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Cannes Film Festival is known for its standing ovations and this year, we’re trying to predict how long they’ll last.

The Cannes Film Festival, perhaps the glitziest, most glamorous film festival of them all, is now in full swing. Celebrities and journalists alike have gathered on the French Riviera for 11 days of movie premieres and press conferences.

In the next few days, the internet will be full of reviews for the new films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay and even Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (here’s one!). We’re also going to be getting daily updates on the lengths of the standing ovations each film gets, a scoring methodology that’s Cannes’ own version of a Rotten Tomatoes score.

Most films presented at the festival will get a standing ovation and (some) headlines love to highlight the specific minutes the audience stayed standing up and clapping.

John Wayne was a humbled man early in the 1960s. His passion project, "The Alamo," had fallen well short of box office expectations in 1961. An epic Western about the siege of the basement-less San Antonio mission, Wayne directed the film and took its failure personally. He didn't need a hit; even at his lowest point in the 1970s, a Wayne picture at a certain budget level was an automatic greenlight. Still, Wayne was a prideful man who actively tended to his legacy; he was mindful of his fan base, and sought their approval. So Wayne came charging out of his corner in 1962, and knocked out every last naysayer with Howard Hawks' "Hatari!," "How the West Was Won," "The Longest Day" and John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

The Ford movie could've been Wayne's Western swan song, but a rifle-toting Wayne astride a horse still held commercial appeal,...

The list of people that bug Larry David could fill a phone book, but one target of his general disdain for humanity isn’t one we would have expected: Elmo – and he’s not even human! The same week that Elmo began trending for doing a wellness check on his followers, Larry David did what so many wanted to do when Tickle Me Elmo came out. Yes, Larry David assaulted Elmo…and he’d do it again if he had the chance.

When asked about the incident not too long ago on Today – in which Larry David grabbed Elmo’s face and swatted at his father, Louie – David told Seth Meyers, “Elmo was talking. I was waiting to be interviewed, and Elmo was going on about mental health and I had to listen to every word. And I was going, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, I don’t think...

Chicago – They often are the background people, the best friends or townspeople in various film and TV parts. Two character actors, who have over 200 roles between them, passed away recently. Dick Miller and Julie Adams were both previous subjects for the lens of photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com.

’That Guy’ Dick Miller in 2014

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Dick Miller has over 100 film credits under his belt, and was a go-to guy during the golden age (1960s and ‘70s) in many of director Roger Corman productions, the cheap and quick films that audiences loved during the era. His Corman films include “The Little Shop of Horrors” (1960), “X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes” (1963), “The Wild Angels” (1966), “Big Bad Mama” (1974) and “Capone” (1975). He also did small and larger parts in mainstream titles such as “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “Executive Action” (1973), “New York, New York” (1977), “All the Right Moves...

Julie Adams, best known for her role as Kay Lawrence in the beloved 1954 monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, passed away on February 3. She was 92. Adams' son Mitchell Danton revealed that the actress died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

Her many other credits included the Elvis Presley-starring Tickle Me (1965) , Dennis Hopper's film The Last Movie (1971), the TV show Murder, She Wrote (1987-1993), and the Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center (2006).

Adams' soap opera roles included Paula Denning on Capitol (1982-1987), Arlene Beevis in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993) and Mrs. Damarrs on Melrose Place (1999).

Those who have paid tribute to Adams include Patton Oswalt and director Guillermo del Toro, whose Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water was clearly influenced by Creature from the Black Lagoon.

"I mourn Julie Adams passing," wrote del Toro on Twitter. "It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim."

"Julie Adams has returned to the Black Lagoon,...

Iconic horror movie actress Julie Adams, who starred as Kay Lawrence in Creature from the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.

Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

She rose to fame as the woman who wore a white, one-piece bathing suit to take a dip in a lagoon in the 1954 film as the Gill-man beneath copied her every movie. The scene was often recreated in movies like Jaws and The Shape of Water.

I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.

Julie Adams, the actress best-known for playing the bathing damsel in distress in 1954's monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon passed away on Sunday, February 3rd in Los Angeles. She was 92-years old. Adams' official website made the announcement. She was a leading lady in the 1950s for Universal and appeared in many of their projects over the years and continued to work for six decades. While she is arguably best-known for the horror classic Creature From the Black Lagoon, she had a number of notable roles.

Julie Adams was born as Betty May Adams on October 17th, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa. Her family moved around a lot when she was a child, but she spent 8 years in Arkansas, which is the longest that her family ever stayed in one place. In 1946, at the age of 19, Adams was crowned Little Miss Arkansas and later moved out to Hollywood to start an acting career.

Julie Adams, the beautiful, leggy brunette with the cascading curls best remembered as the ‘Girl in the White One-Piece’ in the 1954 horror classic Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954), has died. She was 92.

Julie will always be best known as Kay Lawrence, the beauty that the Gillman falls in love with the moment he spies her swimming above him in Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Mimicking her movements in the water, the Creature performs a lustful underwater mating dance – he’s directly beneath her but she’s unaware of his amorous overtures in the murky depths of the river. It’s a desire most men (and monster kids) could relate to and Julie Adams is the actress who will always be fondly remembered as the ‘girl in the white one-piece’.

Born Betty May Adams and raised near Little Rock Arkansas, Julie was bit by the acting bug early and moved to California to become an actress.

Creature From the Black Lagoon star Julie Adams, an actress who, like Fay Wray and Evelyn Ankers before her won the hearts of classic Hollywood monsters and then generations of devoted fans, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.

Adams’ death was confirmed on her official website.

Where Wray perched atop the Empire State Building with King Kong and Ankers ran through fog-shrouded forests pursued by The Wolf Man, Adams secured her place in horror iconography underwater, notably an indelible scene in the 1954 Creature during which the actress, in a one-piece white bathing suit, swims atop the lagoon water as the creature known as the Gil-Man mimics her moves some feet below. The imagery would be echoed in countless films thereafter, memorably in both Jaws and 2017’s The Shape of Water.

“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” tweeted del Toro today. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.

Julie Adams, the actress best-known for starring in the 1954 monster horror film “The Creature From the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.

Adams died Sunday in Los Angeles, according to her official website.

“The Shape of Water” director Guillermo del Toro paid tribute to the actress, writing, “I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”

During her storied career, Adams appeared in 50 films and even more television episodes. Along with “Creature From the Black Lagoon, which catapulted her film career, she starred alongside Elvis Presley in 1965’s “Tickle Me,” worked with Dennis Hopper in 1971’s “The Last Movie,” and appeared with Jimmy Stewart in “Bend in the River.” Her other movie roles include “Francis Joins the Wacs,” “The Private War of Major Benson,” “Mississippi Gambler,” “Bright Victory,” and “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.”

Born Betty May Adams on Oct. 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa, Adams...

Julie Adams, an actress best known for playing the damsel in distress in the 1954 monster movie “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died Sunday at age 92, according to her official website.

Guillermo del Toro, whose 2017 Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” was inspired by the Universal cult classic, paid tribute to Adams online. “I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”

During her long career in Hollywood, Adams starred opposite Rock Hudson in 1953’s “Lawless Breed,” Van Helfin in 1953’s “Wings of the Hawk” and Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me” and Dennis Hopper in 1971’s “The Last Movie.”

Her most recent film credit was a voiceover in Roman Polanski’s 2011 drama “Carnage.”

The Iowa native also had a long career in television, notably playing the...

Julie Adams, the comely brunette with the cascading curls best remembered as the damsel in distress in the 1954 horror classic Creature From the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.

Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton, a TV editor, told The Hollywood Reporter.

In more than six decades in film and on television, Adams also starred with Donald O'Connor in Francis Joins the Wacs (1954), played opposite Elvis Presley in Tickle Me (1965) and appeared with Dennis Hopper in The Last Movie (1971) and with John Wayne in McQ (1974).

Fans of Murder, She Wrote know Adams for ...

Julie Adams, the comely brunette with the cascading curls best remembered as the damsel in distress in the 1954 horror classic Creature From the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.

Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton, a TV editor, told The Hollywood Reporter.

In more than six decades in film and on television, Adams also starred with Donald O'Connor in Francis Joins the Wacs (1954), played opposite Elvis Presley in Tickle Me (1965) and appeared with Dennis Hopper in The Last Movie (1971) and with John Wayne in McQ (1974).

Fans of Murder, She Wrote know Adams for ...

Jim Dandy Dec 6, 2017

More change comes for the Legends of Tomorrow ahead of the midseason break, and it left us floored. Spoilers ahead...

This review contains spoilers.

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3.9 Beebo The God Of War

So, Jax left.

About halfway through the episode, I wrote in my notes "Man, how are they going to make this emotionally poignant when it's so goddamn funny?" So needless to say I didn't see the end of Beebo The God Of War coming, which is part of why Jax's departure hit me that hard.

It makes perfect sense as to why. After last week and the death of Martin Stein, he's powerless, alone and a bit of a loose appendage on the Legends. If he stuck around, we'd be constantly wondering when he would get his Firestorm powers back.

Ryan Gosling and Elvis Presley's famous rides are about to be up for grabs -- meaning this is probably your one and only shot to plant your ass where theirs were ... if ya got the dough. Auction houses Dan Kruse Classics and Flat 12 Gallery are unloading a hangar full of cars and motorcycles used in movies like Elvis' "Tickle Me," Ryan's "Drive" and Nic Cage's "Ghost Rider." They also have vehicles from shows like "Sons of Anarchy,...

Tickle Me Elmo is, like, the cutest fuzzy little red fella on God’s green earth… until he’s “skinned,” with only his mechanical bones showing. And then, not so cute. The creative whackadoos at the entertainment website TheCHIVE stripped the beloved Muppet of his trademark fur, gave him a tickle and, although he still giggled, the effect was a whole lot let adorable and a whole lot more creepy. Check it out:...

Ah, old school toy crazes are a funny thing, don't you think? Remember Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Kids, and Tickle Me Elmo? Heh, I've got a quick story for you about that little red menace. At the time of its release, I actually found a Tickle Me Elmo buried in a pile of other stuffed animals in a local Toys "R" Us. Upon pulling the giggling monster out of the assortment... Read More...

Few things get the New Year started quite like Champagne and a new gym membership. But if you’re like us, updating your beauty collection might just take precedence over your barre class schedule — in which case, these brand new beauty launches will get you hyped for the 12 months ahead. So if you’re putting off lacing up those sneakers, consider that there’s no better time to get your vanity in shape than now — especially with these products launching this month.

1. Caitlyn Jenner’s M.A.C. Collection

Creating just one single lipstick wasn’t enough for Jenner, who,...

New York City’s annual Doc NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you’ve been looking to beef up on your documentary consumption, Doc NYC is the perfect chance to check out a wide variety of some of the year’s best fact-based features.

Ahead, we pick out 13 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.

“Cameraperson”

Kirsten Johnson’s “visual memoir” has already completed a starry trot around the festival circuit, kicking off with a lauded debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but it still demands to be seen by a wider audience. Johnson made her bones as a cinematographer on a number of well-known (and well-loved) documentaries,...

Need to catch up? Check out last week’s Outlander recap here.

In the arcade-claw game that is Jamie Fraser’s life, another coveted — and, in this case, annoyingly smug and deserving of death — toy just slipped out of grasp.

This week’s Outlander has Lord Broch Tuarach run into his longtime enemy/recent rapist Black Jack Randall, and it’s not long before the two men make plans to duel. But Claire decides that the threat to her future husband (as in, husband from the future) is too great, and for reasons we’ll get to in a minute,...

Nostalgia for the '90s is in full swing, as evidenced by a ton of TV show revivals and movie sequels and reboots being greenlit left and right. The upcoming Independence Day: Resurgence is one of those properties, picking up twenty years after the events of the 1996 original. But YouTuber Dane Boe, using some pretty awesome visual effects wizardry, reworked the trailer for Resurgence into Independence Day: Return of the '90s, a delightfully ridiculous premise that sees stars Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman battling '90s-centric toys like Tickle Me Elmos and Furbies. It doesn't get much more '90s than a Troll riding on an N64 controller, and that's another threat to the planet on display here. Check it out:

Via: GammaSquad...

In recent years we’ve seen big changes in the Pop Culture retail landscape. Record stores are a thing of the past, of course. We all buy, own and experience music in very different ways than we did even ten years ago. Big toy stores like Toys R Us continue to struggle while small stores become as rare as Tickle Me Elmo was a decade ago. Independent bookstores have struggled, clobbered by online sales and the big chains. In fact, the remaining big retail chains are struggling too.

Barnes & Noble reported that revenue for its fiscal first quarter (which ended on Aug 1st – contradicting all those calendars they sell) at its retail stores and website fell to $939 million, a drop of 1.7% vs. the previous year. Ebida (earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization) for their retail business fell $21 million, to $45 million, versus a year ago.

But independent bookstores that focus on events,...

It's seldom an accident. It's not a lightning strike or a shooting star — more like a mad science. It's specifically designed to make viewers weak in the knees and unable to suppress an "Awwwww" while held in its thrall. (Resistance is futile.) It's the art of manufacturing mass-produced, all-consuming Pop Culture Cuteness — and it's huge business.

For the most part, the cuteness-industrial-complex runs parallel to the zeitgeist, but sometimes — when the stars align to shine a certain twinkle down upon us — it violently butts into the mainstream. The recent arrival of Minions,...

They may have toys in their millions all under one roof, but Breaking Bad dolls is a step too far for Toys R Us…

Here’s one from our ‘you couldn’t make this up’ department. While Breaking Bad merchandise is to be expected, who would have thought that a Toys R Us exec would deem it a good idea to sell them in a kids’ toy shop?

Being able to pick up a Walter White or Jesse Pinkman doll – complete with meth-based accessories! - in the same shop as Lego, My Little Pony and Tickle Me Elmo (is that still a thing?) apparently doesn’t go down well with parents. Who could have guessed?

"While the show may be compelling viewing for adults, its violent content and celebration of the drug trade make this collection unsuitable to be sold alongside Barbie dolls and Disney characters," wrote Susan Schrivjer, the...

Shia Labeouf should maybe start going by Lie-a Labeouf. Dude loves plagiarizing more than your little nephew loves the Tickle Me Ferbie he got from Santa. This all started a couple of weeks back when people noticed that the Beef’s debut short film, HowardCantour.com, marked a strong resemblance to Daniel Clowes's comic Justin M. Damiano. Labeouf apologized on Twitter, but then it was revealed his apology was plagiarized from a four-year-old Yahoo Answers comment. Well, he’s back to apologizing for plagiarizing while plagiarizing.Here are the two tweets in question: The first is ripped verbatim from Jade Goody’s apology for being racist on Celebrity Big Brother. The second is word for word (hashtag for hashtag) the same as an apology porn star Mr. Marcus tweeted in 2012 for hiding his syphilis (though Mm's tweet was eventually deleted). As Picasso famously said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal syphilis apologies.

Guess what, Disney fans? Frozen is good. And as you may have heard, the soundtrack is even better.

Like the now-classics in Disney’s Renaissance period, Frozen’s array of original tunes feels as fresh and infectious as the Menken-Ashman-Rice songs that defined a generation’s Disney musicals. I caught an early screening of the film last week and was dismayed to find that I’d have to wait an excruciating six days for the album to be released online (I even begged EW’s music staff for an early listen, but no dice).

Now the movie is out (and...

Fatherhood #1

Written by Ryan K. Lindsay

Illustrated by Daniel Schneider

Colored by Paulina Ganucheau

Lettered by Brandon DeStefano

Designed by Christopher Kosek

Published by Challenger Comics

Fatherhood is the story of a broken family, one little girl and a father who would do pretty much anything to make her happy. Divorced, drowning in debt and alone, the man seeks out a way to reconnect with his daughter. The method he chooses to make that connection is to get her a much coveted doll. When he is unable to procure one for her, he suffers a full on psychosomatic breakdown, complete with costume change and gratuitous violence.

Unlike most comic books, this story is told by a narrator in omniscient third person instead of relying on the use of pure first person dialogue. In fact the vast majority of dialogue that does occur happens after the shift from reality to vigilant toy retriever.

Yes, yes, the Brood II cicadas are emerging. They'll be loud, they'll be tasty and they'll be having a buzz-filled mating party for four to six weeks.

But are they going to be prepared for a changed world since their parents were above-ground 17 years ago? The Macarena was hip in 1996. Pokémon was still a thing. Seinfeld was still on.

In any case, HuffPost Green wanted to host a little bit of a throwback for the cicadas to let them know that we too still remember Tickle Me Elmo and the Spice Girls.

Brood II, this one's for you.

Los Angeles (AP) — Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app.

Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for Android devices. The app duplicates the egg-shaped plastic toy that became a must-own sensation like Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo and Furby after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.

Sync Beatz, which has licensed Tamagotchi from Bandai, is calling the app "Tamagotchi L.i.f.e." — with "L.i.f.e" standing for "love is fun everywhere." Much like the original doodad, the app tasks users with taking care of a virtual pet by pressing buttons that simulate feeding, disciplining and playing with the critter on screen. If a Tamagotchi is neglected, it dies.

"The idea was to base the gameplay on the original Tamagotchi that everyone knows and loves," said Shin Ueno, chief marketing officer at Sync Beatz.

Who knew that in the ancient Mayan calendar, they would have predicted so much that pointed to the end of the world? Like the exact date that Lindsay Lohan's horrendous Elizabeth Taylor biopic "Liz & Dick" would air on Lifetime? That Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj's egos would collide during "American Idol" auditions? That Donald Trump would act even more bizarrely than he did in 2011? And that Brad Pitt was even making a Chanel ad?

Seeing all that in their crystal ball, it's understandable that the Mayans would have predicted doomsday in 2012. Little did they know that these celeb antics just pointed to yet another year in La-La Land.

Here are just a smattering of the things that made us want to cover Blue Ivy's young eyes in 2012:

That Awkward Moment When You Realize Ann Curry Wasn't The Problem: When the "Today" show ratings dipped after Curry took over for Meredith Vieira,...

Steve Davis is the artist behind Memories of Elvis., a show he’s been performing in the St. Louis area for decades. Steve has dedicated over 20 years to perfecting the Elvis experience by paying incredible attention to detail and now he’ll be bringing that experience to Super-8 Elvis Movie Madness Tomorrow Night! This is a last-minute addition to the program which consists of condensed (average length: 15 minutes) versions of several of Elvis.s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. Here.s the Elvis line-up: Blue Hawaii, Tickle Me, Roustabout, Girls Girls Girls, an Elvis Blooper Reel, and episode of The Steve Allen Show featuring guests Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith (who perform together!), and the 1978 biopic Elvis The Movie directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell as Elvis. . Steve Davis will take the stage during the break and perform some acoustic Elvis tunes.

There have been many TV bios of Elvis Presley but Elvis, The Movie, the once-elusive 1979 feature starring Kurt Russell, was the first and is still the best. When Elvis died August 16 1978 at age 42, it sent shock waves around the world, comparable to the deaths of Princess Diana or Michael Jackson in later decades. A carnival atmosphere developed in Memphis as thousands of mourners gathered around the gates of Graceland and sales of Elvis. music skyrocketed. The 3-hour epic Elvis The Movie, produced by Dick Clark for the ABC network premiered 18 months later on February 11 1979 and, despite CBS airing Gone With The Wind the same night, was one of the highest rated made-for-television movies ever shown (it played theatrically on other parts of the world . in Japan it was called The Singer!). The script by Antony Lawrence, who had penned two Elvis movies earlier in his career (Paradise Hawaiin Style and...

Sad news for Elmo fans today, as it was revealed that the Sesame Street star and international icon was driven away in an ambulance after making an anti-Semitic speech in New York City's Central Park over the weekend. This news will be devastating for those who had come to know and love Elmo as the lovable and loving red Muppet who preached values like kindness and viewing the world with child-like wonder to an audience of millions. 

Amateur videographers captured Elmo directing unwitting bystanders to read The International Jew by Henry Ford, a noted anti-Semite, and to avoid starting a business in New York because Jews will harrass you. Sad stuff from the same non-human lifeform who created Elmo's World.  

As it turns out, Elmo has been on a long downward spiral for the past several months, frequently yelling obscenties at passers-by and demanding they give him money for pictures.

Sad news for Elmo fans today, as it was revealed that the Sesame Street star and international icon was driven away in an ambulance after making an anti-Semitic speech in New York City's Central Park over the weekend. This news will be devastating for those who had come to know and love Elmo as the lovable and loving red Muppet who preached values like kindness and viewing the world with child-like wonder to an audience of millions. 

Amateur videographers captured Elmo directing unwitting bystanders to read The International Jew by Henry Ford, a noted anti-Semite, and to avoid starting a business in New York because Jews will harrass you. Sad stuff from the same non-human lifeform who created Elmo's World.  

As it turns out, Elmo has been on a long downward spiral for the past several months, frequently yelling obscenties at passers-by and demanding they give him money for pictures.

I really really Really wanted to like Smash.

How could I not? My creative start was as a theatrical lighting designer, so anything that suggests "backstage" makes me as goofy as a 4-year-old with a brand new Tickle Me Elmo. I even giggle sometimes. It's pretty embarrassing.

So let me say it again, just so we're clear. I honest to God wanted to like Smash. But an entire season of overwrought & implausible episodes later, I watched helplessly as my beloved Elmo turned into Chucky. And then set the place on fire.

There's been enough hate-watching bile spewed about how Smash failed to live up to it's towering expectations (Spielberg! McPhee! Messing! Broadway! Shiny Pretty People singing and dancing!), so I won't pile on. I'll just say that I'm hugely disappointed.

Ok, That's an outright lie. I'm fucking pissed off.

On Monday nights when I stopped screaming at the television ("Seriously?...

I really really Really wanted to like Smash.

How could I not? My creative start was as a theatrical lighting designer, so anything that suggests "backstage" makes me as goofy as a 4-year-old with a brand new Tickle Me Elmo. I even giggle sometimes. It's pretty embarrassing.

So let me say it again, just so we're clear. I honest to God wanted to like Smash. But an entire season of overwrought & implausible episodes later, I watched helplessly as my beloved Elmo turned into Chucky. And then set the place on fire.

There's been enough hate-watching bile spewed about how Smash failed to live up to it's towering expectations (Spielberg! McPhee! Messing! Broadway! Shiny Pretty People singing and dancing!), so I won't pile on. I'll just say that I'm hugely disappointed.

Ok, That's an outright lie. I'm fucking pissed off.

On Monday nights when I stopped screaming at the television ("Seriously?...

She.ll always be best known as Kay Lawrence, the beauty that the Gillman falls in love with the moment he spies her swimming above him in Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Mimicking her movements in the water, the Creature performs a lustful underwater mating dance . he.s directly beneath her but she’s unaware of his amorous overtures in the murky depths of the river. It.s a desire most men (and monster kids) could relate to and Julie Adams is the actress who will always be fondly remembered as the .girl in the white one-piece..

Born Betty May Adams and raised near Little Rock Arkansas, Julie was bit by the acting bug early and moved to California to become an actress. She worked as a secretary to support herself and spent her free time taking speech lessons and making the rounds at the various movie studio casting departments.

Seeing as 1987’s The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is widely considered one of the weirdest and worst movie adaptations of all time, you might think that ever getting another live action film about gross little doll-like kids who mutilate themselves would be too much of a long shot to actually happen. But, in thinking this, you would be giving Hollywood too much credit. The Garbage Pail Kids are something that people vaguely remember from the 80s, and Transformers proved that something people vaguely remember from the 80s could theoretically translate to box office dollars, so we’re all going to get another chance to spend time with beloved characters like Greaser Greg and Valerie Vomit. Those whose history doesn’t go as far back as the 80s might be wondering what the heck The Garbage Pail Kids are. Well, they were a series of trading cards launched back in 1985 that parodied the Cabbage Patch Kids phenomenon of...

Nude, beige and sand were all shades that made a very quiet splash on the Oscars red carpet. See which shades celebs like Shailene Woodley, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Jennifer Lopez and more wore and shop their picks! Celebrity manicurist Nettie Davis used a combination of essie Ballet Slippers and Au Natural on Shailene. Celebrity manicurist Beth Fricke used Opi polishes on quite a few celebs. Both Stacy Keibler and Amy Adams are wearing Samoan Sand by Opi. Beth painted Rashida Jones fingers with Did You 'ear about Van Gogh? by Opi and Rosie is wearing Tickle Me Francey by Opi. Celebrity manicurist Tom Bachik created the looks on Jennifer and Mila Jovovich. JLo wore L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche Nail Polish in Because You're Worth It from the Iconic Muse collection and with a tip of L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche Nail Polish in Haute Couture Red from the Femme Fatale collection.

Why not fold documentaries into my list of the "Best Films of 2011?" After all, a movie is a movie, right? Yes, and some years I've thrown them all into the same mixture. But all of these year-end Best lists serve one useful purpose: They tell you about good movies you may not have seen or heard about. The more films on my list that aren't on yours, the better job I've done.

That's particularly true were you to depend on the "short list" released by the Academy's Documentary Branch of 15 films they deem eligible for nomination. The branch has been through turmoil in the past and its procedures were "reformed" at one point. But this year it has made a particularly scandalous sin of

omission. It doesn't include "The Interrupters" (currently scoring 99% on the Tomatometer), which has received better reviews and been on more critic's Best lists than any other.

A Chicago-based strip club's unusual holiday offer -- free lap dances for customers who donate toys as part of their "Lap Dances for the Needy" promotion -- gained national attention this weekend when "Saturday Night Live" cast members riffed on it as part of a "Weekend Update" joke-off.

Seth Myers, "Weekend Update" host, shared the news of the now-annual tradition at the Admiral Theater, 3940 W. Lawrence Ave., and joked: "So give a toy to Charity and Charity will give it to the manager."

Afterward, guest host and "SNL" alum Jimmy Fallon interjected with a "That's the best you got?" and a joke-off -- also featuring fellow alums of the show, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both Second City alums, in an unexpected cameo -- commenced:

"The strippers aren't getting paid for this, they're doing it pro-boner," Fallon said.

"The most popular toy so far is Tickle Me Brenda," Poehler countered.

Countless movies over the years have dealt with the exploits of fictional characters that have brought things to life-from Doctors Frankenstein to Herbert West ( the Re-Animator flicks ). With the new documentary Being Elmo we learn about a real-life re-animator named Kevin Clashwho,instead of body parts or mechanical men, gives life to stitched together bits of foam and felt. More importantly, he’s the guy behind the pre-k superstar of Sesame Street, Elmo.

Clash’s journey to that TV street began on a real, urban street in Baltimore in the early 1970′s. He was fascinated by puppets and marionettes and was encouraged by his family ( his father was not upset that he used the lining of his trench coat for one of his first puppet creations ). Entertaining the children in his mother’s day-care service in the back yard ( a blanket tossed over the clothes line was his stage ) to...

Julie Bowen's son has broken the Emmy Award she received last month after using the trophy in a game of golf.

The Modern Family star won the Best Supporting Actress honour for her role in the series and proudly displayed her prize at home.

However, Bowen's three young boys put the award in their playroom - and her eldest, Oliver, accidentally broke the trophy during a golf game.

She tells U.S. talk show host Jay Leno, "My children think that the Emmy is an action hero or a toy, so I put it with the rest of their toys and that is (in) their playroom. Miss Emmy is ogled by Tickle Me Elmo...

"Unfortunately my eldest son Oliver thought it looked a lot like a golf ball being held up by a giant tee, so he took it outside... he broke it. He tee'd the ball, he hit the ball off the tee of the lady."...

George R. R. Martin took to his Livejournal to set up another riddle to reveal the latest casting for Season 2 of Game of Thrones. After only 12 hours, the dedicated fans of A Song of Ice and Fire deciphered Martin’s clues and now we know that Anthony Morris will be playing the Tickler.

The riddle Martin posted was “Elmo is a fibber and a drubber and a jock. He’s whispered to horses and conversed with dogs. A diamond in the rough, he is, but no pinhead.” I’m not sure how people figure these out so fast. Just six hours after the post went up, someone figured out that Irish actor Anthony Morris was a jockey in Rough Diamond, played Drubber in Trouble in Paradise and appeared in a movie called Little White Lie. It was another commenter who figured out the “Elmo” clue meant Morris would be playing the Tickler.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Grief!

Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick has provided inspiration for a whole slew of science-fiction stories; everything from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan to Star Trek: First Contact. Now the story makes an appearance on Futurama and the result is…not what you might hope.

The story begins with the Professor lamenting the loss of his first crew. Fry is amazed by this. “I knew you had other crews, but you had a first crew?” It turns out the Professor’s first crew (who he’d picked up outside a Homeless Depot), were lost in the Bermuda Tetrahedron, with Zoidberg as the only survivor.

Now fifty years later, he plans to send the Planet Express crew to fetch a monument he’s made for a special memorial celebration where, he points out, there will also be a popsicle cart. The route to the planet,...

"Mobius Dick" was another reference-filled episode and, as a math nerd, the Bermuda Tetrahedron tickled my funny bone.

From Amy’s mother who complained about losing her joy and luck and wondering if she had to leave the club, to the Sob ‘n’ Stroll Widow’s Walk, I loved it all.

The episode peaked during the flight home. I loved the “Tickle Me Elmo” attacks the tetrahedron was giving Bender, as well as the space whale eating all of the things necessary to get home... which forced the crew to become pirates, and who doesn’t love pirates? It’s a shame there weren’t any ninjas. But there was beer and Leela was skillful at using a compass, so I shouldn't complain.

What was the point of the space whale exactly? I was trying to figure out if it was a reference to Lost or purely just so Leela...

Big Bird? More like big government. And don't even start trying to list all the hidden innuendo jam packed in Tickle Me Elmo.

And that's not Oscar the Grouch speaking; it's the very expert opinion of lawyer and author Ben Shapiro, whose new book "Primetime Propaganda," takes on what he alleges is Hollywood's liberal bias.

Shapiro, a syndicated columnist whose books include "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future," asserts in his new tome that there is an inherent and very intentional effort by entertainment industry leaders to "shape America in their own leftist image," as he told the UK's Independent.

Chief amongst Shapiro's alleged liberal offenders is Sesame Street, the Jim Henson-created educational show carried on PBS, the public network with few conservative fans or defenders.

Citing interviews with one of the show's creators, early episodes of the show featuring hippies and racial reconciliation and, more recently,...

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Two years ago, Channing Tatum had a great interview and jaw-dropping photoshoot when he covered the GQ August 2009 issue.

The mag has once again chosen Chan to cover their magazine, and I’m thinking fans are going to yet again go crazy over the pictorial in the March 2011 issue where you’ll learn why GQ says “Channing Tatum is crazy” and invites “you to spend twenty-four hours deep in the California desert (bring some tequila and a sleeping bag) with probably America’s most fun movie star.”

Here’s a sneak peek of the GQ article from Popeater with photos by Nathaniel Goldberg/GQ…

Channing Tatum covers the March issue of GQ with (surprise!) a sexy new photo shoot. But we’re psyched to say the written profile is as enticing as the 30-year-old actor’s physique. Writer Jessica Pressler spent 24 hours “deep in the California desert” with ‘The Eagle’ hunk Tatum,...

In 1980, millions lined up for the Rubik's Cube, and holiday toys were never the same. From Cabbage Patch Kids to Furby to Squinkies, The Daily Beast culls the 30 top fads of the past 30 years.

Gallery: The 30 Top Toy Crazes of the Past 30 Years

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Desperate midnight trips to Toys ‘R' Us have now become as much of an American holiday tradition as egg nog and "embarrassing family photos." Arguably started by the Rubik's Cube and Cabbage Patch Kid frenzies that emptied the wallets of parents in the early '80s, the competition to be (or buy) the toy of the season rolls around every year.

Last year, it was the Zhu Zhu Pets. In 2000, it was a Razr scooter. And who can forget the great scramble for Tickle Me Elmo in 1996? In the spirit of holiday nostalgia, The Daily...

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November 18, 1985 was a day that changed children's television. It was on this day that Elmo, the furry red monster of 'Sesame Street,' came into his own, thanks to puppeteer Kevin Clash.

An extra for years, voiced on occasion by folks like Carol Spinney (Big Bird) and Richard Hunt (Scooter from 'The Muppet Show'), Clash turned the very minor character into a 3 1/2-year-old mainstay that, depending on your feelings, transformed 'Sesame Street' in a good or bad way.

Since his introduction to 'Sesame Street,' Elmo has become the face of the four-decade old series, appearing on talk shows, primetime series, his own movie ('Elmo in Grouchland') and on the toy shelves as Tickle Me Elmo. He even has his own 15-minute show-within-a-show on 'Sesame Street' titled 'Elmo's World.'

 

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