1. Tracy Morgan was taken to a hospital yesterday after he collapsed during a dinner at the Sundance Film Festival; apparently the cause of the incident was “a combination of exhaustion and altitude,” but according to one person who was there, Morgan “seemed out of control, yelling and falling onto the ground.” [via USA Today]
2. Swizz Beatz would like you to know that he is not the CEO of Megaupload (he was still in negotiations for the gig when everything went down last week), and “is in no way connected to the crimes of which they are being accused.” [via MTV]
3. Claire Danes has been named 2012 Woman of the Year by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University, and as such, will lead a parade through Cambridge on January 26th; the group has yet to announce who its Man of the Year will be. Any nominations? [via EW]
4. Steve Buscemi will reprise the role of private detective Len Wosniak in an upcoming episode of 30 Rock that he’ll also be directing. The promising premise: “Jack wants Len to help him form a private police force where the salary starts at $5 million, so the police have the same interest in protecting the rich.” [via InsideTV]
5. Nicki Minaj’s highly-anticipated sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which was originally scheduled to come out on Valentine’s Day, apparently won’t be dropping until April 3rd now. How do you think this news makes poor little Sophia Grace feel? [via Vulture]
Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!
1. Nas is working on an autobiography called It Ain’t Hard to Tell that is scheduled to come out next fall. Says music journalist Touré, who is collaborating with him on the project: “I’ve been talking to Nas about writing his autobiography for 15 years. This is hip hop history. We’ll tell his life & deconstruct some songs.” [via NME]
2. The first episode of Showtime’s new CIA drama Homeland is now streaming online, weeks ahead of its October 2 premiere date. What do you make of Claire Danes’ performance?
3. While it comes as no surprise that Tyler Perry topped Forbes’ list of the highest paid men in entertainment after making a whopping $130 million last year, we were kind of shocked that the only other actor to crack the top 10 was Leonardo DiCaprio, who brought in $77 million between May 2010 and May 2011.
4. Hugh Grant is the latest star to join the ensemble cast of the forthcoming film adaption of David Mitchell‘s award-winning novel Cloud Atlas. Already on board: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Susan Sarandon, and Hugo Weaving. [via THR]
5. Is the world ready for a Whitney Houston comeback? According to Rolling Stone, she’s planning to return to the big screen in Sparkle, a remake of a 1976 musical “loosely based on the story of the Supremes.” She’d be playing “the skeptical and unsupportive mother of the three main characters,” which seems like a bit of a waste to us.
[Editor's note: Flavorwire is counting down our most popular features of 2010. This post comes in at position number 4. It was originally published August 20, 2010.] It always made sense that Seinfeld, one of TV’s greatest and most original sitcoms, would remain influential over a decade after ending its run. But honestly, we never imagined it would be celebrated for its fashion. And yet, The New York Times recently suggested that the show’s very own hair clip-loving, couch cover dress-wearing Elaine Benes is “the summer’s downtown fashion muse.” While we don’t necessarily agree, we can see what they’re saying, and nothing could be more obvious than the larger point that the ’90s style revival is in full swing. For those of us who don’t fancy wearing socks and grandma frocks together, we’ve compiled a photo gallery of 10 other fictional characters from the ’90s who would make perfectly good fashion icons in 2010.
1. The trailer for Red Riding Hood, director Catherine Hardwicke’s follow-up to Twilight has dropped, and naturally, the wolf that is tormenting Amanda Seyfried is a really hot dude. [via Vulture]
2. MTV has broken down all two and a half minutes of the first Green Lantern trailer frame by frame.
3. Emmy award-winner Claire Danes may be returning to TV as a CIA case officer. She’s in talks for the female lead in Showtime’s new psychological thriller Homeland from former 24 executive producer/showrunner Howard Gordon. [via Deadline]
4. Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of the The Wizard of Oz that’s based on the original script. [via Deadline]
5. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s son James Wilkie gave Emma Watson a handwritten fan letter at the New York premiere of the new Harry Potter movie. [via Gatecrasher]
If you fast-forward through commercials, you might be missing out on some of the best dancing on television. In an effort to capitalize on our current obsession with all things dance, companies like Ikea, Nike, T-Mobile, and Ford have been making spectacular use of choreography in recent years – and we think this is an excellent excuse to create a list of some of our favorites. Read More »
To be frank, the trailer for Zac Efron’s next movie, which plops Efron into the theater scene of Depression-era New York,has a lot going against it. One rather unavoidable problem is that it’s a Zac Efron movie. We’re convinced he chooses movies based on whether or not they will require a haircut (period drama=’30s hair=good to go). Another strike against the film is that the female lead is Claire Danes, who, our eternal love for Angela Chase notwithstanding (BTW, My So-Called Life is now on Hulu!), has been in a string of duds lately. Read More »
