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- In Honor of President Obama’s 50th Birthday, Here Are 15 Absurd Photos of Our Great Leader
- Video: Witness The Bodega Cat In Its Natural Environment
- ‘The 9 Lives of Chloe King’: 4 Inexplicable Things, 4 Predictable Things, and 1 Last Thing
- Video: The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn’t Know You Entered
- First Look: Henry Cavill Wearing the Superman Suit in ‘Man of Steel’
- ‘The Challenge’ Awards: That Crab In Your Bed Is a Metaphor
- Kal Penn Leaves His White House Job to Play Robin’s Therapist on ‘How I Met Your Mother’
- Video Gallery: Celebrities Speaking Foreign Languages
- Classmates Accuse ‘Teen Mom’ Maci Bookout of Committing a Hit and Run
- Interview: ‘Jersey Shore’ Producer SallyAnn Salsano Talks About Life After the Shore
| In Honor of President Obama’s 50th Birthday, Here Are 15 Absurd Photos of Our Great Leader Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:48 AM PDT
Agree or disagree with his politics, you have to respect Barack Obama. Not only did his administration finally bring down Osama bin Laden — and create an Internet meme out of that triumph — but he also doesn’t mind being photographed doing random shit like enjoying a cool beer or laughing his ass off. Plus, he hobnobs with celebrities and reality stars. Happy birthday, Mr. President! We’re laughing with you, never at you. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Video: Witness The Bodega Cat In Its Natural Environment Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:01 AM PDT A trio of urban documentarians calling themselves “Internets Celebrities” have made a mini-doc on the bodega cats of NYC, and the results are nothing short of adorable. (Assuming you like cats. If not, it will probably horrify you. Also, you have no soul.) In this short film, they treat the humble bodega cat like Animal Planet treats the rare white rhino, i.e. with the respect they damn well deserve. Those chicharrones aren’t going to guard themselves, you know. Although it shows goofy moments like the usually dignified creatures drinking out of a toilet (maybe put some water out for them next time, bodega guy), it also highlights the frustrating catch-22 bodega owners oft find themselves in. I don’t know if you knew this, but New York City is filthy and crawling with rodents. You get fined if you’re caught with rodents in your store, and with good reason, as they poop on the avocados and chew through chip bags. Cats are one of the most effective rodent deterrents, but they’re illegal as well, even though they poop in a box and have never spread bubonic plague. Basically, the store owners are going to get fined either way, and they’d rather have a kitten problem than a rat problem (wouldn’t you?), so there the bodega cats remain, prowling the aisles and napping in Corona boxes, as felines have done since the days of ancient Egypt. Witness the cuteness in the video above, and check out more of these dudes’ work at InternetsCelebrities.com. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| ‘The 9 Lives of Chloe King’: 4 Inexplicable Things, 4 Predictable Things, and 1 Last Thing Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:30 AM PDT
HOWEVER. Inexplicably, Chloe Does Not Tell Her Mom As you all know, I’ve been begging Chloe (uh, even though she’s fictional) for her to tell her mother already in order to stop her mom freaking out about the insane amount of secrecy she insists on. However, Paul says that the first rule of being a superhero is to protect her loved ones. But that makes no sense in this situation AT ALL. Chloe’s secret identity to her mother is that she’s Mai, but to all of San Francisco? They have NO IDEA that she exists. And the people who come after her have used like, Google, to find her — and they’ve found her! So in fact her mother’s total ignorance is often what gets her in trouble. She would be so much safer otherwise. Alek tells her he did tell his adoptive parents, and acts all mysterious when she asks what happened — but even though he doesn’t answer, he tells her to try, even though things won’t be the same again. I mean, maybe Chloe thinks her mom won’t love her anymore? In which case she is a dummy. Predictably, Brian Saw Alek and Chloe Kiss Actually, I didn’t predict this. Yeah, I was actually surprised. However, I don’t see how either of them could’ve started making out before seeing Brian staring dopily at them. I mean, he was right there! Well, this causes a rift for Chloe between both Brian and Alek, which is understandable. All I can think is, if Chloe actually can also make out with Mai, the lesson she leans here is that she really can’t interact with human boys, ever, in that capacity. Because everyone will get hurt — and even Amy has learned not to encourage her. Inexplicably, Brian Does Not Know How To Use Technology When Chloe and Brian meet again, he totally has a rebound just like she did. But she meets him because she has to tell him the numbers and letters he found on the back of his mother’s photo are an address. How did she find this out? She Googled it. Are you telling me Brian did not do this? Everyone else in the world does this! To everything! It could be the last movie you saw or how to tie your shoes (there is an eHow article for everything) — doesn’t Brian have any sense? Like really. Even though Brian’s mystery seems cool, his character is not given proper detail and the actor does not give the proper performance. However, I think this is likely because he’s focusing on making the fact that he’s a college student who’s into a 16-year-old girl okay. I still don’t think it’s okay, buster! Predictably, Jasmine Had To Clean Up Everyone’s Messes So invariably, after she sees Alek and Chloe in a huff at school the next day, Jasmine (calmly, patiently) tells Chloe not to be a jerk and quit being so flighty with Alek’s feelings. Then she covers his bodyguard duties for him, even though it’s been suggested in the series that her mother is just waiting to blame her for everything that’s gone wrong, ever. Sometimes Jasmine is so crazy helpful I wonder if she’ll ever go “Samuel L. Jackson-mad about Snakes on a Plane” on anybody any time soon. Instead she is the saint of this series, and I want to see more of her. Inexplicably, Chloe Stumbles Upon The Worst Burglary of All Time Okay, who understood this burglary? Because first two people were fighting over the loot. Then Chloe goes to the police and when she IDs the people, the corrupt cop goes over to meet them to discuss how they’re going to leave town. Um, weren’t they fighting over the loot before? Is anyone angry about that? I guess they’re just so happy they escaped arrest and scared that record will be overturned that they decide to stand together to get a little girl. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Video: The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn’t Know You Entered Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:39 AM PDT Following in the footsteps of that Lady Gaga Google Chrome commercial, newly reunited pop punk band Blink-182 have decided to take it a step further and make a whole, official music video stitched together from fan tributes on Youtube. The single, “Up All Night,” is taken from their forthcoming album Neighborhoods and sounds like the same old Blink-182 I listened to in high school, only slower. The video begins with a message:
Isn’t that sweet? Despite being significantly older than their average fan these days (Travis Barker is 35), they’ve demonstrated an understanding of the Internet few major label artists have. Rather than fight to pull their music out of every single clip (a losing battle if ever there was one), the band has recognized that the fans who post these videos actually like them, more than anyone else, probably. Rather than alienate fans and squelch creativity, they’ve worked with them to create something cool. Either that, or they didn’t feel like filming a music video themselves. Who knows? Predictably, the fan tributes consist mostly of Jackass style stunts and footage guys took of themselves playing the drums, with some claymation and anime thrown in for good measure. But when stitched together like that, the video takes on a touching, almost nostalgic quality. (I half expected Green Day’s “Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)” to start up.) I predict this will set off a trend of artists making these kinds of videos. They’re cheap, they’re fun, and they make fans happy. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| First Look: Henry Cavill Wearing the Superman Suit in ‘Man of Steel’ Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:17 AM PDT
Remember yesterday, when we showed you Henry Cavill walking around on-set in his Clark Kent disguise, but there were no images of him in the Superman duds? It looks like Warner Bros. decided to capitalize on the timing and release the first photo of Cavill as his true self: the Man of Steel, wearing that famous suit. It’s great that they released an action shot; it really gives us a feel for the movie. From the looks of it, he might have just stopped a missile or an airplane part from careening into a city… or maybe he’s in the secret laboratory belonging to the movie’s villain. Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem as if Lex Luthor is going to be Superman’s foil for this movie. However, Christopher Meloni confirmed that he’ll be playing “a general” in the movie — hopefully an evil one? You know who we really want to see next? Amy Adams as Lois Lane. There’s no word on whether she’ll dye her hair to match Lois’ signature dark mane, or if this time around we’ll get a redheaded love interest. Either way, we’re excited to see — and we know she’ll be a step up from the miserable Kate Bosworth in 2006′s Superman Returns. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| ‘The Challenge’ Awards: That Crab In Your Bed Is a Metaphor Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:29 AM PDT
Best Couple: Mike and Paula Paula admits she’s crushing on Mike and that he’s a nice guy, which makes him a million times better than her previous show hookups. (Dunbar, anyone?) Johnny says that Mike is “the little engine that could” and that he wants to hook up with “that old lady Paula.” I hate Johnny. With his puffy drunk face he looks kind of like Jimmy Kimmel. And that talking head of Mike giggling like a schoolgirl is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Worst Couple: Wes and Mandi Wes says that besides Mandi’s legs, he likes that she’s the most down to earth girl in the house. Cut to Mandi screaming her head off because two crabs got into the house and are right by her bed. SO MANY METAPHORS. Shittiest Friends: Johnny and Kenny Kenny voiceovers that Laurel came into the show in an alliance with them, but her flirtation with CT is causing them to freak out. They try to intimidate Laurel by giving her a length of rope and say that she’s hanging herself with it. But when she asks them if they’re mad about CT they both get passive-agressive and say they just want her to “be a better judge of character.” This is the exact same spiel that Wes gave Mandi before. Laurel voiceovers that when they tell her to stay away from someone she only wants to hang out with CT more out of spite. Which, duh, the guy is wearing a shirt with only one button and his glasses in this episode, so who wouldn’t? Best Teammate: Cara Maria Cara Maria and Laurel are told they’re going to have to go first and today’s challenge, and while Laurel is lashing out at her alliance Cara Maria doesn’t give a fuck. I wish more people would try to create a counter-alliance: you could easily get Jonna/Jasmine and Mike/Leroy and a few other teams in it and make things interesting numbers-wise. Cara Maria may not love Laurel, but she’s not intimidated by anyone else and is going to do what she has to do, and I appreciate that. Also, I really love her hair. When the challenge is announced, TJ says that they’re going to choose order schoolyard-style, and Cara Maria points out that the whole pecking order conversation was essentially bullshit. Best Underdogs: Leroy and Mike Because they’re quiet and not the biggest threats, they’re staying out of the jungle. Everyone is so distracted by CT/Adam that they don’t have time to notice that Mike and Leroy are formidable competitors. They’re staying cool and doing well on challenges, and I would love to see a rookie team pull out a win, especially a rookie team containing people who use complete sentences. Most Wishy-Washy: Laurel Laurel is clearly torn between her crush on CT and her loyalty to the stupid alliance. She ignores CT during the challenge, and he correctly calls her out on not wanting to interact with him in front of “the mob.” (Apparently this is what the Kenny/Johnny/Wes/whoever else alliance is called now.) Later she tries to convince him to vote for Mandi and Jenn to go into the jungle against her and Cara Maria, but CT doesn’t give a shit about the alliance and is just going to vote for whoever he wants without needing to consult other people. Imagine that: someone who decides their vote on their own without having to consult a committee! CT tells Laurel that if her alliance is more important to her than anything else, she should just own up to it. Best Impersonation: Kenny as Cara Maria The cast goes out clubbing, and everyone’s having fun except Cara Maria, who is sitting alone in a corner because a) she was with Abram Boise at the time and since he wasn’t on this challenge she missed him, b) she’s not really the clubbing type anyway, and c) she clearly hates most of these people, which I don’t blame her for. Kenny does a confessional where he gets Cara-esque extensions and does an impression of her that he calls “Kenny Maria.” It’s actually funny. I hate when Kenny stops being an asshole for five minutes and tricks me into liking him again. Luckily, I still hate Wes, though. Worst Fight: Jenn and Cara Maria The Jenn/Cara Maria fight isn’t so much a fight as a bit of yelling and posturing and threats to fight before people pull them away from each other. The only thing interesting about the fight is how it exposes some other alliances – I didn’t realize before this episode that Tyler considered Jenn his best friend, and it seems that the Jenn/Adam relationship is deeper than believed because of their gentleness with each other and Adam’s ability to cool Jenn down. However, we see an ugly side of my darling CT when he tells Cara Maria she’s stupid to pick fights and then starts talking a bunch of shit about Abram. All these challenges run together for me so I can’t remember if there’s specific Abe/CT drama, but CT can save his spiel for Abe instead of yelling at his girlfriend. Major step back there, CT. The one saving grace is that Laurel and Cara Maria bond after they get home from the club, showing how much they’ve worked on their relationship. Biggest Dick Move: Everybody Wearing Blue After all the Cara Maria/Jenn drama, almost the whole cast (including CT) shows up at the Jungle wearing blue, which are Jasmine and Jonna’s team colors. As Jenn gleefully points out, that is like a giant sign letting Laurel and Cara Maria know that everybody hopes they lose. Most Confused About How the Jungle Works: Wes Wes doesn’t seem to understand that alliances help you get through the game, but they can’t actually help you win in the Jungle. You think he would have learned that from Evan/Nehemiah’s loss last week, but it’s not like the dude is a brain trust. Wes voiceovers that Cara Maria and Laurel are stronger, but Jasmine and Jonna have the support of everyone. That’s awesome, but when you’re in a jungle that is all about brute strength, the support of your friends is worthless unless they can come in and fight on your behalf. On that logic, Cara Maria and Laurel win the jungle and stay in the game. Best Coming-Full-Circle Moment: Jasmine Although Jasmine is crying about having to go home, she’s proud of herself for getting this far and says that she now considers Jonna like a sister to her. She credits Jonna for being a great teammate and says that the next time they come back they’re going to be unstoppable. I really liked Jonna/Jasmine and was glad to see a rookie team do so well, so I hope they really have learned something and come back and form an anti-the-mob alliance next time. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Kal Penn Leaves His White House Job to Play Robin’s Therapist on ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:40 AM PDT
However, How I Met Your Mother apparently has more sway than state affairs, because Penn’s back into acting, and his first gig is a recurring role on the sitcom. He plays Robin’s (Cobie Smulders) therapist Kevin, who she meets after she winds up attacking someone. We won’t know the reasoning behind that until the season 7 premiere this fall, but showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas teased that Kevin will be do more than just help Robin through her rage issues. “[I]n the process of getting that therapy,” Bays said, “she maybe starts to have feelings for her therapist, which is kind of messed up. And her therapist starts to have feelings for her too. It's a bit of a forbidden romance.” Add that to the fact that Robin just realized at the end of season 6 that she has feelings for Barney again — as he’s about to walk down the aisle! — and you have what the producers are calling a love pentagon. (I wonder if they made that joke just for Penn’s sake.) He’s also on the roster for A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas, but we think that Obama would have let him go for that anyway, because how can you keep H&K fans from the latest installment? Speaking of the franchise — it looks like Penn and Neil Patrick Harris (who actually remade his career by playing himself in the first H&K back in 2004) will have shared the same on-screen love interest. High five? Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Video Gallery: Celebrities Speaking Foreign Languages Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:28 AM PDT Yesterday, people all around the internet (including us) swooned at the video of Mila Kunis giving shit to a reporter in her native Russian. But she’s not the only celebrity who speaks another language. Here are some clips of stars like Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, and Johnny Depp speaking in their first, second, or fifth languages. Natalie Portman‘s father is Israeli, and she grew up bilingual. Here, she gives an interview about V for Vendetta in Hebrew. Colin Firth‘s wife is Italian, so he has been learning the language in order to communicate with her family. He practiced his skills with interviewer Giuliana Rancic, who is also Italian. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Classmates Accuse ‘Teen Mom’ Maci Bookout of Committing a Hit and Run Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:55 AM PDT
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| Interview: ‘Jersey Shore’ Producer SallyAnn Salsano Talks About Life After the Shore Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT
How did you first get started in reality TV? After college I started as an intern on Sally Jessy Raphael. I ended up working there as a producer. I moved to LA, but nobody in reality TV would hire me – nobody. Finally, Mike Fleiss‘ [the executive producer of The Bachelor franchise] company hired me to work on a show. There was a woman [at Fleiss' company] who had worked on talk shows, and I told her no one would hire me, and she said “I’ll hire you.” I grew up on trashy dating shows; I loved Love Connection. And of course I watched Oprah, Sally Jessy … I watched the very first ever episode of Ricki Lake. Late at night my mom and I would watch Studs. I think that show needs to come back. It really does! That show was hilarious. I loved that show. Can you tell me a little bit about the genesis of Jersey Shore? A woman named Shelly called me and said she was working on a reality show about Guidos. At the time, everybody was doing elimination shows, but I said an elimination show wouldn’t work. My head of development, Stephanie, and I were talking and talking, and she’s a Guidette too, and summer shares kept coming up. I realized it had to be a show about a share house. How did casting go? Did you just see people and immediately know they were right for the show? I felt like I knew every single one of them. I related to them; I knew who they were. Snooki was 21 and kept saying she wanted to get a share house but had never been away from home that long before. JWoww is from Long Island and reminds me of everyone I knew growing up there. With the guys, one would remind me of a guy I used to go out with, one was a guy I totally pined for. The show was criticized by many Italian-American groups for use of the word “Guido,” which they deemed offensive. How did you react? For me, where I grew up, we were Guidos. I had a diamond necklace with “Guidette” spelled out on it when I was in high school. I didn’t consider it offensive or demeaning. But hey, it got people interested in the show and talking about it. Now that Jersey Shore is coming to a close, what else are you working on? I did a show, Nail Files, for the TV Guide Channel. It was so perfect for me, because even when I was working crazy hours on shows I would be like “my nails have to be done or I will cut a bitch.” The Painted Nail [the salon in LA where the show is set] isn’t, like, an assembly line where everyone just goes in and picks a color and is in and out. You go in there and it’s like “aaaaah” [makes "heavens are opening" sound]. I went into the salon three times without telling them who I was or that I was thinking about doing a show, and every time I went there something crazy happened. I’m also working on Love Handles on Lifetime Real Women. It’s a very personal topic to me. I was five feet tall, 300 pounds, in a seven-year relationship, and I wasn’t happy. I lost the weight for myself, and it changed my life. Love Handles is a show where couples lose weight together. They’re couples in crisis. It’s not like The Biggest Loser where you’re isolated and go live on a ranch for six weeks. If I lived on a ranch for six weeks I’d come out looking like a supermodel, but that wouldn’t last. These people [on Love Handles] still have to go to work, take care of their kids, do grocery shopping. It helps them support each other. It’s real. It sounds like your post-Jersey Shore life is all figured out. What do you think the cast should do next? It really depends what happens in their personal lives. They are all different and want really different stuff from their lives. Some of them want to get married, have families. The world is their oyster right now, and it’s up to them. They need to nap! They’ve been working really hard. I just hope they enjoyed themselves as much as I did. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
FINALLY, we are getting to the question of whether or not Chloe should tell her mom about her powers. My answer: DUH YES PLEASE. Superman’s parents knew! Spider-Man’s parents…were dead. And then he inadvertently killed his uncle. And his aunt kind of hated his guts. AND IN THE END WHO WAS MORE WELL ADJUSTED? Actually, they’re both pretty messed up, but Superman has more actual super powers. Those web things Spider-Man has are supposed to be things he built, so I think his situation applies more here.
Previously on The Challenge: everybody hooked up with everybody else. I’ve considered drawing a hookup flow chart for all the Challenges, but I don’t think there’s enough ink on the planet for that. Also, 
Two years ago, Kal Penn abruptly left his regular role on House to work for President Obama in the White House. We’re talking really abrupt — the only way the producers could permanently get rid of his character Kutner was to make the doctor commit suicide even though he’d exhibited no signs of depression. But when the President calls, what else can you do?
On this week’s episode of Teen Mom, there was a scene where Maci Bookout drove to the college she attends and 
The fourth season of Jersey Shore kicks off tonight on MTV, but it’s a bittersweet moment. For those of us who have been following the news, we already know that season five just wrapped filming and that | You are subscribed to email updates from Crushable To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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