Archive: February 2010 (241-250 of 489)

Feb 12 2010 03:00 PM ET

(Toe) Pick your favorite winter sports movie

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Reminder you didn’t need: The Olympics begin tonight! Some events actually took place yesterday, but I don’t recognize anything as having officially begun until after thousands of superstars participate in an icy multi-cultural parade and gather ’round to worship an open flame. As you stroll around your office in your favorite red/white/blue track suit, mentally gearing up for tonight’s opening ceremonies on NBC, bide your time with today’s gallery of 20 Golden Winter Sports Movies.

Which is your favorite? Better Off Dead? Slapshot? The Cutting Edge? It’s lame, but I’m partial to Cool Runnings, preferably the VHS copy my mom taped off of cable. This was such a sick-day movie for me. I loved that John Candy was supposed to be a former Olympian double-gold medalist bobsledder, and I always cried as the Jamaicans (spoiler alert) carried their broken sled across the finish line. It reminded me of when Troop Beverly Hills carried Velda Plendor across the finish line on a stretcher made of knapsacks. I also tend to flip to Ice Castles when I see it on TV, but only for the part where we see the ice through Alexis’ busted eyes, because I still can’t quite believe it exists.

What’s your favorite winter sports movie? And who’s watching the Vancouver Opening Ceremony tonight? Come back tomorrow for Mandi Bierly’s recap!

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Feb 12 2010 02:20 PM ET

'Tool Academy 3': Meet the first lesbian Tool!

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, VH1′s Tool Academy returns on Sunday for a third round of couples counseling, zany competitions, and the rarified pleasure of seeing douchebags cry. But there’s a new twist for the “Selfish Twits and the Women who Love Them” competition: two Tools will be female, and the show will feature its first same-sex couple. We caught up with the Tool half of that couple, Courtney, to talk about her role in the show, and how she ended up fighting a professional wrestler.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you feel honored to be one of the first female Tools on Tool Academy?
COURTNEY: It’s a different type of honor, yes.

Did you think that you belonged in the Academy?
No. (Laughs)

How’s it going to feel to watch the series?
I know everything that happened, but I’m also the first gay Tool, so to speak, and I’m representing a whole community of people. So not only am I gonna have the heterosexual community commenting on me, I’m gonna have my gay community viewing this person. I’m a little bit more anxious. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 12 2010 02:00 PM ET

'Survivor' evictee to Sandra: 'Don't undo my bra, bitch!'

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A Hero has fallen, ladies and gentlemen. Slain not by a villain, nor by a Dragon Slayer, but by her own inability to assimilate into her merry band of fellow Heroes. I speak, of course, of Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, who was the first contestant voted out of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. She may be gone, but she’s not forgotten, giving us indelible images to last a lifetime: the tears, the rabid nighttime pursuit of Colby, the…. Hmmm, there’s something else. I just can’t quite remember. What was that other indelible image? Oh, right. Flipping people off while topless! Sugar called EW.com this morning to talk all about her Samoan misadventures.

You promised me you weren’t going to cry this time. What happened?
A promise is a promise and I’m sorry but I cannot help my emotion.

It felt like old times!
Wouldn’t you cry if you were about to have your head cut off?

Let’s talk about your big topless scene. First off, was Sandra trying to undo your bra or did it just come undone in the, ahem, heat of the moment? READ FULL STORY »

Feb 12 2010 02:00 PM ET

Elizabeth Banks joins the long list of Oscar-nerd eye-candy

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Remember that scene in Animal House, when Faber freshmen Larry (Tom Hulce) and Kent (Stephen Furst) visit the snooty Omega house and are swiftly guided towards a somber room reserved for social lepers. Well, that’s sort of the way the Academy Awards treats its Scientific & Technical Awards, which receive its own ceremony on Feb. 20, two weeks before the pretty-people main event at the Kodak Theatre. Each year, the Academy even has its own Mandy Pepperidge, a pretty hostess to add a hint of glamour to the evening. This year, it will be Elizabeth Banks (W), who will present the more-obscure awards that aren’t necessarily ready for primetime. She is only the latest in a long line of lovely ladies to present these awards, including Jessica Biel, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kate Hudson, and Salma Hayek. You have to go back to 1996 for the last time the host wasn’t pretty, young, and female.

Now, you’re expecting me to cry that this is sexist, and you’re right. Sort of. Because the fact is that of the 45 winners who will be recognized on Feb. 20, every last one of them is a dude. Every one. So yes, it might be sexist to assume that men require a gorgeous hostess, but it’s more sad to me that females aren’t seeking or getting opportunities in the science and technical fields of filmmaking. Winnie Cooper would be outraged! Surely, there have to be some female engineers who are willing to work on the science of filmmaking, if only so Robert Pattinson will one day be the host of the Scientific & Technical Awards.

Congratulations to all the winners, but please, gentlemen, don’t drop the ball on April 22, national Take Your Daughter (and Son) to Work Day.

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Feb 12 2010 01:36 PM ET

Nia Vardalos: 'Valentine's Day is a crock'

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Nia Vardalos reunites with her My Big Fat Greek Wedding co-star John Corbett in the indie rom-com I Hate Valentine’s Day (out this week on DVD), which she also wrote and directed. She plays a commitment-phobic florist who unexpectedly falls in love. So EW emailed with Vardalos this week to find out about her own romantic history and plans for Valentine’s Day with her husband (Cougar Town actor Ian Gomez).

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’re known for your rom-coms, so do you consider yourself a romantic?
NIA VARDALOS: Yes, I love romance, but only when it’s not expected. That’s why I believe Valentine’s Day is a crock. I think it makes people feel inadequate.

What do you do to celebrate Valentine’s Day?
We have a tradition — we invite a bunch of friends over — gay, straight, married, single, it’s a loud and varied group. We eat a bunch of food, drink a vat of wine and all tell our worst dating stories. Before I was married I had some good my loser stories that usually start with “he’d made a bet with his friends” and end with “and then a bird shat on my head.” READ FULL STORY »

Feb 12 2010 01:00 PM ET

Hug-E-Gram: Why, God, Why?

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Still stumped on what to get your sweetums for Valentine’s Day? How about the disembodied arms of Mickey Mouse, with a craptastic voice recording? You know, a Hug-E-Gram!

“The warmest, most personal gift you can share” is an arm-shaped belt, apparently, and it comes with free wooden flowers, which are so much better than the flowers you’ve grown tired of. Oy, women! This makes that arm-shaped pillow from a few years ago seem like it should with the Nobel Prize for Arm Things. (Peace, science, literature, econ, arm things — those are the categories, I’m pretty sure.)

Worst gift ever, PopWatchers? [via Videogum]

Feb 12 2010 12:45 PM ET

Clip du jour: When Lynch met Lucas

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It’s tough not to love this cartoon about David Lynch meeting George Lucas. Plus it was all animated on an iPhone.

For reference, here’s the real video of Lynch discussing their meeting: READ FULL STORY »

Feb 12 2010 12:30 PM ET

'Leaves of Grass' trailer: Ed Norton, where have you been?

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The new trailer for Leaves of Grass definitely contains multitudes:

The phrase “Ed Norton stoner comedy” didn’t call out to me when the first trailer came out, but this seems cuter some how. “He got shot by a crossbow?” might be the special ingredient here, plus Keri Russell is revisiting her Waitress drawl, so…bonus.

Are you singing the body electric for this, PopWatchers?

Feb 12 2010 12:19 PM ET

'Models of the Runway' recap: Alexis debuts her sternum

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Welcome back to the practical joke I am playing on the Internet by recapping Models of the Runway! See how amused that makeup artist is? The rest of the girls hate Alexis even more than that. All the more reason to do everything in her power to get those boobs of hers on TV.

I can’t say “nothing happened” like I usually do, because the models did a “Marry” Claire photo shoot. It was a magical land filled with bright lights and a rack of light-blue men’s oxfords. Brittany: “I’m guessing they’re for us?” Brittany was right! But this wasn’t even the biggest plot point. No, get this: Alexis wasn’t getting enough attention back at the apartment, so she spun a tall tale about a dream she’d had in which…are you even ready?….MEGAN GOT FAT. Megan got pissed. THEN Alexis ate up another “scene” by apologizing to Megan. And THEN Alexis wandered into frame AGAIN to inform Megan of some amazing news. “I just looked something up, and it’s actually a very good thing. It says that to dream that others are fat signifies prosperity.” For you, Alexis. The dream would signify prosperity FOR YOU. Oh god, I don’t know if I can take it anymore. Of course I can! Find out who went home — and which designers chose which models — after the jump, and don’t miss Missy Schwartz’ Project Runway recap! READ FULL STORY »

Feb 12 2010 11:44 AM ET

New 'Hot Tub Time Machine' trailer: Still funny!

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Hot Tub Time Machine continues to look awesome. And unlike Cop Out, which needed a red band trailer to show its full potential, this movie manages it with a preview approved for all audiences. My favorite exchange in the new cut:

John Cusack: You look like Kid ‘N Play.

Craig Robinson: That was actually two people.

P.S. If you missed the Hot Tub Time Machine red band trailer, it’s after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

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