Two new The World’s End posters have dropped, a U.K.-only quad poster (we won’t tell that you’re looking at it from outside the U.K.), and a standard poster. Simon Pegg co-wrote and stars in the sci-fi comedy, which follows a group of adult friends as they go back home to re-attempt an epic pub crawl. Once there, they realize that something strange is happening to the place they grew up. Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsen also star. Pegg co-wrote the film with Edgar Wright, who also directs. The film represents the final film of the duo’ s Blood and Ice Cream trilogy. The World’s End will premiere August 23.
Not long after last night’s devastating Oklahoma tornado tore through the town of Moore, Nikki Sixx posted an ad for Red Cross relief on his Instagram account. A short while later, Kim Kardashian also took to the Internet, sending a very different message to fans: “Love that I can gradually build the perfect bronzed glow I want with #Kardashian Sun Kissed Tan Extenders,” the reality star wrote/shilled. In response to this case of very bad timing and judgment, the Motley Crue rocker addressed Kim with the following comment/question: “Pick your priority or pick your poison. Pretty embarrassing screenshot Kim. Aren’t your 15 minutes up?” Of course, it’s very possible Kardashian was not aware of the tragic event at the time. It’s also possible that she pays an intern to Tweet for her. It’s even conceivable that we can forgive Kim for such a move because she’s so worried that Kanye West might be gay . But to answer your question, Nikki: We can unfortunately confirm that, no, Kardashian’s 15 minutes may very well last for 15 years.
Ray Rice and his family are safe and sound today. But the same cannot be said of two guns and $2,000 in cash belonging to the All-Pro running back. That is what a thief made off with at some point on Friday or Saturday, according to police, as a friend staying at Rice’s Maryland home reported a robbery. Cops are looking at surveillance video of the criminal entering through a rear window and ransacking the residence and are hopeful an arrest can be made this week. Says Rice in a statement to USA Today: “My family and I are fine, which is the most important thing.” “This is an unfortunate incident that I am dealing with through the proper channels.”
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She’s definitely the “It Girl” of modeling at the moment … but is Sports Illustrated cover girl Kate Upton also America’s most hated model among fellow models? Upton, whose racy Antarctic photo shoot landed her the much-coveted cover of SI ‘s swimsuit issue for the second year in a row, is finding fame a little … icy. According to Us Weekly , the 20-year-old blonde bombshell’s fellow pinups are not the biggest fans of the mag’s Kate Upton photos – or the model herself. “The SI models hate her,” an insider tells the celebrity news magazine of the voluptuous cover girl. “They are jealous, but Kate’s also been a bitch to them.” In fact, relations are so chilly between Upton and the other models that they won’t socialize with one another even when they’re sitting just a few feet apart. At a 1Oak party in Las Vegas on February 14, right after the cover’s release, Upton kept to herself as the rest of the ladies chatted among themselves. “She didn’t interact with anyone,” an onlooker says. “She wasn’t friendly.” Is this fact or gossip? It’s hard to say, but for what it’s worth, SI stunner (and former cover girl) Brooklyn Decker was very congratulatory toward Kate. Haters will be haters, but she likely has more than a few fans as well – and we’re not talking purely about straight guys who drool over her pics. Speaking of which, we’ve got a bunch, so browse away fellas.
NBC has scheduled a very special event for Friday night. The network – along with affiliates Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA – will telecast “Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,” a telethon hosted by Matt Lauer that will raise money for the American Red Cross’s relief efforts across regions hit by the storm. Broadcast live on the East Coast and tape delayed out West, the event will take place at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and feature such acts as Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, plus Sting and Christina Aguilera . In a press release, NBC said “additional networks could join the broadcast of the telethon prior to airtime.”
Just as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are appearing to heat back up, Summit Entertainment has released a new clip from Breaking Dawn Part 2 . And it features some scorching bedroom action of its own! Or at least the tease of it, as Edward and Bella are presented with their very own home in the following sneak peek. But what is the couple to do with the bed inside of it, considering “vampires don’t sleep,” which Bella notes? Use your imagination, kids! Breaking Dawn Part 2 Clip: Bedroom Action! Breaking Dawn Part 2 comes out on November 16.
The age-defying Jenny McCarthy is 40 today. Happy birthday to the bona fide hottie! “I sadly have the same thought that my parents say every birthday which is, I don’t feel that old,” she says of the big 4-0. “So, I have decided to make my mindset 40 is the new 15.” “Okay, fine… the new 22.” The Playboy cover girl’s ideal present on this first day of November? “Bradley Cooper in my shower right now would be a pretty awesome birthday gift,” she writes . We don’t imagine she’ll get a lot of arguments from the ladies on that one. Things Jenny can do without include “saggy boobs, receding gums, back pain, wrinkles, poor eyesight and muscle loss … are you youngsters excited to turn 40?” “Surprisingly, I am,” she adds, noting that the benefits make up for it. “Even though age comes with morbid conditions, I must say, it’s worth it for the wisdom that you gain.” “Sounds a little yoda-ish, but all the years of self- realization and work I’ve done on myself makes me okay with where I’m at in my life. I know who I am.” “I work my ass off to provide for my boy, I have an amazing son and we are both healthy. What better birthday present can I possibly ask for?” Amen to that. As for your present … enjoy these Jenny McCarthy photos !
Detachment , the first feature from American History X director Tony Kaye to see theaters since his stunning 2006 documentary Lake of Fire , is a film about a high school substitute teacher that often comes across like the creation of a precocious student. I don’t mean that to be a damning critique, though Detachment is a mesmerizing misfire — it’s just that it has the uncomplicated earnestness and hyperbolic melodrama of teenage poetry. It’s a film that starts with a quote from Camus (“and never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world”) and has a main character named Henry Barthes, played by Adrien Brody at his most puppy-dog-eyed, who in his off hours befriends and chastely takes in a pixie of an underaged prostitute named Erica (Sami Gayle). Henry’s just started at a new school in which all of the attendees are troubled, indifferent or violent, and the embattled staff struggles to remain engaged and not give in to despair as they wage what feels like a hopeless war on behalf of a student body that simply doesn’t care. Detachment was written by Carl Lund, a former public school teacher, and compresses a lot of thoughts about “kids these days” into a concentrated dose that’s too over-the-top to be realistic but that muddles any signifiers of how heightened it’s meant to be. The individual students who emerge from the crowd represent composites of ideas, not characters — the arty chubby girl, the hyper-aggressive African-American boy, the blame-assigning mother, the chick dressed like a stripper, the budding sociopath. The instructors and administration get more personality: Ms. Madison (Christina Hendricks) is a young teacher who has still managed to hold on to some of her idealism despite a pupil’s spitting in her face in her first scene, while Mr. Charles Seaboldt (James Caan) is entertainingly jaded about everything (he asks a skimpily dressed girl if he can see her nipples, not as a request but as a confirmation of fact). Mr. Wiatt (Tim Blake Nelson) stands in the yard clutching a chain link fence while on break, convinced that he’s just as invisible at school as he is when he goes home to a wife and child who can’t be bothered to look up from their TV and computer screens. Lucy Liu is the counselor who weeps that she’s “a total burnout,” and Principal Carol Dearden (Marcia Gay Harden) is getting ousted at the end of the school year for not playing along with the politics of No Child Left Behind and private contractors. Above all this turmoil stands Henry, our martyr of the substitutes, who visits his senile grandfather, weeps while riding the bus and is haunted by the memory of his unstable, dead mother. Henry believes he’s chosen a noncommittal life free of attachments, but of course he’s anything but indifferent, as seen in his caring for Erica, in the attention he offers to the talented, unhappy Meredith (Betty Kaye, the director’s daughter), in his devotion to his only ailing relative despite what the man may have done when younger, and in the fact that he’s actually a devoted teacher. Henry’s intended numbness is brought to light in a monologue delivered to camera that the film sporadically cuts to, as the tastefully disheveled Brody sighs that “Most of the teachers here, they believed at one point they could make a difference.” The film’s amplified qualities could be looked at as an expression of Henry’s inner state of being, except that plenty of scenes take place without him around, as when Carol returns home to the husband (Bryan Cranston) she can no longer connect with or Meredith is told by her father to lose weight and “paint something cheerful.” Detachment is overwhelming and didactic, intolerably so in some moments, as when a suicide is telegraphed from far away, or a segment in which no one comes to Parents’ Night and two of the long-term teachers meet by chance in an empty classroom, reminiscing about the good old days. But there’s no ignoring the power or rawness of its emotions, which seem to warp the feverish visual style. They’re sincerely meant and clarion clear even when the film gives off a whiff of overdetermined bullshit, like its angel-faced child streetwalker or its glimpse of an oppressively fancy living room with curtains the same pattern as the wallpaper. There’s no subtext to the film: It bluntly lays its agenda in the open, and its characters are mouthpieces for a uniformly bleak vision of the public education system that’s actually summed up with a final image of the school, empty and decrepit, papers blowing everywhere. The final product has a touch of Taxi Driver to it, without the distance of knowing that this protagonist is in the midst of a breakdown — Detachment appears to fully buy into Henry’s self-crucifixion and his vision of an abandoned, uncaring generation of kids speeding down their separately chosen roads to nowhere. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Singer was born in Garden State and grew up singing in Newark church. By Gil Kaufman Whitney Houston in East Orange, NJ in 1987 Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage When Whitney Houston is eulogized and laid to rest on Saturday in New Jersey, it will complete the circle of her personal and professional lives in more ways than one. Houston, who died at age 48 last Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room of as-yet-undetermined causes, grew up in New Jersey and cut her teeth singing at Newark, New Jersey’s New Hope Baptist church. It is there that her family and friends will gather to remember a favorite daughter who burst onto the global music scene in the mid-1980s, never forgetting where she came from. Houston was the third and youngest child born, on August 9, 1963, to gospel great Cissy Houston and her late husband John, an entertainment executive and former Army serviceman. The couple raised their brood in what has been described as a strict but loving household in middle-class East Orange, New Jersey, where the family moved in 1967 following six days of riots in Newark tied to a police incident involving a black cabdriver. To her neighbors and childhood friends, Houston was known affectionately by her nickname “Nippy” and for the angelic, powerful voice she shared with them during Sunday worship services. Her Grammy-winning mother led the musical program at New Hope and the “I Will Always Love You” singer’s cousin Dionne Warwick also sang in the choir of the 112-year-old church. Whitney got her start as a soloist in the church’s junior choir at age 11. Houston was just one of the stars to rise from the city of 275,000, located 10 miles from New York City, which also spawned comedian Jerry Lewis and rock icon Paul Simon. According to local media reports, Houston kept those roots strong even after she ascended to stardom, dropping in every so often to sing at Easter Sunday services at New Hope and spending time with neighbors at barbecue and holiday gatherings. The town returned the favor, renaming a local elementary school near her childhood home Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in 1997. Houston would often drop in and spend time with the pre-kindergarten-through-eighth-grade students, who gathered for a memorial event on Monday where they heard speeches, released white balloons and listened to Houston’s legendary rendition of the National Anthem from Super Bowl XXV. Her funeral will be a private affair that will be streamed live online and offered to TV networks. New Hope Pastor Joe A. Carter will preside over the small, intimate ceremony, which he said will be a “celebration for one who has left us with so much,” and the eulogy will be given by gospel singer Marvin Winans. People magazine reported on Thursday that Houston’s “The Bodyguard” co-star Kevin Costner will speak at the funeral, which will also feature songs from Houston’s godmother, R&B icon Aretha Franklin, and Motown legend Stevie Wonder, in addition to words from her longtime record boss Clive Davis. New Jersey’s outspoken governor Chris Christie, meanwhile, was forced to defend his decision to have flags in the state flown at half-staff on Saturday following complaints. “What I would say to everybody is there but for the grace of God go I,” he said, according to The Associated Press . Christie brushed aside complaints that Houston, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction during her life, is not deserving of such reverence. “Whitney Houston was an important part of the cultural fabric of this state,” Christie said. “She was a cultural icon in this state, and her accomplishments in her life were a source of great pride for the people of this state … I am disturbed by people who believe that because her ultimate demise — and we don’t know what is the cause of her death yet — but because of her history of substance abuse that somehow she’s forfeited the good things that she did in her life,” he said. “I just reject that on a human level.” Share your condolences with Whitney’s family and friends on our Facebook page. Related Videos Whitney Houston: In Her Own Words Related Photos Whitney Houston: A Life In Photos Related Artists Whitney Houston
