Perhaps if you’re spending today with your family, you can work in some awesome contests to test your skills against members of the kids’ table.
I like the algebra part the best. What about you, PopWatchers? Grape juice FTW?
Taylor Lautner and James Franco: Who will be a better 'SNL' host?
When SNL announced yesterday that James Franco and Taylor Lautner would be hosting in December, I had one thought: Man, I would love to see these two wrestle. Just kidding: I thought man, James Franco is going to obliterate poor Taylor Lautner and his biceps of teenwolf lust.
In Lautner’s defense, he’ll be one of the youngest hosts the show has ever had — a few months shy of his 18th birthday puts him among the 10 youngest. I’m worried that we might have a January Jones redux on our hands, though: Lautner is famous for one and only one thing, and given how much the show has struggled this season to give hosts a variety of material, that’s going to make writing for him pretty tough. Might he be charismatic and nimble enough to carry it anyway? Eh…live TV has slayed far mightier foes.
Which brings us to Franco. Franco hosted last year, and he did a pretty solid job — plus he’s a naturally funny guy who has been in many comedies. He’s also shown himself to be a really good sport about making fun of himself, which is often what the best SNL sketches come from.
I think Franco has this locked down, PopWatchers. Maybe the question is will Lautner be a disaster, or can he hold his own?
Photo credit: Lautner: Tina Gill/PR Photos; Franco: Albert L. Or
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When I saw Serena’s ruby and garnet necklace (left) on a recent episode of Gossip Girl, I thought, “Me. Want.” But my wallet said, “Me. Want. Cheaper.” Now both you and your inanimate wallet will be happy thanks to the new shopping site SeenOn.com/CW, which offers styles straight from your favorite CW shows, like GG, The Vampire Diaries and 90210, at up to 50% off starting Dec. 1.
Following the lead of successful members-only sample sale sites like Gilt and Hautelook, SeenOn creates a community of CW fashionistas, who’ll receive emails, texts and/or Facebook updates telling them about the daily sales. But unlike its predecessors, which offer past season’s goods, the CW’s private sales will be more current—like taking the necklace from the designer to Serena to my jewelry box. But don’t worry Chuck and Damon fans, the sales also cover male fashion.
Shop enough or refer others to the site and you’ll receive “Karma” points that will be good toward your own purchases. But the sales last only three days, so you have to act quickly. Knowing what you like is the easy part; deciding between Serena and Elena’s leather jackets is the hard part.
Would you CW fans out there be interested in something like this? What looks are you hoping will go on sale?
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Thanksgiving parade: Who's thankful for lip-syncing?
Happy Turkey Day, PopWatchers! This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had a few new balloons, a revamped Santa float, and more NBC promos and placements than I can wrap my head around.
Highlights
Broadway! I’m a sucker for a show tune, and it was kind of nuts to see Hair being performed outside Macy’s. My conflicting cultural institutions, let me show you them! John Stamos’ Bye Bye Birdie performance, while, yeah, horribly lip-synced, was still charismatic and cute, and Billy Elliot and Shrek were completely serviceable. Fun times.
Cream-colored coats Jane Krakowski, Andrea Bocelli, Katharine McPhee — you heard it here first, PopWatchers. Winter whites are in!
Jimmy Fallon Was anyone having more fun than Jimmy Fallon? His medley was so goofy and enthusiastic, but I really wished it had included that stupid Christmas song from SNL back in the day.
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'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving': 5 cutest moments
Greetings, PopWatching Pilgrims and Indians. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs on ABC tonight at 8 ET. My sister and I were so freaking excited about it that we downloaded the special on iTunes and watched it early. We’re cool. Anyway, I wanted to post our Top Five Cutest Moments from the Peanuts Thanksgiving Special before tonight. Let us know if your favorite made the cut.
–Charlie Brown lamenting, “I think I’m losing control over the whole world,” after that nasty athletic sandals-wearing Peppermint Patty informed him that not only were she and Marcy coming over for dinner…Franklin was, too.
–Snoopy getting smashed by the ping pong table, and the epic battle with a Lounge Chair With Human Qualities that followed. ”Little Birdie, can’t your friend do nothin’ right?”
–The entire ”we’re kids, this is all we know how to cook” scene with the buttered toast, popcorn, and what Arrested Development would call “a whole thing of candy beans.” Those crazy trapezoidal toasters are wild.
–Woodstock rubbing his belly delightedly after being served Snoopy’s real Thanksgiving feast. Does a bird eat turkey? Bonus: He’s eating Continental-style.
–After everyone sits down, ice cream sundaes appear on the kids’ table…out of nowhere!
Cheap thrills, guys. Happy Thanksgiving.
Read more: Thanksgiving TV: 8 Best Bets
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Holiday TV marathons: A chance to try something new?
If your Thanksgiving is anything like mine, it’s chilly, you’ve got a major case of comatose and there’s something on TV that’s playing from 9 am to 9 pm.
In my case, that show is often Law & Order: SVU, a show that never seemed to pull me in as a loyal viewer. But, call it a Christmas miracle (for the cable network airing SVU), because whenever there’s a marathon of the crime series on during the holidays, those women-centric murder mysteries have me hooked.
The same goes for America’s Next Top Model, which used to have a place in my heart until it became a repetitive hot mess. Still, when the holidays roll around, it’s almost as though Tyra has cast a spell on me, and I feel compelled to watch someone named Fabricasia pose with a goat in a Third World country. Damn you, Tyra!
My regular programming returns with the end of the long weekend, but sometimes I look back and think, “How did I just watch eight hours of SVU?”
What about you guys? Are there any shows that you normally don’t watch, yet somehow command you to the couch during the holidays? For some of EW’s choices for marathon viewing, click here and check back every morning this long weekend for more picks.
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Paul McCartney's 'Good Evening New York City': Watch the music icon's full show on DVD, or have a good evening tonight with the highlights on ABC
Last July, Paul McCartney played three nights at Citi Field in Queens, N.Y., performing crowd-pleasing sets that included an abundance of Beatles tracks such as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Hey Jude,” and “Helter Skelter.” Certainly, my colleague Simon Vozick-Levinson had few complaints when he reviewed the show over at the Music Mix. Though I’m less of a Beatlemaniac, it’s hard to dislike much about the new 2 CD/1 DVD set, Good Evening New York City which documents that event (and at considerable length: the DVD is a full 150 minutes in length).
Okay, I would argue that maybe it is impossible for any rock band, even one led by Macca himself, to do full live justice to “A Day in the Life.” Also, I think I may have watched way too many episodes of 30 Rock to take Alec Baldwin’s portentous, bookending, voice over (“…And with that the show ends!”) seriously. However, fans should get a real kick out of a set that also features numbers from McCartney’s solo career as well as his Wings years. The more casually interested, meanwhile, might care to raise their eyes above that mountain of turkey sandwiches and watch an hour-long version of Good Evening New York City tonight at 10/9c on ABC.
Were you at the Citi Field shows? What’s your favorite McCartney song? And how do you rate your chances of actually still being conscious by 10 tonight? Let us know!
Anna Kendrick talks 'New Moon' fever and George Clooney
Anna Kendrick plays Bella’s human friend Jessica in the Twilight series, EW spoke with the 24-year-old actress about how the New Moon craziness compares with Twilight, and being teased by George Clooney – yup, that George Clooney.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So does the New Moon experience compare to Twilight?
ANNA KENDRICK: It felt a little bit bigger than last year, but ultimately I think it was about as packed as it could have been for Twilight and if there were more people it just meant that they were packed tighter and a little further away. It felt a little bit like déjà vu. But I was a lot less nervous this year.
What’s your most memorable fan encounter?
There was a girl in Vancouver who came up to me in a store and asked me to give something to Taylor the next time that I saw him, and I just said I wasn’t sure the next time I would see him, so I didn’t want to take it. Because I didn’t really know what it was going to be. She said it as though she had it with her, as if she carried it around just in case she ran into a Twilight cast-member on the street. So I was a little too nervous to take it, but I still wonder what it was.
What would you say this role has done for your career?
Obviously this is the most visible thing that I’ve really done, but both Up in the Air [her upcoming film with George Clooney, for which Kendrick is garnering Oscar buzz] and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, I got because of a teeny film called Rocket Science. Both of those directors asked to meet with me because of that film. It’s strange because on the one hand, most people who approach me and know who I am and want to talk to me know me from Twilight, but most filmmakers don’t.
Do you think that Twilight could ever have a negative effect on your career?
I don’t think so. I understand that there is always going to be backlash for something that is really popular. But I think especially because I just play this silly girl, it’s not as though people see me in Twilight and can only think of me as a vampire queen or something.
Tell me about working with George Clooney in Up in the Air.
It was amazing. This year has been really exciting but really stressful in the best kind of way. Working with George was pretty intimidating. He actually teased me about Twilight a lot because I was shooting New Moon at the same time and when I came back from shooting pieces of New Moon, he’d treat me like a traitor when I came back to set.
Photo Credit: Kimberley French
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'Modern Family': The ten best zingers from last night's episode, 'Fizbo'
Okay, Modern Family fanatics. I know we usually do a fairly extensive recap recounting the insane/relatable/always hilarious hijinks of the Pritchett clan, but seeing how it’s Thanksgiving eve, and how I have a three-hour road trip to visit my very own modern family in the ay-em, I’ll just say that I rewound tonight’s “child’s birthday from hell” episode no fewer than a dozen times because I was missing dialogue/plot development due to my husband and I howling with laughter. So without further ado, the 10 lines that had us chortling (yes, I said chortling) hardest (in descending order): (Read full post)
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