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Mila Kunis Attends The MTV Movie Awards Amid Pregnancy News

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Mila Kunis looked lovely at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, April 13, in Los Angeles.

The 30-year-old actress wore a loose-fitting black dress as she took to the stage to accept her award for Best Villain in "Oz the Great and Powerful."

"Listen, you guys, you just made my 12-year-old self dream come true," she said during her speech. "This is by far the coolest award and I just realized I was the only woman nominated and I won!"

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Kunis, who is engaged to Ashton Kutcher, also presented the MTV Trailblazer Award to her friend and "Jupiter Ascending" co-star Channing Tatum.

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Although Kunis and Kutcher have yet to address their pregnancy, multiple sources confirmed last month that the pair is expecting their first child.

'Mad Men' Season 7 Premiere Review: Flying Solo

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Do NOT read on unless you've seen "Time Zones," the Season 7 premiere of "Mad Men."

"This is a hierarchy." - Ken Cosgrove

Cast your mind back, "Mad Men" fans, to July of 2007. We were so much younger then. So innocent! Those were different times. Sigh.

But let's not get lost in memories; let's think about everything Don Draper had when "Mad Men" began.

He had a senior position at a respected ad agency, and he strutted around the place like he owned it (and later on, he and his colleagues did end up owning it). He had a great deal of status, not just at his workplace but in the industry in general; he was a rising star with limitless prospects. He had a foxy mistress with whom he could while away a Manhattan afternoon. He had a beautiful wife, as well as a large, comfortable home with relatively well-adjusted children in it.

He has none of those things now.

"Time Zones" could well be one of those "Mad Men" episodes that drives people to complain that nothing happens, but I actually think that the viewers who regularly lobbed that complaint at this drama are gone by now.

We're down to the core fans now, those who accept that what "happens" on this show has a particular flavor, mood and style. Those "happenings" can consist of a significant look, a weighted silence or a crushing realization. Things often "happen" when the camera is focused on the back of a character's head. This is a show that loves ambiguities, digressions and oblique angles. Not many shows could pull that off, but "Mad Men" has the kind of cast that makes watching people think and react a real pleasure most of the time.

Of course, big things do happen on "Mad Men," often in sensational scenes and memorable set pieces. Some episodes kick into a higher gear and a lot of dominoes get knocked over, but usually after a lot of patient set-up. That's one reason why I still have some questions about the plan to air seven episodes this year and seven episodes next year; this is a show that likes to marinate a good long while before turning up the heat. Will there be enough time for the smallest an largest events to resonate? In a March interview, creator Matt Weiner said it shouldn't be a problem. We'll see.

In any event, this episode re-introduces us to the characters' current situations and catches us up on what's happened in the two months since we last saw them. It's only January 1969, but there has been progress on a few fronts: Pete is established and happy in Los Angeles (Pete is happy? That may be the weirdest thing that "Mad Men" has ever done). Megan is also on the West Coast, trying to make it as an actress, an unseen Bob Benson is holding down the fort in Detroit, and Ted Chaough is also based in L.A., but nowhere near as happy as Pete. Roger is ... Roger.

Ken Cosgrove is barely keeping it together as the hardest working accounts man in New York, and think for a moment how much he has changed in seven seasons. Not only has his vision been reduced by 50 percent, he's stressed and ready to lose it at the drop of a hat. Season 1 Ken would never have dreamed of barking at Joan and snarling at a secretary. Remember the Ken who had a sideline in writing science-fiction stories? The man who could take or leave the shenanigans of his workplace? Remember how detached he seemed, how wise his life choices seemed -- especially the decision not to get too caught up in his career?

Yeah, that's over. And cleverly hidden in Ken's rant is one of the foundational ideas of the entire show. "Mad Men" has always been interested in the gradations of power and status: How many scenes have been about characters trying to assess who is top dog, attempting to establish dominance, and humiliating those below them on the food chain? A lot of the past six seasons has been about the brutal competition for a perch on the higher rungs of the ladder of success (that sentence could also describe a lot of the antihero-driven top-tier TV of the past decade or so, actually).

At the end of "Mad Men's" pilot episode, we'd been charmed by Don, we'd been taken in by his world and his cynical, smart worldview, but we also knew Don was not a good person. One of the main things we also learned: Don was damned good at playing the game.

In the first four or five seasons, we saw Don do the nearly impossible: He retained huge chunks of his status and hard-fought privilege, even as he dumped on more people, screwed up more and became more destructive. He had a seemingly God-given ability to get others to question their status and feel more insecure and weaker than he did. He was good at putting up a front. Even if he knew deep down that he was a dirtbag, most of the time he could still find a way to emerge nearly unscathed from personal and professional catastrophe. He kept hanging on, longer than anyone would have thought possible, to all the markers of success that he'd accumulated. It's kind of astounding, really, how long he lasted in the various hierarchies -- at his firm, in the monied middle class, in his industry.

But the path of "Mad Men" has been all about stripping those things away from Don.

He's not married -- well, he sort of is, but his second marriage is hanging by a thread. He has no mistress, and in the season premiere, he even turns down a Sylvia look-alike on the plane (well hello, Neve Campbell!).

He has no job. Don is still technically an employee and he's being paid by the firm, but he has no status, he is not in charge and he must resort to using Freddy Rumsen to sneak his pitches into the building.

His children are far away, physically and emotionally. I'd be surprised if he sees them more than once or twice a month, and I doubt that Sally, the child closest to him, has forgiven him for even half of his mistakes. He's been more honest with her, but did that truthfulness come too late?

As the season premiere ends, Don's out in the cold. Literally, as the episode ended, he could not close the patio door and found himself out in the cold, all by himself. (Please watch your immediate airspace for flying anvils. Ah, never change, "Mad Men." Sometimes the symbolism is subtle, sometimes it's as subtle as a two-by-four to the head.)

He's not really alone, in a sense. Don's world has crumbled, but so have many of the hierarchies all over society.

This is a world where Roger Sterling doesn't go home to a Junior League wife; he's having all-night bacchanals with hippies who likely reek of patchouli and self-righteous spirituality. Roger's daughter tries to upend their personal hierarchy by "forgiving" him, and what's great about that scene is that they're both right and they're both wrong. Roger is a selfish ass who never gave his daughter much time or attention, and his daughter is a grasping, spoiled brat who blames her father for all her bad choices. What they have in common is a search for cosmic answers and the inability to see how oblivious and self-absorbed they are.

Hierarchies in flux aren't always a bad or confusing thing, of course. Pete, a prisoner of the East Coast preppie establishment if there ever was one, has the look of a freed man. In New York, he was sour and discontented, and he didn't really know it was possible to cast off the shackles of his WASP heritage. But he has found a new freedom on the Left Coast, and now he has a spring in his step. As far as Pete's concerned, the East Coast was the home of the real tar pits -- the oozy spots that trapped you in one place forever.

For some, the social and professional hierarchies still present major obstacles. Joan and Peggy, for example, still have to work a lot harder to make people realize they deserve a place at the table. From the pilot onward, viewers learned to take them seriously, but people they come across continually underestimate and patronize them, and it takes a toll.

Joan is a partner in the firm, but despite her experience and knowledge, she must humor a junior executive at a shoe company, for God's sake (well, hello, Dan Byrd of "Cougar Town" fame!). Inside and outside the firm, Joan must always prove herself and make others realize that her true value has nothing to do with her looks. This leads to moments like the one in the business professor's office. She was ready, as always, to deflect a cheap come-on, but nothing could have surprised her more than the professor picking her brain about the ad business -- in a respectful way.

It's an uphill battle for Joan, and some progress, albeit glacial, has been made. The more nimble Peggy has progressed more quickly, but right now her battle isn't uphill -- it's practically vertical. Poor Pegs! Her boss, the awful Lou, doesn't see her value at all, and to him, there is no hierarchy -- the creative side of the firm is now an autocracy run by a dolt in a Mr. Rogers sweater. What Lou says goes, and the infinitely persistent Peggy cannot get him to see her point of view. He shoots her down at every turn, and seems to do so gleefully. Of course Don and Peggy fought -- a lot -- but it was often about the work. Don and Peggy are the kind of creative partners who have to needle each other but whose conflicts usually lead to better work.

Lou represents everything Don and Peggy can't stand: He favors middle-of-the-road, boring pablum and can't be bothered to think outside the box. Peggy can't get to him because he has no beating creative heart to reach. I mean, that sweater! Don would not be caught dead wearing those grandpa clothes or speaking in such corny phrases. The pained smiles on the faces of his staff say everything.

But none of those things are what makes Lou the worst. It's his inability to recognize and hone good work. There are only two things to which Don has been kind of faithful over the years: Peggy and the work (which are inextricably bound together in his mind and heart). Lou doesn't care, and that winds Peggy up to the point that she's practically an angry, frustrated Leslie Knope. Peggy can't strategize her way out of having a terrible boss, and that's a rough spot in which to be.

Over the years, a lot of critics have given several of these characters (mainly the older guys) a hard time for being unable to change with the times. But perhaps they just can't change as fast as the times are changing around them (an idea nicely encapsulated by Don's ride on the moving sidewalk at the airport: He stands still as the world moves around him). That said, Don and Peggy are far more clued in to the zeitgeist than Lou, and Peggy knows that Lou's hack work will not cut it in the irreverent, charged, unpredictable culture of 1969. Satire, wit and a certain acerbic knowingness might woo customers; cloddish, square pitches will not.

Peggy's changed a lot, but at work, it doesn't matter. She's out in the cold, figuratively, and reduced to sobbing in her dark, drab apartment.

Don has changed some. He's not hitting the sauce very hard these days (he accepts a drink on the plane, and Megan's agent orders Champagne, but to my recollection, we don't actually see him imbibe either beverage). Don also resists other old comforts: He does not bed yet another sensual brunette. He also resisted the urge to hit on a Betty look-alike in Los Angeles (Pete's Realtor). Don tries to support his wife (even as he knows his marriage is on life support, and even as he makes all the wrong gestures when he visits, like buying her a giant TV).

The guy is trying. The question is, as ever, is he trying hard enough? Is he too damaged? Will a fast-changing society consign Don Draper to the dustbin of history? And never mind his career: What does happiness, or even contentment, look like for Don Draper?

Don and his spiritual twin, Peggy, are so clearly on the outside as the season begins. Is Season 7 about how they get back on the inside? Is it how they accept their limitations and make some kind of peace with themselves? I suspect it'll be about all that, plus deeper explorations of the nature of "broken vessels" and whether or not those vessels still have some uses.

A sidebar of sorts: After an email and podcast friendship of eight years, I finally had the good fortune to meet Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, proprietors of the TV-and-fashion commentary site TomandLorenzo.com. At a promotional event for their new book, Tom (who writes the site's perceptive "Mad Men" recaps and "Mad Style" columns) summed up the show in a few apt sentences.

I'm paraphrasing, but at the reading, in response to a question from the audience, Tom said something like this: "'Mad Men' is about how you never get over your s***. You just don't. But you may learn how to deal with your s*** and work around it and cope with it better."

"Mad Men" has spent seven years peeling away the outer shells around Don Draper, and that man on the chilly balcony has no false fronts left. He is what he is, and he's starting to own that, as Oprah would say. His kids know the truth. His wives know the truth, or at least important parts of it. Even his business partners know the truth, or parts of it. Peggy knows everything that matters. His s*** is out there, it no longer has as much power to terrorize and control him.

Don really has nothing left to hide -- but this period of honesty, this time of walls falling down, coincides with a distinct lack of people or purpose in his life. Can Don have intimate relationships and be honest with himself and others, at least some of the time? Will he be able to do good work as well? We shall see, "Mad Men" fans. We shall see.

Bullet points driven by final-season nostalgia (it's the pain from an old wound):

  • I don't think I'm the only one who thought Ken's eye wound was temporary. But it looks like he may be this show's Saul Tigh.


  • Internet, have a GIF of Don and Pete eating Brooklyn Avenues on my desk by morning. Thank you.


  • Now that several characters are based in L.A., I am looking forward to seeing even more period-appropriate Los Angeles locations. The show has already used L.A. locations to stand in for a host of places in and around New York (and even Italy and elsewhere), but "Mad Men" always does such a terrific job of finding cool locations that I'm sure that groovy West Coast places will make more appearances this season.


  • This show is obsessed with doorways -- the back-of-the-head shot is a trademark, but so are shots of doors, characters standing outside doors, characters discussing doors (the door in Don's apartment that didn't work, Lou's door comment, etc). No doubt Roger has used various substances to pass through various doors of perception as well.


  • When Dan Byrd of "Cougar Town" showed up on "Mad Men," I really wanted him to order red wine at the bar.


  • When I say that Don has nothing left to hide, I should have added that, being Don, of course he still has something left to hide: Freddy is his false front for pitching work around town. If we are being honest, we have to face the face that Don will never able to be completely honest (none of us are, right?). If nothing else, using Freddy is better than just sitting around watching TV all day. And far be it from Don to admit that he needs a friend right around now.


  • Isn't it interesting that it's eight minutes into the episode before we see Don? If the final season focuses more on the show's brilliant supporting characters (who are not Betty), I think I'll be very pleased indeed.


  • When we do finally see Don, he's in the very confined quarters of the airplane bathroom. #symbolism


  • Va-va-voom! How about Megan's outfit at the airport? Methinks she still wants Don to want her, what say you?


  • Will Roger be naked more often than clothed this season? Discuss.


  • Another show that is interested in the use and abuse of power and the evolution of hierarchies: "Game of Thrones." A while back I did a whole post comparing the shows and discussing similarities between some of the characters.


  • Megan's agent: "I'll say one thing about this girl -- she evokes strong feelings!" Mwhahaha, meta-shoutout to all the Megan chatter during the last few seasons.


  • I don't think Don will be seeing the Neve Campbell character again. That said, you Neve-r know. (Hahahaha! I am as funny as Lou!)


  • Part of the reason I think Don rejected Neve's character: He knows it's the wrong thing to do and won't help him in the long run. Also: Her husband is dead, ergo she's available. If an affair is not transgressive in some major way, he's not interested.


  • "Peachy! I'll cut up some firewood." Lou = The Worst.


Come back next week for more "Mad Men" fun -- I'll be reviewing each episode of this half of the first season. See you next time!

Josh Hutcherson Honors Philip Seymour Hoffman During MTV Movie Awards

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"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" won Movie of the Year during Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. Stars Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin accepted the award, and Hutcherson used the win to pay tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Oscar-winning actor, who died in February, played Plutarch Heavensbee in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and the forthcoming, two-part "Hunger Games" finale, "Mockingjay."

The Hoffman portion of Hutcherson's speech is transcribed below:

I know that if Philip were here, he would really think this is really cool. To have him in our movies was one of the coolest things in the world. He's one of the actors I've looked up to my entire life. We think about him every day on set. Wherever he is, this definitely goes out to him as well.

Paul Walker Tribute Video Presented At MTV Movie Awards

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“When you put good will out there, it’s amazing what can be accomplished.”

That quote acted as the bookend to the heartfelt tribute to Paul Walker at the MTV Movie Awards April 13. Two minutes were set aside to honor the career, life and legacy of the late actor.

Jordana Brewster, Walker’s longtime “Fast and Furious” co-star, introduced the tribute video with a few words about the actor’s personality.

“Whether he was tagging great white sharks for research or helping victims of natural disasters through his organization Reach Out WorldWide, Paul's kindness was pure,” Brewster said. “He never asked for credit or glory. He was just a really good guy.”

Walker’s life tragically ended back in November after a car accident in which the Porsche he was riding in as a passenger sped out of control and struck a light pole. The driver of the car, Walker’s friend Roger Rodas, died in the wreck as well.

Megan Fox Calls Michael Bay 'Lovely,' Which Is A Whole Lot Better Than Calling Him 'Hitler'

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Looks like Megan Fox has reconciled with Michael Bay after their infamous feud in 2009.

In an interview last week with Entertainment Weekly for her movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," which is set to come out in August, Fox called Bay "lovely" and "loveable." A far cry from calling him "Napoleon" and "Hitler," for sure.

When asked about the movie's executive producer, Fox said:

He was one of the most lovely people that I dealt with in making this movie. I've always loved Michael. We’ve had our battles in the past but even when I’ve been really outspoken about difficulties we’ve had, I’ve always followed up by saying that I have a particular affinity to him. He can be very vulnerable, and he’s very likeable and loveable. I’ve always been very vocal about that as well. But, sometimes we clash because we both have very willful, powerful personalities.


Fox memorably compared her "Transformers" director to the genocidal Nazi leader in an interview with Wonderland magazine in 2009:

"He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation," Fox said at the time. "He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it's endearing to watch him."

In 2011, Bay addressed firing his leading lady from the "Transformers" franchise after two films, saying he wasn't insulted but had received orders from the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, to "fire her right away."

"I wasn't hurt, because I know that's just Megan. Megan loves to get a response," Bay told GQ. "And she does it in kind of the wrong way. I'm sorry, Megan. I'm sorry I made you work twelve hours. I'm sorry that I'm making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy."

Speaking about the third "Transformers" installment after its release in 2011, Bay said losing Fox "was a small speed bump. This movie is way bigger than the leading lady."

Well, as long as they have since kissed and made up!

For much more with Fox and "TMNT," head over to Entertainment Weekly.

Gwen Stefani Rocks Coachella Six Weeks After Giving Birth

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Beyoncé wasn't the only surprise guest at Coachella over the weekend — Gwen Stefani made an unexpected appearance on stage as well!

Mel B Is One Amazing Twerker

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Guys, guys, this is the most important thing you'll see all day, or maybe all year: it's Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B, also known as Scary Spice, twerking her heart out. Honestly, it's probably the most impressive celebrity twerking we've seen to date.

This 'Breaking Bad' 'Frozen' Mashup Is The Perfect Answer To The 'Do You Want To Build A Snowman' Question

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What do you get when you combine the highest grossing animated film of all time with one of the most iconic TV dramas in history? A mashup for the ages.

By now, you've watched "Frozen" at least a dozen times and are intimately familiar with every line of the "Do You Want To Build A Snowman" song. But after watching the countless renditions posted on YouTube and having children pass you by on the street, belting out the lyrics as they go, you might be slowly losing your mind. It's April, we've dealt with Polar Vortexes and months of cold weather, so no, we don't want to build a snowman.

Thankfully, Jesse Pinkman feels the same. Check out the mashup above.

'Game Of Thrones' Stars Drop $1,200 On Miami Feast Before Royal Wedding

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The Lannisters aren't the only ones flush with cash -- sources tell TMZ, "Games of Thrones" stars Gwendoline Christie and Pedro Pascal dropped $1,200 Friday on dinner in Miami.

RuPaul's Drag Race and the Danger of Overpolicing Language

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"Tranny," "sissy," "sex change," and "she-male" are self-identifying slang words used by gender-nonconforming people -- mostly performers, artists, sex workers, and others considered to be living on the fringe of our queer community. Although we use these words playfully to relate, empower, and communicate, these words, like the word "gay," are sometimes used to disrespect us.

When I first transitioned, I proudly identified as a "tranny" until people within the trans community told me the word was offensive to them. I complied but quickly realized that while striving to be accepted by the hetero-dominated world, the upper echelons of the trans community were trying to sweep the fringe under the rug by censoring the language with which they identify. In addition to banishing "tranny," "sissy," "sex change," and "she-male" as slander, they insisted that the users of these words were the oppressors, making themselves the victims -- a well-worn tool of manipulation and control.

As an artist, I love language, and I cherish free speech. RuPaul has been the number-one defender of these, and at the same time he continues to support every shade of queerness within our community, no matter the class. Drag is punk and should never be subjected to politically correct ideals. The moment it stops provoking is the moment it fails as an art form. Trans people are forever indebted to drag for the mainstream explosion of gender as we see it today.

Psychologists have long recognized the importance of play in childhood development of identity, and as people who have had the formation of queer identities delayed by social suppression, we need to remember the importance of play in our adult lives. The current class war within our community and its overpolicing of language threatens the core of our creative abundance. Are we really willing to sacrifice the heartbeat of our queer identities in order to calm the hissing ego of fanaticism?

Perhaps we might be better off acknowledging that controlling the people around us only gives us the illusion of control, a fleeting distraction from the core of our empowerment: the realization that we are only victims if we allow ourselves to be. Yes, we all have wounds, but let's stop projecting them onto our allies.

What I Learned From Miley Cyrus

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Last week, I saw Miley Cyrus in concert at the Verizon Center in D.C. and what a crash course in modern culture it was. Wake up, Marion Winik, it is 2014 and we are going all in!

Having begun my own concert-going career in the 1970s, when a show consisted of a bunch of guys in blue jeans and t-shirts playing guitars under flashing purple lights, and not having kept up closely with the pop extravaganza developments of Gaga & Co., I spent much of the evening with my jaw literally hanging open. Though I doubt I can come up with any better phrase than did Washington Post music critic Chris Richards -- "Twerk du Soleil" -- let me tell you about my night with the lovely and talented badass, Ms. Destiny Hope Cyrus, aka Miley. (Billy Ray, what were you thinking?)

My friend Amy and I journeyed to D.C. with our daughters Jane and Lily, who had secured the tickets the day they went on sale -- very nice first-mezzanine seats for 150 bucks a pop. The girls prepared by decorating shorts and t-shirts with day-glo slogans like "LOVE MONEY PARTY" and "BANGERZ." I prepared by studying lists of recommended Washington restaurants and found a vegetarian ramen served across the street at a place called Daikawa that is one of 40 things you should eat before you die. For me, it's always about the food.

Perhaps you are wondering, as I did, what BANGERZ means. I thought perhaps it referred to the British word for hotdogs, and she did fly around the arena on a giant weiner at the end of the show, so maybe I'm not totally wrong. According to Urban Dictionary, it means those who "radiate unbelievable swag." Miley all the way!

Flooding into the venue were armies of teenage girls. These girls were clad almost to a one in midriff shirts, usually in combination with leggings, stretchy shorts or a skirt. They looked as if they were going to work out, and in fact they were; Miley would soon threaten mayhem if she saw anyone sitting down. Almost all were too young to buy the beer they were selling in the arena (the artist herself is 21) and I saw and smelled little evidence of drug use, which was another contrast to the addled concert audiences of yesteryear. In a tribute to our past, Amy and I pre-gamed with a slim, frosted bottle of Skinny Girl Margaritas.

The arena was decked out as if for a birthday party, with rafts of pastel balloons, and the opening act began on the dot of 7 p.m. -- it was those two cute girls from art school in Sweden, Icona Pop, dressed like Cherokee strippers. You know the ones -- they drove their car into a bridge and I don't care! I love it! I don't care! I love it! Can you imagine how easy it is to get a roomful of teenage girls chanting this? The ladies had learned a few other key English expressions: "How many of you are here with your best friend?" "How many of you like to effin' do whatever you effin' want?"

In the interval after the opening act, I noticed the girl behind me studying her social studies notes about the Roaring '20s. It was a Thursday night, after all.

At last the lights dimmed, the audience whipped out their phones to start the filming (Janet has several dozen videos of the concert) and a two-story-high image of Miley Cyrus's beautiful '40s-movie-star face appeared on the screen in front of the room, eyes rolling and mouth opening and closing mechanically. She stuck out her tongue, as she so loves to do, and from the image of her tongue on the screen a three-dimensional, Pepto Bismol pink, inflatable tongue slide emerged, and Miley Cyrus herself shot down it to take the stage.

This is when I realized that Miley Cyrus is a conceptual artist, for Pete's sake, an impression that was not dispelled by her outfit -- a red-and-white gingham checked onesie, like a country-western ice-skating costume -- nor by the giant garish dancing stuffed animals who joined her onstage. Immediately, all her faux masturbating and butt-twitching was revealed as less about sex or the male gaze (the only males gazing were dads, gay couples and a few whipped boyfriends) than about rebellious girl power. I know she is supposed to be distancing herself from Hannah Montana but the po-mo pop star theme has just evolved, now including many hilarious levels of self-mockery. Basically, her whole fan base grew up on the show and is feeling just like she is now, crazy, feisty, feasting on shock value, ready to go all in!

In her slight country twang, almost every sentence including both the F word and "you guys," she told us she had been having a really bad week. Of course, we'd all heard her beloved dog, Floyd, was eaten by a freak Hollywood coyote, that she had cried all the way through her subsequent show at Barclay's Center, and that she'd had to cancel her Charlotte, NC show two days earlier for the flu. She was putting sadness and sickness behind her now, though, because she could tell that this D.C. crowd was ready to effing party and she felt that way too, so get up and don't sit down because we are goin' all in!

Each song had its own amazing video, starting with an eye-popper by Ren and Stimpy animator John Kricfalusi. Overall, the videos were so great and trippy I could have watched them by themselves, but wild props kept distracting my attention -- a 20-foot high fluffy orange Snuffleupagus-looking thing operated by two puppeteers; a gold-plated low-rider car on which she rode in her sequinned marijuana-leaf maillot; a gigantic Egyptian-style monolith of her dead dog with scary glowing eyes; and a super-cheesy dancing Mt. Rushmore and Lady Liberty. Another time she used audience-supplied props, having everyone turn on their iPhone flashlights for synchronized swaying. (My friend Amy squinted at her phone in perplexity until daughter Lily showed her how to turn on the flashlight.) The effect was very beautiful -- better and safer than the days of wine and matches.

On her trancey ballad, "Adore You," a Kiss-Cam roved the audience to put images of couples kissing -- "with lots of tongue!" Miley ordered -- on the big screen. They had to look pretty hard; this wasn't really a date-night crowd. Each couple featured got a roar of approval but the loudest cheers were for the two-guy pairings, which moved me. The girls love their gay boys, as well they should.

In a set performed in a backwards-facing glitter baseball cap on a pop-up stage at the rear of the arena (by the way, there was indeed a live band of guys in jeans and t-shirts), Miley continued to show off her big voice, good taste in music and ability to curse. The set included Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," Coldplay's "The Scientist" and Dolly Parton's "Jolene," the last of which was filled with some raunchy new invective for that effing slut Jolene. (Remember, Dolly played her aunt on the show.) During this set, Miley ordered the audience to stop taking selfies so she could take a selfie -- she didn't want it to look like her whole audience was just sitting there taking selfies, she explained.

Jane's review of the evening was delivered as soon as the lights came up. "This was the best night of my life," she proclaimed. I love that my daughter loves Miley so much (though truth be told, she loves Taylor even more) because to me. Miley is not really about sex or drugs; she is no Britney Spears and no Little Wayne. She is about in-your-face, devil-may-care good humor and fun, about being in charge of your own image, about being able to laugh at yourself, about having a body like an Olympic athlete and dancing for hours on end. She is wonderful combination of artifice, camp and naturalness. When she missed a line of "Wrecking Ball" during her encore set, she said "Sorry guys, I spaced out thinking about what I'm gonna eat after the show. I'm so hungry!"

By then it was 11; the kids were home in bed by midnight. I just hope that sweet girl behind me did well on her Roaring '20s test.

Drake Pulls Classiest Move Ever And Visits Texas Girl With Cancer Just To Make Her Feel Special

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Well, Drake may have just officially won himself the title of sweetest rapper ever.

When 15-year-old Kennedy Brown was unable to finish the school year at Houston’s Carnegie Vanguard High School due to a terminal brain tumor, her classmates stepped up to make sure that she didn't miss out on any major school events.

Last Monday, they held a 'high school in a day' experience for the teen who's been battling cancer for two years, according to ABC News. The students threw an early prom for Kennedy -- and crowned her prom queen -- before holding a graduation ceremony during which she received her diploma. The mascot from her favorite NBA team, the Houston Rockets, was even on hand to help with the surprises.

But Kennedy's classmates had one more plan up their sleeves.

When their local TV station KTRK ran a story about the festivities, the students asked viewers to tweet at Drake, in the hopes of catching the rapper's attention so he would send a message to Kennedy. In just a matter of hours, the hashtag #DrakeForKen went viral, according to KTRK.

Sure enough, Drake heard them.

On Friday night, Kennedy's father, Tony Brown, received a call from Drizzy himself who shared some good news: He was going to make a special trip to visit Kennedy.

Drake spent this past Saturday hanging out with Kennedy, her family and a few of her friends, and, from the looks of his Instagram, he had just as much fun as the family did.









Stay classy, Drizzy.

Emma Stone Rocks See-Through Top At 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Premiere In Rome

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Emma Stone wowed (once again) on the red carpet while promoting "The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro" in Rome, Italy on Monday, April 14.

The redheaded beauty rocked a glittery Valentino skirt which she paired with a black bra and see-through top, also by Valentino. The blouse featured a big bow at the collar.

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“My mom always told me to do what makes me happy and dress for me. I was lucky, when I was young, to have a female role model in my life that was very much about me being myself," Stone told Cosmopolitan of her thoughts on style critics. "And with beauty and fashion, it’s supposed to be fun and experimental. I like the individuality of it all.”

Well, Emma has obviously never had a problem displaying her individuality on the red carpet.

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Jenny McCarthy Claims She Is 'Pro-Vaccine' In Sun-Times Op-Ed

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Noted anti-vaccination advocate Jenny McCarthy is describing herself as "pro-vaccine" now.

McCarthy, "The View" co-host who has campaigned against vaccinations due to a widely discredited alleged link to autism, claimed in a Saturday op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times that she has been "wrongly branded" for years when it comes to her position on the matter.

In the column, McCarthy said she's been labeled as "anti-vaccine" due to "blatantly inaccurate blog posts about my position" that were "accepted as truth by the public at large as well as media outlets (legitimate and otherwise), who have taken those false stories and repeatedly turned them into headlines."

"This is not a change in my stance nor is it a new position that I have recently adopted," she continued. However, her column still left room for the idea that vaccines are dangerous, and McCarthy wrote that she agreed with a blogger who described being in a "gray zone" when it comes to believing vaccines are completely safe for children.

In the op-ed, McCarthy referenced a 2009 interview with Time magazine's Jeffrey Kluger, in which she also denied that she was trying to eliminate vaccines. In that interview, McCarthy said she was actually "demanding safe vaccines" and working to "reduce the schedule and reduce the toxins."

Kluger, however, pointed out in an open letter published Saturday that McCarthy left several key quotations from the 2009 Time story out of her Sun-Times missive -- including "if you ask a parent of an autistic child if they want the measles or the autism, we will stand in line for the f--king measles."

Kluger characterized McCarthy's op-ed as an attempt to "whitewash her anti-vaccine stand:"

Jenny, as outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough continue to appear in the U.S.—most the result of parents refusing to vaccinate their children because of the scare stories passed around by anti-vaxxers like you—it’s just too late to play cute with the things you’ve said. You are either floridly, loudly, uninformedly antivaccine or you are the most grievously misunderstood celebrity of the modern era.


McCarthy's Saturday column was published despite Susanna Negovan, the Sun-Times "Splash" publisher and editor, promising when McCarthy was first brought on as a blogger for the publication that she would not "be writing about vaccines or giving medical advice."

Former doctor Andrew Wakefield attempted to connect vaccinations and autism in a 2008 paper that was found to be "an elaborate fraud" by the British Medical Journal. Wakefield's medical license was subsequently revoked. The idea of a link has also been discredited by scientific studies.

A recent study found that efforts by public health groups to counter the myth that there's a link between vaccines and autism could actually be backfiring and leading more parents to choose not to vaccinate their children.

Parents who are opting out of vaccination, public health officials say, are likely contributing to a resurgence of preventable diseases like the measles and whooping cough in the U.S.

Frances Bean Cobain Hits Up Coachella With Fiance Isaiah Silva

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Frances Bean Cobain was noticeably absent from Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday, April 10. The 21-year-old old couldn't make the event because she was ill, according to her mother, Courtney Love. Cobain appeared to have made a full recovery by Sunday, when she was spotted at Coachella with her fiance, Rambles frontman Isaiah Silva.

Perhaps the most clothed celebrity at the festival Cobain, dressed in leggings and an oversized black t-shirt, stood out in a sea of girls wearing flowers in their hair and jean shorts that could double as underwear. Meanwhile, Silva's unkempt shoulder-length hair and layered cardigans will undoubtedly spur comparisons to Cobain's late father Kurt, but aside from embracing the grunge look, we can't say we really see it.

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'The Walking Dead' Creator Says Jon Hamm Would Be Perfect For Negan

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Will Jon be going H.A.M. on walkers?

Robert Kirkman, creator of "The Walking Dead," said in an interview with MTV that he is 99 percent sure that "TWD" comic book villain Negan is coming to the show and Jon Hamm would be perfect for the part.

"I think Jon Hamm would be perfect," said Kirkman; though, he was quick to add, "I think after 'Mad Men' has run, Jon Hamm is going to have a Tom Hanks level film career, so I don't think he'll be coming back to television anytime soon. Although that would be cool!"

Negan, a notorious villain in the comics, is known as the leader of a group called The Saviors and carries around a barbed wire covered baseball bat he calls Lucille.

On the subject of Negan, Kirkman told MTV, "I wouldn't expect Negan too terribly soon, although he is definitely in the plan. It's a 99 percent lock that he's going to be in the show eventually, so be on the lookout for that."


Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" premieres in October 2014 on AMC.

"Mad Men" airs Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT on AMC.


This Is What The Tribeca Film Festival Looked Like In 2004

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The 2014 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with the world premiere of "Time is Illmatic," a documentary about Nas' iconic "Illmatic" album. Over the next two weeks, stars such as Chris Messina, Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley and Katie Holmes will descend on New York City for the annual event. Exciting! More exciting? To celebrate this year's Tribeca Film Festival, HuffPost Entertainment got out a time machine and looked back on 2004's gathering of industry favorites. (Apologies in advance to Mila Kunis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Vanessa Hudgens.)

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Steve Buscemi, Meg White and Jack White at the premiere of "Coffee and Cigarettes"

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David Duchovny and Robin Williams at the premiere of "House of D"

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Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer at the premiere of "Dear Frankie"

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Edward Burns and Christy Turlington at the premiere of "Looking for Kitty"

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Ashley Olsen, Robert De Niro and Mary-Kate Olsen at the premiere of "New York Minute"

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Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen at the premiere of "New York Minute"

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Joan Cusack, John Corbett and Kate Hudson at the premiere of "Raising Helen"

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Goldie Hawn, Robert De Niro and Kate Hudson at the premiere of "Raising Helen"

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Ben Chaplin and Claire Danes at the premiere of "Stage Beauty"

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Eva Mendes at the premiere of "Stage Beauty"

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The Black Eyed Peas at a concert sponsored by American Express

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Vanessa Hudgens at the premiere of "Thunderbirds!"

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the premiere of "Thunderbirds!"

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Sandy Cohen Peter Gallagher at something called the AMEX Lobby

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Joey McIntyre and Mila Kunis at the afterparty for "Tony and Tina's Wedding"

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 16 to April 27.

'Gone Girl' Trailer: The Meaning Of Ben Affleck's Life Is She

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"I did not kill my wife," Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne says with a calm demeanor at the very end of the new "Gone Girl" trailer. "I am not a murderer." David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling thriller is due out later this year, and 20th Century Fox released the film's first teaser on Monday. It's a great one, filled with the sterilized images that fans have come to expect from Fincher, what appears to be a top-notch performance from Affleck (he even sells wearing a Mets hat) and the best-ever usage of Elvis Costello's cover of "She." (Sorry, "Notting Hill.") The only issue? The briefest of glimpses at the title character, Rosamund Pike's Amy Dunne. Despite that, Pike still makes an impact here, something that portends to her forthcoming breakout.

"Gone Girl" is out in theaters on Oct. 3.

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Pamela Anderson Finally Starts To Remove Barbed Wire Tattoo

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Pamela Anderson has finally come to her senses and is in the process of removing the barbed wire tattoo that wraps around her left bicep.

The 46-year-old actress got the armband inked back in 1995 specifically for the movie "Barbed Wire," telling the Los Angeles Times at the time, "The makeup people were going to paint this on my arm every day, but I had a tattoo artist just sketch it on me and I wore it around for a half a day to see how it looked. I decided I'd just go ahead and get it done. I love it. I think it's very feminine, for barbed wire."

Nineteen years later, it seems that Anderson has finally tired of the tattoo. The former "Baywatch" star was spotted at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on April 12, and lo and behold, the tattoo is barely visible these days.

It's not the first time Anderson has regretted her ink. After she divorced Tommy Lee in 1998, the actress changed the tattoo on her ring finger to read "Mommy," instead of "Tommy."

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Pam Anderson in 1996; March 11, 2014; and April 12, 2014.
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