LONDON – British actor Sacha Baron Cohen is rumoured to be in line to star in the third Men In Black movie.
According to horror movies blog Bloody-Disgusting.com, along with Jemaine Clement of ‘Flight Of The Conchords’, Cohen, 38, is on Columbia Pictures’ wish list to play a … Read : Sacha Baron Cohen tipped to star in third ‘Men In Black’ movie.
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“High Society’s” first episode tries to get around this obstacle by supplementing Tinsley’s segments with another, juicier storyline about the rivalry between “Page Six scandal boy” Paul Johnson Calderon and Jules Kirby, the young, foulmouthed blond who used to be his best friend.
Tinsley begins the show by telling us how her recent divorce has led her to abandon her beautifully decorated Upper East side apartment for an equally palatial midtown loft. Within minutes of appearing on screen, she goes to a party for Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman and rubs elbows with the likes of Harvey Weinstein and stylist Robert Verdi. But there’s more to Tinsley than red-carpet photographs and black tie events, she says as we cut to a seemingly staged shot of her weeping loudly.
Tinsley explains that she married Topper Mortimer, her “high school sweetheart,” who just happens to be the great-grandson of a president of Standard Oil. though the marriage thrust Tinsley into the public eye, Topper’s family disapproved of her visibility on the social circuit. “In the old world of New York society, you’re only in the papers when you’re born, when you’re married, and when you die,” Tinsley says. “And that was definitely something that put pressure on my marriage.” (A 2009 New York Magazine story implies that the filming of this very reality show may have helped hasten the demise of the Tinley-Topper union.)
Now it’s time to introduce the rest of the show’s cast—or, as Tinsley calls them, the circle of people “who are part of this crazy new chapter in my single life.” We meet Dabney Mercer, Tinsley’s equally blond sister, and then abruptly cut to Paul Johnson Calderon riding in a limo with a bespectacled party promoter named Malik so Chic. Paul, or PJC, explains his tenuous connection to Tinsley—he used to date Tinz’s brother-in-law, and he’s good friends with Dabney.
The real reason PJC is on High Society is because he’s a quintessential reality show character: self-absorbed, uninhibited, and endlessly quotable. His most recent claim to fame is getting written up in Page Six for allegedly stealing someone’s purse. “To be honest, that purse was like my Paris Hilton porno,” PJC tells the camera proudly.
Meanwhile, in the Empire Hotel, Dabney watches her roommate, Jules Kirby, swear at a staffer and throw a phone across the room. “I think people are jealous of me because I’m smart and I’m pretty,” Jules explains. She’s also pretty prejudiced: “My friends do tend to be not homosexuals, or Jewish people. And black guys. I only like white guys.” Jules also thinks it should be okay for her to use the n-word. her dream job? “To work for the United Nations.”
The next morning, PJC meets his mother, Melissa, at the Russian Tea Room and tries to hit her up for $50,000. Melissa seems like a nice, sensible woman—all she wants is for her son to meet a nice man, “someone like Anderson Cooper.” She cautions PJC that he’s already run through $200,000 of his trust fund, and he shoots back, “I didn’t realize I was coming today to have tea with Mussolini.”
A few blocks south, Tinsley is having parental control issues of her own. her mother, Dale Mercer, has come to visit the new apartment—located, according to Dale, in a neighborhood called “the midtown”—and nag her daughter about taking all of Topper’s furniture. She disapproves of Tinsley’s new squeeze, a German prince named Casimir. Dale doesn’t bother hiding that she thinks Tinsley and Topper never should have gotten divorced. “I’m going to do everything I can to see that they do get back together,” she says in a private interview.
That night, PJC gets a welcome call from his mom. She’s decided he can have $25,000. He wastes no time, immediately booking a suite at the Royalton, calling department stores to have clothes sent over, and ordering a hotel staffer to draw him a bubble bath.
As PJC is pampering himself, the girls of “High Society” are heading to an AIDS benefit. out of the blue, Jules begins talking about why she and PJC aren’t friends anymore: he “blatantly lied” to her. In another limo, PJC lobs the same charge at Jules: she was “telling lies” about him to his now-ex boyfriend. He tells pal Hannah Bronfman all about Jules’s checkered past: she was “arrested in the Hamptons,” she burned down her parents’ house, and, worst of all, she “pretended to have cancer” because her parents cut her off and she needed the money. PJC’s greatest crime, according to Jules, is that he once stole her blackberry.
After the benefit, the cast gathers at the Chinatown bar Apotheke. Predictably, tensions flare when Jules and PJC spot each other. “I heard you were talking shit about me,” he sneers. Jules turns away from him. As she retreats, he yells after her what may be the greatest insult ever uttered: “Why don’t you burn down another country house? Oh wait—you don’t have one!”
Tinsley stays out of the fight. “This was a bit too much for me. this is probably the reason that I don’t go out downtown and don’t stay out too late,” she says. We barely see her during the rest of the scene at Apotheke.
And what a scene it is. after tensions rise even higher, PJC tries to throw a Jameson on the rocks in Jules’s face. unfortunately, it hits a girl named Alex smack in the eye instead. Jules calls 911 in an attempt to get PJC arrested, but he manages to escape before the squad car does. “You know, all in a day’s work. I know how to get myself out of a situation like that,” he says smugly.
The show’s tone changes abruptly again as we switch to the next morning, when Tinsley goes back to the Upper East side in order to pick up the contested furniture. Topper appears onscreen, but his face is blurred out and the splitting couple don’t speak on camera. We close with that same shot of Tinsley prostrated in grief, making loud sobbing noises without apparently shedding a single tear.
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MUMBAI – Bollywood actor Salman Khan Thursday appeared before the Special MCOCA Court to depose as a witness in a 10-year-old case involving the movie “Chori Chori Chupke Chupke” (CCCC), his family said.
“He had given a police statement regarding the persons he had met before the making of the ‘CCCC’ movie over 10 …. Source article on Gaea Times at : Salman Khan deposes as witness in ‘Chori Chori..’ case.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- In its bid to catch up with the competition offered by rivals like HP and Acer, Dell India has released new range of computers targeted at the business users. The newly unveiled Vostro 3000 series of Computers mean productivity and ease of use, according to the company. The small to mid … Original article on : Dell India Unveils New Vostro.
Well, folks, I’ve been a little busy recently, but in the last month or so I’ve gotten back into artwork in a big way; every once in a while I’ll do a drawing I don’t like, and I won’t draw for a long time. This first drawing was formerly one that I got bored with a couple years ago. Then, after teaching a lecture on scientific illustration, I saw the bare bones shading I had done, and all of a sudden Dorudon started cackling and laughing at me; I took it as a challenge. I worked nonstop for about 10 hours, and finished it up at 3 in the morning that night. I started this thing in 2007.
Cranial drawing of the archaeocete whale Dorudon atrox,
from the Eocene of Egypt. 2d, graphite, 2007-2009.
The next drawing is actually pretty big; I finished this one on sunday. This is a lateral view of a 7-9′ long (can’t remember exactly) Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis) cranium on display at the UC Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley. The drawing is nearly 2′ wide.
Cranial drawing of a Sei Whale, Balaenoptera borealis. 2d, graphite, 2009.
Cranial drawing of Otaria flavescens, the Southern Sea Lion. 2d, graphite, 2009.
LOS ANGELES — The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
The jump, from $27.8 billion a year earlier, was driven by a rise in ticket prices and the first increase in attendance in the U.S. and Canada in two years, the MPAA said. On top of that, theaters worldwide benefited from the popularity of 3-D movies, as they brought in more movie-goers, who buy tickets that cost more than regular screenings.
“Whenever screens are converted or built in 3-D the public seems to be embracing it,” said Bob Pisano, the MPAA’s president.
There were 20 movies released in 3-D last year, including the blockbuster “Avatar” and animated “Up.” That’s an increase from eight in 2008. The number of 3-D screens in the U.S. and Canada, meanwhile, more than doubled to 3,548 from 1,514.
Although 3-D movies represented less than 4 percent of the 558 films released all year, they accounted for $1.14 billion, or 11 percent of the $10.6 billion total box office haul in the U.S. and Canada. in fact, the bulk of the $1 billion increase in North American ticket sales is attributable to the 3-D movies; box office sales for 2-D movies increased by only about $70 million over 2008.
The overseas impact of 3-D was not as clear, but the number of screens capable of showing 3-D movies grew fivefold to 5,441 from 1,029.
The average ticket price in the U.S. and Canada rose 32 cents, or 4 percent, to $7.50, even though consumer prices for most goods fell amid the longest and deepest recession since the great Depression of the 1930s.
Despite tighter pursestrings, the number of tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada grew nearly 6 percent to 1.42 billion, as people sought a way to escape their worries. The number of yearly visits to the cinema rose to 4.3 per person from 4.2, the first increase since 2002, when it was 5.2 per person.
“We believe it’s because in times of economic distress, people are looking for value,” Pisano said, arguing that going to the movies with a family of four is still cheaper than attending a theme park or major sporting event.
From the beginning of the year through Tuesday, ticket sales were still rising, up nearly 5 percent from a year ago to $2.06 billion in the U.S. and Canada, helped by the continuing popularity of “Avatar,” the MPAA said.
MTV has finally decided on a location for the second season of their mega hit reality show Jersey Shore. the new season will be filmed in Miami, reports the Miami Herald.
There had been numerous reports and speculations in the past couple of months on where the 2nd season would be filmed. the Jersey Shore was not an option because MTV wanted to start filming this month, and needed a warmer climate.
According to the Miami Herald, some locals did protest MTV bringing the show to their home town, but despite their cries, it is said to be a done deal. the 2nd season of Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami is also currently filming in Miami. Perhaps we will have some reality cross contamination with the two shows.
The new season is scheduled to begin filming in 2 weeks.
Woods crash prompted hundreds of e-mails to patrol
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol was flooded with e-mails criticizing their handling of the investigation of the crash involving golfer Tiger Woods that led to him admitting to extramarital affairs.
A review by the Orlando Sentinel found that the highway patrol and its umbrella agency, the Florida … Original article on : Fla. Highway Patrol got hundreds of e-mails after crash involving Tiger Woods.
Jamie Jungers, The Golf caption Tiger Woods’ previous mistress certainly appeared beautiful in the eyes of United States’s maximum paid radio personality, when she came out on the big top spot in Howard Stern’s beauty pageant.
The conversation arrayed from venereal size to safe-sex practices to additional peccadilloes generally left off from the Golf Channel. In the every yr of beauty pageants, grant radio personality Howard Stern accredit for a captain stroke of promotion: On Wed morning he marked 3 female claiming to be the mistresses of Tiger Woods in the “Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant.”But that claim later took by the Jamie Jungers.
Stern’s employer, SIRIUS XM Radio station, welcomes a fistful of media people to catch the show live at its radio studios in midtown Manhattan. Unluckily, there was really less golf talk, though among the women, J. Grubbs, took claim that Woods had texted her on his path to the Masters and said her that he would meet her later the far-famed tournament.
Jamie Jungers headed home $75,000 wealthier and a title most especially of Wood’s recent mistresses by replying almost all of Stern’s curious questions, particularly the ones about the golf game stars turn ones and talents.
Pervious mistresses L. Jolie and J. Grubbs were as well on the roll, who acquired $15,000 as landing on the 2nd position.
Reportedly prohibited from the competition is Woods’ mistress R. Unitel as of a “settlement agreement” with the golf star channel. In that respect are no updates still on who evaluates the females, though it’s yet uncertain that Elin accepted the “shock jock”’s invitation to be a judge, as Elin is Woods’ ex- wife.
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