Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Not Cool, McDonalds!

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LGBT McDonald's customers in New Zealand are NOT happy.
According to GayNZ.com, gay-related sites have been blocked from McDonald's locations in Wellington, NZ.
Some sites that have been blocked include The Agender site for transgender folks, and Rainbow Youth advice site.
According to McDonald's reps, the sites have been blocked because they are a family fast food restaurant, and content of the Internet but not the food must be suitable for children.
Here's what gay Wellington resident Julz Darroch had to say about it:
"In this day and age it has shocked me. Just when we think we can get used to being treated as equals in society, and in the main centres at least, something like this comes along. Our being lesbian or gay, or wanting to be in contact with our friends and communities, should not be an issue for the likes of McDonald’s.”
Here's what McDonald's has sent in response to GayNZ.com:
"We're a family restaurant chain, and as part of offering this new Free WiFi service, our policy is that viewed content must be of a family friendly nature, i.e.- suitable for a child to view.
Because of this, access to a number of websites is blocked, including access to gaynz.com gambling, tobacco and adult mature content websites. We stress that all the content of allowable sites must meet family friendly criteria.

By this we mean a child cannot access a website where they can click on any content, link or third party advertisement and access sexually explicit content and images.
You will also appreciate that there are inevitably teething problems with the introduction of a new service and getting our filtering process right is one such issue."
McDonald's has said they'll review the sites that customers have complained about, but we have our suspicions that these sites will remain blocked.
Not Cool AT ALL, McDonalds.
Thoughts???

Page Scully! Mulder Wants To Do Another Movie!

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We're sure there are still enough fans out there who would relish in a reunion, so hopefully FOX will get behind this.
David Duchovny, best known to the world as Agent Fox Mulder, has revealed to sources that he would be very interested in making another X-Files movie. Futhermore, he reveals that his partner in crime, Gillian Anderson, and the man behind the series, Chris Carter, are both "game" to reprise the franchise as well. All that's standing in their way is the studio and the story. He explains:
"I’m always game. It always rides on Fox. [Chris Carter] is game. I know [Gillian Anderson] is game. We all, at this point, love the show. We all, at this point, would love to work with one another again. We’re all good friends and miss one another, and miss working together.
We worked together so hard for so long, so closely. We had some ups and downs personally, sure. But in the end, they are really like family to me. We’re all like this little X-Files family and I, for one, would love to continue. And I think there’s a lot left in the show. You know? And I think we can continue to make good movies.

It’s just a matter of spending enough on a movie that can compete in the summertime. We made a movie and released it in the summer, but it wasn’t really a blockbuster movie. And it got kind of overshadowed by the bigger ones. So, we’re saying, make us big. We’ll fight with the big boys.”
Money we're sure FOX has got. Honestly, if you guys could pitch an awesome story, we can't see why they wouldn't shell out for a third flick. The studios LOVE to roll with franchises and your's was a pretty big deal back in the day.
Would U want to see another X-Files movie get made?

James Franco Planning Performance Art Project On Golden Globes

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Oh boy! What NOW?!
While James Franco was busy promoting his new film, 127 Hours, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala over the weekend, he revealed that he would be reviving his experimental music project, Kalup and Franco, for a surprise performance on the day of the Golden Globes!
He explains:
"I have a little art project that I'll be doing during the day that I can't quite talk about but you'll hear about."
We can only imagine what he's got in store!
It's gonna be weird!
We're waiting with bated breath, bb!
LOLz!

Review Of The Year (In Pictures)

I know I know I'm a little late with this guys but I've been killing it down the sales.
As way of an apology here is my pretty basic review of the last year through the medium of imagery - it's true what they say, a picture really does tell a thousand words. Sometimes however some of these words are lies, be warned.

January
Went to Austria, did some snowboarding - did even more Jaegermeister.
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February
Went to the Brits with Pixie in HOH. Only met bloody GaGa!
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March
Filmed the advert for Frock Me with Chungy. Got a well nice dressing gown out of it.
Watch it
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April
Went to Coachella with gang. Filmed Frock Me in NYC with Chungy wearing very questionable outfits.

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May
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME had a party on the roof - even the blackberry went blurry. Met Lulu!

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June
Got Bieber fever - spoke to the arrogant little sh*t for 30 sec - got over Bieber fever.

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July
Glastonburyyyyyyyyyyyy *vomits and the worlds biggest Croc. *VOMIT.

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August
Moved into a new home with new roomies. Big sis got married AND got shot by Nick Knight.

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September
SHOWTIME. Me and Hillier loving the jewels. And this beaut of a dress never even made it onto the runway.

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October
Popped to Paris where Dree rocked some pretty good pantaloons. Compared hair colours with Riri.

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November
Launched our skiwear range with Roxy and stole a skidoo with Jade in the process, before competitive "crabbing" of an evening.
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December
Got my first EVER billboard! Went to British Fashion Awards in Ponyskin.
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This Time - PR Fraud!

This Time - PR Fraud!

I personally approve every celebrity that wants to borrow - and not buy - our pieces. I am not easily seduced by the power of celebrity and I don't believe that this influences our sales, so why not only send out pieces to the people I like and respect? We can't influence who buys the designs but we can control who borrows them.
The other day our press office emailed me asking if it was ok to borrow pieces for a shoot with Julianne Moore. Whoo-hoo - hell yes! She is a great actress, smart and amazingly beautiful, a perfect brand ambassador! The shoot is for the New York Times and it is about Julianne's favourite places in London - and the Lara Bohinc store is her favourite shop! Really? How come I have never seen a photo of her with our pieces? Excited I ask the girls in the press office to do some research and to find photos of her wearing our products. I have never seen them myself but you never know, I don't read celebrity gossip papers so I am not really an authority on that. But nothing, no photo as such....
They have requested to borrow only one item - the Lunar eclipse bag in python, our classic design that has been selling for years now and it costs nearly £2,000.
A week later when the return is due, we become suspicious: the stylist's number is not working and when we call the New York Times they confirm our fears: no, there is no photo shoot with Julianne Moore and they don't know that stylist either. Julianne's assistant confirms that she is neither working with the aformentioned stylist nor shooting for the New York Times....
Arghhhh - fraud, it happened again! We have been tricked in a quite clever way- they knew to choose a celebrity that I would approve of and banked on us not checking them up.
Serves me right- and I thought I wouldn't be fooled by some celebrity carrot!

This Time - PR Fraud!

I don’t produce films to make money – Akshay Kumar

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Actor-producer Akshay Kumar, who sounded a bit guarded about the fate of his forthcoming film “Patiala House”, Sunday said he doesn’t produce films to make money.
“I don’t produce films for money. I make those films, which I personally want to make. I don’t know the fate of ‘Patiala House’ but I am very happy to be a part of it and I have enjoyed working in it. I am not worried whether I would make money from it or not,” Akshay told reporters at the music launch of “Patiala House” at Whistling Woods here.
“Today, I am in a position where returns don’t bother me much… I only think that what new I can offer to my audience,” he added.
The actor mentioned that none of the films from his Hari Om Productions has upset him or his distributor so far commercially.
“I have produced eight films so far and none of them were unsuccessful commercially, and neither my distributors had to suffer any losses,” said Akshay.

Akhay maintains that actors like him, Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan cannot venture for films like “Udaan” or “Tere Bin Laden” because high box office returns are expected from their films.
“I have seen the business of these kinds of films. I go and watch every film; I understand what the audience wants. When a person like me or Shah Rukh or Salman do a film, we have to collect a certain amount of money in the box office so that the distributors and exhibitors get their money back.”
“So we cannot do this kind of films because there is a very niche audience for such kind of cinema. These films make a maximum of Rs.8 crore. Commercial cinema makes business of Rs.70 crore. Films like ‘Dabaang’ make Rs.140 crore. So you have to make such kind of films,” said Akshay.
He however believes that in the near future, films like “Udaan” would cater to a maximum audience.
“A film like ‘Udaan’ has a certain kind of audience who would go and watch them. Maybe as time progress, more people would start watching these kind of films. In around four years, people would watch only this kind of cinema,” said Akshay.

Kate Gosselin Moves to Hold Jon in Contempt

Kate Gosselin is asking a judge to hold ex-hubby Jon Gosselin in contempt of court, TMZ has learned.
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We've learned Kate's lawyers filed a Petition for Contempt of Custody Order last Thursday. 
Sources connected with the case tell TMZ ... Kate believes Jon is squarely violating the judge's custody order -- prohibiting either of them from talking about the case -- by allegedly selling information about the case and tweeting his displeasure of the judge's various decisions.

We're told Kate is claiming Jon is willfully disobeying the orders, mostly to make a buck, and she wants the judge to modify the custody agreement to protect the kids from their alleged money-grubbing dad.
We're told a hearing is set for later this month.
 

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