Archive: November 2009 (261-270 of 429)

Nov 12 2009 09:52 AM ET

Andre Agassi wigs out on 'Letterman'

Tennis, drugs, Brooke Shields, blah blah blah. There was only one truly great revelation in Andre Agassi’s new memoir Open: An Autobiography: The tennis star’s famous tresses were actually a “weave system.” (Somewhere, Tyra Banks is cursing herself for not landing this interview.) “I was at a time in my life too where i was kind of in a bit hiding myself,” explained Agassi on Letterman last night. “What better way to hide yourself than to wear a mullet?” Wise words, Andre. Check out the clip below, in which Agassi bids adieu to his ‘do.

Weird as it may sound, Agassi’s candor kind of makes us feel like he shouldn’t have to be embarrassed about his hair. Just because I guy decides to wear a blond, highlighted, feathered, shoulder-length mullet wig with color-coordinated headband…Okay, let’s get real. That’s humiliating.

Nov 12 2009 09:30 AM ET

'Extraordinary Measures' trailer: cue tears

Sick kids + parents fighting against the odds + the “system” trying to keep them down + man hugs = I’m crying already.

Tom Vaughan directs the drama Extraordinary Measures, based on the true story of John Crowley, a father who defied the odds to find a cure for his children’s rare illness.

I wasn’t sure I could buy Keri Russell and Brendan Fraser as a couple, but they seem to work (though I still sometimes have trouble accepting my beloved Felicity as a mom). Harrison Ford brings a more human dimension to the iconoclastic scientist. And did you catch the supporting players including Jared Harris (Mad Men’s Lane Pryce)?

It’s out Jan. 22. What do you think of the trailer? Yes, it looks totally schmaltzy but am I the only sap who is always moved by an illness movie?

Nov 12 2009 09:00 AM ET

This week's cover: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's costars does he find the most difficult? His hair.

1076-new-moon_l“I swear to you I’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s every single day,” says New Moon star Robert Pattinson of the constant on-set fuss surrounding his character Edward’s signature mane. During a break from shooting Eclipse, the next film to be adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels, Pattinson — sitting alongside costars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — recounts the continuing saga. “In Twilight, they wanted me to have extensions down to my hips.” (“He’s a liar,” Stewart interjects playfully. “He doesn’t remember. He’s remembering how they made him feel, but they were just, like, down to here [pointing to her shoulders].”) Pattinson continues. “So I told them ‘Look, that’s just not going to happen.’ I said, ‘It looks like this already, I’ll come to set like this.’”

“I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance,” the 23-year-old actor admits, his locks now comfortably hidden under a Yankee’s cap. “So in the second one I said, ‘Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let’s make it a little more real, a little bit more…Method,’” he says with a laugh. “And then in the third one, I’m doing fight scenes and there’s a strand going down my forehead and they’re like, ‘We need to do it again because no one will recognize you! No one will know who it is!’ I have to look like the poster at all times. Just in case they want to use any clip for the trailer. Any clip at all! There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.”

For more of our interview with the stars of New Moon, plus a look at which actors they view as role models, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands November 13.

Nov 12 2009 08:55 AM ET

'America's Next Top Model' recap: The sea was angry that day

Dudes. If this wasn’t straight-up the worst episode of Top Model ever, I don’t know what was. Really and truly: I think this was rock bottom. Which is maybe good, because that means next week (and next cycle, I guess? hope?) will have to be better, and that gives us all something to look forward to. But for now, we’ll have to do the difficult — the nearly unthinkable, really — and look back, back, back into the bleak abyss that was this week’s episode. I call it H-to-B recapping: head to barf. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 12 2009 08:00 AM ET

Robert Pattinson loves 'Reality Bites': Is R-Pattz the new Ethan Hawke?

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pattinson-reality-bites_lDuring interviews for EW’s upcoming cover story on New Moon, Robert Pattinson revealed that he and I have something most trivial and intriguing in common: an appreciation of the 1994 Gen X drama Reality Bites. “I really like Ethan Hawke in it. And I liked Winona Ryder. Actually, I liked everything,” he told EW senior writer Karen Valby. “[I was] watching my older sister and her friends when I was 12 and thinking it was all really cool. Like the scenes in their apartments with the candles in the wine bottles. I wish that was still cool—now it’s just silly pretentiousness. I just wanted to put a candle in a wine bottle.”

Sure, Pattinson has enough clout at this point to stick as many candles in wine bottles as his undead heart desires, but this aside did get me thinking about Ethan Hawke and Robert Pattinson and the pantheon of twenty-something cinematic heartthrobs through the years. As I said, I too am a Reality Bites fan, both on the movie’s merits and because of the impressionable age at which I first saw it. Remember that run in the early 90s when Ethan Hawke (who also starred in another Gen X gem Before Sunrise) represented the male ideal of a certain time and place? Remember the grungy, thrift store chic with the long, slightly-greasy hair always getting pushed back, only to fall in his face again? The disaffected, but soulful, sort-of poet, kind-of musician? It’s funny to think of an adolescent Pattinson absorbing these cues and emerging 15 years later (15!) as a different spin on a similar song. His Edward Cullen is a little more cleaned-up than Hawke’s Troy Dyer, but the handsome brooding rings a bell, (not to mention the obsession with his hair — it’s not for nothing that Pattinson notes that his unruly pompadour is really the result of his admittedly poor personal hygiene.) I supposed you can trace this kind of angsty dreamboat all the way back to James Dean if you really wanted. But what do you think: Is it fair to see a movie lineage between Hawke and Pattinson? Who else falls into this line of grungy Hollywood heartthrobs?

Photo Credit: Pattinson: Sara De Boer / Retna Ltd; Everett Collection

Nov 11 2009 07:53 PM ET

'Precious' promos during 'The Biggest Loser': really?

Images from The Biggest Loser are routinely jarring (and none more so than the sight of Shay, the 30-year-old woman who began this season at 476  pounds, the show’s largest contestant ever). But fans have certainly received an extra jolt over the last two weeks from Lionsgate, which opted to run trailers for Precious during the weight-loss show. Though all movie spots are edited so they can be viewed by everyone, young Loser fans were probably shocked (and more than a little frightened) to go from Alan and Rebecca racing to fill plastic cylinders with pennies to a movie trailer featuring Mo’Nique screaming “don’t nobody want you” and swinging a frying pan at her morbidly obese daughter. With its R rating and horrific tale of neglect and abuse in the inner city, does Precious really have a place during The Biggest Loser? READ FULL STORY »

Nov 11 2009 07:46 PM ET

MTV's 'Jersey Shore' -- let the fist pumping commence

When I was (confession) watching The City last night, I saw this promo for Jersey Shore, coming to MTV on Dec. 3. Should be just the thing to chase away the winter blues and pretend you’re drinking a Long Island Iced Tea in a horrible nightclub with sweaty meatheads.

In my own very brief visits to the Jersey Shore (Manasquan, Wildwood) I witnessed some hair-gelled, Red-Bull-and-vodka-slamming guys, but nothing near the level of idiocy seen in this teaser. MTV is promising a whole summer-share house full of the “hottest, tannest, craziest guidos.” Fists are pumping on the dancefloor and fists are flying as couples get into punchups.

Looks like deliciously trashy fun, right? Or are there any Jerseyites who want to defend their honor against these clichés?

Nov 11 2009 06:23 PM ET

'Top Model' judge Miss Jay is a daddy

I always thought Miss Jay was the leggiest man of them all, but it turns out he might have some competition–from his son! The America’s Next Top Model judge told fellow diva Tyra Banks on her talk show that he is father to a seven-year-old son named Boris, who was conceived “in a little test tube” with a French lesbian. Can you say sitcom?

If we want to get all technical, Miss Jay’s ex, not the catwalk king (queen?), is the biological father, but that hasn’t stopped Miss Jay from loving his son like his own. In fact, he’s quite the proud papa: “[Boris] is an incredibly smart child. He was toilet-trained at a year and three months. He refuses to drink out of plastic and will use only glass.”

Yeah that’s great, but can he rock a massive flower accessory like his dad?

Are you shocked Miss Jay is a father?

Nov 11 2009 06:02 PM ET

'Glee' returns tonight. And there's a diva-off. Who wants preview clips?

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Now that the World Series is last week’s news, Fox returns to its regularly scheduled programming, which means… new Glee! If you’d like a sneak peak at tonight’s episode, “Wheels,” check out the clip package below. What’s that? You need a little teaser about this teaser? Boy, are you demanding. Okay, it includes but is not limited to: a neat rendition of “Dancing with Myself” by Artie (who assumes the spotlight tonight), a semi-graphic off-the-record conversation between Sue and Jacob, and the build-up to a Wicked “diva-off”  between Kurt and Rachel (“We all know I’m more popular than Rachel and I dress better than her, but I want you all to promise me that you’re going to vote for whoever sings the song better”).

Let’s hear it: How many of you will be watching tonight? Any predictions on who will win the diva-off?

Nov 11 2009 05:57 PM ET

'The Yellow Handkerchief' trailer: Kristen Stewart comes of age

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In truth, Kristen Stewart plays about second or third banana in the trailer for The Yellow Handkerchief, an indie drama that seems more focused on William Hurt and his character’s troubled past with the woman-who-got-away (played by Maria Bello) than with the younger Stewart and costar Eddie Redmayne. I’m usually a sucker for meandering dramas like this one—which, as an added bonus, is set in post-Katrina Louisiana—but I walked away from this clip underwhelmed by the sampling of clunky dialogue. I suspect the movie is better than this trailer lets on. Thoughts?

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