Jodie Foster, Will Ferrell
Commencement speeches aren't always just platitudes and cliches. Every once in a while, a graduating class will luck out with a seriously entertaining celebrity speaker. Here are the top five speeches we wish we had had at our graduations:
Ellen DeGeneres
School: Tulane University Class of 2009
Best Line: "I realize most of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven't slept since Fat Tuesday, but you can't graduate until I finish so listen up."
Watch this speech and more after the jump!
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Miley Cyrus and Hayden Panettiere by Steve Grantiz/WireImage.com
Shrieks and slime filled UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion as Jack Black, Miley Cyrus, Shia LeBoeuf, Jessica Alba and many, many more took center stage at the annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. The first victim claimed by the green goo was Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford, but before the night was over Mummy star Brendan Fraser and heartthrob Orlando Bloom would also be covered in gooey goodness. The orange carpet, with its usual displays of playful fashion and eardrum-busting noise, was a chance for celebrity parents to share the spotlight with their kids. Brad Garrett ('Til Death)and Jodie Foster had both claimed tickets after taking part in kid-friendly movies. For Garrett the question wasn’t whether playing Underdog gave him more clout with his kids, or whether it was getting tickets to the show. “Being the animated dog helped get tickets for this show," he says. "I’m a big kid, too, so I love it!” Foster, who has only made one movie her kids are allo...
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Jodie Foster in The Brave One courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Over the weekend, feel-good vigilante flick The Brave One displaced 3:10 to Yuma as the top movie in America with an opening take of $14 million. Russell and Christian's 3:10 clocked in with a haul of $9.2 mil, good for a second-place finish. Rounding out the top five were Mr. Woodcock (debuting with $9.1 mil), Dragon Wars ($5.4 mil in its first weekend) and Superbad, adding $5.2 mil to its ongoing haul.
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Taxi Driver box art courtesy Sony Pictures
DVD Tuesday Taxi Driver Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese and New York Citys Heart of DarknessDid the world really need a new collectors edition of Taxi Driver 1976 Probably not but its a great excuse as though one were needed to recommend a great film And on top of Taxi Drivers intrinsic merits watching it again was a fascinating reminder of how much New York City has changed since the mid-1970s Check out Columbus Circle sans the massive glass slabs of the Time Warner Center visit the now-vanished Bellmore Cafeteria and witness the grunginess of Central Parks unrefurbished Maine Monument and the sheer sleazy glory of Times Square before Disney scrubbed the life out of it Theres a shocker in every scene and thats before Travis Bickle Robert De Niro starts his personal cleanup campaign I remember that New York vividly and seeing Taxi Driver brings it all backFor anyone who doesnt know the plot it chronicles the mental disintegration of insomniac
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Twentieth Century Fox's Fox Walden banner has set four films' release dates:• The Dark Is Rising (Oct. 5), about a young man who learns he is the last in a line of mythical warriors. Stars Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eccleston and Jonathan Jackson.• Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Nov. 16), a family fantasy starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Jason Bateman.• Nim's Island (April 25, 2008), featuring Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin.• City of Ember (Columbus Day '08), a sci-fi adventure helmed by Monster House's Gil Kenan.
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Per Variety, Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin are near deals to star in Nim's Island, a fantasy pic about a young girl who, when her scientist father is lost at sea, communicates electronically with a reclusive author. Breslin has also booked the period film American Girl.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman are in talks to play the parents of Emile Hirsch's Speed Racer.
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Jon Tenney, The Closer
TNT's The Closer (Mondays at 9 pm/ET) is the hottest show on cable right now, and it has the numbers to prove it. On the day that the Season 2 premiere's record ratings came in, TVGuide.com got on the phone with Jon Tenney, who plays FBI agent Fritz Howard, beau to Kyra Sedgwick's crafty, if curt, police chief.
TVGuide.com: So you're a star of TV's most-watched — what's the qualifier again? — ad-supported cable drama telecast ever?
Jon Tenney: "Ad-supported, original scripted cabl
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When she makes movies (and not oogly-googly noises for her year-old twins), Julia Roberts is filmdom's highest-paid actress. Per the Hollywood Reporter's annual power list, the Pretty Woman now commands $20 million per film, edging out No. 2 on the list, Nicole Kidman (whose ask is as high as $17 mil). Rounding out the Top 10 are Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Jodie Foster (back on the list for the first time since 2002), Charlize Theron and Jennifer Aniston, who's a steal at just $9 million a film.
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Clay-animated family pic Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit topped the weekend box office with a decent $16.1 million. After two weekends at No. 1, Jodie Foster's Flightplan slid to No. 2 with $10.8 million, followed by the Cameron Diaz-Toni Collette chick flick, In Her Shoes (No. 3 with $10 million); the Al Pacino-Matthew McConaughey man movie, Two for the Money (No. 4 with $8.4 million), and the Boris Kodjoe-Idris Elba, um, unisex musical (yeah, that's it), The Gospel (No. 5 with $8 million).
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Serenity
Jodie Foster's Flightplan, which is being boycotted by flight attendants' unions, ruled the box office for a second week by scoring another $15 million, besting buzzed-about sci-fi newcomer Serenity (with $10.1 million), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ($9.8 million) and the crime drama A History of Violence ($8.2 million). Into the Blue, meanwhile, having placed fifth with a scant $7 mil, wants to remind pirating unions that it paints an awfully unflattering picture of treasure hunters.
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