Cher. Christina. BURLESQUE!

Yay the new Showgirls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqMyaQbeMvg

Whoops, already pulled. They were that proud of the product, then.

sony pictures entertainment sure works fast

Enjoy this in the meantime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlesque_%28film%29

holy god, this is not even right

Irving Azoff feels otherwise:

christina fans. burlesque will blow your minds. just be patient

please be patient . you will see christina everywhere as soon as movie promo starts. she is working nonstop finishing music for the movie

Everyone should follow Irving BTW because he is a grade A whiner.

director was dude from last american virgin
also, according to imdb "Boyfriend of media mogul David Geffen during the mid-to-late 1980s"

Soon enough, Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer named Gerogia (Julianne Hough)

Please, PLEASE don't let that be a typo. Please let her name be "Gerogia."

Oh good, we have trailer again:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/08/preview-review-burlesque-christina-aguilera-cher-trailer.html

I knew you'd start this thread up, Ned.

You should be careful about how you toss out the name Christina around here, Ned.

there's another woman by that name who is more likely to be smashed objectified by the ilx readership.

THE SHOWGIRL WEARS GLITTERY PRADA AT THE CABARET

IN A WORLD...where a singer's career descended before she'd had the chance to make her vanity musical flop...one woman dares to make one anyway

veronica mars is in this, you guys

there's another woman by that name who is more likely to be smashed objectified by the ilx readership.

xtina hendricks?

I knew you'd start this thread up, Ned.

One tries.

xtina hendricks?

Man, if only SHE was the lead in this!

That's who came to mind for me.

I keep saying "Gerogia" out loud and then loling at myself

xpost -- In your head you left out the 'to mind' part.

Ew dawg, what you talking about. I'd just like to ask her out for dessert to determine if we have mutual interests and worldviews.

this would be an even weirder movie if it was Christina Hendricks and Alicia Silverstone

I think you mean a more AWESOME movie.

man, tucci is in everything right now.

I knew you'd start this thread up, Ned.

― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Friday, August 6, 2010 8:38 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

i was going to and then i didn't

i love cher

New trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2r_8l1c2nQ

New song!

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/burlesque/express/

New photos! From the book! That Cher and Christina wrote in! Sort of!

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/51846705.html

Etc etc.

And more from the costume designer:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sneaks-burlesque-20101031,0,320915.story

<3 Kristen Bell in full-on bitch mode, otherwise this looks pretty dire.

God help me, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go see this.

Too many cast members took their chill pills in this one. Or the screenwriter did. Diva antics kept to a sad minimum. Do they not know their target audience?!

As a die-hard Cher fan, I was eagerly anticipating this :(

Cher gets a nice 11th hour ballad. So there's that.

so this isn't even enjoyably camp in the "so bad it's good" senese? smh @ christina aguilera and her questionable career decisions.

It's like they deliberately avoided the "so bad it's good" route. Instead, it's just so so-so it's bad.

Well, the first half is sort of enjoyably tacky. Then the drama kicks in (and not the good kind of drama, either).

lmk how much Cam Gigandet skin

Enough, though I'm not a fan.

this movie was made by the studio head's boyfriend whose only directing credit was a straight to video movie staring angie harmon. its impossible that this is not shit.

I am amused by the fact that burlesque has been dead for about 60 years, 25 if you spell it burlesk.

Antin was born in Portland, Oregon. He is remembered as Troy, the bad-guy preppie jock in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies and as a co-lead in the film The Last American Virgin. He also had a memorable performance as one of the rapists in the Academy Award-winning film The Accused. He can also be remembered as Jessie in Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" video.

the studio head's boyfriend whose only directing credit was a straight to video movie staring angie harmon
lol

was it the one where she's spied on by her neighbor through a camera in her shower? if so, it was on lifetime, i saw it, and it was hilarious

Steve Antin also appeared in Sandra Bernhard's quite good film of her brilliant late '80s stage show Without You I'm Nothing

I keep wanting to see this movie, but I know it would be a bad idea. It's the cinematic equivalent to a twinkie.

More on that boyfriend, the studio boss boyfriend and his ways:

This week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter explores how the high drama around the movie, due out November 24, centered around Culpepper and the first-time director Antin rather than the movie's famous divas, Cher and Christina Aguilera.
A source on the project says that the close relationship between the two led to some "jaw-dropping" clashes on the highly-charged set.
* In the midst of one argument, Culpepper poured an iced tea over Antin's head, forcing the director to recoil backwards into a rack of clothes.
* The exchanges were often so intense that a source tells THR that Cher told Culpepper at one point, "Clint, I would like a calmer set."
* At one point a distraught Aguilera turned to her manager Irving Azoff who called Culpepper. "Dude," Azoff said. "She came from an abused childhood, you cannot yell like this."

Rex Reed has some words. They're bitchy. WHO KNEW?

Too many cast members took their chill pills in this one. Or the screenwriter did.

I only just now noticed that one of the screenwriters was frickin' Diablo Cody!

I am amused by the fact that burlesque has been dead for about 60 years, 25 if you spell it burlesk.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

It's a revival, Morbz!

Seriously though, burlesque shows are popping up in some cities lately, right?

This movie seems to be the most guaranteed failure since Delgo, so I'm rooting for it.

* At one point a distraught Aguilera turned to her manager Irving Azoff who called Culpepper. "Dude," Azoff said. "She came from an abused childhood, you cannot yell like this."

Dude! not cool.

+ "Pretend you're an artist, except instead of painting a canvas, you're painting your face" </brendadickson>
+ Cher casually and halfheartedly throwing out a [hilariously boring] musical number as she's on her way out the door, she sits in a chair and sings half of a song and then stands up and sings the rest.
+ Stanley Tucci lying in bed without a shirt

- That really awkward Cher-Tucci dance that happened so they could let everyone know that ***HE'S GAY***
- The rest of the film

i find it really surprising that this movie is not good (i have not seen it yet). i don't really believe in the "so bad it's good" thing. if something's good, it's good - no need to quantify it with the guilt-precaution. this seriously seems like it could be fantastic. if this were done by the right person, in the right generation, it would be a classic.

from what eric says, it sounds like it's more "coyote ugly" than that, which would indeed be disappointing. but i'll have to see for myself.

tbh surm I thought of you once while I was watching it and thinking that you would really enjoy it.

The movie is good, surm. Like, surprisingly good. It is actually so competent that it is almost boring; it saves itself by centering on the musical numbers, which are cheesy in exactly the right way. Cher and Xtina sing their faces off.

Ramz have you heard 'stina's "Express"? Because I usually don't go for music like this but I think it's very good and it kind of reminds me of that one song from Sugar's "Beaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhiTB3N8ous

the song "Feeling Better" by Sugar

The movie is good, surm. Like, surprisingly good. It is actually so competent that it is almost boring; it saves itself by centering on the musical numbers, which are cheesy in exactly the right way. Cher and Xtina sing their faces off.

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Saturday, December 4, 2010 6:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

what i like to hear!!

i will listen, stevo