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- Video: Drew Barrymore Directed A Big Budget Music Video For Best Coast
- Video: Bald Matt Damon Cares About Teachers
- Get to Know Scarlett Johansson and Chris Hemsworth’s Super Alter Egos with the ‘Avengers’ Character Posters
- Love Lessons from ‘The Bachelorette’: Let a Dude Propose Before You Dump Him
- What Does ‘Challenge’ Star Johnny Bananas Have In Common with Dina Lohan?
- The ‘Hoarders’ Emmy Campaign Takes Digs at Kathy Griffin
- Crush Links: A Second Baby For Aaron Johnson
- 5 Facts About, and 4 Mean-Girl Tactics from, the ‘Real Housewives of New York’ Reunion (Part 2)
- Virgin Viewing: The ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy
- Parting Tweet: Seth MacFarlane Sums Up Our Feelings On The Debt Crisis
| Video: Drew Barrymore Directed A Big Budget Music Video For Best Coast Posted: 02 Aug 2011 10:44 AM PDT
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Perhaps in response to various assertions that MTV has nothing to do with music videos anymore, the network has established a new “Supervideo” project that gives “unique filmmakers the opportunity and artistic license to create a multitude of music video formats.” That all sounds wonderful. And what filmmaker has a more unique vision than storied auteur Drew Barrymore? Duh, nobody. For Best Coast’s sad, sixties pop-tinged love song “Our Deal,” Ms. Barrymore decided upon a Shakespearean narrative of doomed love guaranteed to pull our heartstrings. She began by assembling two gangs of unparalleled cuteness; watch for Alia Shawkat and Donald Glover doing their best scary faces at :27 and :25, respectively, and then again at :44. Aw! After a Day Trotter charms a Night Trotter with his flamboyant hand gestures at 1:04, they fall in love the way only a gay musical enthusiast and an Olivia Newton John lookalike can. But their love is not meant to be! A few misunderstandings, a rooftop dance rumble, and an ill-timed sucker punch later, “Night Creeper” has lost her only chance ever at having a gay BFF who really understands her. That’s just the way the pompadour falls, sometimes. The whole adorable thing is made even more so by the enormous girl crush Barrymore and Best Coast seem to have on each other. But enough analysis. Watch the thing and tell me what you think.
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| Video: Bald Matt Damon Cares About Teachers Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT This past weekend’s Save Our Schools march in D.C. brought out scores of people to demonstrate their disapproval of Congressional cuts to education. One of those people was actor Matt Damon, whose mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, is an early childhood education professor. (And apparently the person who gave him that sexy mouth.) Reason.tv pitched him some simplistic conservative talking points, to which he responded quite rationally. So rationally, in fact, that they had to intercut some footage of him crying on a teacher in a movie because IF YOU LOVE TEACHERS SO MUCH WHY DON’T YOU MARRY THEM, MATT DAMON? His whole speech really bears reading, but basically, he talked about what his teachers meant to him growing up, and the great disservice you do to everyone involved when you force teachers to teach to a test instead of feeling out what kinds of lessons work best for the particular kids in their classes. He ended with this:
I’m pretty sure teachers love you too, Matt Damon. Related: The summer I taught SAT prep was one of the most demoralizing summers of my life. I have serious respect for anyone who can get up at 6am and face a classroom of unruly kids every day. Just thinking about it is making me anxious all over again. Hooray for teachers! Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:10 AM PDT
At San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel handed out these amazing concept posters for Joss Whedon‘s Avengers movie at their booth. Like a triptych, the seven posters — featuring Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), and five others — make up one big illustration of the Avengers. While there’s no sign of the movie’s big enemies, this is the clearest look we’ve had at the superheroes who’ve assembled under the always-badass Samuel L. Jackson and S.H.I.E.L.D. (the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Love Lessons from ‘The Bachelorette’: Let a Dude Propose Before You Dump Him Posted: 02 Aug 2011 09:17 AM PDT
Romance means scoring a free vacation for your family. Since Ashley met the dudes’ families, now they get to meet hers. It consists of a mom, Laurie, a dad, Mike, a brother, Elliott, and Kat Von D Junior aka Christy, who is apparently Ashley’s sister. They live in Maine, but the show flew them all out to Fiji to get to meet Ashley’s final suitors, which is pretty cool. KVDJ says “I’m a little more concerned this time than I am last time,” referring to when Ashley got cut by Brad Womack after hometown dates on The Bachelor. Trust your tattooed sister. Or don’t. JP is up first. He describes the process as “absolutely wild” and says he was “blown away” by Ashley. Laurie asks about JP’s family and what they thought of Ashley, and he says that they love her and were really happy by how great they were together. “Today was the last piece of the puzzle,” he says. Ashley voiceovers that she was proud to bring JP to meet her family and that she appreciates how nice they’re being, and Laurie leads a toast. KVDJ then breaks the happiness by announcing she has some tough questions. She asks if JP is smitten, and he says yes without skipping a beat. Something tells me KVDJ is pushing to be the next Bachelorette (sibling edition!), but hasn’t watching two seasons of this show taught her that only super whitebread people get to be on it? No tats allowed, unless they’re on the small of your back. Laurie and KVDJ pull Ashley aside for a girls’ talk and tell her they don’t really see what she sees in JP and they don’t buy the connection between the two of them. KVDJ says that there’s an age difference between Ashley and JP and that he’s too mellow for her. Ashley starts bawling everywhere, and if you needed proof that she’s totally balls out in love with JP, this is it. Ashley says that her heart is broken – not by JP, but by her mom’s disapproval of JP. Laurie backtracks and says they haven’t spent much time with JP and they’re not saying anything about him, but they have to go on their immediate impressions. “I just want to feel confident in how I feel,” Ashley says clumsily. KVDJ and JP then talk one on one and she tells him what she just told Ashley. JP tries to win her over by talking about how crazy he is about Ashley and how much he’s enjoyed spending time together and how much she makes him smile, etc. Maybe her family should have to watch the fantasy suite footage. KVDJ brings up the age difference thing again, and I need to find out exactly how many years we’re talking about here. KVDJ seems to think that JP is set in his ways and has his own life and won’t be willing to change and adjust for Ashley, and KVDJ thinks that Ashley isn’t being herself and is acting like she’s happy instead of being happy. Then after the interminable initialed conversation, Ashley and JP talk a little on their own. She says she doesn’t want JP to go home and worry, but he says there’s nothing else he can do if they don’t have contact with each other. He voiceovers that he’s surprised Ashley didn’t stick up for him enough and that she didn’t try to reassure him. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| What Does ‘Challenge’ Star Johnny Bananas Have In Common with Dina Lohan? Posted: 02 Aug 2011 07:25 AM PDT
A: An attorney. Johnny, whom some of you might know as “that douchey guy from The Challenge who CT made into a backpack that one time,” originally appeared on The Real World: Key West and since then has done the round of Challenge appearances. His alliance with Kenny Santucci and Evan Starkman has kept him pretty safe on the show, and that has only allowed his ego to go unchecked. And that very same ego has led Johnny to hire a lawyer and threaten to sue Entourage after this Sunday’s final season premiere featured Johnny Drama (the character played by Kevin Dillon) got a job voicing a character on an animated show called Johnny’s Bananas. The Johnny from MTV apparently didn’t like the way Entourage was sullying “his brand” and hired a lawyer. But not just any lawyer. He hired Stephanie Ovadia, who has represented people like Dina Lohan and Octo-Mom. Stephanie probably has TMZ and Radar on her speed dial, which probably explains why the former site ran an exclusive about the Bananas lawsuit yesterday. Another plus is that Stephanie is super accessible to her clients – they can reach her through her website or her personal 1-800 number. In case you didn’t want to read the whole article, I’d like to end on this quote from Mr. Bananas: “I intend to fight vigorously in defense of the years of hard work and dedication I’ve spent making Johnny Bananas a household name, and the purpose of this lawsuit is aimed at protecting the integrity of my brand.” As for Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio’s branding campaign, we heard a rumor that Chiquita is coming after him for damaging their reputation. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| The ‘Hoarders’ Emmy Campaign Takes Digs at Kathy Griffin Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:50 AM PDT
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| Crush Links: A Second Baby For Aaron Johnson Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:52 AM PDT • 21-year-old Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson and his 44-year-old director fiance Sam Taylor Wood are expecting their second child. !!! (Lainey Gossip) • That was fast: Jennifer Lopez opened up to Vanity Fair about her break-up from Marc Anthony, but the interview is in the September issue, which hits newsstands this week, just a few weeks after the couple announced their split. (Have U Heard) • Kings of Leon have canceled their entire U.S. tour after lead singer Caleb Followill ended a Dallas show by telling the crowd he was “gonna go backstage and I'm gonna vomit.” (Celeb Dirty Laundry) • But, here’s hoping Caleb can get help for his reported alcohol and substance abuse issues, among other things, before the Kings are set to continue their tour in Canada next month. (Lainey Gossip) • DJ Samantha Ronson was arrested for a DUI on Sunday. She was pulled over in California as she was driving home from a gig in Las Vegas on Saturday night — and failed sobriety tests at 10:30 a.m. (Hollywood Hiccups) • Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds will continue to fight off romance rumors — especially if they keep showing up places looking very much in love, like this did on the red carpet for the premiere of Ryan’s new movie The Change-Up. (Have U Heard) Post from: Crushable  |
| 5 Facts About, and 4 Mean-Girl Tactics from, the ‘Real Housewives of New York’ Reunion (Part 2) Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:28 AM PDT
Ramona doesn’t understand how video works. She says that she refused to be in LuAnn‘s video because she didn’t want that kind of sexy message immortalized in video. When the brunettes shot back about the footage of Ramona really enjoying a foot massage on-camera, she said that it’s different. Actually, it’s basically the same thing, and can’t even hide behind the facade of camp like you could with a music video. Alex thinks the brunettes are “a liability.” It seems that she was talking about her social status, which the ladies don’t care about because they have no interest in Alex’s social climbing. Kelly then actually retaliates by calling Alex a loose cannon. Jill may or may not have been an alcoholic. I don’t know enough about the prior seasons to say whether Ramona declaring that Jill was in AA is fact or deflection, but Jill seemed to want to give a “no comment” response — which everyone knows means there’s some truth to the accusation. The gist of what she said was, “AA is anonymous… I did not go… but if I did, I wouldn’t want you to out me.” Ramona is not as good of a businesswoman as Skinnygirl queen Bethenny Frankel. “Because,” Kelly said, “Bethenny didn’t drink her alcohol!” Kelly was just getting the zingers, wasn’t she? The Count will meet Jacques soon. LuAnn answered a viewer question by saying that soon her ex-husband would be sitting down with her kids and her boyfriend Jacques so that the two most important men in her life can get to know each other. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Virgin Viewing: The ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posted: 01 Aug 2011 07:56 AM PDT
Part of why I never got around to watching the movies was because, thanks to their cultural saturation, I already knew most of the major plot points. Did you know there are no chicks in space? That was my first takeaway from this movie – of fucking course every dude in the movie wants to get with Princess Leia, because she’s the only damn woman around. And I can’t imagine how anyone wouldn’t have figured out that Leia had to be Luke’s sister, because there aren’t any other women to choose from. It’s like that game Guess Who – if you ask “Is your person a woman?” and your opponent says yes, there are so few chicks on the board that you have basically already won. But the cultural capital of this series is an interesting issue. Star Wars is so deeply entrenched in our culture that it pops up everywhere. I knew about Princess Leia’s gold bikini from an episode of Friends and about Admiral Ackbar’s “It’s a trap!” from any number of internet memes. The reason I never actually sat down and watched the movies before now is because I felt like I already knew all about them from pop culture. [True story: several years ago, I actually watched The Star Wars Holiday Special, which was hilariously bad but didn't compel me to watch the original movies.] When I snarked on some clunky exposition-heavy lines at the beginning of Return of the Jedi, my boyfriend pointed out that people used to have to wait years between films and needed some reminders. In that way, I can understand how people who came of age waiting around for the latest Star Wars film to come out have a deep, obsessive love for the franchise the same way that people who grew up with the Lord of the Rings (haven’t seen ‘em) or Harry Potter (have) movies do. It was really fun to curl up on the couch and watch the movies back to back, but I don’t feel transformed. I enjoyed them a lot more than some of the other movies I’ve watched for this feature (that means you, The Dark Knight), and I can totally see why people are so into them, but being a culturally literate American kind of meant I wasn’t going to be surprised by the plot. And that left me plenty of time to think about Leia’s awesome hair in Empire and Jedi, so that’s cool by me. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
| Parting Tweet: Seth MacFarlane Sums Up Our Feelings On The Debt Crisis Posted: 01 Aug 2011 07:25 PM PDT It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nope, it’s… A very terrible thing that we keep hearing about, the amorphous, hard-to-understand complexity of which only makes it all the more terrifying. Like the smoke monster on Lost. Have a good night. Related posts: Post from: Crushable  |
It’s the finale of The Bachelorette! After weeks of watching Ashley Hebert humiliate herself on live TV and eventually winnow a group of guys down to some pretty cute ones, last night’s 33 hour finale episode finally brought an end to the season. In case you forgot, we’re down to two gentlemen – Ben “Beneff” F and JP. In the preview clip, there are roughly 27 “amazing”s, 41 “put myself out there”s and 99 “connection”s.
Q: What does The Challenge star Johnny Bananas have in common with Dina Lohan, Hailey Glassman, and Octo-Mom?
This year, the shows nominated for outstanding reality program at the Emmys are Antiques Roadshow, Hoarders, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters, Undercover Boss, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. While I’d be happy with any of these shows (well, except maybe Undercover Boss) winning, previous winner Kathy Griffin is a favorite in this category. The comedienne has used the Emmy wins as a bit in her standup routine in the past, complaining about how the reality show award is often presented during the boring technical awards broadcast, which she dubbed “The Schmemmys.” However, Hoarders‘ “For your consideration” campaign 
The second half of the Real Housewives of New York reunion was just about as good as the first: There were a couple of blow-ups, mostly involving Ramona and her alleged drinking problem and Alex‘s social climbing, but for the most part it was a bunch of harpies squawking at each other. Andy Cohen remained relatively unharmed and didn’t have to break up any fistfights. Both the blondes and the brunettes seemed to be using emotional warfare and the kinds of behavior you’d see in Tina Fey‘s Mean Girls and other teen movies. So first, let’s go over the five new facts we learned.
Back when I first started the Virgin Viewing column, there were a couple of movies that I could always mention and get a “You haven’t seen what?!” reaction from people: The Godfather, Back to the Future, and Star Wars. And since is this is my very last Virgin Viewing feature for Crushable, and I already saw The Godfather and Back to the Future, it seemed only right that I go out in grand style – barricading myself in my living room and watching the entire original Star Wars trilogy.
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