The first thing I thought when I saw these pictures? What’s that cougar doing posing in a bikini next to Kendall Jenner ? Then, after I realized it was just her younger sister Kylie , I figured maybe their rich parents got some kind of a package deal for this photoshoot. 2 for the price of 1. Because according to my sources, these were taken as part of Kendall and Kylie’s “new swimwear line” for Revolve. So, ladies, if you want to look like a Hollywood rich kid/fake model or a plastic teenage cougar, now there’s a swimwear line just for you.
Listen, I know I like to make fun of you nerds, but really, we’re not that different. You guys live in your mom’s basement, I live in my mom’s basement. You guys can tell me exactly what issue Wonder Woman first appeared in, and I can tell you exctly what issue of FHM Gal Gadot posed topless in back when she was just another hot wannabe model: May 2009. The only difference is my trivia is way more interesting.
Biography for Sara McLean Height 5#39; 11″ #x0028;180cm#x0029; Date of Birth:April 6, 1990 Trivia Sara McLean won Miss Edinburgh in 2010 and finished second in Miss Scotland 2011. 24-year-old Sara McLean an investment banker, was born on April 6, 1990 in Edinburgh, attended at the all-girl school St Margaret’s school and Napier University from where she studied studying Marketing Management Spanish, she was Miss Edinburgh in 2010 and finished second in Miss Scotland 2011. Pretty Ms. Mc
Typically, when competitors leave any “Challenge” battlefield, puddles of blood and sweat line their tracks, but on last Thursday’s episode, TJ challenged the cast to give their bodies a break and use their minds instead. “Smarty Pants” found the game’s players responding to trivia questions to the best of their abilities, but if they answered… Read more
Typically, when competitors leave any “Challenge” battlefield, puddles of blood and sweat line their tracks, but on last Thursday’s episode, TJ challenged the cast to give their bodies a break and use their minds instead. “Smarty Pants” found the game’s players responding to trivia questions to the best of their abilities, but if they answered… Read more
My name is Jillian, I’m 15 years old, live in New York and obviously LOVE this kid named Justin. I have had the most AMAZING Bieber experiences of my life. I’ve meet him 10 times and have seen him perform and do interviews live 16 times. I have been a true true belieber since ‘One Time’ and always will be. I don’t know why I have never written a Bieber Experience. I have so many things to write that I am so grateful for, but I am just going to write about what happened to me one week in June when Justin was in NYC. It all started June 18th when my friend Cat and I got on line at Macy’s at 4 a.m. to get tickets for Justin’s Apollo show. We waited hours, which actually flew by pretty fast because we made so many friends with other amazing beliebers while waiting. When they finally opened the doors, we knew we were getting tickets and flipped a shit. We ran into the store, got our Girlfriend fragrance bags, and an envelope with our tickets in them. We ripped open the envelope to see where out seats were and guess what? WE GOT SECOND ROW. We started jumping up and down like idiots but who cares….it’s Justin Bieber we’re taking about! We called all our friends, family and posted the great news on every social network possible. After we got our tickets we went home, got ready for the concert, and then made our way back into the city. When we walked into the Apollo and saw our seats I thought I was dreaming. After waiting quite awhile (cause ya know Mr. Bieber is always fashionable late), Justin came on stage! As soon as he came on our first instinct was to run closer to the stage so he can grab our hands, and that’s just what he did. We ended up being front row for the entire concert. This was honestly the best concert of my life. Everything was just so funny; when we blew the fuse, when they lost a kid, when Justin pushed Scooter into his birthday cake, when Ry Good told us we were gonna be stuck in here for a while and started throwing food at us. Then after Justin’s last song which was ‘Boyfriend,’ he ended up grabbing Cat’s phone and took a picture of us! MY FACE IS PRICELESS IN IT. Throughout the whole concert he grabbed our hands multiple times, made a lot of eye contact with us, and even pointed too me when he sang “Shawty right there” in One Time! I went home that night shaking just of the thought that this was real life, and not a dream. When I got home I picked out another outfit for the next day because I was meeting Justin at his J&R Believe CD signing! I woke up, went to take my bio regents (that I did not study whatsoever for) and made my way to the city. I went up to Justin and told him about how I was first row last night and how he was amazing. He was really sweet and even grabbed my hand! After that, we went to wait outside of MTV studios for Justin because he was going there after J&R. We saw him get out of his car, but seeing him for even a second is worth it to me. After these 2 AMAZING days I thought nothing can make this week any better! The next day, my friend texted me saying something about getting tickets to a Justin Q&A for Fuse TV. During the sign up process they asked you write a question you would like to ask Justin. I wrote, “Have you ever played a prank that’s gone too far?”. After I signed up, I got a email back shortly saying I received the tickets! So once again, I went to sleep feeling like my life was a dream. When I got on line with my friends, people from the Fuse TV were walking up the line asking for people’s names to cross off the list. When they got to me, I told them my name and I noticed instead of crossing it off, they highlighted it. I was so scared like maybe that meant I couldn’t get in or something! After a few seconds the girl goes, “Come with me” and brings me to another line. She then explains to me that I was one of the 5 people picked to ask Justin my question on National television! I STARTED FLIPPING WITH MY FRIEND LAUREN WHO I BOUGHT AS MY GUEST. I am not the loudest of people and kinda shy when I first meet someone, but at all the Justin events I go to I have learned that you need to get recognized and put yourself out there. I was so loud and happy and one of the Fuse crew members named Michael came up to me. He told me to follow him and at this point I was losing it from happiness already. He goes to me, “I can tell your a very very big super-fan and don’t seem to be shy around people, so I’m guessing you wouldn’t mind playing a Trivia game on TV against Justin himself would you?” AT THIS POINT I COULDN’T MOVE OR BREATHE. LIKE WHY WAS I GETTING SO LUCKY? Finally it was Justin to go on stage. The whole crowd went wild. After the interview he did on this other stage, it was time for him to play the game with me! I stood at the buzzer and then realized he was coming to stand at the buzzer, next to me! He got on the stage and gave me a hug. The he was trying to press the buzzer but he wasn’t pushing it right so I was like, “Justin you need to go like this” and then he got it and started laughing. I WAS TALKING TO HIM LIKE HE WAS MY FRIEND. I have meet him enough times to realize now he is actually a normal kid and finally I was myself around him. Next the girl explained the rules to us of how the game worked. He shook my hand. We had to answer a question about his music video on the screen. For some reason Justin wasn’t looking at the screen were he was supposed to, he was staring at me. I LOCKED EYES FOR LIKE 20 SECONDS STRAIGHT WITH JUSTIN BIEBER LOLBYE. I go “Justin” and he was like “Yeah” with the cutest smile on his face. “Look at the screen it’s the other way!” Then he finally turned his head the other way. After the whole game was over, I ended up winning 3-0! After he made a sad face and goes, “I’m just upset I lost again” with the cutest pout on his face. “Don’t worry I’ll let you win next time.” Then he goes to the crowd, “She’s amazing! She knows me better than I know myself!” and then gave me the biggest hug! I’m still flipping to this day. During commercial break Justin was still on stage next to me and he was on his phone, his background was so weird LOL. He then goes onto video and pans the crowd and takes a video. Since I was right next to him I legit put my face in his camera and he started laughing. We talked for a little, but honestly I don’t even remember our convo, I was too starstruck and shocked to remember it. Before he left there was one thing I KNEW I needed to too and I needed to break a rule to do it. They told me before the show that I was not allowed to take pictures with him because it would start too much. BUT YOLO! I asked Justin if I can take a picture with him and he goes sure! Since my phone was dead, I grabbed a randoms girl’s phone from the audience and took a selfie. Then I asked for a kiss on the check . I always thought I would be to scared to ask that but at this point I really felt like I was Justin’s friend, so it wasn’t awks at all. HE KISSED ME and that’s when I was just like what the eff is going on right now. Then he needed to go back to the interviewing stage, so after the kiss he said bye, waved and went back. I got off the stage and started to cry. THAT WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY WHOLE ENTIRE 15 YEARS OF LIFE RIGHT THERE . Everyone came up to me giving me hugs and telling me how jealous they are and how lucky I am. After a little while Justin left back to his hotel. Since us beliebers are so hardcore and never stop, we decided to wait at his hotel. We managed to get pictures with Ry Good, Alfredo, and even randomly Chord Overstreet! We also saw Bruce and Vanessa! So that explains what happened to me during the best week of my life! To think that this week was just some of the many experiences I have with Justin makes me feel so grateful. Too grateful for words. Justin I love you and and I always will. Thank you all for reading this and I hope you can all experience something as great as I did. Just never give up, cause really…..absolutely anything can happen. -Jillian @JDBieberislife Watch my video with Justin here ! Excerpt from: My name is Jillian, I’m 15 years old, live in New York and…
Also in Thursday’s round-up of news briefs, Tim Robbins is set to take on the director role after long absence. Montreal’s genre event the Fantasia Film Festival hands out its awards. And Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal honored at European film event. The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Take That, George Michael Tipped As Olympics Closing Acts Sunday’s Closing Ceremony at the London Olympics will feature over 4,100 performers including a massive showing of Britain’s musical headliners. Among the performers who will apparently play are The Who, Paul McCartney, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, George Michael, Paul Weller, the Spice Girls, Adele, Ray Davies, Liam Gallagher, Annie Lennox, Madness, the Pet Shop Boys, Take That, Muse, One Direction and members of Queen, Deadline reports . Shia LaBeouf Eyes Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Nymphomaniac revolves around the erotic pursuits of a woman, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, from her youth to 50 as recounted by her husband, played by Stellan Skarsgard. Details about his possible role are still to be determined, THR reports . Tim Robbins to Direct City of Lies After directing three films in the ’90s including Dead Man Walking (1995), Tim Robbins has signed on to direct Endgame Entertainment’s City of Lies about two spies who fall in love while on separate spying mission in Prague, THR reports . Doomsday Book and Toad Road Take Top Fantasia Film Festival Prizes Montreal’s genre event, the Fantasia International Film Festival awarded Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung’s Doomsday Book its Cheval Noir Award for Best Film, while Jason Banker’s Toad Road took nods for Best Director and Best Actor for James Davidson. Yeon Sang Ho’s The King of Pigs won the Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation and a special mention from the First Feature Jury, Indiewire reports . Gael Garcia Bernal Honored at Locarno Film Festival “I think I still have a lot of room to grow,” Garcia Bernal told the crowd of more than 8,000 in the Piazza Grande. “Perhaps not in terms of height, but in terms of experience.” Garcia Bernal is one of the youngest honorees to receive the festival’s Excellence Award at 33, BBC reports .
A long time ago in a culture far removed from this one — 1987 to be exact — cinematic satirist Mel Brooks took on box-office game changer George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise and didn’t end up in the Hollywood equivalent of a Sarlacc Pit. Substituting the Schwartz for the Force, Yogurt for Yoda and Pizza The Hutt for Jabba, Brooks gave us Spaceballs and made us laugh harder (intentionally) than Jar Jar Binks ever did. To celebrate the movie’s 25th anniversary, Sony has released a commemorative Blu-Ray edition that mostly does justice to this comedy gem. The Film: Spaceballs (1987) Why It’s An Inessential Essential: Although Life Stinks (1991) was Mel Brooks’ last sturdy feature, the often gut-bustingly funny Spaceballs was his last really inspired comedy. Like many of Brooks’ earlier films, Spaceballs spoofs generic and genre cliches. In this case, the director aimed his blaster at science fiction and fantasy films, Star Wars in particular. Viewed 25 years after its theatrical release, Spaceballs suffers from lopsided structure and occasional laziness, but the movie repeatedly breaks down the fourth wall with such zeal and absurd charm that it’s impossible to resist. (It’s worth noting that the movie was released during the heyday of the Bruce Willis/Cybill Shepherd ABC comedy series Moonlighting , which was heralded for doing the same.) A large part of the movie’s giddy appeal is its game cast, led by SCTV Jedi the late John Candy and Rick Moranis. Candy plays the Wookiee-like Barf and Moranis is particularly hilarious as the clutzy, over-compensating Darth Vader spoof, Dark Helmet — a puny man topped by enormous circumcised headgear. As ringmaster of this circus, Brooks (who also appears in the movie as both President Skroob and Yogurt) is at a point in his career where he’s starting to toss things against the wall out of sheer desperation. And because he’s working with talented comedians and co-writers, most of what he throws sticks. The move is a collection of blisteringly strange and funny sketches, such as the one where Helmet fantasizes about seducing Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) while playing with a set of action figures that includes an even tinier facsimile of himself and the Druish princess. Brooks’ wise-ass, Brecht-by-way-of-Vaudeville sensibility is at the core of the movie’s cantankerous, Yiddish sensibility, and though some of the yucks feel a tad musty, the movie is never tedious. Riffs on cash-in sequels, “Moichandizing” and “turning off the movie” demonstrate that, at that point in his career, Brooks’ cultural comedy mojo was still working. Indeed, Spaceballs doesn’t just hold up as a laugh riot. It’s still highly quotable right down to the characters’ names. (Yogurt! Pizza The Hutt!). “May the Schwartz be with you” still provokes laughter after all these years, as does Barf’s “Funny, she doesn’t look Druish” comment about Princess Vespa. And when the Spaceballs and Dark Helmet land on the Planet of the Apes, one of its denizens grouses; “Oh shit, there goes the planet.” How the Blu-Ray Edition Makes the Case for the Film: The best special features on Sony’s25th anniversary release are the least serious ones. New interviews with a doddering and-haughty Brooks don’t contribute much. (“We were looking for a new genre to destroy,” he exclaims at one point). Much more satisfying is a very funny list of continuity errors in the film, including, a scene in which Dot Matrix (Joan Rivers playing a droid even bitchier than Anthony Daniels’ C-3P0) appears to stop leaving a trail behind her in one desert scene. The film’s gag audio commentary tracks are also suitably ridiculous. One is in “Mawgese,” presumably the native language of Barf, another, in “Dinkese,” the mother tongue of the Jawa-esque Dink Dinks. Unfortunately, the Blu-Ray edition does not markedly improve the picture quality that was found on the 2005 DVD release of Spaceballs . There are still notable visual blemishes, including artifacts that resulted from poor video compression. Still, the dual Blu-Ray/DVD package is worth buying if only because the menus included on the new DVD release are more interactive and the features they include are more impressive than the last time around. Other Trivia: The new 25th anniversary Spaceballs Blu-Ray is loaded with new special features. If you’re a dedicated Mel Brooks fan — even one who lost faith or interest after Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It — you’ll probably get a big kick out of the jokey introduction he recorded to the film’s original trailer. Brooks’ audio commentary track is also worthy, even if he is more than a little full of himself after the wild (and not entirely deserved) multi-platform success of The Producers . Compared to the meager 2005 DVD release, which came with a making-of featurette and a skimpy souvenir booklet, Sony’s 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release is a much more comprehensive presentation of the film. Simon Abrams is a NY-based freelance film critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Time Out New York , Vulture and Esquire . Additionally, some people like his writing, which he collects a t Extended Cut . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
A caped crusader. A city wiped clean of criminals. A madman with a doomsday device who terrorizes the populace until average citizen heroes step forward to help save the day. Batman? Nope! On the heels of The Dark Knight Rises , Movieline takes a look back at 1999’s Mystery Men , new to Blu-ray, in the latest installment of Inessential Essentials . The film: Mystery Men (1999) Why It’s an Inessential Essential: Based on characters by comics creator Bob Burden, Mystery Men is an anomalously charming and amiably goofy superhero film. The film is very much a product of the creative chaos that ensued after Hollywood executives realized comic book properties like Batman could make a mint at the box office. But with many more duds than hits on their hands, execs were apparently clueless about what they should adapt and how to do it. It’s not only strange that a movie with characters as alienating-ly campy as the ones in Mystery Men ever got made — it’s even freakier to note that the film is actually pretty funny. So while mass audiences didn’t know what to make of the film when it was initially released, the film can now be enjoyed as a more than welcome antidote to the recent trend of self-serious but mostly drab superhero films. Mystery Men was co-produced by Dark Horse Comics publisher and creator Michael Richardson, the man responsible for turning such comic book properties as Tank Girl (1995) and The Mask (1994) into half-baked films. It was directed by Kinka Usher, making a big leap from being the assistant camera operator on such films as the 1987 Kato Kaelin vehicle Beach Fever (Usher would not go on to direct any other movies after Mystery Men , not even short films). Usher clearly directed the film in the style of the Joel Schumacher Batman movies; he makes frequent use of campy Dutch angles, crash zooms and first person POV shots, like the one where we see Ben Stiller being attacked by Geoffrey Rush’s character — from the perspective of Rush’s extended pinky. To call this film’s success as a comedy anomalous would be putting it very diplomatically. In the film, a group of wannabe superheroes that mostly don’t seem to have any real powers band together to fight the nefarious disco-obsessed Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush, who had just won an Oscar for Shine two years before Mystery Men was made). Now that Frankenstein has kidnapped the all-powerful Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), the only people that can stop him are the then-unnamed group of heroes: Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), a tantrum-throwing wimp who isn’t very strong; The Shoveler (William H. Macy), a middle-class father and a guy that fights crime with a shovel; and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), an adenoidal mama’s boy who pretends to be a British mystic and uses flatware as projectile weapons (mainly forks and spoons). To defeat Frankenstein, the team has to hire some new members, including the gaseous Spleen (Paul Reubens) and the haunted-bowling-ball-chucking Bowler (Janeane Garofalo). It’s a fittingly unusual line-up for a rather odd film. By today’s standards, Mystery Men is seriously dated. For starters, Smashmouth’s “Allstar” is used twice as a song cue. But it’s also often disarmingly eccentric, as in the scene where Tom Waits, who plays a mad scientist, shows off his arsenal of weird weapons (including the Blame Thrower), or the one where Wes Studi’s enigmatic, platitude-slinging hero The Sphinx trains the titular heroes (“To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn”). All of the characters are also endearingly neurotic, like Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell, of Keenan and Kel fame), a teenage loser who can only turn invisible when nobody else is looking at him, or Garofalo’s Bowler, a woman whose dead father nags her even from beyond the grave. Filmed on a reported $68 million budget, Mystery Men only grossed $33.4 million worldwide but went on to earn something of a cult status. How the Blu-Ray Makes the Case for the Movie: You can appreciate just how bizarre Mystery Men is just from watching the Spotlight on Location featurette, which makes it seem like the film’s production was pretty manic. For instance, Stiller reveals that the film’s cast were working with an improv-reliant script. “We’re always coming up with ideas, which is the fun thing about…” Stiller says, comically pausing to look around him and finishing his thought, ” not having a script.” Garofalo and Stiller both joke about the fact that they had little confidence in Usher. “I’m only doing this for the money,” she teases. “Kinka doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doin’. He hasn’t directed a movie before.” Even nice guy Greg Kinnear chimes in: “I describe [ Mystery Men ] as…a cartoon gone horribly, horribly wrong.” But Usher got results; even the film’s deleted scenes, like the one where Waits macks on a blue-haired retiree by telling her that he’s actually a doctor, are pretty funny. Other Trivia: In a rather thoughtful special feature, Burden shares a detailed history of his original comic book characters through interviews conducted before the film’s release. It’s especially funny to note that the character of the Shoveler was originally armed with King Arthur’s singing shovel, which was sentient and talked in “Middle English.” Also, apparently, Danny DeVito was supposed to not only direct the film at one point but play the Shoveler, too. Burden is also quoted in a Comics Buyer’s Guide interview as saying that he didn’t write the characters with modern actors in mind. “Originally, as I envisioned them, the Mystery Men were characters like Ernest Borgnine and Vic Tayback — all Mike Ditka-type guys. The only current star I could’ve seen as a Mystery Man would’ve been Steve Buscemi from Fargo .” Previously: Reconsidering Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia Simon Abrams is a NY-based freelance film critic whose work has been featured in outlets like The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Vulture and Esquire. Additionally, some people like his writing, which he collects at Extended Cut .
