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Jun 18 2010 12:59 PM ET

Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams to costar in tearjerker (and hopefully share a kiss in the rain)

Categories: Movie Casting, Movies, Why Am I Crying?

Rachel-McAdams-and-Channing-Tatum Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams will costar in The Vow, a film based on the heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting true story of newlyweds Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, Variety reports. Allow me to cut-and-paste the description of the book of the same name the Carpenters co-wrote:

“Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993, two months after their marriage, when their Ford Escort was hit from behind by a fast-moving truck. A massive head injury left Krickitt in a coma for weeks. When she finally emerged from the coma, she recognized her parents and everyone else — but she didn’t know Kim. She had no idea who he was. The ‘Krickitt’ Kim had married essentially died in the accident. The Vow is the true tale of the reconstruction of two lives and a marriage after an event so shattering that most others would have parted ways long ago. Though it was not easy, and it tested every fiber of who they were, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again.”

Thoughts: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 18 2010 12:49 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Uh oh...

by Annie Barrett

Categories: EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Food and Drink, Hell to the No!, Horror, Lunchtime Poll, News You Can Use, Nostalgia, Things That Make Me Die Inside, To Care or Not to Care, Total Trash, Unfortunate Developments

Campbell’s Soup is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs products with suspect undercooked meatballs, including SpaghettiOs with Meatballs, SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs, and SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars). Good thing the only cans of SpaghettiOs I own expired in Feb. ’09!

When was the last time you subjected yourself to spoonable pasta product in tomato soup? Vote below, and have a much better lunch than the one pictured.

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Jun 18 2010 12:42 PM ET

Piers Morgan: Would he make a serviceable Larry King replacement?

by Michael Slezak

Categories: America's Got Talent, Reality TV

Maybe it’s because America’s Got Talent makes my brain want to crawl under the couch and turn into a ball of dust, but Piers Morgan generally fills me with mild-to-moderate ambivalence. Yeah, he does that British bitchy/dismissive thing in a totally competent way, but it’s always been hard for me to think of him as anything other than the poor man’s Simon Cowell. Because, well, in the world of reality TV judging, that’s kind of what he is.

But, of course, it’s not Morgan’s ability to dismiss a bad juggling act with a giant red ‘X’ and a buzzer that’s got the NY Post buzzing that CNN is eying him for a spot in its prime-time lineup. Before kicking off his second act as a reality show judge (America’s Got Talent in 2006, and the subsequent Britain’s Got Talent alongside Cowell in 2007) and contestant (he won Celebrity Apprentice in 2008), Morgan had a long and successful career in the British newspaper business; likely more relevant to CNN brass, though, is that he also achieved success across the pond as host of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, an interview program taped in front of a live audience.

Now, it has to be said that CNN issued a statement dismissing rumors earlier this week that Morgan was being eyed to replace Larry King in the 9 p.m. ET hour: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 18 2010 12:19 PM ET

Kimmel's 'Twilight' special contains this situation

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Arrested Development, British Things, Double Vision, EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Grooming, Jersey Shore, Late Night, Movies, Reality TV, Ridiculata, Robert Pattinson, Television, Things That Are Criminal, Things That Make Me Die Inside, Total Trash, Twilight

Image Credit: Mitch Haddad/ABC/AP ImagesABC has released this pic of Jersey Shore‘s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino re-imagining Robert Pattinson’s role in Twilight. It could be one of Jimmy’s fantasies translated into an actual photo shoot, but officially it is part of next week’s Jimmy Kimmel Live: Twilight Saga: Total Eclipse of the Heart special, airing Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.

Let us know how off-putting it is to see Edward Cullen with severe abs, IN A TANNING COFFIN, in the comments below; feel free to just say “this much!” as if triumphantly holding up a fish you just caught near the shore. Or do you want Edward to have lumpy abs? I barely care about Edward and I vehemently don’t want him to have abs, especially abs that look like George Michael’s bodysuit from the “Living Classics” Pageant in Arrested Development. But that’s me.

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Jun 18 2010 11:46 AM ET

L.A. Lakers' Ron Artest would also like to thank the Academy...

by Emily Exton

Categories: Ridiculata, Sports, Things That Are Criminal, Viral Video!!!

There’s been a history of professional athletes wanting to be entertainers (Deion Sanders, anyone?), and last night, Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest was having his very own Oscar moment. In a post-game interview minutes after the Lakers had defeated the Celtics 83-79 for the NBA crown, Artest took the opportunity to thank all of those who helped him on his road to winning an NBA championship. He completely ignored Doris Burke’s question, opting to rattle off shout-outs to his neighborhood, family, lawyers, and even his psychiatrist, all before plugging his upcoming single “Champion.” Check out the video: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 18 2010 11:22 AM ET

'Toy Story 3': Q&A with the voice of Andy, John Morris

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Movies, Pixar, Toy Story 3

Image Credit: Disney/Pixar; Courtesy of John MorrisJohn Morris was seven when he was cast as the voice of Andy in Toy Story. He went to an open call for boys, who were each told to bring their one favorite toy. He brought his entire X-Men collection. “I remember my mom saying, ‘No, no, no, you have to choose one toy, and I was just like, ‘Unheard of!’ I brought 45 X-Men figures and dumped them all out on the floor,” he says. “I remember [the Pixar team] bursting out in laughter. I couldn’t choose just one. I had to bring them all. It was a part of a set. I think Pixar sort of got that. They were just like, ‘Yeah, he had to bring all of his toys.’”

Morris had to read for the role again when it came time for the first sequel (he was 13), and once more for Toy Story 3, which hits theaters today. Pixar needed to know if he could still capture Andy’s spirit and imagination. After speaking with Morris — now 25, and living in the San Francisco Bay Area where his dream is to bounce back-and-forth between theater (Berkeley Rep and A.C.T.) and voice work (Pixar and Lucasfilm) — it was clear that the 2007 graduate of UCLA’s Theater Arts program has managed to hold onto that little boy’s enthusiasm, not to mention his love of toys. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 18 2010 09:34 AM ET

'The Real Housewives of New York City' recap: Reunion, part 17

by Karen Valby

Categories: Real Housewives, Reality TV, TV Recap

Image Credit: Heidi Gutman/BravoWith this Moby Dick of a Housewives reunion finally behind us, it’s time to reflect a little on a helluva season. So put away the cheap crystal glasses, recycle your empty Pinot Grigio bottles, dig between sofa cushions for runaway Gum Berries. The ladies have all taken their baths and gone down for a little nigh nigh. Finally, some peace and quiet! (Don’t get too comfortable though. Next week we are presented with Danielle’s fake breast and a plastic surgery oops, the likes of which has never before been seen by modern medicine. The nightmare never ends!) But in this brief pocket of calm, I’d like to give out some awards to my New York ladies.

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Jun 18 2010 09:17 AM ET

Alexander Skarsgard joins Taylor Kitsch in 'Battleship'

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Friday Night Lights, Movie Casting, Movies, Sci-Fi, Skarsgard Your Loins, Things That Are Awesome!, True Blood

Image Credit: Albert L. Ortega/PR Photos; Chris Hatcher/PR PhotosThis casting is a direct hit, Universal. True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard has been cast alongside Friday Night Lights‘ Taylor Kitsch in Peter Berg’s big-screen adaptation of the board game Battleship. According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision blog, “Skarsgard will play Kitsch’s brother, a straight and narrow naval officer whom Kitsch, a wildly spirited naval officer, idolizes.” UNIFORMS! Suddenly, I’m thinking this movie — which will shoot in Hawaii this fall and be in theaters in June 2012 — will be the best thing since Independence Day. I say that because Heat Vision also reports that the script involves “an international fleet coming together to battle a water-bound armada of otherworldly origin.”

Any predictions for how the alien invasion will play out? I can’t decide whether Skarsgard will die near the end, and that’s what finally gets Kitsch to step up, or if Kitsch will sacrifice himself at the very end because he knows it’s what his brother would do…

Jun 17 2010 10:04 PM ET

Perez Hilton on Miley Cyrus controversy: 'I was very well aware of the fact that Miley was wearing underwear.'

by Darren Franich

Categories: EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Miley Cyrus, The Bad Man Scares Me!

Perez Hilton appeared on HLN’s The Joy Behar Show tonight to tell his side of the Miley Cyrus photo scandal. Dressed in a suit he apparently borrowed from the Riddler, Hilton took the moral high ground. Behar asked him if he had purposefully pixelated the photo to suggest the absence of undergarments. “I did not pixelate anything, I did not photoshop anything,” said the gossipmonger. “I can’t help it, Joy, if America has a very dirty imagination.”

Hilton was unapologetic. He refuted child pornography charges, and in the process offered the most curious defense I have ever heard: “I think it’s insulting to children to accuse that of child pornography.” He also insisted that he would do it all over again: “If the photo agency that took that photo let me [post it], I would. It’s not showing anything inappropriate.”

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Jun 17 2010 06:03 PM ET

Lance Armstrong steamed over photoshopped Outside Magazine cover: Is it, in fact, 'lame [expletive]'?

by Whitney Pastorek

Categories: Everyone's a Critic, Sports

Well, this is refreshing: After what seems like years of folks complaining that women on magazine covers are getting the Photoshop treatment — therefore distorting the image of what “real” bodies look like and leading to all sorts of horrible disordery-type stuff in women — there’s finally a dude stepping up to complain that he’s been victimized, too. Granted, Lance Armstrong’s Outside cover, on which a plain blue shirt was apparently tweaked to read “38. BFD.”, is hardly equivalent to the elimination of love handles or wrinkles or cellulite or other facts of physical life, but it’s still an example of altered reality. As Armstrong tweeted yesterday: ”Just saw the cover of the new Outside mag w/ yours truly on it. Nice photoshop on a plain t-shirt guys. That’s some lame bulls—. #weak.”

His response certainly seems to sum it up, but what do you think, PopWatchers? Does Armstrong have the right to complain? Is slapping a manufactured slogan on a shirt the same as shaving off a few years/pounds? (Not that Armstrong’s whippet physique needs any shaving, mind you.) Have you lost all trust in your own eyes? Or have you given up and accepted our computer-enhanced future? Also, when do we get jetpacks?