Image Credit: CBSHere’s a conundrum. By all indications, one of TV’s most notoriously single men is head over heels in love with a woman. Before you ask — no, that in itself is not the issue at hand. In fact, I rather enjoy it when Barney shows emotional growth and evolves as a character. I loved when he silently pined after Robin (though, a large part of me always liked them better as friends, and their interactions last night proved that’s a fair preference). I loved that he suddenly found himself so smitten with a woman that he rejected an offer from Robin to have ex-sex in last night’s episode. (It was a test; not a real offer.) And I think many of us can agree that it’s about time he think about the future of his love life. The problem is that I feel like I don’t know the woman who’s so suddenly stolen my Barnacle’s heart. READ FULL STORY »
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'How I Met Your Mother': Will you be disappointed if the wedding is Barney's?
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Justin Bieber's Hair cut down: A teen nation mourns
Justin Bieber — hipster, hoopster, Canadian of the Millennium — got a haircut yesterday. Repeat: Justin Bieber has cut his famed Hair. The Hair was approximately six years old when it was cut down in the prime of its lush life. Bieber (pictured with Jay DeMarcus) made the decision to cut the cords for a video he was making with Rascal Flatts. No one has been arrested for the crime. Yet. The Hair was partially responsible for the wave of Biebermania that has soaked the adolescent masses and New England Patriot quarterbacks. READ FULL STORY »
'RuPaul's Drag Race': How 'Precious' was Stacy Layne Matthews last night?
Last year on RuPaul’s Drag Race, one of the best episodes of the season was when Ru introduced The Snatch Game, a riff on the ’70s and ’80s staple The Match Game. You fans likely remember, but the episode very memorably saw queens like EW fave Pandora Boxx imitate Carol Channing and Tatianna take on Britney Spears. Last night was this year’s edition, and we saw Shangela take on Tina Turner, Delta Work do Cher (kinda poorly), Manila Luzon put on her best Imelda Marcos, Raja channel her inner Tyra Banks, and so on.
But, if you can imagine, this season’s queens topped last year’s, and mostly because of — get ready to be shocked to the core — none other than Stacy Layne Matthews. Yes, I’m going there! Last night’s episode was insane and beautiful and offensive because one of the most questionable contestants in Drag Race history — yes, I’m talking about SLM! — made it so by perfectly doing a drag impersonation of Mo’Nique circa Mary, the actresses’ character from 2009′s Oscar-winning movie Precious. See the screen grab above for all the evidence you need.
Chris Harrison blogs 'The Bachelor' episode 8
I’ve said it four or five times and I’ll say it again: I love the hometown dates on this show. The trips to Costa Rica and Anguilla were fantastic, but Brad and the women were happy to stop living in the group dynamic and take this next step. We started in Seattle with Chantal. Brad had never been to Seattle so what was the first thing he wanted to do? Yes, stop at a Starbucks for a cup of coffee, because as you know Seattle is the only place in the country to get Starbucks. The irony of this trip was that it’s rained on us everywhere we’ve been but the weather in Seattle where it always rains was beautiful. Chantal was looking forward to Brad meeting her family, but she was really nervous about him meeting her dog Boca. A couple things stood out to me on this hometown date: Brad really seems comfortable and to fit in with Chantal’s family. They seemed all but ready to have a wedding on the spot. The other thing I noticed is Chantal’s dad’s wine cellar. Wow, I have cellar envy. READ FULL STORY »
'The Bachelor' episode 8: Home is where the aneurysm hook is
Well, hometown date week is behind us, rose-lovers, and I don’t know about you, but I learned waaaaaaay more about the embalming process than I needed to know. The only thing more frightening about the episode were the hideous dresses the final four “ladies” wore during the rose ceremony. Seriously, ugliest frocks ever? I think so. No spoilers here (click over my full Bachelor episode 8 recap for that), though I will say I was surprised about who went home. How about you? Also surprising: the size of Chantal’s parents house. Or should I say, their compound. I’m pretty sure that place has its own zip code. So, Bachelor fans, what did you think about tonight’s episode? Gird your loins, folks, because we’re just one week away from the Fantasy Suite!
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Animatronic Kim Kardashian in 'Super C-U-T-E' Old Navy commercial becomes most prominent menace in blogger's life
I am certain she wants to kill me.
No surrender. We must find the lab that harvested this exquisite robot…and exploit it! Who’s with me? READ FULL STORY »
'Saturday Night Live Backstage': A two-hour-long excuse to rewatch your favorite sketches
If you have a fever and the only prescription is more Saturday Night Live, you were in luck last night. After a rerun of SNL’s best commercial parodies — go, bathroom monkey, go! — NBC aired a new two-hour special that went behind-the-scenes at the venerable sketch show, accompanied by a pre-late night warning that some of the footage might not be ready for prime time. Of course, all the “backstage” bits weren’t anything nearly as juicy as what you’d find on a random page of Live From New York, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales’ fantastic oral history of the show. Rather, it was mostly a talking-head-curated nostalgia trip back through a whole bunch of our favorite skits, as well as a couple not-so-favorite ones. (Gilly-y-y, I’m looking at you.)
EXCLUSIVE: Aidan Turner on prepping for 'The Hobbit' and possibly leaving 'Being Human'
Image Credit: Touchpaper Television and BBC AmericaThe U.K. version of Being Human returned last night with a big shocker: While saving Annie (Lenora Crichlow) from Purgatory (where she’s been stuck since last season’s finale), Aidan Turner’s Mitchell discovered that, unlike most vampires, he’s going to die. And a werewolf is going to kill him—which is pretty problematic because he lives with two. So does this mean that Turner, who recently landed the major role of dwarf Kili in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit could be leaving the cult hit? The actor chatted with EW from the movie’s New Zealand set to straighten things out, talk a bit about The Hobbit and spill some more details about Mitchell’s new storyline, the much-hyped return of his bloodsucking season 1 foe Herrick (Jason Watkins), his blossoming relationship with ghost Annie, and more (SPOILER-phobes beware).
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You were sporting a pretty impressive beard at the Hobbit press conference. Is that for Kili?
AIDAN TURNER: Yeah, it is. I’m growing out the beard. We’re giving it a chance, seeing what it looks like. READ FULL STORY »
Finally, some girls in pop culture with grit
I think one of the things that I love most about the Hunger Games series–Suzanne Collins’ riveting dystopian trilogy that everyone seems to have either read and loved or is currently reading and loving–is that it stars a girl. Not just any girl, mind you. It stars Katniss Everdeen–as resilient and competent and scrappy and flawed as any hero in pop culture that I can remember. She’s 16 years old. She’s not silly nor love struck nor a hand-wringer when it comes to boys or her appearance. She is a fighter, without ever seeming cartoonish.
“It’s an amazing character for a girl,” says Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson. I asked Jacobson if she could name any other girls in pop culture with Katniss’ mettle and she paused for a minute. “Lisbeth Salander,” she finally said, referring to Stieg Larsson’s marvelously resourceful and spectacularly whack hacker heroine in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. “And I think that’s the only one you can really point to and it’s not YA literature. So she’s much more scary than Katniss. She’s more damaged than Katniss. She’s a really dark character, and she’s the backbone of that book as well. But other than those two characters it’s a very short list.”
'Smallville': Clark gets glasses! Solving Superman's secret identity problem with 'Masquerade'
Image Credit: Jack Rowand/The CWSmallville’s Superman finally decided he needed a mask – and it looks a lot like the stumbling, bumbling nerded-up Clark Kent act that Christopher Reeve perfected in the late actor’s quartet of Superman flicks. Put another way: The last son of Krypton got glasses in last night’s episode, “Masquerade,” a pleasing and pivotal outing in Smallville’s swan song season, one that saw the nearly-realized Man of Steel wrap his mind around a big sticking point in his grand super-hero project. From Clark’s perspective, since he was always meant to be a super-powered Good Samaritan – as that is his true identity – then that’s the person the world should know; ergo, that man should never go cloaked or concealed. But how to be out and proud and yet protect the other parts of his life that are just as dear and meaningful to him – true love Lois Lane and his journalist’s job at The Daily Planet? READ FULL STORY »
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