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Congratulations! Jodie Foster marries Alexandra Hedison

(CNN) – Surprise! Jodie Foster’s now a married woman.

The actress and filmmaker quietly tied the knot with her girlfriend Alexandra Hedison over the weekend, a rep for Foster confirmed to CNN.

According to E! Online, which first reported the news, Foster and Hedison had been dating for almost a year. The entertainment site took note of the relationship last September after photos surfaced of Foster spending time with Hedison, a photographer/actress and an ex-girlfriend of Ellen DeGeneres.

No other details are yet available about Hedison and Foster’s nuptials, although we won’t hold our breath: Foster is notoriously private about her personal life. At the 2024 Golden Globes, she declined to give a "big coming out speech" as she accepted her Cecil B. DeMille award, saying that she’d already come out to those close to her.

"I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age," Foster said. "If you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe then you too might value privacy above all else."

In that speech, Foster expressed gratitude to her former partner Cydney Bernard, with whom she has two sons.

Jodie Foster marries Alexandra Hedison – CNN.com

Urgh! NOW it comes up as already posted!

Congratulations, You Are Drinking Lots of Arsenic In Your Cheap Wine

In news that will fuck up Your weekend and Your Wine cellar (if you’ve got one but who’s got one?!): a class-action lawsuit was filed on Thursday against 28 California wineries for containing high levels of arsenic. Time now to graduate to fancy wine, or at the very least steer very clear from two-buck-chucks and Franzia.

Mother Jones reports:

According to the complaint, three independent laboratories tested the wines and found that some contained levels of Arsenic "up to 500% or more than what is what is considered the maximum acceptable safe daily intake limit. Put differently, just a glass or two of these arsenic-contaminated wines a day over time could result in dangerous Arsenic toxicity to the consumer."

I don’t even understand what consuming 500% more of anything feels like, except maybe a Franzia hangover?

The origins of the lawsuit draw back to Kevin Hicks, a former Wine distributor who started BeverageGrades, a Denver-based lab that analyzes wine. The lab tested 1,300 bottles of California wine, and found that about a quarter of them had higher levels of Arsenic than the maximum limit that the Environmental Protection Agency allows in water. Hicks noticed a trend: As he told CBS, "The lower the price of Wine on a per-liter basis, the higher the amount of arsenic." Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw White Zinfandel came in at three times the EPA’s level, while Franzia’s White Grenache was five times higher. The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated wines are cheaper in part because their producers don’t "implement the proper methods and processes to reduce inorganic arsenic."

But the aggrieved are coming against these allegations with Wine bottles blazing, cuz reputation:

Wine industry groups have begun to contest the lawsuit’s contentions and motive. The California Wine trade group, the Wine Institute, released astatement saying, "While there are no established limits in the U.S., several countries, including the European Union, have established limits of 100 parts per billion or higher for wine. California Wine exports are tested by these governments and are below the established limits." A representative of The Wine Group, one of the defendants, says that the plaintiffs "decided to file a complaint based on misleading and selective information in order to defame responsible California winemakers, create unnecessary fear, and distort and deceive the public for their own financial gain."

I’m unconvinced and taking a skrong stance against arsenic.