I'm a real sucker for adult animation shows and I loooove Netflix's 'Big Mouth'. I feel like I've been waiting forever for this release date. Oh right, it's Dec 4th! Right around the corner!
Season 4 of Big Mouth focuses on anxiety, but not the political kind. Instead, it’s the anxiety of growing up, of figuring out who you are, discovering yourself, accepting yourself. The season starts at summer camp before our gang heads to 8th grade.
Maria Bamford descends as Tito the Mosqu...
On Thursday, Ryan Gosling attended the Hua Hin International Film Festival in Bangkok as its guest of honor. There, the Hollywood Reporter had the audacity to ask Gosling whether he felt snubbed by the Academy. But Gosling, who has repeatedly proven himself as a class act, was unbudgingly gracious.
Gosling was also quick to squash the notion he had been "passed-over" twice recently. First, after not being voted the Sexiest Man Alive, which his loyal fans protested outside the People Magazine offices in New York earlier this year. But the actor told THR: "I vo...
Right. Golden Globes whatever. Did you see the ass-whupping that the Packers took from the frigging New York Giants last evening? Sick. This whole weekend was sick. Only one of my picks won, and that was Ravens over Texans, not that anyone was really surprised by that. AND MY SAINTS LOST. To the 49ers. Football, I am so disappointed in you today. You should have been so, so much better. For me.
Anyway, you're probably here to hear about the Golden Globe Awards, not listen to me malign football and certain teams' roughhousing tendencies that result in undeserved wi...
They're heeeere!
My picks are in bold - leave your choices (and thoughts on who was snubbed MELISSA MCCARTHY) in the comments!
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie
Jessica Lange
Kelly Macdonald
Maggie Smith
Sofia Vergara
Evan Rachel Wood
Best Screenplay
Woody Allen
Michel Hazavanicious
Aaron Sorkin
Steven Zaillian
Best Comedy Actor
Alec Baldwin
David Duchovny
Johnny Galecki
Thomas Jane
Matt LeBlanc
Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Descendants
The H...
Ever since I saw Danny Gans perform in Vegas---I think it was sometime in the earlyish 90s, and Gans opened for Bill Cosby---I have had a deep, abiding respect for that underloved dark art, the Celebrity Impression.
Here's film and voiceover actor Jim Meskimen with a monologue from Shakespeare's Richard III. In the video, Meskimen mimics 25 celebrities.
Some of these are stock characters every impressionist seems to be able to do (Jimmy Stewart, Morgan Freeman, Walken, De Niro), but there are a couple unexpected doozies in the mix, too, like spot-on impersonations of Garrison Keillor and Paul Giamatti.
Reasons I love this video:
- It's one take. He is able to switch voices on a dime.
- He does really good faces! A great De Niro Face will sell an iffy De Niro impression every time.
- He isn't reciting the soliloquy with a script or prompter. Slick.
- In the 1980s, Jim Meskimen was a cartoonist for Thundercats. />Ever since I saw Danny Gans perform in Vegas---I think it was sometime in the earlyish 90s, and Gans opened for Bill Cosby---I have had a deep, abiding respect for that underloved dark art, the Celebrity Impression.
Here's film and voiceover actor Jim Meskimen with a monologue from Shakespeare's Richard III. In the video, Meskimen mimics 25 celebrities.
Some of these are stock characters every impressionist seems to be able to do (Jimmy Stewart, Morgan Freeman, Walken, De Niro), but the...
[Update 10:59 PM ET] Best Motion Picture Drama goes to The Social Network. Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The King's Speech - all great nominees. So ... really? Was this fucking movie REALLY that good? I mean, congrats and all, but the damned movie is all about Facebook. The creation of that insipid, intrusive application known as FACEBOOK. All I know is that Andrew Garfield is hot, and I was OK with the fact that he was allowed onstage to help accept an award FOR A MOVIE that was BA...
Hey, did anyone watch the Emmys last night?
I know I didn't. I was walking my dog. And sleeping. And balancing my checkbook. And flashing homeless men. I kid, I kid. I've never balanced a checkbook in my life.
But, you know, I was doing basically anything other than watching the Emmys. Because awards shows were really, really exciting and dramatic in a time when celebrities weren't flashing their vaginas and leaking sex tapes and calling one another cunts to X17's video cameras. In other words: the Golden Age of awards shows is now over. I care about the dresses -- those are online before the show even airs on the West coast -- and any funny bits during the show -- and those are online before the show even airs on the West coast. So, yeah.
You may have heard, however, that network television basically got CLOBBERED by cable shows last night. It was brutal. And the networks noticed.
"Call it what it is: The Cable Ace Awards," went the common, slightly bitter quip from broadcast toppers in the weeks following July’s nomination announcement.
It wasn’t just "Mad Men’s" big, groundbreaking (for a basic cable skein, at least) drama series win. Cable’s haul included top prizes for "Damages" thesps Glenn Close and Zeljko Ivanek, "John Adams" stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney and "Breaking Bad" lead Bryan Cranston.
The traditional nets? Well, thank goodness for comedy actress winner Tina Fey, whose "30 Rock" gave broadcast TV most of its bright spots all evening — also picking up statuettes for outstanding comedy skein, best writing and top laffer actor (Alec Baldwin).
Adding insult to injury: Sunday night’s cable coronation came just a day before the networks, more hobbled than ever, officially launched their fall premiere week.
Coming off a low-rated summer and strike-impacted regular TV season, the nets already enter the new season bruised and battered. The fact that the Big 4 only picked up 10 out of the night’s 28 Emmy Awards didn’t help.
ABC’s promos may have been touting the return of shows like "Desperate Housewives," but the TV Academy was sending out an entirely different message: "You oughta go check out the great stuff they’re doing on cable instead."
What do you guys think? Is network television yesterday's news?
/>Hey, did anyone watch the Emmys last night?
I know I didn't. I was walking my dog. And sleeping. And balancing my checkbook. And flashing homeless men. I kid, I kid. I've never balanced a checkbook in my life.
But, you know, I was doing basically anything other than watching the Emmys. Because awards shows were really, really exciting and dramatic in a time when celebrities weren't flashing their vaginas and leaking sex tapes and calling one another cunts to X17's video cameras. In other wo...
A list of the ones you care about is after the jump. If you must know every single winner of every little award, you can get the full list on the official website here.
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I'm a real sucker for adult animation shows and I loooove Netflix's 'Big Mouth'. I feel like I've been waiting forever for this release date. Oh right, it's Dec 4th! Right around the corner!
Season 4 of Big Mouth focuses on anxiety, but not the political kind. Instead, it’s the anxiety of growing up, of figuring out who you are, discovering yourself, accepting yourself. The season starts at summer camp before our gang heads to 8th grade.
Maria Bamford descends as Tito the Mosqu...
On Thursday, Ryan Gosling attended the Hua Hin International Film Festival in Bangkok as its guest of honor. There, the Hollywood Reporter had the audacity to ask Gosling whether he felt snubbed by the Academy. But Gosling, who has repeatedly proven himself as a class act, was unbudgingly gracious.
Gosling was also quick to squash the notion he had been "passed-over" twice recently. First, after not being voted the Sexiest Man Alive, which his loyal fans protested outside the People Magazine offices in New York earlier this year. But the actor told THR: "I vo...
Right. Golden Globes whatever. Did you see the ass-whupping that the Packers took from the frigging New York Giants last evening? Sick. This whole weekend was sick. Only one of my picks won, and that was Ravens over Texans, not that anyone was really surprised by that. AND MY SAINTS LOST. To the 49ers. Football, I am so disappointed in you today. You should have been so, so much better. For me.
Anyway, you're probably here to hear about the Golden Globe Awards, not listen to me malign football and certain teams' roughhousing tendencies that result in undeserved wi...
They're heeeere!
My picks are in bold - leave your choices (and thoughts on who was snubbed MELISSA MCCARTHY) in the comments!
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie
Jessica Lange
Kelly Macdonald
Maggie Smith
Sofia Vergara
Evan Rachel Wood
Best Screenplay
Woody Allen
Michel Hazavanicious
Aaron Sorkin
Steven Zaillian
Best Comedy Actor
Alec Baldwin
David Duchovny
Johnny Galecki
Thomas Jane
Matt LeBlanc
Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Descendants
The H...
[Update 10:59 PM ET] Best Motion Picture Drama goes to The Social Network. Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The King's Speech - all great nominees. So ... really? Was this fucking movie REALLY that good? I mean, congrats and all, but the damned movie is all about Facebook. The creation of that insipid, intrusive application known as FACEBOOK. All I know is that Andrew Garfield is hot, and I was OK with the fact that he was allowed onstage to help accept an award FOR A MOVIE that was BA...