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Some style but little suspense in new 'Nightmare on Elm Street' - Royal Oak Daily Tribune
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 May 2010 | 4:12 am Summer movie preview - Chicago Sun-Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 May 2010 | 3:03 am Myers: For Tiger's detractors, this treat just a tease - The News Journal
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 May 2010 | 1:58 am Free Comic Book Day 2010: event rewarding for fans, retailers - The Money Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 2 May 2010 | 1:52 am Accused Nazi death camp guard John DemjanjukAccused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. A play being staged in Heidelberg about his life and wirtten by Canadian-Jewish writer Jonathan Garfinkel deals mainly with a trial in Jerusalem, where Demjanjuk...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:55 pm Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (2nd R) arrives for another session of his trial in a courtroom in MunichAccused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (2nd R) arrives for another session of his trial in a courtroom in Munich last month. Demjanjuk is the central theme of a play about his life which is being...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:55 pm 'Demjanjuk: a Holocaust cabaret' hits German stageThe scene is familiar: 90-year-old alleged war criminal John Demjanjuk sits silently in his wheelchair, mouth lolling open, covered by a sheet and wearing a baseball cap. But this is notSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:55 pm Rosalynn Carter pens new book about mental healthStanding outside an Atlanta cotton mill campaigning for her husband's bid to become governor of Georgia, Rosalynn Carter came upon a stooped and weary woman heading home to care for a...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:37 pm Rosalynn Carter pens new book about mental health (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:37 pm A boy wears ear muffs to protect his ears during a concert of Finnish heavy metal band for children, HevisaurusA boy wears ear muffs to protect his ears during a concert of Finnish heavy metal band for children, Hevisaurus, in Hameenlinna on April 17, 2010. The band was born when a flash of lightning and witches'...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:29 pm Heavy metal dinosaurs rock the kiddie crowd in FinlandThe usual heavy metal fan may not be a five-year-old girl in pigtails, but she is typical of hardcore following of Hevisaurus, a metal band that has hooked the kiddie crowd in Finland. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:29 pm Hevisaurus, a Finnish heavy metal band for children performs on stage in HameenlinnaHevisaurus, a Finnish heavy metal band for children performs on stage in Hameenlinna on April 17, 2010. The group, which rocks on about homework and monsters, played its first gig, a charity event, only...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:29 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisers (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:13 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisers (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:13 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisers (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:13 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisers (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:13 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisers (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 11:13 pm More famous moms choose to adopt - MiamiHerald.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 May 2010 | 11:02 pm Obama takes digs at birthers, GOP, his advisersPresident Barack Obama shared some words of wisdom on Saturday, saying there a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. "Well, love and a birth...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 9:45 pm Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Wed -- For Third Time! - Us Magazine
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 May 2010 | 8:19 pm Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Get Hitched...Again Nick Cannon put a ring on it…again!
In celebration of their second wedding anniversary, Mariah Carey and Cannon renewed their vows Friday at their Beverly Hills...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 7:15 pm Bankruptcy filed by Ohio newspaper publishers (AP)AP - Newspaper publishers Brown Media Holdings Co. and Brown Publishing Co. have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief and plan to sell their assets in 10 states to a bidder the companies have chosen.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 6:21 pm Jay Leno, Obama jockey for laughs at White House Correspondents' Association dinnerWASHINGTON - Jay Leno can tease the president all he wants, but Barack Obama is likely to offer some barbs of his own. "The Tonight Show" host is the entertainer on Saturday night for...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 5:21 pm Battle of the Bombshells: Who Is Hollywood's Sexiest Woman Ever?With the return of the voluptuous woman to the screen, Fox411 is celebrating the greatest bombshells ever to grace the screen. Click through our top 25 and vote for your favorite.
Source: FOXNews.com | 1 May 2010 | 4:31 pm Washington Times considering sale: report (Reuters)Reuters - Executives at the Washington Times are looking into a possible sale of the newspaper, which has slashed staff in recent months in order to cut costs, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 1 May 2010 | 4:22 pm Spielberg, Scorsese call for release of Iran film-makerSteven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are among a slew of Hollywood heavyweights who have signed a petition calling on Iran to release jailed director Jafar Panahi. Spielberg and ScorseseSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 2:51 pm Iranian director Jafar PanahiSteven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are among a slew of Hollywood heavyweights who have signed a petition calling on Iran to release jailed director Jafar Panahi, pictured in 2006.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 1 May 2010 | 2:51 pm Bret Michaels May Be Back for Celebrity Apprentice Finale Relax, Celebrity Apprentice fans: It appears that Bret Michaels and his bandanna will be back before the show's live finale. It's set to air on May 23 and Michaels's doctor says he should be healthy enough to appear on the show by then. Whether Michaels will be among those still vying for a job is unknown, but if he goes walking back into the board room a few weeks after a brain hemorrhage, Trump has no choice but to give the man a job. Anyway, he'd be a perfect CER (Chief Executive Rocker). [HR] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: good news, bret michaels, celebrity apprentice, tv
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 2:15 pm Who Deserves the Blame for Massive Oil Spill? Everyone is trying to figure out who to blame for the offshore oil spill that's threatening to take over Louisiana. The federal government has decided that BP America and its lackluster response deserve the bulk of it. But the Times is suggesting that maybe the government blame someone else: itself. The Department of Homeland Security waited too long to declare the disaster a "spill of national significance." The Coast Guard underestimated the threat of the initial leak. The Times has an unlikely ally: Rush Limbaugh has also pointed a finger at the federal response, calling the oil spill "Obama's Katrina." BP Is Criticized Over Oil Spill, but U.S. Missed Chances to Act [NYT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: cleaning up, bp, environmental catastrophe, oil leaks, oil spills
Source: Daily Intel | 1 May 2010 | 2:00 pm Doc: Bret Michaels' will 'to live and fully recover is undeniable' - USA Today
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 May 2010 | 1:42 pm Warren Buffett Defends Goldman, Eats Ice Cream Warren Buffett came to the defense of Goldman Sachs today at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual shareholders meeting, saying the firm hadn't done anything wrong and wasn't responsible for the money its clients lost. The Oracle of Omaha also stuck up for Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein and said that if he were allowed to choose Blankfein's successor, he'd go with the CEO's twin brother, if he had one. And that $5 billion investment Buffett made in Goldman back in 2008? He "loves" it. He also loves eating ice cream from Dairy Queen, which Berkshire Hathaway owns. Buffett Defends Goldman; Berkshire Posts Profit [WSJ] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: the oracle of omaha, business, finance, goldman sachs, lloyd blankfein, warren buffett
Source: Daily Intel | 1 May 2010 | 1:15 pm 3 arrests in death of magician from 'Tonight Show'Police have arrested three people on suspicion of killing a young magician known as "El Magnfico" who has performed on "The Tonight Show." Anaheim Police announced the arrests Friday,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 12:51 pm Who’s Going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? The White House Correspondents' Dinner is tonight, and the Jay Leno–hosted party is going to be chock-full of famous people. Politico has the full list of boldface names who will be in attendance and Deadline has helpfully taken out all the boring people and put together a list of Hollywood types who'll be there, like Tracy Morgan, who will be sitting at The New Yorker's table. Hopefully someone gets that on tape. [Politico] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: famous people, jay leno, white house, white house correspondents' dinner
Source: Daily Intel | 1 May 2010 | 12:45 pm Who Will Direct X-Men: First Class? Last night reports began surfacing that 20th Century Fox was close to signing on Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn to helm X-Men: First Class. Shortly thereafter, those reports were shot down. So who's going to direct the next entry into the X-Men franchise? Great question. There are a bunch of names floating around, including Timur Bekmambetov, Louis Leterrier, David Slade, Daniel Espinoza, and Carl Erick Rinsch. Fox is expected to choose one of the names out of a hat by next week and start shooting this summer. [Deadline] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: x-men, fox, movies, the industry
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 12:45 pm Disney’s Cruel Marketing Strategy for Toy Story 3 At colleges all around the country, Disney is holding free screenings of Toy Story 3 in hopes of exciting a demographic it calls "the Andyites" (twentysomethings who were little tikes when the first movie came out). Sounds like an unusually generous move, right? Wrong! These screenings, advertised as "cliffhanger" editions, are only showing the first 65 minutes of the film. The studio chopped off the final chase scene because it hopes to get students to come back out and pay exorbitant prices to see it in 3-D in June. Maybe, Disney is hoping, they'll bring a bunch of friends, too. And maybe, Disney is also hoping, they'll talk up the movie on social-networking sites in the meantime. This isn't a revolutionary strategy. The first fifteen minutes of Avatar were screened in theaters for free last August. But fifteen minutes of a three-hour movie is just what you need to get excited for more. Giving people two-thirds of a movie and then asking them to pay to see the ending? That's just cruel. Disney Uses Cliffhanger to Market ‘Toy Story 3’ [NYT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: not cool, marketing, movies, pixar, toy story 3
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 11:45 am Gabriel Aubry 'sad' about split from Halle Berry - msnbc.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 1 May 2010 | 11:14 am Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha dies at 81Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper, has died in Paris.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 11:11 am Dems Ask White House to Stop Bashing D.C. So Much In a closed-door meeting on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi's campaign chief and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn asked David Axelrod if the White House might be so kind as to stop talking so much trash about Washington, D.C. Their concern? Persistent White House attacks on D.C. culture reflect far worse on the Democrats, who are in charge, than Republicans. So they asked if the president could stop blaming "Washington" and "Congress" for everything and start blaming the GOP instead. According to Politico, David Axelrod basically told them to stop whining. [Politico] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: hurt feelings, david axelrod, nancy pelosi, politics, white house
Source: Daily Intel | 1 May 2010 | 11:00 am Gabriel Aubry "Sad" About Split from Longtime Love Halle Berry If you're still holding out hope that Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry are one big happy family, we have some bad news: this gorgeous twosome really has parted ways.
"While I will...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 10:52 am John Rich video fireworks, chopper rile neighborsPolice were called to the home of country musician John Rich when neighbors complained about the noise from a night video shoot that used fireworks and a helicopter. Police spokeswoman...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 10:41 am Jay Leno, Obama jockey for laughs at annual dinnerJay Leno and Barack Obama are taking the stage for laughs. Leno is the entertainer on Saturday for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with the president. The annual...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 1 May 2010 | 10:32 am Kal Penn Definitely Maybe Getting Back to Politics After Harold and Kumar 3 Kal Penn's not done juggling stoner movies and politics. After announcing his departure from House to join the Obama administration, then taking a few months to actually start his gig at the Office of Public Engagement, the actor is about to leave for the set of Harold and Kumar 3 (possibly 3-D!) after less than a year. At last night's New Yorker party for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Penn framed the move as a contractual obligation, telling us, "I signed a piece of paper. It's Time Warner, I made a commitment and they said they're filming now. I thought, 'Come on, guys, can't you give me a few more years?' It's a seven-week shoot." After completing the final installment of his stoner trilogy — which Vulture, after reading the script, has called "another loosely glued-together batch of dick and weed jokes that should satisfy fans of 2004's improbably great H&K Go to White Castle and really delight anyone who liked 2008's not-quite-as-funny sequel H&K Escape From Guantanamo Bay" — Penn plans to return to politics. Well, probably: "I'm hoping to come back to this. It may not be in the White House. Maybe four or eight years after that I'll go back to movies. But I don't want to put a definite date on it." Don't tie him down. Read more posts by Stephanie Vallejo Filed Under: kumar goes to washington, a very harold and kumar christmas, harold and kumar, kal penn, movies
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 10:30 am Apple Kills Lala Back in December, Apple paid $80 million to purchase the music-streaming site Lala and now it has sentenced it to death. The five-year-old site will be shut down at the end of month when users' account balances will be transferred to iTunes. Rumor has it that Apple will use Lala's technology to launch its own cloud-based music service. [LAT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: radio radio, apple, lala.com
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 10:10 am Week in Review: Sandra Bullock Adopts a Whole New Game Plan Up yours, Jesse James. That's not our personal opinion , we're just paraphrasing the little bombshell Sandra Bullock was waiting to drop on America this week: she filed for divorce and...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 10:00 am Robert Gates Asks Congress to Hold Off on Repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ In a letter to the House Armed Services Committee's chairman, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he is "strongly opposed" to repealing "don't ask, don't tell" until the military completes a review of how it will impact the force.
The White House came out in support of Gates, saying in a statement, "this is not a question of if, but how ['don't ask, don't tell' will be repealed]." It's also a question of when. In his State of the Union address, President Obama said he would work to repeal the law this year. But the military review is set to be completed in December, which pretty much assures "don't ask, don't tell" will live on to 2011. Or, if you ask this guy, 2013.
Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: gays, don't ask don't tell, gay rights, military, pentagon, robert gates
Source: Daily Intel | 1 May 2010 | 10:00 am Which Dance Music Queen Is Dressing Under the Influence? We're not sure whether this Aussie pop singer was trying to dress up like a Las Vegas showgirl or a figure skater. Either way, it looks like she poured glue all over her top half and rolled...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 9:31 am Can Hollywood Legally Keep Gay Stars in the Closet? Is it legal for a movie studio to have a clause in a celeb's contract that prohibits them from being openly gay? Wouldn't that be considered discriminatory?
—Ande, Los...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 8:00 am Studios hit with homevideo slumpFront Page: Even hearty 3D gains haven't offset declines in DVD revenues -- Domestic box office hit a record $10.6 billion in 2009 according to the MPAA and is on track to soar even higher this year. Worldwide box office hit $29.9 billion in 2009, up 7.6% over 2008.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 1 May 2010 | 8:00 am Lauper Lips Off at Hasselhoff on Celebrity Apprentice! • Zany '80s hit-maker Cyndi Lauper gets weird over David Hasselhoff. On Celebrity Apprentice. What more do you need to know?
• Al Roker gets his big pimp on when Biggest...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 1 May 2010 | 7:31 am Party Down Recap: Truck Drivers and Trade School One of the best aspects of Party Down’s ingenious new-setting-every-week framework is the opportunities it affords to see our characters interact not only with broadly drawn celebrity types, but also potential future versions of themselves. With the exception of perpetually laconic Henry, every one of our leads is positively boiling over with ambition, their desire to be something else, anything else practically overwhelming any rational thought as to what that something might actually be — beyond, of course “successful.” This week’s lesson was for Casey, who came face-to-face not only with opportunity (in the form of a promising “Apatow audition”) but with the bitchy suburban rat’s nest potentially waiting for her if and when said opportunity dries up. (Also featured? Fake sex in front of children dressed as bunny rabbits!) The setting — the charity auction at a prestigious L.A. preschool, with the ravenous, social-climbing parents found there — were far scarier than anything you’d find lurking backstage at a Jackal Onassis concert. As usual, Casey won’t stay off her phone or even put it on vibrate due to her wearing her “thick pants” that day. The reason for all the texting? The aforementioned Apatow audition as well as an opportunity to read for a harried mom role, something that offends her, as she is more often typecast as “the fuckable waitress.” (Or the “fuckable-but-only-if-you’re-a-gawky-teenager-at-a-ski-resort Spin reporter” — we saw Hot Tub Time Machine so you don’t have to!) Part of what makes Casey so compelling is that while she is super cute and clever and etc., she also really wants to make it, a desire so naked that it almost seems to offend even her (but not enough to stop chasing roles, even ones she’s apparently “too Jewy” for, like The Diary of Anne Frank). As she awkwardly admits to Henry about her on-screen opportunity with Seth Rogen et al: “I don’t want to put too much stock in it, but I sort of feel like if I get this it will pretty much validate every single decision I’ve ever made in my entire life that led me to this moment.” Yikes! Casey’s tsuris attracts the eye of one of the party’s hosts, a former Groundling-turned-Stepford-soccer-mom named Annie (played by Andrea Savage who — fun fact! — played Casey in the original, filmed-in-Rob-Thomas’s-backyard pilot of Party Down). Annie’s life has gone from casually snarking at the world to desperately trying to please everyone in it in order to get her kid into a school that will, more than likely, deliver him to “Stanford or Yale” and thus keep him from “sucking off truck drivers” to pay for trade school. While we enjoyed seeing Lizzy Caplan (just end the sentence there!) play off Andrea Savage in these scenes, we must admit the bow that topped all of the drama (the fundraiser is a success! Casey gets the Apatow part!) seemed a tad neatly tied. Of course, all that character juxtaposition and dramatic resolution allowed the nuttiness to spread elsewhere. Of particular note was the always-entertaining Roman/Kyle brinksmanship, this time set off because Kyle was up for a part in a film version of geek bible Snow Crash and couldn’t even say the character’s name correctly, while Roman wanted to borrow $80 to bid on a pristine copy of Uncanny X-Men #4. Infuriated, Roman rails against Kyle: “You’re not an actor, you’re a haircut.” And then Kyle burns him back with an Oscar (or at least Golden Globe)-worthy fake cry, leaving Roman with one of the show’s signature slow boils of quiet shame. What else? Oh, now that Ron is back from his failed Soup’er Crackers experiment, he’s having a fine time undermining Henry the way he feels Henry used to undermine him when he was Team Leader. Except his main avenues of mutiny involve mistaking Eddie Money for Eddie Murphy and sporting fetid armpit-stains not usually seen on people who don’t play left guard for the University of Miami or, we dunno, Paul Bunyan. He also has a plan to “get” Henry that involves having loud, fake sex with Lydia, which results in us getting to hear Megan Mullally shriek “Yeah, Cockmaster! Get in! Balls too. There’s room!” but also results in Ron getting dumped by his McLovin-loving ladyfriend, Mandy. So, kind of a wash. We also had the return of J.K. Simmons as the bewilderingly profane film producer Leonard Stiltskin and Joey Lauren Adams as his roving trophy wife. As he did in last year’s outstanding “Taylor Stiltskin’s Sweet 16” episode, Simmons slays in the role, doing an expert spit-take and screaming, “Tell him to bring kneepads and a fucking appetite for manjuice!” It’s also left to Simmons to deliver the episode’s most weirdly affecting moment, when — angry over being tricked into overbidding for a non-existent lunch with Tom Hanks (you had to be there) — he confronts Henry, bellowing, “Here’s a promise you fucking has-been never-was: You’ll never work in this town again.” And Henry, passively, replies “I know.” The ambiguity is great. By giving up so utterly, Henry is immune to the slings and arrows of outrageous assholes that define Hollywood life. But we’ve also never really seen him as simply happy as Casey was when she got her Apatow news. Except maybe when he himself got Casey’s Apatow news. Hmmm. But far be it from us to turn these recaps into the mad ramblings of a dedicated show “shipper” (shudder). We’re just putting it out there. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be in the tent. Melonballing. With one hand. Read more posts by Andy Greenwald Filed Under: overnights, party down, recaps, tv
Source: Vulture | 1 May 2010 | 6:00 am
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