June 2021 Entertainment Round-Up Super Quiz

Britney Spears delivered a court testimony on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in which she said the conservatorship that has governed her life for 13 years has control over her reproductive and mental health. She also testified that doctors changed her medication after telling her management she wanted to discontinue her Las Vegas residency.  “I was told right now in the conservatorship I am not able to get married or have a baby,” the 39-year-old superstar told the court.

Megan Thee Stallion was the big winner of the 2021 BET Awards, held Sunday, June 27, 2021, with four trophies: Video of the Year and Best Collaboration for WAP - a collaboration with Cardi B; as well as Viewer’s Choice Award for her collaboration with Beyoncé, titled “Savage (Remix),” and the trophy for a Best Female Hip-Hop Artist.

Queen Latifah at the BET 2021

Queen Latifah received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 BETs for her distinguished career as a Grammy-winning rapper, a Golden Globe-winning actor, and an Emmy-winning TV producer. The 51-year-old ended her thank you speech with “Peace! Happy pride!”.

Counting from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio), Quentin Tarantino directed nine full-featured films.

Fun fact: Tarantino confirmed he plans to retire after making one more film - his tenth - while promoting his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel on “Real Time With Bill Maher” on Friday. June 25, 2021.

Lin-Manuel Miranda apologized Monday, June 14, 2021, in response to criticism that Afro-Latinos were underrepresented in his new film In The Heights. The film depicts a community with Dominican, Panamanian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican ancestry, many of whom have darker skin.  "I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy," Miranda wrote. He added, "I'm learning from the feedback, and I thank you for raising it, and I'm listening. I'm trying to hold space for both the incredible pride in the movie we made and be accountable for our shortcomings."

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ewan McGregor co-starred in Fargo season 3 and Birds of Prey - the 2020 Harley Quinn movie.

News fact:

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ewan McGregor, who first met on the set of Fargo, welcomed a baby boy named Laurie, McGregor's eldest daughter, 25-year-old Clara, revealed Sunday, June 27, 2021, on Instagram.

Demi Lovato appeared in a photo holding a Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar-branded microphone. However, a rep for the singer explained on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, that they were not in business with the brand. "Demi was doing a promotional stop for the awards show as a good partner to iHeart," he said.

Bonus Fact:

On April 2021, the singer famously shared her view that sugar-free food products are "triggering" for people recovering from an eating disorder.

In Gossip Girl, the narrator, omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl," is voiced by Kristen Bell, who also was the voice behind Princess (and later, queen) Anna in the Frozen franchise.

Gossip Girl News Fact:

Kristen Bell returns as the narrator for Gossip Girl’s 2021 reboot. The new series takes place eight years after the original Gossip Girl blog went dark when a new generation of New York private school teens is introduced to Gossip Girl's social surveillance. The Gossip Girl reboot hits HBO Max on July 8. Watch the official trailer.

Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, and Eva Mendes all appeared in multiple Fast and Furious franchise movies.

Fast and Furious news fact:

In an interview with AP Thursday, June 10, 2021, Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel said that the saga would conclude after two more films following the upcoming ninth installment, “F9,” which hit theaters June 25. The actor said the final two films could potentially release in 2023, then 2024.

While Cruella de Vil's original attire includes all of the above, the 2021 Cruella lacks the iconic cigarette holder featured in the original animated version of the beloved villain. “We are not allowed to smoke onscreen in a Disney film," Stone explained in a New York Times interview.

With the retirement of David Letterman in 2015, Conan O'Brien became the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, with his nearly 28 years lasting run ending in June 2021.

Conan 2021 Fact:

"Conan" ended its run on June 24, 2021. Jack Black was the show's final guest. O'Brien plans a weekly variety show on HBO Max and focuses more on his podcast and travel shows.

HBO's 2019 series Watchmen is considered the first time the entertainment industry depicted the 1921 Tulsa Massacre  (Three documentaries preceded it).

Tulsa Massacre facts:

The Tulsa massacre (AKA Black Wall Street massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when many white residents deputized and given official city weapons, attacked Black residents, and burned businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Joe Biden and the Tulsa massacre

US President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre, declaring Tuesday, May 1, 2021,  that he had "come to fill the silence" about "one of the nation's darkest — and long-suppressed — moments of racial violence."

The Mod Squad main characters were three rebellious “hippies” working as undercover detectives to avoid jail. The show was among the first TV programs to feature African-Americans as stars.

The Mod Squad News Fact

R.I.P Clarence Williams. The actor who starred as Linc Hayes, a young, hip undercover police officer on ABC’s “The Mod Squad,” died on Friday, May 4, 2021, in Los Angeles. He was 81. Following his breakout television role on The Mod Squad, Williams appeared as Prince’s father in 1984’s Purple Rain, FBI agent Roger Hardy in the second season of Twin Peaks, and Samson Simpson in 1998’s Half Baked, not to mention a variety of TV guest appearances including roles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Everybody Hates Chris, Empire, and Justified.