“A man was arrested for cutting almost all of his girlfriend’s nose off after she refused to have sex with him, Fort Lauderdale Police said. Ricardo Salamanca, from Plantation, faces a charge of aggravated battery causing bodily harm and remains in jail on $75,000 bond on Wednesday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney. On Oct. 28, the victim was taken to North Broward Hospital for surgery to have her nose reattached.” – 6 news
Kim Kardashian will attend a Marine Corps ball in North Carolina tonight. The reality star will be on hand at the HQ Battery 10th Marine Birthday Ball, having been invited by a serviceman months ago and rearranging her schedule to attend. “One of the Marines asked her to attend as a special guest of the event and she changed her schedule so she could,” an insider reports. “She’s honored to be invited.” She joins the ranks of Justin Timberlake , Mila Kunis and Kristin Cavallari, who all attended military bashes in 2011 after similar requests from our men and women in uniform. Kim returned to the U.S. earlier this week after a whirlwind trip to London to promote her Kardashian Kollection with sisters Kourtney and Khloe. She flaunted her fashion line and major PDA with Kanye West throughout. Would you invite Kim Kardashian to a ball? Yes Never Depends on who else is available I’d ball HER! View Poll »
WENN Terrence Jenkins joins Giuliana Rancic as Anchors of E! News , the global leader in pop culture information, reaching more young adults than any other entertainment news program. Starting November 12th, Jenkins will bring his own unique perspective to the network’s highly rated news broadcast, E! President of Network Strategy and E! News Cyndi McClellan announced today. Until recently the co-host of BET’s long-running 106 & Park video countdown show, Jenkins will also contribute in-depth personality profiles and original reporting pieces. “Terrence Jenkins is a talented and well-connected television personality who will bring an original sensibility to our news programs,” Cyndi McClellan said. “His energy and engaging personality, coupled with E! News Lead Anchor Giuliana Rancic’s proven experience, should help cement E! News’ stature as the leading source for news across pop culture, delivered to an engaged audience on all platforms.” A graduate of North Carolina A &T State University where he pledged Omega Psi Phi, Jenkins hoped to continue the career in broadcasting that he’s started on the radio in college. Jenkins, who had used the name Terrence J previously, has quickly become a popular figure for young audiences, with key roles in such recent theatrical features as Think Like a Man, Burlesque and Sparkle, along with prominent TV roles on BET’s 106 & Park and The Game. “I’ve always had a passion for the wide spectrum of pop culture that E! News covers so well; I can’t wait to get started,” Jenkins said. “I’ve had a great career so far, and it’s all been building toward this. And then getting to work with great people like Giuliana and the entire E! News team just makes this seem like an even more perfect opportunity.”
Brad Pitt faces off against zombies in the first peek at World War Z , the anticipated and notoriously troubled book adaptation that has Hollywood aflutter. Are those notorious behind-the-scenes woes evident from these 30 seconds of footage? More importantly: Will Pitt’s gloriously shaggy mane keep its luster as he flees from these hordes of CG zombies? Entertainment Tonight has the first look (they’ll debut a full peek on November 8): Even compensating for the annoying infotainment voice-over and terrible picture quality, this just a little… underwhelming. This is the kind of I Am Legend -esque zombie CG $170 million and counting buys you? That said, I do love me some Mireille Enos even if my brain isn’t ready to accept the idea of her and Pitt as a couple. Does not quite compute. I look at her frantically on the phone with Pitt in this trailer tease and think of Linden frantically on her flip phone with her neglected teenage son, chewing Nicorette, hunting down perps in Seattle while being the worst mother ever. And then I think back to The Killing , which I loved even if it was two seasons of red herrings and Holderisms, because remember Holder? God , I loved him. I’d like to think Holder would survive a zombie apocalypse. Hiding out underneath a hoodie, calling zombies names like “home slice.” Yeah. Give me that movie. World War Z zombie-runs into theaters on June 21, 2013. Let’s hope seven months is enough time to make those CG effects look vaguely realistic. Leave your thoughts below. [ Entertainment Tonight ]
Steel yourself, cinephiles: A sequel to the 1942 classic Casablanca , one of the greatest films of all time , could happen in the near future. But while practically 99 percent of all Hollywood sequels and spin-offs seem like cash-grabs that have no good reason for existing, is there a case to be made for revisiting the saga of star-crossed lovers Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca 2 ? Consider the source of said would-be sequel, per the New York Post : Original Casablanca screenwriter Howard Koch, who shared the Oscar for Best Writing with fellow scribes Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. Blacklisted a few years after Casablanca became a hit, Koch penned a sequel in 1980 revolving around the grown son of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), who goes searching for his father in the Middle East. Unearthed by The Post ‘s Lou Lumenick, Koch’s 1960s-set Return to Casablanca synopsis goes a little something like this: “[Laszlo and Ilsa] attempt to locate Rick after he and Renault left to join the Free French forces opposing Rommel in North Africa. They have had no success. After leaving Casablanca for America, Ilsa learned she was pregnant. She gave birth to a boy who grew up in America. The real father of the boy, it turns out, was not Laszlo but Rick. He was conceived the night Ilsa came to Rick’s place to plead for the Letters of Transit . . . The secret was not kept from Laszlo, but being the kind of man he was and owing so much to Rick, he adopted the child and treated him as his own son. The boy was named Richard, and he grew up to be a handsome, tough-tender young man reminiscent of his father. He had been told the truth about his origin and has a deep desire to find his real father, or at least more about him, since Rick’s heroic at actions in Casablanca have become legendary. Richard finds himself very much a stranger in the Arab world, a world now under Arab rule since the expulsion of the Germans and Vichy French who occupied Casablanca during the war.” Richard becomes involved with an Arab guerilla fighter named Joan as he searches out the truth of his father’s fate in the script, which Warner Bros. passed on in 1989. Producer Cass Warner, grand-niece of Jack Warner, took up Koch’s cause and brought it back to the studio, who turned it down again – but, she says, left open a window of opportunity. “Warner Bros. passed on it a year, a year and a half ago,” Warner told The Post. “But they indicated they were willing to revisit this if I could find a filmmaker they were interested in working with.” And who in young Hollywood could play the son of Rick and Ilsa today? Let Casablanca expert Aljean Harmetz weigh in: “Certainly not Robert Pattinson , though maybe that guy who’s popping up everywhere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt .” Yes, “that guy” Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be a solid choice. He could even sing an acoustic cover of “As Time Goes By” for the sequel soundtrack! Or, you know, David Thomson’s pick : Tom Hardy . But seriously, as perfect as Casablanca ‘s wonderfully ambiguous, utterly romantic unhappy ending is, don’t we all wonder what became of Rick and Ilsa? (And their respective chosen life partners, Laszlo and Renault?) A part of me loves the idea of finding out that they waited out the war and found their way back to one another again, the way we always hoped deep down inside that they would, pulled by that invisible thread that time, place, and violent world-changing upheaval couldn’t sever. Or maybe, probably, that wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying as it sounds now. How would you like to see a Casablanca follow-up unfold, if at all? [ New York Post ]
It’s all come down to this. Will Democratic President Barack Obama pull it out and earn another four years in the White House? Or will Republican Mitt Romney be the next Commander-in-Chief? The 2012 presidential election results will soon tell us the answer. We’ll be updating this post with the numbers as they come in. For now, and throughout the night, sound off on how you think – and want – this historic night to play out! UPDATE, 8:14 p.m. EDT: President Obama currently has 64 electoral votes to Romney’s 56, according to CNN projections. Romney leads in the popular vote, 51-48%. Battleground states Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and New Hampshire have not been called. Polls in the western half of the U.S. are largely still open. UPDATE, 8:30 EDT: Romney 73 EV, Obama 64 after TN and OK wins. Romney leads popular vote 52-47% with around 5 percent of the vote counted. U.S. presidential election 2012: Who’d you vote for? Barack Obama-Joe Biden Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan View Poll »
Couple Accused Of Starving Adopted Son And Only Giving Him Liquids Today in aint isht parents news… via Fox News A Minnesota couple are accused of starving their 8-year-old adopted son, feeding him only liquid and putting an alarm on his door so he would not steal food, according to criminal charges that say the boy was so malnourished his bones protruded and he weighed as much as a child half his age. Mona Hauer and Russell Hauer of North Mankato each are charged with six felonies, including neglect and malicious punishment of a child. In addition to starving the boy, authorities said, they beat him with a broom handle and made him sleep in a sled in the basement because he wet the bed. Hopefully these scumbags get what’s coming to them and this poor child finds a better home.
Kristen Stewart stunned on the AFI Fest red carpet Saturday night, where she met up with On The Road co-stars Garrett Hedlund and Amy Adams along with director Walter Salles and the OTR crew before the film’s North American premiere. Get photos of Stewart, Hedlund, Adams & co. — along with Parks and Recreation ‘s Nick Offerman, who showed up in support of his AFI Fest pic Somebody Up There Likes Me — in Movieline’s hi-res gallery! Click images for more . Also walking the AFI Fest red carpet that night were filmmaker Michel Franco and actress Tessa Ia, whose bullying drama After Lucia is Mexico’s Best Foreign Oscar entry. Get more photos from AFI Fest 2012. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Also in Thursday evening’s round-up of news briefs, Bennett Miller’s Channing Tatum – Steve Carrell drama heads to theaters; Stellan Skarsgård joins a comedy/drama; And Wreck-It-Ralph is on track to dominating the weekend’s box office. Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher Heads to U.S. Theaters The film starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall has been picked up by Columbia Pictures which took U.S. rights. The deal reunites Miller with Columbia, having previously collaborated with the studio on last fall’s release of the Academy Award-nominated picture, Moneyball . The film revolves around John du Pont, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and killed Olympic wrestler David Schultz. Sheryl Crow Contributes Original Song to Brooke Shields & Darly Hannah’s The Hot Flashes The song is titled Leaning in a New Direction and will be the closing track to the film. The comedy, written by Brad Hennig and directed by Oscar-nominated Susan Seidelman centers on five middle-aged Texas women who decide to start an unlikely basketball team and go to comic extremes to prove themselves on the court. The film will make its world premiere at the American Film Market in Santa Monica on November 3rd. Stellan Skarsgård Joins Hector and the Search for Happiness Skarsgård joins Simon Pegg ( Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ), Rosamund Pike ( Jack Reacher ) and Oscar-winner Christopher Plummer ( Beginners ) in the comedy/drama by Peter Chelsom. The film revolves around Hector (Pegg), an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: he’s going nowhere and his patients are just not getting any happier! Until one day, armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global quest to find out if happiness exists. More importantly, if it exists for Hector. And so begins an exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey. Oma and Bella Heads to U.S. Theaters Alexa Karolinski’s documentary revolves around two older Jewish women who are best friends living together in Berlin. Having survived the Holocaust and then stayed in Germany after the war, Oma and Bella spend their days telling stories, cracking jokes, dispensing advice, and devoting the majority of their time to their greatest love of all – cooking. Through their cooking and their conversation, an intimate portrait emerges of two incredibly strong, funny, endearing women who look candidly at their lives as they both wrestle with the past and engage with the present. Oscilloscope Laboratories picked up North American rights to the film, which will have its New York premiere at the upcoming DocNYC on November 10th. It will be available beginning today via VOD. Around the ‘net… Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender Set for Genius The story revolves around the relationship between author Thomas Wolfe and renowned editor Max Perkins, the film will be directed by Michael Grandage. John Logan will adapt the script from A. Scott Berg’s award winning biography Max Perkins: Editor Of Genius , Deadline reports . Box Office Preview: Wreck-It-Ralph Set for $45M at Weekend Most of the 300 theaters closed earlier in the week have re-opened. If Wreck-It-Ralph reaches the figure in its 3,600 screen debut, it could score the top non-holiday opening for a Disney animated title, minus Pixar movies, THR reports .
How long was he in there trying to wait out folks? Also, his smiling while climbing from underneath that building is pure comedy: The moment a man crawled from the wreckage of a building destroyed by Superstorm Sandy… and was promptly arrested for looting. Rescuers helped the man from a collapsed building in the north of Philadelphia before arresting him on suspicion of looting The city had been battered by Superstorm Sandy, with gusts of over 50mph National Guard deploys 1,175 troops to protect the streets of New York City and Long Island amid fears of looting after deluge of Twitter messages SMH @ him smiling and trying to walk away like nothing! youtube
