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Aug 27 2010 04:45 PM ET

You pick the 2010 Emmys: Lead Actresses?

ACTRESS-IN-A-DRAMA Image Credit: Kathleen Prutting/CBS; Craig Blankenhorn/FX; Justin Stephens/NBC; Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC; Marc Horn/TNT; Will Hart/NBCTwo days ’til the Emmys! It’s time to let us know who you think most deserves to be named Outstanding Actress in a drama and a comedy. Pretend you’re an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences voter — as an EW.com Platinum Reader, you deserve to be one anyway — and vote below.

Related: The EWwy Award results are in! Your winning lead actresses were Cougar Town‘s Courteney Cox (comedy) and Bones’ Emily Deschanel (drama).

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Aug 27 2010 04:15 PM ET

Excess Hollywood: Shenae Grimes says she'll cameo in 'Scream 4'

by Kate Ward

Categories: Casting, Deals, Excess Hollywood, Horror, Movies, Television

Shenae Grimes (90210), confused as to how Twitter works, tweeted “hush hush” news and a picture of herself alongside Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale on the set of Scream 4: “on set waiting to bang out my cameo in scream 4! All hush hush but stay tuned! X” [Shenae Grimes]
William Hurt is on board to play Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in the adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail, while Curtis Hanson has been tapped to direct the film about the 2008 financial crisis. [Deadline]
Maria Bello and Stephen Dorff will star in Carjacked, a thriller about a single mom and a bank robber who hijacks her car. [Variety]
Albert Brooks is set to join Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Bryan Cranston in Drive, which follows a stunt driver-turned-getaway-driver (Gosling). Brooks will play a member of the New York mob who moves to Los Angeles, because what’s the point of Big Apple crime if dreamy, squatting Lupo can’t question you?! [Deadline]
Wax on, wax skadoosh!: Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, who penned Kung Fu Panda, will write The Karate Kid sequel. [THR]

Aug 27 2010 03:50 PM ET

'Wicked': Truly magical, even after seven years on Broadway

by Tanner Stransky

Categories: Stage/Theater, This Week on Stage, Tony Awards

When Wicked opened in October 2003, critics instantly fell in love with the show’s stars, Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, who played “bad” witch Elphaba and “good” witch Glinda, respectively. It marked a high point for two Broadway stars, both of whom have since transcended (and in both cases, returned to) their stage roots. But the show as a whole divided critics. Time loved it: “If every musical had a brain, a heart, and the courage of Wicked,” wrote critic Richard Zoglin, “Broadway really would be a magical place.” Variety‘s Charles Isherwood said the show’s plot was “muddled.” And what’d we think here at EW? We were sort of in the middle. Reviewer Alice King gave the show a B while praising Menzel and Chenoweth: “It’s the Wicked witches who really make magic.”

So, for the final review from our series looking back at the five longest-running shows on the Great White Way, I checked out Wicked once again, nearly seven years after it opened. And I found that this fifth longest-running show — a heart-filled production I first saw at the tail-end of Menzel and Chenoweth’s run — is still totally spellbinding, well-produced, and completely enrapturing. As I looked at it from all angles, I realized producers haven’t let the show fall off at all. And despite losing its original stars (Katie Rose Clarke, who currently plays Glinda, is pictured here), the production still manages to churn with life — and most of all, lots of feeling. There is still something magical about Oz. Or rather, this inventive, showtune-laced twist on Oz. (Read my full review here.) Have you seen Wicked lately — or ever? Do you agree that the show is still rather magical?

Tanner on Twitter: @EWTanStransky

More stage:
Second Take: ‘Wicked’: Truly magical, even after seven years on Broadway
Second Take: ‘Mamma Mia!’: Still a fun (but increasingly tired) romp
Second Take: ‘The Lion King’: The trip to Pride Rock is still full of ‘Life’
Second Take: ‘Chicago’ on Broadway: After nearly 14 years, more razzle than dazzle
Second Take: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’: Would you still swing from a chandelier for Broadway’s longest-running show?

Aug 27 2010 03:25 PM ET

'Avatar!!!!!': Sigourney Weaver gets a new catch phrase in 'You Again' promo clip

by Clark Collis

Categories: Avatar, Betty White, Have You Seen This?, Hollywood, Movies

Image Credit: Mark FellmanI’ve been a fan of Kristen Bell ever since she took roughly 0.0007 seconds to get on the phone with me to talk about cult movie The Room. (The girl can’t get enough Tommy Wiseau — and that’s not a euphemism.)

My suspicion that she’s an actress with a pretty decent sense of humor is confirmed by a new tongue-in-cheek promo clip for the forthcoming movie You Again, in which Bell’s costar Betty White derides her as both a poor actress and an terrible bore. The skit, however, is definitely stolen by Sigourney Weaver, who asserts her alpha dog Hollywood status by listing her box-office triumphs including, repeatedly, a certain blue alien-featuring James Cameron movie (which, incidentally, is being re-released in theaters today).

You can watch the sketch after the jump. Take a look and tell us if it tickles you.

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Aug 27 2010 03:00 PM ET

PopWatch Rewind Week 2: 'Point Break'

by Darren Franich and Keith Staskiewicz

Categories: PopWatch Rewind, Sexytimes, Things That Are Awesome!

Surfers are dangerous. They have their own language. They carry automatic weapons. They look like the grunge-rock children of hippie communists. They do a mean Reagan impression. These are but a few of the lessons learned in Point Break, this week’s video-store necessity. (We are discussing it in honor of fellow bank robbery flick Takers.)

Directed by Hurt Locker auteur Kathryn Bigelow, Point Break is a great action movie…and an even better romance. Surfing, skydiving, gun-play, and more thinly-veiled homoeroticism than a frat house watching 300. If you love this movie half as much as we do, you still love it an infinite amount. Because half of infinity is infinity. So ride the beast with us here and then head over to the gnarly comments section and share your own thoughts.

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Aug 27 2010 02:15 PM ET

Joan Rivers on her return to 'Fashion Police': 'The truth is very, very seldom said on television.'

by Archana Ram

Categories: Emmy Awards, Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Television, This Could Be Interesting...

Memo to stars who think it’s safe to step out in this (or this or this): TV’s most honest fashion critic, Joan Rivers, will be back on TV dishing on red carpet fashion in Fashion Police, which kicks off with a two-hour post-Emmy special (E!, Aug. 30, 10 p.m.), and continues with a weekly series that will highlight the best — and, more importantly, the worst — in celebrity looks. (The Fashion Police series officially debuts Sept. 10.) We chatted with the funnywoman about what we’ll see on her new show, the evolution of red carpet style, and who she’s looking forward to seeing Emmy night.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What made you want to get back into Fashion Police?
JOAN RIVERS: Well, we did it last year as a trial run and we had such a good time doing it. [My daughter] Melissa [Rivers] was executive producing, and I was doing the show and they said, “This is great. Let’s do it next year.” I love it because I don’t have to stand on the red carpet and pretend I like something — it goes against everything I believe in — and smile and say, “Don’t you look nice?” and the next day, say she looked terrible. So I’d rather not have to do the first part.

When you weren’t on TV commenting about red carpet fashion, were you watching at home?
I never watch anything. I’m sorry to tell you, if I’m not doing it, I don’t watch it. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 27 2010 01:45 PM ET

'True Blood,' it's time to kick it into high gear

by Margaret Lyons

Categories: Television, True Blood, Vampires, Wolves? Where?

True Blood is heading into its penultimate episode of the season this Sunday — and remember, no new ep airs on Labor Day, so this is it until the Sept. 12 finale. It’s been sort of up and down for me, with the fun and titillation of the Sookie/Eric/Bill love triangle tragically diluted with way too many other stories. Yep, I’m looking at you, dogfighting. And werepanthers. Give me more Jessica and Hoyt! Give me so much less Wiccan lady.

At least parts of these trailers look promising: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 27 2010 01:22 PM ET

'Jersey Shore' recap: 25 life lessons, like how to handle a pesky hippopotamus in your zoo/house

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Animals, Grooming, Horrifying But Hypnotic, Jersey Shore, News You Can Use, Potent Quoteables, Reality TV, Ridiculata, Sexytimes, Shenanigans!, Signs of the Apocalypse, Things That Are Classy, TV Recap

On last night’s Jersey Shore, Sammi found Snooki and JWoww’s note, but they wouldn’t admit they wrote it. Ronnie and Sammi broke up and got back together 18 more times, but for now it’s really over (until she walks back into his room), because he invited another girl down at the beginning of May for some S. Angelina won’t do dishes, The Situation’s in training for the Grand Prix, and Snooki built a fire. So, not much. But it was still a fantastic episode — because the amount of amazing life guidelines provided by the cast was just staggering! After the break, 25 things I learned about hippo care, etiquette, breast behavior, and more. Learn it; live it; f— it. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 27 2010 12:55 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll (take two): Scariest film from the past 10 years?

by Clark Collis

Categories: Horror, Lunchtime Poll, Movies, Zombies

Image Credit: Patti PerretThe really scary thing about yesterday’s “Scariest film from the past 10 years?” lunchtime poll was the righteous anger of commenters at the fact that we hadn’t included their favorite movie on the ballot. And it wasn’t just the absence of Paranormal Activity that ticked people off. A lot of you were disgusted by the absence of The Strangers amongst the five choices, while even more readers were aghast that we had left off The Descent. There were also write-in votes for The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hostel, The Mist, The House of the Devil, and an array of foreign language frighteners including [REC], the unforgettably twisted Martyrs, and the Guillermo del Toro-produced The Orphanage, whose virtues I was extolling just yesterday.

As a diehard horror fan myself, I’m hugely heartened by commenters’ enthusiasm for their personal fright faves (and that no one has mentioned Twilight), even as I fret that readers are right now gathering, angry villagers-style, to light torches and storm EW Towers. To stop that happening, we’ve decided to run the poll again with a much-expanded list. Your “Choke on ‘em!” choices are below.

Aug 27 2010 12:00 PM ET

'Bachelorette' contestants work off bad karma by fighting cancer

by Kristen Baldwin

Categories: The Bachelorette, Things That Are Classy

Image Credit: Kevin Foley/ABC via Getty Images; Kevin Foley/ABC; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images And I am doing the exact same thing by writing this post. I’ve spent years of my life watching The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and now — God help me — Bachelor Pad, and I need to do something to atone for my sins. Apparently, former Bachelor/Bachelorette contestants DeAnna Pappas, Gia Allemand, and Graham Bunn feel the same guilt, because they’re teaming up this Sunday, Aug. 29, to raise money and awareness for Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a fantastic charity that’s raised more than $30 million dollars to help find a cure for childhood cancer. So listen, folks, if you’re a Bachelor/Bachelorette fan in the New York area who — like me — needs to rebuild some small part of your soul, come to Central Park (Merchants’ Gate, at West 59th and Columbus Circle, to be exact) between 1 and 6 p.m. this Sunday and donate some money to this very worthy cause.