Debbie Ford, a best-selling author known for the book “The Dark Side of Light Chasers,” has passed away after a long battle with cancer. She was 57. A family spokesman confirms that Ford died at home in San Diego. Her 1998 self-help book spawned an empire for the author, as she aimed to help readers overcome their personal demons. Ford went on to pen eight more books, lead workshops and host TV/radio shows devoted to this topic. She also shared her own struggles with drug addiction and a divorce. Wrote Ford’s sister in a statement: “From the time she was a little girl, Debbie was one of those people who had a strong mind of her own, and did things on her own terms and that is how she lived. And she was always so funny! Even up to the end, she had us laughing. “She leaves us with such an impressive body of work. We know that her contributions will live on through the millions of people she has touched with her books and teachings, and the thousands she has trained in her work.” She is survived by her mother, son and brother and we send our thought to all of Ford’s loved ones.
This is s fucking fit body…and as much as I generally think of fit girls as dudes….cuz I like my women to have no real muscle mass or fat….you know…starvation body….I fully appreciate the work that she’s put into this machine…seriously, she’s fucking ripped and for some reason that I call taking care of herself…I find it fucking sexy….but that’s probably cuz I married a fat pile of shit.
Beyonce is everywhere these days. The Presidential Inauguration . The Super Bowl halftime show . And now the latest issue of Vogue . Talking to the magazine about daughter Blue Ivy , the superstar gushes in an adorable, unique manner over her one-year old daughter: “She’s my road dog,” Beyonce says. “She’s my homey, my best friend.” Jay-Z’s beautiful half goes on to even discuss her child birth experience in a lovely way, telling Vogue ‘s Jason Gay: “I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn’t think about my own pain…We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.” That’s… sweet? We guess? Beyonce concludes by saying the day Blue was born was “the best day of [her] life,” adding: “I feel like I have something that has grounded me so much more. Family has always been important. I’ve always had my mother and my father and my husband. But it’s just…Life is so much more than…It’s not defined by any of this [fame or money].”
Three prison inmates were assigned to clean up a park near the Yacolt, Wash., minimum security correctional facility where they’re incarcerated last week. They ended up saving three young lives. During their work-release community service, Nelson Pettis, 37, Larry Bohn, 29, and Jon Fowler, 29, heard children’s screams coming from a nearby creek. Rushing to the water’s edge, the prisoners saw three young boys struggling to keep their heads above water. The children’s small canoe had capsized. The boys struggled to stay above water in the cold, 25-mph current rushing towards the Washington River, and the inmates knew they were in trouble. “It was raging pretty fast,” Pettis told KPTV news. “They were really scared.” He and Bohn didn’t think twice, leaping into the water to grab the boys, later identified as brothers ages 8, 10 and 16, and carrying them to a small island. There, they awaited emergency rescue. “They kept telling us, ‘Thank you, thank you,'” Bohn told reporters, adding that the three kids were “really scared” but very grateful and will be alright. “I think we did something that any good person would do. You see three helpless kids in a river, you help. That’s what you do,” said Fowler. “Just cause we’re incarcerated, doesn’t mean we’re bad people. We made some bad choices in our lives, but we’re still, we’re just like everybody else.” “We’re just paying our debt for what we did wrong.”
Chace Crawford would relish the role of Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey, and given his track record on Gossip Girl, he may have the chops to pull it off. Guy knows a thing or two between the sheets is what we’re saying. The former Gossip Girl star tells Fox 411 that he’d love the role : “I would love the challenge … I know that it is risque, and to be honest, anything to shake up from the way I have been going would be good,” he said. “Hey, if they ask me to come and read, I would definitely do so.” Risque is putting it mildly, but that’s alright by Crawford. “I am only comfortable with S&M sex scenes!” he joked. “The other ones are just too simple and boring for me … I actually think, whether it is a sex scene, or screaming at something to get something across, I think it is kind of attacked the same way, and you’re in the work mode, and you stay professional. It has never been awkward or intimidating to me.” Clearly. Who would you like to see in the sexy roles of Christian and Ana in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie? Would Chace be a good fit? Tell us below!
Sounds like he was holding the hotline! Freaky phone time is over for Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy, who resigned amid a humiliating scandal over his inappropriate phone calls. Via NYDailyNews reports : Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned abruptly Saturday in a scandal involving thousands of calls to four women on his state-issued cellphone, including one woman who said she had a romantic relationship with the politician. Gov. Dave Heineman announced Sheehy’s resignation in a hastily called news conference Saturday morning. Sheehy, a Republican, had been considered the front-runner in the 2014 gubernatorial race and had been endorsed by Heineman. “As public officials, we are rightly held to a higher standard,” Heineman said. “I had trusted him, and that trust was broken.” Sheehy resigned after questions were raised about the cellphone calls with four women, none of whom were his wife, who filed for divorce last year. The calls, made over the last four years, were first reported by the Omaha World-Herald, which had made a public records request for Sheehy’s phone records. Records released Saturday by the governor’s office show Sheehy made thousands of late-night phone calls to the women. He spoke with some of the women numerous times a day in conversations that lasted anywhere from a few minutes to more than an hour, according to the records. One woman he frequently called, Dr. Theresa Hatcher of Bellevue, told The Associated Press that she and Sheehy had maintained a long-term relationship after they met at a convention of emergency responders in Texas in 2008. As lieutenant governor, Sheehy leads the state’s emergency management efforts, and Hatcher is an emergency room doctor. “I thought I was the only one,” she said. “Apparently, I was grossly mistaken.” Hatcher said she last talked to Sheehy about two weeks ago. She added: “Politicians can lie. Doctors don’t lie.” This guy sounds pretty stupid. Even drug dealers know you gotta keep the work phone separate from the play phone. SMH AP Images
Unknown hackers besieged Twitter this week and may have gained passwords and personal information of up to 250,000 users during the cyber-attack. Twitter confirmed it was hacked in a blog post, saying that the passwords were encrypted and that it already reset them as a “precautionary measure.” The social network is “in the process” of notifying affected users. Twitter noted recent revelations of cyber attacks against the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal , but did not elaborate on the origin or methodology of the attacks. “This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” Twitter said on its website, following the hacking. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe that other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.” Twitter, which has 200 million active monthly users, said it was working with government and federal law enforcement officials to track down the attackers. The company did not specifically link the attacks to China in the blog post, in contrast to the Times and Journal , which both said the hackers originated in China. Twitter, known for its 140-character messages, could not speculate on the origin of the attacks as its investigation was ongoing, said spokesman Jim Prosser. “There is no evidence now that would indicate passwords were compromised,” said Prosser. Whoever was responsible and why, it’s a trend that isn’t going away anytime soon. Last month, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned against the imminent risk of a 9/11-level cyber attack.
Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z, in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation veteran Jon Schnepp ( Metalocalypse , The Venture Bros. ) dives headfirst into chaos with “W Is For WTF,” a stoner’s fever dream that mashes zombie clowns, a mysterious chem trail, animated depravity, and Schnepp himself into the most random and, yes, WTF-inducing segment of the bunch. Movieline spoke with Schnepp about his “W Is For WTF” (behold the exclusive image above!), how he lobbied producer Ant Timpson for the slot, why he poured his own money into his ABCs of Death short, and what he learned from his time editing Adult Swim’s Space Ghost Coast To Coast at the start of his career. He also updated us with the latest on Grimm Fairy Tales , his ambitious Heavy Metal -esque animated project. (Interviews with all 26 ABCs of Death filmmakers will be available to read on The ABCs of Death Tumblr page.) Your name stands out among the two dozen mostly genre filmmakers because you come from a slightly different world. How were you approached to take part in the ABCs of Death ? I actually contacted Ant [Timpson]. I had heard of The ABCs of Death as I was working on Metalocalypse , and I’ve done a bunch of live-action television shows but they’ve mainly been comedy. After I did those I got into the world of animation, and looking for things outside of animation to do, and that one sounded really cool. I just sent a cold email saying, ‘Hey, this is Jon – I direct Metalocalypse …’ He wrote me back pretty quickly saying ‘I love your work, but we’re totally staffed up. We have all the directors. But I’ll keep you in mind for the future.’ Cut to five months later I get an email from him saying, ‘Hey – one of our directors dropped out and you’re at the top of the list. Do you want to do it?’ And I was like, ‘Fuck yeah!’ It’s nice to hear that in this town sometimes it doesn’t hurt to reach out to a stranger. I strongly advise it! I think if you do it in a cool way and you’re not weird… it comes with a caveat: It doesn’t hurt to ask people, but make sure that you can back that shit up, and also that you’re not crazy. Just how hard is it to come up with a concept like “W is for WTF” when you’re tasked with creating something with such specific yet wide open guidelines? I came up with a bunch of ideas that weren’t fully formed, like “W Is For Wake,” or “W Is For War” and as I started to write them I [realized] I wasn’t sold on them myself. I sent a ton of these ideas, the dumbest one I could possibly think of was “W Is For Werewolf.” Then somehow that devolves as people devour this chem trail and everything they’re thinking comes to life. Is that your actual production staff acting in the short? No – actually it’s the company I work at. They were cool enough to let me shoot there. And that’s my office and my friend Tommy [Blacha] who I work on Metalocalypse with. Because the budget is so minute. I ended up spending like $9,000, which sucks [each director was given a $5,000 budget], but at the same time was totally worth it because you want it to be awesome. I guess that’s what happens when you factor in all the decapitations, and eaten faces and eyeball-chewing. I come from this school of, I pay everyone I work with. I’ve never liked the idea of free anything. In choosing “WTF” as your letter W theme, you really allow yourself to go just about everywhere at once, no limitations. You’ve got zombie clowns, a laser walrus, something I might describe as a muppet… A star-muppet! Was that really just your way of not having to choose just one concept? I’m used to working in television where you whittled stuff down. It’s good practice to get to the core of a story – even if your story is about fantasy and mind meltdowns. The chaos in your short is ADD-optimized, but it really is about something – art and the creative process. This is what I imagine you going through every week working on your shows. Yeah – definitely the subtext is there. I’m glad you got that. Every single person has weird ideas in their mind. The general idea of it is that there are a lot of ideas for anything. How do you eventually execute them? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. We all die eventually. You didn’t know many of the other filmmakers beforehand, and you’re working on your own with your own budget and crew on your part of the ABCs . What was it like to see “W Is For WTF” with the 25 other shorts when the entire film was put together and polished? I’ll be honest with you, there are about seven of them that I don’t like, that I just don’t think are good. Then there are a couple I think are in the medium area, but an overwhelming bunch of them I think are incredible. The one that follows mine, “X Is For XXL” [by Xavier Gens] is horrifying and such a gut punch in so many ways. It’s just so disgusting and well done. That is pure horror. And you know what? I’m sure there are people who saw mine and hated it. “Who is this goofball and why is there animation? Why is there a dude with his dog on his face?” You just get used to that, though. At least I’ve got the body armor for that now from doing shows like Metalocalypse . There are people who are going to totally hate on you, which sucks. I used to look at the boards and you can’t defend yourself against AppleCat433, you know? Sizzler315 hates you! It’s like, what are you going to do? Still, you worked on so many beloved shows over the years. The Venture Bros. , Metalocalypse … what did you learn most from working on Space Ghost early in your career? I learned comic timing. All the editors of Space Ghost are also the directors. The guys who wrote it give you the audio takes and you would cut it together; it was like a live television show so you would already have all the angles, but then you would animate their mouths yourselves, in Avid. It was a real primitive setup. It was literally like four people working on Space Ghost – the two writers, an executive producer, and the editor, and that was it. For four to eight weeks you would edit and make the show, then you would send the edit decision list to the online guys who would take your actual edit and reassemble it. And then they would put their name on it too, which kind of sucked. But whatever. Hollywood has a lot worse injustices in credits and whatnot. But Space Ghost was a great experience for me because I got to do the weirdest, most fucked up editing and people loved it. I did a loop edit of Harland Williams triggered on some weird word he was saying, and then I put outtakes of George Lowe saying to one of the engineers, like, ‘What’s going on over there?’ And made Space Ghost leave his set, fly over to Moltar and go, ‘Moltar, is there a problem?’ I think it was 1995, I flew out to Atlanta for eight weeks. There was no Adult Swim, none of that – it was a giant aircraft hanger and they were building TBS and TNT and all that. I remember they put me with a bunch of lawyers. Before Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show, I worked on the pilot and designed the backgrounds, back in 2000. I built Carl’s swimming pool, all that shit – it was fun to work on. We were like, ‘Yeah, we’re doing this weird thing called Aqua Teen Hunger Force .’ I was actually there when they made up ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ in 1999, when they came up with the show. Originally it was a Space Ghost episode, and I was editing the last episode of Space Ghost of that year, it was called ‘ King Dead .’ That’s the one I wrote a bunch of stuff in. I made up House of the Barking Dead which is on the TV Space Ghost is watching. That was one of my contributions. They were like, ‘That’s good. You can animate that!’ You’re also moving on your animated Grimm Fairy Tales . Where’s that project at now? I just finished the color correction and the sound mix and right now we’re editing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Our cast is incredible and it was so much fun to do. If you’ve ever seen Heavy Metal , it’s in that vein. I wanted to hire a bunch of kickass artists to do different Grimm fairy tales. I’m trying to turn it into a TV show, that’s why we did the Kickstarter. There’s tons of gore, there’s metal music, there’s nudity… I don’t even know if it will sell. We live in a different world. Everyone I’ve shown this to is like, ‘I can’t wait to see this in a series!’ But I have to get through all these other people sitting in offices who say, ‘It seems to me things that are PG-13 make money.” THE ABCs OF DEATH is now available on Cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon, Xbox Zune, Playstation Market, VUDU and Google Play; in theaters starting March 8 from Magnet Releasing. MORE ON JON SCHNEPP: What The Kal-El? The Seriously Weird Superman That Nicolas Cage Almost Played Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Yellow Raincoat – Justin Bieber So I had to make another cover from Justin’s new Believe Acoustic album because I loved this and I Would so much, this especially as I think the chords are very John Mayer/Jason Mraz and for me you can’t get better than those guys! haha. So I hope you enjoy my cover of Justin Bieber – Yellow Raincoat and please leave a comment and subscribe and repost this on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr pages and anywhere and everywhere else you can. THANK YOU SO MUCH. twitter.com facebook.com robbiejay.tumblr.com http Lyrics: Cause I put on my raincoat my yellow raincoat Baby its keeping me dry I put on my raincoat, my yellow rain coat You’ll know exactly why When the wind blows and the sun goes away On a sinful,stormy day, that’s what its for yeah, thats what its for yeah And as it pours down, the water sprinkles off my jacket slow, yeah, jacket slow, yeah Whenever do I ever do I ever want this to faze me Whenever do I ever do I want this thing to make me Cause the fame and the money and the girls drive you crazy And all the he said she said I’m thinking maybe (just put on my)… Cause I put on my raincoat my yellow raincoat Baby its keeping me dry I put on my raincoat, my yellow rain coat You’ll know exactly why As I look around I see, well nothing can never …. change me All I gotta do…is stay me Let the rest do the work and I’m sure that I’ll be fine When the wind blows and the sun goes away on A sinful, stormy day that’s what its for yeah, what … http://www.youtube.com/v/BYq3OgOmMps?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read the original here: Yellow Raincoat – Justin Bieber (Acoustic Cover)
Who doesn’t like a nice looking a$$?! According to NyDailyNews: Mayor Bloomberg was more focused on buns than guns at a recent holiday party, a new magazine report claims. While Hizzoner has been all over the airways pushing gun control, a New York magazine reporter says the mayor was far more interested in ogling a woman’s behind than discussing the issue at a recent holiday party. Scribe Jonathan Van Meter says a friend who accompanied him to the party made a point of thanking the mayor for his work on gun control. “Without even acknowledging the comment, Bloomberg gestured toward a woman in a very tight floor-length gown standing nearby and said, ‘Look at the ass on her,’ ” Van Meter wrote. The line appeared in Van Meter’s lengthy profile of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is a frontrunner in the race to succeed Bloomberg in City Hall. Quinn is quoted in the article telling the magazine that Bloomberg has also offered sharp critiques of her own style, turning up his nose when she chooses flats over high heels or waits too long before touching up her red hair. She said of Bloomberg, “he’s got a potty mouth.” She also said that she has a “good relationship” with him. Nice. SMH. WENN
