I still totally like “Single Ladies” dances — I don’t care how “over” they allegedly are! Throw in a timely zombie theme, and I’m basically powerless to resist this video’s charms.
The dancers were part of the Denver Zombie Crawl, which seriously looks like a lot of fun. Videographer Shane Adam tells us that the dancers were inspired by Glee to take on a dance routine. “Each year the crawl is kicked off by a mass dance to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ and we thought it would be fun to try and adapt ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ and perform along the crawl,” he told EW in an e-mail. “It was quite the undertaking/intense workout.”[via]
Archive: October 2009 (31-40 of 472)
Oct 29
2009
05:40 PM ET
tWitch as a villain: Hell to the no?
So You Think You Can Dance alum Stephen Boss, the dancer currently known as tWitch, will star in Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming. That makes sense; if there’s going to be a Stomp the Yard 2, tWitch should definitely be in it. Get this though: he’ll be playing “Taz, the antagonist.” What??? I feel like tWitch has never even been the antagonist in an argument against himself about which smirk goes best with which glasses. The most rage he’s ever shown, to our knowledge, was the first and third times he slammed the door on Katee during season 4′s “Mercy” door dance, choreographed by Mmmmmmmmia Michaels (embedded below). Who knows, maybe a bit of sweet guy-playing-villain intrigue will get people to see the movie. Would you want to see this good guy go bad?
FYI: Twitch’s website has sections called “Secret Lair” and “Blog It Out” (though he has yet to blog it out), and under “Superpowers,” it says “Ability to bring it!”
Oct 29
2009
03:40 PM ET
Halloween: Tech-inspired costumes, the geekier the better
Halloween is a just a few days away, and I’m already feeling the costume inspiration from our Facebook group. But I can’t be an adorable toddler Lando Calrissian. I turn to you, the Internet, for more inspiration. This baby-carrier modded to look like an iPhone is total genius,
…and I also love these actual working iPhone costumes:
Oh, there’s more where that came from… READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2009
03:23 PM ET
'Top Chef"s Kevin has a Muppet twin
So as I was watching Top Chef last night, all I could think about was how much Kevin looks like the Ghost of Christmas Present from Muppet Christmas Carol. Come in and know me better, Kevin! I am so rooting for you.
Am I right or am I right, PopWatchers? Separated at birth, y’all.
Image Credit: Kevin: Justin Stephens/Bravo
Oct 29
2009
01:44 PM ET
New 'Avatar' trailer: Coming into explosive focus
Avatar has been a hard film to wrestle with. When those first looks at this winter’s 3-D spectacular-spectacular dropped a couple of months ago — the teaser trailer and Fox’s Avatar Day — the footage was met with either huzzahs or harrumphs. James Cameron’s return to sci-fi filmmaking is so eagerly anticipated that everyone pounced on the first morsels of Pandorian goodness, trying to process it in one large bite, myself included.
Now that we know, to a certain degree, what we’re in for — blue aliens on a lush world doing battle with humans with big guns — it’s possible to take in the newest trailer and make some more reasoned judgments. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2009
12:00 PM ET
Hulu not switching to a pay site -- rest easy, web watchers
Attention, thrifty PopWatchers: It turns out beloved home of full-lengthy goodness Hulu is not going to start charging after all. A source tells EW that the site’s rumored pay structure would only be in addition to its free content, not instead of it. And a collective “phew” was heard ’round the Internet.
Ahh, sweet relief. I too initially balked at the idea of paying for Hulu, but at a certain point, there are definitely things I’d pay for: Premium content night-of (especially if it was à la carte and not subscription-based), a wider selection of shows, and maybe mobile compatibility. Once upon a time, everyone balked at the idea of paying for TV — uh, hello? It’s free over the airwaves! — but then cable came along, and it was worth getting, so people did. Lightning could strike twice or something, right? Everyone used Napster for a good long time to share music for free, but now plenty of people use iTunes and buy legal copies of songs and albums: again, we pay for some stuff.
Hulu’s main competitors aren’t other paid sites like Netflix (whose streaming options are great, but supplementary to the company’s main DVD model). The site’s rivals are the endlessly accessible — but not legal — video sharing sites. Yeah, lots are riddled with malware or garishly bedecked in noise-making panel ads, but those episodes go up almost immediately, and the breadth of content is almost unbelievable.
At some point, some content is going to show up online that we’re willing to pay for with money instead of attention or time. That day doesn’t appear to be today, though. Will you revel in continued freeness with me, PopWatchers, or has your skepticism taken over?
Oct 29
2009
11:34 AM ET
Inside the Writers Room: How Chevy Chase ended up dressed as the Beastmaster on tonight's 'Community'
Ever since we saw that Chevy Chase’s Pierce comes to Annie’s Day of the Dead party dressed as the Beastmaster on tonight’s Community (NBC, 8 p.m. ET), we’ve been wondering how that awesomely bad costume choice was made. So, we phoned the writers of the episode to find out. According to Jon Pollack, who penned the half hour with Tim Hobert, “The joke was that we wanted Pierce to be doing something that he thought the kids would be into — but it was something that actually kids might have been into in the ’80s. The initial idea was Tron, but Disney owns Tron and is making a movie, so we couldn’t use Tron. Then we were like, ‘We need some really weird campy movie from the ’80s,’ and Andrew Guest, one of our writers, was like, Beastmaster. It was such a perfect melding of Pierce kinda being able to be a superhero, ’cause that’s what he is in his mind, and being something that was just probably never that cool.” Chase first saw the script at the table read. His reaction? “‘I’m not takin’ off my shirt!,’ and then he walked out,” Pollack says. “But if you were there close up, his legs looked fantastic.”
Other interesting tidbits about tonight’s costumes after the jump! READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2009
10:42 AM ET
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'White Collar': Was it fun crime or punishment?
Welcome to the Pop Culture Club, where every week we watch an “assignment” and then report back to discuss it. This week it was the new USA crime show White Collar, otherwise known as Catch Me if You Can for 48 Hrs. The concept: Dogged FBI agent Peter Burke releases his prize arrest – supersuave supercriminal Neil Caffrey – from jail to help the Fed track down other criminals. And here’s where things zig when you think they’re gonna zag: These guys are really different!
Caffrey was played by Matt Bomer, who looks like a male model version of Tom Everett Scott, while Burke was played by Tim DeKay. For years DeKay was one of “those guys,” an actor who popped up in every show and when you saw him you’d say, “Oh, it’s that guy!” but never knew his name. But he finally made an indelible impression on me as a frustrated suburban dad desperate to be a good guy in HBO’s engrossing sex-therapy show Tell Me You Love Me. His acting was great in it, but perhaps his memorability came from the fact that in the show he was often caught masturbating. Hear that, Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney? People wouldn’t have gotten you two so confused ten years ago if only one of you had taken a role in which you played with yourself. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2009
10:00 AM ET
Batman's vanishing routine exposed!
If we learned anything about Batman from The Dark Knight, it’s that the superhero sure knows how to suddenly disappear on you. Poor Commissioner Gordon, whose conversations with the Caped Crusader are always cut short by Batman’s fetish for vanishing. But what if the Bat wasn’t so sly at making his escape? The good folks at CollegeHumor took it upon themselves to imagine such a scenario:
Best line: “I’ll analyze it… with science!” Oh, you’re such a silly nocturnal mammal, Batman. PopWatchers, what other awkward situations would you love to see Batman get into?
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