Archive: April 2011 (331-340 of 473)

Apr 11 2011 03:00 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Which sultry steely-eyed 'Law & Order' ADA is the best? Angie Harmon? Jill Hennessy?

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The original, subtitle-free Law & Order was, in many ways, a grittily realistic cop show. The cops were cynical and world-weary. The crimes were stark and brutal. Men were cruel, women were suspicious, and Sam Waterson was Sam Waterston. But the show had one weird, kinky flourish: The mandatory quota which required a wry, sultry, steely-eyed actress clad in monochromatic skirt suit to play the role of Attractive Assistant District Attorney. The most famous Law & Order ADAs (LOADAs?) were Angie Harmon’s Abbie Carmichael and Jill Hennessy’s Claire Kincaid, and your preference for one or the other is a personality-defining decision, on par with Beatles/Elvis, Superman/Batman, and Shakespeare/Marlowe. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 02:53 PM ET

Rebecca Black's 'Friday': Will someone please think of the children?!

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Kids say the darndest things. Maybe your grumpy ol’ ears didn’t embrace the “Friday” phenomenon, but you’re not a tween. Actually, it turns out tweens pretty much despised Rebecca Black’s homemade video, too. At least they say they do. In an online series titled, “Kids React to Viral Videos,” a handful of youngsters were forced to watch the “Friday” video (below). Not Clockwork Orange style, but it sort of felt that way. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 02:11 PM ET

Jim Carrey, a grandfather, now has a Mohawk

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On the scale from The Lloyd to The Bruce, where does 49-year-old Jim Carrey’s new Mohawk hairstyle sit? (The actor posted his new ‘do on his Twitter.) I think somewhere between The Ace and The Number 23, but he’s going to need more than those hipster glasses to live up to his short-lived The Fabio, which I can only hope was worn ironically. How can one great actor have so many bad hairstyles? Who do you think you are, Jim Carrey? Tom Brady?!

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Apr 11 2011 01:38 PM ET

Dennis Quaid writes about cocaine addiction in 'Newsweek': 'I was doing my best imitation of an a-hole there for a little while'

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Perhaps it’s because I was a youth in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and therefore naive to the possibility that Hollywood life was anything less than glamorous. Or perhaps it’s because, back then, we dismissed most tabloid material as if it were as credible as the Weekly World News‘ Bat Boy. But, for whatever reason, I can’t help but be shocked reading Dennis Quaid’s essay about his 1980s cocaine addiction in Newsweek.

Now don’t get me wrong: As an adult, I now know all the seedy details of the entertainment industry. And I was well aware later in life of Quaid’s struggles. But what’s always shocking is seeing an actor speak about his addiction, admitting to a life that wasn’t as glitzy as it seemed in the pages of celebrity-friendly magazines. And Quaid’s confessions, straight from his honest pen, are fascinating — and frightening. (The 12-year-old in me who watched Breaking Away on VHS still can’t fathom that dreamy cyclist Mike had any problems off-camera.)

In the Newsweek piece, Quaid talks about the prevalence of his drug of choice, cocaine, on the set of his films, even claiming that the drug was “in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised. It was petty cash, you know?” READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 12:42 PM ET

Alec Baldwin (Yankees) and John Krasinski (Red Sox) talk baseball

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The slow-starting Red Sox took two of three from the Yankees over the weekend, pulling Boston fans back from the ledge and preserving the hilarious new New Era hat commercial that features Yankees supporter Alec Baldwin and Sox fan John Krasinski talking trash. Krasinski interrupts Baldwin’s elegant soiree to gloat about the Yankees off-season failures, but like his character on 30 Rock, Baldwin is unflappable as he dismisses the notion that the Red Sox are even in the Yankees class, saying “This is not a rivalry, just like fire doesn’t have a rivalry with kindling.” Krasinski’s passions get the better of him in the end, but hey, it’s baseball season. (By the way, the Orioles are in first place.)

Watch the ad below, and then vote for Team Baldwin or Team Krasinski at the New Era site. Team Baldwin currently leads, which is a little surprising since he alienated some potential supporters from Philadelphia. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 11:45 AM ET

'The Celebrity Apprentice' poll: Does Gary Busey deserve to still be on the show?

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If you’ve been watching The Celebrity Apprentice this season, then you’ve probably noticed that human trainwreck Gary Busey has become The Donald’s trump card. Busey is clearly inept, as well as inappropriate (hello, Big Wednesday) — in last week’s episode, every member of his team cited the actor as the group’s weakest link. Yet somehow, almost halfway through the season, Busey still hasn’t been kicked out of the boardroom once and for all. The guy just can’t be eliminated; he’s like the Robin Swallows of reality TV.

The reason behind this, as Celebrity Apprentice expert Dalton Ross has pointed out, is easy enough to understand: Busey’s antics make for great TV. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 11:31 AM ET

Jenn Sterger to talk Brett Favre scandal on 'Good Morning America'

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After 20 years on the gridiron, an NFL record 297 consecutive games played, and more than the occasional controversy along the way, quarterback Brett Favre was probably hoping to quietly slip in to retirement while billionaire owners and millionaire players fought over the threatened 2011 season. Sorry, Brett. Not going to happen.

Jenn Sterger, the former New York Jets employee who reportedly received suggestive voicemails and sexual texts from the married quarterback, is scheduled to speak tomorrow and Wednesday on Good Morning America, six months after news of Favre’s alleged inappropriate behavior became an Internet scandal. (Favre, who left the Jets after one season in 2008, was later fined $50,000 by the league for failing to cooperate fully with their investigation). “I just want my life back,” Sterger tells George Stephanopoulos (clip below). “That’s all I’m asking for.” READ FULL STORY »

Apr 11 2011 10:54 AM ET

Pia Toscano was never a frontrunner, says 'Idol' EP Nigel Lythgoe

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The American Idol judges may have been shocked that Pia Toscano was sent home last week, but Idol EP Nigel Lythgoe wasn’t. “I know the [voting] results, so I know she was never a frontrunner,” Lythgoe revealed in an on-camera interview with Yahoo! Music‘s Reality Rocks at Friday’s Vegas callback auditions for another of his shows, So You Think You Can Dance. He admitted he was upset about the results, but added, “The fact of the matter is that it appears that Pia didn’t connect with the audience as much as we maybe think she did. And she wasn’t voted through.” Watch the interview below. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 10 2011 11:00 PM ET

'Celebrity Apprentice': And the fired celebrity is...

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Ahoy there, matey! Raise ye old Jolly Roger as the scurvy sea dogs of team Backbone be turnin’ into pirates this evening on Celebrity Apprentice. But will their quest for treasure cause one landlubber to take a visit down to Davy Jones’ Locker? Arrrrrrgh, me thinks…uh, me thinks… yeah, sorry, I’m all out of poor man’s pirate lingo. In any event, all you need to know is that the teams were tasked with promoting sunscreen this week, and the men’s team decided to do dressed up at pirates. But did they win or lose? And who was fired? My full recap will be up at 2 a.m. (UPDATE: Click over now to see Dalton’s full Celebrity Apprentice recap), but if you’ve already watched tonight’s Celebrity Apprentice and want to sound off on what happened and who went home, then read on after the jump for more. [SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you've already watched Sunday's episode of Celebrity Apprentice.] READ FULL STORY »

Apr 10 2011 01:01 PM ET

Watch a pre-teen Natalie Portman dance at summer camp -- VIDEO

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First, Natalie Portman’s Black Swan body double Sarah Lane told EW that she, and not the Oscar-winning Portman, had performed 95 percent of the full-body dance shots in the ballet thriller. Then, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky and co-star Mila Kunis denied Lane’s claims. Finally, Portman danced around the controversy in her one and only comment on the topic to E!, saying “I’m really proud of everyone’s work on the movie and of my experience.” And now comes video that has no bearing on the controversy whatsoever (though many will likely try to spin it into an argument defending or criticizing Portman): Footage of the actress dancing at the Stage Door Manor Performing Arts Summer Camp in New York’s Catskill Mountains as a pre-teen. (You can see Portman starting at the 2:30 mark.) Though it certainly does not prove Portman’s dance skills during the filming of Black Swan — this was, after all, shot more than a decade earlier — the fun footage does at least show that Portman did had a passion for the art. Watch the video after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

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