Hello again Its Erin Fox and I hope you had a lovely little break from SNL the last few weeks I actually had a life last night and saw some theater so thats why this is coming to you the day after the show So what did you guys think of Christopher Walken Im a big fan of his past performances on the show but as some of you said in the blog last week his last few hosting gigs have been kind of stale I know The Continental sketch has been overdone but Im sorry it cracks me up every time Lets see what they come up with for Mr Walken tonightCold OpeningA screen reading Hillary for President flashes across the screen Darrell Hammond and Amy Poehler play Bill and Hillary who discuss having to release their tax return information under scrutiny from Obamas campaign Hillary says they made about 109 million in the last five years Most of that coming from what Bill loves to do most Talk to people Bill agrees by saying That is what I love most in the world
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott and Justin Long will voice characters for Planet 51, a CG-animated sci-fi flick about citizens who fear an alien invasion — the news of which is, of course, brought by The Rock, who arrives from Earth.... Film vet Christopher Walken is being awarded Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award on Friday. He'll attend a roast in his honor, at which which we assume he'll be asking for more cowbell. — Anna Dimond
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And, well, others. On this Wednesday's Oprah, the Queen of all Media acknowledges another tuner besides her own The Color Purple by devoting the entire hour to the upcoming movie musical Hairspray, which hits theaters July 20. According to TheaterMania.com, in addition to interviewing the film's stars — John Travolta (presumably out of drag), Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah — the show will also preview at least one musical number. John Waters has officially made it. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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I'm not gonna lie to you, folks: This was rough. I'm not sure why ABC decided to go with this episode of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s new sitcom as the series premiere rather than the pilot, but whatever the reason, it certainly put us smack-dab in the middle of things — and not necessarily in that good, we-meant-to-do-that kind of way. Meet our hero: He's a successful head chef at a big city restaurant who's got a horndog best friend (Beverly Hills, 90210's Brian A. Green) for a neighbor and four, count 'em, four lovely ladies as his roommates. Let's see, there's the newly divorced sister and her tween-age daughter (who, I swear, says literally two words the whole half hour), the understands-English-but-speaks-only-Spanish grandmother and the boozy sister-in-law (because drunk grieving widows are hilarious!)… and that's pretty much all we know about them so far. We spent far more time getting acquainted with Freddie's girl du jour, in this case, Gina from the old n
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Question: With the recent success of TV's Dancing with the Stars and cult movies like Shall We Dance? (the Japanese version, not the bland American remake) and Chicago, what are the chances Hollywood will stop remaking old TV shows into movies and start making musicals again? Christopher Walken, Richard Gere and John Travolta consider themselves dancers, and there are lots of actors with theater backgrounds who can dance and sing. What are your thoughts?
Answer: My thoughts, in a nutshell, are that the blockbuster mentality guiding the major studio filmmaking process favors known quantities, like popular old TV shows, and shies away from anything that smacks of a gamble. Musicals are a gamble: Chicago (2002) did $171 million in domestic box office, but it took it eight months to do it and was no doubt helped b
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