Love It Or Hate It With Geri Halliwell


Oh Geri, what were you thinking? The Spice Girl formerly known as Ginger Spice attended the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Party at the Hampton Court Palace in London looking like she should be on the top of a cake.
Geri looks fabulous if she was either walking down the aisle or attending prom, but I?m not sure I love this look for a benefit party! Also I don?t think the hair goes with the dress.
Don?t get me wrong, I love Geri and I think she looks fab but I do not love this dress. What do you think?
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Rebecca Black -- I'm Not a Singer, I'm a BIKINI Model

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There is a MAJOR Rebecca Black crisis on Facebook -- with allegations of deception, identity theft ... and most importantly a smoking hot bikini model ... who happens to be named Rebecca Black.
Turns out, there's more than one person on Earth named Rebecca Black -- one of whom is a self-described, "fitness bikini competitor." And she has the photos to prove it.
Black (bikini) tells TMZ ... sometime in the past week, her friend list on Facebook exploded from 800 friends to 73,000 ... and she had no idea how it happened. Black started getting emails from upset fans of the singer -- accusing her of intentionally hijacking the 14-year-old's page ... but Black (bikini) claims she never tried to steal anyone's identity.�
Black (bikini) insists Facebook is to blame for somehow "merging" her account with Black's (singer) without her permission.
We called Facebook for comment -- so far no word back.
Still, there is a silver lining here ... check out the AWESOME bikini pics -- Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.

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?Moneyball? review: Brad Pitt?s best (and hottest) performance ever?

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OK, I went to see Moneyball with my mother yesterday, and something really weird happened: my mother is now in love with Brad Pitt. She always sort-of liked him, as is she would say things like ?He?s very pretty and kind of talented, meh.? But she was having a hot flash for him in Moneyball. It helps that all of a sudden, Brad looks a hell of a lot like Robert Redford. He?s always been Redford-ish, and obviously, people have always made the Pitt-Redford comparison, but this movie? dear God, Brad looks good. So much of the movie is based on his face in closeup too - and you know what, Pitt-haters? He doesn?t look like he?s had any work done on his face, at all. His eyes are lined and baggy. His skin is sagging a bit. But he looks like what he is: a very, very attractive man in his 40s. My mom kept saying, ?He doesn?t look young any more. He doesn?t look a pretty young guy now. He?s filled out, and DAMN it looks good.?

Of course, it helps that the movie was really, really good. The theatre I went to was packed, with men and women of all ages. I was surprised that there weren?t more kids there - not little kids, but like 10-13 year-olds, because I could see this being a film that would be nice for a father to see with his tween son or daughter. It?s a surprisingly clean, well-acted, charming story. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it too - it?s not some art-house flick about math and a boring general manager of a baseball team. There are some funny lines, there?s a lot of heart and sweetness, and the story was just told in a great way.

If you don?t know the basics of the plot by now - it?s just about Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, and how he challenged professional baseball by disregarding the traditional thinking of how to put together a team. Instead of listening to scouts and trying to buy the best known players, Beane hires Peter Brand, a young Yalie who convinced Beane to put together a team of misfits and undervalued players using computer analysis and cold, hard numbers. Jonah Hill (under)plays Brand brilliantly, and Joanh and Brad?s chemistry is really sweet. Jonah really impressed me - I didn?t know he could do this kind of understated dramatic role, and he just nailed it.

Other notables: Robin Wright?s role (as Beane?s ex-wife and mother of his daughter) was very simple, but she made an impression. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the A?s manager Art Howe, who? I hope wasn?t this big of a d-bag. There were also a scene-stealing performances by Chris Pratt (who played Scott Hatteberg, a first-baseman who was scared of the ball) and Kerris Dorsey, who played Beane?s daughter. She was adorable.

Oh, and if Brad doesn?t get an Oscar nomination for this movie, I?ll eat my hat. It was so wonderful to see him do this kind of mainstream, Robert Redford-ish film. I?m still giggling over one scene in which Beane, who is always eating, is anxious about a trade, so in-between calls he begins to panic-eat by shoving a handful of stuff (popcorn?) into his mouth.

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Newlyweds Tara Reid & Zack Kehayov Have A Dinner Date

Newlyweds Tara Reid and Zack Kehayov were spotted going out to dinner at Boa Steakhouse. Well, Tara may have been evicted from the ?Celebrity Big Brother? house in the UK, but she?s probably eating better here in the states, at least.

Tara and Zack look like they?re settling into married life in Los Angeles: I don?t think I?ve seen Tara look this happy in a loooong time. Hopefully things go well for them!

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?Moneyball? review: Brad Pitt?s best (and hottest) performance ever?

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OK, I went to see Moneyball with my mother yesterday, and something really weird happened: my mother is now in love with Brad Pitt. She always sort-of liked him, as is she would say things like ?He?s very pretty and kind of talented, meh.? But she was having a hot flash for him in Moneyball. It helps that all of a sudden, Brad looks a hell of a lot like Robert Redford. He?s always been Redford-ish, and obviously, people have always made the Pitt-Redford comparison, but this movie? dear God, Brad looks good. So much of the movie is based on his face in closeup too - and you know what, Pitt-haters? He doesn?t look like he?s had any work done on his face, at all. His eyes are lined and baggy. His skin is sagging a bit. But he looks like what he is: a very, very attractive man in his 40s. My mom kept saying, ?He doesn?t look young any more. He doesn?t look a pretty young guy now. He?s filled out, and DAMN it looks good.?

Of course, it helps that the movie was really, really good. The theatre I went to was packed, with men and women of all ages. I was surprised that there weren?t more kids there - not little kids, but like 10-13 year-olds, because I could see this being a film that would be nice for a father to see with his tween son or daughter. It?s a surprisingly clean, well-acted, charming story. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it too - it?s not some art-house flick about math and a boring general manager of a baseball team. There are some funny lines, there?s a lot of heart and sweetness, and the story was just told in a great way.

If you don?t know the basics of the plot by now - it?s just about Oakland As general manager Billy Beane, and how he challenged professional baseball by disregarding the traditional thinking of how to put together a team. Instead of listening to scouts and trying to buy the best known players, Beane hires Peter Brand, a young Yalie who convinced Beane to put together a team of misfits and undervalued players using computer analysis and cold, hard numbers. Jonah Hill (under)plays Brand brilliantly, and Joanh and Brad?s chemistry is really sweet. Jonah really impressed me - I didn?t know he could do this kind of understated dramatic role, and he just nailed it.

Other notables: Robin Wright?s role (as Beane?s ex-wife and mother of his daughter) was very simple, but she made an impression. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the A?s manager Art Howe, who? I hope wasn?t this big of a d-bag. There were also a scene-stealing performances by Chris Pratt (who played Scott Hatteberg, a first-baseman who was scared of the ball) and Kerris Dorsey, who played Beane?s daughter. She was adorable.

Oh, and if Brad doesn?t get an Oscar nomination for this movie, I?ll eat my hat. It was so wonderful to see him do this kind of mainstream, Robert Redford-ish film. I?m still giggling over one scene in which Beane, who is always eating, is anxious about a trade, so in-between calls he begins to panic-eat by shoving a handful of stuff (popcorn?) into his mouth.

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Kate Walsh Goes Solo To See Brad Pitt In ?Moneyball?

It looks like funny roaster Kate Walsh had a low-key Saturday afternoon. She was spotted going to the movies solo. That?s part of the beauty of being single: you can do things like that without having to arrange for a sitter or negotiate childcare duties- LOL.

So what did Kate go see? Brad Pitt?s new movie, ?Moneyball.? And it sounds like she was impressed:

Tw?eeps, I snuck out to watch ?moneyball? I enjoyed. Turns out: brad pitt is a movie star.

Have you had a chance to see ?Moneyball?? Would you recommend it, even if you aren?t the biggest baseball fan?

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Newlyweds Tara Reid & Zack Kehayov Have A Dinner Date

Newlyweds Tara Reid and Zack Kehayov were spotted going out to dinner at Boa Steakhouse. Well, Tara may have been evicted from the ?Celebrity Big Brother? house in the UK, but she?s probably eating better here in the states, at least.

Tara and Zack look like they?re settling into married life in Los Angeles: I don?t think I?ve seen Tara look this happy in a loooong time. Hopefully things go well for them!

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FANTASTIC FEST '11: Critic's Notebook

FANTASTIC FEST '11: Critic's Notebook

by Steve Dollar

The Human Centipede 2 at Fantastic Fest

Chaos reigns, as they say. And when it reigns it pours at Fantastic Fest. Austin's other major film festival brings the crazy every September, with a transglobal genre eruption that runs the gamut from "action" to "zombie," and a high volume both of fanboy geeking and hardcore cinephilia. What other festival could have first visited The Human Centipede upon American shores, then gone on to award it the prize for best film? Natch, the inevitable sequel premiered as the big opening night attraction as the fest launched its seventh edition Thursday, heralded by a pre-show dance number led by FF Superfan Elijah Wood and a three-man power-eating contest involving a culinary concoction described as "poo sausage."

The Human Centipede 2

Nothing if not inspirational, the original THC was classic exploitation. As much a brilliant, silly, transgressive marketing concept as a film, it quickly generated a porn parody and a South Park shout-out, DIY human centipede chains at pool parties, fan-made tattoos and art pieces, and endless viral meme-gasms and bad jokes. Yet, the actual movie was a sufficiently creepy exercise in biological freakout thanks to director Tom Six's focus on psychology and a chilling lead performance by German character actor Dieter Laser as the diabolical Dr. Heiter. Six's inevitable if implausible sequel takes off from another clever premise: what if one of the first film's obsessed fans took things to the next level? The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) starts there, going ass-to-meta with a new, startling found object as its focus: Martin (the extremely game Laurence Harvey, a former UK children's TV host). A morbidly obese security guard at a parking garage, Martin spends his days literally drooling over repeat viewings of the movie on his battered laptop, pausing only to masturbate with scraps of sandpaper. Life at home is an Eraserhead parody. His aged and hysterically wrung-out mother is besieged by homicidal/suicidal fixations and has no apparent remorse for the childhood sexual abuse Martin suffered?the cruel, demented echo of his father's voice forever ringing in his deformed little ears.

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John Waters couldn't have done it any greasier, as the camera serves up profuse shots of Martin's zeppelin-sized belly and ever-moist gob, his literal shithole of a London flat evoking the claustrophobia of Repulsion and the queasiness of Freaks in Six's highly subjective black-and-white. The dark comedy (?) stands on its own as genuine exercise in the grotesque, but there's that damn human centipede to build, and the movie all-too-dutifully goes about detailing how Martin bags his victims (hot babes, mostly, subdued with a tire iron), and deposits them in a dank warehouse where they wriggle and whine, muted by duct tape. The big selling point of the sequel has been the promise of the explicit gore and depravity that was mostly absent in the original movie. It's "100% Medically Inaccurate!" this time, since Martin has no clue what he's doing, creating a bold new centipede?bigger, longer, uncut?using a staple gun, a hammer and other crude tools between wheezing puffs on his asthma inhaler. It is increasingly nasty to watch, escalating from one gross-out to the next before it hits the jackpot (take that, A Serbian Film!), the monochrome palette lending a '70s-style grime to the various oozing body fluids (although there is a burst of color at a predictably disgusting moment). But the story, as such, never evolves out of its funhouse mirror effect, even with the pretty good inside joke of having THC star Ashlynn Yennie return as herself, lured to Martin's lair on the premise of an audition for a new Quentin Tarantino film. Even if Six, as was revealed in a post-screening Q&A, cast his villain by asking him to "rape a chair," he?s a compassionate director. The fake feces splattered across the screen was delicious, several of the comely cast members agreed. The secret ingredients (for those of you playing at home): rice milk, soy milk, chocolate powder and ginger biscuits ("for texture").

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I?d argue that the more transgressive film is Clown, a Danish comedy adapted from a long-running TV series that takes the men behaving badly scheme so popular in dreadful franchises like The Hangover and actually, you know, makes it funny. Frank (Frank Hvam) is a milquetoast who needs to impress his newly pregnant girlfriend that he can be a good father, or else she's going to get an abortion. His ill-fated solution (after a series of absurd mishaps put him deeper in the doghouse) is to take Bo (Marcuz Jess Petersen), her 12-year-old son, on a canoe trip with his best friend Caspar (Casper Christensen). Trouble is, its Caspar's annual "Tour de Pussy," an outward bound adventure to a one-night-only riverside whorehorse and carnival. There's no room for a kid on this field trip, especially the chubby and insecure Bo, whose lack of a masculine figure in his life is so dire that he has yet to learn how to pee standing up.

Dick jokes abound, of course, as Frank's good-natured intentions lead to hysterical social disasters and Caspar's insistent horniness compounds them (or vice-versa), the plot veering from one epic cringe to the next, with a surplus of gratuitous nudity, creepy-pervy punchlines and shock tactics that make the Farrelly Brothers appear meek. It works beautifully, because there's an oddly kindhearted message underneath the mayhem, and because said mayhem never stops. Every seemingly happy resolution sets up the next catastrophe.

Sleepless Night

Fatherhood is likewise the motor for Sleepless Night, a French thriller that stars Euro action hunk Tomer Sisley as Vincent, a crooked Parisian cop who hijacks a big drug deal and makes off with a lucrative tote bag of cocaine, only to have the young son he neglects kidnapped by a local gangster who wants his stash back. Already slated for a Hollywood remake (paging Liam Neeson), the film's calling card is its relentless action. It never stops. Director Fr�d�ric Jardin situates everything in a sprawling nightclub that becomes a kind of rat's maze for Vincent, as he tries to rescue his son while being chased by or chasing the mob boss who owns the joint, the drug dealers who bought the cocaine, the good cop who wants to bust him and the even more corrupt cop who wants to kill him, and everyone else he's pissed off, which he manages to do constantly. And, oh yeah, he's slowly bleeding to death from a stab wound suffered in the heist. Sisley's vigorous momentum and the often intricate stagings call to mind the razzle-dazzle of Paul Greengrass' Bourne movies, but with a fragile protagonist who keeps fucking everything up. If he was James Bond, then Dr. Evil would have blown up the moon already. In this construction, though, the bad guys are equally inept, and a packed disco floor makes everything way complicated?and supplies an excuse to frame a contender for the year's best chase sequence, set in the middle of a Eurotrash line dance to "Another One Bites the Dust."

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The Trailer For 'Mortal Kombat: Legacy' Debuts With Guns Blazing (VIDEO)


Fans have been eagerly awaiting updates on the possibility of more live-action adventures set in the world of 'Mortal Kombat,' the infamous video game series of the 90s. It all started last summer, when a bloody, hard-hitting short film landed on the Web from filmmaker Kevin Tancharoen, and starring Michael Jai White (of 'Black Dynamite' fame) and Jeri 'Seven of Nine' Ryan. Video game fans were happy to see a film adaptation that actually tried to match the tone and impact of its video game predecessor.

Well to all those who were hoping that the short was the start of the something more, you'll be happy to new that Tancharoen's gritty depiction of 'Mortal Kombat' will continue in a new web series called 'Mortal Kombat: Legacy' -- and we have the first trailer for it behind the jump.


'Mortal Kombat: Legacy' premieres on Machinima on April 12.


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Hot Guy Of The Day: Channing Tatum

Here?s Channing Tatum on the set of the movie ?Magic Mike,? a movie based on his past experiences working as a stripper. Is that a stripper costume he?s wearing or does it turn into some kind of action movie?

I guess we?ll have to go see it to find out what?s going on ;) . Either way, you can see why Channing would?ve found work as a stripper: he?s HAWT.

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Svedka Most illegally downloaded vodka billboard...

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Submitted by from athens on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 2:06am.
hahaha bjork,this fine actress thought she would make it to Hollywood because mediterraneo was nominated for an oscar for best foreign movie,trick went to the oscars that year and she couldn't stop talking about the famous people she sucked,i mean met

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"Meditar..." (can't spell it) is the kind of movie that old assholes go to see at The Paris or Lincoln Center theatres and fuck up everybody else's movie-going experience. They oooh and aaaah, pretending that it reminds them of their last visit there. I remember when that crap won an Oscar. And let's keep in mind that they gave an Oscar to Goopy, over Cate Blanchett, and one to Fred Astaire for his performance in "The Towering Inferno."

I hate when foreign actresses lose their dignity and fawn all over lame-ass Hollywood.

By the way, I saw "The Debt" today, and I really liked it. Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Cirian Hinds, Sam Worthington, and this other guy whose name I forget and don't feel like googling. I adore this Jessica Chastain who plays a young Mirren; she's a good actress. I'll be watching her and pray she doesn't end up on the wrong side of dlisted.



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BOOK TO SCREEN: Moneyball

BOOK TO SCREEN: Moneyball

by Vadim Rizov

Michael Lewis is a veteran journalist who sticks almost exclusively to two topics: professional sports and business/economics. His 2003 book Moneyball details Oakland A?s general manager Billy Beane?s struggles to apply the latter to the former. Ignoring decades? worth of received wisdom about appraising baseball players, Beane swapped out the insights of crusty veterans for dispassionate number-crunching performed by nerds, trying to find new statistics and more reliable measurements for what to expect from a player. The success of Beane?s theoretical tinkering is questionable?the A?s have never won a championship since his management began in 1998?but his impact in getting people to think differently about team sports is undeniable, and the methods he championed still controversial enough to instantly set off fans who despise the very idea of stats-based team-building: the release of director Bennett Miller's Moneyball film triggered, among other things, a contemptuous sports column about Paul De Podesta, Beane?s assistant in Oakland, whose short-lived stint as GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers can still drive sports columnists to sputtering rage.

Moneyball There are a lot of contentious feelings and arguments attached to Moneyball?s ideas and arguments, none of which translate into the movie itself. Beane wasn?t coming out of nowhere; he was building on the work of (among others) Bill James, who argued that baseball statistics measured the wrong things and proposed some new formulas for determining a player?s worth. The book spends a considerable amount of time detailing both James? evolving thinking and the sputtering fury he provoked in baseball traditionalists. Some of the film?s best scenes pit Beane (Brad Pitt) against a room of real baseball scouts playing themselves; their collective, dry, repetitive insistence on ?fundamentals,? the importance of a hot girlfriend (an average-looking one indicates ?low self-confidence?) and other ?intangibles? is stopped dead by Beane?s insistence on relying solely on numbers and trying to stay emotionally detached. In business, this would make sense: for them, it?s irrational anathema.

Moneyball When it comes time to explain what Beane?s statistics actually are or how they work, the film clams up: aside from a speedy montage of players being told what (not) to do (don?t bunt, walk every time), the advice basically boils down to ?Don?t be the phenomenal all-round athlete you think you should be; be the single-purpose player we tell you to be.? That?s where the film leaves it: specifics are omitted, presumably not to alienate the baseball illiterate, which is a bad decision. With the most important and compelling parts of the book?the ones that flesh out Beane?s ideas to show concretely how and why his motley crew of unwanted players fulfilled their statistical destiny?barely sketched out, the movie needs another source of drama or conflict: if the visceral passion of baseball nerds isn?t a motivator, what is?

Moneyball Lewis' portrait of the oft-abrasive Beane is mostly retained, the idea that was receptive to new methods of evaluating players because he felt that the scouts who?d promised him a superstar future had let him down is bluntly restated by one of the real-life scouts. But the book?s point is that Beane?s struggle was meaningful as a stand on principle, rationality standing against counter-productive emotional attachment to the bad old ways, a stance admirable outside of the point: this isn?t good enough as an emotional factor, apparently, so Moneyball gives us something Lewis has no interest in?button-cute daughter Casey (Kerris Dorsey), who worries her divorced dad will get fired and have to move to another city (?don?t read the internet,? he tells her). Pitt?s performance is often lively, which isn?t that hard when his character regularly gets to throw objects and upend tables to express feeling. As the film begins to conform to a typical rise-of-the-underdog arc, though, humor dies away.

Moneyball Considering the entire last third of the movie is about literal victory, it?s strange how little of the games are shown. Then again, maybe this is just to mirror Beane?s perspective, who ducks being on the field, opting instead to work out or drive around while occasionally switching on the radio to hear how the A?s are doing. The only other character of note is Jonah Hill?s amusingly fictionalized Peter Brand (clearly a stand-in for De Podesta), a big guy clearly uncomfortable being around the players and scouts responsible for the sport he loves more than anything, but he doesn?t get enough screen time. The players get one scene apiece, if that: a brief batting cage face-off with fading star David Justice (Stephen Bishop), ending with him agreeing to do like Beane asks and lead the younger players into embracing unorthodox play, is about as much dialogue time as any player gets.

Moneyball With the hard details of how Beane?s methods worked (or didn?t) eliminated and with no one else to watch for much of the running time, what we increasingly get is Brad Pitt staring balefully: sometimes while driving, sometimes in his office. Towards the end, with his head bowed during The Big Game, he looks like he?s praying in the world?s darkest church. Above ground, in slow motion, bat connects with ball: the deafening crack seemingly permeates down into the basement, with Beane?s head raised instantly. For a movie that goes out of its way to avoid coming off like a Field Of Dreams/The Natural-style sentimentalization of America?s (former) favorite pastime, it?s counter-productive to transform a struggle of principle into a vindication of one man struggling to retain his job, be a good father and so on; it?s the most solipsistic conquest imaginable. Beane argues for detachment and ignoring received wisdom onscreen, but?numerous spreadsheet montages aside?this turns out be as conservative a baseball film as any, a triumph of the underdog over nothing in particular.

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Bristol Palin heckled after enjoying a fantastic mechanical bull ride

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There?s a new Bristol Palin controversy. It involves a 47-year-old heckler, tragedy, flip-flops, alcohol, West Hollywood, ignorance, a mechanical bull, and the words ?whore,? ?devil? and ?homosexual?. Basically, it was just like Bristol was back in Wasilla. Before I start in on Bristol and this situation, can I just admit something? I?ve never had the chance to ride a mechanical bull, and seeing this bull?s moves? well, I kind of want to now. It looks like a lot of fun. This bull didn?t ?buck? as much as other mechanical bulls that I?ve seen. This one just looks like he?s doing fun things to a lady?s vagina. No wonder Bristol is giving the bull that insane, high-pitched, screech-laugh. She?s feeling something she?s never felt before (and that?s a burn on Levi Johnston, not Bristol).

Here?s the video (NSFW language and bull-ridin?)

So as Bristol falls off the bull, she kind of lays there for a second in a post-orgasmic bliss (because, you know, that bull was magic!) and then this dude yells, ?Your mother?s a WHORE!? Bristol smiles and makes eye-contact with the heckler, and gives him a little finger action (as in ?come here?). Then Bristol makes her way past the dude that she leaves hanging for a orgasm-victory high five, and goes over to the heckler. This is the conversation, lovingly transcribed by Michael K:

Bristol: What did you say?
Palin Hater: Your mother?s a whore. She?s the f?king devil, dude.
Bristol: Oh, is she? What did she do wrong?
PH: She lives, she breathes. If there is a hell, she will be there.
Bristol: Why is that?
PH: She?s evil.
Bristol: Is it because you?re a homosexual?
PH: Pretty much. And why do you say I?m a homosexual?
Bristol: Because I can just tell you are. And that?s why you don?t like my mom.
PH: No, that?s not why. Your mom is evil.
Bristol?s backup: How old are you?
PH: FORTY SEVEN YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!
Bristol?s backup: Okay, then leave her alone.
PH: Why? She came up to me.
Bristol?s backup: You said it first!

There?s more, but I didn?t feel like transcribing it. A couple of points.

1. Bristol is surprisingly filled with rage after her bull-orgasm. Usually, I just get sleepy afterwards.
2. Bristol?s gaydar is finely tuned. ?Don?t like my mom? = GAY. Amazing.

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BRADLEY COOPER COZIES UP TO SCARLETT JOHANSSON





BRADLEY COOPER COZIES UP TO SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Bradley Cooper adds another starlet to his recent string of Hollywood hookups! Life & Style has exclusively learned that Bradley cozied up with recently single Scarlett Johansson at NYC hot spot Provocateur in the wee hours of Sept. 16. "Scarlett and Bradley arrived with a small group of friends, including model Cheyenne Tozzi, around 2 a.m," an eyewitness tells Life & Style. "While Bradley was flirty with Cheyenne initially, after some drinks he turned his attention to Scarlett. The duo were hand in hand and more than flirty by the end of the night!" While the VIP couple tried to maintain a low profile there, other club goers took notice of Bradley and Scarlett. "They were here with a group of friends and ordered champagne," a second eyewitness tells Life & Style. "The group was having a good time together."

While Scarlett's rep tells Life & Style the pair are "just friends and have been for years," it seems Bradley already had his eye on Scarlett. Not only did they play lovers in the 2009 hit He's Just Not That Into You, but their surprise romance also comes just one night after Bradley was spotted on the scene with Justin Timberlake and Scarlett at 1OAK in NYC. "Bradley was dancing and drinking like crazy," an eyewitness tells Life & Style. "Nearby, Scarlett and Justin were talking to each other all night like old friends."

Definitely enjoying his bachelor status, Bradley kept close company with newly single Olivia Wilde in May and chose recently divorced J.Lo as his dinner companion at Per Se in NYC on Sept. 10. Reports suggested a budding romance between the two, but with Bradley's recent behavior, it seems the actor's in no rush to settle down.

Bradley split from his girlfriend of two years, Ren�e Zellweger, in March, while Scarlett split with husband Ryan Reynolds in December. They'd been married for more than two years.







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TIFF11: "Winnie" is a Biopic of Mrs. Mandela That Fails to Portray Her As Her Own Person

Biopic titles can be deceiving. ?The Doors? is mostly about Jim Morrison rather than the entire band. ?Searching for Bobby Fischer? is not at all about Bobby Fischer. And now ?Winnie? is a film that should be called ?Winnie and Nelson? because it?s hardly just about her. While Jennifer Hudson appears to have more total screen time in the role of South African activist Winnie Mandela (aka ?Mother of the Nation?), Terrence Howard gets the better, more important close ups and lines by portraying her more famous ex-husband, Nelson.

Sometimes it?s just that Howard draws us in more. He?s the greater actor and has the more prestigious part. I guess he?s not a bad gateway to have. For so long Americans have mainly encountered South African apartheid stories through the filter of white protagonists aiding in the struggle. Similar to the annoyance critics have with ?The Help.? This time we still have a white director at the helm?Johannesburg-born Darrell Roodt (?Cry, the Beloved Country?)?but we access much of the narrative through our familiarity with Nelson Mandela and the camera?s focus on his expression during so many instances in which we should instead be concentrated on her.

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TIFF11: "Bunohan" Balances Mystical Spirituality and Gritty Violence in an Enigmatic Borderland

Subtle spirituality and gritty kickboxing are two elements that don?t tend to come together too easily. Perhaps the films of Jean-Claude Van Damme deal with themes deeper than I?d noticed, but on the whole it?s pretty fair to say that the cinematic representations of this sport tend to be a little less than profound. ?Bunohan? tosses all of those genre conventions out the window. At times almost delicate, Dain Said?s film balances the gritty realism of Muay Thai fighting with a delicate family drama and its almost mysterious spiritual elements.

Adril (Zahril Adzim) is a kickboxer who suddenly finds himself on the run after abandoning a fight to the death. The event?s organizer, infuriated, sends Adril?s assassin half-brother Ilham (Faizal Hussein) after him on a mission to kill. There?s a third brother, Bakar (Pekin Ibrahim), who turns out to be a somewhat ruthless and greedy individual in spite of his unthreatening schoolteacher appearance. They all end up back in Bunohan (which means ?murder? in Malay), the town where they were raised. Their father is still there, holding onto the burial ground that he still owns after years of fading away. Things get complicated pretty fast, as their desires for refuge and financial gain come into stark conflict.

The melodramatic elements come through gradually, as these men pick up unexpected information about their family?s past. Their relationships complicate and their memories seem to intertwine, bringing us the occasional dreamlike flashback of Ilham?s mother, now having moved on into a spiritual afterlife. There are moments of almost mythological significance, assisted by the grand landscapes of Malaysia. The swamps and forests dwarf these men, casting the entire drama in the context of a powerful natural presence that lends eternality to this often hushed tale.

In the latter half of the film there is a moment when the father begins to put on a shadow play in the daylight hours ? a seemingly pointless act. Yet he explains that this is a ritualistic endeavor, a communication with the spirit world. The violent narrative is occasionally so interrupted by the more profound goings on of this borderland between nations, cultures, and planes. Said has constructed a marvelously dynamic and liminal universe for his film, which in many ways is the perfect compliment to the brutality of his characters.

The Muay Thai fight scenes offer stark contrast to this subtle spirituality. The gritty criminal underbelly of this intersection between Malaysia and Thailand is an unforgiving place, no less so due to the conflicting ambitions of these three brothers. There?s an unbridled sense of violence, and not only while Adril is in the midst of bloody combat. It gets confusing at times, its greatest weakness being the perhaps appropriately mangrove-like tangle of its protagonists? family tree. Yet this fascinating balance of tone manages to overcome that hurdle by the end and even if you don?t entirely understand exactly what happened, you can still appreciate the poetic accomplishment of this enigmatic film?s final scenes.

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Movie Review:Dirty Girl (2011)

Summery:Danielle, the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke, an innocent closet-case with no friends.

Genres: Comedy and Drama
Release Date: October 7th, 2011 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for for sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language.
Distributors:
The Weinstein Company


Starring: Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen
Directed by: Abe Sylvia
Produced by: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Edward Hart


Bristol Palin heckled after enjoying a fantastic mechanical bull ride

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There?s a new Bristol Palin controversy. It involves a 47-year-old heckler, tragedy, flip-flops, alcohol, West Hollywood, ignorance, a mechanical bull, and the words ?whore,? ?devil? and ?homosexual?. Basically, it was just like Bristol was back in Wasilla. Before I start in on Bristol and this situation, can I just admit something? I?ve never had the chance to ride a mechanical bull, and seeing this bull?s moves? well, I kind of want to now. It looks like a lot of fun. This bull didn?t ?buck? as much as other mechanical bulls that I?ve seen. This one just looks like he?s doing fun things to a lady?s vagina. No wonder Bristol is giving the bull that insane, high-pitched, screech-laugh. She?s feeling something she?s never felt before (and that?s a burn on Levi Johnston, not Bristol).

Here?s the video (NSFW language and bull-ridin?)

So as Bristol falls off the bull, she kind of lays there for a second in a post-orgasmic bliss (because, you know, that bull was magic!) and then this dude yells, ?Your mother?s a WHORE!? Bristol smiles and makes eye-contact with the heckler, and gives him a little finger action (as in ?come here?). Then Bristol makes her way past the dude that she leaves hanging for a orgasm-victory high five, and goes over to the heckler. This is the conversation, lovingly transcribed by Michael K:

Bristol: What did you say?
Palin Hater: Your mother?s a whore. She?s the f?king devil, dude.
Bristol: Oh, is she? What did she do wrong?
PH: She lives, she breathes. If there is a hell, she will be there.
Bristol: Why is that?
PH: She?s evil.
Bristol: Is it because you?re a homosexual?
PH: Pretty much. And why do you say I?m a homosexual?
Bristol: Because I can just tell you are. And that?s why you don?t like my mom.
PH: No, that?s not why. Your mom is evil.
Bristol?s backup: How old are you?
PH: FORTY SEVEN YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!
Bristol?s backup: Okay, then leave her alone.
PH: Why? She came up to me.
Bristol?s backup: You said it first!

There?s more, but I didn?t feel like transcribing it. A couple of points.

1. Bristol is surprisingly filled with rage after her bull-orgasm. Usually, I just get sleepy afterwards.
2. Bristol?s gaydar is finely tuned. ?Don?t like my mom? = GAY. Amazing.

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Early Edition: Blake Lively Ready for 'Savages'; New Director for 'Wolverine'; More

Blake Lively might not be taking her planned trip down the Yellow Brick Road. Lively, who won critical acclaim for her role in Ben Affleck's 'The Town,' is now first in line for the female lead in Oliver Stone's 'Savages,' a story about two Laguna Beach marijuana kingpins who are forced to work for a Mexican drug cartel after the free-spirited girlfriend they share is kidnapped, according to Variety.

Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch have been in talks to play the two male leads, with Benicio del Toro negotiating to be one of the cartel enforcers. If Lively is in fact offered the part, she may have to give up the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the East, which she was considering, in Sam Raimi's 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' for Disney. 'Savages,' which Stone will write and direct for Universal, is being eyed for a June start date.

'Wolverine' may be coming off hold soon. According to TheWrap, Fox has shown an interest in having Duncan Jones direct the film and Jones, in turn, is interested. As you'll recall, Darren Aronofsky was originally going to direct, but he pulled out in March because of scheduling issues. And since the film was to shoot in Japan -- the story line has Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, traveling to Japan to learn from a Samurai master -- the production was further delayed by the earthquake and tsunami that shattered that country. Jones, the son of David and Angela Bowie -- directed the recent 'Source Code' and cult film 'Moon.'

Matt Reeves, who made a splash as writer/director of the chilling 'Let Me In,' has been tapped by Universal to write and direct a feature based on John Carpenter's 'They Live.' The 1988 film -- which starred pro wrestler Roddy Piper -- centered on a takeover of the Earth by aliens who cloaked themselves in human form. Piper finds a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the aliens, and he helps foment a revolution against the invaders. Reeves also directed 'Cloverfield' and was a creator, writer, director and executive producer of the WB series 'Felicity.' [The Hollywood Reporter]

Alec Baldwin will be starring in Woody Allen's next film which, as is the New York director's modus operandi, has no title yet. According to Deadline, Allen has just begun putting the comedy together and may be tapping Jesse Eisenberg ('The Social Network') for a lead. The film will be shot in Rome.

Relativity Media has hired 'Crazy Heart' writer/director Scott Cooper to direct 'Out of the Furnace,' a spec script bought in 2008 about a man who, after being released from prison, just wants to lead a normal life and marry his girlfriend ... but finds himself avenging his brother's murder. [TheWrap]

Tom Wilkinson will join Samuel L. Jackson in the indie thriller 'The Samaritan,' about a former grifter (Jackson) who wants to go straight after a 20-year prison stay but gets involved in a con with the son of his former partner. Wilkinson will play a crime boss also taking part in the grift. The film is filming in Toronto and Rio de Janeiro for an early 2012 release. [Variety]



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RETRO ACTIVE: The Killer Elite (1975)

RETRO ACTIVE: The Killer Elite (1975)

by Nick Schager

The Killer Elite (1975)

What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, Nick will be taking a look at the classic genre movies that have influenced today's new releases. In honor of the Jason Statham-headlined film of the same name, this week it's Sam Peckinpah's 1975 The Killer Elite.

Following the brutally honest and financially unprofitable Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, legendary tough-guy director Sam Peckinpah turned to The Killer Elite as a means of reestablishing his box-office clout, an attempt that?as a result of his disdain for studio interference and mounting substance abuse issues?was more or less doomed from the outset. Pressured to toe the line by United Artists (the studio that had taken a bath on Alfredo Garcia), Peckinpah rebelled through sheer, unadulterated disinterest, tackling his adaptation of Robert Rostand's novel "Monkey in the Middle" with a who-cares attitude that permeates not only his stewardship but also his cast's performances. It's a movie that exudes an air of such nonchalance toward generating any tension, momentum, or nuance that it's amazing the film even opened to strong theatrical business in late 1975 before, more predictably, sinking like a stone. In virtually every respect, The Killer Elite doesn't work the way a prototypical actioner should, sabotaging its own thrills and character development with almost pathological doggedness. And yet primarily because of its myriad flaws, it's a surprisingly fascinating entry in the Peckinpah oeuvre, as it represents?in a manner similar to the grungy, gnarly, dryly sardonic Alfredo Garcia?a piercing reflection of its maker's devolution into devil-may-care apathy.

The Killer Elite (1975)

The Killer Elite's plot is a straightforward tale of betrayal and payback amongst private-contractor assassins, all spurred by George Hansen (Robert Duvall) turning on pal and partner Mike Locken (James Caan) by crippling him?when he comes out of the shower at their current mission's safe house?with a bullet in the elbow and kneecap. Before that initial treachery has occurred, however, Peckinpah has undercut any sense of seriousness. Despite opening with a sequence of hands drilling holes, laying wire, and setting up dynamite that implies an attentiveness to methodical workmanship, the director spends the early-going having Duvall and Caan ad-lib with deliberate absurdity. An extended car ride in which George teases Mike about the latter's one-night stand having a venereal disease is a model of flippancy, with the two actors laughing, stammering and bullshitting with half-assed off-the-cuffness. Consequently, when George stabs Mike in the back, the atmosphere of indifference is already so thick that there's no impact. And Peckinpah's unnecessarily in-depth depiction of the surgical efforts to save Mike?whose life perplexingly hangs in the balance from these non-lethal injuries?is similarly slipshod, highlighted by Caan responding to a nurse trying to feed him ham with a sing-songy "No, no, no" that makes the actor appear downright drunk.

The Killer Elite (1975) Rumors of rampant on-set cocaine abuse by both Caan and Peckinpah gain traction from the actor's not-really-there turn, as well as Peckinpah's generally perfunctory framing and, on at least two occasions, stunningly jagged editing. Nothing about The Killer Elite feels the least bit urgent because its maker seems asleep at the wheel, though not quite so somnambulistic that he can't rehash his usual resentment of authority. In this instance, those repugnant forces are Mike's employers ComTeg, a double-dealing outfit in league with the CIA that's slammed as part of America's larger corporate/government "power systems," a familiar Peckinpah argument made here by that, ahem, paragon of profound political philosophy, Burt Young. Alfredo Garcia's Gig Young again represents that evil as one of Mike's nefarious employers, but the sentiment comes across as more dutiful than passionate, and turns up after so much nonsense that it's difficult to believe Peckinpah has any real desire to transform this for-hire job into a heartfelt statement about combating an establishment that, as illustrated by Mike's boss Cap (Arthur Hill), is defined by self-interested duplicity and amorality.

The Killer Elite (1975)

Whereas the director's prior efforts were fixated on the nature of masculinity, The Killer Elite is starkly unconcerned with Mike and George's manliness, except insofar as it ridicules its story's action-movie conventions and ideas about heroism. Some of that is unintentional, as when Mike heals his broken, limping body by training at the cheesy wood-paneled home of his nurse, stumbling while he runs up stairs that even a mother carrying a baby can navigate (oh, the agony of rehab!), and loosening up his braced elbow by practicing martial arts in the street with an aged mentor. The film's infatuation with kung fu is half-hearted and cheapened by of-the-era terms like "Orientals" and "chop suey." It's Peckinpah's overt thumbing his nose at his genre material, however, that's ultimately most jarring. During the climactic sword-fighting showdown between a killer and the noble Chinese politician Mike's been hired to protect from George, Mike provides commentary?including mocking the baddie's ninja outfit as a "goofy looking thing"?that allows Peckinpah to let the audience know that he understands he's making second-rate rubbish. The message is hard to dispute, and by insisting on its own irrelevance, The Killer Elite winds up functioning as a strangely personal work, one that, in its own warped and unsatisfying way, provides a window into the head and heart of its notoriously self-destructive maker.

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Early Edition: Blake Lively Ready for 'Savages'; New Director for 'Wolverine'; More

Blake Lively might not be taking her planned trip down the Yellow Brick Road. Lively, who won critical acclaim for her role in Ben Affleck's 'The Town,' is now first in line for the female lead in Oliver Stone's 'Savages,' a story about two Laguna Beach marijuana kingpins who are forced to work for a Mexican drug cartel after the free-spirited girlfriend they share is kidnapped, according to Variety.

Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch have been in talks to play the two male leads, with Benicio del Toro negotiating to be one of the cartel enforcers. If Lively is in fact offered the part, she may have to give up the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the East, which she was considering, in Sam Raimi's 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' for Disney. 'Savages,' which Stone will write and direct for Universal, is being eyed for a June start date.

'Wolverine' may be coming off hold soon. According to TheWrap, Fox has shown an interest in having Duncan Jones direct the film and Jones, in turn, is interested. As you'll recall, Darren Aronofsky was originally going to direct, but he pulled out in March because of scheduling issues. And since the film was to shoot in Japan -- the story line has Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, traveling to Japan to learn from a Samurai master -- the production was further delayed by the earthquake and tsunami that shattered that country. Jones, the son of David and Angela Bowie -- directed the recent 'Source Code' and cult film 'Moon.'

Matt Reeves, who made a splash as writer/director of the chilling 'Let Me In,' has been tapped by Universal to write and direct a feature based on John Carpenter's 'They Live.' The 1988 film -- which starred pro wrestler Roddy Piper -- centered on a takeover of the Earth by aliens who cloaked themselves in human form. Piper finds a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the aliens, and he helps foment a revolution against the invaders. Reeves also directed 'Cloverfield' and was a creator, writer, director and executive producer of the WB series 'Felicity.' [The Hollywood Reporter]

Alec Baldwin will be starring in Woody Allen's next film which, as is the New York director's modus operandi, has no title yet. According to Deadline, Allen has just begun putting the comedy together and may be tapping Jesse Eisenberg ('The Social Network') for a lead. The film will be shot in Rome.

Relativity Media has hired 'Crazy Heart' writer/director Scott Cooper to direct 'Out of the Furnace,' a spec script bought in 2008 about a man who, after being released from prison, just wants to lead a normal life and marry his girlfriend ... but finds himself avenging his brother's murder. [TheWrap]

Tom Wilkinson will join Samuel L. Jackson in the indie thriller 'The Samaritan,' about a former grifter (Jackson) who wants to go straight after a 20-year prison stay but gets involved in a con with the son of his former partner. Wilkinson will play a crime boss also taking part in the grift. The film is filming in Toronto and Rio de Janeiro for an early 2012 release. [Variety]



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Justin Bieber -- I Really Am ... King of the World

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Justin Bieber
will almost certainly get lucky tonight ... because TMZ has learned he just surprised girlfriend Selena Gomez with the most romantic surprise ever.

He's corralled the entire Staples Center in L.A. for a screening of the movie "Titanic" ... just for the two of them.

Sources connected to the Biebs tell us .. Justin hatched the idea after seeing the movie "Mr. Deeds" -- where Adam Sandler surprises Winona Ryder with a date at Madison Square Garden.

Here's how it went down tonight ... Justin took Selena to the Demi Lovato concert at neighboring Nokia Theater. He then said, "Come with me" -- and took her underground to Staples Center to watch the biggest shipwreck of all time.

And if you don't hate him enough already -- Justin didn't have to pay a penny for Staples. We're told since he sold out the venue three times, and it was empty tonight ... they gave him the entire arena for free.

Baller.



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