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10 articles from 2009

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Craig Robinson

6 January 2009 9:01 PM, PST | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Even in a cast as large and talented as The Office's, comedian-actor Craig Robinson stands out. As the foreman of the Dunder Mifflin warehouse, Robinson plays the foil to Steve Carell's clueless boob of a middle manager, who sees Robinson as his mentor in the mysterious ways of African-American culture. Since making his name with The Office, Robinson has branched out into feature films, establishing himself as a popular member of Judd Apatow's repertory company: He scored roles in Walk Hard, last year's hit action-comedy Pineapple Express, and in Knocked Up, where he played a wry bouncer with a strong anti-old-pregnant-bitches policy. Though he still dabbles in juicy bit parts, he had a sizable supporting turn in Kevin Smith's Zack And Miri Make A Porno, and he co-starred in the Korean monster movie Dragon Wars. The A.V. Club recently spoke with Robinson about The Office,

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Nathan Rabin

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2009 Paramount Pictures Preview: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Defiance,’ ‘The Uninvited,’ ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ More

6 January 2009 12:04 PM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – Paramount Pictures has released official images, cast rosters, and synopsis information for the first half of their impressive 2009 slate of feature releases.

The 2009 Paramount films with available production stills include “Hotel For Dogs,” “Defiance,” “The Uninvited,” “I Love You, Man,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,” “The Soloist,” “The Goods: The Don Ready Story,” “Star Trek,” “Imagine That,” and “Dance Flick”.

“Hotel For Dogs”

Release date: January 16th, 2009

Cast: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle

Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

Written by: Jeff Lowell and Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle

Synopsis:”Hotel for Dogs” stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use

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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Ask AfterEllen.com (Jan. 6, 2009)

5 January 2009 9:14 PM, PST | From AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news

Taking a page from our friends at AfterElton.com, who have a weekly entertainment column called "Ask the Flying Monkey," we're introducing a weekly column to answer your entertainment-related questions.

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Want to know if someone is openly gay? (We won't out anyone, but we'll let you know what they've said publicly.)

Send your questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and Karman Kregloe and I will try to hunt down the answers for you (we'll trade off writing this column each week). Not all questions will be answered, and it may take a few weeks to answer some of them, but we'll try to get to as many as we can.

Note: this isn't a personal advice column — please post your dating

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‘10 Items or Less’ Misses Checkout Lane With Third Season Premiere

5 January 2009 2:33 PM, PST | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – The largely improvised “10 Items or Less” returns for a third trip to the grocery store on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 on TBS with what looks like another hit-and-miss season of occasionally inspired humor surrounded by generally boring characters in an overall mediocre show.

More “Sorta Funny” than the one-time TBS slogan of “Very Funny,” “10 Items or Less” is a reasonable diversion, a series that has more chuckles than some of the lackluster comedies on television this season but never delivers on the potential displayed by its talented star, John Lehr. Like an improvisational troupe with only one real star, every time that Lehr leaves the screen, the show falls apart.

Even without his favorite turkey, Leslie still continues bowling

Photo credit: Alan Markfield/TBS

“10 Items or Less” is cut from the increasingly common cloth of the improvised comedy like “Reno 911!” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” where the cast is given a

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adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Button, Batman, Frost/Nixon + Milk Get PGA Nods

5 January 2009 6:10 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight and Frost/Nixon will be among the films competing for the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Biopic Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were also nominated on Monday.

Meanwhile, Man on Wire, Standard Operating Procedure and Trouble in the Water will compete for the PGA's Best Documentary honour and Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and Wall-e earned nominations for Producer of the Year in Animated Motion Pictures.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, The Office, 30 Rock and Weeds will compete for the Danny Thomas Producer of the Year in Episodic Television-Comedy and Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Lost and Mad Men were the Best Drama nominees.

24: Redemption, Bernard and Doris, John Adams, A Raisin in the Sun and Recount were nominated for the David L. Wolper Producer of the Year in Long-Form Television Award.

The gongs will be handed out at the Hollywood Palladium on 24 January.

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Another Photo From Transformers 2

4 January 2009 11:07 PM, PST | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Not sure how I missed this one, but here’s another killer new movie still from the upcoming film “Transformers 2″ aka Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by director Michael Bay ( A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th ) and starring Megan Fox, Shia Labeouf ( Eagle Eye ), Isabel Lucas and Rainn Wilson ( The Office ). Synopsis: The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron’s dead body has been stolen from [...]

Brian Corder

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Ricky Gervais Launches A Foul-Mouthed Tirade At People Who Have Surgery To Lose Weight

4 January 2009 11:05 PM, PST | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Ricky Gervais has branded people who have surgery to lose weight "lazy f**king fat pigs." "The Office" star blasted those who undergo liposuction to shed flab during a foul-mouthed rant in his new audio book "The Ricky Gervais Guide To Medicine."

He said: "I really don't know why a doctor under a Hippocratic oath takes the risk of something going badly wrong, sometimes with general anesthetic, because someone can't be bothered to go for a f**king run."

"They have bits sliced off and tied up and sucked out. I want to say to them, 'You lazy f**king fat pig. Just go for a run and stop eating burgers. You might f**king die.'"

"If your arse is too f**king fat, stop eating and go for a run."

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World Wide Celeb

3 January 2009 11:36 PM, PST | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

So, did you hear? Celebrity gossip is totally out for 2009. But celebs dishing about themselves - that's hotter than ever. We've selected the best star-penned blogs, from comedy to country to cranky. A whopping four of them turn out to be from "The Office." (Maybe it's easy to blog when your acting job involves sitting in front of a computer all day.) Of course, we can't be absolutely certain that any of these people are really who they say they are. As with Wikipedia or online dating, take everything you read here with a web-savvy grain of salt.

Ricky Gervais

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By SARA STEWART

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First Look: Harold Ramis’ The Year One

3 January 2009 11:12 PM, PST | From /Film | See recent /Film news

We’re still trying to catch up on some of the photos that were released in last week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. Above is your first look at the upcoming Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day) biblical comedy The Year One (I’ve heard it has in fact been retitled from Year One to The Year One). When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers named Zed and Oh (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

The film also features Paul Rudd and David Cross, who play Cain and Abel, Hank Azaria as Abraham, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (aka McLovin) as Isaac, and Oliver Platt as a High Priest. Based on an original idea by Ramis, and a screenplay by The Office scribes Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (yes, the guys who are writing the new Ghostbusters movie), The Year

Peter Sciretta

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Leachman And Black Get 'Intimate' In Office Bath Scene

2 January 2009 8:16 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Ageing Oscar winner Cloris Leachman will join Jack Black for a saucy scene in U.S. comedy show The Office in 2009.

The Young Frankenstein star admits she has "an intimate scene" with the funnyman.

She says, "He has to take me naked out of a bathtub and we kiss a lot."

The odd couple's episode, which also features new mum Jessica Alba, will air in the U.S. on 1 February.

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