Posts by Zach Dionne
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The One-Video Cheat Sheet to Seth Meyers’s ‘Late Night’ Premiere: The Amy Poehler Interview
Poehler and Meyers shared some easy banter, chatting about George Clooney, Joaquin Phoenix, and Comedy Central’s ‘Broad City.’ Poehler roped in bandleader and former ‘SNL’ buddy Fred Armisen for an awkward bit, too.
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Dennis Rodman’s North Korean Adventure Inspired a Movie
Plus the ‘Heroes’ reboot, the end of the ‘Got Milk?’ era, and more in today’s afternoon links.
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Legendary Comedy Writer, Producer, and Actor Harold Ramis Has Died
One of comedy’s original all-star writer/actor/directors and the man who helped birth Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, and Groundhog Day died in Chicago on Monday. He was 69.
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Box Office Top Five: ‘Lego’ Forever
All the Valentine’s Day movies vanished except ‘RoboCop,’ with ‘Pompeii’ and ‘3 Days to Kill’ jumping in with so-so debuts.
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Tina Fey Will Play a Serious Journalist in ‘The Taliban Shuffle’
Also in the Afternoon Links: The Emmys are shaking things up this year, a pre-teen adorably recounts life lessons she’s learned form The Office, and Lily Allen’s new album is coming for Kanye’s throne/kilt.
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Frankensteined ‘Anchorman 2’ Seeks Vengeance With All-New Jokes
By the end of that 40-year campaign trail, it felt like ‘Anchorman 2’ had coursed all the way through our veins before it even premiered. Then $169.3 million worth of folks saw it anyway, and now Paramount’s reaching for the Triple Bold Semi–George Lucas Style sauce and rereleasing the movie. The extended, R-rated version will feature 95 percent new jokes. But does that mean we need it out in the world?
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Teaser Sorely Lacks Speech-Capable Raccoon
Also in the Afternoon Links: See an early version of Chris Farley’s Matt Foley sketch, hear a post-breakup My Chemical Romance jam, and read what Pharrell has to say to someone who comes right out and asks if he’s a vampire.
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VH1 Orders a Series Where Naked People Date and Fall in Love Forever
The network has ordered 10 episodes of ‘Naked Dating,’ and it sounds pretty serious about this thing being more than just a show about people hooking up.
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Five Important Things That Happened on Jimmy Fallon’s First ‘Tonight Show’
Will Smith was the first guest. The opening credits are a Spike Lee mini-joint. And every known personality who’s ever existed — Tina Fey, Joe Namath, Mariah Carey, Joan Rivers, Lindsay Lohan, Stephen Colbert — swung silently by to pay Fallon $100.
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Jimmy Fallon’s First ‘Tonight Show’ Is Coming Right Up, and He Might Be a Tiny Bit Nervous
Also in the Afternoon Links: A ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 trailer, Ellen Page’s coming-out speech, and actual members of Congress reading ‘House of Cards’ lines.
