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Buzz In: What Were Your Favorite Super Bowl Ads?
The fun of the Super Bowl may be behind us (go Steelers!), but the ads will remain, at least for a little while. Not all of last night's ads had me laughing out loud, but there were a few I particularly liked — and I'm curious to know which ones caught your eye (besides the movie trailers — we're talking about those over here).
My top tier includes Hulu's "evil plot to destroy the world" ad with Alec Baldwin, Teleflora's offensive talking flowers (seriously, folks?
Buzz In: What TV Ads Do You Loathe — or Love — Right Now?
The Associated Press recently investigated the phenomenon of widespread hatred for Toyota's "Saved by Zero" ad campaign. The ad — which appears to play almost constantly during NFL games, among other things — has drawn the ire of viewers (currently, there are 10 Facebook groups opposing it, the largest of which has 2,500 members). I'm definitely among those who have gotten annoyed with the (admittedly catchy) jingle.
Singer to Watch: Who’s Singing That MacBook Commercial?
I have a serious weakness for a pretty, quirky folk song a la Regina Spektor. When done well, songs out of this genre can feel so light and ethereal that you want to sprout wings and fly — or, buy a new laptop.
That’s at least what the folks over at Apple are hoping French-born Israeli singer Yael Naïm's song "New Soul" will inspire you to do, as they've featured it in their new MacBook Air TV spot.
Vote Now for the Year's Funniest Commercials
Oh, the irony: I fast-forward through ads on my TiVo, but I love watching whole programs devoted to truly creative commercials. So I'm excited that the voting is now open for TBS' Funniest Commercials of the Year special. The show, which will air Dec.
Which Emmy-Nominated Commercial Do You Think Should Win?
You've probably seen most, but perhaps not all of this year's Emmy-nominated commercials. Surely you've seen the Cingular one in which a mother and a daughter have a fight but use only loving words, or Ellen's working-with-animals commercial for American Express. Then there's that one in which the kid bottles up wind in a jar for his grandfather's birthday which always brings a tear to my eye.
These Dunkin' Donuts Ads Got Braff'd
I'd heard rumors about Zach Braff directing some commercials for Dunkin' Donuts, mostly because one of them features Naomi Campbell poking fun at herself by pretending to freak out and throw her shoe through a window. Yet there's another Braff-helmed commercial that has been airing, and it's just bizarre.
Starring Kiss member Ace Frehley, it supposedly shows how Dunkin' Donuts iced drinks are for regular folks because being a regular person is hard.
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Link Time! Joseph Gordon-Levitt Hosting SNL This Month
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt and January Jones have been tapped to host SNL this month — The AV Club
- Julia Roberts's production company has acquired the movie rights to unpublished book In the Neighborhood — Moviefone
- Morgan Freeman will star in comedy Dirty Old Men — Cinematical
- 12 facts about the Mayan apocalyptic prediction and new film 2012 — Rotten Tomatoes
- Taylor Swift has set a record for longest Billboard chart run this decade — HitFix
- Helen Mirren has joined the cast of comic book adaptation Red — Coming Soon
- Half of all DVR users don't actually skip commercials — Vulture
- Nathan Fillion dishes about the Dr. Horrible sequel — MTV Movies Blog
- Would you do, dump, or marry Andy Samberg? — TresSugar
- Watch Christopher Walken reading Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" — PopWatch
SYTYCD's Brandon and Ariana Talk About Being Cut First
This week's ousted dancers from So You Think You Can Dance were the first to go since the top 20 were selected. Brandon Dumlao and Ariana Dubose got on the phone with a few reporters this morning, including me, to chat about how they feel after last night's elimination.
- Brandon
- On the timeline of replacing Billy Bell: I got the call on Friday at 11 in the morning and they told me that I was able to replace another dancer, and it was Billy, in this case.
Link Time! Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst Cast in Upside Down
- Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst will star in Upside Down, a romantic sci-fi fantasy — Coming Soon
- Lisa Kudrow is developing TV comedy Rapture for Showtime — Variety
- Dollhouse is being pulled during sweeps, which could signal its cancellation — The Ausiello Files
- Check out these new stills of Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt in The Wolfman — MTV Movies Blog
- An Education originally had a different ending — Movieline
- Watch Rainn Wilson's funny new commercials for the NBA — Best Week Ever
- Ryan Murphy is writing an episode of Glee that mocks the show's real-life denial for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — The TV Column
- Bravo has picked up a second season of Top Chef Masters — YumSugar
- Before the release of Saw VI, here are six terrible sixth sequels — Rotten Tomatoes
- A list of TV's memorable dumb jocks — TV.com
- 20 of the worst horror movies ever made — Moviefone
America's Next Top Model Quiz: "Interview 101"
Was it just me or was America's Next Top Model kind of a snooze this week? I miss the over-the-top fantasy glitz of the Cirque du Soleil or martial arts challenges. Not that the judges didn't give the models a tough task — each girl had to interview on camera for The Insider and script her own CoverGirl commercial.
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