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‘Falling Skies’ Premiere Sets a Cable TV 2011 Record

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Rebecca Murray
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Drew Roy, Maxim Knight and Noah Wyle in Falling Skies
Drew Roy, Maxim Knight and Noah Wyle in 'Falling Skies' - Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels, © TM &Cable News Network. A Time Warner Company

TV viewers tuned in in large numbers to see the first episode of Falling Skies on TNT. The alien invasion series, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, attracted the biggest audience for a cable series debuting in 2011. 5.9 million TV sets were tuned in to catch Noah Wyle leading a group of survivors who fight back against the aliens.

“The enormous success of Falling Skies demonstrates what can happen when you partner with the best people in the business and give them what they need to do their very best work,” stated Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). “TNT’s Falling Skies is an exciting, fascinating and often moving story made possible through the magic of DreamWorks Television, an incredibly talented cast led by Noah Wyle and the vision of one of the greatest storytellers of our time, Steven Spielberg.”

According to TNT, Falling Skies‘ debut outperformed last year’s debut of USA’s Covert Affairs (4.9 million viewers – July 13, 2010) and AMC’s The Walking Dead (5.3 million – Oct. 31, 2010).

The Plot: Falling Skies takes place in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. Tom Mason (Wyle), a Boston history professor and the father of three sons, must put his extensive knowledge of military history to the test as second in command of a regiment of resistance fighters protecting a large group of civilian survivors.




Maroon 5’s Adam Levine Raises Awareness of ADHD with “Own It” Campaign

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Rebecca Murray
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Adam Levine and Maroon 5
Adam Levine and Maroon 5 (Photo provided by Maroon 5)

The Voice judge/lead singer of Maroon 5 Adam Levine has committed to helping raise awareness of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among adults with “Own It,” an educational campaign launched on June 20, 2011. Levine’s working with patient advocacy groups, with support from Shire, to help motivate adults who suffer from ADHD to seek further treatment from health professionals.

“I was diagnosed with ADHD by my doctor when I was a teenager,” said Adam Levine. “As I got older, I thought my ADHD had gone away. Eventually, I realized it was something that was still there. I was able to work with my doctor to help manage my ADHD symptoms. This campaign is important to me because it can help young adults and adults realize that there’s a chance they may still have ADHD if they had it as a kid.”

This educational campaign is further supported by online and print awareness-raising efforts. Levine shares his personal experience with ADHD and encourages young adults and adults to take a quiz at OwnYourADHD.com to help recognize the ADHD symptoms – inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity – and then talk with their doctor.

The “Own It” campaign is endorsed by the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), two organizations committed to raising awareness of ADHD.

The leaders of CHADD and ADDA released the following joint statement: “There is a common perception among many young adults and adults that you can outgrow the ADHD you were diagnosed with as a child or adolescent. However, it is important for them to understand that this is not always the case and that the disorder can continue into adulthood. The symptoms may even present differently. We commend Adam Levine for sharing his personal story and hope it will inspire others previously diagnosed with ADHD as a kid to take an online quiz and talk with their doctor about how ADHD symptoms may be affecting them as a young adult or adult.”




Clarence Clemons Passes Away

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Rebecca Murray
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Clarence Clemons Biography
'Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales' - © Grand Central Publishing

Clarence Clemons, known to millions of music fans as ‘The Big Man,’ passed away on Saturday, June 18, 2011. The 69-year-old legendary saxophonist died due to complications from a stroke he suffered days prior.

Clemons, who was born in Norfolk, Virginia and attended Maryland State College, was actually on the way to a career in football when a car accident interrupted his plans. A knee injury prevented Clemons, the eldest of three children of fish market owner Clarence Clemons, Sr. and Thelma Clemons, from pursuing a career in football, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise for music fans.

For more than three decades Clemons was a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. The two met in 1971, though the exact details of that meeting are up to debate. Springsteen summed up Clemons in the foreword to the musician’s fictionalized biography, Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales: “Clarence has spent much of his life as a drifting spirit. Where he walks, the world conforms to his presence. For his size, ‘C’ is an unassuming man. He does not impress himself upon you. He just brings it with him when he comes.”

Following Clemons’ death, Springsteen issued this statement on his official site:

“It is with overwhelming sadness that we inform our friends and fans that at 7:00 tonight, Saturday, June 18, our beloved friend and bandmate, Clarence Clemons passed away. The cause was complications from his stroke of last Sunday, June 12th.

Bruce Springsteen said of Clarence: Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. His loss is immeasurable and we are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly forty years. He was my great friend, my partner, and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band.”




‘Jackass’ Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Car Crash

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Rebecca Murray
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34-year-old Jackass cast member Ryan Dunn and a passenger were killed when Dunn’s Porsche slammed into a tree and caught fire in West Goshen, PA. According to a report from NBC Philadelphia, Dunn’s body was “identified by his tattoo” at the scene.

The accident occurred at around 2:30am.

Just hours earlier, Dunn had posted the above photo of himself out drinking on his official Twitter page.

‘Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!’ Debuts on July 9th

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Rebecca Murray
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Drake Bell and Daniella Monet in Fairly Odd
Drake Bell and Daniella Monet in ‘A Fairly Odd Movie’ (Photo © Nickelodeon)

Nickelodeon’s The Fairly OddParents animated TV series gets the live-action treatment with A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!. In honor of the show’s 10 years on the network, Nickelodeon will debut the network’s first live-action/CG-animated TV movie on July 9, 2011 at 8pm (ET/PT).

The popular show’s spawned nine animated TV films and 12 TV specials.

From the press release:

“Starring Nick favorites Drake Bell (Drake & Josh) and Daniella Monet (Victorious), the hour-long original TV movie follows the adventures of a now 23-year-old Timmy Turner (Bell) who refuses to grow up in order to keep his fairy godparents. Timmy’s resolve to stay a kid forever is tested when the once gawky, now gorgeous Tootie (Monet) returns to town, and he must choose between her and his beloved magical fairy godparents.”

Additional Fairly Odd Movie cast members include Jason Alexander, Cheryl Hines, and Steven Weber.

The animated series has featured dozens of big-name voices over the years, including Jay Leno as the Crimson Chin, Adam West as Catman, and Norm McDonald as Norm the Genie. Other celebs lending their voices to the series include Alec Baldwin, Frankie Muniz, Ben Stein, Gilbert Gottfried, Dana Carvey, Brendan Fraser, Tom Arnold, Jackie Mason, Julie Chen, Scott Hamilton, Gene Simmons, and Paul Stanley.




‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Behind the Scenes – Wingman Clip

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Rebecca Murray
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Bumblebee in 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon'
Bumblebee in ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ (Photo © Paramount Pictures)

Michael Bay watched a TV program featuring precision skydivers and knew he had to have them for the third Transformers film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  Instead of using green screen and CG, the skydivers actually jumped off of some of Chicago’s downtown landmarks.

And in addition to expert skydivers, the cast of this Transformers features Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, and Patrick Dempsey.

The Plot: Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. When a mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day, it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.

Watch the Transformers: Dark of the Moon clip:

‘Green Lantern’ – Blake Lively Interview at Comic-Con

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Rebecca Murray
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Blake Lively in Green Lantern
Blake Lively in ‘Green Lantern.’

Gossip Girls star Blake Lively joined her Green Lantern cast mates at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con to talk about working on the superhero film from Warner Bros and based on the comic book series.

What’s been the biggest surprise about working on Green Lantern?
Blake Lively: “A lot of it has been a surprise, but I think one of the weirdest things was doing a photo shoot and I said, ‘Wait, what is this one for exactly?,’ and they said, ‘Oh, it’s for your action figures.’ I was wondering why I was posing like that. It’s really cool the excitement that’s happening already. The studio’s really happy with it. They’re seeing dailies and already supporting it, which normally they don’t do that until they test a film. We’re doing everyone proud.”

What about stunt work for you? Did you have to do any sort of training or anything?
Blake Lively: “I had this crazy rig that I had to be on. It was invented for The Matrix. It was 30 feet tall and 20 feet long arm, and this gyroscopic wheel that’s around your waist and it moves off of your weight. It just seems like, ‘Oh, that’s fun and easy,’ but it required so much core strength to slowly control this thing. I would also go on it and go nuts and do cartwheels and spins and send the videos to my nephews. ‘Look how cool your aunt is!’ That was just the best part of it to me. But if we went on to a second or third, that’s when I really get to do the stunts because she becomes a villain.”

What sets this one apart from every other superhero movie out there?
Blake Lively: “Well, the Green Lantern is a really unique film in that it’s interplanetary. There’s the city that it takes place in on Earth, and you know we have our cool things that we do there, like pilot planes. But then there’s also the outer space realm. There are aliens from all over the galaxy. So it encompasses so much, it’s such a big film, it’s such a huge undertaking, and that’s something that you don’t normally see. You either see space, or you see Earth, but to have both in one film is unique.”

Is there a shadowing of Star Sapphire in this film?
Blake Lively: “You know, her piloting name is Star Sapphire. We drop little hints towards all the stories in the comics. But, you know, Star Sapphire is a little bit further down the road. It’s more Sinestro that we [have] this time.”

Are you looking excited to be a villain?
Blake Lively: “I would love to be a villain.”




Mayra Veronica “Freak Like Me” Remix News

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Rebecca Murray
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Mayra Veronica 'Freak Like Me Remixes'
Mayra Veronica ‘Freak Like Me Remixes’

Mayra Veronica’s “Freak Like Me” remix is heating up the charts, earning a spot on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club list.

From the artist’s official press release:

“Mayra Veronica’s new dance single ‘Freak Like Me’ sparked an immediate surge last week after its Remix rendition began captivating club-goers nationwide. In its first week, the explosive remix of ‘Freak Like Me’ debuted as Billboard’s top Hot Dance Club breakout record, sharing the chart’s spotlight with Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Lady Gaga. Veronica’s forthcoming album includes remixes by Eddie Amador, Manuel De La Mare, WAWA and Razor & Guido, with Grammy-nominated producer and remixer Dave Aude on the title track. The original version is expected to touch down on Top 40 and Rhythmic radio in July.

After the release of last year’s track ‘If You Wanna Fly,’ Veronica earned six U.S. Billboard chart-topping titles and instantly became one of the top-selling artists during the first week of sales, alongside Katy Perry and the Goo Goo Dolls.

‘Every girl’s got a freak side, a wild side,’ said the artist. ‘This song will remind guys they are not the only ones with freaky thoughts, no matter how innocent women may appear.’ The song promises to be this summer’s most infectious anthem, hitting dance floors and radio waves from coast to coast.

Mayra Veronica gushed about the unveiling of July’s music video for ‘Freak Like Me,’ lending clues that it guarantees to get pulses rising with its provocatively flirtatious scenes. Shot on location at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, the sizzling new video features Antonio Sabato, Jr., male supermodel and Janet Jackson’s one-time music video muse. As Veronica’s object of desire, she and Sabato, Jr. ‘get their freak on in an elevator.'”





Katy Perry Brief Biography

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Rebecca Murray
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Katy Perry Last Friday Night
Katy Perry – Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) © Capitol Records

Birthday: October 25, 1984

Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California

Background: Singer-songwriter Katy Perry’s parents were pastors. She has one older sister and a younger brother.

Real Name: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson

Trivia: At 16, she released a gospel album.

Spouse: On October 23, 2008, she married British comedian/actor Russell Brand.

Label: In 2008, she signed with Capitol Records.

Genre: Pop-rock

Debut single: “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)

Big hits: “I Kissed a Girl,” “Hot n Cold” (One of the Boys), “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “ET” & “Firework” (Teenage Dream)

Albums: One of the Boys (2007), Teenage Dream (2010), Prism (2013), Witness (2017), and Smile (2020)

Film: The Smurfs (2011)

Official Site: www.katyperry.com

‘Moneyball’ Movie Preview – Trailer, Cast, and Plot

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Rebecca Murray
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Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in Moneyball
Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in ‘Moneyball’ (Photo © 2011 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc)

Brad Pitt takes on the lead role as Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane in Moneyball, based on the bestselling book by Michael Lewis. Bennett Miller directs the PG-13 drama heading to theaters on September 23, 2011.

The cast also includes Jonah Hill as Peter Brand, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe, Robin Wright as Sharon, Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg, and Stephen Bishop as David Justice. Reed Diamond plays Mark Shapiro, Brent Jennings is Ron Washington, Ken Medlock is Grady Fuson, Tammy Blanchard is Elizabeth Hatteberg, and Jack McGee plays John Poloni.

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs.





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