(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Sacramento 121, Washington 119 Brooklyn 124, Indiana 115 Detroit 116, Toronto 112 Milwaukee 109, Philadelphia 105 (OT) San Antonio 106, Chicago 99 Golden State 108, Houston 94 Cleveland 117, Boston 110 Denver 129, Charlotte 104 Memphis 89, Miami 85 Dallas 105, LA Clippers 89
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Vancouver 3, Ottawa 2 (SO) NY Rangers 9, Philadelphia 0 Winnipeg 4, Montreal 3 (OT) Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 1 Edmonton 7, Calgary 3 Vegas 5, San Jose 4
Eric Ryan AndersonSix weeks after coming out as gay to TIME, TJ Osborne admits there were some things he wasn’t expecting, as he became the first mainstream country artist with a major label deal to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality.
“A lot of things I’ve been surprised by,” the lead singer of Brothers Osborne told a group of Nashville journalists. “First of all, granted on social media — I haven’t really seen it in real life when we were going out to perform — but the positivity was a lot more than I thought it would be.”
The “All Night” hitmaker reveals some of the support he couldn’t have predicted.
“The other thing that really surprised me was how many straight dudes were like, ‘Right on, brother!’…” he continues. “I’m good buds with Jon Pardi, but I did not expect him to be like, ‘Hell yeah!’… That was a shock to me.”
“I knew this straight dude over here had my back and he’s had my back for a long time,” he says, referring to his brother John. “I thought it was really awesome, like Cole Swindell and a lot of those people who for no reason were giving their seal of approval.”
“And truly, I didn’t even think I needed to hear it, but I did,” TJ reflects. “And that was a surprise and a really beautiful thing to experience.”
“And then straight fans who were like, ‘Hey, me and my girlfriend, we’ve seen you like eight times and we love [you] and we’re still coming to your shows,'” he adds.
Ultimately, TJ says he now feels “incredibly happy” to be living his life transparently, as well as more protective of the LGBTQ+ community than ever before.
Next up, Brothers Osborne vie for Album of the Year for Skeletons at April’s ACM Awards.
Courtesy of HBO Max(LOS ANGELES) — For fans of director Zack Snyder, today is the day they’ve waited more than three years for: his four-hour, two-minute cut of Justice League debuts on HBO Max today.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the director’s original vision for the 2017 film, complete with a new soundtrack, enhanced special effects — and minus the fan-flamed re-shoots director Joss Whedon added when he replaced Snyder after he dropped out of the project following the tragic death by suicide of his adopted daughter Autumn.
Deborah Snyder, one of the film’s producers, tells ABC Audio she refused to allow her husband to see Whedon’s version. “Without any judgment on that film, I think when you have spent so many years with these characters and plotting where they go…and you have to walk away..I think it just makes it difficult to see, I think, on a personal level.”
Rumors that Snyder’s version of the film still existed led to the viral hashtag campaign #ReleaseTheSnyderCut — which was also backed by Justice League‘s stars.
It convinced Warner Bros. to invest millions to allow Synder to revisit it.
The hashtag’s boosters also raised $600,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in Autumn’s honor.
“It was unbelievable,” Zack Snyder tells ABC Audio.
“It was this weird sort of drumbeat that just continued to get louder and louder…and I thought, ‘OK, this is where is this really going to go?’ I mean, I do appreciate the emphasis on the charity’s suicide prevention and mental health awareness. I thought that was plenty, frankly,” he admits.
“But then to actually end up in the end with this amazing cast and this amazing fandom joining together to get this movie actually made, you know, who could have saw that coming? I sure didn’t.”
Kotto and Weaver in center/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Sigourney Weaver has issued a statement mourning the loss of her Alien co-star Yaphet Kotto, who died Monday in the Philippines. He was 81.
Kotto played engineer Dennis Parker, a crew member aboard the deep space mining vessel Nostromo in Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking 1979 classic.
Although their characters often butted heads, Parker eventually sacrificed himself to the movie’s titular xenomorph, allowing Weaver’s Ellen Ripley the chance to become the ship’s sole survivor.
“Every day Yaphet Kotto blew me away on the set of Alien,” Weaver wrote, according to Deadline.
“He just went for it in every scene, making the stakes higher and higher and giving each scene a terrifying reality. It was a nonstop master class for me and I will always be grateful to him.”
Weaver closed with, “Rest In Peace Parker…Over and out, Ripley.”
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A man was arrested Wednesday for gun and ammunition offenses near the official vice president’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory in Washington, police said.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, 31-year-old Paul Murray, of San Antonio, Texas, was detained by Secret Service and arrested. A rifle and ammunition were recovered in his vehicle, police said.
Vice President Kamala Harris is not living at the residence while it’s undergoing renovations. She is residing at Blair House.
According to sources, the suspect’s mom called Capitol Police after he made statements that concerned her, though they weren’t connected to the vice president or president.
The suspect was spotted on surveillance cameras near the Naval Observatory and when Secret Service approached the suspect, he said he needed help and wondered if President Joe Biden could help him, according to sources.
Murray did not have any weapons on him, but he led authorities to his car where the rifle and ammunition were found.
He made no threats to Biden or Harris and was turned over to the Metropolitan Police Department.
ABC News’ Pierre Thomas contributed to this report.
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