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Progressive streamer backing Mamdani says Cubans are ‘partying in the f------ streets' amid energy crisis
Hasan Piker, a progressive media personality and streamer, downplayed the severity of rolling blackouts in Cuba while on a recent trip to the communist island, telling viewers that the population was "partying."
"There are rolling blackouts that take place throughout the day, every day, all around the country. But today is a beautiful day out here. People are partying. People are partying in the f------ streets. I don’t know if it’s an island mindset," Piker said.
The remarks come as U.S. officials warn the island faces a deepening energy crisis, highlighting a stark divide between firsthand accounts and government assessments.
Piker, who has supported self-declared progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, praised the Cubans for their endurance.
"The people’s resilience is remarkable. There are rolling blackouts that take place throughout the day, every day, all around the country, right? 11 million people."
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Piker’s descriptions come as Cuba’s communist regime finds itself choked off from access to energy imports after a U.S. operation in Venezuela resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year.
According to the Department of State, Cuba began to experience energy shortages shortly afterward.
"Understand that Cuba has largely survived on the basis of subsidies. The Maduro regime was providing them fuel," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a press event at the White House.
"So, the reason why Cuba’s electricity grid was already in collapse — before Maduro was captured, it was already in collapse — the reason why things are as bad as they are is because they have an economic model that does not work. It’s not functional," Rubio said.
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President Donald Trump has characterized the energy crisis as severe and said he believes public unrest has strengthened U.S. influence over the island.
"I do believe I'll be the honor of taking Cuba... That's a big honor. They're a very weakened nation right now. They were for a long time," Trump told reporters last week.
Trump did not expand on what he meant by "taking" the island.
Piker’s characterizations, however, contrast sharply with the way the administration has framed the on-the-ground circumstances on the island.
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"A lot of the info that you see and hear from the island is like directly coming from like, most of the time, National Endowment for Democracy-Foundation-backed individuals, State Department propaganda, things like that," Piker said, referring to a pro-Democracy group.
"It’s very difficult to get information out of here. Even though it's so close," he added. "They’re just chilling. Cubans they vibe,"
Piker did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.
Illinois Gov. Priztker admits 'real failures' as slain Chicago student's hometown pays tribute in lights
Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said there have been "real failures" by when it comes to immigration, and criticized President Trump for failing to "follow his own edict."
Jose Medina, 25, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly shot and killed Sheridan Gorman early on Thursday morning at a pier in Chicago. Gorman was with a group of friends when she was killed. Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
In a new statement, Pritzker seemingly pointed a finger at the Trump administration, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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"This has been a terrible tragedy, and I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily…There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That’s their national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst," Pritzker said Tuesday.
Pritzker made the comments as homes in Yorktown Heights, New York, where Gorman is from, were lit up in green on Tuesday night in honor of the slain Loyola University Chicago student. Green is one of Yorktown's school colors, according to CBS News.
"And in my view, we have a lot of work that we need to continue to do," he added. "But it is the job of the federal government to go after immigration enforcement, and it is the job of our local and state law enforcement to prosecute or catch violent criminals and prosecute them, and we should continue to do that both on the state level and the national level."
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Illinois is considered a sanctuary state, and local law enforcement agencies are generally prohibited from participating in immigration enforcement.
"People are popping green lights on just to let the Gormans know that, you know, we're all here for them, and we're here for Sheridan and just our hearts are broken for them all," New York Assemblyman Matt Slater said.
Jessica Gorman, Sheridan's mother, told the New York Post outside her home on Tuesday, "We are gonna get justice for Sheridan."
"We are really focusing this week specifically on burying our daughter. We are really focusing on the beauty of her life," she said. "We are not addressing this man."
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In an earlier statement to Fox News Digital, the Gorman family said they are disappointed with policies that allowed Medina to remain in the country.
"When systems fail—whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act—the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent," the family wrote.
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An arrest report obtained by Fox News Digital shows that Medina was seen on security video in his apartment building's lobby waiting for an elevator while unmasked after the alleged shooting. A building engineer told police that he knew the suspect who had a "very distinct limp and gait."
Police said that Medina was wearing a black mask and black clothing as he walked away from the shooting, noting that he had a "distinct limp and slow gait." He was seen walking from the location of the shooting to Pratt Boulevard at 1:12 a.m. Just a few minutes later, the individual was seen walking northbound through the east alley of Sheridan Road before he entered the back of his apartment complex.
Images of the suspect were sent to a police database, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection identified the suspect as Medina. He was arrested at his apartment in Rogers Park, according to the arrest report.
Medina told officials in 2023 that he was living at Leone Beach Park fieldhouse in Rogers Park in 2023, which was being used as a city-sponsored shelter for migrants. The city-sponsored shelter closed in 2024, according to South Side Weekly.
Fox News Digital reached out to Pritzker's office for comment.
Bipartisan Senate bill to cap insulin for Americans at $35 has new momentum
A bipartisan group of senators is resurfacing legislation to cap many American patients’ insulin costs at $35 a month — the INSULIN Act of 2026 — reviving a push that previously stalled.
The bill co-authored by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and John Kennedy, R-La., would bar group and individual health plans from imposing deductibles on selected insulin products and could not charge more than $35 for a 30-day supply starting in plan year 2027.
Beginning in 2028, patients would pay the lesser of $35 or 25% of the negotiated net price.
Congress had already mandated a Medicare-only cap of $35 in 2022, and President Donald Trump's long-running agenda to lower prescription medicine costs gives the effort some momentum before the 2026 midterms, where Collins' seat could be targeted for a Democrat flip amid the very narrow Republican Senate majority (53-47).
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"We are the long-time chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, and one of our top priorities is to make insulin more affordable," Collins said in a Senate hearing last week.
"Our INSULIN Act would impose out-of-pocket limits for patients with commercial insurance, tackle commercial pharmacy benefit managers, and ensure that patients are the ones who are benefiting from the savings that they negotiate, and encourage biosimilar competition in order to lower list prices."
The bill, first introduced in 2023, has been reworked at Kennedy and Warnock's urging to include some work to provide capped insulin prices even for the uninsured.
"Our bill also includes provisions to help uninsured Americans access affordable insulin," Collins continued. "Just this week, I met with a young woman who, a few years ago, ended up in the hospital because she was stretching out her insulin, not taking as much as she was prescribed, because she simply couldn't afford the cost."
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The issue aligns with a 2024 Trump presidential campaign vow. Trump has already announced other initiatives to lower prescription drug prices, including an executive order last May on his "Most Favored Nation" (MNF) policy to take action on Big Pharma companies that are not offering the world's lowest price on drugs to Americans.
"Americans should not be forced to subsidize low-cost prescription drugs and biologics in other developed countries, and face overcharges for the same products in the United States," Trump's policy ordered. "Americans must therefore have access to the most-favored-nation price for these products."
"My Administration will take immediate steps to end global freeloading and, should drug manufacturers fail to offer American consumers the most-favored-nation's lowest price, my Administration will take additional aggressive action."
Then, this December, Trump announced agreements with nine Big Pharma companies to lower prices on Americans under the MFN policy, including offering direct to the consumer lowest pricing on TrumpRx, the president's new prescription drug portal.
TrumpRX lists Insulin Lispro from Eli Lilly for $25.
Collin and Shaheen's legislation would also offer a limited cap on insulin for the uninsured — an issue reportedly driven by Warnock and Kennedy in the bipartisan group — creating a five-year pilot in 10 states to help uninsured patients get insulin for no more than $35 a month.
"We have already capped insulin for Medicare enrollees at $35 a month — this new INSULIN Act, which we plan to introduce next [this] week, will address insulin affordability for children, adults and those who are uninsured," Shaheen said in a statement.
"It will do, as the Medicare provision does, cap the cost of employer and private insurance coverage of insulin at $35 a month, create a pilot program to provide $35 a month insulin for uninsured diabetes patients, and it is a direct way to help American families facing economic pressures, and will make people healthier in the long run."
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While Collins might need the bill for her 2026 midterm election hopes. Shaheen is serving out her final year in the Senate.
"I would really like to be able to leave the Senate thinking that we had helped to address insulin costs for a lot of Americans: This is the most expensive chronic disease," Shaheen told Semafor, noting Trump's agenda for capping prices.
"This is something that he should support, because it is affordability."
Affordability has been the Democrats' buzzword for the midterms, but Republicans and Trump have argued it has only been an issue Democrats have made after years of inflation under former President Joe Biden.
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The bill authorizes $100 million for fiscal 2027 for cost-cutting and defines "affordable" insulin as out-of-pocket costs of no more than $35 for a one-month supply.
Collins framed the measure as a response to patients rationing medicine they need to survive.
"I have heard far too many stories from people in Maine and across the country who have been forced to ration their insulin because of the cost, and that is simply unacceptable," she told Semafor.
Beyond the consumer cap, the bill also tries to lower underlying costs by targeting pharmacy benefit manager practices and encouraging more competition from biosimilars and generics. It orders a federal study on delays in bringing insulin products to market and barriers to biosimilar uptake.
The proposal now faces the harder political test: winning buy-in from Senate leadership and finding a path to must-pass legislation later this year. But after years of failed starts, backers say they finally have a bipartisan framework that could move.
LA model and influencer charged with using dating apps to burglarize homes of elderly, wealthy victims
A Los Angeles model and social media influencer is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly using dating apps to burglarize the homes of elderly people, prosecutors said.
Adva Lavie, 27, who is also known as Mia Ventura and is a former Penthouse feature model, allegedly posed as a girlfriend and travel companion to gain access to victims’ homes before stealing cash, gold and high-end designer items, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. She has also been described in media reports as an OnlyFans model.
Lavie, who law enforcement said drove high-end cars like a Mercedes and a Porsche, allegedly targeted victims, including wealthy older men and younger women, in Westlake Village, West Hollywood, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.
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She previously pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to be arraigned on April 6. She is currently out of custody on an ankle monitor and has been ordered to stay away from the alleged victims.
Prosecutors said Lavie carried out the scheme between 2023 and 2025, allegedly using dating apps to cultivate relationships with victims before gaining access to their homes.
Lavie was held to answer on March 23 on six felony counts, including two counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information, two counts of grand theft and two counts of first-degree residential burglary.
If convicted on all counts, Lavie faces up to 11 years and eight months in state prison.
"This ruling means the evidence in this case will now be presented before a jury," Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.
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"At her trial, we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this defendant exploited trust built through online relationships to gain access to victims’ homes and steal from them. Her ability to deceptively influence others, whether in person or online, has now come to an end," Hochman said.
In an October special bulletin, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released a poster of Lavie along with images of the high-end cars authorities said she drove. The vehicles include a white Mercedes-Benz coupe sports car and a black Porsche SUV.
Michael Sartain, host of the podcast "Access Vegas," said that while a guest on the show, Lavie went into the greenroom and stole credit cards and cash from the purses of all the female panelists, according to KTLA.
"She got up at the 45-minute mark, and she was gone for 45 minutes and just went through everyone’s bag," he said.
Vanessa, Kai Trump take in Tiger Woods' return to golf at TGL finals
Tiger Woods made his return to golf on Tuesday night, participating in The Golf League (TGL) Finals, and he had a supporting cast in the stands.
His girlfriend, Vanessa Trump, and her daughter, future University of Miami golfer Kai, had front-row seats at SoFi Center to take in the action.
They did not get the result they wanted, as Woods' Jupiter Links, with Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner, lost to Los Angeles Golf Club, with Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood. LAGC made three straight eagles to close out a 9-2 victory in Woods' first competitive golf action in over a year.
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The 15-time major champion and Vanessa Trump have kept their relationship relatively quiet. When they went public last year, Woods asked for privacy.
Both Vanessa and Kai attended the Genesis Invitational last month at Riviera, which Woods hosted. Vanessa and Kai attended other TGL events earlier this month as well, including a match in which Kai chatted with Travis Kelce.
Woods announced his relationship with Vanessa Trump, Donald Jr.'s ex-wife, on March 23, 2025.
"Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts," Woods wrote in his post.
A report in July said the two were "very serious," and "wedding bells" could be chiming, but nothing along those lines has been made public.
Woods' son, Charlie, and Vanessa's daughter, Kai, are both competitive golfers. Kai has committed to play at the University of Miami, while Charlie will attend Florida State.
Charlie and Kai played in the same tournament in June.
After his highly publicized divorce from Elin Nordegren, Woods was linked to Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn in the 2010s. He was dating Erica Herman at the time he won the Masters in 2019, but they, too, had a very public breakup that included sexual harassment allegations and an NDA lawsuit filed by Herman.
Woods and Nordegren have appeared to get along in recent years, as they co-parent Charlie and Sam Woods.
One step in Woods' return is complete as he aims to play at the Masters in two weeks. He has yet to commit, but it's tough to imagine Augusta National without the five-time green jacket winner.
Woods last competed on the PGA Tour in the 2024 Open Championship.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Miami Beach mayor says crackdown on spring break chaos has tourism booming once again
Miami Beach has broken up with its rowdy spring break reputation, rebranding itself as a wellness-focused destination after years of violence and chaos tied to seasonal party crowds.
"We had shootings on our streets in South Beach. We had stampedes, we had people jumping on police cars. It was just not tolerable," Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday.
But that chaos, Meiner said, came before he took office. Now, the once-troubled Florida hotspot has transitioned into a hub for wellness, safety and high-end tourism.
"We're a law and order city here in Miami Beach, and we implemented DUI checks, license plate readers, heavy police presence and re-increased our parking rates, and now we've activated wellness conferences — fitness and investment conferences are coming here," he added.
"It's literally the complete opposite of what we used to have."
The city also launched a viral campaign declaring it had reached a "breaking point" and decided to "[break] up" with spring break, signaling that the days of unchecked partying and disorder are over.
The shift appears to be paying off.
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"We've actually improved our tourism since we put in these measures," Meiner said.
"The first year, there's some hiccups, but we are hopping as a city right now. Miami Beach is the place to be."
According to Meiner, the city is now seeing packed hotels and busy restaurants, driven in part by visitors seeking a safer experience devoid of chaos.
"Our hotel room rates are full. We're packed to capacity," he said.
"Our restaurants are busy because people want to be safe. That's what law and order's about, and it's actually helped our residents, our visitors and our businesses."
Meiner said the drastic change has been possible thanks to the work of the Miami Beach Police Department, combined with support from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Khanna urges King Charles to meet Epstein victims during Capitol visit
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., tells Fox News he wants King Charles to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's victims and others when he comes to Capitol Hill next month to deliver a speech before a joint meeting of Congress.
British authorities arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew and the brother of King Charles, in connection with an inquiry into the Epstein matter.
Khanna says King Charles could shed light on what the royal family knew about Andrew or Epstein.
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Khanna tells Fox he wants the King to meet with victims, then with him and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and the House Oversight Committee.
Khanna stressed that he would request Charles to appear. Fox pressed Khanna on whether he would ask that the King be subpoenaed, but Khanna was not ready to go there yet.
One Oversight Committee source tells Fox that this request is "very delicate" and they risk "an international incident" by asking King Charles to meet with the committee.
New York Times columnist tells liberal readers Trump's war with Iran is 'going better than you think'
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens went against the grain of his liberal media colleagues Tuesday, telling readers that President Donald Trump's war against Iran is "going better than you think" in a piece on Tuesday.
Stephens recalled high gas prices the country faced in 2012, noting at the time that "the price of Brent crude closed the month around $123 a barrel," which he noted would be $175 a barrel today, and that the current price is "hovering around $100."
"That ought to provide some perspective on the panic over the war in the Middle East," Stephens wrote. "To hear the critics’ version of events, an unprovoked and unnecessary attack on Iran, launched at Israel’s behest, is already a foreign-policy fiasco that has put the global economy at risk without any clear objective or endgame."
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He singled out Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who on Sunday told NBC's Kristen Welker, "We’ve never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country’s history."
"Really?" Stephens reacted. The Times columnist listed several conflicts beginning with 1991's Operation Desert Storm, which destroyed dozens of U.S. aircraft in a six-week span, while the current war with Iran has led to just four destroyed within four weeks. He mentioned how 23 soldiers died and 325 were wounded during the 1989 invasion of Panama, while 13 died and 230 were wounded (he noted most had "swiftly returned to duty") in the current war.
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Stephens also highlighted how President George W. Bush had minimal support from Arab nations when launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq, while Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is urging Trump to continue the war against Iran, according to a report from Stephens' Times colleagues.
"I am not blind to the Trump administration’s failures in planning, particularly its unwillingness to make a stronger public case for war and get more allies on our side before the campaign began," Stephens continued. "Still, if past generations could see how well this war has gone compared with the ones they were compelled to fight at a frightening cost, they would marvel at their posterity’s comparative good fortune. They would marvel, too, at our inability to appreciate the advantages we now possess."
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The New York Times isn't the only outlet that's offered a surprise report card to Trump. An op-ed published last week by Al Jazeera praised the effectiveness of the military actions taken by the U.S. and Israel.
"When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air [defenses], its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades," wrote Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Texas coach gives fiery, expletive-laden halftime speech before Longhorns' upset over Gonzaga
No. 11 seed Texas upset No. 3 Gonzaga, 74-68, on Saturday to move on to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and head coach Sean Miller’s expletive-laden halftime speech might have been the reason why.
Miller, 57, challenged his team to maximize their effort on the offensive glass and not wilt just because Gonzaga is a higher seed and a good basketball team.
"Here it is. The team who gets the most second shots in the second half will win. Again, I want to go back. You want to take it or are you just going to say — we're going to say, ‘Like, man, they seem to always go to the Sweet 16. Same happened to us.’ No, no. If you didn't take it, if you're going to be a team take, we got to go get the ball more when we miss. It can't be one of those like, ‘F--- it, we could never get an offensive rebound against Gonzaga.’ Yes, we can," Miller told his team.
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Miller impressed upon his squad that if they couldn’t grab it, they needed to keep the ball alive by whatever means possible, and to win the game, they had to steal it from Gonzaga.
"You can't get it, punch it, tip it, go back up, tip, dunk, up," Miller said. "The most aggressive team in the second half. The team who wants to go to San Jose, the team who's going to steal it and take it from the other motherf---er, that's who's going to win because it's an even game."
Texas took Miller’s advice literally, as they stole the ball four times from Gonzaga had an 11-2 advantage in points off turnovers. While the Longhorns out-rebounded 34-29, they shot the ball better than the Bulldogs, draining 52% of their shots compared to 45% for Gonzaga.
For Miller, Texas’ trip to the Sweet 16 is his ninth trip in 21 seasons as a head coach and improved his overall tournament record to 25-13 in the NCAA Tournament. For Texas, this is their first Sweet 16 since 2023.
The Longhorns will look to keep their Cinderella run going when they play No. 2 Purdue on Thursday at 7:10 p.m. ET.
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Kurt Russell says Elvis Presley took surprising precaution before he kicked him during filming
Kurt Russell is taking a trip down memory lane and recalling how he went from kicking Elvis Presley to becoming him.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Russell recalled his role in the 1963 movie, "It Happened at the World's Fair," where his only job was to kick Presley on-screen.
"My role was to kick Elvis in the shin so a girl he liked would take pity on him," Russell told the outlet. The star noted that the King took precautions to ensure that Russell's kick did not injure his shin.
"Elvis put a shin pad under his pants leg, and I took a couple of practice shots—until he was sure I wouldn't miss and injure him," Russell shared.
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On March 12, Russell was a guest on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," where he said Presley paid his character in the movie 50 cents to kick him in the shin to get the attention of a nurse he was interested in.
"He had a pad on him, and everyone was a little bit worried about it," Russell began. "And I had shoes, not sneakers. And I did it about 10 times and Elvis goes, 'I think he got it. I'm not worried about that.'"
"This is how cool Elvis Presley was. We were back in Los Angeles shooting, and my dad comes on the set with me, and I see Elvis looking over, really looking over. And he says, 'Is that your dad? Is that your father over there?' I said, 'Yeah,' and he said, 'Oh, can I meet him?' And I said, 'OK, sure,'" Russell said.
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"'Dad, this is Elvis Presley. He'd like to meet you,'" Russell continued, referring to his dad, character actor Bing Russell. "He said, 'Mr. Russell. I love the way you wear your hat in all the cowboy movies you do. If I ever do a cowboy movie, would it be OK if I wore my hat that way?' That's how cool of a guy he was."
"It Happened at the World's Fair" launched Russell's acting career at just 12 years old. In 1979, Russell took on his "career turning point role" in the TV movie "Elvis." He told the WSJ that he "went from kicking him to being him."
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Presley was 27 in "It Happened at the World's Fair" and Russell was 27 when he played Elvis in the TV movie.
After taking on a few roles as a child star, Russell was able to successfully transition to an adult actor and land major roles in cult classics like "Escape from New York," "The Thing" and "Big Trouble in Little China."
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Now, Russell is starring in Taylor Sheridan's "The Madison" alongside Michelle Pfeiffer.
A press release for the series says "The Madison" is "a profound love story channeled through a deeply personal family drama about resilience and transformation." It also mentioned that this is Taylor Sheridan's "most intimate work to date."
The series unfolds "across two distinct worlds — the beautiful landscape of Montana and the vibrant energy of Manhattan — as it examines the ties that bind families together," the release stated.
The first season of "The Madison" consists of six episodes and premiered on Paramount+ March 14.