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- Reliving the Best Disney Channel Original Summer Movies
- Sex on the Wire: How Sexy Is Your Back?
- 3 Things That Are Actually Good About ‘The Bachelorette’ This Season
- Snap This: Bill Murray as Jesus
- 5 People Who Could Replace Dr. Drew on ’16 and Pregnant’ Reunion Specials
- Gallery: New ‘Transformers’ Babe Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Good at Being Dominated
- ‘The Challenge’ Awards: You Can Strategize All You Want But You Still Have to Win
- The Daily WTF: Hundred Million Dollar ATM Receipt
- Hollywood Jobs: Krissy Wall, Director of Development & Programming for the Oprah Winfrey Network
- Hot Shot: Close Your Mouth, Robert Pattinson!
| Reliving the Best Disney Channel Original Summer Movies Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT Recently, Gawker posted a list of ten summer movies to watch if you can’t go to summer camp, including the glorious late-’90s Disney reality show Bug Juice. I loved Bug Juice, but viewed the campers with pity instead of envy. Those poor children, living in the wild without central air or TV. Because without a TV, they couldn’t watch the annual parade of summer Disney Channel original movies, which were always far superior then any trotted out during the rest of the year (with the exception of course, of Halloweentown). And if they didn’t watch said movies, they couldn’t stumble upon them one night on a tumblr or one of the three-digit Disney cable channels and wonder, hey, whatever happened to that guy? And if they couldn’t do that, they wouldn’t really enjoy this slideshow. And it all started because there parents didn’t love them enough to keep them home from camp. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Reliving the Best Disney Channel Original Summer Movies  |
| Sex on the Wire: How Sexy Is Your Back? Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:35 AM PDT |
| 3 Things That Are Actually Good About ‘The Bachelorette’ This Season Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT
Serious man candy. Some seasons, everyone is so bland you have no idea how the Bachelor/ette will choose a winner. This year, I like Ames, JP, Beneff (Ben F.), and Constantine, and I enjoy hating Ryan. Ashley has some really attractive and nice guys to choose from, the lucky bitch. I’d be happy to see any of them but Ryan end up as the next Bachelor, and I also think Ben and Constantine would be hilarious on a spinoff show considering how funny they were in the dragon boat racing segment. No hot tubs. Have we actually made it this far on a Bachelor/ette season without a single hot tub sighting?! I mean, we’ve still had dragon boats and muy thai, but no Jacuzzis. I’ll take almost anything as a sign of progress at this point. The guys got pissed about the Bentley thing. Normally, it seems like everyone on this show is about keeping the Bachelor/ette happy and sucking up so they don’t get kicked off. So even though Ashley genuinely felt bad about the whole Bentley thing and tried (albeit badly) to explain the situation to the rest of the guys, they were honest about their feelings and told her so. While it resulted in one of them leaving the show (bye, Mickey!), it was nice to hear some more honest and realistic conversations about the conventions of this show. Ames, whom I am liking more on every episode, pointed out that people want “fairy tales” to be simple. They are; but actual adult relationships aren’t. And the pushback to Ashley’s Bentley speech showed that. Now, there are plenty of things that suck about this season – Ashley’s eye makeup, that guy with the mask, Ryan still being on the show, and overuse of the word “amazing” among them. But I’ll wait for the finale to decide where this ranks on the list of best and worst Bachelor/ette seasons. Related posts: Post from: Crushable 3 Things That Are Actually Good About ‘The Bachelorette’ This Season  |
| Snap This: Bill Murray as Jesus Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:45 AM PDT |
| 5 People Who Could Replace Dr. Drew on ’16 and Pregnant’ Reunion Specials Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:32 AM PDT Dr. Drew needs to stop telling the girls of 16 and Pregnant they suck . Seriously, if Tuesday night’s reunion was moved out of the studio and into a New Jersey restaurant for an episode of What Would You Do?, half the patrons would punch him in the face. So who could we get to replace him next time? Related posts: Post from: Crushable 5 People Who Could Replace Dr. Drew on ’16 and Pregnant’ Reunion Specials  |
| Gallery: New ‘Transformers’ Babe Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Good at Being Dominated Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:26 AM PDT According to Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is better at being sexy than her Transformers predecessor Megan Fox. Translation: She was willing to submit to the brusque, sexist will of director Michael Bay without complaint. Indeed, he hired the Victoria’s Secret model, despite her lack of any acting experience, after he shot her in a titties-and-explosions-laden VS ad in 2009. If you don’t believe us, then take a look at the body language in these photos of Huntington-Whiteley and Bay promoting the movie, aided by LaBeouf’s dissertation on the sexuality of women on the silver screen. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Gallery: New ‘Transformers’ Babe Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Good at Being Dominated  |
| ‘The Challenge’ Awards: You Can Strategize All You Want But You Still Have to Win Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:20 AM PDT
Best quote: CT Although Evan inexplicably still gets talking heads despite being the exact opposite of clever, the best one liners are from CT. After a stupid prank where a couple of the guys leave a giant concrete swan or something in Mandi’s bed, CT gallantly removes it for her. “All these kids are one-dimensional. They’re big and bulky and they’re meatballs,” he says. “I have more gas. I’m a whole gas station.” I cannot tell you how much I want CT to kill Kenny. Wes acknowledges that CT is possibly the only guy there who is stronger than him, and he’s nervous about going up against him. Worst try-too-hard: Tyler This is a hard award to give out, since most of these people are attention whores desperate for reality TV fame. But Tyler wins for announcing that a) he’s the only person who brought condoms, b) they’re Magnums, and c) somebody stole two of them. Shut up, Tyler. This is like that girl I went to high school with who would tell you that according to her Swatch watch it was 2:30 PM. Tyler, I’m sorry that someone (Tyrie, from the way it sounds) stole your “expensive” condoms, but at least those twits you have to live with are practicing safe sex. Person who doesn’t belong on this show: Mike I had mixed feelings about Mike on his Real World season, but mostly I felt like he was a nice, sweet guy who was just kind of socially awkward and didn’t know when to stop talking. He tries to have a conversation with the housemates about genetically engineered crops, and everyone makes a big show of being bored to tears. Everyone on this show limits their conversations to sound bites and profanity, so Mike sticks out like a big sore thumb. But he and Leroy genuinely like each other, and they have a huge advantage over the other teams since they actually get along. I hope it works out in the long run. As Leroy voiceovers, he has the brawn and Mike has the brains. Biggest eww moment: Jasmine Jasmine (who has a boyfriend at home) is hooking up with Tyrie, which probably explains that missing-condom thing. Because she and Jonna won the challenge last week, they get to choose the order everybody goes in this week. Jasmine says she doesn’t want Tyrie to have to go first, because he’s her “Papa Bear.” Ugh. Later she tells Tyrie that he’s like a brother to her, which … um? He thinks it’s weird too. Not sure if it’s a slip because she has an actual boyfriend waiting in the wings or if girl has some deep-seeded issues, but I don’t want to find out. Worst strategist: Wes It’s fun to watch Wes and Kenny have to work together since they hate each other so much, and they both seem to have recognized that they’d rather win than kill each other. So Wes has focused his attention on CT instead, and plots OUT LOUD and IN FRONT OF EVERYONE about his strategy to take CT out. He and Johnny try to tell Adam that they really like him but because they hate CT they have to take their team out. Wow, that is soooo generous. Wes also gets a black mark for saying “Kenny and I’s team.” Pronouns, people! As soon as Wes outlines his genius plan, he and Kenny DQ almost immediately. The editors on this show really do excellent work. Do these people watch the previous seasons, considering they’re on all of them? You cannot have an alliance or a strategy work out unless you also win challenges. I’d watch an entire season of CT schooling Wes, Kenny, Johnny, and Evan repeatedly. Who can I call at MTV about this? Related posts: Post from: Crushable ‘The Challenge’ Awards: You Can Strategize All You Want But You Still Have to Win  |
| The Daily WTF: Hundred Million Dollar ATM Receipt Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:40 AM PDT |
| Hollywood Jobs: Krissy Wall, Director of Development & Programming for the Oprah Winfrey Network Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:17 AM PDT  Photo courtesy Krissy Wall Krissy Wall is Director, Development & Programming, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. She previously worked her way up through Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Media from receptionist to Director of Unscripted Development. After a brief stint freelance producing for Bethenny Frankel's Bravo TV show Bethenny Getting Married?, Krissy joined the network in 2010, and has been growing ever since. We ate bowl fulls of fresh pasta at Speranza in Los Angeles’ Silverlake neighborhood, and dished about developing must-see TV. You’ve worked with some pretty high profile people – Oprah, Ashton, Bethenny. I would freak out. Do you ever get starstruck? In the workplace I have to turn off that part of my brain – if someone comes into the office that I admire, I'm quick to tell them I appreciate their work but always keep it professional. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule. I met Hillary Clinton on OWN's Extraordinary Moms shoot and I forgot the English language and could only speak in vowels. I totally got that way, too, once, but it was because Ryan Phillippe was in front of me at the movie theater. Ha! That makes sense, he is pretty dreamy. I'm also a huge music fan – I saw Jenny Lewis at a Vietnamese restaurant near my house and was so excited I had to leave. When I think of "network executive," I think boring corporate suit. And here you are, straight from work, in a trendy outfit and RayBans. What gives? Occasionally, people in the office will wear suits if we have an event, but most days I'm in jeans and a button down shirt. Thank God! Getting dressed up for work is such a chore. I definitely want to look good – I work for Oprah. But, thankfully, I can still be me. Your job is twofold – development AND programming. What is the difference? In development, we take pitches from outside sources – producers, agents, talent or anyone who has an idea – and then we'll decide if it's something that would be right for the brand. We also develop ideas internally — we brainstorm, cut out magazine articles, try to find trends that would make a great TV show, look for great talent, and just basically work as an idea factory. It sounds like your input really matters. It's pretty cool. I think everyone — the assistants and coordinators and executives really feel that. Everyone gets heard. It's an awesome thing for the group to be a think tank together. But, when you do speak, it better be about something you believe in because you need to be able to support it fully. Back to the programming aspect. The word "programming" makes me think of robots, but I imagine it's more fun than that. Programming is managing the shows that actually make it to air – everything from working with producers on casting, production management, and post production (editing, etc). I view cuts and give feedback to producers and editors from the network. I learned really quickly how many departments at a network are involved in the process. For one episode to go on the air, a lot of people work hard to weigh in and approve certain aspects. It's a team effort. A big part of programming is working with a lot of different people to make sure the project is on track creatively and technically. Tell me about the notes process. Is it pretty much just your opinion? Or was there some sort of basic training involved in how to properly deliver feedback? There's definitely a crash course to giving notes. It's a skill that I've had to learn from my bosses. It's just as important to be specific and clear about what's working and not working as it is to be thoughtful – when you give notes you want to be clear so that they can be executed properly but you want to express a sense of gratitude to people who are working on the project. When I was working in post production, I was the recipient of network notes. Because of that experience, I have a better understanding of how my words and direction affect the people who are making the content. Almost all of us at OWN have worked in production so we have a sense of empathy. So, you found a great idea. What happens next? We try to actually make television! We break out a format, decide how the show would work, and then usually we film and produce a presentation or a full on pilot to see if we can prove the content has legs, and then we bring it up the food chain. If everyone thinks there's a good idea to create a series, they'll green light it. We have a whole research department at OWN. We listen to what they have to say about what people are watching, what's happening in society, things that our core audience is already excited about, and then we try to make shows out of those ideas. How did you get into this business? Did you always dream of one day working at a network? I actually had no idea that I would work at a network when I first moved to LA. While I was out freelancing on my own, I got a call from OWN Senior Vice President of programming and development, Rod Aissa, a former boss of mine from Katalyst who had started working at OWN and he asked me to interview. In my mind, network executives were all suits, too, and I had this thought of, "I'm not a network executive. I won't fit in there!" But then I interviewed with the department, and they were all brilliant people, and it was a relief that I could have a fancy sounding job and also get to be creative. Are your friends constantly trying to get you to listen to their TV show ideas? I feel like that would get old fast. You never know where you can get a great idea, so I usually listen. But it can be hard. Recently, I met a great guy and I thought we were gonna go out on a date — and then I realized he just wanted to pitch me an idea. That was disappointing. What if someone has an idea that they're passionate about that you don't share their passion for? How do you let them down easy? I try to explain a real reason why the idea doesn't work for us. Everyone is human, and every person's idea is important to them. I was a producer, and I remember how important that was when I was out pitching. What's the biggest bummer about your job? When I've fallen in love with a concept for a show – it's like I've already married it, and had kids with it, and I'm imagining our future, and I pitch it, and it's just… crickets. But the opposite of that is also true – when I work on something that makes it to air, that win is equally satisfying. What kind of skill set does someone in your position need to have? You need to be creative. You need to be good with people, be a good listener, and have a passion for storytelling. I think you have to be a really curious person. A great development executive is excited about more than their job. The more plugged in I am to the world around me, the easier it is to spot trends. If I'm living and experiencing pop culture as a human, I'll realize what makes good TV. And, you have to have a ham element to your personality – you can't be afraid of public speaking, you have to be able to pitch to a large group of people. You're in your twenties, and I have to imagine the producers you work with are older than you. Do you ever feel like the kid sitting at the adult table? I remember I was shooting a pilot a few months after I started my job, and I was nervous being the network executive on set – I'd never done that before, and I was decades younger than the producer I was working with, and I felt a little ridiculous. I had to prove to myself that it wasn't ridiculous for me to be there. 99% of it was in my own head. It comes down to respect – if I'm respectful and grateful to my producers, it's more collaborative. If you went into work tomorrow, and your bosses said they would give an immediate green light to any show you wanted to develop, what would that dream show be? That question freaks me out! I'm trying to find the dream show every day. It's why I'm reading a million magazines and books and blogs and watching a lot of TV to try and find “the show” – when I do latch onto something I find myself asking “Is this idea just something that I'm obsessed with right now or is there really something there that has series potential?” What's the best part of your day? Any time that there's measurable success – if we get a cut of a project I worked on and it's in great shape, or if we get graphics or main titles and they're beautiful — recently I got stills from this production we worked on, and they were gorgeous, and it was really satisfying because I knew the idea was working. If I pitch something in a meeting and we decide to pilot it – or if a pilot I work on goes to series – there is no better feeling. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Hollywood Jobs: Krissy Wall, Director of Development & Programming for the Oprah Winfrey Network  |
| Hot Shot: Close Your Mouth, Robert Pattinson! Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:44 AM PDT |
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