Glee Casting Call For Sarah Palin Type Character - Tea Party and Glee?

The Fox TV show Glee has placed a casting call for a "Sarah Palin type character" for a role on the hit show.
Are they ready to now mock the Tea Party?
The character is named Tammy Jean, and described as a "middle-aged recent Tea Party candidate and home schooler — a Sarah Palin type."
However, show creator Ryan Murphy says he is not bringing Tammy Jean / Sarah Palin on the show to mock and make fun of, but to be inclusive.
“We’ve taken a couple jabs at the right wing this year,” Murphy told TV Guide last June.
“So what I want to do with this character is have someone who Christian kids and parents can recognize and say, ‘Oh, look — I’m represented there, too!’ If we’re trying to form a world of inclusiveness, we’ve got to include that point of view as well.”
“Pat me on the back,” Ryan Murphy says, “after two seasons, we’re not going to be bigots anymore!”

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Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken

Liam Neeson starts as Dr. Martin Harris in Unknown

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You're Dr. Martin Harris, a botany professor at an American university, and you've come with your wife Liz to Berlin for a biotechnology conference. As she checks into the hotel, you realize you left your briefcase at the airport and hail a taxi, telling the blonde driver to step on it. An accident sends the cab careering off a bridge and into a river, from which the driver pulls you out before vanishing. A few days later you awake from a coma and bolt from the hospital to join Liz at the conference. Funny — she doesn't seem to recognize you. And the man standing next to her, she says, is Dr. Martin Harris.

Liam Neeson plays the botanist, January Jones the wife, Diane Kruger the cabbie and Aidan Quinn the other Martin in Unknown, a standard-issue conspiracy thriller that hopes to be mistaken for a Jason Bourne film — or, better yet, a sequel of sorts to Neeson's 2009 hit Taken. The new film shifts the venue from France to Germany, and it takes a while to explain why a brainy professor would have the same killer skills (bare-knuckle fighting, stunt-car driving) as Neeson's CIA operative in Taken.

Other differences: Unknown, directed with a kind of jittery glumness by Spain's Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan), has a slightly higher IQ and a way-knottier plot. Though the result is half-cocked Hitchcock and sub-Bourne, Unknown tantalizes by the breadth of the earlier, better pictures it imitates, which speaks both to its ambitions and its limitations.

The plot, which Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell adapted from a novel by Didier Van Cauwelaert, has familiar action-film mainsprings: the hero must rush to unlock some awful secret even as he tries to elude the killers who want to protect it. That involves desperate car chases through crowded streets, where Neeson and Kruger risk a thousand innocent Berliners' lives to save their own. Since Joel Silver (the Lethal Weapon series) is one of the producers, Unknown follows Silver's Law of the Impossibly Nimble Pedestrian: cars maneuver madly down sidewalks and everyone gets safely out of the way. Also obeyed is the Corollary of the Ruthless But Stupid Villain: bad guys chase and often catch up with Neeson's car, firing loads of ammo, but never think to shoot out one of its tires. Then there's the Rule of One Too Many Coincidences. It already beggars belief that the glorious Rhinemaiden Kruger would be cast as an illegal immigrant (she's supposed to be Bosnian); but how come she drove Neeson and herself off the bridge? Is that part of some grand nefarious scheme, or an out-of-the-blue case of bad luck?
Ignore the plot's dabbling in corporate espionage and find, in the movie's gnarled heart, the old existential film-noir poser: Who am I? Having left his passport in his briefcase (and his briefcase at the airport), Martin cannot prove his identity to Berlin's skeptical cops and security guards. And with only selective memories of his life before the crash, he's not totally sure who he is either. When he tries to convince the conference's keynote speaker that he's Martin, by telling him intimate parts of his life, the other Martin rattles off the same anecdotes simultaneously. Our conflicted hero is deep into the identity crisis that afflicted so many late-'40s noir heroes and which, to soldiers back from the battlefield, served as Hollywood's metaphor for the post-traumatic stress syndrome (shell shock, they called it then) that cast haunted shadows over sunny postwar America. For GIs who came home traumatized, film noir was both a validation of their anxieties and B-movie therapy to cure it.

We're not giving too much away — though, to be prudent, we'll slap a SPOLIER ALERT on this paragraph — by noting Unknown's affinities to Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest, in which an ordinary advertising executive, played by Cary Grant, is mistaken by international spies for a shadowy government agent named George Kaplan; to save his life he must assume Kaplan's identity and woo the spy leader's girl friend (Eva Marie Saint, whose slim, blond, beckoning air of mystery and hidden agenda Jones duplicates here). Unknown is also indebted, as so many modern thrillers and fantasies are, to the speculative fiction of Philip K. Dick — all those cyborgs who think they're human — and to the 1950 British film So Long at the Fair, where a young man disappears during the 1889 Paris Exposition and his sister (Jean Simmons) can't convince anyone he ever existed.

If the movie's who-am-I? angle has a little emotional resonance, that's thanks to Neeson. A latecomer to stardom, the Irish actor was 40 when he wowed Broadway as the hunky Swede in a revival of Anna Christie (Neeson's costar was his future wife, the late Natasha Richardson) and Steven Spielberg cast him as the star of Schindler's List. Neeson came fully matured to the movie public, and now, at 58, projects a sense of decency and a nagging conscience, an awareness that the world is a dangerous place and a weary reluctance to use action-hero fisticuffs. Unlike Harrison Ford, who usually plays a grouch with muscles, Neeson suggests the intellect of someone who might have stayed awake in college classes; he's as plausible as an Ivy League scientist as he is a thug for hire.

Well, everything is like a lot of things that came before, and Unknown doesn't add much savor to the stew. But it is the rare conspiracy thriller that ripens as the villains' organization and motives are gradually revealed. One important character shows up halfway through the movie, another very near the end. The first is Ernst Jürgen, who uses his old contacts from the Stasi, the East German secret police, to locate some pieces of Martin's identikit. Then Rodney Cole, the head of Martin's department back in the States, appears to solve the rest of the puzzle.

The deadly confrontation between these two imposing gents marks the film's most absorbing faceoff — largely because Cole is played by veteran sinister smoothie Frank Langella, and Jürgen by long-ago Euro art-film heartthrob Bruno Ganz. Admirers of the new German cinema will be pleased to spot, among the supporting cast, Sebastian Koch from The Lives of Others, Karl Markovics from The Counterfeiters, Eva Löbau from Requiem and Rainer Bock from The White Ribbon. The last two were also in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Unknown isn't in the class of any of these films, but it does rise above Taken's generic revenge story to the level of marginally satisfying winter diversion. However lethargic it is in sections, it has the kernel of a superior thriller. In your imaginary movie studio, you might almost greenlight a remake. Same cast, different director.
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The Most Iconic Kisses of All Time

What's in a kiss? These smooching milestones will inspire you to pucker up.

A.D. 300: The original Breathalyzer 
Roman husbands kissed their wives when they came home from work, not as an ancient version of "Hi, honey; I'm home" but rather to determine whether the missus had been hitting the bottle during the day.

1590s: Romeo Dies with a Kiss
The first known performance of Shakespeare's famous play concludes with the lip-locked demise of two star-crossed lovers.

1763: Kissing gets X-ed 
Kissing is first symbolized by the letter x, as in xoxo.

1896: First Movie Kiss 
The first on-screen smooch happened between John Rice and May Irwin in the movie The Kiss. This less-than-a-minute film was shown during the closing scene of the Broadway play The Widow Jones and caused outrage at the time.

1907: Invention of the Hershey's Kiss 
It's rumored that the candy was named after the sound the machine made as it dropped the chocolate onto the conveyor belt.

1923: The French Kiss Catches On 
When British and American women got wind of this sensual kissing style, they soon dubbed it the "French kiss," intended as a slander toward their oversexed European sisters. But it didn't take them long to realize that French women were on to something good.

1937: Prince Charming Awakens Snow White
Take one princess who's the fairest in the land plus one Prince Charming, and you have the classic Disney love story.

1945: Life Magazine Sweeps Us off Our Feet 
Its famous cover photo of a sailor kissing a nurse on the street became an iconic image of true romance.

1990: Most Kisses per Minute
Alfred Wolfram kissed 8,001 people in eight hours (that's more than 16 people a minute!) at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival.

2004: The World's Longest Kiss 
A couple in Italy, Andrea Sarti and Anna Chen, set the record on Valentine's Day after locking lips for 31 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds. They beat the record held by Americans Rich Langley and Louisa Almedovar, who kissed for 30 hours and 59 minutes in 2001. Andrea required oxygen treatment after the kiss.

You Kiss Your Guy — Right Now! 
Make a little history of your own.

Sharp Tongue Girls

 Some beautiful girls with extra ordinary long tongue.

Spider-Man Musical Given Critical Mauling

Troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been slated by critics in the first major press reviews a month ahead of opening.

Spider-Man Musical Given Critical Mauling

"Spider-Man is... the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway," wrote Ben Brantley in the New York Times. "It may also rank among the worst."

The Washington Post branded the show a "stinker", while the Hollywood Reporter called it a "web-slinging folly".
The show, currently in preview, will have its official opening on 15 March.

Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring music by Bono and The Edge of U2, the musical has been plagued with technical problems and injuries to its cast.

The most serious came on 20 December when cast member Christopher Tierney fell 30 feet during the performance, suffering a skull fracture and cracked vertebrae.

In the New York Times, Brantley admitted he was breaking a traditional embargo but said he had decided to see the show around the time it was supposed to have opened prior to the most recent postponement.

"From what I saw on Saturday night, Spider-Man is so grievously broken in every respect that it is beyond repair," he wrote.His sentiments were echoed by the Washington Post's Peter Marks, who called it "a shrill, insipid mess" with a "convoluted" story.The score, he continued, was "devoid of personality" in a show whose "optimal audience might be non-English-speaking".

The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney called it "an ungainly mess of a show that smacks of out-of-control auteurial arrogance".

"This pile-on by the critics is a huge disappointment," said Spider-Man's spokesman Rick Miramontez, adding that "changes are still being made" to the $65 million (£40.4 million) production.

"Any review that runs before the show is frozen is totally invalid," he continued.Despite the barrage of negative publicity, the show is selling out at New York's 1,928-seat Foxwoods Theatre.

Taymor's previous shows include the musical adaptation of Disney film The Lion King. Her film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest opens in the UK next month.
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Which Big Movies Should You See

'127 Hours'

Rated: R

Release Date:

Nov. 5, 2010

Starring:

James Franco

Directed by:

Danny Boyle

'Biutiful'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 29, 2010 (limited)
Starring:
Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Diaryatou Daff, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye, Lui Jin
Directed by:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
'Black Swan'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 3, 2010 (limited)
Starring:
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Directed by:
Darren Aronofsky
'Blue Valentine'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 31, 2010
Starring:
Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett
Directed by:
Derek Cianfrance
'Burlesque'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Nov. 24, 2010
Starring:
Christina Aguilera, Kristin Bell, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane, Cher, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher
Directed by:
Steven Antin
'The Cabin in the Woods'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Jan. 14, 2011
Starring:
Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth
Directed by:
Drew Goddard 
'For Colored Girls'

Rated: NR

Release Date:

Nov. 5, 2010

Starring:

Thandie Newton, Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Macy Gray

Directed by:

Tyler Perry

'The Company Men'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 10, 2010
Starring:
Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson
Directed by:
John Wells
'Country Strong'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 22, 2010
Starring:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester
Directed by:
Shana Feste 

'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 10, 2010
Starring:
Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Liam Neeson, Tilda Swinton
Directed by:
Michael Apted
'The Debt'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 29, 2010
Starring:
Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jesper Christensen, Marton Csokas, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson
Directed by:
John Madden
'The Dilemma'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Jan. 14, 2011
Starring:
Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, Queen Latifah
Directed by:
Ron Howard
'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark'

Rated: R

Release Date:

Jan. 21, 2011

Starring:

Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson

Directed by:

Troy Nixey

'Due Date'

Rated: R

Release Date:

Nov. 5, 2010

Starring:

Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Monaghan

Directed by:

Todd Phillips

 'Fair Game'

Rated: PG13

Release Date:

Nov. 5, 2010 (limited)

Starring:

Naomi Watts, Sean Penn

Directed by:

Doug Liman

 'Faster'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Nov. 24, 2010
Starring:
Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, Tom Berenger
Directed by:
George Tillman Jr.
'The Fighter'

'The Fighter'
Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 10, 2010
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee
Directed by:
David O. Russell
Features:
Marlon Brando

'Little Fockers'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 22, 2010
Starring:
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel, Teri Polo, Barbra Streisand
Directed by:
Paul Weitz
'True Grit'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 22, 2010
Starring:
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin
Directed by:
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
'Gulliver's Travels'

Rated: NR

Release Date:

Dec. 25, 2010

Starring:

Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet

Directed by:

Rob Letterman

'The Green Hornet'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Jan. 14, 2011
Starring:
Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward Furlong, Tom Wilkinson
Directed by:
Michel Gondry
'How Do You Know'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 17, 2010
Starring:
Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Jack Nicholson
Directed by:
James L. Brooks
'The King's Speech'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Nov. 26, 2010
Starring:
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Anthony Andrews, Jennifer Ehle
Directed by:
Tom Hooper
'Love and Other Drugs'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Nov. 24, 2010
Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt
Directed by:
Edward Zwick
'The Mechanic'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Jan. 28, 2011
Starring:
Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Christa Campbell
Directed by:
Simon West 
'Megamind'

Rated: PG
Release Date:
Nov. 5, 2010
Starring:
Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill
Directed by:
Tom McGrath
'Morning Glory'

Rated: PG13
Release Date:
Nov. 12, 2010
Starring:
Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Patrick Wilson, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, 50 Cent
Directed by:
Roger Michell
'The Next Three Days'

Rated: PG13
Release Date:
Nov. 19, 2010
Starring:
Russell Crowe, Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy
Directed by:
Paul Haggis
'Night Catches Us'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 3, 2010 (limited)
Starring:
Anthony Mackie, Jamie Hector, Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce
Directed by:
Tanya Hamilton
'I Love You Phillip Morris'

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 3, 2010 (limited)
Starring:
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann
Directed by:
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1'

Rated: PG13
Release Date:
Nov. 19, 2010
Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Grint, Ciarán Hinds, et al.
Directed by:
David Yates
'Restless'

Rated: PG13

Release Date:

Jan. 28, 2011

Starring:

Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams

Directed by:

Gus Van Sant

'The Rite'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Jan. 28, 2011
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones
Directed by:
Mikael Hafstrom
'Skyline'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Nov. 12, 2010
Starring:
Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel, Scottie Thompson
Directed by:
Colin and Greg Strause
'Somewhere'

 

Rated: R
Release Date:
Dec. 22, 2010
Starring:
Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning
Directed by:
Sofia Coppola

'Tangled'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Nov. 24, 2010
Starring:
Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Ron Perlman, Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, M.C. Gainey, Paul F. Tompkins
Directed by:
Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
'The Tempest'

Rated: PG13
Release Date:
Dec. 10, 2010
Starring:
Helen Mirren, Russell Brand, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw, Felicity Jones
Directed by:
Julie Taymor

'The Tourist'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 10, 2010
Starring:
Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Timothy Dalton
Directed by:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
'Tron: Legacy'

Rated: NR

Release Date:

Dec. 17, 2010

Starring:

Jeff Bridges, James Frain, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Garrett Hedlund

Directed by:

Joseph Kosinski

'Unstoppable'

Rated: PG13

Release Date:

Nov. 12, 2010

Starring:

Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson

Directed by:

Tony Scott

'The Warrior's Way'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 3, 2010
Starring:
Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston, Tony Cox
Directed by:
Sngmoo Lee
'Yogi Bear'

Rated: NR
Release Date:
Dec. 17, 2010
Starring:
Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Tom Cavanagh, Anna Faris, Andy Daly
Directed by:
Eric Brevig