Weekend Links (Are Back!)
Yup. Scarlett Johansson is still damn sexy. (Popoholic) Jessica Simpson is high maintenance. (DListed) Sienna Miller is pissed that her G.I. Joe action figure doesn’t look like her. (Pink is the New Blog) They don’t get any better than Alice…
‘Funny People’ Star Seth Rogen Was In ‘Donnie Darko’?! Plus Other Rogen Cameos
Fame is a tricky beast. Once everyone gets used to seeing your face everywhere, that newfound notoriety makes people forget your early work. It sucks for you because you want your audience to recognize the effort you’ve made to get where you are. The audience gets a treat from their ...
Five Reasons Why Rob Marshall Is An Inspired (Or Demented) Choice To Direct ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 4′
Of all the directors in all of Hollywood, could anyone have predicted that the person who’d end up replacing Gore Verbinski at the wheel of the multi-billion dollar “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise would be the guy who scored an Oscar nod for “Chicago”? You remember, the 2002 musical about ...
Kevin Smith’s Birthday Plans And A ‘Harry Potter’ Actor’s First Tweets In Today’s Twitter-Wood
Considering the amount of hockey tweeting Kevin Smith has been doing lately, it should come as little surprise that he’s setting up a match for his 39th birthday on Sunday. It sounds like he’ll need to get some extra rest hours in on Saturday, though, because his new film “A ...
What to expect when ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8′ returns
A lot has happened since Jon and Kate Gosselin announced their plans to divorce on their TLC show “Jon and Kate Plus 8.” Jon and Kate Gosselin will continue filming their TLC reality series despite their recent separation.
HBO Believes It’s at the Center of a Vast Emmy Conspiracy
When the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (such a great name!) announced earlier this week that a handful of “minor” Emmy categories would be eliminated from the live portion of the show and instead broadcast as part of a (presumably) carefully edited highlight reel, we rejoiced. After all, our ...
Park Chan-wook Recounts a Worse-Than-Usual Day at the Morgue
With such deliriously stylized, intense films as Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance on his résumé, Korean director Park Chan-Wook has already managed that all-too-rare combination of art-house cred and pop notoriety. But Thirst, his graphic new drama-cum-thriller-cum-romance-cum-we-don’t-know-what, which opens at the Sunshine today, could bring him that much closer ...
Kanye: Not the King of Pop, Barely a Narcissist
Shortly after Michael Jackson’s death, a sketchy website posted a made-up item about Kanye West claiming he’d declared himself the new King of Pop and had even contacted the Jackson family seeking permission to use the title. Fake quotes attributed to Kanye have been bouncing around the blogosphere since then, ...