Swifties and Directioners weigh in on supposed split between Swift and the One Direction heartthrob. By Christina Garibaldi Harry Styles and Taylor Swift at the Central Park Zoo Photo: Splash News
Typhoon Bopha smashed into the Philippines on Tuesday uprooting trees and power lines and forcing more than 40,000 people to cram into shelters to escape the strongest storm to hit the country this year. Three people were hit by falling trees and another person had a heart attack as the typhoon lashed Mindanao island in the south of the country, said civil defence chief Benito Ramos, adding that their condition was not known. One other person was reported missing on the central island of Leyte
Rose McGowan, who changed her hair color several times during her run on Charmed, tried a strawberry blonde hue in 2007, before returning to her roots. (She went blonde for Scream in the late ’90s, too.) With several acting projects in the pipeline, we’re assuming the star made this most recent change for a role, as well. Looks like Rose McGowan is going to be having a little more fun these days. The actress debuted a new blonde ‘do while out in West Hollywood over the weekend, making a major
BREAKING NUDES: Skin Central received some sad nudes news from our friends over at Egotastic this morning, regarding the topless scene in the upcoming Judd Apatow film, This Is 40 (2012). And now a word from our Sultan of Skin: An Open Letter to Judd Apatow Dear Judd, How are you? It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since Knocked Up (2007) showcased the big-screen debut of MrSkin.com. Since then you’ve comingled naked women and comedic talents in Funny People (2009) and Get Him to the Greek (2010), and who could forget your original skin classics like Superbad (2007), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). Nice work! A hard-felt thanks! There’s just one thing, though, we’ve caught wind that the follow-up to Knocked Up (2007), This is 40 (2012), features the devious deception known as CGI nudes. Do you think that’s fair? We’re not blaming you, we’re sure you had breast of intentions, but we look to you as an enormously successful director to inspire and encourage the best in us. If you build tit they will come! Obviously, at Skin Central, there is no such thing as a bad nude scene, and to encourage a whole new generation of gorgeous gals to cover up with this post-production sham is a shame. We need to create new fondle mammaries, enjoy new ass-ets. You see the problem, don’t you? This could usher in a whole new era of fake nudes. Something has to change, and we think you’re just the man to do it. Or else we might have to file for onan-ployment. Your pal, Mr. Skin
Happy Thanksgiving- or as we like to call it- Spanksgiving! Here at Skin Central we want to give spanks for the feast of exposed breast meat from babes like Kim Basinger , Emmanuelle Seigner , and the rest of our Top 10 Nude With Food. Now loosen your pants and stuff your face!
New York City officials are already teed off over Ken and Sarah Burns documentary The Central Park Five — but just wait until they see the poster for the headlines-generating film. The stark, black-and-white image simply, effectively — and immediately — communicates the idea that the scales of justice did not work for the five men who were convicted and later cleared in the racially charged 1989 Central Park jogger case that rocked the city. As I reported in early October, lawyers for the city of New York have subpoenaed notes and outtakes from the documentary, which Burns directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon, in order to determine whether the material can help them fight a federal civil rights lawsuit that five men filed nine years ago as a result of their experience. (Each of the five men is seeking $50 million.) The documentary, which was shown at the Cannes, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, scrutinizes the initial convictions of the Central Park Five — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, and Kharey Wise — noting, for instance that the five men did not appear to be in the area of the park where the rape occurred, that their DNA was not found on the victim and that their confessions did not jibe with one another’s. As I also reported, the filmmakers are fighting the subpoena . Sarah Burns told me, “We’re not sure the city can subpoena us because we believe we’re protected by the shield laws” that allow journalists to protect their sources and research. In 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the incident, the lawyer for the five men, Jonathan Moore called their experience “the most racist prosecution that occurred in the City of New York. The city maintains that that cops and prosecutors acted appropriately. “We believe that based on the information that the police and prosecutors had at the time, they had probable cause to proceed, and the confessions were sound,” a city spokeswoman told the New York Times. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
What are they doing to the meat?: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating “disturbing evidence of inhumane treatment of cattle” at a California meat supplier, the agency said. After receiving video from an animal welfare group, the USDA sent investigators to the Central Valley Meat Co. and found violations of humane handling, the agency said in a statement. “We have reviewed the video and determined that while some of the footage provided shows unacceptable treatment of cattle, it does not show anything that would compromise food safety,” said Al Almanza, administrator of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The USDA suspended inspections at the Hanford-based company, effectively halting slaughter operations there. Company officials have not seen the video, said Brian Coelho, president of the Central Valley Meat Co. He said he was “extremely disturbed” to learn that inspections were suspended. “Our company seeks to not just meet federal humane handling regulations, but to exceed them,” Coelho said in a statement. He said federal inspectors continuously inspect the plant and are able to take action if they see a problem. “That is why these allegations are both disturbing and surprising,” he said. Central Valley did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday after CNN sent the company a link to the video. Compassion Over Killing, a nonprofit organization that focuses on animal cruelty, posted the video to YouTube and to its website on Tuesday. The group said an undercover investigator shot the video. In the graphic video, one worker stands on the nostrils of a cow that the narrator says has been shot in the head but didn’t die right away. In another segment, a worker appears to shoot a cow in the head several times. “At U.S. slaughterhouses, federal law requires death to be quick, when cows are shot in the head the process should cause immediate unconsciousness,” the narrator says. “At Central Valley, countless deaths we documented were slow and agonizing.” Central Valley Meat, a 50-year-old company, was one of the beef suppliers for In-N-Out Burger, a well-known fast food chain predominantly in California and the Southwest. Mark Taylor, chief operating officer for In-N-Out, said the chain has stopped doing business with Central Valley Meat. “In-N-Out Burger would never condone the inhumane treatment of animals, and all of our suppliers must agree to abide by our strict standards for the humane treatment of cattle,” he said in a statement. The plant has been closed while the USDA conducts its investigation. Central Valley said it will cooperate with the probe. CNN
Bernadette Jones Dies After 21 Year Coma This is extremely sad, and the domestic violence must stop: Bernadette Jones’ drunken husband beat her into a coma on April 14, 1991. Family members brought the comatose woman home from the hospital eight months later, and that first night, her three children crawled into bed with her and slept. For the next two decades, Jones’ family cared for her in a special room built at the back of their home on 73rd Street in Niagara Falls. But their nursing of a patient who never awoke ended Sunday, when she died at the age of 51, succumbing to pneumonia. “After 21 years of fighting every kind of infection you can imagine, being that she was so vulnerable in her condition, her body finally ran out of gas,” stepfather Robert Anderson Jr. said Thursday. He and his family provided constant care for Jones, and the experience evolved into a closeness most families never know. Government officials at first refused to provide health care coverage, but Jones’ mother sought legal help, and the state relented, helping make it possible to spare her from being institutionalized. At 11 a.m. today, Anderson and other family members will gather with friends in Trinity Baptist Church, 1366 South Ave., to say farewell at a funeral service, but it was the modest, beige one-story ranch home they shared in Niagara Falls’ LaSalle section that was their sanctuary of love born out of a rare level of devotion. “You have to do it willingly and 300 percent or don’t do it,” said Anderson, 70. “Through all the trials and tribulations we went through, we never once argued over Bernadette. When we first brought her home, her brother gave up his room in the basement for her. The void, now, is palpable in the Anderson home. “We know she would have expired a long time ago if she had not come home to live with us,” said Robert Anderson Jr., who is in his third four-year term as a City Council member. “We know she’s gone home to God and to her mother and wow, that’s a plus.” Robert Anderson III agreed. “She’s broken the bonds of pain. She’s free,” he said. So sad. R.I.P. Source
Black Men Battle Stereotypes In Florida Not only is this just in Florida, but nationwide: They are more likely to get shot, go to jail, drop out of school, end up in foster care, be abandoned by their fathers and have children of their own while they’re still teenagers. Compared with other Americans, young black men have the statistical odds stacked against them. But statistics only reveal trends; they don’t define an individual. In in-depth interviews with more than a dozen young black men, ages 15 to 28 — from honor students to jail inmates, star athletes to aspiring executives — the voices so rarely heard in public forums spoke out on being the most profiled segment of society. For many, the fear of ending up like Trayvon Martin — the unarmed teen shot to death by Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman — is far too tangible. At the least, their age, gender and skin color make them regularly subject to suspicion. They felt they had to be better than the next guy just to stay even. “Sometimes it hurts,” says Jaboris Haynes, 19, who grew up in poverty with his mother and sister in Apopka. “When I was younger, I thought of being a different race and wondered what it would be like. The message I got about being a young black man wasn’t a good message. I always felt like somebody was after me, like they were judging me, just because I’m a black male.” Having escaped the pressure of gangs to win a scholarship to Florida A&M University to study civil engineering, he still feels pressure “not to be a statistic.” “I want people to know that I’m a lovable person, I’m kind, I can be a good friend, I’m reliable, trustworthy,” he says on a break from his summer job as a camp counselor. He slumps forward, shaking his head. “But being a young black man, you have a lot of people talking down on you.” No matter how wealthy, how educated, how well-dressed and well-mannered, all the young men interviewed reported being profiled because of their skin color. For some, it meant being stopped, questioned and frisked by police. For others, it was more subtle: a car door that locks as they walk past or pull up to a traffic light, a sales clerk who eyes their pockets suspiciously, a white woman in an elevator who clutches her purse when a young black man steps in and the doors close. Mark Lark, 22, is going into his senior year at the University of Central Florida, studying architecture. One of only two black students in his major, he also serves as vice president of the local student chapter of the American Institute of Architects, volunteers to mentor college-bound minorities and works at the Central Florida YMCA. With a year to go to graduation, he already has business cards printed. But his real mission is to be a role model for the young black men who come after him. And in so doing, he hopes to persuade those who judge simply on skin color to rethink their assumptions. “Trust me, instead of being in your face, now it [racism] is more subtle,” he says. “Instead of, ‘Hey, boy, you shouldn’t be drinking out of that water fountain,’ it’s ‘Why is this [black] person doing that?’ “What I do with my life — I do this to show a better example of my culture and my race. There are sophisticated, well-mannered, ambitious black males in the community that aren’t going to be a degradation to society, that are actually going to help the economy, help the U.S. and help the world.” Discuss.. Source
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