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In Honor Of Australia Day Here Are 12 Performers We Love

Amanda Chatel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:35:36 +0000

Happy Australia Day!

Similar to our Independence Day, Australia Day celebrates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. The fleet consisted of 11 ships that sailed from Great Britain to Australia to establish the first European colony on the continent.

Leaving on May 13, 1787, it took over eight months for the fleet to reach their destination and as you probably learned in history class, it did contain a large amount of prisoners. Yes, Australia was spawned from convicts. The 11 ships consisted of 1044 people total, with 696 being prisoners and 348 “free” persons that were made up of Civil officers, marines, their wives and their children.

Celebration of Australia Day dates back as far as 1808 and modern day celebrations include citizenship ceremonies, concerts, parties and festivals. Despite the revelry the national holiday is not without its controversy. Some of the Aboriginal community, who are indigenous to Australia, refer to it as “Invasion Day” or “Survival Day,” because, similarly to what Christopher Columbus and those who followed did to the Native Americans, that was officially the day that Australia was no longer their own.

Controversy and politics aside, let’s take a look at our favorite Australians. Of course, we’ll start with a koala.

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16 Memorable Celebrity Wedding Dresses

Lucia Peters — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:16:11 +0000

Let’s face it: There’s really only one reason we’re interested in celebrity weddings, and that reason is the dresses. Whether they’re absolutely gorgeous or staggeringly awful, we love seeing what famous people are wearing. Feel like oggling some crazy dresses for a minute? Take a peek here! Some of them are beautiful and some of them are atrocious, but either way, these dresses are likely to stick in your memory. Strike up the band and get that aisle ready!

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Celebrity Lookalikes: Nicole Kidman Is a Vintage Barbie Doll

Liana Maeby — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:28:46 +0000

In her new movie The Paperboy, Nicole Kidman will star as a woman in love with a death row inmate played by John Cusack. Which means that, contrary to what these on-set photos indicate, she won’t be playing a Barbie Doll. Zac Efron‘s going to be in this flick as well, in the role of an intrepid young newspaper reporter — which means that he won’t be playing a Ken Doll. Occam’s Razor, you have failed me.

The Paperboy‘s currently shooting in New Orleans and is set for a 2012 release. Based on a 1995 novel of the same name, it also stars Matthew McConaughey — once again as a non-plastic human. (I just spelled “McConaughey” without looking it up… prize?)

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‘Cowboys & Aliens’: The Trouble with Loving the Movie’s World But Not Its Characters

Natalie Zutter — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:06:44 +0000

Cowboys & Aliens is probably the movie I’ve most been looking forward to in 2011: The so-crazy-it-might-work blending of sharpshooters and interstellar invaders, the comic book pedigree, Jon Favreau at the helm while Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford team up. And I liked it a lot; it was funny, suspenseful, and had a good mystery — and those aliens were damn scary. But it didn’t blow me away, and I’m still confused as to why. If I had to make a guess, I’d say it’s partly because I didn’t really care about the characters.

Each of the main characters seemed to have only enough attributes to help them in relation to the big, bad aliens: Craig can’t remember where he’s from, but he has the cool alien bracelet; Ford is a grizzled, powerful entrepreneur with the necessary troops; Olivia Wilde mysteriously knows all about the aliens. The other cowboys are doctors, sharpshooters, and loyal to their kidnapped friends. But when the aliens start picking them off, we hardly care.

That said, I don’t want to paint them as lifeless. There are moments that shine through, like when both of the leading men reveal they have soft spots: Craig in his tender memories of his wife, and Ford bonding with the group’s young kid. The times when I was most connected to the characters was in the alien showdown scenes; their fear of these unknown, overpowering creatures was palpable.

But the aliens, too, were more plot device than anything else. Maybe it’s because I’ve been rewatching Battlestar Galactica, but I realize that in most alien stories, the invaders don’t get much personality. Their presence is their identity: They’re a threat, so the humans better scramble. But in BSG the Cylons regard themselves as humanity’s next evolution, and follow a radically different religious worldview; in District 9, they’re refugees abused by the system they turned to for help. Though I won’t reveal the reasoning behind the aliens’ presence in the Wild West, it’s disappointingly single-minded.

I ran into this same problem with Moulin Rouge! a few years ago. After months of me heckling my male roommate to watch the movie, thinking he’d love the music and the tragic love story, we sat down to watch… and he hated it. He explained that he adored the world of Moulin Rouge!, but he couldn’t connect emotionally with Ewan McGregor or Nicole Kidman. They fell in love too fast, they didn’t fight hard enough… They were half-formed characters, but the gaudy, decadent, idealized setting filled in their problem areas. Their surroundings strengthened them, but when Satine dies in Christian’s arms it doesn’t matter as much as the Moulin Rouge itself getting closed down.

That’s what I feel like happens here. I’m excited to ride along with the characters during the big chase, but when we part ways I don’t wonder about what happened to Craig, Ford, Wilde, and the others. It isn’t anyone’s fault; it’s just what happens with a movie of such large scope.

It’s like John Brooks pointed out in his essay about Ginny Weasley: The archetypal heroes are blank canvases for us to project upon; these types of characters are whomever we want them to be. It’s up to the supporting characters to have individual quirks and idiosyncracies. The problem is, everyone in Cowboys & Aliens leans more toward archetypal; we needed more supporting characters.

I’d love there to be a sequel, or another story set in this world. I just don’t expect to see the same actors show up again.

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10 Music Videos With Celebrity Cameos for When You’re Sick of Katy Perry

Molly Horan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:26:34 +0000

For everyone who’s enjoying Glee stars Darren Criss and Kevin McHale alongside Crushable’s spirit animal Rebecca Black in Katy Perry’s new video Last Friday Night (and that should be everyone), but needs something new, we have just the thing: more celebs popping up in music videos. But music video cameos are far from a new invention – these classic videos feature some of our all-time favorite random appearances.

The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (Eric Roberts)

Your age is immediately apparent when you describe Mr. Roberts; Julia’s brother or Emma’s dad. (Side note – who plays checkers in a smoking jacket at a brothel? Next he’s going to order a sherry and demand a manservant play him in a game of connect four.)

Soul Asylum “Just Like Anyone”(Claire Daines)

Adorable Claire Daines isn’t as happy with her jutting skin spikes as Lady Gaga. But at prom it’s revealed she’s not some kind of teenage stegosaurus, she has wings. So, outfitted in her Juliet costume she flys off to a world where Leonardo DiCaprio never made The Man in the Iron Mask.

Stone Temple Pilot “Sour Girl”(Sarah Michelle Gellar)

Oh my god the vampires finally got Buffy!

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Nicole Kidman Saved the Placenta from Her Miscarriage to Prove Paternity

Lilit Marcus — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:03:11 +0000

Buried in this story about Anthony Pellicano, a PI-to-the-stars who wiretapped celebrities’ phones, is a tidbit about Nicole Kidman. During her messy divorce from Tom Cruise, Nicole apparently saved the placenta from a baby she’d miscarried so that she would be able to prove that Tom was the father. Tom never flat-out accused Nicole of cheating, but there were a lot of rumors that she hooked up with her Moulin Rouge costar Ewan McGregor. Tom and Nicole have two children together, Isabella Cruise and Connor Cruise, both of whom were adopted.

To be honest, I’m not surprised that Nicole saved the placenta, but I am surprised that she didn’t do it so she could have the stuff injected into her face at some point.

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Gallery: Celebs at the CMT Awards

Liana Maeby — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:01:22 +0000

The CMT Awards went down last night. Justin Bieber won a video award for his collaboration with Rascal Flatts and screwed up by calling the affair the Country Music Awards. Oops! Anyway, let’s check out the red carpet, shall we?

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15 Cases of Celebrity Splitsville

Lucia Peters — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:44:37 +0000

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, Olivia Wilde and Tao Ruspoli, Leah Messer and Corey Simms… is it just me, or have there been more than the usual celebrity splits lately? Maybe it IS just me; they do tend to happen frequently and dramatically. Furthermore, it’s rare the celeb split that manages to fly under the radar. In fact, let’s take a look at some other high-profile celebrity splits, shall we?

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Gallery: Minimal Outfits and Elaborate Hair Rocks the Billboard Awards

Liana Maeby — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:39:48 +0000

The Billboard Awards were last night and Eminem, Rihanna and Beyonce were some of the big winners. In untraditional music biz fashion, everyone was dressed relatively simply in solid colors and demure gowns. The big accent last night was the hair — red, pink and braided.

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Crush Links: George Clooney Wins $20,000 for Being Him

Natalie Zutter — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:10:13 +0000

• Nicole Kidman famously bet George Clooney that he’d be married and a daddy by 40. When he won, he challenged her to a double down since yesterday was his 50th birthday and he is still unmarried without kids. As Barney Stinson would say, “Happy Not A Father’s Day!” (Lainey Gossip)

• What if LeBron James starred in Space Jam instead of Michael Jordan? (BuzzFeed)

• It was love at first sight for John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. Aww–we’re still jealous, but aww. (YourTango)

• Just days after her single “Judas” was leaked, Lady Gaga announced that another single, “The Edge of Glory,” will be released on iTunes at 4 p.m. EST. (Celeb Dirty Laundry)

• Even though blondes are known for having the most fun and being enviably youthful, the crop of stars dyeing their hair red — Blake Lively, Scarlett Johansson, and Whitney Port — has stylists saying that redheads = pure sex. (Betty Confidential)

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