According to Variety, Rob Schneider is set to star in the "sex comedy" Virgin on Bourbon Street. All the trade says about the plot of the film is that it "sees a night of debauchery threaten the university career of a sexually abstinent woman student." I poked around online, and it appears as though Step Up's Jenna Dewan plays a co-ed with a scholarship from an abstinence group, and Schneider is the Chicks Go Crazy producer who, I'm just guessing here, tries to corrupt her.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how painful does this movie sound?
Taylor Swift and Def Leppard join forces for the latest CMT Crossroads concert, premiering Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. ET. Take a look at their "Photograph" below, and tell us how psyched you are for the rest of the show....Or, at the very least, applaud her ability to pull off a sequined gold mini dress and cowboy boots.
Say it with me, Eminem fans: FINALLY! Reports have been flying for months that Em is recording a long-awaited comeback album. And last night at his book release party (Margeaux was there!), the pieces all came together. Em told the revelers that there is indeed an album coming soon... it's called Relapse... and today a two-minute lyrical clinic called "I'm Having a Relapse," apparently the first taste of that album, is all over the Web.
You can check it out below, but be warned, it's super-NSFW. And that's part of what makes this song so awesome for those who, like me, have been waiting years for the real Slim Shady to return. Em's flow, at one time the industry's wickedest, is right back on point — a huge relief for anyone who's been left underwhelmed by some of his half-asleep-sounding latter-day performances. What's more, he's using that delivery to spew the kind of perverse, hyper-aggressive wordplay that made fans out of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and billions of suburban teenagers back in 1999-2000. (Man, was it really that long ago that I saw Carson Daly introduce "My Name Is" for the first time?) Nah Right's Eskay has it right: "Drugs, violence, wacky voices and flows upon flows. Yep, he's back."
In other words, if you never really liked Eminem, I bet you'll be giving this somewhere in the vicinity of a 1. But if you're like me and you think pop culture has been sorely missing his subversive influence — if you've been longing for the only artist who can cross this many lines and offend this many listeners in a way that's actually clever, not just crass — you'll be leaning towards a 7 or higher. So how would you score it? And meanwhile, get ready for a lot more insight into Em's mind when the new issue of EW hits stands tomorrow with an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, The Way I Am...
According to Variety, Daily Show correspondents (and spouses) Samantha Bee and Jason Jones are writing a pilot script for CBS: "The couple would also star in the as-yet-untitled comedy, which will revolve around the behind-the-scenes world of a celebrity chef (played by Jones) and the two women who run his cooking empire (one of whom will be played by Bee)."
On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that this show will make it to air? I'm feeling a 4. Not because I don't like Bee and Jones and wish them post-Daily Show success.* But because I'm not feeling a cooking comedy. I hope they surprise me.
Last October, I was watching David Arquette's directorial debut The Tripper on DVD,
and in the middle of this campy-ass slasher film was Lukas Haas
singing a dreamy little ballad called "Kemp" to Jaime King. (Watch him perform it live below). Obviously, it stayed
with me, because when I got a press release yesterday announcing that Haas had just released a self-titled EP with Pulse Recording, produced by Tim Anderson of Ima Robot, the first thing I did was look to see if "Kemp" was on it. It is, along with was the songs "My Shooting Star,""We're All the Same," and "Feel." (Download the EP on iTunes or Amazon, hear the tracks on his MySpace page.)
Haas is set to release a full album in early 2009, so take a listen and tell us how likely you'll be to accept actor Lukas Haas as a singer-songwriter. I'm not usually one to encourage crossovers, but he's done his relatively quietly* and I've yet to be annoyed, so I'll do my best to keep an open mind.
* I forgot that he'd been in a band called Bunny with Vincent Gallo, and I had no idea that he's opened for Macy Gray and played piano on her albums, or that he's performed with OutKast on Letterman and TRL, or that his father played the violin and his mother sang opera.
It's the moment we've all been waiting for since we saw Buffy starring opposite a magic crab in Simply Irresistible: Sarah Michelle Gellar is plotting a return to series TV.
According to Variety, she's expected to shoot the half-hour HBO pilot The Wonderful Maladys, written for her by screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Interpreter, The Life of David Gale), early next year: "Set in Gotham, The Wonderful Maladys ensembler revolves around the
dysfunctional lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents at a
young age. Randolph described Gellar's character as having 'a kind of zealous immaturity — like a drug addict with a to-do list.'"
On a scale of 1 to 10, how psyched are you? Here's why I'm a hope-filled 10: When I talked to Gellar last summer for EW's 1000th issue, we chatted about the 10 male TV characters she wishes she could have played. The variety in her picks made her more interesting to me than any role I've seen her in since Buffy the Vampire Slayer went off the air in 2003. On HBO, in a series that sounds ripe for dark comedy, she might meet her match. Agree?
Here's the thing: There's always a little part of me that is sad when I see a new artist go from a simple, earnest music video to an expensive shiny one. It's not that the latter isn't usually more visually interesting — it is. It's just that I feel like I've seen the star-making machine turn on, and the sudden polish makes me nervous: What else besides the artist's appearance (and budget) has been altered?
Worry though I might, I can't resist Taylor Swift's evolution from "Tim McGraw" to her latest, "Love Story" (below). Just look at her doing her best Keira Knightley impersonation and at Nashville Star reject/model Justin Gaston being all adorable and silent as her Mr. Darcy Romeo. (It also helps that at 18, Taylor's still singing songs with the word daddy in it.) How much do you love the video?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how awesome was the Tina Fey-as-Palin, Amy Poehler-as-Clinton opening of Saturday Night Live's season premiere, embedded below? (10.)
How awesome was the rest of the show? (You tell me. I found myself fast-forwarding. A lot.)
How worried were you that Lil Wayne's pants were going to fall down? (7. It was, however, a 10 at the MTV Video Music Awards.)
For more on Tina Fey, check out EW's April '08 cover story, then vote for her — and 30 Rock — in our Emmy pool. (You can also vote for SNL's Kristen Wiig in our first annual EWwy Awards, which honor the shows and performers snubbed in the Emmy nominating process.)
For the latest 30 Rock casting scoop, crack open The Ausiello Files.
After seeing this behind-the-scenes photo of new cast member Gale Harold on ABC's press site, my excitement level for Desperate Housewives' Sept. 28 season premiere was at a 10 — even with the hair that I would trim and the shirt that I would lose. So you can imagine the squeal excitement at 5:52 p.m. ET last night, when I received an email saying that ABC had just uploaded the episode to the site. I won't spoil it for you, but let's just say that this — or any — shirt really isn't an issue in his first two scenes as Susan's lover.
How did I not know about a film called Tooth Fairy, starring Dwayne Johnson (pictured), Ashley Judd, and Julie Andrews?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "The film centers on Derek Thompson (Johnson), a minor-league hockey player whose nickname is the Tooth Fairy because of his ability to knock out opposing players' teeth. Judd plays his girlfriend. When he discourages a youngster's hope, Derek is ordered to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with wings, magic wand and frilly tutu. Along the way, he rediscovers his forgotten dreams [of course]. Andrews...will play Lily, a high-ranking, acerbic supervisor with the Tooth Fairy Department charged with overseeing Derek's stint as a tooth fairy."
Bonus vaguely rated scale: How likely is it that you'll see the romantic comedy New Line just greenlit centered on former New York Ranger/current Dallas Star Sean Avery's love of fashion? (Apparently, he interned at Vogue over the summer: "I think it's great to be into something that you care about," Avery tells The Hollywood Reporter. "But I'm still an athlete who likes to beat the crap out of people.") I'd say I'm at a 4, unless they cast David Boreanaz — who actually plays hockey, likes a good suit, and looks a bit like Avery (only hotter). In that case, I'm a 9.
According to Variety, Jessica Alba is set to star in the "modern-day fable" An Invisible Sign of My Own. Per the trade, "Invisible revolves around a young woman who has retreated from the world and is consumed by numbers and math. Things begin to change when she becomes a second-grade math teacher."
On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that you'll see this movie? I'm at a 1, but only because the director is from Mad Hot Ballroom and the writers penned one of my TBS staples, The Wedding Planner.
According to Variety, Rob Schneider is set to star in the "sex comedy" Virgin on Bourbon Street. All the trade says about the plot of the film is that it "sees a night of debauchery threaten the university career of a sexually abstinent woman student." I poked around online, and it appears as though Step Up's Jenna Dewan plays a co-ed with a scholarship from an abstinence group, and Schneider is the Chicks Go Crazy producer who, I'm just guessing here, tries to corrupt her. 
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