Jason Russell’s family has released statement on the Kony 2012 creator following his unbelievable naked meltdown Friday, claiming he was diagnosed with “brief reactive psychosis” after the fact and will remain hospitalized for several weeks. The statement by Russell’s family reads: “We would, again, like to make it clear that the incident was in no way the result of drugs or alcohol in his body. The preliminary diagnosis he received is called brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration .” Jason Russell Naked Meltdown Video “Though new to us, doctors say it is a common experience given the mental, emotional and physical shock his body has gone through in the last two weeks.” “Even for us, it’s hard to understand the sudden transition from relative anonymity to worldwide attention – both raves and ridicules, in a matter of days.” Russell, whose Kony 2012 became a remarkable viral hit this month, was ranting maniacally and slapping the pavement , fully nude, before cops detained him. He was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold. Jason Russell Slapping Pavement Jason’s family insists Russell “will get better”, saying, “He is, and will remain, under hospital care for a number of weeks; and after that, the recovery process could take months before he is fully able to step back into his role with Invisible Children.” “During that time, we will focus not on a speedy recovery, but a thorough one.” We wish him a speedy and thorough recovery.
Singer discusses being bullied as a child and her plan not to speak to the media ‘for a very long time’ on ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter.’ By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga talks with Oprah in “Oprah’s Next Chapter” Photo: Harpo/OWN Lady Gaga confessed she wants to have enough children to form a “soccer team” when she sat down with talk show maven Oprah Winfrey for “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” In the intimate chat, which took place at Gaga’s childhood home in New York City, the never-press-shy Gaga made another big announcement on the show. “Other than this interview, Oprah, I don’t intend to speak to anyone for a very long time. I have to shut out the noise,” Mother Monster told Winfrey, according to Gossip Cop . “The latest thing I do is I don’t read a damn thing. No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‘Did you hear about?’ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on … I shut it all off.” Gaga’s mother was on hand for parts of the interview, sharing that in Gaga’s early days, her father thought she had a “screw loose” while she was performing at downtown New York nightclubs in her bra while lighting hairspray on fire. The superstar added that there’s one thing about her current act that her mother isn’t a big fan of. “She doesn’t like when I swear,” Gaga said, with her mother adding, “You’re effective without it.” Another part of the candid chat also focused on Gaga’s youth, during which she said she was frequently bullied. “There really is no difference between the bully and the victim,” she said. “I would like to do a psychological autopsy on as many bullies and victims as possible … How do we understand what breeds hatred, what breeds anger?” She added that despite all “all the praise you receive, something inside of you is scarred by those experiences … sometimes I feel worthless.” Parts of the special were also filmed at Harvard University last month. The singer and the talk show host were on hand at the prestigious college to launch Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation . “I just have one thing to say before we get started: We got Oprah! … Thank you from all of us — from my entire team, from my mother, from the bottom of the hearts of so many people who believe in what we’re doing today,” Gaga said at the launch. She explained that the foundation seeks to empower the youth of America, adding, “How can we inspire young people to know they have the power to be brave?” Related Videos MTV First: Lady Gaga Related Artists Lady Gaga
The Bachelor host Chris Harrison spoke to reporters via conference call today and shared his thoughts on the re-engaged Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson. Chris paints a fair portrait of the controversial couple, and sympathizes with Courtney (though he concedes he and his family were Team Lindzi from the start). Will the couple make it? Will we see them on TV again? And what was it like whipping out that ring on the After the Final Rose special? So many questions. Excerpts from his lengthy interview on all of that and more below: On whether he’s rooting for rooting Ben and Courtney : “Of course I’m rooting them on. You know, why wouldn’t you?” “I mean, I know that she wasn’t the most popular choice and that if you put it to America’s vote maybe she wouldn’t have been in it, but I think the important thing and the great thing about the show is that was Ben’s choice.” “Why not respect that? Who am I not to respect that? And so of course I wish them the best and the million dollar question, will they make it? Who knows? Who’s to say which couples make it in life? But I wish them the very best.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said yesterday that voters can trust his judgment on the environment … and that climate change is baloney. At the Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi, Mississippi, Santorum basically said that climate change is a liberal myth – in fact, plants are totally doing well! “The dangers of carbon dioxide? Go tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,” he said. It’s true. Plants eat that stuff up like it’s their job! “I didn’t change as the climate changed,” the ex-U.S. Senator added, seemingly likening Mitt Romney to … the rising global temperatures he denies exist? “I stood tall. Now the climate has changed and everyone’s for drilling now. But please understand that when times were tough, they were not and I was.” In case it wasn’t clear, Santorum said he stands alone in the GOP field as the opposite of President Obama on energy, calling global warming a “hoax.” On Saturday, an op-ed penned by Santorum on RedState (dot) com explained: “The Washington Establishment would rather fight global warming than fight for American jobs … President Obama and his administration have decided to wage war against global warming and thus against the American worker.” “Those living on or near the Gulf Coast in particular know the impact these extreme environmental positions can have on the region’s economy.” What do you think: Is climate change real?
Perhaps he should have spent more time in the negotiating room and less time in the amazon… The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Bear Grylls, star of the Discovery Channel’s long-running hit Man vs. Wild , has been fired due to what a network executive describes as a “contractual dispute.” As a result of this disagreement, this insider says: “Discovery has terminated all current productions with him.” Grylls, who is releasing a memoir in May, has anchored Man vs. Wild since March 2006. The series features the star showing viewers how to survive in all kinds of conditions, against all kinds of elements and enemies. And it’s earned Grylls quite the celebrity following. Jake Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller have all tagged along for adventures with Bear. No one from his camp has commented yet on his ousting.
The Bachelor’s Ben Flajnik adamantly denied – swore on his father’s grave, no less – that he kissed other girls during his brief time apart from Courtney Robertson. These photos clearly show him kissing Alison McGlone and Hilaire Fouts, however. Here’s the deal: Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson got engaged on the finale … but he dumped her after seeing what a psycho she was throughout the season. They were apart for a period in February, when the pics (below) were taken. Courtney and Ben reconciled soon after, but he still swore up and down after The Bachelor finale that he didn’t stray from her at any point. Why? Ben kissed Hilaire Fouts (not pictured) after bar-hopping in San Francisco on February 17. Ben was seen kissing an unidentified woman (red pants) after the bars closed. Doesn’t look like the way you kiss a “friend,” does it? Ben was later seen being escorted home by another woman ( Fouts ), who left the next morning in the same clothes. The following night, Flajnik was seen on a romantic late night dog walk with another woman, Alison McGlone (above, center and right) whom he could be seen kissing. Note that there is ass-grabbing going. Not “friend” material. Early the next day, Alison McGlone was seen leaving his house and walking home … in the same clothes. Again, he and Court had split up during this window. But he may have also blatantly lied on TV. Pure celebrity gossip fodder, perhaps. But that doesn’t mean it’s false. It all makes you wonder … will Ben and Courtney last? [Photos: Pacific Coast News]
I don’t give a fuck about Questlove. He was one of the first people to block me on twitter after I made fun of him being a bootleg Jay-Z, trying to get up in Beyonce’s sister, that already had a kid, because fat dudes, even when in successful bands, and when those bands are on TV every night, still run after the table scraps…. I do give a fuck about funny fucking videos and seeing him cross the street with this little chick in tight pants, was like watching an A&W rootbeer commercial in the early 90s. Shit’s hysterical….but probably not as hysterical as the awkwardness that happens when she tries to mount him in the bed, legs unable to really reach around his body, dick that probably splits her in half…pain and struggle worth the child support she will rake in when she tricks him to cum inside her “Of course I’m on the pill….”….. We’ve all heard that before….well I haven’t….cuz no girl in her right mind, or even in a state of crazy would let me knock her up and I’m ok with that as long as they let me try…. Groupies will fuck anything….”sure Questlove is a monster, but he’s way better than Tommy from psych class, that guys not on TV”….and sluts are sluts….always opportunists. Sometimes it is the little things that bring me joy, other times it is the very big things doing very insignificant things….like right now….good times.
‘[Elizabeth] Olsen rivets our attention, and the camera’s, so fiercely it verges on unbearable,’ Kat Murphy of MSN.com writes. By Kara Warner Elizabeth Olsen in “Silent House” Photo: Open Road Films Although based on a 2010 Uruguayan Spanish-language horror film, “Silent House” is supposedly inspired by actual events, which only adds to its creep factor. It’s not a movie for the faint of heart. Elizabeth Olsen stars as a young women who finds herself trapped in a remote cottage where she is haunted and hunted by unknown horrors. While critics seem divided over whether it is mostly good or bad — the film is currently hovering around the 50 percent Fresh mark over at Rotten Tomatoes — almost all of them had high praise for the technical construction of the film, which was uniquely done by filming the entire movie in one long, continuous shot . Read on through the “Silent House” reviews … if you dare. The Plot ” ‘Silent House’ introduces us to our soon to be harried heroine, a 20-something who’s returned with her father to their old family vacation home (in the woods and by a lake, natch) to pack it up, board it up, and say farewell to it before it goes on the market. But it’s going to take a lot of work — squatters have defaced it; rust has wrecked the plumbing; and mildew’s worked its way into the electrical system. The house is much like Sarah … she’s barely hiding lots of peeling paint, weak foundations, and broken windows to the soul. But why? We will find out, but first it is time to get scared! Dad and Sarah are soon joined by Uncle Peter who’s come to help with the tidying, a neighbor Sarah really doesn’t remember from childhood summers pops by, and a creepy little girl lurks just out of sight in convenient shadows. The players are in place, and the suspense begins. It’s just little things at first; a noise here, a falling piece of plastic sheeting there. And then Sarah’s dad is attacked, his eye bloodily gouged from his skull. Sarah tries to run — and she does escape the dwelling of doom, but she’s lured back inside by clever, insidious means. To reveal much more would be spoilery, but I will say that Silent House is the kind of movie you must suspend all disbelief for (OK, maybe some of the embarrassingly foreshadowing dialogue is diss-worthy) in order to enjoy. Just watch the girl, follow her, and get caught up in her terror. It works on a visceral level, similar to the French film of a few years back, ‘Ils.’ ” — Staci Layne, Horror.com The Technical Achievement “Like Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ or the original movie, the conceit of the film is that it’s entirely shot in one take with only a couple obvious times where they could have easily cheated. If you weren’t informed in advance that the movie was done in one take, you may not even realize it as the camera person/DP follows the characters up and downstairs, in and out of the house in an incredibly fluid way, barely missing a beat as we go from mundane packing activities to intense horrors. [Directors] Kentis and Lau have done a terrific job creating an atmosphere of tension, keeping the viewer on the edge never knowing what to expect or in fact, what exactly is going on. This helps to make some of the more obvious jump scares work better than they might normally, something that can also be attributed to Nathan Larson’s subtle but effective score. Even so, the filmmakers sadly go for many often-used clich
Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson carry HBO’s Sarah Palin-centered tale of the 2008 election, premiering at 9 p.m. Saturday. By Eric Ditzian Julianne Moore and Ed Harris in “Game Change” Photo: HBO Films Before I checked out “Game Change,” HBO’s Sarah Palin-focused retelling of the 2008 presidential election, I handed my screener over to a politically obsessed MTV News colleague. The next morning, he popped into my office and declared, “It was well-acted!” — which seemed like an odd way to lead off the conversation. I expected him to burst through my door, laughing about what a kook Palin is, or wondering why producers didn’t get Tina Fey to play the one-time vice presidential nominee, or waxing poetic about the “hopey, changey” circus that was Barack Obama’s romp through the general election. But, no: well-acted. When I stretched out on the couch for my own viewing a few days later, I finally grasped what my coworker was getting at: The performances in “Game Change” are what separate the film from fluffy caricature or partisan hackery into a compelling, if debatably accurate, piece of current event-tinged pop culture. Julianne Moore manages to present a Palin that transcends mimicry and leaves a viewer (or, at least, this viewer) vacillating between sympathy and exasperation. As chief John McCain campaign advisor Steve Schmidt, Woody Harrelson simply kicks ass, doling out sage advice and f-bomb-heavy attacks with equal aplomb — exactly how I imagine political insiders do it in real life (or, perhaps, just on “The West Wing”). Of the major players, only Ed Harris’ portrayal of McCain himself comes off as a little too much of an “SNL” imitation, his robotic physicality less reminiscent of the Arizona senator than of C-3PO. Nonetheless, all this combines to make “Game Change,” in the best tradition of historical dramas, a tense affair as you sit waiting to find out how it all will end, even as you know exactly what in fact transpired. That’s not to say this film is high art, or even particularly great: It’s not, and it isn’t. Problems abound — from hokey, no-one-honestly-utters-such-patriotic-nonsense dialogue to the enduring question about veracity — but in the end, “Game Change” is gripping throughout, because it’s “well-acted.” Many reviewers agree with that sentiment — though not all. Here’s what critics are saying about the HBO film, which premieres at 9 p.m. Saturday: The Performances “McCain comes off close to saintly, with Harris lending him a grave bafflement over Obama’s success. … Harrelson portrays Schmidt as a man who truly believes that all McCain needs to push him to victory is a little sizzle. … The film, obviously, belongs to Moore, who works hard to make Palin not so much fatally ambitious as one of those naturally confident people who believe that confidence and faith are the most important ingredients of success; ability or even competence can be learned on the job.” — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times The Spin From the Right “Moore portrays Palin as a Manchurian Candidate for the extreme right who is activated by a phone call from the McCain campaign. Like a hypnotized spy, she’s humorless, incapable of any kind of emotional connection with anyone, bewildered by circumstance and absolutely determined to meet the goal she’s been programmed to complete. … [W]hat HBO and company have done is to bring to life that which justifies the darkest part of their own incapacity to see the humanity in those who might threaten the reelection of Barack Obama.” — John Nolte, Big Hollywood The Spin From the Left “Sarah Palin has everything to lose and precisely nothing to gain from depictions that point her, as ‘Game Change’ does at various point, as an overzealous evangelical Christian. … And those of us who dislike Palin have everything to gain by recognizing that we really, truly won: Palin’s gone from the national stage. … We should accept that, be done with the victory dance, and get down to examining the next generation of plausible Republican rising stars. The greatest damage we could do to Sarah Palin — and one of the better things we could do for ourselves — is to move on from her, totally and irrevocably.” — Alyssa Rosenberg, Think Progress The Final Word “[T]he movie is better than you’ve heard but not good enough to linger in the mind. I wish it had been more of a black comedy and less of a political-psychological case study. Confronted with this level of genial stupidity and accidental madness, only satire can do history justice. Sarah Palin herself is a triumph of style and a failure of substance; ‘Game Change,’ the reverse.” — Matt Zoller Seitz, New York ‘s Vulture.com For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
‘We’re happy with what we wrote,’ Winter tells MTV News, confirming that he and Keanu Reeves reprised their characters while developing the script. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Alex Winter Photo: MTV News God gave rock and roll to you, and if you’re lucky, he’ll give you a brand new “Bill and Ted” adventure as well! That’s the plan, at least, according to one half of the dimwitted duo: Alex Winter, who starred as Bill Preston Esq. in both “Excellent Adventure” and “Bogus Journey,” isn’t just hoping for a “Bill and Ted” reunion, he’s getting close to making it actually happen. “I think the reality is that there probably will be another one,” Winter told MTV News during a recent interview. Indeed, Winter and co-star Keanu Reeves both recently confirmed that a third “Bill and Ted” script is finished (and totally excellent). Of course, given how long it’s taken to get the third movie off the ground — “Bogus Journey,” their last appearance, hit theaters in 1991 — arriving at a universally agreed-upon idea wasn’t an exact science. “We just kicked ideas around [over the years] and eventually, we kicked one idea around that clicked,” Winter said. “It felt timely. Funnily enough, it felt better because so much time had gone by. What would it be like to revisit those guys now? From a comedy standpoint, it felt kind of cool to revisit two galvanized comic characters a chunk of time later, [exploring] what you can do with that from a comedy perspective.” Though much time has passed between the last “Bill and Ted” and now, Winter admitted that it’s “very possible” that Bill and Ted themselves, despite their age, haven’t grown up with the times — though he would neither confirm nor deny their current maturity level. What he would say, however, is that the next “Bill and Ted” adventure would focus heavily on the rock and roll spirit that’s always been present in the franchise. “What’s happened to rock and roll in the last 20 years? The movie’s going to get in and play with some of that stuff,” he said. “Where is rock? Where are we? What’s happened to the whole idea of saving the world — or what hasn’t happened? There’s a lot to play with there.” There’s so much to play with, in fact, that Winter and Reeves both slipped into character on more than one occasion while developing the new “Bill and Ted” script. “Yes, we did. It’s really sad how easy it was [to get back into character],” he laughed. “You go away and do all this other stuff and go, ‘I’m not Bill, that’s absurd!’ … And then me and Reeves got together, and suddenly we’re the characters again. We didn’t even mean to. We just started riffing on it. When we were doing notes and me and Reeves started riffing on the dialogue, it’s just, oh my god. Yeah, it’s in there. God knows.” “Bill and Ted 3,” which has a title that Winter won’t reveal just yet (“But it’ll say it all,” he promised), still has obstacles in the way. No, there are no Evil Us’s to consider, but the script does not yet have a green-light. According to Winter, though, he’s more than happy with the project as it stands, even if it never makes it to the big screen. “It’s something we think is a very fun thing. We had a lot of fun developing it, and the guys are amazing writers,” Winter said of working with longtime “Bill and Ted” writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. “We had a lot of fun with the script. We’re happy with where it’s at now. If it goes forward, great. If it doesn’t, we’re happy with what they wrote and what we came up with.” Tell us what you think of the most excellent “Bill and Ted” news in the comments section!
