Every week, Benzinga Buzz compiles the newest leisure information right into a cohesive column to your consideration. Learn on for the newest updates — each helpful and irreverent.
There’s an outdated saying that is normally attributed to former President Abraham Lincoln, however I feel it seems initially in Maurice Switzer‘s “Mrs. Goose, Her Guide,” and it goes like this: “It’s higher to stay silent on the danger of being thought a idiot, than to speak and take away all doubt of it.”
Nicely, this week, Slate.com’s Dan Kois discovered that the exhausting manner. Type of. He did not speak. However he wrote — a hit piece on beloved comic Martin Quick.
With only one headline and deck — “Why We Hold Placing Up With Martin Quick: Is the ‘Solely Murders within the Constructing’ star a comic book genius or essentially the most annoying actor on Earth?” — Kois managed to unite the at all times pensive and by no means surly Twitter-verse (now “X-verse”) round a typical enemy: himself.
The pace at which readers doubtless dropped off Slate after the primary graph and responded with an offended tweet should’ve been astounding.
For all our “deep divisions,” journalist Judy Woodruff famous this 12 months, People “have at all times discovered a strategy to come again collectively, via a civil struggle, or a century later, the protests of the Nineteen Sixties or the struggle in Vietnam.” Now, Martin Quick will be added to that checklist.
Somebody ought to verify on Kois to verify he is OK after receiving what can solely be described as a Twenty first-century lashing for his unpopular opinion. Some scorching takes must be left on ice.
Really helpful Studying
- Hypothesis has resurfaced about Apple Inc. AAPL doubtlessly shopping for Disney DIS to make good on Bob Iger‘s “finish recreation.”
- In the meantime, a brand new report particulars the rift between Iger and former Disney CEO Bob Chapek. Apparently, the pair fought over who would get an workplace with a personal bathe. As for whether or not the bathe’s fixtures have been gold, we will solely hope.
- As if bathe drama wasn’t sufficient, the “Home that Mickey Mouse” constructed can be feuding with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in addition to Constitution Communications CHTR CEO Chris Winfrey.
- Let’s finish this column on a excessive observe: Click on right here for Maureen Meehan‘s recount of how Miley Cyrus acquired her grandmother to unknowingly bake weed brownies with Snoop Dogg.
For the final version of Benzinga Buzz, click on right here.
Now Learn: Elon Musk ‘Stated This To Many Writers, Administrators And Producers’
Picture: Shutterstock
