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'Glee' Scoop: Naya Rivera Says There’s ‘Always Hope’ For Brittana
Whil Glee ans are still outraged that the show’s three power couples were ripped apart early in the fourth season, the Brittana fans seemed to spark one of the biggest uproars, even getting a winking shout-out on the show when Brittany mentioned the “lesbian blogger community.&rdquo Wanky! Whether you thought the reference was positive or negative, one thing is for sure: This lady-loving fandom has definitely made a strong impression on the powers that be a Glee.
Last week, I caught up with the beyond gorgeou Naya Rivera t FOX’s all-star party and made sure to ask how she feels about the Brittana fans’ continued support of the couple. Rivera smiled and said, “It feels amazing. I feel like ten, twenty years from now we’ll be looking back at the iconic couples in television and this amazing teenage lesbian couple is going to be one of them, and I feel like that’s sort of history making.”
The actress revealed in last week’s edition o Leanne’s Spoiler List hat Santana absolutely “hates” the idea of Brittany in a new relationship. (For the record, we do too!) So is there any hope for Brittany and Santana to revive their romance? Rivera answered without any hesitation, “Yes! I feel like there’s always hope for them! It’s not like they hate each other, which is the beautiful thing about it. They’re still friends as we’ve seen in all the episodes when she came back.” The lovely Latina also made sure to point out one very important detail: “And Santana said that she did not call it an official break-up.” Squee!
If you’ve been wondering when Rivera is going to unleash her killer voice on a solo album, it looks like the wait might be a little longer than we’d like. “I don’t know, we’ve hit a bit of a bump in the road, that’s how I’ll put it,” Rivera revealed. “We’re sort of at a crossroads; I might switch labels. I don’t really know what Colombia is up to.” Hopefully they figure out this out soon because a person can only play “Valerie” on repeat for so long before they start craving something more.
Luckily, fans were rewarded with a special musical treat when Rivera recently teamed up with 2CELLOS to record and perform a ultra-sultry version of Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole.” The 26-year-old says, “That was so much fun! That was something that I don’t get to do a lot of outside o Glee. It was cool because it was very low pressure. It wasn’t my song or my album, and the guys are amazing.” Rivera adds with a laugh, “And I got to wear a cool cat suit!”
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Lady Gaga tries to keep courtroom talk a secret
During the CBS portion of the TCA Press Tour, show star Jonny Lee Miller talked about how exciting it is to have so many people tuning in to the show, what a total surprise it was for the first-year series to get the spot after the Super Bowl, how he prefers to stay in the moment with his character instead of knowing what’s to come, how fun it is to play the darker side of Sherlock Holmes, how supportive fellow Sherlock Holmes acto Benedict Cumberbatc has been, what he thinks of the evolution of the Holmes-Watson relationship, and that he’s looking forward to the cat-and-mouse game between Holmes and Moriarity, now that the appearance of that character is getting closer to happening. Hit the jump for the interview.
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Maybe it’s the human interest piece, maybe it’s the relevance of online dating in the increasingly complexity of our digital and real lives, maybe it’s the craziness of some of the encounters — either way, something about Catfish is resonating with viewers.
Nev Schulman and Max Joseph, creators of MTV’s latest hit, which explores online relationships and, talk to The Hollywood Reporter talk about the show, which has quickly drawn in a substantial and engaged fanbase since its November premiere, MTV’s highest rated for a new show since 2007.
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Jennifer Lawrence has got a bit of a reputation for speaking before she's completely thought what would be the most sensible thing to say, and that continued on David Letterman's Late Show as she mistook the US President for America's number one enemy.
TORONTO - About 290,000 people follow Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Twitter, perhaps to read what he has to say about the country's affairs or to glean a little personal insight into what makes him tick.
Thing is, most of the messages that are sent from his account aren't really his.
Harper only "occasionally" sends out tweets himself, according to a spokesman.
Much like many other high-profile Twitter users, most of the short-form messages that appear under Harper's name and avatar are actually crafted by ghost-tweeters charged to work social media on his behalf.
"I assume if it's an institutional individual — if it's a CEO, if it's a big personality, a singer, or it's a politician — then they are not doing it themselves," said Greg Elmer, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University studying social media.
"It's another example of public relations, it's professionally managed communications."
It's tough to know whose tweets to trust. Sure, there's Twitter's official verified stamp of approval, letting users know the account isn't run by an imposter, but that doesn't confirm who actually writes the tweets.
"You don't really know if it's really that person and their voice and their actual words," said social media consultant Andrew Escobar, who suggested even experts can be fooled by a good ghost-tweeter.
"Obviously with some tweets you can sort of gauge if it's a staffer writing it in a very formal way and it's not their words, but you never really know. At the end of the day it might be someone tweeting on their behalf — you have to use your judgment."
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“And it’s really quite pointless, because you go to a gym and you lift a heavy thing so a muscle grows, but the only thing the muscle can actually do is to lift that heavy thing,” Gosling joked.
Gosling added that he’s come to think of his abs not as part of his body but more like a dog or cat that he’s got to take care of Access Hollywood oted.
“After a while they’re like pets because they don’t do anything useful. But you have to feed them and take care of them otherwise they’ll go away. I feel a bit goofy having them, to tell you the truth,” he said.
Ryan Gosling’s abs — and the rest of his body — have actually gotten a lot of attention this week. Not only does he star in the new movi Gangster Squad, but he’s also drawing the attention of a fellow Hollywood star. Actres Anna Kendrick hared a racy tweet about Gosling that got her more than ten thousand retweets.
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“Ugh – NEVER going to a Ryan Gosling movie in a theater again. Apparently masturbating in the back row is still considered inappropriate.”
Do you think it’s silly that Ryan Gosling calls his abs “pets”?
Video games offer a special kind of escapism. Unlike the passive joys that, say, a movie or a television show can bring, a video game puts you in the hot-seat and asks: “Hey, do you want a part in all this?” Generally speaking, then, video games allow us to live out many of our wildest fantasies. You wanna leap from building to building to assassinate a corrupt government official? That’s cool, bro. Feel like snowboarding down a mountain whilst clinging to the bottom of a helicopter? You can do that, too. Wanna dress up like a plumber and rescue a princess from a giant fireball-spittin’ lizard king? No problem, pal, we can set that up for you.
Most of the time we’re too busy enjoying the game to acknowledge it. We’re too immersed in the story and visuals and gameplay to notice we’re even playing something with our hands. But nothing snaps you out of a video game and ruins the experience like a difficult level. It’s the kind of thing that – at the time, anyway – makes you feel like you’re gonna quit the damn things forever. And we’ve all been there, haven’t we? Screaming at the television and throwing the controller around the room and swearing at our parents because they “don’t understand.”
Think you’ve had it tough? Check out our list of the 10 most frustratingly difficult video game levels of all-time. Just don’t try them at home. Seriously.
River Phoenix died before his final film, "Dark Blood," was ever released.
But it will soon officially see the light of day for the first time in North America, debuting at the Miami Film Festival in March.
Also starring Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis, "Dark Blood" follows Boy (Phoenix), a young widower who retreats to the desert after his wife dies of radiation following nuclear tests near their home. He encounters a Hollywood couple who travel to the desert on a second honeymoon in an effort to save their marriage. After their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they seek refuge in Boy's shack, not realizing they will soon become his prisoners.
"Dark Blood," directed by George Sluizer, was 80 percent finished when Phoenix died on Oct. 31, 1993 at age 23 of a drug overdose. The footage, filmed in Utah, went into storage, and according to a press release, in 1999, the dutch filmmaker discovered that the insurance company wanted to destroy it. He decided to save the material by getting the unedited footage out of storage and shipped to the Netherlands. In 2008, Sluizer, facing his own illness at the time, chose to finish it.
"It was a kind of urgency," he said in a statement. "The director Michelangelo Antonioni once said, 'If I can't film I prefer to die.' I can find myself in these words. You are a craftsman and you want to complete your work. I am a perfectionist. I wanted to finish 'Dark Blood' and I also wanted to preserve the cast and crew's creative work."
"Dark Blood is a film of legend, one of Hollywood's great mysteries," Miami Film Festival executive director Jaie Laplante said in a statement. "The tragic loss of River Phoenix's outstanding talent is still profoundly felt 20 years later. We are proud that George Sluizer has honored Miami as the place to finally share his remarkable collaboration with Phoenix and the other great artists involved with 'Dark Blood.'"
"Dark Blood" had its European premiere last fall at the Dutch Film Festival.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Phoenix's family doesn't want to be involved in the release of the film, saying, "Despite George Sluizer's claim that he has been communicating with River Phoenix's family in regard to releasing River's last film, Joaquin Phoenix and his family have not been in communication with the director nor will they participate in any way."
Joaquin Phoenix, 38, meanwhile, just received a best actor Oscar nomination for his role in 2012's "The Master."
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Here’s what went down.
Stern lavished her with praise: “I realize: not only am I addicted, but I totally get you. I’m in love with you and your character.”
… but refused to “apologize” for his weight comments: “It’s not about apologizing, although I want to say I’m a fan of yours … I love you and I think you’re terrific.”
Lena insisted she supported Howard, despite the negative comments: “I’m a big fan of your particular brand of free speech.”
There was a little scuffle over word choice when describing her body:
Dunham: “I’m not super thin, but I’m thin for, like, Detroit.”
Stern replied that she wasn’t “obese or anything,” then realized his terrible choice of words.
Dunham: (laughing) “Howard Stern says I’m ‘not obese or anything’ … I appreciate it and I appreciate your effort to rectify [this], but whether you’d done that or not, I’d have remained a [Howard Stern] enthusiast.”
Now it’s time to talk about Donald Glover and race!
Dunham: “Donald was an actor we always wanted to work with. On HBO, you have 10 episodes. You start with 10 episodes. And it takes you a while to set up your world, to set up your main characters … While I understand the criticism, I felt like we had had only 10 episodes to dig in.”
As for the idea that her show was “too white”? “[Diversity on television is] a conversation that needs to happen. I’m glad to take one for the team.”
Mr. Stern admitted that he hadn’t watched enough episodes of Girls when he made that initial comment. But even last week he had begun changing his mind…specifically once he started a man-crushing on Adam Driver’s character.
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More Rastafarians Than Scientologists?
According to a former spokesperson for the church, there are only 30,000 members in an organization that church members are “forcefully encouraged” to join, the International Association of Scientologists. A survey called the Statistical Abstract of the United States estimates only 25,000 Americans call themselves Scientologists. “That’s less than half the number identifying themselves as Rastafarians.” (The Church of Scientology claims 8 million members worldwide—supposedly the number of people who have donated to the church. A recent ad claims 4.4 million new members every year.) The church has $1 billion in liquid assets, and in terms of cash reserves this figure eclipses the holdings of most major world religions. It claims to own about 12 million square feet of property around the world, with 26 of them in Hollywood, valued at $400 million. At its headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., it owns 68 largely tax-exempt pieces of land worth $168 million. The Sea Org is the church’s clergy, a navylike core estimated at around 3,000 to 5,000 members. Most of them join when they’re children, rendering services with barely any pay.
Hubbard’s Hollywood Career
When he was 23, Hubbard married Margaret Louise Grubb, or Polly. To support his family, he began writing pulp fiction with tremendous speed and imagination. On New Year’s Day, 1938, he had a dental operation under gas anesthetic, and he believed the secrets of the universe were revealed to him, and he began to concentrate on writing science fiction. He also longed for fame as a screenwriter in Hollywood, but had no success despite a few attempts. “It is one thing to make that universe believable, and another to believe it. That is the difference between art and religion,” Wright writes.
I'm so excited for this book! It comes out tomorrow.
Now that Disney is in charge of the franchise, it’s unlikely to have escaped your notice that Star Wars is suddenly very much in the news. Whether it’s the nerdiest White House statement in history or now-debunked rumors of Zack Snyder making an additional movie outside of the already-announced new Star Wars trilogy, it seems that everyone is thinking about lightsabers, Jedi Knights and how fast they could make the Kessel Run these days. ABC entertainment president Paul Lee even managed to drop a geek bomb during last week’s Television Critics Association press tour — the possibility that his network was considering bringing the much-mooted, much-delayed Star Wars live-action television series to the screen. “We’re going to look at [the live-action series],” he told Entertainment Weekly, “We’re going to look at all of them, and see what’s right. We weren’t able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It’s definitely going to be part of the conversation.”
As soon as the news made it online, it spread far and wide, bringing excitement to the Star Wars faithful who have been teased with the possibility of the show for years. First mentioned as far back as 2005, involved parties have been slowly dropping hints about it ever since, whether it’s George Lucas casually mentioning that it has “nothing to do” with the movies or his likening it to a 1940s film noir instead of the 1930s pulp inspiration behind the original movies. For years, news has ver-r-r-y slowly leaked out about the subject matter (“Think about bounty hunter, that’s all I can tell you,” producer Rick McCallum teased in 2006) and potential title (Star Wars: Underworld), with each drip adding to the fervor that this show would magically remove the bad taste that the Prequel Trilogy had left in hardcore fans’ mouths by being the “dark” and “adult” Star Wars that they’d hoped for since The Empire Strikes Back.
Meanwhile, in a different part of the galaxy, another well-established science fiction fandom is finding itself in a similar frenzy by the measured release of new images, interviews and miscellaneous facts from this summer’s much anticiapted Star Trek Into Darkness. The second installment of J.J. Abrams’ reboot to the Trek franchise and do-over of the original series’ history has been four years in the making, and fans are being promised a “dark” second chapter that will deliver a spectacle that is worth the wait. “It’s certainly a bigger movie [than the first] because the first one was kind of the origin story which is great because it’s so easy,” Abrams has said about the sequel, “You just introduce people and yet now they know each other so it has to go deeper.” Executive Producer Bryan Burk agrees: “It’s not a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel,” he told IGN last week. “We really decided that if we are going to do it, how do we make it different and really step up our game. It’s part of the evolution of the title. The film is not a dark film per se. It’s not post-apocalyptic dark — it’s still within the realm of what Roddenberry had wanted, which is this positive view of the future. However the stakes are significantly greater, and personal. The characters — particularly Kirk — are going to a much darker place emotionally. I feel like the experience the audience has going through it will be a much deeper emotional experience. And on top of that the spectacle will be significantly bigger than the last film.”
So Star Trek is getting bigger and deeper and more spectacular, and Star Wars is getting smaller and delving into stories that have nothing to do with the movies. Exciting, right? Everything old is new again! But doesn’t that mean that we’ve got the two franchises mixed up?
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