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Stars Tweet Shock, Sadness Over Empire State Building Tragedy

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Two people were killed and at least eight others injured in a shooting spree outside the Empire State Building this morning. A 53-year old named Jeffrey Johnson , who was shot to death by police on the scene, is suspected of starting the incident in due to a dispute with a former coworker. In response to the tragedy, a myriad of celebrities have expressed shock and remorse over Twitter. We’ve included a few of their thoughts below, some of which touch on the topic of gun control… NICKI MINAJ: “Sorry to hear about this New York shooting. Sending love to the families & friends of the victims.” KIM KARDASHIAN : “Sending my prayers to everyone involved with the Empire State Building shooting! This violence has got to stop!!!” KHLOE KARDASHIAN: “Prayers and love being sent to the victims of the Empire State Building shooting. The violence has got to stop. #MakeAChange” JIM CARREY “No semi auto guns!Every 2 wks now, another mass shooting.AMERICA allowing this behavior is beneath us!Revise the second ammendment.” LA LA: “This violence has to stop!Enough is enough!Sending prayers2 the victims,their families,& those wounded in the Empire State building shooting” MARLON WAYANS: “Shooting at the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING??? Wtf? We seriously need some gun control. Not everyone can or should bare arms.” ROGER EBERT “Empire State shooting gets big coverage; 19 shot in Chicago last night.” WILLIE GARSON: “We were not at Empire State today, thanks for concern, our hearts broken for the families of more senseless madness…BE KIND TO EACH OTHER” JENNIFER WILLIAMS: “Sending my prayers to all involved in the Empire State shooting. Such a senseless tragedy.. ”

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Jeffrey Ross Dreses Like Joe Paterno, Cracks Colorado Shooting Jokes at Comedy Central Roast

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Jeffrey Ross arrived for the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr yesterday dressed as Joe Paterno and accompanied by two young boys in only Penn State helmets and a towel. To many, though, this get-up was actually NOT the most offensive act by the comedian during the event. Still wearing his costume, Ross took to the podium and addressed a red-haired Seth Greene with a clear reference to alleged Colorado shooter James Holmes : “Congratulations,” Ross said to Green. “This is actually a really big night for you. You haven’t gotten this much attention since you shot all those people in Aurora.” To a mixture of boos and scattered applause, Ross then added: “I’m kidding! You’re not like James Holmes. At least he’s doing something in a movie theater that people remember.” Zing … ouch … and totally inappropriate ? Ross’ attempt at humor came a week after Dane Cook also made a stand-up joke about the incident, although at least Ross focused his quips on Holmes. Cook actually made fun of the victims. Still, even Roseanne herself said afterward that Ross “crossed the line,” adding: “But comedy is about moving the line… And where is the line in a country that has freedom of speech? Maybe there isn’t one.” Do you agree? What do you think of Ross’ jokes?

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Kasey Kahl: Arrested For Paint Thinner-Fueled Assault!

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Former Bachelorette hopeful Kasey Kahl is back behind bars after police charged him with assault stemming from the guy (and girl) he beat up this year. While under the influence of PAINT THINNER, allegedly. More than half a year after the January 15 incident, TMZ says prosecutors finally decided there was evidence to charge Kasey Kahl with felony assault. Charges were filed and Kahl was arrested early Friday: Officials say Kahl was drunk and on drugs when he attacked a man, Richard Cheney, at a Fresno, Calif., club, after which Cheney says Kahl bashed his girlfriend’s face . Kahl, who also starred on 2011’s Bachelor Pad 2, has been charged with felony assault, battery with serious bodily injury, and drunken disorderliness . Police believe Kahl was under the influence of both alcohol and a drug called toluene – an inhalant associated with paint thinners – during the attack. Reps for the ex of Vienna Girardi have maintained he’s innocent and say the victims are “antagonizing” him in a bid to get “15 minutes of fame.”

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Kasey Kahl: Arrested For Paint Thinner-Fueled Assault!

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Former Bachelorette hopeful Kasey Kahl is back behind bars after police charged him with assault stemming from the guy (and girl) he beat up this year. While under the influence of PAINT THINNER, allegedly. More than half a year after the January 15 incident, TMZ says prosecutors finally decided there was evidence to charge Kasey Kahl with felony assault. Charges were filed and Kahl was arrested early Friday: Officials say Kahl was drunk and on drugs when he attacked a man, Richard Cheney, at a Fresno, Calif., club, after which Cheney says Kahl bashed his girlfriend’s face . Kahl, who also starred on 2011’s Bachelor Pad 2, has been charged with felony assault, battery with serious bodily injury, and drunken disorderliness . Police believe Kahl was under the influence of both alcohol and a drug called toluene – an inhalant associated with paint thinners – during the attack. Reps for the ex of Vienna Girardi have maintained he’s innocent and say the victims are “antagonizing” him in a bid to get “15 minutes of fame.”

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Shooting Victims Wear Batman T-shirts to Hearing; Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Moves Forward: Biz Break

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Also in Monday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, The Producers Guild launches an online jobs board. The Weinstein Company’s The Intouchables will be feted by Christopher Reeve foundation; Henry Rollins takes a role in an upcoming thriller; and remembering French filmmaker Chris Marker. Producers Guild Launches Job Board Guild members and employers can access the new Producers Guild Job Board online via this website . Overseen by the Producers Guild of America Website Committee, construction on the new site began in February 2012. Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to Honor The Intouchables Harvey Weinstein will accept the Dana Reeve HOPE Award on behalf of The Weinstein Company and directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache at New York gala November 28th. The foundation provides care to people living with paralysis and advancing research. Henry Rollins Joins Dark Prophet Rollins will play the role of General Adam Luther, the mastermind behind the Black Box in the thriller. Dark Prophet is an original web and TV series which follows Dai Shepherd, an extraordinarily gifted, yet rebellious music student with time-traveling abilities who discovers that government intelligence agency, Black Box, has a catastrophic secret embedded in song patterns–Dai is the key to saving the world as we know it. Around the ‘net… Colorado Shooting Victims Wear Batman T-Shirts to Court Hearing Victims, friends and family were led into the courtroom before the hearing. Cameras weren’t allowed inside. “He attacked us out of cowardice, but we will attack back in strength,” one person who was in the theater during the tragedy said. THR reports . Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio to be Animated ShadowMachine will produce the stop-motion animated movie that is being co directed by Del Toro and Gris Grimly based on the classic by Carlo Collodi. They join the Jim Henson Company and running the project from ShadowMachine’s L.A. studios, Deadline reports . R.I.P. Chris Marker French filmmaker Chris Marker has died. His body of work included the classic La Jetee , a post-apocalyptic movie often ranked as one of the best time-travel films ever made. It served as an inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s 1995 feature Twelve Monkeys , Washington Post reports .

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Hundreds Gather In Vigils To Remember ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Shooting Victims

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Aurora, Colorado, residents mourned the 12 killed in Friday’s attack. By Amy Wilkinson Friends, family and Aurora residents gather at a vigil to mourn the victims of the “Dark Knight Rises” shooting Photo: Kevork Djansezian/ Getty Images

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Christopher Nolan Responds to Dark Knight Rises Tragedy, Expresses "Profound Sorrow"

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

For the time time since the deadly Colorado shooting that took 12 lives, someone associated with The Dark Knight Rises has spoken out. And that someone is director Christopher Nolan. “Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises , I would like to express our profound sorrow at the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community,” Nolan said, adding: “I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting, but that they were there last night to watch a movie. “I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. Nothing any of us can say could ever adequately express our feelings for the innocent victims of this appalling crime, but our thoughts are with them and their families.” James Holmes is in custody for the crime, which tragically took place just miles from the 1999 school shooting incident in Columbine, Colorado.

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Stars React to Colorado Shooting, Push for Gun Control Laws

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Amidst the sadness and shock over the fatal Aurora, Colorado shooting at a Dark Knight Rises screening early Friday morning, many celebrities have taken to Twitter to express their sympathy for the victims and their families. Many have also used this as an opportunity to push for stricter gun laws, an area in which President Barack Obama has been considered a total failure by The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Here is a sampling of star Tweets on the matter. Read through them and share your take with us now: Cory Monteith : guns don’t kill people, people do etc.. but until we can fix society somehow you probably shouldn’t be able to buy AR-15’s at a fishing shop … such a senseless tragedy. when are we going to reconsider the role of guns in society? how many more times does this have to happen? Susan Sarandon : The right to bear arms was referring to muskets. Maybe it’s time to re-think our gun policy on this day of slaughter in Colorado. Piers Morgan : Lunatics like this will always try and get guns. It should be 100,000 times harder than it is for them to do so. That’s my point. Miley Cyrus (in a retweet): Less guns = less psychopaths who can get guns = less innocent lives lost….seems pretty obvious to me. Chris Daughtry : Stricter gun laws will not stop SICK people from getting access to guns…Laws & rules are not in the forefront of the mind of a criminal. John Leguizamo : My heart goes 2 all the victims families in colorado. No one should have to go thru that. When r we gonna get guns removed in this country?! Bryan Greenberg : People against gun control are you kidding me?! Don’t even try to justify having a AR-15 for personal use. Not necessary!! Josh Hopkins : Dear news media, In reporting about tragedy in Colorado please do less about ‘does Batman promote violence’ & more about gun control. Thanks.

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Adorable Kitten Takes on Giant Doberman [Video]

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

At times like this, when the nation is witness to a senseless tragedy and stories about the victims begin to leak out and disturbing news concerning the shooter becomes public and you can see a debate between the Left and Right forming over gun control … … sometimes you just need to sit back and watch an adorable little kitten insist on playing with a giant Doberman. You just need to smile and appreciate the smaller things in life. That’s the goal here. Enjoy, readers:

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James Holmes to Police: I’m The Joker

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We have a disturbing update on James Holmes , the 24-year old suspected of killing 12 people and injuring dozens more inside an Aurora, Colorado movie theater this morning. The shooting took place at approximately 12:38 a.m. local time. Holmes protected himself with a ballistic helmet, a vest, a throat protector, a gas mask and black tactical gloves Officials believe Holmes acted on his own: “We are not looking for any other suspects,” said Oates. “We are confident he acted alone.” Holmes possessed three weapons when he was arrested behind the theater: an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington shotgun and a 40-caliber Glock handgun. All were purchased legally. Holmes’ hair was painted red and he told police, upon being apprehended, that he was “The Joker.” At last count, 71 people were wounded in this gunman’s attack . President Obama addressed the nation earlier today, honoring the victims and asking America’s to treasure the fragility of life . Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has also made a speech in which he offered his “deepest condolences” to those affected by the tragedy and added: “I stand before you today not as a man running for office but as a father and grandfather, a husband, an American. This is a time for each of us to look into our hearts and remember how much we love one another and how much we love and how much we care for our great country. There’s so much love and goodness in the heart of America.”

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