From the early days of his career, Cage displayed a taste for the finer things in life—which he shared with just about everyone around him. One crew member from the celeb’s 1993 film It Could Happen to You tells The Daily Beast about an episode in which this person was dispatched to caviar hotspot Petrossian in New York to get takeout for the star and a few people on the set. “It was something like $2,000 for a snack,” this person says. “He was really friendly and nice, but almost dorky.”
His largesse was even more pronounced with the women he became involved with. During his divorce proceedings from Lisa Marie Presley (Cage married her in August 2002 and filed for divorce 108 days later), it emerged that in the course of one of the couple’s fights, Presley’s $65,000-plus engagement ring was tossed over Cage’s California-based yacht, the Weston, named for his son. There are conflicting reports about who threw it overboard, but Cage nevertheless hired divers to recover it. The ring was never found.
–I love this article about Nicolas Cage’s crazy spending habits: albino King Cobras, the Shah of Iran’s Lamborghini, a haunted castle, shrunken heads! Oh, Nic, how I love you.
Ya win some, ya lose some
After an unbelievably kick-ass Saturday and Sunday birthday weekend, today has sucked ass from beginning to end, and it’s only 5:30. Example: I’m being sent to collections for a $400 Con-Ed bill that my ex-roommate and her new roommate ran up in my name. And that’s not even the worst of today. Taking my ass home to sulk. This is one of those days when I wish I hadn’t given up broadcast television in favor of torrents four years ago, because I could really use an evening of Gossip Girl + Greek right about now. Cookies will have to suffice.
Hrrmph.
Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in “exile” (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work as a director, marrying and fathering two children, even winning an Oscar, but never — poor baby — being able to return to the U.S.). Let’s keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her, before we start discussing whether the victim looked older than her 13 years, or that she now says she’d rather not see him prosecuted because she can’t stand the media attention.
–Kate Harding — Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child
“I cannot wrap my head around the fact that people are blaming a THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL for being raped by a middle-aged man. I’m not sure I can point to a conversation more clearly demonstrative of the existence of rape culture. Jesus Christ.
When no one cares about a child being raped, what possible hope do we have of anyone caring about the rape of grown men and women?
(via katoleary)”
ViaOK, here’s a problem that is holding back feminism and you see it on the blogs. We all hold each other up to an incredibly high standard in a way that men do not. Let’s say a woman directs a movie that’s not very good—everybody piles up on her. It’s, like, “No! You’re representing us! It has to be perfect!” And that’s not how it works! Women should be allowed to make bad movies. Good movies. Porno movies. Terrible made-for-TV movies. Women just need to be out there directing as many movies as men do. We don’t all have to be the model woman—what we need is to be more visible. We really, really are tough on each other.
– Diablo Cody. I’m stoked for her new Jennifer’s Body movie, which she wrote in an attempt to appeal to “both feminists and 15 year old boys.”also, abortion should be covered
Obama confirmed that abortions would not be covered in his healthcare plan. He wanted to give healthcare workers the opportunity to utilize their conscience. Can you imagine the President announcing that a medical procedure for men, that was perfectly legal, would not be covered under health care? Can there be anymore proof of the fact that women’s lives are devalued by patriarchy? This further punishes poor women for being impoverished and having sex.
This so-called moral clause is nothing but patriarchy exercising its control over women’s bodies. The conservatives may not have been able to overturn Roe vs Wade, however; they have made great strides in reducing access to the point that in some areas women are completely unable to procure an abortion, or they must go through extreme measures. Obama claims to support a woman’s right to choose, however; by not including abortion coverage, he is assuring that some will not have that right. This is a centrist in action. You cannot stand for good and for change, when you are pandering to the right wing, which seeks only to maintain the status quo. (womanist musings)
Today is “reblog abbyjane” day.
Nine women have been rescued after being tricked into believing they were reality show contestants, Turkish military police said Thursday.
The women were freed on Monday from a villa in Riva, a summer resort on the outskirts of Istanbul, a spokesman for the military police in the region who carried out the raid told The Associated Press.
The women were made to believe they were being filmed for a Big Brother-type television show, the private Dogan news agency and other news reports said, without citing sources. Instead, their naked images were sold on the Internet, the reports said.
You are 32 years old and you were:
24 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
23 years old on the first day of Y2K
20 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
18 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
17 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
16 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
14 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
13 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
9 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
7 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
6 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
4 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
3 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
My family didn’t move to the US until 1985, when I was 8 going on 9, so the first one of these I really remember clearly is the Challenger explosion. A similar list for the UK would clearly include the Royal Wedding in 1982. On the site there’s one for music which correctly, if hilariously, points out that I was 17 when Ace of Base’s The Sign topped the charts.
(via willotoons)
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