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BuzzSugar — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:45:34 -0700

Justin Timberlake will present at the Emmys this weekend for the first time - The Futon Critic
The music industry wants cash for iTunes songs previews - GeekSugar
Jon Hamm and January Jones will be on Oprah next Monday - yay! - Vulture
Josh Lucas will join Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in Live as We Know it - Coming Soon
Youth in Revolt's release date has been pushed back to January 2010 - Cinematical
LeBron James will make his movie debut in Fantasy Baseball Camp - Zap2it
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be taking a break once their tour ends - HitFix
Five of John Malkovich's favorite films - Rotten Tomatoes
If you liked Greg the Bunny, MTV has another show for you - TV Squad

Buzz News Roundup, 7/30

BuzzSugar — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:46 -0700

The Hollywood Reporter has news that CBS will remake the 1970s cop series The Streets of San Francisco.
ComingSoon reports that Guillermo del Toro is producing a remake of the horror-thriller telefilm Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
After a legal battle, John Goodman is back on board for the medieval drama Pope Joan, Variety writes.
Speaking of legal battles, the New York Daily News has an update on the Project Runway proceedings - including the shocker that Tim Gunn didn't get paid for the first season!
Alicia Keys will sing the next James Bond theme song, which was written by Jack White, E! reports.
Miley Cyrus's album Breakout debuted at the top of the charts this week, reports Variety.
In other remake news, The Hollywood Reporter writes that ABC has won the rights to remake the French comedy Do This, Don't Do That.
Josh Lucas will star in the Showtime pilot Possible Side Effects, Zap2it reports.

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Sundance Review: Death in Love

BuzzSugar — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:00:22 -0800

Ugh. Where to begin with the list of atrocities the Sundance film Death in Love manages to accomplish? Preposterously wooden dialog? Check. Gratuitously violent sexuality? Check. Quick cuts to the grotesque torturing and dismembering of concentration camp detainees meant to "shock" the audience? Check. A collection of gratingly obnoxious characters, none of whom gives us any reason whatsoever to sympathize with them? Check, check, check.

This film may as well be titled Psychopathic Murderers, Mating. About a third of the way into the movie I was mentally pleading for it to have something - anything - redeeming about it. Then the sole redeeming factor entered the film, and that factor's name is Adam Brody. And sure, I like him well enough, but when Adam Brody is the one thing about a movie that doesn't entirely make you want to vomit, it's a bad sign. It's time to walk away.

The movie starts and ends with shrill, anguished screaming. Not just a few shrieks but the kind of prolonged screaming that makes you want to kill someone, just to make it stop. There's then a way-too-long montage set to music that alternates between images of various women having sex with a man and these same women's bodies being ripped apart or otherwise mangled in experiments. Awesome, right? Yeah, read more.

The plot is structured around the story of the Mother (Jacqueline Bisset), a woman who saves her own life by seducing the Nazi doctor performing experiments on concentration camp detainees. After becoming his pet, she generally turns into a bad person, eventually marries an American and moves to New York where she raises two boys and terrorizes them into having supremely messed up issues with women. The story then mainly follows one of the sons (played with a lot of whining by Josh Lucas) - his struggle to come to terms with being 40, his work problems, his relationship issues, his hatred toward his mother, and so on and on.

None of it matters, though. There's little point to this steaming pile of mess. It's bleak, it's violent, it's gratuitously disgusting, and for what? There's no real moral. We hate each and every one of these cruel, self-absorbed characters (with the possible exception of the other son, an emotionally stunted yet gifted pianist played by Lukas Haas), and when there's no reason to care about the characters in a movie, it feels a lot like a waste of time. The story's heart is coldly and apathetically cut out, and we're forced to watch and call it "art."

Bottom line: There is no need to ever see this movie.

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Buzz News Roundup, 11/7

BuzzSugar — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:38:52 -0800

It may be "news" instead of news, but nonetheless, a source tells The New York Observer that Lindsay Lohan is in talks to guest-star on Ugly Betty.
It's official: PopSugar says The Eagles bested Britney Spears on the Billboard charts, thanks to a last-minute rule change that let the Eagles album be on the chart despite being sold only at Wal-Mart.
ComingSoon has news that Josh Lucas will star in Tell-Tale, the film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."
According to NME, Meat Loaf has canceled his Europe tour due to a cyst on his vocal cords - but he swears he's not retiring for good just yet.
Zap2It has news that Jennifer Connelly will join Keanu Reeves in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Lalia Ali will host a teen makeover series called Student Body on the N, Variety reports.
Reuters reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will have a cameo in the Sex and the City movie.
According to a recent study, most people paid nothing for Radiohead's latest album, writes Billboard.
Rosie O'Donnell is in discussions with MSNBC to host a prime-time show, reports Zap2It.

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