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- Watch Andy Serkis Experience the Full Range of Human Emotion as an Ape in ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’
- Gallery: Meet The Stars Of IFC’s New Reality Show ‘Whisker Wars’
- Illustrated Event Report: I Went on a Trip to Italy, You Guys!
- ‘The Change-Up’ May Seem Like Escapism for Guys, But It’s Actually a Female Fantasy
- Hot Shot: Model DaJe Barbour Has the Prettiest Eyes
- ‘My Daguerrotype Boyfriend’ Uncovers Hotties Throughout History
- ‘Jersey Shore’ Field Notes: Bongiorno Italia
- Check Out This Indian Gum Commercial Freida Pinto Was In
- ‘Teen Mom 2′ Dad Corey Simms Reportedly Hooked Up with ’16 and Pregnant’ Mom Nikkole Paulun
- First Look: Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Doesn’t Look Like Catwoman
| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:38 AM PDT
Andy Serkis is the master of performance capture. That’s what he calls it, not motion capture — because “performance” implies a more wholehearted effort on the actor’s part. And after seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we’re inclined to give this nontraditional actor props. After all, he pioneered the technology when he played the terrifying Gollum in Lord of the Rings starting in 2001. But did you know that he worked with Peter Jackson again a few years later, when he starred in King Kong? That’s right, the 5’8″ actor played the magnificent Kong and actually made us feel sorry for the misunderstood gorilla. Now, he’s embodying a primate again, on a smaller scale and with even more creepily accurate human emotion on his digital face. Check out this great featurette showing Serkis and the other performance capture actors bringing the apes to life, and then scroll through our gallery. You’ll think you’re looking at a real ape… a really smart one who wants to overturn human society, sure, but a real one. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Gallery: Meet The Stars Of IFC’s New Reality Show ‘Whisker Wars’ Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:38 AM PDT
Attention, beard and mustache enthusiasts! IFC is premiering a new reality show called Whisker Wars tonight, and it’s going to show us competitive bearding like we’ve never seen it before. Created by the same great minds who brought us Deadliest Catch, the series “follows a devoted group of whisker warriors as they travel the country competing for top bearding honors in preparation for the World Championship Competition in Trondhjem, Norway.” To gear up for this momentous premiere, I’ve combed (heh) through the show’s promotional materials and screencapped the show’s major players, appending quotes where applicable. For more intense facial hair face-offs, tune into IFC tonight at 11pm. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Illustrated Event Report: I Went on a Trip to Italy, You Guys! Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:44 AM PDT
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| ‘The Change-Up’ May Seem Like Escapism for Guys, But It’s Actually a Female Fantasy Posted: 05 Aug 2011 10:05 AM PDT
However, both of these movies have one very important thing in common: The guy who’s all talk but never follows through. We’d go so far as to say he’s neutered… and the producers seem to be banking on him as the female moviegoers’ ultimate fantasy. In Hall Pass, Rick (Wilson) and Fred (Sudeikis) are psyched that they have a week of consequence-free partying, drug use, and casual sex. But even after Rick manages to meet a hot girl and get alone in a hotel room with her — and her promising it’ll be a one-time thing, no expectations — he can’t bring himself to cheat on his wife. He lost his virginity to her, and he’s only ever been with her. Even on this “vacation” from marriage, it wouldn’t feel right to sleep with someone else. But just to get the R-rating, the producers made sure that someone in the movie got lucky. The cheating is saved for the weird, comic-relief secondary couple, Sudeikis and Christina Applegate. The Change-Up is a similar deal, only even more hard-core. (Cover your eyes if you don’t want to read spoilers.) Bateman plays Dave, an overworked lawyer; he and his wife are so busy with their newborn twins that they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be in love. Reynolds’ character Mitch is a sharp 180: An unemployed stoner who makes attempts at an acting career but basically sits around playing Call of Duty and masturbating all day. Let me say, both actors do a fantastic job playing each other’s roles: Reynolds suffering his way through an awful soft-core porn scene is great, and Bateman really does a layered job of playing a slacker stumbling through the corporate world. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Hot Shot: Model DaJe Barbour Has the Prettiest Eyes Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:53 AM PDT
You guys, Ford model DaJe Barbour is both beautiful and geeky. The green-eyed darling from Chicago was scouted on his very first day of college, where he was all set to become an IT guy. Could you imagine calling tech support because your computer’s acting up only to have this guy show up? Man, if that were the case, I’d be a little less cautious about keeping my cup of coffee a safe six inches from my keyboard. (via Ford) Post from: Crushable |
| ‘My Daguerrotype Boyfriend’ Uncovers Hotties Throughout History Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:46 AM PDT
Did you know that hot guys have existed since the dawn of time? It’s true. And with the advent of early photography, we discovered a way to preserve their hotness forever, even after they were dead. The only problem is, much of this early photography is not on the Internet, so nobody can see it. If a babe is photographed, and that photo stays put in a drawer, was he ever really a babe at all?! And do not tell me to check out the Library of Congress, because that’s really far away from me and you don’t even get sufficient alone time with the material there. Take my word for it. Enter My Daguerrotype Boyfriend, a tumblr dedicated to cataloging and preserving the national treasure that is our nation’s hotties. (Sometimes foreign hotties, too. Babeliness knows no nation.) Composed of reader submissions and the author’s own sexy research, this blog assembles all the most delightful menfolk of ever into one convenient place for your viewing pleasure. Particularly excellent posts include “Theodore Roosevelt in shorts,” “Buffalo Bill, age 19,” and my personal fav, “The Josh Hartnett of Irish Political Prisoners.” Also: that guy up there. He was a painter named Henry Peters Gray, and his photo demonstrates that artistic guys have always been the most doe eyed and adorable, even back when Williamsburg was just a sugar port owned by the Dutch West India Company. I wonder if he phoned up ladies after taking them for walks in the woods, or if he was too distracted by all the emotions he was constantly having, like art guys are now? No, I bet he was totally perfect and nice, and always sent his girlfriend a whole basket of bustles, or whatever they liked in those days. See? I can project whatever qualities I want onto him and he won’t argue with me, because he died way before I was born. Your daguerrotype boyfriend will never let you down. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| ‘Jersey Shore’ Field Notes: Bongiorno Italia Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:13 AM PDT (By an anthropologist)
1:40 – Deena explains that in Italy she expects to bring a guy home, though she won’t “do sex” right away. Doing sex is a Jersey Shore colloquialism that means “exchanging ten or twelve words with a stranger and then getting naked in the shower.” 2:30 – Vinny thinks he has grown a beard although he has not. Perhaps he has grown two days’ worth of stubble, although confirmation of this won’t come until the lab results are returned. Vinny wonders if any of the housemates will recognize him. Diagnosis: Delusional behavior, too much cultural saturation of the Superman/Clark Kent anomaly. 3:30 – Snooki reveals herself to be the Imelda Marcos of thonged panties. She appears to have hundreds of them in all manner of bright color and complicated pattern. Note: Perhaps a doctor should examine her vagina? 4:20 – JWOWW says, “JWOWW and her boobies are going to Italy.” It seems JWOWW refers to JWOWW in the third person. Diagnosis: Possible narcissism, probable confusion by the fact that having the nickname “JWOWW” nevertheless still renders Jenni Farley human. 5:00 – The first sighting of the primate known as Ronnie. He appears to have learned to walk upright. 6:00 – One of the key dynamics between our human specimens is revealed: the inherent battle between men and women. It’s decided that each gender group will travel to Italy as a unit, and the two clans will battle one another to arrive at their Italian home first so that they may mark their territory on the better bedrooms. With semen or vaginal fluids, presumably. 7:00 – At Vinny’s house, the boys practice slang terms for sex. They are able to do this at a fifth grade level. Note: impressive. 11:00 – The group arrives in Italy. Each person has six or seven suitcases. In the case of some global disaster, these containers will serve as a time capsule that receals the worst impulses of homo sapiens. Meaning: hopefully aliens will never, ever discover flavored condoms and bronzer, please? 13:20 – Pauly says that Italy is “the most beautifulest country” he’s ever seen. “Beautifulest” is an Italian word meaning “thing that would be fun to fuck.” 14:00 – The men arrive at the house they’ll in habit for the next months. Which means they’ve won the gender battle. Their new environment is one of marble and jacuzzi. 15:30 – Vinny discovers the bidet in the bathroom. He calls it “the thing that cleans your ass.” Vinny’s knowledge of the bidet is as at least a tenth grade level. 18:30 – The humans fortify themselves with shots of limoncello. 21:00 – The gang hits the streets of Florence. They spot the Duomo although they haven’t a clue as to what it is. Vinny proclaims that it “kind of looks like a painting, bro,” by which he means it isn’t a prefab model. They see a carousel and Snooki yells, “Oh my god, we’re going on the ferris wheel!” 22:30 – The Situation performs a mating ritual at Snooki. This entails telling Deena that he mistakenly thought Snooki was single and then pouting when he learns she isn’t. Comparisons can be drawn to the mating rituals of the male peacock. 23:00 – Exes Ronnie and Sammi are forced to interact with one another for the first time. Ronnie sits on the couch drinking liquor by himself while Sam looks at the wall and rolls her eyes. Ronnie makes the sound of passing gas with his mouth. Sammi laughs. Note: our specimens are weird. 25:00 – Snooki can drive a stick shift car! She may have more depth to her than was originally revealed. Note: keep an eye on this. 25:30 – Nevermind. Snooki can’t turn her car on. Forget it. 27:00 – The women encounter their natural enemies, a pair of pigeons who fly too closely overheard. They have yet to develop any weapons to defend themselves, so they’re forced to scream loudly. No casualties so far. 30:00 – The girls groom. They blow out the electricity twice with blow dryers and flat irons. Deena burns her hair off her head and also loses four IQ points. 31:00 – The Situation continues his mating dance. He may have real feelings for Snooki, he thinks, maybe, and reveals that the two of them have been having intermittent sex. Note: he is currently putting the peacock to shame. 35:00 – The humans arrive at an Italian discotheque. It appears that a disaster is underway as everything is on fire, but evidently, that’s just the decor. Deena claims to be “in love” with the place, which means she has probably copulated with it once or twice. 36:10 – A problem arises: the humans realize that they don’t know Italian. This is especially problematic for the men because women won’t understand them when they introduce themselves by their weird nicknames and ask “Yo, you down to fuck?” 36:30 – The humans take shots and give a toast to Italy. They are now members of parliament. 37:00 – The Situation takes his mating gestures toward Snooki a step further by asking her for a hug and kissing her all over the face despite her protests. The male peacock would saunter away defeated to see such a beautiful and nuanced process. Post from: Crushable |
| Check Out This Indian Gum Commercial Freida Pinto Was In Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:50 AM PDT
Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto went on The Today Show this week to promote her new film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and during her appearance she talked about how embarrassed she is that some of her early commercial work has made it onto Youtube. “Some of my ads are now on Youtube and it’s just so embarrassing,” she said. “There is a silly Wrigley chewing-gum ad you should check out. It’s so stupid. This guys pops a gum in his mouth and I fall from a tree on to his bike! Then he’s got a girl.” Ask and you shall receive, Freida Pinto. Here it is: Wow, that wasn’t stupid at all. I don’t know what Freida was talking about. The falling women are a metaphor for how swiftly bad breath falls in the face of this gum, and the sheep in the end is a metaphor for how into bestiality someone at Wrigley is. Nonetheless, her current work is even classier. Congrats, girl. You’ve come a long way. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| ‘Teen Mom 2′ Dad Corey Simms Reportedly Hooked Up with ’16 and Pregnant’ Mom Nikkole Paulun Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:35 AM PDT
Whether this is true or not, it’s yet another story that makes me feel like the world’s biggest dupe for believing that Corey was a good guy who loved his family. When news broke that he and Leah had split, Corey was linked with several girls (Amber Scaggs and Jordan Humble) whom he reportedly met online via Teen Mom fanpages. Because the social media angle worked so well for him, Corey then turned to Twitter to announce that he was looking for a girlfriend. Though Nikkole lives in Michigan and Corey in West Virginia, it’s not unlikely they would know each other – many of the 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom cast members know each other thanks to MTV followup specials and reunions. In Nikkole’s episode, she and possibly-sociopathic boyfriend Josh Drummonds fought pretty much constantly before she gave birth to son Lyle, and Josh has been arrested several times since then. Hey, do you think if Corey knocks Nikkole up we could give them a spinoff? Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| First Look: Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Doesn’t Look Like Catwoman Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:02 AM PDT
This is just the week of superhero costume reveals! Over the last two days we’ve seen Henry Cavill as Clark Kent and Superman, and before that was Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Today’s photo is of Hardy’s co-star Anne Hathaway, who’s playing Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman. And while the producers said that her costume would look more like the original comics than the Halle Berry leather monstrosity… we’re still not seeing it. We are, however, seeing her channel a bevy of dystopian and superhero characters with this outfit. The leather, bike, and goggles especially bring to mind the following:
It’s something about the blue on the goggles; it just makes them look fake becase they belong to a way futuristic movie. Even though Christopher Nolan‘s Batman movies have a lot of cool gadgets, you would never lump the trilogy under the category of dystopia. We never thought we’d say it, but we actually miss the classic domino mask with cat ears on top. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
This year has already seen several comedies marketed to men in which belabored husbands get to take a break from marriage. You had Hall Pass early in the year, wherein Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis‘ wives gave them carte blanche for a whole week. Today’s big release is The Change-Up, in which Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman switch bodies. Not surprisingly, Reynolds gets the short end of the stick, while Bateman gets to run around as a hot single guy, and catch the attention of his crush Olivia Wilde.
00:00 – The Creature known as Snooki appears in a floppy leopard print hat and rhinestone shoes that allow her to camouflage with her surroundings. She reveals a first grader’s grasp of geography: “Italy is like that big country. No, Europe is like that big country. And then you have like Britain in there and England. And Italy.”
Well, it looks like the Teen Mom franchise is about to get as incestuous as the Real World one. The Teen Mom Talk website is reporting that Corey Simms, the aw-shucks camo-loving guy who married Leah Messer in the season finale of Teen Mom 2, has hooked up with another MTV star. Corey, who has twin daughters with estranged wife Leah, supposedly flirted with Nikkole Paulun (pictured), a cast member from the second season of 16 and Pregnant, via Facebook and arranged some travel so that they could “spend time together.” 
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