Archive: June 2009 (51-60 of 438)
How did you pay your respects to Michael Jackson?
- Comments 90
- Add comment
Fox's TV movie 'Virtuality' decidedly NOT a 'Trading Spaces' spinoff
It's actually a sci-fi thriller starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. (Remember him from New Amsterdam? Oh. Well, that's okay. He's hot and can stare right through your skull.) But you'd never know it based on this preview clip alone. Even the bumpin' beat is total speed-freak home makeover music. Dalton Ross just walked by and begged me to turn it off. I turned it up.
Virtuality airs tonight from 8-10 ET on Fox — an on-air promo just reminded me, so I thought I'd remind you. Clark Collis thinks the stand-alone special "screams 'failed pilot' loudenough to be heard in space," but Battlestar Galactica fans will probably want to record this anyway because executive producer Ron Moore is behind it. Good enough for me. For you, too?
Exclusive: Meet the pimp on HBO's 'Hung'
The words "pimp" and "hung" in the same headline: good day! In advance of Sunday night's premiere of HBO's new comedy Hung (10 p.m. ET), which stars The Punisher's Thomas Jane as a divorced, broke, high school coach with a large money-maker in his pants, we have your first look at the vlog his "pimp" Tanya (Frasier's Mel Karnofsky, Jane Adams) will be keeping on the show's website. Below, she explains how she and Ray (Jane) got into business together and how she plans on teaching him to use his "extra special d—" to satisfy women in a new way. (We didn't mean that to sound dirty.) (It's actually pretty funny.) Will you be watching Hung? Give us a Y or N below!
'American Idol' contestants team up for 'Don't Stop Believing'
The American Idol kids are getting ready for their tour, so they're rehearsing their big finale number: "Don't Stop Believing."
I know not everyone loves this ditty, but this video pretty much turned my day around. Thanks, Idols!
Are you a small town boy, PopWatchers, or have you stopped believin'?
Today's To-Do List: Spontaneous 'Thriller'-dancing strongly encouraged
In the midst of last night's Michael Jackson coverage, as we geared up for So You Think You Can Dance, two friends and I eventually had to move one of three pieces of furniture in a tiny studio apartment so that we could very poorly attempt the "Thriller" dance out of nowhere. I don't know what compels people to do this; it's just the way it is. Besides, the broadcast news blowouts were almost begging viewers to do this — the channel we were on showed full-screen or picture-in-picture MJ videos at least every two minutes. I found this pretty fantastic and, considering his career, totally appropriate.
Anyway, we lasted a few seconds with the only moves we collectively remembered, then decided our skills fell somewhere between the 13 Going On 30 Thriller dance (featuring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo) and Naomi Campbell's inexplicable "Thrillicious" commercial for SoBe Life Water (featuring lizards). This was way too generous. In reality, we weren't even as coordinated as this thrillingly impressive Hmong toddler. But that never matters. One should always "Thriller"-dance whenever the urge strikes, and whether it's choreographed or not. Especially today.
When was the last time you spontaneously "Thriller-danced"?
WARNING: Do not click on this totally tragic '80s "Thriller" tutorial!!!
More Michael Jackson:
Gallery: Michael Jackson: 18 Key Moments
Michael Jackson dies at age 50
Michael Jackson's musical legacy: Tell us how you remember him
Michael Jackson fans turn to Twitter
Noah Wyle, Steven Spielberg fight alien invasion: Sign me up
The still-untitled series, which our own Michael Ausiello had the scoop on a couple weeks back, takes place six months into an alien invasion that has kicked mankind's butt, and Wyle plays the leader of humanity's resistance forces. Yes, please! I hope he's tough on the outside but deep down is sort of a softie. Spielberg joked to the Hollywood Reporter that "It is a privilege to be starting a second series with Noah — the first didn't do too badly." Zing! The first was ER, if you recall.
I'm hoping this show joins the TNT summer slate next year so the lazy, hazy days of 2010 have some meaty scripted fare. What about you, PopWatchers? Are you looking forward to a Wyle/Speilberg series?
Roger Ebert really (really) hates the new 'Transformers' movie
The latest target of his wrath? Just the biggest 'buster on the block right now — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. His official review on Tuesday was nothing short of withering. (Just a taste: He says the robots look like "junkyard throw-up.") That obviously wasn't enough for him. He returned a day later with an end-times blog post, putting his view of the movie's badness into a larger context and stating unequivocally that someday far in the future, the Transformers sequel will be studied in film classes as the moment when the "bloated, excessive, incomprehensible" CGI action movie finally got too big to survive.
I think Ebert might be off on this one, though. Considering the movie's outrageous box office haul, doesn't it just mean we're in for even more huge, excessive action movies? Plus, there are those who disagree with Ebert's judgment, including EW's own Owen Gleiberman, whose "inner 10-year-old" nodded in approval of the super-size, metal-on-metal action. What do you think? Have you seen Transformers 2? Do you think Ebert's right, or is he way off the mark?
Read Owen Gleiberman's review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' Reunion Part 2: Do over!
Andy Cohen, you know I love you and how your body does a slight jump whenever confronted with serious ridiculousness (as when darling Dina explained that her cat smells like french fries and is a dead ringer for her grandma who tanned and smoked too much). When Dina — who was on a roll last night! — explained that she has turned a gay man straight before, you cocked your head in your patented amused/ever-so-slightly disdainful fashion.
But Andy, you're killing me. Danielle says her kids only reacted negatively to the show once. And you didn't ask when? Or push her about her 15-year-old not understanding the concept of phone sex. Or push the conversation about Danielle and Jacqueline's suddenly frosty relationship. Or, most egregiously, you let Caroline jab her finger at Danielle and accuse of the ultimate betrayal and then you never prodded any of them to spill. What was the betrayal that brought Caroline to tears? Did it involve Dina's husband? Did it involve a botched hit placed by one of Danielle's dozen fans on Grandma Wrinkles? Caroline's crying, Danielle's playing dumb, all of the other Housewives are nodding their heads in weary agreement, and you need to try to end the show on a happy note??? For shame, Andy!
Danielle did her best to woo book publishers throughout the anticlimactic finale. To his credit, Andy did push her to acknowledge her relationship with a big-time Colombian cartel drug dealer, but she just said "Wait for the book, I have a book as well." Of course you do, sweetheart. Though it sounds like it will be filled with bad memories of burlesque costumes and bong hits. And chapter 8 will not involve her sitting on anybody's lap, that's for sure.
Bruno on Conan, literally: More crotch-to-face acrobatics
Last night, Sacha Baron Cohen paid an in-character visit to Conan, who made sure to call him "Bruno" about 8,000 times. Would he dance? Of course he would. How about a crotch to the face, in multiple positions? Would Conan like that? Well, he certainly…tolerated it. Wow. (Lap dance is at the end of the video, below.)
What do you think — was last night's crotch-to-face acrobatics routine worse than the one Brüno performed atop Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards? And do his latest stunts — and the iPod-for-baby swap scene previewed above — make you want to see Brüno more or less? For me it's just a bit more, but mostly because I love watching Conan at his peak discomfort levels. I mean, he had NO CLUE what to do.
- Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Next
Latest News
- 'Chuck' finale: Josh Schwartz sums up
- Demi Moore 911 call: Public information
- ABC and CBS pick up comedy pilots
- George Lucas: 'Star Wars' shoot 'painful'
- Lana Del Rey's 'Born to Die': EW review
- 'One for the Money': EW movie review
- Oprah: Blue Ivy godmother? Gayle says no
- Sarah Jessica Parker gets 'Lovelace' gig
Most Commented
Top 5 Most Read
- ‘Chuck’ series finale react: Were you satisfied with the ending?
- Sarah Jessica Parker replaces Demi Moore in ‘Lovelace’ — BREAKING
- Demi Moore 911 call is public information, for better or worse
- ‘Revenge,’ ‘Criminal Minds,’ ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘New Girl’: Find out…
- George Lucas on ‘Star Wars’: ‘The first film was really hard. It was painful. It was…
