Image Credit: Andrew Eccles / The CW; Joey Lawrence…on August 26! Yes, yes, I know I’m like Santa coming down the chimney and cheekily declaring “I’ll be back on New Year’s with your toys!” But trust me when I say that we’re actually rewarding you for your extremely enthusiastic turnout over the last month of EW.com’s Sexy Beast single-elimination bracket tournament (while, yes, admittedly ratcheting up the suspense quotient to a somewhat unbearable level). Our final matchup (the polls are officially closed) between the Twilight series’ Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and The Vampire Diaries‘ Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) brought in almost 275,000 votes — compare those numbers to your local school-board election, then weep silently for our children’s future — so we decided to celebrate by simultaneously announcing the winner on August 26 on EW.com and in a splashy spread in the pages of that week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine. Yes, folks, if your object of lust was one of the 64 players in our mano-a-beasto melee (i.e. Anna from V, or Wolverine from X-Men, or maybe Ms. Pac-Man), you’ll now have a way to commemorate his/her/its results. To tide yourselves over, click here to see how the full bracket played out, then do visit EW.com on Thursday, August 26, or pick up a copy of that week’s EW at your local newsstand, to find out who took home the title. Thanks once again for your time and participation: If you cast a vote in our tourney, you’ll always be a Sexy Beast to us! And to get an immediate announcement when our champ is crowned, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak.]
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'Big Brother' react: Don't cry, Ragan! You're rich.
Image Credit: Lisette M. Azar/CBSGeez, but the latest saboteur twist has been a big, fat bust. Ragan may be $20,000 richer but all we got was a begrudging troublemaker who never stirred up trouble, he just pretended to stir up trouble before getting back to what he does best: Sobbing over Matt and how he plays for the wrong team. (First, a note from your sponsor: Sandra’s on vacation and won’t be writing her regular TV watch until next week!). Anyway, I’m glad that little distraction is gone from the game so we can get back to business of whittling down yahoos.
There weren’t many surprises in tonight’s episode, mostly because the outcome was pretty dang predictable: Matt would use his diamond power of veto, and Kathy would be the obvious nominee since Matt is still playing both sides of the house. It was nice that Ragan’s final act of “sabotage” convinced the houseguests that Kathy was the secret havoc wreaker, simply because she saw fit to make a few beds. (Who in their right mind would think about hospital corners at a time like this! She must have been the one to plant the “I Know Your Secret” note in Capt. Meow Meow’s bed!) But even without Ragan’s so-called dastardly deed, Kathy was a goner, anyway.
But who will pack her things?
So now we get Lane for another week – though God help us, let’s hope he shows more restraint in the shower (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you don’t spend near enough time surfing the Big Brother fansites). I don’t give a hoot about whether he’s got a thing for Britney: Unlike all the single-minded men in this game, blondie’s got her eye on the prize so I’m not expecting her to suddenly canoodle with Lane. And now she’s the HOH! I liked this development, mostly because I thought the gal’s curly hair looked purty tonight and Meow Meow was taking too freaking long with choosing between True or False.
So what did you think about Kathy’s departure? Check out our exit interview with her below!
'Glee': Britney Spears jazzed to find out dolphins are just gay sharks
“All my GLEEKERS in the crowd, Grab a partner take it down.” –@britneyspears
Now that this Brit-on-Brit shot (Heather Morris vs. Britney Spears…”Glee Against The Music”?) is circling the Twitpic Ocean like a hungry gay shark, we are about a billion times more excited for Glee‘s Britney episode. Even though we can’t count.
Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett
CDC to Hollywood: Stop with the smoking already!
The Centers for Disease Control released a report today on the prevalence of cigarette smoking in movies, and, as you might guess, they found that there’s too damn much of it. According to the CDC’s analysis, nearly half of all the popular movies released in 2009 contained some sort of “tobacco imagery,” including 54 percent of the films that were rated PG-13. If you dig deeper into the numbers, though, it turns out that the prevalence of smoking in movies has actually dropped by half since 2005, which was Hollywood’s cigarette-smoking-est year on record (well, at least going back to 1991). Still, the CDC isn’t about to give the film industry a pass on the issue: READ FULL STORY »
Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp or Christian Bale-Mark Wahlberg: Who will you turn out for on Dec. 10?
Image Credit: The Fighter: Jojo WhildenSony’s announcement yesterday that it will release The Tourist on Dec. 10 creates what’s sure to be a closely watched opening-weekend match-up against the boxing film The Fighter. In one corner: Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in a twisty thriller set in Venice, Italy. In the other corner: Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in the inspiring story of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward’s climb to fame. Tough choice, right? And to make things even more complicated, the third installment in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will also hit theaters that weekend. So how will you cast your vote at the box office?
Who is the ultimate Sexy Beast? After 250,000 votes, we're still not entirely sure.
Image Credit: Andrew Eccles / The CW; Joey LawrenceWe here at EW.com have spent the last 30 days on an epic journey, whittling a pack of 64 delicious creatures down to two titillating combatants as part of our Sexy Beast single-elimination tournament. Click here to see the full bracket, that is if you don’t get distracted by the photos of our two finalists: Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) of TV’s The Vampire Diaries and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) of the big-screen Twilight series. Our final poll has been open for some 65 hours, and after 250,000 votes, the virile vampires remain locked in a statistical dead heat — the closest match-up we’ve seen in the entire Sexy Beast extravaganza that’s been built on the blood, sweat, and general hotness of creatures including Star Trek‘s Seven of Nine, X-Men‘s Wolverine, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles‘ Cameron, True Blood‘s Eric Northman, and even Ms. Pac-Man and Doctor Who.
So do your pop-cultural civic duty and vote in our poll below! As things tend to do when you’re dealing with vampires, we expect this bout to get bloody! [UPDATE, Friday, August 20, 12:05 a.m. ET: Voting in EW.com's Sexy Beast bracket tournament is officially closed. Please visit EW.com on Thursday, August 26, or pick up a copy of that week's Entertainment Weekly magazine at your local newsstand, to find out who took home the title: Twilight's Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) or The Vampire Diaries' Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). Thanks for your time and participation: If you cast a vote in our humble tourney, you'll always be a Sexy Beast to us! And to get an immediate announcement when our champ is crowned, follow me on Twitter @EWMichaelSlezak.]
'Piranha 3D': 10 reasons to visit the film's stunningly beautiful (and NOT killer-fish-infested) location of Lake Havasu City
While the cast and crew of Piranha 3D were filming their gorefest in Arizona’s Lake Havasu City last summer, the production was an undoubted boon to the local economy. “It took a bite out of the recession, you could say,” jokes Douglas C. Traub, president of the Lake Havasu City Convention and Visitors Bureau.
But thanks to the advance publicity surrounding the film, which is out tomorrow, it seems some visitors to the area are now so worried about being eaten by killer fish they are declining to dip even their little toe into the man-made Lake Havasu. “Two of our hoteliers have had people say something about being afraid of going into the water because of the piranhas,” says Traub. “Even with the assurances of our most astute hotel staff, they still have thumbed their noses at the thought of wading into our pearly blue waters.”
Those waters are just one of the attractions to be found in Lake Havasu City. With the assistance of Traub and piranha expert David M. Schleser, we’ve put together a list of 10 reasons to visit the place. No. 1? There are no piranhas!!!
1. There are no piranhas!!!
“Anybody that has any experience with a freshwater body in the United States realizes there’s absolutely no threat from piranhas,” says Traub. David M. Schleser, author of Piranhas—A Complete Pet Owner’s Manual, agrees. “They’re a tropical species,” he says. “They’re natural range is from northern South America as far south as the weather is warm enough—southern Brazil, parts of Argentina. They can’t take water under 60 degrees.” READ FULL STORY »
'The Big Dog': Charlie Sanders and Bob Odenkirk are making 17-minute 'shorts' about pizza now
Funny or Die is going all long-form on us. The Big Dog, a classic tale of an overzealous pizza careerist (Charlie Sanders) trying to impress his boss (Bob Odenkirk), is its first “longish short.” Is it long or is it short? Should it be in quotes or italics? Am I still alive or am I burning in psychedelic pizza hell? If you can make it until the bitter/burger end, brag about it in the comments and share one thing you learned from “The Big Dog.” I’ll start. READ FULL STORY »
Joey Lawrence-Wesley Snipes action film 'Havana Heat' even crazier/better than we thought!
Image Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR Photos; Mark Dye/PR PhotosIf, like us, you read the Variety headline “Snipes, Lawrence join ‘Havana Heat’” and needed to know more about the indie action film costarring Wesley Snipes and Joey Lawrence shooting this November, prepare to be very happy. Producer James Ordonez, president of Tayrona Entertainment Group, just gave EW some serious details about the movie and its efforts to be the next Expendables (yes, offers are out to Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme!).
• We begin with the plot: “Havana is a mysterious, sensuous city with gorgeous architecture, white Caribbean beaches, hot, pulsating music, vintage American automobiles and some of the most beautiful women in the world. CID Special Agent Sean Franklin [Lawrence] and his partner, gung-ho rookie, NCIS Special Agent Brianna Evans [Fighting's Zulay Henao] are assigned undercover in Havana after another agent is murdered. At the same time, a heavyweight fight between American Ruben Palace and Cuba’s Kid Carlos becomes an international incident when a girl Ruben meets in a salsa club is found dead. Sean and Brenda team up with National Revolutionary Police Force Detective Jose Aguillerra to uncover the mystery behind both crimes.”
• Where does Snipes come in? “Snipes plays Major Evans, Sean Franklin’s boss and father of his assigned rookie partner…. Major Evans coordinates all the infiltration operation in Cuba and will engage once he finds out his best man and daughter are in danger,” Ordonez says. What made producers think to pair Lawrence and Snipes? “As a coincidence with The Expendables, Havana Heat was put together as a retro ’80s action all-star movie. We were looking for a very big teen 1990s idol who still is young and fresh to play the lead action role, and Joey Lawrence was the perfect candidate,” he says. “Wesley Snipes is one of the most recognized action stars of all times… so it was perfect to put them together.” READ FULL STORY »
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