Kris Humphries still doesn’t care about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West . An insider confirms to Radar Online that the power forward is unconcerned about the new relationship from a personal standpoint. But from a monetary one? As someone looking to milk as much as possible out of his ex-wife? Humphries believes he can use the fact that Kim and Kanye filmed their recent night out in NYC as evidence that Kardashian only dates – or, in his case, marries – for the sake of publicity. “The crux of Kris’ case for annulment is that Kim married him under fraudulent pretenses and did it for her reality show,” a Team Humphries source says, adding that his lawyers wonder: “When did Kim develop romantic feelings for Kanye and why after publicly stating she wouldn’t feature any future romantic relationships on her reality shows, did she do a complete 360?” The mole adds that Kris and Kim haven’t talked in months. Which makes perfect sense. Why would they? No cameras have been around.
www.mindperk.com Everest is the incredible true story of Erik Weihenmayer’s quest to climb the summit of the tallest peak in the world–blind. It’s also a story of amazing leadership, perseverance, trust, team building, and creating greatness. This complete package includes the award-winning Everest video with Erik Weihenmayer, a 10-minute meeting opener featuring Stephen R. Covey explaining the 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders, facilitator guide (pdf), participant guidebooks (pdf), PowerPoint presentation and more. Available at MindPerk.com. http://www.youtube.com/v/jsc_hASaY94?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Originally posted here: Everest DVD with Stephen R. Covey and Erik Weihenmayer
Nathan Morris says the Babyface-produced track ‘makes people want to fall in love all over again.’ By Jocelyn Vena Boyz II Men Photo: Sandy Young/ Getty Images Boyz II Men know a thing or two about cooking up smooth jams about heartbreak and the end of sweet love affairs. Their new single, “One More Dance,” is a slow jam about needing to get back in the good graces of that one special girl and needing her to save him, well, another dance. Adding to the power of the ballad, the guys hooked up with super producer Babyface, who worked with the group on their ’90s mega-hits “End of the Road” and “I’ll Make Love to You.” “It’s one of those classic Boyz II Men/Babyface collaborations,” Nathan Morris explained to MTV News. “The music kind of brings the ’90s back, brings it forward to the new millennia, with more of an updated sound and more of an updated vibe. It’s something you would expect from us. It’s not too far to the left and it’s one of those songs that kind of makes people want to fall in love all over again.” The slower songs of the ’90s certainly seem to be making a big-time comeback, with even Usher abandoning his obsession with four on the floor to return to slower tempos like on “Climax.” “Dance” pays homage to that time when ballads ruled the airwaves and Top 40 radio. As Wanya Morris explained, now’s as good a time as any for that nostalgia. “I think it’s because people, they want to fall in love all over again,” he explained. “They’ve actually been in a situation where hip-hop has stood in the forefront of music and R&B kind of took a back seat and musical music has taken a back seat and they want to fall in love again. And, hopefully this album, Twenty, will help them in that journey to we find love again.” The guys are currently on the road promoting that album, and finding that their fans, both new and old, are pumped for their tracks, both new and old. “The cool thing about our fans is they span all types of age, groups, colors,” Shawn Stockman explained of the trek. “The problem we always had, if you could call it a problem, is that no one could pinpoint Boyz II Men fans because if you ever go out to a show you see everyone. It’s all types of people who come to our shows and it’s always been that way. And it’s just a resurgence and now a new generation of people, of kids, that are listening to our music because of their parents, most likely, is getting into it too.” Do you think ’90s ballads are coming back? Leave your comment below! Related Artists Boyz II Men
Happy Tax day! Actually, tax day is tomorrow, because the 15th fell on a Sunday and today is DC Emancipation Day so we get an extra day before we have to pay. (Fun fact: Did you know the Republicans were responsible for Emancipation Day, not the Democrats’) Anyway, Mr. LC and I are still waiting to hear from our accountant to find out how much we owe Uncle Sam, so I’m kind of in a foul mood. Seeing… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Lonely Conservative Discovery Date : 16/04/2012 17:38 Number of articles : 2
Verizon and Sprint have reportedly launched a new TV ad each, in which a major celebrity shows-off the power of Siri – Apple’s humble personal assistant that premiered with the iPhone 4S. Verizon, Sprint Launch New Siri-Focussed Celebrity TV Ads is a story by AppAdvice.com AppAdvice – iPhone, iPad, iPod, App Reviews + News Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Apple iPhone Apps Discovery Date : 17/04/2012 02:30 Number of articles : 2
Ashley Judd says medication caused her face to appear puffy lately, not plastic surgery as many assumed – and she’s far from pleased that people assumed that. The Missing star wrote in The Daily Beast: “The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of all of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us.” “The Conversation about women happens everywhere. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification .” Judd continues to explain that as a general rule, she has refused to read media articles related to herself, because, “I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself.” “I thus abstain from all media about myself.” When it came to the controversy over her unusually puffy face while promoting her new series, however, the actress got wind of it – and felt that there were underlying issues critically important to her and impossible to overlook. Judd lamented the “pointedly nasty, gendered, and misogynistic” rumors that embodies what “all girls and women in our culture endure every day.” “We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women. A case in point is that this conversation was initially promulgated largely by women; a sad and disturbing fact.” “If this conversation is going to be had, I will do my part to insist that it is a feminist one, because it has been misogynistic from the start. Who makes a fantastic leap from being sick, or gaining some weight over the winter, to a conclusion of plastic surgery?” “Our entire culture, that’s who. The insanity has to stop, because as focused on me as it appears to have been, it is about all girls and women.” Do you think that Ashley Judd has a point about body issues, or is she making too much out of it? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Hit RapFix.MTV.com at 5:30 p.m. ET as we stream live from the set with the hosts of MTV’s new late-night talk show. By Rob Markman DJ Khaled and Bu Thiam on “Hip Hop POV” Photo: MTV Hip-hop is coming to late-night TV. On Wednesday, April 11, at midnight, MTV will premiere “Hip Hop POV,” a weekly talk show starring industry insiders Charlamagne Tha God, Bu Thiam, Devi Dev, Amanda Seales and Sowmya Krishnamurthy. For those who can’t wait until the big debut, MTV News’ RapFix blog will give fans an exclusive first peek tonight at 5:30 p.m. ET. Viewers can watch as the quintet of rap experts run through rehearsals for next week’s show during the hour-long live stream, which also features an unprecedented behind-the-scenes first look at the show’s set. New York’s hip-hop community and Power 105 radio station listeners are already familiar with Charlamagne Tha God’s no-holds-barred commentary, while Def Jam A&R Thiam is a force behind some of the game’s biggest hit records. “Sway in the Morning” radio show co-host Devi Dev has made her name interviewing some of rap’s biggest stars and Amanda Seales is a veteran rapper, actress and noted radio personality also known to fans as Amanda Diva. Sowmya Krishanmurthy is an emerging journalist whose work can regularly be found on RapFix.MTV.com. Together, they will tackle the biggest topics of the week and deliver exclusive interviews with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Meek Mill, DJ Khaled and A$AP Rocky. But before the big reveal next Wednesday, you can get your first look tonight on the RapFix blog. Tune into MTV’s “Hip Hop POV” live stream today at 5:30 p.m. ET on the RapFix blog and join in on the Twitter conversation using the hashtag #HipHopPOV.
It took a little while to get out, but this young man’s lightning-round riff on all 75 Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winners is the textbook definition of better late than never. Guess who: “I’m only in this movie for four minutes and you gave me an Oscar!” And his Cloris Leachman is pretty dead-on, actually. [via The Lost Boy ]
Kate Winslet broke a PR commandment earlier this week while promoting the release of Titanic 3D : She dismissed the movie’s Oscar-winning theme song, claiming that Celine Dion’s overplayed ballad “My Heart Will Go On” makes her ” feel like throwing up .” Citing the inescapability of fans serenading her with the massive hit wherever she goes, Winslet’s sentiments are understandable. Frankly, I heard that song enough times 15 years ago to never hear it again, no matter how riveting and powerful Dion’s vocals are. To say that song never once gave you chills is probably a lie. But be that as it may, the song hasn’t given anyone chills since post-Oscars April 1998, when we’d all had just about enough of it. All we have left for it now is just a reflexive groan of antipathy. When it comes to much maligned movie theme songs inducing cringing during the end credits, we’re generally more than familiar with such usual suspects as Bette Midler and Bryan Adams. As such, consider this alternative list of nine musical offenders whose disastrous contributions to soundtracks deserve “a massive internal eye roll” from Kate Winslet — or anyone else with discerning musical taste. 9. “Too Close to Paradise” by Sylvester Stallone, Paradise Alley Sylvester Stallone set out in 1978 to become a quadruple threat: After his success with Rocky in 1976, Stallone wrote, directed, and starred in the period film Paradise Alley about blue-collar brothers who turn to professional wrestling to make something of themselves in New York. Stallone also sang the theme song, “Too Close to Paradise,” and thus accomplished his goal — in that this little Neil Diamond-like ditty was a threatening assault upon the ears. Most nauseating : All of it. 8. “Batdance” by Prince, Batman In 2004, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost approved Prince’s Batman soundtrack for use as a weapon against zombies, because what other use can you get out of it? Although “Partyman” is a true musical highlight, Prince’s most offensive contribution to the album is the “Batdance” track, which blends house music with a funked-up version of the 1966 Batman theme. Ultimately a mash-up of several existing pieces of music written for the soundtrack, the “song” is 90 percent movie dialogue samples — including Jack Nicholson exclaiming that “this town needs an enema” and Kim Basinger repeating her character’s name, “Vicky Vale.” Inexplicably, this messy hodgepodge of music styles and Joker one-liners made it to number one in the U.S in 1989. Most nauseating lyric : The repeated 1966-style chant of “Bat-maaaan” throughout. 7. “The Morning After” by Maureen McGovern, The Poseidon Adventure On first listen, this Oscar-winning theme strikes tedious, AMPAS-approved notes of inspiration and hope that match the film’s messages of perseverance and communal survival aboard a foundering cruise liner. On second listen, McGovern’s schmaltzy folk vocals help distinguish the song as a true product of its time, with possible subtextual reflections on the Vietnam War and the political upheaval of the times. On third listen, the repetitive lyrics set your mind adrift and thinking about the morning-after pill. On fourth listen, you suspect Amnesty International opposes this song for its usefulness as a form of torture. Most nauseating lyric : “It’s not too late, we should be giving / Only with love can we climb” 6. “Brothers” by Patrick Swayze and Larry Gatlin, Next of Kin Patrick Swayze always got a lot of flak for having the time of his life with Jennifer Grey and suggesting “she’s like the wind” in the power ballad of the same name on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. But that’s hardly a misdemeanor compared to Swayze’s collaboration with Larry Gatlin on the 1989 country-styled song “Brothers” featured in Next of Kin . Liam Neeson, one of Swayze’s kin in the film, was into punching things early in his career just as much as he is today, but it’s a shame he didn’t knock some sense into Swayze to avoid such a syrupy theme as “Brothers.” Most nauseating lyric : “No one will ever keep us from standing / Shoulder to shoulder against all others” 5. “Will You Be There” by Michael Jackson, Free Willy It’s a dreadful fact that I was born in 1988, and was thus eventually introduced to the King of Pop late through the bombastic, toothless theme song to Free Willy . Early memories of the “Will You Be There” music video on MTV amount to flashes of Jackson’s outstretched arms with his white shirt billowing grandly behind him in the breeze onstage. Gaudy stuff. Jackson preaches a positive message about cooperation and compassion, and needs a full choir to do so, but the song is undone by a lyrical hollowness that doesn’t come close to matching the emotional oomph of the song’s instrumentals. Most nauseating lyric : “Hold me / Like the river Jordan” 4. “The Neverending Story” by Limahl and Beth Anderson with Kajagoogoo, The Neverending Story This classic movie theme, positively dripping with 1980s guitar, electro-pop and androgynous vocals from Kajagoogoo lead Limahl, is equal parts whimsy and monotony. More reminiscent of an obnoxious children’s television theme song than a sweeping soundtrack single, “The Neverending Story” is a form of parental torture. Most nauseating lyric : “And there upon the rainbow is the answer / To a neverending story” 3. “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” by LeAnn Rimes, Coyote Ugly You know when you’re drunk and you hear a song — or maybe you’re just young and impressionable — and you hear a song, and you think, “Yeah, that’s catchy, I like that”? And then years later when you’re sober and/or older and you have better taste in music, you hear that same song again, and suddenly you’re embarrassed you ever liked it? Well, that’s what I call “coyote ugly”: In 2000, LeAnn Rimes needed a poppier single to cross over from gospel and country into the mainstream, so she recorded this movie single penned by the reliably mainstream Diane Warren (writer of the odious Armageddon theme “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” and multiple other pop hits). Most surprisingly, “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” has never been repackaged for a werewolf movie. Most nauseating lyric : “Deep in the dark / You’ll surrender your heart.” (This is code for sex, kids.) 2. “Die Another Day” by Madonna, Die Another Day There is writing a good song, and writing a good James Bond song, and Madonna failed at both tasks with this unmemorable electronic club remix masquerading as a Bond theme. Maybe Madonna thought she was making an innovative creative statement by bucking the system and writing a flat tune without any tangible thematic relation to the film it’s based on, but we all know Madonna hasn’t been associated with innovation in quite a while. Madonna’s disjointed auto-tuned vocals with bondage-y undertones and lack of storytelling in the chorus and verse writing make for a lifeless theme too restricted to a musical style of the time. Most nauseating lyric : The words “another day” repeated 27 times in absence of an actual melody hook. 1. “Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” by Britney Spears, Crossroads Since Spears’s long-forgotten and misguided 2002 starring vehicle Crossroads , the singer has recovered from a notorious nervous breakdown, hospitalization and baldness to reign as queen of the dance remixes. But long before she started auto-tuning the hell out of her vocal cords, Spears was a confused 21-year-old struggling with the same existential question every female asks: At what point do we stop being a girl and become a woman? For Spears, we’re thinking somewhere closer to 2009. Most nauseating lyric : “All I need is time / A moment that is mine / While I’m in between” Most truthful lyric : “But now I know / Life doesn’t always go my way, yeah…” Michelle Welch is a freelance writer who has also contributed at The A.V. Club and PopMatters . She tweets her pop culture ramblings as @stayfrostymw .
