(AP) — Three topless Ukrainian protesters were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After a complicated journey to reach the heavily guarded Swiss resort town of Davos, the Ukrainians… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 28/01/2012 16:01 Number of articles : 2
Alison Brie told MTV News at Sundance that ‘Community’ is still shooting despite the show remaining off of NBC’s schedule. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Alison Brie Photo: MTV News Greendale Community College’s doors might be closed at the moment, but that doesn’t mean class isn’t quietly in session inside. Late last year, NBC pulled the critically acclaimed but criminally under-watched “Community” from its schedule, with a return date yet to be announced. Some fans were so outraged by the network’s decision that they staged a flash mob outside of NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters earlier this month, but to no avail — the show remains on the sidelines to this date. Still, progress is being made on the “Community” set itself, at least. Actress Alison Brie, who stars in the series as the beautiful but quirky Annie Edison, told MTV News that work on the NBC comedy is ongoing despite the show’s disappearance from the network’s schedule. “We’re still wrapping up ‘Community,’ our third season,” Brie told us at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she was appearing in support of her new film “Save the Date.” Asked about when the show might return, she claimed: “I don’t know! It’s in the air! It’s America’s biggest cliffhanger! I don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re still shooting the third season, so hopefully it’s going to air in March or April.” Meanwhile, if “Community” fans are looking for more Brie in their lives, they don’t need to tune into NBC. Chances are high that the actress will reprise her role as Pete Campbell’s wife, Trudy, on the upcoming season of AMC’s “Mad Men,” returning to airwaves for the first time in over a year on March 25. “You may [see me in more ‘Mad Men’],” Brie assured us about her probable return to the Emmy-winning drama, now entering its fifth season. “You should definitely tune into ‘Mad Men’ this season, because I hear it’s going to be very good.” What do you make of NBC’s decision to pull “Community”? Tell us in the comments section! Related Videos Sundance 2012: Interviews From Park City
Plus, the Situation is hungover and the girls wear bunny suits in this week’s episode. By Jim Cantiello Mike “The Situation” on Thursday’s Episode of “Jersey Shore” Photo: MTV The Situation’s back and he got a Hugh Hefner-themed surprise party, what with the strippers and the wheelchairs. Here now, my five favorite moments from this week’s “Jersey Shore.” 5. Hungover Situation You can’t get any more DTF than a stripper, right? Wrong. Just ask the Situation , who brought home one of his party favors. “I don’t even remember her name. It might as well be A-nita because all night she was saying ‘I need a cigarette. I need French toast.’ Well I need you to get the hell out of my house!” I think Hungover Situation is my favorite Situation. On the other hand, dude, she’s a stripper who never actually took her clothes off. That’s like being mad at your anorexic friend for giving you a crappy restaurant recommendation. 4. Old Man With Vinny gone, Danny the T-shirt guy is looking to find a new employee/housemate and made J-Woww write up a “Help Wanted” sign after she tore down the first one. J-Woww says, “What should the sign say, because Danny’s being a douche …” “You should write, ‘See old man inside for details!’ ” the Situation laughs. The Situation – 1, Danny – 0. The Situation walks away, and J-Woww says under her breath, “But then people would think they should talk to you .” The Situation – 1, J-Woww – 1,000,000!! 3. Operation Rescue Vinny! What better way to help a guy with anxiety than to crowd him, shout loud things in his ear and bum-rush him in the comfort of his own home?! Um … get better Vinny! 2. Crack Is Wack! In all seriousness, Vinny was happy to jump in the car and return to Seaside with his roomies. Too bad they nearly died on the way back … [ They moon each other. Snooki sees “a ball.” They all scream. ] Don’t drink and drive. Don’t text and drive. Don’t try to blind people with your ugly-ass ass and drive. 1. Funny Bunnies Gotta hand it to MTV. Always looking to lure in new audiences for their programming. This week they dedicated a segment entirely to furries! Snooki and Deena hump each other in giant bunny costumes. Later, Snooki uses her new bunny costume for evil when she scares J-Woww. Amazing. Let’s just hope she doesn’t pull that on Vinny for a few days. For continuing “Jersey Shore” coverage , be sure to check in with MTV’s Remote Control blog. Related Videos Jersey Shore High 5 Recaps! Jersey Shore (Season 5) | Ep. 4 | Free Vinny
National Venables Bell & Partners San Francisco has just released their Super Bowl spot for Audi — and it’s a good one. In the Twilight-ish, vampire-filled commercial the new Audi headlights aren’t really the life of the party. We predict this to be one of the best Super Bowl spots out there. It’s funny, memorable, taps into the vampire pop culture explosion and communicates a consumer benefit. Nice… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Denver Egotist Discovery Date : 26/01/2012 08:18 Number of articles : 2
This guy is outrageous Snoop Dogg loves to party, but even the most experienced partiers will be shocked by his recent confession. For a new series of videos titled Party Legends, celebrities were asked to tell their most ridiculous party stories … and Snoop opened up about a story from “way back in the days.” Snoop admits to being roofied at the Playboy Mansion … and everything that happened afterwards. In the video, Snoop details his wild night at the mansion, which began as he arrived wearing a blue smokers jacket and Playboy Mansion robe with his pal Bishop Don Juan. Carrying a pimp cup filled with “half a gallon of champagne and gallon of orange juice” Snoop shared his beverage with a few Playboy Bunnies. The rapper claims that he turned his back as the girls sipped on the drink, and when it was returned to him and he resumed drinking, got dizzy and fell down a flight of stairs. Two “white girls” told Snoop that “someone slipped a roofie to you” – but he didn’t let the accident and drugging incident stop him from enjoying the rest of the evening. He claims he kept the night going and gave some bunnies “more than they could handle.”
I think we can all agree that latina super MILF Sofia Vergara’s got one of the best racks working in show business at the moment, at least for a woman her age with a kid who’s something like twenty years old, so I’m sure nobody minds me posting these shots of her on the red carpet in her fancy dress. I don’t know what the party was for or who else was invited, but getting to see her big beautiful breasts squeezed together so nicely is a real treat for me. Enjoy.
Egypt’s election commission and political groups say final results from the country’s first elections since the Arab spring show that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament. The Associated Press reports that an alliance led by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood won 47 percent of the spots in the 498-seat parliament, while the ultraconservative Al-Nour Party clinched… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 21/01/2012 20:09 Number of articles : 2
Heidi Klum is filing for divorce from Seal, according to reports. Sources say the supermodel will file divorce papers in L.A. County Superior Court as early as next week, citing “irreconcilable differences” as the cause for the divorce. The couple married in May 2005 and have three biological children together. Seal also adopted Heidi’s eldest daughter from a prior relationship with Flavio Briatore. So far, neither party has confirmed the report, first posted by TMZ. It is unclear what prompted the imminent dissolution of the marriage or how the matter leaked. The pair, long regarded as one of Hollywood’s most stable relationships, is famous for renewing their vows every year on their anniversary … in a lavish ceremony. They are also not PDA-shy when it comes to love for each other and their family. Suffice it to say, if this news is indeed true, it would be a major surprise to most. As for splitting up their assets, there’s a lot on the line. According to Forbes , in the last year alone, Heidi Klum earned more than $20 million. It’s unclear how much Seal, an award-winning recording artist, made. [Photo: WENN.com]
Last night, Snoop Dogg, along with Lucasfilm, hosted a private screening of Red Tails at the Arclight in Hollywood for about 200 of his friends and family. Many special guests came out to support Snoop and Red Tails , including the film’s cast members Terrence Howard, Tristan Wilds and more, in addition to Aaron McGruder (screenplay). Check out the video of the party: We know you’re going to check it out this week right?! We invite fans to Twitpic their Red Tails ticket stub and tag us in your uploaded photo for a chance to win an exclusive Red Tails Prize Pack. There will be two grand prize winners and three runners up. Two (2) Grand Prize Pack: Autographed Red Tails Trailer poster (signed by Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrance Howard, and Ne-Yo, and other cast members) Limited Edition Red Tails Comic Con film poster – created by comic legend Kubert Red Tails backpack Red Tails Key chain Red Tails Dog tags Red Tails T-shirt (XL) Red Tails hat Red Tails pen Red Tails paper airplane Three (3) Runner Up Prize Pack Limited Edition Red Tails Comic Con film poster – created by comic legend Kubert Red Tails backpack Red Tails Key chain Red Tails Dog tags Red Tails T-shirt (XL) Red Tails hat Red Tails pen Red Tails paper airplane Make sure when you go see Red Tails this week, you twitpic your ticket stub. In addition to your picture, make sure you include these 3 in your tweet: #occupyredtails @redtailsmovie @Bossip Example: ” I just went to go see @redtailsmovie #occupyredtails @bossip (twitpic link here) “ The contest ends January 27th at 11:59pm PST! We will contact the winner via DM so make sure to look out for them! Check out the trailer for the movie:
“ That was excruciating,” exhaled director Kieran Darcy-Smith as the lights came up on the Sundance opening night premiere of his first feature, the Australian dramatic thriller Wish You Were Here . The theater buzzed with appreciation, sure enough, and the film’s emotional blows strike as sharply thanks to strong performances by Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. But movies like these almost always prompt that irksome question: Are we all at risk of suffering a case of the film festival goggles? Wish You Were Here follows two Aussie couples (Edgerton and Price, Antony Starr and Teresa Palmer) who go on holiday in Southeast Asia only to see one of their party go missing, with ramifications that ripple out like shockwaves when they return home with fried nerves and secrets galore. Shot beautifully in Australia and Cambodia, it’s a slow-burn character drama that begins as a missing persons tale before switching gears to domestic drama/paranoia thriller in its rapidly escalating last act, doling out bits of information about what really happened on that last drug-fueled night. It’s easy to see why Wish You Were Here was chosen to open the festival; just two years ago the Aussie import Animal Kingdom premiered at Sundance, leading the charge for a new wave of Australian cinema. Wish You Were Here unites Animal Kingdom actors Darcy-Smith and Edgerton, whose star has risen considerably in the past few years, under the Blue-Tongue Films banner they founded with Edgerton’s brother Nash. But while there’s a lot to like in Here , it doesn’t live up to David Michôd’s explosive 2010 feature debut. The film flashes between moments in time: Married couple David and Alice (Edgerton and Price) and Alice’s sister Steph (Palmer) struggle to adjust to normal life but are plagued by memories of the night Steph’s boyfriend Jeremy (Starr) disappeared. Are there clues to his fate in their foggy recollections? Did he willingly leave everything behind, or did something awful happen to him? What begins as a somber exploration of survivor’s guilt – inspired by a similar event that happened to mutual friends of Price and Darcy-Smith when two couples went on vacation and returned minus a member of their party – unfolds into a far less realistic thriller that throws almost every cliché imaginable at the screen. Still, the performances are so uniformly impressive that they often overshadow the plot machinations, if only for those times when we’re lost in the crush of a devastated face, or a desperate, tragically human moment. Edgerton in particular does great subtle, tortured work; his David is a family man roiling with conflicting emotions, slowly losing his grasp on his own psyche. Price, who co-wrote the script with husband Darcy-Smith, admitted to writing the film partly to give herself a great role; as a result Wish You Were Here ably highlights her talents as Alice, who finds her marriage to David unraveling in the wake of their friend’s disappearance. Unfortunately, in the service of giving the leads meaty acting bits to play out, the film relies too heavily on soap opera-like plot devices, shortchanging characters like Palmer’s reckless Steph in favor of upping the dramatic complications. (Palmer nevertheless does her best with a role that deserves more exploration and explanation.) Some of these moments hit hard, and effectively, but it says something that with an 83-minute runtime Wish You Were Here feels exhaustively laden with too many twists and turns and melodramatic events. In the immediate afterglow of Sundance’s opening night (which saw three additional films premiere to mostly positive reactions: Searching for Sugar Man , Hello I Must Be Going , and Queen of Versailles ) the audience reaction to Wish You Were Here was quite warm, with Twitter reactions ranging from mixed to positive over its performances and cutting emotional impact. But fast-forward to an eventual release and I can see it being mashed, wrongfully, into the couples-on-holiday-thriller subgenre previously populated by your Turistas and Perfect Getaways . It’s possible the “From the stars of Animal Kingdom ” tag bumps it beyond simple genre categorization, but does it deserve to be placed into the same terrain as that vicious breath of fresh air? Not quite. Here is a beautifully made but flawed directorial debut for Darcy-Smith and certainly an acting showcase for its cast, but it demonstrates the cardinal rule of watching movies at festivals, where anticipation and atmosphere can inflate a film’s profile: Don’t blow your wad on a film that’s not quite up to snuff when the festival’s just starting. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter . Find all of Movieline’s Sundance 2012 coverage here .
