Spike Lee has made me love “Empire State of Mind” again. I was so over the Jay Z-Alicia Keys song two years ago when the New York Yankees co-opted it for their run at (and subsequent win) the 2009 World Series. While it was the perfect anthem for the time, you just couldn’t escape the song. But I have to tell you, Spike Lee’s State Farm commercial, which used children singing the song and paying tribute to NYC firemen, has made me smile and tear up just about every time I saw/heard it this weekend. And now I can’t get enough. Take a look:
Archive: September 2011 (231-240 of 316)
Sep 12
2011
12:55 PM ET
Kate Gosselin on 'Today' claims fans 'are devastated,' says Jon wants 'mediocre for his kids'
Oh, PopWatchers, aren’t you just going to miss the all-around warmth and charm of Kate Gosselin? Did you grow to love her kids more than your own? Have I already laid on the sarcasm too thick? If you answered ‘Yes, of course, you jerk!’ to any of these questions, then by all means, read on.
While visiting Today to promote the final episode of her once-massively popular reality series Kate Plus 8 (formerly Jon & Kate Plus 8), the TV mom spoke rather somberly with host Matt Lauer about what she called “the end of an era.”
Gosselin said she was not only sad for the Kate Plus 8 fans (“They’re devastated. They’re saying, you know, you’re the neighbor moving far away and we won’t see you again,” she said), but also her co-stars children: “I feel sad for my kids because of all of the opportunities that they’re now questioning.” READ FULL STORY »
Sep 12
2011
12:25 PM ET
Serena Williams' U.S. Open outburst goes viral: 'Are you the one that screwed me over last time here?'
Not even Gob got in this much trouble for an outburst of “Come on!“
During her U.S. Open match against Samantha Stosur on Sunday, Sept. 11, Serena Williams shouted just that against her opponent while the ball was still in play, prompting chair umpire Eva Asderaki to give Stosur the point for the distraction. Of course, as 2009 U.S. Open Serena Williams could attest, 2011 Serena Williams simply wasn’t going to go out without a fight (or, at least, without making a scene anyway). After asking Asderaki, “Are you the one that screwed me over here last time?”, Williams had no love, 15 or otherwise, for the ump. “If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way because you’re out of control. You’re out of control. You’re a hater and unattractive inside… Code violation for this? I expressed myself. We’re in America last time I checked. Don’t look at me. Don’t look my way,” the tennis star told Asderaki. Watch the full, uncomfortable clip below: READ FULL STORY »
Sep 12
2011
12:00 PM ET
'Top Gun' being converted to 3-D, possible release date in 2012
Image Credit: Everett Collection
By today’s franchise-baiting standards, the plot of Top Gun looks adorably simple in hindsight. Pilots with high self-esteem battle enemy MiGs, but they’re secretly fighting themselves, and also Kelly McGillis: In 1986, that was enough to make Top Gun the highest-grossing movie of the year. But as EW’s Christ Nashawaty pointed out in his recent review of the film’s 25th-anniversary DVD, Top Gun holds a troublesome place in movie history: Its adorably cheeseball squareness wound up setting the stage for the entire era of the modern Hollywood blockbuster, to the point that this summer’s Green Lantern basically felt like Top Gun with more digital effects and worse dialogue. Now, you can ponder the deeper societal implications of Maverick’s internal struggle with an entirely new dimension: According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount is converting Top Gun into 3-D for a potential 2012 re-release. READ FULL STORY »
Sep 12
2011
11:38 AM ET
'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays' coming to off-Broadway
Image Credit: Chuck Green
Producers announced today that Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, the hit L.A. production about the fight for marriage equality in the United States, will make its way to NYC this fall. The anthology play features nine works by some of today’s top wordsmiths — including Neil LaBute (Fat Pig), Moisés Kaufman (33 Variations), and Doug Wright (Grey Gardens) — and inspired EW writer Tanner Stransky to call it “just as much a theater experience as it is a crusade to illuminate the precarious, confusing, maddening, and — yes — oftentimes hilarious position that gays and lesbians find themselves in when it comes to getting hitched legally.”
Like in L.A., off-Broadway’s Standing will feature a rotating group of actors. (Casting has yet to be announced.) Previews begin Oct. 8, with an official opening night planned for Oct. 24. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to marriage equality organizations.
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EW Review: ‘Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays’
Sep 12
2011
10:52 AM ET
Miss Universe airs tonight. Can Miss USA win for the first time in 14 years?
Image Credit: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic.com
Of course, we all know that the Miss Universe pageant is completely mislabeled, since it’s impossible for us to know whether the 89 women competing really are the most beautiful (inside and out, remember! Inside and out!) in the universe. I’ve heard, after all, the Queen of Venus is quite the looker. So let’s call the pageant, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET on NBC, what we really should: Miss Donald Trump’s Universe.
Over the past week, talk about the pageant has focused on Miss Colombia, Catalina Robayo, who was reprimanded by the show’s organizers (and, likely, heralded by its owner) for allegedly not wearing panties under her miniskirts. But since the pretty ladies here in America mastered that skill years ago — and the scandal has likely turned Robayo into a frontrunner, since there’s no such thing as bad publicity when it comes to pageants — I’m wondering why the good ol’ U.S.A. has had such a terrible track record when it comes to Miss Universe. READ FULL STORY »
Sep 12
2011
09:00 AM ET
Is 'Rocko's Modern Life' secretly the best cartoon Nickelodeon made in the '90s?
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Here’s the funny thing: When I was a kid, I didn’t like Rocko’s Modern Life. Or at least, not nearly as much as I enjoyed its Nickelodeon brethren. Ren & Stimpy could make me fall down and hit my head from laughing so hard. Rugrats was an eerily perfect vision of the weirdness of being a kid. And Doug… actually, I had an irresistible urge to punch Doug in the face, but Skeeter was the bomb. By comparison, Rocko’s Modern Life seemed… strange. I could never quite put my finger on it, until years later, when I rewatched the series and had a revelation: Alone among the Nicktoons, Rocko was a show about being an adult. The opening credits sequence presents the show’s protagonist growing from a lovable, naive little wallaby into an anxious adult living in the big city. Take out the “wallaby” part, and Rocko’s Modern Life almost sounds like the plot of a ’90s NBC sitcom, something wedged in between Friends and Veronica’s Closet. READ FULL STORY »
Sep 11
2011
09:08 PM ET
'The X Factor' extended preview: Did it make you feel (like a natural woman)? (VIDEO)
Football fans across the nation rejoiced as an eight-minute extended preview of Simon Cowell’s The X Factor (premiering Sept. 21 on Fox) aired right after tonight’s NFL doubleheader. It’s got everything: Blank stares from L.A. Reid, ‘O’ faces from Nicole Scherzinger, an absolutely absurd backstage hairstyle on Paula Abdul, some dude with his pants pulled down, and — get this — two females who can really sing. (One’s 13. I can’t call her a woman. I just can’t do it.) Watch it here: READ FULL STORY »
Sep 10
2011
09:00 AM ET
'The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo': Were these cases as tough to solve as I remember?
Ah, Snick. What great memories I have of Nickelodeon’s 8-10 p.m. programming block every Saturday night.
When we were younger, my two brothers and I would always camp out in the guest room at the far end of my house and watch the full two hours of special TV on Saturdays. They’re both older than me, so they would each sleep on a comfy sofa, while I was relegated to my sleeping bag on the floor (No! Of course I’m not bitter about that!), and we’d fight over who got to hold the remote control, despite the fact that all of us wanted to watch Snick. We loved Snick.
Somewhere along the line, a show called The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo got added to the Snick schedule, and my goodness, we were obsessed. READ FULL STORY »
Sep 10
2011
04:20 AM ET
'Torchwood' season finale: Blood is thicker than logic, or 'Death Wish V: The Face of Death'
Image Credit: Starz Original/BBC Worldwide Limited
Based on that globetrotting, apocalypse-flirting season finale of Torchwood, it’s hard to believe that this series began as just a Doctor Who spinoff on BBC Three about a black ops unit fighting aliens in apparently extraterrestrial-packed Cardiff, Wales. No, it still hasn’t come close to fulfilling its original mandate to give a more “adult” spin to the Who formula. Not by a mile. But what Torchwood still lacks in maturity it almost makes up with sheer expansiveness.
Take Series Four, subtitled “Miracle Day,” which wrapped up last night. It was in some respects a season-long deconstruction of most television series’ biggest conceit: that your main characters are never going to die, or at least have a much, much lower mortality rate than the general population. On the titular Miracle Day, not a single human being on the planet died. But then, none died on the day after, or the day after that, and so on, like some cancerous antipode to Children of Men’s sterility epidemic. After that non-Apocalypse Apocalypse, humanity became an immortal race of gods subjected to an increasingly crowded planet—except for those “Category One” individuals who should have died but haven’t and now linger on in some kind of limbo. READ FULL STORY »
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