In early February, Birdman’s Cash Money Records announced the signing of 90s-early 00s rock band, Limp Bizkit. After a single was promised but never came to fruition, six months later the group’s front man says the group is done. “… Continue
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The final set of 48 original contestants performed on America’s Got Talent last night. How did your favorite fare? David “The Bullet” Smith – I don’t understand why David even has to wear a helmet; if things go awry, I doubt it would help things. His act was pre-taped, since it would have been much darker if it was actually 8 p.m. The setup took too long with the cheerleaders, but I credit him for trying to fill 90 seconds. He shot correctly, albeit a little further than the middle of the net. Grade: B+ All That! – No one is going to remind us that All That (without the exclamation point) has auditioned before and has lost. One of the members used the word “fight scene” and I was cautious. The group looked like the United Colors of Benetton (or an A capella group). Sure they were clean and their formations were great, up until the fight scene. If the group wanted to show masculinity, the fight scene looked gay. Grade: B Ulysses – Ulysses lost all his hair, so he got a wig. He was smart enough to get backup dancers, similar to Big Barry. His version of “Bandstand Boogie” was decent; the dancers were decent. Occasionally Ulysses had breathing issues, but I thought he didn’t deserve to be X-ed out. He wasn’t like Big Barry who was off-key. Grade: C+ Joe Castillo – Joe had a great story about how his father influenced him. Joe started with the Earth and I was happy to see the use of colors to emphasize each of his animals he made. Anyone who draws pandas also gets extra credit. I love that he uses both hands to draw. Grade: A- Sebastien “El Charro de Oro” – Mariachi is beautiful, and culturally amazing, but there’s something similar to LionDanceMe where there’s a cultural boundary where both acts can’t become mainstream. You’re either going to accept them or not. Sebastien’s lower register hasn’t really come in so it sounded weaker than it should. When he hits the high notes, those are amazing. He ended on a very strong high note and it won over everyone. Grade: A- Eric Dittelman – Eric shifted from magic to mind reading somewhere in high school and admitted to mind-reading being a bit flawed. He did an act that involved a “Deal or No Deal” and it worked wonders. I loved the drama and interaction that Dittleman did and made a small-scale mental act Vegas-sized. Grade: A William Close – William has 15 years of experience behind his belt and it shows. It’s smart that he has a band surrounding him because hearing a violin-esque instrument for 90 seconds could be annoying. The spinning drums were also cool and showed development. I’m still not sure where the strings were attached to, but he did everything that he could to fight for a spot. Grade: A Unity in Motion – We’re reminded that Turf was supposed to be intimidated by Unity in Motion. It seems like the group has two intense Abby Lee Miller-style choreographers. The girls were clean and they remind me a lot of the British winning troupe Spellbound. Unity in Motion had great presentation, didn’t show any flaws and maintained their grace. Grade: A Eric & Olivia – The music clicked for the two of them instantly in college, Eric’s responsible for the arrangements. The two were placed on a difficult night to stand out. Olivia or the band seemed a bit off key in the beginning. In a season of generally weak singers, Olivia’s voice is distinctive and has warmth, but she was squeaking at points. Grade: B- Lindsey Norton – Lindsey sounds like a stereotypical high school student, but she seems to be mentally prepared for the competition. She used the mirrored effect to emphasize her routine, which isn’t uncommon, but shows interesting angles of flexibility. She did some great rolling moves and she upped her game, I wished that she would stop mugging for the camera. Grade: B+ Horse – Recently on TLC’s Strange Sex , there was a guy with a 160-pound scrotum. He claimed it was because he felt a sudden pain and then it started swelling and never stopped. This is now what I imagine for Horse. One day a kick is going to go wrong and he’ll have a 160-pound scrotum. At least he has kids already. Horse did a superhero theme, which helped with the pants on TV requirement. Several of the hits were actually thigh shots, but luckily the high jump was a perfect hit. The see-saw slammed into his face and he ended up bleeding in the face. Grade: B Olate Dogs – Olate has a great combination of talent and one of those “American Dream” storylines. The dogs were adorable and even with minor mistakes, are you going to fault the dogs? I can’t jump a hurdle. The slide was a bit silly until the end with the adorable backwards slide. It was a genius way to end the show. Grade: A In the end, I’ve only eliminated three acts: All That!, Eric & Olivia, and Ulysses. All the other acts have shots of making it into the top three depending on how America votes. Does Unity in Motion have a whole ton of friends that could get them votes? Is there a large Mexican voting sect that I’ve never seen before? We’ll find out.
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There’s a case to be made for the idea that Greece has more ghosts than the average country. This argument would involve space – having relatively little, especially for their dead, Greeks rent out cemetery plots for three years maximum before the body is exhumed to make room – but also the fact that Greece’s is one of the more fully recorded histories we have. And what ghosts exist that are not remembered? Alps , the latest from Athens-born director Yorgos Lanthimos, tells a certain kind of ghost story. Lanthimos is most famously the director of 2009’s Dogtooth , the creepy, Oscar-nominated fable of clannish perversion that made the film world sit up and wonder, “What the fuck is up with Greece?” Alps carries over several of that film’s themes and intensifies its aesthetic mood of earthly limbo: Several of its scenes are set in a hospital, the rest are infused with a similarly antiseptic starkness. The tone is one of deadpan discombobulation, a world turned 45 degrees to the left but presented with a clear, dry perspective. Whether you are willing or able to match that perspective will determine the better part of your response to Alps , which opens with a puzzling sequence and only gets weirder from there. A young woman (Ariane Labed) performs a rhythmic gymnastics routine to a swollen orchestral recording, protests to her coach (Johnny Vekris) that she wants to perform to pop music, and is promptly threatened with a grisly death. Next we meet a paramedic (Aris Servetalis) with an odd way of comforting accident victims: “You may be about to die,” he says to a critically injured teenage girl in the back of his ambulance. “Who’s your favorite actor?” As is revealed at the director’s mischievous leisure, that question is more purposeful than it first appears. As the nurse (Aggeliki Papoulia) who receives the ailing teen girl – an accomplished tennis player – tells the girl’s parents, “Death is not the end.” In fact, she offers, after reminding them of how important it is to remember the deceased, it could be the beginning a beautiful relationship, one that involves her stopping by a few times a week and “substituting” for their daughter, equipped with a costume and a few salient preferences, including the fact that her favorite actor is Jude Law. Papoulia (who played the elder sister in Dogtooth ) knows she is not the intuitive choice for this particular gig. That would be Labed (none of the characters are named), the other female in their four-person troupe (including Vekris and Servetalis) of substitutes. They meet in the gym to debrief, try out celebrity impressions, and agree on their group name, Alps, chosen because no other mountain could stand in for an Alp but the Alps could stand in for any other mountain. Resemblance and age-appropriateness are less important than you’d think, as is acting facility: The Alps know their lines (usually) and hit their marks, but that’s about it. The customers don’t require total fidelity — just bring them a body. The troubled, empathetic nurse emerges as the central character, and through her Lanthimos explores the lonely succor of standing in for what’s been lost. He keeps the focus on the substitutes, the customers are only seen in fragments, blurred, or from behind; only their need is felt. There is no talk of money, though we know the first three visits are free. Client requests are highly specific, and usually involve repeating the same lines over and over again; fights and confrontations are reenacted with mordantly wooden timing. The script (which Lanthimos co-wrote with Efthimis Filippou) feels at once tightly controlled and improvisational — each moment is deeply, almost mechanically constructed, and yet they play out in a sequence that is too lax for too long. The layering at work is so subtle as to seem incidental; Lanthimos resists easy signposts or even a clear demarcation of the lanes, never letting us settle on what to make of this misfit, distinctly patriarchal crew. When a ghost gets ghosted, Alps cracks open and one character’s desperation drives the final third of the film. The climax errs on the side of the overwrought and overdetermined, like an earnest adolescent’s first attempt at a short story. And yet Papoulia’s extraordinary performance lingers, as does the film’s provocative existential fog. Slowly but with terrible surety, Alps reveals the fracture lines within its subjects, their families and the group itself, so that by the end it’s no longer clear who is substituting for whom. Only that the dead are surely better loved than the living. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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At least one YMCMB member gave us the kind of show that was promised when Drake brought out Cam’Ron, Juelz Santana, and Jim Jones for their annual Dipset reunion. As part of Summer Jam 2012 RELOADED, the group performed hits from the collective’s catalog including “We Fly High,” “Dipset Anthem,” and the fan favorite “I Really Mean It.”… Continue
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Glee star Jane Lynch narrates a new documentary about LGBT rights in America, featuring a candid interview with President Obama and doubling as a de facto campaign ad for the reelection-seeking Commander-in-Chief in 2012. The documentary-style commercial highlights Obama’s achievements over the past three years, most notably ending the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy and most recently coming out with full support for same-sex marriage . The Prez even name-checks Lady Gaga . Check it out below: President Obama and the Fight for LGBT Rights Ad
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Casper Smart will be accompanying Jennifer Lopez on tour this summer. But you won’t need to purchase a ticket in order to see this dancer in action. E! News has confirmed that Oxygen has purchased a reality show from J. Lo that centers around her dancing tour troupe, and will be led by the singer’s 25-year old boy toy. As the group’s supervising choreographer of the group, Smart will be highlighted on the series, but he won’t be the only mover, shaker and grinder to appear on the show. Look for it to take viewers behind the scenes of Lopez’s tour. It’s unknown if Jennifer herself will make any appearances, but the program will premiere in early 2013. Think you’ll tune in? [Photo: WENN.com]
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‘I think it’s good just to get the first debut album out the way and you can progress to your next album,” Quez tells ‘RapFix Live.’ By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway Photo: Natasha Chandel/ MTV News Travis Porter has a busy summer ahead of them. With their debut album, From Day 1, set to drop on May 29, the Atlanta trio are also hitting the road on tour and getting ready to release a new film. Quez, Strap and Ali first started to make noise in 2008, and after waiting four years to drop their first LP, the group is pretty anxious to put their plans in motion. “I think it’s good just to get the first debut album out the way and you can progress to your next album,” Quez said when the group appeared on “RapFix Live” on Wednesday. “It’s a nervous feelin’,” Ali said of the days leading up to their release. One of the pressures of releasing a major-label album is having to meet certain sales figures, particularly during the first week of an album’s release. “It’s a lot of pressure working on your first album, leading up to the release,” Strap said. “But we had so much fun putting the work into this album, being so creative, I feel like we won’t have nothin’ to worry about.” All things considered, though, the group is just thrilled to be able to see their hard work begin to pay off in a major way. After the album drops, they’ll hit the road on the No Sleep Till Atlanta Tour — a nod to their admiration for the Beastie Boys , who in 1986 released the classic track “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.” Travis Porter is also looking to release an unnamed film on June 29. The movie finds Travis Porter on the road living the rapper life. That is until they run into a bit of trouble. “The bus breaks down in some crazy town called Red Rock. And it’s run by these drug lords and they try to kill us off before we get out of their town because they think we gonna tell what’s goin on in the town,” Ali explained of the story’s plot. “So we gotta fight our way out of the town.” Are you planning to buy Travis Porter’s debut, From Day 1 ? Tell us in the comments. Related Videos Travis Porter And Scarface Mix It Up On ‘RapFix Live’ Related Artists Travis Porter
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‘America’s Got Talent’ judge says Obama’s support is ‘a good first step.’ By John Mitchell Howard Stern Photo: MTV News During a press conference about his new “America’s Got Talent” judging gig , Howard Stern turned his attention to a topic that has long been close to his heart: same-sex marriage. While he sometimes makes jokes about gays and lesbians on his radio show, Stern is a well-known and vocal LGBT advocate and believes in gay marriage, so it was only natural that he address President Barack Obama’s recent support on the matter. “My feelings are very clear on this,” he told reporters Thursday (May 10). “I wish the president actually had gone further. I wish he had said he was going to back some legislation on the national level.” On Wednesday, President Obama said he believed same-sex couples should be allowed to marry during an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts. While Stern said it seemed like a “political maneuver” for Obama to wait until three and a half years into his presidency — and six months ahead of the election — to publicly voice his support for gay marriage, he called Obama’s declaration “a good first step, it’s a baby step.” “I would like the president to get behind this and really push it,” Stern continued. “There’s just too many people being bullied, too many people’s lives being wrecked. This is something that is long overdue.” Stern reserved his harshest words for former Republican presidential contenders Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann, admonishing both for the negative impact their rhetoric has on LGBT youth and saying their vocal opposition to gay rights is not in alignment with their supposed Christian values. “These nutbags like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people, and especially young gay kids, feel miserable, shame on them. They’re quacks. I would never vote for them, I wouldn’t even listen to them,” Stern said. “They call themselves Christians. If you’re a Christian, you don’t sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing if they are happy and they’re committed in a relationship. So this is wonderful news that the president has said it, long overdue, and I think he’s got to do a lot more.”
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‘More Than This’ performance is from ‘Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD,’ due May 29. By Jocelyn Vena One Direction in their “More Than This” music video Photo: Columbia You know what’s better than blasting One Direction ‘s “More Than This” over and over again in your room? Popping in their concert DVD, “Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD,” and watching them sing it to you. Obviously. While it will be a few weeks until the concert special hits shelves, the guys released their “More Than This” performance Thursday (May 10) to get their already-excited fans even more hyped for the DVD’s arrival. After One Direction teased the video one day before , fans can now see it includes everything they could possibly want. The guys, decked out in gray and maroon prep-school uniforms, circle the stage, taking turns singing the song about unrequited love and watching your crush succumb to the charms of another guy. In between shots of the guys singing the song are ones of their fans singing and screaming along. As the song ends, the guys sit on a lime-green couch and continue to pine for their lady love. “Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD” hits stores May 29, just days after One Direction launch their North American tour in Fairfax, Virginia. It marks the group’s first-ever Stateside headlining trek ; they previously opened for Big Time Rush . Fans shouldn’t worry if they miss the group this time around: One Direction will also play a special show at Madison Square Garden in December before coming back to the U.S. in 2013 as part of their world tour. The 2013 North American dates will begin June 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before continuing around the U.S. and Canada and coming to a close August 7 in Los Angeles. “Our fans are simply the best in the world,” Niall Horan said in a statement about the tour. “The support they have shown us has been incredible, and we’re all so grateful to each and every one of them. We can’t wait to see everyone this summer at Madison Square Garden and, of course, when we play our world tour in 2013.” Do you plan to see One Direction when they hit the road? Tell us in the comments! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: One Direction Related Artists One Direction
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Dave McClure’s 500 Startups crew is at it again, with another group of 27 companies joining its incubator program. The new group of startups in the 500 Startups Accelerator follows a lot of the same trends from previous participants, as McClure & Co. continue to bet big on female entrepreneurs and international startups. There’s also the continued focus on revenue-first startups, rather than those… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : TechCrunch Discovery Date : 09/05/2012 18:18 Number of articles : 2
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