Friday, January 27, 2012

TV/Movies/Music 1/27

Adele has made it 17 weeks at #1! She has surpassed the Titanic soundtrack and is now approaching the record set by The Bodyguard soundtrack (20 weeks)

According to “a reliable source,” the iPhone 5 really is going to be bigger and better. The screen of the new apple baby will be 4+ inches bigger. Of course Apple hasn’t settled on a version to release so there may be some alterations before we see the big reveal.

The Public Theater announced yesterday that As You Like It and Into the Woods are going to be the Shakespeare in the Park shows this year. Totally going!

According to new reports, as soon as Annapurna Pictures heard Blake Lively was cast in Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, they decided to pull out of financing it. The producers of the movie are looking for another studio right now.

Yesterday morning, in honor of the show's 100th episode and the impact it has had on the city, Mayor Bloomberg joined the cast, including Blake Lively, Penn Badgely and Ed Westwick, on their set in Queens to present them with an official proclamation dubbing January 26th Gossip Girl Day.

NBC is working on a potential Office spin-off which would focus on Rainn IWlson’s character Dwight Schrute. Nothing has been confirmed yet but a “source” says it is pretty much a done deal.

Idina Menzel’s album Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony is going to be released following the PBS airing on March 3rd. Songs she will sing include: Life of the Party, Asleep on the Wind, No Day But Today, Poker Face, Where or When, Heaven Help My Heart. For Good, Defying Gravity, Tomorrow, Love for Sale/Roxanne, and Funny Girl/Don’t Rain On My Parade.

We are about to get a lot more shows on Lifetime featuring incompetent parents exploiting their children. The network’s show Dance Moms and America’s Supernanny garnered their largest audiences and almost setting a record for the network.

NASA released a super-high res image of the Earth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/sizes/o/in/photostream/

A lot of people are upset at New York Sports club for having this copy on their new ads: “Paula, you made a fortune off of fat. Call us if you want to be around to enjoy it.”

Alaska Airlines is ending its 30-year practice of placing prayer cards on passengers’ meal trays. The airline also insists that their recent partnership agreement with Emirates Airlines has nothing to do with ending the cards. “Many of our passengers have come to us to say religion is inappropriate on an airplane.”

Who says cats and dogs can't get along? This is 2012, people! Get with it! In China, a very fertile White Tiger gave birth to three adorable tiger cubs, marking her third litter in 18 months! (Someone has been busy) When it became clear that the mother could no longer care for the little ones, the cubs -- a rare stripe-less tiger and two regular white tigers -- were brought to the wildlife park in Rongcheng, China to be cared for by ... a German Shepard.

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