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Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen will play Sherlock Holmes to Will Ferrell's Watson in a new movie based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery series.
Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen will play Sherlock Holmes to Will Ferrell's Watson in a new movie based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery series.
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Another Young Actress Makes Music Album!
Good god, ScarJo is not the only one. Zooey Deschanel, the HIP young "Almost Famous" actress (ha), has just released an album with M. Ward under the name "She & Him." Distressingly, it has already been called "one of the flat-out best pop records of the year" [VSL]. What shall we expect next, a Juliette Lewis duet with Joshua Redman for "best jazz combo of the year?" Chloe Sevigny teaming up with Smuckers to create the "best jam of the year?" It's all very disconcerting. Of course, no pop album will ever surpass Zooey's most famous musical work: her duets with Will Ferrell in "Elf." Stay in your lane, Hollywood! Highlight clips of her elfish singing, which we can only hope will thwart her musical ambitions, below. More »
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Complex Magazine Wastes A Lot Of Money
Complex, the Marc Ecko-owned urban shopping magazine, has figured out how to boost traffic to its website among those coveted digital influencers: by spending $1 million on TV ads. Why yes, that does seem like the most cost-effective strategy, assuming you are, as one tipster put it, a "blind leading the blind media organization." Click to watch the first full ad, and marvel at how little of Will Ferrell's time a million bucks gets you these days. [Folio]
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Will Ferrell Prank Turns Into Screaming Match With John McEnroe
Before he turned his cinéma vérité antics into a big-money business called Funny or Die, Will Ferrell apparently liked to practice a little guerilla theater on his neighbors at CNBC, as seen in this funny-and-disturbing-all-at-once video. Shot probably in 2004 — the Kerry/Gephardt joke is a dead giveaway — the vid sees Ferrell crashing Power Lunch, where Sue Herera is all guffaws but Bill Griffeth and his offstage help (UPDATE: John McEnroe!) are having none of it. For evidence that this sort of mischief eventually pays, see Portfolio's January piece on how Ferrell has raised $15 million for his business. More »
"Funny or Die", the funny web video site that has Will Ferrell and Adam McKay but no traffic or "buzz", got another $15 million from their venture capital benefactors at Sequoia (and unnamed others). There are still absolutely no reports of anyone on the internet having watched any video from that site besides the one where the little girl is mean to Will Ferrell. [PaidContent]
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Who's The Hollywood Trio On Drugs?
Today's Page Six wonders: "WHICH Hollywood trio of friends is in trouble? One is on crack, one's on smack, and the other cheats so much on his wife that he single-handedly is supporting several hookers..." We've narrowed it down to a few possible candidates; your input is, of course, mandatory. More »
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We Didn't Plan For This Particular Pregnancy
It's a warm and fecund Friday. The weekend is pregnant with activities. Saturday and Sunday should seem like something out of a romantic comedy: Beautiful weather, families strolling with their babies down the street, baseballs exploding in the air at city parks. Even if your mood is carrying low, we're sure there's something you can do to bump up your spirits. Sure, there's nothing like putting a bun in the oven to lift that depression. So get off your couch and waddle around with the same childlike glee you used to have during the first trimester of the summer season. Even if you have a HUMAN FETUS LODGED IN YOUR STOMACH, you can still have a terrific time. Also, there are supposed to be some funny movies coming out maybe but we don't know what.
Comedians grab for piece of the Internet pie. Again. [NYT]
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Meredith Viera Covers Herself In Glory
Will Ferrell was on "The Today Show" this morning to promote his new film It's Just Like The Last One, Except This One Has Ice Skating. Appropriately enough, Ferrell and "Today Show" co-host Meredith Viera took to the rink at Rockefeller Center. The results? Pure magic. More »
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Remainders: Power Plays
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Remainders: Will Ferrell Still Alive!
• Will Ferrell did not die in a paragliding accident. And if he did, do you really think you'd hear about it through a barely literate press release? [Defamer]• So long as MTV-ready bands behave like this in Manhattan hotels, we'd rather sleep in our shoebox. Fucking trash monkeys, all of them. [Hotel Chatter]
• Ladies, prepare yourselves: Tomorrow is Steak and Blowjob day! Share it with the man you love, or at least one you don't mind sucking off. [SteakandBJDay]
• We can hardly fathom paying $82 for a stack of magazines. Make them a stack of bridal magazines, and you've the third ring of hell. [Bridal Blog]
• A Gay Clay is a defective one. [Got Detroit?]
• The bad thing about winning the U.S. Memory Championship is being unable to forget the reporter bugging you, that damn Foer kid. [Slate]
