‘Dancing With the Stars‘ contestant and former Hugh Hefner girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson is reportedly fuming that she hasn’t received an invitation to the Playboy mogul’s wedding.
“I haven’t gotten my save the date yet,” Wilkinson told E! Online. “I’m not joking, I’m really pissed off about it.”
Hefner is set to marry fiancee Crystal Harris on June 18th at the Playboy mansion.
Wilkinson, who lived at the mansion with Hefner from 2004 to May 2009, remains close friends with the Playboy founder, but claims if she doesn’t hear from the couple soon she’s going to bail.
“If I don’t get a save the date, I have another wedding to attend that same day,” she said.
“I got a save the date from one of my closest friends for that date. I’m planning on going to Hef’s, but I haven’t gotten the save the date for that same date. I’m getting kind of antsy because I need to pick which wedding to go to.”
Wilkinson, who married football star Hank Baskett in 2009, is hoping to hear from Harris — not Hefner — soon.
“It’s Crystal that does the wedding planning. She’s the girl! If she doesn’t give me a save the date soon I’m going to have to put in my save the date with the other wedding.”
This may be the third wedding for Hef, but it is Crystal’s first. And though their relationship got off on a nontraditional foot, what with Crystal sharing Hef with the Shannon twins, she wants her marriage to be a traditional one and that means no more sharing.
Howard Stern, the pioneering “shock jock” and self-proclaimed “king of all media” was selected as the first subject to be featured in Bluewater Productions‘ latest biography comic title “Orbit.”
“Orbit: Howard Stern” lifts the veil on the man behind the microphone by examining his rise to fame, his assault on the status quo of broadcasting, his over-the-top, sometimes crude persona and his ground breaking move to satellite radio.
The creators of King of the Hill should have taken this project on.
“He is the voice of a generation, the voice of dissent, the voice of the people. He says what we all want to say and does what we all want to do…and people love him for it,” said writer CW Cooke. “He’s been in the public eye for years, but he’s still an enigma.”
The first issue will be available through local comic book shops and various online venues like Amazon in April.
You probably stopped watching The Simpsons ten years ago, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t pleased right now: Fox has renewed the landmark animation series for a 23rd season, an order that will take it past 500 episodes.
Producer Al Jean told Vulture that there are even plans underway for a 24th season, though nothing is official on that front just yet. Expect a YouTube video explaining why this renewal means The Simpsons and 9/11 were connected to appear online shortly.
Alexander Anderson Jr., creator of the classic cartoon ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle,’ has passed away at age 90, The Washington Post reports.
Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose first landed on network TV in 1959. They lived in the town of Frostbite Falls and found themselves embroiled in all manner of absurd plots involving espionage and devious villains.
The show contained outrageous puns and veiled Cold War commentary that sailed over the heads of the children who were its primary audience.
The Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons also featured another of Mr. Anderson’s popular creations, Dudley Do-Right, a strutting Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, the mustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash.
Mr. Anderson was not part of the production of the original series, which ran on ABC from 1959 to 1961 and NBC from 1961 to 1964.
As the years passed, his role in developing the characters was largely forgotten. He received nothing when a lucrative video deal was struck for the burgeoning Bullwinkle franchise.
“I’m thrilled that something I did has become so popular,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1991. “But I’m sorry that I don’t get any credit for it.”
According to Anderson’s son, Terry, his father died from complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease in the Carmel, California, nursing home where he had been living.
Alexander Anderson Jr. is survived by his wife, two sons, three step-children, fourteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The answer to that question would be: no. In “The Flintstones: A XXX Parody,” Fred is having a midlife crisis, which we’re thinking leads to some X-rated scenarios, and, steel yourself, Betty and Wilma get it on.
We don’t even want to think about what happens to a just-turned-18 Pebbles, and we’re betting this time around Bam Bam will live up to his name. At least no one gets it on with a dinosaur.
After more than three decades in newspapers around the nation, the comic strip “Cathy” made its last appearance on the pages of The Times-Tribune and in the nearly 1,400 other newspapers which have carried it.
The strip’s creator, Cathy Guisewite, told her clients she came to the difficult decision to end the popular strip to devote more time to family and to pursue other, unnamed, creative endeavors.
“Cathy” began as Ms. Guisewite’s drawings depicting traumas in her life as a single, young career woman, that she sent to her mother, who in turn urged her to give comic strip work a try. It was quickly accepted by Universal Press Syndicate which brought out the strip in the fall of 1976.
It was at least partially autobiographical, named after its creator and looked at life from her career-woman perspective through the prism of guilt – about food, Mom, relationships and work.
In the ensuing years, Ms. Guisewite achieved several distinctions including an invitation to the White House to help with the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, appearances on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” an Emmy Award for animation, and several honorary degrees. She also received the Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1992 from the National Cartoonists Society. During her career, she wrote and drew more than 10,000 strips and sold hundreds of thousands of books.
“Cathy” will be replaced daily and Sunday by Richard Thompson’s “Cul de Sac” beginning Monday, Oct. 4. The light-hearted strip focuses on Alice Otterloop, a preschooler who lives on a suburban cul-de-sac, and her family and friends.
Here’s an old Scrooge McDuck comic book photo from 2002 that tells the story of criminals who break into Scrooges dreams to steal his secrets. Scrooge and Donald just want to go home, but the physical world around them is constantly changing and shifting.
If that sounds like the plot of Inception, it should. Christopher Nolan just replaced the Beagle Boys with Leonardo DiCaprio and then made it all fancy by spinning the camera around and whatnot.
Seriously, there are NO original ideas left… so get that out of your mind.
source: Inception was stolen from Scrooge McDuck [wwtdd]
What can’t Spider-Man do? Well, there’s a lot of things he cannot do like run around on eight legs and lay eggs, but that is beside the point.
This October, Spider-Man’s cover will include a kiss between two men. The couple are in the lower right hand quadrant. While it is still a small picture and not as prominent as it could be, it will still be seen as a step forward.
COVER BY: DAVID LAFUENTE GARCIA
WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: SARA PICHELLI
INKS: SARA PICHELLI
COLORED BY: JAYPO LLC
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
THE STORY:
Poor Peter Parker. All his friends hate him, his girlfriend has stopped speaking to him and to top it off, the whole world despises Spider-Man. What’s a dude to do?? How about save the world and maybe meet the new love of his life? Fan-favorite BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (NEW AVENGERS) and rising Ultimate sensation, SARA PICHELLI (RUNAWAYS) bring you a new and exciting Spider-Man story you don’t want to miss!!
Chris Evans will play Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.
Sources said the actor has not only accepted Marvel’s offer, first detailed on Friday, but that the deal making moved so fast it’s now all about dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
Marvel would not comment on the development, and CAA, which reps the actor, declined comment.
Evans was offered the role in Marvel Studios’ production last week, but there was some question of whether he would accept. Factoring in to the choice was the fact that Evans played Johnny Storm, the flame-covered superhero known as the Human Torch in Fox’s “Fantastic Four” movies. Was he ready to play another superhero and take on the trappings that come with such a high-profile part?
Evans took a few days to think it over, and once he decided he was willing to wield the shield, negotiations moved quickly over the weekend.
If six pages of a not-naked Heidi Pratt were not enough reasons to go out and grab the September issue of Playboy, here’s another incentive: Elsewhere in the lad mag, ‘Family Guy‘ mastermind Seth MacFarlane settles one of his show’s worst/best kept secrets: Stewie Griffin is gay.
MacFarlane told Playboy (via Daily News) all about an episode they brought all the way to the script phase where the 1-year-old homicidal baby comes out.
“It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’”
In the end, the show’s writers decided to “keep it vague” because of the tot’s age.
“Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hellbent on killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation.”
Also explained in the upcoming season: we’ll finally find out why Protestant Lois seems to have a Jewish accent.
MacFarlane was more coy about Stewie’s sexual preference in a February 2008 interview in Advocate, the gay lifestyle mag.
“We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, and he’s in the process of figuring it out for himself. We haven’t ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat him oftentimes as if we were writing a gay character.”
An infant that knows he’s gay — totally believable.
L.A. Times’ “Hero Complex” got the confirmation but mentions that Warner Bros. have been considering changing the name of the property to avoid the inevitably negative comparisons to Warner Bros.’ flop Speed Racer, another live action movie based on a popular cartoon.
There’s no word on who might be directing although previous rumors have pegged the team of Andy Fickman and Dwayne Johnson possibly reuniting for the third time after the recent Race to Witch Mountain.
This week, Fox News columnist Roger Friedman provided lecture fodder for journalistic ethics professors everywhere. When news of a pirated copy of 20th-Century Fox’s forthcoming ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ recently surfaced (the movie’s set to hit the big screen May 1st), comic fans and interested moviegoers began scouring the Web for an early viewing.
Mr. Friedman not only found and watched the advance copy, he decided it would be a good idea to review it, saying, “It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.’” He was pretty brazen about it, saying also that he found all of the “current top 10 [movies in theaters], plus TV shows, commercials, videos, everything, all streaming away.” He went on to say, “I could have downloaded all of it but really, who has the time or the room?”
Rupert Murdoch, the Charles Xavier of Fox (or Magneto depending upon your view) and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, which is part of the Fox conglomerate, vehemently condemned Friedman’s tactics, citing a “zero-tolerance” policy for pirated movies. According to the DeadlineDailyHollywood blog, the News Corporation asked Fox News to take down the “reprehensible” column, which it did, and then, after advising Fox News on how to properly handle the situation, promptly dismissed Friedman.
Perhaps in the future, Friedman will review illegally released movies through a blog, rather than on a Web site owned by the company releasing the film. But then again, maybe he thought it would be alright. We are talking about Rupert Murdoch, after all, who doesn’t exactly let accuracy and integrity get in the way of a good story.
Yahoo has debuted a brand new trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation Max Payne this afternoon, but first, some news you can use.
In an interview with MTV, Payne star Mark Wahlberg jokingly issued a challenge to the man at the center of the second highest grossing film of all-time, The Dark Knight. This from the interview:
“Take off the suit and if you want to go one-on-one, two-on-one, and put a couple of you guys together – they all like to put the comic book characters together – come at me,†Mark Wahlberg laughed, issuing a challenge to the Dark Knight to put his fighting skills where his mouth is and face off against his character, Max Payne.
“I’m not talking about financial box office, I’m talking about one-on-one with these (puts up fists).â€
Of course, while his jovial tone and obvious sarcasm may have some brushing off Wahlberg’s comments, we believe it to be important that we take all threats against our favorite superheros seriously. That said, we think Batman, or more specifically Christian Bale, would kick the shit out of Wahlberg’s Payne.
We would present some sort of scientific proof, but that won’t be necessary — Batman is just that much of a badass. As for Max Payne though, he seems to be doing alright for himself… and it was one of my favorite PC games.
Hot Toys is releasing a 1/6th scale figure of Heath Ledger as ‘The Joker’ in “Bank Robber†mode.
The figure stands 12-inches tall, features 32-points of articulation, and comes with a choice of two removable heads, one with a huge grin, the other with the slicked back hair.
Accessories include a removable clown mask, handgun, a bigger gun, duffle bag, smoke and fragmentation grenades, playing cards, gotham city money and more.
They even have little mini hand grenades — this toy is made for adults.
