Sydney Leathers, who engaged in online sex chats with Democratic mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner last summer, tries to enter his election gathering place at Connolly's Pub in midtown Tuesday, September 10, 2013 in New York. Weiner surprisingly entered the race in May after being in political exile since resigning from Congress in 2011 upon admitting to lewd online exchanges with women who were not his wife. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)
Anthony Weiner's ill-fated mayoral campaign ended with a a final embarrassment when his sexting partner Sydney Leathers tried to crash his primary night rally.
Outside a "victory" party where supporters mourned a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Democratic primary, cameras crowded around Leathers, the 23-year-old whose sexting with the former congressman brought his once-high-flying campaign to a screeching halt.
"Why not be here?" Leathers asked reporters. "I'm kind of the reason he's losing. So, might as well show up."
Leathers, who has launched a porn career since the scandal broke, said Weiner needed "to stop being an embarrassment to the city of New York. He's going to continue this behavior. If it's not going to be me, it's going to be some other girl."
At one point, one of Weiner's supporters scolded Leathers, saying: "You must really be ashamed!"
If she was, she did not look it, poured as she was into a tight fitting red dress.
Kanye West fires back at Ray J for his song "I Hit It First."
Kanye West dropped by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" for a surprise performance of "Bound 2," and he changed the opening lyrics to slam his girlfriend Kim Kardashian's ex-boyfriend and sex tape partner, Ray J.
"Brandy’s little sister lame man he know it now/ When a real brother hold you down, you supposed to drown."
Ray J, who is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy, met Kardashian when she was working for his sister as a stylist back in the mid-2000s and would go on to help propel her to stardom when their sex tape went public in 2007.
West's lyrical diss appears to be the rapper finally responding to Ray J's song, "I Hit It First," the video for which was released back in April and featured a Kardashian look-alike. In addition to lyrics that seemed to strike at Kardashian's relationship with West, Ray J appeared to go out of his way to make it clear that the song was about Kardashian, since the cover art image for the single is based on a shot of the reality star wearing a bikini and is even pixelated to look like West's album cover for "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
Despite all this, Ray J has claimed the song is not about his ex.
"It's a song, it's not about that, it's about a concept," Ray J said in an interview with New York radio station Hot 97. "People going way too deep. They just gotta keep it on the surface. I'm not trying to create no war, it's all love; we're doing music."
Yeah, last night's performance on "Late Night" proves Kanye isn't buying Ray J's explanation, either.
While boyfriend Ashton Kutcher and his ex-wife Demi Moore chatted amicably while they strolled through the Burbank airport together after a shared flight on Monday, Sept. 9, what was Mila Kunis doing? The 30-year-old beauty was partying it up at the Toronto Film Festival and looking hotter than ever! Kunis hit the premiere of her new film, The Third Person, in a white Burberry Prorsum Resort 2014 crochet dress with a plunging neckline that showed off her petite frame and post-summer glow. The actress, who is usually photographed wearing casual tomboy ensembles when she's not on the red carpet, accessorized with gorgeous drop emerald earrings and snakeskin pumps.
Mila Kunis arrives at the "Third Person" premiere during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival held at The Elgin on September 9, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. Credit: Michael Tran/FilmMagic
The Third Person, directed by Paul Haggis (Crash), tells the interlocking stories of three couples in three cities and stars Kunis, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, Liam Neeson, Moran Atias, and James Franco, an actor she's worked with quite a lot. "We've done seven or eight things together. We have a very nice shorthand with one another," she told CityNews Toronto at the premiere.
Kunis also revealed this is her first time at the Toronto Film Festival: "It's a little crazier than I thought it was going to be! I honestly thought it was going to be a little more low-key. It's a little more fancy-pants here!" she said.
If Miley Cyrus is twerkin', we're talkin'. And if she's crying and swinging naked on a wrecking ball, you better believe we're watching!
So it makes sense that Miley's "Wrecking Ball" music video (which premiered Monday, Sept. 9) broke VEVO's record for the most -viewed clip—receiving some 19 million views in its first 24 hours.
"Wrecking Ball has officially beat the @VEVO record," the 20-year-old Queen of Twerktweeted. "thank you smilerzzzzz."
The One Direction boys were VEVO's previous record-holders. Their "Best Song Ever" music video got 10.7 million views in its first 24 hours—impressive, but that couldn't hold up against Miley's numbers!
Ms. Cyrus can't rejoice for too long in her video glory, though—she has a big month ahead. Her documentary, Miley: The Movement, premieres Oct. 2 on MTV. "I want all my fans to come with me; to the studio, on the road, at performances," she said. "There's going to be a lot of ups and downs, and it's going to be completely insane. You've gotta be a part of the movement with me."
Oh, girl, we will. And don't forget, Miley's album Bangerz is set for an Oct. 8 release.
When Lady Gaga debuted "Applause" live at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, the pop superstar opted to showcase a new wardrobe every few seconds and snicker at standard pop performance conventions. On "Good Morning America" on Monday morning (Sept. 9), Gaga once again blew up the one-outfit-per-performance model and cycled through multiple characters from "The Wizard of Oz," all while the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion danced beside her.
Apple released the highly anticipated iPhone 5C on Tuesday and, as Jony Ive said, it's "beautifully, unapologetically plastic." Sound like anyone else you know?
The original "plastics" — Regina, Gretchen, Karen and Cady — were clearly the inspiration behind the newest budget gadget, available in five fluorescent colors complete with a hole-punched silicon casing. While Apple may think it has discovered the secret to being plastic, you can't really be popular without the stamp of approval from the core four Mean Girls.
SEE ALSO: Apple Parody Claims the 'C' in iPhone 5C Stands for 'Cheapass'
More importantly, can Tim Cook sit with them at lunch?
The winners of the US Open men's and women's finals this year, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams, have lamented that much of their prize money was going to be taken in taxes.
Both the US star and the Spaniard captured the top prize of 2.6 million dollars for winning the year's final Grand Slam title on the New York hard courts plus a one million-dollar bonus for having the most successful run in pre-US Open tournaments.
Actor apparently refusing scripts as sources say he 'can no longer remember the lines' – but he will remain a public figure
Reports claim that Jack Nicholson has retired from acting due to memory loss. Radar Online and Star Magazine say the 76-year-old, three-time Oscar-winner is no longer considering scripts, though he will continue to play an active role in public life.
"There is a simple reason behind his decision – it's memory loss," a source told Radar. "Quite frankly, at 76, Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him."
Nicholson has not been seen on the big screen since 2010, when he played the father of a business executive facing jail over alleged corporate malfeasance in the Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd romantic comedy drama How Do You Know. His only other acting role since turning 70 has been 2007's The Bucket List, and he currently has no films on his slate.
As well as best actor Oscars for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1998's As Good As It Gets and the best supporting actor prize for 1984's Terms of Endearment, Nicholson holds the record for the highest number of Oscar nominations for a male actor: 12. According to US reports, he will continue to appear at the annual awards ceremony if invited as a guest presenter of prizes, as he did earlier this year when handing over the best picture gong with Michelle Obama, and will likely be courtside on a regular basis to watch his beloved LA Lakers basketball team.
"Jack has no intention of retiring from the limelight," Radar's source said. "He's not retiring from public life, at all. He just doesn't want a tribute. He's happy to tacitly join the retirees' club, like Sean Connery."
However NBC anchor Maria Shriver has contradicted suggestions that Nicholson is to retire, according to E! Online, asserting he is "not suffering from any memory-related illness or dementia".
Nicholson reportedly turned down the chance to play an alcoholic father travelling with his son to pick up a million-dollar lottery prize in Alexander Payne's Nebraska. The role won 77-year-old Bruce Dern the best actor prize at this year's Cannes film festival. Nicholson was also due to star alongside Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty as retired superheroes inMatthew Vaughn's The Golden Age. However, the proposed film has yet to see the light of day.
Neither Nicholson nor his representatives have so far made any public comment on the reports of his retirement.
• Read David Thomson on Jack Nicholson • Read Peter Bradshaw's review of Five Easy Pieces
Interviewed live on ESPN, rapper seems more excited by Detroit Lions football team than his new LP, out in November
With two months to go before Eminem releases his new album, the rapper declared that he can't wait to be finished with it. Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
In a live Q&A, ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit asked Eminem what he was "most excited about with this new album". "Uh, nothing," the MC replied. "It'll be out November 5 … I'll probably be most excited to just be done with it."
It's rare that Eminem agrees to a televised interview, especially a live one. In this case, he began the broadcast by staring glassy-eyed at the cameras. "Live TV freaks me out a little bit," he admitted.
It appears that the 40-year-old agreed to be on camera due to ESPN's sport-centric coverage. He seemed in awe of co-host Brent Musburger, a legendary US football presenter. Eminem came to life when discussing his favourite team, the Detroit Lions, and he revealed that his latest single, Berzerk, will be the new theme song for the popular Saturday Night Football broadcast.
"[The new album] is kind of a revisit to the first Marshall Mathers LP," he said, wearily. "And that's pretty much all I can probably say about it."
The Marshall Mathers LP 2, released 13 years after the seven-times-platinum Marshall Mathers LP, will be released on 5 November.
Another day, another Miley Cyrus controversy. Last time it was twerking at the VMAs; this time it's the video for her new song, Wrecking Ball (hypocrisy disclosure: scroll down and you can watch the clip I'm about to complain about across several hundred words). In said video you can see: Miley nude! Miley in her undies! Miley orally pleasuring a sledgehammer! Yes, you can watch – of all the sights in the world – Miley Cyrus simulating fellatio on something you'd find in a garden shed. What next? Selena Gomez giving a handjob to a strimmer?
I have a 13-year-old daughter, so Cyrus has been part of our family life since Hannah Montana launched on the Disney Channel in 2006. In company with my daughter, I've seen countless episodes of the TV show; I've seen the spinoff movie; I've seen the 3D concert film; I saw one of the five sold-out shows at the O2 in 2009.
Now Cyrus evidently wants to cast aside her crown as queen of the tweens, and she's gone about it in the way that many young women who became famous very young have done: she's embraced sexualisation. What's startling about Cyrus's journey is the extent of the embrace: the Wrecking Ball video doesn't demonstrate a woman exploring her sexuality, it depicts a woman exploring the iconography of porn. That was inevitable once she chose the repulsive Terry Richardson – a man whose work gives the impression that he looks at a woman and can't help seeing a blow-up sex doll – as director.
What disturbs me about Wrecking Ball isn't the fear that my daughter will look at the video and decide to learn about sex from garden implements. After all, one reason tween stars have to reinvent themselves is that the tweens themselves move on so quickly – part of the journey into adolescence consists of casting aside childhood love. I'm sure she'll be curious, and look at the video, but I also suspect she'll be embarrassed by Wrecking Ball, rather than inspired by it. That said, I'm probably not alone among parents in dreading the likely question: "Why has she done this?"
That's the more troubling aspect of Wrecking Ball. Maybe Cyrus has done this entirely of her own voliition. And it is certainly not my place, as a 44-year-old man, to pronounce on how 20-year-old women should display their sexuality. But whatever her reasons for making the video, Cyrus does send a message: that the best way for young women to be noticed is to sexually objectify themselves. And, in this case – sadly – it seems to have worked.
It's now five past noon, and Wrecking Ball has had 14,453,182 views on YouTube. It's added more than a million since I started writing this piece. I'm reminded of a line spoken by Ryan Gosling in the film Crazy Stupid Love: "The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise."
A wrecking ball blasts through a wall behind her in slow motion as she walks toward the camera and moments later Miley swings on top of the apparatus, first clothed and later fully nude.
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Terry Richardson is credited with directing the video for Cyrus' latest single, from her forthcoming album Bangerz.
Its release comes just two weeks after the singer's highly controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, which saw her stripping down to flesh-toned underwear and twerking against Robin Thicke.
Twerking hard for a living: Miley Cyrus at the MTV Awards. Photo: Reuters
Cyrus defended the performance last week, insisting critics are over-thinking her provocative displays.
"I don't pay attention to the negative because I've seen this play out, how many times have we seen this play out in pop music?" she told MTV.
The singer also garnered controversy for performing her single We Can't Stop with a band of dwarfs on the German TV show Schlag den Raab on Saturday.
Dressed in denim hot pants and a crop top, Cyrus danced onstage before she twerked with one of the band members before playfully smacking him on the bottom.
Cyrus is meanwhile preparing to make a splash as host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live on October 5, two years after making her debut on the US TV show.
At the end of the episode, a young boy used a gun in a school shooting . It’s one of the weapons Jax had the club give Nero’s crew last season. You’ve wanted to do this story for years. Why, and why now?
KURT SUTTER: As much as I don’t want to do something because it is sensational, I also don’t want to not do something because it might be perceived as sensational. My desire to do this story just felt very organic to the world:
Its sizzle time as Ameesha Patel bares her new toned body for her home production, Desi Magic. In a short black night wear, tousled hair, nude make up..against the backdrop of her bedroom, Amypoo as she is fondly called, turned up the sexy quotient as she posed for the cover of a magazine.
Our resident rules expert is breaking down all the calls from the first Sunday of the NFL season. See anything questionable? Let Mike know on Twitter @MikePereira.
When two great heavyweights get together there's usually a lot of punches, a lot of ebb and flow that takes place.
The Packers and the 49ers squared off for 12 rounds in San Francisco and the game didn't disappoint. It was an epic battle, a fight to the end won by the 49ers, 34-28.
However, something happened in the first half I was very worried about, a play I was anxious would make a difference in the outcome of the game. And unfortunately, my worst fears came to fruition.
Here was the situation: San Francisco had the ball, third-and-6 from the Green Bay 10-yard line with 9:30 left in the second quarter and the score tied 7-7. 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick scrambled to the left and ran out of bounds at the 6-yard line. Packers linebacker Clay Matthews took a cheap shot on Kaepernick after he was clearly out of bounds.
San Francisco tackle Joe Staley then started a shoving match with Matthews and both were penalized — Matthews for unnecessary roughness and Staley for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Both of those calls were correct.
But here's what wasn't: the enforcement of the penalty.
The hit by Matthews was after Kaepernick was out of bounds, therefore, it's considered a dead-ball foul and the play was over. The retaliation by Staley was also a dead-ball foul.
The NFL rule book states: "Dead ball fouls by both teams offset at the succeeding spot (that's the end of the play) and the down counts."
So of instead of being fourth-and-2 from the 6-yard line, the officiating crew chose to replay the down, which then made it third-and-6 from the 10-yard line.
On the next play, Kaepernick hit Anquan Boldin for a 10-yard touchdown. If the 49ers had chosen to kick a field goal on fourth-and-2 instead of going for a touchdown, it certainly could have resulted in a four-point swing. And it did. Even though San Francisco added a field goal with 26 seconds left in the game, the call clearly had an effect on the game's strategy.
I know the rule book is complicated, but this is not most one of the most confusing enforcements. I also understand getting caught up in the action and confusion on what took place at the end of the play.
But there are seven officials on the field and each is responsible to make sure that the rules are enforced properly. I understand how judgment errors get made when things happen so fast, but there is no excuse for getting penalties wrong.
I've been in situations before when mistakes like this happen and it's not fun. You have to talk to the teams and you have to face the media. It comes with the territory.
You hate for great games like this one to have something like a missed call have any outcome on the final result.
Play 2 — That's just silly
We are in Week 1 of the NFL season and I'm not sure we will see a dumber penalty all year than what we saw in the Tampa Bay-NY Jets game.
It ended up costing the Bucs a victory.
Here's the scenario: Tampa Bay had the lead, 17-15, with 15 seconds left in the game. The Jets had the ball, second-and-10 at their own 45-yard line. Jets QB Geno Smith scrambled out of the pocket and headed for the sidelines.
He was clearly out of bounds when he got shoved by Tampa Bay linebacker Lavonte David.
Tack on an extra 15 yards for unnecessary roughness. It gave the Jets a first down at the Bucs' 30-yard line.
On the very next play, with just 2 seconds left, kicker Nick Folk kicked a 48-yard field goal to give the Jets an 18-17 win.
First of all, the call on David was definitely a foul.
When the quarterback is headed out of bounds, you let him go out of bounds. Smith's right foot had already come down out of bounds and then he was shoved by Tampa Bay linebacker Lavonte David into the bench area.
That's the perfect example of unnecessary in the unnecessary roughness penalty.
Play 3 — Suh does it again
Some things never change.
Ndamukong Suh has been labeled a dirty player by many people through his first four seasons in the NFL. In fact, in a Sporting News poll, the players voted him the NFL's dirtiest player and in a Forbes-publicized Neilsen report in 2012, he was cited as the NFL's least-liked player.
Fast forward to the second quarter in Detroit's game against Minnesota Sunday. The Lions were trailing 7-6 and the Vikings had the ball, second-and-1 at their own 29-yard line.
Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder's pass intended for Jerome Simpson was intercepted by DeAndre Levy and returned for a touchdown.
However, Suh was called for a low block on Vikings center Joe Sullivan on the return and the play was nullified.
You are not allowed a low block on a change of possession. This has always been an illegal block below the waist and doesn't pertain to the new, expanded peel-back rule.
Already one of the most fined players since he entered the league, Suh will definitely be going to his wallet again as this most certainly will come with another fine.
Play 4 — Johnson done in
The process of the catch. Let me say it again, the process of the catch.
There's probably nobody that hates the term more than Detroit's Calvin Johnson.
It was déjà vu for Johnson in the opening week, yet again. And it wasn't the good kind.
If you remember 2010, Johnson had what could have been the game-winning TD against Chicago in the opening game of the season, only for the call to be reversed. The Bears walked away with the win.
Well, Sunday against Minnesota, with the Vikings leading 7-0 in the first quarter, Johnson appeared to catch a 20-yard touchdown pass from Matt Stafford in the opening game of the season. But as he was diving into the end zone the ball appeared to come loose.
The question is, did Johnson maintain control of the ball long enough to do a football act?
The determination relating to his reaching the ball out into the end zone is made by whether or not both feet are clearly on the ground before he extends the ball.
If he begins to extend the ball the ball before the second foot is clearly on the ground then it becomes a process and he must maintain control of the ball when he hits the ground.
He certainly began to extend the ball before he got both feet clearly down. The call was reversed. And the Lions eventually settled for a field goal.
Johnson and the Lions, done in by the process … again.
Play 5 — Freeman's radio issue
Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman was having a problem with his coach-to-quarterback radio system in the opening series against the Jets.
And it resulted in a burned timeout and two delay-of-game penalties on Tampa Bay
However, there is no equity in coach to quarterback systems so there was really nothing the Bucs could do about it.
The only rule of equity is from the coaches in the press box to coaches on the field.
If all of them don't work, then the other team can't use their communication system. If one of them works, then the other team may still be able to use theirs.
Tough luck for the Bucs … and tough way to start the season.
Ylvis Makes his way into the Room of Ridiculously Catchy Bullshit Music Hits, Along side the overly famous Psy. YouTube as a platform is swiftly lifting up this new music video [5 Million Views in 72 Hours] in which artist Ylvis is quite confidently vomiting bullshit otherwise recognized as catchy beats with poor kinder garden poetry type lyrics.
The Song Speaks of a handful of animals and their respective sounds made by our breakthrough artist with all his ridiculous stupor. Which is followed by The Viral question "What Does the Fox Say?"
Apart from the Stupor that Mr. Ylvis is projecting through his shit worthy vocal chords, the song is being held by a strong electronic tune and catchy beats. Engineered in a well thought manner this song may be love by the Non-English speaking population around the world.
Just As Mr Psy had the globe bouncing to his quite clean yet somehow suggestive gestures.
Ylvis's attempt here has been quite successful and very soon we might even see some people wanting to pull off his moves thierself, making it what it was engineered to become "VIRAL"
Prepare yourself: The latest viral music hit has arrived. It’s called “The Fox,” a hilarious and maddeningly infectious song by Ylvis, a pair of Norwegian variety show brothers. The video, which involves people dressed up as animals dancing around in the woods while Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker croon ”dog goes woof/ cat goes meow/ bird goes tweet/ mouse goes squeak,” has acquired nearly 3 million hits on YouTube in three days. If you’ve already seen “The Fox,” it’s probably left you with plenty of questions of your own. Like, “Why am I still hopelessly stuck on the insanely catchy clutches of a song about animal noises?” and “Should I be reevaluating my own understanding of animal noises? Do elephants really go … “toot”? And of course, the most important question of all: “Wait, seriously, what sound does a fox make?”
Baltimore's thin wide receiver corps got a little thinner with the news Jacoby Jones will miss between four and six weeks due to a knee injury. Jones was injured during a punt return on Thursday and suffered a MCL sprain, according to a report from Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun.
The injury occurred early in the second quarter when Baltimore rookie Brynden Trawick crashed into Jones, who was attempting to field a punt. The two players remained down after the play before eventually being helped off the field. Jones limped to the locker room and did not return. The injury is expected to keep him out for at least a month. Baltimore doesn't have its bye week until Week 8, so Jones will likely miss at least four games. If he is out the full six weeks, he could return for a Week 9 game against Cleveland following the bye.
Losing Jones is a major blow for Baltimore's offense, which is already without tight end Dennis Pitta. Jones was expected to be the Ravens' No. 2 wide receiver and help replace the production that was lost when Anquan Boldin was traded to the 49ers.
Rookie wide receiver Marlon Brown replaced Jones in the lineup against Denver and could see a significant increase in snaps going forward. Rookie Aaron Mellette and second-year wide receiver Deonte Thompson could also factor in. Baltimore is planning to evaluate the free-agent market, according to Wilson. Brandon Lloyd and Laurent Robinson are two of the top players available.
Baltimore will also have to replace Jones in the return game. Lardarius Webb handled punt return duties after Jones went out while Thompson was deep on kick returns, but did not return a kick.
You've heard Katy Perry "Roar." Now Katy Perry and "Good Morning America" want to hear your school roar.
Send us a two minute video of you and others at your school performing your own rendition of "Roar" for a chance to win "Good Morning America"'s "Roar With Katy Perry" contest. The qualified school of one lucky student representative entrant will win a live concert by the chart-topping artist to be held at the school on or about October 25, 2013. The concert will also be broadcast on "Good Morning America."
Comic nerds and classic action fanboys have been divided all year over whether or not we should be excited for a remake of Robocop. Technology is clearly in a better place than it was for the original, but for one reason or another there is a small percentage of the population who believe no one could ever top what has been done. They’re wrong, or at least it seems that way, because the first trailer for the new Robocop has arrived and it’s pretty damn cool.
Hitting screens nationwide in February 2014, the updated version of Robocop is more a new version of the hero’s story than an outright remake. The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
The first trailer for Robocop serves as a fitting introduction to everything above, as well as a nice teaser for the ultra high-gloss CGI that will be included throughout. Seeing both the old suit and the new one is a nice touch, but I wonder just how much the classic imagery will be used when the full film sees release. Comment below and let us know your thoughts.
