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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Apr 2010 | 3:51 am An In Depth Review of "The Losers" - Comic Book Movie
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Apr 2010 | 2:28 am Lindsay Lohan gets booted from movie 'The Other Side' for not being 'bankable' - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Apr 2010 | 2:12 am FIRST LOOK: The late DJ A.M. in 'Iron Man 2' - Los Angeles Times (blog)
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:58 pm Kate Gosselin Ditches Kids to Go Tanning, Get a Pedi - Us Magazine
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:48 pm Spitzer documentary premieres at Tribeca Film Fest (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:35 pm Spitzer documentary premieres at Tribeca Film Fest (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:35 pm D'oh!Saskatchewan legal educators use Simpsons as models for law courseSASKATOON - The animated television characters of Homer and Bart Simpson have been used to educate students about a wide variety of topics, from philosophy to the law. The Public LegalSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:56 pm The father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Pal Sarkozy, at the Espace Cardin in ParisThe father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Pal Sarkozy, at the Espace Cardin in Paris, during the installation of his exhibition with German artist Werner Hornung, a joint retrospective works entiltled...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:51 pm Sarkozy senior paintings unveiled in ParisAn exhibition of drawings and paintings by the father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. Pal Sarkozy, 82, teamed up with a German computer artist for a show of joint artworks in the capital...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:51 pm Paintings by Pal Sarkozy, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, are displayed at the Espace Cardin in ParisPaintings by Pal Sarkozy, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, are displayed at the Espace Cardin in Paris. Among the works in the current show is a portrait of France's first lady, the supermodel-turned-singer...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:51 pm The inauguration of the exhibition of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's father, Pal SarkozyA woman watches outside during the inauguration of the exhibition of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's father, Pal Sarkozy, at the Espace Cardin gallery in Paris. The pictures have received scant critical...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:51 pm Bare bottoms, zebras: the art of Sarkozy seniorThe naked women and tattooed giraffes look like something from a fantasy comic strip but, with prices of up to 16 thousand euros (21,000 dollars) per canvas, something must make these...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:51 pm Bare bottoms, zebras: the art of Sarkozy senior (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:50 pm EXTRA! Wall Street Journal heads into NY hyperdrive (Reuters)Reuters - The Wall Street Journal is offering some businesses firesale prices for full-page ads in its highly anticipated New York edition to seduce advertisers away from The New York Times.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:41 pm Tribeca film explores al Qaeda's history and cultureNEW YORK (Reuters) - A new film by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney takes viewers from Cairo to London on a search for the cultural and historical roots of al Qaeda and some of its...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:18 pm Yglesias, Eggers Win Big at Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Rafael Yglesias's novel A Happy Marriage won the top fiction award at last night's Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which kicked off the paper's Festival of Books (remember those?). Dave Eggers was the other big winner of the night, taking home the Current Interest award for his novel Zeitoun and the Innovators Awards for his "refreshing disregard for conventional wisdom." If it existed, he also would have won the motivational-speaking award for his acceptance speech. "We're still about paper and cloth and glue and ink, and if you put care into that craft, it has the same appeal it always did," he said. "We shouldn't assume, always, that we're hurtling inexorably toward some all-electronic world." [LAT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: kudos, books, dave eggers, los angeles times book prizes, rafael yglesias
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 2:30 pm It’s All Whips, Chains, and Leather at Derivatives Conference It's hard to imagine anything more boring than attending the International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference, so you can't really blame a group of bankers, lawyers, and traders for blowing off a little steam afterward with some light S&M. You could, however, blame them for letting a New York Times reporter tag along. [NYT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: spankings, chains, finance, leather, s&m, wall street
Source: Daily Intel | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:45 pm Bret Michaels Remains Hospitalized In Critical Condition - MTV.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:45 pm Bret Michaels "Remains in Critical Condition," Former Flames Show Support No news is good news, right? Sadly when it comes to updates on Bret Michaels' life-threatening health woes, we wish that were the case.
Responding to numerous conflicting reports...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:40 pm ‘Idol Gives Back’ $45 Million This week's "Idol Gives Back" didn't exactly succeed in the entertainment department, but it did a hell of a job raising money. Fox announced yesterday that the show raised $45 million, which will go to charities helping children in the United States and Africa. And that amount will only keep growing. Money made from sales on iTunes will also be donated to charity. [Reuters] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: idols, american idol, charity, idol gives back, tv
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:15 pm Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:06 pm Quincy Jones talks music, life, love at ASCAP expo (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:06 pm Boobquake to Rock World on Monday It's rare to have advance warning of a natural disaster, but that's the situation we find ourselves in regarding the impending Boobquake that's set to hit the world on Monday. In response to a Muslim imam who claims that cleavage-bearing women cause earthquakes, the blog Blag Hag has proposed a Boobquake on Monday to test his theory. Here's the call to arms:
More than 132,000 people have RSVPed to Monday's Facebook event and the Post easily found a half-dozen women who are psyched to participate by showing off their goods. In an unrelated note, Monday is also "Take Pictures of Random Women on Your Cell Phone" day.
Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: boobquake, boobs, protests
Source: Daily Intel | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:45 pm A Bangladeshi man passes a cinema wall festooned with advertisements for screeningsA Bangladeshi man passes a cinema wall festooned with advertisements for screenings in Dhaka in 2004. Bangladesh has lifted a four-decade ban on Indian films in a bid to boost attendance at cinemas, a...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:03 pm Bangladesh lifts ban on Indian filmsBangladesh has lifted a four-decade ban on Indian films in a bid to boost attendance at cinemas, a government minister said Saturday, drawing loud complaints from local actors and...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:03 pm Avatar Breaks Yet Another Record Surprise, surprise, Avatar has broken another record. The Blu-ray release of James Cameron's opus sold 1.5 million copies on Tuesday, shattering the one-day record of 600,000 set by The Dark Knight in December 2008. Another 2.5 million DVD copies were sold, giving Avatar the record for single day home-video sales. But not everyone who wanted to own Avatar bought it. In Mexico City 3,409 DVD and Blu-ray copies were stolen off of a delivery truck. That's probably a record too. [Hero Complex/LA Times] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: broken records, avatar, blu-ray, dvd, movies
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 12:00 pm The Effort to Rebrand Reefer If your vision of a pot smoker is a glassy-eyed slacker who likes the Cartoon Network and loves Funyuns, Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, would like a word with you. Pierre, who has never even had a goatee, is leading an effort to rebrand weed as it becomes more mainstream. Among the stereotypes that Pierre would like to dispel: Pot smokers wear Nehru jackets. They have long hair. They smell like patchouli. Pierre has allies in his fight. Steve DeAngelo, the president of a lobbying firm called CannBe, doesn't even like the "m" word (marijuana), which he considers negative. Instead, DeAngelo thinks people should use the scientific term "cannabis." Of course, if you don't like either of those, there are a few other things you could call it. Don’t Call It ‘Pot’ in This Circle; It’s a Profession [NYT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: marijuana, drugs, funyuns
Source: Daily Intel | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:45 am Lindsay Lohan's Extreme Highs and LowsWhether suing financial companies or posing in racy spreads, the starlet always seems to be causing a commotion. WARNING: SOME PHOTOS NSFW
Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Apr 2010 | 11:05 am Despite scary reviews, "Addams Family" lures label (Reuters)Reuters - The new Broadway musical "The Addams Family" opened April 8 to gruesome reviews.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:52 am Despite scary reviews, "Addams Family" lures label (Reuters)Reuters - The new Broadway musical "The Addams Family" opened April 8 to gruesome reviews.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:52 am Despite scary reviews, "Addams Family" lures labelNEW YORK (Billboard) - The new Broadway musical "The Addams Family" opened April 8 to gruesome reviews.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:52 am YouTube fame yields record deal for R&B rookieLOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Singer/songwriter Dondria thought someone was pulling a fast one when she began receiving e-mail messages on her YouTube and MySpace sites from someone calling...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:48 am Deftones return after bassist sidelined by injuryLOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Despite a car accident in November 2008 that left bassist Chi Cheng with a debilitating brain injury, the Deftones have returned with a new album.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:47 am Glee Creator ‘Interested’ in Britney-centric Episode Even before last week's all-Madonna episode of Glee aired, Britney Spears's manager was lobbying for a Britney-centric episode. And just like that, it appears to have worked. Last night, Glee creator Ryan Murphy told EW that he's into the idea of bringing Britney to William McKinley High.
But it's not just the young kids Murphy would like to please: He's also considering episodes that would appeal to old people (Billy Joel, Led Zeppelin) and crazy people (Courtney Love). 'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy on an all-Britney Spears episode: 'I'm Interested' [Music Mix/EW] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: glee, billy joel, britney spears, courtney love, led zeppelin, ryan murphy, tv
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:45 am 'Dutchman' returns to Met after a decade's absenceDeborah Voigt was seated in a chair when she started to sing, the first notes of her first Senta at the Metropolitan Opera. And just like that in the second act, she transformed what hadSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:35 am 'Dutchman' returns to Met after a decade's absence (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:35 am 'Dutchman' returns to Met after a decade's absence (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:35 am Week in Review: Kate Gosselin's a Goner, Sandra Bullock's Inching Her Way Back Ding-dong, the witch is dead...
OK, maybe that's being a bit dramatic, but we're sure that little ditty ran through plenty of people's heads when Kate Gosselin was eliminated...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:30 am Indie rockers the National confront hype, stardomNEW YORK (Billboard) - For a band that's considered to be one of the leaders of Brooklyn's indie-rock enclave, the National has a fairly conflicted relationship with New York.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:26 am E-mails Show Goldman Profits Went Up As Economy Tanked "Gulp." Claims from Goldman Sachs executives that the firm lost money on mortgage-related investments look a whole lot less true today after the release of e-mails that say exactly the opposite. Released by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations ahead of a hearing on Tuesday, the e-mails between Goldman executives say it made "some serious money" by betting against the housing market. One message from CEO Lloyd Blankfein said, "Of course we didn't dodge the mortgage mess. We lost money, then made more than we lost because of shorts." Other e-mails indicate that Goldman was racking up as much as $51 million a day in profits by shorting the housing market. Carl Levin, the head of the subcommittee, hasn't taken kindly to these revelations. In a statement today he said:
The moral of this story: stop using e-mail and invest in some carrier pigeons.
Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: fi-cri fallout, business, financial crisis: the revenge, goldman sachs, sec
Source: Daily Intel | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:15 am Sneak Peek! Streep & Baldwin's Extra Complicated Banter Reviews were mixed, but it's not that complicated: Meryl Streep plus Alec Baldwin equals, if not movie magic, then at least some hearty laughter and a permasmile.
Streep and Baldwin,...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:00 am Michael C. Hall Is ‘Fully Recovered’ From Cancer Watch out, fictitious bad guys in Miami, Dexter star Michael C. Hall is fully recovered from cancer and he's back to work, his wife told reporters yesterday. There's even more good news: His impressive head of hair is back! [AP] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: happy things, dexter, michael c. hall, tv
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:45 am LCD Soundsystem raises glass to "Drunk Girls"NEW YORK (Billboard) - Just days after LCD Soundsystem's new single, "Drunk Girls," leaked online, a companion video of sorts hit YouTube.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:29 am John Edwards Will Be Forced to Talk About His Sex Tape America's least favorite son of a mill worker, John Edwards, has been ordered to submit to a sworn deposition on May 13 in the case of Rielle Hunter v. Andrew Young, according to the Daily Beast. The topic: his steamy sex tape with a maybe already pregnant Hunter and allegations that he used campaign money to keep her hidden away. Of course, being called for a deposition in this case doesn't necessarily mean you'll give one. Hunter's been called five times and hasn't yet shown up. [Daily Beast] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: ewww, america's baby mama, john edwards, politics, rielle hunter, sex scandals
Source: Daily Intel | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:15 am You can bid on what?!Check out the memorabilia being auctioned on eBay by people who claim that the goods were owned or used by celebrities.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:45 am Bret Michaels Critical After Suffering Brain Hemorrhage Let's hope Bret Michaels gives us a speedy recovery to believe in.
The Poison frontman is in critical condition at an undisclosed Los Angeles-area hospital after suffering a brain...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 8:35 am Charlie Sheen and Wife Brooke Split After months of legal drama, rehab, bad disguises, buzz cuts and tabloid headlines, Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller have split.
"Charlie has returned to old habits," a source...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 7:47 am Stop This Trend: Frumpy Harem Pants Why, oh why, are stars still wearing harem pants?!
We were hoping last year's fugliest trend had run its course, but nope, Kylie Minogue, Lindsay Lohan, Janet Jackson and...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 7:37 am What Do Survivor, Pretty Wild and Housewives Have in Common? (Hint: Trainwrecks!) Sometimes life imitates art. Sometime life utterly outshines art, especially if by art you mean reality TV, and by life you mean the show's trainwreck stars themselves.
E!'s own...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 24 Apr 2010 | 7:31 am Party Down Recap: It’s Back! It’s Back! “What’s this about?” beleaguered, pink-tied caterer Henry Pollard asks himself in the opening seconds of the second season of Party Down, “I don’t know — professionalism?” And then he fires an alcoholic dwarf and gets back to the business at hand: providing five-sided Satanic sandwiches to a face-painted shock rocker named Jackal Onassis. Yes, people, Party Down is back. And it’s absolutely as good as ever. Which, if you’ve been paying attention, is pretty freaking good. There’s been a noticeable trend in television over the last few years toward “dramedy” — that ridiculous sniglet that lets us know that an hour-long program about divorced families or international espionage is going to be occasionally wacky, goddammit. Heck, Grey’s Anatomy even has its own ludicrously on-the-nose bouncy background music to unspool every time its surgeons stop getting real and start dropping pop-culture references and snogging. But what too few recent programs have attempted is the reverse: the half-hour comedy spackled with the occasional deeply felt bits of pathos. (The domedy? The crama? Help us out in the comments.) No show has pulled this off as effortlessly as Party Down, which emerged fully formed and nearly flawless last year with an all-star pedigree (care of the creators of O.G. aughts dramedy Veronica Mars and their talent-packed friend Rolodex) and practically zero audience. The premise of the show is simple and fairly genius: The titular Los Angeles catering company sends its motley crew out to a different event every week (ranging last year from a porn-awards show after-party to a sweet sixteen held on a yacht), thus constantly changing the scenario and the stakes. There is no “mockumentary” set up, no mugging for the cameras. The situation is the comedy, leaving room for the characters — oh, the characters! — to communicate the honest hopelessness of their lives with dead-eyed, big-hearted, dirty-minded precision. In the first season, we related to Henry Pollard (played to perfection by pinch-faced everyman Adam Scott) not only because of the soul-killing monotony of his lousy job, but because he was the only one who seemed at peace with where he’d ended up. Which is to say: nowhere. Zonked on Vicodin and pilfered sips of booze from the bar, Henry — a former Z-list celebrity best known for shouting a tinny catchphrase in beer commercials — watched with deadpan snark all the pointless "trying" that surrounded him: from the partying plastic porn stars and trust-falling corporate retreaters, to his obliviously desperate co-workers, all of whom believed they were still moving up the escalator of success instead of sliding back down it. But as the season progressed, he fell for the sexy, sarcastic comic Casey Klein (Brooklyn’s No.1 pin-up, the underrated Lizzy Caplan), and even flirted with a return to acting (he would have made a great young Lincoln!), only to blow his shot at the big time and then watch Casey leave to perform on a cruise ship. The joke, ultimately, was on him. (Lest we wax too serious, there were lots of jokes, too! Especially the ones about the now-departed Jane Lynch’s character’s eighties-exploitation movies, including Dingleberries, Walnuts and — wait for it — Screamweaver.) Season two begins with Henry in command, no longer able to slack off with the rest of his dopey posse: Roman (Martin Starr), the “hard sci-fi” would-be writer, Kyle (Ryan Hansen), actor, himbo, and front man of a “power emo” group, and, replacing Lynch’s Constance, Lydia (the wildly good Megan Mullally), who is nuttily devoted to her aspiring child-star daughter, Escapade. In fact, Henry’s newfound responsibility has made him even less happy, as he admits to the aforementioned drunk dwarf after firing him. “You’re supposed to not give a shit, like a human being!” the little person rails before storming off. Poor Henry. Never has a man seemed so ill at ease in a tiny pink bow tie. Yet soon enough, the old gang is reunited as Casey, back from the high seas with her hair in an unfortunate bun, subs in for the little guy, and manic, back-on-the-sauce Ron Donald (the super-intense Ken Marino) crashes the backstage party with his metal-loving jailbait GF. Everything that we loved about the first season is front and center here: the low-key and lived-in slackery vibe, the will-they-or-won’t-they couples crackling with fun sexual tension (Henry andCasey, Kyle and Roman, natch), jokes ranging from clever (Lydia’s mad riff about Whoopi Goldberg) and surreal (Lydia’s insistence on Casey’s awkward physical “sign” that she needs help with Henry) to subtle (Lydia quietly leaning her head against the chest of the burly security guard at the end). And if it isn’t already clear, we are 100 percent onboard with the addition of Mullally, who, freed from the hammy shackles of Will & Grace, seems to be inventing and unpeeling new layers of intense weirdness with every line reading and feathery hand gesture. Watch the way she greets Casey with the faux-excited almost hug. Now watch it again. We sure did! We never would have expected that the host of this would be making us forget Jane Lynch, but here we are. She is just kind of having a moment! Anyway, we could rhapsodize endlessly over all the little details that cracked us up this episode: future “That Guy” hall-of-famer Jimmi Simpson as the normalcy-craving Jackal (and the skeazy lawyer from The Wire as his manager!), Kyle’s headshot, Ron’s jacket, Roman’s inability to score — even in Kiss makeup and platform boots — thanks to a lack of “aura.” But really, we are just giddy about having Party Down back in our lives for one more season. We could watch these guys slice limes and un-box bottles forever. Barring that, we’re ready to do it for nine more episodes. It’s all in the name of professionalism. Read more posts by Andy Greenwald Filed Under: overnights, party down, recaps, tv
Source: Vulture | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:00 am Screenwriters dancing the one-stepFront Page: Producers, studios get a pass on script rewrite fees -- Rewrite gigs are a gold mine for the top tier of scribes, but for many other writers, a twist on an old motto rings true: Will work for free.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:00 am
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