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Jake Gyllenhaal is set to produce and star as Leonard Bernstein in “The American,” with Cary Joji Fukunaga directing and producing. Bron Studios will produce and back the film, which begins principal photography in the fall. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales of the project during the Cannes Film Market. The screenplay, from Michael Mitnick, is based on the biography “Leonard Bernstein” by Humphrey Burton. In five movements, like a symphony, “The American” follows Bernstein from conducting the New York Philharmonic at the impressive age of 25 through the meteoric rise to fame, all while struggling both personally and publicly to be everything that everyone expected him to be, most of all himself. The project is an original idea, developed by Nine Stories, Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker’s New York-based production company. Gyllenhaal and Marker will produce alongside Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert, Fukunaga’s Parliament of Owls and Martha Parker. Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media, Michael Mitnick and Adam Gopnik are executive producers. “Like many people, Leonard Bernstein found his way into my life and heart through ‘West Side Story’ when I was a kid,” said Gyllenhaal. “But as I got older and started to learn about the scope of his work, I began to understand the extent of his unparalleled contribution and the debt of gratitude modern American culture owes him. As a man, Bernstein was a fascinating figure—full of genius and contradiction—and it will be an incredible honor to tell his story with a talent and friend like Cary.” “Bernstein’s artistic passions changed the way generations understood and appreciated music. It’s been wonderful collaborating with Michael and Jake on Bernstein’s story as we endeavor to capture both the iconic person and artist. Jake is the perfect partner to help bring this story to life and to play this legend,” said Fukunaga. The role would mark another strong dramatic turn for Gyllenhaal who recently received rave reviews for another biopic, “Stronger,” in which he played a survivor from the Boston Marathon bombings. Nine Stories most recently produced Paul Dano’s directorial debut, “Wildlife.” The film, starring Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival and is the opening-night film for the Cannes Critics’ Week. Bron Studios’ “Leave No Trace,” directed by Oscar nominee Debra Granik, premiered at Sundance and will be featured in this year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight. “Tully,” directed by Jason Reitman and starring Charlize Theron, will be released by Focus on May 4. Gyllenhaal and Nine Stories are represented by WME and Bloom Hergott. Cary Joji Fukunaga is represented by WME, Anonymous Content and Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler & Feldman.

Viacom Accused of Covering Up Brad Grey Rape Scandal in $100M Lawsuit Filed by Great-Grandson of Three Stooges’ Moe Howard Wednesday, May 2, 2018 http://sandrarose.com/images28/rovier-carrington-brad-grey-549x419.jpg The great-grandson of Three Stooges star Moe Howard filed a $100 million lawsuit against late Paramount Chief Brad Grey, pictured right, and the former president of MTV. Rovier Carrington (no relation to Blake), pictured left, accused Viacom of covering up the rape scandal involving Grey. In the complaint, Grey is accused of sexually assaulting Carrington on separate occasions. Carrington claims Grey, who died of cancer in 2017, assaulted him in December 2010 at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills. Court documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter details incidents of coercion, violence and sexual misconduct by Grey. “Grey indicated to Carrington that if he did not have sex with him, he would destroy any chance plaintiff had of building a career in the entertainment industry,” the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court states. “Grey demanded Carrington drink alcohol to make it easier, at which point he proceeded to pour the spirit down Carrington’s throat, ripped off his clothes, and proceeded to anally rape him, without a condom.” After the assault, Carrington said Grey threatened him and tried to trick him into signing a nondisclosure agreement. According to the NY Daily News, Carrington claims that in May and June of 2011, Viacom’s human resources department contacted him “several times.” He was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement and told he would receive “an envelope filled with money.” He said he refused to sign and that an alleged deal he had to produce his reality TV series “The Life of a Trendsetter” was canceled by Paramount Pictures. Carrington said he was also blacklisted from the studio’s parent company Viacom and he was unable to find work in Hollywood. Carrington claims Brian Graden, former MTV president, contacted him on social media in September 2014 and offered to contact Viacom honcho Sumner Redstone on his behalf to get the blacklist lifted – but only if Carrington agreed to have sex with him. Carrington says Graden told him the offer was “his only option if he wanted to work in the entertainment industry” again. Carrington is seeking damages between $15 million and $100 million, according to the Daily News.

Jurors sick of hearing about prison guard’s huge, stinky penis Jurors in a Brooklyn corrections officer’s sex-assault trial appear to be sick of hearing about his huge, stinky penis. The jurors were visibly glum and, in some cases, exasperated Wednesday as prosecutors continued a second day of grilling accusers on the shape and odor of Lt. Eugenio Perez’s phallus — which the feds say is so distinctive, it helped them confirm the women’s stories. “It was so big. I wanted to throw up,” a 50-year-old former inmate testified through a translator while explaining how Perez forced her to perform oral sex on him while he was working at the Metropolitan Detention Center in 2016. “It had a smell like he didn’t wash or take a shower … it was a really strong smell.” A look of disgust came over one female juror’s face and she shook her head — but the prosecutors continued to quiz the woman about his putrid pecker in painstaking detail. “Can you describe what Lt. Perez’s penis looked like?” Assistant US Attorney Nadia Shihata asked later on. “It’s big. Fat,” the woman, dubbed Jane Doe 3 in the trial, responded. The juror then appeared to reach the end of her tether — pinching the bridge of her nose, rolling her eyes and placing her forehead in her other hand. But Shihata went on, asking Jane Doe if she noticed anything about his penis skin when he masturbated “When it moved forward there was a little piece hanging off,” she responded. In court papers, prosecutors say three of Perez’s five accusers gave matching descriptions of his unusual member — and they were able to get first-hand confirmation via a search warrant ordering him to drop his pants. On the first day of the trial, another alleged victim was also asked to describe the distinctive appendage. “He wasn’t circumcised. It was big, and it was like a hook…It was humongous and it curved,” the 38-year-old told the court. “If it didn’t stink I would have been all over that s–t.”

Corpse found trapped behind bathroom wall in shopping mall A man’s dead body turned up behind a bathroom wall at a Canadian shopping mall, according to reports. The grisly discovery was made by a maintenance worker Monday morning who was called to fix an automatic toilet that wouldn’t flush in the women’s bathroom at Core Shopping Centre in Calgary, the Calgary Herald reported. The worker removed a panel from the wall behind the toilet — and discovered the corpse. The bathrooms are located in a corner of the mall’s food court. An autopsy is being performed. Investigators don’t suspect foul play. The man may have fallen behind the wall while crawling through a vent located above the bathroom, police spokeswoman Emma Poole said. “That would be the most logical at this point, is that it was from above,” she said. “So that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.”

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A Brooklyn jail guard’s massive, hook-shaped penis helped the feds nab him for sexually assaulting inmates, it was revealed in court Tuesday as jurors listened on in shock. Lt. Eugenio Perez is accused of forcing women at the Metropolitan Detention Center to give him oral sex — and prosecutors said they were able to nail him as a suspect when multiple accusers described his distinctive phallus. Indeed, the schlong arm of the law caught up to Perez when the feds made him drop trou to make a positive ID. Just what made Perez’s member so memorable also became the big reveal on the first day of the Brooklyn jail guard’s sexual abuse trial. “He wasn’t circumcised. It was big, and it was like a hook…It was humongous and it curved,” a 38-year-old former inmate of the federal lockup in Sunset Park testified anonymously. But, she noted, his mammoth member kind of smelled bad. “If it didn’t stink I would have been all over that s–t,” she continued, describing the odor as “pissy,” as jurors’ eyebrows shot up. The woman, who was jailed at the time on a drug charge but has since been released, said Perez had approached her when she was getting cleaning supplies from the camera-less lieutenants’ office at the jail — and at first she embraced his hugs and kisses because she was lonely. But when he whipped out his hefty pecker she got scared. “He just tried to like, you know, push my head down so I could suck his d–k,” the woman testified, weeping. “I felt used at that point. And I felt like I was making a mistake. Like, I wanted to be touched by another human being, but it just wasn’t him. I just was lonely…It made me feel normal again, alive. Because when you’re in jail, you feel dead. ” She said she left and wasn’t forced into doing anything. On cross examination, she exploded as the defense attorney asked about her plea deal. “You don’t know the details about my f—ing case!…I pled to it because I had to! You’re not going to f—ing badger me with my past,” she yelled. Before storming off the stand, she snarled at Perez: “Your lawyer is a d–k.” Perez was one of three guards charged last May with turning the detention center into their personal harem. “This is a case about power, opportunity and abuse…Eugenio Perez, used his position and power as a law enforcement officer, a lieutenant at the Federal Bureau of Prisons to sexually abuse five different women, female inmates entrusted to his care and custody,” prosecutor Nadia Shihata said in her opening statements. “He arranged for them to clean on the second floor, of the prison, exposed his penis through the zipper of his pants, masturbated and demanded oral sex.” There was even a pattern to how he ejaculated, she said — into a paper towel that he then folded up to dispose. One juror sat with her hand over her mouth as Shihata spoke. Perez’s fellow lieutenant, Carlos Richard Martinez, was convicted in January of raping an inmate and faces up to life behind bars. Guard Armando Moronta in November pleaded guilty to sexually abusing inmates and smuggling drugs into the facility. He faces up to 95 years behind bars and a $1 million dollar fine when sentenced.

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I don't know if I liked him better as the Mad Hatter... Or as Blanche's father... Grandma always taught me: "If you don't have anything good to Say Post then don't Say Post anything!"

If you go back through the past year on his twitter feed, at one point he talks about his birthday. I don't remember the exact figure, but it was 54-ish.

636... and counting!

Back in the day...

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A REASON TO REJOICE... ABBA fans have a reason to shout Mamma Mia! The Swedish pop group announced the release of new material the first time in three-and-a-half decades. Two new tracks are forthcoming, including one titled “I Still Have Faith in You,” AP reports. ABBA — Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog — spread the word on its official Facebook page and Instagram on Friday. “We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio,” the band noted. “So we did. And it was like time had stood still and that we only had been away on a short holiday.” Since the pop icons split in 1982, they have worked together on projects including the blockbuster stage musical “Mamma Mia!” that became a hit movie. The sequel hits multiplexes this summer. But there’s not been new music from ABBA, who broke through with a win at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo.” Since then, hits include “Dancing Queen” and “Fernando.” The group recently announced that they’ll be touring in the form of virtual holograms in 2019.

A team of scientists recently revealed they are able to keep the brain of a pig alive outside of its body for 36 hours after it has been decapitated. Researcher Nenad Sestan, who led the group of Yale University scientists, discussed the findings at a recent National Institutes of Health conference centered on brain research. Though the heads were no longer attached to the bodies, Sestan and his team were able to keep the brains alive by connecting them to a closed-loop system known as “BrainEX,” which pumps body-temperature artificial blood to the necessary parts of the brain to keep it alive. Sestan declined to comment further on the findings when reached by MIT Technology Review, but the findings are significant, with Sestan calling them “mind-boggling” and unexpected, since individual brain cells were found to be capable of normal activity, even if the decapitated pigs never regained consciousness. “These brains may be damaged, but if the cells are alive, it’s a living organ,” Steve Hyman, director of psychiatric research at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Technology Review in an interview. “It’s at the extreme of technical know-how, but not that different from preserving a kidney.” The research has implications not only for how scientists understand the human brain but could change the way we perceive death, consciousness and other things associated with thought. In the NIH presentation, Sestan said the technique was likely to work in any species, including primates. “This is probably not unique to pigs,” he added. Before it gets to that stage though, ethics need to be considered, which Sestan and his team expressed concerns over. Some experts have speculated deceased humans who are disembodied could be used to test new and speculative cancer and Alzheimer drugs that have been deemed too dangerous to try on a living being. “There are going to be a lot of weird questions even if it isn’t a brain in a box,” said an advisor to the NIH who didn’t wish to speak on the record. “I think a lot of people are going to start going to slaughterhouses to get heads and figure it out.” Nonetheless, Sestan is anxious to see how the technology is received by both others in the community and the general public. “People are fascinated,” he told Technology Review. “We have to be careful how fascinated.”

Ford is eliminating nearly all of its car models in North America as it reinvents itself as a utility vehicle-focused brand in an effort to improve its operating efficiency and profit margin. The Taurus, Fusion, Fiesta and C-Max will be discontinued, leaving only the Mustang and a new crossover-style compact called the Focus Active in showrooms alongside its growing lineup of SUVs. The move comes just a few weeks after the automaker announced plans to have eight utility vehicles on sale by 2020, including a new Bronco and an all-electric performance model codename Mach 1. The Focus Active is not counted among these. Ford didn’t reveal the fate of the sedans that are currently in Lincoln’s lineup, but said the luxury division as a whole is not in jeopardy despite it being a low performing area in the company. Sedans and hatchbacks will continue to be offered in other markets around the world.

A Long Island woman was busted for driving with a startling 26 license suspensions, Suffolk County police said. Jahnay Harley, 26, was driving her 2016 Mercedes-Benz west on Schleigel Avenue in North Amityville around 4:20 p.m. Monday when police saw her go through several stop signs, authorities said. Cops pulled her over, conducted a check on her license — and found out it been suspended more than two dozen times. As officers arrested her, the Amityville woman became agitated and spit at the cops, police said. She was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, obstruction of governmental administration and harassment. Police say a teenage driver in Minnesota trying to get her license crashed into the examination station. Authorities say the 17-year-old girl inadvertently put the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox in drive instead of reverse at the start of the test Wednesday in Buffalo, Minnesota. When the girl stepped on the accelerator, the car lurched forward, jumped the curb and plowed through the front of the station in a strip mall. Buffalo Police Chief Pat Budke says the girl was not hurt, but her car had significant damage. No one inside the office was hurt, but the crash damaged the building's brick wall and glass windows. The 60-year-old woman who was giving the test was taken to a hospital with noncritical injuries. http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/cl/2018/cl180408.jpg A Houston-area woman was released from prison Friday, 15 years after she was convicted of running over and killing her cheating husband. Clara Harris, now 60, of Friendswood served all but five years of a possible 20-year prison term for the murder of her husband and fellow dentist David Harris in 2002, the Houston Chroniclereported. She was released Friday morning from a women's prison near Waco, smiling as she climbed into a gray Ford SUV,KTRK-TV in Houston reported. Her case made national headlines as it chronicled the stunning downfall of a prominent couple who owned several dental complexes, according to the Chronicle. After confronting her husband's receptionist, with whom David Harris was having an affair, Clara Harris fought with her and hit her with her car. That was nothing compared to the punishment her husband received, the Chronicle reported. The couple's then-17-year-old stepdaughter was in the car with Clara Harris and testified in court that she had run over David Harris three times. According to conditions of her parole, Harris will have to avoid contact with her former in-laws, her stepdaughter and her husband's former mistress, KTRK reported. In addition, she must live in Galveston County and wear an ankle monitor. "Clara served more time than most similarly situated people," her attorney and family friend Emily DeToto said in theChronicle. "A jury spoke, and she's done her time. I look forward to catching up with her soon."

Horny monkeys that will sleep with anything have created a new species Sex-mad monkeys have been mating with other species, creating an entirely new hybrid population of apes — and scientists are absolutely fine with it. The primates from Tanzania’s Gombe National Park have been at it for hundreds or even thousands of years, according to a new study. By peeping into the DNA from the feces (Ewwwwwwwww!) of 144 guenon monkeys from the site, researchers found evidence of ongoing mating between two genetically distinct groups. These apes are known for their striking features long thought to be signs of species-specific mating – some have bushy beards, others have brightly-colored tufts of hair and even more have big noses. But the new study, published in the International Journal of Primatology, suggests they may not be that choosy after all. The data indicates that the park, originally colonized by red tails, was at one stage invaded by blue apes on the hunt for mates. And neither type of primate was put off by the other’s distinct features, opening the floodgates to cross-species copulation – with future generations of hybrid monkeys following suit. But guenons aren’t the only amorous apes that have shrugged off sexual norms. There’s also the macaque, which has been spotted having sex with deer numerous times. Oh, deer! “The Gombe hybrid population is extremely valuable because it can be used as a model system to better understand what hybridization looks like and how genetic material moves between species,” said Detwiler. “We have this amazing laboratory in nature to help us answer many questions about hybridization and how species boundaries are maintained. “This research is very timely because hybridization often occurs in response to environmental changes, as we are seeing with climate change and modified landscapes – it is nature’s way to respond.”