Archive: July 2011 (41-50 of 289)

Jul 27 2011 03:41 PM ET

Don't go outside! Sit here and name the saddest part of this frame from NBC's 'It's Worth What?'

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Categories: DVR Screengrab of the Day, EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Hell to the No!, Horrifying But Hypnotic, I Saw It, So You Don't Have To!, Is This a Rhetorical Question?, Now That's What I Call a Face!, Ridiculata, Signs of the Apocalypse, Things That Are Classy, Things That Make Me Die Inside, This Would Never Fly In Sweden, To Care or Not to Care, Total Trash, Unfortunate Developments, Why Am I Crying?

I finally set up DirecTV in my new apartment last night, and within just a few seconds of flipping through network television’s 9 p.m. Tuesday lineup was able to achieve a stunning sense of overwhelming dread, horror, and hopelessness. Hooray!

Here’s the Saddest Thing I saw on Summer TV Last Night:

Three sad women posed onstage as Madonna, Paris Hilton, and Scarlett Johansson (though my first guesses were a deranged doll, a chronic nose-picker, and a Debbie Downer who’s unsatisfied with her recent shopping spree at The Limited). The show: It’s Worth What? on NBC.  It doesn’t really matter why this tragic arrangement of humanity occurred; suffice it to say that the whole point of It’s Worth What? on NBC seems to be that host Cedric the Entertainer gets to say “It’s worth WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?” before commercials.

It’s scary in there, you guys.

If you see other Things That Make You Die Inside on summer TV and want to make others share your pain, leave ‘em in the comments or send ‘em to me @EWAnnieBarrett on Twitter. It’ll be like the opposite of my hidden gems initiative, just for summer. Pellets of misery? Oh, I love it! Include an exact timestamp so I don’t have to watch the whole show. Do my job for me!

So what’s the saddest part of this frame? I say “DOG FOOD CAN” placard. You?

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Jul 27 2011 02:41 PM ET

Kat Von D isn't having it with 'Good Day LA,' you guys.

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Categories: Bitchery, Celebrity Feuds, Hell to the No!, My Head Hurts, Ridiculata, Shenanigans!, Skarsgard Your Loins, Television, That Was Way Harsh, Tai
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Image Credit: Gero Breloer/AP Images

Despite the fact that she announced her split from fiancé Jesse James over Twitter on Tuesday and the season premiere of her reality series LA Ink – which airs Thursday night at 10 p.m. on TLC – -was going to chronicle their now-defunct engagement, Kat Von D really didn’t want to talk about the break-up. At least, not with the fun times gang over at Good Day LA.

After Jillian Barberie and Co. showed a clip from the new season of LA Ink that featured Von D showing James one of her (many) tattoos, the 29-year-old stormed off the set (or as she explained on Twitter, “I walked out because of your disrespectful intro you guys ‘snuck’ in.”) Von D also tweeted, “Dear Good Day L.A, Thanks for the waste of a perfectly good morning. Lack of compassion and respect for each other never fails to disappoint me.”

Still, the abrupt walk-off and tweet stunned the Good Day LA anchors (who, as The Soup will often happily point out are, if nothing else, serious journalists). READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 02:30 PM ET

This Week's Cover: First look at the men of 'The Hunger Games' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Categories: An EW Exclusive!, Exclusive First Look, Movies, The Hunger Games, This Week's Cover

Two months ago, Entertainment Weekly revealed the first images of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, the teenage hero of The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins’ blistering dystopian trilogy about children forced to fight to the death on national TV (and due out next March). In this week’s cover story, we introduce you to the devoted young men who fight for her.

We sat down wth Josh Hutcherson, the 18-year-old actor whom director Gary Ross fought hard to cast as the deeply decent Peeta Mellark, at a cozy diner in Asheville, N.C., where The Hunger Games shoot was mid-way through filming. His hair was dyed blonde; his newly pumped-up biceps could believably belong to that of a baker’s son. And while Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) understands fans’ hand-wringing online, he’s here to assure you that Lawrence will not in fact tower over him on screen. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 02:17 PM ET

Piers Morgan denies phone-hacking, downplays 2009 radio interview

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Categories: British Things, Celebrity Scandals, Television
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Image Credit: AP Images

The phone-hacking scandal that has wounded Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and shuttered the News of the World tabloid newspaper is also now threatening CNN’s Piers Morgan. Larry King’s replacement was the top editor at News of the World in the mid-1990s and later ran the Mirror, and Louise Mensch, a British politician, erroneously inferred that Morgan had admitted illegal hacking in his 2005 autobiography when she questioned Murdoch and former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks last week. Morgan confronted her on Wolf Blitzer’s show and declared, “For the record, in my time at the Mirror and the News of the World, I have never hacked a phone, told anybody to hack a phone or published any story based on the hacking of a phone.”

Now, a 2009 interview has resurfaced that has Morgan on the defensive again. Appearing on a radio show, Desert Island Discs with host Kirsty Young, Morgan responded to “all that nasty down-in-the-gutter stuff” that tabloid newspapers were notorious for: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 01:21 PM ET

Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris get into a war of words. But we only have one word for it: Whyyyyy?!

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Categories: Celebrity Feuds, EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Hell to the No!, I Remember When It Used To Cost A Nickel, Not Jon Hamm, Off With Her Head!, Skarsgard Your Loins, That Was Way Harsh, Tai, Things That Make Me Die Inside
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Image Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage.com

There is nothing worse than getting caught in between a couple, post-break-up, while they go back and forth with their “he said, she said” routine. (Actually, getting caught in between this would be worse. Way worse.)

So imagine our discomfort when Crystal Harris stopped by Howard Stern’s XM radio show on Tuesday to plant irreversible images in our head bash the boat captain/magazine mogul. In addition to claiming that she’d never seen Hef naked because the 85-year-old rarely takes off his clothes (here’s an artist’s rendering of what he would probably look like), Harris said that sex with Hef only went for “like, two seconds.” The 24-year-old, who said she wasn’t turned on by the Playboy founder (jowls just aren’t for everyone) then meticulously articulated her post-traumatic Hef disorder for listeners, “Then I was just over it. Was like, ‘Ahhh.’ I was over it. I just, like, walked away.”

But Hef wasn’t going to take this lying down (not unless he had an orthopedic mattress or it was time for his 2 p.m. nap). READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 01:02 PM ET

Eddie Cibrian adds to list of Great Pop Culture Moments in Bathtubs

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Categories: Apropos of Nothing, Grooming, Lists-o-rama!, Movies, Music, Nostalgia, Nudity, Sexytimes, Television, Who Else Remembers This?
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Image Credit: Steven Lippman

Eddie Cibrian, star of NBC’s new fall drama The Playboy Club, is, one must admit, an excellent model for Charisma, a luxury home brand that includes bedding, robes, bath rugs, and towels. For the fall 2011 campaign, he was photographed in bed, of course, and while those shots are worth looking at (check them out here, along with a behind-the-scenes video in which Cibrian is half-naked but hearing compliments like, “Look at those sheets! Ohmygod!”), it’s the bathtub shots that make me happy. I love when male celebrities agree to be photographed in a bathtub because it always feels so random even if it isn’t. See: Colin Firth and David Boreanaz. Therefore, I’m adding Cibrian’s shoot to my list of Great Pop Culture Moments in Bathtubs, which, my editor Mike Bruno said I could blog “only if you include the ‘When Doves Cry’ video, which starts with doves opening double doors to a purple misty room containing Prince in a tub. As Morris Day would say, ‘So sexy!’” So, we have that. What else should be on this list? Other colleagues have nominated Fatal Attraction, Scarface, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Pretty Woman. Off the top of my head, my submissions would include:

READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 11:14 AM ET

EW's Dave Karger plays with the donkeys on 'Hell's Kitchen.' Raw!

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Categories: Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown, Reality TV, Television, This Could Be Interesting...
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We love our own here at Entertainment Weekly, so when Dave Karger casually announced his guest judging stint on Tuesday night’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen, TiVos were excitedly set. What would this kind man have to say to the group of frequently berated “donkeys” on Gordon Ramsay’s terrifying competition show? Would his words lead to tears of disappointment, or the comforting thrill of a teammate’s back pat? Most importantly, would he miss a day of work because the food he ate was raw?

Luckily, Dave seemed to enjoy the food he ate, and returned to us in one piece. A sinister young woman named Carrie tried her best to poison our hero by serving him raw fried chicken, but her teammate had a gentle soul and warned Dave of the impending danger. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 10:08 AM ET

Gene Simmons finally proposes to Shannon Tweed

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Categories: About Last Night, Music, Reality TV

Legendary lothario Gene Simmons finally popped the question to longtime partner Shannon Tweed on the season finale of Gene Simmons: Family Jewels last night. “I come with so much baggage, but you’re the only friend I’ve got, ” Simmons told Tweed on a bayside dock in Belize. “You’re the only one I’ve ever loved … I used to watch movies where they say, ‘I can’t live without you,’ but for me it’s true.” Watch below. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 10:00 AM ET

'Superman Returns' deleted opening scene: What the heck IS this?

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Categories: Movies, Superman, Superman Returns, This Could Be Interesting...

Among geek cognoscenti, 2006′s Superman Returns may be one of the most divisive superhero films of the last decade. On the one hand, it was kinda slow, Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane was about as feisty as a damp sponge, and the entire endeavor was oddly slavish to the Richard Donner-era Superman films — which many young theatergoers had never seen.

On the other hand, the Richard Donner-era Superman films are still among the very best superhero movies ever. More to the point, Superman Returns had soul. Director Bryan Singer dared to give the Man of Steel real pathos, and to make the film far more personal and idiosyncratic than your average cookie cutter comic book flick (coughhackGreenLanternhackingcough).

Now that Singer’s original opening for the film has hit the interwebs — it’s a deleted scene extra on the Superman Anthology Blu-ray edition — that debate is likely to get even louder. Because, you guys, this scene is just plain weird. It chronicles Supes’ trip back to the remains of his home planet of Krypton, and, well, check it out for yourself:  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 09:30 AM ET

PopWatch Poll: What's your favorite primate movie?

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Categories: Animals, Everyone's a Critic, Movies, Things That Are Awesome!
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Hey, hey, it’s the monkeys!

With just a few more days until monkeys overrule us all with their strength and enviable memory skills Rise of the Planet of the Apes (primate pun alert!) swings into theaters, we got to thinking about our all-time favorite monkey movies. While it’s long been acknowledged that monkeys = comedy gold (see: Every Which Way But Loose, this video), chimps have an even better track record on the big screen in drama, sci-fi, and action films.

Since we don’t know where Rise of the Planet of The Apes will rank in the pantheon of all-time great monkey movies (we will, however, venture to guess it will be high above Ed and Dunston Checks In) we want to know which flick you’ve gone bananas over in the past.  READ FULL STORY »

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