It's safe to say celebrities like being admired by the general public and having fans who adore them, or else they wouldn't hire publicists to keep them in the public eye. It's also safe to say they don't like to dwell on their failures, since bad decisions both on the set and off can cost them a career in Hollywood.
These famous folks are only human after all, and for every Blue Velvet or Easy Rider highlight there's a Super Mario Bros. lowlight just waiting to drag your name through the sewer.
But every celebrity knows the most humiliating lowlights are those caused by agreeing to star in a sequel that in no way lives up to the original film's greatness, aka going against your basic instinct by doing a number 2.
Tommy doesn't have any fitness training or experience, he hasn't won any bodybuilding competitions and he's never been referred to as "very fit", but Tommy has something that makes The Gym better than the rest- The Room. It's where all the crazy exercisey stuff happens and where a love of fitness is found, and exercisers who dare to enter The Room have been known to cry out "you're tearing me apart Tommy!" during his aerobiscreamo classes. And if you don't know aerobiscreamo you haven't been to The Gym.
Take a love of indie fitness with you wherever you go by wearing this The Gym t-shirt by Pigboom, and watch people get pumped when they see your hilarious shirt!
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This comic has three different punch lines. You can stop the story after six panels. Or nine panels. Or twelve panels. But you only notice that later, after you've made sure that our protagonist got to relieve himself after all. I would assume that he went next door where they really do sell candy. We've all been there. Now, imagine doing all this in a country where you don't speak the language. This is the latest comic from Alex Culang and Raynato Castro of Buttersafe.
The symptoms of a heart attack or seizure are pretty easy to identify and therefore it's easy to tell what kind of help the victim needs to survive, but when someone's having a stroke it's really hard to diagnose and even harder to treat.
So according to this TED talk by Vaibhav Goswami it's important to "Act F.A.S.T.", identifying whether they have Facial drooping, Arm weakness or Slurred speech, then acting fast to get them to the hospital in Time.
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
The year was 1931 and the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) had by now had three hit Broadway shows and two smash movies: The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930)- behind them. Both The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were simply filmed versions of their Broadway shows. Both films had been shot in nearby Astoria Studios in Long Island, New York.
The Marxes, now being official 24-karat movie stars, decided to pull up stakes and move to the only residence befitting motion picture celebrities- Hollywood. Their third film would be their first with an official Hollywood screenplay.
The working title of their tertiary film was Pineapples, but was soon changed to Monkey Business. Written by S.J. Perelman and Will B. Johnstone with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, Monkey Business was directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Monkey Business was to be the only Marx Brothers film in which none of the brothers have a character name. Because they played four stowaways on a passenger ship, they were simply referred to as "the stowaways." (in the film's end credits, they are credited by their names, i.e. Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx.)
What little plot there is involves the boys stowing away on a ship, being pursued by the captain of the ship and his underlings, meeting rival gangsters on board and getting involved with them, leaving the ship and thwarting an attempted kidnapping of one of the gangster's daughters.
In a followup to his previous video on the differences between Australia and New Zealand, Jordan Watson (also known as the How-to Dad) draws more contrasts between the two countries. He lives in New Zealand, which he paints as a more peaceful and sensible place.
This video delves deeper into the language differences of two English-speaking nations, although he does wander into the wildlife, sports, and geography a bit. Jordan is quite proud to be a Kiwi, although he should brush up on recognizing his own flag. -via Tastefully Offensive
Guys grow beards for a number of reasons, from trying to look more manly to adding some hirsute style to their otherwise clean cut appearance to simply trying to hide the fact that they have no chin.
But whatever the reason for growing a beard a guy learns a valuable lesson about life once he grows his first hairy facial accessory- and finally feels like a real man for once in his life.
So what does manliness feel like? As this Cujko Comics shows it's a lot like normalness, only with tears of joy you claim are flowing because you have something in your eye.
Over the years, hospitals have relaxed rules about children and even pets visiting patients. And some hospitals will go the extra distance to make life as normal as possible for patients in need. Chelsea Barkley was engaged to Jordan Harper, and when her mother, cancer patient Kim Sherwood, was given a prognosis of about a week to live, she and Jordan and the hospital staff went into high gear to make sure her mother would witness their wedding. Wedding vendors helped out with donations for the wedding, put together in only 48 hours and held at the hospital. That included photographer Wendy Teal, who shot the wedding for free.
As Teal arrived to shoot the wedding, she realized that not only was it the same hospital where both of her parents died of stage 4 cancer, but the ceremony was taking place in the exact same room where her mother's funeral was held.
When Teal's mother died, the doctor's told her that her father wouldn't be able to leave the hospital to attend a funeral, so staff members let Teal hold the funeral inside the hospital. Her father was able to say his final goodbyes, and died five hours later.
While Teal decided to not to share her history with the bride and groom, given the stress they were already under, some staff members recognized her and couldn't believe she agreed to shoot the ceremony.
Teal said that this was an opportunity to pay it forward. The wedding was beautiful, despite tears from the bride, mother of the bride, and others. You can see more pictures of the wedding at Buzzfeed.
I love stories about parents turning their kid's crazy artwork into something even cooler because it's both a sweet bonding story and an art exercise with heart.
I also adore making plush toys because kids love them and they make an adult's inner child go squee, so the plushies created by Wendy Tsao really made my heart sing.
Wendy turns kids' doodles into 100% accurate plushies, which really look like kid art come alive, and through her studio Child's Own she's bringing children's creativity to life for parents who don't have the sewing skills to do it themselves.
This video by Daily Fun Facts showcases some of Wendy Tsao's most impressive plushies, and now I know what I'm gonna do with my son's artwork when he's old enough to draw silly stuff!
The new animated film Isle of Dogs, directed by Wes Anderson, opens this weekend. In honor of the occasion, Screen Junkies has a trailer that includes every Wes Anderson feature film made so far. That's eight of them, none of which I have seen. But apparently they are all alike.
Why haven't I ever seen a Wes Anderson movie? Because no one ever told me that I should, and that's saying something because I live on the internet. After watching this Honest Trailer, I don't feel the need to see one, ever. That doesn't mean that Isle of Dogs won't be wonderful -the reviews are pretty good. But I'll wait for the word-of-mouth. -Thanks, Kelli!
"Exocomet" is probably a new word to you. We know exoplanets as planets that revolve around stars outside our solar system. Exocomets are comets that revolve around stars outside our solar system. Astronomers assumed that they were out there somewhere, but only recently have we seen evidence of them. And like exoplanets, they are too far away to see, but we have evidence that comes from those far away stars themselves. One exocomet was detected around a star 815 light-years away, and another at 850 light-years away. So we at least have evidence that they were at those stars over 800 years ago. But how do we know they are comets?
The alien comets were found in data taken by the Kepler telescope, which spent several years staring at 150,000 stars in one spot in the sky. It was looking for exoplanet transits, a teeny dip in a star's light if an orbiting planet happened to pass directly between us and it. That only happens if the planet's orbit is almost exactly edge-on as seen from Earth, which is why it looked at so many stars. The more you look at, the more likely the geometry will work out.
Transits are detected by measuring the amount of light from a star, and when that light dips, it usually means a planet is transiting. But graphs of those transits show that light dips and then increases in a regular pattern. Some graphs showed an asymmetrical dip, which would have been caused by a comet's tail.
When this team of astronomers looked at the star KIC 3542116, though, they spotted decidedly asymmetric dips. Six of them, in fact! Three were about the same depth (about 0.1% of the star's light blocked), and another set of three a bit shallower (0.05% blocked).
As soon as they saw the fang-shaped profile, they knew they had something special. Still, first they made sure their data weren’t contaminated by the legion of issues that can mess of the observations: starspots (sunspots, but on another star), known stellar variability, camera detector issues, and more. Once they eliminated all the known potential problems, they were left with one conclusion*: exocomets.
The problem with declaring something to be "the world's oldest" is your item will only hold that title until someone finds something older, which will never stop happening as long as people are searching for old stuff.
So a few years back the world's oldest message in a bottle was found by a Scottish fisherman and was dated back to 1914, which makes it a youngster compared to the bottle Tonya Illman found on a remote beach in Western Australia.
The bottle found by Tonya dates back to 1886, and after she and her husband Kym removed the note in the bottle and dried it out in the oven they discovered it came from a German ship:
The note in the bottle, which was dated 12 June 1886, was jettisoned from the German ship Paula, as part of an experiment into ocean and shipping routes by the German Naval Observatory.
When they saw the date they thought it was "too far-fetched" to be real, Mr Illman said - but they researched the bottle online and took it to experts at the Western Australian Museum.
"Incredibly, an archival search in Germany found Paula's original Meteorological Journal and there was an entry for 12 June 1886 made by the captain, recording a drift bottle having been thrown overboard. The date and the coordinates correspond exactly with those on the bottle message," Dr Anderson said.
The handwriting on the journal, and the message in the bottle, also matched, he added.
Flash had been running for most of his life- running from his past, running from his enemies and trying to run as fast as he could from the call to adventure that came on the fateful night when he inherited the speed force. But it wasn't until Barry stopped running and started to live in the moment that he discovered what he was truly meant to be- a flash dancer. The feeling of being on stage was like nothing he'd felt before, and he didn't have to save anybody's life to get cheers- all he had to do was dance his sexy, sexy dance like nobody was watching...
Be free to express who you truly are by wearing this Flash Dance t-shirt by Scott Sherwood, it's a hilarious way to show the world you're not afraid to get down with your sexy self!
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The YouTube series Forces of Destiny fills in the gaps between the Star Wars movies. They've posted a lot of animated vignettes since we showed you the first one, Sands of Jakku. In the latest episode, we find out how Leia first met Maz Kanata.
It happened long, long ago... well, you already knew that. It was between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. And now we know where Leia got the disguise she used to infiltrate Jabba's palace. -via The Daily Dot
You don't have to be a history buff or school teacher to enjoy reading and talking about history, because there were so many cool characters and interesting events in mankind's past it's only natural to find it all endlessly fascinating.
And considering how awful things are in the present many more people young and old are about to become history fans too, so join the revolution with a historically themed NeatoShop t-shirt!
