Pineapple Express Video Game (Donkey Kong Meets Munchies Innuendo)
While Slashfilm recommends sticking to your Maniac Mansion or Narc emulators for the long haul, Pineapple Express has a new Donkey Kong ripoff, featuring a playable Seth Rogen or James Franco, that might sooth your holiday hangover-slash-impressive sparkler burns. The goal: Avoid bouncy evil pineapples as you climb ladders to devour floating tacos, Big Gulps, potato chips and French fries. Click here to play.
Yeah, it doesn’t exactly set Billy Mitchell’s tie on fire (disclosure: we only played two levels). We expected more from PE, something to challenge the provocative ranks of Running Scared’s Hot Coffee using bongs and Tipper Gore’s party line. Alas, Huey Lewis’s theme song beckons us to stay positive. Update: The video game for Step Brothers is a whole lot worse (therefore better?). Also, John McCain’s Pork Invaders remains inexcusable.
Couples Watch: Natalie & Devendra Wear Short Shorts in Israel
• Natalie Portman, grabbing a bottle of water and
browsing in a Jaffa, Israel, souvenir shop with indie-rocker beau Devendra Banhart, who was sporting some weather-appropriate short shorts.
Portman, who was born in Jerusalem, was vacationing in Israel after taking
her boyfriend with her to Cannes, where she sat on the jury at the
annual film festival. (See more actors and
their indie-rock loves!)
• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, enjoyed one of Richie’s favorite foods – sushi! – while dining with a group at West Hollywood’s Izakaya by Katsu-ya. “They seemed to be having fun,” a fellow diner told us, adding, “just a normal dinner out with friends.”
• Mila Kunis and Macaulay Culkin, holding hands at an afterparty following R.E.M.’s Los Angeles concert. According to an onlooker, when Kunis saw her former That ’70s Show costar Topher Grace, she yelled his name – and he came over and “gave her a big hug.” He also shook hands with Culkin, and the three hung out for the rest of the night. Also there: James Franco, who took in the show with a blonde girl. “He was very attentive to her and was definitely was on a date,” says the source. “They even shared a kiss backstage and mingled with Mila, Macaulay and Topher.”
• Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, checking out the
baubles at Moondance jewelry store on Santa Monica’s Montana Avenue.
The Closer star was wearing a pretty summer dress, while Bacon
rocked his usual biker style. The couple were joined on their shopping
excursion by daughter Sosie.
• Neil Patrick Harris, scoping out the art at the House of
Campari’s artist and gallerist preview of the new exhibition in New York City’s SoHo with
boyfriend David Burtka. The How I Met Your Mother star
was also joined by other guy friends, as he admired the work and chatted
with the artists and curators all night.
• Bijou Philips, supporting her boyfriend Danny Masterson, who was hosting Jazz Night at Teddy’s, inside Los Angeles’s Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The actress sat in a large leather chair in front
of the deejay booth with Masterson, but she moved over to chat up a female
friend when her beau left their table.
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Gary Cole cast in ABC’s Good Behavior
Have you noticed that there are some actors who just work constantly? They go from TV show to TV show, take a film role, do some voice over work, pop up here and there and never struggle to get a gig. (Maybe this should be a new TV award category — The Don’t Worry About His Next Paycheck Award?)
Anyway, you can put Gary Cole in that category. After playing the lethal Wayne Davis, Dana Delaney’s ex, on Desperate Housewives last season, Gary Cole has signed to play the father in Good Behavior, an ABC pilot starring Catherine O’Hara. Rob Thomas is creating Good Behavior, which is based on a New Zealand TV show called Outrageous Fortune, about a family of criminals who decide to go straight when the patriarch, that would be Gary, is busted and sent to jail for five years.
It’s also been revealed that Jeffrey Tambor will star in the pilot, playing Hy, Jackie West’s partner in a down and out pawn shop. Hopefully, this will morph into a long term, recurring role, something good so Tambor can make fans forget Welcome the The Captain and evoke memories of Arrested Development.
Back to Gary, he’s got a feature coming up this summer, Pineapple Express with Seth Rogan and James Franco. But on TV, he was also in 12 Miles of Bad Road, that Lily Tomlin hour comedy by Linda Bloodworth Thomason that HBO dropped recently. It’s being shopped around now and will emerge somewhere on the dial — there’s just too many talented people involved for it to remain unbroadcast. Who are the talent? Tomlin and Cole, are two. Then there’s Mary Kay Place (Mary Hartman, Mart Hartman), Leslie Jordan (Will and Grace), Kim Dickens (Lost), David Andrews (JAG), among others.
Sequel Talk: Pineapple Express, Hulk 3, Sex and the City 2, Bad Boys 3
Hollywood loves sequels, and the readers of movie blogs love to hear the early talk of them (even if it never develops into anything). So lets take a look at the recent sequel gossip going around the interwebs.
Seth Rogen and James Franco are already talking about the possibility of the first comedy sequel produced by Judd Apatow - Pineapple Express 2?
“Yeah, I’m waiting for the sequel,” Franco revealed to MTV at Sunday’s Movie Awards. Rogen added, “Yep, we’ve talked about it.”
When asked who will play the villain in the next Incredible Hulk movie (if the demand warrants a sequel), director Louis Leterrier says that Samuel Sterns (played by Tim Blake Nelson) is introduced in his film and of course, will eventually become The Leader. [comics2film]
At the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, Will Smith told Hollyscoop that he has an idea for Bad Boys 3.
“We need Bad Boys 3, but Michael is too expensive now, he’s way too expensive.”
Even series director Michael Bay admitted that it might never happen even though they’ve talked about doing another one.
“I don’t know,” said Bay. “We talk about it, but we all make too much money.”
Meanwhile The Daily Mail claims that the producers of Sex and the City are “exercising the sequel option in all of the stars’ contracts. They want it to be a franchise and think they can stretch it over at least a trilogy.” But can you really believe the British tabloid paper’s sources?
Thanks to reader Marcus for contributing.