Steve Jobs' Sister Recalls the Apple Co-Founder's Final Words

Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs' sister, accomplished novelist and UCLA professor, gave a moving eulogy for the Apple co-founder at the memorial service held on Oct. 16 at the Memorial Church of Stanford University, which the NY Times posted in full.our editor recommends'60 Minutes' Interview Reveals Steve Jobs' Little Known Bad Side (Video)Aaron Sorkin Says Steve Jobs Asked Him to Write a Pixar Movie'iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World': Preview the Discovery Documentary (Video)5 Revelations From Steve Jobs' BiographyA Studio Chief Pens Revealing First-Person Steve Jobs RemembranceApple After Steve Jobs' Death: Future of Board in Focus "I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother," Simpson said. At the time (1985, to be more exact), Simpson was living in NY, attempting to write her first novel and working at a small magazine. When an attorney called her notifying her that they had found her brother. Simpson and her colleagues bet that it was John Travolta. "I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James -- someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying," she said. PHOTOS: Steve Jobs: 10 Memorable Milestones of the Apple Co-Founder's Career The two "took a long walk -- something, it happened, that we both liked to do. I don't remember much of what we said that first day, only that he felt like someone I'd pick to be a friend. He explained that he worked in computers," Simpson recalled. Simpson said there were several things she learned from Jobs. "Steve worked at what he loved. He worked really hard. Every day. ... He was the opposite of absent-minded," she noted. "He was never embarrassed about working hard, even if the results were failures." PHOTOS: Apple Products in TV and Movies She recalled the time he was first ousted from Apple. "He told me about a dinner at which 500 Silicon Valley leaders met the then-sitting president. Steve hadn't been invited," Simpson said. "He was hurt but he still went to work at Next. Every single day." Simpson said that Jobs was "remarkably loyal" and that "he'd order 10 or 100" if he liked a shirt. She revealed his philosophy on aesthetics: "Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later." PHOTOS: Steve Jobs' Death: How the Magazines Covered She recalled Jobs' fascination with love: "Whenever he saw a man he thought a woman might find dashing, he called out, 'Hey are you single? Do you wanna come to dinner with my sister?" Simpson also recalled how Jobs was "a physical dad" with his children. And though he saw success at an incredibly young age, Simpson said "he felt that had isolated him." She noted the normalcy he still craved after earning millions, picking her up from the airport in his jeans. Jobs' sister also reminisced about the time it took for the Jobs family to remodel the kitchen, which took half the time to finish at the Pixar building. Simpson revealed that Jobs said that had he "grown up differently, he might have become a mathematician," studying paintings by Mark Rothko. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths But Jobs' cancer quickly took a toll on his life. "Eventually, even ordinary pleasures, like a good peach, no longer appealed to him," Simpson recalled. She talked about when Jobs learned how to walk again after his liver transplant -- with a chair. Jobs went through 67 different nurses before finding the three who he stayed with until the end. Still, Jobs continued to sketch ideas for other potential products. "What I learned from my brother's death was that character is essential: What he was, was how he died. Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us," Simpson said of Jobs' last day. "This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn't happen to Steve, he achieved it," Simpson said, recalling the Tuesday phone conversation she had with Jobs, during which he begged her to go to the Palo Alto hospital he was in. "He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn't be able to be old together as we'd always planned, that he was going to a better place." His entire family was by his bedside in his final hours of his life. The doctor had given Jobs "a 50/50 chance of making it through the nght," which he made through. Before Jobs spoke his last words, he "looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, then over their shoulders past them." What were Jobs' final words? "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow," Simpson recalled. Related Topics Obituaries Steve Jobs

NBC to air 'Clios' special

NBC will air an hourlong special "The Clios: World's Best Advertisements" later this fall. Created by Juma Entertainment and located by "Curb Your Enthusiasm" thesp JB Smoove, spesh will concentrate on a lot more than 50 of the very famous advertisements and promotional initiatives from all over the world. Show is professional created by Robert C. Horowitz and Lewis Fenton. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Large Ford grant for Public

Everyone Theater has acquired a $2 million grant within the Ford Foundation to put toward the ongoing restoration in the legit company's downtown home, now on course being carried out by summer season 2012. Grant was introduced Wednesday evening inside a Ford Foundation screening of doc "Joe Papp in Fave Functions," in regards to the Public's founder. The Public's new lobby will probably be named following a foundation, a philanthropic grantmaker. The Ford gold gold coin pushes the nonprofit theater's fund-raising tally to nearly $38 million, just shy in the $40 million total price in the building update. Ford's chunk of change might be the 2nd-greatest being reserved for your project, behind the $28 million provided through the capital of scotland - NY. Extensive repairs in the Public, which began a year ago, includes an extended lobby, a refurbished entrance, extended lavatories and new Ac systems. Programming has ongoing to become situated inside the building throughout restoration, with current options including "The Agony as well as the Ecstasty of Jobs,Inch "Love's Labors Lost" together with a output of "King Lear" toplined by Mike Waterston. Public needs to fete the restoration getting a reopening in fall 2012. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Jay Leno Jokes About Accidents at Motorcycle Rally Before Two Die

Jay Leno put his foot in his mouth while serving as the grand marshall for the Love Ride motorcycle event in Glendale over the weekend.our editor recommends'Daily Show with Jon Stewart' Beats Jay Leno' in Q2 Demo Ratings'Jay Leno Show' announces first week guests According to the Los Angeles Times, the Tonight Show host said, "Every year, [the organizer] says, 'Drive safe. I'm gonna say, 'Don't drive safe.' I wanna see somebody go down. So it'll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikes go down. ... Get drunk, fall off the road. We've all become too damn polite. ... We haven't had one incident." PHOTOS: 10 TV Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' Just an hour later, Romarino Zeri, 51, of Los Angeles and Julie Cameron, 38, of Venice were killed when their motorcycle hit a truck on the Golden State Freeway in Pacoima, officials told the Times. They were ran over by the big rig's rear tires and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, California Highway Patrol Officer José Barrios told the Glendale News-Press. PHOTOS: Preview NBC's Fall Key Art for 'Playboy Club,' 'Grimm,' 'Whitney,' More Reps for NBC-Universal and Leno did not respond to the Times after multiple requests for comments. One Love Ride participant wrote on Twitter of Leno's comments before the event kicked off, "I wish he had not joked about that, if someone does go down, he is going to feel really bad for his comments." Related Topics Jay Leno

Showtime Wooing Men, to Develop Gambler, Executioner, Ben Silverman Projects (Exclusive)

If the latest batch of development projects is an indication, David Nevins is taking Showtime in a decidedly different direction. A year and a half into his tenure as entertainment chief, the former producer continues to add projects that not only feature male characters but also look to appeal to male viewers.our editor recommendsExecutive Suite: David Nevins It's a shift in focus from the network's Nurse Jackie, The Big C, Weeds and United States of Tara, all part of predecessor Bob Greenblatt's roster of female-skewing shows about middle-aged female antiheroes. Here's an exclusive first look at six projects Showtime has in development: PHOTOS: 10 Broadcast and Cable TV Show Most Watched By Men The Executioner: Based on the true story of Anatole Deibler, the official Executioner of Paris in the late 1800s and a celebrity in his own right. The hourlong drama takes a dark look at a conflicted man who is forced to mete out Old World justice in an increasingly modern age while grappling with death and his own infamy. Tim Sexton is attached to write and executive produce the project from Grady Twins and Warner Horizon, with Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Dawn Parouse (Prison Break) on board as non-writing executive producers. Walking Through Walls: Based on a memoir by Philip Smith about his relationship with his father, a psychic healer. The half-hour from Groundswell is being executive produced and written by Nicholas Wootton (Chuck, Law & Order, NYPD Blue), with Michael London and Smith as a non-writing executive producer and co-executive producer, respectively. STORY: The Secret World of Hollywood Poker Untitled Nick Cassavetes Project: The hourlong drama is based on the life of Benny Binion, a well-known casino owner, mobster, poker player and convicted felon. An avid poker player himself, Cassavetes (The Notebook, My Sister's Keeper) is attached to write, direct and executive produce. Untitled Ben Silverman Project: A half-hour comedy about a family man who happens to be the editor of a racy men's magazine. Playboy editor Jimmy Jellinek will serve as an executive producer alongside Silverman on the project from Silverman's Electus. Blackout: A half-hour comedy that explores race relations through the eyes of a repressed middle-class white woman and her alter ego, a black man. John Gordillo and Reginald Hunter are attached as writers and executive producers, with Friends' Marta Kauffman and Michael Rizzo as non-writing EPs. Chess: Showing that Nevins hasn't abandoned women, he has a drama about a mafia wife who helps the FBI get rid of her husband so she can take over his business. The Bad Hat Harry production will count Jim Manos as a writer and executive producer, with Bryan Singer and Matthew Williams on board as non-writing executive producers. Related Topics Showtime Bryan Singer David Nevins

Morning Grind: Eric Bana Will Have Elvis in New Movie

Place your preferred Elvis song lyric here. (Sample: "All shook up!") Variety reviews that Eric Bana will have The King within the new indie film 'Elvis & Nixon,' concerning the 1970 meeting between Presley and Leader Richard Nixon. Danny Huston is within foretells take part in the leader for author/director Cary Elwes, who's making his behind-the-camera debut. The Elvis/Nixon summit -- and it is famous photo taking proof -- remains a cultural oddity even today the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum still will get more demands for that pic than every other Nixon still. The happy couple met in 1970 in the behest of Presley, who desired to offer his services towards the Fbi. This is the 2nd project to directly tackle the meeting: a 1997 film known as 'Elvis Meets Nixon' detailed exactly the same story. [Variety] 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Title of Shadows' has not even emerge yet, but that does not mean you should not get excited for the following follow up. Deadline reviews Warner Bros. has hired Came Pearce to script the 3rd installment from the franchise. Pearce may be the current blockbuster-film writer flavor from the month: additionally to doing a bit of touch-ups around the Guillermo del Toro-directed 'Pacific Rim,' he's also scripting 'Iron Guy 3.' [Deadline] In the rumor mill: Twitch reviews that Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter happen to be offered roles within the Warner Bros. reboot of 'Akira.' Oldman would play Colonel, with Carter handling Lady Miyako. It seems Garret Hedlund remains the leader for Kaneda. Not sure yet on if the character names can change to suit the locale switch from Neo Tokyo, japan to New Manhattan. [Twitch] When movies go TV: 'Game of Thrones' star Package Harington and 'The Killing' star Joel Kinnaman would be the top options to guide 'Arthur and Lancelot' for Warner Bros. It's unclear which actor will have which role. [THR/Warmth Vision] Academy Award-winning composer Hendes Zimmer won't go into the Oscar race this season. Zimmer -- who authored the scores for 'Rango,' 'Kung Fu Panda 2,' 'Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tide' and also the approaching 'Sherlock Holmes follow up, that they received an Oscar nomination for following the first film -- stated he wants to see the process this season. "The moment you receive nominated, and that i don't care what you are - you will find certainly people of better character than me - everything goes crazy," he stated to THR. "You receive the telephone call at five o'clock and after you need to perform the interviews after which perform the parties and meet each one of these people and do each one of these things. It's troublesome, and i believe it might be more interesting to see it for any year. It will worry me that we must stay relevant. Occasions are altering, very quickly. Usually things i do when situations are altering quickly is stand still and observe." Zimmer is presently focusing on his score for 'The Dark Dark night Increases.' [THR] What's going on with 'The Dark Tower'? A great deal, based on producer John Grazer. "We found a method to eliminate $45 million from the budget without altering the scope and really passing on a great ending," Grazer stated to indieWIRE. "Within the $140 million draft, the ending wasn't as satisfying. Now, we have got $45 million, $50 million taken care of along with a really satisfying ending. It's gonna get made." The variation of Stephen King's epic hit many a financial snag captured prior to being came by Universal. Ron Howard would still most probably direct if the ever will get off the floor, though whether star Javier Bardem would still appear -- and if the story could be told over three films and 2 television series, as initially planned -- remains to appear. [indieWIRE/The Playlist] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Start Searching: Rose McGowan, Patrick John Flueger in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' (Photos)

"True!-nervous-very, very nervous I had been and am why will you state that i am mad?" opens Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Tell Tale Heart. The haunting tale from the guy who killings a vintage guy, after which it hides his body under his floormats only to be driven insane with the appear of his still-beating heart remains modified into an approaching film starring Patrick John Flueger, Rose McGowan and Peter Bogdanovich.our editor recommendsRose McGowan to Star in Romantic Thriller 'Napa'Scream Honours: Stars Celebrate the Frightening (Videos) Flueger, most recently seen in Paramount's Footloose, is playing charge role, and joining him since the female lead is McGowan, recognized for her roles in Grindhouse, Scream, Jawbreaker, The Black Dahlia and Charmed. A merchant account of romance remains put in Poe's dark story for your film adaptation. Bogdanovich (director of Paper Moon, The Ultimate Picture Show) may have the primary one-eyed some guy. VIDEOS: Scream Honours: Stars Celebrate the Frightening Director John La Tier's adaptation is presently filming in New Orleans. Also joining the cast is Jacob Vargas (Demon, Traffic, Jarhead), Damon Whitaker (Ghost Dog: The obvious method of the Samurai), and Kirk Fox (Negelecting Sarah Marshall). The film continues to be produced by Daniel Zirilli through Popart Film Factory & Leverage Entertainment. Flueger is represented by UTA & Nancy Kremer Management, McGowan with the Gersh Agency & MPE, Bogdanovich by Abrams Artists Agency & MPE, and Zirilli is handled by Zero Gravity. View more exclusive start searching photos below: Above: Patrick John Flueger. Below: Patrick John Flueger and Rose McGowan. Related Subjects Rose McGowan

Will Ferrell Granted Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Will Ferrell Granted Mark Twain Prize for American Humor By Jane Kellogg October 24, 2011 Photo by Blake Gardner Will Ferrell Will Ferrell is at Washington on Sunday: the funnyman reaches The Kennedy Center in D.C. accepting the objective Twain Prize for American Humor.The first sort "SNL" castmate and "Funny or Die" co-creator wasn't be the sole real comedian in your home: Erection dysfunction Asner ("Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant," "Up"), Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Adam McKay (co-founding father of "Funny or Die" with Ferrell and Chris Henchy), Conan O'Brien, John C. Reilly, Paul Rudd, and former "SNL" costar Molly Shannon all spoke in case. The pop-punk band Eco-friendly Day also completed.The evening paid out tribute for the actor, author, and producer, 44, who rose up comedy totem pole when he first grew to become an associate of "Saturday Evening Live" in 1995. Throughout his 7-year regular stint on NBC, Ferrell created such memorable roles as Leader George W. Rose rose bush, Alex Trebek, Harray Caray, "Inside the Stars Studio" host James Lipton, Jesse Reno, Spartan cheerleader Craig Buchanan, and also the evening club-going Steve Butabi, who visited the silver screen in 1998's "A Evening within the Roxbury." More youthful crowd came out in many films throughout today, including "Austin Forces," "Celebrity," "Jay and Quiet Bob Strike Back," and "Zoolander."After departing "SNL" in 2002, Ferrell shown he could stand alone round the giant screen with "Old-fashionedInch in 2003, then "Elf" the identical year. He ongoing to become box office success with "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Starsky & Hutch," and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ough Bobby," and voiced the title character in DreamWorks Animation's "Megamind." This really is really the 14th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Previous individuals who win includeRichard Pryor (1998), Jonathan Winters (1999), Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004), Steve Martin (2005), Neil Simon (2006), Billy Very (2007), George Carlin (2008), Bill Cosby (2009), and Tina Fey (2010).The show was recorded for just about any 90-minute special airing Halloween evening next Monday, October 31, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS. The Hollywood Reporter Will Ferrell Granted Mark Twain Prize for American Humor By Jane Kellogg October 24, 2011 Will Ferrell PHOTO CREDIT Blake Gardner Will Ferrell reaches Washington on Sunday: the funnyman reaches The Kennedy Center in D.C. accepting the aim Twain Prize for American Humor.The first sort "SNL" castmate and "Funny or Die" co-creator wasn't function as the sole comedian in your home: Erection dysfunction Asner ("Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant," "Up"), Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Adam McKay (co-founding father of "Funny or Die" with Ferrell and Chris Henchy), Conan O'Brien, John C. Reilly, Paul Rudd, and former "SNL" costar Molly Shannon all spoke in case. The pop-punk band Eco-friendly Day also completed.The evening paid out tribute for the actor, author, and producer, 44, who rose up comedy totem pole when he first grew to become an associate of "Saturday Evening Live" in 1995. Throughout his 7-year regular stint on NBC, Ferrell created such memorable roles as Leader George W. Rose rose bush, Alex Trebek, Harray Caray, "Inside the Stars Studio" host James Lipton, Jesse Reno, Spartan cheerleader Craig Buchanan, as well as the evening club-going Steve Butabi, who visited the silver screen in 1998's "A Evening within the Roxbury." More youthful crowd came out in many films throughout today, including "Austin Forces," "Celebrity," "Jay and Quiet Bob Strike Back," and "Zoolander."After departing "SNL" in 2002, Ferrell shown he could stand alone round the giant screen with "Old-fashionedInch in 2003, then "Elf" the identical year. He ongoing to become box office success with "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Starsky & Hutch," and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ough Bobby," and voiced the title character in DreamWorks Animation's "Megamind." This really is really the 14th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Previous individuals who win includeRichard Pryor (1998), Jonathan Winters (1999), Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004), Steve Martin (2005), Neil Simon (2006), Billy Very (2007), George Carlin (2008), Bill Cosby (2009), and Tina Fey (2010).The show was recorded for just about any 90-minute special airing Halloween evening next Monday, October 31, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS. The Hollywood Reporter

Icahn thins Lionsgate stake

The Carl Icahn era at Lionsgate is drawing to some quiet finish, using the billionaire investor reducing his holding to around 1%. Icahn offered a block of nearly 3 million shares Wednesday, an educated source stated. A week ago Lionsgate completed its offering of 19.two million shares of his stock at $7 a share, which in fact had cut his stake to three.1%. Lionsgate and Icahn didn't have comment about Wednesday's purchase. The stock, that was up 4 to $7.05 in mid-session Thursday, has produced a typical daily amount of 589,000 shares throughout yesteryear three several weeks. The offering completed an August. 30 settlement with Icahn and the boy Brett Icahn. The Icahns and small-major had introduced that they are ending 3 years of fighting within an agreement to market the Icahn's 33% stake in the organization at $7 a share via a number of deals amassing about $309 million. The settlement known as for Lionsgate to purchase back 11 million shares from Icahn at $7 a share as well as for Lionsgate director Mark H. Rachesky to buy one more 11 million shares from Icahn at $7 per share. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Gotham Award Noms Visit 'The Descendants' and 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'

BorderLine Films The Descendants and Martha Marcy May Marlene, both from Fox Searchlight, introduced individuals with three nominations each as NY Independent Filmmaker Project introduced its nominations today due to its 21st annual Gotham Independent Film Honours. The individuals who win, attracted in the area of indie film, will probably be introduced inside a ceremony November. 28 at Cipriani Wall Street in NY City since the movie honours season can get showed up. PHOTOS: Hollywood's New Leading Ladies The Descendants, which stars George Clooney just like a guy trying to keep his family together,was nominated for top feature along with Beginners, Meek's Cutoff, Take Shelter as well as the Tree of Existence. Elizabeth Olsen, who stars just like a lady reconnecting along with her family after managing a cult in Martha, and Shailene Woodley, who plays among Clooney's kids in Descendants, were both nominated inside the number of Breakthrough Actor along with Felicity Manley of Constantly, Harmony Santana of Gun Hill Road and Jacob Wysocki of Terri. PHOTOS: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Chastain Pose for 'THR' Descendants and Martha also acquired noms for top ensemble performance, along with Beginners, through which Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor, play a parent or gaurdian and sonembarking on new sections inside their lives the financial world drama Margin Call and Take Shelter, through which Michael Shannon plays a man recognizing the arrival in the apocalypse. The nominees for Breakthrough Director were Mike Cahill, Another Earth Sean Durkin, Martha Vera Farmiga, Greater Ground Evan Glodell, Bellflower and Dee Rees, Pariah. The nominees for top documentary are Better Our World Bill Cunningham NY Hell and Again The Interrupters as well as the Woodmans. Inside the number of Best Film Not Playing inside a Theater In Your Town, an award for just about any feature that has not guaranteed distribution, the nominees were: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, Eco-friendly, The Redemption of General Butt Naked, Moments from the Crime, and Without. PHOTOS: Stars at Sundance The Gotham Honours may even add a new category this year, the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers "Live the Dream' Grant, a $25,000 cash award with an almuna of IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs. Nominated were Jenny Deller, director of Future Weather Lucy Mulloy, Una Noche and Rola Nashef, Detroit Unleashed. One last award, everyone else Award, can be obtained to the film that has won an audience award at one of the top 50 U.S. or Canadian film festivals. Nominees will probably be introduced November. 7. PHOTOS: On Set while using Leading Ladies of Hollywood IFP also formerly introduced that it's going to recognition stars Charlize Theron and Gary Oldman, director David Cronenberg and Tom Rothman, chairman and Boss of Fox Shot Entertainment, with career tributes. The whole report on nominees take presctiption the 2nd page. Towards The Race 1 2 next last Gotham Honours

'Chronicle' Exclusive Trailer: Great Energy Gone Wrong

If you would like superheroes around all of us do, it's safe to visualise that you just also believe there cannot be lots of movies made including folks with super forces. There exists a while to attend for further action from more familiar heroes like "The Avengers" and "X-Males," but Fox helps you to fill our superhero void utilizing their new movie "Chronicle," that's three normal teenage boys who develop special abilities after being uncovered with a mysterious substance inside the forest. We are very happy to condition there are a distinctive think about the first trailer in the film, which was put together by Max Landis (boy of John Landis) and directed by Josh Trank ("Large Fan"). The cast includes Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Dane DeHaan. Take a look, after which click for just about any detailed description! The film is shot documentary-style, with this particular three lead stars experimentation utilizing their lately discovered super talents. A clip opens getting a appealing tune as well as the three guy pals around the journey. After they go to a coffee shop or restaurant, one of the trio counts to three and tries to stick a fork within the friend's hands. The fork bends over. Only then do we start to see the boys experimentation by moving cars, taunting a young girl in the store by considering creating a stuffed bear move and fly up alongside her, plus much more. Situations are all fun and games until one of the boys takes his strength an excessive amount of and moves an automobile off course, in to a lake after which it another two boys have enter and save the motive pressure. "Could it happen to be any kind of accident Andrew?" we hear one of the boys request, following a driver is assumed being attracted to safety. A clip then cuts with a scene with Andrew sitting on top of the automobile, closing his hands and at the same time crushing cars alongside him while using motion. "I'm worried about Andrew," one of the boys states, that's then moments of elevated destruction, police surrounding something, people flying using the air, together with other assorted kinds of carnage. Out of the blue the footage stops and rewinds itself back through what we view to before the stage where a clip began. We view the boys exploring a dent on your lawn, climbing in and finding "something" we don't see but is backlit by blue lighting. Fade to black. Cree-py. And intriguing! Reveal everything you consider a clip inside the comments or on Twitter!

John Lasseter states Cars 2 wasn't about retailing

It isn't standard for any Pixar film to obtain a large amount of flack in the press, or for this to position so lowly if this involves reviews (38 percent on Rotten Tomato plants). But Cars 2 director John Lasseter states the follow up wasn't nearly selling a lot of new toys."I arrived at deep into myself and saw what this film involved and i believe it's obvious that audiences have responded. It is a very, special film in my experience,Inch he told The Hollywood Reporter.Some have stated that Pixar was instructed to produce the follow up by its proprietors at Disney to produce new retailing for that franchise."It isn't true. It's individuals who have no idea the details, hurrying to evaluate,Inch Lasseter stated."I recognise my devote the Wally Disney Company, but my job, my focus, my greatest desire would be to entertain people by looking into making great movies, and that we did by using Cars 2."This area office take supports his comments, with Cars 2 making $551m worldwide - 20 percent a lot more than the very first film."I make movies for your son who loves the figures a lot he really wants to pack his clothes inside a Lightning McQueen suitcase," Lasseter added.Your not helping that argument about retailing there, John.

Bill Clinton, Hollywood Heavyweights Star in Funny or Die Video

Funny or Die never appears to possess trouble obtaining a-list stars to look within their low-budget web projects. However it might have surpassed itself using its latest video, that is full of a few of the greatest names in Hollywood, alongside an old U.S. leader, believe it or not.our editor recommendsHollywood Falls Back deeply in love with Bill Clinton (Analysis)Bill Clinton Attends Premiere of 'The Way,' Cheers Film and Related Foundation (Video)Bill Clinton Honors Edie Wasserman, Lew Wasserman's WifeLady Gaga Drops F-Explosive device at Bill Clinton Concert (Video)Stevie Question Begins Bill Clinton Birthday Concert (Video) The recording opened Saturday on two giant screens in the Hollywood Bowl throughout a concert reaping helpful benefits the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and Funny or Die published it on the internet night time Tuesday. PHOTO: Best Presidents in Film and tv The premise has Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Kristen Wiig, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen creating the Clinton Foundation's Celebrity Division. Kevin Spacey might participate that team. Christin Trogan, who created the recording, stated each star devoted about two hrs towards the project which it had been shot over 5 days recently. Although it seems the majority of the stars have been in exactly the same room simultaneously, which was just the situation with Stiller, Danson and Steenburgen. "It had been lengthy days for that crew, without a doubt, creating that continuity which world where they are together, right lower towards the smallest things, like in which a bagel was placed," Trogan stated. PHOTOS: Stars Who've Performed Political figures Clinton was shot at his Foundation office in NY, where he's proven reprimanding Spacey for commandeering his desk, though Spacey's finish from the conversation was shot in California. Black seemed to be in California as the relaxation from the cast is at NY. 5-minute video is known as Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Brainstorm. The sketch was compiled by Funny or Die staff author Alex Fernie, although the stars ad-libbed in some places yet others led ideas and dialogue. If there have been any stars who rejected the chance to look within the video, Funny or Die is not saying. PHOTOS: Leader George W. Rose bush on 9/11 "It had been among individuals things where, whenever we were studying the bits, we'd others in your mind, and that we got really lucky that they are capable of being some of it,Inch Trogan stated. "It had been similar to another pressure was blessing this video and enabling it to get together." Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Brainstorm from Leader Bill Clinton Related Subjects Jack Black Kevin Spacey Kristen Wiig Mary Steenburgen Matt Damon Sean Penn Ted Danson Bill Clinton Funny or Die Ben Stiller

Percenteries help stars surf social wave

Talent agencies are coming up with ties having a completely new generation of start-ups concentrating to managing celebrities' footprint across social media.CAA, UTA and WME have struck different types of these alliances because of the growing importance and complexity of image maintenance round the growing volume of platforms, from Twitter to Facebook, where clients take part in a couple-way conversation with countless fans every single day.InchBig agencies like ours sit in a really unique position," states Brent Weinstein, mind of digital media at UTA. "We view the needs and interests of artists similarly, and alternatively we view and so are connected having a greater quantity of interesting technology and services. We take that which you understand about the latter and marry it for the former."For UTA, that found signing startup company Fantapper just like a client in June. CAA went a stride further and incubated a company that belongs to them referred to as WhoSay, in which the agency still looks after a minority stake. WME also provides a stake inside the Audience, that has not really formally launched yet.Each one of these companies goes in regards to the business of handling the cyber-presence of stars diversely. However in the simplest level, these supply the agencies an attempt-to choice for clients whose reps know all to well that no actor or music artist can pay for not have access to an oar inside the huge sea this is the web, even so to speak.CAA first approached Steve Ellis, Boss of WhoSay, a few years back about improving the company develop a solution for clients. "They were frustrated because others needed to get their clients and driving business from their website,In . according to him.Now WhoSay has funding from CAA, Amazon . com . com and venture-capital companies that keep your organization maintenance greater than 700 stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Katie Couric and Tom Hanks. WhoSay does from delivering a computerized copyright on every image or video which will come in the clients with a mobile application that alerts their unique publicists when nearly the same as a tweet can get distributed.While such firms as WhoSay make their options available to CAA-repped talent, more clients result from outdoors the organization. No agency-affiliated firms are restricted to exclusive plans.Furthermore to controlling social media for such stars as Nick Cannon, Peter Facinelli and Ashlee Simpson, Fantapper posseses an innovative feature in a position to altering stars' Internet photos in to a hub for related content they could control."It comes down lower to making direct associations while using stars," states Ryan Steelberg, Boss of Fantapper. "In the event that might be triggered through getting associations with UTA and management groups directly, you need to be everywhere."Digital 25The PGA and Variety recognition leaders who've advanced digital entertainment and storytelling John Rubey of AEG Network Live Sangam Pant and Umesh Shukla of Auryn Zach Galifianakis of "Between Two Ferns" Michael Fleischman and N Roy of Bluefin Labs Meyer Shwarzstein of Brainstorm Media Seth Eco-friendly of "ControlTV" Jon Kirchner of DTS Dick Glover of Funny or Die Asi Burak of Games for Change Nolan Gallagher of Gravitas Endeavors Zooey Deschanel, Molly McAleer and Sophia Rossi of Hello Giggles Mike Chambers of "Beginning" Leigh Blake and Alicia Strategies of Possess a Child Alive Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter Felicia Day's Knights in combat in combat of fine Productions Troy Carter and Rhianna of LadyGaga.com Lisa Roth of Majesco Entertainment Susan Margolin and Steve Savage of latest Video Sharon Calahan of Pixar Animation Art galleries Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio/Angry Wild wild birds John Calkins from the new the new sony Pictures Home Theatre Ken Ralston from the new the new sony Pictures Imageworks Nicole Skogg of SpyderLynk Thierry Coup, Nick Largman, Dale Mason and Mark Woodbury of Universal Creative Joe Letteri of Weta DigitalRELATED LINKS: The TV's turn with an extreme transformation Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Exclusive Start Searching: Grimm's Monsters Unmasked!

Silas Weir Mitchell Perpetrators of violent crimes have frequently been referred to as monsters, but on NBC's new crime procedural Grimm, which premieres Friday, March. 28 at 9/8c, the crooks are monsters -- both literally and literarily. It calculates that Grimm's Favorite Anecdotes isn't a bit of fiction, but a free account of supernatural creatures the Grimm family has destroyed throughout history to keep humanity safe. Tigard cop Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli) just discovered he's all the that kind of potential predators, who've something special of realizing the actual, monstrous character underneath the creature's like miracle mundane facade. Fall TV: Have the lowdown relating to this season's must-see new shows Look at this start searching at how a makeup and visual-effects departments produce the monsters through practical and computer graphic techniques and the way Giuntoli plays a prank on his co-star Russell Hornsby getting a corpse. Good occasions. Grimm debuts on Friday, March. 28 at 9/8c on NBC. Will you stay updated to Grimm? How will you like the twist round the usual crime procedural formula?

'Avengers' Trailer Commentary: Five Key Scenes

FROM MTV SPLASH PAGE: By now, you've probably seen the first trailer for "Marvel's The Avengers" with all of its explosions, in-fighting and Iron Man caddishness. For such a hotly anticipated movie with relatively little known about it, any scrap of information out there will be analyzed over and over again for any tiny secret that can be found. We already dissected the NY City locations from the preview, so let's take a look at the trailer to find out what are the most important pieces of info you'll need come May 2012. Here are the five keys scenes from the trailer for "The Avengers." Watch our "Avengers" trailer commentary! Read the full story at MTV Splash Page!

Paula Askanas upped in the new the new sony Pictures TV

Paula Askanas remains upped to professional veep of communications for that new the new sony Pictures Television. The longtime The brand new the new sony TV professional runs all media and communications for your studio's TV wing. She reviews towards the new the new sony Pictures TV prexy Steve Mosko. "Paula's capacity to know both numerous companies, together with the diverse needs within our global methods, makes her a substantial resource towards the organization," Mosko mentioned. "As SPT is ongoing to develop and been effective, so has she, and her associations and our exceptional representation on television will be the proof." Askanas was most recently senior veep of media relations. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

'Modern Family' tops Dvr playback

Modern Family had the finest premiere week Dvr increase. 'New Girl''Up All Night''Two . 5 Men'The wealthy have more potent if the involves Dvr viewing, that's up significantly this season as part of overall viewing of primetime skeins. Nielsen's "live-plus-7" amounts for premiere week, released Monday, show accurate documentation volume of series achieving milestone Dvr playback levels inside a week from the program's bow. Overall for your week of Sept. 19-25, an impressive 20 primetime broadcast series acquired no less than 1 rating reason behind grownups 18-49 utilizing their live-plus-round-the-clock ratings -Up from 13 for premiere week this past year. Too as with total audiences, 10 skeins elevated by no less than 3 million -Up from just two shows a year ago. ABC's "Modern Family" acquired most likely probably the most throughout premiere week, rising 2.4 ratings points and 4.7 million audiences. The finest individuals who win inside the postponed Dvr viewing derby still will be the best shows ("Grey's Anatomy," "two and a half Males," "The Big Bang Theory," "Work,Inch etc.). The expansion in Dvr gains to get the best shows isn't a lot of an unpredicted, thinking about the truth that Dvr transmission is ongoing to develop to 42% of U.S. TV houses this season, compared to 38% last season. Clearly, the live-plus-7 lifts certainly are a mixed blessing for your systems. While it's reassuring for internet professionals to find out year-to-year ratdeclines evaporate for a lot of shows -- in addition to use gains -- the amounts aren't everything highly relevant to promote sales, which be a consequence of a so-referred to as C3 ratings, or perhaps the viewership of ads through the live telecast and within 72 hrs of premiere. As live-plus-7 amounts balloon, the nets will definitely push Madison Avenue to incorporate a few more days for the C3 calculating stick. Among additional information within the live-plus-7 amounts for premiere week: n Among new shows, Fox's "New Girl" was the finest gainer in 18-49 rating (rising 1.5 points from 4.8 to 6.3). Other newcomers receiving specific same-week Dvr sampling incorporated NBC's "Up With The Evening" (up 1.1 indicates 3.5), CBS' "2 Broke Women" (up 1.1 indicates 8.1), ABC's "Pan Am" (up 1. to 4.1) and "Revenge" (up .9 to 4.2), NBC's "Whitney" (up .9 to 4.2) and CBS' "Person of great interestInch (up .9 to 4.). n Among percentage gainers round the Large Four, seven shows elevated by 40% or maybe more: "Grey's Anatomy," "CSI," "Up With The Evening," "Law & Order: SVU" (NBC), "Fringe" (Fox), "Community" (NBC) and "Harry's Law" (NBC). The CW, which works in the smaller sized ratings base, also saw its scripted series grow by 40% or maybe more. n Friday series appear towards the top of Dvr-lift percentage rankers as it is minimal-seen evening live as well as the shows are relatively low-rated: In grownups 18-49, CW's "Supernatural" elevated by 62% (.8 to a single.3), Fox's "Fringe" by 53% (1.5 to 2.3), CW's "Nikita" by 50% (.6 to .9), and CBS' "Blue Bloods" by 35% (2. to 2.7). Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Build Your Own Yarn Ryan Gosling: Some Heroes Are Crocheted

Despite that certain disgruntled moviegoer’s complaints, you will find lots of diehard people from the cult of Drive, which incidentally has tallied up a awesome $$ 30 million up to now. Much less shabby, Film District. Possibly it’s fitting, then, that Ryan Gosling’s Driver character has been commemorated within the most adorable, cuddliest way imaginable: like a crocheted amigurumi toy, filled with his signature toothpick along with a yarn hammer. And also you thought You had been enthusiastic about Drive. Hit the jump for today’s Buzz Break… [Pictorial Gosling via Film District] Today in celebrity movie reviews: Olivia Wilde totally dug Take Shelter. [@OliviaWilde] Magnet Delivering has guaranteed the privileges towards the Christian Slater-starring horror pic Playback, a good evil spirit that offers its sufferers via video playback. The film will hit theaters in March by having an Ultra VOD campaign in Feb. Meaning WE’LL Be In Danger! [Pr release] Bong Joon-ho’s record-setting Korean monster movie The Host - the film that nearly of Korea saw in theaters — is breaking new ground through getting the three-D conversion treatment. [THR] One Tree Hill’s Chad Michael Murray includes a new graphic novel being released, titled Everlast. Speculating it’s not about dating co-stars, right? Zing! Ah, sorry. Low blow. To create up for this, here’s the synopsis: “A pre-apocalyptic tale, Everlast (paper-over-board hardcover, 104 pp, $19.95, ISBN: 978-1-932386-97-4) follows Derek Everlast, a guy whose future in existence is guiding others to some host to rebirth for mankind known as Haven. Following an instinct known as the Nudge, presented on him with a greater energy, Derek is led to another selected human determined to survive, just a little girl named Melissa. Inside a harrowing adventure, he or she must deliver her securely to Haven prior to the Finish of Days.” [Pr release] “What is hidden in snow, comes out within the thaw.” Browse The new sony’s new viral website for that Girl using the Dragon Tattoo, which gradually (warning: reeeeally gradually) uncovers images in the film. [SlashFilm]

Disney Studios Passes $1B Domestic In 2011

On Saturday, The Walt Disney Studios crossed the $1 billion plateau at the domestic box office for the 6th consecutive year. The studio says it has reached this milestone 15 of the last 18 years. This year’s total was helped by Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, Cars 2, The Help, Gnomeo And Juliet, and The Lion King 3D.

CBS moves 'Gentleman' to Saturdays

CBS will replace fighting Thursday comedy "How to be a Gentleman" with "Rules of Engagement." By March. 20, the veteran half-hour starring David Spade will trade its Saturday 8 p.m. time slot with rookie "Gentleman," which not successful to keep onto its Thursday 8 p.m. lead-in, "Large Bang Theory." "Gentleman" will go to Saturday on March. 15. "Gentleman" essentially signaled its departure within the plum slot when Thursday's episode sank to 7.8 million total audiences, a precipitous plunge within the 13.6 000 0000 who up-to-date in "Theory." Although not the cancellation some may have expected after two woeful ratings performances so far, moving "Gentleman" might be the very first rejiggering CBS is doing towards the fall schedule, which has otherwise seen some impressive starts from "2 Broke Women" and "Memorable." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark: Book Review

For a film critic, it's a new sensation to read a biography of another film critic. I don't believe there has ever been one before, at least in English (James Agee doesn't count, due to the wide-ranging nature of his career). By and large, critics of any sort don't lead notably adventuresome lives; they're reactors more than actors, writers known for their opinions of others' work rather than having created anything of their own.our editor recommendsHow Pauline Kael Might Vote: No on 'Social Network,' Maybe on 'Black Swan'Pauline Kael's Editor: 'She'd Laugh at 'Black Swan,' Vote for 'The Fighter' PHOTOS: Netflix's 10 Most-Rented Movies of All Time But while it's possible to regard the subtitle of Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark as subtly snide, author Brian Kellow strongly suggests that Pauline, as she was called by everyone and is invariably referred to in these pages, lived most intensely in a darkened theater. As a film critic for The NYer from 1967 to 1991, she responded to movies with an unmediated emotion that was perhaps absent from her personal life (she is never described as having been in love with anyone after college), and her reactions could even be physical; one friend swears Pauline levitated at one screening, and her companion at Last Tango in Paris, about which she wrote her most famous review, said she was "drenched" afterward, unable to talk. PHOTOS: 10 Billion Dollar Babies: Movies That Crossed the 10-Figure Mark Pauline is very fortunate in her biographer. Kellow, an erudite movie lover, features editor at Opera News and author of a book about another formidable woman, Ethel Merman, writes beautifully and dexterously interweaves the story of a career long-thwarted with a sensitive reading of his subject's youthful enthusiasm and intellectual growth. To an impressive degree, he gets inside the head of a precocious, fearsomely smart young woman from small-town California and is able to describe what drove her, which authors turned her on (James, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Melville, Woolf, Proust), her love of jazz and her distaste for aesthetic, religious and political dogma. So thoroughly does he portray the development of Pauline's character and passionate engagement with matters aesthetic that it comes as no surprise she was able to burst onto the scene, at the relatively advanced age of 48, as one of the most dynamic cultural arbiters of the past century. PHOTOS: 'The Avengers': New Photos From Marvel's Superhero Film Even to close friends, Pauline revealed little about her early family life. Many did not even know she was Jewish, so it's fascinating to learn that her hometown of Petaluma, a chicken-farming community 35 miles north of San Francisco, was a hotbed of the Labor Zionist movement and Progressive-era left-wing politics when she was a little girl in the early 1920s. As a child she was immersed in a world of literature, issues and argument and remained so her entire life. The youngest of five children of Polish emigres, Pauline couldn't stand her mother but adored her father, a self-confident ladies' man she once likened to Paul Newman's Hud, which provides plausible insight into her later attraction to macho Westerners like Sam Peckinpah and Robert Altman. At university at Berkeley, she continued to read ravenously and was fatally attracted to poets, bright and sensitive young men who were essentially gay but either not quite ready to admit it or willing to try the alternative with Pauline. These fraught relationships never worked out, but with one of these fellows, Robert Horan, she moved to NY in 1941. Within days, Horan became the kept man of famous composers Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti, leaving a penniless Pauline to scramble for work and lodgings. Struggling all the while, she spent the war years developing a pronounced and permanent aversion to "NY artistic circles" and the publishing field she so keenly wished to enter, populated as it was by shiny blond Smith and Wellesley graduates willing to work for $25 a week. Returning to the Bay Area with her tail between her legs in 1945, Pauline became involved with the incredibly effeminate avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton. He managed to impregnate Pauline but threw her out as soon as she told him, whereupon she moved to Santa Barbara to give birth to her daughter, Gina, in 1948 and quietly raise her for a while. For anyone interested in Pauline, the intellectual climate of the period and the slim prospects even for ultra-smart and ambitious young women of the time, Kellow's account of these early years makes for fascinating reading. The author is able to document Pauline's youthful taste in movies and stars -- she loved I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Grand Illusion, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and the Ritz Brothers but disliked The Grapes of Wrath, Mrs. Miniver, Chaplin and Norma Shearer. She also started following film critics, becoming partial to Agee, Graham Greene, Manny Farber and Otis Ferguson while developing a strong aversion to "saphead" Bosley Crowther of The NY Times. Finally, in the 1950s, Pauline began to generate a bit of traction as a critical voice in small magazines, as an unpaid film critic on Berkeley's KPFA-FM and by writing program notes for the city's pioneering twin art house, the Cinema Guild, run by Ed Landberg, a remote, difficult man to whom she was married for about a year. The review continues on the next page.

A 'Dirty' road movie

Jeremy Dozier, Rachel Cohen, Juno Temple, Abe Sylvia and Jana Edelbaum party at Cinema Society. "A lot of people have their own version of what a 'dirty girl' is," Juno Temple said at Monday's Gotham preem. "For me it meant a very liberal, free-spirited, outspoken firecracker of a girl.""Dirty Girl" opened at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, and the daughter of director Julien Temple turned out to be pretty liberal herself, if not somewhat more sophisticated than her Okie character in the Weinstein Co. road comedy. "I was 4 when my dad showed me 'La Belle et la bete' by Jean Cocteau and I wanted to do anything in my power to be a part of that," she said of acting. Pic's Tim McGraw showed up with wife Faith Hill. He also likes acting. But, "I'm not going to quit my day job," said the country star.

Denzel Washington's 'Flight' Is 12 Years Within The Making

Although we are just engaging in talks and tests with this year's Oscar bait movies, it's rarely too soon to begin speaking about next year's likely challengers, could it be? Because Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Washington's "Flight" is sounding many a lot more like it will likely be someone to be careful for the coming year. When MTV News swept up with film writer John Gatins lately, he says production starts in a few days which it's taken him greater than a decade to find the project off the floor. "Oh guy, we start filming in a few days. This movie for me personally continues to be 12 years dealing with the screen. It required me forever also it really required Robert Zemeckis developing, getting Denzel to complete the film, its just like a fever dream for me personally because Ive anxiously waited such a long time," he told us in the premiere of his latest movie, "Real Steel." So what is the story about? "Its a film a good alcoholic commercial air travel pilot," he stated, adding the tone is adult and a little old-fashioned. "Its an R-ranked drama, its just like a movie in the '70s the galleries dont really make any longer, so its an incredible election of confidence on Paramounts part to create the film.Inch So for individuals thinking this is a Hollywood version of hero pilot Sully Sullenberger's story, reconsider. Other sights are the truth that the film marks Zemeckis' go back to live action, and has a cast of other A-listers additionally to Washington: John Goodman, Don Cheadle and Melissa Leo. Are you searching for "Flight"? Inform us within the comments or on Twitter!

Access Hollywood Live: Rocco DiSpiritos Flash Fried Chicken Nuggets With Slaw

First Published: October 5, 2011 2:30 PM EDT Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Billy Bush, Kit Hoover and Rocco DiSpirito heat up the kitchen on Access Hollywood Live on October 5, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Flash Fried Chicken Nuggets With School Time Slaw Here is a version of fried chicken and coleslaw the way it should be, good vegetables not drowned with commercial mayonnaise and sugar. It is actually good for you! Use this slaw to go with any of your favorite foods like, burgers, sandwiches, flash fried chicken, grilled pork etc. Fat Grams 11.5, Calories 282 Yield 4 servings Ingredients: 2 quarts grapeseed or corn oil 4 tablespoons Roccos Magnificent Mayonnaise 4 tablespoons no added sugar ketchup 1.3 cup green cabbage, cut into fine strips 1.3 cup carrots, grated on large side of box grater 1.3 cup broccoli, grated on large side of box grater .25 cup dill pickles, chopped .25 cup of fresh cilantro, chopped 16 ounces chicken thighs, boneless and skinless 3.25 tablespoons adobo powder, Goya or similar 2 egg whites 2.5 tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika .25 cup fine ground yellow cornmeal .75 cup whole wheat flour Salt and fresh ground black pepper - In a large mixing bowl, mix the mayonnaise, ketchup and pickles to form a smooth dressing. - Add the cabbage, carrots, broccoli and cilantro and mix well to coat the vegetables evenly. Season with salt and black pepper. This can be stored chilled in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. - Pour the oil into a large heavy pot that has at least a 6 quart capacity. Heat the oil over medium high heat on the stove to 400 F. Meanwhile place a chicken thigh on the cutting board and cut into 4 to 5 even sized chunky pieces and repeat until all thighs are done. Lay out all of the chicken chunks on a microwave safe plate and season both sides with .25 tablespoon of adobo powder as well as salt and pepper. Place the plate in the microwave and cook on high for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Remove the plate and turn each piece of chicken over and microwave again on high until the chunks are just cooked though, about another 1 minute and 30 seconds to 2 minutes depending on your microwave. Let the chicken cool to room temperature. - Meanwhile place the egg whites into a bowl and beat with a fork until very foamy, about 2 minutes. In a separate wide and shallow bowl or cake pan, mix the remaining 3 tablespoons of adobo powder and paprika with the cornmeal and whole wheat flour. Submerge the cooked chicken pieces in the eggwhites and toss to coat well with a fork, then move the chicken to the shallow bowl with the seasoned whole wheat flour and cornmeal mix. Toss the chicken to coat well. - In four separate even sized batches, fry the chicken for 12 seconds per batch then remove the chicken from the oil to a plate with either a wire rack on top or paper towels to drain off any excess oil. Turn the stove off immediately under the hot oil after your last batch. - Spoon out slaw evenly in four bowls and then arrange evenly on top of each bowl. Nutrionals: Before: 64 grams fat, 1160 calories After: 11.59 grams fat, 281.67 calories Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Turkey's 'Once' in Oscar bid

TEL AVIV -- Helmer Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," Turkey's submission for foreign-lingo Oscar, is an intense and slow-moving drama about the search for a corpse in the grasslands of Turkish Anatolia. A doctor, a public prosecutor, a police chief and a murder suspect together comb the region's vast steppes in what becomes a critique on bureaucracy and a meditation on guilt and responsibility. Pic, co-winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, is Ceylan's second selection for the Oscar pool. In 2009, Turkey submitted his "Three Monkeys," which made it to the Academy's nine-film shortlist but was not nominated. Turkey's Committee of Artistic Activities, an independent body of film professionals, chose "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia." This year the committee, known by its Turkish acronym SEK, included director Semih Kaplanoglu and actress Meltem Combul. The 84th Academy Awards will be held Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com