I have not yet seen Morning Glory, but based entirely on the smoldering sexagenarian chemistry between Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford in the trailer, I am willing to bet half of my tailored white pantsuit collection that their warring talk show hosts engage in some form of spontaneous hate sex during the film. In anticipation of this -- and in celebration of Diane Keaton's ability to bag dudes onscreen when most actresses her age are cast as grandmothers and corpses -- here is a list of all eight men the neurotically endearing (and sometimes just neurotically annoying) actress has romanced onscreen in the last decade.
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The awesome inclusion of a Roger Ebert pan on an Asian DVD cover recently got me thinking: Imagine how great it might be if all of Ebert's targets took advantage of his bile to get the viral word out. Here are a few I could see benefiting from it right away; feel free to suggest others.
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Didn't watch Conan O'Brien last night? You weren't alone. Despite the appearance of a blame-worthy Tom Hanks, Conan fell some 30 percent in total viewers and 35 percent in the coveted 18-49 demographic. On the plus side, Conan continues to skew incredibly young: 2.1 of the 2.8 million total viewers were under 50, with an average audience age of 30. Coco: The voice of a new generation! [THR/The Live Feed]
If the first clip of Burlesque had you worried that it couldn't possibly live up to the ridiculous trailers, this glitzy new clip of Christina Aguilera performing "I'm a Good Girl" should put your fears to rest. Stanley Tucci is in top form during the opening bit, which offers hope that most of the film's conflicts will be resolved with an odd one-liner and a quick-cut to another song-and-dance number. But mostly the clip belongs to Aguilera, who sings and dances around the garish club with zero regard for laws of time and space while donning the skimpiest outfit PG-13 will allow. Get ready for a lot of pink.
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The cover of New York this week reads as follows: "Don't worry. Seriously. Things are looking up." And, hey, with the country more divided than ever and everything else pretty much sucking -- grumble, grumble, insert complaints here -- why shouldn't we all find a little room for some blind optimism? Yes, even us.
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Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Roland Emmerich spikes his low-budget movie... Profanity's up (like, way up) on TV... Walking Dead has a bigger problem than zombies, says one critic... Tour Dustin Lance Black's new spread... and more after the jump...
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It sounds like Jim Henson Studios is actually moving forward with the demented puppet-film-noir, The Happytime Murders. Cameron Diaz has now been offered a role in the film, which honestly sounds interesting only if she plays a puppet version of herself. More interesting though are the script details that have been released, which promise a film that will push the limits of bad taste and almost certainly receive an R-rating.
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The first photos from Daniel Radcliffe's upcoming non-Harry Potter film The Woman in Black have arrived. In the film, Radcliffe plays a young lawyer and squaring off with a scorned ghost. Sounds exciting! But I can't say the same about these dull photos. The most interesting aspect is the fact that Radcliffe can now grow pretty solid sideburns. This of course then raises the question: What would the young star look like with a beard? Well, thanks to some hasty, extremely amateur Photoshop work, I sort of found an answer. Okay, barely an answer. But I posted it after the actual photos anyway. Enjoy!
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· Damn, the sixth season of Weeds is already almost over. It seems only yesterday Nancy was schtupping Mark-Paul Gosselaar like a champ. Alas: In the airport-set season finale, our heroine makes a drastic phone call in the ladies room. Here's your first look. [Cinema Blend]
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This weekend, Denzel Washington stars in the Tony Scott-directed, train-gone-amok thriller, Unstoppable. About a year and a half ago, I used almost the exact same sentence to describe the Denzel Washington-starring, Tony Scott-directed, train-gone-amok thriller, The Taking of Pelham 123. It was hard not to notice some... let's say, similarities in some of the discussions that took place at the press conferences for both films. So, to test your knowledge of Tony Scott train movies, see if you can guess if the following Denzel Washington quotes are from this weekend's Unstoppable or last year's The Taking of Pelham 123.
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The latest casting additions for Cameron Crowe's return to moviemaking (better known by its title, We Bought a Zoo) have been announced and it looks like the director is going home again. Patrick Fugit, who you remember as the Crowe-surrogate in Almost Famous, has been added as a co-star along with Elle Fanning. They join previously announced Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. Huzzah to Fugit, but let's just take a moment to realize that 11-year-old Fanning will have worked with Crowe, Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola and J.J. Abrams before turning 13. Not bad, but not Homecoming Queen. [Deadline]
It's a sad day in film culture: After 40 years of raining puns, ridicule and unabashed blurb-addled ecstasy on morning-TV viewers across America, movie critic Gene Shalit is packing up his bow tie and retiring from Today. Shalit made the announcement in a press release, adding that his future plans "embrace publishing, the Internet, radio and commercials." Are you thinking what I'm thinking? No, not "Good luck." More like, "Job opening!"
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· Here at Movieline, we've already gone over some of the colloquialisms employed by TLC in marketing Sarah Palin's Sarah Palin's Alaska (she's like the M. Night Shyamalan of bad reality television), and now Palin herself has weighed in on the matter: "Clever marketing sticker! I'll no doubt keep giving 'em material," she wrote on Twitter today. Click ahead to see that "marketing sticker" and stick around for more Buzz Break.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged among die hard Veronica Mars fans that every time one '09er comes to terms with the fact that Neptune's favorite female super sleuth -- immortalized by Kristen Bell -- will have to settle for solving crimes in the television afterlife, another hopeless '09er tries to rally the fans to plead with Warner Bros. one more time for Veronica's silver screen adaptation. It's a nasty, hand-biting cycle for Kristen Bell and the 70,000 or so dedicated VM fans...that veered wildly off course today when Warner Bros. -- the party responsible for keeping Veronica from her feature film debut all of these years -- finally agreed to set up an official petition line. Rather than get our hopes up (again), Movieline reviews the Veronica Mars Film Campaign Timeline and makes an educated decision about whether this latest development is worth any more hope.
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While the world was watching Conan O'Brien's debut on TBS, David Letterman was having a pretty epic conversation with Harrison Ford, and yes, that galaxy far, far away came up. Every time there's even a remote possibility that I might have to interview Ford (it's never happened), I'm immediately immersed in an internal tug of war over the thought of bringing up my favorite movie of all time, The Empire Strikes Back, in his presence. After watching Ford on Letterman last night, however, there's no way in hell I would ever broach that subject.
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