As the song says, money can't buy you class -- but it can buy you a bunch of crap you can't possibly afford as long as you put it on credit. According to bankruptcy records filed in Newark on Friday, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Guidice and her husband, Joe, owe creditors around $11 million in liens, foreclosures and unpaid bills -- including $12,000 to a fertility clinic. The Guidice's have already seen both their $1.8 million 5-bedroom mansion and $279,000 4-bedroom Jersey Shore home taken by lenders and they defaulted on their Escalade. Stay classy, Teresa. [NYP via Vulture]
Have you ever wanted to see Rue McClanahan and Betty White trade dirty jokes while on the set of Golden Girls? Well, here's your chance! In the wake of McClanahan's passing earlier this week, TMZ has unearthed a "never-before-seen video" -- with a non-working embed code, harumph -- of the two ladies killing time between takes in the mid-'80s the only way they could: By swapping bestiality jokes. And, in McClanahan's case, bestiality jokes told by Conrad Bain. Because, of course Conrad Bain would walk around telling a joke that concludes with "Will you hold that dog for me?" [TMZ]
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This should surprise exactly no one: After suffering through the final season on 24 with a character arc that was literally made up as it went along -- said executive producer Howard Gordon last month: "There was some other mid-season purpose for her, but I can't remember; even in the beginning, I told her I didn't have much of a part for her" -- Cherry Jones has taken herself out of consideration for an Emmy nomination. Representatives for the 2009 Best Supporting Actress winner won't say why she dropped out, but that's probably only because they're better at this than Katherine Heigl. [LAT/Gold Derby]
Terra Nova hasn't even shot a pilot yet, but thanks to the participation of executive producer Steven Spielberg it has loads of advanced buzz and a place on the Fox mid-season schedule. Now -- finally -- it has an actor. Jason O'Mara -- most recently of Life on Mars fame -- is in talks to play the lead on Terra Nova, a man who travels back to prehistoric time with his family to participate in a project designed to give humanity a second chance at building a civilization. Which probably reads as "blah blah blah" until you remember that there will be dinosaurs. So, win. [Deadline]
Stop me if this sounds familiar: Thanks to some lesser-than-expected dollars from the new releases, Shrek Forever After remained in first place on Friday night and should wind up easily winning the weekend -- the Dreamworks hit pulled down $7 million to pace one of the weakest summer fields in recent memory. How weak? Runner up Get Him to the Greek grabbed just $6 million and that was still as much as other new releases Marmaduke ($3.5 million in 6th) and Splice ($2.5 million in 8th) combined. Meanwhile, Katherine Heigl haters rejoice: Killers landed in third with $5.7 million. Imagine how much better it could have done with "The" in the title! The top-five after the jump.
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And so another week ends at Movieline, thus bringing our regular Friday retrospective into sharp, clear and unusually bittersweet focus. It's nothing a double bourbon (or whatever you're drinking; put it on my tab) and a couple days off can't fix, though. From all of us, have a fine weekend, and be sure to join Christopher Rosen here for your Movieline fix in the days ahead. Au revoir!
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· Adidas has stuffed a grab bag of celebrities into the original Star Wars cantina scene, including Snoop Dogg and Jay Baruchel, for some reason. Also on tap: David Beckham, who faces off against Greedo, yet says mercifully little in his high-pitched Ewok voice. Video [via MTV] after the jump.
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Do you know the best thing about your mother's famous Chicken Kiev? There's still time to change it and make it right. Gwyneth Paltrow is treating all of our winners this week to helpful hints on bettering the foods they've loved since childhood. You know those tacos your Uncle Gene makes when you visit his cabin in Cumberland, Wisconsin, the gooey mounds of sour cream, guacamole, and fresh ground beef that bring you back to your favorite summers on Beaver Dam Lake? Well, the quality of Gene's pepper dicing skills is for sh*t. All hail our Goop-slinging savior! She'll right this with just one instructional video and a number of sideways glances. So, who gets to hear, "You're doing it wrong" from Gwynnie herself?
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Where's Commissioner Gordon when you need him? As part of an LAPD crackdown on people who dress up as superheroes and cinematic icons, then troll Hollywood's Walk of Fame while illegally charging the errant tourist money for a photo, KNBC managed to capture the immortal sight of a shamed, arrested Batman as he was hustled into a squad car. Video's below...better watch out, Meth Jakesully. You're next! [via Slashfilm]
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Give Fox Searchlight some credit, I guess, for attempting to navigate one of the more challenging markets in contemporary film: the "urban market," i.e. movies targeted toward minority viewerships, particularly African-Americans. And now that most signs point to the company's retreat from that same market after a few conspicuous underperformers, go ahead and ask: What went wrong?
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Sorry, Minka Kelly fans, but Sarah Chalke is reportedly in talks with CBS to replace the Friday Night Lights actress in the comedy Mad Love. The series, which is close to a 13-episode midseason order, has already replaced two other cast members: Tyler Labine took the place of Dan Fogler and Ashley Austin Morris was initially replaced by Lizzy Caplan, who will have to be replaced herself since she's staying true to her commitment to Starz's Party Down. Chalke recently had a recurring role on another CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. [Deadline]
TMZ is reporting that Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford was arrested late last night for marijuana possession. The actor was busted in a Texas parking lot, where cops found him and a friend in a car with one unlit joint. Maybe he can blame it on being stood up for dinner? [TMZ]
The last time I gave musical biopics some real thought was after watching Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, where the parody exposed that genre of filmmaking for the pretty obvious formula it is but the sentiment still stung. After all, aren't movie tributes to musical legends supposed to be as thrilling and revealing as the entertainers themselves? The news that Mary J. Blige will play jazz vocalist and civil rights hero Nina Simone in a new biopic is welcome, since Simone's life story isn't known to the average filmgoer in 2010, but I think the genre could still use a tune-up. Here are five musicians or bands who would pose an exciting alternative to the rote drugs-and-redemption arc of most biopics.
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And you thought eating that foot-long from Subway to support Chuck was a big deal. Fans of FlashForward are so outraged over their favorite show being prematurely killed by ABC, that they're staging their own flash-forwards. On June 10, fans will gather in front of ABC network and affiliate offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta and "blackout" -- as in, lie on the ground with their eyes closed -- for two minutes and 17 seconds, the same amount of time the characters on the show blacked out for. Creative! Trauma fans, the ball is in your court. [On the Air]
· Here's your first look at Natalie Portman in the delayed medieval stoner comedy Your Highness...not that you'll actually be seeing the film until 2011.
· During a talk at Rockefeller University, Orlando Bloom revealed that he's dyslexic: "It's still an ongoing struggle. I have more trouble studying scripts and memorizing lines than most [other actors]."
· Eli Roth has finally gotten all of those sea urchin needles removed. Mazel tov!
· Freed from his Heroes obligations, Zachary Quinto is segueing to the stage revival of Angels in America.
· What have we learned from Angelina Jolie? Nathaniel Rogers tells us, though he omits one important lesson: going blonde is almost always a bad idea.
