Hi hater! Sarah Michelle Gellar Cancels Vogue Because Of Kim Kardashian Via HuffPo reports: On March 21, Vogue made all of Kim Kardashian’s wedding dreams come true , debuting a cover featuring the #WorldsMostTalkedAboutCouple with #TheWorldsMostImpracticalHashtag. The Internet was left to roll around in the gleeful approach of marital bliss (and its accompanying two-part E! special), but there were dissenters among us. Sarah Michelle Gellar slayed #TheWorldsMostTalkedAboutCouple like it was a vampire in the late ’90s. “Well … I guess I’m canceling my Vogue subscription,” she tweeted. “Who is with me???” According to the New York Post, many readers were upset with the cover and also threatened to cancel their subscriptions. Yet, in her editor’s letter, Anna Wintour was cooly confident about her decision. The iconic editor-in-chief defended her choice, writing that her mission is to “feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it. I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)” Basically, Sarah Michelle Gellar and everyone else can go ahead and #BoycottVogue, but Kim and Kanye will still be #DefiningTheCultureAtThisGivenMoment, K? Do you think people should cancel their Vogue subsription because of the Kim Kardashian and Kanye West cover? Twitter
Following Kendall Jenner exposing her boobs on the New York Fashion Week runway last Thursday, Kim Kardashian Tweeted that she was the “proudest sister ever.” But we wonder what kind of reaction Kim will have if Kendall’s modeling career continues to ascend in a certain direction. Jenner’s selfies appeared on the Vogue website the day after her runway debut, as she modeled just-off-the-rack designs. Kendall was then spotted in the front row of London Fashion Week Saturday, seated alongside none other than Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue and arguably the most respected person in the industry. “Anna is very savvy about upcoming ‘It girls,’ and very much has her finger on the pulse,” Laurel Pinson, editor-in-chief of StyleCaste, tells People . “When she takes a girl under her wing, a Vogue cover or high fashion campaign is usually on the way.” Might this mean Kendall Jenner will soon appear in Vogue?!? It will give Kanye West something to rant about for sure, considering how badly Kanye wanted his baby’s photos to be featured in that iconic magazine. It’s not hard to see a riff between family members developing if Jenner accomplishes Kanye and Kim’s dream at the young age of 18. “Anna is interested in charismatic people, and has respect for talent. Kim has no talent,” another fashion industry insider tells People, adding of Jenner: “She’s tall, she’s skinny, and she’s wholesome and pretty. She’s also already been modeling, and creating a name for herself. The fashion world is fickle, but I can definitely see her having a moment.” Let’s just hope her clothes remain mostly on for it. 7 Selfies of Kendall Jenner Acting Like a Model Open Slideshow 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! View As List 1. Kendall Jenner Bugs Out Kendall Jenner says we “bug” her in this outfit. Well, she bugs us, too! 2. Kendall Jenner Snaps Selfie Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here straight off the New York Fashion Week rack. It looks good on her. 3. Kendall Jenner with Pink Hair Whoa there! This is a very different look for Kendall Jenner. She can actually pull off pink hair. 4. Kendall Jenner Models for Vogue Kendall Jenner snaps a selfie in a New York City hotel room here. She is modeling a New York Fashion design. 5. Kendall Jenner: A Fashionable Selfie Kendall Jenner snapped this selfie inside a hotel room. The dress she is wearing comes straight from New York Fashion Week. 6. Kendall Jenner Fashion Week Outfit Kendall Jenner tries on an outfit here from New York Fashion week. Hey, at least her boobs are covered!
Love Magazine put out a pretty sleazy video that was put together for Louis Vuitton by their Editor in Chief named Katie Grand…not that you care about this shit…what you will care about is that some of my favorite models…who you se me talking about up in here….you know seducing them with my prose….while talking about their tits….including but not limited to Cara Delevingne, Saskia de Brauw, Isabeli Fontana, Georgia May Jagger and Magdalena Frackowiak…..now I have facial recognition blindness…and all these models look the same…but I will say one is naked…and showing titty and luckily…in my pathetic world…video of that is enough for me to celebrate…. The only funny thing in all this is that I’m considered a porn site for posting it, while Love Magazine, are considered artistic genius, maybe even visionariees, even if this high brow shit is just smut, garbage, idiotic, and not work of a visionary….but work of a con artist…tricking us into thinking what they do is “art”…when really it’s just throwing some shit together in as serious of a way possible….but at least there are titties while she does it..
Gay White Student Examines Similarities Between Struggles With Racism And Homophobia A gay white male student recently shared his thoughts on the similarities between being a black person dealing with racism and being a gay white person dealing with homophobia. via Huffington Post Mainstream gay culture privileges the white narrative, and it does so at the expense of its own legitimacy. As Baldwin understands and so eloquently states, the fight against homophobia and racism are undoubtedly entwined through their shared struggle for human dignity. However, conflating the two does discernible harm, both to those persons of color who are repeatedly forgotten in progressive social movements, and to white LGBTQ persons who tarnish their own humanity by forgetting the humanity of others. In one of the most interesting excerpts from the piece, the student examines Baldwin’s point that white gay citizens often feel slighted because society teaches them that they are entitled to ‘white privelege’ and therefore supposed to be protected from bias and hatred. Baldwin explains that white LGBTQ men and women feel slighted precisely because they know that had they been straight, they would have been heirs to incomparable privilege. In a 1984 interview with Richard Goldstein, then the editor of the Village Voice, Baldwin said, “I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.” He went on to say: Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to their sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There’s an element, it has always seemed to me, of bewilderment and complaint. Now that may sound very harsh, but the gay world as such is no more prepared to accept black people than anywhere else in society. He concludes the write up with the thought that although strides are being made with gay rights, they will never be the same as the struggles with racism. As we celebrate Black History Month this February, and as we await the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality, we must remember that the struggle to restore dignity to people is not finished. The work to ensure that all people have access to fair and equitable employment, health care and proper medical attention and aren’t targets for violence by the police or their fellow community members must continue even after gays and lesbians are granted the right to marry the persons they love. This is not a new civil rights movement as some have said but a different one. Baldwin’s legacy teaches me, as a white person and an LGBTQ activist, that gay will never be the new black, and that the fight for racial equality is far from over.
Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z, in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation veteran Jon Schnepp ( Metalocalypse , The Venture Bros. ) dives headfirst into chaos with “W Is For WTF,” a stoner’s fever dream that mashes zombie clowns, a mysterious chem trail, animated depravity, and Schnepp himself into the most random and, yes, WTF-inducing segment of the bunch. Movieline spoke with Schnepp about his “W Is For WTF” (behold the exclusive image above!), how he lobbied producer Ant Timpson for the slot, why he poured his own money into his ABCs of Death short, and what he learned from his time editing Adult Swim’s Space Ghost Coast To Coast at the start of his career. He also updated us with the latest on Grimm Fairy Tales , his ambitious Heavy Metal -esque animated project. (Interviews with all 26 ABCs of Death filmmakers will be available to read on The ABCs of Death Tumblr page.) Your name stands out among the two dozen mostly genre filmmakers because you come from a slightly different world. How were you approached to take part in the ABCs of Death ? I actually contacted Ant [Timpson]. I had heard of The ABCs of Death as I was working on Metalocalypse , and I’ve done a bunch of live-action television shows but they’ve mainly been comedy. After I did those I got into the world of animation, and looking for things outside of animation to do, and that one sounded really cool. I just sent a cold email saying, ‘Hey, this is Jon – I direct Metalocalypse …’ He wrote me back pretty quickly saying ‘I love your work, but we’re totally staffed up. We have all the directors. But I’ll keep you in mind for the future.’ Cut to five months later I get an email from him saying, ‘Hey – one of our directors dropped out and you’re at the top of the list. Do you want to do it?’ And I was like, ‘Fuck yeah!’ It’s nice to hear that in this town sometimes it doesn’t hurt to reach out to a stranger. I strongly advise it! I think if you do it in a cool way and you’re not weird… it comes with a caveat: It doesn’t hurt to ask people, but make sure that you can back that shit up, and also that you’re not crazy. Just how hard is it to come up with a concept like “W is for WTF” when you’re tasked with creating something with such specific yet wide open guidelines? I came up with a bunch of ideas that weren’t fully formed, like “W Is For Wake,” or “W Is For War” and as I started to write them I [realized] I wasn’t sold on them myself. I sent a ton of these ideas, the dumbest one I could possibly think of was “W Is For Werewolf.” Then somehow that devolves as people devour this chem trail and everything they’re thinking comes to life. Is that your actual production staff acting in the short? No – actually it’s the company I work at. They were cool enough to let me shoot there. And that’s my office and my friend Tommy [Blacha] who I work on Metalocalypse with. Because the budget is so minute. I ended up spending like $9,000, which sucks [each director was given a $5,000 budget], but at the same time was totally worth it because you want it to be awesome. I guess that’s what happens when you factor in all the decapitations, and eaten faces and eyeball-chewing. I come from this school of, I pay everyone I work with. I’ve never liked the idea of free anything. In choosing “WTF” as your letter W theme, you really allow yourself to go just about everywhere at once, no limitations. You’ve got zombie clowns, a laser walrus, something I might describe as a muppet… A star-muppet! Was that really just your way of not having to choose just one concept? I’m used to working in television where you whittled stuff down. It’s good practice to get to the core of a story – even if your story is about fantasy and mind meltdowns. The chaos in your short is ADD-optimized, but it really is about something – art and the creative process. This is what I imagine you going through every week working on your shows. Yeah – definitely the subtext is there. I’m glad you got that. Every single person has weird ideas in their mind. The general idea of it is that there are a lot of ideas for anything. How do you eventually execute them? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. We all die eventually. You didn’t know many of the other filmmakers beforehand, and you’re working on your own with your own budget and crew on your part of the ABCs . What was it like to see “W Is For WTF” with the 25 other shorts when the entire film was put together and polished? I’ll be honest with you, there are about seven of them that I don’t like, that I just don’t think are good. Then there are a couple I think are in the medium area, but an overwhelming bunch of them I think are incredible. The one that follows mine, “X Is For XXL” [by Xavier Gens] is horrifying and such a gut punch in so many ways. It’s just so disgusting and well done. That is pure horror. And you know what? I’m sure there are people who saw mine and hated it. “Who is this goofball and why is there animation? Why is there a dude with his dog on his face?” You just get used to that, though. At least I’ve got the body armor for that now from doing shows like Metalocalypse . There are people who are going to totally hate on you, which sucks. I used to look at the boards and you can’t defend yourself against AppleCat433, you know? Sizzler315 hates you! It’s like, what are you going to do? Still, you worked on so many beloved shows over the years. The Venture Bros. , Metalocalypse … what did you learn most from working on Space Ghost early in your career? I learned comic timing. All the editors of Space Ghost are also the directors. The guys who wrote it give you the audio takes and you would cut it together; it was like a live television show so you would already have all the angles, but then you would animate their mouths yourselves, in Avid. It was a real primitive setup. It was literally like four people working on Space Ghost – the two writers, an executive producer, and the editor, and that was it. For four to eight weeks you would edit and make the show, then you would send the edit decision list to the online guys who would take your actual edit and reassemble it. And then they would put their name on it too, which kind of sucked. But whatever. Hollywood has a lot worse injustices in credits and whatnot. But Space Ghost was a great experience for me because I got to do the weirdest, most fucked up editing and people loved it. I did a loop edit of Harland Williams triggered on some weird word he was saying, and then I put outtakes of George Lowe saying to one of the engineers, like, ‘What’s going on over there?’ And made Space Ghost leave his set, fly over to Moltar and go, ‘Moltar, is there a problem?’ I think it was 1995, I flew out to Atlanta for eight weeks. There was no Adult Swim, none of that – it was a giant aircraft hanger and they were building TBS and TNT and all that. I remember they put me with a bunch of lawyers. Before Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show, I worked on the pilot and designed the backgrounds, back in 2000. I built Carl’s swimming pool, all that shit – it was fun to work on. We were like, ‘Yeah, we’re doing this weird thing called Aqua Teen Hunger Force .’ I was actually there when they made up ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ in 1999, when they came up with the show. Originally it was a Space Ghost episode, and I was editing the last episode of Space Ghost of that year, it was called ‘ King Dead .’ That’s the one I wrote a bunch of stuff in. I made up House of the Barking Dead which is on the TV Space Ghost is watching. That was one of my contributions. They were like, ‘That’s good. You can animate that!’ You’re also moving on your animated Grimm Fairy Tales . Where’s that project at now? I just finished the color correction and the sound mix and right now we’re editing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Our cast is incredible and it was so much fun to do. If you’ve ever seen Heavy Metal , it’s in that vein. I wanted to hire a bunch of kickass artists to do different Grimm fairy tales. I’m trying to turn it into a TV show, that’s why we did the Kickstarter. There’s tons of gore, there’s metal music, there’s nudity… I don’t even know if it will sell. We live in a different world. Everyone I’ve shown this to is like, ‘I can’t wait to see this in a series!’ But I have to get through all these other people sitting in offices who say, ‘It seems to me things that are PG-13 make money.” THE ABCs OF DEATH is now available on Cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon, Xbox Zune, Playstation Market, VUDU and Google Play; in theaters starting March 8 from Magnet Releasing. MORE ON JON SCHNEPP: What The Kal-El? The Seriously Weird Superman That Nicolas Cage Almost Played Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
A horrific scene went down yesterday near Midland City, Alabama, as a shooter opened fire inside an elementary school bus, killing the driver and kidnapping a six-year old passenger. According to a local ABC affiliate, the incident took place around 3:30 p.m. when the culprit demanded the driver release the child into his custody. When the driver refused, the suspect – later identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes – shot him, grabbed the kid and fled the scene. He then took the six-year old hostage behind a local church. As of 11:50 p.m. last night, Dykes had yet to surrender or release the child, leading to the following statement from the Dale County Sheriff’s Office: “The Dale County Sheriff’s Department has established a command post location at the intersection of 231 North and Private Road 1539 in Dale County, Alabama following a shooting. Multiple agencies are present assisting with the incident. Authorities say a call was received regarding a shooting involving a Dale County School Bus at 3:36 p.m. “At this time limited details are being released however the Sheriff’s Department has confirmed one adult male was shot and the suspect is not in custody. Further details will be released as they become available. Dykes, 65, was arrested on December 22 for pulling a gun on a man and charged with menacing.
Vine’s recent “sex scandal” became a nightmare for parent company Twitter after an adult video appeared in the app’s “Editor’s Picks” this week. Twitter rushed to keep its younger users away from questionable content Tuesday, while Vine announced it had blocked searches for adult material. Hashtags like #sex and #porn no longer turn up results. The social network, currently valued at $9 billion, recently tuned up its photo capabilities to compete with Instagram and launched its video service , Vine, last week. Vine lets users make and share six-second looped videos. Some of its users turned it to less tasteful ends, however, a problem highlighted when Vine accidentally featured a video called “Dildoplay” in its Editor’s Picks. Twitter apologized in a statement: “A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor’s Picks, and upon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately.” “We apologize to our users for the error.” It wasn’t necessarily a one-off, however. Vinepeek, a new site that lets you watch streams of so-called Vines from around the world, began to feature porn as well. Over the weekend technology websites reported that a simple search for “#porn” in the new app brought up many videos with, yes, hardcore porn. Funny how that works. Vine says that users can report this content and the video will be covered with a warning message and that if a video violates its guidelines it will be removed. “Uploaded videos reported and determined to violate our guidelines will be removed, and the user account that posted the video may be terminated,” Twitter said. Vine’s Terms of Service does not explicitly say anything about pornography or nudity, however, and clearly there are filtering needs that must be met here.
Southern Living has hired Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of George W. Bush, to serve as Editor at Large. Jenna (below, left, with twin sister Barbara Bush and mom Laura Bush) was formerly a Today correspondent. As a new editor for Southern Living , she’s tasked with making the magazine more attractive to younger readers by contributing a monthly column. She’ll also be writing for the Daily South blog, and sharing content from her own blog, the Novo Project. At 31, Jenna bush Hager is considerably younger than the average Southern Living reader, who is 51. The University of Texas graduate, who married Henry Hager in 2008 while her father was still president, says she’s excited to get back to her roots, so to speak. “I’m kind of like a homesick Texan living in New York,” she told the New York Times . [Photo: WENN.com]
” Elmo is bigger than any one person,” the producers of Sesame Street declared last week when Kevin Clash, who was the voice of the furry and very famous red muppet, was first accused of having sex with a minor. That statement is about to be tested in the wake of Clash’s resignation from the venerable children’s show after a second allegation, this time, in a lawsuit, was reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday. Although Clash’s first accuser recanted his claims, a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York charges Clash with sexual abuse of a second youth, Cecil Singleton, then 15 and now an adult. According to the AP (via Yahoo!) , the lawsuit, which seeks damages in excess of $5 million, alleges that Singleton was persuaded by Clash to meet for sexual encounters. A statement posted on the Sesame Workshop blog, also on Tuesday, noted that “the controversy surrounding Kevin’s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want.” The statement additionally read that Clash had resigned after 28 years at Sesame Street , because he’d concluded that “that he can no longer be effective in his job.” “It’s a sad day for Sesame Street ,” concluded the statement. It’s also a thorny public-relations problem for Sesame Workshop. But while Clash’s career won’t likely bounce back from this scandal any time soon, the reality is that Elmo is going to be fine. Movieline ‘s offices are located in the Times Square and even as news of these new allegations were breaking, there were two people dressed as Elmo circulating among the tourists and making a few bucks by taking pictures with children. They did not seem to be having trouble attracting business and no one was taunting them about the Clash story. In fact, when I approached one of the Elmos, who identified himself as Jose Segarro — that’s him in the picture with Hello Kitty — he was unaware of Clash’s resignation and told me that business was “the same.” In a recent piece on the growing scandal, The Grio.com interviewed Jim Silver, Editor in Chief of the online family site, Time to Play.com, who pointed out that while a small group of parents may be hesitant to buy an Elmo-related product for their kids in light of Clash’s problems, the brand remains strong. (He estimates that Elmo generates more than 50 percent of the $75 million in sales that Sesame Stree t toys generate each year. ) “Kevin [Clash] is the voice and is not Elmo the same way James Earl Jones is not Darth Vader.” Exactly. Despite this scandal’s great potential as a media story, my experience as a father tells me that kids, who are in the Elmo-loving age bracket, aren’t going to spend a lot of time thinking about what the voice of Elmo does in his personal life, even if they’re savvy enough to understand that Elmo is a puppet voiced by an actor. And even if there are a few preternaturally aware youngsters who watch a lot of cable news and grasp what’s happening here, they’re probably going to grow up to be the kind of knowing pop-culture savants who will convert this unfortunate chapter in Sesame Street history into some form of art or journalism, whether it be a documentary, book or comedy routine. That may be cold comfort, but, at this stage in the story, the silver linings don’t look all that plentiful. Related Stories: TALKBACK: Can ‘Elmo’ Puppeteer Kevin Clash Bounce Back From Abuse Allegations? INTERVIEW: Kevin Clash, the Man Behind Elmo, on Jim Henson, Puppetry, and Jason Segel’s The Muppets [AP via Yahoo! The Grio.com] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
