Elsewhere in the world… London Heathrow Airport On High Alert For Bombs Hidden In Breast Implants London’s most prominent airport officials have their eyes wide open for a possible incoming attack……..in the form of explosive boobies. via Mirror UK Heathrow Airport is on high terror alert amid fears women suicide bombers are ready to strike with explosives concealed in breast implants. Security checks have been beefed up after “credible” intelligence that al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on airlines flying out of London. One staff member said: “There are genuine fears over this. “We have been told to pay particular attention to females who may have concealed hidden explosives in their breasts. “This is particularly difficult for us to pick up but we are on a very high state of alert. Al-Qaeda’s chief bomb-maker Ibrahim al-Asiri is understood to have developed the method of foiling airport scanners by concealing explosives in an implant or bodily cavity. It is also feared there is no shortage of volunteers willing to take part in an atrocity after hundreds of extremists recently escaped from prison in Pakistan. Explosives expert Andy Oppenheimer said: “There is a great fear that al-Qaeda are planning on using internal devices to try and get through airport scanners. “These explosives could be in breast implants.” So, basically, any woman with over an A cup is a potential boobie bomber?? Looks like there won’t be too many silicone Sallys traveling hassle-free through London anytime soon. Shutterstock Continue reading →
As if there aren’t already a thousand other things that have hurt his leather-clad, face maskin’, skinny jeaned reputation…SMH Kanye West Turns Down Offer To Judge American Idol For Fear Of Damaging His Reputation Via USMagazine File this under “Things That Could Have Been.” Kanye West has been scarce on girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s reality show, but he very nearly became a regular on another popular reality TV series: American Idol. A source tells Us Weekly exclusively that the hip hop star was offered the third and final spot on Idol’s judging panel for the upcoming 13th season. After thinking it over, however, he decided to pass, in part because he worried it would hurt his reputation. “He didn’t want to go that mainstream,” the source tells Us of the “Black Skinhead” rapper, 36, who has a 2-month-old daughter, North, with Kardashian, 32. “He didn’t want to lose any street cred. So he turned it down.” The insider notes that Idol producers also met with three other contenders for the spot: Will.i.am, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Rodney Jerkins. In the end, though, their top choice appears to be songwriter and record producer Dr. Luke (real name: Lukasz Gottwald). Is this ninja really fawking serious? Newsflash you fake azz W.E.B. DuBois, YOUR BABY MAMA IS MADE OF “MAINSTREAM”! Would you have wanted to see Yeezus at the judges table every week? Image via Splash Continue reading →
Rumor has it there’s another baby baller on the way for Dwyane Wade… but Gabrielle Union is not the mama ! Via Mouth To Ears reports : Dwyane Wade might not be putting it down in the playoffs but rumor has it that he’s definitely laying down the pipe in the bedroom and Gabrielle Union’s woo-ha is NOT involved. MTE sources say that Dwyane Wade has slipped up and got his side chick knocked up. Apparrently, this news has not only affected D. Wade’s castle but also his skills, which is why he’s been falling short during the past couple of games in the playoffs. Sources also reveal that Gabrielle Union is fully aware of what’s going on, which might explain her behavior in Vegas… She had a lot of “Instagram Straight Flexin’” moments. The details of who is walking around with a fertilized D. Wade seed have not been revealed. Obviously neither D. Wade nor Gabby is excited about the situation and would love to “opt out” but…unfortunately, it’s not up to them. Damn damn damn James! And by that we mean King James, who is probably heated as fawk his boy can’t keep his head in the game cuz his he couldn’t keep his other head in his pants. That is… if these rumors are true. SMH. Do you believe them? In the meantime, a few words of wisdom for Gabby, via her own Instagram: Perhaps she’ll finally shed her image as homewrecker thanks to these dirty doggin’ rumors? Hit the flip for pics of Gabby and Dwyane during happier moments Continue reading →
Momma Dee exposes Erica Dixon and it ain’t pretty! Momma Dee Says Erica Dixon Physically Abuses Scrappy LHHATL’s Momma Dee sat down with “The Scoop with the Hip-Hop Socialite” on 4umf , where she puts her son’s baby mama Erica on blast. Momma Dee talks about how Erica is physically abusive to Lil Scrappy, why Diamond was a better girlfriend and says she’s basically stealing from Scrappy…. On Erica’s spread Black Men’s Magazine , Momma Dee says: “No [she hasn’t seen it]. I really don’t care to see my granddaughter’s mother in any other light but being my granddaughter’s mother. When you got a person that wasn’t raised by their mama and don’t have no real values, they tend to wander like that, you know what I’m saying.” Momma Dee also claims Erica beats up Scrappy regularly: “People don’t know that Erica is very physically abusive. She’s jumped on my son, and hit him and stuff. And what mother will like a woman that does that off camera? Then people want to point fingers ’cause the TV don’t show you that, and then say, ‘Momma Dee, why you don’t like Erica?’ Well, where’s your child and daughter? Wouldn’t you protect your child even if they were grown if your daughter came home and she was jumped on and had black eyes by a man? Wouldn’t you ladies and gentlemen get mad if your 25-year-old son or 29-year-old son had a wife or a girlfriend and he came home and his arm broke and face is all scratched up for nothing ’cause she having fits like ya’ll saw on TV? Would you like her? Would you accept her into the fold? No!” “Yes she is [physically abusive]. Ya’ll just keep watching the show, you going to see more, ’cause her and her mama shows out with their alley back ways.” Momma Dee is fed up! The reality star continues to go in on Erica as well as the messy child support drama her son Scrappy is facing. Hit the flip to read more of the interview…
Poor Fanny ! Fantasia Talks About Hater After They Make Fun Of Daughter’s Hairdo Fanny might need to delete her social networking sites . Earlier this week one of Fantasia’s Instagram followers decided to make rude comments about her daughter Zion after the singer posted a pics of her latest hairdo. Some of Fantasia’s fans clapped back at the hater for coming for a child, but Fantasia did stooped even lower by posting a photo of the hater posing with her own daughter… Fanny added this caption: @kimkae Is a Mother as Well as a Black Women. It Saddens me when a Beautiful Black Women with a Beautiful Black Young Baby comes on another Black Women page and Speaks Negative about her Beautiful Black Young Lady.. Let Me say this Mama if 1 person comes on this pic and comments negative about your Baby what would you do? How would you feel? Well let me tell you how I Feel (Anger, Rage and ready to Fight). Im not going to play this mean and evil game with you or any 1 else. Im a tell you how Pretty your Little Girl is, im a say I Pray she Grows up to be everything GOD as predestined Her to Be, im a say that I pray Angels watch Over You, her and all your Love 1s. Im going to pretend you didn’t just GO INNN on my Baby Girl picture.. ill just Say God Bless You as A Mother and as A Black Sister.. From another Sister. Your Girl is Very Pretty Do you think Fantasia should have posted this photo and put the hater on blast??
The stuff about his stepdad putting his mama on the pole is HILARIOUS!!! Big Boi did an interview with KMEL this week while he was in town to do a show and he touches on a lot of great family stuff, but seems a little weary of being asked when and if an Outkast reunion is ever gonna happen.
The Sundance Film Festival heads into the week with more world premieres and a peek at many of the films that will grace the Specialty Big Screen this year. Beginning last week , Movieline posted details about this year’s U.S. and World Competition films and filmmakers in their own words. In this round, Richard Rowley ( Dirty Wars ), Dylan Mohan Gray ( Fire in the Blood ), Roger Ross Williams ( God Loves Uganda ), Hannah Fidell ( A Teacher ) and Andrew Bujalski ( Computer Chess ) preview their films. [ Related: WATCH: Get To Know 5 Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers (And Their Films) ] Dirty Wars by director Richard Rowley [U.S. Documentary Competition] Synopsis: It’s the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement. Prior to 9/11, it was customary for America to sound a formal declaration of war on a given country before attacking. Today drone strikes, night raids, and U.S. government–condoned torture occur in hidden corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, exposing covert operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is off-limits for the JSOC “kill list,” even if the person is a U.S. citizen. [Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival] Responses by Richard Rowley Dirty Wars quick pitch: Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. We follow investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, who is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars. …and why it’s worth checking out at Sundance and beyond: Dirty Wars takes on the issues everyone’s talking about right now. With Zero Dark Thirty , Argo , drones, Benghazi, and the nomination of John Brennan — America’s covert wars are back in the headlines. Dirty Wars reveals how these wars have been hidden in plain sight all along and offers a behind-the-scenes look at a high-stakes investigation into the operations, and even the same people, fictionalized by Hollywood and discussed on Capitol Hill. Dirty Wars is not “based on actual events” — it is actual events. The focus has been on one raid by Special Forces that killed one man, Osama bin Laden. That same year, there were thousands of raids and we’re ten years into wars not just in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in Somalia, with new fronts in Yemen and elsewhere. That’s the story of Dirty Wars and it couldn’t be more timely and urgent for Sundance and other audiences. How it all came together: The film that will premiere at Sundance looks and feels nothing like the film we set out to shoot. During our three years in production, we hit major roadblocks just trying to confirm basic information about the Joint Special Operations Command, a secret, elite force reporting directly to the White House. Few in government would go on record. Talking heads? That was out of the question. We had to find another way in to the story. So we went far afield and to new sources. As a result, the final film is more compelling, and surprising. When I realized that there were two dramatic arcs — one of America’s expanding covert wars, and another the personal story of the reporter, Jeremy Scahill — I knew I’d have to convince Jeremy to be in front of the camera. It made him uncomfortable. But he was the right choice to guide us through a complex story. By the end, in our editorial meetings, even Jeremy started to refer to himself in the third person. Mogadishu was by far the most dangerous place I’ve ever been, though I’ve reported from war zones for many years. We didn’t want drive-by journalism: in and out in a few days, talking to government officials in hotel lobbies. But getting to the war’s front lines, without drawing too much attention to ourselves, proved complicated. Our Somali country coordinator made it possible. Meanwhile, our producers took out kidnapping, dismemberment, and ransom insurance. Estimating the cost of my arm before we set out – well, that was something new. —
The box office has spoken! Jessica Chastain scored the top two weekend spots over Arnold Schwarzenegger ( The Last Stand ) and the double-whammy of Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe ( Broken City ) as the Guillermo del Toro -produced fantasy horror Mama scored a #1 debut with $28.1 million and Zero Dark Thirty stepped into second place. (Oscar rival Jennifer Lawrence didn’t come out so bad herself as Silver Linings Playbook expanded to #3 in wide release the same weekend she tenderly slammed her fellow Best Actress contenders on Saturday Night Live .) More power to the ladies! But where, oh where, did Arnold land in his big action comeback? Schwarzenegger’s breezy actioner The Last Stand showed a surprising lack of muscle over the MLK holiday weekend, raking in just $6.7 million over three days and calling into question the potency of the ex-Governator’s screen appeal as it shuffled into tenth place at the box office. Tenth place. Ouch. Broken City , Fox’s Wahlberg-Crowe mano-a-mano crime pic, also debuted to rather limp returns, with a $9.5 million estimated weekend take (numbers via Deadline ). But if Arnie’s box office cache was proven less brawny than expected, the Best Actress-nominated duo of Chastain and Lawrence reflected strong appeal for both Oscar contenders, both of whom notched Golden Globes wins last weekend. For Chastain’s part, the genre gamble that is the feral child-ghost mother pic Mama could have thrown a wrench into her awards campaign but paid off; it currently sits at a better-than-most-horror-pics 62 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, but had some pundits wondering if Universal’s timing of the film’s release was part of a crafty plot to ruin the awards season momentum of her campaign for Sony’s Zero Dark Thirty . But audiences came for a double dose of Chastain in two very different roles — one in a prestige pic that underscored Chastain’s steely strength in a man’s world ( ZDT ), the other a genre pic built around an emotionally distant character gradually embracing her latent maternal instincts ( Mama ). Meanwhile, Silver Linings Playbook and its swelling Oscar momentum continues to be owned by Lawrence, whose audience appeal was solidified by SNL ‘s solid ratings Saturday night. With almost exactly a month left before Oscar ballots are due, this race is just starting to get good. Read more on the Oscars : After Golden Globes Win, Is ‘Argo’ The People’s Film? ‘Argo’ & ‘Les Misérables’ Take Top Movie Prizes At Golden Globes High Five! The Best GIFs Of The 2013 Golden Globes Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
In Tree of Life , Jessica Chastain played a mother who could float. In Mama , she’s attacked by one. Chastain shot this dignified little thriller in fall 2011 during the stretch when literally every arthouse theater played at least two of her pictures—between Tree , Coriolanus , The Help , Take Shelter , Texas Killing Fields and The Debt , she was indie cinema’s inescapable new queen. Universal intended to release the Guillermo del Toro -produced Mama last October, but shelved it until the week after Chastain was nominated for an Oscar for Zero Dark Thirty . Is this her reputation-besmirching Norbit ? Pshaw — for my money, it’s her best performance yet. Mama starts with a child’s hand scrawling “Once upon a time,” words that send us all the way back to, uh, the financial collapse of 2008. A Wall Street bigshot (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has a nervous breakdown: He shoots his co-workers, shoots his wife, and kidnaps his two girls, ages 3 and 1, with the intent of hiding out and shooting them, too. (Alas, murder-suicide is today’s version of parents in the Brothers Grimm casting out their children to survive in the forest.) The place he chooses to pull the trigger is a cabin in the woods that belongs to “Mama,” a ghost who doesn’t take kindly to deadly dads. Side note: Why is Hollywood newly obsessed with monsters who are painfully thin and flexible? It’s as if our entire generation grew up having nightmares about a double-jointed Karen Carpenter. As the opening credits roll, kiddie crayon sketches show us what happened next: The scared blonde tykes cling to their new ghost mommy and revert to crawling on all fours and eating rats. It’s a feral child fairy tale! Cut to the present where we first meet rocker girl Annabel (Chastain) beaming at an EPT test, overjoyed that her boyfriend (Coster-Waldau again) hasn’t gotten her pregnant. Alas, her guy turns out to be the girls’ uncle, and his detectives have finally found Mama’s lair. Surprise! Annabel’s about to be the adopted mother of two crab-walking nightmares, and she really doesn’t want to meet their babysitter. Every beat in Mama is familiar, down to the exact moment you need to close your eyes to dodge a jump-scare, and there’s a goofy child psychiatrist (Daniel Kash) whose actions make about as much sense as Claire Danes in Homeland . But damned if Mama doesn’t transcend its nonsense. As in Paranormal Activity 3 , the girls — now 6 and 8, but psychologically closer to wildcats in captivity — spend a lot of time in their bedroom playing tug-of-war with their spooky spectral caretaker and humming creepy hymns. Young actresses Isabelle Nelisse and Megan Charpentier are excellent, with Nelisse frighteningly primal, and Charpentier as her guilt-stricken and watchful older sister. The best call in the script is the slow wedge that’s driven between the girls, the real world, and the world only they believe in. The kids are scary but they don’t thrill to see Chastain scream. Instead, their loyalty is torn between the only mother they’ve ever known and, you know, the one who doesn’t look like an anorexic hellbeast. One standout chase sequence shows us Mama’s back story in a retro filmstrip style that looks like one of D.W. Griffith’s nightmares. But Mama ‘s smartest choice is the decision by helmer Andres Muschietti (who also co-wrote the script with Barbara Muschietti and Neil Cross) to cast Chastain for insta-class. Chastain has carved out a career in shockingly fast time, but she’s been oddly ill-used by her directors, who tend to see her as a figurehead, not a woman. She’s been shoehorned into archetypes: The fragile doll, the vision of womanly perfection, the sexless drone. It takes this slight but ambitious horror flick to let her be flesh-and-blood fun. Her Annabel is a tough, short-haired dame who’s inked with tattoos under her Misfits t-shirts. She plays guitar in a ’90s-esque girl band — god, I wish we had more of those today — and her cellphone voicemail barks: “This is Annabel. Leave a message at the beep. Fuck you — beep .” As she warms, slowly, to the beast-children, Chastain gets to play an arc, not an archetype, and Mama becomes an honest-to-god film instead of a quickie horror cash-in or a bone-dry drama that relies on Chastain to do all the heavy lifting. Kathryn Bigelow , take note: Surround Chastain with an actual movie, and you might get a Oscar nod the next go-round. Amy Nicholson is a critic, playwright and editor. Her interests include hot dogs, standard poodles, Bruce Willis, and comedies about the utter futility of existence. Follow her on Twitter. Follow Amy Nicholson on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills claim “The Higher the Heel, the Closer to God” but what if they’re only platform boots. We recap all of the campy shoe choices and strange animal moments in our THG +/- review. Kyle and Adrienne meet at a posh kid’s boutique to pick out something for Portia’s fourth birthday and Kyle thinks Adrienne is looking for pants for herself. What? Apparently Kim is small enough to shop for clothes there too. Minus 20 . If you are a grown woman you should NOT be able to fit into kids clothes. If you can, you really need to rethink your diet because something is very wrong. Taylor gets Paul and Mauricio to agree to don heels for a domestic violence charity walk. Plus 15 to Mauricio for walking the walk. At least those were real heels. Paul’s platform boots were a complete cheat. The least he could have done was wear those chunky Dorothy heels or a pair of kitten pumps. What’s a few crunched toes for charity? Yolanda’s job these days seems to be managing her daughter Gigi’s modeling career. I have to say the girl is a knock out. She looks just like her Mama did at that age. Plus 10 . And although Yolanda borders on meddling, her advice seems to be spot on most of the time. Kyle throws Portia’s fourth birthday party and Kyle seems upset when ponies show up instead of unicorns. Um…Kyle. I hate to burst the fantasy but… And I guess she should have specified white unicorns. I’ll almost give her that one. In what movie have you ever seen a brown unicorn? Minus 11. Between the llamas and the ponies, Kyle really should have hired a popper scooper. Minus 8 . Overall it’s a pretty boring party but I couldn’t believe Kyle thought everyone would be on their best behavior because it was a kid’s party. Minus 13 . That’s pretty naive. She gives these girls more credit than I do. Plus 15 to Brandi for at least trying to keep the peace, however Taylor had no trouble spreading the gossip. Minus 10 because although Taylor looked a bit happier than we’ve seen her, she definitely needed some makeup…or how about some time in the sunlight. I think all of that botox is doing strange things to her skin. Kyle tells Lisa she doesn’t mean to meddle…except that’s exactly what she’s doing. Plus 12 to Lisa for telling her the feud with Adrienne is no one else’s business. Now if Adrienne would only man up and apologize. Like that’s going to happen. Episode total = -10! Season total = +17!
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