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Pedro Pascal On Oberyn’s Bisexuality And Going “All In” On Nudity + More!

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This week saw the return of Game Of Thrones, and with it the intriguing new character of Oberyn Martell, aka The Red Viper (played by Pedro Pascal). Oberyn instantly shows himself to be, shall we say … and equal-opportunity letch.

Vulture sat down with Pedro to discuss the Red Viper, and what we can look forward to seeing. On his character’s bisexuality:

The Red Viper enjoys life. He does not discriminate in his pleasures. This is the way he understands life, to live it to its fullest. And to limit yourself in terms of experience doesn’t make any sense to him — what’s beautiful is beautiful. And I love that what George R.R. Martin created is this brilliant, progressive person who makes a lot of sense to me. He’s a lover and a fighter. He’s going to do it, everything, to its fullest. So why leave out girls or boys, you know what I mean? That’s what’s so amazing about this character that George R.R. Martin created and David and Dan are translating onto screen: It’s just very punk-rock. It doesn’t make any sense to him to limit his experience of pleasure, so it’s not making a point, but it literally doesn’t make any sense to deny yourself something beautiful, whether it is wine or food, a man or a woman, being a father or being a lover or being a fighter. Always live to the fullest. I think that’s a brilliant, kind of progressive thing that they’re telling in this story. They’re really seizing the opportunity to get a very cool message across.

On balancing out the nudity ratio:

Nobody asked me to hide anything. I was all in. When does Game of Thrones ever fail you in terms of like not going all the way with something? They give you candy from both sides. I’d insist upon it!

And if he bares all, it might open the male floodgates?

Because I’m the one who has to usher in all the boy candy? That’s a lot of pressure, actually. I didn’t know — I never thought of it that way until now, but now it’s done. [Laughs.]

Pascal also talked to the Daily Beast about the character and the show's approach to him.

What did their email say about the Red Viper?

They talked about him being a person who lives uncompromisingly and does what he wants when he wants it, and that living life like that isn’t necessarily very sane. While it doesn’t make him crazy, he’s still aware of that and chooses to live his life as dangerously as he possibly can—because he wants to. And he also doesn’t fear anyone—or anything—which is also not very sane. We talked about that stuff, and then I taped it again well-lit and mic’d, and they told me to come out to Belfast to meet everybody. I was under the impression that I had to go there and nail it and convince them that I’m the dude, but they had already made their decision. There was a weird miscommunication where I didn’t know that I had gotten the job, so I got there thinking I was going in for the final round of auditions and I came in and they said, “Congratulations! We’re so glad you’re here!” So I spent the entire day with my head in the clouds going in and out of costume fittings.

Do you have a ritual to get into Red Viper mode?

I go out on the street, go up to strangers, talk a bunch of shit and tell them, “These are your options: do you want to fuck or fight?” [Laughs] But it’s basically just living the fantasy of being somebody who chooses not to have any fear and is capable of living his or her life that way. But he’s not dumb. And this fearlessness is also shaped by this tragedy that’s happened in his family that he’s out to avenge. He’s this big, enormous badass, but it all stems from a tragedy and a rage that’s burning inside him.

It’s interesting because there is this rage burning inside him, but he’s not sneaky about his hatred of the Lannisters. He flat out tells them he’s out for revenge.

He just doesn’t give a shit. He’s not trying to hide anything. He’s just fearless. He shows up and says, “This is why I’m here, this is what’s going to happen, and if you have a problem with that… you know my name is the Red Viper, right?” But that’s the amazing thing about him: he’s capable of such hate, but he also really knows how to have fun. That’s his philosophy in life: what the hell else are we here for but to do what we want? He’s also a prince so he’s in a better position than most to be able to do what he wants, so he seizes the opportunity to do just that—to go after the people that have wronged him, or to enjoy the “company” of anyone.

Oberyn Martell has an interesting backstory that isn’t shown onscreen. His sister was raped and cut in half, then he has these eight bastard daughters, and many lovers, including his main squeeze, Ellaria Sand.

He has many lovers but he’s settled with one that really leads the way in a lot of the fun that they have. He’s found his match. But I think his backstory is just part of the richness of the character. It comes from the books, but David and Dan also find creative ways to implement the richness into just scenes of two people talking. He’s a very dangerous person but I also, in a way, find him to be a really good person. As a prince, he’s had these eight daughters out of wedlock and could have abandoned them, but he raises them and loves them. The fascinating thing about Game of Thrones is that none of the badasses are just badasses, and none of the wimps are just wimps. A coward will surprise you with courage, and a very powerful person will blindside you with weakness, and the most evil person is capable of the most compassionate moment.

How did you capture his accent and look? He’s a bit different from the books in that he’s got short, cropped hair, and has this exotic, vaguely Hispanic accent.

The way he sounds and composes himself is just something I went with on instinct from reading the scenes from the show, and I used an accent in my first audition tape because I figured he seemed like a different character from everyone else we’ve come to know on the show, and that it would be valuable for him not just to look different, but sound different.

He’s also one of the few royals on the show that isn’t white.

There you go! He comes from another land. He comes from the punk rock area of Westeros!

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Source 2: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/26/meet-the-red-viper-pedro-pascal-on-game-of-thrones-kinky-bisexual-hellraiser.html

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KimYe Mega Post: Krisis & Wedding Rumors & Kanye Calling Out to Athletes " I WON KIM'S ASS"

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Kimye strikes again, folks. Just when you thought their wedding couldn't be more elaborate - or more expensive - the Vogue cover stars have even more tricks up their sleeves.

Reportedly, the high-profile couple will spend approximately $125,000 on each of their 200 guests according to a source that told Grazia UK reports StyleCaster. In case you didn't want to do the math yourself, that comes out to a total of 25 million (yeah, we gasped, too) on the guests alone. Nevermind the lavish, hand-delivered wedding invitations, which reportedly cost $1,000. "Kim and Kanye wanted the invites to be as lavish as possible, and commissioned a couture designer to create gold silk boxes containing a photo album of their fairytale romance and a silk invite etched in real gold leaf with a clasp of natural pearls," the source says.

As for the 125K goodies? This is what it will reportedly get guests: $500 bottles of Bollinger champagne, $200 Creme de la Mer products, handmade souvenir trinkets with Kim and Kanye's initials etched in Swarovski crystals, bottles of scents from local perfumeries, and $250 vouchers for treatments at the hotel's spa. Talk about a wedding favor!



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This only adds to the list of crazy Kimye rumors that have surfaced lately. Here are a few of our other favorites:

-- There will be a ton of no shows: Star magazine reports that celebs such as Robin Thicke, Jared Leto, Jonah Hill, Anna Wintour, Oprah Winfrey, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Prince, Karl Lagerfeld, Barack and Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé and Jay Z have declined the couple's invitation to their Parisian nuptials. Ouch.

-- Kris Jenner is being too much of a mom-ager: While there's no surprise here, sources close to the couple tell Us Weekly that Kim and Kris had a mother-daughter standoff recently. "Kim doesn't want Kris making all the decisions for the wedding," says an insider close to Kimmie. "Kim put her foot down, and things got heated." It was apparently so bad that the two didn't speak for a few days!

-- Guests will "have it [their] way" when it comes to the food: The most absurd of all absurd Kimye rumors, according to British tabloid Daily Star, West bought Kim 10 Burger King locations so that she can expand her business portfolio. In return the fast food chain offered to cater the wedding. Whoppers for everyone!

We can't wait to see what turns out to be true once the pair says "I do" at their Parisian nuptials in May.



KIMYE KRISIS: Is a French Wedding Off??

*Plans for the May 24th wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in Paris were briefly thrown in disarray after the couple recently learned of a French law requiring a 40-day residency for any couple planning to get married on their soil.

According to Radar Online, various statutes in France call for at least one of the parties has to have resided in France for at least 40 days prior to the wedding. Radar reviewed the law with the French Embassy in Washington D.C. who advised: “All marriages must be performed by a French civil authority before any religious ceremony takes place. The mayor can authorize the deputy mayor or a city councilor to perform the ceremony in the town in which one of the parties to be married has resided for at least 40 days preceding the marriage. These requirements can not be waived.”

A Kardashian source confirmed: “Kim and Kanye were unaware until recently that France required a residency requirement prior to the marriage. Kanye has an apartment in Paris, but he doesn’t live there full-time.”

This could explain the sudden and unexpected change to West’s Yeezus world tour, according to Radar. Last week, the rapper announced he would be postponing his planned Australian tour — which had originally been scheduled for the weeks before the May 24 event — until the fall.
West claimed he made the switch to give himself more time to work on his upcoming studio album, due later this year.

French law further dictates that there be TWO wedding ceremonies.

“The religious ceremony has to be performed after the civil ceremony (never before). The minister, priest or rabbi will require a certificate of civil marriage before any religious ceremony takes place,” the French Embassy also said.
According to Radar, Kimye’s French marriage will be legally recognized in the United States.


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KANYE to NFL, NBA PLAYERS: 'I WON KIM K'


Kanye West is spiking the football ... bragging that he defeated NBA and NFL players like Reggie Bush and Kris Humphries to win the rights to bang Kim Kardashian.

West just appeared on Future's new single, "I Won" -- and raps about his most prized conquest, Kim ... saying, "I want to dip that ass in gold, I want to dip that ass in gold."

Then comes the smack talk -- "I made it over NBA, NFL players ... So every time I score it's like the Super Bowl."





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I wonder what Kim's sex # is..... She sure has been with a lot of fine men.


Source: https://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/youll-never-guess-much-kim-kanyes-wedding-favors-143600409.html

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Source: http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/08/kanye-west-reggie-bush-kris-humphries-miles-austin-nfl-players-nba/

Peaches Geldof News Round Up

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Peaches Geldof remembered by sister Fifi Geldof in touching Instagram photo, autopsy to be performed Wednesday

The British beauty recently wrote about how 'perfect' her life and family was. Her dad, Bob Geldof, reportedly flew back to London from California following news of his daughter's death. An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

Fifi Geldof paid tribute to her younger sister Peaches in a touching Instagram post, after the 25-year-old British TV personality was found dead in her home on Monday.

"My beautiful baby sister. ... Gone but never forgotten," Geldof, 31, wrote, as the caption to a photo of her and the late beauty as children.

"I love you Peaches," she added.

Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, the eldest daughter of Bob Geldof and late model Paula Yates, joined her father and Peaches' husband, Tom Cohen, in speaking out on the death of the British socialite.

"We are beyond pain," Bob Geldof, 62, the lead singer of Ireland's Boomtown Rats and a founder of charity group Band Aid, said in a statement Monday.

"How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?"

The Irish musician was seen at Heathrow airport on Tuesday. He reportedly flew back to London from California following news of his daughter's death. An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Wednesday in Kent, BBC News reports.

Peaches also leaves behind two toddler sons, 1-year-old Astala and 23-month-old Phaedra, she had with her husband.

"My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra, and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day," he said in the joint family statement.

Geldof's family was the source of her happiness. As a contributing writer to Mother & Baby magazine, the blond beauty recently shared just how "perfect" her life with her children had been.

"When I had two wailing, smiling, joyful little blobs of waddling pink flesh they became my entire existence and saved me from (a life) of pure apathy," she wrote in an entry for the magazine before her 25th birthday on March 13, but published Tuesday, according to the Evening Standard.

"Everything else was nothingness – I had the perfect life, two babies who loved me more than anything. It was and is bliss."

The revelation that she led a seemingly happy life at home further disprove speculation of suicide. Geldof's mother Paula Yates died in 2000 after a heroin overdose, but there is no evidence that her daughter met the same fate.

Kent police officials say the death is being treated as "non-suspicious but unexplained and sudden," BBC News reports.


Peaches Geldof: 'Difficult time' before death

Just a few weeks before her tragic death on Monday at her Kent home in England, Peaches Geldof, 25, shared her thoughts on marriage and kids — and some of the struggles she was facing — in an interview for the U.K.'s Mother & Babymagazine.

Bob Geldof's daughter, 25, had signed on to be a new columnist, offering her views on parenting and not the partying she had been known for before the births of her two sons, Astala, who turns 2 this month, and Phaedra, who will be 1 this month.

"Yes, like all mums, Peaches can talk pretty much non-stop about motherhood," writes Claire Irvin, the editor who gave her the gig.

Peaches admits in the piece that she didn't plan her two boys to be so close in age – she just "didn't realize" you could get pregnant while breastfeeding. She talks of how social media helped her after she became a mother, that Instagram helped her find "new mum friends." And she mentions how she had embraced "attachment parenting."

After her parents, rocker Geldof and Paula Yates, divorced in 1996, Peaches says she and her three sisters "had a really unstable upbringing. It was probably my really early years, where I was attachment parented, that saved me from losing it." (Yates died of a heroin overdose in 2000.)

She says the technique is about fostering a secure attachment and bond with family members. That's partly why Peaches and her husband musician, Tom Cohen, moved to be closer to his parents. Tom's mother, Sue, helps watch the children when Peaches and Tom are working.

"If I didn't have Sue to help me out, it might have been too much," Peaches says. "There's been times I've cried with exhaustion, when they're both screaming, and I've just had to sit down, breathe and be like, 'This is hard.' You have no time for yourself, even on the toilet – you have a baby sitting on your lap while you're having a poo, eating a sandwich at the same time. That's what being a mum is. It's not easy. It can be stressful, but it's the most rewarding thing you will do."

She goes on to say that she and Tom had been through "a difficult time in their marriage" when Phaedra arrived because Tom's band S.C.U.M had split just on the verge of a big signing.

But she says, "Since I've had the boys, I don't think of the world as a negative place any more. I just have so much love. And, through my love for them, I've been reborn into a better, more understanding, more patient person – I feel like an adult."

Peaches Geldof Death: Cops Find ‘No Hard Drugs, No Suicide Note’ At Scene

After Peaches Geldof was found dead at 25 on April 6, police who searched her home that night say they found no evidence of ‘hard drugs, no suicide note and no visible signs of injury’ at the scene.

Peaches Geldof‘s sudden and shocking death has led many people to speculate that the English model and TV presenter may have died of a drug overdose, but so far there is no proof that that theory is true. Police who found Peaches’ body at her home in Wrotham, England on April 6 say that her passing was “sudden” and “unexplained” but they are not treating it as a suspicious death, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.

As Peaches’ family, friends and fans continue to mourn their loss, police are still looking into her mysterious death. Peaches was the daughter of musician and humanitarian Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates, who tragically died of a drug overdose in 2000.



Peaches, a married mother of two, was found dead at 1:35 p.m. on April 6, mere hours after she posted a picture of herself as a baby in her late mother’s arms to Instagram.

The coroner is exploring the possibility that Peaches died of natural causes, The Sun reported on April 6. We can only hope that Peaches did not follow in her mother’s tragic footsteps.

Peaches leaves behind her husband, Thomas Cohen, who is the lead singer of S.C.U.M, and their two sons, Astala Dylan Willow, 20 months, and Phaedra Bloom Forever, 10 months.

Peaches’ famous father, Bob Geldof, posted the following statement on his Facebook page after his daughter’s tragic death:

Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is. Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken. Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.

Peaches’ husband Thomas released this statement:

“My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts everyday. We shall love her forever. Thomas Astala and Phaedra Geldof-Cohen”.

Peaches had written for Elle Girl UK, and was also listed in Tatler magazine as one of their top ten fashion icons in 2006. Peaches also leaves behind her siblings, Fifi Trixibelle Geldof and Pixie Geldof and half-sister, Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Peaches’ loved ones during this difficult time.

Peaches Geldof: ‘At Risk Of Cardiac Arrest’ Because Of Odd Diet

After authorities allegedly revealed on April 7 that Peaches’ tragic death didn’t appear to be an overdose or a suicide, the coroner is exploring the possibility that the 25-year-old mother of two died of natural causes. A day later, a new report now claims that Peaches’ was at serious risk because of her diet, which consisted solely of juiced vegetables.

The entertainment world is still searching for answers two days after 25-year-old mother of two Peaches Geldof died suddenly on April 6, and with no evidence indicating the most obvious possible causes of death — suicide or a drug overdose — a new report alleges that Peaches may have put herself at risk because of a strict diet.

Peaches revealed in 2011 that she had started dieting by living off nothing but vegetable juices for weeks at a time, in an effort to shed baby weight after giving birth to her two young sons 13 months apart. “I do juicing. You juice vegetables and then you drink it three times a day. It’s gross. I do it usually for about a month,” Peaches told OK! magazine.

“I have days when I wake up and think, ‘I’m so fat,’” Peaches added in the interview.

Sadly, Peaches’ intense weight-loss efforts may have unwittingly been putting her life at risk. “Surviving on fruit is a very dangerous diet,” Cath Collins, a spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association, told Mail Online at the time in 2011. “Peaches is at high risk of electrolyte abnormalities which could lead to acute cardiac arrest. It is what kills anorexics.”

So could this explain why Peaches died at such a young age?

Answers have been hard to find so far in the wake of Peaches’ tragic death. Police told HollywoodLife.com that “the death is being treated as an unexplained and sudden death,” and later a report claimed that police did not find any “hard drugs” or “suicide note” at the scene, according to Mail Online, leading authorities to believe that her death was from natural causes.

But something unusual — like Peaches’ odd diet — must be at play, because there is seemingly nothing “natural” about a healthy-looking 25-year-old dying suddenly.

Our thoughts continue to be with Peaches’ loved ones during this difficult time.



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Nene Leakes' New Partner Makes Her Go "Tribal" on Dancing with the Stars

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Nene Leakes and Derek Hough: 32/40 Nene's worst nightmare and most passionate dream (I feel like she has the same reaction to all polar opposite occurrences in life, which is to scream wildly) came true: She got paired up with that munchkin Derek in the Switch-Up. What followed -- after a liiiiiiiiive musical mishap wherein the vocalists came in "really, really early so everything was off" -- was a bizarre and heated jazz routine in which the two blonde siblings (LOL) reenacted the African Anteater Ritual from Can't Buy Me Love alongside a raging fire -- plus, Nene's hair was also a fire.


Bizzle getting rubbed by a plus size girl in bikini

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He has been pulling some late nights in the recording studio of late, so it comes as no surprise that Justin Bieber might be feeling a little on the stressed side.

Working on his new album appears to have left the young singer in need of a massage after he was spotted in Miami on Monday.

As he sat on his sunny hotel balcony, the 20-year-old appeared to be getting some much-needed attention to his neck and back from a swimsuit-clad female companion.

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The Baby singer at one point shut his eyes while the woman, who was sporting a black kaftan and matching bikini, stood closely behind him.

A spokesman for Justin has refused to comment on the identity of his friend.

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Tom Hiddleston Threatens to One Day Play a Normal Guy

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Tom Hiddleston can pull off extreme looks. In The Avengers, he strutted around in Loki's two-foot horned helmet. For Midnight in Paris, he finessed F. Scott Fitzgerald's prim finger waves. And in his latest, Jim Jarmusch's vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive, Hiddleston lounges bare-chested in velvet-cuffed robes. The only style he can't swing — at least, as far as casting directors seem to think — is modern, everyday mortal.



Consider his last 12 months. As if out to prove his range, the 33-year-old British actor played a god in a Marvel blockbuster (Thor: The Dark World), took Only Lovers to Cannes, clocked three months performing Coriolanus in a 250-seat London theater that was once a banana-ripening house, and, three days after the closing curtain, bounced to Toronto, where he's shooting the Victorian ghost story Crimson Peak with Guillermo del Toro. ("He's like a great Mexican bear," he laughs. "I hug him every day, repeatedly.") Even with all that, there's a huge swath of things he has yet to do: contemporary thrillers, clever dramedies, romantic comedies, and anything, well, normal.

"It's crazy, because I was born in 1981 and I'm alive and well in 2014 — it's not that I'm conscientiously not doing contemporary stuff," insists Hiddleston. "I think it's really difficult to make a good romantic comedy. I'd love to play them; they just don't tend to come my way at the moment. I'm taking it as a compliment one way or another, but it's very much an ambition of mine to wear jeans."

Today, Hiddleston is on the phone from Canada. But in person, it's startling to discover that filmgoers have yet to behold Hiddleston's electric charisma and shock of blond curls. His movies prefer him dark-haired, dark-tempered, and cerebral. The typecasting is understandable: He does, after all, casually reference Milan Kundera and 19th-century poet John Clare in conversation. At the University of Cambridge, he earned a double first in Classics and, for fun, pondered how to rework The Odyssey and The Iliad as films. Meanwhile, his Tumblr fans have hoisted him up as the thinking girl's dreamboat, second only to Benedict Cumberbatch. Imagine if he had a crack at the scripts that made a star of Hugh Grant.

For now, audiences who want to see him in a rom-com can make do with Only Lovers Left Alive, a love story in which Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play glamorous, long-married vampires reconnecting after a few years apart in Michigan and Morocco. Moody and romantic, it could be subtitled From Here to Eternity (For Serious). "And some people find it funny," Hiddleston adds with a dry chuckle.

Swinton is the older woman, a 2,000-year-old Druid named Eve. Hiddleston plays Adam, a blood-drinking Byronic hero made immortal, naturally, during the Romantic age. Sexy and sulky, he's spent the last several centuries mastering every instrument before migrating to modern-day Detroit where his long hair, pale skin, tight pants, and emo attitude help him pass as a reclusive rock star.

"We were creating this kind of cocktail of Gothic romance," says Hiddleston. "And once all those elements were there, we just shook it up and started shooting." Picture a post-millennial version of that glory-hog Lestat. Or really, picture one part Keith Richards to six parts Jim Jarmusch himself.

"He seems to have poured so much of himself into the screenplay," says Hiddleston of his writer-director, who spent seven years pushing the project. Adam's obsessions are Jarmusch's obsessions: music, science, the secret biology of mushrooms. They share the same heroes — Bach, Tesla, Newton, Iggy, Hank (as in Williams) — each framed and hung on their own Wall of Fame. By channeling his personality into a fictional character that will, film format willing, outlive all of us, Jarmusch has created his own version of artistic immortality. Notes Hiddleston, "For Jim, I think that really is all that matters."

Adam and Eve are proof of why all vampires are cool — they've had eons to master impressive talents while earning a this-too-shall-pass insouciance. In the film, the hipper-than-thou couple spend their nights driving around Detroit in a Jaguar SJS, name-dropping famous friends like Christopher Marlowe and digging into heady topics like stars in the sky that emit musical signals. That's how we might imagine them hanging out even without a camera, though Hiddleston swears that the intimidating Swinton is "enormous, enormous fun," and equally game to chit-chat about the cinnamon bagels at the craft services table.

Often, though, they talked about the future and what they wished they could live long enough to witness. "The world is changing at an astonishing rate. Will Detroit have a second wind? What cities will last and what will not? And how fast is it all going to come? What language will we all be speaking in 100 years time?" wonders Hiddleston. "There's an interesting line in the film where Adam asks Eve, 'Have the water wars started yet, or is it still about the oil?' I won't be around to see it, I'm afraid.

"If I lived forever, who knows what I would do?" he continues. "I would certainly get better at the piano. I would try to learn how to paint. I think I would try to read all the books I haven't read. When I was a child, the house was full of books — the walls were lined with bookshelves — and I remember looking up at them once and thinking, 'I wonder if I'll ever be able to read all those books?' and my mother said, 'It's all right; you've got loads of time.' But actually we don't have that much time — I know I won't. There will be things I'll miss out on."

For now, his focus is on maximizing his newfound spare time. "Every six months for the last three or four years, I've been playing Loki," says Hiddleston. "This is the first year where I won't make a Marvel film for three years." Sure, he can't read every book ever written, but his increasing clout will make sure he doesn't miss out on any role he'd like to play. Maybe even one that will let him keep wearing his Levi's.

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omg @ the imagery of him hugging Del Toro ever day :')

Six Stephen King novels to be re-issued as special editions

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There is no greater 'master of horror' in the history of the genre than Stephen King, who has written some of the most enduring tales of fright of all time. King burst onto the scene in the early 70s with books like Carrie and The Shining, and he's still to this day churning out incredible works of written art, including the recently released Shining sequel Doctor Sleep.

In celebration of the King's 40+ year reign of terror, Cemetery Dance Publications has just announced that they'll be releasing six of his classic works in the form of Special Edition books, which are going to be as limited as they are deluxe. First up will be Carrie, set for release in the summer of this year, followed by Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand and Pet Sematary; all books that defined King and made him a household name, in the 70s and early 80s.

Like all of these Special Edition books will be, Carrie is jam packed with bonus features including an introduction by King as well as brand new interior and exterior artwork. It's now available for pre-order over on Cemetery Dance's website, with one edition (limited to 3,000) selling for $85 and another (limited to 750) going for $225. An even more limited version sold out in less than an hour, and the others aren't expected to last too much longer.

Head over to Cemetery Dance Publications to learn more and pick up a copy for yourself. The other five books in the series will be released in six month increments.

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Hannibal 2×07 Yakimono New Promo Photos (and a spoiler-cut Bryan Fueller interview )

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We have five new promotional photographs for Hannibal 2×07 Yakimono! None of them are of Miriam Lass, unfortunately, but we get to see Will outside of prison! Hurray! A free Will is a Will we like to see.







One of the great casting coups of Hannibal Season 2 is Boardwalk Empire‘s Michael Pitt as Mason Verger, and Bryan Fuller tells SciFiNow that he can’t wait for Fannibals to see him.

“I’m eager for people to take a peek at what he does because I think it will be certainly iconic in the Thomas Harris legacy of these characters,” he tells us.

Mason Verger is the wealthy psychopath previously played by Gary Oldman in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal, and Fuller tells us that Pitt’s take will see Dr Lecter pushed to his limit.

“The scenes with Michael Pitt and Mads Mikkelsen have been so much fun to cut because we’ve always talked about how Mason Verger has to be a bit of the Joker to Hannibal’s Batman and they have to have a dynamic of ‘Here’s this guy who’s in therapy with Hannibal Lecter, but he clearly has no taste for him,’” he tells us.

“Well, he does, but he just thinks he’s an atrocious human being, and the last episode of the Verger arc is one of the darkest comedies that we’ve done on the show.”

“Michael Pitt brings such a pimp quality to Mason Verger because the first time you see him he’s dressed in this fantastic fur coat and there’s a little bit of The Great Gatsby meets Scott Disick,so he’s fantastically styled and Michael had so much fun with the role, it’s been delightful to cut him because he is trying everything and really embracing the kind of haute creep capacity of this character, and it’s really exciting.”


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Steve Harvey Gives Advice To Husband Who Doesn’t Like Wife’s Natural Hair

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When a man’s wife decided to let go of the perms and embrace her natural hair, he was so shocked that he took cover from their home.

The couple appeared on the Steve Harvey Show recently to discuss the wife’s frustration over how negatively her husband has responded to her new hair style.

“The first time he saw it, he ran out of the house,” she said. “And then he came back in and asked if it was a wig. If so, take it off. He wasn’t very supportive of the natural state.”


It didn’t help that the husband, whose wife was clearly insecure about her hair makeover, made even more insensitive remarks during the segment.

“Of course, I try not to hurt my wife,” he said. “I love my wife with all of my heart, of course. I want to be supportive of her and the growing of her hair. All I ask is to see what else it can do. I can bare with the time that it takes for her hair to grow.”


Yeah, we know, right. Steve was quick to step in and save the brotha from his own ignore self-destruction.
“What’s wrong with this whole thing is that you couldn’t be more wrong with your approach,” he said. See what else Steve had to say to the young husband below.







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Libel law expert & current face of apartheid, ScarJo, on her failed marriage to some Canadian

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While Scarlett Johansson has lived much of her life in the public eye, the blond beauty rarely opens up about her romantic life.

There's no question the actress has had a string of high-profile relationships, including her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds (who is now married to Blake Lively), which lasted for a brief two years before the former couple called it quits in 2010.

"I feel I know now more of what I need in a relationship, what I want in a relationship,"Glamour's May cover girl tells the publication, opening up about her failed marriage to the Hollywood hunk. "And I know I have more tools to communicate, not just with my partner, but with myself."

Still, the actress admits, "That's not necessarily any reflection of who I was married to or what was happening in my marriage, but really where I was in my life."

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there's more at the source, by the way, but it's all pretty much stuff that's been covered in posts already.

Bravo Announces New & Returning Series

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Bravo Media unveils its ambitious slate of original programming with 15 new series including two scripted, 16 returning, and three new projects in development. The network continues to expand across every platform in 2014 with high-quality content that focuses on the network’s passion points of food, fashion, beauty, design, pop culture and digital. Committed to breakthrough programming, Bravo continues to partner with award-winning producers, prominent writers and experts in a variety of fields.

Bravo maintained the #1 ranking for the most engaged, educated and affluent viewers for P18-49 in primetime and was the #5 most social cable reality network in 2013, according to Nielsen. After eight consecutive years of growth in total viewership, Bravo earned its best quarter in network history among all key demos in Q1, ranking #9 in the P18-49 and P25-54 demos. The network is averaging 1.1 million total viewers and 629,000 adults 18-49 year to-date, up 7 percent and 1 percent respectively vs. Q1 2013. Bravo Digital also delivered its best quarter in network history for page views and total video streams on Mobile. BravoTV.com had its best first quarter ever for tablet page views and the Bravo Now mobile app scored its best first quarter in network history for page views.


NEW SCRIPTED SERIES:

“Odd Mom Out”


Produced by Left/Right with Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver serving as Executive Producers along with Jill Kargman, and Piro Vision’s Tim Piper and Daniel Rosenberg.

Forget about keeping up with the Joneses, in acclaimed author and celebrated fashionista Jill Kargman’s world, life is about keeping up with the Rockefellers. This hilarious half-hour comedy, based not-so-loosely on Jill’s own life, captures the fantastically outrageous world of the uber-wealthy momzillas of New York’s Upper East Side. Playing a version of herself, Jill is living in a world that has become so elite, so hip, and so trendy, that she’s now the odd mom out.

“Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”

Produced by Universal Cable Productions with Marti Noxon, who wrote the pilot, Vicki Iovine, Meryl Poster and Robbie Duncan McNeil serving as Executive Producers.

Based on the best-selling “Girlfriends’ Guide” book series by Vicki Iovine, the scripted series written by Marti Noxon (“Glee,” “Mad Men,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), follows Abby, played by Lisa Edelstein (“House”), a self-help book author who hides the fact that she’s separated from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her early 40s in Los Angeles. As previously announced, the series also stars Janeane Garofalo (“Reality Bites”) as Lyla and Beau Garrett (“Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior”) as Phoebe. The network now confirms, Necar Zadegan (“Emily Owens, MD,” “24”) will star in the new role of Delia and Robert Duncan McNeill (“666 Park Avenue,” “Chuck”) has signed on as Producing Director for the series, which is slated to begin production this summer. Paul Adelstein played the role of Abby’s husband in the pilot and Carrie Fisher made a cameo as Abby’s book editor Cat in the pilot.

UNSCRIPTED NEW SERIES:

“Top Chef Duels”


Produced by Magical Elves with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz serving as Executive Producers.

Previously announced as “Top Chef Extreme,” this new culinary competition series hosted by celebrity chef Curtis Stone brings back eighteen of the biggest, boldest and most talked-about personalities from past seasons of “Top Chef” and “Top Chef Masters.” In each episode, two former chef’testants will Face Off head-to-head in three rounds of extreme culinary challenges, each being given the chance to up the ante and challenge the other’s culinary skills. The winners of each battle will compete in the season finale in a test of pure gastronomic talent and ambition until only one is standing to claim the $100,000 grand prize and culinary bragging rights. Curtis Stone will also anchor the judges table with Gail Simmons, while chefs Wolfgang Puck and Hugh Acheson and special guests will round out the judging panel throughout the series.

“Best New Restaurant”

Produced by One Potato Two Potato with Gordon Ramsay, Tom Colicchio, Elizabeth Cook, Nicola Moody, Pat Llewellyn and Ben Adler serving as Executive Producers.

A new out-of-studio culinary competition series that tackles the food world from a fresh direction: the restaurant. Acclaimed restaurateur and host, Tom Colicchio, along with his trusted team of experts, pit 16 of the nation’s hottest new restaurants against each other in a series of challenges aimed at determining who provides the best all-around, top-to-bottom experience. Tom will travel across the nation in search of only one restaurant that deserves a cash prize and to be crowned “Best New Restaurant.” The series is modeled after the UK hit “Ramsay’s Best Restaurant” from executive producer Gordon Ramsay.

“100 Dates” (working title)

Produced by All3Media America, Goodbye Pictures and Lime Pictures. Eli Holzman, Stephen Lambert and Derek McLean will serve as Executive Producers for AllMedia America; Rich Bye will serve as Executive Producer for Goodbye Pictures; and Kate Little and Claire Poysner will serve as Executive Producers for Lime Pictures.

“100 Dates” follows a group of young, successful New York singles as they search for love and live it up in the city that never sleeps. Marking the network’s first foray into real-time docu-drama production, each episode will be shot and aired within the same week. This addictive series takes transmedia to the next level as fans will be able to interact with the cast and affect the story in ways that have never been seen through social media.

“Friends to Lovers?”

Produced by World of Wonder with Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell and Angela Berg serving as Executive Producers.

A true social experiment exploring what happens when platonic friends leave the comfort of the ‘friend zone’ behind and transition into exclusive romantic relationships. “Friends to Lovers?” attempts to answer the age old question, can friends really become lovers, as it follows multiple sets of friends who take a leap of faith and decide to take their relationships to the next level.

“Manzo’d with Children”

Produced by Sirens Media with Lucilla D’Agostino, Valerie Haselton and Rebecca Toth Diefenbach serving as Executive Producers.

Caroline Manzo of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” attempts to be the ring leader of her crazy Italian family. Her children are driving her more nuts than ever as Albie is single and ready to mingle, Chris is eager to come up with the best idea since the stripper/car wash, and Lauren has finally let Vito put a ring on it. Meanwhile, husband, Al Sr., has no tolerance for all these shenanigans. It's one crowded house filled with laughter and personality...and maybe a few rounds of the Ham Game.

“Euros of Hollywood”

Produced by CORE Media Group with Jennifer O'Connell, Rob Lee of Bayonne Entertainment and Andrew Hoegl serving as Executive Producers.

With personalities as big as their native countries, six successful European jetsetters are taking Los Angeles by storm. From an Albanian pop princess determined to conquer America her way, to a self-dubbed Italian Renaissance man whose personality screams “I’m a star,” these men and women are stopping at nothing on their rise to the top. With their hearts on their sleeves, they have a few things in common— the pursuit of wealth, power, fame and the American dream.

“Ladies of London” – Premiering June

Produced by Adjacent Productions with Izzie Pick Ashcroft, Claire O’Donohoe, Anna Geddes, Jane Tranter and Michael Brooks serving as Executive Producers.

Set in the glittering, class-conscious city of London, the docu-series follows a group of elite British socialites, Annabelle Neilson and Caroline Stanbury along with American expats Juliet Angus, Caprice Bourret, Marissa Hermer and Noelle Reno who all run in similar social circles, but are worlds apart. From weekend getaways in the English countryside, to high tea at one of London’s exclusive polo-clubs, both groups adhere to strict unwritten Rules of Engagement where reputation is everything.

“Game of Crowns” – Premiering July

Produced by Shed Media US with Pam Healey, Lisa Shannon, Dan Peirson and Tess Gamboa as Executive Producers.

Six pageant wives compete on the “Mrs.” pageant circuit to snatch the spotlight with their intense preparation from obsessing over the perfect swimsuit to honing their interview skills– all while being dedicated mothers and wives. The cast includes Susanna Paliotta, Shelley Carbone, Lynne Diamante, Vanassa Sebastian, Leha Guilmette, and Lori-Ann Marchese.

“Million Dollar Listing Miami” – Premiering June

Produced by World of Wonder Productions with Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell and Eric Detwiler serving as Executive Producers.

The hit franchise is expanding into the sexy city of Miami where three luxury agents, Chad Carroll, Samantha DeBianchi and Chris Leavitt, battle it out in the world of high-end real estate. With a surging market in South Florida, properties are selling for record rates and agents are cashing in on massive commissions like never before. Business can get heated as the brokers attempt to make a name for themselves and outshine their competition by landing the next big listing.

“Jersey Belle”

Produced by Authentic Entertainment with Lauren Lexton, Tom Rogan and Sonia Slutsky serving as Executive Producers.

A classic fish-out-of-water tale, this docu-series follows outspoken New Jersey native and Hollywood publicist, Jaime Primak Sullivan, as she navigates life in the upscale southern suburb of Mountain Brook, Alabama. Jaime’s life was turned upside down after she married the town’s “most eligible” bachelor. Despite the help of her girlfriends, who are determined to sculpt Jaime into a southern darling, Jaime can’t help but speak her mind – often to hilarious results. Can Jaime keep her Jersey cool in the Deep South, or will her southern-bred BFFs finally turn her into a true-blue Alabama belle?

“Untying the Knot” – Premiering June

Produced by Engel Entertainment with Steven Engel, Krystal Kennedy and Dean W. Slotar serving as Executive Producers.

When couples go from “I do” to “I don’t,” Vikki Ziegler is who they call to mediate, advise and divide their assets out of court. Each episode features a different divorcing couple struggling to divvy up their belongings that range from dazzling diamonds to the family pets. Expert appraisers Michael and Mark Millea evaluate the items in question and help Vikki determine a fair division of assets. Why let a judge decide your fate when this “Divorce Diva” can cut through all the drama to determine who will get what?

“Extreme Guide to Parenting” – Premiering July

Produced by Punched In The Head Productions with Amelia D'Entrone, Craig D'Entrone and Lauren Lazin serving as Executive Producers.

From spoiling and severe punishments to helicopter and new age methods, this is parenting at its most extreme. Each episode gives a candid look at two different households with very unique styles of raising their children – and each family strongly believes their methods are superior.

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kandi’s Wedding” (working title)

Produced by True Entertainment with Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin and Carlos King serving as Executive Producers. Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker also serve as Executive Producers.

You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker. Against vocal family opposition that played out dramatically in season six of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Kandi and Todd have decided to move forward and tie the knot. Each episode follows Kandi and Todd as they plan a larger-than-life “Coming to America” themed wedding ceremony, signifying the couple’s initial introduction in Africa.

UNSCRIPTED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:

“Going Going Gone” (working title)


Produced by Fremantle Media North America with Thom Beers, Toby Gorman and Jodi Day serving as Executive Producers.

A never-before-attempted live televised estate sale where viewers are given the chance to snoop around the most spectacular homes in the country and bid LIVE on what’s inside! From a hand-sewn peacock feather dress modeled by Naomi Campbell at Milan Fashion Week to a stunning worn leather knife roll used by Wolfgang Puck at the time he opened his first Spago, at home viewers will have the opportunity to own some truly unique treasures.

“Tour Group” (working title)

Produced by Monkey Kingdom with Will Macdonald and David Granger serving as Executive Producers.

This luxury travel docu-series will follow a diverse group of upscale characters on a mind-blowing vacation through the most stunning, eclectic and exclusive sights and scenes around the globe. With such vibrant and varied personalities forced together in alien environments for two months, this dream holiday could be just that as some might find love under the pink light of the Taj Mahal, or turn into a nightmare for others as the furs fly in seven star resorts from Dubai to the Maldives. One thing is for certain, from a Safari in Kenya to the Souks of Morocco, this will be the ride of a lifetime.

“Gen XYZ” (working title)

Produced by Warrior Poets and Crybaby Media with Morgan Spurlock, Ethan Goldman, Jeremy Chilnick and Danny Passman serving as Executive Producers.

Six ambitious and successful women from four different generations are each on the precipice of taking their career to the next level in the fashion and beauty industries. While working to navigate the delicate balance between their personal and professional realities and aspirations, these trail blazers are grappling with what "having it all" really looks like for women of today in the cutthroat fashion industry.

RETURNING SERIES:

This summer many of Bravo’s memorable characters return as the network confirms new season orders of high-seas and high-stakes drama with Below Deck season two, Don’t Be Tardy… season three, Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles season seven and The Real Housewives of New Jersey season six. Returning fan favorites this fall include a twelfth season of the Emmy Award-winning culinary competition series Top Chef, The Millionaire Matchmaker season eight, The Real Housewives of Atlanta season seven and The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills season five. The fall fun continues with the return of Shahs of Sunset season four, Vanderpump Rules season three, Fashion Queens season three and Newlyweds season two. Look out for the sophomore returns of Thicker Than Water and Blood, Sweat & Heels, along with more Watch What Happens Live and a third season of Newlyweds in 2015.


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rip Real Housewives of Miami & ew @ manzo'd with children. now just waiting for Southern Charm's renewal.

90210's Jennie Garth: The Club Wouldn't Let My Black Friends In

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Update:12:20 P.M. PDT -- The club just told TMZ, "DBA has a very strict door policy and Ms. Garth and her entire group of friends were asked to wait in line for entry along with everyone else. The group chose not to do so and left."

Jennie Garth went to a wildly popular club in Hollywood Monday night ... and abruptly left in a huff, claiming the bouncers turned away her 3 friends ... all of whom were black males.

Jennie's people claim the "90210" star went to DBA with 2 white girlfriends and 3 black men. She says the bouncer told her and the other women they were invited in but refused to let the guys go past the velvet ropes.

Jennie stormed off ... appearing to cry and flipping off the photogs.
You don't see the guys in the photo.

One of the photogs told us it looked like the whole group was denied, but Jennie insists the women were given an entry.





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Lena Dunham Speaks About Her Sister's Coming Out

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On Monday, Lena Dunham was honored by the Point Foundation, an organization that helps LGBTQ students overcome obstacles to complete their educations. In her acceptance speech at the New York Public Library, the Girls creator displayed her sense of humor, saying, “This is probably the most attractive room I have yet to enter. I don't want to traffic in stereotypes, but gay men clean up real good, which is probably why I have dated so many of you.”

Dunham also spoke warmly about her family and her lesbian sister. “I have always felt a strong and emotional connection to members of the LGBTQ community. It was actually a huge disappointment for me, when I came of age and realized that I was sexually attracted to men. So when my sister came out, I thought, Thank God, someone in this family can truly represent my passions and beliefs.

“My sister Grace coming out as a gay woman at age 17 was a huge turning point for me in my understanding of the issues facing LGBTQ people. We were raised in an environment—the art world of downtown Manhattan—where no one hid their sexual orientation, and a common question from four-year-old me was ‘Mom, are those ladies gay together?’ I was always very jealous of any child who had two dads. And because of our parents’ deeply held commitment to acceptance and equality, my sister’s process of coming to terms with her sexuality was as angst-free as anything involving sex can really be. She was assured by the adults in her life that she was not only accepted, but adored for who she is. I am so happy that this is the way she was able to enter the world as a woman and an LGBTQ person.”

Girls star Andrew Rannells presented the award at the gala, and Dunham mentioned her work on the series: “I love my job. I feel insanely lucky to work with talented individuals from all walks of life, who define themselves in beautiful and unusual ways. Our goal on Girls is to show you non-stereotypical examples of the range of people who inhabit this amazing city, and we are learning more about what that means every day.”

It was announced that Dunham has donated $25,000 to the Point Foundation. Also at the gala were Mariska Hargitay, Judith Light, Tyne Daly, Billy Porter, Michael Urie, BD Wong, and TV producer Dr. Neal Baer, who was also honored.

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Being Human (US) Series Finale Recap: How Did it all End?

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Being Human, the story of four supernatural roommates and their journey to blend in with everyday, ordinary people, took it’s final bow Monday night.

Over the past four seasons, fans of Being Human – which adapted from the British show of the same name - have come to love – and fear – the unusual group all living under one roof: Aidan (Sam Witner), a tortured and troubled vampire; werewolves Josh (Sam Huntington) & Nora (Kristen Hager); and ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath).

When Syfy announced the shows cancelation earlier this year, fans of the series were surprised of the news – Being Human has had pretty steady ratings over it’s four season run. However, the move was something that executive producers Anna Fricke and Stefan Pieszczynski -along with series star Witner and other cast members- wanted.



In an interview with TVGuide.com Witner sited budgeting reasons as the main cause for the desire to end the show on a high note. When asked about the difficulty of producing a fifth season of the series Witner responded with the following statement:

“Mostly budgeting reasons. When you don’t have enough budget to do what the show requires, then you have to call in favors. For example: getting friends to guest and putting them up in apartments. I will have to say that filming in Montreal, the crews are amazing, but the acting talent pool is limited, unless you’re OK with them speaking French. So we had to get actors from Toronto and Vancouver and that costs money.”

If you haven’t seen the Being Human yet, I suggest you stop reading the article now as there are some serious SPOILERS coming up.

“There Goes the Neighborhood” picked up where we last left the four roommates, with Sally’s vision of the future, the one where Aidan snaps Josh’s neck moments after having to take the life of his son Kenny. Sally conjures up the strength to transport Josh, Nora and herself to the basement and seals the door to prevent Aidan from getting to Josh. Knowing that the only way to bring Aidan out of the trance and to save Aidan from himself, Sally makes the ultimate sacrifice. Sally gives Aidan a chance to finally be human again, by sacrificing herself so that Aidan can have the life she believes he deserves. Sally vanished from the room, bringing viewers the first death of the night.

Sally’s sacrifice gives the three roommates still standing the chance to flee the house, free of Ramona’s grip. We get to see Aidan enjoy the perks of being human again, such as gulping down cheeseburgers and chili-fries, but with mortality comes limits once again. Soon it is made clear to Aidan that his time in this world is coming to an end as his organs are rapidly decaying.

In a last attempt to cheat death, Aidan identifies a recently changed vampire in a bar and tries to get the vamp to turn him. Just when it seems that Aidan will get his wish, Josh arrives to meet Aidan at the bar only to see him pinned up against a wall in the alley. After scaring the vampire away, Josh and Aidan share a truly touching scene as Aidan confesses his fear of dying.

Earlier in between all of the week to live, moving on scenes between the three remaining roommates, Ramona decides to send Josh, Aidan and Nora a message. She kills a construction worker, sending a bold message to the three roommates, “There is no escaping her.” Aidan comes across an article in the newspaper about the murder in the house, it’s a good thing they read the newspaper still, and shares the news with Josh. Josh and Aidan agree that they need to face Ramona and find a way to end her reign of terror. The two agree to meet up at the house in one hour, an agreement that Aidan breaks.

Aidan enters the house and is quickly greeted by a very angry, vengeful Ramona. As it becomes clearer that Aidan will not make it out of this battle alive, Ramona literally makes Aidan choke on the blood he has spilt in the house over the years. Then in a poetic like way, Ramona sends Aidan tumbling down the stairs in the same fashion that took Sally’s human life. With his let dying breathes of air Aidan sets the house into flames, tossing a lighter onto a gasoline covered floor. As the house goes up in flames, esicentially dying, so does the house spirit Ramona.

When Josh and Nora finally arrive at house, they’re overwhelmed by the sight they see. A body being removed on a stretcher and the remains of what used to be their home. The two enter the apartment, taking in their surroundings and accepting that their battle is finally over. As the two embrace, a familiar voice greets them from behind, Aidan. In typical Being Human form, the roommates joke about the new curveball thrown their way.

That’s when Aidan’s door appears, I have to say I wasn’t sure this moment was ever going to happen. Aidan opens the door and walks into the bright white light, to find a very familiar face waiting for him, Sally.

The show flashforwards slightly to the future, to find Nora & Josh asleep in a field, both dreaming of their lost roommates and happier times. As they awaken we find out that the pair have not one but two children, Sally & Aidan. The shows fades away as Nora and Josh enjoy a normal moment with their children as a family.


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To the few of us fans on here, what did everyone think? I thought it was bittersweet. And while it had its flaws, I thought it was a very fitting ending. I am very content. BTW, The kids at the end were Sam Huntington's actual children.

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'Beyond pain': Peaches Geldof, Paula Yates and one family's epic suffering

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To comprehend why the death of Peaches Geldof– a famous young woman, albeit not famous for anything in particular – has prompted such public shock, one could focus on several factors. There's her young age (25), of course, her two young children (one is two years old, the other not yet 12 months) and the devastated family she leaves behind (husband, father, three sisters). But in order to understand properly the visceral sadness that followed, you need to look back further, all the way to 1995, when many of Geldof's fans and social media followers were not even born.

Back in the early 90s, the Geldofs – Bob, Paula, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie – were, before the Osbournes, before the Beckhams, Britain's first celebrity family.

Their fondness for living their lives in public, the quirkiness of the children's names, their rackety fashion sense, their cosily privileged lives – all of those are par for the course for celebrities now (even the Geldof girls' names, once much mocked by the press and public, seem downright sensible next to those of some of today's celebrity children). The family occupied a unique place in Britain, amusing but loved, rock'n'roll but stable, public but familial. They anticipated trends that are commonplace today: Bob, still "Saint Bob" then, had kickstarted the fashion for celebrities getting involved in charities with Live Aid in the mid-80s, Paula Yates wrote funny manuals on parenting, long before the idea of celebrities as lifestyle gurus was commonplace. She was Little Miss Naughty, as her T-shirts famously proclaimed, but in a safe, clean-cut and teetotal context. She loved, in particular, to write about her children: "Peaches wants more than anything to dress like the Queen Mother, circa 1935. When she was two she wore a bridesmaid's dress and full veil with diamante studded plimsolls for almost a whole year … But at least we knew what it was like to live with real, natural glamour!" Yates wrote in her autobiography.

By the mid-90s, Geldof made his already famous family even more public, having hired Yates as the celebrity interviewer on The Big Breakfast, the hugely successful breakfast TV show made by his production company, Planet24. Geldof cannily realised that his wife's fizzy flirtiness and retro-pinup looks would bring the show more adult attention than it would otherwise get. Amid Chris Evans' clowning and the neon puppets Zig and Zag, Yates would loll about on an animal-print bed flirting with celebrities in a daily interview slot dubbed – saucily, for 90s breakfast TV – In Bed with Paula. And so, one morning in 1995, she interviewed INXS singer Michael Hutchence.

For teenagers watching that interview at the time – as I was, and did – those seven minutes were somewhat disorienting. For Geldof, it must have been something else. In those days, British teenagers were not used to watching, over their Frosties, a woman in a tiny dress wrap her legs around an Australian rock star while he stared hungrily into her eyes – these were two people clearly in lust with one another. Not long after, Yates left Geldof for Hutchence, and thus began the messy, sad story that ultimately led to the public's huge outpouring of sympathy for Peaches and her family this week.

The vast majority of the people who have reacted so strongly to Peaches Geldof's death did not, of course, know her. But the intimate travails of her family have been a press fixture for so long now that many might have felt as if they did. If she had merely been a reality TV stalwart, her background unknown to the public, her death would have been sad, but not astonishing. Given what happened to her family in the past, the scale of the loss looks downright mythic.

Within a year of leaving Geldof, Yates had a daughter with Hutchence, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, and she and her ex-husband were fighting bitterly over their three daughters, with Geldof eventually winning full custody. When Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Australia, Yates's initial reaction was to blame Geldof for, she claimed, driving her adored lover to suicide. But once the anger passed, the grief settled over her and never left. She entered rehab, had a series of misjudged relationships and suffered tabloid exposés. Interviews with her at the time show her to be a hollow-eyed outline of the sweetly sexy woman she had once been. "I was beyond grief," Yates told an interviewer at the time.

"My mother, who was amazing, who wrote books on parenting, who gave us this idyllic childhood in Kent … turned into this heartbroken shell of a woman who was just medicating to get through the day," Peaches said in 2012. "On top of that, there was my father, who was very embittered and depressed about it, and for us children, an environment that was almost impossible."

It was at this point that Yates was hit with yet more shattering news: she had grown up believing that Jess Yates was her father, only to discover that her biological father was, in fact, TV presenter Hughie Green. The tabloids, watching over Yates' troubles with glee, crowed over this personally devastating news.

In 2000, Yates, the former teetotal rock'n'roll earth mummy, died from a heroin overdose. Peaches was 11.

"I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day, because my father's mentality was, 'Keep calm and carry on'. So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened."

The death of a parent is traumatic for any young child. For Peaches, there was added sadness in the knowledge that not even Yates's love for her children could pull her back from the heartbreak that enveloped her after Hutchence's death. "Everything changed after she met Michael," the late TV producer Andrea Wonfor, who had worked with Yates, said at the time. "She threw everything away, and found nothing left after he died."

Bob Geldof swiftly assumed custody of Tiger Lily, and the media, who had hounded Yates ruthlessly before her death, turned its attention to her daughters. Geldof and Yates's eldest daughter, Fifi, has never had any interest in publicity. Peaches, however, dived into the spotlight with an enthusiasm that proved she was truly her mother's daughter. She has said she didn't start grieving for her mother until she was "maybe 16", which is exactly when she started to become a media figure, writing for magazines and appearing on TV. It was also around this time that photos of her looking out of it at parties started to become regular features in the tabloids. Her path, one carved ahead of her by her mother, looked set.

But then she switched gears and surprised everyone, just as her mother had done, but in a different direction. Where Yates rejected domesticity for hedonism, Peaches gave up the parties for a life in the country with her husband, Thomas Cohen, and their two sons, Astala and Phaedra, and she credited them, along with memories of what happened to her mother, with saving her. To the public, who had known this family for so long, it looked as if Geldof and his family had finally found redemption after a long, sad and bitterly messy saga. But again, the gears changed.

Geldof's statement following the death of his daughter – so much more emotionally charged than the bland ones usually issued by celebrity PRs – underlines another reason behind the public's shock: in contrast to most celebrity deaths, we know her parents and can imagine all too clearly her father's grief. His statement – "We are beyond pain" – echoed, perhaps unwittingly, Yates' words after the death of her lover 17 years ago. Peaches had spoken so frequently of her devastation after her mother's death, and now a similar kind of sadness has been put on her own sons, who she wanted to give a happier childhood than she had. Her half-sister, Tiger Lily, still only 18, has now lost her father, her mother and her sibling. Ultimately, the reason the public was so shocked by Peaches Geldof's death was that, even though we may not have known her, we knew her story, and it seemed too sad that it could end this way. But it has.

IDK about this, if the reaction has been exploitative or not, but the interested was birthed long ago.

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Tops List of 7 Most Successful Movie Sequels

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With its record-breaking $92 million weekend debut, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has earned itself entry to an exclusive club: movie sequels that outdid their originals.

Not only did "Winter Soldier" outperform "Captain America: The First Avenger," which earned $65 million domestically in its first three days out, but the sequel scored the biggest April opening of all time, according to the L.A. Times.

The film was produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, which also released the original "Captain America: The First Avenger." The Walt Disney Co. also owns ABC News.

Keith Simanton, managing editor of movie information site IMDb, says any ranking of the most successful sequels of all time depends on how you define success: Did the movie outperform its original in opening weekend sales or in its total lifetime gross? Was it a greater or a lesser winner with the critics?

Simanton shared with ABC News his own ideas about what sequels might qualify as the seven most successful of all time.

They include the late Mickey Rooney's "You're Only Young Once" (1937), the second movie in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, whose 14 films made an estimated $75 million Depression-era dollars for MGM, according to the New York Times. (That would be over a billion dollars today.)

You'll find the rest of Simanton's picks on the pages that follow. Sales and other performance data come from IMBd's "Box Office Mojo" rankings.
I'd say let the party continue on tbh...

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Why Marvel May Be The New Pixar & Why That May Help Improve Superhero Diversity

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Despite the fact that the first Captain America wasn’t a terribly high-grossing comic book adventure (at $371m worldwide, it’s among their lowest earners since 2008) and the fact that Steve Rogers didn’t exactly shine in The Avengers, this second Captain America ope ned 47% above its predecessor; ending its debut weekend with $95 million and $302 million worldwide. Good reviews, a strong cast, and terrific trailers should not be discounted, but we may be reaching a point where the Marvel brand is in itself a major draw for audiences. We may be reaching a point where the studio is as important as the specific content. In other words, Marvel Studios may in fact be the next Pixar.

Yes there was clearly an “Avengers Bump” that bolstered the popularity and box office fortunes of its various heroes, as first evidenced by Iron Man 3 doubling the worldwide gross of Iron Man 2. We may soon reach a point, perhaps if Guardians of the Galaxy (a science-fiction adventure based on a cult property mostly disconnected from the ongoing Avengers narrative) hits as big as the recent Thor and Captain America sequels this August, where Marvel Studios itself proves to be the selling point. There may be minor ebbs and flows in terms of box office depending on the movie (I wouldn’t expect Dr. Strange to open like Iron Man any more than Wall-E would open as high as Toy Story 3), but the results may end up being somewhat consistent because the studio is the hook. That’s pretty much the Pixar trump card at this point.

The vast majority of moviegoers will go to see a Pixar Animation film based on the notion that it’s a Pixar film. The studio brand, and its reputation for artistic quality and (usually) emotionally-draining fables, is the selling point. Audiences flock to a Pixar film primarily because it’s a Pixar film. This “trusted brand” scenario partially explains why films as diverse as Monster’s Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Wall-E, Up, Cars 2, and Brave all opened between $60 and $70 million (Ratatouille, which opened with $48m in 2007, is the “outlier” regardless of its indisputable quality). Six years and nine films in, Marvel Studios is arguably as much a trusted brand as Pixar. It’s as much of a selling point (“from the studio that brought you Iron Man“) as the superheroes they are highlighting. Especially post-Avengers, the Marvel Studios films’ biggest strength may well be the fact that they are Marvel Studios films.

As they prepare to sell Avengers: Age of Ultron and start releasing some less “surefire” properties like Ant Man or Guardians of the Galaxy, we’ll start to get a clearer picture. We’ll know whether Marvel has built up such a reputation for (relative) quality, as well as large-scale action and terrific actors not remotely slumming in a comic book sandbox, that the studio itself is the biggest marketing hook. Obviously this is somewhat speculative, and arguably a little optimistic. But the notion that audiences flock to Marvel films because they are Marvel films is one that, if arguably “proven” over the next few years, will give Marvel and Walt Disney far more latitude in terms of how to proceed. Marvel will have more flexibility in terms of potentially recasting or replacing certain key characters should they age out or get tired of smashing bad guys.

Anyone can technically be in the Iron Man suit and let’s not pretend we all don’t know exactly why the Winter Soldier showed up this early in the narrative. But there can be only one Thor or one Nick Fury. Should Chris Hemsworth tire of swinging the hammer, Marvel will have more freedom in just recasting Thor if Marvel itself is the “face on the poster” as opposed to Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
It’s a similar situation to the Cars films. Sure fans love Larry the Cable Guy as Mater, but kids won’t boycott Cars 3 if the tow truck ends up being voiced by someone else. It’s the classic star+concept scenario; with the difference being that the “star” is the studio (Pixar in this case) rather than the actor portraying a given character. How Marvel chooses to deal with the inevitable problem of aging and/or disinterested stars will arguably be a case-by-case basis. But if Marvel is the proverbial star, then they have far more latitude.

The good news is that a Marvel Studios emboldened by the notion that they are the main attraction and that fans will (more or less) flock to their films no matter what hero is being showcased may well truly experiment and diversify. I’m not enough of a Marvel nerd to think of all the out-there characters or unconventional story arcs could be used for future installments, but I’m sure some of you can. But I’m also thinking of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. I won’t go into the various excuses that certain Marvel higher-ups have given for not making (for example) a Black Panther film or a Black Widow or Ms. Marvel spin-off. I have to assume that a big part of that stems from the fear that something outside of a white male title character will endanger the film’s potential for worldwide grosses, especially in this early stage when each film is crucial and they make only so many per year. If Marvel itself is the core selling point, there will be that much less of an excuse not to see more diversity in title roles.

There are other popular franchises that are considered “must see” on a relative scale by longtime fans and somewhat curious general audiences. You can name a dozen without breaking a sweat, from the Pirates of the Caribbean films to the Fast & the Furious franchise. But the Marvel Universe is on the verge of being something wholly unique. It is a film studio, which releases big-budget spectacle fantasies, that has established itself to such a degree that the studio itself is as much the “star” as the actors and iconic characters being featured. Like Pixar, Marvel is a brand name in-and-of-itself. If we have truly reached a point where Marvel Studios needs only to put their name on the poster to guarantee a relatively successfully film, then Marvel Studios has earned the right to do whatever they want for the next several years.

Let us hope they use that freedom to continue to take some real artistic chances and start to truly bust through some arbitrary glass ceilings. Using their capital to risk failure, by expanding the notion of what a blockbuster superhero film can be would be the most superheroic feat of all. Or maybe it’s just the great responsibility that comes with such great power.

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Single Ladies Saved from Cancellation

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Single Ladies," the romantic comedy series about three female best friends working in the fashion, music and celebrity world that was just canceled by VH1 after three seasons, is coming back.

Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment company, which produces "Single Ladies," is developing an all-new fourth season as part of a new exclusive programming partnership with BET Networks' Centric, which is being positioned as the first network aimed at black females.

Under the deal, Flavor Unit, which is owned by Latifah and her partner Shakim Compere, will produce new shows in addition to "Single Ladies" for the network.

Casting for the new season is still up in the air. The VH1 show starred LisaRaye McCoy, Charity Shea and Denise Vasi, but it is unclear if any of the cast members would return. The third-season finale aired last month.

As part of the deal, Centric also will start airing episodes of Queen Latifah's syndicated daytime talk show, which premiered last year to solid ratings, in prime time.

The entertainer's production company also produces BET's comedy series "Let's Stay Together."

Smash Bros Megapost!

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We've learned about a few new features implemented in Smash Bros Wii-U/3DS, including several returning features as well, courtesy of today's Nintendo Direct!

During a Nintendo Direct presentation today, Nintendo revealed the release window for the highly anticipated fighter Super Smash Bros.

The 3DS version is due Summer 2014
The Wii U version is coming Winter 2014

No specific reason was given for the release date disparity, though it's probably safe to assume that the more graphically intensive Wii U version would require a slightly longer development period. While there will be some differences between the Wii U and 3DS of the game, the fighter roster will be the same.

Nintendo also confirmed that Smash Bros. would run at 60fps on 3DS, although some assist trophies would be brought down to 30fps.

Now, here are the new and returning characters that have joined the fray:

Bosses

The Yellow Devil from Mega Man will be a boss character in the Dr. Wily stage.
Ridley from Metroid made a brief teasing cameo, implying he will also be a boss in the game.

Returning characters


Zero Suit Samus (now with jet boots).


Sheik

Both Sheik and Zero Suit Samus are standalone characters this time around, and that means you won't be able to switch characters mid-stage if you're playing as Zelda or Samus.


Yoshi (and now he stands on two-feet, rather than standing like a dinosaur).

New Characters


Greninja, a dual type Water/Dark Pokemon is the newest playable character to join the fray.


Charizard (and did you catch a glimpse of his Mega Evolution form?)

Assist Trophies


Elec-Man from the Megaman series.


During today's Nintendo Direct, we learned a lot of new 3DS and Wii U Smash Bros. details, including how online play is going to work.

Like online matches for the Wii's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, you'll be able to play against anyone online, not just friends. However, Nintendo recommends using their LAN adapator on Wii U and a fast wireless access point on 3DS for the most ideal experience.

When playing against friends online or playing locally, anything goes. But when playing against non-friends online, you have two modes to choose from:

For Fun

Stage select is random (but won't include Final Destination)
All items
Smash battles online
Only wins are recorded


For Glory

All battles are on Final Destination
No items
1-on-1 battles are possible
Bboth wins and losses are recorded


To keep things from getting boring in the For Glory mode, all stages will have a Final Destination form. They'll have the same flat uniformity, but at least they'll be something different to look at besides the vastness of space.

Online matches, unlike Brawl, will not be anonymous--your online account will be linked directly to your Nintendo Network ID. To that end, you can report players for bad behavior, and temporary bans may be instituted for the following:

Starting matches and not playing
Repeated purposeful self-destructs
Relentlessly targeting one character
Frequently dropping out of matches
Cheating
Baselessly reporting other players


Rather than a global ranking leaderboard, Smash Bros. will have a skill-based matchmaking system called the Global Smash Power. Details are hazy on how exactly your score will be calculated, but the bigger your number, the better you are. So, if your rank is 6,000, that means you're better than 6,000 other Smash players.

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