In the grand tradition of Peter Jackson, Al Roker, and Fat Lee Adama, Drew Carey has slimmed down and spruced up. At the CBS Television Critics Association Party yesterday evening, Carey debuted his new look. He told Entertainment Tonight that he lost about 80 pounds, which proves definitively that being non-insulted by Bob Barker is a great dietary exercise. Let’s all give the sitcom star/game-show host/cutest Geppetto ever a round of applause…and his very own poll!
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Jul 29
2010
01:08 PM ET
Lunchtime Poll: Drew Carey is skinny, has discovered bow ties
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Jul 29
2010
12:21 PM ET
Clip du jour: Steve Carell on 'Between Two Ferns'
Hey, a new episode of “Between Two Ferns!” As always, it contains some R-rated language and some wonderful jokes. Even though Dinner For Schmucks is nothing special, the amount of Steve Carell, Zach Galifianakis, and Paul Rudd publicity in the last few weeks has sort of been worth it! READ FULL STORY »
Jul 29
2010
11:51 AM ET
'America's Got Talent' adds another singer to the semifinals
As four more acts advanced to the semifinals of America’s Got Talent last night, we were forced to say goodbye to some lovable characters, including Harmonica Pierre and CJ Dippa. Although their journey came to an end, don’t feel too bad for them just yet: Pierre already has an established music career (he’s released two albums as part of a duo with William Penn, PhD.), while CJ Dippa hasn’t even started high school. (Oh, youth. Things are looking up, kid. I promise.) I felt bad watching the mini-rapper hyperventilate as he waited for the Nick “Lightning” Cannon to read the results. Don’t worry, CJ, there’s always next year (and the year after that, and the year after that…). READ FULL STORY »
Jul 29
2010
10:00 AM ET
'Avengers': New Hulk Mark Ruffalo on replacing Edward Norton, plus Oscar buzz for 'The Kids Are All Right'
Image Credit: Suzanne TennerMark Ruffalo has had a pretty Marvel-ous week. (Yes, that was a bad comic book pun.) Last Saturday, the well-traveled actor (recent credits: Where The Wild Things Are, Shutter Island, Date Night) helped cause the biggest stir at Comic-Con when he was introduced by no less than Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., as the new Hulk in Marvel Studios’ movie version of The Avengers, due in 2012. Meanwhile, his acclaimed indie The Kids Are All Right, which is already garnering Oscar buzz, continued to put up great box office numbers in limited release. In the film, directed by Lisa Cholodenko (High Art), Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play lesbians in a longtime, faithful (though not perfect) relationship, each with a teenage child conceived via artificial insemination provided by the same anonymous dude. Their family unit is rocked when one of their kids seeks out the sperm donor dad (Ruffalo), a man much more successful in his professional life than personal life. We caught up with Ruffalo and spoke with him about Hulk (and the Ed Norton thing) and Kids — and being used as “a riding pummel.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You had a pretty interesting weekend.
MARK RUFFALO: Yeah, you can say that.
The comic book collective here at EW pretty much agree: this Avengers cast is pretty awesome. Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man). Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury). Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow). Chris Evans (Captain America). Chris Hemsworth (Thor). Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye). And you. What was it like appearing en masse at Comic-Con last weekend and being introduced to 6,500 screaming comic book fans?
It was very exciting — and I realized I had some pretty big shoes to fill. Those were my heroes up there! I was a comic book fan growing up. I loved The Hulk and The Avengers — it’s just strange to be entering that world as an actor. I never would have imagined that before. READ FULL STORY »
Jul 29
2010
10:00 AM ET
PopWatch Confessional: The concert your parents dragged you to when you were young
Image Credit: Bruce Glikas/FilmMagicEarlier this week, I went to see Harry Connick, Jr. in concert on Broadway. I learned that you don’t want to look at the faces of the string section when the brass players get to get up and dance New Orleans-style — they just look defeated — and that teenage me was right to adore Connick when he introduced her to the world of standards and jazz 20 years ago. He kept the show loose enough that he could jump down into the audience to meet a man who turned out to be an 80-year-old with a Super Bowl ring. (They talked long enough that Harry invited him to sing a number, and he did “All of Me” at the edge of the stage and sold it so well that he received a standing ovation).
Harry also repeatedly addressed the two tweens in the front row who were brought to the show by their Italian parents. He told them he knew that they had no idea who he was, but he was going to win them over. He had to. If not by lying on his stomach on-stage to enact what it would look like if his teen daughter Georgia were to try to kiss the pocket-sized Justin Bieber, then by how much fun he was having playing with/off of trombonist Lucien Barbarin, who he assured the girls they would remember even if they forgot him.
This got me thinking: What concert did your parents drag you to when you were young, and were you won over? Here’s one from my colleague Darren Franich to get you started: “I don’t know if they ‘dragged me’… more like ‘subtle indoctrination.’ For most of my youth, my parents took me Jimmy Buffett’s annual tour (it was usually billed as Jimmy’s Last Tour Ever.) Since this was the only musical act my parents ever took me to see, and since Buffett’s music was played religiously in our household, I got it in my head that Jimmy Buffett was the greatest musician on the face of the Earth. And unfortunately, I still kind of think that. Darn you, parental brainwashing!”
Your turn.
Jul 29
2010
09:57 AM ET
Zach Galifianakis hits 'Reply All': What's your email horror story?
Image Credit: PRN/PR PhotosThe Hangover star Zach Galifianakis just sold a pitch for a comedy called Reply All about a guy who accidentally clicks that dreaded button on an “indiscreet” email, according to Deadline. The oft-bearded comedian is set to produce and star in the movie, which is set up at DreamWorks.
The premise sounds pretty great to me. Who hasn’t slapped their head in shock/horror after accidentally sending an email to the wrong person? Or finding a humiliating typo the second after you hit Send? Or unknowingly sending a catty note back to an ex who sent you a really inane email when you meant to forward it to your friend (whose name just happens to start with the same first two letters) but somehow clicked Reply instead, and then you had to write a groveling apology email in a last-minute effort to save face, but that person was obviously horrified and never wrote back? That’s just hypothetical, of course. Never happened to me. What kind of idiot would do that? [Tugs at collar, sweating.]
Okay, PopWatchers, your turn. What’s your email horror story? Come clean!
Jul 29
2010
09:00 AM ET
This week's cover: 'Eat Pray Love' star Julia Roberts dishes on scarfing pizza
Think noshing on delectable Neapolitan pizza sounds like the perfect day’s work? According to Julia Roberts, it gets old after a while. In this week’s cover story, the star of Eat Pray Love talks about carrying a film for the first time in a decade, her own personal “lost years,” and — in this excerpt from the interview — why she never used a spit bucket during the EPL shoot.
EW: Did you have a spit bucket by your side for all of the food scenes?
Roberts: Well, first of all, that grosses me out. But the truth of the matter is, there probably would have come a point when I would have used it. If you look at any of the scenes of eating, by the end of the scene, I’m done eating. Like in the scene with the pizza, by the time the scene is over, I’ve eaten the entire piece. When we were in Naples, we started shooting at 8 in the morning, and I think by 8:45 I’d eaten 8 or 10 pieces of pizza. Pizza was what I ate all day that day. READ FULL STORY »
Jul 29
2010
02:52 AM ET
'Top Chef' recap: The problem with peas
Image Credit: David Giesbrecht/BravoFor all his “alpha male” talk, Kenny really is just a cuddly teddy bear. Whether he’s scrunched up in bed, pondering his low rank in last week’s episode or strutting around the house in his cozy bathrobe, he’s just a big lug.
Angelo, on the other hand, is as deceiving as they get. I mean how can you expect us to believe you’re actually sad to see Tamesha gone when you’re wearing neon green?
And that’s how the episode pretty much opened, because the only interesting aspect of this season is watching Kenny and Angelo duke it out. (Though I’m also rooting for Kevin to pull through.) READ FULL STORY »
Jul 29
2010
12:01 AM ET
Sexy Beast showdown: Round 2 begins with 'Twilight,' 'X-Men,' 'True Blood,' and more!
Image Credit: (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Eric, Alcide, Anna, Number Six) John P. Johnson/HBO (2); Justin Stephens/SyFy; Bob D'Amico/ABCThings are starting to get ugly in EW.com’s Sexy Beasts summer showdown! Yes, folks, as we enter round 2 of our single-elimination tournament, we’re pitting characters from True Blood, X-Men, and Twilight against their own franchise teammates, and just so our alien buddies don’t feel left out, we’ve matched up a Battlestar Galactica babe against a hot little number from V. From this round of 32, only 16 will advance to Round 3. So click here to see the entire 64-player bracket (then click again on the image for a zoomed-in view) and after the jump, vote for your favorites in four bodacious battles, plus get a look at lists of the 16 seeded players (and the actors who portray ‘em) in all four of our beastly divisions. Polls are open for 60 hours only, so support your favorites in battle, lest they meet a hideous fate! [Related: Check out Round 1 polls from Day 6; Day 7; and Day 8; and to get updates on every Sexy Beast bracket, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak!] READ FULL STORY »
Jul 28
2010
09:37 PM ET
Sara Gilbert on her now-official status as a lesbian: 'This is a whole new world for me.'
Image Credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesThis is no shocker, but Roseanne alum Sara Gilbert is officially a lesbian, it was revealed today at Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles. Gilbert’s sexuality was, for all intents and purposes, previously an open secret, like it is with so many other celebrities in Hollywood. (I’m not at liberty to publish names, but make a few guesses yourself — you probably won’t be wrong). In years past, publicists would ask that stories about Gilbert’s two children kindly didn’t mention her partner.
But hark! Today, Gilbert sat on a panel to talk about the new mother-rific riff on The View — called The Talk — that she’s executive producing and co-hosting with Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, and she mostly didn’t sidestep the subject. When asked if she thought it’d be easier to be out in a talk show forum rather than as a character on a scripted show, Gilbert said, “This is a whole new world for me,” and added later, “I’m not an expert on this, or I don’t analyze these things. I’m just sort of living my life. I plan to put my heart and soul into this show, and I plan to continue acting, and I don’t think it will be a problem.” Being out, that is. “I don’t ever really think of things as out or in,” Gilbert said today. “I just think I am who I am, and when topics come up that are appropriate, I’ll talk about them and share when it seems right.”
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