Friday, June 10, 2011

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Questionable Choices: Jessie J’s Union Jack Lips

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Jessie J performed last night on Britain’s Got Talent results show, and she rocked a pair of Union Jack lips. That’s one hell of a way to show your national pride. You know Ke$ha has to be so pissed that she didn’t get to this look first.

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Gallery: Jack White and Karen Elson Sure Did Make an Attractive Couple

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Snap This: Jack White and Karen Elson Throw a Divorce Party

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 10:58 AM PDT

After six years and two kids, musician Jack White and model Karen Elson have announced that they’re divorcing. But there are no hard feelings: the pair sent out an invite to their divorce party tonight in Nashville. The invite reads “The party will include dancing, photos, memories, and drinks with alcohol in them. This is only for close, personal friends and family so please no plus ones or dead beats.”

While I find the concept of a divorce party a little weird, it’s way healthier and more mature than dueling People covers and “anonymous” tabloid leaks about the other person cheating. Celebrity publicists, take notes.

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Crushable Quotable: Tracy Morgan Apologizes for Homophobic Remarks

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT

Tracy Morgan update: the comedian has apologized for the hateful homophobic remarks he unleashed last weekend. Tracy’s statement reads:

"I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context."

Does that go far enough? We’re leaning towards thinking that nothing short of a time machine could really make this situation blow over. Hate’s super funny, though!

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‘X-Men: First Class’ Screenwriter Says ‘X-Men’ Is About Gay Rights

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 09:54 AM PDT

Zack Stentz agrees with my theory that Magneto and Professor X are secretly in love! Well, sort of. When Alyssa Rosenberg put out an essay painting the X-Men series as a continuing allegory for LGBT rights, at least one commenter fought back, reprimanding her for putting a queer lens on the movie. Then in came Stentz, one of the four writers of X-Men: First Class, who easily corroborated Rosenberg’s viewpoint.

In a Facebook response to the essay, he confirmed that not only was it acceptable for LGBT fans to see correlations to their personal struggles in the movies, but that the writers weren’t stupid and had purposely included this commentary on various persecuted groups.

OK, so Stentz didn’t say that Erik/Charles is a real couple, but he’s still openly supported an excellent interpretation of the franchise. The X-Men movies have always presented mutation as a perfectly natural change in the body that mainstream society is simply unwilling to accept — due in part to how bizarre some of the powers manifest, but mostly because they fear getting “infected” with the same thing.

Considering that the humans in First Class who encounter the mutants are all CIA, there’s even a sly dig at the government regarding queer rights: When Xavier (James McAvoy) accidentally outs Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult) to his boss, Hank sheepishly says, “You didn’t ask, so I didn’t tell.” Hank’s discomfort with his beastly feet helps to forge, and then damage, a relationship with Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence): Though they’re both insecure about having very physical mutations, only one of them comes to accept his/her outward appearance.

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Hot Shot: Why Hello There, Spencer Falls

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 09:26 AM PDT

The 10 Weirdest Faces The Situation Makes In His Workout Video

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT

The Situation has a workout video! It’s on Netflix livestreaming! And it looks like it was filmed in a sex dungeon, or maybe that place where Lisa, Kelly, and Jessie filmed their music video on that “I’m so excited, I’m so scared” episode of Saved By the Bell.

Although everyone from Jersey Shore except Vinny is trying to become a brand, Sitch has probably been the most successful so far. He was on Dancing with the Stars and is selling his own line of vodka. Next up? This workout video. While Sitch used to be the assistant manager at a gym and had good abs before he started looking like Beavis, he can’t read exercise instructions off of a cue card very well. But what he does well is make weird faces while working out. Here are some of his best faces, and what he’s probably thinking while making them.

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Video: Amazing Kid Dance to Madonna, Vintage-Style

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT

‘The Human Centipede II’ Shoots Itself in the Foot By Becoming Too Meta

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT

How to top 2010′s taunt on the gag reflex, The Human Centipede (First Sequence)? A mad scientist kidnaps three tourists and stitches them together to form one creature that shares the same digestive tract. In the sequel, a perverted doctor (Laurence Harvey) who got off on the first movie — yeah, it’s way meta — decides to recreate the experiment, but with twelve people and a much more sinister plan for the creature. Britain immediately banned the movie, later clarifying that the film board would pass grotesque torture done in the name of science, but not the same done for sexual thrill.

Really, the problem boils down to one thing: Dr. Heiter (the terrifying Dieter Laser) isn’t in this movie. The BBFC added that its decision was based on the issue of protagonist: In First Sequence, the audience sympathizes with the three victims who try and work together to escape. But Full Sequence presents the centipede parts as simply victims to be brutalized, and is actually shot in such a way that the audience is forced to see things from the pervert’s perspective.

We wouldn’t have this problem if they hadn’t killed off Heiter in the first movie. This guy was pure science, which was what made him such a compelling villain: He believed that his experiment would enlighten medical science. Although he was in some ways seeking to create a companion to replace “mein lieber 3-hund” (my beloved 3-dog), he treated his test subjects as animals with no right to speak or fight back.

But that’s what made the movie so funny! In the scene where the police come in and question him about the girls’ abandoned car on the road, Heiter tries to drug them the same way he did the girls, by dissolving some tranquilizers in water. When the cop keeps putting the cup aside because he gets distracted with questioning, Heiter picks it up and literally shakes it in his face, yelling “Drink your water!” the way you would to a stubborn dog.

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Tracy Morgan Goes Nuts on Stage, Threatens to Murder Gay People

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 08:32 AM PDT

The controversy currently surrounding Tracy Morgan sounds like a 30 Rock plot line from Hell: while onstage performing stand-up in Nashville, Tracy unleashed a torrent of material condemning homosexuality. According to audience member reports, Tracy called gay people “mistakes,” accused lesbianism of being fake, spoke out against Lady Gaga‘s “Born This Way,” and even threatened to kill his own son if he ever came out. The response from the crowd was mixed: some people cheered him on, while others walked out of the 2,300-seat theater. Tracy’s now under fire for the remarks, and has yet to release any kind of a statement.

There’s an impulse here to chalk this up to “Tracy being Tracy.” He’s built a career around saying ridiculous things and getting away with them; in fact, that’s what defines him as a performer. But there’s quite obviously a huge difference between insulting ninjas and robots and threatening violence against an entire group of people, some of whom have, no doubt, paid money to see you perform. (Likely, no robots were in the audience.)

It’s time to stop letting people get away with this stuff. And we assume Gwyneth Paltrow will speak out against this shortly.

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