Summary:
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
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Genevieve (Nia Vardalos) and Greg (John Corbett)
Summary:
A romantic drama about a widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn’t yet truly confronted his wife’s passing.
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Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) and Eloise (Jennifer Aniston)
The Proposal engaged enough moviegoers to lead the weekend box office and deliver by far the biggest opening of star Sandra Bullock’s career.
On approximately 4,100 screens at 3,056 sites, The Proposal rang up $33.6 million, which was on the high end for a romantic comedy and a career best not only for Ms. Bullock (beating the Speed movies adjusted for ticket price inflation) but for co-star Ryan Reynolds (in a leading role) as well. Distributor Walt Disney Pictures’ exit polling indicated that 63 percent of moviegoers were female and 86 percent were 18 years and older, while 71 percent were classified as “couples.”
I saw it this weekend as well and I loved it! Bullock and Reynolds should do more films together!
The CW will kick off its fall campaign on Sept. 8 with the sophomore year of “90210″ and the bow of “Melrose Place.”
Net has also decided to flop the time slots of its Monday dramas, which will send “Gossip Girl” to the 9 p.m. hour.
It’s the second year in a row that “90210″ is the centerpiece of the net’s fall launch campaign, and CW is hoping that anticipation will be high for the remodeled “Melrose.” CW is getting a jumpstart on its competish by launching the week of Sept. 8, but it won’t be quite as quick out of the gate as last year, when the net’s fall sked launched on Labor Day.
The rollout continues Sept. 9 with the two-hour preem of “America’s Next Top Model,” followed Sept. 10 by the preem of “Vampire Diaries” and return of “Supernatural.”
The Monday slate returns on Sept. 14, though the “Gossip Girl”-”One Tree Hill” slot swap will take effect July 6 with repeat segs.
The regular Wednesday slate of “Top Model” and newbie drama “A Beautiful Life” arrives on Sept. 16. CW also confirmed to its affiliate stations this month that it will give back one hour of its two-hour Monday-Friday daytime block as of the 2010-11 season. At present it programs the 3-5 p.m. block with yakker “The Tyra Banks Show,” one original and one repeat seg. As of 2010-11, it will return the 4-5 p.m. hour to affiliates.
Summary:
It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The tale begins as the ravishing Lea contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris’s most envied seductress to the rich and famous. Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux, who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19 year-old son a thing or two about women. The resulting escapades involve power struggles over sex, money, age and society — and unexpectedly, love itself — as a boy who refuses to grow up collides with a woman who realizes she cannot stay young forever.
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Cheir (Rupert Friend) and Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer)
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds of The Proposal dish on running into each other while naked, the things they’ve been forced to do and Betty White eating panda steak.
Summary:
This is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap.
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Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) and Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams)
Summary: When a beautiful, smart, suburban 40-year-old mother discovers her husband is cheating, she takes her two children to New York City to start over. A demanding new job forces her to hire a nanny, and she chooses 25-year-old Aram, who is still trying to figure out what he wants in life. As Aram increasingly becomes attached to her kids, Aram and Sandy become aware of their own undeniable chemist
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Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Aram (Justin Bartha)
Gaywired.com posted reviews of both Melrose Place and The Vampire Diaries.
I hated the remake at first. However, now that I’ve stewed it over, I see potential. From the beginning, the pilot didn’t find its tone. The acting was in general mediocre - some stood out and some was atrocious (I’m talking about you Ashlee Simpson-Wentz)…
…If nothing else, Melrose Place 2.0 might spawn a fun drinking game centered around Ashlee Simpson-Wentz attempting to utter catty lines. What can I say? I’m a sucker for a mystery.
…Moving on…my expectations for The Vampire Diaries were admittedly lower. Vampires have always been my thing, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to that season of daytime soap Port Charles. However, Twilight disappointed me and since this latest book series adaptation looked like a blatant ripoff of that Hollywood blockbuster, I expected it to disappoint me as well. Boy, was I wrong!
This show was fantastic. Literally, I cannot think of enough superlatives to describe the pilot. Immediately, I was sucked in by Kevin Williamson’s script and direction. Granted, he’s one of my favorite writers with his Scream series, but I was shocked to see him bring his A-game to his latest TV offering considering that it’s been so long since we’ve seen anything from him…
…Basically, I’m ordering you to watch Vampire Diaries. Even though it’s in the ridiculously competitive timeslot of Thursdays at 8pm, find anyway to catch it, even if it means ordering another Tivo. Rating: 11 out of 10 couches.
