Holiday Weekend News Roundup! A Special Happy Birthday and an Unfortunate Taylor Swift T-Shirt
Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the long weekend.
• Here is a nice video of President Obama singing happy birthday to his eldest daughter, Malia, while on stage with his friends Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monae. [YouTube]
• Emily Blunt and John Krasinski announced the birth of the second child. [E!]
• Directors Robin Hardy [The Wicker Man, 1973], Michael Cimino [The Deer Hunter, 1978; Heaven’s Gate, 1980], and Abbas Kiarostami [Taste of Cherry, 1997] all passed away. They were 86, 77, and 76 respectively. [The Guardian, Deadline, Variety]
• Finding Dory dominated the box office for the third consecutive week. [BOM]
• Sean Avery is still a terrible person. [P6]
• Frank Ocean teased the release date of his sophomore album with this library card tweet. [Pitchfork]
• Tom Hiddleston, what are you doing? [Daily Mail]