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After discord, Tyler says Aerosmith now at peak (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 4:01 am After discord, Tyler says Aerosmith now at peak (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 4:01 am World Turns gets Emmys send-off - BBC News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 28 Jun 2010 | 4:01 am Comeback night at BET Awards: Chris Brown, DeBargeIt was comeback night at the BET Awards. Kanye West opened Sunday's show in his first TV appearance since dissing Taylor Swift at last year's MTV Video Music Awards. T.I. made a...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 28 Jun 2010 | 3:02 am Comeback night at BET Awards: Chris Brown, DeBarge (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 3:02 am Comeback night at BET Awards: Chris Brown, DeBarge (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 3:02 am Comeback night at BET Awards: Chris Brown, DeBarge (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 3:02 am Martial arts legend Jackie Chan plays the role of the older mentor in the filmActors Jaden Smith (left) and Jackie Chan attend the "The Karate Kid" premiere in Los Angeles on June 7. Hollywood's remake of the 1984 hit film "The Karate Kid" has come under fire, with an Australian...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 28 Jun 2010 | 2:46 am Thousands cheer as Gay Pride March colors New York City's streets - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 28 Jun 2010 | 2:30 am Viewers will have to weight and see if ABC Family's 'Huge' sheds awkwardness - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 28 Jun 2010 | 2:21 am Mel Gibson's Lawyer: Oksana Full of Lies, Deceit - TMZ.com (blog)
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 28 Jun 2010 | 2:05 am 'Toy Story 3' remains No. 1 - Los Angeles Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 28 Jun 2010 | 1:02 am Emotional end for `As the World Turns' on Emmys (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 28 Jun 2010 | 1:01 am Industry Roundup: Kevin Spacey Joins Horrible Bosses, Judy Greer Goes Mad Dr. Horrible: Kevin Spacey has joined the cast of Horrible Bosses, the star-filled workplace murder comedy from director Seth Gordon about three best friends (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) who, frustrated at their jobs, decide they’re going to kill one another’s bosses. Spacey will play Bateman's boss, one of the three titular top dogs (the other two: Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston). Let's hope Spacey doesn't send Bateman to pick up any smartphones. [HR] Mad About You: Confirming rumors of her casting, Judy Greer has signed on to star in the CBS comedy Mad Love and, as a result of her and Sarah Chalke (who replaced Minka Kelly) coming on board, the pilot’s 13-episode midseason order has now been finalized. Greer replaces Party Down's Lizzy Caplan in the ensemble comedy about four friends in New York looking for love. Finally, the perpetual Leading Lady's BFF will get to step out on her own. [Deadline] Hang Clyde: Clyde Phillips, the former executive producer and showrunner on Dexter, has signed a two-year production and development deal with Lionsgate Television. Phillips, who left Dexter at the completion of the show’s fourth season in December, said he is eager to field new projects and is considering comedy and drama options for both broadcast and cable networks. Way to narrow it down, Clyde. [Variety] Roots Keep Busy: The Roots have announced their next album will be a full-length collaboration with John Legend called Wake Up!, which will consist entirely of covers of “vintage conscious soul songs” like Marvin Gaye’s “Wholly Holy” and Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy.” The record is due September 21. [Pitchfork] Going Green: Jon Tenney (The Closer) has been cast as Ryan Reynolds’ father in Green Lantern, which is currently shooting and also stars Angela Bassett, Peter Sarsgaard and Mark Strong. And if you're thinking Tenney seems a bit young to be playing the 33-year-old Reynolds' dad, you'd be right: he's only 15 years older than his superhero son. [Variety] Six Sigmas: Martha and Dino De Laurentiis have acquired the film rights to the thriller series The Sigma Force, written by James Rollins. The six-book series involves a “division of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program" housed beneath the Smithsonian in D.C. "Staffed by a collection of 'killer scientists' (adventurous scientists paired with military operatives), the Force investigates and secures threatening scientific information through counterterrorism, research and covert ops." We have absolutely no clue what this means, but we'd still bet money Nicolas Cage will find his way into this somehow. [Risky Business/HR] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: the industry, clyde phillips, dina de laurentiis, green lantern, horrible bosses, john legend, jon tenney, judy greer, kevin spacey, lionsgate television, mad love, martha de laurentiis, movies, music, the roots, the sigma force, tv, wake up!
Source: Vulture | 28 Jun 2010 | 12:14 am Betfred Pay Out on Lamps GoalSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 28 Jun 2010 | 12:12 am Diddy, Trey Songz Applaud Chris Brown's Emotional BET Awards Performance - MTV.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:42 pm Daytime Emmys Honor Ellen, As The World Turns West and Park, with hardware. The Ellen DeGeneres Show was named the best entertainment talk show and the Today Show won best morning show honors (no doubt thanks to Hoda and Kathie Lee’s amazing/loopy fourth hour) at the Daytime Emmys held Sunday night. Meanwhile, As the World Turns - which will go off the air in three months - had reason to celebrate in its last hurrah, earning trophies for best actor (Michael Park) and best actress (Maura West). Lost is no doubt hoping it receives the same sort of farewell adoration come the Primetime Emmys this fall. [AP] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: kudos, as the world turns, the ellen degeneres show, the today show
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:39 pm Diddy, Trey Songz Applaud Chris Brown's Emotional BET Awards Performance'He left his heart on the stage,' Songz says of singer's Michael Jackson tribute; host Queen Latifah and others also react.By Rochell Thomas Chris Brown at the 2010 BET Awards Photo: Jeff Kravitz...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:38 pm 'True Blood' Recap: An Offer Bill Can't Refuse - BuddyTV
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:34 pm In NY, Prince Harry plays polo for African charity - The Associated Press
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:31 pm Khloé on Sociopaths: "I Keep Thinking About Scott" The most recent episode of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami took a dark turn when Khloé—who's never been shy about her contempt for Scott—drew comparisons between...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:31 pm "Twilight" Finally Hits Its Stride With Third Film - ABC News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:29 pm Six-Month-Old Killed By Falling Tree Branch In Central Park The site of the accident. In an awful, seemingly freak occurrence this weekend, a large, healthy tree branch just outside the Central Park Zoo snapped and fell 30 feet, killing a six-month-old girl. The Times notes that this is the latest in a string of deadly Central Park injuries this year, “all involving tree branches that abruptly plummeted to earth, killing or seriously injuring passers-by.” And, if that isn't unnerving enough, it isn’t exactly comforting to learn that the city told the paper it has no idea which agency is "responsible for the upkeep of the tree.” [NYT] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: sad things, central park
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:28 pm "Twilight" finally hits its stride with third filmLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It took three films, but "The Twilight Saga" finally nails just the right tone in "Eclipse," a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:27 pm Departing Showtime boss out-HBOed HBOLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If there could be said to have been a quintessential Robert Greenblatt moment in his tenure at Showtime, perhaps it was the debut of one of his biggest...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:24 pm 2010 BET Awards Belong To Chris Brown, Alicia Keys And PrincePerformances from Eminem, Drake and Nicki Minaj also stand out.By Jayson Rodriguez Chris Brown Photo: Frederick M. Brown/ Getty Images Chris Brown, Alicia Keys and Eminem shined the brightest...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:23 pm Prince Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award At BET AwardsAlicia Keys, Janelle Monae, Patti LaBelle and more performed spirited renditions of the icon's classics during tribute.By Rochell Thomas Prince at the 2010 BET Awards Photo: Frederick M. Brown/ Getty...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:23 pm Grand Manner: a thin backstage memory play (Reuters)Reuters - In 1948, when playwright A.R. Gurney ("The Cocktail Hour," "The Dining Room") was a star-struck lad, he ventured backstage at a Broadway theater to meet the reigning actress of her era, Katharine Cornell, when she was starring in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra."Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:22 pm Jann Wenner: Obama "Needs To Make Some Course Corrections" In a thoroughly rah-rah feature Sunday, the Times praised Rolling Stone for “hitting its journalistic stride" as of late, citing the recent McChrystal piece as well as last summer’s Goldman Sachs take down. The Times notes that the resurgence of Rolling Stone's critical eye - its “more antagonistic tack” - comes under a president the magazine (and founder/editor Jann Wenner) enthusiastically supported, timing that is not lost on Wenner. "Mr. Wenner said he had been emboldened by what he described as a sense of disappointment over Mr. Obama’s first 18 months in office. 'I’m for Obama, but I think he needs to make some course corrections,' Mr. Wenner said. The unforgiving and hard-nosed publisher then mustered about as much sympathy as he could and added, 'I realize he’s got a tough job.'"
A Magazine Back on a Roll [NYT] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: jann wenner, barack obama, ink-stained wretches, rolling stone
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:28 pm Ivan Doig digs up another story in Wild West (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:01 pm Ivan Doig digs up another story in Wild West (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:01 pm Review: Fascinating tale of deaths on a mountain (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:01 pm BET Awards honor Prince (Reuters)Reuters - The BET Awards on Sunday were hosted by a Queen and honored a Prince, but it was a fallen star, Chris Brown, who surprised fans with a tearful tribute to the late King of Pop.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:00 pm BET Awards honor PrinceLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The BET Awards on Sunday were hosted by a Queen and honored a Prince, but it was a fallen star, Chris Brown, who surprised fans with a tearful tribute to the late...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:00 pm Soulful El DeBarge, Smoother Than Ever, Debuts Music From New Album Second Chance On 'BET Awards' ShowSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 10:00 pm BET Awards: Chris Brown Breaks Down During MJ Tribute, Alicia Keys Triumphs Kanye West kept his cool, and Chris Brown completely lost it on what turned out to be a night of hyped comebacks and flashy arrivals at the BET Awards 2010. (Because it certainly wasn't a...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:55 pm Season Four Mad Men Teaser Is Basically A Greatest Hits Reel AMC’s first teaser for the upcoming fourth season of Mad Men reveals about as much as the previously released poster and promotional still... which is to say, it reveals nothing. Instead, it plays sort of like a 30-second YouTube fan mash-up of our favorite moments. There’s Don smoking that cigar! (You want to shout: "Don't take up with that teacher who's name we can't remember, Don... she's not worth it!") Look, it’s Pete and Trudy’s wacky dance! OMG, Joan smashing that vase! Peggy under the sheets! Betty in Rome!!! July 25 cannot come soon enough. [via AMC] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: mad men, amc, tv, video
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:52 pm Emotional end for `As the World Turns' on EmmysWest brought her sobbing daughter onstage at the Las Vegas Hilton to celebrate the sweep in acting awards for the show, which was canceled by CBS. Its last episode will air in September.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:38 pm A Bold, Beautiful Night at Daytime Emmys for Dr. Oz, Dick Clark, As the World Turns Nostalgia reigned at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (aka, the unofficial Dancing With the Stars reunion show).
Though The Bold & the Beautiful was named Outstanding Drama for...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:35 pm Chris Brown Breaks Down In Tears During BET Awards Michael Jackson Tribute On a night that featured a comeback performance from Kanye West, an Eminem-B.O.B. duet and a rollicking Drake set, an unlikely performer managed to steal the buzz away from all of them at tonight's BET Awards. After a four-minute dance tribute to the King of Pop to "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Billie Jean," Chris Brown broke down in dramatic fashion during his rendition of "The Man in The Mirror." After starting and stopping his singing and falling to his knees, Brown eventually gave up and walked offstage, where Jermaine Jackson (who had introduced him) was there to console him. Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: chris brown, bet awards, michael jackson, video
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:15 pm CIA Hasn't Known Bin Laden's Whereabouts Since The Early 2000s It’s been almost a decade since the CIA had “precise information” on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Appearing on ABC’s This Week Sunday, CIA director Leon Panetta revealed the last time the organization has had good intelligence on where Bin Laden was located was in the early 2000s. "He is, as is obvious, in very deep hiding," said Panetta. "He's in an area of the tribal areas of Pakistan that is very difficult... All I can tell you is it's in the tribal areas. We know that he's located in that vicinity."
CIA director Leon Panetta: last 'precise' intel on Osama bin Laden's location was in 'early 2000s' [NYDN] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: osama bin laden, afghanistan, al qaeda, cia, taliban
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 8:21 pm Which New York Politicians Have Smoked Pot, and How Embarrassed Are They About It? Last week, attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo was asked whether he's ever smoked pot (he has) or done any harder drugs (he hasn't). The next day, his likely Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, confirmed that he, too, had gotten high. Neither admission was new. And, of course, nobody really cares — we're long past the days when politicians were compelled to awkwardly equivocate about past drug use ("But I didn't inhale"), although many New York pols still feel obligated to at least pretend they didn't enjoy it. Still, as the following slideshow demonstrates, others will gladly tell you about using cocaine (Governor Paterson) or cooking marijuana into a delicious pot of baked beans (George Pataki). Read more posts by Dan Amira Filed Under: reefer madness, al sharpton, andrew cuomo, carl mccall, chuck schumer, cocaine, david paterson, drugs, ed koch, eliot spitzer, george pataki, hillary clinton, marijuana, mayor bloomberg, politics, rick lazio, susan molinari, tom suozzi
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 8:12 pm True Blood Recap: The Fanged and the Restless This week, the writers tugged at our character’s story lines, getting everything just taut enough to snap in a few more episodes. In between the series’ most bizarro sex scenes (ouch, Lorena’s neck!), a working-class werewolf, and a double entendre we’re still marveling over, Bon Temp was abuzz with bad tidings. Hoyt finds a body. Jason fails a test. Pam gets a playmate. Sookie takes an escort. Lafayette contemplates a business perk. Eric tries being a gentleman. Bill does not. And someone besides Yvetta finally sleeps with a vampire. Although maybe not the one you think. Will Gran’s House Ever Get Clean? During the fracas, Sookie does her best damsel in distress — lips parted, chest heaving. She bats her doe eyes and gulps just so. When the wolf refuses to reveal who its master is, Eric makes quick work of his jugular. A pool of blood seeps out onto Gran’s faded Oriental carpet. Eric looks up at Sookie and says, "Got your rug all wet." Um, could someone pass us the smelling salts? Back at her doorstep, Sookie and her side ponytail continue to toy with Eric’s emotions, but she refuses to admit he has any. To the Manner Born The king is unexpectedly even-keeled about the whole thing considering Bill tried to burn his guest alive. Edgington gently chastises Bill about his fangs, calmly motions for him to sit, and commiserates with him about Lorena's immaturity. “Do you know she wanted me to make you watch while she killed your human?” Finally, a worthy caliber of villain. Bill forces out a half-smile, suddenly realizing what game they’re really playing. Talbot, still miffed about his tapestry, gets in some good digs at Cooter’s incompetence and low-brow tastes (“Zima, correct?”). Sookie’s still missing and the werewolf sent to fetch her is nowhere to be found. Recognizing that he’s trapped in Castle Crazytown with a bunch of power-hungry megalomaniacs, Bill agrees to renounce the queen. In return, the king calls off his dogs. Filling the Void The next morning, she asks him what the hell happened. “You lost yourself to the void.” Sounds about right. Franklin, who alternates between toying with her hair and staring creepily into the distance, tries to get to know his new conquest, but Tara just wants to feel less. No sooner has she stepped back from the precipice and moved back into Gran’s than Franklin comes a-callin’. Tara refuses him: “I have a terrible track record of letting people into this house.” Amen to that. But Franklin glamours his way in anyhow. “Lie Back, Sweetheart, and Think of Estonia.” We get confirmation on our theory from last week soon enough when Franklin stops by Casa Compton with the trucker’s head in a shopping bag, hoping for a little quid pro quo. Now that he’s gotten rid of Jessica’s fetid little problem, she should tell him everything she knows about Bill. A Blessing and a Curse Lafayette also gets a mixed bag. Eric shows up with the keys to a convertible as a gift for his best salesman. On the one hand, selling it could help Lafayette keep his family members in padded rooms and Klonopin. On the other, he’d be accepting a ride from a sadist and drawing attention to his extracurricular activities. Destiny and Disappointment We’re betting Mama Bear is the actual criminal mastermind in this lot. Underneath Tommy’s bitterness and Joe Lee’s love affair with underwear the color of newspaper left too long in the sun, they’re probably harmless. Mrs. M. seems a little too cloying to be sincere. Jason might be 0 for 22 on the practice test, but he’s still confident about his abilities. After all, his girlfriends have gotten successively hotter, why shouldn’t his prospects? We’re guessing he forgot about Party Down’s Lizzy Kaplan as the V-snorting free spirit from season one. Because, c’mon (NSFW). At the test, Jason can’t decipher the multiple-choice hieroglyph and starts seeing holes in people’s heads again. But there may yet be an opening on the force yet. When Hoyt finds the trucker's body in a drain, sheriff Dearborne, sick of murders that pop up like so much crabgrass, quits. We like that the show’s dispensing with the murder mystery this season. Vampire politics are so much more compelling. Sookie’s Dance Card At Lou Pine’s, the oldest were bar, in Mississippi, Sookie plays dumb again, but this time with a little more canniness. Dressed “like dinner” in a virginal white top, she works the weres into a tizzy, crowing about the superior strength of vampires until one of them reveals (telepathically) that he fed on a vamp last night. Sookie narrowly avoids getting raped (for the umpteenth time). On the way out, the bouncer lets it slip that Alcide’s ex, Debbie, got engaged to Cooter and the party’s tomorrow night. Guess we’re headed to a biker engagement. Wonder what the gift protocol is for one of those things. A Pox on Your Flashback Caroline’s response to finding out Bill’s a vampire (think Vivian Leigh) confirms his worst fears: There’s no place for him in the human world. Then Lorena shows up to make things more miserable. Back in the present, Lorena barges into Bill’s room to gloat about Sookie. He concedes, “You’ve deprived me of my freedom, my home, my humanity, but I will never love you.” Now, what might be the best way to drive that point home? How about hate sex on his four-poster bed? Bill plunges his fangs into her neck, but he still can’t stand looking at her, so he takes her neck and twists it around until her face is turned away. Does this means Sookie gets to cheat too? Read more posts by Nitasha Tiku Filed Under: overnights, recaps, true blood, tv
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 8:05 pm Ask Matt: New Dance Moves, Return of Rescue Me, and More!Please send all questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter at @RoushTVGuideMag
Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jun 2010 | 8:00 pm True Blood Star Admits Shocking Sex Twist Was "Kind of Uncomfortable" Warning: Don't read if you haven't seen tonight's new episode of True Blood.
And if you have, may I offer you a a Brillo pad to scrub out your brain? 'Cause I think I...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 8:00 pm Twilight Obsession Can Ruin Marriages, Lives, Times Posits His mug is their drug. The Los Angeles Times’s feature today on “Twilight addicts” - women who have let their obsessions with the books and movies ruin their relationships, lives and marriages - is replete with all of the hallmarks of a buzzy trend piece: quotes asking to be pulled, a couple of perfect sources and, of course, an overarching metaphor (Twilight as a drug). While Kelly Chavez, a 39-year-old mom and the first source explored in the piece, seems to be in a pretty bad way (she’s read each book at least eight or nine times and watched both movies “over 300 times apiece”), she seems like a casual Twilight dabbler compared to 31-year old Chrystal Johnson. "My husband finally came to me and said, 'I think you love Twilight more than you love me,'" says Johnson, who had become especially attached to the community she'd found online. "I ended up moving out of the house and fought for my marriage for six weeks. I had to take a step back and detox myself from Twilight. I was really angry that I had allowed it to suck me in.”
"If you take away Twilight and put in a football team, this doesn't look so much different from what guys have been doing for decades," Baym said. "They stay up late at night looking at statistics and playing fantasy football. You could just as easily say they've lost touch with reality or that they're addicted. Twilight is just a story women are engaging with passionately, so people say it's dysfunctional. On the other hand, maybe men's relationship with football is dysfunctional as well."
Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: twihards, addictions, twilight
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 7:05 pm Wild Target: When bad movies happen to good actors (Reuters)Reuters - Jonathan Lynn's lamentable black comedy "Wild Target" again shows that attractive and charismatic actors can do nothing to save a movie that's charmless, pointless and witless. Bill Nighy plays the aristocrat of hit men, from a family of hit people, whose latest target, a thief (Emily Blunt), so captivates him that he lets her live. It's an aberration we live to regret.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:57 pm Teen drama "Huge" digs behind layers of fat, shame (Reuters)Reuters - Will (short for Wilhelmina) is fat and has a bad attitude.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:55 pm Oil Spill Reaches Mississippi Coast Oil hit the Mississippi shore for the first time Sunday, as "large patches" of thick oil washed onto two of the state’s tourist beaches. Wildlife officials also picked up a pelican covered in oil. State officials and the Coast Guard said they are waiting on BP contractors before the cleanup effort can begin: "We cannot clean up or catch the oil until BP gets here," Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Earl Etheridge said. "They have all of our people … they have all the money." [Reuters] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: cleaning up, oil spill
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:37 pm Justin Bieber's Mom to Bare All? "Completely False," Says Rep Have you heard the one about Justin Bieber's hot mama posing for Playboy?
Well, it ain't happening. In case you were wondering, the teen dream's rep is quashing that rumor...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:15 pm Your Box Office Explained: While Grown Ups Scores, Cyrus Could Be a Sleeper Hit The Weekend's Winners: In wide release, it was Grown Ups. But in stealth mode, it was Fox Searchlight's Cyrus. The Weekend's Loser: Fox's underperforming Knight and Day. How it Went Down: It was no surprise that Pixar’s Toy Story 3 dominated the box office again (taking in an estimated $59 million, for a total so far of $226.6 million), or that the brilliantly-marketed (and critically reviled) Adam Sandler comedy Growns Ups took second ($41 million in over 3,500 theaters). And, unfortunately for Fox and Tom Cruise, Knight and Day's subpar $27.8 million (in five days) was also on par with its shaky expectations. But the real surprise lurks down in 20th place: The John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill comedy Cyrus is showing signs that it could be on its way to becoming a sleeper summer hit — one theater at a time. Last week it opened on four screens in New York and L.A. and pulled in $181,716 (averaging a whopping $45,000 per screen), and this weekend it pulled in another $300,000 as it expanded 325% to play on…well, 17 screens, as compared to Toy Story 3's 4,000-plus. But still, on its scale, Cyrus is showing great potential. “We had large crowds,” explains Fox Searchlight president Steve Gilula. “With a comedy, that sense of shared excitement is really important.” Cyrus’s directors, brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, and even its cast are working hard to keep that shared excitement high: Last night, in the Sherman Oaks Galleria Mall, audiences attending a post-show Q&A with the Duplasses to be moderated by Judd Apatow were surprised by a surprise walk-on by Reilly. And the filmmakers have schlepped all over the country doing similar gigs in Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and even Toronto. Night-to-night increases in grosses is a sign that good word of mouth is spreading: On Saturday night Cyrus's take was 41% higher than Friday night’s. That’s encouraging to Fox Searchlight, which has been having trouble monitoring the film's online buzz because of the internet colossus Miley Cyrus. “Normally, we monitor Twitter in a number of different ways,” explains Graham Retzik, VP of digital media for Fox Searchlight. “But Miley Cyrus has actually been a big problem for us: She’s huge on Twitter and online, and she’s been in movies, so it’s really hard to isolate for our Cyrus with Miley Cyrus in all those tweets.” And so Retzik came up with www.NotMileyCyrus.com, both as a means to differentiate the film and to showcase such catchphrases as, "Seriously, don’t fuck my mom." Also available on T-shirts! No, seriously: The studio says they've already sold thousands of them online, so as Jonah Hill’s infamous ad-lib begins to crop up on the chests of hipsters and college kids, it’s a sure sign that the rest of the nation will eventually, you know, hit that. UPDATE: The Duplass Brothers just emailed us about their history publicizing movies, and it came with a helpful hint for when you're on a vast publicity tour for your next studio film: "We toured a little bit with [our indie, 2005's] The Puffy Chair, though usually we got picked up in some kid's '94 Tercel and did interviews out of a Days Inn. Then, when Sony Classics sent us out for [2008's] Baghead, we hit quite a few cities, and that time it was a town car and we stayed at nice hotels. The Cyrus tour primarily involved Cadillac Escalades, especially when John and Jonah were involved, and Four Seasons type accommodations — not to mention first class airfare, which was our first taste. Don't ever fly first class if you plan to fly coach again — it'll ruin you!" Read more posts by Claude Brodesser-Akner Filed Under: the industry, cyrus, grown ups, knight and day, movies
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:00 pm Prince Harry Fell Off a Horse Not a good day for Englishmen playing sports. The hue of Prince Harry’s face likely matched that of his hair this afternoon, as the prince was tossed from his horse during the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island. Harry quickly got back on the saddle after landing on his royal rear, to the cheers of the celebrity-studded crowd which included Susan Sarandon, Mary J. Blige, Ivanka Trump, Val Kilmer, and Julianna Margulies. To add insult to injury, the Ginger Fox’s team lost the charity polo match to the squad led by Argentine equestrian, Polo fashion model, and fellow hottie Nacho Figueras. Prince Harry in injury scare as his pony tosses him to the ground during New York polo match [NYDN] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: royal blunders, governors island, polo, prince harry, the ginger fox
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 5:37 pm A-Rod and Cameron Diaz's Doting Dinner Date Talk about rivalies!
The Yankees may have been in Los Angeles to play the Dodgers, but the real action happened off the field for a pro-slugger and a hot...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 5:15 pm Models in space suits close Paris menswear shows (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jun 2010 | 5:10 pm Vice-President Joe Biden Orders a Frozen Custard, Calls Someone a ‘Smartass’ In the Process Joe Biden playing with water guns. A frozen-custard vendor in Wisconsin offered Vice-President Joe Biden an on-the-house frozen treat this weekend, joking, "Lower our taxes, and we'll call it even!" Naturally, in turn, Biden asked him: "Why don't you say something nice instead of being such a smartass all the time?!" Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: so joetorious, frozen custard, joe biden, smartasses, vice president joe biden
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 4:08 pm Adam Lambert Licked His Bass Player’s Lips, They Did Not Merely ‘Peck’ The Times' review of last week's Adam Lambert concert had this to say about the show: "Mr. Lambert’s pounding, swooping songs are about lust, desire and being true to yourself." But the paper made a grave mistake, which has since been corrected:
Adam Lambert does more than peck on that stage, okay? Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: adam lambert, corrections, onstage kisses, the new york times
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 3:48 pm ‘Seriously Ill’ Senator Robert Byrd Has Been Hospitalized Senator Byrd with General Petraeus. Senator Robert Byrd, the longest-serving Congress member in history, was admitted to a Washington-area hospital last week, and he's in serious condition, his office said today. According to CNN, the 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia was "initially thought to be suffering from heat exhaustion and severe dehydration. However, upon further examination by his doctors, other conditions have developed," and Byrd is now "seriously ill." Byrd has been a member of Congress for more than 57 years, and he has never lost an election. [CNN] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: robert byrd, congress, senator robert byrd, senators
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 2:57 pm Amy McDonald performs in 2009Some three million music enthusiasts attended this weekend's Donauinselfest, Vienna's biggest open-air festival, organisers estimated ahead of its conclusion on Sunday. Top gigs by international stars...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 2:38 pm Will.i.am: Black Eyed Peas Are "Never Breaking Up" Will.I.Am is shutting down rumors that the Black Eyed Peas have reached The E.N.D.
In spite of recent speculation that Fergie is gearing up to leave the group, Will...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 2:30 pm The Trailer for The Social Network Is ... Dramatic A sexed-up Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, posing coolly on the movie poster is one thing, but The Social Network's trailer is so dramatic it even lacks any real clips from the actual film. See if you "Like" it, below:
Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: the social network, aaron sorkin, facebook, jesse eisenberg, mark zuckerberg, movie trailers, prophet/punk, trailers
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 2:03 pm The Inevitable iPhone Video Sex Chat Services Begin Ummm ... Now that Apple's iPhone 4 has been released to the public, offering neat, mobile-video-chat capabilities, we've found our first boutique iPhone 4 FaceTime Video Sex Line service. A Craigslist ad, via Business Insider, offers a free iPhone (!) and a competitive salary to interested female parties. From the ad:
Surely this is just what anti-porn activist Steve Jobs had in mind. iPhone 4 Video Sex Chat Services Already Staffing Up [Business Insider] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: phone sex, apple, craigslist, facetime, iphone, iphone 4, iphone therefore i am, my iphone is my mistress, steve jobs, video sex chat, virtual escort services
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 1:30 pm Wavves Ditch Heavy Distortion and Public Meltdowns for a Maybe More Grown-up Act Williams, not melting down. The Times checked in with Pitchfork darlings Wavves, noting that after lead singer Nathan Williams's touring drummer abandoned him onstage during a public meltdown in Barcelona last year, "a comeback certainly seemed far away," but the band seems to have managed one, anyway. Wavves, who held a spot on our Song of the Summer list last year, are releasing their third album next month, and "gone is the ferocious sugar-rush distortion of the the last album, replaced with crisper arrangements," the Times reports. The newspaper notes that the band is "happy to move past [last year's] meltdown," which Williams says was caused in part by drugs, stress, and the Internet. "Any impulse [Williams] might have had toward acting out was muted, except in the music," the paper writes of the band's show last week. However, the Observer reports that at the after-party in Bushwick for said calmer concert, somebody threw a glass beer bottle at a police car, prompting the NYPD to halt the festivities until somebody had been 'cuffed. So, you know, maybe these guys are not totally past their wave-making antics just yet.
Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: wavves, bushwick, lo-fi, meltdowns, music
Source: Vulture | 27 Jun 2010 | 1:10 pm Top menswear designers mix cheeky with elegant (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jun 2010 | 12:53 pm So, Was Knight and Day a Tom Cruise Comeback—or Setback? Knight and Day, Tom Cruise's so-called comeback teamup with Cameron Diaz, debuted in third place at the weekend box office, with a two-star $20.5 million Friday-Sunday gross, per...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 12:09 pm Michael Jackson's Glove Nabs Big Auction Bucks Auctioneers expected Michael Jackson's famous Victory Tour glove to be a top seller at their event.
But, they didn't imagine a fan would dole out nearly $200,000 for...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 12:07 pm Why Is Robert Pattinson Such a Slouch? Didn't Robert Pattinson's parents ever tell him to sit up straight?
From Lyons to Leno (where cameras show his poised parents sitting—upright—in the audience), the...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 27 Jun 2010 | 12:03 pm 'Toy Story 3,' Sandler are hot, Tom Cruise not (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:18 am Shaquille O'Neal Remembers Michael Jackson - Newsweek
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:04 am Harlem Celebrates Its First LGBT Pride Block Party The turnout wasn't huge at first, but we had fun! Harlem held its inaugural official LGBT Pride block party yesterday on West 119th Street, and tourists, drag queens, and even a state senator showed up. A lovely lesbian couple from Buffalo, in town for today's larger LGBT Pride Parade, touted the local artist General Touch, whose work was on display. Nearby, Dan and Bill, cute lawyers and boyfriends from San Francisco, rendezvoused with some old Harlem-based friends. A six-inch raised stage hosted a number of short performances: for instance, drag queen Sugga Pie KoKo. Mingling with Mrs. KoKo was State Senator Bill Perkins, a Democrat who reps Harlem and the Upper West Side, and he was awesomely enthusiastic about the event, which garnered a decent, if initially lacking, turnout: "It’s nice to see [many young gay Harlem residents here], because it means that the movement for recognition is growing to such an extent that young people are not in the closet about their sexuality, and who they are. To see them out here, dancing and being whoever they are and feeling loved and feeling beautiful is very important," he told us. "Too often this community is marginalized ... in the dark unseen places that segregate them not only physically, but emotionally, politically, and so forth. For them to be in the heart of the neighborhood, a neighborhood of brownstones, a neighborhood where there’s a church, means that they are a part of the fabric of the neighborhood. They’re here, not over by the edge in some Hudson place that nobody goes to. It's very powerful." Read more posts by Evan Mulvihill Filed Under: neighborhood news, bill perkins, equal rites, gay issues, harlem, lgbt pride, pride weekend, senator bill perkins, we're here we're queer
Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jun 2010 | 11:00 am Hermes Poised Polyvalence (Fashion Wire Daily)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 27 Jun 2010 | 9:34 am 'Nurses' administer tequila by syringe to festival pleasure seekersA demonic nurse administers a syringe of tequilla to a festival goer in the early hours of the final day of the Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset. Stevie Wonder was set to close Glastonbury's...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:57 am There was little need for wellies at this year's scorching festivalRevellers leave the site early to beat the rush on the final day of the Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset. Stevie Wonder was set to close Glastonbury's 40th birthday celebrations Sunday after...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:57 am Festival organisers said this year had been the hottest Glastonbury since it started in 1970Revellers wear Native American head-dresses as the temperatures remain high at the Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset. Stevie Wonder was set to close Glastonbury's 40th birthday celebrations Sunday...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:57 am Kylie Minogue was one of Glastonbury's surprise performers on Saturday nightKylie Minogue appears as a special guest with the Scissor Sisters on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset on June 26. Stevie Wonder was set to close Glastonbury's 40th birthday...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jun 2010 | 6:57 am
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