12 articles from 2009
16 December 2009 3:33 PM, PST | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
And then there were five. Night 3 of NBC's The Sing-Off —a reality competition in which eight a cappella teams vie for $100,000 and a recording contract— will feature the remaining five groups performing two selections: the first is a medley, while the second is a song assigned by the judges. Tonight's show will determine who makes it to the finale on Monday. Before the show starts at 8 p.m. Et, check out tonight's set list: Superstar Challenge Beelzebubs "Behind Blue Eyes"/"Who Are You"/"Baba O'Riley" (The Who) Maxx Factor "God Only Knows"/"Wouldn't It Be Nice"/"Good Vibrations" (The Beach Boys »
- Dan Snierson
2 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Veteran actor David Warner has spoken about his role in the new Doctor Who animation Dreamland, which features the David Tennant incarnation of the Time Lord.
Warner played Ed Dillinger (aka Sark/Master Control Program) in 1982's cult sci-fi classic Tron and voiced the villainous Ra's Al Ghul in the Batman and Batman Beyond animated series.
He's also starred in films such as The Omen and Titanic and next year is set to reprise his role as Kenneth Branagh's father in BBC series Wallander.
In Dreamland - which is on the BBC website and airs on BBC2 this Saturday, December 5 - the 68-year-old voices the evil, cockroach-like alien Lord Azlok, as you can see in our exclusive sneak preview images below.
Warner (pictured right), a former Warwickshire actor, revealed it's not his first voyage into the world of Doctor Who, as he's previously done audio adventures playing the Time Lord. »
- David Bentley
12 November 2009 3:31 AM, PST | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »
Lisa, our House Fan Columnist, gives her thoughts on Huddy after the last episode. If you're interested in writing and love TV, think about becoming a Fan Columnist.
In order to be a fan of the relationship between House and Cuddy, you need to be prepared to have your heart broken. Time after time. And then time after time again. This also falls under being a House fan in general. While the show can be uplifting, I find most of the time it's about timing that's off, missed opportunities, or things unsaid.
With that being said, it does well to create the tension it needs to sustain fan's interest in these two lonely characters. We've been taken on quite ride for the past five seasons regarding these two. Last year, I was heartbroken at the end of "The Itch," "Let Them Eat Cake," "Unfaithful," "The Softer Side," and of course, »
- editor@buddytv.com
27 October 2009 6:09 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Few deaths have been more shocking to gay television viewers than that of Ianto Jones in this summer’s Torchwood: Children Of Earth. His death during the fourth night of the BBC miniseries created a huge backlash, none of which surprised me more than claims that Ianto’s demise was an expression of the show’s homophobia.
Created by Russel T Davies, an openly gay writer famous for the complex and empowering Queer As Folk, and starring John Barrowman, who might just be the most boisterously “out” star in the industry, Torchwood has been a bastion of queer pride since its debut in 2006. It evokes a world where homophobia is so non-existent that labels “gay,” “straight,” and “bi” have become irrelevant.
So how does the death of one of TV’s few prominent queer characters involved in a same-sex relationship fit into the show’s socially progressive vision? To my mind, »
- LunaSkya
16 October 2009 8:24 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
November 5, 1957 - October 18, 1984
October 18, 1984. "A day that will live in infamy." At least in my mind — and a bunch of other gay boys of a certain age.
This Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the death of mega-hunk, Jon-Erik Hexum.
The event can only be described as tragic — a hot, young, rising star accidentally shoots himself with a prop gun while on the set of his latest TV show. My best friend and I were devastated when we learned of the tragedy. At the time, neither of us knew the other was gay (remember, this was the '80s and we were kids). Yet for a brief moment, we let down our guard to lament the horrible tragedy: How could someone so young and talented (not to mention handsome) be gone forever?
Over two decades later I would include the incident in my debut novel, Band Fags!
“Oh, my God… »
- franQ
14 October 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Tragic news today from the professional wrestling community. WWE Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano, 76, passed away today, only hours after the Miami Herald reported that he was at home with his family under hospice care. The news broke at wrestling enthusiast site PWInsider and was confirmed shortly after at WWE. It is a sad day for wrestling fans everywhere.
As a child of the '80s, my memories of Albano relate mainly to his time with the World Wrestling Federation. He was so cool, this screaming force of nature covered in rubber bands. As his star rose, Albano had the opportunity to leverage his newfound celebrity in Hollywood. He appeared in a number of films, including the John Ritter-starring "Stay Tuned" (a personal favorite). He also collaborated with pop star Cyndi Lauper on several music videos, including "The Goonies" tie-in, "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" (video above), which »
- Adam Rosenberg
14 October 2009 4:03 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
The wrestler and manager was a pop-culture visionary who merged the worlds of wrestling and music.
Captain Lou Albano and Cyndi Lauper in 1987
Photo: Ron Galella/ Getty Images
Professional-wrestling fans the world over are mourning the passing of Captain Lou Albano. Though he was beloved among wrestling fans as an in-ring entertainer in various roles as a wrestler, manager and announcer, his main claim to crossover fame was as an ambassador who bridged the worlds of music and wrestling — a relationship that helped Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (now Entertainment) to become a dominant national force in the 1980s and solidified Albano's place on the pop-culture map.
Not surprisingly, a lot of Albano's work in the music world saw a crossover with MTV. The network has always had a friendly relationship with professional wrestling, airing various pieces of WWE programming over the past few decades (including »
13 October 2009 10:55 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Albano's appearance in Cyndi Lauper videos made him an '80s pop-culture icon.
By Gil Kaufman
Photo: Ann Clifford/ Time & Life Pictures
For pro-wrestling fans of a certain age, Captain Lou Albano was a larger-than-life figure who helped turn what was once a low-rent, cable-access sport into a pop-culture phenomenon. The World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer died on Wednesday morning (October 14) at the age of 76, according to the WWE and Wrestler's Rescue, an organization that helps raise money for retired wrestlers' health care.
Wrestler's Rescue reported that Albano had been in hospice care earlier this week, but no cause of death has been revealed.
Born Louis Vincent Albano on July 29, 1933, in Mount Vernon, New York, the former football player and bouncer entered the wrestling game in the late 1950s. His four-decade wrestling career kicked off when he created the tag team known as the Sicilians, playing a »
21 September 2009 7:59 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Here’s a perfect example of Hollywood filmmaking at its laziest. It’s difficult to imagine anyone in front of the camera or behind it breaking much of a sweat in their half-hearted attempt to satisfy a mainstream audience equipped with the lowest possible expectations. It’s doubly difficult to imagine a time when star Matthew McConaughey didn’t just act with his abs. His last film was named “Surfer, Dude,” and this one could easily be called “Cheater, Douche.”
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0 Alas, his latest vehicle has the ungainly title “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past,” which alone would scare off most serious cinephiles. It’s the latest rip-off (sorry, “retread”) of Charles Dickens’ holiday perennial “A Christmas Carol,” and it’s the worst to hit Blu-Ray since “Scrooged.” There’s nothing redeemable about this film’s protagonist, or the film itself.
McConaughey lends his predictable brand of seductive sleaze to the role of Connor Mead, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
10 August 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Welcome to the first class of Jeff "Doc" Jensen's EW University course on time travel as a time-honored sci-fi trope. Coming up this week: additional posts that take a look at memorable movies and TV shows where this favorite conceit plays a starring role, plus a trivia quiz "final exam" and a gallery of our favorite time travelers. As you may have noticed from a summer filled with starcruisers, giant robots, and adamantium-boned mutants, the genre commonly (if imprecisely) called science-fiction is big business, invading and filling the culture's escapist landscape like tribbles, replicants, bunches of alien-hatching pods -- you get the idea. This week's EW University course is devoted to one of the most popular sci-fi tropes: time travel. And there's been a lot if it lately. One of the year's biggest films, Jj Abrams' Star Trek, hinges on a time-travel plot twist. The forthcoming The Time Traveler's Wife »
- Jeff Jensen
13 April 2009 12:10 PM, PDT | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »
Not to be confused with the recent disaster flick that had a similar title, The Day After (1983) was a real one of a kind event. It originally aired on November 20, 1983 on ABC and provided a shockingly realistic depiction of a nuclear attack on Kansas where the survivors struggle in the aftermath. The picture had such an impact that during its original broadcast, there was no commercial break scheduled after the nuclear attack took place. Thanks to the excellent DVD release and numerous articles, there's a whole lot of information on The Day After with the exception of one minor detail... It's music.
If you're familiar with the movie, you might raise an eyebrow and comment that there's not a whole lot of music. Sure, David Raksin is credited as the composer and there is some music bookending the picture and there are some minor incidental cues but perhaps it's not »
18 February 2009 12:02 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Filmgoers will have the rare opportunity to see Arthur Hiller’s 1979 thriller “Nightwing,” which has never been available on DVD in any region, at a special 30th anniversary screening, taking place at midnight on Friday, February 27th, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.
Stars Nick Mancuso (“Heartbreakers”) and Stephen Macht (“The Monster Squad”) will reunite for the screening, with additional stars and filmmakers to be announced shortly. Fans can expect a brief introduction, post-show Q&A, and the rare opportunity to personally meet and have mementos signed.
“Nightwing” was released theatrically on June 22, 1979, but found its largest and most appreciative audience in the 80s via the newly-created HBO. Based on the best seller by acclaimed novelist Martin Cruz Smith, the film also starred David Warner (“Time After Time”) and Kathryn Harrold (“Chicago Hope”). Three-time Academy Award winner Henry Mancini composed the haunting score and the »
12 articles from 2009
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles. News articles are published for the entertainment of our users only. The news items do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the site responsible for the article in question to report any concerns you may have.