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Chris Rock Producing Late-Night Show
Politics, pop culture, race, religion, the media and sex: Those are the topics that a forthcoming late-night talk show — executive-produced by Chris Rock and starring comedian W. Kamau Bell — will tackle, FX announced Wednesday. The weekly show, which is currently untitled, will air for six episodes starting in August and will include social and political commentary from Bell.
From the Huffington Post:
The San Francisco-based Bell has been performing his widely acclaimed one-man show, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour,” for several years. Last November, he shot a TV pilot based on it entitled “The Bell Curve: Apologies,” and although the pilot did not get picked up, it marked the first time he worked with Rock, whose previous foray into late night TV on HBO was critically acclaimed.
Bell and Rock’s show will also join Russell Brand’s talk show “Strangely Uplifting” on FX, which also has a six-episode order and will premiere during the summer. It also will join a full roster of original comedies on FX made up of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “The League,” “Archer,” “Louie,” “Wilfred” and “Unsupervised.”
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‘Hunger Games’ fans tweet displeasure over black actors
You can’t please everyone when adapting a book for the big screen, especially one as beloved as “The Hunger Games,” but director Gary Ross and the casting team likely weren’t anticipating this.
According to Jezebel, there appears to be a group of fans who are displeased that black actors were cast to portray Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), Rue (Amandla Stenberg) and Thresh (Dayo Okeniyi). While Cinna’s complexion isn’t described in the novel, author Suzanne Collins does describe the latter two characters as both having dark skin.
As chronicled on the Tumblr “Hunger Games Tweets,” it seems some readers either didn’t pick up on the description or didn’t read the description as depicting two African-American characters, and as a result have been vocal about their
“Why does Rue have to be black not gonna lie kinda ruined the movie,” wrote one fan in a tweet posted on the “Hunger Games Tweets” Tumblr.
Another described the “Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the little innocent blonde girl you picture,” while another said: “I was pumped about the Hunger Games. Until I learned a black girl was playing Rue.”
On Okeniyi’s casting, another Twitter user weighed in: “Naturally Thresh would be a black man. #NotImpressed.”
In a post, the Tumblr notes that the reactions began cropping up last summer, but since the film’s March 23 release, the writer says that “the amount of people who seem to all share these views just increased exponentially.”
As a result, the blog aims to unveil “‘Hunger Games’ fans on Twitter who dare to call themselves fans yet don’t know a damn thing about the books.”
The writer adds in a separate entry that all of the tweets collected are from people who’ve read Collins’ trilogy.
“Clearly, they all fell in love with and cared about Rue. Though what they really fell in love with was an image of Rue that they’d created in their minds…And then the casting is revealed (or they go see the movie) and they’re shocked to see that Rue is black…This is so much more than, ‘Oh, she’s bigger than I thought.’ The reactions are all based on feelings of disgust.”
The point of collecting these reactions, the Tumblr’s author writes, is to draw attention to what the writer sees as “MAJOR TIE-INS to these reactions and the injustices that we see around the world today.”
That…”and to also point out s****y reading comprehension. LOL.”
via ‘Hunger Games’ fans tweet displeasure over black actors | Entertainment – Home.
Chocolate Keeps You Slim
It sounds whack, but a new scientific study suggests that people who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner. Sadly, that doesn’t quite mean that you can run out and stuff your face full of candy all day to keep your weight down—but it does mean you probably should be eating some chocolate regularly.
The study of nearly 1,000 US people, conducted by the University of California at San Diego, analyzed diet, calorie intake and BMI. It found that those who ate chocolate a few times a week were slimmer than those who ate it less frequently.
Why? The researchers suggest that, despite containing so many calories, chocolate contains compounds that favor weight loss. The link even remained when other factors—including exercise—were accounted for.
What’s more, the study, which appears in Archives of Internal Medicine, suggests that quantities aren’t important; instead, it’s the frequency of chocolate consumption that islinked to low BMIs. Beatrice Golomb, one of the researchers, explained to the BBC:
“Our findings appear to addto a body of information suggesting thatthe composition of calories, not just the number of them, matters for determining their ultimate impact on weight.”
The researchers suggest that the compounds in chocolate that are associated with lower BMI are antioxidants called catechins, which improve lean muscle mass and reduce weight.
Before you grab the candy, though, it’s worth noting that the study observed lower BMIs in participants that consumed chocolate a few times a week, and even then the quantities didn’t matter. So, a little bit of chocolate a few times a week should be plenty. Any more, and the sugar and fat will have the dominant effect. Sorry. [Archives of Internal Medicine via BBC]
Usher Cast To Play Boxing Great Sugar Ray Leonard
In the next few months, you might see Usher “in corners boxing” as he prepares for a major role — portraying Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.
Usher has just been cast to play the legendary boxer in a forthcoming biopic titled “Hands of Stone.”
While the film is not based on Leonard, instead focusing on Panamanian fighter Roberto Duran, Usher joins a cast that includes Robert De Niro, Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Al Pacino.
“If you see me in the corners boxing… I’m in preparation for a very incredible role,” Usher told BBC Thursday. “If you guys see me running around London that’s what it is.”
Production of ‘Hands of Stone’ is to begin later this year.
While the role is big for the “Climax” singer, it is not the only script he is focusing on. According to Usher, several roles have come his way in recent weeks.
“I’ve actually received a few requests as a result of that video,” Usher said, citing his brand new video for “Climax.” “I can’t do them all, but I try my best to be as smart in my selection of roles as I go forward.”
Usher was last seen in Killers (2010)
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Hangover 3 Coming Next Summer
Add Hangover to the list of comedy trilogies like the Friday series. All three stars of the hit comedy, Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Ed Galifianakis have signed on for the final installation of the trilogy which, according to the movie’s producer Todd Phillips is scheduled to be released on May 24, 2013.
“We’re going to surprise a lot of people with the final chapter we have planned,” Phillips told The Hollywood Reporter. “It will be a fitting conclusion to our three-part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions.
With the first two installations of the Hangover combined grossing more that $1 billion, each of the three stars will reportedly make $15 million a piece for their roles this time around. Bradley Cooper told MTV News about their approach to the script writing process and how part three will put a bow on the entire series.
“We adhered to the formula in the second one, for those of you who’ve seen it, and the third one, which would close the whole sort of trilogy, which now it would be a trilogy — even though we thought we would never make a second one, let alone anybody see the first one — I think it will take place in Los Angeles and maybe not adhere to the structure. It might be different,” he said.
If you ask most people, they’ll probably say that there was a noticeable drop-off from The Hangover to the sequel. But those same people will probably tell that they’ll hit the theaters to see the series finale.
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