Archive: March 2011 (161-170 of 379)

Mar 18 2011 03:50 PM ET

Charlie Sheen adds tour dates, invites fans to 'follow his lead'

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Categories: Career 911, Celebrity Feuds, Charlie Sheen, Stage/Theater
Charlie-Sheen

Image Credit: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com

What started out as two curious showdates in the midwest is now a legitimate tour. Charlie Sheen has now scheduled 20 shows as part of his My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Death is Not an Option Tour that will take him across the continent, from New York to San Francisco. And as Sheen proudly announced on Twitter, his shows are selling out. But what exactly is the show? Will it simply be a live version of Sheen’s pained and panned webcast? Who knows? Sheen’s promotional pitch is nothing but enigmatic: “Will there be surprises? Will there be guests? Will there be mayhem? Will you ask questions? Will you laugh? Will you scream? Will you know the truth? WILL THERE BE MORE?!?! This IS where you will hear the REAL story from the Warlock. Bring it. I dare you to keep up with me.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 03:31 PM ET

This Week on Stage: Star-studded ‘Fat Pig’ postponed, ‘Arcadia’ opens to raves

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Categories: Stage/Theater
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Image Credit: Carol Rosegg

Looks like we’re waiting a little longer for Dane Cook’s Broadway debut. Producers of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig (featuring the comic and Julia Stiles) announced Thursday that the play’s April opening has been pushed back until next season. But at least that show is still going on: Earlier in the week, Arthur Laurents confirmed he’s put the kibosh on the Barbra Streisand-led film adaptation of Gypsy, crushing the dreams of “Rose’s Turn” fans everywhere.

Yet, it’s not all bad news for theater folk. The Olivier Awards (Britain’s Tonys) were handed out on Sunday, making winners like Sheridan Smith, who grabbed the Best Actress in a Musical prize for Legally Blonde, very happy. Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony started its hilarious, if short, Broadway run (check out Kathy’s self-penned fictitious Playbill bio here). And our critics saw two plays: One off-Broadway dud and one splendid Great White Way must-see. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 03:25 PM ET

Johnny Depp may cameo in Ricky Gervais' new show 'Life's Too Short.' (Don't tell Orlando Bloom!)

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Categories: British Things, Celebrity Feuds, Johnny Depp, Ricky Gervais, Television
Depp-Gervais

Image Credit: Tommaso Boddi/PR Photos; David Gabber/PR Photos

EW has confirmed that Johnny Depp is in talks to cameo on an episode of Ricky Gervais’s upcoming BBC2 series, Life’s Too Short. (Deadline first reported the story.) You may recall that Gervais playfully knocked Depp and The Tourist at the Golden Globes awards, where the Pirates of the Caribbean star was fawned over by the Hollywood Foreign Press with two nominations for Best Actor, so this would indicate that Depp doesn’t hold a grudge.

You know who should be thrilled that Depp doesn’t nurse a grudge? Orlando Bloom. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 01:50 PM ET

Rep. Anthony Weiner channels his inner Jon Stewart over NPR defunding bill

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Categories: Politics as Entertainment, Television

Yesterday, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to cut federal funding to National Public Radio, whose CEO recently resigned after an undercover video captured an NPR exec criticizing the Tea Party movement. That doesn’t mean that popular radio programs and podcasts like Fresh Air and All Songs Considered are doomed just yet. In fact, the House vote may amount to little more than a symbolic slap on the wrist since the Democratic-controlled Senate is less inclined to move on an anti-NPR bill. But that didn’t stop Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – N.Y.) from channeling his inner Jon Stewart during yesterday’s floor debate, during which he “applauded” his colleagues across the political aisle for finally tackling the root causes of our country’s current woes: Click & Clack. Take a look. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 12:27 PM ET

'Hunger Games': Now that Katniss is cast, who should play Peeta and Gale?

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Categories: Books, Casting
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Image Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR Photos; Dominique Charriau/WireImage.com; Andrew Evans/PR Photos

Well, that’s that. Now that Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) has been officially announced as the actress to play Katniss in The Hunger Games movie, we can all calm down and just wait patiently for the movie to come out. Right? Nope. Now we get to fret and ponder and postulate about who will play the whole slew of additional characters. Clearly, the most pressing of those characters are Gale and Peeta, the other two love-triangle sides to Katniss’ love hypotenuse.

For Peeta, Katniss’ Games partner and pretend (or is it real?) love interest, a few names have been floating around the entertain-o-sphere. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 11:20 AM ET

'Harry Potter' finale featurette: Stop. Hurting. Hogwarts.

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Categories: Harry Potter, Movies, Waiting, Why Am I Crying?

I remember the first time I read quotes from the Harry Potter trio talking about the destruction we’ll see in the saga’s final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. Because I teared up. Maybe it’s because I’ve been preparing myself to watch Harry’s walk through the forest without my turning into a blubbering fool in public that now, seeing Hogwarts under fire actually hits me harder than any tease of that scene. I suppose it could also be because Hogwarts represents all that is good in the Potter realm, as well as the best of imagination and wonder in ours. Watch the new featurette, with tons of action sequences below.  READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 11:10 AM ET

Rebecca Black on 'Good Morning America': 'I think I have talent on some level'

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Categories: Bitchery, Everyone's a Critic, Music, Ouch! That Was My Ear!, Television, YouTube

Friday. Friday. Got to get down on Friday. Rebecca Black, the teenage singer whose music video, “Friday,” has become an Internet sensation, appeared on this morning’s Good Morning America. ABC’s Andrea Canning initially said she thought the song “was king of catchy,” but then she proceeded to read the worst of Black’s hate-mail and give the teen a singing test (At least she got the national anthem’s words right!). READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 10:38 AM ET

'Wolverine 2': Who should be the new director?

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Categories: Comic Books, Geekery

Listen, there’s no getting around the fact that Darren Aronofsky’s departure from The Wolverine is a disappointment. The project was a uniquely good fit for the director: Aronofsky’s last couple of films have focused on characters who push their bodies to ludicrous extremes, which pretty well sums up Wolverine, whose main superpower is the ability to take a million punches and a shotgun blast to the forehead without stopping. Aronofsky’s Wolverine now joins Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One, Aronofsky’s Robocop, and Aronofsky’s episode of Lost on the ever-expanding pile of “Awesome Commercially-Viable Projects Darren Aronofsky Never Ends Up Doing.” But you have to admire 20th Century Fox for even hiring Aronofsky in the first place. It shows that they’re genuinely interested in bringing some fresh blood into the X-Men franchise, or are at least devoted to making something better than this claptrap. So it’s time to start pondering, film fans: Who do you want to replace Aronofsky as the Wolverine director? READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 09:00 AM ET

Why Hollywood's new Superman needs to change -- and how to do it.

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Categories: Comic Books, Movies, Superman
Superman-movies

Image Credit: Everett Collection; Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images; David James

The pieces of Hollywood’s new model Superman are coming together. At the helm: Producer Christopher Nolan, screenwriter David S. Goyer and director Zack Snyder. British thesp Henry Cavill will play the Man of Steel, and Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play the hero’s adopted Earth parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent. In the coming weeks, we should be getting casting announcements about the film’s villain (Zod?), leading lady (Lois Lane?), and its official title (Superman: Man of Steel?).  We know something about that the movie won’t be: In our recent cover story about Cavill’s casting, Snyder told EW that unlike director Bryan Singer’s 2004 bid to reboot Superman, his movie won’t be beholden to the continuity of the original Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve. (Snyder reaffirmed that sentiment in a recent interview with Geoff Boucher of The Los Angeles Times.) Snyder — whose new action fantasy Sucker Punch opens March 25 — told me last month that he has “great respect” for previous Super-flicks. “But just like Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins broke with the previous Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies, this is a clean slate approach to Superman.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 18 2011 05:54 AM ET

'American Idol' on the scene for Top 12 results show: Tears, hugs, and the mystery of the 'goop'

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Categories: American Idol, On the Scene, Reality TV, Television
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Image Credit: Michael Becker/Fox/PictureGroup

The Idoldome giveth and it taketh away. In the case of Thursday night’s Top 12 results show, it offered us a group performance that (for once) delivered the goods, plus some St. Patrick’s Day stage lighting and a snazzy drink coaster 10th Anniversary Idol CD. But in exchange for these fine gifts, Karen Rodriguez had to bid adieu to her Idol dreams. Tears were shed (not only by Karen), hugs were exchanged, and Bones started at its scheduled time. Life moves on, but let’s hold on to that single hour in the Idoldome just a bit longer and dive into the moments you didn’t see on TV. READ FULL STORY »

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