Throwback Thursday? That is sooooo 2013! With a new year quickly approaching, Taylor Swift is looking to start a fresh trend for 2014. Welcome to #TBM, folks: Throwback Monday! The singer put an awww-inspiring video on her Instagram account last night, running footage of herself at four years old, chatting it up with a close friend. “Christmas 1993, on a very important phone call with Britany,” the singer captioned the cute video. Taylor Swift at Four Years Old The superstar turned 24 this month and celebrated with her friends in New Zealand, while we honored the artist with some amazing Taylor Swift GIFs . Follow the preceding link to toggle through them and check out the video as well. It’s totes adorbs!
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The harrowing 12 Years a Slave has all the makings of a mesmerizing period drama for the ages. The only question is whether the execution meets the potential. The movie stars Chiwetel Ejiofor in the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man in 1800s N.Y. State, who was kidnapped and forced into slavery. 12 Years a Slave Trailer Toiling away on a plantation near New Orleans, he subsequently fought for his freedom with the help of a Canadian abolitionist, played by Brad Pitt. Also starring Michael Fassbender, the film is drawing major Oscar buzz as it opens this weekend. Does it live up to the high expectations it sets? Let’s see what critics’ 12 Years a Slave reviews are saying … “Sometimes you have to prepare yourself for the journey a film takes you on. So it is with 12 Years a Slave , a harrowing, unforgettable drama that doesn’t look away from the reality of slavery and, in so doing, helps us all fully, truly confront it.” – The New York Daily News “Perhaps the nature of the story is such that the film can’t help but be obvious and quite melodramatic at times, but it gets better as it goes along and builds to a moving finish.” – The Hollywood Reporter “The film has probably the finest cast of any film this year, and offers contemporary audiences a meticulous and haunting look at this terrible chapter in American history.” – USA Today “In large part, “12 Years a Slave” is an argument about American slavery that, in image after image, both reveals it as a system (signified in one scene by the sights and ominous, mechanical sounds of a boat water wheel) and demolishes its canards, myths and cherished symbols. There are no lovable masters here or cheerful slaves. There are also no messages, wagging fingers or final-act summations or sermons. [Director Steve] McQueen’s method is more effective and subversive because of its primarily old-fashioned, Hollywood-style engagement.” – The New York Times “It hurts to watch it. You won’t be able to tuck this powder keg in the corner of your mind and forget it. What we have here is a blistering, brilliant, straight-up classic.” – Rolling Stone “At it most profound, though, 12 Years a Slave is a captivating study in humanity at its most troubled and implacable, as Ejiofor masterfully portrays Northup’s fight to retain his dignity and identity within an ever-widening nightmare. As such, McQueen’s film deserves pride of place alongside Gravity , Captain Phillips and the upcoming All Is Lost as a breathtaking, ambitious essay on physical and existential isolation.” – The Washington Post
The Govan sisters strut their red carpet stuff in Hollyweird Laura Govan And Gloria Govan Attend The “12 Years A Slave” Premiere Former Basketball Wives cast members and real-life sisters Laura and Gloria Govan may be out of the reality tv limelight since officially getting the boot from the show earlier this year, but they’re still managing to stay on the radar. Laura and Gloria were both spotted attending the film premiere of “12 Years A Slave” held in L.A. earlier this week. Both sisters went with the “all black everything get up, but Laura was a little more modest…. ….while Gloria gave her girls a breather: So you already know what the million dollar question is, riiiigght? Who looked more bangin ? WENN
Cornel West has a very civilized way of cursing people out Cornel West Rips Republicans Who Want To Cut Food Stamps Via RawStory Civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West laid out the case for the country’s continued income disparity to conservative pundit William Kristol on CNN’s Crossfire Monday night. “We black folk, we have been some of the most open-minded, forgiving and embracing people in the nation,” West told host S.E. Cupp. “We’ve got Clarence Thomases within our community. It’s not like we gotta go somewhere else to have conservatives. But the issue is this: Why are the Republicans cutting food stamps? That’s morally obscene and spiritually profane. Four million poor people may be pushed into poverty.” “How much have food stamps gone up in the last four years?” Kristol interjected. “They’ve doubled.” “They’ve gone up — you know why?” West countered. “Because this crisis of capitalism. Their wages have been stagnant.” “Who’s been president the past four years?” Kristol said with a smirk. “I thought the economy was roaring back under President Obama.” “This is where neo-liberalism goes hand-in hand with your neo-conservatism,” West argued. “Privatize, militarize, support big banks and big corporations. The result is what? Working-class devastated, middle-class downward mobility, escalation of poverty. So yes, you’re right: We’ve got a lot of food stamps increasing because of what? People are suffering. But then you’re gonna cut the food stamps?” Can’t argue with his logic. Image via WENN
Disgusting. Teachers are supposed to be educating the youth not phucking them. Teacher Arrested for Lesbian Relationship With Student According to Mail Online A 53-year-old teacher and mother who had a sexual relationship with a female student lasting four years has been jailed for 16 years. Linda Leann Wallace, of Texas, was given the lengthy sentence despite her daughter telling the court:’My mom is not a predator.’ Wallace, 53, began the inappropriate relationship when the student was 13 years old. The 16 year sentence is one of the harshest ever handed down by a court for a teacher involved in an inappropriate relationship. A court in Beaumont, Texas, was told the affair continued for four years and the pair would meet at her home, on campus and during school trips. The affair ended when the teen graduated from the Legacy Christian Academy where Wallace worked as a music teacher. Wallace had pleaded guilty to engaging with an underage student in July. She was arrested in 2012 after police were tipped off about the affair. Her daughter had spoken on her mom’s behalf telling the court her mom was not a sexual predator. Wallace also spoke in her own defense saying she was sorry for her actions. ‘I’ve had remorse for many years. I’m terribly sorry. I cry myself to sleep at night for her innocence,’ said Wallace. Wallace’s attorney, Paul Fukuda,said: ‘It’s a tragedy for both families. Ms. Wallace is taking full responsibility.’ It makes our stomachs turn to think of this 53-year-old woman abusing that girl with her dusty cakes. SMH. Continue reading →
