Gabrielle Union Talks Baby Fever And Marriage To Dwyane Wade Hollyweird banger Gabrielle Union celebrated her 40th birthday over the weekend with a star-studded, bottle-poppin’ bash in NYC. But while many women think 40 is the time to start stressing over matrimonydom and mini-me’s, Gabby took a break from poppin’ bottles to tell Just The Fab why she’s is no rush to pop out any lil Wades: JTF: 40 And Fab! Do you have baby fever yet? GU: No. JTF: No?! Really? That’s surprising. GU: Well I have dance-on-table fever and I don’t think you can really do those two together or I think they arrest you. Yeah, I mean, eventually. I’ll probably get baby-fever somewhere after, you know, marriage fever. And I’m still enjoying boyfriend-girlfriend fever. Q: So are we going to see marriage in the future with you and Dwyane? Babies, hopefully… GU: I mean, we like each other a lot and we both failed miserably the last time either one of us got married. So, I think we’re doing it slow, you know what I mean? I think when you rush in, then people have crap to say; if you go to slow people have stuff to say, so, I think we have to just take it at the pace that’s great for us. But, who knows? I’m open to everything but, right now I just like saying “my boyfriend, my boyfriend, my boyfriend DWade. And then maybe later, provided my eggs are dust. We’ll see what I can (coughs) cough out. Q: Are you going to freeze your eggs? A: No, no. Nope, I’m just rollin. Not mentioned during this chat was the fact that DWade’s continuous babymama drama probably played a part in putting any plans for matrimonydom or mini-me making waaaay on the back burner…
El Diablo! A Colombian couple claims they’re living in fear that they may have given birth to an Epitome of a Bad Seed . According to UK Daily Mail reports : Black magic and evil spirits have captured the soul of a new-born baby in Colombia who can apparently already walk by himself and produce fire, his own mother has claimed. Ana Feria Santos gave birth to her son last month but says her joy quickly turned to fear when she noticed that he had ‘several abnormalities’ – leading to fears in her community that he is the ‘devil in disguise’. She says the boy can already stand up and walk – quite a feat for a child of just four weeks. Much like the 1976 horror film The Omen , the mother-of-five says he frequently hides around the house, cackles in an ‘adult’ way for hours on end and has an ‘intimidating’ pair of eyes. She told the RCN Radio station: ‘He walks like an adult, sometimes going off and hiding underneath the bed, in a suitcase, in the washing machine or in the fridge.’ Her neighbors in the town of Lorica, near the Caribbean coast, also say he is possessed by a ‘malign spirit’ and that he is capable of producing fire. This, they say, is because burn marks have been found on his clothes and a sofa where he regularly sits. It has led to vigilante attacks on Santos and her taxi-driver husband Óscar Palencia López’s house, which is allegedly being pelted with stones on a nightly-basis by frightened residents. But the 28-year-old’s story has not been believed by doctors, who have now launched an investigation into the possibility that the new-born could have been abused. The Colombian Family Welfare Institute, the National Police and the Catholic Church have also all refused to assert the claims that black magic is involved. A team of psychologists, a social worker, a nutritionist and a lawyer will now look into the case, with a source saying: ‘The child shows signs of abuse. ‘Two small burns were found on the palm of the left hand and for that reason a restoration measure was adopted to [safeguard] the family environment. ‘The parents received a warning while the facts are being clarified.’ What would Sweet Brown Say about this? Do you think the baby is really doing all this? Seems kinda weird for the neighbors to be throwing stones and stuff if something really isn’t going on with the kid right? Shoot, maybe he’s a mutant. They might need to call Professor Xavier in on this one. Shutterstock
This is downright sad… An eye-opening web series which explores the world of fashion outside New York, Paris, London and Milan is returning for a second season, and it uncovers the extreme measures models will go to just to participate. Travelling to Jamaica, Israel, South Korea and Uzbekistan, Vice magazine’s Fashion Week Internationale follows host Charlet Duboc as she investigates rampant plastic surgery, racial tensions and strange cultural phenomenons. Going behind the scenes, she uncovers the trend of models’ skin bleaching, as well as a popular eyelid surgery and their struggles with transgender modelling. In the first episode of the new season, Ms Duboc heads backstage during Rio fashion week, explores the catwalks amongst shanty towns, and investigate a dicey racial issue, an emerging trend of transgender supermodels. In another episode in Kingston Jamaica, one model says to Ms Duboc, ‘You may not be able to have your food, but you’ve got to have your skin bleaching,’ and in Seoul, she follows models as they undergo eye-lid surgery in an effort to adhere to an ‘ideal look’ of westerners. Last season saw Ms Duboc unearth the cultural dynamics of fashion weeks in places such as Nigeria, Colombia, and Pakistan, where she watched and filmed a model getting a butt cheek implant. Vice Global Editor Andy Capper added: ‘Our expertise is not really in haute couture or in fashion, but in finding human stories behind them and luring people in with a tag like “fashion.”‘ The series airs on Vice September 13, where they will move from Rio Fashion Week through to the Caribbean and finally Tel Aviv, the last episode which airs December 13. It’s not like any of this should come as a surprise but we wish that people would smarten up enough to stop slicing, dicing and bleaching themselves to live up to some standard of beauty that ain’t even all that most of the time. Source Via
French film The Girl From Nowhere took top honors at the 65th Locarno Film Festival over the weekend, winning the Swiss festival’s to Golden Leopard (Pardo d’oro) prize, while Ying Liang won Best Director for When Night Falls . American director Bob Byington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me won the second prize at the event. The Girl From Nowhere centers on Michel, a retired math teacher who has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings. The winners follow with information provided by the Locarno Film Festival (Film descriptions can be found at Locarno’s website ) : Concorso internazionale Pardo d’oro La Fille de Nulle Part (The Girl From Nowhere) by Jean-Claude Brisseau, France Premio speciale della giuria Somebody Up There Likes Me by Bob Byington, United States Pardo per la migliore regia (Best Director) Ying Liang for the film Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo (When Night Falls), South Korea/China Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best Actress) An Nai for the film Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo (When Night Falls) by Ying Liang, South Korea/China Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile (Best Actor) Walter Saabel for the film Der Glanz Des Tages (The Shine of Day) by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Austria Special mention to the extraordinary character Candy from the film A Ultima Vez Que vi Macau due to her powerful presence through absence which resonated for the Jury as representing the immense courage of Portuguese cinema in times when the failures of government and social systems threaten the cinematic arts worldwide. Concorso Cineasti del presente Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio George Foundation Inori by Pedro González-Rubio, Japan Premio per il miglior regista emergente (Best Director) Joel Potrykus for the film Ape United States Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente Not In Tel Aviv by Nony Geffen, Israel Special Mention Tectonics by Peter Bo Rappmund, United States Opera Prima Pardo per la migliore opera prima (Best First Feature) Ji Yi Wang Zhe Wo (Memories Look At Me) by SONG Fang, China Special Mention Ape by Joel Potrykus, United States Pardi di domani Concorso internazionale Pardino d’oro for the Best International Short Film The Mass of Men by Gabriel Gauchet, United Kingdom Pardino d’argento Yaderni Wydhody (Nuclear Waste) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine Special Mention Los Retratos (Portraits) by Iván D. Gaona, Colombia Locarno short film nominee for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianific Back of Beyond by Michael Lennox, United Kingdom The Film und Video Untertitelung Prize O Que Arde Cura (As the Flames Rose) ba João Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal Concorso nazionale Pardino d’oro for the Best Swiss Short Film Radio Active (Radio-active) by Nathan Hofstetter, Switzerland Pardino d’argento L’Amour Begue (Stammering Love) by Jan Czarlewski, Switzerland Premio Action Light for the Best Swiss Newcomer Il Vulcano (The Volcano) by Alice Riva, Switzerland Piazza Grande Prix du Public UBS Lore by Cate Shortland, Germany/Australia/ United Kingdom Variety Piazza Grande Award Camille Redouble by Noémie Lvovsky, France
U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach had a memorable match yesterday after getting ‘sucker punched’ in the face by a Colombian opponent. In the first half of the US’s 3-0 win over Colombia, Wambach tangled with Lady Andrade and ended up getting ‘sucker punched’, she says. Despite her black eye, the 32-year-old striker went on in the second half to score a goal and break the U.S. women’s soccer record for goals at the Olympics with a tally of six
A dozen Secret Service agents have been removed from their posts in Colombia, U.S. officials confirm, following incidents of “misconduct” that sources say relate to at least one refusing to pay a prostitute for her services. The agents were stationed in that country ahead of President Obama’s arrival for the Summit of the Americas, which started today. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan has not yet disclosed the nature of the allegations that resulted in replacing these agents with new ones, though insiders tell The Washington Post that at least one agent solicited a prostitute – the act is legal in certain Colombian areas – who then went to the police when she was not paid. None of those relieved of duty was a member of the President’s security detail. Ronald Kessler, the author of “In the President’s Service” and a former reporter for The Washington Post , told CBS News this represents “the biggest scandal in Secret Service history” and marks a “tremendous embarrassment to the U.S.”
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“Smokin’” Joe Carnahan ( Narc , Smokin’ Aces , The A-Team ) has endured his fair share of ill-fated projects and setbacks, but his passion project Killing Pablo remains a priority. And while the fate of White Jazz remains opaque, Carnahan shared optimism for his long-gestating Pablo Escobar biopic while promoting his existential survival pic The Grey last weekend in Los Angeles. If all goes well and the Liam Neeson-led The Grey takes off upon release later this month, he says he hopes to make Pablo his next project. The characteristically candid Carnahan, who recently dropped out of the director’s chair on Umbra , expressed hope that a successful debut for The Grey will allow him to finally bring Killing Pablo to the screen after years of research. “I feel like Pablo ’s the undernourished orphan that I’ve been looking after for years,” he said. “I’ve got to get this kid a meal. Yes, [ Killing Pablo ] would be, in a perfect world, the film that I’d want to make next. I still think it’s the best script I’ve written and I see these other kinds of things ramping up, and I just can’t get beat by these other movies.” Adapted from Mark Bowden’s book of the same name, Killing Pablo chronicles the efforts of the United States and Colombian governments to wage war against drug lord Escobar, who was killed by Colombian forces in 1993. Escobar’s legend, and a lingering fascination with his death, kept Carnahan fixated on making the film even through years of development hell that saw his creative struggle mirrored on HBO’s Entourage . “As much as The Grey is about attrition and going out and earning it, you know, I’ve been to Colombia three times, Medellin and Bogotá, I’ve done all this research,” Carnahan said. “I think what kind of crystallized it for me is I went to Los Olivos where he was killed, in Medellin, which is kind of a very modest middle-class neighborhood, and I was interviewing this 78-year-old man through an interpreter.” “I was talking to him, because Pablo was killed December 2, 1993,” he continued. “I said to him, ‘Can you tell me about that day?’ Because I’d gone up on the roof where he was killed and it was very undramatic, where he wound up dying; it was like a terra cotta box that he died in. And the guy said to me, and I’ll never forget this: ‘The day it happened I thought it was an early winter thunderstorm,’ because the level of gunfire was so constant he could not discern individual shots. And I thought, ‘Fuck me, I’ve got to make this movie.’” As for Carnahan’s career, which has traversed a range of projects from the modest, well-received Narc to the high-octane Smokin’ Aces , the big-budgeted A-Team , the cop drama Pride and Glory (which he co-wrote) and the sci-fi pic The Fourth Kind (which he produced), he sees no need to take a turn for the serious, necessarily, despite the philosophical and even metaphysical themes in the otherwise action-oriented The Grey . Doing the mainstream studio flick, The A-Team , for example, allowed Carnahan to scratch a certain itch while giving him the platform to make more personal films like The Grey , which he’s called his best film to date. “I realized, especially after A-Team , ‘Wait a minute — am I being viewed as a schmuck?’” he recalled. “Because my reasons for doing A-Team … there were a number of reasons, not the least was which I couldn’t make this or White Jazz or Killing Pablo . I couldn’t make those movies. And after Mission Impossible III , which again I left before I was fired, I had unfinished business. With The A-Team it was like, ‘Alright I’m going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.’” If all goes well Pablo might finally come to fruition, but in the meantime Carnahan’s currently at work on a project at Fox called Continue , which the filmmaker describes as “ Groundhog Day as an action movie.” “As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges,” he explained. “I think [ Continue ] is funny as shit. It’s completely, from DNA to bone structure, different from The Grey but that doesn’t mean it’s something I wouldn’t do because now [I’ve] got to make serious films. I think I made this film to kind of prove to myself and whatever people are going to hire me in the future and the public at large that there’s a lot of different things I can do. If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that’s Everest to me.” The Grey is in theaters January 27. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Via CNN: Former dictator Manuel Noriega left France for Panama on Sunday, nearly 22 years after U.S. forces forcibly removed him from office. The 77-year-old is expected to arrive in Panama City on Sunday after a stop in Spain. Panamanian officials want him to face justice in the killing of Hugo Spadafora, his political opponent. Noriega was convicted in absentia in Spadafora’s kidnapping and killing in 1985. He has been in France since 2010 after two decades in an American prison. For almost two decades, Noriega was a major player in a country of critical regional importance to the United States because of its location on the Panama Canal. The key strategic and economic waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on the narrow isthmus links the Americas. While in U.S. custody, he suffered from prostate cancer and a stroke. The U.S. government has portrayed Noriega as the ultimate crooked cop — a man who was paid millions by the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia to protect cocaine and money shipments. He was convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes in the United States. Noriega was indicted in the United States on charges of racketeering, laundering drug money and drug trafficking. He was accused of having links to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellin cartel and, in the process, amassing a multimillion-dollar fortune. Amid growing unrest in Panama, U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion of Panama in December 1989, saying his rule posed a threat to U.S. lives and property. Noriega fled his offices and tried to seek sanctuary in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City. He surrendered in January 1990 and was quickly escorted to the United States for civilian trial.
