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Kevin Bacon Sculpture, Made Out Of Bacon

J&D Foods, a US company specializing in bacon products, has commissioned an artist to create a life-sized bust of actor Kevin Bacon out of bacon.

The piece — which took three months to make — is called “Bacon Kevin Bacon” and comprises of a Styrofoam core covered in dried “bacon bits” a bacon-based crunchy salad topping.

Looks more like Conan O’Brien, no?

J&D Foods’ co-owner Justin Esch told AOL:

“It should be in art gallery somewhere, but it would also look nice on a coffee table. I think it’ll tie together any room nicely. Bacon makes everything better, including art.”

Artist Mike Lahue created the artwork, which is due to be auctioned on eBay this week for the charity Ashley’s Team, a non-profit organization that helps children with cancer and their families. (Already 22 bids, $305.00)

The eBay ad advises that Bacon Kevin Bacon is not edible. The sculpture has been lacquered to ensure that the buyer doesn’t have a revolting piece of rotting meat on their hands.

Ha! Like someone would try and eat it.

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The 11 Most Evil Boyfriends From Movies

Paul @ Gone Hollywood

Michael Cera‘s new movie is about him battling the evil ex-boyfriends of his girlfriend, or something silly like that. In honor of this, Vulture have come up with a list of the most evil boyfriends in movie history. Take a look at theirl ist…

11. Hardy Jenns, Some Kind of Wonderful

A perfect candidate to someday wind up in a Bret Easton Ellis novel, Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer) is the spoiled, rich, preening slimeball who can’t quite understand that his popular girlfriend, Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), is really through with him — this despite the fact that she’s already agreed to go out on a date with the totally average Keith (Eric Stolz) in John Hughes’s infamous teen classic. Like most spurned boyfriends in coming-of-age flicks, Hardy has a plan for revenge — and like most spurned boyfriends in coming-of-age flicks, he fails.

10. Buzz Gunderson, Rebel Without a Cause

The leather-jacketed, pomaded high-school gang leader Buzz Gunderson (Corey Allen), who torments sensitive new loner Jim Stark (James Dean), is the Ur-evil boyfriend of American cinema, the smug thug who inspired generations of bullies in later coming-of-age films. But the others were cardboard cutouts compared to him. Buzz was more than just an unthinking brute; he even copped to liking Jim and admitted that he was really just bugging him out of boredom. And he never really lost the girl, either; rather, Buzz died a horrific death when his car went off a cliff during a game of chicken and exploded on the rocks below, sending the lovely Judy (Natalie Wood) into the arms of his primary victim.

09. Johnny Lawrence>, Karate Kid

“Strike first! Strike hard!” The eighties fascination with bullies, martial arts, and blond jock assholes realized its apotheosis in Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), the always-ready-to-explode disciple of the all-evil, all-the-time Cobra Kai dojo in The Karate Kid. As the ex-boyfriend of Elisabeth Shue’s Ali Mills, jealous, hair-trigger-tempered Johnny had plenty of reasons to administer beatings on Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), the weak-looking new kid who dared to show an interest in her. So when Daniel finally launched that crane kick and brought Johnny down, it was more than the feel-good climax of a box-office hit; it was a pop-culture comeuppance of mythic dimension. So much so that Zabka could basically only ever play bullies from then on.

08. Zachary ‘Sack’ Lodge, Wedding Crashers

The ultimate philandering, manipulative preppy, Zach Lodge (Bradley Cooper) — self-declared fiancée and ultimately failed groom to Rachel McAdams’s Claire Cleary — is kind of a classic eighties-style bully armed with aughts-style money and firepower. When he’s not shooting his competitors in the ass, he’s siccing private investigators on them. And Cooper is so perfect in this part that we’re kind of amazed he ever managed to break out of the dickhead-boyfriend ghetto and actually become a real leading man.

07. Chuck Cranston, Footloose

Since Footloose is essentially a remake of Rebel Without a Cause with preachers and dancing, it falls upon Bonnie Tyler–loving white trash Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs) to take the Buzz Gunderson role, tormenting Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) while beautiful girlfriend Ariel (Lori Singer) cheers him on. However, Chuck gets neither the momentous, fatal flameout of Buzz (instead, he is humiliated in a game of tractor chicken with Ren) or the uplifting redemption of Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid: After Ariel dumps him, he returns to torment Ren during the film’s climactic dance scene and is disposed of handily.

06. Doctor Manhattan, Watchmen

This will probably upset some people, but sorry, Doctor Manhattan (Billy Crudup) totally counts. Yes, he’s ostensibly one of the heroes of Watchmen, and yes, his self-sacrifice at the end of the film is kind of touching. But we can’t really forgive him for working as the superhuman arm of imperialist U.S. foreign policy, abandoning humanity, and totally neglecting Silk Spectre (thus letting her fall into the arms of Nite Owl, who is kind of the Eric Stoltz of the Watchmen universe). Also, he may have given his girlfriends cancer.

05. Jim, Edward Scissorhands

Presumably tired of playing the nerdy kid in eighties John Hughes movies, Anthony Michael Hall put his growth spurt to good use and kicked off the nineties by playing Kim’s (Winona Ryder) rich, homicidal boyfriend in Tim Burton’s masterpiece. Paranoid and intense, Jim is the perfect foil for Edward (Johnny Depp) and his symbolically gifted but dangerous hands — when Edward accidentally cuts Kim, Jim is there to hurl accusations and go ballistic. Indeed, Jim is so unpleasant, so despicable a character that when he’s finally stabbed in the abdomen and falls to his death from a window, nobody even flinches — even though this is ostensibly a sweet-natured, family-friendly movie.

04. Jason Dean, Heathers

Here’s a good one — J.D. (Christian Slater) is both evil movie boyfriend AND James Dean–esque new rebel in town. In truth, he initially seems to be a gift from heaven for poor Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder), who has had it with the cliquishness of her posh high-school friends. J.D.’s playful cruelty (feeding his and Veronica’s victims drain cleaner, say) seems like a breath of fresh air at first, until Veronica (and the audience) realize that this guy might actually be not so much a misunderstood bad boy and more a — how do you say — demon from hell.

03. Early Grayce, Kalifornia

The boyishly deranged, bearded companion to Adele Corners (Juliette Lewis, who often found herself in movies like this), Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) is that uniquely American phenomenon: the charismatic serial-killer boyfriend. Such types aren’t just murderers, they’re forces of nature who reveal important symbolic truths to the other, ostensibly more normal characters. In this road movie, Early’s counterpart is psych student and journalist Brian Kessler (David Duchovny), who learns that he needs to get his hands dirty if he is to understand the psyche of a sociopath. It wasn’t much of a hit when first released, but this cult item provided an early (heh) sign of Pitt’s appeal; a year later, he’d become a bona fide superstar with roles in Interview With a Vampire and Legends of the Fall.

02. Chris Wilton, Match Point

Unlike most of the other boyfriends on this list, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is actually the protagonist of Woody Allen’s caustic late-period classic. But that doesn’t stop the ambitious, coldhearted tennis pro from being a homicidal jerk — first cheating on his fiancée (Emily Mortimer) with voluptuous American actress Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson), then murdering Nola (and her neighbor) when she refuses to get an abortion. And here’s another thing that distinguishes Chris from most of the other evil boyfriends on this list: The bastard totally gets away with it.

01. Frank Booth, Blue Velvet

“Why are there people like Frank?” asks Kyle MacLachlan’s Jeffrey Beaumont in David Lynch’s masterpiece, and the question is as much a cri de coeur for humanity as it is an expression of fear. The oldies-loving, Amyl-nitrite-breathing Frank (Dennis Hopper), the childlike, sadomasochistic criminal at the heart of this noir fairy tale, is an existential fact — pure, distilled evil. True, he’s more a kidnapper than a lover — he’s holding the family of Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) hostage — but in the sinister, constantly shifting world that Lynch creates, Frank is the ultimate bad boyfriend, the guy who corrodes your soul even after he’s gone. And he’s also wickedly charismatic — how else could he have compelled generations of hipsters to abandon Heineken in favor of Pabst Blue Ribbon?

I think it’s a good list overall, I think they got it right. Who would you have added or replaced from this list?

source: The Eleven Most Evil Boyfriends in Movie History [Vulture]

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‘Footloose’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

Allie @ Gone Hollywood

It was 25 years ago that the small-town, teen-angst film ‘Footloose‘ hoofed it through an abandoned warehouse and made Kevin Bacon a superstar, grossed more than $80 mil at the U.S. box office and spawned a hit Broadway musical.

Not bad for a little movie that received mixed reviews when it came out, eh? With a remake currently in the works (officially star-less since Zac Efron dropped out), we wanted to find out what happened to all those folks from the tiny burg where dancing was outlawed.

Kevin Bacon
Played: Ren McCormack

Then: After a bit part in ‘Animal House’ and catching critics’ attention as the surly Timothy Fenwick in ‘Diner,’ Bacon hit the big time as Ren McCormack in ‘Footloose.’ The hardnosed Chicago teen (Bacon was actually 24 at the time) just wants to dance. Is that so wrong? You gotta give it to the boy … just give the boy a chance.

Now: While his career has ebbed and flowed, the inspiration for the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game has averaged at least a film per year since ‘Footloose.’ He’s been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick for 20-plus years; they have two children, Travis and Sosie. Most recently he played an aide to Tricky Dick in the acclaimed ‘Frost/Nixon,’ spoofed prank shows with the FunnyorDie.com video ‘Bacon’d,’ directed episodes of Sedgwick’s hit cable series ‘The Closer’ … and on the downside, lost an undisclosed amount in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

Lori Singer
Played: Ariel Moore

Then: A Juilliard-trained musician, Singer appeared in the TV version of ‘Fame’ before reportedly beating out Madonna for the role of Ariel Moore. She may be the preacher’s daughter, but this adrenaline junkie is no choirgirl. After she and her meathead boyfriend give Ren a hard time, she falls hard for his immoral hip shakes.

Now: After roles in a string of ’80s films and Robert Altman’s ‘Short Cuts,’ Singer has focused on her music. In the short film ‘Sarabande,’ she plays alongside master cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Most recently she performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall in January 2008.

John Lithgow
Played: Rev. Shaw Moore

Then: Reverend Moore — the anti-dance, anti-rock, slaphappy holy roller — made it his mission to raise the small town to heaven. The early ’80s were hot times for the stage and screen veteran. In addition to his role in this box office smash, Lithgow was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1983 and 1984 for ‘The World According to Garp’ and ‘Terms of Endearment,’ respectively.

Now: He’s continued to work on stage and screen with recent roles in ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic.’ However, this TV generation probably knows him best as the excitable alien father in ’3rd Rock From the Sun,’ and he’s connecting with a whole new generation as a children’s book author. He recently popped in for a cameo on ’30 Rock’ and is rumored to be in the upcoming ‘Smurfs’ movie.

Dianne Wiest
Played: Vi Moore

Then: As Vi, the Reverend’s devoted yet realistic wife, Wiest became the only parent in town speaking any sense. After the role, the gentle-voiced actress caught the attention of Woody Allen and became inducted to his crew of regulars. Her roles in ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ and ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ both won her Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Now: For 2007′s ‘Dan in Real Life,’ she played the mother of Steve Carell and Dane Cook. Then she became Gabriel Byrne’s therapist on the experimental HBO series ‘In Treatment,’ which garnered her a second Emmy. She also reteamed with John Lithgow for the controversial Broadway revival of ‘All My Sons’ with Patrick Wilson and Katie Holmes.

Chris Penn
Played: Willard Hewitt

Then: The younger brother of Sean Penn, Chris appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s avant-garde drama ‘Rumble Fish’ and as the best friend of Tom Cruise in ‘All the Right Moves’ before landing the role of Ren’s drawling best friend Willard Hewitt. Legend has it that in real life Penn had two left feet, which led to the scenes of him learning to dance being added to the film.

Now: Penn graduated from playing awkward friend roles to chubby crime roles in films like ‘True Romance,’ ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ ‘Mobsters’ and ‘Corky Romano.’ On January 24, 2006, police discovered his body in his condominium. Tragically, Penn died of heart complications at the age of 40.

Sarah Jessica Parker
Played: Rusty

Then: After cutting her teeth on the short-lived teen sitcom ‘Square Pegs,’ SJP played the high-pitched, sarcastic best friend Rusty, who just can’t help dancing with a fat cowboy and sending her boyfriend Willard into a rage. Sarah followed ‘Footloose’ by co-starring in another dance flick, ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun,’ opposite Helen Hunt.

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