Category: Books (91-100 of 189)

Apr 21 2011 09:58 AM ET

Justin Bieber, Chris Colfer, Matthew Weiner make 'TIME' 100

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It’s time! What time? Well, time to honor the 2011 TIME 100. That is, the 100 most influential people in the world, awarded by TIME magazine. Though a bulk of the list is made up of political leaders and global newsmakers (see: Julian Assange, Barack and Michelle Obama, Michele Bachmann), plenty of the entertainment industry’s bigwigs have come along for the ride as well. Not surprisingly, the list’s got Bieber and Royal Wedding fever: Tween sensation Justin Bieber and soon-to-be-wed Kate Middleton and Prince William make the cut. But TIME has also channeled their inner Gleek, placing Chris Colfer — a.k.a. Kurt Hummel — on the list as well. Other pop culture names to make the cut: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, Parks and Recreation‘s Amy Poehler, singer Bruno Mars, Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, National Book Award winner Patti Smith, Academy Award winner Colin Firth, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, and Blake Lively, the Gossip Girl actress who shocked us all with her powerful performance in The Town. And, of course, what list would be a list without the Big O herself? Oprah Winfrey, now in her final season of her talk show, is also included in the TIME 100. See the full list here.

Who is influencing you during this 2011, PopWatchers?

Apr 18 2011 06:18 PM ET

Steve-O of 'Jackass' fame has written a book. What is the proper way to enjoy it?

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Stephen Glover, a.k.a. Steve-O, a.k.a. the grinning, tattooed dude who rose to fame as a crash test dummy/circus freak on Jackass, just pulled off one of his most dangerous stunts to date: He wrote a book (with journalist David Peisner). According to the back cover of the advance copy that has arrived in my mailbox, Professional Idiot: A Memoir (June 7, Hyperion) gives you a peek into the life and hard times of the skateboard punk-turned-clown college grad-turned Jackass star, who wound up “routinely risking his life with sharks, lions, tigers, or bears, stapling his nut sack to his leg, or diving into a pool of elephant crap” and spinning out of control in his apartment as he “drank, snorted, huffed, smoked and swallowed drugs around the clock” until his Jackass coconspirator Knoxville led an “an intervention in which eight men forced him into a psychiatric ward against his will, and ultimately saved his life.” (Let’s all take a moment to absorb everything that happened in that sentence.)

Now, I’ve seen the Jackass movie trilogy, the television series, and MTV’s harrowing docu-special Steve-O: Demise and Rise (which chronicled his descent into madness before finding sobriety), but I’ll admit that I’m still interested to glean more insight into his carnivalesque, self-destructive world. That said, we’re talking about a Steve-O book here, and I think we owe it to him to do something appropriately crazy with this book. Herewith, some options:  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 13 2011 03:00 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Which 'Sweet Valley High' secondary character did you most want to befriend?

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We’re still on a contact high after Sweet Valley High creator Francine Pascal visited the EW office yesterday, so here’s a very important Lunchtime Poll (hey, West Coast!) about which secondary character — i.e. anyone not named Wakefield — you most wanted to befriend.

I’m partial to Annie Whitman (as we share the nickname “Easy Annie”), but Kirsten Baldwin won’t shut up about cheerleading co-captain Robin Wilson. SPOILER ALERT: She dies! At least neither of us cared about rich, handsome snob Bruce Patman (pictured), because we happen to have a little something called taste. And dignity. Even though I just told everyone I was easy. 

Hopefully we can work out our differences in time for the Droids concert we’re attending in our imaginations after work. Kristen’s got a fresh bi-level haircut going. It’s gonna be huge. Vote below. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 12 2011 11:28 AM ET

Shirley MacLaine gives thumbs down to sexcapades on 'Oprah': Watch!

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On Monday’s Oprah Winfrey Show, Shirley MacLaine, promoting her new book I’m Over All That and Other Confessions, entertained the audience with stories of her love life. “Well, I’ve had an awful lot of lovers,” she said, turning to the amused crowd, which applauded her candor. “They approve,” MacLaine said, before joking, “and a lot of awful lovers,” too. She would later make the point that she was always a serial monogamist who prepared genuine love affairs — and that when one gets older and interested in the spiritual dimension of things, sex takes on a different meaning and importance — but she had some fun getting there. “Yeah, I wasn’t into sexcapades, although I tried it once,” she said laughing. “I had three people in one day.” Watch the clip here. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 9 2011 01:24 PM ET

Tina Fey talks Alec Baldwin, pregnancy, and Snooki to packed bookstore on 'Bossypants' tour

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We love Tina Fey, as you can tell by a quick search of EW’s Fey-packed archives, but even we were shocked by the filled-to-capacity, standing-room-only, people-have-been-waiting-here-since-morning crowd that gathered to pay homage to the goddess of wit at the Barnes & Noble in New York’s Union Square Friday. About 500 fans (including her 30 Rock costar, the 6-foot-5 Grizz), all clutching copies of her new essay collection Bossypants (purchase was required just to get in), laughed, cheered, and hung on her every word as The New Yorker‘s David Remnick conducted a lively Q&A with the writer/actress. She talked about choosing to write her first book (“I was having lunch with Snooki, and she was like, ‘Just do it. You have a voice.’”), making the upcoming 100th episode of 30 Rock (“It’s a weird one — get ready!”), and hating to re-watch her pilot (“It’s like looking at a sonogram instead of a picture of your kid, like a pile of goo”).

Here, a few other highlights. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 4 2011 03:59 PM ET

'Hunger Games': Josh Hutcherson is Peeta, Liam Hemsworth is Gale. Good choices?

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Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have officially been cast in The Hunger Games. Hutcherson is playing Peeta Mellark, the noble romantic who enters the arena alongside Games heroine Katniss Everdeen, while Hemsworth is playing Gale, the alpha-male outdoorsman. They’re a pivotal pair — Peeta and Gale both vie for Katniss’ romantic affections, and the two characters also come to symbolize two very different approaches to rebelling against the totalitarian force of the Capitol. At least in the first book, Peeta has a much larger role, but assuming Games becomes a full-on bigscreen trilogy, we’ll be seeing quite a bit of Hemsworth’s Gale, also. So are they right for the roles?  READ FULL STORY »

Mar 31 2011 01:45 PM ET

'Sweet Valley High' returns: Or, why nostalgia trumps taste

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Sweet Valley High has returned to bookstores today with a where-are-they-now sequel, Sweet Valley Confidential. And because of this, I am having a lot of feelings. Like, dear-diary, dot-your-I’s-with-hearts feelings. Here is what happens the minute I hear the words Sweet Valley and conjure images of its endless series of ’80s paperbacks about gorgeous California-blond twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield: In my mind, I am suddenly lounging on the floor of the Oak Forest Public Library in the Young Adult aisle in the back left corner on the second floor, leaning against the several shelves containing the battered SVH selection in its entirety. I am tearing through Dear Sister, in which good-girl Elizabeth awakes from a coma acting like popular-girl Jessica (lining her eyes with kohl pencil and everything!), in one sitting so that I can then take the next two, Heartbreaker and Racing Hearts, with me. I smell of Love’s Baby Soft perfume because while I’m engrossed in the Wakefields’ lives, I’m also hoping for my own storyline to happen here; I’m hoping the love of my seventh-grade life, Greg Blakely, will happen to show up here at the library to study. He’s smart. He lives nearby. Some days this happens, and he even says dreamy things to me like, “I saw your school picture. It’s really good this year. Much better than last year’s.”

Most days, however, Greg’s a no-show. But I can get through it because I’m spending most of my afternoons in Sweet Valley anyway. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 30 2011 05:48 PM ET

Winter is coming... and so is the 'Game of Thrones' food truck!

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How do you get hordes of geeks to leave their nice, warm nerd-caves and venture into the harsh light of day? By tempting them with free food themed around HBO’s upcoming epic series Game of Thrones, of course. All this week, the Game of Thrones food truck is roaming the streets of New York, offering fairly elaborate dishes inspired by different regions in the realm of Westeros: King’s Landing, the Riverlands, The Wall, the Free City of Pentos, and Winterfell. The truck will be serving the same Tom Colicchio-designed menu in Los Angeles next week as well. (Each day, HBO’s also posting a video of Colicchio describing what’ll be served that evening; check out the clip embedded below to find out which region’s being featured tonight.) READ FULL STORY »

Mar 28 2011 03:56 PM ET

'3eanuts': Charlie Brown and Snoopy live in sad, chaotic world without meaning, turns out

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From the same pit of comic-deleting existential misery that brought you Garfield Minus Garfield, the Internet has now coughed up 3eanuts, which has a simple gimmick: Removing the fourth panel from Charles M. Schulz’s daily Peanuts strips. Sound random? It’s not: Schulz typically used the final panel to end on a redemptive note — sometimes wistful, sometimes sarcastic — but it always lessened the sad gravity of the first three panels. Without that redemptive conclusion, we bear witness to the true existential horrors facing the cast of Peanuts. The future is relentlessly grim. Lucy is utterly cruel. Linus is apparently some sort of animal-hating fascist. In general, Charlie Brown lives in a world of relentless sadness and debilitation. 3eanuts is a great monument to Schultz’s delicate balancing act — he somehow made the subject matter of an Ingmar Bergman movie seem really funny for 50 years. 3eanuts will also just make you laugh, if you’re cynical, and you probably grew up reading Peanuts, so you have to be at least a little cynical. Good ol’ Charlie Brown… how we hate him! (Via AV Club)

Mar 21 2011 07:45 PM ET

Sammy Hagar talks about his alien encounter (again) in his new memoir. NOW will you buy his book?

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A few weeks ago, Sammy Hagar turned a few long-haired heads with some excerpts from his new memoir, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, which were none too kind to his old frenemy Eddie Van Halen. “None too kind” may be a kind way of putting it: The former Van Halen singer/solo artist/current Chickenfoot frontman basically paints out the guitar god as an unstable and inebriated hobo-in-training when the two re-joined forces for an unpleasant reunion tour in 2004. (“He was missing a number of teeth and the ones he had left were black…. He told me he cured himself by having pieces of his tongue liquified and injected into his body. He also told me when he had his hip replacement, he stayed awake through the operation and helped the doctors drill the hole. What a fruitcake.”)

But the Red Rocker has what many Earthlings would consider to be outlandish ideas of his own. READ FULL STORY »

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