It’s not exactly the American Film Institute’s Top 100 film list or an old-school EW Power List, but that doesn’t mean we can’t parse AskMen.com’s annual list of lust for clues to men’s hearts. The first lesson to be drawn is that men have a short attention span. Of the 99 beauties listed, 44 did not make last year’s countdown. Mouse-clicking affection can be fleeting; just ask Evangeline Lilly, who went from No. 22 in 2009 to completely off the radar this year. Somehow I think she’ll recover. One way to do so, it seems, is to appear in Entourage. Lilly could seek a supporting role, like No. 1 Emmanuelle Chriqui (pictured), or go slumming with Turtle, like No. 99 Jamie-Lynn Sigler. She could flirt with Vince (No. 75 Leighton Meester) or skip the foreplay altogether (No. 71 Sophie Monk). An even faster way to get AskMen.com’s attention is to appear nude on the internet, like No. 42 Kim Kardashian or victimized ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who was the highest-ranked newcomer on the list, at No. 14.
Lesson #2: Men like children, but not too many. Mothers like No. 33 Salma Hayek and No. 28 Heidi Klum are well represented, but how else to explain Angelina Jolie’s modest ranking at No. 88?
Lesson #3: Men are not watching Friday Night Lights. WTF, guys! I could and will someday write a treatise on the amazingly talented and beautiful actresses (Connie Britton, Minka Kelly, Aimee Teegarden, Adrianne Palicki) that make their hidden gem of a show sizzle. But I shouldn’t have to: The show is about football and beautiful women!
Lesson #4: Men sometimes prefer petite to voluptuous (at least in the contest between Mad Men‘s ladies, No. 18 January Jones and No. 58 Christina Hendricks).
Lesson #5: Men are idiots. But like the previous four “lessons,” you knew that already.
Did AskMen.com’s list teach you anything you didn’t already know about us cretins? How many times did you have to ask yourself, “Umm, who is she?” Do you think if women voted for the Top 99 Men that it would be any less superficial than AskMen.com’s results?
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I bet the shirt Johnny Depp was planning on wearing in the near or distant future as he posed for this hot GQ cover is extremely stylish. But do we think the garment in the outer reaches of Johnny Depp’s mind — wedged in alongside good intentions to dry-clean his scarves, thoughts about how real pirates avoid scurvy, and a single Bahamian minnow — is the most stylish imaginary shirt in the world in 2010? Discuss. [The 25 Most Stylish Men in the World, 2010 on GQ.com]
It’s an interesting move to hire Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) for a superhero franchise like Spider-Man. The accomplished music-video director has a refreshing aesthetic that will certainly differentiate his Spidey from Sam Raimi’s. But I can’t help but feel a little chagrined for Webb as he’s hurled into the deep end of billion-dollar franchises. For one, taking on Spider-Man just three years after the web-slinger’s last adventure is a thankless task. We haven’t even had a chance to miss our friendly, neighborhood superhero yet. Is there really a hunger for his immediate return? Many people dying to see another Spidey this quickly are probably craving Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire’s Spidey, and anything less — or different — than that could be soundly rejected. Secondly, I worry about the magnitude of Webb’s promotion. Christopher Nolan established the formula for the highbrow reinvention of comic book pulp, via his Batman films. But at least Nolan made Insomnia in between his indie breakthough (Memento) and Batman Begins, proving he could direct movie stars (Al Pacino and Robin Williams) in a moderately-budgeted studio film. Webb’s budget on (500) Days, on the other hand, was reportedly under $8 million. Spider-Man 3 reportedly cost $258 million to make. That offers Webb a lot of room to get creative, but with great budgets come great responsibility. And pressure.
What do you think about Webb taking on the Spidey reboot? Is it safe to assume that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is on Webb’s short list of potential Peter Parkers?
Dear Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker: Please, for the love of sweets-induced sex favors (“If you give a woman chocolate, I bet you get a blowjob”), no more crossovers with A&E’s Hoarders and TLC’s Clean Sweep! Last night’s season premiere featured Nick and Omar, two dudes who clearly weren’t as interested in the bevy of skanks national treasure Patti Stanger and her Millionaires Club had to offer as they were in getting their moving business, College Hunks Hauling Junk (already pimped on Shark Tank), promoted on cable TV. (And now this blog, kind of. No link for you!) Tool of the century Omar fears that women only want him for his money, so it makes total sense that his first stop on the road to dating happiness was Patti. He insisted on bringing his date, Rachel, “on a job” with him to clear some strangers’ crap out of their garage (pictured). The Strange Stange was in her element, warning Omar that “it is not gonna be fun to any girl to haul junk unless she’s an unattractive, desperate zero.” READ FULL STORY »
He’s become the clown prince of Survivor — the guy it is impossible to look at or listen to without bursting into hysterics. Benjamin “Coach” Wade. First off, he calls himself Coach. Then there’s the fact that he looks kinda like Steven Seagal. And don’t forget to throw in the fact that everything that comes out of his mouth is either a quote-a-day calendar recitation of Sun Tzu or Nietzsche, or some sort of absurd just-barely-escaping-death encounter that “cannot be found on the Internet.” He brought pure comedy to Tocantins, even if it was unintentionally. But what else can he bring to Heroes Vs. Villains? Does the guy actually have any game? [Coach goes to his famous quote book to address a possible Tocantins alliance, plus on location video after the jump.] READ FULL STORY »
David Letterman continued to mock Jay Leno Tuesday night, imagining the promo NBC is already running to promote his return to The Tonight Show (watch it after the jump), and reacting to Leno’s Monday night “State of the Network” speech. ”Lord knows I got my own problems, really, I got my own problems…. but I just can’t help myself,” Letterman said, explaining his decision to keep engaging in the latest late-night war.
His first point: “[Jay] said that we should not blame Conan for what’s going on…. And I said to myself, No one is blaming Conan.” His second point: Leno never should have gone to 10 p.m. on NBC. When you find out you’re being replaced on The Tonight Show, ”You call ABC, you call Fox, you try to get my job, you leave. You don’t [Leno impersonation] ‘Yeah, okay, but I’ll be in the lobby, you know, if you need me.’ You don’t hang around. You go across the street and you punish NBC and you make them eat your words…. Then Conan has a job, Jay has a job, I have a job, what’s his name, Lonnie Donegan, what’s his name, Jimmy Fallon has a job…. And Jimmy Kimmel has a job. See, that’s the way these things are supposed to work. It’s just part of evolution…. It’s an early Darwinian precept: You get fired, get another gig. Don’t hang around waitin’ for somebody to drop dead…. Well, I feel I’ve gone too far yet again tonight.”
The PopWatch tribe has spoken, and crowned Wipeout as the best Guilty Pleasure Reality TV show of all time.
In honor of this career-defining achievement, EW spoke to the show’s creator/executive producer Matt Kunitz and one of its hosts, John Henson, about what makes the show’s pratfalls so special, and what new obstacles they have in store for Wipeout‘s season three, shooting now.
Henson says he wasn’t surprised by the PopWatch honor, since he campaigned on Facebook. “It was a lot like during the Obama election, we went down to canvassing door to door,” he quips, before getting philosophical: “I’m proud to be associated with a show that’s considered a guilty pleasure. My career began because of a guilty pleasure [Talk Soup]. That’s arguably the guiltiest pleasure of its era. I like to think of my comedy as a dark and deep shameful secret.”
He says Wipeout’s humor is universal. “It’s a guilty pleasure you can enjoy with your kid as well as your grandmother….We have an expression that we use: ‘It’s tragedy if it happens to me, it’s comedy if it happens to you.’ To see someone fall down is ‘Oh my god I’m so glad it’s not me.’ There’s something universally funny about watching the proverbial pratfall…and Wipeout is the greatest innovation to the pratfall since the banana peel.” (For the record, Henson’s favorite guilty pleasures are Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab and Sex Rehab.)
Kunitz, a reality TV kingpin who worked on other guilty pleasures including Fear Factor and Dog Eat Dog, said he was “honored” by the votes from EW readers. “I think of Wipeout as a big fun, family show… Obviously people are laughing at other people wiping out. I don’t think the guilt is watching a bad show.”
The show’s third season – with 18 episodes, its biggest yet — is likely to debut directly following May’s NBA Finals on ABC.
“Season three is definitely a season of surprises,” Kunitz tells EW. “With the second season people have seen the show, they have figured out some of the obstacles. This season what they think they see before they run across isn’t necessarily what they will encounter.” READ FULL STORY »
Oh, England. Only you can give us moments like these. On the UK’s popular Celebrity Big Brother, 60-year-old Ivana Trump—God bless her—proved she was just as shameless as all those younger, svelter reality show contestants, and stripped down to her skivvies.
Of course, the purpose of this nakedness doesn’t really matter (for the record, it was for a life-drawing segment), but it made me think of all the other classic naked moments in reality television. We’ve got Richard Hatch on the first season of Survivor, Verne Troyer on The Surreal Life, and Angelique “Frenchy” Morgan on Rock of Love 2.
What disrobed reality TV star do you love the most?
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As guest Quentin Tarantino told Conan O’Brien last night, the comedy gods have been dancing an Irish jig since Conan started letting loose on NBC on The Tonight Show. (Last night’s digs were bilingual, visual, and involved Norm Macdonald, who must be funnier than I think he is.) As for what Conan should do next, Tarantino suggested a sequel to the 1996 TV movie The Late Shift: He’d call it Late Shift 2: The Rolling Thunder of Revenge. He even performed the trailer’s voiceover, which made me think that Tarantino should be the voice of every preview… Enjoy it below.
NBC has confirmed O’Brien’s guest list for his remaining episodes: Adam Sandler, Joel McHale and musical guest Joss Stone drop by tonight; Robin Williams and musical guest Barry Manilow on Thursday; and Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell on Friday. Which of them are you most looking forward to?
More on late-night TV shuffle from EW:
David Letterman to Jay Leno: ‘No one is blaming Conan’
Conan on Friday: Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell
