Archive: November 2011 (61-70 of 361)

Nov 28 2011 08:00 AM ET

'Once Upon a Time' I found this 'Lost' candy bar

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Categories: Dig it Out!, Food and Drink, Lost, Magic, Nostalgia, Once Upon a Time, Ridiculata, Shenanigans!, Television, Things That Are Awesome!

There have been plenty of Lost crossover hints, thought nuggets, time travel mindf—ery, etc. offered up on ABC’s Once Upon a Time. But the Apollo chocolate bar hanging out near a hatch on last night’s episode really SPOKE TO ME. It’s candy, it’s a hidden gem, and I could have sworn the last Apollo had spent the summer melting in a mail/garbage/Dharma peanut butter landfill in the least-accessible corner of Doc Jensen’s office.

Candy for breakfast, anyone?

Also did anyone else really, really want Des and his lava lamp to be making their own kind of music down in that Storybrooke hatch? And he’d promise to little Henry, “I’ll see you in another life, brutha,” and we’d all piss ourselves trying to predict which nefarious beast or chiseled horseback hero Henry Ian Cusick should portray in the show’s alternate universe, Fairy Tale? He has to be down there somewhere.

Come on, Desmond, press the button. EXECUTE my fantasy!

Read more: ‘Once Upon a Time’ recap: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

Nov 28 2011 02:00 AM ET

'Kourtney and Kim Take New York' season premiere: Kris leaves immediately

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Categories: Kardash...Okay We'll Stop Typing Now, Kim Kardashian
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Image Credit: Timothy White/E! Entertainment

Most successful reality shows gradually evolve into scripted soap operas. Kourtney and Kim Take New York, however, is going in a slightly different direction: It’s becoming a serialized thriller. Don’t believe me? Bust this: The episode actually began with a flashforward, just like in Lost and Dollhouse and that one show about flashforwarding where everyone on earth flashed forward and then spent the whole season talking about their flashforwards. (I think it was called The Event.) At the start of the season premiere, we saw a quick-cut media montage. Everyone was shocked that Kim Kardashian had ended her marriage to Kris Humphries after just five seconds. How could their relationship have turned sour so quickly? After all, they seemed like the perfect couple: She, a beautiful talking wooden puppet who wanted to be a real girl; He, a giant monster apparently created by a mad scientist in a laboratory using stolen cadavers. What could have gone wrong? READ FULL STORY »

Nov 27 2011 11:59 PM ET

'Leverage' react: Is Eliot Spencer the ultimate TV badass?

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Categories: Leverage, Mini TV Watch, Television
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Image Credit: Mercedes Heinila/TNT

There are a few words I don’t like to throw around — and badass is one of them.

Television is full of men and women with varied skills, some of which warrant the distinction of being “badass,” but I feel as though TV characters who encompass all the qualities worthy of the term are few and far between. Without a doubt, Leverage’s Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) is one of them. You need only watch last night’s episode as proof. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 27 2011 10:01 PM ET

'The Walking Dead' midseason finale: Ahhhhhh!!! (SPOILERS)

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Categories: The Walking Dead
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Nobody really knew what to expect from the second season of The Walking Dead. The six-episode first season featured significant departures from the plotline of the original graphic novel. The off-season featured the significant departure of showrunner Frank Darabont — who directed the show’s cinematic premiere and wrote or co-wrote half of the first season. It didn’t help matters that Dead‘s network AMC spent most of 2011 caught in ugly contract negotiations with Mad Men‘s Matthew Weiner and Breaking Bad‘s Vince Gilligan, while also airing the controversially dull The Killing. But, after a slow start, Dead‘s new season picked up considerably in the last couple of weeks. And that was just a warm-up for tonight’s midseason finale. To put it mildly (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER): READ FULL STORY »

Nov 27 2011 10:32 AM ET

This Week on Stage: Evenings with Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, and Alan Rickman

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Categories: Stage/Theater, This Week on Stage
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Image Credit: Jeremy Daniel

Three of Broadway’s best—Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin and Alan Rickman—returned to the Main Stem this week, but don’t be too thankful, because the results are varied.

EW film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gives Rickman’s writing-themed Seminar (pictured) a C+, calling it a “synthetic, audience-stroking comedy,” and adding that it “has little of depth or authenticity to say about the struggle to put words in order.” She does, however, praise actor Hamish Linklater, who makes his Broadway debut in the play. “In the end, Seminar belongs to Hamish Linklater,” she writes. “The actor does such a good job of creating, sustaining, and quietly intensifying [his character’s] full personality.”

On the other hand, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin is “two hours of good old-fashioned musical theater” according to critic Melissa Rose Bernardo. “The greatest of the greatest hits are here,” says Bernardo, giving the play an A-.  Patinkin’s ‘Oh What a Circus’ “reminds us what Ricky Martin’s up against in this spring’s Evita revival” and LuPone’s ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ has “powerhouse vocals….She gets a standing ovation simply by slowly raising her arms in the now-famous Evita-on-the-balcony pose.”

Off-Broadway had similar up-and-downs this week. The Cold War drama Blood and Gifts earns an A from stage editor Thom Geier, who praises playwright J.T Rogers. “He takes a subject that seems like the stuff of PBS or dry policy papers—Afghanistan in the 1980s,” writes Geier, “and crafts a smart, intellectually stimulating, and just-plain entertaining spy thriller.” On the other hand, while there are “some interesting ideas at work” in Thomas Higgins’ C+ boyhood drama Wild Animals You Should Know, Geier warns “none of the characters seem fully fleshed out in Higgins’ engaging but overly schematic plot.”

Nov 26 2011 12:00 PM ET

'Jersey Shore'-naments: Which pop culture holiday decorations would you like to see?

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Categories: Horrifying But Hypnotic, Jersey Shore, Made Us Think, Réalité, Reality TV, Ridiculata, Television, Things That Are Awesome!
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In case you missed HSN’s “A Very Snooki Holiday Gift Special,” well… shame on you! You may have missed the fact that yet another holiday has been guido-fied. That’s right, GTL now stands for ‘Glitter, Trees, Lights.’ For the Nov. 10 special, Snooki partnered with Kurt S. Adler to create an exclusive collection of holiday ornaments (close-up after the jump) inspired by the Jersey Shore kids. Snooki’s collection is sold out, but it got us thinking. What other pop culture phenomena would you like to see trimming your tree this holiday season? See our suggestions and chip in your own ideas below.

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Nov 26 2011 09:00 AM ET

Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' and the quiet awesomeness of silent movies

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Categories: Things That Are Awesome!, Why Am I Crying?
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Most people do not think that they like silent movies. That’s understandable. In the 84 years since The Jazz Singer started singing, whole generations of humanity have been born, have grown to maturity, have conquered the world, and have died. Very few of us have any living family members who remember the silent era. Heck, very few of us have any living family members who can remember a time when the phrase “sound film” actually made sense. (What films don’t have sound?) Like classical music or American literature before Huckleberry Finn, there is something just so boring, so unsexy, so unrepentantly old about silent movies.

Which is why I think it’s just wonderful that some Hollywood executives so badly wanted to get fired that they let Martin Scorsese make a 150-million-dollar movie about the greatness of silent movies. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 25 2011 10:18 PM ET

Piers Morgan is a dad again

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We don’t think she came out talking, but a baby girl Elise was born to talk show host Piers Morgan and his wife Celia Walden. “It’s true. I’ve become a dad for the fourth time,” the Piers Morgan Tonight host Tweeted. “She’s absurdly beautiful, and utterly adorable.” And after watching that guy eviscerate contestants on America’s Got Talent, we’re inclined to believe him.

Nov 25 2011 10:09 PM ET

George Michael postpones tour dates because of illness

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George Michael has canceled the remainder of his European “Symphonica” tour as he recovers from an ongoing battle with pneumonia at an Austrian hospital. According to his website, the singer is “responding to treatment and slowly improving.” The website has announced that talks are already underway to reschedule the canceled dates.

Nov 25 2011 10:03 PM ET

Does 'Twilight' cause seizures?

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Multiple people have reportedly suffered from epileptic seizures during the light-strobing-filled birth scene in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Of course, this isn’t the first time a pop culture phenomenon caused people to convulse. Back in 1986, the kinda awesome/kinda horrible video for Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” also made news for triggering seizures in some people. The most mysterious news tidbit of today’s story though comes from one man in Utah, who reportedly started convulsing, who would not reveal his name “for fear he could lose his job.” At this point, I’m not entirely sure if it’s because he had a seizure or because he got talked into seeing Twilight.

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