Joel Embiid turned up in a Big way for his 24th birthday -- dropping 12 Racks on alcohol and partying the night away with smokin' hot models and 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin!! The boozy bday bash went down at Liv Nightclub at Fontainebleau Saturday in Miami Beach ... where we're told the NBA star bought out the bar -- coppin' Magnum bottles of Dom Perignon for all his thirsty friends in attendance. Other than Rubin, the celeb...
- 3/19/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Victoria Secret's model Bridget Malcolm is loving the skin she's in. The 26-year-old Australian model shared a picture of her in a bikini on Instagram Tuesday and described the pressures she faced to fit a certain body type. "This girl is not fat. I remember around when this photo was taken, I had been told that I needed to lose weight. Not for the first time and not for the last time," she wrote. "Always fun trying to act like you're confident and happy in swimwear when you're at war with your body..." This isn't the first time Malcolm has reflected on her relationship with her body. In the "scariest blog post" she'd ever written, the runway star...
- 3/14/2018
- E! Online
LONDON -- DCD Media has moved into the top ranks of U.K. indie producers through the acquisition of Prospect Pictures, September Films and West Park Pictures, in a shopping spree totaling £19 million ($38.6 million).
DCD, which listed on London's small cap market AIM in 1999, is the creator of such shows as "The Victoria Secret's Fashion Show" and "The Wind in the Willows", and is chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein.
Lifestyle producer Prospect, best known for cooking shows such as "Saturday Cooks" and "Take Away My Take Away" was acquired for £7 million ($14.2 million); "Hollywood Women" creator September Films was acquired for £9 million ($18.3 million); and "Stephen Fry in America" producer West Park Pictures was acquired for £3 million ($6.1 million).
The combined group is expected to produce an annual profit of £50 million ($101.6 million).
DCD, which listed on London's small cap market AIM in 1999, is the creator of such shows as "The Victoria Secret's Fashion Show" and "The Wind in the Willows", and is chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein.
Lifestyle producer Prospect, best known for cooking shows such as "Saturday Cooks" and "Take Away My Take Away" was acquired for £7 million ($14.2 million); "Hollywood Women" creator September Films was acquired for £9 million ($18.3 million); and "Stephen Fry in America" producer West Park Pictures was acquired for £3 million ($6.1 million).
The combined group is expected to produce an annual profit of £50 million ($101.6 million).
- 7/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Frankie Muniz, Harvey Keitel and Amber Valletta are starring in writer-director Howard Himelstein's coming-of-age dramedy, My Sexiest Year. The story centers on a young man (Muniz) and his never-to-be-forgotten romantic encounter with a top international model, played by Valletta. Keitel plays his estranged father. Also cast are Christopher McDonald (Broken Flowers) Frances Fisher (Mrs. Harris) and Haylie Duff (7th Heaven). Pop star Ryan Cabrera and Victoria Secret model Karolina Kurkova are making their acting debuts in the film.
- 5/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
10-11 p.m.
Saturday, April 12
HBO
Say this for Dennis Miller: The man pulls few punches and takes fewer prisoners. And for his sixth HBO special, he still has never met a metaphor he didn't like (and couldn't somehow incorporate into a confoundingly esoteric reference). Whether or not you agree with his politics -- and he seems to have grown decidedly more conservative with the passage of time -- the acrid Aristotle of arcane articulation is in superior form in "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed", weaving an hour of topical, scathing brilliance that helps cement Miller's status as the Lenny Bruce of the new millennium.
In a stream-of-consciousness burst of bunker-busting bombast, Miller proves that while he may have concluded his nine-year, 215-show run as the weekly host of HBO's "Dennis Miller Live" last year, he's hardly ready to be put out to pasture, slaying too many sacred cows ever to be mistaken for a genteel elder comedic statesman. Middle age finds Miller copiously cranky and sharp as razor wire. And we wouldn't want him to be any other way. When he's at his best, Miller is the most cerebral, astute and clever stand-up ever to put mouth to microphone. And he's at the savage top of his observational, indignant game here.
Taped March 1 before a live audience at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, "The Raw Feed" is a freewheeling tirade of rants and raves mixed with Miller's trademark cross-referencing and pungent puncturing of life's absurdities, atrocities and annoyances. He turns his vehement vituperation on the likes of the ACLU, Iraq, post-Sept. 11 profiling, environmentalism, religion, the Clintons, liberals and politics in general. Nothing and no one emerges from his vocal shredder intact.
Some of the slew of memorable moments:
"What if those crop circles are just ads for Target?"
(On the Victoria Secret's catalog) "Never in the history of the planet has more actual wood been felled in the pursuit of figurative wood."
"I was raised Catholic. I went to confession the other day. I said, 'You first.' "
"When we're done with Iraq, it should look like Superman's dad's apartment on Krypton."
"Kim Jong Il, with that hair ... he looks like the Chia dictator."
"Congress is just a place where we send mediocre men to be Earl Scheib'ed into looking kinda vaguely consequential."
"President Bush surrounds himself with smart people in the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut."
Even when you're left a bit slack-jawed and dumbfounded because what Miller just uttered sailed far over your scalp -- as is no doubt sometimes the case with us all -- it's difficult not to be left shaking that same head in admiration. In an entertainment world that panders increasingly to the attention-deficient and the uneducated, Miller remains that rare oasis of intellectual heft who works to smart-up rather than dumb-down.
Can he be overly arrogant and elitist? Sure. Does he sometimes overdo the pop culture mumbo-jumbo? Certainly. But I'll take the comedian who's trying to pull me up and make me think over the one who travels the safe mainstream road every time. And Miller, love him or hate him, has to be applauded for pushing that envelope -- with both hands.
Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed
HBO
HBO Prods.
Credits:
Executive producers: Dennis Miller, Kevin Slattery
Producer: Michelle DeVoe
Director: Jim Yukich
Writer: Dennis Miller
Production designer: Bruce Ryan
Cast:
Dennis Miller...
Saturday, April 12
HBO
Say this for Dennis Miller: The man pulls few punches and takes fewer prisoners. And for his sixth HBO special, he still has never met a metaphor he didn't like (and couldn't somehow incorporate into a confoundingly esoteric reference). Whether or not you agree with his politics -- and he seems to have grown decidedly more conservative with the passage of time -- the acrid Aristotle of arcane articulation is in superior form in "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed", weaving an hour of topical, scathing brilliance that helps cement Miller's status as the Lenny Bruce of the new millennium.
In a stream-of-consciousness burst of bunker-busting bombast, Miller proves that while he may have concluded his nine-year, 215-show run as the weekly host of HBO's "Dennis Miller Live" last year, he's hardly ready to be put out to pasture, slaying too many sacred cows ever to be mistaken for a genteel elder comedic statesman. Middle age finds Miller copiously cranky and sharp as razor wire. And we wouldn't want him to be any other way. When he's at his best, Miller is the most cerebral, astute and clever stand-up ever to put mouth to microphone. And he's at the savage top of his observational, indignant game here.
Taped March 1 before a live audience at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, "The Raw Feed" is a freewheeling tirade of rants and raves mixed with Miller's trademark cross-referencing and pungent puncturing of life's absurdities, atrocities and annoyances. He turns his vehement vituperation on the likes of the ACLU, Iraq, post-Sept. 11 profiling, environmentalism, religion, the Clintons, liberals and politics in general. Nothing and no one emerges from his vocal shredder intact.
Some of the slew of memorable moments:
"What if those crop circles are just ads for Target?"
(On the Victoria Secret's catalog) "Never in the history of the planet has more actual wood been felled in the pursuit of figurative wood."
"I was raised Catholic. I went to confession the other day. I said, 'You first.' "
"When we're done with Iraq, it should look like Superman's dad's apartment on Krypton."
"Kim Jong Il, with that hair ... he looks like the Chia dictator."
"Congress is just a place where we send mediocre men to be Earl Scheib'ed into looking kinda vaguely consequential."
"President Bush surrounds himself with smart people in the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut."
Even when you're left a bit slack-jawed and dumbfounded because what Miller just uttered sailed far over your scalp -- as is no doubt sometimes the case with us all -- it's difficult not to be left shaking that same head in admiration. In an entertainment world that panders increasingly to the attention-deficient and the uneducated, Miller remains that rare oasis of intellectual heft who works to smart-up rather than dumb-down.
Can he be overly arrogant and elitist? Sure. Does he sometimes overdo the pop culture mumbo-jumbo? Certainly. But I'll take the comedian who's trying to pull me up and make me think over the one who travels the safe mainstream road every time. And Miller, love him or hate him, has to be applauded for pushing that envelope -- with both hands.
Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed
HBO
HBO Prods.
Credits:
Executive producers: Dennis Miller, Kevin Slattery
Producer: Michelle DeVoe
Director: Jim Yukich
Writer: Dennis Miller
Production designer: Bruce Ryan
Cast:
Dennis Miller...
- 4/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As relationships go, they don't get much more mundane or artificial than those found in "Boys and Girls".
A talky, forced romantic comedy that attempts to retool a "When Harry Met Sally ..." take on sex and friendship for the college crowd, the picture shows few signs of life, despite the efforts of its energetic cast.
And though the presence of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason
Biggs could initially draw young females, you know Miramax is sweating it when one of the funniest bits in the trailer involving
Biggs and a quartet of Victoria Secret's models is actually a closing credits outtake.
Prinze is Ryan, a compulsive, repressed engineering student who meets up with the impulsive, direct Jennifer Claire Forlani) in college after a couple of previous antagonistic encounters.
They certainly make for an unlikely pair. Ryan, who plans everything to within an inch of its life, likes building intricate bridges in his spare time. Free-spirited Latin major Jennifer squirms at the mere concept of commitment. When they cross paths at UC Berkeley, they're involved with other people, but you know they're destined to be together -- mainly because the movie wants them to be, rather than there being any palpable spark between them.
While writing partners Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller, a k a the Drews (Dennis Rodman's "Simon Sez"), obviously intended to deliver a hip dissertation on contemporary mating rituals, the game plays out more like Parcheesi than Twister. The story is continually covering the same old ground.
Although the leads try mightily, they're unable to scrape all of the bogus cut-and-paste dialogue off the page and make it sound authentic. Biggs and Amanda Detmer fare better as Ryan and Jennifer's respective roommates, injecting welcome comic energy into the drudgery.
Director Robert Iscove, who worked with Prinze on the successful "She's All That", matter-of-factly choreographs blocks of scenes as if he were governed by invisible commercial breaks.
In fact, there's a prevailing small-screen feel to the whole enterprise, despite worthy contributions from veteran cinematographer Ralf Bode ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "Saturday Night Fever") and costume designer April Ferry ("Maverick", "The Big Chill"). The soundtrack attempts to pick up the considerable slack by spinning proven hits (Apollo Four Forty's "Stop the Rock") and the obligatory Diane Warren ballad ("If I Don't Tell You Now").
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dimension Films
Punch 21
A film by Robert Iscove
Director: Robert Iscove
Producers: Jay Cohen, Lee Gottsegen,
Murray Schisgal
Screenwriters:
the Drews (Andrew Lowery, Andrew Miller)
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Kramer,
Jill Sobel Messick
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Editor: Casey O. Rohrs
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Stewart Copeland
Music supervisors: Randy Spendlove,
Leslie Lewis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Jennifer: Claire Forlani
Hunter: Jason Biggs
Amy: Amanda Detmer
Megan: Heather Donahue
Betty: Alyson Hannigan
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
A talky, forced romantic comedy that attempts to retool a "When Harry Met Sally ..." take on sex and friendship for the college crowd, the picture shows few signs of life, despite the efforts of its energetic cast.
And though the presence of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason
Biggs could initially draw young females, you know Miramax is sweating it when one of the funniest bits in the trailer involving
Biggs and a quartet of Victoria Secret's models is actually a closing credits outtake.
Prinze is Ryan, a compulsive, repressed engineering student who meets up with the impulsive, direct Jennifer Claire Forlani) in college after a couple of previous antagonistic encounters.
They certainly make for an unlikely pair. Ryan, who plans everything to within an inch of its life, likes building intricate bridges in his spare time. Free-spirited Latin major Jennifer squirms at the mere concept of commitment. When they cross paths at UC Berkeley, they're involved with other people, but you know they're destined to be together -- mainly because the movie wants them to be, rather than there being any palpable spark between them.
While writing partners Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller, a k a the Drews (Dennis Rodman's "Simon Sez"), obviously intended to deliver a hip dissertation on contemporary mating rituals, the game plays out more like Parcheesi than Twister. The story is continually covering the same old ground.
Although the leads try mightily, they're unable to scrape all of the bogus cut-and-paste dialogue off the page and make it sound authentic. Biggs and Amanda Detmer fare better as Ryan and Jennifer's respective roommates, injecting welcome comic energy into the drudgery.
Director Robert Iscove, who worked with Prinze on the successful "She's All That", matter-of-factly choreographs blocks of scenes as if he were governed by invisible commercial breaks.
In fact, there's a prevailing small-screen feel to the whole enterprise, despite worthy contributions from veteran cinematographer Ralf Bode ("Coal Miner's Daughter", "Saturday Night Fever") and costume designer April Ferry ("Maverick", "The Big Chill"). The soundtrack attempts to pick up the considerable slack by spinning proven hits (Apollo Four Forty's "Stop the Rock") and the obligatory Diane Warren ballad ("If I Don't Tell You Now").
BOYS AND GIRLS
Dimension Films
Punch 21
A film by Robert Iscove
Director: Robert Iscove
Producers: Jay Cohen, Lee Gottsegen,
Murray Schisgal
Screenwriters:
the Drews (Andrew Lowery, Andrew Miller)
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein, Jeremy Kramer,
Jill Sobel Messick
Director of photography: Ralf Bode
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Editor: Casey O. Rohrs
Costume designer: April Ferry
Music: Stewart Copeland
Music supervisors: Randy Spendlove,
Leslie Lewis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ryan: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Jennifer: Claire Forlani
Hunter: Jason Biggs
Amy: Amanda Detmer
Megan: Heather Donahue
Betty: Alyson Hannigan
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 6/16/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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