I confess I don't really watch Family Guy. In another place, another time, I would be happy to expound on why I avoid the FOX cartoon as I do herpes simplex.
But---also like herpes simplex---some contagions are difficult to avoid. Family Guy really is a cultural phenomenon, and since I pride myself on my cultural literacy, I do know a couple things about the show, thank you.
For instance, I know it stars a lovable schlub along with his nasal wife, their killer baby, and Birdo. I also know ...
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It never occurred to me that Amy Winehouse and Russell Brand were friends. In retrospect it makes sense, though, because Russell Brand is pals with comedian Noel Fielding, who also wears his hair in an occasional bouffant. (Yes, that must've been their social connection---the hair.)
Today, Russell Brand took to his weblog with something titled "For Amy," striking a careful balance between eulogy and cautionary tale. It's flowery, maybe, but undoubtedly sinc...
Oh, Rhys Ifans! Of course I was thrilled when I heard you were cast as Dr. Curt Connors in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man movie, because you are sure to plumb the nuances of that brilliant, tortured professor, who inadvertently contracts a degenerative lizard disease and transforms from a peaceful scholar into a villainous Super Lizard. (Don't get me wrong! Dylan Baker would have also been great.)
But, my darling Rhys, what has fame done to you! You starred as an ill-socialized, feral man ...
It sure seems like Community's Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) has entertained brief romances with just about everybody on the show, including Britta (Gillian Jacobs), Annie (Alison Brie), and nearly every attractive guest-starring lady.
Troy (Donald Glover) had a thing with Annie, too, just for a hot Season One second---but we all know Troy only has eyes for his main broseph Abed (Danny Pudi). And then there's Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), who has had dalliances with her former Spanish teacher, Señor Chang (Ken Je...
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The Daily Mail tells the over-long, redemptive tale of one woman---that is, Katy Perry---who accidentally tinted her locks a terrifying shade of alpenglow. But the heroic woman persevered, longing for the distant day she would emerge from her ginger cocoon, a flaxen-haired butterfly.
According to the Daily Mail, Katy's brief stint as a redhead was kind of an accident. She was only trying to recover her natural hair color (blonde!). But why return to blonde at all? Perhaps Katy was tired of looking like Zooey. Perhaps Katy sought an emblem of h...
Today has been a super downer: the universe has once again grown frowzy, it seems.
So let us self-medicate with Celebrity Gossip’s shallowest-working salve, the "Blind Item." (I’m totally a doctor! Like, a smut pharmacist! A philanthropist, even! You’re welcome.)
Below are four Blind Items, prescribed to soothe.
BuzzFoto wonders:
These sibling stars that started out as child actors are so jealous to compete with one another for roles that their relationship is completely ruined. One is ...
News broke earlier today that Amy Winehouse had been found dead in her London apartment. The troubled, husky-voiced singer/songwriter was 27.
For someone so well known for her bombastic flourishes and drunken public missteps, Winehouse was reclusive---she notoriously gave an entire interview via her apartment's intercom in 2008.
Winehouse had just turned 20 when her debut album, Frank, won rave reviews in 2003. In 2006, Winehouse released her second---and, to date, final---album, Back to Black, which earned five Grammys. But that album's best known ...
This video was taped at yesterday's Amazing Spider-Man Comic-Con panel:
In the video, an excited fan rushes to the microphone, starts gushing about how he's always wanted to "be at Comic-Con, in Hall H, as Spider-Man." Then, as he thanks the encouraging crowd, he removes his cowl to reveal that he is none other than superhero Andrew Garfield. (The fanny pack added a lot to his Comic-Con disguise, I think.)
This video was taped at yesterday's Amazing Spider-Man Comic-Con panel:
In the video, an excited fan rushes to the microphone, starts gushing about how he's always wanted to "be at Comic-Con, in Hall H, as Spider-Man." Then, as he thanks the encouraging crowd, he removes his cowl to reveal that he is none other than superhero Andrew Garfield. (The fanny pack added a lot to his Comic-Con disguise, I think.)
Garfield is all nerves as he reads a prepared speech:
Stan Lee says that the reason why Spidey is so popular i...
First Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were "pre-engaged," which, OK, you two serial monogamists, throw yourselves into the folly of love. Be silly; have fun with it; shine on, you crazy diamonds. Fine.
Then, on Wednesday, the couple visited London for the premiere of Horrible Bosses, and they went out for drinks with Louis Theroux. Which, OK, certainly, at the three-month mark, it is normal to start introducing your new pookie to your famous relatives. This is a totally normal relationship trajectory.
Now, People---which i...
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Holding the dubious distinction of Least Necessary Movie Ever: this year's remake of the 1985 all-American horror-comedy Fright Night. (Ugh, the very idea! A remake of Gremlins could not offend me more.)
Nontheless, I'm extending cautious hopes for the remake in spite of myself, because A) Lars and the Real Girl's Craig Gillespie directs, B) in a feat of inspired casting, Superbad's Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays Evil Ed, and C) I'm a big, big Doctor Who fan.
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Sorry about all the geeky stuff coming out of my laptop today. It's just that San Diego Comic-Con 2011 is totally underway, and people keep announcing movies and television shows I can't wait to watch.
For instance: Mike Judge attended Comic-Con to talk about his old new television show, Beavis and Butt-head, which is returning to MTV---after 14 years!!---this October. Hear that, mom? Payback! Payback for all those years I wasn't allowed to watch anything by Viacom!
The Bieber fans among you...
David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman never made it to NBC, and it sure isn't because of that awful costume---it's because the television pilot sucks on ice.
Leaked footage of the never-to-be superhero show depicts an earnest Adrianne Palicki, as the eponymous lead, gracelessly leaping and bounding with the help of wires. I really like it when she stiffly runs toward criminals in perfect imitation of the T-1000, or when she she stiffly sashays off in defeat. (Also, speaking of stiff: Wonder Woman's immut...