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‘Rogue One’ Trailer Channels 2016: ‘The World Is Coming Undone’ – WATCH
‘Rogue One’ Trailer Channels 2016: ‘The World Is Coming Undone’ – WATCH
The first official trailer for the Star Wars spinoff film Rogue One was released Thursday night during coverage of the Olympics, giving fans more insight into what they can expect when the movie hits theaters December 16.
A previous teaser for the film got fans in a frenzy, and this latest one has already been viewed 3.2 million times as of publication.
Rogue One follows “a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction.”
The trailer opens with an ominous declaration by Forest Whittaker’s character, Saw Gerrera: “The world is coming undone.”
As Mashable points out, this is an apropos choice for film-goers in 2016. For if you’ve survived 2016 thus far, those words will resonate with you.
The trailer also includes the most we’ve seen of the ultimate baddy, Darth Vader, since 2005’s Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (which some of us would maybe prefer to forget).
Every iconic visual that we associate with the Galactic Empire gets a spectacular shot, from Star Destroyers to TIE fighters to the mighty Death Star itself. […]
The focus is barely on Jyn Erso [star Felicity Jones] as the trailer takes most of its 135 seconds to briefly introduce us to other characters, such as intelligence officer Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), freelance assassin Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen) and the comic-relief robot K-2SO, a tall drink of CGI voiced by Firefly‘s Alan Tudyk.
Then there’s the eerie, blue-eyed Jedi-like spiritual warrior Chirrut Imwe (Donnie Yen), whom the gang meet on the planet Jedha, dropping Imperial guards like they’re sick beats. “I fear nothing,” Imwe says. “All is as the Force wills it.”
Watch the trailer, below.
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Marco Rubio, Provincetown, Belle and Sebastian, Greenland Shark, James Ellington: HOT LINKS
Marco Rubio, Provincetown, Belle and Sebastian, Greenland Shark, James Ellington: HOT LINKS
FLORIDA. Marco Rubio’s lead evaporates. “Incumbent Republican Senate candidates in the three key swing states surveyed — Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio — all polled better than Trump, the survey showed. But in Florida and Pennsylvania, both considered crucial to the party’s efforts to maintain control of the Senate, the races are now too close to call.”
HILLARY CLINTON. New ad shows Republicans pressing Trump to release his tax returns: “Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns “in the coming days,” a Clinton campaign official said, adding that Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and his wife will also release a decade of tax returns.”
HEARTBREAKING. Levels of violence against LGBT teens show far greater risk: “These adolescents were three times more likely than straight students to have been raped. They skipped school far more often because they did not feel safe; at least a third had been bullied on school property. And they were twice as likely as heterosexual students to have been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property.”
GREENLAND SHARK. The longest-living vertebrate. “She was born during the reign of James I, was a youngster when René Descartes set out his rules of thought and the great fire of London raged, saw out her adolescent years as George II ascended the throne, reached adulthood around the time that the American revolution kicked off, and lived through two world wars. Living to an estimated age of nearly 400 years, a female Greenland shark has set a new record for longevity, scientists have revealed.”
RIO 2016. No Chinese among the openly gay Olympians: “The absence of Chinese athletes ‘shows that the environment isn’t here for sexual minorities to come out yet,’ Mr. Peng said in a telephone interview.”
MINNESOTA. Former banker Stephen Habberstad may get $3.5 million after court rules he was fired because he’s gay: “People can have their own views on sexual orientation. That’s not the issue,” [attorney] Lienemann said. “The issue is that people have a right to work without that impacting their employment and their ability to earn a living. Discrimination happens even among people who you think are your friends and family who support you. It’s a hard reality for a lot of people.”
THE RAY. Greg Berlanti developing first animated DC superhero series with a gay lead: “Berlanti will produce an animated series about DC Comics Freedom Fighter The Ray, with an eye on a future live-action iteration. Like so many other super mantles, The Ray identity has been assumed by multiple characters in the comics. But it’s the Ray Terrill iteration from Grant Morrison’s Multiversity that will inform the TV character. According to the CW Seed, Terrill’s backstory is that he’s a reporter who stumbles upon “a group of government scientists working on a secret project to turn light into a weapon of mass destruction.” Unfortunately, before he can get to a payphone to dictate the story to a transcriber, Ray is exposed to a “genetic light bomb,” and ends up with light-based powers.”
PROVINCETOWN. Still the place to paint and party: “Rent was always expensive in Provincetown; everything cost a lot,” insisted Mr. Waters, who first hitchhiked here in 1964 and has returned every summer since. “I don’t think it’s changed. Times have changed. And I’m 70 now, not 20. I’ve always liked to ride a bicycle here. The difference is that I used to steal a bike the first night I came and then paint it a different color the next day.”
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN. Olympic Village, 6 am. “Belle and Sebastian dig the Olympics, love the Olympic ideal, love that the world gets together for a big ‘sports day’ once every four years. We can’t be part of it, though we’d like to be. So we recorded a piece of music with Rio In mind: specifically the Track and Field. Here it is.”
FRIDAY FLESH. Team GB sprinter James Ellington.
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Rio 2016, Day 6 Report: Grindr Aftermath, Fiji’s First Medal Ever and Phelps’s 22nd
Rio 2016, Day 6 Report: Grindr Aftermath, Fiji’s First Medal Ever and Phelps’s 22nd
Swimmer Amini Fonua, of Tonga, one of the few openly gay Olympians in Rio — and our newest hero — took to Twitter to protest against the Daily Beast’s reporter Amini Fonua who used Grindr to out Olympic Athletes.
Shame this inhumane CREEP who thought it’d be funny to endanger people’s lives in the village 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 @NicoHines pic.twitter.com/5TTom3i9c6
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
As an out gay athlete from a country that is still very homophobic, @thedailybeast ought to be ashamed #deplorable t.co/qzS9rDFJwx
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
Imagine the one space you can feel safe, the one space you’re able to be yourself, ruined by a straight person who thinks it’s all a joke?
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
No straight person will ever know the pain of revealing your truth, to take that away is just… I can’t. It literally brings me to tears 😭😭
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
It is still illegal to be gay in Tonga, and while I’m strong enough to be me in front of the world, not everybody else is. Respect that.
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
He also posted a photo of his bare ass on Instagram, and wrote:
Yo @nicohines & @thedailybeast – if what you were looking for on Grindr was hot ass (and I don’t see any other reason why you’d be on there) here you have mine in all its proud glory. Now, kiss it and f**k off 👅🖕🏼 #pride“
We can’t show you his Instagram photo, but you can check it out HERE. And you really should.
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Fiji won its first Olympic medal ever, in Rugby Sevens, and the country went crazy celebrating the achievement. The island nation of 900,000 inhabitants spread across nearly 300 islands beat its former colonial ruler, Great Britain, by 43-7.
This year marks the return of the sport to the Olympics (the last time was in 1924). The version reintroduced to Rio 2016 was called rugby sevens, with faster play and smaller teams — well suited for Fijians.
Fiji fans stop traffic to celebrate Fiji 7s Olympic gold win. Only in #Fij Vinaka Ben Ryan and our boys for the win pic.twitter.com/ZxDRFAez4W
— jn (@FijianNextDoor) August 12, 2016
Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama, who was in Rio during the entire tournament, announced one more day of national holiday (there had been three, already), so that people can celebrate the country’s gold medal.
It’s a sweet moment for the impoverished South Pacific nation which is still recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Winston in February, and it has all the potential to become one of the feel-good moments of the games, but Bainimarama’s radical anti-gay views make it a little hard for us.
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It only took 2,160 years, but an athlete was finally able to break a record of twelve individual wins, set by Leonidas of Rhodes in 152 B.C. Last night Michael Phelps won his 13th individual gold for the 200-meter individual medley, bringing his total medal count to 26 (22 of them are gold, including team medals).
According to the Olympics’ official website, Leonidas of Rhodes was acclaimed as the greatest sprinter of the Ancient Games. Competing in the Games of 164 BC, he captured the crown in three separate foot races — the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos. He repeated this feat in the next three subsequent Olympics, in 160 BC, in 156 BC, and finally in 152 BC at the age of 36.
But then Phelps happened.
It wasn’t even close… #Phelps #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/O7j9cceGXi
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 12, 2016
Here’s video of some 15-year-old local swimmer named Michael Phelps when he just maybe hoped to win one medal:
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American Simone Manuel made history by becoming the first black female swimmer to win a gold medal.
“This medal is not just for me, it’s for some of the African-Americans who have been before me and been inspirations,” she told the BBC. “I hope I can be an inspiration for others. This medal is for the people who come behind me and get into the sport.”
Simone Manuel’s reaction to winning is gold: t.co/Exmye0o9Ac pic.twitter.com/NonAl3S3wA
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) August 12, 2016
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It didn’t take too long…
Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova has been temporarily suspended after testing positive for EPO, a banned substance that regulates how many red blood cells the body produces (one of the substances Lance Armstrong admitted using). The 33-year-old athlete said she was “shocked” at the results and that the only logical explanation she could give for the positive test was that the substance came from a contaminated food supplement. She was scheduled to compete on Monday, but she’s now waiting to hear the result of the test on her B sample.
Rio #Olympics2016: Bulgarian Silvia Danekova fails drugs test t.co/Pjx7FErx9c pic.twitter.com/qSdejJvYhX
— Zesty Europe News (@zesty_europe) August 12, 2016
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Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, a banned diuretic. The 18-year-old finished fourth in the women’s 100-meter butterfly and she was also scheduled to compete in the 50m meter freestyle, which begins today. The AP reported that Chen has applied to the International Olympic Committee to have her B sample tested and to get a hearing on the matter.
Chinese swimmer Chen fails doping test: Xinhua t.co/skq5ZXYWxY pic.twitter.com/NL0pbN0pFL
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 12, 2016
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Ryan Lochte goes from platinum to green, with a splash of gold:
I don’t think @RyanLochte realizes what chlorine does to bleach blonde hair. Get a good purple toning shampoo sweetie! 😘
— Sasha Allison (@sashaallison127) August 10, 2016
Photo credit: Ryan Lochte/Instagram
Top photo credit: Amini Fonua/Twitter
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Amber Rose Posts Snapchat Rant at Trolls Who Called Her Son ‘Gay’: WATCH
Amber Rose Posts Snapchat Rant at Trolls Who Called Her Son ‘Gay’: WATCH
Model, actress, and designer Amber Rose took on social media followers earlier this week who called her 3-year-old son “gay” after she posted a photo of him wearing one of her wigs.
Complex reports that “trolls quickly flooded the photo with comments saying the child, whose father is rapper Wiz Khalifa, must be gay because he was wearing a wig.”
Rose responded in a series of Snapchat videos:
“So I posted a picture of Sebastian playing with my wig earlier and all the comments are saying that my son is gay. He’s three. So everyone who is commenting, do me a favor, and go put a wig on your boyfriend, or your dad, or your baby’s father, and see if they turn gay and let me know. Oh—they didn’t turn gay? Wow! I’m so confused because I could’ve sworn you just said wigs make men gay. So how bout all you ignorant f**ks read a book and realize that your sexual orientation has nothing to do with the way you dress….educate yourself before you write a motherf**king comment.”
Watch:
Of course Rose could have added that even if her kid was gay, there’s nothing wrong with that.
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‘Daily Beast’ Pulls Article That Outed Olympic Athletes Using Grindr, Apologizes
‘Daily Beast’ Pulls Article That Outed Olympic Athletes Using Grindr, Apologizes
The Daily Beast late on Thursday removed a heavily edited and redacted article written by Nico Hines in which the reporter used Grindr to out gay athletes in the Rio Olympic village, some of whom came from countries where anti-LGBT laws could place them in harm.
RELATED: Straight Journalist Cruises Grindr at the Olympics, Outs Athletes From Anti-Gay Countries
The article caused understandable widespread outrage.
The DB called the removal of the article “unprecedented but necessary.”
The Daily Beast does not do this lightly. As shared in our editor’s note earlier today, we initially thought swift removal of any identifying characteristics and better clarification of our intent was the adequate way to address this. Our initial reaction was that the entire removal of the piece was not necessary. We were wrong. We’re sorry. And we apologize to the athletes who may have been inadvertently compromised by our story.
Today we did not uphold a deep set of The Daily Beast’s values. These values—which include standing up to bullies and bigots, and specifically being a proudly, steadfastly supportive voice for LGBT people all over the world—are core to our commitment to journalism and to our commitment to serving our readers.
As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. The article was not intended to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn’t matter, impact does. Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error.
We were wrong. We will do better.
Many are still calling for the DB to fire Hines.
Amini Fonua, an openly gay Olympic swimmer from Tonga, took to social media with fury.
As an out gay athlete from a country that is still very homophobic, @thedailybeast ought to be ashamed #deplorable t.co/qzS9rDFJwx
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
Imagine the one space you can feel safe, the one space you’re able to be yourself, ruined by a straight person who thinks it’s all a joke?
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
No straight person will ever know the pain of revealing your truth, to take that away is just… I can’t. It literally brings me to tears 😭😭
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
Shame this inhumane CREEP who thought it’d be funny to endanger people’s lives in the village 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 @NicoHines pic.twitter.com/5TTom3i9c6
— Amini Fonua (@AminiFonua) August 11, 2016
Fonua’s Instagram was even more illustrative of his anger. Check it out HERE.
Wrote Fonua: “Yo @nicohines &@thedailybeast – if what you were looking for on Grindr was hot ass (and I don’t see any other reason why you’d be on there) here you have mine in all its proud glory.
Now, kiss it and f**k off 👅🖕🏼 #pride”
Hines’ Twitter has been silent about the article.
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The Shocking, Important WeHo Art Installation Honoring Pulse's Victims (Video)
The Shocking, Important WeHo Art Installation Honoring Pulse's Victims (Video)
14 (Better) Ways to Break Up With Your Boyfriend
14 (Better) Ways to Break Up With Your Boyfriend
Breaking up is hard to do. Here are some tips for gay and bisexual men to make it easier.
www.advocate.com/sexy-beast/2016/8/12/14-better-ways-break-your-boyfriend
What Rio Looks Like So Far for LGBT Olympians, Part II (Photos)
What Rio Looks Like So Far for LGBT Olympians, Part II (Photos)
www.advocate.com/sports/2016/8/12/what-rio-looks-so-far-lgbt-olympians-part-ii-photos
