Remember Oscar season 2010-11? Remember we had to keep caring about The Fighter ? I can’t believe how long we had to care about The Fighter . For me it was the Cold Mountain of 2011. The louder you squawked, the better your Oscar chances. Did you wave your hands frantically a lot of the time? Did you steal your accent from an SNL table read? See you at the dais. Anyway, I’m still sore with Mark Wahlberg, and I’m approaching the international trailer for his new movie Contraband with that rancor. It comes out in January, so it has to be laughable. Let’s laugh.
The holiday spirit is in the air and those crazy folks over at Mountain View, California are up to no good. You know what’s better than a scary Google Doodle… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 30/10/2011 02:06 Number of articles : 2
Get out your scoresheets and see how they compare with those of Venice Film Festival jury boss Darren Aronofsky, whose group today awarded the fest’s top prize, the Golden Lion, to Aleksandr Sokurov’s film Faust . The heavily favored Michael Fassbender won the fest’s Best Actor award for Shame , while Deanie Ip earned Best Actress for the Stephanie Zacharek-endorsed Hong Kong effort A Simple LIfe . Other big winners included People Mountain People Sea and Terraferma ; congrats to all! [ AP ]
A video I made for Justin Bieber using the song “Barriers” by David Archuleta. Lyrics: Well, I don’t know how to say this right And the words got me chokin’ I keep hittin’ this wall It’s never gonna fall And we’re still broken This mountain we’ve been trying to climb It’s never ending Just can’t do nothing Gotta do something ‘Cause if we don’t open up our eyes We’re just pretending Well, there’s a time for givin’ up Didn’t want to have to say it All we doin’ is building walls And now there’s too many barriers Here we are lying here It’s our last final goodnight Just because it feels so good No use pretending we’re alright Too many locks, too many crimes Too many tears, too many lie Too many barriers Ohhh Just too many barriers Now we’ve been draggin’ this whole thing out But I can’t wait any longer Our love’s burning down Creepin’ in the doubt We’re not getting any stronger I hear you say that we’re doin’ OK But, baby, I don’t think so Just can’t do nothin’, gotta do something ‘Cause if I don’t get into my car I won’t go very far. Well there’s a time for giving up Didn’t want to have to say it All we’re doing is building walls Now there’s too many barriers Ohhhh Here we are lying here It’s our last final goodnight Just because it feels so good No use pretending we’re alright Too many locks, too many crimes Too many tears, too many lies Too many barriers Too many barriers Just too many barriers That we keep running into Been tryin’, but we just can’t break through I know I … http://www.youtube.com/v/OILPlTgoG5w?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata The rest is here: Barriers (Justin Bieber Video) with lyrics
Ding dong, the wicked witch was almost dead on True Blood last night. But Marnie survived a machine gun shooting, sort of, concluding the penultimate episode of season four by swooping into Lafayette’s body. Ah, the dangerous, confusing, messy life of a medium. Elsewhere, Alcide killed his packmaster; Jason admitted to feelings for Jessica; and Eric sucked the blood from a witch’s heart. How will the season come to an end? Check out the following promo for “And When I Die” now: True Blood Season Finale Promo ** Remember to bookmark the True Blood spoilers section at TV Fanatic for the latest series scoop!
Ever since Kate Middleton’s wedding dress went on display, people from around the world have lined up at doors of Buckingham Palace to view a piece of history. In six weeks, the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding gown by Sarah Burton and Alexander McQueen has already been viewed by 350,000 visitors and counting. With one month to go, that number is expected to rise past 500,000. Among the first to check it out: Kate’s grandmother-in-law Queen Elizabeth . A spokesman for the Royal Collection says, “We’re thrilled that so many people have visited Buckingham Palace this summer in what looks to be a record year.” “The Royal Wedding attracted worldwide interest, so it’s only natural that many people want to come to experience the State Rooms used for the reception and take a closer look at The Duchess of Cambridge’s dress – which celebrates great British design.” Adult admission is $28.50, with the proceeds going to the Royal Wedding Charitable Gift Fund, benefiting charities chosen by Prince William and Kate Middleton . In related news, The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge recently donated a vehicle given to them as a wedding present by Land Rover to Mountain Rescue. [Photo: WENN.com]
Nick Ashford#39;s death comes amid news that another famous songwriter, Jerry Leiber, passed away yesterday as well. Both will be missed. Nick Ashford, who helped establish a gold standard for RB duets with wife Valerie Simpson, died Monday in New York of throat cancer. He was 69. Ashford Simpson penned and produced many #39;60s hits for Motown#39;s Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, including “Ain#39;t No Mountain High Enough.” “You#39;re All I Need to Get By,” “Ain#39;t Nothing Like the Real T
Here#39;s Jennifer Garner out with soon-to-be-big sister Seraphina: Garner and Affleck, both 39, have each spoken of being hands-on parents. Garner said juggling acting and motherhood gave her a “split personality.” Already parents to two beautiful daughters, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are getting ready for another baby! She#39;s pregnant, according to reports! The couple, along with Violet, 5 1/2, and Seraphina, 2 1/2 – are “thrilled” to be expecting their third child, they confirmed to
My Bieber experience happened on June 11th, 2011. I was invited to go to his benefit concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA by my friend. We had dead center, 4th row seats, meaning we were extremely close! Before the concert started we noticed that MC Hammer was sitting 2 rows behind us. Then we saw Kenny Hamilton walking through the crowd to go say hi to him. I basically died when I saw Kenny and I started climbing over the seats to get to him. Right as Kenny was turning to walk back to the backstage area, I put my camera infront of us and got a picture of me and him. As I was freaking out, Kenny said “That’s a bad picture take another one”. He then had to go, but I was almost in tears I was so happy! The concert started and it was amazing! Halfway through, my friend and I noticed we could climb over seats and get around people and make our way up to the front row. At this venue the front row could touch the stage. During Down To Earth, it was a quiet moment in the song and I yelled something like “MARRY ME!” and I guess Justin heard it cause he looked right at me and smiled at me then did the head nod at me! I basically freaked out! Then during Runaway Love, Justin came up right in front of me and put his hand out! He was holding my hand for about 2 whole seconds! THE BEST 2 SECONDS OF MY LIFE! I was crying of happiness after that. At the end of the concert, Justin had already left and Dan Kanter was finishing the concert off with a guitar solo. When he was finished I started yelling “PICK! PICK!” because I wanted his guitar pick, but instead of giving me his pick, he hands me a folded piece of paper. At first I was really confused what it was, but then the security guard in front of me was like, “Damnn girl! That’s the set list! There’s only one of those per every show. That thing is worth a ton!”. I learned that the set list is a piece of paper that says the songs he is going to sing and in what order, and when he is supposed to get water and throw his hat and stuff. I didn’t care how much it was worth, all I was thinking was that I was going to frame it and keep it forever! My Bieber experience is a moment I will never forget! I have the fever! -Jamie @jdtlovesjdb Read the original here: My Bieber experience happened on June 11th, 2011. I was invited…
Band’s first major-label effort, In the Mountain in the Cloud, is a big thing, borne of even bigger tensions. By James Montgomery Portugal. The Man Photo: MTV News Portugal. The Man have released six albums in six years (plus a completely re-recorded acoustic record too), but they’ve never made anything like In the Mountain in the Cloud, their latest swirling, psychedelic effort. Mainly because it almost killed them. “To be perfectly honest, we wrote the album, did pre-production and then everything fell apart,” singer/songwriter/guitarist John Gourley told MTV News. “And I think it was the fact that this had all fallen apart that it actually came together so well in the end. I think we spent seven months, eight months on the album, and it was just going into the studio, messing everything up, leaving the studio, crying about it for a month on tour, then trying again.” The recording of In the Mountain, which hit stores on Tuesday, was rife with intra-band tensions, battles with producer John Hill and a fair amount of boozy flare-ups. All of these were new experiences for the band, who — as you may know by now — first formed in Sarah Palin’s old stomping grounds of Wasilla, Alaska, and spent the first years of their existence making music in relative anonymity. All of that changed when they signed with Atlantic Records and began mulling the prospects of making a major -label record. “We were definitely feeling it at the time,” bassist Zachary Carothers sighed. “We signed to Atlantic Records and this was going to be our first release on the label, so we didn’t want to let anybody down. Not us or anyone. And, of course, we wanted them to like it too.” Which is where the perils Portugal faced differ slightly from those of innumerable bands that make the jump to a major: They weren’t being told what they couldn’t do, they were being asked what they could. And that prospect paralyzed them more than anything. “We had this meeting with Atlantic … and we were talking about songs — the reason we play music, why we love music, our favorite writers — this big meeting about songs,” Gourley said, “And as I left that meeting, they said to me, ‘Hey John, you know what? Just forget all that stuff. Just make the record you want to make.’ And, I don’t know why, but that was the most difficult part.” But after some months, the record began to take shape. And, if anything, it really was the album that Portugal. The Man had always longed to make: a crawling, sprawling thing, brimming with big ideas and even bigger ambitions. From the sun-dappled psych of “Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now)” to the slow-burning churn of “Sleep Forever,” it’s unquestionably one of the year’s most compelling listens, a decidedly major album in just about every conceivable way. And even if they have signed with the big boys, Portugal are still finding ways to keep things manageably micro: Take, for example, their epic mini-movie for “Sleep Forever,” which, though it’s filled with epic shots of the Alaskan wilderness, was actually little more than a home movie. It just looks like it cost a million bucks. “We just went out behind my parent’s house in Willow, Alaska, and got some footage from a plane as well,” Gourley explained. “It was all fairly inexpensive, because we just lived at home and went out every day for a week and a half and made our own food … and the dogs were already there — my parents mush dogs, ran the Iditarod and everything.” Tell us what you think of Portugal. The Man’s video for “Sleep Forever” in the comments! Related Artists Portugal. The Man
