Peep Amber Rose Looking Extra Thick, Wearing Pink Bikini In Barbados (going topless in one of the pics)

Amber Rose enjoyed some downtime and chilled on the beach in Barbados on Friday (April 8).

The Philadelphia babe has never been afraid to show off her body, going topless in one of the pics.

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Film director Sidney Lumet dies at 86

Director Sidney Lumet, whose gritty portraits of New York City earned him four Oscar nominations for Best Director for films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network, died Saturday of lymphoma at his home in Manhattan; he was 86. Synonymous with the New York filmmaking scene, Lumet prowled the streets of his adopted hometown in a wide variety of films, working in the nascent medium of television in the early 1950s before making his feature film directorial debut in 1957 with the cinematic adaptation of the jury room classic 12 Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda. That film earned Lumet his first Oscar nomination and started a prolific career that would take him through crime dramas, Broadway and literary adaptations, occasional Hollywood films, and lacerating satires.

Born in Philadelphia to parents who were in show business -- his father was an actor and director, his mother a dancer -- he appeared in numerous Broadway plays as a child and young adult before serving three years in the Army during World War II and returning to New York to direct. Lumet's directorial style, described as "lightning quick" in an era when American cinema was still burdened by the limitations of decorative and expensive Hollywood films, earned him a successful career in television, where he adapted numerous plays for such early shows as Playhouse 90 and Studio One, and worked with the young Walter Cronkite on the news series You Are There. He directed a TV version of 12 Angry Men before turning it into a successful 1957 film, starring Henry Fonda as the lone dissenting juror in a murder trial; the film earned three Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and singlehandedly established Lumet's cinematic directing career.

Lumet alternated film and television work in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- including a television version of The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards -- before helming a number of acclaimed cinematic films in the early 1960s: the devastating adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) starring Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson; the New York drama The Pawnbroker (1964), which earned Rod Steiger a Best Actor Oscar nomination; and the nuclear drama Fail-Safe (also 1964), starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. Through the late 1960s and early 1970s some of Lumet's work was uneven -- adaptations of bestsellers The Group (1966) and The Anderson Tapes (1971) as well as Chekhov's The Sea Gull (1968) are admirable but not entirely successful -- but scored again throughout the 1970s. The crime drama Serpico (1973) helped cement Al Pacino's star status after The Godfather -- and earned the actor his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, and the actor and director paired again in 1975's Dog Day Afternoon, the story of a bank heist gone crazily awry; the film, now considered a modern classic, earned Lumet and Pacion Oscar nominations and some of the best reviews of their careers. In between those films, set in New York, Lument took a literal and figurative jaunt with the successful adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), an upper-class murder mystery set on a luxury European train that seemed as far from the seamy streets of Manhattan as possible.

In 1976, Lumet explored the themes of media exposure and saturation he delved into with Dog Day Afternoon even further with the scathing television satire and drama Network, starring William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch. Lumet, along with screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, pioneered the idea (and condemnation) of what is now commonly thought of as reality TV in his story of a network anchorman (Finch) who suffers a breakdown on live television with the rallying cry "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!", and the television executive (Dunaway) who turns him into a folk hero, TV icon, and tragic figure, ultimately goading him into committing suicide live on television. The film, still potent and more lacerating than most explorations of modern media since, won Finch and Dunaway Oscars; Finch's award was posthumous, as the actor died in early 1977. It remains one of only two films to win three Academy Awards for acting (the third for supporting actress Beatrice Straight, who appeared onscreen for less than six minutes), the other being A Streetcar Named Desire.

After that string of commercial and financial hits, Lumet's career included a wide variety of films: adaptations of Broadway hits Equus (1977, fairly successful), The Wiz (1978, a musical flop but a strangely visionary view of New York), Deathtrap (1982, unexpected fun if not a perfect film); crime drama Prince of the City (1981, one of Lumet's most unheralded fims); courtroom drama The Verdict (1982, a big hit that earned star Paul Newman and Lumet Oscar nominations); Hollywood melodrama (1986's The Morning After, starring Jane Fonda); and indie drama (Running On Empty, the 1988 drama with River Phoenix in his only Oscar-nominated performance). Lumet's last film was the 2007 drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which starred indie stalwarts Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and Amy Ryan.

Lumet was married four times, first to actress Rita Gam, second to socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, and third to Gail Jones, daughter of Lena Horne. He married Mary Gimbel, who survives him, in 1980 and had two daughters with Ms. Jones, Amy Lumet and screenwriter Jenny Lumet, who scripted the drama Rachel Getting Married. Nominated for five Oscars (four for directing, one for screenplay), Lumet was awarded an honorary Academy Award at the 2004 Oscars.

Source: IMDB - Mark Englehart

800-horsepower Mustang on the way

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- An 800-horsepower version of the Ford Mustang will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show later this month.

The 2012 Shelby GT500 Super Snake will be built by Shelby American Inc., a Las Vegas-based performance car company. Shelby works with Ford Motor Co. to create various high-performance versions of the iconic Mustang.

While the base Super Snake will produce a mere 750 horsepower, those who feel the need for more power will be able to add an optional upgrade package that will provide 50 more. Shelby provides no warranty on the engine and transmission, in either case.

The base version of the outgoing 2011 Super Snake produces 630 horsepower, although no-warranty option packages have been available in recent months to push horsepower in those cars up to as much as 800, as well.

The 2012 Super Snake will be legal to drive on public roads on all 50 states, the carmaker promised, and it will cost less than $100,000.

Prices for the 2011 Super Snake start about $80,000 in total, including the separate purchase of a car from Ford -- a factory-produced Shelby GT500 -- and the necessary modifications.

"Shelby American has a rich history at the New York International Auto Show," said John Luft, president of Shelby American. in an announcement. "The very first Shelby car was introduced there in 1962, as well as the 1968 and 2008 Shelby GT500KR and the 2006 Shelby Hertz GT-H."

The original partnership between Ford and Shelby American founder Carroll Shelby, one that resulted in Mustang-based performance cars that can be worth millions of dollars today, ended in 1969. Ford and Shelby entered into a new agreement in 2003 that has produced a new line of Shelby Mustangs, some built by Ford Motor Co. and others built at the Shelby American factory.

Source: Yahoo

Gucci Mane Arrested Again, This Time Accused Of Throwing Woman Out Of Moving Car

Rapper Gucci Mane has been arrested yet again.

This time he's accused of pushing a woman out of a moving car according to AllHipHop.

Gucci, born Radric Davis was arrested while visiting his probation officer so it's not clear when the incident happened.

Already on probation, Gucci was charged with misdemeanor battery, but that charge could revoke his probation sending him back to prison.

Lil Wayne NOT banned From Touring in the UK

Previously there were reports on the internet that Lil Wayne was banned from touring in the Uk. Well acording to management, this is not the case. Check out his managements statement below:

“No visa was ever filed, nor were there any tour dates announced, or tickets sold. Lil Wayne is currently headlining his I Am Still Music Tour across the US and Canada with plans to extend the tour through North America this summer. We hope to bring the I Am Still Music Tour to the UK in the later half of the year.”

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Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact

LONDON (Reuters) – A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it.

The Dornier 17 -- thought to be world's last known example -- was hit as it took part in the Battle of Britain.

It ditched in the sea just off the Kent coast, southeast England, in an area known as the Goodwin Sands.

The plane came to rest upside-down in 50 feet of water and has become partially visible from time to time as the sands retreated before being buried again.

Now a high-tech sonar survey undertaken by the Port of London Authority (PLA) has revealed the aircraft to be in a startling state of preservation.

Ian Thirsk, from the RAF Museum at Hendon in London, told the BBC he was "incredulous" when he first heard of its existence and potential preservation.

"This aircraft is a unique aeroplane and it's linked to an iconic event in British history, so its importance cannot be over-emphasized, nationally and internationally," he said.

"It's one of the most significant aeronautical finds of the century."

Known as "the flying pencil," the Dornier 17 was designed as a passenger plane in 1934 and was later converted for military use as a fast bomber, difficult to hit and theoretically able to outpace enemy fighter aircraft.

In all, some 1,700 were produced but they struggled in the war with a limited range and bomb load capability and many were scrapped afterwards.

Striking high-resolution images appear to show that the Goodwin Sands plane suffered only minor damage, to its forward cockpit and observation windows, on impact.

"The bomb bay doors were open, suggesting the crew jettisoned their cargo," said PLA spokesman Martin Garside.

Two of the crew members died on impact, while two others, including the pilot, were taken prisoner and survived the war.

"The fact that it was almost entirely made of aluminum and produced in one piece may have contributed to its preservation," Garside told Reuters.

The plane is still vulnerable to the area's notorious shifting sands and has become the target of recreational divers hoping to salvage souvenirs.

The RAF museum has launched an appeal to raise funds for the lifting operation.

Source: Yahoo

Bieber trains with Barca after daring kit choice in Madrid

Pixieish pop sensation Justin Bieber is on tour in Spain and during a stop in Madrid, he risked the wrath of the locals by wearing the kit of Real Madrid's fiercest and most hated rivals, FC Barcelona, during a kickabout on the outskirts of the city. (For those of you that are just here for the Bieber, that's kind of like wearing a Selena Gomez shirt to a Belieber convention or a Red Sox jersey while playing baseball in New York City. But worse.)

Perhaps as a reward for endangering his bodyguards with his choice in apparel, Barca invited him to their training session on Thursday as he made his latest tour stop. After the session, Bieber put on the club's away teal and played a little game with the likes of Thiago, Bojan and Andreu Fontas. As Barcelona's official website reports, Bieber showed "surprisingly decent skills with his left foot." So, in the wake of Chad Ochocinco's attempt to play footy, an MLS trial probably isn't far off for him.

With Gerard Pique dating Shakira and now Bieber declaring that he's a fan of the club, Barcelona's stranglehold on pop music is growing stronger. It's probably just a matter of time before Lady Gaga is named the club's honorary president.

Source: Yahoo

Lil Wayne On Sobriety "My Sweat Used To Taste Like Weed"

Lil Wayne is seeing the world from an outlook he isn't used to. That of a totally sober man. He is regularly tested for drugs due to the terms of his probation stemming from a New York gun charge.

For a guy who made syrup, weed and liquor a major part of his every day life, the adjustment to sobriety has been smooth he claims.

"It's a big difference I almost jumped in the crowd," Weezy told MTV's Sway after a recent concert. "I'm like 'I'm sober', my sweat tastes different. My sweat used to taste like weed, now I don't know what it is. My eyes big, my eyes all wide ... I threw my glasses. I don’t even need these. I could see everything right now. But yeah man, it’s a great feeling.”

It's not a tough choice, get high and go back to jail or stay sober. Old vices die hard though, Wayne's got three more years to walk a straight line.

What do you think, will Lil Wayne remain sober and avoid going back to jail?

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Gunman Opens Fire Inside Elementary School In Brazil Leaving 12 Students Dead

WSJ reports: RIO DE JANEIRO—At least 12 students were killed here at an elementary school Thursday after a former student armed with handguns talked his way on to the premises and opened fire before taking his own life, police said.

A gunman kills at least 12 people at a school in Rio de Janeiro before turning the gun on himself. Video courtesy of Reuters and photo courtesy of AP.

The killings, which city officials described as Brazil's worst-ever schoolhouse violence, produced a mix of shock, grief and dismay in a nation that has long struggled with high crime levels, but so far remained immune to the kind of murderous rampages at U.S. schools such as Virginia Tech in recent years.

"It's not characteristic of this country for this type of crime to happen," said President Dilma Rousseff, who appeared on the verge of tears as she called for a moment of silence in memory of the young victims during a televised speech.

Police said 23 year old Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, pictured above, walked into the Tasso da Silveira public school in the Realengo neighborhood on Rio's west side as classes started about 8 a.m. local time. He was armed with two .38-caliber revolvers and ample ammunition, police said.

To get in, he told guards he was there to give a presentation to students as part of the school's 40th anniversary celebrations. On his way in, Mr. Oliveira spoke briefly with a teacher who recognized him from his school days. Then, he walked casually into a classroom and opened fire, officials said.

The shooter is seen on CCTV holding a gun in the hall

Mr. Oliveira shot and killed 10 female students and two males during the rampage, and injured at least 16 others—some of whom remained in surgery late Thursday—before police arrived at the scene. The victims were between the ages of 12 and 15.

Investigators are still putting together a picture of Mr. Oliveira. But his act bore some of the hallmarks of the bloody schoolhouse violence perpetrated by deranged killers bent on carrying out premeditated suicidal rampages.

A former co-worker at a food company described Mr. Oliveira as an introverted man who was fired for "low productivity," the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported.

He also left a suicide note that included detailed instructions on how to care for his body, including entreaties about which kind of material should be used for a shroud and about keeping it sterile. Mr. Oliveira asked to be buried beside his mother, and requested that a "faithful follower of God visits my grave at least one time, I need him to pray before my grave and ask God to forgive me for what I've done."

The shootings took place in a densely populated, lower middle-class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro's west—far different than the scalloped white sand beaches and dramatic green hills in the postcard version of Rio.

The school is a plain four-story cement block building walled off from the street, with a asphalt courtyard and playground surrounding the building.

During the attack, some wounded students fled the school and made their way to a nearby house, leaving smears of blood on the doorway as they entered for safety, TV images showed.

Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral said that a quick response by a local policeman responding to cries of help from a group of wounded children may have saved lives. Sgt. Marcio Alves rushed into the school where he ran across Mr. Oliveira, who was coming out of a classroom.

"He leveled his gun at me, and I shot him in the abdomen. He fell into a stairwell, where he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head," Sgt. Alves told reporters.

Frantic parents descended on the school searching for their children. Police officers sought to control crowds. A mother screamed in anguish as she learned details of the attack. Nearby, a woman fainted. A man picked her up and sought to bring her to medical attention.

"I saw a lot of children dead and a dead bandit covered up," a young girl, who did not give her name, said during a televised interview just as she emerged from the school. "The teacher told us to get on the floor. We were all very scared and trembling."

Across the city, which already struggles with one of the world's highest murder rates from gang violence and other crime, news of the killing brought a heightened sense of angst that they may be faced with a new brand of senseless killings. Though gun laws restrict ownership, in practice they are easy to get.

Brazilian TV ran video footage from U.S. school killings at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech throughout the day as the country searched for reference points for the killings.

"It's totally atypical of Brazil. We're used to hearing of this kind of thing happening in the USA, but not here," said Nilza Waldeck, a retired schoolteacher in Rio. "It's shocking "Brazil's culture typically shows little aggression, particularly against children."