With the exception of his little-seen work in I Love You Phillip Morris and a blink-and-you-missed-it appearance in the season finale of The Office , Jim Carrey has been away from the pop culture landscape for almost two years. (Three, if you don’t want to count the motion-capture spectacle that was A Christmas Carol .) That will change when Mr. Popper’s Penguins gets released in two weeks, and apparently Carrey wants to keep the likely momentum going forward by doing what movie stars do best: heading back to their past successes.
The red-band trailer for the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hit selected theaters this weekend (and the internet shortly after, thanks to either a moviegoer with a shaky camcorder or a savvy viral marketing stunt), and though it’s cut too quickly to really get a good look, (t)it bodes well for nudity from star Rooney Mara ! UPDATE: The red-band trailer has been pulled from the internet by Sony Pictures.They’ve officially released the green-band trailer, but it’s sadly boob-free. There’s a brief shot of Rooney’s boobies as she puts on a shirt 35 seconds in, then a shadowy silhouette of a topless woman we can only assume is Rooney 57 seconds in. This wouldn’t normally be a big deal, except that’s more skin in the trailer than Rooney has bared in her entire career thus far! Perhaps she’s learned a thing or three from Swedish sinsation Noomi Rapace , who played bisexual goth babe Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish cinema adaptations! Before she ever got that dragon tattoo, Noomi bared it all taking a dildo in her derriere from a lesbian lover in Daisy Diamond (2007): Then in her first outing as Lisbeth in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Noomi bared all three B’s getting out of bed after some Scandinavian schtupping: In The Girl who Played with Fire (2009), Noomi went back to her Sapphic skinema roots with a rug-munching rendezvous with lesbian lover Yasmine Garbi : And in the last film in the trilogy, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009), Noomi got strangely skingy, baring only the briefest of buttcracks getting out of the bath: We’ll have to wait until Christmas for Rooney Mara’ s turn as lusty Lisbeth, but you can check out ALL of Noomi Rapace (and we do mean all of her) in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest right now on MrSkin.com!
‘We didn’t miss a step at all,’ Royce says on ‘RapFix Live’ of reuniting with Em. By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Sway Calloway Royce Da 5’9″ Photo: MTV News With Detroit rappers Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ back on friendly terms, fans are being rewarded with their forthcoming EP Hell: The Sequel, due in stores June 14. Recording under the moniker Bad Meets Evil, the celebrated lyricists told MTV News’ “RapFix Live” that the fluid back-and-forth on the project’s lead single, “Fast Lane,” was due to their latent chemistry. “Me and Royce, ever since back in the day when we did records together, we always had kind of a chemistry,” Eminem told MTV News. “It was fairly easy to play off what each other was doing, and I think we can [think] a lot alike.” As the “Evil” in the Bad Meets Evil equation, Em added that the project was the result of mending the rift he had with Royce, which dates back to when the latter stopped working with Dr. Dre and was feuding with D12. “This record, the way it came together, it wasn’t anything that we planned to do,” Em said. “We didn’t get together and say, ‘Hey, man, let’s make a Bad Meets Evil record.’ It was more so along the lines of us making amends and repairing our issues that we had, and then one day, Bad [Royce] brought a song to me and wanted me to jump on it, and the way it ended up coming out, it was pretty easy to do. It didn’t take a lot of time. It was fun to do it. The way we knocked that record out kind of quickly … it just morphed into this.” Added Nickel Nine: “It didn’t feel like work. We just had fun doing it.” Some of the previous fruits of Royce and Em’s good times in the studio, such as “Bad Meets Evil” from Em’s The Slim Shady LP, occurred more than a decade ago. But fans need not worry about whether the Motor City tag team will be on the same page musically for the rest of Hell: The Sequel, which features production from DJ Khalil, Bangladesh and Denaun Porter. “It was pretty nostalgic, actually,” Royce said of the recording process. “It took me back to when we used to do stuff back in the day. We clicked like that. I wasn’t really surprised. We didn’t miss a step at all.” Related Videos ‘RapFix Live’ With Eminem And Royce Da 5’9″ Related Artists Eminem Royce Da 5’9″
‘Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside,’ an intimate hour-long chat with the pop megastar, airs Thursday, May 26, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga Photo: MTV News Lady Gaga is giving fans a peek at the girl behind the pop star in an exclusive special titled ” Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside .” In the hour-long interview, set to air Thursday, May 26, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV, the singer reveals how she went from Stefani Germanotta to Gaga, pop’s pre-eminent global superstar, and allows her audience to share her vulnerabilities. During the intimate chat, Mother Monster opens up about her rise to fame — from her school days of being bullied by classmates to the moment she decided to pursue her dreams of pop stardom. She speaks in-depth about the moments that shaped her as an artist, including the release of her highly anticipated album, Born This Way, on May 23. “Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside” also focuses on Gaga at home, spotlighting her close relationship with her family and growing up in Manhattan before she made the life-changing decision to move out on her own to New York City’s Lower East Side. Gaga recalls being bullied by students at school and what impact it had on her. “I remember once, some of the girls from my class, they were hanging out with some boys that I knew also,” the “Judas” singer says. “And then I went to meet some friends for some pizza that were at the same pizzeria, and the boys picked me up and threw me in the trashcan on the street on the corner of my block, while all the other girls from the school were leaving and could see me in the trash and everybody was laughing — and I was even laughing. “I always have that nervous giggle and I just remember, like, holding back the tears and the lip quivering,” she continues. “And I remember even one of the girls looking at me like, ‘Are you about to cry? You’re pathetic.’ I remember I didn’t tell anybody, that’s what I remember. I remember I didn’t tell anybody. I remember I didn’t want to tell my parents because it was too embarrassing. And I remember I didn’t want to really bring it up with my girlfriends even though they were there.” Her parents, as Gaga explains in the special, have always been supportive of her dreams, even if it meant challenging her. “My dad was really into rock and roll. Bruce Springsteen had such an influence on our home. My dad saw me singing along to his records and he would pick me up and throw me around the room and laugh and cry with me while I would sing Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel records with him. My father gave me — I believe it was for Christmas — it was a Bruce Springsteen songbook for the piano and on it was ‘Thunder Road,’ which is my favorite Bruce Springsteen song. And my dad said, ‘If you learn how to play this song, we will take out a loan for a grand piano, a baby grand.’ I didn’t know the difference. There was the big one and a small one.” A young Gaga was more than up for the challenge. “So I remember it was the hardest thing for me. I was playing these huge pieces, like 15 pages long. … I opened up the book and there was, like, chords, guitar chords. I was so confused, I didn’t understand it, so I just started to read it,” she recalls. “Eventually, I got it down.” Catch an exclusive teaser trailer for ” Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside ” on Thursday at 10:58 p.m. ET/PT on MTV, after a new episode of “Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew.” Related Videos Preview ‘Lady Gaga: Inside The Outside’ Related Artists Lady Gaga
Amy Smart, 35, is known for her roles in The Butterfly Effect and Varsity Blues. Oosterhouse, 34, is best known for his turn as a carpenter on TLC#39;s Trading Spaces and as host of the home improvement show Carter Can. Up next for Smart: She stars with Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the romantic comedy 12 Dates of Christmas, which will premiere during ABC Family#39;s 25 Days of Christmas in December. It looks like TV handyman Carter Oosterhouse can build more than shelves – he#39;s also building a l
People always talk about how much cell phones and Facebook have ruined society’s ability to talk to each other face to face, and generally I have scoffed at the suggestion. I mean, I still spend the majority of my waking hours talking to real people, and don’t rely on Facebook to keep me in touch with my friends. However, I am starting to see their point of view, where I could never before. I don’t necessarily think that the internet and social networking sites are creating a generation of illiterates, incapable of communicating without a Blackberry in their hands, but I do think that the growing number of online forums and networking sites, has contributed to a decline in manners and the anonymous nature of the internet has created a culture where it is deemed acceptable to say whatever you want to the person on the other side of the computer, with no regard for their feelings. ‘Cyber Bullying’ has become a fashionable tag line for politicians and school administrators. However, cyber bullying isn’t only a problem for teenagers who are harassed by other kids at school, on social networking sites. Cyber bullying can be seen, at least to a certain extent, with the way people talk to each other on online forums, online magazines or even with the pictures and video they upload to sites like YouTube and Facebook. I was always told, as I’m sure a lot of people were, that ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all’. And although most people live by this in their daily life, when they are let loose on the web, this no longer seems to apply, and all their inhibitions seem to fade away. For example some of what is written on this website at times, is cruel stuff, stuff that you would never say to somebody face to face. So why then do people think that it’s cool to write it down? Is it simply because you don’t have to see the person about whom the comment is written? The issue of anonymity and the lack of inhibitions it creates can probably be seen best on Facebook. I know people who wouldn’t say boo to a goose in real life, but create arguments on Facebook, simply because they can. It also seems that people get petty with social networking, and will ‘de-friend’ someone, even someone the are close with in real life, for next to no reason at all, yet they will not actually physically talk to the person they have the problem with. For example, just before Christmas, I received a phone call from a friend who was losing the plot over something she read on Facebook. A conversation between two mutual friends had come up on her news feed, which, for all you non Facebookers out there, (if there are any left), is basically, just a web page telling you everything that all your friends have done on Facebook since you last logged on, such as added photos, changed their status, updated their location information, relationship status blah blah blah. Anyway, my friend, who we shall call ‘Lily’, was mad about what she read between people we shall call ‘Jasper’ and ‘Sam’. They were discussing how they needed to cut out their old friends from their lives (meaning Lily, and some others). To make a long story short, earlier this week, she called me again, to tell me that both Jasper and Sam, had ‘de-friended’ her on Facebook. She hasn’t spoken to either of them in at least a few months, and before they de-friended’ her, I don’t think she was really too bothered about whether or not she spoke to them again. What bothered her the most, I think, was the fact that being ‘de-friended’ on Facebook, is generally not done, as, for some people at least, having hundreds of Facebook friends is very important. And so as silly as it is, being de-friended’, and by someone you actually know personally can be quite hurtful (even when you only keep them as a friend, so you can stalk their status updates and photos). Being de friended, is an abrupt, kinda rude way, of cutting someone out of your life. What makes it rude is the fact that there is no personal aspect to it. Would you actually tell someone in person that you never want to hear from them again? Probably not, but I know that everyone has deleted at least one person from Facebook, and probably didn’t think anything of it. However, losing our manners doesn’t just refer to bullying, or ‘de-friending’. Even simple things, like sending out invites, or calling to thank someone for a birthday or Christmas gift, seems to have fallen by the wayside with the explosion of the web. In the last few weeks, I cannot even tell you the amount of events I have been invited to from friends on Facebook. But, even for ‘serious’ events, such as baby showers and twenty first birthdays, I did not receive even one hard copy invite. Last year, a very good friend of mine, who at the time hadn’t jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, wasn’t even invited to an event, because the party planner didn’t even think to double check who of their (very good) friends wasn’t invited. Oh, and while I’m at it, how many of us have just clicked ‘not attending’ to an event, and not even bothered to tell the host why?. I also attended a wedding in the middle of last year, and got a text thanking me for my attendance and gift. I mean really? I know we’re all busy, and I don’t want to sound like a whining grandma, busting out the ‘back in my day…’, but how hard is it really to write on a damn card?. I don’t know, you tell me, am I over reacting or has what is deemed acceptable behavior changed drastically with the explosion of social networking? Is Common Etiquette Still Alive In 2010? Gym Etiquette: Do You Make These Mistakes? 5 Things That Have To Stop On Facebook
This Sunday April 17, 2011 at 8pm Anthony Anderson and Royal Watkins will be streaming their Mixtape Comedy Show live from Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. In addition to some of today’s hottest comics tune in for a musical performance and MC battle! But that isn’t all. Anthony Anderson will be announcing the winner of an iPad 2 giveaway during the show. Just follow him HERE (@andersonanthony) on Twitter for a chance to win and watch the show on Sunday right here on TheUrbandaily.com to see who won. Simple ain’t it? But quite clever. (Watch the March show below until Sunday when this becomes the live stream from Gotham Comedy Club.) Live streaming video by Ustream Social Stream RELATED POSTS: iPad 2 Fail: “F*** Steve Jobs!” Anthony Anderson & Royale Watkins Present The Mixtape Comedy Show!
Adele is finally getting her time in the spotlight over here in the U.S. where she was recently interviewed by both Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly . She tells Rolling Stone of her first time meeting Beyonce : “I was about to meet Beyonce and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, ‘You’re amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I’m listening to God.’ Can you believe she said that?” She also gave Entertainment Weekly a list of the top 8 songs on her iPod, naming Rihanna ‘s “What’s My Name” as one of them: “Over New Year’s and Christmas, I had time off and I went to all my friends’ parties singing it. Doing the dance moves, I was convinced I was Rihanna. She was possessing me with that song. I swear.” We love to see females respecting females! Soulful Singer Adele Covers Aretha Franklin’s “A Natural Woman” On VH1 Unplugged Beyonce Turns Superhero For New Video [PHOTOS] Rihanna “Hates” Khloe Kardashian & Lamar Odom [AUDIO]
‘I cried on the last day, because it was epic,’ she tells MTV News at ‘Deathly Hallows, Part 1’ DVD premiere. By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Evanna Lynch Photo: MTV News Evanna Lynch, the actress behind goofy and lovable “Harry Potter” character Luna Lovegood,” might not have been in the “Potter” films from the very beginning, but that didn’t make it any easier for her when shooting came to an end. “I felt like, yeah, we talked about it a thousand times, and then when the end came, I really was sad,” Lynch shared. MTV News caught up with the actress during our live stream of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” DVD and Blu-ray premiere, where we were ready to grill her about all things related to the end of the record-breaking saga .
‘I cried on the last day, because it was epic,’ she tells MTV News at ‘Deathly Hallows, Part 1’ DVD premiere. By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Evanna Lynch Photo: MTV News Evanna Lynch, the actress behind goofy and lovable “Harry Potter” character Luna Lovegood,” might not have been in the “Potter” films from the very beginning, but that didn’t make it any easier for her when shooting came to an end. “I felt like, yeah, we talked about it a thousand times, and then when the end came, I really was sad,” Lynch shared. MTV News caught up with the actress during our live stream of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” DVD and Blu-ray premiere, where we were ready to grill her about all things related to the end of the record-breaking saga .
