It took two hours of fat jokes, F-bombs and a cameo by a $5000 kangaroo but Rebel Wilson is officially the toast of Hollywood following her hosting debut at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Wilson said she wanted to ensure the show had a distinctly Australian feel and so the “fat, simple girl from Australia” opened the show wearing a hot pink tracksuit emblazoned with koalas.
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Flashback: Anna Paquin wins an Oscar
As more than a billion people worldwide watched on, the nervous gulps lasted for a full 21 seconds on a Los Angles stage. The left hand fidgeted around the lectern, the right hand firmly grasped the prize.
Scarlet Johansson Has Made Her Co-Star Nervous During Stripping Scene’s In Upcoming Movie
Paul Brannigan got a case of the nerves as he was stripped and stood in front of costar Scarlett Johannson in the upcoming movie “Under the Sun” Nervous Brannigan Actress Scarlett Johansson’s co-star Paul Brannigan was very nervous while shooting an intimate scene with her in the upcoming movie Under The Sun. Stood Completely […]
The Swelling Mississippi Worries New Orleans Residents
New Orleans is having a bad case of nerves. The Mississippi River has flooded catastrophically upstream and its swelling waters are moving inexorably down toward the Big Easy — and its traumatic memories of recent disasters, Katrina and the Gulf oil spill.
Medicine: Venom for Pain
His twisted features toneless as grey clay, a middle-aged Brooklyn man last week doubled up with such pain in his abdomen that his tousled head banged his knees. For a multitude of similar sufferers from cancer of abdominal organs the only anodyne is morphine.
My Body, My Laboratory
At the Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, England, in March 2002, doctors wheeled Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, into an operating theater for what has to be one of the world’s only cases of elective neurosurgery on a healthy patient. Warwick belongs to a rare breed of scientists who experiment on themselves
In Mexico, Resuming Life After Quake
In Mexico, Resuming Life After Quake The day after one of the strongest earthquakes to strike the region in nearly two decades, residents on both sides of the border marveled that damage was relatively light even as waves of mild aftershocks troubled nerves. The United States Geological Survey reported that the 7.2 quake, the strongest […]
Strong quake shakes Tonga
A strong earthquake Friday rattled Tonga — and more than a few nerves.
Hospital announces second U.S. face transplant completed
Doctors at a Boston hospital expressed optimism Friday that a man not yet fully awake after undergoing the second partial face transplant in the nation would recover fully.