All for one and one for all.
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Well, hopefully not completely, because Chrissy's mom wasn't the ideal source of information.
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The bloody first season of Kevin Williamson’s primetime thriller ended with a predictably brutal finale. Before Season 2 premieres this Sunday on Fox, here’s a refresher on what you might have forgotten.
No, he's not Joe's tiniest follower. He's just a boy Emma paid $20 to deliver a phone number to Ryan.
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He advises her not to try to escape, and he has a gun, so she listens.
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Also because if Joe just killed people when he had the chance, this show would be a lot shorter.
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Is it April yet. Is it April yet. Is it April yet.
LINK: Related: 23 Signs You Should Just HIbernate For The Rest of Winter
The actor was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and decided to serenade Jimmy. It was beautiful.
The 2000 film, starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks, is officially getting a sequel.
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"I can't [tell you anything] unfortunately," she said. "I'm under contract with Disney and I can't talk about it at all, except that it's coming. But it will be very different, very different. Very modern - a modern take."
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Luckily, no one was injured.
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The hotly anticipated British mystery drama returns with the revelation of just how Sherlock Holmes faked his death two years ago. Warning: Minor spoilers ahead! [UPDATED]
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Just how did Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) fake his own death?
When Sherlock picks up — two years after the action of the 2012 Season 2 finale, "The Reichenbach Fall" — the facts surrounding how the master sleuth pulled off the seemingly impossible are kept firmly under wraps for much of the ingenious 90-minute season opener, "The Empty Hearse" (which airs Jan. 1 on BBC One in the U.K. and on Jan. 19 on PBS's Masterpiece).
This is not to say that viewers are denied a revelatory sequence in which the truth about just how Sherlock faked his own death is laid out. The taut sequence that reveals how he achieved such a feat is both simple, yet cunningly complex (not to mention quite spectacular), though I won't spoil the outcome for anything on this Earth. However, the episode's writer Mark Gatiss (who once again pulls double duty as Sherlock's glacially cold brother Mycroft) rather smartly withholds the reveal until "The Empty Hearse" is almost concluded, creating an ongoing mystery that continues to swirl around the minds of both the viewers and several characters within Sherlock itself.
Praise her.
The team will compete in the two-man event at the Winter Olympics after the Jamaican Olympic Association announced that it will pay all travel costs for the team. But the team still welcomes contributions on crowdfunding sites.
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The Jamaican bobsled team is going to Sochi — with the help from the Jamaican Olympic Association, and an added assist from the internet at large.
Jamaica's governing Olympic committee announced Monday that it will provide all travel costs for the team to go to Russia.
"There's been so much uncertainty and so many up and downs, but for these moments today, it's worth it," Chris Stokes told BuzzFeed. Stokes — who competed in four different Olympics as a member of the team, including the famed 1988 Games, which inspired the movie "Cool Runnings" — will lead the Jamaican delegation in Sochi as the team's Chef de Mission.
"We're very thankful for the support we've gotten from so many people to finish this journey we've started," he said.
Fans rallied around the team after driver Winston Watts told The Telegraph last week that he wasn't sure if the team could raise the money to travel to Sochi. Organizers launched big campaigns on Crowdtilt and Indiegogo, both of which have raised thousands for the team.
Stokes said that while travel funds are secure, "there are very real cost considerations." The team still must pay for training camp and other equipment costs, he said, and they are in contact with both the Crowdtilt and Indiegogo campaigns.
Stokes said that they have future plans for the additional money: Keeping the team competitive and financially sound in non-Olympic years.
"We want to make the most of it and collect as much funds as we can," he said, "so that the next generation of Jamaican bobsledders can have a fair start."
But with the Games just days away, Stokes says the team has one goal in mind.
"We understand that we represent hope against the odds," he said. "We are going to do very well and have a credible performance in Sochi."
LINK: Jamaica’s Two-Man Bobsled Team Qualifies For Sochi Olympics
LINK: Internet Raises $30,000 In Dogecoins To Send Jamaican Bobsleigh Team To The Winter Olympics
These tiny snow bunnies are going to melt your frozen heart.
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Dear White People was one of the more highly anticipated Sundance films this year. Little gal has great taste.
Relax. It’s going to be okay.
Pot for pups?
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As marijuana's status has changed legally and in the opinions of many people across America, there's no doubt that dogs are getting stoned too. It's happening both when owners purposefully give it to their dogs and when they accidentally ingest it.
Cases of stoned dogs have increased since medial marijuana started to be legalized in certain states in the mid-2000s, the ASPCA and Pet Poison Hotline both reported to BuzzFeed.
Although, it's not clear if this increase is because more pets are getting high, said Dr. Tina Wismer, the medical director at the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center. This may be because "people are more willing to say 'Yeah, my dog got into my marijuana'" or because veterinarians are more aware of the issue and thus identifying it correctly more often, but either way it's clearly happening.
Our world is a better place now that a skateboarding Australian cat named Didga is in it.
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You can mute the music on the full video, which doesn't do this cat's perfect day justice.
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Do it the Tony Perkis way.
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Hey, it's a start.
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Mandex mandatory.
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At least not fast food.
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OK, so there’s no official tour for the show Girls (yet) . SNL ‘s newest cast member stars in a video short imagining the hellworld if there was.
The video also features Geoff Garlock as the sole hapless customer of the GIRLS tour. Sasheer is hilarious. That is all. Goodnight.
If these drinks could talk…
Gaga’s hair: yay or nay?
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“I would like to send you a memory.” Buried deep within the internet’s most notorious comment section lies a treasure trove of personal stories that prove the power of pop music better than any video ever could.
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YouTube comment left below "Telstar" by The Tornadoes.
The YouTube comment section has long been considered the worst place on the internet. You won't find much consensus about anything online, but one thing pretty much everyone can agree on — including, seemingly, the people at YouTube itself — is that the user-generated content beneath practically every video is a semi-literate cesspool. But for the last year I've been increasingly discovering — thanks in part to a longer than usual lull in employment — that everyone was wrong.
Wasting time looking up old songs, I'd sometimes glance at the comments below the videos, and idly wonder at their inanity. But occasionally I would see something different — something that seemed more real, more honest than the usual white noise. I didn't do much more than file them away mentally, but one day a comment on a James Blunt song (I swear I have no idea how I got there) stopped me in my tracks:
Shot over 12 years and starring a young non-actor alongside Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, this amazing achievement perfectly captures growing up in America.
The cast of Boyhood poses with director Richard Linklater at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
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When he introduced Boyhood to a sold-out Sundance Film Festival crowd just shy of 10 p.m. on Sunday evening, Richard Linklater remarked that production began on the epic experiment exactly 4,207 days prior.
Most movies that long to get made bear the scars of creative tugs-of-war and financial crises, quite often growing stale by the time of release; Linklater, however, required every moment of those 12 years to turn a radical idea into a singular achievement that is brimming, quite literally, with life.
Already a young icon, with a résumé of movies like Slacker and Dazed and Confused that helped kick off the 1990s' independent film renaissance, Linklater got the idea near the turn of the 21st century to make a film that tracked a young child into adulthood. The grand aspiration was to visit the same recruit every year to shoot a new installment, with a fictional storyline shaped by child's development and the events of the world at large. It was sort of crazy from the start — sure, films often pile on sequels over the years, but to work 12 years to release a single, sprawling journey was unprecedented in the narrative form.
Linklater got financing from IFC Films, signed on frequent collaborator Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette to play the boy's parents, cast his own daughter Lorelei as the sassy older sister, and went looking for a normal kid he could somehow rely on to both be willing to grow up on screen, and, perhaps more critically and precariously, stay interesting enough to focus on for over a decade.
Ultimately, he settled on Ellar Coltrane, a 6-year-old Texan who had little acting experience. As the filmmaker acknowledged, he couldn't legally sign anyone — much less a child — to a 12-year contract, so it required a major leap of faith by both sides.
"He just seemed like an interesting kid, and I knew [the movie] would go where he went, in a way," Linklater told BuzzFeed before the film screened. "But it's also, at that age, you're kind of casting his parents too. His mother's a dancer, his dad's a musician; it's an artistic family, so I thought there'd be a lot of family support for this project."
Coltrane attended the screening, though hilariously, because no one knew he was the star before it began, his startling resemblance to Hawke made it seem like his presence on the red carpet was a matter of the actor bringing family along. At the Q&A after, he said that it took until he was 12 or so to realize the scope of the project he was then halfway through. Linklater told BuzzFeed that he and Coltrane — whose press biography says he was "unconventionally schooled through most of his childhood" — stayed in touch throughout the years, both for the film's purpose and because they became like family.
"I probably feel like his uncle or something at this point; he feels like my cool nephew," he said.
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A fresh-faced kid at the outset, Coltrane plays Mason Jr., the younger child of estranged parents; Arquette is raising him and sister Samantha as a young single mother while Hawke, as musician father Mason Sr., is at first off in Alaska to find himself (or avoid responsibility for a while anyway). Hawke has made a career playing charming, intellectual wanderers, and having started this project in between the first two installments of the Before trilogy, we open with him in his prime as an earnest rambler who is either too smart or immature for the real world, depending on how much you identify with his character. (It is a question that is explored both on screen and off, with the actor's career and the lives of fans that have followed it also up for subtle examination.)
From the start, Mason Jr. is a spacy and creative kid; the opening scene sees him adorably explaining to his mom, who just came from a conference with a worried teacher, that he broke the class pencil sharpener while trying to whittle rocks into arrowheads for his collection. And thus begins a crucial thread that Linklater follows from beginning to end: Mason Jr. isn't all that enamored with school or his assignments, but creativity and off-beat genius will blossom in between (and often instead of) homework and days in class.
"I had a plan," Linklater said of the film's overarching story. "The architecture was pretty mapped out."
They'd go down to Texas for about a month of pre-production — it was "like making a new movie every year," Linklater said, what with the location scouting and equipment hauling and script development — and shoot for three or four days. "The script was created by all of us every time," Hawke told BuzzFeed, including dialogue and contextual adjustments to the general concept on which Linklater had spent the previous year pondering.
Any film that attempts to tell a story over a long period of time must incorporate the era's progression in fashion, technology, and cultural norms, and many comedies derive no small portion of their laughs from the hindsight hilarity of the way we used to dress and rudimentary developments that once were cutting edge. By its placement in the midst of rapid shifts in taste, computers, and world events that have made the aughts and early 2010s into an exhaustingly compressed timeline of turmoil, Boyhood is filled with recent history that now plays like nostalgia.
The film opens with Coldplay's early hit song "Yellow" and its early chapters are stuffed with throwbacks such as midnight Harry Potter book release parties, colorful iMacs, and the Gameboy Advance, while Mason Sr. lectures his kids on the lies behind the nascent Iraq War. Unlike most movies that look back on the decade prior though, none of these elements are used as wink-wink gags or political told-ya-sos; these are all scenes filmed back when those consumer products and ignored liberal warnings were of the moment, just like the later bits with Hot Topic clothing and the original Xbox, that initial landlady Funny or Die video, and old Texans growling about Sen. Barack Hussein Obama were simply the zeitgeist.
A conversation between father and son about how there could be no feasible way to make interesting Star Wars sequels, filmed long before the upcoming new chapters were announced, was especially well appreciated by the audience.
It is — in the best way possible — like watching home movies, all driven by Linklater's incredible ear for dialogue and the perverse insistence to continue filming during moments of extreme marital discord: Olivia is a smart woman and great mom, but terrible at choosing men. Samantha and Mason Jr. suddenly shoot up in height at various points in the movie (the girl first, of course). Mason especially goes from chubby pre-pubescent to willowy emo kid, a gifted photographer who spends hours in the darkroom and attending parties reluctantly; you get the sense that he would have been too deep and sensitive to hang out with the kids in Linklater's Dazed and Confused, though he may have shared some joints with them when he reluctantly visited one of their bonfires.
The questions Mason grows up asking, about the point of life and the importance of individualism among other teenage existentialist concerns, should ring in the brains of most audience members, especially those already drawn to Linklater's work; as Mason's dad, who comes back into his life, later says, it's impossible to know the answers. Which is really the point: Boyhood is about searching anyway.
