Gone Hollywood (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
An actor with a small but memorable part in the first ‘Austin Powers‘ movie has been charged in connection with an unsolved 1990 gang rape, according to a FOXNews.com report. Joe Son, who played the shoe-throwing character Random Task (prompting the Mike Myers line “Who throws a shoe?”), was hit with a slew of charges on [...]
DailyStab (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Funny man Seth Rogen has signed on with the new comedy ‘I’m With Cancer’. Rogen will also produce the movie, which follows the trials faced by a cancer sufferer. Empire Magazine reports that the film was written by American TV producer Will Reiser, who was diagnosed with cancer in his mid-twenties and has based his script on [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Former Ultimate Fighting Championships competitor linked to unsolved rape case
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
A hulking "Austin Powers" actor may be the real Dr. Evil. Joe Son, 37 - who played shoe-tossing villain Random Task in the 1997 Mike Myers comedy - was fingered in a gang-rape case going back 17 years in California after his DNA matched evidence...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Jim Gaffigan knows that on the surface, he's about as painfully whitebread as they come.
English Webster (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Berlin is abuzz with news about Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film “ Inglorious Bastards “, which is set to begin production in Germany next week. The cast includes heavyweight names such as Brad Pitt (”Fight Club”), Mike Myers (”Austin Powers”) and B.J Novak (NBC’s “The Office”). Tarantino is well known for his graphic and bloody movies, such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. And his new film will be...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Film News: New side gathering plays off Asakusa's history -- Tokyo's Asakusa district was once vaudeville and Moulin Rouge rolled into one. In the years leading up to and following World War II, Asakusa offered a vibrant blend of dance troupes and comedy teams.
Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Move over Mike Myers -- there's a new love guru in town! Resident romance expert Steve Santagati took to the streets of NYC to answer questions from the single -- and looking to mingle. Relationship woes got you down? Click here to upload a video comment with your question -- and you could be featured on "Extra!"
TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Just before the action started there was this Peter Sellers moment (the younger generation might call it a Mike Myers moment) when a turbaned gentlemen wandered down the aisle. He was on the far side so all I could see was the outfit. Was he really lost, or was he really, really lost. My immediate reaction was, 'where's NewsBoy? - Is this a gag or what?' That's my co-blogger to the left in the picture,...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
When it came to preserving early-1990s TV history, I was rather overzealous. In addition to A Concert for Life and the 1992 NFL Pro Bowl, I recorded every episode of Saturday Night Live, starting with the Jason Priestly/Teenage Fanclub classic from February 1992. One of the show’s staples that era was G.E. Smith, of “G.E. [...]
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I liked this, it made me laugh. That’s kind of the best you can expect from comedies these days, right? The best way I’d describe it is as some kind of, umm … Elf meets Borat with Adam Sandler? And hey, the Z in the title, not to mention the hair, can’t help but provoke [...]
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Click Here to download The Love Guru Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and [...]
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
(photos from WireImage) Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and the Brangelina Bunch are all in NY for the premiere of her new movie Changeling. Her trip to NY is her first public appearance since the twins were born in July and as you can see she added their birth date to her arm. Angelina Jolie looks [...]
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Mike Myers' latest comedy is little more than a series of crude gags that hardly amuse, but the Blu-ray release is typically well done.
