We have seen stars taking ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in various ways - fully clad (mostly), without their pants (James Franco), with money instead of water (Charlie Sheen), in a bikini (Gwyneth Paltrow, Katy Perry) and while in a pool (Robert Downey Jr) being a few of them.
But leave it to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch to take it to a new level. Nominated by fellow British actor Tom Hiddleston, he did the challenge in a suit. And then, in his birthday suit. After that, while astride a bike. He also did one while trying to make his escape in a car.
In all, he was doused with ice-cold water, cubes and all, five times. Six, if you count ice water in his helmet. -
One celeb you won’t see being dunked with an ice bucket for the viral ALS challenge is Pamela Anderson. According to Us weekly the “Baywatch” star took to social media to criticize the charity campaign that has raised millions for Lou Gehrig’s disease research.
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Earlier this week the longtime animal rights activist posted a Facebook message criticizing ALS researchers.
"Sorry, I can't bring myself to do your Ice bucket challenge," the post began. "I enjoy a good dare, It's always good to bring awareness - in fun, creative ways, I don't want to take away from that. I thought instead, I'd challenge ALS to stop animal testing."
The 47-year-old actress continued with claims describing how animals are used in scientific experiments.
The man who had refused to live in Narendra Modi’s India has gone to a better place. UR Ananthamurthy, who towered over modern Kannada letters, passed away on Friday in Bengaluru, where he was being treated for renal failure. He died in the city he had named. Ananthamurthy had originated the campaign to rename Bangalore in an effort to decolonise the Kannada mindscape.
Ananthamurthy will be best remembered for Ghatashraddha, a short story, and the novel Samskara. The former was filmed by Girish Kasaravalli and represented India in the 2002 centenary celebration of cinema in Paris. Pattabhi Rama Reddy’s rendering of Samskara launched the parallel cinema in Kannada.
Cinema acquainted global audiences with Ananthamurthy’s work, but Samskara the novel marked an important phase of modern Indian letters. Ananthamurthy was the foremost novelist of the Navya movement in Kannada literature, one of the many new waves which were crashing on the worn coastlines of Indian literary languages in the 1950s and ’60s. In Karnataka, this period saw the rise of powerful literary figures. P. Lankesh and Girish Karnad were Ananthamurthy’s peers in Kannada poetry and theatre, for instance.
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Ananthamurthy has been president of the Sahitya Akademi, chairman of the National Book Trust and the FTII, and chancellor of the Central University of Karnataka. An old hand on the conference and festival circuit, he has spoken for Indian literature all over the world, from Jaipur to Frankfurt. His honours include the Jnanpith Award, the Padma Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. Apart from the loss to literature, his death removes from public life a critic who was never afraid to speak against the motion. Without Ananthamurthy, India will be a quieter and less interesting place.
But leave it to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch to take it to a new level. Nominated by fellow British actor Tom Hiddleston, he did the challenge in a suit. And then, in his birthday suit. After that, while astride a bike. He also did one while trying to make his escape in a car.
In all, he was doused with ice-cold water, cubes and all, five times. Six, if you count ice water in his helmet. -
One celeb you won’t see being dunked with an ice bucket for the viral ALS challenge is Pamela Anderson. According to Us weekly the “Baywatch” star took to social media to criticize the charity campaign that has raised millions for Lou Gehrig’s disease research.
http://www.beatthegmat.com/member/296018/profile
Earlier this week the longtime animal rights activist posted a Facebook message criticizing ALS researchers.
"Sorry, I can't bring myself to do your Ice bucket challenge," the post began. "I enjoy a good dare, It's always good to bring awareness - in fun, creative ways, I don't want to take away from that. I thought instead, I'd challenge ALS to stop animal testing."
The 47-year-old actress continued with claims describing how animals are used in scientific experiments.
The man who had refused to live in Narendra Modi’s India has gone to a better place. UR Ananthamurthy, who towered over modern Kannada letters, passed away on Friday in Bengaluru, where he was being treated for renal failure. He died in the city he had named. Ananthamurthy had originated the campaign to rename Bangalore in an effort to decolonise the Kannada mindscape.
Ananthamurthy will be best remembered for Ghatashraddha, a short story, and the novel Samskara. The former was filmed by Girish Kasaravalli and represented India in the 2002 centenary celebration of cinema in Paris. Pattabhi Rama Reddy’s rendering of Samskara launched the parallel cinema in Kannada.
Cinema acquainted global audiences with Ananthamurthy’s work, but Samskara the novel marked an important phase of modern Indian letters. Ananthamurthy was the foremost novelist of the Navya movement in Kannada literature, one of the many new waves which were crashing on the worn coastlines of Indian literary languages in the 1950s and ’60s. In Karnataka, this period saw the rise of powerful literary figures. P. Lankesh and Girish Karnad were Ananthamurthy’s peers in Kannada poetry and theatre, for instance.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?memberId=422083
Ananthamurthy has been president of the Sahitya Akademi, chairman of the National Book Trust and the FTII, and chancellor of the Central University of Karnataka. An old hand on the conference and festival circuit, he has spoken for Indian literature all over the world, from Jaipur to Frankfurt. His honours include the Jnanpith Award, the Padma Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. Apart from the loss to literature, his death removes from public life a critic who was never afraid to speak against the motion. Without Ananthamurthy, India will be a quieter and less interesting place.
The
video begins innocently enough. Benedict poses in front of a camera and
explains that he is doing this to raise awareness for ALS, which is a
form of Motor Neurone Disease. He goes on to say that it can have a
devastating effect on people's lives, so people should donate
generously.
He says, "Bring on the bucket". While being doused with the water, he lets out a shriek. After that, he reveals his own nominations - Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, pop star Kylie Minogue and F1 champ Lewis Hamilton.
The actor then takes off his clothes and heads to the shower while complaining how cold he is feeling. The camera follows him and that's when he gets his second ice-cold bucket of water.
After that, we see him clad in a suit and talking to Hiddleston, "Yeah Tom, I've done it. I know I was late, I guess that's why they did it to me again in the shower. What do you mean I've got to do it more time because I was nominated more than once?"
And that's when he's doused for the third time.
The camera then cuts to him in biker gear, ready to flee on a motorbike. Only, the helmet contains icy water which he ends up tipping on his head before being splashed by water again.
He next tries to make good his escape on a car but his team gets there first and drenches him. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/tabloid/benedict-cumberbatch-stars-in-the-best-als-ice-bucket-challenge-you-ve-seen-yet/article1-1255625.aspx#sthash.A5bL7LJN.dpuf
He says, "Bring on the bucket". While being doused with the water, he lets out a shriek. After that, he reveals his own nominations - Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, pop star Kylie Minogue and F1 champ Lewis Hamilton.
The actor then takes off his clothes and heads to the shower while complaining how cold he is feeling. The camera follows him and that's when he gets his second ice-cold bucket of water.
After that, we see him clad in a suit and talking to Hiddleston, "Yeah Tom, I've done it. I know I was late, I guess that's why they did it to me again in the shower. What do you mean I've got to do it more time because I was nominated more than once?"
And that's when he's doused for the third time.
The camera then cuts to him in biker gear, ready to flee on a motorbike. Only, the helmet contains icy water which he ends up tipping on his head before being splashed by water again.
He next tries to make good his escape on a car but his team gets there first and drenches him. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/tabloid/benedict-cumberbatch-stars-in-the-best-als-ice-bucket-challenge-you-ve-seen-yet/article1-1255625.aspx#sthash.A5bL7LJN.dpuf
The
Ice Bucket Challenge, which involves dousing a bucket of ice water on
one's head or donating to the ALS Association in the United States, went
viral throughout social media. The one who takes the challenge also has
to nominate three more people.
The campaign was launched by the ALS Foundation to raise money and awareness for fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis research.
The fundraising effort has raised more than $50 million. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/tabloid/benedict-cumberbatch-stars-in-the-best-als-ice-bucket-challenge-you-ve-seen-yet/article1-1255625.aspx#sthash.A5bL7LJN.dpuf
The campaign was launched by the ALS Foundation to raise money and awareness for fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis research.
The fundraising effort has raised more than $50 million. - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/tabloid/benedict-cumberbatch-stars-in-the-best-als-ice-bucket-challenge-you-ve-seen-yet/article1-1255625.aspx#sthash.A5bL7LJN.dpuf
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