The Emmy Noms Are Out -- Who Got Snubbed?
As television’s embarrassment of riches continues, the process of choosing nominees come Emmy time has gotten more and more difficult. Even increasing the number of nominees in each category hasn’t helped—year after year, worthy actors, actresses, and shows end up out in the cold. The 2010 nominees have been announced, with HBO’s The Pacific leading with 24 nominations, and Glee and Mad Men leading the comedy and drama categories with 19 and 17 nods, respectively. Who missed the cut? Read more ›
Leonardo DiCaprio Keeps Things Interesting
Inception's Leonardo DiCaprio got his start on TV's Growing Pains, earned an Oscar nod for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and then achieved titanic stardom in 1997 in a movie about a sinking ship. But then, instead of trading on his heartthrob looks, he leveraged his box-office muscle to work with A-list directors including Danny Boyle, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Sam Mendes, and now Christopher Nolan in July 16's Inception. Read more ›
LeBron's ESPN Special Ended the Jingles
When LeBron James' hourlong, charity-benefiting prime-time special aired Thursday night on ESPN, we were left sort of cold. Not because of his choice Miami, but because the aggrandizing, twice-the-length-of-the-NBA-draft-lottery presser concluded the national competition for Most Ridiculous Tempt-Lebron Jingle. Here're the ones we'll miss most. Read more ›
'Despicable Me' and the World's Evil
Imagine a world where being a bad guy is a profession just like any other: villains go to Starbucks, ride around town in their metal-plated hybrid cars/rockets, and put on their spiffiest black shoes to go demand unreasonably large bank loans to finance their evil projects. Actually, that sounds a little like the world we read about in the news, doesn't it? (Except for that car/rocket, of course.) Read more ›
New Big Boi Album Lives Up to the Hype
The latest offering from the hip-hop star, "Sir Lucious Left Foot ... The Son of Chico Dusty," was held up by intralabel politics for the intolerable length of three years. Now that it's finally out, the album confirms what close listeners had already begun to realize during the Outkast-saturated mid-2000s: Big Boi makes the contemporary trappings of hip-hop sound funkier than just about anyone. Read more › |
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