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Here"s a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
GOT"s Rose Leslie Set for Mike Bartlett"s Contractions
Were keeping a close eye on this productionit could well have legs. Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) and Sara Stewart (Enron) will headline Contractions at the U.K.s Sheffield Theatre. Penned by Mike Bartlett, a 2016 Tony nominee for King Charles III, the play is scheduled to run June 23 through July 16, officially opening on June 27. Lisa Blair is on board to direct the show, which follows Emma (Leslie) in sales, who when she starts dating a colleague is informed by her manager shes in breach of contract.
Tony Winner Sara Ramirez Departs Greys Anatomy
Sara Ramirez, who won a Tony for Spamalot, has departed Greys Anatomy after 10 seasons. The actress, who played Dr. Torres in Shondalands ABC medical drama, posted on Twitter that shes taking some welcome time off. Were crossing fingers and toes that this could mean a return to the Main Stem sooner rather than later!
B"way Alum Bahiyah Hibah Goes on a Trip of Love
There have been a few casting switcheroos at off-Broadways Trip of Love. The 1960"s pop music spectacular will welcome Bahiyah Hibah (Chicago) to the company on May 24 in the role of Jennifer. Recent and upcoming additions to the ensemble include Sissy Bell, Autumn Guzzardi, Marina Lazzaretto, Connor Schwantes, Kirstin Tucker and Colt Adam Weiss.
Daniel Dae Kim"s Onstage Mishap
The new King of Siam, Daniel Dae Kim, co-hosted Live with Kelly on May 20. Check out the video below where he talks about a theatrical snafu that we have a feeling Patti LuPone could relate to...The something wonderful The King and I co-stars Marin Mazzie and is playing at Lincoln Center"s Vivian Beaumont Theater.
P.S. And just because it"s Friday, here"s the latest shot of your Broadway boyfriend Aaron Tveit in CBS" BrainDead; the show premieres on June 13.
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Singer Karen Harding will probably want to stay away from the highlights of Saturday"s FA Cup final, after she missed her cue to sing the national anthem before the game.
You might get away with missing the first line or two in the stands, but when you"ve been hired specifically for the task of belting out "G*d Save the Queen" and are stood alone on the Wembley turf, there are few places to hide.
Fans didn"t miss their cue to castigate the pitiable singer, who appeared to be having technical trouble with her earpiece.
Nonetheless, as more than one wag pointed out on social media,there were thousands of singing fans providing some clue as to when Harding might have needed to start.
Armed Forces Day, High Street, Guildford, Surrey - Saturday 27th June 2015
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Toni Cooper in an F-15 Eagle over Utah. Served in the Air Force from 2007-2015. She lives in Cocoa.(Photo: Submitted by Tami Hubinger)
Today is May 21 and that means it is National Armed Forces Day. Join News Columnist John A. Torres as he celebrates and thanks the U.S. military for their service and sacrifice. In case you have missed any of John"s May videos celebrating daily National Days, then click on the link below.
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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model Ashley Graham
Maybe 2016 should just rename itself theYear Of Ashley Graham. So far this year,thegorgeous model has takenthe fashion world by storm by posing on the cover of the 2016Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, rocking the cover of Maxim, and modelingin designer Christian Sirianos first plus-size runway show.
Back when the28-year-old was first starting her career, however, she wasnt always treated with the respect she deserves. I had agencies telling me that I had to lose weight, Graham recently revealed to People. I had one that waved money in my face and said, If you lose more lbspoundsyou can make a lot more of this, and he was waving $20 bills in my face. Wow, rude much?
That agents terrible attitude was apparently an attempt to push Graham into dropping pounds quickly, but she wasnt having it. I was peaking at a size 18, and in the plus size fashion industry, models go from a size 8 to a size 16/18, she explained to People. So if youre on the smaller size or the bigger size, youre not going to work as much as if youre in the middle. So he was trying to encourage me to lose weight but it didnt work, because I was that person where if you told me to go on a diet and lose weight, Im just going to gain weight.
Graham, who grew up in Nebraska, shared with the mag that whileher classmates sometimes teased her for her size, her mom always fostered a positive body image at home. Things gottougher emotionallywhen Graham moved to New York City at age 17. I had gained a lot of weight because my mom wasnt cooking for me and I wasnt working out, she told People. I started to really hate myself. I would literally just look in the mirror, and I would be disgusted. It was a constant degrading of my body. Youre fat. Youre ugly. Youre worthless. Im surprised youre a model, are some of the things I would say to myself.
Years ofnegative thoughts started to crushGrahams spirit. Eventually, she hit a wall and grew determined to be kind toherself, no matter her sizeand that sent her careeron a more positive trajectory than ever before. A lot of taking care of my body and my mind and my soul had to do with talking to myself and actually giving myself affirmations, she told the magazine. It got me out of my funk. I still had cellulite, I still had back fat, I still had jiggly arms, and I decided to love every part of it. Heres to taking a cue from Graham and choosing to loveevery part of our bodies. Life is too short for anything else!
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The Angry Birds Movie - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
The Angry Birds movie is not funny. It maintains a frantic pace, and it never lets up from desperately wanting you to laugh--there"s hardly a second that goes by without some form of over-the-top slapstick, clumsy pun, or ineffective background visual gag. The themes and juvenile humor are clearly aimed at a very young audience, but some jokes are a little too edgy to recommend for the very young, while none of the ideas have enough bite to register as subversive satire. Angry Birds is instead, an unintentional copy of the mobile game it"s based on: a short, forgettable time-waster.
The Angry Birds mobile app is a physics-based game centered on flinging birds into rickety obstacles in an attempt to knock down spherical pigs, collect eggs, and score points. It"s an odd choice for a feature-length film, but to its credit, the movie embraces the colorful, eclectic visuals of the game and translates them into appealing 3D models. But its scattered attempts to create a grounded story fall as flat as the movie"s jokes.
The colorful cast share the same names, appearance, and abilities as their counterparts in the game: Red (Jason Sudeikis) is the recognizable candy-apple colored protagonist is the central "angry bird." Chuck (voiced by Josh Gad, who reprises the same voice and characteristics as his Olaf character from Frozen) is a yellow, triangular bird that can move with incredible speed. And Bomb (Danny McBride) occasionally, though unintentionally, explodes.
The movie starts with Red sentenced to what is touted as, for some unclear reason, the worst punishment for birds on the island--anger management class. But outside of Red"s occasionally somewhat annoyed attitude, he never registers as a character filled with unchecked rage. And the other birds mentioned above make even less sense in an anger rehabilitation center.
In an attempt to give more backstory to the otherwise one-dimensional characters (most of their traits, after all, were decided for gameplay and not storytelling reasons) Red is given an overly sentimental history as a friendless orphan, an emotionally exploitative explanation that rings hollow. It feels like an attempt to bypass injecting Red with any real character by using some unbelievable storytelling shorthand.
Red"s life, like the rest of the Angry Birds world, simply lacks weight or even logic. There"s an extended joke early in the film where Red is caught in "traffic," and he has to impatiently wait as slow-moving groups use the crosswalk in front of him. But, he"s just walking not driving around in some vehicle. And the area he"s waiting to pass is on a massive thoroughfare where he"d have plenty of room to walk around both the slower moving cross-walkers and the one traffic attendant blocking his path.
Angry Birds fails to establish a believable world for its cast, but part of that is also due to its reliance on the game it"s based on; the movie is unable to weave together the elements that define the game or story in any kind of coherent way. Green pigs show up, led by their smarmy leader Leonard (Bill Hader), and they deliver gifts of...a massive slingshot and trampolines. Soon the island is also filled with fast-moving vehicles and boxes of TNT as the pigs set about their plan to steal the birds" eggs. But beyond the nonsensical gifts, the plot seems to establish the pigs as a foreign force that invades, uses up an area"s resources, and then moves on to clean out a new, virgin place.
But that"s not the case--the pigs are simply there to collect and consume eggs. The pigs" kingdom, on a separate far-off island, is equally green and pristine. The only difference from the birds" island is that the pigs" houses are built on rickety, ready-to-fall wooden structures that"ll be familiar to anyone who"s played the game.
Spoilers for the incredibly predictable ending of the movie follow below.
The movie ends with a face-off at those headquarters--a recreation of the game with the birds using the slingshot to catapult themselves in while toppling over the pig"s precariously built houses. Eventually explosions level the entire pig city, and the birds escape the carnage, but they voice concerns that Red might have died in the ensuing destruction (though they"re oddly fine with the complete genocide of the pig race). But, of course, Red survives because he was surrounded by a massive metal cauldron. This is a children"s movie, so every pig survives too. There are no negative consequences, nothing was ever really at stake, and everything goes back to normal.
Even from a parent"s perspective, it"s hard to recommend the seemingly kid-friendly Angry Birds. The slapstick humor is clearly cartoony violence, but at the same time, the constant pratfalls and fighting make up the core of the movie"s humor and problem solving. Red learns to control his anger at the end, even though there"s no earlier point in the movie where he seems unable to keep his feelings in check. And in some ways, the movie celebrates that anger, both as a way to stand out and be different, and a way to unlock characters" potential. And that"s ignoring the entire undercurrent of distrusting foreigners and reaffirming that if your first impression of someone isn"t positive, that"s probably correct. "It"s important to be different, as long as you"re all born in the same place," the movie seems to say.
When jokes aren"t focused on characters" biology or bodily harm, they toss out embarrassing, falsely edgy lines like, "Pluck my life." Puns that will only encourage mischievous kids to repeat them (because they"re very aware with what they"re getting to say). It"s a sense of humor tailor-made for a snickering pre-teen audience. Any younger, and it becomes inappropriate. Any older, and it leads to gratuitous eye-rolling.
Watching Angry Birds, it"s hard not to draw mental comparisons to this year"s vastly superior animal film Zootopia. Not just because they both deal with issues of belonging--though Zootopia message of inclusiveness is the opposite of Angry Birds affirmation of xenophobia. Both movies have a distinct musical interlude. But the introduction of Shakira"s melody in Zootopia fits with the world and the vibe of the movie--it"s a song that seems to encompass the wonder and excitement of entering a big city. Angry Birds, on the other hand, has the pigs perform an impromptu cowboy show when they land on the island. It features a catchy song performed by musician Blake Shelton, but the entire performance is jarring in that it feels so completely separate from the aesthetic of the pigs and the tone of the movie.
Like the game it"s based on, the Angry Birds film feels like a distraction. A good animated movie straddles the line between entertaining adults with sly asides, engaging children with energy, and tieing it all together with a compelling story. Angry Birds fails on every count, instead crafting a tale that"s nonsensical even by its own internal logic and just plain boring from beginning to end.
Chewbacca Mask! Public Reactions! (NOT Chewbacca Mask Laughing Lady!)
Talk about viral marketing.
Just 24 hours after the world was introduced to Candace Payne and her "happy Chewbacca" mask in the most-watched Facebook Live video to date, the toy has flown off shelves and is now out of stock at virtually every retailer that carried it.
The mask, which was sold in conjunction with last year"s Star Wars: The Force Awakens blockbuster and makes electronic Chewbacca noises when worn, was the star of the viral video in which Payne live streamed herself giddily trying it on and laughing hysterically Thursday.
Though Payne"s mask was purchased at Kohl"s, where it is no longer available online, the product is also out of stock atWalmart, Target, andToys R Us, among other retailers.
"We have received an overwhelming amount of interest in the Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens Chewbacca Electronic Mask by Hasbro since Candace posted her funny and lighthearted video," a Kohl"s spokeswoman told CNBC.
An electronic Chewbacca mask is sold out at most retailers after a video of a woman wearing one went viral.
Originally retailing for between $20 and $30 at most stores, the mask is now listed by third-party sellers on Amazon and eBay for as much as $200.
With the masks selling out across the country, you can bet there are going to be some copy-cat videos, but with more than 70 million views and counting, it seems safe to say Payne"s rendition is going to be a tough one to top.
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