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Buzz News Roundup, 7/21
- Variety reports that Fergie will, in fact, join the star-studded cast of Rob Marshall's movie musical Nine, which so far includes the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard and Judi Dench, among others.
- The fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" has been overturned, the New York Times reports.
- The AP has the news that Ebert and Roeper are both done with their movie review TV show.
- James Purefoy is in negotiations to play the lead in NBC's The Philanthropist, Reuters reports.
- Remember "The Bro Code" from How I Met Your Mother? Well, it's going to be a real book in stores this Fall, writes the Chicago Tribune.
- Over the weekend, Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival honored Judd Apatow with the Comedy Person of the Year trophy, according to Variety.
- Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber will star in the UK version of Law & Order, E! reports.
- The AP declares the best albums of 2008 so far.
Will You Miss Ebert's TV Movie Reviews?
The New York Times recently ran a nice piece describing the impact Roger Ebert has had on the world of movie critique (the thumbs up/down rating system included), which had previously been relegated to newspapers and magazines. The show Siskel and Ebert became famous for the on-air debates they brought to American living rooms, making film criticism fun to watch and accessible to the regular moviegoer.
Unfortunately, Ebert recently wrote that due to surgical complications, he will no longer be able to do the TV show and will return to only doing written reviews.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/26
- The foul-mouthed kiddos of "South Park" will be around through at least 2011, writes the New York Times.
- Mexican actor Demian Bichir is signed on to play Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming films The Guerrilla and The Argentine while Benicio Del Toro plays Che Guevara, Variety reports.
- "Buffy" and "Tru Calling" star Eliza Dushku has signed a deal with Fox in which the network will develop projects for her, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- London theaters are all about taking cues from Hollywood these days as a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother readies to open tomorrow and Christian Slater takes on Kevin Spacey's role in a stage version of Swimming With Sharks, says Variety.
- ComingSoon reports that Keanu Reeves will star in a remake of the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- Roger Ebert and Disney are squabbling over the use of the critic's famous thumbs, Variety reports.
- Donal Logue will star in a Fox comedy called "Hackett," about a "bad-boy literary luminary" who ends up teaching at a public school.
- ComingSoon reports that Warner Bros will release an extended version of High School Musical 2 on December 11.
Buzz News Roundup, 6/29
- If you have Boomerang, Cartoon Network's retro channel, and you like "The Flintstones," this story will sure make you happy: Boomerang is showing all 166 episodes of the prehistoric cartoon, in order and commercial-free, starting July 4.
- In classic rock news, NME reports that Led Zeppelin may reunite, and tragedy strikes a Rolling Stones show in Madrid.
- According to Variety, Jim Carrey has been cast in the comedy Sober Buddy, about a guy who's hired to keep others on the straight-and-narrow falling off the wagon himself.
- Yes, Isaiah Washington does have more to say, this time to Newsweek.
- Lauryn Hill's comeback show in Oakland is fairly disastrous, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Billboard has more details on the Sonic Youth CD release at Starbucks.
- Time, meanwhile, has a very long but very sweet story about Roger Ebert.
- Pretty much every role from CBS' "Moonlight" has been recast, with Shannyn Sossamon taking the role originally intended for Amber Valletta, Zap2it reports.
- Rolling Stone reports that DJ Mark Ronson will remix Bob Dylan's "Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)."
- The Futon Critic has the details on Bravo's two new "docu-drama" series: "Flipping Out," about real estate speculators in Los Angeles, and "Welcome to the Parker," about a luxurious Palm Springs resort.
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