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Ashley Graham wasn"t about to let Cheryl Tiegs" comments keep her from rocking the Oscar red carpet.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl stunned in a revealing red dress at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night, just a few days after Tiegs apologized for calling the size 14-16 model "unhealthy."
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"I don"t like that we"re talking about full-figured women because it"s glamorizing them because your waist should be smaller than 35 [inches]. That"s what Dr. Oz said, and I"m sticking to it," the 68-year-old former cover girl told E! News last week. "Her face is beautiful. But I don"t think it"s healthy in the long run."
After receiving backlash for her comments, Tiegs took to Twitter on Friday to offer "my sincere apologies to everyone I have hurt."
"I truly just want everyone to be healthy & happy," she added.
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Graham hasn"t responded to the comments, but certainly seemed happy as she posed for pics in her stunning custom Bao Tranchi dress. On Monday morning, the 28-year-old model recapped her glam night on Twitter.
"Bao Tranchi custom dress last night had me feeling like I was wearing a piece of art!" she wrote, adding the hashtag "#beautybeyondsize."
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Graham opened up to ET last August about the stigmas that come with being referred to as a "plus-sized" model.
"The things that I don"t necessarily like about it is all the negative stigmatisms that go with the word plus size -- you"re fat, you"re lazy, you have no drive, no determination, you"re constantly eating," she explained. "Honey, I work out. I work out three days a week. I lift. I do barre. I do it all. It"s the stereotypes. That"s what I really don"t like. I am me. Take it or leave it."
See more from the interview in the video below.
WATCH: Model Ashley Graham Isn"t a Fan of the Term "Plus Size": "I Am Me, Take It or Leave It"
Well, that was exciting. Going into yesterdays Oscars, most prognosticators were predicting and expecting The Revenant to win Best Picture it was a huge hit, took the BAFTA and the DGA (the guild that most often lines up with Best Picture), and was widely expected to win Best Actor and Best Director, which it did. Those that werent backing Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus film tended, like ourselves, to predict that The Big Short was best placed for the big prize, having taken the PGA Award.
But instead, in one of the more pleasing curveballs in recent Oscar memory, the Best Picture trophy went home to the makers of Spotlight, Tom McCarthys sober, understated drama about the Boston Globe reporters who helped reveal systematic cover-ups of child abuse in the Catholic Church in the city (and elsewhere). A few astute prognosticators had backed it (aided by its wins with the SAG), but not many, and given that before it won Best Picture last night, the film had only won one other award, even they must have been feeling shaky. So what happened? How did the dark horse triumph over its bigger competitors?
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Its a complicated question, but the simplest answer is: the preferential ballot. Introduced in 2009, the new system asked voters not just to pick their favorites, but to rank all of the Best Picture nominees (this year, from 1-8). If a movie gets over half of the first-choice votes, it wins, simply enough. But if no film has a majority, the movie with the least number of first choice picks (lets say for sake of argument this year that it was Bridge Of Spies) is eliminated.
The accountants then take all the ballots that had Bridge Of Spies in first, and redistribute them according to the second-place votes. Assuming no movie is now over the 50% barrier, the movie with the next fewest votes (Brooklyn, say) is eliminated, and their votes redistributed (If a Brooklyn ballot had Bridge Of Spies in second, they go by their third place vote). And so on and so forth. This video by The Wraps Steve Pond probably helps explain things better with some visual aids.
In general, it means that unless theres a runaway favorite and thats increasingly unlikely in an extended Best Picture field the system is skewed against divisive fare, and favors those that are consensus favorites, movies that might not have got the most first place votes, but stacked up plenty of second and third place ones as well.
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It was the logic that saw me predicting The Big Short the PGA are the only guilds who use the preferential ballot system but in the end it was Spotlight that benefited. And its not difficult to wonder why. The Revenant turned off as many as it turned on: for every person that found it bravura and powerful, there was another that saw empty showboating and b****y violence. Some loved flippant, fleet-footed take on a dense subject presented in "The Big Short," while others found it labored and uneven. But Spotlight felt widely loved, or at least widely liked: even those who didnt find it the best of the year respected the films understated tone and quiet emotion.
There were likely other things that helped it build up the broadest group of support. Actors are the largest branch of the Academy, and Spotlight is a movie with a large ensemble cast full of actors actors, long-serving, oft-undervalued character actor types. That factor also helped win it the SAG ensemble prize, and likely this that helped it vault over The Revenant (mostly a one-man show), and The Big Short, which also deploys a large cast, but one arguably more driven by big-name movie stars.
Oscar voters also often like a subject that makes them feel good for voting about it, and Spotlight tackles an important one. Whereas Room might have felt too bleak for some voters, for instance, McCarthys film has the right amount of uplift at the end, showing a shocking conspiracy but ultimately seeing it bested, and demonstrating the change that came from it. Like Schindlers List or 12 Years A Slave, which also grapple with difficult subject matter, theyre also stories of hope amidst inhumanity, and that plays well with voters. And thus, the quiet triumph of "Spotlight" resonated more than the revenge driven narrative of The Revenant (however much its filmmakers talk about climate change and highlighting indigenous peoples, they felt attached to the story rather than inherently part of it), or the more ambivalent conclusion of The Big Short, which ends with the corrupt institution essentially prevailing, and our "heroes" getting very rich off the misery of others.
All this presumably saw Spotlight topping plenty of ballots, but also crucially coming second, third or fourth on those that preferred other nominees. Its the same thing that ultimately benefited Argo, The Kings Speech, The Artist and more: the important thing to remember is that the Best Picture winner isnt the most liked film, but the film thats liked the most.
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"The Big Short" should have seen its stock rise higher.
As deserving as best picture winner "Spotlight" is for the honor, a good case could have been made to honor the dramedy about the 2008 financial crisis.
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Oscar-winning screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph managed to turn complex economic jargon and potentially unlikeable characters into an engaging, funny film. Academy voters should have invested themselves more heavily in a film that stands out for its originality.
Sylvester Stallone had been the heavy favorite going into the night for the best supporting actor nomination. But instead he was knocked out by underdog Mark Rylance"s witty, understated turn as a Russian spy in "Bridge of Spies."
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That"s a shame, because "Creed" works so well thanks to Stallone"s willingness to play his signature character, Rocky Balboa, with more vulnerability than we ever knew he could manage.
Actually, the biggest snub in the category happened a month and a half ago - back when the Oscar nominations first revealed that Idris Elba didn"t make the cut for his turn as a brutal African warlord in "Beasts of No Nation."
His omission may have been the most glaring example of the lack of diversity in the film business that inspired the #OscarsSoWhite movement. But just as likely it was a result of a different bias: industry insiders refusing to recognize a Netflix film when the streaming site is vexing traditional exhibitors.
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For the few who bothered to watch all five nominees in the live action short category, it"s (ahem) shocking that "Shok" didn"t win. It"s an emotionally devastating saga of two kids struggling to survive the Kosovo War that haunts viewers long past its 20-minute run time.
Not even this light-saber wielding nerd can argue that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" deserved a best picture nomination, but it"s glaring that the biggest box office hit in North American history couldn"t even get one measly statuette.
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With all due respect to the artisans who fueled "Mad Max: Fury Road," wasn"t there at least a sound mixing or sound editing Oscar to be shared? And did the clever indie "Ex Machina" really have better visual effects than the ones produced by the programmers who piloted the Millennium Falcon back to the big screen?
It"s another sign that the Academy doesn"t always appreciate the popcorn-flavored tastes of the ticket-buyers who subsidize their movies.
Disney and director J.J. Abrams, however, can console themselves by counting every dollar of the $2 billion the latest installment of the most powerful sci-fi franchise in the universe has grossed worldwide to date.
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NEW Raspberry Pi 3 - Quad-Core 1.2GHz, WiFi + Bluetooth!
Do you use the Raspberry Pi for a headless project, such as a media player, NAS server, seed box or security camera? If you do, then your Raspberry Pi is probably tucked away somewhere that"s not that easily accessible.
You can always log in to it remotely but how do you monitor it in real time? How do you know whether it"s overheating? Or running out of disk space? In this project, we"ll play G*d and make your Raspberry Pi self-aware, and give it the ability to communicate.
In more earthly terms, we"ll install the sendxmpp tool on the Raspberry Pi, which allows it to communicate via the popular XMPP messaging protocol. We will use this to send notifications to us via instant messages whenever a predetermined event is triggered.
First up, you"ll need to get a XMPP IM account for the Raspberry Pi. If you aren"t using a XMPP server already, you can register with any of the publicly listed XMPP servers. We"re using the Hot Chilli service, which gets a top-notch security rating from xmpp.net and allows you to register an account on the website itself.
Once you"ve registered an account for your Raspberry Pi, make sure you add it as a friend on your regular account, on which you want to receive notifications. Now log into the Raspberry Pi, update the repos and then download the sendxmpp tool with sudo apt-get install sendxmpp.
It"s a Perl script and will pull in the required Perl dependencies. When it"s installed, create a file named .sendxmpprc under your home directory with the credentials of the Raspberry Pi"s XMPP account, such as:
$ nano /.sendxmpprc
rpibot@jabber.hot-chilli.net my-secret-password
Remember to replace the username and password with the credentials for the account you registered for the Raspberry Pi. After saving the file, you can send a message with:
$ echo "Hi, this is Pi!" | sendxmpp -t geekybodhi@jabber.hotchilli.net
The above command sends a message from the Raspberry Pi to the XMPP ID specified with the -t option. Swap out the ID in the example above with your own XMPP ID. If you"re signed into your regular IM account, you"ll receive the greeting as a regular message from the Raspberry Pi"s XMPP account.
You can also pass output of Bash commands, such as:
This command queries the temperature sensors on the Raspberry Pi using the utilities installed by the raspberrypi-firmwaretools package, which we then pipe to our regular IM user.
You can use this statement to monitor the Raspberry Pi and send you an alert over IM when the temperature crosses a preset threshold. Copy the contents of file called status.sh (click the link to see the code). Then set a crontab entry by running crontab -e and entering the following line:
*/5 * * * * /status.sh
Here we are asking the Raspberry Pi to run the status.sh script every five minutes. Remember to change the location of the status.sh file to the location on your Raspberry Pi.
So what"s in the status.sh script? The script stores the temperature of the Raspberry Pi in a variable named "temp" after stripping out the verbose text and the decimal, because Bash can only handle integers.
The script then checks whether the value is greater than 40C, and if it is, alerts us with a message. You can extend this script to keep track of the goings-on in the Raspberry Pi. eg you can ask it to send you alerts whenever it finds a particular message in a log file, or whenever the status of a daemon changes.
The sendxmpp script helps you keep track of the activities on the Raspberry Pi however, you can"t act on them without logging in to the Raspberry Pi. But what if this isn"t possible?
What if you get a temperature warning from the Raspberry Pi monitoring your home while you"re away at work? Wouldn"t it be great if you could control the Raspberry Pi via messages as well?
The critically acclaimed, now Oscar-winning film The Big Short has helped form the impression among the American people that the private sector caused the financial crisis. But does this impression align with the facts? Is the 2008 crisis a relatively straightforward, moralistic tale of Wall Street greed and human foibles run amok? Or are government institutions and policies equally or more to blame?
I lay it all out for you in the below video, reThink The Big Short and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Take a look.
Severina - Brad Pitt Does Mike Tyson have a grudgeagainst Brad Pitt? Thirty years after Mike caughtBrad with his ex, Robin Givens, the boxer dishedthe juicy story about the awkward encounter. Watch Miketell ithere and see what he thinks of Brad!
Brad Pitt, 52, made quite the interesting first impression on Mike Tyson, and the 49-year-old boxer is finally opening up about it. When Mike was in the midst of his divorce from Robin Givens in the 80s, he ran into Bradright before the actor and his ex were about to hook up! So is Mike still bitter about catching Brad withRobin? Let him tell you!
Mike was asked to spill the beans on his awkward run-in with Brad when he appeared on The Real, and he was clearly not prepared to do so. After some deep breaths, he gathered exactly what he wanted to say while still keeping his dignity!I didnt really catch them in the act, maybe right before the act, he admitted. Ironically, Mike was trying toget some with Robin when the whole thing went down, which couldnt have made things any easier to take in!
The pro boxerexplained that he stopped by the house he and Robin shared for one last rump session before they finalized things with their divorce lawyers. But apparently, Robin wasnt on the same page as Mike, because she already had Brad lined up for her booty call!
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AlthoughMike was probably pretty disturbed in the moment, hes clearly over it now.He was practically like a comedian while he was telling the story! Plus, Mikecouldnt help admitting that while Brad was a little loopy during their encounter, hes actually a really nice guy. He didnt mention whether hes seen Brad since, but he holds no grudges against the star so Bradcan rest assured thatMikedoesnt want to take him down!
What do you think of Mikes story, HollywoodLifers? Are you surprised he still likes Brad after catching him with Robin? Tell us below!
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Consider it brung, Oscar watchers.
Olivia Wilde simply killed it in super-sexy Valentino on Sunday night.
"The dress is always the inspiration. That"s where we draw our inspiration," says her makeup artist, Melanie Inglessis, who used all Revlon on the actress, who"s a spokeswoman for the brand.
Wilde attended the ceremony with her partner, Jason Sudeikis. "We just wanted to go for a soft, beautiful, ethereal look. Olivia is just really cool. She"s modern. That"s always what you have to take into consideration," says Inglessis.
In person, Wilde is attentive, quick-witted and deeply interested in the world around her. She"s the same with her glam squad. "With her, it"s easy, because she"s my friend. It"s not stressful. It"s super chill. It"s about two hours before she walks out. i like to prepare her skin and do an eye mask. We play a little music. We have some nibbles," says Inglessis.
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And she gets her client ready to do her own touch ups. But how is that possible, given the tiny clutches all actresses carry? "It"s a problem. I can"t lie," says Inglessis, who puts key products into a small baggie. "I leave pressed powder, lip liner, lip balm and a concealer. They can leave their bag in their car. It depends on the size of the clutch but they can put lipstick in there."
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