Conan O’Brien has embraced the popular I’m With Coco image for his upcoming tour of live shows: the official The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour poster is indeed the grayscale and orange likeness. But as cool as that poster is — and as viral a hit as it became — it’s far from the only awesome Conandery floating around out there.
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Soft-spoken Alex Lambert, 19, may not have been the most theatrical of performers. But he did have that voice. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to get him into the Top 12. He talked to EW after elimination night.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How’s your morning so far?
ALEX LAMBERT: It hasn’t hit me yet that I’m off the show. It’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I thought I was going to be a lot more upset.
Were you surprised you were cut?
I was a little bit. At the same time, I saw it coming because I’m not much of a performer. I can see how other people were connecting with the audience. I understood what [the judges] meant when they said that I was uncomfortable on stage.
Did you feel uncomfortable?
No, I’m just not an experienced performer. This is the first thing I’ve ever done [like this]. I don’t know where to look or anything like that. Anything I do is all me. I was never taught anything.
If you could go back in time, would you have changed your onstage persona?
I did the best I could’ve done ever because I honestly didn’t think I could handle this. I’ve had such stage fright since I was a little kid and I think I did great for how much experience I have. READ FULL STORY »
Sushi Cat, Sushi Cat, what are they feeding you? Sushi Cat, Suuuushi Cat, it’s not your fault…that you’re such an addictive little Flash game. Sushi Cat [warning: noise] is a pachinko-style dropping game with the added bonus of being freakishly adorable. You control where the cat falls, and you want him to eat as much sushi on the way down as possible — he’s trying to gain weight to impress his love interest.
There are only 15 levels, so even if you throw productivity to the wind and play all the way through, it’s only going to take, oh, half an hour. Not…that…anyone…would do that, right, PopWatchers?
The bluesy Katelyn Epperly may have been skeptical of her chances on American Idol, but she continued to impress to judges up until her rendition of “I Feel the Earth Move,” which kept her from entering the Top 12. The 19-year-old Iowa native talked with us about her song choice, why she didn’t belong on the Idol stage and how being kicked off has given her some relief.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How do you feel this morning?
KATELYN EPPERLY: Honestly, I feel 10 times better than I thought I would. I was a little skeptical my whole life about trying out for this show. I was always urged to do it, but I always thought it was a little too mainstream for the kind of music I like to write. After last night, I was really super upset, but at the same time, after talking with the others that got cut — a lot of other extremely talented ridiculous people, especially Lilly. Lilly and I have been friends throughout this whole thing. We’ve gotten really close. We both are song writers and find each other to be credible musicians. We did a lot of talking. This is definitely just a platform for something else. It was an awesome experience and I learned more from this than I could sitting in a classroom learning stuff like I was before. I’m not upset, just motivated to go out and do more. READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Jae Donnelly/INFphoto.com; Humberto Carreno/Startraksphoto.comBy now, most of you have heard the most important news of the week: Kate Gosselin — mother of eight/reality show star/former wife to this — has debuted a new bob for her stint on this season of Dancing With the Stars. Yep, gone are both Kate’s newswoman-in-the-front-porcupine-in-the-back ‘do AND the $7,000 extensions that followed.
Of course, you care, right? (Bueller?) After all, the woman’s hair is so placed under a microscope, it might as well be a prop on an episode of CSI. In fact, the only mop I see in the news more these days is the unkempt one belonging to Robert Pattinson. (Which, honestly, kind of scares me, since it reminds me of Snake’s hair from The Simpsons‘ “Treehouse of Horror IX.” You know, the toupee that took on a life of its own and began a killing spree in Springfield? Anyway. I’m just sayin’: Don’t turn your back on that hair, Kristen Stewart.) So, please, PopWatchers. I implore you to take a minute and answer our all-important question: Whose hair is more newsworthy, Kate Gosselin’s or Rob Pattinson’s?
Last night, Ausiello broke the news that Katherine Heigl will likely not return to Grey’s Anatomy. It won’t be a difficult adjustment. Dr. Izzie Stevens — who has been on a leave of absence for more than half of this season — is already out of Grey’s viewers’ minds, and even though her character’s plotlines have been some of the show’s most ludicrous, her actual exit was one long yawn. (Or maybe one of those weird “unpredictable” yawns with the multiple short spurts, if you consider Heigl’s history of tension with showrunners.) Grey’s fans may be sorry Heigl won’t be back, but no one who’s still watching the show at this point is watching for her.
It looks like Heigl wants to continue to focus on her film career. It would be interesting to see her branch out from romantic comedies, though perhaps getting bzzzzzzed under the table at a fancy restaurant (The Ugly Truth) and playing the just-as-beautiful duckling to Malin Ackerman (27 Dresses) is the best fit for Heigl. Not too many other actresses could fumble with a gun and ask Ashton Kutcher, “Have you seen the SIZE of this thing?” without making me wish I had a huge gun of my own to point at myself. (I’m referring to the “coming soon” trailer for Killers, embedded after the jump.) Heigl makes her romantic-comedy roles less clunky than you’d expect, and I’m more likely to watch something silly if she’s in it.
What about you? Will Seattle Grace suffer without her, or is Izzie already gone in your mind anyway? And what about Heigl’s future? Take our poll below and then sound off in the comments.
The Heroes tribe continued their long painful descent into the abyss on the most recent episode of Survivor. First they lost a player to injury, then they lost two more challenges, and then they lost their freakin’ minds! Even though James hurt his leg so badly that he was basically immobile, the tribe deemed him more valuable in challenges than one of the show’s all-time dominant challenge performers, Tom Westman, voting out the fireman and Palau champ. I spoke to Tom this morning about how it all went wrong, and the ousted contestant pulled no punches in his assessment of his tribemates. [Full interview after the jump.] READ FULL STORY »
Every once in awhile, a new actress establishes herself as a talk show host’s dream: a woman with a killer sense of humor, sharp comedic timing, and a willingness to talk about anything — within reason, of course.
Right now, that’s Gabourey Sidibe.
Of course, we’ve known how comically blessed the actress is ever since her side-splitting interview with Conan O’Brien on his late great The Tonight Show back in November. But now that she’s got Precious‘ DVD release to promote, we’ve been graced with her presence even more on the late-night circuit. On Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, her bubbly personality was on full display as she chatted about photo bombing Jake Gyllenhaal at the Oscars, not wanting to go clubbing with her mom and threatening to shank Sandra Bullock.
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Image Credit: Haim: Andrew EcclesLike most people in their mid-30s, Seth Green was a fan of Corey Haim. But as a fellow child actor, and later as cocreator of Adult Swim’s stop-motion pop-culture parody Robot Chicken, he actually got to work with him. Haim and Corey Feldman voiced themselves in a 2006 Robot Chicken sketch called “Corey & Corey Save the World” (pictured), in which the duo were living together, sharing bunk beds, saw that George Bush’s daughters had gone missing, and set out to rescue them (following an extended montage of them doing their hair, dressing in cool clothes, and jumping on a bus). Here, Green remembers Haim’s enthusiasm and sincerity, and the advice he gave him on making the comeback he so badly desired.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Tell me about how you approached the Coreys for the Robot Chicken sketch.
SETH GREEN: I assured both of them the tone of what we were doing and how it would influence public opinion, especially in this age group. ‘Cause you’re talking about two guys that were infinitely popular amongst their peers, and then as happens sometimes, people in the height of their success become ultimately annoying. The audience kind of turned on them. They both got caught up in drugs and excess to the degree that people’s opinion of them shifted so dramatically that it didn’t seem like there was a real opportunity to come back. Harder for Haim than for Feldman. Feldman kept finding movies to act in, and Haim kind of found ways to burn every bridge. But he was always the more sympathetic of the two just cause he’s so heartfelt and earnest and really, really sweet and just loves performing and was just addicted to drugs for a really, really long time. He kept having moments of clarity, it would seem, and kept really wanting to perform and try to find ways to continue to act and just was always pulled back into drugs.
When I talked to him about doing our show, it was two years before they made that reality show [A&E's The Two Coreys]. He just wanted so badly to get back to LA, he didn’t have a work Visa at the time, he was living in Canada. I got the feeling that he was just low on money. I talked to his mom at great length, and they really believed that if Corey could sort of convince everyone that he was cleaned up, that it was a different time and that what he really wanted to do was act, that he could get a second chance. I suggested to him instead of trying to reenter at the same level, being a romantic leading man, he try to pursue roles like John Ritter’s role in Sling Blade or Donnie Wahlberg’s role in The Sixth Sense. I’m like, “If you just completely change people’s mind and remind them that you’re an actor as opposed to a personality or a movie star, for lack of a better word, you will get what you’re after.”
When he worked on Robot Chicken [his voice was recorded over the phone] he was just endlessly enthusiastic. He had a bunch of ideas, gave us an energetic performance that was just great. We’re like, “Man, that’s why that kid was a star in the first place.” My partner [Matthew Senreich] and I actually had a message on our office phone for over two years from him that was just kind of a superpositive “thank you” message. It was really sweet. READ FULL STORY »
