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Deadliest Catch’s Stroke Episode: Did Discovery Channel Show Too Much?

Posted on June 23, 2010 by | Leave a comment

After the cosmos tragically answered the question of whether or not Deadliest Catch Captain Phil Harris would pull through following his stroke last February (he wouldn’t), viewers and other industry observers moved on to the more morbid business of whether Catch should actually show Harris’s stroke. After all, cameras were everywhere on the Cornelia Marie, right? Last night’s episode finally answered the question — while raising a few more. Click through, watch the video and judge for yourself.

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Glee Reality Search Canceled, But Will Fox Still Cast from the Audition Pool?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by | Leave a comment

It’s hard to believe that Glee creator Ryan Murphy could believe in the pitfalls of overexposure — what with all those Glee soundtracks and Madonna tributes and White House appearances — but today’s news proves that Murphy thinks too much of Glee can be a bad thing. The planned Glee reality series, an American Idol -like competition that would air in the run-up to season two and cast three new roles , has been shelved . I know what you’re thinking: What about all those precious MySpace audition videos? Will their wannabe stars ever make it to regionals?

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Newsweek’s Hayes Hater Gets a Promotion

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After Newsweek’s Ramin Setoodeh slammed several openly gay actors — and earned stinging rebukes from Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes — some called for the newsmagazine to fire the writer. Instead, he’s gotten the equivalent of a promotion: Setoodeh will leave the struggling Newsweek to become a senior writer on People’s news and human-interest team, it was announced today. Yes, that’s in addition to the offer extended to Setoodeh to visit the Glee set and, uh, “learn about diversity.” Some self-hating gays have all the luck! [ NY Observer ]

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On DVD: Criterion, Close-Up Brilliantly Take Us Back to the (Iranian) New Wave

Posted on June 22, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Every New Wave must go the way of all flesh eventually, and it does seem as though the Iranian New Wave has faded into history. Don’t tell me you missed it. A prickly, pressurized cataract of neo-realist film wisdom that more or less began for most of us in the early ’90s with the festival appearances of Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up , the Iranian wave may have been the most significant national breakout movement since Godard bounced his day job. A product if anything was of the country’s Islamic revolution, the films (by Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahman Ghobadi, Jafar Panahi, etc.) weren’t stylish tubthumpers but patient and elliptical puzzles, humane but challenging, machine-pressed by the Sharia strictures on society and media into a kind of whole-grain eloquence.

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Buzz Break: New Rob Reiner Film Looks Flipping Cute

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What’s On: Tumbling for Trivia

Posted on June 22, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Downfall , ABC’ s new entry in the legacy of game shows with a “falling” conceit, debuts tonight. Could you answer general knowledge questions on a skyscraper that threatened to collapse beneath you? What if Chris Jericho was reading the questions with the ferocity of a middle-schooler who eats cane sugar for breakfast? What if the show turned into an upsetting WCW retread at a moment’s notice? With Jericho, that’s always a possibility. You can bow out now.

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Andy Rooney to Never Ever Ever Ever Retire

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In an interview yesterday, 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney revealed that — shockingly — he was not at all influenced by Amanda Bynes’ sudden decision to quit the business . Said the 91-year-old CBS personality, “How long am I going to work? How long am I going to live? That’s the question. I will work until I drop, or until I lose my head. Until somebody tells me different, I’m not going to quit.” Here’s to another decade worth of viewer mail rants and complaints about crowded shopping malls. [ NYP ]

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When Will Pope Joan — AKA the Lady-Pope Biopic — Come to the U.S.?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by | Leave a comment

There is so very much to recommend the new film Pope Joan , the epic German-made, English-language biopic of the legendary (and, many would say, apocryphal) ninth-century woman who ascended to the papal throne while posing as a man. First of all, there’s the idea of a woman ascending to the papal throne, which is endlessly intriguing. Then there’s the other part of her myth, which involved her having a secret lover and a child before she was discovered and torn apart by a vicious mob . Last and hardly least, John Goodman plays her successor, Pope Sergius III, who is the only pope thought to have ordered the murder of a another. Pulpy! And of course the Vatican hates it. So when can we see it in the U.S. ?

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Meet Kenny Wormald, Your New Footloose Lead

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Back when the Footloose remake had Zac Efron set to star for his High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, it seemed like a no-brainer proposition, but as Efron, Ortega, and then fill-in lead Chace Crawford left the project, Footloose had less and less reason for being. Still, Paramount pressed on, and new director Craig Brewer has now cast a virtual unknown to fill the dance slippers of Efron and Crawford. Let’s meet him!

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The Case Against More Installments of Toy Story

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Aside from the brief blip of Toy Story 2 in 1999, it seemed that Pixar was a company averse to creating sequels; now, though, they’re positively swamped by them. Toy Story 3. Cars 2 . A second installment of Monsters Inc . And now, while Toy Story 3 had been commonly regarded as the end of that franchise, director Lee Unkrich is reopening the door. “We know that people love the characters, love Woody and Buzz, and would hate to say good-bye to them completely,” Unkrich told MSN. “I don’t know that there would ever be a ‘ [Toy Story] 4 .’ We don’t have any plans for one — but we are trying to find ways to keep the characters alive. We have announced we’re going to do a short film in front of Cars 2 that uses the Toy Story characters. We’re going to keep them alive; they’re not going away forever.” What I’m saying is… maybe they should?

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