Archive: March 2011 (211-220 of 379)

Mar 15 2011 02:00 AM ET

'RuPaul's Drag Race': Alexis Mateo makes a patriotic splash!

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Week ago, I was obsessed with Raja. Then I fell for Stacy Layne. Last week, I was reals into Shangela! And now, after last night’s delightful, patriotic-themed episode, I found myself falling for the charming Alexis Mateo, who I previously hadn’t been that into so far this season. After loving on all these different gals over the past few weeks, I feel like a Drag Race slut.

Because, of course, you know whose fault this constant love-shifting is? The Drag Race producers! They’re playing games with my heart, making me love a different queen each week, by using genius editing and their other unseen tricks of the trade. No fair! So yes, I do love all the queens on Drag Race, but this week Alexis was especially sparkly and pretty and alluring. And on the producer thing, well, I suppose that is their job — to make we, the viewers, fall in love with each of the different characters on a reality competition show before they’re picked off, one by one. Heartbreaking! But it ensures that I’ll tune back in each week. (As if I wouldn’t anyway.) Honestly, if I had to say who I love most right now, I simply couldn’t. All the girls are doing it for me this season.

But back to Alexis Mateo, who ruled with her three different looks last night. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 15 2011 01:05 AM ET

Chris Harrison blogs 'The Bachelor' and 'After the Final Rose'

chris-bachelor-padThree years and two go-rounds as the Bachelor, and Brad Womack has finally found love. It’s not exactly as cut and dry as that, as you saw on the After the Final Rose special — but we’ll get to that in just a bit. Let’s back up to where this final episode landed us in the world. We left the bush of South Africa for the beautiful city of Cape Town. Our entire crew loved the One and Only resort right on the waterfront, just a ten-minute walk to the new stadium built for last summer’s World Cup. (Speaking of, a huge thanks to USA Soccer for having several of us as their guest when the U.S. national team played South Africa. They were nice enough to not only have us as their guests, but they were good about keeping it a secret that we were there.)

Brad didn’t stay at the resort with us; he was at a private house about ten minutes away. You’ve heard time and time again how much Brad’s family means to him but it was very evident just how much when you saw his reaction when they showed up at his house. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 15 2011 01:05 AM ET

Ashley H. is the new Bachelorette. But is she crazy enough?

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ABC is continuing their reuse, renew, recycle strategy for the new season of The Bachelorette: Jimmy Kimmel announced tonight that Ashley H. will be the next Bachelorette when the series premieres on May 23. What do we know about Ashley H.? Let’s see… She’s a 26-year-old dental student from Madawaska, Maine; she’s got a brand new head of hair extensions; and she is not the other Ashley from Brad’s season, in case you were wondering. I won’t lie to you, rose lovers — I’m disappointed that Brad’s main dumpee Chantal didn’t wind up with the gig. She’s an emotional train wreck and therefore a natural reality TV star. Sure, Ashley H. gets defensive and shuts down emotionally when feeling vulnerable or challenged, but she’s far from being the mayor of Crazytown. I’m sure we’ll hear lots and lots about how Ashley H. destroyed her chance at happiness with Brad because of her “intimacy” “issues” — and her completely destructive desire to have a career — but it simply can’t measure up to my mental picture of a weepy, moody, stress-eating Chantal drunkenly threatening to jump off the roof of Casa Bachelorette when she learns one of her suitors has a girlfriend back home. That said, I’ll still be watching Ashley H.’s “journey.” In fact, they could make the gross skank who took off her thong at the cocktail party the Bachelorette and I’d still watch. (Actually, maybe that’s not such a bad idea…) Anyhow, are you pleased with the decision, rose lovers?

More on the Bachelor finale from EW:
The Bachelor finale recap: Happily Whatever After
The Bachelor: Chris Harrison’s behind-the-scenes blog

Mar 14 2011 10:05 PM ET

'The Bachelor' season finale: And the 'winner' is...

Do not click through if you don’t want to know the outcome… Seriously folks, last chance… For the rest of you rose lovers, let us discuss Brad’s new bride-to-be… READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 06:25 PM ET

'TRON 3': How to make it better than 'TRON: Legacy'

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Image Credit: Disney

When TRON: Legacy hits Blu-Ray early next month, it will arrive with a ten-minute long bonus video which teases a potential TRON threequel. The video has hit the Internet, and it’s mostly a feast for mythology-heads, taking the form of a pseudo-documentary which traces the fall of ENCOM, the rise of a Banksy-esque band of rebel hackers, and a cameo appearance by one of the cast members of the original TRON. (Check out the full video below.) The teaser, titled “The Next Day,” is definitely intended as a soft set-up for TRON 3.0.

Now, Legacy wasn’t exactly the box office bonanza that Disney was expecting, but it did well enough to possibly justify a sequel. From a qualitative standpoint, the movie was far from perfect — EW’s Owen Gleiberman gave the film a B — but to me, that’s an opportunity. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 06:00 PM ET

New 'Pirates of the Caribbean' poster: What is Captain Jack looking at?

Ahoy! Disney has released the newest poster for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, featuring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and a few Hidden Gems. (Is that Ariel I see being Part of Our World on that rock? Where’s her dinglehopper?) Of course, beyond the question of how much could Sparrow possibly accessorize(?!) is the query: What is Captain Jack looking at? Answer in the poll below!  READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 05:35 PM ET

Larry King reportedly considering a 'Daily Show' gig. Is comedy the hot career move for newscasters?

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Larry King is dead serious about his comedy. First, the former CNN anchor debuted some grampa stand-up on The Tonight Show. Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, he’s in talks to potentially join The Daily Show. (King would be an occasional contributor, like Lewis Black or Larry Wilmore.) Comedy Central wouldn’t confirm the talks, but it doesn’t seem that far outside the realm of possibility. For one thing, Stewart has always seemed pretty fond of King. For another thing, King wouldn’t be the first newscasting personality to make the jump into sly self-parody — former Fox newsbot Suzanne Sena has reinvented herself as a self-aware newsbot on Onion News Network, and former MSNBC rage-machine Keith Olbermann has been rumored as a “rant contributor” for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming cable-news drama. NBC’s Brian Williams, meanwhile, has a nice sub-career going as a hilarious cameo superstar on 30 Rock. Throw in Anderson Cooper’s willingness to parody himself on SNL — to say nothing of his role as the narrator in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — and you have to wonder: Does every newscaster secretly yearn for a career in comedy? READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 03:40 PM ET

'American Idol' contestant Paul McDonald: I've found his celebrity doppelganger(s)!

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It is a slow, slow news day, friends. So I’m going to discuss something that has been on my mind for approximately three weeks now, a vision from American Idol that I just can’t seem to shake. And no, I’m not talking about Ryan Seacrest’s Snooki-orange skin or Randy Jackson’s jewelry that was seemingly made at summer camp. I’m talking about Paul McDonald — an eccentric singer that, to me, looks eerily like Hugh Grant’s eccentric flatmate Spike (Rhys Ifans) in Notting HillREAD FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 02:59 PM ET

'Ferris Bueller's Day Off': Fake trailer converts classic '80s comedy into awful '00s dramedy

There is a thin line between yuppies and hipsters, and as a new fake trailer proves, it doesn’t take very much to convert John Hughes’ ’80s-teens-on-the-run comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off into an indie-film tale of mopey suburbanites with massive feelings. The video reconstitutes Ferris Bueller into a kind of proto-Garden State, with light music on the soundtrack and an emphasis on lines like “I am not gonna sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m gonna take a stand!” From a film analysis perspective, the fake trailer is a good reminder that John Hughes had a pretty remarkable visual sense — all those wide-angle shots and stark close-ups. From a historical perspective, we finally have scientific proof that Alan Ruck was the Michael Cera of the ’80s. Check out the video after the jump… READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2011 01:15 AM ET

'Firefly' rewatch: 'Bushwhacked' by rapacious space cannibals. And Doug Savant. Yes, this is Science Channel.

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“Bushwhacked” — the third episode of Firefly’s only, abbreviated season -– contained one of the late, lamented cult classic’s most haunting moments. With his rickety smuggler’s ship about to be boarded and searched by The Alliance, Mal decided to hide fugitive siblings Simon Tam and River from the authorities by sealing them up in spacesuits and stowing them outside. Simon – skeptical that mere “Mylar and glass” could protect him from the “nothing” of space – shuddered in fear. Incapable of even peeking at the infinite star-dotted expanse at his back, the buttoned-up doctor kept his eyes focused on Serenity’s steel hull like a quivering acrophobe terrified of looking down. Not so his sister. Gazing into the abyss, River’s face to lit up with rapt wonder. The “nothing” seemed to quiet the agonizing chaotic riot of her broken internal world. Noting her spacey-mystical bliss, Simon shivered some more and clung harder to Serenity’s battered iron. READ FULL STORY »

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