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This Week on Stage: 'The Understudy,' 'Idiot Savant,' and 'Nightingale'
7 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This week saw the too-rapid close of the Neil Simon revival Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway, as well as the opening of three Off Broadway productions: The Understudy, starring Justin Kirk, Julie White, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (above); Idiot Savant with Willem Dafoe; and Nightingale with Lynn Redgrave. Melissa Bernardo gave a B+ to The Understudy but dinged it for the cast's somewhat mixed on-stage chemistry. Thom Geier calls Idiot Savant "one strange, head-scratching evening" and gives it a C+. As for Lynn Redgrave's one-woman show, Nightingale, I gave it a C and took issue with the production because "the »
- Tanner Stransky
Sundance Selects Keeps the Devil Away from 'White Lightnin'
6 November 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Ask me what the most ambitious films are of the year, and so far I might point you to Dominic Murphy’s White Lightnin’ - a crazy piece of filmmaking that merits a "genre" label of its own. The pic was a recent winner Hitchcock D’Or at the Dinard Film Festival and grabbed the headlines less than 48 hours ago for winning big at the Mumbai Film Festival. Screen Daily reports that Sundance Selects won't leave this small in stature film orphaned in the backwoods for much longer. A little known fact for those interested: Vice Magazine’s founder Shane Smith and writing partner Eddy Moretti were the writers of the film and acted as executive producers on the biopic portrait which begins deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, in a battered trailer, abides living legend Jesco White, »
‘Slave’ Leia and Her Stunt Double Take A Break
4 November 2009 1:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Sometimes during your travels around the Internets you come across something that just needs to be shared. That’s just one of the great things about the Internets: lots of cool stuff floating out there. Case in point is this photo discovered by Kottie and shard with his Twitter followers.
That’s where we found it and now, we’re bringing it to you. Don’t say we never gave you anything.
In case you can’t tell, that’s a photo of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double taking a break on the set of Return of the Jedi. And yes, they’re both wearing everyone’s favorite slave bikini outfit.
We’ll just let that one soak in for a few minutes. Really, what else is there left to say except be sure to take a look at the larger photo after the jump and enjoy? Oh, and »
- Chris Ullrich
Halfway House: Oh Suzanne-ah
3 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Halfway through the day we freeze a movie halfway through. What do we see?
Doris Mann: Have you known Suzanne long?
Jack Faulkner: Ah, lets see. we've known each other about a month. It seems like longer, though.
Doris: Oh, I know what you mean. I'm her mother and it seems like longer.Fifty minutes into Postcards From the Edge (1990), Jack (Dennis Quaid) has dropped by to pick up Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) for a date. Her mother (Shirley Maclaine) intercepts the man with the bedroom eyes ('and the living room nose and the kitchen forehead'). The performers are deliciously insynch with Carrie Fisher's rapid fire witticisms.
One of the reasons people get so invested in the Oscars is the joy that comes from arguing about whether or not the octogenarian institution got it right in any given year / category. When it comes to Postcards From the Edge, they got it very very wrong. »
- NATHANIEL R
This week on stage: 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Finian's Rainbow'
30 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This week saw the opening of two new Broadway productions, both revivals: The Neil Simon Plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs, a comedy-drama starring former Roseanne star Laurie Metcalf (left), which I described as "a fine revival, easily the best show of a young Broadway season," and the musical Finian's Rainbow, which Tanner Stransky called "an odd, farcical muscial" that is "well cast and smartly performed." Still hunting for something to see on stage? Check out the EW.com Stage hub for up-to-date news and reviews; or consult this handy guide below, which includes links to all of our stage reviews of current shows. »
- Thom Geier
Wishful Linking
27 October 2009 4:14 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
That Little Round Headed Boy has a fun insightful piece on Amelia and "serious" acting
Gold Derby Ricky Gervais to host the Golden Globes this year
ticklepickleme & elliptical edits thrill to the sight of Julianne Moore in A Single Man and in person. I am officially jealous
The Critical Condition has a change of heart about Where the Wild Things Are. Good read
A Blog Next Door appreciates Dollhouse when its icky ethically. As do I
I Need My Fix Emily Blunt & Matt Damon on the set of The Adjustment Bureau
Gawker Paul Haggis (Crash) resigns publicly from Scientology over gay rights. Quelle Scandale!
Gallery of the Absurd twists Mel Gibson's upcoming Beaver picture
wowOwow great and lengthy piece on Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie by the one and only Liz Smith
Boy Culture speaking of the big M, did you hear about her gift to Glee?
Towleroad »
- NATHANIEL R
Still Crazy After All of These Years: An Interview With Carrie Fisher
23 October 2009 12:55 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Carrie Fisher has been called a lot of things in her life: an actress; an author; a screenwriter; a wife (she was married to musician Paul Simon and, briefly, to powerhouse talent agent Bryan Lourd, with whom she has a daughter); an alcoholic; bipolar; the Princess of Alderaan; and a product of Hollywood inbreeding (her parents are actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher). Carrie's life is big and bold and she lives it big(ly) and boldly. It's also scary, joyous, painful, and funny as hell. Over the past two years, Fisher has traveled around the country sharing her story in a setting where she probably feels most at home, on a stage. Pajama-clad and pacing back and forth between an easy chair and a couch on her living room set, Carrie immediately breaks the fourth wall to engage her... »
- Ashley Van Buren
'Star Wars' To Venture Into 3-D Territory?
22 October 2009 2:34 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
An source insists a new trilogy is being planned and will be shot in 3-D, but interviews with George Lucas make the possibility seem unlikely.
Photo: MTV News
While a Sarlacc may take over a thousand years to fully digest its prey, the pop-culture news cycle has proven once again to be the complete opposite — devouring and spitting out a new rumor about the "Star Wars" series in less than 24 hours this week. But what makes fans think there would be a new trilogy in the first place? And where should the most successful movie franchise of all time go from here?
The hijinks began Wednesday evening (October 21), when 3-d-movie-focused blog MarketSaw reported that it had an internal source who'd infiltrated the trusted circle of George Lucas like Princess Leia in a Boushh costume. According to the "absolutely connected" source, Lucas is making secret plans »
Curio: Brangelina, Circa 1960
21 October 2009 4:05 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here. I love Carrie Fisher, and I wish I could swoop into New York to catch her one-woman show Wishful Drinking. One of her bits involves her drawing a comparison between Eddie Fisher leaving her mom, Debbie Reynolds, for Elizabeth Taylor and the whole Brad Pitt - Angelina Jolie - Jennifer Aniston saga. All it took was a glance at this old Screenplay magazine of mine to confirm that she's on to something.
It's all there: the story purporting to break up the raven-haired temptress and Eddie, followed by a sympathy piece on Debbie the single gal. I wonder who will play these roles in another 40 years?
An aside: the cover story "Strange Things Marlon Brando Does to Women" really doesn't live up to its title. It's just a bunch of pics of Marlon and his co-stars. Snooze.
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- Alexa
Work Week in Review: Kindergarten Cop to it, Schwarzenegger
16 October 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Each year, Vanity Fair ranks 100 power players on the New Establishment list. Each week, Vf Daily reports their maneuvers in our Work Week in Review. ↑ Lloyd Blankfein (No. 1) is in Timothy Geithner’s fave five. A Foia request by the Wall Street Journal reveals that the Treasury Secretary met or spoke with the Goldman Sachs C.E.O. 22 times between January and July. ↓ Jeff Zucker (No. 61) appoints Bon Jovi as the “NBC artist in residence.” In related news, Lady Gaga has been tapped to serve as the NBC poet laureate. ↑ Jon Stewart (No. 48) scores the key to Bellingham, Washington. → Bryan Lourd (No. 24) takes heat from his ex-wife Carrie Fisher in her Broadway show, Wishful Drinking. Referring to the plot twist that ended their marriage, Fisher says, "Turning people gay is a superpower of mine." → Arnold Schwarzenegger (No. 49) tweets a response to TMZ after the site posted multiple photographs of Maria Shriver »
Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (October 16, 2009)
15 October 2009 6:47 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Last weekend's Equality March in Washington D.C. got me to thinking about how far we have — and haven't — come in the fight for gay equality. But since AfterElton.com focuses on pop culture, I'm going to look at things through that lens and leave the political analysis for Pam's House Blend, Americablog, Bilerico and the other assorted gay political websites that cover the topic.
One of the very first times American television addressed the subject of gay men (bisexuality was almost never addressed) was way back in 1954 when the L.A. based tabloid talk show Confidential File presented "Homosexuals and the Problems They Present." Hmm, I'm guessing it wasn't terribly flattering unless it was about how boring straight people looked in comparison to us 'mos.
San Francisco's public TV station did the first ever documentary, The Rejected in 1961 and it wasn't until 1967 that a television show first featured a gay storyline. »
- michael
Review: Carrie Fisher Drinks Her Way to Broadway
7 October 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Drugs, booze, divorces and affairs might sound like a run of the mill Jerry Springer episode, but even the rich and famous succumb to such pitfalls in Tinseltown, and when you're the child of a movie star mother and famed crooner father, every vice runs the risk of making headlines. How does a famous person cope with a litany of personal disasters and addictions? They do what every other actor seems busy with these days -- put on a one-person show and welcome the world into your sordid past with open arms. Hollywood celebrities beware, Carrie Fisher is on the loose and taking no prisoners in her one-woman tour de force, Wishful Drinking, now playing on Broadway at Roundabout Theatre's Studio 54. Fisher, most recognizable from her turn as the bun-haired princess in Star Wars, has taken to the stage... »
- James Sims
Princess Leia Reigns On Broadway
6 October 2009 1:41 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Carrie Fisher has brought a lifetime of personal gossip about her and her family -- her mother is '50s movie star Debbie Reynolds; her father is '50s singing idol Eddie Fisher -- to the Broadway stage in a one-woman show called Wishful Drinking. Watching it, commented Elisabeth Vincentelli in the New York Post, "you feel as if you've been stuck in a simultaneously garish and cheap boudoir with a garrulous drag queen who just. Won't. Shut. Up." However, Frank Scheck, writing in the Hollywood Reporter, remarks that "Fisher manages to make extreme dysfunction wildly entertaining." Particularly, he notes, during a segment devoted to Star Wars, in which Fisher wears a Princess Leia wig and brings out a Princess Leia sex doll. Ben Brantley concludes in the New York Times: "After the show, you'll probably start to think that Ms. Fisher didn't really tell you everything. But as long as you're watching her, you experience the illusion of extremely funny, subliminally sad full-frontal confession." And Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press called Fisher's show a "hilariously perceptive journey through a world of celebrity and self-destruction ... chock-full of funny, fascinating tales." »
10 Hit Songs Inspired by 10 Women
1 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | Momlogic | See recent Momlogic news »
We are women, hear us roar. We can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and inspire many a chart-topping song!
10 Songs Inspired by Real WomenLucy in the Sky with Diamonds
The real-life Lucy from the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died at the age of 46. Lucy Vodden was classmates with John Lennon's son, Julian. One day, the young Lennon came home from school with a drawing that he entitled, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly wrote his hit "Peggy Sue" about Peggy Sue Gerron, who married Buddy Holly and the Crickets' band member Jerry Allison. Holly actually never had a romantic relationship with Peggy Sue, but he really, really, really liked her name.
It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan wrote "It Ain't Me Babe" about his ugly breakup with former squeeze folksinger, Joan Baez. Baez must've been thrilled. »
Fisher Disgusted By Weight Gain
29 September 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Carrie Fisher is so disgusted by her weight gain she can't bare to watch herself perform on camera.
The former child star became a sex symbol in the 1970s after portraying Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy.
At 52, Fisher is now appearing on Broadway, in her one-woman play Wishful Drinking.
But the show's success has been marred for the star, who admits she can't stand to watch replays of herself onstage.
She explains, "I invite people to my show not to look at my house (body) but to listen to my furniture (performance), because I'm a little on the mansion (heavy) side right now and struggling with it."
But Fisher admits she's trying desperately to put her self-consciousness into perspective.
She adds, "That's a minor thing. That's not my biggest problem. It's a nosebleed, high-class problem, but it makes you vulnerable." »
Just Being Carrie Fisher Is Super-Weird
28 September 2009 2:08 PM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »
Carrie Fisher’s shrink told her, “If you worked in a supermarket they would’ve institutionalized you at 20,” she recalls. Not so in Hollywood, where the erstwhile Princess Leia suffered through drug addiction, manic depression, and failed relationships—her own and her parents’. But electroshock therapy helped her deal with all that and turn it into a one-woman show—and it was “worth it!” she tells New York . “Totally. Fucking. Worth it!” In that show, Wishful Drinking —opening in New York next month—Fisher waxes witty on everything from her father leaving her mother for an in-mourning Elizabeth Taylor (“He ultimately... »
Rumer Willis and Audrina Partridge are Sorority Girls in Trouble
23 September 2009 3:18 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
In what could be the most enjoyable publicity campaign for a film ever comes a new video and a batch of stills from ‘Sorority Row‘. This thriller features a collection of the hottest young actresses including Adrina Patrridge, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung, Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis and Margo Harshman. The story sets up all these young ladies for scenes of hectic action as a revenge plan goes horribly wrong.
Audrina Patridge, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung, Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis and Margo Harshman star in Sorority Row
Synopsis: When five sorority sisters of Theta Pi cause the death of one of their own during a foolish prank gone wrong, they conspire to discard the evidence and never speak of the nightmare again. But when a mysterious killer targets the group a year later with a series of bizarre attacks, the women find themselves fighting for their own lives amidst the revelry »
- Dave
New makeup FX pics from Sorority Row
23 September 2009 2:03 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Writer Scott Essman sent along a batch of behind-the-scenes photos of makeup FX artist Gino Crognale doing his thing for the recently released slasher flick Sorority Row (a couple also appear with our set-visit report in Fango #287), plus a pic of director Stewart Hendler instructing actress Rumer Willis. Needless to say, there are spoilers below regarding the death scenes for those who haven’t caught the movie yet, but if you have, or if you’re not concerned about such things, dig in!
Sorority Row, also starring Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung, Margo Harshman, Audrina Partridge and Carrie Fisher, is currently in release from Summit Entertainment; see our reviews here and here, and our two-part interview with Hendler here and here.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
MovieSet Spotlight - ‘Sorority Row’
23 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Check out the latest clips from Sorority Row. This thriller features a collection of the hottest young actresses including Adrina Patrridge, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung, Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis and Margo Harshman. The story sets up all these young ladies for scenes of hectic action as a revenge plan goes horribly wrong.
When five sorority sisters of Theta Pi cause the death of one of their own during a foolish prank gone wrong, they conspire to discard the evidence and never speak of the nightmare again. But when a mysterious killer targets the group a year later with a series of bizarre attacks, the women find themselves fighting for their own lives amidst the revelry of an out of control graduation party.
‘Sorority Row’ Videos Director Stewart Hendler talks ‘Sorority Row’ Director Stewart Hendler talks about how he got a hold of the Sorority Row script, character development in the film, »
- Kyle Zahar
Carrie Fisher Goes Apesh*t in Blog Post: 'Blow My Bovine C--k!'
18 September 2009 12:55 PM, PDT | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »
Yikes! Actress Carrie Fisher is furious that celebrity tabloids and websites have been teasing her about her weight. In a blog post dated Sept. 4, Fisher, 52, rails against the media and its mean-spirited treatment of celebrities who have gained weight, including herself and actress Kirstie Alley, 58. Carrie, who played the iconic Princess Leia in the original Star Wars film, has publicly discussed her problems with drug addiction, bipolar disorder and alcoholism. »
- Samantha Chang (schang@theimproper.com)
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