Despite it being about as fun as a tracheotomy, the Easter Bunny exposé Hop won the top spot this Friday night, sending the wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey Source Code to second place. If only you could crap candy too, Jake! And right behind dear ol’ Jake was the haunted house antics of Insidious , scoring a close number three. Your Friday box office is here.
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[1] Universal Pictures’ Illumination Entertainment (the guys behind the computer animated feature Despicable Me, have released a third movie trailer for the upcoming Russell Brand Easter Bunny comedy Hop. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Directed by Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks) based on a script is by Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch…. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 22/03/2011 02:00 Number of articles : 2
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In Hop, from Alvin and the Chipmunks director Tim Hill, Russell Brand voices a CGI version of the Easter bunny and James Marsden plays the human who gets stuck taking care of him. Well, it isn’t the Easter bunny exactly, but a young bunny who has been tapped to be the next global deliverer of eggs and candy. Close enough. We’ve seen one teaser, which basically consisted of a CGI bunny playing drums,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 19:30 Number of articles : 2
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A BRISBANE-based lawyer and atheist who videoed himself smoking what appeared to be joints made with pages from the Bible and the Koran expects to lose his job at a Queensland university. In the video, posted on YouTube, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) staffer Alex Stewart compares cigarettes made with pages from the two holy texts. In the clip, titled “Bible or Koran – which burns best?”, the professed atheist says burning religious books is no big deal and people need to get over it. “It's just a f—ing book,” he says. “Who cares? It's your beliefs that matter. Quite frankly, if you are going to get upset about a book, you're taking life way too seriously.” But the QUT, which employs Mr Stewart, is not impressed. Vice-chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake said that the university does not support the destruction of religious artefacts. “The university is obviously extremely, extremely unhappy and disappointed that this sort of incident should occur,” Professor Coaldrake said in Sydney today. “It may have occurred in the individual's private time or on a weekend – it doesn't matter. “There is always in the community collateral damage to these sorts of things.” Prof. Coaldrake said Mr Stewart met university management today and has since decided to go on leave for an unspecified period. Mr Stewart had not been sacked, Prof. Coaldrake said after the Sydney news conference, but the university would review the matter in accordance with its code of conduct. Mr Stewart, an assistant organiser with a group called Brisbane Atheists, was not at his Brisbane home today but in an earlier message on the group's website he said he expected to be sacked. “I'm screwed. I think I will lose my job over this. Damn it,” he wrote. Yesterday, the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ikebal Patel, slammed the video. “I think it's highly offensive that he has done this to two of the holiest books in the world,” Mr Patel said. “It does not in any way add any value to trying to promote world peace and the consideration of different views – especially when there are heightened tensions around the anniversary of September 11 and the Eid el Fitr (end of Ramadan) celebrations.” However the president of the Islamic Association of Australia, Sheik Muhammad Wahid, said while Mr Stewart's motives were deeply hurtful to Muslims, his future was for the university to decide. “We condemn it and our feelings have been hurt by this man,” said Sheik Muhammad Wahid. “There is no need for this kind of thing, just to create disunity and disharmony among people living in Australia.” He urged Muslims to turn the other cheek. “I urge my fellow Muslims to abide by the laws of this country and not take any action which breaks the law,” he said. “These types of actions should be condemned by the wider community. He must be asked what was his agenda, what was his purpose? Maybe he was not of sound mind at the time.” Queensland police said they were not investigating the matter. In the video clip, Mr Stewart – who does not identify himself as a QUT staffer – says the Bible and the Koran are “just books”. He refers to the furore sparked in the United States by a controversial pastor, who had threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. “With respect to books like the Bible and the Koran, whatever, just get over it,” he says. “That said, I don't think it's completely appropriate unless it's done for a good purpose, which I've done today.” He gave the Bible a seven out of 10 for its burning qualities, and said it was better than the Koran which left him feeling sick. As he smokes part of a page from the Koran, he ponders: “I wonder what Mohammed would have thought about this. Is this profanity, is it blasphemy? Does it really matter?” Mr Stewart has told The Courier-Mail the video was a joke and he does not do drugs. The green substance featured in the video was actually grass clippings, he said. He defended the stunt, saying basic freedoms, such as freedom of speech, should not be threatened simply because someone might be offended. Comment was being sought from the Catholic church. added by: eden49
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Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs — the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's push to radically remake employment on the communist-run island. Castro suggested during a nationally televised address on Easter Sunday that as many 1 million Cuban workers — about one in five — may be redundant. But the government had not previously laid out specific plans to reduce the work force. The layoffs will start immediately and continue through the first half of next year, according to the nearly 3 million-strong Cuban Workers Confederation — the only labor union allowed by the government. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_bi_ge/cb_cuba_mass_layoffs added by: ibrake4rappers13
The Washington Post reviewed Laura Ingraham’s best-seller The Obama Diaries on Sunday. Steven Levingston even handed her some high praise, good enough for a dust-cover blurb. But the headline in the Outlook section only contained a diss: “In ‘Obama Diaries,’ self-absorbed musings.” Levingston found the satire was quite effective (even as he later said he didn’t like non-satire portions): As these hilarious, self-absorbed reveries demonstrate, Ingraham has a gift for acerbic expression. Her takedown of the 44th president is always entertaining, and at times brilliant. With “The Obama Diaries,” Ingraham establishes herself as one of the cleverest thorns in the administration’s side. In the diaries, we hear Obama, full of himself after his nomination, cheer the decision to move his acceptance speech from the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center to Invesco Field, big enough for 80,000 adoring fans. “If John Lennon and George Harrison came back from the dead for a Beatles reunion,” he writes, “do you think they’d be playing to a piddly 20,000 people?” Not long after his election, the Nobel Prize committee sprinkles Miracle-Gro on the young president’s megalomania. “Oh, so Mr. Senator from Illinois . . . [is] in over his head, is he?” Obama snorts. “I’ve got three words for you, Diary: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE .” Obama calls up Bill Clinton and asks for advice on how to handle his latest honor. “I could hear him seething over the telephone,” Obama gloats. We read Hillary Clinton’s diary entry for the same day, full of spleen: “What did Bill and I ever do to deserve this? . . . Bill’s been calling me all day, and I know he wants to vent, but I just cannot deal with it right now. Let him grouse to one of his ‘friends.’ ” Obama’s religious commitment gets more than a few darts. At a White House Easter breakfast for Christian leaders, the president begins to read a speech from a teleprompter when a pastor interrupts him: “Excuse me, Mr. President, could you lead us in grace?” First lady Michelle writes, “I had to put my coffee cup in front of my mouth so they wouldn’t see me laughing. The only time I’ve ever heard Barack say grace is when it was preceded by ‘Will & . . .’ ” We glimpse other White House figures. There’s the stud Biden who ogles any babe passing through the West Wing. When Colombian pop star Shakira chats with Obama about immigration, Biden confides to his diary: “Honestly, if they all looked like this hot tamale, I’d tear down the border fence myself.” The vain VP worries endlessly about his thinning hair and prepares for a new procedure to thicken his mane, even though his doctor warns that he no longer has enough hair on the back of his head to replant on the crown. “Doc,” Biden confides, “you can always graft some off my tookis.” There’s also Grandma Robinson, who brings a dash of reality to Michelle’s Stalinist dietary rules for her children. The babysitter in chief writes: “Miche caught me in the hallway bringing a stack of cookies to Sasha’s room. You’d swear she had busted me with a crack pipe.” Robinson knows Michelle herself isn’t a paragon of dietary virtue. “Since she dug that vegetable garden , you’d think Miche never touched a dessert in her life,” she writes on another occasion. “I know better! I’ve seen the panels they added to the back of that state-dinner dress.” All of this is great fun. And the book might have been a little masterpiece, if it weren’t for a fatal flaw. Ingraham can’t decide whether she wants to be a satirist or a polemicist. The satirist would have given us the diaries, kept herself out of the story and let us make what we wanted of them. That’s the power of satire: to awaken its audience by shock and exaggeration, without commentary. But the diaries, unfortunately, make up only part of the book. Half, if not more, of “The Obama Diaries” is Ingraham’s critique of the Obama family and administration — smartly written, to be sure, with effective rhetorical flourishes. For instance, Ingraham blames Obama’s mother for failing to instill strong religious faith in her son. As the author puts it: “Stanley Ann Dunham exposed her son Barack to religion the way one would expose a child to poisonous snakes — as a distant curiosity.” But Ingraham’s interposition essentially kills the satire. No reader of the genre wants to know that the author gets “choked up at ball games” every time she hears the national anthem. A laudable sentiment, but not one for a snarling, thick-skinned satirist to acknowledge. You either maintain the literary conceit or you abandon it — flip-flopping, as any political pundit knows, only leaves a ruinous imbalance. In Ingraham’s case, it causes her to squander her literary deadeye on vapid hyperbole — the kind of political belching commonly found in the pages of inferior conservative stylists such as Glenn Beck , Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity. “So we have a lot of work ahead of us,” she stoops to conclude. “This is ‘freedom’s last stand.’ ” And she was so close to a seat at Swift’s table! The New York Times has yet to review Ingraham’s book, but did explain to liberal readers who complained it was on the Nonfiction list .
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The moon’s dark umbral shadow will touch the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand at 18:15 UT and then race across the Pacific until it reaches southern Chile and Argentina. Along the way, it will fall mostly on open ocean, making landfall only at the Cook Islands, parts of French Polynesia, and Easter Island. The eclipse will end as the sun sets in southern Argentina at 20:52 UT. During its 2 hour and 40 minute journey, the umbra will have traveled a distance of some 6,900 miles (11,100 km). View the eclipse path + Two organizations, Ciclops and Shelios, are partnering to webcast from Easter Island at http://eclipsesolar.es/index_en.html and at http://solareclipse.eu/live.html The French Polynesian Tourist Board will webcast on UStream: http://w9.ustream.tv/channel/tahiti-eclipse-2010-july-11th National Geographic is producing a one-hour special on the eclipse, featuring footage from Easter Island, that will air a few hours after the eclipse. More information at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/naked-science/5000/Overview added by: JanforGore
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Someone get Lee Greenwood on the phone; he’s going to want to know about this. In a front-page Style section report July 5, The Washington Post breathed a sigh of relief that Independence Day gives Americans a break from those God-heavy holidays like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. “The trouble with most major holidays in the United States, if you’re an atheist, is that it’s difficult to ignore the ‘holy day’ etymology,” Monica Hesse reported. “But not the Fourth of July. The Fourth is a little deity-free celebration stationed in the middle of summer for believers and non-believers alike.” Finally, a break from those religious zealots Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Thank God. Hesse highlighted an annual gathering of atheists in Lorton, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. With tongues presumably in cheeks, the organizers promoted the event as “Ungodly Leaders to Gather at Potomac Picnic.” She defended atheists as misunderstood. “The most common misapprehension they encounter is that they must be immoral – that, lacking the promise or threat of an afterlife, they have no incentive to be good,” she said. “They atheists here find this particularly offensive, as they say they believe in kindness for the sake of kindness, making the most of the brief existence they believe humans are allowed.” Hesse illustrated the loving tolerance of atheists, and their acceptance for differing opinions and views. “‘I’m opposed to the illusion that there are really many difference between atheists at all,'” attendee Don Wharton was quoted as saying. “After all,” Hesse added, “they are here to celebrate the things that bind them together rather than the things that separate them.” What binds them together? Victimhood, according to Hesse. “Most of them have been told, at one point or another, that they are going to hell,” Hesse noted, “which, when you think about it, is a fairly pointless threat to an atheist, like warning someone that you’re sending them to Narnia.” Like this article? Sign up for “Culture Links,” CMI’s weekly e-mail newsletter, by clicking here.
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• Striker with broken arm came on in cast against Portugal • Sven-Goran Eriksson hints Didier Drogba may start Sven-Goran Eriksson has hinted that Didier Drogba may be fit to start for the Ivory Coast against Brazil on Sunday in Johannesburg despite a fractured arm. “Do not be surprised if Didier Drogba starts the next game against Brazil,” the Ivory Coast football federation’s website reported the Swedish coach saying ahead of his side’s second match in the World Cup’s Group G. “He [Drogba] made a valuable contribution in the 25 minutes he was on the pitch against Portugal,” Eriksson said. Drogba, following a speedy recovery, was cleared to play in Ivory Coast’s first World Cup game with a protective cast on the right arm he fractured during a friendly game against Japan. “He is an important player in the team … and his health has improved markedly,” Eriksson said. Following a goalless draw in their first match against Portugal, Ivory Coast face Brazil in their second game in a group that also includes North Korea. Eriksson said although he respected Brazil, he was not scared by the prospect of playing against the team ranked No1 in the world. “It is going to be a difficult game, but looking at what we did against Portugal, we are capable of creating a surprise against Brazil,” he said. Brazil top Group G with three points after scraping a 2-1 win over North Korea in their first game. England, coached by Eriksson, lost 2-1 to Brazil in the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup, which the South Americans went on to win. Ivory Coast World Cup 2010 Group G World Cup 2010 guardian.co.uk
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• ‘Some won’t get a chance to play in a Test in Australia again’ • Defining moment for Martin Johnson’s World Cup planning One game should not define a season, but England know there are exceptions. A big defeat in the second and final Test will confirm the worst fears of those who suspect the coaches are flogging a dead horse. Victory, on the other hand, would allow the management to insist their World Cup plans are gathering momentum. There is hardly any middle ground still available for rent. Even a gallant loss would underline what the rugby world has come to believe: that England talk a better game than they play in terms of beating the southern hemisphere’s finest. Australia are a good side but their current scrum issues make them more vulnerable than they might be. If Martin Johnson’s squad wish to enjoy their holidays, it is important they erase the memory of their diffident display in Perth. Precisely that message will be repeated before kick-off by coaches and senior players alike. “We’ve got a chance to put the record straight,” said Nick Easter, the England No8 who, by his own admission, fell below the required standard last week. “You want to have a summer when you can look back and be pleased with your last performance, otherwise you’ll be stewing. We’ve got to go out and show a lot more than we did last Saturday.” Johnson has also reminded everyone that places in England’s 32-man elite squad to be named next month remain unbooked, well aware that Wednesday’s game against New Zealand Maoris in Napier is unlikely to supply much solace. A potential tour record of one scratchy win from five games will not rank as a great leap forward. “Some of the guys won’t get a chance to play in a Testmatch in Australia again,” he said. Barring a marked upturn, several are unlikely to be tackling the Wallabies at Twickenham this November either. At least the cheery mood during training at North Sydney Oval was encouraging. Maybe the sunshine helped, but the squad contains enough talent and enthusiasm to hint at better days ahead if the players can escape their current underachieving rut. Ben Youngs has the ability to match his contemporary Will Genia as a backline catalyst and his first Test start will be instructive. If the Leicester scrum-half shines, it might even persuade Johnson to start thinking like an Australian and blood the likes of Alex Goode on the enlightened basis that class is permanent and immaturity is temporary. It would also help if the French referee Romain Poite, as he surely will, takes a sadistic interest in the scrum engagements. At times last week England’s tight-head Dan Cole unquestionably used illegal tactics to destabilise his opponent Ben Daley, but he is good enough to make life difficult without resorting to the dark arts. Tim Payne, even so, has cautioned against assuming the Wallabies scrum will be minced again. “Without a shadow of a doubt, they’ll be better,” the loose-head said. “I’m sure they’ll have hit the scrum machine many times this week.” Either way, England crave a collective performance that is not entirely down to their scrummagers or the slowly fading veterans of the 2003 World Cup final triumph in the same arena. Australia remains mystified at Jonny Wilkinson’s non-selection, with the former Wallabies centre Tim Horan declaring it “a decision Martin Johnson is likely to regret”. The hosts should clinch a 2-0 win but the ghost in the white No10 jersey has yet to be exorcised Down Under. If Jonny rises off the bench and slots another winning drop-goal the groans will be audible from Canberra to Cape Tribulation. Sky Sports 1: kick-off 11am England rugby union team Australia rugby union team Martin Johnson Robert Kitson guardian.co.uk
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