Archive: February 2010 (91-100 of 489)

Feb 23 2010 01:17 PM ET

Olympic Studs of the Day: Gregor Schlierenzauer and the Austrian Ski Jumpers

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Gregor-Schlierenzauer Andreas Kofler, Wolfgang Loitzl, Thomas Morgenstern, and Gregor Schlierenzauer helped give Austria its third gold medal of the Vancouver games and the 23rd medal overall in team ski jumping.  Favorites going into the event, they did not disappoint, landing some of the highest, most entertaining jumps on the day, and finishing with a commanding 72.1 point lead over Germany. After initially scoffing at ski jumping (aren’t they just getting shot out of a cannon?), I was won over by the Austrians’ amazing body control and concentration.  It’s also worth mentioning that they travel in a rock-star tour bus. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 23 2010 01:08 PM ET

Happy National Pancake Day!

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It’s P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-Pancake Day! In the U.S., at least. Other parts of the world celebrated Pancake Day last week on Shrove Tuesday, which I initially read as “Shroom Tuesday.” Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. But last Tuesday was also Fat Tuesday, and We the People of Fat Ammy’s need to maximize our fat-related holidays whenever we can. We’re all just trying to get by, on a sled composed of butter. Sing it, Maid Marian and her Merry Men!

PopWatch PSA: You can go to IHOP and eat free pancakes until 10 p.m. They’re free, but charitable donations are encouraged. An infographic on the website uses the visual of 15 stacked pancakes to illustrate the concept “$5 million in five years.” No one really needs to understand this in order to appreciate it.)

So syrupy: Our random-as-this-holiday gallery of 14 memorable movie breakfasts. What’s your favorite?

Feb 23 2010 12:39 PM ET

Pilot casting season: Which random star's new job has you irrationally excited?

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Leah-ReminiImage Credit: Glenn Harris/PR PhotosIt’s pilot casting season, that Rorschach test of pop culture moments when the little bits of show/actor matchmaking news constantly trickling out of Hollywood excite each of us in patterns as individual as fingerprints. Me, I’ve been unnaturally thrilled upon hearing about the wonderfully versatile Jane Kaczmarek and always solid Adam Arkin pairing up in ABC’s Modern Family 2 comedy Who Gets the Parents?; Seinfeld‘s own Newman, Wayne Knight, joining the already-fun-sounding CBS pilot (directed by Borat‘s Larry Charles) about a British lowlife who moves to L.A. to reconnect with his teen-star daughter; and Autumn Reeser (the brilliant, show-saving Taylor from The O.C.!) joining Michael Chiklis and Weeds‘ sorely missed Romany Malco in the ABC clan-with-special-powers pilot No Ordinary Family. If I wanted to keep going on about ABC’s particular knack for casting, I’d mention Leah Remini (pictured) in Modern Family 3 comedy It Takes a Village. But enough already. Here are a few more tidbits out of the pilot casting factory lately:

* Attack of the Show‘s Olivia Munn in NBC romantic comedy pilot Perfect Couples

* Greek‘s philandering houseboy Andrew West, also in Who Gets the Parents?

* Jason Ritter in NBC’s assassination-plot thriller The Event

* Scrubs‘ Donald Faison in CBS’ buddy-cop comedy The Odds

Which ones are you excited about in a way no one else could possibly be, PopWatchers?

More:
Hollywood Insider: Lynette Rice’s full coverage of TV pilot season


Feb 23 2010 12:11 PM ET

'Colbert Report': Shaun White's sponsorship loyalty impresses Stephen, King of Doritos

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Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashionable halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White — also PopWatch’s Olympic Stud of Day 6 — joined Stephen Colbert in his Quadrennial Athletic Cold-Weather Competition studio on last night’s Colbert Report, and now we love the well-spoken carrot top with a highly tuned sense of the absurd more than ever. When asked to describe the McTwist 1260, White humbly said, “It’s very involved.” (I agree with Colbert that “it sounds delicious.”) After Colbert wondered how much of White’s hair was actually Red Bull (one of White’s sponsors), White quickly quipped, “I’m contractually obligated to say 100 percent.” The vocab on this guy! The best part was White’s guess as to why figure skaters cry so much. “I imagine they gotta be sitting there, like, I wore this outfit and I didn’t even win.” Watch White’s interview at colbertnation.com, or we’ve embedded the full episode after the jump.

“We looked pretty good, I thought, with the jeans,” White said about the U.S. snowboarders. OH YES YOU DID.

I’ll be hooked on Colbert’s ‘Vancouverage’ all week. Lindsey Vonn tonight! Who’s watching?

Read more: Everything Olympics on PopWatch

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Feb 23 2010 11:44 AM ET

PopWatch on Ice: Gold medalists Virtue and Moir renew our faith in ice dancing

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If you don’t get ice dancing, please watch the gold medal-winning performance from Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. It will erase all memories of Sunday’s occasionally ridiculous original dances. Theirs was by far the best free dance of the night. (“Free dance” means the skaters can use any music, as long as it has a beat.) It had emotion, speed, stunning lifts, perfect unison on the twizzles (I’ve accepted that I’m now someone who applauds “twizzles”), and above all, the feel that they were actually dancing on ice. So many of the pairs, including Russia’s Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (3rd, watch) and America’s Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto (4th, watch) tried to be so dramatic that my mind just processed their performances as a series of stops and starts because of all the tension. (Also, as boring.) To be fair, I couldn’t even concentrate during their skates because I was too busy deciding that Moir was my Olympic crush. Could he have appeared any sweeter when he held Virtue’s hand, looked into her eyes, and talked to her as they skated around the ice preparing to begin their program? He made me feel like they were the only two people in that arena. I melted. (Also, could he have been any more Canadian when he tried to quiet the crowd after their scores so the focus would be on Belbin and Agosto, who had the unenviable draw of skating right after them?) READ FULL STORY »

Feb 23 2010 11:31 AM ET

ShePop: Is Bristol Palin's upcoming cameo on 'Secret Life of the American Teenager' good for the children?

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bristol-Leah-ReminiImage Credit: Palin: Robert Pitts/Landov; Woodley: ABC FamilyIf there’s anything pop culture has taught us recently, it’s that teen motherhood is, like, totally hard and stuff. As teen pregnancy rates rise for the first time in almost 20 years, ABC Family’s Secret Life of the American Teenager and MTV’s real-life version, 16 and Pregnant, have been doing their best to function as a kind of televisual birth control, exposing the down side of having a baby in high school. And the most famous teen mom of them all, Bristol Palin (pictured, left), has been on a relentless, if at times confusing (abstinence “isn’t realistic,” abstinence is totally realistic and the only option), publicity tour to educate America on how hard it is to be a teen mother like herself. So it makes sense that she’ll be making her acting debut on Secret Life this summer, playing herself, as a friend of Amy’s in a music program for teen moms. (Incidentally, who knew there were music programs for teen moms?) The question remains whether she’s gunning more for a teen mom pundit career as an outgrowth of Mom’s TV takeover, an actual acting career, or just a one-off dash through Hollywood. (Hey, I’d be on the show, too, if it meant an expenses-paid flight from Alaska to L.A.) READ FULL STORY »

Feb 23 2010 10:53 AM ET

Matt LeBlanc, silver fox? I am so old.

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Matt LeBlanc’s upcoming Showtime satire Episodes looks funny, but I don’t know that I was ready for him to be a silver fox. A grey-haired Friend? This makes me the world’s oldest human. I’m roughly as old as Mr. Burns, or the grandparents that aren’t Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka. I’m Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas. I’m Alan Shemper in Wet Hot American Summer. I am so old.

Maybe it’s because I still watch Friends in syndication now and then, or maybe it’s because Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and especially Jennifer Aniston seem not to have aged at all. Old Joey?! How can this be?

This is my daily memento mori, PopWatchers. What do you think of LeBlanc’s grey ‘do? Can he compete with the likes of Anderson Cooper or George Clooney?

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Feb 23 2010 09:58 AM ET

After watching ice dancing, does anyone else think 'Avatar On Ice' could be super chill?

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With a perfectly cast Meryl Davis as Neyteri, the entire Olympic Ice Dancing community needs to just team up with James Cameron and do an Avatar tour already. Let’s make this happen. You know Maxim Shabalin and Oksana Domnina already have Na’vi costumes as well as somewhat cohesive looks for the “various flora and fauna” endemic to Pandora. It could be problematic when whoever’s playing Jake Sully (ideas? doesn’t have to be Charlie…) wakes up in Reality, but that’s the beauty of taking things On Ice — the potential for drama! Jake Sully On Ice will figure it out. What are those weapons affixed to the ends of his seemingly useless legs? They are BEAUTIFUL SKATES. He is an ICE DANCER. Maybe diminutive man-behind-the-curtain Scott Hamilton could be the Giovanni Ribisi? Time to stop.

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Feb 23 2010 08:00 AM ET

Clip du jour: Old-timey bloopers

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I don’t know why this surprises me, but hey! They made blooper reels in the ’30s!

This contains a lot less cursing and convulsive giggling than contemporary gag reels do, but I don’t know if that’s a difference in the actors or in the editing of said reels.

I think my favorite is around 7:03 with Victor Jory flubbing his lines in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. What’s your favorite vintage flub, PopWatchers? [via]

Feb 23 2010 06:47 AM ET

'RuPaul's Drag Race' recap: The queens drag out smashing versions of Carol Channing and Britney Spears

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With just nine queens left vying for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar, the competition finally got hotter than a two piece and a biscuit on RuPaul’s Drag Race last night. Even though it was sad to see Mystique sashay away last week, I felt like last night was truly the first episode this season where it was somewhat difficult to choose which queen would have to go. Holy drag queen! We’re finally boiling down to the cream of this season’s crop. Werq! READ FULL STORY »

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