Tag Archives: games
Lutz Eyes Hunger Games Role
Lutz Eyes Hunger Games Role
Posted by Adam
Friday April 20, 2012
KELLAN Lutz wants to star in The Hunger Games.
“I love the script, I love the movie, everything about it,” he said.
“I feel like Twilight is kind of more girly and on the romance side and lacks the action, and then ‘Hunger Games’ is very much an action-packed movie that lacks some of the romance.”
Kellan, 27, added he has been a huge fan of ‘The Hunger Games’ books, even before it was turned into a huge budget film franchise.
“I got hooked reading all those books. I remember before they ever started making a movie, I was like, ‘I would love to be a part of this!’” he said.
Tags: kellan lutz
Source: Lutz Eyes Hunger Games Role
More Like Her Author Would Cast Rachel McAdams As Perfectly Imperfect Heroine
We’re not sure we can be objective about More Like Her, the new novel from author Liza Palmer. That’s because she’s family — a writer for VH1′s Pop Up Video. So rather than review the book, we invited her to write a guest blog about it, the world of celebrity and which celebrities she dreams of casting in the movie adaptation.
I’ve been writing books for almost 10 years and wrote for the first season of VH1′s Pop Up Video in 2011. My books, like my life, have explored the idea of identity and being comfortable with who you are, warts and all. What is this “normal” we’re all reaching for? Clearly, after four books, I’m still trying to figure it out. But, with More Like Her I wanted to raise the stakes a bit. I wanted something to happen that couldn’t be taken back with an apology or a conversation.
Liza’s fantasy casting for More Like Her.
We all know celebrities are airbrushed, both their photos and their lives. And yet, we keep striving for it: that same Photoshopped perfection. We imagine there’s some green room awaiting us with everything Gwyneth Paltrow promises on Goop, a tablescape by Martha Stewart and an outfit from J. Crew that will look better on us than it does on the first lady.
But perfection doesn’t exist. And we know it. That doesn’t stop us from scrambling for it day in and day out. What are we all hiding? To answer this question, here are just a couple of the comments left after gossip blogs posted a photo of Scarlett Johansson wearing a bikini while on vacation in Hawaii:
“Ugh… spotty knees, hair can be seen on her right calf area!!”
“Effing gross. She lost her t–s and her ass exploded like a bowl of cottage cheese.”
Do we fear that the people in our lives will suddenly morph into those anonymous trolls who leave comments like these on the Internet? Or do we know the truth: The quest for perfection is threatening to become a competitive sport as potentially dangerous and deadly as the Hunger Games. And we all play to win. Every day.
I wrote More Like Her because I wanted us to start a discussion about this quest for perfection and how it threatens both body and soul. Those comments that those trolls left about Scarlett Johansson? Let’s face it, we probably said worse to ourselves in the mirror this morning. In the book, Emma Dunham is everything we want to be. She’s thin, beautiful, wears clothes that don’t wrinkle, lipstick that doesn’t smudge – and her right calf area is definitely devoid of unsightly hair. To my main character, Frannie Reid, Emma Dunham has it all. Frannie is dead wrong.
[Photo: Getty Images, Harper Collins]
Source: More Like Her Author Would Cast Rachel McAdams As Perfectly Imperfect Heroine
Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera Eliminate Players on The Voice
Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton
Colleen Hayes/NBC
With each team narrowed to four contestants, Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera’s protégés met in The Voice‘s quarterfinals Monday.
In an unprecedented twist, both mentors were obligated to immediately eliminate one of their mentees at the end of the night – but not before taking the stage to perform with their team.
Spoiler Alert: Keep reading to find out which contestants made the cut and who was sent home.
“I didn’t see this coming,” Shelton admitted at the start of the show, upon learning of the instant elimination requirement. “I think it’s caught us all off guard a little bit. … It sucks.”
An Upsetting Twist
“I’m really upset right now about it, because at this point I strongly believe in my team, and they’re all winners to me,” Aguilera told host Carson Daly about the rule. “It’s going to be super, super tough to make this decision tonight.”
From Team Blake, teen country sensation RaeLynn performed a rendition of Jason Aldean’s “Country Girl,” prompting Shelton to say: “This is the most proud moment I’ve had this whole season. … You just proved to America that country can kick ass.”
And though Aguilera called RaeLynn “a little badass,” it was Team Blake’s Jermaine Paul whom she dubbed her “favorite,” after his rendition of Phil Collins’s “Against All Odds.”
Shelton agreed, saying he believed the performance would be a “turning point” for Paul.
From Aguilera’s team, Ashley De La Rosa, who was celebrating her 18th birthday, powered through a rock version of Jewel’s “Foolish Games.” After her performance, Shelton said that Aguilera saving De La Rosa a couple of weeks ago was “the smartest decision that’s been made this year.”
Judges Take the Stage
Shelton and Aguilera also each took the stage with their four remaining team members, with Team Christina performing Aguilera’s hit “Fighter,” and Team Blake tackling the Eagles’s “Heartache Tonight.”
And they weren’t the only judges to perform. Though his team won’t face off against Team Cee Lo until next week, Adam Levine joined his Maroon 5 bandmates on stage – along with Wiz Khalifa – to debut their new single, “Payphone.”
When it finally came time for the eliminations, both Shelton and Aguilera struggled with their decisions.
“I was really hoping for somebody to come out here and not do a good job … and it just didn’t happen tonight,” Shelton said, before opting to eliminate Jordis Unga based on audience votes two weeks ago that placed her in the bottom three.
And, in a somewhat shocking move, Aguilera elected to let Jesse Campbell go.
After Campbell’s performance of Beyoncé’s “Halo” earlier in the evening, which he dedicated to his daughter, Levine told him he was a “huge, huge favorite” to win the entire competition.
Audience votes announced on Tuesday’s episode of The Voice will determine which of the remaining six contestants from Team Christina and Team Blake will stay in the competition.
Source: Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera Eliminate Players on The Voice
Incoming search terms:
- christina aguilera sucks
- the voice tonight april 17 2012 the winners
- the voice results 2012 team christina and team blake april 17 2012
- christinas voice elimination
- christina and blakes choices to eliminate
- blake shelton 2012 code
- Christina aguilera jesse voice
- christina aguilera eliminates jesse campbell
- christina aguilera dance for blake last night on voice
- christina aguilera 2012
Eden’s World
Mickie (left) and Eden Wood
Charles Sykes/REX USA
At the ripe old age of 7, Eden Wood is ready for her second act.
The child beauty-pageant queen, who became famous on TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras, heads to New York City to try her hand at show business – and mentors other pint-size beauty queens – in her new show, Eden’s World, premiering Monday on Logo.
Eden’s mother, Mickie Wood, tells PEOPLE that her daughter was ready for a change.
“She’s over pageants,” Mickie says. “She loves going and being around other girls. That’s her schtick … I could tell by her behavior that she was over it last year already, the hair and makeup. She was over it.”
The show is already getting some flack over how the adults behave, but Mickie says Eden is the focus. “Eden’s a little star,” she says. “She does commentary. She does funny stuff. She’s reporting. She comes across as a little superstar, and the drama with the adults is just a part of that.”
Source: Eden’s World: Will You Watch?
