Archive: July 2011 (21-30 of 289)

Jul 28 2011 07:45 PM ET

'So You Think You Can Dance': And the eliminated dancers are...

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Categories: Reality TV, So You Think You Can Dance, Television
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Image Credit: Patrick Ecclesine/FOX

Gaga throwing shoes! Marko weeping! Sasha getting her Fierce back (in no small part thanks to Pasha, I am convinced). Last night was an eventful and powerful performance episode, to say the least. Who was your favorite, and who do you think should go home? Are you starting to feel the Melanie backlash, or do you think she’s got it in the bag? How pumped are you about whatever batty costume(s) Gaga will don during her performance? Is it starting to hit you that the show is on the upswing when there are only a few weeks left? Post your comments while the live show airs, and we’ll be back after the close to reveal which two dancers are going home and the names of next week’s all-stars. UPDATE: The results have been announced. This show is nothing if not an unpredictable animal, so no All-Stars were announced, though eliminations were doled out. And the dancers going home are… READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 07:15 PM ET

In this shirt, Niles Crane was hot

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Categories: Inappropriate Crushes, Nostalgia, Sexytimes, Television, Who Else Remembers This?

Last night, I found Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce) hot for the first time ever while watching Frasier reruns on Hallmark. (In case you haven’t realized it: Starting at 9 p.m. ET from Monday through Friday, three hours of Frasier leads into two hours of Golden Girls and an hour of Cheers -- I may never be alert at work again).

In my world, finding Niles sexy is as monumental as the first time I related more to Maria than Liesl while watching The Sound of Music and found myself wondering if I’d be woman enough to help Captain von Trapp and his seven children flee Austria. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 06:50 PM ET

A possible 'Horrible Bosses' sequel? We shoot around some ideas.

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Categories: Double Vision, Everyone's a Critic, Horrible Bosses, Movies, This Could Be Interesting...
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Image Credit: John P. Johnson

It’s been the summer of the sequel, and no we don’t mean just because of The Hangover 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Cars 2 or No Strings Attached 2 (okay, fine, Friends with Benefits). Actually, to be more precise, it’s been the summer of talking about the possibility of the sequel.

We’ve already gotten word that Thor will return to theaters in 2013, but elsewhere there’s been chatter about bringing the ladies of Bridesmaids back for more and a debate on whether or not Something Borrowed will — or should — be continued.

Now it seems Horrible Bosses, which in three weeks has already pulled in over $80 million at the box office, could be the latest to join the sequel society. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 06:30 PM ET

Who is this masked man anyway?

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Categories: Comic-Con, Guess Who!
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Image Credit: CHRISTOPHER BEYER FOR EW

While EW was at Comic-Con, our photographer had a run-in with a certain celebrity posing as the Dark Knight himself. So who is this masked man? The answer’s after the jump. Of course, you’ll need a hint: We never wanted this former reality star to leave this town. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 06:03 PM ET

Kat Von D cancels tour, says 'I suck.' Well, that explains it!

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Categories: Bitchery, Celebrity Scandals, Hell to the No!, Ridiculata, Television, That Was Way Harsh, Tai
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Image Credit: David Johnson/TLC

What?! No! No. This simply cannot be. Brace yourselves for this one, PopWatchers. Kat Von D, the latest inductee into the Official Jesse James Heartbreak Club (OJJHC) has cancelled her LA Ink promotional tour, following yesterday’s Good Day L.A. storm out. Before you start breaking things in understandable fits of rage, know that Von D offered a detailed explanation regarding the sudden cancellation on her Facebook page, in a lengthy post entitled “What can I say? I suck.”

Oh. Okay, Kat. That explains everything. The beleaguered Von D went on to apologize for yesterday’s drama, and expressed the heavy weight she’s been carrying since she began her relationship with James last year. To be fair, it can’t be easy being one fourth of a love quadrangle that includes a beloved movie star and a fetish model with a noted fondness for Nazi attire.  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 04:29 PM ET

Crunching the Hulu and Netflix numbers: What -- and how -- you're watching movies and television

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Categories: Movies, Netflix, Tech, Television
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Image Credit: STUDIO BOX/Getty Images

If your television and computer are often fighting for your attention (and likely your spouse and children, but until they start streaming episodes of The Office, it’s still really down to just TV and laptop), it’s likely thanks to über-popular video streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.

But just how much movies and television are you getting from both services, and how exactly are you watching the forms of entertainment, PopWatchers? Nielsen set out to answer that question with a recent survey with 12,000 online participants back in March (look at all those charts and graphs! HIMYM‘s Marshall Eriksen would be in heaven!).

Here’s some of what they found: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 03:30 PM ET

'The Smurfs' scores 0 on Rotten Tomatoes. So... how much do you love your children?

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Categories: Animation, Bitchery, Pixar, Things That Make Us Feel Old, Why Am I Crying?
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation

No one is expecting The Smurfs to threaten Woody, WALL•E, or Shrek’s place on the Mount Rushmore of animated films — we’ve seen the trailer after all. But early critical reception for the Sony Pictures Animation film has been more grouchy than Gargamel, with the animated film scoring a perfect zero on Rotten Tomatoes. [Update: After a luke-warm endorsement from the New York Times, The Smurfs has risen to a 19 percent RT rating.] Which begs the question: How much do you love your children?

READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 03:03 PM ET

L'Oreal ads featuring flawless Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington banned in UK

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Categories: Advertising, Grooming

How flawless is too flawless? That’s a question the Advertising Standards Authority, the UK’s independent advertising watchdog, has answered for L’Oreal, which has come under fire for two magazine ads — one featuring Julia Roberts for Lancôme’s Teint Miracle foundation and one featuring Christy Turlington for The Eraser foundation by Maybelline. Jo Swinson, a Member of Parliament, complained to the ASA that the ads were misleading due to excessive airbrushing. The ASA banned the ads from running again in their current form on the grounds that L’Oreal was “unable to provide us with sufficient evidence to prove that the ad images accurately illustrated what effect the products could achieve, and that the images had not been exaggerated by digital post production techniques.” Though L’Oreal provided photos of Roberts and Turlington on the red carpet to show their natural beauty and detailed what post production techniques were used on the ad images, it did not supply the original shots of Roberts and Turlington before those techniques were employed for comparison. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 02:15 PM ET

There is a huge Bat-Signal on the side of a building in Pittsburgh

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Categories: Comic Books, Geekery, The Dark Knight Rises

It’s a bleak moment for Pittsburgh, Pa. The public school system just cut 59 jobs. Public parking fees have increased. The Pirates just fell out of first place. The city is crying out for a hero, which is why Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue Place lit up a multi-story Bat-signal last night, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. You could also argue that the makeshift Bat-Signal is just an elaborate welcome mat laid out for The Dark Knight Rises, which starts filming in the City of Bridges this week. But I prefer to think that the good people of Pittsburgh have decided to take a stand against madness and criminality, and they have nominated Batman as their standard-bearer. He’s not the hero Pittsburgh deserves, but he’s the one it needs right now, a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark etc.

Follow Darren on Twitter: @EWDarrenFranich

Read more:
‘The Dark Knight Rises’: Watch the official teaser here!
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ trailer: Read a description (and some theories) here
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ teaser poster: It’s like ‘Inception,’ only darker

Jul 28 2011 01:49 PM ET

'Friends' with benefits: Study records how often the sitcom's characters scored. (Sorry, Chandler.)

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Categories: and give me a kiss, Everything Reminds Us of 'Friends', Friends, Jennifer Aniston, News You Can Use, Sexytimes, Television, Those Crazy Kids!
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Image Credit: Everett Collection

While the majority of young men and women fudge the numbers on their own sexual scorecards (“The rule of three” or otherwise), if you’re on TV, you’re pretty much, ahem, screwed, as anyone can keep tabs on your bedroom conquests.

So the gang from Friends better have no shame: SplitSider.com just conducted a study that tracked all of their action from all ten seasons. In one decade, all six friends collectively racked up 85 sexual partners (with 57 in the first four seasons alone, proving once and for all, if you dress like it’s 1994, you are going to score)! READ FULL STORY »

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