Many a young actor has come to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune, only to discover that the road to success is a long and difficult one, with plenty of detours and diversions along the way. And many have found that, in their early, hungry days of trying to make it as a working actor, the horror genre always has a (meager, but cashable) paycheck for a rising young talent with stars in their eyes. And as a salute to those young, starving artists, we give you this week’s special, Halloween-tinged supercut, in which we’ve tracked down and collected some of the more entertaining and surprising of those early roles. Check it out after the jump. … Read More
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The Morning's Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. The first teaser trailer for Kimberly Pierce’s reboot of Carrie might not show much in the way of footage, but it really sets the mood, doesn’t it? [via Pop Culture Brain]
2. Johnny Depp is launching a publishing imprint that he says will feature “authentic, outspoken and visionary ideas and voices.” Already… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. The first trailer for Gore Verbinski’s big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger, which stars Armie Hammer as the title character and Johnny Depp as Tonto, has arrived online, but doesn’t give away much in terms of plot or tone. We are clear, however, on the fact that there will be lots and lots of… Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. If you’re a Homeland fan who doesn’t have Showtime, you’ll be thrilled to hear that last night’s Season 2 premiere is available online here. (The Season 7 premiere of Dexter is streaming, too.) [via Pop Culture Brain]
2. Pussy Riot’s planned appeal hearing for today has been… Read More
The Celebrity Couples We’re Most Inexplicably Attached To
We were very upset this week to learn that one of our favorite celebrity couples of all time, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett, are getting a divorce after nine years of marriage. In fact, we were much too upset, considering the fact that we know neither party personally, and we know nothing about them as a couple other than what we surmise from photos and the odd interview. But some celebrity couples just have that effect on us — we find ourselves inexplicably attached to them, whether they just make so much sense together, or because they seem to represent some little corner of perfection all on their own. After the jump, we’ve put together a list of such couples, both present and (sadly) past. Click through to see who we chose, and let us know which celebrity couples fascinate you to no end in the comments. … Read More
8 Unreleased Movies We’re Dying to See
Last fall, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Toronto International Film Festival to unveil Twixt, his latest feature film. It didn’t go well — in fact, it went so poorly that there was some question as to whether the picture (unattached to a distributor) would see a release at all. It finally will, this weekend, with a single-theater engagement in San Francisco, but that seems like quite a fall for the director of The Godfather (even if his more recent work hasn’t exactly wowed us).
Meanwhile, a film that’s been in limbo for far longer than Coppola’s is inching towards a release: Dark Blood, the contemporary Western thriller from director George Sluzier (The Vanishing) that River Phoenix was working on when he died clear back in 1993. Sluzier put out a trailer back in May; last week, the film’s long-awaited premiere was announced for September’s Netherlands Film Festival. Those two resurrections got us thinking about other unreleased movies that we’re still itching to see; they’re collected for your reading (and partial viewing) pleasure after the jump. … Read More
Johnny Depp Will Play Edward Scissorhands for ‘Family Guy’
If you’ve been missing Johnny Depp from the early days of Tim Burton (when they both resembled people and not giant paychecks), you can catch the actor in an upcoming episode of Fox’s Family Guy. He’ll be reprising his role as the mild-mannered man with sharp scissors for mitts, Edward Scissorhands.
EW reports… Read More
Photos of Celebrities Reading Books About Other Celebrities
When we came across this photo of Steve Martin reading about Bob Dylan, we had a serious celebs-they’re-just-like-us moment. After all, you’d think that biographies of cultural heroes are for us plebs, who would thrill at descriptions of fame, stardom, and emotional breakdowns. Okay, we’re overstating it a little, but still. Turns out, celebrities are just as fascinated with each other as we are with them — especially the rock stars — and we think it’s very enlightening to see which of our cultural icons are fascinated by which. Click through to check out our gallery of photos of celebs reading books about other celebs, and if you’ve spotted another good one, be sure to let us know in the comments! … Read More
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we met amazing teenage inventors. We read the top 10 literary quotes from The Simpsons. We got scientific with a Slinky. We showered 20 times after reading about the most contaminated surfaces in hotel rooms. We saw a new line of superhero-themed… Read More
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we got sex advice from Aubrey Plaza. We watched one man almost get shot after dressing up as a zombie. Thankfully, nobody’s face was eaten. We witnessed the best and worst moments of the MTV Movie Awards. We gawked at photos of a 40-pound… Read More
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