In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Appetizer
The All-Star weekend began in its usual fashion with the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge on Friday. This exhibition pits the rooks against the sophomores in 48 minutes of knock-down, defence packed carnage… ok, maybe not. As with every year there were a ton of thunderous dunks, long range three point shots and crazy ball handling- with little to no defence.
Andre Iguodala was spectacular, hitting 13 of his 17 FG?s and drilling four three balls in the sophomores? victory. In total he had 30 points, 4 steals, 6 rebounds and the game?s MVP trophy. Not a bad day at the office. Of the top 10 picks in the 2004 draft, 6 were selected to play for the sophomores- Iguodala being one of them.
Other notable performances came from Toronto?s Charlie Villanueva who flooded the box score with 18 points and 12 rebounds and Houston?s Luther Head who added 18 points and 4 assists.
Sophomores over Rookies 106-96
MVP- Andre Iguodala
Thoughts: I wonder when the rookies will next beat the sophomores? Charlie Villanueva continues to make Stephen A. Smith look like a jackass (not that he needs much help).
Main Course
Saturday night began with the RadioShack Shooting Stars competition which saw the San Antonio team of Steve Kerr, Tony Parker and Kendra Wecker destroy all other competition in a resounding win. Considering the San Antonio team went first and set the bar so high, it was a pretty uneventful competition.
Winner- San Antonio
Thoughts: Why can?t these All-Star athletes hit a simple jump shot? I won?t say anything bad about Kelly Miller.
The Shooting Stars competition was followed by the PlayStation Skills Challenge. Canada?s own Steve Nash won the Skills Challenge last year and was heavily favoured to repeat this year. However, that was not the case as Nash couldn?t sink the near free throw line jump shot. Dwayne Wade ended up winning in what has to be one of the worst stacked events of the weekend. If you have a Skills Competition without Jason Kidd and Tony Parker, you might as well just not have it at all.
Winner- Dwayne Wade
Thoughts: Nash?s inability to hit that shot was embarrassing. What a snoozer of an event. Dwayne Wade is the most skilled player in the NBA? I think not.
Next up was the Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout which featured a couple great shooters in Dirk Nowitzki and Ray Allen with a supporting cast of scorers, including Gilbert Arenas, Chauncey Billups, Quentin Richardson and Jason Terry. As the TNT analysts kept reminding us, most of these players are scorers, not shooters. Which, again, begs the questions- who picks these players?!
It looked through the first round as if Allen was going to pull out an easy victory, but the determined German, Nowitzki had other plans in mind. Nowitzki heated up in the second round and easily took the competition.
Winner- Dirk Nowitzki
Thoughts: Dirk Nowitzki?s stroke is as smooth as Scarlett Johansson?s naked rump. Fill the competition with pure shooters, not star scorers.
Now to the good stuff- or so we thought. The Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk contest is not only the longest name in the history of competitions, it?s also an eye-sore of an event when not stacked with the best dunkers in the league- this year?s dunk contest would be one of those times.
There were two great dunks in this competition. One by Andre Iguodala, who threw the ball off the back of the backboard, caught it in mid-air and threw it down with authority. The creativity, power and danger-factor (Iguodala nailed his head on the backboard on his first attempt) made it one of the best dunks in recent years. The other spectacular dunk of the eve belonged to 5 foot nothing Knicks guard Nate Robinson, who took a pass from Spud Webb and jumped over the 5?5? dunk legend Webb and slammed it home.
Those two dunks aside, it was the worst dunk contest in recent history. Not only were all the other dunks average and unexciting, but the two aforementioned ones followed a good 20 or so failed attempts. In fact, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James were visibly frustrated with the number of attempts Robinson took. Iguodala could also be seen shouting ?Come on!?
Winner- Nate Robinson
Thoughts: Nate won, but shouldn?t have. That dunk by Iguodala was something special. If Rob Babcock was still working for the Raptors, he?d be fired after this weekend?s Iguodala-fest. Rafael Araujo over Andre Iguodala? Give me a break. Araujo has a Trump?esque penchants for getting people fired.
Desert
The 55th annual NBA All-Star Game took place in Houston?s Toyota Center and featured a slew of memorable moments. The show started off with Juno winner Jann Arden butchering Canada?s national anthem, which, unfortunately for Arden, was followed by Destiny?s Child?s flawless rendition of America?s Star Spangled Banner.
The game began as most NBA All-Star Games do- Lots of turnovers, lots of dunks and lots of three pointers. The West started strong and took a big lead, but the East turned up the defence and pulled ahead in the fourth quarter behind LeBron James’ 29 points.
Other notable performances include: Houston?s Tracy McGrady with 36 points, Miami?s Dwayne Wade with 20 points and San Antonio?s Tim Duncan with 15 points and 10 rebounds
This year?s All-Star Game was actually one of the better in recent memory. It wasn?t as high scoring as past games, but was quite competitive in the second half. The Detroit Pistons? Rasheed Wallace, Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton and B-B-B-Ben Wallace gave the East an edge on defence and a rare continuity that propelled their team to victory.
Memorable moments include LeBron James mocking physics with a gravity-defying lay in, Ben Wallace embarrassing Pau Gasol with two consecutive blocks, Vince Carter hitting back rim on two monster jam attempts, Kobe Bryant splitting two defenders and hitting a ridiculous shot in the last few minutes and, last but certainly not least, Eva Longoria?s exposed navel.
Winner- Eastern All-Stars
MVP- LeBron James
Thoughts: LeBron is the youngest All-Star Game MVP in league history. Who?s luckier- Tony Parker or Jay-Z? Those All-Star jerseys were the ugliest I?ve ever seen. You better believe Big Ben will be practicing his free throws after that air ball. Chris Bosh had no PT in the fourth. Just how many arm bands does Paul Pierce need? Shaq looks old. Tracy McGrady looks depressed. Nice Toronto connection with Bosh, Carter and McGrady playing. The All-Star game should decide who gets home-court advantage- like in baseball.
