Iconic actor, film director, and producer Richard Attenborough has passed away, the BBC announced on Sunday evening via a confirmation from the actor’s son. The multi-Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner was 90-years-old.

Perhaps best known to the Millennial set as John Hammond from Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” the multi-hyphenate also played Kris Kringle in the 1994 remake of “Miracle on 34th Street.” Additionally, after his start as a stage actor, Attenborough was seen on-screen in a wide variety of films, including “Doctor Dolittle,” “The Great Escape,” “10 Rillington Place,” and “Elizabeth.”

As a director, Attenborough won two Academy Awards and two BAFTAs for his 1983 film “Gandhi.” His was a career so prolific and revered he was given the honorable and distinguished title of The Rt Hon. The Lord Attenborough, CBE since 1993.

The actor’s son confirmed that his father died around lunchtime on Sunday. The family is expected to make a full statement on the matter of his passing on Monday.

Alicia Lutes

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OK, this selfie is downright bananas and I don’t mean that simply because of the two casual cool kids nomming on ‘naners at the beginning of the video. It’s because the whole thing takes place atop a Hong Kong skyscraper more than a thousand feet off the ground as if such a selfie experience were totally casual, NBD.

Except it’s so terrifying my stomach hurts just writing this.

According to YouTube uploader Frank Wu, photographer Daniel Lau utilized a “selfie stick” in order to procure the “dizzying footage of a rooftopping adventure 346m (1,135 feet) above the streets of Hong Kong.”

“Lau, fellow photographer Andrew Tso and A.S. are seen in the video snacking while perched dangerously on the spire of The Centre skyscraper, Hong Kong’s fifth-tallest skyscraper,” the video’s description reads.

If you felt particularly queasy while Lau’s selfie stick swirled about, it’s likely thanks to the wide-angle lens he used, ensuring many a lunch lost all across the Internet.

Personally, if we want our next selfie to look that extreme, we’ll use the background effects on Photobooth. But to each their own!

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Too much exuberance for one person. Follow her on Twitter @alicialutes.

Finally, after years of unregulated torment placed on the heads of unwitting suburban homeowners, a cranky dude from Florida has taken a stand against, well, lemonade stands once and for all.

61-year-old brave patriot for the regulation of children’s summertime endeavors Doug Wilkey decided that the illegal business practices of his neighbor, 12-year-old T.J. Guerrero, aspiring iPod owner, has not only gone on long enough, but has actually caused a depreciation in his home’s value. There goes the neighborhood!

Wilkey contacted law enforcement and City Hall officials several times over the middle schooler’s year-round “illegal business,” explaining that the excessive amount of traffic, noise and trash caused by the small business owner have thrown this idyllic community into a cesspool of calamity and disorderly conduct.

“Please help me regain my quiet home and neighborhood,” Wilkey wrote.

“The city could possibly face repercussion in the event someone became ill from spoiled/contaminated food or drink sales,” Wilkey, champion for the stepped-on little guys of the world, stated in one of his many emails.

After his calls went largely (and unfairly!) unheeded by local authorities, Wilkey decided to step up the crusade, alerting the Tampa Bay Times that the flagrant abuse of the law was occurring “AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Records from the Dunedin, Florida city commissioners’ office revealed that Wilkey has been vigilant in his attempts to return normalcy to his neighborhood, having contacted them about the matter in May 2013, October 2013, and again in March and June of 2014.

Thankfully, Wilkey’s rabble-rousing has resulted in some progress: ...

Being that she’s a human rainbow, it should come as a surprise to no one that Kesha‘s outfit options for Sunday night’s 2014 Video Music Awards are a veritable smorgasbord of color, texture and off-the-wall awesome.

Thankfully for all of us, she decided to share a few teaser photos of the deets on Twitter.

There’s the literal option:

The mermaid sparkler:

This pearly, Old Hollywood situation:

Something that might be made of tin foil:

And a netted green number:

What do you think Kesha will rock on the red carpet?

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Ch-ch-ch-changes: the cornerstone of any internal growth spurt — sort of like the one Taylor Swift has undergone in the past two years. She’s shaking off any criticism and figuring out what feminism means to her. A topic of which her BFF Lena Dunham is quite fond. Natch.

The “Girls” showrunner/actor/doer-of-all-the-things tweeted in support of Swift and her evolution and growth on the matter — a change from her earlier days of declaring herself not a feminist.

The article in question was Friday’s profile of Swift in U.K. paper The Guardian, wherein the singer clarifies her opinion on the women’s equality movement and whether or not she considers herself a feminist.

“As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities,” said Swift.

Related: Taylor Swift Clarifies Her Stance On Feminism: It’s Not About Hating Men

“For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all,” Swift said, crediting a lot of her own acceptance and understanding of the term to Dunham herself. “Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.”

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See? Not everybody’s participating in the ALS ice bucket challenge — and singer Grimes has particularly good reason for it.

After being nominated by DJ Richie Hawtin, Skrillex, and Dubfire to dump a bucket o’ the cold stuff atop her head, Grimes took to Tumblr to voice her reservations about ALS as an organization, particularly in regards to their animal testing.

“Haha okay, richie is probably the nicest and coolest person I’ve ever met so i can’t really refuse him,” she wrote. “[H]owever, I would like to say that I don’t feel great about wasting water in this california drought, but i will donate money.”

But it didn’t stop there. Grimes went on to call out ALS in regards to their animal testing — something actress Pamela Anderson also recently did on her Facebook page. But in a statement from ALS received by The Daily Banter, the organization insisted that their practices involving animals are safe and ethical.

“Significant advances have been made in ALS and other neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease using model systems such as rodents, flies and worms to better understand disease mechanisms and to develop therapies. … The ALS Association supports laboratories and scientists that strictly adhere to the guidelines provided by the National Institutes of Health.”

Instead of donating to ALS, Grimes opted to give to another organization, The Malala Fund. “I will not donate money to this foundation because of their record of testing ...

Who knew a “Doctor Who” series premiere could be so satisfying, and yet raise so many gigantic questions? Yet that’s exactly what “Deep Breath” did, making us wonder whether this will be the least done-in-one season of “Who” ever.

Here’s every burning question we’ve got, including the one already mentioned above!

1. Did The Doctor Kill That Dude?

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It’s a question we expect may never get answered, but will color nearly every interaction The Doctor has this season: did he kill the cyborg, or did the cyborg leap to his death? Is this, unlike every previous incarnation, a Doctor who will truly murder a living being one on one?

It’s been a question raised time and again, whether The Doctor leading beings or civilizations down the road to destroying themselves is tantamount to killing them. Is it any different if he just straight up murders a dude? For our money, yes, and we’re hoping The Doctor hasn’t resorted to killing. But we shall have to wait and see.

2. Who Is Missy?

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Played by Michelle Gomez, the Big Bad of the season welcomes the repaired cyborg to paradise. But where is paradise, exactly? Who is Missy? And why does she think The Doctor is her boyfriend?

Gomez was already confirmed to be playing a character called “The Gatekeeper of The Nethersphere,” and we know she’ll show up later on in an episode involving Cybermen. But other than that… Nothing. ...