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American Idol: How Kiki Got Kicked to the Curb 2007-05-11 09:03:54 This week brought an end to LaKisha “Kiki” Jones’ run on American Idol Season 6 as she bowed out in the number 4 spot. So this seems like an appropriate time to look back and reflect on a powerful singer and contemplate how she got this far and why she didn’t go further. Way back, 2 months ago, when the Top 12 were formed LaKisha Jones stood out to me as a forerunner in this contest. Her first performance in the Top 12 was “God Bless the Child.” Both my wife and I were very impressed and put her on the level with Melinda Doolittle at that point. We weren’t the only ones impressed either. Randy said, “unbelievable… sensational.” Simon echoed our sentiments when he said, “the quality difference between you and Melinda, you two are in a different league? you were very much in control, performed like a star.” At that time I really expected this race to come down to Melinda Doolittle and LaKisha Jones stand ... American Idol

Too Much He-man Masters of the Universe: A Life Lesson 2007-05-11 09:00:25 It appears I have opened a can of worms with these posts. What I had once thought was a single very weird guy seems to have turned into a disturbing trend: Ok, maybe this is a Halloween costume, still a little weird for an adult though. This kid looks about 10 so he has an excuse. This? There’s no excuse for this. Homo. Yeh, I know its from the movie, but, thats still no excuse for a grown man to dress up as He-man This dude is at least pretty buff, and his girlfriend looks hot as Lara Croft but, he is still dressed up like He-man at a Sci-Fi convention. I don’t think I’d make fun of this guy to his face. Man is his girlfriend homely. This one is disturbing on so many levels. And Lets not forget the ladies: I’m guessing her soon to be ex-boyfriend made her dress up like this. And yet I find myself strangely attracted. Why do I just know that he has the entire series at home on DVD? Mmmmm. Just for comparison: Not quite the ...

Jessica Simpson?s New Movie: Oh The Horror 2007-05-11 08:00:33 Okay, “Oh The Horror” isn’t the name of Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson’s new movie, but it should be. Instead, their new movie is entitled, “Blonde Ambition”, and looks to be the biggest piece of crap since Spider-Man 3. Considering how wildly unpopular her last romantic-comedy was (Employee of the Month), it seems she might have learned a little lesson. Nope. No lessons learned. Nothing. So here we go, without further delay, the worst trailer I’ve seen in a long, long time. It could all be summed up with this line from Andy Dick’s character, “look what you’ve done you evil, breasty beast.” Yes, look at what you’ve done. Look and be ashamed. The only way they could have made this movie look any worse would have been to add Kirsten Dunst to the cast. I imagine she’d play the cranky old man with a heart of stone that wants to keep the children from getting any candy on Halloween. Hey, ...

Pirate Master Preview: CBS?s Latest Reality TV Show 2007-05-11 07:00:50 When I saw the promos for this show I was very excited. I love pirates and maritime history and I love reality TV. For me this show is like a Reeses, two great tastes that taste great together. The crew of 16 pirate wanna-bes will spend 33 days living aboard a 179-foot pirate ship as they sail around the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. For the most part it sounds like this show will follow the formulas used by most reality shows. The ‘crew’ will face challenges each week as they go on adventures to compete and gain clues to the treasure’s whereabouts. At the end of every episode, at the Pirate’s Court (i.e., Tribal Council from Survivor) one pirate will be voted off or ‘cast adrift’ as they say. Another pirate, the one who accumulated the most gold will be made Pirate Captain (i.e., project manager ala The Apprentice) who will be in charge and assign duties to the other crew members. The most interesting twist to this show is the gold. ... Pirate

Survivor Fiji Recap Week 13 2007-05-10 22:06:03 Early Plotting: There actually wasn’t a lot of early plotting this episode. With only six contestants left and five of them together in an alliance it wasn’t hard to figure out who’s head was going to be on the chopping block. Earl, Cassandra, Yau-man, Stacey, and Dreamz all agreed that Boo should go home next. Of course they decided that last week too but, Boo had Immunity. Boo was sneaking through the weeds spying on them. I’m not sure why, it isn’t like he has anyone to plot with against the other five. Reward Challenge: As soon as they got the clue, Dreamz was convinced the reward was a car and he wanted it bad. He was right, it turned out to be a Ford F-350 pick-up truck plus the winner gets to chose who goes to Exile Island. The reward challenge was broken up into to halves. For the first half, the players were broken up into two teams of three and tied together. The teams then had to navigate an obstacle course consisting of a set of see-saw ...

Terminator 4 Heading Your Way, Arnold Or Not 2007-05-10 13:00:35 Immediately following the success of the third installment in the Terminator series the Halcyon Company announced their plans to move forward with the fourth movie, with or without their star Terminator. It’s now been a few years and Halcyon is ready to make good on their words. Unfortunately, due to his scheduling conflict with the whole ‘being a governor’ thing Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t be joining the cast for this next film. Halcyon Company founders, Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, purchased the rights to the $1 billion franchise for an undisclosed amount several years ago and are looking to take full advantage of their ownership. In light of losing the original Terminator the rumor mill says the new storyline will add an additional three Terminator films to fans’ shelves. These new films are to be considered a second trilogy and will focus on the building war between man and machine. “With T3, we included many incidental details a ...

Coming Soon: The Bourne Ultimatum - Trailer & Details 2007-05-10 12:00:33 Keeping in line with the non-stop summer of sequels, The Bourne Ultimatum, third in the Bourne series is heading to theaters August 3, 2007 and starring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Chris Cooper, Joan Allen, and Brian Cox. If you’re familiar with the first two films in the series, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, then you’ll definitely want to see this one. If you missed either or both of the first two then you should rent them and catch up on the story before hand. This trailer was played before Spider-Man 3 (I want my $10 back.) and it looked awesome on the big screen. Then again, so did the new Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix, and I don’t even watch those. The Bourne Ultimatum Plot: All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bou ...

HBO CEO Chris Albrecht Arrested and Fired! 2007-05-10 11:00:33 Over the weekend, Chris Albrecht, Chairman and CEO of HBO, was arrested jailed, and eventually fired. While I wish I could say this was because of his decisions to end Rome, Deadwood, and the Sopranos (which are heinous crimes in my book), it wasn’t. While in Las Vegas with his girlfriend at the MGM, Albrecht got drunk and had a ‘physical altercation’ with her (an even worse crime). The police showed up and hauled him off. Mr. Albrecht then wisely decided, probably for PR reasons, to take a leave of absence from the network. However, our ever vigilant media, never one to allow a pass transgression to slip by unnoticed, came to the rescue. The LA Times broke the story that about 16 years ago Albrecht had a similar incident with another girlfriend. What had been a blip on the radar now appears to be a trend. And so, yesterday Time-Warner, HBO’s parent company, asked Albrecht to take more permanent leave of absence. While I still plan on canceling my subscription ...

Melanie Griffith: Aged Not-So Gently 2007-05-10 10:00:08 The Daily Mail ran some not so flattering photos of Melanie Griffith this week at the premiere of Shrek the Third. No, she wasn’t there as the live action ogre himself, though she nearly could have pulled it off. Instead she was there to support her husband, Antonio Banderas, who stars again as the voice of Puss in Boots. Despite her husband’s claims that he wants her to “grow old naturally, wrinkles and all,” Melanie seems to be taking another approach. I’ve gotta agree with Banderas here. Melanie always had a lot of natural beauty and she should stick to that. Clearly she’s getting a lot of work done these days and it doesn’t look good. The Joan Rivers look is not something you should be aiming at here. I think Rivers has been dead for thirteen years now, but she continues to get that work done and doesn’t seem ready to quit. ...

American Idol: Blake Lewis Humor 2007-05-10 09:00:25 We love the Cyanide and Happiness comics by RobD. I saw this one last night. When you read it picture the American Idol stage and the guy in green as Blake Lewis this season’s beatboxer. Lol. With Blake sticking around another week after last night’s near-miss there should be even mo-mor-m-more of this to come. Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net Check out the rest of our American Idol coverage. ... American Idol  Humor

Bruckheimer?s Future Film: Gemini Man; Maybe? Finally? 2007-05-10 08:00:38 David Benioff has been asked by Walt Disney Pictures to begin script work on “Gemini Man”, a long awaited and often re-worked action film that has yet to really get out of the gates. The storyline looks to follow an over-the-hill hitman forced to do battle with a younger clone of himself. Hmm… saucy. It actually sounds kinda cool, but I swear, if Disney goes and puts Nicolas Cage in that damn thing… Grrr. “Gemini Man” is set to be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer while Mike Stenson and Chad Oman will be the executive producers. These guys are veterans in the movie industry and should have no problem pulling together an excellent action flick. Now if they can just get that script going… Variety writes: Over the years, a number of writers have been linked with the project, including “Armageddon” and “Next” scribe Jonathan Hensleigh. Ahh! There’s Nic Cage’s last movie, “Next”. Phew, with ... Film

American Idol: Top 4 Results Show Recap - May 9, 2007 2007-05-09 21:00:02 Tonight on American Idol it’s time to find out who will be leaving our Top 4 for Season 6 and leave us with our Top 3 for 2007. Last night we saw some interesting performances, it was a disappointing set of songs over all for me. Jordin stood out as great, nice change from the week before. Melinda did well, but not great like she should have. LaKisha was a little better this time, but still sinking as she goes. Then there was Blake, and after last night I’m retracting all of the ideas that he could pull this off and win it. Let’s see how it goes. To get the night going Ryan Seacrest lets us know that Pink will be here tonight along with Barry Gibb, performing separately, although that’d be quite an interesting show to have those two dueting. Not in a good way though, just interesting. Along with those appearances we’re getting a preview of the new Fantastic Four movie: Rise of the Silver Surfer (check out our preview with the trailer). Pink& ... American Idol

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Forget the Far East, Hollywood, Keep Your Eyes on the North 2007-05-09 15:21:01 Warner Bros. has canceled all of its advanced screenings following accusations from them that Canada is now the leader of the movie black market. WB claims this is occurring as a result of lax Canadian copyright rules which provide a loophole for crime organizations to make and sell illegal copies of the movies. Current Canadian regulations (I didn’t want to say “laws” because I’m pretty sure Canada is lawless, and is much like the wild, wild west a hundred years ago or like the Disney version, not sure.) state that it is not a criminal offense in Canada to make recordings in the theaters for personal use. For someone to get in trouble the 5-0 (I didn’t want to say “police” because I’m pretty sure… oh wait, I already said all that.) have to be able to prove the copy is going to be used for commercial purposes. Just how bad is it? Warner Bros. argues that nearly 70 percent of its releases were subsequently pirated in Canada ... Hollywood

R. Kelly: 5 Years Later Still Trapped in the Closet 2007-05-09 12:00:25 It’s now been 5 years since R. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was charged with child pornography and that whole nasty “allegedly” videotaping sex with a young girl. Normally that would put a halt to someone’s life in the free world. Don’t tell that to R. Kelly though. Since that time he has had 6 best selling albums, 3 tours, received many awards, and even had new hits out. I guess he’s just been too busy for a trial though for all that “alleged” activity. How the heck does a videotaped act get the qualifier of “allegedly” anyway? It’s probably like how I’m not convinced Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the stomach in front of all those people, including all those pesky photographers. The whole ‘hard captured evidence’ thing still hasn’t convinced me. MSNBC reports on a few of the delays: A series of sometimes bizarre events, including a judge?s tumble from a ladder and a case of appe ...