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Dreamworks Studios has contracted with the Boston Globe for the movie rights to the Catholic sexual abuse scandal story that the paper broke ten years ago.

DreamWorks Studios and Participant Media announced their acquisition Tuesday, expressing the intention to create a drama with Tom McCarthy tapped to direct and co-write with Josh Singer. Holly Bario, DreamWorks President of Production, said in a statement that the story by the Globe was extremely important both for Massachusetts and eventually the global community.  "The Boston Globe's coverage of the Catholic priest scandal opened the door to a bigger story that had worldwide ramifications," said Bario. "The story of how this team of editors and reporters came to uncover the truth will make a dramatic and compelling film, especially with the talents of our director Tom McCarthy and his co-screenwriter Josh Singer on board."

As you'd expect, Bill Donohue has an opinion.

"Films about the sexual abuse of minors have all flopped – there is no market for such fare. People want to be entertained when they go to the movies, and there is no entertainment value in these flicks," said Donohue. Donohue also told CP that if "the film sticks to Boston alone, which admittedly was a pretty sick archdiocese, that may not be a problem." "But if it swings widely, painting all priests and bishops as miscreants, then it would be engaging in Catholic bashing. So we'll see," said Donohue.

In 2003 the Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the scandal.

The lovely drawings of Stasia Burrington! Go get inspired here and here

Japanese toy line Tomy Tec is releasing a series of train station benches. Boring, you say! Well, just look at all the possible figure hilarity these plastic seats make possible.

Below is a series of photos from the Hobby Search Blog. They are wonderful.

駅ベンチ(オレンジ色タイプ/緑色タイプ)で遊ぼう！ [Hobby Search Blog]

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600 hours. Over 200,000 bricks. That's what it cost Mike Doyle to build this enormous LEGO city, called Odan.

It was totally worth it.

A lot of thought has gone into both the design and construction of Odan, which you should read about in this lengthy interview over on Brothers Brick.

Mike Doyle builds massive city of Odan from 200,000 Lego bricks [Interview] [Brothers Brick]

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Schadenfreude is at its best when you can watch a team cut ties with a player who is universally detested by that team’s fan base, only to bring him back later, producing delightfully shrill cries of frustration and anguish. Such is the case with the Redskins and DeAngelo Hall.

At the beginning of March, Washington released Hall, the most visible and perhaps the most picked on member of the Redskins’ 30th ranked pass defense. Part of that was because he was due $8 million for the 2013 season and part of that was because he sucks. ‘Skins fans rejoiced at the idea of finally being rid of their team’s most boneheaded player.

But nope, Hall is back. While the terms of his new one-year contract are not yet available, depending on how much his salary will be reduced, it may not actually be that horrible of a value. But rest assured, even at the veteran minimum, Washington fans are miserable about the thought of watching DeAngelo extend an opponent’s drive with a mindless personal foul penalty.

If it’s any consolation to ‘Skins fans, the Steelers did the a similar thing with cornerback William Gay. He’s equally as horrible, if slightly less of a douchebag.

The post Redskins Bring Back DeAngelo Hall, To The Delight Of Everyone But Redskins Fans appeared first on Kissing Suzy Kolber.

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The GIF that just keeps on giving involves the ever surprised Patrick Star. And thankfully the internet has produced some hilarious editions of this meme. Check out Patrick’s reaction to sex, the Bravo reality stars and drag queens.

Alyssa Edwards from RuPaul’s Drag Race

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The X-Factor

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Honey Boo Boo’s Mama

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RHOBH‘s Kim Richards

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Sharon Stone’s vagina

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Julia Robert’s teeth

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Andrew Christian Models

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Sex

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Back in the late 1980s, queer singer Freddie Mercury brought Princess Diana to a London gay club in disguise, according to a new book by British actress Cleo Rocos.

In The Power of Positive Drinking, Rocos explains how she and gay comedian Kenny Everett accompanied the rocker and the royal to Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the oldest gay bar in South London, with Diana disguised in an army jacket, cap and dark sunglasses.

Rocos says the princess looked “like a beautiful young man.”

“When we walked in… we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it.”

Apparently the presence of the three other celebrities allowed Diana to mingle undetected and even order a round of drinks.

Oh, to be in England!

Trolling is a art.

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Mixed media by Januz Miralles, from the series “Nothing To See Here.”

Jennifer Lewis of Flavorwire has another round of posters created by making a pun of two themes, at least one of them a movie. Spring Beakers is a movie I'd want to see! Don't miss Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia, Winter is Coming to America, and the others. Link

Dust off your old Atari 2600 console and see if these modern games will work in it. StarRoivas imagined what modern games would look like if they were produced 30 years ago.

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Well I’ve spent time with George Clooney and he’s the most interesting man on the planet. He can do it all. Yep, I guess what I’m saying is I’d have sex with him.”

– Reigning “Sexiest Man Alive” Channing Tatum opines on banging the quintessential sexiest man alive, in The Sun.

Diet Wiegman creates sculptures by arranging piles of rubbish which later when lit in a special way, result in producing a perfect shadow! Way way cool!Via ignant

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The best street artists need only add a few touches to the pre-existing environment to bring out striking images. These three pieces by Russian artist Alexey Menschikov are good demonstrations of this ability.

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PHOTO: Nineteen-year-old Tumblr member lampsarepeopletoo posted the above photo on his feed, with the message “My mom walked in on my boyfriend and i naked and then five minutes later she slipped this note under my door.”

Hmm, was mama buzzed from the brownies—or did she perhaps have herself a nice box of wine after seeing her son in the altogether with his cute beau?

The followup post was even more precious:

“My mom responded to the situation by buying me a door knob with a lock on it—best parental reaction or best parental reaction?”

You better do right on Mother’s Day, son.

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Senator Rob Portman's son Will, talks about his entire coming out process, from being completely closeted, to telling his best friends, to writing a letter coming out to his parents, to finally experiencing the freedom of being fully out in an essay in the Yale Daily News that will likely resonate with a lot of people.

Here's an excerpt:

I started talking to my dad more about being gay. Through the process of my coming out, we’d had a tacit understanding that he was my dad first and my senator a distant second. Eventually, though, we began talking about the policy issues surrounding marriage for same-sex couples.

The following summer, the summer of 2012, my dad was under consideration to be Gov. Romney’s running mate. The rest of my family and I had given him the go-ahead to enter the vetting process. My dad told the Romney campaign that I was gay, that he and my mom were supportive and proud of their son, and that we’d be open about it on the campaign trail.

When he ultimately wasn’t chosen for the ticket, I was pretty relieved to have avoided the spotlight of a presidential campaign. Some people have criticized my dad for waiting for two years after I came out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay couples. Part of the reason for that is that it took time for him to think through the issue more deeply after the impetus of my coming out. But another factor was my reluctance to make my personal life public.

We had decided that my dad would talk about having a gay son if he were to change his position on marriage equality. It would be the only honest way to explain his change of heart. Besides, the fact that I was gay would probably become public anyway. I had encouraged my dad all along to change his position, but it gave me pause to think that the one thing that nobody had known about me for so many years would suddenly become the one thing that everybody knew about me.

It has been strange to have my personal life in the headlines. I could certainly do without having my sexual orientation announced on the evening news, or commentators weighing in to tell me things like living my life honestly and fully is “harmful to [me] and society as a whole.” But in many ways it’s been a privilege to come out so publicly. Now, my friends at Yale and the folks in my dad’s political orbit in Ohio are all on the same page. They know two things about me that I’m very proud of, not just one or the other: that I’m gay, and that I’m Rob and Jane Portman’s son.

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When I look at iconic manga and anime Akira, I don't immediately think of Bart Simpson and Milhouse. Cartoonist James Harvey does.

Harvey is spearheading the "Bartkira" project. It's a group project that consists of over three hundred artists, all working in their own styles. Below you can see the cast of characters:

As noted by sister site io9, this was inspired by Ryan Humphrey's Bartkira art (top). The Bartkira project, however, recasts Bart as Kaneda and Ralph Wiggum as the titular character, Akira.

As Harvey explains: "Some aspects of the cast list might be surprising, but I’m confident that you’ll see the logic and consideration that went into the choices I ended up making when you read the book. Believe me, I went through nearly every reasonable combination of characters and this roster works the best, in terms of character motivation and interaction."

This is a "free-wheeling" project, but eventually, the goal seems to be completing all six volumes (over 2,000 pages!) of the Akira manga.

The Awakening of Bartkira [James Harvey]

Springfield Is About to Explode [James Harvey]

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Everytime Depressed Copywriter, a subversively fun group composed of Chris Sheldon, Mariana Oliveira, Whitney Ruef and Tedd Wood, see an example of corporate happiness, they can't help but to rewrite their ad copy to reflect the reality of life.

The result is depressing/interesting/mind blowing (best of all, you can submit your own!) Check 'em out at their Tumblr site: Link

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From a series of photographs of the work of Russian graffiti artist Nomerz, “who transforms old buildings into wonderfully realistic faces”: