Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez Join American Idol as Judges

The show that will never go away announces another set of "celebrity" judges for the upcoming season. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez, who I don't know what she does anymore. Maybe she is in line to find the best anti wrinkle cream, or something. No idea really.

Once a dizzyingly dominant small-screen force, Fox's American Idol has been shedding viewers in recent years — some 9% last season alone, many of them in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 demographic. Rightfully so. Just like all the other Reality TV stuff should, but doesn't and it is destroying society...*cough* sorry.

David Beckham Says $10,000 a Night Hooker Rumors Untrue

A magazine pusblished an article that claims Beckham cheated on his wife and hired a $10K a night hooker. The odds of anyone finding out about this must be astronomical as a $10K a night hooker is not going to be flaunting her services and clients all over the place now is she?

David and Victoria Beckham are slamming the latest cover of tabloid In Touch, which claims that he cheated on her with a $10,000-a-night hooker. What's next? He's taking the best weight loss supplements too much?

A rep for the two tells UsMagazine.com that the allegations -- which include a threesome and unprotected sex -- "are completely untrue and totally ridiculous, as the magazine was clearly told before publication.

"Sadly we live in a world where a magazine can print lies and believe they can get away with it," adds the rep. "We are taking legal action against the magazine."

Monday, September 20, 2010

2010 Fall TV Premiers Kick Off Today

If you are a TV fan at all you probably know that many of your favorite shows are ready to get rolling this week as well as some new hopefuls. For me I only watch a few shows so this extensive list means very little to me. I don't watch "new" shows usually. I typically catch shows that have been around for a few years and play catch up when I know it is about to go off the air so I don't have to wait every week, or every summer to see what happens. Of course this is for dramas, and I keep up with a few comedies most of the time.

The 3 shows I will watch regularly this year will be Dexter, Chuck, and the Final season of Smallville. Smallville I just watched all 9 seasons leading up to the finale this summer and am pretty excited to see it all end. Chuck I think is probably in its last year too because frankly, I don't think the show has much left in the tank and has been facing its end since season 1. Dexter is the only current show I have watched since Season 1 and it is brutal waiting for it to return every year considering it has such a short season anyways. Dexter should be unleased with some rage this year so it could be a great season once again. HE definitely won't be in a situation with anyone needing their prenatal vitamins this season.

Here's the list of the TV premieres the 2010 fall season on basic cable with Dexter thrown in for good measure:

Monday, September 20
Castle - ABC
Hawaii Five-O - CBS
House - Fox
Lone Star - Fox
Chuck - NBC
The Event - NBC
Chase - NBC

Tuesday, September 21
Detroit 1-8-7 - ABC
NCIS - CBS
NCIS: Los Angeles (two-hour premiere) - CBS
Glee - Fox

Wednesday, September 22
The Whole Truth - ABC
Criminal Minds - CBS
The Defenders - CBS
Undercovers - NBC
Law & Order: SVU (two-hour premiere) - NBC

Thursday, September 23
My Generation - ABC
Grey's Anatomy - ABC
Private Practice - ABC
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - CBS
The Mentalist - CBS
Bones - Fox
Fringe - Fox

Friday, September 24
Medium - CBS
CSI: NY - CBS
Blue Bloods - CBS
Human Target - Fox
The Good Guys - Fox
Smallville - The CW
Supernatural - The CW

Sunday, September 26
Desperate Housewives - ABC
Brothers & Sisters - ABC
Dexter - Showtime

Tuesday, September 28
No Ordinary Family - ABC
The Good Wife - CBS

Wednesday, September 29
Law & Order: Los Angeles - NBC

Sunday, October 3
CSI: Miami - CBS

Wednesday, November 10
Lie to Me - Fox

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Randy Quaid Arrested For Squatting

Randy Quaid and his wife were arrested after being found squatting at a California home they owned more than years ago. If you are like me you always try to figure out who this is. You see there is Randy, and Dennis. Randy is the National Lampoon guy, who is the crazy pilot in Independence Day. So...when you hear stories like this you probably don't think much of it since he typically plays this kind of role anyways. Oddly enough he was in Brokeback Mountain which I will never see.

Anyways, apparently with no need for weight loss pills that actually work since he can't even afford a place to stay, the Quaids were stopped by police in the upscale community of Montecito -- home to celebrities like Oprah Winfrey -- on Saturday, police said.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said that Quaid and his wife Evi insisted they owned the house, but a representative for the home owner produced documents proving the house now belonged to his client.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

"The Town" Looks Like the Box Office Gift Winner This Week

Been a while since I have paid a lot of attention to the box office numbers. There really hasn't been a whole lot at the theaters I have been interested in seeing. With this big "3-D" phenomenon I can honestly say that I have looked the other way at more than a few movies due to the 3-D aspect of it. Not saying I HATE 3-D, but I am just not all that impressed with how most of these films are rendered in it after seeing how good 3-D can truly look. Just waiting for the cash grab to blow over where films actually use this the way it is meant to be used rather than for a crappy reason to jack the ticket price up 50% for something that didn't even need it.

As we roll into the Christmas season the movies should start to get a little better. Whether it has been a great year, or not I always look to buy some movie related gifts for the family. Be it a popcorn bucket for free popcorn all year with a handful of tickets inside, or just a nice gift card to stuff into a stocking, or on one of their fresh Christmas wreaths where we have been putting cards and other small gifts the last couple of years.

Ben Affleck's bank-robbing thriller "The Town" looks like a nice start to the upcoming fall and Christmas season of movies. At least it is something I would probably be interested in seeing and I can finally use some of the damn gift cards to see a movie. The Town grabbed the box-office crown Friday night. The film, which takes audiences to the smash-and-grab underworld of director and star Affleck's hometown of Boston, and features Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall, topped the end-of-the-work-week box office with an estimated $8.4 million.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sacha Cohen, aka. "Borat" To Play Freddie Mercury In Movie

Cohen will play flamboyant rocker Freddie Mercury in a dramatic feature focusing on his glory days as the frontman of Queen, its producers said on Thursday.

Queen is a great band, and probably has some interesting stories in their history. I've never read a whole lot about them personally, so it would be rather enlightening to see a bit about their lives. I'm sure there is more than parties where they ended up passed out on cheap laminate flooring.

The film will focus on a period of a few years leading up to what was arguably Queen's greatest moment: its performance at the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, when the band mesmerized London's Wembley Stadium and a worldwide TV audience with such hits as "We Will Rock You" and "Radio Ga Ga."

The band continued touring and recording even as Mercury's health deteriorated. A day after finally admitting he had AIDS, Mercury succumbed to the disease in 1991, at age 45.

The untitled film is being written by Peter Morgan, the British scribe behind "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland." No director is attached yet.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole For 6th Time

Oddly this is something I have never thought about much. I didn't even realize Mark David Cahpman was alive to be denied parole.

Chapman, 55, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life in prison for the shooting death of Lennon outside Lennon's New York City apartment on December 8, 1980.

He has served 29 years of his sentence at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility, where he is held in a building with other prisoners who are not considered to pose a threat to him, according to officials with the state Department of Correctional Services.

The last time Chapman was up for parole, in 2008, the New York State Division of Parole issued a release saying his request was denied "due to concern for the public safety and welfare." He probably is beyond the need of a personal injury Tucson attorney if he ever gets out. Celebrity killers are stalked by people just as crazy as they are probably.

Friday, September 03, 2010

Lindsay Lohan Running Over Babies Now, or BS?

Lohan just got out of jail and someone is claiming that she had a hit and run with a nany and a baby carriage in her Maserati. Some claim it is a false rumor, and the eyewitness is full of it. Instead of filing a police report she decided to give an interview to TMZ. Guess she needs a new pair of mbt shoes.

Brayan Jaime tells TMZ he was at Lindsay's West Hollywood apartment yesterday -- working his very first day on the job as a freelance paparazzo with another dude.

Jaime tells us he spotted Lindsay in her Maserati pulling out of her apartment building, then running a red light and making a left, right into the stroller.

Jaime says it was "full impact ... It was a major hit." Jaime tells us the bumper struck the nanny in the leg and hit the stroller "in the middle, knocking 3 of the 4 wheels in the air."

Machete is Out and People Like It. What a surprise

Grindhouse: Planet Terror seemed to come out of nowhere a few years back, and while far from a classic high brow film, it entertained most that watched it with over the top action and silliness. Machete with Danny Trejo and a bunch of sexy women with Robert Deniro, and probably some other cameos of superstars was expected to be just as badass and breaking down the door lock to get in early.

MovieWeb seems pretty excited about it:

Robert Rodriguez's latest, Machete, is about one of the silliest, action packed romps since, well, his last one, Planet Terror. And while its purposely cheesy, it feels like a breath of fresh air to me with some good, old fashioned grindhouse violence. And it was surprisingly not a bad movie, either. I was fully entertained by it's style, its music, and comical references to real life myths (Michelle Rodriguez's character is She, a rip on the revolutionary named Che).

Friday, July 30, 2010

The Human Centipede

Have you heard of this madness? It's a very, very stupid movie that came out recently (I think? Might be on sale I don't know. I got it online.) and features a mad scientist who has a crazy idea. His idea is to connect 3 humans together to form a human centipede. How would he do this you may ask? Do you really want to know?

I watched this the other day and found it to be an awful movie. Many will find it disturbing, and one of those train wreck types of moves that you just HAVE to see to say you did. I didn't find it disturbing really, but I did find the premise to be completely idiotic. I guess I've been a horror and gore fan way too long for something like this to make much of an impact on me.

So...this doctor goes out and abducts several people for his human centipede. HE is mad and has no conscience obviously. When he finds 3 people that have matching "tissues" he is ready to start his crazy surgery.

Oh yeah...the best part....The person in the front feeds the two connected to them. You see they are sewn together by the lips to the anus. They eat his excrement. Told you you didn't want to know.

Here's the trailer. All the actors are annoying: