Sadly, Spielberg is covering up Lincoln's vampire hunter past. But this still looks fantastic.
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Teaser Trailer Drops For "Lincoln"
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The Struggles Of Girl Models
This story has nothing to do with eating disorders. Models' biggest problems — like getting paid for their work and maintaining decent working hours — are actually much more basic than that.
The documentary Girl Model tells a story that might resonate with a lot of models currently walking the runways at New York Fashion Week. Released last Wednesday in New York, the film follows a 13-year-old aspiring model plucked from her home in Siberia and sent to Tokyo to pursue a career that agents have promised will be lucrative. The girl is hopeful; her family is poor. But she gets stuck without her parents or a chaperone in an unregulated system, doesn't get the work she was promised, and leaves Japan $2,000 in debt.
The film highlights the exploitative side of the modeling industry, populated by very young girls who travel to foreign countries to often work without chaperones or things as basic as work hour limits and monetary compensation. Models' lives of world traveling, free designer clothes, and physical perfection are easy to envy from the outside. But these girls often miss out on a lot, like proper paychecks and health insurance — and sometimes even a say over whether or not they'll be Photoshopped in photographs to appear nude.
Some veteran models are working to change that — but these are longstanding problems, and change can only happen slowly.
The Model Alliance, a New York-based organization founded by former model Sara Ziff, is working to eradicate the kinds of injustices highlighted in the film. On a recent afternoon in the dimly lit lower level of the downtown Manhattan Coffee Shop restaurant, a group of around 100 lanky, six-foot-ish, mostly teenage girls have gathered to hear Ziff and model Coco Rocha speak. This audience of young models represents what beauty will look like on the runways at New York Fashion Week, which runs through Thursday. They have perfect skin, the kind of legs that are actually served well by a pair of underwear-sized cutoffs, and the sort of expensive-looking rumpled clothes and hair that has become fetishized by street style photographers and designers alike. But they're just as easily taken advantage of as they are idolized.
Image by Keith Bedford / Reuters
"In Paris and Milan isn't it fascinating that we get paid during the shows?" Rocha asks the audience. At the New York shows, payment for runway modeling often comes in the form of free clothing instead of actual money. "If the girls who start off are like, it's not okay if we get paid in a jacket that's a sample and ripped in the back — think about it and say, if I say yes then the girl after me will say yes," she explained. "I'm in my 16th season here in New York. Shouldn't I get paid? If you say no that means the next girl will probably say no."
It seems clear at this event that a lot of these girls need an advocate. One girl approaches Ziff in tears after the talk because of a problem with her agency. Ziff also tells the crowd about a top model who came to the Model Alliance because her agency was keeping $50,000 from her — which is illegal — and she didn't know how to handle it.
After the event, she says she was approached by several girls currently on the New York Fashion Week casting circuit who are 14 or 15 years old. "There was one girl who was from Lithuania, and she approached me after the talk and said, I'm 15, should I have a chaperone with me? And I said are you here by yourself? And she said yeah, and I said where are your parents? And and she said at home. And I said is your agency providing a chaperone? And she said no, and I don't know if someone like that is the exception," Ziff says. "I don't think anyone would disagree that really young models generally are not willing or able to stand up for themselves or ask to be paid for their work or set limits on the kind of pictures they want to take and whether they want to appear nude or not. I think models who are more established tend to be older, and once they have some show seasons under their belt and they've been the face of some campaigns, they command more money and they are not going to stay at a fitting til 3 o'clock in the morning, and they're going to want to be paid and things like that." But no one can force the industry to take these things a lot more seriously. And many attempts to get them to start lead to only small gains.
Models aren't unionized the way Hollywood actors are, so it's tough for them to work together to affect change in the industry, even if it's for stuff as basic as commanding an actual paycheck for their work. The Model Alliance, by fighting for the things unions regulate, like decent work hours, pay, and working conditions, is helping with that problem. But they're going up against longstanding traditions in an industry that has a culture of tiptoeing around the delicate feelings of powerful people who could be offended by their demands. And this season at New York Fashion Week, while things show signs of improving for models, plenty of young girls will find themselves working long, late hours without proper meal and rest breaks or chaperones, with little or no money to show for it.
At a Model Alliance panel discussion following a screening of Girl Model this past spring, the question was raised of why a top label like Marc Jacobs doesn't pay its runway models for walking in its shows. "The audience was mostly agents and models and everyone clapped," Ziff recalls. "I understand a brand new designer asking favors. [Marc]'s at the helm of a big global brand."
The team at Marc Jacobs may have heard about this discussion. A rumor is now going around that the label will pay its models in real money for the first time ever this season. (The brand did not respond to BuzzFeed Shift's request for comment.) But one model who did not want to be named told me Marc Jacobs "says they're going to pay every season and never do."
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Kim Kardashian Compares Her 72-Day Marriage To Having Cancer
This, of course, comes alongside the “news” that Kanye used to watch Kim's sex tape while having sex with other women. The classiest couple in celeb-dom and more in today's CelebFeed Gossip Roundup!
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Kim Kardashian gave what's possibly the most rage-inducing quote you'll read today to The Guardian:
"I think that, with any decisions in life, like, I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel."
Via: guardian.co.uk
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively got hitched over the weekend. They were wed at the same place The Notebook was filmed because OF COURSE THEY WERE.
Anderson Cooper spoke for the first time about coming out on his show today, saying:
Image by Kris Connor / Getty Images
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Nicki Minaj Celebrates Obama Comment In Twitter Spree
President Obama debunked a seemingly pro-Romney verse of hers this morning. “If that's not winning, idk what is.”
Source: s3-ec.buzzfed.com
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Behind The Scenes Of A Male Runway Show
Photographer Kevin Tachman captures the scene backstage at Parke & Ronen's show during New York Fashion Week.
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The Most Anti-Gay Piece Of Political Mail This Year
There is still time, but a mailer first reported by Politico and prepared in the name of “The Committee To Save The Erie County Republican Party” in New York has set a mighty low bar. Republican state Sen. Mark Grisanti voted for the state's marriage equality bill in 2011 and faces a primary challenge from Kevin Stocker on Thursday.
UPDATE: Buffalo-area bloggers and writers have been commenting about the anti-Grisanti machinations of "The Committee to Save the Eric County Republican Party" for a few months now, with multiple people connecting the "committee" to Matthew Ricchiazzi, a Cornell University graduate who ran a failed campaign for Buffalo mayor. One post refers to his "bizarro politics" while another in August mentioned "the pornographic mailer" he was preparing.
BuzzFeed has reached out to Ricchiazzi, asking if he was responsible for developing the mailer and if the prepared mailer was actually sent to homes in Grisanti's district. He did not immediately respond to email or Facebook messages seeking comment.
Back in August, two writers tweeted about the committee:
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Kate Winslet's "Titanic" Screen Test Is Awkward
And Jeremy Sisto plays Jack!!!!
Can you believe that Jeremy Sisto was almost Jack!?!?
What if THIS had happened!?
Phew. That was a close call!
Via: listas.20minutos.es
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Carly Rae Jepsen Has A New Song
“This Kiss” is produced by Redfoo of LMFAO fame and it's super 80s. What do you guys think? Any good?
Carly Rae Jepsen - "This Kiss"
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So This Is How They Celebrate Winning A Race In Spain
Cyclist Alberto Contador simultaneously won both the Tour of Spain and the Tour of Blatant Innuendo. From this weekend's victory ceremony for the Tour of Spain, or La Vuelta.
Image by Miguel Vidal / Reuters
Image by Miguel Vidal / Reuters
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Artist Makes Tiny People In A Big World
Street artist Slinkachu makes tiny dioramas, without the sideways shoebox.
Croissant lover in Paris
Woman carrying lots of stuff on her head in South Africa
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John Wayne Was Super Attractive In 1930
This is an important post! Stop what you are doing and go ogle this man.
These photos, found by Retronaut, are from IMDB's page on a movie called The Big Trail. Filmed in 1930, it was John Wayne's first headlining role. He played a fur trapper bent on revenge for the murder of his partner and falls in love with a young Ruth (Marguerite Churchill) along the route to Oregon to catch the killers.
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A Very Strange Song About "Dicky Dicky Dinosaur"
This has got to be one of the weirdest kiddie songs ever.
Source: iheartchaos.com / via: stupidest.com
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Scar Spotted In Kenya
He was not prepared. It was supposed to be the coup of the century. (Warning: Mild Blood]
Source: reddit.com
According to Redditor Eode11, his brother took this photo while residing in Kenya. The lion still had a female with him and seemed none the worse for his battle wounds, having won the fight.
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See The Hosts Of "The Talk" Without Makeup On
Just in case you wanted to know what Sara Gilbert, Sheryl Underwood, Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osbourne, and Julie Chen look like in the raw.
Julie Chen
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Sharon Osbourne
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Sheryl Underwood
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Sara Gilbert
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Life Inside A Chinese Slaughterhouse
And you thought your job was rough. Photos of a day in the life of abattoir workers outside of Beijing. Pork is China's favorite meat, and these guys have to struggle to meet the nation's growing appetite for luxury.
Image by David Gray / Reuters
Image by David Gray / Reuters
Image by David Gray / Reuters
Image by David Gray / Reuters
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The Essential One-Stop Dance GIF Post
Have you ever felt the need to post a really great dance GIF, only to find that you have nothing that really works? No? Oh well, Here you go anyway. (I didn't make any of these, so if you did go ahead and claim it. I don't want to steal your stuff.)
We'll start with the people actually trying to dance...
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Secret Menu At Guy Fieri's New NYC Restaurant
Today is the launch of Guy Fieri's new Times Sq. restaurant , but due to hackers targeting GoDaddy, his was down today. Luckily, @a_girl_irl sent BuzzFeed an exclusive look at his menu.
Source: @a_girl_irl
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Lady Gaga Goes To London, Pretends She's A Princess
Ugliest fascinator of all time?
Source: FameFlynet Pictures
Source: FameFlynet Pictures
Source: FameFlynet Pictures
Source: FameFlynet Pictures
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5 Zac Efron Quotes In Support Of Gays
In an interview with the Advocate , Zac could not make his admiration and support of the gay community any clearer. He is perfect.
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Family Feud Fails
A collection of the worst answers ever given on Family Feud .
Source: youtube.com / via: youtube.com
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