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Monday, February 8, 2016
Daniel Gerson, Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 49
Very sad news today out of Hollywood:
Daniel Gerson, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who co-wrote Monsters, Inc., passed away Saturday at home in Los Angeles.
He was 49 years old.
Best known for collaborating with Robert L. Baird on Disney-Pixar films, Gerson was also responsible for Monsters University and Big Hero 6, winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the latter.
But Monsters, Inc. was his biggest commercial success, earning $ 562 million around the world, along with four Academy Award nominations.
Gerson’s family announced this sad news in a New York Times obituary.
Other well-known films on the screenwriter’s resume include Chicken Little (2005), Cars (2006), Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015).
Gerson grew up on the Upper West Side in New York City and attended Cornell University and New York University film school after that.
He later started his career as a writer on such TV shows as the NBC sitcom Something So Right and Fox Family’s The New Addams Family.
We send our condolences to his friends, family members and loved ones.
He is survived by his wife, two children and parents and was working on Cars 3 when he passed away.
Iggy Azalea & Nick Young: Married?!
These days, it"s looking like Iggy Azalea"s career is pretty much DOA.
After all, it"s not a good sign when you have to cancel your first US tour due to lack of interest. And once Macklemore starts taking shots at you, you may as well just hang it up.
But on the plus side, Iggy"s personal life is firing on all cylinders.
TMZ caught up with the I-G-G-Y recently and asked about her relationship with Nick Young, as well as the possibility of her bringing some little Iggy-Igs into the world.
What"s really interesting about the clip below, however, isn"t Iggy"s thoughts on child-rearing, but the possible hint at the the very end that she and Nick have already tied the knot.
Asked if Nick is cool with the idea of babies "with an Australian twinge" (weird question, but hey, unscripted interviews are tough), Iggy replied, "He better! He has a wife with one."
It"s possible she meant he will have a wife with one, but considering Iggy and Nick were talking about getting hitched low-key ar city hall as recently as last week, we wouldn"t be surprised if they"re already hitched.
Hey, the justice of the peace ceremony isn"t particularly fancy, but it gets the job done.
Super Bowl 50: Hot Refs, Scary Monkeys and More!
Super Bowl 50 sucked.
The Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers by compiling under 200 yards of total offense and converting one third downs all game.
It was a sloppy, boring game that didn’t feature a touchdown from farther than two yards away.
But there were at least a few things that saved the Super Bowl, as an event, from being a total letdown.
And one of those things was Clete Blakeman.
The well-chiseled referee made a variety of calls on the field, but those were nothing compared to the phone calls going around from female viewer to another, each asking the same thing:
Who is Clete Blakeman? And is he single?!?
Speaking of hot men…
MATT DAMON IS BACK AS JASON BOURNE!
Sorry. But we’re a tad bit excited. And we think you will be, too, after seeing the Jason Bourne trailer that debuted during the big game:
Prior to kickoff, of course, Lady Gaga blew us away with a national anthem that actually had people comparing it to the iconic Whitney Houston version from 1991.
How could they?
This is how they could:
Gaga was not the only superstar to take to the stage, of course.
Halftime featured Chris Martin and Coldplay, but let’s be serious: it really featured Beyonce.
She was the real winner on Sunday, honoring Michael Jackson and the Black Panthers and putting all entertainers to shame:
Not that Bruno Mars couldn’t hold his own.
Did you ever think you’d see a Bruno Mars-Beyonce dance-off? Watch the Super Bowl 50 halftime performance below and be left in awe:
Finally, Mountain Dew gave viewers more nightmares than Von Miller gave Cam Newton, introducing the world to a puppy monkey baby for some reason.
We’ll never get this image out of our heads:
What was YOUR favorite Super Bowl 50 commercial and/or musical act? Weigh in below!
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