The Top 10 VH1 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons Are Revealed
On Dateline Sunday they revealed the top 10 list of VH1's 200 Greatest Popculture Icons. The series of specials begins airing Monday in America, and in Canada later this year, but NBC was able to get the top ten as follows:
10. Michael Jackson
9. Princess Diana
8. Michael Jordan
7. Madonna
6. Marilyn Monroe
5. Tom Cruise
4. Lucille Ball
3. Elvis
2. Superman (Cartoon)
1.Oprah
Seriously! Oprah!??!?!?!?!?!?!
She Can't Be Serious!!!
It seems that "Canadian Idol" judge Sass Jordan feels that the Canadian edition is much better than its American counterpart. "In Canada, it is more popular because it is us. It's relative to us and it's way more interesting and funny and exciting than American Idol. No offence to them, but we're 1000 times better. The American one sort of fits a brand, it's like Kraft Dinner. We're like motherf--king macaroni and cheese!
"It (American Idol) seems totally manufactured. Also the level of competition that they have doesn't even come close to what we have here. It's not the cookie-cutter ones you would expect."
I wonder what she is on! She should share it with everyone who watches the Canadian show. Maybe that way it would be entertaining, in anyway.
Oh well, the funniest thing you will actually read today is not that, it's this. And this is a true story:
One day Sass introduced herself to Gene Simmons, from Kiss, by simply saying "I'm Sass." Simmons promptly replied, "What's your last name? Katoon?
Ah ha ha ha!!! And she thinks Canadian Idol is better than the American one! Oh, man! Is that funny!
CBS Gets Jump on Fall with Next 'Survivor'
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - FOX has pretty much abandoned the idea of a mass launch of its lineup for the 2003-04 season, largely because it has to work around coverage of the major league baseball playoffs in October.
CBS has no such problem, and will roll out nearly its entire schedule in the traditional first week of the season, following the Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 21.
With only a couple of exceptions, CBS' lineup will debut the week of Sept. 22. "Survivor: Pearl Islands," the seventh edition of the network's reality standard-bearer, will get a one-week jump on the regular season by premiering Thursday, Sept. 18.
"Becker," which is moving to Wednesdays, will open its season Oct. 1 to allow for a one-hour season premiere of "The King of Queens" the previous week.
Here's a rundown of CBS' premiere dates (new shows in bold, all times Eastern):
Thursday, Sept. 18
* 8 p.m.: "Survivor: Pearl Islands"
Monday, Sept. 22
* 8 p.m.: "Yes, Dear" (new timeslot)
* 8:30 p.m.: "Still Standing" (new timeslot)
* 9 p.m.: "Everybody Loves Raymond"
* 9:30 p.m.: "Two and a Half Men"
* 10 p.m.: "CSI: Miami"
Tuesday, Sept. 23
* 8 p.m.: "Navy NCIS"
* 9 p.m.: "The Guardian"
* 10 p.m.: "Judging Amy"
Wednesday, Sept. 24
* 8 p.m.: "60 Minutes II"
* 9 p.m.: "The King of Queens" (one-hour premiere; new timeslot)
* 10 p.m.: "The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H."
Thursday, Sept. 25
* 9 p.m.: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
* 10 p.m.: "Without a Trace"
Friday, Sept. 26
* 8 p.m.: "Joan of Arcadia"
* 9 p.m.: "JAG" (new timeslot)
* 10 p.m.: "The Handler"
Saturday, Sept. 27
* 8 p.m.: "48 Hours Investigates" (new timeslot)
* 9 p.m.: "Hack" (new timeslot)
* 10 p.m.: "The District" (new timeslot)
Sunday, Sept. 28
* 7 p.m.: "60 Minutes"
* 8 p.m.: "Cold Case"
* 9 p.m.: CBS Sunday Movie
Wednesday, Oct. 1
* 9:30 p.m.: "Becker" (new timeslot)
Nickelback Readies 'The Long Road'
Nickelback will release its third album, "The Long Road," Sept. 23 in the U.S. via Roadrunner. The Canadian rock act self-produced the set, which will be led by the single "Someday." A video for the track was recently shot in Vancouver with director Nigel Dick (Alice In Chains, Britney Spears, matchbox twenty).
Other songs on the album include "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good," "Do This Anymore" and "Throw Yourself Away." Nickelback will support the release with a fall North American tour. Last month the band played a handful of Canadian dates.
As previously reported, the group contributed a cover of Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" to the "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" soundtrack (Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax).
"The Long Road" is the follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, "Silver Side Up." Released in September 2001, the set debuted at No. 5 on The Billboard 200. The album spawned the smash single "How You Remind Me," which topped Billboard's Hot 100 as well as the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts.
Spider-Man will do what he can against evil Doc Ock
No one can say the latest Spider-Man arch nemesis isn't well-armed. Something is definitely fishy in Spider-Man 2, the sequel to last year's comic-inspired box office sensation now shooting in Los Angeles. And we don't mean the leftovers in Aunt May's fridge.
Dr. Otto Octavius, the sinister scientist known to Spidey buffs as Doc Ock or Doctor Octopus, was unveiled this weekend at San Diego's Comic-Con bash.
Alfred Molina, who has done wrong in everything from Chocolat to Dudley Do-Right, is the man bearing those malevolent arms.
"Alfred happens to be a great actor who has some of the qualities of a loved character," says director Sam Raimi, who returns for a second spin with the web-slinging superhero reprised by Tobey Maguire and due next July 2. "Doc Ock had to have a commanding presence and intelligence," Raimi says. "He's got the look of a bodybuilder from 1954."
Molina fit the bill as well as the costume, which includes dark goggles and a swept-forward hairdo.
"I'm told he's one of the more popular villains," says Molina, 50, who occasionally flipped through the comics as a kid. "It would have been foolish to have said no." Originally a humanitarian, the doctor conducts an experiment that goes horribly awry and accidentally fuses a quartet of huge squid limbs to his spine.
Raimi considers the doctor to be Spider-Man's perfect foe, since both possess the nature of eight-legged creatures. "His many arms can really put an agile athlete like Spider-Man to the test."
The Doc also has more human pathos than Spidey's first movie opponent, Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin. "I never considered Doc Ock as a madman" — unlike Goblin, Raimi says. "He just gets his priorities out of order. He's ruthless, but I always thought of him as sane but misguided."
In a story not borrowed from the comic books, Spidey's alter ego, Peter Parker, runs into Dr. Octavius while attending college. "They meet in a laboratory," says Raimi. "Dr. Octavius is working on a project, and both share an interest in physics. He becomes an unwilling teacher."
Molina's arsenal of appendages, whose performance is half animatronic and half digital effects, weighs 75 to 100 pounds. "The first thing I did was to get in a gym with a trainer," he says. Sixteen puppeteers work the expandable 13-foot arms.
Dafoe recently made a visit to the set and appeared a bit green — with envy, Molina says. "He reckons I'm lucky since, as the Goblin, he was hidden behind a big mask and I haven't got one."
Molina doesn't sound as if he has been infected by any of the Doc's bad habits. But, he adds, "Funnily enough, I have not eaten calamari since filming began. Some subconscious thing must be going on."
'Bad Boys II' Takes Custody of Box Office
LOS ANGELES - Bad boys old and new ruled the box office.
The buddy-cop flick "Bad Boys II" debuted at No. 1 with $46.7 million, trailed by last weekend's top film, the buccaneer adventure "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," with $33.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The weekend's other new wide releases had so-so debuts. Rowan Atkinson's spy comedy "Johnny English," already a $100-million hit overseas, opened in fourth place with $9.3 million. Mandy Moore's teen melodrama "How to Deal" premiered at No. 8 with $5.8 million.
In limited release, director Stephen Frears' "Dirty Pretty Things" opened strongly with $101,000 in five theaters. Starring Audrey Tautou in a dark thriller about a human-organ black market centered at a London hotel, the film expands to more theaters Aug. 1.
The overall box office surged, with the top 12 movies taking in $137.6 million, up 33 percent from the same weekend last year, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Weekend revenues generally have trailed last year's, with the summer box office about 2 percent behind 2002's.
The weekend was a one-two punch for blockbuster baron Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced both "Bad Boys II" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
"To take the No. 1 and 2 positions, which I don't think any producer has ever done in history, it's spectacular," said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney, which released "Pirates of the Caribbean."
"Bad Boys II" reunited Bruckheimer, director Michael Bay and stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the team behind 1995's action comedy "Bad Boys." By the end of its first week, "Bad Boys II" should pass the $65.8 million total gross of the original movie, said Jeff Blake, vice chairman at Sony Pictures, which released both flicks.
The sequel pits Smith and Lawrence's trash-talking police partners against an Ecstasy-smuggling ring. The movie overcame harsh reviews from critics, with many calling the action mean-spirited and the violence too far over the top.
"It's anything but a mean-spirited picture," Blake said. "Clearly, the public is having a lot of fun with it. It is over-the-top action, but it's got so many laughs."
"Pirates of the Caribbean" pushed its 12-day total to $132.2 million and is on the way to becoming the year's fifth movie to top $200 million.
The year's top-grossing movie, the animated fish tale "Finding Nemo," had a $7.3 million weekend to cross the $300 million mark.
Here ate the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Bad Boys II," $46.7 million.
2. "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," $33.3 million.
3. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," $10.1 million.
4. "Johnny English," $9.3 million.
5. "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," $9.2 million.
6. "Finding Nemo," $7.3 million.
7. "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde," $6.1 million.
8. "How to Deal," $5.8 million.
9. "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," $3.7 million.
10. "28 Days Later," $2.55 million.