Gosling’s charm and Gerwig’s mixed messages mean the real winner is Mattel’s male CEO, and dude-dominated capitalism in general
It’s a shame about the weather but, in the eyes of many, the summer of 2023 is at least furnishing a triumph of feminism, and it’s been cinema’s privilege to host it. Supposedly, Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie is ushering womankind on to the true path to sisterly empowerment. Really?
It sounds plausible, at least at first. “She’s everything. He’s just Ken,” reads the film’s tagline. Gerwig proclaims Barbie to be “most certainly a feminist film”, and it has frightened some male pundits out of their wits. Toby Young has accused it of “unapologetic misandry”, while the Critical Drinker considered it “114 minutes of spiteful, bitter, mean-spirited, borderline unhinged hatred of men”. And, briefly summarised, the film does indeed sound like an almost ridiculously over-the-top feminist homily.
It’s a shame about the weather but, in the eyes of many, the summer of 2023 is at least furnishing a triumph of feminism, and it’s been cinema’s privilege to host it. Supposedly, Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie is ushering womankind on to the true path to sisterly empowerment. Really?
It sounds plausible, at least at first. “She’s everything. He’s just Ken,” reads the film’s tagline. Gerwig proclaims Barbie to be “most certainly a feminist film”, and it has frightened some male pundits out of their wits. Toby Young has accused it of “unapologetic misandry”, while the Critical Drinker considered it “114 minutes of spiteful, bitter, mean-spirited, borderline unhinged hatred of men”. And, briefly summarised, the film does indeed sound like an almost ridiculously over-the-top feminist homily.
- 8/4/2023
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Love can make us do crazy things…but this? After Toby Young (Good Witch’s Catherine Bell) brings her rescue dog program to a Kansas correctional facility, inmate John Manard unleashes such strong feelings in her, she helps him escape in a pet crate! Yes, this happened in 2006. Young (now Toby Dorr) met John when she brought her Safe Harbor Prison Dogs program to Kansas’ Lansing Correctional Facility. Connecting with Manard awakened Toby from her lackluster 28-year marriage and “milquetoast American life,” as she described in a June 2022 essay for Today. “I jumped at the opportunity when the local prison suggested that I lead a dog rehab program. Little did I know how intoxicating purpose could be,” Toby wrote. But as Jailbreak Lovers, premiering July 2, shows, Toby’s life certainly didn’t stay boring for long. In Lifetime‘s interpretation, Toby is woman who always played by the rules. Losing...
- 7/2/2022
- TV Insider
In a future near enough to be recognisable and far enough away to be believable, scientist George Almore (Theo James) works alone at an aging remote outpost hidden in the snowy forests of Japan. His goal is to create a new artificial intelligence for the Arm Corporation which funds his work. But secretly he has his own agenda: create a realistic robot capable of taking on the persona of his deceased wife Jules (Stacy Martin) who died in a horrific car crash that George survived.
Luckily George has Jules’ memories backed up in an Archive – a storage device created by the Archive Corporation that enables a loved one up to 200 hours interaction with the deceased as a means to come to terms with the loss and say a final goodbye. But George has good reason to invalidate the warranty by tinkering with the imposing black monolith (imagine if Stanley Kubrick...
Luckily George has Jules’ memories backed up in an Archive – a storage device created by the Archive Corporation that enables a loved one up to 200 hours interaction with the deceased as a means to come to terms with the loss and say a final goodbye. But George has good reason to invalidate the warranty by tinkering with the imposing black monolith (imagine if Stanley Kubrick...
- 1/18/2021
- by Paul Tanter
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kirsten Howard May 13, 2019
Simon Pegg will be terrorizing a teen at a lake house in the new movie, Becky.
Directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, who brought us 2017's disappointing Dave Bautista-heavy outing Bushwick, are lining up the main cast for their next project, an action-thriller currently called Becky, which is due to start filming in a few months.
In a rare move, Simon Pegg has signed up to be the central villain of the piece, starring opposite Annabelle: Creation's Lulu Wilson. Pegg tends to feature primarily as a lovable sort on screen, but this new role is set to test him beyond the limits of turns like The Editor in Doctor Who's "The Long Game" (didn't he also play a character based on Toby Young? - Ed).
Via Deadline, the story of Becky centres on Wilson's Becky (natch) "a rebellious 13-year-old who is brought to a weekend getaway...
Simon Pegg will be terrorizing a teen at a lake house in the new movie, Becky.
Directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, who brought us 2017's disappointing Dave Bautista-heavy outing Bushwick, are lining up the main cast for their next project, an action-thriller currently called Becky, which is due to start filming in a few months.
In a rare move, Simon Pegg has signed up to be the central villain of the piece, starring opposite Annabelle: Creation's Lulu Wilson. Pegg tends to feature primarily as a lovable sort on screen, but this new role is set to test him beyond the limits of turns like The Editor in Doctor Who's "The Long Game" (didn't he also play a character based on Toby Young? - Ed).
Via Deadline, the story of Becky centres on Wilson's Becky (natch) "a rebellious 13-year-old who is brought to a weekend getaway...
- 5/13/2019
- Den of Geek
Richard Billingham’s new film centres on working-class strife, but it’s no gratuitous wallow
Few subjects trouble film-makers as much as poverty. Go too far one way and you are accused of romanticising hardship; head in the opposite direction and you’re poking sticks at poor people for entertainment. At one extreme, “we were poor but happy” feelgood films such as The Full Monty and Billy Elliot; at the other, television’s Benefits Street. Recently we have seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma praised as an apologia for his own privileged upbringing but also criticised for making its servant heroine an opaque, passive character with little in the way of an inner life.
Even Ken Loach, the UK’s patron saint of working-class strife, was accused of overdoing it in his 2016 film I, Daniel Blake by, you know, making the lead characters decent human beings rather than thieving, lazy degenerates who deserved their fate.
Few subjects trouble film-makers as much as poverty. Go too far one way and you are accused of romanticising hardship; head in the opposite direction and you’re poking sticks at poor people for entertainment. At one extreme, “we were poor but happy” feelgood films such as The Full Monty and Billy Elliot; at the other, television’s Benefits Street. Recently we have seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma praised as an apologia for his own privileged upbringing but also criticised for making its servant heroine an opaque, passive character with little in the way of an inner life.
Even Ken Loach, the UK’s patron saint of working-class strife, was accused of overdoing it in his 2016 film I, Daniel Blake by, you know, making the lead characters decent human beings rather than thieving, lazy degenerates who deserved their fate.
- 3/4/2019
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
“Lucy was a pioneer in making scriptwriting accessible.”
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
- 8/2/2018
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
“Top Chef” season 15 ended on March 8, 2018 with host Padma Lakshmi revealing the winner chosen by two renowned chefs — Tom Colicchio and Graham Elliot — and award-winning food writer Gail Simmons. To be showcased on this Emmy-winning show for months on end has boosted the profile of all previous 14 winners of “Top Chef.”
We wanted to know what happened to these 14 folks in the years since they took the title. We did some digging and discovered that some of them are running their own restaurants while others work for established locations or freelance.
In the photo gallery above and the text below, we recap each of the first 14 seasons of “Top Chef,” noting the locations, the judges and other finalists. And we update the resumes of all of the winning chefs.
See ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ winners: Where are they now, who is your favorite from seasons 1 to 16? [Poll]
Season 1: Harold Dieterle
Location:...
We wanted to know what happened to these 14 folks in the years since they took the title. We did some digging and discovered that some of them are running their own restaurants while others work for established locations or freelance.
In the photo gallery above and the text below, we recap each of the first 14 seasons of “Top Chef,” noting the locations, the judges and other finalists. And we update the resumes of all of the winning chefs.
See ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ winners: Where are they now, who is your favorite from seasons 1 to 16? [Poll]
Season 1: Harold Dieterle
Location:...
- 3/8/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
For some of us, the 1990s was a certain kind of Golden Age of Comics. The success of Image Comics meant that creators were given a lot of freedom to do what they liked, with deep-pocketed corporations competing to see who could throw the most money at the talent. It was in this environment that DC launched the Vertigo imprint, and eventually set up a satellite office in London.
Art Young was in charge, fresh from a brief stint at Touchmark, Disney’s pre-Marvel attempt at the Direct Market. The only other person on staff was Tim Pilcher. Together, they published a slew of books (including most of the books originally commissioned for Touchmark) and generally made comics seem even cooler.
I only met Tim Pilcher a few times, although we talked on the phone fairly often. He always struck me as a delight, quick and funny and smart – although it should be noted that,...
Art Young was in charge, fresh from a brief stint at Touchmark, Disney’s pre-Marvel attempt at the Direct Market. The only other person on staff was Tim Pilcher. Together, they published a slew of books (including most of the books originally commissioned for Touchmark) and generally made comics seem even cooler.
I only met Tim Pilcher a few times, although we talked on the phone fairly often. He always struck me as a delight, quick and funny and smart – although it should be noted that,...
- 6/3/2016
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
Does new sixties-set Sky Atlantic comedy, Mr Sloane, have more to offer than a winning central performance by Nick Frost?
Review
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Meet Mr Sloane
If you were to judge Mr Sloane solely on the likeability of its cast, it’d be a five-star production. There aren’t many more appealing actors working in UK comedy than Nick Frost and Olivia Colman, and both are at their genial best here. Judged on its script and laughs though, Sky Atlantic’s new sixties-set comedy is simply too gentle a thing to give a rave review.
A character piece set in the resolutely non-swinging end of 1969 London, Mr Sloane follows the titular sadsack (Nick Frost) in the aftermath of losing his job and wife Janet (Olivia Colman).
Janet, whom we meet here only in flashback and dream sequence, has left Watford in search of herself. Her husband, Jeremy Sloane...
Review
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Meet Mr Sloane
If you were to judge Mr Sloane solely on the likeability of its cast, it’d be a five-star production. There aren’t many more appealing actors working in UK comedy than Nick Frost and Olivia Colman, and both are at their genial best here. Judged on its script and laughs though, Sky Atlantic’s new sixties-set comedy is simply too gentle a thing to give a rave review.
A character piece set in the resolutely non-swinging end of 1969 London, Mr Sloane follows the titular sadsack (Nick Frost) in the aftermath of losing his job and wife Janet (Olivia Colman).
Janet, whom we meet here only in flashback and dream sequence, has left Watford in search of herself. Her husband, Jeremy Sloane...
- 5/23/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Big studios have poured money into foreign-language films – but is this just a backdoor way to dominate overseas markets?
When the horror film The Orphanage opened big in its home country of Spain in October 2007, distributor Warner Brothers wanted director Ja Bayona to know he was loved. "We call him Jota," says Richard Fox, executive VP of international at Warner. "He's an amazing Superman fan, and I had a piece of kryptonite from the Bryan Singer version sent to my hotel in Barcelona. After this huge opening weekend, we went to a fish restaurant on Monday night to celebrate. I got there early, so I was sat there with my box of kryptonite, looking at the portraits on the wall: Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, Zinedine Zidane. When Jota arrived, I gave him the kryptonite, and a guy took a photo. We sat and had a three-hour dinner. When we left,...
When the horror film The Orphanage opened big in its home country of Spain in October 2007, distributor Warner Brothers wanted director Ja Bayona to know he was loved. "We call him Jota," says Richard Fox, executive VP of international at Warner. "He's an amazing Superman fan, and I had a piece of kryptonite from the Bryan Singer version sent to my hotel in Barcelona. After this huge opening weekend, we went to a fish restaurant on Monday night to celebrate. I got there early, so I was sat there with my box of kryptonite, looking at the portraits on the wall: Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, Zinedine Zidane. When Jota arrived, I gave him the kryptonite, and a guy took a photo. We sat and had a three-hour dinner. When we left,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Americans love it when British people criticize us. Get Simon Cowell to insult our singing, or Gordon Ramsay to rant about our cooking, or Len Goodman to scrutinize our dancing, and we’ll be very happy. And we might have to fight another Revolutionary War before we understand the reasons why. English journalist and former Top Chef judge Toby Young once theorized that Americans love getting chastised by folks in the U.K. because it reminds us of the days when the United States was still a British colony. He thinks this memory allows us to believe that we’re...
- 6/11/2013
- by Melissa Maerz
- EW.com - PopWatch
Simon Pegg has been quite busy as of late. Not only is he starring in Edgar Wright’s epic pub crawl film The World’s End, but he is also reprising his role as Montgomery Scott in Star Trek Into Darkness. Now it’s been announced that he’s been cast in an unspecified role in Australian thriller Kill Me Three Times, from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders.
The film will be about a young woman whose will is tested as she’s linked to several crimes in an Australian town, such as murder and blackmail. Sounds exciting enough. However, the aforementioned British actor will most likely end up playing a supporting role, although director Stenders deemed the part “delicious” and “an exciting surprise for audiences.” Well, if you say so…
Pegg rose to fame due to his notable performances in Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz,...
The film will be about a young woman whose will is tested as she’s linked to several crimes in an Australian town, such as murder and blackmail. Sounds exciting enough. However, the aforementioned British actor will most likely end up playing a supporting role, although director Stenders deemed the part “delicious” and “an exciting surprise for audiences.” Well, if you say so…
Pegg rose to fame due to his notable performances in Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Paulo Lazo
- We Got This Covered
The Girl (HBO, October 20, 9 p.m.), about the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, is an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at a classic, a portrait of a brilliant but disturbed director who put leading ladies through hell, and a drama about the Faustian bargain that some actors strike with Hollywood. Its emotional bandwidth ranges from “creepy” to “I don’t know if I can watch this.” At one point, Hitchcock (Toby Young) punishes The Birds’ star Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) for rejecting his advances by trapping her in a phone booth on a soundstage for five days while fake and real birds bombarded her, shattering the glass, attacking her body, and scarring her face. It’s essentially a rape scene, and it’s longer than the one in Irreversible. It’s hard to say what’s more upsetting: Hedren cowering on the soundstage floor, fending off dive-bombing seagulls with her scratched-up arms,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Your excellent coverage of the Olympic opening ceremony (28 July) could benefit from a few additional accolades. To organise such a panoply of scenes and thousands of individuals seamlessly took real genius. Imagine what Britain could be like if politicians or bankers had such organising skills. And the awesome sequence of lighting effects, which turned the stadium into a succession of jewel-like cameos and kaleidoscopic panoramas, demanded a quite outstanding level of professionalism on the part of the lighting engineers and designers. But most importantly, all hail Danny Boyle for his joyful celebration of ordinary people. What a marvel that this anarchic song to humanity has reverberated round the planet, seen by billions. What a riposte to the powerbrokers, arms traders and all those others who work against a sane and humane existence.
Jim McCluskey
Twickenham, Middlesex
• Aidan Burley may be wrong about "multicultural crap" (Pressure on Pm to remove whip from MP after Twitter outburst,...
Jim McCluskey
Twickenham, Middlesex
• Aidan Burley may be wrong about "multicultural crap" (Pressure on Pm to remove whip from MP after Twitter outburst,...
- 7/29/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Tories fulminate at celebration of a 'nationalised stranglehold'. But a stranglehold that the whole nation loves is called a hug
As one Saudi Arabian commentator put it, it was the first Olympic ceremony that needed a live feed on Twitter to explain it to the rest of the world.
So, Ok, here goes: in the beginning, before enclosures and capitalism, but after the invention of cricket (this puts it between early Tudor times and late Tudor times; I'm afraid I can't be more specific – the people who should have been chronicling the expropriation of common land were too busy … playing cricket), Britain was great.
Men played footer in longjohns, women dallied among wildflowers, children maypoled; it was just dead nice. Kenneth Branagh summed it up with Caliban's speech – we dwelled on an island so full of natural riches that it kind of blew up your subconscious while you were asleep and,...
As one Saudi Arabian commentator put it, it was the first Olympic ceremony that needed a live feed on Twitter to explain it to the rest of the world.
So, Ok, here goes: in the beginning, before enclosures and capitalism, but after the invention of cricket (this puts it between early Tudor times and late Tudor times; I'm afraid I can't be more specific – the people who should have been chronicling the expropriation of common land were too busy … playing cricket), Britain was great.
Men played footer in longjohns, women dallied among wildflowers, children maypoled; it was just dead nice. Kenneth Branagh summed it up with Caliban's speech – we dwelled on an island so full of natural riches that it kind of blew up your subconscious while you were asleep and,...
- 7/27/2012
- by Zoe Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Writer/Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Featuring Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Joely Richardson, Toby Young, Elizabeth Olsen
Cortés’ follow-up to Buried is a starry affair, but solid turns from his A-list cast can’t quite rescue the story from sinking under the weight of its over-wrought hypothesis.
Red Lights deals in psychic abilities, specifically those displayed on stage by extrasensory celebrities like John Edward, Sally Morgan and Sylvia Browne. Are they raking in millions thanks to an innate gift, or are they skilled cold readers perpetuating a fraudulent act? Are we able to communicate with the other side, or is talking to the dead merely wishful thinking by the bereaved? Can anyone definitively prove the existence of spirit voices, or, conversely, explain away every single instance of parapsychological activity? This heated debate has been going on at least since the foundation of the American Society for Psychical Research Society...
Featuring Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, Joely Richardson, Toby Young, Elizabeth Olsen
Cortés’ follow-up to Buried is a starry affair, but solid turns from his A-list cast can’t quite rescue the story from sinking under the weight of its over-wrought hypothesis.
Red Lights deals in psychic abilities, specifically those displayed on stage by extrasensory celebrities like John Edward, Sally Morgan and Sylvia Browne. Are they raking in millions thanks to an innate gift, or are they skilled cold readers perpetuating a fraudulent act? Are we able to communicate with the other side, or is talking to the dead merely wishful thinking by the bereaved? Can anyone definitively prove the existence of spirit voices, or, conversely, explain away every single instance of parapsychological activity? This heated debate has been going on at least since the foundation of the American Society for Psychical Research Society...
- 7/10/2012
- by Karina Wilson
- Planet Fury
From Goldie to Edwina Currie, leading figures from music, politics, film, charities and the media assess Plan B's directorial debut
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Founder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people
The film is an incredibly accurate portrait of that kind of environment. It wasn't two-dimensional in that the characters weren't just purely evil – the good in them also showed. I've met all those characters in the course of my work. The little boys terrorised into joining the criminal network are just so real. It demonstrated what I keep telling people: don't say a child chooses to join a gang; there is no choice. The cycle of brutalisation, with kids brutalising kids, the girl fights, all of it is so accurate.
I want to get a copy of this film and deliver it to the prime minister and say: "This is another bit of your country that you don't talk about,...
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Founder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people
The film is an incredibly accurate portrait of that kind of environment. It wasn't two-dimensional in that the characters weren't just purely evil – the good in them also showed. I've met all those characters in the course of my work. The little boys terrorised into joining the criminal network are just so real. It demonstrated what I keep telling people: don't say a child chooses to join a gang; there is no choice. The cycle of brutalisation, with kids brutalising kids, the girl fights, all of it is so accurate.
I want to get a copy of this film and deliver it to the prime minister and say: "This is another bit of your country that you don't talk about,...
- 5/26/2012
- by Lethal Bizzle, Edwina Currie
- The Guardian - Film News
From Piers Morgan to Polly Toynbee, Jemima Khan to Jarvis Cocker – David Cameron takes questions from public figures who want answers
Hear what the Pm has to say in our audio interactive
David Mitchell, comedian
Do you wish you were less posh?
"[Laughs] No. You can't change who you are. For a long time I thought my full name was 'The Old Etonian David Cameron'. I had parents who gave me a wonderful start in life, who sacrificed a lot to give me a great education. So I don't ever want to change – I don't want to drop my accent or change my vowels. I am who I am."
Piers Morgan, TV presenter
If you could relive one moment in your life, excluding births of children and marriage, what would it be?
"God, that's a really good question. Piers, why don't you ever ask really good questions like that normally? I...
Hear what the Pm has to say in our audio interactive
David Mitchell, comedian
Do you wish you were less posh?
"[Laughs] No. You can't change who you are. For a long time I thought my full name was 'The Old Etonian David Cameron'. I had parents who gave me a wonderful start in life, who sacrificed a lot to give me a great education. So I don't ever want to change – I don't want to drop my accent or change my vowels. I am who I am."
Piers Morgan, TV presenter
If you could relive one moment in your life, excluding births of children and marriage, what would it be?
"God, that's a really good question. Piers, why don't you ever ask really good questions like that normally? I...
- 11/26/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
How could a "mere grammar school graduate" have written the plays of Shakespeare?
There's a lot of people out there who absolutely hate that I did it. They think I did a disservice to school teachers worldwide. And I'm saying, 'When did it happen that we started teaching dogma?' It's ridiculous to think that we shouldn't ask questions. We should ask questions about everything.
Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous argues that a nobleman called Edward DeVere wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare rather than the bard himself, who is relegated to the role of drunken fraud.
I'm not maybe 100% convinced that [DeVere, the Earl of] Oxford wrote everything. But I'm 100% convinced that the man from Stratford didn't write it. So I wanted to make the most convincing case possible for Oxford, because he has the most going for him.
The backlash, as anticipated has been considerable A BBC reporter asked Emmerich if he was prepared for it.
There's a lot of people out there who absolutely hate that I did it. They think I did a disservice to school teachers worldwide. And I'm saying, 'When did it happen that we started teaching dogma?' It's ridiculous to think that we shouldn't ask questions. We should ask questions about everything.
Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous argues that a nobleman called Edward DeVere wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare rather than the bard himself, who is relegated to the role of drunken fraud.
I'm not maybe 100% convinced that [DeVere, the Earl of] Oxford wrote everything. But I'm 100% convinced that the man from Stratford didn't write it. So I wanted to make the most convincing case possible for Oxford, because he has the most going for him.
The backlash, as anticipated has been considerable A BBC reporter asked Emmerich if he was prepared for it.
- 10/28/2011
- by Frederika Whitehead
- The Guardian - Film News
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London, May 25: Piers Morgan, Dom Joly, Toby Young and DJ Boy George have been named as the four celebrities who breached Ryan Giggs’ gagging order regarding his affair with Imogen Thomas, on Twitter.
The four could now face a massive legal bill for damages after identifying the footballer on the site.
“Those who I think may take an idea that modern methods of communication mean they can act with impunity may well find themselves in for a rude shock,” the Daily Mail quoted.
London, May 25: Piers Morgan, Dom Joly, Toby Young and DJ Boy George have been named as the four celebrities who breached Ryan Giggs’ gagging order regarding his affair with Imogen Thomas, on Twitter.
The four could now face a massive legal bill for damages after identifying the footballer on the site.
“Those who I think may take an idea that modern methods of communication mean they can act with impunity may well find themselves in for a rude shock,” the Daily Mail quoted.
- 5/25/2011
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Kirsten Dunst.
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Kirsten Dunst - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "Melancholia" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes
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Kirsten Dunst - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "Melancholia" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year she appeared in Little Women, to further acclaim.
Dunst achieved international fame as a...
Kirsten Dunst ◄ Back Next ►Picture 1 of 11
Kirsten Dunst - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "Melancholia" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes
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Kirsten Dunst - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "Melancholia" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year she appeared in Little Women, to further acclaim.
Dunst achieved international fame as a...
- 5/20/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Media go to town on 'children' called in to compere proceedings
It was a great night for The King's Speech, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman, among others. But according to bloggers, the Twitterati and other film commentators, the 83rd annual Academy Awards went down as a very bad night indeed for hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
While the pair will not quite go down in history as the Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox of Oscars hosts, their debut shared stint was roundly condemned by most as detached and underpowered. The lion's share of the barbs were reserved for Franco, who was variously described as smug, distant, bored.
"In what could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history, a bad and risky idea – letting two actors host – proved out in spectacularly unwatchable fashion on the biggest of all nights for the film world," wrote the Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman.
It was a great night for The King's Speech, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman, among others. But according to bloggers, the Twitterati and other film commentators, the 83rd annual Academy Awards went down as a very bad night indeed for hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
While the pair will not quite go down in history as the Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox of Oscars hosts, their debut shared stint was roundly condemned by most as detached and underpowered. The lion's share of the barbs were reserved for Franco, who was variously described as smug, distant, bored.
"In what could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history, a bad and risky idea – letting two actors host – proved out in spectacularly unwatchable fashion on the biggest of all nights for the film world," wrote the Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman.
- 2/28/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s Episode 9 of Top Chef All-Stars, entitled “Feeding Fallon”, and as we know from the previews last week, we’re not talking about SNL alum and character actress Siobhan Fallon, we’re talking about SNL alum and Late Night host Fallon Comma Jimmy. How will the chefs who are already effing crazy react to this celebrity news? I am guessing they will be super reserved. Carrrrla, what did I just predict? Tre was eliminated last week, and the remaining chefs are absolutely shocked. Actually no, not shocked, what’s that other word? Ah, “Mostly indifferent because they finally realize that someone will be eliminated every episode as per the entire concept of the show so there’s no reason to act devastated when it happens.” In German, the word is “Tuppenchifrenzung.” For the second straight episode, the chefs hash things out at the trendy New York bar that only...
- 2/10/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
This is a Recap of Top Chef All-Stars (Season 8), Episode 7, entitled “Restaurant Wars: One Night only”, originally airing January 19th, 2011. It contains spoilers about penises, just Fyi. For the Quickfire, we head to Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin to meet the mythical folk hero Justo Thomas, the fish prepper who butchers “1000 pounds of fish every day” and when he’s out it takes “three trained sous chefs to do his job.” He also pulls crooked roads straight, drinks gasoline and farts Dom, and built the Empire State Building by hand as a life-sized replica of his d*ck. After a bunch of hobos spin yarns about Justo’s superhuman filleting feats, Bourdain declares “I think we know what comes next. That’s right – guest judge Jimmy Breslin will give you a New York street number and you have to cook a dish that represents the essence of that number, because...
- 1/20/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
UK audiences lap up 3D horror, while Simon Pegg's Burke and Hare makes an unpromising debut in sixth place
The winner
Anyone who still needs persuading regarding the potential of 3D to re-energise flagging film brands need look no further than the current success of Lionsgate's Saw 3D. Having peaked in 2006 with Saw III, which opened with £2.52m, debuts for the Halloween staple dipped slightly for the fourth and fifth instalments, before diving to £1.74m with Saw VI. Now episode seven arrives with an opening salvo of £3.6m, including £659,000 in previews. Even with the Thursday takings stripped out, that's comfortably the biggest-ever opening for a Saw movie. Rival studio Paramount will be hoping for a similar uplift when it releases Jackass 3D on Friday.
The loser
Considering it distributed the first two entries in the Saw franchise, it must have been moderately galling for the UK's independently owned Entertainment...
The winner
Anyone who still needs persuading regarding the potential of 3D to re-energise flagging film brands need look no further than the current success of Lionsgate's Saw 3D. Having peaked in 2006 with Saw III, which opened with £2.52m, debuts for the Halloween staple dipped slightly for the fourth and fifth instalments, before diving to £1.74m with Saw VI. Now episode seven arrives with an opening salvo of £3.6m, including £659,000 in previews. Even with the Thursday takings stripped out, that's comfortably the biggest-ever opening for a Saw movie. Rival studio Paramount will be hoping for a similar uplift when it releases Jackass 3D on Friday.
The loser
Considering it distributed the first two entries in the Saw franchise, it must have been moderately galling for the UK's independently owned Entertainment...
- 11/2/2010
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'America's Next Top Model' and other competitions have had a revolving door of judges.
By Eric Ditzian
Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez at the "American Idol" press conference on Wednesday
Photo: MTV News
The only thing that might remain the same about "American Idol" next year could be its name.
Well, it's not that drastic, but it does feel as though the hit reality show is remaking itself from top to bottom, replacing nearly its entire judging panel and giving the format an exhaustive makeover. Other reality shows have undergone their own transformations in recent years, though none have been as comprehensive as the one "Idol" just executed.
As we welcome Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler to the mix, let's review a few other noteworthy reality switcheroos.
"The Apprentice"
Before the Donald began to recruit celebs to complete his integrated-marketing-heavy tasks,...
By Eric Ditzian
Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez at the "American Idol" press conference on Wednesday
Photo: MTV News
The only thing that might remain the same about "American Idol" next year could be its name.
Well, it's not that drastic, but it does feel as though the hit reality show is remaking itself from top to bottom, replacing nearly its entire judging panel and giving the format an exhaustive makeover. Other reality shows have undergone their own transformations in recent years, though none have been as comprehensive as the one "Idol" just executed.
As we welcome Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler to the mix, let's review a few other noteworthy reality switcheroos.
"The Apprentice"
Before the Donald began to recruit celebs to complete his integrated-marketing-heavy tasks,...
- 9/22/2010
- MTV Music News
Filed under: Features, Summer TV
People haven't been overly kind to 'Top Chef' this season. Either they think the cheftestants are inept, the Washington, DC locale is uninspiring, the guest politicians are annoying or, like me, they think the show has just become stale and predictable.
But something else has come up recently that's been bugging me: the judging. Not so much what 'Top Chef' vets Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio are doing; they're taking the same reasoned approach they always do. And when Gail Simmons is there, her criticism has always been constructive and kind.
No, I'm mostly looking at new judge Eric Ripert when I think the judging has suffered this year. He may be one of the greatest chefs and restaurateurs on the planet, but as a 'Top Chef' judge, he makes me long for the days when the oh-so-quippy Toby Young was subbing for Gail.
People haven't been overly kind to 'Top Chef' this season. Either they think the cheftestants are inept, the Washington, DC locale is uninspiring, the guest politicians are annoying or, like me, they think the show has just become stale and predictable.
But something else has come up recently that's been bugging me: the judging. Not so much what 'Top Chef' vets Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio are doing; they're taking the same reasoned approach they always do. And when Gail Simmons is there, her criticism has always been constructive and kind.
No, I'm mostly looking at new judge Eric Ripert when I think the judging has suffered this year. He may be one of the greatest chefs and restaurateurs on the planet, but as a 'Top Chef' judge, he makes me long for the days when the oh-so-quippy Toby Young was subbing for Gail.
- 9/2/2010
- by Joel Keller
- Aol TV.
Top Chef contestants have been through some pretty tough challenges like, say, cooking for Joel Roubuchon a.k.a. “Chef of the Century.” Yet somehow when Padma announced this week’s quickfire, the expression on their faces looked as though she had said something atrocious, something in the vein of, “Toby Young is back.”
Thankfully, it was less frightening; they had to make pies for Padma and “pastry god” and Cry-Baby extra Johnny Iuzzini, the head pastry chef at Jean Georges.
But, you see, making a dessert is a fast way to end up like the dreadlocks on Jon-we-hardly-knew-ye: dead and kind of smelly.
Thankfully, it was less frightening; they had to make pies for Padma and “pastry god” and Cry-Baby extra Johnny Iuzzini, the head pastry chef at Jean Georges.
But, you see, making a dessert is a fast way to end up like the dreadlocks on Jon-we-hardly-knew-ye: dead and kind of smelly.
- 7/1/2010
- by Archana Ram
- EW.com - PopWatch
Before we can even catch our collective breath after the end of Top Chef Masters, Bravo has brought back the original Top Chef to the lineup, beginning with tonight's season premiere ("What's Your Constituency?"). While I've loved seeing master chefs hone their craft even further on Top Chef Masters, I have to say that I'm really excited by the return of Top Chef itself. There's an even fiercer air of competition from these chefs, many of whom are just beginning their culinary careers... and are therefore less likely to play nice and be as helpful as the masters. Which means more drama, inevitably. Heading to Washington D.C., this season of Top Chef finds the seventeen new contestants attempting to outdo their competitors in the nation's capital, which means that the setting is only too apt for the backstabbing and manipulation likely to unfold as this season's episodes get underway.
- 6/16/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Why I've fallen in love with Sarah Palin. Plus, a Showgirls sequel!
✤I truly hate to admit this, but I think I may have fallen a little bit in love with Sarah Palin this week. She's just so thoroughly, disgustingly wrong that I've begun to wonder if maybe she is somehow right. As if, perhaps, she was dreamed up in the same laboratory as those Jimmy Dean choc-chip pancake sausages (Rip).
Anyway, my beautiful fantasy that Palin may be about to become the Heidi Montag of American politics was tragically crushed over the weekend when the Republican presidential hopeful denied having had breast implants. Still, credit where credit's due, she did succeed in berating the gossip-mongers for wasting precious time, and simultaneously make a dig at President Obama – that's multi- tasking, people!
"I think some of those folks, too," she told hokey old Fox News, "they need to perhaps grab a shovel,...
✤I truly hate to admit this, but I think I may have fallen a little bit in love with Sarah Palin this week. She's just so thoroughly, disgustingly wrong that I've begun to wonder if maybe she is somehow right. As if, perhaps, she was dreamed up in the same laboratory as those Jimmy Dean choc-chip pancake sausages (Rip).
Anyway, my beautiful fantasy that Palin may be about to become the Heidi Montag of American politics was tragically crushed over the weekend when the Republican presidential hopeful denied having had breast implants. Still, credit where credit's due, she did succeed in berating the gossip-mongers for wasting precious time, and simultaneously make a dig at President Obama – that's multi- tasking, people!
"I think some of those folks, too," she told hokey old Fox News, "they need to perhaps grab a shovel,...
- 6/14/2010
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
I know that Top Chef: Masters is currently airing on Bravo, but, in my opinion, it just doesn’t compare to the original. (I’d much rather see someone who could actually benefit from winning the competition than someone who has already established him or herself in the food world.) For those of you who have been conducting your own quickfire challenges each morning to make up for the lack of Top Chef, the wait will soon be over: Top Chef: Washington D.C. premieres on June 16!
Accomplished chef Eric Ripert will be joining Padma, Gail, and recent...
Accomplished chef Eric Ripert will be joining Padma, Gail, and recent...
- 5/14/2010
- by Emily Exton
- EW.com - PopWatch
Toby Young, a blogger over at Telegraph.co.uk, unfairly critized J.K. Rowling for the success of Harry Potter. He claims that J.K. Rowling's books are second-rate and that she doen't deserve to be a billionaire as a result. In fact, in his title, he calls it "a thoroughly undeserved honour." Rarely would I find myself railing over someone else's opinion, but this is just too low and too offensive to be ignored. I attempted to respond to his criticism in a comment on the Telegraph website, but after three unsuccessful attempts at receiving an email confirmation, it occurred to me to just use our own platform to express my opinion. And to that end, this is what I have to say... First, I'd like to address the question of "entitlement." Who deserves to be a billionaire? I'm fairly certain that just about everyone will agree with my answer:...
- 3/14/2010
- by rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
- PopStar
J.K. Rowling has been criticised over her success by a blogger at The Daily Telegraph. According to PopStar, Toby Young asserted that the author's books are second-rate and that she doesn't deserve to be a billionaire as a consequence. "A thoroughly undeserved honour," he claimed, before going on to attest that the series is a "bland amalgam of far more interesting work (more)...
- 3/14/2010
- by By Aaron Broverman
- Digital Spy
In an emotional finale, Michael Voltaggio edged out brother Bryan Voltaggio and Atlanta-native Kevin Gillespie to take home the $125,000 grand prize.
At Cyrus, the two-star Michelin restaurant in Napa, California, the three remaining contestants, Kevin Gillespie and Michael and Bryan Voltaggio battled it out in front of judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons, and Toby Young.
Michael won by creating the favorite dish of the night, made from Pacific rockfish, Dungeness crab, kabocha squash, Meyer lemon, matsutake mushrooms and anise hyssop. It was the fitting end to a dramatic season, with some of the best cooking in all seasons of Top Chef.
As usual, there were a few twists: early contest losers came back to play sous chefs for the finalists, plus surprise guest judges: their moms!
The mothers were supportive and clearly proud of their sons. “Kevin’s never made me anything I didn’t like,” said Mrs.
At Cyrus, the two-star Michelin restaurant in Napa, California, the three remaining contestants, Kevin Gillespie and Michael and Bryan Voltaggio battled it out in front of judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons, and Toby Young.
Michael won by creating the favorite dish of the night, made from Pacific rockfish, Dungeness crab, kabocha squash, Meyer lemon, matsutake mushrooms and anise hyssop. It was the fitting end to a dramatic season, with some of the best cooking in all seasons of Top Chef.
As usual, there were a few twists: early contest losers came back to play sous chefs for the finalists, plus surprise guest judges: their moms!
The mothers were supportive and clearly proud of their sons. “Kevin’s never made me anything I didn’t like,” said Mrs.
- 12/10/2009
- by emily
- HollywoodLife
Las Vegas has been a major character all season on Top Chef, but on Wednesday the chef-testants came face to face with something truly emblematic of Sin City when the six remaining chefs had to cook up a dish inspired by a visit to a classic casino. And in their Quickfire, they had to contend with another Vegas staple: room service! Breakfast in Bed: With Nigella Lawson serving as this week's guest judge, things got off to a luxurious start. The chefs had 30 minutes to make a dish in the basement kitchen of the Venetian, then carry it upstairs to Lawson and Padma, who were both wearing robes. Despite the light touch, the chefs who prepared the heaviest, meatiest dishes actually wowed the ladies the most: Kevin's play on steak and eggs delighted Lawson, but Eli's twist on the Reuben sandwich -- using poached eggs -- won the chef the Quickfire challenge,...
- 11/12/2009
- by StyleWatch
- People.com - TV Watch
Where there's Marcel, there's drama. Last night's Top Chef Reunion Dinner, a nice twist on the culinary series retrospective, offered both Marcel and drama in equal measure. After all, there's been maybe one other Top Chef contestant (cough, Tiffany, cough) who has stirred up as much conflict and confrontation as Marcel has. From the head-shaving almost-incident to the post-series bottle-throwing, Marcel has been at the heart of some memorably tense moments, including one from the Season Five finale that had never before been aired in which he suddenly becomes involved in a verbal battle with supercilious judge Toby Young. While I already hinted at my thoughts about the Top Chef reunion special (you can read my advance review here), now that the episode has aired we can discuss some specific details from last night's special. Personally, I really enjoyed watching the reunion. While it was a break from the competition...
- 11/7/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
The Men Who Stare At Goats Directed by: Grant Heslov Written by: Peter Straughan (screenplay), Jon Ronson (book) Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges Since the dawn of modern warfare, people have fantasized about the concept of super soldiers, enhanced human beings that could defend their homeland and give them the edge over their enemies. At this point, we're not just talking about fictional characters like Captain America, either; today's soldiers really are trained to push their body beyond its physical and mental limits, and outfitted with bleeding edge technological advancements. Military interests drive scientific research like few other fields, leading to all kinds of wacky pills and biological experiments. But would it surprise you to learn that U.S. military has delved into even stranger realms in the past, and may still be doing so today? In his 2004 book, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Welsh...
- 11/6/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
There are only eight chef-testants left -- which can only mean one thing: Restaurant Wars! But before the epic showdown began, the chefs were split into teams for a Quickfire Challenge that rendered them blind and mute. Quickfire: With guest judge Rick Moonen, a champion of sustainable cooking and seafood, at the helm, the chefs drew knives and split into two teams led by Jennifer C. and Michael Voltaggio. Jen selected Kevin; Mike Isabella; and Laurine, while Michael V. enlisted his brother; Eli and Robin, who was, shocker, picked last. The teams had 40 minutes to prepare a dish relay-style, with each chef getting 10 minutes to cook. While they weren't working, they wore a blindfold. Also, there was no talking allowed -- sort of like a culinary game of Telephone. Blind Items: Jen started by prepping a seafood stock and a pot of olive oil that she hoped to use to poach black cod.
- 10/22/2009
- by StyleWatch
- People.com - TV Watch
He's not one to mince words -- and Toby Young has something pointed to say about the team that wins Top Chef's beloved Restaurant Wars challenge which airs tonight: They opened the best restaurant in Top Chef history. A surprising bit of praise for the usually cantankerous Brit, sure, but Young says this season he's buckling down and taking his judging responsibilities "more seriously." Young also opens up -- on the phone -- about tonight's challenge and which chefs have impressed him most. --Brian Orloff Do you think the caliber of contestants is higher this year? Yes, it is. Certainly the overall standard is higher than it was last year and I said to the winning team [in Restaurant Wars], had I been reviewing their restaurant, I would have given it three stars. The winning restaurant in Restaurant Wars was easily as good as some of the best restaurants I've reviewed in...
- 10/21/2009
- by StyleWatch
- People.com - TV Watch
Chicago – Over the course of dozens of editions of HollywoodChicago.com’s DVD Round-Up column, we have brought our readers more than a few collections that possessed a remarkable variety of genres in one piece, but few match this week’s column, a quartet of titles that include supernatural drama, reality television, foreign animation, and classic fantasy.
It would be harder to say what these titles have in common than to point out their remarkable differences. All they really share is a launch on DVD around the same time. We truly have something for everyone this week. Synopsis, cast, technical details, and special features follow. Pick your favorite…
“Princess” was released on September 29th, 2009.
“The Gate” and “Medium: Season Five” were released on October 6th, 2009.
“Top Chef: Season Five” was released on October 20th, 2009.
“The Gate”
Photo credit: Lionsgate
Synopsis: “After an old tree is removed from the ground,...
It would be harder to say what these titles have in common than to point out their remarkable differences. All they really share is a launch on DVD around the same time. We truly have something for everyone this week. Synopsis, cast, technical details, and special features follow. Pick your favorite…
“Princess” was released on September 29th, 2009.
“The Gate” and “Medium: Season Five” were released on October 6th, 2009.
“Top Chef: Season Five” was released on October 20th, 2009.
“The Gate”
Photo credit: Lionsgate
Synopsis: “After an old tree is removed from the ground,...
- 10/20/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A little bit of magic and lots of skill -- that's what the judges demanded on Wednesday's Top Chef. The contestants were visited by Las Vegas illusionists Penn and Teller -- and graced by returning judge Toby Young. Quickfire: Special guest Michelle Bernstein announced the Quickfire challenge: Create a dish that showcases the "angel and devil" sides of your personality. Bernstein loved Robin's plate, which featured a salad and an apple crumble. "To walk into that salad was an absolute pleasure," she said, before announcing Robin the winner. She even bested frontrunner Michael V. and Eli, who made a decadent risotto. This did not make her fellow chefs happy. Drama Alert: After already complaining about her inccessant talking in the kitchen, many of the contestants bemoaned Mattin's dismissal (and sported his red neckerchiefs in tribute) and complained about the fact that Robin was still there after serving up toxic shrimp last week.
- 9/24/2009
- by StyleWatch
- People.com - TV Watch
Was anybody else totally charmed by Wolfgang Puck on last night's Top Chef premiere? The restaurateur extraordinaire was funny, smart, and dare we say...puckish? "This is like a golfball," he cracked at one point as he chucked Laurine's bacon doughnut across the room, leaving Tom in stitches. Throughout the episode, he delivered sharp critiques — both good and bad — with that great Teutonic accent, like Simon Cowell with a mouthful of wurst. Personally, I'd love to see him come on as a full-time replacement for the mercifully Mia Toby Young (who's still listed as a judge on the show's site). Head over to our full TV Watch for a recap, and then check out a few of Puck's tastiest comments below: "I would throw him with the steak in the fryer, too!" (said of Hector, who deep-fried his steak to give it a Latin flavor). "Everybody has to put purées underneath everything now.
- 8/20/2009
- by Adam Markovitz
- EW.com - PopWatch
Stationing the sixth season of television's classiest food competition series in Las Vegas seems like a genius marketing move: take advantage of the city's Hangover afterglow, give Padma Lakshmi a reason to shake out her immaculately straightened hair and finally incorporate that C-plot in which a coke-jittered Toby Young races to each competition with a dead hooker in his trunk. But this is buttoned-up Top Chef, not Real World Chefs or Hell's Kitchen and we will rarely see the chefs outside of the studio kitchen (or the nearest Whole Foods). So buckle up for a season of carefully designed Vegas-themed challenges. Expect showgirls! Poker chips! And sin-themed quickfires!
- 8/19/2009
- Movieline
Food and Vegas. You can't go wrong with that combination, can you?
With the hugely successful spin-off Masters, the regular and, some say, infinitely better Top ChefTop Chef returns tonight on Bravo with 17 brand new chef-testants battling it out for the title of Top Chef on Sin City. The contestants this season, the show's sixth, range from 25-year-old Atlanta, Georgia native to a 40-year-old Haiti-born who now lives in Florida. As usual, Tom Colicchio will still head the judging panel, alongside Gail Simmons and Toby Young, while Padma Lakshmi will return as host.
With the hugely successful spin-off Masters, the regular and, some say, infinitely better Top ChefTop Chef returns tonight on Bravo with 17 brand new chef-testants battling it out for the title of Top Chef on Sin City. The contestants this season, the show's sixth, range from 25-year-old Atlanta, Georgia native to a 40-year-old Haiti-born who now lives in Florida. As usual, Tom Colicchio will still head the judging panel, alongside Gail Simmons and Toby Young, while Padma Lakshmi will return as host.
- 8/19/2009
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
The next season of "Top Chef: Las Vegas" is sure to see some awesome contestants, incredible food and behind-the-scenes drama for everyone to talk about.
Judge Gail Simmons and Toby Young sat down to discuss the upcoming season and the awesome opportunities that filming in Sin City gave to both the 17 new chefs and the show.
When asked what will having the show in Las Vegas this year will do to affect the awareness of the culinary talent, Toby Young replied, "People who haven't been to Las Vegas in awhile still identify Las Vegas as an all you can eat buffet. When they think of food and Las Vegas, that's what they think of and that's now an outdated view. There are all of these incredible chefs and all of these amazing restaurants. There is a corner copia of culinary delights available there now." Gail explained also explained what the...
Judge Gail Simmons and Toby Young sat down to discuss the upcoming season and the awesome opportunities that filming in Sin City gave to both the 17 new chefs and the show.
When asked what will having the show in Las Vegas this year will do to affect the awareness of the culinary talent, Toby Young replied, "People who haven't been to Las Vegas in awhile still identify Las Vegas as an all you can eat buffet. When they think of food and Las Vegas, that's what they think of and that's now an outdated view. There are all of these incredible chefs and all of these amazing restaurants. There is a corner copia of culinary delights available there now." Gail explained also explained what the...
- 8/13/2009
- icelebz.com
Bravo has confirmed to us that there are two out lesbian/bi chefs among the 17 competitors on the sixth season of their popular cooking reality series, Top Chef: Las Vegas, premiering Wednesday, August 26th at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
First is Preeti Mistry, a 33-year-old Executive Chef for the Bon Appetit Management Company at Google just south of San Francisco.
Preeti's official Top Chef bio reads:
Born in London and raised in the Us, Preeti’s Indian culture, extensive international travel, classic French culinary training and access to the best local California ingredients inspire her cooking. She enjoys building intense flavors, and truly shines when working with sauces, soups and vinaigrettes. Preeti’s commitment to seasonality, and her relationship with small local farmers are at the core of her cuisine. If she were a food, she says, “I would be a green zebra tomato – extremely distinctive from all the others,...
First is Preeti Mistry, a 33-year-old Executive Chef for the Bon Appetit Management Company at Google just south of San Francisco.
Preeti's official Top Chef bio reads:
Born in London and raised in the Us, Preeti’s Indian culture, extensive international travel, classic French culinary training and access to the best local California ingredients inspire her cooking. She enjoys building intense flavors, and truly shines when working with sauces, soups and vinaigrettes. Preeti’s commitment to seasonality, and her relationship with small local farmers are at the core of her cuisine. If she were a food, she says, “I would be a green zebra tomato – extremely distinctive from all the others,...
- 7/20/2009
- by sarahwarn
- AfterEllen.com
Bravo TV has had a premiere date for its high-rating series "Top Chef". The sixth season which will take place in the Sin City, is set to kick off August 26 with 17 hopefuls. Participating contestants are larger in number compared to the first season that started with 12 only.
One by one these 17 chefs will be wilted down until one is crowned the champ. They are competing for the prestigious title, $100,000 from Glad, $100,000 of merchandise from Macy's, a feature in Food & Wine magazine and a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo.
Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Toby Young will once again serve as judges. Meanwhile guest staring appearances come from Natalie Portman, Penn & Teller, Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Daniel Boulud, Tyler Florence, Laurent Tourondel and Nigella Lawson.
Ash Fulk, 29; hometown: Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Ashley Merriman, 32; hometown: Center Sandwich, N.H.
Bryan Voltaggio, 33; hometown: Frederick, Md.
Eli Kirshtein,...
One by one these 17 chefs will be wilted down until one is crowned the champ. They are competing for the prestigious title, $100,000 from Glad, $100,000 of merchandise from Macy's, a feature in Food & Wine magazine and a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo.
Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Toby Young will once again serve as judges. Meanwhile guest staring appearances come from Natalie Portman, Penn & Teller, Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Daniel Boulud, Tyler Florence, Laurent Tourondel and Nigella Lawson.
Ash Fulk, 29; hometown: Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Ashley Merriman, 32; hometown: Center Sandwich, N.H.
Bryan Voltaggio, 33; hometown: Frederick, Md.
Eli Kirshtein,...
- 7/9/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Bravo sets 'Top Chef: Las Vegas' premiere, cast Is "Top Chef: Masters" only building your craving for a real season of the Bravo cooking competition? "Top Chef: Las Vegas" is less than two months away. Bravo announced on Wednesday (July 8) that "Top Chef: Las Vegas" will premiere on Wednesday, August. 26 at 9 p.m. Et. Returning for the series are host/judge Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio and judges Gail Simmons and Toby Young. An impressive assortment of talent is already set to appear in various contexts throughout the season, familiar faces from both the world of cooking and entertainment,...
- 7/8/2009
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Best news of the day: Bravo has announced a launch date for the sixth season of Top Chef, entitled Top Chef: Las Vegas, and it's a hell of a lot earlier than I anticipated. Cabler Bravo announced this morning that it will kick off the sixth season of the culinary competition series on Wednesday, August 26th at 10 pm Et/Pt and announced the seventeen-member cast for Top Chef: Las Vegas. Meanwhile, judges Tom Collichio, Gail Simmons, Toby Young, and host Padma Lakshmi are all on board for the Vegas-based edition and we can look forward to such guest judges as Natalie Portman, Wolfgang Puck, Daniel Boulud, Tyler Florence, Penn & Teller, and Nigella Lawson. (Yes, you read that correctly: Nigella Lawson!!!) Update: The full press release from Bravo, along with official bios for the Top Chef: Las Vegas contestants and video, can be found below. Video: Chef Introductions...
- 7/8/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
That Top Chef Masters was like a teasing little appetizer. It hardly sated our summer cook-show cravings. Thank goodness Bravo is getting ready to serve its main course. Top Chef: Las Vegas is set to kick off on Aug. 26. More importantly, each episode will have some pretty impressive garnish. Natalie Portman, Penn & Teller, Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Daniel Boulud, Tyler Florence, Laurent Tourondel and Nigella Lawson are among the guests making an appearance on the sixth season of the foodie hit. Cookbook author Padma Lakshmi returns to host, as does head judge and Craft restaurant king Tom Colicchio, Food & Wine magazine's Gail Simmons and food critic Toby Young. Now, as for the...
- 7/8/2009
- E! Online
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