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Handling hosting duties for the latest episode of the long-running NBC comedy program, Emma Stone took center stage on “Saturday Night Live” last night (November 12).

The “Easy A” actress stepped in front of the audience for her opening monologue, only to be interrupted as a Spider-Man clad Andy Samberg descended from above in hopes of auditioning for the Spidey role in Stone’s upcoming comic book movie reboot.

After a number of jokes (mostly directed at Emma’s co-star/rumored beau Andrew Garfield), the opening segment closed with Garfield taking the stage alongside Stone to settle the matter.

Another noteworthy moment included the latest Weekend Update, which saw the Devil having a hard time coming to terms with the ugly situation at Penn State, as well as sketches.

With other sketches featuring Emma including bits titled “Herb Welch: Falling Ice,” “Bridal Shower Gifts” and “Secret Word,” this weekend’s SNL saw Coldplay take the stage twice as musical guest to perform their new songs “Paradise” and “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”.

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This issue has been traced to a single battery supplier that produced batteries with a manufacturing defect. While the possibility of an incident is

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Black actors belong in British costume drama. After all, we’ve been around for a lot longer than 1948

I’ve not read Wuthering Heights and for some reason, possibly the terrible sadness of its storyline, I’ve tried to avoid filmed versions of it too. But Andrea Arnold’s retelling of Emily Bronte’s story has me intrigued. Casting a black Heathcliff seems to have divided critics down the middle: some say it is an accurate and justifiable reading of the story of the “dark outsider”; others dismiss it as a bit of modern, multicultural nonsense.

Indeed, one critic wrote that far from Arnold’s description of the actor James Howson as a “young Jimi Hendrix”, they found him more like “a young Rio Ferdinand”. A British film director decides to cast the best actor she can find regardless of colour, and the critic chooses to mock her choice by comparing the artist to a footballer with the same colour skin. Boring, predictable and sad.

However, this inadvertently shines a spotlight on an age-old phenomenon: the habitual colour blindness that our film and television industry suffers so much from. I mean colour blindness in the negative sense of ignoring black faces in the line-up for classic roles.

I expect most actors would admit to a touch of jealousy, or healthy envy, if they see fellow actors in an excellent piece of work on TV or in the theatre. But the green-eyed monster is further fed when you are a black actor and see all the costume dramas this country is so masterful at producing, and realise that neither you nor any of your black contemporaries have been on such an exalted cast list. Why can I not get seen for parts in Emma, Great Expectations, or Downton Abbey? Is it because I’m not “the right kind of actor”? Or just the wrong colour of actor?

With a couple of recent exceptions (the BBC’s Servants and Small Island, and Arnold’s Wuthering Heights), it seems that we have settled on the non-inclusion of black faces in our costume dramas as a norm. “Fair enough,” you might say. “There weren’t many black people in Britain before 1948, anyway, were there?”

In fact, you wouldn’t be alone in thinking that. Ten years ago I would have said the same thing.

What changed my mind was a selfless act of research on my part. OK, I really wanted to be in a costume drama, so I looked up black people in British history who would make good subjects for a screenplay. I thought the historical pickings would be slim, but found, to my astonishment, that I couldn’t get to the end of all the hilarious, heart-breaking and rousing tales from our rich and varied British story.

Gretchen Gerzina’s book Black England was my starting point. Here was rich fare for many a costume epic: the black centurion on Hadrian’s Wall shouting abuse and defiance at the marauding Picts below; Queen Bess riding through London in her carriage and, seeing so many black faces cluttering up the place, chartering a boat to ship them all off to Spain and Portugal to be sold as slaves. (On the day of departure not one black person showed up, so the plan was shelved.)

These brief examples are just the showier pictures of a hidden history. The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not only deeply hurtful and enraging, but also foolish in the extreme. Who wants to only know half the story of their nation; wWho would be content to know only half the truth of their country’s journey from pre-Christian warriors to sophisticated world leaders in diplomacy, commerce, fashion, music and the arts? And the black presence has been a part of all of those achievements; sometimes negatively if we think of slavery, and sometimes positively when we consider figures like Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho.

I eventually wrote my theatre piece on the latter man because his story of slave-born to actor and friend of David Garrick, becoming along the way a musician, grocer, composer, playwright and first black man to vote struck me as the perfect antidote to the view that “black people only came here in the 1940′s”. Not only is it essential that we as British people tell our story, it is vital that we tell the whole story. If not, we risk increasing those feelings of alienation and temporariness that effect our youth so violently.

Drama must give us a view not just of what was but of what could be, and when we say that all that black people were or ever could be to us are ‘problems’ or ‘issues’, or buzz words like ‘knife/gun crime’, we take our broad and beautiful richness and diminish it to stunted cliché and narrow world view..

As an actor, I want to be in works that reflect black presence in the UK throughout the nation’s history.

But if I am to do that, then playwrights must get researching to broaden their palate, and programme makers must look away from their mirrors and see the darker shades around both them and their ancestors. In the meantime, I applaud Arnold’s intelligence and openness in casting who she liked, regardless of their ethnicity.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/11/wuthering-heights-black-actors

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George Clooney has the life: He pals around with the likes of Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, jets off on romantic Mexican getaways with his gorgeous girlfriend Stacy Keibler, and, according to Ides of March costar Ryan Gosling, is "good at everything." But, as Clooney told NPR back in 2005, he contemplated ending it all after suffering an excruciating back injury (which required multiple surgeries) while filming a torture scene in Syriana — a role, by the way, that won him an Oscar for best supporting actor.

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Liam Hemsworth is about to make it big. Really big. And not just as the boyfriend of Miley Cyrus, but as one of the stars of The Hunger Games, the blockbuster trilogy that kicks off in March.

For now, though, the actor is still mostly known for the famous girl on his arm, which was the main topic of conversation between Hemsworth and Who Magazine this month. That magazine has named Liam one of the Sexiest People of 2011.

“There is this place in Nashville called Steak and Shake, which is pretty much the best food, ever,” he tells the magazine. “That is our secret, sexy place to go… When I look over at her when she’s biting into a steak sandwich and there is some steak sauce dripping down her chin, there is nothing sexier than that.”

So that’s what Hemsworth likes about Cyrus. What does she find attractive about Liam?

“I’m still trying to figure it out,” he laughed. “I’m kind of a goof.”

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/11/liam-hemsworth-finds-miley-cyrus-sexiest-when/

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We’re rounding up the best of your comments and reviews on our My favourite film series, in which our writers pick their favourite films of all time.

Here’s what you had to say in week two, when we bigged up the films Some Like It Hot, The Consequences of Love, The Big Lebowski, Beautiful Girls and ? can it be? ? Predator

“One of the best closing lines ever,” said shodfather in response to Becky Barnicoat’s nomination of Some Like It Hot, which opened the second week of our My favourite film series in giggling, jiggling style. Billy Wilder’s note-perfect comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as two musicians, disguised as women, who join an all-girl band to escape the mob. “Even on my X-tieth viewing I laughed at jokes I’d missed before,” said Becky of a film that was “the sum of many impeccable parts”. Some of them, according to nocod, belonging to band leader Marilyn Monroe. “Still haven’t seen all the film,” (presumerably) he said. “My glasses keep steaming up.”

“Some Like It Hot is all about being two things at once ? goofy and clever. Funny and dark. Men and women,” wrote Becky. It’s black and white, too. And while Becky wished Wilder had gone for Technicolor, loads of you (verygoodyear, Fennellinator, WalneyGirl) disagreed. There was also a fair old do (be-do) about Tony Curtis’s famous statement that kissing Monroe was like “kissing Hitler”. It was said sarcastically, as lobster1, EgeBamyasi and Glazza pointed out. Less contentious was Curtis’s impression of Cary Grant, a highlight for many of you. “Tony Curtis took Cary Grant to see it,” said TimFootman. “Grant enjoyed it but afterwards he said: ‘Do I really talk like that?’” Yuuurrresss, Cary. You-uh shurre did.

Patrick Kingsley’s choice also featured a man in exile because of the mob. There’s no way that Titta di Girolamo, the protagonist of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Consequences of Love, is having as much fun as Lemmon and Curtis though. He’s a former stockbroker, indebted to the Cosa Nostra after losing 250bn lira of their money in a bad deal. He spends his days playing chess against himself. Patrick explained why he first fell in love with the film as a 16-year-old: “Titta is a diffident, divorced businessman ? but at the time it weirdly felt like he was one of the few people I could really identify with. For much of my teens I felt quite lonely. And so does Titta.”

PaulRP concurred (“Breathtakingly stylish and achingly melancholic”), austint was another who realised he wasn’t alone (“I thought it was just me who was blown away by its sadness and loveliness”), while others were happy that the film was one of a kind. “You can forget Goodfellas or any other Hollywood product,” said TimE. “[This] genuinely conveys the venality of the mafia in all its vileness.”

Film and blog both were beautiful and sad and thoughtful and actually quite a downer. Who better to lift our spirits than Rosie Swash? She came bowling down the alley with her suggestion, The Big Lebowski, which “joins This is Spinal Tap, Life of Brian and many more as a film which can be referenced in a seemingly endless rotation of one-liners,” she said. Boy, did she ask for it. “Yes!” said Bashmore. “Another excuse to post Big Lebowski quotes on the Guardian.” And quote you did. “The film abides” (Polymorph); “Rosie’s piece was just, like, her opinion, man” (geoffwode); “It tied the room together” (LV09); “This is what happens when you ?”; “This isn’t Vietnam, there are rules”; “They’re nihilists, dude”; etc etc etc.

preset68 wondered if this would “be the first time an entire script would be randomly quoted by the close of comments”. Comments on the article are now closed. We have a work experience guy making his way through a copy of the script with a highlighter as we speak. Nice boy, very quiet. Danny? ? Denny? ? Donny. That’s it.

From bashful boys to Beautiful Girls. Ted Demme’s zinging, stinging comedy about hitting your 30s was chosen by Michael Hann, who said: “The laughs don’t come from the laboured set-ups of so many buddy comedies, but from the natural idiocies and responses of everyday conversation.” Hann identified with these regular joes, who were a way down the road from adolescence but still worried at their lives like teenagers.

A number of you seemed besotted with the film, with Humberwolf, gingerjon and ApeDrape welcoming it back like an old flame. raelc70448‘s comment stood out clearest though, simply because he/she/they seemed to have reached the age where the romantic and prosaic start to overlap. “I bought it for my then girlfriend (now wife) years ago to show her that romantic comedies can actually be good,” they said. “She liked it so much she lent it to her friends and it inevitably never returned. (Never lend DVDs, people just steal them or break them!!!!)” Life lesson there, people.

Let’s finish our round-trip with a trek through the jungle. The going is tough. The silence is eerie. There’s something out there, but we won’t see it until it’s too late. Then it materialises. Right in front of us. A comment. Huge and horrible and ready to be revolting: “This film will make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus ? just like me.”

conanthebarbarian was talking about Predator, which Phil Hoad chose as his favourite. Phil’s comments were a little more restrained, but no less passionate. “It doesn’t age, because it never gets above itself,” he said. “It’s an enjoyable mashup of pop-culture leaf-litter ? a really efficiently directed action thriller ? stringing together sequences of mayhem to a tight rhythm.” The below-the-line jungle was full of similar praise. Lasereyedcorgis called Arnie and pals’ ill-fated fight against an invisible alien “big, dumb, ludicrously homoerotic ? brilliant!”, Bartel said it was “one of the best overblown satires of male machismo” and TheNoiseOfCarpet labelled it “second only to Terminator as the ultimate trashy sci-fi romp of the 1980s”.

By the time haruvister reeled off a too-long-to-copy-and-paste-here treatise on the socio-political implications of Arnie bellowing “Get to da choppa!” we’d fled ? to lick our wounds and reload for all of the next week’s My favourite film action. Don’t worry. We’ll be back.*

*OK ? that’s a terrible closing line, but it’s the best we could come up with. Nobody’s perfect.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/nov/11/my-favourite-film-readers-comments

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This actress, writer and ex-slam poet has the charisma to go from a comedy turn on TV to the lead in a compelling drama documentary

Who is she?

A 27-year-old from Stoke Newington, London, who learned the lessons of the acting trade early. At five-and-a-half, she lied about her age to get into drama classes ? pretending to be six.

She’s been in the industry for a while. Why are we just hearing about her?

She’s been busy filling her CV with other activities: acting on stage; writing plays and a script for the BBC; developing a TV drama with Idris Elba; starring as Vod in Channel 4′s Fresh Meat. Oh, and as a teenager she was a champion slam poet. The reason film people are taking notice is that she appears in Carol Morley’s brilliant Dreams of a Life (pictured, in cinemas on 16 December).

Isn’t that a documentary?

Drama-documentary. It reconstructs the life of thirtysomething Joyce Vincent, who died alone in her London bedsit; her body was found three years later, TV still on. When her friends and ex-boyfriends didn’t hear from her, most assumed she was off being fabulous somewhere. Ashton plays Joyce subtly, flickering between vulnerability and being the life and soul of the party.

And Ashton writes too?

Yes, she started at drama school, disappointed with how few roles exist for black and mixed-race women. “Annoyance leads the creativity.” Right now, she’s writer in residence at Clean Break theatre company ? working with women in prison and ex-offenders.

What’s next: more acting or writing?

Both. “Acting is a job I love, that I’m committed to. My first love. Writing is the mistress in this scenario. Or whatever the male version is ? my man on the side.”

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/10/first-sight-zawe-ashton

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‘We are actively pursuing this story,’ Maury Povich spokesperson says.
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Justin Bieber will take a paternity test in two weeks to prove that he did not father a child with a fan who claims the pair had a backstage tryst. Now comes word that talk-show host Maury Povich wants to have the teen star appear on his show to share the results.

“We are actively pursuing this story,” a Povich spokesperson told the Huffington Post. An additional source from the show tells the site that having Bieber participate with Povich and his talk show would be a big win for the daytime staple.

“This would be a huge TV event,” Amy Rosenblum, former executive producer of “Maury,” explained. “When I brought the DNA test to TV for the first time on ‘Maury,’ I had no idea it would still be as popular today as it was then. Maury is trusted by millions of viewers, and if Maury told Justin, ‘You are not the father,’ everyone would believe it.”

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Bieber’s camp has been adamantly insisting that Mariah Yeater’s claims are false. “I can confirm that the team has proactively made arrangements for Justin to be tested upon his return and we’re going to hold everyone who is involved responsible,” Bieber’s spokesperson, Matthew Hiltzik, told MTV News. Bieber is currently traveling the world promoting his album Under the Mistletoe.

earlier this month, steadfastly denying he even knows Yeater. “I think it’s crazy because every night after the show, I’ve gone right from the stage right to my car,” he explained. “So it’s crazy that some people want to make up some false allegations, but to set the record straight, none of it is true. Never met the woman.”

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His statements mirror those made by Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta, Bieber’s former tourmate, who told MTV News this week that it would be almost impossible for Bieber to make the time for a backstage encounter like the one Yeater claims took place.

“It wouldn’t even be possible for her to get backstage,” he said. “The security is so crazy there, you can’t get backstage. And even if you got backstage, first of all, he leaves the show as soon as he’s offstage, which is pretty cool. He runs offstage, gets in a car and jets, because the whole city turns into chaos.”

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