Here are today’s top entertainment headlines:
- In one of the most shocking literary reveals of all time, author J.K. Rowling has admitted one of her most beloved characters from the wildly successful Harry Potter books is gay. During a stop at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Rowling told the gathered audience that master wizard Albus Dumbledore was a homosexual. Rowling was surprised that no one had picked up on what she thought were obvious clues throughout the series of books – including the fact that Dumbledore is constantly referred to in the book as “Albus ‘Reacharound’ Dumbledore.”
- Kid Rock was arrested in Atlanta last weekend after an altercation at a Waffle House. Rock got into a fight with another Waffle House customer. Music insiders are arguing that the fight was premeditated to help further Rock’s “bad-boy” image. One of Rock’s own management team seemed to validate those rumors by saying “what’s more white-trash than getting in a fight over a girl at a Waffle House in the South? Nothing.”
- The cast for the upcoming Star Trek reboot has been solidified with the addition of Chris Pine and Karl Urban. The two will play a young Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy, respectively. William Shatner offered some advice to Pine with regard to the approach to portraying Kirk, saying, “Forget… everything you’ve ever… learned… about acting. Instead… act like you’re… trying… to pass a giant kidney stone… out your wiener.”
- Despite pleas from fans world-wide, Robert Plant has said the upcoming Led Zeppelin reunion show is not a precursor to a full-blown tour. Led Zeppelin will be performing November 26 at London’s O2 Arena. Plant went on to say, “If you want to see a bunch of geezers bouncin’ around and playin’ their oldies, go see the Stones or The Who. Besides, all that bouncin’ around? I might break me hip!!”
- Casting has started for a live-action G.I. Joe film. The film’s producers are hoping to begin shooting in February. To stay true to the cartoon, casting agents are looking for one black person and 100 white people.
- Actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of drunken driving. Kim is a cast member of the show Lost. A spokesman for the actor claimed that Kim was trying to forget how boring the show had become and was only trying to “spice things up a bit.”
That’s all for today’s news, stay tuned to this channel for all the news that matters least but you still care about.
(Compiled by J. Allen)
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And it was too bad for the gay student when they weren’t so cool because you just had a bunch of guys staring at him calling him names. It must have been a really rotten way to go through school. The Larry Craig thing. No one seems to talk about the bigger problem: that we have a problem with homophobia in this country. But that was interesting.
“What do you think about the news? What do you think about what Seymour Hersh said in the Times…” and he says, “Pal, I look at the USA Today in the lunchroom and read the Sports section. ” If they get the news maybe on the radio while they are going through traffic if they listen to it…so they don’t have the time.
You see how amazing the cutting edge of technology is as far as what a surgeon can do re-constructively. These guys get the most amazing care and they deserve it, of course. But it’s hard to take. Do that for 5 to 6 hours and get back to me. And I’ve been to those hospitals many times and hopefully I’ll be there in early October. Whenever I’m in DC, where I come from, I’ll let the USO know a week in advance. “I can give you half the day here or here.” But if you need me, put me in coach, I’m ready to play. And sometimes they can arrange it sometimes they don’t need me. So it’s like a wait and see and they let me know a week before. So it’s made the military, all those voices, a very personal thing to me because now I get their letters. I meet them at shows. Like some guy will write me, “Hey, I met you in Iraq a few years ago and you are coming to my town” ““ hey, give me your name and I’ll put you on the guest list. I always put them on the guest list. But that military ““ of the fifty shows coming up I have military coming to at least 15 so far. And more will write as the tour goes on I’m sure. “Hey you hooked up my buddy man, can you hook me up? ” Yeah, sure. And I’ve been doing that for years now.
CS: Do you think that kind of openness that kind of laissez faire ““ come as you go – still exists in America or is this a culture that is now based on fear?
ROLLINS: OK, well where I get my information is I love to read printed journalism I like to read stuff on the Internet. I like to listen to the radio and hear other people talk, different politicians. I try to find non agenda journalists. I have to read and read between the lines. I cross reference and think “What’s the motivation? Why does America go into this country and do that? What’s the motivation?” Just follow the money and you can save yourself a lot of aggravation and a lot of time. So, with that in mind, that’s how I read the news. I put it all through a business filter.
Dismissed by many as a pale attempt at trying to do Pixar, 
My emotions about 
Halloween fast approaches, and what better way to kick back and mark the holiday than with a big bowl of candy corn and a reading of the manga edition of 
They say that a dog is man’s best friend, but 
Forty-nine issues in and the gloriously oversized 
The 3-disc 
It’s a shame that the 3rd (and final) season of 
Forever trying to put more distance between himself and Summer School, Mark Harmon is still front and center in the complete fourth season of 
For some reason, I was delighted that 
During the 60’s, Ken Mansfield was the US manager for a little pop act called The Beatles. You might have heard of them. In 
It’s always a fascinating journey when you see behind-the-scenes of any venture, and such is the case with 
James Gandolfini is a low-key presenter of the post-injury tales of 10 soldiers and marines who found their lives torn apart by combat and must sort out their futures in the documentary 
Sleuthing scribe Jessica Fletcher returns with the seventh season of 
Even if it’s largely unsuccessful, 
The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting colder, and I can think of no better time to dig into the second 
Make programming the music for those all-night make-out sessions much easier by picking up a copy of the 4-disc 
I have absolutely no taste for the torture porn of the Hostel franchise, but I know there are enough of you out there that this has somehow become a going venture. For you, then, there are the director’s cut editions of both 
I’m also no fan of gore or horror, but I know that Halloween is right around the corner and you’re probably looking for some bloody filler for your own private filmfests. 
Like most of the current crop of Adult Swim fare (minus the brilliant Venture Bros. & Lucy, Daughter Of the Devil), I get very few laughs from the self-indulgently bizarre 
I didn’t think it was possible, but the third season of 
Occasionally, an interview will – for various timing and scheduling issues – sit on the shelf for far too long a time. Over the next few months here at FRED, we’ll be dusting off those “too good to let sit any longer” pieces and letting them finally see the light of day. First up is an interview from last year featuring Monty Python alumnus, director, writer, and historian Terry Jones – conducted a few weeks into his documentary series on the Barbarians on BBC2. Barbarians is due to be released on DVD in the US this January, from Koch Lorber.
KP: It’s quite interesting to get a glimpse into UK life via television, and it goes to show that people are becoming more worldly – if they actually take a chance to look at what’s out there. Barbarians, I think in some ways even tops Crusades as my favorite piece you’ve done so far.
KP: It’s odd… It’s almost a celebration of philanthropy.
KP: It goes back to the first book that I ever seriously contemplated stealing from a library, I hate to admit… because it was impossible to find, and I found it in my first year in college… which was your Chaucer’s Knight…
JONES: I think it’s all about attitude. For example, I’ve been looking at the Ellesmere illustrations, in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, which is in the Huntington Museum. And I wrote to Mary Robinson, who’s the curator of the Huntington Library there, and asked her if she could have a look at the illumination of the monk under a microscope. And she very, very kindly agreed to look at it, and she said, “Well, we backlit it and we could see around the head, but it might just be what the artist was drawing to place the hat on.” And she really didn’t look any more. But then eventually, very kindly, she came and heard me talk about the illumination in Los Angeles, and invited me to come look at the illumination again, in the manuscript. And we went to look at it, and then we looked at its backlit version, and then we put some lights on the front, and as soon as we put lights on the front, you saw this gold under the monk’s chin, and elsewhere. And it’s quite clear that it had been blotted out. The point about the illumination is it doesn’t look anything like the description in the text, because in the text he’s large and mighty, he’s got a bald head, a red nose, he’s very jolly, and wears this gold pin, and all that sort of thing. He has hounds and he loves hunting. And in the illumination, there are the hounds there, but the illumination is of a man covered in black. He’s just covered in black. He’s got, like, a veil over his head. But when you looked at it through the microscope, you could see that he wasn’t jolly. You could see he’s got a gray wash over his face to calm it down – but with a microscope, you could see he’s got rosy cheeks and a red nose, but he’s also got this gold. I thought clearly that the illumination had been blotted out. And the reason why I tell you that, is that Mary Robinson didn’t see those things herself, because she wasn’t looking for that. And she didn’t see it. And it’s just that I was looking for that, and I thought there must be something there. So it was easy for me to see.
JONES: Oh, Who Murdered Chaucer?… I think that’s one of my favorites, actually.
KP: Which is a long time coming.
JONES: No, it was a feature film. It was released over here. But very badly. I’m really pleased with Wind in the Willows. I think that’s the best film I’ve made, in many ways. It’s a really lovely film. It’s won various awards in America, the Chicago Children’s Film Festival, and something else… I can’t remember what it was. It wasn’t distributed. It was just sort of… Disney never really wanted to do it, and they kind of had their arms twisted by Jake Eberts, who’d put the money up for it. And they didn’t really like it, and kind of deliberately lost it.
Cabin Fever (hosted by the twisted souls Brian Fitzpatrick and Aaron Poole) is the result of having too much time on your hands and access to your local community radio station.
Chapter Six of Neil Gaiman’s Eternals series begins by forging the first known connection between the works of Jack Kirby and the collaborations of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Kirby created the original Eternals series in the 1970s, and Chapter Six’s title, “Modified Rapture,” is a famous line from Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 comic opera The Mikado.
I often times notice that artists with the most depth to them hardly get the recognition they deserve. The media would rather inundate us with stories on who is the most flashy, rather than people who have been able advance others lives because of the current place they are in. When I first got turned onto the show Degrassi some two years ago, the character “Liberty” played by actress Sarah Barrable-Tishauer really caught my attention. I sensed there was a certain depth the actress possessed I don’t see too much with young people in the entertainment business. I felt she had a true knowledge of self that she portrayed in her character that stood out. When interviewing Miss Sarah Barrable-Tishauer I smiled in knowing my intuition about her was right. She’s a young woman with a true sense of depth and vision, which will take her far.
Positive change is something Sarah always moves towards in all aspects of her life. “I love what I do for a living because it gives me the chance to meet and learn from people I otherwise would not get the chance to encounter.” She owes her open-mindedness to parents who, she says, always encouraged her to consider new ideas and accept others. Not only is she bi-racial, but her parents have different spiritual backgrounds as well. “My mom and dad named me Sarah because it is a name represented by both the Jewish and Christian faiths.” Being raised in a home where differences were looked at as a way to understand others and bring people together has made Sarah eager to see more acceptance and understanding in her profession as well. “One of the more frustrating things about being in the entertainment business is seeing there are still a lot of cultural and racial stereotypes that need to be broken. The media creates stereotypes that reflect only a small portion of a racial group, and yet we are lead to believe that this is a representation of the entire culture. I’d like to see the industry become more color blind and start looking clearly at the world around them to see the diversity and individuality that exists.”
Its place in film history as the first “talkie” firmly established, Warners has given the full-tilt special edition and restoration treatment to 
For Disney fans – and fans of Disney ephemera – 
While I wish they’d just release full season sets, I guess I should be happy that we’re getting any 
It was a good ride while it lasted, and the end of 
As much as I dug the extended version of Quentin Tarantino’s half of the Grindhouse equation, I couldn’t get into Robert Rodriguez’s ode to John Carpenter, 
For the first time in a very long while, I got a glimpse of Angelina Jolie truly sinking deep into a character – and she couldn’t have picked a better venue than as Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in 
I was curious in a “Can they possibly screw this up again” kind of way when it came to 
Though it’s one of those flicks destined to remain cult due to its inside-the-industry nature, for those that do have an inkling about what goes on behind-the-scenes of making a prime time television series, 
If you’re a bona fide recluse who never appears in public and speaks with no one but a select group of handlers, I suppose it was only a matter of time before a clever con man would take advantage of that. Such was the case with famed tycoon Howard Hughes, who fell victim to just such a con man – one Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), who sold a manuscript he claimed was the authorized autobiography of Hughes. The story of his scam – and attempts to prevent its discovery – are the focus of 
If I had a glove in hand and the opportunity, I’d slap Michael Bay across the face. Then I’d sucker punch him and kick him a few times. Why, when you have a concept as simple as “giant robots with the ability to transform into everyday vehicles bring their intergalactic war to Earth”, do we get the poorly designed, badly scripted, ineptly overdirected, live action big screen version of 
I try, and try, and try, but I just don’t find much funny in 
If you can get past the intense, almost greasy smarminess of James Lipton, there’s plenty of interesting conversation and the occasional insight in the latest 
Now that TV has become fertile waters for movie stars wishing to settle in for long runs, it was inevitable that James Woods would eventually take the plunge – and you can’t find a better vehicle than 
The genre of films about predatory hybrid aliens intent on mating with unsuspecting human males owes its existence to the original 
In many ways more sweeping than the original landmark miniseries, I found a certain spark missing from the sequel, 
If the first 8 seasons of 
Before celebrity went straight o her head and her ego began a mediocre recording career, an unaffected Jennifer Lopez was pretty darn good as the Latin pop star 
As innocuous as it is, I really don’t think that the Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday flick 
As much as I loved Home Movies and wanted to follow Brendon Small to his next project – 
I was able to talk to Chris prior to his appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con and it was a conversation that certainly spans many of the titles that IDW has been publishing lately but this was a conversation that I hope illuminates a little about the day-to-day operations an EIC has to go through in making sure the product that is released is good and how it’s fun to be king when you’re able to visit the set of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT on the underside of the world and witness the comic book finally coming to life.
RYALL: They were in place before. Like when you buy a book at bookstores like Borders or Barnes and Noble ““ those books are returnable. So if the movie didn’t do that well then those books would have come back to us. I think because the movie did do so well, made people want to actually pick them up. We did a special one for Target and that one actually sold out in a couple weeks…We gave away a million and a half copies of the comic of the video game and gave away millions at movie theaters. So, yeah, all those things have just been stuff that we never really had an opportunity to do before on that scale. It’s kinda nice.
CS: I liked the GI Joe and Transformers story arc circa 1980 something…
CS: So, you are basing it on the screenplay then?
CS: Was it just as a spectator or did you get to offer any input into anything?
CS: And certainly one of the things that I will publicly say that I admire about you is that you were constantly producing on a deadline whether it was One Hand Clapping or the TV listings that you set the example for everyone else on MoviePoopShoot.com that deadlines can be hit no matter how busy you think you are. Do you think that’s translated to what you are doing over at IDW?
