Apes will rise... 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Trailer HD -It's James Franco's fault -again!; USA's Covert Affairs back June 7

'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Trailer HD:
Starring James Franco, Andy Serkis & Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), co-starring John Lithgow, Brian Cox and Tyler Labine.
Directed by Rupert Wyatt, opening August 5th in U.S.
http://youtu.be/5UoIctTPRZI

And when they rise, trust me, they will rise quickly in South Florida!

MTV
'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes' Teaser Trailer: Five Key Scenes
James Franco's ambitious scientist appears to have doomed mankind.
By Terri Schwartz Apr 14 2011 1:15 PM EDT
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1661973/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-trailer-james-franco.jhtml


Salon
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Science's worst idea yet, Everyone's favorite overextended performance artist finds his latest challenge: Stopping the super-monkeys,
By Drew Grant April 14, 2011
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/james_franco/?story=/ent/movies/feature/2011/04/14/rise_of_the_apes_trailer

Interview with director Rupert Wyatt
http://www.riseoftheplanetoftheapes.com/caesar.html


"Rise" co-star Tyler Labine was brilliant as conspiracy-minded 'big picture' blogger Dave Groves in the South Florida-set ABC-TV sci-fi drama "Invasion," from 2005-06.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651/
A personal favorite, his clever riffs about pop culture and sociology were the best on TV since the heyday of the Gilmore Girls.

Also great on that show was longtime HBB favorite Kari Matchett as Dr. Mariel Underlay, where she played the sexy and brainy ex-wife of former CSI:Miami star Eddie Cibrian's Russell Varon, an Everglades Park ranger.

Her role as smart, clever and drop-dead-gorgeous Dr. Mariel Underlay from Homestead, made me a fan of "Invasion" from Pilot 'till its untimely cancellation.
Though my public policy views on immigration run more towards FAIR's than the Miami Herald's editorial board, she was the only South Florida "alien" I'd ever be happy to roll the red carpet out for.
I loved this show and so did most of my friends!

Obviously, I wasn't the only one to take notice, witness her terrific work in a succession in great roles on 24, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and E.R.

More recently, Matchett has been playing a shrewd CIA administrator who is the wife of a fellow Langley administrator (Peter Gallagher) and the boss of a newbie CIA agent played by the amazing Piper Perabo, in USA Network's breakout-hit from last year, Covert Affairs, which starts up Season 2 on June 7th.



It's a terrific show and is actually fun to watch because of both the clever originality of the writing, the whole secrecy angle, and the amazing Piper Perabo, whom I've always, always, always liked, whether in good films or so-so ones.

And yes, I already know, no need to remind me via emails from Saskatchewan: Matchett's another of the many drop-dead gorgeous Canadian woman on American TV.

No chemistry? Oh, so it wasn't just me who noticed? Academy president Tom Sherak tells TheWrap: Franco and Hathaway Had 'No Connection'

Oh, so it wasn't just me who noticed how contrived the relationship between James Franco and Anne Hathaway seemed during Sunday's 83rd Annual Academy Awards?

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TheWrap
Academy Chief Sherak: Franco and Hathaway Had 'No Connection'
By Daniel Frankel
Published: March 03, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

Pelted by critics of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards telecast over the last three days, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak quipped to TheWrap Thursday that he remains in a "bunker."

"I'll climb out as soon as I hear Winston Churchill say it's OK," he added, conceding that the host pairing of James Franco and Anne Hathaway wasn't as dynamic as hoped, but defending the overall ratings performance of the ABC telecast, which drew an average of 38 million viewers.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.thewrap.com/awards/article/sherak-his-bunker-there-was-no-connection-between-oscar-hosts-25235

*All screenshots above and below from the 83rd Annual Academy Awards of February 27, 2011 by South Beach Hoosier.


Oh, I get it.
Anne Hathaway in tails and James Franco in drag, all so he can make a Charlie Sheen joke. But really, do you think that people watching the Academy Awards show LIVE in Germany or Eastern Europe when it was 4:15 a.m. or so found it so damn hysterical?
Me, I've got to think they just groaned.
Like I did here in Anytown U.S.A., Hallandale Beach, Florida
For whom it was intended...

Well, at least someone didn't needlessly mention Sarah Palin just to make her a liberal punchline and show how "edgy" they are!

Gothamist: James Franco Says "F*** The Yale Daily News"
http://gothamist.com/2011/03/04/james_franco_says_f_the_yale_daily.php

The whole show reminded me of the very awkward relationships created when people are thrown together like a salad during long car rides from IU to Fort Lauderdale or Daytona Beach during Spring Break, tales related to me by friends once we were all back in cold Bloomington.

I once even personally experienced that clash of personalities on such a drive down here.
I was ready to jump out of the car somewhere between Chatanooga and Atlanta, probably near Franklin, home of Paramore, home of some very steep mountains on I-65, and those runaway truck pits on the side of the road are no laughing matter when it's raining hard.

And the drama didn't end once the four of us actually got here, either, when we were staying at the Sheraton Yankee Trader -and that fabulous swimming pool of theirs that was such a great people-watching magnet.

One of the girls on the trip down just "vanished" in Fort Lauderdale, so we had to call her parents up in Fort Wayne and then get the Fort Lauderdale police involved once her folks said they hadn't heard anything from her.

Shocker -she met some guy from some other school who was also visiting, and and she just decided to spend all her time with him and his friends -without telling us.

In comparison, at least nobody had to call the LAPD for either Anne and James once James seemed to check-out mentally and just sleepwalked his way thru much of the show.

So much for the great idea of having one of the hosts be someone who was nominated for an Academy Award!



Great Cate! Every inch a movie star: Cate Blanchett.
She is transcendent in every film she does.

Her dress was from Givenchy Couture, and was NOT so keenly received by the fashionistas:
http://www.vogue.fr/mode/look-du-jour/articles/cate-blanchett-en-givenchy-couture/6999


Bosom pals from Down Under with talent-to-spare: Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Nicole is wearing Dior Couture.

Mr. Sherak, the answer to who should be hosting the Academy Awards show if they are not nominated for an award themselves is obvious.
It's right in front of you: Jackman & Kidman.

The two of them have more natural (and honed) singing and dancing talent than almost any two other actors you could've found in the Kodak Theater, and everyone knows it, too.
And everyone also knows what great friends they are, too, and that enthusiasm and synergy will surely show up in their performance as well.
Case closed.

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See also:

Official website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: http://www.oscars.org/

Transcript of Live Chat: After the Oscars, with David Denby
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2011/02/david-denby-oscars.html

TheWrap online: http://www.thewrap.com/

TheWrap's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/thewrapnews