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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Charlie St. Cloud – movie review

Movies, Review | Emmaleigh R. Hall | July 31, 2010 at 8:56 am

Charlie St. Cloud is the touching story of a young man who needs to find a meaning to his life. This film stars Zac Efron as the titular character of Charlie St. Cloud, and includes the talents of Amanda Crew, Charlie Tahan, Donal Logue, and Ray Liotta.

Charlie is a sailor, and he likes to sail with his little brother Sam. Charlie has even won a sailing scholarship for college. The night Charlie graduates high school, he has plans to go to a party with his friends before one of them ships out to the military, but his mother has to work a shift and makes him babysit Sam. Charlie tries to sneak out, but Sam catches him and makes Charlie give him a ride. They’re involved in a fatal car accident that kills them both–however, a paramedic is able to bring Charlie back.

At Sam’s funeral, Charlie runs off to keep a deal he made with his little brother to practice catch every day at sunset. Sam actually shows up, and they agree to keep the deal. Fast forward five years later, and Charlie plans his day around sunset so that he can keep his deal with his little brother. He also works at the cemetery, where we learn he can see the deceased before they cross over. In town, Charlie also meets the paramedic who saved his life, who tells Charlie he needs to find purpose in his life since not everybody gets a second chance. Soon, Charlie does discover his purpose, but he has to choose between fulfilling it, or keeping his brother Sam.

Charlie St. Cloud is touching and incredibly sad. Zac Efron gave the best performance I have ever seen from him–this movie was outside of his comfort zone of feel-good teen movies. Donal Logue was also great as Tink; it was weird for me to see him not be a funny character, but he pulled it off. Charlie Tahan was great as the little brother Sam, who despite everything stayed very eleven. Amanda Crew was wonderful as the love interest, Tess, and Ray Liotta was absolutely inspiring as the paramedic who saved Charlie.

This movie is great for anyone who loves tearjerkers. Bring the Kleenex: you will cry. Zac Efron fans are in for a treat with this movie. However, if you just can’t do sad movies, then Charlie St. Cloud is not the movie for you.

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About Emmaleigh R. Hall

Emmaleigh is currently a film major in college, and a lover of film and television. Emmaleigh has a special fondness for bad movies, but she especially loves good movies. She one day hopes to be the screenwriter of either the next Citizen Kane or the next Plan 9 from Outer Space. Good or bad, she wants to be spectacular.

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Zach Galifianakis To Star In E-Mail Faux Pas Comedy 'Reply All'

'Dinner for Schmucks' and 'Hangover' star's new film purchased by DreamWorks.
By Adam Rosenberg

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Zach Galifianakis stars as the titular schmuck opposite Steve Carell in the summer comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," which comes out Friday. So now's a perfect time to line up another one, right?

Deadline.com reported that DreamWorks purchased "Reply All," a Galifianakis vehicle with a yet-to-be-written script coming from Phil Johnston. The writer also has a credit on the 2011 comedy "Cedar Rapids," which features Zach G's "The Hangover" cohort Ed Helms among its stars.

From the sound of things, "Reply All" will riff on that most dreaded faux pas, in which you accidentally send a private e-mail to a large group of unintended recipients. Galifianakis will play the hapless sender; expect hilarity to ensue as he deals with the consequences of his error. No other casting has been made public yet, but expect some familiar names, since Galifianakis tends to draw a crowd.

In addition to "Schmucks" this Friday, Galifianakis has two more comedies still to come this year. First up, in September, is "It's a Funny Kind of Story" from "Half Nelson" writer/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. He's back again in November starring opposite Robert Downey Jr. in "Due Date," a road movie from "Hangover" director Todd Phillips that's drawn comparisons to the John Candy/Steve Martin classic, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."

Of course, Galifianakis will also be re-teaming again with Phillips next year for "The Hangover 2." Also expected to return for the sequel are stars Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and Bradley Cooper; rumors also suggest that supporting stars Heather Graham and Ken Jeong will be back. ComingSoon.net reported via a source last week that the sequel will be set (and shot on location) in Thailand.

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Wiz Khalifa Was Working On Atlantic Deal 'For A Minute'

Khalifa tells 'RapFix Live' that although he won't sign to Rick Ross' Maybach Music, there's 'gonna be work done' with the Miami MC.
By Mawuse Ziegbe, with reporting by Sway Calloway

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Last year, Wiz Khalifa parted ways with Warner Bros. and hit the independent scene hard. This year, after selling out shows and boosting his Taylor Gang following with the standout mixtape Kush & OJ, the "Hottest Breakthough MC of 2010" has kept the hip-hop scene buzzing about whether he's ready to call another major label home. During his "RapFix Live" interview with MTV News' Sway on Friday (July 30), the upstart rapper put all of the rumors to rest and confirmed that he is inking a deal with Atlantic Records.

"Yeah, I'm signing to Atlantic," Khalifa said. "We've been working on it for a minute. I wanted to make sure that I had records that I was comfortable with before I went to any label or any situation. I wanted to make sure I had my direction so when I take it to them it's like, 'Let's go.' "

Although Khalifa languished on the shelf during his last stint as a major-label artist, the MC assured fans that he's ready to tackle any setbacks that may delay his music this time around.

"I'm pretty sure all those kinks are worked out and I don't think I'm [going to have] any problem with working out any kinks that could present themselves," Khalifa said. "Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing."

The lyricist revealed that while he's already got some songs in the can, he and his label are still hammering out which track will be the first single. "We got like two or three records that [we're] tossing around. It's just the order of it," Khalifa said. "Right now there's one ["Black and Yellow"] that's gonna be real big for Pittsburgh. That's gonna be the Steelers anthem," Khalifa said confidently.

Hip-hop fans have also been buzzing about a possible matchup between Khalifa and Rick Ross. The Miami Bawse handpicked the rising star, along with his sometime partner-in-rhyme Curren$y, to jump on a remix of his track "Super High" and even propositioned Wiz about joining the Maybach Music family. When Ross stopped by the MTV Newsroom for his "RapFix Live" broadcast on July 23, Ricky Rozay asked Khalifa about coming to his label in a "Pass the Mic" segment.

"What would it take for us to close the deal, Wiz Khalifa, Maybach Music?" Ross asked via video.

After checking out the tape, Khalifa appeared floored by Ross' offer but nimbly skirted the question.

"It's a huge honor for him to even extend a hand like that. [It's] crazy for him to even look out like that. Me and Ross is always gonna be working, I think," Khalifa said. "He sees my vision. I think he gets what I'm trying to do. Even if it ain't no paperwork between me and Ross, it's gonna be work done between me and Ross."

Regardless of how any potential business partnership pans out, Khalifa applauded Ross' progressive approach to the next wave of hip-hop artists and said the Bawse's Wiz co-sign puts him ahead of the game.

"There's a lot of people, I think, who had a chance to be like, 'Wiz is my man. I'm messing with Wiz.' I think a lot of people had that opportunity to really capitalize off of the newer generation and the younger audience and that whole influence and Ross sees that," Khalifa said. "[He's] like, 'I'm [going to] rock with Wiz' so [I'm] like, 'I rock with Ross.' "

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Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC and WEC, has sued prominent MMA agent Ken Pavia and rival promotion Bellator, alleging that Pavia shared Zuffa's trade secrets and confidential documents to help Bellator run its business.

Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the UFC and WEC, has sued prominent MMA agent Ken Pavia and rival promotion Bellator, alleging that Pavia shared Zuffa’s trade secrets and confidential documents to help Bellator run its business, Yahoo Sports Kevin Iole reports:

According to the suit, filed Wednesday in Clark County District Court, Pavia delivered confidential contracts, including fighter agreements, to Bellator after being asked to do so in a July 4 email to him from Bellator founder Bjorn Rebney.

An email which Zuffa’s lawsuit alleges is from Rebney to Pavia on July 4 was attached as an exhibit to the 16-page suit. In it, Rebney writes, ” … You’ve been great about sending us ‘All’ of the seminal docs from the UFC, so that we can re-do them and implement them for Bellator.”

Later, the email Zuffa alleges to have been written by Rebney continues, “Please list each in terms of what it is for and how the UFC uses them/implements them. … Then I’m going to have our team Monday re-type them and we will sufficiently alter them such that they will appear to be ours and not theirs.”

Pavia and Bellator declined to comment on the case, in which Zuffa is seeking damages as well as an injunction to prevent them from using the assets.

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MMA H.E.A.T. caught up with Mark Muñoz on his final day of training camp at his own gym, Reign Training Center. Mark talks about his preparation, which included training with Anderson "The Spider" Silva, who lost to Okami via a controversial DQ. As usual, the gym was teeming with big names in the MMA biz: Jason "Mayhem" Miller (0:40), Krzysztof "The Polish Experiment" Soszynski (0:56), Benji Radach (1:20), Jake Ellenberger (1:56), Abel Nunez (2:26), Allan Goes (2:38) and Jay Silva (3:00) all weigh in on Mark's chances at the "UFC on Versus" show. They're extremely confident that Mark will defeat Yushin Okami on August 1, 2010.

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James Cameron And Guillermo Del Toro To Collaborate On 3-D 'Mountains Of Madness'

Cameron will produce del Toro's adaptation of story of explorers who encounter alien creatures in Antarctica.
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When we caught up with Guillermo del Toro at Comic-Con over the weekend, he was impressively tight-lipped about his new project following his departure from "The Hobbit" in May. The Mexican-born director has long had a desire to adapt H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" for the big screen, but he declined to announce plans to direct the project at the Con.

Now Deadline.com has the news that del Toro will in fact helm "Mountains of Madness," that James Cameron has come on-board as a producer and that they'll shoot the film with 3-D cameras. Cameron's presence on the project apparently convinced Universal to give del Toro a thumbs-up, and preproduction is expected to begin in the next few weeks, with an eye on a summer 2011 shoot.

Lovecraft's story follows a group of explorers who set off for Antarctica and discover alien creatures, mythical cities and a host of bizarre dangers. While del Toro wouldn't confirm his plans to direct at Comic-Con, he did go into detail about his work on the script with Matthew Robbins ("Mimic").

"We are rewriting slightly the screenplay we've had for 12 years," he told MTV News. "Matthew and I believe that a screenplay like that you have to tackle again every so often. We tackled it last about two years ago, [when] Matt and I felt like we needed to rewrite some stuff. Matt is my greatest writing partner because we keep updating anything we haven't shot, we keep saying, 'Let's do another rewrite.' So we're going to do another rewrite in the next couple months.'

"There [are] movies that have come out that have done things that are similar to some of the stuff we were trying," he further explained. "Thirteen years ago it was a big challenge, but right now what we're doing is keeping it alive."

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3OH!3's 'My First Kiss' Video Premieres -- Watch It Here!

The electro-punk duo (and Ke$ha) smooch subtlety goodbye in eye-popping new clip.
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Subtlety has never really been 3OH!3's strong suit.

Previous hits like "Starstrukk" and "Don't Trust Me" were unabashed odes to excess and rather wanton stupidity. "House Party," the sort-of first single off their upcoming Streets of Gold album, is about, well, throwing an awesome house party. And "My First Kiss," the proper first single from Gold, is also in keeping with that titling tradition: It's a song about kissing.

Fittingly, it has a rather eye-popping, over-the-top video, one that features a whole lot of folks smooching (geriatrics, punks, teachers, sailors, soldiers, lesbians, nerds and hirsute rockers, to name a few), some really bright colors, the occasional close-up of a pair of lips and not much else. Oh, and Ke$ha — she's in it too. The duo behind 3OH!3 bounce around and throw punches at the camera. Sean Foreman shouts about kisses that get him drunk like whiskey and, at one point, rhymes "candy" with "panties."

Like we said, these aren't the subtlest dudes in the world.

Still, like pretty much everything 3OH!3 do, there's an undeniable charm to both the song and the video. Perhaps it's the power-tool chorus, or the "ooh-ooh-ooh" vocal harmonies. Maybe it's Ke$ha's sexy sass. Or maybe I just like watching a whole bunch of people lock lips. The whole thing is a lot of fun. It gets in your head. And hey, it's the summer — school's out, and gleefully stupid is in.

So, while concepts like "restraint" might not be in their wheelhouse, 3OH!3 are pretty great when it comes to making outrageous, hormonally charged pop. And "My First Kiss" is more of that. Subtle? No. Smart? Most definitely.

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RFC 21 coverage

Posted by Stephen Rhodes on July 30th, 2010 under Fight Results

Undefeated pro mixed martial arts fighter Patrick Cenobole scored his fifth career win and earned the Fight of the Night honors in the main event of the RFC 21: New Blood fight card at the A La Carte Pavilion in Tampa, Fla. July 23.

In an uncharacteristically long fight for the express-knockout-artist Cenobole showed great stamina and conditioning which allowed him to withstand the powerful shots and takedown efforts by opponent Travis Cox while dishing out some punishment of his own.

Cox’s game plan apparently centered around keeping Cenobole off his feet in order to sabotage his striking power. But this strategy seriously backfired when Cenobole finished Cox with a vicious dose of ground and pound at 1:11 in round three.

Tampa MMA fighter Robert Radney was not so lucky as he suffered the first blemish to his fight record at the hands of Gracie Barra Orlando fighter Andrew Connors. In spite of Radney’s well-rounded fighting skills Connors was able to rock Radney early in round one with a well-aimed punch to his face. In an effort to avoid a TKO-call Radney went for the clinch. Sensing a golden opportunity Connors did not waste any time to take Radney down to the mat where he almost immediately locked him into what looked like an air-tight rear naked choke. Amazingly, Radney was able to not only withstand Connors’ powerful choke hold but even managed to get out of it and jump back on his feet. Connors continued his grappling and submission clinic that included a triangle choke but Radney kept evading defeat until Connors finally sealed his fate with a rear-naked choke at 1:03 in round two. Connors earned Submission of the Night honors for his impressive performance.

After a year-long MMA sabbatical undefeated Mike Rideout made his successful comeback while dealing Alex Cruz his first loss. Although Cruz had more momentum coming into this bout due to his recent win against Mike Joiner at RFC 20 last Feb. Rideout clearly dominated throughout all rounds. Even when Cruz taunted him to keep the punches coming during the stand-up portion of the bout Rideout kept his cool and finally submitted Cruz via triangle choke at 1:13 in round three.

In the shortest fight of the night Jay Beharry defeated Daniel Wade via TKO at 1:27 in round one and earned KO of the Night honors. It almost seemed like Beharry was disappointed about the quick finish as he urged the knocked down Wade to get back up.

John Gabbia pulled off the fastest submission of the night when he locked Evan Baxter in a rear-naked choke which left Baxter no other choice but to tap out at 2:45 in round one in a bout that marked both fighters professional debut.

Below are the fght results in chronological order:

Mike Rideout def. Alex Cruz via submission (triangle choke) at 1:13 in round three

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John Gabbia def. Evan Baxter via submision (rear-naked choke) at 2:45 in round one

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Andrew Connors def. Robert Radney via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:03 in round two

Michael Byrnes def. Paul Barrow via unanimous decision

Patrick Cenobole def. Travis Cox via TKO at 1:11 in round three

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Is Jennifer Lopez The Right Replacement For Ellen DeGeneres On 'American Idol'?

Experts think she could pull it off.
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The roster of rumored replacement judges for season 10 of "American Idol" has read like, well, the line-up for one of the show's traditionally big season finales: Justin Timberlake, Elton John, Bret Michaels, Harry Connick Jr, Chris Isaak and Jessica Simpson.

All of the above have either been debunked or dropped off the radar in the days since their names were first floated, but the one that rose to the top on Thursday, according to multiple reports, might just have what it takes to fill in the Paula Abdul Memorial Chair in the wake of Ellen DeGeneres' departure: Jennifer Lopez.

Despite some head-scratching upon word that the former fly girl and singer/actress was in final negotiations to join the judge's panel, Entertainment Weekly senior writer Jessica Shaw said the choice makes some sense. "On the plus side, she was one of the best guest mentors," Shaw said of Lopez's stint as a supportive, helpful guide to the season-six cast on Latin night. "And that's not an easy job because many have not done it so well. I was a bit surprised that she was as good a mentor as she was, but she knew every contestant's name and is a huge fan of the show."

You might recall that newly departed judge DeGeneres was also an avowed big fan of "Idol" when she signed on last year to take over the Abdul seat. But Shaw said Lopez has the thing that Ellen, despite her long career in front of cameras and onstage as a comedian, lacked: music-industry experience.

"I don't think of her as a quintessential music figure, like Elton John, who is an artist with a capital A," she said of Lopez, who has released six studio albums, starred in more than a dozen movies and, like Abdul, started her career as a professional dancer. "I'm not sure J-Lo is on that level. But, that said, neither was Paula Abdul, yet she was a judge and a force on the show." While nobody expects Lopez to step up and be the new Simon Cowell — that seat has not yet been filled — Shaw said Lopez could serve as the big, recognizable name that could draw in a new audience. "Everyone knows her. They may or may not like her, but they know the name."

With so many names in play, Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University and longtime "Idol" watcher, said he was holding out final judgement on Lopez until the choice is officially announced. "I guess she would fill the Paula-diva spot, as opposed to Kara, who didn't fit in," he said of season-two judging panel veteran songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who is reportedly on her way out as well. "Part of it is you just have to see them in the chair doing it before you have an idea of if it will work."

Thompson pointed to the DeGeneres experiment as proof of someone with copious TV talent who never seemed to find her zone on the show. He said the key is finding a panel that has the kind of crackling chemistry sole original judge Randy Jackson, Abdul and Cowell had in their first seven seasons together.

A spokesperson for "Idol" gave a no comment on the casting rumors and spokespeople for DioGuardi and Lopez had not returned requests for comment at press time.

MJ Santilli, webmaster of the "Idol" fansite MJsBigBlog.com, remembers how good Lopez was as a mentor and said the "Jenny From the Block" singer is in a perfect spot to segue to the "Idol" panel.

"She's kind of on the other side of her career, she's not the movie star she used to be and her last album didn't sell well," she said of Lopez, who has had a rough time at the box office lately and whose most recent album has been lost in the limbo of a label switch. "From that standpoint, she's a good candidate. And after she did the episode, nobody said she was a diva and the contestants seemed to like her."

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Britney Spears To Design Clothing For Candie's

Line features skinny jeans, black skirts, motorcycle jackets.
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Britney Spears has already appeared in ads for the Candie's for Kohl's campaign, dancing around in cute little dresses and skimpy bikinis. And now the star is adding clothing designer to her r�sum� by co-designing her own line of clothing and accessories for Candie's. The line will hit Kohl's stores starting on July 1 and will be available for a limited time. It features skinny jeans, casual striped sweaters, little black skirts and motorcycle jackets.

In an interview with InStyle.com, Spears explains how she came up with the ideas for the line. "First, I met with the Candie's designers and told them what my favorite styles are. Then, we sketched the items together," she explained. "I loved it when I saw the samples for the first time."

So which piece in the collection does Spears like best? "I love the black trench coat. You can wear it over your outfit or as a dress. There's also an amazing studded skirt that's perfect for going out," she said, adding that studs are a big part of her line.

"I used a lot of studs and lace, because I wanted to make the clothes cool and edgy yet girly. I also love jeans, so I had to make sure there were some great pairs in the collection. And I love jewelry so there are a lot of fun pieces," she continued. "There are great necklaces and big earrings."

The line mimics the clothes that the singer loves to wear in her real life. "My personal style is a mix of comfortable and flirty," she said. "I love cute little dresses but I also love comfy sweaters and jeans."

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Ke$ha Dons Fur Coat, Poses On Motorcycle For 'Take It Off' Video

Pop star vamps it up for her latest clip from Animal.
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She angered fictional parents in her "Tik Tok" video, pranced around with the boys of 3OH!3 in her "Blah Blah Blah" clip and frolicked with a bearded boyfriend in an animated desert for her "Your Love Is My Drug" video. It might seem like Ke$ha had already done it all, but she ups the ante again in her latest clip.

In photos from the singer's "Take It Off" video set, she's seen wearing really, really short shorts, a white fur coat and even rocking super-high platforms while posing on a motorcycle. And Ke$ha even returns to the desert, joined by a number of dancers in the sand.

For the video, it looks like Ke$ha ditched her signature waves for straightened locks, a look that is more polished than we're used to seeing from the party-girl pop star. But, of course, Ke$ha is keeping it dirrrty by including some face paint and covering herself in the aforementioned sand.

"Take It Off" is the latest single from Ke$ha's highly infectious Animal debut, released earlier this year. In the past, Ke$ha has said that the album is a perfect representation of who she was as a person while she was recording it with super-producers Max Martin and Dr. Luke.

"I'm excited about it, because it kind of accurately documents my life over the past four years," explained Ke$ha, who is currently on the road with Rihanna. "And I think any girl, and hopefully guys too, can relate to the record. I talk about pretty much anything — you name it. ... I think that throughout the album, what I'm really proud of — I think every song you can tell it's me. It's all really honest — almost to a fault — and really genuine."

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Anderson Silva Featured in âCountdown to UFC 117â³ on August 2nd

Anderson Silva Featured in â€œCountdown to UFC 117â€³ on August 2nd

UFC Poster 117 Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen

Just when you thought you got away from Chael Sonnenâ€™s nonstop chatter, Spike TV enters stage left with â€œCountdown to UFC 117.â€ The hour-long documentary debuts this Monday, August 2nd at 11PM ET/PT on the edgy network.

The show will spotlight the middleweight title fight between reigning king Anderson Silva and the talkative challenger that resides out of Team Quest in Oregon. Sonnen has done more than his fair share to sell the scrap thus far, however you best believe heâ€™ll be locked and loaded with instant classic one-liners once the cameras start rolling.

â€œUFC 117: Silva vs. Sonnenâ€ will be jumping off inside Oracle Arena in Oakland, California on August 7th.Â The pay-per-view broadcast will also feature the long awaited rematch between welterweight studs Thiago Alves and Jon Fitch, as well as a heavyweight top contender matchup between Junior dos Santos and Roy Nelson.

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Music | Aric Mitchell | July 31, 2010 at 2:30 am

Taylor Swift Mine
It’s good to be Taylor Swift. While the lyric in her song “Love Story” that states, “You were Romeo, I was the Scarlet Letter,” makes no sense whatsoever to anyone with even a remote understanding of English literature–I mean, come on, the Juliet-like protagonist is being compared to an adulterous whore from a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, did the girl even read the book?–Swift’s audience doesn’t seem to mind, and they certainly reach far beyond the teenage crowd. Everything the 20-year old does turns to gold, and that includes a recent duet with John Mayer. Now we’re that much closer to her third studio album, which will no doubt continue the starlet’s success.

Speak Now will be in stores on October 25, and in addition to the title cut, other songs include the previous title cut, “Mine” (pictured above), and “Sparks Fly,” with Swift writing each and every one of the tracks without any help whatsoever. Hopefully, if she plans on using any more classics of literature, she’ll at least read the Cliffs Notes first.

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Aric Mitchell is a full-time freelance writer, film critic, author, and journalist living in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Specialties include feature writing, reporting, search engine optimization, entertainment, humor, and issues of general interest to men. Credits include The Rugged, inStash, The City Wire, Flickchart, Break Media, and print magazine Celebrate Arkansas. He also makes his horror debut with the graphic novel anthology Grave Conditions from Haunted Computer.

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Taylor in “love story” said she was a Scarlet Letter because she was running away with a boy “romeo” with which she was not supposed to be with, “My Daddy said stay away from Juliet” Much like the Scarlet Letter’s Hester prince is not alowed to be with her love (Dimmesdale). When Taylor and her boyfriend are not allowed to be together in the song it makes her feel like she is wearing a “Scarlet Letter” because her father is not allowing it, if you think about Romeo and Juliet actually is close to the story of the Scarlet letter. Maybe you should re-read the Scarlet Letter before you start righting anymore snarky reports on Taylor.
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Woo! Go Christopher, exactly what I was going to say…before I read your comment! ….So to the writer of this article, the world isn’t as uneducated as you thought!

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Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Four Bouts Added To UFC 120

Posted by Stephen Rhodes on July 29th, 2010 under MMA Calendar, Octagon Buzz

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It appears that UFC 120 is shaping up nicely as four bouts have been added to the fight card, according to officials at Spike TV have indicated. UFC 120 is scheduled to take place on October 16 from the O2 Arena in London, England anmd will be broadcast on a tape-delay here in the States on Spike TV.

The four bouts in question are:

Travis Browne vs. Cheick Kongo
Claude Patrick vs. James Wilks
Cyrille Diabate vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Steve Cantwell vs. Stanislav Nedkov

With the addition of these four bouts, that brings the total nu mber of fights to 10. Below is the tentative fight card for UFC 120:

PRELIMINARY CARD

Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Kappke de Quieroz*
Tom Blackledge vs. James McSweeney*
Spencer Fisher vs. Kurt Warburton*
Steve Cantwell vs. Stanislav N...

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James Toney Wanted Brock Lesnar, Turned Down Kimbo Slice Before Getting Randy Couture at UFC 118

James Toney Wanted Brock Lesnar, Turned Down Kimbo Slice Before Getting Randy Couture at UFC 118
James Toney will make his MMA debut against hall of famer Randy Couture at UFC 118 on August 28, but the outspoken boxing champ initially requested a matchup with heavyweight title-holder Brock Lesnar, then turned down a bout with brawler Kimbo Slice before settling on Couture as his first opponent.

James Toney will make his MMA debut against hall of famer Randy Couture at UFC 118 on August 28, but the outspoken boxing champ initially requested a matchup with heavyweight title-holder Brock Lesnar, then turned down a bout with brawler Kimbo Slice before settling on Couture as his first opponent:

“The person I wanted to fight right off the bat was Brock Lesnar,” Toney said in a recent chat with MMAFighting. “He’s a champion, I’m a champion and I wanted to do it. But they said I couldn’t do that. Then they said, ‘How about Kimbo?’ But I said, ‘That’s too easy. That’s like kicking a little kid’s butt.’ But then Randy started saying he wanted to fight me, so I said, ‘OK, you’re the first one getting it.’

“I told Dana my goal is to hold the heavyweight championship of the UFC and in boxing at the same time.So as long as it takes me to get Brock Lesnar, that’s how long it’ll be. If Lesnar gets by Cain Velasquez, I’ll fight Lesnar in February or March. … Lesnar ran away from Shane Carwin like a girl, but then Carwin ran out of gas and quit. But I’ll fight any of them, any time anywhere. That’s my motto.”

The UFC 118 fight card is headlined by a rematch between lightweight champ Frankie Edgar and BJ Penn and also features Kenny Florian vs. Gray Maynard.

For complete UFC 118 coverage, including UFC 118 results on Aug. 28, stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.

Pictured: James Toney

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Heidi Montag Files For Divorce From Spencer Pratt

'Both parties are amicable,' Heidi's rep says of split.
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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag
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In June, Heidi Montag filed for legal separation from her husband of over a year, Spencer Pratt. On Friday (July 30), Montag's attorney Jodeane Farrell released a statement noting that her client had filed for divorce from Pratt. The two were married in April 2009.

"Heidi has amended her petition for separation and today has filed a petition for dissolution of marriage from Spencer Pratt," her lawyer told People. "The couple has agreed they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner in an out of court settlement. Both parties are amicable with each other and over the possibility of finalizing their divorce."

According to People, the divorce petition, which was filed in Santa Monica, Calif., cites irreconcilable differences. While Pratt has been busy tweeting and working on several websites since the separation was announced earlier this summer, Montag has maintained a relatively low profile.

Pratt recently spoke about the separation, saying that Heidi "doesn't want to be Speidi anymore. She wants to be Heidi Montag: the sex symbol."

"We love each other, but I'm a famewhore and I'll never grow out of it," Pratt said. "[Heidi] knows that and doesn't want that. I want every kind of press. She believes in bad press. There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. She just wants to hike and hang out and be calmer."

On Thursday night, Pratt was busy tweeting about the premiere of "Jersey Shore," while Montag posted about working on music. "In the studio recording my first song of my new album," she said. "I am putting my heart and soul in it."

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Britney Spears Opens Up About Her Sons In Cosmo

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A smiling Britney Spears appears on the cover of the August issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, which hits newsstands on July 13. In the issue, Spears, who is currently working on new music, opens up about her life in the spotlight and her sons.

"If my sons [Sean and Jayden] told me they wanted to be in the entertainment business, I'd lock them in their rooms until they turned 30," Spears, who kicked off her career as a child star on the "Mickey Mouse Club," admitted about the prospect of her sons entering the family business.

As for how she spends her days now, the singer said that she's just busy being a mom to her two young sons. "Things are pretty quiet right now. I've been spending a lot of time at home with my boys," she said. "They just started karate class, which is super cute!"

And while things are quiet now, she says that when the time comes, she doesn't want to have to talk to Jayden and Sean about the birds and the bees. "I'm dreading the moment when my sons ask me how babies are made," she said.

Spears, who recently released her own clothing collection for Candie's, adds that there's one aspect of her career that she always knew was inevitable: the constant paparazzi presence in her life. "[It's] something I always knew would come with the job I chose," she explained.

The singer tweeted about the cover, saying, "I'm on the cover of Cosmo's August issue. So excited! What do you all think?"

What do you think of Britney Spears' Cosmo cover? Tell us in the comments!

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Lately, I have been thinking about buying a travel trailer like an airstream. Not the old ones, but one of the newer versions. I would like to just sell all my worldly possessions and live in one with my wife. I think that is what I would like to try one day. Both my wife were considering it before we made our last move.

The only issues were my lack of knowledge about the specifics in living and maintaining that type of vehicle as a living structure. Back when I lived in Hemet a million years ago, I remember many senior citizens would buy big RVs with romantic notions of travelling the country in them. Most of them would make the big purchase but that just became an eyesore in their yard in a short period of time. They would keep making payments on something they used once or twice but committed to a 15 or 30 year loan.

Anyways, I have read a few blogs online about people doing this full-time. I hate the idea of having to unload your waste and water stuff at sites by connecting them to pipes, but I think I am making that a bigger deal than it really is. This is what I am scared of.

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I LOVED it from the first line...

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'Dinner For Schmucks': Idiot Patrol, By Kurt Loder

Paul Rudd and Steve Carell make the most of a very light comedy.

Steve Carell and Jemaine Clement in "Dinner for Schmucks"
Photo: Paramount Pictures

"Dinner for Schmucks" is as light as a fistful of feathers — as a comedy in the age of Apatow, it's barely there. But the sharp cast is smart enough not to weigh down the airy tale with heavy shtick (which might have been a temptation), and director Jay Roach lays out the story with straightforward simplicity. The movie becomes funnier than you might expect at the beginning; as summer comedies go, it's a small surprise.

Paul Rudd plays Tim, an upwardly mobile finance hotshot at an L.A. investment firm. After he reels in a wealthy new client, an enormously snooty Swiss moneybags named Mueller (David Walliams, of "Little Britain"), Tim's boss (Bruce Greenwood) tantalizes him with the prospect of a big promotion — but on one condition: Tim will have to attend an annual company dinner to which each top executive is expected to bring an idiot — the most pathetic specimen of humanity he can find. The exec with the biggest idiot wins.

Tim's girlfriend, a gallery owner named Julie (Stephanie Szostak), is so appalled by this idea that he promises her he won't take part. For one thing, he's starting to worry that Julie might fall into the clutches of her hottest new artist, the egomaniacal Kieran (Jemaine Clement), whose outsize paintings all feature him in dementedly heroic poses. Finally, though, Tim is overcome by ambition and decides to attend the dinner. Now he just has to find an idiot.

Fortuitously, while driving down the street in his pricey sports car, Tim accidentally runs into Barry (Steve Carell), who turns out to be a perfect goofus. ("I've been hit by a Datsun before," he says excitedly, "but never a Porsche.") Barry is an IRS drone by day, but his real passion is creative taxidermy: collecting dead mice, stuffing them, outfitting them with handmade clothing and then arranging them in elaborate tableaux. (One of these, meticulously housed in a display case, is an all-rodent restaging of the Last Supper.)

Here, unfortunately, the movie, which is a remake of a 1998 French film, hits an unpleasant bump. Barry is supposed to be a complete moron (Carell seems to have derived this toothy nutcake from the Jerry Lewis canon, minus Lewis' abrasive whininess), but his "mouster-pieces," as he calls them, really are inspired. When Tim fails to realize this at first, and pushes ahead with his dinner plan, we begin to question his character in an unsmiling way. He'll eventually have a change of heart — that's the preordained point of the story — but a sour taste lingers.

The movie is naturally pointed like an arrow toward the concluding idiot dinner. Along the way to it, though, we meet some fine daffy characters, among them Barry's IRS boss, Therman (Zach Galifianakis), who has a private passion of his own for mind control (he's written a book called "Your Mind Is My Puppet"); and a lunatic party girl named Darla (Lucy Punch), who has been stalking Tim ever since he drunkenly went to bed with her three years earlier. (She comes on to men tongue-first.)

Additional oddballs turn up at the idiot dinner itself, of course: a blind fencing enthusiast, a lonely ventriloquist with his wooden-headed "wife," and a dead-pet psychic who disrupts the feast when she starts receiving messages from the main course (broiled lobster). It's no surprise that the dinner collapses into a slapstick fiasco (which goes on a little too long), or that in the end the sleazy guys all get their comeuppance and the idiots emerge as misunderstood sweethearts whose obsessions make sense in the context of their eccentric lives. As Barry puts it, more or less quoting John Lennon: "You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not."

Don't miss Kurt Loder's review of "Charlie St. Cloud," also new in theaters this week.

("Dinner for Schmucks" is a Paramount Pictures presentation. Paramount and MTV are both subsidiaries of Viacom.)

Check out everything we've got on "Dinner for Schmucks."

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