Image Credit: Mike Coppola/ABCFilming might be over, but Ugly Betty cast members still had Betty on the brain at Axelle Fine Arts Gallery in New York City Monday during a charity auction for Save the Children. America Ferrera, an ambassador for the nonprofit group, and other cast members came out to help auction off original paintings featured in the episode ”The Passion of Betty” in hopes of funding the construction of a school in Mali. ”I believe children all over the world deserve a chance at bettering their lives and their situations,” Ferrera said. But before handing off pieces of Betty history to the highest bidders, the cast sat down with EW.com to chat about their memories as the series heads toward its final episode tonight. READ FULL STORY »
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'Deadliest Catch' season 6 premiere: Big tempers, heavy hearts, sinking stomachs
Image Credit: Rick Gershon/Getty ImagesDiscovery’s Deadliest Catch returned last night for the premiere of a season dedicated to “all souls sacrificed to the sea.” The one on fans’ minds, of course, is Capt. Phil Harris, who we’re watching fish his final season aboard the Cornelia Marie. The season could not have gotten off to a more tense start with Phil’s sons, Jake and Josh (pictured), fighting so badly that Josh was looking for a job on another boat. Phil and Northwestern captain Sig Hansen decided to swap Jakes (or, as Phil called them “cocky and cockier”). Had we not known that Jake Harris was missing time with his dad, maybe we could enjoy this idea more. It’s interesting to see the challenges of switching boats — Jake Harris already got clocked between the eyes because the cages on the Northwestern are different, and Jake Anderson fell into the tank on the deck of the Cornelia Marie and owes the crew a case of beer. (“Did you hurt your girlish figure?” Phil cracked over the intercom, laughing from his chair.) It’s also nice to see Jake Anderson feel so comfortable being himself around the Cornelia Marie crew. But you know, I worry about him getting as attached to Phil as he is to Sig, only to lose him. Thinking back to Jake finding out on the Northwestern that his sister had passed away still breaks my heart. READ FULL STORY »
James Mangold huddles with Joe Namath pic
Image Credit: Scott Boehm/Getty ImagesIt’s been months since we’ve heard any mention of the Joe Namath biopic that Jake Gyllenhaal was tentatively linked to, but the Los Angeles Times reports that director James Mangold (Walk the Line) might be in the huddle. I adore a well-done sports biopic (Raging Bull, Chariots of Fire) and will even swallow heaps of maudlin melodrama (The Pride of the Yankees, Seabiscuit) if the characters and drama are riveting enough. In recent years, though, the sports biopic has been usurped by the sports documentary, which has the advantage of chronicling an athlete’s exploits without being weighed down by romantic meet-cutes or the obligation to forcefully redeem its flawed heroes. Even a gold-plated project like Michael Mann’s Ali left me hungering for the real-deal, better captured in the Oscar-winning documentary, When We Were Kings.
But a Namath film has the potential to deliver something different, something complex. The New York quarterback was a super-sized character who transcended his sport to become one of the iconic figures of the late-1960s, an age that was enduring seismic social and cultural changes. He was Peyton Manning-meets-Austin Powers – a swinging bachelor who grew his hair long and wore pantyhose on the field. If Mangold, or some other director, is interested in those aspects of the Namath story, rather than simply polishing “print-the-legend” mythology, than perhaps sports biopics still have a place. Otherwise, documentaries will continue to be the only form that tackles sports stories that aren’t paint-by-number underdog tales.
What other sports figures would make a superb subject for a warts-and-all theatrical biopic? My picks are baseball great Ted Williams and basketball savant Pete Maravich. Discuss.
'Ugly Betty': Why it mattered
Image Credit: ABCIt is with a heavy heart that I will sit down to watch my last hour of the seminal television show Ugly Betty tonight. Say whatever you will about the quality of the show over the past couple seasons — it may have hit some rough patches creatively — but you can’t deny that Ugly Betty was one of the most beautiful, provoking, delightful dramedies to hit network television in the past decade. Here, in one of my last Ugly Betty posts ever on PopWatch, indulge me as I take a minute to celebrate why the Mode universe that I, and many of you, so deliciously relished over the past four years truly did matter.
Jamie Foxx turns to animation, 'One Tree' star Sophia Bush heads down South (Excess Hollywood)
- Jamie Foxx is set to star, produce and write the score for the animated feature, Welcome to the Jungle. The plot of the film is being kept secret, so let’s just assume it’s about my awesome karaoke version of the Guns N’ Roses hit. [Variety]
- Though the CW still has “first dibs” on the actress, One Tree Hill‘s Sophia Bush will star as a Harvard grad who returns home to Texas in ABC family’s pilot Southern Discomfort. Re-title it Southern Comfort, and then I’ll start getting excited. [THR]
- The other day, while sitting at home, I began to wonder Carrie Bradshaw-style: Why can’t we have more Sex? E! and the Style Network answered my call — the networks have acquired cable rights to Sex and the City. [THR]
- Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem, and Mike Leigh’s Another Year will both premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. [Variety]
- Speaking of Cannes, the Associated Press, Getty Images, and Reuters will be boycotting the festival because of restrictions set on press coverage. [Reuters]
- SyFy will move some of its Friday night original content to make way for WWE SmackDown. But what I want to see is WWE‘s wrestlers battling Sharktopus. [The Wrap]
'Glee': Did Sue put enough of herself in 'Vogue'?
I love Sue Sylvester’s shot-by-shot recreation of Madonna’s “Vogue” video (embedded after the jump), but part of me wishes she’d put even more of herself in it. My favorite bits are the Sue snarl that accompanies the choreographed elbow at 1:50, her pushing away the hairstylist at 2:07, “Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sue Sylvester, dance on air” at 2:25, and “Lauren, Katherine, Lana, too, Will Schuester, I hate you” (followed by Kurt’s confused look) at 2:33. I suppose they needed to establish that it was a an all-out remake of the video, so they didn’t want to deviate too soon. (Jane Lynch’s dancing at 1:38 is priceless by itself.) And the bits they did tweak toward the end didn’t feel forced. Did it live up to your expectations, exceed them, or leave you wanting more? READ FULL STORY »
Sharlto Copley eyeing 'I Am Number Four'
Image Credit: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty ImagesSouth African actor Sharlto Copley, who played a human mutating into an alien in last summer’s District 9, could be an alien disguised in a human body in I Am Number Four, an upcoming Michael Bay production from Dreamworks. According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog, Copley is in talks to play the adult guardian of a group of aliens who escape their doomed planet and hide out on Earth, pretending to be human teenagers.
Sound a bit like Superman’s mythology? Well, Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo that created TV’s Smallville, wrote the script, based on an upcoming book coauthored by James Frey. (Yes, Oprah’s James Frey.) Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing, and D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) is directing.
What a fascinating blend of creative DNA. Smallville, Bay, Frey… oh my. Throw in the eminently watchable Copley and Number Four rockets up near the top of my favorite in-the-works projects.
What do you find most intriguing about this film? (It’s James Frey, isn’t it?)
Martin Scorsese to film 'Hugo Cabret' in 3-D
Image Credit: Munawar Hosain/Fotos International/Getty ImagesWho says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? According to Variety, Martin Scorsese’s next film, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, will be filmed in 3-D, a first for the Oscar-winning director. While 3-D has proved a boon to the studios’ bottom line, it’s also attracted criticism for unnecessary implementation and sloppy conversions of intended 2-D movies. Hugo Cabret, however, holds great promise for the technology. Brian Selznick’s mammoth children’s book, about a 12-year-old orphan who lives in a 1930s Paris train station, is crammed with ornate illustrations that invite readers and potential movie audiences into a living world ripe for immersion.
Still, it’s a little odd to hear Scorsese’s name attached to a 3-D project. Is there anyone more old-school than the Raging Bull director, whose dedication to film history and preservation is well documented. I look forward to hearing more from Scorsese about filming in 3-D, to determine whether he’s as passionate about its possibilities as he is about other aspects of his art or if he’s being pulled in this direction by the people financing his films. Either way, a children’s film by Martin Scorsese in 3-D is on my short list of things I have to see, and I’m greatly looking forward to its release in December 2011.
Scorsese in 3-D? Yay or nay?
SNL's Seth Meyers to host ESPYs
Saturday Night Live‘s Seth Meyers will host the 18th annual ESPY Awards, which will be broadcast live for the first time since 2003. Meyers co-presented last year, with “Brett Favre,” but he’ll be the master of ceremonies of this year’s event, scheduled for July 14. Meyers is a passionate sports fan, judging by his frequent guest stints on ESPN’s popular podcast, The B.S. Report, but in my mind, he clinched the right to host the show with one classic “Weekend Update” zinger: “Last Friday, Tiger Woods hit a tree, and a bunch of ladies fell out.”
Does Meyers make you want to watch the show, especially since it will be live television?
Oprah firing 'hardballs' at Nadya Suleman: The one Octomom spectacle worth watching?
Image Credit: Oprah: Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesOctomom Nadya Suleman’s lawyer tells the Orange County Register that his client will appear on the April 20 episode of Oprah Winfrey‘s talk show in an interview that was conducted remotely from her California home. (Attorney Jeff Czech also said Suleman will appear in a skit on American Idol‘s “Idol Gives Back” on April 21 — yes, wtf indeed.) Czech said a camera crew spent the night in Octo’s home filming the “nitty gritty” of her life raising 14 kids, including the eight octuplets that made her famous. Czech promises, “A lot of straight talk about surviving as the mother of 14…. Some hardballs…no beating around the bush.” READ FULL STORY »
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