Rachael Ray launches her new season from Los Angeles — and ET is with her as she makes the rounds of the Hollywood stars! Rachael and Jerry O’Donnell, who stars in the new CBS legal drama “The Defenders,” buddy up for some tasty treats from food trucks. Then Rachael is joined by Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence of “Melissa & Joey” on ABC Family. Check out the video for more with Rachael. The new season premieres this month. Check your local listings for dates and times.
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It’s been one of the most anticipated films this month, and it sounds like “Going the Distance” is going straight to the top of the box office.
The film involves Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long) who meet during Erin’s internship in New York City, but once the internship ends and Erin heads back to California the couple is forced to deal with the struggles of a long-distance relationship.
The reviews have been on the positive side for the most part, as Michael O’Sullivan from The Washington Post wrote, “Drew Barrymore and Justin Long make one cute couple. Whether or not the actors’ on-again-off-again real-life romance helped their performances as lovers frustrated by geography — he’s in Manhattan, she’s in San Francisco — it’s clear they have chemistry. E.T.’s girlfriend and the Mac Guy ooze a laid-back, goofy charm through their pore-less skin. They’re a modern-day Hepburn and Grant.”
Another critic told, “’Going the Distance’ is by no means perfect, but it’s light years beyond the average rom-com, bracingly honest and genuinely funny about the ups and downs of relationships. Barrymore and Long, once a real-life couple and now who-knows-what, have a real chemistry that complements their well-written, realistic characters, and even when the movie falls apart around them in the third act, we root for these two crazy kids and their shot at romance. They elevate the story beyond its more flawed moments, but really, ‘Going the Distance’ is pretty special all on its own.”
Singer-songwriter BONNIE PINK (37) is celebrating the 15th anniversary of her debut this year, so she is teaming up with five famous video directors for a short movie titled “Furarera.”
The movie’s theme is the experience of being rejected/dumped (“furareru”). It will tell the story of one woman at five different ages (19, 23, 28, 30, 40), played by Eriko Sato (28). She and BONNIE PINK are said to have become good friends since they went drinking together at a bar two years ago. Sato’s supporting cast will include Shingo Tsurumi (45) and Bananaman’s Yuki Himura (38).
The five directors involved are Tetsuro Takeuchi, Mitsuo Shindo, Ryoichi Mori, Michihiko Yanai, and Kensaku Kakimoto, whom she all met during her 15-year career. Each will handle one segment of the movie, from 15 to 20 minutes in length.
Naturally, the movie will use BONNIE PINK’s music. The theme song will be her upcoming single “Kite” (on sale Spetember 22), which also appears on her new album “Dear Diary” (October 6). A few other songs will be inserted throughout the film, including “A Perfect Sky.”
“Furarera” will be made available for a limited time through a special website, starting on October 6.
As an amendment to the Collective Bargaining Agreement
dealing with long-term contracts is finalized, there’s been a raging debate
over whether the NHLPA comes out a winner or loser.
I don’t believe the NHLPA had any intention of opening up
the CBA to address the structure of long-term contracts before it needed to in
the next CBA negotiation.
The ill-defined rules were allowing players like
Johan Franzen to remain with the Detroit Red Wings, Roberto Luongo to remain
with the Vancouver Canucks and Marian Hossa to sign with the Chicago Blackhawks
to win his first Stanley Cup. They were vague enough where the NHL could only
wag a finger and say "don’t do that" to teams circumventing the cap.
That is, until the Ilya Kovalchuk 17-year, $102 million
contract raised the bar on structural absurdity, gave the NHL a contract to
attack and resulted in a landmark arbitration victory for the League. With
momentum, the NHL managed to compel the NHLPA to do something no labor union should want to do in a
non-crisis situation: Engage in a round of collective bargaining under a valid
CBA, from a defensive posture. The fact that the NHLPA had to sit at that table and define the previously
undefined is, to me, a defeat.
However, sometimes you start with crap and end with fertilizer. The
contracts of Kovalchuk, Hossa, Luongo and Marc Savard as safe, according to
multiple sources. While long-term
contracts have now been defined as five or more years under the proposed amendments, a player like Drew Doughty (20) could still
sign a 15-year deal tonight and have it work under the new CBA rules.The NHL hasn’t touched that kind of contract … yet.
TSN is
reporting the details of the CBA amendment, and what you get out of the
tangled mess of numbers and years are a few concessions from the players and a
win for the NHL in rendering years after age 40 meaningless for a cap hit at,
say, age 32.
From TSN:
First: For long-term contracts extending beyond the age of 40, the contract’s average annual value for the years up to and including 40, are calculated by dividing total value in those years by the number of years up to and including 40. Then for the years covering ages 41 and beyond, the cap charge in each year is equal to the value of the contract in that year.
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Secondly, for long-term contracts that include years in which the player is 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40; the amount used for purposes of calculating his average annual value is a minimum of $1 million in each of those years (even if his actual compensation is less during those seasons).
(You’re correct, it’s too late on a Friday to process that.)
So those are the details at the moment, with the NHL and
NHLPA working into the night. Among the details yet to be determined: Any punitive damages
for the Devils and Kamp Kovalchuk for their previous attempt at
circumvention.
According to Manny Pacquiao, he simply does not believe that Antonio Margarito was totally unaware that he was using illegal hand wraps before going on a fight approximately two years ago. Nevertheless, he does believe that Margarito deserves to have another go at his boxing career. He just does not buy the defense Margarito is gi…
Nothing says “real love” like matching mug shots. Just ask Wonks and her latest victim. Here’s T.I. and Tiny’s jail house portraits taken the night they were both busted for possession of a controlled substance.
TMZ says that the controlled substance in question has been positively identified as ecstasy. This explains why the Wet ‘N Wild section at a Rite Aid blew the sloppiest air kiss right into Tiny’s face. Tiny was definitely rolling on some kind of cosmic shit when she put this 80s Miss Piggy look together.
Filed under: UFCAs anyone who’s ever gone out to dinner with Mike Swick can tell you, watching the UFC welterweight order is an ordeal unto itself. He can’t have garlic, or any of the great stuff that makes spicy food spicy. He can’t have many of the staples of the American restaurant industry, in fact, and it’s not just when he’s cutting weight.
Because of an esophageal issue that he’s struggled with for the past four years, even minor interactions like ordering at a restaurant have become exhausting.
“I know every time I have to order food somewhere, it’s going to be a problem,” Swick told MMA Fighting this week. “When the waitress comes up to ask for my order, I know ahead of time it’s going to be an issue. I have to explain that I can’t have garlic, can’t have spice, go through this whole spiel every time, and then there’s about a 50% chance that I’ll just be ignored and it will be in there anyway. Then I’ll be up for four hours feeling like I’m having a heart attack.”
It’s a problem that’s affected his social life and his fighting career, but now he’s hoping that he may be on the verge of a solution.
Filed under: Brigham Young
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe
So this is how it all ends: or at least the beginning of the end for college football as we knew it and, mostly, loved it for decades.
A Mormon school that 26 years ago went undefeated to win the last national championship by one of the so-called “have nots” — i.e. a school not from a BCS power conference — is basically killing the rest of the non-automatic qualifying BCS schools with a lead pipe in the library. Or is it a knife in the study?
Doesn’t matter. Actually, BYU isn’t to blame for what’s going to occur within the next 5-10 years, or, these days, 5-10 minutes in college football. The Cougars, by announcing they are going independent in football to chase the gold pot at the end of the BCS bowls’ rainbow/double rainbow, are just the latest domino to fall in making an even greater gap between the “haves” and “have nots.”
The Cougars didn’t start the fire — blame the Big Eight for raiding the Southwest Conference, or the ACC for picking off the Big East, or the Big Ten, or the Pac 10, OK, OK, everyone’s to blame. The Cougars didn’t start the fire, but they just poured a few gallons of nitroglycerin on the blaze by going independent. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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