Archive: October 2011 (261-270 of 382)

Oct 11 2011 06:54 PM ET

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anne Hathaway sing in French at HitRECord Fall Formal -- VIDEO

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Categories: Anne Hathaway, EW.com Video, Indie, Neil Patrick Harris, On the Scene
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Nothing lowers one’s own creative ego like watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The energetic 30-year-old performer can act, dance, direct short films, write songs, play the guitar and drums, and even sing in French.

All of Gordon-Levitt’s talents — plus those of special guests Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, and Neil Patrick Harris — were on display Monday night during the HitRECord Fall Formal at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. HitRECord is Gordon-Levitt’s online production company, where he and thousands of other contributors collaboratively create movies, music, and short stories. The Fall Formal was an opportunity for Gordon-Levitt to showcase some of their diverse output. (Check out the video below.) READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 06:30 PM ET

Woman sues over misleading 'Drive' trailer. What trailers have misled you?

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Categories: Made Us Think, News You Can Use, Ripped From the Headlines!, Truth in Advertising
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File under: Wacky, crazy, and true. A Michigan woman, Sarah Deming, is suing the distributors of the film Drive because she said the trailer misled her into buying a ticket for the film, and when she finally saw the movie, it wasn’t what she was expecting.

Among Ms. Deming’s complaints listed in the lawsuit filed Sept. 27:

– Drive was promoted as very similar to Fast and Furious, when in actuality, it wasn’t.

– “Drive bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film, for reasons including but not limited to Drive having very little driving in the motion picture.” (emphasis mine)

– “Extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith.”

Americans love their lawsuits. But does this one have substance? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 05:40 PM ET

Hank Williams Jr. on 'The View': Disney is a 'mean mouse'

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Categories: Career 911, Country Y'all!, Ridiculata, Sports, Television, Things That Are Sad, To Care or Not to Care

Hank Williams Jr., whose comments comparing President Obama to Hitler cost him his role as the pied piper of Monday Night Football, visited The View today to explain himself. Wearing a vintage Mickey Mantle New York Yankees jersey, the 62-year-old pleaded ignorance about the explosiveness of his analogy — “I didn’t go to Harvard, Joy” — claimed he initiated his parting of the ways with Monday Night Football — “I told my manager you can tell ESPN and Disney, ‘Adios’” — and held himself up as freedom-of-speech martyr. “My daughter said, ‘Daddy, are you in trouble,” Williams said. “‘They’re going to pull [your song].’ If I am [in trouble] than we all are.”

Williams wasn’t adversarial, and the ladies wisely let him run off at the mouth, interrupting occasionally only to keep him on point. That allowed him to uncork such gems as, “Never kick a cow turd on a hot day,” and “[Disney] is a mean mouse and he has stepped in to that pile at ESPN…” Watch a clip below: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 05:20 PM ET

'Real Steel': What will they borrow from 'Rocky' for the sequel?

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Categories: Hugh Jackman, Middle-Aged Butt-Kicking, Movies
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Well before Real Steel‘s release to surprisingly good reviews, producers were talking about a sequel. Of course, they’ll still have to wait to see how the Hugh Jackman robot boxing flick holds up at the box office before they get the official green light, but last week, while being interviewed at NYC’s 92nd Street Y, director Shawn Levy told the crowd he’d been told to start thinking up the next chapter right in the story after the movie’s first test screening. The lead robot, Atom, and the young boy who plays Jackman’s son in the film, Dakota Goyo, scored as well as Jackman did.

So what might we see in a sequel? Goyo’s character, Max, would be entering adolescence, a time when he could be discovering what it means to be a man and searching for someone to emulate, Levy said. Also, we’d get Atom’s origin story and more of the backstory for Jackman’s character, former boxer Charlie. (Levy revealed fans will get a tease of the latter when the movie hits Blu-ray because they shot a 20-minute 30 for 30-style sports documentary on Charlie that will surely end up there.) He also promised an audience member asking about the female characters in the film that Evangeline Lilly’s Bailey will be more fleshed out, too. (In addition, he shared that he’d shot a scene in which we learned what happened to Max’s mother but later decided it got the audience too emotional too early. Perhaps that’ll make the bonus features, too.) READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 03:28 PM ET

Dear 'Parks and Recreation': What have you done to Rob Lowe's hair?

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Categories: Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, HeadScratcher, Parks and Recreation, Television
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With every new episode of the most-excellent current season of Parks and Recreation, fans are left to wrestle with new twists. How will Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Ben (Adam Scott) make their forbidden romance work in the heat of her political campaign? How many more episodes until Tom’s new business venture, Entertainment 720, goes under? But when the credits roll each week, the plotlines of Pawnee’s denizens are secondary to the biggest ongoing mystery on network television: What. Is the Deal. With Rob Lowe’s hair? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 03:14 PM ET

Kenny Loggins performs spoof songs for 'Transformers,' 'Dragon Tattoo,' and 'The Help' -- VIDEO

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Categories: Have You Seen This?, Music + Comedy = Good Thing?, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Transformers
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The mighty Kenny Loggins (the Logster!) follows fellow ex-mulleted pop star Michael Bolton down the path of musical self-parody in a new FunnyOrDie sketch that finds the Footloose icon singing tie-in songs for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Transformers, and The Help. (Sample lyric: “Black lady’s getting angry/Gonna take a dump in the pies.”)

None of it is quite as cute as Bolton crooning about Keira Knightley and a giant squid. But, hey, what is? And we do get to hear Mr. Loggins say “Motherf—er!,” which has made my bucket personal list just that little bit shorter. Plus, there’s a guest appearance by the dancing gopher from Caddyshack. So it’s got that going for it. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 01:08 PM ET

Tracy Morgan to Letterman on his homophobic rant controversy: 'At the end of the day, I'm a comedian'

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Categories: Celebrity Scandals, David Letterman, Late Night, Television

Nobody knows about public apologies better than David Letterman. Well, besides, perhaps, Tracy Morgan.

So the Late Show host commiserated with the 30 Rock star when he stopped by on Monday night to, once again, discuss the uproar he caused over the summer when he flew into an anti-gay rant on-stage at a show in Nashville. (According to accounts, Morgan had told the audience, “if his son that was gay he better come home and talk to him like a man … or he would pull out a knife and stab that little [n-----] to death.”) Since then, Morgan has made public apologies, including a conference with offended audience members from the infamous show.

Now it seems the comic actor is through with saying he’s sorry for the hate-fueled rant that split not only fans, but those in Hollywood (his 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey condemned his words, while fellow stand-up comedian Chris Rock supported him), and is now simply defending his craft. Watch the clip below. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 12:34 PM ET

'Gossip Girl': Did last night's final Chuck scene bring you to tears?

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Categories: Gossip Girl, Made Us Think, Television
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The Gossip Girl writers knew exactly what they were doing last night when they closed their episode with a scene in which a heartbroken Chuck Bass cried with an adorable dog next to him. They wanted us to feel bad for him — and possibly cry along with him. Well, mission accomplished.

Admittedly, I had mixed feelings about Chuck at the end of last season. He was spinning out of control and was rapidly losing every ounce of charm he once had. But in last night’s episode, Dan’s Operation Make Chuck Feel was kicked into high-gear with the introduction of Monkey, a straggly old dog who makes up for what he lacks in reproductive organs with puppy love. Precious. And despite Chuck’s original reaction to the pooch (disgust!) it’s clear Monkey has grown on him. Dan Humphrey, you’re a secret genius. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 12:22 PM ET

MTV is now streaming the gloriously weird 'Liquid Television'

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Categories: Nostalgia, Things That Are Awesome!
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There are two kinds of people who complain that MTV is not as good as it used to be. On one hand, you have people who just feel left out because they’ve aged beyond the network’s target demographic. (Admittedly, the network’s target demographic has consistently gotten younger: It used to skew towards pretentious twentysomethings, then towards angry teenagers, and now appears to be aimed almost exclusively at 12-year-olds with massive feelings.) This argument has always seemed silly to me, not too different from complaining that kids these days are worse than ever, music was so much better when we were in high school, etc.

But there’s a bigger, and more accurate, gripe against the network: It used to be so much weirder. Like, uncomfortably weird. Like, PlayStation-When-It-Was-Called-The-PSX weird. Case in point: Liquid Television, the early-90s animated variety hour that prominently featured the work of sick, disgusting, totally awesome cult animators. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 11 2011 11:50 AM ET

Lair of the Kraken discovered in Nevada desert, says exuberant paleontologist

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Categories: Science
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The Kraken occupies a curiously prominent place in modern popular culture. In just the last few years, the giant ship-devouring sea monster has popped up in two major films — the horribly successful Pirates of the Caribbean 2, the successfully horrible Clash of the Titans remake — and a twisty fantasy thriller, to say nothing of the beast’s memorable cameo in God of War II. But rarely is the question asked: Could the Kraken be real? If you believe Professor Mark McMenamin of Mount Holyoke College, then the answer is: Yes, absolutely! McMenamin claims to have discovered the lair of a 100-foot-long Kraken in Nevada (which was underwater some 215 million years ago). Mind you, there’s no Kraken body; the dig site revealed nine fossilized ichthyosaurs, previously thought to be the biggest baddest fish in the prehistoric sea, and something even bigger and badder must have killed them, right? Hence: Kraken. READ FULL STORY »

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