Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Christian Bale’s awards horse enters the gate… A rare unadaptable Stephen King book may yet find its way to the screen… Andy Samberg and NBC draw an SNL lawsuit… and more.
I’m still waiting for anyone from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to bother replying to my request for comment about yesterday’s Brett Ratner “rehearsing is for fags” imbroglio , but AMPAS president Tom Sherak has officially weighed in on the controversy: “He knew it was wrong and he issued that response as quickly as any human being ever has. The bottom line is, this won’t and can’t happen again. It will not happen again.” So much for the #RatnerFreeOscars ; it was nice to imagine while it lasted.
Of course The Muppets begins with a happy-clappy street symphony that looks like an outtake from Bjork’s “It’s Oh So Quiet.” It’s The Muppets , dammit! Perkiness on tap, puppetry on parade. Here, in this opening scene from the new movie, Jason Segel and his Muppet brother Walter don matching suits and sing about lovin’ life . Because they do.
Only just released online, this video was a gift to Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner for their work on the series before it was handed off two years ago. According to John Barrowman’s twitter, it probably wasn’t supposed to be released at all – but there are a lot of really happy Doctor Who Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : [Geeks are Sexy] Discovery Date : 30/10/2011 04:48 Number of articles : 2