Hot Chip, Moroder and Frankie Knuckles remix Donna Summer

September 7, 2013, 10:38 pm

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A new Donna Summer album featuring remixes of some of her most beloved classics will be released by Verve Records on October 22.

The album, entitled 'Love To Love Donna', will feature an all new remix of ‘Love To Love You Baby’ by the legendary Giorgio Moroder, as well as new mixes by Frankie Knuckles, Eric Kupper and Hot Chip. Chromeo & Oliver’s remix of ‘Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)’ will be the first single off the record.

Donna Summer, who passed away in 2012, has long been considered the queen of electronic dance music, thanks in no small part to her work with Giorgio Moroder in the mid-70s. Together, the duo crafted such dance classics as ‘I Feel Love’ and ‘Love To Love You Baby,’ two tunes that many consider to be the progenitors of modern day dance music.

Moroder debuted his new mix of the classic ‘Love To Love You Baby’ this past weekend in Gothenburg, Sweden, take a listen below.

I am here for this.

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Britney tweets about music video shoot + sneak peak photo.

September 7, 2013, 10:52 pm

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Hot day on set... ;) A little dirty, little flirty, danced my ASS off. Stoked for tomorrow!
— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) September 8, 2013

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Slay sis. S l a y

OK YA'LL. I had to get myself together. But what are your favorite Britney songs of all time ONTD?

My faves off the top of my head are Get Naked (I Got a Plan), Piece of Me, Break the Ice, Someday (I Will Understand), Everytime, Unusual You, Breathe On Me, Perfect Lover, Slave 4 U, Shattered Glass, Where Are You Now and Selfish.

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Cillian Murphy: 'My foot's in the door... I hang out with musicians

September 7, 2013, 11:53 pm

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We are living – so the story goes – in a golden age of television: long-form narratives sprawl and stretch over six, 12, 20 episodes, allowing ambiguity, nuance, subtle character development. Bigger budgets mean better production values, and hip soundtracks are de rigueur. From HBO big hitters to Scandi noir to British grime drama, television is the medium of the moment.

So mused Cillian Murphy to himself one day. His next thought was, "Why don't I ever get sent any [television] scripts?" Good question: after all, at 37 he's lit up the big screen in smart science-fictions such as Christopher Nolan's Batman movies and Inception, and Danny Boyle's Sunshine and 28 Days Later. He's done his time on indie movies, playing everything from a charming trans woman in Breakfast on Pluto to a 1920s IRA fighter in Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Then there's the stage career – a lucky break in Enda Walsh's 1996 hit play Disco Pigs kick-started not only his career, but also another fertile, frequent collaboration; Murphy performed Walsh's one-man show Misterman recently, and will star in his new play, Ballyturk, next year.

But television never came a-knockin'. Fortunately, he has "a very good agent", and the next day two episodes of Peaky Blinders landed on the mat. Now we're meeting, many months later, to discuss the six-part BBC2 show. "The title made no sense to me whatsoever," – us neither, Cillian – "but [the scripts] were so compelling and confident, and the character was so rich and complex, layered and contradictory. I was like, 'I have to do this.'"

The Peaky Blinders are a family of gangsters. Murphy plays their smart, scheming, if troubled, young leader – running black markets on the mean streets of Birmingham in 1919. The name is one a real gang went by, sewing razor blades into their caps – all the better to slash your foes with – and the drama is based on accounts from Brummie screenwriter Steven Knight's extended family. Making his television debut too (after scripting the films Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things), Knight puts his home town on the small screen with élan.

From the opening scene, Murphy riding into town on horseback, the show nods its peaked caps to classic Western and gangster movies. The soundtrack's by Nick Cave and The White Stripes (sounds token; totally works). As Murphy suggests, Peaky Blinders makes an inter-war, period drama about working-class Birmingham "cool and sophisticated and stylish". But there are also thorny issues in the mix: Birmingham is a seething stew of sharp-dressing gangsters, communist revolutionaries, and IRA sympathisers, all grappling with the legacies of the First World War – the brutalised and traumatised returning men, and the emancipation of women. "It was an explosive time," insists Murphy.

Acting alongside Helen McCrory and Sam Neill, Murphy is all simmering menace, a gleeful violent streak barely concealed beneath a chilly surface. He often plays the bad guy, although rarely your straightforward villain. Murphy's more interested in anti-heroes: "Damaged people that have weaknesses and secrets and problems and jealousy and spite and love and hate – that's humanity." Usually a coolly measured speaker, he's rattling away now. "Ambiguity is the thing that appeals to me."

As he crosses television, theatre and film, each "informs" the other, he observes. Murphy talks warmly of the "vitality" of live theatre, although he confesses that Misterman was also exhausting: "I was a broke man by the end of it, I was. It was an hour and a half of lepping around!" He slips into dialect; hailing from Cork, Murphy still considers himself Irish, despite having lived in London for over a decade with his wife, Yvonne, an artist, and now their two sons. He adds that, in theatre, you get to act with your body, whereas "film acting is a lot about the eyes". Ah yes, Cillian Murphy's eyes … well, no more ink need be spilled on those famous baby-blues; there are whole websites devoted to that sort of thing, and dwelling risks descent into swoony incoherence ....

Back to the movies: coming up are Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea– "basically the true story that Melville based Moby Dick on, this ship sunk by an angry whale" – and Transcendence, the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister. Co-starring Johnny Depp, it's another artificial-intelligence, sci-fi story. "I like conceptual films. You go, wow – I'd like to get involved in that big idea. They don't always succeed," – micro-pause, as we both perhaps contemplate In Time – "but I'm curious about them."

Even in futuristic or fantastical worlds, Murphy has a skill in making his characters flawed and human. He deflects the credit: "That's what Chris Nolan did. Those comic book worlds – he dragged them back down to reality, gave the characters real issues." But even as a fan, on the subject of reinvented super-heroes, Murphy is lightly sardonic: "I'm afraid now, we must be running out. Surely…."

Murphy also stepped behind the camera recently, directing a music video for the band Money. Having previously fronted bands himself, he's still into his music: "Simon Raymonde who runs the label [Bella Union] would send me stuff, and this song ["Hold Me Forever"] just really hit me." The video features English National Ballet dancers performing at the Old Vic theatre to Mancunian rock: how's that for cross-curricular?

He has vague plans to direct a feature film – if he ever found the right material – but for now Murphy wouldn't mind doing a few more music vids, in that spirit of collaboration. "It's a way to keep my foot in the door and hang out with musicians …. There's no monetary gain, it's just, 'I like what you do and you like what I do – so let's make something.'"

'Peaky Blinders' begins on Thursday at 9pm, BBC2

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The Rise of The Redhead

September 7, 2013, 11:54 pm

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As Sam Baker celebrates her red hair in the October issue, we look back at history's defining red heads.

KATHARINE HEPBURN

Like her predecessor Sarah Bernhardt, Katharine Hepburn – also an ambitious, versatile and fiery flame-haired actor – enjoyed a long and successful career from the 1920s onwards.

While Bernhardt had only dabbled with silent cinema when it first came about, Hepburn was one of the first stars to cross over from theatre to the silver screen and achieve mainstream success as a Hollywood icon.

Hepburn starred in 44 feature films such as Little Women and Holiday – cast opposite Cary Grant – and can boast the most amount of Academy Awards ever received, taking home four Oscars and nominated for 12.

NICOLE KIDMAN

Back in the States, an Australian actor shot to fame in the 1990s when she married Hollywood’s leading man Tom Cruise after meeting him on set for their film Days of Thunder.

The flame-haired actress soon became a house-hold name and Nicole Kidman has since starred in fifty movies to date, nominated for three Academy Awards and winning an Oscar for her performance in The Hours in 2003.

FLORENCE WELCH

Lead singer of Florence + the Machine, Florence Welch is the red-haired musician and muse to Gucci's Frida Giannini and was a Bazaar cover star this year. Interestingly, Welch cites the Pre-Raphaelite paintings – like The Lady of Shalott and Ophelia – as inspiration to her own work.

JESSICA CHASTAIN
It’s hard to believe that one of Jessica Chastain’s stand-out features, her hair, was the very reason she found it difficult to get her acting career off the ground. Luckily for the film industry, but not for our hair envy, she was cast in 2008 indie flick Jolene. She has since gone on to land an Oscar nomination for her performance in the The Help and been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.

EMMA STONE

There are few things not to like about American actress Emma Stone and her glossy strawberry-blonde hair is certainly not one of them. Quirky, funny and extremely pretty, boys want to be with her and girls want to be her – but they’d also happily settle for being her best friend. See her next with Naomi Watts in Birdman.

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When someone tells me I'm a sex symbol I'm like, 'What?' But I'll take what I can get. That'll teach all those boys back in junior high school. In fact, I hope my very first boyfriend, the guy I dated for one month and who broke up with me at the Valentine's Day dance, I hope that boy reads this! It's a huge compliment when someone says you're attractive, especially when I was such an awkward kid, I was very tomboyish, with very short red hair, running around with cowboy boots on. - Jessica Chastain

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Bey Z Ivy Continue Their Italian Paradise Tour

September 8, 2013, 12:13 am

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Beyoncé, Jay Z and Blue Ivy arrived from Stromboli to Nerano, in Amalfi’s Coast, to have lunch at the famous restaurant “Quattro Passi”. Later, Beyoncé and Jay Z headed to Blue Grotto in Capri on a smaller boat where the couple drank champagne and took pictures of the beautiful landscape. After visiting Amalfi, Beyoncé and Jay Z were spotted having a night out in Capri. They were seen at a very famous disco taverna called ‘Anema e Core’.

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Welp.

September 8, 2013, 1:33 am

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She's known for her strange get ups - so nothing should come as a shock anymore.

Lady Gaga, 27, stepped out of her New York City apartment on Saturday wearing a strange face mask and a signature pair of sky high heels.

The Paparazzi singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, wore a grey cloth mask over her face. The not-so-hidden accessory had a black Rorschach like design on it and long black tresses were seen sticking out the back.

The pop princess also donned a latex like off-white tunic and blue straight leg trousers with her gravity-defying set of black platforms.

She teetered on the sidewalk, needing the help of her bodyguard to maneuver the Manhattan streets.

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Where’s the female Walter White?

September 8, 2013, 6:31 pm

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The backlash against Skyler on "Breaking Bad" obscures a more pressing issue: TV's dearth of female anti-heroes

A recent NYTimes piece by Anna Gunn about the audience perception of her Breaking Bad character, Skyler White, has raised a number of issues about the misogynistic perception of many female characters in television dramas. Back in May, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan also addressed the issue, saying:

We’ve been at events and had all our actors up onstage, and people ask Anna Gunn, “Why is your character such a bitch?” And with the risk of painting with too broad a brush, I think the people who have these issues with the wives being too bitchy on Breaking Bad are misogynists, plain and simple. I like Skyler a little less now that she’s succumbed to Walt’s machinations, but in the early days she was the voice of morality on the show. She was the one telling him, “You can’t cook crystal meth.” She’s got a tough job being married to this asshole. And this, by the way, is why I should avoid the Internet at all costs. People are griping about Skyler White being too much of a killjoy to her meth-cooking, murdering husband? She’s telling him not to be a murderer and a guy who cooks drugs for kids. How could you have a problem with that.

I agree with both Gilligan and Anna Gunn to an extent: The level of venom; the heinous, atrocious nature of the name calling; and the personal attacks have been completely, irredeemably uncalled for, and the people who anonymously toss out the C-word (or worse) in reference to Skyler White and, especially, Anna Gunn personally, deserve their own special place in hell, trapped alone with only the booming sound of their own sh*tty voices drowning out their idiotic thoughts for all of eternity.

However, I don’t necessarily agree that Skyler White was a particularly likable character, either in the beginning of the series or, more obviously now that she aligns herself with Walt. Nevertheless, I think she’s a well written character, perfectly suited to Breaking Bad, and I agree that early on, she was the voice of morality on the show. That does not, however, make her a likable character.

(Part of the problem, or at least the way I see it, is if a writer on a great show has an unlikable female character, then it’s the audience’s fault for not seeing the good in her. If there are unlikable female characters on less critically well-received shows (like, say, The Newsroom), it’s the writer’s fault for not creating a better female character. It hardly seems fair to blame the perception of a character entirely on the audience if we don’t happen to like the killjoy on a show centered around an anti-hero. “Dexter’s” Rita Morgan is a perfect example. She was also the voice of morality on “Dexter,” and she was also something of a killjoy, but the way her character was written was enormously problematic. You simply can’t ask an audience to root both for the anti-hero and the character trying to hold the anti-hero in check (any vitriolic invective aimed at Julie Benz, nevertheless, is inexcusable, and that rests with stupid people’s stupid inability to separate reality from a television show).)

The point I’m driving at, however, is not the way audiences respond to female killjoys (you could also lump the early season iteration of Winona from “Justified” into this camp), but in the absence of well-written female anti-heroines on television for whom we can root. Why aren’t there any female Walter Whites on television?

That’s a more difficult issue to unpack and while I’d love to think we could accept a series centered around a female anti-hero, one example illustrates how unfavorably audiences might react to a ruthless, murdering, ego-driven female lead, especially if she was a mom. Yes, we love Alice Morgan on “Luther,” and yes, audiences seem to be drawn to “Justified’s” Ava Crowder, but they are supporting characters in shows about men. A better example to illustrate the issues with female anti-heroes on television might be “Weeds.”

Yes, I’ll be the first to admit that much of the problem with “Weeds,” especially after they left Agrestic, has a lot to do with the writing on that show. Still, there was another impediment in the way of the audience’s acceptance of the darker, power-driven Nancy Botwin of the later seasons, and that was her motherhood.

Audiences were fully behind Nancy Botwin in the early seasons, when she resorted to dealing pot in order to maintain her family’s quality of life. We applauded the fact that she found a novel solution to the difficult problem she faced after the death of her husband. But our attitudes toward Nancy Botwin took a sudden shift when it became less about her children and more about her own narcissism. Nancy Botwin used her sexuality to get ahead, she was instrumental in the deaths of characters, she willingly assisted in creating a pipeline for drugs from Mexico to the United States, and she heavily involved her own family in her schemes with little to no concern for their ultimate outcomes. She was in it for herself, and not for her family. This was unforgivable, and that has far more to do with gender roles and our societal expectations of the way mothers should behave than it does with sloppy writing.

Walter White, Dexter Morgan, and Nucky Thompson (to name a few) are despicable characters, with whom we nevertheless have had rooting interests. They are also terrible parents, but few in the audience place an onus upon them to eschew their immorality for the betterment of their children. Those expectations lie in the mothers, and there’s no better illustration of the audience’s difficulties with matriarchal anti-heroes than the audience’s reaction to Skyler White smoking a cigarette while she was pregnant. The level of outrage was completely disproportionate to the offense. Her husband cooks meth, murders people, and places his family in grave danger, and we rooted for him, yet I cannot tell you how many times I have read on Internet comment boards people flipped the f*ck out because Skyler smoked a goddamn cigarette during her pregnancy.

Our society still expects mothers to be the symbol of morality, and to impart those lessons on our children. Their failure to do so is contemptible and inexcusable. If a father in a movie abandons his wife and children, he’s an asshole. If a mother does the same, she’s morally repugnant individual incapable of redemption. We value ambition in our male characters, even at a moral cost, but there’s a limit to how much ambition we can accept in mothers, and as soon as it conflicts with her parenting responsibilities, we withdraw our sympathies.

I’m not saying its wrong to value the parenting skills of a mother, that would be silly and misguided, even in the context of a fictional television series. Rather I’m suggesting that we should hold our male anti-heroes to the same standard. If Dexter leaves his kid with a nanny all day, or takes him on a kill; or if Walter White places his own family in danger by getting in too deep with a criminal element, we should also factor in their roles as fathers in our sympathy calculus. Walter White is not just a terrible person because he cooks meth and murders people, but because he’s also a shitty father. If we can’t give our darkly drawn female protagonists a free pass on motherhood, we shouldn’t allow for the same in our anti-hero fathers.

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Director Steve McQueen calls Michael Fassbender the 'most influential actor of his generation'

September 8, 2013, 6:42 pm

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It's no secret Steve McQueen is a fan of Michael Fassbender.

The British director has only made three feature films and Fassbender has been at the helm of all of them, including his role as an IRA prisoner starving himself to death in 2008’s "Hunger" and a man suffering from a sex addiction in 2011's "Shame."

But during a press conference Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for his new movie "12 Years a Slave," in which Fassbender also plays a prominent role, McQueen went even further with his praise for the German-born actor.

"I think he’s the most influential actor of his generation. He’s like a pop star. Kids want to be that person."

"12 Years a Slave" depicts the incredible true story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man living in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1841, who gets captured and sold into slavery.

In the movie, which is based on a memoir written by Northup, Fassbender plays Edwin Epps, a ruthless plantation owner in the Deep South who demeans and tortures his slaves. To get into character Fassbender read Northup’s book, worked with a dialect coach and went to New Orleans six weeks before the film began shooting to try and soak up the atmosphere.

Despite the unspeakable acts his character committed, Fassbender says he tried to depict Epps as a human being and not just an evil slave owner.

"A lot of people are going, 'Oh my God, Epps is so evil.' I don’t understand that. He’s not. He’s a human being who's caught up in something so complicated and so unjust but not evil. I don't even understand that word."

Epps also falls in love, and brutally takes advantage of, one young slave named Patsey, played by Lupita Nyong’o.

"The point of departure for the character really was the relationship with Patsey, it was kind of the focal point, the fact that he was in love with her and didn’t know how to process that information so he therefore tries to quash it by beating her and the violence towards her."

For Nyong’o, getting through the difficult scenes required support from the other actors, in particular Fassbender, whom she shared the most violent scenes.

"It took trusting each other and feeling safe to go to those places so in the case of me and Michael, we made nice before we did our scenes and then after. I trusted him and felt safe with him, that’s what allowed me to be able to go there," says Nyong’o.

McQueen says that is exactly the kind of environment he tries to create on set.

"It was a family . . . we are here to support each other making this piece of work, and these actors are exceptional artists so it was joyous at the same time as being very sort of consoling."

"12 Years a Slave" also stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson and Alfre Woodard and features a cameo appearance by Brad Pitt, who is a producer on the film.

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Jared Leto talks about his dramatic weight loss & playing a transsexual.

September 8, 2013, 6:43 pm

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Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto returns to the big screen this fall with his role in the upcoming film "Dallas Buyers Club."

The movie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, stars Leto alongside Matthew McConaughey, as Rayon, a transsexual woman who is HIV-positive.

Leto underwent a dramatic transformation for the role, losing more then 30 pounds for the shooting of "Dallas Buyers Club." He opened up to The Wrap about his weight loss at TIFF this week, explaining,"I stopped eating.”

"It was 30 or 40 pounds," Leto continued. "After a while I stopped counting. It changes the way you walk, the way you sit, the way you think."

This isn't the first time that Leto has spoken about his "Dallas Buyers Club" dieting. "Your body goes through weird stages," Leto told Vulture late last year. "Sometimes it's hard to hold on to water. But for me, it's not about the most weight I can lose, it's more to represent the character. I'm focused on what it means to be a transsexual woman."

For more on Leto, head over to The Wrap.

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Taylor Kitsch at TIFF for 'The Grand Seduction'

September 8, 2013, 6:55 pm

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It may not be Tim Riggins' natural stomping grounds but for Taylor Kitsch, the red carpet is his natural habitat.

The "Friday Night Lights" star, who played the loveable boozehound on the beloved football drama, showed us his model good looks on Sunday at the TIFF 2013 red carpet premiere of his upcoming movie "The Grand Seduction."

Sporting a dove grey suit (did he shop with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal?) with a matching sknny tie, the Kelowna, B.C., native took all the attention in stride and happily posed for photos with fans.

We're glad to see the 32-year-old get recognition at the Toronto Film Festival; the former Abercrombie & Fitch model had a dismal 2012 when three of his movies, "Battleship,""John Carter" and "Savages" took a beating at the box office. It was so bad that the New York Times said of Kitsch: "And just like that, a promising career seemed to lay in ruin."

Let's hope that "The Grand Seduction," which was filmed in Newfoundland, helps put Taylor back on the star map where he belongs. But until then, we can all just admire his flawless features, right?

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I will forever love his flop ass.

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Face Off ; Subterranean Terror

September 8, 2013, 6:57 pm

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Queen Laura

Queen Miranda

Roy

Winner:

Loser: That pumpkin head mess; you don't want to look at it again, do you? It was the guy who wore a hat.

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I haven't learned all the names yet. </3>

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Carrie Underwood's "Sunday Night Football" Theme

September 8, 2013, 6:57 pm

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DEM LEGS!!!! Legendarrie tbh

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Casting Male Models For NYFW Is Harder Than You Might Think

September 8, 2013, 7:17 pm

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Parke & Ronen are known for their super hot male model selections, but it turns out finding those gorgeous sets of abs takes some work.

As Racked notes, some of the label's most victorious choices have gone on to be the faces of major campaigns -- Matt Terry is now working for Calvin Klein and Travis Smith was featured in a recent Versace campaign.

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Gaga at V Magazine party with various people

September 8, 2013, 7:17 pm

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With Courtney Love

@ladygaga thank you for making me not leave I'm so looking forward to this rebirth and would love to continue the dialogue. X c

Gaga with V Magazine founder Stephen Gan (& on the cover of The Daily Front Row).

Photo: @ladygaga kicking some serious ass last night on stage at the @vmagazine party honoring the dearest... http://t.co/dS0GjZZdzF
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Lady Gaga!!!!!! She was sooo fab tonight!!!!!! 💋💄❤ #amandalepore @ladygaga #icon… http://t.co/J1JPpVHySa
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In NYC 9/8/13.

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And remember... Gaga will be performing Applause tomorrow on GMA with a Wizard of Oz theme!

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The Breaking Bad GQ+A: RJ Mitte on Walt Jr.'s Dad Issues and Trying to Avoid Spoilers

September 8, 2013, 7:21 pm

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Walter White is the one who knocks. He is the danger. He is also, in effect, the cancer, his dark shadow poisoning everyone it passes over. Thus far, only one person in Walt's life has been spared: his son, Walter Jr. (played by RJ Mitte). The teenager has remained painfully innocent of his father's depravity. He senses that something is terribly wrong, but believes unconditionally that Walt is a hero, or at the very least, a good father trying his best. That's why it was so shocking to hear Walter Jr.'s plea on Sunday's episode: "Dad, please, can you just tell the truth?" It seems that Junior is catching on to Walt's game, though its true nature still eludes him. What role will Walt's son play in Heisenberg's inevitable downfall? Actor RJ Mitte isn't telling, but he promises that the final four episodes will take our breath away. We spoke to Mitte—a whip-smart 21-year-old in real life, with a milder case of cerebral palsy than his character—about the end of the Breaking Bad era.

These last four episodes have been so tense; I began to notice that I'm exhaling every time a commercial begins, because I'm literally holding my breath for entire scenes. Did it feel like that at all when you were shooting it?
We've been doing it for a while now, that we know pretty much what we have to do in each scene. But as you're reading it, though, you're like [gasp]! Halfway through, you'll drop the script and you'll send out an e-mail saying, "Omigod omigod did you just see what happened?" Every time you're done with a script, you can count on e-mails going around.

I know some of the actors had a policy of not reading ahead at all. Were you reading the scripts as soon as they came in? Would you read the whole scripts? How badly did you want to know what would happen?
Oh, I read the whole scripts. I really wanted to know. You just can't put them down. They're just too good.

So it seems like Junior is finally catching onto the fact that his dad is a big liar.
I definitely see it starting to dawn on him. He doesn't know the full extent of the lies, but he's catching on. How would anyone know your dad is this meth kingpin, going from a high school chemistry teacher to Scarface? But I think he has an idea of what's happening, and he thinks it all goes back to gambling.

You've had two scenes so far that have been really pretty emotional, between Walt Jr. and his dad. How do you prep for those really intense scenes?
I turn off the lights in the dark and cut myself. No, no, no, I'm joking! I just go off of what I've been through in the past with my own family and in my own life, and I just try to take that as much as I can into the character. I think it's fine to do that, because that is a real-live feeling. You may not have been there to the extent that these characters have, but you have the gist of the emotion.

The father-son relationship between you and Bryan Cranston feels very authentic. The audience really gets that connection, and how desperately Junior wants it. At the same time, you're not really sure what Walt is thinking.
No, you don't know what Walt is thinking, and you don't know how Walt is going to react to Junior. And Junior just wants that love from his father so much, and approval from his father so much, and Walt is giving it to him, but he's not giving it to him the same way he's giving it to Jesse. And Walt Junior feels like something's up, and something is going on, but he's not involved in that part of his dad's life.

Do you think with Walt's relationship with Jesse has something that his relationship with his own son doesn't have?
Definitely. I think because of Junior's CP [cerebral palsy], there's a lot of things that Walt couldn't do with his son that he can do with Jesse. We don't talk a lot about that [on the show], but I see that. Also, because Walt Jr. is Walt's real son, I don't think he wants to use that as his leverage against him, while at the same time, Jesse is his surrogate son, and he is using Jesse for his will. And I think out of that comes more love, in a sick and twisted kind of way.

How do you think the relationship is right now, at this point in the show, between Walt Jr. and Skyler? Things were so tense there for a while, but it seems like they're going to have to be allies now.
[Long pause] You know, I feel that Walt Jr and Skyler's relationship has been tense for the last little bit because Skyler was hiding a lot of things from Junior, and he knew something was up, and I think seeing that something was up was hurting him more than not telling him. And I feel there was just a lot of animosity towards his mother because his mother knew. His mom knew what was going on, his dad knew what was going on: basically, everyone but him. And I feel that it was just eating and eating at Junior. At the end of it, you'll see what's going to happen, but I think—well, there's so much in these last four that I would love to share with you! And I just have a feeling that you'll see the relationship with Junior and Skyler, you'll see what...these final four episodes can go a lot of ways. There can be so many different scenarios, and it can get really rough. And it's starting to...well...it can definitely be one of those...gaaaah!

It's ok, I know there's a lot you can't talk about! You have a tough job right now.
It's harder as we get closer to the end. So much has happened that some things are inevitable. So without saying anything, when you're in Walt's type of business and you're in that kind of world, you're not dealing with normal people. You're not dealing with normal society. You're dealing with killers, you're dealing with murderers. You're dealing with people that are addicts of their own devices, of what they've been doing, and they're feeding off of the power. And I think when you get to the top of that mountain, and you're on the top, there's so many people fighting for that, and backstabbing, and lying and cheating and stealing, and at the end of the day, you don't know who you are supposed to turn to. And I think everyone on this show has had that turning point of, "Oh, I need to fight and fight and fight to protect my family now."

So how did it feel wrapping up the show after all this time? You were a kid when it started.
Yeah, I was 14, and I'm 21 now. It was interesting. You know, I loved it, I wouldn't change it for the world. Really, I wouldn't be the same person I am today without it. I wouldn't be capable of the same things. And I wouldn't have my extra family, you know, my "BB family." It's really crazy to think that we're done. Every once in a while, I'll feel it, and I'll be like, "Ah, well, we'll come back next year, I'll see them soon!" And then I'm like, "Oh. I won't!"

It's got to be like leaving school. I mean, Breaking Bad kind of was your school.
RJ Mitte: Yeah, it really was. It's a lot like graduating high school. But it's—[Laughs] I'm actually looking at Betsy [Brandt], there's an ad for her NBC show with Michael J. Fox. Literally, I just saw Betsy as I'm saying all this! And it's weird to see everybody going their separate ways. But you know, at the end of the day, what we all have been through, and the friends we made along the way, we will have them forever. We really will.

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OH MY GOD TONIGHT'S EPISODE Y'ALL

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Breaking Bad 5x14 Promo "Ozymandias"

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STILL SHAKING

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Fifth Harmony perform another new song "Better Together"

September 8, 2013, 7:32 pm

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"Better Together" is also the name of their debut EP available on Oct. 22nd!

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THE SLAYAGE!! This album is going to be PERFECT.

You can listen to their other news songs they performed in this post or on Tumblr here:

Who Are You
One Wish
Better Together

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Tom Daly, British Olympic diver, finally comes out... as straight.

September 8, 2013, 7:39 pm

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If you listen closely you can hear the sound of millions of gay men's hearts shattering today.

That's because Tom Daly just came out... as straight.

The hunky British Olympic diver, who has long been at the center of gay rumors, told The UK Mirror:

“I think it’s funny when people say I’m gay... I laugh it off... I’m not. But even if I was, I wouldn’t be ashamed. It wouldn’t bother me in the slightest what people thought."

Daly added,"But I’m cool with my gay following. It’s great to have gay fans even though my friends gently take the mick.”

To read the full interview with The Mirror, click here.

The diver, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Summer Olympics and was recently named the sexiest man in the world by Attitude magazine, is the latest celeb to partake in the recent trend of celebs revealing they are straight.

Last month fashion guru Andre Leon Talley and model-slash-ex-boyfriend of Calvin Klein, Nick Gruber, both publicly stated that they aren't gay, much to the surprise of many.

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