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The Week in DVR: More Neil Patrick Harris! Plus, Hitchock, Gangs of New York, and Grey's Anatomy Returns

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:49:21 -0400

Monday: How I Met Your Mother
Is Monday night the new Thursday night? Tonight brings the season premiere of House, a new Gossip Girl, a two-hour Heroes (yep, that show is still on the air) and the launching of the CBS Monday night comedy block, which includes the series premiere of Jenna Elfman’s Accidentally on Purpose. Phew! Us? We’ll be watching Gossip...

Box Office Breakdown: The Opening of Funny People Only Amounts to One Small Ha

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:20:47 -0400

Perhaps Judd Apatow is smirking all the way to the bank. Funny People, the hirsute director’s third film, opened in the No. 1 position at the box office this weekend, scoring an estimated $23.4 million in ticket sales. Unfortunately, that makes Funny People the lowest-grossing film to reach No. 1 this summer, an honor we’re not quite sure everyone at Universal was hoping for back when the season started....

Katherine Heigl Is Not as Bad as You Think (Seriously!)

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:06:38 -0400

We weren’t planning on becoming a big Katherine Heigl defender. After all, our hatred for her character Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy reaches such apoplectic proportions that we’re surprised we haven’t thrown a glass through our television screen by now. (Oh the horror of seeing Heigl-as-Izzie in cancer patient makeup and a bald cap last season!) But the abuse the outspoken starlet has gotten in recent weeks is just too much for us...

Box Office Breakdown: Household Pets Take Down Harry Potter While Katherine Heigl Has a Not-So-Ugly Opening

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:56:11 -0400

Upset alert! In a somewhat shocking turn of events, G-Force—heretofore known to adults-with-children as “that movie we were dragged to with the talking guinea pigs”—topped the charts this weekend with an estimated $32.1 million in ticket sales, which was enough to knock boy wizard Harry Potter into second place. With Up and The Proposal already having huge runs, G-Force is just another feather...

The Ugly Truth About The Ugly Truth

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:10:37 -0400

Sometimes it’s hard to hate Katherine Heigl. Of course, it should be easy—the Grey’s Anatomy actress has made a practice out of doing things that almost seemed designed to make her fans turn against her (withdrawing her name from Emmy competition because she felt she was not given awards-worthy material from the writers of the show that made her famous, or criticizing Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up—a.k.a. the film that made her a movie...

Opening this Weekend: Scary Orphans, Talking Guinea Pigs, and Katherine Heigl's Vibrating Unmentionables!

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:44:36 -0400

With a whopping six movies hitting theaters today, the fourth weekend of July feels like an ad for the local general store: In the mood for horror, romance, or even talking guinea pigs? Then have we got a movie for you! As we do every Friday, here’s a handy guide to the new releases.

G-Force

What’s the story: The cast of

Summer Controversy Watch: After Brüno, What's Next?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:19:43 -0400

If a slightly disappointing opening weekend wasn’t bad enough for Brüno, now it looks like even the controversy about Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest prank is smaller than anticipated. As The Hollywood Reporter noted yesterday, the only lawsuit pending against Mr. Cohen—a ridiculous one involving charity bingo and brain bleeds—has been dropped. And while GLAAD is still up in arms about the homophobic messages that the film is sending, their main beef...

And the Emmy Award for Best Dramedy Goes To...

Thu, 28 May 2009 15:03:54 -0400

It wouldn’t be Grey’s Anatomy without a little Emmy controversy. So when it was announced this week that McDreamy—err, Patrick Dempsey—ostensibly the lead actor on the show, would be entering the less crowded supporting actor category, where he’d battle for a nomination against the likes of Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser and the cast of Lost, we weren’t all that surprised. Next thing you know, Katherine Heigl will be hoping for another nomination after...

Fade to Black: Are Television Cliffhangers The Industry's Next Dying Commodity?

Fri, 15 May 2009 12:02:17 -0400

Here are five words we never thought we’d type: Thank goodness for Shonda Rhimes! The talent-deprived showrunner of Grey’s Anatomy left us with a doozy of a cliffhanger heading into the summer. Both Izzie (disgruntled actress Katherine Heigl) and George (disgruntled actor T.R. Knight) were left on the precipice of death as last night’s season finale drew to a close. Forgetting for a moment that these scenarios had been not only predicted, but expected—all...

Summer Movie Sneak Peek: Ten Big Flicks!

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:58:30 -0400

Break out the SPF 50! The summer movie season starts in earnest this weekend with the openings of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and, frankly, we could not be more excited. Bank on the next four months being filled up by superheroes, stunted man-children, teenage wizards and an unusual amount of killer robots. (Seriously, is Hollywood trying to warn us about something?) Check out our slideshow of the 10 most anticipated...

How Will Grey's Anatomy Get Rid of T.R. Knight, Anyway?

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:33:31 -0500

By now you've no doubt heard the completely unsurprising news that Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are going to leave Grey's Anatomy at the end of the current season. James Pickens Jr., better known as the Chief of Seattle Grace hospital, spilled the beans to US Weekly during this past weekend's NAACP Awards luncheon, but Michael Ausiello over at Entertainment Weekly reports that Mr. Pickens might have spoken out of turn ever-so-slightly. While it...

Grey's Antaomy Dead Man Walking Twist Revealed!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:04:51 -0500

We have asked ourselves the full gamut of questions concerning Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) having sex with her long dead finance Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) on Grey's Anatomy: What is this? Are they joking? Why are we watching this? Seriously, are they joking? However the one question we can't seem to wrap our head around is fairly simple: How is creator Shonda Rhimes getting away with all this?! Millions of people watch Grey's every...

Grey's Anatomy Goes Supernatural, Gets Even Worse

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:54:57 -0500

Are you all caught up on Grey's Anatomy? Good! Then we have a question for you: what exactly are we watching? Knee deep into the show's fifth season, most of the press bestowed upon Grey's has been about the casting. Amazingly, no one seems to be talking about the actual content of the show, which has gotten as ridiculous as an episode of Prison Break. To wit, last week Izzie (Katherine Heigl) made out...

Grey's Anatomy Writers Avenge Katherine Heigl's Comments With a Brain Tumor

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:08:14 -0400

Remember when Katherine Heigl withdrew herself from the Emmy consideration last month because she felt she was not given awards-worthy material by the show's writers?

Well, according to Us Weekly, the writers decided to give her a chance at an Emmy by writing in a very dramatic brain tumor for the outspoken young actress' character, Izzie Stevens, that may eventually cause her to be killed off the show.

An unnamed source tells the tabloid,...

Morning Memo: No Emmy Nom for Heigl; Carla Bruni's 'Junk'

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:48:32 -0400

Josh Schwartz has denied rumors of a Taylor Momsen-headlined Gossip Girl spin-off. [E!]

Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl says she withdrew her name from the Emmy nomination list because she was not given Emmy-worthy material by the show's writers. [LA Times]

Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, has written an unauthorized tell-all book for Simon & Shuster. [P6]

Carla Bruni is coming out with a new album which includes a track with the Fergie-esque...

A Look Back: Miley Cyrus Joins Lohan, Hilton, Wolfowitz in Denouncing Mean Magazine

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:26:47 -0400

As you may have already read, Miley Cyrus is totally embarrassed by the semi-topless (back view) photos printed of her in this month's Vanity Fair. In a statement put out by her publicist, Ms. Cyrus, age 15, said, "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed... I never intended for any of this to happen and...

Meet Katherine Heigl's Hubby! Singer Josh Kelley Gets Freaky Viewing Her Anatomy

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:41:44 -0500

Bluesy rock singer Josh Kelley, 28, who recently married Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl, was sitting in his dressing room at Roseland Ballroom on Friday, Feb. 29. “After we got engaged, I wanted to understand all these different emotions I was going through. So I wrote songs about my girl,” Mr. Kelley, wearing frayed boot-cut jeans and a gray knit turtleneck, told the Transom. “I would send her songs all the time being like,...

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide To This Week’s Movies: Who Are You, Tracy Morgan?

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:47:34 -0500

Going to the movies in January means suffering through an annual Hollywood holiday hangover; all the good stuff—the Daniel Day-Lewis performances, the sweeping period love stories, the Coen brothers—gets shoved to the side for flicks like National Treasure 2, and Alvin and the Chipmunks (both in the top five this past weekend). It’s grim out there (for example, while sitting through a packed AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator Requiem showing last week, the biggest laughs...

Perhaps Barbara Walters Simply Dislikes the Word 'Tabloid'

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:27:55 -0500

Last night, Barbara Walters’ much anticipated The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007 aired on ABC. Before viewers got a chance to assess the lineup, Ms. Walters said that she was going to avoid any “tabloid stuff.” And she did…sort of. As promised, Bill Clinton, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Don Imus were all in fact honored. But so, too, were Victoria and David Beckham, who were asked to dish on...

Heigl Faces The Ugly Truth

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:26 -0500

Knocked Up star and Grey's Anatomy doc Katherine Heigl has signed on to a "battle-of-the-sexes romantic comedy" The Ugly Truth, helmed by the writers and director of Legally Blonde, according to Variety.

Story centers on a romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) who is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected...