Throughout its freshman season, Cougar Town has become quite the great escape. They’ve created this tiny, inside-jokey world, presumably somewhere in Florida but seemingly on another planet, that has nothing to do with reality. Last night’s season finale was the best. The characters drank more, danced more, and were responsible for way way way less than the usual “very little.” No one went to work, except Grayson because he works in a bar. They played Ultimate Penny Can all day, group-boozed in bed all night, and set up complicated voice recordings and balloon traps in order to more emphatically make their points. Hello, dreamworld. And it wasn’t just the characters who were having a blast. That tiny scene with Jules chasing a sprinting Bobby down a gorgeous shoreline in an ATV? Totally random. Totally worth it. That part reminded me a lot of Scrubs — I’d love some more quick-hit flashbacks like that in season 2. READ FULL STORY »
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'Cougar Town' finale recap: Beach party!
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Megan Fox not in 'Transformers 3': Good or bad for her career?
Image Credit: Vera Anderson/WireImage.comAh, Megan. I guess, in some way, we all knew the day would come when you’d part with the Transformers franchise. You’re an actress. You need to grow! To run free! To emote opposite actual human beings instead of tennis balls that will later be CG’d into skyscraper-size robots! It’s only natural. And yet, it seems like just yesterday you were leaning over the hood of that car in your jean skirt, sending a nation of fanboys into momentary hormone-induced comas.
So, on this bittersweet occasion, we’ll simply throw the question out to our loyal PopWatchers: Is Megan Fox’s career damaged by her exit from the Transformers series, or does it clear the way for better opportunities? Sure, those movies launched her career into hyperspace and gave her a nice cushion to fall back on when side projects (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Jennifer’s Body) didn’t quite pop at the box office. But if her goal is to show everyone she has A-list acting chops, Transformers hasn’t exactly given her much to do, and this could be her chance to break away from the eye-candy roles that have dominated her resume so far.
What do you guys think? Vote in our poll below, and then sound off in the comments!
'American Idol': On the scene for Simon Cowell's last night in the Idoldome (and, oh yeah, the results)
Image Credit: Michael Becker/PictureGroupThere was already a celebration underway on stage when I first walked into the Idoldome last night — the final night this season for the Idoldome, point of fact, as next week the show moves what is sure to be its mildly diverting positively riveting finale to downtown Los Angeles in the behemoth Nokia Theater, a.k.a. the IdolDeathStar. Surveying the scene back in the Idoldome, for a second I surmised the ongoing festivities were for Casey, Crystal, and Lee, since all twelve season 9 finalists were there (including that one with the red hair! and the other one with the color contacts!), as were Ryan Seacrest and Debbie the Stage Manager. But then I spotted several Idol PAs, a few network suit types, and three out of the four American Idol judges, all gathered around a giant cake with candles, and the audience was up on its feet, happily cheering away. “Oh, of course,” I thought, “the Simon Cowell farewell festivities have begun! This is the man’s final night inside the Idoldome, after all. That’s kinda sweet that they actually managed to do something for him off camera.” But wait, then why was Simon nowhere to be seen? And why did the Idoldome’s Thunderscreen read “Happy Birthday Mike” overtop old photos of a kinda nebbish looking kid who looked like he would grow up to become pretty much the exact physical opposite of Big Mike Lynch? READ FULL STORY »
'Modern Family' recap: Luke puts the 'He' in 'Hero'
Image Credit: Michael Desmond/ABCEvery now and then I wonder if the writers of Modern Family were invisible guests at my family dinner table. Take last night’s “Family Portrait”: Claire’s obsession with the flawed step, the stress of taking a family picture, and even Mitchell’s reaction to a pigeon trapped indoors (see: my sister, a Lord & Taylor dressing room, last winter) were all scarily reminiscent of my own family.
After two great Hawaii-centric episodes, Modern Family went back to basics for its season finale. The simple plots — a family picture, a basketball game, a school project — could have felt boring as there were no big-name guest stars or scenic backdrops, but each of the characters’ personal quirks made them endlessly entertaining (Phil’s paranoia, Claire’s obsessiveness, Mitchell’s fear of animals, and Cameron’s newly acquired Divadom). They’re what make family family, and what makes this show so brilliant. Here are the 10 best lines: READ FULL STORY »
Rumor Control: Simon Cowell 'loves,' but does not own the rights to, Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'
In the wake of Lee DeWyze’s much-buzzed-about rendition of “Hallelujah” on American Idol this week, internet chatter turned to the fact that Alexandra Burke, season 5 winner of Britain’s The X Factor, also performed the Leonard Cohen composition during her championship run on the latter show. Message-board conspiracy theorists and several gossip sites picked up on the connection and claimed that Idol judge Simon Cowell (who also produces and serves as a panelist on X Factor, which he’ll bring to U.S. audiences in fall 2011) chose “Hallelujah” for DeWyze because he’d purchased the rights to the song several years ago and stood to personally profit from the performance.
I went straight to the source for answers, and it turns out the story was pure rumor. Cowell “loves the song” but “he does not own the rights” to it, his publicist explains.
Turns out they actually belong to Sony/ATV Music Publishing. A rep for the company says that Cowell could potentially make money off the recording of “Hallelujah” if it was done by an artist on his label (i.e. Leona Lewis or Susan Boyle), but that Sony/ATV owns the publishing rights.
And thus concludes another edition of “Don’t Believe Everything You Read on the Internet.” –additional reporting by Whitney Pastorek
'American Idol' Top 3 results night: Did the right two people advance to the finale?
Image Credit: Michael Becker/FoxBring back Andrew Garcia! Okay, not really, but after watching some wispy-voiced Perez Hilton protege bop around the American Idol stage in a leather vest from the Irene Cara collection (spring 1983 line), it made me realize maybe some of season 9′s more maligned finalists aren’t quite as bad as I’ve made ‘em out to be. But that doesn’t matter now, ’cause we’re down to the final two: two contestants and two episodes (but, alas, still four judges). [SPOILERS ahead, west-coast friends, so back away from the computer if you haven't yet watched tonight's results show.] READ FULL STORY »
Megan Fox out of 'Transformers 3'. Will it be the same without her?
Image Credit: Eric Charbonneau/Wireimage.comImagining a Transformers without Megan Fox is almost as strange as imagining a Transformers without, well, transformers. But we’ll have to cope nonetheless: Sources confirm with EW that Megan Fox’s option has not been renewed for Transformers 3.
The source claims the decision had nothing to do with any sort of personal vendetta Bay might have had against Fox (for the actress comparing him to, you know, Hitler and all), but rather the direction of the story. (Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky will have a new love interest in the third film.) Still, since Mikaela — and her bodacious bod — has been so central to the franchise, it’s hard to believe Fox won’t be gracing the big screen in the blockbuster-to-be.
Will Transformers be the same without Fox, PopWatchers? And who should replace her as the film’s resident eye candy?
Robert Pattinson on 'Ellen': His hair no longer full of secrets
We spend a whole lot of time thinking about Robert Pattinson. We wonder what he’s up to, who he’s with, and most importantly, what he’s thinking. Well Twihards, today is your lucky day. Pattinson finally revealed just what is going on in that pretty little head of his: nothing. “There’s always stuff, you know after all the Twilight things, everyone’s always like ‘Brooding, what’s that?’ And so people always ask me, ‘What are you thinking about?’ And there’s literally nothing!” Pattinson explained to Ellen DeGeneres on her show this afternoon. (See the clip embedded after the jump.) READ FULL STORY »
Forget Sarah Palin -- Eliot Spitzer is on TV!
Image Credit: James Devaney/WireImageThe big new star on cable TV news is an ex-governor who left office in the middle of a term, but it’s not Fox’s new anchor babe Sarah Palin. Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York in 2008 after after getting caught kanoodling with $1,000-an-hour call girls from an online escort service, but he’s been carefully crafting a media comeback ever since.
It started with guest appearances, on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show and Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. Then he moved on to guest hosting gigs on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show. And now there’s a report on washtingtonexaminer.com that Spitzer might be joining CNN, for a show in Campbell Brown’s current time slot (“Nope, nope,” Spitzer denied the rumor to the Examiner). Even those who don’t watch cable TV may soon find Spitzer in their face: Today Magnolia Pictures announced it had bought the distribution rights to Alex Gibney’s documentary about the disgraced Governor. (An unfinished cut of the film got lots of attention when it was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in April.)
So what do you think, Pop Watchers? Are you ready to forgive Gov. Spitzer? More to the point, do you have any interest in watching him on TV?
Vanessa Williams joins 'Desperate Housewives': Rejoice, then brainstorm some character ideas!
Image Credit: Vivian ZinkKudos to ABC for the smartest move of the yet-to-be-hatched 2010-2011 TV season. Nope, I’m not talking about picking up The New Adventures of Old Christine from CBS — hasn’t happened yet, and probably won’t, according to Ausiello — but rather for adding Vanessa Williams (multiple Emmy nominee for the network’s recently departed Ugly Betty) to the cast of Desperate Housewives. “ABC is infinitely smart to keep her in the fold,” my colleague Tanner Stransky (EW’s resident Housewives recapper) emailed me. “They’re awesome about keeping talent they like around.”
Smarter still, the addition of the delectable Ms. Williams breathes instant buzz into a show that, six seasons in, has settled into the role of comfortable Sunday night companion, but ranks pretty low on the water-cooler flow chart. Now, of course, the question arises: What kind of role do we want to see Williams play? And how do we make sure she avoids getting Alfre’d (the syndrome that befell Alfre Woodard, Dana Delany, and Drea de Matteo — high-profile Housewives additions whose roles started strong and eventually turned to little more than suburban lawn mulch)? READ FULL STORY »
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