Archive: August 2010 (211-220 of 533)

Aug 19 2010 10:15 AM ET

Reese Witherspoon, Stevie Wonder, Lance Armstrong to 'Stand Up to Cancer' on Sept. 10

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Cancer-telethonImage Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos; David Gabber/PRMark your calendars: On Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. ET, the four major TV networks will all air a star-packed Stand Up to Cancer telethon, featuring appearances by Reese Witherspoon, Stevie Wonder, and Queen Latifah alongside cancer survivors like Lance Armstrong and Christina Applegate. Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and Brian Williams will serve as joint hosts of the event. The last Stand Up to Cancer benefit in 2008 raised over $100 million for research.

So plan a viewing party — and in the meantime, check out this clever PSA starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Dakota Fanning, among others. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 19 2010 09:52 AM ET

'Top Chef' recap: The chef who came in from the cold

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Like most people, I tend to assume that Padma Lakshmi’s job hosting Top Chef is just a cover for her real work as an international mercenary superspy. These suspicions were confirmed on last night’s episode, in which the remaining contestants cooked a top-secret meal at Langley while Padma delivered coded messages to CIA Director Leon Panetta. Befitting the setting, it was an evening of disguises and deceit – in Angelo’s case, self-deceit. Culinary meta-chemist Wylie Dufresne was on hand, although the only real espionage he participated in was the theft of Elvis’ sideburns.

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Aug 19 2010 01:12 AM ET

'American Idol' judges update: Why no official announcement on Steven Tyler?

steventylerImage Credit: Jason Kempin/FilmMagicDude may look like an American Idol judge, at least according to a number of Internet reports that surfaced on Tuesday, so how come there’s been no official announcement that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will take a seat at the Idol judges’ table when season 10 callback auditions begin filming in mid-September? Spokespersons at Fox, Idol, and FremantleMedia all declined comment when contacted by EW, but a source with inside knowledge of the world’s most high-profile job search insists “there’s nothing to announce yet.” In fact, says the insider, Fox execs are hoping they can get the entire panel locked into place, then “make one, big splashy announcement, but they’re not quite there yet.” So how much longer is the Idoloonie nation expected to hold its collective breath? “If I was the betting type, I’d say there’ll be something official announced by the end of next week. But that can all change at any second,” adds my source. “Still, what’s the rush? This is, what, the third or fourth time media outlets have ‘confirmed’ the Steven Tyler rumor? All this water-cooler buzz isn’t such a bad thing for a show that a lot of pundits would love to try to paint as finished.” Indeed, to paraphrase a classic bit of Monty Python, Idol‘s not dead yet!

One other factor delaying the final announcement about who — and how many — will fill the chairs that were occupied in season 9 by Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi, and the definitively exiting duo of Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 19 2010 12:01 AM ET

Emmys 2010: Who would you vote for in the Outstanding Main Title Design race?

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PopWatch readers are way more important (to PopWatch writers at least) than Emmy voters, so it’s high time we figured out which people and/or which series would take home statuettes this year in a fictional Academy of Television Arts and Sciences controlled by you. We’ll roll out the bigger categories next week, but for now: Outstanding Main Title Design! Vote for the most deserving sequence after the break. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 18 2010 11:30 PM ET

Chelsea Handler explains why she's perfect for the VMAs hosting gig

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Even if Kanye behaves himself at this year’s VMAs, Chelsea Handler, who just announced tonight on her E! talk show that she’s hosting the Sept. 12 event, should provide plenty of morning-after quotables for the blogosphere. So why did MTV choose her? “This has been a huge year for hip-hop and rap, and it is well-known that I have the closest ties with these communities — musically and sexually,” Handler explains. “I am to rap and hippity-hop, what Warren Buffet is to finance, minus the sex.”

The list of stars planning to hippity-hop on down to LA’s Nokia Theater for the 27th annual VMAs next month include scheduled performers Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Drake, B.o.B, and Florence + The Machine, and presenters Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ashley Greene, Selena Gomez, and Ne-Yo.

Whaddya think, PopWatchers? Think Handler can handle the VMAs? Who is the greatest VMAs host of all time? Do you even remember who hosted last year?* What’s more likely, Kanye acting the fool again, or Handler racking up a hefty tab in FCC fines during MTV’s live event?

* – It was Russell Brand

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Aug 18 2010 09:59 PM ET

'Big Brother' instant react: So much happened, so little happened

big-brother-castImage Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBSSo much—and, when you really think about it, so little—happened in tonight’s episode of Big Brother, which saw a hard-fought, intense Veto Competition; the season’s second coming of Pandora’s Box; the return of a familiar face; one rather silly sabotage; and one of Brendon’s nominees (Ragan or Lane) go off the block. (SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read on if you haven’t watched tonight’s episode.)

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Aug 18 2010 09:51 PM ET

Facebook 'Places': Forever exposing just how boring our lives really are

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Those impressively young kids who run Facebook announced today a brand new “product” called Places, which essentially allows you to “check in” at whatever place you’re currently occupying, see which of your friends are at that same place (or nearby), post updates about that location to that location’s Facebook page, and/or get a sense of all the cool things currently going on around you. (While anyone can use the tagging features on Places, you can only check in via your iPhone or “advanced mobile device,” and only the iPhone version runs natively on the Facebook app. All other touch-screen, web-enabled phones will have to make do with the touch browser version of Places. And that’s about as geeky as this post will get.) Intriguingly, location-based social networking sites Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp, and Booyah were all on hand at Facebook’s Palo Alto offices as official partners, announcing how their respective sites would integrate their services with Places.

A few things immediately struck me about this announcement: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 18 2010 07:52 PM ET

Sherri Shepherd to host 'The Newlywed Game': Does this make you more (or less) likely to watch?

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Sherri-shepherdImage Credit: Carol Kaelson/Lifetime NetworksActress-comedian Sherri Shepherd, co-host of The View, is about to embark on a new and very different TV gig: as host of The Newlywed Game. According to the Associated Press, Shepherd will take over the reins of the long-running game show when it returns to the GSN in November. Presumably GSN felt that Shepherd, with her bubbly (or some might say bubble-headed) on-air personality, would be a zingier presence on the show than its previous host, Carnie Wilson, who left the job after just one year, and filed a suit against the network last month. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 18 2010 06:50 PM ET

Scott Speedman to join Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in the tearjerker 'The Vow'

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Speedman-McAdams-TatumImage Credit: Robin Wong/PR Photos; Janet Mayer/PR Photos (2)I didn’t think The Vow could get any more exciting, and by “exciting” I mean “exactly the kind of sappy romance I force my old college friends to see in the theater with me each year for my birthday.”* But it’s done it: A rep for Scott Speedman confirms that he’s in negotiations to join the film, based on the true story of newlyweds Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, whose love was tested two months into their marriage when a car accident left her in a coma for weeks. When she awoke, she remembered everyone but her husband. Rachel McAdams will star as the bride, Channing Tatum as the groom, and Speedman as McAdams’ former fiancé who reenters the picture. It’s a piece of clever casting: Speedman is believable as a doucheboat or a sweetheart, so he’ll keep us guessing.

Who’s ready to take their friends to see The Vow now?

* How does Charlie St. Cloud only have two showtimes in all of Manhattan — 12:35 p.m. and 10 p.m. — two weeks after its release?

Aug 18 2010 05:46 PM ET

'Hot in Cleveland' season finale: 5 reasons this show rules

hot-in-clevelandImage Credit: Craig T. MathewTV Land’s Hot in Cleveland—a scripted bright spot in an otherwise reality-infused summer—signs off its first season tonight. I’m beyond sad to see it go! But that’s reason enough to revisit the show here for a quick moment. I previewed most of tonight’s tornado-infused episode (yes, they’re pulling a Desperate Housewives-style stunt!), and it’s full of the heart, laughs, and all the Betty White-in-a-sweat suit that you have come to love and expect so far. The episode is actually kind of a retrospective, with lots of time spent on all the men that have blown through these four ladies’ lives in the first nine episodes. Here at the end of a rather surprising and spectacular first season, I thought a toast to the show was due. So, here are my 5 Reasons Hot in Cleveland Rules. Here goes: READ FULL STORY »

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