SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Sing-Off, do not click here! After the jump, an interview with the winners of the a cappella reality series. READ FULL STORY »
Archive: December 2010 (61-70 of 304)
Dec 21
2010
05:05 PM ET
Larry David celebrates treasure bath that is Republican tax cuts
Image Credit: Armando Gallo/Retna LtdOn Curb Your Enthusiasm, the list of things that annoy Larry David is amusingly endless. Teenaged trick-or-treaters who don’t take Halloween seriously; house tours; bald chefs who are ashamed of their baldness. But there’s one thing that is making the real David smile these days: Republican tax cuts. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, the Seinfeld funnyman mock-celebrated the government’s decision to extend the Bush tax cuts on the extremely wealthy: “There is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the last person in the world I’d want to be beside, but I am beside myself! READ FULL STORY »
Dec 21
2010
04:35 PM ET
Clip du jour: Movie characters laughing
Go ahead, try to watch this supercut of characters laughing without getting the giggles yourself. I can’t believe this video contains Muppet Treasure Island, Jurassic Park, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. It’s like it was made just for me! READ FULL STORY »
Dec 21
2010
04:00 PM ET
What were your favorite movie scenes of 2010?
Image Credit: Disney/PixarWhen I eventually look back at 2010, I’ll reflect upon the films that mattered, the films that dared to be different, and the films that made an impact on my heart and mind. But as time goes on, my impressions of many of my favorite films will inevitably be boiled down to a series of spectacular moments. For example, I revere The Silence of the Lambs, and I’ve seen it enough times to know it by heart. But there’s one scene that encapsulates my experience with those characters. You know the scene. Other times, that keystone scene isn’t so universal, and that makes it almost more special. There’s a scene in You’ve Got Mail (Yes, You’ve Got Mail!!!) where Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finally decide to meet in-person, and when he learns that his cyberpal is actually his sworn enemy, he pretends to just bump into her and then razzes her for being stood-up. Ryan’s character ends up snapping back at him, and his body absorbs every cruel verbal dart. (“That’s my cue.”) It always breaks my heart a little bit. When I choose to think of that movie, I think of that scene.
This year, like any other, had its share of classic scenes, but there are three in particular that stood out to me:
3. Natalie Portman’s transformation into the Black Swan. READ FULL STORY »
Dec 21
2010
03:50 PM ET
Apple yanks WikiLeaks app
Apple pulled a WikiLeaks app from its App Store, Tech Crunch reports, because the app “violated [Apple's] developer guidelines.” Apple has been notoriously vague about approving apps, or pulling them from the store even after they’re approved, and this is just one more example of the often opaque process.
If you want to read WikiLeaks on your iPhone, there’s still an amazing program that lets you do it: Safari. Read it to your heart’s content! You can access all kinds of crazy stuff.
Do I wish Apple were more transparent about its approval guidelines? Certainly. But am I worried that they’re going to pull, say, a newspaper’s app because that paper published an article that contains information obtained from leaked memos? I’m really, really not.
But maybe you are, PopWatchers. How slippery do you imagine this slope to be?
Read more:
Julian Assange has sold his memoirs
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Dec 21
2010
03:20 PM ET
Larry King debuts stand-up routine on 'Tonight Show.' Yes, you read that right.
On last night’s Tonight Show, Larry King — the now-former CNN host — debuted a gentle stand-up routine. It was the kind of monologue a good-natured great-uncle might tell at Thanksgiving: slow set-up and moderate payoff for jokes that sound like they’ve always been around. King promised as much, saying what he tells are stories, not jokes. Still, Leno seemed to be pushing King to poke fun at his own life, since he’s (without Viagra) managed to father a 10-year-old kid while another 55-year-old son stands in the shadows.
Check out video embedded after the jump. What do you think PopWatchers: Does Larry King have a future in stand-up? And aren’t you glad he didn’t choose music? READ FULL STORY »
Dec 21
2010
02:43 PM ET
'Jersey Shore' extended trailer: Snooki gets arrested ... and Sammi leaves?
The new extended trailer for Jersey Shore season 3 has arrived, giving us a better sense of the complex plotlines we’ll see play out when the gang returns to Seaside Heights. New cast member Deena is “exactly like Snooki,” according to Sammi, and haven’t we all been feeling like the show could use another Snooki? (Deena’s first line in the trailer: “It took a day for someone to see my goods!” We really have to do something about our education system.) Also, J-Woww is going through a painful break-up, which is sad, but Snooki gets arrested, which is even sadder. (“I’m a good person!” she screams.) At one point, Sammi appears to leave the house … for good? And, finally,, Ronnie gets a proctology exam. Or anyways, it looks like a proctology exam. And if it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, it’s a proctology exam. “Hell has to be just like this,” says Vinny, a clear reference to Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit. Watch it all below… READ FULL STORY »
Dec 21
2010
02:15 PM ET
Mark Wahlberg and Will Smith offered $1 million to fight each other. Which other celebrities should face-off?
Image Credit: Jojo Whilden, Frank ConnorA boxing promoter named Grant Bovey is reportedly offering Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg $1 million to face-off in the ring on Feb. 26 in Las Vegas. Bovey has successfully organized celebrity matches in the past… though they were hardly A-list affairs (see: Danny Bonaduce vs. Michael Lohan). Despite Bovey’s offer that all proceeds would go to Smith and Wahlberg’s charities of choice, a match between these two movie-trained boxers (Smith for Ali and Wahlberg for The Fighter) seems unlikely to come to fruition.
In the meantime, I’m now imagining other provocative celeb-offs. Oprah vs. Tyra Banks is a show I would default on my school loans to fund. Also, Zooey Deschanel vs. her twin Katy Perry. (Has anyone seen them in a room together?). Then there’s Conan O’Brien vs. Jay Leno, Kathie Lee vs. Hoda, Taylor Swift vs. Amy Winehouse… the possibilities are actually endless!
So what about it PopWatchers: Any celebs you’d love to see duke it out? (And how late 1990s does this all feel right now?) Comment away!
Dec 21
2010
01:24 PM ET
Ron Howard wants Viggo Mortensen (maybe) for 'Dark Tower'
Image Credit: Albert L. Ortega/PR PhotosWhom does Ron Howard want to see as Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower? Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, Jon Hamm, or Viggo Mortensen, according to the LA Times. Howard “nodded” when their names came up, and even suggested Mortensen based on his popularity on fansites.
Howard said that he “can’t stop thinking about” the upcoming mega-adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling work. In print, Tower currently includes seven novels (with another in the works) and seven volumes of comic books; on screen, the plan is to have three movies and a two-season television series. That’s a lot of Dark Tower!
And it’s a massive, massive undertaking for whoever gets cast as the beloved Gunslinger. Who would you want to see in the role, PopWatchers?
Read more:
‘The Dark Tower’ adaptations: Ron Howard is the new J.J. Abrams
Stephen King exclusive: Who should star in ‘The Dark Tower’? ‘The Twilight cast, of course.’
Dec 21
2010
11:07 AM ET
Why I picked 'Kirby's Epic Yarn' as worst game of 2010 -- and why I may have been wrong
Kirby’s Epic Yarn is a videogame — the latest in a very popular series — made exclusively for the Wii and suitable for gamers of any age. You play as Kirby, who on most days is a spunky pink blob with big anime eyes. But in this newest adventure, an evil wizard zaps Kirby into a ball-of-yarn version of himself and sends him into Patch Land, a whimsical world made of fabric, a Willy Wonka wonderland filled with thread monsters, denim terrain, polyester backgrounds, and of course, cotton ball clouds. The gameplay involves swinging, jumping, and whipping through many madcap levels (you can collect beads along the way if you want, but it’s not mandatory), advancing through a storyline about helping a petulant royal ruler named Fluff save his torn-asunder textile kingdom, as well Kirby’s native world, known as Dream Land. The game is well produced. In fact, Kirby’s Epic Yarn is one of the best-reviewed games of 2010, with a Metacritic score of 89.
And yet, I named it the worst videogame of the year in the new issue of EW. This is what I wrote:
“There’s a fine line between cute and grating, delightfully busy and irritatingly overwhelming — and for me, this hyperactively adorable side-scrolling puzzler crosses it.” READ FULL STORY »
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