sisterhood of the traveling pants

In the Name of the Sisterhood, Blake Lively Forgives America Ferrera Her Eye-Roll

3:20AM Defamer Hollywood | It was the eye-roll heard around the world (yes, you can hear an eye-roll — it sounds like a faint, wet “oh snap”): while doing a Good Day LA interview to promote Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2, America Ferrera looked alternately bored and incredulous as costar Blake Lively nattered on about upcoming plotlines on Gossip Girl. The open mocking of the CW drama (without a single, hasty addendum of, “But it’s a guilty pleasure!”) sent New York’s media world reeling, desperate to protect the scrappy little show that it had clutched to its bosom for so long. To that end, EW dispatched Michael Ausiello to corner Lively in an attempt to determine whether the actress now harbored anti-America sentiment: More »

Will ‘Dark Knight’ Choke on ‘Pineapple’?

2:00AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to what’s new, noteworthy and/or totally stillborn this week at the movies. For the second straight week, The Dark Knight has a legitimate challenger for box-office supremacy, while a smattering of other releases — including one of the year’s best documentaries — reinforce this summer’s unusually strong vintage. Even the latest DVD’s are impressive. Who knew? So screw the Olympics and read on for the real must-sees; as always, our opinions are our own, but with 99.999996% accuracy, we wouldn’t have it any other way. More »

The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Career Paths

6:20AM Molly Friedman | Only three years ago, Blake Lively was just That Blonde Girl from The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants, and America Ferrera was just the Token Dorky Sidekick. Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn, on the other hand, were bonafide TV stars. My, how things have changed. With the film’s sequel debuting next month, we take a look at how each of the leading ladies has done career-wise since the original racked up nearly $40MM at the box office in 2005. While there’s a bit of bad news for the original’s biggest stars, there’s an alternate way of looking at this role reversal: any actress’ status as the perennial “buddy” can obviously change with one little show that could.