Glam Slam: Third Annual Fantasy Holiday List

First Published: December 22, 2011 11:42 AM EST Credit: WireImage LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Kim Kardashian attends the NY Knicks vs New Jersey Nets game at Prudential Center on February 12, 2011 in Newark, New JerseyWhats at the top of your holiday list this year? The two things that I want money cant buy more time and more sleep! While Im fantasizing about what Id like, I may as well go for it and dream big! Here is my annual skys the limit wish list. KIM KARDASHIANS HIGH END ACCESSORIES She has more than 60 pairs of Christian Louboutin shoes and at least nine Hermes Birkins. Id be more than happy to take a few off her hands! JENNIFER LOPEZS GOLDEN GLOW Not too tan. Not too paleshe gets it just right. GISELE BUNDCHENS BODY A-maz-ing pretty much says it all. SARAH JESSICA PARKERS FASHION SENSE Ive said it a million times. I admire how she always takes chances. She pushes the envelope, but not TOO muchshes still relatable. LADY GAGAS TALENT Forget all the over-the-top clothes and makeup. Shes the real deal, she plays the piano, she can sing, she can writea Renaissance woman, shes a TRUE talent. JULIAS SMILE Nothing comes close to lighting up a room like her megawatt smile, and her laugh is totally infectious! SIMON COWELLS PAYCHECK He makes a cool 75 million a year. He divides his time between swank houses in California and London and he drives a 2.4 million dollar Bugatti. Its good to be Simon. GWYNETH PALTROWS CLOSET Obsessed with her classic with an edge style. She always looks great. KATE WINSLETS CAREER She just gets it right when it comes to her choices and shes got the serious chops to pull off anything. POSHS POSH BABY WARDROBE The designer shoes and clothing for the best dressed baby girl in town are beyond adorable. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'SNL' Boss Makes Merry With Annual Holiday Show

NY (AP) It's a holly, jolly Christmas for "Saturday Night Live" chief Lorne Michaels as he marks another holiday edition of the show he created 36 years ago, and as he welcomes back "SNL" alum Jimmy Fallon as guest host for this special yuletide bash.Boasting singer Michael Buble as its musical guest, the program airs, of course, Saturday on NBC at 11:30 p.m. EST.But on Thursday night, as Michaels welcomed a reporter to his Rockefeller Center office overlooking Studio 8H, from where "SNL" originates the clock was ticking: little more than two days until show time.In the studio, a sketch was being blocked for the cameras: Denver Broncos quarterback (and famously devout Christian) Tim Tebow confronts Jesus in the locker room."It's been rewritten since last night when we read it," Michaels said. "We read 40-some-odd sketches yesterday, and narrowed them down to the pieces over there" he pointed to a board with a tentative rundown "and that's about 15 minutes (too) long. By the time '(Weekend) Update' gets done, the show will be maybe 25 minutes long, which is what we'll go into dress rehearsal with."Dress rehearsal takes place in front of a live audience on Saturday evening, after which, according to the audience's response, the show is rearranged, cut and otherwise revamped during a crash session to whip it into shape to perform a couple hours later for the world.For Michaels, dress brings pain every week."Things you were certain would work, don't," he sighed. "Things that were really bright flatten and fall apart."So does this mean that, even after all these years of executive-producing "SNL," Michaels, the old hand at 67, is still caught by surprise at how an audience reacts?"Every week," he nodded. "I think it's why I'm still here. It's not a thing you ever master."Or do you?"Lorne has done this for 36 years, and he knows what will work," Fallon had insisted during an interview earlier in the week. "He's a pro. He's a Beatle."Fallon was an "SNL" cast member for six seasons before leaving in 2004. Then, in 2009, he was tapped by Michaels, who also executive-produces NBC's "Late Night," to fill its hosting job when Conan O'Brien graduated to "The Tonight Show."Now, for the first time, Fallon has been invited back by Michaels to his old haunts at "SNL" to serve as host."There will be holiday-themed sketches for different religions," said Fallon, who said he arrived with "about 300 ideas" on Monday. "I'm working on some impressions that I haven't done before. I've got some surprises: Some old friends might be coming back for a cameo or two. And then I want to see if can dust off my 'Update' suit."Fallon was asked if any of the special demands of "SNL" had been hard to face again."Staying up late," he instantly replied. "I don't do that anymore. I have a 9-to-5 job now with 'Late Night.' I got to work on keeping my energy up, so I'm ready to go on Saturday. Which I will be."Once he steps onstage at the top of the show, "it's going to be an adrenaline rush," he predicted. It will also be an emotional rush to be back, in a proud guest-host role on the show he has loved all his life."I just hope I don't break down and cry," he said. "My mom and dad are going to be there. I got to make sure I don't make eye contact with them. I'd be a mess, a blubbering mess.""I was down in Jimmy's dressing room a half-hour ago," Michaels said Thursday night, relaxing for a moment on a sofa in his office. "We were going over the monologue, and I could see he looked anxious about it. He's putting so much pressure on himself for this to be the greatest show of all time!"I found myself saying, 'You know, it's Thursday. It's NOT Friday. That means there's the rest of tonight and all day tomorrow for that missing piece to be written.'"It's the step-by-step, day-by-day "SNL" process, a week-long evolution that's hard to keep in mind when you're in the middle of the stampede for Saturday."For a returning cast member or past host, the very last memory of having done the show is the party," Michaels said, "and, before that, how the show felt on the air, and the goodnights when it's ending."But you don't remember that on Monday there was nothing: 'Really?! THOSE are the ideas?!' And then came the writing, and choosing which pieces, and the rewrites. It's rare that you're excited about the show on Tuesday, or even Thursday. But the process is all about it getting better."By the time Jimmy leaves here tomorrow night at 1 or 2 in the morning," Michaels said, "we'll know kind of what's looking good."It's that process that keeps Michaels challenged, and fired up, and still very much in love with the job he said he has no thoughts of ever leaving."There's no other way to do it," he declared, and smiled resolutely as Saturday night loomed. "If there was, I would have figured it out. Trust me."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Frazier Moore December 16, 2011 Lorne Michaels and Jimmy Fallon PHOTO CREDIT 42 Below Vodka/Casey Rodgers NY (AP) It's a holly, jolly Christmas for "Saturday Night Live" chief Lorne Michaels as he marks another holiday edition of the show he created 36 years ago, and as he welcomes back "SNL" alum Jimmy Fallon as guest host for this special yuletide bash.Boasting singer Michael Buble as its musical guest, the program airs, of course, Saturday on NBC at 11:30 p.m. EST.But on Thursday night, as Michaels welcomed a reporter to his Rockefeller Center office overlooking Studio 8H, from where "SNL" originates the clock was ticking: little more than two days until show time.In the studio, a sketch was being blocked for the cameras: Denver Broncos quarterback (and famously devout Christian) Tim Tebow confronts Jesus in the locker room."It's been rewritten since last night when we read it," Michaels said. "We read 40-some-odd sketches yesterday, and narrowed them down to the pieces over there" he pointed to a board with a tentative rundown "and that's about 15 minutes (too) long. By the time '(Weekend) Update' gets done, the show will be maybe 25 minutes long, which is what we'll go into dress rehearsal with."Dress rehearsal takes place in front of a live audience on Saturday evening, after which, according to the audience's response, the show is rearranged, cut and otherwise revamped during a crash session to whip it into shape to perform a couple hours later for the world.For Michaels, dress brings pain every week."Things you were certain would work, don't," he sighed. "Things that were really bright flatten and fall apart."So does this mean that, even after all these years of executive-producing "SNL," Michaels, the old hand at 67, is still caught by surprise at how an audience reacts?"Every week," he nodded. "I think it's why I'm still here. It's not a thing you ever master."Or do you?"Lorne has done this for 36 years, and he knows what will work," Fallon had insisted during an interview earlier in the week. "He's a pro. He's a Beatle."Fallon was an "SNL" cast member for six seasons before leaving in 2004. Then, in 2009, he was tapped by Michaels, who also executive-produces NBC's "Late Night," to fill its hosting job when Conan O'Brien graduated to "The Tonight Show."Now, for the first time, Fallon has been invited back by Michaels to his old haunts at "SNL" to serve as host."There will be holiday-themed sketches for different religions," said Fallon, who said he arrived with "about 300 ideas" on Monday. "I'm working on some impressions that I haven't done before. I've got some surprises: Some old friends might be coming back for a cameo or two. And then I want to see if can dust off my 'Update' suit."Fallon was asked if any of the special demands of "SNL" had been hard to face again."Staying up late," he instantly replied. "I don't do that anymore. I have a 9-to-5 job now with 'Late Night.' I got to work on keeping my energy up, so I'm ready to go on Saturday. Which I will be."Once he steps onstage at the top of the show, "it's going to be an adrenaline rush," he predicted. It will also be an emotional rush to be back, in a proud guest-host role on the show he has loved all his life."I just hope I don't break down and cry," he said. "My mom and dad are going to be there. I got to make sure I don't make eye contact with them. I'd be a mess, a blubbering mess.""I was down in Jimmy's dressing room a half-hour ago," Michaels said Thursday night, relaxing for a moment on a sofa in his office. "We were going over the monologue, and I could see he looked anxious about it. He's putting so much pressure on himself for this to be the greatest show of all time!"I found myself saying, 'You know, it's Thursday. It's NOT Friday. That means there's the rest of tonight and all day tomorrow for that missing piece to be written.'"It's the step-by-step, day-by-day "SNL" process, a week-long evolution that's hard to keep in mind when you're in the middle of the stampede for Saturday."For a returning cast member or past host, the very last memory of having done the show is the party," Michaels said, "and, before that, how the show felt on the air, and the goodnights when it's ending."But you don't remember that on Monday there was nothing: 'Really?! THOSE are the ideas?!' And then came the writing, and choosing which pieces, and the rewrites. It's rare that you're excited about the show on Tuesday, or even Thursday. But the process is all about it getting better."By the time Jimmy leaves here tomorrow night at 1 or 2 in the morning," Michaels said, "we'll know kind of what's looking good."It's that process that keeps Michaels challenged, and fired up, and still very much in love with the job he said he has no thoughts of ever leaving."There's no other way to do it," he declared, and smiled resolutely as Saturday night loomed. "If there was, I would have figured it out. Trust me."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

'Young Adult': Diablo Cody and Patton Oswalt Talk Bullying, Beauty and Charlize Theron (VIDEO)

Growing to just about 1000 screens a few days ago is among the year's best films: 'Young Adult,' a caustic black comedy from film writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman ('Juno') in regards to a former senior high school full bee (Charlize Theron) who returns to her home town to regain the married former boyfriend she used up to now. Awkward! Also, an excellent chance for Cody and Reitman to discuss beauty, high-school bullying and just how nostalgia sometimes is not the very best factor for individuals for a crutch. Recently, Cody and co-star Patton Oswalt became a member of Huffington Publish founding editor Roy Sekoff for any conversation in the La home of Arianna Huffington. The lively chat discussed Cody's inspiration for writing the script, Patton's preparation for that role, the film's provocative structure and styles, and also the harsh truth that individuals like Mavis, both men and women, do indeed "walk in our midst.Inch Browse the video below. [via Huffington Publish] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Discovery Sued By Woman Who Claims 'Weed Wars' Was Her Idea

Prashant Gupta / FX FX and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter have prevailed in a lawsuit filed by an ex-Hell's Angel biker who claimed the idea for the hit drama series was stolen.our editor recommends'Glee,' 'Sons of Anarchy' Added to Amazon Prime Instant Video Streaming Service'Sons of Anarchy' Creator Kurt Sutter on Season 4's Bold Finale and Season 5 PlansFurious 'Sons of Anarchy' Creator Tells DirecTV Viewers 'You're Getting F---ed Over'; Reveals Banned Script Chuck Zito sued FX for $5 million in June 2010 claiming he had developed a show called Nomads (later The Wild Angels) and had agents at ICM set up a pitch meeting in 2004 with FX chief John Landgraf, during which Zito says he discussed ideas for a show about a motorcycle club. FX passed on the project but later developed Sutter's Sons, which ICM packaged and which recently concluded its 4th season as a big hit for the network. "FX was obligated to pay Zito the reasonable value of his ideas, hire him to work on the series and afford him screen credit as creator," the lawsuit alleged. "Defendants breached an implied-in-fact contract with defendant." VIDEO: 'Sons of Anarchy': Ron Perlman Says Season 4 Was a Challenge At the time, Sutter took to his twitter account to blast the lawsuit, saying: "HAVING THE F***ING IDEA IS NOT THE SHOW. THERE HAVE BEEN DOZENS OF OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE TV DRAMAS PITCHED IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. NONE OF THEM HAS MADE IT TO SERIES, EXCEPT SOA. BECAUSE THEY SUCKED." STORY: 'Sons of Anarchy' Creator Kurt Sutter on Season 4's Bold Finale and Season 5 Plans Today a Los Angeles Superior Court judge agreed, ruling on summary judgment that Sons was independently created and Zito doesn't have a case. The judge relied on declarations submitted by Sutter, Landgraf and talent agent Matt Solo (now with WME), among others, showing Sutter's development process and the fact that Sons was pitched to several networks, including HBO and AMC, before arriving at FX, which bought the project in a bidding war. The judge saw no reason for the case to continue past the summary judgment phase. We've reached out to Zito's attorneys for comment. FX is represented by Scott Edelman at LA's Gibson Dunn firm and Rick Stone at Jenner & Block. Email: Matthew.Belloni@thr.com Twitter: @THRMattBelloni PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'Sons of Anarchy' Red Carpet Premiere

Jesse Jackson On Becoming An Emotional Eater

First Released: December 15, 2011 11:01 AM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Jesse Jackson talks with Access Hollywoods Rob RobinsonLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jesse Jackson is opening about her fight using the bulge, telling Access Hollywoods Rob Robinson how shes finally getting charge of her weight. Your scale will be your worst enemy, so its not really in regards to a number its about searching within the mirror and feeling good in regards to you and feeling healthy and loving what you are if you notice that individual within the mirror, new NutriSystem representative Jesse told Rob within an interview set to air tonight on Access Hollywood. Jesse may be the latest celebrity to front an appetite suppressant program, and she or he opened up as much as Rob about her struggles, acknowledging her weight fight continues to be a psychological one. I'm a psychological eater You will find people who dont eat when theyre stressed. I eat after i stress, when Im lower, when Im for the reason that condition of not within the finest space, the celebrity stated. And thats my host to comfort which i visit for your moment. I Quickly kick myself after doing the work. Beyond opening about her weight, Jesse revealed shes nervous on her niece, Paris Jackson, that has arranged her first feature film role in Lundons Bridge and also the Three Secrets an active action feature alongside Ray King, who'll provide voice-over work. Im excited on her, however it worries me a bit, Jesse told Rob. Yeah, If only that they would maybe wait. I acquired in to the business in a youthful age, Jesse, who hit happens while very young, and also the television screen around the seventies sitcom Good Occasions, told Rob. It is not a simple factor. Your childhoodyou completely lose and that i didnt reach experience that, so she's the relaxation of her adult existence to become that actress that they really wants to be and that i informed her that. Yeah, I informed her I'd take this time around to simply study really, really study the craft. To determine the entire interview with Jesse Jackson stay tuned to gain access to Hollywood on Thursday, December 15. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

A Confession (Ganjeung)

A CJ Entertainment release of a Korean Academy of Film Arts presentation of a Kafa Films production. (International sales: CJ Entertainment, Seoul.) Produced by Han Seung-sang. Executive producer, Kim Seung-joon. Directed, written by Park Soo-min.With: Gwon Hyuk-poong, Lee Joo-seung, Lee Dae-yun, Lee Haw-si.A world-class water torturer takes revenge on a religious zealot who kills his own grandma in tyro helmer Park Soo-min's intermittently intriguing critique of belief, "A Confession." Some may bristle at what appears to be Park's pointed denial of God, while others will go with the director's claim that it's blind devotion he's slapping down. Either way, he delivers a bold, very Korean take, replete with torture scenes, that positions absolute faith as either delusion or a shield for psychosis. Though unlikely to generate genuflections, "Confession" may see mild fest action. Expressionless former detective Park Duk-joon (Gwon Hyuk-poong) longs to receive an answer to his prayers, hoping the Holy Spirit might make sense of his son's death and wash away the stain of years spent sadistically interrogating suspects. Despite a certain discomfort with his past (guilt is overstating it), he's now working as a freelance torturer for a local gangster. After frequent attempts to get him to church, Mrs. Lee (Lee Haw-si) finally succeeds, but only because he notices his former boss Lim Gwang-han (Lee Dae-yun), the infamous "torture cop," is Sunday's inspirational speaker. Lim claims to have found religion in prison and now is "clean in God's eyes," though in an unwelcome conversation with Park, he says he feels no guilt for the things they did. Park comes away even more perplexed, and hopes Mrs. Lee may make things clearer. But when he finds her strangled body in the shower and realizes her grandson Yoon Kyung-ho (Lee Joo-seung) is the culprit, he abducts the fanatically religious teen, whose belief that he was God's instrument makes Park even less certain about divine will. Leave it to a Korean filmmaker to wrap a story about a sadist who gets no pleasure from his job around a disquisition on God's invisibility. Also factored in is a pointed criticism of the country's historical amnesia, which all too often blithely brushes away the period in the '80s when state torture was considered acceptable. Park gradually reveals his characters' unspeakable deeds in darkly monochrome flashbacks, unflinchingly lensing a world where faith might help get some through immediate pain but acts as an ineffective salve against lasting torment. The helmer offers no easy answers, just open questions. Thesping is strong all around, from Gwon's deadened core where an ember continues to glow, to young Lee Joo-seung's frighteningly confident psychopath and Lee Haw-si's yearning warmth. An overly obvious fantasy sequence feels out of place, but otherwise, pacing is tight and the tension doesn't let up.Camera (color, HD), Kim Bo-ram; editor, Kim Chang-joo; music, Lee Jeong-hyun; production designer, Gwon Sun-joo; costume designer, Lim Chan-young; sound, No Chun-gil, Seong Yun-yong, Lee In-gyu. Reviewed at Turin Film Festival (competing), Nov. 27, 2011. Running time: 96 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

IM Global Nabs Thriller Script 'Kidnap'

Columbia Pictures A lot of geek talk this week has been about The Dark Knight Rises footage. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows had its premiere, grabbing some spotlight and getting Robert Downey Jr. talking about The Avengers and Iron Man 3.our editor recommends'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Gets a 2014 Release DateThe Amazing Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Get Into Character (Photos)'The Amazing Spider-Man' Teaser Trailer Released (Video) So some of us have forgotten that other superhero movies are coming out. Like The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Well, Columbia is here to remind us and yesterday quietly slid out a new teaser poster for the movie, which opens July 3, 2012. The poster, which debuted on Superhero Hype, is simple but effective, but more importantly, is consistent with comics iconography of having shadows reveal the true soul or identity or whatever the artists wants of a character. It's an effect used from Batman comics to Spider-Man comics and it's used here to show that the man crawling up the stone wall is ... Spider-Man. And it also makes a point to stand apart from the Sam Raimi-directed movies, whose posters slickly had the Arach-Knight stuck or perched to a glass skyscraper. Check it out ... PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'The Amazing Spider-Man': Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Appear in New Production Photos Andrew Garfield Emma Stone Amazing Spider-Man

Anderson Cooper, Miley Cyrus, J.R. Martinez Salute CNN Heroes at Star-Studded Tribute

Peter Iovino/The Weinstein Co. The Artist and the entire Harry Potter film series were voted special awards as the American Film Institute chose its official selections for AFI Awards on Sunday.our editor recommends'The Artist's' Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo to Receive the Santa Barbara Film Festival's Cinema Vanguard AwardAFI Fest Hands Out Audience Awards to 'With Every Heartbeat,' 'Bullhead' The AFI Awards, which focus on American features, cited ten movies of the year: Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, Hugo, J. Edgar, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and War Horse. For TV programs of the year, it selected Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Homeland, Justified, Louie, Modern Family and Parks and Recreation. The selections were made by two juries, one for film and one for television. They were chaired by producers and AFI board of trustees vice chairs Tom Pollock, for movies, and Richard Frank, for TV, and included Whoopi Goldberg, film historian Leonard Maltin, uniiversity professors, critics and members of the AFI board of trustees. The creative ensembles behind the chosen film and TV shows will be honored at an invitation-only luncheon on Jan. 13 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Harry Potter Oscars 2007 The Artist

Verizon Plans To Defend Myself Against Netflix With Web Service: Reuters

Verizon Communications intends to launch a film-and-TV streaming service that will contend with Netflix, cable television systems and potentially Amazon . com, Reuters reported Tuesday. Inside a strategy that will result in the service open to 85 million US homes, Verizon is speaking with prospective programming partners about presenting the service outdoors marketplaces in which the phone company offers its broadband and television package referred to as FiOs — which presently has 5 million customers. Verizon’s cool product might be folded out the coming year, based on among the sources Reuters reported. The programming package could be limited in scope having a concentrate on movies much like Liberty Media’s Starz Play and Viacom’s Epix. It might likewise incorporate children’s programming from Disney or Viacom. The second’s Boss Phillipe Dauman stated in a UBS conference now Viacom wold be prepared to barter along with other broadband services. Epix’s exclusive online-streaming contract with Netflix for movies from Vital Lionsgate and MGM expired next September. News concerning the new streaming service follows within the wake of sister company Verizon Wireless Carrier’ http://world wide web.deadline.com/2011/12/verizon-concurs-to-pay-3-6b-for-cable-controlled-wireless-spectrum/" >plans to re-sell cable television service for Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Corporation and Vibrant House Systems in return for having to pay $3.6 billion towards the cable companies for spectrum.