‘Your Highness’ Star Natalie Portman Talks Smoking Marijuana, Loving Stoner Comedies
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Natalie Portman plays it straight as a warrior princess in the medieval stoner comedy “Your Highness,” leaving the drug use to co-stars Danny McBride and James Franco, but she professes to being a big fan of the genre. And the subject matter. “I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven’t smoked in years,” Portman told Entertainment Weekly. “I’m too old. I wish I was that cool, but I’m like an old lady now. I’m in bed by 10 p.m. I can’t do that anymore.” Portman has been open about her love of more sophomoric humor before. In December, she spoke to Vogue Magazine about her love of comedy and her new production company, Handsomecharlie Films. “We’re very into female comedies; there just aren’t enough,” Portman said. “There’s a difference between being in a bra and underpants as an object on a men’s-magazine cover and playing yourself–a woman with desires and needs who loves and laughs with her friends — in a bra and underpants. For more, click over to Entertainment Weekly. Check out the trailer for “Your Highness” below. WATCH:
Continue reading …Verizon Wireless killing one-year contracts on April 17th, assumes you won’t even care
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Okay, so maybe you’ll care , but you’ll still opt for the two-year option once your contract is up. That’s according — more or less, anyway — to a Verizon Wireless spokesperson, confirming to our inquiry this afternoon that the carrier’s one-year contract option will be eliminated on April 17th. The reason, as you might expect, revolves around historical customer preference. That’s a fancy way of saying that most customers prefer the stout hardware discounts that are available with a lengthier two-year agreement, and barring that, they can still choose month-to-month, prepaid or a rival. Not that VZW would encourage the latter, but hey — America’s about options, man. Verizon Wireless killing one-year contracts on April 17th, assumes you won’t even care originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Details of the new terror alert system are out, and it looks like Twitter and Facebook are in. As previously reported , the government is replacing its color coding system: In its place will be a two-level system—”elevated” and “imminent”—and alerts might be sent to Americans via Facebook and…
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Boris Johnson and David Cameron have also given in to the helmet brigade, but there’s no legal requirement to do so It is generally accepted that politicians carry a greater responsibility than the average person to lead by example – whether it’s by not fiddling their expenses or not sleeping with their secretaries if they espouse family values. But does this responsibility really extend to adherence to a non-existent law? Before he became mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote that he refused to wear a cycle helmet on the grounds that he didn’t like “to be lured into any false sense of security” – there are studies suggesting helmeted riders take more risks than those without. But after taking office in 2008 Johnson capitulated to the health and safety police and bought an “undignified plastic hat” . He could not live with himself, he said, if people started to copy his “helmetless insouciance” and thereby put themselves in danger. He was also fed up of people tutting at him at traffic lights – or in the Evening Standard. David Cameron, too, eventually learned that it’s easier to give in to the helmet brigade than rail against them. When he first became opposition leader – those honeyed days when he didn’t have to fill his panniers because his chauffeur was in pursuit – Cameron was occasionally photographed bare-headed, or with his helmet dangling from the handlebars (the cycling equivalent of carrying condoms but refusing to wear them because it “just doesn’t feel the same”). He wouldn’t dare these days. All of this is ridiculous. It is not a legal requirement to wear a helmet in Britain (though Northern Ireland is on the road to introducing such a law ). If Norman Baker was not wearing a seatbelt or had run a red light he could be rightly admonished. But to criticise him for exercising a personal, legal choice is like chiding Andrew Lansley for eating cake when he is health secretary – daft. Helen Pidd’s cycling guide, Bicycle, is published by Penguin. Cycling Helen Pidd guardian.co.uk
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Like Liverpool 45 years ago, Tottenham Hotspur found that pace means nothing without the ball The Champions League broadens horizons but it also sharpens perspectives. What may be laudable in domestic competitions can be a handicap on the bigger stage. Aspiring teams, confident of their abilities, are apt to find the Champions League a humbling experience. Wednesday’s opening leg of the quarter-final between Chelsea and Manchester United would have passed muster as a Premier League fixture. It was more entertaining than the series of clinches that are usually the case when these teams meet. The football was fast and eventful and there was plenty of goalmouth action. In Champions League terms, however, the standard of much of the play was indifferent. There were too many unforced errors and the ball was given away with depressing regularity. The one moment of genuine class was the superb touch with which Ryan Giggs met Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass before setting up Wayne Rooney for the winning goal. Perhaps we have all been spoiled by Barcelona. Teams of this quality come along once in a generation, if football is lucky, so everybody else is bound to suffer by comparison. Nevertheless, Barça are the ones to beat and, as Arsenal showed at the Emirates, they can be defeated. Last season, moreover, José Mourinho’s Internazionale found the organisation and the firepower to overcome Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals and Chelsea and Manchester United have each beaten them in recent tournaments. But that was then. The likelihood of a team emerging from a generally fallow season in the Premier League to take on Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi and the rest and emerge triumphant was always doubtful. Manchester United are now the only serious candidates. Chelsea are hard to take seriously with their coach, Carlo Ancelotti, who was compelled to play Fernando Torres ahead of Nicolas Anelka as Didier Drogba’s partner in a Champions League quarter-final. Watching Torres fumble his way through the match while TV cut away to Roman Abramovich viewing his £50m signing impassively from the back of the stand, was to be reminded of the moment in Citizen Kane when the great man’s protege is singing her little heart out and the camera pans up to two stage hands on a platform high above. One looks at the other and their eyes meet in silent disapproval. On Tuesday night, Tottenham Hotspur could be said to have joined Arsenal in suffering the Camp Nou experience, except that their conquerors were not Barcelona but Real Madrid at the Bernabéu. Spurs, like Arsenal, had a player, Peter Crouch, sent off. Yet, even if they had remained at full strength, it was difficult to see how they would have been able to retain possession long enough to get the ball up to the tall
Continue reading …The strange saga of former billionaire Patricia Kluge continues: Her winery was snapped up at a foreclosure auction yesterday by none other than Donald Trump. The 776-acre Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard “had a $28 million mortgage on it, and I bought it for $6.2 million,” Trump tells the…
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Starting today and continuing through the weekend, two George Soros sponsored conferences will be taking place in New England. In Boston, a conference discusses means to “Change the World,” by changing the media. And, while we certainly agree that the media need changing, we’d prefer change that reflected the values of hard-working Americans as opposed to those of a billionaire socialist intent on taking the U.S. down a notch. A second conference 150 miles north in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire will feature lefty academics and activists planning the best way to remake the global economy with a one world government, global currency, and even more power for anti-American forces in the United Nations. But don't worry, there will be reporters there from The Washington Post, NBC, PBS (thanks taxpayers!) and many other liberal media fixtures. Unsurprisingly they won't be reporting on what the lefties are planning for the rest of us, but rather participating in the conferences themselves. We'll be delivering petitions to the news outlets that have reporters participating in these events, demanding that they at least let the American people know what these socialists have planned for us. Click here to add your name and join the fight .
Continue reading …Ashley Judd recently revealed in her memoir that she was sexually abused as a child—and now mother Naomi says the same thing happened to her, Radar reports. Yesterday on The View , Naomi says that she first revealed the abuse to her therapist two years ago, when he asked about…
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Speaker John Boehner of Ohio reacting to the sounds of the camera shutters begin his press conference Thursday with the question, “how many pictures of me in a suit do you need?” The answers is, Associated Press shot 519 frames. (April 8)
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Arriving at the Capitol Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the budget statemate has come down to an “ideological battle” that “has nothing to do with the fiscal integrity of this country,” but rather is about women’s health. (April 8)
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