I The Behrend Beacon •d Of The Week imago (im-may'-go. im-mah'-go): noun - an insect in its final, adult, sexually mature, and typically winged state. ne of my best memories of home was watching my hated little brother go on his first date, "Good luck, imago, ” I said. He thought I said “amigo. ” Ha, ha, but / didn’t. Entertainment News in Brief 2/22 - 2/28 Buddy Miles, Jimi Hendrix's drummer, dies Miles, who performed with Hendrix on the "Flectric Ladyland" album, passed avvuv at 60 years old in Austin. TX. He had been suffering from congestive heart failure, reports CNN. He co founded F.leelric Hag in 1067. and began his career at only age 11. Jennifer Lope/, sires birth to twins Lope/ and her husband. Marc Anthony, welcomed twins early Friday. Feb. 22. The twins, a boy and girl, are Fope/.'s first chil dren. She and Anthony hav e been married since 2004. "Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon." said a repre sentative of Lope/. Razzii's poke Tun at Lindsay Lohan, Kddie Murphy The 2Xth annual Golden Raspberry Awards, dedicated to “award ing" actors and movies with the "worst of' categories, focused in its criticism on Lohan and Murphy. Murphy was given the worst actor, worst supporting actor and supporting actress for his 2007 Hop Korhit. Lohan"s I Know Who Killed Me won worst director, screenplay, remake, screen couple, actress, and film, as well as "worst excuse for a horror movie." The actress's box-office bomb set a record with eight Ra//ies. previously held by Showgirls and Battlefield I'.arth, with seven each t Beacon Entertainer of the Week T F CONTRIBUTKD PHOTO Upcoming releases: Movies < The Bank " Job -March 7~ Based on a true story of the infamous 1971 robbery in London. Jason Statham (Transporter, Crank) and Saffron Burrows star in this new thriller. Rating: R. 10,000 B.C. > -March 7- Steven Strait plays a war rior who must fight for his love, set in prehistoric times. From Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). Rating: PG-13. y Music Flogging Molly -March 4- “Float” A""] 'l\/W\ ' T [ ! Source: (’NN.com .c Alan Jackson -March 4- “Good Time” 2008 Oscars give nod to Show starts off stow, receives lowest ratings in history of show By Jennifer Juncosa copy editor jdjso6l (spsu.edu For the first few weeks of February, TV watchers' attention is generally attracted towards the Super Bowl. But after the talk of the commercials and memorable plays dies out, the attention is redirected to The Oscars. Recent success of movies and excite ment after the writers’ strike fueled the anticipation. Thousands of celebrities dressed up in designer, not always-gorgeous-but-free, gowns to see if they were the ones to carry out an Oscar of their own. The nominees and big-name actors sat in the first few rows of the famous Kodak Theater while others filled the 3,400-seat venue on Feb. 24. The opening had the makings to be very comical. While expect ing an opening much like what Billy Crystal had done in 2004. the world was given a digital experience of Arnold Schwarzenegger driving a deliv ery truck filled with little gold men down the streets of Hollywood crowded with movie characters of the present and past. It was disappointing, to say the least. After the announcement of "It’s the 80th annual Academy Awards," and the subsequent uproar of applause, host Jon Stewart made his entrance. He opened with comments on the writers' strike - received warmly by performers who weeks ago worried about crossing picket lines to attend The Oscars invited many pre- Editor opinion: SNL poised for comeback Popular sketch comedy show finds success on viral sites, You Tube By Connor Sattelv entertainment editor ciss()6oin psu.edu Be honest. When is the last time that someone asked you. "Hey. did you see SNL last week- For me. the amusing skits of the famous sketch program are now few and far between. Andy Samberg quickly made me a fan with some of his features, but aside from that, most of Saturday Night Live's material over the past tew years has not been that funnv. Last week. 1 ran a sidebar arti cle saying how longtime SNL head Lome Michaels was plan ning to produce for four weeks straight. He acknowledged it would be tough, and I assumed that the stress on the show would produce sub-par material. 1 didn't watch SNL last Saturday, and not because 1 couldn’t - 1 simply didn’t expect much. Over the next few days, how ever, videos began to catch my eye labeled SNL. The days of Celebrity Jeopardy and the great Will Ferrell skit, “Get Off the Shed,’’ flashed before my eyes. I decided to check it out. What I found truly shocked me: Saturday Night Live had hilarious skits once again circu lating around the internet. I watched presidential candi date Michael Huckabee do his sub-par attempt at acting on a well-scripted sketch where he announced that he had no idea what “mathematical impossibili- senters to the stage, from Miley Cyrus to Jack Nicholson, and even members of the armed forces via satellite. Last year's winners were welcomed to pres ent the awards for best actor/actress in a leading role, best supporting actor/actress, best picture, and best directing. This brought back favorites such as Martin Scorsese ( The Departed). Forest Whitaker ( The Last King of Scotland). Alan Arkin ( Little Miss Sunshine). Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls). The Oscars wouldn't be the same without the intermissions for artists to perform music from the year’s best movies. This year, three songs from Enchanted were nominated for Academy Awards: "Happy Working Song." "So Close" and "That's How You Know.” Amy Adams was wel comed to the stage twice: once to perform the "Happy Working Song" and again for the dance of “So Close." "Falling Slowly," featured in the film Once, was awarded the Oscar this year while competing with “Raise It Up" from August Rush. The perform ance of “Raise It Up" was most After a disappoint ing opening, the show was expected to be just as boring. memorable of the night, primari ly due to the church gospel group's extremely talented 11 year old singer. John Stewart invited her back onstage after her performance to play Wii tennis during a commercial break. After a disappointing opening, the show was expected to be just as boring. The show picked up thanks to Stewart's humor about the pregnant actressesfAnd the baby goes to... Angelina Jolie") tv” meant I watched guest host and long time SNL star Tina Fey in the "Annuale” sketch, perhaps one of the funniest skits to come out of Saturday Night Live in years. 1 found myself nearly in tears hallway through the video. After it was over. I scrolled down to see literally thousands of comments with similar reactions. I navigated around the site I w'as on and found three other videos from the show which made me laugh more than my SNL is once again making its rounds as one of the funniest shows on television. daily online appetite of faeeplants and skater crash videos. Sure, the actual show has lost popularity, especially amongst college and high school students. However, as the web is used on a wider scale by students every where. Saturday Niglu Live is ,k; id. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Saturday Night Live, once one of TV’s most-watched shows, has been in a slump for years, but is beginning to regain popularity. No Country cast, crew CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Above: Directors Ethan(left) and JoeKright) Coen stand with produc er Scott Rudcn, holding their Oscars for No Country For Old Men. OSCAR WINNERS Best actor Best documentary Lead- Daniel Day-Lewis Short - Freeheld Supporting - Javier Bardem Feature: Taxi to the Dark Side Best Actress Best Music Lead- Marion Cotillard Score - Atonement Supporting - Tilda Swinton Song - Once BEST WRITING Original: Juno Adapted: No Country for Old Men Best picture No Country for Old Men art Direction CINEMATOGRAPHY Sweeny Todd There Will Be Blood MAKEUP La Vie En Rose and sarcastic tribunal montages to show what the show would be like if the strike wasn't over. Tributes to those who died this year including actor Heath Ledger lent the show a temporar ily somber and respective tone. However, dispite attempts by its workers, the show's prelimi nary ratings rated it at the worst rated Acadamx Awards ever. one of the funniest shows on tel- eviston An interesting distinction is then made between the show's popularity online and its failure on TV. where it didn't even rate in the top 20 shows in ratings for the week. Whether v iewers of the video online (a few days ago numbered in the 100.000 s) will he attracted to watch the show this weekend remains to he seen. It is also a possibility that w ith the three-month hiatus of the writers strike this winter, they simply had a lot of lime, and "used up" their funniest skits dur ing the first episode. Either way. I remember watch ing live as some of the best skits ran on SNL when I w ( as growing up. If I can. I know that I will be tuning in on Saturday, if just to be able to say, "Yeah. I saw that live!" Due to You Tube removing the video, the "Animate ” skit can be fr td on vficu' Friday, February 29, 2008 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Counterfeiters sound Mixing The Bourne Ultimatum ANIMATED FEAT. FILM Ratatouiile Full list at www.oscars.com Until this year, the least-watched ceremony was in 2003. at 33 mil lion viewers. This year. Nielson Media Research predicts that the Acadamy Awards will be 14 per cent lower than the 2(X)3 show ing. Sunday's show disappointed some viewers and simply failed to raise enough interest post- Writers Guild of America's strike. Maxim magazine faces music review- ing controversy By Connor Sattely entertainment editor cisso6(K<i psu.edu The Black Crowes' new' CD. Warpaint, was anxiously awaited by the band's fans; however, everything changed when popu lar magazine Maxim published a review' of the CD, rating it 2.5 out of five stars. Reactions were mostly of sur prise by the band's supporters. None were more surprised than the band itself. After investigation, Maxim announced that they did not actu ally listen to the CD; they could n’t have. The Black Crowes said, because advance CDs were not yet released. “It is Maxim’s, editorial policy to assign star ratings only to those albums that have been heard in their entirety." editorial director James Kaminsky said. "Unfortunately, that policy was not followed in the March 2008 issue and we apologize to our readers." The Black Crowes are waiting for their own apology, and maga zine and music fans alike are out raged at the scandal.
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