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Brangelina Is Probably Getting Married This Weekend

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Plus: Robert Pattinson is also a cheater, Joseph Gordon-Levitt dislikes Anne Hathaway, Joe Simpson's DUI arrest, and more in today's CelebFeed Gossip Roundup!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting married this weekend! Or maybe next weekend! Or maybe not at all because they said they were waiting for marriage equality to happen in the US before they did the deed? Whatever. There is currently "buzz" around their French estate for a big event happening this weekend and George Clooney is in town (as well as their parents) so it has to be happening, right?

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ROBSTEN IS BROKEN, DAY 17: Maybe we should all stop hating on Kristen Stewart for being a trampire because Robert Pattinson has had more than his share of flings with other women during their relationship. Oh, like you're even surprised to hear that.

Image by ERIC GAILLARD / Reuters

Star Magazine says that Joseph Gordon-Levitt thinks Anne Hathaway is a total snob:

Image by Chris Pizzello / AP

They may have been all smiles for the camera during TDKR press tour, but sources say that down-to-earth Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually can’t stand his costar Anne Hathaway. Joseph says she’s always acted like an insufferable snob toward him and that the awkwardness got so bad between them during filming that whenever she’d walk into a room, he’d have to immediately walk out of it.

“He thinks she’s a good actress, but he just doesn’t understand her ego,” says our source. “Also, Anne was very dismissive of Joseph early in her career. She even turned down a couple of jobs where she was supposed to act opposite him.”

[Star Magazine via Celebitchy]


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The Best Bolt Photo You'll See Today

The Berlin Zoo Claims This Is A Baby Rhinoceros

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But it is clearly a cartoon character, right? Too cute and weird and wonderful to be real.. but she is!

Her name is Akili!

Her name is Akili!

Image by THOMAS PETER / Reuters

She is four days old.

She is four days old.

Image by Gero Breloer / AP

She already weighs about 65 pounds.

She already weighs about 65 pounds.

Image by THOMAS PETER / Reuters

She has three older siblings.

She has three older siblings.

Image by Gero Breloer / AP


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Chatroulette Version Of "Call Me Maybe"

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Sorry, one more version, but let's be happy it's not Gotye's song again.

Meet The First Openly Gay Army General Officer

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“Finally my partner and I will be able to go out and have drinks together without worrying,” says Army reserve officer Tammy Smith, who was recently promoted to brigadier general.

On being the first openly gay general officer, thanks to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell:

On being the first openly gay general officer, thanks to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell:

Courtesy Tammy Smith.

Source: stripes.com

Why You Won't See "The Hobbit" At 48 Frames Per Second

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Peter Jackson shot the movie at twice the normal frame rate, but Warner Brothers is already backing away from promises to screen it that way . Why? Because it looks really weird! Here's a demonstration.

Source: aceshowbiz.com

Peter Jackson shot The Hobbit at double the normal frame rate — 48 frames-per-second instead of the usual 24 — in order to make 3D appear less flickery and dim. According to Jackson, it's just "a more immersive and in 3D a gentler way to see the film.” But Warner Brothers announced this week that most fans won't get to see it that way. This week, news broke that the 48fps version will be scaled back to an extremely limited release, playing only select locations, and maybe not even in all major cities.

Why are they scaling it back? Because it looks really weird!

The first trickle of 48fps footage screened at Comic-Con, prompting a minor backlash and a lot of fans wondering whether this was a good idea at all. It looked too smooth — like a soap opera, was the common analogy. In fact, interpolated HDTV sets (which refresh at 120Hz or 240Hz rather than the usual 60 and use algorithms to fill in the missing frames) are one of the few places you've probably seen this style of footage.

It's an unsettling effect — almost hyperreal — but it's hard to describe if you haven't seen it, so we've set up a test case. Here's some awkward footage of me jumping around the BuzzFeed offices, in both 30 and 60fps to give you some idea of what a faster-than-average framerate looks like. Sadly, Final Cut is allergic to 48fps (just like humans, apparently), but it should give you a sense of the hyperreal weirdness some moviegoers will be dealing with on opening day.

(N.B. My personal awkwardness is separate from the awkwardness of the frame rate.)

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It's worth noting that it was actually really hard to get this on the page. None of the online video sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) will mess with framerates higher than 30, and there are all sorts of minor conversion problems that can pop up. That's another reason Warner Brothers is getting cold feet: as Variety reported, most theater projectors can't handle the new frame rate without a software or (in some cases) a hardware upgrade.

But that kind of technical difficulty is just a speed bump for a project the size of The Hobbit. The real question is, "Do you actually want to watch a movie this way?" Peter Jackson thinks you do, and he's got plenty of company, including James Cameron who described it as the most immersive experience possible: "If watching a 3D movie is like looking through a window, then [with 48fps] we’ve taken the glass out of the window and we’re staring at reality.”

But increasingly, Warner Brothers seems to be betting you don't.

Video by Michael Schmidt.


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51 Worst Sharks

Gymnast Aly Raisman Predicted Olympic Victory When She Was 9

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“In 20 years I will be… An Olympic gymnast,” Aly, who is now 18, wrote in her summer camp yearbook.

Nine years ago, gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman was attending Wicosuta summer camp in New Hampshire. (It's the same camp Malia Obama went to in 2010.) BuzzFeed Shift exclusively obtained a photo from the 2003 Camp Wicosuta yearbook, depicting the 9-year-old Raisman posing with her bunkmates. Raisman may have had the most ambitious answer to the question of where she'd be in 20 years, but perhaps also the most accurate: She correctly predicted she'd become an Olympic gymnast, and it only took nine years, not 20.

Way to go Aly!


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Someone Put Hitler On Wine Bottles

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Italian winemaker Vini Lunardelli produced these bottles under its Der Fuhrer label. Yup, nothing says good taste like the Nazis.

Source: i.dailymail.co.uk

Source: eater.com

Source: eater.com

Vini Lunardelli's questionable branding became a story when traveling American attorney Michael Hirsch and his wife Cindy, many of whose family members were killed in Auschwitz, saw the bottles at a shop in northern Italy and complained to a clerk. Needless to say, they were not amused:

"I was shocked," Mrs Hirsch said. "It is not only an affront to Jews, even if my husband and I are Jewish. It is an affront to humanity as a whole."

Andrea Riccardi, the Italian integration minister, responded, saying that:

'I want to reassure our American friends who visit our country that our Constitution and our culture rejects racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi fascism. This offends the memory of millions of people and risks compromising the image of Italy abroad.'

Remaining bottles of the wine have been pulled from the shelves of the store where the Hirsches first stumbled across it and local prosecutors are making inquiries.

Via: eater.com


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16 Thoughts That Will Ruin Your Day

Easy Watermelon And Tequila Coolers

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A few variations on a super-simple cocktail will please friends who like sweet drinks and friends who don't.

My sister says a good cook is one who can whip up dinner out of whatever is in the cupboards — and she doesn't mean a can of Campbell's. Recently stuck with a cocktail craving, only a few ingredients in the house, and no energy to go out and buy stuff, I tried to make my sister proud. At my disposal: a little wedge of watermelon and a bottle of Sauza gold tequila.

I chopped up the watermelon and stuck it in the blender.


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Middle Schoolers' Sex-Ed Questions

The Guys From "The Expendables 2" Have Aged Really Well

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Like, really, really well!

Sylvester Stallone:

Sylvester Stallone:

He's 66.

Chuck Norris:

Chuck Norris:

He's 72.

Dolph Ludgren:

Dolph Ludgren:

He's 54.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

He's 51.


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Career Confidential: The NYC Hotel Concierge Who Crushes Jersey Shore Dreams

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“When I tell them they can't go to the Jersey Shore, I haven't seen tears but girls have been very upset.”

Source: 4tnz.com

I'm a hotel concierge in New York. My typical morning, say from 8 to 11, is nonstop talking to people from all over the world. I would say it's 70 percent Europeans that I deal with right now. It's a constant case of the messenger getting shot. These Eurotrash, they come in and they have these big aviator sunglasses on, and these big Louis Vuitton belt buckles and Christian Audigier all over them, and they think they're all big shots and they ask for the price of a theater ticket, and you say $180 and they freak out. Everything is expected to be free — you're paying $200 a night for a hotel so, they want to know, why isn't everything free? Internet, breakfast, they all want free. And the tours, they ask why do you have to go to a meeting stop? Why can't they pick you up? And I have to explain that they can't stop at all the hotels and then they get mad.

The Europeans, they all want to go to the Jersey Shore because they've seen Jersey Shore. They're all into that culture and they look like Vegas guidos, except they're from Spain and Italy and they're always the most hair-gelled, craziest-looking people. I just say it's two-and-a-half hours away, rent a car and drive if you really want to go. I'm like do you think you're going to go down there and get laid by the Situation? It's not going to happen. You would think someone could make a lot of money running shuttles down to the Shore. No one that I know of has actually gone. I always manage to convince them to go to Long Beach [on Long Island]. There are girls whose dreams have been crushed when I tell them they can't go to the Jersey Shore. I haven't seen tears but girls have been very upset.

And they all want to go to strip malls in New Jersey. I say you can go to the same stores in Herald Square in the city, but for some reason they're obsessed with New Jersey and they're obsessed with the shopping mall format. Older Europeans — more like middle-aged women, middle-aged couples — they're all looking for Wal-Mart, and we don't have Wal-Mart in the city.

They also have warped images from Sex and the City. I already sold four Sex and the City tours today. These Sex and the City tours go twice a day and they always sell out. They always want the cupcakes, they ask about Magnolia Bakery, they want to know where Carrie's stoop is (even though she lived on the East Side, it's actually in the West Village). They want to know where the Friends stoop is, the Friends house. A bunch of people ask about Central Perk. They ask about Friends or Seinfeld and you're like, they're filmed in L.A. And that's always heartbreaking to them, when they find out it doesn't exist.

Source: 2.bp.blogspot.com

People don't always realize concierges are really salesmen in disguise. You have to keep a smile on your face, but you have your bottom lines to meet. We get paid a salary but depending on where you're working you could get a cut for everything you sell, or you could have goals where you get an incentive for, say, selling x amount of tours today. The other concierge secret is we don't suggest restaurants because they're the best restaurants — we suggest them because the concierge is going to get $5 or $8 a head or 10 percent of the check. There's this Italian restaurant we get kickbacks from, and you say "This place is great, the pasta's great, it's homemade" — but what pasta isn't homemade? And then they come back raving over how good it is.

With these fancy restuarants and the nightclubs, they don't understand why we don't really have pull there, and it's like, the reason these clubs are trendy is because they don't let you in. The reason it's a popular club is they don't let a tourist cut the line.

Also I definitely get requests for drugs and prostitutes. A common practice in hotels is when people are asked about drugs — especially cocaine — you send them to a doorman, who then gets them what they want. I'm not in a hotel where it's like that. I would never assist in anything like that, but I've worked in hotels where it was common knowledge that you can tell them to speak to the doorman.

If they're asking about prostitutes, I refer them to the back of the Village Voice. Because I'm not getting involved in that. Men who typically ask about that I would say are older, fatter, balder gentlemen.

There was a hooker running business out of our hotel. She was kicked out because they realized what she was doing. She rented a room because our rooms are cheap, and she'd have Johns coming up all day.

You see a lot of mistresses. I find that at nicer hotels I've seen some repeat cheaters and it's always with a different girl. It's always the same business-type guy and he's got his mistress. This one guy told the front desk if anyone ever calls for me here, say I'm never here, I'm always out, and sure enough his wife was trying to call. So just that stuff was kind of crazy. But a lot of sex goes down in the hotels. You get people who come in saying, do you have hourly rates? No. We don't.

As told to Amy Odell.

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The Most Romantic Fortune Cookies Ever

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A Reddit user and his girlfriend got these matching fortunes. Just goes to show that you ALWAYS have to be sure to open these things.

Source: i.imgur.com  /  via: reddit.com

Via: reddit.com

The Most Killer Movies To Watch On Netflix After "The Bourne Legacy"

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If Bourne Legacy wasn't quite enough for you, we've got a killer, action-packed espionage caper for you. Also: Angie Dickinson with a Tommy gun and girls in a British prison.

If Bourne stoked the fires of your hunger for spy cinema: Le Professionnel (1981, Georges Lautner)

Jean-Paul Belmondo, with his easy smile and effortless charm, made for an appealing faux-badass in the seminal Breathless eventually proved that he could be a genuine, straight-up badass as well; few are the films in which he’s more in tune with that side of his persona than Georges Lautner’s Le Professionnel. As Joss Beaumont, a French Secret Service agent double-crossed and left for dead in Africa after a politically-motivated assassination falls through, Belmondo is playing a man used to thinking three moves ahead of his adversaries, a talent that comes much in handy when he returns to France after two years in exile to exact vengeance on his former handlers. (Is he the bloody phantom of past diplomatic misdeeds, or is he just a cheesed-off dude with a talent for espionage?)

His nimble-minded protagonist is a perfect reflection of the screenplay. Penned by the prolific Michel Audiard and his son, future French-cinema darling Jacques, the script for le Professionnel is a sharp-witted and two-fisted thing, a propulsive spy caper that traffics in the lightness of the Bond films that serve as a glancing inspiration while finding subtle ways to let a strain of fatalism creep in. Lautner holds a steady hand over this script, allowing room for the story to breathe without letting it go slack and keeping a baseline of clarity amid the dirty dealings and double-crossings that are endemic to the genre. It’s part action-film brawl (featuring a sharp car chase around the Eiffel Tower) part enormously satisfying and often quite funny game of verbal, mental and political chess, and all showcase for Belmondo's wicked charisma. All of that dovetails into a climax that drops irony, just desserts, tragedy, bait-and-switch tactics and one towering checkmate move into a cocktail shaker, violently shudders one last drink out of it and demands you slurp it down. Refusing such a delectable concoction would be poor judgment.

If you're in the mood for guns, fast cars, cash, sex and a terrific performance by a Hollywood icon: Big Bad Mama (1974, Steve Carver)

By a lot of standards, Big Bad Mama is pretty pedestrian. The screenplay hits its Bonnie & Clyde-inspired beats evenly and perfunctorily; Steve Carver’s direction is functional at best and occasionally less so during the film’s copious action scenes; and the lumpy pacing allows for a number of sex scenes to disrupt the build of the second half’s escalating heists so that the film wanders from one setpiece to another without a whole lot of drive. But hardly any of this matters on the whole, because from the first frame to the last, Big Bad Mama is Angie Dickinson’s show. She’s able to embody both strong and sweet without feeling insincere in either direction, a rare talent indeed and one demanded by the script; if anyone ever needed a surefire demonstration of the benefits of talent married to star power, this film would make for a terrific example.

With a steel of spine and balls of brass, her character, Wilma McClatchie, is not the kind to take any guff or back down from any challenge — especially when it comes to building a life for her two daughters that doesn’t involve being dead broke. So naturally, after a chance encounter with a hotheaded ruffian (played with clumsy, frustrated intensity by Tom Skerritt), they take to robbing banks, rounding out their gang with a seedy, two-bit hustler (William Shatner) they pick up at a race track and coerce (read: Angie humps him) into being a getaway driver. The heists, played as broadly as possible, are amusing enough, and both Skerritt and Shatner get some good moments – Skerritt, in particular, seems to be having a whale of a time essaying a role that, in another universe, was tailor-made for Warren Oates. Plus I can’t fault the copious female nudity (I am only human). But without Dickinson cutting an imposing yet seductive figure across this film, it wouldn’t be nearly as fulfilling. She’s the heart and soul of Big Bad Mama. She makes this modest compendium of genre clichés into something more than it should be – a compelling and memorable time at the movies.


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Seven Arnold Quotes That Could Be Useful As A Cabinet Secretary

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The White House approached Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2011 about a cabinet position according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Here are seven ways Arnold could use his movie experience to help the President.

Dealing with travel.

Dealing with travel.

Predator

Conducting foreign relations.

Conducting foreign relations.

Terminator

Discussing climate change.

Discussing climate change.

Batman And Robin

Helping watch the President's weight.

Helping watch the President's weight.

Jingle All The Way


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New Runway Trend: Eyebrow Art

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Nail art? Been there, done that. If you're looking for new ways to play up your nighttime look, try doing something… different with your eyebrows/face.

It's hard to tell what's going on here. She could have some metallic foil type thing on her upper lids or bits of patterned felt? Unclear but definitely eye-catching and, happily, obviates the need for eye shadow.

From the Ivan Grundahl show at Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Image by Unger Anthon / AP

Image by Unger Anthon / AP

Erase brows with powder — then draw them back on at an angry-face angle with Sharpie.

From the Stine Ladefoged show at Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Image by Unger Anthon / AP

At least they let her show some gray. Rare, that.

From the Kallol Datta show at Lakme Fashion Week.

Image by PUNIT PARANJPE / Getty Images


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The First (And Quite Possibly The Best) Dog Short Film Ever Made

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Proof that dressing dogs up in human clothes for entertainment peaked in 1930.

"To the most beautiful girl in the world...."

Source: youtube.com

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