Entertainment Weekly

[memememe76]

Searched if a thread existed, but couldn't find it. Anyways, anyone else think EW has improved this past year? There was a period of time when EW was losing my interest, but I think the content has had a bit of an upswing. Only exception is the TV section--bring back Ken Tucker!

Any guesses as to who will be EW's 12 Entertainers of the Year? My guesses (predictions, not my personal preferences):

1) Mariah Carey (big comeback, big cd sales, huge single, still crazy)
2) George Clooney (two movies, huge director, bigger actor, biggest political activist)
3) Terrance Howard (tons of movies, lots of acclaim)
4) JK Rowling (huge book and movie sales, but is "been there, done that"?)
5) The Dramas or One-hour Long Shows of ABC: Lost, Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy, Extreme Makeover, Commander-in-Chief, Dancing With the Stars, Alias (they did this with the women of the WB and the HBO shows, and I think they could do that here)
6) The People Behind March of the Penguins (the quirky choice)
7) Steven Spielberg (two movies, one critically acclaimed, the other a big movie smash despite the presence of CTC)
8) Dakota Fanning (biggest actress of the year)
9) Kelly Clarkson or Kanye West (Kelly for her CD sales and newfound respect, but Kanye made the most controversial statement of the year and has pretty good CD sales)
10) Dane Cook (another quirky choice)
11) Daniel Craig (big movie with lots of acclaim and new James Bond; the "Clive Owen" slot)
12) Chris Rock (controversial Oscar host, big hit movie, and small hit tv show).

[Mouse]

Clooney, Howard, Kanye, Lost, and the Potter franchise made the list. Alas, so did Sarah Silverman. In a word: WHY?

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Because Sarah Silverman is too hawt!! And she swears...and she's hawt!!! Hmmm.

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Did anyone read this week's story on celebrity assistants? I found it to be very cree-hee-hee-hee-py. [/Perry Cox]

[jynni]

So I just an email offer for a subscription to 40 issues for $15 - is it worth it? I mean there are some mags I wouldn't subscribe to if they were free (Cosmo - I'm looking at you) because they suck so I don't read them and they clutter up my apartment.

[mariposalabrown]

I have had subscriptions to Entertainment Weekly for the past seven years, at least. I don't know what life would be like without it. As soon as it comes in the mail I stop everything, and I like getting it on Saturdays, because I can read the reviews for movies that came out that weekend, and it has TV listings for the following week. They do too many articles on Lost for my taste, since I don't watch that, but otherwise I totally love it. And for fifteen bucks? Heck yeah.

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I could not poo properly without EW.

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I wonder what percentage of EW issues are read in the bathroom? If I catch myself reading it anywhere else, I make myself put it down to "save it".

I wonder of the letters are all real? The whole "I can't tell you how excited I was to open my mailbox and see a cover picture of ....." genre is so overplayed that I have to assume most of them are fakes.

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calvin said:

I wonder of the letters are all real? The whole "I can't tell you how excited I was to open my mailbox and see a cover picture of ....." genre is so overplayed that I have to assume most of them are fakes.

Hey, I was excited when they put Tim Gunn on the cover. Not enough to write a letter, mind you...

[SGleason]

I was a charter subscriber to EW (1989; they wanted to issue a VCR tape of entertainment news every week! kd lang was on the wrapper of the only one I got!)

We didn't renew last fall. First time ever. I get increasingly desperate notices in the mail.

I've been putting my back issues on eBay by theme (sold the X-files set, can't get rid of the Michael Jackson set because no bids after 2 tries. Hmm.)

I'm keeping Issue 1, and the gold-covered Best of the Year issues.