Mariah Carey turns 42 years old today, but don’t bother getting the artist any gifts. She’s already received the best present of all: these adorable twins . The singer also has a reason to smile these days because husband Nick Cannon is on the mend following a health scare centered around a case of mild kidney failure. These two really do make a cute, happy couple. What does the professional future hold for Mariah? It’s unclear, although she’s one of many big names rumored for season two of The X Factor . She’d undoubtedly be a major draw. For now, though, she’s pretty much a full-time mother, one who is sitting at home and waiting for your birthday wishes. Also celebrating birthdays today: Jessie J (24), Brenda Song (24), Fergie (37), Nathan Fillion (41) and Quentin Tarantino (49).
Another sad story of gang violence: Thusha Kamaleswaran was left permanently paralysed after the gang-related shooting at her aunt’s shop in south London in March last year. In CCTV footage from the store, the little girl is seen playfully dancing in one of the aisles at Stockwell Food and Wine before panic breaks out and adults rush to the back of the store to escape gunfire. Thusha, wearing a red cardigan, can then be seen slumped on the floor at the bottom of shop shelves. The footage formed part of the evidence in the Old Bailey trial of three men accused of the shooting but has only been released publicly for the first time today. Jurors were warned before they were shown the film that they may find it disturbing. Prosecutor Edward Brown QC told them that they must view it with a ”clinical eye” and remain objective. In the CCTV clips, Thusha is seen skipping in the aisle, and as the shooting starts, she is surrounded by adults rushing to the front of the shop to see what is happening. They then retreat to the back of the store to escape the gunfire, to reveal Thusha slumped on the floor. Her uncle Mahadavan Vikneswaran then grabs her and carries her to the back of the shop. The chilling footage also shows shopper Roshan Selvakumar being hit in the face by another stray bullet. He can be seen staggering back onto shelving and blood pouring from his head, before he retreats to the back of the shop, still bleeding heavily on to the floor. Thusha twice went into cardiac arrest after a bullet passed through her body during the attack. It hit her in the chest and then passed through the seventh vertebra of her spine, leaving the little girl, now six, permanently wheelchair bound. Mr Selvakumar was left with bullet fragments lodged in his head which cannot safely be removed. Turn the page for the disturbing video.
‘That probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that’s happened to me,’ she says about flour-tossing incident in L.A. By Jocelyn Vena Kim Kardashian is covered in flour at her True Reflection fragrance launch on Thursday. Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images Kim Kardashian is making headlines again. At a fragrance launch event in Los Angeles on Thursday for her new perfume, True Reflection, the reality starlet was assaulted with a bag of flour. Kardashian was walking the red carpet at the London Hotel in West Hollywood when someone flour-bombed her. According to the Los Angeles Times, police and authorities were called to the scene. The assailant — who may or may not be the same person who shouted “fur hag” at the E! star — was taken into custody but later released after Kardashian decided not to press charges. Instead of making a big fuss over the incident, Kardashian went back to the carpet, where she continued to do interviews. “That probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that’s happened to me,” Kim told E! News afterward. “Like I said to my makeup artist, I wanted more powder and that’s a whole lot of translucent powder right there.” The site also reported that it was Kardashian’s publicist who held down the suspect until authorities arrived. Kim’s mom, Kris Jenner, laughed off the incident, telling E! News, “If anybody comes at me with something, call security.” In the end, Kim apparently wasn’t too upset by any of it. On Twitter , she posted a lighthearted message: “Thx everyone who came last nite 2 support my new perfume True Reflection & the amazing women from Dress 4 Success! Last nite was eventful.” What do you think of Kim getting flour-bombed on the red carpet? Tell us in the comments!
There are so few filmmakers willing to tackle the romantic melodrama these days that Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea is welcome just for its sheer novelty. An adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, the picture opens with an attempted suicide and ends with an uneasy kind of redemption. It’s a love story with a great deal of furious, elegant handwriting packed between the lines, an exploration of immutable class distinctions and emotional and sexual repression in postwar England. And Rachel Weisz, as a woman who risks everything for the love of the wrong man, carries the mood and subtext of the material safely tucked in her dressing-gown pocket – she’s vulnerable and self-motivated in all the right measures. But there’s such a thing as having too much reverence for your material, and although Davies is an extraordinarily gifted and principled director, The Deep Blue Sea may suffer for that reverence. Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an esteemed judge, Sir William (Simon Russell Beale). Her life is clearly comfortable, though not altogether happy, which is made clear by a scene in which her mother-in-law (played by Barbara Jefford) excoriates her for even believing in the notion of passion. And when we first see her, she’s a person who no longer wishes to live, a limp, drained figure in a murky, crowded bedroom: That’s the drab flat she shares with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston, of War Horse , not to mention that he also plays Loki in Thor and the upcoming Avengers ), the shallow if occasionally charming former RAF pilot who drew her away from her husband like a magnet. The story of how and why Hester made the choices she did is told in flashback, but her present – a present that, in the days when it was a glimmering future, was supposed to bring her so much happiness – is a muted kind of hell. After her suicide attempt, Freddie, deciding she’s too much of an emotional mess (and blaming her for it), decides to leave her. Hester is seized with a desperation to get him back. Davies captures the milieu of ’50s Great Britain perfectly, as you’d expect from the director of Distant Voices, Still Lives – postwar England is his home turf, emotionally and physically, though his eyes and ears are also well-attuned when it comes to period details of eras before his own time. (His 2000 adaptation of The House of Mirth , starring an almost painfully radiant Gillian Anderson, gets Edith Wharton in a piercingly direct way.) Here, with his DP Florian Hoffmeister, he captures the dank optimism of 1950s London, a place where no one seems to be happy but everyone is working so hard at being cheerful that the murky illusion is almost believable. There’s rubble on the street corners, remnants of all-too-recent bombings that pedestrians now pass by without a glance. Gathering places like pubs can be cozy or oppressive, depending on the circumstances – their dark paneling and dim lighting can offer a place to hide from the world, though hiding from oneself is a different story. That’s a lot of subterranean social and psychological meaning to capture with a camera, and Davies does so beautifully. Yet the pacing of The Deep Blue Sea is somehow at odds with both the movie’s imagery and its performances. The actors are all marvelous here: Beale’s character starts out as an unlikable lump and gradually emerges as a thoughtful man with deep and ardent feelings – if Weisz’s Hester is the emotional compass of the movie, William is the figure most sensitized to her wavering needle. Hiddleston has the right mix of boyish eagerness and brainless, spineless schoolboy cruelty – his scrubbed-clean aura is really a kind of menace. And Weisz is superb here, giving a performance that’s so dappled with shadows and light that you almost can’t tell which is which. Her Hester is a creature of great refinement, the finest that civilization has to offer – no wonder she’s scrabbling to get back to something raw and real, something that looks, feels and smells more like nature. The thing she moves toward is, of course, the wrong thing. But this is a tragedy with a medium-happy ending, after all. And as beautifully made as The Deep Blue Sea is, it too has a passion problem, and not because Davies’ approach isn’t heartfelt enough. In fact, it may be too heartfelt. The picture moves like a contemplative, stately march, but the problem isn’t its slowness. It’s that Davies puts too much space between nearly every line – every dramatic work is constructed of dialogue and the breaths in between, but not every unspoken ellipses has to be swollen and pregnant with meaning. Davies may be, like his heroine, the man who loves too much, and the movie groans under the weight of all that lavish attention. This is a different world, again, from Anatole Litvak’s 1955 version of the same material, starring Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More. That movie has a crispness, an almost rakish detachment, that makes its subnotes of repression and self-flagellation even more potent. It’s not a better movie, exactly – simply a reminder of what different directors and performers can bring to the same words, ideas and feelings. Comparing the two only reminds us that there’s no such thing as perfect adaptation. If there is, it lies in that elusive patch of green between the devil and the you-know-what. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
‘You’ve got every artist you wait to hear in the club on one bill,’ Drake says of run that will also include Meek Mill, 2 Chainz. By Rob Markman Drake Photo: MTV News Drake has been cooped up inside for far too long, and now the Young Money standout is ready to breathe some fresh air into his Club Paradise Tour . On Thursday morning (March 22), Drizzy announced a 27-city amphitheater run that will begin on May 7 at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, California. “I feel like this tour is coming at the perfect time,” Drake said in a press release issued to MTV News. “It’s taking place in the season that we all wait for, we’re outdoors and you’ve got every single artist you wait to hear in the club on one bill … that’s Club Paradise.” will ride out with Drake as an opening act, and Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana will all support unspecified dates. On the first leg of his tour, Mr. OVO sold out a string of U.S. college dates with Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky before taking the show across the pond to a number of European venues like London’s O2 Arena and the Oslo Spektrum in Norway. This time out, the “Take Care” rapper will hit a number of outdoor venues like the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Aaron’s Amphitheatre in Atlanta and the Jones Beach Theater in Long Island, New York. Drake will also rock the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee, before wrapping up the run at Boston’s Comcast Center. Tickets for the Club Paradise amphitheatre run will go on sale March 23 on Live Nation’s website . These are the dates for the Club Paradise Tour:
‘I was so happy how it came together,’ actor tells MTV News. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Josh Hutcherson Photo: MTV News In addition to obsessing over our own reactions to finally seeing “The Hunger Games,” we’ve been enjoying collecting the initial reactions from the castmembers themselves, whose pre-screening thoughts ranged from anxiety to excitement. When MTV News caught up with Josh Hutcherson recently, we asked him what goes through his mind any time he screens a movie he worked on. “Honestly, I just hope it doesn’t suck. That’s my mentality when I go in to watch one of my movies,” Hutcherson said with a self-deprecating smile. “I hope I don’t get bored watching it, and I didn’t watching this. I was so happy how it came together. It really, to me, was kind of the most interesting way this story could be told. The way Gary [Ross] captured the essence of the story and the characters, cinematically, is incredible.” Hutcherson went on to say that the one thing that surprised him most was not any of the actors’ performances but the music backing them. “I think the score, to me, was one of the most surprising things,” he revealed. “I think it’s really interesting. And some of the editing choices that were made were so cool and different and nothing I’d ever seen before. Like, in the scene when Jennifer is stung by the Tracker Jackers. That kind of cool editing thing. It really kind of blew my mind.” But did it blow his mind enough to also evoke emotion via his tear ducts? Did Hutcherson shed any tears while watching the big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-seller? “Inside I did. I held it in,” he said, before adding that he’s not at all afraid to let the waterworks flow during movies, particularly those that star Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin. “When I saw ‘My Sister’s Keeper,’ I openly wept the entire movie, and I feel comfortable saying that.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Hunger Games.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: Josh Hutcherson MTV Rough Cut: ‘The Hunger Games’ Related Photos ‘Hunger Games’ Cast Hits NYC The Hunger Games
Katy goes to boot camp in just-premiered clip. By James Montgomery Katy Perry in her “Part of Me” music video Photo: Capitol There are probably about a dozen different ways to view Katy Perry’s “Part of Me” video , which premiered Wednesday night (March 21) on MTV, and all of them are certainly valid: a deft recruiting tool, a feminist super-fantasy, a pop video on steroids, a v
Jamie Waylett of Harry Potter franchise fame has been sentenced to two years in prison for participating in the infamous London riots last year. Authorities in Britain say Waylett was packing a Molotov cocktail while looting champagne from a drug store during the London riots August 8. The actor was eventually identified in video footage taken during the incident, leading police officials to arrested Jamie Waylett on September 20. Waylett, who has a previous conviction on record stemming from a drug-related incident, was found guilty of violent disorder and sentenced to two years. He was acquitted on the charge of intending to destroy property with a fire bomb, so that’s something. That two year term could have easily been 5-10. No word on when Waylett is expected to begin his sentence. [Photo: WENN.com]
‘You haven’t seen anything yet,’ Robert Kirkman tells MTV News about show’s future. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Kara Warner Andrew Lincoln in “The Walking Dead” Photo: AMC “We’re all infected,” former cop Rick Grimes told his fellow group of survivors in the “Walking Dead” season finale — and boy, is that an understatement. In an action-packed episode that killed off multiple characters in brutal fashion, left the divisive farm completely in ruins, introduced a fan-favorite sword-wielding wanderer and teased the promise of a prison to come, it’s safe to say that the “Walking Dead” season two finale left fans feverish for more. The AMC zombie series, which returns for its third season in October, answered long-term mythological questions (The content of the CDC’s Dr. Jenner’s whisper? No longer a secret!) and pushed the characters into new places, both physically and emotionally. Perhaps most importantly for fans of the comic books, “The Walking Dead” has left the farm behind, with the prison very much in the near future. Between that change of scenery and the introduction of iconic character Michonne (with chained zombies in tow no less), season three is shaping up to be the best of the lot — a notion that executive producers Glen Mazzara and Robert Kirkman certainly agree with, of course. “When I think of ‘The Walking Dead’ book, I think about the prison. I think about the Governor. I think about Rick. I think about Michonne. That, to me, is the heart of that story,” Mazzara told MTV News about the future of the survival horror series. “That’s what I’m excited about writing and seeing come to life. I think that this has been a great chapter one. But now we’re moving into our best material. I’m really excited to see what the actors, the writers and the directors can do with that material.” Kirkman, who created the comic books upon which the TV show is based, is equally excited, if not more so, to revisit “the best material” of the original “Walking Dead” story. “When the camera rises over the trees and the prison comes into view, I did get a little choked up,” Kirkman confessed. “It’s a really cool, very bold promise to the audience. To show that and to say, just wait until you see what we’re going to do with season three. I’m intimately involved with this show. So knowing what we’ve already discussed and knowing the different things that we want to do, I can say that we are at the very beginning of this show. We haven’t quite gotten to a lot of the big things we’ve been building to just yet. If you’re a big fan of ‘The Walking Dead’ and you enjoyed season one and season two, then you haven’t seen anything yet.” “We’re just getting started,” Mazzara agreed. After the season two finale, we’re inclined to agree. What did you think of the “Walking Dead” season finale? Are you looking forward to what comes next in season three? Tell us what you think in the comments section! Related Photos Zombies Take Over New Jersey In Annual ‘Zombie Walk’
Nicki announces 15 European dates for her Pink Friday Tour beginning June 8 in Stockholm, Sweden. By Jocelyn Vena Nicki Minaj Photo: Ronald Martinez/ Getty Images Nicki, Roman, Martha and the rest of the one-woman gang are headed across the pond. On Monday morning (March 19), Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to announce 15 European dates for her Pink Friday Tour. So far it looks like the Young Money MC will start her trek on June 8 at the Annexet in Stockholm, Sweden. After that, she will touch Norway, Denmark, France, Italy and London for 15 dates. The presale for Nicki’s Oslo, Norway, date began Monday, and tickets to the Stockholm show will be pre-sold Tuesday. Tickets for subsequent shows will go on sale in the coming weeks. The Harajuku Barbie’s sophomore LP Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded is scheduled to be released on April 3. On Friday, Nicki released the track list for the album and revealed collaborations with Chris Brown, Nas, Cam’ron, Rick Ross and of course her Young Money cohorts Lil Wayne and Drake. “April 3 is gonna be a doozy. It’s gonna be crazy,” Nicki told MTV News after her NBA All-Star Game performance in Orlando, Florida, last month. “It’s gonna be important for just hip-hop culture and pop culture. It’s gonna be very big.” Nicki Minaj’s 2012 European Tour dates:
