Archive: February 2010 (131-140 of 489)

Feb 20 2010 12:01 AM ET

'Idolatry': Semifinalist missteps, the power of Bower(sox), and a Ruben-esque problem on 'American Idol'

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After six weeks of caterwauling, pants-on-the-grounding, and Mary Powers-ing, American Idol has announced the 24 semifinalists of season 9. Yes, Idoloonies, the power to name Kelly Clarkson 9.0 rests in your extremely capable hands. Before you pick up the phone to speed-dial, however, (and keeping in mind you can’t do that before 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday anyhow), why not press play below and check out this week’s Idolatry? My cohost Kristen Baldwin and I talk about that time Kara DioGuardi played horrible musical chairs with Angela Martin, we get the first official word on season 9 from Baby Baldwin, and there’s even a contro-versee-aaal conversation about Idol‘s trouble with black male contestants. All that, and a special cameo appearance by Big Bird. And, naturally, more talk about THERI! Why aren’t you watching already? (Oh, and to get all my Idol updates, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak!) [Related: Everything you wanted to know about season 9′s Top 24…but were afraid to ask.)

Feb 19 2010 06:17 PM ET

Kristen Stewart promotes 'Yellow Handkerchief,' er, talks 'Breaking Dawn'

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Sometimes it seems like Kristen Stewart is Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III: Just when she thinks she’s out of Twilight, it pulls her back in. Collider.com has posted a clip and transcript of two interviews with Stewart during a junket for her new movie The Yellow Handkerchief, an indie drama about an ex-con (William Hurt) who road trips with a…well, it doesn’t really matter, suffice it to say that Stewart’s in it and she’s out answering questions, so bring on the Breaking Dawn. In the video below she parries a query about Dawn going 3-D by deferring to her Handkerchief costar Eddie Redmayne. (Nicely played Kristen!) For the record, Redmayne thinks it would be “scary” and he and Stewart agree it would be “out there.”

In another interview Collider asks her about the reports that Dawn might get split into two movies. Though she doesn’t know for sure what the plan is, Stewart seemed to think it was a good idea, saying, “The story so completely warrants two films and it would suck to have to…it would be really disappointing to have to be able to just go, ‘Okay, we have to lose this sequence and this scene and this sequence and this scene.’ So I would like to do two movies but I really, to be perfectly honest, don’t know what they’re going to do.” Collider’s writer concludes by noting that, although he got 200 emails with Twilight-related questions, it’s a little impolite to ask them all at the Yellow Handkerchief press tour. Don’t worry though kids. There’s always the Runaways junket next month. Confession time: Who’s really interested in Yellow Handkerchief? And who’s just using Yellow Handkerchief to make friends with Twilight?

Feb 19 2010 05:15 PM ET

Will you see 'Remember Me' for the 'Eclipse' trailer?

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Summit Entertainment has announced that the trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will debut in front of the studio’s Robert Pattinson film Remember Me in theaters March 12. Sure, on one hand it could be perceived as a cheap way to lure bodies into the seats. On the other, if you’d pay money just to see the Eclipse trailer, chances are you were already going to see Remember Me. Right? Poll!

P.S. How awful would it have been if ABC had tried to lure young viewers into the Oscars telecast by premiering the Eclipse trailer during the March 7 awards?! Kristen Stewart tells E! Online she and Taylor Lautner will be presenting. That’s acceptable…Right?

Photo credit: Remember Me: Myles Aronowitz; Eclipse: Kimberley French

Feb 19 2010 05:00 PM ET

Adam Lambert kissing Ke$ha makes our fave random-celeb makeout sesh list

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lambert-keshaImage Credit: Lambert: Michael Tullberg/Getty Images; KeSha: Mark Von Holden/WireImage.comThere’s a new depraved fad sweeping through the morally corrosive world of the young, beautiful, and famous: Making Out. That’s right. Probably with tongue, too. Most recent evidence came yesterday in the form of a phone call from Adam Lambert to Long Island’s BLI In The Morning radio show. At the 8:15 mark, he describes a recent night on the town with pop starlet (and Gold Standard lobbyist) Ke$ha, which ended up with a playful, pop-imploding smoochfest. “She’s really pretty, we were laughing, and [then] we just started kissing,” Lambert explains. “It was pretty innocent.” 

Putting aside the fact that this seems like a massive publicity stunt guaranteed to enhance both stars’ pansexual images (and probably further anger pretty much everyone with an opinion about how Adam Lambert presents his sexuality), this talk of friendly, PG-13 Frenching has me thinking about other unlikely celeb-kiss pals. By “unlikely” I mean the two people’s interaction somehow seems to suggest a hole in the celebrity time-space continuum (like Glambert getting up on Ke$ha…or really, anyone making out with Ke$ha). I always remember the never-explicitly-denied elevator encounter between Benicio Del Toro and Scarlett Johanssen, and there was an exciting period in the middle of last decade when Terminatrix Kristanna Loken made a minor tabloid career out of kissing famous ladies like Pink. Then there’s always Meryl and Sandra. Oh, and that story about Tila Tequila playing tonsil hockey with Justin Long…. What else you got, PopWatchers?

Feb 19 2010 04:51 PM ET

Penny for your thoughts on the new penny...

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The United States Mint unveiled its new 2010 penny last week, and while the heads side will still be the familiar Lincoln profile, the tails side will be a shield. According to the Mint, “The coin’s new reverse (tails side) design is emblematic of President Abraham Lincoln’s preservation of the United States as a single and united country.” It’s also emblematic of the Burger King king and of Captain America’s original shield.

Ugh, pennies.

What are you seeing in the shield, PopWatchers?

Feb 19 2010 04:43 PM ET

Colin Farrell's gone fishin' in 'Ondine': Exclusive Pics

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Colin Farrell will be sporting the long locks and puppy-dog eyes shown in this EW.com exclusive photo in his upcoming movie Ondine (premieres on VOD, Amazon, and XBOX Live May 7 and in theaters June 4), where he plays an Irish fisherman who accidentally nets a woman he believes might be a mermaid. Although, I’m sure in real life the roguish (and brogue-ish) actor doesn’t need to go trawling the ocean for women. Director Neil Jordan’s other take on fairy tales, The Company of Wolves, turned Little Red Riding Hood into a creepy and bloody meditation on sexual politics, so I think we can expect something a tad different from The Little Mermaid or (PLEASE LORD NO!) Lady in the Water. See more exclusive pics after the jump.
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Feb 19 2010 04:03 PM ET

Which would you wear: Team U.S.A.'s faux denim snowboarding pants or Pajama Jeans?

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Watching the U.S. snowboarders in their crazy faux-denim snowboarding pants (FDSP) had me momentarily perplexed. Which mode of cozy leg-sheathing would I prefer to wear for the rest of stupid winter: FDSP or Pajama Jeans? (Watch the Pajama Jeans infomercial here, or after the jump.)

If we’re talking strictly fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, I suppose Pajama Jeans are more slimming and might be more appropriate to present to the public. But it’s winter and does anyone really care? The FDSP seem like they’d keep me so warm on a long cold February night. They’re GORE-TEX®, just like George Costanza’s coat! I’d love to wake up sweating my cheeks off in FDSP after a nightmare about a lace issue on my ice skate. I’d be like no, silly, you are not Japan’s Nobunari Oda. You are a U.S. snowboarder. And if I believed it hard enough, and watched the Snowboarding in Space AT&T commercial over and over, maybe I could fake it. Maybe people really would take me for a possible Olympic snowboarder if I wore the FDSP to Walgreen’s along with my usual ratty ponytail and cute knit hat. They’d wonder about either that or whether I was stuck in 1992. I just don’t know. I may be getting a little too obsessed with snowboarding.

Vote below. You must pick one. I don’t care if you think they’re both hideous. These are the only two pants styles left on Earth.

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Read more: Olympics coverage on PopWatch

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Feb 19 2010 03:13 PM ET

'Plants vs. Zombies' (App review): Tower Defense gameplay...undead!

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Surviving the zombie apocalypse is far from a fresh video game concept. But even within the overcrowded graveyard, PopCap’s wildly addictive and endlessly charming Plants vs. Zombies has managed to stick out like a decaying appendage from under a tombstone.

The folks who previously siphoned untold hours from our lives with can’t-put-’em-down entries Bejeweled and Peggle now bring this latest pick-up-and-play hit to the iPhone. Like its PC predecessor, the App borrows the tried-and-true Tower Defense gameplay formula that’s been taxing our thumbs and brains for years, but injects it with fresh accessibility and appeal. The simple concept has players planting a variety of zombie-slaying seeds in their yard to keep the shuffling corpses from reaching their home — it’s easy to learn, but difficult to master. Over 40 types of seeds spawn an agricultural arsenal of pea shooters, undead-stomping squash, and butter-flinging corn on the cob; the aggressive parade of undead crazies use pogo sticks, ride dolphins, and even dance like Michael Jackson in “Thriller.” PvZ’s engaging style perfectly complements its strategy-driven play.

While the iPhone version does drop a few of the modes from the PC original, the content is still piled as high as the zombie corpses. And at just $2.99, you’d be as brain-less as the game’s flesh-craving freaks if you passed this one up.
Grade: A

Feb 19 2010 03:00 PM ET

Clip du jour: Very special effects

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Look, I know movies and TV shows are pretend, but the level of green-screening here is mind-boggling.

Ugly Betty doesn’t even use real bus stops?! Congratulations, demo reel from visual effects company Stargate Studios, now I don’t have anything to believe in.

What was the most surprising shot for you, PopWatchers?

Feb 19 2010 02:46 PM ET

Jay Leno 'Tonight Show' promo: Would you like to 'Get Back' to before you saw it?

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The Tonight Show promo currently airing during the Olympics for Jay Leno’s return — a near-carbon copy of last year’s promo, set this time to the Beatles’ “Get Back” — is as subtle as NBC had promised! NBC Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin told EW last month that the network wants to promote Leno’s return “with some humor and a wink, not a sledgehammer.” Indeed, no heavy hardware necessary to blow that “10″ card right off the side of one of Leno’s 7,000 vintage rides. The cosmic combo of a cheeky eyebrow raise, the grasp of Jay’s meaty paw on the clutch, and the carefree California highway air is more than enough get the job done.

I understand that Jay’s the one “getting back,” but I also have a visual and some bad audio in my head of Leno pretending he’s Paul McCartney and reminding Conan O’Brien that he “knew it couldn’t last.” So Conan would be the Jojo here. Would that make Kevin Eubanks the Sweet Loretta Martin? Somehow, yes. Sure.

More Jay Leno:
Jay Leno’s new ‘Tonight Show’ promo: Did you see it?
Kevin Eubanks out of The Tonight Show; more changes afoot?
NBC execs on Jay Leno: ‘We believe he will be competitive’

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