Note to Kim Kardashian: you can keep the bondage boots . But please give me my crazy expensive ring back. That’s the gist of Kris Humphries’ demands, a source says, as these two ballers (him in the NBA, her in… you get it) continue to battle it out in divorce court. “Kris wants the [engagement] ring back because the marriage only lasted 72 days and he believes it was based on fraud and deceit,” an insider tells Radar Online. “Remember, Kim filed for divorce . Kris paid for that ring, and he just can’t fathom why Kim would want to keep it.” That would be a reasonable point… if E! clearly did not pay for the ring. Last week, Kardashian’s attorney was in court, trying to end the legal maneuvering by both parties. She claims the divorce is still not finalized because Humphries is dragging it out on purpose in a desperate attention to garner headlines. If true, hmmmm, we wonder from where he would have learned such a thing.
The Vice President: “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights.” The President, however, is “still evolving.” Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Firedoglake Discovery Date : 06/05/2012 15:33 Number of articles : 2
As mild, comforting and vaguely colonial as beans on toast, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel brings together some of Britain’s top-shelf acting treasures for a story of late-life awakenings and self-discovery in India. Directed by John Madden (of Shakespeare in Love and, more recently, The Debt ), the film is, underneath its surface of warm fuzzies, a precision instrument aimed directly at the heart of its intended, underserved older audience. As predictable a path as it follows, it delivers exactly what it sets out to — a feel-good tale with equal portions of romance, tempered melancholy, transformation and low-key fish-out-of-water humor. And if the mechanics at work here are more than obvious, they’re also a fair price to pay for getting to see Bill Nighy joke with Judi Dench about his inability to fix a telephone, Maggie Smith force down local food in order to be polite, Tom Wilkinson join in a game of pickup cricket and Penelope Wilton look terrified during a tuk-tuk ride. The seven retirees in the main ensemble end up in Jaipur, enticed by marketing materials for a hotel “for the elderly and beautiful” that turn out to be more aspirational than actual. The place is run-down, some of the rooms don’t have doors and others have been taken over by wildlife — the manager Sonny (an aggressively animated Dev Patel) has unquashable enthusiasm but not particular skill for running a place or raising money to make much-needed fixes. Fortunately for him, most of his guests can’t afford to leave — they’ve outsourced their retirement to India rather than face living the rest of their lives tucked away or lauded as if they had already died. Housewife Evelyn (Dench) is there because the husband she always trusted to take care of things has passed away and left her in debt, forcing her to sell the apartment in which they lived. Douglas (Nighy) and his wife of almost 40 years Jean (Penelope Wilton) invested their savings in their daughter’s internet startup (the mystery of the online world to these characters is a recurring joke) — she’s been unable to pay them back, forcing them to either move to a depressing senior citizens community or out of the country entirely. Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are looking for love or, barring that, to get laid — they’re both anxious to prove to themselves that that part of their lives isn’t over. Muriel (Maggie Smith) is a former housekeeper who’s reluctantly left England in order to avoid a long wait for a hip replacement surgery. And Tom Wilkinson is Graham, a high court judge who’s gay (“nowadays more in theory than in practice,” he explains) and has returned to the place in which he grew up to track down his first love. Add to this Sonny’s attempts to date call-center worker Sunaina (Tena Desae) despite his mother’s (Lillete Dubey) desire to arrange his marriage to someone else and have him give up the hotel, and you have enough plot threads to easily carry the film through its unhurried two-hour runtime. And most of them work — Nighy and Dench are especially luminous playing explorers of the city who fall in love with India and with the renewed sense of possibility in their lives, their reserve giving way to tentative but genuine joy and an unexpected connection. Wilkinson is so disarmingly self-deprecating as Graham that it takes a while to realize that the confessions he’s making to his new friends are the most open he’s been in his life. Smith operates with the same glorious crabbiness she’s perfected in her recent roles, though the film’s attempt to treat her first as adorably racist and then as a uniting figure thanks to her transformative friendship with a maid is impossible to swallow even with her enjoyable performance. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel portrays the city in which it’s set as chaotic, colorful and lively, but also ultimately a backdrop — this is not a film about India, it’s one about growing old in a terribly British fashion. “Can we be blamed for feeling that we are too old to change?” Evelyn muses in one of her blog posts that in voiceover periodically mark the story. While we in the audience have always known that’s not the case — that’s why we’re watching the film — the pleasure is in watching the characters on screen realize the fact themselves, to their delight. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
We hope not either, cuz where is he gonna get some Grade A cous like hers if she leaves him? Chrissy Teigen Talks About Wedding Plans With John Legend Opening up to Us Weekly at Project Sunshine’s Benefit in NYC Tuesday night, the swimsuit model–who got engaged to love of five years John Legend during a Maldives getaway over the holidays–said she isn’t willing to let wedding planning take over her life. In fact, “I feel like the anti-bride, because I watch all those shows and I hate them,” she told Us. “I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying . . . my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.” Teigen, 26, says she’d rather focus on the fun stuff: food and fashion, stressing that her big day will be very “food-oriented”–and will involved multiple costume changes. “I love dress shopping and I love talking about the wedding food. That’s what makes me happy,” Teigen revealed. “If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.” The 5-foot-8 beauty says she also didn’t waste any time picking out her first dress for her nuptials–a “simple” but “stunning” Monique Lhuillier gown. “I had been looking at online for so long . . . since the day I got engaged,” Teigen shared. “It’s so beautiful. I loved it. That was my excuse for having not waited. I don’t know what part [of the wedding] it will be worn for, but it will be worn and I’m very excited.” Teigen might not have wasted any time settling on a dress, but in general, she says she and Legend, 33, aren’t stressed about when they’ll make it official. “We’re going to take our time with [the rest of the planning],” Teigen told Us. “We’ve been together for so long.” Joked the model, “Hopefully I won’t hate him by then!” These two have been together forever and hopefully the marriage will be even happier than the wedding planning! Source
Casting Kathleen Turner as a small-town mom nominated for “Catholic Woman of the Year” is about as risky as it gets in The Perfect Family , first-time director Anne Renton’s soft-willed religious tolerance parable. The whiskied voice alone makes it sound like Tallulah Bankhead has risen from the dead and crashed the sacristy where Monsignor Murphy (Richard Chamberlain) is laying out his vestments for Sunday Mass. But as the anodyne network drama title suggests, petty ironies are more this movie’s speed. Turner plays Eileen Cleary, pious community pillar and well-blinkered mother of a lesbian daughter named Shannon (Emily Deschanel) and philandering son Frank Jr. (Jason Ritter). Eileen’s husband Frank Sr. (Michael McGrady) first appears to be the long-suffering one: Eileen quietly relishes her identity as the local do-gooder; if her insistence on the Clearys’ arid weekly family dinners is any indication, maintaining that identity may have more to do with her good works than Christian selflessness. In fact Frank Sr. was a handful in his day; 10 years sober, his role in their relationship has a distinctly penitential vibe. But then everyone seems to humor Eileen. A religious dinosaur roaming a modern world, for much of the film she is the one who requires tolerance. Shannon is five months pregnant and set to marry Angela (Angelique Cabral), a union everyone but Eileen accepts, including Angela’s brassy Latina mother (Elizabeth Peña). After her poor reaction to this news sends Shannon to the hospital (a soap opera move that happens twice), Eileen goes into charitable mode, bestowing kindness on the sinner but continuing to hate the sin. Frank Jr. gets stricter treatment, but then he is leaving a wife and kids for a manicurist (Kristen Dalton); the suggestion of vaguely defined unhappiness in his marriage is meant to instill sympathy. The plot hinges on the anticipation of the Archbishop of Dublin’s arrival, when he’ll forgive everyone’s sins and decide who’s the Catholic-est of them all. Eileen’s main competition is a supercilious church groupie and longtime rival named Agnes (Sharon Lawrence). Agnes is open about her hypocrisies, where Eileen keeps up a tight social front. That she doesn’t seem to have a problem lying about her loved ones opens the quality and function of Eileen’s faith to question, but the script (by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Riley) falls short of matching Turner’s game performance with a character study that teases out the complications of a self-identifying good Christian. Instead the tone hovers between mild satire and soapy melodrama. Launched into the space between those two modes, a line like “I don’t have to think, I’m a Catholic!” — Eileen’s response to an accusation of closed-mindedness — falls flat. Especially when compared to the recent Natural Selection , in which a woman stifled by a dogma-driven life goes rogue, The Perfect Family seems to resist introspective pit stops, cruising toward its tidy resolution with a host of missed opportunities in its wake. Even Eileen’s climactic confession feels like a clockwork bid for empathy. At critical moments Renton’s direction feels a couple of seconds off the beat; often the dramatic center of an obviously dramatic scene (Eileen’s home interview with a church delegation and Frank Senior’s sudden flight from the marriage are two examples) never quite materializes. It’s still a kick to watch Kathleen Turner don a housedress and trade soothing pieties with Richard Chamberlain. The Perfect Family feels like it could have been more than that, but I suppose counting its blessings is the more Christian thing to do. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
This is all your fault, 30 Rock . A few days after Kim Kardashian made a cameo on one of that show’s live episodes, sources tell The New York Post that this reality star is interested in becoming a “comedy actress.” “She really wants to be the next Sofia Vergara,” the insider says. It is true that Kim and the Modern Family star have two, large, bouncy things in common. Compare them below and then decide: Which would you prefer to rail? Aside from the 30 Rock appearance, Kardashian has booked a recurring role this summer on Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva , and she’ll also play a character in The Marriage Character , an upcoming film from Tyler Perry. “Acting is something she wants to do just for her,” claims the Kardashian mole . “Kim wants to do something that wouldn’t involve her sisters.”
Sup North Carolina? Yer gettin’ ready to vote on Amendment 1, which bans gay marriage (which is already banned) in addition to straight and gay civil unions and domestic partnerships? Sounds like a fun amendment! Good job, you guys, way to stick it to … well, your 200,000 straight citizens who are in domestic partnerships Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Wonkette Discovery Date : 24/04/2012 00:06 Number of articles : 3
NOM supported North Carolina anti-gay marriage groups banded together to produce this ludicrous video to battle Amendment One, which bans same-sex marriage and more. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The New Civil Rights Movement Discovery Date : 24/04/2012 17:49 Number of articles : 2
Kim’s KW studs join a long line of creative romantic gestures in Hollywood. By Kara Warner Kim Kardashian sports “KW” earrings while in New York Photo: Splash News When it comes to the various ways in which celebrity couples offer up public displays of affection, the ante was raised yet again when Kim Kardashian was spotted over the weekend wearing earrings with the initials of rumored boyfriend Kanye West . But Kim is hardly the first star to wear her heart on her sleeve (or in her ear). Let’s take a look back at five other unique celeb PDAs: Tattoos No matter how well De Beers has ingrained their slogan “A diamond is forever” into our brains, nothing says “I love you forever (hopefully)” like getting a tattoo of your lover’s initials, name and/or face. There are so many examples of celebrity couples who have expressed their love via this method that we could write a separate story. The couples who immediately come to mind are Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, who both got their first-ever ink in celebration of their marriage . Other examples: Tori Spelling’s hubby Dean McDermott has his wife’s face and d
