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• America's Next Favorite Old Person: Randee Heller
• Video: See The Trailer For 'Red State,' The Film Kevin Smith Plans To Self-Distribute
• 'Mean Girls 2': What Happened To The Girl Power, Ladies??
• Gallery: The Facial Hair Of Sundance
• Crushable Quotable: The Bachelor's 'Fang Girl' Madison More Human Than Brad Womack
• The 6 Best Pop Culture Cruises To Throw Away Your Money On
• Is 'Skins' Too Sexy? Not Compared To The Real World
• Miranda July's New Film Greeted By A Press Walkout At Sundance

America's Next Favorite Old Person: Randee Heller Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:48 AM PST Now that we all hate Betty White for being too famous, what adorable grandma can we parade around on variety programs for our amusement? There’s a poll going on over at Urlesque, but we can’t decide between Olympia Dukakis (she has a funny name) or Jackee Harry from Ladybugs. Actually, we want to throw one more name into the ring: Randee Heller (pictured above), who brought the only laughs to Mad Men this season as Don’s secretary Ms. Blankenship (RIP). She was the mom from The Karate Kid! And Alice from Soap! Lets make Randee a star again, before getting annoyed with her ubiquity and discarding her like we do our own grandparents. Post from: Crushable America's Next Favorite Old Person: Randee Heller

Video: See The Trailer For 'Red State,' The Film Kevin Smith Plans To Self-Distribute Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:47 AM PST We stopped by Sundance’s Red State after party last night and the room was abuzz with news of a stunt auction director Kevin Smith’s pulled at the flick’s world premiere not an hour before. Kevin bid on his own movie, for $20, and said that he plans to self-distribute the horror film about a group of radical Christian fundamentalists. He plans to promote the movie through social networking, podcasting, and taking it around on a 15-city tour as party of a new DIY distribution mentality. Kevin explained: "What we aim to prove is that anybody can release a movie now as well. It's not enough to make it and sell it now, I'm sorry." Post from: Crushable Video: See The Trailer For 'Red State,' The Film Kevin Smith Plans To Self-Distribute

'Mean Girls 2': What Happened To The Girl Power, Ladies?? Posted: 24 Jan 2011 10:12 AM PST Man, how disappointing was Mean Girls 2: Meet The Plastics? Maybe we were aiming our hopes a little too high that an ABC Family sequel would be anywhere near as good as something adapted by Tina Fey and starring a pre-wrecked Lindsay Lohan, but last night’s premiere was devastating. And not just because it was a watered-down, unfunny version of Mean Girls, either! In fact, that would have been a blessing. The plot of Mean Girls 2follows a similar format as the original: the new girl at school Jo (a Lohan stand-in) befriends the big artist/outcast Abby and together they plot takes down the school’s popular girls, known as the “Plastics.” Except in this one, Abby isn’t a viciously sarcastic goth (like Lizzy Caplan’s Janis Ian in the original) who doesn’t give a shit what the Regina Georges of the world think of her. In fact, Abby would make Janis Ian sick: she’s a meek pushover who bows down to those very same girls that she claims to despise. Oh, and Jo doesn’t befriend her based on any similar likes or interests, she does it because Abby’s dad promises to get Jo into a good college and basically pay for the rest of her life if she takes care of his daughter. What? Post from: Crushable 'Mean Girls 2': What Happened To The Girl Power, Ladies??

Gallery: The Facial Hair Of Sundance Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:55 AM PST Here at Sundance, stars and commoners alike are waking around in snow boots and giant parkas. Winter: It’s the great equalizer. And a lot of smart guys thought ahead and grew some facial hair in advance to guard against the cold. Check out our gallery of some of the scruffy stars who’ve been wandering the streets of Park City. Post from: Crushable Gallery: The Facial Hair Of Sundance

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:08 AM PST Listen to A Preview Of Willow Smith’s New Single - It’s called “21st Century Girl,” which shouldn’t be confused with T. Rex’s “20th Century Boy.” Because that’s a great song. (Buzzfeed) Post from: Crushable

Crushable Quotable: The Bachelor's 'Fang Girl' Madison More Human Than Brad Womack Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:02 AM PST We were sad to see Madison Garton leave The Bachelor last week. She was our favorite, and not only because we have an obsession with vampires. No, in the upside-down, inside-out world of reality television, Madison and her pointy teeth (which were removable, FYI) turned out to be the sanest, most emotionally stable character on the show. After to admitting to Bachelor Brad Womack that she just wasn’t that into him, she packed her bags and left, ostensibly to go back to working in New York’s Underground Vampire Club. Which is admirable to begin with, but then she gave her justification for leaving to People magazine and we were just like “Girl, come move in with us!” She’s so great! Fighting other girls for a guy has never been my style. But had I stepped out of the limo and knew he was going to be my husband, I would have been in a stronger fight for him. But at the end of the day, did I see myself being his Texas housewife? Not sure. Could we have worked? Maybe. Probably not. He said he'd have a hard time bringing me home to his grandmother.” Yes! Exactly! She is not going to change herself for a man that can’t accept her, quirks and all! My god, if there were more people on reality shows like Madison…well, there would probably be no need for reality shows. Post from: Crushable Crushable Quotable: The Bachelor's 'Fang Girl' Madison More Human Than Brad Womack

The 6 Best Pop Culture Cruises To Throw Away Your Money On Posted: 24 Jan 2011 08:39 AM PST We love mindless TV and films as much as the next red-blooded American…but that doesn’t mean we want to be stuck far out at sea with castoffs from bad reality shows, washed-up boy bands, or actors pretending to be Harry Potter for two weeks. Yet for some reason the entertainment cruise ship industry is alive and well, meaning at least a few hundred people each year are shelling out for this stuff. Our Inbox today brought news of the 2nd annual TwiCruise, which is a 10-day high sea adventure with two people that were actually in Twilight (including our boy Chaske Spencer), and a lot of people whose job it is to look like the cast of Twilight. Hosting this sparkling cruise event are The Immortals, a cast of tribute artists with an uncanny resemblance to the beloved Cullens .This 10 day tribute cruise to the Twilight Saga will include a Costume Event, La Dolce Vita Cocktail Party and Dance, Trivia Contests, Original Games, Twi-Cruisers Got Talent Show, Legends Karaoke Party and a Charity Auction with proceeds benefitting the Quileute Tribal Schools in La Push, Washington. Quick question: Will you guys donate to the fund of getting me on this ship? Because I feel like this is something I need to experience. Anyway, if you can’t make it on TwiCruise, here’s some other TV/movie themed boats you might want to board for a relaxing vacation. Post from: Crushable The 6 Best Pop Culture Cruises To Throw Away Your Money On

Is 'Skins' Too Sexy? Not Compared To The Real World Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:08 AM PST Taco Bell was the first company to pull their advertising from the new MTV show Skins due to the racy nature of the show. They were followed by H&R Block (which was totally going after their target audience of 14-18-year-olds?), General Motors, and Wrigley’s. Several of them made public apologies. Which makes you wonder: What did these companies think the show was about?! Did they do any marketing research at all before throwing their money at a show called Skins? It’s not as if the damn thing didn’t have a precedent in an entire British TV show about the exact same subject matter, with the exact same name! The funny part of this whole Skins controversy is that half the audience is mad because the show isn’t as good as the British version, while the other half is mad that it portrays too much child sexuality (including 14-years-olds getting down and dirty). But in order to properly due justice to the BBC program, MTV’s Skins is going to have to get a lot raunchier. While the American program is already censoring out butts, the original showed full-frontal male nudity (well, the balls anyway). And after news of a lesbian kiss between Sofia Black-D’Elia and another star, parents are already demanding that other advertising be pulled from the show? Yeah, in the original Sofia’s Maxxie was a gay guy. You can imagine how that lip-lock would have gone over here. Post from: Crushable Is 'Skins' Too Sexy? Not Compared To The Real World

Miranda July's New Film Greeted By A Press Walkout At Sundance Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:05 AM PST Miranda July’s 2005 film Me And You And Everyone We Know was hard to follow. In fact, it was so hard to improve on that it took Ms. July six years to complete her next feature film. And screening at the Sundance film festival this year, things didn’t go exactly according to plan. In fact, at the press screening of The Future I attended, multiple people walked out. Me And You And Everyone We Know was a major hit here in 2005, and went on to win the Camera d'Or at Cannes for best first feature. But The Future is not likely to follow in those footsteps. In the film, Miranda July stars as a 30-something woman who plans to adopt a sick cat with her boyfriend, played by Hamish Linklater. They share strangely similar haircuts and mind numbing jobs. In anticipation of their new responsibilities, they both quit their jobs and decide to pursue their passions for the next 30 days. But that just results in Hamish’s character quiting his mindless tech job for a similarly mindless environmental volunteer job and Miranda’s character being paralyzed by fear of her own inadequacy. It’s a slow going movie, and some viewers couldn’t handle it. After the first hour, there was a slowly trickling stream of people walking out of my screening. As soon as the first credit rolled, most people had their coats. Even though action was still happening on screen. It was particularly interesting considering the massive line outside the theater of viewers and critics wanting to get in. But after watching the film for an hour, some people had had enough. A few also sighed and seemed a bit disgruntled as they left. So far, there have been mixed reviews of the movie. But it’s not going to appeal to mass audiences the way Me And You did. And while there were a few sweet moments, anyone looking for the brilliance of the double poop will be pretty disappointed. There’s nothing like this in The Future: Post from: Crushable Miranda July's New Film Greeted By A Press Walkout At Sundance

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