Archive: December 2011 (201-210 of 380)

Dec 14 2011 02:15 PM ET

'The Office' cast members teach us about the value of paper

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DUNDER-MIFFLIN-PAPER

Some people were extremely excited a couple weeks ago when Quill.com announced a special holiday tie-in with NBC’s The Office: Genuine Dunder-Mifflin paper, the perfect present for your friend whose printer is out of paper. Personally, I didn’t see what all the fuss was about. I spend my days writing on various non-paper devices: my computer, my smartphone, my iPad. They serve all the functions of paper, while also letting me to e-mail my friends, play Angry Birds, and watch YouTube videos. Paper can’t do any of those things! But I changed my tune when Officemates Kate Flannery and Oscar Nuñez swung by the EW office for an interview. They were kind enough to bring some Dunder-Mifflin paper with them, and they taught me two valuable lessons: 1) Paper is awesome, and 2) My iPad is totally stupid. Watch it all happen in the video below: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 01:50 PM ET

Demi Moore says changing Twitter name 'isn't a top priority' (seeing 'New Year's Eve' probably isn't either)

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Seeing as some would do everything in their power to not be associated with Ashton Kutcher, especially on Twitter, some folks are perplexed as to why the Two and a Half Men star’s soon-to-be-ex-wife Demi Moore has kept her long-standing Twitter handle @mrskutcher. So is it a sentimental attachment to better times or even just the Twitter name itself? Or the fact that possible new name candidate @mrsexkutcher reads as “Mr. Sex Kutcher”? Moore responded to the onslaught of curious and judgmental followers with the update, “changing my twitter name isn’t a top priority right now. sorry it bothers so many of u. should I not tweet until I do? does it really matter?” To RT and respond to that we can only say, “No, we’re sorry/No, we’re sorry/That’s a loaded question.”

What do you think Demi Moore should change her Twitter name to? (My personal vote: @SamWheat4ever. Or @MollyYouInDangerGirl would also work. I really like Ghost, you guys.) Have you, like Demi, ever been faced with having to change your Twitter handle post-split? Share in the comments section below!

Read more:
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore: A marriage made (and unmade?) on Twitter
Demi Moore divorcing Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher responds via Twitter.

Dec 14 2011 01:24 PM ET

Jon Stewart takes on Florida Family Association over 'All-American Muslim' flap -- VIDEO

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Leave it to Jon Stewart to put the Florida Family Association in its place for calling a boycott of TLC’s new reality show All-American Muslim because it dares to show a couple nervous about having a baby, rather than radicals.”The problem is the televising of Muslims without the terrorist element. You’re angry about that. Like when Touched by an Angel was forced to introduce the abortion-clinic bomber character,” Stewart said. Imagining the FFA’s other complaints about how TLC is failing to support stereotypes, Stewart added, “I’m also troubled why no one on your show Little People, Big World whistles why they work or makes candy for Willy Wonka.” Watch the takedown below.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 12:35 PM ET

Celebrity PopWatch Confessional: For a big guy, I cry a lot at the movies

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I confess: I find myself getting more and more emotional during particular movies. Sometimes I’ve even hidden tears: from dates, family members, friends. If I’m watching Star Wars with a male friend and he sees a tear running down my cheek when Han Solo returns at the end to help Luke destroy the Death Star, how am I going to live that down? Like that’s not going to be brought up at every possible occasion. Real men don’t get misty eyed at that stuff. I bet John Wayne never welled up watching Gone With the Wind and had to tell his buddies he had something in his eye.

I was warned that I would get emotional during the beginning of Up and I thought, “I’m going to fight it. I’m not going to be manipulated.” I was welling up within 10 minutes. It happened on a date during Toy Story 3. The boy gave up his toys and that got me. We’d only just sat down. I’d heard it was a dark movie and later, when it looks like all the toys are going to be incinerated, I genuinely thought they were going to get it. I was thinking, “I cannot believe what I’m seeing. They are going to kill off these lovable toys in a Disney movie.” I was gob-smacked. I had to lift up my 3-D glasses so I wouldn’t see the tragedy as clearly when it happened. Then when they were saved, I had to put the glasses back on to mask my tears. That’s one good thing about the movies: at least it’s dark in there. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 12:10 PM ET

FunnyOrDie's '80s super agent Warren Klein leaves a new voicemail for Christian Slater -- LISTEN

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Hollywood super-agent Warren Klein is back… and he’s got some distressing news for Christian Slater. A new 1980s voicemail from the awesome, albeit fake, Benihana-loving, straight-shooting Klein — who has previously called up clients like Jami Gertz, C. Thomas Howell, Kirk Cameron — has been unearthed, warning the Gleaming the Cube star about the release of rival skateboarding flick, Thrashin‘. (“The trades are gonna eat this up! Two action-packed romantic skateboarding epics in the same quarter!”) Of course, we all know now that Thrashin‘ was released in 1986, while Gleaming the Cube was released in 1989, but that’s not even Klein’s best dead-wrong but well-meaning prediction. Some gems: The Goonies‘ Jonathan Quan would star in The Last Emperor, Josh Brolin is a “dud.” But he’s right about one thing: There’s only one Mike Winslow.

Watch and listen to the hilarious third Warren Klein installment from FunnyOrDie here: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 11:45 AM ET

'Biggest Loser' winner revealed... after dramatic 20 second pause

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After an excruciatingly long pause, even by American Idol standards, the winner of The Biggest Loser: Battle of the Ages was announced last night: Weighing 220 pounds less than he did seven months ago when he started the show, special education teacher and football coach John Rhode took the $250,000 prize from former NFL player Antone Davis, who’d lost 202 pounds. This morning on Today, Rhode said he plans to keep the weight off by training for the Los Angeles marathon. Watch the confetti fall below.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 11:20 AM ET

'American Horror Story' Murder House for sale: Would you pay to live here?

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Considering it’s been an ongoing plotline on American Horror Story that the unhappy Harmon family couldn’t sell their home (a.k.a. “Murder House”) if their lives depended on it — and, yes, those are actually the stakes — will the real-life abode featured on Ryan Murphy’s latest show fare any better? The 15,000-square-foot house, located in L.A.’s Country Club Park, recently hit the market.

Some of the highlights: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 10:55 AM ET

Patton Oswalt, Jason Reitman remind us not to text during movies in parody PSA -- EXCLUSIVE

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Back in June, Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse turned an angry voicemail that a patron left the movie theater, after being kicked out of a film for violating its strict no talking or texting rule, into a hilarious viral PSA. After a screening of their new film Young Adult at the Alamo last month, star Patton Oswalt and director Jason Reitman — both fans of the theater and the original video — decided on the fly that they wanted to shoot their own version of that NSFW “Don’t Talk — Angry Voicemail” PSA, with Oswalt voicing the role of the Angry Texter. Watch it below.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 14 2011 10:54 AM ET

EW's Bite of the Night for Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011

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Want more? Read Karen Valby’s take on last night’s Real Housewives of Atlanta, then see what else was in the roommates’ stockings with our New Girl recap!

Read more:
EW’s Bite of the Night for Monday, Dec. 12, 2011
EW’s Bite of the Night for Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011
EW’s Bite of the Night for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011

Dec 14 2011 09:58 AM ET

GOP debate moderators: The Donald out, Stephen Colbert still very much in

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Much like Herman Cain dropping out of the presidential race, the news that Donald Trump will no longer be moderating his own GOP debate in Iowa is tremendously disappointing (to the world of comedy). Of course, no one may have been more let down than The Donald The Trump’s BFF Stephen Colbert, who announced his own South Carolina Seriously, Classy Debate (Sometime in January) last week.

But rather than scold his bestie for his decision to drop out, citing the possibility of Trump’s own “candidacy for president of the United States as an Independent” (“This would be hugely embarrassing — if that were an emotion he were capable of feeling”), Colbert simply decided to re-announce his own spectacularly awesome-sounding debate on The Colbert Report last night. (His possibly-televised-by-National-Geographic debate will not only be held in a zoo, but a polar bear will pick the winner!) Heck, even Newt Gingrich and, less to Colbert’s delight, Rick Santorum (he probably Googled him) are invited. Watch: READ FULL STORY »

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