Archive: April 2011 (401-410 of 473)

Apr 6 2011 02:01 PM ET

'American Idol': What should the Top 9 sing for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame week? What should they avoid?

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Image Credit: Idol: Michael Becker/Fox; Hall of Fame: Walter Bib

Last week, the American Idol contestants were tasked with singing from the catalogue of a single, melodically challenging music legend. This week, things get a lot easier — or harder, depending on your point of view — since the Top 9 get to sing music by the music legends inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That’s 92 music groups, and 196 individual artists, ranging from Neil Diamond to Alice Cooper (and that’s just from the 2011 inductees). With so many options to pick from, it’s a good thing we here at PopWatch HQ are around to make suggestions, both for what to sing and what music traps to avoid at all costs. Check out our picks below!  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 01:31 PM ET

Amy Poehler, Tom Hanks, and Denzel Washington are all speaking at college graduations. Who would you have picked for your commencement?

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Image Credit: Tina Gill/PR Photos; Chris Hatcher/PR Photos; Sylvain Gaboury/PR Photos

I am incredibly jealous of Harvard’s class of 2011. No, not because they go to a famous school in Boston (well, not in Boston, but nearby. No, not Tufts!), or because they’ve got two glorious months of college left before they’re thrust out into the real world. Instead, my jealousy stems from the fact that those lucky Ivy Leaguers have scored an amazing Class Day speaker: Amy Poehler, star of Parks and Recreation. This is possibly the best thing to potentially ever happen to anyone anywhere in the history of the universe.

But Harvard’s graduation isn’t the only commencement that’s getting an injection of star power this year. Here’s an incomplete list of the boldfaced names that will be orating before cap and gown-clad masses come May: READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 01:06 PM ET

'American Idol' contestant Haley Reinhart: A love letter to season 10's most under-appreciated singer

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Let me preface this by saying I was on the Haley Reinhart bandwagon long before she Benny and the Jettisoned her way into the judges’ hearts during last week’s American Idol. I love her gravelly voice. I love the fact that she looks like she expects to be in the bottom every week. (Hell, her favorite quote on Idol‘s website is “Que sera — whatever will be, will be.”) I love that she’s unpolished enough to perform with lipstick all over her teeth. I love that she looks like the pretty, but not bitchy girl you went to summer camp with… except when she flat-irons her hair and then looks like a kind of snobby paralegal. I even love that she can’t be put in a pre-packaged category like the other two remaining female contestants: Ballad-singing beauty Pia and Carrie Clarkson Lauren. But is Haley too unique for her own good? READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 12:20 PM ET

James Franco's evil twin joins forces with Stephen Colbert

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Leave it to Stephen Colbert to put a damper on the encouraging recent jobs report. According to the Report‘s crack research team, 75 percent of the 200,000 private-sector jobs the nation added in the last month went to one James Franco, Oscar host, incurable student, college prof, and “soaking wet Gucci spokesperson.” “This guy has worked his way around more college campuses than chlamydia,” Colbert ranted. “Nation, James Franco is clearly my Renaissance nemesis, or Rena-nemesis.”

Colbert had a plan to expose his new rival as a fraud — “Why can’t you just take this [success] and run, and turn your life into some slow agonizing yet entertaining downward spiral for the rest of us to watch?” he would later ask — and that included the help of Franco’s evil twin, Frank Jameso. Take a look. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 11:55 AM ET

There's a 'Human Centipede' musical. Yes, REALLY

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The Human Centipede really is the gift that keeps on giving. Of course, for the unfortunate victims in this very extreme 2010 horror film — which features a demented scientist stitching people together to form a, yes, human centipede — the gift is diet of poop. For the public at large, however, the gift is the opportunity to construct often baroquely inappropriate spin-offs. That list already includes the Human Centipede video game, the Human Centipede foot tattoo, the House/Human Centipede 2 parody poster, the Human Centipede cat toy, the Human Centipede sock monkey, and a Funny or Die Human Centipede sketch.

But these now only seem like the appetizer to the main course that is … Human Centipede: The Musical!, a songs-filled retooling of director Tom Six’s macabre movie that has just hit YouTube. This terpsichoreal extravaganza is the work of Emerson College’s Chocolate Cake City comedy troupe, who, as they make pains to point out at the start, “do not own any rights to the story, characters, ideas, or anything else associated with The Human Centipede. We’re just some nerds who wanted to make a musical.” This shouldn’t stop you from enjoying such lyrics as: “Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce/A horrifying tale that will make you hold on to your caboose.”

Julie Taymor? I think we’ve found your next Broadway project.

More from EW.com:
Watch Funny or Die’s NSFW ‘Human Centipede’ sketch
‘Human Centipede’: Star and director spill their guts

Apr 6 2011 11:27 AM ET

'The Good Wife': The story behind the talking lion

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Honestly, last night’s episode of CBS’ The Good Wife had Alan Cumming’s Eli coming comically unglued and the return of Michael J. Fox’s Louis Canning and Denis O’Hare’s Judge Abernathy, and yet… we’re still obsessed with the talking lion delivering the voice of Titus Welliver’s Glenn Childs to Cary (Matt Czuchry, who may deserve an Emmy nomination for keeping a near straight face). Props again to series creators Robert and Michelle King. “Michelle was given a talking teddy bear speaker phone by her uncle a long time ago; and we always wanted to do a scene involving an intense and intimidating phone conversation over the phone,” Robert tells EW. “Our daughter suggested we give the phone to our Mr. Mom investigator, Wiley. It seemed like a good idea to do this in an episode where we couldn’t get Titus. The only problem is our prop person couldn’t find the phone. So we tried various talking animal toys: and the funniest was the lion from a small Japanese company, Kuchi-Paku. The doll can be attached, as we did, to an actual phone, or an iPod. It’s very funny to play Presidential speeches through it.” Watch the scene again below. And happy Web surfing.  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 10:58 AM ET

'No Ordinary Family' season finale: Where did this show go wrong? (Answer: When it turned into 'Heroes.')

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Image Credit: Richard Cartwright/ABC

No Ordinary Family debuted last fall with high expectations. It had a catchy concept: Typical sitcom-ready family — adorably lunkheaded loser dad, way-out-of-his-league brilliant wife, two perpetually annoyed teenaged children — get superpowers, and shenanigans ensue. It wasn’t the most original idea, but with a good cast and a lighthearted tone, Family‘s early episodes had a fun vibe that didn’t really feel like anything else on television. The superpowered special effects drama felt secondary to the character drama — i.e., the kids discovered that having the power of telepathy and super-intelligence didn’t necessarily make high school any less hellish. But the show took a serious wrong turn somewhere, and watching the season finale last night, I realized exactly what happened to No Ordinary Family: It became Heroes. And not good-exciting season-1 Heroes, or even silly-messy season-2 Heroes. No Ordinary Family took a swan-dive straight into season-3 Heroes territory, and the show never really recovered. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 10:20 AM ET

'Pregnant in Heels' premiere: 'Do you know how hormonal I am?'

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Image Credit: Miranda Penn Turin/Bravo

Thanks to the world of reality TV, America’s children now have actual proof of their parents making fools of themselves before they were born. For the children born from Bravo’s newest voyeuristic experiment, Pregnant in Heels, it’s a chance to see just how ridiculous their high maintenance moms were leading up to their birth, as the expectant mothers stumbled through and paid (large sums of money) for the services of maternity concierge Rosie Pope. The self-described pregnancy guru helps new parents prepare for their children by acclimating them to the world of strollers, breast pumps, and projectile pooping. Rosie prefaced the show with the observation “women are bitchy anyway,” which is a severe understatement when considering the overly hormonal clients featured in last night’s premiere episode. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 10:09 AM ET

'When Harry Met Sally' sequel has one of the best twists of all time: Watch!

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What would happen in a When Harry Met Sally… sequel if Sally had died and Harry (Billy Crystal) was to meet another picky eater (Helen Mirren) in a luxury retirement community? We won’t spoil it for you. Watch the Funny or Die trailer below.  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 6 2011 09:00 AM ET

'Harry Potter: The Exhibition' hits New York -- we take the tour!

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It’s not The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but for now, it’s the next best thing. Harry Potter: The Exhibition opened yesterday in Discovery Times Square in Manhattan. Now through Sept. 5, muggles can spend a good hour (or longer) examining hundreds of original props and costumes from all of the previous Harry Potter films. The exhibition debuted in Chicago in 2009, and has since had runs in Boston, Toronto, and Seattle. New additions for New York City include Harry’s invisibility cloak, the Sword of Gryffindor, Death Eater masks, and two more horcruxes (Salazar Slytherin’s locket and Helga Hufflepuff’s cup). I walked through the exhibition yesterday, and, since I was media, I was allowed to take photographs. You won’t be, sorry! You’ll have to settle for a green-screen shot at the start of your journey or standing in front of a large Hogwarts poster backdrop as you exit. It’s a necessary evil to keep foot traffic moving, but it’s a shame they can’t have one photo op during the tour (like bowing to Buckbeak, pictured, in the dramatically lit “Hagrid’s Hut” section). Below, a few more thoughts and photos: READ FULL STORY »

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