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2009 Emmy Nominees
17 July 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
The Emmys are once again approaching, meaning it’s time to highlight those shows that made the often-unbearable experience of TV watching worth your while, if only for a short while.
Take a look over the list of this year’s Emmy Nominees then head on down to the comment section to give your two cents.
The 2009 Emmy Nominees (Abridged Version):
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Drama Series:
“Big Love,” HBO
“Breaking Bad,” AMC
“Damages,” FX
“Dexter,” Showtime
“House,” Fox
“Lost,” ABC
“Mad Men,” AMC
Comedy Series:
“Entourage,” HBO
“Family Guy,” Fox
“How I Met Your Mother,” CBS
“Flight of the Conchords,” HBO
“The Office,” NBC
“30 Rock,” NBC
“Weeds,” Showtime
Actor, Drama Series:
Simon Baker, “The Mentalist”
Gabriel Byrne, “In Treatment”
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Actress, Drama Series:
Glenn Close, “Damages”
Sally Field, “Brothers and Sisters”
Mariska Hargitay, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”
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Kofi Outlaw
Disney Announces Comic-Con Agenda in 3D!
9 July 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | From The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news
Some exciting stuff coming from the mouse at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Among the very cool things we’re particularly excited about are the panels concerning Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and the reboot of Tron called Tron (at least for the moment). Also, Disney plans on having several guests to discuss these films, and the fact that they're all in 3D, including Robert Zemeckis, animation legends John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki, Tron reboot producers Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger, veteran animation directors John Musker and Ron Clements and special guest director/auteur Tim Burton.
With all this, it looks to be a very interesting couple of days around the Disney booth and panels. Check out all the info from Disney’s official release:
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Comic-con Agenda Is Full Of “Firsts”
Directors Zemeckis, Burton To Take Part In First-ever 3D Panel;
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Chris Ullrich
Tron, Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story to be featured at Comic-Con
9 July 2009 11:49 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
When you think of Comic-Con in San Diego, you don’t immediately think of Walt Disney Studios making their presence known. But that’s exactly what they are doing this year. And when you think about it, two titles in particular will fit right in to the comic crazy crowds … Tron and Alice in Wonderland. Here’s the news release from Disney.
Animation greats Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter and directors Robert Zemeckis and Tim Burton will take part in their first ever Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center July 23-24. The filmmakers will be on hand to help Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures showcase a wide-ranging roster of upcoming films, including 3D juggernauts Alice In Wonderland, Tron and Disney’S A Christmas Carol, and animated gems The Princess And The Frog, Beauty And The Beast, Ponyo and the Toy Story trilogy.
Zemeckis, Burton, Miyazaki and Lasseter will take part in industry panels.
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Jeff Bayer
Imho "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (5.5): Maggie's bucket list
7 July 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
On this week's Very Special Episode of My Life on the D-List, Kathy Griffin tries to deliver on her mother's "bucket list", which includes meeting comedy icon Betty White and visiting California's wine "section".
Look below to find out why this episode earns a big up arrow!
This was by far the sweetest episode of D-List in five seasons, and beneath Kathy's sarcasm and gentle abuse, it's obvious that she wanted to honor her mom by making this "Maggie's Show".
Maggie makes her wish list of things she wants to experience before she dies and Kathy does her best to accommodate, starting with meeting the astonishingly well-preserved Stefanie Powers. Before long, Stefanie has Kathy and Maggie squeezing their buttocks. Allegedly, it has something to do with Pilates, but Kathy insists it's like being in a "gay bar on free drink night. A lot of ass exercising".
Up next is the incomparable Betty White,
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snicks
'The Tonight Show' Conan and Larry King pay tribute to Ed McMahon Videos
24 June 2009 7:07 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
"The Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien paid tribute to Ed McMahon, who passed away yesterday after a series of health problems at age 86. McMahon was praised by Joan Rivers, Don Rickles and Doc Severinson on CNN's Larry King last night, with Rivers noting that McMahon was a pro who knew how to play the second banana game with Johnny Carson, and was a gentleman. McMahon came up from radio and crossed paths with Carson later in his career. His partnership with Carson on the late-night show is a cornerstone of American TV history. "It is impossible, I think, for anyone to imagine 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson' without Ed McMahon," O'Brien said Tuesday during the
April MacIntyre
Rate-a-Trailer: Toy Story 3 Enters Rebuilding Phase
1 June 2009 7:00 PM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
Woody and Buzz Lightyear are coming back. And while the reappearance of a bunch of old toys usually usually means a trip to the Goodwill, the return of Pixar's Toy Story crew has us scrawling the release date—June 18, 2010—in our planners. Not much gets revealed, which is fine. Coming on the heels of the release of the studio's latest hit Up, the return of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles and Pixar stalwart John Ratzenberger simply means we have something funny, heartwarming and maybe a little sad to look forward to next year. Is it 2010 yet?
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Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer
31 May 2009 6:11 PM, PDT | From Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return as the voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear, a couple of toys that come to life when the humans aren’t watching. Aka “Toy Story”. Part 3 is on the horizon, scheduled for a June 10, 2010 release. Here’s your first look at the third installment’s teaser trailer. Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college. Featuring the voices of Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson, Don Rickles, and Estelle Harris. Lee Unkrich, who co-directed “Toy Story 2″, “Finding Nemo”, and “Monsters Inc”, directs from a script by Michael Arndt. The trailer in high-def over at Apple.com.
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'Toy Story 3' Teaser Arrives Online
29 May 2009 10:45 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Remember how the Digital Cinema Summit got a peek at a teaser for Toy Story 3? It took a few months, but it's finally online for our eager eyes to devour. However, since this is an early teaser, and not a trailer, there's no peek into the movie -- just Woody getting the whole gang together to make a cute, improvised sign for the film ... only to have Mr. High-Tech Buzz Lightyear show up and zoom away with the spotlight.
Watching them make the sign, we get a quick rundown of all the awesome characters, from Wallace Shawn's almost-inconceivable Rex the Green Dinosaur, to John Ratzenberger's lazy Hamm the Piggy Bank to Joan Cusack's wild Jessie and Don Rickles' back-breaking Mr. Potato Head. Man, I love these guys. The animation might be good and all, but it's the voices that always got me.
Unfortunately, this is
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Monika Bartyzel
Toy Story 3 Announcement Teaser Arrives
29 May 2009 10:41 AM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
The Toy Story 3 announcement teaser trailer, which will be shown in front of Pixar’s Up this weekend, has been released online and you can check it out below. Not much is now about the third installment in the successful franchise, just that Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, departs for college. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, John Ratzenberger, Ned Beatty, Jodi Benson and Michael Keaton all lend their voices and the film hits theaters June 18, 2010 in Disney Digital 3-D.
James Cook
Did Brendan and Matthew Get Expensive Hair Plugs?
28 May 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news
Brendan Fraser recently underwent what turned out to be very public hair transplants. Do a lot of balding men in Hollywood do this on the down-low? —Diane, via Facebook First off all, let's pull the steam brakes on this libel lawsuit engine before it explodes: Yes, a few years ago, paps took photos of Fraser looking so bald his head fell somewhere between hard-boiled egg and Don Rickles. Fact. Couple years ago, Fraser came back on the scene sporting a very pleasant head of hair. Fact. Exactly how that hair got there—surgery, hair system, wig, mind control—is not fact. Now, something has touched the golden heads of male stars like Fraser, Matthew McConaughey, Jude...
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“Nazis. I hate these guys.”: 15 WWII Movies Worth Watching Before You See Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
26 May 2009 4:10 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news
Who knew that the Nazis -- one of the most brutal regimes in the history of brutal regimes -- would be responsible for such fun, mind-blowingly awesome entertainment? The second I see a dude in a grey German uniform and an eye patch enter the frame, I’m like ‘Whoa. That Nazi is going to provide me a great amount of entertainment this evening’. So, with Inglorious Bastards having recently premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, I figured I'd put together a list of some awesome WW2 films as a resource for anyone wanting to beef up their WW2 film knowledge before checking out Tarantino's self-proclaimed 'masterpiece'. It's worth noting that I focused on older films -- pre-1980 for the most part -- and only the stories featuring Nazi's. It was tough to cut this down to 15 films, but I'm sure you all will be able to come up with
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Jay C.
Tyson Co-star Fears A Hit
21 May 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Taking a movie hit from former boxing champ Mike Tyson was like playing Russian roulette for funnyman Zach Galifianakis - because he knew that any stray punch could have killed him.
Tyson knocks out the actor's character Alan Garner in new comedy The Hangover - and the odd couple needed 30 takes to get the scene just right.
Galifianakis admits it took all his courage to stand there as Tyson wound up to strike.
He says, "The director (Todd Phillips) is telling Tyson how to fight to camera and then we did about 30 takes for that fight scene and if he connected I would've died."
But the stand-up comic admits he bonded with Tyson during the film - and believes Iron Mike has a career as a comedian in him.
He adds, "He was asking me a lot of questions about comedy because I'm a stand-up comedian and that's my background. He's a big stand-up fan. While Todd was giving him on-camera fight tips, Mike turns to me and goes, 'Oh great, I'm being told how to fight from the captain of the Jewish debating team!'
"He has this kind of delivery I'd never heard before. It was like a Don Rickles line; it was so funny to me."
Robin Williams & His New Valve Hit the Red Carpet
15 May 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Stepping out for the first time since his heart surgery in March, Robin Williams said he was feeling "wonderful," and had his classic funnyman form intact to prove it. "I feel wonderful," the comic told People at the world premiere of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Thursday. "It's nice to just step out, rather than run. When you have a new valve, you have to take it a little slow. I'm like 80 percent there, so it's like, take it slow. But it's great." Williams, in all his humorous glory, slowly made his way
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Arnesa A. Howell
Tom Hanks on How Pixar Lured Him Back for 'Toy Story 3'
23 April 2009 9:32 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
Having voiced Sheriff Woody in Disney/Pixar's two "Toy Story" movies, Tom Hanks will once again return to give a voice to Andy's favorite cowboy toy in "Toy Story 3" and he has one interesting story on how the studio convince him to take on the role once more. Talking to Empire Magazine for its latest issue, the 52-year-old revealed that he didn't get the film's script, but was treated with the entire film.
"They did an interesting thing on this one," the back-to-back Oscar-winning actor shared. "They did not send us a script. They showed us a complete story reel of the entire movie, with storyboards moving from one to the next, and the people up at Pixar recorded some voices with some music and sound effects. Tim Allen and John Ratzenberger and I went in a movie theater, watched the reel and said, 'This is great, let's get to work!
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AceShowbiz.com
Harris Fires Up TV Land Awards
20 April 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Actor Neil Patrick Harris scorched up the stage at the TV Land Awards in Los Angeles - when a stunt set his tuxedo on fire.
The star, who was hosting the prizegiving, was rehearsing his opening number just before the show started on Sunday when his costume went up in smoke.
According to blogger Marc Malkin, the funnyman was left shaken and a little burned when sparks from electronic devices he was wearing for a stunt set his suit on fire.
A source says, "He just had some welts on his back (but) he didn't have to be taken to a hospital or anything like that."
Harris made no mention of the accident during the ceremony, which honoured the casts of M*A*S*H, Knots Landing, Married With Children, Home Improvement, Two and a Half Men, Magnum, P.I. and ER.
Comedian Don Rickles and former Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus were also feted at the event.
'Toy Story 3' Teaser Trailer Described
20 April 2009 2:03 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
While "Toy Story 3" won't arrive in theaters until summer 2010, a teaser trailer of "Toy Story" third installment has reportedly been previewed. According to Variety, Walt Disney Studios have appeared at the Digital Cinema Summit and presented the first-ever public screening of the film's teaser trailer.
While it didn't exactly give a frame-by-frame description of the teaser, Variety did explain how the teaser looks like. "Custom-animated short shows Woody supervising the Toy Story characters as they improvise a sign for the pic," so the publication noted, adding, "only to have Buzz upstage them all with a high-tech version."
It is still unclear, however, if the teaser shown is the official teaser or not. Earlier, at 2009 ShoWest, it was reported that the first trailer for this third movie will be included exclusively in the 3-D limited re-release of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2", which are scheduled to be viewed on October 2, 2009 and on February 12, 2010 respectively.
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AceShowbiz.com
Kathy Griffin won't be happy about eliminated Emmy race
15 April 2009 11:54 PM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Kathy Griffin won't be happy when she finds out that the Emmys Awards have eliminated the variety /comedy/music individual performance prize. That means she can possibly only contend in the program race for her latest stand-up special — "She'll Cut a Bitch" — airing tonight on Bravo. Kathy Griffin is a rarity in showbiz — she is unashamed to say how much she wants to win awards. Indeed, much of the content of her comedy routines showcased on "She'll Cut a Bitch" focuses on the behind-the-scenes shenanigans at kudofests. Griffin talks about how last year she titled her comedy album "For Your Consideration" specifically to appeal to Grammy Awards voters. The ploy worked to the degree that she landed her first Grammy nod. However, at the February ceremony, she lost to the late George Carlin, who won his fifth for "It's Bad for Ya!" Last September, both Kathy Griffin and George Carlin
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tomoneil
Real Or Imagined: Homoeroticism In 60S Beach Movies
13 April 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
By Tom Lisanti
To get in a warm weather mood with summer not approaching fast enough, here is a look at Hollywood surf movies from a different and albeit biased perspective. Gay men are always looking for gay subtext in movies and TV, and I am no exception. Am I reading more into these films? Probably—but it was sure a lot of fun doing the research.
The Sixties beach movie craze began with Gidget (1959) starring Sandra Dee and James Darren, a fictionalized look at teenager Kathy Kohner’s surfing escapades in Malibu during the mid-Fifties. It was groundbreaking as the movie contributed to the mass dissention of surfers on the beaches of Malibu and started a series of surf-theme films such as Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Ride the Wild Surf. The surf movie soon morphed into the beach-party film, whose heyday was from 1963 through 1965, where surfing was only used
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Breaking News: Don Rickles as Batman and Sammy Davis Jr. The Joker?
1 April 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news
Well this is certainly a shocker. I know it's April Fool's Day and what not, but I certainly didn't expect such controversial movie news to coincidentally hit the web on April Fool's Day. According to Movie Site.com [1], Christopher Nolan has made some major casting announcements for his next Batman film. Get this; Don Rickles as Batman and Sammy Davis Jr. as the Joker! Huh? I'm sure I'm not the only person thinking a big Wtf at this news. First off, shouldn't these roles be reversed? Lots of people have been backing the idea of a Don Rickles Joker performance for years now, making Nolan's choice to cast him as Bruce Wayne a bit of a slap in the face of fans around the internebs. And Sammy Davis Jr.? Aside from the fact that he's been dead for years now, everyone knows that Davis Is The Dark Knight. In defense of his decision,
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Jay C.
Jon Stewart can't win an Emmy for his showdown with Jim Cramer
13 March 2009 8:16 PM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
On the same day that Jon Stewart smacked down "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer on "The Daily Show" in a moment of must-see TV, came word that the academy was eliminating the Emmy for individual performance in a variety series or special from the lineup this year. The powers that be are now going to include performers in the slate of nominated producers for those series and specials that make the cut. This move will cut down on the amount of hardware for which people like Jon Stewart, who is already a credited producer of "The Daily Show," can contend. The show has won the Emmy for best variety series for the past six years running.
For his work as the host of "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart lost his bids for the individual performance Emmy in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. Competing in this catch-all category, he was bested by two singers (Sting
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