Archive: November 2010 (41-50 of 486)

Nov 26 2010 09:00 AM ET

'Dancing With the Stars': Should Jamie Lee Curtis return to Planet Mirrorballus for season 12?

Over the course of season 11, Jamie Lee Curtis, dubbed Enthusiastic Activia Lady by EW.com reader Hez on Week 8, gradually blossomed into my favorite studio audience member ever. She was so reliably benign, always gazing up at Tom Bergeron in admiration (of their shared haircut) with her noggin cocked 55 degrees to the right. EAL was there every week this fall to support her BFF Jennifer Grey. Let her NOT SO HIDDEN gem of a homemade bracelet — comprised of multicolored entrance wristbands from the entire season — tell you. You don’t even need to talk to her! Enthusiastic Activia Lady will just hold that pom pon of experience up in your face. I don’t know how this turned all sassy all of a sudden. I must just be hurting right now. Congratulations to Jennifer and all, but I’m really going to miss Jamie Lee Curtis on Dancing With the Stars.

The point is, despite having turned down DWTS in the past, JLC/EAL is practically begging for coach to put her in the game already. She’s become a ballroom staple! Do you want to see her as a contestant in season 12? After the jump, I’ve compiled all of EAL’s best season 11 moments for your consideration. This non-contestant has had quite a journey! READ FULL STORY »

Nov 25 2010 04:00 PM ET

Which pop culture dinner most resembles your family's Thanksgiving feast?

It’s 4 p.m., PopWatchers. At this point, you’re doing one of the following: 1) Furiously attempting to get all the lumps out of the mashed potatoes while your little 6-year-old cousin clings to your leg, begging you to go hoop-rolling — or whatever it is kids enjoy these days; 2) Watching football from your couch while your mom furiously attempts to get all the lumps out of the mashed potatoes (moms are the best); or 3) Reading PopWatch. Okay, clearly the answer is No. 3, unless you’ve figured out a way to Doug Kinney yourself, but chances are you’ll find yourself participating in either No. 1 or No. 2 later in the day. Because, as we know, today is Thanksgiving — and that means you can prepare yourself for plenty of dysfunctional dynamic family dinner conversation!

But because we know you’d prefer not to talk about your single status, your new boyfriend/girlfriend, or your recent divorce at dinner, here’s something you all can discuss: Which pop culture dinner scene most resembles your family’s Thanksgiving feast? For my family, I’m going to go with Hook. Not because we don’t eat anything — my waistline will more than let me know that we do come Nov. 26 — but because we never do a traditional Thanksgiving, opting for colorful foods (Tex-Mex with plenty of guacamole, scallops with peach salsa, etc.) over the holiday’s customary beige-colored eats. (Also, as in the Robin Williams-Peter Pan flick, we have been known to get into a cream pie fight or two after dinner.)

But now it’s your turn, PopWatchers! Which iconic dinner scene most resembles your own? Are you forced to endure your family’s gluttony and — ahem — bathroom habits like Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor? Do you play with your food like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind — or Weird Al Yankovic in UHF? Do you find yourself explaining very grown-up topics to a very young child, like the Hoover family did in Little Miss Sunshine? Or are you all just secretly judging each other à la Dinner for Schmucks? Let us know — and Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 25 2010 12:21 PM ET

Thanksgiving parade round-up: Highs, lows, and some seriously grating promos

Categories: Happy Holidays

virginia-balloonImage Credit: Charles Sykes/AP ImagesHappy Thanksgiving, PopWatchers. And for those of you not in the U.S., happy plain old Thursday! This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York just wrapped up, and as usual, there were balloons and songs and constant, constant shilling for NBC shows. (I tried watching the CBS coverage for a little while, but it was too boring.)

Highlights
++ Arlo Guthrie, in a badass jacket, singing “This Land Is Your Land.” Why was there a child dressed as a skunk right next to him? I don’t know, but I loved it.

++ The massive cheerleader performance. More like this, please!

++ Kanye West wearing an Ewok-fur vest and some kind of lamé tunic — you know, traditional Thanksgiving gear. My love for him knows no bounds.

++ Meredith Vieira saying “ooooh yeaaah” like the Kool-Aid guy. It was so forced and strange that it created an unlikely moment of hilarity. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 25 2010 12:00 PM ET

What was your worst holiday movie-going experience?

mist-southland-talesI love going to see films during the holidays. Is there anything better than stretching out in a darkened cinema and watching some mindless, big-budget Hollywood movie while suffering from a Thanksgiving Day food coma or New Year’s Day hangover (other, of course, than doing the things that put you in those film-welcoming states in the first place)? I think not!

But things don’t always go to plan. Three years ago, I spent Thanksgiving Day dog-sitting my friends’ beagle-basset George, a hound with the noble good looks of a Roman aristocrat and the demented temperament of the emperor Caligula. I’m not kidding. The list of things that sets George off into a howling, maniacal frenzy merely begins with squirrels, skateboarders, and dogs with pointy ears (i.e. around 50 percent of all other dogs). He is also deliberately incontinent, by which I mean that the moment you leave the apartment he takes it upon himself to decorate the place with his “business” like he’s getting paid by the pound. Frankly, the amount this dog defecates is unbelievable — or at least it would seem that way if you were unaware that he will eat anything that is, or is not, nailed down.

After a thrill-filled morning of yelping (on his part) and waste disposal (on mine), I fled, sans George, to a nearby cinema to see Southland Tales, the second film by writer-director Richard Kelly after his sublime Donnie Darko. To say the confusing, shambling, and unfunny Southland did not live up to the standard of Darko is putting matters mildly indeed. To be honest, I would rather have been clearing up dog poop, although, as I discovered upon returning home, this wasn’t an “either/or” situation. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 25 2010 09:00 AM ET

Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters' style: You'll never guess what's on Jamie Hyneman's menu

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What’s the most interesting item on your Thanksgiving menu? Go ahead and tell us, but we’re 99.9 percent sure MythBusters co-host Jamie Hyneman has you beat. Read on for what he’s got cooking. And should you be in the market for a TV marathon today, Discovery’s serving up 11 hours of MythBusters, starting at 9 a.m. ET, leading into Punkin Chunkin 2010, the special on the annual Punkin Chunkin World Championships (think pumpkins as projectiles) hosted by Hyneman and cohort Adam Savage, at 8 p.m. ET. (Watch a preview below.)

Thanksgiving, ‘MythBusters’ style
by Jamie Hyneman

On occasion, we at MythBusters come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology. The last time we did this was connected to a CSI episode that involved a man who police officers attempted to subdue with pepper spray. The pepper spray was not sufficient, so they Tased him, which ignited the pepper spray and he was killed.

We replicated this situation on MythBusters with a suckling pig carcass, as it will conduct Taser electricity in a way similar to a human. The test was done eight months ago, and the suckling pig has been sitting in the walk-in freezer at MythBusters (yes, we have a walk-in freezer!) ever since.  READ FULL STORY »

Nov 25 2010 07:00 AM ET

Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Nicaragua': Episode 11

survivorImage Credit: Monty Brinton/CBSHey guys, I hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and/or your friends. If you are spending it alone, I hope you’ll have me at your table as a guest in “spirit!”

I’ll be spending it out of state with friends in a very sunny climate. So you won’t be hearing much from me!

LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE
I know that even die hard fans don’t always enjoy the “special scenes” episodes because you want to see somebody voted out! But hopefully you found some of the new scenes enlightening as we wind our way down to the finish.

NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE
We’re back with a regular episode next week and I must tell you… it is one of my favorite episodes of the entire season! From start to finish I think it is really top notch!

Here’s a clue: I think a lot of you are going to be really thrilled by the episode.

That’s it. That’s all you get.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Nov 24 2010 06:45 PM ET

What's the best song to open a concert with?

Rui M. Leal/PR Photos

Last night, I caught Michael Bublé in Hershey, Pa., his first U.S. gig on his Crazy Love Tour since August. He opened the show with “Cry Me a River,” and all I could think was it was the perfect choice. It’s got that dramatic, foreboding intro (which also makes it a great album opener), the swanky Bond film-esque arrangement that lets the band wail and begs for a massive light show, and the sort of climax that warrants the unexpected use of pyrotechnics at a crooner concert. Watch a fan-captured video below. Then tell us, what’s your favorite concert-opening song you’ve ever witnessed?

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Nov 24 2010 06:20 PM ET

'The Daily Show' makes us thankful for its great musical (and nude) moments

It’s a Thanksgiving miracle: Awesome collections of the best moments from The Daily Show. Sure, the “Go F— Yourself” gospel choir is probably the most spectacular musical moment, but I sing the midterm elections song to myself far too often than can be healthy. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 24 2010 05:55 PM ET

Mark Wahlberg confirms role in 'Uncharted'. Could this be the new 'Indiana Jones'?

Nathan-DrakeImage Credit: Landmark/PR PhotosMark Wahlberg essentially confirmed in an interview with MTV News that he will be playing treasure-hunter Nathan Drake in David O. Russell’s (The Fighter) planned film adaptation of Uncharted, based on the acclaimed videogame series for PS3. He also suggested that Russell is courting Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to play Drake’s father and uncle respectively.

If De Niro and Pesci are indeed signed to the film, that would by default give Uncharted the most prestigious cast ever for a videogame-derived movie — and it already has the most prestigious director! Wahlberg, himself, is no stranger to the genre, having played the title role in the blah bullets-and-bloodbaths spectacle Max Payne in 2008 (a banner year for him, as it also saw the release of that landmark achievement The Happening).

Uncharted, coming from a franchise that launched in 2007 with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, could appeal to a bigger audience than merely those who while away hours each day with a joystick in hand. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 24 2010 05:24 PM ET

Anna Faris won't be in 'Ghostbusters 3.' Who would you call to star in the sequel?

Categories: Movie Casting, Movies, Sci-Fi

Contrary to internet speculation, Anna Faris has not joined Ghostbusters 3, her rep tells EW. And the rumor that Bill Hader and Will Forte will be the next generation of stream-crossers is currently nothing more than that. But just because this long-awaited sequel still lacks its fresh, younger cast, an official start date, or even a greenlit script, there’s no reason fans who grew up wearing plastic proton packs can’t still get excited about the future of the franchise. Let’s help sort this out: READ FULL STORY »

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