Archive: August 2010 (91-100 of 533)

Aug 26 2010 12:05 PM ET

Your Conan O'Brien roundup, just because

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Categories: Conan O'Brien, Grooming, Late Night, Ridiculata, Television, The Tonight Show

TBS has released a third hair-centric short promo for Conan O’Brien’s new late night show, which premieres in November. Promo 2 featured a Gumby-esque Conan figure creating a large-scale “painting” of his signature ginger coif (and weirded me out a little because the figure’s hair was more Crayola Yellow Orange than orange), and Promo 1 treated his hair like a construction site in what was surely a sendup to Witness. Watch Promo 3 after the break.

Meanwhile, if Conan wins an Emmy for The Tonight Show during Sunday’s Primetime Emmys telecast, he’s allowed to say anything he wants — except if it’s inaccurate or scornful towards NBC, according to THR.

And in case you missed it, here’s the “list of people who made it all possible” video that played at the Creative Arts Emmys before The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien lost to The Colbert Report. They’re all unemployed! I hope that one guy gets the job at Dunkin’ Donuts. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 26 2010 10:29 AM ET

EWwy Awards polls close today! Last chance to vote for your favorite actors and shows snubbed by Emmy!

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Categories: Emmy Awards, EWwys, Television

Ewwys-comedyThe Emmys are Sunday! The Emmys are Sunday! And I’m not only planning to watch the telecast, I’ll actually be live-blogging it along with my pal @EWMandiBierly. (Yes, PopWatch writers refer to each other by their Twitter handles now. How gauche!) I have mixed feelings about this year’s ceremony, however, since somewhere along the way somebody forgot to give Vanessa (L. Yeah) Williams her fourth consecutive nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy (and in a season where she deliciously declared “My favorite moment of the day is throwing out my breakfast muffin in front of a homeless person!”).Ewwys-drama

But wait, is this post about the erstwhile Wilhelmina Slater or is it about EW.com’s third annual EWwy Awards, which turn Emmy snubees into stone-cold winners? Well, both, actually. Ms. Williams is one of the 52 people and shows vying for a 2010 EWwy, you see. And you’re the reason why! Yes indeed, as always, we chose our EWwy nominees based on your impassioned message-board posts, and now we’re asking for your help again to vote for the winners in 10 individual categories. You’ll find the full list of nominees at the end of the post, but bear in mind that our polls close today at 3:00 p.m. ET. So do click here to check out our gallery of 26 comedy nominees (along with handy, dandy polls where you can vote for your favorites), and then click here to see the 26 drama nominees (and corresponding voting polls).

And just because my favorite part of every awards show involves nominees’ highlight reels, I’ve taken the liberty of embedding clips of our five Supporting Actor in a Comedy nominees after the jump. Enjoy!

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Aug 26 2010 10:00 AM ET

'The Office' star Angela Kinsey: 'Michael Scott departing is going to make a great season and great TV for us.'

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Categories: Advance Advancement, Steve Carell, Television, The Office

Angela-officeImage Credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBCBetween takes of shooting the upcoming season of NBC’s The Office, Angela Kinsey — that’s Angela Martin on the show — took out a few minutes of her time to chat with EW. She tells us about what’s going on with Angela this season (“She’s determined to hold up her procreation contract with Dwight!”), how they’re going to cope with losing Steve Carell this year (“It’s bittersweet.”), and whether Angela cold be the person getting promoted to Regional Manager herself (“She would not be a good boss!”). The always-affable Kinsey also took the opportunity to talk about a few of the do-gooder things she’s working on, too: Both a PSA about sea turtles endangerment (awww! awww!) and a project with educational charity Publicolor that is very dear to this sympathetic, arts-focused mother. Read on for more about it all!

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can fans look forward to with Angela this season?
ANGELA KINSEY: Angela Martin is determined to hold up her procreation contract with Dwight!

Is it because she wants to hold on to Dwight, or does she want a baby?
My personal interpretation is that Dwight is her sou lmate, and he always was. He froze her cat and her cats are her children, so for her it was like, how could you do this to me? Even though she dated Andy, she never stopped loving Dwight. I hope that they are on the road to forgiving each other for their mess-ups. I think that she still loves him, and he comes to her and says he wants to have a baby with her. It was just like all of those feelings are there for her, and she thinks this is her partner but now he is kind of distant and seeing other people.

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Aug 26 2010 09:54 AM ET

'Top Chef' recap: Buy me some peanuts and day-old tuna

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Categories: About Last Night, Reality TV, Television, Top Chef, TV Recap

top-chefImage Credit: David Giesbrecht/BravoNow that Alex is gone, somebody’s got to fill the crazy quotient in the Top Chef house, and who knew there was such a plethora of insanity this year? Shrines devoted to four-star chefs, Anthony Robbins books, cross dressing—I think we’ve hit the turning point, my friends.

Meanwhile, the cheftestants have apparently hit their boiling points because last night tempers were flaring. Stress ran high, baseball players ran tall, and gimmicks abounded.

Things got started when Padma and guest judge/Top Chef Masters alum Rick Moonen, who bears an uncanny resemblance to another chef Rick, explained that the cheftestants would create a dish based on a food idiom, which ranged from innocent (“sour grapes”) to racy (“hide the salami”). Since everyone forgot the show’s affinity for testicles and missed out on the opportunity for lame jokes, the salami didn’t make it in. (That’s what she said.) READ FULL STORY »

Aug 26 2010 09:47 AM ET

New 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' clips: Milla Jovovich takes the plunge

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Categories: Zombies

It’s 9:30 a.m., and Milla Jovovich has already cloned herself, gunned down droves of bad guys, and detonated a pack of zombies while gracefully swinging a few hundred feet on an electrical cable — or at least she has in these two new clips (watch below!) from the upcoming 3-D bonanza, Resident Evil: Afterlife, out Sept. 10. What have you accomplished so far today? READ FULL STORY »

Aug 26 2010 12:01 AM ET

This week's cover: The ultimate Sexy Beast is...

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Categories: Horror, Movies, Robert Pattinson, Sci-Fi, Sexy Beasts Bracket Game, Sexytimes, Television, The Vampire Diaries, This Week's Cover, Twilight

EW-1118-coverWhen EW.com launched its ultimate Sexy Beast tournament on July 19, we were simply looking to have a little summertime fun: Take 64 of the hottest vampires, werewolves, aliens, mutants, monsters, and machines ever to grace the pop culture landscape; pit them against one another in a good old-fashioned, single-elimination bracket tourney; see who prevailed (while indulging in a little eye-candy perusal in the process).

Little did we know how heated the battle would get. In a 30-day period, and fueled by Facebook and Twitter campaigns for a number of our combatants, EW.com readers racked up more than 1.5 million votes, and whittled the field down to just two players: the Twilight saga’s sensitive heartthrob Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and The Vampire Diaries‘ winkingly nefarious Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). READ FULL STORY »

Aug 25 2010 11:59 PM ET

Kardashians exclusive: Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney dish the new season in a sexy office-themed video

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Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Reality TV, Sexytimes

EW-KardashiansThe pop culture phenomenon that is The Kardashians — sassy-sexy socialite sisters Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and their entire brash and bawdy Hollywood clan — continues to grow. Last week, the season premiere of their E! reality series Keeping Up With The Kardashians set ratings records for the network, attracting 4.7 million viewers. In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands beginning today, we go behind the scenes of Kardashian chaos (or Kardashian Khaos, to use the name of their new Las Vegas superstore launching this fall) and get the scoop from the ladies themselves — plus mom and manager Kris Jenner and her Olympic legend husband Bruce Jenner — about how they’re leveraging their fame to build a fashion and retail empire. Currently, Kim and her sisters are attached to diet products, fitness videos, fragrances and skin creams. Coming soon: a line of clothes, a line of watches, a Kardashian debit card, and the proverbial more more more. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 25 2010 09:49 PM ET

'Big Brother' recap: Britney and Brendon get kinky with handcuffs and a bath!

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Categories: Big Brother, Reality TV, Television, TV Recap

Image Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS

Remember how nothing was going to come between Rachel and her man? Well, I wonder how she feels about Brendon taking numerous baths in chum while handcuffed to one of the hottest blondes in Big Brother history. (ZING!) I know how I feel about it — great! [Spoiler Alert: Read on only if you have already watched Wednesday's episode of Big Brother.] READ FULL STORY »

Aug 25 2010 09:03 PM ET

Satoshi Kon, visionary anime filmmaker, dies at 46

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Categories: Animation, In Memoriam, Movies

satoshi-kon-paprikaImage Credit: Sony Picture Classics (2)Satoshi Kon, one of the true visionaries of Japanese animation, died on Aug. 24 of pancreatic cancer at 46. Kon’s first film, 1999′s psychological thriller Perfect Blue, established what became a hallmark of his all-too-short career, and helped earn him a dedicated cult following in the U.S.: Mature, grounded storytelling spiced with a distinctive and substantial magical surrealism. His 2002 follow-up, Millennium Actress, blurred the lines between an enigmatic Japanese movie star’s real life and film career; it won Kon two Annie award nominations for directing and writing, and further established him as a filmmaker eager to use animation to tell stories aimed thoroughly at adult audiences.

Tokyo Godfathers, released stateside in 2004, edged more towards direct sentiment with its story following three homeless people — an alcoholic, a drag queen, and an 11-year-old girl — after they come upon an abandoned infant on Christmas Eve. But it was Kon’s 2006 Paprika, a dazzlingly dark fantasia bursting with visual invention, that truly solidified its maker’s reputation as a giant of anime. In fact, thanks to the film’s mind-melting imagery and dream-sharing narrative, many have noted striking similarities between Paprika and this year’s blockbuster Inception — check out a mash-up trailer of the two films, as well as Paprika‘s original trailer, after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 25 2010 06:52 PM ET

'Iron Fist': Marvel's martial-arts master making a movie?

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Categories: Comic Books, Geekery

Created in the 1970s to capitalize on the Bruce Lee-era vogue for martial arts films, Iron Fist has proven to have a surprisingly resilient foothold in the Marvel Universe. He’s got a groovy retro costume, somewhat silly powers, an epic backstory which involves killing a dragon: He’s a supporting player, a Toni Kukoc to Captain America’s Michael Jordan. But we’re entering the second decade of superhero cinema. Spider-Man is starting over. Fox is prepping a movie that might as well be called X-Men: Everybody We Couldn’t Fit Into The First Four Movies. And now, according to Deadline, Iron Fist is getting his very own movie. READ FULL STORY »

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