I find this disturbingly funny and terrifying at the same time.

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A much-ballyhooed Disneyland 24 hours all-nighter party on May 24, timed to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial grand opening of summer, drew huge crowds.

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure stayed open for 24 hours straight from 6 AM on Friday until the same hour on Saturday. In Florida, Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park did the same thing.  It was the first time that all three parks had coordinated a 24-hour all-nighter.

The attention-grabbing event, dubbed the “Monstrous Summer All-Nighter,” was meant to promote Disney’s upcoming new film, Monsters University. However, it also gave Disney diehards a chance to party all-night on Disneyland or Disney World properties, an opportunity that they hadn’t enjoyed since a 2012 Leap Day all-nighter in February 2012.

The 2012 event proved to be a logistics nightmare, with the press of crowds forcing Disneyland to shut the gates for hours after a traffic snarl in the city of Anaheim.  Disney officials said that the park was full as of 9:30 PM on the Wednesday evening of the event.

This time, Disney fanatics took no chances. People determined to get in actually camped out on Thursday to claim their place in line.

For Disney’s part, they revealed that they’d taken extra steps to work with Anaheim to ease traffic flow.  They also asked Disney pass-holders to consider carpooling so that they wouldn’t run out of places for people to park their cars.

Today is going to be a long damn day but ill be back in exactly 24 hours! Disneyland here I come!

— Qias Omar (@QiasOmar) May 26, 2013

Once inside, some people wouldn’t leave, even napping on rides or in public spaces to regain their energy to see out the entire Disneyland 24 hours experience.

“@breannaleee: Can’t say you went to Disneyland 24 hours if you took a nap. CHEATERS. twitter.com/BreannaLeee/st…” Max & Landon !!

— alicia (@aliciabaybeee) May 26, 2013

Feel free to brag in the comments section below if you too attended the Disneyland 24-hours event.

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It’s all fun and games till the Lion is craving for a weenie.

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Sidney Crosby will no longer wear the extra shield on his mask as the Pittsburgh Penguins advance to the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Bruins. Crosby was forced to wear the shield after returning from a broken jaw at the start of the NHL playoffs.

The star center for the Penguins was hit by a puck in the face on March 30th in a 2-0 win over the New York Islanders. He was immediately sent to the hospital for facial surgery and he went on to miss the remainder of the regular season.

Crosby returned in Game 2 of the quarterfinals against none other than the team who sent him to the hospital in the first place. The Penguins would go on to beat the Islanders in six games and have since knocked out the Ottawa Senators in the following round.

They will now move on to face the Boston Bruins in the conference finals in hopes of advancing to the Stanley Cup. Sidney Crosby will be a major factor in their success, or failure, against the Bruins and he will do it without the protective shield.

Though Crosby isn’t the biggest and baddest hockey player, he’s still aggressive on the ice and is certainly no pushover. The highly talented skater is regularly taking big hits, but wearing an extra shield just isn’t his style.

“They’re comfortable with it coming off, being hit and things like that,” Crosby said about the team doctors’ response to removing the extra shield. “That’s what it came down to. It doesn’t really change anything. It’s nice to see a little bit better.”

Though he won’t be wearing the extra shield, Crosby will continue to sport his classic visor when he takes the ice against the Bruins.

Do you think Sidney Crosby can play any better by removing the extra shield from his helmet, or is the Penguins’ leader set to dominate in the conference finals no matter what he’s wearing?

[Image via Creative Commons | Elliot]

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A skydiver fell to his death in a residential California neighborhood on Saturday.

Authorities said that a group of skydivers were attempting a maneuver over Riverside County when one of them became entangled in his parachute.

The Associated Press reports that the 62-year-old skydiver fell to his death after failing to disentangle himself from the parachute. He landed in the backyard of a home in Lake Elsinore. Although he was rushed to an area hospital, he was later pronounced dead.

According to UT San Diego, the man who died during the skydiving maneuver has been identified as Ken Oka of Mira Loma. Although a preliminary investigation suggests it was likely an accident, the Federal Aviation Administration is launching its own independent investigation into the matter.

Lakeland Village resident Alma Lopez said the neighborhood was in commotion after the accident occurred. She said the other skydivers arrived shortly after Oka hit the ground. Lopez said one man was “hysterical” and wanted to see his friend. She drove the skydiver to the backyard where Oka landed.

According to the Lake Elsinore-Wildomar Patch, CPR was being administer to Oka when Lopez arrived at the residence. Sadly, he would later die at a nearby hospital.

This isn’t the first skydiving accident to take place this year. The Inquisitr previously reported that Gerardo Flores experienced a serious problem shortly after he jumped. He was 13,000 above the ground when his parachute suddenly opened on its own.

“It just exploded. It just it yanked me to the side. Something went wrong. One hundred things go through your mind. You are never suppose to open above 6,000 feet,” he explained.

Flores miraculously survived his 13,000 descent back to the ground. In addition to suffering several broken ribs and a lacerated tongue, he was knocked unconscious for roughly two weeks.

An investigation into what caused a California skydiver to fall to his death is currently underway.

[Image via Shutterstock]

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Lazio beat their city rivals, Roma, to win the Coppa Italia for the sixth time with a narrow 1-0 victory at the Stadio Olimpico.

Senad Lulic scored the winning goal, after he got onto the end of an Antonio Candreva cross that Roma goalkeeper Bogdan Lobont should have dealt with.

Lulic remarked of his goal, “This victory won’t be forgotten. I found myself there in the right moment. I dedicate this goal to my wife, who is pregnant.”

Roma then searched for an equaliser but were unable to produce one. Francesco Totti, the side’s talisman, saw his free-kick hit the crossbar after being deflected but that was as close as they came.

Lazio, who finished in seventh place in Serie A, are now able to qualify for the Europa League group stage after their victory. Roma actually finished one place higher than their rivals, but will miss out on European football after this defeat.

The match was a rather scrappy affair, and despite dominating the first half for long periods, Lazio were unable to make their dominance count.

Lulic scored in the 70th minute, meaning Roma had very little time to launch a comeback. Before that Stefano Mauri and Miroslav Klose combined to miss Lazio’s best chance, after the former nodded the ball down to the latter who couldn’t make contact from just three yards out.

On Wednesday the players and officials for the encounter met with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. This meeting was planned to qualm any disputes between the two heated rivals before the game.

Lazio president Claudio Lotito said of the meeting, “‘We decided to participate in today’s audience in a public way and not privately because of the need to be among the people, to show the fans a sign of humility and a message of calm and respect for your opponent.”

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The father of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson was rushed to the hospital this weekend, the reality show family said on Honey Boo Boo’s official Facebook page.

Michael “Sugar Bear” Thompson became dizzy and passed out Friday night, according to Access Atlanta.

“Just wanted everyone knows sugarbear was taken to the hospital earlier tonight after getting dizzy and passing out, their running test on him to see what’s going on,” the family wrote on Facebook. “So far everything is coming back ok so no answers yet, will update when we know something! Thanks for the prayers & concerns as always.”

A couple of hours later, the family posted another update:

“Update on sugarbear he is still in the hospital they r running a lot of tests on his brain dont really what to say what they r thinking it is until we have all the test and final answers but it could b very serious do hoping things turn for the good he is in good spirit just one day at a time right now hope everyone is having a great memorial day weekend b careful out there #prayforsugarbear”

Around 5 pm Sunday, the family said there was no real update and that doctors were “still running lots of tests” and that “there’s a lot of possibilities but nothing has been confirmed or ruled out.” The family has been receiving dozens of comments of support since Sugar Bear’s hospitalization.

Sugar Bear was previously hospitalized in September 2012 after getting an infection in his foot from an injury he sustained while riding an ATV. Initial reports said that Sugar Bear was in danger of having the leg amputated, but he underwent surgery to remove the infected tissue. He also suffered pancreatitis in February.

“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” returns for its second season on TLC in July.

[Photo credit: Lwp Kommunikacio / Flickr]

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Pope Francis has launched a scathing attack on the Italian mafia and paid tribute to a brave priest that was murdered by the Sicilian mobsters.

Rev. Giuseppe Puglisi was a priest in Palermo who was killed in the city 20 years ago by mobsters because he preached against the Mafia in a neighbourhood where they were particularly powerful.

Puglisi was killed only months after Pope John Paul II had traveled to Sicily and asked mobsters to “convert” their hearts from their evil ways. Only two months earlier, the Cosa Nostra blew up Italy’s top anti-Mafia magistrates building with a series of bomb blasts.

The area where he worked was one of the poorest and toughest neighborhoods in the country, with the city overrun by the mob’s illicit activities.

Francis told the crowd that had gathered in St. Peter’s Square that the Mafia killed the priest because he looked to keep youths away from the mafia, as they tried to recruit them.

Francis made remarks a day after the beatification of Puglisi and called him a martyr whilst criticising the mafioso for their evil endeavours, especially their attempts to exploit people through prostitution.

Francis said, ” Educating young people according to the Gospel, he took them away from organized crime, and thus it [the Mafia] tried to defeat him by killing him.”

He then added, “I think of the great pain suffered by men, women and even children, exploited by so many mafias. Behind this exploitation and slavery are the mafias.”

The Pope then stated, “They cannot make our brothers slaves. Let us pray that these Mafiosi and Mafiose convert to God.”

Francis then launched an attack on the syndicates for “making them do work that makes them slaves, prostitution.”

What do you think of Francis’ words? Do you think he’ll be able to take on the mob?

[Image via: presidencia.gov.ar / Wikimedia Commons]

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Google Buzz is nearing the end of its life cycle and in response to its closure Google will transfer data from the platform to Google Drive.

Google will transfer data from Google Buzz on July 17, at which time the products life cycle will end. The move allows Google Buzz users to still access their stored Buzz data while providing Google with a simple way to add potential new users to Google Drive.

Google will transfer two data types to the service. The first data type shows public and private posts created by the user. The second type contains a copy of the user’s public posts. The second post type is viewable by anyone with a link. Google will funnel Buzz links to Google Drive URLs.

According to Electronista:

“While the e-mail does explain why comments are stored on other users’ files and advises that the contents of said comments could be made public by other users, it also states that users can delete the Buzz posts and comments before the date, and so avoiding saving on other’s accounts.”

Google first announced plans to shut down Google Buzz in October 2011. Google immediately began pointing customers towards Google+.

The Google Buzz platform at one point was met with privacy issues which led to an $8.5 class-action lawsuit settlement.

Google Buzz customers who don’t care to use Google Drive will have the option to delete their information at any time.

Do you think Google Buzz customers will gravitate to Google Drive with the automatic transfers.

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Barbara Eden is an American film and television icon for her starring role in the 1960′s sitcom I Dream Of Jeannie, and she went back in time this past weekend at the Life Ball in Vienna, Austria.

The 78-year-old took the stage in her iconic costume from the hit show on Saturday, and she was accompanied by a very prominent guest. Former United States President Bill Clinton was also on stage with Eden as she stunned the crowd in her “Jeannie” costume.

The well-known actress is never far from the spotlight when she makes appearances, and Eden surely had all eyes facing her after taking the stage in her old look, which she sported for five-years while working on the hit television show from 1965-70.

Barbara Eden left the fantasy sitcom in 1970 after the show ended, but it was only the beginning as it’s popularity grew even larger over the following decade and into the 1980′s. The show’s success eventually led to two films, which Eden starred in both.

The first movie, named I Dream of Jeannie… Fifteen Years Later, appeared in 1985 and included all of the original cast outside of Larry Hagman, who played the interesting role of astronaut Anthony “Tony” Nelson during the 1960′s sitcom.

The second film was named I Still Dream of Jeannie, which released in 1991. Ever since the most recent film, Eden has appeared in five movies, three television shows, and she also made a cameo in A Very Brady Sequel, a spin-off of another popular TV show which everyone’s familiar with called The Brady Bunch.

This past Saturday, Eden brought back her inner- “Jeannie” and she rocked the costume as if she was on set back in the 1960′s. Here’s a photo of Eden smiling to the crowd that she posted on her Twitter page.

Here it is folks! The navel that put NBC on edge! Barbara Eden, Sat. night at the Life Ball! twitter.com/Barbara_Eden/s…

— Barbara Eden (@Barbara_Eden) May 26, 2013

Does Barbara Eden look better than ever as she took the stage in her iconic costume at the Life Ball on Saturday night?

[Image via Creative Commons]

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Neil Christie, a British father of two, has bought an entire Spanish village for just $60,000 , taking advantage of the country’s economic crisis.

The entire village is worth a fifth of the price of an average semi-detached home in Britain. However the entire village is in a state of disrepair after most of the inhabitants, who inherited the homes from their past generation, moved away to more urban areas for work.

Arrunada, which is on the border of Asturias and Galicia in the north west of the country, was bought for $60,000 and Christie has already started to completely rebuild some of the abodes.

Those who sell them are unable to maintain or restore them so sell them at knockdown prices, and 80 percent of the individuals who are buying them are foreigners, whilst a third of these are British.

Christie, who worked as a transmission controller for a leading British television channel, moved from his home in Northern England, and is now staying in a nearby village  whilst his wife works as a schoolteacher.

Christie originally fell in love with the area in 2005 during a holiday with his wife, and their new home was abandoned at least 27 years ago. Christie is able to use the skills he amassed working on the Swan Hunter Shipyard in Newcastle and predicts that he can rebuild the entire village for around $250,000.

Neil said: “My wife walked away saying, ‘I’ll leave it to you,’ when I saw this village and decided it’s where I wanted to see out the rest of my life. That was probably because a tree was growing right through the middle of our front room and it didn’t have a roof. But she’s as excited about the project now as I was then.”

He then added, “She’s moved here and is working as a teacher. We’re living in a ­cottage in a village a 10-minute drive away while I get this house ready. It’s not a decision for the faint-hearted. The village was a ruin to start with.

Christie then concluded, “I had to bulldoze down the walls of this first house and rebuild them up again using the original stone. I’ve spent most of the last four years renovating it and I’m still 18 months away from ­finishing. I haven’t even touched the house next door, apart from clearing it out a bit.”

[Image via Uldis Maters/Shutterstock]

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Liam Gallagher has revealed that he could have written Daft Punk’s number one single, “Get Lucky” in an hour.

Gallagher was responding to the huge hype and hysteria surrounding the French band’s recent comeback, stating, “I’d write that in a f****** hour. I don’t know what the fuss is about, you know what I mean? It’s like, f*** off, give me a f****** break.”

Gallagher also took aim at their robot costumes, remarking, “I am not going to have people wear disguises. Take your f****** helmet off. Let’s see what you look like sans helmet, whatever you’re called.”

The former Oasis front-man also took the time to talk about work on his new band, Beady Eye’s, album. The record is called BE, and saw the group collaborate with Dave Sitek on the effort, with Gallagher stating, “Working with Sitek just opened something up in us. He’s without a doubt the best producer I’ve ever worked with, a real outlaw – he doesn’t give a f***, no rules.”

He then added, “We had a new found focus when we were writing it – we really got our heads down and got our shit together – clear heads, none of that crap from the ’90s. It feels like a really special record for us.”

Gallagher also found time to have a dig at Beyonce, who he will be performing alongside at the V Festival in August, saying that his bottom is better than hers.

Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories is set to shoot to the top of the charts in both the United States and Britain. “Get Lucky” is also currently placed in number 10 on the Hot 100 chart and is at No. 3 on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart too.

Who do you prefer, Daft Punk or Oasis? Whose behind is better, Beyonce’s or Liam Gallagher’s?

[Image via: Will Fresch, Wikimedia Commons]

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Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS) revealed that 10 fans were injured and the NASCAR race was delayed Sunday night at the Coca Cola 600. Three of the 10 fans were sent to the hospital, and it all started when a Fox Sports cable fell on the race track from above the crowd.

According to a statement released by the speedway, seven of the injured fans were treated with “minor cuts and scrapes” on site before being released. No additional information has been revealed about the three other fans who were taken to the hospital.

Fox Sports Chris Myers, who was broadcasting the race, immediately apologized to both the fans and drivers on air after the incident occurred. The race was just heating up when the TV cable fell to the track, as the drivers were on the 121st lap out of 400 in total.

The odd but yet saddening scene caused the race to be delayed for 27 minutes while the CMS staff cleaned up and pit crews fixed their driver’s cars. Kyle Busch was leading the race at the time of the incident, and he reported damage to his right front tire while Marcos Ambrose and Mark Martin also noted damages to their rides.

This is without a doubt a first in racing events with 10 injured at a NASCAR race, which had nothing to do with a high-speed wreck against the wall or any other scenario that’s played out over the years.

Kurt Busch’s crew frantically went to work in hopes of fixing his car so he could return and compete for the checkered flag. As  the field stands at a little over 300 laps, Busch has managed to stay near the front while Kasey Kahne has also made a move.

Busch has never won at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and this would be one heck of way to get his first after Fox Sports had a cable go down. Though the drivers continue to do battle on the race track, the focus remains on the fans who were injured during the incident on lap 121.

Do you believe Fox Sports is to blame for the 10 injured at the NASCAR race on Sunday night?

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Toronto mayor Rob Ford says a video supposedly showing him smoking crack doesn’t exist.

Speaking on a weekly radio show he hosts with his brother, city council member Doug Ford, the mayor said the allegations that he smoked crack on tape ridiculous.

When a caller asked if the video was really him, Ford responded, “Number one: There’s no video, so that’s all I can say. You can’t comment on something that doesn’t exist.”

Ford went on to attack those reporting the allegations, saying that good journalists are “few and far between.”

“A bunch of maggots,” Ford said, though he quickly retracted the comment..

The scandal began when a group of Somali men involved in the Toronto drug trade reportedly began shopping the video. The men were asking a six-figure sum, media outlets reported.

Gawker writer John Cook said he was approached by a tipster claiming to possess the video of the conservative mayor smoking crack. To bolster the claim, the tipster sent a picture allegedly showing Ford hanging out with a group of young black men, one of whom would later be killed outside a Toronto nightclub in a gangland-style shooting.

The photo appears blurry and taken in the dark, but Gawker compared it to another photo of Rob Ford from the National Post where he is wearing the same sweatshirt, concluding that the two appear to be the same.

Cook, who flew to Toronto to view the supposed Rob Ford crack video, said it seemed legitimate. He wrote:

“Here is what the video shows: Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, is the only person visible in the frame. Prior to the trip, I spent a lot of time looking at photographs of Rob Ford. The man in the video is Rob Ford. It is well-lit, clear. Ford is seated, in a room in a house. In one hand is a a clear, glass pipe. The kind with a big globe and two glass cylinders sticking out of it. In the other hand is a lighter.”

Two Toronto Star reporters also saw the supposed Rob Ford video, but turned down the chance to buy the video.

Soon after the news broke, a lawyer retained by Ford, Dennis Morris, called Gawker’s report “false and defamatory.” Both Gawker and the Star noted that there was no way to verify the video.

While Rob Ford has vehemently denied that there is a video of him smoking crack, The Associated Press pointed out that he hasn’t said whether he’s used the drug or not.

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Iggy Pop, the punk icon who is the lead singer and frontman of The Stooges, has revealed that he actually doesn’t like punk music.

In an interview with Classic Rock magazine, Pop stated that he doesn’t like the title and thinks that the music is “tedious.”

When talking about music insiders who repeatedly use the title, Pop remarked, “They have to have a place to put me to reference in the whole thing. And they think they have to explain that to an audience of people who are similarly lacking in intelligence or education. So you get that. It’s okay. But it’s tedious.”

He revealed that he was asked to to promote punk by a radio station recently, but the punk behemoth couldn’t bring himself to do it, stating, “We hadn’t sold out one of the shows, so the promoter wanted me to go on the radio. So I said: ‘Alright, I’ll do an interview.’ Well, then that wasn’t enough. They wanted me to talk about five punk songs. And I told them: ‘I don’t like punk.’”

Pop also discussed the rumor that he had threatened to show his penis to the crowd at South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, stating, “I was threatening them. I mean, I never really have displayed my penis. That’s sort of… that’s an urban myth. Once in a while it slips out here and there, or my pants fall down a lot.”

Iggy Pop And The Stooges released their fifth studio album, Ready To Die, in April of this year, which was the follow-up to 2007′s, The Weirdness.

The band reconvened in 2003 after splitting up in 1974. Previously their 1969 album, The Stooges, was named as one of the best albums of all time and it helped to inspire a generation’s worth of bands.

What do you think of Iggy Pop’s comments?

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The collapsed I-5 bridge over the Skagit River will get two temporary steel spans while state officials plan and construct a permanent fix. The interstate highway span collapsed into the water this past week.

Governor Jay Inslee announced the plan for temporary spans on Sunday, saying that they should be built in about three weeks’ time, or around mid-June. The spans will allow for two lanes each way.

The spans will be pre-built and trucked in to Mount Vernon, where the I-5 bridge collapsed on Thursday. And while temporary spans will help ease traffic flow on the busy freeway for the time being, the state plan also calls for a permanent span to be built by autumn. Inslee added:

“We’re going to get this project done as fast as humanly possible. There are no more important issues right now to the economy of the state of Washington than getting this bridge up and running.”

Officials plan to inspect the remaining spans to make sure that they are still safe to use. Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson explained that the federal government is expected to cover 100 percent of the cost for the temporary bridge, along with 90 percent of the permanent span.

Thursday’s I-5 bridge collapse was triggered when an semi carrying an oversize load clipped a steel truss. The incident sent cars and people into the cold waters of the Skagit River. Three people survived with non-life threatening injuries. And while officials are glad no one was seriously hurt, the incident cut access to one of the most important highways in the state for trade, commuters and travel.

Crews arrived on Saturday to start carrying away the pieces of mangled steel in the Skagit River. Investigators are still looking into the exact cause of the I-5 bridge collapse. They will conduct underwater safety inspections to see if there is additional damage that cannot be seen. Once the temporary span is in place, work will begin on the more permanent solution. That stretch of I-5 handles roughly 71,000 vehicles per day.

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Evangeline Lilly has been talking about her character in the upcoming, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. 

Lilly is playing a character that wasn’t in the book in the upcoming sequels, who goes by the name of Tauriel. She is a woodland Elf.

Lily stated, “She’s a very, very young elf. She’s only 600 years old, unlike Legolas who’s like, 1,900 years old and Thranduil who’s about 3,000 years old. She doesn’t have quite the wisdom and pose that those two boys do; she’s a little more… gritty. A little more spontaneous, passionate perhaps.”

The Lost actress added, ” To play this character I need to have a certain amount of grace. But I’m also supposed to be an absolutely ruthless, deadly killer.”

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is the follow-up to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which was released in December last year and amassed over $1billion around the world.

The Hobbit: There And Back Again will then conclude the trilogy in December 2014. Jackson was originally planning to adapt JRR Tolkein’s seminal novel to just two movies.

However, Jackson told Entertainment Weekly in December that despite the film’s success, he expected to be snubbed at the Academy Awards, which duly occurred.

Jackson stated, “I think we’ve got great possibilites in the below-the-line categories. Above the line, I don’t think so much. I wish it was a year where we could celebrate Ian McKellen as Supporting Actor, or Martin Freeman – or Andy Serkis, for that matter – as a Supporting Actor. The acting awards seem to elude us, at least for these types of films. I don’t know why.”

But in 2012 he announced that it would be a trilogy instead. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins, whilst the likes of Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, and Benedict Cumberbatch also appear.

What did you think of The Hobbit?

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Holy Land USA, a crumbling biblical theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut, can be yours for the low price of $350,000.

The religious theme park was originally constructed in 1958 by John Baptist Greco, who hoped that American Christians would make pilgrimages to the park. He used his knowledge of the Bible to create attractions centered around Daniel in the lions’ den and the Garden of Eden.

Other attractions included a 56-cross cross and a giant illuminated sign featuring the park’s name. After enjoying some success in the 60s and 70s, the biblical theme park eventually closed in 1984. Although Greco intended to remodel Holy Land USA, he would die before renovations began.

According to io9, the religious park ended up in the hands of an order of nuns who let everything fall into a state of disrepair. Nearly 30 years after Holy Land USA closed its doors, the location and all its exhibits are on the market for around $350,000.

The nuns originally put Greco’s biblical theme park up for grabs back in 2011. The original asking price was $805,000, which was obviously too much for 18 acres of rotting religious attractions. This prompted the sellers to drop the price to around $519,000.

Ninemsn reports the nuns are now want $363,000 for what remains of Holy Land USA. The website also states that William Raveis Real Estate is selling the property as a “single family home.” When you see what this place looks like, you’ll understand just how creepy that description is. Have a look at the video below.

Attempts have been made to renovate the property, though nothing has ever come to fruition. The Archbishop of the Hartford Archdiocese was interested in reopening Holy Land USA, and the cross was replaced in 2008. Sadly, the park would be the scene of a grisly rape in 2010. Not surprisingly, the property isn’t exactly attractive to the average buyer.

Judging from the embedded video and pictures at the Daily Mail, the biblical theme park is in a pretty sad state at the moment. If anyone intends to restore the site to its former glory, then they’ll probably need a lot more than $350,000.

Would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a crumbling biblical theme park?

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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has admitted to Will Smith that he wrote a rap for the Queen’s Jubilee.

Smith was in London with his son, Jaden, to promote their upcoming sci-fi film, After Earth, when he met up with the Mayor to celebrate the achievements of the Mayor’s Leadership Clubs, which launched in London earlier this year.

Boris Johnson told the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air star and rapper, “My first rap, I haven’t really set it to music yet. Perhaps with your help. I can send you a lyric. It was about the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.”

Smith then dryly responded, “That was big in the hip-hop community.” He then talked to around 80 school children at the event, noting, “I think it’s hugely important to take these moments. I want to thank you all for being an example for your fellow citizens so I congratulate you on that.”

At the event Jaden Smith talking about working with his father, stating, “He has, as you can see, all the experience you ever need. So if you ever need anything on set, you can just walk over and ask him. He’s like a walking dictionary. Any time I’m lost or anything, I can just ask him.”

Johnson added about the celebrations, “I was totally out of my depth there when we did the rapping stuff but it’s fantastic, really wonderful Will and Jaden have given up their time to come here and electrify these kids. This is something they are going to remember for a very long time, if not the rest of their lives.”

He then added, “The idea is that leadership clubs are things that inspire you to do great things in your life. Maybe you’re not going to be Will Smith and Jaden but everyone’s got something fantastic in them.”

Boris Johnson also found time to upload an image of him with Will Smith and his son to his Twitter feed, stating, “Great to see Will Smith, @officialjaden & 90 kids at my Leadership Club achievement events today at City Hall.”

[Image via Featureflash/Shutterstock]

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Terry Bradshaw will get his own Vegas show where the NFL legend can showcase his musical side.

The show, titled A Life in Four Quarters, will allow Bradshaw to show off his singing and dancing skills and tell a bit of his life story. The musical even has its own halftime show, producer Anita Mann said.

“Terry is dancing and moves beautifully,” Mann said of the show at the Mirage. “He sang in church and has a gospel kind of sound, but he can also do Phantom of the Opera … Well maybe not, but a fun voice.”

In his Vegas show, Terry Bradshaw will be joined by his daughter Rachel and backup singers called the IQuties.

The Mirage is selling the play as part autobiographical, part comedy:

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