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‘Big Bang Theory’ recap: Wolowitz takes a bath with Katee Sackhoff

Barry Kripke, you have made a new enemy. Not only are your bratty antics a permanent thorn in Sheldon Cooper’s side. Not only is your speech impediment transparently designed to make you more annoying, which therefore actually does make you more ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Katee Sackhoff,  Alyson Hannigan,  NPR,  Billy Joel,  Scissor Sisters

Box Office Report: ‘New Moon’ banks $140.7 million for third-biggest opening weekend ever

The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed an astounding $140.7 million at the box office this weekend, exploding most industry expectations en route to the biggest autumn opening weekend in history and the third biggest three-day debut ever, according to ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sandra Bullock,  Pedro Almodovar,  Nicolas Cage,  Miley Cyrus

‘New Moon’ tears into box office record with $72.7 million opening day

The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on Friday, according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, shattering The Dark Knight’s previous opening-day record of $62.2 million. (The figure includes the $26.3 million New Moon banked from ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  21 Nov 2009

‘New Super Mario Bros. Wii’ review: Saving the princess is somehow still fun

Despite its ungainly title, there really isn’t anything all that “new” to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the umpteenth entry in Nintendo’s vast Mario empire. If anything, it’s a deliberately nostalgic, graphically updated throwback to the mustachioed ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nintendo

‘Big Bang Theory’ recap: Sheldon gets to second base with Penny. That’s not a typo.

I can’t say I’m a Sheldon/Penny ’shipper myself, so I’m not entirely sure whether last night’s episode was cause to rejoice or not for those rather insistent Big Bang Theory fans who subscribe to the notion that the otherwise asexual quantum physicist ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  17 Nov 2009

The new ‘Grown Ups’ teaser: Pratfalls, hippie cougars, and inappropriate breast-feeding

If I was to create an Onion parody trailer of a comedy from Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison, I could scarcely do better than this completely real trailer for Sandler’s completely real new comedy Grown Ups, out June 2010. The cast ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Popwatch,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Rob Schneider,  Kevin James,  Adam Sandler,  Chris Rock,  David Spade

Pakistan Rock Rails Against the West, Not the Taliban

While Pakistani journalists, playwrights and even moderate Islamic clerics have boldly condemned the Taliban, the nation’s pop music stars have yet to sing out against the group, which continues to claim responsibility for daily bombings. The ...

From ADAM B. ELLICK, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Taliban,  New York Times Company,  John Burns,  Ahmed Wali Karzai,  David Rohde

Zachary Quinto talks up the new ‘Star Trek’ DVD

In one of the making-of documentaries on the DVD, Quinto also talks about when meeting his on-screen namesake for the first time, the very first thing Leonard Nimoy told him was that his life was about to change rather radically. So, has it? “No, not ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Zachary Quinto,  Leonard Nimoy

‘Big Bang Theory’: Everybody’s fighting!

Don’t let that sweet and cuddly photo from the end of last night’s Big Bang Theory fool you; this episode was packed to the rafters with one full bore fight after another, and, thank jeebus, the result was maybe the funniest ep of the season thus far. ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  10 Nov 2009

‘Big Bang Theory’: Sheldon and Leonard talk football, fly kites

In NFL football, when a team takes a scheduled week off from the season, it’s called a bye week. I know this because my boyfriend, a diehard Denver Broncos fan, was yelling at the TV calmly explaining to me this past Sunday that the rather lackluster ...

From ADAM B. VARY, Entertainment Weekly,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NFL,  Denver Broncos,  Baltimore Ravens,  Kaley Cuoco (actor)

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