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Woody Allen has interest in Blanchett, Witherspoon (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2010 | 3:31 am Woody Allen has interest in Blanchett, Witherspoon (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2010 | 3:30 am Woody Allen has interest in Blanchett, Witherspoon (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2010 | 3:30 am Life after Bush: 'W.' star Brolin still on a roll (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2010 | 3:29 am Woody Allen Has Interest in Blanchett, Witherspoon - ABC News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 16 May 2010 | 3:19 am Cannes Film Festival 2010 - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 16 May 2010 | 2:37 am National 'Glee' tour takes show to its Gleeks (AP)
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 16 May 2010 | 1:00 am Polanski controversy casts shadow at Cannes - AFP
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 16 May 2010 | 12:52 am Is Matt Damon's Narration of a Cannes Doc a Sign that Hollywood is Abandoning Obama? Plus, Reviews of Two More Festival Films Two nights ago Cannes audiences watched Oliver Stone take down the moneymen of America through greed avatar Gordon Gekko with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. But yesterday, documentarian Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) came right out and said what Stone could only fictionalize with the rip-snorting, indignant documentary Inside Job. Though Ferguson's film begins with a scrolling shot of the New York skyline that’s almost identical to one in Stone’s film, Inside Job directly takes on the bankers behind the 2008 financial crisis, attacking early and often. Ferguson gets support from interviews with professional Cassandra Nouriel Roubini, Barney Frank, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer and others. But the most effective presence may be the trusted voice of all-American actor Matt Damon, who narrates the furious takedown of the financial services and the government. It's a fairly bold move by the actor. This isn’t some maudlin and comical tale, like Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story; this film is a smart, inciting rant. The documentary argues, as many have, that there is a kind of toxic co-dependence between the financial services industry, Washington, and university economics departments. If Goldman Sachs is a vampire squid, Ferguson is attempting to map out all the major conflicts of interest in the financial world: a kind of Transylvania Sea World. The aggressive (and, yes, utterly biased) tone of the film makes Damon’s participation all the more notable. As the narrator, Damon explicitly takes President Obama to task for hiring so many of the financial executives who pushed deregulation, and for neglecting to push the feds to pursue any criminal cases against executives on Wall Street. Damon, who campaigned for Obama, has also recently said he’s “disappointed in the health care plan and in the troop buildup in Afghanistan.” This doc may be one more sign that Democratic celebrities are going to push harder against the man they helped elect. While people are chattering about Inside Job, the same buzz is hard to find elsewhere so far. There have been moderate successes (The Housemaid, Tournee, Tuesday After Christmas) but no real critical smashes. Two of the latest films to disappoint? Aurora, from Romania's star director Cristi Puiu, and Rubber, one of the festival's most talked-about genre flicks, thanks to its star: a murderous rubber tire. Puiu has said that Aurora is an attempt to display the everyday relatability of a murderer, so he took the role of the murderer himself. Unfortunately, he so underplays the man as a nearly-mute, shuffle-footed dullard that the character emerges as a bizarre cipher. Watch him walk, watch him sulk, watch him kill, watch him explain. His character’s confession is supposed to play as comedy, but it’s a long, dull wait for any payoff. Puiu has also jokingly apologized for his film’s achingly slow pace, so at least he’s aware of his limitations. But in attempting to dramatize the banal nature of crime, he’s committed a crime of banality. It seemed like Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber might be the fest’s one true genre flick: a horror movie about a rubber tire that kills people. Well, the tire does indeed kill a rabbit, a scorpion, a bird, and many, many people — but it’s more of a formal exercise than any real fun. Though the film is beautifully shot and formally composed, the meta-minded film is deeply ambivalent about delivering any real fun. It’s much more concerned with narrative gimmicks and commentary on filmmaking, via an on-screen audience which “watches” the film unspool through binoculars, and constant commentary on the “no reason” meaning of it all. Unfortunately, the meaning is all too clear, and the horror all too disappointing. Worst of all, the tire kills everything (telepathically) in the exact same way, via telepathic, head-exploding powers, so the violence becomes dull and repetitive long before the joke wears out. Read more posts by Logan Hill Filed Under: cannes 2010, aurora, charles ferguson, inside job, matt damon, movies, rubber
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 11:45 pm German village follows 377-year-old traditionIn 1633, a German village vowed to put on a play about Jesus every 10 years if God rid them of the plague. This weekend, the inhabitants of Oberammergau made good on that promise once...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:34 pm Frederik Mayet (C) in the role of Jesus and residents of the small Bavarian village of OberammergauFrederik Mayet (C) in the role of Jesus and residents of the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau perform during a dress rehearsal at Oberammergau's Passion Play theatre. And the 2010 version of the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:34 pm People shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they arrive for the premiere of Oberammergau's Passion PlayPeople shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they arrive for the premiere of Oberammergau's Passion Play. To add some biblical authenticity for the five-and-a-half-hour play, which plays five times...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:34 pm People wrap up in blankets as they attend the premiere of Oberammergau's Passion Play on May 15People wrap up in blankets as they attend the premiere of Oberammergau's Passion Play on May 15. The Oberammergau Passion Play, first staged in 1634 to ward off a plague epidemic, has been staged every...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:34 pm Frederik Mayet in the role of Jesus performs during a dress rehearsal at Oberammergau's Passion Play theatreFrederik Mayet in the role of Jesus performs during a dress rehearsal at Oberammergau's Passion Play theatre. Organisers, making full use of the Internet and package bookings, are hoping to match 2000's...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:34 pm Grand Canyon State Teen Has Been Named the Art Institutes Best Teen Chef 2010Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:16 pm Actress Charlotte Lewis alleges that she was sexually abused by Roman Polanski when she was 16 years oldActress Charlotte Lewis speaks during a press conference on May 14, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Charlotte Lewis alleges that she was sexually abused by Roman Polanski when she was 16 years old. David...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm Michael Douglas said he would not sign a petition against his Roman Polanski's extraditionHollywood star Michael Douglas -- in Cannes to promote Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" -- said he would not sign a petition against his Roman Polanski's extradition.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm Some 33 years ago Roman Polanski is alleged to have drugged Samantha Geimer before having sex despite her protestsFile photo of Samantha Geimer. Some 33 years ago he is alleged to have given Geimer champagne and drugs during a photo shoot when she was 13 years old at the Hollywood Hills home of actor friend Jack Nicholson...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy rejected the new allegations by British actress Charlotte LewisFrench philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy rejected the new allegations by British actress Charlotte Lewis that he abused her after her 16th birthday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm Film director Roman Polanski (R) and British actress Charlotte Lewis (L) in May 1986Film director Roman Polanski (R) and British actress Charlotte Lewis (L) in May 1986 posing prior to the presentation of the film "Pirates", during the Cannes International Film Festival. Polanski was...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm Polanski controversy casts shadow at CannesThe controversy surrounding fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski has drawn strong words in his defence from fellow director Woody Allen after fresh allegations that he abused a minor. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 9:07 pm Africa joins the party at CannesThe world's poorest continent officially joins the glitz and glam of Cannes on Sunday as a rare African contender for the film festival's Palme d'Or award enters the fray. Chad director...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 8:43 pm Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's "A Screaming Man" is competing for the Palme d'Or awardChad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's "A Screaming Man" is the first film from subsaharan Africa in 13 years to compete for the Palme d'Or award.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2010 | 8:43 pm 200 children looking to be next singing sensation audition for YTV programSASKATOON - Wanted: children who can sing like an angel and have nerves of steel. About 200 kids under 15-years-old who thought they fit that description turned out at a Saskatoon...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 5:03 pm Amanda Seyfried Unsure If Her Boyfriend Is 'the One' - People Magazine
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 May 2010 | 4:02 pm Danneel Harris & Jensen Ackles Get Married Tonight! Hear that, kiddos? That's the sound of wedding bells ringing—or can you not hear them over millions of fans crying?
The much-rumored wedding is actually about to come to pass:...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 3:00 pm Young Girls' Racy "Single Ladies" Routine Sparks Outrage - New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 May 2010 | 2:38 pm Be Nice to the Cable Guy, He Might Hit You in the Head With a Hammer That's what happened to Queens resident John Alexander last week when he asked Time Warner cable guy Arnold Brown to move some cords out of his way. The two began arguing and then Brown hit Alexander in the head with a hammer. Brown was charged with assault, menacing and harassment. Alexander plans to sue Time Warner for $1 million because he was hit in the head with a hammer and, presumably, missed last week's Real Housewives. [NYP] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: beefs, cable guy, crime, hammers to the head, queens, time warner
Source: Daily Intel | 15 May 2010 | 2:15 pm Michael Jackson's Doctor Rushes to Aid of Fellow Airline Passenger - FOXNews
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 May 2010 | 2:04 pm Twitter Kills Justin Bieber As anyone who plays close attention to these things already knows, on Wednesday Justin Bieber wasn't a trending topic on Twitter for the first time in like forever. And despite what True Beliebers are saying, it wasn't a calculated move to silent them. Rather, the site changed the way it determines trending topics. Instead of consistently popular items, trending topics are now things that are "breaking” and “immediately popular.” And you know who's currently "breaking" and “immediately popular”? Greyson. Eat it Bieber. [Runnin' Scared via Mashable] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: bieberpocalypse, justin bieber, music, twitter
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 1:45 pm Michael Jackson doctor helps passenger in distressThe doctor accused of administering a powerful anesthetic that killed pop star Michael Jackson has helped stabilize a young woman who fell unconscious on a US Airways jet to Phoenix. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 1:16 pm News Anchor Wants to Know If G-Shot Allows One to ‘Enjoy Penis a Little More’ A mere 48 hours ago, New Orleans newsman Michael Hill was just that, a New Orleans newsman. Now he's a national celebrity and it's all because of a super-awkward question he asked a co-anchor this week. The question came after a segment about the G-Shot, a shot meant to make sex more fun for ladies. "So she's enjoying penis a little bit more?" Hill hilariously asked his colleague. And it's not even the question that makes this video so perfect. Rather, it's the reaction of his pissed-off co-anchor who clearly wants to punch him in his face. Hill, at least, has a sense of humor about it. Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: in other news, abc, g-shot, michael hill, new orleans, penis
Source: Daily Intel | 15 May 2010 | 1:00 pm New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 May 2010 | 12:53 pm Iranian director Panahi protests innocence from jailJailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi on Saturday protested he was innocent of making films against Iran's leaders, in a letter from his prison cell made public at the Cannes film festival.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 12:30 pm Wry star-packed Woody Allen tale wows CannesLife's a pretty grim enterprise, nightmarish, meaningless," Woody Allen said Saturday at Cannes. "The only way to be happy is to lie to yourself." In his latest loopy offering --...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 12:28 pm Sony signs Taiwan Internet sensation 'Little Fatty'Sony Music has signed up a Taiwanese singer who became a Susan Boyle-like overnight Internet sensation after singing like Whitney Houston on a TV talent show. "I still can't believe it'sSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 12:22 pm The Economic Impact of Canceling Law & Order So Law & Order is done and its fans are bummed. But don't worry too much about them. They'll find another way to satisfy their need for crime procedurals (apparently it's a popular format). The local economy, on the other hand, might not be so lucky. According to the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, Law & Order provided about 4,000 jobs each year of its life and pumped $79 million into the economy annually. Over the course of its twenty-year run, the show spent around $1 billion. That's a lot of bagels! The show also led to new laws providing tax breaks to productions that are shot mostly in the city, which brought other productions and more money to New York. And then there are the actors. According to "several casting directors for theater, film and television" that the Times spoke to, "the majority of actors’ résumés that came across their desks included Law & Order credits." Now everyone hoping to land a role as "Creepy Guy #2" will have to move to L.A. Dropping of ‘Law & Order’ Leaves Hole in Economy [NYT] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: law and disorder, dick wolf, law and order, nbc, the industry, tv
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 12:15 pm Police: TV chef cooked up murder-for-hire plotA former television chef and Food Network host is under arrest in an alleged murder-for-hire plot involving homeless people, Santa Monica police said. Juan-Carlos Cruz, one-time host of...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 15 May 2010 | 12:14 pm Police: TV chef cooked up murder-for-hire plot (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 May 2010 | 12:13 pm Claudia Schiffer Welcomes Baby No. 3 Supermodel mama Claudia Schiffer is, well, a mom again!
The catwalking classic welcomed her third child, and second daughter, with filmmaker hubby Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) in London on...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 11:52 am Gene Simmons and His Codpiece Defense Last November Gene Simmons appeared on SportsCenter. It's not really important why. What's important is that while he was in the ESPN studio in L.A., he hugged makeup artist Victoria Jackson. Big mistake. According to Jackson, it was more than a hug. She says Simmons "grinded" on her and now she wants money to make up for it. Jackson is threatening to sue Simmons if he doesn't pay her $185,000, according to the KISS bassist's lawyers. But Simmons isn't biting because he has an iron-clad defense: According to a complaint filed in L.A. County Court, Simmons couldn't have "grinded" on her because he was wearing his KISS costume, which is basically "a suit of armor, particularly around his groin area, making it impossible for Simmons to have done the kind of grinding that Jackson claims to have experienced." Case closed. Gene Simmons: I Can't Grind a Girl in Suit of Armor [TMZ] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: codpieces, gene simmons, law, music
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 11:45 am Good Samaritan Killed by N Train A 29-year-old man was killed last night after jumping onto the N train track in Astoria to help a woman who was trying to retrieve her jacket. Jose Gomez and the unidentified woman were both hit by the northbound N train at around 10:40. They were trapped under the third car of the train as transit workers tried to de-energize the tracks. Tragically, Gomez then fell to the street from the elevated tracks. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman is in serious but stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital. [NYP] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: sad things, n train, subway
Source: Daily Intel | 15 May 2010 | 11:15 am Times Square Vendor Sells T-Shirts About Seeing Something and Saying Something Duane Jackson, one of the street vendors who first alerted police to the presence of Faisal Shahzad's smoking SUV in Times Square, is now hawking T-shirts commemorating himself. The shirts, which features a picture of Jackson, an American flag, and the words "I saw something ... so I said something," cost only $5. It's the best reason to go to Times Square in years. [NYDN] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: 15 minutes, duane jackson, t-shirts, tiems square, time square bomb scare
Source: Daily Intel | 15 May 2010 | 11:00 am Bret Michaels to Appear on Oprah; Plans May 28 - FOXNews
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 May 2010 | 10:57 am It Sucks to Be the Casts of Law & Order, Heroes, FlashForward and Mercy Hope you weekend's going great! If not, it could be worse.
Your show could be canceled like these folks:
Law & Order: Yeah, the show went downhill after Jerry Orbach...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 10:37 am British Actress Claims Polanski Sexually Assaulted Her in 1982 Charlotte Lewis, a 42-year-old British actress, has met with L.A. County prosecutors to talk about director Roman Polanski sexually assaulting her in Paris when she was 16. Lewis says Polanski "forced himself" upon her in 1982, four years before she appeared in his film Pirates. She held a news conference yesterday with her lawyer Gloria Allred but didn't answer any questions, instead reading from a prepared statement. "He took advantage of me and I have lived with the effects of his behavior ever since it occurred," said Lewis, reading from a prepared statement at a news conference in her lawyer's office. "All I want is justice."
LA DA meets actress who claims Polanski sex abuse [AP] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: jurisprudence, charlotte lewis, roman polanski
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 10:30 am Cam Diaz Prefers Ogre Green to Angels Leather For Cameron Diaz, being a big old ogre in Shrek movies might be a better gig than glamming it up in Charlie's Angels.
"If somebody asks me if you're going to do a...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 10:17 am Fox Is Developing a Napoleon Dynamite Cartoon Six years after the world met Napoleon Dynamite and his stupid hair, Fox has decided to bring the misfit teenager back as a cartoon. The network is currently developing an animated TV version of the movie with its writers Jared and Jerusha Hess. Stars Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez are onboard, too. And so is that annoying co-worker who can't stop saying this. [Live Feed/HR] Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: revivals, fox, jon heder, napoleon dynamite, the industry, tv
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 10:00 am Week in Review: Betty White's More Fun Than a Barrel of Twilight Stars If you turned on the TV late last Saturday, for a second you might have felt as if you were back on grandma's couch circa 1989 waiting for a night of 227, Amen, Golden Girls and Empty Nest to...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 10:00 am Bret Michaels to Appear on Oprah; Plans May 28 Return to the StageBret Michaels will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show in his first TV appearance since being hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage.
Source: FOXNews.com | 15 May 2010 | 9:57 am Bridget Marquardt: Will Beau Put a Ring on It? Bridget Marquardt may soon have more than just a new reality show to celebrate. The Girls Next Door alum and her live-in beau Nick Carpenter have talked about taking their relationship to the...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 9:31 am Woody Allen shares tales of love, death at Cannes (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 May 2010 | 9:15 am Google May Have ‘Accidentally’ Spied on You Google admitted yesterday that its creepy Street View vans have been collecting more than pictures of empty storefronts and people digging for gold. In addition, Street View vehicles have spent the past three years downloading payload data from non–password protected Wi-Fi networks. That means if you leave your Wi-Fi network unsecured or steal someone else's unsecured wireless signal, Google may now be the proud owner of your e-mails, text, photos, and records of websites you've visited. "Quite simply, it was a mistake," Alan Eustace, senior vice-president, engineering and research writes on the official Google blog. Eustace also attempts to explain that even though Street View vehicles were collecting this payload data, chances are slim that they got their hands on anything you should worry about.
Also, lest you worry that Google has been building new brain-control programs based on your personal information, Eustace writes "we never used that data in any Google products."
Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: spy games, google, technology
Source: Daily Intel | 15 May 2010 | 9:15 am Will Transformers 3 Suck—Like All Threequels Do? Shia LaBeouf has officially thrown down and said Transformers 3 will be better than Transformers 2. But isn't every third movie installment automatically bad? And why is that,...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 9:00 am Cannes Notebook: Josh Brolin's Past Life as a Day-Trader, Naomi Watts on Fortune Telling, and Woody Allen On (Not) Getting The Girl Oh, the things we learn at Cannes. Turning up Saturday for the out-of-competition premiere of Woody Allen's new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, stars Josh Brolin and Naomi Watts...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 8:53 am Adam Lambert's Almost Fire Marshal Fiasco Adam Lambert may have been included in Paper's Beautiful People issue, but he almost didn't get into the mag's party last night at the Standard hotel in West Hollywood.
When...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 8:47 am Cannes Day Three: Douglas, Hayek, Del Toro Turn Out for Wall Street 2 Premiere Oliver Stone's broadside against bankers, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, was the main event at the third day of Cannes, bringing stars Michael Douglas and Shia LeBeouf to the red carpet alongside Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro, Kate Beckinsale, Martin Scorcese, Michelle Yeoh, Carey Mulligan, and more. Click through the slideshow for photos. Read more posts by Sally Holmes Filed Under: cannes 2010, benicio del toro, cannes, kate beckinsale, michael douglas, salma hayek, wall street 2, wall street: money never sleeps
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 8:25 am Soup Week: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Gets Horizontal With LL Cool J In case the boss actually demanded that you get something done this week—thus preventing you from zoning out on the Soup blog—here's the five best of what you missed:
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Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 15 May 2010 | 7:10 am Big-screen casting controversiesSummit Entertainment's plan to split the final "Twilight" installment into two films has stirred some disputes and raised fears that some actors will be replaced. Here's a look at other movies where stars have bee replaced.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 15 May 2010 | 6:59 am Party Down Recap: The Truth Shall Set You Free Death comes to Party Down this week. No, it’s not a cliffhanger and none of our favorite So, yes, there was a lot to take away from this episode of Party Down, but because we, like Roman, believe in honesty above all else, we feel compelled to admit that this was also the weakest of at least the first seven episodes of this stellar second season (we’re willing to wager that it’s the weakest of all of them, but we can’t bring ourselves to watch the last three yet because we want to savor them. Even though our wife keeps trying to sneak them on because Adam Scott “completes” her). The twisty shenanigans of hiding the sloshed mistress were amusing but a little forced (farced?), and while we could watch Ron sing the blues in his “blues accent” all day, we’re happy that his time as a sweaty, stoned slacker is coming to an end. (Treating a coffin like a marijuana hyperbaric chamber will do that to a guy — even one that had to repeat first grade because he couldn’t “figure out” scissors.) Also? Too little of Henry and Casey fight-flirting! Although the goofy way Lizzy Caplan says “crockpot” does help. As does the delightful mocking of Roman’s script about an intelligent fungus. Yes, the MVP this week wasn’t Lydia (although Megan Mullally’s delivery of “Yay! Singing!” was typically aces), it was Roman. Few characters are better constructed to be so idiotically and cluelessly offensive as our resident prestigious blogger, and when given the opportunity to put his foot in his mouth, he did not disappoint: From correcting a black couple on the correct usage of “jungle fever” (and even offering “fjord fever” as an alternative) to then double-checking his definition of the term with a youthful product of said fever, Martin Starr proved yet again that he does deadpannishly dickish like no one else. Best of all was this exchange with the deceased’s harried daughter, Mary, about whether to tell her mother about the presence of a love child at her perfect husband’s funeral: Roman: “The truth shall set you free. Martin Luther King” Party Down at its worst is still better than 99 percent of television at its best. Unfortunately, 99 percent of television seems to get better ratings than Party Down. Math! Right, guys? Anyway, Steve Guttenberg shows up next week and it’s a classic. Also classic? Casey’s wordless reaction to the arrival of Frederick Ellison’s Asian mistress and his other love child. We’ve said it before (mostly via creepy anonymous comments on our favorite blog), and so we’ll say it again: No one — no one! — gawps like Lizzy Caplan. Read more posts by Andy Greenwald Filed Under: overnights, party down, recaps, tv
Source: Vulture | 15 May 2010 | 6:00 am TV eyes online, races to save biz modelFront Page: Webs know Internet is the future; question is how to monetize it -- The major networks have their sights set on the 2010-11 television season at this week's upfront presentations in Gotham, but there's another behind-the-scenes frenzy taking place that's all about the not-too-distant future.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 15 May 2010 | 4:00 am
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