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Thursday, January 1, 2015
49 Movies And TV Shows We Loved, Hated, And Couldn't Stop Writing About In 2014
Netflix; Walt Disney Pictures; Paramount Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox; FX; Universal Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures; BBC; CBS Video; Lionsgate; HBO; Walt Disney Pictures / Jace Lacob for BuzzFeed
The Good Wife
“The Good Wife” Is The Best Show On Television Right Now by Jace Lacob
The CBS legal drama, now in its sixth season, continually shakes up its narrative foundations and proves itself fearless in the process. Spoilers ahead, if you’re not up to date on the show.
Was That “Good Wife” Twist Cheap Or Profound? by Jace Lacob and Louis Peitzman
No one saw that coming, not even BuzzFeed Entertainment Editorial Director Jace Lacob and Senior Editor Louis Peitzman, who discuss the shocking reveal on the legal drama. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, if you haven’t watched.
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Mad Men
The Midseason Finale Of “Mad Men” Is One Giant Leap Forward by Jace Lacob
Don’t be fooled: Matthew Weiner’s period drama has always been about the future. Warning: Contains spoilers for “Waterloo.”
AMC
The Interview
“The Interview” Is The Most Dangerous Dumb Comedy In The World by Alison Willmore
Here’s guessing Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Franco never thought their North Korea assassination comedy would come to this.
Sony Pictures
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Ken Griffey Jr. is now a photographer notable for being 'Trey's father'
Trey Griffey is a wide receiver for the Arizona Wildcats. He also has a father you might have heard of:
Spotted on the #VIZIOFiestaBowl sideline: Noted amateur photographer Ken Griffey, Jr. #BackThePac http://ift.tt/1y8ilye
— Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) December 31, 2014
You're still the Swingman in our hearts, Junior. Even if you're more of the Shutterman now.
Retirement has not been kind to Ken Griffey Jr. http://ift.tt/1y8ilOu
— Dr. Suck It (@OrangePuck) December 31, 2014
Hey, let's leave his conditioning out of this, Dr. Suck It! Ex-athletes have a right to understand that Ding-Dongs are delicious.
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20 Young Stars That Were 2014 AF
Love them or hate them, the barely legal basically ran 2014.
Disclosure
The young duo took over every radio station you listened to this year and went platinum in five different countries with their hit "Latch" ft. Sam Smith.
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11 Things Everybody Made Fun Of But Secretly Loved In 2014
Cuz the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
Don't even act like you didn't turn the volume all the way up and pronounce "fancy" like 'fan-say." You can hate all you want, but every single one of us jammed out to her songs this year.
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It was the stupid trend of the summer... up until the moment someone challenged you.
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You can make fun of "Shake It Off," but once you hear it, you'll be singing it all day long. She's right, you know, we do love the game.
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Sure, we might hate it now, but we all used "basic" to describe ourselves and/or our friends, and pretty much everything else around us. #Basic
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Iggy Azalea
Don't even act like you didn't turn the volume all the way up and pronounce "fancy" like 'fan-say." You can hate all you want, but every single one of us jammed out to her songs this year.
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The Ice Bucket Challenge
It was the stupid trend of the summer... up until the moment someone challenged you.
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Taylor Swift
You can make fun of "Shake It Off," but once you hear it, you'll be singing it all day long. She's right, you know, we do love the game.
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Saying The Word "Basic"
Sure, we might hate it now, but we all used "basic" to describe ourselves and/or our friends, and pretty much everything else around us. #Basic
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4 injured after high wind destroys booths at Rose Bowl fanfest
It was a frightening scene in Pasadena on Wednesday.
The Rose Bowl will host the College Football Playoff game between Oregon and Florida State, but a fanfest on the stadium grounds was hit by some unexpected and devastating winds on Wednesday.
According to ABC 7, the Pasadena Fire Department treated four people for injuries after wind struck the fanfest, as seen in the video above. Tents and booths were upended, destroyed and swept away and the wind even managed to pick up a bouncy house.
A wind advisory is in effect for the counties surrounding the Rose Bowl until Thursday morning. The game will go on as expected, but there is a possibility the wind could play havoc with the annual New Year's Day Rose Bowl Parade if it picks up again in the morning.
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"A Most Violent Year" Pulls A Reverse "Godfather"
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain star in a story about a New York businessman trying to stay clean in a dirty industry. Principles are great and all, but you kind of wish he’d give in.
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in A Most Violent Year
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Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), the cool-tempered, highly driven, impeccably dressed protagonist of A Most Violent Year, is trying to be the poster boy for the American dream, but the American dream keeps turning nightmarish on him.
A Columbian immigrant, though his roots are left undiscussed — "Speak English," he urges an employee who entreats him in Spanish, "speak English" — Abel's now a business owner and family man in New York City. He has a stylish Brooklyn-born wife named Anna (an immensely enjoyable Jessica Chastain), two beautiful daughters, and a lavish new house. He's about to make a real estate deal for some waterfront property that could take his company, Standard Oil, to another level.
Also, he's being investigated by the DA (David Oyelowo), and his trucks keep getting hijacked on the road and turning up elsewhere emptied of their loads. It's 1981 — as the title promises, one of the most violent recorded periods in New York history — and Abel is being pressured to answer in kind while under the scrutiny of a legal system that doesn't seem to care that his competitors are all dirtier than he is. He willfully refuses to accept that going by the book isn't the same thing as playing by the (unwritten) rules.
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There's plenty that's Godfather-like to A Most Violent Year, most of it emanating from Isaac, who with his camel coat, brushed back hair, and intense gaze often feels like he's channeling Al Pacino's brooding Michael Corleone. While Michael sought to make the family crime business legitimate, Abel doesn't want to consider being anything but in the first place. He's a player in an industry that is, on the outside, breathtakingly mundane — home heating oil, delivered around the five boroughs and sold door-to-door by the earnest young men and women that Abel coaches himself (the secret is prolonged eye contact).
But it's also, despite its seeming humbleness, a sizable and quietly cutthroat business with a long-established way of doing things that Abel's been bypassing. He's been ignoring the territories his rivals have divvied up for themselves and expanding his customer base by way of charm and good old-fashioned work ethic, and that's why his drivers are getting attacked, his oil is being stolen, and men with guns are skulking around his home. With 30 days to close a property deal that will clean him out if it falls through, Abel suddenly finds himself in desperate straits, scrabbling to stick to his principles when everyone else in his life, including his wife, is ready to brawl in the street.
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Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), the cool-tempered, highly driven, impeccably dressed protagonist of A Most Violent Year, is trying to be the poster boy for the American dream, but the American dream keeps turning nightmarish on him.
A Columbian immigrant, though his roots are left undiscussed — "Speak English," he urges an employee who entreats him in Spanish, "speak English" — Abel's now a business owner and family man in New York City. He has a stylish Brooklyn-born wife named Anna (an immensely enjoyable Jessica Chastain), two beautiful daughters, and a lavish new house. He's about to make a real estate deal for some waterfront property that could take his company, Standard Oil, to another level.
Also, he's being investigated by the DA (David Oyelowo), and his trucks keep getting hijacked on the road and turning up elsewhere emptied of their loads. It's 1981 — as the title promises, one of the most violent recorded periods in New York history — and Abel is being pressured to answer in kind while under the scrutiny of a legal system that doesn't seem to care that his competitors are all dirtier than he is. He willfully refuses to accept that going by the book isn't the same thing as playing by the (unwritten) rules.
A24
There's plenty that's Godfather-like to A Most Violent Year, most of it emanating from Isaac, who with his camel coat, brushed back hair, and intense gaze often feels like he's channeling Al Pacino's brooding Michael Corleone. While Michael sought to make the family crime business legitimate, Abel doesn't want to consider being anything but in the first place. He's a player in an industry that is, on the outside, breathtakingly mundane — home heating oil, delivered around the five boroughs and sold door-to-door by the earnest young men and women that Abel coaches himself (the secret is prolonged eye contact).
But it's also, despite its seeming humbleness, a sizable and quietly cutthroat business with a long-established way of doing things that Abel's been bypassing. He's been ignoring the territories his rivals have divvied up for themselves and expanding his customer base by way of charm and good old-fashioned work ethic, and that's why his drivers are getting attacked, his oil is being stolen, and men with guns are skulking around his home. With 30 days to close a property deal that will clean him out if it falls through, Abel suddenly finds himself in desperate straits, scrabbling to stick to his principles when everyone else in his life, including his wife, is ready to brawl in the street.
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Frank Lampard to stay at Manchester City through end of season
New York City FC is getting, predictably, shafted by their parent club.
It was so predictable it hurts: New York City FC midfielder Frank Lampard won't be joining the new MLS franchise until the middle of the upcoming season, as Manchester City has extended his loan to keep him with the EPL club through the end of their season.
New York City FC can confirm that Frank Lampard’s stay with Manchester City has been extended up to the end of Manchester City’s season, enabling his continued participation in both domestic and European campaigns.
The Club can also confirm that he will therefore not be joining the New York City FC’s squad for the beginning of the MLS 2015 season. His preparations for the forthcoming MLS campaign will see him contribute to Manchester City FC in all competitions of the ongoing season.
His exact starting date with New York City FC will be confirmed as the EPL and MLS seasons unfold.
-Source: NYCFC.com
This is the outcome that NYCFC fans have feared since Manchester City first took Lampard on loan. Since the EPL giants co-own NYCFC with the New York Yankees, there has long been a feeling that Manchester City would exploit that relationship, fears that were not eased at all when they started making noise months ago about possibly keeping Lampard longer than originally planned. This will, for many, serve as proof that the English side only sees NYCFC as a farm team of sorts, good only for stashing talent in case of need.
Lampard has played in 17 matches for Manchester City across all competitions, mostly serving as a super-sub as he's started just five matches. He's scored six goals despite those limited minutes, though, and has been a big part of City's successes this season. NYCFC fans had hoped that Lampard would be able to join their team for season preparations soon and carry over that fine form, but now they'll have to wait until May at least before he joins up.
Manchester City fans will be happy that a major part of this season's squad will be sticking around. New York City FC fans, however, will be left wondering about the structure and direction of their team, and just how important it will be to those who own it. This can't been seen as a good sign by the MLS club, and what the shape of their future is suddenly in much more doubt than it was before. Let's just hope the relationship proves more productive than the Chivas de Guadalajara/Chivas USA relationship was.
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2015 NFL Draft underclassmen tracker
Will we another record of redshirt sophomores and juniors go pro? It's unlikely, but some of college football's top players are still headed to the pros.
Each of the past two years a record number of underclassmen have entered the NFL draft. In 2013, 73 players went pro. In 2014, the number ballooned to 98.
After 36 didn't get picked in the 2014 NFL Draft, we may not see see another new record for the 2015 NFL Draft. An indicator of that came from Troy Vincent, the NFL's vice president of operations. According to Vincent, the number of underclassmen who have submitted paperwork to the NFL Draft Advisory Committee is down to 147, compared to 214 the previous year.
That comes following a change in how the committee advises players. In the past, a player would receive a grade of first round, second or third round, fourth through seventh round grade. Now players are only told if they’re projected as a first- or second-round pick. Another change is schools are limited to five players submitting paperwork.
Juniors and redshirt sophomores have until Jan. 15 to officially declare for the draft.
Current list of players to go pro: (will be updated)
Jay Ajayi, RB, Boise State
Kwon Alexander, LB, LSU
Deion Barnes, DE, Penn State
Alex Carter, CB, Stanford
Sammie Coates, WR, Auburn
Tevin Coleman, RB, Indiana
Jalen Collins, CB, LSU
Mike Davis, RB, South Carolina
Lorenzo Doss, CB, Tulane
Lemar Durant, WR, Simon Fraser
Durell Eskridge, S, Syracuse
Ereck Flowers, OT, Miami
Dante Fowler, DE/OLB, Florida
Devin Funchess, WR/TE, Michigan
Melvin Gordon, RB, Wisconsin
Randy Gregory, DE/OLB, Nebraska
Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia
Eli Harold, DE/OLB, Virginia
Gerald Holliman, S, Louisville
Brett Hundley, QB, UCLA
Duke Johnson, RB, Miami
Matt Jones, RB, Florida
Tyler Kroft, TE, Rutgers
Tyler Moore, G, Florida
Jordan Phillips, DT, Oklahoma
Jeremiah Poutasi, OT, Utah
Josh Robinson, RB, Mississippi State
Donovan Smith, OT, Penn State
Noah Spence, DE/OLB, Ohio State
Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State
Leonard Williams, DT, Southern California
Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota
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News: Transgender Teen Leaves Tragic Suicide Note: 'My Death Needs to Mean Something'
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Transgender Teen Leaves Tragic Suicide Note: 'My Death Needs to Mean Something'
17-year-old Leelah Alcorn walked in front of a tractor-trailer on Sunday
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