- Those
thirsting for new music from former man-bander Justin Timberlake, here’s hoping
you all like trolls. That’s because JT has been
confirmed as the executive music producer on forthcoming animated film “Trolls.”
In this new role, Timberlake will produce as well as write and perform original
material – his first new tunes since 2013’s “The 20/20 Experience.” Not only
will the singer control the music for the film, but he will also voice a
character named Branch, which the film’s synopsis describes as “a hilariously hardcore survivalist who hides
his surprising true colors.” He will star with Anna Kendrick (“Pitch Perfect”), who will play
Princess Poppy, in the film due out in November. “I have always envisioned bringing the two
worlds of film and music together for one epic event [and] couldn’t be more
excited that they will collide in DreamWorks’ ‘Trolls,’” Timberlake said. “This film is very special, the music
is going to be very special and I can’t wait for everyone to experience it all.”
Timberlake has obviously been a part of several very good films - and some
terrible ones as well - including “The Social Network,” “Friends With Benefits” and “Inside Llewyn Davis.” Doing an
animated movie in which one can show up for work every day dressed in sweats
and without having to worry about hair, makeup or a costume is always nice and
if this one goes well, the guy who scored the movie and voiced one of its star
characters would be in line for a lot of credit……..
- The Federal
Aviation Administration is about to drop a no-fly zone in the midst of downtown
Seattle. The FAA just hit Miami-based Crescent Heights with a "presumed
hazard" designation for the company’s to build a massive 102-story tower
with office space, apartments, a hotel and retail space. Skyscrapers continue
to get taller and taller because everyone wants to build something taller than
what already exists, but the FAA has ruled that the super tall office,
apartment, hotel and retail skyscraper in the city's downtown represents a
danger for air traffic based on the 4/C tower’s proposed location in an empty
lot on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Columbia Street. This week, the FAA
issued a "notice of presumed hazard" to Miami-based Crescent Heights,
which wants to build the 1,112-foot structure. "The structure as described exceeds
obstruction standards and/or would have an adverse physical or electromagnetic
interference effect upon navigable airspace or air navigation facilities,"
the FAA wrote in the notice. To further complicate matters for those behind the
project, the agency believes that any cranes brought in to construct such a
building could be a risk for helicopters serving a nearby medical center. Being
the problem solvers they are, the FAA offered some helpful hints for getting
this idea moving forward again, namely cutting the height of the building by
more than 50 percent, all the way down to 499 feet. “It would not exceed
obstruction standards and a favorable determination could subsequently be
issued,” the FAA noted. Either that or build it in the middle of freaking
Montana and make it as tall as you want……….
- If
you’re going to f*ck up each and every organizational decision you make, you
may as well make those decisions interesting and entertaining. For 16 years
since returning to the NFL as an expansion franchise, the Cleveland Browns have
gone through dozens of general managers, team presidents, chief executives,
head coaches, assistant coaches and owners. The one commonality that runs
through all of them is that they have all been unequivocally terrible at their
jobs. Thus, one playoff appearance - and no playoff wins - during that span and
remaining one of four NFL teams to have never played in the Super Bowl. After
firing general manager Ray Farmer and head coach Mike Pettine on Sunday, the
Browns have begun their annual offseason bungling/team overhaul by going
completely off the map and hiring of Paul DePodesta of the New York Mets as the
team's chief strategy officer. Hiring a baseball guy to help turn around a
football team and then creating a completely made-up position that makes him
sound like the new executive for some wacky promotional company that makes
board games is a totally Browns move. Yes, DePodesta once worked in Cleveland,
but for the Indians, not the Browns. And yes, he was the man upon whom Jonah
Hill’s character in “Moneyball” was based, but placing him above newly hired
executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown in the
organizational hierarchy and in a place where he will report only to owner
Jimmy Haslam is just bizarre. "We are fortunate to bring in Paul, an
extremely talented, highly respected sports executive who will add a critical
dimension to our front office," Haslam said. That’s swell and he may help the
player development, sports-science, high-performance and analytics departments with
their work, but unless dude can also play quarterback AND run a spot-on slant
route, odds are he’s not going to turn this thing around……….
- Not every
movie or TV show about a prison break is meant to be taken as an instructional
video. Sure, “Prison Break,” “Midnight Express” and “The Shawshank Redemption”
are all great viewing, but they're not exactly a blueprint for making your own
covert exit from the correctional facility you currently call home. Someone
should have passed that news along to an unidentified inmate at a Brazilian jail before he ended up in an extremely unsanitary
and illegal position that will likely extend his stay behind bards. The prisoner
was caught attempting to escape from in what has been described as a “Shawshank
Redemption”-esque escape plot, taking a certain amount of inspiration from the
movie’s escape plan in which Tim Robbins’ character escapes from prison by
tunneling through a wall, shimmying down an opening in the wall and crawling
500 yards through a waste pipe carrying gallons and gallons of raw sewage. This
inmate tried his own commode-centered escape, except in his case it was a
communal toilet. Footage of the man shows him lodged head first in a giant
hole, completely covered in what appears to be human excrement. In the video,
the man valiantly attempts to wiggle, squirm and worm his way into the toilet’s
tunnels to freedom. His attempt, believe it or not, ultimately fails and he has
to be coaxed out of the hole by two men who grab hold of his slippery legs and
pull him out. The best part of the story is told by later footage showing the
inmate, housed at a prison in the greater Sao Paulo area, back in his
cell, still covered in sh*t. It’s almost as if they don’t need to punish this
idiot any further for trying to escape………
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