A whole bunch of new stills have dropped for The Hangover Part III . Check out a few of them below, then head over to our friends at Movie Fanatic to view all the new The Hangover Part III stills : The Wolfpack returns for the third installment of the comedy franchise. This time, they are stopped by a criminal on their way to rehab and forced to return to Vegas to find Chow. Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jeffrey Tambor, Gillian Vigman, Sasha Barrese, Jamie Chung, Mike Epps, and Melissa McCarthy star. Catch The Hangover Part III in theaters May 23.
Gun violence has actually plunged in the U.S. since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, according to two new studies of government data. At the same time, a majority of Americans believe it is on the rise . Gun crime statistics are comprised of murders, assaults, robberies and other crimes, and the Pew Research Center found that they’re down overall. In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half, their research suggested, while other gun crimes fell even more sharply. This parallels a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns, which peaked during the 1990s and has fallen sharply since then. The decline has been more modest since the turn of the century, but overall, the number of gun killings dropped 39 percent between 1993 and 2011. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate study released Tuesday that gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69 percent in that time. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the U.S. Also notably, despite this measurable drop in gun crime, only 12 percent of Americans surveyed believe gun crime has declined compared with 1993. Twenty-six percent of those polled said they believed that it had stayed the same in the past two decades, and 56 percent thought it had increased. It’s unclear whether media coverage is behind that, but crime has become a growing focus of TV news, and several recent events have been extremely high-profile. From the Connecticut shooting to the Aurora movie theater massacre, the Boston bombing and beyond, it’s hard to escape coverage of the worst tragedies. Also, while the rate of violent crime is down, it’s got a long ways to go. While violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world. Experts have no simple answer for why violent crime is down, attributing it to everything from a diminishing crack cocaine market to surging prison populations. Some researchers have even linked dropping crime to reduced lead in gasoline, which can cause increased aggression and impulsive behavior. Victims of gun killings are overwhelmingly male and black, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Compared with other parts of the country, the South had the highest rates of gun violence, including both murders and other violent gun crimes.
The Dawg has left the building. Amidst historically low ratings and criticism that American Idol has grown stale, Randy Jackson resigned this afternoon from the Fox competition. “Yo! Yo! Yo! To put all of the speculation to the rest, after 12 years of judging on American Idol I have decided it is time to leave after this season,” Jackson told E! News. “I am very proud of how we forever changed television and the music industry.” Jackson went on to say he plans to focus on his company, Dream Merchant 21, as well as “other business ventures.” Ratings for Season 12 of Idol have been decreasing each week and there’s been talk that all four judges would have been replaced this summer even if Jackson did not leave on his own. Producers are reportedly hoping to assemble some kind of dream team that includes Justin Bieber and/or Selena Gomez .
Miley Cyrus is out to prove she belongs atop the Maxim Hot 100 . Following the (shocking!) announcement that this singer is apparently the sexiest female on the planet, Maxim has released a new, especially racy picture of Cyrus. She’s topless and spread against the wall in a pose that it seems like only Liam Hemsworth should witness: “It feels amazing to be No. 1,” Cyrus told the magazine of the honor. “Especially because it was voted on by the fans. I have the best fans in the world! It’s every woman’s fantasy to be told she’s No.1 on Maxim’s Hot 100! So crazy!” Elsewhere in the rankings, Selena Gomez is number-two, Rihanna is number-three… and Kate Upton is all the way down at number-eight. Clearly, something is amiss.
Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped rescue the kidnapped Amanda Berry, became an instant celebrity thanks to his amazing local news interview. Now, that interview has been given the amazing auto-tune treatment! Not unlike Antoine Dodson , who was memed all over the Internet following a local TV interview, Ramsey’s already epic words are now … even more epic. Take a look at Charles Ramsey – who was just eatin’ his McDonald’s when a pretty white girl ran into his arms – in all his spliced, diced and auto-tuned glory: IT’S A DEAD GIVEAWAY!! Charles Ramsey Auto-Tune
