Watercooler: Parks and Entertainment Strikes Gold

Parks and Entertainment This show is really damn good, it can make tax audits a pleasure. Despite the fact that it lost out in the Emmys, by pairing the bro-com-that-could-constitute Ben helping Tom Haverford balance Entertainment 7twenty's books using the Ron's impending audit as a result of his "hellacious nightmare" of the first ex, Parks and Entertainment still introduced home comedy gold last evening: A staggeringly funny script. Patricia Clarkson in Emmy-worthy shape because the soulless, gold-digging control freak that's Tammy One. Megan Mullally, ever sharp as Tammy Two. Sufficient bits with Tom's asshat partner Jean-Ralphio. And also the deeply unsettling good reputation for Ron's sexual awakening - filled with a vacation to the Swanson homestead and also the debut of Tammy Zero (his mother, performed by SNL author Paula Pell). It had been, as Take advantage of Lowe's Chris Traeger would say, litch-er-ally perfect. Actually, the only real factor this episode didn't have was possibly a viewer warning concerning the graphic content - we actually need to be ready before seeing Nick Offerman's alpha-male mustachioed god like a clean-shaven "neutered wimp"! But even which had us laughing our assets off. How about you? Think P&R an embarrassment of comic riches last evening? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

See Michelle Williams Skinny Dip As Marilyn Monroe in New My Week With Marilyn Photo

Another still from Simon Curtis’s drama My Week with Marilyn has surfaced, this time showing Michelle Williams swimming as the iconic bombshell. Click through to see the latest, semi-scandalous photo and hang around for more Buzz Break. [via CinemaBlend via DailyMail] · Steve Carell will go very dark for his next project Foxcatcher, which will be directed by Moneyball’s Bennett Miller. Carell will star as paranoid schizophrenic John du Pont — the heir to the du Pont dynasty who was convicted of murdering Olympic wrestler David Schultz. Miller’s breakout feature Capote won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar. Moneyball is earning Brad Pitt early Oscar buzz. Do you think Foxcatcher will be Carell’s shot at an Academy Award? Discuss! [EW] · If you’ve considered collaborating with Seth Rogen, consider this first: “I either get people started smoking weed or I put them out of business smoking weed,” the 50/50 star said in an interview recently. “I’m either your first or last.” [MTV] · Here’s your first look at Malin Akerman and Tyler Labine in the dark comedy Cottage Country. [indieWire] · If you don’t have plans tonight or Saturday, consider seeing Bad Teacher on Sony’s dime. [Sony]

Weekend Forecast: Fresh Daniel Craig, Seth Rogen Dishes No Match For Leftovers

If it’s Thursday, then it must be time to survey the latest new releases at the mutliplex and beyond. For what that’s worth: This week’s box-office turnout is likely to bear an uncanny resemblance to last week’s — particularly near the top, where Moneyball, Dolphin Tale and that stereoscopic flaxen-maned juggernaut that roared, The Lion King 3D are all expected to repeat last week’s command performance in one permutation or another. Where will the rest fall? To the Forecast! [Click the film titles for Movieline’s reviews] NATIONAL OUTLOOK · Dream House: Some day the whole story will come out about Dream House, whose origins as a high-concept haunted-house thriller for Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and director Jim Sheridan gave way to a folly of acrimony, egos, reshoots, and ceaseless studio meddling. (At least Craig and Weisz got a marriage out of it, right? Though even its origins during Weisz’s bust-up with Darren Aronofsky are not without suspicion.) Or maybe the story won’t come out, considering that Dream House has virtually zero buzz, didn’t screen for critics and may open as low as fifth place this week, thus signaling a miniscule public appetite for anything related to this film. It’s especially bad news for Craig, who already has a mega-flop to his name this year and doesn’t need more baggage to haul to the Bond 23 set. Anyway, I’ve already spent more time writing about this thing than most of America will spend watching it in the next three days, so… yeah. In some parallel universe where good people’s good intentions blossom into good work, this is a hit. Here it’s a Halloween-flick benchwarmer. FORECAST: $12.4 million · What’s Your Number?: Americans can basically bedivided into two factions: Devoted Anna Faris completists who attend every movie she makes, and once-devoted Anna Faris completists for whom some films are simply a bridge too far. For some it was Scary Movie 4, for others it was Mama’s Boy, for others still it was Yogi Bear. And for others still it’s going to be this. You know which camp you fall into. And if early _What’s Your Nymber? buzz is any real indication, then a lot of the former group are preparing to join the latter. At least for this weekend, anyway. FORECAST: $10.7 million · 50/50: I like this movie and want it to do well, but its R-rating, subject matter, and the increasingly divisive Seth Rogen factor suggest that the otherwise satisfying cancer comedy — based on screenwriter and Rogen pal Will Reiser’s real-life battle against cancer — will probably run smack into a seven-figure box-office ceiling in 2,400 theaters. Very, very low eight figures is a possibility depending on how Moneyball holds over, but don’t bet on it. Or do bet on it! What do I care? It’s not my money. FORECAST: $9.8 million · Courageous: You probably know the deal about this one by now. And if you don’t, then you will very, very soon. FORECAST: $9.3 million THE PRIME DESTINATION The best compliment I think I can pay Take Shelter is that even as engrossed as I was throughout by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain’s performances, and even as sensitive as Jeff Nichols’s script is, and even as dazzling an eye as Nichols has developed as a filmmaker, and even as it ratcheted and ratcheted up the psychological tension, and even as the execution’s degree of difficulty soared and the odds that the director could stick the landing diminished, it never occurred to me that Take Shelter could possibly falter at the end. That it didn’t made Nichols’s exploration of family, faith, community and brain-cramping apocalyptic nightmares one of the more trenchant and beautiful American films of the year. I can’t recommend it enough. REGIONAL OUTLOOK It seems hard to believe and almost impossible to write, but it’s true: Kenneth Lonergan’s embattled drama Margaret finally reaches theaters in limited release; Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo and Matt Damon lead a cast that doesn’t really look anything today like it did when this thing was filmed six years ago. On the midnight circuit, meanwhile, we’ve got the halfpleasing splatter-comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and the trippy genre mash-up Bunraku, the latter featuring Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore among others. And documentary mischief-maker Nick Broomfield is back with Sarah Palin: You Betcha!. Call your shots, take your picks… you know the drill! Any plans this weekend?

Disney XD to evolve 'Fort Boyard'

Disney XD is starting unscripted adventure series "Fort Boyard -- Ultimate Challenge," an adaptation of the Zodiak Media Group format, with 10 halfhour episodes premiering March. 17. A summer time hit in excess of 2 decades on France 2, "Fort Boyard" is created by Zodiak's The Building Blocks and Adventure Line Prods. and it has been modified in nearly 40 nations. Geno Segers ("Set of Nobleman") and Laura Hamilton (U.K.'s "Dancing on Ice") will host the Disney XD version. Set on the 19th-century ocean fort off the price of France, six groups of four teens in the U.S. and U.K. will compete in challenges needing brains, brawn and working together for that ultimate goal of overcoming the fort. Nigel Pickard and Ged Allen, Pierre Godde and Jamila Metran professional produce. Disney XD will air this program all over the world except in France and Nordic nations, while CiTV will broadcast it in great britan. "Fort Boyard" will air within the U.S. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays (aside from Halloween) for 3 days, then finish with two episodes on November. 7. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Imposing and Intense, Michael Shannon Sticks Out

NEW You are able to (AP) Seated in the morning on the recent wet NY day, Michael Shannon was uncertain concerning the prospect of food."They are saying you are designed to eat breakfast," he stated, pondering the choice. "You do not eat breakfast, you'll add too much.InchThe chance wasn't an online one: Shannon hasn't proven a desire not to do just that.In parts such as the obsessively upright, self-flagellating federal agent on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," the unbalanced, truth-telling neighbors' boy of "Revolutionary Road," as well as in "Take Shelter," the actor's latest, a little-town Ohio family guy progressively haunted by apocalyptic bad dreams, Shannon has unflinchingly adopted his figures into paranoia, anxiety and derangement.Ultimately, coffee was judged sufficient, but nothing near to madness adopted.Shannon, 37, outfitted delicately inside a Jesus Lizard T-shirt (music was his first love) along with a flannel shirt, demonstrated it's not his imposing size 6'3" having a rock square jaw or his capability to significantly come unhinged which has made him probably the most respected stars around. It's his underlying sensitivity his empathy for his figures and the attuned senses to his surroundings more correctly defines Shannon."The figures I play, it isn't like they are all within the asylum, outside of the relaxation people,Inch he states. "I respond to things. I believe the planet is definitely an unsettling place. I've some nervous about it. Maybe which comes through with what I actually do. But it is not something I am trying to complete.InchThe origin of Shannon's paranoia in "Take Shelter," written and directed by Shaun Nichols, may be the movie's mystery. Is his character losing it, like his mother did at his age? Or perhaps is the perceived threat real and outdoors his family?Shannon's performance, a carefully adjusted ball of hysteria and encroaching mania, has gained him an underdog devote the 2010 Oscar prognostications for the best actor. After many years of character actor and stage work, it is the maximum motion picture display yet of Shannon: unadorned but still strongly intense."I had been really floored by his energy and stillness," states Jessica Chastain, who plays his wife within the film. "He's this excellent supply of energy, however the stillness consists of this excellent energy and intense emotion."Shannon was raised mainly in Lexington, Ky. His parents divorced when he was very youthful, so he stayed between Lexington (where his mother resided) and Chicago (where his father resided).He eventually gone to live in Chicago full-some time and fell in to the city's thriving theater world. He particularly associated with then-nascent playwright Tracy Letts, starring in the "Killer Joe" and "Bug," by which he performed a paranoid Gulf War veteran.Acting become a huge hit to him because of its freedom to behave with techniques that might be considered inappropriate off-stage."It had not been an attention factor," he states. "I never really gave a garbage. I never really cared if people clapped or otherwise. It's a method to travel. It's a kind of travelling in another reality or circumstance."When he gone to live in La to pursue film work, he found small roles in "Groundhog Day," ''Jesus' Boy," ''Vanilla Sky," ''8 Mile" and numerous Jerry Bruckheimer films ("Gem Harbor," ''Bad Boys II," ''Kangaroo Jack").Nichols was one of the primary to identify Shannon's ability. Getting seen footage of him in the writers' workshop Sundance Labs, he was hit with a lightning bolt: "This person must be in each and every movie I make," he stated to themself.Nichols cast him in the low-budget debut, 2007's "Shotgun Tales," a type of tale of slacker revenge. Getting now two times directed him, Nichols noted he never once saw Shannon having a script in hands, but he always understood it forward and backward.InchHis goal would be to put something honest on screen," states Nichols. "It's funny: Though we do not discuss it in advance or rehearse, the moment I yell 'cut' and move ahead, this is when the conversation begins. 'How'd it go? How'd it do?'"In selecting his parts, Shannon is usually attracted towards the material, evaluating good conntacting a Faberge egg that requires an actor's protection.Within the situation of "Take Shelter," he recognized with Nichols' (and also the script's) anxiety over beginning a household. Shannon lives in Red-colored Hook, Brooklyn, together with his partner, actress Kate Arrington, as well as their 3-year-old daughter."During my 20s and also the first third of my 30s, I resided an extremely gypsy lifestyle," states Shannon. "It did not really matter where I resided. I did not provide a rat's ass. Now I've got a home along with a family. ... Therefore it is on my small mind."Shannon appreciates he's been pigeonholed for playing disturbed figures and notes it's "something I have a problem with.InchInchI am definitely not likely to perform a $5,000 movie in regards to a serial killer ... in regards to a guy who grinds people up or saws people," states Shannon.On "Boardwalk Empire," that is now airing its second season, his character, Nelson Van Alden has morphed from an Elliot Ness-type, to some religious zealot who punishes themself for his lust for any lady not his wife. Within the show's first season, he'd a amazing scene where he baptized a double-crossing friend, drowning him."When Michael commits, he commits," states "Boardwalk" creator Terence Winter. "We glance at Nelson Van Alden because this religious zealot who maybe includes a screw loose. Michael's approaching it internally, like a real guy."Within the much anticipated approaching Superman film, Zack Snyder's "Guy of Steel," he'll play General Zod, the villain earlier performed by Terence Stamp. Considering working that film, that is presently shooting, compared to "Take Shelter," Shannon states: "There isn't a thing based on how different it's.InchInchDespite the fact that six several weeks once i shoot it, when I am doing press, they'll say, 'So, another evil bastard,'" Shannon states. "I'm going to be like, 'Yeah, however it was interesting.' And I'll explain why it had been interesting."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. 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Andrews will get a Sophistication

Andrews ChuJulie Andrews is going to be honored only at that year's Princess Sophistication Honours Gala using the Prince Rainier III Award, a kudo provided to prominent creatives whose career has incorporated both artistic achievement and significant humanitarian work.Andrews includes a lengthy good reputation for charitable organisation work, particularly with respect to orgs that tackle worldwide issues. She's a founding board person in Operation USA, which supplies relief to areas around the globe hit by problems, disease or poverty, and has additionally been a goodwill ambassador for gender-equality fund Unifem. Recently, the recognition went to Denzel and Pauletta Washington, Mandy Patinkin, Glenn Close and George Lucas.Also drawn on for any career achievement award in the ceremony is Jon M. Chu, helmer of "Attacking Young Boys: Never Say Never." He'll obtain the Princess Sophistication Statue Award. Prior those who win from the statue award have incorporated Tony Kushner, Greg Mottola and Cary Joji Fukunaga.Princess Sophistication Honours support emerging creatives in legit, dance and film, providing scholarship grants, apprenticeships and fellowships. Twenty-one up-and-comers will get the Princess Sophistication throughout the approaching kudofest and gala.Ceremony is placed for November. 1 at Gotham's Cipriani 42nd Street. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Bailey to tackle 'Self-Esteem' rewrite

Jaylynn Bailey has been tapped to pen a rewrite on "The Low Self-Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie" for Mandate and John Malkovich via his Mr. Mudd banner. Project was originally set up in 2009 by "The Office" scribes Brent Forrester and Mindy Kaling. Mandate and Mr. Mudd collaborated on "Juno." Story centers on a woman whose lack of self-worth has limited her choice in men to losers. Just as she is about to hit the bottom of the barrel, her life takes an unexpected turn when she is pursued by the hottest guy ever. Bailey co-wrote "Elixir" with Terry Rossio for ABC Family; production starts Monday.Her screenplay "Betty's Ready" made the Black List in 2009 and was subsequently optioned by Plan B Prods. Bailey gave up an astrophysics scholarship to study creative writing at Brown U. She is repped by Gersh and Circle of Confusion. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Fashion Slam: Falls Mane Trends

By Ryan PattersonLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Ready to alter hair for fall? Me too! Celebrity stylist Yoshi Hagiwara of Yoshi Hair Studio in Beverly Slopes will be here having a couple of Hollywood hair inspiration, additionally to methods for ways you can the look. Heavy Bangs With Wavy HairCeleb Inspiration: Tyra Banks Heavy bangs are large for fall. You have to try not to cut bangs short or too longright involving the eyes and eye eyebrows is the greatest place. We familiar with only see bangs with stick straight hair, nonetheless its about rocking bangs with casual loose, wavy hair. For it lazy wavy look, spray wet hair by getting an ionized water like Yoshis Miracle Water to infuse vitamins into the hair and open hair shaft enabling styling products to use more strongly. Apply a wave serum on top after which it scrunch hair to create texture. Dry getting a diffuser or let air-dry. Ensure to reduce bangs every 2 days to make sure that they are within the perfect length. Sideswept Braided Chignon Celebrity Inspiration: Blake Lively We are ongoing to find out good quality braided styles for fall, this sideswept braided chignon is really simple to use and might be effortlessly worn with formal or casual looks. It's also a great style to produce day-old hair look perfectly polished. Create a part inside the hair and also have a 2-inch section within the crown for that temple. French braid the section completely for the finishes going for a few extra pieces within the remaining hair when you twist the braid. Then gather hair in to a side pony making up a chignon otherwise you can leave hair loose for just about any half up/half lower look. Short Edgy Punk StylesCeleb Inspiration: Evan Rachel Wood This 60s inspired short-cut is a superb use avoid summer season and into fall. Locks are tight round the sides with height on the top. To acquire this phenomenal height spray the roots getting a root lifting hairspray - lift hair within the roots along with your disposal and direct the heat from the hair dryer around the roots. Once dry, finish hair getting a pomade to supply hair that not-tied texture. For additional info on Yoshi, have a look at internet.yoshihairstudio.com Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Frances Bay dies at 92

Frances Bay, who tussled with Jerry Seinfeld over a loaf of marble rye and played Adam Sandler's grandmother in "Happy Gilmore" during a career that began in the 1930s, has died. She was 92.Bay died Thursday at a Los Angeles area hospital after being diagnosed with pneumonia.After working as a radio actress before WWII, Bay married and became a housewife. She returned to acting in the 1970s, and her career took off. Bay played Fonzie's Grandma Nussbaum on "Happy Days" and kindly older ladies in shows including "The Jeffersons," ''The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Who's the Boss?"The Canadian-born actress also was cast by director David Lynch in several films, including "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at Heart."Fans of "Seinfeld" know her as the tough lady who fought with the show's star over the last loaf of bread.There are no immediate survivors. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Disney hires politico's advisor

The Walt Disney Co. has hired Mike Castellano, an adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), as VP of U.S. government relations. Castellano will work on a range of issues with a focus on trade and intellectual property. Richard Bates, senior VP of U.S. government relations, cited Castellano's "experience with complex issues, ability to reach across the aisle and Congressional chambers and dealings with foreign officials" in announcing Castellano's hire. Castellano was most recently senior counsel and senior policy adviser to Reid, focusing on intellectual property, international trade and cyber security. He also spent four years working for the House Ways and Means Committee and for Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.). He started his career at Dewey Ballantine LLP. Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com

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Mark Taper Forum Discloses Blockbuster Season

Mark Taper Forum Discloses Blockbuster Season By L'ensemble des Spindle September 9, 2011 Photo by Johan Persson Alfred Molina in "Red-colored," area of the Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season, on Broadway. The Middle Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum in La has introduced a fantastic slate of productions with this venerablevenue's 45th season in 2012. New plays by David Mamet and Jon Robin Baitz take presctiption the roster, too asthe classic tragicomedy "Awaiting Godot" through the immortal absurdistscribe Samuel Beckett, set to star Alan Mandell and Craig McGovern.Also red-colored-hot about this slate would be the local bows of Bruce Norris' 2010 Pultizer and Olivier award-winning "Clybourne Park" andJohn Logan's 2010 Tony-winning play, "Red-colored,"which willstar Alfred Molina.The icing about this sinfully wealthy cake is really a world premiere musical, "Los Otros," by Ellen Fitzhugh and also the gifted Broadway author-tunesmith Michael John LaChiusa ("The Wild Party," "Marie Christine," "See Things I Wanna See"), who for several years hasbeen awelcome L.A. mainstay, working together with Daniel Henning in the Blank Theatre Company on local renditons of his works. Multiple Tony nominee Graciela Daniele will direct this offering, that was comissionned by CTG. Artistic director Michael Ritchie refers to this as "an attractive two-character musical by having an intriguing and moving perspective about the Mexican immigrant experience." Find Out More ON BLOG STAGE Mark Taper Forum Discloses Blockbuster Season By L'ensemble des Spindle September 9, 2011 Alfred Molina in "Red-colored," area of the Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season, on Broadway. PHOTO CREDIT Johan Persson The Middle Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum in La has introduced a fantastic slate of productions with this venerablevenue's 45th season in 2012. New plays by David Mamet and Jon Robin Baitz take presctiption the roster, too asthe classic tragicomedy "Awaiting Godot" through the immortal absurdistscribe Samuel Beckett, set to star Alan Mandell and Craig McGovern.Also red-colored-hot about this slate would be the local bows of Bruce Norris' 2010 Pultizer and Olivier award-winning "Clybourne Park" andJohn Logan's 2010 Tony-winning play, "Red-colored,"which willstar Alfred Molina.The icing about this sinfully wealthy cake is really a world premiere musical, "Los Otros," by Ellen Fitzhugh and also the gifted Broadway author-tunesmith Michael John LaChiusa ("The Wild Party," "Marie Christine," "See Things I Wanna See"), who for several years hasbeen awelcome L.A. mainstay, working together with Daniel Henning in the Blank Theatre Company on local renditons of his works. Multiple Tony nominee Graciela Daniele will direct this offering, that was comissionned by CTG. Artistic director Michael Ritchie refers to this as "an attractive two-character musical by having an intriguing and moving perspective about the Mexican immigrant experience."Find Out More ON BLOG STAGE

Good Romance For Gaga?

La, Calif. -- Is Rhianna using the romance together with her We video star off-screen? Based on People, the singer and also the Vampire Journals star Taylor Kinney who also plays her love curiosity about her latest video are connecting up. A mag source stated Gaga, 25, and also the CW star, 30, first met in This summer while shooting the recording. The duo was apparently spotted in Mission Viejo, Calif., last weekend and the other source near to the music celebrity confirmed to individuals that they are indeed chilling out over Labor Day weekend. A Radar Online source stated the happy couple were investing time together, saying, It had been just casual in the beginning, but situations are getting pretty hot and high. The singer was last associated with Luc Carl, who she's dated off and on going back couple of years. Gaga apparently authored We about fixing your relationship with Luc. Browse the singer and her reported new guy in her own latest video, HERE! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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