by Kevin P. Sullivan 5 mins ago

You can tell a lot about a person based on their favorite horror movie, and since this is the season filled with scary movie screenings, here’s a rundown on what some of these films say about their fans.

“Halloween”

You appreciate the classics and like things simple and well-made.

“Scream”

You could be friends with the “Halloween” fan, but you like meta things and consider yourself a film buff.

“The Blair Witch Project”

You’re patient and understand the worth of a good, slow burn.

“Paranormal Activity”

Sure, you like to be scared, but you’re also looking to have a good time and laugh a little. Also, you don’t mind watching the same movie that comes out every year.

“Saw”

The grosser something is the better.

“The Exorcist”

You’re a classicist and appreciate solid filmmaking.

“Rosemary’s Baby”

You appreciate darker senses of humor.

“I Know What You Did Last Summer”

You had a really tough time letting go of 1997.

“Poltergeist”

You’re braver than me.

“Annabelle”

You should try watching older movies once in a while. This came out yesterday.

“Hocus Pocus”

You don’t actually like scary movies, do you?

by Sasha Geffen 2 mins ago

Reproduction didn’t used to be so intimate. Hundreds of millions of years ago, you didn’t even touch your partner when you made babies with them if you were an ancient fish. You just dropped your eggs off in the water and hoped a male fish would come along to fertilize them. But now, scientists have found the fish that invented actual sex.

The first animals to touch each other while doin’ it were tiny freshwater fish that lived in present day Scotland 385 million years ago. The species is known in the science world as Microbrachius dicki — and it was named even before scientists figured out what it was famous for.

Professor John Long, who works at Flinders University in Australia, was the lead author on the paper that revealed how M. dicki was the first known species to fertilize their eggs internally. He figured out how they must have mated by looking over old fossils and noticing that the male fish’s sexual organs were perfectly shaped to “latch on” to the female’s genital plates.

Due to their anatomy, the fish couldn’t face each other while mating, but had to link arms and copulate side by side. It’s kind of a cute move when you think about it, but it didn’t catch on among the larger fish populace. Spawning became the only method of reproduction again after these fish died out, and direct copulation didn’t reemerge until millions of years later.

These little guys were just way ahead of their ...

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by MTV News Staff 22 mins ago

By Andres Tardio

When Kanye West goes on a rant, people talk. During his set at this year’s Life If Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas Friday (October 25), West explained why he feels it’s unfair when he’s criticized for expressing himself.

“This is the part that gets me in trouble,” Kanye West said in the middle of his set, according to Billboard. “Everybody has a right to their own opinion, so why do I get in trouble for speaking mine? It just makes me feel like the media doesn’t want anybody to express no real motherf—ing opinions.”

“I think I’m just lazy,” West added. “When you have to put up some kind of facade, you have to think a lot about what the lie is. F— that, I’d just rather tell the truth. But the media wants you to think I’m a bad guy. Like bad in the same way as people who kill other people.”

While he may believe that the media portrays him negatively sometimes, we’re happy to hear that Kanye West just wants to let us all know how happy he is.

“Y’all just have to understand how happy I am right now in all actuality,” West said. “I’m just happy to see my daughter’s first smile and how happy I am to see my beautiful wife, who is here with me, and we’re going to celebrate her birthday again at Tao tonight.”

Some parts of this rant echo what West recently ...

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by Sasha Geffen 6 mins ago

After participating in a Q&A as part of the New Yorker Festival on October 11, Mindy Kaling — writer and star of “The Mindy Project” — attended an after-party where an older drunk man apparently thought she was Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 10 for her work championing education for girls around the world. The 17-year-old activist is the youngest person to ever receive the prestigious award.

Kaling was not awarded the Nobel Prize earlier this month, but that didn’t stop a drunk man in his 80s from congratulating her profusely at New York’s Boom Boom Room. He also complimented the TV star on how well she had recovered from being shot in the head and neck by the Taliban.

The actress wasn’t sure if he was joking or if he was earnestly confused. “Did he really think I’m Malala? And that if I were, I’d be at the Boom Boom Room?” she said. Either way, she seemed to think the mix-up was hilarious. Trust Mindy to take it all in stride.

by John Walker 17 mins ago

Although Willow Smith has laid low for the past couple years, let it be known that she can still whip her hair.

I witnessed such glory last night at The FADER FORT Presented by Converse, The FADER‘s three-day pop-up venue in Brooklyn during New York’s 2014 CMJ Music Marathon.

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It was day two of the Fort, and the 13 year old was closing out a lineup that had seen Spookyland, Adult Jazz, George Maple, TOPS and Sir Michael Rocks take the stage. Or at least she was closing it all out, until Cam’ron (!) showed up out of nowhere for a surprise performance.

But back to Willow. She packed so much into her five-song set, which included three tracks from her upcoming EP, 3, which drops November 10.

“I hope you’re feeling the vibes,” she said following the trippy opener, “8.” Just in case attendees were somehow not feeling those vibes (spoiler: THEY WERE), Willow brought out surprise guest SZA to debut a new song the two had crafted.

“She is 13,” the “Babylon” singer said, before launching into a super-touching co-sign of her duet partner. “She is literally the future. I want to remind you.”

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Overwhelming? It was.

And the night continued to be anything but simply “whelmed” when Willow’s 16-year-old brother, Jaden Smith, popped onstage to ...

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by Madeline Roth 23 mins ago

We’ve all been there: You step away from your phone for a while and when you come back, there’s a panic-inducing notification that someone has left you a…wait for it…VOICE MAIL.

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Chances are, if you’re a millennial, this is cause for a full-on anxiety attack. What kind of monster would do such a thing?!

According to NPR, the loathing that young people feel toward voice mails is a very real and very legitimate thing. On the receiving end, it’s a time-consuming chore to listen to people’s rambling messages. If something was so important, wouldn’t they have just texted you?

And on the recording end, it’s a pain to sit through a robotic woman’s voice telling you HOW to leave a voice mail, as if that wasn’t common sense. Then you’re tasked with a pseudo-public speaking engagement where you have to leave an awkward message that— let’s face it — the other person might never even hear.

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Back in June, The New York Times reported that voice mail rates are dropping and landline calls have basically plummeted (not such a shocker). That’s probably because — in the eyes of most millennials — phone calls are awkward, slow, and unnecessary. This is an era where most young people prefer to see to believe. Whether it’s a text message, a Snapchat, or a pretty Instagram, we’ve becoming accustomed to connecting to people in visual ways. It’s faster, we can do ...

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by MTV News Staff 6 mins ago

By Andres Tardio

How does Drake celebrate his birthday?

Awesomely, of course.

This year, Drake celebrated his 29th birthday with friends at Dave & Busters in Times Square, shmoney dancing the night away.

At one point, Drake does the shmoney dance with a twist. Instead of the classic hat throw, Drake takes off his cozy sweater and launches it like Bobby Shmurda would—if he wore sweaters instead of snap backs.

Drizzy, who was joined by Makonnen and Rita Ora, among others, posed for flicks and hugged his guests at the arcade like a good party host.

If you want to Shmoney Dance like Drake or Shmurda, check out this video for some more ideas.

by Sasha Geffen 15 mins ago

Rainn Wilson has dropped Vine celebrity Curtis Lepore from his forthcoming show “Hollywood and Vine.” The decision to cut ties with the viral media star comes as a result of online backlash surrounding rape charges that were filed against Lepore by his ex-girlfriend Jessi Smiles late last year.

Earlier this month, “The Office” star announced that his production company had cast Lepore in a new ensemble comedy show called “Hollywood and Vine,” whose fictional plot will follow five young Vine celebs as they try to break into the bigger world of mainstream movies. Jerry Purpdrank, Lele Pons, Simone Shepherd, and Christian DelGrosso were also cast.

But on Friday (October 24), Wilson announced via Facebook that he had dropped Lepore from the project.

Jessi Vazquez, who’s also a Vine star and video blogger under the name Jessi Smiles, accused Lepore of raping her in her sleep last fall. The two met through Vine, where they both have millions of followers, and maintained a public relationship until they broke up last August.

A few days after the split, Vazquez suffered a concussion while filming one of the six-second looping videos that she broadcasts to her followers. Lepore offered to come over and help her out while she recovered — and then allegedly started having sex with her while she was unconscious.

Lepore denied the charges, but ultimately entered a plea deal where he pled guilty to felony assault, a less severe crime than rape. Vazquez tweeted that she was at peace with the decision ...

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by Madeline Roth 15 mins ago

In an epic exchange that makes Iggy and Snoop’s online feud look like child’s play, Madeleine Albright and Conan O’Brien hilariously traded quips at each other this week, and it’s pretty effin’ clear who came out on top.

It all started when O’Brien joked that he wants to dress up as “slutty Madeleine Albright” for Halloween. That’s when the former Secretary of State — and certifiable 77-year-old BO$$ — said “hell naw” and flawlessly fired back (in under 30 minutes, no less):

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Fortunately for the entire Internet, the fun didn’t stop there. It is a proven fact that the older you are, the less f**ks you have to give, so Albright decided to school O’Brien on the clear and present dangers of arguing with a woman of her stature (remember: one Presidential Medal of Freedom trumps any number of Emmy awards).

Bow down to Albright, one and all.

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The whole thing wrapped up in good fun, with the red-haired (and probably now red-faced) O’Brien waving the white flag and Albright using a #TeamCoco hashtag as a sign of peace. And then they skipped happily into the sunset together.

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by Caitlin White 31 mins ago

Kim Kardashian turned 34 on Tuesday (October 21) earlier this week, and though she probably won’t top last year’s surprise engagement to Kanye West, she still managed to pull off an enviable party in Las Vegas last night (October 24).

She teased the event a week before on Instagram, revealing that she’d be celebrating at The Venetian hotel’s Tao in Las Vegas:

Then, she snapped a pic of everyone before boarding the plane to get to Vegas:

Last night at the actual party, she had plenty of people to pose with and thank for being part of her tumultuous, fashionable life.

But family first, as always:

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Of course she still managed to get some time alone with her husband Kanye:

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And pose with her ver-present glam squad

Related: Happy Birthday, Kim Kardashian! Here Are 34 Times You Ruled Instagram

And embrace a fairly epic birthday cupcake-cake—there’s literally levels to this:

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No matter what happens, Kim doesn’t forget her “OG Crew”—and she never apologizes for cleavage:his own personal “happy birthday” to Kim on Twitter as well, and yes, it did include the word “dopest.” Happy birthday Kim! Next year, invite me to come celebrate with you.