Confession: I’ve read a couple of NASCAR-branded romance novels in my time — for work. But I never bought a romance novel until last week when I was scanning the shelves at Target looking for some vacation reads with my sister and stumbled onto a Western romance section. At first, I showed my sister the cover of Linda Lael Miller’s A Creed in Stone Creek as a joke. (It is, after all, called A Creed in Stone Creek.) But then, we realized it was part of a trilogy (Creed’s Honor and The Creed Legacy), and before I knew it, my sister had tossed all three books into my basket. We both have a thing for cowboys (she got an onstage lapdance from one named Maverick at her bachelorette party in Vegas in 2001), if I squint, the man on the cover of A Creed in the Creek reminds me of Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens, and this author is a best-seller, so I didn’t protest. READ FULL STORY »
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What's your favorite Ryan Gosling performance? Take the EW poll!
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been watching the Crazy Stupid Love trailer ad nauseum since it was released back in April. What more could you ask for in a preview: It has the perfect balance of humor (Twilight jokes!) and heart and, of course, a too-good-to-be-photoshopped body courtesy of one Ryan Gosling.
Of course, my love affair with Gosling started long before he took off his shirt immediately upon Emma Stone’s request (Note to self: Learn that skill.) READ FULL STORY »
Antonio Banderas continues big-screen comeback with 'He Loves Me.' Four other reasons to be excited about the project.
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Labeling He Loves Me as a Little Miss Sunshine reunion is reason enough to want to see the upcoming film in theaters. But the project — which teams up Sunshine star Paul Dano with the 2006 film’s directors (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris), producers (Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa), and studio, Fox Searchlight — is becoming more and more fascinating the more we learn about it. Below, five reasons why I can’t wait to love He Loves Me when it hits theaters. (No date, however, has been set yet.) READ FULL STORY »
Remembering Sherwood Schwartz, creator of 'Gilligan's Island' and 'The Brady Bunch'
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In 1997, when Sherwood Schwartz, who died today at the age of 94, sat down for a six-hour interview for the Archive of American Television, he was asked how he’d like to be remembered. “As a man who tried to explain, in his own way, that people have to learn to get along with each other,” he answered. It’s the concept at the center of his two most beloved shows, Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch. When creating Gilligan’s Island in the early 1960s, he wanted to place seven disparate people in a place they couldn’t escape. “Where could they be that they had to get along with each other? That was the idea for the show, and it’s the most important idea in the world today,” he said. “For people who toss away the show as just a silly broad comedy, it’s deeper than that.” READ FULL STORY »
James Franco is feeling the backlash. Whose fault is it?
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The unwavering, almost manic fascination the media — that’s us! — had for every film, book, art show, and moderately impressive bowel movement James Franco produced in 2010 was pretty much the gluttonous equivalent of eating an entire pint of Chubby Hubby while watching a Man vs. Food marathon. Afterward, you feel gross, exhausted, and strangely resentful toward both Ben and Jerry.
In a far-reaching interview with Playboy, which reads a bit like a post-mortem on his crazy last 365 days, Franco discusses everything from his penchant for academia, to the “petty scumbags” at Gawker, to the short, happy life of his Twitter feed. But the really interesting aspect of the piece is Franco’s perception of the post-Oscars backlash, which he sees as unnecessarily persecutory and describes as, “‘He’s doing too many things. Let’s get him.’” The actor is generally as self-aware as Skynet, and any celebrity is expected to defend themselves, but he seems especially bothered by this development. READ FULL STORY »
Al Pacino as Phil Spector: Bring on the crazy hair!
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Keeping in line with actors-playing-real-life-creeps-in-an-attempt-to-creep-us-out, Al Pacino will be starring as infamous music icon Phil Spector for an upcoming HBO biopic about the convicted murderer. On Monday, Pacino, who disappeared into his role as the late Jack Kevorkian in the Golden Globe-winning You Don’t Know Jack, was spotted out filming the yet-to-be-titled movie, completely decked out in Spector-eqsue garb. While Pacino certainly has the crazy eyes down (no aviator sunglasses can hide the crazy eyes), we’re still anxiously awaiting when they get to Spector’s full-blown crazy hair/crazy person phase. Bonus incentive for the makeup crew: Pacino may not even require a wig!
Still, this is all somehow less disturbing than Pacino playing himself and falling for Adam Sandler in drag in the trailer for the comedy Jack and Jill. Go figure.
What do you think of Al Pacino as Phil Spector, PopWatchers? Are you sufficiently creeped out? Or will you need to see the crazy hair to decide?
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'Nail Files': Star and Painted Nail salon owner Katie Cazorla names five reasons to tune in tonight
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I live in L.A. now, PopWatchers, so naturally I’ve become a completely different person. Last week, in a stunning departure from the norm, I allowed STRANGERS to manhandle my neglected fingernails and got a manicure over at The Painted Nail. Don’t worry, there was a work reason! The salon doubles as the set for TV Guide Network’s reality show Nail Files. (The new series, from Jersey Shore exec producer SallyAnn Salsano, scored with 1.1 million viewers and triple digit increases among female viewers when it premiered June 22.)
Salon owner Katie Cazorla, 33, is severely wacky — but in a great way, because at least she’s not faking some act for TV. “I thought reality TV shows were for slutty girls who have no self-esteem and like to drink. I love to drink but I’m not gonna have cocktails and make out with some random guy in a hot tub. That was my 20s.” Below, Katie offers up five reasons — one for each finger — to tune into episode 4 tonight (10 p.m. ET/PT).
5. (pinky) “I bust out an old school gymnastics move for Candace Cameron. I used to love DJ and Stephanie Tanner from Full House! Have you seen her? She’s like a size zero. How does she do that?” READ FULL STORY »
Joel McHale is Melissa McCarthy's Mr. Miyagi for Emmy noms announcement: Watch the knock-out video
Announcing the nominees for the Emmys is serious business: You can’t react giddily to any of the nominations (not even yours), you’d better be able to pronounce Mariska Hargitay’s name, and you have to be able to roll with the punches. Sometimes literally, if Joel McHale is punching you. Thankfully, the Community star (who, please, oh, please might hear his own name this year) is here to help Rachel Getting Married The Wedding Planner Bridesmaids scene/puppy-stealer Melissa McCarthy out. Through rigorous training, complete with underwear-folding, chicken-catching, car-washing, and, of course, montages and freeze-frames, we think McCarthy (a possible nominee herself for her work on the sitcom Mike & Molly) is going to be more than ready for the challenge. McCarthy, along with Fringe‘s Joshua Jackson (and, maybe, if we’re lucky, that puppy), will announce the nominees for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Thursday, July 14 at 5:35 a.m. PST. Watch the full clip below and try your best not to fall even further in love with the comedic gems that are McHale and McCarthy. Spoiler alert: It’s impossible. READ FULL STORY »
'Point Break' turns 20 today!
It may be hard to believe, but the greatest movie about bank-robbing surfers hit theaters 20 years ago today. That’s right on July 12, 1991, a up-and-comer named Keanu Reeves made action film history with one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars and romantic leads, Patrick Swayze. There is just so much about Point Break to love: the Ex-Presidents, Swayze at his Swayziest, a skydiving fight scene, Gary Busey talking about meatball subs. Even though Point Break is often remembered for its campier elements — one of its chase scenes played heavily into Edgar Wright’s action spoof, Hot Fuzz — the film arguably holds up better than movies released just a few years ago.
The story is a simple and timeless one (and one that bares a striking resemblance to The Fast and the Furious). READ FULL STORY »
Sarah Palin proclaims 'I can win' on the cover of 'Newsweek'
Sarah Palin has spent the last couple of years running a presidential campaign by specifically refusing to run a presidential campaign, leaving her beloved constituency and her much-despised media nemeses engaged in a Waiting for Godot-like stasis, even as she undertook various activities that would typically indicate an utter disinterest in higher office — resigning as the governor of Alaska, starring in a reality show, appearing in a hagiographic documentary that portrays the GOP establishment an evil-looking trio of clones and/or triplets — but on the cover of this week’s Newsweek, the former Veep candidate comes as close as ever to outright stating a decisive plan to stare down the Romneybots and socialists who have taken over the 2012 Presidential Race: “I believe that I can win a national election,” she says, and hey, if a one-term senator with name that sounds remarkably like the names of three anti-American supervillains — by which I mean Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Baraka from Mortal Kombat II — could emerge as the victor from the Guernica-like confusion of the 2008 election, maybe she’s right; and anyhow, there’s no way she can be worse than Ulysses S. Grant, right?
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