AP - The notion of sin should be familiar to Tori Amos, who titled her new CD "Abnormally Attracted to Sin" Amos grew up a minister's daughter. But her father didn't exactly take the brimstone and treacle approach one might have expected. Instead, he took her to play piano at gay clubs when she was just 13.
Mubarak's son was sentenced to death Thursday for ordering the slaying of a Lebanese pop star in a case that sparked a media frenzy in a country where the elite is often perceived as... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 21 May 2009 | 11:52 am
PARIS - French police say British actress Lucy Gordon, who appeared in "Spider-Man 3," was found dead in her Paris apartment after apparently committing suicide. An official with the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 21 May 2009 | 11:47 am
AP - French police say British actress Lucy Gordon, who appeared in "Spider-Man 3," was found dead in her Paris apartment after apparently committing suicide.
AP - Singer-songwriter Buddy Miller leads all nominees for the eighth annual Americana Music Association awards. He got five nominations, including artist of the year and instrumentalist of the year. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 21 May 2009 | 11:20 am
CAIRO - An Egyptian court has convicted and sentenced to death a prominent real-estate mogul and legislator for the slaying of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim. Hisham Moustafa, who is... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 21 May 2009 | 11:12 am
Sure, winning American Idol is great. But Kris Allen is really looking forward to getting back to being a husband.
After tonight's big win, the Conway, Arkansas-bred singer faced his...
"What a night, right?" asked Adam Lambert backstage after tonight's American Idol finale, a big smile on his face. "It felt so good. I got to sing with Queen and with Kiss. I mean,...
Ladies and gentleman, your new American Idol:
Kris Allen.
I won't even tell you about the angry phone call I just received from my Mother. She was yelling at me!
"This country... we are depleted of money and we are depleted of reason" -- Mrs. Judy Collins. "You want to vote for a cute guy? Go watch America's Next Top Model! This is a singing competition!!! Kris Allen? It's not even a good name. It sounds like a hamburger joint. "Let's go to Kris Allens." Now, Adam Lambert -- that's a name. Next time I lose my voice I'm going to audition for this -- if this guy has a chance, so do I! I'll tell them I'm 22."
"Literally I'm gonna get a heart attack from this. I'm so mad!! Well, thank God for Youtube. I got a headache from this now, no. For weeks and weeks I watch this. Kussa-ehmo (middle eastern curse) on this stupid country. What time is it now? Oh, good, Raymond is on. That'll calm my nerves. I have no words. (pause) Don't worry, though, the other one will have a career. You know, Queen needs a new lead singer! Really, I thought this was a talent competition, I'm so mad. I wonder how Adam feels right now? He must feel terrible. Here is a guy who poured his kishkes out for the show! And for what?"
"I need to take a tranquilizer now (rustling). You know, next time they have a show like this, they should announce the winner at the beginning so I can save two hours of my life. You know what? I got deflated. It's like 'What? What was this all about?'"
Indeed, I think we ALL are saying 'What? What was this all about?' right now.
She's seriously having a seizure and just swore to never watch the show again.
Me? My heart is crushed. More tomorrow. Source: Best Week Ever | 21 May 2009 | 2:13 am
It's over! And whether you're cheering or crying over the newest American Idol, you have to admit the show had some terrific performances. Check out the best of the best in our finale...
Front Page: Actress to star opposite Kevin James in comedy -- Rosario Dawson will star opposite Kevin James in romantic comedy "The Zookeeper," with Happy Madison producing along with James, Todd Garner, Jeff Sussman and Jennifer Eatz.
Front Page: Actor to direct and star in Paramount comedy -- Zach Braff is in negotiations to direct, rewrite and co-star in the comedy "Swingles" for Paramount Pictures.
DreamWorks Studios will back out of plans to produce a movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. unless King's three surviving children settle their differences over the deal, the studio said Wednesday.
Review in a Hurry: Much to nobody's shock, director McG's new addition to the killer-robot franchise isn't as good as the first three. To the surprise of many, however, it's still...
Life is really going on for Chad Lowe.
The veteran character actor has welcomed his first child with girlfriend Kim Painter, daughter Mabel Painter Lowe.
"Everybody is...
Reuters - England's Royal Ballet will make its first visit to Cuba in July with performances that include a homage to Cuban ballet legend Alicia Alonso, ballet executives said on Wednesday. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 May 2009 | 11:08 pm
We're still seven weeks away from the scheduled start of Michael Jackson's triumphant cash grab comeback tour and, well, organizers are already experiencing some setbacks. The tour's opening night has been postponed from July 8 to July 13, which we suppose isn't really that big of a deal, except when you consider that consumers who purchased tickets to see Jacko perform on either July 10, 12, or 14 just learned that those dates have been rescheduled ... for March 2010. [AP]
Not to be outdone by Anna Wintour's 60 Minutes treatment, her French counterpart, Carine Roitfeld, had London's Guardian over to her office for a chat. The reporter was positively fixated on how sexy the 54-year-old French Vogue editor is. Witness:
Listening to Carine Roitfeld talk is like having Chanel No 5 eau de parfum dripped, very slowly, into your ear. If it were possible to bottle that accent, it would surely be found to contain the very DNA of sexy-French-womanliness. Her thickly Gallic delivery is cartoonishly seductive, but the kittenishness is spiked by the low, Gauloise huskiness of her timbre. The combination is a heady cocktail of sharp and sweet, like the salted rim of a Margarita.
So enamored with Carine's sex appeal was this reporter, she doesn't even get to clearing up the rumors about Carine knocking Anna Wintour from her throne at American Vogue for another several hundred words.
Carine said:
"I was never, ever approached to go to America. And to be honest, if they approached me, I think it's really not me. I'm good at what I do here and I'm not sure if you put me in that world I would be as good. I think it's much easier to talk to 100,000 women than millions of women across America."
She added:
"I don't know what I will do next," muses Roitfeld artlessly, "but I cannot do the same for the next 10 years. I love to change. I have been here eight years; I think maybe 10 years is good. But for now, I am very happy in my little Paris."
But who cares that she may only have a short two years left at French Vogue when the kittenishness of her voice is spiked by the low, Gauloise huskiness of her timbre? And so, from this piece, we have compiled Lessons in Sex Appeal, by Carine Roitfeld.
1. Don't work too hard when you're young.
"It's like when you squeeze a lemon too hard, you run out of juice. Me, I have plenty of juice."
2. If you have figure flaws, move around a lot so people don't notice them.
"If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy."
3. Don't do drugs or hit people.
"I don't want pictures with violence, I don't want drugs, I don't want horrible things like that."
4. Also, cigarettes are so last year.
"Me, I don't smoke. Smoking can be a beautiful gesture for a picture. But it's easy — it's too easy — to make a beautiful picture with a beautiful girl smoking a cigarette. And what is the picture saying, when you have a beautiful girl and she has a beautiful outfit and a beautiful handbag, and a cigarette? No. We have to find a new gesture, I think. Because smoking, it is not good for you. Or for your teeth."
5. Take your clothes off.
"I like to have something every month that is — how you say? — not politically correct. A little bit at the limit. Sex, nudity, a bit rock 'n' roll, a sense of humour. That is very French Vogue."
6. Draw style inspiration from ugly outfits you see in airports.
"Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks — but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks."
7. Above all else, please the young people.
"When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock 'n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit — this keeps you interesting."
The Old Man of the Mountain used to be the symbol of New Hampshire. Then it fell down. This doesn't have anything to do with this post, but it was also a big deal for those of us who've lived in the 'Shire.
After New Hampshire governor John Lynch said he would sign a marriage-equality bill that passed through both the State Senate and House of Representatives provided that it be amended to include language protecting religious organizations from having to perform ceremonies contrary to their own beliefs, it almost seemed like a sure thing that gay weddings would begin in the state as early as this summer. Indeed, the New Hampshire Senate approved the additional wording 14–0, but this afternoon the House of Representatives narrowly rejected it, 188–186. The House then voted 207–168 to ask the Senate to negotiate a compromise. According to Reuters, new opponents this time around (last time the measure passed in the House 178–167) objected to the inclusion of potential discriminatory language in state law, and to the lack of public input in this lengthening process. Lynch has said he will not sign a bill without his religious language, so for the moment, forward momentum on this issue has stalled in the state. Had it passed today, it would have been the fifth New England state to have legalized gay marriage (leaving only Rhode Island behind) and the sixth state in the nation.
Kris Allen's smooth vocals and boy-next-door image propelled him to "American Idol" victory Wednesday, turning the theatrical powerhouse Adam Lambert into the most unlikely of also-rans.
This video of Washington banker Joel Armstrong rescuing a bunch of fuzzy ducklings who, left alone by their mother, were leaping one-by-one off the ledge outside his office at Sterling Bancshares has been making the rounds for a few weeks, warming the hearts of whoever views it. And at first, we have to admit, we made an "aw" noise inside our cubicle. But soon enough, our hard-nosed journalistic instincts kicked in. Where did this heartwarming video of a TARP-sponsored banker rescuing fuzzy wuzzy ducklings come from? we asked ourselves. Obviously, it was filmed by ABC, but if this was a spontaneous act of kindness from one man, how is it that a film crew was there to film the whole thing from multiple angles? Perhaps, we said to ourselves, it happened over a number of hours, enabling the people of Spokane to call the local media. But if that's the case, why didn't someone also call the fire department, which could set up one of those trampoline things — a TARP, if you will — underneath the balcony, thereby ending Joel's dangerous game of Avian Roulette? Something isn't right here. Developing!
"Will they notice that my tie clashes with Anna's sweater?"
With Vera Wang and Anna Wintour by his side, Mayor Bloomberg held a pep rally for the fashion industry today, announcing that on September 10, 2009 — the first night of spring fashion week — over 100 stores in all five boroughs will stay open until 11 p.m. and host in-store events. Bloomberg said he was pleased to see fashion journalists at the City Hall press conference (and he seemed it), adding that he sometimes prefers them to political press. Flattery will get you everywhere with the fashion press, Mr. Mayor.
"Fashion is vital to New York's economy," Bloomberg said, adding that more than 800 fashion companies are located in New York City — double that of Paris, the closest competitor — and that the industry generates $10 billion per year in New York. It also "does a fantastic job projecting an exciting and attractive image of New York City to the world," he added. Wintour, sans sunglasses, kept mum and smiled at the floor, donning a turquoise cardigan with elbow pads. She was joined by Jason Wu and Tommy Hilfiger, among other industry representatives. Vera Wang, dressed in all black, spoke after the mayor: "Fashion is an outlet for creativity and self-expression. New York City inspires designers of all ilk — not just Calvin Klein and Carolina Herrera, but the young seamstress in Williamsburg."
Fashion's Night Out will coordinate promotional T-shirts that benefit a 9/11 memorial (the event takes place on 9/10, after all) and drop-off locations for clothes to benefit HIV/AIDS organizations. Sponsored by NYC & Company, Vogue, and CFDA, the event already has Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, and the Gap lined up. After the press conference, the fashion set hightailed it out of there before the mayor held a presser on swine flu.
We're still working our way through Lynn Hirschberg's massive (and massively entertaining) New York Times Magazine cover story on Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show transition plan, but once we hit the following section, we knew it was time to take a quick break. When Vulture buddy Nikki Finke broke the news back in December that Jay Leno would not be leaving the network, but rather that he'd taking over the 10–11 p.m. time slot five nights a week, virtually everyone at the network was caught by surprise (including Conan O'Brien, apparently). However, in Hirschberg's piece, we come to learn that Jeff Zucker originally had other, far more hilarious ideas about how he might be able to keep the Chin as part of the NBC family.
We already know that Jay's new 10 p.m. show will be cheap to produce and (likely) very profitable for the network (Jay brags in the piece that "We can do five of my new show for the cost of one CSI: Miami"), but cost wasn't the primary factor driving Zucker's decision: He was more afraid of losing Leno to a rival network. So, in order to keep Leno with the Peacock, he started brainstorming:
To entice him to stay at NBC, Zucker offered Leno a daytime show, a cable show, a series of specials. When Leno turned all those down, Zucker proposed a half-hour show, five nights a week at 8 p.m. The idea was that Leno would just do his monologue, riffing off the events of the day. “Eight p.m. doesn’t work,” Leno explained to me. “I never assume anyone is watching because I’m good-looking. You’re selling a product. In my particular instance, the product, hopefully, is jokes. With The Tonight Show, you have the jokes plus Angelina Jolie, and that’s a little more enticement. A half-hour monologue every night doesn’t seem like enough enticement.”
We're not surprised that Leno didn't bite on any of these ideas, but not as surprised as we were to learn that Zucker didn't offer Leno Joey Fatone's job as host of The Singing Bee. But more than anything else, we're just thankful that Jay Leno didn't end up doing 30 minutes worth of monologue material every night at 8 p.m. Can you even imagine? More to follow on this huge profile once we have time to digest it.
Andrew Giuliani, the mayoral scion who sued Duke University after he was kicked off the school's varsity golf team, just had his Pings handed to him by a North Carolina magistrate. Judge Wallace Dixon recommended that the young Giuliani's suit be dismissed, and in doing so, cheekily used some classic golf-cinema references. From his written recommendation:
Plaintiff's promissory estoppel claim, which was not argued in his briefs, brings to mind Carl Spackler's analysis from the movie Caddyshack (Orion Pictures 1980): "He's on his final hole. He's about 455 yards away, he's gonna hit about a 2 iron, I think."
From the above paragraph, we understand the meaning of only the following words: "briefs," "hole," and "iron." But we think it means that Giuliani, whose case will finally be decided by a U.S. District court, is going to be uncomfortably screwed. Who says you need to know legal jargon to write about the law, and sports terms to write about sports?
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists Alexander Wang, Vena Cava, and Albertus Swanepoel designed khaki pieces for this year's installment of Gap's Design Editions series. The word "khakis" often conjures images of bad summer camp shorts and Disney World tourists. But no longer are khakis to men what mom jeans are to women. Gap's new khaki pieces are actually pretty cute. They won't be enough to save the entire company from itself, but they're a solid start. Alexander Wang did a motorcycle jacket, Vena Cava did dresses, and Albertus did hats. Check them out in the slideshow. What do you think?
Kris Allen was crowned the "American Idol" Season 8 champ on Wednesday night (May 20), after nearly 100 million votes declared the 23-year-old Conway, Arkansas native the winner over runner-up Adam Lambert.
Michelle Obama has ordered a Boden catalog. The Telegraph's Genevieve Fox is concerned Michelle "might blot her sartorial copybook by sporting pieces that transform her from sharp First Lady whose wardrobe brilliantly mixes attitude and restraint, with just a hint of luxe thrown in, to Sloaney Pony or its American equivalent, Peppy Prepster." So people get passionate when the First Lady orders a catalog. [Telegraph UK]
Those who remember him as the freewheeling, rocket-armed hero from the Packers know Brett Favre probably shouldn’t have come back to football after retiring the first time. Now, of course, he’s dithering about whether to unretire again. But he’s hardly alone: Being a professional athlete requires believing that you can be the best even when your body is telling you otherwise. Here’s our reckoning of superstars who sullied their legacies by coming out of retirement, in order from the least to the most damage done.
10. Ricky Williams
The notoriously strange running back — he would keep his helmet on in interviews because of his social anxiety disorder — tested positive for marijuana before the 2004 season, a second offense. Rather than serve the four-game suspension, he retired and studied at the California College of Ayurveda. He returned to football one year later, played a season, and then failed another drug test. After a yearlong suspension, he returned again, this time to the Miami Dolphins, where he’s a workmanlike spot starter. He works as a yoga instructor in his spare time.
9. Tommy Morrison
It’s almost a cheat to put boxers on this list, since pretty much every one of them unretires a few times, but we have two especially egregious examples. “The Duke” was an actual boxer when he played Rocky Balboa’s traitorous protégé Tommy Gunn. After that movie made him something like a household name, he beat fellow infamous non-retirer George Foreman to win the heavyweight title in 1992. He lost that title to journeyman Michael Bentt and was drilled by Lennox Lewis. Then things got really bad: Morrison tested positive for HIV in 1996, which forced his retirement. And yet, in 2007, Morrison — who at first claimed that he was given a false positive, and, later, that he had been “cured” of the virus — was licensed by the West Virginia Athletic Commission to fight a man named John Castle. He knocked Castle out in the second round and plans another fight this year. He has also dabbled in MMA fighting. Doctors still consider him HIV-positive.
8. Lance Armstrong
It’s almost too early to call Armstrong’s “comeback” a mistake — he’s clearly just trying to get himself in shape for the Tour de France in July — but it’s difficult to come up with a better final chapter than winning your seventh Tour after overcoming cancer and thoroughly infuriating the French by evading all their attempts to bust you as a drug cheat. Armstrong better win this next one (he’s not exactly tearing Italy’s Giro d’Italia apart right now) and elude the drug testers again, or we’ll remember him not as the guy who won seven straight titles, but as a mere mortal like the rest of us.
7. Priest Holmes
Hero to fantasy-football fans everywhere, thanks to his amazing 2003 season of a then-record 27 touchdowns, Holmes was forced to quit with a spinal injury in 2006, although he never called it a retirement. Even though he was 34 years old — ancient for a running back who hadn’t played in two years — he came back in 2007 with the Chiefs. He was slow and lumbering and ultimately hurt his neck, requiring him to retire again three days later. Many fantasy-football fans picked him up off the waiver wire anyway, as a salute to his once-dominant days.
6. Dominik Hasek
The future Hall of Fame goalie initially retired in 2002 after setting tons of playoff records and winning the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings. He changed his mind after one year, got hurt, and roamed around various teams, playing well but winning no titles (and getting injured again). He returned to the Red Wings last year and won another Cup … as their backup. He retired again, then changed his mind, signing a one-year deal with the Czech team with whom he started his career.
5. Ryne Sandberg
Few people remember it, but the Cubs Hall of Famer actually returned to the team in 1996 after retiring two months into the 1994 season, saying he had “unfinished business.” The business seems to have remained undone: He actually hit 25 homers in 1996, but he only batted .244 for a couple of losing teams and quit for good after the 1997 season.
4. Evander Holyfield
Holyfield retired in 1995 because of a heart condition, then returned to have his ear bitten by Mike Tyson, retired again, then decided he wanted to become the first person to win the heavyweight championship five times (a quixotic pursuit if ever there were one, given that it requires a boxer to also lose the heavyweight championship four times). In 2005, the New York State Athletic Commission banned him from fighting because of his “diminishing skills,” but that didn’t stop Holyfield: Just last December, he lost to someone named Nikolai Valuev in a “controversial” decision — he had to fly to Zurich to do it — and wants a rematch. He will be 47 years old in October.
3. Michael Jordan
Obviously, the first unretirement — which resulted in three more championships — worked out fine, but Jordan’s decision to come back and play for the Washington Wizards was a disaster for anyone who didn’t get a cut of Wizards jersey sales. Jordan played two seasons, looking old and slow, and missed the playoffs both times, a travesty that was beneath the man who epitomized winning. Plus, he’s responsible for what is left of Kwame Brown. At least he found a job for Charles Oakley for a couple of years.
2. Brett Favre
In a profession of men (and women) too insecure to let go of their past glories, Favre earns special notice for retiring, unretiring, and dithering so often that it threatens to make you forget that you once admired and loved the guy. The yearly drama with the Packers finally came to an end in 2007, his first quality season in three years. His one season with the Jets — after he retired from Green Bay, then changed his mind, then became furious at the Packers for not dropping everything else on a moment’s notice and embracing him — started fine, but collapsed near the end, and the Jets missed the playoffs. If he actually goes through with playing for the Vikings, expect a disaster … and a slot at the top of this list.
1. Roger Clemens
No one hurt his legacy more than Clemens, who, if he had just retired the first time when he said he would (to a standing ovation from the opposing team during the 2003 World Series), might have avoided a few of his current disasters. Instead, he came back the next year with Houston, pitched three excellent seasons, retired again, came back for one very expensive (and lousy) go-around with the Yankees, retired again … and placed a large target on his back. Eventually, Brian McNamee, George Mitchell, and Congress hit it.
Front Page: Tentpoles battle for Memorial Day box office -- Robots and historical figures will do battle at the Memorial Day box office as 20th Century Fox's "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" and Warner Bros.' "Terminator Salvation" both open domestically.
MAKEUP
• The European cosmetics retail store Inglot will open its first outpost in the States in Times Square. The company rented the space for ten years. So, Sephora, meet your match. [NYP]
• Women are buying more beauty products on the Internet. The online retail arena is the only beauty channel seeing solid sales growth right now. [NPD Group]
HAIR
• Hollywood is obsessed with spiky hair right now. Everyone from Rihanna to Robert Pattinson to Adam Lambert of American Idol is into it. [Daily Beauty Reporter/Allure]
FRAGRANCE
• Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel will debut a "scent opera" on May 31 at the Guggenheim Museum called Green Aria. The performance has been five years in the making and will pair music with a sequence of smells. [WSJ]
• Cacharel will launch a new perfume named Scarlett, named after the actress Scarlett Johansson and the heroine from Gone With the Wind. [Now Smell This]
This article about michael jackson was cool , but the title was very ignorant Michael is not a child molester and should not be titled as one , am so sick of this hatred among the best entertainer ever. This matter should be apologized for and such things should not be said about the King of Pop
OMG, wait -- he ISN'T a Child Molester??? Our "B"!!! Wait til Macaulay Culkin hears this, he's gonna be all:
Fox's Fringe may be coming back for another season next year, but the show's Kirk Acevedo, who plays Agent Charlie Francis, just informed his Facebook friends that he's currently seeking other employment: "WELL BOYS AND GIRLS THEY DONE DID YER BOY WRONG! THEY FIRED ME OFF OF FRINGE, AND I'VE NEVER BEEN FIRED IN MY LIFE!!!!" [ONTD via Ausiello Files/EW]
• Miss California demanded thanks for extending Shanna Moakler's 15 minutes of fame, so Shanna showed her gratitude by talking some crap about Carrie being a phony. Well done,...
If Terminator Salvation doesn't hit $100 million by Memorial Day, don't blame Christian Bale's on-set rant.
"I doubt it will make a difference," profanity expert...
Desmond Choo was wearing women's gladiator sandals by Steve Madden the day our Video Look Book cameras caught him. “They’re not comfortable," he said, after walking around for three hours. "They’ve been hurting really bad.” But at least they matched his Yves Saint Laurent man bag. "I'm not embarassed to say that I cross-dress, because of my size," he said. Watch the video look book to scope out his rolled shorts.
Dennis Kneale asked CNBC Fast Money host Jeff Macke a question about the credit markets today, and Macke went, to appropriate his own expression, off the rails. The resulting conversation was so head-splitting that we transcribed part of it, as we have in the past, so that we and the researchers working on what we are sure will one day be dubbed Kelly Bensimon Syndrome can better understand what transpired.
Jeff Macke: I'm going to talk to you like a child. If you understand me, then just say yeah.
Dennis Kneale: Okay, yeah.
Jeff Macke: See, you're what happens, when you're trying to talk to car people. Like a half-hour ago. I dismissed these people years ago. And now that I'm trying to finally engage them … they have no idea what I'm talking about.
Dennis Kneale: Okay ...
Jeff Macke: Yeah. It's a really simple thing, but either you're kinda tweaked, but you get this joke, which I'm assuming that 90 percent of you does, or you're even more confused now. I'm just trying to be the voice of reason, guiding you to the light.
Dennis Kneale: [Trying to recover with a simple question] Okay. So, tell me, this week, markets up or markets down?
Jeff Macke: I don't know, I've dismissed this whole game, as soon as I started talking to car people this morning. Either that's really enigmatic to you, or else you're starting to feel the Band-Aid come off.
At this point, Kneale cuts to a different guest. But he comes back to Macke for more! "Am I going crazy? Yes or no?" Macke asks, before they finally, mercifully, cut away, presumably before he finishes by adding, "I'm up here, and the car companies are down here."
When Dan Akroyd last opened his big mouth on the subject of his planned upcoming Ghostbusters sequel, he hinted at a PG-rated kids' adventure that would put PKE meters in the hands of small children ("They'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls," he said), seemingly dashing all hopes of a gritty, Batman Begins–style reboot. Now he backpedals a bit, telling the L.A. Times the movie will most likely feature a "five-member 'new generation' team with several female members" — and, thankfully, they'll be adults. But who should play them? Aykroyd does some fantasy casting, dangling nerd-bait like Eliza Dushku and Alyssa Milano, both of whom would make fine Ghostbusters, no doubt. But they'll likely face heavy competition once the screenplay goes out to the agencies. Which actress would you like to see in a proton pack? Kate Winslet? Marion Cotillard? Let us know in the comments.
Along with the confirmation that the CW has picked up The Beautiful Life, Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place, sources now confirm to us that Smallville is indeed moving to Friday nights, with Ian...
Daily Beast writer Lloyd Grove caught up with Newt and Callista Gingrich at the premiere of the documentary Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny, a film they both narrate. (Yet another thing Gingrich has reason to plug during his endless Nancy Pelosi rants.) Before talking to the former House speaker and his third wife (not the one he left his cancer-stricken, hospitalized wife for — the one he started dating while he was married to the latter lady), Grove listened to former Quayle aide Joe Watkins singing Gingrich's praises. "He could easily be the Republican nominee in 2012," Watkins claimed. Of course, Grove immediately asked Callista if this was even in the cards. "We'll see — anything's possible," she replied demurely. "I suspect in a year, we'll have a serious conversation again." Tantalized, Grove asked the Newtster himself whether he was planning on running. "People are allowed to have fantasies," Gingrich snapped. We're not sure whether he meant people like Watkins and Callista, or himself. Either way, we expect in a year or so we'll indeed be hearing these rumors again, and attention will be back on Gingrich — after all, every year or so, he comes out with a new book to promote.
In other news, the earth has gone through a Lost-esque circular time warp, bringing us back to the beginning, or more specifically, the early 90s:
CW is partying like its 1992, slotting its "Melrose Place" revival behind "90210" on Tuesday nights as part of its sked makeover for the 2009-10 season. And it will send "Smallville" into battle on Fridays to get the net back in biz on the night.
90210 and Melrose Place, together again. There's only one thing to say in this situation...
Kerry Washington on the Cannes Film Festival: "Walking up the steps of the Palais in a gown, day after day. It's terrifying. Have you ever seen how scared everyone looks when they're walking up those steps? We're all afraid we're going to fall ... [I]f you've ever noticed in pictures at Cannes, when everyone gets to the top, they wave at the crowd. It's really because we're all just so happy we made it."
AP - "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" is one of those sequels in which "bigger" is supposed to mean "better," in which more characters, more sight gags and more action are supposed to add up to more fun.
We were just browsing through the photos of former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld's apartment, which the Observer informed us yesterday he and his wife have quietly put on the market, and we were not disappointed. We always knew the Gorilla had a soft side, and his apparent preference for ruffles, ruching, and curvy furniture in a style of which Marie Antoinette would have wholly approved suggests we were correct. We were, however, disturbed when we got to photo No. 3 on the Stribling website. What are those creatures on the table there? we wondered. Dogs? No ... but the shape of the head, the pointiness of the nose ... combined with the fleshiness of the body and the comparative skinniness of the legs reminded us of something. What could it have been?
Then we realized: It was the Montauk Monster. Holy crap, we thought to ourselves. All last summer we tried to figure out what that thing was, and meanwhile Dick and Kathy had two of them right in their home since at least 2006! Not that we can't see why they didn't come forward, since instead of donating these exotic creatures to a zoo or letting them run free, they apparently had them stuffed and put on display. And are they wearing outfits? God. The cruelty of these people knows no bounds.
Update, From the Department of Downers: Observer reporter Max Abelson informs us that the Stribling photos were taken right before the Fulds bought the place, and therefore the little Monties and everything else belonged to Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall, the 93 year old whose estate they bought the place from. The only exotic stuffed creature Fuld keeps in his apartment, apparently, is Lewis Glucksman.
The Lake & Stars — the sophisticated and slightly quirky lingerie label that launched in 2007 — has just debuted a swim line, much like many other lines these days. The collection, available for order through their website, will consist of two styles this season: a one-piece with a deep, plunging V-neck and a belted waist, and a bikini set with a bow-tie detail on top and thin, strappy sides. Both styles will come in three colors (navy blue, red with pink, and beige with turquoise) plus an additional gold one-piece that was modeled by Harley Viera-Newton. The label, whose name is a cheeky Victorian reference for women who were good in bed, has a detail-oriented, provocative aesthetic. And the swim line is no different: Be ready to show some skin.
A couple months ago, we came up with a list of possible titles for the upcoming Octomom porno, offering these sexily punful suggestions:
8. MMMMMMMMILF
7. The World’s Biggest Vagina: The World’s Biggest Vagina (Echo)
6. 8 Is Never Enough (Penis)
5. Eight Men In
4. Nadya Su-layin’ Men: The Gangbang
3. 8 Mile (Vagina)
2. To Infinivadge And Beyond
1. Cocktomom
The poster for the movie is finally out, and wouldn't ya know it, they took our suggestion (after the jump - semi-NSFW):
Yep -- they added a "C" to the beginning of the word "Octomom," thus turning it into a reference to male genitalia. Well, they didn't just add a C, they added a happy, smirking sperm whose tail happens to function as a C (he's presumably happy because he's been really, really active).
And if you're thinking to yourself, man, Vannah Sterling looks really familiar, you're probably recognizing her face from We Swallow 22 or MILF & Honey 9, and I'm not making those up, but I'm also not linking them so you can find them yourselves.(Ed Note - the Milf & Honey franchise went waaaay downhill after 9, when all the CGI'd nonsense started happening).
I was personally rooting for Eight Men In, but I guess Charlie Sheen had a scheduling conflict. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 May 2009 | 8:35 pm
Remember when The Real World: Brooklyn launched and everyone, including MTV executives, seemed determined to re-brand the show as something other than a dozen or so episodes of drunken hot-tub orgies and meathead fistfights? Yeah, well, you can just go ahead and pretend that little experiment never happened: The Real World: Cancun launches on June 24. [Variety]
Today Andrew Cuomo proudly announced his latest victory over horny people, the breakup of a prostitution ring run out of Ozone Park, Queens. Room Service Entertainment, as it was known, operated through Craigslist and provided prostitution services across all five boroughs, Westchester, and Long Island — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, making it possibly the city's most convenient, well-run business. And yet it was no match for the superhuman talents of our attorney general, who took this as another opportunity to lash out at his new favorite target.
“Until Craigslist gets serious about putting real protections in
place, it will continue to be an environment where criminal operations thrive with impunity," said Attorney General Cuomo. "Even after so-called reform of the website last fall, this prostitution ring easily gamed the system and allegedly used Craigslist to spread its illegal operation throughout all five boroughs and beyond."
Actually, Craigslist announced new safeguards just last week, which Cuomo conveniently doesn't mention here. But would they have helped, anyway? The seedy world of underground sex will always find ways to "game the system." That's the way it's been since the dawn of man, and nobody has ever been able to stop it. Nobody, that is, until the Boner Buster.
Our party reporter Bennett Marcus is a genius and a martyr. After he got to the bottom of the logic-defying success of Martha Stewart's dogs Francesca and Sharkey, we learned that the two French bulldogs (who co-write the blog The Daily Wag) not only have made the morning-show circuit, but have also scored a publishing deal. So we forced Bennett to ask Martha Stewart whether she thought it was fair that her two twenty-pound dogs were being paid to author a book when they have no thumbs, and your Daily Intel writers, who weigh significantly more and do have thumbs, were not. The domestic diva paused to consider this question, “I think it’s a perfect state of affairs,” she said with a shrug. Burn.
Above, Brad Pitt reenacts his favorite Rolling Stones cover with Inglorious Basterds director Quentin "B Cup" Tarantino. If ever things really do go sour for Brad and Ang, I think we'll all know who to blame. Also, WILL YOU LOOK AT HOW DAMN CUTE HIS EXPRESSION IS PEAKING OUT FROM O'ER THAT SHOULDER? I want to open his mouth up and shove my trapper keeper inside. (NC-17 style).
Ahead, photo evidence proving that a. Brad and Angelina are still very much in love, despite her lack of eyebrows; and b. That Brad is, indeed, God.
There's something a touch off about Angelina in these photos. Look, the girl could dip herself in acid and still look better than 99 percent of all other human beings on the planet. But... her eyebrows? The hair? It's very Grudge.
(pause... 2... 3...) Bitch.
And finally, in proof that Brad Pitt is, quite possibly, God:
Dior's Internet commercial disguised as a short film for its Lady Dior handbag is out. Marion Cotillard stars as the femme fatale who is trying to rescue a guy who's tied up in a dark room somewhere. She walks the beams of the Eiffel Tower in heels one really shouldn't be walking the beams of the Eiffel Tower in, though they are fabulous. Old men are interested in what's inside her bag. She takes out some small leather goods Dior would also like you to purchase. It's a beautiful, expensive-looking effort. Part two, "Lady Rouge," is coming soon.
Bill Cosby on The Today Show and Shannon Doherty on 90210 were both downright crazy yesterday, and Doug Benson was there to bring you the details in an all new Best Day Ever.
There's no reason to deny it, we're pretty geeked about James Cameron's Avatar. Aside from the fact that it's his first "real" movie since Titanic (no offense to any of those underwater epics he shot), there's also the fact that Steven Soderbergh described it as "the craziest shit ever." Still, even though our anticipation levels are through the roof, they can't compare with the New York Times' Michael Cieply, who wrote a gushy piece about it in late April without even having seen a frame of it. And now from Cieply comes word that Imax has reserved a nearly three-month window (!) for the film to be shown in 3-D on the company's non-"bullshit IMAX" screens (for comparison's sake, Star Trek was only able to command a two-week window). Nothing like keeping expectations low, right guys?
British director Ken Loach, seen here on May 18, 2009, took time off his schedule at Cannes Wednesday to trade ideas with France's far-left New Anti-Capitalist Party on the upcoming European elections... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 May 2009 | 7:59 pm
As somehow first revealed by IrishCentral.com and confirmed by ABC News, some of the world's richest billionaires — including Oprah, Mayor Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett — held a secret meeting in New York earlier this month to discuss philanthropy. Imagine, all that wealth concentrated in one room. What went on in there? What was discussed? Luckily, Daily Intel has been tight with one of the attendees ever since we held off on running some compromising photos of him. In gratitude, and because we blackmailed him, he provided us with a transcript of a recording he made of the meeting.
Bill Gates: Everyone. Hey everybody. Hey! Come on, take your seats. Ted Turner: Who put you in charge? Bill Gates: Hey, I'm the richest man alive, okay?
[Ted Turner mutters under his breath] Bill Gates: What was that? Ted Turner: Oh, uh, I asked how Melinda was doing. Warren Buffett: Hold on, we're still missing someone.
[Oprah enters hurriedly] George Soros: [Whispering, awestruck] Oh my God, is that Oprah? Oprah: Sorry I'm late, guys, I had to drop Gayle off in St. Croix. David Rockefeller: How did you do that? Oprah: Oh, well, in my personal sub-orbital spacecraft. David Rockefeller: Oh, ha, right, of course. Warren Buffett: You do have one, don't you, David? David Rockefeller: Well ... not at the moment, exactly.
[Everyone erupts in uproarious laughter. Rockefeller solemnly lowers his head in shame] Bill Gates: All right, all right. [Still chuckling a little] That's enough. Heh. Okay. Let's get started. George Soros: [Excitedly] I just loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Oprah. Thank you so much for recommending it.
[Everyone looks at Soros] Bill Gates: Okay, anyway, as you know, we're all meeting here today to discuss how to coordinate our vast philanthropic efforts. I, for one, think we can finally put an end to most tropical diseases. Peter Peterson: Heh, you're not going to unleash a swarm of mosquitoes on us now, are you, Gates? Ha-ha. Bill Gates: No ... not mosquitoes. Ted Turner: What kind of loony name is Peter Peterson, anyway? Peter Peterson: It was my parents' idea. Ted Turner: Are they still around? Peter Peterson: In a way. I've had them frozen in carbonite like Han Solo. Ted Turner: Oh. Bill Gates: Focus, people! Mike, where have you directed your money lately? Mayor Bloomberg: Well, my campaign mostly. What? It's important! Oprah: I think we should redouble our efforts to educate the children of the world. George Soros: That's a great idea, Oprah! A fantastic idea! Warren Buffett: Calm down, George. Eli Broad: I agree. We could improve the futures of so many children, ensuring a brighter tomorrow for our planet.
[Murmurs of agreement] Ted Turner: I have another idea, something that's been bothering me recently that I think we can really have an impact on in a big way. Mayor Bloomberg: Oh, do tell, Ted. Ted Turner: Well, I've noticed that whenever I buy clothes, I find it hard to tell how much an item is going to shrink in the wash. And it makes it difficult to know whether I should buy something that fits perfectly in the store or something slightly larger. But how much larger? It's impossible to know, you know? And I think if we made it mandatory that all the clothes in the world had to be preshrunk, then it would make shopping much easier and more enjoyable.
[Stunned silence fills the room] Bill Gates: All right, why don't we go with the education thing.
A handout from Disney/Pixar showing animation characters Kevin (L), Russell (2nd-L), Dug(2nd-R), and Carl Fredricksen in their new film "UP." The race for the top canine prize at Cannes was shaping up... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 May 2009 | 7:34 pm
Last night's part-one American Idol finale was the least watched in the show's eight-year history, drawing a measly 23.7 million viewers. But 9.9 million people stuck around for Glee, which is incredible, given that it directly followed two performances of Kara DioGuardi's "No Boundaries." [Live Feed/HR]
Tim McIlrath on Green Day reaching the masses and nearly getting
sucked into "High School Musical." Plus, their "Hero of War" video.
After spending the fall breaking into the Billboard Top Three
and rejoicing over a governmental sea change, political punks Rise
Against won't be resting on their laurels any time soon. The third
video from fifth album Appeal To Reason, "Hero of War,"
hits the Web today (watch behind-the-scenes footage from the set
above, and catch the whole clip — which explores the
disturbingly personal effects of battle — on the next page).
The band is touring North America in the summer with...
As part of the viral promotion for the upcoming G.I. Joe live-action film, Paramount has decided to send a battleship full of independent terrorists named after snakes to blow up the Statue of Liberty. The landmark will then be replaced by a giant billboard of Dennis Quaid's face that blares a mash-up of "Stars And Stripes Forever" and the Cobra theme song and displays the date "8.7.09" on the side of a rocket launcher that fires rockets into the sky over Manhattan every hour on the hour:
Or wait, it might be Navy Fleet Week in New York. Probably both things. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 May 2009 | 7:15 pm
"I can't describe it. I saw it yesterday again and thought that I could finally see his vision but not understand it." —Charlotte Gainsbourg on Lars Von Trier's Antichrist [Guardian UK]
"'Hot' has become a euphemism for all things positive, making it generally acceptable to use to describe everything from a jalapeño to a drum solo. It's sort of a useful word. We don’t have to think of appropriate adjectives for people, places, performances, tacos, or objects anymore as they all fit snugly under the glorious umbrella of 'hotness.' So I don’t know how hot I am but I'm honored to be considered as warmer than the average taco." —Olivia Wilde on topping Maxim's Hot 100 list [Daily Beast]
"I made the mistake of vocalizing it to a friend. I was like 'Do you think people would lose respect or I'd be a commercial guy or I'd be selling out in any way?' And I'll never forget, my friend who I love goes 'No offense, dude, but what are you selling out? Herbie Fully Loaded? You're not Johnny Depp, all right? So take it easy.' And you need those moments that bring you down to earth." —Justin Long on taking a job as the Mac Guy [People]
"This couple came around the corner and they saw me, and at the time I had quite long hair. I think it would be safe to say they were on some form of chemical enhancement. The guy thought I was Kurt Cobain and he looked at me and slightly panicked and grabbed hold of his girlfriend and he asked me if I was Kurt." —Ewan McGregor on being mistaken for Kurt Cobain, shortly after Cobain's suicide [Heart FM via Spinner]
“I’ve learned the value of brevity." —Sam Raimi on the lesson he learned after directing the 139-minute-long Spider-Man 3 [MTV]
"It was a body blow, mainly because we had so much fun making it. I got a lot out of the writing. I was psyched to write more screenplays, but that kind of killed my writing career." —Jack Black took the flop of Tenacious D: In the Pick of Destiny as a sign not to write any more screenplays [Maxim via Female First]
Variety's Todd McCarthy takes a bold stance on Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, already shrugged off by most who saw this morning's Cannes screening: "Inglourious Basterds is a violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia ... [It] only fully finds its tonal footing about halfway through, after which it's off to the races. By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art." [Variety]
French director Jacques Audiard arrives for the screening of his movie "The Prophet" in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival . Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 May 2009 | 6:41 pm
Thank you to all the fans who came out for the Best Week Ever Tweet Up. It was a great night all around. If you couldn't make the event, we have some photos posted here so can pretend you were part of the fun. Feel free to Photoshop yourself in to the mix.
Yes, you saw this photo correctly. It's Doug Benson Twittering the American Idol finale with Danny Tamberelli of Pete and Pete fame in the background.
More photos after the jump:
These brave souls traveled to NYC from Eaton, PA! That's like 2 hours and 45 minutes away. That is some dedication.
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes fans to the Tweet Up and proceeds to send trivia questions flying into the Internet world.
Chuck Nice always makes time for the fans.
Things got a little crowded. Can you find Chuck?
Like these other great fans, NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan is a Best Week Ever fan, too.
A shot from the Best Week Ever Sky Cam.
Michelle Collins and Chris Serico with commenter star Courtney Enlow live via photograph.
If you're looking for Doug Benson, he's in the back left corner still glued to the American Idol finale.
Again, thanks to everyone who came to the event. To read what people were saying, search #bwetweetup. Leave your favorite quotes and links to photos in the comments. Source: Best Week Ever | 20 May 2009 | 6:30 pm
Hours. Hours and hours. Spent sitting through the tone-deaf, the slutty, the sexy, the talent, the heart-break, the ups, the frowns, the tears of joy and sadness. This year marks the first that, thanks to my DVR, I have been able to witness American Idol be whittled down from the first handful of sloppy, toothless audition episodes, to Hollywood Week, to the Top 13, to tonight: The final two. Adam Lambert, he with the stylist posse and Wilson's Leather Celebrity Discount Card vs. Kris Allen, whom we've lovingly come to call "Hot Popeye":
Adam Lambert "Mad World": Woah. Is it just me, or is Lambert getting all Columbine on our asses?
To be honest, it seems a bit silly of them to ask the finalists to repeat a song they've already sung. Isn't the idea of the show to keep things fresh and innovative? Why make them repeat it? I ask this especially because, in the case of this particular cover, Lambert's first performance of it a few weeks back was a million times better. We're not sure what, exactly, went awry here. Perhaps its the stage setting, which is 3 parts Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 5 parts Tim Burton's deepest fantasies, and 2 parts gay vampire porn (big in Estonia). But maybe... maybe it's nerves? Glambert? Could it be? Is this the same baby faced blond kid who regaled his bored graduating class with Boyz II Men? This is not the way I wanted Lambert to kick off the show. America expected him to put his boot into our collective fallopian tubes and pull out a keytar made out of the scalps of our ghost babies. Instead, we got, as Simon put it, "Phantom."
Also, kudos to Randy for dressing up in duds purchased at the Sanford and Son yard sale:
BONUS CAMEO: ANTHONY HOPKINS:
Kris Allen "Ain't No Sunshine": That opening shot of the GIGANTIC (red) audience behind him really highlight the pressure! While its clear that Kris' voice is not even in the same category as Adam's, I must admit that the staging and arrangement of this number does (gulp, it pains me to say it) have Adam beat. Throw a couple of violinists into anything and I am sold. But let's face it: If Kris really wanted this competition in the bag, he would have splayed himself across the piano Fabulous Baker Boys style with his D hanging out, in the hopes of getting message across: "Dear Red States: I'm the hot straight one." And good ol' Paula Abdul, who prepared for the evening by sleeping three straight weeks in her "tanning coffin", put it best: "With your yah yeh unique way of 'Allenizing' everything." Truer words.
And dammit... that little look he gave at the end... straight out of the William Wegman handbook of "How to Look Like An Adorable Animal That People Want To Put In Their Heart and Other Places":
Adam Lambert "Change is Gonna Come": Oh Clean Suited Adam, welcome back you. Now, prepare yourself for blaspheme, but I've never been a huge fan of this particular song, Obama campaign and all... until TONIGHT. FULL BODY CHILLS Y'ALL. Is it too early to put my vote in that Adam be included on the VH1 Divas extravaganza? If anyone ever deserved it... Anyway, this song killed, and was really the only highlight on this overall lackluster finale.
Also, might I add how adorable I find Adam's love for Paula? He always has the biggest smile on his face as she fawns over him. And you have to give him credit: He's about as humble as ANYONE could be when people are basically fainting at your feet from your God-like awesomeness.
Kris Allen "What's Goin' On": Look... It's not bad. Kris is clearly trying to "make it his own", as is this year's theme. But look, guys, Kris is adorable, he's sweet, he's got an OK voice... but he is a freaking BUSKER. This is street performer quality. If I saw him singing by the 42 St. train I would think "Oh, isn't that sad? NYU kid singin' for his damn meal." Also, obligatory mention of CROOK JAWZ IN FULL EFFEX. Also -- there was a rumor that Suri Cruise was in the audience. Did anyone see her? She's my favorite baby.
Adam Lambert "No Boundaries": You know, I didn't think Kara could get any worse. And then, she wrote a song called "No Boundaries." Which leads me to ask:
HOW CAN KARA LIVE WITH HERSELF?
See, you may recall last year, when BWE.tv challeneged you - the reader - to write your own inspiration American Idol finale song in 180 seconds or less. (Dan's “(Nothing’s Gonna Stop My) American Heart” is now considered a classic.) Well guess what? They were ALL better than "No Boundaries". It actually put me in physical pain to hear Lambert have to stoop down to this 700 Club-esque muzak known as the American Idol winners song. Because guess what? Adam Lambert will NEVER climb a mountain. Know why? BECAUSE HE HAS ALIEN GASOLINE BOOSTERS INSTEAD OF FEET AND CAN JUST ROCKET HIS WAY TO THE TOP, PEOPLE. Meanwhile, I couldn't help but think that Danny Gokey was probably having the church sweats thinking of how amazingly he would have to' this up.
Honestly, it's unfair for the judges to even criticize either Adam or Kris when, clearly, this song is just a trainwreck.
Kris Allen "No Boundaries": Basically, see above. But add a lot of notes that don't exist on a scale.
So who will win? Well let's put it this way: If Lambert hadn't been on the show, it would have been, basically, unwatchable. So you know where our vote lays. However, DialIdol.com is reporting that the race is too close to call. But do we even need to argue about this? No matter what "haters of gay people" say, Lambert is clearly the winner this season. In all of our hearts and pants.
And now, the comments. Please, feel free to tell me that I am an assh*le. It's what I'm paid for!
Let's get it on.
Front Page: John Lee Hancock to write and direct feature -- Sony Pictures Entertainment and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment are set to dive into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Eighty-six year-old French director Alain Resnais, seen here at the at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, is back 50 years after raising a storm with his then novel arthouse hit "Hiroshima Mon Amour". Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 May 2009 | 5:24 pm
If you're not a regular listener to the Sound of Young America show or podcast, I completely understand, as really good things aren't necessarily up everyone's alley, but this week, Jesse Thorn welcomed BWE's own Nick Kroll to a live stage at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland to talk about everything from the experience of doing Cavemen to performing standup for Bill Murray to the origin of the "Oh, Hello!" characters.
He doesn't directly say that Best Week Ever is the finest show in the history of media and everyone who works there is devilishly attractive (especially on the website), but that's what I inferred from his tone.
If you're looking to burn away an enjoyable half-hour, look to burn no further:
I was walking home from the library carrying nine books. That's the way my memory sees it. I can't know for sure if it was exactly nine books. Maybe I picture nine books because I was nine years old. I'm certain that I was nine years old, because I'm sure of the date -- June 9, 1943. There were a lot of books under my arm on that summer day because I loved books. I wonder what happened to those nine books ...
Olivia Wilde is not only the sexiest woman according to Maxim, but she is also the woman Megan Fox has described as 'so sexy, she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox.' Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2009 | 4:15 pm
As the finale got under way Wednesday, host Ryan Seacrest said more than 100 million votes were cast after Tuesday's singing showdown between Adam Lambert and Kris Allen Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2009 | 3:33 pm
Going into the eighth season finale of "American Idol," Adam Lambert looks like the favorite against competitor Kris Allen. But should Lambert even be on the show, since he has performed professionally in the national Broadway tour of "Wicked"?
Editor's note: Watch The Screening Room Cannes special on CNN at the following dates and times: Wednesday 27 May: 0730, 1730, Saturday 30 May: 0730, 1800, Sunday 31 May: 0430, 1730, Monday 31 May: 0300 (All times GMT)
Best known for her work with Irish rock act the Cranberries, vocalist Dolores O'Riordan has inked with Rounder Records' rock imprint Zoë for her second solo record.
Mandy Moore is hoping her forthcoming sixth studio album, "Amanda Leigh," continues the gradual process of transitioning from teen hitmaker ("Candy") to greater acceptance as a bona fide musical artist.
Green Day brought its "21st Century Breakdown" celebration to New York City, with a pair of small club shows just days before the album officially debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
It's been nearly two decades since Ian Hunter has released a pair of solo albums just two years apart. But the Mott the Hoople frontman credits 2007's "Shrunken Heads" with helping prod him towards "Man Overboard," which is due out July 21 on New West Records.
US director Quentin Tarantino poses during the photocall of the movie "Inglorious Basterds" in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Brad Pitt and the rest of the cast of Tarantino's latest film... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 May 2009 | 10:31 am
Sure, winning American Idol is great. But Kris Allen is really looking forward to getting back to being a husband.
After tonight's big win, the Conway, Arkansas-bred singer faced his...
"What a night, right?" asked Adam Lambert backstage after tonight's American Idol finale, a big smile on his face. "It felt so good. I got to sing with Queen and with Kiss. I mean,...
It's over! And whether you're cheering or crying over the newest American Idol, you have to admit the show had some terrific performances. Check out the best of the best in our finale...
Review in a Hurry: Much to nobody's shock, director McG's new addition to the killer-robot franchise isn't as good as the first three. To the surprise of many, however, it's still...
Life is really going on for Chad Lowe.
The veteran character actor has welcomed his first child with girlfriend Kim Painter, daughter Mabel Painter Lowe.
"Everybody is...
• Miss California demanded thanks for extending Shanna Moakler's 15 minutes of fame, so Shanna showed her gratitude by talking some crap about Carrie being a phony. Well done,...
If Terminator Salvation doesn't hit $100 million by Memorial Day, don't blame Christian Bale's on-set rant.
"I doubt it will make a difference," profanity expert...
Along with the confirmation that the CW has picked up The Beautiful Life, Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place, sources now confirm to us that Smallville is indeed moving to Friday nights, with Ian...
In other news, the earth has gone through a Lost-esque circular time warp, bringing us back to the beginning, or more specifically, 
A couple months ago, we came up with a list of possible titles for the upcoming Octomom porno, offering these sexily punful suggestions:
8. MMMMMMMMILF
7. The World’s Biggest Vagina: The World’s Biggest Vagina (Echo)
6. 8 Is Never Enough (Penis)
5. Eight Men In
4. Nadya Su-layin’ Men: The Gangbang
3. 8 Mile (Vagina)
2. To Infinivadge And Beyond
1. Cocktomom
The poster for the movie is 
Adam Lambert "No Boundaries": You know, I didn't think Kara could get any worse. And then, she wrote a song called "No Boundaries." Which leads me to ask:
HOW CAN KARA LIVE WITH HERSELF?
See, you may recall last year, when BWE.tv challeneged you - the reader - 
Kris Allen "No Boundaries": Basically, see above. But add a lot of notes that don't exist on a scale.
So who will win? Well let's put it this way: If Lambert hadn't been on the show, it would have been, basically, unwatchable. So you know where our vote lays. However, 
