Tania Raymonde best known as Bens daughter on Lost will be part of an ensemble cast including Rob Schneider Kristin Cavallari and Rumer Willis for the indie comedy Wild Cherry according to VarietyThe plot which covers plenty of familiar ground follows Schneider as the father of a high school girl who plans to lose her virginity to her football-playing boyfriend And hes only a place kicker Her plans go awry however when she learns hes only trying to impress his gridiron buddies by getting her in the bang book With the support of her gal pals the scorned one seeks revenge on the football team by planning a schoolwide sex-withholding plan drawing inspiration from the Greek play LysistrataShooting is expected to begin May 7 in Winnipeg Adam Bryant
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The ongoing odyssey of Tom Cruise and fiancée Katie Holmes earned the War of the Worlds star a brand-new category at Saturday's Razzie awards: most tiresome tabloid target, honoring "the celebs we're all sick and tired of." Elsewhere, Jenny McCarthy's Dirty Love took home four dishonors, while Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo's Rob Schneider, Star Wars: Episode III's Hayden Christensen and House of Wax's Paris Hilton saw their big-screen turns deemed dubious.
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Question: A long time ago I read something about a lawsuit and some kind of a fake critic — what was it about and was there a resolution?
Answer: The legal case you remember was a class-action suit filed in 2001 by two disgruntled California moviegoers who claimed that ads featuring glowing quotes by "David Manning" of The Ridgefield Press enticed them to see A Knight's Tale under false pretenses. Leaving aside the fact that I think moviegoers who rely on quote ads to make viewing decisions are on a par with diners who let TV commercials suggest where they should eat, the suit turned up the fact that there was no David Manning. Although there is a small Connecticut newspaper called The Ridgefield Press, two advertising executives at Sony Pictures invented critic David Manning out of whole cloth. That also amazes me, given that the field of movie reviewing is
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The Motion Picture Association of America has nixed an advertising campaign for the upcoming horror sequel Saw II that featured images of severed fingers. The MPAA claims it never approved the artwork, which was released on the Web earlier this month. And if it had, it would have found that displaying "dismembered fingers... is unacceptable under Advertising Administration standards." Showing the Leaning Tower of Pisa protruding from Rob Schneider's crotch, however, is cool. — Additional reporting by Matt Webb Mitovich
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[Editor's Note: The Teen Choice Awards were rebroadcast on Wednesday night on the TV Guide Channel.] I have to say right away, our TV Guide Channel kicked butt on the official red carpet two-hour preshow, and I'd state this even if I didn't work here. Kimberly Caldwell, Rosanna Tavarez and Chris Booker were awesome hosts and set the proper tone for Fox's awards show. Speaking of which…8:00 pm Gwen Stefani opens the show with her No. 1 hit "Hollaback Girl." Can I stress how much I love the original, unedited version and how much I detest the edited version? I know it's network TV, but why perform the song if it has to be edited? Sing "Rich Girl" or something else. All those "shhh" sounds go right through me. OK — got that off my chest.8:06 I said this about the MTV Movie Awards and I'll say it here. How does Andy Dick continue to get booked on these awards each year? So. Not. Funny.8:12 Jim Car
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