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Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson Plead To Be On ‘Glee’

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I was gonna get up on the stage tonight with them and start dancing,’ Wilson says of her love for the show at the Emmys. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Kara Warner Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at the 2010 Emmy Awards Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images Tom Hanks may have won a ton of awards in his career, including an Emmy on Sunday night for his work on the HBO miniseries “The Pacific,” but there’s still one thing that the Oscar winner has yet to do: He wants a part on “Glee,” as does his wife and fellow Gleek, Rita Wilson. ” ‘Glee,’ oh my God! Yes! Oh please. Call [show creator] Ryan [Murphy] up! I was gonna get up on the stage tonight with them and start dancing,” Wilson teased to MTV News at the HBO Emmy afterparty, where she tried to think up what her choice tune for the show would be. “For ‘Glee’? Hold on!” Her husband, on the other hand, had the perfect set of tunes for his wife to perform on the hit show. “You work for MTV, can’t you make that happen? Bring it on! Bring it on!” he joked. ” ‘All the Single Ladies’! Oh no! ‘Do You Believe in Love’ by Cher!” (Hanks famously sang the Beyonc

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Piers Morgan Weighs In On ‘X-Factor’ Auto-Tune Controversy At Emmys

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘Complete baloney,’ Morgan says of voice altering being used on talent shows he judges. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Jim Cantiello Piers Morgan at the 2010 Emmy Awards Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ Getty Images Last week, as rumors began to circulate that Simon Cowell’s British talent competition “X-Factor” used Auto-Tune to alter contestants’ voices, Piers Morgan, who is a judge on both “America’s Got Talent” and “Britain’s Got Talent,” weighed in on the employment of the vocal-altering device on reality singing competitions, insisting they had never been used on his own programs. Morgan also addressed murmurings that Susan Boyle, who competed on “Britain’s Got Talent” last year, had also been Auto-Tuned to improve her vocals. “You’ve heard Susan [Boyle] sing live here. Sounds the same. Complete baloney,” he told MTV News on the red carpet at the “Entertainment Tonight” Emmy afterparty. “They also said we’re apparently scripted with our lines as judges. News to me. It would have made life a lot easier if someone had told me what to say!” The bottom line, as explained by Morgan, is that people are making a big deal out of nothing. “I think it’s all been massively exaggerated,” he explained. “I think everyone should calm down a bit. Susan sings better actually live than she does in the auditions anywhere. That’s what all the fuss is about anyway. I wouldn’t worry. It’s an entertainment show.” According to reports last week, after Cowell heard about the allegations, he ordered an immediate ban on Auto-Tune use in future shows, while insisting to friends that he was shocked by the claims and plans to launch an investigation. But an unnamed staffer on his show said, “It was an open secret on the show that Auto-Tune was used to both make contestants slightly more on-key or off-key. On some occasions it was used to such extremes that while the contestant may have sounded like they were hitting the right note, the backing band had gone right out of tune. … It has been used for a long time on the show, both for the auditions and the live shows.” What do you think of the controversy surrounding the use of Auto-Tune in TV talent competitions? Sound off in the comments! Related Photos 2010 Emmy Awards After-Parties 2010 Emmys Red Carpet Fashions

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Jane Lynch Scores Supporting Actress Award At Emmys

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘Glee’ creator Ryan Murphy also takes home some hardware, for Best Direction of a Comedy. By Jocelyn Vena Jane Lynch accepts Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy at 2010 Emmy Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Jane Lynch won’t be throwing any slushees in the faces of Emmy voters this year. The woman who weekly terrorizes the kids of “Glee” as Sue Sylvester took home the statue for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy on Sunday night and seamlessly combined humor and true surprise in her acceptance speech. “Thank you so much,” she told the crowd from the stage, clutching her Emmy in a one-shoulder purple dress. “This is outlandish!” Lynch went on to thank her family and “Glee” co-stars in true Lynch-ian fashion. “I want to thank my parents on the South Side of Chicago for raising us to the sounds of musical theater and being so unintentionally hilarious,” she said in her speech. “I love being an actor. I love being an ensemble.” Later, recalling the calming spirituality of Buddhism, she joked, “Although I am not Buddhist, they do seem like a very calm people.” She had the audience in stitches when she said actors “have no choice or any marketable skills. I have to thank my lord and creator [‘Glee’ mastermind] Ryan Murphy for creating this role of a lifetime and the cast who are so young and fresh-faced, and when I’m not seething with jealousy, I’m so proud of you. And I love you my wife Laura and my little girl, Haden.” Later on, Murphy also snatched up a prize for Best Direction of a Comedy. In his speech, he shared with the room why he was inspired to make the show: “Thank you so much. I’m so shocked. I would like to thank Fox … Tom Ford for the tux, my beautiful cast, whom I love so much. ‘Glee’ is about the importance of arts education, so I would like to dedicate this to all my teachers who taught me to sing and finger-paint.” What did you think of Lynch’s win and acceptance speech? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Jimmy Fallon Bids Farewell To ‘Lost,’ ’24,’ ‘Law & Order’ At Emmys

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Host channels Elton John, Boyz II Men and Green Day for musical montage. By Jocelyn Vena Jimmy Fallon performs onstage at the 2010 Emmy Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images “In memoriam” segments at awards shows tend to be serious montages featuring some of the fallen stars of the year prior. But at this year’s Emmy Awards, the night’s MC, Jimmy Fallon, decided to have a little fun with the yearly tradition by saying farewell to several of the beloved television shows that went off the air this past year. Dressed as Elton John, Fallon sat down at a pink grand piano and sang his own version of “Candle in the Wind” in honor of the now-defunct “24.” During the song, he changed the lyrics to: “Goodbye ’24’/ Though I never watched you on TV/ I missed one episode/ Had to buy the DVDs/ [Jack Bauer] never going to the men’s room, how did he hold it in?/ I would like to thank you for the torturing/ And the first black president.” Transitioning into a member of Boyz II Men, Fallon said goodbye to onetime television mainstay “Law & Order” with his take on “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday.” “How do I say goodbye, ‘Law & Order’?/ The good crimes, that changing cast/ I thought we’d get to season 21, but now that sound has gone away/ But at least there’s still that one with Mariska Hargitay,” he crooned to the laughing crowd. Fallon then became Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and, strumming his guitar, changed up the band’s hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” as a ballad to fan favorite “Lost.” “The island it was mythical, but in the end they died/ I didn’t understand it, but I tried,” he concluded the song. What did you think of Fallon’s show-farewell musical montage? Let us know in the comments! Related Photos 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards 2010 Emmys Red Carpet Fashions

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Fierce…Or Flop?

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We wonder what America’s Next Top Model would have to say about Tyra Banks’ satin jumpsuit. From the tapered ankles and sleeves to the weird wing-like draping at the arms, we don’t know what’s worse… Her outfit… Or her creepy “smile eyes.” Related Links: Daytime Emmy Red Carpet Fashions

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Rihanna Gets Serious On Rated R Album Cover

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Black-and-white image features pensive close-up of singer’s face By Gil Kaufman Rihanna’s Rated R Photo: Def Jam After the blood-dripping song title, razor’s-edge logo and barbed-wire wrap she wore on the cover of her “Russian Roulette” single , it wasn’t unreasonable to expect that Rihanna’s upcoming Rated R album would feature a similarly dangerous image.

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