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Today in show business news: Now Melissa Joan Hart wants your money for a movie, The Newsroom has a season premiere date, and a look at a new Romeo & Juliet.
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Today in show business news: The search for Miss Hannigan continues, some interesting clues about the next Star Wars movie, and Simon Rich continues to do well at his 20s.
Today in show business news: Now Melissa Joan Hart wants your money for a movie, The Newsroom has a season premiere date, and a look at a new Romeo & Juliet.
Ryan Murphy and the rest of the Glee writers are seemingly determined to make at least one Very Special Episode for every current issue affecting America's teens. And so it glumly came as no surprise last night that Glee tackled the terrible and all too real issue of school shootings. Not surprising, but certainly not welcome, either.
Today in celebrity news: La Lohan is in Indio, Gwyneth Paltrow reveals her guilty pleasure, and Duchess Kate has a trashy TV addiction.
Today in show business news: Rachel McAdams may have a role in the bizarre-sounding new Cameron Crowe film, Patricia Arquette washes up on the Boardwalk, and a look at a new potential indie sensation.
It's only been 32 years since The Shining first bathed America in elevator blood. Are we really so itchy (at best) or arrogant (at worst) that we need to put a 2013 spin on it? Hopefully Stephen King is right and there's something to be done about all this movement on The Overlook Hotel.
Something was in the air on American Idol last night, some spirit of Idol seasons past that gave some of the contestants a little extra oomph, maybe even genuinely good, likable performances. Well, two, anyway. From the same person. But still.
Today in celebrity news: Is a popular Victoria's Secret Angel actually not that popular? Plus, everyone wants a Jennifer Lawrence sex tape, and Kate Upton is not dating Diddy, you guys.
Today in show business news: History is doing a miniseries about Houdini with TV actor Adrien Brody, Julie Taymor gets her Spider-Man money, and fans of Zack Morris can rejoice.
I've been something of a Terrence Malick apologist in the past, explaining to detractors why the plodding pace of The New World is just right, why the long origins-of-the-universe segment of Tree of Life is a vital burst of genius, but I'm afraid I'm out of excuses with To the Wonder.
Two days after the Internet became aware of their godawful and actually racist collaboration, "Accidental Racist," we've been given the duo's second joint, the love tune "Live for You." Love songs are perfectly nice and harmless, right?
Fifteen new episodes of the beloved show will debut on the streaming site on May 26, an event that has many excited, yes, but many worried, too. What if it's not as good?
Today in celebrity news: LiLo and Letterman have a chat, Tom Cruise opens up about divorce, and Kate Upton must choose between Puff Daddy and Michigan's freshman hero.
Today in show business news: AMC is thinking about spinning off a beloved Breaking Bad character, Anne Hathaway lands a huge new role, and Chloe Sevigny has officially been made a detective.
Labyrinth is in many ways one of the last non-animated, spectacle films of the pre-computer age. Now, so many years later, it's been announced that Disney has acquired a pitch called Labyrinth, which is not quite a remake nor could it be.
Today in celebrity news: A Teen Mom-and-a-porn-star rumor is running rampant across the Internet, Kate Middleton has a new boat, and Brad Paisley will not say he's sorry for that "Accidental Racist" song.
Today in show business news: Judge Judy has just signed a new long-term deal, Disney is doing some layoffs, and new details about Captain America's next movie.
The season six premiere attracted 3.4 million viewers, meaning that more people watched Wife Swap last week than watched Mad Men Sunday night.
It seems that country singer Brad Paisley is having an identity crisis. See, he's from the South and he's proud of that, but one time a (presumably black, possibly invented for the purposes of storytelling) Starbucks employee was not a fan of his Confederate flag T-shirt. So he's written a song called "Accidental Racist."
Today in celebrity news: Former XXX movie star Jenna Jameson was arrested this weekend, Halle Berry is unexpectedly with child, and Chris Brown might be dating.
As a fan of the books, one of the constant worries of watching Game of Thrones is wondering what scenes the writers will have to cut out in order to meet the timing and narrative needs of series television.
Today in show business: History has renewed its first-ever scripted series, Jessica Chastain is headed to a haunted house, and the new Godzilla movie has a weird cast.
The most richly satisfying comedy on television, Veep is an assured, but manic, delight. And it benefits hugely from the second season settle, when a show has worked out the kinks and can truly hit the ground running come premiere time.
Danny Boyle's new art heist/hypnotism picture Trance can't help but ooze a sense of dreamy soulfulness.
Last night, after trotting out Carrie Underwood in some misguided attempt to remind us why we watch Idol in the first place, the awful, terrible, vain and aggravating Lazaro survived — either to keep us watching before he gets bumped off next week, or because this is really where America's at right now. Voting for dreadful Lazaro.
Today in celebrity news: Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen look for a place in Manhattan, William and Kate meet some Scottish people, and a real housewife has a real plane problem.
Today in show business news: Ryan Murphy is selling a show about sex, Barbra Streisand wants to direct again, and a first glimpse at the new Carrie movie is not promising.
Of the many silly ways that Fox and the show's producers have tried to shake up this season of American Idol, last night's was maybe the silliest. But we must press on, so let's do just that.
Today in celebrity news: Charlie is leaving Girls, a Game of Thrones actress is completely broke, and big One Direction dental news.
Today in show business news: Disney is looking for the perfect Cinderella, Warner Bros. assesses the Giant damage, and Matthew McConaughey is a go for Christopher Nolan.
Now that it's official that Jimmy Fallon will take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next February, it's time to start thinking about what it all means for the entertainment powers-that-program-NBC are shifting form an old yukkity-yuk to a hip R.A. Well, if anything it shows us this generation is, for better or worse, getting the Tonight Show host it deserves. Just as the last one did.
As is usually the case with a Justified finale, most of the season's plot threads were tied up, with a main villain vanquished, but one major note of uncertainty hung in the air.
Today in celebrity news: The embattled Today host recently had some Hamptons issues, a Glee actress is pregnant, and Justin Bieber is still upset about Selena.
Today in show business news: HBO has shockingly decided to renew Game of Thrones, NBC gets some good news and some bad news, MTV really needs to pull the plug on Buckwild, plus teasers and trailers and more.
The third episode of A&E's new thriller series Bates Motel aired last night and, man, is that show weird. A less affected Twin Peaks? An Oregon-based, incest-twinged Stephen King story?
Today in celebrity news: Heidi Klum helped rescue her son and two nannies from the watery depths this weekend, Amy Poehler went on (gulp) a date, and Lindsay Lohan makes an April Fools' joke.
Today in showbiz news: Basic cable ratings were huge last night, FX has got a big miniseries in the works, and a look at Teen Wolf season three.
One show's third season came to an end last night while another's began, but if we're trading gore for lore, that tradeoff might just work.
Today in celebrity news: A Glee star seeks help, Chris Brown makes a slightly awkward Today show appearance, and Lena Dunham likes PDA.
Today in showbusiness: HBO has announced the return date for long-in-the-tooth True Blood, NBC is pushing back Girlfriend in a Coma, and a look at Max Irons in something.
Prepare yourselves! HBO's blood 'n' boobs 'n' Baratheons fantasy series returns on Sunday night, meaning the long wait of the superfans is nearly over. And based on what we've already seen, that wait was worth it — and the third season is a thrill.
Unfolding like a juicy, sprawling novel, Derek Cianfrance's expertly pitched melodrama trades in a haunted feeling of inexorability and the regret that follows. A deeply felt, classically tinged saga, The Place Beyond the Pines is, for my money, so far the best film of 2013.
Today in famous people news: Arnold's kid was seen smooching in the ocean, J.Lo has been disinvited from India, and Miss Canada does not like Justin Bieber.
Today in show business news: The first trailer for Before Midnight is here, Matthew McConaughey may have received a hell of an offer, and Taylor Swift heads to television.
Richard Lawson: Manically scrolling through the comments section on National Review Online and Fox Nation and, occasionally, less one-sided outlets has taken up a lot of my idle (and, yes, some working) time this week. Boy do people have a lot of awful things to say about gay marriage!
The popular but slightly faded FX comedies The League and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia will move over to FXX (the double X, as I'm sure we'll all soon be calling it) to help get things started and attract advertisers, and then a new spate of programming will begin. So what's the reasoning behind this? Let's speculate.
Top 8? More like Bottom... everything. I'm afraid it happened last night, folks. The point that comes in every American Idol season, but usually arrives a little bit later. This is typically a Top 5 problem. But this year, it came at eight.
Today in famous person news: LiLo and KStew have become pals, Amanda Bynes took a trip to Times Square, and Maria Shriver hasn't taken down her Christmas lights yet.
Today in show business news: CBS has announced the return of fourteen shows, NBC wants more hunks, and Bravo is trying to figure it out.
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