Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network has announced a list of guests for tomorrow’s Triumph Awards. Those to be in attendance include stars like Diddy, Samuel L. Jackson, Tamara Tunie, and director George Lucas. Though Mr. Lucas, whose second Star Wars trilogy featured a crude racial caricature in the form of pidgin-speaking alien Jar Jar Binks, may seem Read More
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Poor Samuel L. Jackson. Once a Jedi, the actor’s current résumé reads like a string of four letter words that would make your mother swoon. From his infamous “I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane,” to his audio rendition of Adam Mansbach’s Go the F**k to Sleep, Mr. Jackson is now synonymous with blue language.
So it’s no surprise that his ad for Barack Obama isn’t any different. Read More
The Observer arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last night as the first guests were arriving for the Multicultural Gala. A small protest had gathered outside, but guests braved their way past the blaring whistles, careful not to tread on the hems of their evening gowns as they ascended up the front staircase. The Read More
Monday: The Golden Girls
Thank you for being a friend! If it’s Labor Day Monday, that means it’s time for television marathons, and we’ll certainly take a pass by WE to catch a bit of The Golden Girls. Starting at 1 p.m., you can catch dozens of episodes back-to-back (hence the title “marathon”) Read More
No need to channel-surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Sacha Baron Cohen; Rob Thomas.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Samuel L. Jackson; Kevin Connolly; musical guest Andrew Bird.
Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC,12:05am): Kathy Read More
No need to channel surf! Here’s a list of notables on late night tonight. We’ll post each weekday, for your convenience!
The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Actor Samuel L. Jackson, chef Emeril Lagasse, musical guest the BPA with Iggy Pop.
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Cameron Diaz, Johnny Strange, Read More
In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama‘s Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best inauguration ever. The PIC won’t be accepting any more than $50,000 Read More
A note to future studio executives: don’t bother opening movies on Halloween. The box office took a hit last weekend with nearly every movie in the top-five coming in with lower numbers then had been anticipated. This week that should change with the release of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is expected to pull down Read More
We were at the movies recently, and after the abominable trailer for The Spirit played, the girl sitting next to us turned to her friend, laughed and said, "Samuel Jackson needs to stop making movies." Perhaps Mr. Jackson would do well in hiring this mystery woman to be his agent. According to the Read More
If you thought that Hollywood had run out of films to make sequels to, have we got some news for you! M. Night Shyamalan is back and talking about writing a sequel to his $95 million dollar grossing film Unbreakable. Which we feel begs the question: Why?
According to Mr. Shyamalan, the answer to Read More
