Arguably the best part of Lena Dunham’s hosting duties tonight.
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Sunday, 9 March 2014
Change The Way You See Colors
What colors do YOU see?
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Saturday, 8 March 2014
11 Times Orlando Bloom’s Legolas Was Showing
Orlando Bloom, never change your beautiful awkward face.
That moment when Will Turner realized it wasn't his moment.
That moment when he demonstrated his attractiveness on Extras.
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17 Annoying Clothing Problems Women Know Too Well
The struggle is real.
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The 20 Greatest Disney Parents Of All Time
What do Mufasa, Mr. Banks, and Mrs. Potts all have in common? They were all EXCELLENT Disney parents. You won’t find any Lady Tremaines in this list.
Mr. and Mrs. Banks — Mary Poppins
She's a fiery women's rights activist and he's a stodgy old banker. But they still find time to take their kids to fly kites.
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Mrs. Darling — Peter Pan
Mrs. Darling is an under-appreciated saint for dealing with the mood-swings of Mr. Darling. She probably drank a lot of wine.
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Maurice — Beauty and the Beast
How do you think Belle got to be so smart? Maurice probably gave her a love of reading and knowledge.
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Amphitryon and Alcmene — Hercules
Finally, foster parents who are presented in a good light!
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Are You Ready For $455 Jean Shorts?
Can’t handle this jorts game.
Dolce & Gabbana just pulled the ultimate dad style coup.
Their new jorts are “constructed in Italy for a laid-back fit and broken-in feel.”
Like 'em? COOL. They're only $455.
TOTALLY REASONABLE.
Dolce & Gabbana recommends you “team them with a short sleeved cotton shirt and a straw fedora on relaxed summer days.”
A straw fedora, you guys. WHAAAAAAT?
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9 Videos You Can’t Miss This Week
Featuring a little girl’s incredibly moving act of generosity, Jurassic Park with cats instead of dinosaurs, and an absolutely heartbreaking “second a day” video that imagines the impact of Syria’s war on London’s children.
What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners
What do different languages sound like to people who don't speak them? Like the perfectly-accented sentences of pure gibberish that Finnish YouTuber smoukahontas strings together in this incredibly fun video. (1:45)
What It's Like To Be Out Of Shape At The Gym
Getting back to the gym for the first time in a while is pretty much the worst. Come on, just one more sit-up and you can have a taco! (1:46)
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23 Incredibly Helpful Diagrams For Moms-To-Be
There are just so many little things to keep track of when you’re expecting. Just remember: “There’s a chart for that.”
Use this chart to gauge how much exercise is appropriate during pregnancy.
Practice your posture.
The bare necessities (also, what to ask for on your baby registry).
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18 Wonderful And Rare Color Photos Of Disneyland In 1955
These magical vintage pictures of Disneyland, during its first year, will make you wish you had a time machine.
Guests running towards Sleeping Beauty Castle.
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Mickey Mouse's face greets guests, as a Disneyland railroad locomotive stations in front of the Main Street station.
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Walt Disney and a stuffed Mickey Mouse doll conduct the train as it arrives at a Main Street station.
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Walt, along with his daughters Diane and Sharon, wife Lilly, and a guest enjoy some quiet time at his private apartment on Main Street, U.S.A.
The apartment, which was often used by Walt and his family, is located above the Main Street fire house, and it's still there today and decorated exactly like the picture above.
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Imagining A World Where Everyone Has Jared Leto’s Hair
WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!?!
Let's play a game.
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Let's imagine what the world would be like if everyone had Jared Leto's suspiciously flawless ombre hair.
*Weird Al types in a code*
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BOOM
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17 Ridiculously Sexist Vintage Ads
I guess in the 1950s the best way to advertise to women was through misogyny!
I'm surprised her husband allowed her to drive by herself.
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God forbid you wake up with morning breath, or worse yet, without a full face of makeup.
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Wait, what are they advertising?
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Ladies, remember this: Keeping a man is as easy as being a REALLY good cook.
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18 Early ’00s Movies You Thought Were Good, But Are Actually Pretty Horrible
These “cinematic masterpieces” have not stood the test of time.
Down To You
Rotten Tomatoes score: 3%
Most scathing review: “It's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as Annie Hall.” — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly .
Why you probably loved it: Cause it created a perfect fantasy of what you thought your college romance/experience would be like.
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A Cinderella Story
Rotten Tomatoes score: 11%
Most scathing review: “This is a lame, stupid movie.” – Roger Ebert.
Why you probably loved it: Because it reminded you of Ever After, but with Lizzie McGuire.
The Butterfly Effect
Rotten Tomatoes score: 33%
Most scathing review: “An over-the-top supernatural thriller so ridiculous it's unintentionally funnier than some of his recent comedies like My Boss's Daughter.” — Lou Lumenick, NY Post .
Why you probably loved it: There are really only two reasons: Ashton Kutcher, and you were high as fuck when you saw this.
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Crossroads
Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%
Most scathing review: “She's [Britney Spears] not yet an actress, not quite a singer…” – Richard Roeper, Ebert and Roeper .
Why you probably loved it: Obviously because it was Britney Spears' first starring film role, plus it had the whole best friends road trip plot line.
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The “True Detective” Creator Debunks Your Craziest Theories
As Sunday’s finale looms, Nic Pizzolatto discusses the first season’s arc, crazy fan theories, misogyny, female nudity on the show, and Season 2.
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
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HBO's True Detective was always going to be a big deal because of the Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson of it all — but it's safe to say that viewers' obsessive behavior around the show has come in at the high end of expectations. Each week, creator Nic Pizzolatto's grim, literary time-jumping crime story — in which McConaughey plays the haunted, philosophizing Rust Cohle, and Harrelson plays the gone-to-seed good ol' boy Marty Hart (who is smarter than he looks, to his chagrin) — is picked through and expanded upon by a vigilant audience of 11 million. And yes, it's also possible to enjoy True Detective even if you have no idea who the Yellow King is, or whether time is indeed a flat circle. (Or not enjoy it: One gift True Detective has given us is vibrant, fun conversations around the show's excellence; but its provocations have also birthed intelligent dissent.)
The eighth of Season 1's eight episodes airs Sunday, and the story of Rust, Marty, and the serial murder case that has framed a 17-year period of their lives will conclude. And so will McConaughey's and Harrelson's tenures on the show; next season will reboot with another arc and another cast created by Pizzolatto. (Though True Detective hasn't been officially renewed, as you will see below, it will be.)
This interview was conducted over email — Pizzolatto's choice — and we discussed the season so far, as well as where Episode 7 left us (so stop reading now if you're not caught up). We also talked about charges of misogyny against the show; pay-cable's “clear mandate” (his words) to include nudity; satanic ritual abuse; whether the show will continue to have one director for all of the episodes, as it did this season with Cary Fukunaga; and where Season 2 might go.
Very might: Pizzolatto can get vague with the best of them. Except when he's telling you that — for sure — neither Rust nor Marty will turn out to be the killer on Sunday night. So stop it with that.
Let's begin with the ending of Episode 7, when we see Errol, who is, or had better be, the Spaghetti Monster. How did you build to that moment, and why did you decide to end the episode on that note?
Nic Pizzolatto: Going into the final episode, I wanted to end any audience theorizing that Cohle or Hart was the killer, and also provide a concrete face to the abstract evil they're chasing. So, wild speculations aside, we showed the killer's face in Episode 1. Though we know that as this “third man,” whose face was scarred by his father, Errol is himself a revenant of great historical evil. There's enough fragmentary history in Episode 7 that, like Hemingway's iceberg, what is obscured can be discerned by what is visible. We have further context and dimension to explore with the killer, but the true questions now are whether Cohle and Hart succeed, what they will find, and whether they'll make it out alive.
Rust and Marty seem to have found focus in their messy lives by deciding that solving this case is the thing they need to do to find both professional and personal resolution. Did you always know that the show was going to come to that?
NP: The story was entirely planned around them reuniting to try and resolve this serial murderer case. I don't really think either man sees it as a personal resolution, because neither one believes in resolution. I believe they recognize it as their duty, and as perhaps the only thing they're good for. In this I think they are commendable, as they each could've walked away from the whole thing several times in the course of the series. That said, I think it's clear that neither man is living much of a life, and I find it touching when Cohle asks about Marty's life — that's something '95 Cohle would never do. '95 Cohle says, “It's none of my business [your life].” But 2012 Cohle, there's the sense that Marty's his last buoy, the closest thing he has to someone who knows him. This is largely true for Hart as well. And Cohle makes clear to Marty that he wants to die and views this case as something he has to solve first, though it's valid to interpret that perhaps a part of Cohle does not want to die, and latching onto this case again is a way for him to keep living. It's relevant that “Angel of the Morning” is playing when they reunite.
Now I'm curious about “Angel of the Morning.” You chose it because of the song's spirit of wistful resignation, or a particular lyric?
NP: Well, it's a love song about unrequited devotion with a female singer, as though vocalizing the anima they've mutually repressed.
Would it be correct in assuming that they're willing to die? Marty in particular seemed to be saying goodbye to Maggie in Episode 7.
NP: I think given the amorphous nature of the evil they're pursuing, its historical roots in culture and government, they would have to be willing to die to fully pursue their absolute justice. And they each understand this.
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Did you imagine that there would be so much audience speculation that Rust or Marty was the murderer, or was that a frustrating surprise as the show has unfolded?
NP: It was a little surprising, but not frustrating at all, just part of the experience of having people connect to the show. The possibility is built into the story, as it has to be credible that the 2012 PD suspect Cohle. I just thought that such a revelation would be terrible, obvious writing. For me, the worst writing generally just “flips” things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is so ruinous as a forced “twist,” I think.
Let's discuss satanic ritual abuse, which is the backdrop of the '95 sections (and is certainly mentioned a few times — the task force that looms over them, putting pressure on them to get the case solved). That was an intense, strange phenomenon of the '80s and '90s, and was largely debunked. But the show seems to be coming down on the side of satanic ritual abuse really existing!
NP: The case of Hosanna Church in Tangipahoa Parish certainly seems real enough. I was there through the satanism panic that started in the mid-'80s and then resurged in the '90s. So even as rural myth, it's a part of the time and place. But this is a coastal Louisiana of-the-mind, as I knew it, a place which is no stranger to superstition and esoteric belief, where mysticism mingles with mainstream religion, where Voudon and Santeria are practiced along the bayous and a primitivism still maintains in many places. I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed their eyes and claimed to see visions, and we were prepped for the end of the world throughout grade school. So the wild extremes of belief were always visible, and then to me it's a short jump to a horror story. The ritual abuse in our show is the darkest side of belief, in a show where belief has been a steady underlying topic.
Did you grow up religious?
NP: I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.
Have you read Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright — which explored a problematic case of “recovered memories” and satanic rituals — and did it inform anything in True Detective?
NP: Never read it; the focus on mysticism and child abuse are both governing concerns of mine, and fit the place very well, based on my life experience.
Twin Peaks strikes me as the other vivid popular expression of ritualistic child sexual abuse — but in Twin Peaks, there was a supernatural element that put a veil over plain-old child rape and incest. I'm curious both about whether you watched Twin Peaks and thought about it at all here. And also what you've thought about all the internet chatter wanting True Detective to turn out to be a supernatural story despite showing no evidence through seven of eight episodes that it's that at all.
NP: I watched and loved Twin Peaks when it was on, at least in that rich first arc, before Josie turned into a dresser drawer and everything went bonkers, though I wasn't thinking about it at all. I don't read internet chatter, but all I can offer is that to date there hasn't been a single thing in our show that's supernatural, so why would that suddenly manifest in the last episode? The show has a quality of mysticism, for sure, but nothing supernatural so far. I think there's a lot of self-projection going on in certain cases; like the show has become a Rorschach test for a specific contingent of the audience in which they read their own obsessions into it. This is what it means to resonate with people, so I don't mind it. The danger is that it's myopic and unfairly reductive, like a literary theorist who only sees Marxism or Freudianism rather the totality of a work.
There are also those who will not be satisfied with any finale unless Rust Cohle steps out of their TVs, into their living room, and shoots them in the foot as some kind of meta-statement on magick and mass entertainment. And, you know, the technology just isn't there. That said, I wouldn't totally rule out the appearance of special effects…
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19 Nerdy Knits You Need To Knit Right Now
Wave your geek flag high with these brilliant and wooly projects.
Sherlock Wallpaper Pillow
Feeling “bored?” Distract yourself by knitting up this friendly pillow. The pattern can be easily adapted and repurposed to make other knitting projects such as a scarf or a blanket.
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Doctor Who Scarf
Any self respecting Whovian will know the 4th Doctor's scarf is the ultimate knitting project. Sure it's going to be tedious to knit all 14 feet, but what does that matter to a Timelord?
Plush TARDIS
Slide some cardboard inside to keep its shape, or stick to stuffing for a cuddlier TARDIS. If you want to get really fancy, you can get a recordable sound chip to sew inside for that classic “EERrwWwoooooSHHHhEERrwWwoooooSHHHh EERrwWwoooooSHHHh” sound when you squeeze it.
Baby Dalek Dress
If all Daleks were this adorable even the Doctor wouldn't be able to resist succumbing to their charms.
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Bill Murray Offers A Hilarious Behind-The-Scenes Look At “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
The iconic actor steals all his Budapest scenes and BuzzFeed’s exclusive set visit video.
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Not since the late, great Harold Ramis has Bill Murray collaborated with a director as frequently as he has Wes Anderson (of the eight feature films Anderson's helmed, only one — his first, 1996's Bottle Rocket — didn't star Murray).
And the actor thrives in the unique worlds Anderson establishes both on screen and off. “He's managed to make the making of movies a real living experience,” Murray told Esquire in 2012. “For Moonrise Kingdom, he rented a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and we lived in it. The editing rooms were in the mansion. And we had a great cook. You could be relaxed in your own skin, but it also meant that you could work endless, ungodly art-movie hours because there was gonna be a meal prepared for you when you're done.”
Anderson and Murray's latest collaboration — The Grand Budapest Hotel, an eccentric murder mystery — opens on March 7, and BuzzFeed has an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at that unique moviemaking experience.
In addition to hearing how Anderson decided to set the entire film in Germany's small, snowy village of Gorlitz, Murray gives a hilarious tour of the town, and introduces some locals — whether they like it or not.
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10 Stages Of Owning A Shop On Etsy
All the blood, sweat, and glitter.
You head out to the best place on Earth (AKA the craft store),
pick up a few absolutely vital supplies,
and then get to work making your items.
When you're finished creating, you take a million pictures until you get the PERFECT one for a front page treasury.
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Bob Balaban Has No Idea How He Became A Brilliant Hollywood Character Actor
He’s worked with Spielberg and appeared on Seinfeld . He’s directed Philip Seymour Hoffman and been directed by George Clooney and Wes Anderson. In his own words, he talks through his remarkable professional journey.
Bob Balaban, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, and Matt Damon from The Monuments Men.
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About 20 minutes into the first of three phone interviews with actor-producer-director Bob Balaban — I was in sunny Los Angeles, he was in wintry New York City — he stopped in the middle of an answer about acting as the head of NBC in several episodes of Seinfeld.
“Oh my god,” he said. “Everybody's OK, but a giant block of ice just fell 20 feet from where I'm standing, outside the restaurant where I'm going to have lunch. Oh my god, right in front of the door where I would've been walking in. It destroyed the neon sign above the doorway to the restaurant, and it exactly crashed on where I would have entered the door. I could have been killed during our interview!”
For a character actor who has spent his nearly 50-year career playing quiet, circumspect men, Balaban's life is full of flashpoints of excitement. He's worked with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Lena Dunham and George Clooney to Robert Altman. He's appeared in two Woody Allen films — one before the Mia Farrow scandal broke in 1992, and one after — and his performances in two other Allen films ended up on the cutting room floor. He's appeared on memorable episodes of Friends and The West Wing, directed Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his first feature film roles, and was a regular fixture in Christopher Guest's quartet of sublime improvised comedies.
And this week, he'll appear in The Grand Budapest Hotel, his second film with director Wes Anderson.
“He's always his own self in all situations, and it's a delightful self, and very practical self,” Balaban said of Anderson. “You think he might be eccentric, and he wears a suit all the time — that's considered eccentric. But he's not at all eccentric. He's practical. He knows how to get what he wants in a very pleasant way.”
Balaban's ease with show business seems to come naturally — his uncle Barney Balaban ran Paramount Pictures for 30 years — but Balaban said that while growing up in Chicago, he was barely aware of his family's powerful position in Hollywood. “There was no show business at all practically speaking in my family,” he said. “We didn't talk about what movie star was in town, and how well were the grosses of the last picture. Literally, I never heard anything about any of that at all. I was rather just buzzed to discover that my uncle ran a movie studio. I didn't really know. It was very downplayed. You know, Midwestern Jews keep a low profile.”
Still, he must have picked up some kind of ambitious pluck: While still an undergrad at Colgate University in New York, Balaban essentially talked his way into getting an agent to submit him for the role of Linus in the off-Broadway debut of the musical You're a Good Man Charlie Brown — and he landed the part.
“I got jobs quickly,” he said. “I was strangely aggressive for somebody who didn't really seem like they would be.”
That aggression landed Balaban his first film role in what would become an iconic, Oscar-award winning, and highly controversial film — and Balaban's role had him at the center of the controversy. He graciously walked me through his memories and insights from that experience, as well as 22 other films and TV shows he's worked on over the course of his remarkable career. Here they are, in his own lightly edited words.
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Balaban and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy.
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Conventional showbiz wisdom says Balaban's first film role — for a film about a wide-eyed Texan (Jon Voight) who moves to New York City to become a male prostitute — would have derailed his entire career. But Balaban did not see it that way — and still doesn't.
I go down on Jon Voight. The character does. Was it shocking to be doing that? I was so naïve! It didn't occur to me. It was just acting. It was respectable. It wasn't a porn movie. Dustin Hoffman was in the movie, and John Schlesinger was a famous director. It did not occur to me for a second that this was anything shocking. But I guess it was shocking, and the movie got an X rating for my scene basically — and then the X rating mysteriously went away when it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. I know this is even more absurd — I was a little unaware of what I was auditioning for, and I thought perhaps it was a television movie. Now that's really strange. I guess I was just Pollyanna.
It had no effect on anything [in my career]. I mean, it wasn't like, Oh, you can only be up for gay roles now that you've done this. It was kind of a not very large part, and I wasn't the star of the movie. I suppose if I really wanted to be a movie star, or was able to be a movie star, this might have put a little ding in my movie stardom. But I was always just a character actor.
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37 Ways To Treat Yourself With Tiffany Blue
Who ever said red was the color of love?
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