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Vol. 15
No. 12
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Monsters vs. Aliens
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of
outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49 feet 11 inches
tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action
and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There,
she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other
monsters: the brilliant but insect headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half
ape, half fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and
the 350 foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however,
when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In
a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to
enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world
from imminent destruction.
On DVD
Quantum Of Solace
Bond (Daniel Craig) and M (Judi Dench) sniff a
shadowy international network of power and corruption reaping billions. As Bond
pursues the agents of an assassination attempt on M, all roads lead to Dominic
Greene, a world renowned developer of green technology. Greene, a nasty piece of
work, is intent on securing a barren area of Bolivia in exchange for assisting a
strongman stage a coup there. The CIA looks the other way, and only Bond, with
help from a retired spy and from a mysterious beauty, stands in Greene's way. M
wonders if she can trust Bond, or if vengeance possesses him. Beyond that, can
anyone drawn to Bond live to tell the tale?
The Buzz..
Late
Show host David Letterman used his own show to announce big
news: He's married. The comedian and talk show host got hitched to his longtime
girlfriend, Regina Lasko.
First she got smart. Now Anne Hathaway will Get Happy.
Hathaway has been tapped to star as Judy Garland in the biopic, an
adaptation of Gerald Clarke's 2001 biography. In an interesting twist, Hathaway
will also reportedly star in a stage adaptation of the book, both of which are
being produced by The Weinstein Company. No word on when the stage and screen
projects will commence, or whether they'll directly compete with each other.
Amanda Bynes is set to play a grown up role on television, and
nothing says welcome to adulthood like getting fired. The former Nickelodeon
star has joined the cast of ABC's comedy pilot Canned, about a group of
friends who all get sacked on the same day. She'll be playing a hard working
girl named Sarabeth who gets fired from her office job in a corporate shakeup.
Jeri Ryan is going back before the bar for a guest role on Law
& Order: SVU. Ryan, whose last TV role was as the L.A. district attorney on
CBS' Shark, will play a lawyer on SVU for three episodes, starting
Tuesday, April 7.
Joel and Ethan Coen are headed west again. The Coen
Brothers, directors of the 2007 neo-Western No Country for Old Men, will
remake the classic John Wayne movie True Grit. While
the 1969 movie followed Rooster Cogburn (Wayne, in a role that won him that
year's Oscar for best actor), a U.S. Marshal hired by a teen girl to find her
father's killer, the remake will focus more on the girl's story.
Zac Efron is so tired of being the young song and dance
heartthrob, he's reportedly backed out of the highly anticipated remake of
Footloose. Although Efron, 21, had been signed on for the Paramount film, he
used his script approval as a loophole to get out of his contract when a rewrite
proved not to be up to snuff.
Television may be getting another dose of Roseanne Barr in the
near future. Barr, whose last TV effort was an HBO stand up special in
2006, is working to develop a new sitcom with Caryn Mandabach, one
of the executive producers of Roseanne. The two have already pitched the idea to
FOX.
They've been together for more than seven years, and now Harrison Ford
and Calista Flockhart are engaged to be married. Actually, they've
been engaged for a little while now, but the world is just learning if it
courtesy a People report. The magazine says that Ford proposed the Brothers &
Sisters star over Valentine's Day weekend.
Bruce Willis is a married man again. The star tied the knot with
model Emma Heming on the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos.
Willis, who turned 54 on March 19, and the 32 year old Heming have been a couple
for about a year. Among the guests at the ceremony were Willis' former wife,
Demi Moore, and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, along with
Madonna.
President Obama's appearance on The Tonight Show
gave the show some of its biggest ratings in years. The president's interview
with Leno drew an 11.2 rating/26 share in the overnight ratings, a
preliminary sample of 56 major markets. That's the biggest Tonight Show rating
since it drew an identical number on Jan. 24, 2005, for a tribute to Johnny
Carson, who had died the previous day. The last time it drew a bigger
audience was in 1998 on the night of the Seinfeld finale.
Chris
Pine may go from savior of the galaxy to... savior of the galaxy. Pine,
who stars as a young James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, is
rumored to be Warner Bros.' choice to play superhero Green Lantern.
Pine's star has been rising due to his involvement in Trek. Though several DC
Comics characters have taken on the Green Lantern name, the movie will
focus on test pilot Hal Jordan, the first human to take up the ring.
Eminem will be at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this April. He
will be inducting legendary rappers Run DMC into the Hall at the
official ceremony in Cleveland. Flea of the Red Hot Chili
Peppers will be inducting Metallica.
Nick Lachey is returning to reality TV, but this time he's playing
the role of executive producer. Taking the Stage follows
teens at a creative arts school in Cincinnati, the same one Lachey attended.
The Hills star Audrina Patridge is getting her own
reality TV show. The series will follow Audrina’s day to day life and will be
produced by Mark Burnett Productions. The brunette star will make
her final appearance on the Hills on April 6.
Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson appears on the cover
of GQ magazine’s April issue.
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BOX OFFICE
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1. Knowing
2. I Love You, Man
3. Duplicity
4. Race To Witch Mountain
5. Watchmen
6. The Last House on the Left
7. Taken
• 12 Rounds (New)
• The Haunting in Connecticut (New)
• Monsters vs. Aliens (New) |
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ON DVD
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1. Twilight
2. Role Models
3. Transporter 3
4. Punisher: War Zone
5. Milk
6. Australia
7. Body of Lies
8. Changeling
• Bolt (New)
• Quantum Of Solace (New) |
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TV
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1. American Idol
2. Dancing With The Stars
3. CSI
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Grey's Anatomy
6. CSI: Miami
7. The Mentalist
8. Criminal Minds
9. CSI: NY
10. NCIS |
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