Jenn Sterger, Gang Green Sideline reporter, accused New York Jets quarterback Brett Favre of sending pictures of his penis to the reporter.
The photos showed up on the sports site Deadspin Thursday. The sports news site also posted voice mails sent to Sterger’s cell phone. Pictures of the football player’s private parts were sent in 2008.
Deadspin would not identify the source, but said that the voice mails were not from Sterger herself.
When reporters asked Favre about the allegations, he declined to answer questions from reporters, saying that he was busy with the Jets.
The Gang Green sideline reporter said that she declined the advances from the Jets quarterback because she did not date married men.
Actress Dana Delany reveals past experiences with Botox and an eating disorder
Actress Dana Delaney is the latest of over 40 actresses confessing her experiences with aging, Botox and eating disorders.
In an interview with Prevention, Delaney tells of a bad experience with Botox years ago.
Her dermatologist had suggested Botox for wrinkle treatment but when injecting the drug into her forehead, he hit a nerve.
Delaney was left with a hematoma, which disappeared, but still has a droopy right eye.
She was on the cusp of anorexia in her 20’s and would binge and starve. She credits success on China Beach and her busy schedule for disrupting the eating disorder pattern.
Be sure to watch Dexter season 5 episode 2, The Bandit.
Episode 2 is the start of Dexter getting back to normal, whatever normal is for Dexter.
It’s heartbreaking to watch his grief.
How can we love a serial killer so much?
Dexter has to find a way to hold on to his humanity, while using his dark passenger to help him deal with his grief.
Dexter has his sites on his next victim, and that’s a good start for his healing, but can he be the same Dexter he once was, or has he lost his touch and gotten sloppy?
We’ll have to keep watching and see.
Remember you can watch full episodes of Dexter online on the official showTime website.
The second season of the popular television series ‘Undercover Boss’ kicked off this week, featuring CEO Kimberley K. Schaefer.
The series focuses on removing high level corporate executives from the top and placing them back at the bottom of the food chain by placing them in the same entry level positions that their own workers do and sizing up the execs to see just how well they perform.
The executives are entered into their own work force anonymously.
Kimberly K. Schaefer is the CEO of Great Wolf Resorts, a large popular indoor water park franchise.
Schaefer entered the company as stay at home mom Chris Miller and was moved through several positions at the resort to see how well she performed.
After working with different individuals around the resort, Schaefer soon realized the hard work involved with the resort’s daily and menial operations, and took advantage of the experience to reward some deserving employees.
Warner Bros. Television is looking at bringing Wonder Woman to the small screen.
The show has been greenlighted, but executives are looking at how to do this show with a modern slant.
The DC cominc heroine has undergone many changes over the years. Recently, in the comics she had a costume change. This could carry over to the new TV series.
J. Michael Straczynski has been selected as the writer for the new series. Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman on the previous television series from 1975-79.
There would be many fine choices for Wonder Woman this time around. Possibilities include Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, and Minka Kelly.
‘Blind Side‘ real life mom Leigh Anne Tuohy delivered an important message to a Savannah, Georgia audience this week.
“We devalue people too quickly,” she said.
Tuouhy went on to describe the story of her adopted son, Michael Oher. Tuohy and her husband, Sean, had taken in Oher as a teenager after discovering he was homeless. Michael, who struggled in school, joined the school’s football team and was later drafted as an offensive tackle by the Baltimore Ravens.
‘The Blind Side’ is the award winning film starring Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock based on Oher’s life.
“All it took was hope, opportunity, and love to change a life,” Tuohy later said.
As the new movie ‘Social Network’ comes to movie theaters around the world, more and more spotlight is being cast upon the Winklevoss Twins.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were classmates of Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss’ contend that it was Zuckerberg who stole their idea that he used to develop Facebook.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with fellow Harvard Senior Divya Narendra, tabbed Zuckerberg to develop HavardConnect.com for them. Zuckerberg backed out and not long after started Facebook which then took off to the international phenom that it is today.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss went on to represent the United States in the Bejing Olympics in 2008 in rowing.
Acclaimed by the American press, but disowned by the founder of Facebook, the movie based on the life of the youngest billionaire in the world opened Friday across the country.
In the movie social network, actor Jesse Eisenberg plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg, a young American student at Harvard University who has revolutionized how Internet users maintain relations between them. The Facebook site now has some 500 million users worldwide.
The new film from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, based on the book by Ben Mezrich ‘The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook’, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal , is more fiction, say the filmmakers. They insist, however, to assert that they have taken to provide a credible portrait of the young prodigy.
However, Mark Zuckerberg disown the film, which portrays him as a student and asocial in which the theme of betrayal is very present. The script lifts the veil on such lawsuits brought former allies What’s youngest billionaire in his adventure as he tried to create a virtual network larger.
The social network also features Justin Timberlake in the role of Sean Parker, founder of Napster.
Film: The Social Network Director: David Fincher, written by Aaron Sorkin Staring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer
Depending on the budget of a film and its expected box office intake, the rules at an early screening vary. For the much anticipated film, The Social Network, audience members, including myself, were searched with metal detectors and asked to leave our phones and cameras at the door. The irony of being stripped of any device that could be used to record and steal a movie that is based on a stolen idea for a social media outlet that sells information people believe is personal was not lost one me. Alanis Morissette could write a verse about this.
The film begins with an extended scene between Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg (played in an Oscar-worthy performance by Zombieland and Adventureland’s Jesse Eisenberg) and a fictional girlfriend, Erica. Though this scene never really occurred while Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard University, it accomplished the goal of setting the stage for attempting to understand Zuckerberg, an understanding that is a pivotal hurdle in gaining full appreciation of how and why the story of Facebook’s creation came to be. Zuckerberg exhibits a genius mind that works on fast forward at all times and social skills, or lack thereof, that hint at a slight case of Asperger’s Syndrome.
The Social Network begins at the end. That is, the story of how Facebook came to fruition is told through the proceedings of two independent lawsuits filed against Zuckerberg; one by his former best friend and Facebook CFO Eduardo Saverin (the only non-fictional character that was involved in the film’s making) and fellow Harvard classmates Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra.
In 2004 Zuckeberg was brought in by the Winklevoss’s and Narendra to build a site for the three senior classmates that would connect Harvard students to one another. Zuckerberg took their idea of exclusivity and ran with it, using a formula and $18,000 from Saverin that solidified their joint partnership in the social media outlet and the creation of one of the biggest companies in history. After his initial meeting with the Winklevoss twins and Narenda the film shows Zuckerberg avoiding the Harvard students and completing The Facebook, as it was known at the time. The site spread through the campus like wildfire, igniting legal action from the Winklevoss’s and Narenda and encouraging Zuckerberg and Saverin to begin opening the site up to other Ivy League schools, first in the US and the in the UK.
By the time The Facebook had spread to seven schools it was big enough to catch the attention of Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). Parker befriends Zuckerberg and inserts himself as a second business partner, eventually succeeding in his goal to push Saverin out of Facebook (it was Parker’s idea to drop the ‘The’). Though Zuckerberg was never concerned with the money he would eventually make off of Facebook (he still holds the title at the world’s youngest billionaire), Parker’s business connections and charm convinced Zuckerberg that Facebook could be worth billions if Zuckerberg followed Parker’s instructions. Money didn’t interest Zuckerberg, but the success and power that comes with money did.
While Timberlake’s Parker appeared to be a ruthless con man that showed no remorse for pushing Saverin out of the company he helped build (not overly surprising coming from the teenager that seemed to have no qualms with essentially putting an end to an entire industry), Zuckerberg’s humanity is able to shine through the cracks in his humour in court and moments of melancholy over the disintegration of his relationship with his former best (and only) friend.
In creating a site that allowed people to choose from a set of pre-determined options to explain who they are as a person we see how Zuckerberg viewed relationships as superficial and simple, until he lost the one that was most important to him. I don’t think even a character as self-righteous as the Zuckerberg we see on screen would be as cruel to say what he did to Saverin was justified, but through Aaron Sorkin’s script we are able to see how the pressure of never living up to the popularity and charm of his best friend, combined with pressure from the flashy Sean Parker and a stunted emotional make-up could lead Zuckerberg to his decisions. It doesn’t make it right, but it does make it real.
In the world of Facebook where the word ‘friend’ can mean little more than an acquaintance, The Social Network stands in a stark contrast to the empire it is based upon, with the importance and strength of friendship is laid out in black and white through Zuckerberg’s and Saverin’s story. The film opens with Zuckerberg’s fictional girlfriend calling him an asshole and the viewer spends the next two hours coming to a conclusion that is delivered impeccably by one of Zuckerberg’s lawyers, played by Rashida Jones, when Jones states “You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying to be.”
The real Mark Zuckerberg has made no qualms about his disapproval of director David Fincher’s and writer Aaron Sorkin’s reenactment of his life. But he should rest assured that his creation of one of the most important inventions in the 21st Century has in no way been tainted or belittled by the film. If anything, the site that keeps so many of us entertained for hours on end and connected to people around us is even more impressive. And though many of us will never really know the story of what began in a Harvard campus in 2004, we can finally begin to understand the person behind the blue and white silhouette.
