Friday, February 5, 2016

Kylie Jenner Unveils New Kylie Lip Kit Color Arriving in Time for Valentine"s Day


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Lip kit mania! Kylie Jenner gave fans a sneak peek at her latest Lip Kit color and it isn"t a sepia tone!

As part of a livestream on her website, Thekyliejenner.com, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 18, introduced a brand-new berry shade of matte gloss and liner much different than the nudes and browns of her first line. The new Kylie Lip Kits will be added online in February.

"I"m going to show you guys my new color for Valentine"s Day," she starts out on the stream, as she paints a swatch of the raspberry hue on her hand. "It is so pretty."

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Jenner then proceeds to try out the shade on her lips. "Creamy," she notes. She says that the newest edition feels better than the originals, thanks to a brand-new "exclusive formula."

Another hue, which her friend Jordyn calls "Cocoa" in the background, is referenced in the video, but we"ll have to wait to see this one. "You guys can"t see this color, "cause it"s a secret, Jenner teases.

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Jenner assures fans who were left empty handed after the kits sold out online that she"ll be more prepared this time around. "I"m sorry, you guys are just so amazing and you keep buying them," she says. "But I"m making a whole lot more so that I can always be stocked up!"

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Bernie Madoff: After the Fall Part 3


Richard Dreyfuss on Playing Bernie Madoff

Transcript for Bernie Madoff: After the Fall Part 3

Reporter: High in his penthouse apartment under house arrest, Bernie Madoff was barricaded from the press and isolated. Both his sons cut off contact with their father, as Stephanie told us in 2011. He was so furious with Bernie that he didn"t want to talk to him ever again. Reporter: And when Ruth decided to stick by her husband, that loyalty was a betrayal to mark. He was very conflicted when it came to his mom. He couldn"t bring himself to see her, because he couldn"t understand how she could -- continuously stand by this man who ruined so many lives. Reporter: His bewilderment only grew when a bizarre gift arrived. A large envelope addressed by Ruth with no return address. He just puts his head down, and he just starts to cry. He"s like, "They"re all my father"s watches." And in the envelope were about 11 to 13 of Bernie"s super-fancy watches. And then, he said, look what you got. And it"s this five-foot long diamond chain necklace. Reporter: The package contained over $1 million in jewelry sent, uninsured, by regular mail. They immediately turned it over to the authorities. Again, Bernie and Ruth were putting us in jeopardy. Reporter: On the day Bernie got sentenced, mark refused to watch the news. Mark said, you know, that"s what he should get. He destroyed, you know, our family. He should go to jail for the rest of his life. Reporter: Even behind bars, he was still filled with bravado, writing to Stephanie about his life in prison. As you can imagine, I am quite the celebrity, and am treated like a mafia don. They call me either uncle Bernie or Mr. Madoff. I can"t walk anywhere without someone shouting their greetings and encouragement, to keep my spirit up. Reporter: When Stephanie read that letter, she was outraged by his hubris. Smoking p****d, and sick to my stomach. Reporter: As for mark, he was trying to find work, but the Madoff name was toxic on wall Street. Nobody wanted any part of him, and that was very hurtful to him, because these were guys who had looked up to him and respected him. Reporter: After months of struggling with anxiety and depression, he tried to commit suicide, leaving these bitter words for his father -- Now you know how you have destroyed the lives of your sons by your life of deceit. Reporter: That failed suicide attempt was a turning point for mark and Stephanie. We made a commitment to each other again. This was not going to rule our lives anymore. Reporter: For awhile, it seemed that life was slowly going back to Normal. Stephanie, now a mother of two, was studying to become a family counselor. Mark got a job working for a real estate newsletter. He would come home from work every day happy. And I -- you know, it was the mark I knew. I was getting him back, you know? He wasn"t being brought down by all this c**p that had been thrown his way. Reporter: But on the second anniversary of the arrest, a devastating turn. Stephanie was on a trip with her mother and 4-year-old daughter. I got a text from mark saying that the trustee had just sued my 4 and1/2-year-old daughter for $11,000 that Bernie and Ruth had gifted her. And I just, I was furious for that moment being ruined again for me yet again by what Bernie Madoff had done. Reporter: Mark was completely unhinged by the lawsuit. I saw my husband fall down that same rabbit hole again. I texted him, enough, like, enough of this. You have to stop letting them beat you up. I can"t take this anymore. Reporter: Neither could mark. And when she woke up the next morning, he had sent her two cryptic e-mails during the night. The first one was, in the subject line, said, "Help." In all caps. And the contents said, "Please send someone to cake of nick." The next one said in the subject line, "I love you." I just knew in my gut that something was wrong, something was very, very wrong. Reporter: The shame of being a Madoff had finally overcome his will to live. With his 2-year-old son, nick, in the next room, he hanged himself from a beam in the apartment. I had such rage. I had such anger, in that moment, such anger at Bernie Madoff. Such anger at Ruth Madoff. And such anger at my husband, at that time, for leaving me. Reporter: Mark left no farewell note for his parents. My husband felt very abandoned by his mom. And he just never got over the fact that she chose Bernie Madoff over her son. Reporter: After mark"s death, Bernie wrote to Stephanie, saying, "I blame myself for everything that has happened and nothing will ever change this." P.s. Stephanie, Ruth has little to live for other than our family. It was very difficult to give me up after a life of 55 years together, which she now has done. I hope you can share each other"s love. So narcissistic. Reporter: The life once brimming with promise on her wedding day was now replaced by bittersweet memories and questions. All those same people out there who think my house was part of his father"s crimes, you know, claim that he killed himself because he must have known something and that couldn"t be further from the truth. My husband"s death was only proof of his pain. Reporter: To protect her children, she changed their family name. Today, Stephanie is no longer a Madoff. I feel sad for him, about all the things he"s missing with nick and Audrey. Every day, they do something that I know he would find hilarious. I will never let it define my two children for the rest of their lives. Have I forgiven yet? No. I hate Bernie Madoff. If I saw Bernie Madoff right now, I would tell him that I hold him fully responsible for killing my husband. And I"d spit in his face.

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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/bernie-madoff-fall-part-36725145

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Richard Dreyfuss On Life And Bernie Madoff


How Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick Survived Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme

February 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM

Richard Dreyfuss On Life And Bernie Madoff

Actor Richard Dreyfuss joins us on his new role as Ponzi scheme villain Bernie Madoff and a career of being Dreyfuss.

Richard Dreyfuss as financier and Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff in a scene from the ABC mini-series Madoff,.Eva Kaminsky/ABC)

Bernie Madoff was the biggest swindler with the biggest Ponzi scheme in American history. Now hes in prison but back in the public eye in a new made-for-TV drama, played by one of the longest-running marquee names in Hollywood. Actor Richard Dreyfuss made his name as the star of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Hollands Opus and more. Now hes Madoff. And with us. This hour On Point, actor Richard Dreyfuss on a life in film, and the Bernie Madoff story.

Tom Ashbrook

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Keri Geiger, reporter on the financial investigations team at Bloomberg News. (@GeigerWire)

Richard Dreyfuss, Oscar-winning film and television actor. He stas in the new ABC mini-series, Madoff. Known for his roles in Jaws, American Graffiti, Mr. Hollands Opus, The Goodbye Girl and many more. (@richarddreyfuss)

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NPR News:Richard Dreyfuss: Like It Or Not, Theres A Bit Of Bernie Madoff In All Of Us If you know the story, you cant really pull for him. If you dont know the whole story, youre taken by his charm. He has to be a guy who you really like or else he wouldnt have been successful, you know, taking your money. Everyone liked him until they hated him.

New York Times:In Madoff, What He Was Thinking What the production lacks in moral dimension or psychological acuity it occasionally makes up for in entertainment value. The first night, especially, offers some snappy comedy as it delineates how Mr. Madoff and a few trusted employees carried out their titanic fraud under the noses of the rest of his firms employees, including his two sons.

The Atlantic:ABCs Madoff Is a Bad Investment Madoff keeps things oddly light-hearted, considering the weight of the ex-financiers crimes. To be sure, Dreyfuss excels at disguising Bernies worst traits beneath an avuncular, if tetchy, public persona. But the show is overlong at four hours, and only really at its best when its focusing on the mechanics of the biggest financial fraud in American history.

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Source: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/04/richard-dreyfuss-bernie-madoff-miniseries

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Let George Clooney show you the right way to wear all black


George Clooney on Working with the Coen Brothers

At the premiere for the new Coen Brothers movie "Hail Caesar", George Clooney wore his favorite get-up of late: the all-black suit with accompanying black turtleneck.

To the occasional passerby, this outfit may seem too one-dimensional every single item, including the shoes, is black! They aren"t even different shades of gray, but a deep, black color.

Why does it this work? Look closely, and you"ll see where the mastery lies:

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You see, Clooney has been doing this for a long time. And with that experience comes this wisdom: every guy looks sharp in black, especially a man with salt-and-pepper hair and Amal Clooney on his arm.

The all-black works because of the different fabrics and weaves used in the turtleneck sweater and suit, which breaks up the silhouette just enough so that Clooney doesn"t look like a blob of black. If he was wearing a black shirt and tie, it would be far too much the same.

Let"s take it from the top:

  • Clooney"sblack turtleneck sweater is very trendy right now. This gives him a distinguished look without giving off the air that he dressed up unnecessarily.
  • His pants are a little long for our taste, but they"re classic, and Clooney is nothing if not a classic. They match the jacket, and that"s what matters.
  • The patent black shoes add a sheen to the entire outfit.

Paired with Amal"s white-and-red floral dress and silver heels, they seem to have won the red carpet of one the biggest movie openings of the year so far.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-dresses-in-all-black-right-2016-2

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Johnny Manziel is dropped by his agent after latest incident


Michael Irvin Says Jerry Jones Can Save Johnny Manziel

Johnny Manziel likely will be cut by the Cleveland Browns next month. If and when that happens, the quarterback"s search for a new team will take place without the help of agent Erik Burkhardt, who announced Friday he"s dropping Manziel as a client.

"It is with deep regret that, after several emotional and very personal discussions with his family, his doctors and my client himself, I have made the decision to terminate my professional relationship with Johnny Manziel," Burkhardt said in a statement.

"Though I will remain a friend and Johnny supporter, and he knows I have worked tirelessly to arrange a number of professional options for him to continue to pursue, it has become painfully obvious that his future rests solely in his own hands. His family and I have gone to great lengths to outline the steps we feel he must take to get his life in order. Accountability is the foundation of any relationship, and without it, the function of my work is counterproductive.

"I truly wish the best for Johnny and sincerely hope he can, and will, find the kind of peace and happiness he deserves."

Ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley accused Manziel of striking her several times last weekend. The Fort Worth and Dallas police departments have closed their investigation of the alleged incident without charging Manziel with any crime.

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Manziel denied assaulting Crowley during an interview with TMZ.

Earlier this week, the Browns released a statement indicating they will release the first-round pick from 2014 once they can make roster moves in March.

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Source: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-johnny-manziel-agent-20160205-story.html

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Massive crane collapses in New York City


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NEW YORK -- One person died and two others were seriously injured when a crane collapsed in Lower Manhattan during a snow squall Thursday, smashing the roofs of parked cars as it crashed onto the street, authorities said. Another person has minor injuries.

"It was something of a miracle that there wasn"t more impact," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference.

De Blasio said that the collapse happened as crews were lowering the crane into a secure position because wind speeds were above 20 mph. He said people were being directed away from the area as the crane was being moved.

The collapsed red boom of the mobile crane landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block after the accident, which occurred around 8:25 a.m. in the Tribeca neighborhood, about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.

Emergency crews survey a massive construction crane collapse on a street in downtown Manhattan in New York Feb 5, 2016.

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"It felt like a bomb," a woman told CBS New York station WCBS-TV.

"It was right outside my window," said Robert Harold, who works at the Legal Aid Society. "It was a crashing sound. You could feel the vibration in the building. I looked out the window and saw it lying in the street."

Harold said at least one person was trapped in a car and he saw onlookers trying to get the person out. Harold said he also saw a person lying motionless on the street.

Emergency crews survey a massive construction crane collapse on a street in lower Manhattan in New York Feb. 5, 2016.

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The crane"s long boom appeared to have glanced off buildings on the way down. There was damage on a nearby roof and the street was littered with chunks of concrete and wood.

Bride-to-be Nesh Pillay, 25, is assisted by New York City firefighter Chaplain Ann Mansfield after a crane collapsed near the beauty salon where she was having her hair done in downtown Manhattan in New York Feb. 5, 2016.

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The crawler crane"s big cab lay upside down in the snow with its tank tracks pointed at the sky. Red metal from the boom jutted up in an intersection next to a green street sign for the Brooklyn Bridge.

De Blasio said there have been gas leaks as the result of the collapse. He said gas has been shut off in buildings around the area. Fire Department and crews from the utility Consolidated Edison have been sweeping the area every 15 minutes to make sure it"s safe.

New York police Sgt. Bob Ganley, vice president of the Sergeant"s Benevolent Association, said the group"s office is right in front of where the crane fell.

"Yesterday, I was speaking to somebody, and I said, "Wow that would be devastating if that ever came down,"" Ganley told CBS New York station WINS-AM.

The fire department was tweeting pictures from the scene.

The crane is owned by Bay Crane. CBS New York station WCBS-AM called the company, and the person who answered the phone gave no comment.

The street was blocked off for at least 3 blocks and nearby buildings were evacuated. Officers told people arriving for work they should go home.

Subway trains bypassed the area and local roads were closed.

The fire department said that around 140 firefighters responded to the scene.

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What Hail, Caesar! could have been


Hail, Caesar! - Movie Review

Hail, Caesar! is the kind of film that gets described by critics often affectionately as a "love letter" to something (in this case, Hollywood in the early 1950s). But here"s the thing about love letters: Reading someone else"s tends to be a little boring. Creators Joel and Ethan Coen clearly love this distinct era in Hollywood history. What Hail, Caesar! fails to do is say anything meaningful about it.

If it seems like I"m being unduly hard on Hail, Ceasar!, it"s only because the Coen brothers" filmography is so uncommonly strong that they need to be graded on a sharp curve. So let"s start with the Consumer Reports logline of any movie review: Should you see Hail, Caesar!?

Of course. It"s a new Coen brothers movie. Even if it wasn"t, this is February; the only other movies opening wide this weekend are The Choice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

But while there"s not a single Coen brothers movie I"d recommend skipping no, not even Intolerable Cruelty or The Ladykillers it"s worth tempering your expectations for Hail, Caesar!, which cheerfully skims on the surface while hinting at the more pointed, focused, and profound movie it could have been.

In the broadest strokes, Hail, Caesar! follows Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), employed by the fictional Capitol Pictures, over the course of one extremely eventful day. The studio"s biggest star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) has vanished in the middle of a key shooting day. A dim-bulb western star (Alden Ehrenreich) has been cast in a melodrama, and his skills aren"t translating at all, to the great irritation of his foppish director (Ralph Fiennes). An Esther Williams-esque actress (Scarlett Johansson) is pregnant out of wedlock. Eddie is tasked with fixing each of these problems, and doing it quietly enough that it doesn"t end up in the tabloids (written by dueling gossip columnists, both played by Tilda Swinton). And on top of that, Eddie is mulling a job offer from Lockheed that would make him much richer and add some stability to his life but without the daily zaniness of his work in the movie business.

In case that plot summary isn"t clear enough, I"ll make it plain: Hail, Caesar! is absurdly overstuffed with characters and subplots. I haven"t even mentioned the communist scheme to kidnap Baird Whitlock, or Channing Tatum"s big dance number, or the weird little one-off cameo roles for actors like Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill, Alison Pill, and Christopher Lambert. The Coens have pulled this kind of thing off before The Big Lebowski is basically 117 straight minutes of wacky digressions but Hail, Caesar! is shakier from its first frame to its last.

The good news for Coen brothers fans is that Hail, Caesar! is basically an amalgam of everything they"ve fixated on over the course of their careers. The bad news is that they"ve handled all of those things with more grace and depth before. The Big Lebowski is a better Los Angeles shaggy dog story. The Hudsucker Proxy is a wittier screwball comedy. Barton Fink is a sharper, brainier Hollywood satire. A Serious Man is a more insightful look at a man grappling with religion. And the same problem extends to Hail, Caesar!"s roster of stars; Brolin, Clooney, Johansson, and Swinton appeared in at least one of the Coens" previous films, and were invariably better.

At the end of Hail, Caesar!, what you"re left with is a sense of the deep and abiding affection the Coens have for this particular era in Hollywood history. The film works best in individual scenes, when the Coens abandon their gossamer-thin plot and deliver their own microcosms of the movies that inspired Hail, Caesar!: a beautifully choreographed synchronized swimming routine for Scarlett Johansson; a wonderfully cheesy black hat/white hat western for Alden Ehrenreich; and most of all, the long, Gene Kelly-esque song-and-dance routine performed by Channing Tatum, which has basically nothing to do with the story, and is easily the film"s best scene.

All of that is fine for what it is but there are hints that Hail, Caesar! used to be a weightier movie, or at least a more focused one. It was originally teased as a 1920s-set movie focused on Clooney"s character. The switch to a 1950s Hollywood fixer seems to have been a later evolution of the story, and it probably stemmed from the Coens" real-life interest in the era; unlike the rest of the fictionalized pastiche characters in the film, Brolin"s Eddie Mannix is named after (and purportedly based on) the real-life studio fixer of the same name.

Hail, Caesar!"s Eddie Mannix does bear a passing resemblance to the real-life Mannix, who was also a devout Catholic and an all-around fixer for a major studio. But the real-life Mannix was also a nastier figure. Yes, he was skilled at burying actors" PR snafus: benders and car wrecks and unplanned pregnancies. But he also buried more horrific scandals most notably, the horrific smearing of a woman who was raped at an MGM party, whose story Mannix successfully buried for more than 60 years.

In Hail, Caesar!, the Coens simply aren"t interested in engaging with the darker reality of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s. This candy-coated version bears so little resemblance to the real world that I"m baffled by the decision to name Brolin"s protagonist after the real-life Mannix, which can only invite this kind of scrutiny.

And that leaves little choice but to judge the film for what it is saying. To really appreciate what Hail, Caesar! is doing, you have to look beyond the reality of Hollywood and move to the next layer: Hollywood"s movies about Hollywood. To my mind, the key to Hail, Caesar! is one of the Coens" own acknowledged favorites: Preston Sturges" 1941 comedy Sullivan"s Travels, which offers a similarly sprightly tribute to Hollywood. In that film, protagonist John Sullivan (Joel McCrea) a Hollywood director known for his goofy comedies becomes obsessed with making a movie that will offer "a true canvas of the suffering of humanity," which he plans to call O Brother, Where Art Thou?. (That title, of course, should sound awfully familiar to Coen fans.)

In the end, Sullivan realizes that his goofy comedies can do more to staunch humankind"s suffering than any straight-faced drama. "There"s a lot to be said for making people laugh," he concludes. "Did you know that that"s all some people have? It isn"t much but it"s better than nothing in this c**k-eyed caravan." It"s a lesson the Coens seem to have built into the DNA of Hail, Caesar!, which gets plenty of laughs without a lot to say. And if that"s the case, I"m inclined to agree: It isn"t much but it"s better than nothing.

Source: http://theweek.com/articles/603421/what-hail-caesar-could-have-been

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