HammRad has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Well, we hope so because it might be a nickname you start hearing quite often. “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm and Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, are rumored to be cast together in a four-part British miniseries playing Russian doctors at the end of World [...]
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Former NFL great Junior Seau was found dead in his home in Oceanside, Calif., today. Police say the likely cause of death was suicide. He was 43 years old.
Law enforcement sources reportedly believe Seau, a USC and pro football standout for 20 seasons, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Few other details were immediately available. TV footage showed police swarming his home in North San Diego County and people comforting each other.
He leaves behind four kids and an ex-wife. He reportedly sent text messages to his ex-wife and children yesterday saying simply, “Love you.”
They all responded and didn’t suspect anything was wrong, according to TMZ reports, and Seau is said to have last seen his kids three weeks ago.
Sources close to Seau say his family didn’t notice any signs of depression in recent weeks, but more details will surely follow in the coming days.
Oceanside Police Chief Frank McCoy just spoke outside Seau’s house, claiming Seau’s body was initially discovered by the athlete’s girlfriend.
A 911 call was placed around 10 a.m. today. Police responded and found Junior’s unconscious body inside a bedroom with a gunshot wound to the chest.
McCoy says investigators recovered a handgun in the bedroom, believed to be the weapon, and the case is currently being investigated as a suicide.
Seau was involved in a car accident a few years ago when he drove off a cliff in Carlsbad, Calif., hours after he was arrested for attacking his girlfriend.
Seau later said he was not trying to kill himself … insisting he had fallen asleep at the wheel. That was 2010, his final season as a professional.
The San Diego Chargers, who employed Junior for most of his career, said in a statement, “Everyone at the Chargers is in complete shock and disbelief right now. We ask everyone to stop what they’re doing and send their prayers to Junior and his family.”
Seau’s explosive play at linebacker with the Chargers, Dolphins and Patriots will likely send him to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
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Owing to the success of the film Dr Seuss’ The Lorax, in which she voices the character Audrey, Taylor Swift has announced her ambition to begin a run as a fully-fledged star of the silver screen. During an interview with Entertainment Inquirer she mapped out her ambition for the future with a heavy inclination that [...]
Crowder is on the rise to power in Harlan County, and the only place left to go is down, actor Walton Goggins tells MTV News.
By Josh Wigler
Walton Goggins in “Justified”
Photo: FX
Being bad can cost an arm and a leg. And in the case of Robert Quarles, well … at least he’s still got the leg!
“Justified” concluded its third season on Tuesday night, bringing the 13-episode conflict between U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, meat-cleaving money-hoarder Ellstin Limehouse and the bleach-blond OxyContin-popping gangster Quarles to a boil. In the midst of Limehouse’s slaughterhouse, Quarles tried to kill Givens with that way-too-cool gun up his sleeve, only to find his gun — and, by extension, most of his arm — on the floor, cleaved off in one smooth move by a butcher-knife-wielding Limehouse. It was a glorious, gory way to close out the Quarles story while still leaving the door open for the immensely watchable Neal McDonough in future seasons, and an equally brilliant way to deliver on the bloody promise of Limehouse’s butchering skills, all while keeping Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan firmly in the mix.
There was only one ingredient missing from the equation: Boyd Crowder, the most complicated criminal in Harlan County. Played to morally ambiguous perfection by “The Shield” veteran Walton Goggins, Boyd nearly left season three of “Justified” in a prison cell — all-too-familiar circumstances for the pyrotechnically inclined antihero — and, in the process, unavailable for the final showdown between Raylan, Quarles and Limehouse. To a degree, Boyd’s exclusion from the scene was disappointing for fans wanting to see the character get some much-craved justice against Quarles and Limehouse, two of his chief rivals throughout season three. But Goggins sees it another way.
“In some ways, Boyd being in that scene, that’s what you expected. That’s kind of the payoff that everybody was looking for,” Goggins told MTV News in a recent interview about how the “Justified” finale played out for Boyd. “In some ways, we don’t want to rob people of those expectations, but I believe ['Justified' executive producer Graham Yost] is always looking for different kinds of angles. Boyd was really robbed of his revenge on both [Dickey Bennett, played by 'Lost' alum Jeremy Davies] and on Quarles in a way. I think that’s really going to serve the story going forward.”
What wouldn’t have served the story going forward, however, was sticking Boyd behind bars once again, as many viewers were likely fearing over the course of the season finale. Early on in the episode, Limehouse tipped off Raylan and the authorities to the burial site of Devil, a man Boyd shot and killed earlier in the season as a punishment for treason. Once the body was discovered, Boyd was arrested and left incarcerated for the remainder of the episode. With all signs pointing towards a neon orange jumpsuit as Boyd’s season four wardrobe of choice, both the character and the audience were stunned when the mentally ill Arlo Givens — Raylan’s criminal father and one of Boyd’s closest confidants — stepped up and took credit for killing Devil, condemning himself and saving Boyd in the process. For Goggins, Arlo falling on the sword meant choosing his adoptive son over his biological one, a choice that’s steeped in poetry.
“I think it’s a story that’s, really, been going on since the first season, when Raylan is having problems with his father, and I was having problems with mine,” Goggins said. “But Boyd’s father dies, so he never has a chance to make up for that lost time or come to a conclusion about his father, to find forgiveness about his father, and to tell him about that. But Boyd can do that with Arlo, and that’s real symmetry. It’s from the heart. It’s pretty cool.”
Of course, with Arlo in jail, Boyd’s inner circle is now down to two: his against-all-odds girlfriend Ava Crowder (a woman who previously killed Boyd’s brother — her husband at the time — and trained a gun on Boyd himself at multiple points throughout “Justified,” mind you) and his wheelchair-bound cousin Johnny Crowder. In the finale, it was revealed that Johnny had gone behind Boyd’s back and provided the whereabouts of Devil’s corpse to Limehouse in an effort to take Boyd’s place as kingpin of Harlan. That information never materialized for Boyd, but Goggins doesn’t think it’ll be long before he sniffs out Johnny’s recent deception.
“He doesn’t know about Johnny, but for my money, Boyd is smart enough to figure that out,” said Goggins, who added that as a result of the season finale, Boyd’s list of confidants is going to narrow down to just one: Ava. “There’s so much more to unearth in the relationship between Boyd and Ava. Love born out of violence is the greatest gift of all, in some ways. This kind of redemption through caring for another person, maybe that will wind up being the moral of the story for Boyd. It’s really exciting to think about.”
Goggins is certainly thinking a lot about Boyd’s future. Even though he wasn’t present in the climactic slaughterhouse showdown, Boyd still got the result he would have wanted. “What’s fantastic about the direction of the finale is that Boyd got to clear the deck by not firing a single shot against the two people he wanted to take out,” he said. “Because their interests aligned, Raylan did it for him. So now he has a clear cut path to be the king.”
But even if it’s good to be the king, it sure as sunshine ain’t easy. “One of my favorite sayings is ‘the only thing about being on top of the hill is that there’s nowhere else to go but down.’ I think that’s something to take into consideration with the story as it goes forward,” Goggins said, acknowledging that Boyd has plenty of obstacles standing between himself and Harlan royalty. “I think Limehouse won’t be the only person Boyd will have to deal with next season in order to become number one on the call sheet.”
Still, Goggins believes that Boyd is now positioned to accomplish greatness in Harlan County, something he’s always strived for, not just for himself, but for the people as well. “There’s a scene in episode nine that was cut,” the actor recalled. “After [Boyd and his candidate for Harlan's sheriff] lost the election on paper, Boyd gives this rallying speech to the people who have assembled in the room, and you look around the room and it’s full of prostitutes, derelicts, the 99 percent: the poor and disenfranchised. While on one level it may seem self-serving, how Boyd is able to rally those people, I can tell you something I’ve never told anyone before: I think Boyd fancies himself the leader of the disenfranchised. For Boyd and his perverted morality, he’s the guy who really believes, ‘In my world, all boats rise. When I’m in charge, that money will filter down, and everyone will have a better life.’ ”
“That’s a real crystal-clear motivation for this guy to have license to do what he feels he needs to do,” Goggins continued. “This is a guy who is so proud of where he comes from, and unlike ['Justified' season two villain] Mags, he’s not a person who would sell them down the river. Not his MO. I think that’s special. We haven’t seen that in a story in a while on television.”
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Jack White, Avicii and Justice are also slated to make mainstage appearances at Lolla, set for August 3-5 in Chicago.
By James Montgomery
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Photo: Getty Images
Over the course of 20 years, Lollapalooza has developed a reputation as perhaps the most multi-hued of festivals, thanks in no small part to Perry Farrell’s booking of acts that ranged from Ice Cube to Pearl Jam — and just about everyone in between — and his own, uh, uniquely psychedelic outlook on things.
But for this year, he’s going to a rather basic color scheme: namely red, black and white.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White, Black Sabbath and the Black Keys top the bill for Lollapalooza 2012, set for August 3-5 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Joining them are a list of top-notch electronic artists (always a passion of Perry’s), including Avicii, Justice, Calvin Harris and Bassnectar.
Lolla 2012 marks the only North American fest appearance for the reunited Sabbath, and it’ll also be the first time in six years that the Chili Peppers (who broke through at Lolla ’92) appear at the fest. White will make his first solo appearance, and the Keys? Well, after years of mid-card service, they finally make the leap to headliner status this year.
Florence and the Machine, At the Drive-In, the Shins, Fun., Passion Pit, the Weeknd, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and Sigur Rós are also on the bill — plus acts from Brazil and Chile (in recognition of Lolla’s expansion to South America) and a full slate of up-and-coming electro acts on Perry’s Stage. Want even more? How about J.Cole, Wale, Die Antwoord, the Walkmen, the Gaslight Anthem and Alabama Shakes?
All in all, Lolla 2012 features more than 130 bands. Three-day passes for the fest are now on sale, and a limited number of single-day tickets will go on sale later this summer. For ticketing information — and to see the full Lollapalooza lineup — check out the fest’s official site.
Are you planning on attending Lollapalooza this year? Leave your comment below!
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Album is on pace to suffer an 88 percent drop in week two on Billboard charts.
By Gil Kaufman
Madonna’s <i>MDNA</i>
Photo: Interscope
It appears that Madonna fans gave the singer all their luvin’ two weeks ago, and had little to spare during the most recent Billboard album sales reporting period.
Though final figures will not be available until Wednesday morning, on Tuesday (April 10), Forbes reported that the “Girl Gone Wild” singer was on pace to put up the biggest second-week sales drop in chart history.
Reporter Roger Friedman wrote that he was told that after debuting at #1 on sales of 359,000 copies in its first week, MDNA is on pace to tumble 88 percent to around 46,000 copies for the week ending Sunday. The piece even calls into question whether Madonna truly topped the charts in the first place, noting that “most” of the first-week sales were for albums included in the sale of tickets to the star’s upcoming tour. “That promotion artificially inflated Madonna’s numbers, putting her first before Lionel Richie and his Tuskegee album,” Friedman claimed.
“I do think that all the people involved in the Madonna ticket-CD deal should apologize to Richie for denying him his rightful place at number 1,” he wrote. Madonna has done some high-profile promotion of the album, including playing the Super Bowl halftime show, a pop-in at the recent Ultra Music Festival in Miami, a Facebook interview and Twitter Q&A, but the combination of lukewarm reviews and two singles that failed to gain traction may have done the album in.
If the numbers hold, Madonna’s drop will outpace one of her biggest acolytes, Lady Gaga, who suffered an 84 percent dip in week two for Born This Way. (That album’s sales were goosed by a discount 99-cent sale in its first week.) Then again, Gaga moved more than 1.1 million copies in her bow.
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Nicita, the former CAA managing partner and Morgan Creek co-chairman, departed the production company in January.