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Lawsuit? Did somebody say lawsuit?: Paul Reubens puts a stop to "Pee-Wee Over Louisville" day
"I didn't hear you say 'please'."
Apparently, there are some secret words that when uttered in a certain order not only make Pee-Wee Herman scream but also make him run to his lawyers: Pee-Wee, Over, Louisville, and Day.
Will Russell, one of the guys behind the insanely popular Lebowski Fest that has celebrated all things Big ...
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Eisley says it will be touring soon, even though it didn't make its Kickstarter goal
Eisley says it will be touring in the near future, even without the $100,000 it requested on Kickstarter. In a statement, the group says that its motivation is “to continue being a band, writing songs, recording records, and touring,” even though it “ended up having to borrow $ from family ...
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Jon Stewart decides to spend his summer vacation with Gael Garcia Bernal
As previously announced, Jon Stewart is taking a break from The Daily Show beginning on June 10 to direct Rosewater, his adaptation of Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir Then They Came For Me. Bahari’s book deals with his coverage of Iran’s disputed 2009 election and his ...
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Lord Of The Rings star Christopher Lee releasing his second metal LP just in time for his 91st birthday
Christopher Lee, best known for his role as Saruman in The Lord Of The Rings movies, is releasing a metal record. Charlemagne: The Omens Of Death is actually his second hard-edged LP, and his second record devoted to the life of Charlemagne, the one-time Holy Roman Emperor. Lee tells The ...
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Actually, maybe Tom Cruise isn't going to be in The Man From U.N.C.L.E
While Tom Cruise had, at one point, signed on to play the lead in Guy Ritchie’s new The Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie, after a string of scheduling conflicts, he’s had to bow out of the whole thing. (or said “uncle,” whatever.) According to The ...
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Human Centipede 3 begins filming, plans to sew 500 fake prisoners together
If you woke up today feeling oddly creeped out and disgusted with humanity and you weren’t sure why, fear not: it’s just director Tom Six beginning production in Los Angeles on Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence). As such, it’s high time the public learns just what wondrously ...
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The Parameter short-film competition has been delayed (but there's good news, too)
Due to unforeseen circumstances—weather patterns, the stock market, Earth spinning off its axis, new episodes of long-dead TV shows—we’ve decided to delay the launch of the Parameter short-film competition for a couple of months. Twasn’t an easy decision, but we’re hoping that the delay will ...
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Unsurprisingly, Lena Dunham isn't super stoked about the existence of that Girls porn parody
Unsurprisingly, Lena Dunham (porn name: Murray Broadway) isn’t super stoked that Hustler is producing a porn parody of her TV show, Girls. Yesterday morning, Dunham tweeted that she wished “she had a better attitude about” the parody, saying she “really can never predict what will trouble” her. Then, last ...
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Jason Sudeikis says he's still not sure whether he's done with SNL or not
He's just so confused.
Prompting Mitt Romney to angrily shout, “Make a decision already!,” Jason Sudeikis says he’s still not sure whether or not he’ll be back at Saturday Night Live this fall. Yesterday on The View, Sudeikis told Barbara Walters that he “sincerely [doesn’t] know at this point” whether he ...
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Bryan Singer adds Quicksilver to X-Men: Days Of Future Past, possibly just to annoy Joss Whedon
Proving some major movie studios just aren’t cut out for sharing, Fox has decided to add the super speedster Quicksilver to its upcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past, even though Marvel Studios recently announced that it plans to include the character in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers 2. X-Men ...
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Turns out The Simpsons’ Springfield is in Florida—and part of Universal Orlando
Universal Orlando Resort
Two and a half decades of speculating about the geographic location of the Simpsons’ hometown will come to rest sometime this summer, when Universal Orlando definitively proves that Springfield can in fact be found within an amusement park in Central Florida. Or parts of Springfield, at least: New York Daily ...
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A&E cancels Intervention, sending it hurtling down a drug-riddled path to destruction
After 13 seasons, 246 interventions, and years of viewer I’m-addicted-to-Intervention Twitter puns, A&E’s Intervention is ending. Five final episodes will air on Thursdays at 9PM ET starting June 13.
Throughout its tenure, the show has featured addictions to substances and experiences ranging from heroin to plastic ...
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Francis Ford Coppola wants to do a movie about a non-mob affiliated Italian-American family
Like this, but nicer.
The man who made The Godfather one of the greatest movie trilogies of our time (if you go really easy on the third one) will return to the director's chair for another story about an Italian-American family. This one, however, will have a lot less gunplay and need for ...
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R.I.P. S.W.A.T. star Steve Forrest
Veteran he-man actor Steve Forrest, probably best remembered for starring in the TV series S.W.A.T., has died at 87. Forrest, who was the younger brother of the actor Dana Andrews, labored in movies for a decade, in tiny, mostly uncredited bit parts (including, among others, the 1943 ...
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Spell-Mageddon to descend on ABC Family this summer
American Dad's version of a spelling bee
How does ABC Family spell original summer programming? S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G B-E-E R-E-A-L-I-T-Y S-H-O-W. (Used in a sentence: “I had hoped this spelling bee reality show was a documentary-style look at the trials and tribulations of those intense Scripps kids, but it’s not.”) The network has put in a summer order ...
