Music’s hit-makers descend on Brooklyn for VMAs
Gaga changed costumes four times Sunday night during her first return to the stage since hip surgery as she performed her new single “Applause.”
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Marseille residents petition for Batman to save them from crime
KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Desperate residents in Marseille, France have called on Batman to save them from rising crime.
Cannes: Fashion, Film Stars to Unite for AmfAR Charity Event Thursday
Harvey Weinstein and Kenneth Cole will host the 20th anniversary of the glitzy affair, which will feature a fashion show with 40 of the world’s top models.read more
Lance Armstrong Settles With News Corp’s Sunday Times
A “mutually acceptable” agreement resolves a dispute over whether Armstrong lied during a libel lawsuit nearly a decade ago.read more
Adam Levine Sells Semi-Autobiographical Comedy to NBC
“The Voice” coach will executive produce the project with Gene Hong, who will pen the script.read more
Jimmy Choo Debuts Short Film Starring Nicole Kidman
Fall ad season is officially upon us as the accessory designer kicks off the first leg of its new campaign starring the Oscar winner. read more
WGA East to NBCU’s Steve Burke: Let Us Count Union Votes
According to the union, NBCUniversal is impeding the vote count for a representation election at a company-owned production entity, Peacock Productions.read more
Venice Fest Preview: 4 Things to Watch
The world’s oldest film festival is introducing novel twists — a 3D Sandra Bullock pic, virtual screenings — as the fall film-fest season gets underway.read more
Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom Separated After Drug Addiction Drove Them Apart (Report)
The reality-TV star allegedly kicked her basketball player husband out of the house after he refused to go back to rehab, according to TMZ.read more
Robin’s Mom on Miley: ‘I Didn’t Get Her Point’
Miley Cyrus’ provocative performance at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards has been buzzing since her strutting, grinding and twerking on-stage set with Robin Thicke. Among Miley’s critics about the performance is Thicke’s mother Gloria Loring, who spoke exclusively to omg! INSIDER. "I don’t understand what Miley Cyrus is trying to do," Loring told omg! INSIDER after watching Cyrus and Thicke’s medley of We Can’t Stop, Blurred Lines and Give It 2 U."I just keep thinking of her mother and father watching this. Oh, Lord, have mercy," she added. "…I was not expecting her to be putting her butt that close to my son. The problem is, now I can never ‘unsee’ it."Continue reading…
Leftover Soup 8/23/13
Before you venture out this weekend for your cousin Gloria’s wedding, why not relax and take a peaceful stroll through our very lushest round-up of links. …
Fat Joe begins prison sentence for tax evasion
MIAMI, Aug. 26 (UPI) — Joseph Cartagena, the rapper known as Fat Joe, has turned himself in at the Federal Detention Center in Miami to begin his four-month sentence for tax evasion.
Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell & More Open Up About the Not-So-Glamourous Side of Modeling
Under normal circumstances, it can be tough work deciding which star should grace the cover of an oh-so-important September issue. And when said issue focuses on the modeling industry,…
Glee: Darren Criss and Naya Rivera on "Moving" Cory Monteith Tribute and Demi Lovato’s Guest Role
As we reported last week, Glee is well into their filming of the episode that will serve as a tribute to Cory Monteith, who died tragically over the summer. And based on what the cast is telling…
Kellan Lutz of "Twilight" Reveals New Fashion Line
What’s a hulking vampire to do without moody mortals in distress and with no more computer-enhanced battles to wage in the forest? For 28-year-old “Twilight” actor Kellan Lutz – better known as Emmett Cullen, the heartthrob brother of leading man Edward – it’s still about looking as good as superhumanly possible.
Today Book Club Selects The Bone Season as First Pick
The Today show has launched a book club, called the Today Book Club. The first pick is The Bone Season, the first novel by 21-year-old Oxford University graduate Samantha Shannon. The novel is set in 2059 where clairvoyance has been outlawed and a security force, the Scion, is in charge of major cities, including London. The heroine, Paige Mahoney, is a dreamwalker, a rare type of clairvoyant. Paige is arrested and sent to a voyant prison run by an alien race, called the Rephaim. The Bone Season is part of a seven book series. Film rights for the series have already been sold. Paige was interviewed by Today’s Natalie Morales. Take a look
Pro-File: ROBERT J. RANDISI
Pro-File: Robert J. Randisi1. Tell us about your current novel or project. GREAT QUESTION! It’s been a good summer for my books. The second book in my ROPER western P.I. series, THE RELUCTANT PINKERTON is out. Also, the 8th Rat Pack book, YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO DEAD, which features not only the Rat Pack, but Elvis. And the book I’ve been waiting for, the first in a new Nashville based P.I. series called THE HONKY TONK BIG HOSS BOOGIE. This book was supposed to be published last August as The Session Man, which means it would have predated the successful Nashville t.v. series, but the publisher went belly up and I had to …
Buy, Borrow, Bypass: August 26, 2013
Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson Mystery novelist Josephine Tey is spending her 40th birthday in the resort town of Portmeirion with Alfred Hitchcock and crew, taking a holiday while they film a movie adaptation of one of her books. Then someone is murrrrderrred. Twenty years later, someone else is murdered on the set of another Hitchcock film. Coincidence?! Hitchcock and Tey involved in a murder mystery is an awesome set-up for a book. Unfortunately, in my opinion Upson squanders it. Judging by this novel, if Upson has ever seen a Hitchcock picture or read a Tey mystery—which I doubt—she gained absolutely no lessons on how to write OR tell a story while doing…
Grading Aimee Bender’s THE COLOR MASTER, Story by Story
You know how some people feel about Neil Gaiman? Or Joss Whedon? Or Alan Moore? That level of evangelical-superchurch-backwoods-speaking-in-tongues fandom? That’s how I feel about Aimee Bender and her short stories. They’re the weirdest and most wonderful modern fables. Any one could be a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie before both gentlemen jumped their sharks. That said, I was a little nervous about reviewing Bender’s new collection of short stories. I was afraid all my fan-girling would get in the way of my journalistic whatever-you-want-to-call-it. That didn’t happen. This collection was a …
John Searle Makes A Forceful Case for Studying Consciousness, Where Everything Else Begins
Consciousness is the single most important aspect of our lives, says philosopher John Searle. Why? “It’s a necessary condition on anything being important in our lives,” he says. “If you care about science, philosophy, music, art — whatever — it’s no good if you are a zombie or in a coma.” Searle is one of today’s preeminent philosophers of mind. Author of the famous “Chinese Room” argument against the possibility of true artificial intelligence, Searle has been a persistent thorn in the side of those who would reduce consciousness to computation, or conflate it with behavior. Despite its intrinsically subjective nature, consciousness is an irreducible biological phenomenon, he says, “as much subject to scientific analysis …
Nick Cave Monday #50: “As I Sat Sadly By Her Side”
Earth is a bleak planet and the majority of humanity is selfish, each following the compulsion of their id.All you need to do is look out the window to be disgusted at the theater of the human race.Yet, leave it to Nick to create a beautiful, romantic ballad to capture the essence of our world of shit.Ah the optimistic woman. Both a blessing and a curse. She sees the beauty of the world. Yet the man witnesses the cesspool of degenerate creatures. She explains to him that he needs to let go of that, God doesn’t care for his judgements. Her optimism becomes sorrow. The man smiles.Single white melancholic …
China: When the Cats Rule
Ian Johnson In his novel Cat Country, Lao She produced one of the most remarkable, perplexing, and prophetic works of modern China. On one level it is a work of science fiction—a visit to a country of cat-like people on Mars—that lampoons 1930s China. On a deeper level, the work predicts the terror and violence of the early Communist era and the chaos and brutality that led to Lao She’s own death during the Cultural Revolution. Cat Country is often called a dystopian novel, but when Lao She took his own life, it was an uncannily accurate portrait of the
