Thursday, October 31, 2013

Pippi Longstocking bumps and grinds with Tiger Woods' porn pal


Tired of the monotony of your online life? Then try some of these little diversions.
My soul died a little when I saw pics of Pippi Longstocking with Tiger Woods' porn gal pal. WARNING: NSFW.
Some people really handle break ups like big babies. This man threw $500,000 in gold into a landfill so his estranged wife would not get it. Big baby.
What is up with all the terrible Halloween costumes this year? No dude, it’s not cool to make fun of tragic deaths.
A study says men look at a woman’s body more than her face. Dumb study number 5,010,614.
Beyonce photobombs a fan’s selfie. So rude!
Diana Falzone is a FoxNews.com contributor and the advice columnist for My Wingman Diana on Military.com. Her work has been published in the textbook "Sexuality Education," distributed in universities across North America. You can follow her on Twitter @dianafalzone.

Children of Marvin Gaye sue Robin Thicke over 'Blurred Lines'


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    FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows R&B singer-songwriter Robin Thicke in New York. Two of Marvin Gaye's children, Nona and Frankie Gaye, countersued Thicke and his collaborators on the hit song "Blurred Lines" on Wednesday in Los Angeles claiming the singers improperly copied their father's hit "Got to Give It Up." (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)
Two of Marvin Gaye's children sued Robin Thicke and his collaborators on the hit song "Blurred Lines" on Wednesday, accusing them of copyright infringement and alleging music company EMI failed to protect their father's legacy.
Nona Marvisa Gaye and Frankie Christian Gaye's suit is the latest salvo in a dispute over Thicke's hit and whether it copies elements of Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up."
Their lawsuit seeks to block Thicke and collaborators Pharrell and T.I. from using elements of their father's music in "Blurred Lines" or other songs.
Thicke has denied copying Gaye's song for "Blurred Lines," which has the longest streak this year atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has sold more than 6 million tracks so far. The suit also accused Thicke of improperly using Gaye's song "After the Dance" in his song "Love After War."
Much of the lawsuit focuses on claims that EMI should have pursued a copyright infringement claim. It also alleges the company's executives used intimidation to try to stop the Gaye family from pursuing a lawsuit.
The suit claims EMI, which is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, has allowed a conflict of interest between the family's rights and the profits it is earning from "Blurred Lines" sales.
"This conflict has resulted in EMI's intentional decision to align themselves with the ('Blurred Lines') writers, without regard to the harm inflicted upon the rights and interests of the Gaye Family, and the legacy of Marvin Gaye," the lawsuit states.
Sony-ATV said it takes "very seriously" its role of protecting its songwriters' works from infringement.
"While we have not yet seen the claims by the Gaye family against EMI, we have repeatedly advised the Gaye family's attorney that the two songs in question have been evaluated by a leading musicologist who concluded that 'Blurred Lines' does not infringe 'Got To Give It Up,'" the company said in a statement.
Sony-ATV also said that while it treasures Marvin Gaye's works and the company's relationship with his family, "we regret that they have been ill-advised in this matter."
Thicke and his collaborators filed a case in August asking a federal judge to rule that the singers did not copy "Got to Give It Up" for their hit.
Howard King, who represents the singers, said the Gayes' countersuit was not unexpected, but he said their decision to sue EMI demonstrates the family lacks the appropriate authority to pursue the case against his clients.
He rejected the notion that EMI turned a blind eye to improper copying of Gaye's music. "EMI is in the business of collecting money for infringements," King said.
The company likely consulted a musicologist who found nothing improper, the attorney said. King said his firm consulted three music experts who determined the notes in the two songs were different.
Gaye's son Marvin Gaye III also might pursue legal action over the song, but he is not included in the federal court suit filed Wednesday.

Jenny McCarthy: 'I am terrified' of Oprah Winfrey because I left her network


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    Oprah Winfrey, left, and Jenny McCarthy. (REUTERS)
Oprah Winfrey may be one of the most powerful women on earth, so if you cross her, look out.
Just ask Jenny McCarthy.
On Oct. 29, McCarthy appeared on Andy Cohen’s gabfest on Bravo, “Watch What Happens Live,” where she admitted that she was “scared of Oprah.”

“The View” co-host was very open with Cohen, explaining the circumstances surrounding her sudden departure from Winfrey’s OWN network back in 2011. “I did a deal with her for five years, but we, we kind of shook hands. I would be scared she would beat me up.”

As FOX411 first reported
, Jenny McCarthy decided to cut bait with Winfrey after growing frustrated with the creative team at Winfrey’s fledging cable network.
“Jenny wasn’t thrilled with the direction that OWN producers were going with on the show,” a source told us exclusively at the time. “She had been working with Oprah and her producers for over a year, developing this project for OWN. Jenny finally decided to embrace Oprah’s philosophy, which is to ‘follow your bliss.’ Well, Jenny followed her bliss and walked right off the project.”

At the time, reps for OWN denied that McCarthy ever had a show in development at the network. After FOX411 published a report that Winfrey and McCarthy had, in fact, parted ways, OWN representatives released a statement to “Access Hollywood” saying that “the project was never in the works for the cable channel.”

But on Thursday, McCarthy confirmed that she did, in fact, have a show in development at OWN. ”It didn't [work out]," she explained to Cohen. "I left.”
The former Playboy Playmate even admitted that she has been avoiding the talk show titan for the past couple of years. “I am terrified,” she said, not entirely exaggerating. “I would be, like, oh no [if we ran into each other]!”
Cohen, smiling wryly, asked, ”Do you think you're on her 'list'?"
"I'm sure there's probably a lot of people on her sh*t list,” laughed McCarthy. “But I'm probably number four.”
OWN’s struggles--with or without McCarthy-- have been well documented. Discovery Communications, OWN’s parent company, has sunk at least $509 million dollars into the network since its launch in 2011. OWN has also suffered from a series of expensive, high-profile flops, including Rosie O’Donnell’s failed talk show. At one point, OWN’s ratings were even worse than the channel it replaced, Discovery Health.
Winfrey has openly acknowledged her struggles with the network. She told People magazine that last summer she had suffered from “the symptoms of a nervous breakdown” after a series of reports of OWN’s very public failings.
“People were counting me out,” she explained to the magazine. “After 25 years of being No. 1, I had become accustomed to success. I didn’t expect failure. I was tested and I had to dig deep.”

But even though McCarthy and Winfrey are no longer BFFs, Winfrey has no hard feelings. On Wednesday she tweeted, “.@JennyMcCarthy don't have a shxt list. If I did you'd never be on it. Wishing you only good fortune, love and light and watching @TheView.”

Brian Cranston narrates epic exploration of science through the ages on 'Big History' series

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    Bryan Cranston poses backstage with his awards for outstanding male actor in a drama series for "Breaking Bad" and for outstanding cast in a motion picture for "Argo" at the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 27, 2013. (REUTERS)
Bryan Cranston has an authoritative voice, which all by itself would qualify him to narrate "Big History."
But there's another reason Cranston is a fine choice for this new docuseries, which pledges to reveal "one grand unified theory" for how every event in history (13.7 billion years of it) is intertwined by science. Cranston, after all, starred in the recently concluded drama "Breaking Bad" as Walter White, the nation's favorite psychotic former high-school chemistry teacher.
"Walt was a passionate teacher," Cranston says with a laugh, "and even through the dastardly deeds that he found himself doing later on, he was still a teacher: He taught Jesse the chemistry of cooking meth."
"Breaking Bad" is behind him, and now, in Cranston's current TV project, he is as much student as teacher as he confronts each script for the 16-episode-plus-finale series, which premieres Saturday at 10 p.m. EDT on the H2 network (an extension of the History channel).
"The series uses science and history to show how various things that we take for granted these days had their origins thousands of years ago," Cranston says by phone from the Los Angeles studio where he is busy taping his commentary.
Two half-hour episodes of "Big History" will air on premiere night.
"The Superpower of Salt" reveals its subject to be far more than the thing you cut down on if you have high blood pressure.
"New York City wouldn't be the city that it is without salt," Cranston declares in the episode. Moreover, salt helped determine the road system of America and beyond: It "has silently engineered our global map."
Salt's all-important role in animal life was demonstrated eons ago by the genesis of the egg, a portable container for salty water that allowed a creature to leave the sea for dry land to procreate there. (Even the amniotic sack in the womb serves as a personal ocean for the fetus, he notes.)
The second episode, "Horse Power Revolution," makes clear the noble equine's legacy goes deeper than pulling a plow and toting Paul Revere on his midnight ride.
It was early nomads in Central Asia some 6,000 years ago who first rode horses, Cranston reports.
Among many unexpected benefits the horse spurred was pants. Citizens of ancient Rome wore tunics, which were impractical for riding horses, as Roman soldiers must have realized anew while battling barbarian enemies who sported this sartorial innovation. The Roman cavalry soon got on board. From there, pants became the rage for clotheshorses the world over.
Prior to the H2 series, Big History began as a course developed to help students better understand the world by revealing "big picture" connections between different fields of study. A free, online version is available online.
"I love learning how a moment in history carries through to today's life," says Cranston.
Asked what kind of student he was during his school years, he recalls, "I was good when I wanted to be. And I could get enthused about any subject if a teacher made it come alive.
"That's what this series does. It describes the relationship we have to our history. It explains how and why this is important to ME. That's what's key!"

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher finally settle divorce


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    Actress Demi Moore and her boyfriend actor Ashton Kutcher arrive at aspecial screening of the film "Charlie's Angels Full Throttle" June 25,2003 in New York City. The film opens June 27th in the United States.REUTERS/Jeff ChristensenJC/ME
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have ­finally agreed to settle their bruising divorce ­battle two years after they separated, sources told the New York Post's Page Six.

According to the sources, the May-December couple, who contentiously split in November 2011 and have been battling ever since, have signed ­divorce paperwork and could file the legal documents as soon as next week.

“Ashton and Demi have finally signed their divorce agreement,” said one source close to the couple. “They are about to file paperwork with the court that will formally end their marriage.”

Last month, the couple was seen chatting cordially at an LA airport after returning from the same tech conference. Though they separated nearly two years ago, Kutcher only filed for ­divorce in late 2012, and Moore in March.

Sources previously told The Post the pair was bitterly fighting over money. Kutcher, 35, became the highest-paid actor on TV when he joined the cast of “Two and a Half Men” and he also has made extensive lucrative tech investments through his A-Grade investments firm with Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle.

Perfect cast keeps 'Last Vegas' from being over-the-hill 'Hangover'


“Last Vegas” could easily be dismissed as the over-the-hill “Hangover,” but a perfect ensemble cast comfortable with their ages and light-hearted material offers a tender, slightly more serious look at odd-ball friendships whilst gallivanting around Sin City.
Expect the expected. The plot is as predictable as they come. We already know the stereotypes, the situations the characters will haphazardly fall into and exactly how they will be resolved. That would generally kill a movie, but Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline keep the stale Vegas act from being a cheap matinee performance. Writer Dan Fogelman (“Cars”) infuses some light drama into the comedy and director John Turteltaub (“National Treasure”) gets spritely, genuine performances from the cast, making “Last Vegas” more like wearing a pair of comfortable shoes rather than getting the last remaining bits of soggy chicken at the casino buffet. 
Known in their youth as the Flatbush Four, the quartet of Brooklyn friends had the stereotypical golden oldies childhood before growing apart over the years, only keeping in touch via phone to relay their medical problems. But when never-married Billy (Douglas) finally gets engaged to a 30 year-old woman, Archie (Freeman), Sam (Kline) and Paddy (De Niro) all agree to meet in Vegas for a massive send-off. There’s only one problem: Billy and Paddy loathe each other and haven’t spoken in years.
Problems aside, the four go on a Sin City free-for-all, using their age to their advantage: judging a bikini contest, scoring a ridiculous VIP suite at Aria and becoming the most popular kids in town. Of course there are the required old-age jokes that come with the territory, but the fun is watching these guys let loose.
Countering the aging testosterone is the lovely Mary Steenburgen as Diana, a lonely lounge singer who comes between Billy and Paddy. Having once competed to date the female of their group back in their Flatbush days, Billy and Paddy once again square off over Diana, who is either the biggest threat to their friendship or potentially its saving grace. You can guess which way it goes.
Each character is given adequate time to be relevant; each has their own personal story and issues they need to resolved which are just deep enough to make the audience care. This slice of seriousness adds a great deal, keeping “Last Vegas” from becoming trite and maudlin. Also, having fantastic actors helps matters greatly, too.
There is obvious excitement among the cast, which becomes more contagious as the film progresses. Kline and Freeman especially seem to love the change of pace as the comic relief against the bitter and rivaling Douglas and De Niro. Freeman is much more laid back than we are accustomed and is really the highlight of the film. 
Completing the cast are Roger Bart as a drag queen, Jerry Ferrara as a frat boy punk and Romany Malco as the boys’ concierge, but the draw is the Flatbush Four.
With the current crop of heavy films in theaters, “Last Vegas” is a crowd-pleasing, light-hearted alternative.
CBS Films. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Yoko Ono 'thankful' for Paul McCartney's comments


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    Yoko Ono and John Lennon are shown in 1970. (AP)
Yoko Ono says she's thankful Paul McCartney appears to have gotten over his grudge against her.
McCartney, in a recent Rolling Stone interview, said he's getting along fine with the widow of John Lennon, his old songwriting partner. The bad feelings had gone back decades, to when the Beatles were falling apart and other group members resented the appearance of Lennon's new girlfriend in the recording studio.
McCartney said that time was a great healer and thought that "if John loved her, there's got to be something. He's not stupid." He said once he decided to let go of his grudge that they've been getting along fine.
Ono, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Wednesday it was good to hear those words from McCartney and "I'm very thankful."
"I never felt too bad about Paul," she said. "He was my husband's partner and they did a great job and all that. They seemed to have a lot of fun, and I respected that."
Some of the bad feelings had persisted in the post-Beatles years, as Ono was a regular partner in business affairs surrounding the group after Lennon's death in 1980 — perhaps most notably when McCartney expressed a desire to change songwriting credits to "McCartney-Lennon" instead of "Lennon-McCartney" for some of the songs most associated with him.
McCartney told Rolling Stone he admires Ono's work. She's still making and releasing new music at age 80, like McCartney is at age 71.