By Wonderwall.com Editors
11:53am PDT, May 13, 2020
This spring, the pandemic halted production on "The Batman," leaving its star Robert Pattinson quarantined in London, presumably with his rumored girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse. With his superhero plans on hold and his work on Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" in the can, the 34-year-old took the opportunity of a GQ cover story interview to demo an allegedly edible "business idea." It's called "Piccolini Cuscino," or "Little Pillow," he explained in the magazine's June/July issue. The idea — which he even pitched (unsuccessfully) to Uovoa restauranteur Lele Massimini — was to "capitalize" on the popular attributes of handheld fast-food items like burgers. The version he whipped one up for GQ involved cornflakes (the corner store was out of breadcrumbs), "nine packs of presliced cheese," microwaved pasta, sugar and red sauce. And danger … lots of danger. According to GQ's rehash, Rob first nuked a bowl of water-covered penne in the microwave for eight minutes. Then he dumped sugar on tin foil, to which he added layers of the presliced cheese. "I found after a lot of experimentation that you really need to congeal everything in an enormous amount of sugar and cheese," he explained. Next, came more sugar for the "crust." Then an outside layer of cornflake crumbs. Then red sauce, microwaved pasta and more sugar. More congealing, too. Finally, Rob took the top of a hamburger bun and burned the letters "L.P." on it with a lighter (thereby briefly setting his gloved hand on fire). He then nestled the pasta/sugar/sauce/cornflake blob into the bun top, wrapped it all in more tin foil and stuck it in what he believed was an oven, despite the interviewer's warning that it sure looked like another microwave. Though the Little Pillow should have been ready to eat 10 minutes later, the microwave exploded instead. "I think I have to leave that alone," Rob observed while cowering on the kitchen floor. "But that is a Piccolini Cuscino." All of which leaves us with one question: He's not doing his own "Batman" stunts, right?
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Like Kelly Ripa before her, Meghan McCain is coming to terms with her hair's true colors, one of which is gray. On Instagram on Monday, the 35-year-old "View" cohost shared a photo of her roots, in all their not-so-platinum glory. "No lies about 'lighting', d'ry shampoo' or at home treatments here," Meghan wrote, joking, "… reached my full quarantine Witch grey hair completion." She went on to say this is the longest she's ever gone without touching up her color. "Shoutout to all my fellow women who also hereditarily went prematurely grey in your twenties. I'm owning it. Just gotta go find my cauldron," she continued. "Wanna join my coven? 🧙🏻♀️🔮😈👻🧙🏻♀️ (also please don't ask me to do my color at home, I can barely blow dry my own hair let alone highlight it)." The post was met with plenty of appreciation from some of the scores of folks accustomed to regular salon visits who are now being forced to embrace their gray.
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The guitar Kurt Cobain played in his 1993 "MTV Unplugged" performance is headed to auction and expected to sell for at least $1 million, ending a long and ugly phase of the rare, 1959 Martin D-18E instrument's existence. The guitar became a major player in the recent divorce battle between the Nirvana frontman's daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, and her now ex-husband, Isaiah Silva, who claimed Frances gave it to him as a wedding gift and fought successfully in court to hang onto it. Frances' mother Courtney Love got involved, as well, before the court handed it over to Silva. Page Six notes that since no seller is listed by auction host Julien's Auctions, indicating Silva will likely reap the rewards of the sale. In addition to the guitar, which Kurt customized, according to CNN, the lot features Kurt's guitar case, which still has a Poison Idea album flyer and three baggage claim stubs attached to it. The singer and guitarist died just months after the "Unplugged" performance.
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Bill Murray to face off against Guy Fieri in nacho-making contest to benefit restaurant workers
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Alexandria "Lexi" Jones, the 19-year-old daughter of late rock icon David Bowie and supermodel Iman, is missing her mom more than ever — and she's asking anyone who will listen to continue abiding by social distancing rules so that she and Iman can be reunited soon. In one of two Mother's Day posts about Iman (via People), Lexi revealed it's been six months since she last saw her mother, who lives on the other side of the country from her. Sharing a throwback photo of the two and a "happy Mother's Day," Lexi wrote: "Everyone pls stay inside I haven't seen my mom for 6 months because we live on opposite coasts and it is very difficult to leave ny right now …" She went on to semi-joke that because she's "a child," she misses her mother "dearly," before wrapping up with, "…so pls be party poopers this one time so it doesn't take 2 f—— years to see her again thank you!"
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