Great news this week out of Good Morning America. Robin Roberts will resume her full-time duties with the program following Labor Day, making the announcement in an interview with Vanity Fair and joking about how she’s managing to sneak in one more four-day work week due to the holiday. Robin Roberts to Make Full-Time GMA Return The anchor underwent a bone marrow transplant last September after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. She returned to Good Morning American in February, after taking more than six months of medical leave and has slowly been working her way back up to regular status, even interviewing Michelle Obama along the way. She also hosted ABC’s red carpet coverage of the Academy Awards and received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPYs in July. We send Robin our very best and, wait, if you listen closely… that sound you hear is Matt Lauer crying.
Jessica Simpson’s best friend and former assistant CaCee Cobb and Donald Faison, her husband, have welcomed their first child together. It’s a boy! The actor broke the news Friday on Twitter: “Yesterday @caceecobb and I welcomed the most amazing little boy into our lives! Oh Happy Day!!” CaCee Cobb, 35, shared the Tweet and added, “The happiest day of my life.” The couple, who has been together nearly seven years, wed December 2012. Donald Faison, 39, is also dad to four (!) other children: Son Kobe, 11, twins Dade and Kaya, 13, and son Sean, 16, from two previous relationships. Being a first-time mom can be tough going, but Cobb had/has the benefit of Jessica Simpson, now a mother of two, offering guidance along the way. “They hang out all the time anyway, but now they hang out and talk baby stuff, look at baby stuff online, and go shopping for baby stuff together,” Faison said. “Imagine, you and your best friend pregnant at the same time … CaCee’s loving it.” Congratulations to the happy couple and family!
Shane Black goes deep into the villain’s origins and sheds the comic’s Chinese stereotypes along the way. By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Kara Warner Ben Kingsley as Mandarin in “Iron Man 3” Photo: Walt Disney Pictures
Thank you so much to everyone that tweeted #JustinMeetKrissy and helped trend it. Thank you so much to BieberFever.com for giving me the chance to finally meet Justin! I never in a million years thought I would actually win the contest and meet Justin, but it happened and it just proves dreams do come true. Never give up on your dreams. It may take a while for the moment to finally happen, but when the time is right and you do meet Justin, the wait will be so worth it. Thanks so much again to Justin for being the sweetest boy in the whole world and to everyone that helped me along the way. -Krissy (@BiebersPerfect) Originally posted here: Thank you so much to everyone that tweeted #JustinMeetKrissy and…
I am not a fan of Jennifer Lawrence…but apparently people are….she’s so fucking hyped up….even though she’s average looking…but she’s attached herself to a massively marketed movie…and that shit makes people care…but luckily I’m not human…and hate her…but will post her anyway… HERE SHE IS IN AN UNRELATED HOT PANTSLESS PHOTOSHOOT FOLLOW THIS LINK
Joanna Krupa has mastered the bottom feeding…finally…people care about her all thanks to some horribly scripted show sent from hell to remind us that gold diggers are as trashy and disgusting as we originally thought…I mean here she is hustling a bikini….like the days of shooting for Maxim for 100 bucks…in a bikini…hoping to secure more fans….were a lifetime ago….cuz once a bottom feeder…not always a bottom feeder if you commit to your body feeding and fuck a lot of rich guys along the way… She’s useless trash, but her body’s goood in a bikini and that’s something worth looking at, if you like bodies that are good in bikinis…. TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
An emotional Andy Roddick cried Wednesday as he said goodbye to his fans following his final match, a loss to Juan Martin del Potro at the 2012 U.S. Open. “Wow. For the first time in my career, I’m not sure what to say,” the teary-eyed, always candid 30-year-old former World No. 1 said. “Where do I start?” “Since I was a kid, I’ve been coming to this tournament. I felt lucky just to sit where all of you are sitting today, to watch this game and to see the champions who have come and gone and I’ve loved every minute of it.”
An emotional Andy Roddick cried Wednesday as he said goodbye to his fans following his final match, a loss to Juan Martin del Potro at the 2012 U.S. Open. “Wow. For the first time in my career, I’m not sure what to say,” the teary-eyed, always candid 30-year-old former World No. 1 said. “Where do I start?” “Since I was a kid, I’ve been coming to this tournament. I felt lucky just to sit where all of you are sitting today, to watch this game and to see the champions who have come and gone and I’ve loved every minute of it.”
An Olympics-themed film program sounds like the kind of project that would drive most cinema curators bonkers. I mean, there’s Jim Thorpe: All American , if you want to tell a really sad tale at a moment when we’re supposed to be stoking the thrill of American victory. And then there’s Cool Runnings , which I’ve long thought of as the ideal film for herbal triathletes: mighty-lunged consumers of pot, hash and Salvia. Lucky for Westchester residents, The Pelham Picture House , a non–profit film organization operating out of a beautifully restored 1921 single-screen movie house in Pelham, NY has risen to the challenge with Faster, Higher, Stronger: The Olympics on Film. Through Thursday, the eve of the Games’ star-studded opening ceremony in London, the theater is showing a creatively curated selection of pictures that captures the highs, lows and entirely made-up madcap comedy that the Olympics have produced. On Wednesday, the schedule includes Walk, Don’t Run , the 1966 film which starred Cary Grant in his last role. He plays a businessman who can’t find lodging during the 1964 Tokyo games. Grant ends up sharing an apartment with Samantha Eggar and fixing her up with an American athlete played by Jim Hutton. Hijinks ensue. Also on the schedule: Miracle , the 2004 picture that stars Kurt Russell as the coach of the 1980 Olympic hockey team who brought home gold after defeating the Soviet team against all odds. Yung Chang’s China Heavyweight documentary, which follows former Chinese boxing star and state coach Qi Moxiang as recruits Olympic hopefuls from the impoverished villages of Sichuan province. Other films that have already played in the program include Laurens Grant’s documentary Jesse Owens, the Oscar-winning One Day in Munich , about the Palestinian organization Black September’s kidnapping of athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and Warrior Champions, Craig and Brent Renaud’s documentary about disabled Iraq War vets pursuing the Olympic dream. Jim Thorpe: All American did not make the cut, but Cool Runnings, a comedy inspired by the 1988 Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, gets multiple screenings on Wednesday and Thursday. Leave your blunts at home, though. The late, great John Candy is in the movie, and just looking at him can produce uncontrollable fits of laughter even when you’re totally straight. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter Follow Movieline on Twitter
Hobbit director Peter Jackson is nothing if not a man of the people, so when he took to San Diego’s Comic-Con earlier this month to present footage to 6,000+ lucky fans shortly after wrapping, he recorded a video diary to share with the rest of the Lord of the Rings faithful. Watch as Jackson navigates the perils of press junkets and Hall H’s screaming fans, filming on his trusty iPhone along the way! Or, y’know… skip ahead a few minutes to fantastic 10+ minutes of behind-the-scenes peeks from the set of The Hobbit . The set footage is the real treat for fans hungry for Hobbit peeks, but you’ve got to also hand it to Jackson and his videography crew for interviewing just about everybody involved in production, down to the freaking key grip. And yet, my favorite part? Mark Hadlow in costume as the Dwarf Dori, quoting Anchorman . Runner-up line of the vid: “I’ve never worked on such a hairy movie.” The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey hits theaters December 14, with its conclusion, There and Back Again , following in 2013. [ Peter Jackson via Facebook ]
