EA Hanks is a talented writer. She is also Tom Hanks' 29-year-old daughter (better known, at least in that capacity, as Elizabeth Anne Hanks. Uh, for those of you taking notes).
EA Hanks recently interviewed "Hanksy", an anonymous street artist who has made a name for himself in the art scene simply by cribbing from the street artist Banksy but adding Tom Hanks' smiling visage to each of his works. Seriously. That's what Hanksy does.
EA never explicitly states that she is Tom Hanks' daughter in the ...
Here is some news that tickled me, and I'm not sure why: Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has started his own record label!
I finally watched an episode of The Voice recently, and while I deeply enjoyed it, I still think Levine is a total turd. He's snarky, smarmy, brittle, and even a bit of a bully.
I also think he's very talented at recognizing talent---all the Voice coaches are, in fact---and if Levine wanted to, he could absolutely be the next Simon Cowell. Have at it, Levine.
Here's the part that really curls my hair: guess which "ar...
This is the photo. This is the photo someone just tweeted. I gasped.
This is the terrifying photo someone took of Macaulay Culkin yesterday on the streets of New York City.
Good God.
Entertainment Tonight promises to air more of the "exclusive photos" tonight, but one is really enough.
ET has already wrung a byte out of Culkin's spokesperson, though, who says, "Macaulay Culkin is in perfectly good health."
I don't buy it.
ET goes on to point out that Culkin is set to star in...
There's a really fascinating interview with Ethan Hawke up at the Guardian right now. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
A good chunk of the interview hinges on something the youngest among you probably won't remember, which is how Ethan Hawke fell from public grace after his dramatic split from then-wife Uma Thurman:
"I call it the black years," he says of the period following his divorce in 2004, sequestered in the delicious post-punk rot of the Chelsea hotel. "It was really difficult. It...
Everybody's lovable boyfriend Joseph Gordon Levitt is directing a movie! Not only that, but he wrote the movie, too!
Deadline broke the news yesterday afternoon:
The film is a sexy comedy about about a modern-day Don Juan, and his quest to become less of a "selfish dick." He plays that character, and there is another female lead role that will be filled shortly.
Can we say "triple threat"?
"I wrote myself a helluva role," Gordon-Levitt went on to say, "one that people wouldn't nece...
Have you guys noticed something weird happening to Jimmy Fallon lately? Like, he's always seemed really nice and earnest, but "nice" and "earnest" isn't necessarily the same thing as "funny." His show is becoming a lot of fun, though? Like, it's hard for me to process this.
Anyway, this Adele cover: Jimmy Fallon's Late Night did its damnedest to outdo Madge's Super Bowl halftime performance, and I think it delivers:
And here's Fallon performing a range of pop songs with tweaked, Su...
I've got to hand it to Andrew Garfield. I wasn't sure about him at first, you know? Sure, he's a great actor. But he's so skinny! So young-looking! He is hardly ideal for action-heroics.
And yet! It turns out he makes a heck of a Peter Parker in this, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, and my word, he cuts a striking figure in that skin-tight red suit. (What's that? Baby-faced Andrew Garfield is actually 28 years old, you say? Oh, thank God.)
Embedded above is the movie's first 3D trailer. Of course it isn't actually in 3D, not for plebes like us, but Screen Rant promises that the movie, shot in "true 3D," will deliver.
How darling is Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, you guys? And I hardly recognized Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors. It stings that the role is no longer filled by Dylan Baker, but Ifans strikes the right chord between "empathetic" and "potentially insidious," right? Phew.
Are you guys getting excited or what?
The movie hits U.S. theaters July 3.
I've got to hand it to Andrew Garfield. I wasn't sure about him at first, you know? Sure, he's a great actor. But he's so skinny! So young-looking! He is hardly ideal for action-heroics.
And yet! It turns out he makes a heck of a Peter Parker in this, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, and my word, he cuts a striking figure in that skin-tight red suit. (What's that? Baby-faced Andrew Garfield is actually 28 years old, you say? Oh, thank God.)
Embedded above is the movie's first 3D trailer. Of c...
I've been listening to OK Go since before I entered college---even before their debut album, you guys!---and for some reason, I am still subscribed to the band's email list. So I did actually know the erstwhile Chicago foursome had a new music video on the way, thanks to a recent email blast.
But what a video! Ever since "A Million Ways"---it was choreographed by one of the bandmembers' sister---the band's videos have been getting more and more elaborate, all while tending toward single long takes. ("Here It Goes Again" was the video that really put the band on the map, of course.)
Now that the band is Hot Malarkey, they're teaming up with Chevy for their music videos. The scoop from the YouTube page:
A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of "Needing/Getting," singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian [Kulash] took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck.
No, I am not being paid to tell you this: I would love the video even more if it had been shot from inside a Chevy Cruze instead. You guys, I love my Cruze. It is a tiny four-door car with a spacious interior and a surprisingly deep trunk. It gets terrific highway gas mileage, too, and it has a 5-star safety rating. Like, why wouldn't you drive through a musical obstacle course in one of those? I ask you.
P.S. My Cruze's name is Clyde; I just remembered I've actually written about my car here before. />
I've been listening to OK Go since before I entered college---even before their debut album, you guys!---and for some reason, I am still subscribed to the band's email list. So I did actually know the erstwhile Chicago foursome had a new music video on the way, thanks to a recent email blast.
But what a video! Ever since "A Million Ways"---it was choreographed by one of the bandmembers' sister---the band's videos have been getting more and more elaborate, all while tending toward single long ...
My mother informed me that she had just seen the Superbowl halftime performance starring Madonna.
Well? How was it? I asked her.
She sighed and looked at me really tired. "I think Madonna's very talented," she said. I thought this was really funny. Mom! It's not like you're gonna offend the "kid"; Madonna's 53 years old!
I watched Madonna's halftime performance online later. And---this is a little weird, because she is such an amazing dancer---those stiletto boots are obviously killing ...
It seems sacrilegious to replace Freddie Mercury, but the band Queen has done exactly that.
When Mercury died, future American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert was all of ten years old. Today, it is announced, he is the new frontman for Queen.
Us Magazine:
The season eight American Idol winner [sic] confirmed to the U.K.'s Daily Star Thursday that he has been tapped to be the lead singer of Queen---the spot in which original member Freddie Mercury held until his untimely death in 1991.
...
I like Ricky Gervais, even though he constantly finds new uncharted ways to be obnoxious. Ah, here we are: last summer, I called him "affably irritating." I think that still fits.
His newest, Life's Too Short, premieres Sunday on HBO (I posted a great clip over here).
Anytime Gervais writes a column for the Huffington Post---admittedly, they're all timed to promote his latest project---I always take notice. His newest article, "On Fame," lends Hollywood some much-needed levity. It also goes far in explaining why he really gnas...
I was scanning news stories this morning and yeah, no, this was not the headline I expected to read:
Joel Osteen Blessed with Six-Pack Abs
I laughed! I squealed! I blinked. I cackled. I put my head down on the desk. I just could not process this. And who would publish such a thing? ABC News! That's who! ABC!
I tell you guys what, I am so paranoid about God coming out of a cloud and zapping me, I can't even make one Reverend Billy Graham joke without flipping out before I get to the pu...
EA Hanks is a talented writer. She is also Tom Hanks' 29-year-old daughter (better known, at least in that capacity, as Elizabeth Anne Hanks. Uh, for those of you taking notes).
EA Hanks recently interviewed "Hanksy", an anonymous street artist who has made a name for himself in the art scene simply by cribbing from the street artist Banksy but adding Tom Hanks' smiling visage to each of his works. Seriously. That's what Hanksy does.
EA never explicitly states that she is Tom Hanks' daughter in the ...
Here is some news that tickled me, and I'm not sure why: Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has started his own record label!
I finally watched an episode of The Voice recently, and while I deeply enjoyed it, I still think Levine is a total turd. He's snarky, smarmy, brittle, and even a bit of a bully.
I also think he's very talented at recognizing talent---all the Voice coaches are, in fact---and if Levine wanted to, he could absolutely be the next Simon Cowell. Have at it, Levine.
Here's the part that really curls my hair: guess which "ar...
This is the photo. This is the photo someone just tweeted. I gasped.
This is the terrifying photo someone took of Macaulay Culkin yesterday on the streets of New York City.
Good God.
Entertainment Tonight promises to air more of the "exclusive photos" tonight, but one is really enough.
ET has already wrung a byte out of Culkin's spokesperson, though, who says, "Macaulay Culkin is in perfectly good health."
I don't buy it.
ET goes on to point out that Culkin is set to star in...
There's a really fascinating interview with Ethan Hawke up at the Guardian right now. I wholeheartedly recommend it.
A good chunk of the interview hinges on something the youngest among you probably won't remember, which is how Ethan Hawke fell from public grace after his dramatic split from then-wife Uma Thurman:
"I call it the black years," he says of the period following his divorce in 2004, sequestered in the delicious post-punk rot of the Chelsea hotel. "It was really difficult. It...
Everybody's lovable boyfriend Joseph Gordon Levitt is directing a movie! Not only that, but he wrote the movie, too!
Deadline broke the news yesterday afternoon:
The film is a sexy comedy about about a modern-day Don Juan, and his quest to become less of a "selfish dick." He plays that character, and there is another female lead role that will be filled shortly.
Can we say "triple threat"?
"I wrote myself a helluva role," Gordon-Levitt went on to say, "one that people wouldn't nece...
Have you guys noticed something weird happening to Jimmy Fallon lately? Like, he's always seemed really nice and earnest, but "nice" and "earnest" isn't necessarily the same thing as "funny." His show is becoming a lot of fun, though? Like, it's hard for me to process this.
Anyway, this Adele cover: Jimmy Fallon's Late Night did its damnedest to outdo Madge's Super Bowl halftime performance, and I think it delivers:
And here's Fallon performing a range of pop songs with tweaked, Su...
I've got to hand it to Andrew Garfield. I wasn't sure about him at first, you know? Sure, he's a great actor. But he's so skinny! So young-looking! He is hardly ideal for action-heroics.
And yet! It turns out he makes a heck of a Peter Parker in this, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, and my word, he cuts a striking figure in that skin-tight red suit. (What's that? Baby-faced Andrew Garfield is actually 28 years old, you say? Oh, thank God.)
Embedded above is the movie's first 3D trailer. Of c...
My mother informed me that she had just seen the Superbowl halftime performance starring Madonna.
Well? How was it? I asked her.
She sighed and looked at me really tired. "I think Madonna's very talented," she said. I thought this was really funny. Mom! It's not like you're gonna offend the "kid"; Madonna's 53 years old!
I watched Madonna's halftime performance online later. And---this is a little weird, because she is such an amazing dancer---those stiletto boots are obviously killing ...
It seems sacrilegious to replace Freddie Mercury, but the band Queen has done exactly that.
When Mercury died, future American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert was all of ten years old. Today, it is announced, he is the new frontman for Queen.
Us Magazine:
The season eight American Idol winner [sic] confirmed to the U.K.'s Daily Star Thursday that he has been tapped to be the lead singer of Queen---the spot in which original member Freddie Mercury held until his untimely death in 1991.
...
I like Ricky Gervais, even though he constantly finds new uncharted ways to be obnoxious. Ah, here we are: last summer, I called him "affably irritating." I think that still fits.
His newest, Life's Too Short, premieres Sunday on HBO (I posted a great clip over here).
Anytime Gervais writes a column for the Huffington Post---admittedly, they're all timed to promote his latest project---I always take notice. His newest article, "On Fame," lends Hollywood some much-needed levity. It also goes far in explaining why he really gnas...
I was scanning news stories this morning and yeah, no, this was not the headline I expected to read:
Joel Osteen Blessed with Six-Pack Abs
I laughed! I squealed! I blinked. I cackled. I put my head down on the desk. I just could not process this. And who would publish such a thing? ABC News! That's who! ABC!
I tell you guys what, I am so paranoid about God coming out of a cloud and zapping me, I can't even make one Reverend Billy Graham joke without flipping out before I get to the pu...