Archive: June 2009 (201-210 of 373)

Jun 15 2009 09:30 AM ET

VH1 picks up OCD series

Categories: Television

VH1 is following A&E's lead and taking on obsessive-compulsive disorders in a new reality series. OCD Project will "follow a group of participants suffering from severe forms of the disease. They'll live together for several weeks in a treatment facility and undergo both individual and group treatment," according to Variety. The show is expected to fit with VH1's other rehabilitation-oriented series Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew and Sober House.

Jun 15 2009 09:22 AM ET

Roy Rogers film trilogy in the works

Categories: Movies

A trilogy based on Roy Rogers' body of work is currently in development. According to Variety, 821 Entertainment recently struck a deal with Rogers' estate to create a new "King of the Cowboys" franchise, which, according to the company's CEO, will "not be a biopic, and will not be a traditional Western, but rather a family fantasy adventure. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger are quintessential figures of America, and we will introduce this franchise to a new audience while capitalizing on the millions of Roy Rogers fans worldwide."

Jun 15 2009 08:45 AM ET

'American Idol' auditions under way

Categories: Music, Television

Auditions for the ninth season of the megasensation American Idol began this weekend outside Boston. According to the Associated Press, over 7,000 would-be stars withstood long lines in lousy weather for their shot at stardom. Thousands more are expected to audition in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Orlando and Denver over the coming weeks.

Jun 15 2009 01:40 AM ET

Rev. Run to Jon Gosselin: 'Cherish' wife and kids

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There seems to be no shortage of people willing to dole out advice to TLC's Jon and Kate Gosselin; now Run DMC's Rev. Run is weighing in on the beleaguered couple. Ahead of the sixth season of his MTV show, Run's House, Run told People that he and his wife, Justine, have avoided the kind of troubles that now plague the Gosselins by keeping "your eye on what you cherish. If you cherish your wife and kids, that's where your energy goes."

"We're not extremely ambitious to be these big stars," the 44-year-old father of six said. "We hope to inspire people to see the value of being a family."

Run's House returns to MTV Monday, June 15 at 10 p.m. ET.

Jun 14 2009 06:41 PM ET

Francis Ford Coppola: Buy his wine, 'produce' his movie

Categories: Movies

Successful winemaker-filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who financed and is distributing the independent movie Tetro, told the Los Angeles Times that "everyone who buys a bottle of [Coppola] wine is a participating producer of my movie." To help promote his latest flick, the director took out a full-page ad in the Timesthat features a big picture of star Vincent Gallo and a bottle of Coppola's Claret Diamond red wine. The Napa Valley-based director and Hollywood outcast by choice says, "I wouldn't be able to make and finance personal independent films without having a very successful business behind me."

Tetro, a mostly black-and-white film about an Italian-American family, is set in Buenos Aires and is playing for a week in limited release in Los Angeles and New York. It will expand this week into other cities including Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. Coppola told the Times that he hopes he can expand the run of his movie if his ads sell enough bottles of wine.

Jun 14 2009 06:06 PM ET

Television commercials are too loud, declares California politician

Categories: Television

Ever notice when the volume of a commercial is vastly louder than the dialogue in your favorite TV show? U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., hopes to do something about it. According to press reports, Eshoo is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany."

The Big Four may already be attempting to address the problem, however. "The major television broadcast networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, are each, individually, implementing policies that attempt to control loud commercials," said David Donovan, president of the Association for Maximum Service Television, or MSTV, a broadcast industry trade group.

Jun 14 2009 01:11 PM ET

David Carradine funeral gathers hundreds of mourners

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Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Tom Selleck, and Jane Seymour were among the hundreds of mourners who attended David Carradine's funeral in Los Angeles Saturday evening, People.com reports. His casket was carried to Forest Lawn Cemetery in a white hearse, accompanied by a Hell's Angels escort. The service included a photo montage projected on a big screen and two of his children performing on the piano and harp.

The 72-year-old Kill Bill star, perhaps best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine on TV's Kung Fu, was found dead in his Bangkok hotel room on June 4. Carradine's brother Keith has asked the FBI has to assist in the investigation of his death. The actor's body was found hanging and bound.

More David Carradine:
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Jun 13 2009 09:42 PM ET

Miley Cyrus: Season 4 was her choice, dad insists

Categories: Television

Miley Cyrus is either taking one for the team by agreeing to a fourth season of Hannah Montana or not-so-humbly fulfilling the terms of her multi-year deal with Disney Channel. The singer's father, Billy Ray, told Access Hollywood that he gives "a lot of credit to Miley for taking it another year. She didn't want it to just end with whatever was the last episode we did. She wanted it to build to where there's a moral to the story, to where it doesn’t just end and go away and that’s it. She wanted there to be an official ending to Hannah Montana."

But the singer-actress also had a contract to fulfill; a Disney source told EW that the network already had an option on Cyrus, 16, for a fourth season and simply decided to exercise it.

Jun 13 2009 05:39 PM ET

'Milk' writer releases statement on sex photos

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Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, an outspoken advocate of LGBT rights and safe sex, has released a statement after sexually explicit photos that appear to depict him having unprotected sex hit the Internet yesterday. The photos are reportedly for sale, and a video is said to exist as well. In a statement released to E! Online's Marc Malkin, Black said: "It is unfortunate that individuals and other outside parties are trying to profit from material which is clearly private. I have had the privilege to speak to people across the country, both gay and straight, on a number of critical issues including safe sex. More important than the embarrassment of this incident is the misleading message these images send. I apologize and cannot emphasize enough the importance of responsible sexual practices."

Malkin says a source told him the other man in the three-year-old photos is someone Black was dating. Black's lawyers are said to be seeking legal action.

Jun 13 2009 06:55 AM ET

Usher files for divorce

Categories: Music

According to the Associated Press, singer Usher (né Usher Raymond IV), 30, filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond, 38, his wife of nearly two years, on Friday in Atlanta. The couple has two sons, Usher, 1 1/2, and 6 month-old Naviyd Ely. Foster also has three children from a previous marriage.

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