Famous people say the darndest things! U2 frontman Bono stopped by Capital Hill on Tuesday to discuss a range of controversial topics from terrorism to Amy Schumer. He spoke to a Senate subcommittee about how he thinks the country should handle the threat of ISIS, and he was quick to offer up some of his favorite (or maybe least favorite) comedians.
It's like, you speak violence, you speak their language. But you laugh at them when they are goose-stepping down the street and it takes away their power. So I am suggesting that the Senate send in Amy Schumer and Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen, thank you.
What a nice and completely unrealistic point of view! Looks like he was both literally and figuratively wearing his signature rose-tinted glasses that day. Amy Schumer caught wind that she was being called upon by Bono to make ISIS laugh, and tweeted, appropriately, "Holy shit."
You would think that no comedian in their right mind would ever want to tell jokes to the most serious violent extremist group in the world, but Margaret Cho is totally down.
Bono was there representing One Campaign, an advocacy group he co-founded that works to end poverty and preventable disease. When he wasn't suggesting sending a Jew, a woman, and a black dude to the Islamic State, he discussed the refugee crisis and how to fight poverty. Maybe if Bono put his album on the phones of all ISIS members, it would be enough for them to call it quits.
Taylor Swift is the latest celebrity to be rendered unrecognizable by a magazine cover, but this time she was in on it. Rather than being airbrushed into oblivion like Kerry Washington or Brie Larson, Swift used her new Vogue cover as an opportunity for reinvention. Saying farewell to the sunny, good girl image of yore, Swift went platinum blonde and a little bit punk rock.
Rihanna has been helping a gay fan come out of the closet, and the fan anonymously shared their private Twitter messages with BuzzFeed. It's a little unclear if their relationship is just a celebrity/fan interaction or if they're actually closer friends, but he reached out to her confidentially on Twitter, and she offered support and encouragement as he navigated coming out to friends and family.
She was open and supportive from the start:
Anyone that comes out is fortunate to have someone they can confide in, and very fortunate if that person is RiRi, who only follows a little over 1,000 people on Twitter (private messages can usually only be sent between Twitter users that follow each other).
And she continued to respond, as he updated her on his progress with coming out to friends for the first time:
She showed love, support, and even thanked him for reaching out, saying "Thank YOU for being honest!!"
Her fans adore her even more for taking the time to help someone that needed it:
Maybe this fan sharing his experience with Rihanna will be helpful to others working on coming out, especially if they don't have the luxury of celebrity Twitter followers.
In July, the National Enquirerran a story alleging that the audio of the sex tape Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) made with Heather Clem in 2007 included him spewing a racist rant. Who knew it was possible there could be something worse than the visual part of a Hulk Hogan sex tape?
Praying's not going to get you out of this one, buddy.
On March 22, Bollea won a $140 million lawsuit against the website Gawker for releasing the tape. On the last day of the trial, the Florida 2nd District Court of Appeals unsealed about 2,000 pages of documents that had previously been confidential. On Thursday, Death and Taxes released the unsealed audio of Bollea watching the sex tape with his attorney David Houston and “sex tape broker” Keith Davidson (excerpt below)
Hogan: So it gets to the point where…I don't know if Brooke was f*cking the black guy’s son, or they’ve been hanging out. I caught them holding hands together on the tour. They were getting close to kind of [inaudible] the f*cking [inaudible]. I’m not a double standard type of guy. I’m a racist to a point, you know, f*cking n*****s, but then, when it comes to nice people and [redacted]
Clem: We all are that way.
Hogan: Yeah, cool, when it comes to nice people, you gotta…you can’t, you can’t say the…
[Two-second redaction]
Hogan: I don’t give a f*ck if she [inaudible] basketball player.
[laughter]
Hogan: If we’re gonna f*ck with n*****s, let’s get a rich one!
[laughter]
Hogan: I don’t care if he’s a multi-billionaire. The thing is, now that you start doing these nasty emails…so somewhere, [inaudible] relationship, and now [inaudible] doesn’t want to talk to anybody, nah nah nah.”
The "billionaire black guy" and the "black guy's son," Bollea is talking about are Cecile Barker and his son, Stacks, a rapper. Stacks dated Bollea's daughter Brooke Hogan from 2007 to 2009.
Bollea's conversation with Clem has him actually admitting to being racist ("to a point"), but that's not surprising. Awful, but not surprising. What is surprising is that a person can have a career as a "sex tape broker." Remember, it's never too late to go back to school to learn a new skill.
In order to get more young people into movie theaters, AMC theaters may soon start letting Millennials sully the sacred cinema experience by allowing the use of cell phones during movies. The CEO of AMC Entertainment, Adam Aron, told Varietythat allowing texting is a possible move the chain may make to increase their grip on the coveted Generation Y demographic.
When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don’t ruin the movie, they hear please cut off your left arm above the elbow. You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life.
At the same time, though, we’re going to have to figure out a way to do it that doesn’t disturb today’s audiences. There’s a reason there are ads up there saying turn off your phone, because today’s moviegoer doesn’t want somebody sitting next to them texting or having their phone on.
When asked if that would involve creating texting sections of the theater, Aron went bigger, saying, "What may be more likely is we take specific auditoriums and make them more texting friendly."
He later took to Twitter to clarify his statements and prevent a backlash from text-unfriendly cinephiles.
But it may have been too late, as Twitter chimed in to offer critiques of Aron's idea and provide suggestions for how to get Millennials into theaters in a less patronizing way.
Alamo Drafthouse is a theater chain that originated in Austin, Texas, and has a severely strict No Texting policy during movies. They aren't afraid to kick people out who are caught doing it, as you can see in one of their ads where the Drafthouse takes pride in an angry voicemail from a customer who had to be tossed out of the auditorium for texting.
At 7:38 PM on April 11 at his local Woolworths grocery store in Australia, Brok Neilson spotted an attractive woman checking out mushrooms as intensely as he was checking out her. Brok was too afraid to approach the lady so his friend, Blake Nicholls, became his Internet-wingman. Nicholls posted a photo they'd taken of the girl (hmm, questionable) onto Woolworths' Facebook page.
Hello Woolworths, I'll start by saying my loyalty to Woolworths is second to none. I was at Woolworths (Q Super Centre) this evening at 7:38pm (AEST) with my friend Brok buying fresh produce to make butter chicken when he's glanced over at the girl of his dreams.
For years, you've brought people together with your sensational service, fantastic products with a catchy theme song that's kept me coming back, so now do what you do best and bring these two together.
(Girl buying mushrooms if you read this, we will be in this section every night at 7:38pm until we meet again)
#hopeforbrok
Woolworths kindly took the time to respond with a number of puns, some better than others.
Hey Blake, whilst we're more interested in matching your dear friend Brok with the perfect chick-en and bay leaf to create the curry of his dreams, we still think you're a great wing-man! Next time tell Brok not to be chicken, just rice up and say hello! We hear love grows in the produce department #HopeForBrok
Thankyou Woolworths for your kind words and although I did #chick-en out this time. I'll be making sure not to make a #meal of it the second time around.
My intentions are completely honourable. Hopefully I can #butter her up and #curry her favour by keeping it #fresh in the produce section. #HopeForBrok
Dam if I was closer I'd be stalking the vege isle just to see if she turned up. This made my day, I met my husband at a shopping mall and asked him (he was18) to buy my booze for my 16th birthday. We dated since i was 18 now 28 years later we have 4 children and 1 grandson and a grand daughter on the way.
The comment to end all comments:
Sorry Brok... gym leader or not, sometimes you just can't catch them all, but if you keep searching in the tall grass you may get lucky #hopeforbrok
Despite the criticism, Brok continued to haunt his dream girl's shopping spot.
Plus, this whole thing could be a hoax. According to their Facebook pages, Brok apparently works at a talent agency while Blake deals in marketing for a nightclub. Given their jobs, #HopeForBrok might actually be about #BuyingStuffAtWoolworths or #MakingTheseGuysSocialMediaFamous.
You’ve probably never thought about how your face looks when you're watching porn because that’s not what people usually think about while watching porn. Unless, of course, it’s a premise for a really quirky and really uncomfortable social experiment.
In his latest series called “Porn Portraits,” New York photographer Patrick Struys captured the reactions of a bunch of people as they watched a five-and-a-half-minute porn video. The video included “a little bit of everything for all sexual orientation, preference and/or taste," Struys said.
The results are nothing short of fascinating and probably not for the reasons you’re thinking about.
Struys told Someecards the idea for the series came to him as he observed his friends’ reactions when sex scenes appeared in movies or adult content appeared on the television screen when they were flipping through cable channels.
“I thought it was fascinating how different people reacted, processed, and expressed themselves around sex when it was presented to them in a 'public environment,'" he said.
Struys said it took him over two months to snap the portraits. Some of these models were his friends and some were folks he found on Craigslist. Because when it comes to anything sex-related, Craigslist will always prevail, right?
When he sent e-mails to folks to participate in his series, he said:
I did not disclose the subject matter of the shoot because I didn’t want to deter people or have them showed up too prepared intellectually/emotionally for the shoot. I simply outlined that this was a ‘social experiment’ series and how I needed each subject to dress.
And on the subject of dress, apparently the only outfit that is fitting to watch porn in is no outfit at all.
How did he do it? "For the shoot, each person was sitting in a white booth I constructed with a screen for the film and [drilled a] hole for my camera, so they were only able to see my lens," Struys said.
He also said it was hard for him to be silent while he recorded their reactions. "It would have undermined the experiment if I stopped the process just because someone was uncomfortable," he said.
Struys believes his "presence as a straight man heavily influenced the results." He went on to say that "it seemed as though women and gay men were much more comfortable showing their interest or expressing their sexuality in front of a straight man (behind the camera)."
The varying reactions surprised Struys. He expressed:
I wasn’t expecting to encounter as many of those moments. I tended to get ‘less-performative’ reactions from the females and gay men. However, all the straight men seemed very uncomfortable watching the film with me present and expressed this by laughing, joking and talking throughout the entire shoot.
Struys hopes the series will provoke "conversations about sex/sexuality and how we deal with the subject ‘outside the bedroom.' But most importantly, [folks viewing the series] will have as much fun as I had shooting the series!"
Now that Zooey Deschanel (the quirky, ukulele playing, polka-dot-dress-wearing actress and singer) is a mom, she had some words about the pressure of getting back into shape immediately after having a baby. Basically, she thinks having to get back to your pre-baby body immediately is weird.
Not in this case, Zooey. Turn off your charm for a damn minute.
She may not have released any pictures of her new daughter yet, but she spoke candidly to Redbook about motherhood in a recent interview.
To expect someone to look like her pre-baby self immediately is odd. Because you just grew a human and then birthed that human—there's a lot that needs to go back to where it was. All your organs move around, for chrissakes!
Aw, even the way she described the shifting of her internal organs was charming! Her daughter, named Elsie Otter (yes, like the animal. Very on brand for the 'adorkable' star), was born in July. So far Deschanel and her husband Jacob Pechenik have kept Elsie out of the eye of the public, but Deschanel gushes about her new baby at every chance she gets.
An Italian woman lost a $56,000 lawsuit against her ex-husband claiming he never once pleased her sexually during their 12-year marriage. She sought the damages to compensate for emotional distress. Her suit was focused on medical evidence that she was still a virgin, and that her ex also had some sort of "anatomical problem." After making its way through several levels of the Italian justice system, her suit was ultimately thrown out (and the court didn't even offer it coffee or call it an Uber).
The case lasted 11 years, or in sexual terms, about three Sting orgasms. That's correct: she fought this in courts for 11 years. Either they never had sex, or he did something else to really piss her off. It's unclear why she made this her focus instead of pursing some rebound action. Because with 11 years and a few thousand euros, anyone can eat, pray, love, and get their groove back.
They're not even talking with their hands.
She ultimately lost the case because her ex remarried and had children with his new wife. So whatever the "anatomical problem" was previously, he (likely) got his plumbing fixed. She even ended up having to pay for his legal costs for the case. She should probably keep this a secret while pursuing new lovers, because saying you'll sue someone for 11 years if they don't satisfy you is a well-known red flag.
Working with people can be hard. Working with people you can't stand is really difficult. Working with people you can't stand while pretending you really, really like them is "acting." And that's why these people get paid the big bucks.
1. Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet
"Hate you." "Hate you, too."
In 1996, when they were filming Romeo and Juliet, 16-year-old Claire Danes found her 22-year-old co-star Leonardo DiCaprio immature (she reportedly hated the pranks DiCaprio would play on the cast on crew), while he considered her uptight. Rumor has it they didn't speak to one another except for when they were filming scenes. Sounds like a pretty normal couple, actually.
2. Lucy Liu and Bill Murray in Charlie's Angels
"You can't act." "Well, I can act like I'm having you replaced with Bernie Mac."
Sources say the feud between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu started when Murray told Liu that she couldn't act. Hmm, weird that she'd get upset about that. Murray has since said of the incident: "Look, I will dismiss you completely if you are unprofessional and working with me…When our relationship is professional, and you’re not getting that done, forget it." And forget it Liu did, because Bernie Mac filled in for Bill Murray in the movie's sequel.
3. Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
"One fart and I swear I'll kick you right in the face."
It all started over a fart. In Shirley MacLaine's autobiography, My Lucky Stars, the actor remembers her first day on set with Debra Winger filming the tear-jerker Terms of Endearment.
"I know marks when I see them." "Good," (Winger) said. "How's this for a mark?" She turned around, walked away from me, lifted her skirt slightly, looked over her shoulder, bent over, and farted in my face.
4. Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett in Hollywood Homicide
Ford called Hartnett a "punk," which is actually kind of funny.
Hartnett has said of Ford, "He's an intimidating guy. He tested me to the limit, so I hated him for a while." Harnett probably didn't make things much better by calling Ford an "old fart." It reportedly got so tense between the two leads that they wouldn't look each other in the eye sometimes. They reportedly kept up the bickering all through the promotional tour, too.
5. Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf in Lawless
Shia LaBeouf involved in controversy? Stop! No way.
During the filming of Lawless, Shia LaBeouf says he didn't always get along with Tom Hardy. That could be because LaBeouf attacked Hardy. According to Hardy, LaBeouf knocked him “Out cold. He’s a bad, bad boy. He is. He’s quite intimidating as well. He’s a scary dude… He just attacked me. He was drinking moonshine. I was wearing a cardigan, and er, went down."
LaBeouf, for his part, has a sort of different story (surprise!). He claims that the fight was an act of "love."
That wasn’t moonshine-related at all. That was straight love. There was a lot of love on that set in general. There was a lot of aggression in me and a lot of aggression on [Hardy’s] side. We were playing brothers. There was a constant finger-in-the-ear [teasing] thing going on for a while.
Ahhh, okay, that makes sense. Nope, wait, it doesn't.
6. Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush in One Tree Hill
You know what's not a good idea? Marrying someone you work with.
Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray played a couple on the television show One Tree Hill. Then they became a couple in real life. Then they decided to get married, only to divorce five months later, amid rumors that Murray had cheated on Bush with his House of Wax co-star Paris Hilton. And then they worked together for another four years.
Bush spoke with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live in January 2014, and explains how it was that she could manage to work in such close proximity with her ex.
At the end of the day, we're grown-ups, and I actually think it's interesting that when people split in a way that's unpleasant, they usually just go on quite literally hating each other—or the person in my situation hates the other person, whatever—but when you have to work with somebody for another half a decade, you kind of have to deal with it. Because for me, at the end of the day, my job is my priority.
7. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook
How could anyone not like Ryan Gosling? That's unpossible!
The Notebook is everyone's favorite romantic movie: the heart-warming story of an obsessive man who wouldn't take no for an answer and the woman who ultimately forgets him. The stars of this movie, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, later became a couple and people lost their minds at the cuteness of it all. But before they dated, they hated.
According to director Nick Cassavetes, Gosling and McAdams did not like each other during the making of the movie at all. And not in a love/hate flirting sort of way, but in a "I can't work with this impossible person" sort of way. Cassavetes says:
Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, “Nick come here.” And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, “Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?” I said, “What?” He says, “I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.”
So they went into a room and screamed at each other, and after that it got a little better. Says Cassavetes, "I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. The rest of the film wasn’t smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing."
8. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing
"Look, Jennifer, dirty dancing is serious business."
Patrick Swayze's autobiography, The Time Of My Life, gave a little insight into his working relationship with co-star Jennifer Grey, who played Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing. It turns out he probably wouldn't have minded putting her in the corner once or twice, just to get her to calm down. In his book, he says that she did "truly phenomenal job" and "in many ways, she made the movie" but filming wasn't always a piece of cake.
We did have a few moments of friction when we were tired or after a long day of shooting. She seemed particularly emotional, sometimes bursting into tears if someone criticized her. Other times, she slipped into silly moods, forcing us to do scenes over and over again when she'd start laughing." For example, the scene where she keeps laughing as they're trying to rehearse, and his resulting frustration, were not part of the script. Give her a break, though—after all, she carried a watermelon.
9. Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth in Beverly Hills, 90210
Team Brenda forever!
Well, this is a no-brainer. Of course Brenda and Kelly didn't always get along—Kelly was supposed to be Brenda's best friend and the minute Brenda turns her back, Kelly steals her boyfriend Dylan! Oh, wait, that part wasn't real. But in real life, 90210 stars Jennie Garth (Kelly Taylor) and Shannen Doherty (Brenda Walsh) didn't always get along, either.
In her book, Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde, Garth writes about one specific incident:
We were shooting a scene and Shannen kept grabbing at the hem of my skirt, trying to slap me on the leg—anything to get me to react and break character. Finally, when she'd pulled up my skirt, and my bare ass was exposed for everyone on the set to see, I did snap and I yelled at her, something to the effect of, 'Come on, bitch! We're talking this outside!'
In a 2014 interview with E!, Garth said of working with Doherty:
We were locked in this sound stage for 14-16 hours every day. There were times when we loved each other and there were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out. . . It was more of just young girls finding their way and finding their individual voices. Shannen and I are both Aries women, we're both very strong, independent women, so we butt heads a lot. Now, as grown women, we happen to get along as well.
And Doherty apparently feels the same. In a 2012 interview with Glamour, she said: "I did the new 90210 with Jennie and there was something very different about our friendship. We were able to look at each other as grown women and really acknowledge that we liked who the other person was now as adults."
10. Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano on Charmed
They're smiling, but they really want to be pulling each other's hair.
Shannen Doherty again! In 2001, Doherty abruptly left the show Charmed, where she, Alyssa Milano, and Holly Marie Combs played three sisters who were witches. In 2013, Milano was on Watch What Happens Live and a caller asked about Doherty's exit from the show. Milano answered:
I don’t know if she got fired, we never really found out what happened. I can tell you that we were on the air with her for three years and there were definitely some rough days. Holly [Marie Combs] and Shannen were best friends for like 10 years before the show started so it was very much sort of like high school. I would hope that in our thirties it wouldn’t feel like that anymore.
So what really happened? In 1999, both Combs and Doherty were bridesmaids in Milano's wedding. But In a 2001 interview, Milano said:
We definitely didn't get along. Shannen and I are very different people, and I think it's almost like a roommate. If you spend that much time with someone and there are differences anyway, you're not always going to get along. . . There were times when I'd come in and say, "Good morning, Shannen," and she didn't say anything to me. And there were times when she'd come in and say, "Good morning, Alyssa," and I wouldn't say anything to her.
Paramount, the studio behind Charmed, eventually hired a mediator, but that didn't work. Doherty claims Milano issued an ultimatum, telling the studio, "It's me or her," but Milano denies that. According to an insider, "It eventually became clear that [either Doherty or Milano] had to go." The studio decided to cut Doherty, since, as an industry analyst explained, "Alyssa is just as popular, is not more so, than Shannen. And when Shannen left 90210, the series did just fine."
Well. At least there was no boyfriend stealing.
11. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened To Professional Decorum?
The feud between What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? stars/bitter rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford is one of the strangest and most complex on the list. The two women allegedly already hated each other long before making the movie. The reason? Davis was furious at Crawford for stealing the man she loved (Franchot Tone, Davis' co-star in the 1935 film Dangerous, who ended up marrying Crawford). However, Davis didn't admit this until two years before her death, when in an interview she said, "She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness. I have never forgiven her for that and never will."
Almost 30 years after Dangerous, Davis and Crawford starred in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? in 1962. In one scene where the two women were supposed to fight, Davis actually kicked Crawford in the head, resulting in Crawford needing three stitches. Davis also once said, "The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"
12. Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey on American Idol
Uh-oh. The hand. No she didn't.
In 2010, Minaj did guest vocals on Carey's song "Up Out My Face." But something must have happened since then, because Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey just do not like each other, a fact made painfully clear on basically every episode of American Idol where the two women sat on the same judges panel. They threw shade at each other constantly, on set and off. When asked by Barbara Walters in an interview if she was the "bitch" Minaj sang about in a song she wrote while working on Idol, Carey responded, "Don't know. I didn't know she sang. I thought she rapped. Or whatever."
Their most famous fight was over, oddly enough, country music. Sort of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qENN45Zon8s
That's uncomfortable enough, but not nearly as bad as what happened next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R25ypkQx7ac
Thankfully both divas quit the show after one season, so it never escalated to murder.
13. Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson on Little House on the Prairie
"I can't wait until you go blind, Mary."
It was Nellie Oleson, portrayed by Allison Arngrim, who was supposed to be the "bad" girl on the show; she was an amalgamation of a few characters from the original Laura Ingalls Wilder books. But in reality, Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) and Arngrim became very close friends. It was actually Mary Sue Anderson, who played Laura's big sister Mary, who Gilbert had a problem with.
In January 2014, Gilbert stopped by Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, and told host Andy Cohen, "[Anderson was] hateful, horrid, mean, terrible, mean, difficult. She hated me. She knocked me off the wagon when I was nine."
While promoting her book Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Arngrim also dished a bit about Anderson during an appearance on FoxNews' The Strategy Room.
Melissa Gilbert and I wound up bonding and becoming best friends like sisters and Melissa Sue became sort of the "frenemy." So we were with her all day but I guess she was like, "I’m not hanging out with you two." She was just sort of appalled by Melissa Gilbert and I.
[Quick aside: Gilbert also revealed that Shannen Doherty, who played Jenny Wilder on the show from 1982-1983, later had a one-night stand with Gilbert's first husband, Bo Brinkman. And Gilbert is not cool with it—she said if she ever ran into Doherty, "[I] would just punch her in the nose." Oh, Shannen. What story are you not a part of?]
14. Tisha Campbell and Martin Lawrence on Martin
There will be no Martin reunion ever.
Nothing cute or funny about the famous feud between Martin's Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell. Lawrence played Martin Payne, and Campbell his wife Gina. It's rumored that the pair had an affair in real life, too, and when Campbell announced her engagement to Duane Martin, Lawrence didn't take the news very well. In November 1996, Campbell quit the show, and in January 1997 filed a lawsuit against Lawrence, alleging physical and emotional abuse and sexual harassment. In March 1997, Campbell returned to the show, but only under the condition that whenever Campbell was taping scenes, Martin would not be allowed on set. In Martin's one-hour season finale in May 1997, Campbell and Lawrence were never in the same room.
15. Bea Arthur and Betty White on Golden Girls
Arthur is rumored to have called White the c-word, and the word is not "confidante."
This last one really is surprising and is definitely going to break your heart. It turns out that the Golden Girls weren't really so golden, and the "thank you for being a friend" part of the theme song wasn't really accurate. Although it's not clear exactly why, Bea Arthur, who played Dorothy, didn't like Betty White, who played Rose. According to White, it had something to do with Arthur not being a fan of White's undeniably sunny disposition. "She found me a pain in the neck sometimes," is the nice way that White put it.
Kelly Clarkson, singer and star of When Justin Met Kelly, recently popped out her second baby with her talent manager husband, Brandon Blackstock (not a Game of Thrones character).
The mother, in between birthing child 1 and child 2.
The baby boy, born on April 12, joins Clarkson's 1-and-a-half-year-old daughter River Rose. With a name like that, baby boy Blackstock has to have an equally lyrical name, right? Well, sort of.
Remington Alexander Blackstock. Less like a fairytale name and more like some old white dude name engraved on a statute. Which is nice. It's classy.
Soon enough, young Remington (Remy? That's an attractive person name for sure.) will be joining River on Clarkson's social media and doing things like being a precious little creature.
The inevitable ape uprising may have been initiated on Thursday by Chacha the Chimpanzee, a 24-year-old ape from Japan's Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai. Chacha escaped his enclosure and zipped across power lines for nearly two hours before zoo officials caught up with him. The intense video from RT News shows the chimpanzee's brief standoff with tranquilizer-wielding authorities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5-Fy4ULdPg
According to The New York Times, zoo officials said Chacha was unharmed during the capture, and was, at the time of publishing "recovering from sedation." They don't yet know how he escaped.
He was so close to freedom, yet so far. All Chacha needs to do is conjure a resistance among the zoo's other primates and get his hands on a machine gun to seal humanity's fate with a monkey's kiss.
People usually find their doppelgängers in real life human beings. But sometimes you must reach beyond reality—and discover your long lost twin in a cartoon or video game. Especially if you've got the iconic face of a celebrity. Here are 15 times famous people looked like they jumped out of an animated series and into the real world.
1. Good news everyone! There is a real life Professor Farnsworth from Futurama and it'sLarry King.
6. If Bill Murray said he was the leader of a society of small blue people that live in the forest with his 99 sons and 1 daughter, you would believe him.
9. Before becoming the kingpin of the drug trade, Bryan Cranston engaged in long conversations about mustache grooming with Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.
Oh boy, check this guy out. On Thursday, Reddit user extraordinary15 posted a picture of singer Michael Bublé trying, and clearly failing, to eat corn on the cob like a normal human. What's going on here, Mike? Have you never seen corn in its natural habitat before? How are you planning on getting to the kernels in the middle?
Everyone's favorite—corn porn.
But extraordinary15 didn't just post the photo; they posted it as a Reddit Photoshop challenge. In such challenges, users take a regular, normal picture (or this completely weird but real picture of Michael Bublé chomping on an ear of corn) and add all sorts of stuff to it. And just like that, a meme is born.
There's the "Travolta kissing Scarlett Johansson" addition.
And this "a unicorn is another type of corn, sort of" masterpiece.
The ol' "in the mouth, cook in the brain, out the ears" trick.
Also, here's a handy tutorial Bublé can refer to next time he finds himself lost in a corn cob eating situation.
On Sunday, John Olynyk and his friend Wade Peeler were kayaking in Vancouver's English Bay, looking for a humpback whale they'd seen on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. And based on this video, it seems like maybe the whale was looking for them, too.
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In an interview with the CBC, Olynyk said "My heart started racing when I saw small fish swimming to the surface in a frenzy, I knew it must be close. This was the most amazing wildlife experience of my life, a true bucket-list moment."
Olynyk and Peeler stressed that they were not trying to get this close to the whale; to do so could be dangerous. Rather, the whale approached them. Luckily it approached them in a curious, gentle fashion, as opposed to the slightly more rambunctious approach this whale took with some other kayakers:
