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| Channing Tatum is a gorgeous married man tempted by his trollop of a high school sweetheart, Rosario Dawnson, in 10 Years. |
Lot's of good trailers await you...
8.31.2012
The Triumphant Return of T's Trailer Park: Labor Day edition!
Lot's of good trailers await you...
Marja Labor Day Presents: I Laugh When Others Get Hurt
You will laugh, and wince a few times by watching women falling down while wearing their bikinis...
Lex In the Afternoon: Labor Day Special Edition
Gingerbreadmama Gossip Wrap: Snooki gives birth (and no, it did not claw its way out), a former Playmate is preggo and cat videos Edition
The Bits
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| Holly and her crooked man Photo: aceshowbiz.com |
- Holly Madison and beau Pasquale Rotella are expecting their first child in March. Rotella is currently facing up to 13 years in jail after being indicted on 29 counts of bribery, embezzlement, conspiracy and conflict of interest in Los Angeles (along with five other individuals). He, of course, says he is innocent and is currently out on bail. His next court appearance in September 25.
- Snooki had a baby boy, Lorenzo Dominic LaValle, with beau Jionni.
- The autopsy report showed that Sage Stallone died of natural causes, a heart attack. No drugs were found in his system.
- Pippa Middleton wrote a book, which is scheduled for release in October. Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends bills itself as a “seasonal guide to simple and creative entertaining and contains recipes, crafts, games and tips on entertaining”. On what type of budget, I wonder!
- In a crazy turn of events, actress Kelly Rutherford’s nasty custody battle just got worse. Her ex, Daniel Giersch, lives in Monaco and has a revoked visa (due in part to accusations made by Rutherford), so he cannot enter the U.S. Because of this, the courts recently ruled that he gets full custody of their two young children because Rutherford’s schedule is “flexible enough to allow her to travel back and forth to Monaco to visit her children”. Rutherford’s lawyer said they are filing an appeal.
- Reports are floating around that Maria Sharapova and her fiance, former Los Angeles Laker Sasha Vujacic, have called off their engagement.
We have movie openings and the quote of the week after the jump!
8.30.2012
Paul Ryan is the Cure for Writer's Block (and facilitates white dominance*)
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California Kara, a powerhouse in the community with countless accolades who has overcome life threatening obstacles while engaging in triumph after triumph, was understandably "not impressed" when I whined, "I have writers block."
Despite having more going on in one day than you will have all week, California took the time to snap these photos and send the following email: Do with this what you like, T, but I took these pics at A NORDSTROM in DC. Yes, there are little tails coming off the back of his shoes. I went stealth on the first shot, then quickly realized you'd need a close-up for your column, and he happily did the little Top Model foot pose. (No, he wasn't gay, from what I could tell, and my gaydar is pretty spot-on.) He was buying earrings for his girl, from what I could hear.
If this doesn't break your writer's block...
See what my reply was after the jump!
8.28.2012
GreenTech Geek: Life Lived Differently
From time to time I will present those here. This week, we have the resourceful Dutch creating a safe and fun environment for bicyclists.
Check it out ... after the jump ...
The Newsroom Recap: The Greater Fool
Dazed and Confused
by: Lady Sharon
The Greater Fool is another one of those flashback-flashforward shows that was complicated and hard to follow. I can only handle one or two time shifts before I get dizzy. And this week, the birds were circling overhead for this and many other reasons.
The romance drama in this show like a bad soap opera. But if it was a soap opera, someone would have died and come back to life already… as an alien. So maybe it’s not quite that bad.
Neal has the trolls hot and bothered because he took credit for the death threat against Will. And now there’s 100 more death threats. Sloan almost leaves News Night, but doesn’t. And she turns the God-awful love quadrangle into a pentagon of Satan’s own making. Why oh why aren’t these story lines over ye?t
Sadly, these plots and the agonizing office romances make little to no progress in the season finale, and we are left with many open wounds for pouring salt on next season.
8.27.2012
True Blood Recap: Save Yourself
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| Bill: Lilith brainwashed Photo credit: HBO.com |
Bill's Bloody Finale
By SDMattchew
I'll be the first to admit that I didn't fall head over heels for True Blood's Season 5. Unnecessary, nonsensical storylines, more characters than we could ever hope to follow, and still other familiar, beloved characters that were left twiddling their thumbs. But while the show may have (seasonally speaking) fallen a bit short, it concluded tonight with an expertly-paced, exceptionally entertaining finale.
In short, I couldn't have been more pleased with "Save Yourself." Twists, turns, and the death of a major character (and when I say death I'm talking about a shocker and not some cheesy maybe-kill that leaves you wondering).
Find out about all of Season 5 finale's bloody, explosive awesomeness after the jump!
8.24.2012
Gingerbreadmama Says: That’s A Wrap! Kristen and Rob together again, Halle Berry’s custody battle and more Edition
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Setting aside differences for the greater good, taking one for the team, whatever you want to label it…ex’s Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will walk the red carpet together to promote the last Twilight movie installment Breaking Dawn – Part 2 in November. According to sources, it’s even Rob’s idea. Ever the gentleman, he allegedly “told movie bosses he’ll walk the red carpet to save her from embarrassment and any female fans booing her. He is being professional and taking the higher moral ground.”
8.22.2012
GreenTech Geek: Recharge
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| Lunch spot of the gods: Mission Point Park at Mission Bay, San Diego. (Click on any picture in this post to make it bigger.) |
Well, this greentech geek takes sage advice from his wonder-sister in Eugene, Oregon regarding "childlike fitness" and hops on one of his bicycles for a long, fun ride to a place of beauty and unpredictable occurrences.
Which is what I did yesterday. No work. No chores. Just good, clean riding. As my publisher told me:
"How can you save the world if you don't take time to rejuvenate?"
-- PublisherSee how it went ... after the jump.
8.21.2012
The Newsroom Recap: The Blackout Part 2 - The Mock Debate
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
By: Lady Sharon
Well tea drinkers, here’s another Newsroom episode that I just didn’t like.
This week there’s a lot more whining about Casey Anthony and trying to overcome doing something you hate for a greater good, i.e. getting to host the Republican debate. This moaning is old, and just to the left of the story they should be exploring. There’s multiple story lines baking, including Neal, the Internet trolls, and Will’s death threat, but none of them come to a head in these 60 minutes, so why are they clogging up our minds and wasting minutes on them now? Overall, the scene setups in this ep are rudimentary storytelling ploys, and the jokes are trite and as obvious as an elephant in the room. I expect more. I need more.
Everything changes yet again with our not-quite beloved characters. My opinion of the show is changing… not for the better. And so the closing song of this episode is quite on point.
Aaron asks, “Will you still love me [after I put you through all the same BS for another week?]”
And I ask Aaron, “Will you still love me after you read this scathing review?”
8.20.2012
True Blood Recap: Sunset
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| Sookie and Jason: Ready to face Warlow... or Russell... whoever. Photo credit: blogzap2it.com |
A Supernatural Free-For-All
by SDMattchew
With only one more episode remaining for True Blood's Season 5, I knew things had to eventually lead toward a "finale-ish" confrontation.
And here it was. But a confrontation between which species?
In "Sunset," Alcide and his deadbeat dad took on a few baby vampires, the Authority hocked a loogie and sent it straight into humanity's face (thanks, Eric!), and Russell ventured over to nosh on some faeries.
It was a supernatural free-for-all in this week's episode. Check out all the mayhem after the jump!
8.17.2012
Gingerbreadmama Gossip Wrap: Jodie Foster joins Team Kristen, Olympic swimmer Lochte arrives in the 90210 and Christina doesn’t diss Britney Edition
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Gingerbreadmama Says: That’s A Wrap!
Hell hath no fury…
Rumor has it that the Universal has dropped Kristen Stewart from Snow White and the Huntsman 2.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I guess. I’m assuming if Rupert Sanders is set to direct the next installment, his wife said no way to Stewart’s involvement but that is my speculation.
Sources claim that a script rewrite has been ordered to focus solely on the Huntsman (Chris Helmsworth character) and that original screen writer David Koepp is also out.
But, according to the LA Times, Stewart's exclusion is not a done deal. "[Universal] insists that plans for a second movie centering on the Huntsman character played by Chris Hemsworth are proceeding and that Stewart’s Snow White could still be a character in that film, despite reports that suggested otherwise.”
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| The axe used to cut Stewart out of the script Photo: tqn.com |
Time will tell.
Meanwhile, Jodi Foster, who starred with Stewart in The Panic Room, has joined Team Kristen, writing a blog for The Daily Beast. While she doesn’t address her thoughts directly regarding the cheating scandal, she does liken being in the spotlight to “the gladiator sport of celebrity culture, the cruelty of a life lived as a moving target” and claims, “if I were a young actor today I would quit before I started. If I had to grow up in this media culture, I don’t think I could survive it emotionally.”
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It’s a well written piece but really, when it’s all said and done, Kristen and Rupert did this to themselves and had to know that if caught, there would be a media hailstorm and fan backlash. They made a choice, got caught and lives will forever be changed, including those of his children.
So while Foster claims, sarcastically I think, that “actors who become celebrities are supposed to be grateful for the public interest. After all, they’re getting paid” and goes on the state, seriously I think, that “a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self” may hold some truth, the fact of the matter is that these people cheated and got caught and need to take some responsibility for putting themselves in the spotlight and perhaps contributing to the destruction of their own sense of self.
Anyone else here church bells ringing, because there is some preaching going on around here this week! We've got TV and Movie news, plus all the usual Celebrity Gossip Bits after the jump!
8.14.2012
The Newsroom Recap: The Blackout Part 1 - Tragedy Porn
Keep your Eyes on the Prize
By: Lady Sharon
By: Lady Sharon
While trying to continue doing the real news, News Night hemorrhages viewers to channels covering Casey Anthony. They struggle to find their way clear to covering it themselves, also knowing that their ratings could hurt their chances to win the network’s bid to cover the Republican debate.
Charlie comes face to face with his anonymous source, Late to Dinner, and gets some info on the wire tapping that ACN is doing to feed tabloid gossip on Will to TMI. Meanwhile, Mac’s ex-boyfriend, Brian Brenner, is in house doing a cover story on the show.
The show is still struggling to find its exact voice, and is perhaps more soap opera than weekly drama, like The West Wing or ER. As we begin the home stretch in Sorkin’s 10-part play, I wonder if that’s what it’s meant to be or if it will change for Season 2.
Until then we have The Blackout. A two-parter, this ep does its job faithfully of setting the stage for many intriguing plotlines that we’ll have to tune in next week to see resolved.
Gingerbeadmama bite: Take a drink, make it two, it’s an R.Patt sighting and he’s talking (sort of)
In his first interview post-cheating scandal and friend-described heartbreak, Robert Pattinson made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, who offered him the just-dumped diet food, ice cream. While he was not overly forthcoming regarding the subject of Kristen Stewart cheating on him with her married director, Rupert Sanders, he did not completely dodge the the elephant in the room either, admitting “yes”, when faced with Stewart’s comment, “When you are young and you break up, it's powerful and it feels like the world is ending.”
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Find out how the audience reacted to that comment after the jump!
From the Desk of the Editor in Chief: Best of the Olympics
After my first post about the Olympics was hailed as "My favorite Olympic coverage so far this season and that's not hyperbole" I knew I had to do a follow up. Sadly, the Olympics are over now, I had gotten used to, and even expected to have 4 continuous hours of prime time coverage on every night. I started looking forward to hearing the announces make up sh*t to pass the time, including pseudo technical terms and even odd reactionary sounds to falls and missteps by the competitors.
I want to highlight a performance for you today which most have not hear of. Why? Because his name isn't Phelps or Bolt. He does have an awesome name though, Epke Zonderland, and even more awesome abs.
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| Go ahead and pull it out T, he's 26. Photo: photobucket.com |
8.13.2012
GreenTech Geek: Getting LOUD
This week I'm gonna shake things up a bit and give you the juiciest meat of my post (sorry, a certain Tea With Lemon editor is still rubbing off on me) up front. If you want to know the back-story of this video, you'll have to get that ...
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Gingerbreadmama bite: Here comes the bride take 2, Jennifer Aniston is engaged
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Finally. America’s sweetheart with a revolving door of suitors, making you wonder what the heck’s wrong with her, Jennifer Aniston (43) is engaged to beau of 15 months Justin Theroux (41).
Get the full play by play of how this went down after the jump!
True Blood Recap: Gone, Gone, Gone
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| All hail Lilith! (Or at least her blood.) Photo credit: highlighthollywood.com |
Vampire Crisis Night
By SDMattchew
As Season 5 True Blood episodes go, "Gone, Gone, Gone" wasn't terrible. I enjoyed it. Sure, there were a few dragging moments (namely, all of Hoyt's), but it did a good job of setting us up for what will surely be an action-packed season finale.
Tonight, Sookie discovered she's contractually obligated to be vampire food, two mice broke into Steve Newlin's briefcase, and Eric was force fed Lilith blood.
Did he finally drink the Authority Kool-Aid?
Find out after the jump!
8.12.2012
8.11.2012
McKayla Maroney Reacts to Romney-Ryan GOP ticket
Team USA gymnast McKayla Maroney is decidedly unimpressed with the Romney-Ryan GOP Presidential ticket, which was announced earlier this morning. (via @standupkid)
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8.10.2012
Gingerbreadmama Gossip Wrap: Loads of TV scoop, Joss Whedon’s return to the small screen and where in the world is R.Patt edition
Gingerbreadmama Says: That’s A Wrap!
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Joss back on my TV? Oh YES!
Joss Whedon is “developing a live-action series featuring Marvel characters for ABC.” His last foray with television was back in 2010, with Dollhouse (a really, really good show in my opinion – stupid Fox for cancelling it) and life just isn’t the same without Joss in it on a weekly basis so this is very.exciting.news!
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And bonus bonus, his Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is going to air on The CW.
We are just getting started, we've got an oversized edition of gossip this week which will also get you caught up on this weekends movie openings and the secret to six pack abs.... after the jump!!
Sleep Is For Pussies
"One morning my daughter came into the living room with a nature book. She said she wanted to ask me a question. She showed me a picture of a large snake eating a frog and asked me how the snake could eat something so large. I told her that snakes can unhinge their jaws to eat things that are larger than they are.
She thought for a moment and then said, "That's like the woman who looks in my window does."
-Jaw
Let's talk NoSleep...
When I Grow Up
One day I'll grow up
Or maybe I won't
Because grownups are dumb
So today I'll be young.
Or maybe I won't
Because grownups are dumb
So today I'll be young.
8.09.2012
From the Desk of the Editor in Chief: Olympic Edition
There have been a few items I want to call out here because I find them particularly interesting. First up is this collection of synchronized swimmers faces from buzzfeed.com.
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I've got some other items of note for you including some controversial moments after the jump!
8.07.2012
GreenTech Geek: Tea Leaves for the Reading
Sometimes my job as GreenTech Geek -- bringer of news, information and opinions about the environment, sustainability, and technology -- is just a little too easy. Like today. Why? Because all I have to do is present two stories from two different -- and both extremely unlikely -- sources that have appeared over the last few days. They begin to paint a picture that even the hardiest of climate change skeptics will have trouble disregarding.
Here goes ... after the jump ...
The Newsroom Recap: 5/1
Reflect and Enjoy
by: Lady Sharon
by: Lady Sharon
This episode opens at the one year and one week anniversary party for News Night 2.0. It takes place on 5/1, the day Osama bin Laden was killed. Anniversaries are days to reflect on the past and look forward toward the future. Bin Laden’s killing prompted the News Night crew and all of America to reflect back on 9/11. And here, us viewers got some hints about what might transpire as the first season of The Newsroom starts to wrap up.
This ep was very focused on how the newsroom works during one particular event, a major world event that happens with little notice. Thank you! This is the “formulaic” episode, the one that we should expect most episodes to be like. Finally! It only took seven episodes and it was really enjoyable.
Please sir, I’d like some more! And I know you do too, so read on after the jump.
8.06.2012
True Blood Recap: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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| Eric tries to escape the Authority. Good luck! Photo credit: true-blood.net |
Pigs, a Dragon, and Two Flies on the Wall
by SDMattchew
I wish I had True Blood GPS, so I could tell you where the remainder of this season is headed. Sadly, I had only tonight's episode to help me wager any guesses. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" had even more plot twists and developments than last week, one as ridiculous as pigs ready to eat two main characters.
The episode did have a few fun moments, however. And it wrapped up one particularly annoying plot line, which I happily stand up and applaud it for.
Find out what wrapped up and what went down after the jump!
8.05.2012
Mars Curiosity Landing Live Blog: Straight From NASA HQ
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| That's just silly: the street isn't wide enough to park a space shuttle! |
At 1:15 am ET Curiosity will land. On Mars. And we'll see it live with less of a delay than NBC is showing the London Olympics.
And away we go!
10:15 p.m. We arrive at NASA headquarters, and are greeted by cool breezes and a chill in the air. Not. It's 83 degrees with 90% humidity. Thank you, Mid-Atlantic summers.
10:45 p.m. Security comes outside and apologizes for not being allowed to let us in until 11:30. It begins raining, and when that only makes it hotter, I silently begin to weep, missing San Diego's 74 and sunny everyday weather.
11:30 p.m. NASA lets us in at 11:30 on the dot, and we fill into the James Webb Auditorium. I'm wicked jealous of the 8 year old girl next to me who was smart enough to wear footed pajamas.
11:45 p.m. - 12:45 a.m. Lots of tweeting, Facebooking, and general geeking out as we watch the NASA TV feed from JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Pasadena, Calif.
12:50 a.m. We're informed Curiosity is within 5,000 miles of landing. A small cheer erupts in the auditorium.
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| A room full of wicked smart, wicked excited folks at NASA HQ in DC. |
8.03.2012
TWL Olympics Coverage: Michael Phelps Baby Pic
We've just obtained this Olympics exclusive: the first known shot of multiple gold medal winner Michael Phelps.
8.01.2012
From the Desk of the Editor in Chief: I present, Snoop Lion!
During a visit to Jamaica back in February, Snoop (which is what I'll call him from here on out) visited an unspecified temple where an unspecified "High Priest" (surely the joke is on us here) dubbed him Snoop Lion.
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| I'm willing to best that Snoop Lion still enjoys the herb Photo: movieline.com |
