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Oct 24 2011 08:00 PM ET

'Dancing With the Stars': Week 6 is liiiiiiiiiiiiive!

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Dancing With the Stars, Reality TV

Image Credit: Adam Taylor/ABC

Update: Annie’s recap is live. It’s Broadway Night! Welcome to week 6 of Dancing With the Stars season 13! The seven remaining couples must perform TWO dances apiece tonight, for the first time. You know what that means! Nervous breakdowns. No, hopefully just some light, glittery drama.

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

*Special Edition* Host’s Leaderboard with Tom Bergeron! Listen to Tom check in with Annie about all sorts of mid-season madness by pressing play on the little triangle below!

Remember to nominate your Hidden Gems of the Week in this post as usual, and I’ll see you tomorrow morning for my full recap!

In the meantime, ask me anything about THE BALLROOM (or whatever) in the video player below and I may answer your question later on! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 07:32 PM ET

Kim Kardashian is starring in the next Tyler Perry movie. Could she possibly be a good actor?

by Darren Franich

Categories: Kardash...Okay We'll Stop Typing Now, Kim Kardashian, Movies, Reality TV

Image Credit: Jason LaVeris/Getty Images

There is no real reason why Kim Kardashian should want to be an actress. The reality TV star/global entrepreneur/sex tape survivor/candy jar enthusiast has made untold kamillions of dollars by playing herself constantly. In the process, she’s turned her coterie of “K”-named blood relations into a multimedia brand. (They’re like ’90s Chicago Bulls, and she’s Michael Jordan; they’re like the X-Men, and she’s Wolverine.) But even with all her tremendous success, Lady K isn’t immune to the come-hither lures of pretending to be someone vaguely different from herself. Thus, EW has confirmed that she will play a supporting role in Tyler Perry’s next movie, The Marriage Counselor. The film is about a married marriage counselor who strays outside the confines of holy matrimony; Kardashian will play a co-worker of said counselor. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 06:11 PM ET

Eddie Murphy lowers Oscar expectations, aims to be 'worst host ever'

by Jeff Labrecque

Categories: Movies, Oscars

Eddie Murphy joked to Entertainment Tonight that he intends to be the worst Oscar host in history. “It’s just going to be [me] introducing people and looking straight on [the camera],” said Murphy. “And I’m going to wear a powdered sky-blue tuxedo, and at the end of the evening, I’m going to urinate on myself in front of a billion people. Just letting you know, the worst host ever.”

Funny. Ish. But what was more revealing during a promotional interview for Tower Heist — alongside Ben Stiller, producer Brian Grazer, and director and Oscar producer Bret Ratner — was Murphy’s revelation that hosting the Oscars was his idea. “The conversation came up about who would host and [Ratner] was saying different names,” recalled Murphy. “And I was like, you know, if I hosted that show, it would probably get nice little chatter for our movie before the movie came out — that I was hosting the Oscars. … And that’s kind of how it happened.” Watch the clip below. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 05:45 PM ET

Take that, Occupy Wall Street! The top one percent shows up to the party

by Lanford Beard

Categories: Politics as Entertainment, Web Surfing

It’s about time someone has given the 1 percenters a chance to voice their opinions! In a new video from CollegeHumor, the chichi upper crusters demand to be heard. Chanting “What do we have? Lots of money! What do we want? The rest of it!” the burgeoning movement is taking hold in 99-percent strongholds like Detroit; Blanchard, Okla., and the Long John Silver’s off of Route 21. But the greatest testament to opulence was the luxuriant ‘do on the Richie Rich held up by shirtless peons who spits, “My butler’s butler had to fire his butler’s butler!” Trump would be proud. See the clip after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 05:25 PM ET

'Gold Rush: Alaska' returns on Friday: Do you dig the Discovery series?

by Aly Semigran

Categories: Burning Questions, Reality TV, Television

Image Credit: AL GRILLO/Discovery Channel

Todd Hoffman (pictured) and the group of miners of Sandy, Oregon, will still be searching for gold during the second season of their wildly popular reality series Gold Rush: Alaska, but the show has already brought that to their home network Discovery. The first season alone drew an average of 3 million viewers and clearly struck a nerve with audiences. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 04:30 PM ET

'Once Upon A Time' poll: Should it visit the dark side or stay light?

by Aly Semigran

Categories: About Last Night, Everyone's a Critic, Television

Image Credit: Jack Rowand/ABC

In every fairy tale there’s a bit of magic and whimsy mixed with some seriously dark and twisted lessons. (If you are tempted by gingerbread houses, a blind witch will try to force-feed you, Seven-style, until you are fat enough to eat. Chilling stuff, PopWatchers.) Maybe that’s why so many EW.com readers felt conflicted after watching the series premiere of ABC’s fantastical Once Upon A Time, in which doomed beloved fairy tale characters travel to the dreary modern day world. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 03:35 PM ET

Special Edition! The Host's Leaderboard: Tom Bergeron on theme nights, Carson Kressley, Maks

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Dancing With the Stars, Reality TV, The Host's Leaderboard, Tom Bergeron

Dancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron is back for a special mid-season edition of The Host’s Leaderboard on EW.com!

Press play on the little triangle below to hear our [not liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!] phone conversation from Friday. In addition to the very important “scored” topics above, Our Host tells the story of the only time he deliberately screwed up on live television, and later confirms so eloquently what sharp viewers have known all along.

“To Maks, my buttocks have become a bit of a cultural touchstone.” READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 03:05 PM ET

McDonald's McRib is back: News that makes you McHungry or McHorrified?

by Kate Ward

Categories: 100% Pure Cheese, C'mere, EWWWWWWWWWW.com, Food and Drink, Made Us Think, Magic, My Head Hurts, Not Jon Hamm, This Really Only Needs One Sentence, This Would Never Fly In Sweden, Why Am I Crying?, Wolves? Where?, Won't somebody please think of the children?!

Image Credit: PRNewsFoto/McDonald’s/AP Images

Oh, McDonald’s. I already hate myself enough, and now you shove the deliciously heinous McRib back in my face? That’s right — almost one year after the fast food chain resurrected the McRib (and then sent it back to junk-food heaven to party with Surge and Tastetations), McDonald’s is bringing back the 500-calorie sandwich until Nov. 14. Strangely, the McRib is only offered year-round in one country, Germany. But that’s not the only suspicious thing about the sandwich. Vote after the jump: What’s the biggest mystery surrounding the McRib? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 02:30 PM ET

Is Jessica Simpson pregnant or not? For once, it's none of our business.

by Kate Ward

Categories: Hollywood, ShePop, Things That Are Classy

Image Credit: Tom Meinelt-Jason Winslow/Splash

Seeing the photo to the left, it’s easy to understand why people believe Jessica Simpson is pregnant. Loose-fitting jacket, pronounced bump — for once, bloggers and tabloids are dying to congratulate the multi-hyphenate on her changing body. And yet, Simpson is saying… nothing. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2011 02:05 PM ET

Kevin Bacon approves of the new 'Footloose'

by Aly Semigran

Categories: Movies, Things That Are Awesome!, Twitter

Image Credit: Laurence Agron/PR Photos

Looks like we weren’t the only ones to have the update of Footloose knock our socks (and Sunday shoes) off: Kevin Bacon, the original dancing rebel Ren MacCormack, tweeted his own approval of the remake. Bacon posted a picture of his ticket stub and wrote from his Twitter page, “F-Loose! Just saw it. Congrats to Craig, Kenny, Julianne, Dennis,Andie, Miles, and the rest of the cast. U guys roc…”

It’s hard to decide who’s freaking out over this more right now: Kenny Wormald (and the rest of the cast and crew, for that matter) who now knows that he has Bacon’s blessing (Mmmm, bacon blessings) for taking over the part and doing it justice, or the people that were at the AMC Loews Boston Common 19 on Sunday for the 12:10 showing and now realize they were one degree — and possibly one seat away — from Kevin Bacon. Either way, because of the fact that he was gracious enough to pass on the Footloose torch and goes to the movies just like the rest of us, we’ll let it slide that Bacon was four minutes late to the showing. (Doesn’t he know the trailers are the best part?!)