We've always thought there isn't enough Ellen DeGeneres in the world…
Which is why we almost LIZZED ourselves (thanks forever Tina Fey !)
while watching Saturday Night Live 's HIGHlarious writer/ castmember
Kate McKinnon — who is known to be able to almost perfectly
impersonate the chat show host — getting interviewed BY Ellen on
Ellen! Why? Because Ellen requested that Kate dress up as her (Ellen)
and challenged her (Kate) to show just how good of an Ellen impression
she (Kate) could do! Dizzying, we know! Prepare to laugh until you pee
yourself and pressss plaaaayyy (above)! Too much! WE CAN'T EVEN
DEALLLLL. But an Ellen impersonation is NOT the only aspect that makes
us love Kate! Ch-ch-check out her actual interview and prepare to be
charmed …AFTER THE JUMP!!!
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
'After Earth' Film's Stars Will & Jaden Smith Imagine Our Planet's Future
In the upcoming science fiction film "After Earth", our home planet
goes through some serious changes over the next 1,000 years. So it's
fitting that the film's stars, actor Will Smith and his son Jaden,
would take some time to envision what the future of Earth might
entail. In a Google+ Hangout today (April 23), the stars of " After
Earth " joined SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Alexandra
Cousteau and a group of students to discuss what the planet Earth
might just look like in the next millennium. The event, sponsored by
Columbia Pictures, was billed as "After Earth Day" and came one day
after the annual day to celebrate the Earth. "It looks like great
entertainment, but it raises some profound issues [about the future of
the planet]," said Kurzweil, the director of engineering for Google
and moderator of the discussion said of the movie."After Earth"
explores the relationship between a father and son — played by Will
and Jaden Smith — after they crash-land on Earth 1,000 years into the
future, after humans have deserted the planet to live in space. A
"cataclysmic" event forced all humans to leave Earth , leaving the
planet to be overrun by other, unfriendly species, according to a
movie description released by Columbia Pictures. The film — directed
and co-written by M. Night Shyamalan — launches into theaters in June.
"With this film it was such a perfect collision of art entertainment,
education and a posing of fantastic questions," Will Smith said during
hangout. "As an artist, this film does exactly what I always dreamed
to be able to do with entertain and to also be able to pose
interesting questions." Smith went on to explain that shooting the
movie helped him and his son start to understand how human activity
influences the planet. "I feel like I really saw some true beauty in
the world after shooting in Costa Rica," said Jaden Smith. "After that
experience, it really showed me how important it is to save the
world." Alexandra Cousteau, a filmmaker and granddaughter of Jacques-
Yves Cousteau, also expressed her concern for the planet. She
explained that the Earth today is in a vulnerable position, but by
using technology and enthusiasm, a new generation can start to change
the Earth for the better. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of the
private spaceflight company SpaceX and chief of the Tesla electric car
company, said he thinks that these issues could be motivation for
humanity to start moving away from Earth and into space. "I think we
want to be a space-faring civilization," Musk said during the event.
"Either we're a space- faring civilization or we're going to be bound
to the Earth until some kind of extinction event [occurs]." To Musk,
the idea that humanity can leave the Earth to create a new human life
elsewhere in the universe is "inspiring" and "exciting." Other
panelists were more interested in finding new and different ways to
help combat the effects of global climate change. "I have faith in our
generation," one of the eighth graders said. "I think that we can help
this earth. I'm sure we can [find a way to] not waste this planet and
go to a different planet. I'm optimistic that we can save this planet
and do the right things." "After Earth" is set for release nationwide
on June 7.
goes through some serious changes over the next 1,000 years. So it's
fitting that the film's stars, actor Will Smith and his son Jaden,
would take some time to envision what the future of Earth might
entail. In a Google+ Hangout today (April 23), the stars of " After
Earth " joined SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, futurist Ray Kurzweil, Alexandra
Cousteau and a group of students to discuss what the planet Earth
might just look like in the next millennium. The event, sponsored by
Columbia Pictures, was billed as "After Earth Day" and came one day
after the annual day to celebrate the Earth. "It looks like great
entertainment, but it raises some profound issues [about the future of
the planet]," said Kurzweil, the director of engineering for Google
and moderator of the discussion said of the movie."After Earth"
explores the relationship between a father and son — played by Will
and Jaden Smith — after they crash-land on Earth 1,000 years into the
future, after humans have deserted the planet to live in space. A
"cataclysmic" event forced all humans to leave Earth , leaving the
planet to be overrun by other, unfriendly species, according to a
movie description released by Columbia Pictures. The film — directed
and co-written by M. Night Shyamalan — launches into theaters in June.
"With this film it was such a perfect collision of art entertainment,
education and a posing of fantastic questions," Will Smith said during
hangout. "As an artist, this film does exactly what I always dreamed
to be able to do with entertain and to also be able to pose
interesting questions." Smith went on to explain that shooting the
movie helped him and his son start to understand how human activity
influences the planet. "I feel like I really saw some true beauty in
the world after shooting in Costa Rica," said Jaden Smith. "After that
experience, it really showed me how important it is to save the
world." Alexandra Cousteau, a filmmaker and granddaughter of Jacques-
Yves Cousteau, also expressed her concern for the planet. She
explained that the Earth today is in a vulnerable position, but by
using technology and enthusiasm, a new generation can start to change
the Earth for the better. Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of the
private spaceflight company SpaceX and chief of the Tesla electric car
company, said he thinks that these issues could be motivation for
humanity to start moving away from Earth and into space. "I think we
want to be a space-faring civilization," Musk said during the event.
"Either we're a space- faring civilization or we're going to be bound
to the Earth until some kind of extinction event [occurs]." To Musk,
the idea that humanity can leave the Earth to create a new human life
elsewhere in the universe is "inspiring" and "exciting." Other
panelists were more interested in finding new and different ways to
help combat the effects of global climate change. "I have faith in our
generation," one of the eighth graders said. "I think that we can help
this earth. I'm sure we can [find a way to] not waste this planet and
go to a different planet. I'm optimistic that we can save this planet
and do the right things." "After Earth" is set for release nationwide
on June 7.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Earth Daze: What Happened to the Environmental Movement?
It's Earth Day, though you could be forgiven if you missed it. The
annual event doesn't quite have the same energy as it once did —
especially not compared with the first Earth Day 43 years ago. That
nationwide event, initially inspired by the work of Wisconsin Senator
Gaylord Nelson, was celebrated by more than 20 million people in more
than 12,000 events around the country. As Nicholas Lemann pointed out
in a recent piece in the New Yorker , Congress took the day off, and
two- thirds of its members — Democrat and Republican alike — spoke at
Earth Day events. The Today show devoted 10 hours of airtime to Earth
Day. And that mobilization — which was decentralized, mostly achieved
through a tiny national office — paved the way for real government
action: the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). This year's Earth Day was a little less
memorable, and a whole lot less bipartisan. (I can't imagine a
Republican member of Congress giving a speech during Earth Day now
unless they were calling for the dismantling of the EPA.) And it comes
during a moment of crisis for the environmental movement as it
attempts to grapple, so far unsuccessfully, with the existential
threat of climate change. Back to Lemann: Then, 40 years after Earth
Day, in the summer of 2010, the environmental movement suffered a
humiliating defeat as unexpected as the success of Earth Day had been.
The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, announced that he would not
bring to a vote a bill meant to address the greatest environmental
problem of our time — global warming. The movement had poured years of
effort into the bill, which involved a complicated system for limiting
carbon emissions. Now it was dead, and there has been no significant
environmental legislation since. Indeed, one could argue that there
has been no major environmental legislation since 1990, when President
George H.W. Bush signed a bill aimed at reducing acid rain. Today's
environmental movement is vastly bigger, richer and better connected
than it was in 1970. It's also vastly less successful. What went
wrong? Forty-three years after the first Earth Day, are Lemann and
other critics of the modern environmental movement right? Have greens
lost their way — and if so, why?There's no getting around the fact
that environmentalists have failed to push through a legislative
solution to climate change . Cap and trade, even under a Democratic
Congress and President, failed in 2010. The international climate
regime under the U.N. seems to get closer to collapse every year, and
even in much greener Europe , carbon markets simply aren't working .
And environmentalism as a concept doesn't seem to resonate with
Americans as it once did. A new YouGov/HuffPost poll found that
Americans are less concerned about the environment now than they were
on the first Earth Day. While isolated issues like fracking and the
Keystone pipeline resonate strongly with some Americans, especially
those who are directly affected — witness the mobbed hearin g on the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline last week and the stream of antifracking
protests — there's nothing close to the sheer number of Americans who
were motivated to take part in the first Earth Day. What's changed?
You can blame the specific failure of cap-and-trade legislation in
part on the mechanics of the U.S. Senate — the bill passed the House,
barely — where rural conservative states get outsize representation
and where legislation now needs to get 60 votes to pass. (Though of
course health care reform still managed to pass despite those same
obstacles.) The growing political polarization that has made
environmentalism almost solely a Democratic cause can't be blamed only
on greens. But I think the biggest reason is that environmentalism has
been a victim of its own success. The environment — everyone's
environment — really was a mess in 1970. Urban rivers were on fire,
smog choked the Los Angeles basin, toxic waste affected towns like
Love Canal and shorelines were marred by industrial runoff. See this
Slate roundup of once polluted or threatened sites in America that
have been saved by the environmental movement over the past four
decades. Things used to be very, very bad.
annual event doesn't quite have the same energy as it once did —
especially not compared with the first Earth Day 43 years ago. That
nationwide event, initially inspired by the work of Wisconsin Senator
Gaylord Nelson, was celebrated by more than 20 million people in more
than 12,000 events around the country. As Nicholas Lemann pointed out
in a recent piece in the New Yorker , Congress took the day off, and
two- thirds of its members — Democrat and Republican alike — spoke at
Earth Day events. The Today show devoted 10 hours of airtime to Earth
Day. And that mobilization — which was decentralized, mostly achieved
through a tiny national office — paved the way for real government
action: the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the creation of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). This year's Earth Day was a little less
memorable, and a whole lot less bipartisan. (I can't imagine a
Republican member of Congress giving a speech during Earth Day now
unless they were calling for the dismantling of the EPA.) And it comes
during a moment of crisis for the environmental movement as it
attempts to grapple, so far unsuccessfully, with the existential
threat of climate change. Back to Lemann: Then, 40 years after Earth
Day, in the summer of 2010, the environmental movement suffered a
humiliating defeat as unexpected as the success of Earth Day had been.
The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, announced that he would not
bring to a vote a bill meant to address the greatest environmental
problem of our time — global warming. The movement had poured years of
effort into the bill, which involved a complicated system for limiting
carbon emissions. Now it was dead, and there has been no significant
environmental legislation since. Indeed, one could argue that there
has been no major environmental legislation since 1990, when President
George H.W. Bush signed a bill aimed at reducing acid rain. Today's
environmental movement is vastly bigger, richer and better connected
than it was in 1970. It's also vastly less successful. What went
wrong? Forty-three years after the first Earth Day, are Lemann and
other critics of the modern environmental movement right? Have greens
lost their way — and if so, why?There's no getting around the fact
that environmentalists have failed to push through a legislative
solution to climate change . Cap and trade, even under a Democratic
Congress and President, failed in 2010. The international climate
regime under the U.N. seems to get closer to collapse every year, and
even in much greener Europe , carbon markets simply aren't working .
And environmentalism as a concept doesn't seem to resonate with
Americans as it once did. A new YouGov/HuffPost poll found that
Americans are less concerned about the environment now than they were
on the first Earth Day. While isolated issues like fracking and the
Keystone pipeline resonate strongly with some Americans, especially
those who are directly affected — witness the mobbed hearin g on the
proposed Keystone XL pipeline last week and the stream of antifracking
protests — there's nothing close to the sheer number of Americans who
were motivated to take part in the first Earth Day. What's changed?
You can blame the specific failure of cap-and-trade legislation in
part on the mechanics of the U.S. Senate — the bill passed the House,
barely — where rural conservative states get outsize representation
and where legislation now needs to get 60 votes to pass. (Though of
course health care reform still managed to pass despite those same
obstacles.) The growing political polarization that has made
environmentalism almost solely a Democratic cause can't be blamed only
on greens. But I think the biggest reason is that environmentalism has
been a victim of its own success. The environment — everyone's
environment — really was a mess in 1970. Urban rivers were on fire,
smog choked the Los Angeles basin, toxic waste affected towns like
Love Canal and shorelines were marred by industrial runoff. See this
Slate roundup of once polluted or threatened sites in America that
have been saved by the environmental movement over the past four
decades. Things used to be very, very bad.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Boxing Canelo vs. Trout fight preview: Is Canelo Alvarez really boxing's next superstar?
Canelo Alvarez and Austin Trout are ready to square off live on
Showtime Saturday night. Many are already calling Canelo the future of
boxing, but is he being overhyped? Bloody Elbow breaks it down in this
Canelo vs. Trout fight preview. Join us Saturday night for Canelo vs.
Trout results and full fight coverage here at Bloody Elbow.Saturday
April 20, Bloody Elbow presents live fight coverage of Showtime Boxing
with Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout in a Super Welterweight World
Title Unification fight. Showtime Boxing Canelo vs. Trout airs this
Saturday, April 20 with a fight time of 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Bloody Elbow will have live fight night coverage, including results
and discussion. With all due respect to Austin Trout, it's Saul Canelo
Alvarez who is the star of this particular show. The 22 year old is
already wildly popular, with a devoted Mexican fan base. He's been
talked about as a future opponent for Floyd Mayweather (and, by some,
as perhaps the man to finally topple Money). He's been called the
future of boxing. He's widely considered the next boxing megastar. All
he has to do to get there is defeat Austin Trout.
Showtime Saturday night. Many are already calling Canelo the future of
boxing, but is he being overhyped? Bloody Elbow breaks it down in this
Canelo vs. Trout fight preview. Join us Saturday night for Canelo vs.
Trout results and full fight coverage here at Bloody Elbow.Saturday
April 20, Bloody Elbow presents live fight coverage of Showtime Boxing
with Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout in a Super Welterweight World
Title Unification fight. Showtime Boxing Canelo vs. Trout airs this
Saturday, April 20 with a fight time of 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Bloody Elbow will have live fight night coverage, including results
and discussion. With all due respect to Austin Trout, it's Saul Canelo
Alvarez who is the star of this particular show. The 22 year old is
already wildly popular, with a devoted Mexican fan base. He's been
talked about as a future opponent for Floyd Mayweather (and, by some,
as perhaps the man to finally topple Money). He's been called the
future of boxing. He's widely considered the next boxing megastar. All
he has to do to get there is defeat Austin Trout.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Boston Bomber Suspects Had Attended Cambridge Mosque, Officials Say
A mosque in Cambridge, Mass., confirmed Saturday that Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Chechen-born brothers suspected in
the Boston marathon attacks, infrequently attended services at the
small center that was a 10-minute walk from their apartment. "In their
visits, they never exhibited any violent sentiments or behavior.
Otherwise they would have been immediately reported to the FBI," said
the statement from the Islamic Center of Boston . "After we learned of
their identities, we encouraged anyone who knew them in our
congregation to immediate report to law enforcement, which has taken
place." Anwar Kazmi, a member of the mosque's board of trustees, told
a USA Today reporter that 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died
early Friday morning after a shootout with police, was an infrequent
attendee for about a year- and-a-half, while 19-year- old Dzhokhar A.
Tsarnaev, who was captured hiding in a boat in Watertown on Friday
night, attended only once. The Los Angeles Times reported that
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was kicked out of the mosque three months ago after
he interrupted a Friday prayer service to argue with the imam. The
imam leading the service had enraged Tsarnaev by talking about Martin
Luther King Jr. A congregant told the newspaper that Tsarnaev shouted,
"you cannot mention this guy because he's not a Muslim!" Imam Suhaib
Webb, of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the city's
largest mosque, said in an interview that he had recently heard of the
incident. "That's a sign right there that his views aren't
mainstream," Webb said. The Cambridge mosque leaders' theology is not
extremist, he said. Webb's mosque has the same owners but separate
administration from the Islamic Society of Boston. Webb said he never
met the brothers and had not found their names on his mosque's
membership list. Reports previously quoted friends of the brothers
saying they had attended the mosque , but Saturday was the first time
the mosque confirmed their association. "Right now, our focus will
remain on grieving for the victims and their families, praying for a
speedy recovery for the injured, and offering what support we can to
all in need," the statement said. Friends and family have described
Tamerlan Tsarnaev as becoming more strident in his religious views in
recent years. Federal authorities are investigating a six- month trip
he took in 2012 to Chechnya and Dagestan , Muslim-majority regions in
Russia and home to militant separatist movements. Reports have painted
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev as also being interested in Chechen independence
movements.
Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Chechen-born brothers suspected in
the Boston marathon attacks, infrequently attended services at the
small center that was a 10-minute walk from their apartment. "In their
visits, they never exhibited any violent sentiments or behavior.
Otherwise they would have been immediately reported to the FBI," said
the statement from the Islamic Center of Boston . "After we learned of
their identities, we encouraged anyone who knew them in our
congregation to immediate report to law enforcement, which has taken
place." Anwar Kazmi, a member of the mosque's board of trustees, told
a USA Today reporter that 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died
early Friday morning after a shootout with police, was an infrequent
attendee for about a year- and-a-half, while 19-year- old Dzhokhar A.
Tsarnaev, who was captured hiding in a boat in Watertown on Friday
night, attended only once. The Los Angeles Times reported that
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was kicked out of the mosque three months ago after
he interrupted a Friday prayer service to argue with the imam. The
imam leading the service had enraged Tsarnaev by talking about Martin
Luther King Jr. A congregant told the newspaper that Tsarnaev shouted,
"you cannot mention this guy because he's not a Muslim!" Imam Suhaib
Webb, of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the city's
largest mosque, said in an interview that he had recently heard of the
incident. "That's a sign right there that his views aren't
mainstream," Webb said. The Cambridge mosque leaders' theology is not
extremist, he said. Webb's mosque has the same owners but separate
administration from the Islamic Society of Boston. Webb said he never
met the brothers and had not found their names on his mosque's
membership list. Reports previously quoted friends of the brothers
saying they had attended the mosque , but Saturday was the first time
the mosque confirmed their association. "Right now, our focus will
remain on grieving for the victims and their families, praying for a
speedy recovery for the injured, and offering what support we can to
all in need," the statement said. Friends and family have described
Tamerlan Tsarnaev as becoming more strident in his religious views in
recent years. Federal authorities are investigating a six- month trip
he took in 2012 to Chechnya and Dagestan , Muslim-majority regions in
Russia and home to militant separatist movements. Reports have painted
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev as also being interested in Chechen independence
movements.
Friday, April 19, 2013
BABY JUSTIN BIEBER 7
Justin Bieber's Norway Hotel Surrounded By Hordes Of Fans!-All thanks
to Justin Bieber , the Oslo hotel in Norway, temporarily housing the
pop star, was surrounded by a seriously large group of screaming
Beliebers yesterday. Talk about loyalty. While we hope their stake out
proved successful, we can't help but feel bad for those coincidentally
vacationing during JB's trip. Maybe the Biebs put on a little private
performance for his fellow hotel- mates? A nice song and dance could
have eased the tension? …Or not. Just saying.
to Justin Bieber , the Oslo hotel in Norway, temporarily housing the
pop star, was surrounded by a seriously large group of screaming
Beliebers yesterday. Talk about loyalty. While we hope their stake out
proved successful, we can't help but feel bad for those coincidentally
vacationing during JB's trip. Maybe the Biebs put on a little private
performance for his fellow hotel- mates? A nice song and dance could
have eased the tension? …Or not. Just saying.
Police converge on neighborhood outside Boston
A tense night of police activity that left a university officer dead
on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings and amid a hunt
for two suspects caused officers to converge on a neighborhood outside
Boston, where residents heard gunfire and explosions. The chaos in
Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and
killed on campus. It was unclear if the outbursts of violence were
related. No arrests had been made in the officer's fatal shooting, and
a manhunt was on for the shooter. The officer had been responding to
report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple
times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney's
office and Cambridge police. It said there were no other victims. In
Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions
at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were
in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead. State police
spokesman David Procopio said, "The incident in Watertown did involve
what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being
used against the police officers." Boston cab driver Imran Sais said
he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a
diner when he heard an explosion. "I heard a loud boom and then a
rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like
automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion." He said he
could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area
residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go
that way!" MIT said right after the 10:30 p.m. shooting that police
were sweeping the campus in Cambridge and urged people to remain
indoors. They urged people urged to stay away from the Stata Building,
a mixed-use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common
area. Hours later, MIT, which has about 11,000 students, said the
campus was clear but the shooter was still on the loose.
on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings and amid a hunt
for two suspects caused officers to converge on a neighborhood outside
Boston, where residents heard gunfire and explosions. The chaos in
Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and
killed on campus. It was unclear if the outbursts of violence were
related. No arrests had been made in the officer's fatal shooting, and
a manhunt was on for the shooter. The officer had been responding to
report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple
times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney's
office and Cambridge police. It said there were no other victims. In
Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions
at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were
in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead. State police
spokesman David Procopio said, "The incident in Watertown did involve
what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being
used against the police officers." Boston cab driver Imran Sais said
he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a
diner when he heard an explosion. "I heard a loud boom and then a
rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like
automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion." He said he
could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area
residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go
that way!" MIT said right after the 10:30 p.m. shooting that police
were sweeping the campus in Cambridge and urged people to remain
indoors. They urged people urged to stay away from the Stata Building,
a mixed-use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common
area. Hours later, MIT, which has about 11,000 students, said the
campus was clear but the shooter was still on the loose.
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