Chewbacca Mask! Public Reactions! (NOT Chewbacca Mask Laughing Lady!)
A US department store has sent a woman Chewbacca masks for her whole family, after a video of her laughing became an internet.
Candace Payne is seen - and heard - in the Facebook video rejoicing over a mask that makes noises when she opens her mouth.
The video, shared on Thursday, has reached almost 90 million views.
It shows her excitedly explain to viewers that she has just bought the "Star Wars" gift as a birthday present for herself, and laugh as she puts it on.
"I"m in a parking lot and people are literally looking at me like crazy - I don"t even care," she says.
"That"s not me making that noise, it"s the mask!", she laughs.
As she laughs hysterically, she exclaims: "Oh I"m such a happy Chewbacca!".
"This is worth every penny!".
"It is the best birthday present ever to myself...it"s the simple joys", she adds.
Now department store Kohl"s has sent Payne and her family all masks for them to wear.
They also sent them lots of other "Star Wars" accessories, saying: "Candace made the Internet"s day, so we wanted to make hers".
Image: Facebook/Kohl"s
Posing for a picture with her children, Payne posted: "One of the most incredible parts of today? Watching my kids F L I P out!!".
English-born actor-comedianAlanYoung, who was the human sidekick of thetalking horse in the Sixtiessitcom Mister Ed, died on May 19, aged96.
Young, who was born in Northumberland in 1919before his Scottish parents emigrated to Canada, was also a noted voice actor, having performed as thegrumpy Scrooge McDuck and worked on such TV shows as The Smurfs, The Great Mouse Detective andScooby-Doo.
His first breaks came in film (starring with a young Natalie Wood in the 1949 filmChicken Every Sunday, and with Shirley Temple inMr Belvedere Goes to College) before landing his own television show calledThe Alan Young Show. In 1951, he won a Primetime Emmy for outstanding leading actor.
He returned to Hollywood for his biggest film role in 1960, working with director George Pal onThe Time Machine, a 1960 adaptation of the novel by HGWells, starring a time-traveling Rod Taylor.
He was in the mind of comedian George Burns, who ran a TV production company, when they were casting for the show Mr Ed.Burns is said to have told his staff: "GetAlanYoung. He looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to."
Is Kylie Jenner dating PartyNextDoor or Jaden Smith? A new report says Kylie is in a relationship with PND following her split from Tyga. The rumor comes just days after Tyga shaded PND on Instagram.
The British tabloid The Sunalleges that Kylie and PartyNextDoor, aka Jahron Brathwaite, are "mad for each other." And while the story is not confirmed, Kylie and PND have been close for a while. She and sister Kendall Jenner even made cameos in his "Recognize" music video in 2014.
Kylie and PartyNextDoor have been hanging out since her split from Tyga, as well. Last week, PND shared a photo of the duo showing off their watches. He captioned the pic, " Diamond battles with@kyliejenner."
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Just hours later Tyga posted a photo of his own watch, also with the caption, "Diamond battles." So was he throwing shade at his ex and her rumored new boyfriend?
PartyNextDoor isn"t the only star who has been linked to Kylie Jenner in recent days. She was also spotted partying at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktailswith Jaden Smith, Scott Disick and Harry Hudson. And a source told Celebuzz that Kylie and Jaden were "very friendly" throughout the night. So fans are wondering if she will get back together with Will Smith"s son.
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"Kylie was sitting between Scott and Jaden," the source added. "When Justine [Skye] was singing, all three of them got up to dance. Jaden and Harry even climbed onto a bench during the performance and started jumping around. Kylie had a bunch of girls with her too and they went everywhere together. She was enjoying herself and mingling with guests. Shedidnt look torn about Tyga at all."
Kylie Jenner and Jaden Smith remain close, so fans are wondering if they will get back together.
Indeed, it"s clear that Kylie Jenner isn"t dwelling on her breakup with Tyga. The two split earlier this month after dating off and on for about two years. "He was lying repeatedly to her face and she just couldn"t take it anymore," a source told People of the breakup. "She couldn"t trust a word he said."
Tyga is also moving on from Kylie Jenner. He was recently spotted at a Beyonc concert with Karlie Redd from Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. But he admitted that he will always have feelings for his ex.
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"I think, you know, we"re both just focused on our lives, our individual lives right now," hetold TMZ about the breakup. "Sometimes things don"t work out, you know, but I love her."
Do you think Jaden Smith or PartyNextDoor is a better match for Kylie? Let us know your take in the comments section below!
SEAL BEACH >> Black smoke filled the sky and flames burned bright orange Friday morning as a fire inside the closed Rubys Diner at the end of the Seal Beach Pier burned for more than an hour.
PHOTOS: Blaze erupts at abandoned Rubys Diner on Seal Beach Pier
A fire started around 7:35 a.m. inside the restaurant, and firefighters were pumping water through standpipes at the end of the pier to try to contain the fire, but it spread underneath, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said.
Four fire boats from Long Beach Fire Department, one from the Orange County Sheriffs Department and Seal Beach Marine Safety responded to assist from the ocean, Concialdi said. Originally eight boats were called to help, but some didnt make it.
About 70 firefighters from OCFA, Long Beach and Huntington Beach also responded.
The fire was initially knocked down at 9:05 a.m., Concialdi said, but flames re-emerged around 10:45 a.m.
The pier does not have stability issues, but the structure has been destroyed, Concialdi said.
At some point Friday morning, a standpipe at the end of the pier malfunctioned, causing firefighters to rely more heavily on about 2,000 feet of hoses to battle the flames, Concialdi said.
The pier is a quarter-mile long, OCFA Capt. Larry Kurtz said. (Firefighters) have to lay down hose all the way to the building by hand and each of those rolls weighs about 90 pounds. Its very taxing work.
A firefighter was injured while battling the blaze and was taken to Los Alamitos Medical Center, Concialdi said.
OCFA and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators began examining the charred remains of Rubys Diner and an adjacent structure around 11:30 a.m., although the buildings were still smoldering and roofs completely caved in.
Fire officials were investigating the remains of the building after the flames were extinguished. It was unclear how long it would take to determine a cause.
Electrical, gas and water lines run under the piers wooden planks and it was an electrical wiring short that caused a fire that badly burned the pier on May 15, 1992.
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Rubys Diner closed in January 2013, and the building has been vacant and fenced off since then.
Michael Pless Jr., one of the owners of M&M Surfing School based in Seal Beach, said he was surfing when he smelled smoke before seeing flames under the pier.
Do I smell something cooking? he said he thought when he smelled the fire.
Shortly after, Pless said he saw six firefighters hanging off a Seal Beach Police Department patrol car speeding toward the fire.
David Gillispie, 26, was surfing with Pless and was about 200 feet away from the pier when the fire started.
There were chunks of wood falling into the water, Gillispie said.
Robert Christiansen, 61 of Anaheim was sitting on his beach chair facing the ocean when he spotted the smoke.
I thought Maybe theyre doing some sort of control cleanup fire; I hope its not what I think it is, he said.
But then he saw the smoke building up and emergency crews arriving.
Firefighters told the fishermen and pedestrians on the pier to vacate as the smoke continued to build.
Its pretty serious; hopefully theyll get it under control, Christiansen said.
Rachel Kuryan, who lives nearby, walked out to see the fire with her dog and a friend.
She said some of her fondest childhood memories involve going to the Seal Beach Pier with her family.
(Rubys) is where my mom would come for her birthday, Kuryan said. She doesnt even like hamburgers.
Kuryan hopes the pier, which is the second longest wooden pier in California, will be restored.
The good news, its a small section of the pier and hopefully it will be open very soon, Kurtz said.
BangFit: The fitness method gyms don’t want you to know about
Well d**n. Weve got to give credit where credit is due, and this ad for BangFitbasically a Fitbit for your s*x life created by the great minds at PornHubis hilarious. Can you imagine competing against your friends and their partners to see who gets the best workout during s*x?
Guys have to strap the BangFit band (it looks like a cross between a f***y pack and a wrestling belt with a compartment for your smartphone) around their waist before they get hot and heavy. The app scores sexercizes based on how well you perform them, so you can brag about how healthy your s*x life is on social media.
With a fully functioning website, BangFit could be the future of health-conscious s*x. But since the band is sold out, were more inclined to believe that this is just an exceptionally smart marketing stunt. But that doesn"t mean companies like Fitbit and Jawbone (an appropriate name) can"t use it as inspiration for future products.
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Yesterday, John Berry, a founding member of the Beastie Boys passed away of frontal lobe dementia at 52. To some, his name could be considered merely a footnote in the history of the groundbreaking musical unit since he quit three years before the success of their debaucherous debut full-length Licensed to Ill.
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But to those who were there on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 80s witnessing the punk scenes shift from the narcotic-fueled nihilism of the likes of Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers into the boundless youthful energy of hardcore, Berry was a vital part of the transition. Along with his fellow Beastie Boys he was right there with bands like Bad Brains and the Stimulators critiquing Ronald Reagans Morning in America armed with their guitars and an unshakable angst.
Berry established the band under its original moniker of The Young Aborigines in the late 70s alongside Michael Diamond (Mike D) and future Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach. Besides being immersed in creating music, John was also known as something of a rapscallion on the club scene of New York at the time, like the time when he (allegedly) pelted snowballs at British proto-goth rockers Bauhaus during their debut US performance at the Rock Lounge.
Bauhaus: victims of Berrys snowballs, maybe. Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns
Young Aborigines played a few gigs before John changed their name to the Beastie Boys. In some bizarre form of self-promotion, the band would repeatedly call into the only Hardcore Punk radio show in New York at the time Tim Sommers Noise The Show and request their own material, even though the Beasties had not recorded or performed yet. The band eventually recorded some four-track demos in Berrys loft on 100th Street, which Sommer played and pushed very enthusiastically on the show. The band returned the favor when they interspliced segments of Sommers read-backs from his radio show on the collection of their early Hardcore material Some Old Bullshit released in 1994.
Besides playing guitar in the Beastie Boys, Berry also moonlighted as the vocalist for another band that existed in the embryonic stages of New York hardcore punk scene, the chaotic Even Worse. Jack Rabid, the drummer as well as the editor of the long-running underground music publication The Big Takeover remembers how John got the gig one summer day in 1980. We had a gig at the bandshell in Tompkins Square Park one Saturday afternoon and our vocalist John Pourdias didnt come and we had no singer. Nick goes Thats OK! and pans the crowd, sees a guy and says to him: You look like Johnny Rotten! Come up here and be our singer! So thats how John Berry became our singer. Berrys tenure as Even Worse vocalist lasted until the end of 1980 when he went on to concentrate solely on the Beastie Boys.
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The only recorded output Berry would appear on in the time of him being in the band was their debut 7in EP, Pollywog Stew from 1982. Johns guitar playing on the record is just as spirited and shambolic as any of the players who were his peers on the hardcore punk scene in the 80s, but there was something about it that made it singular in its recklessness. Not necessarily burly enough to be a forerunner to what New York hardcore would be known for a decade later with the likes of Biohazard, but still delivered with enough mischief to make you p***k up your ears and take notice.
For me, Berrys playing and the famous photo of the band sitting curbside from the back of the EP are one in the same. In the image, Berry sits looking pensively with his hands on his knees eyeing something in the distance as if hes about to leap into attack mode once the photo is taken. An angsty weisenheimer quick with a joke, John Berry is yet another important piece of the puzzle in the history of Americas hardcore punk scene of the early 80s gone and, hopefully, never forgotten.
EXCLUSIVE: Behind-the-Scenes of DNCE"s New Music Video, Featuring Ashley Graham!
Maybe 2016 should just rename itself theYear Of Ashley Graham. So far this year,thegorgeous model has takenthe fashion world by storm by posing on the cover of the 2016Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, rocking the cover of Maxim, and modelingin designer Christian Sirianos first plus-size runway show.
Back when the28-year-old was first starting her career, however, she wasnt always treated with the respect she deserves. I had agencies telling me that I had to lose weight, Graham recently revealed to People. I had one that waved money in my face and said, If you lose more lbspoundsyou can make a lot more of this, and he was waving $20 bills in my face. Wow, rude much?
That agents terrible attitude was apparently an attempt to push Graham into dropping pounds quickly, but she wasnt having it. I was peaking at a size 18, and in the plus size fashion industry, models go from a size 8 to a size 16/18, she explained to People. So if youre on the smaller size or the bigger size, youre not going to work as much as if youre in the middle. So he was trying to encourage me to lose weight but it didnt work, because I was that person where if you told me to go on a diet and lose weight, Im just going to gain weight.
Graham, who grew up in Nebraska, shared with the mag that whileher classmates sometimes teased her for her size, her mom always fostered a positive body image at home. Things gottougher emotionallywhen Graham moved to New York City at age 17. I had gained a lot of weight because my mom wasnt cooking for me and I wasnt working out, she told People. I started to really hate myself. I would literally just look in the mirror, and I would be disgusted. It was a constant degrading of my body. Youre fat. Youre ugly. Youre worthless. Im surprised youre a model, are some of the things I would say to myself.
Years ofnegative thoughts started to crushGrahams spirit. Eventually, she hit a wall and grew determined to be kind toherself, no matter her sizeand that sent her careeron a more positive trajectory than ever before. A lot of taking care of my body and my mind and my soul had to do with talking to myself and actually giving myself affirmations, she told the magazine. It got me out of my funk. I still had cellulite, I still had back fat, I still had jiggly arms, and I decided to love every part of it. Heres to taking a cue from Graham and choosing to loveevery part of our bodies. Life is too short for anything else!
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