Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Kenny Chesney Put in Bill Clinton's Hollywood Bowl Concert
Leader Bill Clinton's birthday celebration and anniversary celebration of his charitable foundation grows its star energy.our editor recommendsLady Gaga, Bono and Usher to Headline Celebration of Bill ClintonBill Clinton Switched Lower '30 Rock' Guest Star RoleChelsea Clinton Interviews Mother, Hillary, at Clinton Global Initiative Musical functions Kenny Chesney, Juanes and K'naan are actually put in a Hollywood Bowl concert March. 15 including Rhianna, Usher and U2'sBono as well as the Edge, according to Yahoo, which will stream the large event live. PHOTOS: Actor's Who've Carried out People in politics Clinton, who switched 65 on August. 19, takes note of the occasion March. 14 inside a gala within the Hollywood Palladium getting a featured artist not been introduced, as well as the Bowl concert the next evening can be a fundraiser event for your William J. Clinton Foundation. The festivities have an essential personel appear check together with a brunch co-situated by daughter Chelsea Clinton and her husband,Marc Mezvinsky. PHOTOS: Best Presidents in Movies and TV The price of participation inside the various occasions runs from $1,000 to $millions of, and a lot of stars are needed. Secretary of Condition Hillary Clinton, though, is not promoted becoming an attendee. Related Subjects Rhianna Usher Bill Clinton Yahoo Bono The Benefit Kenny Chesney
Monday, October 3, 2011
'Five' to continue on Fox News
Fox News is giving "5Inch a ongoing devote the choice. 5 o'clock panel show, initially a summer season alternative for your now-defunct "Glenn Beck," is formally scheduled in news reports Corp cabler. The roundtable program features discussions from the rotating cast of network personas including Dana Perino, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Juan Williams, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Greg Gutfeld, and Andrea Tantaros. "5Inch averaged 1.4 million total audiences in Q3 and does particularly within the demo, consistently outperforming every primetime show on rivals at MSNBC, CNN, and HLN among 25-54-year-old audiences. Recent demo scores have hovered inside the mid-300,000's. Experts noted within the show's beginning that it may be tough to match Beck if this involves sheer eyeball count, but due to the decline in ad support felt by "Glenn Beck," that point may be moot. Beck's questionable program assigned out at greater than 3 million audiences, but carrying out a precipitous decline in recognition and internet marketer support, Beck as well as the network separated ways. FNC developed a reason behind plus a statement in the v.p. of ad sales, Paul Rittenberg, inside the release announcing the completely new skein's pickup. "'The Five's' viewership growth and various appeal has introduced towards the time-frame once again being recognized by FNC's blue nick entrepreneurs," mentioned Rittenberg. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com
Friday, September 30, 2011
Around the World in 80 Ways: Rob Mariano Returns to Reality TV -- Where's the Finish Line?
Dennis Anderson and Rob Mariano He's competed on four seasons of Survivor. He's traveled the world at least twice for The Amazing Race. And last year, he did the impossible and finally took home the $1 million grand prize in front of millions of TV viewers on Survivor: Redemption Island. So what in the world is "Boston Rob" Mariano doing back on TV less than a year after his triumphant win? "I love adventure and I always have," Mariano tells TVGuide.com of his latest reality TV venture, Around the World in 80 Ways. "I never got into Survivor or The Amazing Race or any of these shows to be on TV. I got on originally because I wanted to make some money for my family, and because I love the adventure of it." Around the World in 80 Ways is heavy on adventure, but unlike so many of Mariano's other TV appearances, there's no finish line or final Tribal Council to name a winner. On the series, which premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 10/9c on History, Mariano partners with monster truck driver Dennis Anderson to travel thousands of miles in 10 weeks using every possible mode of transportation: from mules to steamboats to waterskis. "Sometimes we failed and sometimes we did well," Anderson says, "but it's one of those times where if you make it, you're a hero and if you fail, you're still a hero for trying." Check out all the familiar faces returning to TV this year Although there's no winners and losers on Around the World in 80 Ways, Mariano says being on Survivor and Race gave him an important foundation. "My competitive nature and my ability to want to take chances helps me in any type of situation. But with this show, it wasn't so much about a prize at the end," Mariano says. "You're going to see the relationship between Dennis and me and the focus is obviously on the transportation." After having to compete against 17 other castaways on Survivor and 10 other teams on The Amazing Race, the real draw is the odd couple-like relationship between Mariano and Anderson. Mariano is a Boston native, while Anderson is a small town boy from North Carolina. Mariano has traveled to exotic places all over the world, while Anderson has never been outside of North America. There's also the generation gap (Mariano is 35 and Anderson is 50). "The challenge for me this time was not so much traveling around the world because I've been able to do that and I know what to expect, but the interpersonal relationship with Dennis that I have," Mariano says. "It was totally like a roller coaster: one minute we're best friends and the next minute, we want to friggin' kill each other." Fall TV: Get the lowdown on this season's must-see new shows Anderson admits there was tension at times between the two, but says traveling in foreign territory for the first time with Mariano had its advantages. "We had our ups and downs. I was so sick of Rob sometimes just because he would outsmart me," Anderson says. "But Rob was just so savvy about directions and how to go and where to go. That's where the world-travel part of him came out." Mariano interjects with a laugh: "He's being really nice to me today. He wasn't this nice to me before." Traveling around the world in front of the cameras may sound like fun, but with a wife (Survivor: All-Stars winner Amber Mariano) and two young kids at home (the couple's daughters are 2 years old and 9 months old, respectively),shouldn't Mariano be changing diapers instead of riding tut-tuts in India? "Reality TV has provided a good life for me and my family. Publicly, we've made millions of dollars, and I like to do it," he says. "I'm fortunate enough that I have a wife who supports me. She's totally, like, 'Go and do it.' My kids are young enough now that realistically they're not going to remember [when I'm not there]." Mariano envisions himself eventually transitioning to the production side of the business, but is he done with competing? It doesn't sound like it. "I always said that when it stopped being profitable or it stopped being fun, I wouldn't do it anymore.'" Mariano says. "As long as it's fun and it's profitable, I'll do it."Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon Online Free
Monday, September 26, 2011
Wolfe can get Abbott award
George C. Wolfe can get this years Mr. Abbott Award, the lifetime achievement kudo given out with the Stage Company company directors and Choreographers Foundation as well as the legit helmers' union connected using the org. Thesps whom Wolfe has directed formerly -- including Elaine Stritch ("Elaine Stritch at Liberty"), Jeffrey Wright ("Angels within the usaInch) and Ellen Barkin ("The Conventional Heart") -- look incorporated inside a tribute perf, composed by John Guare ("A Free Of Charge Guy of Color") and helmed by Jack O'Brien. Composer Jeanine Tesori ("Caroline, or Change") provides music direction. Kudo remains gave in prior years to Harold Prince, Susan Stroman and Michael Bennett, among others. Wolfe can get the laurel inside a gala fund-raiser March. 3 at Gotham's Edison Ballroom. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Fantastic Fest: Rom-Com Extraterrestrial , Erotic Musical Underwater Love Charm with Lies and Turtle Sex
Four years after bringing his feature debut Timecrimes to Fantastic Fest (where it won the Best Picture award), Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo returned to Austin, a place so warm and familiar he liked it to returning to the womb. “It’s like going back into my mother’s vagina,” exclaimed Vigalondo, addressing the friendly crowd at the debut of his sophomore film, Extraterrestrial. “So I get inside my mother’s vagina, and for some reason you are all there inside!” Extraterrestrial is a vastly different film than Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller Timecrimes, but it’s just as well matched to the Fantastic Fest spirit, a sweet little romantic comedy in the guise of an alien invasion movie. It begins one day as Julio (Julin Villagrn) wakes up the morning after a drunken one night stand with Julia (Michelle Jenner), a gorgeous but mysteriously aloof young lady who can’t seem to wait for her hook-up to leave, already, until both realize the city outside is strangely quiet. While they’ve been asleep, alien ships have materialized in the skies and the population evacuated, leaving them alone with no internet, no cell service, and only each other to depend on. That is, until Julia’s awkward neighbor ngel (Carlos Areces, star of last year’s terrifically twisted Fantastic Fest entry The Last Circus) reveals he’s stayed behind as well, not so secretly because he’s desperately in love with Julia. And then Julia’s boyfriend Carlos (Ral Cimas) returns home for her, bearing tales of government quarantines, and leaving the foursome locked in an amusing mire of shifting relationships, shared lies, and increasingly paranoid fears that there might actually be a real alien among them. Vigalondo lends a sharp sense of humor to the proceedings, and despite occasionally using clumsy fade outs to get from scene to scene, the film makes its way to a sweet, unconventionally romantic ending. It is, at its core, more character-driven romantic comedy than science fiction film, the ultimate realization of which may turn off those expecting the latter. But, as Vigalondo explained of his misleading alien element, “There is no reason. It’s like The Birds. You like The Birds? It’s a classic!” — Speaking of sweetly romantic but unconventional Fantastic Fest entries, just try to wrap your head around Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love: It’s a pink film, meaning it follows in the grand tradition of Japanese softcore erotic cinema, it’s a musical featuring songs by German duo Stereo Total, and the story — well, it involves a thirty-something woman named Asuka (Sawa Masaki) visited by a former classmate, Aoki (Yoshir Umezawa), who died 17 years ago and came back to life as a dancing, cucumber-earing mythical turtle-like creature called a kappa. Then there’s the chain-smoking, dress-wearing supernatural hippie, the death clock, the inter-species coupling, and the anal pearls. But more on those delights later. Shot by renowned DP Christopher Doyle (whose love for the drink came up uncomfortably often in the film’s intro and Q&A), Underwater Love is disappointingly unpretty to look at, thanks perhaps to a limited budget but probably more to a decision to pursue a washed-out visual look. Still, every now and then comes a breathtaking Doyle composition; the blue sky reflected in a stream, or fast-motion time lapse lingering on the solemn body of a naked woman in a river. But shot in about a week and with a cheeky acceptance of its limitations (Example: The “kappa” is an actor wearing a visibly fake turtle mask. Just go with it!), Underwater Love gets the basic job done, which is to bring a wonderfully perverse (in a good way) and playful love story to life. The musical aspect, however, is a letdown, despite an opening number set in a factory that called to mind Bjork and Catherine Deneuve frolicking among machinery in Dancer in the Dark. Imaoka admitted he only included it because he was asked to by higher ups, and considering that the whole production completed filming within just eight days (a luxury by pink film standards, apparently), who can blame him for at least trying? If anything, the nonsensical lyrics and awkward choreography only lend more wild whimsy to the show. Which brings me to the anal pearls. Rest assured this is the only film in history that will feature comically childlike turtle-people having sex with human women (the turtle penis fellatio scene is a LOL-worthy highlight) and pulling magical rocks out of their crotches which, if inserted into a human’s anus, will avert death. And I guarantee you’ll never see a case of necrophilia-as-CPR again on film — at least, it couldn’t possibly be as desperately romantic as it is here. Read more coverage of Fantastic Fest 2011 and follow Movieline on Twitter.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Killer Elite Pretty Much Gives Up With New Red-Band Trailer
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I enjoyed the Statham/De Niro/Owen assassin intrigue Killer Elite — more than most, it appears. But hoo boy, this new red-band opening-day trailer is misguided. At least two scenes here aren’t even in the movie, and the gratuitous female nudity is like… what? Anyway, I’m only posting it as a public service advisory letting you know this movie is better than this puerile, hard-rawkin’, NSFW garbage. Desperate marketing gone wrong — and your complete Friday Buzz Break — after the jump. [via Trailer Addict] · Kim Delaney has probably had better public-speaking appearances than her cut-off, slurry one last night honoring ex-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. [THR] · “As an experiment, let’s exist in a universe where our generation of filmmakers is enough to fill out the movie canon. Let the film school prigs, art house snobs, and the better half of film critics publishing today slavishly catalog the classics and engage in numbing debates over who did it first and who did it better…” There’s a new movie column out there, if you think you can stand it. Hint: You can’t. [GQ] · “At no time during the 2002 season did scrappy bat-boy ‘Tugs McGillicuddy’ deliver a game-winning grand slam while pinch-hitting for Eric Chavez, after the All-Star third baseman faked a hamstring pull to help his leukemia-afflicted young friend live out his Major League dream.” Indeed. Let Mark Lisanti walk you through the artistic liberties of Moneyball. [Grantland] · The on-again, off-again Lone Ranger appears to be on again at Disney. [Deadline]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sigourney Weaver Picks Hitchcock in a Round of My Favorite Scene
Speaking with Sigourney Weaver for this week’s Abduction, in which the celebrated actress mentors young Taylor Lautner in the ways of the spy game, Movieline proposed a round of My Favorite Scene. Her pick? A scene from a Hitchcock classic starring screen legends Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman that moved Weaver so much she marveled, “It’s like the whole movie turns into a different organism.” The film: Hitchcock’s 1946 romantic thriller Notorious, starring Bergman as a woman enlisted by a handsome government agent (Cary Grant) to spy on — and seduce — a member of a group of Nazis living in South America. “One of my favorite movies would clearly be Notorious — the scene where Cary Grant [visits Ingrid Bergman],” Weaver recalled. “Just seeing how ill she is… to me that was such a hard picture. Such a steely picture. And then there’s this amazing soft center in the picture which is that she’s almost dead and he clasps her in his arms and talks to her. It’s like the whole movie turns into a different organism.” The film opened to great critical acclaim and earned Oscar nominations for Claude Rains (Best Supporting Actor) and Ben Hecht (Best Original Screenplay). Meanwhile, Weaver notes that Abduction bears a Hitchcockian influence; read the full interview on Movieline tomorrow. Read more My Favorite Scenes here. Watch The Hangover 2 Megavideo
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