissue damage is greater,” Shapiro explained.
What’s more, assault weapons can cause a process called cavitation to occur, meaning it creates a large cavity in the body, destroying tissues and organs.
High-velocity bullets
The size of the bullet doesn’t have much do with the damage a firearm can cause compared to the velocity at which a bullet exits.
This is mostly measured in the form of muzzle energy, or the kinetic energy of a bullet as it is expelled from a firearm’s muzzle.
For example, a 9-millimeter handgun — which the shooter carried into the school — has a muzzle energy of between 300 and 400 foot-pounds of force.
By comparison, an AR-15-style weapon has a muzzle energy of nearly 1,300 foot-pounds of force, meaning a high level of energy resulting in a greater impact.
“The difference with high velocity bullets and military-grade weapons…is the damage they inflict on the human body and our internal organs are much more gruesome and tend to have what is known as a blast effect, because that bullet is carrying so much energy with it as it enters the human body,” Griggs said. “Instead of, for example, if the bullet traveled through the lung, instead of a hole in the lung, we’re looking at an exploded lung.”
Griggs explained that the same holds true if a bullet hits a human bone. A bullet from a handgun that hits a bone might fracture the bone, but a bullet from a semi-automatic rifle might shatter the bone due to the high velocity.
Impact on a child
The doctors told ABC News that while assault-style weapons can injure any human, children will be much more impacted because of their smaller bodies.
Because bullets from these weapons are traveling at a high velocity, they can destroy a significant portion of tissue and are more likely to hit major organs.
“Children, their organs are a lot more compact, and they have a lot less fat surrounding their vital organs,” Griggs said. “And so, you can imagine that a bullet that is causing a blast effect inside their body, inside their abdomen or their torso or their chest, it’s not just going to explode, or tear apart, their lung, but also their heart. Not just going to completely shatter their liver, but also their spleen, causing catastrophic fatal bleeding.”
Griggs said this has been seen in the multiple mass shootings that have occurred in schools across the U.S. including Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last year.
“When we see a child who has been shot with an AR-15-style rifle, there is often very little hope — depending on where the bullet has hit them in their body — that we can save their life even if they make it to the hospital,” she said. “And devastatingly, the children who were shot in Nashville were dead on arrival to the hospital. There’s nothing that trauma surgery team could do and that is very classic of what we have come to see as the norm.”
Treating a wound from a semi-automatic rifle
The initial triage process of treating victims of handgun wounds and semi-automatic rifle wounds is the same, including making sure breathing, blood pressure and circulation are stable and assessing if there are spinal injuries or other internal injuries.
However, those injured by high velocity weapons, such as AR-15-style rifles, are more likely to have serious injuries.
“We’ve learned that, while shooters often don’t shoot well, the semi-automatic weapons increase the likelihood that someone will be shot multiple times,” Shapiro said. “So, it can be a little bit more confounding to understand the connection of all of the different holes.”
He continued. “We’ll see people who come in not with one hole or two holes but with six, eight, 10 holes and trying to sort of piece that out to figure out what organ systems might be injured based on the trajectory, just trying to determine what that trajectory is can be significantly more complicated.”
Multiple wounds often mean identifying which injuries are the most severe and need to be treated first, but unfortunately not all patients can be saved.
“In general, I would expect the prognosis for someone who’s been shot with a military-grade weapon to be much worse, the likelihood of getting them out of the trauma bay to the operating room to survive the hospital stay, I would be much less optimistic,” Griggs said.
Ashan Singh, John Kapetaneas, Stephanie Fasano, Jaclyn Skurie, and Ivan Pereira, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — Student-athletes across the country are cashing in on their talents through ads, social media posts and other media, thanks to a 2021 Supreme Court decision.
Now some athletes have found a place in the spotlight through business agreements related to their “name, image and likeness,” known as NIL deals.
Hanna and Haley Cavinder, twin sisters who play for the University of Miami’s basketball team, reportedly pull in more than $1.6 million a year combined due to their sponsorships, according to On3, which tracks NIL deals among student-athletes.
“Impact x Nightline” takes a look at the debate over this trend among student-athletes in an episode now streaming on Hulu.
“We’re Champs athletes, and then we have WWE,” Haley Cavinder told “Impact x Nightline’s” Ashan Singh.
“And then, we have LifeWallet, Cigarette Racing,” Hanna Cavinder added.
“Then we also have a company called Baseline, which is college streetwear. We have equity in that,” Haley Cavinder said.
But as more young athletes continue to collect on their names and likenesses, some sports experts and coaches question if the trend is moving too fast.
“I think high school athletes, or even college athletes who want to monetize their NIL, need to understand that just highlighting your sport and those, like, action shots of you on field isn’t going to be enough,” Kristi Dosh, a sports attorney and founder of Business of College Sports, told “Impact.”
A key component that has set apart NILs from other sports earnings is the idea that the athletes still remain unpaid by their schools, but they are able to earn money on their popularity outside of games. This includes advertisements, sponsorships and promoted social media posts.
ESPN’s Ryan Smith told “Impact” that NIL sponsorship offers can come in all shapes and sizes — from local car dealerships to major corporations. In some cases, the athletes can make the brand deals themselves, according to Smith.
“When the Supreme Court handed down that decision, it changed everything,” he told “Impact.” “What it is…the student athletes, being able to go out and say, ‘Hey. I’m willing to lend my name to this particular product, and you can sell it, and you pay me for that.'”
The Cavinder twins already had a large following on TikTok prior to the Supreme Court decision and they said they decided to jump on the NIL bandwagon.
“We heard about NIL eventually being a thing. Maybe we could take advantage of the opportunity,” Hanna Cavinder said.
The twins scored a major partnership with Boost Mobile and soon other companies wanted to tap into their social media star power.
Another component of NILs is “NIL collectives,” which are usually founded by wealthy donors who are alumni and super fans who pool money together to give benefits to college athletes coming to the university they champion.
Billionaire lawyer, businessman and University of Miami alum John Ruiz has signed deals with the Cavinder twins through his companies, LifeWallet and Cigarette Racing. He dismissed critics who argued that businesses like his are buying athletes and brushed off concerns that the deals put too much pressure on them.
“That’s what life is about, right? You’re not going to have Mommy and Daddy there around you when you have to deal with real life. So you have to, you know, become a big boy or big girl real quick,” Ruiz told “Impact.”
Weeks after their interview with “Impact,” the first punishment of the NIL era was handed down to the University of Miami centered around an alleged dinner between Ruiz and the Cavinder twins when the twins were transfer prospects.
Such a meeting with someone the NCAA deems a booster prior to a student athlete’s acceptance to a school violates the association’s rules.
In February, the NCAA issued sanctions on the school’s women’s basketball program for its recruitment of the twins, claiming Ruiz provided an impermissible meal. No sanctions were imposed on the Cavinders or Ruiz.
At the time, a photograph, tweeted by Ruiz, showed the twins and their parents at Ruiz’s home prior to their commitment to the university.
The University of Miami’s women’s basketball Coach Katie Meier was suspended for three games during the NCAA investigation, which said Meier inadvertently facilitated the meeting.
Meier released a statement saying, “collegiate athletics is in transformation, and any inadvertent mistake I made was prior to a full understanding of implemented guardrails and the clarification issued by the NCAA in May.”
Ruiz told ABC News in a statement that the twins didn’t have an impermissible meal at his home and that any meal took place after the twins transferred to the school.
“The facts contained in the NCAA’s findings were incorrect in several ways,” he said in a statement. “Coach Meier did nothing more than express her excitement about the fact the twins were coming to Miami. No one ever attempted to entice the Cavinders into attending UM.”
A representative for the Cavinders told ABC News “the twins were found to have done nothing wrong” and they did not want to comment on other’s infractions.
Dosh, a former ESPN analyst, said there is even more debate about the use of NIL deals at the high school level.
“Now we have more than half of the states that have changed their rules at their state high school athletic association to allow NIL,” she said.
Bronx teen Johnuel “Boogie” Fland, who plays basketball for Archbishop Stepinac, a private school in White Plains, Westchester County, became one of the first New York City high school athletes to receive a NIL deal.
Fland said he couldn’t tell “Impact” how much he’s raked in with his sponsorships, but said he estimated it was “six figures.”
“It changed my family. It changed the way we looked at things, you know?” he told “Impact.” “Being from the Bronx, we aren’t that wealthy, it definitely changed my life.”
The landscape for NIL has potentially changed financial outcomes for some student-athletes and families, some of whom may have may come from lower income communities, according to a 2020 study by the Hope Center at Temple University.
Researchers found that nearly 14% of Division 1 athletes had experienced homelessness in the previous year… and nearly a quarter were food insecure in the prior 30 days.
Al Crosby, who has been coaching high school football in Philadelphia for 20 years, told “Impact” he has had players come from low-income households and acknowledged that they are looking for ways to help their families.
However, he said he was concerned that NIL deals may cause issues for athletes from inner city neighborhoods. Crosby noted that a lot of inner-city student-athletes are already targets of violence and harassment.
“All of a sudden this guy gets this deal, this NIL deal, that says, ‘You got a NIL deal for $500,000.’ Well, now, all of a sudden, he’s not only a target, but he’s got a price tag with him, too,” Crosby told “Impact.”
Crosby maintains that proper management and education is needed for high school athletes to thrive in the NIL era.
On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing about NILs, the first in more than two years. Up for discussion was a potential federal NIL law that would provide clarity and transparency for athletes.
“In short, we must strike a delicate balance between the rights of college athletes to profit from their own NIL while keeping the amateur status for all college athletes,” Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), the subcommittee’s chairman said.
ABC News’ Kevin Rochford and Kyle Rollins contributed to this report.
Geezer Butler has debuted the cover of his much-anticipated memoir, Into The Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond, which is being released June 6.
“After spending my entire life creating memories, to eventually set aside how reserved I am, I have put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard),” the Black Sabbath bassist shared on Instagram next to the cover image.
He also joked about the release date being 6/6/23, noting, “Yes I know that 2×3=6. Although unintentional, having that as a release date suits me fine.”
When the book was first announced, the publisher described it as “a rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath,” sharing that it details “how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed. Like Geezer’s bass lines, it is both original, dramatic, and forever surprising.”
Megan Thee Stallion may have secured an acting role alongside veteran actor and comedian Adam Sandler. Deadline reports the rapper is in talks to star alongside Sandler in a movie by brothers Josh and Benny Safdie.
The plot and title of the film, set in the world of sports memorabilia, have not yet been disclosed. Production will begin this summer.
Megan made her acting debut last year in the Starz drama P-Valley. She also appeared in She Hulk: Attorney at Lawand Good Girls. She’ll make her big-screen debut in the A24 film F****** Identical Twins, but her dream is to play Isis, the head cheerleader from Bring It On.
“I always have wanted to be Isis. I would be perfect for that. If they were ever to make a new Bring It On, I should be that character,” Megan told The Cut.
She said the likes of Ice Cube and Queen Latifah have pushed her to look beyond music.
“When I look at them, it inspires me to take it further than just music,” Meg says. “I don’t feel like I’m only going to be an actress — I feel like I’m also going to be a director and I’m also going to be a producer.”
Charlie Puth‘s new song “That’s Not How This Works” will be out on Friday, but in the meantime you can watch a six-minute short film of the same name on Charlie’s YouTube channel.
The film shows Charlie obsessively rewinding and listening to cassette tapes, which are labeled with various moments in his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, played by Sabrina Carpenter. That’s intercut with footage of Charlie and Sabrina in happier times, kissing, cooking, playing games, painting a room, celebrating birthdays and other couple-ish activities.
While everything seems pretty great, the relationship soon falls apart, with Charlie accusing Sabrina of flirting with someone else; the two are seen screaming and hurling f-bombs at each other.
The “actual” music video for the track will be out on Friday, as well. The song itself features country-pop duo Dan + Shay.
On TikTok, Charlie wrote, “To date, I’ve made 34 music videos, and they rarely feel like they say the whole truth about a song. There’s always more to say, and it’s usually just outside the music. It’s more in the moments, and that’s how my brain has always processed things.”
However, he added, “Finally, I was able to make something to recreate truly what this song means to me. I cannot wait for you to hear it. But first, you have to watch the movie.”
‘Pilgrim’ cast members with Wright (center) — FilmMagic/FilmMagic
On Thursday, Netflix revealed it has snagged the full cast of the 2010 cult hit Scott Pilgrim vs. The World for an anime film set in that world.
Edgar Wright , who directed the anime and video-game inspired live action film, is bending the movie back into the animation genre that inspired it, executive producing Scott Pilgrim: The Anime.
Also back on board are Michael Cera voicing his title role of Scott Pilgrim; Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona Flowers); Chris Evans (Lucas Lee); Aubrey Plaza (Julie Powers); Anna Kendrick (Stacey Pilgrim); Brie Larson (Envy Adams); Satya Bhabha (Matthew Patel); Kieran Culkin (Wallace Wells); Alison Pill (Kim Pine); Brandon Routh (Todd Ingram); Jason Schwartzman (Gideon Graves); Mae Whitman (Roxy Richter); Johnny Simmons (Young Neil); Mark Webber (Stephen Stills); and Ellen Wong (Knives Chao).
Based on the graphic novel series, the 2010 movie centered on awkward Scott’s attempts to defeat the Seven Evil Exes of his love, Ramona Flowers. And although it was a dud at the box office, in the years since it has become a fan favorite.
Brothers Osborne‘s Nobody’s Nobody Sampler won’t be out until April 7, but you can hear snippets of all three tracks in an Instagram video now.
The clip, which features footage of John and T.J. Osborne in the recording studio, offers fans previews of the uptempo “Nobody’s Nobody,” piano-driven “Rollercoaster (Forever and a Day)” and rowdy “Might As Well Be Me.”
This release will be Brothers Osborne’s first set of new music since 2020’s Skeletons, which received the deluxe treatment in 2022.
A collection of Jerry Garcia’s artwork has been donated to a new fundraiser for the History of Diving Museum in Florida.
The Jerry Garcia Foundation has donated a 21-piece collection of museum-quality prints to the museum for its Dive Into Art & Music fundraiser, which takes place Friday. The donation was made to commemorate the Grateful Dead frontman’s love of scuba diving, as well as his commitment to protecting the ocean.
The collection is made up of mostly sea-themed art and will also feature travel photos of Garcia family vacations in Hawaii.
“While Jerry Garcia is recognized as one of the greatest guitarists and musicians, he is in reality so much more,” Garcia archivist Peter Agelasto, who’s appearing at the event, shares. “By bringing together his love and respect for the ocean with his visual art, we’re showcasing another side of Jerry that fans will find fascinating.”
The exhibition, which will also feature a concert by the Grateful Dead tribute band Rainbow Full of Sound, takes place at Safe Harbor Angler House in Islamorada, Florida.
Each Garcia print comes with a certificate of authenticity, and proceeds from the sales will support educational outreach programs and more at the diving museum. More information can be found at divingmuseum.org.
