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Maybe we should call the baby South West?! Because their first baby is called North, get it?
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Palmer was first known for her appearances on early television, but gained more notoriety in the ’80s as the murderous Mrs. Voorhees of Friday The 13th.
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Actor Betsy Palmer, a television pioneer who went on to play one of film's first slashers, has died at age 88.
Her longtime manager told the Associated Press on Sunday that Palmer had died of natural causes on Friday at a Connecticut hospice care center.
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"I'm the queen of the slashers," she said bemusedly in one 2005 interview.
Baby number two is on the way!
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting their second child together, E! Online reported.
Following Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, a preview of an upcoming episode revealed that Kim Kardashian is expecting her second child. The information was told during a doctor's appointment.
"I just got the blood test back, and I am pregnant!" Kim says in the teaser to her sister Khloé.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians has chronicled the reality star's attempt to get pregnant for a second time.
The 34-year-old gave birth to her first child with Kanye, named North West, on June 15, 2013, in Los Angeles.
LINK: Kanye West Proposes To Kim Kardashian In San Francisco’s AT&T Park
“Everybody doesn’t speak like Apu from The Simpsons. We all don’t smell of curry. We all are not ugly-looking nerds.”
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Morgan, Dorothy, and EJ give us their candid opinion on everything from Britney Spears to flying in coach.
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The 19 Kids And Counting stars are scheduled to break their silence Wednesday night with an exclusive interview with Fox News.
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It's been more than a week since the emergence of a 2006 police report alleging Josh Duggar, eldest son of 19 Kids And Counting's Duggar family, sexually abused several underage girls, including two of his sisters.
Since In Touch's publication of the report, the now-27-year-old father of two has admitted to behaving "inexcusably." He has resigned his position as executive director of FRC Action, a nonprofit lobby run by the Family Research Council; his family's television show has lost many of its advertisers; several of the politically active family's previous supporters have spoken out about the allegations; and TLC has pulled the reality series from its current schedule.
But his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, have remained relatively silent on the subject except to post a message of support on Facebook, saying Josh made "some very bad mistakes." Their language was criticized by other victims of sibling sexual abuse as minimizing the trauma that victims experience.
The couple will break their silence this week when they sit down with Fox News' Megyn Kelly at their Arkansas home for an interview that will air at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, the usual time slot of Kelly's talk show, The Kelly File. Additional excerpts from the interview will air during a one-hour special on Friday June 5 at 9 p.m. ET, also on Fox News Channel.
LINK: TLC Has Pulled “19 Kids And Counting” From Its Schedule Amid Sex Abuse Allegations
LINK: Josh Duggar Apologizes Amid Sex Abuse Reports, Quits Family Research Council
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Carla Gugino in San Andreas
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With an estimated domestic box office debut of $53.2 million, San Andreas is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's best ever opening weekend as the solo star of a film. But what does that even mean in 2015? Does San Andreas' box office success finally make Johnson a bona fide A-list movie star? Does it demonstrate instead that he is merely the actor with the best business savvy working in Hollywood today? Or is there, perhaps, no difference between the two anymore?
The definition of a movie star is, at best, difficult to pin down. It can mean an actor who regularly brings in massive box office on their name alone, like Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Will Smith used to do until they didn't anymore, or like Scarlett Johansson, Melissa McCarthy, and Kevin Hart have done over the past few years. It can mean an actor who is so strongly identified with a blockbuster franchise that one's success is inexorably linked to the other's, like Robert Downey Jr. with the Iron Man and Avengers movies, Jennifer Lawrence with the Hunger Games films, and Kristen Stewart with the Twilight films. Or it can mean an actor whose charismatic persona, stunning beauty, and Oscar credibility transcend the need for consistent blockbuster box office, like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Reese Witherspoon.
Johnson does not quite fall into any of those categories. His charisma and physical beauty are undeniable, but without any awards season attention, he hasn't yet reached Hollywood's most rarefied inner circle. (You only need to look at Mark Wahlberg and Jonah Hill's elevated stature in Hollywood after their respective Oscar nominations to understand how important it can be to an actor's career.)
As a solo star, meanwhile, only Johnson's family films have been hits, and modest ones at best — his most successful film to date, 2007's The Game Plan, pulled in $90.6 million domestically. Otherwise, movies built on Johnson's star power alone — low-budget crime thrillers like 2010's Faster and 2013's Snitch — haven't even reached $50 million in North America, and barely make any money overseas. The visual effects–driven fantasy adventure film Hercules, Johnson's big star vehicle for the summer of 2014, got creamed when it opened opposite Johansson's Lucy; the film ultimately eked out just $72.7 million in North America.
Johnson in Furious 7
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Instead, Johnson has had the most success joining franchises that were already modestly successful, and each time, his presence appeared to boost that franchise's global box office. 2013's G.I. Joe: Retaliation earned roughly $75 million more worldwide than 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. 2012's Journey 2: The Mysterious Island made nearly $100 more worldwide than its 2008 predecessor. And 2011's Fast Five nearly doubled the global box office of 2009's Fast and Furious — a trajectory that has barely slowed with the subsequent Fast and Furious movies. Furious 7 is now the fourth highest grossing film worldwide of all time.
These franchises, however, aren't defined in audiences' minds by Johnson's presence — he's added value, but he isn't the main event. San Andreas' marketing campaign similarly emphasized the film's destructive spectacle over Johnson's appeal as a movie star. You could arguably have substituted another bulked-up actor in the role — like Chris Hemsworth, Charlie Hunnam, or, yes, Mark Wahlberg — and the film's box office result likely would have been the same.
But the movie didn't star those actors; it starred Johnson. And in a Hollywood marketplace dominated by franchises and visual effects, and that has less and less need for specific actors to be a film’s main box office draw, Johnson has carved out a unique place for himself as a kind of 21st century movie star. With 49 million likes on Facebook, 8.7 million followers on Twitter, and a massive physique that is its own special effect, Johnson has created an unmistakable persona as an irrepressibly likable guy’s guy. Like the muscle-bound stars of the 1980s, he literally cannot disappear into a role, but unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, Johnson is also content to let the destruction of California overshadow his star power. It’s a strategy that has increasingly paid off, especially overseas, where even Hercules earned an impressive $170 million. So while Johnson may not quite fulfill the traditional definition of a movie star, he is certainly redefining it for himself.
Gugino and Johnson in San Andreas
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Here are the estimated top 10 box office figures for Friday to Sunday, courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. San Andreas* — $53.2 million
2. Pitch Perfect 2 — $14.4 million
3. Tomorrowland — $13.8 million
4. Mad Max: Fury Road — $13.6 million
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron — $10.9 million
6. Aloha* — $10 million
7. Poltergeist — $7.8 million
8. Far from the Madding Crowd — $1.4 million
9. Hot Pursuit — $1.37 million
10. Home — $1.2 million
*Opening weekend
He’s basically a prom superstar.
You might remember Amandla from The Hunger Games as Rue. If you don't know her, you should because she's pretty much the coolest.
Ah, the smell of youth.
Deaf West’s production of Spring Awakening casts deaf and hearing actors in a fully accessible and even more emotionally resonant version of the hit show.
Daniel Durant and the cast of Deaf West's Spring Awakening.
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When Spring Awakening debuted in 2006, it stunned theatergoers with its staggeringly true-to-life portrayal of adolescence and sexual discovery. The rock musical, adapted by book writer and lyricist Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik from Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play, focuses largely on the unanswered questions that plague young people — and their parents' refusal to even address them.
In Deaf West's production of Spring Awakening, currently running at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, the theme of fraught communication is clearer than ever before. The cast is a mix of deaf and hearing actors, and the dialogue and songs have all been translated into American Sign Language. Some characters communicate via signing easily back and forth, while others struggle to understand one another.
"The show itself is about communication," DJ Kurs, the artistic director of Deaf West, told BuzzFeed News through an ASL interpreter. "It's also about the division between children and their parents, and deaf people — many are born to hearing parents, so we have parents who speak a different language and don't understand our culture. That is what you will see in Spring Awakening: the relationships between children and their parents, and how the kids have to navigate through the world on their own, and that itself is a very common experience in the deaf world."
In previous Deaf West productions, the shows have been deaf accessible but have not incorporated the actors' deafness into the story. For Spring Awakening, the characters played by deaf actors have been reconceived by director Michael Arden as deaf roles. "We want to choose a meaningful show and shows that in and of themselves add value and become better by adding sign language instead of just doing the same thing in sign language," Kurs said.
Sandra Mae Frank as Wendla and Austin McKenzie as Melchior in Spring Awakening.
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And Deaf West's Spring Awakening is just that. The production premiered last fall at the 99-seat Rosenthal Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Now that it's at the Wallis, the show has been expanded for a larger audience. Some of the cast has stayed with the production, like deaf actors Daniel Durant (as Moritz, who feels anxiety over his burgeoning sexuality) and Sandra Mae Frank (as Wendla, who naively enters a sexual relationship she doesn't understand).
Both actors mentioned how difficult it is to find work as deaf performers: Deaf characters are few and far between and on top of that, they are often played by hearing actors. When it comes to hearing roles, deaf actors are rarely considered.
"It's tough," Durant said via an interpreter. "There are millions of people looking for acting roles and a lot of deaf people, and there just aren't that many roles out there. Often there will be roles thought of as being for hearing actors, but I'll audition anyway and give people an opportunity to think, Maybe this will work for a deaf person. But it's not an easy life."
If a casting director does choose to take that chance on a deaf actor, they open the door for a unique experience. "Deaf people present more layers, more layers of conflict, especially if there's a communication breakdown," Frank said, also via an interpreter. "Not to be bigheaded or anything, [but] I feel like I have so much to give to this role."
The characters' deafness plays out in the interactions they have with the hearing characters in Spring Awakening, many of whom are slow or outright resistant to communicating with ASL. "We've translated Wendla's mother's dialogue really specifically so that you understand that she is a hearing woman that has learned to sign late in life to be able to communicate with her daughter," Andy Mientus, a hearing actor in the production, explained. "It's a little bit condescending, it's a little crude, it's a little like English as sign instead of full ASL. They're really rudimentary signs."
It hits close to home for Kurs, who is too often seeing hearing actors play deaf characters. "[ASL] is our first language. If you put a hearing person and you teach them sign language — you could teach them for five years straight and they're still not going to be equivalent to a deaf actor signing in their own native language," he said. "And when you have a deaf actor, it looks really natural and very, very rich, and it brings all the different layers to the role."
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And probs cooler than all of us.
Good lookin' couple right there.
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They dated from 1998 to 2012.
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Mostly the one of The Rock in China.
Everyone should strive to be the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side.
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