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Rihanna hands mic to audience member, actually says 'whoa' when she hears him sing.

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Most times when a singer at a concert lets an audience member sing a line from one of their songs, the result is... fine. But on March 20, the audience member that Rihanna gave the mic to during her song "FourFiveSeconds" was so good that it even made Rihanna say "whoa." And Rihanna isn't phased by anything. She's Rihanna.

https://twitter.com/_MiaBreezy/status/711735955137437696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Of course, he freaked out afterward:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDMb9gNmUDK/

The audience member, Terah Jay, actually has a YouTube channel where he posts videos of himself singing. And unlike everyone else on YouTube who does that, he has managed to impress Rihanna. So that's worth something.


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Hulk Hogan tweeted a very appropriate response to winning $140 million from Gawker.

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Hulk Hogan has gone through some rough times recently (largely due to his own mistakes), but things are beginning to look up for the former pro-wrestler: after winning $115 million in his case against Gawker, who published a sex tape he was featured in without consent, Terry Bollea (Hogan's legal name) was awarded an additional $25 million in punitive damages. His response to this overwhelming victory is summed up in one beautiful Tweet:

https://twitter.com/HulkHogan/status/712215547816058881

Gawker will be feeling this win for an individual's right to privacy for a long time to come (if they even exist after paying off Hogan in full).

Luckily for Hogan, there exists an excess of appropriate gifs he can continue sending Gawker's way if he really wants to rub it in.

You need this: 19 animals getting brushed and totally fluffing loving it.

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When life gets you down and you wonder what's wrong with the world, remember that there are lots of cute animals out there getting brushed and totally blissing out. And that looking at those happy animals makes people happy. So look at these happy animals getting brushed. LOOK AT THEM. LOOK AT THEM AND BE HAPPY.

1. This is Paul, a rescued bull using the Happy Cow machine. He is a happy bull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQzcsN1zdM4

2. This dog is so happy with his brushy, he turns into a seal.

https://vine.co/v/ivJK7DAtwav

3. Morty the kitten is practically knocked out by the pleasure of being groomed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIiyqRyu8vI

4. Do you know what a tapir is? It's a large South American mammal that LOVES getting brushed. (via)

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5. This is a White-Bellied Caique, aka a "Brushy Bird."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3CxjK6MEY

6. Pudge says "Yassss brush."

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6. OK, so it's more of a scratching than a brushing, but did you know pufferfish are also called scratchyfish? OK, they're not, but they do like being scratched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wzTjdnXe4

7. Maru may be a world-famous YouTube cat, but he still enjoys brushing as much as the next civilian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szEy9YhjHRg

8. This cow lives at the same sanctuary as Paul—and they upgraded their brushing machine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-E062ZM2Cw

9. This horse loves being scratched so much, it literally will not let you stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVV_ICwoqTg

10. There is happy, and then there is this goat getting brushed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHE4hD0dL0

11. Always brush your fox from front to back.

https://twitter.com/BabyAnimalGifs/status/525011126992764929

12. When you done but she's still brushin.

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13. Meet Li'l Drac, an orphaned short-tailed fruit bat. Jump to 2:45 to see his humans teach him how grooming is done with some brushing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeSSdwbnPg

14.  Max the cockatoo wants to be brushed. And he WILL be brushed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApoNISsbisE?t=31s

15. This cat is 16 years old. By the time you reach that age, sometimes normal brushes...just aren't enough. He knows what he wants, and he gets it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VfiG0NO_6A

16. He's hardly the only one. This calico should get together with that grey cat since they share similar interests. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3MvTYX4GE8

17. This is angel. She is a rescued monkey who looks after a bunch of orphaned kittens. For Mother's Day, she got a well-deserved grooming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuRsV9f7mU

18. This orphaned pygmy marmoset is getting a gentle, luxurious brushy-ing with a toothbrush, which is gigantic by comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0LP8TjPypY

19. This bird is grooming itself with a Q-tip. Your argument is invalid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBD-3w6Kj1o

Colorado Springs club offers free pot to those who help clean the neighborhood.

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A cannabis club in Colorado Springs is offering a new incentive to get people to help clean up their community: free marijuana. Steve Pacheko, who is seen wearing a hat that says "dank" in the video below, organized the clean-up event for people above the age of 21. Each person who agreed to pick up trash around the neighborhood received a free joint. In addition to cleaning up the neighborhood, the cannabis club also wants to help to clean up the image of the legal marijuana industry by getting involved and supporting the community.

 

Colorado offering free joints for those who clean up community

Posted by Fox & Friends First on Monday, March 21, 2016
 

Thousands of people took to the Fox & Friends First Facebook page to comment on the video, and though most of them just tagged friends (presumably ones who likes to smoke weed), many had great things to say about it what the club is doing:

Others, however, were not as supportive:

Whether you use caps lock to drive your point home or not, the marijuana distribution in this case is 100% legal in Colorado. Over 100 people came out for the clean up, and there is already a second event in the works. That is certainly one way to go green! 

Sarah Michelle Gellar's Instagram is littered with teases for the new 'Cruel Intentions' TV show.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar is using Instagram to tease the upcoming TV reboot of 1999's Cruel Intentionsby dumping a heap of set pictures and throwback photos online for fans of the original to grovel over until the new show debuts on NBC. Photos of the original cast (including Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe, and Selma Blair) show just how much innocence these celebrities have lost in the 17 years since they were taken. Actually, they all look the shockingly the same, minus some baby fat.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDO6nresY_A/?taken-by=sarahmgellar&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BCrGoK8MY5p/https://www.instagram.com/p/BCldomyMY7H/https://www.instagram.com/p/BCMRhYoMY36/https://www.instagram.com/p/BCMRhYoMY36/https://www.instagram.com/p/BCOJ3bNsY5s/https://www.instagram.com/p/BDQo3zBMY8v/

According to E!, Gellar is set to reprise her role as the ruthless Kathryn Merteuil in the series, which follows Merteuil's "quest to control Bash, the son of Annette Hargrove (originally played by Reese Witherspoon) and the deceased Sebastian Valmont (originally played by Ryan Phillipe), as he leaves his small Kansas town to learn more about his family's legacy at Brighton Preparatory Academy."

And just for fun, here's more gold from Gellar's Instagram, featuring herself and Neve Campbell with the late David Bowie in an overwhelmingly 90's-looking snapshot.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAZCiJ5sYwZ/?taken-by=sarahmgellar

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15 Hollywood casting decisions that offended as many people as possible.

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Since early 2016, the Internet has enjoyed chastising Hollywood's racism through topics like #OscarsSoWhite. But as countless articles on the Oscars exbplained, this year is by no means the first time that Hollywood has displayed ineptitude in terms of diversity.

The two most believable non-white faces in movie history.

Over the years, the film industry has shown a racial bias not only when it comes to awards, but also in casting choices with the persistent use of discriminatory racebending, typically in the form of whitewashing. Racebending refers to any character's race being changed, while whitewashing describes the all-too-common practice of having a white actor play a non-white role.

Time and again, white actors and actresses have portrayed Native Americans, Asians, and other racially diverse roles, thus further limiting job opportunities for actors who don't fit the standard, boring mold. Really, the only thing that's changed over the years is that people are becoming more indignant about racebending. So keep it up, and maybe one day Hollywood will realize Middle Eastern people can be in movies, too. In the meantime, revisit the indignation that these 15 movies caused.

1. Emma Stone, Aloha

Fortunately for Stone and director Cameron Crowe, this 2015 film was so bad that many people were too busy panning it to notice the remarkable whitewashing going on in the cat. Stone played Allison Ng, whose father was half Chinese and half Hawaiian. Crowe explained that Ng "was based on a real-life, red-headed local​" who was"frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like [a Hawaiian native.]"

https://twitter.com/DeanSanchez/status/609098029522558976

Audiences shared Ng's frustration.​ "The fact is that Hollywood narratives haven't been able to wrap their minds around the fact that Asian-Americans are multiracial," E. Alex Chung wrote for Vulture when discussing Stone's casting. "Instead of acknowledging this, or writing it into the story, the actors themselves simply get subsumed into the great maw of whiteness — or depending on how they look, Asianness or blackness.​"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ZhIh6kI-g

2. Tilda Swinton, Doctor Strange

Normally it's rad when an actress takes over a part written for a man, but in this case, not so much. The Ancient One is a 500-year-old magical Tibetan dude with vast mystical knowledge that he imparts upon Doctor Strange. In the November Doctor Strange film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton—a white woman—takes on the role.

https://twitter.com/Maria_Giesela/status/711977493780144128

"We are always looking for ways to change. I think if you look at some of the early incarnations of the Ancient One in the comics, they are what we would consider today to be quite, sort of, stereotypical," Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly. Essentially, instead of portraying an Asian character, Marvel decided to cast a white woman and hail it as progress.

https://twitter.com/Montserrat_Avil/status/707887804790005760

3. Mickey Rooney, Breakfast at Tiffany's

In one of Hollywood's most famously racist roles, Mickey Rooney played the Japanese Mr. Yunioshi in this 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn. Rooney—a very white man—didn't simply play a character with a Japanese name. As Jeff Yang described for the Wall Street Journal, Rooney was "the godfather of the 'Ching-Chong' stereotype that continues to rear its yellow head today." Rooney lampooned his character so heavily that his performance isn't even offensive, it's downright uncomfortable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC5RtcypOqE

4. 21

The 2008 film about a group of card-counting MIT students was an adapation of the book Bringing Down the House, in turn based on a true story. Somewhere in the journey from truth to fiction, most of the characters were turned from Asian people into white actors. Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess play the key leads, while actors Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira take a backseat. "This movie was the perfect chance for Hollywood to overcome its history of discrimination towards Asian American males, and to showcase talented Asian American actors, and they blew it," Alvin Lin wrote for MIT's The Tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsK1c9ZBpuw

5. The Conqueror

This 1956 pet project of Howard Hughes was a bad film all around. While the Genghis Kahn movie was one of the highest-grossing of the year in the States, it's also been panned as one of the worst movies ever, with a terrible production history to boot. The movie was filmed near a nuclear weapons testing site with 220 members in the cast and crew. 91 of the people involved in the movie got cancer and over half (46) of that number died from the disease.

Oh, and as to the whitewashing, John Wayne played Genghis Khan, the infamous Mongol conqueror. He rocked some serious yellowface—as did other white actors—while only two actual Asians appeared in the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHt0Pb8rkXU

6. Johnny Depp, The Lone Ranger

In the 2013 movie that confirmed Johnny Depp wasn't cool anymore, Depp wore lots of face paint to play Tonto, a Native American.

https://twitter.com/ErinaciousLee/status/355503994912768000

Depp vaguely claimed to be Native American prior the film's release. "I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2011. “My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian." Not exactly strong evidence in his favor. Even the 1950s Lone Ranger show managed to get a full-blooded Native Canadian to play Tonto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dceCjepU21o

7. Jake Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia

With a movie title like Prince of Persia, one would expect a Persian-looking actor to star in the film, but no. White boy Jake Gyllenhaal played the title character in the video game adaptation, with white people like Gemma Arteron and Alfred Molina as Princess Tamina and Sheik Amar.

https://twitter.com/evil_kinegro/status/14740785530

"It's insulting that people of color — especially Middle Easterners or South Asians — are not allowed to portray ourselves in these roles. That's a big problem a lot of people in the community are having with this film," blogger and filmmaker Jehanzeb Dar told the LA Times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHPti64Zljw

8. Gods of Egypt

The 2016 movie Gods of Egypt—which Variety writer Justin Chang said was a "chintzy, CG-encrusted eyesore"—was full of white actors, except for Chadwick Boseman and Élodie Yung, because Hollywood has come far.

https://twitter.com/astropolitician/status/709889388075941888

People were so baffled that actors like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gerard Butler were in the movie, distribution company Lionsgate had to say something: "In this instance we failed to live up to our own standards of sensitivity and diversity, for which we sincerely apologize." Film companies have diversity standards? Given that over 70% of film roles consistently go to white actors every year, that's a surprising assertion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBnK2wNQSo

9. Rooney Mara, Pan

For the 2015 Peter Pan prequel that nobody saw, Rooney Mara donned a bunch of feathers to play the Native American princess Tiger Lily.

https://twitter.com/lydiaspute/status/655152976818999296

People appreciated this casting even less than the movie, and Mara finally realized her mistake in playing Tiger Lily. “I really hate, hate, hate that I am on that side of the whitewashing conversation,” Mara told The Telegraph after the film's release. “I really do. I don’t ever want to be on that side of it again." Nobody else wants that either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8KD8or3BYQ

10. Katherine Hepburn, Dragon Seed

There is a reason this 1944 Katherine Hepburn film isn't as famous as her other movies. Set in a Chinese village following the invasion of Japanese troops, the movie makes liberal use of yellowface. The most ethnic the lead cast got was with Turhan Bey and Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff, who were Turkish and Armenian respectively. "Dragon Seed is a travesty not just because it casts white actors, but because it has those actors play 'Oriental' characters," Anne Marie of The Film Experience wrote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ac39xjdGx8

11. Exodus

Partially thanks to Hollywood's history with the genre, epics and whitewashing continue to go hand-in-hand. Ridley Scott's 2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings starred white men Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton as Moses and Ramses, respectively.

https://twitter.com/coolandgoth/status/538117305893662720

In response to the vast backlash against this weird cast, Scott told Variety, "I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such." While the movie got a $140 million budget, it ended up with a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes. While the terrible reviews were nice, the movie grossed over twice its budget. Ugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8YsulfxVI

12. Alec Guinness, A Passage to India

For the 1984 adaptation of the famous E.M. Forester novel, Star Wars actor Alec Guinness gave it his all as Professor Godbole, an Indian man. "For my own part I'm afraid I thought I was sickeningly awful," Guinness wrote to the film's director, David Lean, after wrapping on the movie. The movie did manage to snag Indian actor Victor Banerjee in the other major Indian role of Dr. Aziz, so there's that.

https://twitter.com/manish_vij/status/664231841239437313

13. The Last Airbender

In the 2010 live-screen adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan directed a cast lead by a group of white people. In the animated Nickelodeon series, the main characters are all Asian and Inuit—and very obviously so. In the movie, the three heroes were played by white people Nicola Peltz, Noah Ringer, and Jackson Rathbone. To give an idea of how white these people all are, Rathbone was a pale vampire in the Twilight series. Initially meant to be played by Jesse McCartney, the role of the film's villain eventually went to Dev Patel, meaning that the only main character portrayed by a non-white person was evil.

https://twitter.com/DeanDobbs/status/695277200891842560

Dissatisfaction with casting sparked protests and widespread unhappiness. "They’ve constructed a film that is contrary not only to what fans expected to see but is also contrary to what America expects to see in a film released in 2010 featuring Asian culture and Asian and Native American characters as heroes," Michael Le of Racebending.comsaid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-egQ79OrYCs

14. Zoe Saldana, Nina

Even before its April 2016 release, Nina has been heavily scorned for casting Zoe Saldana as the eponymous character Nina Simone. To portray the African-American singer, Zoe Salanda, who is Afro-Latina, wore skin-darkening makeup and a prosthetic nose.

https://twitter.com/jimecia_jackson/status/704792328574210048

People are split on whether this is OK or not.

https://twitter.com/They_berian/status/708165485452337152https://twitter.com/MOBOAwards/status/706840225369214976

15. Chiwetel Ejiofor​ and Mackenzie Davis, The Martian

Another Ridley Scott movie! For the well-received adaptation of Andy Weir's The Martian, two characters were transformed beyond recognition. Dr. Venkat Kapoor, an Asian-Indian man, became Vincent Kapoor, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Well, at least a non-white actor got a job out of that racebending.

But the other character whose race was changed was played by a white actress. The blonde and white Mackenzie Davis portrayed Mindy Park, who is Korean-American in Weir's book.

https://twitter.com/deborific/status/693836456104562688

In a statement, Guy Aoki, president of Media Action Network For Asian-Americans, posed the question, "Was Ridley Scott not comfortable having two sets of Asian Americans talking to each other?" Judging by Scott's thoughts on Exodus, the answer is probably "Yes" on that one.

https://twitter.com/PKGM/status/638706562773741568https://twitter.com/GHOSTYVIC/status/701984114627444736

Given the recent number of offensive racebending casting choices, it looks like Hollywood has learnt little to nothing since first outraging people with racial decisions in adaptations of well-known stories.

All one can do is hope that in the future there will be a classic Hollywood epic film featuring non-white people. Or potential audiences can continue to do things like rally for boycotts and tweet their anger. Those last two options sound more fruitful, and fun.


22 celebrity couples who have a really big age difference, not that we’re judging.

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Romances between partners of vastly different ages have always been a cornerstone of Hollywood legend. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are a classic example: their 25 year age difference (she was 20, he was 45 and had been married three times before) didn't stop them from falling, and staying, in love. Bacall described their relationship as “the headiest romance imaginable." They married in 1945 and and stayed together until Bogie's death in 1957.

Charlie Chaplin and his future wife Oona O'Neill (daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill) first met when he was 53 and she was 17. He'd already been married three times, twice to 16-year-olds. O'Neill explained their relationship: he "made me mature, and I keep him young."

It's not always the case, though, that the man is older. Madonna and her now ex-boyfriend, Jesus Luz, had a 28 year age disparity—he was 23, she was 51 (14 years younger than Luz's mother, which is maybe a little ew).

Here are some couples who are making it work, at least for now, despite being at least 20 year apart in age.

1. Holland Taylor (73) and Sarah Paulson (41)

Sarah Paulson recently talked about her relationship with fellow actor Lauren Holland, with whom she's been involved for about a year. In an interview with the New York Times, Paulson recalls first meeting Holland at a dinner party about a decade ago, and thinking that she was “probably the most exquisitely beautiful woman [she'd] ever seen.”

Paulson's previous relationship was also with an older woman—actor Cherry Jones, who is 18 years older than her. In the same interview, she explained her attraction to people older than her:

There’s a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something. I can’t say it any other way than there’s a poignancy to it, and a heightened sense of time and the value of time.

Her statement pretty much boils down to a more romantic way of saying, "Enjoy the time you've got together, because one of you is fairly close to dying."

2. Billy Joel (66) and Alexis Roderick (33)

Billy Joel married Alexis Roderick, a senior risk officer at Morgan Stanley, in 2015. A little perspective: she's only three years older than his daughter Alexis (whose name is not far from "Alexa," but don't think about that too much). Prior to Roderick, Joel was married to another much younger woman, food critic Katie Lee, who is a year older than his current wife.

3. Patrick Stewart (75) and Sunny Ozell (37)

Sir Patrick Stewart and singer/songwriter Sunny Ozell met through a mutual friend in 2008, when she was working as a waitress in New York City. According to Stewart, "sparks flew instantly between them" (apparently, not the dangerous kind). She wanted to see a show he was performing in, but it was sold out, so Stewart gave Ozell his number and told her to call him. He claims that's the first time he's ever done that, and it worked—because the two got married in 2013, and now he's got a father-in-law who is five years younger than him.

4. Johnny Depp (52) and Amber Heard (29)

Johnny Depp met Amber Heard in 2011 on the set of The Rum Diary, and "officially" started dating around the in 2012. In June 2012, he'd already bought her a horse (you know how young girls like horses). In December of that year, he named a beach on his private Bahamas island after her (Amber's Cove), because it supposedly resembled her hip (oh, brother).

Depp married Heard in February 2015. He never married Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his two kids, with whom he was in a relationship for 14 years. Apparently, however, Amber Heard was marriage material. Whether this was because of or in spite of their 23 year age difference remains a mystery.

5. Steve Martin (70) and Anne Stringfield (43 or 44)

Steve Martin married writer and former New Yorker staffer Anne Stringfield in 2007; Lorne Michaels was the Best Man. In 2015, when Martin was receiving the 43rd American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, Tina Fey joked that Martin had married "a woman who is, I think, a younger, thinner, smarter version of me."

6. Richard Lugner (83) and Cathy Schmitz (26)

A 57 year age difference? You're probably thinking, "She's in it for the money." Don't be so cynical—there's no way that when Australian billionaire Richard Lugner married Playboy model Cathy Schmitz (his fifth wife) in 2014, it was based on anything more than pure love and attraction. They probably have so much in common, like loving money and…loving money.

Actually, Lugner himself thinks she's probably in it for the money. In an appearance on the iTV show This Morning, Lugner said: "I am always worried. Ladies are very dangerous—to be married is dangerous. (But) I like to fight with the young ladies. It's better for me." What's probably best for you, Lugner, is that you avoid any stairs that look particularly slippery.

7. Jeff Goldblum (63) and Emilie Livingston (33)

Every straight woman's heart broke a little when Jeff Goldblum married Emilie Livingston in 2014, because it meant that the silver fox was officially off the market (come on, you never stood a chance). And then their hearts completely crumbled, because he'd married someone 30 years younger than him. Oh, and she's a contortionist, too.

https://twitter.com/emchka/status/483715827477135360

8. Alec Baldwin (57) and Hilaria Baldwin (32)

Alec Baldwin met Hilaria (née Thomas) in a restaurant, where the pair locked eyes from across the room. She apparently didn't know how famous he was, and made a point of never Googling him. The pair wed in 2012, and they're now expecting their third child together. And yes, she is a yoga instructor.

9. Eddie Murphy (54) and Australian model Paige Butcher (36)

Eddie Murphy and Australian model Paige Butcher started dating in 2012. They're not married, but she's pregnant with their baby, and due in May of this year. This will be Murphy's ninth child.

10. Robin Thicke (39) and April Love Geary (21)

After his disastrous divorce from his ex Paula in 2015, Robin Thicke began dating model April Love Geary. Their first "official" appearance together was at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015. Hopefully if/when this relationship ends, he will not make an entire album about her, because yikes.

11. Dick Van Dyke (90) and Arlene Silver (44)

Beloved actor/grinning skull Dick Van Dyke met makeup artist Arlene Silver at a SAG Awards dinner in 2006. Van Dyke talked to Oprah: Where Are They Now? a bit about how his relationship with Silver began: “She would drop by, cook my dinner or bring me dinner, and just took care of me. So, I mean, I had to marry her. I became totally dependent!” They got married in 2012. The couple says their 46 year difference in age is not a problem, although Van Dyke has jokingly referred to Silver as his “child bride.”

12. Kelsey Grammer (61) and Kayte Walsh (36)

Kelsey Grammer started an affair with Kayte Walsh six months before he left his wife of 12 years, Camille (one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills). They met in 2009 when she was a flight attendant on a flight he was on. After the flight, they spent what he called a "magical night" together in London. And apparently that magic kept going, because he married her in 2011, making her his fourth wife. The big question is: what would Fraser think of all this?

13. Michael Douglas (71) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (46)

Actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones were introduced to one another in 1998 by Danny DeVito at a film festival in France. According to Extra, Zeta-Jones claims that when they met, Michael told her “I’d like to father your children.” While some might consider that such a creepy line that they'd have to fight to keep themselves from running far, far away, Zeta-Jones was okay with it. They married in 2000, and they do indeed have two children together.

Zeta Jones has said: “I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.” They also both have the same birthday, so clearly their romance was written in the stars. Oh, and he once kinda blamed his throat cancer on her genitals.

14. Bruce Willis (60) and Emma Heming (37)

Bruce Willis married English model Emma Heming in 2009. Before that, he was married to Demi Moore, and after they split, Moore famously got involved with Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior. So while they may not still be married, Willis and Moore at least have that in common.

15. Woody Allen (80) and Soon-Yi Previn (45)

Woody Allen and Soon-yi Previn's relationship has the added ick factor of Woody having been in a serious long-term relationship with Previn's adoptive mother, Mia Farrow. So when Allen and Previn wed in 1997, not only did Allen marry someone young enough to be his daughter, he sort of a little bit in a way totally did marry his daughter.

16. Harrison Ford (73) and Calista Flockhart (51)

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart started dating in 2002, after meeting at the Golden Globes, and got married in 2010. “It doesn’t faze me,” Flockhart said. “Sometimes I even say, ‘Wow, I keep forgetting that he’s [22] years older than me.’ It doesn’t factor into our relationship at all.” What does factor into their relationship, though, is the fact that Ford keeps crashing planes.

17. Lorenzo Lamas (58) and Shawna (28 or 29)

Lorenzo Lamas married his fifth wife, Shauna Craig, in 2011. As for how the age difference affects their relationship, Lamas told ET: "It [complicated the family dynamic] initially. Of course it would. My friends said, 'What could you possibly have in common with a person that's 30 years younger than you?' I told them, 'Everything.'"

She's just one year younger than his daughter Shayne, and she actually acted as a surrogate for Shayne's baby. Yes, Lamas' wife gave birth to his grandchild.

18. Doug Hutchison (55) and Courtney Stodden (21)

Actor Doug Hutchison surprised/creeped out the world when, at the age of 51, he married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden. They met when she contacted him about taking an acting workshop from him, and the romance blossomed through emails and phone calls. Since then, Stodden has gone on to be on a few reality shows, including Celebrity Big Brother and (surprise, surprise) VH1's Couples Therapy.

19. Warren Beatty (78) and Annette Bening (57)

Warren Beatty, a notorious womanizer who has (maybe) slept with 12,775 women, met Annette Benning in 1990. He was set to star in the mafia drama Bugsy, and was in search of someone to play his leading lady. She had lunch with him (even though her agent warned her against it, saying that Beatty would just hit on her), and afterwards, Beatty called Bugsy director Barry Levinson and told him “I love her, and I’m going to marry her.” And he did, in 1992.

20. Joan Collins (82) and Percy Gibson (50)

In 2002, Joan Collins married "soulmate" Percy Gibson in a wedding paid for by OK! magazine, making him her fifth husband. They'd first met when Gibson stage-managed a production of a play starring Collins in San Francisco. Collins reportedly toldHello magazine, "It is my fifth marriage, and my happiest, and last. Percy is wonderful. . . That doesn't mean we don't bicker but we are very understanding of each other." That's good to hear, because apparently the pre-nup is "iron-clad." Hey, lady's been married five times before, she knows what's up. Love doesn't have to make you stupid.

21. Alan Ferguson (52) and Solange Knowles (29)

Beyoncé's kid sister Solange and video director Alan Ferguson started dating in 2008, but have always been pretty low-key about their relationship. According to Knowles, she was the one who pursued him. Before their wedding, they played the 1975 Diana Ross movie Mahogany, which they'd watched on their first date. The couple got married in New Orleans in 2014, in what has to be the most fashionable wedding ever.

https://www.instagram.com/p/vfE2cXPw-y/

22. Hugh Hefner (89) and Crystal Harris (29) (and just about all the Playboy bunnies ever).

Crystal Harris married Hugh Hefner on New Year's Eve, 2012, making her his third wife. He's 60 years older than her. That's like an entire lifetime. This relationship is less May/December than March of last year/January of next year. Good luck with that, you two.

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Kim Kardashian met her doppelgänger. Can you tell them apart?

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Kim Kardashian "ran into" her doppelgänger Kamilla Osman while filming Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and the photo they took together might make you believe there are two Mrs. Kanye Wests. (Also, a note: when a reality show star says they "ran into" someone, they mean "a team of evil producers arranged this.")

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDOVlmAgVRu/

It's always a little unnerving when celebrities come face-to-face with someone who looks exactly like them—like when Taylor Swift hung out with her doppelgänger, or when you first learned that "Michelle Tanner" was actually two different people who would grow into aliens. But this one is particularly scary, because while you can always tell the Olsen twins apart because Mary-Kate is the one with the backwards baseball hat, these two women look exactly alike in every way. 

Which one do you think is Kim?

The Mountain from 'Game of Thrones' held a puppy, and everyone freaked out.

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When Game of Thrones fans think of Icelandic actor Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson, they think of the character he plays on the show—​The Mountain. He is a huge, hulking hired assassin who (spoiler alert) smashes in people's faces without mercy. Usually when you see The Mountain he is, you know, doing normal Mountain stuff. Like beating people up until they die:

When Björnsson is not on the show, he can be seen doing other machismo activities like lifting many, many weights at once:

Or throwing really heavy shit:

So when the actor posted a picture of himself cradling a fluffy puppy in his giant tattooed arms on his Instagram, people freaked.

 

Friends #Australia #Melbourne

A photo posted by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (@thorbjornsson) on

Björnsson's Instagram is about 85% pictures and videos of him flexing his muscles or lifting weights (with a few pictures of food thrown in there, because Instagram), so seeing a furry friend up there is not part of his normal motif. 

Since the man is 6'8" and his arms are like giant barrels with tattoos all over them, virtually anything he holds will be dwarfed (insert your own Tyrion Lannister joke here). However, the internet did hush any speculators that said that puppy might be a fully grown dog:

It would seem that Björnsson has an affinity for picking up adorable animals, although this picture is about two years old:

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I guess when you spend your day pulverizing people into a bloody pulp, you need to unwind somehow. Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson might be named Europe's strongest man, but even he can't resist puppy cuddles.

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Incredible drummer plays the most metal version of “I’m A Little Teapot” you've ever heard.

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Joey Muha is such a talented drummer that you might not be able to stop yourself from starting a mosh pit during his rendition of "I'm A Little Teapot." The sheer power of Muha's blast-beats and thrashing fills transcends the classic song about a chubby piece of kitchenware and turns it into a glorified pump-up anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnv2ZhUqVRs

This is far from Muha's first foray into metal-izing family friendly jingles. He's also performed covers of everything from The Little Mermaid's "Under The Sea"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv-JZK6suPA

...to the Oompa Loompa song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrk2ac7Gmbs

...to the Bob The Builder theme,which, after listening to Muha's version, sounds incomplete without a layer of thrash metal drums kicking it into overdrive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2hfchPvT0

Check out Muha's full collection of covers on his YouTube channel here.

16 people who parked like A-holes and were shamed in very satisfying ways.

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Half of America is a parking lot, so you've really got to go out of your way to park like an a-hole. When you take up an extra space or two, the social contract breaks down and anarchy results. And any time you do, people will not be afraid to let their wrath show.


1. Pick a card.

Was this your card?

2. Wait, they're being sarcastic.

I don't remember contributing to this note, do you?

3. Pad and pencil.

Plus it looks like the Chevrolet logo.

4. Ferreting them out.

Sounds like a typical weeknight.

5. Wrap session.

Not all life is precious.

6. Curses!

You gotta be really bad to piss off somebody from St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

7. Shell game.

Yeah, but they'd probably color while driving.

8. I, Carly.

That doesn't rhyme.

9. Schooled.

School is like prison. Establish your dominance on day 1.

10. Who charted?

Parking is way easier than getting the graphs to function in Word.

11. Carbo loading.

Hey, free bread is free bread.

12. A miracle worker.

She'd probably do better. Because she earned a doctorate.

13. You won an award!

And we threw a party for you!

14. Potential Bigfoot sighting.

That's going to happen on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY.

15. An Irish goodbye.

This is the tots.

16. Short and sweet.

Okay, not sweet. But short.

16 overachieving marriage proposals to passive-aggressively show your significant other.

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Every now and then, a proposal goes viral that you wish you could have experienced yourself (for both the ring and RTs that come with it). If you're in a loving and committed relationship and are looking to give your significant other the push they need to propose and start your lives together, send these videos or pictures to your beloved to provide them with the inspiration they need. Make the subject line, "Haha, cool thing I saw on the internet!" and as long as they get the subtext, and you're on your way to Happily Ever After. 

1. The Monopoly Board Proposal

Go directly to engagement.

Ideal husband Justin Lebon made a handcrafted Monopoly board, personalized with all the streets the couple has lived on and the various Westins they stayed at together. A game of Monopoly is the only thing longer and slower paced than marriage, so it's a perfect primer and good practice in paying taxes together.

2. The Flipbook Proposal 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYCh-p72Ao

This incredible animated flipbook serves as both the method of popping the question and the vessel in which to stash the ring. One you put a ring on it, you have the flipbook as a memento—in both the physical and viral video versions.

3. The Pride and Prejudice Proposal

Surprise and sensitivity.

Redditor ByTingo/Elizabeth Bennet came home to her estate one day to find her entire family adorned in Regency Era garb. She was immediately handed a dress and a script, cast as Lizzie Bennet. The family read scenes from Pride and Prejudice in the living room before Mr. Darcy escorted Lizzie out in to the garden, where he got down on one knee.

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." 

While it would initially be creepy to open your door and enter another era, many a literate woman in love would adore this experience.

4. The Musical Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCarqdOldE0

In September 2014, Kriss Mar invited her girlfriend Lauren-Joy Gross to check out a new musical at a local theater. The musical just-so-happened to be a complete telling of their love story, and the choreography of the grand finale involved getting on one knee. Beat that, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

5. The Pictionary Proposal

Win, lose, or draw.

Much like the Monopoly proposal, but Pictionary. A guy photoshopped and printed out with "Marry Me," and rigged the order so that his girlfriend would draw the card. When she started drawing, he got down on one knee. After a whole bunch of fake guesses, he shouted out "Marry me!" before asking in a way that was clearly not part of the game. 

Success!
She said yes, and now they're *drawn together* forever.

6. The 365 Day Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRqF4BHkGk

Dean Smith made a video diary of himself holding a sign asking his girlfriend, Jennifer, to marry him. Once a day for an entire year, Dean worked on the proposal. The result is a video of him dancing along to Bruno Mars and Pharrell's "Happy," counting down the days until he shows her the video. On day 365, Jennifer was instructed to watch the video on her phone at the beach, then turn around to see Dean holding the final sign.

7. The Splash Mountain Proposal

Best proposal ever.
As easy as "Make me the happiest man on earth at the Happiest Place on Earth." 

8. The Home Depot Flash Mob Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4HpWQmEXrM

Dustin went to Home Depot under the guise of picking up some new lighting for his roommate, but then stumbled upon a flash mob by the three-by-fours. Parents, friends, and family via FaceTime participated in the musical number. When you show this to your significant other, be sure to point out the fact that the choreography doesn't even need to be complicated to pull off a flash mob. 

9. The Rose Petal Proposal

Guest at the hotel I work at is proposing tonight! What do you guys think of my rose petal proposal??

It's as easy as ripping up a flower and spelling out two very simple words. 

10. The Family Photo Surprise Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5A0cAjW9Ck

While taking a family Christmas photo complete with ugly sweaters, Tyne arranged for Jamie's family to switch up some of the letters of "Merry Xmas" to spell out "Marry Me?" Jamie didn't know until she looked at the photo. Truly the most beautiful, elaborate merry/marry pun. 

11. The Strategic Running Route Proposal

marriage proposal
Also not a bad tour of Boston.

The most difficult part of this proposal is probably the rigorous exercise. But it is an easy, cost-effective way to put a ring on it and earn a celebratory cake.

12. The Love Actually/Meme Mashup Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaAhxg4Lz0A

Equal parts "To me, you are perfect" guy from Love Actually and a human embodiment of the subreddit r/AdviceAnimals, Tim pulled off one of the best proposals. With an assist from Puss in Boots, Y U No, Philosoraptor, and the whole menagerie of memes, Tim asked Audrey, and she said yes.

13. The Harry Potter Proposal

Best proposal idea litterally ever.
Keep it in the Chamber of Secrets.

While it vandalizes a perfectly good book, this papercutting beautifully combines a love of Harry Potter with (hopefully) a love of you. 

14. The Fake Fall Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_eVQFF0TY

Boy Meets Girl. Boy and Girl Fall in Love. Boy Plans to Propose to Girl. Boy Pretends to Fall of Roof. Boy Scares the F*ck Out of Girl. Boy and Girl Get Engaged.

15. The Whiteboard Proposal

Best use of a whiteboard since college.

When Imgur user kmo85 got his now-wife a camera she had wanted for Christmas, he decided to test it out first. She opened the camera Christmas morning to scroll through these pictures, upgrading the present to new levels of awesome.

16. The Goddamn Puppy Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_uOR8wwN2I

It's a motherf***ing puppy with a motherf***ing name tag with a motherf***ing "Marry Me." It doesn't get any better, except for maybe if the puppy were a Pomeranian. 

Remember, if you're proposal doesn't go viral, there's always the wedding.

15 people who will never forget Spring Break, because it ended in complete disaster.

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Spring break is that magical time in a college kid's life when he or she can finally take a break from schoolwork and partying and concentrate just on partying. If you think the combination of binge drinking, horny coeds, and large bodies of water would be a recipe for disaster, than you are absolutely right. Here are 15 people who's Spring Break left them broken.

1. This girl who dropped out of pole dancing class:

She gave it the ole college try.

2. This guy who trusted someone to rub sunscreen on his back:

It should say, "I suck at choosing friends."

3. This girl who hoped no one saw that:

"I'm totally fine you guys."

4. This reindeer who got too buck-wild:

Let's hope no one tells Santa about this.

5. This guy who always uses his head:

Happiest. Concussion. Ever.

6. These people on a boat:

That's what you get for taking a ride on the S.S. Whiplash.

7. This fifth wheel:

If he needs mouth to mouth, he's outta luck. 

8. This guy who was not ready for it:

Just relax and let Poseidon take what's his.

9. This girl who's got a blind love for booze:

This is what beer goggles are for.

10. These Northerners:

Hypothermia before liquor, you've never been sicker. 

11. This guy with the worst friends:

Ok, so we kill our friend on three, right? One, two... AHHH!

12. This guy with the best friends:

At least he'll have something to drink when he wakes up.

13. This guy who was too drunk.

Such smooth lips.

14. This premature boogie border.

Wait for it... wait for it .... never mind.

15. These bros with no ride home.

Dude where's my car?

Watch an 11-year-old kid take a cement mixer for a 70 mph joy ride.

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In Minnesota on Sunday, an unmanned cement mixer became an upgraded set of Power Wheels for an 11-year-old boy who took the vehicle from a construction site, according to CBS Minnesota. The kid—who must be pretty tall for his age to have manned the truck—raced around for over an hour before descending upon a cul-de-sac, where he became trapped. Guess he hasn't mastered reversing yet. 

The boy was able to drive as fast as 70 mph, and thankfully he did it without hurting any people. All the kid did was damage two cop cars and some lawns, though his parents can't be happy about that. The truck itself also suffered some harm and lost a wheel after the kid drove over tire-deflating devices the cops had set out. Even without a wheel, the kid kept driving. 

Free at last, for one whole hour.

“It was like a parade. Everybody was outside with their cameras and their phones," witness Troy Flatness said. Sounds like the sensible thing to do when a preteen is driving around town like a maniac. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCas3UseAg

As for the child, police took him to a juvenile detention center, and he's facing charges. Hm, maybe hijacking a cement truck wasn't such a good idea.

Chloë Grace Moretz maybe refused to join Taylor Swift's squad, so prepare for 'Bad Blood 2.'

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Nineteen-year-old actress Chloë Grace Moretz—in an interview with Complex in which, to be frank, she comes across like an overconfident know-it-all—seemed to dis singer Taylor Swift's "squad," and, furthermore, the very idea of squads. Even after she says she was invited to join Swift's group of besties (see below). Oh, dear.

The popular kids at school are fighting!

If there's one piece of advice Someecards would give its readers, it's that you do not cross Taylor Swift. Her fans will destroy you. She will write a mean song about you

DON'T CROSS TAYLOR SWIFT.

Here is how Moretz crossed Taylor Swift:

Moretz has also taken a strong “anti-squad” stand in an era where building a squad seems to be part of being a celebrity. “They appropriate exclusivity. They’re cliques!” she says with exasperation, as if she’s the only one seeing the jig. Right now she might as well be yelling, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” Since Moretz is friends with Selena Gomez, who in turn is friends with Taylor Swift, the person who more or less brought squadism to the mainstream, I have to ask: “Do you know Taylor Swift?”

“Yes,” she says, already aware of where I’m going with this. “Did she, you know, ask you to join her squad?”

“Yes,” she repeats carefully, nothing more.

“And?”

At this point I’ve forced celebrity Chloë Grace Moretz and 19-year-old Chloë Grace Moretz to collide. She seems to want to say a lot of things—perhaps about the “Bad Blood” singer—but already knows the repercussions of those things becoming public. I can practically feel her urge to unleash bubbling and rising to the top of her throat. Just then a smile spreads across her moon-shaped face, the padlock that keeps whatever’s in her mind just right there, and she says, measuredly, “She’s a very talented person.” “You can talk to me about these things, you know,” I say back. “You know I can’t!” she laughs.

You know when someone tries to say something bad about someone without getting a reputation as a gossip? This is exactly what that is like. 

Anyway, other things Moretz said in this interview include:

"I want to be with someone who’s adventurous and wants to go do something. Don’t take me to Nobu and get me nigiri. I’m OK. I can take myself to Nobu. I don’t need someone to take me to Nobu."

"I want to be America’s sweetheart. I want to be beloved. I want to be an indie queen, but I want people to really love me and what I’ve done and let me be a part of their lives at home."

Cool, cool. At least she didn't say anything else about the naked body of Kim Kardashian—America's real sweetheart (not really, but we love angry commenters).

Read Moretz's full interview at Complex.

There's a new Chipotle lawsuit, and this one's not about the food.

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Things are just going from bad to worse for Mexican food chain Chipotle. After an E. Coli outbreak affected 53 customers in 9 states, and 140 students fell ill with norovirus last year, Chipotle is back in the news for a different (but still very icky) reason—allegations of sexual assault in one California location.

Former Chipotle employee Ariana Castaneda sued the company on Wednesday, alleging that four of her former managers sexually harassed her, other female employees and even female customers. Castaneda is seeking unspecified damages on allegations of wrongful termination, sexual harassment, retaliation and discrimination. She worked at the Chipotle in Woodland Hills, California from December 2013 until this February, when she was fired.

According to Castaneda's forty-page lawsuit, she claimed that her uniform was purposely ordered too small, and after complaining and asking for a larger size, her manager asked, "Is it because your tits are too big?" Yeah, either you just ate Chipotle or you lost your appetite reading that.

Castaneda also reported that her former manager would try to forcibly hug her and touch her under her shirt. The managers would also use security cameras to spy on women they found attractive so they could get an "overhead view" of the women's cleavage, which is not only inappropriate but also next-level creepy. The managers also casually used misogynistic language, such as "bitches", "these fucking women" and "big boob [employee's name]" to describe employees and customers.

It is hard to tell which will turn your stomach faster—the cultures of microorganisms at Chipotle or the full-sized organisms accused of fostering a culture of sexual harassment. At present time, there is no word if the four managers are still working at this location, but if they are, it is a good bet to say that they are probably huddled in the backroom watching that security camera for someone who is going to come in and fire them.

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