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- Lil Wayne's 'Knockout' Video Premieres -- Watch It Now!
- Dennis Hopper Dead At 74
- Lil Wayne And Shanell's 'Runnin' ' Video Premieres -- Watch It Now!
- Dennis Hopper: A True Hollywood Original
| Lil Wayne's 'Knockout' Video Premieres -- Watch It Now! Posted: 30 May 2010 09:02 AM PDT The Young Money honcho wants to play Ken to Nicki Minaj's Barbie in clip.
Lil Tunechi Weekend is in full effect. To kick off this Memorial Day holiday, MTV2 and MTV Jams have already delivered video premieres of Lil Wayne's "Da Da Da" (featuring rockers ¡Mayday!) and "Runnin'," with Young Money songstress Shanell. Now, the much-anticipated "Knockout" is finally here. Directed by Jeffrey Panzer and Lil Wayne, the Nicki Minaj-assisted clip premiered premiered Saturday (May 29). The video is similar in look to Wayne's "Runnin' " visuals, likely owing to the fact that both were shot using a green screen. Panzer is a music-video veteran whose nearly three-decade career includes clip credits for the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Erykah Badu, among many others. In "Knockout," Wayne and Nicki are transported from a pink (and alternately blue) locker room to the center of a ring on fight night. The two are seen playfully flirting, and then Weezy poses a rather bold question to Minaj. "Hey, Barbie! Are you into black men?" he sings. "Hey, Barbie! I can be your black Ken/ Wow! 'Cause once you go black, you never go back." Nicki spits near the end of the track, and also shows off some little-known singing talents. The video is one of nine Wayne rushed to shoot in anticipation of his yearlong incarceration, which began in March. The Young Money honcho filmed them over Super Bowl weekend. The Queens MC was just honored to have gotten the chance to work with Wayne, she admitted earlier this year during mtvU's Spring Break. "He did, like, 1,000 videos before he went in, knowing that he had to go to jail. A lot of us wouldn't do that. A lot of us would be curled up in a ball like, 'Oh, my God, my life is about to be over.' So shout-out to Lil Wayne. We're honored that he chose each and every one of us, handpicked us. And we love him." Does the "Knockout" video live up to its title? Tell us what you think in the comments! Related Videos Related Artists |
| Posted: 29 May 2010 01:22 AM PDT 'Easy Rider' star died of prostate cancer Saturday.
Actor Dennis Hopper — star of "Easy Rider," "Blue Velvet," "Giant" and many other films — died Saturday of prostate cancer at his Los Angeles-area home, according to The Associated Press. He was 74. The two-time Academy Award nominee, who announced through a manager in the fall of 2009 that he had been diagnosed with the disease, was surrounded by family and friends at the time of his death, friend Alex Hitz told the AP. The actor directed, co-wrote and starred in directed 1969's "Easy Rider," perhaps the most memorable film of his wildly erratic, nearly six-decade-long career. In that classic, generation-defining film — which also established Jack Nicholson as a major star — he and Peter Fonda played motorcycle-riding hippies "in search of America." The film was a Hollywood success story; it was produced for less than $500,000 and ultimately earned in excess of $40 million. "Easy Rider" also earned two Academy Award nominations, including a shared screenplay nod for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern. Born in Kansas on May 17,1936, and raised in San Diego, Hopper made his mark in movies as a teenager, starring with James Dean, whom he idolized, in the 1950s classics "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant." His career followed a bumpy path over the decades, veering between fame and obscurity — due in equal measure to substance abuse and his legendarily rebellious personality — before being permanently revived by his memorable 1986 role as the psychotic Frank in "Blue Velvet." He appeared in dozens of films over the years, including "Apocalypse Now," "Hoosiers," "Speed," "River's Edge," "Rumblefish," "True Romance," "True Grit" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," to name just a few; he also made many television appearances, including "24" and "The Twlight Zone." His directing credits included "Colors," "The Hot Spot," "Chasers" and "The Last Movie," his disastrous 1971 follow-up to "Easy Rider," the production of which was so erratic that it effectively blackballed him from the film industry for years. Hopper's personal life was no less dramatic than his work: Married five times (including an eight-day marriage to Mamas & the Papas singer Michelle Phillips in 1970), he struggled for many years with alcoholism and drug abuse before becoming sober in the 1980s. He filed for divorce from his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, in January, after 14 years of marriage and one child (daughter Galen Grier). He was also an avid photographer and art collector. Hopper appeared frail when he was awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March of this year. His work will continue: In September he will be heard as one of the lead voices in "Alpha and Omega." Hopper seemed to be acutely aware of his own mortality, telling Time magazine in 1986: "I thought I'd be dead before I was 30. Turning 40 stunned me. Fifty is a major miracle, and I think I may even make 70." Share your memories of Dennis Hopper in the comments below. Related Videos Related Photos |
| Lil Wayne And Shanell's 'Runnin' ' Video Premieres -- Watch It Now! Posted: 28 May 2010 08:58 AM PDT Shanell tells MTV News about shooting the video before Weezy went to jail.
NEW YORK — For Lil Tunechi Weekend, MTV Jams and MTV2 are premiering four brand-new Lil Wayne videos, which the Cash Money star shot in quick succession earlier this year during Super Bowl weekend. The videos include "Da Da Da" and "Get a Life," both featuring the rock band ¡Mayday!, "Knockout" (featuring Nicki Minaj) and "Runnin' " (featuring Shanell). While the full-length video for "Da Da Da" premiered on Thursday night, fans will have to get by for now on our previews of the other three clips. But luckily, MTV News caught up with Young Money songstress Shanell who offered to break down the concept for "Runnin'," which she admitted she had yet to see in full. "Well, it was a long day, and a lot of the videos we did that day were green screen," Shanell told us during a trip to the Manolo Blahnik store in New York City on Thursday. "The song is talking about running and [asking] when will whatever it is that you're going through that's not a positive thing end. So 'Runnin' ' is about wanting whatever it is in your life to stop." Shanell explained that in the video, an earthquake and other natural disasters and even a war, are metaphors and not visuals she had in mind while she was writing her portion of the song. "That wasn't in my head. It was whatever personal thing that I was going through that I wanted to end. That's what I was expressing, but when you write a song you want everybody to kind of relate, so the audience can make it mean whatever it means to them." Asked about whether she'd recently spoken to Wayne, Shanell revealed she had seen and spoken to the MC since he began serving a yearlong sentence on Rikers Island in March. Despite his current circumstances, Weezy's staying strong, according to the singer. "He's a very strong individual so he's not going to get on the phone with any of us and be like, 'Oh I can't do it. I can't' ... He sounds strong, and we're all praying for him and all of the fans are praying for him." What do you think of the "Runnin' " video? Tell us in the comments! Related Videos Related Artists |
| Dennis Hopper: A True Hollywood Original Posted: 29 May 2010 02:18 AM PDT Actor had so many diverse roles -- from 'Rebel Without a Cause' to 'Easy Rider' to 'Blue Velvet' -- that none is truly definitive.
In Hollywood history, a mere handful of stars have had careers that reached the peaks, the depths, the diversity and the longevity of Dennis Hopper's. The legendary — and legendarily rebellious — actor died of prostate cancer early Saturday (May 29) at the age of 74. Indeed, Hopper's signature roles were so different from each other — and so widely separated by years over his nearly six-decade-long career — that it's difficult to choose one as definitive. Some might single out the teen who appeared with James Dean in 1955's "Rebel Without A Cause." Others recall the nitrous-oxide-huffing psychopath Frank Booth, villain of David Lynch's classic 1986 thriller, "Blue Velvet." Hopper played another memorable villain (who meets a memorable end) in 1994's "Speed." Yet he will probably be remembered best for "Easy Rider," the 1969 counterculture touchstone that he co-wrote, directed and starred in, as the scruffy, motorcycle-riding drug dealer Billy. The young Hopper made his debut in a pair of James Dean films, "Rebel" and "Giant" (1956). The 24-year-old Dean and 18-year-old Hopper became friends, and the older actor's sudden death in 1955 shook Hopper to the point that he staged a days-long, one-man revolt on the set of Henry Hathaway's "From Hell to Texas." Hopper went on to have notable appearances in "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) as well as "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965) and "True Grit" (1969), both of which starred John Wayne. Yet the success of "Easy Rider," in which he starred with Peter Fonda and a young Jack Nicholson, took him on a sharp upward turn, as the film raked in enormous profits and reinvented Hopper's career. It was a success he quickly squandered with the disastrous follow-up, 1971's "The Last Movie," which so fraught with trouble, substance abuse and erratic behavior that Hopper was effectively blackballed from the movie industry in the years that followed. He did appear in a number of films over the ensuing years — "Mad Dog Morgan" (1976), "Tracks" (1977) and most memorably Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," channeling his trademark manic energy into a wild portrayal of a frazzled Vietnam-stationed photojournalist. While he continued to struggle with substance abuse, his acting career revived with acclaimed performances in 1980's "Out of the Blue" (which he also directed) and 1983's "Rumble Fish" and "The Osterman Weekend." He became sober in the mid-'80s and was re-established as a major star in 1986 with his leading role in Lynch's "Blue Velvet"; that same year he also starred with Gene Hackman in David Anspaugh's "Hoosiers," a performance that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination. Hopper continued to turn in memorable performances and features for the remainder of his career. He was the villainous mad bomber in the blockbuster "Speed" (1994), also starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. He directed 1988's "Colors" and received an Emmy nomination for his performance in HBO Films' "Paris Trout" (1991). Equally memorable are two of his more panned roles, in campy cult classics "Super Mario Bros." (1993) and "Waterworld" (1995). Hopper's most recent film appearance was in Isabel Coixet's 2008 film "Elegy," with Sir Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz and Debbie Harry, although his voice will be heard in the animated "Alpha and Omega," which comes out in September. Hopper also put in a significant amount of time on television, with more than 100 appearances on a diverse range of programs, including "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," "The Twilight Zone," "The Big Valley," "The Rifleman," "Combat!," "E-Ring," "Crash," "24" and, most recently, as himself on HBO's "Entourage." A legendary actor and an unforgettable character, Dennis Hopper was perhaps above all a true Hollywood original. Related Videos Related Photos |
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