Shirtless, Fresh and Hungry: The 2014 MTV Movie Awards
“The Wolf of Wall Street” apparently didn’t howl quite loud enough to wrest the top golden popcorn trophies from the claws of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards Sunday at the Nokia Theatre, where it claimed Best Picture, Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) and Best Actor (Josh Hutcherson). The always irreverent two-hour awards show seems to go by in a flash compared to other ceremonies, because of the fast...
‘Mad Men’ Cast Reflects on Humble Beginnings and Mysterious Endings at PaleyFest
Think back to the 2007, when AMC was a cable channel known for playing old movies. And then along came “Mad Men,” the 1960s era drama series that ushered in a whole new age of original programming for the basic cabler–and became a show that was quickly embraced by critics and viewers and lauded with dozens of awards. Memories of that time were front and center as the cast of “Mad Men” took the stage at the Dolby...
An Icon, a ‘Freak’ and a ‘Geek’–It’s Judd Apatow’s Time at Paley Fest
Nearly every television producer working today has a sad story about the one that got away – the passion project that made it to air but after usually a very short period of time was axed, justifiably or not, by the network. This scenario is one that can rankle creators years, or even decades later. For Judd Apatow, that show was “Freaks and Geeks,” which ran on NBC in the 1999- 2000 season and was canceled after 18 episodes, but has...
Top Ten Reasons Why the MTV Movie Awards Will Be a Gas
What the Oscars are to seriousness and gravitas in the world of film, the MTV Movie Awards are to fun and frivolity–particularly when it comes to the ceremony itself. The 2014 edition will be held at LA’s Nokia Theater April 13, (6pm PT/9pm ET) more than a month after Oscars’ lustrous gleam illuminated all in its path. Many of those who took home or were in the running to win the golden statue will be back competing for MTV’s...
It’s All Over But The Hangovers–A Look at Oscar’s Hits and Misses
All pizza party stunts and star-studded selfies aside, the 86th Annual Academy Awards will go down in the record books as the first time that a black director helmed the winner of the year’s best picture. And literally jumped for joy. “12 Years a Slave” was certainly not a lock to win, as host Ellen DeGeneres noted succinctly at the very top of the telecast, but vaulted over the popular blockbuster “Gravity” with a savvy last-minute...
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