Sure, last weekend’s Voice-tacular went fine. Fine! It got much-better-than-decent ratings. But for true Super Bowl-evening sensationalism, we feel a certain nostalgia for Friends‘s 1996 blowout, which featured guests ranging from Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields to, uh, the voice of Homer Simpson and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It’s the moment the show went from preoccupation Read More
The charm, versatility and charisma of Jason Bateman and the camera-ready good looks of Ryan Reynolds should add up to more than a piece of crummy, amateurish junk called The Change-Up. But what else can a discerning filmgoer (I naively presume, perhaps foolishly, there are a few of those left) count on from bogus director Read More
It seems all Jennifer Aniston has to do is walk by a condo building in New York these days and suddenly she’s ready to buy the place.
It’s true, the former fictional Greenwich Villager is trying to move to the neighborhood (or at least downtown) for real. But the speculation about where she will Read 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 Read More
A few weeks ago, I had what should probably just be chalked up to a misunderstanding with Time Warner Cable. The details aren’t important—the end result was that my cable got disconnected (along with my wireless Internet and telephone—damn you, Triple Play package!). This was troublesome for some very basic reasons: I live alone, it’s Read More
