Farrah Abraham isn’t going to be receiving any Mother of the Year awards anytime soon. Really, she’s not getting any awards at all, unless there’s an award for being The Worst. Or maybe like some porn thing. But the most concerning thing about Farrah — and this is saying a lot, since her life is basically one big concern — is her parenting skills. Namely, the way she doesn’t seem to have any at all. Remember when her daughter, Sophia, was three years old and she tweezed her eyebrows ? Or how about last year when “the tooth fairy” left her hundreds of dollars for losing a tooth? Oh, and who could forget the time that she actually said that she’d be totally fine with Sophia making her own sex tape ? But one of the most tangibly terrible things Farrah has done as a mother is letting Sophia, who is seven years old, remember, run her own clothing boutique. Yes, most kids Sophia’s age are, you know, going to school and playing with other kids, but no, it’s probably fine if Sophia just skips all that developmental stuff and gets right to business ownership. Or at least that’s what Farrah thinks. In a new interview with OK! magazine, Farrah goes into a little more detail about Sophia’s role at the boutique. “Sophia comes in and acts like she’s hiring or firing,” she explains. “She likes to take a lot of the stuff from the store for herself. She loves the clothing so much.” Back in September, Farrah got a lot of flack for saying that Sophia would be “in charge of hiring, firing, picking the best products and clothing to order for the store.” Is she changing her tune now after getting called out, or was she just trying to brag in the old interview about her kid’s responsibilities? Either way, it’s awful — what would be worse, getting fired by a seven-year-old or dealing with a seven-year-old who thinks she has the authority to fire you? Farrah also says that Sophia “picks things out and I have to basically like go through and be like we don’t need this much of that.” “She gets to start off choosing everything and I have to keep it in to real life terms.” Thankfully, Farrah acknowledges that “Sophia is definitely a child still. If anything she’s showing business can be fun, it can be easy and fun.” “Sophia will one day run this on her own,” she says. “She’s brought that up to me.” “She’s doing a normal schedule, she’s included in everything, but there is a fine line of she’s 7 and she will always be 7.” … Well, not always. Can someone explain to Farrah how life works? And does “she’s doing a normal schedule” mean that Sophia is working a regular 40-hour week at the boutique? Because it kind of sounds like that’s what she means. This poor, poor child … View Slideshow: Farrah Abraham Parenting Fails: A Brief History of WTF?!
It’s a bit of a light week on DVD & Blu-ray this week, since the latest X-Men film is being released, and everyone apparently wanted to steer clear of it. Nevertheless, there’s still some gems worth checking out! First up is the first season of Showtime’s latest series Penny Dreadful ! In addition to a skinsationally strange topless scene from Eva Green , we also got the nude return of Billie Piper , who bared all three b’s! The BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman didn’t seem like the most obvious place to find some good nudity, but between Maggie Gyllenhaal baring boobs, butt, and backburger, as well as Lubna Azabal ‘s terrific topless scene, this is one you won’t want to miss! Finally it’s the Blu-ray debut of the Oscar-nominated 1988 comedy Married to the Mob , which features the terrific ta-tas and tush of Nancy Travis !
Celeste and Jesse Forever star Rashida Jones and director Lee Toland Krieger at the after-party for their film Wednesday night in NYC. Photo by Amanda Schwab/Starpix . Indie pic Celeste and Jesse Forever played Sundance back in January and achieved that much sought-after hallmark of success: an acquisition deal with a big-name distributor – in this case the venerable Sony Pictures Classics. But the movie that had some false starts before shooting began did make it to the screen and if a gala screening of the film last night in New York is any measure, it should see more success. In addition to cast members Rashida Jones (who also co-wrote the film) and Rebecca Dayan as well as writer Will McCormack and director Lee Toland Krieger, Anne Hathaway , Paul Rudd , David Schwimmer , Amy Poehler , Aziz Ansari , Andy Cohen and Max Greenfield turned out for the event, hosted by The Peggy Siegal Company and the International Rescue Committee. A second-floor bar with a view of the Williamsburg Bridge at the Hotel Chantelle in Manhattan’s Lower East Side played hotspot for the after-party where Hathaway and others mingled with cast and invitees. Krieger told Movieline that producer Jennifer Todd approached him with the Celeste and Jesse Forever script back in 2010. “I thought I’d just read it, but then I fell in love with it,” he said. “I am a big Woody Allen fan and especially love Husbands and Wives . Both movies are full of comedy, but they’re about heartbreak.” Earlier at the screening, Sony Classics co-president Michael Barker praised Krieger and the cast. “We came to realize they’re major talents,” said Barker. “We think with this movie, you’re in the hands of a major American independent filmmaker.” Also in the crowd were Brady Corbet ( Simon Killer ), Olivia Culpo (Miss USA), Nadia Dajani ( Delocated ), Abby Elliott ( SNL ), Alex Karpovsky ( Girls ), Matthew Settle ( Gossip Girl ), Joey Slotnick ( Too Big to Fail ), Tennessee Thomas, ( Scott Pilgrim vs the World ), Mike Nichols & Diane Sawyer. Sony Classics will open Celeste and Jesse Forever in New York and Los Angeles beginning this Friday; stay tuned for our Movieline chat with Rashida Jones. Plot: Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, Celeste is the driven owner of her own media consulting firm, Jesse is once again unemployed and in no particular rush to do anything with his life. Celeste is convinced that divorcing Jesse is the right thing to do, and if they do it now instead of later, they can remain supportive friends. While navigating the turbulent changes in their lives and in their hearts, these two learn that in order to truly love someone, you may have to let them go. View the trailer on YouTube .
Christopher Eccleston has quite the fan base. News that the former Doctor Who and 28 Days Later star will play supervillain Malekith the Accursed in the upcoming Thor sequel — as Deadline’ s Mike Fleming reported Wednesday night — set the Twitter-verse reeling today. Late Thursday morning, Eccleston was trending on the social media site, thanks to, it appeared, the many contributions of Doctor Who fans everywhere. Eccleston was the first to play the impish Time Lord when the BBC rebooted the series in 2005. He was succeeded by David Tennant, which prompted @teaspoonofsugar to tweet, “Christopher Eccleston in Thor 2? Does this mean David Tennant will be in Thor 3?” Based on illustrations of Malekith, Eccleston — a dead ringer for Men at Work lead singer Colin Hay — will be donning a flowing white mane, large pointy ears and two-toned blue skin to play the leader of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim. (Say that three times fast without laughing.) His casting ups the probability that the Casket of Ancient Winters, which figured in the original Thor will make a return appearance in the sequel. In the Marvel comics series, Malekith used the Casket, which is capable of creating massive, brutal snowstorms, to bring Thor’s home, Asgard, to its knees. As Count Floyd would say, “Oooh, very, very scary!” The sequel, which will be directed by Alan Taylor ( Game of Thrones , Mad Men , Palookaville ), begins shooting in the U.K. later this month.
The Colin Farrell-starring sci-fi remake Total Recall is readying for release this weekend ( read Movieline’s review here ) and while Len Wiseman’s adaptation of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film that mixes up bullets, muscles and abstract notions of Cartesian dualism and the specious present isn’t the worst thing in the world, it is hardly memorable. (A bit of an unfortunate situation, as the whole thing is about memory.) Still, it’s important that we don’t present ourselves as the type of dweebs who get all hung up over sci-fi remakes. Sometimes, they’re damn good, as this list of ten shall prove. 10) War of the Worlds , Steven Spielberg, 2005 No masterpiece, but a thrilling piece of work with some genuinely shocking imagery. Despite the four year gap, this was the first major mainstream film that was able to take 9/11 imagery and have it make sense in an entertainment context. It lacks the cheeseball zip of the 1953 version, but it certainly works on a visceral level. (It is not my top adaption of the H.G. Wells story, however. That will forever go to Jeff Wayne and his 1978 prog rock opera. The dorks in the back know what I’m talkin’ about.) 9) The Omega Man , Boris Sagal, 1971 Charlton Heston is so secure in his house he’s not going to pay those cloaked mutant zombies no never mind! A quick shot of a vaccine prior to the deployment of biological weapons in a Russian-Chinese war keeps Heston alive, but his wits keep him safe. When he discovers he’s not the last person alive, he takes the fight direct to the horrible clan of beasts. The Omega Man is a remake of The Last Man on Earth , but also based on the novel I Am Legend . This was, of course, remade again into a film starring Will Smith which will not be seen anywhere on this list. The Omega Man is also notable for featuring an interracial love story back in 1971. Who said Heston’s politics were wholly predictable? 8) The Wiz , Sidney Lumet, 1978 No one said you’d be able to ease on down this list without some challenges. Look, The Wiz is a cool flick. Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor and music by Ashford and Simpson. Maybe Diana Ross doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi as Judy Garland, but I’ve found that most friends of Dorothy are friends of the Supremes, too. And, yes, it’s sci-fi. The wizard’s practically steampunk. 7) Solaris , Steven Soderbergh, 2002 While Andrei Tarkovski’s version from 1972 is certainly the heavier of the two, Soderbergh’s streamlined and very slick production is a fascinating tone poem on loss, regret and memory. Those looking for action will find the film almost lifeless, but if you get on its wavelength you may find it quite rewarding. It ranks as one of the best gifts one filmmaker ever gave to another, as James Cameron used his considerable clout as producer to secure a budget that everyone had to know would never be recouped. 6) 1984 , Michael Radford, 1984 The 1954 version with Edmond O’Brien is a good enough adaptation, but this gem of new wave cinema really captured the essence of Orwell’s dystopian universe. This movie tends to get forgotten, overshadowed by Terry Gilliam’s Brazil , with which it shares many story and formal similarities. Nevertheless, John Hurt’s sympathetic portrayal of Winston Smith is one of his great performances, and the heavily washed out cinematography from Roger Deakins is quite extraordinary. The Eurythmics’ soundtrack album did a number on me as a kid, as well. 5) Invasion of the Body Snatchers , Phillip Kaufman, 1978 Leonard Nimoy as a sexed-up pop psychologist in ’70s San Francisco. I think it’s a given this should be on ALL the top ten lists. Loaded with lots of gratuitous nudity and plenty of icky gore, you’ll be shocked when you discover this one was actually rated PG. 1978! It’s got Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright owning a groovy mudbath parlor and that iconic last shot of the very hirsute Donald Sutherland pointing at the camera, making THAT SOUND. Dammit, I’m gonna go on a limb and say this is a remake that’s better than the original. 4) 12 Monkeys , Terry Gilliam, 1995 A riff on Chris Marker’s miraculous short film of still images, La Jetee , this fatalistic time-travel tale is bursting with visual creativity but stays on course as a gripping, propulsive doomsday race. Bruce Willis lets his tough guy guard down a bit and no matter how many times I see this it, the ending always gets to me. By Gilliam standards, it’s his least weird movie; by Hollywood standards, a real standout. 3) Battlestar Galactica , Michael Rymer, 2003 Wait, who said anything about including TV? Well, when the material is this good you make special considerations. Besides, the 1978 BSG did have a theatrical release, and the miniseries that aired on 2003 ranked with the best entertainment that came out that year. (The fact that the original played in theaters then went to TV, as opposed to a TV show that went to the movies, is the reason that Star Trek isn’t on this list. In my mind, it makes sense.) This whacked-out Mormon parable (some say) was the perfect science fiction treatment for the onset of Bush’s War on Terror. There has probably never been a more paranoid show on television and its interplanetary setting oftentimes led to a more constructive forum in which to discuss the issues of the day. Our heroes’ attitudes swung left and right, but loyalty never wavered. I swear to you I’d still take a bullet for Edward James Olmos if the old man needed me. If you’ve been putting it off (or were scared away by some naysayers who didn’t like the conclusion), check out the 2003 miniseries. Then take the week off as you blaze through the rest of the seasons. 2. The Thing , John Carpenter, 1982 I’ve seen The Thing at least ten times. And every time, during the blood testing sequence, I jump. If John Carpenter bills himself as The Horror Master, I think we can safely call this his masterpiece. Some forget it is a remake of Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World , a fine film, but Carpenter’s version is a bubbling cauldron of great tough guy characters and outstanding set pieces that’ll have you cheering and puking at the same time. 1. The Fly , David Cronenberg, 1986 It was close, but this one squeezes ahead just a little bit. It’s Goldblum that makes it, really – the way he calmly remarks “That’s disgusting” as he discovers his new way of eating sugar. (If you haven’t seen it, words won’t do justice.) And the fact that he can sell lines like “Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma spring!” Apart from its nifty high concept and groundbreaking special effects, The Fly is a true transcendent work in the way it treats its characters. Who’d have ever expected you’d be crying at the end of what looked like just another gross-out? Certainly no one who’d only seen the ’58 version with Vincent Price. — So there are our ten. If we’ve done our job, we’ve pissed you off. Feel free to let us have it in the space below. Just go easy on The Wiz , is all I ask. Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Actress/musician Brie Larson — AKA Scott Pilgrim ‘s Envy Adams, of 21 Jump Street and United States of Tara fame — is also a Criterion Collection fangirl, and given her terrific recent round of the cineaste label’s Top 10, she’s probably got a better-stocked DVD catalogue than you. Consider Red Desert : “Antonioni’s first color film. I felt like I was opening my eyes for the first time. An incredible palette and commitment to tone. He actually painted trees whites and grays! I have always wanted to talk technicalities with someone about this film. The fog? How did he do the fog?!” And, on Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage : “This was the most invested in any relationship I had ever been — including my own.” Read Larson’s full Top 10 and share in my newfound nerdy girlcrush. [ Criterion ]
While the contract demands of potential American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez may have been astronomical , it appears Steven Tyler holds no such delusions of grandeur. According to E! , Tyler has signed his Idol contract to join the judging dais next season. For their part, Fox execs have issued a standard “no comment,” meaning there’s still time for them to find room for Courtney Love . Start a Facebook campaign, people! [ E! ]
There are bad guys, and there are bad . Guys. Veteran Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn plays the latter in Animal Kingdom , the Sundance-winning, Melbourne-set crime drama currently wowing moviegoers in limited release. Much of that reaction has focused on the quality of the film’s evil double-headed, awards-worthy hydra, with the terrific Jacki Weaver smiling and snarling on one side and Mendelsohn — as bipolar (or monopolar, really) robber ganglord Arthur “Pope” Cody — on the other. As Mendelsohn candidly and readily admits, it was not a beast you wanted to mess before or during the grueling Kingdom shoot.
This is it . What Time is the 2010 NCAA Championship Final Game Duke vs Butler? Duke vs Butler Game Time NCAA Championship Game 2010 TimeThe moment we have all been waiting for. It came down to a blowout and a 2 point win. What started out as March Madness, the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight and the Final Four is now down to the Terrific Two. Ok, I just made that last one up, but either way, we’re down to the two top teams in the NCAA Mens Basketball Bracket. The NCAA Championship game will be between Duke and Butler. The Duke vs West Virginia game turned out to be a blowout with Duke rallying West Virginia 78 – 57. On the other hand, the Butler vs Michigan game came down to the last second with Butler pulling away from Michigan 52 – 50. The 2010 Championship game will be between Butler vs Duke. Who had that on their brackets? Highlights from the Final Four games are available. The 2010 NCAA Championship game between Duke vs Butler will be held on April 5, 2010. Monday at 9:21pm EST Ticket info available online. Duke vs Butler Game Time NCAA Championship Game 2010 Time What Time is the 2010 NCAA Championship Final Game Duke vs Butler is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →
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