Новости за 01.12.2015

The country music-loving American public has been feeling a mite dubious about Tom Hiddleston, an admitted British person, playing Hank Williams in the upcoming biopic I Saw the Light. But a full trailer came out Tuesday, and now I very much fear I’m going to be forced to see this thing 15 times and cry every time.

It’s Bette Midler’s birthday! The actress/singer/songwriter/comedian/icon (who’s just an Oscar away from an EGOT) celebrated her 70th birthday Tuesday, and we’d like to honor her life’s work by sharing her 70 most iconic moments!

Kylie Jenner, in a bid to show the world that she, too, has a butt , and that she, too, is willing to use it, has graced the cover of Interview in an assorted slew of saucy poses.

On the campaign trail, Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich has gained an unfortunate reputation for his tendency to speak disrespectfully to and about women, like that time when he told a college student he didn’t have any Taylor Swift tickets, or lamented how easily a diet can become sidelined when spumoni is in the picture.

Dartmoor National Park in southwestern England is home to the Dartmoor pony—a cute, fluffy-looking breed with short legs and broad faces. Sadly, these sweet li’l horsies are at risk thanks to an increase in motor vehicle accidents and, well, other things...

On Sunday night’s episode of E!’s reigning soap opera Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the A-Plot was Khloe’s haunted house; the B-Plot was Kendall and Kylie’s graduation party; and the C-Plot was Kim’s reckless pregnancy habits. Hard hitting stuff! The wait’s been long enough, so let’s jump right in. #LEGGODolls.

Alabama State Rep. Alan Harper, age 58 and “very, very white” according to the Daily Beast, looks like the villain in every Disney movie starring an animal. On Monday, this leader of the American South shared a message with his 2,551 Facebook friends: embrace the holiday spirit and boycott stores owned by immigrants.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired the city’s police superintendent, Garry F. McCarthy, following a botched handling of the shooting of 17 year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.

The stars and executive producer of Fox’s forensic series Bones are suing the company for alleged shady accounting practices, claiming they’ve been cut out of millions in profits.

Social media loves a wine-sipping mom.

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Star Wars: It’s not just for boys anymore! (Of course, it was never just for boys.)

A 20-year-old Marine has been convicted of killing a Filipina woman after he discovered she was transgender. Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of homicide in the slaying of Jennifer Laude, who he met in a disco in October 2014. He killed Laude hours later by strangling her in a hotel room and pushing her head in a toilet.

Add another one to Christmas’s long list of crimes: Not only are all those festive lights interfering with your sleep patterns, they’re also possibly fucking with your wifi. Happy holidays—hope you don’t have big Netflix plans!

After John Singleton walked away from the Tupac Shakur biopic in June, music director Benny Boom has stepped up to direct the long-delayed, possibly cursed film.

One of my least favorite things in the world is hearing a young person whose parents pay their cell phone/buy them plane tickets home for every holiday/give them thousand-dollar gift checks say something like, “I’ve never gotten any help from my parents, but I’ve managed to save some money.” Not because it’s bad to get any of those things, but because it’s bad not to recognize: Informal help is help. As this Atlantic piece by Mel Jones delineates in a dozen different ways, informal help is meaningful... Читать дальше...

Planned Parenthood employees and other reproductive healthcare workers have faced increased threats and harassment since the Center for Medical Progress released videos claiming to show PPFA officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue for research. Good job, pro-life advocates—you have successfully contributed to making Americans less safe.

Glamour’s January cover features besties and stars of the forthcoming movie Sisters, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It’s also an issue devoted to “social”—also known as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and all those other platforms the cover stars don’t actually use.

Last spring, Kylie Jenner decided to make lips her thing. Because the Kardashian-Jenners are very good at convincing people of just about anything, we all quickly accepted that lips were, in fact, her thing. But, as a species that covets what we see, plenty of us were mangled during failed attempts to make her lips our thing, too.

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, imprisoned for fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, left jail on Monday night. Although charged with first degree murder for McDonald’s death, Van Dyke was released after less than a week of incarceration because, according to his lawyer, he “[doesn’t] pose a flight risk.”

Senator and man who would be President Ted Cruz spent Monday night at a town hall in Iowa. While there, he generously shared his thoughts on birth control access, namely how easy it is to get some: “Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America.” Oh Ted, you really shouldn’t have.

One might argue that Thanksgiving—a notorious day of gluttony—would not be the ideal time for Weight Watchers to initiate an application upgrade. But upgrade they did, and as a result, the app has been almost impossible to use ever since.

There was much gnashing of teeth this morning when, after 30 rapid seconds, Kylie Jenner’s much-hyped Lip Kit completely sold out. The collection went on sale at 9 a.m. By 9:01 a.m., there was nary a lip liner to be found.

Rebel Wilson is Cosmopolitan U.K.’s Ultimate Woman of the Year, as well as the magazine’s January covergirl — and does any of that really require explanation? This sassy woman is aces, and her take-no-shit attitude shines through her interview.

They say that the best thing a bra-wearing woman can do is be measured by an expert, in order to ensure the most comfortable and supportive fit. Doctors at a clinic in Stockholm seem to be applying that same logic to penises all over the area, as they have begun handing out dick-measuring tape to ensure said penises are fitted with the correct size of condom. To find the most comfortable, and supportive fit. On that D.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Bob Saget maybe subtweets Mary-Kate over not being invited to her wedding, Kim Kardashian is somehow still pregnant and Josh Groban is a pea man.