13 Oct
Posted by: Christopher Tisdall in: Entertainment Ideas
NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street might have started as a small demonstration September 17, finding a home in New York’s Zuccotti Park, but since then, it has grown into a revolutionary movement, spanning 951 cities in 82 countries.
On Saturday night (October 15), an Occupation Party was to start at 5 p.m. ET sharp in New York’s Times Square. At around 4:45 p.m., a few hundred people had congregated. By 6:30 p.m., the number had easily reached the thousands.
An extension of Occupy Wall Street, the Occupation Party had gathered in the hub of New York consumerism, Times Square, to peacefully yet heartily protest corporate greed, nationwide unemployment and unethical governmental practices.
Singer Cee Lo Green will make his big screen acting debut in a planned remake of movie musical , alongside Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks.
The original 1976 film, about three Harlem, New York-based sisters who form a group in the late 1950s, will get a new look with Sparks as the title character and Houston in a starring role – her first acting job in more than 15 years.
Now Green, who has previously only worked on TV and in animated movies – like the upcoming – has also been tapped for a featured part in the project.
Director Salim Akil will take charge of the film, while R&B icon R.
21 Sep
Posted by: Christopher Tisdall in: Entertainment Ideas
In a post released on Facebook this evening, FX has revealed that the season for premiere of Sons of Anarchy had the most viewers of any program the network has ever aired. According to the report, the original broadcast of the episode brought in 6.5 million viewers, and with encore airings the number jumps to 9.5 million.
This means the show has beaten out other television megahits from FX, such as The Shield and Rescue Me, and it’s well deserved, in my humble opinion. When you think back to the slow start the series got off to, and how they picked up the pace to finish the first season and never looked back, this is one of the most consistent shows the network has ever produced.
26 Aug
Posted by: Christopher Tisdall in: Entertainment Ideas

The Amazing Spider-Man co-stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, were pulled over by the LAPD in the early hours of Saturday morning for “driving erratically,” a source tells us.
The real-life boyfriend and girlfriend (who dined out together at Nobu Malibu Thursday night) were stopped around 2am in West Hollywood, questioned by police, and released without a citation. A friend was behind the wheel.
Whew!
Brad Pitt plays a hero in many of his movies, and now he’s one in real life after saving a woman on the set of his new movie from being trampled.
It happened Thursday during a scene of “World War Z” in Glasgow, Scotland, when 700 extras were used to portray a zombie invasion, People magazine reported.
One woman slipped and Pitt was there to help her escape from being trampled.
The woman suffered only has a scrape on her knee, thanks to her new favorite movie star.
26 Jul
Posted by: Chelsea Gerald in: Entertainment Ideas
Bob Rich is a Buffalo guy who writes in longhand on legal pads stories about fishing, swimming, the Knox brothers, a baseball team named the New York Knights and a dog he calls Babe.
A writer, he said, he is not, but oh, the behind-the-scenes tales he can tell.
“I was a little outspoken,” Rich admitted, about the collection of sports stories in his new book, “The Right Angle: Tales from a Sporting Life.” “I said some things that may not sit well with some people. But hey, Full Post…