From the same pit of comic-deleting existential misery that brought you Garfield Minus Garfield, the Internet has now coughed up 3eanuts, which has a simple gimmick: Removing the fourth panel from Charles M. Schulz’s daily Peanuts strips. Sound random? It’s not: Schulz typically used the final panel to end on a redemptive note — sometimes wistful, sometimes sarcastic — but it always lessened the sad gravity of the first three panels. Without that redemptive conclusion, we bear witness to the true existential horrors facing the cast of Peanuts. The future is relentlessly grim. Lucy is utterly cruel. Linus is apparently some sort of animal-hating fascist. In general, Charlie Brown lives in a world of relentless sadness and debilitation. 3eanuts is a great monument to Schultz’s delicate balancing act — he somehow made the subject matter of an Ingmar Bergman movie seem really funny for 50 years. 3eanuts will also just make you laugh, if you’re cynical, and you probably grew up reading Peanuts, so you have to be at least a little cynical. Good ol’ Charlie Brown… how we hate him! (Via AV Club)
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Daniel Radcliffe on the possibility of a 'How to Succeed' movie -- EXCLUSIVE
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Daniel Radcliffe hadn’t even hit the stage in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying when whispers started that he was in talks to star in a new movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Weeks later, his fans love the production — “We’re getting great support in the theater every night,” he says — and the critics are mostly on board as well. (Read EW stage editor Thom Geier’s A- review here.) So it seemed like the perfect time to ask if there is any truth to the rumors.
“The producers of the show would not be doing their jobs properly if they were not at this moment in time talking about the possibility of a How to Succeed movie,” Radcliffe tells EW. READ FULL STORY »
Even The Weather Channel has Royal Wedding fever!
With Prince William set to marry Kate Middleton in a mere 32 days, it seems that Royal Wedding Fever is spreading faster than Legionnaire’s Disease on a cruise ship. While it’s no surprise that Mary Hart and the Entertainment Tonight team came down with the bug, who knew Al Roker was a royals junkie? It’s true, y’all! According to a truly mind-boggling press release that just popped into my inbox, the esteemed weatherman will be heading to London to host a special edition of The Weather Channel’s Wake Up With Al on Monday, April 25. TWC will also, and I quote, “look at the outdoor beauty and natural splendor of the Royal couple’s new home, the North Wales island of Anglesey.”
That’s not all, folks! NBCUniversal’s entire lineup — including NBC, MSNBC, E!, Bravo, and Telemundo — will be getting into the act. Some highlights, after the jump. READ FULL STORY »
PopWatch Confessional: What's your quintessential Broadway number?
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Confession: I teared up during the Saturday matinee of Anything Goes, which is now in previews and opens April 7, because the massive Act 1 finale tap routine to the title song felt like quintessential Broadway to me. Watching Tony winner Sutton Foster (as Reno Sweeney) hoofing it with a sea of sailors and other passengers aboard the S.S. American was one of those experiences that made me stop, marvel, and appreciate the fact that at that moment, all over midtown Manhattan, musicals were happening. See a tease on the show’s site.
Have you had a similar experience? What’s quintessential Broadway to you?
Nintendo 3DS review: Is glasses-free 3-D gaming worth the $250 price tag?
First things first: Yes, the glasses-free 3-D screen of the Nintendo 3DS — the central new feature on the venerable gaming company’s latest handheld salvo for total domination of our free time — is a wonder to behold. The experience of watching your games play out in three-dimensions with just your own eyeballs, whether it’s a furry puppy running away from you in Nintendogs + Cats or a wide-receiver racing for a Hail Mary pass in Madden Football, is all kinds of uncanny. When the sleek, slim device first arrived at my office, I took it around to several of my non-gamer colleagues to gauge their reaction, and to a person, they all lit up with the kind of giddy fascination I imagine kids in the early 1980s felt when they stepped into their very first arcade. For the first five minutes, anyway.
Because here’s the inescapable thing about the Nintendo 3DS: It is a sure-fire headache machine. READ FULL STORY »
'Scream of the Banshee': Is it Syfy's newest 'classic'?
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When it comes to original movies, it’s kind of hard to beat the Syfy channel. After all, this is the network that’s given the world Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Ice Spiders, and Mansquito. For its 200th (!) original film, Syfy unveiled Scream of the Banshee last night.
Lauren Holly (NCIS) stars as archeologist professor Isla Whelan, who apparently is in charge of some sort of massive organizational project down in her school’s very dark and creepy-looking basement. She’s got a couple of plucky assistants to help her, Otto (Todd Haberkorn) and Janine (Leanne Cochran), and one very disaffected why-can’t-I-ever-please-you-mom teenager, Shayla (Marcelle Baer), each of whom happen to be in the vicinity (along with an unfortunately placed security guard) when they discover a mysterious box — a box hidden behind a false wall! A box that can only be opened with an armored hand! READ FULL STORY »
'Book of Mormon': Why Josh Gad almost turned down his star-making role -- EXCLUSIVE
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A few months ago, Josh Gad was best known for small parts in movies like 21 and Love and Other Drugs. Today, he’s one of the stars of Broadway’s newest hit The Book of Mormon, the blissfully blasphemous musical written by Avenue Q‘s Bobby Lopez and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Gad plays Elder Cunningham, a misfit Mormon missionary sent to Uganda to baptize the natives. The role is already drawing rave reviews and bringing Gad, 30, the biggest publicity of his career. But as it turns out, the actor almost didn’t sign on to the musical when he was first wooed for the role by Lopez three years ago.
“I remember Bobby first sending me a demo recording of one of the show’s numbers that’s rather controversial, and I called my agent and said, ‘I don’t know if I can do this,’” Gad tells EW. READ FULL STORY »
Our secret obsession: Marlee Matlin's interpreter on 'Celebrity Apprentice'
Granted, I am pretty much obsessed with every aspect of the awesomely absurd Celebrity Apprentice, but one person in particular has stolen the show this season, and he’s not even a contestant or a Trump. It is Jack Jason, the aggressively animated and overenthusiastic interpreter for Oscar winner Marlee Matlin. Jason doesn’t just translate Matlin’s words — the sassy little scamp also goes to great lengths to convey her emotions and feelings behind those words as well. And I’m not the only one who can’t get enough. EW’s Annie Barrett shares my fascination with JJ, so there was only one thing left to do: Track the man down! And that’s exactly what we did. On the latest installment of The InsideTV Podcast, Annie and I grill the intrepid interpreter about his unique technique, and if you loved him before, you’ll love him even more after hearing the instant Celebrity Apprentice legend sound off on a variety of topics.
To hear for yourself, just click on the audio player icon below. Or, since we’re on iTunes, you can subscribe for free and take the podcast with you on the go. No iTunes? No problem. You can also download the entire podcast right here. And to send a question to the InsideTV Podcast team, follow us on Twitter @InsideTVPodcast. Okay, take it away, Jack!
Kirstie Alley and George Lopez make peace (on Twitter, of course)
Attention world! We can all breathe a huge sigh of relief with the news that Kirstie Alley and George Lopez have settled their feud, which has been playing out over Twitter after Lopez likened the Dancing With the Stars competitor to a pig on his TBS talk show.
After a string of 140-character barbs (which included the suggestion that Lopez give back the kidney his wife donated him), the actress seems to have relented, tweeting, “In fairness.. Mr. Lopez sent me a HUGE Slew of flowers today… I formally accept your flowers and your regards…heres yur kidney back..;)“
This Week on Stage: The 'South Park' team sets a new standard for the 21st century Broadway musical
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Theater lovers already mourning Liz Taylor and Helen Stenborg lost another hero this week when 73-year-old Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of the three Talley Trilogy plays and an off-Broadway icon, died on Thursday.
In Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark news, an onstage injury forced Arachne actress T.V. Carpio to take a two week leave from the musical, while the production’s creative team reportedly cut the show’s much maligned “Greek Chorus.” READ FULL STORY »
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