It’s been an amazing week for boob tube skin, with three nude debuts hitting the small screen on Game of Thrones and Da Vinci’s Demons . The first Game of Thrones debut came from feisty redhead Rose Leslie , aka Ygritte the wildling, who bared her blooms and buns for that lucky bastard Jon Snow. Then, it’s technically not the first time we’ve seen Gwendoline Christie nude ( check out the must-see photos here ), but Brienne the beauty’s bare butt scene in the bath is the first time we’ve seen her SKIN motion! At 6’ 3” that’s some Amazonian ass! Over on Starz, Da Vinci’s Demons had Lara Pulver of True Blood fame making her topless debut as a sexy schemer, and Laura Haddock returned for the third episode with a third nude scene. Her bod is so nice they had to show it thrice! See pics after the jump!
Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie’s retro witch thriller The Lords of Salem has plenty of portent but not much payoff. Likely to disappoint die-hard fans of The Devil’s Rejects and other Zombie atrocities, this milder brew still has ’70s-esque style to spare and sports a likable lead perf by Sheri Moon Zombie as a DJ seemingly spun by Satan’s spawn into the lower depths. Theatrical play will pale beside the pic’s ancillary afterlife, although “Lords” isn’t potent enough to rule in either realm. With torture porn having been snuffed out many moons ago, Zombie hasn’t picked a bad time to tone himself down. Still, as even PG-rated horror has a duty to deliver on some level, the helmer’s narrative dead end here registers not as a lack of nerve so much as a lack of imagination. Following a tongue-in-cheek prologue set in the late 1600s and showing a witches’ coven getting burned to a crisp, we arrive in the present day, which for Zombie looks and sounds a helluva lot like 1974. Recovering addict Heidi ( Sheri Moon Zombie in blond dreadlocks), who lives in a rundown Boston apartment, and co-host of the latenight “Salem Rocks” show, thinks she sees someone or something moving around the unrented unit down the hall. Then at work, she gets an ancient-looking vinyl platter from a band called the Lords that freaks her out even more. Full of cacophonous bow-sawing and mumbled incantations, this patently avant-garde long-player goes out over the airwaves and puts even listeners at home in a trance. Several scares later and poor Heidi is back on the crackpipe, making it tough for the viewer to tell whether her subsequent visions of the damned are drug-induced or directed by a force even more malevolent than Zombie. Meanwhile, the exhaustive research of occult scholar Francis Matthais ( Bruce Davison ) puts him in the company of three middle-aged women ( Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace, Judy Geeson ) so antiquatedly hospitable, they could pass as pure evil in some quarters. All of this builds to Heidi being transported by some means or another to 17th-century Salem but not much farther, as the pic simply poops out around the 90-minute mark, leaving an end-credits sequence where an ending ought to be. In terms of tech credits, The Lords of Salem has its virtues. A handful of setpieces come on like vintage Ken Russell , with Sheri Moon Zombie, her face painted a ghostly white, looking like a human sacrifice or Marilyn Manson groupie . Brandon Trost’s color-bleached widescreen cinematography is particularly well suited to rendering the heroine’s dingy abode and the city’s autumnal chill. Zombie, having proven himself a connoisseur of gloomy ’60s and ’70s pop rock, here delivers another killer playlist, although his pick of the Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” seems a touch obvious. More on The Lords of Salem: INTERVIEW: Rob Zombie Says ‘The Lords of Salem’ Is ‘Pretty Out There’ But ‘The Walking Dead’ Is Not Follow Movieline on Twitter.
A community outside San Francisco is in mourning this week after 15-year old Austin Price was struck by a train and killed on Thursday evening. The incident took place around 6 p.m. and was the result of a game of chicken, authorities confirm. Police say Price and two other teens were playing on the tracks near San Lorenzo High School when the former failed to get out of the way of a northbound Capitol Corridor train. At a school in mourning, Principal Tovi Scruggs acknowledged that students often play near the tracks, while signs were hung in hallways that said “Austin, we’ll miss you.” Several moments of silence were held for the sophomore, with Scruggs echoing the sentiments of other teenagers who said they will no longer take things for granted. “Life is precious,” Scruggs said.
What does a $2 million pizza look like? Does it have gold leaf and saffron-infused white truffles? Is the cheese made from the milk of a thousand duck-billed platypuses? Is the sauce the really good Newman’s Own stuff with the garlic and basil? No! None of that! It looks like this: According to Motherboard , the pizza was purchased by Mike Lazio back in May of 2010 using an online currency called Bitcoins (BTC). 10,000 BTC to be exact. At the time, a BTC equaled about .3 cents, meaning that Lazio spent about $30 on it when he took to the Bitcoin forum to make an offer: you order me pizza in the real world, I’ll give you 10,000 BTC. It was the first time a real-world transaction had actually occurred using the virtual currency, and is believed to have sparked the intense inflation that has caused one single BTC to rise to about $234. So do the math: 10,000 BTC at $234 each means that if Lazio had kept that money instead of spending it on Pizza, he’d be sitting on an extra $2.34 million. Hopefully he enjoyed the pizza. I bet he could have found a lot of homemade pizza recipes that cost a lot less than $2.34 million to make.
Ashley Judd is a joke and probably mentally unbalanced, according to a leaked tape in which Sen. Mitch McConnell’s staff is plotting how to run against her. McConnell (R-KY) was fully expecting a U.S. Senate bid from Judd in 2014, and although she decided not to run , his staff discussed her at length. McConnell’s voice can be heard during parts of the recording. At one point, someone played a recording of the star describing her religious beliefs: “I still choose the God of my understanding as the God of my childhood,” she says. “I have to expand my God concept from time to time, and you know particularly I enjoy native faith practices, and have a very nature-based God concept.” “I’d like to think I’m like St. Francis in that way. Brother Donkey, Sister Bird.” One of McConnell’s staffers can be heard laughing at that point in the tape. Another staffer laughs and says, “people would take to the streets with pitchforks.” During the tape, the team also discusses Ashley Judd’s mental health. “She’s clearly … this sounds extreme … but she is emotionally unbalanced,” one McConnell staff member says. “I mean … it’s been documented.” According to the aide, “she’s suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the 90s.” Judd is also described as “anti-sort-of-traditional American family.” Ashley Judd Leaked Tape It appears from the audio that McConnell’s team doesn’t feel threatened by Judd, yet the fact that they were even talking about this tells you a lot. McConnell even produced a couple of anti-Ashley Judd ads , 18 MONTHS before an election she never said she was running in. Also a telling sign. The audio (excerpted above) was posted by Mother Jones, the left-leaning publication which also released the infamous Mitt Romney 47 percent video. Again, it’s all moot, as Judd’s not running for Senate, but McConnell’s office is livid and wants the FBI to investigate the source of the video’s leak. Campaign manager Jesse Benton said in response to the leak that “Watergate-style tactics to bug campaign headquarters are above and beyond.”
Michael Weatherly and wife Bojana Jankovic are expecting again! The NCIS star confirms they are adding to their brood in 2013. “We’re expanding the brand, so I’m pleased to announce… Bojana and I are indeed awaiting our second child [together]. We’re very excited,” he said. Baby #2 will arrive “early in the fall.” The baby reveal came almost a year to the day after the couple, who wed in 2009, welcomed daughter Olivia, who will be one year old on April 10. Weatherly, 44, is also dad to 17-year-old son August from his previous marriage to Y&R star Amelia Heinle. Congrats to the whole family on the big news!
