Both Tina Fey and Sofia Vergara came up short last night in the Best Actress in a Comedy category, losing to Betty White (see our full list of 2012 SAG Awards winners ). Consider this their chance at redemption. The 30 Rock star is best known for being one of the funniest people on earth, but she’s no style slouch, either. Sofia Vergara? She wows us with her dresses almost as much as she causes us to double over with her Modern Family quotes . Vote for your favorite style star in THG’s Fashion Face-Off below!
Is Twitter about to start widely censoring and withholding Tweets for content? That’s the implication of a new blog post – by the social network giant itself. Twitter claims it will “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country – while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.” With those words earlier today, in a blog posting titled “Tweets still must flow” the management of Twitter may be heading down a slippery slope indeed. Twitter’s management believes that there is value in being able to filter in this way, but the problems with this course of action are too numerous to list. Will filtering software be able to detect irony and sarcasm, for instance? How will they decide when it should be employed and when to let it slide? Doesn’t it cause legal issues? By essentially taking on a newfound editorial responsibility and therefore become a lightning rod for lawsuits? Twitter is cool because it serves all of humanity equally in real time. By allowing politics to triumph over freedom of speech, it loses relevance. In response to negative news coverage, Twitter said in a statement to Forbes : “What’s new today is that we now have the ability, when we have to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, to keep that Tweet visible for the rest of the world. We hold freedom of expression in high esteem and work hard not to remove Tweets.” The key is that this is reactive only. It’s on a case-by-case basis, in response to a valid request from an authorized entity. This is not a change in philosophy. Twitter does not mediate content, and we do not proactively monitor Tweets.”
Liam Neeson is not stuck in the wilderness with the wolves. The poor wolves in the wilderness are stuck with Liam Neeson . The actor’s latest vehicle, The Grey , finished in first place at the box office this weekend, banking a strong $20 million in its first week of release nationwide. Last week’s #1, Underworld Awakening , slipped to second, although the return of Kate Beckinsale as Selene added $12.5 million to a nice total of $45.1 million. The second of three new arrivals at the movies this past weekend, One for the Money , settled for third place. The Katherine Heigl-led film made $11.8 million. The Grey Trailer Rounding out the top five were Red Tails ($10.4M) and Man on a Ledge , which disappointed somewhat in its first week of release, earning only $8.3 million. Meanwhile, a couple of potential Oscar favorites rallied a bit in the second half of our weekend top 10, which you can see in its entirety below: The Grey , $20 million Underworld: Awakening , $12.5 million One for the Money, $11.8 million Red Tails, $10.4 million Man on a Ledge, $8.3 million Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, $7.1 million The Descendants, $6.6 million Contraband, $6.5 million Beauty and the Beast, $5.3 million Haywire, $4 million
