‘It’s still a little top-secret,’ Jepsen tells MTV News about the track. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway Carly Rae Jepsen at 2012 Spring Break Photo: MTV News Carly Rae Jepsen is poised to break out of the shadow out of label boss Justin Bieber , thanks to her catchy ode to flirting, “Call Me Maybe.” But that doesn’t mean she and the superstar are going their separate ways. Recently, the Canadian singer revealed that she and Bieber worked on a track together , and when MTV News caught up with her in Las Vegas at mtvU Spring Break , she teased a bit of what their team-up sounds like. “We collaborated on one song together, but in general, I was blown away by Justin,” Jepsen said. “He’s so down-to-earth and very charming and very talented. It’s still a little top-secret, but it’s going to be coming out soon, I hope. “Mum’s the word!” she added. “It’s a really lovely song. The way he presented it was pretty cool. It was my first time meeting him. I was at the studio, and he basically just said, ‘What do you think of this song?’ and I was like, ‘Wow, I love it.’ ” From there, the “Boyfriend” singer asked her to collaborate on it, and she happily accepted the offer. “It’s pretty stripped-down,” she said. “It’s pretty casual. It’s not too dance-y; it’s more intimate. It’s a duet.” While Jepsen is riding high off the success of “Call Me Maybe,” she is hard at work on her album, and she hopes to one day be able to help out another artist like Bieber did for her. “It’s hard to believe at the moment. It’s definitely a surreal life that I’m in right now, but I’m enjoying every second of it,” she said. “It’s pretty crazy. They say it’s called paying it forward [since Usher signed Bieber and then he signed me], so I’m gonna hope that I have the opportunity. That’d be pretty rad. “He’s such an inspiration,” she added. “No matter what his age, I think his career is really impressive. It’s pretty amazing that he’s remained so humble and cool.” What are you expecting from Carly and Justin’s duet? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Carly Rae Jepsen Justin Bieber
‘I haven’t dipped my hat into that ring,’ the ‘Parks and Rec’ star tells MTV News of teaming up with his friend ‘Ye. By Elizabeth Lancaster Aziz Ansari Photo: MTV News NEW YORK — Aziz Ansari has been keeping pretty busy lately, working on everything from his full-time “Parks and Recreation” gig to a buzzed-about cameo in Kanye West and Jay-Z’s “Otis” music video last year. After Ansari’s feature in the Watch the Throne clip and his and Kanye’s joint participation in Nike’s Kobe System videos, fans are speculating about the pair’s next step together. Could a musical partnership be in the works? Not anytime soon, according to Ansari. MTV News caught up with the comedian in Central Park, where he was taking time off from his busy schedule to rep his inner Tom Haverford and ceremonially mow a stretch of grass for New York City’s Central Park Conservancy. After safely dismounting his lawnmower, Ansari told us of his pal ‘Ye, “We [collaborated] on the video, but music-wise, not at this point. I haven’t dipped my hat into that ring.” In the meantime, divert your attention to Ansari’s newest standup special, “Dangerously Delicious.” Following in the footsteps of Louis C.K., Aziz’s hour-long special was released exclusively for download on his site for $5 and is as fresh as it is hilarious. The comedian guarantees there are no overlaps with his Buried Alive Tour material, so even if you are going to see him at Montclair, New Jersey’s Wellmont Theatre next week, you can treat yo’self with this special — and continue to hope for more Kanye/Aziz magic in the future. What is your favorite Kanye/Aziz collabo so far? Are you crossing your fingers for a joint musical venture? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Kanye West
Critics agree the Snow White adaptation is ‘not the fairest of them all.’ By Fallon Prinzivalli Lily Collins in “Mirror, Mirror” Photo: Relativity Media Before it even hit the box office, “Mirror Mirror” was viewed with a critical eye as two Snow White adaptations had announced their release dates a month apart. But with the release of the trailers, it was clear that the two movies were very different. The Tarsem Singh film is a quirky comedy from the vantage point of the Evil Queen ( Julia Roberts ) over the traditional Snow White ( Lily Collins ), while “Snow White and the Huntsman” is about the epic battle Snow White ( Kristen Stewart ) must fight for her life. Unfortunately for those involved in the former, as the reviews pour in, it’s obvious the movie is making critics grumpy. The Story ” ‘Mirror Mirror’ begins with an impressively animated recap of Snow White’s predicament: Banished to her castle by a wicked stepmother after her father the king disappears, and being played by such a vacantly pretty ingenue as Lily Collins. Collins conveys a properly Audrey Hepburn princess look and the acting range of a runway model. The damsel’s role is always distressed. The queen has run the kingdom into the ground, funding a lavish lifestyle with escalating taxes. After sneaking out for a tour of the squalor, Snow sides with the other 99 percent. Their relationship is further strained with the arrival of handsome Prince Alcott.” — Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times The Laughs ” ‘Mirror Mirror’ is unfair to people expecting more than a few good laughs. Scenes proceed lethargically, with pauses after punch lines where Tarsem must hope for audience laughter. Anachronistic gags (as when the Prince tells Snow White that he has to be the hero because ‘it’s been focus-grouped — it works’) break whatever luscious spell the art direction and costumery might create. On their first meeting in the woods, the Prince tells the dwarfs, ‘You’re short, and it’s funny.’ Well, the film is shortish (106 mins.) but it’s also epically unfunny. The producers should have handed the script to an actual clever person like Paul Rudnick (‘In & Out,’ ‘Jeffrey’) and told him to send it back in a week, with solid jokes and a buoyant spirit.” — Richard Corliss, Time Julia Roberts “Roberts has had exactly one high point (‘Duplicity’) since winning her Oscar in 2000, and she acts here as if simply appearing in a floofy dress is high hilarity. Her ‘playfulness’ seems like work and her cartoony maliciousness is dull. (Charlize Theron, who plays the queen in this summer’s more serious ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ needn’t fret.)” — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News The Visuals “Singh, whose eye-popping tribute to the Silent Era, ‘The Fall,’ was several years ahead of ‘The Artist’/’Hugo’ curve, never lets his attention waver from the production design — those beautiful, snowy, birch tree forests; the parapets; cliffs; and opulent palace digs. He lets his stars deliver their lines — some with more flourish and wit than others (among the dwarfs, Jordan Prentice and Danny Woodburn get off the best) — but his eye is mostly on the gilt and the silk, the CG-ed skies, and the eerie, iced-over lake that separates the castle from the town.” — Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer The Final Word “The whole thing lacks tonal cohesion, lurching from Tim Burton-style comic grotesquerie to underpowered action set pieces to a gratuitously self-referential Bollywood production number on the end credits. The impression is that of a director constantly fighting to put his stamp on material that’s foreign to him, and unable to figure out what that stamp should be.” — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter “Not the fairest of them all.” — Matt Stevens, E! Online Check out everything we’ve got on “Mirror Mirror.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Mirror Mirror’
The fascinating thing about Adrianne Curry is the attention a virtual nobody gets because of her fake tits and willingness to show them off because they aren’t really even her own tits and if anyone judges her she can blame the plastic surgeon….coupled with the fact that fake tits, except on breast cancer survivors, that save shitty tit, also attract really fucked up, insecure, women you can easily manipulate because the fact they saved up and got a set of tits, means some shit is going on in her crazy head…… It amazes me that someone who does nothing, offers the world nothing, has no interesting thoughts or opinions, who is only known because of a series of reality shows when reality shows were just starting, can lure thousands of people to sign-up to her and wait around for pics like this….It is pathetic and depressing what our world amount too….shit makes me want to get a set of fake tits to post on my TWITTER …the same TWITTER Adrianne Curry blocked and sent her gang of retards after…..because that way I’d get more followers…. Tits get hits people. Except maybe for me, this site, my twitter….but for the girl who owns those tits…it’s on. Here are some faceless nudes….unfortunately not of her after her face was ripped off by a psycho killer….you know trying to save the world from her horrible kind of trash… I approve of this message: LIKE US ON FACEBOOK EVEN IF YOU DON’T LIKE US
The schoolyard bully may be a stock character, a cliché, but in the world of Lee Hirsch’s earnest documentary Bully , he’s very real: The picture tells the stories of several kids — all of them from fairly rural parts of the United States — who suffer daily at the hands of their classmates, fielding everything from hurtful taunts to physical assault. Some of them, like 14-year-old Ja’Meya, fight back by blowing up: Fed up with her schoolmates’ gibes and insults, Jackson gets a hold of her mother’s handgun and brandishes it on the school bus one day, a tactic that earned her multiple felony charges and a long stint in a detention center. Others, like 17-year-old Tyler, break down and commit suicide. But the movie’s most poignant case is that of a kid who is still, at least during the span of time covered by the film, toughing it out against his tormentors: Alex is a smallish, graceful-gangly 12-year-old who deals with the cruelty of his classmates with a shrug and a sideways smile, as if he were somehow hoping his faux indifference would make them stop. His father lectures him, urging him to fight back, but we can see that sweet, open-hearted Alex is incapable of doing so — not so much physically as temperamentally. Alex’s story is the centerpiece of the movie, and of all the case studies here, it’s the one most likely to break your heart. Bully is effective as a document of the suffering that too many kids suffer at the hands of their cruel and sometimes possibly even psychopathic peers, particularly in parts of the country where the idea of “normal” is pretty narrow. All of the kids in Bully live somewhere in Middle America, which is not to say that bullying doesn’t happen in big cities. But if Kelby, a teenager from Tuttle, Okla., who faced persecution from her peers (and even from teachers) when she came out as a lesbian, lived in Berkeley, you wouldn’t be seeing her in this documentary. Kelby’s father speaks on-camera, saying that he offered to move the family to an area that might be more hospitable. Kelby, who comes off as self-assured and unflappable, refused the offer: “If I leave, they win,” she states plainly, although by the end of the movie, it’s suggested that all the aggression has worn her down. How can you not feel anything for a girl like Kelby? Bully cuts to the core of the way cruelty wounds these kids. But Hirsch isn’t content to let these stories speak for themselves; he attempts to fashion them into an instrument for change, and it’s there that Bully falters, particularly as it winds its way toward the end. The families of bullied children rally to make tearful speeches, light candles, release balloons into the air, and otherwise call for an official end to bullying. Their efforts are noble, and certainly understandable, but their goals are wispy — bullies, like the poor, are always with us, and no amount of joining hands is going to stamp them out. Bully is much better when it sticks to simple storytelling. And storytelling, not grandstanding, is the thing that just might grab the attention of, say, school administrators, people who can have some effect on how bullies are dealt with. Storytelling is also the only possible way to get through to the bullies themselves — though the only way those kids are likely to see the movie is if their schools arrange it. To that end, the Weinstein Co., which is releasing the film, appealed the MPAA ratings board’s original R rating . (The picture includes a little bit of spicy schoolyard language – which is part of the point.) After failing to sway the board into giving the picture a PG-13 — which would ensure that more kids would be able to see it — the Weinstein Co. decided to release the film unrated . That could cause some chains to forgo it, although AMC Theaters has announced that it will allow children under 17 to see the film with a parent, or without if the child presents a signed permission slip. But beyond the hope that a few really bad eggs who see the film will be converted, Bully is hardly persuasive as a call to action, not because it isn’t emotionally affecting (it is), but because it’s so adamantly preaching to the converted. The parents of bullied kids will totally get Bully ; they’re also the people most likely to go to see it, and they’re most likely to be appalled at the behavior of the school administrator who meets with Alex’s parents. They come to her office, distraught, in the hopes that she’ll finally do something to end their kid’s suffering — most recently, another kid has been seen poking at him with a pencil on the school bus. (After following Alex around school with a camera for a year, Hirsch became concerned for the child’s safety and showed his footage to Alex’s parents and to administrators at the Sioux City, Iowa, school he attends.) The administrator feebly reassures Alex’s parents she’ll do something about the situation and then turns the subject to her own grandchild, showing them a picture of the precious bundle, ostensibly to prove to them how much she cares about kids. Her cheerful unflappability is precisely the problem: Earlier, we’ve seen her deal with an instance of bullying in which she’s clearly being manipulated by the instigator. Maybe Bully will have some effect on the way school administrators handle the bullying problem. For Alex’s sake, you certainly hope so. That vague sort of righteous arm-waving we know as “raising awareness” certainly isn’t going to do him any good. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Kate Gosselin has scarcely been in the news lately. Thank goodness. Don’t worry, though: even with TLC mercifully cancelling Kate Plus 8 last year, the attention-starved mother of eight isn’t about to rest on her laurels. She’s blogging like a madman for CouponCabin (dot com) and longing for the morning that someone will call and offer her brood a new reality show. Don’t hold your breath, Kate. But happy 37th birthday babe. It seems like only yesterday that Kate was burning up our TVs with her weekly emasculation of Jon … then burning up our site with her marital problems. Memories. Cheers to you, 2009. In non-grating-banshee news, it’s also Lady Gaga’s birthday today! Not to mention Vince Vaughn, Reba McEntire, Julia Stiles and others. Yay, March 28!
‘I got more criticism about my hair than Jennifer Aniston did when she started ‘Friends,’ ‘ the ‘Wrath of the Titans’ star quips to MTV News. By Kevin P. Sullivan Sam Worthington in “Wrath of the Titans” Photo: Warner Bros. When previews began to play for “Wrath of the Titans,” the follow-up to 2010’s “Clash of the Titans,” the element of the trailer that got the biggest reaction wasn’t the mythological beasts or the battling gods, but the longer locks on star Sam Worthington’s head. Gone was Perseus’ anachronistic buzz cut from the original — a nitpicking problem for some who saw “Clash” — and in its stead was Worthington’s naturally curly hair. “I got more criticism about my hair than Jennifer Aniston did when she started ‘Friends,’ ” Worthington quipped to MTV News. With so much of the attention leading into the film’s premiere focused squarely on Worthington’s head, the actor told MTV News he isn’t too worried about those people’s opinions. “My brain goes, ‘If that’s the only thing you’re going to be focusing on, maybe you should get out more,’ ” Worthington said. Liam Neeson, Worthington’s co-star, offered some kind words about the change in hairdo. “His hair was good,” Neeson said. “The hair was good,” Worthington agreed. Within the fictional realm of “Wrath of the Titans,” the change in hairstyle makes sense for its own reasons. “The story jumps 10 years,” Neeson said. The sequel picks up a decade after the end of “Clash of the Titans.” Perseus is now a father and recent widower, and it isn’t long before his deadbeat dad Zeus comes a-callin’, asking for help once more. Still, Worthington continued to make light of the hairy discussion, suggesting that if the franchise were to continue, his hair options have no bounds. “It took Perseus 10 years. If we did another one, I’d just go longer. I’ll just keep going,” he said. “By the time you get to ‘Wrath of the Titans 10,’ I’ll look like Cousin Itt.” “And each hair is a demigod,” Neeson added. “Think about that.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Wrath of the Titans.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Wrath Of The Titans’
People bitch at me all the time for saying this, but I think Kim Kardashian is really hot. I’m not afraid to admit it. They say that she’s phony and plastic and all sorts of garbage like that, I think they underestimate just how much of a superficial man I am, because those are things that I look for in a woman. Here she is all tightly packed into a sexy, Spanx riddled white dress showing off her awesome curves. I’d like to cut her out of that thing with those medical shears doctors use to cut off bandages. Booty first of course.
Romney beat Rick Santorum by double digits in Tuesday’s primary. By Gil Kaufman Mitt Romney at his Illinois primary night party Photo: AFP Mitt Romney strung together two solid victories in a row on Tuesday night when he pulled off a decisive win in the Illinois presidential primary, the latest in a series of “must-win” contests in the GOP race to the White House. The former Massachusetts Governor is likely to pull in at least 41 of the 54 delegates at stake following his win over rival Rick Santorum, who he beat by a 47 to 35 percent margin. The other two candidates in the race, Texas congressman Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hardly campaigned in the state and came in a distant third and fourth, with, respectively, 9 and 8 percent of the vote. “We thank the people of Illinois for this extraordinary victory,” Romney said to supporters gathered in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, according to CNN. “Elections are about choices. Today, hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois joined millions of people in this country in this cause.” If he gets 41 delegates, Romney’s total to date is 562, which puts him halfway toward the goal of 1,144 needed to clinch the GOP nomination. Once again, he turned his attention away from his fellow candidates an onto President Obama in his victory speech, saying, “It’s time to say this word: enough. We’ve had enough … We know our future’s brighter than these troubled times. We still believe in America, and we deserve a president who believes in us, and I believe in the American people.” Romney was feeling bullish after his huge victory in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico on Saturday, where he took more than 83 percent of the vote and likely all 20 delegates. Pundits said he needed a solid victory in Obama’s former home state in order to tamp down the growing buzz about the potential for a contested GOP convention in August should he fail to get enough delegates to close the deal before then. Though he had a rough week — which included gaffes in P.R. in which he said the nation needs to adopt English as its official language to gain statehood and a remark on Monday in which he claimed the unemployment rate “doesn’t matter to me” — Santorum was still defiant after his Illinois loss. “This is an election about fundamental and foundational things,” the former Pennsylvania Senator said during a gathering in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. “This is an election about not who’s the best person to manage Washington or manage the economy. We don’t need a manager, we need someone who’s going to pull government up by the roots and do something to liberate the private sector in America.” The race now moves on to Louisiana on Saturday, where, once again, Romney will attempt to prove that he can appeal to the party’s conservative base and that he can win in the South. Stick with MTV’s Power of 12 (http://powerof12.org/) throughout the presidential election season for updates and news from the campaigns. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!
A-town’s own Cash Out is blazing the charts with his hit single “Cashin Out”. The song is so HOT that it caught the attention of L.A. Reid who recently signed him to Epic Records. Congrats!! Here’s the debut video for the song……….Check It Out.
