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Mandi points out that when NCIS‘ Michael Weatherly slid down The Bonnie Hunt Show‘s pole (occurs at 3:00 in this video), he did it in his underwear. “Joel is smarter — no rubbing on the inner thigh.”
Cheers to turning on your TV in the middle of the day!
Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett
Dunkin’ Donuts have decided to combine my two favorite things in the world on June 4: Free food and jelly-filled treats. That’s right, the supplier of high-calorie goodness has decided to celebrate National Donut Day by offering free donuts to customers — as long as they purchase a beverage. I say cop out, Dunkin Donuts! Ben & Jerry’s offers us free ice cream once a year with no strings attached! So while every March or April, I trot into my local Ben & Jerry’s and come out looking like this, on June 4, I’ll have to settle for looking like this. Because I’m cheap, folks.
Image Credit: Everett CollectionIn case you needed further proof that no franchise — no matter how ridiculous or festooned with pizza — is safe from Hollywood resurrection, Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, has signed on to reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The news, first reported by Deadline and confirmed by EW, comes on the heels of Bay’s headline-making casting call for a replacement for Megan Fox in the Hasbro-inspired Transformers 3. (Clearly the guy has a thing for ’80s and ’90s cultural flotsom…what’s next, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Movie?)
Paramount and Nickelodeon reportedly shelled out $60 million for the TMNT franchise and brought it to Bay’s company in the hopes that his knack for kickstarting seemingly dead movie properties (see: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror) would once again unlock the secrets of The Ooze and reignite the star-power of ninja-trained crime-fighters Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello (voiced in the 1990 movie by Corey Feldman). And while, in theory, we’re all for any potential employment opportunity for Mr. Feldman, we’re not so sure about this one.
What do you think? Should the Turtles get another shot at box-office glory? Or should they be left alone to rest in peace? Wait, before you answer, you might want to check out the trailer from the 1990, um, “classic”… READ FULL STORY »
We’ve been introduced to a whole lotta love over the past year — if not in our real lives then in our “real” lives as TV fanatics. That sentence is so sad. I’m leaving it. Anyway, we want to know which TV couples you love, including new couples on preexisting series (Avery and Jack from 30 Rock) and couples on new series (Jules and Grayson from Cougar Town).
My favorite new couple: Mitchell and Cameron from Modern Family. I love how they’re almost complete opposites, but just when its seems like each finds the other so ridiculous that maybe they won’t find common ground, one will throw a tiny “this is why I love him” glance to the camera. The interview format of the show makes their whole dynamic even more adorable — most of the time, only viewers get to see those hidden gems.
Which couples introduced to you over the 2009-2010 TV season have been your favorites? And which couples are the worst? As we know, Mandi doesn’t like Steve with Haddie on Parenthood, and I perhaps irrationally hate the idea of “Schue” and Emma from Glee. And even though I enjoy Ed Helms and Ellie Kemper in The Office, I can’t get behind Andy and Erin as a couple. They’re both so oblivious, and Erin in particular is so dim it’s hard to tell if she realizes that the cute new developments between them are even happening.
Give us a passionate plea, and it might end up among our featured Reader Picks in an upcoming EW.com photo gallery.
Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett
Image Credit: Michael Turner/DC ComicsYesterday, Warner Bros. fleshed out some of the finer details about its upcoming film slate. And while the headline-grabbing news for may have been the announcement of Sherlock Holmes 2 (hitting theaters in December 2011), there were some other drool-worthy developments for comic book fanboys and girls. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner chairman and CEO Barry Meyer said the studio was developing films with Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and assorted Mad magazine characters. None of which should come as earth-shattering news. After all, these potential franchises have been buzzed about for a while. And the studio needs to scramble to find another golden goose once the Harry Potter movies come to a halt next year. But according to Meyer, it sounds like the first superhero speeding out of the gate will be The Flash, which is nearing a green light.
Never the biggest star of the DC galaxy, Flash is nevertheless an A-list superhero (well, maybe B+). Originally created by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert, he’s known for his super-speed, fire-engine red costume emblazoned with a lightning bolt, and a winged metal helmet conjuring the Greek god Hermes. He’s also a charter member of the Justice League (in other words, think box-office crossover potential). The problem with the Flash, though, has always been how to depict him onscreen without making his attributes look silly, like an over-cranked Benny Hill character. We’ll leave this up to the (better-paid) minds at the studio. But one thing they might want to steer clear of is anything resembling CBS’ 1990 live-action series starring John Wesley Shipp, Oxford Blues hottie Amanda Pays, and the guy from Becker. READ FULL STORY »
The trailer for a new Lost Boys movie you didn’t know you wanted to see, Lost Boys: The Thirst, has been released. Watch it below and enjoy Corey Feldman’s attempt to channel Sylvester Stallone. Feldman, who was an executive producer on the film shot in South Africa, has insisted The Thirst will be a bigger hit with fans than the 2008 straight-to-DVD sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe. In addition to the vampires being “more naturalistic looking,” he’s promised, “more scares, more blood and gore, and more nudity, more violence.” With the return of the Frog Brothers, he sees a future for the franchise. What do you think? Keep the cheese coming (it’s worth it to watch Feldman try to sell this as brie instead of Velveeta), or add Lost Boys to our list of movie franchises that need to stop? READ FULL STORY »
Image Credit: Ron P. Jaffe/CBSThe seasons have ended for the cops on ABC, NBC, and Fox, leaving only the CBS procedurals as the last men standing. This week, we saw the season finales of NCIS and its West Coast kid brother, CSI: Miami and its brooding Manhattan cousin, and Criminal Minds. How times change. Long ago, in the early ’90s, NBC was the Cop King, with the original Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, and JAG. In hindsight, NBC’s choice to cancel JAG after just one season, which led to its pick-up at CBS, has turned out to be the broadcast-TV version of the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. By my estimate, NBC has another 70 years to go before the curse wears off.
You couldn’t miss the symbolism. In the same week L&O 1.0 left television with quiet grace, CBS threw five cliffhanger finales in our fat faces and demanded we watch until our eyes bled with happiness. To extend the baseball analogy, this week was like watching Cal Ripken walk off the field, instantly replaced by five steroid-pumped reptile mutants with .400 batting averages.
Still, one reptile-mutant stuck out from the rest… and it wore a handsome pastel suit.
Does anyone else just…kinda not like Will Schuester? Kate Ward and I discovered the other day that we both love Glee but cringe whenever “Schue” pops up – especially if he’s delivering an “assignment” to his underlings, talking to Emma, or pre-, post-, (or worst of all) mid-rap. And that hair! And his nickname is “Schue!” We just can’t. Maybe our allegiance to Sue Sylvester is to blame for our non-tolerance, or maybe Will Schuester is just lame.
Anyway, Matthew Morrison was on The Tonight Show last night discussing his shirtless photo shoot for Vogue and getting called a “lame-ass” by Jay Leno because he wanted to greet President Obama in his native tongue. Watch the video below, but be sure to vote first. Happy Friday!
In honor of The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hitting theaters (and star Jake Gyllenhaal the gym), Vulture presents The Fug Girls’ History of the Sword-and-Sandal Ab, from 1914′s Cabiria through today. It’s an informative and enjoyable read examining what each actor’s physique says about his role and, more interestingly, Hollywood’s motive at the time it was filmed. After clicking through the gallery twice — one needs to be thorough — I started wondering whose abs are remembered the most fondly: Brad Pitt’s in Troy (“Consider it the movie that turned a washboard into a status symbol: If Helen of Troy’s was the face that launched a thousand ships, these are the abs that launched a thousand covers of Men’s Health. It’s like a six-squared-pack, and the abs that all other gladiator abs wish they could be”) or Gerard Butler’s in 300 (“It’s eye candy drizzled in blood and guts, elevating sword-and-sandal flicks to the faceless warrior porn they were meant to be”)? Poll!
Vaguely related:
Poll: Most anticipated abs of summer 2010?
Prince of Persia: Lisa Schwarzbaum’s review
Prince of Persia: How are we feeling about Jake’s hair?
Poll: Who looks the least Persian?
