Thursday, June 16, 2011

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Video: World’s Worst Perfume Ad Sets Feminism Back 10,000 Years

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:57 AM PDT

Is Liam Neeson Reprising His Role from ‘Batman Begins’ in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’?

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:41 AM PDT

According to HitFix, Liam Neeson was spotted on the set of The Dark Knight Rises on Monday, shooting a scene as his character from the first movie, Ra’s al Ghul. The thing is, Ra’s was presumed dead at the end of the first movie, after his big showdown with former protege Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) on a speeding train ends with Batman jumping off and Ra’s careening to his death.

There’s a chance that Neeson was just filming flashback scenes, especially because his betrayal came as an utter shock to Bruce in the first movie. Ra’s is a well-known character in the comics, however, and has been resurrected at least once: The Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul saw the villain transfer his consciousness into a new body in order to survive an assassination attempt by his daughters.

Speaking of — Talia al Ghul is rumored to be a prominent antagonist showing up in The Dark Knight Rises, which would be exciting because not only is she Ra’s offspring, but she’s Batman’s love interest in the comics. For a while we thought that Marion Cotillard would play her, though the actress has been listed as a Wayne Enterprises board member named Miranda Tate. Could still be a cover, though, especially because before she turned to the good side, she was still doing Daddy’s bidding…

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Snap This: That Time My Sister Was an Extra On ‘One Tree Hill’

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:53 AM PDT

One Tree Hill, like Dawson’s Creek before it, films in Wilmington, North Carolina. Often, students from UNC – Wilmington get drafted into being extras on shows that are taping in town. My sister, Stephanie Marcus (who pops up occasionally around these parts), a UNCW alum, did a couple of rounds as an extra on One Tree Hill. Blink and you’ll miss her – she’s at the 27:32 mark in this episode. The episode, “Just Watch the Fireworks,” is from season three. (She’s the one on the right in the jeans and pinky-orange top.)

Extra work is a great way for students (and, really, anyone who has a couple of hours to spare) to get a tiny taste of working in the entertainment industry. I asked my sister for some of the pros and cons of being an extra, and here’s what she had to say:

PROS

  • Getting to meet celebrities. It depends on what you’re filming and when, and it’s possible that you might be in a crowd scene that doesn’t feature any of the main actors. But Stephanie reports that she met most of the One Tree Hill cast members (including Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton) at one point or another.
  • You get paid! It’s not a ton, but you will be compensated for your time. Sometimes you luck out: even if you only end up working for two hours, you will be paid for a minimum of eight.
  • There’s free food. If you’re there for more than a couple of hours, you’ll get free lunch. It’s not the best food in the world, but it’s decent.
  • People sometimes recognize you. Stephanie says she once got a phone call at 3 AM from a friend who watched this very One Tree Hill episode on TV and spotted her in the background.

CONS

  • There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait.” You often spend hours in the call room just sitting around just to film a thirty-second scene.
  • You feel like you’re in the way. As the least important people around, you feel like nobody likes you. Since most of the cast and crew know each other and have already been working together for awhile, you sometimes feel like the uncool kid at the lunch table.
  • It gets old at some point. Even if you’re a superfan, the sitting around and waiting starts to get old at some point. You might spend all day waiting around and never make it on camera. Like any other job, it starts to feel like work.

Overall, Stephanie says she’d recommend doing extra work if you can. Despite the long hours, it’s a fun way to learn how the entertainment industry works and to get an insider’s perspective. However, she wouldn’t recommend it as a full-time gig, because it gets tiring.

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Questionable Choices: Snooki’s Pickle-Print Flip Flops

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:16 AM PDT

The Situation may have his own exercise video and JWoww may have her own clothing line, but our girl Snooki isn’t one to be left out. She’s launching her very own line of branded flip-flops and wedges later this year in a partnership with MeyeWorld. Although we’re going to have to wait until the winter holidays to buy the shoes, Women’s Wear Daily has a sneak peek at one of the pairs: pickle-print flip flops. Oh, Snooks, don’t ever change.

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What Could J.K. Rowling’s Big Announcement Be?

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:56 AM PDT

J.K. Rowling has just launched the new site Pottermore, with the cryptic message you see above. And on her YouTube page is the message that in about 6 days (that would be next Wednesday, the 22nd), the Harry Potter author will be making a big announcement. We know that all this mystery pertains to Rowling’s new book, but so far there’s been no word on what it will be.

For years there have been rumors that Rowling would write a Harry Potter prequel, though her rep denies it. Personally, I’ll always hold out for a Marauders-era trilogy; they’re some of the best passages from the books! But assuming that it’s not going to be set in the wizarding world, what other genres could Rowling tackle?

My first instinct was to say young adult fiction, since obviously she knows how to keep readers enticed with characters who age from 11 to 17 — mostly because the core of her fanbase themselves were about the same age and identified more strongly with the characters.

The thing is, Rowling’s strength lies more in the texture of the worlds she creates: Ask any Potterhead, and they’re more likely to answer that it’s Platform 9 3/4 and Defense Against the Dark Arts and the Horcruxes that stand out the clearest in their memories of the series. The best genre for Rowling, then, would probably be science fiction: That brain of hers could come up with breathtaking feats of technology; she could apply the details she applied to the various wizarding schools in Goblet of Fire to far-off planets.

Or if she wanted to fuck with Stephenie Meyer, she could try her hand at vampires. You know, when I first read Chamber of Secrets, I was convinced that the deathly-pale Draco Malfoy was a bloodsucker, so I’d be convinced.

Which genre do you think Rowling’s new book will be set in? Or do you think her annoucement is about something entirely different?

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10 Music Videos With Celebrity Cameos for When You’re Sick of Katy Perry

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:28 AM PDT

For everyone who’s enjoying Glee stars Darren Criss and Kevin McHale alongside Crushable’s spirit animal Rebecca Black in Katy Perry’s new video Last Friday Night (and that should be everyone),  but needs something new, we have just the thing: more celebs popping up in music videos. But music video cameos are far from a new invention – these classic videos feature some of our all-time favorite random appearances.

The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (Eric Roberts)

Your age is immediately apparent when you describe Mr. Roberts; Julia’s brother or Emma’s dad.  (Side note – who plays checkers in a smoking jacket at a brothel? Next he’s going to order a sherry and demand a manservant play him in a game of connect four.)

Soul Asylum “Just Like Anyone”(Claire Daines)

Adorable Claire Daines isn’t as happy with her jutting skin spikes as Lady Gaga. But at prom it’s revealed she’s not some kind of teenage stegosaurus, she has wings. So, outfitted in her Juliet costume she flys off to a world where Leonardo DiCaprio never made The Man in the Iron Mask.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stone Temple Pilot “Sour Girl”(Sarah Michelle Gellar)

Oh my god the vampires finally got Buffy!

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The Daily WTF: Rolex Dog Collars, You Guys

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT

Snap This: Kim Kardashian’s Wedding Registry

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT

It’s nothing but the best for Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, who are asking their wedding guests to pony up for $200 silverware, bedazzled napkin rings, and a $1,650 coffee pot. If you’re a celebrity attendee who’s been in court lately and is strapped for cash, you could always go with the glass wisdom figurines, which are only $735. And does the publicly-available registry also reveal their wedding date?

Kim and Kris registered at Gearys in Beverly Hills, for a bevy of luxurious stuff. I’m split on this: It seems downright greedy to ask for such expensive variations on the standard place settings, glasses, and coffee prep stuff when you could get the same pieces, at comparable quality but “lesser” price, at a Williams & Sonoma. Then again, the people who have been rumored to attend — Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, Beyonce and Jay-Z — can afford these gifts. Then again, Kim can afford these gifts.

Another interesting tidbit is the wedding date listed on the registry: October 31, 2011. Although this could be Kim and Kris’ attempt at an original wedding, a source tells E! News that Halloween is just a placeholder: “That’s just a joke. They’re not announcing the real date just yet.”

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Class Exercise: Let’s Write Our Own Bios Like Ryan Reynolds

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:43 AM PDT

Hugh Hefner Is Using Twitter to Passive-Agressively Get Back at Crystal Harris

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:18 AM PDT

The Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris breakup story can’t stop won’t stop. First, they reportedly had an argument that resulted in Crystal calling off the wedding. Then the world got a look at the “Crystal Hefner” July 2011 Playboy cover, which had already been shot and shipped out before the breakup. Now, Hef is taking to Twitter to tell his side of the story – or, more specifically, to slam Crystal. One way he’s doing it is retweeting other peoples’ tweets that are critical of Crystal so that he doesn’t have to write stuff himself. Case in point:

Crystal does, in fact, have a single. It’s called “Club Queen” and is pretty reliably autotuned into oblivion, falling somewhere on the singles chart between Kim Zolciak‘s “Tardy for the Party” and every Ke$ha song ever.

But that’s not the only burn on Crystal. Hef also reports that former girlfriends Barbi Benton and Holly Madison have called him to offer their support, and Hef retweeted a fan suggestion that they put Holly back on the cover of Playboy. HEF + HOLLY 4EVA!

One question, though: considering that one of Crystal’s jobs used to be tweeting on Hef’s behalf, who is doing that now? Please tell me the answer is Holly.

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