ESPN.com presents Hollywood Prospectus http://espn.go.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus 60 en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:30 webmaster@espn.go.com http://assets.espn.go.com/i/espn/teamlogos/lrg/trans/espn_dotcom_black.gif 110 110 Do teenagers still go through a Doors phase? I mean, is that still possible? Jesus, I think it is. It’s not as if the Doors’ music is any more dated now than it was in the early ’90s, back when I went through my Doors phase and a lot of other kids at my middle school when through their Doors phases. Deciding at a certain age that the Doors are the coolest band that ever existed seems like a rite of passage on par with getting drunk in a park on a bottle of blackberry brandy — it might be a ridiculously misguided idea only a child could endorse, but it’s also transcendent.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77576/r-i-p-ray-manzarek-keyboardist-for-the-doors Tue, 21 May 2013 11:45:31 EDT 77576 1. Shinedown, "I'll Follow You" Ugh. No. Grade: D Best YouTube Comment: "Was going to dedicate this song to my girlfriend then before I could she broke up with me … " — storm92jk 2. Black Sabbath, "God Is Dead?" Black Sabbath go back to their Paranoid roots to remind you that Ozzy can still be a scary Satanist priest when he wants to by putting out a shred-heavy nine-minute single that slays all their imitators. Grade: A Best YouTube Comment: "This song just keeps growing on me.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77554/grading-the-top-10-songs-in-rock Tue, 21 May 2013 10:30:42 EDT 77554 Sad days for people who believe in the unimpeachable sanctity of the relationship between celebrity and pet monkey: Justin Bieber has abandoned Mally, his capuchin BFF, to German authorities. As you may recall, the Germans first confiscated Mally back in March, when Bieber entered the country while on tour without proper monkey documentation. He's had the time since to file said proper documentation. But this weekend, time was up. Fox News reports (emphasis added): "[Bieber] had until midnight Friday to produce those documents.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77550/justin-biebers-capuchin-monkey-now-a-naturalized-german-citizen Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:13 EDT 77550 The Lonely Island have become grown-ass men. In a new video for YouTube's Comedy Week, the trio take on the mature subjects of wife sex and cemetery real estate ("wobble-dee-wobble-dee drop into my grave plot"). It goes hard, because it's #DIAPERCORE. Reggie Watts also debuted a video for YouTube's celebration with his variation on the Rickroll, faithfully re-creating Rick Astley's outfits and letting his upper lip dance to '80s synth like no one is watching.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77511/afternoon-links-the-lonely-island-and-reggie-watts-kick-off-youtube-comedy-week Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:58 EDT 77511 Alex and special guest Chuck Klosterman anatomize their Star Trek fandom and freak out over last night's Mad Men, like everybody else. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to the Grantland Pop Culture podcasts on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77515/do-you-like-prince-movies-podcast-star-trek-into-darkness-and-mad-men-with-guest-chuck-klosterman Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:41 EDT 77515 Paul Thomas Anderson has been set for a while now on following up The Master by reuniting with Joaquin Phoenix on Inherent Vice. The project, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's uncharacteristically breezy (well, relatively) 2009 novel, will find the former DIY-hooch aficionado Freddie Quell playing a pothead private eye named Doc Sportello. Also onboard to plug holes in the sprawling character roll call: Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone, Martin Short, and, most recently, Reese Witherspoon, working with her Walk the Line paramour for the first time since their Oscar run.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77484/sean-penn-might-do-pynchon-for-paul-thomas-anderson Mon, 20 May 2013 17:01:04 EDT 77484 [Previously on Mad Men Power Rankings: A rooster crows, a pitcher beads, Don and Teddy share a cocktail … Roger and Burt say good-bye … Peggy moves forward … Don looks for his shoes.] 1. Don Draper (last week: 1) How's it going? I know you're all feeling the darkness here today. But there's no reason to give in. No matter what you've heard, these Power Rankings will not take years. In my heart I know we cannot be defeated because there IS an answer that will open the door.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77426/mad-men-power-rankings-episode-608-the-crash Mon, 20 May 2013 14:45:17 EDT 77426 If you've ever wondered what it looks like to be mauled by a bear in the wilds of Alaska, you have technology and the BBC nature show The Great Bear Stakeout to thank. While guiding a filming crew in the Alaska Peninsula, Brad Josephs, a "naturalist interpreter specializing in bear biology and ecology," placed a small GoPro HD camera in the vicinity of a brown bear cub and let curiosity do the rest of the work. That bear wants to eat that camera so bad!]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77471/watch-a-bear-try-to-eat-a-tiny-camera Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:05 EDT 77471 The 38th season of SNL was not its best. After Mick Jagger sang Kristen Wiig off the show last year in an emotional farewell (Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott departed with her), this season’s exits — both rumored and confirmed — were given a subtler treatment. This season's 21 episodes were occasionally brilliant, but more often they seemed to belong to a kind of blameless nowheresville in need of some substantial bulldozing. The veterans — Fred Armisen has been kicking around for 10 seasons, while Jason Sudeikis became a featured player in 2005 — have appeared understandably tired; the death of the Digital Short haunted bad episodes, whispering, "Remember me fondly?]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77451/snl-episode-21-affleck-joins-the-five-timers-while-hader-and-armisen-take-their-bows Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:06 EDT 77451 Day 3: Scary With Children I'm OK, everybody. It's true that I'm staying in the very hotel where $1,000,000 in House of Chopard jewels was stolen late Thursday night. Except for the sudden appearance of a very tired-looking security gentleman asking to see hotel keys, you'd never know anything had happened. The sun was out the last couple of days, and so, I suppose, are the crazies. Well, this is the Cannes Film Festival — every other person is a little bit nuts.]]> http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/77407/cannes-diary-days-3-5-coen-bros-films-and-real-life-jewel-heists Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:45 EDT 77407