• # ‘Bootylicious’ horse fly discovered in Australia named after Beyonce for its golden backside
  → CANBERRA, Australia — A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so “bootylicious” with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce. (How come nobody ain’t namin’ no damn fly after me?)

• # Papa John’s apologizes for receipt’s racial slur
  → Papa John’s Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York restaurants and apologized to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that identified her as “lady chinky eyes.” (Lawwwd. I call muh friend a “big nappy headed hoe” but she dun fire muh azz.)

• # Too little protein may equal too much body fat
  → People who consistently consume more calories than they burn each day will lose lean muscle and accumulate body fat more easily if their diets contain too little protein and too much fat and carbohydrates, suggests a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

• # Woman meets child born out of rape, given up for adoption 77 years ago
  → For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen. (Um all teary eyed up in hurr!)

• # Man donates sperm to dozens of women met online, drawing fire from feds
  → Physicians and the federal government cited the case of a San Francisco Bay area man who has fathered 14 children as an example of the risks posed by the informal market for sperm donations, which doctors consider unsafe but some people call a civil liberties issue. (Summabody git muh this man’s numbah!)

• # Car Dealer Sued For Smelly SUV That May Have Once Held Dead Body
  → A couple from New Baltimore, Mich., is raising a stink with a car dealership for selling an SUV with what they say is a terrible odor — and they believe it may have been caused by a dead body.

• # Where is the love in R&B music?
  → Listening to black music today is depressing. Songs on today’s urban radio playlists are drained of romance, tenderness and seduction. And it’s not just about the rise of hardcore hip-hop or rappers who denigrate women. (I’ll tell you whurr. Aretha Franklin ate it all.)

• # A new Earth? Eerily familiar planet ‘a phenomenal discovery’
  → WASHINGTON—A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside Earth’s solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It is a bit too big.

• # Daniel Radcliffe to play gay poet Allen Ginsberg in thriller Kill Your Darlings?
  → The Harry Potter star has been cast as the famous poet in the movie, which will revolve around his relationship with Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr, according to Twitch.com.

• # Man-made super-flu could kill half humanity
  → A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.

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Bent Flicks

• IMDb - The Iron Lady (2011) 7/10

  2012-01-22 18:19

  

  A shame they had to frame Margaret Thatcher's remarkable story of ambition and drive on her slow descent into dementia in her later years. Still, another outstanding performance from Meryl Streep that should finally earn her a third Oscar.

  0.3

• Beauty and the Beast (1991) - IMDb 7/10

  2012-01-14 15:39

  

  There really was no point in turning this classic Disney movie into the 3D format. Also, a bit too childish and naive for my taste.

  0.3

• A Single Man (2009) - IMDb 5/10

  2012-01-07 13:33

  

  How utterly boring, though I did enjoy Julianne Moore's hair immensely.

  0.3

• Shame 9/10

  2011-12-03 15:24

  

  Michael Fassbender in all his naked frontal glory? Hell yes!

  0.3

• J. Edgar 7/10

  2011-11-27 15:26

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio finally proves that he can do more than one character in this sleepy film about the controversial Father of the F.B.I.

  0.3

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