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Apr 28 2011 12:31 PM ET

Cory Monteith versus Carrie Underwood as hockey playoffs shift to Nashville

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Carrie Underwood, Celebrity Feuds, Country Y'all!, Glee, Sports, Television

Image Credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos

How would Finn Hudson look in a grizzly beard? Because it’s Stanley Cup playoff season in the National Hockey League, the time when superstitious players refuse to shave as long as their team’s alive, and Glee‘s Cory Monteith is a passionate Vancouver Canucks fan. His team advanced to the second round on Tuesday night with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory in a Game 7 against the Chicago Blackhawks. Wearing a green Canucks t-shirt, the Canadian native stopped by NHL.com to relive his team’s glorious cliffhanger, which he witnessed on TV in a midtown New York pub. “I literally stood up … and started screaming,” crowed Monteith. “And everybody was like, ‘What is this guy doing?’” READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 12:25 PM ET

Lady Gaga confesses to Ellen that sometimes she 'feels like a loser'

by Hillary Busis

Categories: Ellen DeGeneres, Have You Seen This?, Lady Gaga, Ridiculata, Television

An international superstar who has a habit of wearing leather fetish outfits and matching floppy hat brims must be a paragon of confidence, right? Wrong! Even Lady Gaga feels insecure occasionally: “Do I feel like a loser sometimes? Yes, of course I do,” she says today during her appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show. Sounds like someone’s angling to segue into an impromptu performance of “Born This Way.”

We’ll be recapping the episode this afternoon on our Music Mix blog after it airs. In the meantime, get pumped by checking out the promo below. (Here’s hoping we actually do get to see Gaga wearing Ellen-esque jeans and sneakers sooner rather than later.) READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 12:00 PM ET

Jon Stewart on yesterday's Obama birther 'non-shell.' Plus, the best explanation of Donald Trump's hair I've ever seen

by Sandra Gonzalez

Categories: Donald Trump, Politics as Entertainment, Ridiculata, Ripped From the Headlines!, Sarcasm, Television, The Bad Man Scares Me!, The Daily Show

There are so many nuggets of wisdom in Jon Stewart’s breakdown of what he calls the “non-shell” that was dropped yesterday when President Obama called a press conference to reiterate — more than two years after he took office — that he was, in fact, born in America. Among them? The introduction of the word “non-shell” to my dictionary (and quite possibly a new PopWatch category).

He also created a visual aid for people — like yours truly — who never quite understood what was going on atop Donald Trump’s head. (I knew it was bad news, but never dwelled too much on the matter.) Now, if only Stewart had a diagram for us to explain what was going on inside Trump’s head. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 11:23 AM ET

'American Idol' behind the scenes: 'Idol' coaches talk the Top 6 -- EXCLUSIVE

by John Young

Categories: American Idol, An EW Exclusive!, Reality TV, Television

Image Credit: Michael Becker/Fox; Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Continuing our exclusive series, American Idol vocal coach and arranger Debra Byrd and associate music director and arranger Michael Orland sat down with EW to discuss Wednesday night’s Top 6 performance show. For a decade, Byrd and Orland have been on the front lines with the contestants, from Hollywood Week to the grand finale in May. The two work with the contestants on their respective songs, helping them shine on the Idol stage and in front of a national TV audience. Click through to read their take on this week’s “Songs of Carole King” show, including why Lauren cried at the end of her critique, why Scotty has stopped holding his microphone sideways, and why Orland lets Casey get away with ad-libbing parts of his performances. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 09:00 AM ET

This Week's Cover: First look at the 'Twilight' finale!

by EW staff

Categories: Breaking Dawn, Exclusive First Look, Movies, This Week's Cover, Twilight, Vampires

Fans have waited years to see Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) tie the knot, and the wedding scene, scheduled for the end of production on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, proved to be equally climactic for those involved. “It was one of the coolest things that I’ve done,” says Stewart. “There was a certain point when I walked on set, and I saw everyone from the entire cast sitting there in the pews, about to do their bit. And it was just so perfect for me in that moment. It was so emotional in such a real way. I literally felt like thanking them for coming.”

But filming wasn’t always quite so idyllic. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 08:03 AM ET

'American Idol' on the scene for Top 6 performance night: James wins over the Idoldome, and Lauren's onstage admirer vanishes

by John Young

Categories: American Idol, On the Scene, Reality TV, Television

Image Credit: Michael Becker/Fox/PictureGroup

This season of American Idol has been desperately lacking in authentic “moments,” perhaps because Nigel Lythgoe and his cohorts have been so busy generating manufactured gags. (We’ll be talking later about Brett, the 19-year-old “audience member” who joined Lauren onstage.) But last night’s performance show, during which the Top 6 tackled the storied songbook of Carole King, delivered a few refreshingly genuine moments.

One highlight — James’ a-cappella opening to the 1960 tune “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” — was so significant that it could potentially affect the finale’s outcome. (Watch out, Scotty.) And other sights, such as the sprightly footwork of Jacob or the way Haley handled a sudden technical difficulty, provided more insight into who these singers are than any pre-recorded segment could.

Having been to the Idoldome more times now than Randy Jackson has uttered the word “gauntlet,” I occasionally forget the unique privilege it is to watch this competition unfold in person. But as I scanned the homemade posters in the balcony, I came across one that said just two words: “I’m Here.” And during a show like last night’s, I’m glad I was. Here are my on-the-scene observations: READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 07:00 AM ET

Jeff Probst on episode 11 of 'Survivor: Redemption Island'

by Dalton Ross

Categories: Jeff Probst, Reality TV, Survivor, Television

Image credit: Monty Brinton/CBS

Each week, Survivor host Jeff Probst answers a few questions about the most recent episode of Redemption Island.

A few weeks back in my recap I wrote how on a double elimination what you guys should do is have a regular challenge and Tribal Council and then surprise them on the spot with another Tribal Council-set immunity challenge and vote right then and there. Admit it, you invented a time machine after reading that to go back and do that for this episode, didn’t you? Seriously, though, how perfect was the timing on your double eliminations in that it allowed you to speed through some pretty obvious vote-offs (Mike and David, and then Ralph and Steve) in half the time?
That was what we refer to on the island as “Survivor Luck.” We’ve been lucky going back to season one when Richard Hatch won and became the greatest and most notorious spokesperson we could ever hope to have. It’s amazing how many times it happens on location that things just work out. Not always, but often. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 28 2011 12:17 AM ET

'Cougar Town': A historical lesson brought to you by Richard Stands

by Breia Brissey

Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, About Last Night, Cougar Town, Current Affairs, Geekery, Kids' Corner, Made Us Think, Not Jon Hamm, Ridiculata, Shenanigans!, Sports, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, Things That Are Sad, Those Crazy Kids!, TV Recap, Twitter, Water Cooler

Image Credit: Danny Feld/ABC

Last night’s Cougar Town taught us a valuable lesson about embarrassment: You can’t hear the world laughing at you if you’re laughing harder. (Or in Andy’s case, if you have pool water stuck in your ear.) It also taught us the importance of a good history lesson. If you don’t learn the simple stuff, you might just end up looking like a super-sexy corpse. And I think that’s a bad thing. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 27 2011 09:05 PM ET

The Fallen: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tim Hetherington and photojournalist Chris Hondros brought war home to us

by Mark Harris

Categories: Current Affairs, Documentaries, In Memoriam, Movies

Image Credit: Phil Moore/Getty Images(2)

Back in the fall of 1941, John Ford, who had, in just three years, directed Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, and How Green Was My Valley, walked away from Hollywood and, at 47, gave himself to the Navy. For the next few years he filmed nothing but the Second World War. He was in North Africa when the Allies moved in. He boarded the U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet to film the Doolittle raid on Japan. He was on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day. And in the opening moments of Midway, he stood on the roof of a power station, filming enemy planes until a piece of flying concrete knocked him cold, then recovering and shooting some more. Many of the documentary shorts that came out of those years seem like crude propaganda now, but there is a moment in Ford’s 18-minute film The Battle of Midway – the first major movie to show Americans in combat during World War II — that explains in four words why Ford did what he did. As his camera captures U.S. sailors raising the American flag above a field of smoke and debris, the movie’s narrator says quietly, “Yes, this really happened.”

I thought of Ford last week with the arrival of the terrible news of the death of Tim Hetherington (pictured, left), who was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade along with the exceptional photojournalist Chris Hondros (pictured, right) in Misrata, Libya, on April 20.
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Apr 27 2011 08:00 PM ET

'American Idol': Discuss Carole King night!

by Annie Barrett

Categories: American Idol, Reality TV

Update: Annie’s recap is live!

Now that we’ve debated which songs the Top 6 should sing from the Carole King songbook, it’s time to watch our young contenders fling themselves at the feet of the three Fates… and then gossip about ‘em! Chat here about American Idol‘s performance show, then come back later for my full recap and a detailed on-the-scene report. THIS! Is Entertainment Weekly.