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As connoisseurs of beefcake surely know, People has revealed its choice for 2009's Sexiest Man Alive. Johnny Depp, senior editor Kate Coyne explained on CBS' Early Show, has reached an ''iconic status in terms of sexiness.'' ''He was sexy ten years ago, he'll be sexy ten years from now,'' she continued. ''He appeals to multiple generations of ...
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Could James Cameron's Avatar kill 20th Century Fox? According to today's New York Times, probably not. Michael Cieply reports that Fox has brought in outside investors to minimize the company's risk in the event that the $500 million Blue Man Group-in-outer space flick turns out to be a Heaven's Gate-style megaflop. Along with this smart financial ...
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As of December 1996, Tiger Woods had yet to win a major tournament. The amateur golf legend had just turned pro a few months earlier, instantly snagging megabucks from Nike and winning a pair of low-wattage tournaments before the year was out. In those days, it was still unclear whether Woods would live up to the hype. Would the phenom burn ...
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Troy, while I agree with you that Letterman ultimately won over the Late Show's studio audience, the dominant emotion in the crowd (and on my couch) was confusion. The strangest thing about Dave's confession was that in his repetition of the phrase ''creepy things,'' he left it entirely unclear whether he actually believed that he had done any ...
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In my review of Zombieland, I alluded to the movie's fantastically enjoyable, out-of-nowhere cameo appearance. Not wanting to ruin the surprise for people planning to see the movie, I left out the juicy details. But considering that the secret is all over the Web, it seems a shame to leave the beans unspilled. Herewith, a Zombieland ...
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Fans of ESPN.com's Bill Simmons have come to expect references to the Sports Guy's favorite movies, TV shows, and products: The Hangover, Friday Night Lights, Dunkin' Donuts, the Madden video game franchise. Simmons' first NFL picks column of the season, published on Thursday, has a different kind of endorsement. Just before he starts doling out ...
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Farhad Manjoo reports from San Francisco:
Steve Jobs walked slowly on to the stage this morning at Apple's iPod press event, his first public appearance since undergoing a liver transplant earlier this year. Jobs looked thin, but was otherwise full of energy, and seemed—from afar, at least—in much better health than he did last year at this time. ...
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LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger—co-authors of the LeBron-coming-of-age story Shooting Stars—are two names you'd never expect to see separated by an ampersand. Flip the soon-to-be-released book over and the bedfellows get even stranger. The blurbers for Shooting Stars, in order of appearance: Jay-Z (''When I first saw LeBron James play as a ...
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TMZ is reporting that John Hughes, director of The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off among many classic teen movies, has died at 59 of an apparent heart attack. In 2006, Michael Weiss asked in Slate whether the famously reclusive Hughes was a closet Republican. ''Ferris Bueller,'' Weiss argues, ''mouths his creator's worldview early in ...
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For the U.S. national team, the Confederations Cup was a crap sandwich with the crap on the outside. After starting the tournament with feeble losses to Italy and Brazil, Team USA scored five straight goals in ripping through Egypt and Spain. That streak ran to seven goals in Sunday's final, with Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan out Brazil-ing the ...