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03/12/10

Ryan Reynolds to Slum It in Jason Bateman’s Body

Bad Trade: Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman have signed up to star in the David Dobkin—directed The Change-Up, about a family man (Bateman) who swaps bodies with his friend, a lazy idiot (Reynolds). We imagine the rest of the movie will follow Reynold's character begging Bateman's Reynolds-resembling one to switch back, because who wouldn't trade their family for Reynolds' abs? [Variety]

Avatar Again: Fox and James Cameron are discussing the possibility of re-releasing Avatar in 3-D theaters late this summer, with 10 additional minutes of additional footage cut from the movie's original theatrical version. And if, after that, there is still some money left in the world that they do not have, they will maybe release it on DVD. [HR]

Plus: Anne Hathaway to fall for Jim Sturgess after a while. »

Larry David on The Marriage Ref: 'This is Easily the Most Uncomfortable Hour I've Ever Spent in My Life'

Some people have an easier time than others playing along with the weird experiment in television that is NBC’s The Marriage Ref. On Thursday night’s show, Larry David refused to just grin and bear it, airing all of his disgust and frustrations for the cameras (which just happens to be his schtick). “They're so moronic I don't even want to help them!”

"Can we wrap this up? I have to go to the bathroom." »

03/11/10

The Ten Best Things About Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's 'Telephone' Video

Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's much-hyped video for "Telephone" is finally out. After a delayed release and weeks of teasing by slowly rolling out stills, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have given the world diva power at its very best — and acting and clothes that quite simply boggle the mind. This is Gaga's video, but Beyoncé is the best part: she actually shows the angry, crazy side that we just knew lurked beneath her too-perfect facade. And not in the sexy, "Ring the Alarm" way — but in a twitchy, spazzy way. After the video, our favorite fashion moments from this epic collaboration.

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Lady Gaga Goes Behind Bars in Latest Music Video 'Telephone'

Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video, which hit the Internet tonight, features women’s prison couture (e.g. cigarette shutter shades, hair rollers and stilettos), Kathy Ireland on the red carpet-esque biceps, German subtitles, Thelma and Louise imagery and, of course, Beyonce. It all starts with one prison guard saying to another, “I told you she didn’t have a dick.”

Watch the video inside. »

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Snail Mail is Decidedly High-Brow These Days

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and a whole clique of other Abstract Expressionist artists have returned from the grave to deliver your mail. "The individual stamps are gorgeous, but they also are presented together in a pane that is conceived as a work of art itself," said one Postal Service spokesman of the USPS's latest issue. "The stamps are different sizes and placed as if they were pieces hanging in a gallery." [Culture Monster/LAT]

'A Time to Kill' to Be First of Grisham Books to Hit Stage

More than twenty years after its publication and ten years after it was remade as a movie, A Time to Kill will become the first of John Grisham’s books to be adapted for the stage when it opens in Washington, D.C. next May. But don’t expect to see some Matthew McConaughey stand-in screaming after his dog Max while the KKK torches his house behind him, or for the play to end with Carl Lee’s black kid playing with Jake’s white kid at a potluck. They’re going to do it by the book. [NYT]

Big Boi Knows Our Sorrows

Yesterday, we Clickabled your attention over to the video for Big Boi’s “Fo Yo Sorrows,” then spend the rest of the afternoon daydreaming about how awesome it’s going to be when we get to hear his upcoming solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty in a few weeks. But earlier this afternoon we stumbled upon Paste’s blog post, "Five Reasons to Believe Big Boi’s Solo Album is Finally Coming (And Might Actually be Good)," and were like, wait, "what, whatever happened to March 23rd?” Turns out, without anyone telling us, Sir Luscious went off “upcoming album we’re really excited about” status and back to “possibly genius, perma delayed album” status! Now all Big Boi will give up is that might be out at some point in the spring. But it’s been done since last year! And we already marked our calendar! OK, before we start geekily hyperventilating, let’s all lose ourselves in the warm glow of Big Boi’s impeccable double-time flow one more time.

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Elton John Doesn’t Need to See a Broadway Show to Produce It

If you ride the subway in New York City, or have even just ventured outside these past few weeks, it's been nearly impossible to miss the posters touting tonight's Broadway opening of Next Fall, a drama about an older atheist (Patrick Breen) and his hot hard-core Christian boyfriend (Patrick Heusinger — yes, Lord Marcus Beaton from Gossip Girl). Emblazoned on each ad are the words/imprimatur, “Elton John and David Furnish present ... " Which is why we were a bit shocked when, at last night's reception for the show, we learned that Sir Elton had only just seen Next Fall for the first time that evening. "Yeah, I [produced] it without seeing it,” Sir Elton told us. “I did it completely blind!”

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Just Wright Trailer: Common Shoots, Scores

We’re sure the targeted demographic of Queen Latifah romantic comedies doesn’t much care if Common looks believable playing an NBA star … but we do! That’s why we’re wondering whether it was necessarily a good idea for Common’s first-ever lead role to involve so much dribbling and shooting. Dude definitely hit the gym for the part of sharpshooter Scott McKnight (we guess they figured naming him Scott McAwesome was too much?), but looks more than a bit wooden raining jumpers and angrily dunking. Of course, we’ll have to actually see the movie to tell if he’s more Leonardo DiCaprio in Basketball Diaries or Darius Miles in The Perfect Score. Thankfully, there are other things in this trailer to make fun of! Namely, that McKnight’s a star for the New Jersey Nets, currently flirting with the worst record in NBA history, and that surgery-loving Sixers forward Elton Brand has a cameo in which he consults with Queen Latifah’s physical-trainer character. Then again, Marv Albert’s in this, too, so all is forgiven.

See the trailer! »

Lorne Michaels Open to More of Your Suggestions

Discussing the recent successful Facebook campaign to get Betty White a gig hosting the May 8 episode of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels says his only hesitation was over her oldness: “The show’s so grueling, just running from set to set and costume changes and all that. I had to find a way to make it fun for her." So he also invited Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, intending to make it a group-hosted "Women of Comedy" episode, before relenting and giving her her own show: “Pardo’s 92,” he tells ArtsBeat. “A couple people in wardrobe are older than him. So [White]’s a spring chicken in our world." Michaels also says he's open to booking more Facebook-suggested hosts. “Without question,” he said, “if it was somebody we wanted.” As such, the May 15 episode will be hosted by that pickle with more fans than Nickelback. [ArtsBeat/NYT]

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Comparison Test: America’s Next Top Model, RuPaul’s Drag Race

It's been a long, unfabulous four months, but America's Next Top Model finally returned to the CW last night, this time with André Leon Talley destined for the judging panel (he'll appear next Wednesday) and Miss J. Alexander back on the runway. While we waited, we managed the pain with liberal doses of RuPaul's Drag Race, now in its second season on Logo and VH1, and frankly, we're not sure which show we like better. We've compared them both in a few crucial categories, from Tools of the Trade to Gay Icons. As Ru says, may the best woman win!

Which contestants are more likely to deploy a hot glue gun? »

Nina Sky Plan to Annoy Their Way Out of Record Deal

Nina Sky, the identical twins behind the 2004 hit “Move Ya Body,” enjoyed a mini-resurgence last summer thanks to a feature on Major Lazer’s indie smash “Keep It Going Louder,” and were hoping to ride the wave into the release of their long-delayed sophomore album, Starting Today. Their label, Polo Grounds, hasn’t been too cooperative, though: According to the duo’s Twitter, the album’s been done for months, but Polo has no plans to release it or allow them to take it elsewhere. Sensibly, then, they tweeted their label chief Bryan Leech’s work and home numbers and personal e-mail, urging their Twitter followers to badger him into submission. Look, we’re all for supporting artists in their squabbles with shortsighted label execs, but man, Nina Sky are being so annoying. [NinaSky/Twitter via RapRadar]

Love Never Dies, But It Can Be Revised

After getting trashed by hard-core fans while in previews in London, Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, received poor reviews from critics. The noxious buzz has caused some theatergoers to wonder if the show will really open, as planned, at the Neil Simon Theater on Broadway this fall. An executive with the production tells the Times' Patrick Healy that Love is still on track for a fall opening, but says "some changes from the London production [are] likely." [ArtsBeat/NYT]

Emily Mortimer Dangerously Unqualified for Current Job

In the new film City Island, Andy Garcia plays a correctional officer who sneaks off to acting classes and studies with Emily Mortimer's character. When we caught up with Mortimer at the New York premiere of the movie last night, we wondered if she channeled any of her past acting-school experiences for her role. "I never went to acting school, so I had nothing to draw on whatsoever," she told us. "I’m a total charlatan. I shouldn’t be standing here at all. I don’t deserve to be working in this industry. I was never trained, and I never had an acting class in my whole life." See more in our Party Lines slideshow.

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Conan Tour to Benefit Starving Conan Employees

TMZ reports that Conan O'Brien stands to make exactly zero dollars from his upcoming live shows — all profits will go to the tour's 40 or so crew members, many of them former NBC employees who relocated from New York to Los Angeles to work on Conan's Tonight Show. And, conveniently, the trek will finish up in Atlanta on June 14, which should put most workers within reasonable hitchhiking distance of their former homes. [TMZ]

Richard Belzer Denies Assaulting Apple Employee

Say you're a 21-year-old employee at the Apple Store. One day, a tall older man with sunglasses, pockmarked skin, a frighteningly protuberant Adam's apple, and an aura that you vaguely associate with sex crimes comes into the store where you work, grabs you by the shoulders, shakes you, mock chokes you, and yells, "I need help!" Would you be like, 'What the hell, you psycho, get your hands off of me right now?" Or would you laugh and say, "Oh, it's just Richard Belzer, of television's Law and Order: SVU, messing around with me?" Milan Agnew, an employee at the Apple Store, had the first reaction, and filed a complaint against Belzer both with the cops and with her nana accusing Belzer of assault. Belzer begs to differ.

After all, he is famous! »

Jon Hamm on Stolen and Playing a Single Don Draper: ‘He Has a Monkey Off His Back’

Back before Mad Men was the ratings hit it is today, and Hamm and Buble was still but a far-off dream, Jon Hamm shot a little film called Stolen. The movie is Hamm’s first non-television role as a leading man, and it sat on the market for a couple of years before IFC picked it up for on-demand services and a limited theatrical release. In it, Hamm plays a cop still reeling from the disappearance of his son eight years earlier. Vulture recently spoke with Hamm about the new season of Mad Men, hosting Saturday Night Live, and playing a Jamaican nurse on 30 Rock.

"This huge lie being off the table is a big change in his life." »

Bravo Is Bringing Back The Fashion Show, and Premiering a Goofy-Sounding Maternity Series

Bravo, the greatest network ever, has revealed its fall lineup. Design-competition reality series The Fashion Show has been renewed for a second season, even though many accused it of knocking off Project Runway. Expanding on its winning concept of turning one successful show's format into hundreds of different shows, the network will also premiere Fashion Masters, modeled after Top Chef Masters. Established designers will compete against each other in that two-hour special, though who exactly will participate remains unknown.

Ahoy, pregnant ladies! »

Vulture Is Undressed by The Millionaire Matchmaker

Get ready to hike up your skirts and show some cleavage, ladies of New York, because The Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger, is coming to town. At last night's Bravo Upfront party, where she was giving consultations to gold-digging partygoers like Real Housewives of New Jersey's Danielle Staub, Stanger told us that she's moving her L.A.-based show to Manhattan for its fourth season. They start casting next week, and Stanger is convinced that the women of NYC really need her help: "There are five women to one guy, so what do you do if the city is metrosexual, gay, with not enough men?" she told Vulture's Emma Rosenblum and Jada Yuan, eyeing our conservative workwear with a frown. "Carpe diem! You go to the fucking suburbs! You go to Westchester, you go to Long Island, you go to Jersey, you look around! Guys in Jersey buy fucking $4 million houses! My sister met her husband at Cold Spring Harbor. What happened to the outskirts of New York?"

"You want him to still try to make love to you on Sundays after bagels and lox?" »

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