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Lindsay Lohan claims she personally handled Whitney Houston's body bag

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She's said and done some outlandish things in her time. But Lindsay Lohan's latest claims that she 'rolled a body bag' for the corpse of Whitney Houston during her stint of community service at a morgue is perhaps, the weirdest yet.

And in the interview to promote her West End debut in the play Speed The Plow, she told the Telegraph that her punishment for violating her probation was: 'F***ed and inappropriate.'

The Mean Girls actress was found to be in breach in October 2011 for a previous drink drive offense. An unimpressed judged ordered her to carry out 120 hours of community service in 12 hour shifts at the LA County Morgue from 4am to 4pm which she began on October 21st and completed on March 29th 2012.

A month earlier on February 11th, Whitney Houston was found dead in a bath tub at the Beverly Hills Hilton ahead of Clive Davis' Grammy Awards party. The multi-talented singer and actress drowned after taking cocaine to which she had battled addiction for many years.

It has never been mentioned before that Lindsay was on duty at the morgue that night or in the days following. But the 28-year-old made the revelation in the interview published on Saturday in which she described her morgue duty as: 'F***ed and inappropriate - because a lot of other people were meant to do it, and they were like: "No, they can’t handle it. Lohan can."


'It’s different for me than it would be for other people – like, no one would really have to work at the morgue in LA and roll a body bag for Whitney Houston.'

Speaking of the experience, she added: 'I know it sounds really dark and strange, but I thought it would be a lot worse. I kind of regulated a lot of it. I’d tell people: 'You didn’t fold that sheet properly’, because I’m OCD with folding.'

'I was like: OK, wait. Something needs to change, and I think that’s me.'

Lindsay makes her West End debut at the Playhouse Theatre in London on September 24th. Talking of the David Mamet play in which she takes the role of Karen, a secretary, she said she hopes it will give her the chance to prove herself once again.

'I like the idea of being able to fight for what I lost, essentially,' she said. 'I lost a lot of… I wouldn’t say… I don’t think 'respect’ is the word… trust from a lot of people. And I don’t mind gaining that back.'

In the same interview, Lindsay also blamed her docu-series on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network for forcing her out of New York.

She explained to the Telegraph: 'After the Oprah show it was kind of hard for me to be in New York. There started to be paparazzi, and I didn’t have that in New York in the beginning…Every time I left my house, they were at the corner.'


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Miley dances on stage wearing prosthetic butt & spits into crowd at concert in Puerto Rico

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She claimed she would leave twerking to the likes of Nicki Minaj after the rapper’s raunchy performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last month. But it seems Miley Cyrus has found the perfect way to take on her twerking competition as she sported a significantly larger derriere while on stage in Puerto Rico on Friday night.

The 21-year-old made sure fans in San Juan were treated the racy antics her Bangerz tour has become known for as she hit the stage at the Puerto Rico Coliseum.

But it was her new assets that stole the show as she bent over and put her fake posterior on full display.Miley made sure fans were given the time to admire her new addition as she stopped and pointed to her fake bum while singing the songs from her hit album.

Even her dancers seemed to appreciate her enlarged assets as one shirtless hunk was seen gaping at the singer as she bent over provocatively during one part of the routine. The show featured more of Miley outrageous antics as she once again was pictured spitting water into the cheering crowd.

From her colour stage props to her famous backing dancer, Amazon Ashley, Miley ensured that fans would witness a show they are unlikely to forget anytime soon.

Miley was full of energy as she hit the road again following after a month long break. And she kicked off her travels by posting a photo of herself on Thursday naked in a shower. The pop diva Photoshopped a large red heart over her derriere in the image captioned: 'F*** YEAH PUERTO RICAN SHOWER #showeringinnatureisdashitmane'

The We Can't Stop hitmaker had her back to the camera in the spacious and luxurious enclosure. Next week, she will head to Mexico for performances in Monterrey, Mexico City, and Zapopan, before kicking off her South American leg with performances in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The tour will wind its way through New Zealand and Australia before coming to a close on October 23.














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Where are the people from the last post saying it was just photoshopping and wasn't a prop?

Ultimate Fuckboy disses Naya Rivera

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Big Sean has signed up with Roc Nation. And guess what else? The Detroit rapper is celebrating his new home by popping four brand new tracks onto his SoundCloud. The first one, “Paradise,” was produced by Mike WiLL Made-It. That flows into what is easily the eyebrow-raiser of this collection: the DJ Mustard and Kanye West co-production “I Don’t Fuck With You,” which finds Sean verbally slamming his ex, Glee star Naya Rivera, left and right.





I don't fuck with you/ You little stupid ass bitch/I ain't fuckin' with you/ You little dumb ass bitch/ I ain't fuckin' with you/ I got a million trillion things I'd rather fuckin' do
Than to be fuckin' with you/ Little stupid ass, I don't give a fuck/ I don't give a fuck/ I don't I don't I don't give a fuck/Bitch I don't give a fuck about you or anything that you do/Don't give a fuck about you or anything that you do


I heard you got a new man, I see you takin’ a pic / then you post it up thinkin’ that it’s makin’ me sick / I see you callin’, I’ll be makin’ it quick / I’mma answer that shit like I don’t fuck with you,” Sean spits on the track. Later he adds, “Every day I wake up celebratin’ shit / why? / ’cause I just dodged a bullet from a crazy bitch!” Stare into your future, Ariana Grande.

sorry was petty and rude, but this song is just embarrassing

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LOL! Tyler, the Creator Not Pleased With Finding the New U2 Album on His Phone

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The rapper offered U2 a few choice words on Twitter.

Odd Future rapper Tyler, the Creator wasn’t too pleased after waking up and finding the new U2 album, Songs of Innocence, on his phone.

Tyler expressed his frustration about Bono and Co. in a string of Tweets posted on Friday (Sept. 12).







U2 released Songs of Innocence for free on iTunes following its performance at the Apple event on Sept. 9. With lead single "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" set to be featured in a massive media campaign from Apple, valued at $100 million by multiple sources, U2 has already scored arguably the biggest launch in music history.




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Hey, Tyler, say no to cyberbulling!


Are you going to enjoy the new U2 album, ONTD?

Iggy Azalea will sue Vivid if they use her name

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Iggy Azalea's lawyers are throwing the kitchen sink at a major porn company ... now claiming Vivid will get it's dirty corporate ass sued if it dares to market her alleged sex tape ... because the name "Iggy" can only be used by Iggy.

It seems a sex tape exists, even though her lawyers deny it. Initially they said it was a fabrication ... then said if it does exist she may have been a minor. The "sex partner" -- rapper Hefe Wine -- told TMZ Live Friday there is indeed a tape and she knew about it and consented. And he says she was NOT a minor ... he says he met her when she was 18.

Now Iggy's lawyers have fired off a letter to Vivid -- obtained By TMZ -- in which they say the name "Iggy" is gold ... protected by U.S. Trademark.

So maybe Vivid could market the tape this way -- STEAMY SEX TAPE, FEATURING SHMIGGY SHMEZELIA AND HEFE WINE!

Vivid is unimpressed, restating it's desire to market the tape.

BTW ... sources close to Iggy say she feels betrayed by her ex-BF.

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Nicki Serving Preppy Underboob Chic in Paris

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Most fans know to expect the unexpected when it comes to Nicki Minaj's wardrobe.

But that knowledge clearly wasn't enough to prepare onlookers for the outfit the 31-year-old stepped out in on Friday night.

The US rapper was sporting one of her most revealing ensembles yet as she partied away at the uber cool Club 79 in Paris after performing on stage with Beyonce.



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Yasss Nicki stan Princess Blue <3  Still crying at us getting a live Flawless duet before a Mine performance with Drake.  I bet Jay doesn't want to share the space with him.

Woman marries cardboard

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Sitting next to her husband in a bar, Lauren orders a gin and tonic. She nods towards Edward and tells the barman: “He’ll have a beer.”


The barman looks at her as if she has gone completely mad because the “man” next to her is made of cardboard. Lauren Adkins, 25, is ­married to a life-size cut-out of vampire Edward Cullen from the Twilight movies, played by Robert Pattinson.


She says: “We got hitched in Las Vegas last year and I’m sure we’re happier than most newlyweds. People might think I’m crazy but my flat-pack R-Patz is the closest I’ll get to the real thing and he’s the one for me. For as long as I can remember I’ve been ­obsessed with romantic fairytale endings. When I was a child, I watched the Disney ­versions of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella until the tapes wore out.”


As Lauren grew older she became a fan of teen romantic comedies and expected to meet the man of her dreams on Prom Night. But it was not to be and at 17 she found herself desperate and dateless. She started college and moved out of her home but every guy she dated failed to live up to her ideal. Then came the Twilight books and films – and the vampire of her dreams.


Lauren, from Las Vegas, says: “It was different from any love story I’d seen ­before – after all, the leading character was as likely to suck your blood as open the door for you. I was obsessed. Leading man Edward was quiet and ­mysterious, yet superhuman and invincible. And so sexy. I tore through the books and I queued outside the cinema when the film was released, desperate for my first glimpse of Edward. And when Robert Pattinson appeared on screen at midnight, he was perfect. I knew that very minute I wanted to marry him.


A few months later in a record shop she saw a 6ft tall Edward in a suit.


Of course he was made from cardboard, but that didn’t matter to me. Suddenly I was taken over with an urge to have him. I grabbed his rigid torso and stuffed him under my arm before marching to the counter and handing over a $20 note. Then, cramming him into my car I headed back to my apartment where I ripped off his cellophane and stood him at the foot of my bed. For the rest of the night I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Then I started thinking – the guys I’d dated before had all been so hopeless, I might as well have been with a cardboard cut-out. So where was the shame in taking him out with me?


In the following months, besotted Lauren took Edward out with her more and more. He became her other half. She says: “A friend who thought I was going mad said one night: ‘If you love him so much why don’t you marry him?’ Her words rang in my ears. She was right. Why didn’t I?


Lauren went online to find a chapel where she could pledge her love to Edward Cullen. Sure enough, the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel on the Vegas strip agreed to carry out the service. They even offered a choice between a traditional minister and an Elvis impersonator.


Lauren says: “I walked down the aisle in January in the white wedding dress I’ve always dreamt of. I held the reception at an art gallery and ordered champagne and a five-tier cake to share with my 50 guests. The day cost £2,000 but I didn’t care – I wanted to do it properly. We had our honeymoon in LA and I wanted us to climb up to the Hollywood sign together. I had to carry him, and we had to do it at night because he can’t be in the sun. But everyone makes sacrifices for the man they love, right?”


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She tried to fund her wedding to Cardboard Cullen in 2012 on Indiegogo, calling it performance art.


ONTD, would you marry cardboard?

Nicole Scherzinger debuts ballad "Run" on French Radio

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How do you solve a problem like Nicole Scherzinger without reforming the Pussycat Dolls? The stunning diva has already delivered two great singles from her as-yet-untitled sophomore LP and they have both failed to click in key markets despite having suitably sexy videos and A-List collaborators (The-Dream and Tricky Stewart).

It’s frustrating because the 36-year-old is a true rarity in the pop world in that she can actually sing and dance. Hopefully, she’ll have more luck with “Run” — a beautifully understated ballad that just premiered on French radio. Nicole’s voice soars over a simple piano arrangement and the lyrics are genuinely heartfelt. Listen to the PCD singer’s next roll of the dice after the jump.


Viola Davis Says Hollywood Gives Her "Mammy-ish"& Small Roles That Pay Little

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This is a *different* article from the one posted last week, mods.

New York Times Sunday Magazine
by Amy Wallace    September 14, 2014

Viola Davis As You've Never Seen Her Before: Leading Lady!



“Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon,” Viola Davis said. She was speaking not of meals, but of roles. During her 30-year career as an actress, Davis has played a crack-addicted mother (“Antwone Fisher”), the mother of an abducted child (“Prisoners”) and the mother of James Brown (“Get On Up”). Her characters often serve to “hold up the wall” of the narrative, she said, like the empathetic best friend in “Eat, Pray, Love” or the kindly stranger in “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Or the kindly mental-institution psychiatrist in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” the kindly rape-treatment counselor in “Trust” or the kindly medium in “Beautiful Creatures.”

“I always got the phone call that said: ‘I have a great project for you. You’re going to be with, hypothetically, Vanessa Redgrave, Julianne Moore, Annette Bening,’” she said, sitting in the living room of her San Fernando Valley home, barefoot on the couch in a gray T-shirt and leggings, her hair wrapped under a black turban. “Then I get the script, and I have a role that lasts for a page or two.”


Yet over and over again, Davis has made these marginalized characters memorable. She earned her first Oscar nomination for eight minutes of screen time as the mother of a possible victim of molestation in “Doubt.” Four years later, she spent months conceiving an intricate back story to enliven Aibileen Clark, a housemaid with a sixth-grade education, in “The Help.” Davis earned her second Oscar nomination but soon enough returned to playing yet another government functionary or military officer. “I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish,” she said. “A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You’re going to get your three or four scenes, you’re not going to be able to show what you can do. You’re going to get your little bitty paycheck, and then you’re going to be hungry for your next role, which is going to be absolutely the same. That’s the truth.”


This fall, Davis, who is 49, is finally getting her shot at the anti-mammy. As the star of “How to Get Away With Murder,” a new series on ABC, Davis plays Annalise Keating, a flinty, stylish defense lawyer and law professor who employs her top students to help her win cases. After those students become entangled in a murder plot on their Ivy League campus, viewers will wonder whether Keating herself was involved in the crime. Davis plays Keating as cerebral and alluring, a fierce taskmaster who uses her sex appeal to her advantage, with a handsome husband and a lover on the side. It’s the kind of woman, in other words, that she has never gotten to play.

“How to Get Away With Murder,” which includes Shonda Rhimes among its executive producers, will be shown on Thursday nights after Rhimes’s two hit series, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” a generous lead-in that the network hopes will result in an instant hit. But that will depend, in part, on whether viewers embrace Davis — “a woman of color, of a certain age and a certain hue,” as she says — in her new capacity. “I don’t see anyone on TV like me in a role like this. And you can’t even mention Halle Berry or Kerry Washington,” she told me, referring to two African-American stars with notably lighter skin.

Davis and her ensemble cast are completing 15 episodes in five months, or a new episode about every 10 days. Our first meeting took place at 9 a.m. on a Sunday, one of her rare days off. As her 4-year-old daughter, Genesis, played in the kitchen nearby, Davis talked about Keating’s nuances and dynamism. After years of stock characters, she was thrilled to play a real protagonist, a fully developed, conflicted, somewhat mysterious woman. “It’s what I’ve had my eye on for so long,” she said. “It’s time for people to see us, people of color, for what we really are: complicated.”



Black actors have always had a tough time getting their due in Hollywood. After Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actor, in 1964, it would take almost four decades before Berry won for best lead actress. These days, when the paucity of strong black roles prompts suggestions of racism, film executives often cite economics in their defense. The American movie market makes up less than a third of global box-office receipts, and films with predominantly black casts typically don’t earn as much money overseas. “The Help,” which made $170 million in the United States, took in just $42 million internationally. By comparison, “Guardians of the Galaxy” made $556 million worldwide this summer, almost half of it from ticket sales abroad. Last year, the poster for “12 Years a Slave” in the Italian market featured images of either Michael Fassbender or Brad Pitt rather than its many black stars.

Films with largely black casts tend to be made on low budgets and marketed specifically to black audiences. In January, Sony’s Screen Gems scored with “About Last Night,” a romantic comedy with an all-black ensemble led by Kevin Hart: It cost $12 million and took in $49 million. But the conventional wisdom in the industry is that big-budget films like sweeping historical dramas, say, or special-effects-driven thrillers need a global audience to turn a profit. With a few notable exceptions (Denzel Washington, Will Smith), black actors are usually relegated to supporting roles. Black actresses, especially, face another hurdle: the darker-complected they are, the narrower a range of parts they are offered. Earlier this year, Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for her role in “12 Years a Slave,” said that her “night-shaded skin” had always been “an obstacle.”

Television has offered slightly more opportunity. This fall, Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson, both African-American actresses, will each star in their own network series. Shonda Rhimes, in particular, has created mainstream popular entertainment that draws viewers with juicy story lines that just happen to unfold in a multiethnic universe; not for nothing does she call her company Shondaland. The doctors on “Grey’s Anatomy” have included not only black and white actors, but also Sandra Oh, who is of Korean descent, and Sara Ramirez, a Latina. On “Scandal,” it is of little consequence that the political fixer who is sleeping with the president (Tony Goldwyn) happens to be black. “I’m not sitting around going, ‘Wow, it’s historic to have two black women on television,’ ” Rhimes told me when I noted that two of her shows are now led by African-American actresses. “I don’t think it’s odd to see two black women standing in the same place because, well, that’s my house. Like, it’s not a thing. To me, it just feels like Tuesday.”

Davis’s name came up immediately when Rhimes and Pete Nowalk, the series creator, began casting actresses to play Keating. She had the presence to make the character fearsome, Nowalk told me, but also the range to telegraph her many complexities “in a look.” Even though a number of serious actresses had made the shift to TV for better opportunities — Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Claire Danes — Nowalk didn’t think that Davis would say yes. A 10 p.m. network role, he presumed, probably wouldn’t appeal to a two-time Oscar nominee. Still, he sent the pilot script to Davis’s manager, Estelle Lasher, who loved the fast pacing and murder plotline and called Davis immediately. “She said, ‘This is a role that you talk about all the time, Viola,’ ” Davis recalled. “ ‘That black women need to be sexy, they need to be vulnerable, they need to be strong, they need to be conflicted. This is it!’ ”


Davis is known for her meticulous preparation. She spent four months studying for her eight minutes in “Doubt.” For “The Help,” she imagined Aibileen’s childhood, her aspirations and even her love life. Davis’s own back story explains much about the actress she has become. Born on her grandmother’s farm, a former plantation in South Carolina, she was raised in Central Falls, R.I. As one of the few black families in town, Davis and her five siblings grew up enduring vicious taunts. “Constantly being called ‘black ugly nigger’ — those words together,” she said in the 2011 documentary “Dark Girls.” Her father was a horse trainer, her mother worked in a factory and as an occasional maid and Davis remembers being so hungry that she sometimes stole food from the grocery store and rummaged in garbage cans for scraps; her shoes had holes in the soles, and her braids were secured by the plastic clips that seal up loaves of bread. “We sometimes used lard for moisturizer because we couldn’t afford lotion,” she recalled. “I smelled like chicken when I went to school.”

When she was 8 years old, Davis saw Cicely Tyson in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” Until then, she had never witnessed any depictions of “beauty or softness or kindness or femininity that looked like me.” After pursuing drama in high school, Davis majored in theater at Rhode Island College, drawing on her past experiences to flesh out characters. “When you grow up in abject poverty,” she said, “you see people exactly the way they are. You know who’s abusing their wives. You know who the drug addict is. You know the person who is stealing electricity. You see people fighting on the street with their boobs coming out and dirty clothes. So it becomes a great groundwork for an artist to observe life. I don’t see it as ugliness. I see it as just kind of human beauty, you know?”


Eventually, she won a place at Juilliard and went on to work in regional theater, then off and on Broadway. She began to get small film roles as nurses, social workers and policewomen. No one disputed that Davis had the chops (in 2001, she picked up her first Tony Award for her role in “King Hedley II”; nine years later, she won her second in a revival of “Fences”), but as her 20s passed into her 30s, Davis slipped into a pattern of playing women at loose ends, or worse, dowdy or strung out. Even after her first Oscar nomination, at 43, she portrayed a nameless mayor in the Gerard-Butler-as-vigilante movie “Law Abiding Citizen” and had a small role in Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail.” Around this time, Davis started speaking out more frequently about the dearth of good roles for black actresses. Last year, she suggested on a segment of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” that actresses like herself were “in crisis,” comparing them to rats fighting over “a piece of cheese” and relegated to certain types. She said no one was ever going to cast her in a love scene with Bradley Cooper.


Talking bluntly like this “is only complicated for people of color,” she told me. “I listen to really smart Caucasian women all the time talking about how hard it is for women over a certain age, and it doesn’t overshadow their work.” When you’re white, she added, “your ability is not overshadowed by your rhetoric.” Davis is soft-spoken, but as she talked, there was urgency in her eyes. She felt responsible, she said, to try to make things better. “When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it,” she said, leaning toward me. “I see the kind of work that needs to be put out there in order to make change. Do I think there is a crisis for women over 40, too? Absolutely. But a 25-year-old white actress who is training at Yale or Juilliard or SUNY Purchase or N.Y.U. today can look at a dozen white actresses who are working over age 40 in terrific roles. You can’t say that for a lot of young black girls. That’s why I’m doing what I’m doing.”


On a steamy morning last month, Davis was standing in a stairwell in downtown Los Angeles, in a burlap-bag factory that had been transformed into a police station. Wearing a navy blue pencil skirt, a champagne silk blouse and a trim trench coat, Davis was shooting a scene in which she and a client exited the station house, her five students trailing behind like baby ducks as F.B.I. agents screeched up in three black Chevy Tahoes. Between each take, as the cars were put in position to race up again, Davis and her fellow cast members returned to the stairwell inside the building’s front door.

Everyone on the set had been talking about the contract negotiations that were underway on another TV series, “The Big Bang Theory,” on CBS. A few days earlier, as the cast gathered in a makeshift break room, someone noted that the lead actors had banded together, all for one, one for all, to each get $1 million an episode. “Let’s make a pact right now,” Davis told them. If “How to Get Away With Murder” did well, she said, they should stand firm and insist on being paid accordingly. “We laughed,” said Matt McGorry, 28, who plays one of Keating’s students on the show. “I said, ‘I don’t think that you want to be getting paid as much as we’re getting paid.’ But you know, she was dead serious.”

As much as Davis has wanted to be a star, she admits she is not used to it. When we met, she was struggling with something she was calling the List, which Rhimes had asked her to compile. “She said: ‘Viola, listen, you’ve got to be taken care of. This show rests on your shoulders. Write a list of what you need,’ ” Davis recalled. The assignment was straightforward, but Davis was having trouble. Her husband, Julius Tennon, an actor and a producer, made gentle suggestions: Greek yogurts in her trailer fridge? Sparkling water? Maybe the occasional massage? Still, the List remained unwritten.

Davis acknowledges that building her own self-esteem has been a long process. Before she met Tennon, she was in therapy for seven years, untangling her childhood. One legacy of growing up poor, she said, was that she didn’t know how to ask for things because there was never any hope of getting them. And that reluctance led to something more insidious: She didn’t think she deserved to get things. Davis says Tennon enabled her to make a big change in 2012, during the Academy Award campaign for “The Help,” when, for the first time as an actress, she appeared in public without a wig. At the time, she described the decision to reveal her short Afro as “stepping into myself.” But in a commencement speech not long ago, she came up with a more terrifying analogy. “I compared it to Linda Blair in ‘The Exorcist,’ with her head spinning and spewing,” she told me. “And the secretary and the priest run upstairs, put on their coats and go into the room. And they lift her shirt up, and on her belly, it says, ‘Help Me.’ That’s kind of how you feel when you move through life possessed by everybody’s way of seeing you and who you’re supposed to be, everybody’s definition of beauty and of success.”


Annalise Keating may be the most stereotypically beautiful woman Davis has been tapped to play, but soon after accepting the role, she began lobbying to highlight the character’s vulnerabilities. “She’s pushed me on this,” said Nowalk, the series creator. “She’s big on the fact that we all wear masks in public, depending on what’s necessary. She wanted to show Annalise in private moments, when no one else was around.” Davis told me that she wanted Keating “to be messy", multifaceted and complicated. “Vanity destroys your work,” she said. “That’s the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don’t care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she’s more than just pretty.”


But Davis told me that she had another motivation for accepting the Keating role. Davis and Tennon have a company, JuVee Productions, that they formed in 2011 to develop scripts for her and other actors of color. They have several projects they are pursuing, including one about Harriet Tubman, a leader of the Underground Railroad, and another about Vee-Jay Records, a label that released the first Beatles tracks in America. Davis is most excited about a biopic of Barbara Jordan, the Texas congresswoman who was the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. It’s being written by Tony Kushner, an old friend from Juilliard, and Davis and Tennon have been pitching it around town for years. Recently, Davis has been in talks with Fox Searchlight about financing it, but she knows that whether or not she ultimately gets a greenlight will, in part, depend on whether the script is populated with roles compelling enough to attract, as she put it, “white, bankable stars.”

Davis understands that entertainment is a business and that this is the way it runs. She would just like to expand some of the definitions of a few terms — terms, for example, like “bankable.” And for that she needs the support of not only those in Hollywood who hold the purse strings but also the rest of us, black moviegoers included. “You know, I heard so many people who said: ‘Oh, “The Help,” I’m just so tired of these images. I’d rather see “Spider Man,” ’ ” she said, referring to the black community. But Hollywood, she said, wouldn’t see that preference as a sign that African-Americans were yearning “to see more complicated stories about black people. No, Hollywood is going to say, ‘They want to see “Spider Man.” ’ That’s the way it works.”


Amy Wallace is editor at large of Los Angeles magazine and a contributing writer for GQ. Her last article for the magazine was a profile of the director Baz Luhrmann.

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Watch a clip from the insane-sounding unofficial Breaking Bad sequel

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Earlier this year, Lawrence Shepherd attempted to crowd-fund $500,000 to produce Anastasia, a Breaking Bad sequel starring Val Kilmer — surprising both Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and Val Kilmer, who had absolutely no knowledge of the project.



Unfortunately, Kilmer dismissed Shepherd as a "goofball," and Anastasia raised just $1,075 before Shepherd shut it down. But much like Walter White, Shepherd refuses to admit defeat. Anastasia is back, sans Val Kilmer, with a Kickstarter attempting to collect a far more reasonable $100,000. Slash, the guitarist from Guns 'N Roses, is allegedly still attached.

Shepherd's new Kickstarter includes the first two pages of Anastasia's pilot, in which a mysterious figure drags Walter White's unconscious body from the meth lab where Breaking Bad ended. From there, an "elite U.S. Marshals team" dedicated to tracking down "the most elusive and dangerous fugitives" is hot on the case.

How could Walter White possibly be alive? In this clip from Anastasia, a suspiciously well-informed man busts in to explain:



The Kickstarter for Anastasia sits at $310. It has 12 days to make the other $99,690.

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Faking It showrunner talks about the truth behind Lauren's pill popping

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MTV's teen comedy Faking It is poised to break new ground on the small screen in its second season when it explores what it's like to be

born intersex.

Intersex is a physical condition that occurs when a person is born with both male and female chromosomes but their bodies typically develop as female. About one in every 2,000 people are born with intersex traits and the condition is as common as people with red hair.


On Faking It, Bailey De Young portrays Lauren, a hyper-feminine bitchy teen who is the sister (by marriage) to Rita Volk'sAmy, who in season one, faked a lesbian relationship with her best friend Karma (Katie Stevens), to move up the social ladder at an Austin high school.

Season one ended with a cliffhanger for Lauren, who flipped out after rumors started flying about mysterious pills she was taking regularly. The season two premiere will reveal that Lauren regularly takes hormones and was born with Androgen Insensitive Syndrome, a type of intersex condition that means she was born with male chromosomes but develops as a female.

Here, showrunner Carter Covington talks with The Hollywood Reporter about the series-long storyline, why the time is right to address it and how it fits in with the show's central themes.

What inspired you to tell this story?

Part of the overall theme of Faking It is how hard it is to be your authentic self and how important it is to strive to do that. At the beginning of last season, we were discussing in the writers room what that could be and we stumbled on, “What if she were born intersex?” We all had the reaction that the other characters had on show: "What exactly is that?" We weren’t really sure and started to do some research and connected with Advocates for Informed Choice's KimberlyZieselman. She's our consultant on the show (AIC is the parent group of advocacy group Inter/Act) and gave us a wonderful education on what it is like to be born intersex. We felt like it was a no brainer because it really frames who Lauren is and why she has walls up, why she is hyper-feminine and why she is who she is. It's a story I've never heard told before, and our show is all about showing the diversity of experiences that young people are faced with today.

How did you pitch the story to MTV? Did the executives have any feedback? Concerns?

I pitched it last year when I was pitching the first eight episodes of season one. We folded in a couple of hints throughout the first eight episodes about what's coming. They knew about the storyline early on, but it wasn’t until I pitched these 10 episodes that I went in nervous. MTV's Susanne Daniels was very excited about it. I was expecting a battle with the network, but she 100 percent embraced it. People want to create TV that touches people and that shows a different subset. I'm always excited as a writer when there is an experience I can relate to, and MTV wanted programming that touches people and moves people.

How did Bailey De Young respond when learning of the story?

I told her earlier this year, when we were doing first eight. I wanted her to know. She was excited and loved what that meant for Lauren. She talked to young women who were born with the condition that Lauren has on the show and she really embraced that. She wanted to find out what their experiences have been like so she can accurately portray that on the show.

What makes the timing right to tell this story?

What I love about Lauren’s journey is that it's so relatable. When it comes down to it she wonders: Will people know the real her or will they reject her? That's something that everybody feels at some point. We all have worries that if we show someone else what's going on inside that we'll get rejected.

Is this a season-long storyline?

It's a series-long story line. When I'm writing any character, if they're gay or allergic to peanuts, those are things that affect your whole life in various degrees. For Lauren, being born intersex is going to be something she's going to struggle to accept and then struggle to defend in her life. That journey of self-acceptance, at least for me, never stops. I'm still trying to accept things about myself that I don't love or that I wish were different or that makes me feel like I’m not normal. Lauren is going to go on a series-long journey to get to a point where she's proud of who she is.

In the season two premiere, Shane (Michael J. Willett) has a very supportive response to Lauren and tells her that she needs to love herself and not feel humiliated about who she is. How else will we see the group support her?

In a couple ways, since so many people know her secret and they could tell at any moment. Even though they say they won't tell — and I genuinely believe our characters would not do that — there is that panic over Lauren and it forces her to be more vulnerable with this group of people. It also brings her into the show a bit more; when you find out a secret about someone, you're closer to them. Whether or not anything else has changed, they know something about Lauren that she didn't want them to know and they are accepting of her. It creates deeper intimacy because Lauren is still Lauren. We're also going to explore Lauren’s relationship with her dad and how her being born intersex has affected that. That’s a little later down the road this season.

Whowon'thave a good reaction?

Without giving anything away, that is definitely coming. What I wanted to explore in these 10 episodes is showing that the real person keeping Lauren from accepting this part of herself is herself. A lot of her journey is expecting people to be offended or disgusted, and reject her.

What's your goal in telling this story?

I really want the show’s message to be, even though the show is called Faking It, the goal should be for all of us to love ourselves.

In the episode, Lauren turns to an online support group after her friends learn she was born intersex. Talk about your decision to include that.

Inter/Act is the first intersex youth advocacy organization. Our consultant is part of that and a lot of the young people we spoke to on the show are part of that. We're trying to give people tools to build and connect with that community. People born with these conditions are often told they will never meet anyone else like them, and they all found that not to be true. That feeling that you're the only one, you’re the biggest freak, is one of the biggest misconceptions about being born intersex. We are really hoping to dispel that. We’ve partnered with GLAAD, who has been very active in helping us and making sure that we're portraying everything in a positive light. We also continue to be big supporters of The Trevor Project.

Same-sex storylines, teen pregnancy and abortion have all become commonplace on TV as society continues to evolve. What other storylines haven't we seen on TV?

I do think that in terms of shows that challenge the binary straight-gay sexual spectrum, we're one of the few shows that is willing to explore the gray in-between. That constantly feels groundbreaking to me. Seeing characters go on journeys of sexual discovery is something new to TV and I'm enjoying portraying that. I think it's something a lot of people go through.

Are you expecting any negative feedback from more conservative groups?

I'm constantly waiting for us to be boycotted or criticized. I do feel our show takes a very low tolerance stance that could get a lot of pushback from more conservative groups, but it has never materialized. I don’t know why, maybe I’m not pushing the envelope enough (laughs).

FakingIt exploresa lot about sexuality. What's the overall message you'd like viewers to take away from the show?

What I hope the show does is show it's OK to be gay, straight, to not know where you are on the spectrum and explore. It's OK to make mistakes, but it’s a part of growing up and figuring out who you are. I don’t think that’s a process that ends when you’re 18 or 21, it goes on your whole life.


Faking It returns for its second season on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 10:30 p.m. on MTV.

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Lady GaGa in Dubai & Tel Aviv

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Jay Z Reportedly Announces Beyonce’s Second Pregnancy

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Beyonce had announced her first child with husband Jay Z after her 2011 MTV Video Music Awards performance by dropping her mic, unbuttoning her blazer and rubbing her belly – a message heard loud and clear around the world. If recent reports are true, then Jay Z just announced their second (!) child in a sneakier fashion during the September 12 (and final) On the Run concert in Paris.

Jay Z reportedly changed select lyrics to his Magna Carta Holy Grail interlude “Beach Is Better,” swapping “I replace it with another one” to “’Cause she’s pregnant with another one,” according to Houston radio station MAJIC 102.1. A fan has also posted a purported audio clip from Jay Z’s performance, although his lyrics are tough to make out. See their Instagram posts after the jump.



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Mr Jamie Dornan visits an exhibition with his wife, looks happy and handsome

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Embrace the thirst! Chat with Viggo Mortensen on Facebook

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We are excited to announce Viggo Mortensen will join us for a Live Q&A on Facebook on Wednesday, September 17th, at 10:35 am PT, to chat about his upcoming film The Two Faces of January. Be sure to follow IMDb and RSVP for the event on Facebook to join in the conversation.

Released by Magnolia Pictures, The Two Faces Of January is now available on VOD and will be released in theaters on September 26th.


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Adrienne Bailon Talks Turning 30 & Her Biggest Plastic Surgery Regret!

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Adrienne is in a good place right now. While some may be apprehensive about turning 30 years old, she's found it to be one of the greatest experiences of her life so far.

"I think I'm in a place where I'm OK with everything that has happened in the past and I'm looking forward to everything that's gonna happen in the future, and I think that's a great place to be where you're comfortable in your own skin," Bailon tells us.

"Everybody I've spoke to is like 30 makes the biggest difference, you just feel like this is who I am, take it or leave it. I don't care."

Adrienne is also excited about her new gig as a co-host on the new Fox talk show The Real (premiering Sept. 15), alongside Loni Love, Tamar Braxton, Tamera Mowry-Housley and Jeannie Mai.

"What I love about the show is that we always open up with what we call 'Girl Chat' in the beginning, where we just catch up with each other about what's happened since the last time we talked to each other, which might be 12 hours ago, but we talk about our home life and what's going on there," she tells us.



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Queen Bey & Jay-Z Romantic Lunch in Paris With Princess Blue Ivy

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Superstar couple Jay Z and Beyonce stop for lunch at NoLita restaurant in Paris, France with their daughter Blue Ivy on September 14, 2014. Previously reported that Beyonce is pregnant with their second child.

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Playboy model Cathy Schmitz, 24, weds billionaire Richard Lugner, 81

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A BILLIONAIRE, 81, has married a Playboy cover girl, bunny and model, who, at 24, is 57 years his junior.

Cathy “Spatzi” Schmitz, known as the naked model Crazy Cathy, married property and construction mogul Richard Lugner at Vienna’s Schönbrunn palace.

“Apart from the big age difference everything fits,” Lugner told The Local before the wedding. “Of course I argued less when I was alone, but a man needs a partner.”


Lugner is known for the famous partners he has invited to the annual Vienna Opera Ball. His partners have included Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, who stormed out in July after a white-skinned man with a black face pretended to be her then-fiancé Kanye West.

Lugner, who paid $500,000 for Kardashian to attend the event, called her “annoying” as she always wanted to be filmed.

Lugner has been in a relationship with Schmitz, who has a young daughter Isabelle, since February. This is his fifth marriage.

“Hopefully, this time it’s the right thing”, Lugner told The Local.

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