Enter Sandman. Early in his weeklong residency on Ellen, Justin Bieber sat down for an emotional chat about his penis while wearing a Metallica shirt. This did not sit well with a number of the band’s fans, who, after riding a hell-steed to Valhalla with their blood brothers by their side, put away their broadswords, took out their iPhones, logged into their Twitter accounts, and posted 140-character messages about how mad they were about a pop star’s T-shirt.
If you thought it reasonable to expect just one head-scratching crossover product from a music icon today, you were sorely mistaken. Metallica front man James “HEYAHHHH” Hetfield is releasing some $219.99 shades through Sutro Eyewear, and he describes them thus: “Built to look faster than a speeding riff and to handle the life of a road dog like me,” with hinges TEN TIMES STRONGER than regular sunglasses hinges. After Loutallica, sunglasses hinges and James Hetfield don’t even look weird together.
right-click Feb. 26, 2009 Rapper Doom Confuses and Excites Us“Revelations in Braille / respiration, inhale / view nations fail in shaking of a snake tail.” By Amos Barshad
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Jennifer Lawrence stars as ‘Katniss Everdeen’ in THE HUNGER GAMES. Michael Arndt may be called into postapocalyptic America to rewrite Catching Fire, the next installment of The Hunger Games. Arndt won an Oscar for his Little Miss Sunshine screenplay and also wrotethe surprisingly somber Toy Story 3. If a deal is completed, Ardnt would take over Simon Beaufoy’s script and join director Francis Lawrence, who replaces Gary Ross. Lionsgate is aiming to begin production in late summer and on a tight schedule owing to Jennifer Lawrence’s commitment to the X-Men: First Class sequel.
Michael B. Jordan. Michael B. Jordan is perfect and everyone knows it (Haddie, Coach Taylor, the other three from the Fantastic Four). And now the Creed actor is teaming up with writer Nathan Edmondson to pen North, an action spy comic about a soldier who undergoes a top-secret program that makes him a superspy. A comic book? That B in his name must stand for “book”! He’s been trying to tell us the whole time!
Dexter’s Michael C. Hall will be the next star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, producers announced today. Hall’s reign as Hedwig begins October 16 and runs through January 4; Andrew Rannells, who took over for Neil Patrick Harris at the end of August, will have his final performance October 12. (Tony winner Lena Hall continues in her role as Yitzhak.) Hall hasn’t been seen singing and dancing much recently, but this isn’t his first Broadway musical: He played the emcee in Cabaret in 1999 and Billy Flynn in Chicago a few years later.
The artist formerly known as Maurice Micklewhite. Maurice Micklewhite is dead; long live Michael Caine. The legendary British actor has officially adopted the name you know and impersonate him by after getting fed up with increased airport security checks. “I changed my name when all the stuff started with ISIS and all that,” Caine told The Sun, going on to describe his experiences with security guards thusly: “He would say, ‘Hi Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d be giving him a passport with a different name on it.
movie review Aug. 25, 2023 The Flash in a PanThe latest DC movie is the cinematic equivalent of a snake eating its own tail. This isn’t a film so much as brand management in flailing motion. By Angelica Jade Bastién
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lost classics Nov. 18, 2016 On Gates of Fire, Michael Mann’s Stalled EpicLike the brave, doomed Spartans at Thermopylae who managed to hold off the Persians long enough, the film might have kept Zack Snyder from making 300. By Bilge Ebiri
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Turns out, Michael Phelps is an instant meme and you don’t even have to add water. While sitting and waiting to swim in the Men’s 200 butterfly semifinal tonight, he donned his signature Beats headphones and pulled up his hood while getting into the zone. Nearby, though, rival South African swimmer Chad le Clos was jauntily shadow boxing right in front of Phelps. Who looked, well, less than thrilled.
NBC needs a Ready Room Cam.