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This Week's 20 Inappropriately Hilarious Tweets

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15 Rich And Famous People Who Used To Be Homeless

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Workaholics: It's On-Ders, Not An-Ders

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If you do not watch the show Workaholics, you are a fool. Take these four GIFs from the show for example. Very educational. Now you know how to properly pronounce the name Anders.



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Composer Atticus Ross Shares His Inspiration Behind The Soundtrack For "Broken City"

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Composer Atticus Ross has shared his musical inspiration behind the soundtrack for "Broken City." Best known for his and Trent Reznor's Oscar-winning score for "The Social Network" and his masterful work on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Book of Eli," Ross has curated a music playlist exclusively for Rdio.

"Broken City," which hits theatres today, follows a disgraced ex-cop turned private detective (Mark Walhberg) who uncovers a much grander scandal when he's double-crossed by the mayor of New York (Russell Crowe). Ross takes us along this action-packed journey with music that builds an equally compelling sound narrative, bookending the playlist with David Bowie tracks and sprinkling his own signature haunting sound from the film in between.

The soundtrack is ominous, heart-pounding, and draws inspiration from '80s glam rock, industrial new wave, and other beloved scores. The playlist features some David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, and The Cure. You can check it out in its entirety below.

 

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Assassination Attempt Takes Place On Live TV

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This is one of the most terrifying videos we've ever seen. A man climbed on stage and pointed a gun at the head of Bulgarian opposition leader Ahmed Dogan during a televised news conference on Saturday. The only reason that Dogan, the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), survived the attack was because the pistol appeared to jam. After a few seconds of confusion and screaming, the assailant was wrestled to the ground and attacked by delegates at the conference. He was then dragged off the premises by security. It was later revealed that police removed a gas pistol and two knives from the attacker, identified as 25-year-old Oktai Enimehmedov.

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The Onion As Misinterpreted On Facebook

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Miranda Grosvenor Was The World's Greatest Star Caller

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When you're famous, you have to deal with people trying to get to you all the time. We call them stalkers now, but back in the day they were mostly just fans. Security guards, walled-off mansions and the threat of police intervention keeps most of them at arm's length from the subjects of their adoration, but one woman used nothing but her sexy voice to charm her way into the lives of some of the biggest stars of the 80s and 90s.

Miranda Grosvenor was a Tulane University co-ed, blonde and beautiful, who moonlighted as a model and took care of her wealthy, aging oil baron father who bankrolled her high society pursuits. While she was trotting the globe, she would call and have phone conversations with some of the biggest names in movies and music.

Billy Joel was particularly taken with Miranda, speaking to her on a nightly basis, previewing new songs to her on her answering machine, and at one point considering writing an entire musical about their odd relationship. The Piano Man wasn't the only rock god enjoying her conversation, as she also gave good phone to Sting, Bono and Eric Clapton.

Miranda's come-ons were varied - sometimes she'd claim to be a friend of a friend, and sometimes she'd just dial a celebrity and pretend she had the wrong number. Her voice was enough to set the hook, and her conversational mastery kept them on the line until she'd got them.

Some people in Hollywood actually did claim to have met Miranda, and she was just as beautiful as advertised. Actor Buck Henry, a frequent phone partner, was flabbergasted when Johnny Carson claimed to have met a beautiful young blonde who introduced herself as Miranda at high-end LA hotspot 21. But her frequent conversation partners never seemed to be able to hook up with her in person.

Record producer Richard Perry was one of Miranda's most dedicated paramours. Perry, who masterminded gold records for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross and Ringo Starr, first started talking to Miranda in 1982. She called herself "Ariana" with him, and soon the pair were talking three or four times a day. He would wrap up work at the studio, rush home and chat with her all night on speakerphone. Perry, who had just ended a difficult relationship, found himself falling for his long-distance caller.

That is, until he ran into a colleague at a party who shared a disturbingly similar story. He referred Perry to Buck Henry, who had started keeping a dossier on Whitney and used a reverse phone directory to trace her number.

Miranda Grosvenor's real name was Whitney Walton, a bored social worker in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Walton had lived in New York City in the 1960s, where she had an active social life, palling around with Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan. After she moved South, she prevailed on her old friends to set her up with some celebrity phone numbers, and the rest was history.

When Perry confronted her on the phone, she told him that it was almost a game for her. She called it "jacking" men, testing her ability to make complete strangers from the upper echelon of society fall in love with her using only her voice. And Perry, startlingly, wasn't scared off by this admission. Unlike Buck Henry, who had basically cut off contact after discovering Miranda was a fraud, Perry was just drawn deeper into her web.

Eventually, he insisted on meeting her in person. Perry flew her out to New York and put her up in a hotel. She demanded he wear a blindfold. He compromised and allowed her to not turn the lights on in the room. When Perry walked in for his first meeting with a woman he had convinced himself he could love, he found a short, badly-dressed woman in her 30s with a notable mole on her right cheek. Very different from the blonde model she'd passed herself off as. They had an awkward dinner at the Plaza Hotel and parted forever. A few years later, Perry was startled to see Whitney in Los Angeles, having dinner with Quincy Jones.

The amazing thing about Miranda - or Whitney's - telephone antics is that she never tried to use these intimate connections for personal gain. Her conversation partners were wealthy and Joel did send her a diamond-inlaid Rolex, but she could have twisted her verbal knife and raked in the dough. It wasn't uncommon - a Los Angeles woman pulled a similar phone scam in the 70s and received tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts - but Miranda was just in it for the conversation.

Vitas Gerulaitis was another one of Miranda's frequent callers, but the Lithuanian-born tennis pro might have had something a little more serious going with the woman on the phone. While visiting friends in Southhampton, Gerulaitis was accidentally asphyxiated with carbon monoxide from a malfunctioning space heater. Rumor has it that his lawyers, aware of their long-term relationship, took measures to ensure Miranda never spoke to the press about him.

When her cover was blown by a Vanity Fair article, she disconnected her phone and took a long vacation, eventually returning to Baton Rouge where she settled down into a boring, normal life.

Interest in Walton's story was immediate, with HarperCollins signing her to a book deal that was worth almost a million dollars for her memoir, Miranda Rites: My Life As The Mysterious Hollywood Sweet Talker. She was also contracted to read the audiobook herself using that magical voice. Robert DeNiro, one of Miranda's many conversation partners, picked up the movie rights. Unfortunately, the book was cancelled in 2007 for unknown reasons, and Whitney Walton disappeared into obscurity.

However, her legacy lives on in every bored kid who finds a celeb's number on the Internet and dials them up, not knowing what's going to happen. The telephone is the great equalizer, and we're all just voices at the other end of the line.

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If Garfield Was In Glengarry Glen Ross

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If you've ever wondered what the classic Alec Baldwin speech scene in David Mamet's classic Glengarry Glen Ross would look like if it were delivered by Garfield, well, it's your lucky day.

 

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Today's Funniest Photos 1-22-13

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Chris Andersen and Mike Miller Do "Ice Ice Baby"

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This performance took place at a Shane Battier charity event, so it's all for a good cause. And just about nobody looks good doing karaoke unless you're at the club and you have had at least 8 adult beverages. Still, watching Chris "Birdman" Andersen and Mike Miller stumble through Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" is probably about as uncomfortable as you can get watching a video on YouTube. Cringe factor: infinity.

 

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Molly Beers, David Wright's Fiancee, is the Latest WAG to Know About

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The future for New York Mets All-Star third baseman David Wright is looking very, very bright. Fresh off of signing an eight-year, $138 million contract extension with the Mets, Wright decided to take the next step in his personal life as well, getting engaged to his longtime model girlfriend Molly Beers over the holidays. We're sure you'll be seeing plenty more of this high-profile couple in the months to come, but here is a video and some photos to help you get acquainted.

Molly Beers from Richard Guaty on Vimeo.

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Strippers Can Earn $350,000 A Year In This Oil Boomtown Club

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Christina Halkiopoulos is Fit and Fine

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'Star Trek' STRIP Trivia with a Half-Naked Arianny Celeste

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Are you a film nerd? Well UFC Octagon model, Arianny Celeste is the girl for you! Who knew your obsession with fan film, comic con, and cult classics could some day get you the girl of your dreams.

Thanks to our friends over at CineFix, you can now test your "Star Trek" knowledge with the first ever episode of "Film Strip", the weekly game show where releasing your inner-nerd is more than encouraged. Hosted by Celeste, this show challenges film fans' movie knowledge, revealing more than just the right answers. Even if you don't know a single thing about "Star Trek", we guarantee you'll enjoy the hell out of this video.

And you can see even more sexy photos and videos of Arianny Celeste on her profile page on Mandatory.

 

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Mandatory Presents: SlickforceGirl Brittany

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Nick Saglimbeni's SlickforceGirl series continues, this time with model Brittany Dailey in the lead role as SlickforceGirl Brittany, a sexy, badass naval commander who takes care of business. In the video above, Brittany talks about the fun she had doing this shoot and playing her character, and how she appreciates her fans overseas. Check out some sexy behind-the-scenes shots of SlickforceGirl Brittany below, and also visit Erika and Vanessa, two previous SlickforceGirls who came together in the fight against breast cancer.

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This Is The Best Way To Keep Your Cat Off The Kitchen Counter

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We posted a video a little while back displaying an excellent way to keep your cat off the counter. Well, it looks like there's a slightly quicker - and more efficient - way of doing just that. Go ahead, try it at home. All you need is some tin foil and a stupid cat that likes to jump on your kitchen counters doesn't listen when you say "No!".

 

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Listen Dipshit, Stop Complaining About Super Bowl Hype

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Every year the NFL takes an extra week off before the Super Bowl so the media can drum up anticipation for the big game. And every year, instead of doing their jobs, a bunch of dipshit sports writers use that extra week to predict which stories will suffer from overkill.

Listen, assholes, complaining about how everyone is going to write the same clichéd column leading up to the Super Bowl is more clichéd than anything else you can write right now.

The crying started this year some time around the fourth quarter of the Ravens win over the Pats on Sunday. Everyone realized that two brothers were going to coach against each other and the obnoxious tweets started popping up. We can't even wait until the Super Bowl match-up is officially set before we start bitching about media overexposure.

Besides, two brothers are going to coach against each other in the Super Bowl. Think about the odds of that happening for a second. Do you have any idea how hard it is for one family to have two head football coaches in the NFL? The Harbaugh family supplies 6 percent of the league's head coaches. Just because your family provides 6% of America's body fat doesn't mean you have to drag down the rest of us.

Becoming the last two coaches standing in the most popular sport in America while having shared a bedroom as toddlers is one of the most insane things that could possibly happen in the history of football. This may never happen again. Not just in the NFL, but in any sport in the universe. And the people who write about sports for a living are going to spend the next two weeks whining about this? How does that make any sense?

I love sports, which means I get tired of the same overexposure that anyone else experiences after watching more than one hour of ESPN in a day. Still, I want to hear about what it took for two brothers to wind up coaching in the Super Bowl against each other. What I don't want is a bunch of whiny fatasses who are getting a free ticket to the Super Bowl in New Orleans telling me which stories I do and don't want to read.

Squawking about how we are all going to be hit over the head by the same story is just as boring and repetitive as reading 15 different HarBowl puns. Do your job and tell me one of the most interesting stories that has ever taken place on the Super Bowl stage. Then you can get back to your chicken fingers and your free seat at America's most popular sporting event of the year.

Oh, and one more request: please, for the love of God, do not write anything about Ray Lewis.

 

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Every "Girls" Episode Ever

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If you've been watching HBO's "Girls," you probably sense some recurring themes in the critically acclaimed show. In what feels like every episode, Lena Dunham's character (Hannah) can't seem to get her life together. Usually, because she's incapable of making basic, adult decisions. And then, in what feels like every episode, she talks to her friends about how she can't make a decision. Then someone either has or mentions sex. Then more talking about a decision. Then something awkward happens. So we were inspired to write our own scene from "Girls." See if you can tell it apart from the real thing.

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Eyewear Of The NBA

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The NBA has always been full of stars who aren't afraid to make unique fashion choices. With dress code restrictions and uniform violations constantly getting more strict, player's have turned to eye wear to stand out over the years. This nice little chart monitors the evolution of safety goggles in the NBA from George Mikan in the 1950's all the way through to Russell Westbrook's current post-game spectacles.

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9 of the Most Dangerous Thrill Rides Ever Built

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