Teaser Trailer of the Day: Straight from the MTV VMAs, the first official clip from Gary Ross’s big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling YA sci-fi novel, The Hunger Games.
The film, which stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Donald Sutherland, is set to hit theaters March 23, 2012.
[mtv.]
World’s Highest Thing of the Day: In Queenstown, New Zealand, 160m above the Nevis Canyon floor, hangs the highest — and biggest — swing in the world.
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Animated Short of the Day: For her Academy of Art University thesis film, Ting Chian Tey animated an adorable, allegorical short “about four animal characters trying to cross a bridge, but ending up as obstacles to one another in the process.”
[ting.]
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Darwin Award Winner of the Day: A man taking part in a protest against mandatory helmet laws died after losing control of his motorcycle and striking his helmet-less head on the pavement.
Parish-resident Philip A. Contos was riding his 1983 Harley Davidson along Route 11 in Onondaga, New York, with members of American Bikers Aimed Towards Education, “a safety, educational, charitable and advocacy motorcyclist organization” that opposes “laws mandating use of helmets at all times by all riders.”
The attending physician who examined Contos’s body told troopers that the 55-year-old would have survived the crash were he wearing a Department of Transportation-approved helmet.
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Darwin Award Winner of the Day: A man taking part in a protest against mandatory helmet laws died after losing control of his motorcycle and striking his helmet-less head on the pavement.
Parish-resident Philip A. Contos was riding his 1983 Harley Davidson along Route 11 in Onondaga, New York, with members of American Bikers Aimed Towards Education, “a safety, educational, charitable and advocacy motorcyclist organization” that opposes “laws mandating use of helmets at all times by all riders.”
The attending physician who examined Contos’s body told troopers that the 55-year-old would have survived the crash were he wearing a Department of Transportation-approved helmet.
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Big Deal of the Day: A Guardian investigation has uncovered what may likely be the most despicable allegation of phone hacking by News of the World yet in the ongoing scandal.
According to the report, evidence obtained by Scotland Yard suggests NotW journalists had purposely deleted messages from missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s personal voicemail box — which they had accessed with the help of private investigators — giving her parents false hope that their daughter was still alive, and directly interfering with police investigation into her March 2002 disappearance.
Dowler’s body was found six months later; her murderer, serial killer Levi Bellfield, was convicted of the crime last month.
News International chief executive and then-NotW editor Rebekah Brooks told her employees in an e-mail that it was “inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations,” adding that she was “sickened that these events are alleged to have happened” but would not be resigning despite mounting pressure.
Glenn Mulcaire, the PI at the center of the scandal, released a statement to The Guardian, saying he wanted “to apologise to anybody who was hurt or upset by what I have done,” though would not address the Milly Dowler phone hacking directly.
Meanwhile, a rare emergency Commons debate on the matter will take place, at which Labour is expected to call for a public inquiry.
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Big Deal of the Day: A Guardian investigation has uncovered what may likely be the most despicable allegation of phone hacking by News of the World yet in the ongoing scandal.
According to the report, evidence obtained by Scotland Yard suggests NotW journalists had purposely deleted messages from missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s personal voicemail box — which they had accessed with the help of private investigators — giving her parents false hope that their daughter was still alive, and directly interfering with police investigation into her March 2002 disappearance.
Dowler’s body was found six months later; her murderer, serial killer Levi Bellfield, was convicted of the crime last month.
News International chief executive and then-NotW editor Rebekah Brooks told her employees in an e-mail that it was “inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations,” adding that she was “sickened that these events are alleged to have happened” but would not be resigning despite mounting pressure.
Glenn Mulcaire, the PI at the center of the scandal, released a statement to The Guardian, saying he wanted “to apologise to anybody who was hurt or upset by what I have done,” though would not address the Milly Dowler phone hacking directly.
Meanwhile, a rare emergency Commons debate on the matter will take place, at which Labour is expected to call for a public inquiry.
[guardian.]
Celebrity Shill of the Day: Introducing the latest “ambassador” for L’Oreal Paris’s Men Expert line: Hugh Laurie.
[ontd.]
Related: JCVD for Coors Light.
