Attention, Internet users: Instagram has an important message to pass along… In response to uproar over the rumor that a new terms of service agreement would allow the company to sell photos without compensating the subject of said photos, co-founder Kevin Systrom has released a statement. “[The new terms of service] was interpreted by many that we were going to sell your photos to others without any compensation. This is not true,” Systrom says. According to the controversial Instagram agreement: “A business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.” But Systrom assures users: “Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed. We respect that there are creative artists and hobbyists alike that pour their heart into creating beautiful photos, and we respect that your photos are your photos. Period. “I always want you to feel comfortable sharing your photos on Instagram and we will always work hard to foster and respect our community and go out of our way to support its rights.” Are you now satisfied, readers? Will you continue to use the service?
These girls are serving Malibu Barbie realness… Valeria Lukyanova Has Twin Sister Via RadarOnline : Human Barbie’ Valeria Lukyanova has a new sidekick and the freaky looking doll-like pair is proving that together they truly have twice the plastic power! The Ukrainian model’s doppleganger calls herself Dominika but her birth name is Olga Oleynik and she comes from Odessa, the same town as her mentor. “We met on the Internet five years ago,” explained 21-year-old Valeria. “We were curious about our similarities. We had the same hairstyle, make-up, and even dressed in a similar way. Our friends were sure that we were blood sisters. “We are really sisters — but only in spiritual way,” she went on to say. “We have the same outlook and lifestyle.” The plastic — and reportedly surgically-enhanced pair — has been holding lectures on spirituality for around $100 a session and say they use their unique looks to lure in participants. “We are planning to move to America soon. Dominika’s boyfriend is living in the U.S. and my husband wants to start a business there too,” said Valeria. “I am not going to be bored abroad, I’m often invited to photo-shoots and parties.” East2WestNews
So sad … Teenage Girl Commits Suicide Because Of Online Bullies Jessica Laney, 16, of Hudson, Florida, was a popular soccer-playing high schooler in her real-life, but when she got home to the privacy of her computer she had a busy social media alter-ego on sites such as Tumblr, and Ask.fm, where people can ask questions and make anonymous comments… Via RadarOnline reports: The student at Fivay High School bantered with other users on the site under the name Jessica Marieee1, and while many posts were about boys, songs and make-up, some took on a much more sinister tone, calling her fat and a loser. One visitor asked her, “Can you kill yourself already?” and another commented “nobody even cares about you.” While many of her real friends believe that the taunts from Internet trolls are to blame for Jessica’s death by hanging, an official from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office says neither Laney’s parents nor Laney’s boyfriend were aware of any bullying in her life. “Our thoughts and prayers go to the Jessica Marie Laney’s family as they deal with their loss. (Pasco County Sheriff’s Office) is not aware of any formal complaint to the Pasco School District or PSO about her being bullied,” said Doug Tobin, Public Information Officer for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. However, some telling online comments from Jessica herself on Ask.fm hint at deep rifts in her home-life and trouble with her family. “I miss so many people, but honestly I miss my brother, not the person he is now, but the one he use to be,” she wrote two days before her death. “I know he doesn’t miss me, but it still hurts to know he will never come back and more than likely never talk to me again.” Many of Jessica’s friends are now campaigning to have the controversial website taken down and have launched a petition on Change.org, that has already garnered thousands of signatures. “After I saw that, I thought they should just delete the website. Nobody should have that, to have people say stuff like that on there,” said school pal Laney Torres. The old adage “sticks and stones will break bones, but words will never hurt” is so far from the truth. Parents need to be into their kids business, all of it. Our deepest sympathies to this young girl’s family.
Sheryl Crow is a breast cancer surviving 50 year old rockstar who used to push performance enhancing drugs on Lance Armstrong because she made him feel inadequate as a one testicled biker, forcing him to over compensate and break records on a bike, you know to feel like a man… I guess the good news about her breast cancer, is that she’s still got an ass worth eating, and she’s broadcasting it on the internet, letting all the other 50 years old women see what not having kids does to a woman….and that is nothing but good things…. I figure ego to procreate isn’t worth the sacrifice that is your body…. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never been into Sheryl Crow…but looking at her makes me into what she represents…and that is an old ass in a bikini…. Here is the video… TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
Who or what do you think was the most sought after Google search of the year?? Google Releases The Top Ten Searched Terms Of The Year Google has done their homework and unveiled the list of the top internet searches of 2012. Millions of people log on the internet everyday looking for information, pictures, news articles, and videos of everything from celebrities, to TV shows, to technology advances. Take a look at the list after the flip, you might be surprised at what you see…
I can’t say I know that much about this Claudia Romani , but considering how well she fills out that bikini, she’s obviously a pro. Turns out she’s an Italian model best known for — what else? — wearing bikinis. And with a booty like that, I can see why. Anyway, it’s nice to see that Claudia loves her job so much, she’s even working while on vacation. That’s the kind of dedication and career focus I’m looking for in my next Internet girlfriend. We’ll be in touch. Related Articles: Jennifer Lawrence Stretches Out Her Shirt Jennifer Lawrence’s Tasty Front Meat Jennifer Lawrence Pumps It For Me Jennifer Lawrence Bikini Pictures For Thanksgiving Photos: PacificCoastNews
I can’t say I know that much about this Claudia Romani , but considering how well she fills out that bikini, she’s obviously a pro. Turns out she’s an Italian model best known for — what else? — wearing bikinis. And with a booty like that, I can see why. Anyway, it’s nice to see that Claudia loves her job so much, she’s even working while on vacation. That’s the kind of dedication and career focus I’m looking for in my next Internet girlfriend. We’ll be in touch. Related Articles: Jennifer Lawrence Stretches Out Her Shirt Jennifer Lawrence’s Tasty Front Meat Jennifer Lawrence Pumps It For Me Jennifer Lawrence Bikini Pictures For Thanksgiving Photos: PacificCoastNews
If American Psycho ‘s Patrick Bateman were a film critic, he’d be Bret Easton Ellis. When he’s not promoting his film The Canyons — directed by Paul Schrader and starring Lindsay Lohan — on Twitter, Ellis has been blowing shotgun-sized holes in some of the awards season’s biggest films. The Less Than Zero author contends that Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow is “really overrated,” and Les Misérables makes him miserable. (According to him, it’s an “incomprehensible mess.” ) Life of Pi fares better, though Ellis would like to see that film’s young star Suraj Sharma get into porn. Oh yeah, and he also claims that the Academy “hates” The Dark Knight Rises . Below, a sampling of Ellis’ critical stylings, not necessarily in chronological order: Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she's a very hot woman she's really overrated.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Kathryn Bigelow: Strange Days, K-19 The Widowmaker, Blue Steel, The Hurt Locker. Are we talking about visionary filmmaking or just OK junk?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Silver Linings Playbook: “Zero Dark Thirty” might win critics awards but “Silver Linings Playbook” will win the Best Picture Oscar. This is how it always happens…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Les Misérables: The film version of “Les Miserables” is so bad that it made me rethink why I ever loved the stage version. 2 hours and 40 minutes of tacky.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 The one actor surviving the incomprehensible mess “Les Miserables” is Eddie Redmayne, who should get an award for avoiding humiliation…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Tom Hooper blows just about every song in “Les Miserables” including “On My Own” which I didn't think possible no matter who directed it…— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Oh yeah and I forgot: “Les Miserables” opens on Christmas Day and (spoiler alert!) just about everyone in it dies. Merry fucking Christmas.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 05, 2012 Life of Pi: Life of Pi is the movie I've thought about the most in 2012. As a writer I can't reconcile with its disturbing reveal: illusion vs. reality?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 Suraj Sharma gives an amazing and incredibly moving performance in “Life of Pi” and seriously needs to do some porn. Misspelling: my fault.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 Killing Them Softly Based on the terrific source material “Killing Them Softly” doesn't work at all, but the actor Scoot McNairy is now officially on the radar.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 “Killing Them Softly” starring Brad Pitt is one of only eight films in Cinemascore's history to receive an “F” grade but…”Troy” didn't?!?— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 04, 2012 How the Academy will vote: The Academy is going to go for Silver Linings Playbook and not Lincoln.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 The Academy hates The Dark Knight Rises because I sat in that theater that night and listened to the banter in the lobby afterwards.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 There's not a chance in hell that Ang Lee will win best director. That will be a fight between Ben Affleck and David O. Russell. Haneke? No.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 03, 2012 I’m not sure if Ellis’ most recent tweet is a reaction to reaction to his withering perspective, but, as you might expect, he’s unrepentant: Anyone Unfollowing me should have known better and never Followed me in the first place. Wise up: pussies and snowflakes. Get the F over it.— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) December 06, 2012 Watch your back, Sandy Kenyon. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
I’m an outlier among other insufferable snobs on the Internet: I actually want Khan to be the villain of Star Trek Into Darkness . This isn’t because I desperately want the films to touch every base that the original series did. After nearly 30 years on television and 10 movies of highly uneven quality, the Star Trek universe prior to JJ Abrams’ Star Trek was suffering horribly from internal rot, not to mention a growing reliance on awful time travel plots and constant nods to series continuity. A fresh start was desperately needed if it was going to remain relevant, even if it came at — sniff — the expense of Captains Picard and Sisko*. But if Star Trek was a successful fresh start (and it was), it also brought with it some terrible baggage from the previous continuity, specifically the fact that its plot was motivated by the same time-travel bullshit that caused the TV universe to finally collapse under the weight of its own pretentions. Thank the founders that Abrams movie focused squarely on the Holy Trinity of Kirk, Spock, and Bones, or we would have noticed how awful Nero really was. But as we’ve already learned with Iron Man 2 , a successul sequel needs to do more than coast on the chemistry of its leads. With Kirk and co. firmly established, STID needs a strong conflict with high stakes, and a memorable villain (or at least a prime mover) connected to that conflict. To pull that off, you can’t force the audience to consult a Trek lore guide. Superturbonerd Trek Fans like me might want to see Harcourt Mudd, Cyrano Jones, Gary Mitchell, The Horta, or that horrible psychic kid played by Ron Howard’s brother but frankly, that’s inside baseball. Ask the legions of moviegoers for whom for whom Star Trek is essentially Kirk bangs space hotties-Spock lectures him about the logic of using a condom-Bones grumpily administers penicillin ,”the only villain they’ll recite from memory is Ricardo Montalban’s Khan Noonien Singh. Is that a problem? Only if you think that the Joker’s appearing in The Dark Knight was a problem. Iconic characters linger in the public memory for a reason, and that makes it easy for a skilled storyteller to take them and make them over into something later audiences can appreciate anew. Do it right and you can get away with anything, even making a horribly lame villain like Bane look bad-ass. And for better or for worse, Khan is Kirk’s Joker. So milk that shit, I say. Use him well and firmly ground STID in its own past, and save less exploited territory for future sequels, when you’ve solidified the audience’s loyalty. But is Khan the villain of Star Trek Into Darkness ? Who the hell can tell? The new trailer certainly doesn’t want us to know for sure. But damned if it isn’t teasing the hell out of us. It’s already been confirmed that the villain will be canon. And now we know that whatever character is blessed with Benedict Cumberbatch’s crisp, Public School tones, he’s really angry and looking to exact some revenge – sorry, vengeance, which is way classier than mere revenge – on the people of Earth. That sounds like Khan to me! Unless Cyrano Jones is angry that the Klingons wiped out the Tribbles. There’s also the fact that the American trailer lacks one crucial scene present in the Japanese trailer (see it right before the end): a deliberate homage to the moment of Spock’s Death in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan . Even if it’s just a dodge (something Abrams does very well,) the reference can’t be a coincidence. And if this means we get to see Cumberbatch doing is best Ricardo Montalban impression, that’s fine by me. Just so long as it doesn’t mean we have to endure another go at The Search For Spock . Some additional thoughts: -If you think it’s ridiculous that a lily-white Briton like Benedict Cumberbatch could even pretend to play an Indian, it’s worth noting that Gabrielle Anwar and Ben Kingsley both have Indian fathers. -Notice the ship rising out of the water? If it isn’t the SS botany Bay, I wonder if it’s the same starship we see crashing into the San Francisco Bay later in the trailer. -The interesting thing about the trailer is just how much of Earth we’re seeing in it. Star Trek was originally pitched as Wagon Train to the stars, but of course, the wagon train had to start somewhere. The original series and subsequent iterations barely feature earth as anything other than a reference. For all we know, the only thing people do back home is build more Enterprises. Also, whenever I watch a western, I always want a scene of what people are up to back in Boston or London. It’s interesting that in the space version, we’re getting exactly that. *Truth: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is inarguably the best series. YEAHISAIDIT. Read More: ‘ Star Trek Into Darkness’ Explodes An Early Tease Star Trek 2 Gets A Title: Where Does It Rank In The Franchise? Ross Lincoln is a LA-based freelance writer from Oklahoma with an unhealthy obsession with comics, movies, video games, ancient history, Gore Vidal, and wine. Follow Ross A. Lincoln on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
It’s that time of the year again. With 2013 around the corner, THG is going back in time and selecting 10 finalists for our annual Celebrity of the Year award. These stars gave us their best, their worst, their nude pics (sometimes hot), their sex tapes (often not) and their scandals. We kicked off the countdown with Adam Levine at #10 . And now we move on to #9… HONEY BOO BOO! A year ago, seven-year old Alana Thompson was just your basic kid… who starred in beauty pageants and appeared occasionally on Toddlers & Tiaras . Then TLC turned its cameras specifically on Thompson and her family and the world took yet another step toward the Apocalypse. Mother June Shannon grew into a television and Internet sensation, while ratings for Here Comes Honey Boo Boo soared. This family was suddenly more popular than Republicans convening nationally for your vote. Alana has appeared on Dr. Drew and The Tonight Show , among other major talk shows, with viewers simultaneously repulsed by this toddler and enamored by her. She handles road kill. She’s proud of her ever-growing belly. She’s made Go Go Juice into a thing. TLC, naturally, has ordered multiple holiday specials featuring this eccentric family and their popularity has caused an uproar over the status of our programming and our country in general. What are we to make of someone such as Honey Boo Boo turning into a full-fledged celebrity? What does it say about her? About us? How much lower can television sink? Let’s all ponder these heavy questions together… right after we set our DVR for the Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Christmas spectacular, that is.
