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She looks like Snooki … she talks like Snooki … and this weekend, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the MTV star took a brutal shot to the face … like Snooki. TMZ obtained footage from Saturday’s Rockfest concert in Kansas City, MO…
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He can’t drink … but MTV’s still taking another fat chance on The Situation — casting him on Season 6 of “Jersey Shore” after his rehab stint for substance abuse — and somehow, Abercrombie & Fitch is involved.Here’s how it all comes…
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One of Whitney Houston’s close friends — a mysterious man who’s been widely accused of supplying the singer with coke before her death — is declaring war on media outlets that ran with the drug story … and now, he’s on a crusade to clear his…
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No light at the end of the tunnel for Terrell Owens — TMZ has learned, the former NFL star allegedly owes over a million bucks on a fancy Miami beach condo … and now, the bank wants to foreclose on it.It’s one of the last homes Terrell still owns…
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Self-proclaimed “urban model” Elke the Stallion is known for one thing — her ginormous butt — which cast its spell over the TMZ newsroom … shocking, scaring and inspiring us all at the same time.Check out TMZ on TV — click here to see your…
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The documentary What Is This Film Called Love? will feature two new songs by PJ Harvey: "Horse" and "Bobby Don't Steal". According to Harvey's Facebook page, "it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape and the pleasures of walking." A preview of the documentary will screen at All Tomorrow's Parties in London on May 27.
The film will also feature Harvey's 1995 track "To Bring You My Love":
Live at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
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Here is the full editorial and interview of Noomi Rapace for Dazed & Confused Magazine.
Actress Saoirse Ronan conceded last night that every part she takes from now on will have a love interest, as she opened 'Pho20graphy' — an exhibition by Barry McCall at the Copper House Gallery in aid of the ISPCC in Dublin last night.
But the Carlow girl, who recently celebrated her 18th birthday on the set of movie 'The Host', has said plot concerns her more than romantic clinches.
"It's a given at this stage that romantic stories are going to be offered to me but I'm more interested in the story and characters. It's just not important if there are love scenes in it," she told the Irish Independent yesterday.
The screen star had not one, but two on-screen love interests in the adaptation of the bestselling novel from 'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyer, Max Irons — son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack — and American Jake Abel.
Saoirse plays young rebel Melanie, one of the last humans fighting a parasitic alien species whose body is invaded by an alien soul.
"I have two different characters who are in love with different men.
"The good thing was that I got on so well with Max and Jake. I knew them both before we started filming and we were very comfortable working together," she said.
Both attended Saoirse's birthday party which took place on the film's set in New Mexico during filming.
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"It was my third birthday on the set of a film. I usually never minded being away filming for a birthday but because this was 18th and special, I kind of wanted to be at home.
"But it turned out to be one of the best birthdays ever because I got to watch this amazing car stunt being filmed, and they hired this local band and gave me a special birthday cake," she said.
And Saoirse got a second birthday cake yesterday when she turned up to meet some of the participants in the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People in Dublin's Burlington Hotel.
'The Host' is expected to propel Saoirse to superstardom but the young actress revealed the success of latest film 'Hanna' –which has taken $63m (€49.3m) worldwide, and $40m (€31.3m) alone at the US box office, has already made her name in the US.
"I've started to get recognised in America. It was strange because I have never had that before, but I suppose if a film does commercially well, you get recognised around the world."
She starts her next film, dark teen love story 'How I Live Now' with director Kevin Macdonald next month.
Now in its fifth year, the Cinemagic festival runs until Sunday and offers young people an insight into the film and television industry.
The 18-year-old features on the cover of the book 'Pho20graphy'. Published in 2010, and created as a 20-year retrospective of award-winning photographer Barry McCall, the book raised €350,000 for Irish children's charity ISPCC.
Chloe Sevigny plays Mia – a pre-op transgender hitman – in Hit & Miss and had to wear the prosthetic genitalia, which she admits she found very upsetting because she was worried men would no longer find her attractive.
“I cried every day when they put it on. You know, I’m ample-chested and I have this on. I felt very exposed, and it was hard, very hard, having people so close to your personal parts anyway – who you’re not sleeping with – for an hour-and-a-half each day, to put it on,” said 37-year-old Chloe, most recently seen in TV series Big Love.
“Then looking in the mirror… it was weird. I was lonely and I felt really unattractive. I was confused about my desirability – was I desirable? – in having put that on, and having men see me with that on.”
Chloe says playing Mia was one of the “most extreme” roles she’s done but hopes viewers find her convincing.
“I think it might be one of the most extreme roles I’ve done, yes. I’ve never really worked with prosthetics. I’ve never done any fantasy or anything weird. Then again, if people can believe what’s her-name in ‘Avatar’, hopefully they can believe me as a pre-op,” she told Culture magazine.
Nikolaj, on relating to his character Jaime Lannister: “I am very different from Jaime, but I do understand him and why he acts the way he does. You cannot excuse pushing a kid out a window, and I don’t think Jaime would, but he believed that he was left with no option. I relate to being ready to go to extremes to protect my children. And I think Jaime for all his arrogance and sarcasm — is a man of strong morals. You just have to do a bit of digging to find them.”
ALL THE KING’S MEN
THE WILD SUCCESS OF HBO’S GAME OF THRONES HAS REWRITTEN THE LAWS OF THE TELEVISION DRAMA, DUE LARGELY TO ITS BRILLIANT SOURCE MATERIAL AND ITS DASHING, MASTERLY CAST
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Game of Thrones—which you probably know as a bloody, sexy, thrillingly unpredictable HBO drama now in its second season—started life as a novel by George R.R. Martin, the first in a projected trilogy called A Song of Ice and Fire. It was published in 1996 (a year before Harry Potter came out in the U.K., two years before it hit the States) and did pretty well for itself. The follow- up, A Clash of Kings, came out in 1999 and eventually made the New York Times best-seller list. By the time the third book, A Storm of Swords, debuted as a best seller, in 2000, Martin had realized he was going to need more than three books to tell his story of dragons, pal- ace intrigue, dynastic wars, smugglers, slave revolts, religious fanatics, international relations, incest, the undead, and maybe a snowbound apocalypse. A Feast for Crows came out in 2005 and was another best seller, even though it pissed off a significant chunk of his fan base. The problem, basically, was that Martin’s vision had gotten so big that the next installment no longer fit into a single book. He decided to break his story into two 900-plus-page books that would take place more or less simultaneously. Feast is set in the more familiar territory of Westeros, but almost all of its protagonists are characters whom fans regard as bit-players. All the major storylines from Clash, meanwhile, were left untold until Martin finally finished the companion volume, A Dance with Dragons, which came out in 2011—an 11-year cliffhanger! (And you thought almost two years between seasons of Mad Men was bad.)
So why have people stuck around? To put it as simply as I know how: because it’s worth it. Fans bitched and moaned on message boards, and some even tried to confront Martin directly, but when Dance came out they lined up around the block because the Ice and Fire story—whether in book or TV form—is spellbinding. It’s gritty, it’s dirty (sometimes filthy), it keeps you guess- ing, and it feels real. Unlike classic fantasy, where you can figure out who lives and dies based on the color of their armor or the amount of screen time they get (spoiler alert: Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins both live), Martin’s world is more like a sexed-up medieval version of The Wire: you get to know a wide range of characters and factions, each with their own agenda and sense of eth- ics (or lack thereof), and the master narrative unfolds almost anthropologically, as the aggregate effect of everyone’s shifting alignments and competing inter- ests. HBO has done a remarkable job of retaining that all-seeing, all-over-the-place feeling (the story comes to span multiple continents) while doing a lot of stream- lining, without which adaptation would be impossible. Weirdly, the books almost feel like a director’s cut of the show—you get all the same major characters and plot points plus extra helpings of back- and side-stories from extended or deleted scenes.
Another thing that makes Thrones like The Wire is you get the feeling that no character is safe. Viewers of sea- son one remember the “Holy shit!” moment when (okay, real spoiler alert this time) eddard Stark is executed at King’s landing. Here was the nearest thing the show had to a main character, and suddenly he was gone, and it wasn’t even the season finale. I can’t help but wonder how the show will handle the later books. The idea is that each season is based on its corresponding novel in the series, and that’ll be fine through book/season three, but if they try to reproduce the narrative split of books four and five, the show will be canceled. For bet- ter or worse, TV audiences—and, more importantly, TV executives—are not half as loyal as hardcore fantasy nerds. So it’ll be interesting to see how they handle that, as well as the ongoing expansion of the world in which the story is set. (You might have noticed that the map shown during the opening credits had a lot more places on it in season two than it did in season one. Geography is coming!) Major characters will die, minor characters will become major, battles will be waged and won (or lost), and daenerys Targaryen’s baby dragons won’t stay babies forever. What I mean is that one way or another there’s a lot more “Holy shit!” in store.
Taylor’s behavior, which was all caught on camera, was out-of-control and frightening to witnesses and was fueled by the amount of alcohol she drank.
“Taylor was wasted from the moment she appeared in the morning until the moment she collapsed at night,” one source tells RadarOnline. “It was a horrific sight to see. She totally lost control of her emotions and her temper. She is an absolute complete mess.
She doesn’t have just 10 drinks, she has like 30 or 40 and she’s a mess,” a second source said. “Over the trip Taylor would say the nastiest things to everyone.
As soon as she had a drop of alcohol she would start spewing hateful things, it shocked everybody. She isn’t as relevant as she was and she is desperate to stay on the show but the things she says are outrageous and they’re making everyone furious. She caused major drama all weekend. The fights were non-stop, and she was a mess.”
“Taylor was all over the place while the cast was shooting at the Ojai Valley Inn,”. “She would start drinking very, very early in the day. The ladies are all very concerned about her, especially Kyle. They have spoken off camera about their desire for Taylor to stop drinking.
“Taylor is headed down a dangerous road and she doesn’t think she has a problem at all with alcohol. Kyle and Lisa fear for Taylor’s daughter, Kennedy, because she has already lost her father to suicide and her mother could suffer a similar fate they fear if Taylor doesn’t go to rehab.”
It’s been a month, after all, since she announced her decision to leave The Real Housewives of Atlanta, a move she calls “an amicable split.”
“I was ready to move, and I don’t need to explain myself to anybody,” she tells Essence.com, shooting down rumors she was fired from the Bravo reality show.
“I am super happy, and I’m moving in a different direction.”
She adds: “I’m not about just being on a show bickering and fighting with women.”
With season four wrapped, she summarizes her portrayal on the series as “being put in situations with people you normally wouldn’t be around.” She says there are two people on the show she considers friends, and although she isn’t naming names, Whitfield says she recently met up with Housewife Kandi Burruss.
Still, “I wish all the girls the best,” she says. “The ones that I like and the ones that I don’t like. I wish everybody the best.”
After a season that followed her storied battle with ex-husband Bob Whitfield, a former Atlanta Falcons player whom she divorced in 2007, she says they have yet to work out their child-support issues.
“One day, I hope Bob and I can sit down and become good friends,” she says, “and even better parents to our kids.”
“I am proud to announce this past weekend we celebrated a beautiful destination wedding with 75 family members and their closest friends. It was a beautiful ceremony and celebration filled with love, dancing, and wonderful food,” the Real Housewives of Orange County star wrote in her Bravo blog.
“Brooks was in attendance, and so was Donn with his girlfriend,” Vicki shares.
“It was a bit uncomfortable at first having them meet, but at the end of the day it was for Briana and Ryan.” Vicki and Donn walked Briana down the aisle together. Her brother Michael Wolfsmith stood in attendance as a groomsman.
“I am so happy for Briana and Ryan,” Vicki concludes. No word yet on whether or not the affair was filmed for Bravo. My vote goes to no, given Briana’s penchant for privacy and that it was a rather modest wedding by reality television standards.
Emily moves forward with the final phases of her master plan of revenge against the Graysons.
RIP SAMMY THE IMMORTAL DOG
rme @ emily/jack though. should have killed jack instead.
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Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, and Joe Manganiello do a little striptease for the July 2012 cover of Entertainment Weekly. The heartthrobs, who all star in the upcoming film, Magic Mike, got back together for this fun promotional shoot.
In the issue, Matthew dishes about the movie.
On his big striptease in the film: “Oh, it leaves something to the imagination. It wasn’t in the script, but Soderbergh said in the beginning that if it felt right, I could strip at the end of the movie. I said, ‘I gotta dance, man.’ I would regret it for the rest of my life if I was in a male stripper movie and didn’t get up there and strip myself.”
On the hottest Magic Mike stripper: “Dallas, of course. [Laughs] Everybody was pretty damn ripped already, but boy, if you really want to get men in great shape, just tell them they’re going to play male strippers in a movie and have their shit onscreen for the rest of time. Vanity, baby.”
On striptease rehearsals: “I found the song I wanted, we got it cleared very early, and I started working on the choreography from the very beginning. I was working two, three nights a week to get that down. It was a ball.”
Magic Mike hits theaters nationwide on June 29!
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John Travolta was ‘a great kisser’ and ‘very experienced’ in bed during passionate hotel romp, claims masseur Luis Gonzalez
Another hotel masseur is claiming sexual shenanigans on the part of John Travolta — only this accuser says he welcomed the actor’s horny horseplay and found him “very experienced” in bed.
Former massage therapist Luis Gonzalez told the National Enquirer that he spent an afternoon having passionate sex with the “Pulp Fiction” star at the posh Ritz-Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif., in 1997.
“He’s a great kisser,” the masseur, now living overseas, told the Enquirer. “I know because I had sex with him, and he loved it.”
Gonzalez claimed the randy rendezvous started shortly after he set up his massage table in the actor’s room.
Travolta reportedly stripped down and said it was too warm for a top sheet, Gonzalez said.
“I gladly let him lay on the table naked … and within five minutes, Travolta spread his legs and I could see an erection,” he told the Enquirer. “He moved around and started to breathe heavily. He’d say, ‘Oh, yeah, that feels so good! A little higher, please!”
Gonzalez said Travolta made it clear he wanted more than a regular massage, so the couple hopped into the sack.
“We got into the bed that was right next to the massage table and had a really good time,” he claimed.
“Travolta may not identify himself as a gay man, but it doesn’t dismiss the fact that he likes sex with men,” he said, calling the “Grease” star “very experienced.”
The bombshell report hit newsstands Wednesday along with news that Travolta’s first accuser has hired Gloria Allred as his new legal muscle.
John Doe No. 1 appears to be in damage-control mode after withdrawing his graphic groping claim from federal court in the wake of an embarrassing date discrepancy.
“I represent John Doe #1,” Allred said in a statement obtained by the Daily News.
“Mr. Doe’s lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, which means that he is still legally entitled to file a lawsuit against John Travolta if he chooses,” she said.
“We are in the process of conferring with him regarding the next steps, which he may wish to take,” Allred said.
The first anonymous masseur originally claimed Travolta groped him repeatedly and masturbated in his presence during a private massage at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 16.
Flight records, photographs and an eyewitness later placed the “Pulp Fiction” star almost 3,000 miles away in New York working on a movie at the time of the alleged attack.
The masseur told RadarOnline he simply messed up his timeline, but he withdrew his lawsuit Tuesday as Travolta’s camp declared a legal victory.
Josh Hutcherson’s nose was BROKEN IN A CRAZY BAR FIGHT … would have been a much cooler explanation than the one he gave us yesterday.
The “Hunger Games” star was out in Beverly Hills … sans nose bandages … when we asked about the mystery surrounding his messed up honker.
In case you haven’t been following … earlier this month, Josh said he underwent surgery for a “broken nose” — but he wouldn’t explain how it happened.
His rep later insisted the nose wasn’t broken … and the surgery was merely to correct a deviated septum.
WHO TO BELIEVE???
Josh finally explained himself yesterday … and his story could finally end the mystery forever!!!
Josh Hutcherson has finally spoken out about the mysterious nose job that he recently tweeted about.
A few days ago The Hunger Games star sent a message to Jennifer Love Hewitt telling her that he just had surgery to fix his broken nose. However, he failed to explain what was wrong with his snout.
So did Josh get hit in the face by his costar Jennifer Lawrence, who once gave him a concussion? Or did he get in a drunken fight with someone? After all, the 18-year-old has been spotted buying alcohol even though he’s underage.
Unfortunately for those who love juicy bits of gossip about Josh Hutcherson, he didn’t say that his busted beak has a great story behind it; the actor told TMZ that he simply had to have surgery because he was suffering from a deviated septum.
According to Josh, his right nostril was 90 percent blocked. Symptoms of a deviated septum can include sinus infections, snoring, sleep apnea and having difficulty in breathing. Of course that last symptom would be pretty difficult for an action star like Josh to deal with; he had to get really physical for The Hunger Games, and is going to have to do it again in Catching Fire.
The most common cause of a deviated septum is trauma to the face, but Josh said that he was simply born with the condition that can be caused by compression of the nose during childbirth.
Deviated septums seem to be really common in the Hollywood area; apparently being tan, thin, blonde and female is a big risk factor. It’s possible that Josh could have used the deviated septum excuse to get a nose job for cosmetic reasons, but there was definitely nothing wrong with the way it looked before. So J-Hutch fans will be relieved to know that they don’t have to worry about the actor turning into Michael Jackson (or any of those freaky folks from the Capitol) anytime soon.
he sounds so stuffed up. poor bb needs to get better soon tbh!!!!!
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Chris Brown, Drake and others have taunted the singer about her alleged sexual escapades. Michael Arceneaux explains why they need to stop.
Chris Brown may have a smile that makes a Colgate exec melt and dance like Michael Jackson’s ghost is his choreographer, but if the lyrics to the recently released freestyle to Kanye West’s “Theraflu” are indeed about Rihanna, there’s a jerk factor still lingering there that needs immediate fixing.
Last week, the R&B star tweeted the track and immediately after he did many suspected that he took thinly veiled shots at his ex-girlfriend, Rihanna, whom he notoriously beat in 2009. The lyrics in question are: "Don't f–k with my old bitch, it's like a bad fur/ Every industry n—- done had her/ Shook the tree like a pumpkin just to smash her/ B*tch is breaking codes, but I'm the password."
Mind you, this is coming from the person with chastity-belt bangers like “Strip” currently blanketing radio…who also beat Rihanna brutally just three years ago. THIS PERSON feels he can make a reasoned judgment about her sexual behavior.
After the song was posted, some noticed that he was unfollowed by Rihanna, who tweeted indirectly “Aw, poor dat #neaux1currr.” In response, Chris wrote via Twitter, "Assumptions! I didn't say any names so if u took offense to it then its something you feel guilty about."
Reverse psychology: everything ain’t for everybody.
As much as I’d like to escape these two and the remnants of their relationship, their collective knack for spectacle makes them unavoidable to anyone who makes a living around writing about pop culture. If nothing else, this latest instance allows me to point out an increasingly annoying criticism made about Rihanna that reeks of a double standard. Chris Brown may not be beating Rihanna anymore, but if this is true – and it doesn’t require a great leap to conclude so based on the indirect back-and-forth – he is still very much trying to hurt her only in the way of slut-shaming.
And apparently, he’s not the only person Rihanna’s dealt with that’s trying to diss her in such despicable fashion.
Though it’s harder to peg, Drake was suspected of also trying to soil Rihanna’s reputation by alleging that she sleeps around in the 2 Chainz track, “No Lie.”
Drake raps: “She came through, she brought food / She got f—ed, she knew wassup / She think I’m the realest out / And I say ‘Damn, that makes two of us’ / Oh that look like what’s her name / Chances are it is what’s her name / Chances are, if she was acting up / Then I f—ed her once and never f—ed again / She could have a Grammy, I still treat that a- like a nominee / Just need to know what that p—- like so one time, it’s fine with me.”
What a funny, funny comment for a guy with a well-noted affinity for strippers and casual sex to make. Not to mention someone who a journalist claimed had hit on her during an interview – I suppose after one too many of those wine spritzers he loves. And yes, Drake did publicly complain in an interview not two years ago that Rihanna had loved him and left him feeling like the girls to whom he had done the same.
In response to those tracks, Russell Simmons wrote a piece entitled “Get Off Rihanna’s D*ck,” arguing that he’s seen many men in the recording industry indulge in the same habits Rihanna’s only rumored to be doing – without any of the consequences to her public image, naturally. But perhaps Chris and Aubrey don’t need to “get off Rihanna’s d*ck” so much as they need to look down at theirs first and think about all the activities their pieces have engaged in before they decide to brand someone else as loose — regardless of who she is.
Meanwhile, as for everyone else so fixated on this notion that there’s a problem with the way Rihanna carries herself and brought this attention on herself: grow up. She could have Mother Teresa’s sex life and would bring about the “starlet or streetwalker” debate from any man with a certain attitude about women and sex.
To “slut shame” is to perpetuate the idea that sex is dirty, and in particular, dirty and dangerous for a woman. That rigid mindset is problematic as it is unrealistic and does little in the way of advancing the way we discuss consensual sex between adults. You know, any day now.
To that end, the sooner you realize that this attitude hurts men and women in varying instances, the quicker you’ll see what’s wrong with Chris Brown and Drake’s shortsighted shade.
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The actor, Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and music star, Selena Gomez began filming in Sofia the new action film from Warner Bros., The Getaway. Filming is going on around the capital in the region of Boyana.
The actor, known for films like ‘Gataka’, ‘Training Day’ and the star’s music 19 years, Gomez, will attend the film along with the father of Angelina Jolie Jon Voigt. The actors were seen drinking coffee in front of the National Theatre, but the fans immediately recognized them. On Sunday, six days, a large number of girls and boys crowded in front of Grand Hotel Sofia to see Gomez.
The film will be directed by Courtney Solomon, with Yaron Levy, Solomon, Moses Diamond and Chris Milburn in production. The screenplay was written by Greg Maxwell Parker and Sean Finegan, Hawke plays a man tired of his life as a racing driver, called Magna Brent, but it is behind the wheel he gets a mission that will decide the life or death of his wife, after she was kidnapped.
His only way out is Hakerka Young (played by Gomez) and his last hope is to follow the rules of a mysterious voice (Jon Voigt), which follows his every move with cameras installed inside the car. The technical team has the designer Nate Jones, editor and Irene Ryan Dyufriy Kocheva in the wardrobe. According to a Bulgarian newspaper, the film was the beginning of its filming in Bulgaria and will be finalized in the United States.
Lionsgate has premiered the first trailer for its late-summer horror offering The Possession, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport and Natasha Calis.
Ole Bornedal directed the supernatural thriller which takes its inspiration from a Los Angeles Times article called "Jinx in a Box." Juliet Snowden and Stiles White (the duo behind Boogeyman and Knowing) penned the script.
The film centers around a cursed relic containing mysterious familial tokens that is mistakenly purchased and its new owner must solve its mystery to save her own family.
They call her "Switzerland" on The Real Housewives of Vancouver for staying out of the drama that the reality TV series is infamous for. But when it comes to gay rights, RHOV star Reiko Mackenzie isn't remaining neutral.
For those unfamiliar with the ubiquitous NOH8 images, the campaign is a visual, silent protest that raises awareness of same-sex marriage issues. Photo subjects pose with duct tape over their mouths (to represent their voices being silenced) and NOH8 painted on one cheek to express protest.
In a phone interview with the Georgia Straight , Mackenzie said that seeing celebrities getting involved in the campaign piqued her curiosity. She soon learned it was a protest against Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment which banned same-sex marriage in California in 2008. It overturned the California Supreme Court's ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.
And what was Mackenzie's reaction to Prop 8?
"I thought, 'Wow, how backwards is that?' I mean, here in Canada we're so lucky enough to be able to have it legalized and gay people are free to marry whomever they choose…."
"Of course, it has the support of the gay community. Of course," she said. "But the whole idea is to bring this to people who: one, don't know anything about it; two, are straight, and they're living their lives and they don't know realize some of the struggles that are happening within the gay community, and this is about teaching them that."
However, she does understand the challenges many people face in being supportive of gay issues.
"It's not easy for people. It really isn't. I recognize that….We're all learning. And maybe we can just all learn together. If this is going to bring a bunch of people that wouldn't necessarily hang out, well, they are going to on Tuesday because this is what it's all about."
Although she has friends in the gay community, this is her first dive into participating in a gay rights event. And what's one of her main motivations to do so? Simply being a parent.
"Being a mom, I'm truly a teacher of the next generation. I mean, that's who I consider myself to be because I have children. And if I can be out there and a voice for other moms out there, or for any women, or human beings for that matter, to teach equality, tolerance, love, compassion….We don't want people growing up with hatred towards people, whether it has to do with nationality, gender, culture."
And when it comes to those latter issues, her family is particularly emblematic of Canada's multicultural mosaic. Her mother (seen on the show) is Japanese while her father was Scottish. Her South Asian husband, Sun Mackenzie, is Hindu. (She adds that her aunt married an African American.)
She empathizes with those targeted by homophobia because of how she was treated due to her hapa (interracial) identity. She was ridiculed ("What are you?") and teased for having Asian eyes. What's more, she sees similarities between the suffering of two same-sex people in love being denied the right to get married and two people from different cultures not being permitted to marry. "For me, that's hurtful," she says.
But Mackenzie's lineage has deeper parallels with the NOH8 campaign. The Japanese Canadian side of her family faced having their rights stripped away from them during an unjust chapter in Canadian history.
Her Japanese Canadian great grandmother (who Reiko is named after) was born in Canada. But when Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in 1941, Canada declared war on Japan. During an intensely prejudicial period against Asian Canadians in British Columbia, all Japanese Canadians within 100 miles of British Columbia's coast were forced, under the War Measures Act, to either move to Japan (a foreign country to Canadian-born Japanese) or have their belongings confiscated and be interned in camps. Mackenzie's family chose to go to Japan. (Her grandmother and mother, Keiko, who appears on the show, later returned to Canada.)
But in the same way that her family re-established themselves in spite of discriminatory challenges, Mackenzie has learned survival skills of her own. Those facing homophobic bullying in schools may be able to identify with some of her adolescent experiences.
When she attended North Burnaby high school, she said she definitely felt "unsafe". In fact, she said she was jumped by three girls within the first two weeks of school. She later discovered those girls simply wanted to get her attention because—bizarrely enough—they wanted to be friends with her. (Whatever happened to just saying "hello"?)
What's more, as the Sporty Spice of RHOV , Mackenzie is frequently depicted on the show indulging in tomboyish interests that challenge gender stereotypes—something that queer viewers can potentially relate to and draw inspiration from. She became a "grease-monkey" when she took up a high school mechanics course for two years. But she was the sole girl in the class.
"I got a lot of weird stares. I definitely did. And maybe the teacher was just a little surprised that I had shown up sitting there in the class….Luckily, in my generation, I was allowed to take that class. And I actually felt quite empowered, that I was able to take that class. I guess coming from that fortunate past that I feel that it should be the same for everyone else."
In light of the gaybashings that have beset the queer community, Mackenzie is also a role model for self-defense—she's been training in martial arts (as shown on the series) for the past two years and is currently a blue belt in mixed martial arts, with a focus on aikido, muay thai, and samurai swords.
For those who are being bullied, all these characteristics, coupled with Mackenzie's deft ability to avoid becoming embroiled in personality clashes on the show, provides potential inspiration. While the four other women tend to be excessively focused on their relationships with one another, Mackenzie is frequently depicted being activity-oriented and staying out of trouble.
"You don't necessarily have to get caught up in all the drama," she says. "If you're doing something active and healthy and adventurous for yourself, that could actually pull you into such positive light that you don't want to engage in anything negative."
With all this in mind, including her multicultural family and her stance on gay rights, perhaps it's about time people stopped calling her "Switzerland" and start calling her "Canada".
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(she is such perfection.<3 Now all we need is a spin off with Dowager Empress Keiko and Goddess CHRISTina so we could all dump that pathetic slag Jody. RHOV discussion post, y/y?)
It’s the greatest spin-off show never conceived … “The Real Housewives of Mexico City” — and if we can get some people to drop their ridiculously stereotyped fears, it just might get on the air! (not really) Check out TMZ on TV — click here to…
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NBC cancels 'Awake' (and 3 others)
Time to close your eyes for good, Awake: The Jason Isaacs drama did not earn a pickup for fall after a lackluster first season. It only averaged 5.07 million.
NBC also said ta-ta to Are You There, Chelsea (3.34 million), Best Friends Forever (3.34 million), and Bent (3.05 million), three other comedies that failed to gain any traction this season.
The cancellations weren’t exactly a surprise, but then again — NBC just picked up another season of Whitney so Isaacs or Chelsea Handler could have received a stay of execution. To see all the shows that canned for fall — along with those that earned a pickup — check out our updated Death Watch chart.
NBC will present its fall lineup to advertisers on Monday in New York.
'Awake' star talks about accidentally spawning his own strange pop culture phenomenon
On May 24, Awake fans will say goodbye to Jason Isaacs’ parallel universes-dwelling cop Michael Britten in the season finale of the fantasy-inclined police procedural. And that farewell looks to be a permanent one following yesterday’s news that the admired but audience-impoverished show did not earn a pickup. However, there is a group of Jason Isaacs fans who never want to say “Goodbye” to the British actor — in fact, they’re only interested in saying “Hello.”
Thanks to the puckish efforts of an award-winning BBC film review radio show hosted by DJ Simon Mayo and movie expert Mark Kermode — as well as its attendant podcast – the phrase “Hello to Jason Isaacs” has, over the past year or so, started to permeate pop culture around the world. Eagle-eyed viewers of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno will have noticed its appearance in some of the chatfest’s visual “bits”; one attendee at 2011′s Jon Stewart-organized March for Sanity carried a banner bearing the slogan; and since February of this year, anyone using the U.K. version of Google to search the actor’s name has been met with the message “Hello to Jason Isaacs” at the top of the webpage. And that’s not counting the number of times Isaacs himself has been accosted by strangers who wish to say “Hello” him. “People walk up all the time and say, ‘Can I just say ‘Hello to Jason Isaacs?”” reveals the actor. “I was walking along a canyon in Los Angeles and from the next mountain I heard, ‘HELLO… TO… JASON ISAAAAAAACS!’ People who don’t know [about the phrase] look at these people as if they’re insane. Then when I try and explain the phenomenon, I trip myself up, because it sounds so nuts. It makes no sense.”
The origins of “Hello to Jason Isaacs” date back to the mid-’70s when future film reviewer Kermode and future Harry Potter franchise regular Isaacs were classmates at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in London. Although the pair were not friends, Isaacs made a big impression on Kermode. “I thought he was incredibly cool and aloof,” Kermode wrote in his 2010 autobiography, It’s Only A Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive. “If truth be told I think I had a sort of schoolboy crush on Jason Isaacs, and I’ve never really got over it.”
That crush evidenced itself a few of years ago when Kermode and his co-broadcaster Mayo fell into the habit during their show of saying “Hello to…” to a fairly idiosyncratic list of famous folks including actors David Morrissey and David Tennant, awesome Brit folk-rockers Fairport Convention, and Isaacs, who is both a fan of the show and a regular guest. In time, listeners picked up the “Hello to Jason Isaacs” baton and ran with it, much to the bemusement of the actor himself. “It is an extraordinary phenomenon that long ago separated from me and is rolling down a hill, gathering momentum,” says Isaacs. “It’s like I’m a fictional creation in [Kermode and Mayo's] life. But I love their show. I think Mark’s a fantastic reviewer. I mean, this started because I’m literally a fanboy of their show. And I always say ‘Hello’ back.”
Earlier this year, Kermode and Mayo teasingly suggested Isaacs prove his devotion to their radio show by having his character in Awake say the word “ukulele” onscreen. For Isaacs, who is also a producer on the NBC show, it was a case of “Challenge accepted!” — and swiftly achieved. Which is why, on March 22, Awake viewers heard Isaacs’ Detective Britten utter the line “He’s not going to be playing the ukulele in heaven,” while examining a corpse whose fingers had been badly mangled. “When I did that I got a note from the editing room going, ‘What the f— are you talking about?’” says the actor. “I said, ‘You have to keep the line in. If I can ever wield my big stick as a producer, I’m telling you I want the ukulele line left in!’”
Whether the cult of “Hello to Jason Isaacs” has reached a high watermark or is only just getting started remains to be seen. But the Awake star confesses that he is more than happy for it to go on and on. “It is perfectly possible that at any time in my life people might come up and go, ‘You’re a s— actor,’” says Isaacs. “So any time anyone says anything positive and doesn’t throw rotten vegetables is a victory as far as I’m concerned.”
All of which only leaves me to say a big EW “Hello” to Jason Isaacs.
And Fairport Convention.
She is a former Miss World, a successful Bollywood star and married to the son of one of India’s best-loved stars.
She found international fame in the Hollywood film Bride and Prejudice, and Julia Roberts billed her as the world’s most beautiful woman.
Thanks to the notoriety such fame and fortune has brought her, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has become one of the most admired and revered women in India, and indeed the world. But such fame has come at a cost for the 38-year-old star.
Since the birth of her daughter in November last year, Aishwarya Rai has been open about the fact that she is in no hurry to lose the few extra pounds she gained during her pregnancy.
The model and actress, who won the Miss World title in 1994, defended her choice, saying she wanted simply to ‘enjoy motherhood.’
But with the star, who married Abhishek Bachchan, the son of India’s most loved film star Amitabh Bachnan in 2007, tipped for her 10th appearance at Cannes next week, furious speculation is mounting as to how she will look.
Commentators have been unkind, lambasting the star for letting her fans down.
Many have gone a step further, suggesting the star has a ‘duty’ to her fans to regain her pre-pregnancy figure.
One website posted a video of the star looking less than her usual svelte self, flicking between photographs of her pre-birth, and photos now.
Called ‘Aishwarya Rai’s shocking weight gain’, the clip, which came accompanied by elephant sound effects, has been seen more than 500,000 times.
Dozens more videos in a similar vein have been posted, each with viewing figures in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
Comments left after the video prove that many of those watching have little sympathy for Aishwarya. ‘She is a Bollywood actress and it is her duty to look good and fit,’ one said. Another added: ‘She needs to learn from people like Victoria Beckham who are back to size zero weeks after their delivery.’
It has opened up a debate in the country, and beyond, about the attitudes held towards women in the public eye.
‘Aishwarya is like a goddess,’ said showbusiness columnist Shobhaa Dé in the New York Daily News by way of explanation.
‘She is held up as the ideal of beauty and so there is an expectation on her to look perfect at all times.’
‘The role models being held up are Angelina Jolie and Victoria Beckham, but our body frames are different – we have wider hips and curves – so this whole business of looking desperately skinny two weeks after giving birth is a western import.’
Cinema professor Shohini Ghosh added that women in India were up against an almost impossible task.
‘There is a glorification of motherhood in India and Indian cinema,’ he told the paper. ‘But people are confused because they don’t know whether to glorify Aishwarya in her new motherhood or lament that she is not looking like a runway model.’
It’s safe to say that far too many fall into the latter category, judging by the cruel comments flooding internet sites.
Some, however, have come out in defence of the star, saying that she, like any new mother, should be focusing on her infant, not her diet.
‘She is a real women looking after a baby. We should be concern for her health and happiness especially if she is nursing the baby. Not the Western belief of expecting people in the spot light to lose all weight in month. If she? dieted what will happen to the baby’s diet,’ one said.
‘That’s because Aish is not one of those selfish ones who puts the focus on their bodies instead of their babies, which makes them moody and ineffective as parents,’ another said. ‘Kudos to you Aish for keeping it real and letting your baby have all the bonding and attention she needs with you. Enjoy your life.’
Reese Witherspoon was spotted working up a sweat while playing tennis at Brentwood Country Club in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday (May 16).
Janet Jackson and boy-toy Wissam Al Mana jetted out to Paris to celebrate the pop icon’s birthday! Janet posted a picture of her and her long-time boyfriend with the caption “Spending my bday w/my baby,” on her Facebook page, which was overwhelmed with greetings from her fans.
The NutriSystem and Humane Society spokes model is also working on her eleventh album which does not have a release date yet. In an interview with ThatGrapeJuice “Well, I’ll be working! Basically what I’m doing now; starting the process of getting the songs, of getting everything together for the album.” (She's been saying that for the past three years)
Jennifer Hudson batted 1.000 with the jurors on the William Balfour murder case … because every single one of them admitted they knew who she was BEFORE the trial began. TMZ obtained the juror questionnaires — filled out by all of the prospective…
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In fact, she reveals she began dealing with rejection midway through her modeling career as her body began to change. “In my early 20s I was a size four. But then I started to get curvy. My agency gave my mom a list of designers that didn’t want to book me in their fashion shows anymore,” Banks shares. “In order to continue working, I would’ve had to fight Mother Nature and get used to depriving myself of nutrition.”
The real goal of the letter, however, was to “celebrate” Vogue’s recent decision to ban models who “appear to have an eating disorder” from all 19 of its editions worldwide. “When I started modeling, I used to see models who seemed unhealthy backstage at fashion shows. They appeared to be abusing their bodies to maintain a certain weight,” Banks continues in the letter. “These girls were booked over and over again for countless fashion shows and photo shoots. I’m sure many of you today have witnessed this, or even live it. Now, real progress is finally on the horizon. Vogue is stepping up, doing the right thing, and protecting that girl. Perhaps that girl is you!”
The former Victoria’s Secret model isn’t alone in her fight to get the industry to focus on featuring healthy bodies rather than those with eating disorders.
Prior to this year’s New York Fashion Week in February, designer and president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Diane von Furstenberg, sent out guidelines to participating designers on how to best handle suspicions that a model is suffering from an eating disorder, and required them to provide models with healthy meals and snacks backstage. Around the same time, Israeli lawmakers essentially banned skinny models from catwalks, ads, and billboards, passing legislation that says that modeling jobs cannot be given to anyone with a body mass index under 18.5.
Still, some models believe that it’s not the industry that’s to blame. “I never suffered this problem because I had a very strong family base,” supermodel Gisele Bundchen told Brazilian newspaper Globo in 2007. “The parents are responsible, not fashion.”
But Banks believes that Vogue’s decision is a very fashionable step in the right direction … and she knows just how to mark the occasion, writing: “This calls for a toast over some barbecue and burgers!”
Well, Tyra, you might have to make it grilled chicken over greens to get any actual models to join you.
A shocking development to this entry.
Hunter Moore, who shut down his popular amateur porn site Is Anyone Up last month, is reportedly under investigation due to hacked–not submitted–photos appearing on the site. The inviestigation stems from a series of photos appearing on Is Anyone Up? that were allegedly stolen from hacked emails by someone under the fake name Gary Jones. Via the Village Voice:
“Hunter Moore said he would set fire to the Voice’s office if I wrote this. Actually, the 26-year-old’s exact words were, ‘Honestly, I will be fucking furious, and I will burn down fucking The Village Voice headquarters if you fucking write anything saying I have an FBI investigation.‘
The Voice has learned that the FBI’s Los Angeles Internet Crime division has been actively investigating Hunter Moore and Is Anyone Up for months, according to four people who say they’ve been interviewed by the FBI about his now-shuttered site. The case’s focus, according to those familiar with the investigation, was Moore’s possible connection to a hacker who has repeatedly broken into the inboxes of countless victims, rifled through their attachments, and submitted the accompanying nudes to Is Anyone Up. (A Los Angeles FBI spokesperson would not confirm or deny such an investigation.)
“The FBI has been in contact with me,” Moore admitted during the same conversation in which he threatened to burn down the Voice. ‘I have nothing to hide.’”
Taio Cruz – There She Goes
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We're just a couple of days away from the "Grimm" season finale, and while we wait for Friday night's episode to air, here's another batch of cast “thank you” messages and previews. In these videos you’ll find more about Episode 1.22, "Woman in Black", plus catch some Season 2 hints!
Episode 1.22 – "Woman in Black" Synopsis (Airing 5/18/12):
THE SEARCH FOR THE MYSTERIOUS GOLD COINS INTENSIFIES AS THE BODY COUNT IN PORTLAND RISES – MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO AND BREE TURNER GUEST STAR – As Nick (David Giuntoli) delves deeper into his life as a Grimm, a trail of grotesque murders reignites the search for the elusive gold coins. The arrival of a mysterious woman in black (guest star Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) begins to get in the way of Nick and Hank’s (Russell Hornsby) investigation as extra precautions have to be taken to ensure their safety. Meanwhile, Nick’s ability to keep his true nature secret from Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) comes to a tipping point. Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, and Reggie Lee also star.
Can we please have a Grimm tag sometime before August (when NBC plans to premiere Season 2)?
BEDFORD, N.Y. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.
Attorney Kerry Lawrence, who had represented her in a drunken-driving case, said he didn’t know the cause of her death at age 52. Police confirmed a body was found on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s property in Bedford, north of New York City, but wouldn’t release the dead person’s name.
The former Mary Richardson married Robert Kennedy Jr., a prominent environmental lawyer and the son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, in 1994. The couple had four children, the youngest born in July 2001.
Her family cited her devotion to her children in remembering her.
“We deeply regret the death of our beloved sister Mary, whose radiant and creative spirit will be sorely missed by those who loved her,” the family said in a statement issued by Lawrence. “Our heart goes out to her children who she loved without reservation.”
Mary Kennedy had had trouble with drugs and alcohol and had two high-profile arrests around the time her husband filed for divorce in July 2010.
She was charged that August with driving under the influence of drugs, not long after she pleaded guilty to drunken driving when police reported seeing her car hit a curb outside a school near her home. Police said she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11 percent; the legal limit is 0.08 percent. Her license was suspended.
RIP. Do you think there really is a Kennedy Curse?
Cassandra recalls meeting Elvis when she was the youngest showgirl in Vegas.
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