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Katy Perry’s ‘Teenage Dream’ Video: Watch A Steamy Sneak Peek!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In the 30-second teaser, Perry dances and locks lips in her California hometown. By James Dinh Katy Perry in the video for “Teenage Dream” In Katy Perry’s last music video, for “California Gurls,” she played a female voyager avoiding Gummi Bears, laying nude on cotton-candy clouds and making her way through what she called “Candyfornia.” But her follow-up music video, for “Teenage Dream,” will bring the singer back to her California hometown as she ventures on a sunny road trip with her lover and friends. In a 30-second teaser, Perry appears as carefree as ever in a dancing, lip-locking montage throughout locations in Santa Barbara, California. Whether it’s basking in the sun of her blue Cadillac as her love interest (played by Josh Kloss) drives next to a carful of laughing friends or getting steamy with Kloss as he pushes her into a hotel bed, the clip’s teaser resonates with the song’s feel-good melody. Katy and friends decide to skip the swimwear and visit a beach as they shed their clothes and dance the afternoon away. Directed by Yoann Lemoine, the video — which premieres Tuesday — was shot in mid-July. Perry cast some of her real-life friends in the clip. She took to Twitter to talk about the “gorgeous” shoot. “Cut, copy, print, moving on! That’s a wrap for Teenage Dream! So gorgeous, I really can’t wait to see what [director] Yoann Lemoine makes of it all!!!” she tweeted. “In my hometown. I got to cast all my friends in the new music vid for Teenage Dream = amazing insanity.” Last month, Perry spoke to MTV News about the track and explained that she had flashbacks of young innocence when writing the song. “I wrote that song in Santa Barbara, and it was a very pure moment for me, because that’s where I’m from,” she told MTV News. “And it was, like, where I started my creative juices. And also it kind of exudes this euphoric feeling, because everybody remembers what their teenage dreams were — all the girls that were on your poster walls.” This isn’t the first teaser Team Katy has provided: She uploaded an lyric YouTube video with various shots from the clip . What do you think of the teaser for Katy’s “Teenage Dream”? Are you excited? Share your thoughts below! Related Artists Katy Perry

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Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned (DO NOT JUDGE A VIDEO BY ITS TITLE)

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

This is great! You've gotta love logic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfFa44p96o&feature=player_embedded added by: Jolosturo

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Did BP and the government cover up a massive "Death Gyre" of dead sea animals in the gulf?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Firsthand accounts and leaked photos of a secret BP processing facility — possibly for dead animals — point to a massive cover-up in the Gulf. An exclusive report. ~~ June 10th was a strange day. In a surprising move, the Coast Guard instituted a dramatic expansion of the “no-fly” zone over the Gulf, preventing major media outlets like the New York Times and even scientists with top government clearance from accessing the area. This caused a wave of journalistic uproar and bewilderment on the part of researchers like Edward E. Clark of the Wildlife Center (above) who had been invited to study the impacts just prior to the media blackout (Haig Varabedian via Citizen Global). More distressing than the media blackout itself was a lingering question in my mind … what on earth could be so BAD that the U.S. government would risk losing credibility in the minds of journalists, the scientific community and the general public to ensure concealment? Was the sea floor cracking? Was a giant cloud of benzene going to wipe out the Eastern Seaboard? Had Godzilla emerged from the sea to wreak havoc upon us all? One thing was clear … we weren't getting the real story. All manner of apocalyptic scenarios were running through my head that morning when by chance I received a very strange message that pointed to a less fantastic but equally horrific explanation. It was a text message that had been sent on a borrowed phone to a man's wife, a man who had just returned from what many are now calling the “Death Gyre.” The message was e-mailed to a family friend who posted it on Facebook and it has since been recirculated. Here's the text (you will notice a few colloquialisms that are specific to Bayou talk) so read through the lines, and forgive the misspellings: I have to write this mail on a new cellphone because they have taken our phones off us. people dont know how bad this oil is.. im working in the cleanup operation and we've all has to sign a legal paper that stops us from talking to anyone. im onshore now and cant tell you where but ive just finished a very long shift in the gulf and textin this….fast as i can. the military are watching us dolphins whales, seabirds fish are all floating dead on the surface of the water.. see more.. see more…boats helicopters are scooping them away dead and dying… Whales are being exploded by the military cause they cant be carried. dead bodys as far as the eye can see air smeling of benzene ..weve seen birds fall from the sky. workers falling sick we think some workers have died. my friends are hard oilmen it was ok to at the start but now we cry. dead sea life is as big as genocide you wont imagine Since no one has yet been able to get this individual to go on record (and the Facebook post was eventually taken down) this can't be taken as hard evidence, but it does beg the question … just how many animals have died because of the worst oil spill in U.S. history? (much more at link) added by: samantha420

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Ke$ha Promises No Jazz On Her New Album

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I wouldn’t say ‘mature,’ because that sounds boring,’ Ke$ha says about the sound of her next record. By James Montgomery Ke$ha Photo: MTV News Ke$ha’s Animal album was just released in January, but that doesn’t mean she’s not already thinking ahead to her next album, even if it’s royally screwing up her sleep schedule. “I’m always writing and kind of thinking of the next step. I’m still executing this record properly onstage, but the next record is definitely on my mind, and potentially in the works soon,” she told MTV News on Monday at the Casio “Shock the World” party in New York. “I was just in Tokyo and I couldn’t sleep. I woke up at four in the morning, and I had this idea — [for] the whole video and the track and the song and who I wanted to collaborate with — so I spent like seven hours making a really horrible beat on ‘Garage Band’ and singing and rapping into my computer.” Hmmm … that doesn’t sound very country to us. Still, on her new songs, Ke$ha is looking to push the envelope a tad, which means that she’s trying to move away from her hard-partying ways. Sort of. “I write all my own music, so [the album is] going to be honest,” she said. “And I definitely am not just laying around Los Angeles getting drunk with my friends anymore, so it’ll definitely be a little different subject matter, but it will still be fun and honest. I’m not done being crazy.” And while it’s still really early in the process, Ke$ha’s got plenty of ideas floating around for her new album … and she’s already got a pretty solid sense of how the album won’t sound. “I wouldn’t say ‘mature,’ because that sounds boring, that sounds like a jazz record, and that’s not going to happen,” she laughed. “You’ll hear about different things on it. I think there’s a great pop song in anything.” Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Ke$ha Related Artists Ke$ha

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ACTA Treaty invading privacy?

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

[What is ACTA?] The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (also known as ACTA) raises significant concerns for consumer privacy, civil liberties, innovation, the free flow of information on the Internet, commerce, and developing countries' ability to choose policy options that best suit them. Doesn't the Constitution say a warrant is needed to search my computer? It does! But because ACTA is a treaty, it circumvents the Constitution and takes away our rights! Internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to monitor what you do online and report to the government anything that is seen as suspicious. How are they going to pay for this? They aren't; instead they will raise our Internet bills. -Jamer tl;dr rich douchebags around the world are going to take our right to internet privacy and control our browsing, taking money from us in the process, via an international treaty ******************** [Why should I care?] Throughout your life, the internets have helped you in many ways. Many a lonely Friday night have you used the internet to fap away your problems. When you think about it, you can't imagine what your life would be like without the internet. Well, too bad. ACTA's about to assrape your human rights. They're going to end piracy, but go against the constitution in the process. This means it's time to say bye bye to your right to privacy. So, why should you be worried about ACTA? -It allows them to censor the internet. -It allows them to search your iPods and computers randomly without giving a reason. -It allows them to confiscate your iPods and computers without giving a reason -It allows them to monitor what you do online -It allows them to block websites deemed “unacceptable”, without limit -It will ban p2p technology, like uTorrent -It will allow ISPs to PERMANENTLY Ban you from using the internet, without a trial. -It will allow arrests based on the content you search. -In a nutshell, they're basically taking your freedom and raping it in the ass. Our internets will be controlled and monitored, bent to the will of the rich corporations. Think about everything the internet has done for you. Are you going to stick up for it? Are you going to stop these greedy bastards from getting their way? Defend the internet, defend your rights, and fight back, don't be a pussy and just sit there saying it'll never get passed. Take action! ******************** [What can I do to help?] Well, we've got some good news. With enough help from awesome people like you, we have a chance of stopping this treaty from going into play. Currently, our strategy is to bring as much publicity to the ACTA as possible. Keep in mind that ACTA is not a bill. It's a secretive treaty that nobody is supposed to know about in the first place. ACTA's advantage is the fact that the general public is oblivious of it. They know what they're doing is unconstitutional, so they are forced to hide it. Why else would it be so secretive? Why is it that all we know is whatever leaked information we can get our hands on? If it's as innocent as they're trying to make themselves out to be, then they would make everything public. This is why we need to take away one of their primary defenses, and reveal ACTA to the public for what it really is. So how, you may ask, can we go about doing this? Well, it's as obvious as you think it is. Tell your friends, spread the word, and do what you can to bring all the publicity you can to ACTA. Below are some fliers that you can print out. http://ifm-store.deviantart.com/gallery/# /d2tndwq http://ifm-store.deviantart.com/gallery/# /d2tne2q http://ifm-store.deviantart.com/gallery/# /d2tne45 http://ifm-store.deviantart.com/gallery/# /d2tneo5 There are some other ways you can help prevent ACTA, listed below. -Sign an anti-ACTA petition ( http://bit.ly/bQeWeO ) -Email the news press about it. ( http://bit.ly/bSUcHH ) *Be sure to write a thoughtful email, point out ACTA's disregards of the constitution, provide ample information, and use good grammar -Find your congressman [Americans] ( http://bit.ly/4ACu1w ) -Find your senator [Americans] ( http://bit.ly/3UAs ) -Find your labour MP [Britons] ( http://bit.ly/aDoyoe ) -Find your conservative MP [Britons] ( http://bit.ly/PwuQl ) -Find your MP [Canadians] ( http://bit.ly/d2f2cm ) -Find your MP [New Zealand] ( http://bit.ly/9XHvzW ) added by: Andre_Rosario

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VIDEO Pete Seeger & Mark Ruffalo Protest Oil & Gas Industry

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Folk music icon Pete Seeger and actor Mark Ruffalo joined elected officials and environmental advocates in Albany, NY on Tuesday to warn that a new method of gas extraction is destructive, unpredictable, and a threat to public health. Ruffalo, a Sullivan County resident who recently appeared in the film The Kids Are Alright, held up a jar of water from a Pennsylvania town where the method of hydraulic fracturing (or hydro-fracking, for short) has contaminated the water supply. He warned that New Yorkers could suffer the same fate unless the state legislature takes action in the coming days. Seeger, a longtime environmental activist, composed a song about fracking for the event highlighting the similarities between natural gas extraction and oil drilling: “And when 'drill baby drill' turns to 'spill baby spill,' God’s counting on me – God's counting on you.” Hydro-fracking is a dirty, dangerous method of extracting gas from underground rock by drilling a well in the rock and then pumping thousands of gallons of a toxic soup of chemicals into the rock to create fissures that release the gas trapped inside. Many companies are seeking to ramp up gas production by starting hydro-fracking operations in NY state this year. Hydro-fracking has contaminated water across the country from Pennsylvania to Colorado and its effects are the subject of the new documentary GASLAND. NY's Dept of Environmental Conservation holds the authority to grant permits to oil and gas companies. The Dept has stated that it plans to allow hydro-fracking to begin despite pressure from a massive grassroots campaign has been waged across the state to “kill the drill.” One grassroots organization that has decided to fight the oil and gas industry on hydro-fracking on the national level is Frack Action. www.FrackAction.org added by: captainplanet71

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Feature Release: New Profile Pages, Activity Streams, Twitter, and Badges!

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

As far as releases go, this one is stuffed to the gills. There's a lot to cover here, so let's not waste any time. New Profiles With Activity Streams Ever since I began working at Current we've fielded requests for improved profile pages, and feed based activity streams. Well, prepare yourself because here comes feed overload. Today we launch a totally revamped profile page experience, and here's everything you need to know about the changes in place. Viewing Other Peoples' Profiles In the old system, a visit to someones profile gave you a few options to view their activity, but some of the details were missing. For example, what are they choosing to follow on the site? Did they recently connect with someone new, or choose to follow infoMania? This wasn't immediately clear. Our new profile page layout offers a feed of activity that can either be viewed in one catch all stream, or filtered with the following options: Viewing Your Own Profile You might be thinking, “OK, the design update is nice, but this seems pretty similar to the old profile options.” And you're right…sort of. The real difference with profile updates comes in the way your own profile works when you visit it. Before, a visit to your own profile would show you the exact same thing everyone else saw — a list of recent activity. Starting today, your profile will default to an all-new view when you visit it while logged in — Latest Updates. The Latest Updates is a sortable feed of everything the people you are choosing to follow are doing on the site, which means your profile page is now a pretty useful place to visit on a more regular basis. Don't worry, you can still see what your profile looks like to everyone else by clicking on the “My Activity” tab. Go ahead, try out the new stream of activity on your profile and let us know what you think. Twitter Integration We realize that many of you are active on Twitter as well as Facebook, and since you're already a fan of Current TV what better way to share your insider knowledge with your friends than by connecting your profile to your Facebook and Twitter? We've had Facebook up and running for some time now, but today we add Twitter to the list of services you can authenticate on Current. What does this do? It makes it easy to share your activity on Current with your followers, and when you earn badges and achievements we'll even let them know about it. In addition, once you've authenticated your accounts you can use Facebook or Twitter to log into Current. Well, what are you waiting for? Head over to your account preferences and connect your accounts! Badges and Achievements There is so much crammed into this release that I've decided to devote an entire thread to Badges and Achievements alone. Head over here to learn more. This is a boatload of new functionality, so if you bump into any bugs or general wonkiness, or just want to offer some feedback, please send us a note via our

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Zac Efron, ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ Cast Recall Ghostly Encounters

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘Everyone’s had those things they can’t necessarily explain,’ Efron said at L.A. premiere of ghost drama. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Kara Warner Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron at the “Charlie St. Cloud” premiere on Tuesday Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Zac Efron’s new drama, “Charlie St. Cloud,” is all about ghosts. It revolves around Charlie (Efron), who works at a cemetery to be close to his dead younger brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan). Eventually he must choose between being close to his brother’s ghost or pursuing love. When MTV News caught up with Efron and the rest of the “St. Cloud” crew at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, which opens July 30, we wanted to know about their spookiest real-life ghost encounters. “Nothing really, but I think everyone’s had those things they can’t necessarily explain at one point or another,” Efron said. “No, I don’t have any ghost stories for you.” Co-star Donal Logue feels that at the very core of life there is a spiritual something. “Every minute of every day is like from [protozoal] soup, man. How did this happen?” he explained. “You know what I’m saying?” Spirituality seemed to be the theme among the cast and guests at the premiere. Stephen Baldwin explained his take on ghosts, saying, “I have real-life spiritual encounters every day, but not with ghosts: with the Holy Ghost.” Similarly, Amanda Crew added, “You know, I’ve never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there’s some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be. There’s been too many times in my life that should have gone another way that there’s someone looking out for me.” Director Burr Steers admitted that there are otherworldly beings that keep him up at night. “In the middle of the night, when you hear things clanging around, I’m a coward and imagine that there are things at work,” he said. “But here, on the red carpet, no.” Matt Ward shared one of his ghostly encounters. “This acting community that I live in, we actually used to be in this building, and there was a ghost in there,” he recalled. “It was weird. You would just be sitting in a room and you would see this little skitter by and that’s probably one of the only experiences that I’ve had other than [when] I used to mess with my friends a lot when I was younger. I would always pretend to be possessed right after we’d watch a scary movie.” That seems like nothing compared to one very spooky moment Augustus Prew once had. “I was doing this job in Manchester and I was staying in this hotel that used to be an old Victorian mill,” he recalled. “About two o’clock in the morning I woke up and it was really cold in the room, And there was this little kid at the end of my bed. It was really weird and it scared the life out of me and then he disappeared.” Do you believe in ghosts? Tell us in the comments! Check out everything we’ve got on “Charlie St. Cloud.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, More At ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ Premiere

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Blaming Fox for Shirley Sherrod’s Firing ‘a Lie,’ Fox & Friends Host Declares

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

On Wednesday’s Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy took strong exception to the NAACP’s claim it was “snookered” by Fox News into denouncing former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod based on excerpts of a speech she delivered at a dinner in March. “There’s a timeline problem,” Doocy pointed out, noting that the NAACP had on Monday night denounced Sherrod as “shameful,” the same day that she was pressured to quit her job ( she says by the White House ). But Fox News never mentioned the story until Tuesday morning. “So for anybody to say that Fox News pressured her out, that is simply a lie,” Doocy asserted. The liberal media have gone from largely ignoring the Sherrod story on Monday night and Tuesday morning to embracing it as a case of a woman maligned by an unfairly edited video clip. But if Sherrod is indeed the victim, much of the damage seems to have been caused by the precipitous reaction of the NAACP and the Obama administration — not liberals’ favorite target, Fox News. Here’s how Doocy explained the matter at the top of the July 21 Fox & Friends, about 6:07am ET: Co-host STEVE DOOCY: The NAACP has done, essentially, a double-back flip. First, here’s what she said regarding the NAACP: [Words on screen] “They got into a fight with the Tea Party, and all of this came out as a result of that.” But here’s what she says about the NAACP, she says, she blames them for her getting in trouble. Now, here’s what the NAACP said on Monday night — on Monday night, as soon as the news had hit the fan. They said [reading] “her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicaments working with people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.” That was on Monday. Then yesterday, the NAACP came out and they said that we’re now apologizing to her and they say they were snookered by Fox News and Andrew Breitbart. But as [fill-in co-host] Dana [Perino] mentioned, there’s a timeline problem. Fox News did not do the story until after she had already resigned. So she was pressured by the Department of Agriculture to quit. She quit. And then we did the stories. So for anybody to say that Fox News pressured her out, that is simply a lie.

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Family of Mel Gibson Stands By Star

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mel Gibson is not only in a nasty fight with Oksana Grigorieva over custody of their baby daughter, he’s facing a domestic violence investigation and major fallout from her set of rage-filled, possibly career-ending leaked phone tapes. But he still has his family. “He has a good support system in his friends and family,” a friend tells People adding that his seven kids are “absolutely” standing by their father. Gibson regularly speaks to his soon-to-be-ex wife, Robyn, with whom he split in April 2009, and has seven children from a nearly 30-year union. It was Robyn Gibson who came to his defense last week, filing an affidavit swearing he was never once abusive during their entire time together. Mel has allies in Robyn Gibson and their seven kids. According to a source, it was her idea: “Mel didn’t ask Robyn for the affidavit in which she says that he never engaged in any physical abuse towards her.” “Robyn just felt that enough is enough … She still values her marriage to Mel and is sick of [how the press portrays] Mel as a heartless, abusive monster.” A new Mel Gibson tape leaked on Tuesday was perhaps the most damning of the six released to date, as he appeared to admit a violent outburst. But despite what you hear on the tapes, Robyn is standing by the actor, who she calls an amazing father. The source said, “she is still protective of him.” A Gibson family source says that the actor’s family has long seen Oksana Grigorieva , who Mel split with earlier this year, as a calculating person. “She pushed him over the edge,” the source says. “While they do think he needs help for his anger issues, Mel’s family is supportive of him.” Thoughts?

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