The actors crossed paths this weekend in New Orleans when McConaughey flew in to film an Amazing Race scavenger hunt segment on a balcony with Saints quarterback Drew Brees.
Eventually Pitt, who happened to own the house across the street from where McConaughey was filming, wandered out and started waving.
When McConaughey finally noticed him, Pitt—who's been rumored to be in talks for the second season of True Detective—managed to toss McConaughey a beer from his balcony.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Winnipeg Jets are headed to the first Western Conference final in their short history after knocking off the NHL's best team in the regular season.
Tyler Myers and Paul Stastny scored 2:06 apart in the first period, and the Jets stunned the Nashville Predators 5-1 on Thursday night in their first Game 7 — continuing an amazing run for a team swept in its previous two playoff appearances.
Stastny finished with a second goal and an assist, and Mark Scheifele also had two goals. Blake Wheeler and Kyle Connor each had two assists.
Connor Hellebuyck made 36 saves for Winnipeg, which won three of four games in Nashville after missing the Presidents' Trophy by three points to the Predators.
The Jets now host Vegas in Game 1 on Saturday night in a conference final nobody could've predicted when this season started.
P.K. Subban scored for Nashville, now the ninth Presidents' Trophy winner in 10 years not to win the Stanley Cup.
The best season in Predators history ended earlier than a year ago, but in the same fashion on their own ice. They lost to Pittsburgh in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final last June.
Pekka Rinne, Nashville's Vezina Trophy finalist along with Hellebuyck, was chased for the third time in this series after giving up two goals on seven shots. He lasted just 10 minutes, 7 seconds for the quickest exit by a starting goalie in a Game 7.
These teams combined for 231 points in the regular season, making this series the two best teams on points ever to meet in a series before a conference final. This was the third Game 7 all-time for Nashville with a big edge in experience over the Jets playing on this stage.
Nashville also brought out the star power once again with Sheryl Crow singing the U.S. anthem and former NFL Titans running back Eddie George waving the towel to rev up the crowd. A couple catfish hit the ice before the puck dropped.
The Predators took five of the first six shots, then the Jets stunned the crowd. Myers squeezed a wrister between the post and Rinne's left skate for a 1-0 lead at 8:40 of the first. Then Stastny put a backhander off Rinne and into the net 2:06 later for a 2-0 lead on just seven shots.
Nashville coach Peter Laviolette didn't hesitate and pulled Rinne for Juuse Saros, trying to snap the Predators out of a slow start while saving his timeout. Subban started the rally with his fourth power-play goal of this series with a big one-timer from Ryan Johansen over Hellebuyck's stick at 15:54. Subban then pointed to the Nashville bench and once there yelled at his teammates.
In the second, the Jets simply dominated keeping the puck in the offensive zone and outshot Nashville 6-2. Only Saros making save after save kept it 2-1 until Scheifele's snap shot for his 10th goal this postseason from the left circle with 2:10 left in the period. That was the first goal Saros had allowed in four appearances this postseason.
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WASHINGTON — As I sat in the hearing room watching Gina Haspel's confirmation hearing to be director of central intelligence, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief ... that Tom Cotton wasn't nominated to run the CIA.
Cotton, a 40-year-old Republican senator from Arkansas and a Trump loyalist, had been the front-runner for the position. But President Trump instead tapped a career CIA operative, and Cotton was on the dais when Haspel testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
Haspel has her flaws. Her lawyerly statements about torture and her role in destroying tapes of black-site interrogators using it did not inspire confidence that she would stand up to Trump if he pressed her to, say, poison Angela Merkel's Pilsener.
But Haspel's flaws are nothing compared with those of Cotton, who has surpassed Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) as the most disliked member of the Senate. He used his five minutes of questioning time to "clear up" and to "take exception to" the "entirely false" things his colleagues said, peppering his remarks with gratuitous partisan swipes.
When Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, was questioning Haspel about moral standards, Cotton heckled his senior colleague from the other side of the dais.
A few minutes after that, when intelligence committee Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) was giving closing remarks about former CIA director John Brennan's views on torture, Cotton interrupted again.
Such an outburst, and rebuke, is unusual — but Cotton is no ordinary guy. Colleagues and staff on the Hill report that he can be as nasty privately as he is publicly, as uncivil to Republicans as he is to Democrats. He imputes ill motives to those who disagree with him. He served in the military but now treats politics as war.
He is, in short, an embodiment of what ails Washington: no compromise, and no disagreement without disagreeability.
It was Cotton who went to the White House to dissuade Trump from backing a bipartisan immigration compromise. When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) observed that Cotton had become "sort of the Steve King of the Senate," Cotton retorted that Graham "didn't even make it off the kiddie table in the debates."
It was Cotton who in 2015 wrote a letter to "the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran" discouraging them from negotiating with the Obama administration.
It was Cotton who in 2016 denounced the "cancerous leadership" and "bitter, vulgar, incoherent ramblings" of then-Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.).
And, most revealingly, it was Cotton who blocked confirmation of Cassandra Butts to be ambassador to the Bahamas. Butts died awaiting confirmation, but before that she told Frank Bruni of the New York Times that Cotton told her that because she was a friend of President Barack Obama's, "blocking her was a way to inflict special pain on the president." Bruni reported in 2016 that Cotton's spokeswoman did not dispute Butts' account.
The Haspel nomination is a case in which reasonable people can disagree. Demonstrators portrayed her as "Bloody Gina" the "torturer." She, by contrast, went full Carrie Mathison in her opening statement, describing brush passes, dead drops, dusty alleys and dismantled cells.
In between those caricatures are fair and principled concerns: that she's allowing declassification only of favorable information about her; that she's reluctant to say it was wrong to do "enhanced interrogation"; that she's naive to think Trump would never ask her to do something inappropriate.
But Cotton could see only malignant motives. "If Hillary Clinton had won and nominated you to be CIA director, how many votes do you think you would have gotten?" he asked Haspel, in a statement full of partisan invective that preceded his heckling.
I asked Cotton's office if he had regrets about the hearing. Cotton replied to me in a statement: "I regret Senator Warner implied that Gina Haspel and other CIA officers belonged in jail. I regret Senator Reed compared patriotic CIA officers to terrorists. I regret Senate Democrats are shocked when they are called to account. ... I regret Senate Democrats are so blinded by their hatred of Donald Trump."
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