Archive: August 2010 (241-250 of 533)

Aug 18 2010 12:01 AM ET

'Dancing With the Stars': Let's brainstorm a dream cast for season 11!

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In a stunning marriage of the skanky and the sparkly, ABC will announce the season 11 cast of Dancing With the Stars during Aug. 30′s episode of Bachelor Pad. (Skanky and sparkly are not mutually exclusive, of course.) It’ll be a creepy mass wedding co-sponsored in part by Macy’s and Valtrex. What a fun, sexy time for trashy reality TV!

As usual, ABC will not leak anything before the announcement, even if I lovingly prod the DWTS publicists through the Internet with my fringed magic wand. But here are some rumored season 11 hoofers anyway: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 06:09 PM ET

Breaking: Angelina Jolie will not play Marilyn Monroe in movie told from perspective of a jaunty pooch

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Angelina-Jolie-Marilyn-MonroeImage Credit: Dave Hogan/Getty Images; Everett CollectionWell, it seems sort of obvious when you put it that way. The LA Times’ Ministry of Gossip has confirmed that Angelina Jolie is not attached to star as Marilyn Monroe in the adaptation of author Andrew O’Hagan’s novel The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog, And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe. The Daily Mail reported that O’Hagan (Be Near Me) had recently revealed that Jolie had beat out Scarlett Johansson and Christina Hendricks for the role. His novel, well-received in the UK and hitting US shelves in December, is told from the perspective of Marilyn’s beloved pet Mafia Honey (Maf for short), a gift from Frank Sinatra in 1960. Through his eyes, the last two years of her life unfold. Watch the animated trailer for the book below.

Who would you like to see play Monroe in the film? Were it to actually end up on the big screen, Johansson or Hendricks would be lovely. Lifetime? Jennifer Love Hewitt. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 05:28 PM ET

'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' star Rooney Mara is 'exceptionally gifted,' says her 'Youth in Revolt' director

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Rooney-MaraImage Credit: James Atoa/Everett CollectionAfter news broke yesterday that Rooney Mara had landed the lead role of Lisbeth Salander in the three-picture Hollywood adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, interest in the relatively unknown actress spiked, landing her in the top 10 Google search trends.

Mara most recently starred in the 2010 reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street update and 2009′s Youth in Revolt, in which she played Portia Doubleday’s promiscuous roommate Taggarty. “She auditioned for the role of Sheeni [which went to Doubleday] and was great,” says Youth director Miguel Arteta. “We were debating the right person for that part, and she was among the people we loved. We wanted her in the movie and asked if she would do this smaller part, and she was gracious enough to do it.”

And while it’s no small task to go from a supporting role in an indie comedy to the title character in a hotly anticipated U.S. remake of a literary phenomenon, Arteta sounds unconcerned, calling Mara an “exceptionally talented” actress. “She’s got that perfect combination of mystery and familiarity that it takes to make a movie star,” he says. “The reason I cast her was because she had to be able to look at somebody and seduce them without a word. She has one of those gazes where you can see so much into what she’s thinking, without her saying anything.”

But with a high-profile gig like Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy comes intense scrutiny, something that Arteta believes the Lisbeth-to-be is more than capable of handling. He says: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 04:21 PM ET

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater's publicist: 'There's a lot of stuff that's coming in'

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Steven-Slater-BragmanImage Credit: Todd Williamson/WireImage.comQuitting your job usually leads to bookmarking Monster.com on your laptop and watching M*A*S*H DVDs in your underwear, not fame and fortune. Of course, if for your final act at said job you lay down an expletive-laced tirade over an intercom system and exit via an emergency escape tube, the way former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater reportedly did, the standard rules may not apply. After a week of his story saturating a strangely obsessed media, on Sunday Slater procured the services of top publicist Howard Bragman to help deal with media relations and manage the numerous offers said to be coming his way.

First, however, there’s the little matter of sorting out the legal ramifications stemming from Slater’s public display at the end of that fateful JetBlue flight (he’s been charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, felonies that could have him looking at seven years in prison). “We don’t get out of the starting gate until we get through the criminal charges and deal with what happened on the airplane,” Bragman says.

Though there are, apparently, plenty of opportunities to consider. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 03:58 PM ET

'Next Food Network Star' champ Aarti Sequeira talks self-doubt, Sloppy (Bombay) Joes, and future rival Bobby Flay

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Aarti-Sequeira-Food-NetworkImage Credit: Food NetworkThings are getting hot — in the kitchen and out of it — for Aarti Sequeira. On the heels of taking home the season six crown on The Next Food Network Star, Sequeira is now set to launch six episodes of Aarti Party (premiering Sunday, August 22, at noon ET on Food Network), a half-hour program where she’ll teach viewers how to infuse classic American dishes with traditional Indian flavors. We caught up with the bubbly, Bombay-born former food-blogger to talk about using Ben & Jerry’s to help inspire the name of her series, overcoming her nagging self-doubt, and putting her variety-show dreams on hold (but only for a limited time).

Entertainment Weekly: You got wildly positive comments from Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, and Michael Symon during the Iron Chef challenge. Are you ready and willing to get back to Kitchen Arena Stadium and take on those judges now that you’re officially a Food Network star?
Aarti Sequeira: [Laughs.] I think I need to get to a second season [of Aarti Party], then maybe I’ll feel better about it! I’m comfortable now competing against [fellow Next Food Network Star contestants] Tom, Herb, and Aria, but I don’t know about going up against Bobby Flay. I don’t think that would work out very well for me. Although maybe I should do it just for the heck of it. I’d just laugh the whole way through, and work extra slowly, to piss Bobby off! [Laughs.] READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 03:00 PM ET

Jenny Slates's 'Marcel the Shell with Shoes On' is fantastic

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“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” from director Dean Fleischer-Camp and Saturday Night Live‘s Jenny Slate hits that Wes Anderson sweet spot of decidedly strange, very funny, and subtly sad. It’s wonderful: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 02:45 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Is Kim Kardashian more hairless than a hairless cat?

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Hair sucks. It falls out. It turns gray. It starred in Hair, which is the worst hippie show ever (hey, Godspell‘s bad, but don’t be hating on Hippie Christ!) Kim Kardashian feels your pain. She’s taking a stand. In the upcoming issue of Allure, the reality star says, “My entire body is hairless.” (She probably said that while writhing naked in an abstract gray universe.)

So, PopWatchers, is Queen Kardash going all Alien 3 on us? Or is this all a big lie? Does Kim Kardashian pass the Mr. Bigglesworth test?

Aug 17 2010 02:26 PM ET

'Dating in the Dark' photo recap: Coming together

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Even if you stuck it out for two more hours of ABC’s Bachelor Pad, chances are you immediately changed the channel during the promo for 10 p.m.’s dazzler, Dating in the Dark. It’s okay! I would have done the same thing in an alternate life in which I was not self-punishing and insane. You know the drill. New cast each episode; three guys and three girls feel around in the darkness and occasionally converse to see if they like each other’s “personalities.” Dating in the Dark is a total crapfest that can best be recapped via pictures. Ironic, don’t you think? Because they’re in the dark.

01.jpgKarolina, 28, wins this week’s Best Euphemism for ‘Unemployed’ award. Olé! READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 02:15 PM ET

'Dylan Dog: Dead of Night' trailer: Do not touch the face!

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Having not read the Dylan Dog comic book series, I can’t comment on whether the film, starring Brandon Routh as the “ace detective of the undead,” looks like a solid adaptation. I can just say that as Routh’s Dylan Dog fights to keep order between the worlds of vampires, werewolves, humans, and zombies, I hope they all respect the beauty of that face and leave it the way they found it. Also, watching the trailer (below), the body shop scene gave me a Beetlejuice vibe, while the vampire baddie Taye Diggs plays led me to believe that he really wanted to be in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (the graveyard has a similar feel, no?) and TV series but wasn’t clever enough. That said, they had me at the shirtless shot. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 17 2010 02:12 PM ET

'Piranha 3D' for Best Picture?: Watch the cast make their case in this hilarious 'Funny Or Die' video

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Piranha-3DImage Credit: Gene PageIn my recent post on Piranha 3D I wrote that, despite featuring the talents of Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue, this carnage- and cleavage-filled enterprise is “about as far from Oscar catnip as it is possible to get.” Apparently cast members Jerry O’Connell, Adam Scott, Jessica Szohr, Paul Scheer, Kelly Brook, and Riley Steele disagree.

In a move that I’m going to egomaniacally regard as a direct attack on my reporting skills, the aforementioned thespians have just released a tongue-in-cheek video on Funny Or Die in which they make the case that the film, which opens Friday, actually deserves a Best Picture nomination. They also take potshots at the Academy whenever possible. “Did last year’s Academy Awards have blood?” demands Szohr. “Did one of the presenters’ bodies get cut in half, where the top half fell off the bottom half, like a cartoon? I don’t know. Didn’t watch it. Neither did anyone else under fifty!“

You can check out the clip after the jump. They’ve definitely got my vote for Best Gun-Toting Jet Ski Fight In A Piranha-Related Film. Well, they would, if that category existed. And I had a vote. What about you?

More on Piranha 3D:
Fishy Business: The behind-the-scenes story of the ‘Piranha’ movies (Part I)

READ FULL STORY »

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