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Dear Hollywood: About your dismal failure to hire female and minority writers…

There’s a lot to absorb in the WGA West’s most recent Hollywood Writers Report, and Variety underlines your failure to locate and reward female and minority writing talent. The data is abysmal: Women make up only 28 percent of TV writers (and only 18 ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  18 Nov 2009

Do ‘New Moon’s’ werewolves belong on Daytona Beach?

For those of you searching for a safe reason to lambaste Twilight: New Moon without sounding like a grumpy old fogy, Asylum.com has the answer: New Moon’s werewolves simply aren’t werewolves.  ”They’re cheap shape-shifters,” says Asylum’s Nick Ross. ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nick Ross

Jane Lynch aces ‘Tonight Show’: Your move, Lorne

Jane Lynch would be BRILLIANT as the host of SNL! Certainly better than anyone they’ve had this season. It would be perfect if Jane could host and then the cast of Glee could be the musical guest. I think my little theatre-geek heart would explode with ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jane Lynch

Nicolas Cage in ‘Bad Lieutenant’: Overacting or acting that he’s overacting?

Nicolas Cage is an enigmatic actor whose hits are big and whose misses are gargantuan. Normally, you can recognize which is which far in advance, with just a quick glimpse of a film’s trailer. But his Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has me ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nicolas Cage

TV Review: 'Lopez Tonight' debuts to strong ratings

I love George, think he is so funny. Good Luck with the new show. The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject - or we may delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. An asterisk (*) indicates a required field. When you ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  11 Nov 2009

January Jones, beer-pong: These are a few of my favorite things

Like I needed another reason to adore January Jones. On last night’s Jimmy Fallon, the host challenged the Mad Men beauty to a friendly game of beer-pong. Even though she lost (a staggering upset, considering Fallon’s 1-5 overall record against the ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: January Jones,  Jimmy Fallon,  Ivanka Trump,  Betty White

‘Harry Potter’ star Rupert Grint as Eddie the Eagle: Method acting at its most daring

A little background: Back at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Edwards, a bespectacled English plasterer with relatively no athletic training finished dead last in the ski-jump. But his jumps were nevertheless riveting since his every attempt was a ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harry Potter,  Rupert Grint,  Johnny Carson,  Steve Coogan

Russian ‘Salt’ trailer: Angelina Jolie heats up cold war

The first peek at Angelina Jolie’s Salt has a serious Russian accent. That’s not just because Jolie plays a CIA officer who may or may not be a a Russian sleeper agent (shades of No Way Out). The first online trailer is actually for the film’s Russian ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Entertainment Weekly,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Angelina Jolie,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Phillip Noyce

17 TV/movie alien invasions

''V'' extra-terrestrials touched down last night -- not the first time we've faced other-worldly warriors at the multiplex, from ''Independence Day'' and ''Signs'' to ''The X-Files'' and more Even those too young to recall the original 1983 miniseries ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, ADAM MARKOVITZ, Entertainment Weekly,  4 Nov 2009

First Look: Claire Danes in HBO’s ‘Temple Grandin’

In HBO’s February biopic, Temple Grandin, Claire Danes worked with an amazing cast that included Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, and Catherine O’Hara to tell the true story of the scientist whose own autism allowed her unique insights into the behavior ...

From JEFF LABRECQUE, Popwatch,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: HBO,  Claire Danes,  Julia Ormond,  David Strathairn,  Catherine O'Hara

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