If you’ve happened across a 10-second video with Matthew Broderick, clearly redoing his “Ferris Bueller” role from the 1986 movie, you have to wonder: “Are they possibly doing a SEQUEL?!”
The answer, unfortunately, is no. This is for a Honda ad, says the site Jalopnik, coming up during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
(To echo some recent statements by Leslie Streeter — Dear current generation, stop stealing my past!)
(And get off my lawn!)
Here’s the original interview with Dan LeBatard on LeBatard’s ESPN show, Dan LeBatard is Highly Questionable:
Kristen Bell is such a fan of “Homeland” that she just had to tell the cast of the hit Showtime drama at a recent party.
“I felt at one point one of them kind of take a step back like, ‘She’s a little intense,’ and then I got insecure like, ‘Oh, no, you’re THAT person,’” she relates.
Now Bell is sharing a network with her favorite show with her new series, “House of Lies,” about a management consulting firm that specializes in damage control. The show debuts Sunday night at 10 p.m. EST on Showtime.
The 31-year-old Bell first wowed critics playing a teen private investigator on the smart series “Veronica Mars,” which debuted in 2004 and aired for three seasons. The film industry took notice and began casting her in such movies as “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Couples Retreat.” She also narrates “Gossip Girl” as the show’s title character.
Bell realized she missed TV but wanted to do something edgier than anything she had done before. She also liked the idea of being part of an ensemble cast. She found what she was looking in “House of Lies.”
The blistering comedy stars Don Cheadle as a slick, ruthless management consultant. Bell plays the ambitious Jeannie, who loves the high life but can flirt with the low life.
Maybe Fox should try Eli Manning on its next edition of “American Idol.”
Manning’s New York Giants swept their way into the Super Bowl on Sunday in a game that was a ratings smash, good news for Fox that likely took the sting out of a lackluster return by “Idol.”
The Giants’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers attracted an average of 57.6 million viewers, the second most-watched NFC title game since 1982 and third most ever, the Nielsen Co. said. During the game’s peak from 10 to 10:30 p.m. ET, 69 million people were watching. Only 2010′s Minnesota-New Orleans game and the 1982 Dallas-San Francisco game had larger NFC championship audiences.
On Sunday afternoon, an estimated 48.7 million people watched the New England Patriots earn their way into the Super Bowl by beating the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship.
Television’s most popular show, “American Idol,” returned in front of 21.9 million people on Wednesday and 18 million on Thursday, Nielsen said.
That’s a sharp decline from 2011 on both nights. “Idol” was down 16 percent from a year earlier on Wednesday and 21 percent on Thursday. They are the lowest premiere viewership figures since the competition began as a summer series in 2002, Nielsen said.
An unlikely home improvement show hosted by 1990s rapper Vanilla Ice is set to premiere its second season with the remodeling of another South Florida home.
During the 13-episode run of “The Vanilla Ice Project” on the DIY Network, the artist, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, and his crew will take a dilapidated Palm Beach County mansion along the Intercostal Waterway and bring it into the 21st century with technology that isn’t on the market yet.
Van Winkle’s passion for real estate and renovation took hold in the early 1990s, after his hit “Ice Ice Baby” made him an international star with millions in the bank. He first bought a home on Miami Beach’s exclusive Star Island. He subsequently bought homes in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, New York’s Greenwich Village and Snowbird, Utah, a skiing and snowboarding destination.
“I went on tour for three years and never saw any of those houses,” Van Winkle said.
Fearing they may have been a waste of money, he decided to sell them — and a new career was born.
“I literally made millions of dollars on them,” Van Winkle said. “I was like, you gotta be kidding me. It can’t be that easy. Let’s go buy some more.”
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