Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, and Jamie Lee Curtis at the 2023 Oscars (Mike Coppola/Getty Images), Beyoncé performing during the Renaissance Tour (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Parkwood), Twitter renames to X (Illustration by Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images), Theresa and Gerry from The Golden Bachelor (John Fleenor/Disney via Getty Images)Photo: Getty Images
What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is.
Will 2023 be remembered as a particularly weird year? It’s hard to say, but there was plenty that happened out of the ordinary. It was a year that started with a Marvel star being crushed by a snowplow and then saw strikes, scandals, and an imploding submersible (which, as we all learned in unison, was different than an exploding submarine). However you choose to remember the year, we are choosing to look back at some of the events that made an impression, for better or worse.
Jeremy Renner is run over by a snowplow
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2023 got off to an abrupt, surreal, and nearly tragic start when , just one day into the year, that Avengers star Jeremy Renner had been critically injured in a snowplow accident near his Nevada home on New Year’s Day. Details would eventually, slowly trickle out—the 52-year-old actor broke after the 7-ton machine ran him over while he was trying —but at the time, all we knew was that the Hawkeye actor had been grievously injured, and listed in critical condition. (If only, more than one person lamented at the time, there existed an app that collected all pertinent and breaking information about Jeremy Renner in one place. Alas!) Since the accident, Renner’s road to recovery has been both inspirational, and : He’s regularly posted videos of his increasing physical mobility and strength over the subsequent year, and ended the year . [William Hughes]
You must live in an incredibly tiny bubble if you haven’t heard anything about Beyonce since last April, especially as a frequent poster on a pop culture website. Also, while this incident was undeniably shitty and Bey/Jay deserve plenty of scorn for it, it seems like you just ran to this comment section to 1) prove how enlightened and erudite you are for ignoring pop culture (despite, again, posting on a pop culture site), and 2) knock down a successful woman by any means necessary, much like how other dudes rushed to social media (you probably know some of them!) to point out Taylor Swift’s carbon footprint after her Person of the Year award, apparently not realizing that some of the previous winners included Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Trump, Nixon, and Kissinger.
For me it was realizing that these are not actually one person. I’m kinda bummed because I really thought James Marsden was awesome. https://xemsomenh.com
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For me it was realizing that these are not actually one person. I’m kinda bummed because I really thought James Marsden was awesome.
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Speaking of confusing, I prefer James Marsters.
Last time anyone I know talked about Beyonce, it was to note that her and her husband crossed a picket line and delivered a huge “F-you” to striking hotel staff…all so they could have a big party with their trash-millionaire friends.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/jay-z-beyonce-picket-line-party-celebrity-activism-oscars-chateau-marmont
You must live in an incredibly tiny bubble if you haven’t heard anything about Beyonce since last April, especially as a frequent poster on a pop culture website. Also, while this incident was undeniably shitty and Bey/Jay deserve plenty of scorn for it, it seems like you just ran to this comment section to 1) prove how enlightened and erudite you are for ignoring pop culture (despite, again, posting on a pop culture site), and 2) knock down a successful woman by any means necessary, much like how other dudes rushed to social media (you probably know some of them!) to point out Taylor Swift’s carbon footprint after her Person of the Year award, apparently not realizing that some of the previous winners included Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Trump, Nixon, and Kissinger.
Plus the whole being really dull with nothing interesting to say or express thing
For me it was realizing that these are not actually one person. I’m kinda bummed because I really thought James Marsden was awesome. https://xemsomenh.com
WE ALL KNOW what the “unforced errors” of Disney were and still are…