Archive: November 2009 (121-130 of 429)

Nov 20 2009 11:51 AM ET

'Supernatural' recap: Goodbye to old friends, hello Death

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As if Sam and Dean haven’t said farewell to enough of their loved ones, the Winchester duo now have another reason to say ”Gee, our lives suck.”

(First, stop reading here if you haven’t seen last night’s episode of Supernatural. Second, WHY haven’t you seen last night’s episode of Supernatural?!?)

Last week, we learned via annoying superfan Becky that Bella (circa season 3) didn’t really give The Colt back to super-demon Lilith. Instead, she handed it over to another demon, Crowley. The path was wide open for the boys to get the only gun that could possibly kill Lucifer (ahem..so they thought). READ FULL STORY »

Nov 20 2009 11:46 AM ET

'Bones' recap: Pops knows best (and now, about Club Jiggle)

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Is it just me, or did this episode feel like a bit of filler? Yes, it’s always fun to see Brennan get giddy (for her) over investigating sexual fetishes, but they failed to make the “feeders and eaters” as compelling as the “horsey play” from Season 3. Getting to meet Booth’s grandfather Hank (guest star Ralph Waite) and having him try to play matchmaker for Booth and Brennan was sweet, but for this to be a proper Sweeps episode, Pops needed to die. There, I said it. (Note: I do realize that had Pops died at the end of this episode as written, it would have been too cliché. We’d have needed to meet him under different circumstances.) READ FULL STORY »

Nov 20 2009 11:22 AM ET

Oprah Winfrey moves on: Will you watch her next act?

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There were a lot of things that made me feel old this year—Say Anything‘s 20th anniversary? Are you sure?—but nothing quite hits me like the news that Oprah Winfrey will be quitting her talk show on Sept. 9, 2011. A little maudlin? Yes, I admit. First, it’s not like she’s actually retiring: By all accounts, she’s making the move in order to devote time to her network OWN, which might mean more Oprah in the end, not less. And second, even though the date has been set, it’s still almost two years hence, which leaves plenty of time for commemorative episodes, extra-special interviews, celebrity drop-ins, and free goodies for screaming audience members. (Did we mention Oprah’s brilliant negotiating skills? Can we also point out the marketing genius of announcing your farewell 22 months before it actually happens?)

Still, as Oprah prepares to sign off on the nice, round number of her 25th season, you can’t help but note that an era is passing. She’s been hosting that show for a quarter of a century. For most of my life, I could count on the fact that at 4 p.m. here in New York and New Jersey, no matter what else was going on, you could sit down and watch something amazing, fascinating, silly, ridiculous or any combination thereof. Whether you agreed with her or not, she had people talking from the start. So I’ll leave you with this link to Paul Simon’s song “Ten Years,” the theme to Oprah’s 10th season, and three questions: How do you feel about The Oprah Winfrey Show bidding adieu? Will you follow her to OWN? And — for real now, since she might have the time — would you vote for her for president?

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Nov 20 2009 10:31 AM ET

'The Vampire Diaries' recap: Sex, lies, and caution tape

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Due to the fact that I’ve got a headache more massive than Damon’s ego, I’m going to try to keep this recap as brief as Stefan and Elena’s reconciliation.

The Brothers Salvatore stay in town: Though Damon and Stefan intended on leaving Mystic Falls  — “But we’re a team. We could travel the world together. We could try out for The Amazing Race,” Damon said — that all changed when the sheriff showed up to report another vampire attack. It was Logan, who wanted Damon to track him so he could subdue him with wooden bullets and find out how the brothers are able to walk in the sun. Damon, meanwhile, wanted to know who’d turned Logan. Neither talked, but Damon had plenty to say when he got home: “No, I’m not okay,” he told Stefan over the phone. “I was ambushed. I was shot. Now I’m vengeful. I’ve just got to find him.”

When he did find Logan — driving to a secluded location to turn Caroline into a vampire — Damon was about to stake him until Logan said Damon wasn’t the only one who wanted to get into the tomb underneath the church and that there was another way to break the spell keeping Katherine and the other vampires mystically captive: “We can help you.” They were supposed to rendezvous at the church to discuss, but Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis) staked Logan before he got there. You intrigue me, Mr. Saltzman, and not just because you called the Mayor a “full-grown alpha male douchebag” when he took his son Tyler outside to fight Jeremy like a real man. P.S. Is Tyler turning into a werewolf? Is that why he said he doesn’t know what’s wrong with him in front of a full moon after having another fit of aggression? And why he enjoys drawing freaky s— like Jeremy, who was inspired to get out his sketch pad after seeing a family journal filled with demon-looking creatures from the 1800s?  READ FULL STORY »

Nov 20 2009 09:30 AM ET

Movie popcorn's bad for you? Duh, that's why it tastes so good.

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Haven’t we heard for years that movie popcorn is bad for you? Well if anyone living under a rock didn’t know that, then the Center for Science in the Public Interest released new research yesterday revealing that there’s too much saturated fat in most movie-theater popcorn.

Enough already! Part of the allure of the theater experience is that you’re not in your boring living room eating steamed broccoli. In the same way that I sometimes love to watch a bad-for-me rom-com, I still want artery-clogging popcorn on occasion. And a jumbo box of Raisinets (maybe that can pass as a fruit?).

I’m happy that apple slices are now available at McDonald’s instead of fries (if you’re having a be-good moment),  so I fully support healthier options in a cinema for people who want them. But just let popcorn lovers suspend reality to enjoy our favorite movie snack without telling us how many pats of butter it represents.

Anyone else agree that we already know movie popcorn is unhealthy but we love it anyway?

Nov 20 2009 09:00 AM ET

Hilary Duff gets bratty in 'According to Greta'

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Hilary Duff’s new film According to Greta hits theaters on Dec. 11 and EW has an exclusive look at the trailer. She plays troubled 17-year-old Greta, who is forced by her mom (Melissa Leo) to spend the summer with her elderly grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) in a Jersey Shore town. But Greta has a summer romance — with a busboy (Evan Ross) — that cheers her up, even if her grandparents don’t approve. Maybe this bratty/mopey role (shot in 2007) would seem more shocking had we not recently witnessed Duff involved in a threesome on Gossip Girl. Still, I’m always up for seeing a star humbled in a seafood shack waitress outfit.

What do you think?

Nov 20 2009 08:41 AM ET

'Community' recap: Beneath the pale moonlight

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Up, down, up, down, as the quality of Community spins round and round. Off of last week’s celestial episode, this week’s show was a return to Earth — with one very significant asterisk. I was ready to score the episode as mediocre, a “C+” if you will, and then out of nowhere came a three-minute sequence that pretty much redeemed everything before it. You know the one. It involved a rendition of the Oscar-nominated “Somewhere Out There” from the 1986 toon An American Tail — a song that had been secretly tucked away in my childhood subconscious, just waiting to be summoned. There was something touching about how sweetly Abed and Troy sang the duet to their escaped lab rat, Fievel (another American Tail reference), and how the show used that musical cue to tie together both Shirley’s triumph in her marketing class (via the assistance of Pierce) and Señor Chang’s reunion with his estranged wife (via the assistance of Jeff). Sure, it was all kinds of artificial cheese, but the climax worked because we somehow cared for this zany group of multicultural and multigenerational misfits. Now, which Community writer was 8 years old in 1986?

Five best non-American Tail moments after the jump: READ FULL STORY »

Nov 20 2009 07:41 AM ET

Taylor Lautner crowned 'Late Night Motorcycle Racing Champion of All Time'

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Taylor Lautner stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, and, after an extensive discussion of his Twilight Saga: New Moon shirtless scenes and little jean shorts (“Little awkward, but I was trying to rock them”), Fallon challenged him to a “motorcycle race” around his studio. Though he crashed a couple of times, Lautner was still victorious.

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Nov 20 2009 07:10 AM ET

'The Office' recap: You're not the boss of me

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A limo ride, a recycling mythical beast-turned-robot, a former senator, and a serious lack of line-management skills: “Shareholders Meeting” brought us back to the nitty gritty of actual corporate life, and it wasn’t pretty. The life I mean. The episode was…okay. Is it bad that I missed Jan for a little bit? Anyway, forget the town car and hop in. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 20 2009 06:01 AM ET

'RuPaul's Drag Race' Exclusive: Meet the season 2 cast and watch them werq!

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We’ve got a treat for all you RuPaul’s Drag Race fans out there—a glimpse at the season 2 cast! The show is set to debut in February, and Logo just dropped this exclusive video into EW’s very happy, drag-loving little lap. Take a look:

Like Ru says: “You betta watch!” As you can tell, it certainly seems like the show hasn’t lost any of the copious amounts of verve and panache it served up so heavily in the inaugural season earlier this year. (And, here’s a dream within a dream: You can still watch all the episodes from last season online.) In fact, based on the video, I might just love this coming season even more than the last–mostly because of that glorious pink hair that Ru is wearing when she tells her finalists to “Lip sync for your life!” But also because of one particular contestant we see in the above video. That’d be Mystique, the rather curvy and full-figured queen you amazingly saw do the splits. I can tell you already that I’m already gunning for that gurl. Lastly, I’m loving that it looks like Ru slaps someone! That’s right, queens, Ru don’t take no lip! But, the video isn’t the only scoop we’ve got on the new season—after the jump, we serve up some more details from Ru herself…

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