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Charlie Sheen Last Seen In Aspen Slammer
8 hours ago
Aspen locals have not seen the last of Charlie Sheen, 44, last seen playing one of the full-blown men on my favorite CBS sitcom, Two And A Half Men. Unfortunately for everybody, Sheen was last seen in Aspen in a Pitkin County Jail cell Christmas Day, after his arrest for menacing and variegated felony malfeasance, a state of wedded dis-bliss that followed a rocky Christmas morning in a house on East Hallam Avenue near the Aspen downtown core. Charlie, who plays a character called Charlie on the hit show, was released after posting $8,500 bail Christmas Day, presumably to spend the rest of the holiday festivities with his new wife and twin kids. We will see much more of him and the paparazzi February 8, 2010, when he returns for a new court date. This is nothing but sad for Sheen, for »
- Michael Conniff
Actress Emily Blunt Reigns In The Young Victoria
13 hours ago
One of the great things about English actress Emily Blunt is that she carries no vestige of her characters beyond the set -- especially since she played the British Queen Victoria. At her roundtables for her latest film, The Young Victoria, Blunt showed no royal imperiousness, no contempt of the masses, no unwillingness to answer questions that didn't please her. But her characterization of the youthful Victoria was so dead-on in the award-worthy The Young Victoria that you'd have expected her to be a royal pain. It takes a fine actress to make interesting the story of a young princess who has basically been a prisoner in her own home -- trapped by her mother, the Duchess of Kent and lover/consort, Sir John Conroy. When they try to force her to give control of the crown to her mother, she resists. »
- Brad Balfour
A Letter From Roman Polanski
16 hours ago
At Roman Polanski's request, I would like to share the letter he has written me with all of his friends and supporters, in particular the readers of The Huffington Post. It is here, in these columns, that I have published my articles and expressed my position, from the very beginning. Thanks to the generous access provided by Arianna Huffington and her staff, I have been able to present a different "voice," one that contrasts with the howling of the pack. And so it seems natural, priority dictates, that the readers of my journal in France and the readers of Arianna's journal in the United States should be the first to read these words, Roman Polanski's first words since his incarceration. My dear Bernard-Henri Lévy, what you have said in the Swiss press is true -- I have been overwhelmed by the number »
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
Director Warned Brittany Murphy About Simon Monjack
16 hours ago
"Factory Girl" director George Hickenlooper, who was friends with Murphy and almost cast her in the role of Edie Sedgwick instead of Sienna Miller, had more specific problems with Monjack. He said he asked Murphy to seriously consider her relationship with the British screenwriter. "The last thing I told Brittany is: "Do you know this guy? I mean do you really know him? Do you know what you are doing by marrying him?" ' Hickenlooper wrote in a comment on a Hollywood Elsewhere post about the couple. "At this point, Brittany became angry and told me she knew Monjack better than anyone and then hung up on me. A few months later I tried to phone her to see if she was alright and Monjack would not let me speak to her." »
- nydailynews.com
Seth MacFarlane On The "Family Guy" "Star Wars" Parody
26 December 2009 1:54 PM, PST
Seth MacFarlane, 36, created "Family Guy," Fox's animated sitcom, which this year became the first cartoon series nominated for a prime-time Emmy since "The Flintstones" in 1961. Fox just released the DVD "Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side," a follow-up to the 2007 "Blue Harvest" episode that spoofed the "Star Wars" franchise. Why do an extended "Star Wars" parody? Everybody knows "Star Wars" -- at least, everybody in our audience. And Lucasfilm is probably the only company out there right now that is progressive enough to allow this. Certainly we would have a laugh doing this with "Indiana Jones" or "Wrath of Khan." But I can't imagine in a billion years that Paramount would give us permission. »
- latimes.com
Will Leigh Anne Tuohy Win Sandra Bullock Her Oscar?
26 December 2009 7:36 AM, PST
It's the family and football drama that's managed to score touchdowns at both the box office where by its third week it shockingly eclipsed New Moon and in Oscar betting pools, where its star Sandra Bullock is favored to be among the five Best Actress contenders, if not the very victor herself. But among the elements that make The Blind Side, based on author Michael Lewis's 2006 best-seller The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, so winning already are the two real-life characters at its center: the outspoken and protective mother Leigh Anne Tuohy (forcefully played by Bullock) and the homeless, high-school student she takes into her wealthy Memphis household, Michael Oher »
- people.com
Obama's "Naughty" and "Nice" Takes On The Internet
25 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST
Leave it to garrulous Vice President Joe Biden to be both naughty and nice when it comes to the Internet - all in the space of a week. Then again, he's not alone. At the end of the year, there were plenty of naughty and even some nice. On Dec. 15, he hosted a meeting for the crème de la crème of Big Media, which by all accounts, like this one and this one brought top government officials together to focus on combating the scourge of "piracy." All the hottest industry moguls were there. Among those on the list: Philippe Dauman, the chairman of Viacom, Michael Lynton, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Barry Meyer, the chairman of Warner Brothers Entertainment, Jeff Zucker, the CEO of NBCUniversal (soon to be a unit of Comcast), Edgar »
- Art Brodsky
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
24 December 2009 6:54 PM, PST
Well, I've had better Christmases -- thanks to learning a few days ago that my magazine, Editor & Publisher, faces a January 1 expiration notice after publishing for only 125 years. So, to cheer myself up, I launched earlier this week the trailer for my upcoming (and first) Web series, "An Incompleat History of Rock 'n Roll." Perhaps it will get you, in the immortal words of Brenda Lee, to start "rockin' around the Christmas tree" yourself. In any case, David Wild, longtime writer and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, this week at Huff Post called it "the most promising upcoming Web music series." Only five minutes long, it features clips of Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Plus: a photo that John Lennon gave me in my Crawdaddy »
- Greg Mitchell
Angelina Jolie: Fidelity Isn't Essential
24 December 2009 5:57 PM, PST
If the illustrious Telegraph's translation is to be believed, Angelina Jolie isn't tied to the idea of fidelity. Jolie gave an interview to Das Neue in which she said: "I doubt that fidelity is absolutely essential for a relationship. It's worse to leave your partner and talk badly about him afterwards. "Neither Brad nor I have ever claimed that living together means to be chained together. We make sure that we never restrict each other." She added, "The sparks fly at home if the nice Brad fails to see that he's wrong and reacts in a defiant way. Then I can get so angry that I tear his shirt." Jolie and Brad Pitt have been together over four years and were in New York earlier Christmas week with their kids. Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter! »
- Katherine Thomson
The MPAA Gets an X-Rating
24 December 2009 1:46 PM, PST
With a long history of inexplicable, often mind-numbing decisions rating movies, the MPAA has remarkably outdone themselves. They've just reached a new low that gives them a tough standard to match in the future. The movie in question is It's Complicated. A perfectly normal romantic comedy from writer-director Nancy Meyers, the filmmaker of such genial fare as The Holiday, Something's Gotta Give, and The Parent Trap remake. But in their unique sense of wisdom, It's Complicated got...an R-rating. And in their reason is the tale. Before I explain their reason, though, make your own guess. Why do you think the MPAA gave the good-hearted romantic comedy, It's Complicated, an R-rating? Got an answer? Good. You're wrong. The reason It's Complicated got an R-rating is because - I can't believe I'm typing this - there is a scene when characters smoke »
- Robert J. Elisberg
The Year of the Apology: The Worst and Best of 2009
24 December 2009 12:32 PM, PST
Who did the best? Who did the Worst? A Report Card The list of apologies in 2009 is almost too long to recount. But who did it best - and worst - and why? We tested 15 of the most public apologies of the year to see what makes for a good apology and a bad apology and what we can learn from our A-list of apologists. First, the perp walk: The athletes: 1. A-Rod for trying to be a superhuman, 2. Michael Vick for being inhumane, 3. Serena Williams for dressing down a line judge, and 4. Tiger Woods for carousing with anyone in a dress. The politicians: 5. Sen. John Ensign for cheating, 6. Gov. Mark Sanford for cheating, disappearing and losing his mind, 7. President Obama for making it about bigotry, and 8. Rep. Joe Wilson for a total lack of civility. »
- Michael Maslansky
Nine
24 December 2009 9:02 AM, PST
Federico Fellini told me that the theme of his life and of his work was "dreams are the only reality." "No one ever perceives the real world," he said. "Each person simply calls private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world. I prefer it that way and resent anything that disturbs my vision. "My films are often based on my dreams. When I wake up, I put them down as funny little drawings. "For me making films is making love. I'm most alive when I'm directing. But before I started making 8½, something happened to me which I always feared could happen, and when it did, it was more terrible that I could ever have imagine. I suffered my greatest fear, director's block. "Director's block is like writer's block, except that it's public rather than private. My 8½ crew called »
- Charlotte Chandler
Jonathan Bricklin: Susan Sarandon's New Boyfriend? (Photos, Video)
24 December 2009 8:45 AM, PST
Is Susan Sarandon dating a 31-year-old ping pong aficionado named Jonathan Bricklin? That's what a few other outlets hear. For her part, Sarandon denies it (via publicist Teal Cannaday). ABC News reports: "The rumors are absolutely untrue," Cannaday told ABCNews.com. "Susan's relationship with Jonathan Bricklin is strictly a business one." (Scroll For Pics, Video) Late Wednesday Sarandon, 63, and Tim Robbins, 51, announced they'd separated after 23 years and two sons together. Thursday Page Six writes of Bricklin. Sarandon was recently rumored to be involved with 31-year-old Jonathan Brinklin, a partner in Spin, the Flatiron District pingpong club Sarandon invested in. Before opening Spin in September, Brinklin was known for hosting Naked Ping Pong, an occasional party at a TriBeCa loft attended by models, hipsters, and celebs as diverse as 50 Cent and Salman Rushdie. Reached for comment earlier this month, Brinklin denied to »
- Katherine Thomson
Cameron's Avatar: Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas
24 December 2009 7:09 AM, PST
"...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~ Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act V, Scene V James Cameron made two films that are high on my list of favorites: Terminator 2 and Aliens -- not least because powerful women are central to the stories (even though he gave them the most conservative and clichéd motivation for heroism: maternal protectiveness). He was a taut, visually inventive storyteller once. But all his films after The Abyss increasingly resemble the Hindenburg: bloated, self-indulgent, lacking originality and subtlety in all but F/X. The latest iteration, Avatar, is the culmination of these traits and a poster boy of the industry's tendency to let CGI spectacle be the sole concern. A quarter of a billion dollars went into the film, the Gnp of a small country, yet they couldn't pay a decent Sf writer a paltry sum to »
- Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.
The Most Festive Night of the Year!
24 December 2009 7:01 AM, PST
Spoiler alert: Don't play the video clips (below) unless you have already enjoyed the annual television extravaganza. There is a great American holiday tradition that flies under the radar annually. It's not only funny, but heartwarming and wildly entertaining. Every December 23rd, or the last weeknight before Christmas Eve, Late Night with David Letterman celebrates the holiday season with a special show that is not advertised or hyped. This show feels like a secret Xmas gift from Dave and the gang to me. I love this show as much as anything I've ever watched on TV. While the longstanding traditions of the show don't sound like much in isolation, taken together they make one of the most rewarding hours of television each year. After the monologue and usual opening bits, the festivities begin in earnest when Dave pleads with Paul Shaffer to do his »
- Gary Stager
Alec Baldwin Gets Star Struck (Video)
24 December 2009 5:48 AM, PST
Even Alec Baldwin gets starstruck sometimes. On Letterman Wednesday night Baldwin described what happened when he was filming "The Good Shepherd" with director Robert De Niro. Every time De Niro yelled cut the first few days to give notes, Baldwin was lost in his head having "Raging Bull" fantasies. He then told the story of being in an elevator with Burt Lancaster. Baldwin did an impression of the screen legend standing in profile, knowing he was being stared at, and letting Baldwin soak him in. Baldwin is currently doing promotion for "It's Complicated." Watch: »
- Katherine Thomson
Kevin Smith: Why 'A Couple of Dicks' Was Renamed 'Cop Out'
24 December 2009 5:23 AM, PST
The new trailer for the upcoming buddy cop comedy Cop Out just hit the internet, but anyone who had been following the project knows the film, out February 26, 2010, had long gone by a more distinctive title: A Couple of Dicks. Fortunately, the film has an even more distinctive director: Kevin Smith, the hilariously profane indie film hero (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) making his debut as a director of a script he did not write himself. Smith was more than happy to give EW his frank perspective on how A Couple of Dicks became Cop Out -- in a nutshell, blame the networks »
- ew.com
Free Flick Fridays: A Charlie Brown Christmas
23 December 2009 2:51 PM, PST
What's the true meaning of Christmas? Your good old friend Charlie Brown is about to find out in this smart, earnest, and adorable classic. A Charlie Brown Christmas Dir. Bill Melendez (1965) "Christmas is a big commercial racket, run by an Eastern syndicate." Feeling a little Christmas ennui? Then this is the TV special to watch and turn it off-(oui!). It takes a guy like Charles M. Schulz to send up the creeping commercialism of the most wonderful time of the year, and from the mouths of (actual little kids) babes... This Christmas special has Charlie Brown on a search for the real meaning of Christmas, and through going to Lucy-as-psychologist, directing the Christmas play, and finding the world's saddest little pine tree...well, you know what happens next. It's an absolute joy to watch. Have a wonderful holiday season, everybody! Watch the film »
- Tribeca Film
Susan Sarandon Dodged Tim Talk On Tuesday's "View" (Video)
23 December 2009 2:34 PM, PST
Susan Sarandon has been out promoting "The Lovely Bones" while staying silent about her break up from Tim Robbins (until releasing a statement late Wednesday), and, as seen below, she deftly dodged a question about her ex lover on "The View" Tuesday. Sarandon took one of her sons to the movie's premiere, talked to Letterman about her dogs and had distracted most talk show hosts from asking about Robbins, from whom she split over the summer, but Joy Behar snuck one in. Sarandon's sisters were in the audience at "The View" Tuesday, and after the hosts asked them about the holidays with their famous sibling, Behar interjected with, "Who gives better gifts, you or Tim?" Sarandon breezily responded, "Oh, everyone gives good gifts in our family," as a large shot of the former couple loomed on a screen behind her. She then changed »
- Katherine Thomson
An Unusual Composer in Residence
23 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST
In case you have not noticed, 2009 has been The Year of Sputtering Rage. Talk radio lives on it. The evening news seems calculated to foment it. The Senate Republicans would be utterly lost without it. Sputtering rage is "pure" and is alleged to embody "common sense" at high volume. It requires no thinking; in fact it is the polar opposite of thought. And the one thing that all of the sputtering rage has in common is the belief that any idea that is different, unconventional or creative must of necessity have been propounded by an idiot. When I first heard the news that the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (a part of King's College, London) had engaged the Irish composer John Browne to serve as composer in residence for a year, sputtering »
- Ivan Katz
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