Perhaps you’ve seen the commercials. Or even read about it on this very site. Well, PopWatchers, I have seen the pilot of Fox’s new series Glee, which premieres May 19 after American Idol, and I am officially obsessed. I’ve watched it all the way through twice and have re-screened the performance numbers more times than I can count. It’s becoming a little ridiculous. I may have to join some kind of support group. The series, which centers around a outcast-filled high school glee club, completely won me over. But it’s the performance scenes that truly keep me coming back. My favorite is a cover of Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believin’." You’ll have to tune in on May 19 to see what I mean, but below is a promo that uses the song and some of the footage. Doesn’t it just fill you with, well, glee?
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'Glee' on Fox: It hasn't even premiered yet, and I'm already obsessed!
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The Earth DOES rock, especially when Paul Rudd's wriggling around inside
If you didn’t catch Sesame Street earlier…congratulations. You’ve had a very productive day. But no one deserves to miss Paul Rudd, Earth Father, making sweet lip-curling love to the camera during the opening bars of "Earth Rocks." His rather limited range of hand gestures make Rudd’s performance quality even more adorably awkward than what he had going on during I Love You, Man‘s "Tom Sawyer" chronicles. Props to Videogum for the most excellent still image, below.
Rudd serves as Master of Ceremonies for the "Earthathon" in Sesame Street‘s special Being Green DVD, on sale now. You can preview his other wrist-flailing ditty, "It’s Easy Being Green," on YouTube.
More Paul Rudd:
PopWatch: Paul Rudd: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love you, man
Gallery: Paul Rudd Tells Us 10 Things About…Being Paul Rudd
Movie review: ‘I Love You, Man’
The Music Mix: Rush’s Geddy Lee talks about ‘I Love You, Man’
Phil Keoghan blogs 'The Amazing Race': episode 8
One of the things the Race does is give you a good idea of whowould be useful on a desert island. And while Victor may be at the top of hisgame as a lawyer, he clearly isn’t blessed with some very practical skills.I’m always amazed at how many very capable people have no idea how to dopractical things.
For two guys who seem to know how to do just about everything, Mark andMichael really fell apart in this episode. Just when it looked likethey were going to break out and start leading the pack, they were hit witha four-hour penalty because they continued to break the rules. Who knowswhere those guys would be in this game if they played within theregulations. Two penalties last week and two penalties this week? That’sinsane. I believe they are the most penalized team in the history of theRace.
We all joked about Mark and Michael having doneeverything. No matter what anybody working on the production said they haddone, those two guys had done it or knew how to do it. There isno doubt they have a lot of life experience, but after a while it got quitehysterical.
Clip du jour: Fun with rockets
Ever wonder what would happen if you shot a rocket going 650 mphstraight into a car backed up against a concrete wall? Of course youhave. And so have Mythbusters‘ Jamie and Adam. The differenceis those lunatics have a show (and the cash flow) to make itactually happen. And what does happen to the car, you may ask? "It’s a freakin’potato chip."
Susan Boyle's 'Britain's Got Talent' audition gives Simon his second spontaneous 'O' of the week
By now, you’ve probably seen this weekend’s viral video sensation, 47-year-old ("and that’s just one siiiiide of me!") Susan Boyle’s audition for Britain’s Got Talent. The never-been-kissed Scot blew away the initially sneer-mongering judges with her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables, causing Simon Cowell to sort of shift in his seat a little bit while allowing one the most sheepish documented grins to date spread over his "O" face. You can watch the entire clip on YouTube (embedding’s disabled), or just bask in the two most telling before-and-after facial reactions, below.
Suck it, eye-rolling tween! You’ll be that "old" and "awful" someday, too.
Read more: Susan Boyle: Why we watch…and weep
‘American Idol’ recap: Simon’s spontaneous ‘O’!
Checking out our favorite libraries and librarians
Happy National Library Week! To help celebrate, I’m going to organize information in a logical, easy to understand way. And oh yeah, present to you, PopWatchers, some awesome pop references to libraries and librarians. Sssshhh!
Could I start anywhere but Marian?
I could not.
More after the jump….
'American Idol' Power List: Who's your favorite with six weeks remaining?
7. Lil Rounds: (Last week: No. 7) Finally got negative feedback from Simon & Co. after a Tina Turner impersonation that wouldn’t pass muster at a small-town drag bar. After five weeks on the big Idol stage, the woman who the judges claim is one of the season’s strongest singers (seriously?) has been unflinchingly flat ("I Surrender"), unpleasantly manic ("Heat Wave"), or just plain forgettable (Michael Jackson week). With her desperation beginning to show, she has virtually no chance to take home the season 8 crown.
6. Anoop Desai: (Last week: No. 6) As bad as he was on "Caught Up" and "Beat It," he’s delivered the vocal goods on "Always on My Mind" and last week’s inventive, original "True Colors." Problem is, the inconsistent trajectory has left ‘Noop Dawg with an unstable fanbase, resulting in bottom-three encounters for two weeks running. Needs some kind of dramatic statement — a successful uptempo number, a radical style upgrade, a breakout interview moment even — to make America take a second look/listen, and convince them a vote for Anoop is not a wasted one.
5. Danny Gokey: (Last week: No. 4) Not exceedingly popular among EW.com readers (he only got 8 percent of votes in last week’s Idol Power poll) but apparently somebody’s voting for the guy, as he hasn’t made a single bottom-three appearance, despite an overbaked "What Hurts the Most" and a "Stand By Me" that was a melted cheddar slice away from dripping with cheese. Needs to prove he’s capable of subtlety and originality if he wants to make those early predictions of a Gokey-Lambert finale a reality.
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'Rock of Love Bus' finale: And the 'winner' is...
And just like that, another round of Rock of Love has drawn to a close. It seems like only yesterday 20 upstanding young women were fighting for the chance to be Bret Michaels’ girlfriend, reading raps off of STD info sheets and taking shots out of each others’ lady parts. I wish Bret the best in his quest for true love, but I can’t be the only one secretly hoping this relationship doesn’t work out so we get a fourth season of this delightfully trashy show, right?
Anyway, going into last night’s showdown between Taya and Mindy, the question was whether he’d go with the bats— crazy one or the other bats— crazy one. Not that I’d question the emotional stability of any woman who would compete for the affection of Bret Michaels on national television, but…oh, wait, YES I WOULD. That doesn’t mean I love this show any less, however.
The finale was lacking in the crazy drunken antics that make this show such a trainwreck to watch, but the final elimination was entertaining. I couldn’t decide which part made me more uncomfortable: Taya looking like she was about to vomit the entire time, or Mindy’s unsupported cleavage. In the end, I think Bret made the right choice — Mindy was far too insecure to date him, and Penthouse Pet of the Year Taya has the right pedigree to date an ex-hair band frontman — but we’ll see how long this ”relationship” lasts.
Did you catch the RoL Bus finale, PopWatchers? If you didn’t, watch the final elimination below. Were you happy that Bret chose Taya in the end, or were you rooting for Mindy? Whose flat-ironed hair looked better, Bret’s weave or Taya’s actual hair? And did you really expect Bret to put a ring on it?
TCM's 15 Most Influential Films: Did they get it right?
We at EW are a particularly list-happy group. So it was with great interest that we checked out Turner Classic Movies’ just-published list of the 15 Most Influential Films of All Time (part of the network’s 15-anniversary celebration). Here they are, in chronological order:
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
42nd Street (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Bicycle Thieves (1947)
Rashomon (1950)
The Searchers (1956)
Breathless (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Star Wars (1977)
It’s certainly an impressive group (not to mention a terrific Netflix queue waiting to be created). And they did a nice job of covering their bases by including a musical, a cartoon, a Western, etc. But only one movie from the past 49 years? Really? Wouldn’t you say The Godfather influenced an entire generation of filmmakers? Or Pulp Fiction, for that matter? Which films would you add to TCM’s list? And which would you remove?
Facebook quizzes: The good, the bad, and the one that told me I'm Xander
Facebook quizzes. I don’t usually take them, which made me happy when a colleague of mine issued a warning recently in her status update: "If you take more than three quizzes in a single day, you WILL be hidden from the news feed. For good." It’s not that I’m anti-quizzes (or fun), it’s that I’m opposed to clicking on things when I have no idea if they’ll be worth my time. So, let’s do each other a favor and list our Facebook quiz hits and misses.
The only one I’ve taken recently is "Which Joss Whedon character are you?", which I thought was lame until I came to terms with the fact that I am actually Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon, pictured). To paraphrase the results: I have a big heart. I’ll love my friends no matter what. I tend to be attracted to strange people, but they aren’t all bad. I’m not quite sure what I want to do when I grow up, but that’s okay….Of my fellow Buffy-fan friends who I know have taken the quiz, I’ve got a Buffy, a Willow, and a Giles — which I find oddly comforting. Like somehow, our Scooby Gang can get through anything, too.
Your turn. Which quizzes were worth your time and which ones weren’t? (And if you took the Joss Whedon character quiz, who are you?)
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