Archive: April 2009 (191-200 of 341)

Apr 14 2009 03:35 PM ET

Jamie Foxx unleashes NSFW rant on Miley Cyrus

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Categories: Misc.

A clip has been posted on YouTube (and embedded below) allegedly containing audio of Jamie Foxx unleashing a profanity-laced rant on 16-year-old Miley Cyrus on his Sirius Radio show The Foxxhole last weekend. Foxx, 41, and others in the studio are seemingly heard criticizing Cyrus’ physical appearance and making other negative comments directed at her, including "make a sex tape and grow up" and a suggestion that she go out and catch a sexually transmitted disease. Foxx is currently doing press to promote his upcoming movie The Soloist, which opens April 24.

More Jamie Foxx-Miley Cyrus on Music Mix:
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Apr 14 2009 09:55 AM ET

HBO plans film on 2008 election

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Categories: Books, Politics, Television

After the success of Recount, the story of the 2000 presidential election, HBO is ready to tackle the 2008 race. The network has already optioned the 2010 book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, Variety reports. Written by Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin and New York magazine national political correspondent John Heilemann, the book follows the campaigns from the candidates’ perspectives. Blood Diamond screenwriter Charles Leavitt will pen the adaptation, while Halperin and Heilemann serve as consultants on the film. "It’s funny to call Obama and Hillary characters, but that’s how I haveto look at them," Leavitt told the trade. "To me, the primary was one of thegreatest title fights of the century, and John and Mark have a treasurechest of anecdotes and inside stories. I think it will present itselfalmost like a stage play, like Frost/Nixon or The Queen."

More on Ken Tucker’s Watching TV blog:
HBO’s ’08 election movie: Who would you cast?

Apr 14 2009 09:52 AM ET

McG developing feature film version of Tony-winning musical 'Spring Awakening'

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Categories: Movies, Stage

Terminator Salvation director McG, who got his start behind the camera on music videos, is in talks to direct and produce a film adaptation of the Tony-winning rock musical Spring Awakening. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s developing the project with original book andlyrics writer Steven Sater, who worked with musician Duncan Sheik to create the reimagining of Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play. The story centers on a bevy of male and female students coming of age, and explores homosexuality, S&M, loss of virginity, masturbation, and suicidal tendencies. 

Apr 14 2009 09:40 AM ET

John McTiernan directs documentary claiming Karl Rove targeted Democrats

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Categories: Movies, Politics

Die Hard director John McTiernan, who is awaiting a new indictment for allegedly lying to an FBI agent during the investigation of the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal, has directed a documentary that claims Karl Rove pursued the Pellicano case as part of a general conspiracy under the Bush administration to prosecute Democrats. According to The New York Times, McTiernan does not expect to release The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove commercially, but will make it viewable on the web site http://www.politicalprosecutions.org/. In the film, he claims that federal officials called for two of Hillary Clinton’s biggest contributors — Ron Burkle and Stephen Bing — to testify in the Pellicano case, and that Hillary Clinton was widely reported to have had help fromPellicano when the Bill Clinton-Gennifer Flowers scandal broke in 1992. McTiernan’s documentary proposes that the purpose of prosecuting Pellicano was to turn up dirt that could be used against Clinton if she’d become the Democratic presidential nominee. Sheena Tahilramani, a representative for Karl Rove, told The New York Times that he hadnot seen the documentary, but that "Accepting Mr. McTiernan’s wild theory requires notonly the suspension of willing disbelief, but of all mental activity."

Talk about it on PopWatch:
John McTiernan’s comeback: A Karl Rove conspiracy documentary? Really?

 

Apr 14 2009 09:30 AM ET

Bravo plans new shows for celebrity designers and Jackie Warner

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Categories: Television

Among the new shows Bravo will announce at its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York today are Launch My Line and Jackie’s Gym Takeover. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Launch My Line pairs celebrities who aspire to have their own clothing line with a fashion design expert. Presumably, the winner gets the backing to fulfill his or her dream. Jackie Warner, known for the Bravo reality hit Work Out, will take her expertise on the road and help struggling gyms operate at peak condition in Jackie’s Gym Takeover.

Apr 14 2009 01:13 AM ET

Amazon.com issues statement calling its gay-book-ranking snafu 'embarrassing'

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Categories: Books, Tech

Amazon.com released a statement late Monday responding to the Internet imbroglio that arose over the weekend, when author Mark R. Probst noticed that sales rankings for several gay- and lesbian-themed books had disappeared from the popular online bookseller’s site:

"This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a companythat prides itself on offering complete selection. It has beenmisreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themedtitles — in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broadcategories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & SexualMedicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in theUnited States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but alsohad the effect of removing the books from Amazon’s main product search.Many books have now been fixed and we’re in the process of fixing theremainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement newmeasures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in thefuture."

Apr 14 2009 12:33 AM ET

Al Franken inches closer to victory in Senate contest

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Categories: Politics

Comedian-turned-candidate Al Franken may be one step closer to becoming Minnesota’s next senator, the Associated Press reports. A three-judge panel rejected the claims of Franken’s opponent, incumbent Norm Coleman, maintaining that Franken won the most votes in last year’s senatorial contest. "Franken received the highest number of legally cast ballots in the November 4, 2008 general election for United States Senator for the State of Minnesota and is entitled to receive the election certificate," the judges decreed.

Saturday Night Live alum Franken and opponent Coleman have spent the past five months continuing to wage their campaigns in the courts, with Franken holding a narrow lead over the incumbent from the earliest November tallies. Last week, the judges oversaw the counting of 351 absentee ballots that had been tossed out by election officials, after which Franken increased his lead to 312 votes — in a state of nearly 3.2 million registered voters. Coleman has 10 days to file an expected appeal to the state supreme court.

Apr 13 2009 09:40 PM ET

Jay Leno's primetime show to air on Boston NBC affiliate

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Categories: Television

Boston NBC affiliate WHDH has come to an agreement with NBC and will air Jay Leno’s primetime program when it begins this September. The news comes less than two weeks after the station announced it would air a local news program instead during the 10 p.m. hour, prompting a swift and stern reaction from NBC, which threatened to strip WHDH of its affiliation with the network. "Jay is from Andover where I went to school," station owner Ed Ansin said in a statement released today. "I enjoy his humor. We hope the new show is a big success." NBC network president John Eck also released a brief statement: "We look forward to working closely with the station on a successful launch in Boston of this show, featuring one of the most bankable stars in the business."

Apr 13 2009 09:32 PM ET

Phil Spector found guilty of second-degree murder

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Categories: Music

A jury has found record producer Phil Spector guilty of second-degree murder for the death of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003, reports the Los Angeles Times. It was Spector’s second murder trial; his first, in 2007, ended in a 10-2 jury deadlock, favoring conviction. He faces at least 18 years in prison.

Apr 13 2009 09:31 PM ET

Harry Kalas, baseball and football announcer, dies at 73

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Categories: In Memoriam, Television

Harry Kalas, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who was the voice of baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies and football’s NFL Films, died Monday in Washington, D.C., after collapsing in the broadcast booth shortly before a matchup between the Phillies and Washington Nationals. He was 73. A Philadelphia insitution for four decades, Kalas had been calling Phillies games and treating audiences to his signature home run call — "Outta here!" — since 1971. Nationally, his deep baritone was synonymous with NFL Films, and his weekly highlights were a staple of the hit program Inside the NFL on HBO and Showtime.

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