My names Siobhan and I’m 13 from Bristol, England. I’m a huge fan of Justin. In school, my nickname is “Bieber” as everyone knows how dedicated I am to him. As every belieber does, I want to meet Justin so badly. I fangirl every time I hear his name, see his face or hear one of his songs, words cannot describe how much I love him. This summer, my mum, her boyfriend (Brian), his 2 children and I all went on a holiday to Canada! I didn’t ask to go even though I’d love too. My mum’s boyfriend has an Auntie and Uncle who live out there so we decided to go visit them. Their names are Jimmy and Jackie. One of the days we were holidaying there, we decided to have a day where all the boys will go out for the day together, and all of the girls would do the same. Us girls: me, my mum, Jackie and Elle (Brian’s daughter) all got in the car and headed off. Jackie told us it was a surprise where we were going and as far as I knew, nobody knew where we were going apart from Jackie. We drove for about an hour until I saw a sign saying ‘Stratford’. I totally fangirled and said, “Omg this is Justin Bieber’s home town! How close are we too it?!” I got no reply though. The car was silent for about 5 minutes and as every minute passed, more and more Stratford signs kept appearing on the roadside. I broke the silent by asking the obvious question of, “Are we going to Stratford?” Everyone burst out laughing and caved in. THEY ALL KNEW WE WERE GOING APART FROM ME! I cried loads and soon enough we had arrived. We had an amazing day. I met 2 people from the Never Say Never film; the man who worked in the pizza restaurant and the girl who was busking playing her violin. We went and sat on the steps by the Avon Theatre and we also went to Pizza Pizza and sat at the table he sat at in NSN. I didn’t meet Justin that day, but it was one of the best days of my life and I will never ever forget it, in my whole life. #believe -@siiobhanbieber More: My names Siobhan and I’m 13 from Bristol, England. I’m a huge…
My name is Kate. I’m from Australia and I’ve been a Belieber since mid-2009 and I’ve supported Justin every second since then. He has inspired me to do so much good with my life. With two other girls, I run Bieber parades/charity events around the city of Melbourne, we’ve raised so much money for Pencils Of Promise and been so successful. We’ve also personally donated Believe albums to sick children in hospital and made so many people smile. I don’t do it to get Justin’s attention, I do it because he’s taught me to always give back, I want to be a fan he’d be proud of. Although I’m from Melbourne, I flew to Sydney and got to see Justin perform on the morning show ‘Sunrise’. After 3 days of trying to meet him, I knew I was running out of time as he was flying to New Zealand later that day, July 18th. I wasn’t sure of the time he was leaving so I went to the airport and I was willing to wait however long I needed to. I spent the day trying to find out as much information as possible about his flight details. I went to McDonalds inside the airport and one of the lady’s working there told me about this back entrance where celebrities go through. I ran there straight away, there was only about 4 girls there but there were police there too so I knew something had to be going on. After hours and hours of waiting, I got a call saying that Kenny had been spotted inside the airport. All the police randomly ran inside and I was worried that Justin had gone in through the front entrance. A lady walked out of the airport and told us that Justin was being driven to Gate 27 which is impossible to get to. All of us girls got up and ran around the airport, trying to find anyway we would be able to see him even if it was just through a fence. After running so much that I thought I was going to throw up we eventually made our way back to our original spot. We waited for about 20 minutes then a black car drove past and a few girls spotted Selena in it. I couldn’t believe it, I didn’t know what to do, I was freaking out. We all jumped up and ran over, then decided it would be best if we stayed back. We tried to stay as calm as possible and all took 3 steps back. Justin and Selena stayed in the car for a while but Moshe got out. We waved politely and started singing one of Selena’s songs to make her smile and eventually Justin and Selena got out. Justin walked over to us and I didn’t even know what to do. The amount of times I have imagined meeting him and planned all the things I would say, but I forgot it all. I was literally speechless. I got a photo with him, then thanked him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He smirked and smiled at me then pulled me in for a hug. I was holding a Bieber magazine and he was like “Do you want me to sign that for you?” and he signed it. I still can’t believe it. It was so perfect. He is so perfect. He made sure everyone had a photo before he left, it shows how much he really does care about us. He didn’t have to walk over to us and take photos with us but he chose too. He made my biggest dream come true and I could never thank him enough. Justin Drew Bieber is my life, to all the people who said I’d never meet him, just look at us now. -@BieberMelbourne See original here: My name is Kate. I’m from Australia and I’ve been a…
Before today, the highlight of Denise Richard’s career is that she was a hooker for Heidi Fleiss when she wasn’t getting cast in movies….because people forget she’s only been in 5 movies in her life and after blowing that on blow….it goes pretty fucking fast….and people also think I am lying…but I tweeted it to her once and she went nuts, was reactive, and we all know that’s a sign of guilt….. Sure, her threesome with Kevin Bacon was alright, her Playboy showing off her fake tits was alright, her marrying Charlie Sheen and having a breakdown was alright…….. But the real Highlight of her career…is that she’s hiring photographers to shoot her old body in a bikini for old times….for whaever reason…and it is awesome, she is fit but maybe I’m just saying that cuz she looks like a muppet.
Justice served? Thanks to a corrupt system and false testimonies , 37-year-old John Edward Smith has been in jail…serving 19 years of his TWO life term sentences for murder. What’s got us so angry about this case is the LAPD’s internal affairs department ignored polygraph tests and repeated reports made by the witness; admitting before and after the sentencing that he’d falsely accused Smith. According to the LA Times… “I had days when I was really frustrated, but I knew I couldn’t stop,” John Edward Smith said of his bid for release in a phone interview minutes after he walked out a free man. He said he was most dazed by the lights of downtown Los Angeles and Staples Center, and was looking forward to going home and hugging his grandmother. Smith said he was putting the details of his case out of his mind and focusing on the small steps to rebuild a life on the outside, like getting a driver’s license. During 19 years behind bars, Smith, a 37-year-old former gang member, adamantly maintained his innocence in the drive-by shooting, insisting that he was miles away at his grandmother’s house at the time of the crime. His claims went unheard until three years ago, when a fledgling wrongful convictions group, Innocence Matters, took his case and identified problems with the testimony of the lone witness to identify him as the killer. The man subsequently recanted and at a brief and raucous hearing Monday afternoon, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge vacated his conviction. Smith’s relatives and friends erupted in cheers as Judge Patricia Schnegg, the supervising criminal judge, said she was setting aside the 1995 verdict because Smith’s conviction rested almost entirely on perjured testimony….The judge’s ruling came after the district attorney’s office completed its own yearlong investigation and determined that the witness, a high school student injured in the shooting, had lied on the stand. That teenager, Landu Mvuemba, told Smith’s lawyers that LAPD detectives had pressured him into the identification and that he had tried on a number of occasions over the years to alert authorities about his false statements. Smith offered the jury an alibi: He was with a girlfriend and two others at his grandmother’s house nearly three miles away. But the jury believed Mvuemba, convicting Smith of murder and attempted murder after three hours of deliberations. He was given two life sentences. Smith’s family, including his grandmother Laura Neal, firmly believed in his innocence. At one point, his grandparents mortgaged their house to pay an appellate law firm $65,000. Mvuemba said he soon regretted it and reported his concerns to LAPD internal affairs twice. He even told the courtroom bailiff as he prepared to take the witness stand, he said. No one did anything, he said. He and Smith later took polygraph tests. Both passed. Outside the courthouse, Smith’s grandmother, a frail women who uses a walker, said she had willed herself to stay alive until he was free. “There was a part of me that was in there too,” she said of his prison stay. “I am free now.” It’s sad that one false testimony can have such a heavy impact on your life. We’d like to think the LAPD might feel some repercussion after ignoring Mvuemba and other members of Smith’s family for so many years…but we know what kind of world we live in. Images via KTLA
We reported last week that JWoww and Roger Mathews are engaged, but wouldn’t be revealing it until the second season of Snooki & JWoww, for which the proposal was filmed. We were half right. JWoww’s engaged and confirming it to In Touch! The Jersey Shore star tells the celebrity gossip magazine that she’s marrying her boyfriend of two years. According to JWoww (real name Jenni Farley), she wanted a ring to match her man: Huge. “Roger’s not an average-looking guy, he’s huge: his personality, his size [6’4″]. So I always said, ‘I want my ring like you … big! The bigger the better!'” she said, and he delivered. Roger Mathews busted out the mega-bling after a skydiving session where a handwritten sign awaited them at the bottom asking for JWoww’s hand in marriage. Yes … he jumped out of a plane with that thing. “The whole time I’m screaming, ‘What are you doing? What’s going on?’” she recalled after the fact. “He’s like, ‘I want to spend the rest of my life with you! Will you allow me to?’ In case you care or have any idea what this means, the ring features a cushion cut diamond that’s over 5 carats, swimming wreath of 2.5 carats of pink and white diamonds and set in white gold. In a word … WOWW.
Wiz Khalifa allegedly made like Lindsay Lohan last week. The hip hopper is accused of running into a woman on the set of his latest music video last Wednesday night, fleeing the scene in his car without stopping to see what actually went down. According to TMZ, the alleged victim was working on the shoot and departing the set when Wiz when whizzing by. Police are trying to get in touch with Khalifa for his version of events, but attempts to reach the artist have been unsuccessful. Let’s hope the musician isn’t guilty of such a heinous act, as Wiz will soon be a role model to a very important young person in his life: Girlfriend Amber Rose is pregnant !
Just the words South Central will conjure up an image of mean streets and gangs, even by people who don’t live in Los Angeles. The neighborhood is infamous for its hardened criminals and its gang-banger imagery has permeated the popular culture everywhere. Director David Ayer returns to the neighborhood he knows well in his latest film End of Watch , starring Jake Gyllenhaal (who is also an executive producer) and Michael Peña who give gripping performances as LAPD cops Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala tackling a better armed group of very tough group – both guys and gals. Ayer grew up in the neighborhood and knows the people he’s brought to the big screen well. South Central was the setting for his first directorial feature, Harsh Times back in 2005. And LAPD cops were at the heart of his 2008 pic Street Kings . Ayer told ML that he initially wanted to move away from the cop-crime scenario after working on those films, but headed back to the genre even as he was trying to talk himself out of it. In the feature that opens wide Friday, Gyllenhaal and Peña play LAPD officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala. The action plays out on screen through the P.O.V. of hand-held cameras implanted on police officers with more footage “shown” by gang members, surveillance cameras, dish cams and citizen-caught images in the line of fire. While there are moments peppered throughout the feature showing moments of levity between the their characters that prompted outbursts of laughter during the film’s premiere in Toronto, the scenes quickly turn to present a mosaic of dark violent streets, human trafficking, gang confrontation and a barrage of shoot-outs. Just try and fall asleep in this movie – aint gonna happen… David Ayer chatted with ML the day after the premiere of End of Watch in Toronto the other week and gave shared why he decided to return to the cop story, they unique visual style he’s going for in the pic, and just how real all the seemingly outrageous dramas the two officers face in the film are… [ Related: Jake Gyllenhaal’s Life-Changing End Of Watch Prep: ‘Someone Was Murdered In Front Of Me’ and End Of Watch Star Michael Peña Sees Racial Barriers Coming Down In Hollywood ] I heard you wrote the script for End of Watch in six days, how did that play out? Yes, I did. It just kind of exploded out of me. It was six days by way of twenty years, you know what I mean? It’s a world I’ve spent a lot of time in. I grew up in South Central L.A. I have a lot of friends in law enforcement, so a lot of things that happen in the script happened to a close friend of mine. I have been writing down stories he told me. So the challenge of writing this story lead me to do this pseudo-documentary style that makes it really natural and not just using the usual story landmarks that you might intuitively feel. Were there certain documentaries that informed some of your style choices for End of Watch ? This one friend of mine takes cameras to work and guess what – he films things just like we all do with our phones etc anywhere. It can be riveting and it seemed like a fantastic device to tell a story, but at the same time, the “found footage” aspect can become a bit tedious if it’s not from a place of total reality. It can become like a gimmick and the allusion alters. So we brought in conventional coverage to augment that and the movie is a hybrid. There was a point where you went away from telling the Cop Stories, what made you do that and what brought you back? I really want to direct. Whenever you want to start over in Hollywood, you have to start from the bottom. I did Street Kings and it was for a studio which is a different process as a director. I tried mounting up some projects afterward including a science fiction movie and nothing was working out. The surest way I could get back on set was to do another cop movie. A friend of mine in the studios said I should do a found-footage cop [story] but I thought that I should not do that. But as I was talking myself out of it, I talked myself into it. But you didn’t want to do it from the “corrupt cop” viewpoint? No, the corrupt cop story is so freaking played out. I mean, it’s so 2003. The real challenge becomes, if you don’t have that dramatic engine of the corruption, what is the dramatic engine? What is the story? I made this movie about the friendship and the journey these guys are going through. The bad guy stuff is sort of an appendage to that story. They’re not investigators solving crimes, they’re just guys doing their jobs who end up way over their heads and that’s how it is for real cops. There’s a whole world they’re not privy too, yet they keep running into it, they keep sighting the shark fin in the water. That’s the one thing that struck me – that great rapport between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña’s characters. There’s of course all this fantastic crazy tough shit going on in this film with the shoot-outs and grim discoveries that make for great viewing, but there’s also these hilarious moments of banter between their characters that really draw you into their lives. To write the way people talk and not just make movie dialog and to get them to pull off a breezy, natural style together and live in the history of that friendship was the real challenge as a director. It’s ironic because what appears so easy is insanely difficult as a filmmaker and insanely difficult as an actor. And it took the three of us a long time in the trenches to get them to the point to pull it off. My favorite scenes in the movie are the two guys in the car talking. Did you have a regimen in mind for Jake and Michael off the bat in order to get them to be believable cops in the lead-up to the actual shoot? A good friend of mine does martial arts training and what that does is get the mindset down of hitting people and being hit. Often it can be hard to override the instinct of not hitting someone. You have to overcome that. You have to have that ability and understanding of violence to become a cop and it starts to change everything including your body language. And there was firearms training. They were taught by a 35 year-veteran LAPD-SWAT officer who gave them training in LAPD by the numbers shooting style. We went to the same LAPD outlets to get their equipment and uniforms because I wanted everything to be incredibly accurate. And they went on an incredible number of ride-alongs with officers and I wanted them to go with a number of different agencies so they can see just how different the LAPD itself is. I think they were shocked by the cultural differences between those departments. I had an idea of a program in mind, but obviously logistics and demands evolved. I think at first they were cursing me, but once they realized they had the real skills, they appreciated it and it just made it all the more real on set. I think audiences everywhere and even in L.A. may be surprised that the Mexican drug cartels have such direct operations in the U.S. as this movie suggests. Obviously everyone knows they’re involved with drug trafficking across the border, but I think people don’t know there’s such a direct connection to day-today operations on the U.S. side of the border. Yeah, they control the wholesale of drugs in the United States and human trafficking. Nothing moves across that border without their permission. They’ll give illegal immigrants drugs and will say, ‘you’re now a drug mule.’ It’s a busy organization and they’re incredibly efficient – drugs, human trafficking, weapons. Everything that’s happening in the movie is happening now. Friends of mine in the department pull over cartel runners all the time and do multi-kilo seizures. I know someone working in narcotics just last week who took a huge haul of cartel drugs off the street. They’re here, they’re operating…I feel like people have no idea that there’s such a huge presence of the cartels not only in Southern California, but throughout the United States, even in the northern part of the country. How were you able to get under the skin in portraying the gang members in the movie? It’s a distinct subculture and it would be very easy to mis-represent that… People not from L.A. and are not familiar with the gangsters there will look at something like this and think they’re almost cartoonish, you know? But that’s how they role. This is bang on. [ End of Watch gangster] Lala, played by Yahira Garcia, is unbelievable in the movie. She’s a rapper and was brought up in that neighborhood and her brothers are caught up in the life. And she’s seen some tragic things. And “Demon” played by Richard Cabral is from a multi-generational gang family and just recently got out of it and now working in film. The only one who wasn’t a former gang-banger was Maurice Compte who plays “Big Evil.” He’s incredibly soft-spoken, incredibly smart and such a nice guy and somehow he pulled off this alter-ego “Big Evil” persona out.
It was only 2 weeks ago that MORENA BACCARIN walked into my life….posing hot for Esquire….a Brazilian I had never heard of prior to this month….because I’m not cultured or well versed in the Brazilian model turned actor turned nerd icon in all the nerd shows….scene….but she’s been putting in work…doing photoshoots, making noise, showing up to events in a sheer dress…really letting people know she’s around….and I’m kinda glad she is….I feel if you want the hits…show the fucking tits…. TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
Mitt Romney’s son Tagg signed a surrogacy agreement that gave the surrogate, Tagg and his wife the right to abort her recent pregnancy, according to TMZ. Tagg, the oldest of Mitt’s five sons, had twins this year through a surrogate, and Mitt Romney covered some of the expenses connected with the arrangement. The twin boys, David Mitt and William Ryder, were born on May 4, 2012. Tagg and his wife Jen, along with the surrogate and her husband, signed a Gestational Carrier Agreement dated July 28, 2011. Paragraph 13 of it reads: “If in the opinion of the [physician or obstetrician] there is potential physical harm to the surrogate, the decision to abort or not abort is to be made by the surrogate.” “In the event the child is determined to be physiologically, genetically or chromosomally abnormal, the decision is to be made by the intended parents.” “In such a case the surrogate agrees to abort, or not to abort, in accordance with the intended parents’ decision.” “Any decision to abort because of potential harm to the child, or to reduce the number of fetuses, is to be made by the intended parents.” In other words, Tagg and Jen Romney gave the surrogate the right to abort the fetuses even if her life wasn’t in danger. Only “potential physical harm” was needed. The Romneys had the right to abort the fetuses if they felt they would not be healthy. Mitt Romney was involved in the surrogate arrangement because he paid some of the expenses, but it is unclear if he read the contract or knew the terms. The Republican presidential candidate has said he is in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother. Otherwise, Romney says he’s against abortion, a position he didn’t always hold. Interestingly, Tagg used the same surrogate in 2009, and there was no Paragraph 13 providing for abortion at that time because Tagg and his wife didn’t want it. In 2011, when the second contract was being drafted, it was in there.
