Most celebrities in Hollywood are stick thin skinny because of all the pressure that is put on them to look good all the time, but here is a list of 10 celebrities who love having a bit of meat on their bones.
Christina Hendricks
America’s gone mad, mad, mad for 35-year-old actress Christina Hendricks – and her 1950s curves. The curvaceous “Mad Men” star was named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire, but she says fashion designers refuse to outfit her 5’8″, size 14 frame. “I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress,” she said before the 2010 Emmys. She eventually found a Zac Posen number and wowed the crowd. Christina Hendricks has been outspoken about her body and how she feels about it. Speaking about modeling in Italy when she was 15 pounds heavier, she told Health magazine, “I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, ‘Oh, I look like a woman.’ And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.’”
Whitney Thompson
No one has ever accused Whitney Thompson of having undersized ambitions. The 22-year-old Florida native smashed through television barriers when she won season 10 of “America’s Next Top Model” – the first plus-sized model to do so. Now Thompson is trying to help American women feel comfortable with their own bodies. Along with Chenese Lewis, Thompson, right, is the cover girl for this year’s “Love Your Body Day,” and a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorder Association.The size-12 stunner, has strong words for the diet industry, saying it makes women feel insecure. “People don’t realize that we have a billion-dollar diet industry working against our self-esteem. There is always a new product out selling us happiness if we ‘finally’ shed those pounds,’” she says on her blog. “If you want to change your body, then eat whole foods and get more cardio. However, I think that it is important for people to learn to love their bodies, regardless of shape or weight before they make the decision to change it.”
Crystal Renn
Crystal Renn beat anorexia to become one of America’s top models – and an outspoken critic of the “thin equals pretty” mindset that prevails in fashion circles. “I have made it my life to speak about feeling completely beautiful no matter what size you are,” she told CBS News.The 24-year-old beauty was horrified after a recent photo shoot in which she was radically retouched into a waif. “I didn’t even recognize myself when I saw the photo,” she says. “Friends had been emailing me, asking if I was all right. I was, but I was worried about girls with anorexia who would see these pictures and think that thin was better.”
Toccara Jones
On television, Toccara Jones has become famous for being a bit big and utterly beautiful. The statuesque model won “Covergirl of the Week” five times on season three of “America’s Next Top Model,” although she didn’t win the show. Since then she has signed with Wilhelmina models and has been featured in Italian Vogue, Ebony and King Magazine, among countless others. Jones’ relationship with her weight has been a back-and-forth affair. She says she dropped 32 pounds while competing on reality show “Celebrity Fit Club.” And now she is trying to help “real size women” to be “healthy, fit and fabulous,” with – what else – a workout DVD.
Tyra Banks
For full-figured women, Tyra Banks is almost a folk hero. In 2006, the 5’10″ supermodel-turned-talk-show-host gained 30 pounds. Critics had a field day, but Banks fired right back. “To all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to women built like me,” she said on her talk show, “I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat ass!” Since then, Banks’s weight has yo-yoed. But her reality show, “America’s Next Top Model,” has promoted several plus-sized models and even held a national contest for “fierce, real-sized” teen models. The winner was a size 14, which, incidentally, is about the national average.
Kate Dillon
As a 12-year-old girl, Kate Dillon told People magazine that she was inspired by an anorexic TV character to radically drop weight. “The fact that the girl died in the movie didn’t seem to deter me somehow,” she told them. Her radical dieting worked. Five years later, Dillon was working fashion shows in Paris and appearing in Vogue and Glamour, according to People. But Dillon couldn’t keep going. “I just couldn’t keep starving myself,” she told People. “I was only a size 8, yet I was told I was huge and disgusting.” Dillon saw a nutritionist, gained weight and – after struggling to find the right relationship with food – reinvented herself as a plus-sized model with self-esteem. Now, at 36, Dillon is modeling, training for triathlons, and doing yoga, according to Vogue. Oh, and did we mention she managed to get a master’s degree in international development from Harvard and is raising money to educate kids in Rwanda? Now that’s weighty.
Mia Tyler
Mia Tyler doesn’t think the revolution will be televised. The daughter of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell Cyrinda Foxe thinks it’s going to be worn. Tyler, a plus-size model and actress, started her own plus-size clothing line in 2009. She hopes it will help break the stigma of clothing made for bigger women. “Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages,” Mia Tyler says on Revolution 1228′s website. “Including ME!”
Queen Latifah
Everything about Queen Latifah is big: talent, success and confidence. And the Grammy award-winning musician and Golden Globe-winning actress has never been shy about her curves either.” I just had to grow to love my body,” she said in 2002, according to People. “I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself.” America loves her too. At 40, the New Jersey native is a spokeswoman for Covergirl and has more acting and music awards than she can count.
Mo’Nique
Comedienne and critically acclaimed actress Mo’Nique has always claimed to be “fat and fabulous,” but last year she decided she wanted to be healthy too. “Let’s be healthy big people,” she told Jet magazine, according to Entertainment Tonight. “Everybody can’t be a size 0 or 45, but let’s be healthy.” The 42-year-old says she shed 40 pounds the natural way. “This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out,” the mother of three told Jet. “I stopped eating red meat.” She may have to go further to reach her goals. At more than 200 pounds and just 5-foot, 6-inches, Mo’Nique says she she knows she still technically obese.
America Ferrera
America Ferrera may be “Ugly Betty,” but in reality she’s anything but. “We’re not all a size 2 and we’re not all a size 0, and you know what? That’s okay because some of us like to eat,” she told Project Weight Loss in 2008. The 26-year-old actress first gained notice in the 2002 film “Real Women Have Curves.” Since then her award shelf has filled up with an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG award, to name a few. Despite her success, being in Hollywood hasn’t made it easy for Ferrera to deal with an industry reluctant to promote body sizes any bigger than Megan Fox’s. “You have to build a normal relationship with exercise and food,” Ferrara told Project Weight Loss. “For me it’s not about looking like a supermodel – it’s about feeling good about who I am naturally.”
source: 10 Big Beautiful Celebs That Love Their Curves [CBS News]
Popularity: unranked [?]
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Over the years there has been some great television couples on our screens, here is a list that TV.com think is the best television couples of all time.
Jonathan and Jennifer Hart , Hart to Hart
As the Harts, Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers have just the right chemistry, the Nick and Nora Charles of television. They are a fun-loving, filthy rich couple who like to solve crimes in between jet-setting all over the world.
Mac and Sally McMillian , McMillian & Wife
San Francisco attorney Stewart “Mac” McMillan (Rock Hudson) is named Commissioner of the San Francisco Police Department, and along with his sharp-witted, but somewhat kooky, wife Sally (Susan Saint James), Mac manages to solve some of the city’s most baffling crimes. A favorite of the classic Sunday night mysteries.
Mike and Carol Brady , The Brady Bunch
Robert Reed and Florence Henderson brought as much spark to the wholesome Brady couple as was possibly allowed on TV in the 1960s. Kudos for making us believe Mike and Carol would stay together so long with all those kids.
Lucy and Ricky Ricardo , I Love Lucy
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are definitely one of the most indelible TV couples of all time. One wonders why Ricky didn’t strangle Lucy for all her screw-ups, but that’s what made them so lovable.
Sam Malone and Diane Chambers , Cheers
The completely mismatched Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) probably never had a chance in hell of staying together — she is prim and proper, he is a former baseball star-turned-bar owner — but it is sure fun watching them try to make it work. Danson and Long have never been better than when they are bickering as Sam and Diane.
Roseanne and Dan Conner , Roseanne
Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) and her stalwart hubby Dan (John Goodman) showed us a real blue-collar marriage, full of ups and downs but lots of love.
Rachel Green and Ross Geller , Friends
Never did we want two people to get together more than Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). He’s loved her since they were in high school, and she finally realizes, after many misfires, that he is her soul mate.
Cliff and Claire Huxtable , The Cosby Show
Claire (Phylicia Rashad) and Cliff (Bill Cosby) represent one of the hippest married TV couples of all time, juggling successful careers with raising their five kids. And eating Jello pudding… just kidding.
Will Truman and Grace Adler , Will & Grace
They aren’t an official couple per se, but Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) are still roommates… and soul mates. They definitely go down in the annals of best TV couples.
Buffy and Angel , Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Edward and Bella, there was Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Angel (David Boreanaz). Buffy is a sworn vampire hunter, but she can’t kill the one vampire who has ever understood her. At least he tries to be a good vampire.
Homer and Marge Simpson , The Simpsons
One wonders how Marge puts up with her selfish, idiotic husband, but he’s her Homey, and their love has endured the many trials and tribulations Homer has brought to their life.
Bob and Emily Hartley , The Bob Newhart Show
Psychologist Bob (Bob Newhart) wouldn’t be the same without his grounded wife, Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) to keep him —00000000000 and their sometimes crazy life — in line.
Morticia and Gomez Addams , The Addams Family
When Gomez (John Astin) woos his beloved wife Morticia (Carolyn Jones), he begins by reciting French, kissing her hand, then her wrist, then up her arm to her neck. For a gothic 1960s family, that’s pretty racy. Go Gomez!
Joey and Pacey , Dawson’s Creek
Sure, Joey (Katie Holmes) grew up loving her best friend and neighbor Dawson (James van der Beek), but once she got a little taste of the wacky Pacey (Joshua Jackson), that was all she wrote.
Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly , The Office
From flirting to romancing to marriage and babies, Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) have taken the art of the office romance to new levels.
Paul and Jamie Buchman , Mad About You
Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt showed some of the best chemistry on TV ever as the Buchmans, two New Yorkers trying to have a normal, happy marriage. They are, after all, mad about each other.
Rob and Laura Petrie , The Dick Van Dyke Show
As another classic TV couple, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) knows just the right thing to say to calm her neurotic husband Rob (Dick Van Dyke) down — except when it’s his turn to calm her down. “Oh, Rob!”
Sawyer and Juliet , Lost
There were many couplings on the twisty “Lost,” but none of them held as much resonance as the love story between Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), who found each other under some very unusual circumstances.
Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big , Sex and the City
Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker)on-again, off-again romance with Big (Chris Noth) has given her a lot of grief through the years but also much joy. And through it all, they knew in their hearts they were destined to be together.
I’m surprised that Mulder and Scully aren’t on this list, but overall it’s a pretty good list. Who do you think is the best or missing?
source: 20 Best TV Couples of All Time [TV.com]
Popularity: unranked [?]
Toy Story 3 is out in movie theaters now and because of this Time Magazine have come up with a list of the 10 best movie sidekicks ever. Take a look and see if your favorites are included.
01. Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)
Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t describe himself as a sidekick; the space-age toy is too egotistical for that. But in Toy Story 3, Woody the cowboy is the one chosen to go off to college with the toys’ now 17-year-old owner Andy, knocking Buzz firmly to the No. 2 position. Most sidekicks have mediocre or second-tier outfits and weapons, but Buzz Lightyear does pretty well for himself. He has a jet pack, an antigravity belt and a space suit that’s impervious to attack. Not to shabby for a pompous piece of plastic.
02. Chewbacca (Star Wars)
As Han Solo’s copilot on the smuggling ship Millennium Falcon, Chewbacca rode sidekick for every battle with the evil Galactic Empire. The 7 ft. 3 in. tall Wookie, (played by the actually 7 ft. 3 in. tall Peter Mayhew) was an enforcer, bodyguard and loyal soldier. In Episode VI: Return of the Jedi — the final installment of the original Star Wars trilogy — Chewbacca helped save Han Solo from the evil Jabba the Hutt before playing a major part in the destruction of the second Death Star. For that, we bid him a hearty rawwr!
03. Cameron (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
Let’s get one thing straight: Ferris Bueller is kind of a jerk. He does whatever he wants without caring how it affects anyone else, and wraps his selfishness up in a holier-than-thou postmodern values system. The real heart of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is his best friend, Alan Ruck’s Cameron. While Ferris prances around being impossibly awesome, Cameron has actual real-world problems (depression, cold parents, a hopeless crush on Ferris’ girlfriend) to deal with. He’s a bit of a whiner, but that doesn’t stop him from being a loyal, kind and funny friend. You could even argue that Cameron is the movie’s main character: of the central trio, he’s the only one who grows over the course of the film. When he takes the blame for the destruction of his dad’s Ferrari, it’s the most heroic moment in the whole movie.
04. Sam (Casablanca)
The fundamental things apply: a great romance needs a great soundtrack. Casablanca had both these and more — a sidekick who could perform the key song whenever nostalgia hit. Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa didn’t accompany Humphrey Bogart’s Rick from Paris to Morocco, but Sam (Dooley Wilson) did. And as the piano player at Rick’s Café Americain, he’s the one singing “As Time Goes By” — at Ilsa’s request — when the two lost lovers meet again. But you must remember this: no one in the 1942 classic actually says, “Play it again, Sam.”
05. Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)
Jiminy Cricket, the adorable little insect who appears in Walt Disney’s 1940 film Pinocchio, isn’t so much a sidekick as he is the character who gives Pinocchio a swift kick whenever he does anything wrong. And boy, does Pinocchio do a lot of things wrong! He ditches school, he gambles, he smokes, he drinks, he makes an ass out of himself (no, literally — he turns into a donkey), he even gets swallowed by a whale. Jiminy stays by him the entire time, lecturing and cajoling the wooden puppet to act properly.
06. Samwise Gamgee (Lord Of The Rings)
He was a gardener who became an unlikely hero. Samwise Gamgee — the hobbit tasked with accompanying Frodo Baggins on his quest to destroy the One Ring — did a lot of saving the day for just your average sidekick. Sam possessed a heart of gold and, at times, the nerves of a child. It’s his unyielding friendship that serves as the one constant inside Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even in the story’s darkest hour it’s Sam who gets them through. With Frodo and Sam, Jackson had the perfect duo and one of film’s finest bromances to date. By the end of the saga, Sam’s a full-fledged tenured hero. Would Frodo have saved Middle Earth from the crushing reign of Sauron if it weren’t for his partner? Not a chance.
07. Walter Sobchak (The Big Lebowski)
The best sidekicks complement their heroes perfectly, and no hero of the ’90s had a better foil than Walter Sobchak, bowling buddy of Jeff Bridges’ the Dude in The Big Lebowski. This lumbering Vietnam vet is everything the laid-back Dude is not: militant, high-strung and obsessed with rules. He’s also, in many ways, a much better detective: though his hunches are frequently wrong, he shows more initiative in getting to the bottom of the movie’s shaggy-dog mystery than the Dude ever does. Simultaneously polite and profane, Walter is a perfect comic creation, and John Goodman gives one of his finest performances ever in the role, bringing a hilarious dignity to Walter’s outbursts. Is he wrong? No, never.
08. Felix Leiter (James Bond)
CIA agent Felix Leiter, James Bond’s “brother from Langley,” has helped 007 out of scrapes and snafus for nearly five decades. Whether putting Bond on the trail of Goldfinger, backing his poker play in Casino Royale or warning him he’s the target of an assassination team in Quantum of Solace, Leiter has appeared in 10 official Bond flicks. In License to Kill, it was Bond who had Felix’s back when Leiter (mysteriously transferred to the DEA) had to track down a smuggler on his wedding day. Bond helped nab the bad guy, and he and Felix parachuted into the church parking lot decked out in their morning suits. Bond returned a decades-long favor by serving as Leiter’s best man.
09. Cosmo Brown (Singin’ in the Rain)
Naturally, Gene Kelly sings the title song in Singin’ in the Rain. But as the dashing lead’s best friend, Cosmo Brown, Donald O’Connor sings what could be the theme for sidekicks everywhere — “Make ‘Em Laugh.” Instead of twirling umbrellas and splashing in puddles, he walks into walls, does backflips off others and gets hit by wood planks (repeatedly). It’s a remarkable sequence, but not Cosmo’s only number. He’s central to “Fit as a Fiddle,” “Moses Supposes” and “Good Morning.” As befitting a sidekick, Cosmo works behind the scenes — as a pianist for the movie studio — while his former vaudeville partner, Don Lockwood, is the bona fide star. Cosmo, though, has the better sense of humor.
10. Goose (Top Gun)
Like all good sidekicks, Goose served alternately as a wingman, counselor, buddy and partner in crime. As the radar intercept officer for Top Gun’s cowboy pilot Maverick, Goose rode backseat in the F-14A Tomcat. He snapped a Polaroid of Maverick flipping an upside down bird to a Soviet pilot, sang a duet of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” as part of Maverick’s elaborate pickup line and took his share of the heat for Maverick’s high jinks. Goose was not only Maverick’s best friend, but also his only family. What more could you ask from a sidekick?
I’m surprised that Ron and Hermione from the Harry Potter movies are excluded from this list, but overall I think Time did a good job at picking these characters.
source: Top 10 Movie Sidekicks [Time]
Popularity: unranked [?]
Have you ever gone into a music store and been totally confused about whether some albums are actually serious or just a joke? Well here is a list of 10 of the most inappropriate album covers ever…
Brainstorm – Smile a While
The above cover of the album Smile a While, by German heavy metal band, Brainstorm, leave us simply unnerved, bemused, or smiling a while.
Millie Jackson – Back to the S..t
We’re not smiling at Millie Jackson’s 1989 Back to the S..t album cover, though. We defy anyone not to recoil at this sight of Millie on the dunny.
Betty Staples – Organ Fantasy
The smile, the balloons, the party hat in Betty’s hair, the innocent pairing of the words ‘organ’ and ‘fantasy’. We love it!
Keith Rowland – My Beauty
We’ve nothing against men in feminine attire, but in Keith’s case, we’re just not sure he pulls it off.
Barry Louis Polisar – I Eat Kids
There’s a palpable incongruousness between the title of this album and the happy-homestead snap. Barry, we’re baffled.
Paddy Roberts – Songs for Gay Dogs
From the days when ‘gay’ meant ‘happy’. Still, ‘Songs for Happy Dogs’: it’s a strange concept.
The Frivolous Five – Sour Cream and Other Delights
Who put them up to this?
The Brothers Johnson – Light up the Night
Here are The Brothers Johnson, a band consisting of the musicians, and brothers, George aka ‘Lightnin’ Licks’ and Louis Jagger Johnson, aka ‘Thunder Thumbs’, displaying brotherly love.
Orleans – Waking and Dreaming
They look like they’re enjoying themselves.
Jim Post – I love My Life
Does this look like a man who loves his life?
source: 10 Most Inappropriate Album Covers Ever [Pop Crunch]
Popularity: unranked [?]
E! Online are celebrating their 20th anniversary so they decided to come up with a list of the top 20 TV shows from the past 20 years and they did a pretty good job in my opinion.
20. Survivor
I agree with a lot of these choices but not exactly in this order, for me I would rank Buffy The Vampire Slayer as number 1 because the writing and acting on that show is just incredible. The likes of Modern Family and True Blood are too soon to see if they deserve a place on a list like this. But overall a good list.
19. Grey’s Anatomy
18. The Sopranos
17. Friday Night Lights
16. True Blood
15. Six Feet Under
14. 24
13. Sex and the City
12. The Daily Show
11. Modern Family
10. The Office
9. Seinfeld
8. Veronica Mars
7. Arrested Development
6. Dexter
5. Felicity
4. Alias
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Friends
1. Lost
source: And the Best TV Series of the Past 20 Years Is…. [E! Online]
Popularity: unranked [?]
The recent untimely death of Gary Coleman has made CelebBuzz come up with a list of 10 child stars who also died way before their time. I hope Lindsay Lohan is paying attention.
10. Gary Coleman
Gary’s recent death came after he struck his head during a fall. After his successful turn in ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ Gary’s career was overshadowed by his legal and financial troubles. He was 42.
9. Brad Renfro
While he had a promising career after he appeared in ‘The Client’ when he was barely 13-years-old, his drug addiction overshadowed his talents. In 2008, Brad was found dead in his LA apartment after an apparent heroin overdose.
8. Carl Switzer
Better known as Alfalfa in the “Our Gang” franchise, Carl’s financial troubles got out of hand once he left Hollywood. In 1959, Carl was fatally shot in the groin after he attempted to rough up someone who owed him money. He was 31.
7. Corey Haim
Beloved teen idol Corey battled a massive drug addiction after his career fizzled in the ’90s. Corey passed away in March of this year due to pneumonia complications. He was 38.
6. Dana Plato
Dana’s death often serves as a touchstone for the tragic death’s of other child star who fell from grace. Like Gary, the “Diff’rent Strokes’ star saw her career fizzle after the hit show and she even resorted to doing pornography. In 1999 she committed suicide. She was 34.
5. Brigette Andersen
Like many other child stars on this list, he adorable star of “Savannah Smiles” faced problems with drug and alcohol. After her career completely fizzled, Brigette became more and more addicted to heroin and other drugs. In 1997 she accidentally overdosed. She was 21.
4. Anissa Jones
Pig-tailed Buffy from “Family Affair” saw her career skyrocket thanks to the show but had trouble finding work after the show was canceled. In 1976 she died in a friend’s home, apparently from an accidental overdose. She was 18.
3. Bobby Driscoll
Cutie-pie Bobby was the original Disney star, and he even won a special Oscar for juvenile acting in 1949. After his Disney career, Bobby became immersed in the New York art scene and was a fixture at Andy Warhol’s Factory. In 1968 he was found dead due to a heart failure in an abandoned tenement in the East Village. He was 31.
2. Judy Garland
Screen legend Judy started acting very early in her life but she shot to superstar status when she starred in “The Wizard of Oz” when she was just 16-years-old. Like most child stars, Judy struggled from a massive drug and alcohol addiction and she attempted suicide on many occasions. In 1969 she died from an apparent accidental overdose in her apartment. She was 47.
1. Michael Jackson
The King of Pop got his start as the adorable front-man for The Jackson 5. Eventually Michael achieved international success with his solo career, establishing him as musical legend. Unfortunately, his career was undermined by accusations of pedophilia and financial and legal troubles. In 2009 he died from an apparent prescription drug overdose. He was 50.
This list is missing Judith Barsi, Jonathan Brandis and River Phoenix but I can see why they chose the 10 stars that they did.
source: 10 Child Stars Who Died Too Soon [Celeb Buzz]
Popularity: unranked [?]
Most female celebrities are frail skinny little women but I said most and not all of them because some of them spend way too much time in the gym or else just don’t have the best genetics. Pop Crunch came up with a list of the 10 most manliest female celebrities out there, remember this is all in good fun so don’t get on your high horse.
Donatella Versace
+10 Leathery Skin, +10 Man Face. Level 20 ManLady.
Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer whose brother, Gianni Versace, created the famous Versace brand. Too many plastic surgeries have left her looking like a wrinkly cancer troll of the male gender.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
+9 Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong, +8 Man Face. Level 17 ManLady.
Jocelyn Wildenstein is a person famous for no reason other than being absurd. Jocelyn was born into an incredibly rich family and has made a name for herself as a skilled hunter and plastic monster. In an attempt to appear more ‘cat-like,’ something which she thought would make her husband love her more, Wildenstein has spent a whopping $4 million on various plastic surgeries. But despite her utterly beautiful transformation, her husband filed for divorce. Wildenstein’s sheer ugliness inspired a musical titled ‘Bride of Wildenstein,’ in which Wildenstein was played by a tranny.
Brooke Hogan
+5 Man Face, +5 Looks Like Hulk Hogan With Implants. Level 10 ManLady.
Brooke Hogan is the daughter of famous WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, and she looks like him in drag. She’s tried her hand at being a musical performer, but has always been a pretty irrelevant celebrity. Big, muscly, square-jawed, manly, and frightening are all words that come to mind when thinking of Brooke Hogan. Hogan’s managed to look sexy in rigorously photoshopped magazines like Maxim, but the true appearance of that mirage is a lumbering man-creature. Just like her father.
Madonna
+6 Melty Man Face, +8 Skeletor Arms. Level 14 ManLady.
Madonna used to be a sex icon, and the number one master of sexiness on the entire planet. Her music has inspired people across the globe, and her image has titillated anyone lucky enough to see her in her prime. Unfortunately, she’s aging quite gracelessly and has begun to look like a mannish flesh puppet. Her unfortunate man face is withering at a relatively normal speed, melting and rearranging itself like any older celebrity who’s been worn out by years of practice and performances. It’s Madonna’s arms that are really creepy — they look like they’ve been amputated off of an old man and sewn onto her. Hours at the gym has perpetuated one of her flaws, and Madonna’s pale, stringy zombie arms are begging for sleeves.
Caster Semenya
+10 Ambiguity. Level 10 Shapeshifter.
World Champion of the 800 meter run Caster Semenya has inspired a lot of controversy surrounding her gender, so much so that Semenya was finally asked to take a gender test to determine whether or not she was allowed to keep the gold medal she had won this August. Tests have determined that Semenya is a hermaphrodite, has testosterone levels three times higher than what is normal for females, and doesn’t have ovaries. But the young athlete has always lived as a woman, does not have male genitalia and was permitted to keep her medal. Hooray! “God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I’m proud of myself,†she told You Magazine, where her pictures appeared after a feminine makeover.
Rosie O’Donnell
+8 Man Face, +8 Blobbish Man Body. Level 16 ManLady.
Rosie O’Donnell is a famous television actress and rotund lesbi-man. However, Rosie’s manliness is a product of her desires, rather than the unfortunate side effect of drugs or plastic surgery. There’s nothing wrong with that, but she still looks like an angry Guido.
The Operation Repo Toad
+9 Man Face, +10 Blobby Man Body. Level 19 ManLady.
Here’s the ‘woman’ from TruTV’s hit show, Operation Repo. Operation Repo is a fake reality television show in which a team (of mostly lard asses) repossesses various types of vehicles from various wacky and ill-tempered people. Everything is a melodramatic reenactment, besides the main actress’ brutishness. She is truly a beast, and attempts to black out the manly parts of her face by drawing on her eyebrows and a bunch of hookerish black eyeshadow all fail miserably. Her mission: Painfully Impossible. Her face: Offensive.
Chyna
+10 Neanderthal Man Face, +10 Steroid Enhanced Man Body, +10 Failed Plastic Surgery. Level 30 ManLady.
Chyna is a WWE wrestler famous for kicking ass and looking like the manliest woman possibly ever. Like every other male wrestler in the WWE, Chyna looks like a roid loving bodybuilder and is bursting at the seams with masculinity. Huge muscles, big goofy man-face, and veiny, claw-like hands define her figure. Seeing Chyna naked is an insult in itself — her plastic basketball tits and big muscly ass fail to accentuate her femininity and almost make the image worse. Chyna in makeup and heels isn’t much of an improvement either; it’s like unexpectedly stumbling upon a picture of a shut-in tranny who spends all their time shopping for lubricant on Amazon.com. Always scary. Never less shocking than the first time.
Fergie
+10 Meth Face, +7 Man Body. Level 17 ManLady.
Pop star Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas looks like she has a nice body in low quality pictures, or when she’s far enough away from the camera to confuse you like a really mean trick. Besides pissing her pants during one of her performances, Fergie’s face is Haggard with a capital H. She was literally a meth addict and, like all of those suffering from the dreaded meth-face, still retains her rough edges in a face that says, “I was meant to be a man.†All the makeup in the world couldn’t hide a meth face.
Pink
+5 Man Face, +5 Man Body, +5 There Could Be a Penis Under There. Level 15 ManLady.
Pink is a pop star known for her ‘edginess,’ or what most would call ‘relentless manliness.’ Looking like she came straight from the trailer park and is eating a tube of toothpaste, Pink flaunts her man-belly. There is nothing feminine about her stomach. Her sides literally look like they’re leading down to a dick beneath her white cargo man-shorts. Pink’s small boobs don’t help her case, but even if they were huge it would make no difference; the man in her is bursting to come out in multiple areas. Not included in this photo: Pink’s manly horse thighs, muscly boy-arms.
I’m surprised Lady GaGa wasn’t put on this list.
source: 10 of the Manliest Female Celebrities [Pop Crunch]
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Lady GaGa‘s music video for Telephone was basically one huge product placement and it seems that every reality show may as well just be ads with celebrities in them because the there is an insane amount of product placement in every single one of them. It’s not just music video and reality shows that are prone to having companies place hidden ads within them, Hollywood studios get a ton of money from product placement in their movies which leads me to this list of 10 movies that are the most obvious product placements:
Transformers: GM
When Michael Bay stepped in as director of ‘Transformers,’ he knew cars would play a huge part in the action-packed robot movie, so he shopped the vehicle placement around to car manufacturers looking for the highest bidder. GM emerged on top, offering $3 million. At one point in the flick, Bumblebee, the beloved little autobot, transforms into a sexy 2009 Camaro.
Transporter 2: Audi
Sometimes it seems action movies were created simply as extra-long commercials for fast cars. The second installment in Jason Statham’s ‘Transporter’ series certainly felt that way, as private chauffeur/ex-special forces agent Frank Martin transports dubious packages and people in his Audi A8 W12.
You’ve Got Mail: AOL
Didn’t think you could product place in a romantic comedy? You’re oh so wrong. Even this movie’s title was AOL-centric. It totally drove home a message to singles — if you don’t use AIM, you will indeed die alone … just like you’ve always feared.
Mission Impossible: Apple
Saving the world is easy when you’re using a Mac. If Ethan Hunt had been using a PC, well, the rogue assassins would have won.
Demolition Man: Taco Bell
In the American dystopia of 2032, Taco Bell remains the last fast food franchise standing after winning the “Franchise Wars.” This blatant product placement allows futuristic ball buster Sylvester Stallone to consume much needed chalupas on the go. Important side note, the “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” chihuahua was not cryogenically frozen and therefore did not advance to 2032. Sad.
Cast Away: FedEx
We’ve never been able to decide if this product placement was good or bad for the FedEx image. The FedEx plane did crash (not a good thing), but in the end Tom Hanks delivers the package (good thing). (fact: every time I watch this movie I swear off of airplanes omg)
Up In The Air: American Airlines
Jason Reitman’s much-lauded dramedy may never have been made had it not been for product placement and the various trades Reitman made with American Airlines to obtain filming locations in return for product infiltration.
Tropic Thunder: TiVo
Matthew McConaughey’s super agent Rick Peck will do anything for his client, Tugg Speedman, including hand delivering a TiVo into the Laotian jungle. Unfortunately, this hilarious placement hasn’t saved the TiVo from being cannibalized by cable company-provided DVRs.
E.T.: Reese’s Pieces
This one is product placement 101 and everyone’s favorite example of post-modern placement. When America fell in love with that adorable extra-terrestrial, we fell in love with those peanut butter filled chocolates, too. Sales for the candies shot up 65% the summer ‘E.T.’ was released.
Die Another Day: Omega, Samsonite, British Airways, Finalandia, Norelco, Revlon and Kodak
The Bond franchise has always been known for its powerful product placements. It’s Bond’s little secret that his entire life is sponsored by various consumer goods. MGM enlisted more than 20 marketing partners, who contributed more than $100 million in promotional support for this movie. Feel dirty? Sip some Finlandia vodka whilst applying some Revlon lipstick and you’ll feel much better.
source: The Top 10 Most Egregious Product Placements in Film [Popeater]
Popularity: unranked [?]
Musicals aren’t really my thing, in fact I would much rather sit through 10 hours of waterboarding than watch them, although there is a few that I would sit through as long as they aren’t singing about flowers or hills and stuff. Which leads me to this list I cam across – the top 10 best genre musicals which basically means TV or movie musicals that are sci-fi, fantasy or horror.
10. The Apple
I first became aware of this one when listening to a list of worst musicals of all time on NPR. This one won. So why is it on my list? Because it’s in the “so bad it’s good†category. Just when you think this movie about a pair of wide-eyed innocent singers who are seduced by fame and fortune (and therefore evil) can’t get any worse, it does! It’s like watching a train wreck — if the wreck lasted for an hour and a half and the train had a disco car. Words cannot begin to describe how bad it is — you’ll just have to enjoy it for yourself!
9. The Return of Captain Invincible
Alan Arkin plays Captain Invincible, a washed-up, black-listed Superman-type, and Christopher Lee plays his enemy, Mr. Midnight. And both of them sing. How could that not lead to greatness? It’s a bit too aware of its own campiness, however, and there are quite a few really random background events (and some in the foreground as well), but it’s still generally worth watching. The final showdown in which Mr. Midnight tries to defeat Captain Invincible by tempting him back into his alcoholism by singing a song called “Name Your Poison†is certainly one of the more bizarre super-villain plans I’ve ever seen.
8. Phantom of the Paradise
Paul Williams wrote the music for this, and he can actually sing. So why in the world this movie uses actors who mostly can’t is beyond me. The movie is basically a story about a musician, Winslow Leach, who wrote a cantata about a musician who makes a Faustian bargain to get his music produced. Of course Winslow ends up making his own Faustian bargain, but not before he becomes the Phantom of the Paradise (a new nightclub) after initially being rejected by Swan, the actual music producer that he later makes a deal with (who, it turns out, made his own deal with the devil à la Dorian Gray). Yeah, it’s very meta. This movie would actually be a heck of a lot better if the singers could actually sing, although it would still fall into the campy category.
7. Little Shop of Horrors
I hadn’t watched this one in years, and I have to say I think I appreciated it more today than when I was a kid. It’s clearly an adaptation of a stage production, and it’s probably the most “traditional†musical on this list, with 1950s- and ’60s-style music and big dance numbers as well. It is, however, definitely sci-fi — I think a singing, talking plant from another planet certainly counts.
6. A Very Potter Musical
A group of University of Michigan students put on a one night only production of a musical Harry Potter parody. Fortunately for those of us who weren’t there, they put it up online on YouTube. And it’s totally awesome! It combines elements of all seven books, though the main plot is a combination of books one (the return of Voldemort through Professor Quirrel) and four (the tri-wizard tournament which is turned into the four Hogwarts houses competing instead of the three wizarding schools). The music is great, as is the acting, and whoever wrote it has a great sense of humor as well as a clear love of the books. It’s one I’d definitely pay to own if it were out on DVD, though that might be problematic for copyright reasons, of course.
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
You knew this one had to be on the list. Okay, confession time — I’ve only actually seen it once with full audience participation. And yet I own it on DVD. I actually enjoy the movie on its own. Yeah, I know, crazy, right? I think we’ve seen that I have a masochistic streak somewhere in me based on my previous entries on the list. And I truly love the soundtrack for this movie. The story is there almost fully if you just listen to the music, and that’s perfect for a musical.
4. Repo! The Genetic Opera
This one almost belongs in the “so bad, it’s good†category. I say almost because of the participation of the Razzie-winning Paris Hilton. Honestly, though, I’m not so sure she deserved it — she pretty much plays herself: a spoiled, rich daddy’s girl who thinks the world revolves around her. Wait, maybe that’s exactly why she deserved the Razzie — she wasn’t acting. I get it now! Anyway, the participation of Paul Sorvino (who knew he could sing opera?), Ogre from Skinny Puppy, and Sarah Brightman certainly more than make up for Ms. Hilton. Throw in Anthony Stewart Head and you’ve got some pretty great music to accompany a really cool plot — how can you not love seeing Rupert Giles as both a good guy and a bad guy in the same movie?
3. Stingray Sam
For my complete review, go here, but let me sum up briefly using the words from the io9 headline that first drew me in: “the best musical space western ever.†‘Nuff said, I think.
2. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
I wear my “Joss Whedon is my master now†t-shirt often. I love to sing along with the bad doctor when I listen to the soundtrack. Chances are if you’re reading this list you know just how awesome it is. Okay, maybe the ending should have been more predictable given that it’s Joss, but I was truly surprised by it when I first saw it. And I view it as more of an origin story of how the Doctor became truly Horrible. Up to that point he was simply a wannabe, but the death of everything he loved was a tipping point for him. His change to the new red outfit was a symbol of a new beginning, this one covered in blood. It was really the only way it could have ended for that transformation to occur. I am definitely looking forward to the sequel.
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Once More With Feelingâ€
First, there is a plausible reason for the singing, unlike many musicals which leave you wondering why the characters are singing rather than just saying what they want to say. I’m all for suspension of disbelief, but if there’s a reason for the singing, so much the better. Next, the singing not only furthers the story of the episode, but actually furthers the entire arc of the season. Much of what is revealed in the songs could not have been revealed in any other way that seemed natural, nor could it have been done so quickly. And the revelations have repercussions throughout the rest of the series. Okay, maybe it’s unfair to use that as a criteria when there’s no possibility of the others on this list fulfilling this criteria, but there’s more as well. The episode stands up quite well on its own. I have actually shown the episode to some of my high school classes (most of whom have never seen Buffy before) and most of them have loved it. Finally, the soundtrack is, as hinted above, eminently singable and bears up well to multiple listening. Joss clearly understood the structure of musicals as well as the styles and pulled together an absolutely amazing episode.
I’ve got to agree with the number one spot, even though I love Buffy The Vampire Slayer I’m not being biased, I really do think it is one of the best alternative musicals out there.
source: The Top 10 Best Genre TV, Movie, & Stage Musicals [Fandomania]
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You know how Hollywood goes – average, or even stunning looking, women make a name for themselves in the business but then that success goes to their head and they decide to mess up their bodies with plastic surgery. Here is a list of 10 women under 40 who’ve done just that.
Heidi Montag
I don’t think many people will argue that Heidi Montag looked better before her recent plastic surgery adventure. Now she looks a bit like Malibu Barbie.
Lil Kim
Lil Kim was once a beautiful young rapper, and then came a boob job, nose job, cheek implants, liposuction, and skin lightening. Now she’s a slightly less beautiful rapper.
Tori Spelling
Tori Spelling had a nose job and rather unfortunate breast implants, but Operation Boob Scare did help keep her famous even when she wasn’t working.
Tara Reid
Tara Reid was once an all-American cutie, but after a boob job and some scary liposuction, Tara’s body resembled Donatella Versace’s 54-year-old physique. She’s since had corrective surgery and looks more her age.
Megan Fox
I didn’t actually realize Megan Fox had any plastic surgery, but allegedly the young starlet’s gotten breast augmentation, a nose job, and lip injections, which seems unfair since she was already too hot for her age.
Fergie
Fergie has denied the surgery rumors, but looking at old photos, it’s pretty obvious that she’s had work done, (maybe) including nose reconstruction, breast augmentation, an endoscopic forehead lift, and Botox.
Nikki Cox
You might remember Nikki Cox as the hot one from “Unhappily Ever After,†or as Jay Mohr’s wife. But after allegedly getting fat injections in her cheeks and way too many lip fillers, she’s sadly got platypus mouth.
Katie Price
British model Katie Price (aka Jordan) has gotten three breast augmentations, spending about $65,000 on surgery for her nose, breasts and teeth, or “gnashers†as she calls them. The 31-year-old looks at least 10 years older, which is appropriate, considering she once said, “I don’t want to look 18 when I’m 60.â€
Jenna Jameson
Porn star Jenna Jameson decided to retire from porn, which also involved retiring her breast implants … or at least downsizing them. She’s also admited to having lip injections and vaginoplasty.
Ashlee Simpson
I’ve totally forgotten what Ashlee Simpson-Wentz‘s old face looked like, but she was super cute before and after a nose job and rumored chin implants, dermal fillers, lip plumping, Botox, and a brow lift. Now she just looks a bit more like everyone else in Hollywood.
It’s always sad to see how people can just mess their face up when they get carried away with plastic surgery.
source: 10 Stars Under 40 Who’ve Had Way Too Much Plastic Surgery [The Frisky]
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In most romantic movies the movie calls for one of the characters to be super hot or cool and the other to be the opposoite, well the casting directors don’t always get that right. Here is a list that Moviefone have put together of the 10 most mismatched movie couples from rom-coms.
Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in ‘I Love Trouble’ (1994)
This is oft-cited as a classic of mismatched coupledom and we can’t disagree. A romantic “thriller” about a competing cub reporter and veteran journalist who risk their lives in pursuit of a Big Story, ‘Trouble’ is pretty silly to begin with. Add the inevitable scenes of the weathered Nolte and fresh-faced Roberts getting all romantic and it approaches absurdity.
Woody Allen and Helena Bonham Carter/Mira Sorvino in ‘Mighty Aphrodite’ (1995)
Yep, Woody’s a repeat offender in this department, with his long list of leading ladies eons younger and infinitely more attractive than he. But there was something about his incongruous onscreen marriage with the 30-years-younger Bonham Carter, mainly known at that point for her adorably plucky 19th-century innocents, that really got our goat. In the same film, he gets it on with a ditsy young hooker (Sorvino, who won an Oscar), which adds considerably to the ick factor.
Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in ‘A Star in Born’ (1976)
This ill-conceived remake of the already twice-filmed classic has other problems besides the lack of chemistry between the overly slick Streisand and laid-back Kristofferson — she’s completely unbelievable as a struggling young rock singer, for starters — but it sure didn’t help. A killer voice is not enough to save an unconvincing premise.
Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez in ‘Maid in Manhattan’ (2002)
Whatever possessed one of the most subtle, intense actors in filmdom to star opposite “Jenny from the Block” in such a bland rom-com? Yes, his smooth Republican senator and her earnest hotel maid are supposed to be from wildly different worlds, but does their romance convince us that they belong together or at least have serious hots for each other? Nope!
Halle Berry, Warren Beatty in ‘Bulworth’ (1998)
It’s hard to say which was worse: director/screenwriter Beatty’s attempt to make his politician character shocking and relevant by rapping his speeches and wearing hip-hop attire or his contrived romance with a young woman from South Central L.A., but they were both pretty darn embarrassing.
Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David in ‘Whatever Works’ (2009)
Yes, this extreme May-December romance between a dim but sexy runaway and a crotchety geezer is played for laughs in Woody Allen’s (who else?) most recent film, starring David as Allen’s equally decrepit alter-ego. But it’s still mighty hard to swallow Wood’s character’s infatuation with said geezer, no matter how unsophisticated she’s supposed to be.
Mira Sorvino, Robin Williams in ‘The Final Cut’ (2004)
There are a lot of intriguing ideas embedded in this sci-fi fantasy about a memory editor who customizes people’s recollections, but Sorvino as Williams’ love interest is not one of them. True, Sorvino hadn’t had a hit movie in years, but that doesn’t mean we want to see her in a romantic embrace with Patch Adams. (Perhaps sensing this, the filmmakers mercifully gave their relationship little screen time.) Still, nowhere as unsettling as her love scenes with Woody Allen (see above).
Heigl and Rogen in ‘Knocked Up’ (2007)
These two have become the poster children for mismatched couples, and with good reason. A lovely entertainment journalist who gets pregnant by a shlubby but decent slacker (Rogen) after a drunken one-night stand, Heigl’s character would never keep the baby and the slacker in real life. But this is a comedy (and a fantasy), so the duo wind up together. Sure.
James Woods and Dolly Parton in ‘Straight Talk’ (1992)
Only in some surreal Charlie Kaufmanesque universe would these two make sense as a couple. Unfortunately, this flimsy rom-com — about a sassy Southern lass turned popular radio DJ and the suspicious journalist who investigates and falls for her — is not trying to be bizarre. Granted, it’s hard to pair the incomparable Dolly with any mere mortal, but the wry Woods is totally out of his element here.
Roger and Jessica Rabbit in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ (1988)
“He makes me laugh,” cooed the curvaceous cartoon siren Jessica (voiced by Kathleen Turner) about her goofy, fun-loving husband Roger. We all know how attractive a sense of humor is, but the huge disparity between the two Toons, both physically and personality-wise, defied logic. Even in a movie where animated characters and humans have conversations.
I’d have to agree with every single one of these, although I did love Knocked Up. What would be the biggest mismatched movie couples for you?
source: The 10 Most Ridiculously Mismatched Movie Couples [Moviefone]
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I’m pretty much down to anything, but one thing I will never do is get a tattoo and that is because they disgust me. Sure they can be cute or cool when you’re 18 but when you’re wrinkly at 70 with a rose on your ass it’s nasty.
Katie Price
Glamour model Katie Price had a crown with “Princess” for her daughter and “Pete” for now ex-hubby Peter Andre inked on her wrist. But she recently ducked into a tattoo parlor while shopping in Ibiza and had “Pete” visibly crossed out.
Amy Winehouse
Troubled singer Amy Whinehouse has several tattoos, including “Blake’s” over her heart for ex-hubby Blake Fielder and this pinup girl on her arm.
Mike Tyson
Boxer Mike Tyson told Jimmy Kimmel that his original idea was to put “a bunch of small hearts” on his face, until a friend suggested the tribal design.
Alyssa Milano
Former Who’s the Boss? star Alyssa Milano has a rosary on her back in addition to a cross and angel on her ankle with the initials of an “ex flame.”
Audrina Patridge
Reality star Audrina Patridge was recently spotted with new ink, including Asian ideograms on her arm and this tattoo on her neck.
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis sports a portrait of Chief Joseph on his left arm.
Adriana Lima
The Brazilian Victoria Secret model has gotten a lot of heat on the internet for the design of her tattoo. Luckily she’s so hot though, that no one minds. We suspect that was the case with tattoo artist Greg.
Christina Aguilera
Grammy-Award winner Chrstina Aguilera has several tattoos, including a small flower on her left wrist, “Xtina” on the back of her neck, and this tattoo on the small of her back.
Dawyne Johnson
Actor Dwayne Johnson traveled to Hawaii to have this Samoan design inked on his shoulder. He says the tattoo “tells the story of what’s important in life -strength, protection and loyalty to family.”
David Beckham
David Beckham, who has several tattoos all over his body, says that he “expresses [his] feelings through tattoos.” They include the names of his sons on his back and this angel on his back.
There is 40 more bad tattoos at the source if you care to check them out, they kind of get repetitive though .. like I already said – tattoos disgust me.
source: 50 Celebrity Tattoos [Zimbio]
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We always here about all the actors who play the same type of good characters, you know who they are so I’m not going to go on about them, but ome of us actually like the evil characters in movies. Here is a list counting down the top 10 most evil actors in Hollywood.
10: Joe Pantoliano
Like that other Italian Joe (Pesci), Pantoliano may be small, but you don’t want to see him angry. Whether he’s a no-good stepdad in ‘Percy Jackson,’ a cold-hearted traitor in ‘The Matrix,’ a double-crossed mobster in ‘Bound’ or Tony Soprano’s blood-thirsty subordinate in ‘The Sopranos,’ Pantoliano is king when it comes to sleazy jerks.
9. Gary Oldman
Oldman is so good at being bad, even his “good” roles are a bit on the dark side, like Harry Potter’s godfather Sirius Black or Gotham police captain Jim Gordon. His unabashedly-malevolent characters — legendary vampire ‘Dracula,’ a wannabe presidential assassin in ‘Air Force One,’ vengeful Lecter victim in ‘Hannibal’ and his latest turn as a post-apocalyptic crime boss in ‘The Book of Eli’ — create a fabulous filmography of bad-natured souls.
08. Ian McShane
Although he’s been an actor for nearly 50 years, McShane made a name for himself in the States in 2004 for playing the foul-mouthed, pioneering pimp Al Swearengen on HBO’s ‘Deadwood.’ Anyone who has seen his Golden Globe-winning performance knows you just don’t cross McShane. In films, McShane’s best of the bad include a London kingpin in ‘Sexy Beast,’ a cruel hijacker in ‘The Terrorists’ and the animated villain Tai Lung in ‘Kung Fu Panda.’
07. Ray Winstone
Winstone is cut from the same cloth as his friend McShane; he’s an expert at playing bad-ass men. As an Irish mob boss’ henchman in ‘The Departed,’ a nasty deserter hunter in ‘Cold Mountain,’ an enigmatic agent in ‘Edge of Darkness’ and a fed-up gangster in ‘Sexy Beast,’ Winstone proves again and again that if you want brilliantly ominous, he’s the man for the job.
06. Jason Isaacs
The steely-eyed Brit’s standout performance as the sadistic Redcoat who kills Mel Gibson’s sons in ‘The Patriot’ set the tone for his popularity as Voldemort’s deliciously evil Death Eater — with awesome hair — Lucius Malfoy in the ‘Harry Potter’ series. On the small screen, Isaacs impressed critics as a hot-headed Providence mobster in Showtime’s drama ‘Brotherhood.’
05. Max von Sydow
The 80-year-old Oscar nominee has 107 film credits, but it’s his turns as corrupt men of authority or even the personification of evil itself that send shivers. Ever since the screen vet became Bond filmmakers’ first choice for the titular role of ‘Dr. No’ (eventually played by Joseph Wiseman), he’s been delivering chills in films like ‘Flash Gordon’ (as the Emperor Ming the Merciless), ‘Minority Report’ and ‘Rush Hour 3.’
04. Sean Bean
Bean squints, scowls and glares his way into villainous roles with such flair that the tiniest narrowing of his eyes can scare an audience. For proof, see him as an IRA terrorist in ‘Patriot Games,’ a double-crossing Bond villain in ‘Goldeneye,’ a violent wife-beater in ‘Essex Boys’ and a psychopathic hitchhiker in ‘The Hitcher.’ Even his Boromir in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy was appropriately edgy and and dark. This is one tough Englishman.
03. Danny Huston
Huston’s eyebrows alone are menacing, and he also possesses beady eyes, an intimidating height and an air of entitlement that makes him a wonderful upscale bad guy. There’s his creepy profiteer in ‘Edge of Darkness,’ the greedy corporatist in ‘The Constant Gardner,’ the head vampire in ’30 Days of Night,’ the killer outlaw in ‘The Proposition’ and the hateful General Stryker in ‘Wolverine.’ Certainly his father, the late director John Huston, who was famously evil himself in ‘Chinatown,’ would’ve been proud.
02. Jeremy Irons
Like Huston, Irons has perfected the art of playing a finer class of villain. Look no further than his Oscar-winning part as blue-blooded wife-hater Claus von Bulow in ‘Reversal of Fortune,’ or his maniacal bomber in ‘Die Hard With a Vengeance’ or the rich and ruthless rancher in ‘Appaloosa’ for a few examples of Irons’ infamous characters. Oh, and who can forget King Mufasa’s jealous, fratricidal brother, Scar, in ‘The Lion King.’
01. Alan Rickman
Maybe it’s the deep and imposing voice, or because he’s got a mean sneer, but Rickman is always game to play a nasty character. He has memorably depicted the slimy and seemingly-traitorous Severus Snape in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, the greedy and perverted Judge Turpin in ‘Sweeney Todd’ and terrorist Hans Gruber in the original ‘Die Hard.’ We love Rickman when he’s good, but when he’s bad, he’s irresistible.
I think this first type of list that I’ve ever come across which is absolutely perfect. What do you think?
source: Hollywood’s 10 Most Eeeeevil Actors [Moviefone]
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You know those movies were there are two best friends who are usually losers but they love each other more than anything else? Well here is a list of the best slackker buddies in the history of movies. Take a list and see if your favorite makes the lsit.
10. Dale & Saul (Pineapple Express)
Dale (Seth Rogen) and Saul (James Franco ) smoke pot.
09. Shaun & Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
A hero must rise… from his sofa. (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost)
08. Harold & Kumar (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay)
Two guys (John Cho and Kal Penn) smoke pot.
07. Wayne & Garth (Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World 2)
Two guys who (Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey) host a public access show.
06. Jay & Silent Bob (Clerks, Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Chasing Amy, Mallrats)
Two guys (Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes) smoke pot.
05. Romy & Michele (Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion)
Two hotties (Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) go to their high school reunion and lie about their lives.
04. Cheech & Chong (Up in Smoke, Next Movie, etc.)
Two guys (Richard “Cheech†Marin and Tommy Chong) smoke pot.
03. Lloyd & Harry (Dumb & Dumber)
Lloyd and Harry travel to Aspen (Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.) to return a briefcase to a woman who left it at the airport.
02. Beavis & Butthead (Beavis & Butthead Do America)
Beavis and Butthead (voiced by Mike Judge) travel across the country in an attempt to get their TV back and score with a chick.
01. Bill & Ted (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey)
Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted†Logan (Keanu Reeves) are destined to form the band “Wyld Stallyns,†but the only thing standing in their way is passing history class.
I would have ranked the top 3 as Beavis & Butthead, Romy & Michelle and Harold & Kumar. How about you?
source: Ten of Film’s Greatest Slacker Duos [Gunaxin]
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The 2010 Academy Awards take place next month but Time Magazine have gone ahead and put up a list of the biggest 10 Oscar nomination snubs.
Best Actor: Fred Astaire, Top Hat (1935)
The Academy has traditionally thought of movie acting as dramatic acting: tearing a passion to tatters, preferably while speaking in an accent and wearing eccentric makeup. That excluded the swellegant, elegant Mr. Fred Astaire; all he did was sing and dance with greater craft and feeling than anybody in movie history. His duets with Ginger Rogers — “Isn’t This a Lovely Day” and “Cheek to Cheek” in Top Hat and “Never Gonna Dance” in Swing Time — are not just superb examples of Terpsichore’s art but among the most powerful expressions of courtship, love and loss in screen history. Astaire was never nominated for these musicals, or for any other — though the Academy did insult his dance legacy by nominating him for Best Supporting Actor for a nothing role, played long past his prime, in the 1974 disaster pic The Towering Inferno.
Best Actor: Cary Grant, His Girl Friday (1940)
Golden-age Hollywood promoted glamour all year long and then, when it came to the Oscars, rewarded anti-glamour. To understand the Academy’s prejudice against its richest resource, consider that by 1941 Walter Brennan — who specialized in playing cunning, toothless galoots — had won three Oscars, while Cary Grant had not even been nominated. By then Grant had starred in The Awful Truth, Topper, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and The Philadelphia Story — fashioning the indelible template of the attractive, self-deprecating movie male, and doing it with superb comic timing or action-adventure gruffness, as the role demanded. In His Girl Friday he’s a ruthless newspaper editor who browbeats his writer-wife (Rosalind Russell), all other journalists, the city’s mayor and cops and a condemned killer, just because … he’s Cary Grant. It’s a fast, gorgeous comic turn, for which Grant got no nomination. He would be cited for two dramatic performances, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, yet Hollywood’s greatest comic actor was never nominated for a comedy role.
Best Actor: Bill Murray, Groundhog Day (1993)
Selfish and snarky, Bill Murray’s Phil Connors is a Pittsburgh weatherman who plans to be in Punxsutawney, Pa., for just one day: Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. Except that the day repeats itself, with infinitely minute variations, until Phil gets it right. In a minor scandal, the film got no nominations. An Oscar should have gone to Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin for the script, which deftly balances comedy and philosophy (Is God a groundhog? Discuss), and another to Bill Murray for acting. From Caddyshack to What About Bob?, Murray had refined his amiable doofus into the minimalist modern man: his posture a question mark, his face a concrete poem of anticipated disappointment. In Groundhog Day he rises to romance and sinks to despair — and is wonderfully funny — all in the same day after day after day.
Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941)
The Hollywood screen’s all-time toughest, smartest dame, Barbara Stanwyck played comedy and pathos with equal agility, yet she never won a competitive Oscar. Her scheming adulteress-murderess in Double Indemnity, for example, lost out to the harried wife played by Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, as Hollywood chose to reward the noble victim rather than the brilliant predator. Some of her tangiest roles flew right under the Academy’s radar, like the career gal who literally screws her way up the corporate ladder in Baby Face. Her sharpest comedy performance, no question, was playing the cruise-ship con artist who seduces a hapless Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve, probably the all-time top screwball comedy. She is the devil every man would gladly play the sucker for; but neither she nor Sturges got a nomination. The movie’s only reward was immortality.
Best Director: John Ford, The Searchers (1956)
It is now widely regarded as the greatest western of the 1950s, the genre’s greatest decade. The tale of a loner searching for a missing daughter has been remade scores of times (most recently in Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness). But John Ford’s darkly profound study of obsession, racism and heroic solitude was shrugged off when it first appeared. Though Ford was Hollywood’s most honored auteur, with four Oscars as Best Director, he got nothing when he made his masterpiece. The Academy also ignored the towering performance of John Wayne as the scarred Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, who either exorcises his demons or surrenders to them in violent revenge. Wayne would finally get an Oscar for his assured but much less complex performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. But reward his most powerful role? That’ll be the day.
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)
The movie got a Best Picture nomination (losing to Rocky) — as well as nominations for Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster (Best Actor and Supporting Actress) and for Bernard Herrmann’s creepy score — but its gifted director was ignored. Like Hieronymus Bosch working with spray paint, Martin Scorsese visualized a Manhattan hellscape with steam, blood and vomit everywhere, and in the center a crazed cabbie who literally gets away with murder. By rights, Scorsese could have been nominated three times in the ’70s: for Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as Taxi Driver. But America’s most astute and passionate picture maker had to wait until 2007, and The Departed, to get a Best Director statuette. By then it might as well have been a lifetime achievement award — or the Academy’s public apology for more than 30 years of myopic calls against him.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)
The opposite of Sally Field’s gushing “You like me, you really like me” upon winning an Oscar was Steven Spielberg’s response when his first big movie, Jaws, was nominated for Best Picture but stiffed in the Best Director category. Jaws had only become the top-grossing film since The Sound of Music a decade before, and Spielberg had managed to wrangle Bruce — the production’s balky mechanical shark — into a creature of demonic intent and satanic power. The tarring of Spielberg as a maker of “just movies” would continue through Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, for which he was nominated but lost. The year of E.T., the Academy gave the Best Picture and Director prizes to Richard Attenborough’s worthy but plodding Gandhi. Spielberg had to make his only true-life epic, Schindler’s List, before he finally won an Oscar.
Best Picture: King Kong (1933)
In 1934, for the first time, the Academy allowed 10 Best Picture nominations. All those slots, and not one of them could be filled by the greatest fantasy in Hollywood history? Cavalcade, the stately, starchy filming of a Noel Coward play, took the Best Picture award, and King Kong received no nominations at all, not even in the technical and engineering categories. So much for Willis O’Brien’s construction and stop-motion animation of the 18-in.-tall ape, which gave Kong gravitas as he battled dinosaurs on a jungle island and soul as he wooed Fay Wray and took her to the top of the Empire State Building. King Kong inspired generations of boy geniuses, from Steven Spielberg to Peter Jackson (who did a loving though oversize remake in 2005), while Cavalcade slipped into oblivion.
Best Picture: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Voted the best American comedy of all time in an American Film Institute survey 10 years ago, Billy Wilder’s fizzy farce earned nominations for screenplay, direction and Jack Lemmon’s performance as a Prohibition musician who goes on the lam disguised as a woman. (Tony Curtis, Lemmon’s partner in drag, deserved a nod too.) But the movie was denied one of the Best Picture slots, which were filled by two religious epics (Ben-Hur and The Nun’s Story), two “daring” melodramas (Anatomy of a Murder and Room at the Top) and The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, elevated sentiments and hot-button social issues seemed so much more important than an ephemeral comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and two guys in dresses. Today, it’s the ephemeral that has lasted.
Best Picture: The Dark Knight (2008)
Why did the Academy decide to reinstate the 10-film field for Best Picture in 2010? Because the year before, The Dark Knight wasn’t voted into the top five. At the time the second biggest dollar earner in movie history (now passed by Avatar), Christopher Nolan’s saturnine fantasy was a film that kids and critics alike appreciated, less as a live-action comic book than as a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. The Academy members didn’t go bats for this Batman; instead, they filled out their Best Picture cards with their favorite fallen President (Frost/Nixon), a Nazi warden (The Reader), a civil rights martyr (Milk), an old guy who gets younger (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the eventual winner, Slumdog Millionaire. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Best Supporting Actor), The Dark Knight was ignored in all major award categories, earning only doorstop prizes like Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Safe to say that the Academy won’t shut out the big action-adventure movie of 2009. Avatar is a sure nominee for Best Picture, and a likely winner.
I agree with the majority of these, I enjoyed The Dark Knight but I really don’t the movie should have gotten a nomination so I would take that off the list. Instead I would put on Alfred Hitchcock, it’s a disgrace he never got an Oscar. What do you think? Any movies or people who should have received nominations?
source: Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs [Time]
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