http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/ Entertainment, gaming and music news blog en Copyright 2007 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:54:09 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss (AP) John Daly and Kid Rock did their best to make up for the lack of star power at the Buick Open.

Daly, finishing a season-best 16th on Sunday, easily attracted the largest gallery with Tiger Woods not in the field at Warwick Hills for the first time since 2001.

His famous rapper-friend and host loved every minute of it.

Kid Rock rolled around the course on the passenger side of a mini-Buick golf cart, sipping beer from a plastic cup, slapping extended hands from fans and signing countless autographs.]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2007/07/kid_rock_follows_john_daly_at.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2007/07/kid_rock_follows_john_daly_at.html Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:54:09 +0000 A 40% rise in listeners to BBC digital radio station 6 Music is being largely attributed to host Russell Brand. The station now attracts a weekly audience of 400,000, according to industry ratings body Rajar. "It has been good for digital radio to have a star like Russell presenting on 6 Music. He really is at the top of his form," said controller Lesley Douglas. Radio 2 has also added listeners, with drivetime host Chris Evans gaining ground after an initial dip. Most popular Ms Douglas said: "I'm really pleased that Chris Evans has fitted in at Radio 2. He's a great personality, a great broadcaster and I always hoped he would appeal to the audience."]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/10/brand_effect_bo.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/10/brand_effect_bo.html Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:48:50 +0000 Jeffrey Sebelia was the guy who viewers loved to hate. And they'll be seeing much more of him now. Sebelia was crowned the winner of Bravo's "Project Runway" in the fashion competition show's finale Wednesday night. "I'm shocked," he said. "My brain is trying to figure out exactly what's happening." Sebelia, 36, snagged the title after he, Laura Bennett, Uli Herzner and Michael Knight (the fan favorite) staged presentations during New York Fashion Week in the season's last showdown. That runway show was taped in September. Sebelia, who lives in Los Angeles, impressed supermodel host Heidi Klum and judges Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Fern Mallis with his innovative, funky runway collection. http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/10/project_runway.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/10/project_runway.html Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:18:48 +0000 The Story Heder stars as Roger, one of the wimpiest parking enforcement officers to ever patrol the city streets. No one respects the guy – not the violators he tickets, his co-workers, or even the kid who’s been assigned as Roger’s little bro in the Big Brothers program. Basically, he’s Rodney Dangerfield in a meter maid outfit. He’s so hopeless that he can’t even manage a conversation with his pretty neighbor, Amanda (a perky but forgettable Jacinda Barrett), without passing out from fright. After letting Roger know his services in the Big Brother program are no longer needed (make that wanted), Ian (David Cross) passes on the phone number of a self-help guru who can make even the biggest loser into a real man. Roger’s desperate enough to try anything so he forks over the big bucks and becomes a pupil of the sadistic Dr P (Thornton). Dr P has a twisted approach to buffing up girlie men which involves a series of flashcards with instructions on how to lie to and manipulate women, as well as other bizarre techniques meant to boost the self-esteem of his students. For some reason Roger takes to Dr P’s teaching methods like a duck to water. Roger masters the art of confrontation and even works up the nerve to start dating Amanda. Things are going just fine until he discovers there’s a huge target painted on his back. When Ian handed over Dr P’s number he withheld one crucial bit of information: the self-help guru always picks one person from each class to torpedo. By excelling in class, Roger earned the unfortunate distinction of being Dr P’s latest victim.]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/09/school_for_scou.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/09/school_for_scou.html Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:37:01 +0000 Michael Tolkin, who has been working in Hollywood for almost 20 years, believes movies are dead — at the least the kind of grand American movies that delivered satisfying spectacle to viewers. Character has fled to television. The audience is distracted. Novels are the only form left that he thinks will never go out of style. And so he has revived his best-known literary creation, Hollywood dark prince Griffin Mill. The new novel, a sequel to 1988's "The Player," is titled, fittingly, "The Return of the Player." It showcases one man's escape from the entertainment-industrial complex. Tolkin himself is a dying breed: among the last of those in Hollywood who move comfortably from big picture to small project, from screenwriting to directing to novel-writing. Coming back to Griffin after 18 years, only to have him leave Hollywood for what he thinks is bigger quarry, reveals that Tolkin is trying to carve out a paradoxical position for himself as someone in Hollywood but not entirely of it. http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/09/made_in_hollywo.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/09/made_in_hollywo.html Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:11:54 +0000 Of all the leading men in the multimedia career of Vanessa Williams, Kevin Clash is — by far — the least recognized. In fact, this strappingly handsome, soft-spoken and unassuming African-American gentleman may be the most famous anonymous star in the celebrity universe. For Clash, a puppeteer since his childhood in Baltimore, provides the voice and movements for Elmo, Sesame Street's stringy red ambassador of mirth and frequent collaborator with the divine Ms. Williams. On the night of July 4, Williams and Elmo will perform a duet during A Capitol Fourth, the annual PBS music-and-fireworks spectacular broadcast from Washington (check local listings). Jason Alexander will host this year's brassy extravaganza, featuring Stevie Wonder, Jo Dee Messina, Michael Bolton, the National Symphony and, yes, the crouching, heard-but-not-seen Kevin Clash, who, as Elmo, will lead the nation in singing a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday" to the U.S.A. "Kevin is a consummate pro," says Williams of her friend and sometimes singing partner. "He's got great ideas, he's funny, he's warm, and, amazingly, he always hits the notes in an octave higher than anyone else sings. Working with him — and Elmo — is a no-lose situation." http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/07/vanessa_william.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/07/vanessa_william.html Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:27:56 +0000 Star magazine has hit a baby bump in the road. Reese Witherspoon filed a lawsuit against the publication Wednesday, arguing that a "phony" June 26 cover story headlined "Reese & Julia--Baby #3" and featuring shots of Witherspoon and Julia Roberts was a "callous effort to boost the tabloid's sagging sales," according to court documents obtained by E! Online. The Oscar winner is claiming she has suffered significant distress and damage to her good name because of the story. Star couldn't be reached for comment. The magazine cover in question directed readers to check out the inside pages to "get all the happy details," apparently referring to Witherspoon's alleged pregnancy. "Going for Baby No. 3!" was the tagline in the issue's table of contents. The cover photo also appeared front and center on Star's Website. The story, on pages 56 and 57 of the June 26 issue, went on to quote a source mulling over "what appeared to be a four-month baby bump" spotted on the 30-year-old actress while she was sunning on the beach in May. The unidentified observer also said that Witherspoon was wearing an "old-fashioned 1920s-style bathing suit that covered her tummy" and that she spotted the Legally Blonde star at another time coming out of a Santa Monica baby boutique "carrying a bag from the store." http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/06/reese_walks_the.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/06/reese_walks_the.html Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:03:13 +0000 NEW YORK (AP) -- Brooke Shields says "the irony is perfect" that her daughter, Grier, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter, Suri, were born on the same day. Shields and Cruise had a public beef last year after the "Mission: Impossible III" star criticized the actress for taking antidepressants after the birth of daughter Rowan, who turns 3 this month, her first child with TV producer-husband Chris Henchy. "You know, the irony is perfect," Shields tells newsmagazine "Access Hollywood" in an interview that was to air Monday night. "The world works in an interesting way, but we (were) both pretty busy that day." Both children were born April 18, reportedly in the same Los Angeles hospital. "Yeah, rumor has it," Shields, 40, says. "Again, I was pretty distracted." When asked if she had any run-ins with Cruise at the hospital, she replied: "No. God, no, and it's a gift having kids, you know, so it's a beautiful thing rather than anything else." Cruise, echoing the position of Scientology, said in an appearance on NBC's "Today" show that depression can be treated with exercise and vitamins rather than drugs. Shields, who wrote "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," has dismissed the actor's remarks as a "ridiculous rant" and "a disservice to mothers everywhere." "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression," she wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times last July.]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/05/shields_on_crui.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2006/05/shields_on_crui.html Tue, 02 May 2006 21:56:40 +0000 You never know what an amazing bolt from the blue may strike you the other day you wake up. The most impressive thing is that these bolts usually fall onto the field you do not normally cultivate. Doubt that? Then ask Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s guitarist. After he had spent most of his 60 years contributing to the rock music development, he was finally awarded with the Order of the British Empire by her majesty Queen Elizabeth. I bet he didn’t even dare to think about such an honor. That’s why he was overwhelmed with emotions when his was awarded for … having helped the children in Rio de Janeiro. Truly, God works in a mysterious way! http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/12/you_never_know.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/12/you_never_know.html Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:33:01 +0000 Just a brief comment on Queen + Paul Rodgers Return Of The Champions. You know, while listening to that I couldn’t somehow merit Paul for his marvelous blues part. Nether could I merit May and Taylor for their still good performance. Whoever could be imagined in a part of neo-Queen’s vocalist, but not he. The thing is that Queen’s songs seasoned with Rodger’s voice combine uncombinable, which altogether produces the effect of milk cocktail flavor with vobla. http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/not_a_champion.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/not_a_champion.html Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:42:39 +0000 The so-called film of the month, Romance and Cigarettes, by John Torturo is another interpretation of Coffee and Cigarettes, with the only difference that Coffee… was a film where singers performed as actors, and Romance … is a film where actors like James Gandolfini, Stewe Bush, Susan Surrandon and Kate Winslet perform as singers. I won’t dwell upon the plot f the film, because the only genre-classification as “tragicomic musical about workers” is enough to put even a monster into a sopor. In case you’ll chose to watch it in the cinema, you should know that the main clash is when the central character Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) has got to chose between a comfortable wife (Susan Sarrandon) and a passionate red-haired hag (Winslet). Of course, it doesn’t lead to anything good. Despite that everybody is singing and dancing in which connection you start to wonder what you have paid your money for. For instance, there is an Elvis fan of a very advanced age, with a face of a serial murderer and a voice of Tom Jones. Or there is a ladies man with goggled eyes and spinous teeth, who is advising everybody as for how to treat women. Characters like that are backed with any other dozen of large-caliber monsters who make you meditate whether you are having a nightmare or sitting in the cinema and watching a movie. http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/romance_and_cig.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/romance_and_cig.html Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:55:42 +0000 Life usually sucks. Work is both. Usually. However, there can be moments, when work can get much brighter attributes to be described with. Especially in the mornings. Especially when you work for a company that deals with human development. There can be times when all your efforts to do good to any particular human, to humanity as a whole, to the civilization itself can turn into nothing, cause you realize the job you do is not only useless but also harmful. There comes the time when you finally get that the main acquisition of civilization is that it taught people to kill their basic instincts and to replace them with some skills of an office robot. You can make sure of that the next time your boss will have you come to work at the hour when even the underground is still closed and you’ll do that though you have heard a distinct voice in your inside telling you not to do that stupid thing and explaining to you that it knows for sure you’ll have nothing to do today. And when you finally get to the dead business center and when the security doesn’t let your in the *** office because the*** business center hasn’t opened yet, and when to crown it all your get a call from the same *** boss and he informs you the *** work for today is cancelled… you will never be able to doubt my idea as for the main acquisition of humanity. http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/you_know_mornin.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/11/you_know_mornin.html Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:40:41 +0000 Actor Daniel Craig has been confirmed as the new James Bond. The English star of gangster film Layer Cake, who arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat, will play a tougher, grittier and darker 007. "It's a huge challenge. Life is about challenges and this is one of the big ones as an actor," said Craig, 37, who will be the sixth James Bond. He joked he "had a couple of Martinis" when he got the role. Casino Royale is due to start filming in January. "We've got an incredible script and that's my first line of attack," he said. "Once I'd read that, I realised that I didn't have a choice. I had to go for it." He admitted taking the role was a big responsibility but added: "I've just got to step up to the plate and deal with it." Bond was "a huge iconic figure in movie history and these things don't come along very often", he said. Director Martin Campbell said the 21st Bond film would be "definitely darker, more character, less gadgets". Craig told reporters: "Together with Martin, I want to make the best film we can, the most entertaining film we can." The actor said he was not looking to redefine the role, but added: "It's a question of taking it somewhere maybe where it's never gone before." Craig said he had received encouragement from predecessor Pierce Brosnan and had tried to think of it "like any other job". He also admitted there was a danger of being "trapped" by being stereotyped in the role.]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/daniel_craig_ta.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/daniel_craig_ta.html Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:51:58 +0000 PAMELA ANDERSON has returned to China after People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) arranged for her to appear on phone cards as part of their latest anti-fur campaign in Asia. The former BAYWATCH beauty caused a storm last year (04) when she starred in Chinese billboard advertisements topless, with her back to the camera next to Chinese characters which read, "Cold shoulders are nothing compared to the pain they feel. Please don't wear fur." Chinese censors doctored the advert on three occasions before allowing it to be displayed publicly - and the government owned company China Telecom has now printed 70,000 phone cards featured a softer version of the billboard advert. Anderson says in statement released by PETA: "The people of China deserve to know about the immense suffering of animals killed for their fur. "Once people know that animals are electrocuted, drowned, bludgeoned to death and sometimes skinned alive, they realize fur is disgusting and that there's nothing luxurious or fashionable about it." http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/andersons_peta.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/andersons_peta.html Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:51:13 +0000 Olivia Newton-John Says Says Thought She'd Never Sing Again After Her Longtime Boyfriend Disappeared Olivia Newton-John is still hoping her missing boyfriend returns more than three months after he disappeared. "I love him very much and this is very hard to go through," Newton-John said Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "He has a young son so we still hold out hope that he will come back." Newton-John's longtime boyfriend, 48-year-old Patrick Kim McDermott, failed to return from a June 30 overnight fishing trip off the California coast. The Coast Guard has been investigating his disappearance as a missing person case, including the possibility that McDermott had staged his disappearance. McDermott had filed for bankruptcy in 2000 and was embroiled in a legal dispute in April over late child support payments to his ex-wife, actress Yvette Nipar. The couple have a 13-year-old son. "It's very much a mystery and speculation has been rife and I choose not to buy into the speculation," Newton-John said. "This is such a personal thing for me and his family and we've chosen not to talk about it because it's an ongoing investigation." Newton-John, 57, appeared opposite John Travolta in the 1978 movie "Grease." She is best known for songs such as "I Honestly Love You" and "Physical." The singer, who was diagnosed with breast cancer 13 years ago, recently released a new album, "Stronger Than Before."]]> http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/newtonjohn_thou.html http://metropolisentertainmnet.com/2005/10/newtonjohn_thou.html Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:09:12 +0000