Hey Ladies! Now You Can Be Even More Jealous Of Eat, Pray, Love
Today it’s mostly just casting casting casting, as TV stars make movie moves and movie actors flee to TV. And Elizabeth Gilbert, I mean Julia Roberts, lands the Spaniard of her dreams.
Coffee-voiced Javier Bardem is in talks to join Julia Roberts in the movie adaptation of Eat, Pray, Spend a Lot of Money, Love, Moralise to Poorer Women About Going on Ashrams, Be Treated as Demigod by Oprah. He’d play Roberts’ love interest, because in the end of that story the pretty rich lady yes, of course, lands a new man. [Variety]
Good morning, you are old. Malcolm in the Middle, the manic comedy about two frazzled parents and their hellion sons, will be airing stateside on Nick at Nite soon. Which is like hearing ‘NSYNC on an oldies station. [Variety]
Neil Patrick Harris, who further endeared himself with his successful hosting gig at last night’s Tonys, has landed two movies. First he’ll play chillaxed husband to Bonnie Somerville’s crazed wife in The Best and Brightest, about a humble couple who moves to the Upper East Side to get their kids into fancy kindergartens. John Hodgman, Kate Mulgrew, and Amy Sedaris will costar. Then he’ll play a blind tutor in that Beastly movie, about a cute kid who gets turned ugly by Michelle Tanner. [THR]
Masi Oka, that novelty act from Heroes, may have a new life as a producer. He successfully pitched his project The Defenders to DreamWorks, where it will be steered by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (of Star Trek) and directed by rising star DJ Caruso. The pic is about kids from all around the world who play an online role playing game and don’t know each other outside the confines of the intercybercomputer, but when real-life disaster strikes, they must band together and actually talk in person and maybe, hopefully, touch boobs and stuff. [THR]
Scott Caan and the never-quite-got-there-but-maybe-someday William Fitchner will both do several episodes of HBO’s Entourage, a show that needs—please God, please—to be put to bed immediately. Because it’s becoming Arli$$. [THR]
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@Karol at alarmingnews.com: Totally! I read it in my book club last year (yes, I am a nerd!) and wanted to slap Elizabeth Gilbert an average of 3.5 times per chapter. Her calculated coyness drove me nuts--how she basically bad-mouths her ex at every turn, but then tells us readers, "Oh! I would NEVER disclose here the circumstances of our breakup. Nooooh... That's too private!" Then why write a memoir in the first place, lady?
snugbug
@Jackish: Goes to show you: she jumps back into the fray with a realistic, sexy, womanly body; makes an actually smart, fun flick where she has insane chemistry with her co-star; gets to deliver witty dialogue that somehow overpowers her intrinsic annoyance.. and it flops.
I think that speaks more about us as moviegoers than about Mrs. Roberts..
snugbug
Did you mean William Fichtner, not Fitchner? That's probably him then, he's semi-famous and so is his last name.
(it's people like him we need Fametracker's "Hey it's that guy" section back for!)
I kinda like him. I guess the press would call him "nicely intense", if anyone were to write about him...
anyonecanwhistle
Did you mean William Fichtner, not Fitchner? But yeah that's probably him, kinda semi-famous so the name is semi-right.
(It's semi-stars like that we need Fametracker.com and their "hey, it's that guy" section to come back for!)
I kinda like him. I think the press would call him "nicely intense", or something, if anyone were to write about him.
anyonecanwhistle
href="#c13441889">LucettaDampt: I'm waiting until I can read EPL in the original Gawker: Whine, Self Aggrandize, Repeatedly Thank Guru. ([gawker.com])
Dana Harris
NPH is so good. I'm glad he's finally gaining some traction.
Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep apparently made The Devil Wears Prada into something palatable. (I couldn't face it, having made myself finish the awful walking entitlement regurgitated onto the page by Lauren Weisberger.)
Is there any actress who could similarly save Eat, Pray, Love? (Julia Roberts is not an acceptable answer, obv.)
Treeless
@DahlELama:
Don't hate me, but I loved it. I've always had a soft spot of Mark Feuerstein and this is the perfect season for a little time in the Hamptons.
miss_msry
I love how you're talking smack about Royal Pains and the banner ad is running right under the text. Awesome if you guys include an editorial integrity clause in your advertiser contracts...
sorry but the book was the most self-indulgent crap i've ever read. but a rewrite with Javier? I'll see it.
LucettaDampt
@Heywoodjablome: Tough to say; I don't know if Liberty will keep appearing. I actually missed the first 25 minutes of the episode, so I can't comment on whether or not the rest continued in the same vein, but I'd say to give it one more shot and see what you think.
DahlELama
@DahlELama: Dahle
I still have not been able to get past the first few scenes of RoyalPains. It seems a little to precious.. or something. Should I stick with it?
Heywoodjablome
Agreed. It was the worst book I've ever read. Why would anyone want to read about some rich woman in the suburbs take a "spiritual journey"? Terrible. 100 pages about struggling to pray almost destroyed me. On a related note, did anyone notice that Evan of the RW/RR (yes, I still watch) was reading "Eat, Pray, Love" on an episode a week or so ago? It was covered in black tape, but I recognized the font of "love."
MarthaAppius
@RocketSurgeon: I quit when she got touched by the hand of God after scrubbing floors at the yoga retreat. Good lord.
bridgeburner
@DahlELama: Our DVRs must be related. I've taken to not erasing things I've watched until the next episode airs because the damn thing will just record it again anyway.
I couldn't even make it through 50 pages of Eat, Pray, Love. I quit when she got to the part about God writing in her journal or something. Gargh.
I despised Eat, Pray, Love. I don't get how people enjoyed the story of a spoiled, selfish woman's search for bullshit spirituality. Eww.
@KatieMick: Seriously--setting my DVR (which doesn't understand how to capture new episodes only) to record the series was a BIG mistake I did not anticipate.
DahlELama
@DahlELama: I did too. But did they have to air it nonstop all day Saturday?
Now I know why Elvis shot his TV. That Oprah show is coming, people, featuring the movie rollout with Julia and Liz and the ashram dude, and probably Gayle because it will be BIG, BIGGER THAN ANYTHING, EVER... Oh, god, my eyes.
Banjo-Sea Kitten
I didn't dislike Royal Pains but I do get the impression that they're trying too hard. It's one of those shows you won't schedule, but if you're home putting together any item from IKEA on a dreary Saturday, you'll watch it.
Yes, IKEA has been sent from Swedish demigods who somehow enjoy enslaving people for at least 6 hours before you realize that the instructions, illustrations with no words by the way, Sadists, do not indicate that you should not screw in the plastic screws, because that would make sense, and the solution is to just bang the devil out of it with the heel of your shoe.
Um, yeah.
Spirit Fingers
I watched Royal Pains but will be part of what I expect to be a significant drop-off in week2 viewers. Blech.
Been a Burn Notice fan since day one, and I like In Plain Sight a lot, too. But was anyone else surprised to see Alessandra Stanley and Ginia Bellafante plug both shows and their leads as Emmy-nom-worthy in that cute little special section Sunday? Better shows and performances abound.
(The only ads were For Your Consideration pages for . . . Burn Notice and In Plain Sight. I know two facts are unrelated, but certainly looks um, odd.)
Does this mean that now Elizabeth Gilbert will write a soul-searching yet somehow self-satisfied and obnoxious magazine article about Julia Roberts being too busy to do yoga with her every day?
City_Dater
I thought Julia Roberts was now box office poison (Duplicity); why are they putting her in another movie?
Jackish
So is it wrong that I liked Royal Pains? To be fair, the chick from my favorite soap was on it, so it got bonus points, but I legit enjoyed it.
DahlELama
"Burn Notice: The Show Everyone Tells Everyone Else to Watch"
Are we gonna have a problem here?
Oh Richard, you just made my morning with your pretty rich lady lands a new man jargon. Am I the only one who did not have some vicarious spiritual adventure through this sad, lonely, and self-important divorcee? I mean, um, good for her for landing a movie starring Julia Roberts n stuff.
pattycakes
Sorry but I loved, Eat Pray Love. Julia Roberts???? GAH! Are you serious, geeezus can we get someone with a little intellect and depth instead of her? She just comes across as so lifetime movie of the week to me. BLAH.
I_b_hatin