At what point does a wannabe summer blockbuster become so derivative that it simply must be banished to summer-movie jail? About halfway through Universal’s “Battleship.”
Dumb and unoriginal to such a fault that not even its fun moments can salvage it, the film, directed by Peter Berg (“Friday Night Lights”), scripted by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber (“Red”) and based on the Hasbro board game, steals most egregiously from J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of Paramount’s “Star Trek.”
Featuring a hugely tal鐃½ented rakehell suddenly turned captain of a U.S. fighting vessel, in this
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Last week Charlize Theron made headlines for appearing in public for the first time with her adopted son Jackson. Today she turned heads for the provocative dress she wore to the U.K. premiere of her new film “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Of course these stunts are all part of promoting her new film!
The actress donned a sheer black dress that showed off a lot of leg and gave the illusion that she was revealing more skin than she actually was.
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Amy Brenneman and Tim Daly, Private Practice
Pete’s in troooouble!
The Private Practice doc decided to do what was morally but not legally right when he let a patient die of his own volition instead of being stuck on a ventilator like the patient’s father wanted. Instead, Pete (Tim Daly) listened to the patient’s partner and pulled the plug.
“It seems like at the end of every season, sh– happens to him,” Daly joked to TVGuide.com at a recent set visit during the filming of Tuesday’s episode. “He gets in hot water. My paranoid self thinks — paired with last year’s heart attack — is this a threat? Am
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After last years blockbuster Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit, the Costume Institute had a dilemma. How could it possibly top such a remarkable show?
The answer, of course, is it couldnt. So chief curator Harold Koda and his team did the next best thing: they tried something entirely different. And while it doesnt totally convince, the work on display in Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations is truly remarkable.
When we initially heard about the exhibit, we were skeptical.
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Cher Bashes Mitt Romney on Twitter, Then Deletes Tweets Posted: May 8, 2012
Cher has always been opinionated, and not terribly shy about it either. She had a few incendiary things to say aimed at presidential hopeful Mitt Romney via her Twitter on Tuesday, and her criticism isnt too surprising. The fact that she deleted those nasty-grams shortly after posting them? Well, that is a little surprising.
So what inspired this postmortem restraint on the part of the legendary pop star? According to E!, it could be the response she got.
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LOS ANGELES – Creating Hollywood’s largest entertainment union, members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have voted overwhelmingly to combine into a single bargaining unit.
SAG represents 125,000 actors, extras and stunt performers in movies and television shows. AFTRA has about 70,000 members who are actors as well as singers, dancers, disc jockeys, sports announcers, comedians and broadcast journalists, among others. About 40,000 people hold membership in both labor groups.
The historic vote comes nearly two years after union leaders began discussions to merge in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations with studios and to end a long history of jurisdictional disputes and feuding over negotiating strategy.
Under the plan, the new consolidated union will be called simply SAG-AFTRA. N
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