Social Media Reacts To The Release Of the iPhone 6 Today’s release of the iPhone 6, and 6 Plus, has the internet, the streets, and the tech geeks goin’ nuts! Some Apple sycophants have been sleeping on the streets for a week, others a couple days, but regarless these people either care very little about their lives, or have no life at all. Starting early this morning the iPhone fanaticism had reached a fever-pitch and tweets and videos began to pour in from all around the world of mile-long lines, jubilant customers, and anxious Apple users waiting on pins and needles for the FedEx man to drop off their coveted communication device. Flip the page to read the reactions to the iPhone 6 release. Image via Twitter
Jon Cryer’s former wife claims their 13-year-old son is the object of ridicule at his exclusive private school because the other kids have a more lavish lifestyle. As a result, she’d like the actor to cough up another $88,000. A month. Sarah Trigger has been getting $8,000 a month in support since 2010, while Jon’s the second highest-paid actor on TV thanks to Two and a Half Men. That fact is almost more upsetting than what Sarah claims about life. According to Jon’s ex, teenager Charlie can’t afford ritzy summer camps, exotic vacations, huge birthday parties with the “entire grade” invited … nothing. “Last year there were multiple Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs all with custom invitations, a dress code and huge private receptions afterward,” Trigger says. Sarah says Charlie is feeling the pain of exclusion , and so is she. As for how she arrived at that sum, Sarah says when she got child support back in 2010, she only had custody 4 percent of the time … 1-2 days a month. That’s why she only got $8,000. Now that she has custody 50 percent of the time, she wants a raise to $88,969, which sounds like a silly high total. It’s just over $1 million annually, and Jon makes 10-20 times that, so not a huge deal in terms of pure financials for an actor who has a vast fortune. Sarah’s reasoning, however, is enough to make your head explode.
It will be difficult for anyone to ever top this Carrie coffee shop prank . But a man in Louisville, Kentucky tried his hardest this week when he celebrated Halloween a few days early… by taking a toy helicopter, attaching a skeleton doll to it and flying the deathly creature around parks and running trails. How did folks react when the Grim Reaper came barreling toward them from the sky? Sometimes from as high as 200 feet in the air? About as hilariously as you’d expect. Check out their reactions in this great video: Halloween Prank: Look Out for the Skeleton!
10 Burning Questions From Last Night’s Scandal We’re in week two of Scandal and everyone is still going crazy over it. So many questions, so little time. So let’s get to it: here are 10 burning questions from last night’s episode.
Eva puts her 6-month mommy-banger belly on blizzy blast Eva Marcille Shows Off Her Bare Baby Bump Former Top Model diva Eva Marcille is baby bumpin’ and proud. The future mommy-banger, who confirmed earlier this summer that she’s expecting her first child with man-candy R&B crooner Kevin McCall , recently took to Instagram to show off her 6-months preggo pouch: Six months already?!? That was fast. Judging from Eva’s latest pics though, she’ll be on certified mommy-banger status for sure in no time. Instagram
All eyes were on Apple this week as they released iOS 7 and two different iPhones–one for the cool kids (5S) and the cheaper plastic 5C for 12-year-old tweeny-bops or “poor people.” And, as always, we’ve got the funniest jokes/memes about both gadgets here for you. Here are the funniest Twitter reactions to the new iPhone 5S/5C. Take a look.
Clint Eastwood has starred in and/or directed some of the smartest, most thought-provoking movies I’ve seen in the last 10 years. And that’s making it very hard for me to get my head around his trite, addled performance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. I’m not bitching about Eastwood’s politics. I’m pretty certain that I don’t share his ideology, but I can’t help but respect someone who’s not afraid to be politically unpopular in largely liberal Hollywood. I only wish Eastwood’s courage and convictions translated to a more articulate speech and an appearance that didn’t make him look like a GOP pawn. For one thing, what possessed him to let the RNC appropriate the silhouette of his High Plains Drifter character for Mitt Romney’s coronation? The Stranger, as that character was billed in the movie’s credits, ran silent but deep — a far cry from Romney who runs silent and empty. Then there was Eastwood’s assertion in his speech that there are “a lot of conservative people” and moderates in Hollywood, but that they play their cards “close to the vest.” They must because the filmmaker could only name one famous fellow conservative: Jon Voight . That Eastwood followed Voight’s name with the statement: “These are all people that are like-minded,” made me wonder if he needed to up his Centrum Silver dosage. Eastwood, 82, also shot himself in the foot (with a .44 Magnum) when he derisively told the Tampa convention crowd that he wept during Obama’s inauguration. “I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there’s 23 million unemployed people in this country,” said Eastwood, ploughing past the faulty construction of that sentence and adding: “That is a disgrace, a national disgrace.” Maybe he believes that, but, Eastwood, who made a career out of playing characters, such as Harry Callahan, who ferreted out the ugly truth, didn’t even acknowledge that the unemployment rate may have something to do with the financial meltdown that took place in 2008 under Republican President George W. Bush’s watch. Instead, he blithely trotted out a few more facile statements about how bad things are under the Obama administration before closing with his old Dirty Harry catchphrase, “Make My Day.” Like many of the lines that preceded it, the remark was trite and half-baked — a far cry from such thoughtful, moving films as Hereafter , Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby that have made Eastwood such an original and powerful filmmaker. Clint, you didn’t make my day. You ruined my night. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Clint Eastwood made Twitter’s Day — or at least its night. The veteran actor and filmmaker’s bizarre, aimless speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Thursday night — to a chair that purportedly contained an invisible President Obama — brought out plenty of celebrity tweeters on the social media site. As of Friday morning “Eastwood” was still trending intermittently on the Twitter, and a number of actors and filmmakers’ comments were among the reactions to the Unforgiven actor’s speech. Among them was Magic Mike actress Olivia Munn who tweeted: “Clint Eastwood was talking to an empty chair at the RNC…No, that’s not the set-up to a joke. Its not even a joke.” This Is 40 filmmaker Judd Apatow had fun with the subject on a more oblique level. “Clint used to be Every Which ‘But’Loose . Tonight he got loose,” Apatow tweeted. The truncated film title was a reference to Eastwood’s 1978 buddy picture with an orangutan, Every Which Way But Loose, which seemed to mystify Apatow: “How does that title refer to a relationship with orangutans?” He wrote. “Really. How?” Shaun of the Dead filmmaker Simon Pegg weighed in from the UK, tweeting: “Woken up to excited chatter in the US. Apparently Clint Eastwood had an argument with an empty chair regarding its political standpoint.” Star Trek actor George Takei also weighed in tweeting: Clint Eastwood’s RNC speech was to imaginary Obama in an empty chair. I’m drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory.” Nice. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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