NeNe might want to apologize before Marlo goes upside her head Marlo Hampton Denies NeNe’s Claims She Is An Opportunist Looks like these two won’t be satisfied until they push each other’s wigs back. According to Rolling Out: Marlo Hampton and NeNe Leakes just can’t seem to stop talking about each other. Hampton is now dishing on her ex-friend via a blog post. As previously reported, both ladies feuded on Twitter over next Sunday’s episode that will show them arguing at a local event. Leakes threatened legal action against Hampton who apparently almost came to blows with the star. Furthermore, NeNe recently penned a BravoTV blog and accused her former bridesmaid of being an opportunist who befriended her nemesis Kenya Moore for camera time. “Did you see the opportunist that keeps coming around? wrote Leakes. “Did you see my friend just sit there and indirectly support this B.S.? I have worked with a lot of women over the years and the one thing that it has taught me is that life is like an elevator — on your way up, you have to let people off!” she added. Hampton clearly caught wind of NeNe’s words and issued a response via her MusingsFromTheBoudoir blog. “Let me start by saying that while Kenya and I are not best friends (we only met recently). I refuse to let others determine whether or not I should befriend her,” wrote Hampton. She has done nothing but support me and whenever we’re together we always have a grand ole time. I don’t need to sit in judgment of her.” “I’ve been called an opportunist, often! But honestly, who among us does not take advantage of opportunities that improve the quality of our lives and allow us to realize our dreams?” she added. Do you think NeNe could take Marlo in a fight?
Pitbull may have had an easy time hosting the American Music Awards last night, but the musician woke up to a serious problem today: He was trapped inside his Good Morning America dressing room, held captive there by The Joker. Fortunately, the program had a very special guest on the episode and he was able to defeat his nemesis, freeing Pitbull in the process and once again serving as a hero to millions. Yes, Miles Scott – the five-year old cancer survivor best known as “Batkid,” to whom San Francisco dedicated a full day this month – made his presence very much felt on the GMA set this morning. Watch him come to Pitbull’s rescue and learn more about his very awesome story now: Batkid Saves Pitbull
A pregnancy. A fatherly debut. And a terrific season finale. It was a strong week in television and, via our friends at TV Fanatic, THG is here to recap the highlights… ON SUNDAY , Rick took a road trip on The Walking Dead . ON MONDAY , Carrie had her secret life exposed on The Carrie Diaries , while Ryan Hardy once again failed to bring down his nemesis on The Following . ON TUESDAY , we learned the identity of Drew Thompson on Justified Season 4 , while White Collar bid farewell to its own fourth season and Spencer continued to lose it on Pretty Little Liars . ON WEDNESDAY , The Americans continued to impress, while Gus found a love interest on Psych . ON THURSDAY , we met Jeff’s father on Community and were shocked to learn Rachel is pregnant on Glee Season 4 . ON FRIDAY , Grimm returned from a long hiatus and Danny got yet another new partner on Blue Bloods .
Sheldon Stevens, the man who accused Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, of having sex with him while he was underage, says he was coerced into recanting. He’s meeting with lawyers to ” undo the settlement ” with the puppeteer, TMZ reports. Clash and Sheldon Stephens entered into a settlement in which Clash agreed to pay him $125,000, but in return the agreement came with one condition. Stephens agreed that upon execution of the deal, he would retract his original accusation and state that his sexual relationship with Clash was consensual and adult. The accuser did retract the allegation at that time … but now wishes he had not. Stephens has met with lawyers and told them he was pressured into recanting, however, and insists he he had sex with Kevin Clash when he was underage (16). Clash has denied this from the start, while acknowledging he is gay and was involved with Stephens, now 23; Clash, 54, says his lover was 18+ at the time. Stephens says he would gladly forfeit the $125,000 to restore his name, and was literally crying during the final negotiations and insisting he didn’t want to sign. Clash’s lawyer had no comment. Stay tuned. [Photo: WENN.com]
A tipsy Taylor Armstrong apparently claimed that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star Brandi Glanville has slept with every man in Beverly Hills. That’s about 16,000 adult males, for those keeping score. The cast members – sans Brandi Glanville – recently got together and the drinks were flowing hardcore. Soon enough, Taylor went OFF on her nemesis Brandi. Turning to jazz musician Chris Botti, who joined them at a restaurant, a drunk Taylor slurred: “We’ve got a good table… thank God my arch nemesis [ Brandi Glanville ] isn’t here…or she’d be going down. She has slept with every man in Beverly Hills.” “She travels to find someone to sleep with… some sort of flight plan !” As the rest of the room looks on uncomfortably, Taylor continues: “She has slept with every man in Beverly Hills. There’s close to 16,000 men in Beverly Hills.” “And she’s only been divorced a couple of years.” Brandi, of course, was married to Eddie Cibrian until he cheated on her with LeAnn Rimes, who he went on to marry instead. She’s been quite outspoken about this. Expect her to react similarly in this case once she gets wind of it. [Photos: WENN.com]
What’s in a name? J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot sequel finally has one (per Deadline ) and despite my deepest, nerdiest hopes that early reports were on some crazy tip it’s been confirmed so I guess we’re stuck with it. I hope you’re ready for — drumroll please… Star Trek Into Darkness . Star Trek into what now !? I’m sure it was tough to come up with a naming convention that deviated from the original Trek movies’ Roman numeral + subtitle formula, or the TNG -era Trek s’ annoying penchant for terribly vague one-word descriptors (“Nemesis”? “Generations”?). At least those made more sense once you saw the movie. But Star Trek Into Darkness ? For starters, it sounds like Step Into Liquid and Step Up 2 The Streets , which makes me think Chris Pine and Co. are headed for a dance-off with outer space surfers to the music of a British glam rock band. On top of that, dropping the colon forces us to comprehend “Trek” as both a noun and a verb, which makes my brain hurt. Who wants to go Star Trekkin’ with J.J. Abrams? [*Commenter Elijah Sarkesian is right: Maybe someone just forgot the colon. If that’s the case then I forgive Abrams and will move Star Trek: Into Darkness into #10 right under Star Trek: Insurrection , because “insurrection” is at least an interesting vocabulary word.] Maybe I’m being too harsh on poor Star Trek 2 . Looking back on the Trek films, they weren’t all winners. Here’s how I’d rank the 12 franchise titles, from awesome ( KHAAAAAAAN! ) to turrible. 1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 2. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 4. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 5. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 7. Star Trek: First Contact 8. Star Trek 9. Star Trek: Insurrection 10. Star Trek: Nemesis 11. Star Trek: Generations 12. Star Trek Into Darkness Yep. Still not working. Sound off below. Together we can get through this, guys. Star Trek 2 is in theaters May 17, 2013. [ TrekMovie.com , Deadline ]
Mr. Skin admires athletic women who push it to the limit, especially when the limit is a clothes-free scene. There’s something so sexy about a female who can give any muscle an extra hard workout. So in honor of the start of the Summer Olympics, and the Inaugural Skinlympics , we bestow some medals on Lavinia Milosovivi , Julie Benz , and the rest of our Top 10 Sexy Athletes Who’ve Done a Nude Scene! 10 Sue Price (Weightlifting) … Pump iron. 9 Victoria Pratt (Martial Arts) … The way of the fist. 8 Jennifer Gareis (Swimming) … Breast stroke. 7 Aimee Mullins (Running) … Fur-cules. 6 Patrice Donnelly (Hurdling) … Personal breast. 5 Tanja Szewczenko (Figure Skating) … Nice figure, skater. 4 Julie Benz (Figure Skating) … A perfect 10. 3 Tania Velia (Swimming) … Bouncy buoys. 2 Lavinia Milosovici (Gymnastics) … Sticky landing. 1 Arlene Tur (Vollyball) … Vollyboobs.
Summertime is blockbuster season, and with it comes the usual onslaught of promotional tie-ins. Naturally, The Amazing Spider-Man has generated its share of interesting merchandising partners. However, with great products come great risibility, and with over ninety promotional partners it was inevitable that some of the marketing would miss the mark. From odd adult eyewear to a line of cosmetics, take your pick of the items that failed in the goal to get your spending-sense tingling. Promotional Partners in Crime In this new era, with all the kids living on the inter-tubes, the concept of keeping the details of your film a secret is a dwindling enterprise. Directors endeavor to preserve the crucial plot points of their film, hoping those details can remain veiled with closed sets, limited script releases, performers signing non-disclosure agreements, and all manner of clandestine control of their intellectual property. That is why it becomes amusing when all these efforts become unraveled by unintentional reveals by the companies licensed to sell branded merchandise. (Obligatory spoiler-alert!) Up until last December the visuals of The Amazing Spider-Man ’s villain – The Lizard – had been a closely guarded secret. That is, up until a certain confection company released promotional materials for retailers. Suddenly the web was abuzz because everyone had a sense of how he would appear – courtesy of The Lizard Pez dispenser. A few months later key plot spoilers were discovered when construction-toy maker Mega Bloks released their tie-in play sets at an annual toy fair. Fanboys began drooling over the fact that key moments of the film were rendered via injection-mold plastic. One involved a mechanical battle frame Rhys Ivans would use to combat our hero, while another diorama exposed a battle at an underground laboratory. Yet another play set shows a climactic battle that ensues atop the Oscorp Tower. The addition of what were described as “S.W.A.T. Team Lizard” action figures tipped the hand of yet another plot detail. If you want to learn the details of upcoming films, go to aisle 8 at Toys-R-Us! “Ate” Legged Freaks Common among summertime blockbusters are the food tie-ins, and Peter Parker does not disappoint here. Kelloggs and Keebler together have forged a shopping cart full of products, from a disturbing-looking cereal to Cheese-It crackers to fruit snacks. The Spidey-branded Rice Krispy Treats not only get spider graphics on the box and wrappers, they’re comprised of industrially-dyed red pieces. These, I suppose are emblematic of the color associated with our hero. The end result is something… different ; the unwrapped product takes on more of a viral appearance that seems to make it more appropriate for a film like Contagion . Twizzlers candy has also joined the fray, using their licorice as more than a supplemental confection: They’re selling it as a key component in the Spidey universe. The eponymous hero is shown crouched on a web made of the candy, and even the film’s logo is rendered in red licorice. Better still is the corporate explanation, which tells us in a press release just how perfect Twizzlers complements the Spider-Man moviegoing experience: “Twizzlers Twisted Web! From the candy’s signature red color to its web-like characteristics, our iconic Twizzlers Twists are the perfect complement to sweeten fans’ movie experience.” That’s something for fans to bear in mind as they are about to breeze past the concession stand. And you thought deciding whether to see this in 3-D was going to be the big decision. Surprising among the numerous promo partners is that the fast food licensing rights went to the lesser franchise Carl’s Jr. (Burger King carries those rights in most Latin America markets). Now, before stampeding to a local burger joint for a collector cup there’s something to bear in mind. On July 4 the Carl’s Jr. restaurants offered their “Spider-Man Eats Free” promotion. This actually means that anyone arriving at the restaurant decked out in full Spider-Man attire in theory received a free Amazing Grilled Cheese Bacon Burger. To get a sense of who might show up, behold what the company envisions for its own lobbies. Across the Pacific we find our favorite niche territory marketing partner Jolibee has teamed up with Spidey. The Phillipine chicken magnate has once again offered up a collectors bird bucket – filled with its signature “Chickenjoy” – decorated in heroic graphics. Jollibee also offers a number of toy food promotions with our webbed hero, one of which makes me pause; the Spidey ring-toss toy has a rather curious design. Now, a better person may avoid mentioning this appears to display rectal violation of the web slinger, but amazingly I’m not better than that. Nor am I above noting how he seems to be enjoying things in this particular pose. Better to simply move on. Roll Your Eyes-Play It goes without saying that there are a crap-ton of toys associated with any given superhero film. One of the talked-about aspects of this reboot helps the kids out: In years past the tots had to contend with clunky web delivery contraptions to replicate the physiological spinnerets displayed in the previous three efforts. Now, even as the toys have not gotten better, Marc Webb ’s Spider-Man has Peter Parker employing a mechanical web shooter means the kids will have a much easier time getting their Andrew Garfield on. Variations in design involve these toys launching various media, from twine to rubberized webs, to water. Parents will especially cherish the “Silly String” version, which can stain household fabrics and requires rapid replacement of the “web fluid.” Among the action figures there’s one particular curiosity. Remember the scene in The Amazing Spider-Man where Spider-Man had to take to his dune buggy to battle an evil scourge? Of course you don’t remember, because nowhere in the franchise, nor the comic pantheon, does Spidey EVER get behind the wheel of such a conveyance. Despite that reality, your kids can relive the moment which never occurred. About the closest you can arrive to this object making any sense would possibly involve some random scene involving The Sandman from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 – and that is a monumental stretch. Why? Cos(play) You Can When you imagine the entire realm of the Spider-Man universe I’m certain the first thing to come to mind is an array of colored finger nail polishes. Cosmetic manufacturer OPI has released a line of lacquer colors in conjunction with the film. The hues range across the spectrum, with names that evoke the film. Number One Nemesis, Just Spotted the Lizard, Call Me Gwen-Ever, Into The Night, Your Web Or Mine, Shatter The Scales, and My Boyfriend Scales Walls. The last one, for the record, is white. All of them, for the record, make little to no sense. Footwear tie-ins for the kids are another commonality in comic book-based releases. The Amazing Spider-Man has generated quite a few different designs, but the most arresting has to arrive courtesy of Striderite. Not only does the design resemble the famed mask, but with each step the eyes flash. As the company states, “Your little super hero will feel like the real deal with light-up powers.” It’s a little difficult to gather, however, just how Spider-Man is particularly connected with the power of light. Clearly someone did their homework. So let’s say you’re near a group of shrieking 6-year-old harridans and they are all sporting shoes that strobe. The retinal damage one may incur is a potential threat, but you can ward off those rays from their Spidey shoes with this functional and entirely sane-looking set of Spider-Man glasses. Sure, you may run the risk of getting kicked out of the Chuck E. Cheese if caught wearing these, but let’s be honest here; you probably deserve it. Brad Slager has written about movies and entertainment for Film Threat , Mediaite , and is a columnist at CHUD.com . His less insightful impressions on entertainment can be found on Twitter .
Karl Urban makes his debut as the helmeted arbiter of justice in the first official trailer for ‘Dredd,’ in theaters September 21. By Josh Wigler A scene from “Dredd” Photo: He says he’s the law — but do you believe him? Longtime “Judge Dredd” fans (heck, anyone old enough to have seen an R-rated movie in the 1990s) have plenty of reasons to be skeptical about “Dredd,” the Pete Travis-directed adaptation of the “2000 AD” comic book, judging purely on how the Sylvester Stallone film of 1995 was handled. By all accounts, “Dredd” is not that film. It takes its inspiration from sources much closer to the original text and has a leading man — Karl Urban — who takes his job very seriously. So did the “Dredd” trailer do it for you? It did it for us … mostly. Here are five key elements from the “Dredd” trailer that informed our verdict. Welcome to Mega City One (at 00:05) Gritty, impossibly huge and absolutely the last place on the planet you would ever want to live: that’s Mega City One, and from the opening moments of the trailer, all of those points are clearly established. Hooligans run amok fueled by all kinds of illicit drugs, with one in particular gaining new traction: Slo-Mo, a dangerous product that “makes the brain feel as though time is passing at 1 percent of the normal speed.” Why anyone would want to be on such a drug in the middle of Mega City One is beyond us, but it’s certain to pave the way for some fantastic action, based on the trailer alone. Big Ma-Ma’s House (at 00:32) A hero is only as worthy as his villain, and in the case of “Dredd,” the quality of the nemesis won’t be a problem. Lena Headey of “Game of Thrones” fame is the bad guy here as Ma-Ma Madrigal, ruling the roost of a drug empire with enough ruthless efficiency to make Queen Cersei Lannister blush. Her scarred visage and crystal-clear goals — “If we play this right, we can take the whole city,” she tells her underlings — make her a force to be reckoned with, and Headey seems to be having a ball in the role. Judge and Be Judged (at 00:59) We’ll get to Urban specifically in a second. In the meantime, look at all of the judges! Dredd explains their role in Mega City One thusly: “800 million people living in the ruin of the old world, and only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice.” Though “Dredd” will center mostly on the titular judge and his new trainee Cassandra Anderson (played by a bleach-blond Olivia Thirlby), it’s nice to see some attention paid to the greater gaggle of law enforcers. Fifty Shades of “Raid” (at 01:19) If you thought the plot of “Dredd” seemed a little familiar after watching the trailer, you’re not losing it. There are undeniable similarities between this and “The Raid,” the incredible Indonesian martial arts film from Gareth Evans that debuted this past spring. Ma-Ma Madrigal has her drug operation holed up in one massive tower that she has full control over, not unlike “The Raid” drug kingpin Tama. Also not unlike Tama, Madrigal commands all the tenants of her building to seek and destroy Dredd and Anderson. So, yes, the similarities are there, but there are more than enough differences in the setting, genre and characters — not to mention the action-dictating Slo-Mo — that we’re more than happy to look the other way. (Besides, we’ll take another “Raid” movie however we can get it, even if it’s called “Dredd.”) Is He the Law? (at 01:50) That’s the big question, isn’t it? On paper, Karl Urban is a fantastic choice for Judge Dredd. In motion? That might be another story. His Dredd spits out a few too many one-liners for some folks’ tastes — “negotiations are over,” “the sentence is death,” etc. — but he’s got the look, the voice and the attitude down by our estimation. Whether or not that all adds up to a fully formed Dredd remains to be seen, but the trailer leaves us cautiously optimistic, if not fully sold, on Urban’s performance. “Dredd” is set to hit theaters on September 21. What do you think of the “Dredd” trailer? Tell us in the comments below! Check out everything we’ve got on “Dredd.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Photos ‘Dredd’ Key Scenes
With the announcement that the Nissan Juke-R will be entering limited production, the brand has released a short cinematic online movie starring Juke-R launched to coincide with announcement. Check out more news on the Nissan Juke-R. Desert Nemesis follows Nissan’s inaugural GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordonez, as he takes on the world’s best supercars in Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : eGMCarTech Discovery Date : 03/05/2012 09:17 Number of articles : 2
