We know he can place his hands on his cheeks and scream. But can Macaulay Culkin sing? We sort of have the answer to that question after an unexpected duet this week, as the actor joined friend Adam Green on stage during a concert in Great Britain. Watch them team up for a cover of The Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” now: Macaulay Culkin – “Kokomo” Culkin should probably stick to the big screen. But this is a guy who kinda recently broke up with Mila Kunis , so don’t be too harsh on him, people. He needs all the positive reinforcement he can get.
For weeks, Kobe Bryant has been carrying the Los Angeles Laker and their playoff chances on his back. But it was a different body party that felled the superstar last night, as Bryant likely tore his Achilles Tendon and is out for the rest of this season and at least half of next season. Even the biggest Laker hater has to be shaking his or her head at the news. Who wants to see a legend go out in such a way? Kobe Bryant Injury But is Kobe done for good? The injury – and perhaps some pain medication – prompted Bryant to go on an EPIC Facebook rant this morning at 3:30. It includes words of doubt, inspiration… and a warning to any bear looking for a fight. And it’s worth just reading in its entirety below: This is such BS! All the training and sacrifice just flew out the window with one step that I’ve done millions of times! The frustration is unbearable. The anger is rage. Why the hell did this happen ?!? Makes no damn sense. Now I’m supposed to come back from this and be the same player Or better at 35?!? How in the world am I supposed to do that?? I have NO CLUE. Do I have the consistent will to overcome this thing? Maybe I should break out the rocking chair and reminisce on the career that was. Maybe this is how my book ends. Maybe Father Time has defeated me…Then again maybe not! It’s 3:30am, my foot feels like dead weight, my head is spinning from the pain meds and I’m wide awake. Forgive my Venting but what’s the purpose of social media if I won’t bring it to you Real No Image?? Feels good to vent, let it out. To feel as if THIS is the WORST thing EVER! Because After ALL the venting, a real perspective sets in. There are far greater issues/challenges in the world then a torn achilles. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, find the silver lining and get to work with the same belief, same drive and same conviction as ever. One day, the beginning of a new career journey will commence. Today is NOT that day. “If you see me in a fight with a bear, prey for the bear”. Ive always loved that quote. Thats “mamba mentality” we don’t quit, we don’t cower, we don’t run. We endure and conquer. I know it’s a long post but I’m Facebook Venting LOL. Maybe now I can actually get some sleep and be excited for surgery tomorrow. First step of a new challenge. Guess I will be Coach Vino the rest of this season. I have faith in my teammates. They will come thru. Thank you for all your prayers and support. Much Love Always. Mamba Out
This makes sense, we suppose. When you grow up alongside Kim Kardashian , you fantasize about taking your clothes off for money. In a new interview with E! News, the 17-year old is asked if she would ever model for Victoria’s Secret and makes it very clear that nothing would please her more. “It’s always been kind of a dream of mine,” Kendall said . “It’s something I’d love to do.” We’re guessing Jenner will get the opportunity at some point, considering the brand name she’d be bringing to the lingerie company. But perhaps we can wait until she’s no longer a teenager to discuss it. Come on, people! Jenner, to her credit, has made it clear that she has no interest in a spinoff reality show of her own. She’s all about modeling these days and building an actual career for herself.
Scary Movie 5 is not a spoof. It’s not even a comedy. It’s a mess of very vague references to mostly outdated cultural phenomena, sprinkled in between half-hearted and half-baked “gags.” Genre spoof is supposed to expose the conventions of that genre in a clever way. The original Scary Movie was successful because it came on the heels of a horror film Renaissance that began with the movie Scream (which, in itself was somewhat of a spoof, but, that’s okay). Scary Movie had a reason to exist. It had something to say. Mainly, “Boy, there sure are a lot of horror movies copying Scream these days.” But what is Scary Movie 5 saying? I sat through it, and I couldn’t tell you. It doesn’t look like a horror movie. It doesn’t act like a horror movie. It plays off exactly zero horror movie conventions, and really only makes reference to the horror aesthetic a handful of times. The film mainly follows the plotline of Guillermo Del Toro’s Mama . Hardly the cultural touchstone that Scream was. Ashley Tisdale and Simon Rex play a couple who take in their nieces after they are found living for months alone in the woods. From there, there’s a bit of supernatural furniture movement, some mild possession, and a whole lot of references to already forgotten movies like Black Swan , Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Inception . To the film’s very minor credit, is was able to fit in a reference to the recently-released Evil Dead remake, and to the still-uncast Fifty Shades of Grey movie . Then there’s the utterly humiliating Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen scene that opens the film. The scene features the two celebrity train-wrecks in bed together (which just looks really gross), spitting out canned self-awareness directly to camera in a moment of “my publicist said this’d be funny” desperation. For a movie that fails to even qualify as a spoof, you’d hope it would at least be funny. But it’s not. The jokes seem thrown together by a couple frat guys on an all-night coke binge. “Let’s have a Mexican maid dance with a vacuum, and a black exorcist who steals. Because that wouldn’t be at all racist in 21st Century.” (note to the writers: It is racist). Watching Scary Movie 5 is like watching an awful stand-up comedian plod clumsily through a 90-minute set of fart jokes he just wrote back stage (the difference being at a comedy club you can have a drink). Also, he took a Percocet and is trying to stay awake. And so are you. Scary Movie 5 isn’t even “bad” in that gut-wrenching “how was this made” sense. It’s not interesting enough to be that bad. It’s just flat out boring. It’s hard to get through. It’s time to retire the franchise. Don’t see it. Listen to your friends make fun of Paranormal Activity at a bar instead. At least you’ll be drunk. RATING: 0/5 STARS
Speculation continues to swirl surrounding Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham, her sex tape, how it came to be, and when if will see the light of day. The video, which was made with porn star James Deen , was made for her eyes only and never intended for the public … if you believe her lies. In a new interview , Deen says Farrah signed a release, got paid for the tape and was part of a for-profit plot to make it look like it accidentally leaked. “I was approached to do this,” Deen says of the Farrah Abraham porn . “There was this whole scheme … ‘you guys can go out on a date and we’ll take pictures and pretend you’re dating’ … and I said absolutely not.” “There was this whole strategy and it blew up in their faces.” By “they,” he means Abraham’s PR people and the production company that created an elaborate scenario for him to pose with Farrah as a dating couple. Presumably, this idea was concocted based on the premise that a “leaked” tape would generate huge buzz and an even bigger payday for Abraham. It was all a big lie to make money, James Deen says, and Farrah was in on the whole scheme from the start. He did her … but he wouldn’t do that. “I have no desire to participate in that kind of publicity,” he said, noting that he tried to talk Abraham out of the ruse and made it clear he wasn’t on board. “I told them, someone is gonna see this and be like, ‘Oh, that’s James Deen, and someone’s gonna call me and say, ‘Hey man, what’s up with this chick?’” “And I’m gonna say, ‘We shot a porno and that’s it.’ I’m not going to say I’m dating someone I’m not,” adds Deen, and that’s exactly what happened. When he was photographed with Abraham after a meeting with Vivid Entertainment, he directly said upon being asked that they aren’t dating – just filmed a porno. “I can say whatever I want to, it’s not like I have any legal restrictions in any way, shape, or form,” he said of the tape, which is still being shopped . Deen also pointed out the obvious: That’s there’s no way anyone would believe a porn star like him would be involved in this without being contracted. “I was approached to do this, and I was like, ‘I’m the worst person to do this.’ Not to be arrogant, but if you watch pornos and I’m in it … people are gonna know it’s me.” “I’m a public person, especially in the adult film world.” “On the street, most people might not recognize me, but if you’re going to watch a porno and you’re into porno, it’s like, ‘Hey, there’s that porn guy!'” “I told them I’m not the right person to cast for this.” But hey, they paid him and he did his thing. He just didn’t go along with the ruse they wanted him to, apparently. The real question, at the end of the day: Do you wanna see the thing? You bet! She’s hot! Maybe. Need to see a sneak peek first. No way. I refuse to acknowledge that disgrace of a mom! View Poll »
The Kris Humphries hate train just gained a new passenger. In light of the basketball player no-showing his divorce hearing today in Los Angeles, the judge in charge of the case has ripped Humphries to shreds, saying he mocked and disrespected the court by simply… not showing up. As far as anyone knows, Humphries had no reason to skip out on the mandatory conference. He simply chose to remain in New York. As a result, Judge Goldberg set a sanction hearing and may fine Kris for his absence. BOTH parties are now required to appear in court on April 19 for a pre-trial hearing, with May 6 still the date on which this never-ending divorce will hopefully be settled. Of course, Kardashian will miss the first day of that trial because she must promote her fragrance. And so this ridiculous saga goes. In Kim’s defense, witnesses say she showed up to court on time, answered questions in a professional manner and kept her giant boobs totally hidden.
Days after Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life, Canadian police say they will reopen their investigation into the 2011 rape that eventually led to this 17-year old’s suicide. Parsons, a high school student from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was taken off life support Sunday after attempting to hang herself on Thursday. Her parents say their daughter never got over an alleged 2011 incident in which Rehtaeh was gang raped and a photo of the assault was posted online. But the culprits were never caught and now the Halifax Regional Police have released a statement saying they are reviewing the case “in light of new and credible information that has recently been brought forward.” They did not say much else, except to confirm this new information is NOT from an “online source.” Wrote Rehtaeh’s mother on Facebook this week: “Rehtaeh is gone today because of the four boys that thought that raping a 15-year-old girl was OK and to distribute a photo to ruin her spirit and reputation would be fun. All the bullying and messaging and harassment that never let up are also to blame. Lastly, the justice system failed her.” Parsons’ father, meanwhile, harped on the final point, saying his daughter died of disappointment and urged people to do “something.” Let’s hope now the police finally will.
Three teen boys have been arrested and charged with sexual assaulting their classmate, Audrie Pott, while she was intoxicated and passed out at a house party. Pott, who attended Saratoga High School in California, committed suicide at age 15, hanging herself eight days after photos of the attack were posted online. The case bears eerie similarities to the sexual assault of the Steubenville rape case in Ohio last year. Two teenagers were found guilty in that incident. The tragic incident occurred nack in September 2012 when Audrie Pott went to a party at the home of a friend whose parents had gone out of town. She passed out and was allegedly attacked as she was unconscious. When photos of the alleged rape spread online, the traumatized student posted on her own Facebook page that it was the “worst day of her life.” Eight days later, she killed herself. “Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyber-bullying,” an attorney for Pott’s family, Robert Allard, told the San Jose Mercury News , adding that the family throughly investigated the matter. “There is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious.” The family, which has set up a charitable foundation for music and art scholarships, two of Audrie’s passions, is calling for a new law bearing their late daughter’s name. “Audrie’s Law would address some of the things that happened here,” Allard said. “There are two common elements here that are being repeated across the country – sexual assault by an adolescent and the cyber-bullying that follows.” A school resource officer tipped off authorities to the attack and the students involved. The teens, two 16 and one 15, were not arrested until seven months later. They were booked Thursday into a juvenile facility, charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor count each, according to a police spokesman. The Pott family said they hope the teens will be charged as adults. “The wound is still very raw,” their attorney said of the Pott family. “They want to feel as if justice will be done after these kids were arrested, after acting as if nothing had happened. But at the same time it’s a reminder that Audrie is gone.” The case mirrors yet another in Nova Scotia where 15-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons committed suicide last Sunday after enduring a sexual assault in 2011. Parsons was allegedly a victim of sexual battery by four boys and later bullied after sharing cellphone photos of the attack with their classmates. Police cited a lack of evidence to charge the teens in the case.
Amazingly, this DMX story does not involve a mug shot. Seriously. Just an awesome video of him crashing an Alicia Keys concert! DMX at Alicia Keys Concert The crowd went nuts at Madison Square Garden when Swizz Beatz – Keys’ husband – and DMX came out an unexpected rendition of the “Ruff Ryders Anthem.” Then, after they shut ’em down and opened up shop, the duo launched into “Party (Up in Here)” … and it was enough to make people lose their minds. Up in here. Sorry.
A fisherman in Belarus was bitten and killed by a beaver this week. All he was doing was trying to take a photo of it, reports said. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends at Lake Shestakov, but as he approached to take a photo, the beaver bit him on the thigh. The animal, which can bite through trees, managed to sever an artery in the process, and sadly, the man’s friends couldn’t stop the blood flow. Beaver attacks are not common, though they do occur, usually with rabid beavers, as recently reported in Russia, Virginia and Upstate new York. We would not recommend engaging one under any circumstances.
