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‘Footloose’ Star Kenny Wormald Reveals Secrets Behind Exclusive Trailer

‘I was blown away,’ actor tells MTV News of seeing footage for the first time. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Amy Wilkinson Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald in “Footloose” Photo: Paramount Pictures “Footloose” star Kenny Wormald sidled up to his computer, hit play on the trailer for his remake of the classic 1984 flick and quickly realized he’d made a big blunder. “I watched it alone in my house, and that was a mistake, because I thought I was going to scream!” the dancer-turned-actor told MTV News. “I was blown away.” By now, though the 26-year-old has had time to settle down, he’s no less pumped about the film, which hits theaters on October 14 and which he calls “all new, but it also pays homage to the original.” To celebrate our debut of the trailer, Wormald gave us a call and revealed some secrets behind the new footage. Backflips and Angry Dances The most iconic scene in the original flick features a young Kevin Bacon going wild in a warehouse, dancing and flipping like he’s trying to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. The new movie, as the trailer hints, re-creates that scene. Wormald himself busted out the great majority of those moves but had to make way for the experts from time to time. “We called it the angry dance,” he explained. “There’s some crazy stuff going on in that scene — some gymnastic stuff that is a little bit from the original and they wouldn’t let me do some of it. It’s just when it comes to the death-defying stunts — flips and stuff — that’s not me. They were like, ‘I don’t think so. Sit down, Kenny!’ ” Wormald again had to step away from the cameras when it came to a perilous backflip seen early in the trailer. “All of the dancing is me,” he said. “But that flip isn’t me — but don’t tell anyone!” The Exploding Bus Late in the trailer, we get a glimpse of Wormald racing a bus, followed quickly by a gnarly explosion. Turns out, that scene is an action-movie tweak to the original’s tractor chicken race. “They made it really climactic,” Wormald said of the original scene. “But if you think about it, tractors only go five miles per hour. So I think [director] Craig Brewer wanted a more badass version of the chicken race.” The Boston Accent Bacon’s character hails from Chicago — a northern boy who moves into a southern town and brings an urge to boogie with him. But from the minute Wormald opens his mouth in the new trailer, we can tell he’s not from Chicago. Instead, he speaks with a thick accent, one not originally part of the script but which the Boston-born actor introduced to the project. “They went into casting thinking it would be the same [as the original]. But when I went in there, I wanted to be different than the other guys. I knew it was a kid from up north going down south, so I made a decision to use my Boston accent in the audition,” Wormald told us. “As I kept getting closer and closer to booking it, they never said don’t use the accent. And then I booked it and they said, ‘We’re going to change it from Chicago to Boston.’ They dug it.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos ‘Footloose’

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‘Footloose’ Star Kenny Wormald Reveals Secrets Behind Exclusive Trailer

‘I was blown away,’ actor tells MTV News of seeing footage for the first time. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Amy Wilkinson Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald in “Footloose” Photo: Paramount Pictures “Footloose” star Kenny Wormald sidled up to his computer, hit play on the trailer for his remake of the classic 1984 flick and quickly realized he’d made a big blunder. “I watched it alone in my house, and that was a mistake, because I thought I was going to scream!” the dancer-turned-actor told MTV News. “I was blown away.” By now, though the 26-year-old has had time to settle down, he’s no less pumped about the film, which hits theaters on October 14 and which he calls “all new, but it also pays homage to the original.” To celebrate our debut of the trailer, Wormald gave us a call and revealed some secrets behind the new footage. Backflips and Angry Dances The most iconic scene in the original flick features a young Kevin Bacon going wild in a warehouse, dancing and flipping like he’s trying to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. The new movie, as the trailer hints, re-creates that scene. Wormald himself busted out the great majority of those moves but had to make way for the experts from time to time. “We called it the angry dance,” he explained. “There’s some crazy stuff going on in that scene — some gymnastic stuff that is a little bit from the original and they wouldn’t let me do some of it. It’s just when it comes to the death-defying stunts — flips and stuff — that’s not me. They were like, ‘I don’t think so. Sit down, Kenny!’ ” Wormald again had to step away from the cameras when it came to a perilous backflip seen early in the trailer. “All of the dancing is me,” he said. “But that flip isn’t me — but don’t tell anyone!” The Exploding Bus Late in the trailer, we get a glimpse of Wormald racing a bus, followed quickly by a gnarly explosion. Turns out, that scene is an action-movie tweak to the original’s tractor chicken race. “They made it really climactic,” Wormald said of the original scene. “But if you think about it, tractors only go five miles per hour. So I think [director] Craig Brewer wanted a more badass version of the chicken race.” The Boston Accent Bacon’s character hails from Chicago — a northern boy who moves into a southern town and brings an urge to boogie with him. But from the minute Wormald opens his mouth in the new trailer, we can tell he’s not from Chicago. Instead, he speaks with a thick accent, one not originally part of the script but which the Boston-born actor introduced to the project. “They went into casting thinking it would be the same [as the original]. But when I went in there, I wanted to be different than the other guys. I knew it was a kid from up north going down south, so I made a decision to use my Boston accent in the audition,” Wormald told us. “As I kept getting closer and closer to booking it, they never said don’t use the accent. And then I booked it and they said, ‘We’re going to change it from Chicago to Boston.’ They dug it.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos ‘Footloose’

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‘Footloose’ Star Kenny Wormald Reveals Secrets Behind Exclusive Trailer

‘Footloose’ Star Kenny Wormald Reveals Secrets Behind Exclusive Trailer

‘I was blown away,’ actor tells MTV News of seeing footage for the first time. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Amy Wilkinson Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald in “Footloose” Photo: Paramount Pictures “Footloose” star Kenny Wormald sidled up to his computer, hit play on the trailer for his remake of the classic 1984 flick and quickly realized he’d made a big blunder. “I watched it alone in my house, and that was a mistake, because I thought I was going to scream!” the dancer-turned-actor told MTV News. “I was blown away.” By now, though the 26-year-old has had time to settle down, he’s no less pumped about the film, which hits theaters on October 14 and which he calls “all new, but it also pays homage to the original.” To celebrate our debut of the trailer, Wormald gave us a call and revealed some secrets behind the new footage. Backflips and Angry Dances The most iconic scene in the original flick features a young Kevin Bacon going wild in a warehouse, dancing and flipping like he’s trying to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. The new movie, as the trailer hints, re-creates that scene. Wormald himself busted out the great majority of those moves but had to make way for the experts from time to time. “We called it the angry dance,” he explained. “There’s some crazy stuff going on in that scene — some gymnastic stuff that is a little bit from the original and they wouldn’t let me do some of it. It’s just when it comes to the death-defying stunts — flips and stuff — that’s not me. They were like, ‘I don’t think so. Sit down, Kenny!’ ” Wormald again had to step away from the cameras when it came to a perilous backflip seen early in the trailer. “All of the dancing is me,” he said. “But that flip isn’t me — but don’t tell anyone!” The Exploding Bus Late in the trailer, we get a glimpse of Wormald racing a bus, followed quickly by a gnarly explosion. Turns out, that scene is an action-movie tweak to the original’s tractor chicken race. “They made it really climactic,” Wormald said of the original scene. “But if you think about it, tractors only go five miles per hour. So I think [director] Craig Brewer wanted a more badass version of the chicken race.” The Boston Accent Bacon’s character hails from Chicago — a northern boy who moves into a southern town and brings an urge to boogie with him. But from the minute Wormald opens his mouth in the new trailer, we can tell he’s not from Chicago. Instead, he speaks with a thick accent, one not originally part of the script but which the Boston-born actor introduced to the project. “They went into casting thinking it would be the same [as the original]. But when I went in there, I wanted to be different than the other guys. I knew it was a kid from up north going down south, so I made a decision to use my Boston accent in the audition,” Wormald told us. “As I kept getting closer and closer to booking it, they never said don’t use the accent. And then I booked it and they said, ‘We’re going to change it from Chicago to Boston.’ They dug it.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos ‘Footloose’

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‘I was blown away,’ actor tells MTV News of seeing footage for the first time. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Amy Wilkinson Julianne Hough and Kenny Wormald in “Footloose” Photo: Paramount Pictures “Footloose” star Kenny Wormald sidled up to his computer, hit play on the trailer for his remake of the classic 1984 flick and quickly realized he’d made a big blunder. “I watched it alone in my house, and that was a mistake, because I thought I was going to scream!” the dancer-turned-actor told MTV News. “I was blown away.” By now, though the 26-year-old has had time to settle down, he’s no less pumped about the film, which hits theaters on October 14 and which he calls “all new, but it also pays homage to the original.” To celebrate our debut of the trailer, Wormald gave us a call and revealed some secrets behind the new footage. Backflips and Angry Dances The most iconic scene in the original flick features a young Kevin Bacon going wild in a warehouse, dancing and flipping like he’s trying to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. The new movie, as the trailer hints, re-creates that scene. Wormald himself busted out the great majority of those moves but had to make way for the experts from time to time. “We called it the angry dance,” he explained. “There’s some crazy stuff going on in that scene — some gymnastic stuff that is a little bit from the original and they wouldn’t let me do some of it. It’s just when it comes to the death-defying stunts — flips and stuff — that’s not me. They were like, ‘I don’t think so. Sit down, Kenny!’ ” Wormald again had to step away from the cameras when it came to a perilous backflip seen early in the trailer. “All of the dancing is me,” he said. “But that flip isn’t me — but don’t tell anyone!” The Exploding Bus Late in the trailer, we get a glimpse of Wormald racing a bus, followed quickly by a gnarly explosion. Turns out, that scene is an action-movie tweak to the original’s tractor chicken race. “They made it really climactic,” Wormald said of the original scene. “But if you think about it, tractors only go five miles per hour. So I think [director] Craig Brewer wanted a more badass version of the chicken race.” The Boston Accent Bacon’s character hails from Chicago — a northern boy who moves into a southern town and brings an urge to boogie with him. But from the minute Wormald opens his mouth in the new trailer, we can tell he’s not from Chicago. Instead, he speaks with a thick accent, one not originally part of the script but which the Boston-born actor introduced to the project. “They went into casting thinking it would be the same [as the original]. But when I went in there, I wanted to be different than the other guys. I knew it was a kid from up north going down south, so I made a decision to use my Boston accent in the audition,” Wormald told us. “As I kept getting closer and closer to booking it, they never said don’t use the accent. And then I booked it and they said, ‘We’re going to change it from Chicago to Boston.’ They dug it.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos ‘Footloose’

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Lupe Fiasco Squares Off With Bill O’Reilly: Experts Weigh In!

‘I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot,’ one music journo tells MTV News of the outspoken MC’s Fox News appearance. By Rob Markman Lupe Fiasco on “The O’Reilly Factor” Photo: FOX Lupe Fiasco won’t back down. After he labeled U.S. President Barak Obama a “terrorist” and questioned U.S. foreign policy, the Chicago rapper appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday to duke it out with conservative political pundit Bill O’Reilly. Though it was thoroughly hyped before its broadcast, the five-and-a-half-minute pre-taped debate was a bit of a letdown for Rap Radar’s digital content director, Brian “B. Dot” Miller. “The thing is it wasn’t live; Lupe probably said a whole lot of things that were edited,” Miller said. “But the points that were expressed, I felt like he had a good argument. I wish it could’ve gone on a little bit longer, but that’s the power of TV.” Adam Fleischer, XXL magazine’s music editor, also agreed that the way the debate was edited detracted from the end result. “I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot, [and] then they don’t usually get a chance to speak for themselves,” he said. “[But] I would like to see the whole interview because it was so clear that things were chopped up. They were switching from clip to clip.” Vibe magazine Senior Editor Clover Hope, on the other hand, didn’t mind the segments, though she, too, is interested in seeing what was left on the cutting-room floor. “I didn’t really notice [the editing] too much. I wish they would’ve pointed it to the Web though,” she said. After Lupe made those controversial comments about Obama and declined the TV host’s initial invitation to appear on his Fox show, ‘O’Reilly called the rapper a “pinhead.” But last night Lupe stood strong, clarifying, then defending his position. “The statement that I made, which was, ‘I believe that the biggest terrorist, Obama and the United States of America and its foreign policy, that was what the whole context of everything was,” Lupe pointed out on the show. “And it’s really just an expression of me trying to understand critically, the society.” O’Reilly, who is often critical of the president, came to Obama’s defense, saying that Lupe’s fans aren’t “exactly political science PHDs,” but rather “impressionable kids.” O’Reilly added that the responsibility of the president is to protect the country and that Obama was doing that through “aggressive action.” Both agreed that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a legitimate action. Fiasco went on to assert that the aim of the war in Afghanistan was to go in and find Bin Laden, which O’Reilly then charged was in effect an oversimplification of the war. “I thought he actually did a good job of holding his own and clarifying that point that he just wasn’t talking about Obama, just America as an institution,” Hope said about Lupe’s overall performance. “I just think it’s too complicated to reduce it to ‘Lupe thinks Obama is a terrorist.’ ” The debate wrapped on a light-hearted note when O’Reilly and Lupe joked about changing the show’s name to “The Fiasco Factor.” “I don’t think one necessarily got the best of the other,” Fleischer said. “O’Reilly had home-court advantage so he kind of controls the narrative, but Lupe held his own.” “I don’t think anybody necessarily won that debate,” Hope agreed. “They kind of both talked.” What did you think of Lupe’s performance on the Fox News show? Sound off in the comments! Related Artists Lupe Fiasco

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Big Banks, Bogus Business: Chase To Foreclose On Active Duty Soldier’s Home

These big banks are out of control with their disgusting practices. This guy is in the “sandbox” fighting a mindless war that cannot be won and if he’s fortunate enough to come home, he might not have one? In August, Tim Collette’s son Aaron will spend 15 days on leave from Iraq. Aaron is 20 years old, and he’s been in the Army for about a year and a half. A few weeks ago, his squad was hit with an improvised explosive device. Everybody survived, but it frightened both the soldier and his family. The Army told Aaron he could go anywhere he wanted. And of all the places in the world he could visit, Aaron wants to go home. But Aaron might not have a home to come home to. Collette has been defending his house from foreclosure since 2008. It’s currently scheduled to be auctioned off on June 20. “I just want him to come home and know he can be safe for 15 days,” Collette told HuffPost. “I don’t want him thinking about coming home and having it not be there.” Tim said negotiating with his bank, JPMorgan Chase, has been a living nightmare. When he first asked for help in 2008, he had not missed any payments. At the time, his mortgage was being handled by Washington Mutual, a subprime lending specialist Chase purchased in the fall of 2008. Collette said WaMu told him he would only qualify for a loan modification if he missed two of his $1,100 monthly mortgage payments. So he missed the payments. And the bank began trying to foreclose on him. “They told me that you can’t qualify for a loan modification without missing two payments, so I missed two payments, but I haven’t gotten the modification,” he said. The bank has repeatedly lost Collette’s mortgage paperwork and he receives different, often conclicting advice almost every time he communicates with Chase. After months of wrangling, the bank agreed to a “forbearance plan” that cut Tim’s payments from $1,100 to $600. In 2010, after making 13 months of payments, an unexpected bill arrived on Collette’s doorstep. Chase wanted the $500 a month differential back, plus penalty fees: $9,000 in total. Collette could afford to pay $1,100. But he didn’t have $9,000. After thinking he had arranged for at least temporary relief, Chase suddenly demanded that he pay up, or get out. JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, have spent months apologizing for illegally foreclosing on the homes of active-duty military members currently fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers have an extra layer of legal protection in mortgage lending. Even if you miss payments, a bank cannot evict your family while you fight for your country. “He worries about it,” Collette said. “I don’t talk to him about it when we talk, but he knows what’s going on and he shouldn’t have to think about this when he’s trying to stay alive.” “A lot of us going through this foreclosure stuff now, we paid our bills,” he said. “We got into our homes because we worked for it, and when the economy goes down we just want a hand . . . We gave the banks a bailout and they just stuffed the money in their pockets.” They know a large percentage of those foreclosures are fraudulent anyway. SMH at these banks … Source

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Love & Matrimony-Dom: Don’t Ignore The Dating Non-Negotiables

Bottom line… if you don’t like it now, you really won’t like it later! A couple years ago I dated a woman who was cute, smart, mature, wore dreadlocks like a pro and with whom I shared an overall life perspective. She was also good in bed and had lots of wifey potential…except she had a young daughter whose physical influence was evident all over her midsection. There was nothing I could do to prevent the squishy, stretch mark-laden mass from bothering me. I even asked my mother if I was being ridiculous: she informed me that if it bothers me now, it probably always would, which should be enough to move on. She was right…it was simply a non-negotiable. This happened a couple of times in my storied dating career: I dated women with many characteristics I desired, but when they were deficient in one or two significant physical or personality aspects, I made an effort but ultimately flew the coop. Initially I always felt like an a$$hole, but I ultimately realized that I should never sell myself short, especially in a city like Chicago teeming with single, cute, eligible honeys looking for a stone and someone to bring home for Easter Sunday. Click Here To Read The Rest At MadameNoire.com

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Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music Tour ‘Amazing,’ CyHi Da Prynce Says

‘The creativity level has to be through the roof,’ CyHi tells MTV News. By Rob Markman CyHi Da Prynce Photo: MTV News Good concerts and summer go hand in hand, and beginning Thursday (June 9) night, Kanye West ‘s G.O.O.D. Music outfit is taking its show on the road. As a part of Heineken’s Red Star Access summer concert series, West, Pusha T, Big Sean, CyHi Da Prynce and the rest of G.O.O.D. will roll through nine cities, including Miami, Chicago, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. While in town for Thursday’s New York show, CyHi spoke to MTV News about the tour. “It’s amazing,” he said. “We get to do a lot of big cities that I haven’t been to yet. A lot of people want to see us all together.” Back in March, Kanye made a splash in Austin when he brought John Legend, Common, Kid Cudi and Mos Def out to the Vevo Power Plant to perform during 2011’s South by Southwest festival. According to CyHi, this tour is an extension of that show. “We did it in South by Southwest when we brought everybody together and it was a successful show. So we want to do the same and try to duplicate every city we go to and make it bigger and bigger every time,” he said. CyHi couldn’t confirm which G.O.O.D. artists were performing in which cities, hinting that there will most likely be a rotating cast of characters throughout the nine dates. But he was able to talk a bit about his stage show. During his 20- to 30-minute set the Atlanta rapper will perform songs from his noteworthy Royal Flush mixtape as well as its upcoming sequel, Royal Flush 2. “My new stage set is incredible,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to get little props and banners and fog machines and lights.” When asked whether Kanye had imparted any wisdom to the young rapper, he said he is encouraged to be creatively free. “He showed me that there are no limitations. The creativity level has to be through the roof,” CyHi said. “Me, like I’ve been telling people I’m the prince of two kings. So my show has to look like that, my interviews have to look that way, my songs have to represent that as well.” Are you excited to see Kanye West and the G.O.O.D. Music crew when they pass through your city? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Kanye West

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Big Sean, Kanye West Made ‘Marvin Gaye And Chardonnay’ For ‘Special Times’

‘It’s self-explanatory,’ Detroit MC tells MTV News about good-time track from his June 28 debut album. By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Ade Mangum Big Sean Photo: Rich Sancho/ MTV News Rolling with Kanye West has plenty of benefits. G.O.O.D. Music rapper Big Sean ‘s first album, Finally Famous, boasts features from an assortment of A-list hip-hop talent, including Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell “Skateboard P” Williams, Chris Brown and, of course, Mr. West. The Chicago rapper/producer teams with his prot

LRG Clothing Co-Founder Jonas Bevacqua Found Dead

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While there are no official details released about the clothing designer’s cause of death, Bevacqua reportedly died in his sleep according to insider accounts. As the news swept throughout cyberspace, most especially the social network Twitter, friends and fans of the LRG brand were stunned and saddened by the news. Bevacqua’s close friend Ben Baller, a Los Angeles-based celebrity jeweler, tweeted earlier today regarding the death of Bevacqua. “[W]oke up at 8am to the worst news I’ve heard in my lifetime….my best man,” said a grieving Ben Baller. Producer 9th Wonder also tweeted shortly after hearing about the death of the designer. “I just learned about the passing of a revolutionary mind….R.I.P. #Jonas Bevacqua-Founder of Lifted Research Group (LRG)…rest easy bro,” said the North Carolina native. LRG’s ties with the hip hop community are strong, with many prominent names shown modeling their fashion in a series of ads. Alchemist, Smif-N-Wesun, Drake and legends such as Pete Rock, DJ Jazzy Jeff and De La Soul have sported LRG wears in advertisements over the years. The brand also had close ties with star athletes such as Memphis Grizzlies standout player Rudy Gay and New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush. New Young Jeezy signee Freddie Gibbs also joined the fray, modeling some LRG gear for the company’s 2011 summer campaign. LRG was also a fixture in the hip hop community via a number of company sponsored mixtapes. Rappers B.o.B, 9th Wonder artist Big Remo, crooner/rapper Outasight and Chicago duo Kidz In The Hall and more all had projects released in tandem with the clothing company and were also seen wearing LRG gear on the covers of the mixtapes. Rest In Peace to Jonas Bevacqua, a true streetwear pioneer.

LRG Clothing Co-Founder Jonas Bevacqua Found Dead