Tom Brady takes aim

Celebrated American football star Tom Brady took out his frustrations on a Microsoft Surface table after his team’s smashing loss to the New Orleans Saints recently. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback possibly made his best throw of the evening when he got his hands on the popular tablet. Microsoft has been the official provider of tablets for NFL teams since 2013, so the company has seen gadgets getting unfairly treated now and then. Though Mircosoft has a small share of the tablet market, the company continues to be in favour of NFL, something that can be seen by the expansion of the deal in 2020 when teams decided to use Microsoft Teams and Office 365.

Mr Big’s moment

Sex and the City is where trends are set, which has been the case since 1998 — Manolo Blahniks to Fendi baguettes. Things haven’t changed. A few weeks ago, fitness company Peloton was given an unfair treatment in the first episode of And Just Like That…, HBO Max’s reboot of the Sex and the City franchise. Mr Big (Chris Noth) has a heart attack shortly after he clips into his Peloton stationary bike. The company has downplayed the incident. “I’m sure SATC fans, like me, are saddened by the news that Mr. Big dies of a heart attack. Mr. Big lived what many would call an extravagant lifestyle — including cocktails, cigars, and big steaks — and was at serious risk as he had a previous cardiac event in Season 6,” Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist who also serves on Peloton’s health and wellness advisory council, said in a statement.

Repeat offender

Naomi Campbell has been in the news more than once for smacking people with the projectile that’s always with her — the phone. She apparently hit one of her assistants with a telephone in Toronto back in 2001 and then she was accused of smacking another with a Blackberry in Los Angeles. Blackberry maybe forgotten but not the supermodel’s fits of anger. In 2007 she ultimately pleaded guilty for tossing a phone at her maid for which she was given community service.

Bad-boy image

Russell Crowe and a bad-boy image?! The actor was arrested in a SoHo hotel in 2005 after striking a desk clerk with a telephone because he could not get a call through to his wife in Australia. That may appear far-fetched but it is what it is. The incident happened in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel, where he was staying in a $3,000-a-night suite. The incident caught the employee behind the desk, cutting him below the right eye. He was charged with two felonies, assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon — the telephone — in the fourth degree.

Oh flash!

Known for his portrayal of misanthropic men, Bill Murray played one in real life in 2016 when he was annoyed by camera flashes after fans spotted him at the lounge in the seaside town of Carmel. He reportedly grabbed at least two phones before throwing them. The incident took place at a party hosted by Justin Timberlake at the Vesuvio lounge in Carmel. There was also a third phone but that landed on a cushion. The actor not only admitted to being present, he was willing to pay for the damaged property. Though none of the victims wanted to press charges, they wanted their phones replaced, according to reports.

Cold heart

Before the “conscious uncoupling” with Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin had his moment in the “smash zone”. He was photographed attacking a paparazzo, nabbing his camera and then threatening to drive off with it in his SUV. Eventually, the singer handed the camera back to the photographer. Of course, it was not his first attack on prying photographers. In 2003 he was charged with smashing a photographer’s windscreen.

All pumped up

Guess what Tom Holland did after he found out that he had landed the role of Spider-Man? After being called in for screen tests with Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) and Chris Evans (Captain America), he was proud of himself. “By that point, it had been an amazing enough of an experience that if I hadn’t got the part, I would’ve felt like I’d at least achieved something to get to that point. I went out to play golf with my dad. I lost and I was upset, and I remember going on my phone and checking Instagram, and Marvel had posted a picture of Spider-Man, of the cartoon. And by this point, I kind of had assumed I hadn’t got it, because no one had called me,” Holland had said in an interview. The message of his casting came via a news article! “I flipped it up in the air. It fell off my bed,” the actor had said during a chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors. “I got my computer, and my dog was sitting next to me. I type in ‘Marvel.’ I’ve still got the article saved on my computer. It said, ‘We would like to introduce our new Spider-Man, Tom Holland.’ I broke my computer, because I flipped it up in the air. It fell off my bed; my dog went nuts. I ran downstairs. I was telling my family, ‘I got the part! I got the part!’”