Gotta love the NYC tabloids. No one does it better.
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Trailer: WILD OATS Starring Shirley MacLaine & Jessica Lange
If you’re a “Grace & Frankie” fan, you might be interested in the upcoming Wild Oats flick starring Oscar winners Shirley MacLaine and Jessica Lange.
Bearing the tag line “Newly Rich. Newly Single. Forever Young.” the film involves a death, an insurance check and a road trip in store for the two besties.
When a woman accidentally receives a life insurance check for $5,000,000 instead of $50,000, her friend convinces her to keep the money and they both end up on a mad dash towards the Canary Islands.
The film premiered on Lifetime on August 22, 2016, prior to being released in a limited release on September 16, 2016.
Ever Wonder What Social Media Celebs Get Paid For “Sponsored” Posts?
The New York Times has an interesting article about the Federal Trade Commission cracking down on the paid posts of celebrities on social media, encouraging folks to make paid posts more obvious to viewers.
The article focuses mainly on how folks like Kylie Jenner are having to alter their language on social media from phrases like “Thanks for the birthday home, AirBNB” to “Thanks for the gift of a lovely birthday home, AirBNB.” The FTC is also advising folks add “#ad” or “#sponsored” at the start of those kinds of social media posts. The main point being that it should be clear to viewers the post is paid for.
At this point, we all know when we see a brand anywhere in social media, someone’s getting paid. But have you ever wondered how much?
Captiv8, a company that connects brands to influencers, says someone with three million to seven million followers can charge, on average, $187,500 for a post on YouTube, $75,000 for a post on Instagram or Snapchat and $30,000 for a post on Twitter. For influencers with 50,000 to 500,000 followers, the average is $2,500 for YouTube, $1,000 for Instagram or Snapchat and $400 for Twitter.
The NY Times article goes on to cite one Snapchat user who, with 700,000 followers, gets from $10K up for a sponsored “story,” which is a collection of video and stills that evaporates after 24 hours. The user mentions he booked five such posts the prior month.
So, kids, if you have a sizeable following somewhere, what are you waiting for?
Fake Hillary Email Sends Trump Followers Into Frenzy
A wannabe Trump troll really got the more gullible Trumpers in a frenzy today as they breathlessly retweeted what they believed was “proof” that Hillary Clinton was paying off pollsters to show her leading in the race for the White House.
A sad little Twitterer who goes by the handle “MassRafTer” posted the poorly Photoshopped image above trying to pass it off as a communication between the Hillary Clinton campaign and Public Policy Polling.
The truly cringeworthy aspect of the exercise was in seeing how many Trumpers believed the “fake email.”
The next thing you know, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the post and folks lost their minds. Mainly because Don Jr. fell for a such a badly done fake.
Even Public Policy Polling got into the fun by retweeting an Upworthy writer who called Jr. out for his naivete.
Hate Pastor Is No Match For Bagpipe Playing Lesbian
A hate preacher and his megaphone were no match for Florida Gulf Coast University student Brice Ehmig.
From the Daily Record:
As the video ends, applause and cheering can be heard from out of shot as Brice calls her girlfriend over. Brice, originally from Dunedin, Florida, said: “I have seen too much tragedy in the LGBTQ community to let a man in cargo pants tell me I am the embodiment of sin. I am a gay bagpiper and I’m proud. I decided since this is my last year at university that I should do things that make me feel brave.”
The best part is how Ehmig follows the street preacher back and forth while playing her bagpipes.
Watch below #FTW
Trump Campaign Manager: Conservative Women Are “Hated” Because They Aren’t “A Bunch Of Dykes”
Stephen Bannon, head of “alt-right” Breitbart News and current chief of the Donald Trump campaign explained on Political Vindication Radio in 2011 that conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are hated by the left because they “threaten the progressive narrative” and they are not “a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools.”
Charming.
Bannon has also been in the headlines lately regarding reported domestic violence involving his former wife.
Listen below:
“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement,” he continued. “That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.”
“They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England,” he concluded. “That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”
Coldplay Remembers Gene Wilder
In a world of pure imagination… R42A video posted by Coldplay (@coldplay) on Aug 29, 2016 at 9:20pm PDT
Pastor Mark Burns Apologizes For “Blackface Hillary” Image But Not For Message
Multi-millionaire evangelist/Trump supporter Mark Burns apologized today saying he didn’t mean to “stir up the pot” when he tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton in blackface.
Seriously.
Via Buzzfeed:
In Burns’ now-deleted tweet, Clinton wears a t-shirt saying, “no hot sauce, no peace!” and holds an anti-police sign while saying, “I ain’t no ways tired of pandering to African Americans.”
Burns apologized to those he offended Tuesday, telling CNN, “It was never my intention to hurt anyone or offend anyone, but the message is very clear. The message I stand by, the methodology I do not.”
He said that the Democratic Party “has been using the black voting bloc.”
“The promises made to the African American community are not being carried out,” he said.
“I want to say to the people who were offended — obviously many people were offended by my tweet — that it was not my intention to offend anyone.”
Burns said that he did not create the cartoon and that it was tweeted at him. He said that the Trump campaign was not making him apologize.
He asserted that while he was apologizing for the “offensive picture,” he was not apologizing for “the message that it was carrying.”
“I still believe Clinton and the Democratic Party pander to black people,” he said.
Funny: Thor Takes Down Time Down Under
In case you were wondering what Thor was up to during CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR.
Turns out he needed some “me” time after saving the planet, so he decided to chill in Australia. Along the way he met a dude named Darryl and moved in with him.
Chris Hemsworth is quite funny in this little bit. Apparently, this was shown at Comic Con and there’s more 🙂
Study: Dogs Understand Our Words And Our Tone
A study done in Budapest shows that dogs not only understand our tone of voice, but they also understand many of the words we use.
From the Washington Post:
To determine this, Attila Andics and colleagues at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest recruited 13 family dogs — mostly golden retrievers and border collies — and trained them to sit totally still for seven minutes in an fMRI scanner that measured their brain activity. (The pups were not restrained, and they “could leave the scanner at any time,” the authors assured.)
A female trainer familiar to the dogs then spoke words of praise that all their owners said they used — “that’s it,” “clever,” and “well done” — and neutral words such as “yet” and “if,” which the researchers believed were meaningless to the animals. Each dog heard each word in both a neutral tone and a happy, atta-boy tone.
Using the brain activity images, the researchers saw that the dogs processed the familiar words regardless of intonation, and they did so using the left hemisphere, just like humans. Tone, on the other hand, was analyzed in the auditory regions of the right hemisphere — just as it is in people, the study said.
And finally, they saw that the dogs’ “rewards center” — which is stimulated by pleasant things such as petting and food and sex — did the brain equivalent of jumping and yelping when positive words were spoken in a positive tone.