OKC Thunder vs Golden State Warriors - Game 2 - 1st Half Highlights - May 18, 2016 NBA Playoffs
That was funfor the Golden State Warriors, anyhow.
Stephen Curry and the defending NBA champions bounced back in Game 2 Wednesday night, evening up the Western Conference Finals at 1-1 with a convincing 118-91 beatdown of the OKC Thunder.
The MVP shook off an elbow injury after chasing a loose ball into the stands, detonating in the third quarter for 17 of his team-high 28 points.
Per the AP:
The elbows fine, said Curry, who hit it first on a metal platform then later bonked it again. It looks like it has a tennis ball on top of it. I should be all right. [] He seemed more than fine, scoring 15 straight points in less than 2 minutes during one dazzling third-quarter stretch to lead the Golden State Warriors past the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-91 on Wednesday night to even the Western Conference finals at one game apiece.
Business as usual. This is what he does, coach Steve Kerr said, before being asked how he feels during such a Curry onslaught and responding with a chuckle: I feel great joy. Its true.
Kevin Durant scored 29 points but just six after halftime. Russell Westbrook had 16 points and 12 assists for the Thunder, who were outrebounded for the first time in five meetings with the Warriors this season. [] They were sending three guys. I was trying to make the right pass, Durant said. Maybe Ive just got to shoot over three people.
Schannel - Tổng hợp Google IO 2016: Nhàm chán & thiếu sáng tạo nhất trong lịch sử!!!
This year"s Google I/O conference was one of the company"s best in terms of presentation (it was never boring) and the sheer volume of news we"ve seen. Assistant, Home, Daydream... by the time Google showed off its chat apps Allo and Duo, I started writing bullet points down as I was sure I wouldn"t be able to remember all that.
And then, I started counting how many of these cool new features and products are available now, or in the immediate future.
The answer is you guessed it very close to zero.
Google Home will be available in the fall. The gadget is based on a new, smarter-than-ever AI called Google Assistant, which is also not available yet, and Google hasn"t even announced a clear timeline for its launch.
The company"s VR platform, Daydreamis also coming in the fall. The widely rumored new VR headset from Google turned out to be a reference design for other manufacturers and not an actual product. All we saw at this stage was a pencil drawing of a generic-looking headset and remote.
And there goes the dream of a buffed up Google Cardboard.
I know this is a long, sad list, but bear with me. Chat apps Allo and Duo will be available on iOS and Android later this summer. Android Instant Apps, a nifty feature which lets you use Android apps without installing them on your phone, is coming later this year.Some people expected new Nexus phones, but that didn"t happen (yet). Android Wear 2.0 is coming in the fall.
Very few of the products are even at the conference as early demos. Home, Allo and Duo, Instant Apps not even attendees of Google I/O can get their hands on them (the Android Wear and Android Auto updates being the exceptions).
So is there anything that Google showed on Wednesday that"s actually available to users now? Only one thing by my count: The Android N beta. And that"s just a beta, not a full product; Google (or Mashable, for that matter) does not recommend anyone should install it unless you"re a developer or one of the most advanced and curious of users. While Android N is likely coming sometime during the summer, it doesn"t even have a name yet.
So is there anything that Google showed on Wednesday that"s actually available to users now? Only one thing by my count: The Android N beta. And that"s just a beta, not a full product.
There are two caveats to this. First, this was only the first day of the conference; it"s still possible for Google to launch something (or many things) cool that we"ll actually be able to buy or use soon.
And yes, Google I/O is primarily a developer conference; by design, it"s looking forward. Its format is similar every year: Google drops a lot of info about the next version of Android, which is typically still in development, announces a ton of software and possibly shows off one or two hardware gadgets.Project development schedules don"t always line up with events, and it"s better to announce a product for later than to launch a half-baked one now.
But Google I/O is also Google"s biggest event of the year; the time when the company announces its most important new products. One would expect at least some of this stuff to be available now or soon. At least last year, we got the new Google Photos and wide access to Inbox right away.
I"ve seen some chatter on social media about this, with a few unhappy users calling the products "vaporware." Since this is Google we"re talking about, that"s a vastly unfair assessment; the company will certianly follow through on the products announced (though that hand-drawn VR headset does look mighty suspicious).
And let"s face it, Google can afford to shower us with a dozen products that aren"t ready for prime time yet; the company is that big, its ecosystem that strong. You won"t see angry users switching to Apple products because Home is not yet available at least not significantly above the usual rate at which users jump from one camp to another.
But for a regular user who was watching the keynote and expected to actually try out something new from Google today, the I/O 2016 was a letdown.
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Former Defense Secretary Reacts To Donald Trump Tweet On EgyptAir Flight | Morning Joe | MSNBC Photo A relative of a passenger on EgyptAir Flight 804 inside a bus at the airport in Cairo on Thursday. Credit Ahmed Abd El Fattah/Associated Press
CAIRO Egypt seemed poised for a modest comeback. After years of cascading crises that had devastated the lifeblood of its economy, tourism, there were signs of a turnaround.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, that he might soon resume Russian flights to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, which had been suspended after a passenger plane was blown out of the sky more than six months ago.
Then the United Nations World Tourism Organization chose Luxor, home to the famed Valley of the Kings archaeological site, as its world tourism capital for 2016.
But on Thursday, Egypt found itself in a dark, if familiar, place when an EgyptAir passenger jet disappeared from radar and crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board.
For years now, Egyptians have barely had a chance to recover from one crisis before being hit by another: a damaged economy, a diminished currency, a repressive president and a dangerous insurgency waged by a franchise of the Islamic State militant group.
This latest setback was such a shock to the nation that Egypts leaders abandoned their typical approach to crisis management: obfuscation. Instead, they offered what appeared to be a candid assessment, acknowledging that the disaster might well have been a result of terrorism. And that was even before there was hard evidence of terrorism.
Although visibly strained, Egypts civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, admitted that some Egyptian officials had made errors in dealing with the loss of the plane, EgyptAir Flight 804, and conceded that it might be linked to Islamist militants.
The possibility of a terrorist attack, he said, was higher than the possibility of a technical failure.
The initial response has been different this time, said Michael Wahid Hanna, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New York. We havent seen the kind of obfuscation that was typical of Egypt before.
Video Who Was on EgyptAir Flight 804?
EgyptAir Flight 804 disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday shortly before it was due to land. Here are some of the people who were on board.
By NEIL COLLIER and SHANE ONEILL on Publish Date May 19, 2016. Photo by via Facebook. Watch in Times Video
Mr. Fathis rapid acknowledgment of a possible terrorist link contrasted sharply with his governments response to the crash of a Russian charter flight over the Sinai Peninsula in October, when the government repeatedly refused to concede any connection to militancy, only to reverse its position months later.
That about-face was typical of Egyptian official reactions that have often looked like defensive crouches, and that have quietly infuriated some allies and led them to question Egypts ability to carry out transparent investigations.
Those tactics have pitted President Sisi against some of his closest Western allies. His government has publicly clashed with Italy over the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian graduate student whose bloodied body was discovered on a Cairo roadside in February. Egyptian officials have aggressively countered Italian accusations that Egypts security forces were responsible.
Instead, Egypt has offered what are widely considered implausible accounts of how Mr. Regeni was killed.
Egypt also tried to shift blame for the deaths of eight Mexican tourists in an Egyptian military air attack in September. After months of Egyptian inaction over the killings in the countrys western desert, apparently the result of a mistake, Mexicos Foreign Ministry issued a statement this month accusing Egypt of failing to investigate the episode properly and of not sufficiently compensating the families of the dead tourists.
EgyptAir Flight 804, en route from Paris to Cairo, disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday morning after it abruptly turned and dropped in altitude.
The governments reputation for secrecy stoked cynicism among some of the relatives of missing passengers at the Cairo airport on Thursday. We dont know anything, said Mervat Moamen, who had come for news of Samar Ezz el-Deen, a newly married flight attendant on the plane.
Visibly frustrated, she dismissed official explanations about the fate of the plane as just propaganda.
Conspiracy theories about the crash floated in the news media, including an interview in the state-run Al Ahram paper with a self-declared expert who claimed the plane had been brought down by an electromagnetic pulse.
British officials have been working with Egypt to improve security at the Sharm el Sheikh airport, but they say it is unlikely they will reverse their flight ban anytime soon.
Tourist numbers have fallen more than 40 percent this year, and a further drop would most likely further weaken the Egyptian currency. This, in turn, would increase inflation and put new pressure on Mr. Sisi, who has responded to criticism with an iron fist this year, silencing critics and street protests through mass arrests and convictions.
Video EgyptAir Flight 804: What We Know
A breakdown of the events that unfolded on Thursday after EgyptAir Flight 804 went missing.
By BEN LAFFIN on Publish Date May 19, 2016. Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters. Watch in Times Video
Last weekend, 152 people, mostly in their 20s, were sentenced to two to five years in prison for participating in street protests against the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The furor over the islands appeared to rattle Mr. Sisi, catching him by surprise, and dealt another blow to his sagging popularity.
Still, analysts say, the EgyptAir crash could also give Mr. Sisis government a chance to capitalize on international sympathy provided it does not engage in the sort of defensive behavior that has alienated allies in the past. As the search for wreckage continued Thursday evening, Mr. Sisis office issued a stream of statements describing calls of sympathy he had received from the leaders of Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia and France.
Mr. Hanna, the analyst, said there could be a more cynical explanation for the seemingly more candid approach of Egyptian officials: that they see an opportunity to blame another country, France, for the security lapses that led to the disaster. On social media on Thursday, some Egyptians, anticipating a terrorist link, called for Pariss Charles de Gaulle Airport to be shut down on security grounds, much as Sharm el Sheikhs airport was in the fall.
Blaming France, though, could alienate one of Egypts diminishing number of European friends. The French president, Franois Hollande, visited Egypt last month to sign a $1 billion weapons contract and a slew of other investment deals with Mr. Sisi.
Paradoxically, the proliferation of challenges facing Egypt may cause Western countries to strengthen their support for Mr. Sisi, despite his harsh policies, Mr. Hanna said.
It solidifies the status quo, he said. Because the country faces serious security threats with the potential to spill over into the rest of the world, other countries are loath to make a drastic change and to focus on things like human rights, politics and other freedoms.
The Angry Birds Movie - Official Theatrical Trailer 3 (HD) Photo Green pigs are a good reason to lose your temper: a scene from this film, adapted from the smartphone game. Credit Columbia Pictures
As motion pictures adapted from video games go, The Angry Birds Movie is leagues superior to, say, 1993s Super Mario Bros. This new movie, which uses the bright, color-rich palette of the smartphone phenom for which its named, as well as its hook of nonaeronautic feathered creatures getting around via catapult, is not much beyond a superficially amiable ball of fluff.
Video Trailer: "The Angry Birds Movie"
A preview of the film.
By SONY PICTURES on Publish Date April 16, 2016. Photo by Columbia Pictures. Watch in Times Video
At the top of a voluminous and talent-rich voice cast (which, alas, neglects to include the maestros of irate sarcasm Don Rickles and Nicky Katt), Jason Sudeikis portrays Red, the irascible odd bird out in a community of irrationally upbeat avian neighbors. From across the sea comes a ship, with a couple of friendly-seeming green pigs at its helm. They carry an initially secret stash of more green pigs, a diverting and entertaining lot that is eagerly embraced in bird land. Red, however, believes that his fellow nonfliers havent figured out whats going on, and he turns out to be right.
I shall not wax too indignant over the fact that this ostensible childrens entertainment, in this summer of all summers, could easily be taken as an anti-immigration fable. Instead, I shall note that once past its pleasant echoes of cartoon classics like Birds Anonymous and Cured Duck (a great showcase for the original angry bird, name of Donald), the movie, directed by Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis, settles into the current default mode of animation humor. That is, a DreamWorks-inflected, pop-culture savvy, far-side-of-smarm (not too) smart-aleckness, replete with bodily function jokes. The kids of today deserve better. So do I, come to think of it.
GLENN KENNY
The Angry Birds Movie is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested) for gas, urine, mucus and coy innuendo.
The Angry Birds Movie
Directors Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
Writer Jon Vitti
Stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph
Rating PG
Running Time 1h 37m
Genres Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Movie data powered by IMDb.comLast updated: May 19, 2016
Schannel - Tổng hợp Google IO 2016: Nhàm chán & thiếu sáng tạo nhất trong lịch sử!!!
We are here at Google I/O 2016 in Mountain View, reminiscing about the fun times we have had celebrating all that is Android. We were thinking hard, remembering all of the goodies Google has given out over the years to attendees, only because it seems Google has no giftsto share with folksthis year. There has been phones, tablets, Nexus Q door stops, and plenty of smartwatches. One Google I/O gift stands alone, though, and thats the first gift we received for attending Google I/O in 2011. That is the limited edition Samsung Galaxy Tab, running Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb.
At the time, it was pretty bleeding edge Android tech, but now in 2016, its seen as a cheap piece of plastic and nothing too fancy. Kellen decided to do a hands-on with the device after receiving it, showing off the differences between it and the Motorola XOOM tablet. As you will see in the video, things werent as professional as they are these days, but it was still a blast.
Take a moment to remember that the Google Talk app was a real thing, as well as that cringeworthy Honeycomb UI. Woof.
Morley Safer"s 2001 CNN interview (Larry King Live)
Morley Safer, the Canadian-born television journalist who contributed wit and worldliness to CBS Newss flagship 60 Minutes program for 46 years, has died. He was 84.
Safer died Thursday in Manhattan, where he had a home, CBS News reported on its website. He also had a residence in Chester, Connecticut. Safer had retired just last week, and CBS News broadcast an hour-long tribute to him on May 15. His last story aired on March 13.
"Morley was one of the most important journalists in any medium, ever," CBS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in a statement.
Safer in 2009.
Photographer: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty
The winner of 12 Emmy awards and three Peabody awards, Safer was the third correspondent hired for 60 Minutes, after Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner.
For CBS News, Safer influenced public opinion against the Vietnam War with his report on Cam Ne, a Vietnamese village burned to the ground by U.S. Marines. For 60 Minutes, which he joined in 1970, he skewered modern art, chronicled a tango craze in Finland, visited a home in Milan for aging opera singers and helped free a wrongly convicted man from a life sentence behind bars.
An estimated 18.5 million people watched his 2011 interview with Ruth Madoff, the wife of Bernard Madoff, mastermind of one of the largest financial frauds in history. In the interview, she insisted she had no idea that her husbands business was actually a Ponzi scheme. She also said she and her husband, two weeks after his arrest, tried to kill themselves by overdosing on sleeping pills.
Morley has a great eye for stories, both the hard-edged and the softhearted, and certainly the offbeat, Don Hewitt, the founder of 60 Minutes and executive producer for its first 35 years, wrote in his 2001 memoir.
Foreign Correspondent
Dapper in patterned shirts and colorful ties, Safer carried the cosmopolitan air of the roving foreign correspondent he once was. Well into the word-processing age he insisted on composing his stories on a manual Royal typewriter, which he said produced copy that has some relationship to my humanity, according to a USA Today profile in 2000.
Safer in the 1970s.
Photographer: by Bachrach/Getty Images
Morley can cover war in Beirut in a navy blazer, white slacks and a pocket square and report it as if he were reporting on a cocktail party or a croquet match, said Steve Kroft, one of his many colleagues over his four decades on the show, according to USA Today.
In a 2000 interview with the Academy of American Television, Safer said 60 Minutes fed a public hunger for longer, more diverse stories than offered by the nightly news.
By the third or fourth year of being on at 7 oclock on Sunday, we became something like what Life magazine was to our house when I was a kid: you expected it through the mailbox, he said. It became one of the events of the week.
Early Focus
Morley Safer was born on Nov. 8, 1931, in Toronto, one of three children of Jewish immigrants Max Safer, an upholsterer, and the former Anna Cohn.
He left college after several weeks at the University of Western Ontario to begin pursuing journalism. I wanted to be a reporter; it was the only thing I wanted to be, he said.
Safer learned the ropes at the Woodstock Sentinel-Review and the London Free Press, both of Ontario, then at the Oxford Mail newspaper and Reuters news service in London.
He was working as a roving international correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. when CBS News hired him in 1964 as its London-based correspondent. The following year, he opened CBSs bureau in Saigon and began covering the Vietnam War.
His report on the burning of the South Vietnamese village of Cam Ne, broadcast on Aug. 5, 1965, made the list of 100 best works of 20th-century American journalism compiled by New York Universitys journalism department.
Witnessing Carnage
As Safer recalled in an interview for a PBS series, Reporting America at War, the Marine Corps unit he was accompanying moved into the village and they systematically began torching every house -- every house as far as I could see, getting people out in some cases, using flame throwers in others.
Safer reporting during the Vietnam war.
Source: CBS via Getty Images
Safers South Vietnamese cameraman, Ha Thuc Can, set down his camera and stepped forward to stop the burning of one house, where he and Safer and a sergeant traced the sounds of crying to an underground shelter holding a family, including a practically newborn baby, Safer recalled.
After the family was coaxed out, the house was torched, as every house along the way was torched, either by flame throwers, matches, or cigarette lighters -- Zippos.
The report was denied and denounced by U.S. military and political leaders. CBS President Frank Stanton denied an oft-repeated story that President Lyndon Johnson personally cursed him out on the telephone.
Brutal Power
This conjured up not America, but some brutal power -- Germany, even, in World War II, Safer said. To see young GIs, big guys in flak jackets, lighting up thatched roofs, and women holding babies running away, wailing, this was a new sight to everyone, including the military, I suspect. Which is perhaps one reason why there was such immediate denial.
He was London bureau chief when CBS introduced 60 Minutes in 1968. ABC News plucked Reasoner in 1970 to become an anchor of its nightly newscast, and Hewitt enlisted Safer to join Wallace at 60 Minutes. Reasoner would return to the show in 1978 and remain until his retirement in 1991. Hewitt died in 2009, Wallace in 2012.
Hewitt, in his memoir, Tell Me a Story, recalled Safer agreeing to the job with one condition: When 60 Minutes folds, I go back to London. That would never happen.
In a 1983 story he called one of his favorites, Safer took up the cause of Lenell Geter, a black college graduate from South Carolina working as a mechanical engineer in Texas, who had been sentenced to life in prison for holding up a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Safers report, building off the work of journalists in Texas, led to Geter being freed.
Art Furor
An amateur painter, Safer created a furor in the art world with a 1993 report, Yes, but is it Art? It poked fun at the work of contemporary artists such as Cy Twombly, Robert Gober, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons, and at the buyers who were paying top dollar at auctions.
I discovered something that I absolutely could barely believe, Safer said in a 2012 interview with C-Span, that when you question someones taste in art, its more personal, more probing than their politics, religion, sexual preference. It is something that goes to the very soul when you say, You bought that? It is remarkable.
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, the former Jane Fearer; a daughter, Sarah Bakal; one sister, one brother and three grandchildren.
Something very odd and vey wonderful happened during Wednesday nights Survivor: Kaoh Rong reunion show. In the middle of the event, as host Jeff Probst was interviewing third place finisher Tai Trang, a voice started calling out from the audience. And then that voice starting rushing towards the stage. And then that voice start climbing on the stage. And that voice belonged to none other than pop superstar Sia.
Apparently, Sia is a massive Survivor fan and a massive fan of Tai and his love of animals. How massive? She announced form the stage she was giving Tai $50,000, and wanted to donate another $50,000 to the animal charity of his choosing. It was a wild, unpredictable, and emotional moment the kind that makes live television so exciting. After getting host Jeff Probst to answer all our finale burning questions, and to share scoop on next season, I asked him to also share his experience with the celebrity stage-crasher, and he did so with a little help from a former Survivor champion. Enjoy.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, I have to ask you about that Sia moment at the reunion show. You literally had a pop superstar b*m-rushing the stage! Tell me about that. Also, how can she see through that wig?
JEFF PROBST:Oh man, this one may take some time for me to fully unpack. Heres the short story. Sia and I are friends. We met through Survivor, specifically through John Cochran, whom Sia befriended the year he won. Thats another story entirely. But heres the most salient fact regarding Sia: I honestly dont think of Sia as a pop star, even though she is a global phenom. I know her as my friend who is so passionate about the rights of all humans and animals. Whether its LGBTF organizations or a random chicken on Survivor, Sia is someone who really cares deeply about equal rights and being a good person regardless your status in life. Shes a really kind soul who happens to write amazing music.
As a side note, Sia was over at the house watching an episode of Survivor this season and she randomly said, Jeff, I have to tell you something. It makes me uncomfortable when you do the marooning and you have chickens racing around a boat frightened. People are chasing them and tossing them off the boat into the water. They didnt ask to be there. I know they will get eaten and I understand that, but do you have to put them in such trauma? It really struck me. So for our 33rd season you will see that the chickens are in cages at the marooning. That came from Sia challenging me to see things differently.
So back to Wednesday I still have not watched it on TV so I truly do not really know what all went down. My recollection is hearing someone say something in the audience. But I often hear people shout things all the time, like I love you Tai! So it didnt even register. But about the third time I heard JEFF! I turned and suddenly everything slowed down. I saw Sia putting on her wig. In retrospect, I now realize Sia was smart enough to know there would not be a camera on her yet because she was in the audience, so she had a moment to obscure her identity.
Then she started walking toward me and my mind started racing. All I was thinking at that moment was, We dont have a camera on her, she doesnt have a microphone. Then I think I went a bit into autopilot. Okay, this is happening, so just go with it and tell the story. I knew I needed to explain that Sia and I were friends and that this really was Sia. After that. I just let her take over. Once I heard her start talking about how inspired she was by Tai and his approach to life and all living things I started to understand the moment. This is the woman I know. Sia is the most in the moment person that I know. She just does what she feels and says what she means. Like it or not.
I dont remember everything she said word for word, but I remember seeing Tai look at her in a way that I knew he connected with her. He was not star struck. It seemed to me as though Tai had simply found another human who felt like he did about the world and he was connecting. Then, another part of my mind was realizing, So wait, you are giving Tai $50K? Wow. Thats cool. Then she said, And I want to donate another $50k to your charity. Thats when I clicked in on the old fan favorite award we used to give. It was matching the $100k prize but in her own way.
Then the last part of the equation was the logistics of a live television show. I was staring at a red time clock, blinking down second by secondas the time in the live show counted down. I knew we had Drew Carey waiting for me to come to him to talk about Survivor players being on a prime time special of The Price Is Right. I knew Survivor fans would be interested, but the storyteller in me was frantically trying to decide: What is the right move? Do I go to commercial off the great moment of human connection? Or do I take a 180 and go to Drew?
If you saw the show, I went to Drew and he was a true pro and just kept on with the show. A completely different aspect was shared with me by another friend who was there. Elan Lee (who you might know from creating the game Exploding Kittens) was sitting by Sia and he said, What was crazy was watching the security guards initially start to move in on Sia because they didnt know what was happening and they thought it was a random Survivor fan getting ready to rush the stage. After the finale, I gave Cochran a ride home, because Cochran doesnt drive, even though he won a million dollars and lives in L.A. That too, is another story. But we were downloading on the night and I asked him to send me an email on his take on everything from his point of view. (And side note, Dalton, this is what you covering our show on EW.com for 17 years buys you. this kind of response. It is literally 1:30 a.m. and I am beat, but I am loyal to you because you have been loyal to us. Here is Cochrans unedited response to the evening.)
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From John Cochran:I think I understand why its difficult for you and me to fully put into perspective what happened. Weve had the rare opportunity to get to know and love Sia as an animal-rescuing, Coca Cola-drinking, TV-obsessed friend, but make no mistake: Shes a freaking huge pop music superstar. And not only that: Shes one of the most mysterious, enigmatic performers in the world a role she seemingly magically occupies the second she dons her famous fringed hat. So when Sia face obscured, naturally stormed the stage, it felt like an uncanny collision of private and public identities, making it all the more surreal for those of us who know her.
In that moment, Sia was a pop icon, a friend, a Survivor fan, and an animal advocate.It was a lot to process but it was unquestionably awesome.
And beyond that, it was a testament to the enduring power and cultural relevance of Survivor. This is a show in its THIRTY-SECOND season that still somehow manages to surprise audiences (and hosts, as it turns out) and create water-cooler moments even some involving international popstars. Sixteen years later, Survivor continues to be one of the best and most important shows on TV, andtonightsfinale proved why.
Okay, I hope that answers your questions. As for the inevitable fans who are mad that I didnt talk to Cydney or others blame Sia.
We will also have a separate Q&A where Jeff answers our finale burning questions, and another post where he shares scoop on NEXT season, but for now, check out an exclusive deleted scene from the episode above. Also make sure to read Daltons full episode recap. For more Survivor scoop, follow Dalton on Twitter@DaltonRoss, and check back soon for our exit interviews with the final three.
