Well, here's something you probably didn't expect to see today: Three short films directed by Rachel Weisz, Jessica Biel and Eva Mendes, all done in conjunction with Glamour Reel Moments. The film series, which not surprisingly is inspired by Glamour readers' real life moments, has already drawn the likes of Demi Moore and Kate Hudson. But how did these three newcomers do?
In a Today Show segment on Tuesday featuring Amy Sedaris (who was in the studio to promote her new book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People), Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb managed to out-crazy any Saturday Night Live parody of themselves. Seriously. Ahead, watch this latest NBC disaster, and take a moment to review some of the many questions raised by this boozy morning segment.
Forget expletives and meltdowns, this awkward minute of bloopers on a mid-day newscast in San Diego approaches such deadpan perfection that you'll swear it was scripted. Not only is the comic timing nearly flawless, but the segment builds to a finale that will make comedy writers everywhere a bit envious. It's possible that the Channel Ten crew just had a rough day (Hey, it happens to the best of us.), but I'd like to think there was more going on behind the scenes than we know. Maybe the The Office creator Ricky Gervais could relocate to San Diego and make a series that fleshes it all out?
Forget Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson. Marijuana enthusiasts have a new pot culture icon to salute after Zach Galifianakis lit a joint during a round table discussion of Proposition 19 on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday.
It was a year ago this week that The Today Show held its Star Wars-themed Halloween episode, which would have been memorable for Darth Curry alone were it not for the infamous Ewok bacchanal that virtually stopped the show cold. In their honor (in their memory? I assume they were tortured and fed to a Rancor Monster upon their return to Skywalker Ranch), and because Meredith Viera's Lady Gaga get-up is doing zero for anybody this year, let's look back at that golden, drunken October morning. May all your Halloween parties be this spirited.
Those buggers at NMA are fast! Barely 36 hours after Charlie Sheen's meltdown at the Plaza Hotel -- the same meltdown that Sheen is now calling "overblown" -- the Taiwanese CGI news service has boiled the entire incident down to a mere 83 seconds of animated fun. Click ahead to watch the video, and enjoy the teddy bear used to censor out Sheen's junk.
Here's new teaser for the upcoming Halloween episode of The Simpsons which features Daniel Radcliffe parodying Twilight. Yep, after that button-pushing intro from a few weeks ago, it's back to safe humor and easy targets for The Simpsons. There's about a minute of footage from the episode here, along with a look behind the scenes and an interview with Radcliffe. I'd say the joke to laughter ratio so far is somewhere around one to three. Much more entertaining however, are the faces Radcliffe makes while recording vampire noises in the studio. See for yourself after the jump.
Disney has released a new music video for the Daft Punk track "Derezzed" from the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. By "music video," I mean advertisement for Tron: Legacy, complete with a little bit of stilted dialogue and a lot of skin-tight suits, virtual frisbee and foreboding stares from Jeff Bridges. As a two-minute video, it's visually stunning, action-packed and well-worth a watch. But based on the bits of dialogue here, I wonder even more whether this sugar-rush is really going to be sustainable for an entire movie or if all this hype going to amount to a neat-looking video game that we can't play. Thoughts?
That was fast: It seems like only yesterday we were stockpiling canned goods and bottled water in anticipation of Never Say Never, the 3-D! Documentary! About teen-pop phenom Justin Bieber! And now there's a 20-second teaser making the rounds, meaning that we are about 1/270th closer to the End of Days. Hold me. (Warning: Uncontrollable autoplay video after the jump, so headphones at the ready...)
When screenwriter Peter Morgan confessed recently that the shooting script for Hereafter was actually a rough draft written "very sketchily in the mountains of Austria," it explained volumes as to how the respected, Oscar-nominated writer of The Queen and Frost/Nixon became the man responsible for one of the year's most polarizing prestige efforts. It's since become clear it's not a position he likes, and apparently he's ready to throw director Clint Eastwood under the bus to get out of it.
No matter how brilliant the finished product, there is no way The Hobbit is going to be as great as the hijinks leading up to its production. There was that whole MGM bankruptcy followed by the lack of a director, and this was all before SAG and AFTRA went and got in a funk over casting non-union actors and Peter Jackson's set went up in flames. But now, for the (hopefully) final act, New Zealanders are taking to the streets to fight to keep the film's production in their home country! Hopefully a documentary film crew has been following this process.
Because you were probably watching the NBC Thursday night comedy block -- or maybe Game 5 of the NLCS -- the chances are slim that you remembered to flip over to Comedy Central for Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education. And too bad, since the sight of Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan singing the Simon & Garfunkel classic "Scarborough Fair" was probably funnier than anything on 30 Rock, The Office or Community combined. Click ahead to watch the comedians curse out a beleaguered-looking Paul Simon (or "Simon Garfunkel," as Morgan says) and, later, help the iconic singer/songwriter with his Snoop Dogg impersonation. Funniest thing you'll see all day alert, folks.
Here's something I learned today: When Zach Galifianakis does a Between Two Ferns, it's pretty funny because we know it's not real -- even though we try to pretend that it is real. When an actual journalist tries to pull this same stunt, it's sphincter clenchingly awkward -- especially at a press junket.
As CocoCam moves into day two, things are going pretty much as expected -- which means zombies, dancing tacos and, as of this writing, a staff game of Twister, complete with a multi-colored disco ball. But late last night something more sinister happened: Usurped TBS host George Lopez -- with help from Dog the Bounty Hunter, natch -- sneaked into Conan O'Brien's offices and stole some Dell computers. Because what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right!? Click ahead to watch Lopez pull a Leno (or Conan, depending on your allegiances).
Over the summer, Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson participated in a humorous video for Fight Back NY (a political action committee designed to remove New York state senators against gay marriage from office), that ended with him proposing marriage to Alec Baldwin. Cut to October, and it appears Fight Back NY has finally gotten Baldwin to respond to Ferguson's overtures. As far as political ads go, it's about 6 million times better than the effort Christine O'Donnell made. More than that, however, the ad is timely, too: Not only is Election Day less than two weeks away, but today is also Spirit Day. Click ahead to watch Alec Baldwin to be confidently obtuse in the way that only he can.
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