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15 Famous Assassinations Throughout History

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10 Fun and Interesting Apps You Should Get

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'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' Will Scar Children for Life [Spoiler Alert]

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First of all, SPOILER ALERT. Second of all, this is the most honest movie review we've ever seen. These two young boys have just gotten out of the movie "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," and boy did it do a number on them. Add this to the long line of YouTube classics involving children sobbing uncontrollably while their parents record the breakdown and snicker in the background.

 

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Your Box Office Explained: The Expendables 2 Is Number One With Many Bullets

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This Weekend's Winners: With an estimated $28.7 million from just over 3,300 theaters, The Expendables 2 was number one with a bullet. (Or rather, thousands and thousands of bullets.) Also catching eyes: Sony's Sparkle; Whitney Houston's final film, opened to $12 million in 2,224 theaters. At a production cost of just $14 million, Sparkle is no Think Like A Man, but at least it is well on its way to profit.

This Weekend's Losers: ParaNorman (No. 3 with $14 million in just over 3,400 theaters) was a decidedly weak sophomore effort from Pixar wannabe Laika Entertainment, the animation company established by Nike founder Phil Knight and his scion, Travis: Despite showing in half as many theaters, the company's 2009 debut Coraline still made $3 million more than ParaNorman.

How It All Went Down: Even as last weekend approached, a new survey found that almost a fifth of moviegoers were still reluctant to return to multiplexes, fearing more Aurora, Colorado-style mayhem. And who could blame them, especially considering the appalling sequel that had unfolded less than a month later in Wisconsin?

Then, late Friday afternoon, Carmike - the nation's fourth-largest theater chain - found itself responding to a bomb threat against The Expendables sequel, sending police and bomb-sniffing dogs scurrying to 236 theaters in 35 states. Nothing was found, but no wonder, then, that it clocked in below expectations (it made $6 million less than the original film two years ago).

Related: Are the Expendables the New Royal Tenenbaums?

"[The bomb threat] was probably more publicized due to the Aurora incident than it would have been otherwise," explained one distribution chief at a rival studio. Referring to The Expendables 2's softer opening, our chief added that it didn't help that it was the third straight action film (behind Total Recall and Bourne Legacy) to open in as many weeks. Had it not been for this unfortunate confluence of current events and the summer's umpteenth action film, Sly & Co. "might have made $35 million or more," says our chief.

Meanwhile, Bourne Legacy underwent a sizable fall, losing 55 percent of its audience a week after it opened to almost less than half of what the last Bourne film made. It finished second with an estimated $17 million. As one former studio chief tells Vulture, "it certainly stumbles the franchise," but that it also "gives Matt Damon quite a bit of leverage, doesn't it?"

Finally, two indie debuts are noteworthy: While it only debuted on three screens, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis nonetheless enjoyed had the highest per-theater-average of any film in release, a little over $24,000, a very good sign for an indie that might otherwise have gone missing in the summer heat. Ditto the insanely well-reviewed Sundance favorite Robot and Frank, which Samuel Goldwyn Films opened on just two screens in New York (averaging a little over $19,000 per screen). The macabre Frank Langella comedy about an aging ex-con who forms an unusual bond with his robotic caregiver is clearly programmed to entertain, and next week starts doing so in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., before going wide to smarthouses in the top 40 markets come Labor Day.

Read more posts by Claude Brodesser-Akner

 

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7 SIMPLE Ways to Cut Calories (without trying!)

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It's easy to lose weight.

Eat less than you burn.

But general weight loss isn't what we're after--it's actually fat loss. So preserving as much muscle as possible (or gaining) while losing fat. And it is possible to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.

So then it gets a bit more "technical"--sure, you can lose weight by eating just 1 Snickers bar each day; however, the quality of the weight lost is not anything most would want. Who wants to be a skinny person without any muscle or tone whatsoever?

Without getting into those technicalities in today's blog, we wanted to highlight some simple ways to cut calories...without counting foods, weighing foods, measuring foods...or, really, making any tough changes at all!

Here it goes.

1. Eat with your nondominant hand. Simple, right? So if you're right handed eat only with your left or vice versa. Why this works...it slows you down. And the more slowly you eat, the less you'll eat. Pretty simple and pretty straightforward. Here's another benefit -- it will work your brain more, which is never a bad thing. Give it a try!

2. Don't let your foods touch on your plate. OK, this isn't some weird OCD thing. It's all about portion control. Like I said, not changing WHAT you're eating...this one simply helps you cut down the amount you're eating. And that's a fantastic first step with changing behavior.

3. Put your fork down between every bite. Similar to the first suggestion, this allows you to slow down when you're eating. It takes around 15-20 minutes for your brain to sense that it's full...well if you're inhaling your food, you'll eat way more than you need to within that time frame. Let your brain tell you you're satisfied before your stomach "tells you" you've eaten way too much and feel sick.

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4. Chew your food more. We have a Medical Dictionary in our office from 1903. In there they suggest chewing each bite 39 times. My grandpa used to always say chew it 54 times (granted, he had no teeth). But chewing each bite more will not only allow you to better taste the food, but it will also have the added benefit of slowing you down when eating. A win win. So now that you're putting your fork down between bites, you'll have time to chew each bite more thoroughly.

5. Power down. This is one of our biggest pet peeves -- cell phones at the table, particularly when people are merely at the table together but not even close to engaged because their eyes are buried in their phones. But aside from that, when you're distracted you eat more. Whether it's your phone, a book, or the TV...distracted eaters eat more. Instead, fully engage with the person (or people) at the table with no other distractions. We have a habit every night of asking Ella what the best part of her day was. Now, granted she's not quite 3 yet but she still often gives a legit answer -- playing, jumping on her trampoline, hitting her sister (yes, that was an answer one night -- but we'll keep trying) etc. And we'll keep asking that until she moves out, even if as a teenager she thinks it's silly.

6. START your meal with salad. At restaurants there's always a bread basket at the table. But if that was swapped with salad...or when you're home start each meal with a salad, you'll eat less overall. Granted that salad can't be loaded with cheese, creamy dressings and bacon...but that's a different issue. Veggies take up lots of room in your stomach (a good thing) so you eat less of the "heavier" calories.

7. Make veggies or fruit the biggest part of your meal. Enjoying stir fry? Great--use veggies as the base, add your protein on top and whatever else. Want oatmeal in the AM? Fill the bowl with berries, first, then add the cooked oatmeal on top of that. See how this works? Again, the veggies and fruit then becomes the main part of the meal and the rest just fills in the gaps.

There you have it. Seven simple ways to cut calories...yet we didn't ask you to weigh or measure one single food item. Easy, right? Give it a whirl.

The Best Diet to Keep Weight Off

 

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Candice Swanepoel, Angel of the Future

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The Beastie Boys Terrified America in 1986

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This 1986 episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" shows how the Beastie Boys were going to be cause the downfall of our nation's children and most of our morals.

Hat tip to Jello Biafra for being the only sane person on this stage.

Via Jake Fogelnest

 

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Al Roker Freakishly Freezes on the 'Today' Show

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Not totally sure what happened to Al on "Today," but we're going to nominate this as the funniest video of the year.

 

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Hot Girls Cover Hit Songs: Tom Petty 'Free Fallin'' Edition

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There isn't much that is more attractive than a gorgeous girl playing and singing a song like an angel. That is a scientific fact. However, like the sirens in Greek mythology, a girl like this can also be very dangerous, luring men in with her enchanting music and voice, and making us do dumb things. But that's a risk we're willing to take with our weekly feature of hot girls playing and singing hit songs for your enjoyment. This week's cover of "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty comes from May Arcade, a duo out of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. You can follow them on Twitter, but try not to fall in love.

 

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If Alcohol Could Talk, It Would Definitely Say This

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President Nixon's Speech if the Moon Landing Had Failed

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The Atlantic has found the speech President Nixon would have made in 1969 if the Apollo 11 Moon landing had failed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had perished. The author of this speech was the late New York Times' columnist Bill Safire.

 

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Agent Scully Can't Believe Everything She Sees

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If you were a fan of "The X-Files" like we were, you are more than aware that some pretty unbelievable things took place on the show each week. You would think that Agent Scully, one of the FBI agents investigating these phenomena, would eventually build up a tolerance for those things as well. This supercut of Scully saying "Oh my God!" over and over again shows that just wasn't the case.

 

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The Lamest Abstinence Pamphlet Ever

Photoshop Trolling At Its Finest


10 Best Tailgating Products

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Tips to Take to the Wine Shop

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Top Secret Sites from Around the World

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The World's Worst Taxidermy

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The Greatest Photos You Will See Today 8-30-12

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