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AnnaSophia Robb Filming The Carrie Diaries

Apr 2nd, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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With the movies long out of steam, mostly because they weren’t very good, the CW and producers of Sex & The City made a cash-grab in the form of a prequel of sorts, The Carrie Diaries, which is basically going to be like Gossip Girl but with one person in retro garb. The retrospective thing was dull when S&TC2 did the same, with the loose premise that the ageing cast would be digitally made younger (they weren’t). It serves a purpose now, however. Because it looks like Not Carrie ™, AnnaSophia Robb, spent more time posing for photographers than acting on the New York City set of the pilot. Wearing the same outfit as in the promotional picture, here’s Robb as a baby-faced Carrie Bradshaw even though S&TC/ S&TC Movie writer Michael Patrick King said, at the time Blake Lively was reportedly in line to play the lead (something Lively denied): ‘I took [Sarah Jessica Parker's] Carrie from 33 to 43. That’s what interested me, her growth in those years. I didn’t even want to know who were her parents were. To me, she could have just materialized at 33. I have no interest whatever in a prequel.’

10 photos below for those who see anything but Violet Beauregarde.

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Jon Hamm Covers Esquire UK May 2012

Apr 2nd, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Posting this only to remind myself to watch the next episode of Mad Men when I’m done, here’s Jon Hamm on the cover of Esquire UK May 2012. It’s another odd interview, since no one seems to know how to interview Hamm in a manner that excites more than his boilerplate answers and Ryan Gosling man-crush. It gets a little old, if you’ve read so much as one other interview with him. It becomes like shtick, even though it’s not Hamm but the interviewer sticking to a safe script. In any case, for the same straight guys as before ruing their attraction to vagina and wishing sexuality were a choice, below are excerpts from Hamm’s wandering interview and a pleasingly off-type photo shoot.

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Reports Conflict About Britney On The X Factor

Mar 30th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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I read a few days ago about Britney Spears meeting a conservatorship judge, so he could check that she was willing and able to perform judging duties on the X Factor following reports of an offer from Simon Cowell. I wrote and trashed a story, because I couldn’t be bothered to address the offer of $15 million; a mid-point between the initial $10 million and her desired $20 million. But now there are conflicting reports that Cowell wants out because he’s concerned whether Spears has the wherewithal to do anything but offer banal platitudes for a week before mentally checking out. RadarOnline.com reports that: ‘Under terms of the contract, Britney will be paid around $15 million a year. She will travel out of state for auditions, as long as it doesn’t interfere with her custodial time with her sons.’ However, Us Weekly is suggesting that nothing’s gone past informal negotiations and Cowell wants out: ‘Simon’s worried she won’t be able to deliver good advice, and he’s afraid contestants won’t take her seriously. He’ll probably go more in the direction of Mariah Carey or Janet Jackson.’ Should Spears judge?

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John Slattery Defends January Jones Again

Mar 23rd, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Last year, 11-year-old Jared Gilmore who used to play Bobby Draper accused January Jones of being vituperative and austere. Asked whether he had any advice for the boy who’s going to replace him in season five, Gilmore replied, ‘Be careful around January [Jones]. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.’ About which John Slattery immediately replied: ‘Well, it’s an intimidating character… I mean, that’s the character. Betty Draper is an intimidating woman I suppose, if you were a seven-year-old boy [or] her son. She’s a sweetheart. We got lucky. We don’t have anybody like that.’ Asked again, as Mad Men starts again this Sunday with a new kid, Slattery copy pastas his own statement by saying it’s the kid’s fault for being a p**sy and it’s not Jones’ fault she’s such a great actor. Slattery, who I’m suddenly reminded wanted to pee on Carrie Bradshaw, told Shortlist…

‘She plays a formidable character, she’s not mother of the year, she has a hard relationship with that child and she’s horrible to him. It’s remarkable to watch her, actually. You look at her and think: this is an actual person, in this moment, going through all this. She becomes the part. That poor f**king kid, I’m not surprised she scared the hell out of him. She’d scare the hell out of me… [Moreover] I don’t think she is misunderstood by anyone else but that one kid. Coincidentally, that kid doesn’t play Bobby Draper any more. Not because of what he said, but because… well, for other reasons. They’ve had about five Bobby Drapers and they can’t seem to find one who doesn’t look straight into the lens.’ [via Vulture]

Jon Hamm: I Was Right About Kim Kardashian

Mar 20th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Not conceding, because he’s the king of all things technically-correct, Jon Hamm maintains his observations of Kim Kardashian’s idiocy are ‘accurate,’ not ‘careless’ as she claimed in an over-long self-congratulatory retort on Twitter that was soon followed by a topless photo. Asked by Matt Lauer on Today Show about the initial quotes from Elle UK, Hamm deigned to address it again with a look of ennui since he already told E! it’s a non-story so far as he’s concerned.

‘I don’t think [the comments] were careless,’ asserted Hamm (7 mins in). ‘I think they were accurate. It’s a part of our culture that I certainly don’t identify with, and I don’t really understand the appeal of it other than in a sort of car crash sensibility. And it’s not something that I partake in or enjoy, but it is what is and here we are. There are a lot of channels on the dials and those channels need to be filled up with things. It’s different strokes for different folks.’

In related news: Hamm told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ’I don’t necessarily think of myself like the handsome guy. That’s reserved for Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds and those guys. It’s certainly nice when people say nice things about you, don’t get me wrong. I guess I never really thought of myself that way. I just wanted to be a regular person and try to portray parts as varied as I could.’ In other news, the new Mad Men poster is being slammed as anti-911 by some pressed, myopic people who’ve never seen the show’s intro (it’s claimed it’s a take on the Falling Man, it’s not). Lastly, JANUARY JONES FOUND HER BABY!

The Pregnancy Didn’t Tank Jersey Shore. Yet.

Mar 20th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Acknowledging this only BECAUSE MONIES and because it made me feel sorry for Snooki, were she to film all the way up until her final weeks of pregnancy, Jersey Shore season six has been green-lit. The last time I bothered looking, MTV was backpedaling on its own ‘No comment’ to offer a statement about the accident that’d cost them millions one way or another. And the network was undecided what to do about S6. Fox News seemed pretty sure the show was dead in its current format. But today MTV offered an unexpected announcement that failed to elaborate, explicitly whether pregnant Snooki would live/ party in the house the whole time. The statement reads: ‘MTV gets ready for fist pumps and baby bumps, with the announcement of a sixth season of Jersey Shore. Production is set to begin Summer 2012 in Seaside Heights, NJ. America’s favorite housemates will all return to their home-away-from-home, and the house dynamic is headed into unchartered territory…as their lives outside the Shore take off in exciting new directions. While things will definitely be a little different this time when they hit the boardwalk, their trademark hilarity and family dysfunction will remain the same.’ Then it asked on Twitter: ‘You think we’ll have to turn the smush room into a nursery?’ This despite Snooki saying: ‘If anything, I’ll visit the shore [but] I’m not living in that house being pregnant. I don’t want to be one of those moms who’s pregnant in a club. It’s disgusting.’ Adds an Us Weekly source: ‘She’s not going to be staying in the house. No way.’

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