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3:09PM Jess McGuire | Poor Radelaide. I visited your fine city in February with the likes of Frente in tow and had a jolly good time, but it seems we are pretty much the only people who have bothered to pop by the Festival State lately. Sook on! More »
Adelaide Crying Inside After Another Concert Snubbing
3:09PM Jess McGuire | Poor Radelaide. I visited your fine city in February with the likes of Frente in tow and had a jolly good time, but it seems we are pretty much the only people who have bothered to pop by the Festival State lately. Sook on! More » 
Just Add Alcohol: ‘Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Version’ Opens Friday
7:20AM STV | Resisting the Lucas-esque compulsion to digitally swap Pierce Brosnan’s open-throated squawk with a mellifluous gay lilt, Universal has instead touched on a decidedly more modest touch in tweaking its hit Mamma Mia! for a late-summer revival: Subtitles, and plenty of them. Behold Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Version, announced earlier this month and finally making its way into karaoke-plexes near you this weekend. And the early reviews describe just the scenario that can make the ABBA musical a phenomenon all over again: More »
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2:35AM Seth | You look nervous. Is it the scars? You wanna know how we got ‘em? Come here. Look at us. One night, we couldn’t sleep, so we turn on QVC. They’re pushing something called the Facial Flex Facial Exercise and Toning Kit. We figure, “Why not? Our jowls could use some tautening.” So it comes in the mail, see—but the first time we use it, something goes wrong. Very, Very wrong. Now we always see the funny side! We’re always smiling! Hey—who’s up for box office numbers! HAHAHAHAHA! More »
‘Mamma Mia’ Narrowly Outpaces ‘Dark Knight’ in Close Race For Gayest New Release
3:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Until today, we didn’t really know Mamma Mia! had any competition for the weekend’s gay-readiest cinematic treat, with the most recent evidence stretching the film’s ABBA creds to recommend tips for building your own home disco. Classy, no? But a few Dark Knight contrarians are out there, subverting the conventional wisdom (”Is Mamma Mia! the gay Batman?“) and giving the musical’s loyalists a run for their gay money: More »
Foreign Audiences Threaten To Bury Us In ‘Mamma Mia’ Spoilers
5:25AM Seth | Meryl Streep dazzles foreigners with her ability to perform the splits in mid-air, as the early international release of Mamma Mia has audiences around the globe wishing every paternity test could be set to the infectious pop-standards of ABBA. [Variety] GLAAD pats ABC on the head for being gays-friendly, but FX is still the most transgender-curious network on basic cable! [Variety] Greg Berlanti signs a five-year deal with ABC Studios, where he’ll continue to oversee his current three series Brothers & Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone, while helping the studio in their ongoing mandate to borrow great foreign show ideas. [THR] Jon Heder and his identical twin Dan are producing Loudermilk, about “a Napoleon Dynamite-like oddball who becomes contaminated with a substance that gives him what might arguably be considered superpowers.” Great World of Sound writer/director Craig Zobel has been hired to attempt to make it not suck. [THR] DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals are doing strongly despite the rest of the economy floating in the Andy Gump. [THR]
