The Kardashian TV empire is expanding once again. E! has ordered a new reality series, this time mainly following the Kardashian sisters’ employees. The network has picked up Dash Dolls, which goes behind the scenes of a boutique owned by Kim, Kourtney and Khloe. The pitch: “Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian made a mark on the fashion industry with the opening of their upscale DASH boutiques. Now viewers will have the opportunity to follow the lives of the Kardashian sisters’ young, fun and hot employees as they navigate the hectic life of a twenty-something in Hollywood while representing the Kardashian brand.
NBC Universal has responded to claims in a new report that The Kelly Clarkson Show's producers have created a toxic work environment. Eleven employees, one current and 10 former, say they are not only overworked and underpaid, but that they are subjected to bullying and verbal abuse in a new Rolling Stone story published Friday. They also allege that despite filing multiple reports to the show's human resources department, nothing has changed.
”The Real World”: The kids talk it out What seemed to be week 849 of The Real World: Denver started off with pretty much everyone in the house bitching and moaning about what a terrible person Stephen is — according to Jenn, ”He runs from conflict. He avoids it, and he doesn’t like to address issues he’s not comfortable with.” And Tyrie has a problem with the fact that Stephen doesn’t have a hard time being friends with white people.
Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter) Everett Collection; Peggy Sirota for EW Jennifer Beals rose to fame when she starred in Flashdance in 1983, after which her various roles before The L Word included the films Vampire's Kiss (1989), In the Soup (1992), and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), in addition to a handful of TV appearances and a dozen TV movies. Since her run on The L Word ended, the actress has appeared in The Book of Eli (2010), Before I Fall (2017), After (2019), and Luckiest Girl Alive (2022).
Eric Nam and Dave Bautista are stepping into the world of the four nations. Paramount announced Thursday at CinemaCon that Nam will voice Aang in the first film from the animated Avatar film trilogy, tentatively titled Aang: The Last Airbender. Bautista has been cast in a villain role, with Dionne Quan, Jessica Matten, and Roman Zaragoza rounding out the cast. Plot details remain hidden somewhere in the Fire Nation, but Lauren Montgomery, who worked as storyboard artist on Avatar: The Last Airbender and sequel series The Legend of Korra, will direct the animated feature, which is set to hit theaters on Oct.
Image Credit: Phillip V. CarusoThere are a lot of bad things to enjoy about Brooklyn’s Finest, but I especially like Ethan Hawke’s crooked cop, Sal, who is simply the most Catholic human being in movie history. Sal wears a cross around his neck. He goes to Confession. He prays the Hail Mary with his daughters. There’s a cross on every wall of his house. There’s a gigantic tattoo of St. Michael the Archangel on his back.
Reader beware: The Last Days of Dogtown has nothing to do with skateboards or Z-boys. It’s actually a long-vanished village in coastal Cape Ann, Mass. (setting of Anita Diamant’s 2002 novel, Good Harbor). This too-ambitious novel follows the hamlet’s 19th-century inhabitants, from farmer Tammy (how can her butter be so sweet yet her disposition so sour?) to androgynous ex-slave Black Ruth to the suspiciously self-sufficient Judy, whose capacity for love is almost unbelievably great.
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A couple fans of The Last of Us may have found the show's very own version of the Game of Thrones coffee cup gaffe — sans the Starbucks. Musician Scott T. Jones, an eagle-eyed viewer, flagged the editing mistake to series co-creator Neil Druckmann on social media after the sixth episode aired. In the scene where Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) cross "the river of death" in Jackson, Wyo.
In The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise playing a Civil War captain who moves to 19th-century Japan, where he learns to play a samurai warrior. Not that there’s anything wrong with Cruise playing Cruise; it’s what he famously does, with glittering intensity. And when he’s well matched with a role that plays off his lustrous, opaque core, as in ”Jerry Maguire” or ”Minority Report,” Cruise is a pulsar of gorgeous, distant luminosity.