Posts by Zach Dionne
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The Fast and the Bieberous: A Quick Guide to Justin Bieber’s Night of Smoking, Drinking, Drag Racing, and Being Arrested
Justin Bieber was arrested in the wee hours of Thursday morning in Miami Beach for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, driving with an expired license, and “resisting arrest without violence.” (He allegedly swore at the cops. A lot.)
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David O. Russell Bringing a Country Club Drama to ABC
The American Hustle director and co-writer will team with Susannah Grant, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Erin Brockovich, to create a new series set at a private country club. It’s Russell’s first major TV project.
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Jay Z and Will Smith Are Producing ‘Higher,’ an Electronic Dance Music Comedy at HBO
They’ll produce through their production companies, Marcy Media and Overbrook, so it’s unclear how directly involved they’ll be, but at least you know Jay Z and Will Smith have experienced the whole Skrillexperience. Now: how many jokes can you think of about guys being paid millions of dollars to go up and press play?
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Rashida Jones Will Star in ‘Tribeca,’ a Police Procedural Comedy From Steve Carell
With eight days left till Ann Perkins and Chris Traeger’s final episode of Parks and Recreation, Rashida Jones has lined up her next gig. She’ll take the lead role in Tribeca, TBS’s single-camera comedy from Jones’s old Office costar Steve Carell, who created and wrote the show with his wife, Nancy.
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Quentin Tarantino Tables ‘The Hateful Eight’ After the Screenplay Leaks
“I’m very, very depressed,” Tarantino tells Deadline. “I finished a script, a first draft, and I didn’t mean to shoot it until next winter, a year from now. I gave it to six people, and apparently it’s gotten out today.” Now the director plans to scrap the idea of The Hateful Eight as a film and publish it as a novel instead.
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Trent Reznor Is Writing Another Score for David Fincher
The Nine Inch Nails maestro announced on Twitter that he and Atticus Ross will tackle Gone Girl, their third Fincher film together, after success with The Social Network and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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‘Child of God’ Trailer: James Franco Tackles One of Cormac McCarthy’s Weirdest Books
McCarthy’s third novel, one of his most starkly psychotic, is the ballad of Lester Ballard (played by Scott Haze), a mentally unhealthy and increasingly violent vagrant in rural Tennessee.
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Miley Cyrus Has Her Own ‘MTV Unplugged’ Coming Next Week
‘MTV Unplugged’ will be the first to offer Miley Cyrus a venue for reinvention after she dominated 2013 in her very specific way.
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Beyoncé and Jay Z Will Get the Grammys Drunk (In Love)
Yep, America’s Illuminati rulers are destined to perform in the first hour of this Sunday’s telecast. Jay is on Yoncé’s new cut, “Drunk in Love,” Yoncé is on Jay’s “Part II (On the Run)” and “Tom Ford” from Magna Carta, and people are still just happy to watch them do “Crazy in Love” and “’03 Bonnie & Clyde,” so the possibilities are bordering on endless.
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First Guests, Last Guests: NBC’s New Late-Night Landscape Is Taking Shape
Please note in your historical ledgers: On February 17, 2014, Will Smith and U2 will become the first guests on Jimmy Fallon’s version of The Tonight Show. Smith will be shilling for the confusing-looking Winter’s Tale, which can’t be as fun as a giant celebrity stopping in just to celebrate the occasion and help create two or more viral clips for the ages (maybe by stealing Bono’s glasses?).
