Harmony Korine Wants to Show His Matthew McConaughey Stoner Comedy The Beach Bum

Matthew McConaughey and Snoop Dogg's new stoner film The Beach Bum will truly be an experience. That's because director Harmony Korine plans to show it with—bongo drum roll—puffs of marijuana smoke in the air in the theaters. Impressively, the trailblazing auteur has currently secured 30 rooms in which he'll be able to do so. “I would very much like to see the film, when it’s released, be shown in rooms that spread curls of marijuana [smoke]," Korine told Telerama. It is possible in some states, such as California, that have legalized this drug for [medical use]. We already have about thirty rooms that have accepted.”
                                                   

It's likely though that none of those rooms are in Miami, Florida, where The Beach Bum is filming and where recreational marijuana use is not yet legal. Or in Key West, where "the action takes place" as Harmony Korine says, "in the extreme south of Florida." “It’s a comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Snoop Dogg, about somewhat depressive marijuana smokers, in the spirit of Cheech and Chong,” Korine said. Other details that have surfaced about the film include the fact that McConaughey's character will be named Moondog, "a rebellious charmer in this fast-paced, uplifiting and irreverent comedy" as Deadline reports.

No doubt McConaughey will have an easy time slipping into the mindset of that character as the actor famously lived through a somewhat public depressive marijuana smoking episode. Back in 1999, the actor was arrested by Austin police after his neighbors reported him "disturbing the peace," a.k.a. playing the drums naked and dancing around his house. It was the marijuana, bong and pipe, however, that got him into trouble when the cops arrived, who later booked him on suspicion of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting transportation. Nearly two decades later, McConaughey opened up about the incident to Playboy, saying, "What's wrong with beating on your drums in your birthday suit. I have no regrets about the way I got there."

Selena Gomez Is Making More Than $30 Million for Her Puma Collab

The 25-year-old is collaborating with Puma and will appear in the brand's upcoming women's footwear campaign for the Phenom. "Officially a part of the fam @puma #pumapartner," Gomez wrote on Instagram along with a photo of herself in her Puma gear.
                                         

In a press release about the collab, Gomez said that being a part of the brand was "very exciting" for her. "Puma has changed the game when it comes to the mash-up of athletic wear and fashion," she shared. "It's amazing to see this influence on style and culture and I'm excited to be a part of it. I am hoping that we can create something special together. We already have some really cool projects in the works."

After the Puma collab was announced on Monday, a source says Selena is making over $30 million for the deal, which is expected to last around two years.

This news comes one month after Gomez's boyfriend The Weeknd designed sneakers for Puma. As for the couple's relationship, the insider tells us that despite reports, they're "not living together."

Gomez is currently filming a Woody Allen movie in New York City and The Weeknd is on tour. And while the couple does stay together sometimes when he comes back on his breaks, they are not officially living together. They both have their own houses in Los Angeles.

And while the couple isn't sharing a house, it sounds like they are sharing clothes.

"I mean, at this point, my boyfriend and I share closets, and [we're] just kind of throwing different ideas around," Gomez tells Vogue. "Sometimes I'll throw on his Puma stuff and just go out with my shoes. I'll just wear that as a little cute date-night dress or something to the movies. You want to feel confident in it. When you start stressing about it and feel you have to create this image...you shouldn't feel that way."

Lady Gaga's world tour includes classes in 'mental health first aid

Cynthia Germanotta, known to most of the world as Lady Gaga's mom, is sitting in the lobby of a glitzy Sacramento Sheraton hotel. A few hours from now, her daughter will play a sold-out show a mile from here as part of her Joanne world tour.
                                                 

But right now, Germanotta — who's dressed impeccably in a smart blazer, black skirt, and gold hoop earrings — just wants to talk about something called Mental Health First Aid.

The eight-hour training, often described as "CPR for the mind," helps people identify signs of mental illness and addiction in order to offer appropriate support and resources. When Germanotta took the class, she walked away feeling confident she could better spot the symptoms of psychological distress or crisis and shared the experience with her daughter. Together they decided they wanted to provide the same skills and information to as many people as possible.

Born This Way Foundation and National Council for Behavioral Health partnered to bring trainings to every American city on the Joanne tour. Sessions in Sacramento, Omaha, Detroit, and Denver are free and others charge up to $75. The trainings are part of the foundation's "Channel Kindness Tour" that's on the road with Gaga. Some courses will be held on the day of the concert while others are scheduled within a week of a tour stop.

The course is a guide to the risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems. It also rejects the stigma and stereotypes commonly associated with mental illness. Instead, the training gives participants the nonjudgmental language to ask about signs of distress, and the know-how to follow-up with support and resources.

Ariana Grande Is Making Scrunchies Great Again

For all the '90s trends that have found a place once again in our routines and our hearts—chokers, brown lipstick, Steve Madden platforms, Cucumber Melon—there's the scrunchie, the butt of all bad-hair jokes and the last thing I ever thought would touch my head again.
                                                       

You can't exactly blame it for the bad rap it's gotten. It's like if a sock were also a hair tie. But as recently demonstrated by celebrities like Bella Hadid and now Ariana Grande, the scrunchie can actually look...dare I say...cool.

It sounds crazy. I get it. But we all said the same thing about mom jeans and here we are. Given that the cushy fabric is gentler on hair, Ariana might be onto something. Plus, the Heathers references are too good to pass up. So, I'll just let the photos speak for themselves.

This look on Ariana isn't an overly gelled pony of yore (i.e., 1998). This scrunchie is velvet and looped at the end of her loose side braid, which looks very cool-girl-in-the-locker-room (liberally spray said Cucumber Melon for the full experience). Yeah, the space buns might make the whole thing feel dated in a year, but other than that, I can see this having staying power.
So literally shake the dust off the tie shoved in the back of your high school closet, or go pick up a set for $12, because they're sold at Urban Outfitters now (the official arbiters of "this trend is hip again"). While Carrie Bradshaw wasn't wrong when she ranted to Jack Berger that no chic woman on the isle of Manhattan would wear a scrunchie back in 2003, times change. They're decidedly not French, but these days scrunchies have a definite je ne sais quoi.

Leonardo DiCaprio hands over Brando's Oscar

In November 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio — at the time, three months into filming "Wolf of Wall Street," which would later further his legacy of almost-Oscars for a fourth time — received Marlon Brando's best actor statuette for 1954's "On the Waterfront" as a 38th birthday gift.
                                           

The gift-givers were DiCaprio's business associates (and friends) at Red Granite Pictures, the production house behind "Wolf of Wall Street." Now the 42-year-old actor has voluntarily handed over Brando's Academy Award (in addition to several other pricey souvenirs from the Red Granite team) to the U.S. government as part of an ongoing investigation into a $3.5-billion Malaysian money-laundering scheme.

According to last year's federal court filing, the U.S. government also believes that the laundered funds also funded "the co-conspirators' lavish lifestyles, including purchases of artwork and jewelry, the acquisition of luxury real estate and luxury yachts, the payment of gambling expenses, and the hiring of musicians and celebrities to attend parties."

The multimillion-dollar artworks in question include a Picasso painting, a photograph by Diane Arbus and a Jean-Michel Basquiat collage, which were supposedly gifted to DiCaprio by Jho Low, Red Granite's purported financier. The actor had accepted the art with the intention of auctioning off the pieces to raise money for his charitable foundation, his spokesperson said.

Red Granite co-founder Riza Aziz is suspected by the U.S. Department of Justice of helping his stepfather, Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, embezzle $4.5 billion through a political development scheme, a sum which in part was spent on the Scorsese-directed film.

Kendall Jenner stars in La Perla's new 'Land of Oz' campaign

There’s no stopping Kendall Jenner. Despite being one of the youngest members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, she has been taking the fashion world by storm in recent years.
                                                     

                                           
Now the supermodel and reality star looks sizzling as she fronts a new campaign for Italian lingerie brand, La Perla.

Surrounded by gigantic begonias, hibiscus and reimagined tulips, Jenner, 21, is seen in ‘The Kaleidoscopic World of an English Garden’ flaunting her enviable frame in an array of pieces from the La Perla Pre-Fall 2017 collection.

The colourful shoot – designed by La Perla Creative Director, Julia Haart – draws inspiration from the art of Georgia O’Keeffe and Peter Max, forming a fusion of pop-art, modernism and fashion.

Speaking of the ad, the brand said that it chose Kendall to front the campaign as she “exudes the certainty and self-assurance of a true heroine – owning her world through confidence and empowered femininity.”

Among the new pieces featured are a glamorous La Perla Slip Dress, which has a built-in padded bra and sculpted bodice sewn from stretch silk, and a limited-edition cocktail dress adorned with multi-coloured embroidered crystals.

Last week, Desigual posted the summery campaign photos to Instagram, captioning the images with Howard’s body-positive words of wisdom. In one photo, Howard poses in a floral crop top and bikini bottoms against a giant beach ball. The unretouched photo shows off the 26-year-old’s famous curves, and, wonderfully, just a tiny bit of cellulite (yep — models have it, too!). In another, Howard sits in a watermelon pool float wearing a vintage-inspired one-piece swimsuit and matching head wrap, sporting cherry-red lips and nails. She looks every bit the ‘50s-era bombshell with her curves as the focus of the photo. In the photo’s caption, Howard admits,