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Newsflash: Seth Rogen (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, above) will portray famed CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. Based on a script by Ben Jacoby, the film will dramatize events on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, from the perspective of a television newsroom. David Gordon Green (Stronger) will direct. Other key real-life characters to be cast include Cronkite's producer Don Hewitt, reporter Dan Rather and their boss Jim Aubrey. [Deadline]   Creed 2: Back in October, Sylvester Stallone indicated he was "looking forward to producing and directing" the sequel to boxing drama Creed (above), with Michael B. Jordan returning to star in the titular role. Now, however, Jordan and Stallone have selected Steven...

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Newsflash: Seth Rogen (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, above) will portray famed CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. Based on a script by Ben Jacoby, the film will dramatize events on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, from the perspective of a television newsroom. David Gordon Green (Stronger) will direct. Other key real-life characters to be cast include Cronkite's producer Don Hewitt, reporter Dan Rather and their boss Jim Aubrey. [Deadline]...

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Seth Rogen is set to portray CBS news legend Walter Cronkite in Newsflash, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Stronger's David Gordon Green is directing the drama, featuring a script by Ben Jacoby. The film recounts the events of Nov. 22, 1963, as television news stations raced to report the facts of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Texas. Cronkite's producer Don Hewitt, boss Jim Aubrey and young coworker Dan Rather are also characters in the movie.

Greg Silverman, the former Warner Bros. Ww production head who recently launched Stampede Ventures, is producing with Adam Kolbrenner. Production is set to begin next...

“Camelot” is crossing the pond for Season 2 of “The Crown,” as President John F. Kennedy (Michael C. Hall) and his wife Jackie (Jodie Balfour) accept an invitation to meet Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy). But if you were hoping to see the gorgeous depiction of the Kennedys that was created in the minds of Americans, then you should find a TV series that glosses over the dark side of JFK’s life — including his drug addiction. And the Netflix Golden Globe winner is not it. While Hall’s JFK is still going to be delivering speeches dripping with charisma, he will.

There's officially a winner in the presidential art auction showdown between John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump -- it's JFK ... by a landslide. Kennedy's original oil painting from 1955 sold at Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political Memorabilia auction Saturday for a whopping $162,500. As we reported ... it's signed by JFK and hung in Robert F. Kennedy's Hickory Hill home for years. Trump's artwork -- a detailed doodle of the NYC skyline -- didn't spark as much frenzied...

Donald Trump is going head-to-head with one of the most famous presidents in U.S. history ... in an art auction showdown. Both Trump and John F. Kennedy will have original artwork on display and up for grabs Dec. 2 at Heritage Auctions' Americana & Political Memorabilia auction. The Prez's piece is a detailed doodle of the NYC skyline ... including sketched-in windows and yellow cabs. Trump's sketch was donated to a charity in 2005 and is expected to sell...

The Kennedy family has a legendary passion for politics — and apparently that fervor extends to their pets.

Jack Schlossberg, former President John F. Kennedy‘s only grandson, spoke to People Thursday at the New Frontier Awards at Harvard Law School, and revealed the surprising name he bestowed on his new pooch.

“Chester,” says Schlossberg when asked the puppy’s name, explaining that it’s because “he looks exactly like Chester A. Arthur.”

Schlossberg debuted the new pup on Instagram in July, joking in a shirtless shot that he’s “gonna name him Fuki or Nutroll or Rabbit or Maestro or...

Legendary journalist Dan Rather may be 86, but he’s still hungry to attend White House briefings again — if given the chance.

“I’d go in a heartbeat,” he tells People in an exclusive interview for his new book, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, which publishes on Tuesday.

Written as a series of essays he hopes will help foster “civil” conversation during these divided times, Rather’s book highlights the common values shared by most Americans.

Rather, who anchored the CBS Evening News for 24 years, also reflects on personal anecdotes in the book. He recounts a recent road trip with...

From director Rob Reiner, the political drama Lbj showcases what happened after Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Woody Harrelson) lost the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), but agreed to be his running mate. After they won the election, Johnson found himself sidelined as Vice President, but that all changed on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird (Jennifer Jason Leigh) by his side, became the President of the United States and set out to honor JFK’s legacy while also establishing his own. At the …...

From director Rob Reiner, the political drama Lbj showcases what happened after Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Woody Harrelson) lost the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), but agreed to be his running mate. After they won the election, Johnson found himself sidelined as Vice President, but that all changed on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird (Jennifer Jason Leigh) by his side, became the President of the United States and set out to honor JFK’s legacy while also establishing his own. At the …...

Chicago – The circumstances surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22nd, 1963, put a man into the presidential spotlight who never thought he would get there… Lyndon Baines Johnson. The story of that strange time and the man who “would be king” is told in ‘Lbj.’

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Woody Harrelson portrays the title character in a surprising piece of casting, but he delivers Johnson so humanely and historically that by the end he is most appropriate for the role. Director Rob Reiner – working from a script by Joey Hartstone – structures the film through the filter of his fascination for Washington, D.C. shown in “A Few Good Men”… that justice can prevail if the right person is there at the right time. In his era, Johnson was rightly vilified in his escalation of the Vietnam War, but in other areas of legislation (the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the anti-poverty Great...

According to the newly declassified JFK assassination files, President John F. Kennedy’s younger brother Robert F. Kennedy was sent a memo warning him about the impending release of a book detailing his “close relationship” with screen legend Marilyn Monroe.

The memo noted that a 1964 book by Frank Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, made frequent references to Monroe and Rfk, then the U.S. attorney general.

“Throughout the book … Capell claims that you had a close relationship with Miss Monroe,” officials warned Rfk in the document, according to Politico.

Before her 1962 death at 36 of a barbiturate overdose, Monroe...

Donald Trump approved the release the Oswald Files, documentation about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and most were made public last night but many of the most sensitive ones were withheld for six months while the administration decides what to do with them. JFK Files Released National Archives Releases ​#​JFK Assassination Records​ Online: […]

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Next week could prove to be a seismic event in our nation's history, because Donald Trump just announced he will release documents our intelligence agencies have fought fiercely to keep secret relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The documents have been kept under wraps since JFK's assassination November 22, 1963. JFK's successor, Lyndon Johnson, created the Warren Commission to determine if Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The Commission turned a blind eye to witnesses,...

President Donald Trump on Saturday provisionally backed the release of more than 3,000 classified files related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK Files to be opened,” Trump tweeted. The National Archive was scheduled to make the files public on its website by Oct. 26 pending the approval of the president, as stipulated under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and...

Chris Pine is going from James T. Kirk to Robert F. Kennedy: The Star Trek actor will star in a limited series based on the assassinated senator’s life, our sister site Deadline reports.

Now in development at Hulu, the as-yet-untitled project will use Larry Tye’s biography Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon as its source material. Pine will play Rfk, attorney general to his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who later served as a senator from New York and who was killed in 1968 during his presidential campaign.

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John F. Kennedy is about to make America wet all over again, 'cause his original swim trunks, jackets and other family items are up for auction ... starting at just a buck! Guernsey's auction house is selling off some of JFK's personal items in October to commemorate what would have been the late Prez's 100th birthday -- even though he was born in May. Some of the items being auctioned off include 3 of Jack's Og swim trunks,...

President John F. Kennedy‘s only grandson shares his passion for charitable giving — and recently found a very creative way to donate his time to a good cause.

In an article for New York magazine’s The Cut, Jack Schlossberg, the son of former U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, describes how he recently made his way around Manhattan on a stand-up paddleboard for charity.

“With beet juice pulsing through my veins and electrolytes and Gu packs strapped to my back, I took to the East River to begin the Sea Paddle, a 25-mile circumnavigation race around Manhattan,” Schlossberg,...

Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, has appeared as a supporting character in many films, including 2016’s Jackie (where was played by John Carroll Lynch), Ava DuVernay’s Selma, which featured Tom Wilkinson in the role, and had more of a main part to play in the HBO movie All the Way, with Bryan Cranston.

Now it’s Johnson’s turn to get the big screen biopic treatment with Rob Reiner’s Lbj. Woody Harrelson, buried under a mountain of makeup, plays Johnson as he becomes vice president to John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan) and later becomes president after Kennedy is assassinated. Lots of wigs and over-the-top accents follow. Lbj also stars Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Michael Stahl-David, Jeffrey Donovan, Doug McKeon, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Johnson’s wife Lady Bird.

Lbj premiered almost a year ago at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, where it barely made...

The first trailer for Lbj has been released and it features Woody Harrelson in a very different role as he plays Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States. The movie comes from director by Rob Reiner (Misery, A Few Good Men, Stand By Me) and the biopic follows Johnson’s struggle as the vice president under John F. Kennedy. Of course that all changes after JFK is assassinated.

It's weird to see Harrelson in this role because, as you'll see, he completely transformers himself to become Lbj. It looks like he gives a great performance, but I've got to say that his Lbj makeover is a little distracting because I know it's Harrelson, but it looks nothing like him! Regardless of that, it still looks like a decent movie worth checking out.

“Lyndon Johnson (Woody Harrelson) goes from being a powerful Senate majority leader to a powerless...

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Woody Harrelson becomes all presidential in the brand new trailer for the upcoming political drama centring on President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lbj.

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The American President and A Few Good Men helmer, Rob Reiner takes up the director’s chair for Lbj in a story that follows the rise of Lyndon B. Johnson senate leader to his time at the White House taking the vacant position of Us President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Full Lbj Press Conference from Toronto

An almost unrecognisable Woody Harrelson takes the lead role as Lbj, with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Jenkins as Senator Richard Russell, Bill Pullman as Senator Ralph Yarborough and Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy all starring alongside.

The movie sees Harrelson as the powerful Senate Majority Leader who loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Donovan). He agrees,...

When President John F. Kennedy visited Buckingham Palace in 1961, he brought a small token for Queen Elizabeth: a signed portrait in a silver frame from Tiffany & Co.

A full, formal state visit was expected to follow, but JFK’s assassination two years later in 1963 meant that it never took place. Now the portrait, which JFK signed, “To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, with appreciation and highest esteem, John F. Kennedy,” is on display for the first time at the annual Buckingham Palace summer exhibition. This year’s exhibit focuses on the more than 250 gifts presented to the Queen during her record-breaking 65 years on the throne.

For Joe Kennedy III, growing up within one of America’s most famous families has moments of profound meaning — and then there are the everyday realities of life in a big clan that are anything but profound.

In a new interview for the August issue of Town & Country, on newsstands now, the red-headed grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and current U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district talked about how he’s sometimes forced to keep it very, very real during hectic family gatherings that often occur on the family’s Hyannis Port compound.

“For Thanksgiving it’s so...

Baby Driver, Edgar Wright’s latest, marks a turning point in the career of one Ansel Elgort, establishing him as a star beyond the world of Ya or Edm. (Yes, Elgort is also a budding pop star who has gone by DJ Ansolo.) But now he’s got another project in the works that should test his range as an actor. According to Deadline, he’s going to star as a pre-presidency John F. Kennedy in the WWII-set Mayday 109. The film, which is written by Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore, will tell the story of Kennedy’s military heroics after his Patrol Torpedo Craft was hit by a Japanese destroyer.

“We could not be more excited about Ansel coming aboard,” producer Basil Iwanyk said, per Deadline. “Not only is he a tremendous actor, he embodies the charisma, athleticism and looks of a young JFK. We love that this is...

JFK conspiracy theories abound, and JFK’s 100th birthday has done nothing to diminish them. Sadly, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States will always be as remembered for the circumstances of his death as for his life. Here’s what we know: President John Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. The Warren Commission concluded in their investigation that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin, a ruling that was supported by the FBI, Secret Service and Dallas Police Department. But according to a Gallup poll, 61 percent of Americans believe there’s more to the story. Here are.

Woody Harrelson stars as the 36th Us President.

Electric Entertainment has set the North American theatrical release for Lbj for November 10, 2017.

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David alongside Harrelson.

Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.

Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice president.

That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.

As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he...

Amid calls from Democrats and some Republicans for an immediate investigation into Donald Trump‘s dealings with Russia and with former FBI Director James Comey, the president grumbled Wednesday that “no politician in history … has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

While delivering a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, Trump struck a defiant tone against his own critics in the media and told graduates: “You can’t let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. … I guess that’s why we won. Adversity makes you stronger. Don’t give in,...

If it weren’t for former President Barack Obama, Jack Schlossberg, 24, “might still be sitting on my couch, eating Doritos and watching sports.”

The comment, from John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, came as he introduced Obama at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s May dinner gala Sunday night, where Obama was honored with the annual Profile in Courage Award.

Schlossberg and mother Caroline Kennedy presented Obama with the award. The recent Yale graduate likened the impact the 44th president had on him with the influence his grandfather, JFK, had on the country.

“Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made...

The late John F. Kennedy’s contribution to politics was cut short when he was assassinated in 1963, nearly three years into his presidency. But his only grandson John “Jack” Schlossberg might just be there to carry on his legacy.

The 24-year-old recent Yale graduate made his first live TV appearance on Friday’s Today, where he and his mother Caroline Kennedy were both coy about their futures in politics.

“I’m inspired by my family’s legacy of public service. It’s something that I’m very proud of,” Schlossberg said. “But I’m still trying to make my own way and figure things out.

The distributor plans a 2017 theatrical release.

Electric Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Lbj, Rob Reiner’s film starring Woody Harrelson as the 36th Us president.

The film premiered in Toronto last year and also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan, and Michael Stahl-David.

Lbj picks up the story as Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy, played by Donovan.

Johnson agrees to be his young rival’s running mate. But once they win the election, despite his extensive legislative experience and shrewd political instincts, Johnson finds himself sidelined in the role of vice-president.

That all changes on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson, with his devoted wife Lady Bird by his side, is suddenly thrust into the presidency.

As the nation mourns, Johnson must contend with longtime adversary and Attorney-General Bobby Kennedy and one-time mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell as he seeks...

JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald is a new series on History that follows a private investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The team is made up of former CIA agent Bob Baer and former Lapd lieutenant Adam Bercovici, who have been examining the two million declassified government files that have recently been released on the subject. With more documents to be declassified later this year, the pair travel the world looking for clues as to who might have helped Oswald and what his real motivations were. The premiere episode is titled ‘The Iron Meeting” and start...read more...

History is reexamining the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Recently, the network announced their new series JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald will premiere next week.The docuseries will follow former CIA agent Bob Baer and former Lapd police lieutenant Adam Bercovici as they investigate declassified government documents that "offer new evidence about Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in the weeks, months and years before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."Read More…...

Publisher Bethesda has confirmed plans to launch a Prey demo for PS4 and Xbox One on April 27th, but there’s no mention of PC as yet.

Designed to give you an early taste of the horrors lurking aboard Talos I, the space station on which Arkane’s long-anticipated title takes place, the early trial will allow budding users to play through the opening hour of Prey, which will no doubt introduce the alien Typhon menace that’s wreaking havoc on the vessel. Drawing comparisons to Dead Space and, to a lesser extent, BioShock, Prey takes place in an alternate timeline in which John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt of ’63. Galvanized by a new perspective on life, JFK pushes humanity deeper into the cosmos with a newfound space program, though this galactic noise invokes an alien force known as the Typhon. And it’s at this point the shit...

April 11 is National Pet Day, and now that spring has finally sprung in New York City, John F. Kennedy Airport is gearing up for a busy travel season. JFK is at the forefront of animal air travel with its Ark Pet Oasis, a state-of-the-art facility that provides 14.4 acres of airside and curbside boarding, kenneling, quarantine, veterinary care, training, grooming, a pet spa and in-transit companion animal services within Cargo Building 78.

Elizabeth A. Schuette is managing director of The Ark at JFK, and she and the Pet Oasis staff gave advice to People to help ease the potential stresses of travel...

Seventeen years after John F. Kennedy Jr.‘s tragic death in a plane crash on July 16, 1999, his loved ones still wonder how he might have fulfilled his family’s political legacy.

In an exclusive interview for the upcoming People and ABC special People Icons: Gone Too Soon, his friend and former chief of staff at George magazine, RoseMarie Terenzio, says, “He certainly was considering going into politics at some point.” But she adds that he was determined to make his glossy political magazine “a success” before moving on to his next endeavor.

“More than what he was born into, it...

America was in shock when it was revealed more than 17 years ago that John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy had gone missing after their plane disappeared on the way to Martha’s Vineyard.

For The Real Housewives of New York City star Carole Radziwill, the moment is forever seared into her memory.

Radziwill, who was married to JFK Jr.’s cousin, Anthony Radziwill, until his death in 1999, spoke out about that night in a rare interview featured in “JFK Jr.’s Tragic Final Flight,” a special episode of How It Really Happened with Hill Harper. The reality...

T-Pain is speaking out about a racially charged incident he experienced while out to dinner with friends.

The 31-year-old singer and songwriter detailed the encounter in a Twitter post earlier this week, chronicling a night out at a restaurant with his pals.

“Old white lady walks up to our table and asks ‘are you guys football players?’ (Subtitles: how the f— can y’all n—– afford to eat here),” T-Pain (né Faheem Najm) wrote in the tweet.

The star gave few details about the encounter, but when a social media user asked what he told the lady, T-Pain responded, “I...

Bill Paxton had an illustrious career of acting, but there was something else unique about him: He saw President John F. Kennedy give his final speech to the public on the day he was assassinated. 

The actor, known for his numerous roles in blockbusters, like Aliens, Titanic and Twister, died Sunday. He was 61.

Paxton, a Fort Worth, Texas, native, begged his father to take him and his brother to see JFK speak on that fateful day in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963. 

Kennedy was delivering a speech to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, but before he...

Literally dozens of actors have played John F. Kennedy onscreen over the past several decades. Just in the past year, we’ve seen Caspar Phillipson play him in Jackie and Jeffrey Donovan take on the role in Lbj. Now Michael C. Hall will join that ever-expanding list, playing the 35th U.S. president in the next season of Netflix’s The […]...

He was the leader of the free world and had several global crises to handle, but that didn’t mean President John F. Kennedy didn’t have time for a quick serenade of “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz star herself: Judy Garland.

A new memoir by Garland’s third husband, Sid Luft — Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, which is crafted from notes Luft left unfinished before his 2005 death — reveals that the president would sometimes call the star for an impromptu rendition of his favorite song.

The two first met when JFK was a junior senator from Massachusetts.

Kal Penn is clapping back at his haters with a fundraiser for Syrian refugees.

The 39-year-old American actor has started a CrowdRise fundraiser in the name of a commenter who told him he doesn’t belong in America.

The message appeared to be written in an Instagram post of Penn’s, in which he spoke out about the personal effect President Donald Trump‘s “Muslim Ban” is having on him and his friends.

“Families are being torn apart,” Penn wrote. “Shame on us. This is un-American. ‬What Donald Trump and the Republican Party are doing is wholly unAmerican.”

His online critic responded,...

What’s in a name? A lot, if you asked the late Muhammad Ali.

The boxing and civil rights icon, who famously changed his name from Cassius Clay after converting to Islam, once gave President John F. Kennedy’s youngest sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, some memorable advice about her own name.

Speaking about her recent memoir, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy, during an event at the JFK Library in Boston on Tuesday night, the 88-year-old former ambassador to Ireland shared an untold story about Ali that she said she forgot to include in her book.

Smith recalled how...

John Legend has revealed that a paparazzi called him a “monkey,” and discussed the incident at length during a sit-down with Variety at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

The alleged scene took place at New York City’s John F. Kennedy airport last Thursday. Legend’s wife, television personality, model, cookbook author and Twitter boss Chrissy Teigen, 31, was also present and tweeted about the troubling exchange a short time later.

“Paparazzi at JFK just asked me if we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?” she wrote. “And people wonder why celebs lose it in pics.”

Paparazzi at JFK...

Chrissy Teigen is known for her wit, but she was at a loss for words when a paparazzo compared her husband, John Legend, to a monkey. The 31-year-old model says she was approached by a photographer at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on Thursday who turned a seemingly innocent interview into a hostile situation. “Paparazzi at JFK just asked me ‘if we evolved from monkeys, why is John Legend still around?’ – and people wonder why celebs lose it in pics,” Teigen wrote to her Twitter account. “I was very kind. Answered cooking questions, then he came with that.