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  • Best of Late Night TV: Naomi Campbell’s Runway Walk with James Corden and Katharine McPhee’s Tax Day Carol (VIDEO)


    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    Naomi Campbell is celebrating her 29th year modeling, so naturally she visited “The Late Late Show” and taught James Corden how to strut his stuff on the runway. Watch James, Naomi, Nick Kroll, and Katherine McPhee get their model on in the clip below. You seeing this Karl Lagerfeld? Because you should probably hire James for FW2015.

    Yesterday was Tax Day (oh joy!), and the entire country was in the mood to celebrate. Or, at least James Corden was. He and Katherine McPhee teamed up to sing Tax Day carols set to the tune of some popular Christmas songs –– because after all, this is “a time when Americans joyously donate up to 39.6 percent of their income to the government!”

    Hilary Clinton is running for POTUS, which gave the hilarious folks at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” an opportunity to hit the streets of L.A. to ask people their thoughts and feels on some faux campaign logos. The results? Amazing as usual.

    Kiernan Shipka is wrapping up “Mad Men’s” final season, but did you know she got her start doing skits on “Jimmy Kimmel Live?” In fact, Kiernan booked “Mad Men” in the “Kimmel” parking lot. Check out her impersonation of Britney Spears below!

    In case you aren’t aware (doubtful!), David Letterman’s retiring and celebrities the world over are super bummed. Apparently, Amy Sedaris is a huge fan of David, so she decided to sing a medley for him during her appearance. Good times!

    Finally, Ice Cube has a lot of feelings about twerking, and he’s making them known on “Conan.” That is all.

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  • You Can’t Miss This ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Trailer (VIDEO)

    The upcoming drama “Straight Outta Compton” chronicles the highs and lows of the seminal West Coast rap group N.W.A., from their troubled beginnings to their incredible fame and growing notoriety.

    Newcomer O’Shea Jackson Jr. plays his real-life dad Ice Cube, alongside Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell as Dr. Dre and Eazy-E. Paul Giamatti plays their then-manager Jerry Heller, who co-founded Ruthless Records with Eazy-E in 1986. Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are producers on the pic, which is directed by F. Gary Gray (“Law Abiding Citizen,” “The Italian Job,” “Set It Off,” “Friday”). The supporting cast includes Alexandra Shipp, Orlando Brown, and R. Marcos Taylor as Suge Knight.

    Ice Cube described their story as “an American story of not only rags to riches, but David vs. Goliath. To me, when you talk about N.W.A, you talk about non-violent protests against things that we were trying to comprehend, so we ended up putting it in song.”

    “Straight Outta Compton” opens nationwide on August 14.

  • ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Red Band Trailer Reveals N.W.A. Origins (VIDEO)

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    The first red band trailer for N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” has arrived, and the enthralling clip takes a no-holds-barred approach to telling the story of the controversial rap group’s origins.

    N.W.A. co-founders Ice Cube and Dr. Dre provide a short introduction to the clip, in which they talk about how today’s cultural climate made the timing right to finally tell the group’s story. “We let people know that it’s okay to say what you want to say,” the rappers explain of the group’s importance.

    The trailer begins in Los Angeles’s rough Compton neighborhood in 1987, as the trio including Ice Cube (played by the rapper’s own son, O’Shea Jackson Jr.), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), and Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell) begin forming N.W.A. We see the recording of iconic song “Boyz-n-the-Hood” and the pushback from some members of media, who deem the group’s songs, especially “F–k tha Police,” as glorifying drugs and violence.

    “Our art is a reflection of our reality,” Cube declares at a press conference.

    Later, in defiance of an order not to perform “Police” at a concert, Cube leads the crowd in raising his middle finger to the ban, then launches into a manic rendition of the incendiary track. It’s a goosebump-inducing moment in a movie that’s no doubt chock full of similar scenes.

    Check out the full (NSFW) trailer below. “Straight Outta Compton” is slated for release on April 14, 2015.

    [via: Rolling Stone]

    Photo credit: Universal

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