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Buzz News Roundup, 6/4

BuzzSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:32:44 PDT

Leelee Sobieski is the lucky actress who will play Dillinger's girlfriend in Public Enemies, writes Variety. Dillinger, mind you, is being played by Johnny Depp.
Actor, filmmaker and one-time husband to Audrey Hepburn Mel Ferrer has died at age 90, Zap2It reports.
Variety has the news that Bruce Willis will star in a film adaptation of the video game Kane and Lynch: Dead Men.
Showtime has picked up Diablo Cody's TV show, The United States of Tara starring Toni Collette, writes TV Week.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Scarface director Brian De Palma will spearhead a film about the Boston Stranglers.
Billboard has some details on the new Calexico album, which hits stores in September.
Andre Braugher has been cast in Ray Romano's TNT pilot about 40-something men, writes Zap2it.
According to ComingSoon, Ed Helms has landed himself two new movie roles - one in the Night at the Museum sequel, and another in the indie comedy Manure.
Pushing Daisies has topped an AOL poll of the best new TV series of 2007-08, writes Reuters; Gossip Girl was second.

The Brady Bunch + Carrie = Genius

GiggleSugar — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:00:00 PST

This video is so amazing I'm almost hyperventilating from its genius. It takes an infamous episode from The Brady Bunch featuring poor Jan wearing a hideous wig and mashes it up with Brian De Palma's '70s horror masterpiece Carrie - complete with his signature split-screen shots. Two great tastes that taste great together!

Frightful Friday: Carrie

BuzzSugar — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:30:00 PDT

While Carrie is probably my favorite Stephen King story ever, I also find it to be terribly sad in addition to being terrifying. Every time I watch it I'm catapulted back to those high school days when kids were so outright cruel to each other. Then again, despite the sadness in Carrie's life, this is also the ultimate revenge fantasy - what victim of a vicious high school hierarchy wouldn't want to lock her tormentors in a gym and unleash the wrath of hell on them?

The movie follows the teenage Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek with the spookiest eyes in cinematic history) who can't seem to catch a break. At school, the other students ruthlessly poke fun at the socially awkward Carrie while at home her fanatically religious mother basically screams at her for constantly sinning. Soon, Carrie discovers that she has the ability to move objects with her mind which is at first confusing, and then pretty helpful.

At the school prom, however, things take a turn for the worse. She's nominated prom queen as a horrible prank and then is further humiliated by her classmates when they douse her in pigs' blood. The rest, as they say, is horror movie history.