Archive: August 2009 (341-350 of 386)

Aug 5 2009 11:13 PM ET

'So You Think You Can Dance' finale: Who will (and should) win?

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Think-Dance-top-4_lSo I’m not even going to try to spoil anything* for you concerning tonight’s performance finale of So You Think You Can Dance. No I am not. (Woooo-hoooo!) Instead, I will substitute a pair of poll questions in place of naming my two favorite contestants left in the season 5 finals (whose names are not Ade). Go ahead and vote below, then check back in the early ay-em for Adam B. Vary’s dapper, dashing, and dance-tastic TV Watch. I guarantee you’ll want to put him on the hot tamale train. Yes I do.

* Except for the fact that only one contestant tonight received Cat Deeley’s verrrry special brand of intro: “Let’s hear it for…it’s Kayla!”

Photo credit: Kelsey McNeal/Fox

Aug 5 2009 05:54 PM ET

Alexis Denisof starts shooting 'Dollhouse': Please play a suit-wearing badass

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Wesley-alexis-denisof_lSometimes you say you’d follow an actor anywhere, but then said actor ends up guesting on Private Practice and well… Luckily, Alexis Denisof’s new gig — a recurring role on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, which he started shooting today according to wife Alyson Hannigan’s Twitter feed — is far more appealing. I just read a rumor that Denisof is playing a senator on the show. (UPDATE: Fox tells me the character’s name  is Sen. Daniel Perrin, and that he will be a thorn in the side of the Dollhouse — and Rossum Corp — through the season.) I’m torn: The man does know how to wear a suit, which he proved as Wesley on Buffy the Vampire Slayer*; but he also looked good as the casual-attired badass who, late in Angel‘s run, wasn’t afraid to pull double guns on The Beast or have hot sex with Lilah.

So, to recap: I’m okay with him playing a suit, as long as it gets dirty.

How are you hoping to see Denisof used on Dollhouse? How much have you missed him?

* And here.

More: The latest Dollhouse news

Aug 5 2009 05:36 PM ET

Leonardo DiCaprio's Gothic version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' will likely not feature cookies

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Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way production company plans to develop a Gothic reimagining of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with screenwriter David Leslie Johnson (Orphan). I’m personally relieved by this news — even though DiCaprio won’t actually appear in the movie and we don’t know when it’ll actually happen — because the most prominent on-screen adaptation of “Little Red Riding Hood” in my head is STILL Little Red Riding Cookie, from Sesame Street‘s esteemed Monsterpiece Theater. (This was a little more my speed in the ’80s than The Company of Wolves.) Therefore, my misconceptions of the original fairy tale ranged from “None of the characters possess the ability to employ basic grammar,” to “There is no wolf,” to “The entire story centers around cookies.”

Would you go see a Gothic Little Red Riding Hood?

Aug 5 2009 04:49 PM ET

'The Blind Side' vs. 'The Open Road': The Southern accents showdown

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The trailer for The Blind Side surfaced yesterday, and while some bemoaned how abhorrently schmaltzy it looks — and truly, it is the world’s schmaltziest trailer — I was more worried about Sandra Bullock’s accent. (I’m also worried people are going to think the book is lame, which it resoundingly is not. Read this excerpt, called “The Ballad of Big Mike.” I love you, Michael Lewis.)

“Big Mike” Oher was recently a first-round draft pick for the Ravens, so, happy endings all around.

Anyway, I thought that was my limit on intense Southern accents for the week, until another trailer materialized, and holy outrageous drawl, Batman, Jeff Bridges is out of control. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 5 2009 03:00 PM ET

Meryl Streep needs to do an action movie: Poll!

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This morning, the always delightful Meryl Streep stopped by CBS’ Early Show to chat with PopWatch fave Harry Smith about Julie & Julia. Near the end of the interview, they talked about Meryl’s new status as a summer blockbuster star. “I know, go figure. It’s so… alarming,” she said, with that laugh that is utterly joyous yet entirely elegant. “What’s happening to the world?” After she explained that it’s a bizarre, but happy surprise, Harry gave her a scenario: “Listen, they’re gonna ask you to do a movie about something very serious, and they’ll just say, ‘But it just has to have one car crash or one helicopter thing.’ That’s how it starts. Don’t be afraid.”

“I don’t think they’re gonna get me in the catsuit anytime soon,” she said. “Although… I’d pay to avoid that movie.”

Obviously, a 15-time Oscar nominee doesn’t need my career advice, but I would love to see Meryl Streep in a smart action film. I’m thinking a James Bond flick where she goes head-to-head with M (Judi Dench) or perhaps the next Bourne movie with Matt Damon. A part of me would even sanction her having a small but important role in the third Charlie’s Angels movie Drew Barrymore has been toying with. What? I’d love to see what an actress of Streep’s caliber could bring to a true popcorn flick — like Johnny Depp in The Pirates of the Caribbean — and Drew said she was considering adding a fourth Angel. (Though, honestly, I would prefer Meryl play a delicious villain — who kills one of the Angels. Controversial!)

Aug 5 2009 02:21 PM ET

How's your Jon Hamm obsession doing? Ours is fine.

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hamm_open_taxiBreaking background noise news: Jon Hamm is also sexy in an audio-only format! In his latest guest spot on Bill Simmons (The Sports Guy)’s ‘BS Report’, TV’s Don Draper/premier ham salesman touches on season 3 of Mad Men with some vague metaphors (“A lot of [Don's] chickens came home to roost, so to speak. He had a lot of balls in the air”), but most of his chatter is about sports. See: “balls.” Honestly, you don’t need to care about the subject matter to get sexily ear-tickled by Jon Hamm’s hearty chuckle. Some of his sentence fragments can easily be singled out and then assigned to briefly overtake one’s inner life. For example, Hamm said that when he showed up at July’s Celebrity Softball Game, “You had to chisel the smile off my face,” and then I spent the better chunk of an hour imagining how would I do that? Would I use a straight razor, and if so, could I touch other parts of his face with my fingers in an effort to make the experience nicer for both of us? Or maybe I’d use a feather and faux-complain, “I don’t know why this isn’t working! You will just need to keep smiling, Jon Hamm!”

January Jones has been cropped out of this promotional Mad Men image so that maybe Don Draper is holding the taxi door open for…you. [More season 3 promo shots at ONTD]

Read all: C’mere, Jon Hamm, And Give Me A Kiss

Aug 5 2009 02:15 PM ET

'The Lovely Bones' trailer makes our Must List. Do tell -- what's on yours?

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Remember five years ago when that trilogy about the midgets trying to return jewelry to Pompeii made billions of dollars and swept the Oscars? And how two years later its director tried his hand at resuscitating another famous property and was met with a lot of “meh”s and “it’s too long!”s? And how in the intervening four years everyone has asked “is he doing The Hobbit?”, “what about Halo?” and various other sweaty, agitated questions?

Well fret no more, Peter Jackson fans! The Lord of the Rings director is back this December with his adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, the first trailer of which went live yesterday. Check it out:

 

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Aug 5 2009 02:04 PM ET

'Inglourious Basterds': More pre-release propaganda!

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Hostel director Eli Roth guest-directed Nation’s Pride, the Nazi propaganda movie-within-the-movie of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (out Aug. 21). In keeping with the “extra u” theme of the entire film, the word “gloury” appears in the trailer, embedded below (or you can watch it over at Apple). Nation’s Pride‘s release date is Aug. 21, the same day as Inglourious Basterds. That is SO WEIRD.

Aug 5 2009 01:30 PM ET

Sony announces cheaper competitor for the Kindle; I remain weirdly unmoved

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Sony-reader_lSony unveiled its new e-book readers today, and the big news is that the Reader Pocket Edition will tip the wallet scales at only $199, making it about a hundo less than a Kindle and less than the $250 Cool-er, too. The beefier Reader Touch Edition, with touch-screen tastiness, will be $299, and both come out at the end of the month.

It’s good news for the cheap-but-gadget-hungry among us — especially because books will be $9.99, down from $11.99 — but I’m still not as gung-ho about e-readers as I’ve been about other new gizmos. When digital cameras hit the mass market, I had one of those it will be mine moments. Sometimes I need a test drive to generate that kind of bloodlust; I was meh on iPods until I borrowed a friend’s for a day and became a convert, lo those many years ago. But I have tried both Kindles and Cool-ers, and despite the inherent gee-whiz factors for both of them — it’s a book! from the fuuuuutuuuure! — neither made me weak in the gadget knees.

Are you an ebook evangelist, PopWatchers? Have you been fully converted to the joys of e-ink and downloadable content? Or are you in the “maybe someday” camp with me?

Aug 5 2009 01:09 PM ET

'SYTYCD': Cat blogs about this week's two-part finale

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The countdown to the finale has begun!

This is where it gets really difficult! This week I sat down with all the contestants and conducted in-depth interviews…. When I say “in -depth,” they were funny and heartfelt and completely honest.

Although I did threaten all the dancers that I was going to employ tactics used by the Gestapo, that thumb screws were not out of the question, and that ” I hav vays of makin’ you toke“…. It’s so nice to actually just spend the time and sit down with them one to one.

Here’s the rundown: READ FULL STORY »

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