SNL took a swipe at gun control as Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the opening act.
Here’s the video:
SNL Takes Swipe at Gun Control in Opening Act with Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey
April 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Disney Announces “Finding Dory” Sequel to “Finding Nemo,” To Star Ellen DeGeneres
April 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Disney Announces “Finding Dory” Sequel to “Finding Nemo,” To Star Ellen DeGeneres
Yaaay! Disney is wading in familiar waters with the November 25, 2015 sequel to “Finding Nemo,” entitled “Finding Dory.” Ellen DeGeneres will return as the voice of Dory, the friendly but slightly amnesiac fish. The sequel will bring back other favorites, such as clownfish Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, son Nemo and the Tank Gang. It will be set a year after the end of the first movie, Disney said.
Part of “Finding Dory” will be set on the California coast. The first movie showed Marlin ending on the Australian coast searching for Nemo, who was kidnapped.
“I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” said Ellen DeGeneres, who voices Dory, in a statement. “I’m not mad it took this long. I know the people at Pixar were busy creating ‘Toy Story 16.’ But the time they took was worth it. The script is fantastic. And it has everything I loved about the first one: It’s got a lot of heart, it’s really funny, and the best part is—it’s got a lot more Dory.” Source
Valerie Harper, Star of 70s Sitcom “Rhoda,” Diagnosed with Terminal Brain Cancer
March 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Valerie Harper, Star of 70s Sitcom “Rhoda,” Diagnosed with Terminal Brain Cancer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern in TV sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and starred in its spinoff “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
People magazine reports that Ms. Harper received the news on Jan. 15, and was told she has as little as three months to live. She told the magazine, ”I don’t think of dying. I think of being here now.”
Rhoda was one of my favorite shows during the 1970s. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Valerie Harper.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco Engaged in Anti-Obama Rant at StartUp RockOn Inaugural Concert
January 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Rapper Lupe Fiasco Engage in anti-Obama rant at StartUp RockOn inaugural concert (Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer)
FIASCO: Must we always air our dirty laundry in public? I am referring to rapper Lupe Fiasco, who proved he was a fiasco, after being thrown off the stage at StartUp RockOn inaugural concert. Hypervoal said he was thrown off because of a “bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied”. Some believe he was kicked off because of his anti-Obama rant.
Although Fiasco was booked as the headliner for the StartUp RockOn concert in celebration of Obama’s reelection, the 30-year-old Chicago rapper apparently had no plans to cheer the current administration. Instead, after taking the stage at The Hamilton in Washington, he reportedly announced that he didn’t vote for the president in the 2012 election and spent more than 30 minutes performing an anti-war song. Source
Simply a disgrace. If he felt that way, then why even bother perform or even show up in Washington D.C.? There’s a time and place for everything. Obama haters will love it, but it was simply disrespectful.
Here’s the statement from Hypervocal:
StartUp RockOn is all about startups helping startups. At Sunday night’s Inauguration Celebration at the Hamilton Live, organizers set out to honor innovative visionaries with grants, accolades and a party worthy of the success we achieved at the RNC and DNC this summer.
Lupe Fiasco performed at this private event, and as you may have read, he left the stage earlier than we had planned. But Lupe Fiasco was not “kicked off stage” for an “anti-Obama rant.” We are staunch supporters of free speech, and free political speech. This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act.
The party continued as planned, and we celebrated the announcement of CodeNow’s winning the Grant Challenge. CodeNow is a non-profit startup based in Washington DC that teaches “underrepresented high school students basic skills in computer programming.”
Watch Lupe Fiasco’s “fiasco” of a performance:
ABC Thriller ‘Scandal’ Criticized for Torture Scenes by Parents Television Council
January 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
ABC Thriller ‘Scandal’ Criticized for Torture Scenes by Parents Television Council. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The conservative Parents Television Council is criticizing ABC hit-show “Scandal” for airing a torture scene in last week’s episode. The episode featured scenes of violence and water-boarding of the character of Huck (Guillermo Diaz) who was accused of attempting to assassinate President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn).
Huck was arrested under the Patriot Act and was water-boarded and nearly beaten to death to force him to confess. He was eventually released and the real shooter was arrested.
PTC said in a statement, “The brutal nature of that scene, which was rated as appropriate for a 14-year-old child, refutes statements made by an industry claiming to be responsible and concerned about societal violence.”
PTC president Tim Winter said: “It is sickening just how quickly the entertainment industry was able to move past the tragedy of Newtown and get back to business as usual.”
The episode in question, which was the January 10th installment, was clearly preceded by a content advisory which warned viewers to expect “intense, explicit and bloodied” scenes. So, viewers had ample time to switch channels.
The group is also calling on the Obama administration to support an effort for “real responsibility from those who produce and distribute violent media content as well as real reform of the failed TV ratings system.”
Um, why would a 14 year old child be watching television at this hour on a school night? If that’s the case, then the parents should be blamed, not the network.
Funkmeister George Clinton Loses Copyrights to Four Jams to Settle $1.5 Million Lawsuit
January 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Funkmeister George Clinton Loses Copyrights to Four Jams to Settle $1.5 Million Lawsuit. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Funkmeister George Clinton just realized what the price of playing around with a judgment really means — a judge granted his ex-law firm Hendricks & Lewis the copyrights for his jams: ”Hardcore Jollies,”"The Electric Spanking of War Babies,” “Uncle Jam Wants You” and “One Nation Under a Groove,” to settle a $1.5 million judgment the firm won against him in 2010.
TMZ reports that the ruling gives Hendricks & Lewis the right to sell or use the music any way it sees fit, with all the money going towards paying back the original judgment. Once the judgment is paid off, the copyrights go back to George Clinton. He has filed a motion to reverse the decision.
Thank You from The Hinterland Gazette for a Very Successful 2012
January 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Thank You from The Hinterland Gazette for a Very Successful 2012 (Photo credit: Glitter Images)
After reading about blogger Andrew Sullivan’s decision to take his site independent and the outpouring of support he has received, I am encouraged by my decision to keep The Hinterland Gazette independent. When I started the Hinterland Gazette, formerly known as Black Political Thought, at the end of 2007, my goal was always to remain independent, where we wouldn’t have our style dictated by Big Sister or Big Brother. That will never change. Our voice is here to stay.
Though journey has been hard at times, we have always been encouraged and motivated our readers and the success we have had year after year. Last year was our best year by far. We quadrupled our page views and readership. We owe it all to YOU.
Going forward for 2013, we will build on our success from 2012 with some bold and ambitious plans. We will offer more custom content, conduct more interviews and engage in more community activism for domestic violence, voting rights and missing children. We are laying the groundwork for our first documentary, featuring Jamaica from a social perspective. We will continue to bring you political news from a centrist point of view, as well as offer more statistical information about the issues, such as following the money trail in Washington D.C.
To help us accomplish all these great plans, we will hold our first fundraising drive in February 2013. We are also looking for freelance writers for our entertainment news section.
I want to publicly thank all our readers and promise that the best is yet to come. Together we can change the world! The Hinterland Gazette wishes you a Happy New Year!
Boston Globe Movie Critic Likens ‘Django Unchained’ House Negro Character to Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain
January 1, 2013 by 2 Comments
Boston Globe Movie Critic Compares ‘Django Unchained’ House Negro Character to Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain
WTF: Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris is comparing “Django Unchained” character, Stephen, the villainous “House Negro” played by Samuel L. Jackson, to black Republicans in his movie review.
“Samuel L. Jackson plays crusty, waxen Stephen as a vision of depraved loyalty and bombastic jive that cuts right past the obvious association with Uncle Tom. The movie is too modern for what Jackson is doing to be limited to 1853. He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes or Herman Cain or Michael Steele, men whom some black people find embarrassing.”
Fox News “Commentator” Sean Hannity One of the Biggest Losers of 2012, Lost Half Audience After Obama Win
December 31, 2012 by 1 Comment
Fox News “Commentator” Sean Hannity Lost One of the Biggest Losers of 2012, Lost Half Audience After Obama Win (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Fox News’ host Sean Hannity is being called one of the biggest losers of 2012 and it’s with good reason. The NY Daily News reports that he has lost one-half of his audience after President Obama won reelection. Yeah, that’s because he was dead wrong in many of his predictions about the outcome of the election and about President Obama. Add Dick Morris to the mix and you’ll see why he deserves to lose his viewers. Sean Hannity has ZERO credibility. This comes as he tried to make hay of Hillary Clinton’s medical problems, saying he wanted to see the medical report about her concussion.
NY Daily News: According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience.
So what happened to Hannity?
The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.
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Adding insult to injury, two of Hannity’s rivals on MSNBC, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow, held onto huge chunks of their audiences, while at CNN, far less politically polarizing host Anderson Cooper lost almost none of his viewers postelection.
It got even worse for Hannity in the “money demo” of viewers 25-54, who are prized by advertisers.
With this group, Hannity held onto less than half his preelection audience. O’Reilly, on the other hand, kept almost 70%.
And through the early part of December, Maddow actually beat Hannity in the coveted group — a shocking turn, because until the election, Hannity was unassailable by any of his rivals, at least in terms of ratings.
Sean Hannity tried to resurrect Rev. Jeremiah Wright, played up a speech by then-candidate Barack Obama at Hampton University, and try to strike a low blow in denigrating and discrediting President Obama, but it all backfired with a resounding defeat of Mitt Romney in the elections.
“Red Tails” Actor Terrence Howard Sued by American Express for Unpaid Credit Card Balance
December 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“Red Tails” Actor Terrence Howard Sued by American Express for Unpaid Credit Card Balance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It seems that actor Terrence Howard may be going over his own fiscal cliff. The “Red Tails” star was sued by American Express in November for an unpaid balance of $33,474.79, according to court documents.
The complaint, which was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on November 30, charges against the actor individually, as well as his company, Al Chemist Productions Inc. American Express is also seeking ten percent interest from the date the suit was filed.
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