Bella Thorne shows off her toned stomach as she promotes Ratchet And Clank

Bella Thorne, Zendaya - Fashion Is My Kryptonite (from "Shake It Up: Made in Japan")

She works hard at the gym to get her figure in such great shape.

And Bella Thorne opted for a revealing white b**b tube that showed off her toned stomach as she promoted her new film on Thursday.

The 18-year-old was in Miami, Florida, for morning showDespierta Americato chat about animated movie, Ratchet And Clank, with hosts Karla Martinex and Alejandro Chaban.

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Heating things up: Bella Thorne showed off her toned and taut tummy when she appeared onUnivision"s morning show Despierta America, in Miami, Florida, on Thursday

The Spanish-language show is aimed at the country"s Latin community.

That was no problem for the young star as she was brought up in a Spanish-speaking family and only dropped the language to concentrate on English when she went to school.

The beautiful red-head teamed her top with black high-waisted trousers that had a cute red sequin heart, pierced with an arrow, sewn on the side.

And she boosted her 5ft 8ins with stunningly high-heeled strappy shoes in black with white spots.

Rear-ly cute view: The 18-year-old was on the show to talk about upcoming animated film, Ratchet And Clank

Fashion forward: The teen star teamed her b**b tube with blacktrousers that had a cute red sequin heart sewn on the side. And she boosted her 5ft 8ins with stunningly high-heeled strappy shoes in black with white spots

In Ratchet And Clank, based on the video game, Bella voices Galactic Ranger Cora, joining a host of stars in the sci-fi space adventure including Sylvester Stallone, John Goodman, Paul Giamatti and Rosario Dawson.

The movie is due out on April 29 and it"s just one of the 11 projects the busy star has going this year.

On Wednesday she took to Instagram to confirm that she is set to appear in coming-of-age movie Be Here Now, which has yet to reveal its cast.

Sofa so good: Bella enjoyed a chat with host Despierta America Karla Martinez. The show is aimed at the country"s Spanish speakers and, fortunately, that includes the young star

Selfie time: The beautiful redhead smiled as co-hostAlejandro Chaban snapped away

She hinted at their identities on Instagram, saying: "So happy to get to work with amazing people from beautiful films like the Hurt locker, and Dallas buyers club ..and so many other greats."

And on Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that her new TV series, Famous In Love, has been picked up by Disney-owned cable network Freeform, formerly known as ABC Family.

Based on the Rebecca Serle novel, Bella plays college student Paige who is picked from obscurity for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and undeniable chemistry with her two co-leads.

Movie co-stars: Bella cuddled up to Ratchet, voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the movie, at Wondercon in Los Angeles on March 25

Coming soon: She playsGalactic Ranger Cora in Ratchet And Clank, due out on April 29

As if that wasn"t enough, Bella proudly took to Instagram on Thursday to post her cover shot on Marie Claire Indonesia.

She captioned it: "So excited for this !!! Thank you guys so much. I would never have thought I would be on a cover of @marieclairemag and it"s all thanks to you guys who have loved me and supported me.

"Thank you so much. I love all you little bunnies and thank you @marieclaireindonesia."

"So excited for this!!!": The beauty took to Instagram on Thursday to post this cover shot from Marie Claire Indonesia, saying, "It"s all thanks to you guys who have loved me and supported me"

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3528832/Bella-Thorne-shows-toned-stomach-b**b-tube-promotes-new-film-Ratchet-Clank.html

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The Zipless, First-Person Violence of Hardcore Henry

Hardcore Henry | Official Trailer | STX Entertainment
The movies hyperkinetic action was shot using tiny GoPros.Credit STX Entertainment / Courtesy Everett

Raised from a watery chamber resembling a womb, Henry, a full-grown man, looks out on the world as if for the first time. Viewers see Henrys world through his own eyes (which is how all of Hardcore Henry is made), and his prospects seem circumscribed. Henry finds himself in a hospital-like setting; hes unable to speak, and hes missing an arm and a leg. In short order, however, a medical professional named Estelle (Haley Bennett) fits him with high-tech prostheses, which she snaps into place, attaches to his body, and covers with a coating of his own skin. Henry is also suffering from memory loss, and Estelle reminds him of one detail: theyre husband and wife.

When armed invaders breach the operating room, Henry discovers what Estelle already knewthat theyre someplace in the sky, inside an airplaneand husband and wife clamber through vents to reach a conveniently located escape pod. The pod jettisons them down to the middle of a highway in the vicinity of Moscow, where their newfound safety is quickly dispelled by the impact of an oncoming S.U.V. The action alone, at least early in the film, partakes of the inventive movie heroism of the ridiculous sublime, but unfortunately, like the escape pods themselves, the story has nowhere to go from those initial heights but down.

Because the cameras (mainly tiny GoPros) that record the action are affixed to a helmet-like mount at the level of Henrys mouth, even the simplest of running strides is hyperkinetic. The violence that Henry deals and endures (and Henry is, throughout the film, played by a varied range of stunt specialists) has a jagged, flash-frame-like rapidity that quickly grows as familiar as an ache, and elicits not excitement or fascination but a distracted curiosity around the edgesas, for instance, in the fish-eye effect featured in almost every shot, which bends the firm verticals of walls and trees and lamp poles into ludicrously supple arcs.

But I digress. Henry, not just car-smashed but under armed assault at ground level, is rescued by the gruffly chipper Jimmy (Sharlto Copley), who puts him in a car, takes him for a ride, and discloses to him the cyborgian terms of survival. Henry needs a battery charge (hes got a couple of sockets in his chest and Jimmy has a couple of plugs in his glove compartment), but new mayhem gets in the way. Henry, armed and possessed with superhuman strength and accuracy, copiously sheds the blood of the attackers and makes another escape.

Jimmy turns out to be a sort of shape-shifter (its the one plot device of admirable ingenuity), and his forms and styles lend the movie its one comic sidebar and antic diversion; Copley appears to be having a good time delivering the requisite mimicry. Meanwhile, theres an evil mastermind behind these attacksan affected, orotund blond beast named Akan (Danila Kozlovsky), whose unexplained telekinetic powers make for some brief touches of gestural majesty that hardly compensates for their gratuitousness. But then, gratuitous is this movies very stock in trade, and most of it relates to blood and s*x.

Counting up the assailants that Henry and Jimmy dispatch to the beyond would be like counting flies in a slaughterhouse, and the movie depicts their deaths with a comparable indifferenceusually with a b****y splat, except when some special grotesquery of a shattered brainpan or a hacked carotid proves unavoidable or irresistible. And since the movie is shot entirely from Henrys point of view, it delivers the dubious delight of doing that killing while conveying virtually none of the danger that Henry himself facesdespite depicting the horde of assailants and even the shuddering force of their attacks. Even though, within the vague rules of the deadly game, Henry isnt invulnerable, his rounds of mass mayhem are nearly ziplesspure, disinterested, mechanical fun, if thats your idea of fun.

The curses and epithets fly throughout, but the worst that anyone (a man) reserves for anyone else (a man) is p***y, and the director, Ilya Naishuller, makes clear his fine opinion of womanhood throughoutnot least, in a long, lurid, and ultimately gory sequence that takes place in a brothel, where he just happens to propel Henry into room after room of red-lit, pneumatic action featuring throngs of t*****s women servicing their male clients. When the gunplay starts, it gives the women just enough of a chance to run around in front of Henry as he makes his way back through the chambers, so that the display of flesh can be doubled in length.

Yet even this sideshow cant top the ending, which I wont spoil, although its pretty rotten in itself. Suffice it to say that, somewhere late in the film, theres an act of violence by a man against a woman that plays onscreen like the kind of revenge that, the director seems to imagine, the movies male viewers have long dreamed of inflicting on the women in their lives or in their fantasies.

The movie is shot on location in Moscow, but there isnt much of the city on view in the darting camera work. There are the subtlest hints of political dismay in glimpses of the casual corruption of the police, whether at a traffic stop, in a request for a light for a cigarette, or in a sexual attack on a womanand, for that matter, in the casual anarchy of the story itself, a macabre series of mass killings that the authorities seem to have no awareness of and no ability to stop.

Some of the stunt work is remarkableIm thinking especially of a parkour scene that leads from a basement through a park to a bridge, as well as a highway car chase in which a motorcycle, with sidecar, is driven into, through, and out of a fast-moving vanbut the movies hyperactive thrills are very quickly dispelled not merely by their quantity, by the numbing amount of stakes-free violence, and by the combatants monotonously undetailed and stultified world but, above all, by the absence of direction. Thats why the best moments in the filmthe ones that capture some of the choreographic delights of stunt work and give the action a tinge of psychological resonance and personal implicationare those in which Henry isnt a participant but a mere spectator, in which Jimmy does the fighting or, for that matter, does an unexpected bit of musical comedy. The rest of the time, the first-person perspective flattens and dulls the experience. Theres no I in its eye.

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Source: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-zipless-first-person-violence-of-hardcore-henry

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Mr. Met claims he was snubbed by Mets, who denied the beloved mascot a National League Championship ring

"We Didn"t Start The Fire" l 2016 New York Mets Season Preview

Mr. Met wants his ring.

Longtime Mets mascot Steven Boldis was with the team through thick and thin over the past 15 years 12 of which he spent as the teams nationally loved mascot.

But when NL Championship rings were handed out to most everyone involved with the organization on Thursday amazin"ly Boldis was left stranded on base.

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Boldis last day of work with the team was Nov. 2, 2015, when the Kansas City Royals came from behind to beat the home team and claim the World Series title at Citi Field. Having left his job with the Mets for a construction gig in the offseason, Boldis wasnt in Kansas City on Sunday where, as luck would have it, the Mets opened the 2016-2017 season and suffered the indignation of watching the Royals receive their World Series bling. But sources tell us that he was hoping to be in a celebratory mood on Thursday when the Mets returned home and received their NL championship rings, which are made up of 110 diamonds and 42 sapphires that spell out the Mets NY logo.

Boldis good pal Keith Collins, a Mets fan and actor whose credits include The Jersey Devil, says it"s an outrage that Mr. Met doesn"t have a ring on his finger.

I was enraged when he told me he didnt have a ring, Collins told the News. Im more upset about it than he is. Everybody gets one! Even the grounds crew. He was there until the end of the season then after the series ended he resigned. There were no bad feelings. It was just time. There were players who got traded and still got rings.

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A rep for the Mets tells the Daily News that Mr. Met didnt pay his dues.

The organization created and distributed more than 750 rings. There were specific criteria for part-time and per diem employees related to hours worked last season, according to a Mets spokesperson. He worked approximately half of the required hours last season, did not meet the criteria, and as such did not receive a ring.

Boldis couldn"t be reached for comment.

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Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mr-met-claims-mets-snubbed-denying-ring-article-1.2593971

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Un juez determin que Meadow Walker ser indemnizada con poco ms de 10 millones de dlares por parte de la familia Rodas.

Segn El Pas, Meadow recibir esta cantidad como compensacin del accidente en el que su padre Paul Walker perdi la vida, reconociendo que el conductor Roger Rodas tuvo algo de responsabilidad.

Sin embargo, los abogado de la joven de 17 aos no estn conformes con los resultados.

"La cantidad pagada por la sucesin de Roger Rodas al fideicomiso de Meadow Walker solo cubre una fraccin de lo que su padre pudo haber ganado como una estrella de cine internacional, si su vida no hubiese acabado trgicamente", dijo Jeff Milam, abogado de Meadow, a travs de un comunicado.

"A travs de la sucesin del seor Rodas, el conductor del auto, asumi responsabilidad parcial por el accidente".

Hace unos das, un juez de Los ngeles dictamin que la muerte del actor, el pasado 30 de noviembre de 2013, no fue por causas de defectos del fabricante de automviles Porsche.

Maneja Walker a toda velocidad

Entretanto, ayer se difundi un video en el que aparece Paul Walker al volante de un auto deportivo manejando a gran velocidad.

Un sueo hecho realidad que no puedo expresar con palabras, se escucha decir al actor al momento de manejar un Nissan GT-R de 600 caballos de fuerza cuando visit, en Japn, a Mine"s Motor Sport, una firma japonesa dedicada a preparar y mejorar el rendimiento de autos deportivos.

Fue GT Channel quien encontr este video de hace 5 aos, donde el auto que manejaba el actor de Rpidos y Furiosos acelera de 0 a 100 km/h en 3,5 segundos y tiene 315 km/h de velocidad mxima.

Source: http://www.am.com.mx/2016/04/08/espectaculos/meadow-walker-recibe-10-millones-por-muerte-de-su-papa-275273

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Teen Charged With Murder in Killing of University of Texas Freshman Haruka Weiser

Dancer Haruka Weiser Identified as University of Texas Murder Victim

A 17-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of University of Texas freshman Haruka Weiser, police said Friday.

Haruka Weiser is seen in photos from Facebook.

The suspect, identified as Meechaiel Criner, had been taken to a youth homeless shelter by police Monday after he was found at the scene of a trash fire near campus, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters Friday.

The fire occurred a day before the victims body was discovered.

Weisers body was found around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a creek near the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, on the university campus in Austin, not far from the schools football stadium, officials said.

Investigators dont have a clue what the motive was for the homicide, Acevedo said.

No parent should ever have to bury a child, especially a beautiful young woman like Haruka, with such a beautiful spirit, the police chief said.

The arrest came after Austin firefighters alerted police about the small fire, which involved a book bag that may have contained some of Weisers belongings, Austin Fire Department spokeswoman Michelle Tanzola said.

Firefighters remembered the trash fire after seeing surveillance video police released of a possible suspect a day later, officials said.

A woman who saw a young man start the fire also contacted police after seeing the video, telling investigators the youth resembled the person in the video, Acevedo said.

At the scene of the small trash fire Monday, firefighters found Criner allegedly in possession of a womans bicycle and a blue duffel bag that resembled one owned by the victim, Acevedo said.

Police later recovered items believed to belong to the victim at the fire scene.

The suspect was arrested at the shelter Thursday. He allegedly had items believed to belong to Weiser, police said.

We are very certain that the subject we have in custody is the suspect responsible for the death of this beautiful young woman, Acevedo said Friday.

The police chief said additional charges may be filed, and he shared a message from the victims mother.

She told me please tell all your officers, please tell everyone at the University of Texas everyone involved in this investigation, thank you, he said. But also please tell them to take care of themselves and go home and hug your children, not once but twice.

At a news conference, University President Gregory L. Fenves said the school was taking measures and (doing) everything we can to improve the safety of the campus, including increased patrols and a safety and security assessment.

There had not been a homicide on campus since 1966, according to Acevedo.

Surveillance video of suspect

Authorities this week announced that they believed they had a suspect and asked for the publics help in identifying him.

Troy Gay, assistant police chief at the Austin Police Department, showed surveillance video of the suspect walking with a bike.

Weisers death shook many on the Austin campus, with Fenves telling reporters that our home has been violated.

Our hearts go out to the victim and her family, he said, and we will be investigating this very actively.

Weiser, a first-year theater and dance major, was last seen leaving the drama building Sunday night.

A beloved daughter, sister and friend

In a statement this week, Weisers family thanked the university community for its support and asked for privacy.

In addition to dance, Weiser was declaring a second major in premed and had plans to visit family in Japan this summer. She was remembered as a beloved daughter, sister and friend.

Although Haruka loved to perform on stage she never sought the spotlight in her daily life. Perhaps the last thing she would want is to be the poster child for any cause.

And yet, as we struggle to understand why she was killed, if her death can somehow make it safer for a young woman to walk home, if it will prevent another assault or murder, then at least we could find some meaning behind an otherwise senseless and tragic death, her family wrote.

Dance faculty members first met Weiser when she performed at the National High School Dance Festival more than two years ago. They recruited her to go to UT from her home in Oregon.

She was mourned there by Dance West, where she used to dance.

With indescribable sadness, we mourn the tragic loss of one of our very own, Haruka Weiser. Please join us in honoring this bright and beautiful Dance West alum dancer/family member and friend who has touched the hearts of us all. Rest in Peace & Power, Dance West posted on Facebook.

Source: http://ktla.com/2016/04/08/suspect-held-in-death-of-university-of-texas-freshman-haruka-weiser/

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Hear Jessica Sanchez & Leroy Sanchez Cover Justin Bieber"s "The Feeling"

Jessica Sanchez - "THIS LOVE" [Official Music Video]

For anyone who has ever heard Jessica Sanchez sing, you know as well as anyone how great she is. She left an indelible mark on American Idol, and now, she is (slowly, but surely) leaving her imprint on pop music. Joining forces with friend and fellow music-maker Leroy Sanchez (and no, theyre not related), the two singers give Justin Biebers The Feeling(originally featuring alt-pop singer Halsey) an appropriate and powerfully emotiveoverhaul.

The clip (below) begins with Leroy and a group of friends having a jam session on a rooftop to Beyonces Love on Top. Meanwhile, Jessica is sullen, contemplating her feelings and struggling with what to do next. Whenthe smooth R&B tune kicks in, the footage follows them in a split screen format as they try to find the truth. Did you enjoy the Sanchez power? We know we sure did.

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Source: http://popdust.com/2016/03/30/jessica-sanchez-leroy-justin-bieber-the-feeling-cover/

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National Beer Day coincides with state police checkpoints

National Beer Day: How many beers can you name in 30 seconds?

Thirsty Thursday, a day when many students celebrate with a drink or two, or more, if theyve scheduled their Fridays to not have early classes, coincided with something else this week.

April 7 is also National Beer Day. Twitter is packed with people and company hashtagging the day to raise a virtual pint in honor of their favorite lager or ale.

But before you raise too many, you might want to think about how you are getting home.

State police at Rockview announced Thursday that throughout April, they will be conducting sobriety checkpoint tests.

Motorists encountering the sobriety checkpoint will be stopped briefly. When there is an indication that a driver may be under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, or who is in violation of any other Pennsylvania Vehicle Code or Crimes Code violation, will be detained for further investigation, police said.

Any law-breaking will be addressed, they said, but the main point is to prevent DUI.

Its the kind of thing you might think would make beer producers sad, but the police werent the only ones putting out statements on Thursday.

The Pennsylvania Beer Alliance didnt send out anything celebrating National Beer Day. Instead, they put out a release observing a different occasion. April, it seems, is also Alcohol Awareness Month.

Alcohol abuse comes in many forms, including underage drinking, drunk driving and excessive consumption, said President Jay Wiederhold. I believe its very important we take the month of April to focus on these issues and to raise awareness.

About 4,000 people work in the production of beer in Pennsylvania, a state that creates brands like Yuengling and Troegs, plus smaller craft and specialty producers like Centre Countys own Ottos, Happy Valley, Robin Hood and Elk Creek.

We think about these issues all year long, but its good to have a month to remind our members and customers of the importance of ensuring that alcoholic beverages are effectively regulated as we do in April, said Wiederhold.

Source: http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/article70664047.html

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