After months of casting hype, the 50 Shades of Grey movie finally has its two lead stars…Is it Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (as E.L. James originally wanted, these books started as Twilight fan fiction, after all)? Nope…Is it Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt? Nope…Is it Chris Evans and Shailene Woodley at least?! Nope…It’s…drum roll please…Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson! Boy, they really broke the budget to hire some big names…after all the actual big names turned the movie down.
True Blood’s final season will be next year, and I’m shocked to learn the show has only been on the air 7 seasons. The way they burn through plots, characters, and common sense, I thought it had been at least 15. “Who will Sookie be with?” Who cares? I just hope she leaves Sam alone (that’s who she winds up with in the books, apparently) to enjoy a normal relationship with Jurnee Smollet-Bell, who’s carrying Sam’s child on the show. Although, since this is True Blood, I wouldn’t put it past them to kill her character, and hook up Sookie/Sam, the only two people in the main cast who have no chemistry.
A new study shows that drug use among teenagers age 12-17 is down from 11 percent to 9 percent. Yay!…BUT that same study shows that drug use among adults 50-54 has doubled, and drug use among adults 55-59 has more than tripled. Uhhh…also Yay! Since over-50 year olds are routinely listed as the group keeping marijuana from being legal, maybe the fact that a majority of them will soon smoke it at this rate will turn the tide? Also, it probably reinforces my belief that baby boomers may actually be wilder than the millennial generation that, mostly, just watches wild behavior on YouTube.
Peru is now the world’s leading counter-feiter of American currency. Well…I guess they can be proud of something? Alabama remains number 1 in alphabetical order only. Even Mississippi is the fattest, dumbest, and poorest state in the country. Sigh, always a bridesmaid…
Asshole of the Week: ANY politician who looks at Syria and says “You know, the United States really needs to get involved in that giant clusterfuck.”