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Ex-SNLer Michaela Watkins Takes On the Comic Stylings of Andie MacDowell

Jason Patric Boards HBO’s Blogging Sensation

Another day, another reason to track HBO’ s comedy pilot Tilda . This time, Jason Patric has signed on to co-star in the project, which already stars Diane Keaton as the title character — a powerful Hollywood blogger — as well as Ellen Page, Wes Bentley , David Harbour and Leland Orser in supporting roles. Patric will assume the role of Tilda’s sworn enemy, Andrew Brown, the mastermind behind a media empire. So, Jeff Zucker? [ Deadline ]

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On DVD: How Does Stagecoach Stack Up Against Its Myth?

Few American movies have been as relentlessly canonized as John Ford’s Stagecoach — the ’65 Ford Mustang of Golden Era genre films. It’s an institution by now, from AFI tabulations to various best-ever lists (Luchino Visconti!) to National Film Registry entry to Oscar nominations (and one win, for Thomas Mitchell, who appeared in four other films in 1939, including Gone with the Wind and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ) to timeworn adulation as a piece of timeless western iconography to Orson Welles claiming, in prep for Citizen Kane , to have screened Ford’s movie 40 times. You have to see it, you have to own it.

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Jane Lynch Weds

Congratulations to Glee star Jane Lynch, who married her girlfriend Lara Embry in Massachusetts over the Memorial Day weekend. Upside: a big ol’ TV star just got gay-married! Downside: they had to do it in Massachusetts, because gay marriage is still illegal in California, where the two live. [ Star ]

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CW’s Plain Jane Trailer: Literally Painful Makeovers!

It’s time for the Condescending Makeover clip of the day! The trailer for the CW’ s summer series Plain Jane , where model Louise Roe glams up “plain” women so they can ask out a secret crush, is cruel, callous, and… watchable. Guess what happens when Plain Jane can’t approach a man in the park? Electric shocks are administered, of course!

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Simon Monjack’s Death Linked to ‘Broken-Heart’ Syndrome

Or so suggests a NY Times health blogger, springboarding off last week’s amateur diagnosis by Monjack’s mother (“He’s had heart problems and been in deep distress since Brittany [Murphy] died”) into research about “classic heart attack symptoms after suffering severe emotional stress.” Interesting reading; it’s a hormonal thing. evidently. Nevertheless, when the coroner publicly cites “a huge number of medicines by his bedside,” is it safe to assume that Monjack may have been broken-hearted because he was a little… careless ? Figure that one out, science. [ NYT ]

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James Cameron to Fix Oil Leak

Step aside, Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Costner ! Only one man has the goods to solve this BP oil leak, and his name is James Cameron. According to the AP , the Avatar director met with the EPA today to brainstorm ways to stop the Eywa-harming gusher. As long as it involves a beautiful-but-headstrong female scientist, free diving, and 3-D underwater cameras, consider my ticket bought! [ AP via Wonkette ]

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Victoria’s Secret Confirms Rosie’s Huntington-Whiteley’s Transformers Casting as Human Product Placement

From American Idol duo Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini to any number of WWE stars, human product placement in movies isn’t anything especially new. But there is a certain, synergistic milestone quality to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s casting in Transformers 3 , a foregone conclusion that appears to have been officially confirmed with a new video released by Victoria’s Secret.

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Donald Glover Tweets for Spider-Man

While you were stuffing your face over the holiday weekend — with alcohol, right guys?! — Donald Glover was busy creating an Internet meme. The Community star — spurred on by a commenter to an io9 article suggesting that the actor cast in the Spider-Man reboot should be non-white — has begun campaigning for an audition to play the friendly neighborhood web-slinger. And campaigning in 2010 means a Twitter hashtag (#donald4spiderman) and Facebook pages devoted to making it happen. Hey, it worked for Betty White. [MovieViral via Vulture ]

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The Weekly Andy Cohen WTF Moment: Jerry Seinfeld Calls Out Cohen’s Show as a ‘Jewish Curse’

Why does Bravo’s Senior VP of Production and Programming host a weekly late night talk show where he interviews various reality stars while sipping on a Maker’s Mark? Who knows! Nevertheless, we here at Movieline are going to start covering Andy Cohen’s live oddity Watch What Happens with a regular feature called “The Weekly Andy Cohen WTF Moment.” For the first WTF treatment, Movieline will inspect last night’s typically bizarre episode, which opened with Cohen introducing Jerry Seinfeld as “the most elegant Semite of all the Semites I know” and continued with Seinfeld wondering out loud, “Why am I on this show?”

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