Rabbit Hole International Poster: This promotional material does nothing to quell Nicole Kidman’s enduring reputation as a former actress who can’t even move her face for Haiti and...
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The nominees for the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards were announced and below are the lucky ladies and gentlemen recognized for their achievements:
Best Actress Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Greta Gerwig, Greenberg Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone Natalie Portman, Black Swan Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Actor Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs Aaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole James Franco, 127 Hours John C. Reilly, Cyrus Ben Stiller, Greenberg
Best Supporting Actress Ashley Belle, The Last Exorcism Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone Allison Janney, Life During Wartime Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating Naomi Watts, Mother and Child
Best Supporting Actor John Hawkes, Winter's Bone Samuel L. Jackson, Mother and Child Bill Murray, Get Low John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Best Feature 127 Hours Black Swan Greenberg The Kids Are All Right Winter's Bone
Best Director Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan Danny Boyle, 127 Hours Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right Debra Granik, Winter's Bone John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole
Best First Feature Everything Strange and New Get Low Night Catches Us The Last Exorcism Tiny Furniture
Best Foreign Film Kisses Mademoiselle Chambon Of Gods and Men The King's Speech Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best First Screenplay Diane Bell, Obselidia Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture Nik Fackler, Lovely, Still Bob Glaudini, Jack Goes Boating Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener, Monogamy
Best Cinematography Never Let me Go Black Swan Tiny Furniture Winter's Bone Greenberg
Best Documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop Marwencol Restrepo Sweetgrass Thunder Soul
Congrats!!!! Too bad we have to wait till February 26th to find out who won!
While most X Factor contestants immediately hit up the press circuit upon elimination from the reality competition, the HIGHlarious Wagner Carrilho has been mysteriously mum - and now sources are coming forward to reveal that the head honchos are keeping him from speaking out because they're afraid of what he might say or do!
The insider explains:
"Wagner was banned from speaking to the other contestants on Sunday and yesterday they turned down dozens of media requests because they were worried what he might say. Wagner could say anything at any time so it looked like an accident waiting to happen. They spent the day giving him advice so that when he does speak he won't damage the show's image. He was effectively gagged. No other contestant had this treatment this series."
LOLz! You'd think that they would have thought about that during his time on the show and prepared him then!
C'mon, guys! Let him loose!
We would LOVE to hear what he has to say! In fact, we encourage it!
Don't mess with our Netflix Instant Streaming, Comcast! We've got four perfectly good seasons of 30 Rock waiting for us on there!
A central partner of Netflix, Level 3 Communications, has accused Comcast of charging a new fee that adversely affects Internet video companies.
Here's what Level 3 chief legal officer Thomas C. Stortz had to say about it:
"With this action, Comcast demonstrates the risk of a 'closed' Internet, where a retail broadband Internet access provider decides whether and how their subscribers interact with content."
Dramz between the two companies started on Nov 19 when Level 3 claims that "Comcast demanded a recurring fee to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast's customers who request such content."
Here's what Stortz had to say about Comcast's demands:
"Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions."
According to a recent study, Netflix accounts for 20% of Internet download traffic in the U.S. Due to that fact, it makes Netflix a threat to Comcast and other cable companies who seek to protect subscription TV and video-on-demand services.
Senior VP at Comcast, Joe Waz, argues that Level 3 and Netflix are sharply increasing Internet traffic with their efforts to ween customers away from DVDs-by-mail and towards online streaming.
According to Stortz, Level 3 will be asking government regulators this week to do the following:
"to take quick action to ensure that a fair, open and innovative Internet does not become a closed network controlled by a few institutions with dominant market power that have the means, motive and opportunity to economically discriminate between favored and disfavored content."
This could get def get ugly! All we know is we would hate to lose our Netflix Instant service, and given the fact that Netflix just went up in price, we're thinking subscribers would NOT be happy if prices went up again so soon!
Work this out, you two! Seriously.
Team Comcast? Team Netflix? Team "I Don't Care I Just Want To Continue Streaming Movies Online?"
As we've reported, the new season of 90210 has been expertly handling the character of Teddy, played by Trevor Donavan, as he deals with coming out of the closet and accepting his homosexuality, and on last night's episode, he finally took the huge step of admitting his feelings to confidante Ian, played by Kyle Riabko - with a super romantic kiss!
Check out the lovely little scene (above)!
We've had our misgivings about the series, but we think they've finally found their footing and this storyline, as well as most of the others, are really working!
What do U think?? Do U like the direction that 90210 is taking??
Ha! We can see why this would be awkward at first!
Jennifer Carpenter recently opened up about falling in love with her Dexter co-star and ON-SCREEN BROTHER Michael C. Hall, and claims she was concerned at first that would influence their characters' chemistry!
She explains:
"We were just friends, and it was very easy to be friends. We were both surprised when this other thing happened. We did a lot of talking about it - can we kiss, what will that mean, will we damage the credibility of our characters? We were very practical… But in the end, the heart wanted what the heart wanted."
So sweet! And we have to give them a lot of credit!
If we didn't know that they were married, we would have NEVER guessed it from their performances on the show!
Text messaging is often the fastest way to communicate with friends and acquaintances, but it's not always the best one. Especially when it comes to texting with guys. Here at Crushable we aim to help you sift through all the subtext and emerge relatively unscathed – with a little help from our friend Amanda Ernst.
If you have dated in the age of text messaging, chances are you have encountered the text-lationship. You know what I mean: there are those guys who you find yourself having hours-long text convos with who never seem to get it together enough to ask you out on a real date. If you try to nail down a time to hang out and get nothing but brush-offs, followed by “What’s up?” texts the next weekend, you’re probably in a text-lationship. And a dead-end one at that. I had experienced this before, to my dismay, but until now I didn’t quite have a name for it. (Thank you, The Frisky.)
Besides the fact that the text-lationship is wholly unsatisfying, it can make you feel pretty undesirable as well. You give a guy your number to hang out with him, right? Endless back and forth texting probably wasn’t on your wish list of things to do with him, unless it accompanies a hot and steamy make out session every now and then. And as annoying as it is for this sort of thing to evolve after you give a new guy your number, it’s even more discouraging when you find yourself in the midst of a text-lationship with someone who you’ve gone on one or two promising dates with.
A few months ago, I met a guy who was perfect on paper — and in text. He contacted me (via text, natch) the perfect number of days after we met (three) and was very sweet and complimentary. He said he was busy with work, and so was I, but after a little compromise we settled on a meeting date and time. The date was great, and I was up for a second — but he informed me he was leaving in a week for a two-week trip. Still, I thought we would meet up again afterwards. He kept my hopes alive with frequent texts, always saying the right things at the right moment. He called me “cutie” in his last text before taking off, how could I not swoon? (Side note: calling me cutie is most definitely the way to my heart.)
But, as you will probably guess, this story doesn’t have a happy ending. A week went by after he was supposed to return to New York, and I still hadn’t heard from him. Most girls would just write him off, but I was curious. Would I hear from him again a few months down the line? Wanting to know one way or another, I texted him, asking if he was back in town. If he brought up hanging out again, I would push him to meet up soon. If not, I was going to throw this fish back into the sea. His response: “Just wrapped up an all-consuming work project. How you livin?” Not wanting to get wrapped up in another text conversation, but not wanting to be rude, I put the ball back in his court. I ended my response with, “Can’t wait to hear all about your trip.” When I didn’t hear from him, I was finally ready to move on.
If you’re not sure, here are some tips to clue you into the fact that you might be in a text-lationship:
• You talk more via text message than you do in person • You get texts from him mid-week or early in the night on a weekend asking what you’re up to, and then never hear from him once you’re out • Long text conversations end with no firm plans to hang out • His texts include “Let’s hang out some time this week or next” or “If you’re ever free one night, let me know.”
But defining your experience as a text-lationship is only half the battle. Once you know you’re in the midst of a one, what can you to end it or avoid it in the future? Just be honest. If you want to see a guy, don’t be coy. If he asks you to hang out, tell him what days you’re free and ask him to pick one. Or do what Frisky writer Beth Ames did and tell him to let you know when he’s free for a drink. If you feel unfulfilled by a text-only relationship and keep wondering, “Why won’t he just ask me out?” then try to make it happen, and if it doesn’t let him go. You might lose a texting buddy, but you’ll feel so much better having spoken your mind or moved on. Take it from me.
Have you ever found yourself in a text-lationship? How did it end up? Leave your experiences in the comments below and you might see it featured in an upcoming installment of Textual Healing.
Wow, that was really harsh Thai, but it’s totally true: We are happy that Kylie Minogue had time to climb her way out of Hades and make an appearance with the PS22 chorus, who all know the words to her very popular song “Put Your Hands Up,” but at the same time, that lady needs to un-Madonna-fy herself, fast. She is really scary looking.
OMG OMG OMG I just found out that the boy I like can see EVERY TIME that I've visited his online dating profile and he wasn't even supposed to know that I knew about it in the first place because we go to school together and he TOLD ME HE WAS DATING SOMEONE and that was why he couldn't go out with me and then I found his profile and then I looked at it like every ten minutes and he's going to think that I'm crazier about him than you are about your cats OMG OMG OMG.
OMG - Accidental Stalker Girl
Dear Accidental Stalker Girl,
Judging from the picture of your boy's face that you Photoshopped onto a fuzzy kitten body (kinda weird, but I'm fine with whatever floats your little boat), you're right to stalk him. I might even add him to my list, although what with my dial-up connection, it takes all morning just to get through my daily George Clooney and Cat Fancier routine.
But letting him know that you're stalking him – that was a mistake. This whole situation reminds me of Didums, one of my cats. Didums is a bitch (by which I do not mean that she is a female), and loves to torment a poor tomcat who yowls his heart out to her every evening from the backyard as she and I watch Will and Grace and lick out hairballs.
And you know how I know that she likes him? Every evening, she hops up onto a windowsill to catch the sunbeam that slants in just before the sun sets, and she sits there, looking at him, for just ten minutes until the sun dies. And then she turns her back and goes out of his sight, inspiring him to yowl for the rest of the night.
You see, he thinks that she's only interested in the sunbeam. But she knows that the sunbeam is just a pretense, so she can look at him without him knowing that she's interested. And that's how she keeps him interested.
Similarly, you need to come up with some reason to explain why you've been clicking on him so much. A reason that won't be flattering to him. Just brainstorming, here's a couple: you're a sex addict who looks at everyone's online dating profile several times a day; you've trained your cat to use the computer, and she's obsessed with his profile because his facial hair makes him look just like a gerbil; you're doing research for a business project whereby you're a prostitute. These are just off the top of my head – I'm sure that you can come up with something better. Or, at least, something that you can pretend to be proud that you thought up on your own.
Leighton Meester, Natalie Portman and Hilary Swank? All wore black to last night’s IFP awards. We suppose the moody hue is the uniform of indie film, so we shouldn’t be all that surprised. At least didn’t step out in Chuck Taylors and hoodies with their faces buried behind Final Cut Pro monitors, right? Check out our gallery of darkly attired celebs.
Barbie’s Actual Dreamhouse, Now Less Barfable - Lady Gaga’s makeup artist Darian Darling has turned their entire home into a Barbie-inspired 60s lounge. And its not at all hideous: it’s actually really cool. Way to go, baby monster! (Apartment Therapy)
Khloe Kardashian was on The View yesterday, where she divulged the fact that she first had sex at 14. And she regrets it. More than that, she said it was “not normal.” What do you think, Crushable readers? Is 14 too young to have sex?
We’ve put the video at the end of this post, which you can check out. But here are some of the highlights. Namely, she wishes it hadn’t happened. According to Khloe:
“He was only I think, 18, but for 14 to 18 now looking back, I think that’s not a normal thing,”
Khloe says she felt like her boyfriend at the time pressured her to have sex:
“I feel like I was almost conned, not conned, but like you know persuaded because he was older and I felt that I wouldn’t be accepted or cool or whatever.”
But beyond the specific dude being creepy, Khloe says she just wasn’t ready to have sex:
“But then I do remember when I was done…I felt so disgusted with myself…I didn’t have sex for three years after that…cause I knew I was young. I knew I wasn’t ready…I should have listened to my parents,” the 26-year-old socialite said.
What do you think? Is 14 too young to have sex? Or, was this a situation of a girl letting herself be influenced by a dude. In a different situation, is sex between a 14 year old and an 18 year old totally fine?
Yesterday we were introduced to the most amazing Tumblr to ever come from a book series, Reasoning with Vampires. The author of the site, Dana, has taken on the Herculean task of proof-reading all of Stephanie Meyers‘ books (the Twilight Saga, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner) and relating back to us all the narrative, grammatical, and yes, even spelling issues that pepper the YA prose.
We emailed Dana and asked her to comment on a couple of her favorite (least favorite) passages, and give her advice for vampire dating etiquette. How did you happen upon the idea for Reasoning with Vampires? You don’t seem like the normal Stephanie Meyers fan. Did the movies just piss you off? Fantasy was never my fiction genre of choice, so I didn’t pay much attention to the Twilight epidemic at first. After Breaking Dawn came out, I noticed a lot of opinion articles popping up about the warped content of the series, like “Bite Me! (Or Don’t)” from Bitch Magazine. The more articles I read, the more I disapproved. When my sister asked if I read the books (I hadn’t), she told me I ought to, which lead to an argument. She thought Edward was dreamy; I thought he was a creep. Even though I felt justified, those kinds of conversations always made me feel like a jackass for criticizing something based on the opinions of others. The incessant “ECLIPSE MOVIE OHMYGOD” promotions earlier this year reminded me, so I bit the bullet.
I was floored. Not only did I dislike the characters, the plot, and the troubling psychology, but the writing was atrocious. I wasn’t expecting bad writing. I held out admitting that I was reading Twilight until I couldn’t stand it anymore, and my boyfriend was on the receiving end of a rant about how you can’t have “liquid topaz“. That was the first of many. To give him a break I decided to kill the demon by taking a red pen to it, but I soon realized that there was not enough space in the margins. Eventually I decided to go about the “project” in the approach that is now RwV.
Is there a particular passage or character that you find particularly egregious? • The most inexcusable item I’ve noticed so far is the moat/mote sentence. I don’t know if Meyer wrote the wrong word or if something was bungled by the printer, but it’s wrong. It’s just wrong. The copy I’m working from was purchased within the last six months, which was almost five years since the book was released. Whoever did it, it’s stupid and sloppy, and Meyer’s name is on the cover.
• I love to hate this passage that makes no sense:The Cullens and the Hales sat at the same table as always, not eating, talking only among themselves. None of them, especially Edward, glanced my way anymore. This is not possible. One person cannot do nothing more than four other people who are doing the same nothing. It’s like when people say, “I could care less,” instead of, “I couldn’t care less.”
• Meyer seems to have a very loose grasp on vocabulary finesse. She fails to realize that just because a word is accurate from the standpoint of the definition, it’s not automatically the right word to use. The first time the reader learns about Edward’s sparkling perfection, his skin looks “like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.” It’s a huge moment! It is supposed to be a swooning moment, but I can’t help but cringe at the thought of gems being shoved into his skin. The connotation of a word like “embedded” conjures images more befitting bmezine than a fairytale romance.
• On more significant scale, I have a problem with the fact that (SPOILER ALERT) the climaxes of New Moon and Breaking Dawn are resolved with, “In that case, never mind.”
Watching the end of the Thanksgiving Day Parade last week, we couldn’t help but notice that Santa Claus looked a little… well… creepy. We felt bad for even thinking something negative about jolly old Saint Nick, but we couldn’t help it! So we got to wondering: are there other people out there who have off-kilter ideas about Santa? YouTube has spoken and the answer is a resounding “Ho ho, um, totally.”
Dubstep Santa’s coming, you guys. Leave out some cookies and headphones.
Attack of the Santas plays out like a Christmas story written by Cormac McCarthy. Meaning: Terrifying!
In the game, players take aim and catapult Silly Bandz to rescue other Bandz trapped in a variety of structures and cages.
As players progress, they can unlock new Silly Bandz to help them in their quest. Some Bandz feature special powers, such as multiplying or exploding in air, or surviving environmental hazards by transforming upon impact.
Socially aware and fun? No way! Here are 4 other super silly trends that we’d like to see become videogames. 1. Sixteen and Pregnant: Score!
Duck and dodge your parents to sneak out with your bum of a boyfriend and get knocked up before prom. Earn extra points in the punching round, where you hit your significant other until he agrees to take responsibility for the baby.
2. Slap Bracelets: Final Fury
You know how there was that kid from a neighboring middle school who cut their wrist open on the metal parts of a slap bracelet and that’s why you weren’t allowed to wear them to class anymore? Uncover the mystery of this urban legend in a Myst-like first-player game around your childhood to get clues as to whether or not this actually happened.
3. Justin Bieber’s 3D Glasses: Rock Invasion
It’s like Rock Band, except in 3D and the only song available is “Baby.”
Text messaging is often the fastest way to communicate with friends and acquaintances, but it's not always the best one. Especially when it comes to texting with guys. Here at Crushable we aim to help you sift through all the subtext and emerge relatively unscathed – with a little help from our friend Amanda Ernst.
Dear Cat Lady,
Shopping horror stories CAN have happy endings. At least this one does. Crushable reader Krissy won us over with 
Khloe Kardashian was on The View yesterday, where she divulged the fact that she first had sex at 14. And she regrets it. More than that, she said it was “not normal.” What do you think, Crushable readers? Is 14 too young to have sex?
Yesterday we were introduced to the most amazing Tumblr to ever come from a book series, 
Silly Bandz, those things your kids wear on their wrists to 