And now, the newest trailer from Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”

With the U.S. release date slated for March 5, 2010, the latest trailer for Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, & Anne Hathaway, has hit the online sphere. Also below:  stills from Tim Burton's brilliantly twisted interpretation of the classic characters – can't wait to see how the finished product turns out.

 

 

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Virgin to Start Commercial Space Flights as early as 2011?

Um, yeah – Book your space, along with 300 other “astronauts” & be a part of the first commercial trips into space. According to Virgin Galactic (not to be confused with Battlestar Galactica), the

“SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and its mothership, VMS Eve (WhiteKnightTwo) herald a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set to commence from Spaceport America in New Mexico.”  

Caprica, here we come.

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Square: On-the-go credit card payment for all, big & small.

Adios, cash or check only. Hello, mobile credit card payment.

Square, created by the founder of Twitter, has created this new program for on-the-go credit card payments (it supposedly functions with any device with an audiojack – obviously “smart” technology is needed). Basically, with the aid of a physical plug-in (to the audio jack) business owners (registered on the site) can swipe a customer’s credit card, charge a payment & email the receipt. In an effort to combat identity theft, the users will see the card holder’s face on the, for example, iPhone screen. Oh yeah, Square’ll donate a penny for every transaction to charity, too.

Visit Square at (http://squareup.com/)

As the bluntly singing Lilly Allen laments:

“But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so f—king fantastic.”

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Ashton vs. Anderson: Ultimate Showdown

Looks like the Twitterati outdid one of – if not THE – world’s leading news agencies. Ashton Kutcher had a race on to beat down CNN by garnering a million Twitter followers before the media giant. Britney Spears – or at least her manager, Adam Leber – even tried to throw her hat in the ring, promising free Britney tickets for those who twittered about following Britney Spears. But with Ashton’s promises of a donation of 10,000 bednets (@ $10 each) to Malaria No More (they even feature Ashton’s Twitteriffic race on their home page) in support of Malaria Awareness Day (April 25th), which CNN countered with the same proposal. Too bad they didn’t have a delicious deal from EA Games on their side, promising the millionth Kutcher follower the entire set of 2009 EA Games – oh, and the fact that Kutcher promised he’d “Ding Dong Ditch” CNN founder Ted Turner’s house will filming in Atlanta next month. Kutcher quickly surpassed Spears’ number 2 position and flew neck and neck with CNN down until the final moments when Kutcher pulled ahead. Let’s just hope CNN decides to go through with their donation, even in light of their newsworthy loss.

Social media, bettering the world – one bednet (and/or video game) at a time.

To donate your own bednet for just $10, you can visit Malaria No More’s website. Small price to pay to save a life.

Twitter user? Follow Ashton Kutcher, CNN, Britney Spears, or even yours truly.

Best phrase ever.

Fail Whale.

Thank you, Twitter. 

 He even has a clothing line, score. Watch your back, Michael Kors.

Rumour has it…

that Madonna & Ed Hardy’s Christian Audiger will be making sweet sweet fashion amour, the result of which could be rather interesting.  Sticky & sweet skull tatoos, anyone?

Yay! Designer clothes even models can’t fit into…and yet I’m still hoping I can squeeze into them.

Sorry zeros, ones, and twos, seems like the in-humanly-impossibly proprotioned Barbie has just upped and stole y’all’s modeling contracts – she’s become the new object of adoration for Karl Lagerfeld; the House of Chanel designer is set to dress Barbie for her 50th anniversary. Is it pathetic that I’m jealous of a doll? Not with clothes like these.  Seriously, the worst accessory she has is her arm candy, and I don’t mean the pseudo-rocker gloves.

 

Check out pics of ol’ Barberlla at TrashbagAesthetics.

And so it begins…again.

Newest Half-Blood Prince trailer, courtesy of MTV. Via Youtube.

Grey’s on its deathbed?

Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzy Stevens

Reports from US Weekly have surfaced, corroborating the not unexpected statement that two of the original characters from ABC’s  cash-cow hit series, Grey’s Anatomy - Isobel “Izzy” Stevens played by Katherine Heigl, and George O’Malley, played by T.R. Knight - are set to leave the show this season. When asked whether or not Heigl and and Knight are poised to leave the show, James Pickens, Jr. (Chief of Surgery Dr. Richard Webber), told US Weekly that both are ready to move on to the next chapter.  At the current moment it seems that Grey’s storyline is prepped for the departure of Izzy Stevens, but US Weekly comments that a “source” says that Executive Producer & writer Shonda Rhimes and her team are working to find a plausible wrap for George O’Malley’s character that will ”leave the door open for him to come back someday.”  Heigl has already made a fairly successful jump to the silver screen, and is set to star in the upcoming flick “The Ugly Truth” alongside Gerard Butler, with a relase date of July 2009.

T.R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley

Heigl and Knight have been with Grey’s Anatomy since its launch in 2005; the series is now in its fifth season. These actors mark the second and third depature of first season characters on the show; many will remember Isaiah Washington’s (Dr. Preston Burke) end of tenure. Brought on at the end of season one, Kate Walsh’s major character, Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd left to star in a spin-off helmed by Rhimes: Private Practice. 

Grey’s has become a revolving door for lifeline characters: think Meredith’s mother and father, Izzy’s love Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan of impending Watchmen fame, who actually returned in the 5th season as a ghost), Alex Karev’s (Justin Chambers) infatuitious love Rebecca, and Dr. Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith), who writer’s used to flare up the sexual orientation of Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez).  Grey’s has started the trend of sliding down a slippery slope of introducing new main characters in an effort to keep the show afloat, yet in the process seems to be destroying any vestigate of creditability that they once had. We all pined away at the original Denny-Izzy-Alex love triangle, and sobbed alongside Izzy at Denny’s death, but having him return as a litterally tangible ghost that she find annoying? Way to ruin a brilliant piece of screen play. And the Erica Hahn / Callie Torres relationship – what a great way to break down some cultural barriers and bring the real world to TV – too bad ABC studio execs axed that storyline before it really had time to develop (so the word on the street goes). They let George’s storyline as a repeat intern die, never fully gained closure on the Izzy-George or Cristina-Burke flings, and have now taken away Cheif Resident & hard ass Miranda Bailey’s (Chandra Wilson) greatest asset – her quick wit, smart comments, and shut the front door before I make you stares, instead opting for her weepiness over children that seems to degrade her entire character (dying children is sad, of course!  but it’s not something I would imagine would completely strip her of her former self – she’s now someone completely different. 

Off-screen friends Heigl & O'Malley play on-screen pals Izzy & George

The revolving door started early on with now main-staples such as  Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) and Mark Sloan (Eric Dane), then started introducing even fresher blood in order to mix it up, such as Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh as main character Meredith Grey’s younger sibling), and Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), a new love interest for original cast member Dr. Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh). 

The depature of Heigl and Knight marks a dark day for Grey’s – with the show’s focal point of Meredith and Derek stuck in the same old song and dance, and the emotional unavailability of Yang, Karev, and Bailey (Chandra Wilson) only making a tiny bit of progress, how much more can the show squeeze out of its original characters? Arguably they are the driving force – we’ve stuck with this show since it started, following the story arc with the hope of a graceful finalé, but the same old rotation keeps getting drawn out. While the new characters may be the future lifeblood of the show, start shaking things up with the original characters, just a tad more - they started with Izzy – (potential SPOILER ALERT) –  it seems she has a brain tumor, but oh, wait, she’s leaving the show. Guess it takes an exit cue to bring the good TV.

Grey's Anatomy Original Cast

Blasphemy!

Rick Newman of Yahoo Finance posted this blashpemous little article about 15 companies that may be going out of business soon…including Chrysler, Six Flags, Sbarro, Blockbuster, Loehmann’s, and Sirius Satellite Radio.  It’s gonna be a sad day when we have to shut down pieces of our Americana – businesses arguably engrained into our culture. But let’s face the reality of it all, times are trying, and we can’t bail out everyone. At least most of these businesses have alternates: Chrysler has the other car makers,  Sbarro is just pizza (albeit good), Netflix is the new Blockbuster, and has been for quite a while, and there’s always XM radio. Six Flags – what’s the alternate, the Mouse House? And who’s gonna replace my Loehmann’s? TJ Maxx? I think not. Check out all of the predictions of who may or may not pull the plug.