It’s unclear if she was just really excited by President Obama’s reelection win last night, but Diane Sawyer appeared drunk on ABC News. We’re talking like full-on wasted here. Slurring words, bobbing, weaving, rambling about the music, waxing philosophical about symbolism in the exclamation point in Obama’s slogan, generally making no sense … you name it. With due respect to Donald Trump’s rant , this was the LOL and WTF performance of the night. Check out these amazing, possibly drunk Diane Sawyer highlights and see for yourself: Diane Sawyer Drunk?
Steel yourself, cinephiles: A sequel to the 1942 classic Casablanca , one of the greatest films of all time , could happen in the near future. But while practically 99 percent of all Hollywood sequels and spin-offs seem like cash-grabs that have no good reason for existing, is there a case to be made for revisiting the saga of star-crossed lovers Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca 2 ? Consider the source of said would-be sequel, per the New York Post : Original Casablanca screenwriter Howard Koch, who shared the Oscar for Best Writing with fellow scribes Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. Blacklisted a few years after Casablanca became a hit, Koch penned a sequel in 1980 revolving around the grown son of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), who goes searching for his father in the Middle East. Unearthed by The Post ‘s Lou Lumenick, Koch’s 1960s-set Return to Casablanca synopsis goes a little something like this: “[Laszlo and Ilsa] attempt to locate Rick after he and Renault left to join the Free French forces opposing Rommel in North Africa. They have had no success. After leaving Casablanca for America, Ilsa learned she was pregnant. She gave birth to a boy who grew up in America. The real father of the boy, it turns out, was not Laszlo but Rick. He was conceived the night Ilsa came to Rick’s place to plead for the Letters of Transit . . . The secret was not kept from Laszlo, but being the kind of man he was and owing so much to Rick, he adopted the child and treated him as his own son. The boy was named Richard, and he grew up to be a handsome, tough-tender young man reminiscent of his father. He had been told the truth about his origin and has a deep desire to find his real father, or at least more about him, since Rick’s heroic at actions in Casablanca have become legendary. Richard finds himself very much a stranger in the Arab world, a world now under Arab rule since the expulsion of the Germans and Vichy French who occupied Casablanca during the war.” Richard becomes involved with an Arab guerilla fighter named Joan as he searches out the truth of his father’s fate in the script, which Warner Bros. passed on in 1989. Producer Cass Warner, grand-niece of Jack Warner, took up Koch’s cause and brought it back to the studio, who turned it down again – but, she says, left open a window of opportunity. “Warner Bros. passed on it a year, a year and a half ago,” Warner told The Post. “But they indicated they were willing to revisit this if I could find a filmmaker they were interested in working with.” And who in young Hollywood could play the son of Rick and Ilsa today? Let Casablanca expert Aljean Harmetz weigh in: “Certainly not Robert Pattinson , though maybe that guy who’s popping up everywhere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt .” Yes, “that guy” Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be a solid choice. He could even sing an acoustic cover of “As Time Goes By” for the sequel soundtrack! Or, you know, David Thomson’s pick : Tom Hardy . But seriously, as perfect as Casablanca ‘s wonderfully ambiguous, utterly romantic unhappy ending is, don’t we all wonder what became of Rick and Ilsa? (And their respective chosen life partners, Laszlo and Renault?) A part of me loves the idea of finding out that they waited out the war and found their way back to one another again, the way we always hoped deep down inside that they would, pulled by that invisible thread that time, place, and violent world-changing upheaval couldn’t sever. Or maybe, probably, that wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying as it sounds now. How would you like to see a Casablanca follow-up unfold, if at all? [ New York Post ]
So when I heard there was video of Brooke Burke getting embarrassed on the set of some lingerie photoshoot, I had my fingers crossed it involved a wardrobe malfunction. Turns out though, she was just caught dancing to PSY’s Gangnam Style . I’m not going to lie, that song is insanely catchy and Brooke can definitely shake it. I just wish she had been caught reenacting some other viral video on a bed. Like, say, One Night in Paris. Is that really too much to ask?
So when I heard there was video of Brooke Burke getting embarrassed on the set of some lingerie photoshoot, I had my fingers crossed it involved a wardrobe malfunction. Turns out though, she was just caught dancing to PSY’s Gangnam Style . I’m not going to lie, that song is insanely catchy and Brooke can definitely shake it. I just wish she had been caught reenacting some other viral video on a bed. Like, say, One Night in Paris. Is that really too much to ask?
I bought tickets for the 2nd Chicago show (October 24th) in June and it felt so far away. My parents told me we were going to Vegas on September 29th so they said I could buy tickets for his concert in Vegas on the 30th and I was extremely excited. We bought the tickets a week or so in advance. We were staying at the hotel where the concert was so I was pretty confident on meeting him, but there was like 300 other girls staying there too so my chances decreased a lot. But that didn’t stop me so my friends that I met, my sister, and I waited a really long time for him all over the hotel the night he was going to arrive, but we never saw him. The day of the concert we met Cody Simpson by the elevators and that was really cool, especially since he remembered me from before. The concert was AMAZING and just so awesome, like best show ever. After the concert we waited outside for him, but still nothing. We met Alfredo by the elevators at like midnight and that was seriously so cool. He is the nicest person ever. He stayed and talked to us for a little bit. That made me really happy that we met him, but still no Justin. Justin left the hotel the next morning so I was bummed out. Still the whole trip was amazing. I still had the Chicago show to look forward to and a possible chance to meet him. I entered the BieberFever contest for Vegas and Chicago, with low hopes of winning since everyone kept telling me that I wasn’t going to win. I didn’t win for the Vegas show so I was kinda bummed out, but I knew I still had a chance in Chicago. I also made my collection bigger and better than before. A week before the Chicago show, I was talking with a lot of Chi-town beliebers and my friends about going to try and find Justin in Chicago. Then the night before the concert, I got an e-mail telling me I won the BieberFever contest. I was crying and shocked. I couldn’t grasp that I was meeting Justin the next day. I kept saying “I’M MEETING JUSTIN BIEBER TOMORROW!!” I brought my sister with me. I decided that I didn’t need to stalk Justin anymore since I was going to meet him. I got my wristbands and then they told us we needed to form groups of six to meet him. While we were waiting in line, Dan Kanter came outside and I said “Hi Dan!” and he said “Hey!”. My group was the 2nd group to go in for the people who won them. Kenny was standing in front of the M&G so I talked to him then I asked him for a hug! Kenny is so cute and nice. He was giving me breathing lessons before we went in. Someone was holding Justin’s hamster, Pac, so we got to see him in his little hamster ball. Then it was time to go in. I got right next to Justin, said a few things to him, and gave him like four hugs! His face is perfect. I kept saying “He is so pretty and flawless.” He is truly a great person. Justin made sure everyone got a hug and talked to him. Even though it was extremely rushed it was still amazing and it was a moment I would never get back or forget. The concert was amazing and even better the second time! I was crying during the concert knowing I had just met him. I never thought I would meet my idol, but it happened and I am so extremely blessed. Don’t ever give up because it will happen someday! -@anniebrennan21 Link: I bought tickets for the 2nd Chicago show (October 24th) in June…
If you weren’t around for the premiere of Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, then chances are you’re not aware how much he — and the team of writers, producers and comic talent that put on the show five nights a week — changed the face of late-night TV. Dave challenged and, in some cases, blew up the conventions of the talk-show genre and rewrote the playbook that Conan O’Brien , Craig Ferguson and the Jimmys — Kimmel and Fallon — are using today. Now on CBS, Letterman is still going strong, and, in 1991, his success begat Worldwide Pants Inc, which has produced the television series Everybody Loves Raymond and Ed. The company’s CEO Rob Burnett began as an intern on Late Night in 1985 and rose to become executive producer of the current CBS incarnation of Letterman’s show as well as the co-creator, with Jon Beckerman, of Ed and Knights of Prosperity . Although Worldwide Pants made its first foray into film production with the 2005 indie feature Strangers with Candy , Burnett has expanded the company’s presence in the medium with two projects that also involve him personally. In September, he made his directorial debut with We Made This Movie , a funny, unsentimental coming-of-age comedy that he co-wrote with Beckerman. Worldwide Pants is a producer of that film as well as Burnett’s next picture, which was announced in mid-October: an adaptation of Jonathan Evison’s novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving . Movieline spoke to Burnett about his move into film, which, as you might expect from someone who cut his show-business teeth on Dave’s groundbreaking NBC show, has been anything but conventional. Working with a miniscule budget and determined to remain true to the film’s do-it-yourself plot, Burnett and Beckerman worked with a cast of unknowns and crowd-sourced the music through Red Bull Soundstage. They also orchestrated an online premiere via an alliance with SnagFilms , which Burnett talks about in the interview. There’s also the plot of We Made This Movie. Available via iTunes and other digital formats, it is not your mother’s coming-of-age movie. The film follows the exploits of Eric “LeBron” James and his crew of high-school friends in fictional Buckstown, NY, who plan to escape the drudgery of working in their local chicken-processing plant by making a Jackass -meets- Sacha Baron Cohen -style movie that will make them famous. LeBron’s hare-brained plan involves getting the movie into the hands of hometown hero Bill Pullman , who makes a memorable cameo in the movie, but even before that happens, there’s a little catch. Like so many teens looking for fame in the age of YouTube, they have cameras but no talent, and their attempts to film comedy skits that, for instance, involve one character performing celebrity impressions while sitting on a toilet, and LeBron donning a chicken suit and walking through town with what looks like a massive erection end up being funny for all of the wrong reasons. But as you watch the teens’ screen dreams bite the dust, another accidental — and realistic — movie emerges about friendship and coming of age in a small town. Movieline: Tell me about your next project first. I read that you just bought the rights to an interesting book. Rob Burnett: It’s this lovely little book called The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving that I’m hoping to adapt into a film. It’s by Jonathan Evison, and I just fell in love with it. It’s a beautiful little story about this guy who has suffered a great tragedy in his life. He gets a job as a caregiver and starts taking care of this kid with Muscular Dystrophy. The guy is emotionally paralyzed, and the kid is actually paralyzed. It’s very touching, but what I responded to is it’s not maudlin at all. It’s a kind of a buddy movie where they go on the road to find this kid’s father. If I can find a way to do it justice in writing a good script, it could be a nice little movie. I’m really excited about it. That’s what I really like about We Made This Movie . In the way that good comedy tells the truth, this movie is unsentimental about dreams. It absolutely is about dreams. There’s this adolescent energy about LeBron. He doesn’t want to go work at that chicken plant. He’s got big dreams. We’re living in a world right now where, in terms of making a movie, anyone can do it. But just because you can doesn’t necessarily mean you can. [Laughs]. You know? LeBron and his friends are very naïve. Even their plan is naïve: they’re going to get their movie in the hands of Bill Pullman, who’s from their hometown. And that alone is going to make them famous. I’m not sure Bill Pullman himself can get a movie made. What we love about the movie is that they try and they persevere. Jon Beckerman and I wrote this together, and there’s a lot of similarity between this and Ed , the show we did on NBC for four years. There’s a real bittersweet quality to the movie. What these characters don’t realize is the thing they really have is each other. They have friendship. They have these high school bonds with each other. And in the end, that’s largely what their movie becomes about. They don’t realize that. They don’t set out to do that. Jon and I have always been very interested in doing a coming of age movie. I love that time of life. Those memories you have; the bonding that goes on there. Your life is still wet cement. But we never quite found an access point until we got the idea: what about a group of kids who are trying to make a comedy film but accidentally make a coming-of-age movie? Some of the early scenes of the movie, where, for instance, the kids film the ‘Chicken with a Boner’ man-on-the-street segment and put up all those index cards with dubious ideas on them, seem to be inspired by ‘Late Show’ segments. That could have been Chris Elliott in a chicken suit instead of LeBron. We actually shot some of the stuff Letterman remote style. We were out on the street shooting with real people. So, yeah, a lot of it was influenced structurally by the way we do Letterman. But what we thought was interesting was that, unlike Dave or Chris Elliott or Sacha Baron Cohen, our kids aren’t good at what they’re doing. If Chris Elliott were ever to do Chicken with a Boner, he would do it ironically because he’d be making fun of it. These guys are doing Chicken with a Boner as if it’s the funniest thing in the world. In that scene where LeBron is suggesting that they shit into a taco and eat it, it’s so misguided. The thing is, it’s not that far away from the guys at Jackass might do, but whatever you think of the guys at Jackass , they’re really, really good at doing Jackass. LeBron and his friends aren’t even good at that. They’re not fearless, and they’re really not funny. I really liked the scenes where LeBron and some of the other guys show up at their friend Smitty’s house and find him with his sick mother. To me, Smitty is the stand-up comic of the group and those scenes show that comedy often does not come from a pretty place. The interesting thing and the challenging thing about the movie is we’re telling an accidental story. The kids are making a movie that they don’t know they’re making. So, in a different movie, if you’re telling the story of a character who’s taking care of a sick mother, at some point, you just cut to him with his sick mother. We couldn’t do that in this movie. Smitty, in some ways, sums that up. He’s kind of a bastard. He’s screwing up the movie and not taking it seriously from the very first scene. But then we see that not only is this kid taking care of his sick mother, he’s taking care of his brothers, too. Clearly, the father is gone, and he’s holding this all together without a word. You start to see where all of this deep cynicism comes from. That’s kind of the trick of this whole movie. And I think to some extent Smitty’s character sums it up better than any of the other characters. Where did you find such a funny cast of unknowns? The cast is phenomenal. They’re all brand new, really. Arjay Smith, who played LeBron had done some television here and there. And Michael Charles Roman, who played Smitty, had done a lot of commercials as a kid. But the rest of them literally had to join SAG to be in the movie. We auditioned hundreds of kids for these roles. I had open casting calls at NYU. I auditioned 300 kids in one day. We did have casting directors in a traditional way. Barbara McNamara on the East coast, and Bonnie Zane , who cast Ed for us, found Arjay on the West coast. We wanted kids that were funny and could think on their feet, but who could also be a fresh brand that no one had seen before. Given the idea of the movie, we didn’t want to have famous people in the cast. And that was kind of a guiding thought for everything we did. If you look at the direction, I didn’t use any dollies or cranes. The camera is always justified by being held by one of the characters. The movie is intended to have the look and feel of something the kids in the cast would have done themselves. And I think by and large, this is what it would have looked like had they done it themselves. They’re convincing as friends. How did you get them to bond? We shot this movie in 21 days. Holy shit. Seriously? Yes, that’s the appropriate reaction. And when you’re going to shoot for 21 days, you don’t have the luxury of time. If it takes four days to bond on the set, that’s 25 percent of your movie. So, I literally took all of these kids, and I had them live at my house for a week before we shot the movie. Translation: My wife is a saint. They all came to my house in Connecticut, and we also spent some time out at the beach in Long Island. And these kids, as only kids in their early 20s can do, became the best of friends very quickly. In fact, I distinctly remember the first morning of the first day of shooting. We were living in a Holiday Inn Express in Shelton, Conn. God bless the people of Shelton. That’s all I’ll say. We had all moved to this Holiday Inn Express, and we were going to be there for 21 days. The first morning before we went to set, I looked over and I saw one of the kids fart in front of the other kids and not care. The other kids were cracking up about it, and I’m like, we’ve done our job. They’re bonded. Let’s go to work.
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I never thought I would be writing my second Bieber experience. My unexpected Bieber experience took place in Vancouver, October 10th 2012 . I knew all along that Justin was going to perform in Vancouver. Unfortunately, the tickets went on sale the same time as graduation and prom. I didn’t have a job at that time and my mom already spent so much money on my prom dress and other graduation fees. The savings I had were not enough to get me a ticket, even the cheapest one. My friend who I met 2 years ago in Justin’s MY WORLD concert, Amber, were in the same position as me. We went on Craigslist and StubHub but the tickets were so overpriced. Although we didn’t have any tickets, we decided to go to the arena to show our support. About 2 weeks before the concert, Amber and I started to feel bugged and bummed that we didn’t have tickets. We started to come up with a plan so we could get tickets. We entered every radio contest; called in to radio stations at 8. We were very hopeful at first, but then we started losing every contest. I almost lost hope. Although Amber and I live so far away from each other, we met up and discussed what we should do. To make us stand out, we decided to make “BELIEVE” headbands and a poster inspired by Carly Rae’s “Call Me Maybe” lyrics — “ Hey, Justin & Carly. We know this is crazy. We don’t have tickets, could you help us out maybe?” Knowing our chance to get tickets was slim, we started to tweet Justin, Scooter, Allison, Alfredo, Kenny, and Dan letting them know that we’ll be outside the arena 5 hours early holding a big poster. On the 10th, which was the day of the concert, I went to the arena with Amber right after school and got there at 1PM. We stood near the tour busses with other excited Beliebers. With excitement, we put on our headbands and put out our poster. We started singing and chanting hoping Justin would come out and greet us. All of the sudden, Dan came out. The crowd went crazy. Dan seriously is the sweetest. He went to the other side and spent almost an hour talking to fans, signing some stuffs, and taking pictures with fans. My side was getting impatient so we started singing the Dan Kanter Song. Finally he came to us. He took his time to talk to each one of us. Amber and I took picture with him. He even signed my phone case! Amber and I showed him our sign, he read it 3 times then said “awww”. We asked them if he had extra tickets with him, but he didn’t. We saw Allison, I called her name and she waved at me. We were going to ask her to read our sign, but she looked so stressed. After spending more than an hour talking to the fans outside, around 4 PM he went back inside the arena. I was so hungry at that time because I hadn’t had my lunch yet. So Amber & I went to Starbucks to get something to eat. We went back to the arena at 4:45 PM hoping to catch a glimpse of Justin. When we got there, we found out The Beat 94.5 was holding a contest. We were asked to tweet them a certain sentence followed by #BeatBelieber. I went on full force and tweeted them 150 times until I reached tweet limit… While waiting for the announcement, we hung out at The Beat tent. Johnny and Ami, the hosts of The Beat 94.5, wanted to take picture with us and our awesome sign, so we obviously did. Then he went on twitter, tweeted “Best. Sign. Ever” with our picture attached. Finally, at 5PM the Beat announced the winner, it wasn’t me or Amber. My heart literally broke into pieces. That was the last contest of the day. And I lost. I cried. We didn’t know what to do, so we decided to walk around the arena hoping for a miracle to happen. After walking around the arena trying to find Justin’s crew, we went back to where we stood, near the tour busses. It was getting cold, like really cold. I was shivering. Around 6 PM, people started to leave where I was standing. At 7 PM, everyone who got tickets already went in and there were about 10 of us left. Dedicated enough to keep standing outside the arena. We knew Justin was not going to come out, but we didn’t want to leave the arena. We ended up talking to the security guard, he was really nice. At 7:23, Justin tweeted “about to see my fans…my beliebers…and it’s gonna BE ALRIGHT. #showtime #CANADA”. My heart sank. What came across my mind as I was reading his tweet was I’m not gonna get in, it’s too late, Justin is about to come on stage. Amber & I were so close to giving up. We were hopeless. We were so disappointed. But then, Allison came out. She looked less stressed. She went to talk to this group of people (2 little girls and their mom) who apparently are the boss’ family, I’m not sure. I saw her giving them something. I didn’t think she was giving out tickets because when she came out, she was empty handed, didn’t hold anything. Then, she started to walk towards us. Everyone was pushing, the gate almost fell. Allison was like, “Girls, stop! Stop!” We literally stopped doing whatever we were doing. Dead silence. I was shaking so much, not because I was cold, I WAS SO NERVOUS. And then she talked to the security guard. From where I was standing, it looked like Allison asked the security guard something. The security guard answered, then pointed at us — AMBER AND I. She read our sign, then laughed. She came up to us and SHE HANDED ME A TICKET. I SAID THANK YOU, AT LEAST I THINK I DID. THEN, SHE GAVE AMBER A TICKET. After that, everything just went black. I didn’t remember what happened afterwards. My mind went blank. I broke down into tears, didn’t even bother to look at which row we are in. Then I heard Amber said ,”It’s floor tickets, Angela! IT’S FLOOR TICKETS!” My body suddenly became weak, I had to sit on the sidewalk and cried even more. When we got inside the arena, when I saw the stage, when I saw all the seats, I started crying again. I was a mess. We found out we were sitting in ROW 19, 2 rows away from the catwalk. Our hard work paid off. Me and Amber were looking at each other, couldn’t believe what just happened to us. It was so surreal. Then Justin came out on stage in wings, the moment I was waiting for. I was so close to him, it felt like as if I met him. He looked so flawless and angelic. He was glowing and his skin looked so soft. He was and always is PERFECT. Since it was the first Canadian concert, of course he sang “O Canada” together with us. He even said he loved the Canucks! The concert was BEYOND AMAZING. It was worth the wait. Justin and the crew took it to another level. Justin’s voice was OMG SO BEAUTIFUL. He was smiling a lot. You can tell he sings with lots of passion. I sang my heart out. I felt so connected to him. Too bad the concert had to end. He closed the show by singing “Baby”. I had the BEST TIME of my life. So blessed, so thankful. I will never forget the warm feeling I had after the concert ended. He blew my mind. It was the night that I will never forget. It was an experience that couldn’t be bought. To everyone reading this, let me tell you something, NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. If you BELIEVE in it and WORK HARD for it, it will come true . I proved it. Thank you to everyone, especially Justin, Dan, Allison, and the rest of the crew. Justin & the crew are the best people on Earth. I hope you guys had fun in Vancouver! See you next time. – Angela @devitangela Follow this link: I never thought I would be writing my second Bieber experience….
Happy Halloween! This week we have only the tastiest of treats and biggest bags of candy from the horror honeys on Netflix Instant. Scare your pants off with the feral full frontal of Pollyanna McIntosh in The Woman (2011), and say nice BOO-bies to Carice van Houten in Intruders (2012). Then have no fear because there are plenty of French funbags in Sheitan (2006) and House of Voices (2004), and there’s a heaping of Hong Kong hoots in Dream Home (2010). Finally, see bumps in the night from Traci Lords in Not of This Earth (1988), and doomed dame danglers in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). See pics after the jump!
Happy Halloween! This week we have only the tastiest of treats and biggest bags of candy from the horror honeys on Netflix Instant. Scare your pants off with the feral full frontal of Pollyanna McIntosh in The Woman (2011), and say nice BOO-bies to Carice van Houten in Intruders (2012). Then have no fear because there are plenty of French funbags in Sheitan (2006) and House of Voices (2004), and there’s a heaping of Hong Kong hoots in Dream Home (2010). Finally, see bumps in the night from Traci Lords in Not of This Earth (1988), and doomed dame danglers in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). See pics after the jump!
