Posts by Richard Lawson
Flotsam & Jetsam
Jon Hamm And Ben Affleck To Get Romantic
12:44AM Richard Lawson | Lots of writers all over Hollywood get deals. There are remakes and reimaginings, adaptations and homages. And there is love. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Which Big-Name Actor Knocked Up His Co-Star’s Sister?
11:15PM Richard Lawson | Today we have a British star who is having some problems with her down there business, an actor who wouldn’t own up to babydaddydom, and a jerky jerky who did jerky things when dating someone who was, probably, a jerk. More »
Big Screen
Which Thirty Minutes Of Funny People Did Universal Want To Cut?
5:55AM Richard Lawson | Today The Wrap henpecks at the troubled Universal, citing flagging box office returns and office infighting. But the most interesting tidbit is that the studio tried to cut 30 minutes off of Judd Apatow’s two-and-a-half-hour Funny People, but failed. Why? More »
Small Screen
Ben Silverman, We Will Miss You
4:23AM Richard Lawson | That NBC chair Ben Silverman is flying/being pushed out of the peacock coop isn’t really all that surprising. He’s always been kind of a disaster. A blowhard (in more ways than one) party boy with streaks of ego and irresponsibility. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Mila Kunis Will Quietly Take Over The World
2:27AM Richard Lawson | Today we have news about unexpected rising stars, videogames turned movies, and gay people on TV. There are no gay people on TV! More »
People
The Michael Jackson Memorial Object You Need To Own
1:40AM Richard Lawson | Your creepy Michael Jackson shrine is missing something, isn’t it? You have that glove he threw “to you” at that concert 20 years ago. You have that lock of greasy hair. So what is it? We know! An “authorised” lithograph! More »
Small Screen
Wunderkind Ben Silverman Out At NBC
12:43AM Richard Lawson | Once-celebrated, now-beleaguered NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman is leaving the company, it was announced on Ryan Seacrest’s Twitter this morning. (Yes.) Well, OK, the New York Times has confirmed. So what the heck happened? Is this good news or bad? More »
Big Screen
Dumbledore’s Corpse Eaten By Guinea Pigs, Potter Enslaved
12:15AM Richard Lawson | Monday morning means box office. And a hot stateside Monday morning means US summer box office. Which means big, depressing numbers for big, depressing movies. Like G-Force, a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced sorta-animated movie about guinea pigs. Yes, guinea pigs. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Who Are The Celebrity Swinger Couples?
11:30PM Richard Lawson | Today we have two items. One is about four celebrity swingers who may not be on the sly anymore. The other about an actress with severe weight problems. Quelle surprise. More »
Big Screen
