Jenelle Evans’ latest mug shot is here, after she failed a drug test after her latest court hearing … in which she struck a plea deal to keep her out of jail. At least she was in good spirits, apparently: The Teen Mom 2 star was in court today, answering to charges of drug paraphernalia, heroin and Percocet possession , stemming from her arrest in April. Jenelle Evans agreed to a plea bargain in which she pleaded guilty paraphernalia charge, in exchange for the other, more serious charges being dropped. She was hit with 18 months’ probation, but no jail time – amazing, given that she was busted with major quantities of the drugs and assault on her husband. That charge was dropped when Courtland Rogers pleaded guilty, so all was looking up for Jenelle … until she was randomly drug tested and failed. Today. The MTV star tested positive for marijuana and the judge sent her to jail for 48 hours, her (hard-working) attorney Dustin Sullivan confirmed to TMZ. It’s unclear why she was in such a good mood at the time officers booked and processed her at the station, but … better than being suicidal, we guess? It’s also unclear what impact it will have on the probation terms she just agreed to and when, but you can guarantee there will be consequences. And that she’ll likely be back in front of the booking photo camera before long, as she hasn’t learned much of a lesson from her previous 245 arrests.
In 1912, eighth grade students were quizzed HARD on reading proficiency, arithmetic, grammar, geography, physiology, civil government and history. In 2013 … well, it’s not quite the same. An eighth grade “Common Exam” from 1912 was just donated to the Bullitt County (Ky.) History Museum, and is available in full on their website. The site explains, “It should not be used to compare student knowledge then and now.” A good thing, too, for the self-esteem of those in the “now.” The site says students assembled to take this test once or twice a year and it was a very serious deal, with high school scholarships at stake. Would you earn one? Check out a sampling of questions from some of the categories below and see what a 1921 eighth grade exam consisted of: Arithmetic Write in words the following: .5764; .000003; .123416; 653.0965; 43.37. Find cost at 12 ½ cents per sq. yd. of kalsomining the walls of a room 20 ft. long, 16 ft. wide and 9 ft. high, deducting 1 door 8 ft. by 4 ft. 6 in. and 2 windows 5 ft. by 3 ft. 6 in. each. How long of a rope is required to reach from the top of a building 40 ft. high, to the ground 30 ft. from the base of the building? Grammar How many parts of speech are there? Define each. What properties have verbs? Diagram: The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. Geography Define longitude and latitude. Name and give the capital of States touching the Ohio River. Name in the order of their size the three largest States in the United States. History Who first discovered the following places: Florida, Pacific Ocean, Mississippi River, St. Lawrence River? Name the last battle of the Civil War; War of 1812; French and Indian War and the commanders in each battle. Who invented the following: Magnetic, Telegraph, Cotton Gin, Sewing Machine, Telephone, Phonograph. Physiology How does the liver compare in size with other glands in the human body? Where is it located? What does it secrete. Define Cerebrum; Cerebellum. What are the functions (or uses) of the spinal column? Civil Government Name five county officers, and the principal duties of each. Name three rights given to Congress by the Constitution and two rights denied to Congress. Describe the manner in which the president and vice-president of the United States are elected. You can see the answers at Bullitt County’s website, but the answer to the question of whether 1912 tests were harder than today’s doesn’t need looking up.
Yesterday at the Clear History premiere, Kate Hudson ‘s sexy leg show reminded me that she’s got a few more things going for her than I remembered. And today’s shots of her in a sports bra and leggings are doing more of the same. It’s still not making me forget about what she’s lacking in the chesticular region though, but that’s nothing a few personalized selfies couldn’t fix. So Kate, just email me when you get a chance and let’s keep the good times coming. Photos: PacificCoastNews
Kim Kardashian may be obsessed with losing her baby weight . But she isn’t stressing out over it. Tracy Anderson – the trainer who has worked on a couple of Kim Kardashian workout videos – told Us Weekly that her client is in “baby heaven” and super motivated to get fit once again. “It’s a tough time, and a lot of women feel like it’s a huge mountain to climb to get back, but Kim, surprisingly, has had the totally opposite reaction to other moms,” Anderson says , adding: “She’s like, ‘We’re going to be so good. It’s fun, I feel great!’ She just loves the whole process… She’s excited to get started, but she’s really calm about it all.” Anderson also works with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Bethenny Frankel, and Shiri Appleby. She says Kim will need to wait a few more weeks before really getting serious, but Tracy has a plan already for how to get that bikini body back. “In the beginning, it’s key getting the deep abdominal muscles back and making sure that you get the strength back in the right layers. “Kim is super motivated. She’s all in. Pregnancy is actually an opportunity for women to look better than ever. And [Kim] will.” Especially when there’s likely a seven figure check waiting for her to pose on the cover of a tabloid in a couple months.
Lots of people still love them some Paula Deen recipes . Ballantine Books does not seem to care, however. The chef’s rough month just got worse with the loss of a lucrative publishing deal, despite the fact that her latest cookbook has soared to #1 on Amazon. Ballantine announced it would not publish her upcoming effort, announcing that it also made the “difficult decision to cancel” her current best-seller. The division of Random House also announced it is nixing a five-book deal it signed with Deen last year, believed to be worth millions of dollars. The decision came after companies including Sears, J.C. Penney, Walmart, Target and Kmart announced they would stop selling her products, including books. “When Walmart, Target and J.C. Penney all announced they are discontinuing their Paula Deen business, including books, it is awfully tough,” said a source. “This was purely a business decision .” Paula Deen’s New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up has actually experienced a boost in sales since she was fired by Food Network . Deen’s fall from grace began when a transcript of a lawsuit deposition was released and showed that she admitted to using racial slurs in the last. The admission created a firestorm and although Deen issued multiple video apologies, she has watched her lucrative business deals fall like dominos. On Wednesday, she made a tearful and what seemed to be sincerely apologetic appearance on the Today show, but even that did not stop the bleeding. Deen is absolutely furious with Lisa Jackson , the woman suing her for discrimination, and alleged in court papers that the chef made racist remarks. While Paula admitted using epithets in the past, she denies Jackson’s allegations and blames what she sees as a bogus lawsuit for her downfall. Talk to THG: Would you fire Paula Deen? Yes, there is no excuse for what she did. No, cut the woman some slack people! No, I just like her food, who cares what she says/does! View Poll »
In a new documentary titled “How to Make Money Selling Drugs,” Eminem opens up about his history of drug abuse, detailing just how low he fell when his substance abuse issues were at their worst. “My bottom was going to be death,” he states in the following excerpt. Marshall Mathers Documentary Excerpt The rapper popped 10 to 20 Vicodin pills per day at one point and explained that his first experience with the drug was enlightening. “[I] didn’t feel any pain. It just kind of numbed things.” Eminem says he would lash out at anyone who claimed he had a problem (“I literally thought I could control it.”), but one overdose put things in perspective. “Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died,” he said of the incident. “My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything. They were gonna have to put me on dialysis, they didn’t think I was gonna make it.” The artist says he relapsed about a month after this frightening ordeal. “I remember just walking around my house and thinking every single day, like, I’m gonna fucking die. I’m looking at my kids, and like, I need to be here for this.” So he eventually sobered up, acknowledging that it’s been a “learning process” and offered words of advice to anyone in a similar situation: “I would say to anybody, ‘It does get better, you know. It just does.'” The documentary opens on June 29 and also features interviews with Russell Simmons and Woody Harrelson.
Say what you will about the Kutch, he does a fairly convincing Steve Jobs. Watch Ashton Kutcher take on the role of one of the most revered men of our time in the first trailer for Jobs . Jobs Trailer The film tells the story of Jobs and Steve Wozniak, played by Josh Gad, as they start building computers in their garage, and eventually go on to found Apple Computers. It looks like a fairly straightforward, safely-played biopic, and the trailer feels a bit formulaic given that the movie was already lampooned before it came out by the Funny or Die movie iSteve . Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Modine, and James Woods also star. Jobs will hit theaters August 16.
Paula Deen may have issued an apology for using racial slurs in both her Savannah, Ga., restaurants and also ever in her entire life, but that wasn’t enough for Food Network. Probably because the apology was terrible, but hey, she tried?? Earlier today it was announced that Food Network dropped the butter-loving Southern Belle known for sending love and “best dishes” to her viewers. Deen’s contract will not be renewed when it expires at the end of this month. Deen, who made her mark on the Food Network with her sugary, fat-saturated foods, has faced quite a rocky couple of years, to say the least. First she announced that she had been diagnosed with and battled diabetes and received backlash from critics for not modifying her unhealthy recipes. She went on to slim down with the South Beach diet before being slapped with a lawsuit regarding allegations of sexual harassment in her restaurants by G.M. Lisa Jackson. While Deen denies the sexual harassment, she doesn’t deny using racial slurs, and that, no doubt coupled with her skipped Today Show appearance this morning, landed her in hot water. All of this has left her image and her career in the slop trough, and it was all too much for Food Network, with which she will no longer be associated. It’s going to take more than a pan of brownies to apologize for this one. She’ll be serving up casseroles to everyone else while she eats Humble Pie. It’s a good thing she knows a thing or two about comfort food recipes , right?
World War Z stands out from standard Summer blockbuster fare in that it doesn’t simply jump from set piece to set piece in the hopes that the audience will forget what a story is. That’s not to say World War Z has a tremendously compelling story, but it does have the right elements to make it a successful Summer flick: high stakes, clearly outlined objectives, and an awareness of its own flashy destruction. Despite what it may have seemed from the trailer, scores of people don’t die in World War Z simply because it looks cool. They die because the story requires that they die. Compare that with your Star Trek Into Darkness es and your Man of Steel s , and this film is already ahead. The (somewhat controversial, if you’ve been following the production’s history) ending furthers that point, in a way that I actually find quite refreshing given the mass, unaddressed destruction that seems to be a requisite part of every action movie of late. But, let’s start with the opening. The opening set piece is actually exceptionally suspenseful and thrilling. Even if you enter the theater with some knowledge of the story, it is hard not to find yourself tossed directly into the confusion and mass hysteria surrounding the story’s incitement. We see Brad Pitt’s Gerry Lane as a man who knows how to take care of his family, and who can navigate any stressful situation with ease. This ultimately becomes a detriment, however, as Lane seems to be sleep-walking through the most important job any man has ever held in the history of humanity (which also makes us wonder: why him? Is he really the absolute best man for this job?). Lane is a former U.N. employee who, after being rescued with his family from the quickly-spreading disease in Newark, is tasked with scouring the earth seeking a cure for a zombie outbreak that is quickly overtaking the entire planet. As part of his charge, he must leave his wife and children, and a boy they picked up along the way, behind on a military aircraft carrier acting as a safe haven. Lane refuses to go, until it is explained to him that if he makes himself unessential, his family will have to leave the ship. While this is a fine back-story for the character, it ultimately feels tacked on as a last-ditch effort to allow the audience connect to Lane. He is very quiet, very inconspicuous, very calculated, for the hero of a horror/thriller. After traveling to two cities deemed important in the collection of information, Lane is no closer to finding a cure. Only while fleeing Jerusalem does he get an idea. Lane’s proposed solution is interesting, but it doesn’t feel exactly like a puzzle that the audience was allowed to solve along with the character. This only adds to the disappointingly introspective nature of our hero. All that said, though, World War Z is full of thrills and suspense. It doesn’t try too hard to be deep, and at the same time it doesn’t throw away all sense of plot in favor of shoving explosions down your throat. It is clean in its choices. Whereas most modern blockbusters get bogged down in overcomplicated plotlines, World War Z is decidedly simple. And that makes it easier to sit back and enjoy. None of the performances were particularly noteworthy, but that should be expected from a film of this caliber. For a suspenseful, thrilling movie-going experience with its share of jumps, World War Z will do just fine. RATING: 3.5/5
Racist And Prejudice Acts Cause Oberlin College To Cancel Classes An Ohio college is sending the message that racism and prejudice will not be tolerated following a series of incidents targeting African-American and gay students . Oberlin University officials recently made the decision to cancel classes to investigate and find out exactly who is behind the acts. via The Guardian A liberal arts college in Ohio suspended classes on Monday after a series of racist and “anti-gay “incidents on campus. Over the past month at Oberlin College, swastikas have been daubed on windows, gay-rights flyers defaced and a poster for Black History Month overwritten to read “N***er History Month”. On Monday, police were called to investigate a sighting of someone dressed as a member of the “triple K clan” near the college’s Afrikan Heritage House in the early hours of the morning. That prompted officials to suspend classes “to make a strong statement about the values that we cherish here at Oberlin: inclusion, respect for others, and a strong and abiding faith in the worth of every individual”. Kudos to these school administrators for a taking such a huge stand against this type of ridiculous behavior and letting the students know that it will not be tolerated. Shutterstock
