Farrah Abraham’s Teen Mom days are over, but don’t expect you’ve seen the last of the young mom. She’s already cooking up a return to TV … literally! The 21-year-old tells Celebuzz she wants to be a media mogul and exploit her culinary talents … which are hopefully better than her musical talents . “I definitely want to start on my own digital media platform. So, like my YouTube channel and I’ve been messing around with things on there,” she says. “Then, moving on to Food Network, Cooking Channel and maybe WE network,” adds Farrah Abraham . “I think that’s the best place for me moving forward.” That’s just one part of her “empire,” which now includes a memoir, My Teenage Dream Ended , and her debut single ” Finally Getting Up From Rock Bottom .” “I think right now is the time of my life when I can experience, try different things and find the best niche for my career,” says the mother of little Sophia. “I know in my future I want to do more books, open my own restaurant and hopefully have other TV shows [and] be a big part of social efforts.” Best of luck, Farrah. Best of luck. With the Teen Mom finale having closed one chapter in her life, who knows what new ones are still unwritten. [Photo: Fame/Flynet]
Singer Dev made a sex tape apparently. According to TMZ, the video shows the “Dancing in the Dark” singer doing the horizontal mambo night vision style. The Dev sex tape was shot last year with an ex-boyfriend and is being shopped to the highest bidder by a third party. It’s unclear how the tape was acquired. Ooh LA LA! According to TMZ, which luckily (or unluckily) seems to get a screening of these videos, it’s fairly vanilla as far as sex tapes go. Conventional boning. Dev (real name Devin Tailes) is clearly recognizable based on her tattoos – a diamond on her front left shoulder and two sparrows on her lower back. No word yet on whether there’s been any interest in seeing Dev – also the female voice in Far East Movement’s “Like a G6” – fornicate on film. [Photo: WENN.com]
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is officially a mom. The Jersey Shore star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed their baby boy – 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle – into the world this morning. “The world just got another Guido!!!” a Polizzi rep told MTV, which confirmed the baby’s arrival moments ago. “Nicole, Jionni & Enzo are doing great!” Enzo was born at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. around 3 a.m. Sunday, according to MTV, which congratulated Snooki and Jionni LaValle . “We couldn’t be happier for Nicole and Jionni on the healthy delivery of their baby boy!” the network said in a statement. “We are looking forward to Lorenzo’s first trip to the Jersey Shore and can’t wait to see his first animal print onesie.” Jersey Shore will return for a sixth season this fall, and her spinoff Snooki & JWoww has also been picked up for a new season, though it’s unclear the extent to which Enzo will appear on either, or whether he has an agent yet. So there you go. Snooki is a mom . In charge of keeping a small human alive. The Mayans predicted the world will end 12/21/12 … turns out they missed by 118 days, not too bad considering the scope of human civilization. In all seriousness, congratulations to Snooki and Jionni. Welcome Enzo! [Photo: WENN.com]
Oprah’s Cable Television Network (OWN) had been struggling since its inception. However, the queen of media has been committed to boost the network’s ratings. Thanks…
MTV Wants Drake And Chris Brown To Fight Over Rihanna At VMA’s We pretty much already called this one … MTV execs are anxious for Rihanna, Chris Brown and Drake to attend the live Video Music Awards in LA. September 6. A source tells Us Weekly the network set its sights on the trio after Brown, 23, and Drake, 25, brawled over Rihanna, 24, in NYC June 14. “Notice Drake and Chris are both up for Best Male Video,” adds the source. (Also awkward: Rihanna appears in Drake’s nominated “Take Care” video.) “They are hoping a fight breaks out,” the source says. “Ratings galore!” The June 14 fight occurred between Brown and Drake’s entourages at the club W.i.P, with five people sustaining minor injuries. “It was lot of pushing and shoving,” an observer told Us. “People were picking up ice buckets in case they had to throw it. They tore the club apart. It was bad. People went to the hospital!” On Sunday, Rihanna opened up about her relationship with Chris Brown in a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey on Oprah’s Next Chapter. The “We Found Love” singer said she never stopped caring for Brown — even after he was arrested for physically assaulting her in February 2009. “We love each other and we probably always will, and that’s not anything that we’re going to try to change,” Rihanna told host Winfrey, 58. “I think he was the love of my life,” Rihanna added. “He was my first love and I see that he loved me the same way. I truly love him. The main thing for me is he’s at peace. I’m not at peace if he’s not happy or he’s still lonely. I care. It actually matters that he finds that peace.” Anybody think Drizzy and Breezy will actually be dumb enough to scrap it up on camera at the VMA’s? Not to mention, a lot of people got hurt the last time these guys squared off. You’d think MTV would want to avoid lawsuits. Source
Movieline is excited to welcome Alonso Duralde back to the pages of this site with a new regular feature we’re calling High and Low . Every week, the dauntless Duralde will wade through the mind-numbing number of home-entertainment choices out there and recommend two must-see releases: His first pick will be geared for cineastes looking for essential viewing. His second will be aimed at movie lovers seeking out the highest form of guilty pleasure available: the offbeat, the campy, the kitschy and the just plain wacky. Take it away, Alonso: HIGH: Les Vampires (Kino Classics; $34.95 DVD/$39.95 Blu-Ray) Who’s Responsible: Written and directed by Louis Feuillade; starring Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque. What It’s All About: Consisting of 10 serialized chapters, such as “The Severed Head” and “Satanus,” Feuillade’s silent 1915 crime drama follows journalist Philipe (played by Mathé) as he attempts to investigate the notorious syndicate known as The Vampires. (Sorry, Twilight fans, no blood-sucking here.) Over the course of this epic, which has been strung together as a single six-hour-and-40-minute (approximately) movie, we get murder, robbery, identity theft, poison rings, codebooks, gas attacks, paralysis drugs and orgies. What’s not to like? Why it’s Schmancy: Critics of the era despised Les Vampires — even in 1915, crime stories were considered old-fashioned and beneath Feuillade’s abilities — but the serial was embraced by André Breton and other founders of the Surrealist movement, particularly for the way that Feuillade combined a very realistic portrayal of Paris’ streets and sewers with his fantastic tale of masked bandits and their over-the-top skullduggery. More recent fans include Olivier Assayas, whose 1996 Irma Vep featured Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung (playing herself) coming to Paris to star in a remake. (Sexy assassin Irma Vep — played by Musidora in the original — is one of the key members of The Vampires, and her name is, of course, an anagram.) Why You Should Buy It (Again): This two-disc set comes beautifully mastered in HD, from the 1996 35mm restoration produced by the Cinémathèque Française and supervised by Feuillade’s grandson. The score for the silent film was compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. LOW: Godzilla vs. Megalon (Tokyo Shock; $16.99 DVD) Who’s Responsible: Written and directed by Jun Fukuda, story by Takeshi Kimura and Shinichi Sekizawa; starring Katsushiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi. What It’s All About: In this 13th outing for one of Japan’s most enduring franchises, the underground kingdom of Seatopia protests the damage that atomic testing has inflicted upon them by stealing the robot Jet-Jaguar and using it to guide their demon god Megalon to destroy mankind. (Megalon flattens Tokyo first, naturally.) Jet-Jaguar’s inventors use a remote control to regain power over their creation, and the cyborg joins forces with Godzilla to whomp the tar out of both Megalon and giant alien insect Gigan. Why It’s Fun: 1973’s Godzilla vs. Megalon sees the series moving in several entertaining directions; for one thing, the actual Godzilla suit has become more streamlined and less cumbersome, allowing the actor inside (Shinji Takagi, this time) to move around more and to engage in more physical combat. Also, the introduction of Jet-Jaguar came at a time when lots of Japanese kids’ shows, inspired by the success of Ultraman , started throwing in more robots, and giving Godzilla an automaton sidekick with which to defeat the bad guys gives the movie a real jolt. (This is one of those rare films that’s as much fun to watch unadulterated as it is on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .) Why You Need to Buy It (Again): Both the original Japanese version and the English dub, as well as a trailer and photo gallery. Alonso Duralde has written about film for The Wrap , Salon and MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What the Flick?! (The Young Turks Network). He is a senior programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival. He also the author of two books: Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions) and 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books). Follow Alonso Duralde on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Ridley and Tony Scott know a thing or two about indelible movie scenes. So it’s not surprising that the filmmakers behind, respectively the chest burster scene in Alien and the “Bela Lugosi Is Dead”-accompanied blood-drinking scene at the opening of The Hunger would rely on an iconic single image to connect their A&E Network reboot of “Coma” to Michael Crichton’s original 1978 movie adaptation of Robin Cook’s novel about organ harvesting. With a nod to the late Joe Strummer, I like to refer to the image as Coma Girl, and if you troll the Internet or pay attention to mass transit bus advertisements, you’ve probably seen her: an apparently naked woman dangling in the supine position from a series of wires beneath the web address: “Comaconspiracy.com”. A photographic version of that graphic — which smartly manages to be both creepy and titillating in an S&M kinda way (back then, The Story of O was almost as popular as Fifty Shades of Grey is today) — was used in a movie poster for the ’78 film, and Guy Slattery, Executive Vice President of Marketing for A&E tells me that Coma Girl was intentionally used to connect the new production, which is a two-part miniseries, to the Crichton movie. “The original was so impactful and such an iconic image,” Slattery says. “The question was how could we update it and make it more of the moment.” To those ends, Slattery says his department went the graffiti route for the viral teaser campaign that involved “legal tagging” in New York and Los Angeles, and online clips in which, for instance, “hacktvists” post the graphic of Coma Girl on the Times Square Jumbotron to draw attention to mysterious goings on at the foreboding looking Jefferson Institute. Slattery explains that a subsequent campaign will feature actual “visualizations” of the hanging coma victims. “There are some very cool technological innovations that are used” in the A&E series, such as a silvery skin like “suit and feeding tubes” that are used to keep the coma victims alive. “I think fans are going to be blown away,” says Slattery of the series which will air over two nights, Sept. 3 and 4, and stars Lauren Ambrose, Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis, James Woods, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Dreyfuss. The marketing executive says the Scott brothers’ Coma will be a “modern telling” of Cook’s story. “It’s about corporations overstepping the bounds and putting profits before morality.” Cook’s story was ahead of it’s time in the late ’70s, and now more relevant than ever thanks to advances in medicine since then. Slattery also hinted that the A&E production may also reference another memorable scene in Crichton’s movie–in which an ill-fated janitor is murdered by electrocution and freaky blue sparks shoot from one of his eyeballs. “Without revealing too much, there is a creepy scene involving an eye socket,” he says. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
It’s become all but certain that a memorable star from a previous season is chosen for the upcoming season of ABC’s The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. This year gave us two very popular candidates in Arie Luyendyk, Jr., and Sean Lowe, both of whom lost to Jef Holm in the Emily Maynard sweepstakes. Arie and Sean would both be slam-dunk picks for the network, while Roberto Martinez – The Bachelorette winner in 2010 – is said to be out of the mix. That leaves Arie Luyendyk, Jr. , and Sean Lowe as co-frontrunners. Which of the two would you prefer to see this winter? Vote below!
Heeeeey Miss Washington… Kerry Washington’s Photo Spread From Vogue Italia’s July Issue Kerry Washington is certainly nothin’ to play with, the girl is BAD. Intelligent, beautiful, successful and with her new HIT ABC drama ‘Scandal’ getting all the buzz this year, it’s no wonder that Vogue Italia reached out to her for their July issue. Legendary designer Robert Cavalli put together a 60′s-era theme for the shoot and Kerry OWNS it! Hit the flipper to see the rest of the pictures from Kerry’s amazing spread! Images via Vogue Italia
