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.
While Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and The Rum Diary are set to be released in 2011, Johnny Depp just can’t seem to get enough of mingling with the strange and bizarre. According to celebrity-gossip.net, Depp was seen wandering the streets of London, England Wednesday night with his pal Keith Richards. Depp and Richards were both wearing fedoras and looking conspicuously like pirates.
Supposedly the character of Captain Jack Sparrow was based on Richard’s actual persona. Depp has exemplified a true knack at embodying deranged characters on screen from his early role as Edward Scissorhands to portraying the late and great Ed Wood. Apparently during the filming of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Depp attained the ability to play Hunter Thompson better than Thompson could play himself. Depp will reprise his roll as the eccentric Dr. Gonzo in The Rum Diary.
Depp has displayed an obvious fascination with enigmatic people. He is currently working on a documentary that chronicles Richard’s wild life. However, is another Pirates of the Caribbean in the works? Judging by the popularity of the franchise a 5th film seems likely. So, is Depp hanging out with Richards to further his research on the beloved rum swilling vagabond character by leaching off the pirate himself? Surely Richards has a few more tricks up his sleeve.
It’s a shame Hunter S. Thompson shot himself right in the middle of George W. Bush’s two terms in office (or maybe that’s why he shot himself) because the author would have had so much more to say. He had some amusing anecdotes about the state of the world under the Bush administration in his final book, “Hey Rube,” but there was still a term’s worth of material he could have written about when he died in February of 2005.
What’s even more of a shame is people who discover Thompson’s books today, in the future, and even in the past few years, will never be able to look forward to new material. And they won’t be able to hear him speak – either in person or in new interviews.
In a new biography, “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film,” set to air on Starz on Dec. 12 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), viewers will be able to see and hear Hunter speak. There’s much more to the show, and much more that makes this documentary worth watching, but it’s amazing to see Hunter for a few minutes and then think back to his books. In print, he’s a drunk, a rebel, crazy, etc. In person, I do not doubt that he is the same way, but you wouldn’t know it from seeing old interviews with him.
He is quiet. I never pictured him to be quiet when I read a few of his books over the past few years. He doesn’t exactly come off as the most rational person, but certainly not the one who never plays by the rules in his Fear and Loathing books.
This documentary gives new readers – and there are still plenty every year who are introduced to Thompson through university courses – the chance to really get a sense of who Thompson is.
But seeing him on screen is just a small part of this presentation.
This is also a collection of interviews with his closest friends and family members. Some of these people so rarely speak on camera in such depth, including Bill Murray and Johnny Depp, who both played Thompson in films.
You’ll also hear from Sean Penn, John Cusack, his wife and son, Gary Busey and several others.
And while the documentary could have survived with just the interviews and not old clips of Thompson, using the old interviews of the man himself is what puts the documentary over the top. Thompson created “gonzo” journalism, which, to sum it up, is when he put himself in the stories. It wasn’t just a story on the Kentucky Derby; it was Hunter’s take on a horse race, complete with how he got there, what he did when he was there, and what he did after. It was more about Thompson and it just so happened that a horse race was going on. Which is precisely why not including Thompson in his own biographical film would have been cruel.
If you’ve never read any of Thompson’s books, it will be hard just to “get” what he was all about from this documentary or any other movie. So watch the special, but complement it with his literature. And if you have read his novels, you’ll love hearing stories told from his closest friends and Thompson himself.
And one final note, Gary Busey is hilarious. Watch the clip embedded below to see a clip from the special in which Busey teaches how to interview him.
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride airs on the Starz cable channel Dec. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
