On this Sunday’s episode of True Blood Season 6 , viewers will be treated to an especially close shave, while also watching as the relationship between Eric and the Governor’s daughter goes in a drastic new direction. And if those teases aren’t intriguing enough, consider: Jason does many shirtless pull-ups. Look for an unusually intense and serious installment of the HBO smash this week, along with a recap and review to be posted on THG first thing Monday morning. In the meantime, satiate your appetite for sex, nudity and gore via the following pair of True Blood clips: True Blood Clip: A Very Close Shave True Blood Clip: The Governor’s Daughter
HA! A construction company in Canada is a bit late to the mocking-Kim-Kardashian-for-her-short-marriage-to-Kris-Humphries-game… but we’ll still laugh at the effort. In an attempt to quell complaints from the public, a Toronto-based company has put up the following sign outside the Bay Adelaide Centre, which really is coming soon, it swears: The sign was reportedly created by famous comedy troupe Second City. Kim, of course, is now the mother to North West and girlfriend of Kanye West . She’s moved on. But it’s fun to see not everyone else has.
Earlier this week, Ashley Benson flashed her cleavage on Instagram. But there’s one man who gets to see a lot more than mere cleavage – and it’s someone Pretty Little Liars fans know well: yes, Benson is dating costar Tyler Blackburn! “He makes me laugh,” Benson tells Us Weekly of her boyfriend and colleague. “I have such a crush!” The stars were spotted smooching in April at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, but did not go public with their relationship until recently. Any awkwardness on set, meanwhile, will soon be relieved because Blackburn has been cast on Ravenswood , the Pretty Little Liars spinoff that premieres in October. New characters for it will be introduced on the PLL Halloween special.
Earlier this week, Taylor Swift released the official Red music video . But yesterday the singer was in more of a red, white and blue mood, posting a series of patriotic photos on her blog as she celebrated the nation’s 237th birthday alongside some close friends. “Happy belated 4th of July,” the Grammy winner wrote. “My touring family joined me at the beach and I wanted to show you some of the pictures because you’re the reason we all get to be on tour together.” The following pics were snapped at Swift’s $17 million mansion in Watch Hill, Rhode Island: Following a holiday hiatus, Swift and her team will return to the road, as her Red tour continues in Pittsburgh later today.
‘He created this character unbeknownst to us, and then came to us,’ recalls producer Jerry Bruckheimer. By Amy Wilkinson, with reporting by Josh Wigler
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If you’re anything like us, the 4th of July holiday was met with mixed emotions. But things were particularly tough for a black professor and blogger who experienced racism firsthand on the plane ride home to Louisiana for the holiday weekend. Brittney Cooper shared her story via Salon.com , which we’ve excerpted below: As we boarded, I noticed that this mom and I would be sitting in the same row, I in the window seat, she in the center. As we sat awaiting takeoff, I finished a text conversation and signaled to the flight attendant for a seat-belt extender, a fat passenger’s best friend. Then just as the call came to shut our phones off, I glanced over at her, and she was still texting, rapidly. I caught a few words of the end of her text that made me look more intently: “on the plane, sitting thigh to thigh with a big fat n***er. Lucky me.” Immediately I was hyper-aware – looking around, feeling marked, wondering if others find my large, dark-skinned body as distasteful as my seatmate did. Even so, I was acutely aware, at least intellectually, that the problem lay with her and not me. But what would my recourse be. Though she was no toothpick herself, she is a white lady, a mom, with children and a husband – all the trappings of American middle-class respectability. Moreover, she sent those words in a private text communication. I am a fat, dark-skinned black woman. Had I gone off and set it off as she deserved, in all probability I would have been seen as the terrorist threat. Especially on the eve of the Fourth of July. I started by sharing her words in a status update on Facebook — in part because in recent days, I have seen one too many friends, both black and white, readily defending Paula Deen, and arguing that her use of the N-word was an understandable byproduct of her Southern roots and most assuredly a relic of a bygone era. However, as far as I could tell, this young family, in which the parents looked to be mid- to late 30s, were Northerners. So after waiting awhile and getting a handle on the tears that started coming steadily after I saw her words, I simply got her attention and asked her to read the Facebook status from my smartphone. She saw it, kind of grunted her assent, and then said nothing. So I pressed forward, in a low voice: “I just want to let you know that your words were hurtful. And I hope you don’t pass that kind of ignorance down to your beautiful boys.” She replied curtly, “I don’t.” What would you have done if you were Brittney?
