Just because Kim Kardashian is breastfeeding North West like a woman possessed around the clock does not make her a recluse, THGers. Just because she hasn’t lost the baby weight doesn’t mean she’s “in hiding” and unwilling to surface until she regains her pre-pregnancy body. She is simply recovering from giving birth and getting to know her little one like any other mom, according to a source close to the reality star. New parents Kim Kardashian, 32, and Kanye West, 36, stepped out Wednesday for a doctor’s visit. Kanye, of course, was furious that they were seen . While she may value privacy, Kim sources say she is not deliberately trying to shield the world from her newborn baby and/or her post-baby body. “Kim isn’t ‘in hiding!” the source says. “That’s ridiculous!” “All along she knew she wanted to take time off. She said she wanted to take a few months to herself, and it hasn’t even been that long yet.” Time off from what? It’s unclear, as always, with Kim Kardashian . Equally unclear is why so many people speculate about her absence … after no doubt complaining about her omnipresent nature prior to Nori’s birth. This is what we do here at THG, though, and given that Kris Jenner is the ultimate puppet master, it’s impossible not to wonder what she has in store. Nothing, the Kim insider insists. She’s just being a mom, okay? The source says she is enjoying the discovery of parenthood , however, adding, “She spends tons of time with her daughter and is just learning.” “She didn’t know a lot about raising a baby before North was born so it has been a great learning process. She’s so happy. I’ve never seen her happier.” “She is smiling all the time. She just feels very safe and secure at home right now. She’s not in any sort of rush to do anything different.” You buying it, THGers? Or is this all part of a big plan? Tell us in our survey below: Why have we not yet seen any new North West or Kim Kardashian photos? She is negotiating the best tabloid deal possible Kanye West is putting his foot down Something is wrong with North West Kim is a changed woman and wants her privacy View Poll »
Sorry, Kim Kardashian . Your ex beat you to parenthood. Sources confirm that Reggie Bush is the proud new father of a baby girl born, as Lilit Avagyan gave birth to the couple’s first child Monday. She weighed in at 8 pounds, 9 ounces. These two have been together for about 18 months and announced Avagyan’s expecting state in October. Bush, of course, dated Kardashian for many years before she married Kris Humphries and then got knocked up by Kanye West . He signed a four-year deal with the Detroit Lions this offseason and appears to have moved fully on from the reality star. Except that Avagyan does sort of look like her. Either way, hey: congratulations Reggie and Lilit!
Taraji’s giving out parenting advice and explains how she stands as a Black woman in Hollywood. Academy award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson’s latest leading role is as the face of JET. The multifaceted performer and producer, speaks candidly about being motivated by her family’s modest means and opens up about the controversial, tough-love parenting style that led to her decision to bench her teen son from his first year of college! Inside the issue, Taraji tell JET: –Why She’s Making Her Son Work Before School and says “…I’m not bringing up a mama’s boy…I’ve got him out here looking for work so he can see how hard it is when you just have a high school diploma.” –Commanding Respect in Hollywood –Changing Her Family’s Financial Future, “My daddy was blue-collar as you get. At one point he was homeless, but he was always a man. He never made excuses. He got it done.” The new issue hits newsstands Monday, Dec. 3. Images via JET
If time travel is ever to be invented, wouldn’t we already have had evidence of it? The question is enough to give grammarians seizures, let alone filmmakers. As Jeff Daniels’s world-weary time-traveling crime lord says in Rian Johnson ‘s Looper , “this time travel shit fries your brain like an egg.” And the film, out this Friday, is far from the most brain-frying cinematic treatment of time travel. To help make sense of a genre riddled with paradoxes, I contacted Tim Maudlin, philosophy professor at NYU, who has written extensively on time travel, and quickly rattled off my preconceptions on the matter.* According to Maudlin, there are two types of time-travel narratives in fiction. The most common, which he calls “inconsistent time-travel stories,” are about a traveler who goes back in time and changes the course of events, à la Marty McFly. To Maudlin, movies of this type— Looper included—“literally make no sense.” If the character goes back in time, then there would never have been a past without him. In “consistent” time-travel stories, however, the time traveler was always a part of the events he affected (e.g. Twelve Monkeys, or Robert Heinlein’s classic mindfuck of a short story, — All You Zombies—, in which the main character is both his own mother and father). These are Moebius strip narratives. There is no first time around or second time around. There is just one past that contains the traveler. Stories of this type, Maudlin says, “are more like clever crossword puzzles, where all the various threads fit together in a satisfactory way. They appeal to the logician rather than the sentimentalist.” With that distinction in mind, we can determine just how logical Looper and the other nine best time-travel movies are. (Another paradox: the more logical the treatment of time travel, the more it makes your brain hurt.) Looper (2012)[ Spoiler warning! ] Plot: Joe, a young gun-for-hire, must kill his future self or be killed, but Bruce Willis, naturally, has another outcome in mind. Consistent? No. We see a whole timeline in which Young Joe kills Old Joe, then lives out the rest of his life before coming up with a plan to stop Young Joe from killing the now Old Joe. If he succeeds, he would never have been able to live the life he lived theretofore. And the ending raises an even bigger paradox. Back to the Future (1985) Plot: Marty McFly, a kid with a mad-scientist friend and a loser dad, travels from 1985 to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean, fools around with his hot teenage mom, inspires his dad to grow a pair and knock Biff the bully out, then returns to 1985. Consistent? No. If Marty goes back in time, then there would never have been a version of the past without him. The other thing is, for Marty to still be born after his disruption of his parents’ courtship, his mom and pop need to time the moment of fertilization to the microsecond. But that’s more a question of probability (and staying power) than logic. Back to the Future II (1989) Plot: Marty travels to the future, buys a sports almanac, which falls in the hands of elder Biff, who travels to 1955, and gives it to his younger self, thus helping Biff become a sports-gambling gazillionaire, and transforming Hill Valley into a seedy dystopia. Marty goes back to 1955 to destroy the almanac, without interfering with his previous time-traveling exploits from the first movie. Consistent? No. In the words of Doc Brown, writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale weren’t “thinking fourth dimensionally.” Narratively, it’s fantastic. Logically, it’s all over the place, where multiple timelines coexist and alternate. Back to the Future III (1990) Plot: After reading that Doc, who traveled to 1885, died in a duel against Biff’s gunslinging ancestor, Marty finds the DeLorean Doc had hidden away and goes back to save him. Consistent: Of course not. As with the first two, the multiple timelines are irreconcilable paradoxes. Plus, as several obsessive geek sites have pointed out, when Marty finds the DeLorean and goes back to 1885 with it, there should by all logic be two DeLoreans in 1885. The Terminator (1984) Plot: In a last-ditch effort to win the future war against mankind, Skynet’s intelligent machines send the Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor and prevent her from giving birth to John Connor, who would grow up to lead the successful human-led Resistance. But the Resistance sends Kyle Reese back to protect Sarah. Overstepping his duties, he impregnates her, and she gives birth to… John Connor! Consistent? Yes. It’s circular, chicken-or-egg logic, but it holds together.
Full disclosure right off the bat here, some die-hard Romney fans and those with hyper-sensitivity to the F-Bomb and haters of politics generally may not want to proceed, so if you do, go at your own peril. A tidy little vid starring Barack supporter-extraordinaire Samuel L. Jackson has hit the internet, and though a tad longer than the typical 30 second political spot flooding the airwaves in this election season, it is quite a bit more clever and funnier – though it helps if you’re a supporter of the incumbent, naturally. And while it is unabashedly supportive of Obama, the prez does not come in and say he “supports this message” like in most other political ads. In this version, Jackson invades a home of a quiet suburban family of lackadaisical Obama ’08 supporters to tell them to, “Wake the F**** Up.” The three-minute, forty-second video is sponsored by the Jewish Council for Education and Research and is a riff on a reading the Oscar-nominated actor did last year of a satirical “children’s book” called Go the F*** to Sleep , a charming little diddy that went viral. The book’s author, Adam Mansbach also wrote the script for the pro-Obama version of the story, which opens with a young girl who lies awake in her bed fretting that her complacent family will sleep the election away, when just four years ago they were taking to the streets. The video premiered on Yahoo! Little Suzie gets out of bed, but not far from sight is her political ally in-waiting with political rhymes and a final “Wake the F*** Up” as she traipses through her house encountering her listless family members. First off, she goes to her parents who are falling asleep watching TV in the living room. And like an angel, Jackson appears with a riddle urging little Suzie’s parents to get involved. Next she heads into her older brother’s room, who is sitting with his feet up on his desk. Suzie blasts her brother saying that the election is about their future and recalls how he was on the front lines in ’08. Her brother replies that all politicians are “the same” and like magic again, Jackson appears giving a friendly warning that goes something like this: “They’re all the same? Please! Obama’s sent SEALS to Bin Laden’s place, Romney sent jobs overseas. And how about that student loan overhaul? It’s going to save you thousands of bucks. Mitt will cut that sh** in a second. Hey dude, Wake the F*** Up!” Next she heads to her older sister’s room with more prose about planned parenthood etc., Jackson appears, gives his two cents with another riddle and another, “Wake the F*** Up!” And finally, it’s off to grandma and grandpa’s room who are, incidentally, proving that older folks do have good times, until they’re interrupted by you know who… Medicare is the big theme here, naturally, and one more “Wake the F*** Up!” [Source: Yahoo! News ]
The Italian magazine Chi has vowed to publish more of the infamous nude and topless Kate Middleton photos that the British royal family is suing over. France’s Closer magazine ran a whole spread devoted to Kate Middleton topless last week, prompting a stinging rebuke and a lawsuit from the Duchess. Chi claims it has 200 images of the future queen sunbathing nude or at least topless, and will proceed with plans to print a 26-page, 50-photo article. The Chi cover was unveiled Saturday in Italian newspapers and TV under the headline ‘Court Scandal: The Queen is Nude!’ Check that out below … Chi is published by the same media group as Closer . Alfonso Signorini, the defiant editor of Chi , has Tweeted that “not even a direct call from the Queen” would stop him from publishing the trove of nude pictures: “I am convinced by this scoop that Chi will be publishing on Monday because that is what we are talking about. These pictures are not offensive or in poor taste.” “They are not morbid and they do not damage the dignity of anyone. Instead the [ Prince Harry naked pictures ] published in Britain were exactly that.” “If I didn’t recognize the journalistic value of what I had then if I did not publish them I would be better off in a market selling artichokes.” See more photos of Kate Middleton after the jump … “These pictures were taken while the couple were on a terrace and they were taken from a public place so there is no suggestion of an invasion of privacy.” Meanwhile, Prince William has vowed to see the people responsible for taking the pictures of his wife put behind bars or at least sued for all they’re worth. William has told pals that he will not just sue for invasion of privacy in the French civil courts but will also pursue criminal action against those responsible. Only time will tell if he has any success, or if any more photos actually do come out. Rumor has it there are more revealing shots, but we have our doubts. Click to enlarge some that have leaked so far. Mostly they look to be of the same vein as Closer ‘s photos … not surprising as they’re from the same time:
Robert Pattinsin has forgiven Kristen Stewart for what he deems a “stupid mistake” and the beloved couple is now back together. According to a report in Great Britain’s The Sun . “They pretty much decided they couldn’t live without each other,” a Robsten insider tells the tabloid. “Kristen poured her heart out to Robert and told him it was a one-off and a mistake.” There are no named sources listed in the article, nor any evidence to indicate this reconciliation has actually occurred. But Stewart did tell reporters in Toronto last week that she and Pattinson were ” going to be fine .” Why would Robert take Kristen back, considering her admitted actions with Rupert Sanders ? “Rob sees it as Kristen made a really stupid mistake. After a lot of long tearful talks, they’ve worked it out,” explains this source. “Rob can see how truly sorry Kristen is and has totally forgiven her. They really do love each other.” The pair has supposedly even moved back into together, holing up and “focusing on themselves” at a home in the same Los Angeles compound where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have a residence. If this report is accurate, as you happy to see the return of Robsten? Do you think Pattinson is making a mistake? Or do you believe the entire affair was a contrived conspiracy and Stewart has nothing to actually apologize for?
Snooki is showing off her maternal side. The main man in the Jersey Shore star’s life is Lorenzo Dominic LaValle, born just a couple of weeks ago. Like her co-stars, he’s loud and up at all hours of the night! Snook seems like she’s taken to motherhood and her changing lifestyle well, at least for the time being. The star (real name Nicole Polizzi) is all about momming. “I love you,” she tweeted Saturday, with this cute pic: Will she be a perennial Mom of the Year contender? That remains to be seen, but in the early going, she seems quite smitten with her new role, and her little man. “Ugh just looking at Lorenzo and I start crying happy tears!” the 24-year-old former train wreck wrote last week. “I’ve never been so happy in my life!!!” Snooki and fiance Jionni Lavalle have been adjusting to parenthood, and that means occasionally fighting off insults from those who say they’re not ready. “I’m surprised your pump bra doesn’t pump alcohol instead of milk,” one user wrote on Twitter, to which Snooki replied: “Good one. Move on already.” Point, Snook.
