What do you do if you hear two guys robbing your home? Chase them out, then grab a shovel and JUMP IN FRONT OF THEIR CAR to stop them from leaving, if you’re this brave, adrenaline-fueled Georgia resident. Watch the local news report below, in which he details how he fended off, and ultimately helped police identify the suspects responsible for this home invasion. His only weapons? A trusty shovel and some giant cojones: Guy Stops Burglars With Shovel
These people better leave our POTUS alone!!! Via Gawker: Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama. Either way, problem solved! Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here): Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies. Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles? Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike? You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table. It’s hard to tell whether or not Adler is just some crank. But the Atlanta Jewish Times, which he purchased in 2009, appears to be a real community newspaper. It was founded in 1925 and, according to Wikipedia, claims a circulation of 3,500 and staff of five. To judge from its web site, it’s a going concern. Source More On Bossip! Twit Pics Of The Day: Rihanna Toots That Thang Up In A White Bikini And Invites Khloe Kardashian To Come “Tap That” [Photos] Reading Is Fun-damental: 10 Of Hottest “Hood Classic” Books And Their Authors Must Be The Shoes: The Hottest Women In The World Wearing Killer Heels…And Not Much Else Black And Missing: Lost People And Faces That Mainstream Media Have Not Been Looking For [Photos/Info]
Samantha Novacek, Creighton Fraker and Eben Franckewitz also stand out. By Adam Graham Judges on “American Idol” Photo: FOX “American Idol” continued its kindness streak Thursday (January 19), handing out 38 Golden Tickets during its Pittsburgh audition rounds. Furthermore, of the 11 singers showcased during the hour-long program, 10 made it through to Hollywood. (Where have you gone, William Hungs of the world? Come back, Renaldo Lapuz!) Even the auditions that looked like they were going to be joke auditions turned out to be authentic. Case in point: Samantha Novacek, who came before the judges joined by her sister, who insists on planking while she sings. So before Novacek tore into Faith Hill’s “Like We Never Loved at All,” sister Patricia laid down in front of her, head up, arms at her side. (Before you criticize “Idol” for being late to the meme, remember the audition was taped over the summer.) Planking or no, the vocals were there, and when the 19-year-old breezed through to Hollywood, Novacek’s entire family celebrated by planking in the lobby. Our only question: Does the sister get to come to Hollywood too? Another standout on Thursday’s show was 15-year-old Eben Franckewitz, whom producers made sure to throw the Bieber tag on early. (Granted, he did have a haircut that recalled the Biebs.) The Milford, Ohio, resident rode to the audition with his perfectly supportive parents and knocked his rendition of “Ain’t No Sunshine” out of the park. “You definitely have a God-given gift that is pretty amazing and spot-on,” Randy Jackson told him, sending him (and his Bieber coif) through to the next round. Reed Grimm brought wily soul to the “Family Matters” theme song (!), culled from his many years onstage (the 26-year-old has been in a family band since he was 2) and was instantly zipped through to Hollywood. Even Urkel would have been proud. Creighton Fraker, 28, of Queens, New York, didn’t know what he was going to sing for the judges, so he decided to do a song he made up on his way to the audition. There wasn’t much there in the way of lyrics — the song just sort of awkwardly name-dropped the judges — but thankfully “Idol” is a singing contest and not a songwriting one, and the judges were so impressed with his vocals that they did one of those things where they throw out crazy percentages in front of their “yes” votes to quantify how much they like him. (Steven Tyler won by giving him a “3 gazillion percent yes.”) Jennifer Lopez commented the Queens native is like if Jamiroquai and Justin Timberlake had a baby, which, weird? But Tyler better summed up the judges’ enthusiasm, gushing, “Dude, you are so Hollywood!” The show closed with 24-year-old Hallie Day of Baltimore, a high school dropout who crawled back from a suicide attempt several years ago and thrilled the judges with her strong vocals on Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” “She could win,” mused Lopez, who’s already taken to calling Day “Blondie.” Other contestants who passed on to Hollywood on Thursday’s show: Heejun Han, 22, of Flushing, New York, who sang a surprisingly soulful version of “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You,” made even more surprising by the fact that he had never sang in front of his family; 27-year-old Aaron Marcellus from Teaneck, New Jersey, who took on Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and came out a winner; and 20-year-old Chase Likens of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, whose version of Lady Antebellum’s “Love Don’t Live Here” stood out from the pack. “American Idol” continues Sunday with the San Diego audition rounds, following the NFC Championship Game on Fox. What did you think of Thursday’s round of “Idol” auditions? Let us know in the comments! Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
Lil Wayne and his entourage reportedly got into a fight with Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant at club Liv on South Beach in Miami. Bryant was detained by police but not arrested. According to reports the fight was over a debt Bryant had to a firm that was linked to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Records. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: According to a source, the firm, which works with athletes and entertainers to help them purchase luxury items such as cars, yachts and vacation homes, is linked to Lil Wayne and his record label Young Money Entertainment. Wayne and Young Money President Mack Maine and Cash Money Entertainment CEO Brian “Baby” Williams and their entourage were present and involved in the fracas with Bryant, the source said. We wonder if this will affect Lil Wayne’s probation since he’s supposed to be staying out of trouble. Read more at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. RELATED: Kanye West & Lil Wayne Spend Christmas With The Lakers [PHOTOS] WTF? Lil Wayne Performs “Y U Mad” Wearing Leopard Print Shorts! [VIDEO] Deion Sanders Honored By Atlanta Falcons, Lil Wayne [EXCLUSIVE] RUMOR: Trina Bags The Best New NFL Rookie Baller Lil Wayne Explains His Syrup Sipping Habit [VIDEO]
For at least one night next month, Target will be the most popular store on earth. And not simply because you can pick up school supplies, a new wardrobe, a basketball and a week’s worth of groceries in its aisles. The chain has reached an agreement with Summit Entertainment to premiere the first clip from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 . The major event will take place at approximately 500 locations around the country and kick off at 11 p.m. on February 10. At midnight, those in attendance will have a chance to purchase another exclusive: A Limited-Collector’s Edition DVD of Breaking Dawn Part 1 that includes… wait for it… a prop flower from Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward’s ( Robert Pattinson ) wedding! You might say this promotion is right on target, eh, fans?!?
Barbara Terry is 52. She has managed to put two of her four children through college while working as a prostitute. She has even purchased a home in Upstate, New York all on the salary of a street walker. Terry is still selling her body and has become a favorite at Rikers Island having been there more than 100 times. It seems that women like Barbara who have fallen or chosen this lifestyle have made a decent living out of it even though the law prohibits it (in most places). With women constantly going to jail for prostituting themselves but returning to the streets shortly after, should it be legalized? After all it is, “the world’s oldest profession.” Read more about Terry, here . Wives Of Political Sex Scandals: ‘Til Death Do Us Part’? [PHOTOS] Women In The World: How To Surpass The Global Limitations On Women
The New York Times reported Sunday that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary branch is tweaking its qualification rules once again, allowing only theatrical nonfiction feature films that have been reviewed by the NY or LA Times to be considered for Oscar nominations. Furthermore, voting on nominees will be expanded to the entire 166-member Documentary Branch (as opposed to individual committees), and the Academy as a whole can vote for Best Documentary, regardless of how or where members saw the nominated films. The revisions have prompted more than a little hand-wringing around the doc community — for no especially good reason, alas. Here’s why: 1. Films they’re seeking to block will still get through. In a year when the Doc Branch fielded an unprecedented volume of submissions (thanks entirely to the 2010 rule change that expanded the 2011 awards year to 16 months), the Academy wants to screen out docs conceived and produced primarily for television but which qualify for the Oscars with a one-week theatrical run in Manhattan and Los Angeles County. By requiring a newspaper review, said Academy COO Ric Robertson, the Oscars are likelier to reward “genuine theatrical” documentaries. Which would be fine — if it were true: The same HBO-produced docs that are presently, quietly four-walled at the Coliseum Cinemas in Washington Heights or the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena are just going to do the same old thing in slightly more upmarket venues. 2. The process has always favored bigger films. Michael Moore, who made his name putatively fighting on behalf of the little guy in the face of outsized institutional malevolence, apparently helped engineer the expanded voting-bloc change in what the NYT ‘s Michael Cieply termed an effort to recognize more “popular and culturally significant films.” Ha. It not clear what these films would be except for maybe things like Moore’s own Capitalism: A Love Story and certain high-profile oversights like Werner Herzog’s long-playing 3-D doc Cave of Forgotten Dreams — a theatrical nonfiction treat if ever there were one. But the reality is that despite the annual snub ritual known as the documentary short list , theatrically geared films released by well-known specialty distributors win the majority of Academy attention when it matters — in the nominations — and the lion’s share of Best Documentary Feature wins. Even Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory , arguably this year’s frontrunner and a perfect example of the type of made-for-TV doc the Academy would hope to deflect, is a product of the well-heeled HBO Documentary Films. 3. It’s still all about the awards-season resources. Moore also told Sasha Stone that, in effect, “the new rules effectively protect the smaller fish from being chased out because the big fish have more money to manipulate the broken system.” I’ll believe it when I see it. The new screener permission alone plays right into those larger interests’ hands — or rather, into their campaigners’ hands: Guys like Harvey Weinstein, for example, can now flex their Academy muscle across the entire voting body while independently distributed docs will still only advance as far as their grassroots word-of-mouth (and thus their seasonal Oscar publicist) takes them. Suggesting that a film’s awards cred relies on critical and theatrical integrity is like saying Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination based on values. Please. 4. The NY and LA Times already review virtually everything — and filmmakers can appeal being omitted. The most vocal opposition to the new rules invokes such films as the current short-lister Semper Fi: Always Faithful , which qualified via the International Documentary Association’s DocuWeek program and has no record of a review in either newspaper. Would it be barred from consideration in future years? Probably not: As Stone also notes, DocuWeek inclusion costs not much less than four-walling a theater and sending an e-mail to a couple editors, and in the off chance that that tack fails, filmmakers and producers can appeal directly to the Documentary Branch for consideration. Which actually might be a disadvantage for the movies, simply because… 5.The Documentary Branch has no taste. Nonfiction greats like Herzog or Steve James or Frederick Wiseman aren’t routinely overlooked because of some qualification quirks or because some TV-oriented doc usurped their spots on the short list. They’re snubbed because year after year, no single Academy voting bloc has proven its intellectual laziness and lack of judgment more assiduously than the Doc Branch. Expanding the actual Documentary Feature Oscar voting across the entire Academy only proves that the form’s practitioners have next to no faith in the branch’s members to either recognize “popular” documentaries (which isn’t even the branch’s job anyway) or defend the short-list selections and eventual nominees it does choose. If they really wanted change, they would just burn the place down, split the insurance money 166 ways, and outsource the Best Documentary voting to the Cinema Eye Honors or another reputable awards body. Until then? The more things change, the more they stay the same. Follow S.T. 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George Maragos Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who’s running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party. Mr. Maragos, a former Vice President at Chase and Citicorp, had already acknowledged in a December Capital Tonight interview that he… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Politicker Discovery Date : 09/01/2012 13:40 Number of articles : 2
Once a stage parent, always a moocher. Scarlett Johnasson ‘s former mom-ager is still trying to live the good life her daughter’s fame has afforded her. But there’s on little catch: she’s no longer on ScarJo’s payroll. So now she’s mad because she can’t afford the house she wants. Scarlett Johansson’s mom and former manager, Melanie Sloan, signed a contract to purchase a $1.4 million two-bedroom in Midtown in October. But less than two months later, the California dweller sued the owner of the 1,228-square-foot pad in The Strand at 500 W. 43rd St. — a doorman building with a swimming pool — demanding the return of her $130,000 deposit. She claimed she is cash-poor and can’t obtain a mortgage, according to court papers. The real-estate battle offers a rare peek into the finances of a stage mother, whose famous daughter was a cash cow until she canned her mom two years ago and hired a professional manager. Even though Sloan attempted to manage clients besides her daughter, the move left ScarJo’s mom with no major source of income, according to her lawyers. Last October, Sloan, 60, presented the apartment sellers, violinist Christina Castelli and pianist Grant Moffett, with a strong financial profile, even claiming 2011 was one of her “best years yet in the entertainment industry,” according to the sellers’ lawyers. The move would bring her closer to ScarJo, who lives in Manhattan. The stage mom managed her daughter’s career since Scarlett made her big-screen debut at age 9 in Rob Reiner’s “North.” She took a 10 percent cut of all earnings, according to a contract reviewed by The Post. ScarJo’s parents separated when she was 13. But in November 2009, Scarlett sacked mom in favor of Hollywood power agent Rick Yorn, whose roster includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz. “Once I got married, I felt that I needed to cut the cord,” the 26-year-old star told Vanity Fair last month. (She divorced actor Ryan Reynolds in July.) Sloan told the seller she still had money coming in from projects she had signed for ScarJo, including campaigns with Moët Champagne, Dolce & Gabbana and the “Iron Man” movies. But now she claims the money spigot has been turned off. A few weeks after signing the contract, Sloan suddenly cried poverty. Wait: you managed Scarlett Johansson for more than ten years and took 10% of every check she got, plus whatever else you got off the strength of being her mother… but now you’re broke? Have a seat lady. Source More On Bossip! True Or False??? Serena Williams’ Heartbroken Twitter Rant The Result Of Drizzy Wifing Dollicia Bryan For The Fellas: 5 Things You Need To Know About Your “Package” Hi Hater: “Messy” Erica Mena And Her Floozy Friend Throw Shade Towards The BMF Wives ON Twitter!!
Once a stage parent, always a moocher. Scarlett Johnasson ‘s former mom-ager is still trying to live the good life her daughter’s fame has afforded her. But there’s on little catch: she’s no longer on ScarJo’s payroll. So now she’s mad because she can’t afford the house she wants. Scarlett Johansson’s mom and former manager, Melanie Sloan, signed a contract to purchase a $1.4 million two-bedroom in Midtown in October. But less than two months later, the California dweller sued the owner of the 1,228-square-foot pad in The Strand at 500 W. 43rd St. — a doorman building with a swimming pool — demanding the return of her $130,000 deposit. She claimed she is cash-poor and can’t obtain a mortgage, according to court papers. The real-estate battle offers a rare peek into the finances of a stage mother, whose famous daughter was a cash cow until she canned her mom two years ago and hired a professional manager. Even though Sloan attempted to manage clients besides her daughter, the move left ScarJo’s mom with no major source of income, according to her lawyers. Last October, Sloan, 60, presented the apartment sellers, violinist Christina Castelli and pianist Grant Moffett, with a strong financial profile, even claiming 2011 was one of her “best years yet in the entertainment industry,” according to the sellers’ lawyers. The move would bring her closer to ScarJo, who lives in Manhattan. The stage mom managed her daughter’s career since Scarlett made her big-screen debut at age 9 in Rob Reiner’s “North.” She took a 10 percent cut of all earnings, according to a contract reviewed by The Post. ScarJo’s parents separated when she was 13. But in November 2009, Scarlett sacked mom in favor of Hollywood power agent Rick Yorn, whose roster includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz. “Once I got married, I felt that I needed to cut the cord,” the 26-year-old star told Vanity Fair last month. (She divorced actor Ryan Reynolds in July.) Sloan told the seller she still had money coming in from projects she had signed for ScarJo, including campaigns with Moët Champagne, Dolce & Gabbana and the “Iron Man” movies. But now she claims the money spigot has been turned off. A few weeks after signing the contract, Sloan suddenly cried poverty. Wait: you managed Scarlett Johansson for more than ten years and took 10% of every check she got, plus whatever else you got off the strength of being her mother… but now you’re broke? Have a seat lady. Source More On Bossip! True Or False??? Serena Williams’ Heartbroken Twitter Rant The Result Of Drizzy Wifing Dollicia Bryan For The Fellas: 5 Things You Need To Know About Your “Package” Hi Hater: “Messy” Erica Mena And Her Floozy Friend Throw Shade Towards The BMF Wives ON Twitter!!
