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Ian McKellen Suffers 'The View' Stupidity with Grace and Wit
7 November 2009 8:02 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Actors might make a lot of money, but at least they work for it with long hours on set, paparazzi insanity, exhausting PR tours, and the pressures of handling the same questions over and over and over again with grace and charm. But even more impressive is when they can be graceful in the face of utter ignorance or idiocy.
We've watched John Cusack get interviewed by a clueless film student, and now (after the jump of course) you can see Ian McKellen handle the women from The View. Ah, there's nothing like having your television interview start out with an inflammatory rant about swine flu and socialized medicine. It's not a surprise really -- the once-sweet Survivor star Elisabeth Hasselbeck has made a career out throwing wild rants into unusual places on the show. But, sadly, that's only the start of the nonsense that McKellen handles with dashing grace. »
- Monika Bartyzel
Somers Clarifies Swayze Chemo Comments
5 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Suzanne Somers has backtracked over remarks she made about the late Patrick Swayze's cancer treatment, insisting her comments were misconstrued in the press.
The Three's Company star, who suffered her own cancer setback earlier this year, infuriated Swayze's grieving pals when she allegedly told a Canadian reporter the actor could have lived longer had he chosen alternative medical treatments instead of chemotherapy.
Somers is said to have told columnist Shinan Govani, "They took this beautiful man and they basically put poison in him. Why couldn't they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins in his body?"
The remarks prompted Swayze's Ghost co-star and devastated friend Whoopi Goldberg to publicly chastise Somers, claiming she "should know better".
But Somers maintains she didn't mean to offend anyone with her comments and simply meant Swayze might have benefited from testing other cancer treatments, like her late pal Farrah Fawcett.
She says, "I said an offhand remark... I shouldn't have said it, as a person in the public eye, even in private, what I say can leak out.
"(But) I had been through this cancer thing myself. I watched Farrah Fawcett die; she was a friend of mine. So it was my frustration from that that maybe if someone had gotten to her in another way (she might still be alive).
"If you are touched by cancer in some way, don't you want to know about other ways (of treatment)?"
Fawcett lost her battle with anal cancer in June after undergoing alternative medical treatment in Germany.
Swayze died in September following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Somers has previously stated she has written a letter to Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi apologising for her comments. »
Here's who turned down the Oscars gig
4 November 2009 3:31 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
Allison told you yesterday that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the Oscars in 2010. But you probably guessed that others were considered too, right? Three of the people below turned down the gig. Can you guess who they were?
Tina Fey Robert Downey, Jr. Will Ferrell Whoopi Goldberg Jay Leno Ben Stiller Sean Combs Kristin Chenoweth Jerry Seinfeld me
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- Bob Sassone
Sherri Shepherd's Next Challenge: Finding Love
2 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Sherri Shepherd's ready to tackle another major goal with a little help from her co-hosts on The View: She's looking to find lasting love. After successfully answering last summer's challenge to slim down enough to don a sexy swimsuit, Shepherd, 42, told People at the premiere of her new film Precious at the AFI Audi Film Festival that her next challenge may be a quest for a relationship. "I'd probably like a husband to find me - a man to find me,” she said. “I'm available now!” Related: Sherri Thinks Her 4-Year-Old Is a FlirtBut is she really ready for co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, »
- Scott Huver
Lil Wayne's Ice Cream Cake Job
30 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
When I was a kid, my mom would make birthday cakes that looked like trains, or zoo cages. One time there was a really, really scary clown. There are psychic scars, to be sure, but they're likely nothing compared to poor Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, 14, daughter of battling ex's Kim Basinger and Alex Baldwin.
The teen — who, you might recall, was on the wrong end of a really nasty voicemail from her pops two years ago — reportedly got a frighteningly accurate specialty birthday cake last week in the shape of Lil Wayne's head, complete with licorice dreads, chocolate sunglasses and iced out icing grill. We have no idea if this story is true (since the image from Los Angeles ace cake shop Rosebud Cakes has since been removed from its Flickr account), but any way you slice it, that is the most Wtf?-tastic cake we've ever seen.
Congratulations Kim and Alex, »
- Gil Kaufman
Hugh Jackman Out, Who Should Host the Oscars This Year Instead?
29 October 2009 10:49 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Those of you anxiously awaiting for Hugh Jackman to commit to another Oscar ceremony should probably line up for Broadway tickets, because you won't be seeing him on the Oscar stage this year. Sources say Jackman has declined the job over the past few weeks, and while he won't rule out hosting future ceremonies, he didn't want to do it two years in a row. Jackman certainly breathed new life into a ceremony that was getting more stale by the year---he showed enthusiasm and showmanship not seen on the Oscar stage since Billy Crystal's better years. It also helped that the Academy made efforts to liven up the ceremony as well (although to mixed response). So now the question remains, who should host the 82nd Academy Awards? First off, I think they should avoid tapping any of the other hosts from this decade, which includes Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, »
- Devindra Hardawar
Mo'Nique Has The Hottest Oscar Buzz For Her Role In Precious!
29 October 2009 12:58 AM, PDT | The Humor Mill | See recent The Humor Mill news »
The last couple of days we have noticed that there is quite a lot of Oscar buzz, and this week, it seems that the buzz in the Hollywood industry has gotten a little louder. We can say for certain that our Hollywood insiders have started to take notice of Lee Daniels' new film titled Precious: Based on Push a Novel by Sapphire as it has been winning over audiences since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last January. The drama featured a strange cast of some experienced and some inexperienced actors including Mo'Nique, Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey as they stunned the Sundance faithful during its world premiere.
Anyway, since the film premiered in January, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry got behind the film as Producers to support the film, and most recently things have really started to spin out of control for the film, as we heard »
- noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
‘Fear Clinic’ Premieres, How About a DVD Giveaway?
26 October 2009 3:12 PM, PDT | Tubefilter.tv | See recent Tubefilter News news »
Just in time for Halloween week, FEARnet launched its much-anticipated horror web series Fear Clinic today. After whetting appetites back in July at Comic-Con, the Robert Englund (Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street films) led thriller centers around a brilliantly creepy Dr. Andover (Englund) and his unlisted clinic for curing lifelong phobias. Director Robert Hall, who comes from the world of visual effects, is a newcomer to web series. His Almost Human effect shop was called on to produce the complex makeup and creature effects so far unseen in a web original. ”This looks like a nasty little Cronenberg film made for the web,” said Englund during our recent interview with him, referencing the venereal horror master. "Fear is the little death that consumes you," warns Dr. Andover in the opening episode (above) to an uneasy Lucas Till. Till plays Brett, a young guy looking to get over his »
- Marc Hustvedt
Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss Marries SNL's Fred Armisen
26 October 2009 11:55 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Her character Peggy Olson might be stifling in a 1960s atmosphere of sexism and repression but Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss has something to crack a big smile about: The actress married Saturday Night Live funnyman Fred Armisen on Sunday, her rep confirms. The two wed in front of friends and family at The Foundry in Long Island City, New York. Photos: Surprise! We're MarriedIn August, the pair said they were aiming for a simple, "medium-sized" wedding, and that Moss, 27, would be wearing a Claire Pettibone dress. "It was actually the only and first designer I ever wanted," said Moss. »
- Michael Y. Park
Fun For Everyone Halloween Films - Part II!
25 October 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve really appreciated the great response we’ve gotten from our first set of Fun for Everyone Halloween Films and it’s time for the second of three great collections that will not only put a wintery chill up and down your spines, but a smile on your face and collective memory.
Read on below and don’t forget to tell Screen Rant about Your favorite Howling Heaps of Halloween Film Fun!
5. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966): There are many people that will claim their personal soundtracks to include “Darth Vaders March”, or Kenny Loggin’s “Danger Zone” from Top Gun. Mine is much more commonplace: Linus and Lucy. It’s a track featured inside of all of the Charlie Brown adventures and naturally finds its way to this instant classic from 1966, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. All of the Peanuts cast are here, »
- Mike Wilkerson
DVD Art & Specs for Warner's 4 Film Favorites: Thriller Collection
23 October 2009 11:43 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We're just coming up on Halloween, and already the home video companies are announcing titles that'll be streeting in early 2010. On the list for January 12th is Warner's 4 Film Favorites: Thriller Collection, which contains four movies that you wouldn't necessarily associate with one another.
While you're perusing the special features that are included with each film, see if you can figure out what, if anything, they have in common:
Ghost Ship: 5 Featurettes • Mudvayne "Not Falling" Music Video Dreamcatcher: • Original Ending and 4 Other Lifted Scenes • 3 Featurettes Gothika: Commentary by Director Mathieu Kassovitz and Director of Photography Matthew Libatique • Limp Biskit "Behind Blue Eyes" Music Video Queen Of The Damned: Additional Scenes • Commentary by Director Michael Rymer, Producer Jorge Saralegu, and Composer Richard Gibbs • 3 Featurettes • 4 Music Videos: "Forsaken", "Redeemer", "System", and Static X’s "Cold" • Extended "Slept So Long" and "Not Meant for Me" Concert Sequences • Gag Reel • Production »
- The Woman In Black
Goldberg Honoured With Career Achievement Award
20 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg has been honoured for her Hollywood career at a New York fundraising gala.
The Ghost star was presented with the Marlon Brando Award at the 2009 Stella by Starlight Gala on Monday.
Goldberg, who was handed the prize by American Gangster star Ruby Dee, admits she was flattered to receive the accolade but would rather have her late friend Brando back by her side instead.
She says, "It (the award) was great just because of my relationship with Marlon, so it was nice.
"We spoke often and we talked a lot, and I'd much rather have him than the award. He was a good man. I didn't get to work with him but I hung out with him."
Hollywood icon Brando died in 2004 at the age of 80. The gala raised money for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. »
John Saul and his new fright book: Novels would make creepy film adaptations
20 October 2009 1:59 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
If John Saul could describe in one word his new book, House Of Reckoning, it’d be “Creepy.”
In fact, there’s no “could” about it. That’s the way he did describe it during a recent interview conducted via e-mail.
House Of Reckoning is Saul’s 36th book of supernatural terror. In the style of his first published book, Suffer The Children, which he wrote in 28 days in November 1976 and went on to become a million-copy bestseller, House Of Reckoning has everything a horror aficionado craves: personality, atmosphere and, of course, enough terror to give you the creeps.
Which might seem odd since Saul doesn’t call himself a horror writer.
“Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing,” he says, “where they put [you] in a pigeonhole, and there you stay. No matter what. Forever.”
It’s not that Saul dislikes the horror genre but, like many authors, he finds »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Andy Weeks)
Goldberg Undergoes Ear Surgery
20 October 2009 1:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Whoopi Goldberg underwent minor surgery on her ear last week to fix a mystery ailment.
The Ghost star let slip the information during Monday's taping of TV talk show The View, which she co-hosts, when she revealed she'd missed the breaking news story last Thursday about the six-year-old boy who was thought to have taken off in a homemade balloon.
News networks halted programming to follow the balloon across Colorado but Goldberg was not watching - she was lying on the operating table.
She said, "I wasn't watching the news because I was trying to have an operation on my earlobe."
Further information about the comedienne's operation was unavailable as WENN went to press.
The boy was found safely at home hours later. The child's parents, reality TV couple Richard and Mayumi Heene, are now facing charges amid allegations the drama was a hoax. »
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Debuts Newborn Son's Pic on 'The View'
19 October 2009 7:18 PM, PDT | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
Elisabeth Hasselbeck has reunited with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sherri Shepherd on TV show "The View", in which she serves as its co-host. On the Monday, October 19 episode of the ABC's daytime morning chatfest, she gushed about her third child, Isaiah Timothy, who was born on August 9. "He'll never be able to spell his own name, but that's fine. He's almost three months or so. He's good," Elisabeth said.
During the show, she also debuted a picture of her son. Recalling the moment when she took the picture, the 32-year-old beauty said, "I had just been feeding him, and I took the photo. He had this huge, huge smile, and it was the cutest picture."
"So immediately I forward it to everyone in my family distribution list - my mom, my dad, my brother, Tim's dad, his brother, his mom, his other brother - and I sent it to myself, »
- celebrity-mania.com
Baby + Boob = Welcome Back, Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
19 October 2009 12:59 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Whitney Houston's wasn't the only near nip slip we got to see today. Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to The View after welcoming her third child, Isaiah, in early August. While her reunion with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg was smooth enough, the child's entrance to the world was not without its hiccups and oopsie-daisies. Mom and tot wound up logging a few extra weeks in the hospital, and, shortly before they returned home, she proudly snapped a photo of one of the newborn's first smiles and, well, a little something extra. "I had just been feeding him, and I took the photo," she recalled. " He had this huge, huge smile, and it was the cutest picture, so... »
Baby + Boob = Welcome Back, Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
19 October 2009 12:59 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Whitney Houston's wasn't the only near nip slip we got to see today. Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to The View after welcoming her third child, Isaiah, in early August. While her reunion with Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg was smooth enough, the child's entrance to the world was not without its hiccups and oopsie-daisies. Mom and tot wound up logging a few extra weeks in the hospital, and, shortly before they returned home, she proudly snapped a photo of one of the newborn's first smiles and, well, a little something extra. "I had just been feeding him, and I took the photo," she recalled. " He had this huge, huge smile, and it was the cutest picture, so... »
New book examines black women's film stardom
17 October 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Dorothy Dandridge was the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Almost a half century passed before another black woman . Halle Berry . won the award.They and three others . Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey . are subjects of the new book "Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.""These women have pushed the racial boundaries for audiences, setting new standards for beauty and body type," said author Mia Mask.She took on the book because, while black male stars are now enjoying huge success, little has been written about their female counterparts . as performers who can headline a film, said Mask, who teaches film and drama at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Dandridge was nominated for her lead role as the hedonistic factory worker in the 1954 classic "Carmen Jones," alongside Harry Belafonte.Berry won an Oscar in 2000 for playing »
Justin Timberlake Expected to Join Tina Fey on '30 Rock'
16 October 2009 8:17 PM, PDT | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »
After receiving a gong during 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards last month, Justin Timberlake is expected to make a guest appearance on TV series "30 Rock". According to Contactmusic, the hit NBC show's leading star, Tina Fey, has launched a campaign in an attempt to persuade the "Until the End of Time" hitmaker to make a cameo on the comedy series.
"I feel like it's imminent ... I think he's making a movie or something," she says of the Jessica Biel's dating partner. "But if he wants to come sometime after that, we would love to have him - he's got mad skills."
During 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 12, Justin Timberlake took home Guest Actor prize. He was honored for his guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live", making him the first host of the show who won gong at the annual awards event.
As for "30 Rock", it was first broadcast in November 2006. Several famous celebrities, »
- celebrity-mania.com
Fey Launches Timberlake Campaign
16 October 2009 12:11 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Comedienne Tina Fey has launched a campaign to persuade pop star Justin Timberlake to make a guest appearance on her TV show 30 Rock.
The comedy series has enjoyed a string of celebrity cameos including Jennifer Aniston, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Mary J. Blige.
And now Fey has got Timberlake in her sights - because she is a big fan of his acting career.
She tells, "I feel like it's imminent... I think he's making a movie or something, but if he wants to come sometime after that, we would love to have him - he's got mad skills." »
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