We’ve come so far… for the past 40 years, graduates of St. Martinville Louisiana Senior High School (Class of 1973) have held separate, segregated reunions. Some azzhole still “slipped up” and included a “White’s Only” after party on the invitation though. The Class of 1973 decided that after nearly 40 years, they would stop holding segregated class reunions, but a letter announcing the change included an after party for “white graduates only.” Michael Kreamer, who is the principal of the Louisiana school, said the letter was brought to his attention on Friday morning. “It’s disappointing to see something like this,” he said. “The school was really not involved at all in it.” On Sept. 21, a reception will be held at the school, followed by the homecoming football game, which the letter notes all graduates are welcome to attend. After the game, “white graduates only” are invited to a classmate’s home and are encouraged to bring a “food dish to share.” Liza Chance, one of the organizers of the event, told ABC affiliate KATC the group had originally planned to have separate parties again this year, but then changed their minds, and that the old plans were sent prematurely. “I don’t understand why this went the way it did,” she said. Racism is still alive and well…especially in the south. Do you think any of the black students will end up going now? Source Images via abcnews
The music world is still reeling from the shocking death of Violator Management founder Chris Lighty. The pioneering Hip-Hop staple is not only responsible for cultivating the careers of the biggest names in the game, but was a well-respected and revered figure in the industry. In honor of a life that was filled with accomplishments, we’d like to honor Lighty by highlighting his feats. Continue
We’re down to six on America’s Got Talent , as the NBC hit reformatted its concluding rounds this year. Which act stood out? Which do we think could be remaining on the finale? Read on for a rundown of the latest moves, shakes, notes, impressions and grades… Andrew De Leon – Andrew seemed destined to make it to the semifinals even with his inexperience because of that underdog sob story. There seems to be a disconnect between his falsetto with his lower notes and he continues to lack any charisma whatsoever. He still was a strong opening to the show and hit his high note correctly. Grade: B Todd Oliver – After a second chance, I continue to question Todd’s material. The stage was “The Todd Oliver Show,” and while the Prince Harry joke was topical, I felt as though some of the jokes sounded familiar. The dog-based quips can only go so far for me and I’ve hit my threshold. Grade: B- Donovan & Rebecca – After a great shoulder balancing, Rebecca showed both agility and grace as she spun around. They did the right thing to go with more enthusiastic music and one has to point out that Rebecca is doing all the lifts in heels which throw off a person’s center of gravity. I also appreciated that they did the neck lift which didn’t seem to work as cleanly as it did on Britain’s Got Talent Grade: A- Edon – It seems like Edon’s voice seems to be going through a bit of a shift since we first saw him. He decided to perform a slow version ” What Makes You Beautiful ” and he should be credited for attempting a different arrangement. Some of his higher notes were screechier than he used to be, considering that “Titanium” can sound like someone’s killing a cat. Notice that he had to go low at the end to make the vocals a bit stronger. If anything, the song was age appropriate. Grade: B+ The Scott Brothers – After going for a “fun” spirit, the brothers decided to be technical and dedicated their performance to their mother. The two decided to go for a mannequin based routine. Conceptually, the piece looked great though there were color blending issues where they would meld with the background. They were technically sharp and the tempo changing near the end of the routine worked well. I preferred the comedy, but it was still strong. Grade: B Eric Diddleman – Diddleman decided to aim for Howard this week as he made Howard color his self-portrait from the auditions. The colors were painted in as Howard botched his coloring because Howard accidentally made the goatee the same color as the devil horns, but the rest of the act worked well. The circle/triangle act made no sense to me but it was a good waste of time. Grade: B+ Turf – Turf’s goal this week was to be more dance-friendly. The contortions of his mouth worked perfectly as he contorted faster than he ever did. The increased speed made his contortions feel dance-like. His glides were a time waster, but flip into contortion was amazing. Turf has continued to perform better each time. Grade: B+ Bria Kelly – Our country music YouTube struggler was tense as she practiced this week. She decided to choose Pink’s “F-ing Perfect.” The song has a strong narrative, which matches the country aspect, but she didn’t match the spirit of the song. I didn’t notice during her original performance that she had an insane vibrato. The key change was a smart move as was the high note at the end. It wasn’t the best, but it was better than her last performance. Grade: C+ Joe Castillo – Our beret wearing artist needed to fit an epic story in 90 seconds and immediately created a very hippie message of peace. His profiles of people are great and whoever was in charge of coloring did a great job. The act felt even shorter than 90 seconds because of how much time he spent on single images. Grade: B+ William Close – William and his earth harp collective had four new instruments and his wife on stage with him basically as a human-violin of sorts. The performance must be a joy to watch in person because there was so much happening. The vocals could have been better, but in an odd way the flaws work with the organic sounding instruments. One didn’t even notice the fact that the drummers were doing ballet. Grade: A- Tom Cotter – Tom decided to provide “comedy on demand” and Howie picked College. Not only did he get a Diddleman joke through, he had some great drug/sex jokes. His material was edgy and pushed boundaries which were perfect for what he needed. It’s a difficult road to choose a comedian, but he has a wonderful shot to win. Grade: A Academy of Villains – The academy took a risk and one of the dancers broke her kneecap during practice forcing the group to readjust all their choreography. The speed of the routine was unexpected; their use of dubstep made sense. Some of the transitions between formations could use some help. I liked that they slowed down to “Secrets” and appreciated the doorways they used. While I’m still not a huge fan of mimes, the performance was fun. Grade: A- Only three acts can make it through and my personal choices are Tom Cotter, Diddleman and William Close. Academy of Villains did a great job and going last may leave a lasting impression, but they will probably split their votes with Turf and The Scott Brothers.
Forget Game of Thrones for a minute. And soak in the Game of Bones! In the hilarious video below, a dog gives us his impression of this HBO epic’s beloved theme song. There may not be a map of Westeros to guide us around as the notes play, but we repeat: there’s a dog barking out the music! Watch and enjoy now:
17 years after Waterworld , is Kevin Costner back in the game? “[The] Movie Star is dead. But Costner is catching a wave that is still building, a trend that is still sinking into the cultural psyche — he’s re-emerging not as Kevin Costner, Movie Star, but as Kevin Costner, Portrayer of Memorable Characters. This is the way forward for actors in a star-less world… These days, I don’t think a true star can break through unless it’s on the back of a signature character…This is the future. This is the Movie Star’s second act. It’s not about the star anymore. Now it’s about the Celebrity Character.” [ Lainey Gossip ]
Barbara Palvin is some 12 year old model who I assume is 18 by now, but who might as well be 12, because I’m old as fuck and so are you, and jerking off to a barely legal is some creepy shit that we all have to undertake cuz it is in our genetic code to want the youngest, hottest, most fertile, fittest, bustiest girl….cuz back when we were cave men…there was no age of consent, we just took what we wanted….just another example of how society is breaking us down with our own man made rules… That said, Barbara Palvin is an immigrant, is a teen, is spectacular….but the reason she’s top of her game just doesn’t make sense to me, cuz at 18 I wasn’t working for huge corporations….and I was living in America…so for some immigrant to make it this far at this tender age…I can only assume questionable behavior was involved and that makes her all the more erotic. here she is in a bra – making moves…
Movieline would like to introduce The Player , a recurring feature in which we look at the crossroads where video games and moviemaking intersect. We’ll regularly be looking at games that inspire movies, movies that inspire games and a lot of fun stuff in between. For our first foray, Luke McKinley writes on Manos: The Hands of Fate , an excruciatingly bad 1965 micro-budget film that manages work well as a video game. “The game of the movie” is a worse curse than Cruciatus , and usually causes more pain. It’s such a guarantee of failure that even the Street Fighter movie game sucked, and that started with one of the greatest games of all time. They’re terrible because the studio has to acquire the license, and when any company spends most of its budget on lawyers, the lawyers are the only ones who get to have any fun. Once the rights are secured, there’s usually enough cash left in the kitty for a design team of two interns and a crayon. FreakZone Games found a way around this: Start with the worst movie of all time. That would be Manos: The Hands of Fate. (To watch the entire movie, if you dare, scroll down to the YouTube video below). This abomination was made when an insurance and fertilizer salesman named Harold P. Warren bet that he could make a horror movie for less than $20,000. He failed spectacularly. The results would have less painful — and more coherent — if he’d filmed himself drinking $20,000 worth of tequila. The actors are so bad that they can barely talk. One is so bad he can barely walk. John Reynolds, who played Torgo, handyman and henchman to the villainous “Master,” appeared to have taken his acting classes from electroshock therapy. Reynolds’attempts to look supernatural make his appearances look jerkier than an art student’s stop-motion film — and more tedious, too. It can take up to three minutes for him to cross a scene, and if you think the camera or actors do anything to distract from this you are wildly overestimating: a) their commitment to the project; b) their understanding of cinema, c) their baseline brain activity. Then there’s the movie’s title villain, The Master, played by Torn Neyman. At one point, he studies himself in the mirror and declares, “Yes, I am the face of horror.” That’s him in the poster with the fancy moustache. Scary, right? In addition to being widely recognized as one of the biggest stinkers in filmdom, Manos is also a testament to the healing power of laughter. The movie is now a cult favorite thanks largely to the crew behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, who mocked it to pieces in 1993 , and, on Aug. 16, mauled it a second time — this time, live — when they reunited under the name of Rifftrax . FreakZone took a similar approach. The video game version of Manos: The Hands of Fate is an homage to retro gaming and a satire of almost every other movie game ever made. It avoids sucking by wallowing in the cliches of video-game movie adaptations. And there are many. In the 1980s and ’90s, every movie franchise was turned into a platformer. Childish sword and sorcery tales, action movies, romantic dramas, tearjerkers about people in wheelchairs who were scared of heights — it didn’t matter. Manos, the game, improves upon the movie right from the get-go with better acting. It also reminds you of how evil games used to be before they started being built for the mediocre skills of broad movie-going audiences. In FreakZone’s Manos , it’s possible to die at the first jump. Tap A and misjudge the distance, and that’s it, you’re dead. (In Manos , the movie, the Master takes a good 20 minutes to get around to killing Torgo.) There are also invincible immortal enemies (who do nothing but float up and down), edge-of-the-block jumps for bonus items, and even curse-inducing sine-wave-flying enemies to knock you off platforms and trigger Castlevania flashbacks. The real glory of this game is proving that the internet is better for creativity than a whiteboard made of LSD. Hollywood spends more money to minimize risk than the Secret Service, and the gaming industry hasn’t just been taking notes. If you walked into a video game publisher in the ’90s and told them you wanted to make this game, they would have hired new security to escort you out of the building just so their regular security didn’t have to touch you. But now a few people with the right combination of skills and mental problems can build and sell a game like Manos: The Hands of Fate for a couple of bucks, and it’s fantastic. There’s a real chance the $1.99 I paid for the game will represent 50% of the publisher’s entire profit on the sale, but I’m still glad I gave it to them. That’s because with Manos: The Hands of Fate , FreakZone has achieved the impossible: It made a game that was better than the movie. 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.
If you didn’t see the game between Ne-Yo and Kevin Hart earlier this summer , check the vid. It’ll have you crackin’ up! The game was initiated during NBA All-Star Weekend, in a “trash talkin’” session that led Ne-Yo and Compound Entertainment to take on Kevin Hart and his Plastic Cup Boys at a gym to settle the debate. This past Friday in Los Angeles, NE-YO and Kevin Hart decided to break a long standing basketball tie! Ne-Yo’s crew came dressed a bit better this time around, donning custom t-shirts, but Kevin Hart one-upped them again when his crew showed up in jerseys and shorts. We’ve got teaser pics for your viewing pleasure right now and can’t wait to watch the vid when it goes viral. Images via Lenny “Kodak Lens” Santiago
Fan Dies From Cardiac Arrest At Toronto Blue Jays Game Thursday’s game between the White Sox and Blue Jays was delayed after a fan went into cardiac arrest down the left-field line at Rogers Centre. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital. According to “the man in white,” who was tweeting from the game, a fan performed CPR on the ailing man first and then medics took over after reaching his location. Medics continued to perform CPR as he was carted off the field, and the game resumed after he was taken off. City-TV reported after the game that he died in the hospital. The White Sox were on the field before the game was delayed. “It was not a good sight,” White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said afterwards. “I saw some medics jump out around the dugout and run over. Then I saw a doctor or whoever was going, just pushing on the chest over and over and over. I thought maybe they were reviving him and then they next thing you know, they kept going and going.” The identity of the man has yet to be released. Source
Judge for yourself…but please judge. We tipped you off earlier about Nicki Minaj’s surprise guests at her free show, but what we didn’t have was a good view of Foxy’s getup. Are you just as confused as we are over here? Please help us figure out what the hell Foxy was thinkin’. Foxy, if you’re tryin’ to redeem your career, this is not the way to do it. Nicki had nothing but love for her idol though: After Fox Boogie did her thing Nicki told Foxy and the crowd that Fox was the rapper who influenced her the most out of every rapper in the game. Nicki went on to say, “I wanna thank you for being one of my biggest influences in the game. There isn’t a female rapper in the world who has opened more doors for me than you.” What do you think about Foxy and Nicki blastin’ Lil Kim like that? Images via Twitter/Youtube
