Kanye West, Adele & Nicki Minaj Lead Grammy Nominations

First Published: November 30, 2011 11:34 PM EST Credit: FilmMagic Caption Nicki Minaj and LL Cool J speak onstage durnig The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! Countdown to Musics Biggest Night at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles, on November 30, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Adele scored six Grammy nominations on Wednesday, including for record, song and album of the year, but the owner of the 2011s best-selling album with 21 wasnt the nights top nominee and that wasnt the evenings only surprise. Kanye West came away with a leading seven nominations, including a bid for song of the year for his all-star song All of the Lights. However, the album from which it came My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, heralded by many critics as the best album of 2010 was shut out of the best album category, and all of his other nominations were relegated to the rap fields. Other notable omissions in the top categories included country phenomenon Taylor Swift and veteran crooner Tony Bennett. Bruno Mars and the Foo Fighters tied Adele with six nominations each, including in the album of the year category. Critical-darling folky act Bon Iver scored four nominations, with two in the prestigious record and song of the year categories; and dubstep star Skrillex may have been the nights biggest surprise, getting five nominations, including a bid for best new artist. The nominations were announced after the Recording Academys fourth annual live concert special, which aired on CBS from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The hour-long event featured key nominees like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and the Band Perry. Even though Adele didnt get the lions share of nominations, she got them where it counted: Her 21, the mournful post-breakup album that produced smash hits like the torch ballad Someone Like You was nominated for album of the year. The searing groove Rolling in the Deep, which spent seven weeks at No. 1 this past summer, got nominations for both record and song of the year. Only Mars got nominations in all three categories as well. Other nominees in the record of the year category included Bon Ivers ballad Holocene; Mars ballad Grenade; Mumford&Sons The Cave; and Katy Perrys inspirational anthem Firework. For song of the year, which honors the writers of the tune, contenders included The Cave, 'Grenade, Holocene and Lady Gagas You and I. The best album category was as noteworthy for who was excluded as it was for who was nominated. Lady Gaga garnered her third straight nod in the category for Born This Way, while veteran rockers the Foo Fighters were nominated for Wasting Light, along with Mars debut album, Doo-Wops&Hooligans, and Rihannas steamy dance album Loud. Shut out were perceived favorites like 85-year-old Bennett, who became the oldest person to score a No. 1 debut when his Duets II album was released earlier this year, and the megawatt collaboration of Jay-Z and West with the heavily hyped Watch The Throne. The biggest snub may have been to Swift, who won in the category in 2010 and was considered by some critics to be a favorite for Speak Now, which has sold 3.7 million copies. She did get three nominations, however, including for best country album. Unlike the past two years, which saw Swift and fellow country act Lady Antebellum soar in the general categories, the only country act that got a mainstream nomination was the country sibling act The Band Perry. Best known for their poignant ballad If I Die Young, they got a nomination for best new artist. Their competition also includes Bon Iver, Jay-Z rap protg J. Cole, Skrillex and rapper-singer Nicki Minaj, who scored four nominations in total. The 54th Grammys will be held Feb. 12 in Los Angeles. The ceremony will mark the first since the academy shaved its categories from 109 to 78 this year, amid some protest. Some of the more niched categories, like best Zydeco or Cajun music album, were eliminated. In addition, men and women now compete together in vocal categories for pop, R&B and country, instead of having separate categories for each sex. This year, the category is best pop solo performance and Bruno Mars is the only man nominated for Grenade. His competition includes Adele for Someone Like You, Lady Gaga for You and I, Pink for (Expletive) Perfect and Perry for Firework. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Exclusive: Ringer Bosses on What's Ahead Carrying out a Shocking Fall Finale

Ioan Gruffudd and Sarah Michelle Gellar [Warning: This story includes major spoilers within the midseason finale of Ringer. Read in the own risk.] Ringer's midseason finale shown the results for Bridget overpowering Siobhan's existence can be quite deadly. After trading a lot of year missing, Gemma (Tara Summer time season) increased being the show's first real casualty, dying in only minutes just before the actual Siobhan turned up to be able to save her. Because the reality - that Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has independently absorbed Siobhan's existence - opted for Gemma to her grave, TVGuide.com taken track of executive producers Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder to talk about how this turn of occasions will alter both sisters' plans. Plus: Since Siobhan is at NY, will the two brothers and sisters meet again? Exclusive Ringer Scoop: Gregory Harrison cast as Gemma's father What incorporated careful analysis kill Gemma? Eric Charmelo: Honestly, it made an appearance organic for the story. We are attempting to create a world where you will discover high stakes and we are unsafe. Sadly, inside the whole world of noir, there is a inclination to create a look and feel count to keep people round the side of their chair. Bridget's dwelling within this very dangerous world where the stakes are very high. Nicole Snyder: It absolutely was a blood stream bath. I had been very alert to it, but blood stream baths are great to produce. The positive factor relevant for this show is, due to the fact you're dead does not necessarily mean we will not assist you to again. There exists a great deal of flashbacks. The way in which Gemma's dying affect everyone? Charmelo: Once we return following a holidays, we're playing the episodes very quickly, so there will are actually a mourning period. We certainly address it over the following episode, but we don't focus on it. Henry (Kristoffer Polaha) have been angry with Bridget and worried about her submit Gemma's disappearance. The way in which this affect their relationship? Snyder: Not only is Henry mourning, but he must direct his anger towards something and someone, which target becomes Bridget. Once the first 1 / 2 of year was dedicated to Gemma's disappearance, what is going to another 1 / 2 of year focus on? Charmelo: Since Siobhan is within NY City, you've these two brothers and sisters playing this chess game, as well as the stakes are usually greater since they are inside the same city. Ultimately, paths will mix. Snyder: Most of the focus was on Gemma, now Bridget can return to the first mystery and questions we established inside the pilot, that's: Who's trying to kill Siobhan? Why and the way is she prone to stop them? Charmelo: We're really turning the screws tight and tight. It's becoming this very combustible pressure oven that's just prone to explode with the finish of the year. The higher lies Bridget notifies, the higher damage control she must do to make sure that they are contained. Eventually, I am unsure if she'll be capable of purchased it all. Exclusive: Ringer casts Supernatural's Misha Collins Simply what does the long run for Bridget and Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) appear like? Charmelo: Although they've been married for "six years," that is Bridget's first real adult relationship sober. So, as she's falling deeply deeply in love with this individual, she's seeing our world through rose-colored glasses as this is her first for everything. It's a very worthwhile dynamic that people have setup, the irony being that is all a given existence. She starts to buy towards the fantasy from this, as well as the sobering the fact is this isn't hers which is built around the lie, so she must reconcile that disparity in some manner. Snyder: Their relationship will strengthen, blossom and become very real, there's however apt to be conflict as this is a noir, more often than not there's a look and feel count. Things will not the simple for Bridget and Andrew. Would the guilt of overpowering Siobhan's existence ever make Bridget crack? Snyder: It'll achieve her. Charmelo: It'll cause her to behave about it. Eventually, she'll become overcome with guilt and get her breaking point. From everyone around the program, Andrew seems to become the only innocent one. Is always that too good actually was? Synder: No a person's innocent relating to this show. Charmelo: It's all regulated controlled a façade with every character. We're getting fun using the theme of duplicity as well as the different masks people placed on, just what the truth is isn't necessarily what you'll receive. Synder: Andrew is a superb guy, but he is not innocent. The question immediately is actually whether someone will uncover her secret. Gemma did, now she's dead. Will someone take Gemma's place? Charmelo: This can be a risk that Bridget's running constantly by living this double existence, that anytime the rug might be attracted from underneath her. What she finds out inside the fall finale is always that when people learn her secret, people die. It could hold the opposite effect on her. The lesson she's learning is always that she better keep her mouth shut to keep people safe. Siobhan remains pregnant, just what are we able to see on her behalf and whoever the possibility baby father may be? Charmelo: She's, really, pregnant, and like all femme fatale, she'll take advantage of the people just like a settling nick. She's different marks. You will discover essentially three males whose child this might be and she'll depend in it to her help to implement her plan. We're really prone to go to a very real, emotional, understanding and encouraging side of Siobhan, which we really haven't seen up so far. We will probably see why lady tick. We're also prone to learn the thing that was the inciting incident that triggered this monstrous lick involving the two brothers and sisters. What really happened with Juliet (Zoey Deutch) and her teacher, Mr. Contractor (Jason Dohring)? Snyder: There is a layer compared to that story that people will probably reveal. Similar to other things on that relate, we lead you lower one path which we twist it in the new direction, and this story can keep for the toes. This can be a large part of the mystery. Ringer Scoop: Save Me's Andrea Roth signs on as Andrew's crazy ex Andrew's ex-wife, Catherine (Save Me's Andrea Roth), will probably be going to town. What's the dynamic like between her, Andrew and Bridget? Charmelo: It's combative. Let's just say Andrew features a type. He's attracted to particular type of lady, so clearly, these two women don't get along with one another since they're probably so similar. Snyder: After we established this year's season, Andrew basically started the bond with Siobhan because they used to be in this particular marriage, so there are many bad blood stream between these people. Charmelo: She'll stir the pot. The way in which Malcolm (Mike Colter) go with Bridget's existence since she's unlikely to depart Andrew? Charmelo: He turns into a friend to Bridget. More youthful crowd becomes the Watson to her Holmes in trying to unearth this mystery from the products happened to Siobhan. Whoever else consider Ringer's fall finale? Ringer returns Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 9/8c round the CW.

Movieline's Interactive Shame Map: Explore NYC With Director Steve McQueen

comments: 3 || add yours Among the most admired (and controversial) films of 2011 is also one of the most striking NY-set movies in years: Shame, director Steve McQueen’s unflinching glimpse inside the life of Manhattan professional Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) as he struggles with sex addiction and his reckless sibling Sissy (Carey Mulligan). The quotidian nature of Brandon’s routine — subway commutes, nondescript office work, late-night jogs — not only mask his emotional freefall, but belie the everyday tensions, pleasures, challenges and privileges associated with living in one of the world’s most intoxicating cities. Now you can tryst where Brandon trysts, drink where Brandon drinks, and brood where Brandon broods thanks to Movieline’s interactive Shame location map. McQueen, who first visited NY as a child in 1977, said his ensuing trips to the city commenced an enduring fascination with the its inhabitants and functions. “I remember Elvis dying and the blackout,” he recalled in a recent chat with Movieline. “But the thing about Brandon — and it was very meticulous — was where he would live, where he would work, how he would travel to work, what he would eat, where he would eat, take-out, where he would do his laundry… etcetera, etcetera. So that was, for me, very important to me. By coincidence, people talk about it being a ‘NY movie,’ but really, it was about his ritual. That was it.” After developing international renown as both a visual artist and a feature filmmaker (his debut Hunger, also starring Fassbender, won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera D’Or prize in 2008), McQueen returned to NY for his second film — but only after he was essentially rebuffed in his first choice of London. “No one would talk to us,” McQueen said. “I think it was a time when sex addiction was very much in the media, and I think people just went underground. Of course, people very wary of the British media in London, and I think people thought we were a part of that, and that therefore they couldn’t talk to anyone. So it was myself and Abi Morgan who flew to NY and talked to two experts in the field who happened to live here. Then they in turn introduced us to people who had the addiction or were recovering from the addiction, and I thought to myself, ‘Well, why don’t we just shoot it in NY?’ And that was it.” McQueen’s sense for the city only translated so far to its practical locations, however. Enter David Velasco, a veteran location manager and scout and native NYer. “I’d already known of Steven off of Hunger,” Velasco explained. “I was a big fan of that film, and that immediately piqued my interest. And when he explained the subject matter, that extra-piqued my interest. So when I got the script, I gave it a read-through, and right after the first read, I called him back right away and was like, ‘I’d love to do this. What do you need me to do to get on this project?’” Working in concert with McQueen, cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and production designer Judy Becker, Velasco helped pin down a list of sites to evoke not just Brandon’s story, but Brandon himself. In the tradition of our interactive Drive map from earlier this fall, click on the map below for more information on each Shame location, and see each in action when Shame rolls out this Friday, Dec. 2, in limited release. (WARNING: Some spoilers follow.) Brandon’s ApartmentAddress: 9 West 31st Street, 15th FloorMcQueen: “Something that’s fascinating to me about NYers is that they live and work in the sky. It’s amazing. They live and work in the sky. And what it does, of course, is [introduce] a situation where there’s always a huge bloody window. There’s always a huge vista on the city, and you’re always framed by the city. I think it’s kind of interesting, because being framed by the city, you’re always in perspective of the city — and your own perspective of the city. It can actually be quite lonely in a way — to have that view all the time and be in the frame of this huge metropolis. What are you within that metropolis? What am I? Who am I? You’re always questioning in this view.”Velasco: “The apartment is actually an empty apartment that we scored in the building. It was a one-bedroom, empty, on the market. Luckily we came across it. It was one of those fluke things where it happened to be available. I immediately jumped in there and talked to management and was able to secure it and hold it for the span of a month, and luckily there was another apartment that freed up for logistical purposes to use as a staging space. As you can imagine, it was a super-tight location to shoot in.”McQueen: “Logistically it’s helpful to have everything in the same location — less time-consuming, to be honest. But also, I don’t see the reason why you’d want to make it any different. It is his building. This is Brandon — this is a way we identify with him, get to know him. This is it. It’s integral to the film, the same way that music he picks to play — the Glenn Gould — is integral to Brandon, too. There’s no way around that. I’m not making a TV commercial; I’m making a movie.” Velasco: “All the other units were occupied; there were people across the hall, down the hall… We were surrounded by people. [Did you encounter any problems?] I kid you not: Not one complaint from one neighbor the entire time we were there. If anything, people were super-curious. At that point, Michael was starting to get some serious press because of the upcoming X-Men movie that was coming out. If anything, people were starting to poke around and catch a glimpse; they heard, ‘Oh, Michael Fassbender’s in the bulding.’”↑ Brandon’s Apartment The Flatiron bachelor pad occupied by our protagonist and his sister. Read more 28 St N/R Address: Intersection of Broadway and West 28th StreetMcQueen: “It’s like rituals — it’s like tai chi: You follow the movement, and wherever the movement leads you, you go to it. Some place we wound up shooting were very ugly — the lot where Brandon runs back to his apartment or wherever. But you work with it, because those kinds of limitations are beautiful to me because I have to work with that. Again, I am not making TV commercials about being in a beautiful spot, and ‘This is gorgeous,’ and, ‘Oh, isn’t this great?’ None of that. It is about how people move and operate in the city. Like the subway. He takes the subway. It is what it is. Do you know what I mean? And I love that because it’s limiting, but it gives me so much. That’s the thing: It gives you so much that you have to deal with. Sometimes it’s a huge problem to have to deal with it, but it’s like… No. It gives you shit.”Velasco: “The interesting thing with Steve from the very beginning was that his whole thing was, because of the nature of the material, Michael’s character has to be relatable — real, authentic — for the audience to make a connection. So when we started to lock down this world — like when we picked his apartment for instance — that’s why that train got picked. Right away, Steven said, ‘Well, if Brandon lives in this neighborhood, what train would he take to get the work?’ And Judy and I are from NY; we know it inside and out. So we said, ‘Yeah, 28th Street. Totally.’ Or in the jogging scene: ‘What direction would he go jogging in?’ Well, he would go toward the Hudson River. The train wound up being closest to his apartment building.”↑ 28 St N/R Brandon’s nearest subway stop, where he leaves each day for work and returns with a strange premonition after his all-nighter. Read more Brandon’s officeAddress: Citigroup Center, 601 Lexington AvenueVelasco: “There was a floor controlled by a legal company, and Judy had actually shot something there in a corner office not that long ago, but she remembered there had been this whole other wing to the floor that she had been on that nobody had bothered to do anything with. So we went up there with Steve and checked it out — checked out the sightlines — and made a deal. If I’m not mistaken, a couple months after we started shooting there, the legal company that owned the floor was in the process of gutting it out. So what you see on the screen no longer exists. I believe that might have been on the 33rd floor.”↑ Brandon’s office Where our protagonist works at an undisclosed job and crashes his computer with porn; seen only from the interior. Read more Sissy’s performance/Brandon and Marianne’s trystAddress: The Standard Hotel, 848 Washington StreetVelasco: “Steven had spent time at The Standard when visiting NY, so during the process of him writing the script with Abi Morgan, he had always pictured that scene with Carey being there. Originally we thought we’d think about The Standard, but maybe we’d go find something else. But as time went on, and the more discussions we had, we said, ‘Well, if The Standard is where you want to be, and it’s what you imagined when you wrote it, why don’t we just do it there?’ It took some finagling with the hotel; they’re very particular about who does what there. Most of what they’ve ever allowed at The Standard is photo shoots. I think the only thing other than Shame that ever shot there was a piece of an episode of Gossip Girl — and that was like two people in a corner booth somewhere. You never even knew it was The Standard; it was just like this throwaway thing. […] The only reason that even happened was because one of the higher-ups on the board at The Standard was a fan of Steven’s — not just his movie work, but his work as a visual artist. It was for that reason that the door was cracked open and we were able to slip in.”McQueen: [Was the impulse again about being in the sky?] “I kept on being up in the sky. I had just come off this plane; I was stuck in the sky. NYers tilt their head to one side and look at me and say, ‘Is this guy crazy?’ But the views — when you look out at that broken jetty from The Standard Hotel? It’s amazing. It’s like people: some submerged, some with their heads just above water. It was that. The ordinary for me here is extraordinary. That’s what it was about. But at the same time, I’m not going for shots. I’m looking at how people move.”Velasco: [On The Standard’s reputation for guests having sex in the windows] “What’s interesting about all that is when Steven first wrote the script, and I met with him and his producer Iain [Canning], I casually mentioned, ‘It’s interesting reading these scenes, because that’s actually happened at The Standard.’ And they looked at me kind of confused at first and asked, ‘What are you talking about?’ And I literally Googled ‘Standard Hotel’ and some other configuration for images and said, ‘Yeah: People have actually had sex against the glass, and it’s caused problems with the city.’ They were unaware that was a situation with the hotel. [Did the hotel management have apprehensions about the scenes or the subject matter?] Talking to the hotel about it, it’s something they really can’t control. People will complain and call the city, but going into it we were very clear about laying out exactly the nature of what we were trying to do with regard to the script. We didn’t sugarcoat anything, but we also made a point of saying, ‘It’s not a gratuitous thing.’ […] Of all things, the one thing that got the hotel rep nervous was that moment where Fassbender does a line of cocaine. ‘Oh my God — he’s actually gonna do coke?’ And I was like, ‘The coke bothers you, but everything else is OK? All right; that’s interesting.’” ↑ The Standard Hotel Sissy performs “NY, NY” at the hotel’s top-floor nightclub; Brandon and Marianne tryst on the 12th floor. Read more Business drinks (and “Shots!”)Address: Flatiron Lounge, 37 West 19th StreetMcQueen: “David was a genius. I spoke to him about bars that people go to and what not. We talked about that, and that was it. He did his research. That bar was perfect — the first bar he goes to with his boss to pick up girls. It’s just one of those things where you walk in and say, ‘This is good; this makes sense.’”Velasco: “We searched for that for a while. It needed to feel like the kind of place that Brandon and his boss would go to after work, so we looked at a lot of different options for that. We came across that right as we were going into our last two weeks of preproduction — it’s one of the last things we settled on. It has some interesting detail to it, interior-wise. I believe we were there for actually two days.”↑ Flatiron Lounge Brandon and his boss have business drinks with clients and exchange tequila shots with a trio of women. Read more Broken pedestrian signalAddress: Corner of West 31st Street and 7th AvenueVelasco: “That’s kind of an interesting story. When we arrived there that night to shoot that run — which wasn’t an easy thing to get the city to allow us to do, but they relented — there was a food cart guy on that corner. Obviously he was in the shot where we wanted Fassbender to land before he crosses Seventh Avenue. So we actually asked him, ‘Can you move your cart?’ And the guy was nice about it; he’s like, ‘Yeah, sure.’ But he was kind of flaky, because he backed his cart up into the post, and apparently broke the signal. It was just hanging there. But Steve liked it: ‘Hey, let’s just leave it there.’ ‘All right; it’s your movie.’”McQueen: “We could have put it back, but I left it like that. It was perfect. It was gorgeous. He knocked it down, and was like, ‘The police…’ ‘No, no, leave it. It’s fantastic. Wonderful.’ It was hand-in-glove for us. Perfect for that moment when Brandon is jogging on the spot before he crosses. It was genius.” ↑ Broken pedestrian signal The corner where Brandon interrupts his fraught late-night jog. Read more Brandon’s thinking spotAddress: Pier 54, Hudson River at West 13th StreetVelasco: “The pier where he’s at when he’s looking at New Jersey at night, that’s the one he goes back to during the day — the exact same spot as before. Basically, Steve wanted that because in the story, [Brandon]’s from New Jersey. So he’d go down there occasionally to look at where he grew up — for whatever reason. That’s why he ends up going back down there toward the end.”McQueen: “The thing about Brandon — and it was very meticulous — was where he would live, where he would work, how he would travel to work, what he would eat, where he would eat, take-out, where he would do his laundry… etcetera, etcetera. So that was, for me, very important to me. By coincidence, people talk about it being a ‘NY movie,’ but really, it was about his ritual. That was it.” ↑ Pier 54 Brandon visits the Pier for a smoke before dinner with Marianne — and a breakdown after seeing Sissy in the hospital. Read more InotecaAddress: 98 Rivington StreetVelasco: “Judy and Steven both liked the intimacy of the location for one; two, the neighborhood it was in felt right.” [The server is vaguely incompetent, but isn’t that place renowned for knowledgeable servers and sommeliers?] Well, as far as the whole waiter part of it… We scouted a lot in preproduction — it was myself, Steven, Sean and Judy in a minivan going all over the city looking at location options. And in the course of that, we would always trade stories, especially Judy and myself, about going out to dinner, or great waiters or terrible waiters. And apparently it made an impression, because the next thing you know we’re watching them play this scene out and seeing the waiter do his thing, and we just started to laugh. He would do that a lot: Ask us or pick our brains, because again, he always wanted to draw from something real.”↑ Inoteca The Lower East Side eatery where Brandon takes his coworker Marianne on a date. Read more Brandon’s beatingAddress: Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston StreetVelasco: “It’s a great bar. They’ve got that pool table in the back. We were there for I think one day of shooting. I remember taking Steven there for the first time; the minute he looked at it, he said, ‘This is great; this is where we want to do it.’ So that worked out perfect. [Where does he get beaten up?] That’s the corner right outside. The camera is facing Houston; you’re actually right next to the bar. It’s right there as soon as you walk out.” ↑ Parkside Lounge Brandon makes a new friend and a new enemy before taking a beating from the latter outside. Read more The nightclubAddress: Quo (exterior), 511 West 28th Street; The Eagle (interior upstairs), 554 W. 28th Street; Le Trapeze (interior downstairs), 17 East 27th StreetVelasco: [What’s the club that shuts Brandon out?] “That’s not even a club; that’s just an industrial storage locker. That’s the best way to describe it. It’s just some random guy who stores propane tanks in there. That’s technically the club entrance. [And then he crosses the street to a place called Quo?] That was one of the only times we actually did a Frankenstein and just created a location. It was such a specific thing that Steven wanted. It didn’t even start out that way: The bar he winds up in is Quo, which was on 28th Street. But when he walks in — that blackened room he walks into with the neon and he’s following the guy? That’s a leather bar also on 28th called The Eagle. And then we cut to the inside of one of the last active sex clubs in NY City — a place called Le Trapeze. That’s where you find him going through that blood-red labyrinth. They have this hidden upstairs area; we didn’t even know it was there. We were just about to leave, and Judy noticed some spiral stairs. ‘Hey, what’s that?’ And we walk upstairs and go, ‘Oh, this is nuts.’ And then he winds up in that booth — that booth was actually the only thing we built on a stage. Judy built that to mirror the labyrinth that we saw. So really it’s four different pieces that made up that one location.” ↑ The nightclub Shut out of his first choice after the beating, Brandon stakes out the gay club across the street. Read more Also see: Williamsburg BridgeAddress: Delancey Street at FDR Drive ↑ Williamsburg Bridge Brandon and his Flatiron Lounge conquest go for a quickie against a wall beneath the bridge. Read more Delancey F/J/M/Z subway stopAddress: Intersection of Delancey Street at Essex Street ↑ Delancey F/J/M/Z Brandon walks Marianne back to the train after their dinner and conversation. Read more Fulton St. ExchangeAddress: Intersection of Fulton Street at William Street ↑ Fulton St. Exchange Brandon follows the nameless redhead from the subway off the train and up the stairs. Read more To read more on Steve McQueen’s Shame, click here. Tagged: carey mulligan, david velasco, judy becker, michael fassbender, sean bobbitt, shame, steve mcqueen

'Chuck' Sneak Peek: The Changing Face of Jeffster (Exclusive Video)

NBC Much is askew in the world of NBC's Chuck on Friday's new episode, "Chuck Versus the Business Trip," airing at 8 p.m. And The Hollywood Reporter has a first look at the mayhem.our editor recommends'Chuck' Star Joshua Gomez: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me (Exclusive)'Chuck's' Yvonne Strahovski Talks the Final Season: 'We're Milking It'Top 50 Power Showrunners 2011 PHOTOS: NBC's New Fall Key Art After realizing that The Intersect has a virus that actively changes Morgan's (Joshua Gomez) personality, the crew sets out to remove it from his brain on the upcoming episode. At the same time, someone at the CIA didn't get the memo and issued a kill order on Morgan. So, Chuck (Zachary Levi) assumes his best bud's identity in order to smoke out the assassin. Meanwhile, a storm is brewing back at the Buy More and it's called Hurricane Jeffster. Yvonne Strahovsky, who plays Sarah, told THR recently, "Who knows what's happening with Jeffster this season. There's a bit of drama going on there." And it looks like that tension starts on Friday's episode. VIDEO: 'Chuck's' Yvonne Strahovski and More Women of Fall TV On the last episode, Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) cured Jeff (Scott Krinsky) of his carbon monoxide-induced haze and he's a new man because of it. But, Lester (Vik Sahay) liked the old one. Watch THR's exclusive sneak peek clip at Jeffster's growing tension below. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro NBC Chuck

'The Descendants' Premiere Red-colored Carpet Arrivals

The heavens from the George Clooney's new family drama, directed by Alexander Payne and co-compiled by Payne, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, required towards the red-colored carpet in Beverly Hillsides on November. 15 for that film's premiere screening in the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Clooney was became a member of by Stacy Keibler, Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer, amongst others.

Jennifer Lim Challenges Ethnic Stereotypes in 'Chinglish'

Jennifer Lim still can't quite believe her journey with David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," which bowed in the Longacre Theater on Broadway on March. 27. She was asked to sign up within the first reading through"because I understand Mandarin," she states franklyand continues to be using the show since 2009, throughout its various incarnations. She never auditioned. Further, "Chinglish" marks her Broadway debut. Her previous credits were largely Off-Off-Broadway, together with several television looks."Chinglish" particulars the misadventures of the dissembling American businessman (Gary Wilmes) because he attempts to negotiate a company offer China while falling deeply in love with a powerful-willed vice minister of culture (Lim) that has her very own agenda. It is a comedy about linguistic, cultural, and romantic misconceptions, an up-to-date East-meets-West clash. "Initially when i first got the script I had been amazed at how timely and wise it had been,Inch Lim states. "Though I attended Western schools and my parents tend to be more open than most conservatives, I was raised in Hong Kong with traditional values. My dad is Chinese, my mother is Korean, and that i were built with a Cantonese nanny. A great deal within the play resonated quickly the softball bat."Though Lim didn't have bookings concerning the subject or its satirical treatment, she states the creative team was conscious that it could delay some Asians. In order to gauge audience response, they introduced in Asian-People in america and native Chinese loudspeakers throughout the show's run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. "90-5 % from the audience loved it," reviews Lim. "The couple of who had issues with it were the older guard one of the Chinese natives." Lim suspects these were uncomfortable using the depiction of corruption in Chinese government. Their own is really a sensibility that doesn't air dirty laundry in public places, Lim appreciates. Besides fluency in Mandarin, what most prepared Lim for that role was her upbringing, her relatives, and living for 3 several weeks in Qinghai, in addition to creating a special visit to Guiyang when preparing for that play's Broadway opening. Often visiting a cafe or restaurant and tasting sour seafood soup was profoundly telling, she states: "It isn't the dish itself but the expertise of the restaurant: how packed it's, the noise, and warmth. There's no ac, and it is hot, sweaty, and smelly. All of the senses are attacked."Lim's performance seemed to be affected by the possible lack of freedom in China, particularly the limitations on public speech. It is a Communist country a person's private ideas and a person's public presentation will always be at odds. This conflict is at the bottom from the culture clash described within the play, Lim highlights. As the American feels he ought to be honest together with his wife about his feelings for an additional lady, his Asian lover (Lim's character) thinks such forthrightness will be a manifestation of disrespect towards the wife and it is emphatically in opposition to his coming clean to his spouse.Lim's major acting challenge continues to be "integrating the crowd response," she states. "Determining how you can hold and suspend as soon as for that laughter. It's tricky. Another large challenge is keeping a straight face. I acquired the majority of my giggles in Chicago." Get It Done for that Pleasure Lim understood she wanted a theater career in early stages, and despite her parents' traditional worldview, they supported her in the start. "Acting has given me the opportunity to explore feelings I do not get the opportunity to convey in tangible existence like a nice Asian girl, like being passionate, sexy, angry, and powerful.InchFollowing specialising in theater at Bristol College in England, she continued to earn her MFA in the Yale School of Drama. Still, she states it required her a few years to locate her ft while watching camera. "And That I still feel much more comfortable around the stage," she states. Lim has labored continuously and does well at auditions, simply because she ensures all of the necessary set-up is performed, "in order to use and play."Browse The BACK STAGE Overview Of 'CHINGLISH' Auditions for television and film aren't the same as individuals for that stage, she continues. "After I audition for TV or film, I love to be from the book. Your camera accumulates everything. I additionally prefer to fit the part. Within the theater, the appearance could be more enjoyable in an audition. But it is tricky because that which you put on notifies that which you do. The skirt and footwear, for instance, inform how you move. After I audition for any play I should also understand what I am doing and become prepared, however i will have the web pages during my hands. I wish to have the ability to take direction making changes." Preparation is paramount to taking pride with what you are doing, because this is where the pleasure is. "When the experience isn't pleased, so why do it?" Lim states. "It's all too easy to become distracted with problems that do not have anything related to the job. It will help me to pay attention to the job.InchActively playing Stereotypes or just being Unemployed? Being Asian continues to be central to the majority of the roles Lim has performed. "It is a Catch-22," she states. "Who would like to be pigeonholed? But I have labored around I've because I'm Asian." Still, like a relative newcomer towards the States she needed to learn how to recognize hot-button stereotypes. "It isn't that racism does not appear in Hong Kong, but most people seem like me."In TV and flicks, Lim frequently plays "the un named Asian roles," for example teacher, nurse, lab specialist. Though they are borderline stereotypes, they aren't offensive plus they offer employment she might possibly not have otherwise. However the pure, modest innocent is an excessive amount of a clich on her, nor could it be a reasonable representation of youthful Asian women today. "Stereotypes are lazy, and that i don't locate them interesting to experience,Inch she states. "But stereotypes may also be handywhen they are used like a vehicle for irony or irreverence. Would I play a 2-dimensional lead since it is work? Yes, basically had the opportunity to change it out. These choices rely on who's within the project and what everybody would like to understand more about. Let me say we are able to acquire a bridge. But this isn't black and whitened. It's grey."Lim is hopeful on her future which of other Asian-American stars but thinks it might be tougher for them compared to their whitened alternatives. Nonetheless, she alerts against feeling bitter and exacerbated. "Because while you are for the reason that ditch, 50 other stars who're not for the reason that ditch is going to be moving ahead," she stresses. "And Cinderella tales are available true. It happened in my experience. However, I'd David Henry Hwang as my fairy godmother." "Chinglish" is playing in the Longacre Theater, 220 W. 48th St., N.Y. (212) 239-6200. world wide web.telecharge.com. Outtakes - Has carried out at HERE, P.S. 122, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre along with the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre- Includes a recurring role on "The Great Wife" and was featured on "Blue Bloods," "Law & Order" (the 3 NYbased shows), and "Royal Pains," amongst others- Had roles in "This Is not Romance" (London), "The Medea" (Poultry), and "Hamlet" (Belgium)

Matt Lanter takes 'Chance'

Lanter Matt Lanter has landed the lead role in the indie "A Chance of Rain," which Cindy Gustafson will helm from her own script.Story follows a young man who, while trying to bring water to a destitute village in Africa during a horrible drought, encounters his own problems, challenges and struggles.Martin Towns is set to produce with shooting under way in Michigan.Lanter, repped by WME and Emerald Talent Group, is best known for his role on CW's "90210" and can be seen next in "Liars All." Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Nancy Sophistication Selected Off Dwts

Nancy Sophistication How tough is television commentator Nancy Sophistication? Just request her how she's consistently handled to position a great face on things - including her elimination from Dwts on Tuesday evening. "You know what happens?" she states. "There's never an undesirable day. No a person's dead. No a person's dismembered. I've been dancing with Tristan [her professional partner, Tristan MacManus]. The children are alive. It's all regulated controlled good." Sophistication states she found the show to fulfill a childhood fantasy: She was the indegent youthful girl whose family could only have the ability to send her to bounce class for starters year, and may not purchase the kind of dance costume everyone else was wearing. "From the that we was really the only girl inside the class which was with no tutu," states Sophistication. "We are in a position to not afford a tutu. I'd the leotard, as well as the tights, as well as the shoes. But let me guarantee that [my daughter] Lucy has four tutus. I get tutu revenge." It may seem that accepting the invitation to compete around the hit reality show is a no-brainer for an individual who comprises a full time income from being recognized on television. But Sophistication fought using the concept she'd be judged, which everyone would election. "I'm not really crowned Miss Congeniality, okay?Inch states Sophistication. "In my opinion that. It doesn't always happy, but it is how it is. I used to be not necessarily within it for people to like me." She also required to think that undeniable fact that she's 52 years old, not inside the best shape, combined with little natural ability. "Are you currently presently kidding," she jokes. "Tristan was pushing me around as being a wheelbarrow." Still, she squashed every ounce of delight in the experience, never getting in touch with it in. She seriously considered girly and set on crazy costumes for something different. "I've been so serious," she states. "For too extended, everything will be a mission. Every situation. Things are an underlying cause. And dancing remains a great deal fun." Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine today!

'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies

Creator from the popular Family Circus comic strip, Bil Keane, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday, November. 8 at his home in Paradise Valley, AZ the Connected Press reviews. He was 89.our editor recommendsHollywood's Notable Deaths PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Keane's one-panel strip, that they produced in Feb of 1960, featured the now-broadly-known children Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. as well as their parents and was transported by nearly 1,500 newspapers through the country. The artist's boy, Shaun, had absorbed the comic recently after his father's retirement. Shaun told the AP Keane had among his other sons by his side when he died, and was visited by all his five children and nine grandchildren as well as great-grandchildren within the last week. "He stated, 'I adore you' which's things i stated to him, that is a terrific way to venture out,Inch Shaun told the AP from the last conversation he'd together with his father. "The truly amazing factor is Father loved the household a lot, so the truth that all of us saw him, I believe that gave him great comfort making his passing easy. Fortunately he didn't endure several things.Inch Keane was created in Philadelphia, PA in 1922 and trained themself to draw senior high school. Related Subjects Obituaries

Quinta Industries seeks personal bankruptcy protection

PARIS -- Tarak Ben Ammar's Quinta Industries, among Gaul's greatest publish-production and vfx facilities groups, continues to be placed directly under Gaul's equal to Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy protection with a French court. The audience, including LTC, Scanlab and Duran Duboi, utilizes nearly 200 staff. Duran Duboi's newest commissions include toon feature "The Boy Using the Cuckoo-Clock Heart," that is created by Luc Besson. Ben Ammar stated he'd present an agenda to guard jobs towards the company's employees over the following two several weeks. Employees continued strike recently because they had not received their salaries. In France They-Tunisian professional is the owner of 83% of the organization, as the remaining stake is possessed by Technicolor, which arrived on the scene of personal bankruptcy protection in Feb. As the majority of Quinta Industries' activities was associated with manufacture of 35mm release prints, the acceleration of French theaters' digital conversion during the last three several weeks brought towards the company's downfall, Ben Ammar told French news agency AFP. Based on Thierry p Segonzac, prexy of Ficam, in france they specialists association, the interest in film prints has dropped 30% each year since 2008, resulting in the decline of numerous companies, including Laboratory Eclair, which completed its debt recovery plan captured. "4 years ago all films were distributed on film prints, today it's only 20% of these,Inch P Segonzac stated. "Once the film and TV board CNC setup its intend to digitize French screens it didn't remember to consider the publish-production industry," he added. Quinta Industries is a component of Quinta Communications, Ben Ammar's production and distribution giant, whose credits include Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Black Gold." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com