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Rent a Movie, Get a Tan

Posted on September 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

I doubt many tears are being shed for the slow demise of Blockbuster’s overpriced rentals, late-fees, and huge selection of direct-to-video horror clunkers. But independent video stores are another story. Sure that snobby video clerk made fun of you for renting How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days , but that’s part of their charm! Plus that clerk was right. In any case, it looks like cinephiles can rest easy because local video stores have a new, sure-fire survival strategy: tanning beds.

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Jennifer Lopez Will Earn the American Idol Paycheck Paula Abdul Fought For

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Our long national nightmare is over: According to TMZ , Jennifer Lopez has finally, absolutely , officially signed on to be your next American Idol judge. Lopez reportedly signed a one-year deal that will pay her $12 million to sit on the dais next to Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler, and if that amount sounds like a lot, just remember what Paula Abdul was asking for.

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Who Wins This Wicked Duet: Idina Menzel or Michael Kors?

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Though Glee showstopper Idina Menzel originated the lead role in Broadway blockbuster Wicked , that really gives her no edge in this Fashion’s Night Out duet of “Defying Gravity” with Project Runway headmaster and towering coloratura Michael Kors. He’s got the disapproving snarl to woo the Great Wide Way, the black blazer to dazzle even the most curmudgeonly theatergoer, and the topaz complexion to illuminate Times Square for weeks. They’re evenly matched — just see for yourself:

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3 Docs to Watch For: A Disgraced Governor, the Hot Bard of New Jersey and Steamy Mormon Sex

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The problem with covering film festivals is that the things you have to see so often conflict with the things you want to see; bits of the latter have to be stuffed into the corners of the usual crazed festival going. There’s also the problem of making choices: The other day a new acquaintance tempted me, like a cartoon devil on my shoulder, to check out a Mexican film, Leap Year, that supposedly had, she said, “Lots of explicit sex.” Count me in! But after checking my schedule, I realized that if I went to see that, I’d miss the Alex Gibney documentary on Eliot Spitzer, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, which I was extremely curious about.

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At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners

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It’s often said — and most often by people in relationships themselves — that no one can ever really know what happens between two people in love, or even those marking time in a marriage. And yet, in the case of a child or some otherwise invested third party, it is possible to be molded against a relationship so tightly that, once peeled away, one is left with a pretty good impression of its contours. In Beginners , Mike Mills’s loose, feeling, evidently highly personal portrait of grief’s ritual excavation of memory, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is reevaluating the impression he formed of his parents’ marriage, and the shape he’s in as a result.

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The Gossip Girl Pun Index: Forget Paris

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Welcome back, Upper East Siders! The season premiere of Gossip Girl arrived last night with haute couture, the Eiffel Tower and… well, not much else. It was a quiet kick-off, without much scandal, sass or Chuck Bass. Not even Gossip Girl herself seemed on her game — though kudos to Kristen Bell for wrapping her tongue around all those heavy French vowels. Voulez-vous puns? To the index!

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3 Important Features That Went Missing From This Year’s VMAs

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Though it earned MTV its best ratings since 2002, the main problem with the Video Music Awards last night wasn’t Chelsea Handler’s emcee skills — which combined enough off-color commentary and speedy segues to satisfy any VMA historian — or even the slim selection of on-hand celebrities. No, the VMA s came up short because it refused to be anything but a staid awards show stocked with musical performances and statue handouts, and that’s exactly what the VMA s is supposed to be an antidote against . Here are three mainstays from previous ceremonies that were missing from the VMA s this year:

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On DVD: Lost on Planet Werner with My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

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Like a missile out of the declared Hollywood underground, the Werner Herzog-directed, David Lynch-produced, Michael Shannon-starring My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done lands in your yard and dares you to get near, lest it finally detonate. Fresh to DVD this week, it’s not a movie you can bring expectations to, unless you’re expecting a cranial injury and a case of vertigo.

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Michael Sheen on His Latest TIFF Premiere, the Art of Preparation and Breaking Dawn Limbo

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Another year of TIFF almost always means another year featuring Michael Sheen, and 2010 is no different. Though the subject most definitely is: The Welsh stage and screen veteran arrives this week with the world premiere of Beautiful Boy , featuring Sheen opposite Maria Bello as a dissolving married couple who must relearn how to live with each other after their son goes on a mass murder-suicide gun rampage at his college. Writer-director Shawn Ku’s debut feature goes a few places you might expect and a lot more you probably wouldn’t; Sheen spoke about the film, his role, his diligence at character “fusion,” and intriguing news about his future (or possible lack thereof) with the Twilight franchise.

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The 9 Most Scathing Critical Responses to Chelsea Handler’s VMA Performance

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Note to future Video Music Award hosts: Television critics are generally not fans of herpes humor, pre-taped sketches parodying sexual harassment, overtly sexual come-ons, one-liners about accidental pregnancies, casual racism, or any kind of material about your promiscuity and/or alcoholism — at least if you’re a female comedian. Take Movieline’s word for it, because Chelsea Handler learned the hard way. Read on for nine criticisms — from fair to downright hateful — of the first lady VMA host in sixteen years.

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