This rarely recurring feature was once called "Movieline's Favorite Celebrity Feud of the Day," but since all feuds lead through Wasilla nowadays, let's just change the title accordingly. This week, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann railed against former Dancing with the Stars finalist Bristol Palin because she still preaches about the effectiveness of abstinence (preaching made difficult by the child in her arms). Calling Bristol the "worst person in the world" was taking it a bit too far, however, and so Bristol replied to Olbermann the way most Palin's express themselves -- with a missive on Facebook.
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Well, that was fast. Mere days after Gun's heavily armed 50 Cent appeared to sprint away with the honor of the year's most unfortunate movie poster, along comes the thriller Dead Awake to overtake that lead. I know, I know: What the hell is Dead Awake? You mean other than awesome?
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Also in the Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Disney readies another two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels... James Bond will return with Sam Mendes... Jean-Luc Godard turns 80... and more ahead.
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Welcome back to the latest edition of Movieline's Weekend Forecat -- kind of an abbreviated edition, in fact, seeing as not a single full-scale wide release opens today. The best we've got are a bunch of ninjas making their belated debut in 1,600 theaters, while two smaller films you've got the hots for tumble into limited release behind it. Let's make some projections...
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The Criterion Collection does an amazing job releasing important foreign and art house films on DVD, from the plethora of bonus features they include to the immediately recognizable and very classy art that graces the covers. The only problem? As prolific as they are, there are still always a number of movies still waiting to get the Criterion treatment. But a new blog is here to rectify that. "Fake Criterions" boasts a growing collection of fan-made Criterion cover art for classics that the company has yet to release. You know, classics like Ghost Dad, Soul Man and Ernest Goes to Jail...
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· In case P. Diddy's -- ahem, Diddy-Dirty Money's -- tweeted demands to perform with Robert De Niro on SNL this weekend weren't sad enough, this promotional photo was just released. Horrifying. De Niro is flashing mad Goodfellas stank while Diddy cruises high on King of Comedy delusion. This is not the kind of Scorsese tribute I needed on a slow Thursday. [ONTD]
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When Movieline asked The King's Speech director Tom Hooper about his film's horrible excuse for a movie poster, the candid Oscar contender summed it up like so: "I hate it. I hate it. And it is not going to ever be on any cinema walls. It will be replaced. It's a train smash. It's a train smash." With that in mind, it's time to take a look at The Weinstein Company's replacement poster for The King's Speech, which dispenses from shady Photoshopping techniques for a microphone and Colin Firth's skin. Progress?
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You've seen the paparazzi photos, and you've seen the market poster. And now, as Summit finally corners the troubled Mel Gibson/Jodie Foster effort The Beaver into a vague but reassuring spring 2011 release "date," along comes the first official still from the film. You'll never guess who's in it!
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· Fresh off delighting the fifteen people who watch Bored to Death (myself and Julie Miller included), Kevin Bacon is back with another Meta-y performance. This time for Google TV and Logitech, where the actor plays his very own super-fan. It's sorta creepy, sorta funny and sorta makes me wish Bacon made more movies. How will future generations get to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon if he doesn't co-star with Kristen Stewart?! Click ahead to watch the ad and then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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File this under: When good intentions go bad. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Ryan Seacrest pledged to stay off all social networking sites this week to support Worlds AIDS day, and claimed they wouldn't return until $1 million had been raised for the AIDS charity Keep a Child Alive. Which is a great idea, until you realize that no one actually wants to hear from Kim Kardashian and Ryan Seacrest.
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Being friends with many people who are in the baby-having stage of life, I know that coming up with an original name that isn't too original -- but that also isn't criminally overused -- is a lot more difficult than it looks. So, in some ways, I feel for the new parents who decide that it's just easier to write the name of one of their favorite television personalities on a birth certificate, instead of something "new." That said: You had the gall to name your kid Finn? And Bristol? Oh, God, hang on while I vomit all over the keyboard.
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The stages of reaction to the news that James Franco and Anne Hathaway will host the Academy Awards next year are turning over at a record pace. There was initial shock at the randomness of their selection; the acceptance that maybe the pair would make beautiful -- if awkward -- music together; and now, the rationalizations for putting them on the Kodak Theater stage in the first place. "This year's telecast isn't just about 'getting to the youth' -- its whole theme is going to reflect on this history of movies through the perspective of a young person experiencing the movies for the first time," an insider told Vulture. Which is a fancy way of saying it's about getting to the youth.
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Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet... Eminem leads Grammy nominations... a slightly unusual take on the latest Ronni Chasen developments... Terrifying science... and more...
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A 92nd Street Y event with Steve Martin was interrupted on Monday night when interviewer Deborah Solomon was handed a note, which she read aloud, asking her to focus more on Martin's career. Apparently, the note was in response to angry e-mails from viewers watching on closed-circuit TVs who felt that the presentation focused too much on the art world, which is the setting Martin's latest novel, The Object of Beauty. Besides interrupting the interview, the 92nd Street Y has sent an email apologizing and offering all who were unsatisfied a $50 gift certificate refund. Both Solomon and Martin himself have condemned this move as unnecessary and disrespectful, and frankly, it looks as though they're right.
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A bizarre update in the murder of veteran Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen: A man believed to be connected to the murder pulled a handgun and shot himself as Beverly Hills investigators closed in to serve him with a search warrant. Police have released no information on the man, other than the fact that he was a "person of interest," but a neighbor said he knew the man as an ex-convict named Harold, though added that "I don't even know...if anything he told me was true." Still developing...[The Wrap, LAT]
