Adding yet another wrinkle to next year’s Academy Awards, Oscar organizers plan to use a preferential voting system in tallying the final vote for best picture, where 10 nominees will be competing for the first time since 1943.
Has Matthew Weiner been spending too much time in Paul Kinsey’s office with a sweater stuffed under the door? Last week, the formerly meticulous Mad Men creator somehow allowed a dictionary published in 1987 into the Sterling Cooper offices of 1963. And now, Vulture has learned, last night’s episode was ...
Folk singer Kate McGarrigle attended the Watermill Concert in Bridgehampton over the weekend with her kids, Rufus and Martha Wainwright. When we caught up with her after the performance, we asked if she had any tips for parents hoping to raise musicians. “With my kids, we always just played music,” ...
He’s not flying here, mind you, but we’re pretty sure he’s thinking about it! A few weeks ago, a few of Vulture’s biggest True Blood fans put together a list of our top five gripes about the show. Well, as we were watching last night’s episode, we realized there was ...
“Succesful,” the track by Canadian recording artist Drake not newly crowned Song of the Summer, now has a video, which occasioned the following observation on the blog Pigeons and Planes: For those who didn’t know, Drake is not actually saying money, cars, hoes [sic] and clothes is what equals success ...
Last night, we boldly laid out our predictions for the 2009 Oscar nominations, which should be announced, oh, in about six months or so. Now venerable L.A. Times awardsologist Tom O’Neil, who confesses “I haven’t seen 95% of these films either,” weighs in on our picks. [Gold Derby/LAT] Earlier: Vulture’s ...
Remember when Kara DioGuardi thought she could out-Mariah the Bikini Girl and busted out her very own finger-snapping version of “Vision of Love”? Well, it seems as if she’s up to the same tricks again. Only this time, she’s taking on this year’s execrable American Idol anthem “No Boundaries,” a ...
Yes, Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman, and Tobey Maguire will likely soon be fired, and the roles of Iron Man, Wolverine, and Spider-Man recast with various Jonas Brothers — but will any good come from today’s $4 billion acquisition of Marvel by the Walt Disney Company? Maybe! On a conference ...
“I came in the Dawson’s Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven’t looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.” —Jon Hamm [Elle] “Sometimes he tries to make me laugh. He actually played a ...
If one were to look solely at ratings victories, one might conclude that NBC’s America’s Got Talent was having a pretty good summer. After all, it consistently rates higher than its (admittedly weak) competition. However, when was the last time you or anyone you knew actually talked about something that ...