Sunday, October 31, 2010

{alltv} Late-night comics happy to joke about Barack Obama

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NEW YORK – Late-night comics are over any initial reluctance to make President Barack Obama the butt of their jokes.

The Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Obama was the most joked-about political figure this year through Labor Day. The Washington-based think tank said Friday that Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon joked about Obama a total of 309 times. Sarah Palin, with 137, was a distant second.

That's in line with the level of jokes levied at Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Comics initially had a difficult time zeroing in on Obama — he was fourth behind John McCain, Bush and Palin as a butt of jokes during the year he was elected president.

The center says most Obama jokes portray him as disinterested or ineffective. Much of them are tied to policy.

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{alltv} "Walking Dead" compelling zombie TV

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – If it wasn't for the egregious amount of shoe-gazing vampires flooding pop culture these days -- a combination of brooding sex, mopey teen displacement and lame attempts to be fang-tastic -- the world might groan at the notion that zombies are back in vogue.

But AMC, which launched the five-part series "The Walking Dead" on Halloween, has found in producer-director-writer Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption") the perfect person to flesh out the popular graphic novels of Robert Kirkman.

During the 90-minute premiere, Darabont manages to push all of the familiar zombie-genre buttons even while expanding the visual references to classic Westerns -- the main character is a lawman, and the title sequences feature him riding a lone horse into Atlanta while the outbound traffic is all burned husks of cars and buses -- and dystopian films of isolation and panic. He also adds a complicated love story and an even more ambitious notion: that what we're capable of doing to one another is far worse than having a zombie eat our guts.

It's the kind of scope only a TV series can achieve -- not having to truncate the see-zombie, kill-zombie-while-running-for-your-life game into two hours. That's not to say "Dead" isn't wonderful popcorn fare. If all you want are superb costume and makeup moments of shuffling zombies with their faces falling off and their incessant need to eat, you can find that here. And because it's on cable, it's a veritable exploding-head carnival thanks to everything from high-powered rifles to baseball bats and pick axes to arrows.

Yet people who hate horror and gore should still give "Dead" a chance to unfold its boldly different story. Darabont, Kirkman and fellow writer Tony Moore have seized on the deeper motivations in Kirkman's source work, asking what man is really capable of when pushed. Does the moral fabric tear when your world is turned into a nightmare? Is there room for compassion when nothing makes sense and terror rules the day (and night)? Does it take extreme situations for us to realize who we are and what we want? This is familiar territory for Darabont, whose films sometimes pull the heartstrings a little too tight. But here, empathy and sentimentalism effectively disarm any rote zombie tropes the genre might subconsciously trigger in the viewer.

Andrew Lincoln stars as police officer Rick Grimes. He's a good cop with a wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), and young son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), who seems to be enduring the familiar strains of any marriage. A shooting rampage by criminals before the zombie invasion leaves Grimes in the hospital. He wakes up weeks later to what seems to be a disorienting, postapocalyptic nightmare: a world abandoned, pieces of dead bodies everywhere. Plus zombies. Darabont leaves the how-did-this-happen answer until later so as to keep the confusion alive in Grimes. He roams the hospital, still weak and wounded, then ventures into town, searching for his family.

From here, Dead sets itself apart. Grimes meets a man (wonderfully played by Lennie James) in town trying to protect his young son. He nurses Grimes back to health while enduring the nightly roaming of his own dead wife, who repeatedly returns to the house, turning the knob, trying to get back in. This interaction naturally tears his young son apart. James infuses the series with empathy in one beautiful scene in which he's got his zombie wife in the scope of his rifle but can't pull the trigger, tears filling his eyes.

One drawback in "Dead" is that Lincoln plays his emotion a little too close to his deputy's badge. We're told -- by him -- that all he wants to do is find his wife and kid. His belief that they still are alive is the emotional drive of the story, but there's not enough deep pain that seeps up to coat the dialogue Lincoln delivers. Nothing's going to stop him, he says, but after witnessing the work of James and the moral struggle to shoot your own wife for the betterment of your child, well, that's how it's played.

Cool and aloof works well for the notion of payback, however, and watching Lincoln turn Grimes into a dead-on gunslinger dispatching zombies has its satisfaction. "Dead" does a lot right with the aesthetic look: There are far more scenes in the bright daylight than there are in a typical zombie movie. Sure, they come out at night, especially if they hear loud noises. But having them roam the streets and the parks in broad daylight -- without the hazy-gray filter of smoke, darkening clouds or charred buildings -- makes Grimes' wake-up call all the more believable. This is particularly true when he watches an oozing, struggling female zombie slither with just torso and arms across a sunny park. Grimes watches her crawl and struggle, looking for food, and apologizes to her for the fate she's suffering. (Then shoots her in the head, of course.)

Would a zombie series that goes on for 13 episodes and five seasons keep anyone's interest? Debatable. Unlike vampires, there's not much mythology to work with. These are just dead people walking, normally slowly, in search of food. You shoot them in the head, end of story. But Darabont and Kirkman have at least pushed the genre into a territory that could be explored further. Empathy is not a big player in the zombie genre. Neither is introspection. Films of this type are quick to devolve into video-game shoot-em-ups with brains splattering everywhere. Here, Darabont uses the TV-series format to break convention not only by defying the predictabilities of the horror genre (boo!) but also by infusing the recipe with more storytelling elan. In "Dead," the survivors grapple with the notion of not losing their humanity when surrounded by the living, not just the dead.

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{alltv} Marcus Samuelsson cooks at Harlem condo party

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"Top Chef Master" Marcus Samuelsson may be late in opening his new Harlem restaurant, Red Rooster, but at least some people got to sample his work at a recent party thrown by the developers of Fifth on the Park, a luxury condo across from Mount Morris Park, where Samuelsson cooked up spicy shrimp and grits, Swedish meatballs and mini red velvet cupcakes. While he sliced and diced away, he talked up Harlem's history and how the cuisine at his new place will reflect that heritage when it finally opens in a few weeks just a block from Sylvia's on Lenox Avenue.

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{alltv} Ann Curry celebrates "being malaria free" at charity event

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"Today" host Ann Curry had a malaria scare after one of her many reporting trips around the world. The NBC star, who last month spent a week traveling with George Clooney in Sudan, "was celebrating on Thursday after finding out she's malaria-free following a negative test," a source told us. Curry hosted the Be-A-Part charity launch that night at Bloomingdale's. Also there were Tommy Hilfiger with daughter Elizabeth and Ashley McDermott to support the event started by high schoolers Isabella Chartouni and Cambria Winding for the prevention of forced child marriage.

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{alltv} Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have a romantic dinner date

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Guests craned their necks at Monkey Bar on East 54th Street the other night to see "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm on a date with his beautiful blonde, Jennifer Westfeldt. The couple, who have been together 13 years, had a romantic dinner in a quiet corner booth. Actress/screenwriter Westfeldt wore a black dress with a green coat.

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{alltv} Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher look romantic over tacos

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Despite reports of cheating, romance is still strong between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. They were spotted at Upper East Side taqueria Cascabel Thursday enjoying steak and chicken tacos. An onlooker said, "They had a few rounds of tacos, guacamole and orange agua frescas. Ashton's arm was around Demi a lot of the time. They definitely seemed like a happy couple." The previous night the pair, who'd been under fire following magazine claims that Ashton cheated, danced the night away at the GQ Gentlemen's Ball.

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{alltv} Kim Kardashian 'not getting back together' with Miles Austin

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Don't believe rumors that Kim Kardashian is getting back together with NFL star Miles Austin. The Internet was abuzz with reports the two, who split in September, were reconciling after they swapped messages on Twitter last week. But a source tells us, "They are not getting back together, they are just friends. And she's not dating Kanye West, either." Meanwhile Kim, who opens her New York Dash clothing store with sister Kourtney this week, has been spending a lot of time with her bodyguard, Shengo Deane, who provided a romance storyline for her reality show. Her rep didn't get back to us.

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{alltv} Changes could be coming to CNN's 'American Morning'

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CNN anchor Kyra Phillips' pregnancy with John Roberts could bring big changes at "American Morning," insiders say. Roberts, who broadcasts from New York, is likely to move to Atlanta to be with his fiancée, who's expecting twins. Since CNN ex-president Jon Klein recently rebuilt the prime-time lineup, insiders say his replacement, Ken Jautz, will focus on daytime, and his first step will be to dismantle "American Morning," the lowest-rated cable morning show. We hear the staff is frustrated with co-anchors Roberts and Kiran Chetry. "John is a tyrant, freaking out over stories and guests, and Kiran is dumb as a rock," a staffer said. "He has a chip on his shoulder because he was considered the heir apparent to Dan Rather at CBS." During an interview with David Axelrod last month, Roberts snapped at Chetry on-air for typing too loud. Chetry could be the first go. A CNN rep said, "There are no plans in place to change 'American Morning' at this time."

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{alltv} Sean Penn embraces Eliot Spitzer at 'Game Changers' party

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Sean Penn's eyes lit up as he greeted Eliot Spitzer at Arianna Huffington's "Game Changers" party at Skylight Studios in SoHo the other night. The hotheaded actor and the disgraced ex-governor schmoozed like old pals amid Joel Klein, Newark mayor Cory Booker, Michael Hastings, Ground Zero mosque backer Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Mayor Bloomberg and Gayle King. When we asked Penn about Jessica White, his model ex-girlfriend who fought another woman over a taxi, he brushed us off, "I don't know, I haven't talked to her in so long." Penn rambled on while accepting an award from Anderson Cooper for his work in Haiti. Bloomberg flexed his pop-culture prowess when he referenced presenter Nora Ephron's book "I Remember Nothing," cracking, "Which I heard is also the title of a new book by Charlie Sheen."

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{alltv} The Walking Dead: A Zombie Show with More Heart Than Brains

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If you've seen any zombie film, the flesh-craving creatures of AMC's The Walking Dead aren't exactly novel.

That's not to say that makeup and special effects wizard Gregory Nicotero hasn't seriously outdone himself. Or that being caught on a city block surrounded by hundreds of soulless, hungry ghouls isn't terrifying. It's just that this story is about more than delivering a few scares.

"The most compelling part of the series is how emotionally involved you become in these characters' lives," executive producer Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator, Aliens) tells TVGuide.com. "Even though I've read all the scripts and was there when it was shot, I still find myself becoming surprisingly emotional in almost every episode over something the characters are having to endure. To me, that is unexpected and remarkable."

That idea was paramount for Hurd's collaborator, writer-producer-director Frank Darabont, who tried for years to get an adaptation Robert Kirman's beloved series of comic books off the ground. It was Darabont's gift for emotional, character-driven storytelling that appealed to Kirkman.

"I had one guy pitch me super-zombies," Kirkman, who is an executive producer on the show and wrote one of the six Season 1 episodes, says with a laugh. "He thought it would be really cool if they could throw cars and stuff, and I was like, 'What are you talking about?' When Frank came along, it was a very quick, very simple conversation. I wanted something that has the emotion of The Shawshank Redemption and was a serious character study but also had zombies."

That's all front and center in Darabont's 90-minute pilot. After being shot and slipping into a coma, Deputy Sherriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) wakes up in a deserted hospital in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. He soon finds another survivor (Lennie James) and his son, who fill in the gaps and send Rick toward Atlanta, where he hopes to find his own wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), and son, Carl (Chandler Riggs) at a survivor's camp led by Rick's partner and best friend, Shane (John Bernthal).

But along the way, Rick meets a zombie who has lost the lower half of her body. Rick is rightly terrified at first, but before the episode is over, he looks at the zombie with compassion. "Leave it to Frank to find a way to find a redemptive, compassionate human spirit in the midst of a story about an undead apocalypse," Callies says.

But if you're looking for action and gore, there's plenty of that to go around. And like many of George A. Romero's classic zombie films, the horror works as an analogy to today's social climate. "Right now the world is a frightening place," Hurd says. "People are concerned about the global financial collapse. Every year, there's a hurricane like Katrina or an earthquake in Haiti or even the H1N1 flu epidemic. I think we really feel like we're a civilization on the brink. Through this series we can explore the notion of, if everything comes crumbling down, how are we going to survive? What are the new rules going to be?"

So how does Rick Grimes fit into a TV landscape that caters to antiheroes? "There's a great quote, 'A hero is a man that does what he can,'" Lincoln says. "If that's the case, then Rick certainly is a hero. He's a guy that keeps getting pushed into situations and somehow keeps coming up with the goods."

But Rick's decisions may not always turn out to be so noble, making him and his fellow survivors a perfect fit for a network that also features morally ambiguous characters like Mad Men's Don Draper and Breaking Bad's Walter White.

"When he starts doing bad things for a good cause, you're so fully invested in what he's doing, that it's still very heroic," Kirkman says. "He is able to push those limits so that he is able to go the extra mile to sacrifice his humanity to save the people around him. It really becomes a case of him really giving himself over to this world and doing whatever it takes to keep everyone around him safe. And while it does seem like he's doing the wrong thing, I think there's nothing more heroic than that sacrifice."

But the fight for survival perhaps poses a bigger question: Is a civilization devoid of basic humanity worth saving? Might we become just as soulless as the zombies?

"There are moments when we are behaving much more like animals than people," Callies says. "The changes that have been wrought in these people's bones and marrow and blood are so huge, they don't recognize it. I don't think they recognize themselves."

The Walking Dead premieres Sunday at 10/9c on AMC.

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