Mary Murphy of "So You Think You Can Dance" is the subject of some very serious allegations in a lawsuit filed by her former manager. Michael Sanchez of Axis Management is suing the dance judge for breach of contract and seeking more than $1 million in commissions and damages. The specifics in Sanchez's complaint are raising some eyebrows.

"Dog the Bounty Hunter" has been canceled. An A&E executive confirms the news to Gossip Cop. The hit reality series about bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and his adventures in fugitive recovery had run for eight seasons since its 2004 premiere.

Houghton Mifflin Files for Bankruptcy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt officially filed for pre-packaged bankruptcy Monday morning, citing debts and liabilities of over $1 billion. The filing is part of a restructuring of its finances that will cut its debt by $3.1 billion largely by having its lenders exchange debt for equity. The first publicly available filings provide little financial details, other than listing its largest unsecured creditors that include Donnelley, owed $20.3 million, while Donnelley Asia Printing Solutions is owed $5,6 million. Williams Lea, a business processing outsourcing firm, is owed just under $21 million. Other large unsecured creditors include Marshall Cavendish ($6.7 million), Kue Digital Inc. ($4.5 million), and the Bulkley Dunton Publishing Group ($4.1 million. to pursue growth opportunities. As it said when it first announced plans for the prepackaged filing, HMH issued a statement today that said it “will maintain normal day-to-day business operations throughout the restructuring process, and we expect no disruptions to our relationships with our customers, agents, authors, employees, business partners and suppliers. Additionally, our plan provides for our suppliers and vendors to be paid in full during and after this process and for our employees to continue receiving their usual pay and benefits. HMH said it still expects to complete the restructuring by the end of June 2012. source "Rape myths, rape culture, and the damage done to girls" by Cassandra Clare WARNING LOTS OF TEXT AHEAD Under this cut are spoilers for City of Lost Souls, but also an in-depth discussion of what and sexual assault as it pertains to books in general and The Mortal Instruments in specific, with a discussion of rape culture and rape myths. There is also an excerpt from a scene that contains a violent physical assault. “alittlemoreanonymous asked you: ugh this whole blog that shall not be named thing is getting so frustrating. I wrote to one tumblr defending the use of incest in books and now I’m getting all of this hate mail saying I condone “trigger” topics, and rape, etc. People are saying that the only reason the attempted rape in CoLS happened was to show how desirable Clary is & had no real point. Idk if I’m read it correctly, but I felt as if it showed just how inhumane Seb is. How is writing incest glorifying it?!” Well first, I am sorry to hear people are sending hate mail. I know how awful that is to get. Secondly, this is one of those things that I wasn’t sure if I should address. I haven’t actually gotten hate mail, just messages like yours, a lot of really upset and panicky mail, and one other question, which I will reproduce below. As for being told you condone “triggering topics” — probably the most important point to be made here is that to depict something is not to condone it. This is a mistake that is made all the time by people who you would think would know better. Megan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal, for instance, excoriated YA books for being too dark, zoning in specifically on “Suzanne Collins’s hyper-violent, best-selling “Hunger Games” trilogy” and Lauren Myracle’s Shine, which depicts a hate crime against a gay teenager. Anyone paying any attention, of course, can tell that while violence is depicted in the Hunger Games, it is hardly endorsed. It is, in fact, a treatise against violence and war, just as Shine is a treatise against violence and hate crimes. Gurdon notes only the content of the books and ignores the context, which is a unfortunate mistake for a book reviewer. If the only people in the book who approve of something are the villains (nobody but the bad guys thinks the Hunger Games are anything but a moral evil) then it is a fair bet the book is about how that thing is bad. The incestuous sexual assault in City of Lost Souls is committed by the villain, a child murderer who is planning genocide and is obsessed with control and power. While the scene is certainly upsetting and could be triggering, it is there to show that this character is beyond sympathy or redemption, and for the most part, that’s the reaction I’ve seen – “I tried to like Sebastian but then he tried to rape Clary and I hate his guts now.” [For those completely confused, a definition of “triggers” : “A trigger is something that evokes survived trauma or ongoing disorder. For example, a person who was raped may be “triggered,” i.e. reminded of hir rape, by a graphic description of sexual assault, and that reminder may, especially if the survivor has post-traumatic stress disorder, be accompanied by anxiety, manifesting as anything ranging from mild agitation to self-mutilation to a serious panic attack.”] For the reasons listed above, I do believe in trigger warnings for, say, internet posts. That’s what I put this post under a read more tag and added a trigger warning. Books, however, do not and never have come with trigger warnings. When you’re writing books, it’s part of your job to write about things like rape, like sexual assault, like self-mutilation, like torture, like war crimes. Because it’s your job as a writer, even if you’re writing fantasy, to reflect reality. (No one who believes in trigger warnings believes you shouldn’t be able to write about those things on the Internet either; they just think they should be tagged. This seems fair: netiquette is part of making the internet, which is otherwise, unlike published books, totally unpoliced, bearable.) Once you stop being allowed to write about those things, you erase the ability of art to say anything meaningful about them. And that is a great cultural harm. We read to know that we are not alone. So said CS Lewis. We read because shared experience is more bearable. We read to know that even if we don’t know people like ourselves in real life, they are out there in the world. We read to be in the heads of those people. We read, if we love books, because there is no one among us who hasn’t had a book or a character in a book pick up the fragmented pieces of our broken hearts and glue them back together just by being like us. (OP: I cu you trying to be pretentiously ~writerly~ with your strategic repetition i cu) From my email: The main thing I want to thank you for is the character Alec. I too am gay and I love how you created a person. Not a character in the book to add something different, but you created a person in him. In “City of Lost Souls,” the part where he talks about how it is painful like a million paper cuts every day nearly brought me to tears. I love the fact you created someone real and not a caricature of what people want to see. [I place this letter here not because I am equating homosexuality and sexual assault, as they could not be more different. I am only underlining the point that to see ourselves and our experience, even our painful experience, reflected in art, is meaningful and can be healing.] To say rape shouldn’t be written about, that sexual assault shouldn’t be written about, it is to say that people who are victims of sexual assault and rape shouldn’t see representations of people like them in books. It is also to say that books should represent a world in which those things don’t happen. This is extremely dangerous thinking. If the reality that rape and sexual abuse exist are wiped from the pages of books, where do the people who have those experiences go to find context for the thing that has happened to them? (Yes, there are rape and abuse hotlines, there are places you can go for help, but if all traces of what just happened to you have been erased from the media, how do you even know to go and look for help? How do you know that you’re not the lone freak this has ever happened to rather than one of the one out of four women who will be sexually assaulted during their lifetime?) I suppose what I’m saying here is this: it’s okay to find the sexual assault scene in City of Lost Souls triggering. But it’s also okay that it’s in there. Books don’t come with trigger warnings because as a society we’ve decided that placing warning labels on art is a cultural wrong. From the American Library Association’s Freedom To Read statement: “We trust Americans to recognize propaganda and misinformation, and to make their own decisions about what they read and believe. We do not believe they are prepared to sacrifice their heritage of a free press in order to be “protected” against what others think may be bad for them. We believe they still favor free enterprise in ideas and expression.” That means books can hurt you. Because as a society we’ve decided that is a price we will pay for freedom of expression. This isn’t a treatise on censorship, though I could certainly write one, so I’ll move on. Now if this was the whole discussion, if it was a discussion about how the scene in which Sebastian sexually assaults Clary was disgusting and upsetting, I would stay out of the discussion. I agree that it’s disgusting and upsetting, and while I think it’s very important that people be allowed to write that which is upsetting and disgusting, I think that’s an argument that is had all the time, is had around many different books, and will always be had. What troubles me is to see people mocking Clary for having been sexually assaulted, and this sort of rhetoric: “the only reason the attempted rape in CoLS happened was to show how desirable Clary is.” I was also emailed this as a description of what one person had decided Clary was thinking after she was assaulted: “OMG I’M SO HOT.” The reader who emailed me that (and the post goes on, in detail, about Clary’s delight that her brother “wants to get in her pants”) said that they found the post itself so triggering that they threw up. Other posts have slammed Clary as a slut because after being sexually assaulted she is comfortable kissing her boyfriend, and even discussing with him the idea that someday in the future, they might have safe, consensual sex (with, as discussed in City of Fallen Angels, condoms — I can’t count the amount of letters I’ve gotten telling me I put a mention of condoms into my book for “shock value”! The persistent myth that “shock value” is something that benefits authors a lot, especially children’s book authors, really has to go, but that’s another post.) And that’s why I decided to make this post: because it is upsetting to think even one of my readers would come across that and imagine that rape is regarded by anyone as a proof of desirability. It is upsetting because it promulgates terrible, really damaging ideas about rape. The last thing rape is, is a proof of desirability. Rape is not even about sex. (That is one of a particularly damaging set of “rape myths” that are part of overall “rape culture” — a set of assumptions about rape and sexual assault that are designed to reduce empathy for the victims of it, to paint it as a “crime of passion”, and to shift the blame to the victim.) I’m just going to say it again: Rape is not about sex. Rape is about violence. Rape is about control. Rape is violent assault carried out with sex as a weapon. It is not sexy and it is certainly not about the victim’s sexiness. Rape is a crime of violence, not an expression of desire. Look at the language used to describe Sebastian’s sexual assault of Clary. He snarled and sprang at her. It was like being slammed by a wrecking ball — Clary flew backward, smashing through the glass tabletop, and hit the ground in an explosion of shards and agony. She screamed as Sebastian landed on top of her, driving her body down into the shattered glass, his lips drawn back in a snarl. He brought his arm down backhanded, cracking her across the face. There is nothing sexy here. There is nothing about desire. Nothing about love. Nothing about her being attractive. Clary is in the wrong place at the wrong time, in the company of an insane person who wants to control her. Who wants to break her. Who thinks he owns her. If the scene is scary and ugly, it is supposed to be that, because sexual assault is a scary, ugly crime. There is no text here that indicates that Clary welcomes Sebastian’s advances. And if Sebastian is excited, it because he is causing pain and exerting ownership. Rape myths are so dangerous because in a large part they are aimed at women and girls, and when girls buy into them, they buy themselves a lifetime of believing that if they are sexually assaulted it is their fault. It is their fault for dressing too scantily, for getting drunk at a party, for being too pretty. Rape has nothing to do with being “pretty.” The two ideas shouldn’t even be in the same sentence. It is these kinds of myths that lead to the thought process that would assume that a scene of violent rape was about showing the heroine as desirable. That would ascribe to women and girls the idea that being violently sexually assaulted and punched in the face was a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Rape culture tells us women “want it.” The truth tells us that they don’t. “… and [the scene] had no real point.” Ah, the “no real point” rhetoric. I think there are two things going on here. One is symptomatic of exactly how damaging rape culture is, how it weasels its way into our marrow and our bones and our minds. I’m talking about the discussion about how Clary is “stupid” — stupid for considering trusting her brother, stupid for calling on him to help save Jace, stupid for borrowing his scarf, stupid for any number of reasons that all wind up at the same conclusion: it is her stupidity that got her sexuality assaulted. This is a cornerstone of rape culture: the shifting of the blame for the act of sexual assault onto the subject of it. People get raped because they go out in sexy clothes (rape, not about sex) or trust the wrong people or walk down dark alleys at night, and if you can just not be stupid or careless or slutty like them, you will be protected from ever being sexually assaulted. [Myth.] If Clary were stupid, if her actions brought sexual assault down on her, then there would be a “point” because there would be a lesson. To quote one instance: “The scene would have been okay if it had been an opportunity for Clary to grow and learn.” For Clary to grow and learn. As the survivor of a sexual assault, she should learn from it. Learn, presumably, how to not be so stupid as to get sexually assaulted. The statement that she should “grow and learn” implies that she was sexually assaulted because she wasn’t mature enough, or didn’t know enough. I’m not angry at the person who posted that — I’m sad for them, because to feel that way indicates that you’ve assimilated rape culture to a degree where you think that the person who needs to learn a lesson from a sexual assault is not the assaulter, but the assaultee. So, I think the theory goes, if Clary were assaulted because she needed to “grow” or “grow up”, then [presumably] there would be A Point. But if the scene is presented, as I hoped and intended it to be, as a violent act against her that she did nothing to “deserve”, then “there is no point.” That is a reaction born out of fear, an understandable fear, but it is also one that unfortunately supports and promulgates rape myths that are very damaging. Anyone can be raped, at any time, at any place, by anyone. That is the truth and it’s an ugly messy truth that doesn’t fit neatly into any box and is therefore very scary. But retelling ourselves dangerous lies about how rape happens because women are stupid, and that when they are raped they had better treat it as a “learning experience”, are not the solution to that fear. Secondly: I get hate mail about Alec and Magnus on what I would say is about a weekly basis. I keep thinking it will get boring, but no, every time I wind up shaking with rage and walking around trying to shake it off and cool down. Since there’s such a pile of it, I tend to notice the same language cropping up again and again. One of the most common complaints is that I made Alec and Magnus gay “for no real point” or “for shock value” or “to make money.” I always wondered what the hell that was about. Did Alec and Magnus’ sexuality have to create world peace before it was okay to include it? Are gay people existing that shocking? Is anyone dumb enough to think that including gay characters in your story is going to net you the big bucks rather than what actually happens, which is that your book gets kept out of trade fairs and banned from libraries? I finally came to the conclusion that this was coded language, just like it is here, and meant that what would have made it okay for Alec and Magnus to be gay was if they suffered. The fact that they are gay should cause them intense pain and misery. The fact that Magnus is basically joyous about his sexuality and never ashamed, well, what’s the point of that? He’s bisexual and happy and it’s never a plot point except that he’s there, being bisexual and not bothered about it. He isn’t there to teach the straight people in the books Important Lessons About Sexuality. He’s there to sink battleships and blow up demons, which is not about sexuality at all, and therefore gratuitous. In the same sense, there is a desire to see Clary (not Sebastian) really suffer because she was assaulted. There is a desire to see her feel pain and trauma. headsyoulive-tailsyoudie asked you: Is Clary even a little effected that she was almost raped? I mean, people just don’t get over something like that. Please tell me she has some sort of PTSD or something similar in City of Heavenly Fire.” It saddens me to see this desire to have Clary really suffer horribly because of the awful behavior of somebody else. I can understand what it’s rooted in — the sense that if she suffers horrifically, she’s a good girl, she’s having the right reaction to a sexual assault, and whatever blame might be otherwise laid at her door will be erased. (OP: I don't think that's what she meant at all, actually) Female characters are often made to suffer far more than male characters — a woman’s capacity to suffer, the amount of pain she’s burdened with, are often linked to ideas of her purity. (There’s a good article in the Washington Post about female characters being made to suffer on television and a male TV writer responding to questions about it by talking about “mythic purity.” Anyway, I’ll link to feminist.com here and their article on the right way to respond to being sexually assaulted. “No two women respond in the same way…There is no one correct or preferred way to deal with the feelings and reactions you may find yourself having.” As I said earlier, one in four women will be sexually assaulted during their lifetime. I’m one of them. I based Clary’s experiences and reactions on my own. It is, I think, very dangerous to say that there is one okay way to respond to being sexually assaulted. Each woman’s response to sexual assault is valid for her. PTSD is a valid response. A reluctance to be sexually active or a frightened response to intimacy is a valid response. It was not my response. My response was to be very, very angry, and that is Clary’s response. The only thing that keeps her from killing Sebastian is knowing it will kill Jace. She hates him from that moment on and in the epilogue, when Jace says he wants to kill Sebastian, she breaks in to say she’d like to kill him herself. Her response is rage against her attacker, and I do believe it to be a valid one. Feminist.com lists many possible reactions to a sexual assault: with grief and self-blame, spiritual crisis; anger and rage are third on the list. Does that mean Clary never will suffer any other kind of reaction? She may: just as there is no one right way to respond to sexual assault, there is no one right time frame to do it in. Clary has suffered multiple traumas and her world is teetering on the edge of a massive war: many people, as a coping stragegy, shove their feelings to the side until what’s dealt with needs to be dealt with. But even if she never blames herself, even if her sexual feelings for Jace are never affected, that does not make her a whore, or make her reaction to her assault invalid or impossible. Some survivors, understandably and validly, develop an aversion to sexual contact after an assault. Others find healing in consensual affection and physical activities like kissing (or any physical activity: I’m using kissing as an example because it’s what happens in City of Lost Souls). Both responses are okay, because again, there is no wrong response for a woman — or man — to have to being assaulted. That was a lot of personal information there, and not the sort I usually share with the internet. As I said, I debated back and forth about whether to ever even address this at all. I don’t think I should defend my books: they have a life of their own and have to stand on their own. If you want to say my books suck and are the worst thing ever to disgrace the planet, I won’t ever argue with your right to say it. However this discussion has gone beyond a discussion of my books or what happens in them or me as a writer. When I say “Magnus shouldn’t be whitewashed” I’m not saying “I did a perfect job depicting Magnus and dealing with all aspects of writing a character of a race other than mine” or when I say “Using homophobic slurs against Magnus and Alec is not okay” I am not saying “I did a perfect job writing characters whose sexual orientation is different than mine.” I know I have not; I know I have screwed up in myriad ways. But. But my ask box is full of messages from confused and unhappy young people who identify with Clary, who feel that somehow they are being indicted, they are being told they are ” sluts” or “cunts”, they are being told they are bad people who condone rape even though they do not. Some are survivors of rape who are crushed by the thought that they have failed to respond in the right way and therefore the rape was their fault, or that they must have enjoyed it — one letter was from a girl who was frightened that since she had been sexually assaulted previously, if she tried to have sex with her boyfriend now, it would be awful and traumatic because that was how she was “supposed” to feel. She didn’t feel that way, but reading people saying that Clary kissing her boyfriend after being assaulted and making a joke to him about fishnets was inappropriate and that Clary should and must be too traumatized to do that was frightening for her. (Which made me very sad, because part of the reason I wrote that scene was to portray a girl who even after a sexual assault felt okay with consensual physical affection; I felt it underlined how totally different those two things were. This is again not to invalidate any reaction of shock, horror, or aversion to physical contact: only to say that there is value is presenting the spectrum. Just — know that enjoying a book in which a sexual assault is depicted does not make you a fan of sexual assault, any more than reading about war crimes makes you a fan of war crimes, or reading murder mysteries makes you a fan of murder. Reading The Hunger Games doesn’t make you a fan of violence. Reading Shine doesn’t make you a fan of hate crimes. Know that if you were sexually assaulted, whatever your reaction, that reaction is okay. Know that if you were sexually assaulted and you are okay and happy with consensual sex and/or affection now, you are not a slut or a bad example of a woman. Know that just as there is no right way to be a girl, there is no right way to be a survivor of rape or sexual abuse. It’s not for the people who are mocking or denigrating Clary for being assaulted that I wrote this: it’s for these girls (and boys) who wrote to me to share these thoughts and fears: they shared private things with me, and I thought that as a gesture of faith,the least I could do was share the same thing back. I hope it helps, even a little bit. * I’m aware that “slut” and “whore” are extremely problematic term, but that, along with “cunt”, have been a feature of the discussion and I feel that I can’t leave them out; I hope I’ve implied in context how damaging they are. source While I agree, in theory, with most of what she's written in this incredibly self-righteous tumblr post, the entire Sebastian-trying-to-rape-Clary scene screams of a brother-sister incestuous near rape scene for titillation's sake. Most of Clare's work does, tbh. Unfortunately, some writers do have really gross and problematic fetishes regardless of how often they try to make themselves out to be beacons of feminism. Given the writing in her past works, I can't help but wonder how much of the near-rape scene + aftermath is Cassie Clare's pro-girl liberalism (lol um) and how much of that is Cassie Clare's not wanting to expend the energy delving psychologically into how a sexually traumatic experience might affect a sixteen year old girl. Because that's too hard, so let's write another make-out scene and be done with it. Sorry, not entirely buying it, CC. But ya'all can feel free to disagree. A lot of things just don't feel quite right here, having suffered through the book. and if any of this is too heavy a topic for ontd then just turn it into a general book post

Zayn Malik Tattoos : Meaning and Explanation Zayn Malik Tattoos with meaning and explanation. Zayn Malik is a member of British Boyband One direction, The band was created under the show called X Factor. Zayn Malik (19) known for being a bad boy of the group, so far he has 7 tattoos all over his body. The Very newest tattoo is the silver vern tattoo on his neck and an arab inscription on his left collarbone that later he tweeted himself has a meaning "be true to who you are" In This lens, I will try to give you directioners, complete info about Zayn Malik tattoos with pictures meaning and explanation. Be sure to check back this page as if he will ink his body with new tattoo in near future ( I bet he will, lol). Table of Contents: 1. Zayn Malik Tattoo: A Yin Yang symbol Tattoo on his wrist This is probably Zayn Malik's very first tattoo, a yin yang symbol means and represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. 2. Zayn Malik Tattoo: A picture of crossed fingers on his forearm In various interview, Zayn has said that this tattoo means a symbol of Good luck. 3. Zayn Malik Tattoo: His grandfather's name "Walter" in Arabic on his chest The third tattoo is an arabic tattoo spelled "Walter". Walter is actually a name of Zayn's grandfather. 4. Zayn Malik Tattoo: A playing Card This Tattoo is located on his stomach, this tatoo also has a crown with the initials ZM on it. 5. Zayn Malik Tattoo: A heart symbol (Previously was a born lucky symbol in chinese) This tattoo used to be a "born lucky" tattoo in chinese symbol, but later on, Zayn got it covered with a heart symbol. 6. Zayn Malik Tattoo: A silver fern on his neck This is a new zealand symbol for Good luck. 7. Zayn Malik Tattoo: An inscription across his left collarbone About this new tattoo, Zayn has tweeted that this inscription means "be true to who you are" he tweeted:'For every1 asking what the new tatt means it says be true to who you are'. via

RIHANNA is in a desperate life-or-death battle with liver damage caused by years of boozing and out-of-control partying, sources tell The ENQUIRER exclusively. The Grammy winner, 24, was hospitalized after an early May bender, and her reckless behavior, coupled with her grueling work sched­ule, has friends and experts warning that she’s on a fast track to becoming the next Whitney Houston. “Rihanna is spiraling out of control and is headed for an early grave,” said one concerned insider. “It never seems to be one beer or one cocktail. Once she gets started, Rihanna pounds drinks all night long, sometimes until the sun comes up. She definitely goes on binges. “She’s been a hard drinker since her teens and her friends and family are desperately urging her to get into rehab.” Medical experts say the sexy singer’s drinking habits could be deadly. “Rihanna could be dead tomorrow from liver failure,” Orlando-based, board-certified physician Dr. Gabe Mirkin told The ENQUIRER. Although he has not treated the hard-drinking entertainer, Dr. Mirkin noted: “Anybody who drinks alcohol for more than two hours a day, even if it is binge drinking once a week, is looking at premature death. “Once the liver is permanently dam­aged, it’s over.” Dr. Robert Waldman, consultant to the Cliffside Malibu treatment center and a 25-year veteran of ad­diction medicine, agreed that Rihanna is a disas­ter waiting to happen. “The earlier you start to drink, the more the body becomes dependent on alcohol,” he told The ENQUIRER. “It can cause deadly cirrhosis of the liver and alcohol poi­soning – even at her age.” Rihanna’s world came crashing down earlier this month. She missed a “Saturday Night Live” final dress rehearsal and needed a shot of penicillin to make it through her May 5 performance. And on May 8, she tweeted a picture of her arm hooked up to an intrave­nous drip, claiming she was suffering from a nasty bout of the flu, a day after attending the Costume Institute Gala in New York. She was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration. Ratcheting up her stress, she’s coming off a grueling tour last year, and she’s been flying all over the world to promote her film “Battleship.” Rihanna recovered from her frighten­ing hospitalization to make it to the May 10 L.A. premiere, but then she alarmed onlookers by skipping dinner, opting to chew gum and drink a lime cocktail instead. Two days later, she was seen party­ing until 4 a.m. in a New York nightclub. Sadly, the entertainer, whose father is a former crack addict, appears to be continuing her nonstop pace – blazing a round-the-world party trail since she started the year knocking back beers and smoking pot during a Hawaiian vacation. “I think Rihanna is destroying her liver,” warned the insider. “She’ll wind up dead like Whitney Houston if she doesn’t get help fast!” source

We haven't had a trivia post for ages. ONTD, get your fighting gloves on and get your singing voices ready, because we all know this post will bring out the best of ONTD.

Name(s): Snow White/Fairest of Them All Voiced by: Adriana Caselotti Year released: 1937 ​Main Song: Someday My Prince Will Come, I'm Wishing.  Sidekicks: Yes. 7 Dwarves. Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes. Trademarks: Voice, Red head band. Dresses: Brown work dress, blue dress with yellow skirt.  Special "Abilities": Chit chatting with animals.  Prince: Snow Prince. Disney Parks Attractions?: Yes. Trivia: ~ First Disney Princess.  ~ Youngest princess at the age of 14.  ~ First princess to be an orphan. ~ Snow White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (given on June 28, 1987) ~ One of "five Princesses" who is of royal blood. ~ She was the first princess to communicate with wildlife, followed by Sleeping Beauty. ~ One of three Princesses not to have a sequel. ~ Didn't have any animal friends in the original story.  ~ During the original story, the queen drops dead during the wedding, and the prince and Snow laugh about it.  ~ One of two Princesses to be tempted by a villain (the other being Ariel).  ~ Only Princess and first of two Disney females to be seen praying.  ~ The prince had a much larger role, but animating him was difficult, so his role was cut down.  ~ The Hollywood Film Industry was convinced Snow White was going to fail.  ~ Out of 25 films written for the movie, only 8 were used. 

** Name(s): Cinderella/Cinderelly Voiced by: Ilene Woods Year released: 1950  ​Main Song: Sing Sweet Nightingale, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes.  Sidekicks: Jacques, Gus, Suzy, Perla, Bruno, Major, Fairy Godmother.  Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes.  Trademarks: Singing voice, attitude, big blue ballgown.  Dresses: "Rags" outfit, pink dress, big blue ballgown.  Special "Abilities": Communicating with animals.  Prince: Prince Charming.  Disney Parks Attractions?: Yes.  Trivia:  ~ First princess to be seen as a little girl.  ~ Shoe size is 4.5 womens.  ~ First princess not to be of "noble blood".  ~ Name means Little Ash Girl.  ~ Most popular Princess amongst children.  ~ Is the oldest Disney Princess (age 19).  ~ First Princess to have a horse.  ~ Second Princess to be an orphan.  ~ Gus' proper name is Octavius.  ~ Hidden Mickey pops up during Cinderella's version of "Sing, Sweet Nightingale".  ~ The Prince's name is never mentioned (much like how the Beast's name is never mentioned), it is assumed he's Prince Charming.  ~ Considered the "leader" of the Princesses. ~ In the original story, Cinderella must leave two balls before midnight. Also, Anastasia and Drizella beg for forgiveness and are pardoned.

** Name(s): Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, Briar Rose  Voiced by: Mary Costa  Year Released: 1959 ​Main Song: Once Upon a Dream.  Sidekicks: Flora, Fauna and Merriweather, the animals Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes.  Trademarks: Animal friends (I'm detecting a pattern here with all the animals), Voice.  Dresses: Peasant dress, blue/pink dress. Special "Abilities": Again with the animals! Prince: Philip  Disney Park Attractions?: Yes.  Trivia:  ~ Audrey Hepburn served as inspiration.  ~ First Princess to have an alias.  ~ Much of the musical score is based on Tchkaivosky's ballet.  ~ Only has 18 minutes of screentime. (It's true, I timed it). ~ Briar Rose is also the name of the Brothers Grimm version of the story.  ~ In Latin, Aurora means sunrise or dawn.  ~ Third youngest Princess, preceded by Snow (14) and Jasmine (15).  ~ First Disney Princess to have both parents featured in the film.  ~ Second of the princesses to be of noble birth.  ~ Her Princess dresses switches between blue and pink.  ~ Aurora's eyes change colour throughout the movie.  ~ Tallest of the Princesses.  ~ In the original story, Aurora and Philip have a girl (Dawn) and a boy (Day).  ~ Maleficient and Lady Tremaine were both voiced by Eleanor Audley. 

**  Name(s): Eilonwy Voiced by: Susan Sheridan Year Released: 1985 ​Main Song: None. Sidekicks: Gurgi, Magic Bauble.  Originated from another fairy tale?: No, but there was a book series.  Trademarks: Magic Bauble.  Dresses: Pink and violet dress. Special "Abilities": None, except the use of the bauble.  Prince: Taran, although he isn't a prince. Disney Park Attractions?: Nope. Trivia:  ~ If she were to join the Princess franchise, she'd be the youngest, at the age of 12.  ~ In the book series, she's barefooted. In the movie, she wears shoes.  ~ Instead of having animal sidekicks, she possesses a magical bauble as her sidekick. 

**  Name(s): Ariel Voiced by: Jodi Benson  Year Released: 1989 ​Main Song: Part of Your World, Part of That World. Sidekicks: Flounder, Sebastian, Scuttle  Originated from another fairy tale?: Yuperoos. Trademarks: The tail, Dinglehopper,  Dresses: Sail dress, Pink and White Dress, Wedding Dress, Blue and Black Dress (the outing dress). Special "Abilities": Her voice and being a mermaid? Prince: Eric.  Disney Park Attractions?: Yup. Trivia:  ~ Age 16.  ~ Her sisters are: Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, and Alana.  ~ Only princess not to be born human. ~ Only red headed Princess.  ~ Her name is of Roman origin and doesn't end in the letter 'A', where as her sisters' name are of Greek origin, and all end in 'A'. ~ Only Princess to have a child.  ~ Ariel is the only Princess to have biological sisters. ~ Her liplines were hand inked. ~ Was made a redhead to specifically make her different from Daryl Hannah's mermaid in Splash.  ~ The shot where Ariel is reaching out through the skylight of the grotto was the last shot to be done. ~ In the original story, the little mermaid dies. ~ Jodi Benson asked that the recording studio lights be dimmed so that she would feel as if she was actually under water. ~ Jodi Benson also provided the voice of Barbie in Toy Story 2&3.  ~ Jodi is seen in Enchanted. ~ "Part of Your World" was going to be cut from the movie, as Katzenberg felt it dragged the movie down. ~ Second princess to feature in a Broadway Musical. 

** Name(s): Belle, The Girl.  Voiced by: Paige O'Hara Year Released: 1991  ​Main Song: Belle. Sidekicks: Chip, Phillipe, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Wardrobe, Babette/Fifi. Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes indeed. Trademarks: Reading skills, Always having a book. Dresses: Blue Dress, Yellow/Gold Ballgown, Green Dress, Pink/Purple Dress. Special "Abilities": Intelligence, Imagination.  Prince: Beast/Prince/Prince Adam Disney Park Attractions?: Yes. Trivia:  ~ Glen Keane (Beast's head animator) and the producers (on separate occasions) have all specifically said the Beast did not have a name and that Adam was made up by the fans. Adam was first officially mentioned on a Disney computer game, and is mentioned in several rooms at Disney World's Port Orleans Riverside, so it seems has been officially confirmed as Adam.  ~ Only character to wear blue in her village.  ~ First Princess film to have a male villain. ~ Second not to be of royal descent (after Cinderella).  ~ Is roughly 17. In the alternate beginning on the diamond edition, her 17th birthday is mentioned. ~ Second to have a hobby (reading).  ~ When Paige O'Hara auditioned, a piece of hair flew in her face and she moved it. This made it into the movie. ~ Paige is seen in Enchanted.  ~ Was the first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. ~ Belle is spotted in "Out There" from Hunchback of Notre Dame, walking through tie village, reading a book.  ~ Last Princess to have both her singing and speaking voice done by the same actress, until Tiana. ~ Only princess not to sing the film's theme song (Beauty and the Beast) ~ In the original story, the prince was not turned into a beast because he turned away an enchantress. It was because he refused to marry his evil fairy godmother. ~ Paige O'Hara was crying when recording the scene where Belle is crying over Beast. It became so intense, the director asked if she was okay, she dropped out of character and said, "Acting!"

** Name(s): Jasmine Voiced by: Linda Larkin (speaking), Lea Salonga (singing voice) Year Released: 1992  ​Main Song: A Whole New World.  Sidekicks: Rajah. Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes. Trademarks: Independence. Dresses: Blue Top, Blue Pants, Red Top, Red Pants, Wedding Dress in the sequel.  Special "Abilities": Attitude, Independence?  Prince: Aladdin/Ali Disney Park Attractions?: Yes. Trivia: ~ Was based upon Jennifer Connolly and Jasmine's animator's sister. ~ One of five to be of royal descent. ~  In the original fairy tale, her name was Princess Badroulbadou.  ~ Only princess to be kissed by a villain. ~ Jasmine is the first to wear pants, followed by Mulan. ~ Third princess to have a major stage show (although not on Broadway), preceeded by Belle and Ariel. ~ Aladdin was the first film to include a "major film star" (Robin Williams).  ~ An IMAX film was planned but never came about. ~ Jasmine's hair was based upon a Disney World visitor that her main animator spotted. ~ Sixth Disney Princess.  ~ First princess to marry someone of non-royal descent. 

** Name(s): Pocahontas.  Voiced by: Irene Bedard (speaking), Judy Kuhn (singing). Year Released: 1995. ​Main Song: Colours of the Wind, Just Around the Riverbend. Sidekicks: Meeko, Flit, Percy, Grandmother Willow.  Originated from another fairy tale?: No. Based on a real person.  Trademarks: Nature abilities, necklace, arm tattoo. Dresses: Brown dress.  Special "Abilities": Ability to interact with nature.  Prince: John Smith, then John Rolfe but we'll focus on the original film.  Disney Park Attractions?: Not really, unless you count having a section in Fantasmic. Trivia:  ~ Name was Matoaka, which means "Little Mischief". ~ Approx. 18 ~ Only Princess to have two love interests. ~ Legend has it that Pocahontas changed her name to Rebecca, but it's not mentioned in the films. ~ Only one to not have a "happy ending", as she chooses to remain in America and not go with John Smith. ~ First Princess to have a best friend (Nakoma). ~ Second princess to be shown in bare feet. ~ According to legend, Pocahontas ended up having a son with John Rolfe named Thomas. ~ First princess to be an American.  ~ Only princess to have a visible tattoo.  ~ First to deal with racism.  ~ Judy Kuhn (singing voice) appears in Enchanted. ~ First Disney film to be based upon a true story. ~ In real life, Pocahontas would most likely be topless. ~ Is considered one of the more beautiful Princesses. ~ Irene Bedard was the physical model for Pocahontas. 

**  Name(s): Mulan, Fa Mulan, Ping. Voiced by: Ming-Na (speaking), Lea Salonga  Year Released: 1998. ​Main Song: Reflection.  Sidekicks: Mushu, Crikee, Khan, Little Brother.  Originated from another fairy tale?: Mix between true story and legend.  Trademarks: Martial Arts Skills, Disguise Abilities. Dresses: Gown for Matchmaker, Army Outfit, Ending Battle Outfit.  Special "Abilities": Martial arts skills, Smarts, Disguise Abilities. Prince: Captain Li Shang.  Disney Park Attractions?: Nope, apart from meet and greets. Trivia: ~ Approx. 16 years old.  ~ One of four not to be of European descent. ~ First non-actual Princess, and third not to be born of royal descent.  ~ First to be seen wearing shorts and a tank top. ~ The scene where Mulan disarms Shan-Yu with a fan is an actual martial arts move. ~ "Fa" in the Cantonese Pronunciation of Mulan's family name.  ~ Lea Salonga auditioned for Mulan's speaking voice and was told her voice was too deep. She ended up doing Mulan's singing voice. ~ First Disney DVD to be released. ~ Tia Carrerre was the first choice to play Mulan. ~ Her parents' names Fa Zhou and Fa Li. Her grandmother's name is Grandmother Fa. ~ In the Chinese Legend, Mulan's name is actually Hua Mulan.  ~ Only princess known to have a family name. ~ Left handed. ~ Second princess to have the largest amount of animal companions.

**  Name(s): Kidagakash, Kida Voiced by: Cree Summer Year Released: 2001 ​Main Song: None.  Sidekick(s): I guess Milo?  Originated from another fairy tale?: Nope.  Trademarks: Hair colour Dresses: Blue Dress with Coat. Special "Abilities": Healing Powers Prince: Milo Thatch Disney Park Attractions?: None at all. Trivia: ~ Although she is a princess, later Queen, she is not included in the Princess line up. ~ Oldest princess of the Disney Princesses, at over 8000 years old.  ~ Cree Summer did the voice of Suzie in The Rugrats. ~ Only Princess to have completely, natural white hair.  ~ Kida does not sing at all during either film.   I can't find a decent video of Kida.  ** Name(s): Tiana, Tia. Voiced by: Anika Noni Rose. Year Released: 2009. ​Main Song: Almost There, Down in New Orleans.  Sidekick(s): Ray, Louis, Lottie La Bouff. Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes, from The Frog Prince and also based on a true story. Trademarks: Cooking Abilities.  Dresses: Restaurant Dresses, Costume Party Dresses, Wedding Dresses.  Special "Abilities": Cooking Abilities. Prince: Naveen.  Disney Park Attractions?: Yes, Tiana's Mardi Gras.  Trivia: ~ Only Princess is to have dimples. ~ Alicia Keys, Tyra Banks and Jennifer Hudson were all considered for the voice of Tiana. Tyra and Alicia both fought for the role. ~ Is left handed, as Anika Noni Rose is left handed. ~ Second Princess to be shown as a little girl. ~ Tiana translates as "princess" in modern day English. ~ Second Princess to transform (following Ariel).  ~ First Princess to have an actual job.  ~ First princess in 18 years to have one actress do both her singing and speaking voice.  ~ Second Princess to kill the film's villains (first being Mulan).  ~ Tiana is considered the only realist out of the Princesses. ~ Spends only 19 minutes on screen out of the entire film.  ~ She and Esmerelda are the only ones spotted in a holy building.  ~ Has 11 outfit changes throughout the movie.

**  Name(s): Rapunzel Voiced by: Mandy Moore Year Released: 2010 Main Song: When Will My Life Begin?, I See The Light.  Sidekick(s): Pascal, Maximus. Originated from another fairy tale?: Yes.  Trademarks: Hair.  Dresses: Purple Dress, Wedding Dress. Special "Abilities": Magic hair.  Prince: Flynn Ryder. Disney Park Attractions?: Not really, unless you count the big meet and greet/activity. Trivia: ~ Kristin Chenoweth was originally supposed to play Rapunzel. ~ The film switched titles from Rapunzel to Tangled, so that it would appeal more to boys. ~ First Princess film to receive a PG rating. ~ Is constantly barefoot, like Mandy Moore (speaking/singing voice), as Mandy constantly performs barefoot. ~ Rapunzel's hair is approximately 70 feet long, has about 100,000 strands, and weighs about 10.4 pounds. ~ Rapunzel's parents don't say a word for the entire film. ~ The way that Rapunzel climbs her hair is an actual aerial silk climbing technique. ~ Rapunzel's hair colour mirrors Mandy Moore's. Mandy started her career as a blonde, but went back to her natural brown.  ~ 18 years old. ~ Becomes Queen of Corona.  ~ Second Princess to have her hair cut. ~ First to have magic powers. ~ At the beginning, we see a mobile hanging up above Rapunzel's crib. Hanging from the mobile are a chameleon, a rubber ducky, a cupid, a blue bird and a horse. ~ Out of the other married Princesses, Rapunzel's veil of her wedding dress is the longest one.

**  I'll do an entry for Merida once we know more about her. I know Nala's a princess but I'll include her in the Disney Women Post. 

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AMC has confirmed the air dates for Breaking Bad's fifth and final season. The US drama - starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul - will be split into two parts for its final season, in a similar vein to the final chapter of The Sopranos. The first half of the season will begin on Sunday, July 15 at 10pm, with eight episodes. The second half will then air in summer 2013. Meanwhile, AMC has also announced that new series Small Town Security will also launch on July 15, at 11pm. The series follows a family-owned private security firm in Georgia, and will also run for eight episodes. Friday Night Lights star Jesse Plemons has signed up to play a major role in the final season of Breaking Bad. Creator Vince Gilligan recently told Digital Spy that he hopes UK fans will be able to watch the series on TV screens in the near future. Source I can't fucking wait for this show to come back.

It looks as though D’Angelo is back and looking better than ever! He’s currently featured in a 6 page feature in GQ Magazine’s June Issue, complete with new photos and news that he may drop a new album this September (just in time for The Grammy deadline). However, the article is quick to note that he has over 50 songs in the works and he is working at his own pace which could possibly mean, ‘don’t get your hopes up’. This will be his first album in 12 years. 12 YEARS!!! In the article, D’Angelo addresses everything from rumors surrounding his departure from the music scene (which somehow had everything to do with D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’ video) to his constant dreams about the late artist Marvin Gaye. There’s also commentary from Quest Love, Chris Rock, (who thinks that D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Chris Tucker and Dave Chapelle are all hanging out on the island of, ‘What do we do with all of this talent’), D’Angelo’s ex Angie Stone and his former music director who claims the ‘Untitled’ video wasn’t about sex, but instead, his grandmother’s cooking. Check out a few interesting excerpts below: D’Angelo on the evil in music (Is he talking the Illuminati?) There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherf-ckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces puling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely.” “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of the energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.” Paul Hunter (Director of Untitled) on the video being misunderstood Most people think the ‘Untitled’ video was about sex, but my direction was completely opposite of that. It was about his grandmother’s cooking. Think of your grandmother’s greens, how it smelled in the kitchen. What did the yams and the fried chicken taste like? That’s what I want you to express.” The video may have looked like foreplay, but it was actually about family, Hunter insists-about intimacy. Later when I tell D’Angelo this, he says, “It’s so true: We talked about the Holy Ghost and the church before that take. The veil is the nudity and the sexuality. But what they’re really getting is the spirit. D’Angelo on the effects of the ‘Untitled’ video One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel like f-cked-up, and I threw the money back at her. I was like, ‘I’m not a stripper.’ On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D’Angelo told him, “Yo, man, I cannot wait until this f-cking tour is over. I’m going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.” Questlove thought he was joking. “I was like, ‘You’re a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen.That’s how much he wanted to distance himself.” Angie Stone, the mother of one of D’Angelo’s kids detailed a time that she had to wait in the wings while he walked in an awards show with actress Vivica Fox. Stone remembers an event in Manhatten in September 1996 that was billed as Giorgio Armani’s tribute to D’Angelo. Stone-thirteen years older than D-was three months pregnant with their son. They headed to the event together in a limo, but as they neared the venue where D was going to perform, it suddenly pulled over. He was asked to get into another car, where he would be escorted by Vivica Fox,” Stone says, her voice breaking slightly. The lissome Fox had just appeared with Will Smith in the blockbuster Independence Day. “It was a Hollywood moment. They wanted a trophy girl. I had to walk in behind them to flashing cameras. It started the wheels turning of what was yet to come. The magazine also cited past reports of Madonna wanting a piece of D When Madonna turned 39, she asked him to sing “Happy Birthday” at her party. One press report had her sitting on his lap and French-kissing him. In fact, two sources say that ultimately D rebuffed her advances at another gathering not long after. At that event, the sources say, Madonna walked over and told a woman sitting next to D, “I think you’re in my seat.” The woman got up. Madonna sat down and told him, “I’d like to know what you’re thinking.” To which D replied, “I’m thinking you’re rude.” source

Tatum O'Neal’s "ongoing drug addiction" has her "inner-circle extremely concerned for her well-being," reports RadarOnline. Now she's slamming reports she's "developed an addiction to prescription pills."

Usher and Tameka Foster’s split has not exactly been... smooth. After a festive evening at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, Usher appeared in court to testify against his ex-wife as part of their brutal child custody fight.

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Will Smith has been speaking to the BBC's Susanna Reid about his latest movie, Men In Black III. The film sees the Hollywood actor return to his role as a government agent battling alien invasion on Earth. The star discussed his excitement about the 3D effects used during the movie, and his own concerns about seeing his ears on the big screen. Smith also spoke about the possibility of him playing the part of Barack Obama in a future film about the US president. Men In Black III film clips courtesy of Sony Pictures

Will Smith says he's the 'natural choice' to play Obama

LONDON -- Will Smith is convinced he is the "natural choice" to portray President Obama onscreen.

"It's about the ears, that's the thing," Smith said in a BBC interview Monday, when asked about rumors he could play the Commander-in-Chief someday in a biopic.

"People see the ears and Barack and I both have the ears, so I'm the most natural choice," Smith continued.

"I told [Obama] jokingly, 'It's definitely something I would consider, you just have to write the ending.' So he's working on the ending right now," the Oscar-nominee added.

Smith, 43, is currently in Europe promoting "Men in Black 3." The film, also starring Tommy Lee Jones, hits US theaters May 25.

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It’s official. The imagined gender theory musings of everyone's -- and by everyone's we mean HuffPost Women’s -- favorite celebrity heartthrob/activist/HuffPost blogger/saver-of-lives will soon be available in book form. That’s right, “Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude” is being published in August, and it’s already available for pre-order. The book is based off of the “Feminist Ryan Gosling” Tumblr account that went viral last October. The site features oh-so-dreamy photos of The Gos paired with feminist theory one-liners -- all beginning with the now-famous phrase “Hey girl.” Though this was hardly the only riff on the original “Hey girl” meme (see Gosling Lit Agent and Hunger Games Gosling to name a couple of gems), it took off in a major way. Highlights include: The mastermind behind Feminist Ryan Gosling is graduate student and blogger Danielle Henderson, who originally conceived of the Tumblr flashcards as a way to help herself and her fellow students sift through the dense theories they were studying in a lighthearted way. “I never intended for anyone other than my classmates to see it,” she wrote on the Tumblr’s FAQ section. And (gasp!) Henderson doesn’t even find The Gos all that attractive. However, that hasn’t stopped her from writing the kind of clever/sexy academic-speak that makes Gosling fans everywhere swoon. HuffPo It'd be nice to make money by typing words over photos I didn't take of a person I don't know...

Justin Bieber's first kiss wasn't with Selena Gomez, while Jessica Alba said she puckered up at the young age of seven. Read about more awesomely awkward celebrity first kiss experiences ahead. Justin Bieber told People his first smooch wasn't anything to write home about. "It was kinda awkward. I was, like, 11 or 12. And I was on a snowhill and it was late and we were all cold and I was, like, with this girl and we were together and then I kissed her. It was really awkward," he said. Hopefully his first kiss with Selena Gomez went a little better.

Gwyneth Paltrow is one pretty cool mom. The actress took her children, eight-year-old Apple (sporting pink hair!) and six-year-old Moses, to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s "Watch the Throne" tour on Saturday night in London. Paltrow posted a photo on Whosay of the kids making Jay-Z's diamond hand sign with the caption, "Yup. Uncle Jay at the O2." Check out the cute pic here!