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Is This Your New Spock From 'Star Trek,' Or a Melty-Faced Katie Holmes?
Today, Entertainment Weekly released images from its upcoming issue devoted to J.J. Abrams's reboot of Star Trek, and featured on the cover were the two clearest looks yet at Zachary Quinto as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk (what, were Tyler Perry and Winona Ryder busy?). Heroes star Quinto has seemed like a natural to don Leonard Nimoy's ears ever since the casting was announced, but we must admit that this cover gave us pause. Is it the amped-up drag queen eyebrows? Or is it that Quinto, with his severe bob and vacant expression, resembles a Marfan's-afflicted Katie Holmes? Let's do a side-by-side: More »
Critics Corner
Grazer/Howard Lament Lackluster First Reviews Of 'Frost/Nixon'
In our ongoing effort to bring you the very latest critical distaste for every prestige film this fall, we follow up last week's collection of lukewarm W. reviews with hot-off-the-presses ambivalence toward Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play reunites Frank Langella and Michael Sheen as, respectively, the 37th president and his pesky TV inquisitor; the early word confirms that the film offers gravitas to spare, but you'll want to bring your own pillow: More »
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Reality Famewhore Chef Rocco DiSpirito Banished From 'Dancing' Eden
We'll start out by saying we've never really been a Dancing with the Stars person, just like we've never been a cat or coconut person. Not that we aren't amenable to garish talent competitions—but there's something so pungently desperate about this particular affair, so, "Look at me world! I've found my Z-list celebrity purpose again!" that it manages to exceed even our vast capacity for brain-smoothing frivolousness. That said—what a show! More »
Television
Television's Mid-Fall Report Card
FROM GAWKER.COM: It is already October 15th! How did that happen? I guess you could say that the Earth rotated around the sun a specific number of times and that days winnowed into nights which bled into days and so on and so on in the circle game. More »
Hospitalizations: Queer as Folk lead Gale Harold, who was added to Desperate Housewives this season as Teri Hatcher's new love interest, is in critical condition following a motorcycle accident yesterday. The actor fractured his shoulder and has swelling on the brain, but Housewives creator Mark Cherry said he is hopeful for a full recovery. [HuffPo]
Passions
The Creator of The Best TV Show Ever, 'Passions,' Has Died
We come together today to eulogize the genius who created one of television's most brilliant series. No, not David Chase, creator of The Sopranos. Have no fear, Matt Groenig remains among the living. Instead, the madman that we are paying tribute to is James E. Reilly, who created perhaps the most demented show that has ever existed, the NBC soap Passions. According to Soap Opera Digest, the 60-year-old Reilly passed away over the weekend while recovering from cardiac surgery. He leaves behind a sister, Cathy Robinson, as well as many of the most insane things that have ever happened on television. We're talking child witches with thought bubbles, armies made exclusively of fighting lesbians, insanely convoluted incest storylines — and that's just for starters! We've got a more in-depth sampling, after the jump. More »
Crisis of Faith
'Religulous' Snatches Crown From 'Expelled' in Box-Office Holy War
The longer-than-anyone-expected-or-even-thought-remotely-possible reign of Ben Stein's anti-evolution screed Expelled: No Intelligence Required atop the year's documentary box office is nearing its end, we hear. And naturally, it's the heathens knocking it down: After outlasting withering reviews and a desperate legal broadside by Yoko Ono, Expelled's $7.6 million gross is expected to succumb this weekend to Bill Maher's godless hit Religulous — itself a $7 million earner in two weeks of release. But while Expelled may lose the ticket battle, is it still the winner in the culture war? More »
Playtime's over
Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Is Increasingly The Odd Man Out
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: You might have heard that two of Hugh Hefner's "girlfriends" fled his desiccated embrace recently — Holly Madison for a no doubt more prudent and stable union with magician Criss Angel, and Kendra Wilkinson for erstwhile Skype-sex partner Hank Baskett (it's "way better than phone sex," she say... More »
Trade Roundup
D.L. Hughley To Host CNN's Pathetic 'Daily Show' Ripoff
· The lines between hard news and whatever it is CNN is doing continue to blur: D.L. Hughley will host a "news-driven comedy" show on Saturday nights that will offer a "skewering take on news and events." Let's sample the material: "There have been six movies with a black man as the president, and in all those movies, the world was coming to an end. If this election isn't art imitating life, I don't know what is." Yeah. Fuck off. [Variety]
· NBC has beaten out ABC in the race to nab David E. Kelley's new series, described as "a father-daughter drama." [THR]
After the jump: Which Funniest Woman Alive is making a return to series TV?
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Fey's footsteps
Should Sarah Palin Win, 'SNL' Has a Non-Tina Fey Plan B
Tina Fey may be locked in for a few more Sarah Palin impersonations on Saturday Night Live (though if she is, somebody had better tell her), but her cameos come with a strict stop date of November 5, at which point she will either return to 30 Rock full-time or begin a new, exciting life orbiting the rings of Saturn. Fortunately for Fey, a McCain/Palin victory is looking increasingly unlikely, but should the Republican ticket make it into the White House, SNL creator Lorne Michaels has a backup plan: More »
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Latest by DrFeelgood: They lean on Wiig so much now.Although her Palin will feature a giant forehead, baby arms and a snaggletooth. more »
Got Any Mary Jane?
Partying With Dunst!
Having ended her relationship with Justin Long to pursue newer, more streamlined Macbooks, beloved Hollywood good-times gal Kirsten Dunst and friends partied Monday night away at La Poubelle—which, despite its name, Angelenos will recognize as a non-trashy hot spot on that little stretch of Franklin that mimics the look, pace, and feel of living in an actual city. With one flaccid ciggie dangling from her lips, the Spider-Man star and former Cirque Lodge resident appears to have overcome her sadness addiction, and is ready to tackle the world—and any impending, reluctantly embarked-upon tentpole sequel productions—one gin fizzie at a time.
More partying photos after the junst!
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Field guide
Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's Lying Flack
FROM GAWKER.COM: So Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie are finally getting divorced. It's a very shocking thing, since earlier this summer, when reports of a pending divorce surfaced, Madonna's flack assured the world that the couple had "no divorce plans." Could it be that the flack, Liz Rosenberg—a charter ... More »
Feuds
'He Can Die in Hell': Werner Herzog vs. Abel Ferrara Moves to Round 3
We swear we didn't mean to throw a bucket of gas on the smoldering crash site where Werner Herzog collided a while back with Abel Ferrara, leaving the legendary auteurs fighting for their lives over Herzog's plans to remake Ferraras's 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage. But thanks in part to our revealing audience with Herzog last summer, the fire is back to uncontained levels today as Ferrara picks off his Bavarian contemporary one vicious shot at a time in Filmmaker Magazine: More »
Midweek Madness
This Week In Tabloids: Aniston & Mayer Have Sex; Anorexic Stars Without Makeup
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: If it's Wednesday afternoon, this must be Midweek Madness, your weekly tabloid roundup source. Crappy covers this week, folks: Skinny stars, stars without makeup, Trista announcing her pregnancy, Jenny McCarthy talking about autism, and those kids from High School Musical. More »
Angelina Jolie
A Marble Tribute To Angelina Jolie's Duo-Nursing Capabilities
It's been too long since we've stopped by our old friends at Gallery of the Absurd, who bring us this exclusive image of the new Angelina Jolie twin-spouting fountain installed at "the Mall of America's Enchanted Food Court." After thumbing yesterday through Brad Pitt's portfolio of almost too naturalistic Jolie poses, it's a relief to see another artist has done justice to her maternal majesty. Click to view it in its full glory.
- Mall of America Unveils Angelina Jolie Breast Feeding Fountain [Gallery of the Absurd]
