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Jackman ditches Oscars

29 October 2009 7:03 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Not to sound like a brownnoser, but I didn't watch the Oscars this year - I preferred following Mike Sampson's funny-as-heck rundown right here. I did hear great things about Hugh Jackman's tenure though, and many speculated the ceremony had found a new long-running host in the tradition of Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and Billy Crystal. Not the case. The Academy Awards are already deep into preparations for the next show this coming March, and so a frontman has to be named soon. According to... »

- Tony Lang

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'The Spy Next Door' Looks Like Jackie Chan's Worst

17 October 2009 2:34 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I have seen good trailers for bad movies, bad trailers for good movies, and bad trailers for bad movies, and I am prepared to say that the new look at Jackie Chan's The Spy Next Door is a can't-miss candidate for category three.

There's not a single point at which this movie looks good. Actually, I take that back: For a fleeting moment, it sounds like Jackie's character is named Bob Hope. It's all downhill after that. Don't believe me? Ok then, I'll break out the big guns. This movie co-stars George Lopez. And Billy Ray Cyrus. As government intelligence officers.

Still don't believe me? Well, good. I want you to see this trailer for yourself. That'll settle it. »

- Colin Boyd

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"Project Runway" 6.9 Recap: "Sequins, feathers, and fur, oh my!"

16 October 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

This show is very lucky. I was all set to go ballistic and pronounce "Project Runway is dead to me!", but the elimination provided a miraculous (and somewhat inexplicable) surprise.

We start off with Heidi Klum informing the eight remaining designers that there will be no immunities for the rest of the challenges, so after this show there'll be no "I have immunity, so I'll sleep through this one" excuses (I'm looking at you, Gordana!).

The eight leave to meet Tim Gunn, who's surrounded by mannequins stolen from the Las Vegas Tacky Hall Of Fame. This can only mean one thing ... this challenge will involve the greatest designer of all time, Bob Mackie!

Bob tells the designers that this week's challenge is to "create a gown using just a curtain rod and drapes". Okay, he doesn't say that, but how frickin' cool would that be? (and if you don't get that reference, »

- snicks

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Conan O'Brien, The Scourge of New Jersey

1 October 2009 5:13 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »

Update: Conan's latest reaction to being banned from flying into Newark: "So Mr. Mayor, I can't tell you how sorry I am that I didn't make that joke 15 years ago." _______________________________________________________________________ Conan O'Brien better steer clear of the Holland Tunnel next time he's in New York. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has banned (humorous mock-feud-style) the Tonight Show host from the entire state of New Jersey after O'Brien, who had already mocked the sanitation situation in Booker's fair city, dared to ban the politico from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif. Booker said in his second YouTube video on the subject (the first having... »

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Progress Report

28 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Mad Men recap is coming, promise. Around 2 Am last night the wi-fi connection dropped and many words (though not as many as in a Thomas Pynchon novel, say) vanished into the white limbo of blank space, or were sucked up an anteater's snout, or something. Point is, I am reconstructing the skeleton and will put the post up around midday. What the episode established is that Duck, my my, he's quite the "goer." If I know how to embed a sound effect, I would imitate Bob Hope's wolfish grawwhhhlllls whenever Hedy Lamarr or Jane Russell hove into view to illustrate my point about Duck, but I don't, such you'll just have to imagine it, assuming you know who Bob Hope is. These days I assume nothing. Check out: Bachelor in Paradise: late Hope, but very underrated as a sociological snapshot of Sixties suburbia (California division), desperate housewives, and »

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We Could Sure Use Frank Liberman Today

24 September 2009 7:52 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Julian Myers

Last time I visited Frank, at the Motion Picture Country Home a few months ago, he did not recognize me or, at least, did not seem to.

I had known Frank for about 40 years through his many years at Warner Bros., and during the decades when he was the chief personal publicist for Bob Hope, who also maintained several other publicists on his staff to do who-knows-what. 

 

Frank's wife, Pat Harris, died about 25 years ago. She also worked in the industry and his sister-in-law, Radie Harris, was the Hollywood columnist for a New York City publication. We all gave ... »

- Lew Harris

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Obit: Veteran Hollywood Publicist Frank Liberman dies at 92

24 September 2009 5:04 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Hollywood publicist Frank Liberman, longtime rep for Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller, has died at age 92.

Lieberman worked in the industry for seven decades, representing stars such as Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, William Shatner, Tony Bennett, Jack Paar, Joan Blondell and Joey Bishop. But it was his decades-long relationships with Hope, and later Diller, that defined his career.

Diller told the Los Angeles Times that Liberman was a "gentle man" with a "marve... »

- Glenn Abel

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Top Publicist Liberman Dead At 92

24 September 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Beloved Hollywood publicist Frank Liberman has died at a hospital in Tarzana, California, aged 92.

During his 50 years in the business, Liberman represented comedians Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller as well as Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, William Shatner and Nat 'King' Cole.

A former publicist for Warner Brothers, Liberman launched his own public relations company, Frank Liberman and Associates, in 1947. »

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Classic Cameos: The Muppet Movie

21 September 2009 2:33 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I think our original idea behind the Classic Cameos series was to pick one memorable cameo from a movie. However, The Muppet Movie is a long string of cameos, and why should I have to highlight only one? So many people pop up throughout the 1979 film -- my favorites are James Coburn, who owns the El Sleezo nightclub; Carol Kane's very silly "Myth? Yeth?" running gag; Mel Brooks in what's really more of an actual role than a cameo, as the mad scientist; and Orson Welles at the end of the film.

If that sounds like enough cameos, I've barely started. The Muppet Movie also has appearances from Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Telly Savalas, Paul Williams, Cloris Leachman, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Edgar Bergen (and Charlie McCarthy), Elliot Gould and Big Bird. Director James Frawley supposedly appears onscreen briefly, but I'm not sure I'd recognize him. I've included »

- Jette Kernion

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Fan Made Trailers: 'Raiders' '51 and 'Forrest Gump' '49

15 September 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I like to pride myself on having a pretty good memory for classic films, but man, my powers of recollection are nothing up against a dedicated film fan by the name of whoiseyevan. A couple of weeks ago I brought you his reworked Ghostbusters trailer as a 1954 classic starring Bob Hope and Dean Martin, and now he's back at work making trailers for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Forrest Gump as if they had been made in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

First up is Raiders, which was an ode to adventure serials of the '30's, but for the remake we've jumped ahead about thirty years. Now, it stars Charlton Heston as Dr. Jones, Anthony Quinn as Sallah, and the great Peter Lorre as everyone's favorite melty-face Nazi, Toht. Once again, you have to marvel at whoiseyevan's ability to find the perfect clips, and if you're as familiar with Raiders as I am, »

- Jessica Barnes

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Comic Legend Larry Gelbart's Last In-Depth Interview

15 September 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Larry Gelbart, one of the last great humor writers from TV’s “golden age” of the 1950s, passed away on September 11 from cancer. Throughout a career that had lasted 50 years—an anniversary that eludes many of even the best of marriages—Gelbart proved to be one of comedy's rare Renaissance men, responsible for groundbreaking work in every conceivable genre, from TV and radio to Broadway and cinema. While a teenager in the late 1940s, Gelbart was already writing gags for the likes of such major talents as Bob Hope, Jack Paar, and Danny Thomas. Less than ten years later, Gelbart joined the now mythical writing staff of Caesar's Hour. Along with Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil (and Danny) Simon, Gelbart was part of a team that many consider to be the finest in the history of television. Gelbart continued his creative winning streak into the next decade, »

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Interviews with Emmy/TV Legends hit the net

14 September 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is now launching a new website called EmmyTVLegends.org. It will include interviews with various celebrities who witnessed the rise of television including Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Walter Cronkite. Ironically, this is being done via the Internet. It's a bit like the passing of the torch from one predominant global medium of communication to the next.

Granted, all the videos have been uploaded to YouTube, so it's possible to find them without going through the website. Still, it's nice that the website organizes the interviews for the viewer. I was channeling my mother for a moment while watching some of them and thinking either "he/she looks so young in that interview" or "he/she is dead now".

The site represents a real treasure trove of television stories and history. I've only had a chance to watch a few of them so far. »

- Brad Trechak

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WWE unveils unlikely list of guest hosts for Raw

28 August 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

Back in the halcyon days of NBC's Bob Hope TV specials, the comedy legend would march out a list of the most bizarrely unrelated pseudo celebrities you could imagine.

You'd hear something like, "Join me this Sunday on NBC for 'Bob Hope's All-Star Salute to Existence' with great stars like Loni Anderson, Pink Lady and Jeff, the Upi All-American Football Team, Billy Carter, Steve Reeves and Brooke Shields!"

It looks like World Wrestling Entertainment is shooting for something equally bizarre with its list of upcoming Monday Night Raw guest hosts. Vince McMahon and company plan to continue the guest general manager routine through the end of 2009 and possibly all the way to Wrestlemania 26 next March.Continue reading WWE unveils unlikely list of guest hosts for Raw

 

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- John Scott Lewinski

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Lisa Ling: Sister Trespassed into Enemy Territory

7 August 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

It was professional duty - to research a story on human trafficking - that led Current TV journalist Laura Ling into North Korea on March 17, her sister, TV personality Lisa Ling, said Friday on CNN. According to Lisa, Laura Ling, 32, admitted to family members that she "very briefly" trespassed into enemy territory with colleague Euna Lee, 36. This led North Korea to detain the two journalists and sentence them to 12 years hard labor, which resulted in an international incident that this week saw former President Bill Clinton meet with North Korea's President Kim Jong Il to arrange the release of the »

- Stephen M. Silverman

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Clinton Rescues TV Journalists

6 August 2009 3:44 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »

The two TV journalists who were rescued from a North Korean prison by Bill Clinton expressed gratitude to the former president upon their arrival in California on Wednesday. "We feared at any moment that we could be sent to a hard labor camp, and then suddenly we were told we were going to a meeting," a tearful Laura Ling told a news conference at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, CA after arriving home with Clinton. He had reportedly acted after receiving appeals from the families of Ling and her colleague, Euna Lee. According to the Washington Post, Clinton's trip was paid for by "wealthy business people," and the only taxpayer money used went to pay the salaries of the Secret Service agents who normally travel with Clinton. Sow Chemical provided the plane Clinton flew from his home in New York to Burbank. Movie producer Steve Bing provided another plane that »

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They're Home! Laura Ling & Euna Lee Are Back in the U.S.

5 August 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Laura Ling and Euna Lee are safely back on American soil, a day after the two American journalists were released from custody in North Korea."We're home and free," Ling said in her first comments after landing. "Thirty hours ago," she said, fighting back tears as she spoke in a California airplane hangar, "Euna Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we would end up in a hard-labor camp. Then we were told that we were going to a meeting. We were taken to a location, and when we walked thought the doors, »

- Stephen M. Silverman

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Bustin’ Ghosts in ‘54!

3 August 2009 6:52 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Amidst the Mad Max hopefuls, Asian flicks galore, and yes those Kick-Ass clips, this little wonder of fan made love and care came across my desk. It’s a “what if…” of a trailer for Ghostbusters… if it was made in 1954 with the likes of Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Fred MacMurray. Since it premiered online two weeks ago, the trailer, made by filmmaker and all around creative force, Ivan Guerrero, has certainly made the media rounds but it is such a fun and well put together bit that I just had to share. Check it out after the break. And be sure to take a look at Ivan’s website for a lot more neato stuff.

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- Ben Umstead

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Today's Short: "Ghost Busters (1954)"

31 July 2009 8:41 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

What would Ghostbusters look like if it was made 30 years earlier? Who would be playing Ray, Peter and Egon, in place of the great 80's trio? If you have a hard time imagining it, here's a faux-trailer by YouTube user/filmmaker "whoiseyevan" that imagines what Ghostbusters would look had it been released in 1954, starring Bob Hope as Ray Stantz, Dean Martin as Peter Venkman, and Fred MacMurray as Egon Spengler. Bonus: Jerry Lewis as Louis Tully! I'm pretty surprised at how well this works, too.

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Today's Short is a feature on JustPressPlay showcasing wonderful short films found all around the web. If you have suggestions, hit us up.

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- Arya Ponto

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What If Ghost Busters Was Done in 1954?

30 July 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

From HorrorMovies.ca comes a cool new retro fan trailer for Ghost Busters. Synopsis from the creator; Ghostbusters, the movie, was shot in 1954 instead of 1984? Who should be part of the cast? Would they have the same equipment? Who would they battle? Considering Dan Aykroyd's concept owes a lot to Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello, and Lewis and Martin comedies of the 40s and 50s, it is not that big of a stretch to speculate.

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Watch This: 'Ghostbusters' 1954

30 July 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Well, usually this works the other way around, but for once, a modern film is getting a classic update...at least when it comes to the trailer, anyway. This time, a dedicated fan by the name of whoiseyevan has made a trailer for the Ghostbusters movie that could have been...if it had been made in 1954. Taking over the roles made famous by Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, and Bill Murray are crooner Dean Martin as Dr. Ray Stantz (Aykroyd), Fred McMurray as Dr. Egon Spengler (Ramis), and who else but Bob Hope could fill Murray's coveralls as the smart-a**, Dr. Venkman?

All those classic 'busting' touches are there, which is probably what made this fan-trailer such a success. Then again, I might be biased because they managed to work in one of my favourite lines from the film in one of the title cards. So even if you aren't impressed with the result, »

- Jessica Barnes

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