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COMIC-CON 2010: The not-ready-for-prime-time convention? - Los Angeles Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:53 am Comic-Con closes after 4 days of pop culture fun (AP)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:07 am German prosecutors investigate Love Parade deathsGerman prosecutors say they are investigating whether negligent manslaughter was involved in the deaths of 19 people killed in a crush at the Love Parade techno festival. But Duisburg...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:03 am German prosecutors investigate Love Parade deaths (AP)
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:03 am Comic-Con closes after 4 days of pop culture funLight cycles, wizards, vampires and superheroes made for another colorful Comic-Con. San Diego's annual pop-culture convention wrapped up Sunday after four days of comic books, costumes,Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 3:03 am UK's ousted Brown writing book on financial crisisFormer British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is publishing an insider account of the global financial crisis, his first book since being ousted from office. Brown, who lost a national...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:59 am Crowd at 'Salt' premiere in Moscow goes nuts for Angelina Jolie - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:33 am Blake Lively attends Comic-Con 2010 for 'Green Lantern' with ultra-plunging ... - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:33 am Alexandra Pelosi tells untold story of homelessness in 'Motel Kids of Orange ... - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:33 am Oksana's Gotta Have Mel ... to Release Music - TMZ.com (blog)
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:01 am World Media and Entertainment Disk Storage MarketSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am Australian Teen Callan McAuliffe Makes His USA Debut Tonight in Rob Reiner's FLIPPEDSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 2:00 am 'King of Swing' Louis Prima gets posthumous star on Hollywood Walk of FameLOS ANGELES, Calif. - 'King of Swing' Louis Prima has received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a centennial celebration that included dancing in the street to his...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Jul 2010 | 12:30 am 'Mad Men' recap: A slap in the face - Entertainment Weekly
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 12:06 am The Differences Between Regular Nerds And Comic-Con NerdsThe word “nerd” means something much, much more extreme when it’s uttered within the walls of Comic-Con. In casual conversation, we may refer to ourselves as “nerds” simply because we’ve seen the Star Wars films dozens of times, or because we eagerly anticipate upcoming superhero films, but at Comic-Con, nerdery reaches heights that are so extreme, so specific, and so impressively arcane, Comic-Con nerds deserve their own special distinction. I’ve posted some more pics from Comic-Con 2010 in a list below in an attempt to illustrate the distinction between “Regular Nerds” and “Comic-Con Nerds”. Follow along -
Oh! That reminds me, there’s a Facebook Share and a Retweet button right over there… Source: Best Week Ever | 26 Jul 2010 | 12:03 am 'True Blood' review: Everyone this week had a 'Right To Sing The Blues' - Entertainment Weekly
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 26 Jul 2010 | 12:01 am Hollywood drivers ratify labor deal, avert strike (Reuters)Reuters - The union blinked -- but for the right reasons.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:53 pm Hollywood drivers ratify labor deal, avert strikeLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The union blinked -- but for the right reasons.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:53 pm Comic-Con match-ups: Who won?SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - The stakes are high at Comic-Con, the pop-culture marathon that took over the San Diego Convention Center -- and much of the surrounding town -- for the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:46 pm Jailbird LiLo plans a film comeback - Mirror.co.uk
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:36 pm Industry Roundup: Alfred Molina Joins Law & Order Spinoff, McConaughey May Star With Swank La La Land: Alfred Molina has joined Skeet Ulrich in NBC’s Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Los Angeles. Molina will play Deputy D.A. Morales and is all but assured this regular television gig will last longer than his previous one on 2002’s Bram and Alice, which - according to Wikipedia - lasted only four episodes. [Deadline] Dream A Little Dream: Matthew McConaughey is "considering" starring opposite Hilary Swank in Dreams of a Dying Heart. Swank is set to play a solider in the film who returns home from a tour of duty to encounter “strange goings on.” Perhaps what’s giving McConaughey pause is the fact that he can’t figure out how a serious Hilary Swank film will give him a chance to take off his shirt. [Deadline] Mamma Mia: Chuck creators/executive producers Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak announced at Comic-Con that Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame will be joining the cast of Chuck in a “heavily recurring role” in the NBC’s show’s fourth season. She’ll play the “long-missing mother” of Chuck (Zachary Levi), whose past is “shrouded in secrets.” Let’s hope things work out better for this Josh Schwartz Chuck than they did for Chuck Bass when his long-lost "mother" returned on Gossip Girl. [Deadline] WB Takes A Dare: Warner Bros. is close to making a deal on Dan Dare, a British film with Sam Worthington attached to star. Dare - a space fleet pilot - came onto the scene in the 1950s in a comic book, before the character later appeared on British radio and television programs. Worthington clearly has a thing for space-based franchises. [Variety] Sticks And Stones: Dannah Phirman and Danielle Schnieder have been signed to adapt Todd Harris Goldman’s book Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them. Apparently the script will include original music, as well - though they could probably just raid the catalogues of Pink, Avril Lavigne or Ke$ha and be just fine. [Variety] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: the industry, adam mckay, alfred molina, boys are stupid throw rocks at them, chuck, dan dare, dreams of a dying heart, law & order: los angeles, linda hamilton, matthew mcconaughey, movies, sam worthington, the boys, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:29 pm "Mad Men" hardly a hit on Madison AvenueNEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Two-time drama series Emmy winner "Mad Men" returned to AMC on Sunday night after a whirlwind of previews and promotions in print, broadcast and online.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:18 pm The elderly media mogul and the bisexual rockersLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - An MTV reality show about an aspiring raunchy girl band remains in development despite an embarrassing controversy last week involving its cheerleader,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:14 pm Louis Prima gets posthumous Hollywood star (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:11 pm In Case You Weren't Convinced Yet That Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Was Going To Be Absolutely Epic... According to an extensive Politics Daily report, the wedding will cost about $2 million. The tents alone are going to set them back $200,000! This is sure to instigate a whole new round of tearful breakdowns for the downtrodden Uninvited. [PoliticsDaily via Gawker] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: the most important wedding in the world, chelsea clinton, the social event of the summer, weddings
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:57 pm Your Box Office Explained: While Salt Couldn't Top Inception, Angelina Jolie's Still an Action Star THE WEEKEND'S WINNERS: Warner Bros.'s Inception; Sony’s Salt. Though it couldn’t overtake Inception, Salt was still a success. For months, Sony had been trying to build up the film as that rarest of Hollywood commodities: an action flick anchored by a woman that still appeals to guys. To ensure that dudes showed up, Columbia launched an ambitious online game campaign, www.dayXexists.com, back in May. Dudes love video games! But whether Sony had succeeded in attracting men was still an open question even 24 hours before the film opened: On Thursday, 45% of young women (those under 25) polled expressed “definite interest” in seeing the film, compared with just 35% of older men (those over 25), according to a confidential tracking report shared by a studio exec. Read more posts by Claude Brodesser-Akner Filed Under: the industry, box office, salt
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:50 pm Joshua Jackson Holds "Pacey-Con" While the throngs of costumed fanboys and fangirls waited in endless lines to get a glimpse of their favorite stars over the weekend at Comic-Con, a decidedly more subdued gathering was taking place on a lawn nearby the convention center: Pacey-Con. Fringe’s Joshua Jackson - who, of course, played Pacey Witter on Dawson’s Creek for the show's six seasons - staged an event in honor of both his character and the show. Jackson handed out fan fiction he apparently wrote himself and took pictures with adoring female fans while the Creek theme music blared from a boom box (good luck trying to get that out of your head now). And from the looks of it, Jackson decided to dress like Pacey, too. [ONTD] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: pacey-con, comic-con 2010, dawson's creek, joshua jackson, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:39 pm Crime In New York City Isn't Correlated With Heat Though conventional wisdom has it that crime rates increase during the summer months, the Wall Street Journal explains that, after reviewing the data, they've concluded New Yorkers are “about as likely to be victims of crime in December and October as they are during the hottest of the summer months." (So now you are justified in being a paranoid neurotic 365 days a year!) While the experts said they couldn't come up with an explanation for the October crime spike, they had some thoughts about the December jump. Explained criminology professor Jerome McKean: “We always get a little mini bump in December... people sometimes do their Christmas shopping without paying for it." Does Crime Rise In Tandem With The Mercury? [WSJ] Read more posts by Josh Duboff
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:57 pm Amanda Bynes Ends Retirement, Returns To Acting Well, that didn’t last long. About a month after declaring her retirement via Twitter, Amanda Bynes is back. The former All That star tweeted over the weekend that she has “unretired,” which she followed up with a link to the trailer for her upcoming film Easy A. No word on if she’s still attracted to black men or if she’s reversed that decision as well. [People] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: amanda bynes, movies
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:27 pm Comic-Con 2010: In search of the next Christopher Nolan - Los Angeles Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:15 pm Actress Margot Werner waves as she arrives at the 'Festspielhaus'Actress Margot Werner waves as she arrives at the 'Festspielhaus' ahead of the opening performance of 'Lohengrin' at the Richard Wagner opera festival in the southern German city of Bayreuth on July 25,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:03 pm German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and her husband Joachim SauerGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and her husband Joachim Sauer arrive at the 'Festspielhaus' venue of the Bayreuth Festival on July 25, 2010.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:03 pm Flowers blossom in front of the 'Festspielhaus', venue of the German Bayreuth FestivalFlowers blossom in front of the 'Festspielhaus' ahead of the opening performance of 'Lohengrin' at the Richard Wagner opera festival in the southern German city of Bayreuth on July 25, 2010. The 99th Bayreuth...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:03 pm Mad Men Season Premiere Recap: Stage Fright "Who is Don Draper?" These are the first words of season four, spoken by an Advertising Age reporter about the face of the "scrappy upstart" agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. It's an echo of oh-so-many such questions since the show began. Last season started off with the ultimate "Who is Don Draper" in a dirty-joke flashback, when we found out how Dick Whitman got his real name. This premiere yields no flashbacks at all (phew) but instead shoves the story forward. Now it's November 1964, just about a year after Don was asked, "And who are you supposed to be?" while trick-or-treating. The gangs-all-here feel makes for a satisfying sort of reunion show, but in many ways, it's also a show about role-playing: How Don's most challenging creative account is his constant performance and spin — the brand management of himself. Seeing that his old answer to "Who is Don Draper" has become obsolete, Don, and the show, are refreshing and rebranding. Welcome to the reboot. The last, very busy episodes of season three ejected the British, offed JFK, launched the SCDP, and detonated the Drapers' marriage. The overriding vibe, with its fizzy cocktail-music soundtrack, is mostly bouncy and upbeat: it picks up where the fan-bait wish-fulfillment of last season's finale left off. (All that JFK-assassinating, Rome-burning, gay-bashing dread has been pushed back into the shadows for now). There's a bright new logo on the clean glass doors of the new, smaller office. There's less dark wood, no conference table, and a few fresh faces too. Peggy's lost the bangs, Joan's running a tight ship, Pete's conniving, vests are proliferating, and the secretarial pool is wearing more teal and mustard yellow than we saw all last season. Thankfully, Roger's wiseacre rimshot act is still killing everyone. ("So cheap they couldn't even afford a whole reporter!") SCDP has fewer accounts and a small margin for error — and Draper needs to put up or shut up: J'ai a'lai is a bust, Jansen swimsuits is a dead-end, and Pete and Peggy have to pull off a stunt behind Don's back to hold onto the Sugarberry ham account. ("I can use my expense account," Pete says, "I'll just say it's for whores!") Peggy seems more confident than ever, and she's still speaking the obvious truths about the office ("We are all here because of you — all we want to do is please you") and coming up with brilliant ideas. But no more Monte Christo sandwiches with Duck? A fiancé? Whaa? She does get her actors to play their roles — only, the ladies can't just fake the fight. The roles become them, the passion turns real, and the two end up in jail. Is this foreshadowing of how the other play-acting will play out? At home, Don's apartment is almost comically depressing: all dark shadows, shoe polish, ugly furniture, and TV static. In last season's premiere, Don effortlessly picked up a stewardess and seemed practically exhausted by being such an awesome Don Juan. (“I keep going different places, and always winding up where I’ve already been,” he groaned, as he groped.) Now he's divorced, which is much less attractive in 1964 than being a hot married dude. And Don doesn't just desire these women now; he needs them. It's both cute and desperate when he shines his shoes and makes his bed, hoping to bring Jane's blonde gal-pal Bethany home. "I'm breaking a lot of my rules by seeing a divorced man," she says, wise to his tricks, then leaves him hanging in the taxi. Don's trying to figure out his new part, but Bethany senses the drama. She's a supernumerary — one of those actors who fill the stage in someone else's story at the opera, who never gets to sing or speak a word. Is she playing a Betty? Don's old lines aren't working — not with women or reporters. And Don's old persona — "a man from a town with no name … a handsome cipher," as the AdAge reporter writes — is over. He has to create something new. "Turning a creative success into business is your work," says Bert Cooper. "And you've failed." The escort is a little Betty Page — and a lot Joan (She's certainly not a Marilyn or a Jackie). As one of the only other redheads on the show, and as an in-control, powerful, buxom woman, it clearly makes you wonder if Don might admire Joan's persona for more than professional reasons. And then there's Betty, who looks the part of perfect wife and mother but can't quite play it. Her neuroses are already turning off Henry so much that he actually refuses sex with her ("I'm really full now … "). The mother-in-law understandably hates her. ("She’s a silly woman.") Worse, when Henry and Betty do have sex, it's almost like a flashback to Joan's rape. Henry is most keyed up just after Don leaves the home. Sex, in this episode, is very much about male power — one alpha upping the other. Will it last after Henry realizes that Don doesn't care anymore? If Henry and Betty's relationship does devolve quickly, will Betty beg to get Don back? There seems to be nothing left but hatred between them, so probably not. But she needs money and doesn't want to leave her home. Betty holds two chips: the kids, and Don's true identity. For years, Don kept a low profile to minimize the risk of his deception. Now that Don's playing the part of a flashy media darling, Betty could use that knowledge to hurt him. Will she blackmail him? Will there be a war? One more question: Why kick off season four with a supermarket ham stunt and an arty TV ad for GloCoat? At the risk of overreaching, let's note that in 1964, pop art (which has barely touched this show) was booming and the Factory was roaring — as were all those questions about the differences, or lack thereof, between art and products. At about the same time as this episode — between October 6 and November 7, 1964 — the Bianchini Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan was hosting the landmark American Supermarket exhibit, where multiples by Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claus Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, and others were installed as if they were for sale in a grocery store. For two bucks, you could buy shopping bags silkscreened with Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can. For $6, you could get your very own autographed can. And there was a massive meat cooler installed with hand-painted wax meats, including ham. Warhol once said, "Lock up a department store today, open the door after a hundred years, and you will have a museum of art." (Lock up an office in 1964, then pop it open on AMC in 2010, and, with a lot of creative license, you've got quality TV.) In some ways, Don's ad for GloCoat is an inversion of the American Supermarket exhibit — it's his way of taking art-house filmmaking into a TV commercial. But Don's GloCoat campaign could also be read as something more personal — a kind of autobiography. "For the first 30 seconds at least." He dreamed up the image of a little boy, trapped in a romantic, nostalgic dream of the wild west ("Get me out of here!"), saved only by an angelic blonde mother figure — the kind he never had but keeps looking for, in Bettys and Bethanys. Wonder why? Sitting down with that Wall Street Journal reporter, Don spins a fantasy that echoes that little boy's wild-west dream. "I could die of boredom," he says, "or I could holster up my guns …" Last season, it seemed like Don was facing up to reality, but here he's still a kid who prefers to live in fantasy, to buy the myths he sells. This season, maybe he's just trading one fictional role for another, more exciting one. Read more posts by Logan Hill Filed Under: overnights, mad men, recaps, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:00 pm CGI Sarah Palin Winks A Lot, Pole Dances and Smokes A Joint These Taiwanese CGI videos just keep on surfacing - and they continue to delight. In this take on Sarah Palin's past, present and future, watch animated Sarah smoke a joint with husband Todd (while Bristol and shirtless Levi bicker), pole dance to raise campaign funds... and, uh, wrestle with a boxers-clad Barack Obama. [via Buzzfeed] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: america's sweetheart, sarah palin, taiwan, video
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 8:56 pm Glee To Feature Rocky Horror-Themed Episode, Potentially A Brittany-Santana Kiss Even though Glee has absolutely no connection to comic books or science fiction, its overzealous fan base of geeky Gleeks is probably as die-hard as any Trekkie or Thor fanatic (well, maybe not quite as die-hard). In any event, the Glee panel was Sunday’s major event at Comic-Con, with creator Ryan Murphy and a number of the show’s cast (Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch were conspicuously absent) fielding questions and offering spoilers about the show's second season. The major news immediately followed Emmy nominee Chris Colfer’s comment that the song he would most like the chance to sing on the show is “The Time Warp”; Murphy then announced that Colfer's dreams would be coming true (how Glee!) as season two will feature a Rocky Horror-themed episode. Other nuggets revealed: the Britney Spears-themed episode will be “hallucinogenic”; Tina’s going to dump wheelchair-bound Artie for dancing hottie Mike Chang; both Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth will be back; and, Murphy said, fan favorites Santana and Brittany may be kissing in an upcoming episode. This last piece of news led Naya Rivera (Santana) to explain the duo would like to go by the couple name of "Santitney." Uhh, somehow we don't think that's going to catch on, Naya. Glee Is Doing A Rocky Horror Episode And Other Surprises From Their Comic-Con Panel [Movieline] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: glee, comic-con 2010, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 8:30 pm Howard Dean Lashes Out at Fox News... During An Appearance On Fox News Former DNC chair Howard Dean appeared on Fox News Sunday with Newt Gingrich this morning to chat about last week's headline-dominating Shirley Sherrod controversy. And Dean did not hold back whatsoever when providing his take on the channel's role in the saga which cost Sherrod her job. "Fox News did something that was absolutely racist," Dean said. "They had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip. They had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this business and this Sotomayor and all this other stuff. The Tea Party called out their racist fringe and I think the Republican Party’s got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that. You put that on. Continuing to cater to this theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this — some of which are taken out of context — does not help the country knit itself together."
Howard Dean Tells Chris Wallace Fox News Is Racist [Mediaite] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: the post-racial world, fox news, howard dean, shirley sherrod
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 7:16 pm New Jersey Governor Tries To Pass Off Blame For Jersey Shore Kids To New York The man who inexplicably doesn't want to be associated with The Situation. With the return of Jersey Shore days away, the popular sport of Shore-bashing was back in a big way this weekend. First there was Cathy Horyn’s oddly mean-spirited Snooki take-down in The Times. And then Sunday, New Jersey governor Chris Christie joined the chorus of haters when asked by This Week’s Jake Tapper if the reality show's popularity was positive or negative for his state. "It takes a bunch of New Yorkers… drops them at the Jersey shore, and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey,” he said. "The Jersey shore is a beautiful place, and it's a place that everybody should come on vacation."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasts MTV's 'Jersey Shore' cast for being New Yorkers [NYDN] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: jersey shore, chris christie, new jersey, snooki, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 6:41 pm "Cats and Dogs" sequel a charmless tale (Reuters)Reuters - Although critter movies have performed extremely well at the box office, "Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" will put that trend to a tough test when it opens on Friday.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 25 Jul 2010 | 6:26 pm COMIC-CON 2010: 'Glee' will do 'Rocky Horror' episode - Los Angeles Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 25 Jul 2010 | 6:17 pm Thousands of Secret Military Documents Released, Offer Grim Depiction of Afghan Effort Gen. Petraeus has his work cut out for him. Thanks to website WikiLeaks, more than 90,000 U.S. military reports about the war in Afghanistan - filed between 2004 and January 2010 - are now available for public consumption. In what is being called “one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history,” the site released the material to the New York Times, The Guardian and German newspaper Der Spiegel weeks ago, under the condition that they would wait until Sunday to report on it. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described the reports as “the total history of the Afghan war from 2004 to 2010, with some important exceptions -- U.S. Special Forces, CIA activity and most of the activity of other non-U.S. groups.” The extensive findings paint a bleak picture of the conflict in Afghanistan, and offer a few notable and previously unreported facts, most significantly that there have been devastating, unknown civilian losses due to both Taliban and coalition forces (consisting primarily of "all of these people being killed in the small events that we haven't heard about that numerically eclipse the big casualty events.") Additionally, the files cite the use of remote-control predator drones against the Taliban, as well as a secret group of soldiers charged with killing Taliban members covertly without a trial. How WikiLeaks got its hands on the reports remains a mystery (Assange claims the site has never fallen for a forgery). Of course, the White House is not exactly pleased. The administration has already issued a condemnation of the disclosure, arguing it “put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk” (a claim the Times refutes in the preamble to its reportage.) The administration also made sure to note that these documents cover a span of years during which George W. Bush was president, a time before “President Obama announced a new strategy with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on al-Qaida and Taliban safe havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years.” Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan [NYT] Read more posts by Josh Duboff Filed Under: afghanistan, military, taliban, wikileaks
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 6:17 pm Live from Comic-Con: Glee Tackles Britney Spears, a New Love Triangle and...a 3-D Movie?! Ready to get your Glee on? We just got to chat with Ryan Murphy and his always fab Glee cast, and of course hit up the panel session here at Comic-Con to soak up as much Glee scoop as humanly...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 5:23 pm Angelina Jolie Leads Horde of Kickass Women Angelina! Scarlett! Milla! Girl power was in full force this weekend at Comic-Con, what with all of the fierce females who graced the geekfest to show fans that kicking ass isn't just for the...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:47 pm Kourtney on "Vampire" Scott: "Alcohol Is His Blood" "Scott's like a vampire," says Kardashian friend and confidante Jonathan Cheban in the recent episode of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami. Trouble is, he's not...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:31 pm Back in Black: Supernatural Season Six Scoop From Comic-Con
The Winchester boys—Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki—hit the Con today and shared some great news about season six for original fans...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:13 pm Unintentional 'Girls Gone Wild' Flasher Loses Lawsuit Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis. When she was twenty, one "Jane Doe" found herself at a St. Louis bar where "Girls Gone Wild" was filming. Does this mean she wanted to appear topless on video? No, it doesn't, as evidenced by the fact that she can be heard saying, "No, no," on tape, right before another woman pulled her top down for her, seemingly against her will. Now that Jane Doe is married with kids and a friend of her husband's identified her in one of the videos, she tried to sue, but a Missouri jury has now rejected Doe's claims that her reputation was unfairly damaged as a result of the experience. What thought, exactly, swayed this jury against Doe? "Through her actions, she gave implied consent," Tim O'Brien, jury foreman, said. "She was really playing to the camera. She knew what she was doing." Wow. And that, ladies, is why you should probably just run if you see Girls Gone Wild filming. 'Woman in St. Louis loses suit over Girls Gone Wild video' [NBC Action News] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: juries gone wild, flashers, girls gone wild, missouri, st. louis, women
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 3:38 pm Smallville Stars Promise Comic-Con (and Thousands of Fans!) a Fabulous Final Season If you're feeling a teensy bit emotional about the impending end of Smallville—well, join the club.
Sorry, wish we could offer you some solace, but after the nine-season...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 3:22 pm Comic-Con Round-Up: Ryan Reynolds on The Green Lantern Going Glove-less; Natalie Portman on Thor In San Diego right now, Natalie Portman, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Scarlett Johansson might all be mingling together! Perhaps having a cocktail, and sharing amusing anecdotes about fans. Anyway, all the buzz about their projects, below. • Harrison Ford came onstage during the Cowboys & Aliens panel, walking out in handcuffs for a gag that didn't go over that well, because somebody at Comic Con had actually been arrested the day before. "Ford answered only one question, pertaining to whether he ever anticipated becoming a celebrity. 'No, I just wanted to make a living as an actor,' Ford said. 'I didn’t know about all of this,' referencing the 6,000 ecstatic fans in the audience." [PopWatch/EW] • Family Guy will spoof Return of the Jedi soon. [Heat Vision/THR] • The Green Lantern still has a few more weeks of shooting. Peter Sarsgaard had never read the comics before being cast. Ryan Reynolds said the team tried to find "a happy medium" between keeping longtime fans happy and "introducing" his character to a new generation. His suit is "like a biological manifestation of the ring," so that's why it looks the way it does. So where are the white gloves? "He's not a valet parking attendant in Tokyo," Reynolds said. Oh, and Blake Lively would "create Disney Land" for herself "everywhere," if she had The Green Lantern's powerful ring. [PopWatch/EW] • At the Thor panel, Natalie Portman said "she really wanted to do a big effects movie that emphasized character, and getting to do it with Branagh was a new way of approaching it." (As opposed to with George Lucas, she may be implying.) [Deadline] • The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner will also star in The Avengers, playing Hawkeye. [PopWatch/EW] • Thor and The Avengers have been getting the most Twitter buzz, obvs. [CNN] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: comic-con 2010, blake lively, comic-con, cowboys & aliens, family guy, harrison ford, jeremy renner, natalie portman, ryan reynolds, the green lantern, thor
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:50 pm Katharina Wagner (L) and Eva Wagner-Pasquier pose for photographersKatharina Wagner (L) and Eva Wagner-Pasquier pose for photographers at the 'Festspielhaus' ahead of the opening performance of 'Lohengrin' at the Richard Wagner opera festival in the southern German city...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:42 pm Harry Crane Wants More Scenes With Joan Holloway PopEater asked Rich Sommer, who plays Mad Men's Harry Crane, who he'd want more screen time with. In a long-winded explanation, he said Joan, revealing that the two will have a scene together tonight: "It's hard for me to answer this question, obviously, because it can give away if I have or haven't had time with anyone yet this season - we're now ten episodes in - and that's a lot of information that would be communicated by that question. I think it's safe to say that any scene with anyone, it's a different dynamic any time you do a scene. I loved the stuff I got to do with Christina Hendricks [Joan Holloway] in season two with 'A Night to Remember' when she was reading those scripts. She's just so good. She and I have a short, albeit fun, little scene in the premiere." Only a few more hours! And if you're in New York, you can catch tonight's Mad Men on a big screen in Times Square, where AMC is hosting the premiere at the northern triangle between 46th and 47th Streets. Last time we looked out the window, it was pouring, but if you're a real fan, and into watching TV shows while surrounded by strangers, perhaps you'll stick it out. 'Rich Sommer: Season Four of 'Mad Men' Is 'Unbelievable'' [PopEater] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: mad men, harry crane, rich sommer, tv
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:12 pm New Jersey governor not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' (AP)AP - "Jersey Shore" may have many fans, but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't among them.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:09 pm Lindsay Lohan Is Being Mocked By Fellow Inmates Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been brought to tears in jail (pictured), because her inmates have been calling her "fire crotch." This actually sounds awful, made even worse by the dubious tale of her inmates "chanting" this nickname while she lays in her cell. One recently-released inmate explained: "Lindsay didn't say nothing. She was crying though." Apparently the other girls are sick of seeing the starlet receive special treatment: "Like if she even moves, they put the whole facility on lockdown. It happens all the time," a relative of an inmate explained. But with each teardrop she sheds, we know Lohan will come out of jail any day now, lessons, uh, learned the hard way: by being called a fire crotch. That'll teach 'er. [Gothamist, NYDN, People] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: la vida lohan, crying, jail, lindsay lohan
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:32 pm Tony Hayward Reportedly Stepping Down Goodbye. The Times reports that the embattled BP CEO has agreed to step down and be replaced by Robert Dudley, the company’s most senior American executive who is now in charge of BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision might be announced publicly this Tuesday, and will likely go into effect this fall. Looks like he'll get his life back, after all. [NYT] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: cleaning up, bp, oil spill, tony hayward
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:14 pm Anna Chapman Meets With Vladimir Putin, Sings to Live Music V.P., sympathetic leader. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a chance to meet with the spies who returned to Mother Russia this month. They just, you know, caught up, made small-talk, he explained: "I met them. We talked about life. We sang, not karaoke, but to live music. We sang From What the Motherland Begins," which is apparently a song about spying. "I'm not joking, I am serious," he said. Anna Chapman and her crew apparently didn't have too much news to report back after ten years spying for Putin, but he had nothing but sing-a-longs and sympathy for them. "I have no doubts they will have interesting, bright lives," he said. Sounds like a fun boss! [NYP] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: russian spies: they're just like us, anna chapman, russia, russian spies, sympathy, vladimir putin
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 12:42 pm Peter Simonischek, as Everyman (L) and Sophie von Kessel as Paramour perform Hugo von Hofmannsthal's EverymanPeter Simonischek, as Everyman (L) and Sophie von Kessel as Paramour perform Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Everyman during the Salzburg Festival 2009. The Salzburg Festival, the annual high-brow culture fest...Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:45 am Pigeons run Kings of Leon from stagePooping pigeons forced the Kings of Leon to abandon their St. Louis, Missouri, concert after just three songs Friday night, the rock band's management said Saturday.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:44 am Comic-Con: Let Me In Actress Chloe Moretz Still Hasn’t Seen Let the Right One In Chloe Moretz at Comic-Con. Let Me In director Matt Reeves told us yesterday that finding young actors unfamiliar with the film's source material, the Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, would be key to "pulling off the [film's] emotional complexity." At the Let Me In panel today, the adorable Chloe Moretz admitted that, even now, she still hasn't seen all of the original: "My mom won't let me watch the whole film," she said, adding that her mother screens her scripts before handing them off to her. Reeves said he asked Steven Spielberg for advice on working with such young actors, and Spielberg told him: "Let them come up with stuff that makes you choose what you're going to do, and have them keep a journal in character." Moretz didn't shield her eyes, however, when a clip from Let Me In was screened: Set in the eighties, it featured the characters Owen and Abby on a date at an arcade. (Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" scores the scene, fittingly.) Outside, in the snow, Abby asks Owen the infamous line from the original: “Would you still like me even if I wasn't a girl?” Read more posts by Vlada Gelman Filed Under: comic-con 2010, chloe moretz, comic-con, let me in, let the right one in, matt reeves, vampires
Source: Vulture | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:37 am 'Inception' trumps 'Salt' with $43.5M weekend (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:33 am Angelina Jolie's Salt Shakes, but Can't Stir Inception For a movie sold solely on its movie star, Angelina Jolie's Salt did better than most.
But Inception was still greater. The Christopher Nolan-Leonardo DiCaprio dreamscape stayed atop...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:26 am Theory: People At Comic-Con Love BoobsGonna go out on a limb here…
Source: Best Week Ever | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:14 am Stabbing briefly disrupts Comic-Con panelA Comic-Con attendee stabbed another near the eye with a pen Saturday after they got into an argument over whether one was sitting too close to the other, police said.Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 25 Jul 2010 | 11:00 am Denied Reports of Tony Hayward’s Dismissal Make the Rounds Again [Updated] For the second time this week, by our count, the British press has reported that BP CEO Tony Hayward is stepping down. Today, the BBC said Hayward could be gone as soon as tomorrow. While few are expecting the seafood-eating CEO to stay with the company much longer (and stocks even soared after he was last believed to be exiting), BP is still standing by its man, with spokesman Mark Salt saying: "Tony Hayward remains our chief executive and has the full support of the board and senior management." [CNN] Updated: Sorry, Salt. Looks like it's real this time. Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: cleaning up, bp, tony hayward
Source: Daily Intel | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:59 am Kim Kardashian to Fan: Just Say No to Look-a-Like Surgery We already know Kim Kardashian's feelings on cosmetic surgery (recap: no on the knife and Botox stinks). So you can imagine her reaction when a fan takes to Twitter to talk about getting a...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:55 am Live From Comic-Con: Supernatural, Smallville, Glee & More! Today is the last day of Comic-Con. Parting is such sweet sorrow...especially when today is filled with such yummy goodness, like Supernatural, Smallville, Glee, Castle and Sons of Anarchy. We...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:30 am Avengers Cast Flocks to Comic-Con, With New Hulk! After a long, crazy day at Comic-Con, weary fans got a surprise that made all the lines and bizarre incidents worth it: They met their Avengers!
At the tail end of the action-packed day...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:24 am Big on Twitter: "Lindsey" Lohan, Nerds & Inception (Still) That's no spelling error, "Lindsey Lohan" was one of Twitter's biggest trending topics this past week. We're not really sure who that Lindsey is, but we all know the OG Lindsay...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:15 am Caramoor festival scores with Donizetti rarity (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 25 Jul 2010 | 10:02 am What's the big deal about comic books?Everyone from "Twilight Moms" to "Family Guy" fans is waiting in line at Comic-Con. This nearly 40-year-old convention is mainly devoted to comic books, and it was sold out before the exhibitors and speakers were even announced this year. Why are so many people there?Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 25 Jul 2010 | 7:24 am A nuns have signed the deal following a worldwide search by Universal for the best female singers of Gregorian ChantPicture issued by Decca Records showing the Nuns of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation. The Benedictine nuns have signed a major record deal with Universal Music, the company behind Lady GaGa.Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Jul 2010 | 5:40 am
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