Archive: September 2011 (271-280 of 316)

Sep 7 2011 02:06 PM ET

Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond among 2011 Kennedy Center Honorees. Who should fete them?

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Categories: Meryl Streep, Movies, Music, Television
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The recipients of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors have been announced, and they are: Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, and Tony winner and singer Barbara Cook.

The Kennedy Center Honors, which this year air Dec. 27 on CBS, are hands down my favorite awards show. There’s so much love, respect, laughter, and tears in that theater and the beautiful thing is, it’s all deserved. You get wonderful speeches like Jon Stewart’s when he encapsulated Bruce Springsteen, Gregory Hines’ when he articulated better than anyone what makes Mikhail Baryshnikov so special, and Steve Martin’s when he roasted pal Paul Simon; READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 01:15 PM ET

PopWatch PSA: Please stop using Pink's 'Raise Your Glass' in every trailer

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Categories: Bitchery, Bridesmaids, Everyone's a Critic, Movies, Music, Music + Comedy = Good Thing?, My Head Hurts, Ouch! That Was My Ear!

During my sixth consecutive hour of watching Friends on Nick at Nite (despite making me feel very old, this addition to their line-up is quite enjoyable), I started to lose my patience. And not just with the way Ross pronounces “karate.” Rather, it was because every single commercial break featured the preview for Anna Faris’ upcoming calculating-your-sexual-partners comedy What’s Your Number?. The movie itself doesn’t bother me. (In fact, Faris’ English accent-turned-Borat imitation is pretty amusing.) It’s the fact that Pink’s ubiquitous track has found its way into yet another rom-com trailer.

The tune, which dangerously started to veer into overexposed, overplayed territory when the Warblers got their hands on it last season on Glee, took the express lane to the land of Dear God, No, Not Again (“Who Let The Dogs Out?” welcomes you!) when it was featured in no less than three trailers for female-driven flicks. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 12:47 PM ET

Jimmy Kimmel honors his Uncle Frank -- VIDEO

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Categories: In Memoriam, Late Night, Why Am I Crying?

Fans of Jimmy Kimmel and his beloved Uncle Frank, who passed away two weeks ago after battling cancer, didn’t have to wait until the end of last night’s show for the host’s emotional tribute. Kimmel opened the show with a 20-minute “who-logy” — as Uncle Frank said — that captured all the colors of this crazy, loving, endearing man who became an uncle to everyone involved with the underdog late-night show. “Listen, I’m going to try to do this without crying,” Kimmel began, before instantly shedding some tears. “He was very excited about his funeral. He would have loved this. I almost think he died intentionally just to get a tribute show.” Take a brief look at Kimmel’s touching speech below. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 12:30 PM ET

Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Piven, and Stephen Baldwin among celebs to tell '110 Stories'

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Categories: Stage/Theater, Things That Are Sad, This Week on Stage

In the days leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, many are already using this as a time to reflect on the tragic events of that terrible September morning. In addition to a bevy of TV specials that are airing throughout the week, a celebrity benefit reading of Sarah Tuft’s heartbreaking play 110 Stories will take place over two evenings on the stage of NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, beginning tomorrow, Sept. 8.

Tuft’s play, which tells harrowing, true stories from those who were down at Ground Zero in the wake of the horror that unfolded (“I wrote 110 Stories to preserve, not just history, but also a window into who we really are as revealed by our behavior under extreme circumstances,” the playwright said in a statement,”) will be performed by an impressive assembly of actors, including…  READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 12:01 PM ET

Teen Beat, Broadway edition: Nick Jonas to star in 'How to Succeed...'

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Categories: Music, Stage/Theater, This Week on Stage
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Image Credit: Andrew Evans/PR Photos

The squealing should continue at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre for the foreseeable future. On Jan. 24, Nick Jonas will take over the lead role in the hit musical revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He’ll be filling the dancing shoes of Daniel Radcliffe, who’s playing ambitious corporate-ladder climber J. Pierrepont Finch through the end of the year after winning mostly rave reviews (and the attention of legions of teenage fans) when the show opened last March. Glee star Darren Criss, a teen heartthrob in his own right, will portray Finch from Jan. 3-22, 2012, and then the youngest of the Jonas Brothers trio is expected to step in from Jan. 24 through July 1.

The 18-year-old New Jersey native is no stranger to musical theater. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 11:47 AM ET

Denis Leary spoils the 'Rescue Me' series finale?

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Categories: Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, Rescue Me, Television, Why Am I Crying?

Tonight, Rescue Me airs its series finale, and Denis Leary dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and explained how easy it is to get what happens to his character out of him. He wasn’t lying. Or was he? We know from the promo there will be a funeral scene, which — SPOILER ALERT — Leary said was the final scene they shot and “I was off camera that day… Ooh, could be a clue.”

Leary is a deliciously dark guy, but do we really think Tommy will die? I think Leary was simply setting the scene for his story about fighting back tears on the set, which led to an enjoyable conversation with Fallon about moments that made them misty-eyed: Fallon cried when he proposed to his wife, while Leary wept at Field of Dreams, Brian’s Song, and E.T. (in front of five of his guy friends).  READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 10:32 AM ET

Kate Gosselin lands on Anderson Cooper's RidicuList for her babysitter blowout, general awfulness

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Categories: Have You Seen This?, Ridiculata, Jon & Kate Plus 8, About Last Night, Hell to the No!, Everyone's a Critic, Bitchery, Skarsgard Your Loins, Off With Her Head!, Kate Gosselin, That Was Way Harsh, Tai, My Head Hurts

If this clip of Kate Gosselin garnered this kind of reaction from Anderson Cooper, one can only imagine/look forward to what Joel McHale will have to say about it. During last night’s Anderson Cooper 360, the silver fox wasn’t having it with dreadful reality TV mom Kate Gosselin and rightly placed her on his RidicuList. Only this time, no one was laughing. Not Gosselin, who was pissed off at her babysitter Ashley for… something; not Steve the Security Guard whose slice of “reserved pizza” (you can do that?!) was handed to him by the peasant hands of a lowly child; not babysitter Ashley who reached her breaking point with her harpy employer; and definitely not Cooper, who documented the Kate Plus 8 moment for his viewers with total contempt. His reaction at 2:39 really says it all, doesn’t it, PopWatchers? Watch the full clip below: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 10:00 AM ET

Why Eddie Murphy should be raw during the Oscars

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Categories: Oscars
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Ever since he broke out as a young comedian on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s, we’ve been privvy to the two sides of Eddie Murphy: There’s the family-friendly Eddie, who gifted physical comedy to audiences of all ages in films like The Nutty Professor, Dr. Doolittle, and Shrek; and then there’s raw Eddie, who showed us his expletive-loving self in the likes of 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and, well, Raw.

But as many are debating on our message boards, which Eddie will he break out on Oscar night? As EW previously reported, Murphy has been confirmed as the host of the 84th Annual Academy Awards. And, like we felt last year when James Franco and Anne Hathaway were announced as emcees, we’re not sure what to expect from his hosting duties. (Of course, the answer is probably a bit more clear-cut than a ceremony headed by the stoner dude from Pineapple Express and The Princess Diaries girl.) We’re talking about a ceremony with a history of both playing it safe (Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres) and spicing things up (Chris Rock, David Letterman, Jon Stewart). Which side will Murphy favor? Or, the better question is: Which side should Murphy favor? READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 09:00 AM ET

'Animaniacs': The '90s cartoon for the adult in every child

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Categories: Animation, Nickelodeon, Nostalgia, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, Who Else Remembers This?

At some point in your childhood, you start to develop your own personal taste in pop culture. I didn’t know it at the time, but 1993 was a pivotal year for me in that regard. It was the year The Nightmare Before Christmas hit theaters, marking the first time I became so obsessed with a film that I wanted to learn how it was actually made. The year was also the first time I walked out of a movie — despite being raised on the Ninja Turtles, the third Turtles flick just wasn’t doing it for me, so I asked my dad if we could leave. (I imagine he didn’t mind.)

And 1993 was when two new shows — Animaniacs and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers — premiered on Fox Kids. The two programs were instant hits, and it was perfectly fine to be a fan of both. But for some reason, the 8-year-old me took a stand. He decided that only one of these shows deserved his utmost attention, opting for the zany comedy of Animaniacs. In retrospect, I’m glad he did. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 7 2011 02:00 AM ET

'Sons of Anarchy' season premiere: The art of the montage. Who does them right? Who does them wrong?

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Categories: Movies, Sons of Anarchy, Television
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Montages have a bad name. We know this because Trey Parker and Matt Stone have spoofed them both on South Park and in the movie Team America: World Police. (With the same song!) But occasionally, they’re so beautifully constructed that they’re unforgettable. Think the Up married life montage, which got much of the audience to tear up in under four minutes, or, on the complete opposite end of the emotional spectrum, the final five moments of last night’s Sons of Anarchy season 4 premiere. It was a brutal ballet of violence set to a cover of “What a Wonderful World” that the Kills’ Alison Mosshart recorded specifically for the show, and it was so well done, we asked creator Kurt Sutter and exec producer Paris Barclay to dissect it for us.  READ FULL STORY »

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