Here’s some good news for your football lovin’ ears… we told you earlier the league was trying to work things out and looks like both sides made nice for the love of the game. According to the New York Times: The National Football League reached agreement on a new labor deal with its game officials late Wednesday night, ending a lockout that forced unprepared replacement officials onto the field, creating three weeks of botched calls, acute criticism, furious coaches and players, and a blemish – however temporary — on the integrity of the country’s most popular sport. The agreement came 48 hours after the nadir of the league’s experiment with replacement officials, when an incorrect call on the final play of the Monday night game cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seattle Seahawks. That nationally televised debacle spurred two days of furious and lengthy negotiations against the backdrop of immense public pressure and scorn, most of it directed at the league. Both sides were so determined to play no more games with replacements that they raced Wednesday night to get officials in place to work this week’s slate. A crew of regular officials will be in Baltimore on Thursday night to work the Ravens’ game against the Cleveland Browns. The members of the officials’ union will gather in Dallas to vote to ratify the contract on Friday, and regular officials will work Sunday’s games. Guess Foot Locker’s excited to have their employees back! Now let’s see all those isht talkers on Sunday take a seat when their teams are bringing in the right points instead of wins based on bogus calls! Images via facebook
Elisabetta Gregoraci is some Wonder Bra model from Italy who is married to old billionalre Flavi Briatore, also known as the father to Heidi Klum’s white baby, in fact, she’s also the mother of his son, and this is her solid genes recovered from that gold digging strategy to ensure to implant the golden sperm, to trap the motherfucker to a lifetime of monthly payments, as god digging whores tend to do….you see getting pregnant is the best, longest lasting Gold Digging move…and real gold diggers know all about that…..but then again, maybe this Elisabetta Gregoraci is not the whore I accuse her of being….despite evidnce the Italian prime minister hired her as a hostess and that she offered sex for a job….which to me is just a sign of good work ethic….she kept her eye on the prize and got it…and she looks good playin’ the game….and that works for me. TO SEEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
It’s official: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are both hot and heavy. Having mostly taken their relationship public – Kutcher was spotted rubbing his gorgeous girlfriend’s thighs in early August – the couple ate lunch together on Monday and were then caught on camera swapping some serious spit in Central Park. Us Weekly has the photos of Kutcher and Kunis engaged in this game of tonsil hockey. Moreover, a witness at Bistro Chat Noir reports Ashton said those three magic words to Mila upon paying the bill. No, not “I’ll never cheat,” silly readers. I LOVE YOU! Says an insider of the former That 70s Show stars: “Ashton and Mila are totally together and loving it. He always had a thing for her and he finally made it happen… It is real infatuation right now.
Video game fans are naturally suspicious of movie conversions because they’ve been burned more often than charcoal briquettes. Which is weird, because pattern recognition is meant to be a gaming skill. Columbia Pictures’ announcement that it’s taking on the Metal Gear Solid license with Iron Man and The Amazing Spider-Man franchise producer Avi Arad has many gamers wary. The last attempt crashed and burned only two years ago, with Michael De Luca , producer of Oscar winner The Social Network , c iting vague but fatal incompatibilities between video game companies and the big screen. But as the game’s signature character Solid Snake once said: “Don’t regret your past! Learn from it!” With that in mind, here are four reasons the film adaptation might actually work this time. 1. Licenses Are Big Money Now: For a long time, the wide-scale sucking of video game movies wasn’t a tragedy, it was a kind of karmic blowback. Movies licensed for games were stamped into soulless, cookie-cutter platformers with less character than a game of Hangman. Similarly little care was put into the games’ development. In return, movie companies would buy a video game license, shred it, then spit a few random catch phrases from the game into a standard action movie script. In both cases it was because the adaptation meant a few extra dollars for whoever could be bothered to grab them. g Solid Snake: good at grabbing. But big money changes everything. The Resident Evil movies are making exponential profits, while comic-book heroes are now grabbing more cash than every one of their bank-robbing villains put together. (Just ask Arad. ) Studios are scrambling to get onto bandwagon, because it’s really a bank truck with the back doors open. An epic storyline and a quarter-century of rabid fandom means Metal Gear Solid is perfect for conversion. 2. It’s Already A Movie Pilot: Metal Gear isn’t a Street Fighter , where scriptwriters had to pad the game’s haiku-simple idea of two outlandishly dressed characters “punching each other in the head for 90 minutes,” and then did such a bad job you’d swear they wrote the padding after receiving the punching. The franchise is an established full-bore action story armed with politics, double-crosses, environmental messages and more character motivation than War and Peace. In essence, an elite agent comes out of retirement to infiltrate a terrorist facility. That’s a viable, if not entirely original, action-movie plot, and Metal Gear makes it smarter, more, um, solid. A direct translation of the plot would actually work. Of course that won’t happen, but that isn’t a problem because…. 3. Movie-fication will Help: Video games aren’t converted into movies, they’re flattened. An entire dimension of viewer participation is removed. Metal Gear ’s most iconic moments affect the viewer in ways movies can only dream of &mdash like Psycho Mantis breaking the fourth wall with music and controller-vibration, or the Sorrow’s attempt to end the game by convincing the player that it’s already over. This involvement will no doubt be lost in the game’s translation to the cinema screen. That said, the language of action movies is about streamlining: ideally, everything should fit into a neat 90-minute package, unless you’re Christopher Nolan. And that process inevitably requires the sanding down of a lot of important detail, Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima needs more streamlining than a supersonic jet. Still, he’s the unquestioned master of the series — to the point where the game franchise owner Konami seems unwilling to let him escape, constantly forcing him into sequels no matter how many times he publicly says “this is the last one.” (I genuinely think they’re using a real world Foxdie virus on him, set to trigger if he leaves. The next game’s going to include include Codec messages reading “Help me. They have my family!”) Kojima crafts masterpieces of stealth action. He also crafts epics of monologue to rival the Iliad and puts them on the same disc. This gave Metal Gear Solid a depth unseen in any “man-with-a-gun” game before or since. By the fourth installment, it was day long movie with some set pieces you were allowed to stunt direct. Tightening the script could sharpen the story and share it with a whole new audience. 4. The Special Effects Will Be Worth the Price of Admission: Perhaps it’s apostasy to write this, but the special effects in a Metal Gear movie are bound to kick ass. They must. The Metal Gear itself is the most perfect villain in any series: a giant walking tank which can also nuke anything on the planet. Action stars spend entire careers searching for an enemy that perfect. One of the most stunning moments in Metal Gear Solid was when this office-block sized monstrosity rose out of the ground in a cut-scene and you, with your mouth hanging open in the real world, stood still while it shot at you until you realized that the cut scene had ended and this techno-leviathan was about to smoke your tiny ass. IMAX-ing the movie alone will justify ticket sales. Sure, that’s no guarantee that the boys in Hollywood won’t screw it up, but let’s hope Columbia, Konami and Arad heed the wisdom of Solid Snake: “This isn’t a training exercise. Our lives are riding on this. There are no heroes or heroines. If you lose, you’re worm food.” Luke McKinney loves the real world, but only because it has movies and video games in it. He responds to every tweet. Follow Luke McKinney on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey are blindsided when “A Bald Canary Sings,” or are they? We’ll recap who got set up and who set the trap in our THG +/- review. Let’s go back to the beginning.
Deployed to a volatile outpost in southern Afghanistan where U.S. Marines routinely face a mix of skirmishes and hidden explosives, Greg Buckley Jr. sensed that an attack was imminent. And he knew that it would come from within. The 21-year-old Marine was posted to Garmsir in Helmand Province, where he was training local security forces as part of NATO’s planned withdrawal in 2014. It was during a static-filled phone call to his father over the summer that the Long Island native mentioned a run-in he had with an Afghan trainee while on guard duty. When friends become enemies The encounter marked the first in which the Buckley family’s eldest son seemed to sense something was wrong, according to what he told his family in phone conversations and a letter. “The guy turned around and said to Greg, ‘We don’t want you here. We don’t need you here,’” his dad said. “Greg turned around again and said, ‘Why would you said that?’” according to Greg Buckley Sr. But the trainee apparently wouldn’t relent, repeating the phrases for hours over the course of a night in which the young Marine was on guard watch. “Greg said, ‘I thought I was going to lose my mind,’” his father said. “Pitch black out, and all he kept saying over and over again is, ‘We don’t want you. We don’t need you. We don’t want you.’” “It was just tormenting for him.” The two men then finally confronted, yelling until a group of officers brought them apart, he told his father. “One of his superiors came over and had Greg apologize to the guy,” said the elder Buckley. The 21-year-old agreed and extended his hand, but the man refused. About a month later, Greg phoned his father again. “He told me if I have to stay here until November… I’m not going to come home.” Greg also asked his father to prepare to tell his mother and his two younger brothers that he’d be killed. “I don’t understand,” his father said. “Out in the field?’ “No, in our base,” Greg replied. 4 NATO troops killed in ‘insider’ attack in Afghanistan On August 10, 2012, Greg Buckley Jr. was gunned down by the very forces he had been training, just days after learning that he was to head home early. “It was only two days he had left there in Afghanistan,” his father told CNN. The phenomenon is known as “green-on-blue,” due to a color-coding system used by NATO. It has become disturbingly more frequent in Afghanistan, with more than 50 NATO troops killed this year by local forces, the first time that’s happened in a single year in the U.S.-led war. Last year, 35 people died in such insider attacks, and even less the year before, according to NATO figures. The killings have prompted suspensions of training new recruits while eroding the trust between NATO and its Afghan allies. The gunman involved in Greg’s death attacked from inside his outpost and killed two other fellow Marines, his dad said. But Greg Sr. said his son had informed his superior officers that “one day they are going turn around and turn those weapons on us.” CNN cannot independently confirm that Greg informed superior officers. Calls and emails to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan were not immediately returned. More than a decade after the war began, the Buckley family is now struggling to cope with the loss of its eldest son. More than 2,000 other U.S. service members have been killed in Operation Enduring Freedom. “It’s not really day-by-day,” said Greg’s mother, Marina Buckley. “It’s more minute-by-minute.” Back in Oceanside, the Buckley family on Friday attended the town’s first home football game, where their fallen son had intended to watch his youngest brother play varsity for the first time. “Greg was supposed to be home for this game,” said Justin, 17, who wore the number 30 on his back, Greg’s old basketball number. “I would tell him I love him and I miss him.” The senior running back, who dawned a camouflage jersey along with his team, broke to the outside on Friday for a 25-yard score that helped cement the Sailors improbable second-half comeback against top-ranked East Meadow. After crossing into the end zone, Justin raised his hand to salute — honoring his fallen brother. CNN
This is amazing, only because Jessica Simpson is semi-retarded and watching her talk bullshit about weight loss tha she is contractually paid to talk about, while not showing her body because there has been no weightloss, but instead just showing her fat face, telling us this program works…..even though she still looks like she’s fucking pregnant….even though her kid is pushing two….cuz some girls hormonally can’t say no to cake….fast food….donuts….fried chicken and whatever else she stuffs down her fat face….that if you remember was fat pre-gettting pregnant and that her pregnancy was just a cover to justify her impending diabetes…. As far as I’m concerned, she’s no spokesperson for health, fitness, or good eating….I am sure Weight Watchers has their fingers crossed that she steps up her game…otherwise she’ll be paying them back…not that she really cares…she has all the money in the world….failing at this won’t really do much damage to much more than her heart…. Point is, people eat badly, people don’t move enough, fat girls have big tits, I like big tits…… TO SEE PICS OF THE TANK OF A WOMAN WHO CLAIMS WEIGHT WATCHERS WORKS IN WAYS THAT MAKE ME WANT TO FOLLOW THIS LINK
Motherhood seems to suit Kristin Cavallari well. Just one month after giving birth to son Camden Jack, the former star of The Hills showed off her enviably slender post-baby body via Twitter. Jessica Simpson is so jealous right now. “Girls night!! Yes at 6pm haha,” the 25-year-old new mom tweeted Monday, along with a cute image of herself and a couple of friends … Sounds like it was a fun time for Jay Cutler’s fiancee. “This mamma is gonna have her first glass of wine in 10 months tonight,” she tweeted. “Woohoo.” We’ll see if she change her tune in a couple of months, but as she relishes first-time motherhood, the star says she’s already thinking about baby No. 2. “We were talking about the possibility of having another kid right away and then getting married so we can have two close in age,” Kristin Cavallari said. “We want four kids, so we’re thinking maybe one more, then get married, then have two more. But we’ll see, it all depends on how the first one goes.”
Motherhood seems to suit Kristin Cavallari well. Just one month after giving birth to son Camden Jack, the former star of The Hills showed off her enviably slender post-baby body via Twitter. Jessica Simpson is so jealous right now. “Girls night!! Yes at 6pm haha,” the 25-year-old new mom tweeted Monday, along with a cute image of herself and a couple of friends … Sounds like it was a fun time for Jay Cutler’s fiancee. “This mamma is gonna have her first glass of wine in 10 months tonight,” she tweeted. “Woohoo.” We’ll see if she change her tune in a couple of months, but as she relishes first-time motherhood, the star says she’s already thinking about baby No. 2. “We were talking about the possibility of having another kid right away and then getting married so we can have two close in age,” Kristin Cavallari said. “We want four kids, so we’re thinking maybe one more, then get married, then have two more. But we’ll see, it all depends on how the first one goes.”
Olympic team and individual gymnastics gold medalist Gabby Douglas announced today that she will be coming out with an “inspirational memoir,” People reports. The book, My Life as a Flying Squirrel, is due out in December . Just kidding. The book will actually be titled Grace, Gold and Glory, My Leap of Faith , and will chronicle the 16-year-old’s early life and rise to stardom. Douglas’ back story – leaving her family in Virginia at age 12 to train 3,000 miles away – and her journey to Olympic glory are nothing if not remarkable. Upon the announcement, Douglas said, “Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.” The forthcoming memoir, she adds: “Will also be about how much my family and I have overcome during our journey. It hasn’t been easy. [I hope people will] think anything is possible.” HarperCollins Sr. VP Lisa Sharkey said, “Gabby Douglas shines even more brightly than her Olympic Gold Meals. The reason is her inner strength and strong faith.”
