The gown was custom Prada: a nude illusion-mesh base packed with silver crystals and beads in clusters and cascading tiers, a plunging deep-V neckline, a defined sparkling waistband, and a short train. Stylist Law Roach oversaw the ensemble, and he said the dress inspired an even shorter trim on her hair.

That hair was the other headline. Coree Moreno cut a brunette pixie he called “The Modern Sculpted Pixie,” a piece-y, tousled take with Halle Berry early-2000s references. Ernesto Casillas built a glowing, late-’90s makeup look using an all-Prada Beauty lineup.

The finishing touches came from Mikimoto’s Les Pétales collection: floral earrings with 12-mm White South Sea cultured pearls and roughly 4.4 carats of diamonds, plus matching rings and a bracelet. A diamond-covered Rolex Lady Datejust added more sparkle, and she left her neckline bare to let the dress carry the look.

Zendaya walked the carpet solo. Tom Holland joined her inside for a rare public date night.

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Willis has been in what her family calls a locked-in state since a cardiac arrest at a California rehab in early 2024 left her with severe brain damage. She now breathes and eats through tubes in her neck, and her mother, Yesenia, moved her to Mexico to lead her round-the-clock care at home.

Yesenia says she sees signs her daughter knows exactly what’s happened to her. Willis sometimes screams and kicks her out of frustration, she says, the reaction of someone who understands she’s trapped in her own body and can’t do anything about it. Her younger brother, Michael Cooper, describes a gentler sign: he blows her a kiss and she sometimes puckers her lips back. “It doesn’t always happen. But it has me thinking she’s in there.”

Willis had paid $45,500 in cash for a 21-day ketamine detox at Summit Malibu and texted her brother she’d be off her phone. She was admitted January 27, 2024. By day three, medical notes described her as “disheveled, frail, and disoriented.” On day nine, February 4, a nurse found her unresponsive and not breathing. Paramedics reportedly worked on her for nearly an hour before they detected a pulse. The family says she weighed about 111 pounds going in and 83 by the time of the arrest.

A judge approved a $3 million settlement in July 2026. After fees and liens, roughly $1.25 million sits in a trust for her care. The facility denies wrongdoing and has said Willis repeatedly refused medication and refused to be transferred to a hospital, and that staff couldn’t force her.

In Mexico, Yesenia told the Daily Mail she plans to buy a house. “They do things there that aren’t available here, maybe she can become more independent,” she said.

For Cooper, not knowing what went wrong is the hardest part. “That’s what is so frustrating is that this didn’t happen to her at home or anything,” he said. “It happened under the care of medical professionals who were acting under California law as her legal guardians.”

He’s also crushed by his sister’s inability to defend herself. “Maybe some people can’t comprehend this kind of pain,” he said.

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Positive words associated with “uncompromising” are “determined,” “resolute,” and “single-minded.” Such people won’t compromise because they have integrity. They keep their eyes on the prize and are “in it to win it.”

Negative words related to “uncompromising” are “difficult,” “obstinate,” and “pigheaded.” They let their foolish pride get in the way of reaching agreements with others that would work out to everyone’s benefit. This often leads to trouble in relationships and employment.

These are the four zodiac signs who tend to be the most uncompromising, along with explanations for how you can steer this trait toward positive outcomes in life—both yours and theirs—rather than disappointment and heartache.

1. Taurus 

An Earth sign with a fixed modality who is symbolized by the Bull, Taurus can be about as immovable as a giant boulder once they’ve made up their minds. If you’d like to engage them as a business associate or romantic partner, the trick is to persuade them before they’ve made up their minds. Be careful to avoid belittling or insulting them, because that will only send them stampeding in the opposite direction. Flattery will work so long as it’s sincere, because Taurus is highly skilled at detecting insincerity. If they think you’re merely trying to butter them up to get what you want from them, you’ve already lost.

2. Cancer

Cancers are widely regarded as the most emotional of all the star signs, so if you want to get on their good side, don’t even bother with facts, logic, spreadsheets, or scientific studies. The Crab judges things purely on how they feel about them, and they have incredibly good intuition. If their heart tells them that something is right, no amount of lawyerly persuasion will budge them from that immutable inner conviction. They listen to their heart rather than their brain, and once their heart tells them what to do, you might as well be speaking another language if you try to convince them otherwise. On the negative side of things, if you’ve insulted or hurt them in any way, no matter how trivial, they will hold a grudge forever. They will refuse to compromise merely to spite you.

3. Capricorn

The Goat is an Earth sign ruled by Saturn, which makes them reasonable, goal-oriented, and hard-working. They are almost the complete opposite of Cancer in the sense that appealing to their emotions is useless if you want to persuade them of something. You might as well be talking to a robot—a very logical, efficient, and practical robot. This sometimes can be a negative trait in the sense that they can come off like a know-it-all. But Capricorn is also a mutable modality, which means that if you actually have a good point to make, they will listen and often change their mind. One of the best things about Capricorns is that they would rather know the truth than be “right” all the time.

4. Leo

The proud Lion basks in the sun’s unquenchable fire, which makes Leo one of the most confident, bold, curious, and fearless of all the signs. These are all good things. On the down side, Leo can be arrogant, combative, cocky, and hesitant to compromise. Unlike Capricorn, Leo is so hell-bent on being the smartest person in the room that they have trouble admitting when they’re wrong, even when it’s obvious to them and everyone else in the room. They are especially sensitive to the idea that they’ve failed at something. The workaround for this is to pat them on the back and remind them of their countless triumphs. Flatter them until you run out of good things to say. If you can distract them and get them to temporarily forget a fleeting setback, you might have a shot at softening them up and making them willing to negotiate and compromise.

The timing is not an accident. Her son Adam Levy’s new syndicated courtroom show, Adam’s Law, premiered September 14, almost exactly 30 years after Judge Judy debuted on September 16, 1996. Sheindlin created it and executive-produces through her company Queen Bee Productions with CBS Media Ventures.

Levy, 57, is a former two-term Putnam County, New York district attorney who sat on her Prime Video panel show Tribunal Justice for three seasons. “Maybe eight years ago he wasn’t ready,” she said. “He’s ready now.” From the Adam’s Law trailer: “I think he has the talent to beat me. And I don’t like the idea of that.”

She’s also developing Judyverse, an adult animated series inspired by the viral AI “Baby Judge Judy” clips she once called “hilarious and frightening at the same time. Like being cloned while you’re still alive.” CBS airs a 90-minute retrospective, Judge Judy: Unfiltered, Unforgettable, on September 22, with Steven Spielberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Poehler, and RuPaul.

“I don’t want to do hair and makeup anymore,” she said, “but I still want my message to get out there.”

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But I’m not here to talk about those people.

There’s another type of person who feels that if someone disrespects them even once and they don’t retaliate, it’s an open invitation to disrespect them forever. Maybe they feel this way due to pride, maybe they’re a little insecure, or maybe it’s a mix of both.

Here are the three zodiac signs that you should never disrespect. Never. No. Nuh-uh. Not even once. One strike and you’re out.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

1. Scorpio

The main reason only a fool would disrespect a Scorpio is because they’re vindictive. They aren’t the quickest to anger—that would be Aries—but they’re definitely the slowest to forgive. They have a hard exoskeleton designed to protect their mushy innards. Dark, intense, and mysterious due to an inborn fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable, they respond most strongly to acts of betrayal. They hold grudges for a lifetime. They will seethe and stew and marinate in bitterness as they slowly and methodically plot your demise. You don’t want to get on the Scorpion’s bad side. Be nice to them if you don’t want to get stung.

2. Leo

Leos will never, ever tolerate disrespect due to their pride. They’re a Fire sign ruled by the Sun and represented by the Lion. I mean, how more obvious can they make it? They are a proud breed who are confident, regal, commanding, and even a bit imperious. They don’t like feeling as if you’re challenging them. Any slights on their dignity, any threats to their ego, will be met with massive retaliation. Even if you think that what you did or said was a trivial joke, they will take it as a grievous insult and go full-blown scorched-Earth on you. That’s why only a fool would stick their head in a Lion’s mouth.

3. Aries

Ruled by the warrior planet Mars, this Fire sign symbolized by a Ram has the shortest fuse and the quickest temper in the zodiac. Bold, dynamic, fearless, and incapable of being shy or meek, Aries is widely celebrated for their topnotch leadership skills. But it’s a fact of politics, history, and basic human psychology that leaders who allow even the slightest whiff of disrespect don’t stay leaders very long. The masses will smell weakness and be out for their blood. This is why Aries won’t let things slide. If you disrespect them, they will make sure you regret it. Immediately

Kaepernick says the private call happened only after Roc Nation’s NFL contracts were already signed in 2019. According to his upcoming memoir, he told Jay, “You’re the music guy to them. They quite literally need a Black face.”

He also connects that warning to an alleged 2017 owners meeting where the league discussed needing “a Black face to help us get rid of the protests.” The NFL has denied blackballing Kaepernick, and Roc Nation declined to comment to NBC News.

Jay’s relationship with Kaepernick had looked very different in 2017. He dedicated “The Story of O.J.” to him, wore a “Colin K” jersey on SNL and rapped that he’d turned down the Super Bowl. After Roc Nation partnered with the NFL in 2019, Jay said they’d “moved past kneeling” and contrasted helping millions of people with getting “stuck on Colin not having a job.”

This round started in July at Yankee Stadium. While defending an exclusive Reasonable Doubt vinyl release with Target amid a civil rights boycott over the retailer’s DEI rollback, Jay rapped, “They run out of characters, had to bring back up Kap again. Buddy took a check, I ain’t even mad at him, but along with that check you gotta sign a non-disparagement.”

Kaepernick says that accusation is false. He told Lester Holt he settled his NFL collusion case in 2019 but didn’t sign an NDA.

In the Dateline interview that aired Sept. 7, Kaepernick called Jay’s latest shot “reputational recovery” and tied it to the backlash over the NFL partnership. “The backlash that [Jay-Z] received for partnering with the NFL and going counter to people’s interests in 2019 was a major problem for him, so much so that he’s still bringing it up in 2026,” he told Holt.

Jay’s counter has stayed consistent: results inside the system matter more to him than symbolic protest. In the freestyle, he hit “Twitter activists,” cited Amazon, Meta and Google, and pointed to REFORM Alliance-backed laws and “half a billion back to the community.”

Kaepernick’s memoir, The Perilous Fight, comes out Sept. 15. It won’t be sold at Target, and Kaepernick is touring with the National Association of Black Bookstores.

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He’d dropped out of public view on June 14, when emergency responders were called to his home for an unconscious person. Dispatch audio reviewed by CBS and CNN caught a dispatcher calling in a “cardiac arrest” and a medic saying “CPR in progress”; the senator’s name wasn’t on the recording, and CBS said it hadn’t confirmed the patient’s identity.

On July 12, McConnell said he’d taken a fall linked to lingering mobility problems from childhood polio. He said he “was briefly unconscious” and later had a “mild case of pneumonia,” and that doctors found no broken bones, concussion, heart attack, stroke, tumors, or hemorrhages. He was discharged from a rehab center on August 6 to continue physical therapy at home.

Speculation ran for weeks that he was in hospice or would never return. In late July, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wrote that McConnell should “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.” Fellow Kentucky Republican Rand Paul dismissed the letter as “a campaign ploy.”

McConnell, 84, said it was “time to get back to work, finish the job of this Congress,” citing the farm bill and continued support for Ukraine and NATO. Republicans needed him this week, with the Agriculture Committee they control 12-11 set to mark up the farm bill Wednesday. He said he’s “still not quite back to 100%” and would try to be present for “tough votes” while he continues physical therapy. His term ends in January, and he isn’t running again.

CNN said he looked noticeably thinner and sounded slower than before his absence. Outside the chamber he joked that after “two years, two decades, actually, of dodging your questions,” he wasn’t sure how many reporters would turn up. On X, some said the video of his return finally showed he was alive, while others wrote that he was in “NO shape to be a US Senator” or used the moment to argue for term limits.

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April

You fight it.

You see change like a 2000s CGI-generated army of invaders approaching your stronghold, and whether you’re Brad Pitt in a long blonde wig, Orlando Bloom in a long blond wig, or Gerard Butler ugly screaming “THIS. IS. SPARTA!”, the energy you bring to the situation is “over-my-dead-body”.

May

You ignore it as long as you can.

Your approach to change is that of a squatter living in a condemned building. They simply can’t knock it down with you still inside it. You go on acting as if nothing is happening, preferring to stay in denial than face the ugly truth. Even when the change is good, you refuse to acknowledge it publicly.

June

You stress and adapt.

You are the consummate project manager, and even the slightest change completely derails your timeline. You will let everyone around you know how it affects your scope of work, your ETA, the late nights it will take to get the job done, and then, you simply do it. You’re all bark and no bite.

July

You never complain.

Your biggest fear in life is attracting negative attention and pity. So no matter what road bumps you run into, you keep your head down and your mouth shut. Good or bad, you don’t want to be caught gloating or whining. You strive to be a well-behaved child in any situation.

August

You make sure you’re the first to know.

Change is gossip, and gossip is currency in your world. A currency you monopolize. So if anything in your sphere is going through a shift of any kind, breakups, layoffs, hookups, scandals, you are the one breaking the news to everyone else. You can’t afford to run out of it. Your life depends on it.

September

You let everyone know your opinion.

You see yourself as a glorified Ebert and Roper. Nothing gets to make a splash without your stamp of approval or disapproval. A new TV show, a new boss, your bestie’s new beau. Everything must be evaluated by you first. Lucky are those who debut to rave reviews, and god help those who don’t.

October

You make the necessary adjustments.

Last minute plus one to the dinner party? You’ve got an extra chair and place setting ready to go. Connecting flight was canceled? Time to hop in a rental and turn the rest of the journey into a road trip. Anniversary plans canceled due to the flu? Soup’s in the freezer. There’s nothing you can’t adapt to.

November

You plot your next move. 

There’s always a backup plan to your backup plan. You imagine every hypothetical and do everything you can to prepare in advance. So when that hypothetical becomes a reality, you’re ready with a fully baked counter-attack. You never lose sight of your end goal despite the hiccups.

December

You go into fight or flight mode.

The change of scenery you crave is different from the curveballs life throws at you. When the change is unprompted you tend to do one of two things – try and argue your way out of it, or completely jump ship and bail. It’s not always a good look, so learn to take a second before making rash decisions.

January

You usher it in.

You were the student every teacher sat the new kid next to. You are the tour guide for everyone new in town, the one who trains your boss on the company software. Your generosity is admirable, but you need to learn to be more aware of where helpfulness ends and people start to take advantage of you.

February

You call it another day.

You are always advocating for change. Day in and day out. So when something finally gives, you have a long list of other things to push for. You do what you can every day, and try not to get caught up in any one moment. You’re in it for the long haul, not just the little wins and losses. 

March

You watch it happen around you and stick to your old ways.

You’re off in your own little bubble, scrawling away with pen and paper like “ChatGPT who?”. You see modern advancements and technologies as a nuisance and are never one to jump on trends or bandwagons. You like what you like, and live by the motto “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Some signs are more rational—they tend toward logic and sobriety and organization and goal-setting.

You won’t find any of those signs on this list.

To believe that you can cast a magical spell, you first have to believe in magic—which means you’re more of an emotional type than a logical one. On top of that, you have to have an ego big enough to think not only that you’re capable of summoning and directing the forces of nature, but that nature is even going to listen to you. So to be a magician, you basically have to be an emotional egomaniac.

Are you up for the task? Are you a natural-born wizard, witch, fairy, sorcerer, or enchantress? Wouldn’t it be great to change the weather or guess the Lotto numbers merely with a wink of your eye, a wiggle of your nose, or one imperious wave of your magic wand?

Here are the five zodiac signs most likely to cast magical spells. The first three are water signs—there was no way around that.

The question is: What kind of spell would each sign cast? Some would be about love or sex, others would be about revenge, and some would have purely humanitarian aims.

1. Scorpio

You are the Wicked Witch of the Zodiac, someone who uses darkness and mystery as an energy source. You are ruled by Mars, so you are ready (and eager) to do battle at any moment. Right now you’re in a bit of a bad mood and have a tiny bit of a headache, so you’re not going to waste your magical powers trying to find a mate or attempting to save the world. No, just to fluff your pride and add some spit-shine to your massive ego, you’re going to cast an erotic hex on someone so that no matter where they are—whether at work, or in church, or during an intensely private moment in the bathroom—they are driven mad with an all-consuming lust to possess and devour you physically. You will use your boundless powers of intensity, malice, and transformation to put the whammy on someone’s ass and make them extremely horny for you. 

2. Pisces 

As a water sign, you are the typical sopping-wet dishrag of emotions—but you are ruled by Neptune, the planet of dreams, which gives your overwrought (and sometimes infantile) emotional outbursts a quasi-mystical edge that makes people think you’re far more wise and profound than you might actually be. It’s time to finally put your natural-born magical powers to good use—namely, you need to find yourself a lover who not only has the boundless capacity for tenderness and romance that you do, but someone who is just gullible enough to fall for your whole “all-seeing shaman clairvoyant psychic star child” act without asking too many questions. So cast your spell on them. Work your magic on them. You know the way. You were born for this.

3. Cancer 

The most emotional of all the water signs, you experience a panoply of feelings that go far beyond the dizzying heights of great joy—you are also one easily bruised banana who winces in emotional pain and starts crying like an undiapered baby at the slightest indignity. You pride yourself in your ethics—although you are prone to retaliation, you never throw the first punch or cast the first spell. With that in mind, you would take great delight in wreaking vengeance against someone who was rude to you, especially if their indiscretion took place in the sanctity of your hearth and home. If they insulted you with words, then render them mute for a while. If they said something negative about the way that you or your house looks, give them a giant and unavoidable lump on their nose. Curse them with a sharp and unmistakable body odor that immediately sickens everyone who has to come within 20 feet of them. Torment them with a burning pain in their bowels whenever they think of you. That’ll teach them to be a rude houseguest.

4. Aquarius

Aquarius, you were sent down to this planet because the rest of us are too dumb and disorganized to see the bigger picture. You think BIG—I daresay you even think HUGE. For you, the perfect magic spell would involve creating a chain reaction of positive energy, a butterfly effect that keeps on giving. Sometimes it only takes one big idea—for example, the smallpox vaccine, which saved over half-a-billion lives. You want to work your magic in the sense of setting something positive in motion, a spell that cannot be undone, that can never be broken, and that moves the world toward a better place.

5. Virgo 

As the most humanitarian zodiac sign in the cosmos, you come off more like a healer than a witch, which is probably why you’re symbolized by the Virgin. For you, a magic spell that would be immensely satisfying would involve restoring someone’s faith in the basic goodness of people. Take someone who was traumatized. Someone who was scarred and had given up. Bring back their shattered innocence, reconstructing it piece by piece, until it’s whole again. Cast a wide, colorful spell around someone and give them the magical gift of hope.

Mackie’s longtime design director, Joe McFate, confirmed he died Monday at a hospital in Palm Springs, California. No cause was given.

Mackie got his start sketching for Hollywood costume designers Jean Louis and Edith Head, including the skintight gown Louis made for Marilyn Monroe to sing “Happy Birthday” to JFK in 1962. Television made his name. When Carol Burnett launched her variety show in 1967, she picked him, and over 11 seasons he turned out an average of 60 costumes a week, roughly 17,000 in all.

The most famous was the “Went With the Wind” gown in 1976: Burnett came down the stairs as Scarlett in green velvet drapes still attached to the curtain rod. It’s now in the Smithsonian.

Cher was his defining muse. He dressed her through “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour,” which ran from 1971 to 1974, baring more of her in ever more outlandish getups as CBS censors pushed back. Her midriff became a weekly fixture, making her the first woman to regularly show her belly button in prime time. He gave her that 1986 Oscars image too: bare midriff, sequins, and a towering feathered Mohawk headdress she wore to present.

He won nine competitive Emmys, starting with a shared 1967 award with his partner Ray Aghayan for “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the first Emmy ever given for costume design. Two more came for Cher’s concerts, in 2000 and 2003. In 2019 he took a Tony for “The Cher Show” on Broadway.

He also dressed Barbie beginning in the 1980s. His 1995 “Goddess of the Sun Barbie” gown has 11,000 hand-sewn sequins.

“For a long time everyone just thought all I knew how to do were Cher’s dresses, you know, with her tummy out and showing half her whatever,” he told Vogue.

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