Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton was indicted Tuesday on charges of murder and gang activity. He and his cousin were charged in a 12-count indictment. The Fulton County D.A. said Crittenton, 25, and Douglas Gamble are charged with the death of an Atlanta woman and the attempted murder of another man. Julian Jones was shot and killed in Atlanta while walking with a group of people in 2011. Authorities say that incident and a second shooting were gang-related. Officials say the shootings may have been retaliation after Javaris Crittenton was the victim of a robbery in which $50,000 worth of jewelry was stolen. Crittenton, a former Georgia Tech guard, was drafted by the Lakers in 2007 and has also played for the Washington Wizards and Memphis Grizzlies. He is best known, of course, for being suspended for 38 games during the 2009-10 season for pulling a gun on Gilbert Arenas in the Wizards’ locker room. While nursing an injury, Crittenton and Arenas apparently were involved in some sort of gambling dispute stemming from a card game on a team flight. Arenas brought four guns to the locker room and set them in front of Crittenton’s locker with a sign telling him to “PICK 1.” Crittenton then took out his own gun. The rest, as they say, is gang-related history, although Crittenton’s attorney, Brian Steel, maintains that his client is not guilty in the 2011 shooting: “Mr. Crittenton and I are looking forward to proceeding to a jury trial , where the jury will be able to hear and see all of the evidence in this case.” He predicted “a lawful, just, and proper verdict of not guilty.” A trial date has not been set.
Jim Carrey may be known for his sense of humor, but the actor has settled on one topic recently that is anything but a laughing matter: Gun control. After posting a Funny or Die video that mocked gun advocates , the actor has been under siege from many Conservatives, led, as you might expect, by Fox News . Now, in attempt to re-open a reasonable discourse, Carrey has penned an Op-Ed for The Huffington Post. “These mass shootings and daily body counts on your local news are terrible tragedies,” the actor writes . “The utter devastation that must be endured by the victims’ families is unfathomable. “These horrific events are also an invitation for us to become more civilized and to deal with our addiction and entitlement to violence. Not to shut our eyes and ears and scream at those with a different opinion than ours to ‘f–k off and go back to Canada.'” Carrey responds to assertions that he’s a hypocrite by saying his bodyguards are not permitted to carry a large magazine and then states in all capital letters: “NO ONE IS ASKING ANYONE TO GIVE UP THEIR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS.” Instead, the man behind Ace Ventura insists his battle is against “the type of arms, the easy access and the means with which to cause massive devastation.” Carrey also scoffs at “bullies” who attempt to discredit him due to his profession, pointing out that Ronald Regan was also an actor. Aghast at the “level of hatred heaped upon” him, Carrey concludes: No one is allowed to own a bazooka. In a movie theater an assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine can cause just as much damage. So don’t just sit there and do nothing. Contact your representatives and let them know that their jobs depend upon change. It won’t always be someone else’s kids in the line of fire. The time is now. LET YOUR HEART BE HEARD.
The central conflict of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host stems not from vampires and werewolves, but something more intangible yet equally eerie. Depicted in the Andrew Niccol -directed film as a glowing organism of sorts, these parasitic alien “Souls,” as they are called, gain access to humans through an incision made at the back of the victim’s neck, where they override their host’s human circuitry. At least that’s what’s supposed to happen. In The Host , Melanie, played by Saoirse Ronan , does not relinquish control to her invader and eventually learns to coexist with her. Given this premise, Movieline thought that Cinema Society’s screening of the movie, and the party that followed at Jimmy at The James Hotel in Tribeca, were good places to ask a single question of the VIPs and swells who attended: If your body was inhabited by a parasitic host, which celebrity would you want it to be and why? There are some real provocative answers here, and if you want a really racy one, head straight for actress/model Meki Saldana’s response. Diane Kruger , actress, The Host : Michael Jackson. He’s the coolest. He’s my favorite singer. I cried when he died Stephenie Meyer, author, The Host : If it’s my body that’s invaded, then I don’t get a choice. But, if I’m the invader, and I get to pick the body? I guess maybe Beyonce . I’d get the talent. I’d have the voice. She can do all that cool stuff. I could dance if I were her. My bones are not connected right; I can’t do those moves. And I can’t sing. Saoirse Ronan, actress, The Host : A celebrity? I would want it to be…someone like Bill Murray or Jack Nicholson . They’re fun and interesting and they’ve been around a long time. And maybe I could get some of their memories from all the things that they’ve done over the years. Max Irons , actor, The Host : If my body was invaded? Stephen Hawking . If I said Jay-Z or something, he’d be in my body and he’d look in the mirror and go, What the fuck? Whereas, Stephen Hawking — he might be a little bit grateful. Just a little bit. We trade: I get his magnificent brain and he gets my body. Jake Abel, actor, The Host : Somebody’s coming in my body? I would say David Bowie , so I can sing and dance on stage. Boyd Holbrook, actor, The Host : Larry Bird . Fantastic ball player. He’d be in my body. Final answer. Lee Hardee, actor, The Host : Stephen Colbert! He’s hilarious. The whole day would be entertaining. Everything you did, everything you said would be awesome. Raeden Greer, actress, The Host : I think if I would have someone in my body, I think it would have to be…this is really hard. Maybe a guy. So, I could just, you know, see what it’s like to think like a guy. I’ll go with Woody Allen . Gabourey Sidibe , actress: You know what? I’m learning something about myself, because the first name that came to mind was Tony Danza . And I don’t know why. For some reason I see him tap dancing in there. What did I get into?! Dylan McDermott, actor: My favorite celebrity of all time, Barbara Eden [from] I Dream of Jeannie . Jason Wu, fashion designer: I want to be Diane Kruger. She’s so glamorous. She’s one of those girls I just love hanging out with. Amazing inside and out. Tatiana Maslany, actress: Nicki Minaj . She’s amazing. I would love to have the guts that she has and her “whatever” [attitude]. Ve Neill, academy award winning makeup artist and reality TV judge: Would it have to be a female? Let’s say Johnny Depp . I’ve worked with Johnny off and on for many years since I did Edward Scissorhands with him. He’s fabulous and I adore him. Meki Saldana, actress and model: Either Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie or both. I want both of them inside me. Whoa, whoa. Hold on. Let me back up, let me back up. Oh my god, I just said something I shouldn’t have said. No, no, I just think that they’re very strong personalities, but at the same time very humble. I would definitely want something that they have inside me. Still wrong. Holly Kiser, Make Me a Supermodel : Joaquin Phoenix , because he’s a crazy ass motherfucker, or Robert Downey Jr. [They] have all these, like, demons inside of them, and they’re just trying to work with that as actors. Nell Alk is an arts and entertainment writer and reporter based in New York City. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Manhattan Magazine, Z!NK Magazine and on InterviewMagazine.com, PaperMag.com and RollingStone.com, among others. Learn more about her here. Follow Nell Alk on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Evan Rachel Wood, Seth MacFarlane, Ricky Martin and more celebs also offer their support through social media. By Gil Kaufman Equal rights supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on Tuesday Photo: Win McNamee/ Getty Images
Evan Rachel Wood, Seth MacFarlane, Ricky Martin and more celebs also offer their support through social media. By Gil Kaufman Equal rights supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on Tuesday Photo: Win McNamee/ Getty Images
Nash’s Wednesday night NYC show will be streamed live on MTV Hive as part of our Live in NYC series. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Vaughn Schoonmaker Kate Nash Photo: MTV News
Nash’s Wednesday night NYC show will be streamed live on MTV Hive as part of our Live in NYC series. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Vaughn Schoonmaker Kate Nash Photo: MTV News
Jennifer Hudson and her “Weight Watcher Body” hit up their 50th anniversary in NYC. What do you think??? Are you feelin J-hud’s bawwwddyyyyy??? Peep more pics on the flip of Jenny, John Legend, Usher, and more…
My names Megan, I’m 16 and I’m from a small country, Northern Ireland. I’m gonna start telling you how I first attempted to meet Justin. In November 2011, Justin came to my country for the first time for the EMA Awards. We didn’t get a show, and still to this day he hasn’t performed in my country. I slept outside for 3 nights trying to meet him and had no luck. When the Believe Tour dates were released, again, he didn’t released any for my country or even for Ireland. I was heartbroken thinking I wouldn’t ever get to see him live, but flew to NYC to see him in the Garden. I didn’t have tickets for the show but i knew somehow, deep down that I would get my tickets. And I did, fourth row for the first time seeing my idol live. At MSG I got to meet Fredo, Pattie and talk to Scooter. It was a dream come true. By this stage, Justin had released 2 dates for Ireland and I begged my mum to buy me tickets and she refused so but I bought them myself. I knew that this was my opportunity to finally meet my idol, after 5 years. On the 16th February at 5:30 p.m. I was on Tinychat, crying to my friends in America about the fact I didn’t win M&G. They were helping me plan ways on how I was going to meet him and then suddenly I got an email from BieberFever. I will never forget how I felt when I read those words, “Congratulations, Megan! You’re officially invited to attend the photo meet and greet TOMORROW NIGHT February 17th in Dublin!” It was the best feeling ever. When I got to the venue, I collected my M&G at around 4:50 p.m. and I was FREAKING OUT. Lisa was there telling us all the instructions about meeting Justin and then I looked through the door and saw Kenny. Everyone on Twitter were spamming Alfredo for me as I had a letter and present for him but he didn’t come see me, sigh. It came to us and we were next into the room with him. My friend was screaming in my ear about how “hot” he looked but I refused to look at him because I didn’t want to cry before I went in and look a mess for my picture. I was having a stare off with Fredo who was across the room smirking at me, smh. When I got into the M&G, there were 2 girls in front of me and my friend. I HAD to hug him. I HAD to thank him for saving my life more than once. I HAD to stand beside him. I kinda, maybe, accidentally, sorta pushed one of the girls out of the way so I could get beside Justin. I remember looking at Justin. I started from the feet up. White supras. Jeans. HE WAS WEARING JEANS! A grey jumper with a cartoon character on it. His chains, (I remember staring and thinking how sparkly they were). Then his face – those eyes, I couldn’t stop staring at them. The security tried to pull me back to let the other girl stand beside him, but, this may sound selfish, but he saved my life and I waited 5 years for this moment. He looked at me and could tell I was panicking and I said, “Justin, no Justin! Give me a hug please!” and he looked at me, then glared at the security guard and put his arm around my shoulder. “Come here sweetheart,” and gave me a hug. I’ve never felt so complete. Nothing compares to being in his arms. All my worries went away for those brief few seconds that he held me. I know he knew I needed that hug. I whispered, “Thank you so much. You saved and changed my life so much. Thank you!” He replied with, “You too.” The picture got taken and when we were getting told to leave, I kinda jumped on Justin to hug him again, oops. He didn’t expect me to hug him and gave me a one armed hug, and I attempted to kiss his cheek but he was talking to the other girl and I kissed his jaw. I KISSED IT. When I kissed it, he clenched. I almost died. On my way out of the M&G I told Fredo I was Meg and he said, “I seen all the tweets, I’m sorry I couldn’t get out!” He’s the cutest. The security in the venue allowed us to enter before the rest of the people attending and as I was general admission, I got front row right at the runway. I touched his hand twice. 17th February 2013 will honestly forever be the best day of my whole life. Getting to thank Justin Drew Bieber for saving me, meant the world and more. I know its cheesy, but honestly believe in your dreams. I never said never, and I met him. You will too. Just believe. -Megan Here is the original post: My names Megan, I’m 16 and I’m from a small country,…
My name is Núria and I’m a Spanish belieber. I know everyone says this, but I never though I would ever be lucky enough to get the chance to meet Justin or to live any experience related to him. Let me start off that on July 14th 2012, was the day I went to Stratford. You may be thinking, “What? A Spanish belieber in Stratford?” But yeah, I WENT TO STRATFORD. I was studying English in Canada for a month and staying with an amazing host family who made one of my dreams come true. They live 1.5 hours away from there and I spent the whole way singing to Justin’s song with them and my friend Belén. I was crying and sobbing when I got there. For someone that’s from a small town near Barcelona, Spain, it was something that seemed impossible to do. It was one of the best days of my life. I sat on the steps of the Avon Theatre, where it all started. Unbelievable. But I’m here to tell you about the day I made my biggest dream come true, after almost 5 years of being a belieber, I finally met Justin Drew Bieber Mallette. It all started on December 18th 2012. I had floor tickets to go to Justin’s concert in Barcelona on March 16 , but that day my friend @CyrusTheWorld sent me a link that said that they were selling M&G tickets. I cried for almost an hour trying to convince my mum to buy them and that I’d give her the money if she did it. I was so scared they would be sold out by the time my mum said yes, but luckily they weren’t so I bought one. What did I do with my other ticket? I gave it to a belieber who couldn’t afford buying one. It’s all about giving back, right? From that moment, I knew that I had to do something for other beliebers who didn’t have the opportunity to meet Justin, so I made a scrapbook for him, but like a professional one. I spent hours and hours working on it and it cost me almost 300€. I was hoping Justin or someone from the team would see it. On March 16 2013, I got up really early because of my nerves. I prepared everything for the concert and the M&G and at 11 we (my mum, my dad, my neighbour’s sister and I) left for Justin’s hotel in Barcelona, Hotel Arts. We waited there for about 1.30h but Justin didn’t come out and I had to go to the venue to meet so friends there so I couldn’t stay any longer. Hours passed really, really, really slow but it was 4:30 p.m. and I had to be in the line for the M&G at 4:45 p.m. I couldn’t find my mum and dad, and my mum was the one who had to go and get the tickets. You can imagine me crying because I thought I was gonna lose my opportunity to meet my idol, Kidrauhl. But it all ended up good, or I wouldn’t be writing this. A lady came to talk to us and explained what we could and couldn’t do at the M&G. We finally got inside the room where we were gonna meet Justin, and there was this black curtain room we knew Jusitn was inside. How can I explain my feelings right in that moment? There were two lines – the ones who had bought the tickets and the ones who had won them. I was so nervous, the people who were standing next to me in the line were flipping out. That was funny though. I had the scrapbooks in my hands, yes two, and the other gifts for him, a necklace that says, “Make it about the music” and some letters from other Beliebers. I then saw Kenny and Alfredo. They came out of the curtain room and we could all catch a glimpse of Justin. HE WAS PERFECT. The M&G started and it was all so fast you didn’t get to talk to him, or that’s what it seemed like. I was the last one with an individual picture. Kenny saw me and came to me so I could get inside before the group ones. I showed him the scrapbooks and he promised me he’d make Justin read them. Kenny was so nice and he told me I was so cute and to have fun. Then he opened the curtain and the first thing I saw was Alfredo. Then I turned my to my right to face Justin. HE IS INCREDIBLY HANDSOME. He was wearing black jeans, a white t-shirt, a black jacket and sunglasses. I was trying to go to Justin but I was so much in shock that I couldn’t move. Alfredo was kind of laughing about the situation. Justin looked at me, I couldn’t really tell if he was checking me out or he was staring at my clothes or something. Alfredo looked at me, looked at Justin and then Justin looked at me and he said, “Come here” with a cute and soft voice. I managed to walk up to him and he came at me and gave me the biggest and sweetest hug ever. He was so sweet the whole time. He didn’t have to though, I’m already in love with him. While in his arms I said, “Hi Justin.” He replied to me with, “Hi sweetie, how are you?” I don’t know how but it seemed like a conversation between two friends who hadn’t seen each other for a long time. I said, “Good, I couldn’t be better,” and he pulled away from the hug slowly and giggled. He had a smile on his face the whole time. “Good, perfect,” he grabbed my hand while saying that and turned me around. We were both facing the camera and before I could even prepare myself, I heard him say, “SMILE.” I swear he took one of the best pictures of all the M&G. He looks so silly, just how we love to see him. After we took the picture, I said, “Thank you so much Justin,” and of course, he’s such a flirt, he has to kill me with his words, he said, “No, thank YOU sweetie.” I was in shock. I didn’t even know what I was doing. I told him, “I love you” and he said, “I love you too.” He hugged me, again. Like I can just die in peace now. The bodyguard who was controlling the M&G came to me and grabbed my shoulders, trying to push me away from Justin. But Justin was hugging me even tighter. I tried to say, “I love you” again but words didn’t come out from my mouth, Justin understood me perfectly though. He said, “Te amo” with a sexy, raspy voice. Oh my gosh that was perfect. It was the last thing we said to each other because the bodyguard wanted me to leave. I swear Justin was looking at me with a “I’m so sorry” face and that broke my heart for a second. I was walking out and turned to see Justin again. He was smiling at me, winked at me and blew me a kiss to say goodbye. I had just made my dream come true and I couldn’t even believe it. It was so perfect that seemed so unreal. I was so in shock that the lady who was giving the merchandise had to walk me to the door because I couldn’t stand on my feet. I couldn’t do a thing, I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t walk. Happy tears. The concert and everything was just so perfect, I don’t think I’ll ever forget that day, I don’t want to. But yeah, dreams DO come true, if you fight for them and never give up. Hope you enjoyed this. -@radiiatelove Continue reading here: My name is Núria and I’m a Spanish belieber. I know everyone…
