“He wrote the ending first.” — Musical biopic, rated R, dir. Christopher Nolan. $273M domestic · 63/100 · Popcorn hit. A picture made at Tentpole.

Roy Gulbeyan is a WNBA official who has worked 460 games from 2013 through 2026. View career foul statistics, crew assignments, game-by-game history, and officiating trends on RefMetrics.

Alt: From Pulp Fiction: a blood-splattered and Jheri-curled Samuel L. Jackson (Maestro of Effusive Obscenity) jocularly intones into a telephone, "Shit, Negro! That's all you had to say...!"

Alt: GIF of a woman with a loud-but-delightful shirt on a bad date. She's nodding with her eyebrows raised, her eyes squinting, and her mouth pursed in a pained smile. Seated across from her (his face hidden by the camera angle) is a man talking (inanely and incessantly, one presumes). The caption: "[Screaming Internally]"

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The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.