Denzel Washington is safe this morning. Los Angeles fire crews responded last night to a possible fire at his $35 million home. All the residents escaped safely.
Smoke bellowed from a second floor window of his four-story mansion. Fire inspectors searched inside the walls believing that embers may be smoldering and causing the smoke. LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey said, (quote) “The investigation is largely focused on one of several furnaces in the home that may have been recently serviced.”
It’s been “freezing” this week for Los Angeles residents. Temperatures have been stuck in the 60s during the day, but have dropped into the 50s and 40s overnight. That’s bone-chilling for Southern Californians who don’t normally experience temps that low. (Los Angeles Times)
Kate Winslet says she’s “very proud” to beat one of Tom Cruise‘s filming records.
The actress held her breath underwater for seven minutes and 14 seconds while filming Avatar 2. Tom held the previous record. He held his breath for 6 to 6-and-a-half minutes in 2011 while filming Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Kate tells Entertainment Tonight, “It was brilliant and I was very proud of myself and I’ll probably never be able to do it again. That came at the end of four weeks worth of quite intense training and it was in the dive tank, it was in the training tank. But I loved it.”
Lucasfilm has defended Baby Yoda following a scandal that erupted on the latest season of The Mandalorian.
Spoiler alert: In the latest episode, the character known as The Child, eats the eggs of an alien character as a running gag. But many fans weren’t laughing. One Twitter user said, “For the record, the frog lady was very adamant about the fact that her eggs were important to her, and that it was her last and only chance to have kids, so it’s actually closer to [messing] up someone’s [in vitro fertilization] which would be incredibly upsetting for a wannabe mom. It’s not funny.”
The controversy became such a big deal that Lucasfilm’s creative art manager Phil Szostak responded. He tweeted, “For the record, Chapter 10 of #TheMandalorian makes it clear that the Frog Lady’s eggs are unfertilized, like the chicken eggs many of us enjoy.”
Phil added, “But obviously, chickens aren’t sentient beings and the Child eating the eggs is intentionally disturbing, for comedic effect.”
