The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
January 30, 2014
The ‘Revolution’ One-Image Recap: Every Roach Has Its Thorn
Even if you’ve long abandoned a terrible show, when you hear there’s going to be a Bret Michaels cameo, you set your DVR. Then you fast-forward to his scene.
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A Vintage Daniel Craig–Sienna Miller Cheating Scandal … and Other Unearthed Gems From This Week’s Tabloids
“Phone-hacking victim Jude Law made a startling confession while testifying against ‘News of the World’ editors.” In 2005, the newspaper had run a story “that his then-fiancée Sienna Miller, 32, had cheated on him with her ‘Layer Cake’ costar Daniel Craig around the time Law’s phone was hacked.” Was that before or after Jude banged the nanny?
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Justin Bieber Went to Jail Again, This Time in Toronto
Bieber and some friends hired a limo in December and someone wound up hitting the driver in the head numerous times after a dispute. Now the Biebs has a DUI court date in Miami in February and an assault hearing in Toronto in March. Weee!
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Bruce Willis Dares to Star in Another M. Night Shyamalan Movie
Also in the Afternoon Links: ABC ordered a sitcom pilot about Henry Winkler’s family, Laurence Fishburne is back in Morpheus black, and the first trailer for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is here.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: ‘True Detective’ and the Grammys
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk ‘True Detective,’ the Grammys, and Jonah Hill’s brother.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ New Single ‘Abracadabralifornia’ Is Too Good to Be True
Of course, one listen to the song pretty much gives it away as a fake; an ingeniously executed fake performed by comedian Jon Daly. It’s a fleshed-out and Alabama Slamma–fied version of the theme song for the Pepper Men, his and Zach Galifianakis’s two-man RHCP fan club, which first debuted on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast last March.
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Billy Bob Thornton, Dracula Join the Increasingly Amazing ‘Entourage’ Movie
Vince is starring in a Dracula blockbuster, because vampires have never been more relevant and it is the ‘Entourage’ mission to lightly touch a satirical finger to the sizzle of Hollywood’s hottest trends, feel the delicious burn, and quickly withdraw it before scarring can set in.
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Can’t Kill His Vibe: How Kendrick Lamar Took Advantage of Imagine Dragons and the Grammys
There was an instance of cultural appropriation at the Grammys that has been far less remarked upon than Macklemore winning a bunch of awards of dubious value, even though it may end up being more lasting as a takeaway moment. I’m referring to the collaboration between rapper Kendrick Lamar and the thoroughly beige rock band Imagine Dragons that merged Lamar’s ‘m.A.A.d city’ with ID’s ubiquitous hit ‘Radioactive.’
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Me & QT: What’s Behind Tarantino Ditching His Leaked ‘Hateful Eight’ Script?
A chance encounter and a theory about why QT shelved a promising project.
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YouTube HOF: Bad Movies by Good Directors
Few things sour the mood in quite the same way as a disappointing film by a beloved director — you’re out 12 bucks, and you have to clear out the rest of your weekend to rewatch their good stuff again, just to paper over all the bad vibes. That is, until your friends at Grantland arrive to help you relive cringey disappointment all over again.
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Mötley Crüe Is Retiring Forever (Really. There’s a Legal Document.)
“We wanted to leave a legacy,” says Nikki Sixx. “We feel there are a lot of bands that don’t have dignity. We want to call it a day and be proud.”
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Bright Lights, ‘Broad City’: Some Face Time With TV Crashers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer
“He was like, ‘If we do this, we gotta do this [right].’ And we, like, rose to meet him. As Oprah would say.”
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The Kid Stays on TV: Robert Evans’s Cable Series About the ’70s Hollywood Renaissance
The show will hark back to the grubby old days, smack-dab in the middle of the Hollywood Renaissance. That means Mafia ties, drugs, sex and all of that good pay-cable stuff.
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‘Justified’ Recap: Wade Messer Goes ‘Over the Mountain’
Fully half of the fourth episode of the fifth season hangs on “Webelo” being a funny word to say; the other half is about machinating the two leads into a room together for some quality time. This is not a complaint.
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Jonah Hill’s Brother Got Into Quite the Dustup Over Grammys Weekend
While Jonah hosted ‘SNL’ this weekend, his music manager brother got in a food fight with the Osbournes and lost a major client. Big weekend for both the Feldstein boys!
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: The 2014 Grammys
Wesley and Alex discuss the 2014 Grammys, including Macklemore, Lorde, and the challenge of marrying 33 couples at an awards show.
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NBC Will Move the Emmys to a Monday in August (and It Canceled ‘Sean Saves the World’)
“NBC had no comment on the shift, but both the Oscars and the Golden Globes used to air on Monday nights before moving to Sunday, a night that has become synonymous with big events,” says Variety. Now we just have to wait and see if a long working Monday diminishes the quality of awards show tweets versus the customary 140-character zingers folks store up over lazy weekends building to Sunday night telecasts.
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