Filed under: Tiger Woods , Paparazzi Photo , Kids , TMZ Sports After giving away roughly $100 million in his divorce from Elin Nordegren , Tiger Woods simply spent time this morning — taking Charlie to pre-school in Orlando. Being a good father is priceless. Read more
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Filed under: Judd Nelson , Ally Sheedy , Molly Ringwald , Anthony Michael Hall , Memba Them , Beauty The 1985 film ” The Breakfast Club ” helped solidify Judd Nelson , Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald , Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy as members of the Brat Pack . Guess what most of them look like now ! Read more
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Filed under: Conrad Murray , Paparazzi Photo , Kids Attempting unsuccessfully to go incognito by wearing sunglasses, Dr. Conrad Murray spent Monday with his newest kid in Santa Monica. Doc is a real good pusher. Read more
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Tax-cut advocates used to pretend that they were mainly concerned about helping typical American families. Even tax breaks for the rich were justified in terms of trickle-down economics, the claim that lower taxes at the top would make the economy stronger for everyone. These days, however, tax-cutters are hardly even trying to make the trickle-down case. Yes, Republicans are pushing the line that raising taxes at the top would hurt small businesses, but their hearts don’t really seem in it. Instead, it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. I mean, look at the expenses of people in that income class — the property taxes they have to pay on their expensive houses, the cost of sending their kids to elite private schools, and so on. Why, they can barely make ends meet. And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: it’s their money, and they have the right to keep it. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes — but that was a long time ago. The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent. added by: mik661
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Singer visited Howard University to launch the $10,000 Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge. By Alexandra Bradshaw John Legend Photo: MTV Grammy-winning singer John Legend surprised a class at Howard University last week, when he showed up to help kick off the Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge , calling on current and aspiring college students to propose innovative digital tools to simplify the process of finding funding for school. The singer also became the class’ guest teacher for the day for an upcoming episode of mtvU’s “Stand In.” “Too many of our people are still living in consistent poverty, living in a country where opportunities are not equal,” Legend told the class. “Educational inequality is the reality that where a child is born, what color that child is and/or how much money that child’s parents make determine the quality of his or her education and life prospects. That’s not just, that’s not fair, that’s not right.” Legend — whose new album with the Roots, Wake Up!, is out on Tuesday — spoke of his journey toward obtaining a degree with honors from University of Pennsylvania. He praised past teachers who provided him with the support and guidance to receive a scholarship to UPenn and explained how vital scholarships were to his ability to complete college. “I was one of the lucky ones,” he said. “Too many other kids don’t have those same opportunities today.” Studies have shown that upwards of 2 million college students don’t apply for financial aid that is available to them each year, and that almost two thirds of students surveyed find the process of applying for financial aid difficult and time consuming. In response to these trends, MTV and the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center partnered to launch the Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge. “They’re calling on you guys and college students nationwide to re-imagine the financial aid process,” Legend explained as he announced the contest. Students nationwide are encouraged to submit ideas for a digital tool that would connect their peers with more money for school at GetSchooled.MTV.com . The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 and the opportunity to work with world-class design firm frog design to bring their tool to life. Applications are being accepted until December 17, 2010. Go to GetSchooled.com for resources on college completion and to watch the “Get Schooled: You Have a Right” special, featuring President Barack Obama, LeBron James and Kelly Clarkson. Related Artists John Legend
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The horrific gang rape of a 16-year-old girl is roiling Canada. It's suspected that she was drugged at a rave on Saturday and then assaulted in a nearby field by a group of males. Truly adding insult to injury: The attack in Pitt Meadows, B.C., was photographed and videotaped — and the evidence was then published on Facebook by one of her alleged attackers. The photos and video “have been viewed, shared, saved and reposted numerous times,” an official told the Vancouver Sun. The images are spreading like wildfire, and it's impossible to contain. This is the typical predicament law enforcement faces when it comes to online child pornography: Once it's out there, it's usually out there for good. The digital trail is just too difficult to trace. We've seen a similar thing with teen “sexting.” A boyfriend gets angry when his girlfriend breaks up with him, so he texts a naked photo of her to all his buddies, they send it to all their buddies, and so on and so forth. In the end, it's hard to know just how many people have seen the image and where it's ended up. This reminds me of reports earlier this year about a woman who goes by the pseudonym Amy: Her uncle sexually abused her as a little girl and circulated the photographic evidence in child porn circles. Now she's calling for damages from anyone caught with images of her abuse; so far, her photos have shown up in more than 800 child porn prosecutions. In a letter to the court, she wrote: “It is hard to describe what it feels like to know that at any moment, anywhere, someone is looking at pictures of me as a little girl being abused by my uncle and is getting some kind of sick enjoyment from it. It's like I am being abused over and over and over again.” The same could also be said about the images of the alleged gang rape. The major difference here is that the material is being distributed via a mainstream website. For the most part, these are not pedophilic child pornography collectors; many of the distributors are teenagers themselves. This of course has many adults asking that age-old question: What's wrong with kids these days? I suspect there are a couple explanations that do not require us to label “kids these days” as amoral animals. No. 1 on my list is, of course, the culture of victim blaming. According to one report, “only hours after disturbing pictures were posted on Facebook, teens were already suggesting the victim was a willing participant and asked for it.” This “othering” response allows people to mentally guard themselves against the possibility of ever being a victim themselves; it's what's known as the “just-world phenomenon” (and, ironically, it creates a less just world). Of course, the other defining element here is the Internet. The Web allows us to share videos — whether it's a crazy cat trick or footage of someone's death — with very few keystrokes, and often very little thought. These kids have grown up in the age of “Two Girls One Cup,” a coprophilic video that rose to viral status thanks to the utter horror that it inspired in viewers. There are legion examples of even journalistic videos and photographs that have whipped around the Web specifically because they are horrifying — think of the Neda Agha-Soltan video, for example. These sorts of images are the norm. We have access to them, they exist, and so we view them — duh. Carry this view a little further and it isn't hard to understand how even a nonsociopathic teenager might opt to view a photo of a girl's rape, or even send it along to a friend. This is so often how we share things, good and bad; we hit “forward” or “re-tweet” or “like,” etc. Technology offers us a sense of privacy, and detachment, even as we're sharing these things with the entire Web. The online mentality is one of entitlement and total freedom, no one has ownership over anything (just ask record label execs). I would venture to say that it hasn't even occurred to many of the kids — the ones who are not, you know, patently evil — that they are violating this girl themselves. added by: Future_America
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Comedians plan to lampoon Glenn Beck rally on October 30, with competing political events on the National Mall. By Gil Kaufman Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Photo: Mathew Imaging/ Getty Images If you happen to be in Washington D.C. on October 30 and wake up to find yourself surrounded by a sea of Sarah Palins and Glenn Becks, don’t freak out. They’re probably just getting ready for Halloween by putting on their GOP finest for a march down to a pair of protests planned for that day on the National Mall by “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart and his fake Republican brother-in-comedy, Stephen Colbert, of the “Colbert Report.” For two weeks now, Stewart has been teasing news of a big announcement, with Colbert threatening to one-up his former boss with his own major announcement, and on Thursday they finally spilled the beans about their plans. “Tonight, I bring you, the actual announcement!” Stewart thundered. He was addressing, he said, the 70 to 80 percent of Americans we don’t see on TV screaming about their political convictions while wearing funny hats, toting misspelled signs and likening our political leaders to Hitler. “Tonight, I announce the Rally to Restore Sanity. It is happening, people! … a real gathering. We will gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A Million Moderate March, where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that say, ‘We are here, but we’re only here until 6 because we have a sitter.’ A clarion call for rationality!” Both rallies are in response to Fox News talker Beck’s recent Restoring Hope event, which they have lampooned mercilessly for weeks, poking fun at everything from the fuzzy math on how many attendees were there to see Palin to the seemingly contradictory message about faith and hope after Beck’s nonstop bashing of President Obama for using hope as a trope in his 2008 presidential campaign. On the Rally to Restore Sanity website , Stewart went into a bit more detail about his inspiration for the event. “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” reads the intro on the site’s homepage. “Who among us has not wanted to open their window and shout that at the top of their lungs? Seriously, who? Because we’re looking for those people. We’re looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard; and who believe that the only time it’s appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is actually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles.” Unlike Beck, who said it was just coincidence that he schedule last month’s event in the same place and on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Stewart said the date of his gathering has “no significance whatsoever” and it’s aimed at people who are too busy to go to rallies because they have “lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs).” The comedian is hoping for a giant mass of people, but mostly he’d like some subversive, silly fun to go down. “Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement; the Million Man March, only a lot smaller, and a bit less of a sausage fest; or the Gathering of the Juggalos , but instead of throwing our feces at Tila Tequila, we’ll be actively *not* throwing our feces at Tila Tequila,” he promised. “Join us in the shadow of the Washington Monument. And bring your indoor voice. Or don’t. If you’d rather stay home, go to work, or drive your kids to soccer practice … Actually, please come anyway. Ask the sitter if she can stay a few extra hours, just this once. We’ll make it worth your while.” Colbert’s message about his rival March to Keep Fear Alive gathering was appropriately more red, white and blue, tinged with a bit of green, as in envy for his recent Emmy loss to Stewart. “America, the Greatest Country God ever gave Man, was built on three bedrock principles: Freedom. Liberty. And Fear — that someone might take our Freedom and Liberty,” he wrote . “But now, there are dark, optimistic forces trying to take away our Fear — forces with salt-and-pepper hair and way more Emmys than they need. They want to replace our Fear with reason. But never forget — ‘Reason’ is just one letter away from ‘Treason.’ Coincidence? Reasonable people would say it is, but America can’t afford to take that chance.” Colbert encouraged his followers to pack an overnight bag with five extra pair of underwear, because “you’re going to need them.” Around 25,000 people are expected to attend the “competing” events, which will cap a week of tapings by both programs in the nation’s capital. Do you plan to attend either one of the rallies? Tell us in the comments!
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Conservative radio personality Steve Malzberg on Tuesday told Joy Behar exactly what the vast majority of right-thinking Americans would love to say to this “View” co-host if given the opportunity: ” You represent a radical leftist view in this country; it`s a very small minority .” Chatting with Behar on the CNN Headline News program bearing her name, Malzberg told the comedienne turned political commentator a thing or two about the Democrat President she adores, the former Republican President she hates, and why those controlling Congress are to blame for the sagging economy. After only three minutes of having her poorly-founded opinions challenged, Behar quickly dismissed Malzberg to bring on a friendlier guest (video follows with transcript and commentary): JOY BEHAR, HOST: Well, it`s back-to-school season. You know what that means. Time for some schools in Texas and Colorado to screen President Obama`s speech to children to make sure it`s fit for their ears. Hide your children. I`m about to play a piece. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Nobody gets to write your destiny but you. Your future is in your hands. Your life is what you make of it and nothing, absolutely nothing is beyond your reach. So long as you are willing to dream big. So long as you are willing to work hard. So long as you`re willing to stay focused on your education. (END VIDEO CLIP) BEHAR: Good thing they screened that because if you play it backwards it`s actually socialist propaganda. Here with me now are Stephanie Miller, host of “The Stephanie Miller Show”; Steve Malzberg, WOR radio talk show host and columnist for Newsmax.com. Hi Steve, how are you? STEVE MALZBERG, WOR RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Good, Joy. How are you? BEHAR: Good. What is the paranoia about on the right Steve? Tell me what it`s about. MALZBERG: You can`t ignore what happened last year with the Department of Education put out a directive to schools all over the country on how to handle Barack Obama`s speech last year to kids. BEHAR: What are they afraid of? MALZBERG: First of all, they backed off. They must have been — well, what is who afraid of? What are parents afraid of or what is the Department of Education afraid of? BEHAR: What are they afraid that he is going to say that is going to be so harmful to children? MALZBERG: Well, we know that the school wanted the kids to write letters on how they would help Barack Obama achieve his policies. And the Department of Education must have known they did something wrong because when that was discovered, they backed off and they told teachers not to have kids do that. So you`d have to ask the Department of Education what they did wrong last year that made them change what they did. Look, Barack Obama is the most divisive president we`ve ever seen. BEHAR: Come on. MALZBERG: That`s not just me. You can read Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell, two life-long Democrats who wrote in the “Wall Street Journal” a column called “The Divisive Presidency.” BEHAR: You know, can I just say Steve that — MALZBERG: Sure. BEHAR: I think that the tipping point for divisiveness was when the Supreme Court said that George W. Bush was the president and not the people — of the United States. I think that was the moment when the divide began. Don`t blame it on Barack Obama. MALZBERG: The people of the United States voted. It was the Supreme Court who deciphered the votes. BEHAR: Oh, come on. They never counted all the votes in Florida. There were more hanging chads there — come on. MALZBERG: You represent a radical leftist view in this country; it`s a very small minority. BEHAR: And what do you represent? MALZBERG: I represent the majority of people. BEHAR: Oh, the moral majority? MALZBERG: I didn`t say moral. I said look at the polls. He lost all his independent support because he is a radical, divisive figure. Why do you think all the independents have deserted him? White, educated women have deserted him. BEHAR: What is so divisive about trying to get health care for everybody, about trying to redo the financial situation in this country that he was left with, by President Bush in the previous years — (CROSSTALK) BEHAR: By trying to end the war in Iraq which was an immoral war and a political war that had nothing to do with the truth? What is so divisive about that? Tell me that. MALZBERG: First of all, the Congress has been Democrat since 2006. I don`t know if you know that. But aside from that — BEHAR: I love how the right wing, they blame the Democratic Congress when it suits your side. MALZBERG: Well, you say — well, everybody assumes that the Democrats took over with Obama in `08 and are trying to save us. The unemployment rate when the Democrats took over Congress was 5 percent. It went up to where it is now under a Democratic Congress. That aside — BEHAR: Come on. Cut the guy some slack. You see what he inherited. I really have to go. Thanks, Steve. Let me turn to Stephanie Miller now. Yeah, let’s turn to Stephanie Miller, someone who’s much more likely to agree with Behar. Of course, parents with children watching should be advised to quickly change channels, for after Behar showed a campaign ad mocking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Miller asked, “Is it wrong that I want to pour hot coffee in my genitals just from having been subjected to that?” Now that’s some classy material for a cable news network during prime time. What must CNN have been thinking giving this cretin her own show? On the other hand, that’s a silly question given the recent hiring of Kathleen Parker, Eliot Spitzer, and Piers Morgan, isn’t it? And they wonder why their ratings are plummeting faster than the President’s they helped get elected. Nice job, Steve! Bravo!
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‘Just think about it. They hit home runs in there,’ Swizz says of performing in his hometown arena. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Sway Calloway Swizz Beatz Photo: MTV News Last night, Swizz Beatz celebrated his birthday in one of the best ways you could think of. The Bronx native was a surprise guest of Jay-Z onstage at Yankee Stadium for the New York kickoff of the Jay-Z/Eminem Home and Home concerts, hot off the VMA stage, where he performed with Drake on Sunday night. “Being onstage with Jay is funny sometimes because he’s so cool and laid-back. I’m like the opposite, which makes it the perfect balance,” Swizz told us recently about performing with the Jiggaman. “Sometimes when I perform ‘On to the Next One,’ I’ll look at him and be like, ‘Let me calm my ass down a little bit.’ The energy, I’m just attracted to the people. It’s an honor when Jay introduced me and we’re able to rock the same stage back from ‘Jigga’ and we’re still able to make classics together and still able to be cool and still share the same stage. It’s a blessing.” When asked about actually being able to rock Yankee Stadium, the super-producer smiled and reflected. “Yankee Stadium. Ooo weee,” he beamed. “Just think about it. They hit home runs in there. It’s filled up like that. That’s bigger than the Garden.” Swizz is already getting prepared with tracks if Em and Jay should want to take their live collaboration into the studio. “That’s like the real best of both worlds,” Swizz declared. “I think [the two of the them having concerts together], that’s genius. Could this become an album? You see how I been thinking about that? Laying that out real quick.” The Jay-Eminem concerts in Detroit and New York, Swizz assessed, are a sign of the times. “The industry has no choice but to get together,” Beatz remarked. “It’s so crucial the decision that us as producers, as artists, as friends make. As you can see, the industry is on thin ice and it’s too many people standing on it. There’s no support. Where’s the all the support that used to be in our industry? It’s not there. The dollars are cut down. The digital world has scared the majors off from doing the correct deals. Now they introduced the 360 deals, where it’s totally chaos to me. Artists have to be creative like that now. Before you didn’t even have to think about teaming up. You’d be, like, right on your own playing field and that person would be the competition. And your job would be to destroy that person.” Do you think Jay-Z and Eminem should record an album together? Let us know in the comments. Related Photos Jay-Z And Eminem Make History In New York City Related Artists Swizz Beatz Jay-Z
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