Daniel D'addario
Will.i.am promised to change our paradigms and reinvent how we saw music by Tweeting during the Super Bowl. Said the performer-cum-social media expert to USA Today, "So when Fergie is doing her part, and (other group members apl.de.ap and Taboo) [sic] are doing their part, wouldn't it be awesome to send a tweet to all the people that are following … bring the people even closer to the... MORE >
Russ Meyer starlet Tura Satana has died; the actress was best known for her work in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, though she also played guest roles in several 1960s television series and remained working into the 2010s. Satana was... MORE >
In the promotional churn for her new film with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston let slip to Oprah that she'd once weighed taking a role on Saturday Night Live instead of the Friends pilot. Makes sense that she joined the Friends cast--she's a Los Angeles actress through and through. But was the offer ever even... MORE >
We've spent a day wondering why Spike Lee ended up at the premiere of Justin Bieber's Never Say Never, walking the red carpet and dropping off gifts for the kid's manager.... MORE >
Predictable enough: Lauren Conrad's new reality show was pulled from MTV's schedule before airing. The show was one of the last gasps of a focus on "aspirational" programming that included The Hills (be an intern!), The City (be a fashion designer!), and World of Jenks (be a journalist!).... MORE >
Page Six led this morning with a story on the crisis at Bravo--a dull season of The Real Housewives of New York City! Long the class of the franchise (at least to those living in New York), the Housewives are said to have had a dry season. In light of the torrid goings-on in Beverly Hills--and the upcoming season of Housewives breakout Bethenny Frankel's own show--the series has been delayed at least a month... MORE >
Mad Men is currently mired in contractual disputes between its network, AMC, and its production company, Lionsgate -- only Matthew Weiner knows what'll happen next! Some fans are rewatching their show DVDs, some are plotting blood feuds against the critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who called the show a faux-highbrow soap opera, and some are writing their own plotlines.... MORE >
Natalie Portman's next film comes out in theaters--well, 'theater,' singular, in New York. Portman has two movies in wide-release right now, one arty and one tarty--she's a major movie star. How did her movie end up getting... MORE >
Let's set the scene: You're Tara Reid. No, no--don't fight it. You're Tara Reid, and all that goes with it. Your last movie was direct-to-DVD and called either Clean Break or Unnatural Causes. A paparazzo asks you (how rare for them to ask about your career!) what you're working on. Why not say The Big Lebowski 2? Why not American Pie 4, too, while you're at it!... MORE >
Kristen Stewart, who can make money as a girl in love with a vampire but little else, is sticking with the mythic. She's negotiating to star in Snow White and the Huntsman, a project at Universal focusing on the relationship between Snow White and Viggo Mortensen's Huntsman.... MORE >
It's a world full of rankings out there—weekend box office? Times best sellers? Oprah vs. Ellen? Wicked vs. Spider-Man? How does one make sense of what's popular, and what it all means? We're here to help with Number Theory. We'll look at the week's rankings to see who's on top and whom they're atop. Fortunes change quickly in entertainment—and at Number Theory, we're watching it all happen. Here, your handy guide to the week's best-selling... MORE >
Congratulations to Andy Cohen, who's certainly perfected a formula. The Real Housewives of Miami, to debut February 22, seems like the platonic ideal of these shows -- noted location, athletes' wives, a vague and undefined "fashion journalist" in the Kelly Killoren Bensimon mold. Why are promos for this series only now airing? Isn't it late for today to be the first time you have heard of this... MORE >
This is one way to get press for an aging show: CBS sued a fan blogger who claims he revealed information obtained from a runner-up on two previous seasons, reports the Daily Beast. Russell "Bradley Manning" Hantz, known for his cutthroat and intimidating style of play, was outed by a member of the fan community "Survivor Sucks" as the leaker of information about his first two seasons on the show.... MORE >
Perhaps more significant than last night's news of the Beavis and Butt-Head reprise on MTV is the nature of the announcement itself.... MORE >
The signs that this was not a typical press screening came early—a group of teens, screaming in the direction of cops guarding their barricade, held a sign reading that they'd been there since six. It was 6:02 when the Observer arrived at the Regal Cinemas in Times Square, and 6:03 when the Observer realized they meant a.m. All this for a... MORE >
