” Russell Brand was NOT arrested for a misdemeanor yesterday … turns out it was a FELONY, and the late Steve Jobs may be to blame. We did some digging and just found out … in Louisiana property damage that exceeds $500 triggers a felony arrest. You’ll recall, Brand allegedly snatched a photog’s iPhone Monday night and hurled it through a plate glass window . The iPhone alone costs more than $500…Steve Jobs famously believed he could charge a lot for the iPhone — and did. And now Russell is paying dearly for it.” [ TMZ ]
Another day, another celeb stealing a phone … Apparently wearing nut-hugging skinny jeans, doing yoga and divorcing your wife gives you incredible celebrity superpowers. Superpowers including being able to wear women’s clothing without your sexuality being questioned on a daily basis, creating a successful career based on mediocre acting ability and having the courage to snatch innocent bystander’s phones. Russell Brand has been showcasing those incredible superpowers while in New Orleans after he allegedly snatched an iPhone from a man and then hurled it through a window. According to RadarOnline reports : “The officers are trying to get in touch with Mr. Brand,” Sergeant Frank Robertson, a spokesperson for the New Orleans Police Department told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. “The case is still being investigated, and no charges have been filed on Mr. Brand as of yet.” The bizarre incident occurred at around 7 pm on Monday in the Warehouse District of the city, when a paparazzi photographer named Timothy Jackson was reportedly trying to take photos of the Arthur star on his iPhone; Russell became angry and snatched it out his hand and threw it through a nearby window. The disgruntled British actor can be seen leaning into the window of a silver car; he is then snapped with the phone in hand before flinging it high into the air. “The ink is not even fresh on it, this case is not even 8 hours old yet,” Sergeant Robertson went on to tell Radar. “It is just so new and there are variable circumstance. Our office don’t even have the report yet but it is an ongoing investigation.” Look! In the French Quarter! It’s a bird… It’s a plane… No it’s just Russell Brand phone-napping a paparazzi’s phone. INFPhoto More On Bossip! New Couple? J.R. Smith Apologizes After Putting Tahiry’s Azz On Blizzast On Twitter Groupie Tales PT. 2: Men That Love Their Fans…And Sometimes Get In Trouble For It Biggie Swag: Plus-Sized Men And The Beaufiful Women They Chopped Down Crazy In Love: Women That Went A Little Cuckoo For The Men They Loved
Russell Brand recently broke up with Katy Perry . And, according to an irate paparazzo, a window. A Splash News photographer, Timothy Jackson, filed a police report against Brand, who allegedly approached Jackson’s car, wrestled away his iPhone and heaved it through a window of nearby law firm, shattering the glass. That’s some arm, if true! Splash has a series of photos showing Russell snatching the iPhone and the apparent aftermath of broken glass at the offices of Deutsch, Kerrigan and Stiles. New Orleans Police are still investigating, but no charges have been filed and there’s no warrant out for Brand. Heck, the NOPD is still trying to ring him up. “We have had several attempts to get in contact with Russell Brand in the past day, all of which were unsuccessful,” a department spokesman tells E! News. Maybe Russell disposed of his own phone through similar means? [Photo: WENN.com]
The annals of filmmaking are filled with stories of people who managed to make movies against all odds, without money, without shooting permits, without proper professional equipment. This Is Not a Film, the 75-minute film directed by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb that made its debut at Cannes last spring and is now, thankfully, arriving in theaters Stateside, may be the ultimate achievement in stealth filmmaking, considering that Panahi is currently serving a six-year jail sentence and has been banned by the Iranian government from making films for 20 years. And yet somehow he has made a movie that found its way first to one of the world’s major film festivals, and now to other parts of the world: This Is Not a Film is a small but extremely significant message in a bottle. That metaphor is almost literal: The picture made its way to Cannes via a USB drive — which was smuggled in a cake. The movie covers a day in Panahi’s life as he’s waiting to hear the results of his appeal. It was shot with a digital camera (manned by Mirtahmasb, a documentary filmmaker, who is also heard asking Panahi questions off-camera) and an iPhone (wielded, slyly, by Panahi, because how much harm can a little home movie do?). Mirtahmasb’s camera captures the mundane details of Panahi’s life as he makes and takes calls on his cell phone (including one from his lawyer), answers the door for the food-delivery guy, feeds some greens to his daughter’s large, and surprisingly personable, pet iguana. From these mundane details spring all sorts of provocative, frustrated conversations about the nature of filmmaking under a repressive regime. At one point, Panahi reveals that he’s going to tell the story of a script that he wrote before his arrest, which the authorities had refused to approve. With masking tape, he marks off a corner of his nicely furnished living room to serve as a makeshift set; he describes the actions of his main character, a suicidal young woman. Then he stops abruptly, realizing the futility of the enterprise: “If we could tell a film, then why make a film?” The moment is piercing for the way it cuts to the heart of Panahi’s plight: Here we have a gifted, dedicated filmmaker being kept from doing the thing he lives for. You may as well cut off his right arm – though Panahi himself is too optimistic for that, never resorting to self-pity, at least here. And the fact that Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation managed to win an Oscar this past weekend – something Panahi couldn’t have known, of course, while this Not a Film was being made – does raise the visibility of the restrictions and outright danger Iranian filmmakers face. In that context, seeing This Is Not a Film today is a slightly more hopeful experience than it was last May. Still, Panahi’s house arrest is cause for no one’s joy. (No one outside the Iranian government, that is.) In the course of the day, we hear fireworks outside that sound like gunshots, part of a Persian New Year’s celebration known as “Fireworks Wednesday” that’s supposedly benign and celebratory but which, under current conditions, has the capacity to turn violent. A neighbor rings the doorbell of Panahi’s apartment: She wonders if he’ll watch her small, noisy dog for a few hours while she goes off to the fireworks, and though Panahi at first agrees, he calls her back just seconds later when the dog launches into a barking tirade. Panahi goes online, noting that his access to sites he might like to visit has been seriously curtailed. He turns on the television to catch news of the earthquake in Japan. In the film’s final section, filmed by Panahi himself (now manning the professional camera and not the iPhone), an impromptu encounter with a young man who’s filling in for the building’s superintendent becomes a kind of mini-Panahi film. Earlier Panahi pictures like The Circle and Offside are deeply political movies that derive all their meaning from depictions of people’s everyday lives, rather than from any contrived arrangement of abstract ideas. By the end of This Is Not a Film Panahi, going from floor to floor with this affable, photogenic guy (he’s also a student) as he collects the residents’ garbage, has turned the camera away from himself and out toward the world, even if that world is only an elevator and, later, a courtyard beyond which lies a blazing bonfire that may or may not be celebratory. This Is Not a Film is so technically modest that it almost isn’t a film. Yet in its simplicity it’s as direct as a laser beam, underscoring why Panahi is considered so dangerous by his country’s government: The difference between just looking and really seeing is second nature to him. Editor’s note: Portions of this review appeared earlier, in a slightly different form, in Stephanie Zacharek’s Cannes Film Festival coverage. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Rihanna and Chris Brown are both seemingly trying to start some controversy. Days after Brown’s recent scandal involving a fan’s claims that he stole her iPhone, there are reports that Rihanna has let Chris know that she has his back through the drama. Is she talking about him in her tweets? If Chris is formally charged (which was rumored to have been happening yesterday), he could be in violation of his probation. Rihanna tweeted some lyrics over the weekend that many think were references to Brown … intended for him to see. “And I know, and I know, and I know….everything u like, everything I love ,” she tweeted. And later added, “He wants that old thing back! Uh uh uh, he want those heroin tracks! He likes me, he fiends for me nightly.”
Aatma Studio has come up with some interesting concepts in the past, where the two most recent ones would be the iPhone 5 and another apple-shaped device , but with the iPad 3 being all but confirmed for a March 7th announcement , here we are with another concept video from Aatma Studio. It will come with an edge-to-edge Retina Display, letting you kiss goodbye to those ugly bezels, in addition to… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : übergizmo Discovery Date : 28/02/2012 14:34 Number of articles : 2
WWE wrestler CM Punk may be right in saying Chris Brown hasn’t changed. Chris Brown is in trouble after being accused of stealing a random fan’s iPhone after she snapped a photo of him leaving a nightclub in Miami. Chris allegedly snatched the phone and said “B*tch, you’re not gonna put that on the Internet,” before driving off with the device. A rep for the Miami Beach Police Department tells TMZ , 24-year-old Christal Spann filed a police report Sunday for “robbery by snatching” — claiming she followed Chris and rapper Tyga out of Cameo nightclub early in the morning… and snapped a picture of Chris getting into his Bentley. No warrant has been issued and being that Brown is on probation, he could possibly face jail time! RELATED: CM Punk Explains Chris Brown Wrestling Challenge: “He Hasn’t Changed” [VIDEO] Chris Brown Challenged To A Wrestling Match [VIDEO] Rihanna, Chris Brown ‘Birthday Cake’ Remix [LISTEN] Singer Miranda Lambert Says Chris Brown Should “Be Put Back In His Place” Chris Brown Has Another Twitter Meltdown Over Rihanna Comments, Deletes Tweets Chris Brown Added To Anderson Cooper’s “RidicuList” On CNN [VIDEO] Chris Brown Explodes In Rage, Breaks Window At “Good Morning America” [VIDEO]
Coverage? is an iOS app that tells you where to expect coverage from all the major US carriers. The maps are based on coverage maps from the cell companies, but they are interpreted, updated, and quite a bit more useful. You can see all major US carriers, and overlay them. I initially looked at Coverage? in 2010 when the iPhone was only on AT&T. At the time, I found the comparisons a bit depressing…. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Unofficial Apple Weblog Discovery Date : 16/02/2012 20:57 Number of articles : 2
My name is Alex and this is My Bieber Experience! On August 28th, 2010 I went to Justin Bieber’s My World Tour date at the Prudential Center with two of my best friends, Christina and Casey! We didn’t have the best seats in the world, but just knowing we were in the same arena as Justin made it worth it! The concert was the best concert I’d ever seen! When it was coming to an end, we asked my mom if we could look for the stage door outside of the arena. She surprisingly agreed! When the concert ended, we walked around the arena for about 20 minutes and found a group of people behind barricades. We stood there for 15 minutes and a security guard called us over and told us he wasn’t coming out by this door, but if we kept walking around, we’d find a giant gate and that he’d probably be exiting there. We walked and found the gate. About 15 other girls were there so we were able to get a spot right up front. Another 20 minutes went by and about 100 other girls gathered around. At this point we were being pushed up against the gate. 10 minutes later, a camera crew came out and so did Justin’s band members. Then his dancers came out, and we talked to some of them! Antonio talked to us and took a video of us on his iPhone to show to Justin, so hopefully he saw it! The camera came around and filmed us too! Then out of no where, Pattie, Scooter, Allison and Kenny came out. And then Ryan Good came out with JUSTIN! I couldn’t believe it! He started walking up to the gate and came around and touched everyone’s hand! The second he touched mine was something I’ll never forget. The best moment ever! A few months later, on February 9th at the ‘NEVER SAY NEVER’ screening, the movie was ending and they showed that clip at the end when he touched our hands! I burst into tears! I couldn’t believe I was in NEVER SAY NEVER! Although I didn’t meet Justin, just being able to touch his hand and be in the movie was great enough! Thank You Justin, for showing me to Never Say Never! The rest is here: My name is Alex and this is My Bieber Experience! On August…
From the Lord of the Light to the Drowned God and beyond, here are five key scenes from the HBO series’ new sneak peek. By Josh Wigler Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy in “Game Of Thrones” Photo: HBO The night is dark and full of terrors in Westeros, the fantasy land at the heart of “Game of Thrones.” But if you thought the HBO fantasy series proved its capacity for brutality and betrayal in season one, just wait: The April-debuting second season — based on George R.R. Martin’s second novel in his “Song of Ice and Fire” odyssey, “A Clash of Kings” — promises more blood and dragons than ever before. A new trailer for “Game of Thrones” season two , which hit HBO last night (January 29) ahead of the network’s premiere of the Dustin Hoffman drama “Luck,” does more than its fair share to remind you that this isn’t your comparatively tame hobbit-filled fantasy story. Keep reading for five key scenes from the latest look at “Thrones.” He Told You Not to Trust Him “Game of Thrones” has largely remained faithful to Martin’s source material, but there have been deviations along the way. Season two looks no different, based on this new trailer that sees grieving widow Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) holding Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aidan Gillen) at knifepoint. It’s a scene that absolutely does not occur in the books, even if it’s one that would satisfy a lot of fans’ bloodlust toward the loyalty-free Littlefinger. But is it an editing trick or a sizeable new addition? You be the judge! Lord of the Light There are several dangerous new players in the world of Westeros come season two, but perhaps no one worth watching quite as much as Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) and his accomplice, the red priestess Melisandre (Carice van Houten). As worshippers of R’hllor, the God of Flame and Shadow, both Stannis and Melisandre will force many enemies to meet their fiery ends before season two draws to a close. The blaze of glory is briefly teased in this trailer with a look at one of Melisandre’s many night rituals. The Imp and the Spider The new trailer is bookended by a riddle that spymaster Varys (Conleth Hill) puts forth to Tyrion Lannister ( Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage ), now acting as King’s Hand on his father Tywin’s behalf. It’s just one of many memorable interactions between the Spider and the Imp, a crucial new dynamic that’s sure to dominate much of season two. And despite his award-winning streak and his pledge that he knows “how the game is played,” don’t put too much stake in Tyrion’s confidence — even the sharpest mind could bend before a king’s cruelty. Speaking of which … Madness Landing Westeros is at war, and every city is a battleground. The historic King’s Landing is no exception, as the cruel reign of King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) has turned commoner against royalty. It’s a cultural shift that Joffrey and his loved ones are deservedly feeling in every possible manner, a shift that Queen Regent Cersei (Lena Headey) faces directly during a pivotal riot teased in the new trailer. The Drowned God Rises A fairly unassuming character in season one, Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) becomes one of the most prominent players in the “Thrones” saga this coming season. Here, you see his not-so-triumphant return to the Iron Islands, his homeland he’s been separated from for over a decade. Though his loyalties lie with King in the North Robb Stark (Richard Madden) by nurture, Theon believes himself Ironborn by nature — and he’ll have to test that very struggle in most desperate ways as “Thrones” embarks on its next string of episodes. What did you think of the “Game of Thrones” trailer? Let us know in the comments! For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos 5 Key Scenes From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season Two Preview
