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By Bob Tourtellotte

LOS ANGELES |
Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:32pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – When a screen rises on a Oscars this Sunday, shaken expectation will, as usual, fill a museum during a world’s tip film awards, though this year film fans can relax.

After years of perplexing to jazz adult a Academy Awards with flashy, hip hosts, speaker Billy Crystal is returning for a ninth time in 2012, bringing what Oscar watchers contend is a turn of predictability and comfort to a show.

Frontrunner films — wordless intrigue “The Artist,” polite rights story “The Help” and play “The Descendants” among them — move familiarity, comedy, love, amiability and a delight of suggestion that contrasts to new years of darker, best film winners such as “The Hurt Locker” or “No Country for Old Men.”

This year could even see some history-making events in behaving categories.

It seems Oscar electorate took a doctrine from final year’s winner, feel-good film “The King’s Speech,” or maybe from audiences who during box offices have adored escapist transport like “Avatar” over tales of anguish and fight amid a murky economy and universe conflict.

Whatever a reason, electorate during a Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seem in sync with film fans’ ardour for entertainment, and there is no one improved matched to applaud Hollywood than Crystal, a 63-year-old comic and star of 1980s and 1990s films like “When Harry Met Sally” and “City Slickers.”

“Billy is a speaker chronicle of comfort food, juicy and familiar, though not really spicy” pronounced Entertainment Weekly film author Dave Karger.

Exactly what Crystal has in store on Oscar night is still anybody’s guess. The producers and horde are notoriously tight-lipped. But it’s approaching Crystal will start as he has in past years, comically modifying himself into a video tilt of scenes from vital movies.

Co-producer Don Mischer gave one talk and was asked to review Crystal to Ricky Gervais, a scathing comedian who hosted a Golden Globes. Mischer pronounced “Ricky is engaging and all that, though we don’t consider a Oscars is a place for being mean-spirited, or holding genuine heartless shots during people.”

So, lay back, relax, and suffer a races.

“ARTIST” V. “HELP”

Silent film “The Artist,” that is set in a duration when Hollywood was relocating into a talkies and tells of a vanishing star who finds emancipation by love, heads into Sunday night as a transparent frontrunner for a tip prize, best film.

It has 10 nominations, overall, second usually to 11 for Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” a story of a mislaid child perplexing to find his approach home that also is an loyalty to a early days of filmmaking.

But many nominations for “Hugo” are in technical categories like editing, opposite to vital awards such as actors. “The Artist,” by contrast, has nods in tip categories out of a 24 probable awards, including best actor for Jean Dujardin, ancillary singer for Berenice Bejo and directing and essay for Michel Hazanavicius.

“It’s fun, it’s emotional, it’s about a industry, and a artist, and all those things interest to people,” pronounced David Poland, maestro Oscar viewer and owner of MovieCityNews.com. “This is a film that done people feel good.”

If “Artist” is a film to beat, “The Help,” a story of black maids operative for white southern families in a 1960s, is a film to do it. It wooed academy members with a story that eventually is triumphant, and it has dual frontrunners for behaving Oscars. Actors are a biggest organisation of academy voters.

“Help” star Viola Davis, who plays a maid, is sealed in a tighten conflict with Meryl Streep as former British primary apportion Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” Davis won during a Screen Actors Guild Awards this year, and that has her sloping for Oscar feat over Streep, a two-time past leader and 17-time nominee.

“In a parsimonious race, a academy goes to a opening that changed them more,” Karger said. “Yes Meryl put in a good performance, though it’s Viola Davis who has a romantic pull.”

Michelle Williams has an outward possibility with her description of Marilyn Monroe in “My Week with Marilyn,” though many pundits see her vanishing fast. The other nominees are visitor Rooney Mara in “The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” and Glenn Close in little-seen, gender-bending “Albert Nobbs.”

The other large boost for “Help” is in a ancillary singer difficulty where Octavia Spencer is widely approaching to win over “Artist” star Berenice Bejo. If both Spencer and Davis take home a bullion for “The Help,” it will be a initial time in Oscar story dual African American women in a same film have won.

ACTORS AND DIRECTOR

Among actors, “Artist” star Jean Dujardin has been claiming many of a film trophies this year for his opening as a film’s lovable, vanishing star who turns his life around.

His stiffest foe comes from Mr. Hollywood, George Clooney, as a father perplexing to keep his family together during a time of predicament in “The Descendants” and from Brad Pitt as a math-minded ball executive in “Moneyball.”

But as well-liked as Clooney is, “Descendants” has not worked a sorcery with a academy that “Artist” has, experts say, and “Moneyball” only isn’t a genuine contender. Other best actor nominees are Gary Oldman in British play “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and Demian Bichir in small seen “A Better Life.”

Supporting actor is a night’s other shot during Oscar history. If Christopher Plummer, 82, or Max Von Sydow, 82, move home a gold, possibly one will be a oldest Academy Award leader ever.

Finally, there is a tighten foe in a executive difficulty where “Hugo” builder Scorsese and “Artist” romantic Hazanavicius block off opposite “Descendants” navigator Alexander Payne. Hazanavicius has a top hand, carrying won a endowment from a Directors Guild of America progressing this year, though Scorsese is a long-lived favorite and Payne is no slouch.

For clues to a winner, experts say, balance into early categories and if “Artist” starts to explain feat in technical areas like dress pattern or cinematography, it could portend a purify brush for a wordless film. If not, a foe for best film will sojourn adult in a atmosphere until a final pouch is opened.

In 2006, happy intrigue “Brokeback Mountain” won early awards for writing, directing and music, though mislaid in behaving categories and finally succumbed to foe play “Crash” for best film.

“It could be an engaging year,” pronounced Poland. “The other thing is, it could be accurately what everybody is expecting.”

(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte, Editing by Christine Kearney)

Continue reading »]]> On Apr 6, a expel from American Pie will reunite for their 10th high propagandize reunion in East Great Falls, Michigan, and so most has changed. Or not during all.

The new American Reunion trailer next shows Seann William Scott in all his excellence as a sex-crazed, pot-stirring Stifler, while Jason Biggs’ Jim is married with a kid.

When a lady he used to babysit invites Jim to her 18th birthday party, Stifler wants him to strike it, to that Jim says, “I’m not going to lie on my wife. I’m a father.”

Stifler’s expressive response: “Be her daddy.” Classy as always!

American Reunion Trailer (Full Length)

Another classic, sickening moment: Jim’s father revelation him all a good things a male can do with a strategically placed thumb. Some things never change …

American Reunion also brings behind Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy, Tara Reid, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nichols and Jennifer Coolidge.

Continue reading »]]> Are we prepared to listen to Usher climax, THG readers?

The voluptuous thespian has expelled a initial strain off his arriving album, and it’s got a patrician alluring adequate to make any fan swoon.

Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Redd Stylez and Diplo a lane is now accessible on iTunes and all digital providers and will be enclosed on Usher’s subsequent CD, that hits stores after this year. Take a listen to “Climax” now, try to refrain from the kind of babyish amusement and sound off: What do we think?

Usher – “Climax”

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Carrot Top is ill of being compared to a ginger Arnold Schwarzenegger … revelation TMZ he’s forsaken 30 pounds in an bid to lapse to earthy normalcy.

C.T. was during Boa in Hollywood final night … when he told us he’s given adult weightlifting for a time being to concentration on cardio so he can strew a diesel flesh mass.

When asked if he was ill of being buff, Mr. Top replied, “It didn’t fit my style.”

FYI — here’s Carrot behind in 2008 (below) … so … yeah, we approve of a new look.

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Spike TV star Courtney Hansen — a super prohibited chicky from “Powerblock” — has filed for divorce from her curative noble father … TMZ has learned.

Hansen — one of FHM’s sexiest 100 in 2005 — filed divorce docs in L.A. County Superior Court in an bid to finish her 2 year matrimony to Ilya Sapritsky.

In a docs, Courtney blames a separate on unsuited differences … and, duh, she wants wedding support.

Courtney expelled a matter observant … “Marriage is intensely dedicated to me, and we took honoring those vows really seriously. Unfortunately, it has turn required for me to pierce on.”

The separate is flattering shocking, deliberation only final year a two were in talks to join “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

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LOS ANGELES |
Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:26pm EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Television businessman Simon Cowell says he’s schooled one doctrine from a U.S. launch of his TV uncover “The X Factor”. To keep his large mouth shut.

That means he is not commenting on conjecture that song stars such as Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Black Eyed Peas thespian Fergie competence turn judges when a revamped TV singing uncover earnings to Fox radio in September.

Nor is Cowell descending into his possess trap again and formulation on forecasting a distance of a TV assembly for a second deteriorate — solely to contend it will be bigger than final year’s 13 million normal viewers, that was distant subsequent his pre-season boasts.

“I shot my large mouth off as usual,” a acid-tongued Briton told reporters in discussion call on Wednesday, referring to his foresee that “X Factor” would pull 20 million viewers, and disintegrate “American Idol” as a most-watched uncover on U.S. TV.

It didn’t come close, and final month Cowell dismissed judges Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and horde Steve Jones in a vital shake-up.

“I was entrance off a large year in a UK, where (the British chronicle of ‘X Factor’) had left over 20 million and afterwards fast satisfied we should have kept my mouth shut,” he said.

“I positively design a second deteriorate to do improved than a initial … we schooled a lot from final year. we honestly schooled a lot, and we consider we have schooled how we can make a uncover better.”

Cowell pronounced he could not criticism on any of a names that have flush in new weeks as probable new judges.

“There is a bucket of speculation, some true, some not true. We will accommodate a series of people over a subsequent few weeks … we have schooled a large doctrine — keep your mouth shut,” he said.

Cowell did contend that he wants to have dual hosts subsequent deteriorate — a male and a lady — observant that using a live TV uncover was too most for one chairman to hoop alone and that dual hosts would be some-more fun.

Nationwide auditions for a second deteriorate of “X Factor” and a $5 million recording agreement start in Kansas City on Mar 14. Auditions before a new row of judges however are not approaching to start for another dual months.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Continue reading »]]> The Bachelor competitor Courtney Robertson competence not be a fan favorite.

That’s a understatement of all time, actually, yet her ex-boyfriend, Cavan Clark says that in genuine life, she’s opposite from how she appears on a series.

Cavan says that “unlike what we see on a show, she’s indeed a good girl, and removing a bad rap” formed on a show’s modifying and media coverage.

Not certain how a 53-minute rabble speak montage can be explained away, yet good to hear! Seriously though. 53 minutes, not including Monday’s episode:

Courtney Robertson Trash Talk Greatest Hits

“I still keep in hold with Courtney,” he adds. “We dated, and after it finished she went on The Bachelor. Life happens; people tumble in adore and people mangle up.”

The dual met and fell in adore while Courtney Robertson, 28, was displaying for one of a conform lines Cavan Clark, a 36-year-old photographer, shoots for.

He does contend Courtney is doing all in her energy to get a final rose … and reading between a lines, that she competence not be encouraged by love.

“She’s apparently doing all she can to win this, saying that it is a existence dating competition,” he says of one of Ben Flajnik’s final 3 women.

If The Bachelor spoilers we’ve gathered are to be believed, she competence really good be one of a final dual station this deteriorate … we’ll have to wait and see.

Aside from Cavan, she antiquated Jim Toth, before he married Reese Witherspoon, Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier and Desperate Housewives’ Jesse Metcalfe.

Clearly #winning a lot on a Hollywood dating scene.

What do we consider of Courtney Robertson?

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Continue reading »]]> Pilar Sanders and late football fable Deion Sanders and intent in an epic divorce battle, and a former only upped a repugnant ante. BIG TIME.

According to papers performed by TMZ, Pilar is suing Deion – for $200 million. The lawsuit stems from a Twitter diatribe of Deion’s daughter (from another relationship) Deiondra, in that a teen indicted Pilar of intrigue on her father and referred to her as a “gold diggin hoe.”

In these justice papers, Pilar effectively responds with: Oh yeah? Well we done me that way!

Pilar’s profession writes that his customer believes Deiondra and Deion have been going after her with several “emotional weapons” for years… including “dominance, humiliation, isolation, threats, intimidation, rejection and blame.”

The fit reads: “[Deion and Deiondra] even swayed [Pilar] that she was and is worthless, a ‘gold diggin’ ho, and that no one else would wish her.”

Moreover, Pilar creates a avowal that father and daughter would separate several weapons around a residence and would try to shock her divided by “hurting pets.” No sum per this indictment are provided.

With divorce record underway between a pair, Pilar is perfectionist $50 million in tangible indemnification and $150 million in punitive damages.

[Photos: WENN.com]

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Hines Ward improved stay out of difficulty for a subsequent 12 months … ’cause a Pittsburgh Steelers far-reaching receiver has been condemned to a year of trial stemming from his 2011 DUI arrest.

TMZ pennyless a story … Ward was arrested for DUI in DeKalb County, Georgia on Jul 9 … after cops contend he was pushing his Aston Martin like a inebriated insane … weaving in and out of his line and attack a curb.

Now, Ward has struck a defence understanding with prosecutors … in that he pled guilty to forward pushing and no competition to disaster to stay in his line … and in exchange, a DUI assign was dropped.

Ward was condemned to 12 months probation, 80 hours of village use and systematic to contention to an ethanol analysis and any diagnosis suggested by a evaluators.

He was also systematic to compensate $2,000 in fines and justice costs.