0 Miley Cyrus Gets Nude For Rolling Stone, Says She Wasn't Trying To Be Sexy At The VMAs

Miley Cyrus is naked on the October cover of Rolling Stone, looking much more like Macklemore than Hannah Montana.

The interview, which was conducted just four days after the 20-year-old's now-infamous VMAs performance, is quite the doozy itself. From getting a tattoo to skydiving with Rolling Stone's Josh Eells, there are so many golden quotes and so many things we learned about Cyrus in her first Rolling Stone cover story, it's almost overwhelming:

Her VMAs Performance Could Have Been WAY Raunchier.

    Miley thought there was a chance the network might pull the plug on her mid-performance, but she didn't expect so much shock and vitriol. "Honestly, that was our MTV version," she says. "We could have even gone further, but we didn't. I thought that's what the VMAs were all about! It's not the Grammys or the Oscars. You're not supposed to show up in a gown, Vanna White-style" – a little dig at Taylor Swift. "It's supposed to be fun!"

Miley Cyrus Is Very Self-Aware. OK, Guys?

    "I wasn't trying to be sexy. If I was trying to be sexy, I could have been sexy. I can dance a lot better than I was dancing." She knows sticking her tongue out isn't hot and that those weird stubby pigtails aren't flattering ("I look like a little creature"). And she even knows it's ridiculous for her to twerk. "People are like, 'Miley thinks she's a black girl, but she's got the flattest ass ever,'" she says. "I'm like, I'm 108 pounds! I know! Now people expect me to come out and twerk with my tongue out all the time. I'll probably never do that sh*t again."

Miley Cyrus Understands What Cultural Appropriation Is, Says She Didn't Do It & Her Performance Wasn't Racist.

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0 Xiaomi’s next flagship phone might have an in-display fingerprint sensor

We’ve been seeing rumblings of Xiaomi’s next flagship smartphone, which would be a regular development, until a video uploaded to YouTube teased that the upcoming device — dubbed the Mi 8 — will have an in-display fingerprint sensor.

The Mi 8 is supposed to be the sequel to last year’s Mi 6 — it’s not totally clear why, but the rumor is Xiaomi will skip the Mi 7. Xiaomi has had two other high-end phones since then, the Mi Mix 2 and Mi Mix 2S, which both feature larger displays. But it comes as no surprise that they’d experiment between product cycles before settling on a new flagship.

Other features planned for the Chinese Android manufacturer’s flagship include a 3D facial recognition unlocking feature, the Snapdragon 845 chipset with up to 8GB RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 4,000mAh battery with support for wireless charging.

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0 Mumbai banker campaigns in dusty Delhi villages for Kejriwal's party

By its own admission, the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) support and cadre chiefly come from resettlement colonies, slum clusters and lower-middle class neighbourhoods. And yet, some of the country’s highly successful professionals are flying to the Capital to “help it out”.
A photo of Mumbai based Meera Sanyal, who was heading the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in India but flew to the Capital to garner support for Aam Aadmi Party.

Most of these people harbour dreams of “a citizens’ group” succeeding in Delhi, which can help similar experiments to challenge the political leadership in their own backyards.    

Only a few months ago, Meera Sanyal was a highly successful career woman. Based in Mumbai, she was heading the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in India. Today, she is holding a door-to-door campaign, trying to garner support for AAP in dusty villages of Delhi.

“I am meeting people in areas such as East of Kailash and Chirag Dilli. Some people identify with my ideas, some don’t. But that’s okay,” she said.

Just last week, media entrepreneur and former CEO of Star TV, Sameer Nair, joined the party and shot several short films for the party’s campaign. “For now, my role is limited to publicity. As we go along, the party will decide what more to do. I will definitely be spending more time in Delhi,” he said.

Sanyal, who will be ending a 30-year career in banking by giving up all her RBS commitments by December, will contest the 2014 general elections from south Mumbai. “I hope all these people (whom I am supporting) will support me. But it’s not conditional,” she says.

But what’s her takeaway? “I needed to know the realities of this country because wrong assumptions mean wrong interventions. And I didn’t want that to happen in my case,” she said.

“My support for AAP is irrespective of their performance in Delhi. We will take it forward to the 2014 general elections and beyond. We want to work together and make a difference in my city, too,” says Nair, whose family and businesses are based in Mumbai.

But why AAP? “In the 2009 general elections, I fought as an independent candidate from south Mumbai. Though I lost, I polled more than 10,000 votes. I lot of people supported me. I realised the value of selfless volunteers. I promised to myself that I will return the favour,” said Sanyal, who was accompanied by her husband who runs a consultancy firm in Mumbai.

For Nair, it’s all about the simple things that AAP talks of. “What I like in Arvind is that he and his colleagues talk of clean candidates and zero-tolerance to corruption. Such commitments make a big difference. Thanks to our political class, such people have become rare,” he said. 

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0 Jon Hamm To Undergo Throat Surgery To Remove Polyp

His performance as the perpetually smoking Don Draper brought him an Emmy nod, but it looks like the rasp in Jon Hamm's voice isn't just due to method acting. The 42-year-old actor is set to undergo throat surgery next week after coughing up blood recently, according to multiple reports.

A rep for the actor confirmed to The Huffington Post that Hamm would be having surgery, calling it a "routine outpatient procedure to remove a single polyp from his throat." Previous reports suggested that Hamm was to remove two, not one, polyps (abnormal tissue) from the region.

Meanwhile, a report in Life & Style magazine claims the surgery news is not new for Hamm's "Mad Men" cast mates. "January Jones was talking about [Hamm's throat surgery] at the Governors Ball after party last night," a source for the publication said.

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0 Gwyneth Paltrow On Why Cheating Can Be Forgivable & Sex Addiction Is Not A Dealbreaker

Gwyneth Paltrow is committed to living the Goopiest life possible and that means being "extremely open-minded." All those years of living off of a macrobiotic diet have prepared the Goopster for anything -- even the possibility of infidelity.

Now, Paltrow's husband of 10 years, Chris Martin, hasn't cheated on her, but she does deal with the issue in tandem with the topic of sex addiction in her new movie "Thanks For Sharing," which co-stars Mark Ruffalo as a man who suffers from the affliction.

In an interview with Refinery 29, the 40-year-old actress got pretty candid about both topics, telling the website that she wouldn't run if she ended up falling for a sex addict:

“I’m an extremely open-minded person, so I think if it was something I knew I was getting myself into, I wouldn’t let it deter me from exploring the relationship," Paltrow said, though she wasn't so confident when asked if she would stay with someone who cheated.

“I think that if the idea of being committed to someone is important to you, you begin to value certain parts of your social life over another. No couple is the same, and as such, every couple takes on different challenges," she explained. "I would like to think that I would be forgiving and/or forgiven, but I can’t give an honest answer as I haven’t really experienced that.”

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0 Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee, 11 other CMs skip NIC meet

 The National Integration Council (NIC) met late in the evening on Monday in the shadows of the recent Muzaffarnagar riots. Prime minister Manmohan Singh was present. So were 16 chief ministers, most of them of Congress ruled states. But the 13 notable absentees sent the message that there’s a lack of integration in the thinking of the UPA, and that of the combined opposition.

Singh, of course, told political parties to refrain from taking advantage of communal tensions. He also asked the states to crack down on elements fanning such violence. Forget their political affiliations, he added, for good measure.

But the fact that such an important meet saw only 16 chief ministers turning up stood out like a sore thumb. The 13 chose to send their representatives. Among the ones who did not turn up was Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who is also the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, her Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot.

Taking a dig at Modi for his absence, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said it was essential for a leader of Modi’s stature to have come to the meeting. “I feel as a chief minister it was his first duty to attend this meeting. The NIC meet happened after two years and was very significant in the present context. I do not know why he did not come,” Shinde said.

Expressing concern on the recent increase in incidents of communal violence, particularly those that happened in UP, the PM said effective steps should be taken by the administration to ensure that small issues don’t snowball into a big controversies.

“The state government should lose no time to control communal violence. It should use all means at its disposal to punish those guilty of fanning communal violence and must ensure a speedy crackdown on such elements irrespective of their political affiliations or influence,” the PM said, urging the political parties and the media to refrain from giving any political colour to the incidents.

The meeting saw some sparks with Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav blaming the BJP for trying to convert UP into a Gujarat. “Meetings are being conducted past midnight to carry out activities against one particular community,” Yadav said prompting a quick rebuttal from BJP leaders.

Rejecting the argument that communal incidents could benefit or harm the prospects of certain political parties, Singh said: “This argument is unfortunate. In reality, communal enmity does not benefit anyone but could threaten our identity as a civilised society.”

The PM also broached reining in anti-social elements misusing the social media to promote communal hatred. In Muzaffarnagar, social media was used to distribute a morphed video clip of an incident in Sialkot, Pakistan, to terrorise people.
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