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Video: Do You Want to Know What the New Muppet Movie Is Actually About?

October 16, 2011
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Sure, the trailers that have been released for the new Muppet movie thus far have been pretty amazing– Green Lantern parody? The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo spoof? I’ll take ‘em!– but you know the one thing that they HAVEN’T really done all that well yet? They haven’t really told us what the movie is actually going to be ABOUT.

But, hey guess what? There’s a new trailer out! And it actually deals with the plot of the movie! Let’s take a look, shall we?

So as best as I can tell, Amy Adams and Jason Segel are the Muppets’ biggest fans. They’ve planned a big trip to L.A. specifically to go crash Muppet Studios. They also appear to have a Muppet of some kind with them– his name, it appears, is Walter– though it is unclear whether they found him at Muppet Studios or whether he’s a lone Muppet that they befriended earlier and brought with them. And then, when they finally GET to Muppet Studios, something magical happens: Kermit appears! Hoorah! But the Muppets, you see, need Amy and Jason’s help. They want to get back into show business– but the problem is, they’re not famous anymore. What to do? Why, build your way back to the top, of course! Backstage farce? Feel-good, life-affirming drama? Who knows. But there will be chickens. There will be explosions. There will be amazing, unexpected cameos. And I CAN’T WAIT.

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Teen Mom Jenelle Evans Has a New Website, Boyfriend, House. Has She Finally Gone Straight?

October 16, 2011
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Can it be true? Is troubled Teen Mom Jenelle Evans finally straightening herself out? Maybe! Let’s spend a minute or two catching up with Jenelle, shall we?

Let’s start small: Jenelle is getting a website up and running. There’s nothing on it yet, but it’s called jenelleandjace.com, so presumably she’s gearing it towards adventures in parenting. Once she gets custody of Jace back from her mother Barbara, that is.

If she keeps going on the track she’s on right now, though, getting Jace back might not be as impossible as it hitherto has seemed: Her attorney, Dustin Sullivan, told Radar Online not too long ago that Jenelle is “doing really well. She is getting drug tested once a week and has passed every single test for the last two and a half months.” Unexpected? Perhaps. Good? Definitely.

And then there’s the new boyfriend. At the end of September, Jenelle tweeted this picture of the two them, along with the encouraging words, “Preview of my new man. He is simply amazing to me!”:

So, is this another Kieffer Delp? Doesn’t look it, interestingly. Starcasm did a little digging and found out that his name is Josh and that he– prepare yourselves– HAS A JOB. Let me say that again, just because it’s so unreal: JENELLE’S BOYFRIEND HAS A JOB. Apparently Josh works in pest control, where his duties usually involve taking down and rebuilding walls. Carpentry ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at, so good for him.

And last but certainly not least, guess what? Jenelle has moved out of her mom’s house– which, granted, she does a lot– but the difference this time is that she’s not just crashing on someone’s couch until they kick her out. Remember Jenelle’s friend Amber? It’s okay if you don’t; we haven’t seen much of her since Jenelle’s 16 & Pregnant episode. But Amber and Jenelle have rented a house together not far from Barbara’s place, and you know what? It looks pretty nice! Check it out, courtesy of Starcasm.

Here’s the exterior:

Cute, right?

And here’s the living room:

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5 Facts About New Game of Thrones Cast Member Rose Leslie

October 16, 2011
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We don’t know about you guys, but we got really excited over the summer when casting for the second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones just kept rolling out, and rolling out, and rolling out. You know what was curious, though? Among those casting notices, the character of Ygritte was nowhere to be seen. Why? Ygritte is awesome! A redheaded Wildling from beyond the Wall, Ygritte factors prominently in Jon Snow’s (Kit Harrington’s) story, and besides Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), she just may be the coolest female character in the entire series.

But finally– finally!– the wait is over: Ygritte has been cast! In the second and third seasons of Game of Thrones, this super awesome character will be played by Rose Leslie. We may have been pulling for Bonnie Wright or Lily Cole when we were putting together our dream cast back in July; but now that the verdict is out, we can’t think of a better choice than Rose Leslie. If you’re a fan of British period dramas, you may have caught Rose in the glorious Downton Abbey; she played Gwen, the plucky young maid determined to make more of herself, in the first season of the show. We’ll miss her in the second season, but we won’t be missing her that much if we know she’ll be taking on Game of Thrones.

But who exactly IS Rose Leslie? Here are five need-to-know facts about the actress:

1) Her full name is Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie.
She was born on February 9, 1987, which makes her 24 years old, and she’s from Aberdeen, a city in the northeast of Scotland. I wonder if she likes haggis?

2) She’s trained in theatre.
This may not come as a surprise, since almost every well-known screen actor to come out the United Kingdom trained at its best drama schools; but Rose has a pretty good pedigree: she trained at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, aka LAMDA. She graduated with honors in 2008, too, and she tackled such meaty roles as Yelena in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet while she was there. Furthermore, she graced the stage of none other than Shakespeare’s Globe in Nell Leyshon’s new play Bedlam about the notorious London lunatic asylum last fall. Critics described Rose in Bedlam as “genuinely poignant as the beautiful country girl driven mad by lost love.”

3) Rose is good with accents.
She may be Scottish by birth, but since Rose spent her school years in England, her natural accent these days is closest to what those “in the business” call “received pronunciation,” or RP: the standard BBC accent. However, for Downton Abbey, Rose not only had to learn a Yorkshire accent, but moreover, she had to learn the 1912 version of the Yorkshire accent. In an interview about the show, she said that “All accents now have become quite sloppy,” whereas “in 1912, it was more acute and there were no long bits at the end of the word, where the mouth drops open.” She got it in the end, though! It will be interesting to see what sort of accent she ends up using in Game of Thrones– the farthest north we’ve gone in the show so far is the Wall, but Ygritte is from beyond the Wall, so it could get quite interesting-sounding indeed.

4) She already has an award under her belt.
Rose made debut in a 2009 television film called New Town, for which she took home the Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance – New Talent. Not too shabby for her first time out!

5) She digs physical roles.
Rose has said that she really hopes Ygritte will be a physically demanding role: She wants to be running up and down mountains, shooting a bow and arrow, and generally kicking arse. She got certified in basic stage combat while at LAMDA; now, though, she might have the chance to kick that basic certification up a notch. Knowing what the books tell us about the Wildling, it’s pretty likely she’ll be getting plenty physical!

I have just discovered, by the way, that “Ygritte” is pronounced “EYE-grit,” which is not at all how I’ve been reading it all this time. Weird. Anyway, catch Rose saying “Ygritte” and talking about a whole bunch of other Game of Thrones stuff here:

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This Is a Picture of Justin Bieber Singing with Shrek.

October 16, 2011
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Tumblr is a strange and wonderful and sometimes terrifying place. I’ll leave it to you to decide which of those adjectives best describes this creation.

[Via Buzzfeed]

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Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t: The Montauk Project

October 16, 2011
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Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.

At the eastern end of Long Island’s southern point, there is an abandoned air force base. In the base sits an enormous radar dish. The dish, which had been installed by the government many years ago, was intended to provide warning of incoming Soviet threats from the Atlantic during the height of the Cold War. But as is the way with such things, as technology advanced, the dishes were rendered obsolete, and the site was closed in 1969. The area, called Montauk Point, has since become a public park.

But the radar dish is still there. And there are… stories. Tales of something going on, something bigger than the ghosts, real or metaphorical, that haunt every abandoned air force base and army site. Because you see, the experimentation with electromagnetic shielding hadn’t ended with the Philadelphia Experiment. It continued. And that continuation was known as THE MONTAUK PROJECT.

The idea was born of the surviving researchers from the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1952, they met together and discussed their desire to continue their work. This time, though, they had a new goal in mind: Rather than using the technology to cloak ships, they wanted to investigate its use as a means of psychological warfare.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, when the scientists appeared before Congress for approval and funding, they were denied. But the scientists weren’t willing to give up that easily, so instead, they went directly to the Department of Defense. Where Congress had been wary of the experiments due to the possible danger involved, the Department of Defense was intrigued. How, asked the scientists, would you like to have a weapon in your arsenal that would be capable of causing the enemy to surrender before a battle had even begun? We can do that, they said. We can develop a weapon that would, at the flick of a switch, allow you to render the enemy helpless. The Department of Defense said yes. And so the project began in earnest.

The project was initially housed at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the town of Upton, New York on Long Island. Known as the Phoenix Project, it made good headway; however, its scientists soon discovered that they had need of equipment the Brookhaven National Laboratory couldn’t provide. Furthermore, the extremely public location of the lab allowed for governmental watchdogs to keep a closer eye on the project than the scientists—or, for that matter, the Department of Defense—would have liked. What to do?

As luck would have it, the government had a solution: Not far away, there was an old air force base that was set to be decommissioned. The base housed a Semi-Automatic Environment, or SAGE, radar system. The radar system and dish were exactly the type of equipment the scientists needed to carry out their experiments; furthermore, the nature of its location would keep it far from the prying eyes of those who would try to shut the project down. Beneath the surface of the base, you see, was an immense government facility that stretched downward for miles. And so the researchers moved to the sleepy town of Montauk—not yet the vacation destination it would one day become—and the project gained a new name: The Montauk Project.

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Sunday Cute: Baby Monkey Gets a Bath

October 16, 2011
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I don’t know what it is about baby creatures getting baths, but I find them unfailingly adorable. Seriously. Like this one. This is baby Nala. I should probably also note that I don’t really find monkeys cute once they’ve grown up; but Nala? Nala is the GREATEST MONKEY BABY EVER. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she’s clutching oh so tightly onto that blue fuzzy dog thing. I think my parents’ puppy has a toy like that, though he’s not nearly as fond of it as Nala seems to be.

The commentary by the person doing the washing, by the way, is also hilarious. We don’t spank our monkey. Do we?

Happy Sunday!

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12 Assorted Actresses and Other Things Who Have Played Marie Antoinette

October 16, 2011
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Do you know what today is? Besides Sunday, I mean? It’s October 16, which means it’s the day that, 218 years ago, Marie Antoinette mounted the scaffold to the guillotine, stepped on her executioner’s foot, told him, “Sorry, didn’t mean to do that,” and then subsequently lost her head. To mark the occasion, let’s take a look all of the actresses and other things (you’ll understand what I mean by “things” in a moment) who have played her over the years, shall we?

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Gallery: New Photos Of Henry Cavill And Kellan Lutz Looking Inhumanly Hot In Immortals

October 14, 2011
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New photos for Immortals, the Greek epic with a very pretty cast, have been released! While the intricacies of the gods-versus-humans battle may not, here’s the official synopsis anyway:

The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king’s mission.

As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus (Henry Cavill) vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion’s raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra (Freida Pinto), her disturbing visions of the young man’s future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity.

And now, on to all the armor and abs you’ll need today… (imagine a Patti Stanger voice for this) “LET’S MEET MY IMMORTALS!”

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Kudos To Bones For Acknowledging Emily Deschanel’s Pregnancy In The Promo Poster

October 14, 2011
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Many TV shows are at a loss of what to do when their star gets pregnant. How I Met Your Mother is the most glaring example I can think of: In a season where both Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders were expecting, their characters spent most of their scenes hidden behind huge handbags and other odd props.

But the Bones showrunners decided to wholeheartedly embrace Emily Deschanel‘s pregnancy… or maybe it was just good timing, since they claim that they had already written into the show that Temperance Brennan gets pregnant by her partner Seeley Booth.

Regardless, the evidence is on the poster for season 7: Instead of coyly hiding Bones behind a medical table or even crouching at a crime scene, they have Booth literally pointing a flashlight at her belly/their fetus. It’s unsubtle and slightly cheesy, and as a diehard Bones fan, I love it.

Also, Booth has his hand out to support his babymama lest she slip on some decomposed human. It’s just too cute.

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Here Are Two Wonderful Animal Videos

October 14, 2011
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Here is a dog in a birthday hat who is not very excited about his party:

And here is a video of a fat cat sitting in a tiny pink chair, watching television:

I have this fantasy where these two animals are roommates and they spend their days staring glumly ahead with the occasional break to bicker over who gets to eat the trash. Can’t you just see this being an amazing Pixar movie? There will only be like 10 lines of dialogue, but they’ll all be spectacular. It’s like Wall-E!

(Both via The Daily What)

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