Michael B. Jordan has words for the Internet trolls, the Olsen twins have better things to do than “Fuller House” and Google at one point patented a robot teddy bear…
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The quote
“To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.” —Michael B. Jordan in an essay in Entertainment Weekly responding to online critics who are upset that the actor, who is black, has been cast as The Human Torch in the upcoming “Fantastic Four” film
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How rude!
Looks like Michelle won’t be joining the rest of her family on “Fuller House,” ew.com reports. To nobody’s surprise, fashion moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have officially opted out of Netflix’s upcoming “Full House” reboot, executive producer Robert L. Boyett said in a statement on Friday: “Although Ashley and Mary-Kate will not be a part of Fuller House, I know how much Full House has meant to them and they are still very much considered family.” So how do we think this new show is going to explain the youngest Tanner’s absence? Our money’s on “her amnesia from the series finale came back.”
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The digit: $41.7 million
That’s the disappointing debut George Clooney’s futuristic fantasy “Tomorrowland” made at the box office over the four-day weekend, thr.com reports. It was the lowest opening for a “big-budget tentpole” since 2010’s “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.”
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Hot date: February 2012
That’s when Google originally filed a patent for a potentially terrifying “anthropomorphic device,” aka a cyborg teddy bear or other stuffed animal, the plans for which came to light this week, Time
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reports. While the tech giant wouldn’t comment on whether the snuggly robots will ever actually be released, according to the patent the machine would have the ability to do chores, turn on the TV and “express interest [by]…focus[ing] its gaze on the user or object of its interest.” This sounds scarier than Teddy Ruxpin. And that’s saying something.
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The quote
“Rejection might sting, but my feeling is that often, it has very little to do with you. When you’re auditioning or pitching, the director or producer or investor may have someone different in mind, that’s just how it is. That happened recently when I was auditioning for the role of Martin Luther King in Selma. Which was too bad because I could’ve played the hell out of that part,” Robert De Niro in his keynote speech to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts graduating class last week, Vulture reports.
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Come together
New Kids on the Block already joined forces with Backstreet Boys to create the NKOTBSB supergroup, so what should we call Foo Fighter’s Dave Grohl teaming up with Paul McCartney for a jam session of Beatles’ hits at McCartney’s Saturday night concert in London? Grohl provided vocals and guitar for “Please Please Me” and “I Saw Her Standing There” at O2 Arena, nme.com reports. So, Foo Beatles then? Beat Fighters?