Kirstie Alley falls down AGAIN on ‘DWTS’: Is she just a klutz or…
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Jeffrey Tambor stars in ‘Meeting Spencer’, funniest indie movie of 2011
If you live in New York, you’re in luck. No, the weather still sucks. But you can still have a great weekend by going to the Quad Cinema see Meeting Spencer, a new comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development, The Hangover), Melinda McGraw (Mad Men, The Dark Knight) and Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights, Shrink)
I saw this movie in an early screening last year and absolutely fell in love with it. Just wish I was in NY to see it again this weekend.
I’ve covered entertainment for a decade and I seldom see an independently produced film of this caliber. What a surprisingly engaging screwball comedy with deft dialogue, delicious wit, charm, a conflux of amusing mistaken identities, laced with lust, ambition and deception. And it all takes place in Frankie and Johnny’s, the renowned Broadway eaterie.
Here’s the synopsis: After a series of Hollywood film flops, director Harris Chappell (Tambor) returns to New York — his tail not quite between his legs — ready to relaunch his Broadway career. But his anticipated comeback is complicated by a night of comic misadventure, involving a manipulative journalist, a struggling actor Spencer (Plemons) and an old flame Didi (McGraw).
The reviews have been positive, from the NY Times and the Hollywood Reporter. And I can’t help but feel that Will Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde — who both know a thing or two about comedies of mistaken identity — would have appreciated this movie.
The director is Malcolm Mowbray, who directed the endearing comedy A Private Function, starring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith and Denholm Elliot. The film was produced by George Braunstein (Fade to Black, Don’t Tell Her It’s Me, Uncle Samand Expecting Mary.
Keep ‘em coming, George!
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Adam Lambert nominated for two MTV O Awards. Time to celebrate again?
MTV Networks is not content with their wildly successful Video Music Award or their wildly successful MTV Movie Awards. Now they’ve started a new music awards called the MTV O Music Awards, what they call “a new and exciting digital music awards experience” with the O standing for open, ongoing and — oh yeah — online.
Adam Lambert has already been nominated in two categories: The “F**K Yeah Tumbler” category and his fan group, the “Glamberts,” is nominated for “Fan Army FTW.”
The awards will be online on April 28th on the front page of the MTV website.
Follow @MTVOMA on Twitter to keep up with the awards and the nominations.
Other quirky categories include: (more…)
Honey Badger don’t care, Bristol Palin scores, Glenn Beck quits, Neve Campbell Scream tests
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Bristol Palin proves that teenage pregnancy pays well. If you have an famous — or infamous — mother.
Sarah Palin‘s daughter has earned over $262,500 for advocating teen abstinence after she gave birth to her out-of-wedlock baby Tripp.The young abstinence ambassador, who still works for the Candies Abstinence Foundation, and appears in an ad holding her baby who looks pretty annoyed about the whole photo shoot ordeal. Heck, I’d be abstinent too for that kind of money. Wouldn’t you?
Olivia Wilde tweeted a retort about her rumored romance with Justin Timberlake, using the word Honey Badgers. What is a Honey Badger? Watch this ‘Honey Badger Don’t Care’ video to find out. And the next time someone calls you a Honey Badger, smile and then bite their head off and eat it. That’s what Honey Badgers do.
Keanu Reeves is so hard up that he’s willing to go ‘whoa’ again in a third Bill and Ted movie. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure‘ came out in 1989. The sequel ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ in 1991. He tells MTV that the new one will be “pretty excellent.”We’ll be the judge of that. Party on, dude.
‘NCIS’ Pauley Perrette is making music with Navy vet B. Taylor
NCIS star Pauley Perrette found her new music partner B. Taylor on the set of her TV show.
Taylor — a Navy vet — had a friend who advises on the show and brought him to the set where he was introduced to Perrette, who plays a Goth-attired forensic expert on the series.
But after Perrette and Taylor went to church together at Hollywood United Methodist , something happened.
“We were just hanging out afterward at church, playing piano and messing together,” Perrette said. That was enough to inspire Taylor to write “Fire in Your Eyes.”
Katie Holmes did not give Suri Cruise Penis Gummy candy
Katie Holmes explained that whole Penis Gummy Candy business to Ellen DeGeneres today (March 31),
Seems those photos of her giving her young daughter Suri Cruise X-rated candies were not the whole story.
“Recently, I took [Suri] to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It’s for kids. The clientele is children,” who may not have an acting career left after the abysmal miniseries The Kennedys airs. “We go in and we are waiting for a table and she grabs some gummies that are boy part gummies. I was horrified. P-e-n-i-s gummies. I said, oh wow those aren’t Swedish fish. . . They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it.”
Holmes explained more: “She was holding the box and I was like ‘OK, wow we don’t need that right now.’ Because I thought if I said ‘Put that back,’ and then she’s going to say, ‘What is this?’ And I really didn’t want to have that conversation.”
Sarah Ramirez sings, Carla Gugino stars, Sarah Shahi goes 3D
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Who knew that Grey’s Anatomy star Sarah Ramirez could sing. She belted out a song on Good Morning America and frankly, we think she’s ready for American Idol. Thumbs up or down>
She sang to promote the new musical episode of Anatomy airing on March 31. Set your Tivos.
Carla Gugino, who plays a hot hooker in Zac Synder’s Sucker Punch is now set to star in By Virtue Fall, along with James Spader, Eric Bana, Ryan Phillippe. It a revenge flick about a guy who gets framed by a mentor, gets out of jail and gets revenge.
Im betting Spader is the baddie. Eric Bana’s gotta be the good guy? What do you think?
Sarah Shahi from The L Word and Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes are set to star in Static, a very low-budget 3D thriller from music video director ToTodd Levin about a supernatural visitor who pops into a young couples’ lives.
Really, Milo? We think you deserve better. You both do.
Kevin Federline is reportedly going to be a father for the fifth time with girlfriend Victoria Prince.
He already has two sons with Britney Spears, and a son and daughter with Shar Jackson. At least we know he has one talent.
He really should sell that potent stuff to sperm banks or fertilization clinics.
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Sofia Vergara in a blue swimsuit for Pepsi. Feast your eyes
Modern Family Latina hottie Sofia Vergara recently shot a commercial for Pepsi, wearing a bright bold blue swimsuit.
We have no idea if she really drinks Pepsi. But if she does we’re definitely gonna start guzzling this stuff.
And that swimsuit she’s got on has some admirable support. Although we do wonder why not a bikini? Maybe Pepsi is a family soft drink? Later during the long shoot, Sofia lingered near the craft services table piled high with sandwiches and salads. Keep reading to see a candid photo (more…)
Vanessa Hudgens teaches George Lopez to belly dance? My eyes!
Vanessa Hudgens appeared on the George Lopez show tonight. And she discussed — naturally — her new Zack Snyder-directed ‘Sucker Punch’ female empowerment movie. In the action flick, she learned how to shoot really big guns and belly dance. Because that is female empowerment. Then she gives George a belly-dancing lesson.
Jennifer Garner to play Miss Marple in Disney redo. Was Helen Mirren busy?
In quite possibly the most bizarre casting decision ever made, Jennifer Garner will reprise the role of Miss Marple in a new Disney film. Yes, that’s right. Miss Marple, the dowdy British spinster who sips tea and nibbles crumpets when she’s not doddering around cracking criminal cases