Wednesday, September 2, 2015

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Hurricane Katrina Rescuer to Reunite With Girl from Iconic Photograph

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 09:04 AM PDT

A man who worked as a pararescue jumper in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will reunite with the little girl he hugged in a now-iconic photograph.

Mike Maroney, now an Air Force Reservist, received a smiling hug from then-three-year-old Lashay Brown after picking up her and her mother in a helicopter in 2005, People reports. A military photographer took the widely disseminated photo, but Maroney never got Brown’s name. Over the years, he’s tried to find her through social media, but he had no luck—until now.

A 16-year-old named Andrew Goard, who runs an Instagram page honoring pararescue jumpers, became aware of Maroney’s search and launched the #FindKatrinaGirl hashtag earlier this year. When a local news outlet near where Brown now lives in Mississippi picked up the story, neighbors alerted her mother, who finally contacted Maroney. He and Brown plan to meet up later this month.

“I was excited that he was looking for me for such a long time,” Brown, now 13, tells People. After all, she exclaims, “I’ve barely seen any of the pictures!”

[People]

Watch Kanye West’s VMAs Speech Recut as a Stand-Up Comedy Act

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 08:07 AM PDT

Still haven’t seen Kanye West’s speech from this past weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards, where he announced he was running for president in 2020? Then we recommend watching the below clip, which reimagines the speech as a stand-up comedy act.

All it took was a laugh track and some clever cuts to audience members — including Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift — laughing and clapping. “Pryor, Carlin, Seinfeld, C.K…Yeezy?” writes creator David Elmaleh in the video description. We can totally see it.

This video has inspired others to create their own Kanye speech mashups, including this one, which incorporates the Seinfeld intro music.

A Bride Ran Into Robert Pattinson at Her Wedding and Posed for This Epic Photo

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 07:42 AM PDT

A celebrity sighting made a wedding in Northern Ireland even more special.

Wedding videographer Reuben Skinner uploaded a photo to Facebook on August 30 that showed a bearded Robert Pattinson, the star from the Twilight movies, posing with the bride and her friends the night before at the Culloden Hotel in Belfast.

Here is another shot from Instagram:

#robertpattinson #northernireland #cullodenhotel #tomandsarahswedding #celebrities

A photo posted by rachelreid76 (@rachelreid76) on

Skinner told Mashable that the other wedding guests had spotted him at the hotel bar, so the women rushed over to try to catch a glimpse and take some shots with the actor.

Watch a Young Serena Williams Predict a Lifetime of Excellence

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 07:19 AM PDT

Gatorade’s latest “Win From Within” ad features an ever inspiring Serena Williams in a series of flashbacks from her career. The tennis champ, who is currently competing in the U.S. Open, has been put on a pedestal of being perhaps the best in the sport — and this ad completely backs that up.

If Williams wins the U.S. Open, she will be the first woman to win a calendar year Grand Slam — which includes a sweep of the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open — since 1988.

Watch as the young athlete is interviewed about who she wants to be like when she grows up. Her answer? She wants people to be like her.

Watch This 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient Sing ‘Fight Song’ With Rachel Platten

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 07:19 AM PDT

Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” has become an anthem this summer. It soundtracked a Girl Scouts PSA, appeared on The Biggest Loser and the trailer for Supergirl, and was used in one of Good Morning America’s inspirational campaigns. Now, the track has taken on a new and even more personal meaning.

Platten sang the hit with a cancer patient, 7-year-old Jeremiah Succar, at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after finding out through social media that Succar was a huge fan of the song since he was diagnosed with stage-four atypical rhabdoid teratoid in May. “He used to sing it when he got a lot of headaches, but now he sings it in the morning, before bed and during shots he has to get,” Succar’s father Jerry Succar told CHLA.org.

The Succars started a campaign on Instagram and used#RachelMeetJeremiah to catch Platten’s attention. It worked, and Platten visited Succar in his hospital room to play the song, which you can hear below.

After meeting him, she wrote on Instagram, “The Greek was cool….but THIS was amazing. I love you Jeremiah, thanks for inspiring me and rocking out with me!!!”

Earlier this summer, Platten spoke to EW about realizing the song’s impact after hearing it used by cheerleaders, other cancer patients, and campaigns. “The first time it happened, a woman who had cancer sent an email to her family [saying], ‘I have three months to live, but I don’t want you to be sad. I want you to know this is how I feel, and this song is my anthem,’” she said. “I knew the song was helping me, but seeing what a difference it had had on this woman’s life made me realize there was something to this song. People need to hear this, it’s connecting to people’s lives. This is going to help.”

This article originally appeared on EW.com

 

Watch American Who Took Down Terrorist on French Train Talk To Jimmy Fallon

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 05:19 AM PDT

Three weeks ago Anthony Sadler was just an American tourist on a European vacation. Now, he’s an American hero chatting with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.

“I look back and there’s the gunman just coming in the train cocking an AK,” Sadler told Fallon during his show on Tuesday. “And I was like is this real is someone playing a joke?”

Sadler, along with two American friends also traveling on vacation, charged and subdued the terrorist, saving dozens of lives and earning international praise.

But Fallon couldn’t allow Sadler’s appearance with landing a few cracks. In addition to discussing Sadler’s heroic actions, Fallon devoted much of the segment to joking about the trio’s time in Amsterdam, where their train originated. The Netherlands capital is known for it’s loose laws allowing drugs and partying.

“You’re in Amsterdam because it’s so pretty there?” said Fallon before cracking up laughing. “You’re taking photographs, you’re taking in the art scene there. Of course, that’s what people do in Amsterdam!”

Fox News Anchor Harris Faulkner Sues Hasbro Over Same-Named Toy Hamster

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 04:30 AM PDT

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner isn’t playing around when it comes to a plastic toy hamster that shares her name.

The Emmy-winning newscaster has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Hasbro Inc. alleging that the toymaker has “willfully and wrongfully appropriated [her] unique and valuable name and distinctive persona for its own financial gain” by making and selling a cartoonish rodent figurine dubbed Harris Faulkner, according to papers obtained by Deadline.

The doll, a diminutive hamster with bulging eyes and a lock of brown hair, was released last year as part of Hasbro’s Littlest Pet Shop toy line. Other figurines in the line include Honey Badgely, a badger; Benson Detwylver, a terrier; and Bitsy Mudinsky, a piglet.

The suit says, “In addition to its prominent and unauthorized use of Faulkner’s name, elements of the Harris Faulkner Hamster Doll also bear a physical resemblance to Faulkner’s traditional professional appearance, in particular tone of its complexion, the shape of its eyes, and the design of its eye makeup.”

Faulkner, who appears on the news programs Fox Report and Outnumbered, is also “extremely distressed that her name has been wrongly associated with a plastic toy that is a known choking hazard that risks harming small children,” per the lawsuit.

A Hasbro spokesperson did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.com

Bette Midler Wants to Play Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence’s Mom

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 04:26 AM PDT

Newfound best friends (and noted Billy Joel fans) Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer recently announced that they are working on a screenplay together. Better yet, it’s a comedy — and the two want to play sisters. Nothing else has been announced about the project, but at least one actress is already is angling for a role: The Divine Miss M herself.

Bette Midler nominated herself for a part in Lawrence and Schumer’s movie on Twitter, writing: “Hmm, who could play their mother? She’d have to be DIVINE!”

Lawrence can count Midler as one of her biggest fans: She defended Lawrence for her First Wives Club “I beat Meryl” joke at the Golden Globes, and she’s repeatedly praised the actress’s charms on Twitter.

This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.com

Watch This Prominent German Literary Critic Scrutinize Ikea’s Catalogue

Posted: 02 Sep 2015 01:04 AM PDT

Hellmuth Karasek is probably Germany’s most famous living literary critic, and so perhaps it is his intellectual duty to examine the book that calls itself the world’s most circulated. That book is Ikea’s annual catalogue, with twice as many copies as the Bible printed each year.

In a new promotional video for the Swedish furniture firm, Karasek turns his faculties to the catalogue, treating it as if it’s an attempted piece of literature.

“It is a furnished novel,” he says. “The characters are forced to crowd themselves between the furniture, they seldom get their say, they barely speak coherently — and yet this work has become such a success.”

He then goes on to disdainfully read aloud from its pages. Watch for yourself.

 

This Chef Makes Fries From Slivers of McDonald’s Cheeseburger and It’s the Stuff of Dreams

Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:38 PM PDT

Chef Tym Bussanich has created the ultimate fast-food snack — a McDonald’s cheeseburger that’s been rolled, breaded, sliced and deep-fried into a tasty, gooey chip that he calls the ‘Mc Fry.’

“I hope the Internet is ready for this!!!” he wrote on Instagram. “The fry game is reaching a whole new level!!!!”

He even posted a step-by-step video demonstrating the process involved in creating these culinary delights so you can make them at home.

Bussanich has made a name for himself on social media by creating ingenious food creations, which usually involve stuffing one foodstuff (quite often cheese) into another.

Included in Bussanich’s gastronomic repertoire is the Bacon-Wrapped Big Mac, Stuffed Chicken Tots and Steak Bombs.
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