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Pinterest Is Getting Its Own TV Series

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Pinterest is going to be the main inspiration for a new series on FYI Network called "We're Moving In" (FYI is a subsidiary network of A&E), Ad Age reports

The show will follow new housemates who will use Pinterest to give them ideas for how to design their new place. In each episode, a couple or a family will create a shared Pinterest board to get their decorating process started. FYI has reportedly ordered six half-hour episodes of the series, and it's the first show to ever explicitly integrate "creative direction" from Pinterest. 

Obviously, this is great news for Pinterest and takes advantage of one of its biggest strengths: DIY and Crafts is the second most pinned category on the social network.

"By tapping into the highly engaged Pinterest community, we're able to bring that same unique creativity to the series," FYI's president said in a statement to Ad Age. 

Business Insider has reached out to Pinterest for comment.

SEE ALSO: 9 charts that explain why Pinterest is valued at $3.8 billion

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Here's What Andrew Garfield Wants Kids To Take Away From Seeing 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'

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“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” kicked off the summer season as the first large May release. 

While the Spidey sequel is filled with giant action sequences, villains, and a set-up for the future of the Sony franchise, Andrew Garfield says it has a particularly strong message that should resonate with kids and adults alike.

jane aronson andrew garfield worldwide orphansRecently, we attended an event for the Worldwide Orphans (WWO) with Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield and CEO & Founder Dr. Jane Aronson.

Garfield has worked with the organization, which helps better the lives of orphaned children, since 2011, when he traveled to countries including Ethiopia and Haiti as an ambassador. 

The actor spoke with Business Insider briefly about what he wants kids to get out of the film.

"The way I feel about Spider-Man and Peter Parker is he is a metaphor for all of our lives in the sense that we are all Peter Parker," Garfield told us. "We are all ordinary, we all [have] the same imperfections and struggles. We all have flaws and we all are fallible. And we are all Spider-Man in a sense that we have something extraordinary to give. We have some superpower whether that be for heroism, whether that be for art, whether that be for creativity, whether that be for science, mathematics, athleticism."andrew garfield amazing spider man 2Garfield referenced his own experience growing up in a middle-class working family in the South of England.

"I was conditioned to believe that unless I was going to be a lawyer, a doctor, or a businessman, I wasn't worth it," said Garfield. "And that somehow got deep into my psyche."

In the sequel, Garfield explained how we see a similar theme with characters like Jamie Foxx's Electro becoming ostracized. Electro the amazing spider man 2"What we're dealing with in the film is this very simple idea that if you're not seen and you're not heard and you're not given validation and you're not given a place in your society and you're not appreciated for who you are ... it creates an unhealthy response," says Garfield. 

One scene from the film shows Garfield's Spider-Man help out a boy being picked on by larger kids. Spidey swoops in to save him and then walks him home.

We see the same boy again later in the film standing up to Paul Giamatti's Rhino, before Garfield steps in to take the reins.the amazing spider man 2 kid

The scene stands out in a flurry of superhero movies that generally don't give the main hero a moment to help out an individual — more specifically, a child. There is a scene in 2005's "Batman Begins" where the Caped Crusader helps out a young boy played by “Game of Thrones” actor Jack Gleeson (Joffrey), but the majority of superhero films from "The Avengers" to this year's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" are seen making worldly efforts to help save mankind as opposed to individuals. In "Man of Steel," we witnessed a young Clark Kent save a busload of children before becoming Superman, but later demolishing Metropolis (Chicago) putting hundreds in harm's way. 

Garfield previously told The Guardian he was introduced to the character of Spider-Man because of his own bullying experience growing up.

"The beautiful thing about Peter and Spider-Man is it makes everyone in the audience go, 'I can be extraordinary, too. In fact, I just am extraordinary, I just have to identify what my personal, individual extraordinariness is,'" says Garfield. "So if they can get that from this movie, even on a subconscious level, I think that would be wonderful."

Garfield added, "This doesn't mean you have to swing around New York City, this just means follow your bliss, find out what you love and dedicate yourself to it."

SEE ALSO: Future Spider-Man villains are teased during the "Amazing Spider-Man" end-credits

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In New Video, Girl Band Sings While Achieving Orgasm And It's Pretty Good (SFW)

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Electronic dance music is all about the climaxes and plateaus.

But the all-female Dutch EDM trio ADAM seems to have taken the idea a step further than most in their new video for the single, Go to Go.

That buzzing noise you hear under the track appears to be coming from some sort of vibrating device just out of frame. Or maybe not. It's hard to say. We might have to watch it 20 or 30 more times to be sure. Either way, it's one of the sexiest videos we've seen since Shakira writhed around in a shower a few years back.

Enjoy. 

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Award-Winning Filmmaker Learned Everything He Needed To Know In The Marine Corps

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Anton Sattler says he could not have made his award-winning CHOSIN documentary or its spin-off graphic novels without what he learned in the Marine Corps.

First of all, the Marines taught him how to thrive under stress with limited resources and how to make order out of chaos.

"Filmmaking is very much that," Sattler told Business Insider. "You need to be able to make quick decisions, especially while making a documentary. You need to be able to make changes and manage the chaos to get the job done." 

Second, in the Marines he learned a story so powerful that he felt compelled to tell it to a wider audience: the 1950 Chosin Reservoir Campaign, when 15,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in Korea and fought their way 78 miles to the sea, also rescuing 98,000 refugees. 

"If you aren't into the Marine Corps or aren't a military history buff it's not really well known," Sattler said. For the Marine Corps, though, it is the stuff of legend. This sense of tradition has always played a large part in Sattler's life.

Sattler graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002 with a B.A. in film studies and English. Driven by a sense of duty, he immediately enlisted with the Marines. 

"I have a pretty long history of military service in my family. They've served in every military conflict since pretty much the turn of the last century, so after 9/11 it felt like my time to enlist," he said.

Sattler served two tours in Iraq, first as an infantry platoon commander in Al Qa'im and then as a company executive officer in Ramadi. Once he returned to America, Sattler served as an operations officer on recruiting duty in Baltimore. After six years of active duty, Anton transferred to the reserves with a dream.

"I left the Marines in 2008, moved to New York, had a film degree, and I knew I wanted to make movies," he said.

Through a mutual friend, Sattler met fellow Marine Corps veteran Brian Iglesias, who had also served in Ramadi and was also interested in making films. They joined together to form Veterans Expeditionary Media

"I walked out of the military with enough money to survive for a year, in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and I cashed it all in to make a movie," Sattler said.

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To put together their documentary, CHOSIN, Sattler and Iglesias traveled across the country and interviewed 186 veterans in 27 cities across 14 states. Along this journey the overwhelming kindness of the veteran's families reinforced the essential truth that the military is one extended family.

"You're not alone," Sattler said. "You have an extended family of people in the military, or families of people who served in the military, who are happy to help you."

CHOSIN went on to win best documentary at the 2010 GI Film Festival. It has spawned two graphic novels, Chosin: Hold the Line and Chosin: To the Sea. An animated short film, CHOSIN: Baptized by Fire, is due to be released in May 2014.

After CHOSIN premiered in 2010, Sattler decided to return to school for a degree in marketing. He is set to graduate from Baruch College in New York in May 2014.

"Marketing for me seems like a weird arc, but for me it's where creativity and business meet," Sattler said. "Making the film helped me learn how to wear both hats."

Below is a trailer for CHOSIN: 

SEE ALSO: The incredible story of a homeless teenager who went on to become a star Marine

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How Social Media Helped Turn 'Lost' Into A Cult Phenomenon

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It has been 10 years since the castaways of Flight 815 first crashed on the mysterious island from ABC's cult hit, "Lost."

While the show was popular for its mysteries (the smoke monster, that four-toed statue), creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse told Esquire the introduction of social media really helped the show take off.

As Cuse told the magazine:

"One thing we never predicted was that as the show was launching there was also the advent of social media. We were making a show that was intentionally ambiguous and was a mystery. All of a sudden there was this vehicle by which people could communicate with each other over the Internet. The show and social media just happened to come along at the same time, and it was the perfect thing for people to talk about over social media. We benefitted from this natural confluence of events. It was just sort of alchemy."

Social media also became a place where fans could discuss popular theories about what the island — and pretty much the entire show — meant.

Fan sites like "Lostpedia" allowed viewers to dig deeper into the show to not just discuss theories, but come up with some of their own.

Lindelof said his favorite crazy online theory ended up involving Vincent, a dog seen throughout the series. 

"There was a theory that it was all taking place in the dog's head," Lindelof said.

Some other online theories ranged from the whole show being set in purgatory to the island actually being a spaceship. Cuse joked the latter theory may be fun to revisit.

"We should just go back to like episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship," Cuse said. "That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'"

SEE ALSO: THEN & NOW: The Cast Of 'Lost' 10 Years Later

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How Pat Kiernan Transcended Marvel Universes To Appear As A News Anchor In 'Spider-Man 2' And 'Avengers'

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Pat Kiernan Pats Papers Newspaper 2NY1 morning news anchor Pat Kiernan is starting to make a name for himself in the Marvel Universe.

After appearing as himself in 2012's "The Avengers," the 45-year-old local anchorman also has a hefty cameo in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."

The roles are significant, considering it makes Kiernan the only link between the two Marvel universes.

So how did Kiernan receive such an honor?

Pat Kiernan

He tells Vulture how the TV news-to-movie process works:

Generally, the writers send our people both the entire script and the script for the scene in question. NY1 evaluates it to make sure that it’s not something that’ll discredit the brand, and if they’re okay with the script, then they’ll present it to me and if I’m into it, I’ll either read it as they’ve written it or I’ll go back to them with follow-up questions or suggested changes. They send us a script, we put it in the TelePrompTer, I try to take a little extra care with my hair and makeup that morning, and when we’re in a break, I sit down and read the story to the camera. Then we just send them a hard drive of the video clip.

But just because NY1 participates, doesn't mean that Kiernan always makes the cut.

I remember I did a scene, a fairly long scene, for The Avengers. I went to the premiere and I’m waiting the whole movie for my line. Finally, in maybe the final two minutes, there’s a montage of several television reporters, and you kind of see me blurry in one corner of the montage and hear my voice for three seconds. I was like: “That’s it?!” 

Read Kiernan's full interview on Vulture here >

SEE ALSO: Tour The New York Filming Locations Of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’

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For The First Time Ever, Digital Music Downloads Declined Last Year (AAPL)

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Apple is probably buying Beats.

Many are scratching their heads why they did so — or at least, why they chose to purchase this particular company.

But no one can deny there's an underlying need for Apple to get back on track in the music business. Here's some quick data for you:

Digital track sales fell for the first time ever last year, by 6%.

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Here's the breakdown: Both old and new song downloads declined. 

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Digital album sales went nowhere. (And vinyl jumped!)

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The lone bright spot was new albums, which may have seen a late push from Beyonce:

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You may also recall from our poll of 35 BI employees that few of them pay to download music these days: 

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So yeah, if it wanted to stay in the music biz, Apple had to do something.  

SEE ALSO: Here Are The Full Results From BI's Music Listening Survey

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Listen To 5 Of Michael Jackson's Unreleased Songs Before His New Album Comes Out

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michael jacksonOn Tuesday, Epic Records is releasing a new album, Xscape, from Michael Jackson. 

It will be the second posthumous album put out since the singer passed in 2009. 

Ahead of the album's release May 13, Epic Records released the first single from the album, “Love Never Felt So Good. 

In addition, Sony has been streaming some of the previously unreleased tracks exclusively on its streaming music subscription, Music Unlimited. Each day this week, Sony is unveiling a new song. 

If you don’t want to wait until Tuesday, you can preview the tracks below courtesy of Music Unlimited and Epic Records:

1. "Chicago"

Also known as "She was Lovin' Me," the track was recorded in 1999.

2. "Loving You"

The track was written and produced by Jackson and recorded while the singer was working on his seventh album, “Bad.”

3. “A Place With No Name

Jackson originally recorded the song with Elliott Straite in 1998. The song is a re-imagining of America’s 1972 hit “A Horse With No Name.”

4. “Slave to the Rhythm

Jackson recorded this track in 1991 while working on his eighth studio album, “Dangerous.”

5. “Do You Know Where Your Children Are

The track was written and produced by Jackson and was recorded while working on his "Bad" album and later revisited while putting together "Dangerous." The title for the song is inspired by a public service announcement that ran on TV from the '60s through the '80s.  

Jackson described the inspiration for the song in a note found by Jackson’s Estate: 

“Song is about kids being raised in a broken family where the father comes home drunk and the mother is out prostituting and the kids run away from home and t hey become the victims of rape, prostitution and the hunter becomes the hunted. So they are out on the street. Do you know where your children are? It’s twelve o’clock. They are somewhere out on the street. Just imagine how scared they are. It’s about the runaway problem we have in America. They become the victims of prostitution, of selling their bodies.”

SEE ALSO: Listen to Jackson's new song "Love Never Felt So Good"

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Watch Stephen Colbert's Hilarious Interview With Florida's 'Vampire' Congressional Candidate

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Stephen Colbert featured an interview with Florida's "vampire" role playing Republican congressional candidate Jake Rush on the "Colbert Report" Thursday. Colbert introduced the segment by referencing Business Insider's story on the Rush campaign's statement that defended his "hobby activities" by saying his role playing ability helped him during his time as a sheriff's deputy.

"Bad news criminals, he's not actually a drug dealer, he is Chazz Darling, vampire cop," Colbert quipped.

For the actual interview, Colbert came out in a vampire costume.

"Why aren't you in character?" he asked Rush. "I thought we were going to role play."

After changing back into a suit, Colbert began questioning Rush.

"Sir, for the record, are you a vampire?"

"No," Rush replied.

"Just making sure," said Colbert.  

Colbert went on to ask Rush to explain his "core message as a small government conservative who also pretends to be a vampire." Rush replied by saying he's focused on "privacy rights" and "personal freedom."

The interview also included questions about Rush's history as a "thesbian," a strange role playing exercise involving Rush killing a woman, and an uncomfortable moment with a gun. 

Watch the whole show here.

 

 

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Meet The Real-Life Mad Men Who Inspired Don Draper

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As any Mad Man fan knows, Don Draper is truly one of a kind, a man with perfect style and a seemingly infinite number of complexities.

But despite his many distinct traits, fans and critics have spent countless hours over the past seven years trying to figure out which real-life ad men inspired Draper's creation and helped forge his unique personality.

From our research, four candidates have sprung up repeatedly as the advertising executives people think Draper is most likely to be modeled on.

Here's what we know about them.

SEE ALSO: 'MAD MEN' vs. REALITY: Compare Don Draper's Ads With Those That Actually Ran In The 1960s

Draper Daniels

Don Draper gets his name from Draper Daniels, a Chicago advertising executive who created the famous Marlboro Man campaign during the 1950s. Like his namesake Mad Men character, Draper Daniels was something of a smooth operator with the ladies, persuading a female business partner to marry him, even though she was already engaged.

Draper Daniels' wife, Myra, has said her late husband became a one-woman man once they were married, and even quit drinking at her request. It's perhaps for these reasons that Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner told New York Magazine that Daniels was not related to the show. "I just saw the name," Weiner said.

Draper Daniels died of cancer in 1983.



Albert Lasker

Albert Lasker is considered by many to be the "father of modern advertising" because he was one of the first ad men to write copy that persuaded people to buy a product rather than merely informing them of what it did.

As owner of the Chicago ad agency Lord & Thomas during the first half of the 20th century, Lasker helped sell American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand to women by promoting it as a weight-loss method. He was also at the helm of the account when it began its famous campaign describing its cigarettes as "toasted," an idea Draper is credited with on the show.

Lasker essentially invented several consumer products that have since become household staples, including orange juice (first sold to the public because the California Fruit Growers Exchange were growing more oranges than they could sell) and tissues (which were originally being sold as a cosmetics remover before Lasker started marketing them as disposable handkerchiefs).

Lasker passed away in 1952.



Emerson Foote

Emerson Foote, the "F" in modern-day agency FCB, famously resigned from his post as chairman of McCann-Erickson in 1964 because he didn't want to promote the sale of cigarettes. This bold move was later copied (sort of) in Mad Men's fourth season, when Don Draper took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to explain why Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce would no longer accept clients that sold tobacco.

Of course, Draper's declaration came shortly after his firm lost its big tobacco account, Lucky Strike, while McCann-Erickson was still advertising cigarettes in international markets when Foote decided to step down. Earlier in his career, Foote had worked on the Lucky Strike account, just like Draper.

Foote was also once director of the American Cancer Society, an agency whose fictionalized counterpart began working with Draper's firm after being impressed by his letter in the Times. The show even went so far as to have Draper's secretary let him know "someone named Emerson Foote" had called for him after the letter ran.

Foote passed away of complications related to appendicitis in 1992.



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ABC Just Picked Up A New Show Called 'Selfie'

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While Fox is busy canceling their comedy shows, ABC has just greenlighted two comedy pilots for the upcoming season.

One, titled "Selfie," is the story of a self-obsessed 20-something woman who is more concerned with "likes" than being liked. 

Here's the premise: “After suffering a very public and humiliating breakup, she becomes the subject of a viral video and suddenly has more social media ‘followers’ than she ever imagined — but for all the wrong reasons. She enlists the help of a marketing expert at her company to help repair her tarnished image.”

The "My Fair Lady"-inspired single-camera comedyfrom "Suburgatory" creator Emily Kapnek, stars "Doctor Who" actress Karen Gillan and "Harold & Kumar" actor John Cho.

Cho will play Henry, a self-assured marketing expert who decides to “re-market” his co-worker Eliza Dooley (Gillan), a social media star with a bad reputation.

The other comedy ABC approved is called "Damaged Goods" from "Awkward"-helmer Lauren Iungerich, about “the sexual politics that have changed between men and women in this post-feminist era.”

SEE ALSO: Fox Brutally Cancels Seth MacFarlane's 'Dads' And 2 Other Comedies

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Data Show Our Attentions Spans Have Become So Short, We Can Barely Listen To A Whole Song Straight Through

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Skipping songs has become an addiction.

Our favorite music data guru Paul Lamere, the director of developer platform at The Echo Nest — which was just purchased by Spotify — and the guy who brought you your state's most relative favorite band, is out with new data showing the magnitude of the habit.

He mined Spotify's vast pool of listener data, and came up with some astonishing results. Let's go to the charts.

Percent of song listened to

Here's the first one, showing what percent of listeners listen to what percent of a given song. It shows:

  • Nearly a quarter of all songs on Spotify get skipped within five seconds of starting.
  • More than a third are skipped within 30 seconds.
  • Nearly half of all songs are skipped at some point. 

"The plot shows the rather steep drop off in listeners in the early part of a song when most listeners are deciding whether or not to skip the song," Lamere writes. 

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Skipping frequency

Lamere then broke this down into the last-second-listened frequency. If you've made it past the 12th second, you have demonstrated amazing commitment.

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The data gets even juicier from here.

Skipping by age

Not surprisingly, teens show the most inclination to skip. But then there's a middle hump in mid-40s. Aging Gen-X'ers? Lamere does not rule on that either way, but says there may be a simpler explanation:

The first theory is that the skipping rate is a indication of how much free time a person has time. Teenagers skip more because they have more time to devote to editing their music stream, whereas thirty-somethings, with their little kids and demanding jobs, have no time to pay attention to  their music players.  The second theory, suggested by Spotify über-analyst Chris Tynan, is that the late-forties skipping resurgence is caused by teenagers that use their parent’s account. 

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Skipping by time of day

This is perhaps the most important chart, since explains a key difference — and perhaps an advantage — over Pandora and others: Spotify users like to "hand-curate" their listening, as opposed to having someone do it for them. Lamere: "The plot shows the time of day when people tend to have the most attention to devote to hand-curating their music stream. When people are sleeping or working, their skip rate goes down."

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Skipping by day of the week

Here again, Lamere observes, skipping increases when people have more time on their hands, like the weekend.  

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And some final stats:

Average listener-skips per hour:14.65 — once every four minutes

By Gender

Skipping rate of male listeners:     44.75%
Skipping rate of female listeners:  45.23%

By Platform:

Desktop skipping rate:   40.1%
Mobile skipping rate:      51.1%

Lamere concludes:

When we are more engaged with our music – we skip more, and when music is in the background such as when we are working or relaxing, we skip less. When we have more free time, such as when we are young, or on the weekends, or home after a day of work, we skip more. That’s when we have more time to pay attention to our music. The big surprise for me is how often we skip.  On average, we skip nearly every other song that we play. 

Nothing was the same.

SEE ALSO: Digital Downloads Declined For The First Time Ever Last Year

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Jimmy Kimmel Asks Gluten-Free People What Gluten Is — And Hilariously, They Have No Idea

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In places like NYC and LA that go nuts for the latest diet crazes, being gluten-free is a growing trend — and Jimmy Kimmel has stepped in to poke some fun at all the people jumping on the bandwagon.

The market for gluten-free products grew 44% between 2011 and 2013, and is projected to continue to rise, reaching sales of $15.6 billion by 2016.

There are plenty of people with celiac disease, who are medically required to avoid gluten, and others who have a wheat allergy that necessitates avoiding many of the same products. But the gluten-free market is growing because of everyone else: the people who think gluten irritates their stomach, makes people fat, or is just "bad" — for some unspecified reason.

And one recent study found that many of the people calling themselves "gluten-sensitive" don't actually fit the diagnostic criteria for that. As Kimmel says: "A lot of people can't eat gluten for medical reasons, and that I get... But a lot of people here don't eat gluten because someone in their yoga class told them not to."

Not only that, if it's not medically necessary a gluten-free diet can actually be bad for you — leaving you severely deficient in several nutrients and fiber, according to Julie M. Jones, a professor of dietetics at St. Catherine's University. It's also terribly expensive.

Do the "just because" gluten-avoiders even know what gluten is? When Kimmel asked a bunch of gluten-free people in LA, he found the answer is often no.

Our favorite response? "I haven't really researched it to the fullest," one woman says. "I have a girlfriend from Russia [who] just got me into it. So. [Pause.] She's reading a book about it."

For the record: Gluten is a protein composite found in wheat, barley, and other grains. It gives bread its chewiness and is often used as a meat substitute: If you've ever had "wheat meat," seitan, or mock duck at a Thai restaurant, that's gluten.

Watch the hilarious video below. 

SEE ALSO: Gluten-Free Products Are A Waste Of Money For Most Americans

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9 Babies Who Will One Day Rule The World

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Spring has sprung, and it's brought with it a slew of new babies. 

In the last month alone, Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis had a son, Roger Federer's wife gave birth to twin boys, and Chelsea Clinton announced that she's pregnant.

In honor of mother's day, we found the most powerful babies who have either been born recently or will be born this year. 

These babies might still be drooling and crawling, but they're already poised to become major players who will one day rule the world — and that means that their moms have a lot to be proud of. 

Future Politician: Margaret Laura ‘Mila’ Hager

Parents: Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager

The former First Daughter and husband Henry Hager welcomed their baby girl last April.

As the  first grandchild of a former U.S. President (George W. Bush) and the great grandchild of another former U.S. President (George HW Bush), this baby will have some serious political clout.



Future Hollywood Royalty: Dashiell Weinstein

Parents: Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman

Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood's biggest producer, and his wife Georgina Chapman, fashion designer and founder of Marchesa, welcomed a son last April, named Dashiell.

This is the couple's second child together, but their first son. With his parents' high-profile Hollywood connections, this baby will be a major player in the entertainment world.



Future Oligarch: Leah Lou Abramovich

Parents: Roman Abramovich and Daria 'Dasha' Zhukova

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his model girlfriend Dasha Zhukova welcomed their second child together—a baby girl named Leah Lou—last April. The baby was born at a hospital in New York, and will therefore have American citizenship.

This is the seventh child for Abramovich, who owns the Chelsea Football Club.



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Despite Low Ratings, NBC Renews Fan Favorite 'Hannibal' For Season 3

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It's official, Fannibals!

NBC has confirmed "Hannibal" is renewed for season 3

The show is creator Bryan Fuller's first series to get renewed for a third season.

His previous show, ABC's "Pushing Daisies," lasted two seasons on the network.

Recently, Fuller told Digital Spy he was "very confident" about the show receiving another season despite low ratings in a 10 p.m. Friday night time slot.

"The ratings are not anything to jump up and down about, but the critical acclaim is great, and we're sort of a prestige project for the network, so we're hoping that's enough, like it was last year," said Fuller. 

The series stars Mads Mikkelsen (above) and Hugh Dancy as Dr. Hannibal Lecter and FBI profiler Will Graham, respectively. The series has gained a cult following online much like Fuller's previous series.

Fuller suggested if the show was cancelled, he may have tried to take "Hannibal" elsewhere.

SEE ALSO: ABC just picked up a show called "Selfie"

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NBC Finally Cancels 'Community' After 5 Seasons

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Despite critical acclaim and a cult following, NBC has just canceled "Community" after five seasons of poor ratings.

The dark comedy, starring Joel McHale, has actually declined in viewership every year since its 2009 debut.

The show has also had its fair share of controversy, with actor Chevy Chase dramatically departing before season 4 finished filming. In season five, the show was rejuvenated by the return of creator Dan Harmon, while dealing with the exit of one of its original cast members, Donald Glover, early in the season.

Despite previous threats of cancellation, many believed NBC would save "Community" once again, especially given McHale's successful turn as host of last week's White House Correspondents Dinner.

"I think that we’re old reliable, like a Tupperware in the fridge,” Harmon said about NBC’s stance on a Community renewal in March at Paley Fest, according to Deadline. “We’ll find out when the network is the hungriest.”  

Harmon also addressed a possible future on a VOD service like Netflix or Hulu, saying that he’s heard “whispers from dark corners” about such a scenario.

As Entertainment Weekly notes, "There is, of course, the significant possibility that 'Community' isn’t dead altogether. Sony Pictures TV, which produces 'Community,' will now try to find another home for it on cable or a streaming service. The show has already been sold in syndication to Comedy Central, while Hulu owns the digital rights."

NBC also announced the cancelations of "Growing Up Fisher," "Believe," "Crisis," and the J.J. Abrams-produced, "Revolution."

Luckily for Fannibals, "Hannibal" was spared.

SEE ALSO: Fox Brutally Cancels Seth MacFarlane's 'Dads' And Other Comedies

MORE: ABC Just Picked Up A New Show Called 'Selfie'

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Rotten Tomatoes Data Reveals The Most Overrated And Underrated Movies

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A great interactive graphic highlighted on Reddit shows that critics' reviews aren't always accurate representations of popular opinion about a particular movie.

PhD student Ben Moore analyzed critic and public ratings from popular review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.

The site assigns each movie a percentage based on the share of positive reviews it got from critics. Rotten Tomatoes also give an "audience" rating that shows how many users rated the movie positively.

Moore looks at the difference between critic reviews and audience ratings from the site.

The most overrated movies (films reviewed positively by critics but disliked by audiences) might surprise you:

  1. "Spy Kids" (critics: 93%, audience: 45%)
  2. "3 Backyards" (critics: 76%, audience: 31%)
  3. "Stuart Little 2" (critics: 81%, audience: 40%)
  4. "Momma's Man" (critics: 91%, audience: 50%)
  5. "About a Boy" (critics: 93%, audience: 54%)

The kids' movies that made the list could be explained by the fact that most of the people who are rating the movies on Rotten Tomatoes probably aren't kids, and therefore not the target audience of the film.

But it's still surprising to see that "Spy Kids" was so beloved by critics.

Now here's a look at the most underrated movies from Moore's analysis:

  1. "Facing the Giants" (critics: 13%, audience: 86%)
  2. "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" (critics: 16%, audience: 87%)
  3. "Grandma's Boy" (critics: 18%, audience: 86%)
  4. "Step Up" (critics: 19%, audience: 83%)
  5. "Because I Said So" (critics: 5%, audience: 66%)

Many of the movies that made the "most underrated" list were popular with moviegoers but not necessarily considered great cinema.

You can check out the interactive graphic with dozens more movies at rCharts.

(via Reddit, lejeuneytunes)

SEE ALSO: This Deleted 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' End-Credits Scene Gives A Huge Hint At The Next Sequel

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Nintendo Apologizes For 'Disappointing People,' Still Won't Include Same-Sex Couples In Life Sim Game

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Nintendo issued an apology today about not including same-sex couples in its new life simulation game called "Tomodachi Life."

But it will still launch the game in June without any changes, according to GamesBeat:

We apologize for disappointing many people by failing to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to change this game’s design, and such a significant development change can’t be accomplished with a postship patch. At Nintendo, dedication has always meant going beyond the games to promote a sense of community, and to share a spirit of fun and joy. We are committed to advancing our longtime company values of fun and entertainment for everyone. We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series, we will strive to design a gameplay experience from the ground up that is more inclusive and better represents all players.

Nintendo's statement comes a day after GLAAD, an advocacy group for people who are in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, said Nintendo is "behind the times," GamesBeat says. 

The game was first released in Japan last year, and uses Miis (Nintendo's personalized avatars of players). After personalizing the Miis, players can make them go shopping, fall in love, break up, play games, and even meet celebrities, such as Christina Aguilera and Shaquille O'Neal.

Earlier this week, Nintendo issued a statement saying that it "never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of 'Tomodachi Life.'"

The original Japanese version of the game does not include same-sex couples, but same-sex marriage is illegal in Japan. Same-sex marriage is allowed in different regions in North America and Europe, and it's not uncommon for game makers to tailor game releases to make them more localized.

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Comedy Central Picks Stephen Colbert's Replacement

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Comedian Larry Wilmore will be taking over Stephen Colbert's post-Daily Show time slot on Comedy Central in January 2015 with a new show called "The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore," Comedy Central announced Friday.

"He’s a spectacular talent in front of and behind the camera,” Michele Ganeless, Comedy Central President said in a statement. "'The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore’ follows in the Comedy Central tradition – bringing new perspectives to the day’s events and breaking ground in the world of late night television."

There was plenty of speculation as to who would take over the coveted time slot after "Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert was named David Letterman's successor on CBS' "Late Show."

Wilmore came out on top, having been a staple on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" since 2006, appearing as the show's "Senior Black Correspondent."

"I’m beyond excited to have this chance to continue my relationships with Comedy Central and the brilliant Jon Stewart," the L.A.-based Wilmore said in a statement. "I love the city of New York and promise to only wear my Laker t-shirts when I’m layering."

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The World's 20 Most Powerful Moms

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These women prove that motherhood is no longer a barrier to achieving greatness.

Working Mother magazine has named the Most Powerful Moms of 2014, selected from the spheres of business, technology, politics, philanthropy, and news and entertainment.

These women are leading nations, managing billion-dollar companies, and influencing the global conversation, in addition to doing the most important work of all — raising the next generation.

From Melinda Gates to Queen Bey, here's a look at some of the moms who are shaping our world, selected by Working Mother.

Christiane Amanpour

Chief International Correspondent, CNN  
Children: One

British-Iranian Amanpour is one of the world's most highly respected and awarded journalists. She has covered war zones, campaigned to free captive journalists, and interviewed countless world leaders. She's also taken on the challenge of becoming a mother and has one son.



Mary Barra

CEO, General Motors
Children: Two 

The GM veteran is not only one of the world's most powerful women in business, she's also a mom of two teenagers, ages 15 and 17. After working at the car giant for 33 years, Barra stepped into the CEO role in January and has since been dealing with a scandal that led to the recall of 2.6 million cars. She has a degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 



Beyonce

Singer, Actress, Mogul
Children: One 

With hubby and fellow music mogul Jay Z, Queen Bey is mom to 2-year-old Blue Ivy. Motherhood hasn't slowed her down. The Grammy-winner's latest album, "Beyoncé," sold half a million copies in the first 24 hours of its release. What's more, she just wrapped her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, earning $188.6 million.



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