Archive: December 2010 (221-230 of 304)

Dec 7 2010 06:00 PM ET

'Inception' Blu-ray giveaway

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Inception, this summer’s trippy, mind-blowing blockbuster, features an ending that has been debated for months, has spawned numerous viral spoofs, and landed a spot on EW columnist Stephen King’s top 10 movies of 2010. Brought to you by the mastermind of Christopher Nolan, an EW Entertainer of the Year, it became a summer must-see, if only to be able to understand what your best friend, boss, or local barista was talking about.

Luckily, we here at PopWatch never want you to go through life unprepared — at least when it comes to pop-culture. We’re giving away 15 copies of Inception on Blu-ray, so you dream newbies out there can see what all the fuss is about. Tell us your favorite Christopher Nolan film, and why you love it, and you’ll be entered to win. The prizes are courtesy of our corporate siblings at Warner Home Video and are available while supplies last. Of course, this is all a dream (…or is it?).

Here’s how to enter:  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 05:45 PM ET

'Better Off Ted' creator working on a suburbia-set show

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Better-off-TedImage Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABCNow that I rewatched all of the glorious Better Off Ted on instant Netflix, I miss it all over again. But all is not lost! Ted creator Victor Fresco has a new project in the works, according to Vulture: A single-camera comedy called Sunnyside, based on the Swedish series Solsidan. The show is about a young couple that moves back to the husband’s home town after the wife becomes pregnant.

I loved Ted for its subversiveness and absurdity, and if there’s any arena that’s prime for subversive absurdity, it’s the ‘burbs. Plus maybe there’ll be a cursing episode! God, I love this extremely NSFW series of insults: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 04:40 PM ET

Excess Hollywood: 'Idol' alum Brooke White to make acting debut in 'Change of Plans'

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  • Former American Idol contestant Brooke White will star in Change of Plans, a TV movie about a singer who must care for her best friend’s children, due to an accident. Idol judge Randy Jackson will cameo. As will another Idol favorite, depending on the reviews. [Associated Press]
  • CSI creator Anthony Zuicker is developing three dramas with CBS — Detail, centered on a security expert; the lawman-centric Desperado; and Treadstone, about the CIA — and one drama with the CW: Spirits, a project described as “Paranormal Activity-meets-CSI.” [Deadline]
  • Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson has signed on to star alongside Mia Wasikowska and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in Glenn Close’s pet project Albert Nobbs. Close stars as a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to get work. The things you must do to get Damages back on the air. [The Playlist]
  • Lucy Punch, Bob Odenkirk, and Rich Sommer have joined Topher Grace, Jenna Fischer, Malin Akerman, and Chris Messina in rom-com The Giant Mechanical Man, about a zoo worker (Fischer) caught in a love triangle with a street performer (Messina) and a motivational speaker (Grace). [THR]
  • Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the co-writer-directors of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, are in negotiations to helm Bob the Musical, about a man who can suddenly hear the songs in the heads of passersby following an accident. Oh, man, I’d feel bad if he ever passed me. [THR]
Dec 7 2010 03:16 PM ET

Jack Black and Jason Segel get animated for Christmas duet

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Jack Black and his Gulliver’s Travels co-star, Jason Segel, have combined their musical genius to create something merry. No, it’s not a puppet show about a Mexican wrestler — though that would be good, too. Instead, the two renaissance men have lent their vocal skills to an updated version of the classic Christmas medley, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.” It’s a surprisingly earnest collaboration, underscored by an animated music video at CollegeHumor.com. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 02:50 PM ET

Yo, Rocky! Sylvester Stallone voted into Boxing Hall of Fame

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rocky-1976Image Credit: Everett CollectionSylvester Stallone was always a Hall of Famer in my book, but today it became official, as he was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Officially, he enters the Hall as a Screenwriter — he was nominated for an Oscar for writing Rocky — but that doesn’t really begin to describe his role as an all-around boxing ambassador during the last 35 years. If anything, I have to ask, What took them so long? Rocky Balboa has been an American hero since he went the distance with Apollo Creed in 1976; he went on to win the Cold War in 1985 when he chopped down the big Russian, Ivan Drago.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 12:59 PM ET

Eli Wallach is 95 today. Commence celebrating now.

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eli-wallach-good-bad-uglyImage Credit: Everett CollectionEli Wallach’s birthday is not a national holiday… yet. But perhaps it should be. The actor, who turns 95 today, has been an old pro for such a long time — he was 50 when he played his most famous role — that he’s practically become a walking symbol of Greatest Generation professionalism. A few years ago, he merrily stole The Holiday out from under his younger co-stars. In a nearly wordless performance in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Wallach made his frail elder banker look like the smartest (and funniest, and most menacing) guy in the room. But we shouldn’t just praise Wallach for being one of the Grand Old Men of Cinema. He’s had a long, winding career on stage and the small screen. He was Mr. Freeze on the Batman TV series. He won a Tony award 50 years ago for a Tennessee Williams play, The Rose Tattoo. Most importantly, he was Tuco in Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Homicidal, relentlessly malicious, hilariously venal and more than a little psychotic, Tuco is also the beating heart of the movie. (Clint Eastwood is just the cool-eyed straight man. You could say that Eastwood’s the pole, and Wallach is the lunatic tetherball.)

All that, and Wallach’s been married to the same woman — Anne Jackson, a fellow performer and frequent co-star — for 62 years. PopWatchers, join me in saluting one of the greats. May he continue to impress (and amuse) well into his 100s. And remember: Always take your gun into the bathtub.

Read more:
Francis Ford Coppola, Eli Wallach, and Jean-Luc Godard win Oscars (but not on TV)

Dec 7 2010 12:10 PM ET

Clip du jour: Blah, blah, blah

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Behold, a supercut of characters saying “blah blah blah.” (Other awesome supercuts include: all the “holy” expressions on Batman, slow claps, mirror scares, we’ve got company, Lost eyeballs… ) Yada yada yada, it’s great, even though Bob Loblaw is tragically absent, presumably because he’s from a TV show: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 12:06 PM ET

Which TV network could you not live without?

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tv-logosA recent study by Needham & Co. analyst Laura Martin shows the favorite TV stations among viewers opting to cut their cable cords. Three hundred participants were asked to list the channels that must be available online in order for them to turn off their TV subscription, and unsurprisingly, the four major networks came out on top, with CBS leading the way with 34 percent of the vote. ESPN came in a close fifth at 31 percent, and despite being in one-third of the households as the Big Four networks, HBO still managed to gain 11 percent of votes among participants.

But online, schmonline, PopWatchers. Which TV network could you simply not live without? For those of us lucky Cablevision subscribers in New York’s tri-state area, this hypothetical question hits a little too close to home. Multiple disputes in 2010 alone have led to the temporary absence of some of our favorite channels (Food Network, HGTV, ABC, and Fox) proving that Joni Mitchell was right: You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. Who knew I valued ABC so much until I missed the opening number of this year’s Oscars? While I watch more shows on the peacock network (Parenthood, Community, 30 Rock, and The Office, plus Football Night in America) and generally try to catch up online when I miss new episodes, that’s all to save face here in the office; deep down I’d be most concerned with the absence of Bravo (le gasp!). I’ve glimpsed at my future: A life without the delectable food porn of Top Chef, the atrocious wigs of the Real Housewives, and the backwards yet sometimes applicable advice of Patti Stanger on Millionaire Matchmaker, is not one I want to live.

What about you? What’s your desert island TV channel of choice?

Dec 7 2010 11:40 AM ET

Joan Rivers, I love you, but you're bringing me down

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It was just months ago that we were all losing our shizz over how great Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is, and now the upcoming Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? kind of ruins all that. How fake and depressing can one two-minute clip be? Let’s find out! READ FULL STORY »

Dec 7 2010 11:17 AM ET

PETA fires at Sarah Palin after she hunts caribou

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sarah-palin-caribouImage Credit: Gilles Mingasson/DiscoverySarah Palin anticipated animal activists would not respond well to her going caribou hunting on last Sunday’s episode of her TLC reality show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, and she was right: PETA Vice President Dan Mathews has issued a statement saying, “Sarah seems to think that resorting to violence and blood and guts may lure people into watching her boring show, but the ratings remain as dead as the poor animals she shoots.” (As Fancast points out, that’s not exactly true: The ratings for the series have been on the rise — and should hit a high when Kate Gosselin goes camping with Palin this week.)

Sunday morning, before the episode aired, Palin posted a preemptive message on Facebook: “Tonight’s hunting episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska ‘controversial’? Really? 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. I remain proudly intolerant of anti-hunting hypocrisy. :) ” As someone who does all three, I guess I have to agree with her, even if the scene of her hunting, skinning, and quartering the caribou with her father (and quoting Ted Nugent) is excruciating to watch. (See it below, but you’ve been warned.) As shown in the cheerier promo for the episode, Palin hunts to put meat in her family’s freezer. Like she says, if you eat meat, you can’t fault her — even if you don’t want to watch her.  READ FULL STORY »

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