If anyone deserves a clean slate, it’s Deadpool .
Though those of us who remember X-Men: Origins might be more than a little nervous...
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Ryan Reynolds Is Starring In The "Deadpool" Movie
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Inside The Newly Released And Incredibly Frank Interviews With Robin Williams
The PBS web series Blank on Blank released a new installment featuring the late actor’s voice, recorded when he was 40. The show’s producer talked to BuzzFeed News about the discovery of the footage and what it reveals about Williams.
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The late Robin Williams was never concerned that he'd experience a lack of comedic material. "No, there's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there," the late actor says in a newly released, never-before-heard audio interview that is being paired with an animated sketch on PBS's Blank on Blank.
The web series, which creates animated sequences to accompany recorded and archival interviews with iconic figures, allows fans to once again experience the work of Williams, who died on Aug. 11 at the age of 63. The most recent installment of Blank on Blank, released on Dec. 2, includes footage from two different interviews with Williams, both collected by writer Lawrence Grobel in 1991 for a piece he published the following year in Playboy.
"Comedy is there to basically show us [that] we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal," he says in one of the interviews. "So you don't take yourself seriously and destroy the species."
"[Williams] makes this mention of comedy [being] there to help people take off masks and realize who they are fundamentally," David Gerlach, the producer of Blank of Blank, told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "The idea of masks, I thought, kind of flowed throughout because there's a mask you put on when you're a comedian on stage."
Though the tapes are more than 23 years old — they were on microcassettes, Gerlach said — they make for a very powerful five-minute video. "We wanted to put together a piece that kind of showcased both his thoughtful, sensitive, endearing side, but also his amazing speed and comedic timing," Gerlach said.
But the episode of Blank on Blank with Williams wasn't originally meant to be a memoriam for the late actor. In fact, Gerlach had reached out for the tapes before Williams died.
"Before Williams died, [Grobel and I] had been talking about his Robin Williams interviews," Gerlach said. "I reached out [to Grobel] and said, 'Hey, do you have the tapes from interviews that likely no one's ever heard before, because we'd like to bring some of them to life.'" Though Williams died just as Grobel was pulling together the clips, they kept moving forward on the project.
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The Only "Peter Pan Live!" Drinking Game You Need
Let’s go on a trip to Neverland, in which Neverland is the land of never being sober during NBC’s second annual live musical event.
You are attracted to a Lost Boy...
Or one of Captain Hook's (Christopher Walken) pirates.
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The Heartbreaking Living Conditions Of Chinese Zoos
“It was always hard for me to not get depressed when visiting.” Photographer Scott Brauer reports on the harrowing living conditions in China’s popular zoos.
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M. Scott Brauer
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19 Passive-Aggressive Book Titles
Tell someone how you really feel by giving them these books.
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar
St. Martin's Griffin
If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs
Fireside
Somebody Up There Hates You
Algonquin Young Readers
Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid
Harmony Books
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One Direction As Other Legendary Boy Bands
Hangin’ tough.
The Backstreet Boys
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Menudo
RCA, Pascal Le Segretain, Jason Merritt and Gareth Cattermole / Getty
One Direction as The Rolling Stones
Dezo Hoffmann / REX USA and Jason Merritt, Leon Neal, Pascal le Segretain, Ian Gavan, Gareth Cattermole / Getty
New Kids on The Block
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17 Cats Who Do Not Care About Christmas
Happy holidays? No such thing.
"Merry freakin' Christmas."
"Ho, ho, ho. Haha, get out of my face now."
"Do not call me Rudolph."
"You want me to be your sweet little holiday gift this year? HAHAHA. Never."
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White People Confess To Crimes They've Gotten Away With After Eric Garner Decision
The hashtag was trending on Twitter Wednesday and Thursday after a grand jury cleared the officer who killed Eric Garner.
A man stands with his hands raised in front of a line of police officers Wednesday.
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The conversation began shortly after a grand jury cleared the officer who killed Eric Garner with a chokehold. Jason Ross, a writer for The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, tweeted about his own experience of escaping serious police punishment, then called on others to share their stories:
The #CrimingWhileWhite hashtag — a riff on #DyingWhileBlack — was soon trending nationally. The result was that as protesters gathered in the streets of New York, white people shared stories of breaking the law and escaping significant punishment online. BuzzFeed News spoke with a handful of the people who used the hashtag, and their stories are included below.
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Can You Summarise India In 2014 In One Sentence?
Were the din really as acche as promised?
Like when PM Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora at Madison Square Gardens like a rockstar.
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And when Delhi hosted India’s largest Gay Pride Parade since Section 377 was reinstated.
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And when Kailash Satyarthi bagged the Nobel Peace Prize.
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44 Pictures That You Won't Like Looking At
Abandon all hope, ye who click here.
An obese mountain lion.
A close-up of an elephant's tail.
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He-Man captured in an awkward moment.
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A man who no longer gives a fuck about holding on to his humanity.
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Here's What Some Of Your Favorite 2000s One-Hit Wonders Look Like Now
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18 Magical Ways "Harry Potter" Changed Your Life
Because the magic of Hogwarts never goes away.
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We got tons of incredible responses. But the one answer we received time and again was:
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"Harry Potter taught me what it means to truly love something." —Alexa P., via Facebook
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A Couple's Fight In 60 Seconds
This fight is WAY too close to reality.
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11 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Jesus' Birth
Your Nativity scene needs a re-do.
The first nativity scene didn't appear until 1223.
More than a millennium after Jesus' birth, St. Francis of Assisi received permission from Pope Honorious III to stage the first nativity in an Italian cave. Present were an ox and an ass. By the Late Middle Ages, nativity scenes could be seen throughout Europe.
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The Star of Bethlehem was actually a thing.
The "star," however, was most likely an astrological conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Competing theories are that the star was a nova, or new star; a comet; or an aligning of Jupiter with the star Regulus.
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December 25 isn't actually Jesus' birthday.
In fact, the Bible doesn't even indicate the time of the year that Jesus was born. It wasn't until the fourth century that the Church finally decided upon a Dec. 25 Christmas. In 2008, astrologers studying the appearance of the so-called Star of Bethlehem pinpointed a June 17 birthdate.
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Our modern conception of Jesus' birth comes from one chapter in Luke.
The Gospel of Mark avoids the event entirely, while Mark and John start their gospels with Jesus as an adult.
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Baby's Pram Rolls Onto Train Tracks And Is Saved Just In Time
KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR BABY.
Shocking footage has been released of one childs close call with a train track.
The footage shows a grandfather with his two children, waiting for a train. The grandfather turns his back to look at a ticket machine when the pram - with baby strapped in - rolls towards the tracks.
The grandfather rushes to the tracks, which luckily had no trains arriving.
The baby survived the one-meter fall, and luckily no one was badly injured.
Watch it here.
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Selena Gomez's Wax Figure Is What Nightmares Are Made Of
They heart wants what it wants and it’s not this.
Selena Gomez is one of the most beautiful girls in Hollywood but whoever made her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Berlin sees her a little bit differently.
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They see her more like this, apparently.
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Nope.
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Eek.
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41 Vines You Couldn't Stop Watching In 2014
The best 6-second videos of 2014, all in one place.
This cute attempt at friendship:
This sneezing chicken:
This turnt day at school:
This hungry cat:
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Prepare To Die And Be Reborn Again While Watching This Adorable Kitten Get Tickled
Warning: dangerous levels of cute.
This 8-week-old playful persian kitten simply cannot be real.
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STAAAAAAHP.
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OK KEEP GOING.
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BUT THE HEART CAN'T TAKE IT.
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These Are The Most "Dadly" Gifts That Dads Asked For This Year
Your definitive 2014 Dad Gift Guide, from “nice socks” to “good pen.”
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Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed
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This Compassionate Dog Comforts Her Other Dog Friend Who Is Having A Nightmare
TRUE DOG FRIENDSHIP RIGHT HERE.
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