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Rachel Bilson Spills on HIMYM, Weekend Movie Reviews and Charlize and Piven Talk About Matt

Molly — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:29:14 -0700

It's time for the Weekend Edition of PopSugar Rush! We've got exclusive video of Charlize Theron, Jeremy Piven talking Damon and David Arquette talking Coco last night. Also, Rachel Bilson chats about HIMYM and Kristen Bell dishes about charity looking super cute. Add in some weekend movie reviews of Amelia, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant and more! Watch the PopSugar Rush Weekend Edition now!

Caption It: Which Caption Should Win?

BuzzSugar — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:30:54 -0700

Things I learned this week: everyone loves a good Jeremy Piven joke.

For this week's Caption It challenge, I chose a picture from The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard. There are a lot of good submissions, but here's what the finalists have to say:

Piven: "You mean to tell me I'm not nominated for an Emmy this year?"
"If you stop crying I will throw in a CD player for free!"
"It's okay baby, Jon & Kate will be back together soon."
"Stop crying, we drew straws fair and square. Now the rest of us will take my car and you drive with Jeremy Piven."

Caption It!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:15:40 -0700

Welcome to the Caption It game on BuzzSugar! Every Wednesday, I'll post a photo still from a TV show or movie here and challenge you to think of the most hilarious caption possible. I'll announce the finalists the following Tuesday, and you'll get to vote for the best caption!

Last week's challenge was so much fun, it's kind of a hard act to follow! At the time I'm writing this, sundew is winning in the poll with this caption for the Julie and Julia image (but it's a very close race!):

"Y-M-C-A!"

Congrats, sundew! Now it's time to dream up some captions for this week's photo from the upcoming movie The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard:

Leave your captions in the comment space below before 5 p.m. PDT on Monday, Aug. 17 to be considered for a spot in the voting round. Have fun!

Is Entourage Still Fresh - Or Stale?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:33:06 -0700

Ari Gold and the gang won't be leaving our TV screens anytime soon: HBO has just renewed Entourage for a sixth season. The episodes should start filming next year and air in Summer 2009.

Entourage has done a lot of skewering of Hollywood in these past few years, and it doesn't seem like it's ready to wind down anytime soon - at least according to Jeremy Piven, who said after winning his third Emmy that he could see the show going on. Do you think Entourage still has something to say?

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Odds and Ends From the Emmy Press Room

BuzzSugar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:51 -0700

I'm still feeling the afterglow today from my time in the Emmy press room, where so many happy stars came to talk about their big awards. There are a bunch of tidbits I didn't get to share with you live, so to see what Bryan Cranston, Paul Giamatti, and Laura Linney had to say, read on!

Bryan Cranston was maybe the happiest guy on Earth when he came back to the press room, clutching his Emmy in one hand and the envelope with his name on it in the other. "I thought I was the dark horse, I really did," he said. "I thought I should have been in the back of the pack. Breaking Bad only had seven episodes to air. I didn't know if that would be enough sampling for the academy to take a look. I'm shocked and wonderfully surprised."
Cranston also talked a little about his bald head, a look he's currently sporting for the role as his character is going through chemotherapy (he's also lost 17 pounds, he said). Immersing himself in a character that way, he said, is "something actors dream about." That said, he compared baldness to having a skull made of velcro. "There are all kinds of things that are sticking to my head - fuzz, a jujube . . . "
Someone asked Jon Hamm about his reaction to his success and whether he was getting either a) shy or b) a big head. After laughing that both of those things were true, Hamm got serious: "I still feel like I'm in 10th grade and no one will talk to me at lunch," he said.
Laura Linney said she's still got a huge stack of history books by her bed, long after her work on John Adams was done. "I had a real understanding of how people get addicted to American history," she said, because each person leads to another. "I'm still reading, actually."

To hear from Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeff Probst, and January Jones, just read more.

Jeff Probst shrugged off criticism about the Emmys opening when he came backstage to talk about winning the Outstanding Reality Host award. "Did that work? I don't know," he said. "I give a lot of credit to [producer] Ken Ehrlich and those guys in terms of putting up with us."
Speaking of that opener, Jeremy Piven poked some fun at it during his acceptance speech and then went on at length about it backstage. "I thought we were being punked as an audience," he said. "There was that awkward - you know, like in the movie The Producers, [play-within-a-play] Springtime for Hitler? It was that confusing moment like, you know, what's happening right now?"

During the Mad Men session, January Jones declined to hint at where Betty's storyline is going, but she did say it's been fun to play the darker side of Betty. "The first season was all Betty sort of imploding," she said, "and the second season she's sort of exploding."
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner made an interesting point when reporters asked how it felt to be the first basic cable show to win an outstanding series award. "I'm surprised that there's such a segregated and caste system at the Emmys - I was unaware of it," he said. "I have this amazing cast. None of them were asked to present tonight."
Before he started rambling about inappropriate things, Barry Sonnenfeld praised the upcoming season of Pushing Daisies: "The scripts are better than last year," he said. "I think they're funnier. I think all of the actors have really gotten into their characters."
Wishing The Amazing Race would stop submitting its name after six straight Emmy wins? Don't count on it. "I doubt it, I really do," producer Jerry Bruckheimer said when asked if the show would step aside. "We love these statues."
Though Paul Giamatti was widely expected to win for playing John Adams, he claimed he had no expectations himself. "Not an optimist," he said. He compared his work on the miniseries to an endurance test (while wearing a hot wig): "I had to do everything," he said. But, on the other hand, "I got to do everything, which was amazing - run the emotional gamut and ride a horse . . . "

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Live From the Emmy Press Room: Jeremy Piven

BuzzSugar — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:00:45 -0700

Jeremy Piven just stopped by the press room to talk about the Emmy he won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Entourage. This was Piven's third win in the category, and he said this one was "more shocking than the first two."

"I do believe the show is getting better," Piven said. "I think that's the brilliance of HBO, is that they stick with their shows, and this show has come to find its voice in the fifth season. The characters are getting more intricate . . . It's just a blessing to get to play this character."

And he said he doesn't see Entourage winding down anytime soon: "When I first heard of the show I thought, 'This premise is so fertile' - I mean, we all have jobs because people are curious about the backstage life of entertainment, of Hollywood. I was on the Larry Sanders Show for a few years. That show could still be running. I think this show could continue on - we have so many brilliant actors in this town."

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Movie Preview: Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:31:47 -0700

The title of this movie doesn't have an exclamation point at the end - I added that to the headline on account of my extreme enthusiasm for the RocknRolla trailer! As a huge fan of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I am positively giddy to see a trailer for another movie in that same vein. Plus, the cast rocks. There's Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, and, well, Ludacris. There's also Hottie McManly himself, Gerard Butler.

The trailer shows a supernatural aspect to this movie, along with the same old violence and that kind of wry, dark humor that permeates Snatch and Barrels. The plot description states: "London's criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster's shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs."

If you are already a fan of director Guy Ritchie's style (we can ignore that he ever had anything to do with Swept Away for now), you might swoon at this trailer just as much as I am. The movie opens in the UK September 12, and then we'll get it October 31. Until the video becomes embeddable, you'll have to check out the trailer over on Empire where it premiered. Enjoy! And let me know what you think.

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What Do You Think About the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy?

BuzzSugar — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:18:34 -0700

Jeremy Piven won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy! He beat out Jon Cryer, Kevin Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Rainn Wilson. What do you think about this?

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TV Tonight: "Fashion Rocks"

BuzzSugar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:20:49 -0700

If you subscribe to any Conde Nast magazines, chances are you came across a copy - or, as was the case with me, numerous copies - of the Fashion Rocks supplement, a magazine published annually by the company where pretty outfits and music collide. Tonight, the clothes and the performers come together again at 9 p.m. for a CBS TV special celebrating New York Fashion Week.

Jeremy Piven is hosting the fourth annual installment of the show, which mixes fashion segments with musical performances. Among those scheduled to appear: Aerosmith, Fergie, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez, Maroon 5, Martina McBride and Carrie Underwood. For a sneak preview of the show, check out this video. And for a full list of performers and presenters, read more

Performers
Aerosmith, Lindsey Buckingham, Mary J. Blige, Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Chad Kroeger, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Ludacris, Maroon 5, Martina McBride, Santana, Carrie Underwood and Usher

Presenters
Jessica Alba, Max Azria, Mischa Barton, Tyra Banks, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Francisco Costa, 50 Cent, Cuba Gooding Jr., Teri Hatcher, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Irina Lazareanu, Denis Leary, Kimora Lee Simmons, Sean Lennon, Emily Procter, LeAnn Rimes and Ashlee Simpson

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Jeremy Piven to Play a Desperate Car Salesman

BuzzSugar — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:27:17 -0700

And somehow, this seems fitting.
In the first deal between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's company Gary Sanchez Productions and Paramount Vantage, Jeremy Piven will play a used-car liquidator in a "high-concept comedy" titled The Goods: The Don Ready Story.

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According to Reuters, "Piven will play a character who's hired to save a struggling car dealership during a Fourth of July weekend sale."

Good call, folks.
After seeing him play a sleazeball in Smokin' Aces, and considering how convincing he is on "Entourage," it seems right that Piven stick to these desperate or depraved characters. Hopefully with his skills and the influence of the Ferrell-McKay duo The Don Ready Story will be a super success.

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