The Dancing With the Stars pro took some time out of his and Ricki Lake’s freestyle in the season 13 finals to make sure he “still got it” with his signature Crotch Bob dance move (originally executed with season 9 partner Joanna Krupa). READ FULL STORY »
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Update: Annie’s recap is live.
And BREAKING: Derek Hough has reintroduced the Crotch Bob to a new generation of DANCMSTRs.
Welcome to part 1 of the TWO-NIGHT FINALE EVENT of Dancing With the Stars season 13! The three finalists — Rob Kardashian, Ricki Lake, and J.R. Martinez — will perform an “unlearned dance” routine as well as a freestyle. Evan Lysacek will be a hidden gem in the crowd, hopefully dressed as Lucille 2 like that one time in season 10.
Go ahead and discuss the two-hour performance show here, or try our more “live blog”-esque experience over at EW.com’s Viewer.
Check out the video player below for my trailer-park chat with mischievous leprechaun Tristan MacManus in Parts 1 and 2…. READ FULL STORY »
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Bridesmaids producer Judd Apatow would like to see something new at the Oscars. Seems the Academy’s categorization system is making him somewhat blue (okay, I’ll stop with the wedding puns): At a Los Angeles Times forum, the funnyman complained that the Oscars have largely ignored comedies, and would be smart to create a separate category for the entire genre. After all, Apatow argued, animated features have been separated into their own category. “It doesn’t seem like it’s screwing up Schindler’s List for Hangover to have its own category,” he said. “Since comedies are rarely up for Oscars, it does make sense to have a comedy category. It would just add more fun categories.”
He has a point, from a creative and business perspective. READ FULL STORY »
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A rep for Sylvester Stallone confirms to EW that Rocky: The Musical is being developed for a German premiere in November 2012. Stallone and boxing brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are among the producers of the show, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, will feature a book by The Producers‘ Thomas Meehan and songs from Ragtime’s Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (along with tunes from the movie, including “Eye of the Tiger,” “Gonna Fly Now” and “Take You Back”). It will be directed by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson‘s Alex Timbers.
Now, if the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “Rocky” is boxing, you might be thinking this has craptacular written all over it. But let’s remember that the first film is a Best Picture Oscar winner and earned Stallone a screenplay nomination, and, more importantly, it’s a love story (the poster was of Rocky holding Adrian’s hand) — which is what the musical plans to focus on. It’s easy to forget after years of debating which training montage is best (Rocky III or IV?) how genuinely good the first movie is and what an amazing, timeless character Stallone created. Rocky looks and talks like a bum, but he’s decent and sweet enough to see the beauty in Adrian. If you ask me which scene from the movie I wanted to watch right now, it would be the end of their first date, when they’re back at his place and you see him working so hard to connect with her, not in a sleazy way but because he truly likes her. Then you have the sigh of the woman who never thought she’d find someone who’d appreciate her realizing she just had. READ FULL STORY »
Leave it to the Internet to boil everyday scandals down to a catchy meme! Enthusiastic Photoshoppers have taken a photo of UC Davis campus police lieutenant John Pike pepper spraying Occupy UC Davis protestors this past Friday and injected the unfriendly officer into great works of art from the Sistine Chapel to Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” — not to mention mocking up a Twilight riff and finding a way to shout out to Denver Broncos’ QB Tim Tebow. READ FULL STORY »
There is a scene in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants after George Clooney’s Matt King waves goodbye to the last guests to leave the “party” he’s thrown to inform his close friends that his wife will never recover from her coma. Once they’re out of sight, he turns to walk back towards the house, but he’s completely shattered. His shoulders sag, his face is ashen, and every step looks like it could be his last. He crumbles to his knees, but it’s those last few tottering steps that took the wind out of me as a viewer. George Clooney is a movie star, by any definition — The Last Movie Star, some would argue — and here he is, playing a cuckold who can’t even control his own rambunctious daughters. Combine this performance with his legal fixer in Michael Clayton and his corporate grim reaper in Up in the Air, and you have a trio of devastatingly powerful roles that accede the vulnerability of age, guilt, and regret. Now 50 — just a year older than Tom Cruise — Clooney seems to be pulling a page from the Paul Newman playbook: Gorgeous leading man embracing the gray around his ears with roles like Frank Galvin in The Verdict, a stark portrayal of a flawed man that doubles-down on our preconceptions of a screen icon yet liberates the actor to expand his acting toolbox. READ FULL STORY »
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Nine years is an awfully long time to wait to see your one true love again. Of course, if you’re a fan of the beautiful, heartbreakingly true-to-life films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, you know that feeling all too well. Alas, the long wait could be over… again: Ethan Hawke recently revealed to French website AlloCine.com (ah, Celine would be so proud) that he and Before collaborators Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater are ready to bring the decades-spanning love story back to the screen. READ FULL STORY »
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Hollywood franchises don’t really end anymore. If you look at the current list of 2011′s top 10 top-grossing films, eight are sequels/spin-offs/prequels that were specifically designed to create more sequels/spin-offs/prequels. (Heck, four of the movies — Thor, Captain America, Fast Five, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes — all included teasers for the next installment in their freaking end credits.) The highest-grossing movie of the year is Harry Potter 7 — Part 2, the eighth film in a franchise based on seven books. The only non-franchise film is Bridesmaids, a movie that will soon be pushed aside by Twilight 4 — Part 1, which features already the most popular teen pregnancy since the Gospel of Matthew.
It wasn’t always like this. There was a time when no respectable Hollywood franchise lasted longer than three movies. READ FULL STORY »
Last week, when I attended the liiiiiiiiive tapings of Dancing With the Stars’ Monday and Tuesday shows, I also had the honor of becoming fast friends with a giant mirrorball I’d found in the prop cage. Just kidding! Burying the lede! I got to hang out with Our Cutest and Most Irish Pro Tristan MacManus — in and around his trailer!
If the 29-year-old dancer truly is a leprechaun like everyone says, then they sure have given him a big house-on-wheels in which to luxuriate and roll around seductively in his heaps of colorful marshmallows and gold. Watch the videos: READ FULL STORY »
If you’ve yet to see Susan Blackwell’s interview with Daniel Radcliffe for her Broadway.com video series Side by Side by Susan Blackwell, you’ll want to spend the next 16 minutes watching it here. Because Radcliffe is a bit of a slob — “I’m not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation,” he says after telling a story about how he once spilled Diet Coke, took off a sock to clean it up, then put the sock back on — friend Blackwell gives him a tutorial on how to clean her apartment. They start by washing windows in honor of his role in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Having just seen the show last week, I can confirm that Radcliffe is telling the truth when he claims to be still having a great time this deep into the run and that co-star John Larroquette still finds things to do to try to make him break character and laugh.
The interview, however, hits its stride when he sits down to learn how to sort laundry (“Dan Radcliffe is touching my underwear, double thumbs up”) and gets both charmingly flustered and thoughtful. After deciding his drag name would be Cricket Bunches, Blackwell decides if he can explain the rules to cricket to her before she gets bored, he won’t have to scrub her toilet. Cut to him scrubbing her toilet. In the lighting round of the interview (conducted in her shower), they play the game “Would You Buy Me That?” (I had to watch that twice). Enjoy!
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