Shot by award-winning former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, The Cove is a guerrilla-style documentary that captures the mass killing of dolphins each year at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan. The movie is being heralded by critics (it won the Audience Award at Sundance this year) for its combination of stunning visuals and disturbing secret footage—the director has described it as a mix of Jacques Cousteau and James Bond.
You may recall back in 2007, when Heroes star Hayden Panettiere had to flee Japan after an activist group she was surfing with tried to free a group of dolphins at Taiji from the nets of fishermen. The resulting confrontation is also captured in The Cove, which hits select theaters this weekend. Just don’t expect it to play in Japan…for some reason they think Americans complaining about killing a few thousand dolphins is a tad hypocritical, considering the fact that our factory farms slaughter billions of animals each year. But hey, that’s beside the point. Go dolphins!
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Sure the last season of Heroes might have been lame, but if you’re like us, you kept tuning in for one reason: Hayden Pannettiere. Now that fantasy drama is done for the season, you can catch HP in two new movies this summer. The first, Firelies in the Garden, a semi-autobiographical story about a family torn apart when a fatal accident takes the lives of the of their own, releases today, and her second film I Love You Beth Cooper, opens up on July 10. Will we see either movie? Fuck no, but we will click through 24 pages of Hayden’s hottest pics, and so should you…
We love women who are down for a cause. Especially when that cause involves going down for the cause. We keed, we keed, but when we saw Jessica Alba getting nailed (not that type) for defacing public property in Oklahoma City, with a save-the-sharks poster we had to tip our 5-panel to the hottie. Jess isn’t the first celebrity to give the big eff you to laws and institutions. Take a look back at five other celebrities who weren’t afraid to fight, for their right, to protest…
Hollywood starlets know how to keep themselves from getting bored between takes. When they’re not launching clothing lines or filming sex tapes, it seems like singing has become their favorite extra-curricular activity. After the musical non-success of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johansson, Heroes star Hayden Panetierre is now prepping her debut album, Eclectic.
Today, her reggae-influenced first single, “Wake Up Call” premiered on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, and it sounds shockingly similar to Paris’ ill-fated “Stars Are Blind” song. Will Hayden become Hollywood’s breakout double threat? After the jump, listen to Hayden’s debut (along with tracks from her fellow sangin’ starletts) and vote on who has the strongest single.
Cheerleaders are not funny. Neither are teen actresses. But in a new video from Will Farrell’s site Funny Or Die, Heroes‘ P.Y.T. Hayden Panettiere gives the whole humor thing a go. “Sexual harassment is wrong, even if it makes you feel good,” she says with a straight face. Watch the video after the jump.
