The easy headline is, “Oprah Denies Being Gay,” but that’s not what was so mesmerizing about Barbara Walters’ video tease of tomorrow night’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. It was Winfrey’s sincere, heartfelt description of her relationship with close friend Gayle King. “She is … the mother I never had. She is … the sister everybody would want,” said Winfrey. “She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person. I don’t know a better person.” READ FULL STORY »
Archive: December 2010 (211-220 of 304)
Dec 8
2010
01:55 PM ET
Oprah opens up about Gayle King
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Dec 8
2010
01:25 PM ET
Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf team for 'The Wettest County in the World': Hooray for bootlegging!
Image Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage.comBoardwalk Empire just polished off its first luscious season of illegal boozin’, and it looks like the HBO series might be kickstarting a legit pop culture trend. According to the L.A. Times, embryonic megastar Tom Hardy will be co-starring with Shia LaBeouf in The Wettest County in the World, based on Matt Bondurant’s novel about a family of bootleggers in Prohibition-era Virginia. The film will be directed by John Hillcoat from a screenplay by musician Nick Cave, the same team who gave us the blood-soaked Aussie western The Proposition. (Hillcoat also directed The Road.) The movie is currently slated to start shooting in the spring. Does this indicate a new alcohol-as-contraband trend in Hollywood? Are bootleggers the new vampires?
Short answer: Probably not. But given the ratings success of Boardwalk Empire, I do wonder if we’re going to see more films and TV shows set around the go-go Roaring ’20s and their depressing sequel, the Murmuring ’30s. A story like Wettest County feels surprisingly topical – we’re in the midst of another financial crisis, and the country is currently struggling with the legality of a different leisure substance. PopWatchers, would you like to see more bootlegging-based entertainment? And who do you think will wear old-timey clothes better: Hardy or LaBeouf?
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Book Review: The Wettest Country in the World
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Dec 8
2010
12:55 PM ET
Jason Alexander may be heading back to TV
Image Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesJason Alexander may be heading back to network television. CBS has ordered an hour-long series, which Alexander would executive produce as well as star in, about a “former TV star who’s down on his luck and winds up joining his ex-wife’s detective agency. Once there, the character reinvents himself as an investigator with a penchant for disguise,” according to Variety. Recall that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has signed on for an HBO political show. It’s almost like an awesome turn on Curb Your Enthusiasm has wonderful lasting effects!
I’m of the firm belief that George Costanza is one of the all-time most tragic figures in American television, and while I don’t know that I’m desperate for another goofy detective series, I do love seeing Alexander play down-and-out. My spidey senses are telling me that the real make-it-or-break-it ingredient for the series will be the casting of Alexander’s ex. Chemistry, you guys. Chemistry.
So go ahead and sit in the casting director’s chair, PopWatchers. Who would you want to see play opposite Alexander?
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Dec 8
2010
12:30 PM ET
Infuriating Bangs: Which hair horrors did we miss?
Image Credit: Michael Yarish/AMCIn the spirit of self-loathing and “write what you know,” this loser blogger who sometimes cuts her own bangs (the horror!) put together today’s photo gallery: The Bad Bang Theory: 20 Infuriating Bangs. Set of bangs? Bang communities? Whatever. Hair in TV and movies that you just want to comb, cover up, rearrange like a delicate sculpture, or pull with all your might so that it would just GROW, dammit! Any bangs whose undeniable awfulness was not officially part of the plot (as in Ugly Betty, starring the Bad Bangs Baroness) but became significant for you, the viewer who should not have to put up with that mess!
Pictured here: Mad Men‘s Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), who has clearly been hypnotized by her greasy, stringy, no good, very bad, deliberately spaced-out (?!) dagger-bangs. Check out the complete collection while touching your own questionably styled hair; then tell us who we missed. I already see a lot of votes for Brennan on the current season of Bones…
Previously in Hair:
10 Disney Princesses: Ranking Their Hairdos — And Don’ts!
The Bad Bang Theory: 20 Infuriating Bangs
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Dec 8
2010
12:04 PM ET
Wesley Snipes plays the role of victim on 'Larry King'
Barring some miraculous last-minute legal reversal, Wesley Snipes is heading to jail tomorrow. It’s been a long, drawn-out fall from grace for the one-time box-office heavyweight. The man who once earned millions for kicking butt in the Blade movies was, in February of 2008, convicted by a Florida jury of three misdemeanor counts of willfully failing to file federal tax returns dating from 1999, 2000, and 2001. (He was acquitted of five, more serious charges). Now, Snipes is facing a maximum sentence of three years in a Pennsylvania jail. He’s been ordered to surrender on Thursday. And the saddest part of the whole soap opera is that the actor still doesn’t seem to get it.
In what CNN touted as his “last interview before prison,” Snipes appeared on last night’s Larry King Live. Looking calm (or as calm as a man heading to the pen for three years can) in a cream-colored turtleneck with his lawyer, Daniel R. Meachum, by his side, Snipes wasn’t apologetic or contrite. He was cool, defiant, and frankly a bit clueless, claiming that he was there “to set the record straight” and “to clear the air.” Of course, he only made the air murkier. READ FULL STORY »
Dec 8
2010
11:47 AM ET
Aaron Sorkin: 'Sarah Palin is deranged'
Image Credit: Munawar Hosain/Fotos International/Getty Images; Gilles Mingasson/DiscoveryAaron Sorkin doesn’t like Sarah Palin. I know, stop the presses! In a wondrous rant on HuffPo today (Please, Aaron, get your own real blog! They’re easy to set up!), Sorkin called Palin out for her caribou hunting. Palin had already written, “Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather couch or eaten a piece of meat, save your condemnation of tonight’s episode.” But Sorkin sees it a different way. “What she did [was] heart-stoppingly disgusting” and tantamount to a “snuff film,” he writes. “You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals.”
Hey, I’ve heard that one before. On Sports Night.
Season 1, episode 3, “The Hungry and the Hunted,” is about, among other things, Sorkin’s distaste for hunting, and he communicates it through the sweet, nervous Jeremy, who’s sent on an assignment to produce a segment for a hunting show. He has panic attack and is later forced to admit why he didn’t want the assignment in the first place. The video is here, but since it’s not embeddable, I’ll transcribe part of it: READ FULL STORY »
Dec 8
2010
11:13 AM ET
Elizabeth Edwards on 'The Colbert Report': Smart, charming, irreducible
With yesterday’s terrible news of Elizabeth Edwards’ passing, there’s been a lot of infuriating headlines about the woman’s life. No doubt, she got a bum rap when it came to husbands. Former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards did her wrong, and maybe never deserved her in the first place. But the sparkly-eyed mother of four, best-selling author, attorney, homemaker, public speaker and activist deserves a richer legacy than that of a disappointing man’s betrayed wife. She was better than his flaws and bigger than her disease. For an example of her articulate goodness and conviction, look no further than her calmly impassioned 2008 appearance on The Colbert Report, after the jump. (Colbert himself appears to fall in love with her at the 3:26 mark.) What a lady. READ FULL STORY »
Dec 8
2010
10:00 AM ET
'Pirates 4'? 'Breaking Dawn Part 1'? The final 'Harry Potter'? What 2011 movies can you not wait to see?
Image Credit: Andrew Eccles; James White; Jaap BuitendijkYeah yeah yeah, 2010 isn’t quite over, and there are still several films high on our want-to-see list — Tron: Legacy, How Do You Know?, True Grit, Little Fockers, etc. But 2011 is nigh upon us, and we here at PopWatch central could not help but notice how jam-packed the impending year truly is with highly anticipated movies of all stripes. To wit: In the spring, we’ve got the Johnny Depp animated film Rango (March 4), sci-fi action flicks I Am Number Four (Feb. 18) and Battle: Los Angeles (March 11), and Zack Snyder’s geektastic fantasia Sucker Punch (March 25). The summer promises the flying fists of Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom (May 26), the mysterious J.J. Abrams film Super 8 (June 10), the plastered doofuses of The Hangover 2 (May 26), more of Michael Bay’s stampeding robots in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1), and a cavalcade of comic-book movies: Thor (May 6), Captain America (July 22), X-Men: First Class (June 3), Green Lantern (June 17). And a full year from now, we’ll be talking about fall and holiday movies like Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (Dec. 23) and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse (Dec. 28), or Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Dec. 16) and Daniel Craig in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Dec. 21).
Shoosh. That is a lot of movies, PopWatchers, and that’s barely scratching the surface. For one thing, I haven’t even mentioned the return of Capt. Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (May 20), the beginning of the end of The Twilight Saga with Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Nov. 18), and the end of the end of the Harry Potter saga with The Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (July 15). So many movies! But which, dear readers, can you simply not wait a single second more to see?
Dec 7
2010
07:02 PM ET
People's Choice Award voting ends tonight. Who are you supporting?
Image Credit: David Johnson/Fox; Trophy: Sonja Flemming/CBSI’ve always tried to steer clear of voting for things like the People’s Choice Awards — and not for the elitist reasons you might think. It’s mostly because I become very addicted to it. It’s the same feeling I get when an eBay auction I’m involved in starts spilling over the budget I claimed I was going to stick to. What’s worse is when — like with the PCAs — you aren’t able to see the poll results. WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE’RE DOING. Ugh. Can you tell I’ve caved and started voting?
If you’re familiar with my battle cry at all, you know I’ve thrown much of my support behind Supernatural in the Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show category. But this year, I’ve split screened my computer into two voting windows and alternated between the formerly mentioned race and the Favorite TV Drama Actress category.
You see, when I spoke with Lisa Edelstein last week to get some House scoop out of her, we got onto the subject of her nomination in the category, and two things made me cave and hit the voting site. 1) She admitted to voting for herself once but never again because, she joked, “It just doesn’t feel healthy.” 2) She wants it because it shows you care. “If it’s just me sitting there obsessively voting for myself, it feels pathetic,” she said. “Whereas if other people are voting, you actually can feel good about it.” She added, laughing, “I don’t want to win the People’s Choice Award because I chose myself 8,000 times.”
If I was nominated, to hell with all the bitters who poo on the show, I’d want my darn award, too. I have to get back to voting now — because I get twitchy at the thought of a rival gaining momentum. But tell me, am I the only one who gets unnecessarily competitive about these things? And who are you throwing your weight behind for the People’s Choice Awards? (Voting concludes at 11:59 p.m. ET!)
Dec 7
2010
06:00 PM ET
'Glee' countdown: Have yourself a merry little 'Glee'mas
Christmas comes early this year, in the form of sugary, Gleeky goodness. Tonight, New Directions gets in the holiday spirit despite an onslaught of slushie facials (in seasonal colors!) and mischief from McKinley’s resident Grinch, Sue Sylvester. Let’s see, is anyone really surprised that Sue hates Christmas? Is anyone really surprised that Brittany might still believe in Santa Claus?
If you’re not in holiday mode, Glee’s unique takes on timeless tunes should do the trick. Look for a recently single Rachel singing “Merry Christmas, Darling” and Kurt and Blaine’s flirtatious “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” duet. Which holiday songs do you hope to hear Glee tackle? (Puck singing “The Chanukah Song,” natch.)
After you watch “A Very Glee Christmas,” head back here to let us know what you think. Plus, look out for Tim Stack’s full recap and performance grades tomorrow morning.
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