Image Credit: Jordin Althaus/ShowtimeLast night marked the season premiere of Weeds and the series premiere of The Big C, and I can’t help but think that the shows have more in common than not. They both star beloved, talented 40-something actresses who each won an Emmy for their roles in sprawling, highly decorated HBO miniseries. Neither Mary-Louise Parker’s Nancy nor Laura Linney’s Cathy can wrap her brain around mortality; Nancy’s ultimately still running her husband’s death in the first season, and Cathy’s in complete denial about her own terminal prognosis. They’re inappropriate but lovable, terrified but resilient. And there’s more: READ FULL STORY »
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Aug 17
2010
02:03 PM ET
'Weeds' and 'The Big C': Secretly the same show
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Aug 17
2010
01:43 PM ET
Clip du jour: Jonah Hill and Elmo groom their 'staches
I guess you can only teach phonics so many times: This new (adorable) Sesame Street clip has Jonah Hill and Elmo discussing the finer points of mustache maintenance. Oww, my heart: READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
12:15 PM ET
Is on-demand viewing on the rise in your household?
Image Credit: Robert Ascroft/USA NetworkComcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable company, has released the results of its annual “TV Pulse Survey” on TV time-shifting. Not surprisingly, the practice is increasing. Among the 1,000 randomly-selected participants, 62 percent now reported having watched primetime shows through technologies that include the DVR, VOD (video-on-demand) and Internet, and 61 percent of viewers said they were time-shifting programs more than they did a year ago. More interestingly, Comcast said on-demand orders of TV shows now surpass movies.
We’ve covered DVR usage a lot on PopWatch (so we’ll just let the poll below do the talking), but let’s discuss how we, the ones so devoted to TV that we’ve named our DVRs and our Slankets, use on demand…. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
11:39 AM ET
Tila Tequila wants to sue Gathering of the Juggalos in news you may not want to read about
Reality TV staple Tila Tequila, who was attacked by angry fans of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse at last weekend’s Gathering of the Juggalos festival, told E! Online she plans to sue the festival’s organizers. Tequila says concert-goers pelted her with rocks, bottles, and human excrement as she performed Saturday. “If you just look at these people, or monsters, whatever they are, they looked very angry and violent,” Tequila says.
CNN has obtained footage shot by comedian Tom Green, another performer on the scene, that shows Tequila remaining onstage and being shielded by bodyguards. Green told CNN a mob of hundreds chased Tequila from the stage and surrounded her trailer, then rocked the trailer and smashed its windows.
E!’s interview with Tequila and CNN’s footage of her performance are embedded after the jump. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
11:38 AM ET
'I'm Still Here' trailer: Is Joaquin Phoenix fascinating or simply in need of a good shave and a nap?
You may remember the much-watched clip of actor Joaquin Phoenix mystifying David Letterman. Or heard the news about his confusing plans to quit the movie biz and recreate himself as a rap star. His strange period of reinvention — the jury is out on whether the talented actor is having Kaufman-esque fun with identity or an enormously self-serious cuckoo — is documented in first-time director, and brother-in-law Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, which will hit theaters on Sept. 10. (The film has been in the news lately, with a fired crew member suing Affleck for sexual harassment and him hitting her back with a countersuit.) The trailer looks beautiful, and I’m a sucker for most behind-the-scenes looks at famous people. They always look so trapped by the mean lights of the paparazzi line, their hotel rooms so depressingly grand and anonymous. Phoenix’s bulging pot belly seems at once vulnerable and aggressive, an f- you to good health and Hollywood beauty standards. But why do I worry that the movie will lack any real sense of self-awareness or humor, and that its narrative structure will sag without a genuinely reflective subject holding it together? READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
10:44 AM ET
'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' recap: Haunted by hair bows
Image Credit: Salvatore Laporta/BravoIt’s now clear that Teresa really doesn’t live in New Jersey, or the real world, but rather in an over-sized playhouse covered in leopard and Swavorski crystals. Her daughters are her own personal Barbie dolls, and last night we experienced sensory overload in the form of hair accessories. Teresa forced her three eldest daughters (just wait until you grow hair, Audriana) to wear furry pom-poms atop their heads, making them look even more devilish than usual. There wasn’t a moment on the trip that these girls were without their hair bows, because what kind of impression of America would that leave on the Italians? “God forbid the accessory bag went missing! Holy crap. If one of her kids didn’t have a bow on their head she would make one out of toilet paper,” Jacqueline said. Teresa had even purchased custom-made dresses for the final dinner of the trip, from the Little Bo Peep’s Crack-Bender Collection. Have you noticed how little Gia has been rendered speechless of late? The harsh realities of show business must be getting to her (Jillian knows). Stage moms heed my warning: What you think is just a hair bow will quickly turn into years and years of expensive therapy bills. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
10:27 AM ET
'Bachelor Pad' pie-eating contest: The most ridiculous 10 minutes of TV ever?
Image Credit: ABCBecause I still can’t believe I watched it, you must all suffer through it, too: Behold below, the two-part pie-eating contest on last night’s Bachelor Pad. The ladies went first as the men watched (and ran once the girls started puking). I believe this quote from Kovacs sums it up best: “I’m pretty sure Tenley vomited into the pie, and continued to eat.” READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
09:06 AM ET
ABC Family developing series that sounds vaguely like 'Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'!
Image Credit: Everett CollectionI don’t think you have to be a woman in her mid-30s to be irrationally excited over this news, but it probably helps: ABC Family confirms that it’s in the early stages of developing the series What Would Jane Do from writer April Blair and executive producer Gavin Polone (Gilmore Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Boys). The plot, as described by The Hollywood Reporter: “A case of mistaken identity has a dateless high school outsider living a double life as a twentysomething career girl in the corporate world.” Doesn’t that make you think back to 1991′s Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (even if Christina Applegate’s character wasn’t dateless — hello, Josh Charles! — and the movie’s trailer doesn’t even mention that she gets a job)? Adding to my personal enthusiasm: Jane was Charisma Carpenter’s character’s name in See Jane Date (pictured), the first ABC Family Channel movie I remember thinking was genuinely good. It just feels right.
Anyone else oddly optimistic about What Would Jane Do?
Aug 17
2010
01:03 AM ET
Chris Harrison blogs 'Bachelor Pad': Episode 2
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC A house divided! The game play has quickly kicked up a notch or two in Bachelor Pad this week. Before we dive into that hot tub I want to share some more good news with you this week. A couple weeks ago we all watched as Ali and Roberto got engaged; well, this week I learned about a couple more engagements in our Bachelor/Bachelorette family. Former Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas and former contestant Holly Durst got engaged to the Stagliano twins. DeAnna is engaged to Stephen and Holly to season five contestant Michael. From what I understand they are planning a double wedding this spring. I consider all four of them friends and we’ve been waiting for this good news for awhile now (no offense, boys). I’m very happy for all of them, wish them all the best and can’t wait for the wedding!
I really want to start talking about this week’s Bachelor Pad from the end and work my way back, because if you watched the previews for next week you saw Wes with his guitar singing “love don’t come easy” to Gia. I don’t think any of us are able to wait a week to see that unfold, but alas we will have to. This week started out like last week ended, with Elizabeth playing games and manipulating the situation. I would love to get your opinion of Elizabeth. Is she crazy — or is she crazy like a fox? Or, as she put it best, is she a “dumb smart girl”? That was easily my favorite line from this week’s episode. Say what you will about Elizabeth, but bottom line she is in control of this game and the guys (especially Kovacs). She has absolutely imposed her will on this house. It will be interesting to see how long she can keep it going. The main thing we learned this week is that Bachelor Pad is really high school all over again. Within a matter of days the house has been completely divided between the insiders, or “cool kids,” and the outsiders, or “others” as they’ve been called. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 17
2010
12:01 AM ET
Who is the ultimate Sexy Beast? Vote to crown the champion: Damon from 'Vampire Diaries' or Edward from 'Twilight'!
Image Credit: (FROM LEFT: Damon, Edward) Bob Mahoney/The CW; Kimberly FrenchCleaning up litter on your local highway. Running errands for your elderly shut-in neighbor. Volunteering at the downtown food bank. These are all causes worthy of your valuable time and energy. Unfortunately, they’ll have to wait until next week. Because right now, it is your all-consuming duty to get out the vote in the final round of EW.com’s Sexy Beast single-elimination bracket tournament! Yes, folks, a battle of the beautiful that began almost a month ago with 64 entrants — vampires and werewolves, mutants and machines, aliens and other creatures (even Ms. Pac-Man!) — has been whittled down to just two combatants: The Vampire Diaries‘ Damon Salvatore and Twilight‘s Edward Cullen. So stop what you’re doing, think deeply about the most important question you’ll ask yourself all day (“Who’s hotter?) and then click through past the jump to vote for your favorite. Plus, you can click here to see the entire 64-player bracket and how it played out (then click again on the image for a zoomed-in view). Polls are open for 72 hours only, so support your candidate in battle; only one can be named the ultimate Sexy Beast! [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.] READ FULL STORY »
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