First Lady Michelle Obama took a bit a break after a February media blitz that included appearances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Sesame Street and the Oscars. But Tuesday night she was back in the spotlight with an interview on Entertainment Tonight that covered pressing issues such as her husband’s sex appeal and her… Read more »
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Open thread for night owls: ‘Entertainment isn’t causing a culture of gun violence–we are’
Michael Atkinson writes Hollywood Is the Wrong Target: It’s been a panties-in-a-bunch complaint since James Cagney first picked up a tommy gun, and it’s usually made by writers and pundits who know next to nothing about cinema or image culture. Adam Lanza might’ve owned and loaded his .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic and10mm Glock, the logic goes,… Read more »
SNL Cold Open Mocks ‘Entertainment’ Aboard The Stranded ‘Nightmare Cruise’
SNL took on the crisis aboard the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship that dominated so much news coverage this week. SNL’s cold open this week gave viewers a window into the “entertainment” that did their best to keep the stricken ship’s passengers distracted from the conditions around them. A variety of cruise ship entertainers did… Read more »
Entertainment Tonight Whacks Pope Benedict and His ‘Stained’ Legacy
Tuesday's Entertainment Tonight ran quite the hit piece on Pope Benedict, promoting the distorted anti-Catholic documentary on the clerical abuse scandals and revisiting ABC reporter Brian Ross's 2002 confrontation with then-Cardinal Ratzinger. "Then he slapped me like this on the wrist as if I were a schoolboy, asking an impertinent question," Ross recalled, when he… Read more »