· What is in the water out in Hollyweird, ladies and germs! Cough. In the last 24 hours, three somewhat high profile Hollywood marriages have hit the skids, causing hordes of insecure couples to wonder aloud, "If they can't make it, what chance do we have?" Click ahead to survey the wreckage and stick around for more Buzz Break.
You know you're getting old when erstwhile teen heartthrob and current born-again evangelical hero Kirk Cameron turns 40, as he does today. But this isn't about us -- it's about him. With that in mind, let's f*ck up some Darwinists!
So, as usual, you have a pithy, brilliant comment to leave on this site. And then today, all of the sudden, you're coming up against a technical snag forbidding this from happening. Everyone here sympathizes -- and we are working on fixing it! A resolution is forthcoming as soon as possible, and you can get back to contributing your fantastic alternate Transformers 3 titles and wincing aloud at Mike and Molly fat jokes. Promise. Thanks for your patience and understanding!
Fran Drescher: the flashy girl from Flushing, the Cancer, Schmancer authoress, and now, the host of your new favorite daytime talk show? The erstwhile Nanny star signed a three-week contract with Fox to front her own chatfest, beginning on Nov. 26. But is Fran Fine a palatable successor to Oprah?
Last week, we all learned the next Transformers movie will be called Transformers: The Dark of the Moon. Movieline has obtained (i.e. I took a peek at some other movie album titles) an exclusive list of 20 other titles that were reportedly given serious consideration before DreamWorks and Michael Bay adapted a popular Pink Floyd album and called it a day. Ahead, via the same careful movie-naming logic, find 20 alternate title suggestions for the third Transformers film. As always, your suggestions are welcome
Also in today's edition of the Broadsheet: More MPAA outrage... Hilary Swank earns a charming new classification... The Social Network's misogynistic streak isn't Aaron Sorkin's fault, says Aaron Sorkin... Jeff Gaspin is tired of bloggers... Howlin' Wolf finally breaks through to the influential impotence market... and more...
While promoting her stage show Wishful Drinking in Australia, actress Carrie Fisher admitted that snow wasn't the only white, powdery substance on Hoth during Empire Strikes Back. "We did cocaine on the set of 'Empire, in the ice planet," Fisher told an Australian newswire. "I didn't even like coke that much, it was just a case of getting on whatever train I needed to take to get high." Ah-ha! And my decades long theory about Luke's dead tauntaun finally gets some confirmation. [Yahoo!]
Proving that a movie about Facebook could be just as addictive as the actual Facebook, The Social Network was number one at the box office again this week, while Katherine Heigl proved likable enough at number two and Secretariat hobbled in at number three. Meanwhile Wes Craven did something with a bunch of teens and we mostly ignored it at number five. Your box office receipts are here.
Daniel Radcliffe is joining the cast of The Simpsons for their annual Halloween Treehouse of Horror episode but not in the guise of any boy wizard we know. Instead he'll be playing a sullen teenage vampire named Edmund and will presumably toss a few toothless barbs at Twilight. The Simpsonized Vamp Radcliffe after the jump.
I always love to watch the DVD extras of a movie to take a glimpse of the creative process -- how ideas shifted and metamorphosed over time, what things were dropped by the wayside, and how the story we see now eventually came into being.This image of J.K. Rowling's plot spreadsheet for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is fascinating in its peek into Rowling's creative process. You can see how many different balls she was juggling (and since it's such a large book, this is presumably only one of many such pages). Take a look!
You're David O. Russell and you've made some of the most idiosyncratic and intellectual movies of the last few decades. What's your next logical career step ? If you answered direct a live-action version of a video game, congratulations!
Break out the Ovaltine and wake your Nana! Twentieth Century Fox and Walden Media (the moral scolds behind the Narnia film series) have teamed up to bring comicdom's most relentlessly unfunny strip to the big screen. Boy just when I was feeling safe after Cathy finally acked her last ack, now I've got this to deal with.
Self-aware faux-pas monster Katherine Heigl notched a number one in her belt as Life as We Know It ruled the Friday night box office. Secretariat showed at third place and Wes Craven's latest sexy-teens-are-scared-sexily thriller came in at number four. Your Friday box office is here.
It's a hard world. That's the bad news. The good news is that it's Friday -- your much-anticipated opportunity to black out in a post-traumatic haze of drunkenness and hopefully your favorite team winning a baseball game or a football game or whatever. I'm just saying you have options -- starting with a nostalgic browse through Movieline's Week in Review. Drop by this weekend for the smooth Web stylings of Dixon Gaines, and the rest of us will see you Monday!
· You have to be some kind of neanderthal not to realize Grover is Sesame Street's greatest asset. He's hip, fun, not a cloying wad of whorish laughter like Elmo, and sweet! Here he re-appropriates Isaiah Mustafa's Old Spice commercials for a younger audience. Sigh. He'll be starring in Tyler Perry movies in no time. [YouTube]
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