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I am very proud and happy to say that this is my 2nd Bieber…

I am very proud and happy to say that this is my 2nd Bieber experience. The beginning might seem boring but it’s worth it, I promise. I talk about meeting Scooter, Scrappy, his dancers, & getting a wave from Justin . To this day I still can’t believe that I went to a show on the Believe tour. It is AMAZING. No one was exaggerating when they were saying how amazing it was going to be. I will never forget a single moment; from the time I got off the plane, walking to the arena to see the show, to the moment I left.  I attended the show on October 5th, 2012 in Fresno, California. It was on a Friday and I live in Las Vegas. I missed school on Thursday and Friday to attend this concert, and it was well worth it. I got there on Thursday afternoon, already wishing it was Friday. The entire rest of that day was spent shopping for things to add to my outfit. Finally the day of the concert I woke up at 9 a.m, way too excited. Time seemed to go by slowly as I waited until it was time to get ready. After eating breakfast and wondering around Fresno for a little bit, it was finally 12. At the last minute I wanted something to add to my outfit so I went to Walmart. I bought tinsel-like cloth & ribbon to make a tutu. Got back to the house around 12:45, it took me about an hour and a half to make it. I curled my hair, did my makeup and put my outfit on. I was ready at 3, we left to go at 3:30. We arrived at the arena around 4 p.m. and the line was surprisingly not that long. I walked around a little bit while my mom waited in line. I was recognized from tumblr which made me feel like a celebrity. After what seemed like forever, it was finally time to let people into the arena. I was seated around 6:20, 40 minutes before concert time. My mom went to go get food, the line was long so she was gone like 15 minutes. I was standing like 5 feet away from the stage, standing looking around, trying to see who I could recognize. I saw his dancers, Scrappy, Kenny, & Tay James. Finally my mom comes back and stands by me. I’m completely zoned out thinking how it’s less than 30 minutes until concert time. I hear her say “Scooter!” so I look up and he’s right in front of me. I stand there in shock and he laughs/smiles. I get a hug and then I ask for a picture with him. Surprisingly he stayed there and talked to me. Not that I thought he wouldn’t but with the show starting so soon I thought he’d be in a rush. I told him I’ve been a Belieber since his YouTube days, he said thanks for supporting Justin. I asked if Justin was okay from his ‘incident’ on stage and he said he was. I said, “I hope he’s not overworking himself, tell him I hope he’s okay and his Beliebers are worried about him.” He smiled and said, “Thanks Belieber, I’ll tell him. He is okay now, pumped up for tonight.” I then showed him the little notebook I had. It was decorated with those shiny markers, with things written inside. One long letter to Justin saying some personal stuff and how he helped me through it, I was grateful for him  and his music. I also included my phone number and wrote “Call me maybe” I handed it to Scooter, he looked at it and smiled. I was like “Can you please give this to Justin, I worked hard on it.” He was like “Sure thing. I’ll make sure he gets it as soon as possible!” Then I got another hug and he had to go, Scrappy had called him over. The arena was getting more full, but hardly anyone in my section was there yet. Finally I went to my seat and about 10 minutes later the concert started. Cody Simpson and Carly Rae Jepsen were P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N. I’ve always been an Angel, I bought Paradise the second it came out. I wasn’t really a big Carly Rae fan before, but after the concert I bought her album on iTunes and now some of her songs are stuck in my head. Cody kept coming to my side of the stage, more than he did the other, had us jumping up and down, waving our arms side to side, singing loud and having so much fun. Carly Rae mainly stuck to the middle of the stage so I didn’t really see her as much [closer] as I did Cody. After they were finished, fans did NOT quiet down 1 bit as we waited for Justin. What seemed like ages ticked by and finally the countdown appeared on the big screen. 10 minutes. Then 9. Then 8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1 MINUTE left until JUSTIN BIEBER came on stage. We all started freaking out and counted down from 60 seconds. When it reached ‘1’ the noise got even louder. EVERYONE: fans, parents, were out of their seats, screaming at the top of their lungs. Justin “flew” down to the stage from the top with his angel wings. It was the best entrance ever. I sang along to every song. Before he sang “Believe,” he was talking about how much his Beliebers mean to him and how he’d never be where he was today without us. He teared up while singing the song. It was really sweet, he sat in front of a piano and it was so personal/heartfelt. Despite my love for “Beauty and a Beat,” that was my favorite song of the night. When he sang songs from My World & My World 2.0 I went INSANE. The lasers, fire, fireworks, confetti, all the effects were phenomenal. It almost didn’t seem real that after years and YEARS of waiting, I’d finally seen Justin Bieber perform in person. He means a lot to me. Without him and his music, I don’t know where I’d be.  Justin, I don’t know if you’ll ever read this, I know you keep tabs on mybieberexperience but I don’t know how often, but on the off chance you are reading this, thank you. I hope Scooter gave you my book, sorry it didn’t have much in it, but I’m working on something better, just have to find a way to get it to you. -Bree @osnapitzbrree See the article here: I am very proud and happy to say that this is my 2nd Bieber…

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REVIEW: The Loneliest Planet, One Of The Year’s Finest

Compact and athletic in their identical cargo pants, Alex ( Gael García Bernal ) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are almost the same size, a pair of well-traveled pixies making their way through Georgia (the country, not the state). They’re engaged to be married, but in the meantime they’re backpacking, a journey that, when  The Loneliest Planet begins, is about to take them into the Caucasus Mountains on a multi-day hike for which they’ve hired a guide named Dato (Bidzina Gujabidze). They look so happy and free, Nica and Alex, trying out the few phrases of Georgian they’ve picked up and partaking of local street food after a minor investigation as to what kind of meat it involves. They’re the opposite of ugly Americans (Alex might not actually be American at all), ready to try anything and quietly confident that they’ll be welcomed, that the world is meant to be explored. The third film from Julia Loktev ( Day Night Day Night ) and, by this critic’s reckoning, one of the finest of the year,  The Loneliest Planet  is based on a short story by Tom Bissell that’s itself inspired by a famous Hemingway work,  The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber . That earliest incarnation of this narrative is about a wealthy couple on a hunting trip in Africa lead by a professional guide, the wife a beautiful, emasculating figure who punishes her husband for a recent display of cowardice out in the bush. Bissell offered up a less toxic, contemporized take on the characters, but Loktev’s version is something else again, a profoundly cinematic exploration of the way a single incident completely unsettles the way this man and woman think of each other and themselves. The Loneliest Planet  is primarily a three-person drama, and its eventual deep emotional turmoil and the power shifts that come with it play out not in speech but in behavior, submerged in everything from the withholding of physical contact to the formation in which the trio of hikers walks. The splintering incident, which takes place at the midpoint of the film, is in fact never discussed, though it reverberates throughout everything that follows. It’s a frightening but relatively minor thing that comes complete with a punchline, the kind of story you’d get mileage out of at a dinner party, but what it reveals about Alex and, eventually, Nica, is such that the couple stumbles through the hours after in a state of shock. The Loneliest Planet  was made with an intoxicating and precise faith in the ability of images to convey feelings that words would be too clumsy and blunt to appropriately delineate. Its sophistication in its storytelling isn’t minimalism, exactly – the film never feels like it’s making a gimmick of its stretches of silence or choosing them over exchanges of dialog, but rather makes it clear that speech is unnecessary or inadequate. The film’s giant in scope, set against gorgeous wilderness, pulling back for periodic long shots in which the characters are tiny beside the splendid scenery. But its dramas are claustrophobic, defined in part by the presence of Dato as the outsider witnessing this implosion, the three always in each other’s company as they make their way over rocky and grassy terrain and break to camp for the night. Loktev, working with cinematographer Inti Briones, allows the film to flow out in long takes, the camera another impassive observer, sometimes still and other times tracking alongside the trio as they walk. The unbroken shots demand very intimate performances – Bernal and Furstenberg both have interesting, mobile faces that are allowed to occupy the frame for unhurried beats. Furstenberg, with her bright red hair and gap teeth, is a goofily unconventional beauty, and Bernal’s at his best like this, when he allows his handsomeness to be accompanied by a note of shiftiness. He and Furstenberg suggest their characters’ whole history together in easy shorthand, from the game they make of conjugating verbs in Spanish to the way they settle in to read Knut Hamsun at night in their tent. They aren’t smug, but a halo of bohemian sophistication illuminates many of their actions, from Nica’s insistence that she doesn’t need help navigating a tricky crossing to Alex noting that he doesn’t have a car, only a bicycle. As it’s put to the test several times in the latter half of the film, it’s revealed as a surface quality covering up underlying expectations neither Nica nor Alex may have realized they harbored. Non-pro Gujabidze brings both a dry humor and an almost frightening soulfulness to his character. As Nica drifts to his side, a cowed Alex trails after them, seeking out penance by insisting they needn’t stop when he hurts his leg and going out into the rain without a jacket. Dato’s otherness becomes evident and a kind of test, the life he’s led so different and so marked by tragedy that he dwarfs Nica and Alex in the privilege they’ve been able to enjoy, in the existences that have left them unscarred, fresh and unaware. They are, for all their curiosity and adventurousness, just visitors, passing through and taking in these sites and experiences before heading home. For all the film’s long silences, it’s the opening up and talking that becomes the loneliest moment of them all, a sharp and the sudden reveal of the distance that can exist between two people. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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‘Iron Man 3’ & The Mandarin’s Debut: Guess The Plot Using Images From The First Trailer

Intentionally vague official plot synopsis, be damned; the first trailer for Iron Man 3 hit the ‘net, bringing with it a handful of images and glimpses at scenes just begging to be captioned. [ Want the full gallery of hi-res Iron Man 3 trailer images? Head here . ] So we know the vague, personal, vaguely personal setup : When enemies destroy his world (including, apparently, that sweet crib and his personal Iron Man suit museum) Tony Stark heads out to find out who’s responsible. Hint: Look for the bearded half-white guy with ten rings and a flair for Eastern fashions. But what kind of life was Tony living, anyway? Ever since The Avengers , life superheroing while flying solo seems a little more empty. (Sorry, Pepper.) Sometimes Pepper wakes up in the middle of the night and hardly recognizes him… because he’s also SHAKING HER AWAKE! But if Tony’s asleep, WHO’S IN THE SUIT?? Best Punk’d ever. So Pepper’s like, uh, no. And Tony’s all, ‘What? Chicks dig guys who wear nerdy accessories on their heads!’ (They don’t. Trust me.) Never mind. Here comes The Mandarin, who isn’t Chinese because wouldn’t that be crazy? Instead let’s give Sir Ben Kingsley a fashion identity crisis and the strangest alien-speaking-English accent of all time. At least he has magical bling.

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‘Iron Man 3’ & The Mandarin’s Debut: Guess The Plot Using Images From The First Trailer

Intentionally vague official plot synopsis, be damned; the first trailer for Iron Man 3 hit the ‘net, bringing with it a handful of images and glimpses at scenes just begging to be captioned. [ Want the full gallery of hi-res Iron Man 3 trailer images? Head here . ] So we know the vague, personal, vaguely personal setup : When enemies destroy his world (including, apparently, that sweet crib and his personal Iron Man suit museum) Tony Stark heads out to find out who’s responsible. Hint: Look for the bearded half-white guy with ten rings and a flair for Eastern fashions. But what kind of life was Tony living, anyway? Ever since The Avengers , life superheroing while flying solo seems a little more empty. (Sorry, Pepper.) Sometimes Pepper wakes up in the middle of the night and hardly recognizes him… because he’s also SHAKING HER AWAKE! But if Tony’s asleep, WHO’S IN THE SUIT?? Best Punk’d ever. So Pepper’s like, uh, no. And Tony’s all, ‘What? Chicks dig guys who wear nerdy accessories on their heads!’ (They don’t. Trust me.) Never mind. Here comes The Mandarin, who isn’t Chinese because wouldn’t that be crazy? Instead let’s give Sir Ben Kingsley a fashion identity crisis and the strangest alien-speaking-English accent of all time. At least he has magical bling.

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Elsewhere In The World: Moammar Gadhafi’s Youngest Son Reportedly Killed In Libya Exactly One Year After Father’s Death

Moammar Gadhafi’s Youngest Son Reportedly Killed In Libya Isht is real in Libya… According to NBC News: Khamis Gadhafi, youngest son of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was reported dead Saturday, exactly a year after his father died. There were conflicting reports about whether Khamis Gadhafi was captured alive but gravely wounded after a gunbattle in Bani Walid, a pro-Gadhafi stronghold where fighting has raged for three days. And Khamis Gadhafi has been reported killed several times, including in an August 2011 NATO airstrike. Al Arabiya news agency reported that sources told it Khamis Gadhafi was severely wounded and arrested but that he later died. However, Al Arabiya also said, Mohamed al-Magarief, the head of Libya’s democratically elected General National Congress, told the agency the late dictator’s son was killed during the clashes. A Libyan journalist told NBC News that Khamis Gadhafi was captured while fleeing in a convoy. His right leg had been amputated, but it was not clear if that was a result of recent fighting or a previous injury. The seventh son of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Khamis Gadhafi is known as one of the most hardline of Gadhafi’s sons. His reported death prompted wild celebrations in Misrata, Libya’s third city, where fireworks and car horns filled the night, the Russian Times reported. He was reviled there for atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the 32nd Brigade, a special unit he formed after studying in a Russian military academy, the Russian Times said. Damn, we wonder if they treated his dead body like they did his father’s ….

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Fergie on Josh Duhamel Cheating Rumors: It’s Difficult

Fergie’s been through a lot. In addition to overcoming drug addiction, she and Josh Duhamel have weathered multiple cheating allegations during their nine-year relationship. Fergie on Oprah’s Next Chapter “It was difficult,” she said on Oprah’s Next Chapter, for an interview airing this Sunday on OWN, crediting the hard times for her union’s present strength. “When you go through difficult times, it really makes you stronger as a unit, as a partnership. It does for us, anyways. Our love today is a deeper love, definitely.” “We’re stronger today definitely because of anything difficult that’s happened with us. We deal with it, we communicate; communicating’s the most important thing.” That’s not exactly a denial of Josh cheating with Nicole Forrester , is it? No. But Duhamel joined her on OWN to show how much he loves her. “Obviously I love to watch her perform and I love all the music, and I was attracted to her initially because of… how sexy she was and the hotness,” Duhamel said. “But we haven’t been together for nine years because of that. It’s because she’s, you know… we grew up in very similar ways, you know?” “We’ve both had to work for what we got. We’re both Catholic. There were a lot of things that were really compatible. But at the end of the day, she’s just an amazing girl.” Cute.

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Sam Lutfi: Britney Spears Overdosed on Drugs, Shaved Head to Hide Evidence

Britney Spears’ former “manager” Sam Lutfi is finally getting his day in court. In suing for defamation and money he feels he earned during their partnership – her dark period of 2007-08, not coincidentally, Lutfi is making some shocking allegations: Britney Spears: MTV VMAs 2007 Spears took a massive amount of amphetamines the night she was strapped to a gurney and placed on a 5150 hold, according to Sam Lutfi . On January 28, 2008, Britney had an amphetamine prescription filled; she took 6-8 pills early in the day, and several more later and went off the rails. Lutfi’s lawyer said he tried to get Britney to meet with a psychiatrist days before she was 5150’d, but she refused, despite having been a mess for months prior to that. She certainly was in the throes of a downward spiral throughout 2007. Speaking of … Sam claims he tried to talk Britney out of her disastrous performance at the MTV Awards in 2007 (above), because she was overweight and didn’t rehearse. Spears was so paranoid that her hair contained traces of the hardcore drugs she was using that Britney shaved her head to hide possible “evidence.” Britney was a serious crystal meth addict. Sam’s lawyer, Joseph Schleimer, had a field day yesterday, somehow claiming that his client repeatedly told Britney she needed to get off drugs, to no avail. Schleimer says Sam: Tried to enlist a whole team of people to help her. Brought in a drug-sniffing dog and found meth. Was attacked by Britney’s dad Jamie Spears. Introduced Britney to fiance Jason Trawick . As for Sam’s managerial role, Schleimer says Britney approached HIM and offered 15 percent of her earnings – $800,000 a month when she wasn’t on tour, way more when she was. Britney’s side has yet to respond to these allegations, most of which are patently false and the rest are legally flimsy at best. Good luck proving any of that. How can a hard ass drug addict be competent enough to sign or agree to any financial deal? Isn’t that just undermining your own case there Sam?

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POLL: Who You Gonna Call For The ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Cast?

With Deadline reporting that Ivan Reitman is expected to begin filming a Ghostbusters reboot next summer, sans Bill Murray ,  and Dan Aykroyd  saying that he and Harold Ramis will hand over the original crew’s Proton Packs to a new generation, it’s time to start dreamcasting a new team of spectre battlers.  Famous Monsters of Filmland , cites an August appearance by Aykroyd on comedian Dennis Miller’s radio show in which the O.G. (Original Ghostbuster) explains that Tropic Thunder screenwriter Etan Cohen has written a great script from a story by   The Office  writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky in which a blind-in-one-eye Dr. Ray Stantz (Aykroyd) and a rather portly Dr. Egon Spengler — “who’s too large to get into the harness” — decide to recruit a new team of Ghostbusters. According to the site, Aykroyd is looking for “three guys and one young woman” to pick up the mantle, which is sure to have a lot of agents working the phones for their actor clients. In 2009, I interviewed Ramis for a Vanity Fair.com piece I did on the Ghostbusters video game and he told me a similar story. He and Aykroyd, who wrote the first two Ghostbusters scripts, were consulting with Eisenberg and Stupnitsky on the third, and he told me that the idea was that the original slime-fighting crew were going to be ‘the mentors, the emeritus Ghostbusters” and pass the torch to “a new set of actors that can actually carry the franchise forward without wearing girdles and fake hair.” At the time, Ramis told me that his Year One, co-star  Michael Cera was a “huge fan” of Murray’s Venkman character and that he’d learned from a third party that Cera carried “a Ghostbusters wallet.” All these years, I still like the idea of Cera joining a new Ghostbusters crew that would also include Seth Rogen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jay Pharoah from Saturday Night Live and Madeleine Martin from Californication . Now tell me which actors you’d like to see christened the new Ghostbusters. Pick four actors you’d like to see cast in the reboot. You don’t have to follow Aykroyd’s “three guys and one woman” comment as a guideline, but it would be nice. If you don’t see your choices in the poll below, leave it in the comments section, and if I think they’re plausible, I’ll add them to the list of potential candidates. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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POLL: Who You Gonna Call For The ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Cast?

With Deadline reporting that Ivan Reitman is expected to begin filming a Ghostbusters reboot next summer, sans Bill Murray ,  and Dan Aykroyd  saying that he and Harold Ramis will hand over the original crew’s Proton Packs to a new generation, it’s time to start dreamcasting a new team of spectre battlers.  Famous Monsters of Filmland , cites an August appearance by Aykroyd on comedian Dennis Miller’s radio show in which the O.G. (Original Ghostbuster) explains that Tropic Thunder screenwriter Etan Cohen has written a great script from a story by   The Office  writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky in which a blind-in-one-eye Dr. Ray Stantz (Aykroyd) and a rather portly Dr. Egon Spengler — “who’s too large to get into the harness” — decide to recruit a new team of Ghostbusters. According to the site, Aykroyd is looking for “three guys and one young woman” to pick up the mantle, which is sure to have a lot of agents working the phones for their actor clients. In 2009, I interviewed Ramis for a Vanity Fair.com piece I did on the Ghostbusters video game and he told me a similar story. He and Aykroyd, who wrote the first two Ghostbusters scripts, were consulting with Eisenberg and Stupnitsky on the third, and he told me that the idea was that the original slime-fighting crew were going to be ‘the mentors, the emeritus Ghostbusters” and pass the torch to “a new set of actors that can actually carry the franchise forward without wearing girdles and fake hair.” At the time, Ramis told me that his Year One, co-star  Michael Cera was a “huge fan” of Murray’s Venkman character and that he’d learned from a third party that Cera carried “a Ghostbusters wallet.” All these years, I still like the idea of Cera joining a new Ghostbusters crew that would also include Seth Rogen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jay Pharoah from Saturday Night Live and Madeleine Martin from Californication . Now tell me which actors you’d like to see christened the new Ghostbusters. Pick four actors you’d like to see cast in the reboot. You don’t have to follow Aykroyd’s “three guys and one woman” comment as a guideline, but it would be nice. If you don’t see your choices in the poll below, leave it in the comments section, and if I think they’re plausible, I’ll add them to the list of potential candidates. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Sylvia Kristel Dies; First Adult Film Star Was 60

Sylvia Kristel, an actress who rose to fame as arguably the first adult film star, has died at age 60. Cancer claimed the star’s life after a long battle. “She died during the night during her sleep,” her agent confirmed. Sylvia Kristel was admitted to a hospital in July after suffering a stroke, though she was first diagnosed with throat and lung cancer roughly ten years ago. Born in Utrecht, Holland, she made waves around the world as the star of 1974 erotic French film Emmanuelle , in which she portrayed the title character. Young model Emmanuelle, married to a much older man, engages in a number of extramarital affairs – as her husband doesn’t seem to mind – in Bangkok. The film garnered a major following, played for 11 years in a theater in Paris, and remains one of the most successful French films of all time of any genre. Emmanuelle also inspired a number of sequels in which Kristel also starred, and her effort in the “soft core” film even drew critical praise from critic Roger Ebert. Kristel appeared in nearly 60 titles over the years, including TV movies. She admitted to drug and alcohol addiction and experienced her share of bad relationships, later saying if she had it to do over again, she would avoid them. With one exception: Belgian author Hugo Claus. Having won a few notable beauty pageants by the time she was 21, Claus encouraged Kristel to become an actress. The couple had a son, Arthur, in 1975. R.I.P.

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