Nicki Minaj and DJ/producer David Guetta have a dance music hit on their hands with “ Turn Me On ,” and the teaser of the official music video has been released. Take a look at Nicki Minaj the singer in a dungeon in the clip below. Are These The Best DJs? RELATED POSTS: Lil Kim Preparing To Release Something That Will “Destroy Nicki Minaj’s Credibility & Career” David Guetta Feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida “Where Them Girls At” [VIDEO]
Jon Gosselin and Ellen Ross have split up after nearly two years together. It’s unclear exactly why the ex-husband of Kate Gosselin split with his lady friend, but reports say Ellen’s distaste for the media was the final straw. “Ellen didn’t like the media attention and other things that came with the relationship,” a source said. “That’s one of the main reasons they broke up.” Wait … we still pay attention to Jon Gosselin ? Besides right now? Who knew! According to an insider, the twosome broke up more than a week ago, but it wasn’t until Friday that Jon Gosselin confirmed the breakup on Twitter: “Recently, after much thought and discussion, Ellen and I have decided to end our relationship. It was a mutual decision and we are both happy.” “We will remain best friends. We both plan to move forward and focus on our separate lives. We ask that you please respect our privacy at this time.” So far, no word from Ellen Ross personally, except a denial earlier this week that was debunked when Jon spilled the beans on Twitter. Whoops.
Camille Grammer out? Vanessa Bryant and Lisa Gastineau in? With rumors of one cast member not being invited back for season three of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , we can now report on the rumors going around of who might replace her; namely, a pair of real former athlete wives. According to The Huffington Post , producers are wooing Bryant, who recently split from some shooting guard on the Los Angeles Lakers; and Lisa, who divorced NFL linebacker Mark Gastineau in 1991 and starred alongside her daughter on E!’s Gastineau Girls a few years ago. Said one insider of Bryant: “She is now single and free and doesn’t ever have to worry about earning another dollar in her life, so she can focus on what makes the show so much fun: herself,” while the same sources added of Lisa: “She is the example of how not to get divorces. She has a wonderful life but works very hard to pay her bills and would love to find love again.” Bravo may need to compete with another cable network for Vanessa’s services, however: VH1 is courting her for Basketball Wives .
Camille Grammer out? Vanessa Bryant and Lisa Gastineau in? With rumors of one cast member not being invited back for season three of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , we can now report on the rumors going around of who might replace her; namely, a pair of real former athlete wives. According to The Huffington Post , producers are wooing Bryant, who recently split from some shooting guard on the Los Angeles Lakers; and Lisa, who divorced NFL linebacker Mark Gastineau in 1991 and starred alongside her daughter on E!’s Gastineau Girls a few years ago. Said one insider of Bryant: “She is now single and free and doesn’t ever have to worry about earning another dollar in her life, so she can focus on what makes the show so much fun: herself,” while the same sources added of Lisa: “She is the example of how not to get divorces. She has a wonderful life but works very hard to pay her bills and would love to find love again.” Bravo may need to compete with another cable network for Vanessa’s services, however: VH1 is courting her for Basketball Wives .
Rihanna will executive produce a television show this summer in the U.K . It’s a fashion show competition. “I’ve always had a great love of fashion. It’s a constant source of inspiration in my life, and is a big reason why I’ve grown into the person and artist I am today. I have been very fortunate to work with some truly amazing designers and stylists throughout my career, and they have been instrumental in making sure my creative vision reaches the stage. I am excited to follow the journey of our aspiring contestants and see how their individuality influences their efforts during the course of the show.” According to RihannaDaily.com, Rihanna’s show “will celebrate the extraordinary talent and creativity in the British fashion scene. With Rihanna, a fashion icon herself, and Nicola [Roberts] who created her own Dainty Doll make-up range, at the helm, the show will recognise the increasing influence popstars have on mainstream trends.” “I was so flattered when Rihanna asked me to work with her on this show,” Roberts said. “I’m so excited for us to get started on finding a new up and coming British designer who just needs a chance, a little bit of help in getting their skills noticed. There are talented people, undiscovered because they don’t have the means, or their circumstances are too far away from the fashion world.” Read more: http://globalgrind.com/node/824869#ixzz1kbh6RB1Z Rihanna’s show will air fairly soon and the winner of the competition will get a chance to design an outfit for the Bajan’s July 2012 Hyde Park performance.
This guy is outrageous Snoop Dogg loves to party, but even the most experienced partiers will be shocked by his recent confession. For a new series of videos titled Party Legends, celebrities were asked to tell their most ridiculous party stories … and Snoop opened up about a story from “way back in the days.” Snoop admits to being roofied at the Playboy Mansion … and everything that happened afterwards. In the video, Snoop details his wild night at the mansion, which began as he arrived wearing a blue smokers jacket and Playboy Mansion robe with his pal Bishop Don Juan. Carrying a pimp cup filled with “half a gallon of champagne and gallon of orange juice” Snoop shared his beverage with a few Playboy Bunnies. The rapper claims that he turned his back as the girls sipped on the drink, and when it was returned to him and he resumed drinking, got dizzy and fell down a flight of stairs. Two “white girls” told Snoop that “someone slipped a roofie to you” – but he didn’t let the accident and drugging incident stop him from enjoying the rest of the evening. He claims he kept the night going and gave some bunnies “more than they could handle.”
This Chloe Sims hottie is the picture of perfection, she’s tanned, has a gorgeous body, a winning smile, and she’s got some lovely fake breasts that really bring the whole look together. Here she is classing up the girls on the red carpet for something looking like she’s having a little trouble containing those perfectly round beauties. Just let them loose already, you’ll get a hell of a lot more attention. She’s like a princess… A princess you’d see in a porn. I like it.
Well done yet again, Internet. Apparently lacking anything better to do for the next minute and a half, this girl decided she would attempt the impossible – sneezing without closing your eyes. Ever see anyone pull that feat off? Didn’t think so. Well, America is about bold ideas and people willing to push the limits of human creativity and willpower. Don’t even front like you don’t care or you’re not gonna watch: Sneezing With Eyes Open
After the return and exit of Shawntel Newton last week, The Bachelor settled back into its normal routine of ridiculous dates, cat-fighting and emotional turmoil Monday. The Bachelor spoilers we’ve read actually didn’t include much on this episode, including who would get the boot. So it was interesting to watch unfold in that sense. Ben Flajnik took the ladies on a BREATHTAKING horseback riding date, and later fly fishing, getting the women wet in a way they never imagined. Most likely. One lucky bachelorette also won a private show from country singer Clay Walker … but was there a rose in tow? And Courtney Robertson , as always, was insane. Please, join us for THG’s +/-
The great Fifth Generation filmmaker Zhang Yimou has gone from having films like Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern banned in his homeland of China to directing the lavish opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, his more recent work taking place in the safer territory of the grandiose historical melodrama of Curse of the Golden Flower and the Nicholas Sparks-worthy sentimentality of Under the Hawthorn Tree . Zhang has insisted that he’s not interested in politics, a tack that certainly seems to have its benefits: With an estimated budget of around $90 million, The Flowers of War is one of the most, if not the most, expensive Chinese production to date, it stars Christian Bale and it’s China’s Oscar submission. But that doesn’t mean that Zhang’s latest output should be dismissed offhand as nationalist propaganda. That the accusation’s been tossed at The Flowers of War , a big, button-pushing, brutally effective World War II-era drama, may be due to unfamiliarity with the atrocity during which it’s set — the Nanjing Massacre, during which hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed and tens of thousands raped by Japanese soldiers after the capturing of the city in December of 1937. It’s a horrific incident that remains relatively unexplored in popular culture, though Iris Chang’s bestselling book The Rape of Nanking , Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman’s 2007 documentary Nanking , and Lu Chuan’s excellent City of Life and Death , which played in a few U.S. theaters last year, have brought it recent attention. Given that the massacre remains a painful point in China-Japan relations, and that certain far-right Japanese ultranationalists (like Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara) like to claim the massacre never took place and was invented to tarnish the image of Japan, it’s surprising that the Japanese soldiers don’t come off even less one-dimensional in Zhang’s film. The Flowers of War starts off with less context than I’ve given above, offering up a title card about “an especially dark chapter in human history” before dropping right into a destroyed Nanjing through which a scattering of schoolgirls runs, looking for shelter. Also scurrying through the wreckage and the piles of bodies is John Miller (Bale), an American mortician hired to bury the head of the local Catholic cathedral. While the ragged remains of the Chinese forces, led by Major Li (Tong Dawei), exchange fire with the Japanese troops, John discovers to his dismay that only students remain at the church — a group of adolescent convent girls and George (Huang Tianyuan), the orphan boy trying to serve as their caretaker. Finding no money for his fee, John settles into the late Father Engleman’s quarters to get trashed on Communion wine when a group of prostitutes arrives at the gates, having been promised sanctuary by the church’s cook, long since fled. Bale’s presence in the film is a kind of misdirect, a calculated element intended to better its international commercial prospects — his character makes a clumsily predictable journey from cynical drunken expat to hero willing to sacrifice a chance to escape the country in order to care for the children who’ve ended up in his charge. It’s the relationship between the famous “women of the Qinhuai River” and the frightened, sheltered girls that’s the stealthy heart of the film, the prostitutes sauntering in like brightly plumed birds and taking over the basement despite the protests of the cathedral’s scandalized remaining inhabitants, settling in to gamble and gossip. Yu Mo (Zhang discovery Ni Ni), the “top girl,” sets out to seduce John, knowing that as a Westerner he’ll be spared by the invading troops and might be able to help them escape. Meanwhile, the girls’ experience is filtered through Shujuan (Zhang Xinyi), who refused to leave the city without her schoolmates, and whose father (Cao Kefan) is now working for the Japanese in order to stay nearby. Despite the church’s supposedly being protected, Japanese soldiers break down the door (“We’re got virgins!” one yells), and it’s only due to the intervention of Major Li, hiding nearby, that the girls are spared gang rape and that only two are left dead. The Flowers of War never errs on the side of the overly nuanced — a soaring chorus accompanies moments of grace, and beyond a setup based on the looming threat of sexual violence to 12-year-old girls, the film features multiple characters sacrificing themselves to protect the youngsters, from Major Li, who fends off a platoon singlehandedly in an over-the-top but masterfully shot action sequence, to John, in his trek toward redemption, to the prostitutes, who end up offering themselves in the place of the children. A particularly harsh digression in which two of the latter travel back to their brothel to retrieve precious items they left there seems included only to reinforce the terrible fate awaiting any women who fall into the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Colonel Hasegawa (Atsuro Watabe), is the lone Japanese officer who’s not portrayed as a complete savage, though he’s still bound to follow orders, no matter how distasteful. But while it’s as blunt as any typical big-budget war epic would be, the film finds plenty of moments in which Zhang’s skill as a filmmaker and his deft handling and interest in female characters shines, from the way Shujuan serves as a far-too-young witness to these horrors, the camera often closing in on her gaze through a fracture in the cathedral’s rose window, to a sequence in which John cuts the prostitutes’ hair as they sleep (he knows how to work on people only when they’re lying down), so that they rise fresh-faced, with schoolgirl bobs. The enchantment with which the film views the Qinhuai ladies goes beyond any simple hookers-with-hearts-of-gold conceit — an imagined moment in which they sing while strolling through the church finds in them a magic that circumvents the victimization of their circumstances, a vision of lost decadence amidst the devastation. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
