AP - Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to sprawling Revolution Plaza on Sunday for an open-air "peace concert" headlined by Colombian rocker Juanes, an event criticized by some Cuban-Americans who say the performers were lending support to the island's communist government simply by showing up.
AP - Hundreds of thousands of Cubans flocked to sprawling Revolution Plaza on Sunday for an open-air "peace concert" headlined by Colombian rocker Juanes, an event criticized by some Cuban-Americans who say the performers were lending support to the island's communist government simply by showing up.
(Reuters) Reuters - It is a fascinating question: Why do all those cheated-on political wives stand there and take it? Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 21 Sep 2009 | 12:11 am
Exiled Uighur leader Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress, in Prague, September 10. Taiwan's second-largest city Monday dismissed a warning from China against showing a biopic about exiled... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 21 Sep 2009 | 12:01 am
(Reuters) Reuters - Proving that he could well succeed as a critic should his current gig not work out, Jeff Probst summed up it nicely. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 20 Sep 2009 | 11:33 pm
Reuters - The low-rated shows "30 Rock" and "Mad Men" shared the spotlight at the Emmy Awards for a second year on Sunday, but most of their stars were snubbed as the acting awards went to repeat winners or surprise choices. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Sep 2009 | 11:25 pm
It's gonna take more than a likable serial killer or a couple of quirky New Zealanders to knock Mad Men and 30 Rock off the podium.
AMC's swell-looking, smooth-talking show about...
Reuters - Nigerian author Uwem Akpan, who is a Jesuit priest, said he was "humbled" that his debut collection of short stories was chosen by influential U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey for her book club. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Sep 2009 | 10:56 pm
Best Opening Song: OK, it was the only opening song, but Neil Patrick Harris brings a bit of his Tony Awards song and dance to the Emmys. Unfortunately, it was nowhere near as awesome as his Tonys...
"Mad Men" won best drama series at the Emmy Awards Sunday night. "30 Rock" won best comedy series. Other Emmy winners included "The Amazing Race," "The Daily Show" and "Rock's" Alec Baldwin.
There were baby bumps and plunging necklines on the Emmys red carpet, but only one real question. To bare or not to bare (a shoulder)?
Stars showing off their left clavicles...
Boy, we sure hope nobody had money on our predictions! So who won an Emmy tonight? Pretty much everybody who got one last year. Click to see a complete list of winners (of awards in categories you care about).
Drama Series Big Love
Breaking Bad
Damages
Dexter
House
Lost Mad Men
Comedy Series Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
How I Met Your Mother
The Office 30 Rock
Weeds
Lead Actress, Drama Glenn Close, Damages
Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Lead Actress, Comedy
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Lead Actor, Comedy Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
Lead Actor, Drama
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Supporting Actor, Drama
William Shatner, Boston Legal
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
William Hurt, Damages Michael Emerson, Lost
John Slattery, Mad Men
Supporting Actress, Drama
Rose Byrne, Damages
Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
Hope Davis, In Treatment Cherry Jones, 24
Supporting Actor, Comedy
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Rainn Wilson, The Office
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Supporting Actress, Comedy Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds
Actor in a Miniseries
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance Brendan Gleeson, Into the Storm
Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac
Ian McKellen, King Lear
Kiefer Sutherland, 24: Redemption
TV Movie Coco Chanel Grey Gardens
Into the Storm
Prayers for Bobby
Taking Chance
Miniseries Generation Kill Little Dorrit
Variety Series The Colbert Report The Daily Show
The Late Show
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Reality Competition Show The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
Top Chef
Reality Host
Padma Lakshmi, Top Chef
Heidi Klum, Project Runway
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race Jeff Probst, Survivor
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
AP - "Shooting Stars" (The Penguin Press, 272 pages, $26.95), by LeBron James: LeBron James has gotten plenty of attention over the years. Now the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar is sharing the spotlight with the childhood friends who helped him get his first taste of basketball glory.
AP - "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession" (Riverhead, 288 pages, $24.95), by Allison Hoover Bartlett:
Trouble at the Hoff's house.
Paramedics responded to a 911 call just before 3:30 p.m. Sunday at David Hasselhoff's digs in Encino, Calif.
"We sent an...
Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff may have looked fab onstage, but things weren't quite in step behind the scenes.
An insider reports the ex-couple exchanged some heated...
Drama Series: Mad Men
Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close,...
Reuters - The red carpet sizzled with heat and color on Sunday as many of television's biggest stars arrived at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in bright reds, blues, purple and yellow gowns. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 20 Sep 2009 | 8:53 pm
We interrupt the Emmy news to bring you this: Zooey Deschanel got hitched.
The Elf star swapped vows Saturday with Death Cab for Cutie driver Ben Gibbard near Seattle, E! News has...
(AP)
AP - Intemperate exclamations are the very stuff of celebrity these days.
It's Emmy night! Long awards shows where famous people get all dressed up and hand out awards to each other are our favorite. (Duh.)
We love it so much we are documenting...
The red-carpet roll-out of the Emmys means that yes, summer is officially over. The stars are dressed up in their finest tonight, and if you can't quite endure the Ryan Seacrest extravaganza, we'll have all the looks here, updating all evening. So sit back, click away, and be sure to check back to see who is wearing what.
Tonight is a ridiculous night for television, with new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mad Men, the premiere of Bored to Death, and, of course, The Emmys, which are supposed to be watchable this year due to the influence of Neil Patrick Harris as host and producer. You can still just swing it with a two-at-a-time DVR, and even hate-watch Entourage if you tape the 11pm re-run of Mad Men. (Just remember Mad Men goes two minutes over.) Concentrate! (But if you watch all these things and football, forget about it: your HBO will have to be OnDemand and your Curb catchphrase a day old. Stay off Twitter!)
Melissa Gilbert, who is about to play Ma in a touring stage production of Little House on the Prairie: The Musical, tells the Times about her fear of hard-core Little House fans, or "bonnetheads." [NYT]
Today's Styles section managed to wrangle enough women who pay up to $100 per session (in this economy!) with self-certified gurus to throw together a cover story about "spiritual cowgirls" -- today's "Carrie Bradshaws" (n., any female living in New York City) who are into vegetarian meditation and making vision boards and are so over yoga. But don't worry, they're not looking for enlightenment or anything silly like that! Relax, it's still all about boys:
Ms. Bernstein suggested an exercise in which the woman write her ideal version of the story of her boyfriend moving in, something along the lines of: “It’s really lovely. He shows up. There’s tons of love. The move is effortless. There’s plenty of space for all his things.”
“Write the story the way you want it to happen,” Ms. Bernstein said. “Re-read the story every night until he arrives.”
And anyone who made it through to the last paragraph was rewarded with the perfect fuel for a good-old-fashioned Styles mimosa-spit-take (for those holdout Carrie Bradshaws who still drink them):
[Regarding a vision boardl] "And there is a cut-out banner of the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times.
Asked about it, Ms. Bernstein said she had put it up three years ago.
“I’ve been manifesting this story,” she explained.
Whew! There's truly no goal too shallow, ladies! Keep dreaming the dream and visualizing those Jimmy Choos! (Can you hear them, tap-tap-tapping across your boyfriend's penthouse floor? Focus!) Also: three years? Now that's just sad. Time to get a better guru! [NYT]
Fashion Wire Daily - One local designer who has developed something of chic following is Graeme Black, a Scotsman who took a languid jaunt through India in his spring 2010 collection unveiled Sunday, Sept. 20, in London.
Top 3: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: $30 million; The Informant!: $10.5 million; Tyler Perry's I Can do Bad All by Myself: $10 million. Disappointments: Jennifer Aniston's Love Happens: $8.5 million; Jennifer's Body: $6.8 million. Prediction: Even if it doesn't pick up word-of-mouth steam when holdouts realize it's a comedy, Jennifer's Body will be a cult hit on DVD. [Box Office Mojo]
All the big Christians are gathering in D.C. this week for the "Value Voters Summit," an event that is unlikely to produce bigger laughs than the opening speech Thursday night by Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant who shot to instant notoriety with her clumsy anti-gay marriage speech at the pageant. Carrie is now an official speaker/martyr for the Christian right, obviously, and while her entire speech is hilarious (work those crazy eyes, girl!), the last 30 seconds are nothing less than pure comedy gold.
Reuters - London fashion designers say mass retailers do not necessarily undermine their business and can actually be of help, but acknowledge that they have awakened a desire among shoppers for frequent refreshing of stock.
President Obama took to the airwaves this morning, appearing in interviews on five networks to talk about healthcare. Highlights included a charming promise to "wait in line like everybody else" for the H1N1 vaccine. The Times has a handy summation, but maybe the most compelling moment was this one on Face the Nation, in which Obama addresses, as carefully as he can, the degree to which race is involved in the protests against his administration. "Don't assume the worst motives in people" is probably code for "Please don't call everyone you disagree with Hitler."
Front Page: Sony toon wins weekend with $30.1 million -- "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" dominated an otherwise downbeat domestic weekend box office.
Between Mad Men and 30 Rock's presumed wins, the news that an appearance will be made by Dr. Horrible of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and now the Ausiello report that PC, author, and correspondent John Hodgman will be the show's announcer, tonight's Emmys are shaping up to be the nerdiest yet. They might even be must-see! [EW]
Hoping to solve "the situation in New York," President Obama's people have told Governor David Paterson's people that Paterson should drop out of the 2010 race. Paterson is reportedly "resistant." [NYT]
Last night, police in Denver arrested Najibullah Zazi, his father, and a third man for making false statements to police. The third man is accused of being an FBI informant who tipped Zazi and his father off to the initial investigation. All three will go to court on Monday. [CNN]
Fashion Wire Daily - History and modern art mingled in the latest collection by John Rocha, a poetic moment where crown princes, faded gentry, boot boys and femme fatales all appeared.
Colombian singer Juanes performs a sound check in preparation for the "Peace Without Borders" concert at Revolution Square in Havana on September 19. Over half a million people are expected to gather for... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 Sep 2009 | 6:25 am
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, forced to make his latest film "The White Meadows" under difficult conditions, used the San Sebastian film festival to lash out at the Tehran regime. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 20 Sep 2009 | 4:09 am
The forecast was bright at the box-office for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," which earned $30.1 million to lead this weekend's films. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Sep 2009 | 2:42 am
It's gonna take more than a likable serial killer or a couple of quirky New Zealanders to knock Mad Men and 30 Rock off the podium.
AMC's swell-looking, smooth-talking show about...
Best Opening Song: OK, it was the only opening song, but Neil Patrick Harris brings a bit of his Tony Awards song and dance to the Emmys. Unfortunately, it was nowhere near as awesome as his Tonys...
There were baby bumps and plunging necklines on the Emmys red carpet, but only one real question. To bare or not to bare (a shoulder)?
Stars showing off their left clavicles...
Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff may have looked fab onstage, but things weren't quite in step behind the scenes.
An insider reports the ex-couple exchanged some heated...
Drama Series: Mad Men
Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close,...
We interrupt the Emmy news to bring you this: Zooey Deschanel got hitched.
The Elf star swapped vows Saturday with Death Cab for Cutie driver Ben Gibbard near Seattle, E! News has...
It's Emmy night! Long awards shows where famous people get all dressed up and hand out awards to each other are our favorite. (Duh.)
We love it so much we are documenting...
