In “Steve Carell’s Movie Poster Contract,” a new short from FunnyOrDie.com, Steve Carell demonstrates once again that Steve Carell’s best punchline is Steve Carell. The clip portrays Carell as an ego-inflated version of himself, insisting during a Crazy, Stupid, Love promo meeting that his head must be the largest visible object on any movie poster he’s on. (Who can forget the iconic poster from Curly Sue?) Carell, as the ultimate sufferer of cranium envy, laughs maniacally when he finally gets his way, “Look how much bigger it is than Ryan’s!” The joke here is simple, ridiculous, and totally awesome — just the way we like our Steve Carell in the morning. Watch the short below:
We know all about temporary bridal insanity, and the underreported groom version, but in some families, it’s the parents who are seized by irrational wedding meltdowns.
Last month, 60-year-old British florist and total mom-zilla, Carolyn Bourne attacked. After her stepson’s bride-to-be, Heidi Withers, was a guest in her house she had a thing or two to teach her before she entered the Bourne family.
So Bourne sent the 29-year-old a soul-crushing email. The subject line: “Your lack of manners.” The bullet points for the bride, in paraphrase: her wedding is going to be tacky, she’s too picky of an eater, her sense of humor sucks, and her stepson is making a dreadful choice in marrying her. And one more thing: her out-of-work parents are cheap.
When Withers received the email (Bourne sent it three times to be sure) she did what anyone would do: she forwarded it to a few friends to share in the shock. What was the alternative —respond with a 'frowny' face? But instead of simply offering advice, some anonymous friend got pro-active and forwarded Bourne’s e-attack, launching a viral sensation in a matter of hours. Now everyone in the Western Hemisphere has laid eyes on Bourne’s email.
In a way, it’s the ultimate revenge on a mother-in-law who needed to be put in her place after such power-mongering. But it’s not going to make for smooth wedding. Bourne has been labeled the mother-in-law from hell by media outlets and Withers’ father Alan has fueled the fire by publicly calling Bourne “Miss fancy pants." Now parents on both sides of the couple are fueding and nobody's manners are in check. Suggestion for Heidi and Freddie, her groom: elope.
Bourne has told London's Telegraph she still plans to attend the wedding, but will maintain a "dignified silence." She may know about English etiquette but she’s clueless about the cardinal rule of the Internet: never send an email you don’t want the world to see. You almost have to feel bad for the lady, mom-zilla or not. That is, until you read the actual email she sent Withers. Here’s an excerpt:
An autopsy revealed that wrestling great Randy "Macho Man" Savage died from heart disease and not from any injury sustained in his May 20 car crash.
The St. Petersburg Medical Examiner's Office found that the 58-year-old had an enlarged heart with hardened coronary arteries. He became unresponsive while driving his Jeep Wrangler on a Florida highway in May and crashed into a tree. While the auto accident left minor cuts and bruises, the heart problems were the official cause of death of the wrestler.
At the time of his death, it was unknown whether the former wrestling star had died because of the heart issue or because the heart issue caused him to crash. The coroner said Savage was found with therapeutic levels of a number of prescribed drugs in his system and that alcohol wasn't a factor. There was no evidence he was taking any heart medication, leading to the assumption that Savage may not have known about his condition.
His wife, Lynn, was riding in the car during the accident. Their Jeep Wrangler flipped over a concrete median into oncoming traffic before skidding into a tree. The couple were married in a beachfront ceremony in 2010.
Born Randy Poffo, the future Macho Man had a brief minor league baseball career before joining the wrestling circuit. He grew to fame in the 1980s with the WWF where his bouts with Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and George "The Animal" Steele made him a star. Advertisements with Slim-Jim and his signature catchphrase, "Ooh yeah!," helped him become a household name.
Twenty-eight hours after a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, she spoke by phone to a boyfriend in an immigration jail in Arizona. Investigators with the Manhattan district attorney’s office learned the call had been recorded and had it translated from a “unique dialect of Fulani,” a language from the woman’s native country, Guinea, according to a well-placed law enforcement official.
When the conversation was translated — a job completed only this Wednesday — investigators were alarmed: “She says words to the effect of, ‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing,’ ” the official said.
It was another ground-shifting revelation in a continuing series of troubling statements, fabrications and associations that unraveled the case and upended prosecutors’ view of the woman. Once, in the hours after she said she was attacked on May 14, she’d been a “very pious, devout Muslim woman, shattered by this experience,” the official said — a seemingly ideal witness.
Little by little, her credibility as a witness crumbled — she had lied about her immigration, about being gang raped in Guinea, about her experiences in her homeland and about her finances, according to two law enforcement officials. She had been linked to people suspected of crimes. She changed her account of what she did immediately after the encounter with Mr. Strauss-Kahn. Sit-downs with prosecutors became tense, even angry. Initially composed, she later collapsed in tears and got down on the floor during questioning. She became unavailable to investigators from the district attorney’s office for days at a time.
Now the phone call raised yet another problem: it seemed as if she hoped to profit from whatever occurred in Suite 2806.
The story of the woman’s six-week journey from seemingly credible victim, in the eyes of prosecutors, to a deeply unreliable witness, is drawn from interviews with law enforcement officials, statements from the woman’s lawyer and a letter from prosecutors to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s defense team released in court on Friday. Some of the events were confirmed by both law enforcement officials and the women’s lawyer; others rely solely on law enforcement officials. In the end, it was the prosecutors’ assessment of the housekeeper’s credibility that led them to downgrade their confidence in the case and agree on Friday that Mr. Strauss-Kahn could be freed from house arrest.
Earlier this week, the family, closest friends, and loved ones of Ryan Dunn gathered at a memorial service held at Paramount Pictures in LA to mourn the 34-year-old “Random Hero’s” tragic death. During the service, a tribute video was shown to honor his memory and for all to see him in his glory one last time.
The video tribute is a montage of Dunn’s greatest hits, most of them Jackass-related, cut together in a moving and very funny way that only the guys at Dickhouse Productions know how.
As you’ll see in the special video, Dunn was always willing to do the craziest stunts, from shooting out of a high speed launcher into a lake to diving in to a pool filled with poo. Whether you liked the show Jackass or not, the video is both impressive and emotionally moving.
From the short opening of “Our Brother” to the touching ending of “We love you Ryan,” it is plain to see just how much he meant to all of the lives he was a part of.
Can you imagine Emma Watson in any other role but Hermione Granger? Or playing the villain? The "Harry Potter" star, who always exudes a sense of innocence and wholesomeness, explores her hidden dark side in the August issue of Harper's Bazaar U.K. The magazine photographed Watson as her good-girl self, styled in a white wardrobe, and as her gothic alter ego, sporting vampy all-black dresses and a Liza Minnelli-esque dark brown wig.
The 21-year-old actress, who's starred in the "Harry Potter" films for half her life, admits she has trouble channeling her inner rebel.
"My acting tutor said the hardest thing for me was to get angry," she tells the magazine, via the Daily Mail. "I almost broke down in tears when they tried to get me to be angry. I said, 'I can't do it, I just can't do it.'"
"I keep all of that really bottled up somewhere and I feel unleashing it would be the scariest thing -- and to let myself be powerful, sexy, all those things, it's scary for me," she says, adding that the Harper's photoshoot "felt a bit uncomfortable and awkward, it didn't come naturally at all."
Watson, who recently complained that she can't get a date, returns to the big screen this month in part two of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final film in the blockbuster franchise. Next up, she'll take on non-Hermione roles in "My Week With Marilyn" and "The Perks Of Being A Wallflower."
She won't be moving to Hollywood anytime soon.
"L.A. scares the c**p out of me," Watson says. "I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad, I will absolutely lose it."
Ashton Kutcher stopped replying directly to the Village Voice's bait tweets on Thursday after news of his Twitter tantrum (Twantrum!) went viral, but thanks to the same journalistic tenacity that won the Voice its Pulitzers, the Streisand Effect is in full force.
As we reported on Thursday, the tweets hit the fan Wednesday night, after went live — the Voice cover story critical of Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore's anti sex-trafficking crusade.
The three-day, $65 million extravaganza in Monaco to mark the marriage of Prince Albert II and Charlene Wittstock is the biggest event in the principality since American movie star Grace Kelly became Monaco's Princess Grace.
That April 1956 wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier III was also spread over several days and drew a mix of guests from Hollywood and fashion as well as royalty and heads of state. And it drew worldwide attention to the small Riviera principality.
Now, as their only son and heir takes a bride at the ripe old age of 53, the shadow of his parents falls over his realm. It doesn't hurt that the blonde Wittstock resembles the late Princess Grace, and is a Monaco outsider, just as the Oscar-winning actress was.
The April 19, 1956, wedding took place before 600 guests at Saint Nicholas Cathedral and was watched by 30 million television viewers, an impressive number in those early days of television.The bride wore an ivory, lace and satin gown that was reportedly some 60 years later. It was put together by Helen Rose of MGM studios and a team of seamstresses
After the wedding, the royal couple toured the town in a cream and black convertible that was a gift to them from the people of Monaco and hosted a wedding luncheon at the palace for their guests. Then, the bride and groom left on a seven-week honeymoon cruise aboard the prince's yacht.
It is that glamour, which died with Princess Grace three decades ago, that Monaco is hoping to rekindle with its new princess. What do you think? Will it work?
According to The New York Post, Hayek's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, fathered model Linda Evangelista's 4-year-old son, Augustin James. The Post writes that the son was conceived in early 2006, when Hayek and Pinault were temporarily split.
