Rashida Jones Tried To Pull A Michael Jackson And Bubbles Wasn’t Having It Rashida Jones made an appearance on Desus & Mero Tuesday and she definitely flexed her Quincy Jones is my dad card , by revealing she was bitten by Michael Jackson’s monkey Bubbles. Via People.com : Recalling the incident to hosts Desus & Mero, she said, “I got attacked. By Bubbles. Bubbles. Michael Jackson…” “You can see still,” she added, pointing to the scar on her hand. ” He was wearing a little full…overall jumpsuit and a striped shirt,” she said. “To pretend he was a human.” “He also looked me dead in my eye. While he was biting me,” she said. “I was trying to punish him because he threw something at me. And I, like, hit him on the head and said, ‘No!’ because I had seen Michael trying to punish him before.” “And he looked me dead in the eye,” she said, before miming the chimpanzee biting her hand. “It was, like, white for ten minutes. It was, like, white and then it was pouring blood.” She added that Bubbles had no regrets about what he did: “He was like, ‘I’m the man,’” she said. Apparently Bubbles has been living at the Center for Great Apes, a sanctuary in Wauchula, Florida, since 2005. RIP MJ WENN/SplashNews
Kendall Jenner is featured in a national publication this week. Unlike half-sister Kim Kardashian , however, she is fully clothed and balancing nary a single champagne bottle on her rear end. Instead, the impressive 19-year old is profiled by The New York Times, which spoke to members of her team and executives at Estée Lauder about what has helped Kendall succeed in the competitive world of professional modeling. “I think what’s so exciting about her is that she has this social media influence along with a fashion credibility in a distinct way that speaks to millennials,” says Jane Hertzmark Hudis, the global brand president of Estée Lauder. Kendall, of course, recently signed on as the Estée Lauder spokesperson . Added Jenner upon earning this new gig: “I just want to be the best me I can be. So having the power that social media does, I think just seeing how many people care about you and seeing how many people want to watch what you’re doing, it just makes you really want to do the best you can do.” Kendall also talked to The New York Times about how she balances life as a reality star on a ridiculous E! program and how she walks the runway for established fashion companies. “It’s definitely two different worlds,” she says. “I feel like Hannah Montana. But it’s fun.” We wonder how Miley Cyrus feels about that comparison. 34 Wildly Inappropriate Photos of Kendall Jenner 1. Kendall Jenner: Naked and Smoking Kendall Jenner is smoking in this picture. In more ways than one! She was 18 years old at the time it was taken.
Earlier this week, new controversy bubbled up around The Today Show, as talk surfaced of Natalie Morales and Willie Geist being fired . The rumor ended up being false and the hosts ended up joking about it , but the incident made us think back to the past six-plus decades of waking up each morning with Today. It’s been both a bumpy ride and a funny ride. 12 Top Today Show Moments 1. The Force Was With Them Today anchors have always made headlines for their Halloween attire. But this 2009 Star Wars theme takes the creative cake. Remember those Halloween costumes? Remember the time Tom Cruise WENT OFF on Matt Lauer? Remember the London Olympic coverage and the Royal Wedding coverage and… the chimpanzee? Wait… WHAT?!? Relive some of the most memorable moments on Today Show history via the above photo gallery and start to wonder: What will those crazy morning folks do next?!?
Liam , these ratchet white girls just can’t seem to leave you alone. Amanda Bynes Has Crush On Liam Hemsworth According to US Magazine The Twitter confessions continue. Troubled star Amanda Bynes has taken a break from her legal battles and online feuds to address just what’s exactly on her mind these days — including who’s at the top of her hot guys list. Tweeting on Tuesday, June 4, Bynes, 27, revealed who she’s got her eye on. “Liam Helmsworth is the most gorgeous man on the face of the earth other than Tanz Watson. FYi!” Bynes wrote, misspelling the Australian hunk’s last name. As it happens, both men mentioned are connected to another former child star, Miley Cyrus. (Hemsworth, of course, has dated Cyrus on-and-off since 2009, and Watson, a model and actor, was last seen alongside Cyrus in the 2012 movie LOL). Now that Hemsworth, 23, and Cyrus’ engagement is off, as Us Weekly exclusively reported on May 29, could Bynes be trying to make her move? If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Easy A actress got close to the Hunger Games star. In 2011, while Hemsworth and Cyrus were on a relationship break, the Catching Fire actor was seen cuddling with Bynes at Trousdale nightclub in West Hollywood. Cyrus, 20, another heavy Twitter user, hasn’t yet addressed Bynes’ advances to Hemsworth on her own page. For his part, Hemsworth coincidentally joined Twitter on Wednesday, June 5 for the very first time, but he isn’t following Bynes or Cyrus just yet. Bynes’ most recent comments come following weeks of headline-making tweets and events. She’s due back in court on July 18 for a hearing on her May 23 arrest; After a supposed bong-throwing incident in her NYC apartment, she was charged with marijuana possession, attempted evidence tampering and reckless endangerment. Ma, Liam doesn’t want you. You’re broke, busted and disgusted. Splash News Continue reading →
This guy has diarrhea of the mouth. E. W. Jackson Says Evolution Is False According to Raw Story The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia believes that biological evolution is false because chimpanzees cannot speak like humans do. BuzzFeed revealed on Tuesday that E.W. Jackson made the claim in Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life, a book he published in 2008. In the book, he noted that scientists had taught chimpanzees to use sign language. He said this finding was wrongly used as evidence that primates were our ancestors. Jackson said the scientists were incorrect because language was a gift God provided exclusively to human beings and “no other creature.” “There is an unfathomable gulf between humans and all other creatures because creation was designed that way,” he wrote. Scientists have uncovered that modern humans and modern chimpanzees share a common ancestor in the distant past. The notion that modern humans evolved from chimpanzees is a common misconception. It is not the first time the controversial candidate’s book has been the subject of scrutiny. In late May, the liberal blog Think Progress reported that Jackson was an advocate of the so-called “prosperity gospel.” In apparent contradiction to the teachings of the New Testament, Jackson’s book declared the pursuit of money was not evil and didn’t make people evil. Somebody needs to tell this guy that the Republican party really doesn’t give an ish about you. They just use you to make them feel less racist. Continue reading →
This guy has diarrhea of the mouth. E. W. Jackson Says Evolution Is False According to Raw Story The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia believes that biological evolution is false because chimpanzees cannot speak like humans do. BuzzFeed revealed on Tuesday that E.W. Jackson made the claim in Ten Commandments to an Extraordinary Life, a book he published in 2008. In the book, he noted that scientists had taught chimpanzees to use sign language. He said this finding was wrongly used as evidence that primates were our ancestors. Jackson said the scientists were incorrect because language was a gift God provided exclusively to human beings and “no other creature.” “There is an unfathomable gulf between humans and all other creatures because creation was designed that way,” he wrote. Scientists have uncovered that modern humans and modern chimpanzees share a common ancestor in the distant past. The notion that modern humans evolved from chimpanzees is a common misconception. It is not the first time the controversial candidate’s book has been the subject of scrutiny. In late May, the liberal blog Think Progress reported that Jackson was an advocate of the so-called “prosperity gospel.” In apparent contradiction to the teachings of the New Testament, Jackson’s book declared the pursuit of money was not evil and didn’t make people evil. Somebody needs to tell this guy that the Republican party really doesn’t give an ish about you. They just use you to make them feel less racist. Continue reading →
At a few West Coast theaters this Friday, Diane Keaton’s dog weepie Darling Companion and the documentary Chimpanzee will make room in the theatrical line-up for one more animal movie, the docufiction Otter 501 . That’s right. While the rest of the world was distracted by the latest superhero shawarma scandal , the rapidly growing field of wildlife documentaries produced a transmedia movie in a genre you might have never heard of. About otters. And in a few weeks, this spring’s primates, canines, and water weasels will migrate to the DVD shelf, replaced by their summer counterparts in Madagascar 3, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and Piranha 3DD . There will, in other words, always be a creature feature at the movie theater. Animals have always been celluloid stars: the Lumière brothers exhibited short films of horses and cats years before the first feature-length film. But the last few years have seen a flood (or is that an ark?) of animal movies. The wildlife doc, for example, is the industry’s newest success story. For example, Disneynature, founded only in 2008, has released four of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The interest in looking at animals certainly seems limitless: the popularity of pet videos on YouTube, cable channels like Animal Planet and National Geographic, high-profile docs like March of the Penguins and Project Nim , and the 101 talking animal movies Hollywood released last year certainly attests to that. But while many of the animals on smaller-scale media like television and Internet videos are simply recorded and presented as they exist, the narrative requirements of feature films — a three-act story spanning 90-120 minutes — force movie animals to relate to humans so that we can identify with them as characters, or at least as narrative props. Thus, most animal movies are really about people in one of these five ways: Type #1: Animals are people, but with cuter exteriors. Recent examples : Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Happy Feet 2, Puss in Boots Explanation : Typically animated and aimed at children, movies about wisecracking animals are perennial favorites. Though they may retain some of their species’ quirks, the characters are basically humans in animal form — probably because lions and zebras tend to make for cuter merchandise than anatomically confusing dolls. (To watch animals in human form — i.e., people treated as pets — watch the first half of Fantastic Planet .) The feuding felines in Puss in Boots love milk and hate each other like any self-adoring real-life cat, but they also wear hats, run on two feet, duel with swords, flirt with human women, and flamenco-fight. Type #2: Animals in the wild are also people. Recent examples : Chimpanzee, To the Arctic Explanation : Wildlife docs should be the exception to animal anthropomorphism, but filmmakers seem intent on telling familiar tales about parent-child relationships. Many mammals and birds undoubtedly spend an inordinate amount of effort protecting their young, but these films’ focus on the family is likely a result of feature-length nature docs forming a booming niche in family programming. This lushly shot excerpt from Chimpanzee doesn’t just showcase animals using tools, but subtle conservative moralizing as well. Tim Allen’s dumb caveman whooping, the mention of one male chimpanzee named “Freddy,” and descriptions of the rocks as “hammers,” “heavy equipment,” and “power tools” unnecessarily and unscientifically suggest that tool use is an exclusively male activity. Type #3: People are (mostly) good. Recent examples : Darling Companion, Big Miracle, We Bought a Zoo Explanation : Humans are essentially good creatures who need occasional reminders of their better natures from innocent, helpless creatures. (Children can’t do all the heavy lifting.) In these films, animals are litmus tests for human morality: Characters who like animals are kind and stalwart, while characters who don’t are morally suspect. (Very few are neutral.) One character always resists falling in love with the dog/dolphin/donkey, but of course they fall the hardest in the end. In We Bought a Zoo , recent widower and animal newbie Matt Damon is faulted by humans and animals alike for failing to show his new wards respect. When Damon casually swaggers into the porcupines’ space, they respond with shrieks and threats, broadly signaling to their new keeper that he needs to be more mindful of their boundaries. (Damon apparently disagrees.) Type #4: People are (mostly) bad. Recent examples : War Horse, Rise of the Planet of the Apes Explanation : Philosophically irreconcilable with the previous type, the misanthropic films of this category illustrate the reality that people harm animals, even with the best of intentions. There are very few movies of this type, since they propose the radical beliefs that human beings are destructive creatures that mindlessly destroy animals’ lives, that the rest of the animal kingdom would thrive without our existence, even that animals have the right to exterminate us as a dangerous, rival species. Even before Caesar the chimpanzee (Andy Serkis) is imprisoned and cruelly experimented on, Rise of the Planet of the Apes suggests that humans are morally lacking creatures. James Franco’s scientist character is too self-absorbed to help his senile father (John Lithgow) use a fork correctly, and their screaming neighbor lacks total sympathy for Lithgow’s clearly mentally impaired character. No wonder Caesar yearns for a home elsewhere. (Clip starts at 00:42). Type #5: Animals are bad and want to kill you (so you better kill them first). Recent examples : The Grey, Shark Night 3D Explanation : In this category, animals are the Grim Reaper. Death might constitute a character’s comeuppance, illustrate the frailty of human life against the brute forces of nature, or suggest the cold randomness of bad luck. But no matter the rationale, the end (by animal bite) is inescapable. When a character dies from a critter attack, it feels like nature’s machines turning its gears. When he survives — because, let’s face it, those scenarios tend to involve macho, macho men — we can all breathe a sigh of relief, comforted by the illusion that we can fight for another day. In The Grey , Liam Neeson, a wolf-killer by trade, attempts to outrun a pack of wolves after a plane crash leaves him stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. By the film’s final scenes, however, the pack has caught up to him, and has him struggling to die with dignity. Because Neeson is the main character, the wolf pack considerately allows him to browse through his wallet pictures one last time to soft, sad music before they rip him to tiny, little pieces. Death, be not lupine. Inkoo Kang is a Boston-based film journalist and regular contributor to BoxOffice Magazine whose work has appeared in Pop Matters and Screen Junkies. She reviews stuff she hates, likes, and hate-likes on her blog THINK-O-VISION .
A Hollywood cinema is searching for a print of MJ’s 1988 film with plans to give it a ‘one night only’ screening. By James Montgomery Michael Jackson’s “Moonwalker” Photo: Warner Bros. Michael Jackson’s short-film anthology “Moonwalker” may finally get a debut theatrical screening in the United States more than 20 years after it was released. Back in 1988, MJ first unveiled the ambitious project, which contained several long-form videos for songs off his then-just-released Bad album, including his famous 25-minute clip for “Smooth Criminal.” The film had been scheduled to be released in U.S. theaters that Christmas, but for whatever reason, that plan was scrapped. The movie was released on VHS early in 1989, and — surprise, surprise — became a massive success. But now, more than two decades after its debut, one theater is planning to give “Moonwalker” a proper premiere here in the States. According to TMZ , Hollywood’s Arclight Cinemas is actively searching for a print of the film, with plans to show it on the big screen … for one night only. The idea came after Jackson fans flooded Arclight’s Facebook page with requests to show “Moonwalker,” and the theater is now on the hunt for a copy of the flick. Even if the search is successful, there’s no word on when the premiere would occur. The theater had not responded to MTV News’ e-mail seeking a comment by press time. “Moonwalker” features videos for Jackson tracks like “Speed Demon” (directed by Claymation innovator Will Vinton), “Leave Me Alone” (which was released as a promo and won Jackson a 1989 Grammy for Best Music Video, Short Form) and, as mentioned, the iconic “Criminal,” which features Jackson battling a group of mobsters led by Joe Pesci. The flick also served as the inspiration for the super-awesome Sega game “Moonwalker, which featured a digital MJ morphing into a laser-blasting robot with the aid of his chimpanzee pal, Bubbles. Would you go see a theatrical screening of Jackson’s “Moonwalker” film? Tell us in the comments. Related Artists Michael Jackson
Photo: O Globo For most of his 27 years, Jimmy the chimpanzee has been kept under lock and key, allowed only to dream of the world beyond the confines of his enclosure at a small zoo in Rio de Janeiro. With no companion and little to do to pass the time, Jimmy had become understandably depressed — that is, until he discovered the joy of painting. But despite receiving national acclaim for his artistic ability, and becoming a household name in Brazil, the results of Jimmy’s latest … Read the full story on TreeHugger
In the wild Chimpanzee's face dangers from hunters and poachers who set traps which kill many of the animals every year. However, Primatologist's discovered a low rate of Chimpanzee injuries and deaths in Bossou. After studying the area they found the small groups of male Chimpanzees successfully deactivating traps set to catch wildlife. “Mostly, the chimps grasped the snare stick with their hands, shaking it violently until the trap broke. Sometimes a chimp lightly knocked the sapling that holds the snare, before grasping it to break the trap. But in all cases, they avoided touching the dangerous part, the wire loop. In the video above, chimp can be seen seeking out and inspecting snares, without breaking them. “-BBC Primatologists say this has changed the way they understand Chimpanzee can learn, since before they thought the animals only used trail and error. Stating the Chimpanzee's might have learnt from observation and passed down information through generations. However, they also report Chimpanzees in other regions have not done the same in Bossou. added by: Mcellie
