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- Fan Fiction: Jinger Duggar’s Secret Escape Diary
- Snap This: ‘Crystal Hefner’ On the Cover of Playboy Magazine
- Boyfriend Of The Week: Detective Stephen Holder From ‘The Killing’
- Interview: ‘The Art of Getting By’ Writer-Director Gavin Wiesen on Making an Anti-Clique Movie
- The ’16 and Pregnant Season 3 Unseen Moments’ Special Is Mostly About Taylor Lumas and Izabella Tovar
- As-Yet-Unused Celebrity Baby Names for Natalie Portman
- Questionable Choices: Antoine Dodson’s Got a New Wig
- Jada Pinkett Smith Was a No-Show at Monday’s ‘HawthoRNe’ Event
- Hot Shot: Model Ian O’Brien, Don’t You Go and Cut Your Hair
- 5 Facts About ’16 and Pregnant’ Star Taylor Lumas
| Fan Fiction: Jinger Duggar’s Secret Escape Diary Posted: 15 Jun 2011 11:27 AM PDT
I don’t even know why I keep this diary anymore. Every day is exactly the same: take care of my younger sibling “buddies,” do laundry for 20+ people, wait out of camera range for Ma to hand me the baby after she finishes her photo op, go over to Josh and Anna’s to help her cook dinner. Ever since I figured out Pa wouldn’t frisk me when I went into my required half hour a day in the prayer closet, I started sneaking this diary in. I wish the lighting was better, though. They don’t think I can write, so they wouldn’t suspect, but I’m scared that one of the other kids will find this diary. I hid it in the laundry room since no one else ever goes in there but it might be safer to keep it outside the house. If I could ever leave the house. The older girls and I have been talking about escaping. Well, not Jill, since she’s a suckup and likes being on The Today Show every time Ma pops out another one, but with Meredith leaving I think our days over there are numbered. Ever since that time we were doing interviews and I accidentally used the word “if” when talking about getting married I’ve been ordered to keep my mouth shut on camera. Ma thinks I should spend more time thinking about Jesus. I pretended she meant Jesus the guy who mows our neighbors’ lawn and sometimes takes his shirt off. If I could ever be by myself for more than thirty seconds at a time, I would definitely think about him. But Jana, Jessa, and I have talked about what we would do if we ran away. Sometimes I think that Ma and Pa would kill our buddy siblings in order to teach us a lesson, but more likely the buddies would die because my parents haven’t taken care of a baby in fifteen years. They even hired someone to paint a baby doll to look like my sister Josie in case she dies and we have to keep the TV show going. Ma wasn’t sure about the idea at first but Pa gave her another one of those yellow pills and then she started talking in her baby robot voice and everything went back to normal. I guess if I ran away I’d want to go to somewhere huge and exotic and glamorous like Little Rock or even Oklahoma City. Ma and Pa went to some of those places on their book tour but I had to stay and make sure everyone ate their tator tot casserole. I tried to put a couple of the yellow pills in the casserole so all the little boys would calm down for awhile, but Ma took them all with her. It is nice when she’s away, though, because I can take a break from charting her menstrual cycle on the wall calendar and sometimes Jessa will help me crimp my hair. When I am a high fashion model in Oklahoma City I will pay somebody to crimp my hair for me, and I will paint my toenails red despite the fact that it’s Satan’s favorite color. And I will go to a real church that isn’t in a basement. I told Pa that I was claustrophobic and couldn’t handle the basement anymore, but he didn’t fall for it and I had to do double babysitting duties that week. Good thing they’re still paying us thirteen cents an hour for those jurisdictions, because the extra babysitting took my secret escape fund up to twelve dollars and 37 cents. That’s almost enough to buy a bus ticket and my own crimper. I don’t want to take Jessa’s when I leave; she might want to keep it. The only problem would be missing my sisters. Most of the other kids are just a big hungry mob who needs their diaper changed all the time, but Jessa and Jana and I have stuck together the last few years. We might have to wait for a chance and all run away together. Jessa wants to be a photographer and Jana wants to marry someone from a crazy religion like Presbyterianism or Lutheranism. Ma and Pa would never allow that. In fact, they don’t want her to get married at all because then she’d have to move out and have her own babies, and then who would handle making breakfast and packing the bus every day? Last week in Bible class Pa told us about the Garden of Eden. Maybe I’ll try to get there. I bet they don’t even have bunk beds. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Fan Fiction: Jinger Duggar’s Secret Escape Diary  |
| Snap This: ‘Crystal Hefner’ On the Cover of Playboy Magazine Posted: 15 Jun 2011 11:18 AM PDT
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| Boyfriend Of The Week: Detective Stephen Holder From ‘The Killing’ Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:51 AM PDT |
| Interview: ‘The Art of Getting By’ Writer-Director Gavin Wiesen on Making an Anti-Clique Movie Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:23 AM PDT
This is Wiesen’s first feature, and took years to come together: The movie was picked up by Fox Searchlight for distribution only after it screened at Sundance. Wiesen cut his teeth working for director Bruce Paltrow on the 2000 movie Duets (starring daughter Gwyneth) and says that the experience was integral in showing him the difficulties and fun of movie production. “But you have to kill yourself just to get the privilege to get to that point,” he says. Now that Wiesen is at that point, we chatted with him about high school, first loves, and how the movie stays away from any Gossip Girl comparisons. Even though the characters go to school in New York, their stories are nowhere near as outlandish as Gossip Girl plotlines. Did you actively work to stay away from that comparison? Wiesen: When I first sat down to write [the movie], I don't think Gossip Girl existed. Aesthetically and tonally, this was the anti-Gossip Girl—same world, same sorts of situations on a very basic level, but a totally different set of preoccupations for the story we were telling. It's true about New York: These kids have the access to go out when they're younger; you don't have to drive; the drinking laws are less stringent; most kids carry fake IDs. You grow up faster in NY, and that's of course what Gossip Girl puts front-and-center. For us, it was more in the texture of the world they lived in, but it wasn't the main issue. What do you mean by "other preoccupations"? Wiesen: Graduating high school, first love or first sexual experiences—and really the main preoccupation that is endemic to New York more than anything else is growing up fast and behaving more like an adult before you truly are one. Feeling like you're still a child in a very adult world—those kinds of tensions. Speaking to the child-adult dynamic, the kids seem to know how to take care of themselves better than their parents do. Wiesen: One of the things I'm proud of with the movie is that it's an accurate portrayal of parents, [though] not all parents. Parents are just older human beings; they can be as flawed and as lost as a 17-year-old trying to figure it all out. In the case of Sally, she's a parent to her mother. She has developed this stronger, more stable persona in reaction to this all-over-the-place, very outgoing mother (Elizabeth Reaser). And that's something that I think kids do, also: They sometimes develop their personalities in reaction to the personalities of their parents. But what it really is for them is a way to understand that you can be flawed and still be a good person, or still be dealing with problems when you're 35, 45, 55. That doesn't mean you can't find a way through them, and break through and figure things out. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Interview: ‘The Art of Getting By’ Writer-Director Gavin Wiesen on Making an Anti-Clique Movie  |
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Taylor Lumas Several of the show message boards have wondered why more of the girls don’t breastfeed, since it saves money and they don’t have to worry about bottles and formula. So there’s a scene of Taylor’s mom Debi asking if Taylor has thought about breastfeeding. Debi says that Taylor doesn’t eat enough for breastfeeding, and Taylor calls it “gross.” That totally explains it. Later, we see a scene with Taylor, Nathan, and Nathan’s mom Missy where Missy demands Nathan spend the night at their house even though he’s supposed to be helping Taylor take care of the baby. I had my suspicions about Missy being an enabler during the episode, and it looks like that’s the case. I mean, Nathan is a useless human being, but Missy’s assertion that “he needs to spend time with his family” is really disingenuous, since baby Aubri is his family too, and Missy says her primary responsibility is to make sure Nathan graduates from high school. Taylor later recaps the conversation with Debi, and Debi correctly points out that it’s a stupid philosophy and mentions AGAIN why adoption would have been best in this situation. We see Taylor and Nathan meeting with an adoption counselor. Debi is there, and she smacks down Nathan’s assertion that people who give their kid up for adoption are bad. Debi is awesome, and I feel so sorry for her because she got completely marginalized by her idiot daughter. Can she and Barbara Evans hang out? In yet another Taylor-centric scene, Nathan sets up a mini-nursery at his house so that they have more options for taking care of Aubri. Taylor says that she doesn’t want the baby to be shuttled back and forth, even though they apparently live a few blocks from each other. Jordan Ward Although we already know that Jordan is married, we get treated to a scene of her and her sister discussing whether Brian Finder will propose. Izabella Tovar Thanks to Izabella’s formspring page, we already know that she and boyfriend Jairo got engaged. Jairo takes Izabella out to a fancy restaurant and they have a really boring conversation about what technically counts as their first date. Jairo says more words in this scene than in the entire episode, so it’s nice to know that he isn’t actually mute. He gets down on one knee and proposes to Izabella, who says “yes.” I mean, “yeah.” How romantic! Later, there’s a scene where Jairo tries to put the baby stroller together all by himself, but it doesn’t go very well. Heavily pregnant Izabella ends up doing it herself. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| As-Yet-Unused Celebrity Baby Names for Natalie Portman Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:12 AM PDT
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By the way, for those of you playing along at home, Baby Boy Portman-Millepied’s bris will probably take place on Wednesday, June 22, eight days after the birth. Who’s bringing whitefish salad? Read more from Alex Leo on twitter. Related posts: Post from: Crushable As-Yet-Unused Celebrity Baby Names for Natalie Portman  |
| Questionable Choices: Antoine Dodson’s Got a New Wig Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:18 AM PDT |
| Jada Pinkett Smith Was a No-Show at Monday’s ‘HawthoRNe’ Event Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:24 AM PDT
Although Smith was confirmed to do a meet-and-greet with journalists, she was forced to skip the event due to her “crazy-busy” schedule, which she mentioned in her interview on The View that morning. As she tells the ladies of the talk show, the entire Smith clan is up to their ears in a bunch of different projects: Husband Will is shooting Men In Black 3 down in SoHo (with his giant trailer), son Jaden starred in The Karate Kid and has a burgeoning music career, and daughter Willow is already a superstar with singles like “Whip My Hair.” (Smith confessed that she hadn’t expected Willow to “blow up so quickly.”) I arrived at the HawthoRNe event (which was sponsored by Just Jared) during hors d’oeuvres, so I may have missed the announcement that Smith couldn’t make it, but bloggers were chatting about it when I sat down. It’s too bad that she couldn’t be there, if only because the first episode hit the ground running, drama-wise, and we would have had plenty of questions to ask her about what the changes in the first episode will mean for the rest of the season. Though the episode opened with Christina’s (Smith) and Tom’s (Alias‘ Michael Vartan) wedding, by the end of the hour tragedy had struck — and the show made several decisions shocking even for a medical drama. Marc Anthony has also returned as Detective Nick Renata, who’s protective of Christina in a way that’s different from her relationship to Tom. And thanks to the tragedy that struck in the season premiere, he’ll be part of the team for at least this season. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Jada Pinkett Smith Was a No-Show at Monday’s ‘HawthoRNe’ Event  |
| Hot Shot: Model Ian O’Brien, Don’t You Go and Cut Your Hair Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:14 AM PDT |
| 5 Facts About ’16 and Pregnant’ Star Taylor Lumas Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:26 AM PDT
Her mom was also a teen mom, but her mom chose adoption. Taylor and Nathan live a couple of blocks away from each other. Luckily, she likes walking, which is good since neither she nor Nathan has a driver’s license (flashback to Kianna and Zak from last week!). Taylor admits that her mom Debi was really upset when she learned about Taylor’s pregnancy. In an interesting change for this show, we find out that Debi became pregnant as a 17-year-old, but that she gave that child up for adoption. Taylor and Nathan eat cereal on the couch, and Nathan’s bowl is so big that it looks like it was made for a family of four. Debi says that his bowl is a “trough,” and Taylor says “What’s a trough?” Debi gives the camera a “See, I told you this pregnancy was a bad idea” face. Debi says that she knew she was too young to take care of a kid, so she did the right thing, and she thinks Taylor and Nathan should follow suit. Taylor and Nathan are apparently reading off the “We both grew up with single moms and don’t want to abandon our kid and have some other weird dubious reason for not liking adoption” version of the script. Debi reads my mind and says that while Taylor and Nathan are together right now and committed to raising the baby, people change and they can’t know how they’re going to feel after the baby is born. Nathan says he doesn’t believe in adoption or abortion and that kids need to be raised “by their blood parents.” Nathan’s mom Missy agrees and says that family sticks together. Taylor decided to keep her baby. When Taylor tells Debi that she’s keeping the baby, Debi is understandably pissed. Debi cries and says that she knows Taylor is going to struggle because of her age, and that the financial burden is going to mostly fall on Debi, who can’t really afford it. She talks about open adoptions, but Taylor’s not hearing it. Just like last week, Taylor and Nathan are both too young to get jobs. Taylor’s older sister shows up, and she points out that it’s really hard to take care of a kid and, of course because it’s this show, Nathan and Taylor wait until a few weeks before the baby is born to figure out their plan. Nathan says he’s 16 now so he is going to apply for jobs “soon.” Yeah, famous last words. During a scene at a baby store, Taylor keeps asking Nathan about money and he snaps at her that he’ll be getting a job “soon,” and she points out that he could have worked all summer but didn’t. Eventually, he sends out some applications. Although “virtual school” (aka online school) is an option, Taylor thinks it’s “retarded” to do school on a computer by yourself. I have some words for what I think it means to get knocked up at fifteen, but whatever. Taylor, Nathan, and their moms meet to talk about who will take care of the baby while the kids are in school. Debi works the night shift, and Missy works during the day. To the shock of no one in the world except Taylor, Nathan thinks he should keep going to regular school and Taylor should do virtual school. Taylor argues, but she sucks it up. I suspect this is the first in a long line of sacrifices that only Taylor will have to make. Do the girls on this show watch any previous episodes of the show? Because honestly. This is like watching an episode of CSI – the villain’s identity is telegraphed from the beginning, and we already know that the team will make a crucial discovery that helps them nail the culprit at exactly 45 minutes into the episode. Best line of the episode: when a friend asks Taylor if she thinks labor is going to hurt, Taylor replies, “Well, yeah, there’s a kid coming out of your crotch.” Related posts: Post from: Crushable 5 Facts About ’16 and Pregnant’ Star Taylor Lumas  |
Jinger Duggar is the most subversive of the J-monikered child army on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.” Someone managed to smuggle us a copy of her diary, which was filled with instructions about how to escape her family’s compound. We’ve posted an excerpt below and are also raising funds for her midnight helicopter rescue.
Oops! Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner may have 
It’s clear that Gavin Wiesen based The Art of Getting By off his own adolescence: He attended private school in New York City and bears a striking resemblance to the movie’s star, Freddie Highmore. (Or technically, Highmore looks a lot like his director.) Originally titled Homework, the movie follows reclusive smartass George (Highmore), who gets away with doing no homework during his senior year, and Emma Roberts as Sally, a popular girl who brings him into her world of parties and fun.
Can you believe next week is the season finale of 16 and Pregnant? There will be only ten total episodes this season, and then Teen Mom is back on July 5. So last night we got a double feature: Taylor Lumas‘ episode, and then a special 40-minute “Unseen Moments Special” hosted by – of course – Dr. Drew Pinsky. I tend to think that these missing clips shows are determined in part by viewer feedback or aim to answer questions people have asked about the show, and this episode definitely validates that. But mostly it shows clips of 
Natalie Portman seems to be a little more sane than her Hollywood counterparts, but based on the 
On Monday night, I joined a group of lifestyle, pop culture, and fashion bloggers at a screening of the first episode of HawthoRNe season 3 at the Trump SoHo hotel here in New York. The invite promised champagne (check), hors d’oeuvres (check), the screening (check), and a visit from star Jada Pinkett Smith — who had to drop out at the last minute.
At this point, the intro to a 16 and Pregnant episode is almost like a Mad Lib: “My name is [Name] and I’m [15, 16, or 17] and a [name of grade] in high school. I live with my mom because my dad left when I was little. She was my best friend until I met [name that is probably a variation on Tyler]. Now my dream of becoming a [job that is either nurse, vet, or professional cheerleader] is on hold becaaaaaaaaaaaaaause…. I’m pregnant!” This week’s Mad Libber is Taylor, who is fifteen and lives in Cincinnati. Her boyfriend’s name is Nathan, not Tyler, and they met at a rollerskating party.| 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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