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Salute Your Tight Shorts: Camp Rock Is a Hit
Camp Rock, the Disney Channel original musical bubblegum movie that premiered this weekend (Friday on Disney Channel, Saturday on ABC, Sunday on ABC Family) to nearly 9 million viewers. This makes it the 2nd highest rated of any Disney Channel movie in the history of the waxy genre. This ought to make advertisers, who so stuffed their spots into the broadcast that a 90-minute movie ran for two and a half hours, quite happy. Expect a bloated, even worse sequel in which teen pop rock band/sexual gateway drug for millions of young girls (and, probably, some boys) the Jonas Brothers, who starred in this first go around, make a winky cameo and then disappear. The film's "breakout star" Demi Lovato, who has an annoying face and needs to stop smiling, should look forward to some mild Miley Cyrus-lite fame before, like bug juice at a hot end-of-summer dance, she quickly disappears. More »
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Chris Rock Victim Of Cute "You Raped A Child" Prank
An unnamed reality show accused Chris Rock of having sex with a British minor in South Africa where the comedian is touring, according to a court official. The show sent a fake prosecutor to court and told Rock that South African police were going to arrest him; he quickly called his lawyers. The AFP hasn't found the name of the show that pulled the prank. But of course it'll get on TV with no whiff of scandal because ha! ha! Statutory rape! Photo: Getty
corporate america
GE Taking Its Business Cues From '30 Rock'
Business types are excited about the news today that General Electric is planning to sell off its appliance division in a $5 billion move. Normal types are excited because this proves that GE CEO Jeff Immelt is now making decisions for his $323 billion company based on how they would affect the characters of 30 Rock. After Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy got relieved of his imaginary position running the microwave division of GE's NBC on the April 21 episode, it was only a matter of time before this sale happened. The loss of a leader of Alec Baldwin's caliber—and its ripple effects on Tina Fey—sends strong signals to Wall Street. Recap video of that fateful episode is below. If GE decides to finance Tracy Morgan's Fat Bitch 2 movie, we're rating its stock a strong buy. More »
This Is Why We Can't Have Nostalgia
We hope you people are happy. Harvey Weinstein is going to ruin Fraggle Rock and it's all because you didn't elect Hillary Clinton. [Observer]
party report
The Style Wars finales are like Project Runway except funner, louder, and thankfully without Heidi Klum. Designers race to put outfits together on-stage—often using tape and string, but who wants to watch somebody hunched over a sewing machine for thirteen hours? Nikola Tamindzic of Home of the Vain took photographs. (Click for the gallery!) Backstage, I fumbled towards Mick Rock, famed British rock and roll photographer of the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and everybody else. He was sitting alone backstage on a low riser, wearing sunglasses, and I knelt down beside him, approaching the way one might a wild animal...
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House of Diehl's Style Wars at the Stoli Hotel
The Style Wars finales are like Project Runway except funner, louder, and thankfully without Heidi Klum. Designers race to put outfits together on-stage—often using tape and string, but who wants to watch somebody hunched over a sewing machine for thirteen hours? Nikola Tamindzic of Home of the Vain took photographs. (Click for the gallery!) Backstage, I fumbled towards Mick Rock, famed British rock and roll photographer of the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and everybody else. He was sitting alone backstage on a low riser, wearing sunglasses, and I knelt down beside him, approaching the way one might a wild animal...
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celebrity science
Alec Baldwin Lashes Out At Media Over Enraged Call To Daughter
Actor Alec Baldwin was on 60 Minutes last night discussing the infamous voice mail in which he called his daughter a "thoughtless little pig." Baldwin said his behavior was "totally wrong," but also offered so many excuses for the outburst that it made me wonder if he isn't going to lose some of the public goodwill he's built up in the year since the call surfaced. Here's how my own thinking on Alec Baldwin has evolved (along with a video except of Baldwin on 60 Minutes): More »
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Is 30 Rock Starting to Suck?
As reported earlier, some USAToday windbag thinks 30 Rock is flailing. Now, I find the show to be the funniest thing ever made and thought the last few episodes were wonderful. So, clearly I disagree. But some of you don't! In fact, this morning we received a crazed, homo-hating Tips email defending the USAToday article. First off, the emailer thinks that our commenters are all "gay." (Which is not true. Just Conbon is.) Well, more specifically he thinks you are all "gay urban liberal art school grad white people." So, OK. He's not entirely off base, but still! Jerk! After the jump, you can read the entire peculiar missive, as well as participate in an important poll: Does 30 Rock now suck? More »
30 Rock In A Tailspin. Wait, what?
"Since the strike, this once-dependable sitcom has... lost its way creatively, ditching plot and character in a desperate, scattershot search for laughs, as if its new goal were to become a live-action version of Family Guy... [Liz Lemon] at least used to try to make her show better [but] has spent the spring dragging through outlandish romantic entanglements and going ballistic over missing sandwiches." [USA Today via TV Tattle]
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Jordan Carlos Wants A Real Job
Jordan Carlos, the comedian we once touted as a possible candidate for the Saturday Night Live Barack Obama impersonation position (Lorne Michaels didn't agree, obviously), is getting tired of being pigeonholed as a black comedian without a steady job in television. Although he does have that gig playing Stephen Colbert's black friend. He's been on the NYC comedy scene for years now, and he feels he's not getting the respect he deserves. Specifically, he's a little peeved that the NBC show 30 Rock ripped off his own character idea, and that the Daily Show is one big exclusive white person club! More »
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Music To Headbang To
For the second Friday mixtape contest, give us the music you headbang to. While making mine, I discovered I am a girly man with no hard rock. But here is my headbanger playlist. Make yours at Muxtape.com. [Image of Metal Steve from Diesel Sweeties]
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VH1 To Finally Shake Off Pesky "Plot" Middleman
Oh finally. VH1 is dispensing with all that "looking for love" claptrap and having its Celebreality stars fess up to their true desire: warm, gooey cash. In their new reality series, bluntly titled I Love Money, past contestants from Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and I Love New York will compete not for love or dignity, but solely for sweet, sweet moola. To give you a sense of how popular these shows are, Rock of Love II, the recent Bret Michaels hepatitis telethon, had 3.2 million 18-49ers tuned into its reunion episode, making it the second highest rated (for that demo) cable show of the week. I'm looking forward to when, two or three years from now, we're simply asked to watch Kim Fields stand around while quarters plunk out of her lady bits and dancers from The Thunder from Down Under scramble to collect them. [Variety] After the jump, a clip from that Rock of Love reunion elegance fest. More »
The Times They Are A Changin'
Hey, 30 Rock, the funniest television show on God's green earth, is moving to a new time. It'll be on at 9:30 on Thursdays, where it will hopefully get some nice Office lead in. The irksome Scrubs, now in its last, gasping season, will fill the vacant 8:30 slot. [EW]
Hey, 30 Rock, the funniest television show on God's green earth, is moving to a new time. It'll be on at 9:30 on Thursdays, where it will hopefully get some nice Office lead in. The irksome Scrubs, now in its last, gasping season, will fill the vacant 8:30 slot. [EW]
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'30 Rock' Presents Picture of Typical McCain Supporter
On last night's 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's network head Jack asked Tina Fey to help him invite a couple ladies to his upcoming fundraising dinner for cranky old presidential candidate John McCain. Of note: Alec Baldwin calling Chuck Norrins "C-Nor." Oh, and the mayor of New York was on the show! Michael Bloomberg, who was briefly going to be our next president in the land of imagination, presented Liz's ex-boyfriend the beeper king a medal for a heroic subway rescue. Clip above! And you can watch the whole thing on Hulu, because it's Friday so who gives a shit.
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MILF Island Champion Acts On Broadway
The return of 30 Rock included a spoof reality show called MILF Island, which in turn included a champion named DeBorah, alternately praised and imitated by the characters within 30 Rock. It turns out the real-life DeBorah, Deidre Goodwin, is a theater actress who plays Sheila in A Chorus Line and was Velma in Chicago. Goodwin told Entertainment Weekly that filming of MILF Island involved cockroach eating and "cooter slams:" More »
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NBC "Family Hour" Hosted "MILF Island"
That "MILF Island" episode of 30 Rock everyone was talking about Friday? In which 20 hot moms square off in front of 50 eighth-grade boys at "Erection Cove?" It aired during NBC's "Family Hour," in which the whole family is supposed to be able to gather in front of the TV together. NBC executive Ben Silverman re-launched the concept just 10 days ago. Anyone who took the man at his word — and hopefully few people did — either had a very awkward night or has a very interesting family. Now NBC is trying to rewrite what it meant by "family hour." Here's network exec Mitch Metcalf in tomorrow's Times: More »
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MILF Island
On last night's season premiere of Tina Fey's brilliant 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's Jack is riding high on the huge success of a new reality show. MILF Island's conceit: "20 MILFs; 50 eighth-grade boys; no rules." The idea, which Baldwin's GE executive had floated in an earlier episode, is so preposterous, so outrageous, that I thought for a second that it was a real show. In this late phase of reality television, in which VH1 picks up a bisexual dating game with a Myspace star, the more baroque the premise, the more plausible it appears. After the jump, the full episode from 30 Rock. More »
Alec Baldwin Celebrating 30 Rock Premiere In Style
Emailed stalker sighting: "Tonight I spotted Alec Baldwin around 7:30pm at the French Roast Cafe on 11th Street West and 6th Avenue. He was was drunk and standing at the bar with a woman and a man. He had his arm around the woman a few times, and seemed to be falling all over her. Alec seemed to be meeting the couple there, because they all left together shortly after he arrived."
