The most consistent production module in Hollywood just hit another home run.
Over the last decade, Pixar has become a byword for quality, combining cutting-edge digital animation with depth of unexpected, slapstick comedy and rich, engrossing storytelling that appeals equally to kids and adults. "Wall-E" has all of that and more.
Written and directed through [...]
Entries from June 2008
Review: ‘Wall-E’ is the best of the year
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
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MTV: Sure, we’d have Britney on VMAs again
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
MTV isn’t ruling out giving viewers more Britney Spears at this year’s Video Music Awards.
"Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?" Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group, playfully told The Associated Press during a telephone interview Friday. When asked if he was just joking, Toffler said "sorta."
"Who knows?" he said.
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The song that won’t die
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Natasha Bedingfield strutted onto the Irving Plaza Stage in Manhattan earlier this week, sporting an cultivate faux hawk, black shorts and a fierce pair of thigh-high boots. She delivered tracks from her latest album, "A Pocket Full of Sunshine," and during her hourlong set, the UK-bred artist sang about love and extinction.
She was alternately [...]
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Bizarre origins of wedding traditions
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
If the throngs of crazed customers clutching registry printouts at the Crate and Barrel are any indication, wedding mellow is once again upon us.
Before you head off to the next joyous union on your jam-packed calendar, why not take a moment to reflect on rich history of marriage celebrations and revel in the realization [...]
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Actors unions differ as deadline nears
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments
The Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday accused major Hollywood studios of offering the union a contract attend to worth less than an agreement already approved by the leaders of a smaller actors league.
SAG made the petition midst demands in Hollywood that it end the possibility of a strike or lockout by accepting the same [...]
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Don’t know who band is? ‘I don’t think we care’
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
The change in My Morning Jacket from their last studio album, the breakthrough "Z," to their latest, "Evil Urges," is not drastic: It’s not as if they brought in Timbaland to overhaul their sound or abandoned their scruffy look due to the fact that more fashionable duds.
Still, much of the buzz surrounding the soulful [...]
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Kanye West: I’m ‘most offended I’ve ever been’
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Kanye West defended himself from criticism over his delayed performance at Bonnaroo, saying on his blog that the flak he’s captivated has left him "the most offended I’ve ever been."
West’s performance at the Tennessee festival was scheduled away reason of 2:45 a.m. in the early morning of June 15. West didn’t take the stage [...]
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Israelis flattered by ‘Zohan’
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
In Zohan Dvir, Israelis have a Hollywood hero — no matter that the soldier-turned-hairstylist played by Adam Sandler represents some of their mother country’s worst stereotypes.
"You Don’t Mess With The Zohan" looks to be a big hit in the Holy Land. Billboards correlation the leading man’s split-legged, blowdryer-wielding materialization are plastered across city walls [...]
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Agent 99 gets smart on fashion and fame
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Daring in her fashion choices and her roles — this summer she plays Agent 99 in "Get Smart" — Anne Hathaway is the fulfilled candidate to answer questions fro developing your own unequalled personal style.
Curvaceous and kooky, interesting and interested, Hathaway is a multidimensional gal. In an time eon of nonstop tabloid exhibitionism, she [...]
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Tribute to ‘Jurassic,’ ‘Terminator’ wizard
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Friends, relatives and show-business colleagues gathered Sunday to remember Oscar-winning special-effects maestro Stan Winston, the man responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" and other notable talking picture creatures to life.
Winston died at his poorhouse in Malibu surrounded by family June 15 after a seven-year wiggle with multiple myeloma. He was 62.
Winston’s [...]
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