Have you ever heard the F-word used in a Disney movie? How about Disney’s latest family film, Enchanted? Watch the clip below, it happens when the bus driver exits the bus. Listen closely. Someone with a New York accent appears to shout the F-word. I assure you, this is not something edited into the film clip. This official clip was sent from the mouse house. The same clip even appears on Yahoo Movies! And this same clip appears on the big screen in theaters around the world.

Watch/listen below. Do you hear it? It happens about 30 seconds in:

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/5096665

After you watch the clip, please continue reading for a must read follow-up explanation…

How sure are you?  Because the New Yorker in question doesn’t actually say:

“Get the F*CK out of there!”

Listen again, one more time, and you will find that he actually says:

“Get that BUS out of there”.

I’m sure some of the parents who attended this film during the holiday weekend may have been shocked at what they thought they heard. But in reality, what they heard was just the word “Bus.” 

And I’m sure in the years to come, like most of the Disney Urban Legends, this will be told from friend to friend as a little known fact. I’m still surprised that Disney didn’t notice the similarity during the post production process. I’m sure they would like to avoid such misunderstandings. I’m betting they do an audio edit for the home video release.

Modesto, CA residents turned out for the city’s annual Ninja Parade, where no ninjas were seen for the 30th year in a row.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ninja_parade_slips_through_town

I remember when I was 12 years old and had a picture of The Persistence of Memory hanging in my room.  So when I found out the Dali exhibit opened up at LACMA about 2 weeks ago, I really wanted to go see it.  A friend and I went to check it out and we really enjoyed the many types of work shown from Dali including paintings, film, photography and texts.  What was amazing and unknown to me though was how Dali had such a deep connection with some famous movie greats such as Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney and the cinematic influences and elements that are present in many of the things he did. 

There is so much symbolism in Dali’s work, that you almost have to study every little piece of the art just to try and make sense of what it could mean.  In his words, “I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.” 

From symbols of death and sexual desire to hope and love, you see all the intensity that he put into his art for whatever he was feeling at that time.  I highly recommend going to see this.  I think I may even go again.

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Sunday with Getty (10.28)

My weekend of visiting museums continued with a trip to the Getty Villa in Malibu.  There was no particular reason to go except that it was a great day to be by the beach and I’d never been before.  There was an exhibit on glass which was kinda interesting, and many collections of art that Getty himself acquired over the years.  The grounds of the museum were just really amazingly beautiful.  The museum sits high up on a hill and so we walked outdoors a lot, into the gardens and overlooked the trees to the beach and ocean. 

At the top of the picnic area were glass blowers giving demonstrations on how to make various glass pieces, including their markings and interesting shapes from different periods of time.  The Getty Villa may look small but there was so much to see and do.  It would be a great place to just have lunch one afternoon being that it’s so close.  Next stop on my museum list is the big Getty museum and hopefully it won’t take me 3 years to go like it took me this weekend!

When I found out about his family business, I internally pondered at the fact that even though they have that going for them out there, that he was still driving a cab around in San Fran, choosing to be away from his family.  I couldn’t understand why he’d still want to live here, isolated from them if the business was doing well.  He turned to me and said, “I know people think I’m some stupid cab driver.  But I have a great life and I’m thankful every day for what God has given to me.  I call my family in the morning and then pray to God for an hour.  I pray to God at lunch.  And then at night I call my family and pray to God again.  I love my life and am very happy and proud, and I wouldn’t change anything.” 

So I started to think about whether or not any of us could say the same thing.  Can you REALLY sit there and say right now that you are so happy and content about your life?  If you say yes, that means you’re not complaining about anything – work, family, money, status, etc.  If you say no, that you’re not really content with your life, then think about why not.  What would you change?  And is what you’re complaining about really that big of a deal?  Of course I can say too that I’d love to live in a house, work out more, have a family, etc.  But I really appreciate Rajeev’s insights because he made me stop and think that in this big game of life, we forget about a lot of things and make less important stuff more of a priority.  It’s really the small things in life that matter and can make you happy if you just let it. 

Yahoo! was a sponsor of this years 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards®” ceremony, honoring independent filmmakers and established Hollywood actors and professionals at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  Because we were sponsors of the event, and on the Entertainment Marketing team, I was going to the show! 

I did what every person going to an awards show has probably done – spent days wondering what to wear, finding the right shoes and accessories, getting the nails done, etc, etc.  I know I’m not the big celebrity that all eyes would be on, but I didn’t really have anything that I could wear since I’d lost quite a few pounds recently and most of what I owned was too casual.  Was it so wrong that I wanted a night to just SHINE!  So I engaged in the services of my friend Aileen who if anyone knows what to wear and who’s wearing it, it’s her.  Most of it I can’t really afford, but I knew I’d find something.  We shopped on Robertson & Melrose at a lot of the popular boutique stores and after about an hour of going in and out of dressing rooms, I found it…my fabulous dress for the night. 

Since I didn’t have a boyfriend I asked my friend Grant to stand in as my date.  We cabbed it over to the Beverly Hills Hotel and found a few yahoo!’s waiting around and celeb watching before the show started.  We saw John Travolta, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, and Richard Gere walking the carpet and talking to reporters.  We took our seats and as dinner was being served, Mary Hart started the show.  There were lots of celebrities presenting and receiving the awards.  Besides the ones we had seen on the way in, there was also Will Farell, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kirstie Alley, Janet Jackson, Marion Cotillard and Diablo Cody, just to name a few.  It was a small venue and the show didn’t last that long.  Afterwards they shuffled us down to the pool area for the private after-party.  We mingled amongst the stars, had free drinks, and danced til the party ended. 

It was fun hanging out with Hollywood celebs.  It was also quite exhausting!  But most importantly….I looked fabulous!

MILAN – Italian clothing designer Giorgio Armani has announced he is entering into a deal with South Korea’s Samsung to develop a high-end line of designer electronics, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the deal, Armani will design electronics that will then be built by Samsung and distributed in Armani’s boutiques.  His first offering, a credit-card sized cellphone, was unveiled today at a fashion show in Milan.

“We make as much of a personal statement with the mobile phones that we carry or the televisions we have in our living rooms as we do with the shoes and bags we wear or the furnishings we choose to place in our homes,” Mr. Armani said in a prepared statement.

Right on…..

The 101 freeway & Cahuenga Pass – A house is stuck on the side of the freeway after the owner tried moving it himself.  He didn’t realize there were height restrictions for the overpasses and the house clipped it, then lost the trailer wheels shortly after causing the owner to dump the house on the side of the road.  Since Sunday, the house has been tagged up but it’s furnished…. anyone looking for a temporary stay?  I can see the real estate listing now… Cutting edge exterior design, freeway adjacent – betcha it’d go for half a mil still.

The 405 freeway - Going to the Dodger Game on 09.12, I saw an LAPD helicopter being pulled through the traffic!  How crazy to look over and see a helo right next to you!  I guess it’s a better alternative than some gross person picking their nose.

First off, I’m on team LC’s side.  But has Heidi even seen Season 2′s shows?  I mean come on!  Does she remember the playboy chicks?  And how apparently “the love of her life” telling her to “get the f*** outta my car” just cuz she wasn’t sure about moving in?  Classy guy I tell ya.  He looked cheesy at the house too.  I saw her big “glass blown, purple, costume bling” that Spencer picked out for her at a fashion store, not a jewelry store.  And I saw the infamous BMW parked at the Malibu house and (well ok i’ll admit, YES it was freaking nice) I really wanted to just give it a nice kick in the door, but I’m just not that evil. 

This season, Heidi’s been standing up more for herself which is good, let’s hope she keeps it up!  But it’s not gonna mend the friendship with LC… that’s a been there, done that, and got the Prada handbag moment that’s lost forever.

See Heidi and Spencer look lost on The 9.