2012 Golden Globes Shine on The Descendants, The Artist, Homeland, Modern Family (E Online)
(Everything's coming up George Clooney! The Descendants, starring the Cloonmeister as an unraveling dad whose cheatin' wife is in a coma, was named Best Motion Picture, Drama, at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, held Sunday at the Beverly Hilton.)
Weekend Report: 'Contraband' Hijacks MLK Weekend (Box Office Mojo)
(With one of Mark Wahlberg's best openings ever, Contraband managed to hold off Beauty and the Beast (3D) to claim first place over Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. Chart stalwart Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol took third place ahead of newcomer Joyful Noise, while The Devil Inside had one of the worst second weekend drops ever. The Top 12 made around $116 million this weekend, which is about on par with the same frame last year.)
8 Explosive Finds in Wu-Tang Clan Member Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI Files (Daily Beast)
(The FBI recently released their file on the late rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard—of Wu-Tang Clan fame—thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, and it’s a doozy. The FBI alleges the Wu-Tang Clan was connected to various murders, drug deals, the Bloods gang, and other nefarious dealings. Marlow Stern combed through the rapper’s FBI file to reveal the eight most explosive finds.)
'Spider-Man' sentenced for getting stuck in vent at hookah bar (Morning Call)
(His defense attorney calls him Spider-Man. Not so much the heroic web-slinger of movie and comic-book fame. More, the Spider-Man of the accident-prone Broadway musical where seemingly nothing could go right, said lawyer Anthony Rybak. That's because Justine S. Graci's attempt at wall climbing ended very badly indeed, when he got stuck in the vent of a Bethlehem hookah lounge he was trying to sneak into in October.)
Could McDonald's become a leading book retailer? (The Week)
(It's not as far-fetched as it may seem. Mickey-D's will soon be replacing the toys in its British Happy Meals with children's books — at least for a month.)
Pauline Davis, Pennsylvania Woman, Claims Her Prosthetic Penis Got Her Fired From Job (Huffington Post)
(A Pennsylvania woman has filed suit after her New Jersey-based employers allegedly dismissed her for wearing a prosthetic penis to work. The Philadelphia Daily News cites a federal civil rights complaint filed by Pauline Davis Wednesday, which says she wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County as she was contemplating sex reassignment surgery. Davis, who was employed as a packer/line inspector, eventually confided in several co-workers about her situation. One employee eventually alerted management, according to the complaint, and Davis was subsequently fired.)
Man Arrested For Poisoning His Wife's Rice Krispies Cereal (LAist)
(An Azusa man is behind bars for allegedly trying to murder his wife by poisoning her Rice Krispies. Paramedics responded to a call around 8:40pm Thursday at a home in the 200 block of North Dalton Avenue after the 51-year-old woman ingested a poisonous chemical. She "noticed a horrible smell and taste" when she began eating her cereal, according to Cpl. Randy Schmidt, reports San Gabriel Valley Tribune. The woman's 17-year-old daughter made the 911 call.)
Girls Licking Doorknobs – More Madness from Japan (Oddity Central)
(It seems like Japan is in the news, more often than not, for bizarre activities. The latest that’s making waves on the internet is a Tumblr blog with pictures of girls licking doorknobs. The work belongs to illustrator Ryuko Azuma, who says the idea started as many good ones do – with a drunken tweet. Famous for his sexy, edgy drawings, one night he tweeted that a collection of photos of a girl licking a doorknob would be a big hit. Azuma says he wouldn’t have done anything about it if the tweet had gone unnoticed. But as luck would have it, it didn’t. A 21-year-old photographer, Ai Ehara, replied to the tweet and that was how the ‘Doorknob Girl’ was launched. Ehara herself posed as the first Doorknob Girl, but when the site went viral, they began to hire several other models for the job. According to Ehara the idea was ‘extraordinarily unusual’.)
Woman Blows Up Factory Where Dad Died (Sky News)
(A woman whose father died in a factory accident has seized the chance to rid herself of the sight of the building where it happened - by blowing it up. Sarah Griffiths, 41, pushed the button which triggered a series of explosions to demolish the Campbell's Soup Tower in King's Lynn, Norfolk. The mother-of-two, from nearby Clenchwarton, lost her father Mick Locke in 1995.)
Kevin Smith Talks Getting Women In Comic Book Stores—And Comics (Think Progress)
(Kevin Smith is launching Comic Book Men, a show based on Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey, on AMC on February 12. And of all the people I’ve seen in a week and a half at Television Critics Association press tour, he’s the biggest comic book nerd, the only person who would dream of saying something like comics are “one of the only pure american art forms. We invented the comic book. It’s one of the things that like jazz we can claim for our own. It didn’t come from any other place.” So of course I had to ask him what he thinks about the state of women in comics, and how to get more women into comic shops.)
Kevin Smith Wants to See Catwoman's 'Panties' (Hollywood Reporter)
(Addressing the controversy about the lack of women featured in his comic book shop set unscripted series, Smith says, " I can barely do anything for myself let alone the entire gender of women." After alienating film critics, director Kevin Smith worked hard to win over TV critics at a profane and highly entertaining session for his upcoming AMC series Comic Book Men. Bowing Feb. 12 at 10 p.m., the six-part unscripted series follows Smith and his sidekicks at the New Jersey comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash.)
Kevin Smith Talks New Reality Series Comic Book Men (IGN)
(Things got rather lively at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, as director/podcaster Kevin Smith took to the mic to answer questions about his new AMC reality series, Comic Book Men – shot on location at Smith's comic shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, in Red Bank, New Jersey. Walter (the shop manager), Brian (the resident slacker) and Mike and Ming (who themselves have a podcast called I Sell Comics!), star on the six-episode series, which will air after The Walking Dead, that shows the ins and outs of running a shop and details the lovable lives of grown men who just love comics and collectables.)
Smokers can’t be asked to move to back of bus (The Star)
(Even if Ottawa transit riders stink to high heaven, bus drivers must keep their comments to themselves, OC Transpo says. This follows an incident this week when a woman passenger reeking of cigarette smoke was asked by the driver to move to the back of the bus.)
Teen takes bus for a joyride (CTV)
(Calgary police have arrested an eighteen year old male after he got impatient waiting for a driver and drove the bus himself instead. A Calgary Transit driver pulled into the Dalhousie Station at just after 11 p.m. on Thursday for a short break. The lone passenger on the bus, an 18 year old male, decided not to wait for the driver and drove the shuttle bus out of the station himself.)
School buses could be equipped with the Internet (Canoe)
(Students in Alberta will be able to log on to the Internet while riding the school bus in the near future. Equipping school busses with wi-fi is one of 10 action items the province is undertaking to improve education in the province, said education minister Thomas Lukaszuk. "Why wait for the passage of Bill 18 when current legislation allows you to deal with (long school bus commute times) and try new innovative ways of bringing kids to school, or bringing school to kids," said Lukaszuk.)
‘Batman: Death Wish’ Fan Film Is Finally Here! Features Harley Quinn, Nightwing, Ivy and the Bat Family Plan (Nerd Reactor)
(The moment of truth is finally here with the release of Batman: Death Wish, a fan film produced by the same people that brought you Street Fighter High: The Musical. The short follows Batman and Robin as they try to solve a mystery behind why all the villains have been taken out. Who’s been going after the Scarecrow, the Riddler, and the Joker’s crew? Watch to find out.)
Cancelled Steampunk Batman Game Revealed (Cinemablend)
(Thanks to Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, fans of the Dark Knight really have no cause for complaint these days. However, newly unearthed concept art reveals that gamers missed out on an intriguing steampunk take on the superhero.)
Cancelled Steampunk Batman Game Revealed (Cinemablend)
(Thanks to Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, fans of the Dark Knight really have no cause for complaint these days. However, newly unearthed concept art reveals that gamers missed out on an intriguing steampunk take on the superhero.)
Science shows what goes on inside a ‘Dirty Mind’ (Fox News)
(People say that love makes you do crazy things, that’s because it is our minds, not our hearts that are calling the shots. To find out how our brains influence love, sex and relationships, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com, Dr. Manny Alvarez, spoke with the author of “Dirty Minds” Kayt Sukel. Sukel said she started writing the book after going through a divorce and wanted to find out more about what love was. Instead of running to the self-help section at the bookstore, she decided to take a look at neuroscience.)
Why Are Smart People Usually Ugly?(Slate)
(While some researchers pondered this question, a Columbia University psychologist named Edward Thorndike made another, related discovery. In 1920, Thorndike published his theory of the "halo effect," according to which subjects, when asked to describe someone's various qualities, tend to "[suffuse] ratings of special features with a halo belonging to the individual as a whole." If they were describing the person's physique, for example, along with his bearing, intelligence, and tact, they would assign high or low ratings across the board. Later studies confirmed that the halo effect could arise from a simple photograph: If someone looks handsome, people tend to assume that he's smarter, more sociable, and better-adjusted, too.)
Why Gay Parents May Be the Best Parents (Live Science)
(Gay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days. On Jan. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday (Jan. 9), Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat "to the future of humanity itself," citing the need for children to have heterosexual homes.)
Hollywood Harakiri: A Bad 2011 for the Movie Business (Time)
(Hollywood loves happy endings, and got a feel-good present in the end-of-year box office reports. The franchise titles Mission: Impossible, Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks lassoed plenty of customers over the long Christmas and New Year’s weekends, both of which raked in more cash than the same holiday frames the year before. Hooray for Hollywood!)
Gene Hackman Hit By Car While Riding Bicycle (Time)
(Oscar-winner Gene Hackman was briefly hospitalized with bumps and bruises Friday after a pickup truck hit him from behind while he was riding a bicycle in the Florida Keys, his publicist said. The 81-year-old Hackman was airlifted to a Miami hospital and released several hours later after routine tests, said publicist Susan Madore.)
Governments Crack Down on Offbeat Baby Names (Time)
(We recently welcomed Blue Ivy Carter to the world, but if she’d been born in another country, Jay-Z and Beyoncé might have been legally obligated to choose a different name. As nearly every American celebrity has proven, U.S. citizens can lawfully name their offspring just about anything. But in other nations, the government often intervenes. Take New Zealand, where the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages released an official list of prohibited names. Planning to call your daughter “Yeah Detroit”? Always dreamed of twins named “89” and “Sex Fruit?” Steer clear of New Zealand, since those are all illegal. The government will, however, accept boys named “Number 16 Bus Shelter.” At least they’re being logical about it.)
Natalee Holloway declared legally dead (CNEWS)
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