| Your Humble Queen in People's Most Intriguing Issue |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|01:55 am] |
BreatheHeavy's got the first look at Britney's new "PEOPLE" magazine photo by photographer Mark Liddell and accompanying article.
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bitch is workin' that pic. why wasn't that released earlier? Britney party?~*
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| Tobey Maguire is NOT Bilbo Baggins (yet) |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|01:20 am] |
Tobey Maguire says he is not in discussions to play Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit.” But he wouldn’t mind a part in it. Maguire is responding to Monday’s Web chatter, first published on Latino Review, that he, or at least his reps, are talking to director Guillermo del Toro and producer Peter Jackson about playing the iconic Middle Earth dweller with the oversized feet. “I have not met with del Toro. We don’t have any near future plans,” Maguire said. “I don’t know if something got misconstrued or miscommunicated but the source was not accurate at all.” Maguire said he heard the rumor that James McAvoy was cast in the movie and had believed that to be a fact, so wasn’t even considering the lead role. (Jackson denied that McAvoy has been cast and told Heat Vision/THR last week that casting was just beginning.) But Maguire does like the idea of playing some role in “The Hobbit.” “I love Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson, and I certainly wouldn’t take myself out of the conversation ... if I was part of it. But I haven’t read a script or talked to anybody about it.” Source |
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| A 'Jem and the Holograms' Movie?! |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|01:05 am] |
Every girl in the 1980s loooved Jem And The Holograms, and why wouldn’t they? The series revolves around a young music manager named Jerrica Benton, who adopts the persona of pop singer Jem with the help of Synergy, a computer that is able to beam holographic images to anyone who is interested, creating the “ultimate visual entertainment”.
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| Frenemies are enemies who act like friends. |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|12:47 am] |
The White House v. Howard Dean
When Howard Dean said the Senate should kill the health care bill, the White House took it personally, hitting back on its blog and at the daily press briefing.
Dean yesterday told Vermont Public Radio: "This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill." His comments came after word that Democrats were dropping both the public option and an expansion of Medicare.
Then today, on Good Morning America, Dean said the bill is "an insurance company's dream" and a "bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG."
The administration has not taken too kindly to the former DNC chair's statements.
In a post today on the official White House blog, communications director Dan Pfeiffer called Dean's argument "perplexing" and said "this bill will finally wrest power away from the insurance industry and put it in the hands of American consumers."
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Related: Landrieu And Dean Duel On Hardball
I support passing the bill but when the White House (reportedly) calls Dean "irrelevant" I'm like ~you mad?~. idk if that's smug. DC has been trying to keep Howard Dean down since 2003 (see the linked NY Times article), the Obama administration sadly bought into that CW, and now they're angry that he's actually speaking for people.
ps - the Most Influential People poll is going up tomorrow cause I was out today sorry |
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| Bryan Singer to direct "X-Men: First Class"? |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:31 pm] |
James Cameron's Avatar is having its premiere in Los Angeles tonight, and MySpace has a television crew on-hand at the "blue carpet" to interview arrivals.
One of the people on hand was director Bryan Singer, who directed X-Men and X2 for Avatar distributor 20th Century Fox at the start of the decade. In recent interviews, Singer has been asked about possibly directing the planned prequel X-Men: First Class, and he always seemed interested but earlier this evening, he let slip that he has in fact just signed the deal with Fox to direct the next "Origins" film, which will reportedly look at the early days of Cyclops, Jean Grey and others at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
This is very exciting news for "X-Men" fans who have been hoping Singer would return to the fold and hopefully we'll have more to report on this news soon as others attending the Avatar event get more details on the deal.
(We're adding a question mark and keeping this one in the rumor bin for now. Having missed Singer on the live feed and only heard what he said--and knowing how many times he is probably asked about returning to "X-Men"--we better wait for confirmation from the trades in case he was pulling the interviewer's leg with his statement.)
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Let's have an ~X-Men prayer circle~ to help let this happen |
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| Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus in contention for Oscars |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|12:33 am] |
Old-school Hollywood types would be aghast, but think of the boffo ratings if teen starlets Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus nabbed Oscar nominations next year. The duo are part of the way there, having co-written songs that made the shortlist for Oscar consideration. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday unveiled 63 original song contenders that will be winnowed down to a maximum of five nominees.
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| Jake wanted to marry his beard |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|11:17 am] |
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal officially pulled the plug on their three-year relationship over a series of phone calls earlier this month. Why over the phone? Jake has been in Pittsburgh the past three months shooting his new movie, Love And Other Drugs. Reese has been busy filming How Do You Know? in Los Angeles. “It broke his heart,” an insider reveals to Us Weekly. “[They] fought constantly in the past few months [but] no one cheated. There was no drama.” “She felt pressured to wed again but she wasn’t ready,” another insider adds. “She couldn’t give Jake enough and she got cold feet. Jake wanted all of her. She really worried that they didn’t have enough in common… He was great with the kids (Ava and Deacon), but she felt like he didn’t get the whole scope of what that entailed.”
Source -- justjared.buzznet.com/2009/12/16/reese-jake-split-details/ |
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| After 35years in prison, DNA says he didn't do it |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:40 pm] |
Bartow, Florida (CNN) -- After more than three decades in prison, James Bain is eager to be able to help his wheelchair-bound mother.
If all goes as planned in a Florida courtroom Thursday, Bain, 54, will be allowed to go home for the first time in 35 years -- free from his life sentence thanks to a DNA test that showed he was not the man who took a 9-year-old Lake Wales, Florida, boy from his bed in 1974 and raped him.
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[Dec. 16th, 2009|10:53 pm] |
The buzz around Trafigura and Carter-Ruck is getting louder again on the web
As reports vanish from mainstream media websites, the buzz about Trafigura and Carter-Ruck gets louder on blogs and other online outlets
The BBC report can no longer be found online
In May, Trafigura's lawyers announced that they had brought libel proceedings against the BBC over its Newsnight broadcast on Trafigura. Now, the BBC's Trafigura feature has disappeared from its website. But as reporting about the company involved in toxic waste dumping scandals in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast vanish from mainstream media sites, there is renewed activity elsewhere on the internet.
Several blogs and other online media have picked up the issue of the vanished Newsnight report. On the blog "Don't Get Fooled Again" Richard Wilson asks "UK's dysfunctional libel system strikes again? Newsnight feature on Trafigura disappears from BBC website". Journalist and conservative candidate Ian Dale writes on his blog about "BBC caves in to Carter-Ruck threats over Trafigura film". On The New Statesman rolling blog, George Eaton reported that "BBC removes Trafigura story after legal threat".
Last, but not least, Judith Townend asks on Journalism.co.uk "Where has the BBC's Trafigura feature gone?", and reports that a spokesperson for the BBC said: "We haven't got anything to say on this. As discussed earlier we are often not able to comment if there's a live legal action."
Meanwhile, Trafigura is buying relevant sponsored links on Google's search page to promote its side of the story.
Searching for Trafigura on Google brings up links sponsored by the the oil company As mainstream media has fallen silent, the buzz about Carter-Ruck on alternative media is getting louder again. Links to the BBC Newsnight report to YouTube are blogged, the video has been published on Wikileaks and the keywords "Trafigura" and "Carter-Ruck" are all over Twitter again.
You wonder if they will ever learn.
Let me see if I am understanding this correctly. The BBC did a newstory on an oil company about they were doing really bad and evil things and the company decided to sue them. Now it seems that an online copy of that news report is taken off the BBC website. And no one in the msm is taking a hit on this?
Would this fly in the US?
What do you British ontd_p'ers and peeps from the UK think about this?
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| lesbian web soap, Venice, in GO! magazine. |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|10:46 pm] |
 
 
Creator/star Crystal Chappell told Soap Opera Digest the fans are making the show possible: "Because of what they bought in the [online] store, it funded season one, so it's their investment in this and it's been strong and solid. We made the money for season two on the first episode, so it's going to move forward."
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| Gaga x Kumi PART 2! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
Don't ask for the original pics, because I forgot the link, rofl. Anyway, just thought some Gaga fans would enjoy her actually being decent to some yellow asian people for once. NOTE: This is all translated from arama... Direct your translation comments there.
Back in the summer Koda Kumi and Lady GaGa appeared together in Vivi magazine. The interview has finally been translated:
( Imma letchu get inside )
This post brought to you by Lady Gaga's favorite Kumi PV:
Fuck you LJ. |
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| Detroit to Get More Bootstraps. Now Get a Job You Lazy Bastards! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|09:34 pm] |
Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%, According to the Detroit News
Officially, Detroit's unemployment rate is just under 30 percent. But the city's mayor and local leaders are suggesting a far more disturbing figure -- the actual jobless rate, they say, is closer to 50 percent.
As many have noted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which culls federal unemployment data, does not account for all of the jobless in its widely-quoted national unemployment figures. Among those omitted: part-time workers who are looking for full-time jobs and frustrated job seekers who abandon their job search altogether.
(For some context, the official national unemployment rate is 10 percent, but the "underemployment rate" is 17.2 percent.)
Detroit city officials argue that, when workers who are underemployed are added to the calculation, the number of city residents who are out of work is close to one in every two.
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| BBC Leaves Common Sense At The Door. Is Genocide Such a Bad Thing? It Makes Great Population Control |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|09:29 pm] |
BBC Slammed For Debating Ugandan Bill To Kill Gays
The British Broadcasting Corp. suffered criticism from lawmakers Wednesday for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda.
The broadcaster launched an on-line debate over a proposed Ugandan law that would punish some homosexual acts by life imprisonment or death. Legislation being considered in the African country would impose the death penalty on some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report their homosexuality to authorities.
BBC's "Africa Have Your Say" Web site asked for people's views on whether Uganda has gone too far and whether there should be any laws against gays.
The page's title was originally "Should homosexuals face execution?" but was later changed to "Should Uganda debate gay execution?" Several British politicians said the taxpayer-funded broadcaster should not treat the execution of gays as a legitimate topic for discussion.
"We should be looking at what is going on in Uganda with abhorrence," said lawmaker Eric Joyce of the ruling Labour Party. "We should be condemning it, and the BBC should be condemning it. ... Instead it seems to have thought it appropriate to come up with something that suggests it's a subject for discussion."
Lynne Featherstone, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberal Democrats, said she has written to BBC executives seeking an apology and an end to the Web discussion.
"Suggesting that the state-sponsored murder of gay people is OK as a legitimate topic for debate is deeply offensive," she said.
The forum attracted more than 600 comments and triggered a lively Twitter discussion.
The BBC's World Service Africa program editor, David Stead, defended the debate. In a blog posted on the BBC Web site, he said editors had "thought long and hard about using this question" and sought to reflect the diverse views about homosexuality in Africa.
"We agree that it is a stark and challenging question, but think that it accurately focuses on and illustrates the real issue at stake," he said. |
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| Percy Jackson - International Poster |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|10:56 pm] |
An international poster has just been released for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We got such an overwhelming response from fans regarding the extended trailer a couple weeks ago, that we had to follow up. The latest poster features Percy summoning the powers of his father in what looks like a climactic scene from the film.
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