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It’s the rule with very few exceptions that when a new television series has conspicuously attractive male and female lead characters – and in American shows that is compulsory – there is always a “will they/won’t they get it on” dimension that helps kick the plot along. Till it doesn’t
Sir Peter Jackson has bought a new $80 million jet. His holding company ZKKFB took possession of a Gulfstream GVI G650 in March, according to financing statements filed with the Companies Office.
From the Springbok Tour to the Urewera raids, outrage often has a catchy tune. Now New Zealand’s ‘‘protest’’ songs have been brought together for the first time in a new exhibition at the the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington
According to The Huffington Post, Scarlett Johansson is in the running to play former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the upcoming biopic, Rodham. Still in the early stages of casting, Rodham will be directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now)
Welcome back to Woodville for episode three of the web comedy. Written by Emmy-nominated screen writer Christopher Brandon, directed by Georgiana Taylor, the show follows Sid, a small-town documentary maker who has never made a documentary.
Troubled actress Amanda Bynes seems to have a busy time ahead: First she’s planning to basically sue everybody – and then start a career as a rapper. The actress also claims that the drug related items discovered in her home do not exist.
Actor Bill Pertwee, who played air raid warden William Hodges in Dad’s Army, has died.
The X Factor is a popularity contest where the judges are free to make unpopular decisions. It’s a competition where a cute smile and gorgeous dimples go a long way and being the “hated judge” only raises a jury member’s profile.
OPINION: The “porn parody” industry has become so wilfully unimaginative these days it makes its mid-’90s forerunners seem like sublime works of satire: Tits A Wonderful Life, Buffy The Vampire Layer, Pulp Friction, and the immortal classic Ass Ventura: Crack Detective, seem like relics of a simpler, sillier time. Now, it’s sufficient to simply whack “this ain’t” or “a XXX parody” fore or after the original inspiration’s title, cast some porn stars who look vaguely like their non-porn equivalents, and Bob’s your uncle’s pool maintenance man’s lonely MILF wife with a pearl necklace fetish.
Start your engine, Fast and Furious 6 will hit the big screen this week.