He’s an Oscar nominee and an all-time great Saturday Night Live host. She’s a seven-year old beauty pageant contestant who dines on deer and sketti. But Christopher Walken and Honey Boo Boo will forever now be linked, thanks to a pair of hilarious viral videos, both courtesy of ScreenJunkies.com. In response to Walken, Colin Farrell and Sam Rockwell promoting their film Seven Psychopaths by reciting lines from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo , June Shannon and her daughter sit down below and do the same for classic Walking films. Watch and laugh now as Honey enters the world of True Romance and Pulp Fiction : Honey Boo Boo Makes Like Christopher Walken
‘Saturday Night Live’ alumnae take over for Ricky Gervais at 70th annual awards show. By Kara Warner Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Photo: Jon Kopaloff/ FilmMagic
Singer/songwriter, who will host ‘Saturday Night Live’ this month, teased his latest single during a Google+ Hangout. By Kara Warner Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven” cover art Photo: Warner Music Group
Almost as enduring as James Bond himself, Ernst Stavro Blofeld was a supervillain caricature even before Mike Myers turned him into Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels with a skull cap as Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers franchise. In his first two Bond film appearances, From Russia with Love and Thunderball, t he nefarious head of SPECTRE was shown only from the chest down as he stroked his white cat and, like Darth Vader, required two — at the time, uncredited — actors to play him: Anthony Dawson handled the body portion of Blofeld while Eric Pohlmann provided the voice. That changed in the 1967 Bond film You Only Live Twice when, in a dramatic reveal, Donald Pleasance became the initial face of Blofeld, although not for long. The appropriately fiendish looking Telly Savalas played the villain in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service ; then Charles Gray took over in Diamonds Are Forever to play multiple Blofelds thanks to a plotline involving the creation of dastardly doppelgangers through plastic surgery. (Cloning was not yet in vogue in the movies.) In the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only , an uncredited character who is presumably Blofeld — the cat and the clothes certainly leave that impression — is finally dispatched by being dropped into a smokestack by Agent 007. As was the case with Blofeld’s first two cinematic appearances, he is portrayed by two actors: John Hollis (body) and Robert Rietty (voice). And yet, the baddie manages to make one more appearance in the independently produced Never Say Never Again, where he is played by Max Von Sydow. While you’re taking a break from trolling Bond chat rooms to see if Blofeld will return during the Daniel Craig era , vote for your favorite Blofeld. We’ve included even the minimal performances because we are completists at heart, and we know you are, too. If you haven’t voted for you favorite Bond movie, that poll is still open, too , and Craig’s debut turn in Casino Royale is currently winning. Take Our Poll Vote For Your Favorite Bond Movie Here . Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
As ‘Part of Me’ concert doc hits DVD, stylist Johnny Wujek opens up to MTV News about the pop star’s evolving look. By Rebecca Thomas Katy Perry in her ‘Part of Me’ concert poster Photo: Katy Perry/Twitter/Paramount Pictures
Odd Future singer kept busy with John Mayer-assisted ‘SNL’ performance and video premiere for Channel Orange ‘s ‘Pyramids.’ By Rob Markman Frank Ocean performs on “Saturday Night Live” Photo: NBC
In the wake of a mammoth cast shakeup – Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Abby Elliot are all out – Saturday Night Live has announced its first three hosts and musical guests for its upcoming 38th season. September 15 : Seth MacFarlane/Frank Ocean September 22 : Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Mumford & Sons September 29 : Daniel Craig/Muse The season premiere gig will mark MacFarlane’s first SNL hosting experience. He’ll be on hand to promote the return episodes of Family Guy , American Dad (both September 30) and The Cleveland Show (October 7), along with the DVD release Ted . Ocean, meanwhile, has come out with his first solo album and also made headlines in July for revealing he’s bisexual .
KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah airs Law & Order: SVU on Wednesday nights. That program centers on such horrific crimes as rape and murder. But the NBC affiliate has drawn its objectionable line at The New Normal , an upcoming sitcom from Glee creator Ryan Murphy that focuses on a gay couple and the family of its surrogate mother. “For our brand, this program simply feels inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time,” Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL’s parent company, Bonneville International, said in a statement. The decision has been met with backlash from those involved with the show and those who care about gay rights. First, there is star Ellen Barkin’s reply on Twitter. “Shame on you @kslcom,” wrote the veteran actress, referring to the move as “blatantly homophic” and adding: “[A] loving gay couple having a baby is inappropriate? What will play in @NBCTheNewNormal spot? A dude reading from the bible?” GLAAD President Herndon Graddick has also spoken out, saying of the axing: “Same-sex families are a beloved part of American television thanks to shows like Modern Family , Glee and Grey’s Anatomy . While audiences, critics and advertisers have all supported LGBT stories, KSL is demonstrating how deeply out of touch it is with the rest of the country.” KSL does not air Saturday Night Live and also dropped NBC’s The Playboy Club last fall, citing that drama’s “objectionable material.”
This iconic image from Star Trek ‘s “Amok Time” (Season 2, Episode 1) represents a moment of great internal conflict. When two of our heroes are battling to the death, for whom do we cheer? Luckily, in this case, Bones was on hand with a neuroparalyzer, allowing Kirk to feign death until the mind-altering effect of pon farr drained away from Spock, thus ending the koon-ut-kal-if-fee ritual. But who will be on hand with the hydrospray this week in San Diego? Whoooooo? The 2012 edition of nerd prom brings not one but two feature length documentaries that ought to be of interest to convention-going, costume-wearin’, social anxiety-havin’ fans – specifically, two documentaries about Star Trek enthusiasts. From Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s son, Rod Roddenberry, comes the long-in-development Trek Nation . The film is a mixture of talking head interviews from Trek notables (and others like George Lucas), behind-the-scenes footage and gawking at fans who create their own Andorian antennae. Its hook is the “son in search of his father” schtick, making it something of an interplanetary My Architect . Trek Nation will have a fan screening Thursday night, and “Roddenberry Presents” has a panel on Saturday. There is also an official Roddenberry booth on the showroom floor. Trek Nation trailer: In the other corner is Captain Kirk himself. William Shatner, whose directorial skill is very much of a piece with his Elton John covers, is presenting his latest work, Get A Life . Whereas poor Rod Roddenberry has been schlepping bits of footage of Trek Nation to Cons for years, Shatner’s first person film about “encountering the fans” is another of his dashed-off productions made with the EPIX cable network. (Note: EPIX isn’t really a network, it’s more like Hulu except you watch it on your TV and not your laptop. I don’t really know how to describe EPIX and it isn’t available in New York, which is why no one I know watches EPIX.) Get a Life trailer: Last year Shatner delivered an EPIX production called The Captains . While ostensibly a string of interviews with all who sat in Star Trek ‘s center seat, it ended up being a remarkable piece of outsider art. The sequence of Shatner and Avery Brooks scat-singing about death and “listening to the Universe” just a few months before the Deep Space Nine star got hit with a DUI is like something from Cassavetes’ Love Streams . But, you know, awful. Avery Brooks/William Shatner mash-up: Get A Life will show footage at a panel on Saturday. Mr. Shatner will share the stage with Roger Corman and Kevin Smith. Of the two films, I’m sure Trek Nation is the more polished and the more positive. Get A Life (whose title is a riff of Shatner’s old Saturday Night Live sketch admonishing obsessed fans) is no doubt the more entertaining. The joke is, of course, that both of these films are far too late. Obsessed fandom is hardly news anymore. (I mean, there was a documentary ABOUT Comic-Con that came out this year.) While one could argue that Star Trek fans dwarf all other fans, we shouldn’t forget that there was a theatrically released film in 1997 called Trekkies . It was successful enough that in 2003 there was a Trekkies 2 . What this means, of course, is that it is only a matter of time until a documentary is made about people obsessed with Star Trek documentaries. I’ll be furiously refreshing Kickstarter and will inform you as soon as I hear anything. Saturday Night Live “Get a Life” sketch:
Kristen Wiig may have shed a few tears when she left Saturday Night Live , but the comedian is smiling up a storm these days. And that has a lot to do with Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. The actress is featured on the cover of August’s Marie Claire and remains mostly mum on her fairly new relationship, but does allow that the musician is making her one content woman at the moment. “I will say that I’m happier than I’ve ever been and I feel very lucky right now,” says Wiig, responding to the question of why with a pair of answers: “Where I am now. Who he is. Those are the two big ones.” The Oscar-nominated Bridesmaids star is doing quite well professionally, too. She has three projects in the works: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (opposite Ben Stiller). Imogene (opposite Darren Criss). The Comedian (opposite Robert De Niro). Still, she clearly has perspective on what matters in life, telling the magazine: “When you’re on your deathbed, you probably aren’t counting the movies you’ve made. You’re looking at the people who are around you and thinking about the people in your life, and you can’t lose how important that is because that’s ultimately where happiness comes from.”
