2009 SAG Awards: When Actors Snub Actors [Sag-Ging Appeal]
The nominations for the 2009 SAG Awards were announced this morning — find out who got nominated, who got snubbed and how they differed from the Golden Globe noms, after the jump.Male Performance In A Leading Role• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (Not on Golden Globes list)• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon• Sean Penn, Milk• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Mickey Rourke, The WrestlerLead male actors who were nominated for a Golden Globe but not a SAG Award: Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolut

SAG ( SAG Awards) Nominations 2008 Announced
30 Rock and Mad Men have won the love of Emmy voters, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and now their peers: The quirky comedy and advertising drama continued their streaks Thursday morning with three Screen Actors Guild nominations each.Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey will look to defend their SAG crowns in the male and female comedy categories, while the Rock cast looks for its first comedy ensemble statuette. The cast will face off against those of The Office, Desperate Housewives, Entourage and Weeds.Fo

THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
Alan Rosenberg With Angela Bassett And Eric McCormack Make The AnnouncementsDoubt is the main leader at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards, garnering five award nominations. The picture’s star, Meryl Streep, is competing for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. She will go up against Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Melissa Leo (Frozen River) and Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road). Streep’s Doubt co-stars Amy Adams and Viola Davis will

Top Golden Globe nods: 'Benjamin Button,''Frost/Nixon,''Doubt'
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Frost/Nixon" led the Golden Globes on Thursday with five nominations each, among them best drama, while "Doubt" also has five, including four acting slots. Other best-drama nominees: "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road" and "Slumdog Millionaire." Meryl Streep had two nominations, best dramatic actress for "Doubt" and musical or comedy actress for "Mamma Mia!"; and Kate Winslet also had two, best dramatic actress for "Revolutionary Road" and supporting actress for

2009 Golden Globes: Good Year For Jokers, Midnight Tokers [The Gold Standards]
The nominees for the 2009 Golden Globes were announced this morning, and there were a few surprises. The nomination of Tom Cruise for Tropic Thunder drew giggles from the crowd, as did James Franco's nod for Pinapple Express. Apparently, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association thought Franco's performance as a lovable pot dealer was much more powerful than his portrayal of Harvey Milk's lover. Check out the rest of the nominations (and spot the snubs) after the jump.BEST PICTURE (DRAMA)• The Curious Case

The 2008 Golden Globe Nominations Are...
Here are the nominations for the Golden Globes for 2008:1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMAa. The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonWarner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Picturesb. FROST/NIXONImagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Picturesc. THE READERMirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Companyd. REVOLUTIONARY ROADAn Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount

Be a critic for a day: Name your best and worst of 2008
Some might say it's a cheeky way to fill a blog post AND dodge of bit of work close to the holidays.But I prefer to think of this next request as a fun way to do what I love most: Talk about TV.Every year, I pore over old blog posts and ressurect old TV schedules to figure out my highlights and lowlights for the year. Some choices are obvious -- I'm expecting Tina Fey and Mad Men to make every reputable list this year -- others require a little more, um, intitiative.So I want to open the process up. I want

The SAG noms are…
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleRICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale - “THE VISITOR” (Overture Films) Frank Langella / Richard Nixon - “FROST/NIXON” (Universal Pictures) Sean Penn / Harvey Milk - “MILK” (Focus Features) Brad Pitt / Benjamin Button - “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount Pictures) Mickey Rourke / Randy - “THE WRESTLER” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Why We Should Support 'Less Bullshit' Journalists Like Campbell Brown
Always looking for the next big thing in television news media — Katie Couric, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Mike Huckabee have all received the treatment — it appears we're ready to move on to our next nominee: Campbell Brown. The NBC veteran who left the network just a couple months after losing the Today show vacancy Couric left to Meredith Vieira, Brown signed with CNN and became a respectable, albeit benign and forgettable, asset. T

SAG Awards 2009: The Complete Nominations List
Check out the full list here! THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURESOutstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleRICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale - "THE VISITOR" (Overture Films)Frank Langella / Richard Nixon - "FROST/NIXON" (Universal Pictures)Sean Penn / Harvey Milk - "MILK" (Focus Features)Brad Pitt / Benjamin Button - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount Pictures)Mickey Rourke / Randy - "THE WRESTLER" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)Outstanding Perfo

'Mad Men' Star Christina Hendricks Is Engaged
It's been a big year for the AMC series focused on the boozy world of advertising in the 1960s. Mad Men won Emmys for both Outstanding Drama and Outstanding Writing, as well as four other categories. It was also the recipient of two Golden Globe awards in January. Last year at the Globes, Mad Men won Best TV Drama (a rare feat for a show in its first season), as well Best Actor (Drama) for its leading man, Jon Hamm, 37. But the biggest award for Christina Hendricks? Just like her character

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The media world rarely pays attention, but The Golden Globes nominations often serve as a better predictor of Emmy success than Oscar -- recognizing new programs and performers with a speed that usually eludes the Emmy academy.In years past, that meant actors such as 30 Rock's Alec Baldwin and Mad Men's Jon Hamm got a Globe nod before Emmy learned their name. When nominations were revealed this morning, struggling dramas such as HBO's in Treatment and True Blood nabbed major acting nods, despite sometimes

Rachel, Katie & Campbell Are In Vogue [Mag Hag]
The Vogue issue featuring Rachel Maddow (alongside Katie Couric and Campbell Brown) is not the make-over disaster we feared, as you can see. It's also chock full of interesting bits — and we've got more.A well-placed source at 30 Rock (the building, not the television show) tells us that when Maddow arrived for her fitting, she was shown to the Vogue closet — and a row of Louboutins that our source was dying to pet. As you can see, however, Maddow insisted on sticking to her standard Converse, w

John McCain “The Late Show With David Letterman” Appearance October 16
It looks like Senator John McCain and late night host David Letterman have kissed and made up. The Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to appear on The Late Show this Thursday, October 16. The interview will be McCain’s first with Lettermane since the comic publicly expressed his disdain with the senator for pulling out of his September 24 appearance on the show. SSenator McCain backed out of the appearance, citing a rush to fly to Washington to deal with the nation’s economic situation, on

Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, and Campbell Brown: Shaping the News
Momentous times have a way of redefining broadcast careers. As we enter a new political era, we salute three woman standouts: veteran Katie Couric and rising stars Rachel Maddow and Campbell Brown. Photographed by Alex Majoli. Katie Couric And why we love her: A reminder. A week after the election, Katie Couric is feeling good. Sitting in the all-white reception room adjoining her office at CBS, she looks (because discuss her looks we must) buffed to a high polish: shiny bl

Jon Hamm Won’t Confirm Co-Star Fingering Allegations [Short Ends]
· Just as Mad Men Star Jon Hamm was about to reveal if he’d ever fantasized about changing his name to Stewart Turkeylink, Zach Galifianakis’s sneezing fit ruins everything. [via Goldenfiddle] · Speaking of Jon Hamm’s co-stars, Christina Hendricks has become engaged to Geoffrey Arend, whom one Hendricks-lusting Defamer employee described as “some weird-looking curly haired [...]

Jon Stewart talks to Larry Wilmore about Prop. 8...
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Jon Hamm Won't Confirm Co-Star Fingering Allegations [Short Ends]
· Just as Mad Men Star Jon Hamm was about to reveal if he'd ever fantasized about changing his name to Stewart Turkeylink, Zach Galifianakis's sneezing fit ruins everything. [via Goldenfiddle]· Speaking of Jon Hamm's co-stars, Christina Hendricks has become engaged to Geoffrey Arend, whom one Hendricks-lusting Defamer employee described as "some weird-looking curly haired nobody!"· Police are probing Sharon Osbourne after she allegedly got into a catfight with one of the contestants on

Vogue Highlights Three TVNewsers "Shaping the News"
In next month's Vogue Magazine, three female tvnewsers are highlighted: "As we enter a new political era, we salute three woman standouts: veteran Katie Couric and rising stars Rachel Maddow and Campbell Brown." The first profile, of Couric, is written by Eve MacSweeney. "It would not be an overstatement to say that Couric's two-part interview with Sarah Palin in October changed the course of the election," she writes. Couric says she enjoyed her first presidential election as anchor at

10 Suggested Hairstyles for Mad Men’s Jon Hamm
If most women were forced to rank the "Top 3 Things We Would Like To Run Our Hands Through", surely "Jon Hamm's Hair" would fall somewhere in between "George Clooney's Ass Cheeks" and "Piles of Unmarked Bills." So would you believe it? Turns out Jon Hamm hates his hair... and calls it the "bane of his existence": Jon Hamm has a confession to make: He hates his hair. That may come as a surprise to fans of the actor, whose slick-backed hair is part of his signature look on "Mad Men"... In the new mov

'Mad Men''s Christina Hendricks Engaged
Christina Hendricks, 33, who plays the sexy head secretary on the Emmy-winning AMC show, is engaged to her actor boyfriend, People magazine reports. Her finacé is Geoffrey Arend, 30, who plays an advertising executive on the upcoming TNT drama "Trust Me," People said.   The couple has reportedly not yet set a wedding date.

McCain’s Tour of Contrition
As John McCain trails Obama in the polls, he’s crawling back to David Letterman to apologize for standing him up to go save the world do an interview with Katie Couric. As you’ll recall, Letterman tore him a new asshole on national television for that little stunt. McCain is scheduled to appear on the program on Thursday. Should be interesting. Before you leave a comment, please make sure you've read our Guide to Commenting. It could save you a great deal of embarrassment.

Vogue Runs Out of Ideas, Cops From Salon
Back in October, Slate came across an alarming trend: Not one, not two, but three women (and maybe more!) in television journalism were at the center of the circus that was the 2008 election. Campbell Brown and her smack down of Tucker Bounds and other Republican call outs; Katie Couric and her scathing interview with Sarah Palin; Rachel Maddow for being the first "chirpy" lesbian on cable. And now we're in December, post-election fatigue has set in as we all lose our jobs, and V

Mad Men Storms The Emmys
Mad Men won Outstanding Dramatic Series at the 2008 Emmys last night, becoming the first regular cable series to receive the honor (and the first cable program—period—to win the award for its first season). Unsurprisingly, the glamorous cast showed up dressed to the nines to celebrate their smash success. Check out photos of Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Elisabeth Moss, Jon Hamm and others—as they show off a more modern sense of style, for a change. Maggie Siff, January Jones, El