Uh-oh, schmaltzy movie alert! There’s a new trailer for The Blind Side, the true story of now-NFL player Michael Oher and the family that adopted him when he was a homeless teenager.
Archive: September 2009 (281-290 of 437)
Sep 11
2009
01:23 PM ET
Sep 11
2009
12:19 PM ET
Paris Hilton in 'Oxford Dictionary of Quotations': That's hot.
Two things I never thought I would’ve heard mentioned in tandem: “Paris Hilton” and “Oxford.” Hilton, it seems, has made the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, a 65-year old compendium of humanity’s wit and wisdom. So, if you’re keeping score, it goes like this: Gandhi, Confucius, Shakespeare, and…Hilton. The worst part is her entry is so lame: “Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in.” If you take out the part that isn’t a complete and well-trafficked cliché, all you’re left with is “dress cute.”
“So cool I have a quote in the dictionary,” Hilton tweeted approvingly. Will she get credit for “so cool” now too? What do you think — Paris Hilton, a notable quotable?
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Sep 11
2009
11:47 AM ET
AT&T Entertainment: Just a Hulu retread? Totally.
Yesterday, AT&T launched its new entertainment website — which is super creatively named AT&T Entertainment — and it looks a lot like another similar website…Hulu! As of this morning, the site was pimping episodes of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, The CW’s Vampire Diaries, MTV’s The Real World: Cancun, NBC’s Heroes, and CBS’s The New Adventures of Old Christine. Funny thing is that when you click on several of these shows, they are fed to AT&T Entertainment via…Hulu. How weird is that? Seems like more of a portal site than anything.
Sep 11
2009
10:54 AM ET
'The Real Housewives of Atlanta': Wigs, Wine, and Witches
It’s been a hard season for NeNe fans. The woman, perhaps feeling the pressure of Bravo producers and her own sudden popularity, has seemed backed into a caricature of herself. At home though, around the calming influence of Gregg, NeNe behaves like the softer, sweeter, sillier version of her former self. The couple was worried about Bricen, her low-key and likable meatball of a boy who has dropped out of college, taken to laying around on the sofa and hosting club parties with 1000 of his closest friends, and, most painful for his mother, let his hair go. “He came back from school like a werewolf,” she said. “Bricen has his ethnic side. I can appreciate that. You just have to look neat with the whole ethnic thing.” (NeNe continues to have a problem with ethnic things, and even she doesn’t know what she means by that.)
What was so refreshing though was to see NeNe’s sincere side. I think the reason everyone fell in love with her last season was less because of any catchphrase or finger-waving than it was about her tender and vulnerable response to news that the flawed man who raised her was not truly her father. So it was with some relief that we got to see NeNe genuinely worry for her son’s future, and accept Gregg’s suggestion that they have not laid a proper foundation for the boy to want to work hard in this life. Perhaps the answer to Bricen’s floundering is not in fact a manicure from Dwight’s people. But it was nice to finally see a Real Housewife parent their child for a change.
Sep 11
2009
10:18 AM ET
Any takers for the 'Takers' trailer?
Hey, Matt Dillon! And Idris Elba! And…a trailer that looks like it was made from other trailers’ left-overs. Better luck next time, Michael Ealy, T.I., Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana, Jay Hernandez, and Paul Walker. (I’m not sure I wish you better luck next time, Chris Brown.)
Oh yeah, Takers also has the most poorly Photoshopped poster in recent memory.
I love a good heist movie, and rag-tag groups of criminals, and trucks falling in holes (I guess?). Plus I was obsessed with Ealy on Sleeper Cell (underrated) and Elba on The Wire. But this just looks like blah-o-matic 9000 to me, PopWatchers. Are you with me? Or are you…taken with Takers?
Sep 10
2009
07:54 PM ET
Nina Dobrev of 'Vampire Diaries' on getting advice from the 'True Blood' cast
The Vampire Diaries, based on the popular young-adult novels by L.J. Smith, makes its series debut tonight on the CW at 8 p.m. EW grabbed one of its stars, onetime Degrassi cast member Nina Dobrev, who talks other fang-based phenomena (Twilight and True Blood), shooting in Atlanta, and the likelihood of on-air nude scenes. Come back Friday to find out our take on the pilot episode.
EW: Did you read the Vampire Diaries books?
NINA DOBREV: I have read the first three books. I’ve been told not to read any further because the creator, Kevin [Williamson], asked us to get the feel for it, read the first couple, but then he wants us to take our own interpretation. My character especially has been changed the most out of anyone because, on a superficial level, I’m not blond and blue-eyed. But other than that, my character, they made her a little more relatable and a little more vulnerable, because they want the audience to feel and relate to her, whereas in the book, she has a little harder edge. She’s a little bit more of a mean girl.
Sep 10
2009
06:06 PM ET
Barry Manilow movie: Pitch your rom-com plot
Barry Manilow and his management have partnered with the production companies co-owned by Michael Stipe and Tom Hanks to develop a romantic comedy featuring songs from his catalogue. According to Variety, we’re not talking Mamma Mia!, we’re talking about a Love Actually-style film that simply involves the intersecting storylines of Fanilows descending on Vegas to see Barry headline Mandalay Bay. Manilow’s music would be throughout the film; he would appear onscreen to perform a song or two.
Since no information was given about specific storylines, I vote we all suggest one. Here’s mine: A woman in her early-30s named after Manilow’s song “Mandy”* is convinced she’s still single and destined never to be appreciated because of the song’s lyrics: “Oh, Mandy/Well, you came and you gave without taking/But I sent you away/Oh, Mandy”. She thinks Manilow owes her, and has come to demand that he help find her a man over the next 48 hours. (She also demands a cameo by Manilow’s best friend, Suzanne Somers.)
Your turn.
* I’m Mandi with an ‘i’ because my mother was a schoolteacher who didn’t want me to have to “go below the line” when learning how to write my first name.
Sep 10
2009
04:20 PM ET
Megan Fox hosting 'SNL': What sketches should she do?
It’s official: Megan Fox is set to host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live with musical guest U2 on Sept. 26. The following week, Ryan Reynolds hosts with Lady Gaga performing, then Drew Barrymore and Regina Spektor, followed by Gerard Butler and Shakira. Whee!
I’m the most excited for the Barrymore episode, just because she’s hosted five times before so I have faith. That said, I’m really curious what they’re going to do with Megan Fox, other than the inevitable Transformers spoof, which has tons of potential. I’m hoping for a dueling Angelina Jolie thing between her and Abby Elliot (whose Angelina is fantastic) and something way outside her typical sexpot comfort zone: Old lady? Penelope rival? Frat boy?
Okay, PopWatchers, let ‘er rip: What sketches would you write for Megan Fox on SNL?
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