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Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t alone. In the wake of Gyllenhaal’s revelation that at 37 years old she’d been told she was too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man, Vocativ analyzed blockbuster films of the past five years and found a clear pattern: Hollywood insists on casting much younger women as the love interests of…
3. While Bieber sharing nude photos of himself is not a new thing, the large majority of his fans were very excited by the snap. The photo has had over 2 million likes. Of the 600,000 comments, the majority of fans declared their love for Bieber, used heart-eyed emojis, and/or asked him to “turn around”….
Entry Text The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better. That’s what makes the runaway success of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “What Is Code?” — a 38,000-word opus on software engineering that took up an entire double issue of the magazine — all the more surprising….
As San Diego Comic-Con begins, we also get our first superhero movie casting. First up, Marisa Tomei has been cast as Spider-Man’s new aunt, filling the role once held by Sally Field and Rosemary Harris. Um, does anyone see a pattern here? Marisa Tomei is currently 50. Sally Field was 66 when she played Aunt…
Keith Olbermann, the television anchor who left ESPN amid controversy, then left MSNBC amid controversy, then left Current TV amid controversy, is once again leaving ESPN amid controversy, less than two years after returning to the organization. Jim Miller, the author of the definitive book on ESPN’s history, reported Wednesday that Olbermann will leave the sports network…
As former stripper Channing Tatum stands in his expansive, glistening marble kitchen putting the finishing touches on his signature dish — an egg white omelet, minus the whites — his crowd-pleasing abs are encased in a loose-fitting, slightly sheer garment that skims the top of his jeans in an almost loving way. He’s at ease…
Say the words “Tim Burton’s Superman Lives” on the Internet and you feel the hate. Nicolas Cage as Superman? Those terrible costumes? It would’ve been the worst movie of all time. Well, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? just might prove that the entire internet is wrong. Directed by Jon Schnepp, The Death of…
photo credit: Luis Llerena BuiltWith, the popular service dedicated to monitoring internet technology trends and providing platform usage analytics, released its bi-annual internet coverage report for CMS usage from January – July 2015. The report shows that WordPress, which accounts for 48% of total CMS’s tracked, added 1.1 million domains since January. WordPress has been…
How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon Facebook headquarters is an amazing place. The snacks are free, the sun always shines and everyone is full of the best intentions. During my first week I encountered hundreds of people earnestly trying to make the world a better place. I also foresaw how easy it would be…
On Tuesday, Latvia’s central bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics called the introduction of a new currency in Greece the “most realistic scenario.” The country is in its second week of capital controls and banks remain shut in the wake of a referendum which saw some 61% of Greeks vote against the terms of the latest bailout…