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Vampires Don't Suck at Teen Choice Awards (Neither Do Justin Bieber, Sandra Bullock or the Kardashians)

8/09/2010 04:39:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , 0 Comments

The Teen Choice Awards are like elementary school sports: Everyone gets a prize just for showing up!

Or that's how it seemed as dozens of teen- and tween-friendly celebs packed the Gibson Amphitheatre Sunday to pick up 104 awards (17 of which went to productions with vampires in them) in six genres: movies, television, music, summer, fashion and—for the handful that fell just outside those lines—miscellaneous.

Since only two hours' worth of shenangians, hosted by Katy Perry and the boys of Glee, will be shown Monday night on Fox, many of those honors were doled out off-camera.

But don't worry, most of the awards that were given to Robert Pattinson will be seen in prime-time.

Pattinson won four surfboards, including Choice Male Movie Star of the summer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He shared Choice Liplock, and Choice Chemistry with his absentee New Moon costar Kristen Stewart, also a four-time winner.

New Moon was, not surprisingly, the teens' Choice Movie, Fantasy.

The obliging Brit also got a special treat, being named Choice Movie Actor, Drama, for...wait for it...Remember Me, the nonvampire film he starred in last year.

And we got a treat, too, because Jimmy Fallon presented using his "Robert Pattinson is bothered" voice. Yay! He can do the whole Emmy ceremony like that if he wants.

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HTC's 4.3-inch Desire HD shows up on video

8/09/2010 04:39:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


We saw our first images of the Desire HD over the weekend, and just as day follows night, video leaks typically follow pictorial ones. You'll already be familiar with the mooted specs -- including 720p HD video recording, WVGA screen resolution, and an 8 megapixel imager -- so what else does this handset tour reveal? Well, the family resemblance to HTC's other 4.3-inchers is inevitably apparent to see, with the Desire HD sticking its headphone port at the bottom just like the HD2, and employing a dual LED flash à la the EVO 4G. Beyond that, it looks like yet another well rounded device from the prolific Taiwanese phone maker -- hurry past the break to see it for yourself.

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HTC Schubert: Windows Phone 7 gets an aluminum unibody handset to call home?

8/09/2010 04:38:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


And the Windows Phone 7 leaks just keep on flowing. After that mysterious ASUS pre-prodution unit we saw late last week, today we're being treated to the first sighting of the HTC Schubert. Purportedly a device planned for "day one" of the WP7 revolution, the Schubert is said to have been built using a single piece of aluminum (just like the Legend) with plastic cutouts in the back allowing for that all-important wireless connectivity. Not much else is known for now -- hell, there's no way to even confirm this phone is who it says it is -- but the video's right after the break.

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Ariel Lin spotted at SETTV: possible drama collaboration?

8/09/2010 04:38:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Last Friday, Ariel Lin was spotted at the SETTV building accompanied by her manager Chou Mei-Yu. Her visit sparked many rumors of possible collaborations between Ariel and SETTV on future drama projects.

Ariel has filmed five successful idol dramas for GTV, and during these ten years, she has never stepped into the SETTV building except last year when she went on WQYL (Complete Entertainment) to promote her album. Although Ariel has been loyal to GTV since her debut, many speculate that the rumors of her leading role replacement for the much delayed Extravagant Challenge may have scarred their relationship. Ariel has reportedly been waiting for the drama project for three years and thus, has not filmed another new drama since her Golden Bell win in 2008 for her role in They Kissed Again. Ariel commented that she will leave it up to fate.

As SETTV has been losing many of its popular idols like Joe Chen Qiao-En and Ethan Ruan, they have begun to vigorously look for other currently active idols in the drama scene. In addition to inviting Ming Dao back to film Zhong Wu Yen, even Joe Cheng is helping SETTV to film their online drama, “歡迎愛光臨” (roughly translates to Welcome Love).

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Lady Gaga…The Actress?

8/09/2010 04:38:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Is Lady Gaga planning her big-screen debut?

From Madonna’s Desperately Seeking Susan to Whitney Houston in The Preacher’s Wife, the story of pop stars stinking up the big screen is almost as old as the cinema itself.

Is the world’s biggest singing sensation ready to add the title “Screen Star” to her already illustrious resume?

After shattering records last week with 13 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, Lady Gaga has set her sights on bigger screens with a Gaga-centric feature film, British tabloid News of the World (We know, we know.) reported Sunday.

Hollywood tattles tell the tab that the “Bad Romance” star is planning to make a splash at the box office in a film epic in the vein of Michael Jackson’s 1988 long-form music movie Moonwalker and the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls, which won singer Jennifer Hudson an Oscar. In fact, lensman Bryan Singer — the director behind The Usual Suspects — is reportedly being eyed as a director for the as-yet-untitled big-budget blockbuster.

“Gaga is a real creative genius and is thinking about new possibilities all the time,” a spy squeals. “She’s very excited about a movie, but she wants to do it right. She wants to work with the best people in the business.”

12-core Apple Mac Pro orders are go

8/09/2010 04:37:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


After a brief outage the Apple Store is back with the previously announced 12-core Mac Pro (and revamped quad- and 6-core models) ready to order. Prices start at $4,999 for a pair of 6-core Xeon Westmere procesors humming along at 2.66GHz, 6GB of memory, a 1TB hard drive, SuperDrive, and ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics. We configured ours with a pair of 2.93GHz CPUs, 2x HD 5770 graphics cards, 32GB of memory, 4x 512GB SSDs, and pair of optical drives for $16,249 just 'cause we could. Ships in 7 to 10 business days... bankruptcy in 365.

Is Facebook really nervous about Google Me?

8/09/2010 04:37:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Google is getting close to launching their much hyped “Google Me” social network. This isn’t Google’s first stab at social networking — for example, Orkut (Google’s own Facebook) is a successful website in only a few countries.

Reports from Venture Beat say that Facebook is on “lock down” — basically meaning that all hands are on deck, even weekends, for the next 60 days. Of course, this is just a rumor, and has not been officially confirmed. If this is true though, it surprises me to think that Facebook may be actually nervous about Google’s future product.

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Artistes feel pity for Nicholas Tse's old 'scapegoat case' due to recent court case

8/09/2010 04:36:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Kemal Bokhary's niece Amina Bokhary cause of assaulting a Hong Kong police officer is upheld and has caused anger to the entire city. Artists are leaving messages on Weibo and expressing their doubts on the judicial system on interviews. People also compared this case with Nicholas Tse's "scapegoat case" that happened years ago and felt pity for him. Currently in Shandong filming, Nicholas did not want to respond.

As Nic's good friend Edmond Leung wrote on his Weibo yesterday: "So does that mean people can just randomly assault the HK police that we HK citizens respect most.. what now? My old buddy Nicholas Tse's case a few years ago was pretty unfair." Michael Tse received a sentence before for drunk driving, his wife Tina wrote on Weibo questioning why Amina can just get away with assaulting police 3 consecutive times. Kenneth Ma attended an event and expressed his pity for Nic's case. He said: "Should I say I have some psychological problem or some money hungry illness so I can go rob someone?"

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Jennifer Aniston: Women Don't Need Men to Be Good Moms

8/09/2010 10:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

In her new movie The Switch, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who decides to get pregnant in a non-traditional way – with a "turkey baster," her friend jokes in the film.

During a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Sunday, the actress defended her character's leap into single motherhood by using a sperm donor.

"Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child," Aniston, 41, said. "Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long."

When asked about the repercussions of raising a child without a father, Aniston said she believes all types of families can raise healthy kids.

"The point of the movie is what is it that defines family? It isn't necessarily the traditional mother, father, two children and a dog named Spot," she said. "Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere. That is what I love about this movie. It is saying it is not the traditional sort of stereotype of what we have been taught as a society of what family is."

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Sandra Bullock Wins Teen Choice Award

8/09/2010 10:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Sandra Bullock didn't walk the blue carpet at the Teen Choice Awards, but that doesn't mean she wasn't there.

The actress, 46, surprised the crowd at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheater on Sunday, when she accepted the award for choice movie actress in a drama for her Oscar-winning role in The Blind Side.

Bullock – dressed in a gray top, black leather pants and high heels – came on stage and thanked cheering fans. "I don't know if you should bring attention to this. Some things are better left unsaid. It's been awhile since I was a teen," she said. "I'm so blessed and lucky. The Blind Side – I got to meet so many good people, so many good lessons I took away from it."

Then, Bullock invited her "sweet friend" Betty White, who she joked hadn't been a teen "since 1919," onto the stage. "I was worried about her fitting in but that's not the problem," Bullock said. "The problem is she was supposed to jump in on my line, so Betty get your ass out on this stage!"

The two then shimmied together to Lil Jon's "Get Low."

Other people to walk away with surfboards included Selena Gomez, Channing Tatum, Taylor Lautner, Megan Fox and the cast of Glee.

Katy Perry, who hosted the event, kicked off the night on a colorful and flashy stage with a performance of her latest song, "Teenage Dream." R&B singer Jason Derulo and Perry's ex-boyfriend Travis McCoy also performed.

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