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Steven Tyler Drama Good for All Non–Steven Tyler Members of Aerosmith
Despite Steven Tyler and Joe Perrys dramatic reunion in New York last week, Aerosmith is still on shaky ground. Several of the non-famous members of the band have spoken to Billboard and make it clear that Tyler remains detached from the rest of the group ... which, sensibly, leads them to conjectur …
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Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara Makes a Shocking Joke on The View
Sofia Vergara, who plays Ed O'Neill's hot, Colombian trophy wife on ABC's new hit show Modern Family, was on The View this morning. The ladies were asking her about her 18-year-old son, and everything was going smoothly as Vergara joked that her son is the reason she can't lie about her age. Then, s …
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Bad Lieutenant and Cinema’s Top Twelve Trippiest Drug Scenes
Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cages Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a new take on Abel Ferraras original movie, arrives this week. Pitched on the edge of insanity, the film is basically an extended hallucination posing as a cop drama, and it got us thinking about other movie drug trips. We lim …
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Bad Lieutenant and Cinema’s Trippiest Drug Scenes
Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cages Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a new take on Abel Ferraras original movie, arrives this week. Pitched on the edge of insanity, the film is basically an extended hallucination posing as a cop drama, and it got us thinking about other movie drug trips. We lim …
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Public at Large Apparently No Longer Interested in Heather Locklear in a Miniskirt
Well, it turns out that people feel the same way about Heather Locklear stepping into Amanda Woodward's bitchtastic micro-mini as they do about fellow Tommy Lee flame Pam Anderson still squeezing herself into C.J. Parker's red one-piece bathing suit. Locklear's return to Melrose Place did little to …
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Trailer for The Last Song Features a Nearly Mute Miley Cyrus
Uh-oh. The trailer for The Last Song, based on an upcoming Nicholas Sparks book and starring Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear as a sullen teen and her divorced dad re-connecting at the beach, is pretty par for the course, Nicholas Sparksmovie wise, except for one thing: Miley has almost no speaking role …
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V: Snakes (Still) in the Grass
One of the cannier decisions by V's producers was to cast not one, but two refugees from Joss Whedon's beloved, departed sci-fi series Firefly. You've got Morena Baccarin as V High Commander Anna, rocking the best short brunette haircut since Janine Turner on Northern Exposure. And you have or, at …
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Does Radiohead Actually, *Gasp*, ‘Kinda Blow’?
That is the theory that's being advanced by the incredibly brave Chris Norris of Spin magazine, who we imagine will be spending the next few weeks sequestered in a safe house far away from the hordes of angry hipsters and former record-store clerks who will no doubt be looking to smash limited-editi …
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Aaron Sorkin Is Doing Another TV Show About a TV Show
Still on a meta trip. The commercial (but not, for the most part, critical) failures of Aaron Sorkin's two shows that took place behind the scenes of TV shows (Sports Night and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) have left the West Wing creator undaunted. He tells TV Guide that when he's done with h …
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Jason Lee to Try On Blue Suede Shoes
General Lee: Jason Lee has been cast for the lead role in Delta Blues, George Clooney's pilot for TNT. The show revolves around a hirsute Memphis cop who still lives with his mom. When not solving crimes or cracking wise, he impersonates Elvis. TNT's head of programming called Lee "the ideal choice …
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Jason Lee to Try on Blue Suede Shoes
General Lee: Jason Lee has been cast in the lead role in Delta Blues, George Clooney's pilot for TNT. The show revolves around a hirsute Memphis cop who still lives with his mom. When not solving crimes or cracking wise, he impersonates Elvis. TNT's head of programming called Lee "the ideal choice t …
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Memoir: A History’s Ben Yagoda on What Is ‘Nearly the World’s Oldest Profession’
Sarah Palins crash-memoir, Going Rogue, which arrived in stores today, may be the least mavericky thing shes ever done. As documented in Ben Yagodas perceptive, thorough, and amusing Memoir: A History, memoir-writing is very nearly the worlds oldest profession (way older than fiction). And nearly ev …
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Memoir: A History’s Ben Yagoda On What Is ‘Nearly the World’s Oldest Profession’
Sarah Palins crash-memoir Going Rogue, which arrived today, may be the least mavericky thing shes ever done. As documented in Ben Yagodas perceptive, thorough, and amusing Memoir: A History,memoir-writing is very nearly the worlds oldest profession (way older than fiction). And nearly every mortal s …
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Bob Weinstein: ‘We Want the Miramax Name Back, I’ll Tell You That Much’
The journey to get The Road on the big screen has been fraught with nearly as much peril as the plot of the book. As you'll likely recall, it's been nearly a year since the film was originally scheduled to be released, but now that the it's due to be released in theaters nationwide next week, Weinst …
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Vampire Weekend Get Familial
We were fully expecting Contra, Vampire Weekends upcoming new album, to be full of tracks like first single Horchata, which is a song that can most accurately be described as sounding like Vampire Weekend. But Cousins which the band has been playing live for a while and is now available for purchas …
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Out Magazine Bashes Own Cover Model Adam Lambert
Over on Intel is a scary story of what happens to a cover model when his (bad) publicist tells Out magazine not to make him sound (or look) "too gay": He gets an entire editor's letter written to him about it. [Daily Intel] Read more posts by Lindsay RobertsonFiled Under: music, adam la …
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Christine Lahti on Starting God of Carnage Anew, Following a Tony Winner
Its hard to picture a foursome other than Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, and Hope Davis as the squabbling parents in the Tony-winning God of Carnage. But we couldnt expect them to stick around forever. Starting tonight, a new cast Jimmy Smits, Ken Stott, Annie Potts, and Christi …
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David Lynch on Going to India to Shoot His Next Movie
Between daily weather reports and tweeting about rainbow trout, legendary filmmaker David Lynch also makes time to introduce every episode of the fascinating web documentary series Interview Project, created by his 27-year-old son, Austin Lynch. During his downtime, Lynch is working to bring medita …
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New Nine Trailer: A Whole Lotta Kate Hudson
Buy my perfume! If you're curious about Rob Marshall's movie version of Nine, but adamant that it's a law of the universe that no movie starring Kate Hudson and Fergie singing and/or dancing can possibly be good no matter who else is involved in the picture, this new trailer, which is totally d …
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Anthony Michael Hall Accused of Assaulting Dating-Columnist Girlfriend
Ugh. Just when he was about to come back into the spotlight with a guest spot as a school bully on Community, eighties teen-flick staple Anthony Michael Hall has been slapped with a restraining order by his girlfriend of one year, a self-described "TV and radio host" and dating columnist for the Huf …
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