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    https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/05/the-turtles-mark-volman-dead/

    Mark Volman, a founding member of the 1960s rock band The Turtles, is dead ... TMZ has learned.

    Mark died Friday morning, according to People. Mark's cause of death is unclear.

    Mark was diagnosed two years ago with Lewy body dementia, the second most common type of dementia. LBD is caused by a buildup of proteins in the brain and it affects memory, movement and thinking.

    Along with Howard Kaylan, Mark formed the backbone of The Turtles ... the guitarist and vocalist was known for his distinctive, frizzy hair. Their biggest hit with The Turtles was their January 1967 single, "Happy Together," which rose to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 back in the day.

    When The Turtles folded in 1970, Mark and Howard formed the comedy rock duo Flo & Eddie ... with Mark as Flo, a pseudonym short for The Phlorescent Leech.

    Mark and Howard were also recruited into Frank Zappa's band, Mothers of Invention.

    In recent times, Mark had been touring with several bands on the "Happy Together" tour, which brought together Jay and the Americans, Little Anthony, Ron Dante of the Archies -- who acted as a representative of The Turtles -- and more.

    Sandy Yaguda of Jay and the Americans tells TMZ ... he had enjoyed reconnecting with Mark after years apart thanks to the "Happy Together" tour. They were on the road together for several months in 2024, but Sandy tells us Mark's health forced him to take a break for this year's trek.

    He adds ... "He fought long and hard, and part of the joy of his life was performing. He was funny, he was enjoyable. He made everybody smile off stage and on-stage. He made everyone's life better."

    Meanwhile, Jay Reincke of Jay and The Americans through his agency BiCoastal Productions tells TMZ Mark was a "wonderful guy" and "certainly the spirit of The Turtles."

    Mark was 78.

    RIP

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    https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/05/charlie-sheen-sex-with-men/

    Charlie Sheen is opening up about his past sexual encounters with other men ... and he says it's "liberating" to tell his story.

    In an upcoming Netflix documentary about his life, Charlie says he decided to try something new and he started having sex with men after years of banging women.

    According to People, Charlie explains it like this in the doc ... "I flipped the menu over." The interviewer then asks Charlie how it feels to talk publicly about having sex with men for the first time, and he responds, "Liberating. It's f***ing liberating."

    Charlie claims he started having sex with men when he was in the throes of drug addiction ... namely, when he was smoking crack.

    He says his crack use "started it ... That's where it was born, or sparked. And in whatever chunks of time that I was off the pipe, trying to navigate that, trying to come to terms with it -- 'Where did that come from? ... Why did that happen? -- and then just finally being like, 'So what?' So what? Some of it was weird. A lot of it was f***ing fun, and life goes on."

    Charlie also told Michael Strahan on "Good Morning America" he was a sex addict at the time ... and he kept his trysts with men secret because he was being extorted, and he felt it was easier to pay to keep it quiet in the hopes it eventually went away. After a while, he says he felt like he was being held hostage.

    At some point during his drug-fueled sex romps, Charlie contracted HIV ... and in 2015 he went public with his diagnosis in an interview on the "Today" show. He says he stopped using drugs in 2015 and has been completely sober for 8 years.

    Charlie talks sex, drugs and more in the Netflix doc, "aka Charlie Sheen," and his memoir, "The Book of Sheen." The memoir comes out Tuesday and the doc drops Wednesday next week.

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    Chapman for Cy? His mind-blowing stats might sway you

    https://www.mlb.com/news/aroldis-chapman-merits-cy-young-consideration

    You don’t want to bury the lead with Aroldis Chapman the way he’s been burying sinkers and 100 mph fastballs in the strike zone all season long. So here it is: Chapman isn’t just the best and most successful closer in baseball this year. He is pitching like one of the best ever over the past few months.

    Chapman, at age 37, hasn’t just helped pitch the Red Sox back into contention in the American League East and in the Wild Card race, he has done something else across the past few months, which means pitch himself into the Cy Young Award conversation with aces like Tarik Skubal and his teammate Garrett Crochet. Chapman, who bounced around to the Royals, Rangers and Pirates after leaving the Yankees a few years ago, has pitched like that kind of star.

    Since the end of May especially, he has been as much a force as any pitcher or hitter in baseball, and he absolutely earned the contract extension the Red Sox just gave him. And he may very well be pitching his way into the middle of another conversation, the one about him possibly making the Hall of Fame someday.

    Check it out:

    Going into this weekend’s Red Sox-Diamondbacks series in Phoenix, Chapman’s last earned run allowed was a home run to J.T. Realmuto on July 23. Since then, he’s had 16 appearances, pitched 13 2/3 innings, struck out 17, given up just four walks and has faced 45 batters without giving up a hit. It actually gets better: Since May 27, Chapman has given up one earned run. In that stretch, he’s pitched 33 innings, struck out 49 and walked just six.

    And here is what he just did in August, on his way to essentially pitching a month-long, 11-inning no-hitter: Chapman faced 34 batters last month, retired 33 and allowed one walk along the way. It added up to a 0.09 WHIP for the month and, yeah, a 0.00 ERA.

    So much has been made of the impact that Roman Anthony, the Red Sox gifted rookie, has made on the team’s season, along with the immense presence of Alex Bregman both on and off the field. Crochet has established himself as one of the true aces of the sport, without question. The Sox traded for Crochet and signed Bregman to a free-agent contract. Those were supposed to be the most important acquisitions from last winter. But none has mattered more to the Red Sox than what felt like an under-the-radar signing of Chapman, who had a 3.79 ERA and 14 saves in 68 appearances for the Pirates last season.

    Yankees fans will always remember the season-ending home run Chapman gave up to Jose Altuve in the 2019 American League Championship Series, and another one to Mike Brosseau of the Rays the very next year -- Game 5 of a Yankees-Rays ALDS -- that effectively ended another Yankees season. But around that, Chapman has a career 2.37 ERA in the postseason, has 10 saves in 44 appearances and helped pitch the Cubs to the 2016 World Series, emptying his personal tank along the way to get that done. As worn down as he was by Game 7 of that Series against Cleveland, the Cubs wouldn’t have won without him. Chapman even pitched nine times in the postseason for the Rangers when they were winning the Series two years ago.

    He first showed up in the big leagues for the Reds in 2010. Now, in his own late innings, he is greater in the late innings than he has ever been before.

    This is what Craig Breslow, Boston’s chief baseball officer, told reporters after Chapman’s contract extension:

    “I think that's what you would point to when people say, ‘How has this guy been able to throw 100 miles an hour for 15 years now and just continue to have a successful season after a successful season. So when you think about making a bet on someone to be successful later in their career, you look at the way that they keep themselves in shape and prepare and feel pretty good about this one.”

    Chapman really can still throw it 100. But he is more of a strike thrower than ever before, with both the fastball and his sinker. It seems he has been ahead in the count all season long. It’s why the Red Sox didn’t want to lose him and Chapman made it quite clear to them that he very much wanted to remain in Boston.

    “The chemistry that we have here is unique,” Chapman himself said of the 2025 Red Sox. “We're very together on and off the field. Also the coaching staff and the medical staff and the trainers made the decision easier for me wanting to stay here.”

    Jonathan Papelbon, as a kid, had an ERA of 0.92 out of the bullpen in 2006. When the Sox won the 2013 World Series, Koji Uehara had a 1.09 ERA, striking out 101 batters in 74 1/3 innings. So Chapman, who is at 1.00 right now, is in one more conversation in Boston, like those guys out of the Red Sox bullpen and out of the past like that. He's having himself a regular season for the ages with less than a month to go. Looking ageless in the process.

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    Scrubs Revival: John C. McGinley Returning as Dr. Cox

    https://tvline.com/casting-news/scrubs-reboot-cast-john-c-mcginley-returning-dr-perry-cox-1235502309/

    Dr. Cox is back — so JD better brace himself for a fresh batch of girls’ names.

    John C. McGinley is officially set to recur on ABC‘s Scrubs revival, reprising his beloved role as Dr. Perry Cox, TVLine has confirmed.

    The highly anticipated continuation, which will air during the 2025-26 TV season, will see “JD (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) scrub in together for the first time in a long time,” according to the official logline. “Medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.”

    Scrubs first bowed on NBC in 2001, and chronicled Dr. John Dorian’s rise from intern to attending at Sacred Heart Hospital. When NBC announced that it would not renew the series beyond Season 7, ABC swooped in and picked up the show for what was conceived as an eighth and final season, complete with a series finale that creator Bill Lawrence first conceived of years prior. But ABC ultimately renewed Scrubs for Season 9, which was subtitled Med School and featured a mix of new and returning characters, with Kerry Bishé’s Lucy Bennett installed as the show’s new narrator.

    McGinley starred in all nine seasons as the curmudgeonly Dr. Cox, who was promoted to Chief of Medicine in Season 8.

    As of press time, the Scrubs revival has locked in Braff, Faison and Sarah Chalke as series regulars, and McGinley and Judy Reyes as recurring guest stars — though Lawrence previously told TVLine that the plan is to have the entire original cast back in some capacity for Season 10.

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    21 minutes ago, easilyscan said:

    Get ur arse out of bed & get to work.

    Obviously, I'm all for it. How about you posty?

    I liked going into the office, got me out of the house...  Pre-COVID, we were allowed one remote day and the rest in the office...

    Once COVID hit, we were remote every day...

    Got a new job and the team I work on is spread all over, North America, so we are all remote...

    I didn't think I would initially like it, but I think going back to an office environment after being remote for five years would be very difficult...

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    https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-return-to-office-mandate-1236507493/

    EXCLUSIVE: The new Paramount leadership continues to put their mark on the company following the Skydance acquisition. The latest is a return to office policy that requires all employees to be in the office five days a week.

    The mandate was announced in a companywide email sent by Chairman and CEO David Ellison Thursday morning, a copy of which was obtain by Deadline. For those not willing to comply, a severance package is being offered.

    “To achieve what we’ve set out to do – and to truly unlock Paramount’s full potential – we must make meaningful changes that position us for long-term success,” Ellison wrote. “These changes are about building a stronger, more connected, and agile organization that can deliver on our goals and compete at the highest level. We have a lot to accomplish and we’re moving fast. We need to all be rowing in the same direction. And especially when you’re dealing with a creative business like ours, that begins with being together in person.

    “With this in mind, we will begin a phased return-to-office plan starting in January 2026, ultimately moving towards an in-person work environment where employees are in the office full-time (five days a week),” he added. (You can read the memo in full below.)

    The email outlines the two phases of RTO.

    By January 5, 2026, employees working out of Paramount’s Los Angeles and New York offices are required to return to full-time office work five days a week. The policy will be extended beyond LA and NY, including internationally, later in the year.

    This is not a shocking development. Some sort of RTO policy had been expected, the question was the extent of it. (One of the first things the new post-merger regime of Warner Bros. Discovery implemented was bringing WarnerMedia employees to the office, at the time three days a week.)

    Paramount President Jeff Shell told reporters at last month’s press conference marking the close of the Skydance merger that he had been struck by how sparsely populated the company’s current headquarters are at 1515 Broadway. “We need to figure that out,” he said at the time. As Deadline has reported, plans call for Paramount to shift its corporate headquarters from the Times Square building to the Melrose lot in L.A.

    According to sources, there was no unified Paramount Global work policy, with employees typically spending 2-3 days a week in the office.

    Ellison’s five-days-a-week plan — which is likely to receive backlash from Paramount Global employees who have built their daily lives around a hybrid work schedule — is consistent with that of many tech companies, including Amazon, as well as financial institutions and companies in other sectors.

    In explaining Amazon’s five-days-a-week policy, which started last January, the tech giant’s CEO, Andy Jassy echoed Ellison’s comments in his memo that leadership has “observed that it’s easier for our teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another.”

    As part of Amazon, Amazon MGM Studios has a five-days-a-week office mandate. Traditional studios’ office schedules remain hybrid (for now): 4 days a week (Disney) and 3 days a week (NBCUniversal, Warner Bros.), with many wondering whether they would now follow Paramount in expanding the requirement.

    Here is Ellison’s email:

    Dear Team,

    I believe that in-person collaboration is absolutely vital to building and strengthening our culture and driving the success of our business. Our people are the key to winning, and being together helps us innovate, solve problems, share ideas, create, challenge one another, and build the relationships that will make this company great. As I said during our town hall, some of the most formative moments of my life happened in rooms where I was a fly on the wall, listening and learning. I’ve never seen that happen on Zoom. Being together in-person isn’t just about showing up – it’s about actively engaging with the business, supporting one another and the team’s efforts, and contributing to our shared momentum.

    To achieve what we’ve set out to do – and to truly unlock Paramount’s full potential – we must make meaningful changes that position us for long-term success. These changes are about building a stronger, more connected, and agile organization that can deliver on our goals and compete at the highest level. We have a lot to accomplish and we’re moving fast. We need to all be rowing in the same direction. And especially when you’re dealing with a creative business like ours, that begins with being together in person.

    With this in mind, we will begin a phased return-to-office plan starting in January 2026, ultimately moving towards an in-person work environment where employees are in the office full-time (five days a week).

    Here’s what to expect:
    Phase One: Beginning January 5, 2026, employees assigned to our Los Angeles and New York offices will return to full-time office work. We understand that some people may not choose or be able to make this transition. And so, starting today through September 15, 2025, we will be offering a severance opt-in program for VPs and below, based in Los Angeles and New York, who cannot or do not wish to return full-time. Details will be shared directly with those eligible.

    Phase Two: In 2026, we will announce plans for employees not assigned to our Los Angeles and New York offices, including international offices and those originally hired into fully remote roles. VPs and below in Phase Two will be eligible for a similar opt-in program and will receive details at a later date. We will be adopting this same approach in our international offices and will roll out the specific plans in accordance with our local legal obligations.

    We recognize this represents a significant change for many, and we’re committed to supporting you throughout this transition. We will work closely with managers to ensure you have the time and flexibility to make the necessary adjustments.

    Thank you for your patience, adaptability, and continued dedication. Together, we are building a company that is stronger, more innovative, and ready to win. The opportunity ahead is extraordinary, and I’m confident that working side by side, we will achieve great things.

    Best,
    David

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