Only 435 designers remain on Project Runway, and the stakes have never been higher. The male designer in the vest? He may be eliminated next. The other male designer in the other vest? He may be spared! You just don't know! Everyone is on pins and needles. I'll see you on the runway. Watch what happens. (But in a Lifetime way.)
True Blood, so hot right now. It's got the ratings, the Skarsgård, and now, finally, it's got the New York Times essay that ascribes about eight thousand Higher Meanings to everyone's favorite vampire campfest. But is True Blood really as smart as everyone thinks?
On August 31, you'll have the opportunity to see James Lipton emotionally pummel Mickey Rourke during an especially probing edition of Inside the Actors Studio. Thanks to the released sneak previews, Movieline was able to cut through the oft-repeated stories of lap dogs and Rourke's "long darkness of self-imposed banishment" to glean five new facts about, as Lipton puts it, "one of the most remarkable careers in the history of American film."
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Criss Angel, the A&E Network's #1-ranked magician, tried something different during last night's installment of The Five Lives of Criss Angel. He attempted to levitate the home audience using tricks like hypnosis, vocal overdubs, and split-screen edits. Ambitious, yes, but so are his custom handcuff-themed belt buckles. Not spooked yet, Criss! But by the looks of his comment page, where he asked viewers to text in their results, he was a unanimous success, levitating everyone at home and barely putting them down. I mean, just look at this wholly affirmative feedback!
Grab a small animal and bite down real hard, as ABC's new V reboot is undergoing some retooling and has shut down for two weeks. Producers want to "take advantage of our November premiere to maximize creative opportunities and deliver the audience the best show possible," a Warners spokesperson said. [The Wrap]
Left unsated by the 30 Rock porn spoof that made the rounds just last week? We've got good news: 30 Rock itself is now casting for its own porno version! Casting spoilers for the upcoming season's second episode, after the jump:
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As someone wise once meant to say, "The greatest high school musicals are good, but the bad ones are even better." After all, whose icy heart doesn't melt while watching a cast of untrained, gawky students screw up their choreography and miss the notes to a ballad from West Side Story? Regardless of your high school musical quality preferences, Showtime's Guys 'N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals is worth a watch, as it profiles the preparation behind three productions with varying talent pools and budgets.
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We buckled in for a season full of casino-themed Quickfires long before last week's Top Chef: Las Vegas premiere managed to incorporate vices, showgirls and blood. So we weren't thrown when Bravo dialed up their Vegas-theme quotient last night with craps tables, bachelor parties and general sleaziness (embodied by guest judge, celebrity chef, and date rapist-look-alike, Todd English). However accurate our Sin City expectations were, we did not foresee the stiff competition between blood-related chef-testants and another competitor's passive opposition to last night's elimination challenge.
Shalom Sesame: 1. It's a real show. 2. I know. 3. It's an awesome, 12-part spin-off of Sesame Street that teaches Jewish children about their heritage and culture, with the help of predictable celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal, Christina Applegate, Ben Stiller, Debra Messing, and Cedric the Entertainer. Since it's set to air at the tail end of 2010, Shalom Sesame still has plenty of time to garner enough publicity to force a statement from Madonna saying that it's just safer if she runs this whole thing. Ready for an education, Schlomo?
Pictured on the cover of EW is their "reunion exclusive" portrait of the stars of Seinfeld, that '90s-defining sitcom about a conniving, corpulent mailman and the neighbors who'd continually foil his schemes. Starting in the third episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm's seventh season, and continuing through to its tenth, the reunion arc somehow figures into a plotline in which "Larry attempts to get [Cheryl Hines] back." Said Michael Richards -- arguably the most comeback-needy of the series's core quartet -- of revisiting the twitchy character that made him a star, "I'd always kept Kramer's shoes. Once I got those shoes on, and I'm standing behind the door of Jerry's apartment, I was ready." Julia Louis-Dreyfus, thankfully, made no similar statement about having fallen with ease back into her Elaine role after slipping in the iconic prophylactic gelatin sponge she'd held on to all these years. [EW]
Coley Laffoon, a briefcase-carrying go-getter and Anne Heche's ex, has already responded after witnessing the Volcano star deride him as a "lazy ass" on The Late Show with David Letterman. Said Laffoon to US Magazine, "After coming home from showing two different clients two different condominiums, I was disturbed to see Anne taking out her personal frustration on the father of her child on national television." Hmm. According to Heche, those "two different condominiums" are really "his home mailbox with a child support check inside" and the "two different clients" are really "Coley Laffoon." The rest of Heche's tirade after the jump.
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In Russell Brand's "My Booky Wook," the English comedian vividly recalls how he spent his heroin-fueled days engaging in acts of defiance for money and occasionally his own entertainment. He compromised any strands of self-respect that survived a good dosing to bathe with a homeless man, steal from girlfriends, videotape a gay sex act in a bar bathroom and have serial unprotected sex with escorts. Somehow though, this moralistic sell-out seems much more mild when you see Brand's recent MTV VMA promos.
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The pin-ups who populate 90210 range from the dirty blonde (AnnaLynne McCord) to clean blonde (Jennie Garth). There are brunettes too, I understand, so that rabbit-eared TVs don't tweak out. But diversity is a rare guest-star on 90210, which might explain why this casting alert for a new character named "Lila" reads something like a middle-school note doodled in gel pen.
Nickelodeon once made a habit of creating live-action shows like Clarissa Explains It All and Hey Dude that ran for, at most, 65 episodes before settling into a decade of reruns. Sadly, though, the fondly remembered summer camp-set series Salute Your Shorts ran for only 26 and wrapped after two seasons in 1992. Reasons for the halted run circulated, particularly as Nickelodeon re-aired the show for the next six years, but the first full-fledged answer to the show's legacy -- and the question of whether DVDs would ever be released -- is upon us in the form of a new interview with cast member Tim (now Trevor) Eyster.
There is no better forum for rich, narcissistic adolescents flouting their parents' wealth and poor judgment than MTV's Super Sweet 16. Miraculously, the series has survived four years without any discernible irony or an ounce of lavish celebration-guilt suffered by its teen subjects. Finally though, one (fictional) sweet 16er will have to deal with the gruesome consequences of her six-figure fête in MTV's upcoming original movie, My Super Psycho Sweet 16.
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