Neda: YouTube Video Too Distressing to Ignore
Yesterday we published 10 Powerful YouTube Videos from Iran, including a particularly graphic video of an Iranian girl dying on the street – we now know her name, Neda. The deeply distressing video is becoming a defining moment in Iran's disputed elections, in both social media and mainstream publications.
The video has now been picked up by TIME , USAToday's On Deadline blog and Sky News. An LATimes blog, meanwhile, claims it is "becoming a rallying symbol for opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." In all, Google News counts 26 news articles mentioning Neda at the time of writing. Thousands of blogs have commented on the clip.
Among the myriad Tweets and Facebook messages, could it be that a YouTube video becomes the galvanizing moment in Iran's troubled election? And as some outlets declare this the "Twitter revolution", did they overlook the power of online video to shape world events?
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Neda's death on YouTube fuels protests in Iran
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Still don't care much about the anti-government protests going on in Iran? Then watch Neda die on YouTube.
The shocking video and story of her death are only for the mature.
The powerful video reportedly is providing a compelling figure for Iranians to rally around as they protest what many see as a stolen presidential election.
And the images of Neda provide a face to the rest of the world wondering what all the trouble in Iran is about.
As Iran's rulers kill their own people to keep order, Americans must pay attention to what's going on in that country and pressure our leaders -- especially President Barack Obama -- to speak out in defense of the people's right to protest in Iran.
True, America can't coerce the Iranian government into anything such as a full recount of the presidential elections.
But the deaths of Neda and other Iranians must help Americans focus on the future of Iran and how it affects all the other fragile relations among countries in the Middle East.
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Still don't care much about the anti-government protests going on in Iran? Then watch Neda die on YouTube.
The shocking video and story of her death are only for the mature.
The powerful video reportedly is providing a compelling figure for Iranians to rally around as they protest what many see as a stolen presidential election.
And the images of Neda provide a face to the rest of the world wondering what all the trouble in Iran is about.
As Iran's rulers kill their own people to keep order, Americans must pay attention to what's going on in that country and pressure our leaders -- especially President Barack Obama -- to speak out in defense of the people's right to protest in Iran.
True, America can't coerce the Iranian government into anything such as a full recount of the presidential elections.
But the deaths of Neda and other Iranians must help Americans focus on the future of Iran and how it affects all the other fragile relations among countries in the Middle East.
9 Movie Nude Scenes We Could Have Done Without Sexy people naked + doing sexy things = sexy nude scene
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Tawdry or tasteful, a sexy nude scene by nature titillates, or at least doesn't make you regurgitate your Raisinets. Or to put it more mathematically: Sexy people naked + doing sexy things = sexy nude scene. If any part of the equation is missing, watch out (or cover your eyes).
Yet, many a nude scene has been made that intentionally or not, lands so far on the opposite end of the spectrum from sexy that our offended eyes never want to see another naked body again.
So as a cautionary tally we hope some filmmakers will heed, we've rounded up some of the most indecent, (non-pornographic) cinematic exposures.
Jarhead
Exposure: The troops get down with O.P.P. for Christmas.
A pumped Jake Gyllenhaal + thong + Santa hat + nothing else = surprisingly not that hot. When stupidity is in the scene, sexy isn't.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Exposure: Felicity Shagwell discovers the disgustingly dirty work of being a spy.
Fake fat suit or real flesh, Fat Bastard in his hairy, blubbery birthday suit is scarring. (It was months before I could eat chicken in bed again).
Casino Royale
Exposure: Testicle torture in the buff.
Female fans will seize any opportunity to drool over Daniel Craig's rock-hard bod but certain situations (Le Chiffre flogging Bond's crown jewels) are too excruciating to enjoy no matter how perfect the pecks.
The Reader
Exposure: You scrub my back and I'll scrub...
Is it Shmitz's drab, utilitarian apartment? Her vigorous, systematic scrubbing? A matter of untamed overgrowth? Somehow the first-time, full-frontal bathtub foreplay between the 15-year-old boy and 30-year old woman isn't as seductive as you'd expect.
Eastern Promises
Exposure: Armed thugs vs. naked Nikolai, a soggy towel, a slippery floor and his fists.
OW. OW. And OW again. Add bathhouse to the list of worst places to have an impromptu mob throwdown.
The Shining
Exposure: Bathing beauty gone bad, really bad...
Perhaps the scariest thing Jack ever encountered in Room 237 -- a hottie turned hag before his eyes. (Exactly what I imagine might happen if Madonna's cosmetic enhancements abruptly vanished and nature resumed its course.)
Old School
Exposure: Streaking the night away.
Too much self-love can be a bad thing. As in Will Ferrell's love of his flabby, pasty bare buttocks and exposing them on screen in silly man-boy romps.
Bad Lieutenant
Exposure: Everything you didn't want to know about Harvey Keitel's anatomy, again.
Seconded only by his similar overexposure in The Piano, and nearly every other movie in which filmmakers felt the need to traumatize audiences with extended shots of Harvey's creepy junk.
Borat
Exposure: Borat and Azamat wrestling over "Pameela," "au naturel."
Hands down and trousers off arguably the most sickening, psychologically damaging, and furry spectacle of movie nudity ever unleashed. EVER.
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Tawdry or tasteful, a sexy nude scene by nature titillates, or at least doesn't make you regurgitate your Raisinets. Or to put it more mathematically: Sexy people naked + doing sexy things = sexy nude scene. If any part of the equation is missing, watch out (or cover your eyes).
Yet, many a nude scene has been made that intentionally or not, lands so far on the opposite end of the spectrum from sexy that our offended eyes never want to see another naked body again.
So as a cautionary tally we hope some filmmakers will heed, we've rounded up some of the most indecent, (non-pornographic) cinematic exposures.
Jarhead
Exposure: The troops get down with O.P.P. for Christmas.
A pumped Jake Gyllenhaal + thong + Santa hat + nothing else = surprisingly not that hot. When stupidity is in the scene, sexy isn't.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Exposure: Felicity Shagwell discovers the disgustingly dirty work of being a spy.
Fake fat suit or real flesh, Fat Bastard in his hairy, blubbery birthday suit is scarring. (It was months before I could eat chicken in bed again).
Casino Royale
Exposure: Testicle torture in the buff.
Female fans will seize any opportunity to drool over Daniel Craig's rock-hard bod but certain situations (Le Chiffre flogging Bond's crown jewels) are too excruciating to enjoy no matter how perfect the pecks.
The Reader
Exposure: You scrub my back and I'll scrub...
Is it Shmitz's drab, utilitarian apartment? Her vigorous, systematic scrubbing? A matter of untamed overgrowth? Somehow the first-time, full-frontal bathtub foreplay between the 15-year-old boy and 30-year old woman isn't as seductive as you'd expect.
Eastern Promises
Exposure: Armed thugs vs. naked Nikolai, a soggy towel, a slippery floor and his fists.
OW. OW. And OW again. Add bathhouse to the list of worst places to have an impromptu mob throwdown.
The Shining
Exposure: Bathing beauty gone bad, really bad...
Perhaps the scariest thing Jack ever encountered in Room 237 -- a hottie turned hag before his eyes. (Exactly what I imagine might happen if Madonna's cosmetic enhancements abruptly vanished and nature resumed its course.)
Old School
Exposure: Streaking the night away.
Too much self-love can be a bad thing. As in Will Ferrell's love of his flabby, pasty bare buttocks and exposing them on screen in silly man-boy romps.
Bad Lieutenant
Exposure: Everything you didn't want to know about Harvey Keitel's anatomy, again.
Seconded only by his similar overexposure in The Piano, and nearly every other movie in which filmmakers felt the need to traumatize audiences with extended shots of Harvey's creepy junk.
Borat
Exposure: Borat and Azamat wrestling over "Pameela," "au naturel."
Hands down and trousers off arguably the most sickening, psychologically damaging, and furry spectacle of movie nudity ever unleashed. EVER.
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'True Blood' ratings: Fangtastic!
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True_blood_l The ratings for True Blood's second season premiere on Sunday are in -- and they don't suck.
According to HBO, the bloody good episode averaged 3.7 million viewers, making it the pay cabler's most watched original program since the series finale of The Sopranos two years ago. What's more, the opener was up a staggering 157 percent over the season 1 premiere, and 51 percent over last November's season finale.
Those are numbers you can really sink your teeth into, right?
Sick of all my vampire puns? Bite me.
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True_blood_l The ratings for True Blood's second season premiere on Sunday are in -- and they don't suck.
According to HBO, the bloody good episode averaged 3.7 million viewers, making it the pay cabler's most watched original program since the series finale of The Sopranos two years ago. What's more, the opener was up a staggering 157 percent over the season 1 premiere, and 51 percent over last November's season finale.
Those are numbers you can really sink your teeth into, right?
Sick of all my vampire puns? Bite me.
Leighton Meester’s sex tape costs $1 million Pictures: Leighton Meester is caught up in the sex tape scandal
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See More... Leighton Meester, who plays the sexy socialite Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl is caught up in the sex tape scandal and the buzz is getting spicier day by day.
The first reports of the secret sex tape surfaced on the internet last Friday. According to TMZ.com that broke the news, the footage "shows Leighton in mostly innocuous though nude scenes – with several big exceptions … one involving her very talented feet."
The sex tape was recorded when Leighton was 18 and romping with her boyfriend in the house.
In my opinion this tape will not destroy her career," Kevin Blatt who was involved in leak of sex videos of Paris Hilton and Verne Troyer told Radar Online. "She looks around 18 years-old and is seen involved in an act with her boyfriend in a house. It's very playful actually. It's not shot in high definition and look's like it has been shot using a video camera while they are both fooling around. I have been surprised by the level of interest in it."
The "level of interest" is so high that the video now costs more than $1 million! Your bids, ladies and gentlemen!
In the midst of the media hurricane, Leighton Meester's camp keeps mum.
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See More... Leighton Meester, who plays the sexy socialite Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl is caught up in the sex tape scandal and the buzz is getting spicier day by day.
The first reports of the secret sex tape surfaced on the internet last Friday. According to TMZ.com that broke the news, the footage "shows Leighton in mostly innocuous though nude scenes – with several big exceptions … one involving her very talented feet."
The sex tape was recorded when Leighton was 18 and romping with her boyfriend in the house.
In my opinion this tape will not destroy her career," Kevin Blatt who was involved in leak of sex videos of Paris Hilton and Verne Troyer told Radar Online. "She looks around 18 years-old and is seen involved in an act with her boyfriend in a house. It's very playful actually. It's not shot in high definition and look's like it has been shot using a video camera while they are both fooling around. I have been surprised by the level of interest in it."
The "level of interest" is so high that the video now costs more than $1 million! Your bids, ladies and gentlemen!
In the midst of the media hurricane, Leighton Meester's camp keeps mum.
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People.com is reporting that Jon and Kate Gosselin filed divorce papers in Pennsylvania today to end their 10-year marriage. It has been widely anticipated that the couple will use tonight's episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight to announce their split, based on press reports and suspicious spots promoting the one-hour episode on TLC.
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People.com is reporting that Jon and Kate Gosselin filed divorce papers in Pennsylvania today to end their 10-year marriage. It has been widely anticipated that the couple will use tonight's episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight to announce their split, based on press reports and suspicious spots promoting the one-hour episode on TLC.
'True Blood' recap: More complexity, less clothing (thank you)
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Trueblood-shirtless-guy_lAfter the heaving sigh of relief that was last week's season premiere of True Blood (Lafayette lives! Thanks Alan Ball!), the second episode of the HBO drama's sophomore season brought a little more complication, a little less clothing, and a lot more guts 'n' blood than I ever really wanted to see. With Sookie and Bill helping Jessica acclimate to her new vampire life, Jason integrating himself into the Fellowship of the Sun, Tara continuing to delude herself into thinking the mysterious Maryann is helping her out of the goodness of her heart, and Lafayette begging for his life, the season's off to a much faster start than last year's slow-building mystery.
Last week, Sookie forgave Bill for turning Jessica into a vampire. This week, Sookie struggled with her feelings of guilt about the whole situation (Jessica's creation being a punishment for Bill defending Sookie's honor, after all), and tried to get Bill to treat the new vampire with a little more sensitivity. Sookie asked Bill, ''Parts of your former self are still in there, right? I wouldn't be with you if they weren't.'' Bill's response was brusque and blunt: ''When a vampire is as new as Jessica is, she has no humanity.'' Still, Sookie was suckered into taking Jessica to visit her family, which culminated in a fang-bearing standoff at Jessica's parents' house (more on that next week).
Meanwhile, the dim-but-lovable Jason happily settled into his born-again life, joining in bus ride sing-alongs and capture the flag games (wait, is this a church leadership seminar or summer camp?), and unknowingly striking up a rivalry with his bunkmate, the Lukeinator. I can't decide which part of Jason's storyline mesmerizes me the most: Ryan Kwanten's magnificent shirtless torso, or the Pantene commercial-volume and bounciness of the female Fellowship campers leaders' hair.
Maryann is still creepy, we still don't know where she came from, and we still don't know what the crap is up with her. We do know that she's back to screw with Sam for some reason, and that she uses sex to her advantage (seducing a young Sam in a flashback we saw last week, hypnotizing the customers at Merlotte's into all but boning each other on the dance floor). And poor Tara is still under the impression that Maryann is helping her out just for funsies.
I don't understand why Tara's been so implicitly trusting of Maryann from the get-go. Her character has always been so cynical about everything that it seems completely out of character for her to just accept Maryann's help. So when she told Sookie, ''Something inside me says 'This is weird Tara, don't trust it,''' I was glad we finally heard her voice of reason. Here's hoping she listens to her instincts.
As a final note, I hereby move to instate the Shirtless Law upon Mehcad Brooks, who plays Hot Dude Macking on Tara (his name is Eggs, but that is a silly name). This law has clearly already been enacted on the aforementioned Kwanten, who appears bare-chested as frequently as possible. Shirtless Law section 2A would mandate both Brooks and Kwanten to remain free of the constricting garments known as "shirts" for at least 75 percent of future True Blood episodes.
I would move to include the brilliant Nelsan Ellis in the Shirtless Law amendment, but his scenes were so incredibly gory and disturbing this week that I'd rather not envision Lafayette digging through the entrails of his less fortunate vampire prisoner (i.e. this week's vom-inducing moments) in my fantasies, thanks. Maybe next week.
Speaking of next week: OMG Lafayette as a vampire?!?!?! His impassioned plea for Eric to spare his life (sort of, because turning into a vampire would technically make him dead) was 100 percent true -- Lafayette's powerful, convincing, and damn sexy, all characteristics Eric prides himself on. Lafayette's survival has already strayed far from the books, and turning him into a vampire would add a fascinating layer to the story.
What did you think of last night's True Blood? Ken Tucker thought the second episode was a solid addition to the strong foundation laid in last week's premiere, to which I say: hells yes. Also: sorry to focus on all the shirtlessness, but half of my notes are "Ryan Kwanten shirtless THANK YOU" and "PLEASE MAKE TARA'S BOYFRIEND SHIRTLESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE K THANKS" so I'm just going with the moments that stood out for me. I'm sure you understand. And by "sorry" I mean YOU KNOW YOU LIKED IT TOO.
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Trueblood-shirtless-guy_lAfter the heaving sigh of relief that was last week's season premiere of True Blood (Lafayette lives! Thanks Alan Ball!), the second episode of the HBO drama's sophomore season brought a little more complication, a little less clothing, and a lot more guts 'n' blood than I ever really wanted to see. With Sookie and Bill helping Jessica acclimate to her new vampire life, Jason integrating himself into the Fellowship of the Sun, Tara continuing to delude herself into thinking the mysterious Maryann is helping her out of the goodness of her heart, and Lafayette begging for his life, the season's off to a much faster start than last year's slow-building mystery.
Last week, Sookie forgave Bill for turning Jessica into a vampire. This week, Sookie struggled with her feelings of guilt about the whole situation (Jessica's creation being a punishment for Bill defending Sookie's honor, after all), and tried to get Bill to treat the new vampire with a little more sensitivity. Sookie asked Bill, ''Parts of your former self are still in there, right? I wouldn't be with you if they weren't.'' Bill's response was brusque and blunt: ''When a vampire is as new as Jessica is, she has no humanity.'' Still, Sookie was suckered into taking Jessica to visit her family, which culminated in a fang-bearing standoff at Jessica's parents' house (more on that next week).
Meanwhile, the dim-but-lovable Jason happily settled into his born-again life, joining in bus ride sing-alongs and capture the flag games (wait, is this a church leadership seminar or summer camp?), and unknowingly striking up a rivalry with his bunkmate, the Lukeinator. I can't decide which part of Jason's storyline mesmerizes me the most: Ryan Kwanten's magnificent shirtless torso, or the Pantene commercial-volume and bounciness of the female Fellowship campers leaders' hair.
Maryann is still creepy, we still don't know where she came from, and we still don't know what the crap is up with her. We do know that she's back to screw with Sam for some reason, and that she uses sex to her advantage (seducing a young Sam in a flashback we saw last week, hypnotizing the customers at Merlotte's into all but boning each other on the dance floor). And poor Tara is still under the impression that Maryann is helping her out just for funsies.
I don't understand why Tara's been so implicitly trusting of Maryann from the get-go. Her character has always been so cynical about everything that it seems completely out of character for her to just accept Maryann's help. So when she told Sookie, ''Something inside me says 'This is weird Tara, don't trust it,''' I was glad we finally heard her voice of reason. Here's hoping she listens to her instincts.
As a final note, I hereby move to instate the Shirtless Law upon Mehcad Brooks, who plays Hot Dude Macking on Tara (his name is Eggs, but that is a silly name). This law has clearly already been enacted on the aforementioned Kwanten, who appears bare-chested as frequently as possible. Shirtless Law section 2A would mandate both Brooks and Kwanten to remain free of the constricting garments known as "shirts" for at least 75 percent of future True Blood episodes.
I would move to include the brilliant Nelsan Ellis in the Shirtless Law amendment, but his scenes were so incredibly gory and disturbing this week that I'd rather not envision Lafayette digging through the entrails of his less fortunate vampire prisoner (i.e. this week's vom-inducing moments) in my fantasies, thanks. Maybe next week.
Speaking of next week: OMG Lafayette as a vampire?!?!?! His impassioned plea for Eric to spare his life (sort of, because turning into a vampire would technically make him dead) was 100 percent true -- Lafayette's powerful, convincing, and damn sexy, all characteristics Eric prides himself on. Lafayette's survival has already strayed far from the books, and turning him into a vampire would add a fascinating layer to the story.
What did you think of last night's True Blood? Ken Tucker thought the second episode was a solid addition to the strong foundation laid in last week's premiere, to which I say: hells yes. Also: sorry to focus on all the shirtlessness, but half of my notes are "Ryan Kwanten shirtless THANK YOU" and "PLEASE MAKE TARA'S BOYFRIEND SHIRTLESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE K THANKS" so I'm just going with the moments that stood out for me. I'm sure you understand. And by "sorry" I mean YOU KNOW YOU LIKED IT TOO.
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