Dean Cain, former TV Superman, will be sworn in as honorary ICE officer
Dean Cain, the actor best known for portraying Superman on a 1990s television show, wants to join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In an interview with Fox News this week, Cain said he’d already spoken to the agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s spokesperson, said Thursday that Cain would be sworn in as an “honorary ICE Officer” in the coming month. It wasn’t immediately clear what his duties as an honorary officer would entail. Cain, 59, told Fox News he was already a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer.
Earlier this week, Cain posted a video to his social media accounts encouraging others to join the agency. The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that it is removing age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement, as it aims to expand hiring after a massive infusion of cash from Congress.
Cain has in the past decade been outspoken in his conservative viewpoints and endorsed Trump in three elections. A representative for Cain did not respond to request for comment Thursday.
McLaughlin referenced Cain’s titular role in “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” which ran from 1993 to 1997, in her statement, saying in her statement that “Superman is encouraging Americans to become real-life superheroes.”
Warner Bros., which released a new “Superman” last month, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The film, which has made over $550 million and stars David Corenswet, became a hot-button topic with right-wing commentators who criticized the movie as “woke” after director James Gunn referred to the character as being like an “immigrant.”
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Jennifer Lopez turned away at Chanel store in Istanbul
Jennifer Lopez was reportedly turned away from shopping at Chanel in Istanbul earlier this week, a day before rocking the Turkish capital as part of her summer tour.
The “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer, 56, was shopping at high-end mall Istinye Park on Monday when a guard at Chanel told her the store was at full capacity, according to Turkiye Today.
“OK, no problem,” the Bronx-born A-lister answered, cool as a very wealthy, very famous cucumber.
Employees later invited her to shop at Chanel, but Lopez declined, per local business outlet Patronlar Dünyasi. She reportedly went on to spend tens of thousands of dollars at other designer stores like Celine.
A representative for Lopez did not respond to the Daily News’ request for comment.
A day after the reported incident, Lopez performed at the Istanbul Festival at Yenikapi Festival Park as part of her Up All Night Tour. She also played the Turkish city of Antalya late last month.
The current tour comes a year after Lopez’s infamously canceled This Is Me … Live Tour to promote her “This Is Me … Now” album, largely centered on her reconciliation with Ben Affleck.
Colloquially known as Bennifer, the couple was engaged in the early aughts and got back together in spring 2021. They tied the knot in two ceremonies in summer 2022, with Lopez filing for divorce on the second anniversary of the latter wedding. The split was legally finalized earlier this year.
Lopez joked at her Bilbao, Spain, show in mid-July that she’s “done” with marriage following four divorces — from Affleck, Marc Anthony, Cris Judd and Ojani Noa — and additional engagements.
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Eminem had to relearn how to walk, talk and rap after overdosing on pills
Eminem says he had to “relearn how to walk, talk and … rap again” after overdosing during his addiction to prescription pills.
The 15-time Grammy winner, real name Marshall Mathers, got sober in April 2008 after a nearly decade-long battle with Vicodin, Valium, Ambien and Xanax resulted in an overdose, which he candidly speaks about in the new documentary, “Stans.”
“I woke up in the hospital and I didn’t know what happened. I woke up in the hospital with tubes in me and s — and I couldn’t get up,” recalled the “Stan” artist, according to Us Weekly.
“I got into this vicious cycle of, ‘I’m depressed so I need more pills,’ and then your tolerance gets so high that you end up overdosing,” Eminem said.
Upon later learning that he’d “missed” one of his daughter Hailie Jade’s birthdays due to his addiction, the rapper “kept saying to myself, ‘Do you want to miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself … at least do it for them.’ I realized I’m never doing this again.”
Following the overdose, Eminem needed to “relearn how to walk, talk and for the most part had to relearn how to rap again” as his “writing had gotten terrible.” But he got his musical muscles got back in fighting shape “really quickly,” at which point he stopped being “embarrassed” about sobriety.
“I started treating sobriety like a superpower and I took pride in the fact that I was able to quit,” said Eminem, who addressed his addiction in his 2009 album, “Relapse.”
More recently, he released the song “Somebody Save Me,” which serves as a heartfelt apology to his kids for missing out on much of their childhoods, as well as a reflection on all the other moments he would have missed if addiction had taken his life.
“Stans” — which not only offers a look into Eminem’s life and career, but some of the fans who are wholly obsessive with him — hit theaters on Thursday for a limited run.
From combined wire services