After Amber Rose’s scathing comments about Kim Kardashian cheating on Reggie Bush with Amber’s then-boyfriend Kanye West , Kim seems to have responded with a subliminal tweet that seems to be directed at Amber. Kim tweeted this message yesterday (January 5th): “Remember, people only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun & tired of their shade” If Amber’s allegations were completely untrue, why haven’t Kim or Kanye denied them? Are you #TeamAmberRose or #TeamKimKardashian? RELATED POSTS: Amber Rose Blames Kim Karadashian For Kanye Breakup, Calls Her A “Homewrecker” Did Kanye West & Kim Kardashian Hook Up After “Watch The Throne” Concert? Amber Rose Reveals All About Wiz, Kanye & Reggie On “Wendy” [VIDEO] Amber Rose On Her Mom Smoking Weed With Wiz Khalifa: “Wiz Is Like The Son She Never Had” [EXCLUSIVE]
The premise for Argentinean director Juan Diego Solanas’s English-language sci-fi romance Upside Down has one helluva gimmick: Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess find true love against huge odds, the hitch being that they live on inverted planets and are forbidden to cross over to each other’s world. Hell, some people won’t date outside of their area code. Watch the dazzling first trailer and appreciate how much easier relationships are should be on a single planet by comparison. Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéo UPSIDE DOWN – BA VOST I love how Jim Sturgess always has that sad romantic hero look about him, as if he hasn’t cut or brushed that dreamy tousle since Across the Universe . (And why should he? It works! Swoon.) Upside Down looks to lean heavily on the dystopian alternate sci-fi universe schtick the central gimmick posits (“I can’t talk to you… you’re from Down Below “) and the Inception gravity tumbling already gives me a bit of a headache. But how gorgeous this all looks! For some reason I get a bit of a Titanic vibe when Sturgess lets go and falls back down to his own world. I think that’s a good thing? (Never let go…) Verdict: I’m so there. Double bill it with Melancholia , anyone? [ Bleeding Cool via HitFix ]
The problem with Taylor Swift ’s Hunger Games single “Safe & Sound” is – sorry, Swifties – Taylor Swift. Taken on its own it’s a perfectly lovely slice of discordant Americana pop that wisps beautifully with Swift’s reedy warbling as she sings about protecting loved ones as a war rages outside. But as a Hunger Games song… as what promises to be the Hunger Games song associated with the movie (besides Rue’s iconic ditty within the film), it leaves something to be desired precisely because Swift is singing in the spirit and voice of Katniss Everdeen . And you, my adorable little Taylor, are no Katniss Everdeen. Here’s the thing: I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the oeuvre of Taylor Swift. Do I sing along every time “Love Story” comes on the radio? Fine, yes. Will I ever forget the ear-bleedingly bad live performance she gave at the 2010 Grammys, as horrified duet partner Stevie Nicks gamely powered through? Never. It haunts my waking dreams. And yet Swift is just too bubbly and cute to loathe, dammit. Remember her in Valentine’s Day , all track shorts and legs and smiles? She’s like a crinkle-haired bubblegum-singing bunny rabbit. There is no hating her. So it’s not that I hate Swift as I listen to the twangy strains of “Safe & Sound,” as backed by the band The Civil Wars. But as the first song released from the Hunger Games soundtrack it’s the film’s leading pop single, the one that will be associated with the beloved book’s adaptation from the get go in mainstream media. And it’s kind of disappointing that Swift’s voice is so overpoweringly front and center whilst crooning about life from Katniss’s perspective. Consider another recent pop single from a beloved YA film franchise: Bruno Mars’s Breaking Dawn ditty. Now that’s a catchy, hook-filled number that dances the line between Mars’s signature sound (okay, so it sounds exactly like a Bruno Mars song) while being vaguely related to the themes of the film. Something about if you go away it will rain and your father not approving of your “troublesome” boyfriend. Sure. Why not? Bruno Mars isn’t singing as if he’s Bella Swan. We are not meant to identify him with our heroine, hence Mars seems as if he was simply influenced to write a love song after Netflixing Twilight or something. In Swift’s case, she’s singing as if she is Katniss. And therein lies the problem. Give this song to a singer with a less confrontational voice (Gillian Welch, if she was 17?) and it’d be instantly more palatable. The showy breathiness of Swift’s voice never lets you forget that it’s Taylor Swift singing. I imagine this playing over the end credits of The Hunger Games , a seemingly contemplative coda to the senseless carnage Katniss lives through in the series’ first installment, and Swift’s voice needling its way into my head from the first verse, breaking through my Hunger Games afterglow. TAYLOR SWIFT TAYLOR SWIFT TAYLOR SWIFT is all I fear I’ll be able to think as I exit the theater come March. Worse: The idea of Taylor Swift channeling Katniss Everdeen – singing her life with her words! Killing me softly, and not in a good way! — is an unfathomable vision that does not compute. Put Swift in the Cornucopia and she’d be the first to go down, no question. I’d almost rather Jennifer Lawrence sung the theme song herself. I know it makes total sense for Lionsgate given the tween/teen/YA demographic of The Hunger Games movies, which aim to fill the Twilight gap, and the universal truth that all 13-year-olds love and worship Taylor Swift. But not all of us Hunger Games fans are members of the Taylor Swift fan club. Can we at least graduate to less wimpy pop stars (How about Demi Lovato ? She’s been to rehab !) for the Catching Fire soundtrack? Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
This year represents Paramount’s 100th anniversary, an occasion commemorated with traditional splendor and aplomb at Monday’s Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. There, the ‘Mount wheeled out a float you kind of have to see to believe — a bright, broad floral mash-up marrying the studio stablemates Wings , Transformers , Grease and Star Trek , all surrounding the classic Paramount arch. Thoughts? Beyond digging the totally intuitive movie grouping, I just have a few things:
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My name is Megan and this is my Bieber Experience! It started with Justin Bieber’s tweet, “heading to Disney World for the Christmas parade this weekend!” I live in Orlando, so naturally as a Belieber, I started freaking out. My friend, Tatiana and I called Disney World probably 5 times and talked to the customer service to see if they had any info on him performing. Some people were very rude and short with us saying that they had no information on him even performing in the parade! Finally one lady gave us helpful information saying that the taping would be all day Saturday and we would have to buy full passes to Magic Kindom. Well, we didn’t really want to spend that much money, not knowing if we would meet him, or let alone see him perform! So we had an idea, to go walk around Downtown Disney (which is free) to see if any of his band members, or even him were to hang out there! We got there probably around 2 pm, and just walked hung out and walked around. It got later and both of our phones were dying, so we had to go sit in a restaurant that had wifi so Tatiana could check their tweets on her ipod. Finally, around 9:30, Scooter Braun tweeted “salsa dancing saturday night. we in here, #bongos.” We realized that was a restaurant on the other side of Downtown Disney! We ran all the way there, and waited outside. I circled the restaurant to see if there was a backdoor they would go out of, but there wasn’t, so I went back to the front to wait with Tatiana. When I got to the front I couldn’t find her… but then she appeared and told me Scooter had just left! We ran out to the parking lot and saw him and Carin walking to their car. Tatiana yelled Scooter and he turned around, but we freaked out and turned around and acted like it wasn’t us yelling his name, he got in his car and drove away. But then Tatiana told me she thought she saw Dan Kanter, Justin’s guitarist, so we went back to Bongos, and out front, was Dan Kanter, and Scrappy, sitting with a large group of people. We stood around, still not positive if we wanted to go up with the chance that it wasn’t them, and embarrass ourselves! But finally a small, woman with long brown hair walked up to them and they all hugged and laughed, and the woman resembled Justin’s mom, Pattie Mallette! I walked around them, acting like I was looking for someone, so I could get a full view of what the woman looked like. I saw her, and realized it WAS HER! I ran back to Tatiana, and we waited for Pattie and her friend to walk past us, when they past us. We went up to her and said, “Excuse me, Ms. Pattie, can we have a picture with you?” She said of course! I was like starstruck, and said, “Oh my gosh, you are really pretty!” She blushed and said “Thank you sweetie!” She was so cute, and sweet, and know that she is doing a great job raising Justin! Next, we KNEW that is was Dan Kanter standing 20 feet away from us, but we didn’t want to go up and interrupt their conversation, so we just waited until they left to ask. So they started walking out, and we went up to Dan and asked him if we could take a picture with him! He said, Yeah! Sure! We took a few cause of the lighting was wierd, but then finally one came out! He asked us if we went to the show, but we said no! We didn’t know when Justin was performing! He said, oh, I’m sorry, but there’s always next time! And we said yes definitely! We waited a total of 10 hours at Downtown Disney that day, so I’m glad we met someone! And to Justin if you ever get to read this! please follow me on Twitter and make my dreams come true! -@meoshea See the original post here: My name is Megan and this is my Bieber Experience! It started…
It’s another chance for fresh starts, love and forgiveness in the holiday rom-com New Year’s Eve . Halle Berry, Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) and Ludacris are part of an all star cast that follows the lives of several couples and singles in New York, intertwining on the last day of 2011. New Year’s Eve is notable for its use of some of New York City’s most interesting and historic locales. The Urban Daily lists five New York City landmarks featured in New Year’s Eve worth checking out during the holiday season. Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11238 www.brooklynmuseum.org The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Only a 30-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan, with its own newly renovated subway station, the Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo. Exhibits to check out: African Innovations –a complete reinstallation of roughly 200 works from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned collection of African art, African Innovations is a dynamic and diverse range of objects that includes wood sculpture, metal casting, terracotta, textiles, and beadwork, African art has a long history of adaptation to and exchange with cultures near and far. Sweet Funk—An Introspectiv e: New York based artist Sanford Biggers challenges and reinterprets symbols and legacies that inform contemporary America. Pieces include Kalimba II (2002) , named after an African percussion instrument, incorporates a piano bisected by a wall and Blossom, Lotus (2007) combines references to Buddhism and to slavery: a lotus etched in glass contains in each petal diagrams of human bodies placed in the cargo hold of an eighteenth-century slave ship. Queens Museum of Art New York City Building, Flushing, NY 11368 Queensmuseum.org The New York City Building was built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair. This past April, the museum hosted a groundbreaking ceremony, marking the commencement of the expansion project that will double the size of the institution, adding 50,000 square feet of new galleries, classrooms, public events spaces, a café and museum shop. Exhibit to check out: The Panorama of The City of New York– The Panorama is the jewel in the crown of the collection of the Queens Museum of Art. . Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s Fair, this 9,335 square foot architectural model includes every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs; that is a total of 895,000 individual structures. Grand Central Station Terminal 42nd Street and Park Ave. New York, NY www.grandcentralterminal.com One of New York City’s most iconic landmarks, Grand Central is the largest train station in the world. The terminal includes a dining concourse, The Campbell Apartment, an elegantly restored cocktail lounge, and plenty of retail therapy with their shopping mall, which includes the newly opened Apple store. The annual Grand Central Holiday Fair, Located in the Terminal’s historic Vanderbilt Hall, has the city’s best holiday shopping experience featuring 76 vendors with a wide array of goods at all price levels. The fair features artisans selling unique crafts, jewelry, clothing, home furnishings, children’s gifts, and more. Rockefeller Center, West 49th Street & 5th Avenue www.rockefellercenter.com Rockefeller Center, originally known as Radio City is a complex of buildings developed in the midst of the Great Depression. During the holiday season Rock center offers a larger than life Christmas tree, ice skating rink and Radio City Hall, home to the world famous Rockettes. Check out: The Radio City Christmas Special features a 3-D live video game adventure, dazzling new Rockette numbers and classic favorites like The Parade of The Wooden Soldiers and The Living Nativity. Johnny Rockets 1134 First Avenue New York, NY www.johnnyrockets.com Johnny Rockets is a trip to yesteryear when the local burger joint reigned supreme. The first Johnny Rockets opened on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles in 1968, offering guests friendly service and great food in a fun and nostalgic atmosphere. The menu boasts great tasting food from a menu of favorites including juicy hamburgers, classic sandwiches, and hand-dipped shakes and malts. Guests also enjoy an all-American look and feel, tabletop jukeboxes and authentic decor. Check out: The Oreo Cookies & Cream Milkshake, The Route 66 Burger (Swiss cheese, grilled mushrooms, grilled onions & mayonnaise) and The Perfect Brownie Sundae. Johnny Rockets ROOOCKS !!! by magie2rue
SMH… These cops are buggin’ with all the West Indian Day Parade yang they were talkin on Facebook! Posters on Facebook who identified themselves as cops called participants in the Brooklyn West Indian Day parade “animals” and “savages” in a series of offensive entries that triggered an NYPD probe Monday. “Let them kill each other,” wrote one Facebook member who posted comments under a cop’s name, according to The New York Times. “I say have the parade one more year and when they all gather drop a bomb and wipe them all out,” wrote another, who said he was a police officer. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Monday he would refer the matter to the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. The Facebook comments were posted for several days in September but have since been taken down. Those who posted comments said they were angered at being assigned to the parade. They apparently used real names, in keeping with Facebook policy, and some identified themselves as officers. One of the writers identified himself as Nick Virgilio, a police officer. Contacted by the Daily News, Virgilio denied making derogatory comments and suggested that his Facebook account had been used without his knowledge. “I tried to reach out to Facebook because I’ve had problems with people going on there who wrote things that I had nothing to do with,” he said. “This happened a couple of times, most recently several months ago.” Virgilio declined to reveal where in the department he works or whether he was assigned to the parade. Lawyers Benjamin Moore and Paul Lieberman used the Facebook diatribes in their defense of Tyrone Johnson, who was acquitted of gun possession charges last month. The lawyers found that the Facebook profile of the arresting officer, Sgt. Dustin Edwards, showed he belonged to a group formed for “N.Y.P.D. officers who are threatened by superiors and forced to be victims themselves.” Edwards could not be reached for comment. The NYPD bars officers from making “discourteous or disrespectful remarks” about race or ethnicity. The parade, an annual Labor Day weekend event, has been marred by episodes of violence. “It’s a scheduled riot,” one poster said, according to The Times. What the hell??? They’re talking about letting people kill each other and dropping bombs on the parade? Who knew the NYPD was the new KKK? Internal Affairs better figure this isht out… and with a quickness! More On Bossip! Wanna Know How Much These Stars Really Weigh??? True Love? Look At These Pics Of Atlanta Falcon Ray Edwards And His Caked Out ATL Boo Centerfolds: The Most Unforgettable Ladies Of Color To Show Up In Playboy Magazine Sour Grapes: The Craziest Rumors Started By Scorned Exes
The folks at Disney are putting Jennifer Hudson to work this holiday season. The singer taped a segment for Disney performing a medley of songs for their Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade. Jennifer Hudson and Cee-Lo tape segments at Disney World for their annual Disney Christmas Parade. SplashNews More On Bossip! Wanna Know How Much These Stars Really Weigh??? True Love? Look At These Pics Of Atlanta Falcon Ray Edwards And His Caked Out ATL Boo Centerfolds: The Most Unforgettable Ladies Of Color To Show Up In Playboy Magazine Sour Grapes: The Craziest Rumors Started By Scorned Exes
J.R. Martinez’s victory tour brought him to Anderson this week. There, he talked about his experience in Iraq as well as winning Dancing With the Stars , and being included in People magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive issue. “After 33 surgeries, I better be!” Martinez joked, referring to the burn treatments and skin graft operations he’s endured since being badly hurt in Iraq. Since 2003, his life story has been one of triumph over adversity. J.R. Martinez on Anderson Martinez began counseling other wounded veterans, then working as a motivational speaker all across the country before landing a role on All My Children . Now, he’s one of 2011’s big breakout stars, winning DWTS , being honored by the Defense Department , Grand Marshaling the Rose Parade and so forth. Martinez said he embraces the opportunities he has, with his newfound fame, to be an advocate for veterans, and says he will always serve our country. “You can take away my camouflage, you can take away my M16, which is my weapon, but I look at it now… my new weapons are my words and my new uniform is my scars,” he explained. “I’m going to continue to serve in a bigger way.” “I feel this is going to be needed with the talks of pulling our guys out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bringing them home … it’s important for me to be that voice.” After driving over a landmine, he spent the next “two and a half years in and out of the hospital” undergoing the never-ending procedures to restore his person, adding details about the journey of self-discovery he embarked on in his recovery. “It was a tough road at 19 years old, to look at your body and your face, and say, ‘What am I going to do about this now? How am I going to move forward?’” he said. “Thinking you’re completely alone and no one in the world understands or can relate to you, but luckily, I was able to see a side that I can use my second chance at life as an opportunity to help people with their first chance at life.” It’s not often you look at a celebrity and see a true hero among us, but J.R. may be that person. We wish him the best in all of his continuing endeavors.
