Carrie Fisher, Star Wars star and Jenny Craig spokeswoman who lost 50 pounds in the past nine months, appeared on Today this morning to talk to Ann Curry about diets, aging, her legacy, and yada yada yada, let’s get talking about that important line! At 4:20 in the video embedded after the jump — fittingly following a brief and funny conversation about a type of marijuana called Princess Leia — the actress drops a sentence that could melt carbonite: “I want to get back into the metal bikini.” Use the force to make it happen, Star Wars fanatics! READ FULL STORY »
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Aug 24
2011
10:32 AM ET
Carrie Fisher on 'Today': 'I want to get back into the metal bikini'
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Aug 24
2011
09:37 AM ET
Craig Ferguson addresses anthrax scare on 'Late Late Show': 'It's a very scary situation'
And we thought The Jay Leno Show was the scariest thing to happen to late night. Less than a week after an investigation was launched into a comment from an online jihadist calling for David Letterman’s assassination, an envelope full of a mysterious white powder was sent to The Late Late Show. As host Craig Ferguson wrote on his Twitter Tuesday: “Ack!Someone mailed my show white powder & claimed it was anthrax. I’m not a big fan of that sort of thing.”
Luckily, after authorities were called to the set, it was determined that the substance was harmless — which gave Ferguson full clearance to joke about the scare on his show Tuesday night. The host did indeed touch on the events of the day during his monologue, explaining to audience members why the Late Late Show‘s taping began late: “It started out like any other day. I come into the studio, I have my nap, I fire someone, I then get a massage from the person I fired, I re-hire them. But today … someone sent here an envelope packed with white powder. And I was like, ‘Ooh, I’ll test it for you if you want! I have a special test that I conducted between 1979 and 1992.’”
Ferguson did, however, get serious about the incident, telling the audience, “It’s a very scary situation … My first concern, of course, was for my staff.” Like to add anything, Ferguson? “And by staff, I mean penis.” Click the jump to watch Ferguson discuss the anthrax scare, which, according to the host, contributed to “the most attention the show has gotten since… It’s the most attention the show has gotten.” READ FULL STORY »
Aug 24
2011
09:00 AM ET
Summer TV Hottie Awards: Now accepting nominations!
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Award show season starts here, folks! It’s time for the Summer TV Hottie Awards, celebrating the best of the…um…no. Just celebrating attractive people. Very, very attractive people.
Here are your categories. Your picks can be from scripted or reality TV. I encourage show diversity, so think about all the shows on right now (or that just finished a summer run). And, kids, have fun.
Hottest Summer TV vet (male):
[Sandra's pick: White Collar's Matt Bomer, pictured above for your pleasure] READ FULL STORY »
Aug 24
2011
08:00 AM ET
Well-juiced Simon Cowell talks 'American Idol' fatigue, 'X Factor,' orgasmic IV regimen
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In an interview with GQ, Simon Cowell talks about his total disinterest in his last few seasons of American Idol and how a lawsuit citing similarities between Idol and The X Factor forced him to delay plans to bring his show to the U.S. for five years. It’s a great read whether you dig the guy or not, but the thing that will stick with me most is that Simon Cowell has a multi-person team to make sure his “breakfast appears” every day. Breakfast is seven courses, six of them liquid. GQ provides footnoted recipes of his breakfast smoothies, with each fruit serving measured out to the millimeter.
It’s all very scientific. At this point, his entire life is so immaculately curated that Simon Cowell just doesn’t have to deal. With anything. Ever. He wakes up late, watches The Jetsons, absorbs nutrients, and avoids people. He’s my hero. And here’s something very unfortunate for a person who is not a multimillionaire media mogul: Simon Cowell has brainwashed me into believing I should be on an orgasm-inducing IV at all times. (I should, right?) READ FULL STORY »
Aug 23
2011
05:50 PM ET
Today marks what would have been River Phoenix's 41st birthday: A sad reminder of a lost talent
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For those lucky few who had the opportunity to watch River Phoenix’s film career blossom right in front of their eyes, there’s no doubt it’s the sort of bragging rights they wish they didn’t have. Because for all those who had the chance to experience the young actor’s star-making turns in films like Running on Empty, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, My Own Private Idaho, and of course, Stand By Me, they also had to watch it all come to a sudden end when Phoenix, the eldest brother of Joaquin, passed away at the age of 23 from a drug overdose on October 31, 1993.
Today, August 23, marks what would have been Phoenix’s 41st birthday, and much like the tragic legacy of fallen stars like Heath Ledger and James Dean, he left us far too soon, with a looming, overwhelming sense of what could have been. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 23
2011
03:41 PM ET
David Cross talks 'Arrested Development' movie (again), Amber Tamblyn on 'Countdown'
David Cross sat down for a chat with Keith Olbermann on Countdown, but the two pals (both play in Jason Bateman’s fantasy football together, who knew?!) had so much to discuss they had to make a web extra. During their extended time together, the topic turned to, as to be expected, the long and eagerly awaited Arrested Development movie. While Cross (who calls the constant barrage of Arrested chatter “mildly irritating,” but realizes being synonymous with the show is “certainly a good thing to be remembered for”) hasn’t talked to the show’s creator Mitchell Hurwitz for over a year, he did confirm one possible story line for the movie: All the characters would play their own fathers. “It’s genius, it’s the perfect way to address it,” Cross said of Hurwitz’s plan to handle the five-year gap since the series went off the air and left a Mrs. Featherbottom-sized hole in the hearts of fans.
Check out the full semi-NSFW work clip below, in which Cross talks about more Arrested madness (he and Tobias Fünke had to learn the very hard way that the Blue Man Group don’t actually paint themselves to get that sapphire hue), his engagement to Amber Tamblyn (“I am going to take her name… David Rose Marie Tamblyn”), how the Internet reacted to their relationship (“They’re not nice, but we dismiss them”), and what’s next for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (a movie by 2028!) and his career (writing and directing a non-”lame” sitcom). Watch: READ FULL STORY »
Aug 23
2011
03:28 PM ET
'Magic Mike': Who -- and what -- do you need to see in Channing Tatum's stripper movie?
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I was just talking to a friend who has yet to hear about Magic Mike, and it occurred to me that there might actually people who aren’t counting the days until it hits theaters. I do not understand these people. It’s a movie based on Channing Tatum’s early days as a stripper, in which he’ll star as the titular mentor to a younger dancer played by I Am Four‘s Alex Pettyfer. The cast also includes Matthew McConaughey (who’ll play a former stripper who now owns the club, called Xquisite), White Collar‘s Matt Bomer (as another employee), and True Blood‘s Joe Manganiello (as a character named Big Dick Richie). How are you not excited about this? If it’s good, great. If it’s bad, it’s Showgirls, and I’m roadtesting a VIP DVD edition. What’s the male stripper equivalent of the ”Pin the Pasties on the Showgirl” game? I can’t wait to find out.
The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starts shooting next month, which, fingers crossed, means we still have time for more casting announcements. (And ladies don’t count!) READ FULL STORY »
Aug 23
2011
03:14 PM ET
Celebrities tweet about East Coast earthquake
An earthquake just struck the East Coast measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale, according to Reuters. That’s not an especially large magnitude compared to your average California quake, but it’s decidedly unusual for the Eastern Seaboard; the quake’s epicenter was in Virginia, but it could be felt from Washington, DC, up to Toronto. Of course, that includes the Twitter-happy population of celebrity types in New York City (not to mention the North Carolina set of a certain young-adult dystopic-thriller adaptation). Below, a sampling of celebrity responses to the East Coast Earthquake:
Danny Zuker: Oh God. What did you do to her? RT @chrisbrown Please pray for Virginia.
Judah Friedlander: Sorry for the earthquake NYC, I just did a couple of intense jumping jacks.
Bethenny Frankel: I just felt the earth shake at lunch!
Elizabeth Banks: um, earthquake in north carolina? it’s nice to feel at home but please, don’t go overboard. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 23
2011
02:09 PM ET
iTunes dominates digital movie sales in first half of 2011
In the wake of rising competition from Microsoft’s Zune Video Marketplace, Sony’s Playstation Store, and Amazon’s new video services, Apple’s iTunes store had seen a two-year decline in its share in the digital-movie-sales market, but as reported in Variety, new research from IHS Screen Digest shows that Apple’s market share has ascended to 65.8 percent in the first six months of 2011. Wal-mart’s Vudu marketplace also gained considerable market share — 5.3 percent, a massive increase over the 1 percent it controlled in early 2010. IHS reported overall growth in the digital-sales category, which includes streaming rentals or full-on digital downloads; it will be interesting to see if the market continues to grow, especially in light of the expanding popularity of subscription models like Netflix, Crackle, Hulu Plus… well, like Netflix, at least.
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Aug 23
2011
02:00 PM ET
'All That' isn't all that it used to be, but I still love it
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“Fresh out the box. Stop, look, and watch. Ready yet. Get set. It’s All That!” Now join in with TLC(!) and sing the rest of the theme song as you reminisce about the joys of All That, Nickelodeon’s comedy/variety show that aired from 1994–2000 and again from 2002–2005. But let’s be clear, the All That I fondly remember included a cast of Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Lori Beth Denberg, and Amanda Bynes. A golden era of kid comedy, if you will. I refuse to acknowledge the later reincarnation which featured the likes of Jamie Lynn Spears.
That said, in preparation for writing this piece, I went back and watched several clips from the show. And sadly, just like my colleague Sandra experienced earlier this month, I found myself saying, “I once watched this?!” Apparently, and probably for the better, my tastes have changed over the years. I no longer find Denberg’s “Vital Information” so vital. “Good Burger” is really more mediocre than good. And I couldn’t even make it through all of Amanda Bynes’ yelling in “Ask Ashley.”
And yet, even though the jokes are no longer funny to me, I still have a really special place in my heart for the series. READ FULL STORY »
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