Archive: August 2010 (331-340 of 533)

Aug 11 2010 06:21 PM ET

Pee-wee Herman-Lorenzo Lamas photo op: Let's play a game of word association!

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Categories: Apropos of Nothing, Awwwwww So Cuuuuuute, Camp Classics, Grooming, Movies, News You Can Use, Nostalgia, Pee-wee Herman, Ridiculata, Stage/Theater, Strange Bedfellows, Television, Things That Are Classy

Paul Reubens’ 48-performance Broadway run of the The Pee-wee Herman Show (based in part on Pee-wee’s Playhouse) begins Oct. 26, but in the meantime, he’s hanging out with bikers again. I’ve had this image of odd couple Pee-Wee and Lorenzo Lamas at South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally open in my prime eighth-tab-from-the-right position for a while now, and it amuses me greatly. But to be honest, every time it pops up I have an overwhelming urge to reach into the computer and remove that red headband. It’s just not right! If anyone should be Bret Michaels-ing it up here it’s Lorenzo. But I suppose the bandana could help Pee-wee blend in if he happens to tip over a bunch of bikes like dominoes.

What’s the first word that comes to mind upon seeing this photo? As it is now after 6 p.m., mine is without question “Tequila!”

Aug 11 2010 06:01 PM ET

Kat Von D: 'I haven't owned a television in 14 years.' Say what now?

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Categories: Art, Celebrity Hobbies, Reality TV, This Could Be Interesting...

kat_von_dSeason four of LA Ink premieres tonight on TLC, picking up right where season three left off. Corey Miller, the last founding member of Kat Von D’s High Voltage tattoo shop, walked out. Drama couch! In tonight’s episode, the fallout between Kat and Corey will come to a head. But since Kat will be the first to admit she’s not a huge fan of on-screen sparring, we decided to get her thoughts on some other topics when she called the EW offices yesterday. Read on to find out what British TV show she loves, which blockbuster movie she’s embarrassed she hasn’t seen, and the common denominator in all her brand extensions. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 05:44 PM ET

NBC primetime preview show: Early thoughts?

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Categories: 30 Rock, Betty White, Chuck, Television, The Biggest Loser, Tina Fey, Waiting

I just watched NBC’s 24-minute primetime preview show (embedded below), which profiles the Peacock’s fall slate, night-by-night. Notes I scribbled:

• What is The Event? A way for me to see Jason Ritter each week.

• Chase: I need to view the pilot with a stopwatch and see how much time is devoted to the act of running. Then I should time the premieres of all law-enforcement shows and see if Chase does, in fact, have the most… While I’m at it, I should also note how many of them use generic lines like, “Why don’t you turn yourself in and find out.”

• Tina Fey, taping an interstitial at an NBC party, gets the biggest laugh: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 04:52 PM ET

Battle of the ballads of JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater

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Categories: Double Vision, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, Music, Things That Are Awesome!, Web Surfing

Last night, Jimmy Fallon sang “The Ballad of Steven Slater.” And it was pretty good. Except I’d already heard a different song called “The Ballad of Steven Slater,” and that one is mas macho. Or something. Take a listen (contains salty language): READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 03:53 PM ET

Bill O'Reilly attacks Jennifer Aniston: 'She's diminishing the role of the dad'

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Categories: Celebrity Feuds, Movies, Politics as Entertainment

Oh boy, now she’s done it. While doing press for her upcoming movie The Switch, in which she plays a woman who gets artificially inseminated in order to start a family on her own, Jennifer Aniston, 41, noted that women don’t necessarily need a man to have a baby, saying, “Women are realizing more and more that you don’t have to settle, they don’t have to fiddle with a man to have that child.” And like an attack dog who catches the scent of a wounded bunny, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly went on the offensive on The O’Reilly Factor, saying amongst other things: “She’s throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, ‘Hey you don’t need a guy. You don’t need a dad.’ That’s destructive to our society.” (Watch the clip below.) READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 03:29 PM ET

Internet produces third 2010 Emmy nomination for Neil Patrick Harris out of thin air

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Categories: Gay/Lesbian/Kathy Griffin, Magic, Neil Patrick Harris, Stage/Theater, Television, Things That Are Awesome!

Tonys-Neil-HarrisImage Credit: Gary Hershorn/Reuters/LandovAfter much pestering from bloggers fighting the good fight at the L.A. Times, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has agreed to give Neil Patrick Harris one more Emmy nomination — for hosting the Tonys last year. He sang and danced, and we laughed and laughed, and yet somehow his name was inexplicably missing from the list of people collectively nominated for CBS’ 2009 Tonys telecast.

Harris is already up for best supporting actor in a comedy series for How I Met Your Mother and guest actor in a comedy series for Glee. The world is a mess, and he just needs to rule it.

This is great news for NPH but an even greater feat for the internet. Quick! What else can we get NPH nominated for? I say every time a character in any TV show name-drops “Doogie Howser,” Neil Patrick Harris should get an Emmy. Or at least a unicorn should get its wings. Actually, NPH, I’m sure that happens already.

Read more: All Neil Patrick Harris-related PopWatch items

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Aug 11 2010 03:14 PM ET

Levi Johnston reality-show producer: There's 'a ton of interest' from networks

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Categories: Politics as Entertainment, Reality TV

Levi_JohnstonImage Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR PhotosWho doesn’t love Levi Johnston? Everyone, you say? Well, at least there’s no such thing as bad publicity in the world of reality TV, since the baby daddy to the daughter of the former governor of Alaska — now that’s a tenuous claim to fame — is looking to star in his own show, Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office. And while the current mayor of the Wasilla, AK, isn’t especially keen on the 20-year-old’s political aspirations, that won’t stop Johnston or the producers at Stone & Company Entertainment from making a run for it. We talked to the company’s principal, Scott Stone, about his plans for the series.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How are you pitching this show?
SCOTT STONE: We are pitching it as advertised, Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office. We’re shooting as we speak. [We’re] going up to Alaska to shoot for a couple weeks. Once we have our story set up properly, we’ll start pitching it to the networks.

Are you pitching to one of the big-four networks first? READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 02:59 PM ET

Vanessa Marcil's Brenda returns to General Hospital today! You psyched?

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Categories: General Hospital, Television

Vanessa-Marcil-GiovinazzoImage Credit: Patrick Wymore/ABCAs if Port Charles needed any more drama, Vanessa Marcil-Giovinazzo is bringing her tempest-in-a-teapot Brenda Barret  back to General Hospital today after seven years away. Surely you noticed the takeover of ABC’s daytime lineup yesterday afternoon as they strolled down memory lane with Brenda’s many loves:  Sonny, Jax, and Jason. From her volatile, lingering  love affair with Sonny to being left at the altar by Jax to her tumultuous marriage to Jason that led to Spinelli’s “regrettably pink room,” Brenda’s left her mark on each of them. Now she’s back with a secret that’s supposed to affect them all.

I missed most of the Brenda years, but I’m still looking forward to the spark that she’ll bring with her. Are you psyched? Come back after the episode airs, and tell what you thought of her return — and what you think her secret is.

Aug 11 2010 02:15 PM ET

'Skyline' trailer: Donald Faison and Eric Balfour are in this movie, really

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Categories: Movie Trailers, Movies, Sci-Fi

The teaser trailer for the sci-fi flick Skyline is an example of “be careful what you wish for.” Maybe we shouldn’t be hoping that there’s life on other planets because the aliens could come and suck us up like moths to a flame. Literally. See the picture.

What you don’t see a lot of in this trailer is stars Donald Faison and Eric Balfour. Establishing that the visual effects won’t stink is no doubt important for codirectors Colin and Greg Strause (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem), who’ve made their name in that field. But the dialogue between the duo will also set the tone for the movie. I need to know what kind of cheese to expect: Velveeta, Kraft Singles, or, longshot, a triple-creme brie. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 11 2010 02:06 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Would you be caught dead singing Marc Anthony's 'I Need to Know' in 2010?

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Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, Apropos of Nothing, Hell to the No!, Horrifying But Hypnotic, Jennifer Lopez, Lunchtime Poll, Music, Nostalgia, Ooops!, Ouch! That Was My Ear!, PopWatch Dance Party, Ridiculata, To Care or Not to Care

In an effort to post as many items related to the year 1999 as possible, I’ve decided today’s Lunchtime Poll should be about Marc Anthony.

Mandi came by as I was writing last night’s news brief that Anthony will guest-star as a love interest for Jada Pinkett Smith on TNT’s HawthoRNe, and we both immediately — without even agreeing to do this — launched into a snap ‘n’ sway singalong of Anthony’s 1999 single “I Need to Know.” We sang the first half of the chorus just fine, but after “Tell me baby girl, cause I need to know/I need to know…I need to know,” our once-hearty vocals softened to a gibberish mumbling, sort of an open-mouthed hum. We thought there were other lyrics to the chorus that we had forgotten. But no! The second half of the chorus for “I Need to Know” is exactly the same as the first half. We’re such idiots! That’s the last time we’ll overestimate Marc Anthony’s lyricism, promise. We’ve made a huge mistake. Still, any impromptu dance party is VERY worthwhile.

Now there’s something I need to know. Tell me, PopWatch-reading guuuurrrrl, ’cause I need to know. I need to know. I need to know. God, it just never ends.

READ FULL STORY »

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