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Because when I think “torture porn,” I immediately think “good-time family fun.” Don’t you?! Horror auteur Eli Roth is teaming up with Universal Studios to create a theme-park riff on his 2005 genre-reviving film, Hostel. “Eli Roth’s Hostel: Hunting Season,” takes its bloody bow at Universal Studios’ Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights on Sept. 23 and will run through Halloween. READ FULL STORY »
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Remember last October, when Gretchen won Project Runway season 8 over Mondo, and everything you believed in — fashion-forwardness, justice, big-ass polka dots — just disintegrated into a sad heap of burlap? Plenty of Runway fans, outraged that Nina Garcia and Michael Kors somehow got their way even though everyone watching on TV thought Gretchen’s clothes were terrible, may have written off the Lifetime series.
Not me. For one thing, I’ll be recapping season 9 on this here EW.com. So I have to watch it! But get this: I volunteered. Gretchen was infuriating, but she’s gone. Wiped off the face of the planet! There are plenty of Project Runway mainstays that’ll forever keep me coming back. READ FULL STORY »
TV makes me cry disproportionately more than real-life, so I was a little confused when the camera panned to tear-stained Lady Gaga after Marko’s performance last night, and I sat there with dry eyes. Don’t get me wrong. His performance was gorgeous and very touching, but tear-worthy? I’m not so sure.
I’m sure the song — Jeff Buckley’s “I Know It’s Over” — played a major part in the weeping effect the piece had on The Gaga. It’s a hauntingly lovely tune that was a perfect fit for the message of the dance. But is my heart going cold? Did the performance move you to tears, too? Or were last night’s tears something for the Overreaction Files? Also, do you think the fly on Lady Gaga’s hat was attracted to her because she perpetually smells like meat or did it just want a hug? Watch the clip. READ FULL STORY »
Hi, kids! Writing to you this week from beauteous Toronto, where I’m working on So You Think You Can Dance/Canada! (Would’ve been hard to work on SYTYCD/Spain from here, obviously! Haha!) Before we dive in, first things first, and those “things” are thank-yous! Thank you to all of you who have “Liked” the Facebook page for my plugged-in “dance” album Ballroom Remixed and to all of you who have “Liked” the page for me (myself and I) AND to all of you who have “Friended” my studio, Dance Times Square! Remember, you can always pop in and sign up for a lesson from my instructors and/or me. (Though lately, most weeks, I seem to be bopping from hither to yon! Where do I live again?). Our motto at the studio is, “It doesn’t matter if you come in with two left feet… we’ll set you right!”
Now then, a bunch of you have asked about how our routines on SYTYCD are created. In particular, how much do we tailor our choreography to reflect the strengths of the particular dancers we are working with? Let me see if I can answer that in under a thousand words… READ FULL STORY »
Earlier this week, we here at EW.com brought you “Honey Badger” expert Randall’s exclusive report from the wilds of San Diego Comic-Con. Well, it seems that while relaxing at the oasis that was Entertainment Weekly‘s Comic-Con party, Randall met Spartacus: Vengeance star and all-around awesome person Lucy Lawless. They got to talking, one thing led to another, and before you can say “Ailailailailailailailai!”, Lawless was bedecked in a furry vest and afro wig, scrounging around Los Angeles’ Griffith Park the south island of New Zealand, embodying the illusory Honey Badgerette. Check out the video below: READ FULL STORY »
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek appeared on crutches today while hosting the National Geographic World Championship. He explained that he’s going to be okay, but he’ll have to have surgery Friday because he fell on the carpet of his San Francisco hotel and ruptured his Achilles tendon at 2:30 in the morning after chasing a burglar down the hallway.
Who is Alex Trebek?
That’s rude.
Sorry. What is the weirdest thing I read today?
DING DING DING.
Get well soon, Alex!
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The first time I’d ever heard of Lady Gaga was three years ago, during the Top 6 results show of So You Think You Can Dance‘s fourth season. Re-watching it now, I’m struck by a few things immediately: TV sunglasses! Pointy shoulder pads! Crotch gestures! Light-up scepters! Strong vocals!
So what I’m saying is all the raw materials were right there for all to notice, and yet here is all I had to say about her in my recap of that episode: “Did you catch the kid in the catwalk doing Katee’s spazzy elbow dance to Lady GaGa’s ‘Just Dance’? And, speaking of Lady GaGa, are you getting the sinking feeling that female shoulder pads are starting to make a comeback?”
Isn’t it adorable how I spelled it “GaGa”? Anyhoodle, things are coming full circle, with Ms. Germanotta now sitting next to Mary Murphy as a guest judge, along with Chicago director Rob Marshall. READ FULL STORY »
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Howard Stern opened up about former sidekick Artie Lange on his Sirius XM radio show, getting angry at a caller who wanted gory details about Lange’s gruesome January 2010 suicide attempt.
The stand-up comedian and radio personality repeatedly stabbed himself with a kitchen knife, before being found in his Hoboken, N.J. apartment by his mother, barely clinging to life. It was the culmination of years of personal drama, much of it aired publicly on The Howard Stern Show, involving major drug abuse and erratic behavior.
With Lange set to launch a new comedic sports show on Fox Sports Network this September with Nick DiPaolo, a caller on the Stern show suggested that he should call in to discuss his suicide attempt. Stern responded, “I don’t discuss Artie’s business on the radio … Stop with the nonsense! Artie needs care, and me commenting on Artie — on whether he called me, whether he didn’t call me — it’s irrelevant. Artie needs to survive. Artie is no longer a sideshow. In my world, Artie can’t be a sideshow. Artie calling in and giving us all the details? All the gory details?” READ FULL STORY »
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Has The Walking Dead gone brain dead? Fans and critics are sweating the possibility now that Frank Darabont will no longer serve as showrunner of AMC’s hit adaptation of the Robert Kirkman zombie comic. Veteran TV scribe Glen Mazarra (Crash) will succeed Darabont as the drama’s major domo. Theories abound for Darabont’s abrupt departure, from frustration with the exhausting grind of making TV to budget concerns. Regardless, the news has made Walking Dead fandom rather uneasy. One entertainment blogger and fan – in an addendum to a recently posted essay ruminating on the drama’s long-term viability — said: “I think this adds some murkiness to the future and the direction of the show.” Wrote critic Alan Sepinwall of HitFix.com: “I’m a big believer in creative continuity on shows — though at least Robert Kirkman, who writes The Walking Dead comic, is still on staff — and at first glance this certainly doesn’t seem like great news for season 2. But there are too many unknown variables here to say for sure.” READ FULL STORY »
The national debt-limit debate is getting ugly in Washington as both parties refuse to flinch despite facing a looming Aug. 2 deadline. How ugly? According to the Washington Post, House Republicans are finding inspiration in a scene from The Town, Ben Affleck’s movie about a close-knit crew of Boston bankrobbers. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reportedly began his address to the House GOP leadership by showing the clip from the movie where Affleck asks Jeremy Renner’s character: “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask me about it later, and we’re gonna hurt some people.” After a brief pause, Renner replies, “Whose car are we gonna take?” Watch the scene. READ FULL STORY »
