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“Pardon my French, but you’re an AARDVARK!”
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According to White House records, Jimmy Carter watched 480 films during his four years in the White House — around 2.5 movies a week.
The first one he watched: All the President’s Men, about the Watergate scandal that sank Nixon. He also became the first president to watch an X-rated movie in the mansion: Midnight Cowboy, which today doesn’t seem like much, but in 1969 shocked audiences with its sex scenes and drug use. (By the time Carter saw it, the rating had been changed to R.)
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel may dump Daniel Craig
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“I want to be seen, to be understood deeply and to be not so very lonely.”
Jodie Foster gave a somewhat confusing but overall endearing speech at last night’s Golden Globes upon winning the Cecil B. DeMille award. Watch it here.
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“I have to say, I never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that, unlike myself, my kids would someday have the opportunity to re-enact America’s slave trade the way my great-grandfather did! How exciting for them! Never mind those silly dolls showing racial equality and putting ‘black Americans’ (hah! is that the word we want to really use here?) in a positive light — no! With this, my kids can experience first-hand what it might have been like to own their very own slave!”
The Django Unchained action figures are receiving a lot of backlash
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NASA’s new spacesuit looks awfully familiar…
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“Assuming the paint can is full (roughly 10 pounds) and the rope is 10 feet long, Marv and Harry each take a roughly 2 kilo-newton hit to the face. That is easily enough to fracture multiple facial bones, and is probably going to knock you out cold. Also, I wouldn’t expect either of the Wet Bandits to walk away from this with all of their teeth.”
Can a man really be hit square in the face with a steam iron and walk away unfazed? What kind of permanent physical damage would a blow torch to the head really do? To answer these questions and officially dissolve Home Alone’s Hollywood magic, Lauren Hansen spoke with her friend Dr. Ryan St. Clair of the Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Ke$ha’s “Die Young” pulled from radio stations across the country: Pop star Ke$ha’s unfortunately titled new single “Die Young” has taken a big hit in the wake of the shooting. TMZ reports that the song reached 167 million listeners on Friday, but had dropped all the way to 148 million listeners by Monday — a decline rivaled only by the Dixie Chicks’ disappearance from country radio after they criticized President Bush at a concert in 2003.
10 ways the entertainment industry is being sensitive to the Connecticut massacre
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In case you missed it: The first teaser for Star Trek Into Darkness— the zealously discussed sequel to 2009’s Star Trek — has finally arrived, and things are looking grim for Captain Kirk and his crew.
(Source: theweek.com)
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The formerly familiar swooosh as the caller rotated the dial clockwise on a rotary phone to the “finger stop” and then the click-click-click as the dial returned counter-clockwise to the start position is now a novelty application that you can install on your iPhones for nostalgic yuks. Adolescents waiting in line nearby will wonder what the heck that sound is, while we older fogies will know you’re poking fun at us and our ancient ways.
11 sounds your kids have probably never heard
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(Source: theweek.com)
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Daniel Craig “has evolved into arguably the best Bond ever,” says Charlie McCollum at the San Jose Mercury News.
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Dust off your tuxedos and get your martini shakers ready, 007 fans: The film franchise is turning 50. It’s been a busy half-century for the superspy, who has been played by six different actors in no less than 22 films — with a 23rd, titled Skyfall, set for release on Nov. 9. With so many choices, who is the best 007?
Here, a look back at the many actors who gave us five decades of Bond
(Source: theweek.com)
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Critics are buzzing over the dismal performance of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, a G-rated family film that played in more than 2,000 nearly empty theaters over the holiday weekend. The film comes from writer/producer Kenn Viselman, who distributed the hit children’s series Teletubbies in the United States, and stars a cast of C-List actors seemingly picked at random, including Cloris Leachman, Cary Elwes, and Christopher Lloyd.
The film’s production and marketing costs reportedly exceeded $60 million, but Oogieloves still earned less than $500,000 over the weekend, which makes it the worst-performing wide-release film of all time.
