Chris Brown to L.A. City:
My Graffiti Is Protected
By the 1st Amendment!!

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Justin Bieber
Photog Lawyers Up …
I Want My Stuff Back!

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‘Pants on the Ground’ Guy
NJ Saggy Pants Ban
… IS GENIUS

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Tamar Braxton
Sells L.A. Mansion For
$3.5 Million PROFIT!!!

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Jessica Sanchez switches up her outfit for The 40/40 Club 10 Year Anniversary Party held at 40/40 Club on Monday night (June 17) in New York City.

The 17-year-old singer posed for pictures with DJ Cassidy and Micah Jesse before heading inside the event.

Just a few hours earlier, Jessica performed with the PS 22 Chorus during the Trevor Project’s 2013 TrevorLIVE Event held at Chelsea Piers.

“Just goosebumps everywhere! These kids are giving me full on life right now!!! #PS22 #TrevorLive,” Jessica wrote on Twitter afterwards.

25+ pics inside of Jessica Sanchez…

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The Channel 4 News Team is BACK, San Diego!

For those anxiously awaiting a peek at the sequel to ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY, the wait is finally over. Today, we have the first trailer for the sequel, which drops our favorite characters Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), and Champ Kind (David Koechner) smack dab in the middle of the Reagen era. Sporting all the humorous flair and spirit of the original, the team is joined by newcomers Harrison Ford, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Kristen Wiig, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Meagan Good, and Liam Neeson (not to mention returning castmates Christina Applegate and Vince Vaughn). Talk about a stacked cast!

Everyone come see how good this looks!:

I’m no wolverine, but I’m purring right now. The first ANCHORMAN is one of my all-time favorite comedies, not to mention one of the most quotable. It’s a rare moment that I get tired of using my “Ron Burgundy voice,” especially during job interviews and drive-thru’s. It’s going to be one jolly-ass Christmas with this in the pipeline.

ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES, uh, continues on December 20, 2013.

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PLOT: A group of privileged L.A teens- obsessed with fame- begin breaking into their favourite celebrities homes (Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge, Megan Fox and Lindsay Lohan), eventually stealing over $3 million worth of goods. Based on a true story.

REVIEW: Like it or not, THE BLING RING is truly a film of our time. The advent of reality TV and social media has given us a generation of celebrities that are famous for nothing. People like Kim Kardashian, and Paris Hilton become stars (however fleetingly) despite a complete lack of talent, and are able to turn themselves into brands. Is it any wonder a gang as vacuous and fame obsessed as the dopey teens of THE BLING RING would idolize them?

The kids in THE BLING RING really aren’t that different from Hilton or her ilk. They move in the same circles, hang out at the same clubs, live in the same neighborhoods, etc. While the kids steal from their idols, it’s not really to score cash, but rather just to somehow crawl into their skin and live their lives for an evening. People are so desperate for fame that they’ll do anything. Are these kids any worse than the parents on HONEY BOO-BOO or JON & KATE PLUS 8 who exploit their own children for fame and money?

Even still, Sofia Coppola wisely doesn’t ask you to sympathize too much with these privileged brats, although she demonstrates over and over again that these kids aren’t only naive, but they’re actually quite stupid. Most of their parents are portrayed as disinterested, but here an even worse thing is when they take an active role in parenting, with Leslie Mann- who plays the mother to two of the bling’ers (Emma Watson and Taissa Farmiga)- home schooling her kids by reading them “The Secret”.

While based on a true story, THE BLING RING really feels like a continuation of the “moneyed-youth” excess movies we used to get in the eighties like LESS THAN ZERO and BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. The sad thing is Coppola doesn’t have to rely on books like those films did. Nowadays, stories that make those look tame pop up on TMZ every night, just like this one.

Coppola herself seems obsessed with the effect of fame, with all of her movies (except her debut THE VIRGIN DIARIES) being about this in one way or another. LOST IN TRANSLATION and SOMEWHERE examined the surreal, and often tedious lives of movie stars, while MARIE-ANTOINETTE tried to do the same thing in the guise of a historical bio-pic. For me, Coppola’s first two films, VIRGIN DIARIES and LOST IN TRANSLATION are by far her best work, and it would be nice to see her try something a little different. Still, if you had to make a movie about these kids, Coppola’s certainly the one to do it, and while she maybe doesn’t empathize with them (who could?), she avoids judging them for the most part, electing to shoot this documentary-style.

This technique is in sharp contrast to her usual heavily stylized look. The DV photography is sharp but not designed to call too much attention to itself. The soundtrack, usually a major part of her films, is mostly confined to music that plays within the world of the film (what my old film professor used to call diegetic). Other than Watson, Leslie Mann, and a cameo by Gavin Rossdale as a sleazy nightclub owner/fence, the movie is mostly filled with unknowns. Without exception, everyone here will grate on your nerves, but I guess that’s the point, and in that respect the cast is excellent. The best parts of THE BLING RING are the robberies. Coppola somehow managed to convince Paris Hilton to allow them to film in her home and it makes for a jaw-dropping example of excess and vanity, with the interior being covered in photographs of herself, with her face even being imprinted on her pillows. She even has her own nightclub room complete with a stripper pole. Another sequence depicts the robbery of Audrina Patridge’s home from a distance, with us seeing the rob her through a static exterior shot, peeking in the windows paparazzi-style.

While it’s far from Coppola’s best work, and often infuriating if only for the pathetic depiction of the kind of fame-obsessed culture we’ve become, THE BLING RING is still a well crafted and entertaining film. Once again Coppola’s given us a peek at a world some may think is glamorous, but is often just sad. One small comfort: when the events of THE BLING RING happened, Paris Hilton was everywhere. Now, she’s a has-been. Luckily we still live in a culture where notoriety may get you a burst of success, but unless you have the talent to back it up, you can’t maintain it.

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