Chamique Holdsclaw, one of the best female basketball players of all-time, is wanted by Atlanta police following allegations that she FIRED A GUN at an ex-girlfriend. According to TMZ sources, this is what transpired: Holdsclaw, a former Rookie of the Year and the top WNBA draft pick in 1999, allegedly chased down Jennifer Lacy after the latter completed a workout. The police report indicates that Lacy called a friend out of fear and met the friend at a nearby location. Once there, Lacy says Holdsclaw confronted her with a baseball bat; bashed in the windows of her friend’s vehicle; and then pulled out a gun, firing a shot at the car. Holdsclaw had fled the area by the time police arrived. They found a 9mm casing and a warrant is out for the athlete’s arrest. UPDATE: Holdsclaw turned herself into police and is being held on $10,000 bail.
I don’t care if you’re already sick of the blogosphere’s fawning, today is Ryan Gosling ‘s birthday and that is practically an internet holiday. (Not to mention an actual one. Shout out to the veterans out there.) And unlike you Gosling latecomers out there who jumped on the Baby Goose train after The Notebook , some of us have been faithful fans for almost two decades now, and that kind of lifelong dedication warrants an entire post full of internet videos, okay? So for all my fellow Goslingheads out there I’d like to take a trip back in time to when Baby Goose was not an actual baby, but a pre-pubescent star in the making. A bright shining star who loved that smooth, smooth ’90s R&B. Let’s rewind to his youth and ours. Let’s take it back to the Mickey Mouse Club . Because when I think Ryan Gosling, I think Jodeci: …and Boyz II Men: …and this sweet denim vest: … and answering Mouse Mail with JC Chasez: … and his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, “the place where most of the stuff is happening”: … and his early flair for comedy: … and that one time he and Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and Xtina passed notes in class: … and how he and Justin Timberlake should do a buddy comedy together now that they’re both hot Hollywood properties even though they never seem to hang out in public, and what’s up with that because weren’t they like totally MMC besties? But when it comes to that patented Gosling “Hey Girl” touch, let’s skip ahead a few years to the teenagers-on-a-boat series Breaker High to witness the Baby Goose’s effortless sigh-inducing charms. There’s no doubt about it: Gosling had “Hey girl” down to a science long before “Hey girl” became a thing. You’re welcome, world. If you need me I’ll be working on my art, AKA this . Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
We have teamed up with WGCI in Chicago to giveaway 1 pair of 4th row tickets to Big Jam 2012 featuring Rick Ross, Wale, Usher, & more… Chicago’s biggest concert is THIS Friday and you won’t want to miss it featuring your favorite hip-hop and R&B artists. Tickets are available for purchase via Ticketmaster outlets and ticketmaster.com . For more details, go to WGCI.com Keyword: BIG JAM. Contest Rules Make sure you are following us on Twitter @Bossip Tweet the following phrase “I want to win tickets to @wgci #BIGJAM2012 in Chicago from @bossip http://bit.ly/UjF296 “ Contest ends tonight at 11:59pm EST. *Winner must be in the Chicago area and must pick up tickets at the WGCI office in Chicago before Friday. Transportation is NOT provide to/from Chicago, IL OR to the concert.
In his half-century of cinematic existence, James Bond has been cast and recast, refined, reinvented and rebooted. He’s been declared a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur” and gotten his heart broken, and he’s been dragged into the present, where he’s had to find a new perch somewhere between gritty and ridiculous, between being a stoic modern action hero and a deliberately outsized fantasy remnant of, as one unamused minister puts it in Skyfall , a long gone “golden age of espionage.” Skyfall is American Beauty director Sam Mendes ‘ first turn at the wheel of this venerable spy franchise, and he and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan have managed what feels like the best possible thing that could have happened to Bond: They’ve made him fun again. When Daniel Craig was put in the lead role and the character was brought back to his beginnings in Casino Royale , it brought a vividly contemporary jolt to the character — this Bond wasn’t going to be off gathering information on al-Qaeda or anything, but his job was just as likely to involve messy killings as suave seductions, and the possibility of death and pain were much more real. It was a welcome revamp, if one that shifted the films into the orbit of the Bourne trilogy and risked stripping them of an essential element of Bond-ness. Chilly, rough-edged and not yet settled into his place at MI6, Craig’s Bond was a little busy with love and revenge to make quips. In Skyfall , Bond is literally reborn. During a mission-gone-wrong, he takes a hit that leaves everyone thinking he’s dead. It’s a misconception he’s happy to let stand while he takes a potentially permanent sabbatical involving beachside booze, sex and brooding over a vague sense of betrayal. He’s lured back by an attack on MI6 and on M ( Judi Dench ) masterminded by a computer genius named Silva (a terribly entertaining and menacingly flirtatious Javier Bardem). Bond ends his retirement because he knows he’s needed. And, oh, he is. Skyfall acknowledges that Bond isn’t a paragon of physical or martial arts perfection, or technologically savvy. In contrast to the newly minted agent he played in Casino Royale, he’s an old hand in this film, neither the fastest nor the youngest but still the best. Skyfall acknowledges our need for some humanity in Bond without overloading him with angst. The film fondly brings back familiar franchise elements, including an entertainingly young Q (a sly Ben Whishaw) and another character whose reveal is best left discovered, along with an exotically beautiful paramour named Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) who’s part victim and part femme fatale. Bond gets fewer silly gadgets these days, but he does have his awesomely fly car and a customized gun. And though he travels to such exotic locations as Shanghai, Macau and Istanbul, he also spends an unprecedented amount of time in his homeland, where he reintegrates himself with MI6, which is under political scrutiny, and returns to his native Scotland where a just-enough sliver of backstory is revealed. Skyfall makes explicit that Bond is a child of the United Kingdom. His only consistent relationship is with his country, even though that country is willing to sacrifice him for the greater good should it be necessary. It’s why, despite Bond’s dalliances with Sévérine and fellow field agent Eve (Naomie Harris), the film’s true Bond girl is M. The MI6 director’s complicated role as stern taskmaster and surrogate maternal figure gets played out as Silva, who shares a past with M, targets her and Bond tries to protect her. Like Bond, M is as much a concept as a character, but, beneath their bickering, Dench and Craig find a credible tenderness that suggests their is immense mutual affection behind the bone-dry sniping. Mendes isn’t an exceptional director of action, and many of the set pieces are lavish and forgettable. The car chases through crowded streets and pursuits across rooftops look a lot like other blockbuster sequences that recently graced screens. He’s better with character interactions and small touches: Bond straightening his cuffs after an improbable landing in a train; Bond watching a foe face a Komodo dragon and book-ending his adventure with unwilling dips in bodies of water. Working with the great cinematographer Roger Deakins, Mendes also presents some stunning sequences of beauty in a film where you might not expect such a thing. A fight high atop a Shanghai skyscraper takes place in the dark against the neon advertising backdrop of a shifting jellyfish projected on the building’s glass skin and ends with Bond meeting the gaze of someone in the building across the way, hundreds of feet up. Silva’s high-tech lair is set on an island that’s home to an abandoned city, while MI6 retreats with all its sleek gear to a historical location deep in London. The old and the new, the past and the ever-accelerating present — despite the body count, it’s not death that Bond has to worry about, it’s remaining recognizable and relevant. Skyfall manages to balance both in an uncommonly entertaining fashion. Related: Check out Movieline’s extensive coverage of Skyfall and the 50th anniversary of James Bond here. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
In his half-century of cinematic existence, James Bond has been cast and recast, refined, reinvented and rebooted. He’s been declared a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur” and gotten his heart broken, and he’s been dragged into the present, where he’s had to find a new perch somewhere between gritty and ridiculous, between being a stoic modern action hero and a deliberately outsized fantasy remnant of, as one unamused minister puts it in Skyfall , a long gone “golden age of espionage.” Skyfall is American Beauty director Sam Mendes ‘ first turn at the wheel of this venerable spy franchise, and he and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan have managed what feels like the best possible thing that could have happened to Bond: They’ve made him fun again. When Daniel Craig was put in the lead role and the character was brought back to his beginnings in Casino Royale , it brought a vividly contemporary jolt to the character — this Bond wasn’t going to be off gathering information on al-Qaeda or anything, but his job was just as likely to involve messy killings as suave seductions, and the possibility of death and pain were much more real. It was a welcome revamp, if one that shifted the films into the orbit of the Bourne trilogy and risked stripping them of an essential element of Bond-ness. Chilly, rough-edged and not yet settled into his place at MI6, Craig’s Bond was a little busy with love and revenge to make quips. In Skyfall , Bond is literally reborn. During a mission-gone-wrong, he takes a hit that leaves everyone thinking he’s dead. It’s a misconception he’s happy to let stand while he takes a potentially permanent sabbatical involving beachside booze, sex and brooding over a vague sense of betrayal. He’s lured back by an attack on MI6 and on M ( Judi Dench ) masterminded by a computer genius named Silva (a terribly entertaining and menacingly flirtatious Javier Bardem). Bond ends his retirement because he knows he’s needed. And, oh, he is. Skyfall acknowledges that Bond isn’t a paragon of physical or martial arts perfection, or technologically savvy. In contrast to the newly minted agent he played in Casino Royale, he’s an old hand in this film, neither the fastest nor the youngest but still the best. Skyfall acknowledges our need for some humanity in Bond without overloading him with angst. The film fondly brings back familiar franchise elements, including an entertainingly young Q (a sly Ben Whishaw) and another character whose reveal is best left discovered, along with an exotically beautiful paramour named Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) who’s part victim and part femme fatale. Bond gets fewer silly gadgets these days, but he does have his awesomely fly car and a customized gun. And though he travels to such exotic locations as Shanghai, Macau and Istanbul, he also spends an unprecedented amount of time in his homeland, where he reintegrates himself with MI6, which is under political scrutiny, and returns to his native Scotland where a just-enough sliver of backstory is revealed. Skyfall makes explicit that Bond is a child of the United Kingdom. His only consistent relationship is with his country, even though that country is willing to sacrifice him for the greater good should it be necessary. It’s why, despite Bond’s dalliances with Sévérine and fellow field agent Eve (Naomie Harris), the film’s true Bond girl is M. The MI6 director’s complicated role as stern taskmaster and surrogate maternal figure gets played out as Silva, who shares a past with M, targets her and Bond tries to protect her. Like Bond, M is as much a concept as a character, but, beneath their bickering, Dench and Craig find a credible tenderness that suggests their is immense mutual affection behind the bone-dry sniping. Mendes isn’t an exceptional director of action, and many of the set pieces are lavish and forgettable. The car chases through crowded streets and pursuits across rooftops look a lot like other blockbuster sequences that recently graced screens. He’s better with character interactions and small touches: Bond straightening his cuffs after an improbable landing in a train; Bond watching a foe face a Komodo dragon and book-ending his adventure with unwilling dips in bodies of water. Working with the great cinematographer Roger Deakins, Mendes also presents some stunning sequences of beauty in a film where you might not expect such a thing. A fight high atop a Shanghai skyscraper takes place in the dark against the neon advertising backdrop of a shifting jellyfish projected on the building’s glass skin and ends with Bond meeting the gaze of someone in the building across the way, hundreds of feet up. Silva’s high-tech lair is set on an island that’s home to an abandoned city, while MI6 retreats with all its sleek gear to a historical location deep in London. The old and the new, the past and the ever-accelerating present — despite the body count, it’s not death that Bond has to worry about, it’s remaining recognizable and relevant. Skyfall manages to balance both in an uncommonly entertaining fashion. Related: Check out Movieline’s extensive coverage of Skyfall and the 50th anniversary of James Bond here. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
It finally happened this morning. With Kristen Stewart appearing on The Today Show in promotion of Breaking Dawn Part 2 , co-host Savannah Guthrie started by asking the actress about the evolution of Bella and what it’s like to play her as a vampire. And then she cut right to the romantic chase, becoming the first reporter to straight-up ask the star: Are you back together with Robert Pattinson ? How did Stewart respond? In very coy fashion. Watch the exchange now: Kristen Stewart on The Today Show: About R. Patt…
Lucasfilm purchase puts a new ‘Star Wars’ film alongside ‘Avengers’ sequel on Disney’s 2015 calendar. By Josh Wigler Liam Neeson, Ray Park and Ewan McGregor in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” Photo: Lucasfilm
Edward Furlong is in trouble with the law. Yes, again. The Terminator 2 star – who was booked on charges of violating a restraining order and falling behind on child support payments last year – was taken into custody this morning following an incident at Los Angeles International Airport. “On Oct. 30, 2012 at approximately 12:40 a.m., Los Angeles Airport Police officers responded to a call regarding a possible domestic violence investigation at Terminal 2 on the arrivals level,” the Los Angeles Airport Police said in a statement. Furlong allegedly grabbed his girlfriend’s arm at the scene, leaving visible marks. He was subsequently charged with felony domestic violence and transported to the LAPD 77th Division Jail. According to the official booking report, the 35-year-old actor is being held on $50,000 bail. Aside from the two arrests listed above, Furlong was accused in September 2009 of punching his now ex-wife Rachel Kneeland in a drug-fueled fight.
Kelly Clarkson has come out with a brand new song. The original American Idol will release her first-ever greatest hits album (at age 30!) on November 19 and it will include a pair of bonus tracks, one of which is a collaboration with Vince Gill titled “Don’t Rush.” And we’ve included it below. Hit Play and then sound off: What do you think of the single? And will you purchase Kelly’s upcoming CD?
Elsewhere in the world …. According to NBC News: A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least five people, wounding nearly 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more, officials said. The bomber drove a jeep right inside the packed St Rita’s church, in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, in the morning. “I cannot tell you how many casualties, but there were many. The heavy explosion also damaged so many buildings around the area,” said survivor Linus Lighthouse, saying he thought there had been two explosions in different parts of the church. Other witnesses and the police said there had just been one bomber however. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Kaduna said that five people had been confirmed killed, while 98 people were receiving treatment for wounds at two local hospitals. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed similar attacks in the past and has attacked several churches with bombs and guns since it intensified its campaign against Christians in the past year. One wall of the church was blasted open and scorched black, with debris lying around. Police later moved in and cordoned the area off. Shortly after the blast, angry Christian youths took to the streets armed with sticks and knives. A Reuters reporter saw two bodies on the roadside lying in pools of blood. “We killed them and we’ll do more,” shouted a youth, with blood on his shirt, before police chased him and his cohorts away. Police set up roadblocks and patrols across town in an effort to prevent the violence spreading. Another witness, Daniel Kazah, a member of the Catholic cadets in the church, said he had seen three bodies on the bloodied church floor after the bomb. “But still others were taken to the mortuary,” he said. An emergency worker on the scene, who had helped move casualties but was not authorized to give his name, estimated the total number of dead and wounded at around 30.
