Archive: October 2011 (1-10 of 382)

Oct 31 2011 08:00 PM ET

'Dancing With the Stars': Week 7 is liiiiiiiiiiiiive!

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Categories: Dancing With the Stars, Reality TV
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Image Credit: Adam Taylor/ABC

Update: Annie’s recap is live. (Or is it dead?)

Well, sort of. Some half-hour thing about Shrek is on right now, which is kind of fitting as he is probably the only ogre I would like to see swathed in sequined fringe. Anyway, starting at 8:30….It’s Halloween Night! Welcome to week 7 of Dancing With the Stars season 13. The six remaining couples must perform a solo routine and dance in a group number this week.

Go ahead and discuss the two-hour performance show here, or try our more “live blog”-esque experience over at EW.com’s Viewer. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 06:35 PM ET

Melissa McCarthy's husband Ben Falcone is totally deserving of her

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Categories: Bridesmaids, Celebrity Couples, Melissa McCarthy, Movies, Television, Things That Are Awesome!
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Image Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com

Everybody loves Melissa McCarthy, the Emmy-winning, SNL-killing, breakout star of Bridesmaids. (And EW’s current cover queen.) Well it turns out that her actor and writer husband Ben Falcone, whom she met during their stint together in the Groundlings comedy troupe, is every bit as marvelous and cool.

Good news, Earth: They’ve spawned. (Their daughters Vivian and Georgette are 4 1/2 and 19 months.) McCarthy describes Falcone as the kind of man who will read to his daughter from her favorite princess book every night but change the dreary narrative unbeknownst to her. “The story is written as ‘Jasmine was a nice girl,’” McCarthy groans. “‘She had no life. She was very sad and lonely. Then she met her prince. They got married and lived happily ever after and he ran the kingdom.’ So I’ll be brushing Georgie’s teeth and he’s in the other room reading to Viv and he’s like ‘When Jasmine opened her new orthodontist’s office the prince came in with terrible teeth and she saved him.’ And the next night he’ll be like ‘Jasmine opened up a wild zoo!’ and I hear Viv like ‘No, no, no, the Prince did it!’ And he’s like ‘No he didn’t, no he didn’t. He worked for Jasmine for the next 17 years of his life.’” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 06:07 PM ET

J.K. Rowling almost killed off Ron Weasley

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Categories: Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows features one of the more soul-destroying death orgies in Fantasy-lit history, with a whole cavalcade of Potter supporting players winding up as casualties in the climactic wizard battle. The series never shrank from death — Books 4 through 6 each end with a major character dying, and the whole saga begins with Harry as a newly orphaned baby. But in a new special feature on the Deathly Hallows 2 DVD, author J. K. Rowling notes that she’d planned one fatality that would have probably scarred a generation of young readers. As reported by the Guardian, Rowling says, “I did seriously consider killing Ron.” Apparently, she briefly thought about killing off Harry’s red-headed sidekick around the middle of the series, when she “wasn’t in a very happy place.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 06:00 PM ET

'Battlefield 3' videogame review: The single-player experience is horrible and boring. Does that matter?

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Categories: Videogames

The videogame industry hasn’t had a truly defining cross-court rivalry in years. In the early ’90s, Sega set itself apart from Nintendo by acting like the coolest kid in class. It was the Nickelodeon to Nintendo’s Disney Channel, Judd Nelson to Emilio Estevez; Sega was cooler, hipper, ToeJam and Earl-er. A decade later, Sony and Microsoft became embroiled in a console arms race, constantly trying to one-up each other with better graphics, bigger games, Blu-ray. But the current generation of consoles has mostly settled into a quiet three-way détente. Nintendo has grown fat off all that casual-gamer money. Sony and Microsoft have split the hardcore markets. Most major games are multi-platform, so choosing a PS3 over a 360 isn’t an existential choice: It just means you like God of War more than Gears of War.

In such a relatively calm environment, it’s understandable that this month’s military-shooter duel between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 has been built up into a veritable pop culture showdown. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 05:47 PM ET

Ripa'd from the airwaves? Kelly and Nick Lachey dress as Kim and Kris as E! faces a tough 'Fairytale Wedding' decision

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Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Guilty Pleasure, Kardash...Okay We'll Stop Typing Now, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, Morning Madness, Réalité, Things That Are Sad, Unfortunate Developments
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Savor the image to the right, Kardashi-fans. It may be your last chance to see Kim Kardashian in her Hepburn-inspired wedding gown. Fresh off the news that Kardashian has filed for divorce from Kris Humphries, her husband of 72 days due to “irreconcilable differences,” E! (home to Keeping Up With the Kardashians) is considering pulling all repeats of their four-hour, two-part marital spectacular Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event from the air. And in other news from the bizarro land that results from the collision of reality with “reality,” Kelly Ripa and Nick Lachey dressed up as the presumably happy couple for this morning’s Live! Halloween show just an hour before the divorce was confirmed. See Ripa and Lachey’s unfortunate (but hilarious) costume and learn more about E!’s programming quandary after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 04:37 PM ET

'Tower Heist' penthouse digs: Is this the most enviable NYC apartment ever on film?

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Categories: Things That Are Awesome!, Have You Seen This?, Movies, Things That Are Classy

In the upcoming action comedy Tower Heist, Alan Alda plays a corrupt Wall Street investor who is placed under house arrest after swindling people out of billions of dollars. But if you’ve seen the trailer for the flick or visited ArchitecturalDigest.com today, you’d argue immediately that staying in those digs hardly qualifies as any sort of punishment. (Of course, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and their band of fellow vengeance-seekers are scheming to serve him with their own special brand of justice. I’m assuming they let the Occupy Wall Street kids have at him, but I’ll just have to wait until Nov. 4 to find out.)

While the luxury penthouse apartment that Alda’s evil character resides in doesn’t actually exist along the picturesque Central Park (AD revealed the jaw-dropping abode was actually constructed on a sound stage in Brooklyn), the apartment is still some seriously enviable real estate. The setting for the heist comedy was inspired by an apartment on the top floor of New York City’s Trump Tower International Hotel & Tower. Production designer Kristi Zea told AD the place was “was half a floor and had a staggering 180-degree view of Manhattan.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 03:35 PM ET

'Tales From Beyond the Pale': Larry Fessenden introduces an excerpt from his creepy radio play, 'The Hole Digger' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Categories: Halloween, Horror
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As a form of mass entertainment, the once-mighty radio play seems to have gone the way of the Charleston dance and movies starring Yahoo Serious. But that hasn’t stopped horror-loving writer-directors Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter) and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead) from creating a series of spooky “radio plays for the digital age” under the banner of Tales From Beyond the Pale.

The pair debuted these yarns — which feature the vocal talents of Vincent D’Onofrio, Ron Perlman, and James LeGros amongst others — on the TFBTP website and are now releasing them on a series of CDs and as a 5-disc box set.

To mark that release — and to celebrate the scariest day of the year — we asked Fessenden to introduce an excerpt from his self-penned yarn, “The Hole Digger.” Please do gather around ye olde computer and give it a listen, after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 03:10 PM ET

Celebrities' Halloween costumes: Heidi. 'The Today Show'. Nicole Richie. Who had the best get-up?

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Categories: Double Vision, Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, Halloween, Have You Seen This?, Hollywood, Horrifying But Hypnotic

I must say, I was pretty disappointed in Jim Halpert during last week’s Halloween-themed episode of The Office, PopWatchers. John Krasinski’s Jim is usually so dependable when it comes to inspired, albeit sort of lazy, costumes. But instead of classics like Three Hole Punch Jim and Facebook (or, Bookface, if you will) we were treated — nay, tricked — into him teaming up with Kevin and Daryl to go as the Heat’s not-so-dreamy team. (Insert unamused Jim face here.)

Thankfully, perennial Halloween showstoppers like Heidi Klum and the gang at The Today Show left us with no such crushing disappointment. (Or, in Halloween terms, when someone gives you fruit or pennies instead of candy. WHY?!) Klum said “Auf Wiedersehen!” to her clothes (and, well, her skin for that matter), as she she showed up to TAO Las Vegas over the weekend — on gurney with a white bed sheet, no less — dressed as a corpse. Klum, who always pulls out all the stops for the holiday told People, “This is my 13th Halloween party. This year I wanted to be a dead person.” Robbie Williams, you just got served. Check it out: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 02:45 PM ET

Harrison Ford plays 'Uncharted 3': 'It's like being in the movie, except in the movie, I always win!'

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Categories: Indiana Jones, Things That Are Awesome!, Videogames

Anyone who has played the outrageously entertaining Uncharted franchise knows just how much its hero, Nathan Drake, resembles a modern-day Indiana Jones, down to his youthful, Harrison Ford-esque profile. So what would happen if Harrison Ford played Nathan Drake?

Well, some brilliant Japanese folks somehow managed to get Ford in front of the wildly anticipated Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, which hits stores tomorrow. Watching him smile, laugh, and gasp as he button-mashes through some of the game’s most eye-popping sequences — so, yes, SPOILER ALERT for anyone who wants to play the game with virgin eyes — is maybe the most transcendent pop culture moment I’m likely to see all week, if not all year. Check it out below:  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 31 2011 02:20 PM ET

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' divorce by the numbers: 72 days of marriage equals...

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Categories: Celebrity Couples, Kardash...Okay We'll Stop Typing Now, Kim Kardashian, That Was Way Harsh, Tai
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Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

And they said it wouldn’t last!

Okay, so they technically they were right: After a, uh, fairytale 72 days of marriage, Kim Kardashian is filing for divorce from Kris Humphries. (Plan your new Halloween costumes accordingly!) While credit must be given to America’s royal couple for surpassing the likes of Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra (nine days), Britney Spears and Jason Alexander (two days) and Robin Givens and Svetozar Marinkovic (a reported seven minutes) in the pantheon of shortest celebrity marriages, here’s some other numbers to crunch: READ FULL STORY »

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