Carrot Top agreed to straighten his trademark curls for a Las Vegas Magazine cover shoot. The negotiations were epic, according to LasVegasSun.com’s Kats Report. It took two hours to convince the comedian to do it. He was so afraid his curls wouldn’t return that he first offered to let them just wet his hair. Unable to tolerate the disappointed faces, he ultimately caved. The process itself took four hours. “Part of me would like to come out one night and do the show with it totally straight,” he said. “The crowd would go nuts.” [Insert your own joke here.]
Archive: April 2011 (211-220 of 473)
Apr 19
2011
10:28 AM ET
Carrot Top gets a blowout. (Just accept that you care enough to look.)
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Apr 19
2011
09:34 AM ET
Gary Busey talks Meat Loaf, Buseyisms with Jimmy Kimmel: Watch!
The mysterious Gary Busey dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to visit with his biggest fan. (Kimmel would like to see him on every reality show possible.) Watch the two-part interview below. Naturally, Busey spent much of the time teeing off on his Celebrity Apprentice castmates, saying Team Backbone was filled with backstabbers who were jealous and afraid of him and wanted him off the show. “When you see Lil John, John Rich, and Meat Loaf, you know somewhere, there’s three villages missing their idiots,” he said. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
10:00 PM ET
'Cougar Town': 1-855-PENNYCAN. Penny Can!
Image Credit: Mitch Haddad/ABC
Cougar Town has been on a way-too-long hiatus so ABC could air Mr. Sunshine in its place. Instead of sunshine, this produced a rather dark, stormy cloud in my life. And while I’m in favor of Courteney Cox’s previous TV husband getting another chance at primetime, I curse the former Mrs. Chanandler Bong for making Cougar Town a distant memory in my TV-centric life.
But because ABC decided to slap out of it and air TWO new episodes this week, I’m willing to let bygones be bygones. ABC, you’re forgiven. Plus, they gave the all-new episode the coveted post-DWTS slot (“Hi Dance Fans, please still be there”). So grab your oversized wine glasses so we can chat about Monday night’s “Walls.” READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
08:00 PM ET
'Dancing With the Stars': Week 5 is liiiiiiiiiiiive!
Image Credit: Adam Larkey/ABC; Fringe Fairy booty grab
Update: Annie’s recap is liiiiiiive!
How great is our nation? The ballroom is about to tell us. We’re back, DANCMSTRs, for Week 5 of Planet Mirrorballus madness. In honor of Patriots’ Day, tonight’s show is all about the U.S.A., so count on Len feeling crustier and more British than ever. Chat here during/after the show, then come back later for my full episode recap. As always, nominate your Hidden Gems in the comments. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
07:15 PM ET
Joss Whedon talks 'Dr. Horrible' sequel, gives it fake title. Let's make suggestions!
Image Credit: Amy Opoka
It’s time for another chapter of Joss Whedon and the art of Dangling the Carrot. Oh, sir, how you tease.
In a chat with The New York Times, Whedon talked about a project very close to the hearts of PopWatchers everywhere: The second installment of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. ”We’ve got several songs near completion and we’ve got a very specific structure,” Whedon said. “We’ve just all got jobs. And it’s not like Neil [Patrick Harris], Nathan [Fillion] and Felicia [Day] ain’t busy either.” Whedon jokingly went on to say the installment would be called Dr. Horrible and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which wasn’t half bad. But we can do better — until the actual title is released. After which, all of our ideas will look like mere bugs of inadequacy in the Whedon-verse.
Until then, however, I invite your ideas. I’ll go first: Dr. Horrible and the Evil League of Evil Avenge the Unavenged Avengers. (I think it needs an Avengers reference — for Google traffic purposes, clearly.)
Your turn, PopWatchers. What would we want to see in a follow-up? Would you add anyone to the cast? And what is your title idea?
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‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’: An Oral History
Apr 18
2011
06:39 PM ET
Evan Rachel Wood comes out as bisexual
Image Credit: John P. Johnson/HBO; Everett Collection(2)
Usually, twentysomething actresses have been in the industry just long enough to play a bitchy teen on a CW series and a victim in a horror film. Twenty-three-year-old Evan Rachel Wood, however, has spent years showcasing her skills with critically praised turns in indie flicks and splashy television series. (She’s also played a role far more frightening than those teens slashed by a horror villains: Marilyn Manson’s on- and off-again girlfriend.) But she’s also taken plenty of risks, accepting roles that allowed her to play with sexuality. Just see: Once and Again‘s lesbian-leaning Jessie, Thirteen‘s experimental Tracy, The Wrestler‘s likely lesbian Stephanie, and True Blood‘s bisexual Queen Sophie-Anne.
But now her dramatic undertakings look like a case of art imitating life: In the May issue of Esquire, Wood, like a True Blood co-star before her, comes out as bisexual. READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
06:30 PM ET
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1' DVD/Blu-ray Giveaway
The end is near, Potterites. This summer, the Boy who Lived will shatter box office records one last time, ending a journey that began when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published in 1997. While part of us wishes July 15 would never come — after this movie, what will we even have to look forward to?! — another part wishes that we could apparate into the future and see the final film right now. At least Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 was just released on DVD and Blu-ray; watching it, as well as all the disc’s special features, over and over again should make the wait easier.
What, you don’t have a copy of Part 1 yet? Then you’re in luck — because EW is giving away 10 DVD/Blu-ray combo packs of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. The prizes are courtesy of Warner Brothers and available while supplies last.
So find yourself a flask of Felix Felicis, drink up, and look below to find out how to enter our giveaway. I leave you with a few words of wisdom: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Apr 18
2011
06:18 PM ET
Steve-O of 'Jackass' fame has written a book. What is the proper way to enjoy it?
Stephen Glover, a.k.a. Steve-O, a.k.a. the grinning, tattooed dude who rose to fame as a crash test dummy/circus freak on Jackass, just pulled off one of his most dangerous stunts to date: He wrote a book (with journalist David Peisner). According to the back cover of the advance copy that has arrived in my mailbox, Professional Idiot: A Memoir (June 7, Hyperion) gives you a peek into the life and hard times of the skateboard punk-turned-clown college grad-turned Jackass star, who wound up “routinely risking his life with sharks, lions, tigers, or bears, stapling his nut sack to his leg, or diving into a pool of elephant crap” and spinning out of control in his apartment as he “drank, snorted, huffed, smoked and swallowed drugs around the clock” until his Jackass coconspirator Knoxville led an “an intervention in which eight men forced him into a psychiatric ward against his will, and ultimately saved his life.” (Let’s all take a moment to absorb everything that happened in that sentence.)
Now, I’ve seen the Jackass movie trilogy, the television series, and MTV’s harrowing docu-special Steve-O: Demise and Rise (which chronicled his descent into madness before finding sobriety), but I’ll admit that I’m still interested to glean more insight into his carnivalesque, self-destructive world. That said, we’re talking about a Steve-O book here, and I think we owe it to him to do something appropriately crazy with this book. Herewith, some options: READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
05:47 PM ET
'Gotti' loses a director, gains critics. Could the film turn the mob boss into an anti-hero?
Image Credit: Tina Gill/PR Photos; Richard Drew/AP Images
Looks like Gotti‘s got some trouble on its hands. The biopic, which stars John Travolta as infamous mob boss John Gotti, Sr., has been hit with two minor setbacks: 1) A rep for Gotti: Three Generations confirms to EW Variety‘s report that director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) has dropped out of the picture in order to complete production on his passion project, Yellow, and 2) Victims and critics of the mob boss are speaking out against a film that might only prove to glorify Gotti. And you thought Lindsay Lohan‘s possible involvement would be the Gotti‘s most scandalous run-in!
But, in response to those critics, I simply wonder: Is it possible to make a movie about a mob boss that portrays him in a positive light? READ FULL STORY »
Apr 18
2011
05:14 PM ET
Nick Nolte and Dustin Hoffman make HBO's 'Luck' more than just a (dog and) pony show
When I was in college, I attended a sports journalism conference at Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby, where Dick Schaap, the late dean of New York sportswriters who at the time was most famous for hosting ESPN’s Sports Reporters, was one of the featured speakers. To the discomfort of our hosts but the delight of the aspiring writers, Schaap proceded to spin anecdote after anecdote about the seedy underbelly of the horse business. To him, the track had, as he put it, an alluring “scent of larceny” about it. What a great phrase. If a screenwriter had scribbled down just a fraction of Schaap’s musings, he’d have had enough material for multiple seasons of an entire television show.
I don’t recall David Milch sitting in the audience with me, but his new HBO series, Luck (video below) certainly captures the mood and characters that Schaap so vividly described. “The racetrack is a place of incomparable beauty, but it’s a rough racket,” says exec producer Milch, the voice behind HBO’s Deadwood. “As a setting for storytelling, you couldn’t ask for anything more.” READ FULL STORY »
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