Vol. 17
No. 08
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Hall Pass
Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason
Sudeiki) are best friends who have a lot in
common, including the fact that they have each been
married for many years. But when the two men begin to
show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a
bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting
them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever
they want, no questions asked. At first, it sounds like
a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn't long
before they discover that their expectations of the
single life, and themselves, are completely and
hilariously out of sync with reality.
Experience It
GSMA Mobile World Congress
February 14-17th, Barcelona
Once again,
Barcelona
Spain played host to the GSMA’s
industry-transforming event, Mobile World
Congress. The largest event of its kind worldwide
was bigger and better than ever with a record 60,300
attendees from over 200 countries. An exciting lineup of
inspiring speakers from mobile operators, consumer
brands, organizations, and industries touched by the
mobile market including advertising, health,
entertainment and education presented at more than 40
conference sessions. Some high profile keynote speakers
included Google’s Eric Schmidt,
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and
Twitter’s Dick Costolo sharing their
vision on the future of the mobile industry. Nearly
1,400 companies showcased their organizations, providing
sneak peeks at exciting new phones, tablets,
technologies, applications, back-end solutions,
accessories and more. With its stylish appearance, the
announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Tab
10.1 caused some of greatest buzz amongst attendees.
Launched with Google’s latest tablet OS called
Honeycomb, the specs of the new tab are remarkably
similar to those of Motorola's Xoom. The
exciting tablet war is heating up!
On DVD
Megamind
Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey
lend their voice talents to this animated comedy with a high flying, hilarious
new twist on the superhero movie. Big brained, blue skinned super villain
Megamind's dreams have come true when he captures the damsel in no distress and
conquers the city's protector Metro Man, gaining control of Metro City. But when
a new villain is created and chaos runs rampant, the world's biggest "mind" and
his comic sidekick Minion might actually be the ones to save the day. This
exclusive edition comes with an all new animated adventure, Megamind: The
Button of Doom.
Mobile World Congress
Once again, Barcelona Spain played host to the GSMA’s industry transforming
event, Mobile World Congress. The largest event of its kind worldwide was bigger
and better than ever with a record 60,300 attendees from over 200 countries. An
exciting lineup of inspiring speakers from mobile operators, consumer brands,
organizations, and industries touched by the mobile market including
advertising, health, entertainment and education presented at more than 40
conference sessions. Some high profile keynote speakers included Google’s
Eric Schmidt, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and
Twitter’s Dick Costolo sharing their vision on the future
of the mobile industry. Nearly 1,400 companies showcased their organizations,
providing sneak peeks at exciting new phones, tablets, technologies,
applications, back-end solutions, accessories and more. With its stylish
appearance, the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
caused some of greatest buzz amongst attendees. Launched with Google’s latest
tablet OS called Honeycomb, the specs of the new tab are remarkably
similar to those of Motorola's Xoom. The exciting tablet war is
heating up!
The Buzz...
Two strong women, one fledgling cable network and reports are saying that
fireworks are going off. Reportedly, Oprah Winfrey and Rosie
O'Donnell are fighting over control of O'Donnell's upcoming show on OWN.
And now Winfrey is trying to set the record straight. "There's no feud between
Rosie and me," Winfrey tweets. "We haven't even had a discussion about her new
show." "Oprah sees it as a friendly daytime talk show where viewers get to spend
an hour with the old Rosie they used to love," the source says. "Rosie, on the
other hand, thinks the show should be more political and a place where she can
express her liberal views."
Hot off the heels of her breakup with Matt Kemp, it looks like
someone new is making Rihanna feel like she's the only girl in the world.
The singer has been getting cozy with actor Ryan Phillippe, but is
trying to keep things quiet for now. Phillippe, who most recently dated
Amanda Seyfried, has been dogged by breakup rumors recently, which
Seyfried has adamantly denied, saying, "That Rihanna story is not true. That is
so f**king not true!" Despite Seyfried's reports to the contrary, a source says
that following the Gucci/Roc Nation event on Feb. 12 where
Rihanna and Phillippe were spotted flirting, "They totally had sex. And it
wasn't even the first time!"
When he was younger, Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin had to
change his nickname after learning that it meant female genitalia in several
parts of Asia. According to People en Español, the 38-year-old star told
Don Francisco that as a young boy, he was called ‘Quique’ or ‘Kiki’, both of
which are nicknames for the name Enrique, the star’s real name. Martin soon
found out that it meant vagina in the Philippines.
Sharon Stone's provocative leg crossing scene in Basic Instinct
has topped a new poll to find the most paused movie moments. The actress reveals
she isn't wearing any underwear beneath her short skirt as she uncrosses her
legs while being interrogated by cops in the 1992 thriller; a scene which was
frozen by more than a third of fans in a poll by Lovefilm.com. The X-rated
moment put Stone ahead of runner-up Jennifer Lopez, who bared her
butt in 2010 comedy The Back-Up Plan, while third place went to a blooper
in 1977 hit Star Wars, when a Stormtrooper hits his head on a
ceiling.
James Franco and Anne Hathaway could very well be
journeying back in time to recreate a classic scene from musical Grease
for this Sunday’s Academy Awards. Footage of the pair re-enacting
that film’s climactic carnival scene has been posted online by Franco himself,
who we all know likes to play around with cameras.
Looks like Kathy Griffin may be spicing up her life. The outspoken
funnylady has been spending some serious time with Isaiah Mustafa,
the Old Spice Guy!
Warner Bros is rebooting its 1992 hit The Bodyguard,
the film that paired Kevin Costner with Whitney Houston
and became for its time one of the biggest global hits in studio history with a
$411 million worldwide gross. The film will be scripted by Jeremiah
Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose action comedy script Family
Getaway made the 2010 Black List and is a priority project at Warner
Bros.
If Brooke Mueller is indeed living with Charlie Sheen
again, then it’s going to be a bit of a full house. Charlie seems to be creating
his ideal harem around him, and if this story is true, then looks like he’s been
successful in his utopian free lovin’ vision. RadarOnline reports that
Charlie Sheen is taking Brooke on vacation With porn star companion Bree
Olsen, and other girlfriend Natalie Kenly.
Just days after Joe Jonas helped Ashley Greene
celebrate her birthday in Las Vegas, they were back in L.A. for some shopping
The couple stopped by the TrunkshowLA boutique in West Hollywood hand in handt.
When it came time to pay for the two sweaters and one top Greene picked out for
herself, the JoBro beau whipped out his credit card to take care of the $400
bill.
Paul Simon has revealed that he decided to self-finance his latest
album in order to free himself from the influence of his record label. Simon
said that he recorded So Beautiful or So What
in his home studio after growing tired of pressure from record executives at
Warner Bros.
Slash has admitted the rumours about Corey Taylor being
involved with Velvet Revolver are true, but a final decision has
yet to be made. The guitarist had been avoiding making any comment on the
gossip, while the Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman simply
said: “To be continued.” Now it seems that’s an accurate picture of the
situation: due to Slash’s touring commitments the band ran out of time to decide
whether to bring Taylor on board as replacement for Scott Weiland,
who was sacked in 2008.
Daft Punk are no strangers to flaunting their robotic look.
They’ve appeared in everything from pushing GAP jeans to Kanye
West’s Stronger video to a cameo in the recent TRON Legacy,
which they also composed the score for. But now Guy Manuel de Homem Christo and
Thomas Bangalter have their own Coca-Cola bottles. There will be two
official Daft Punk Coke bottles, which mimick the pair’s silver and gold
helmets.
Canadian indie rock institution Sloan have announced the release of their
tenth album, which will conveniently coincide with the band’s 20th anniversary.