Jamie Oliver Slams Reporter for Asking About Weight Gain; Blames Unflattering Photos

Patricia Houston and Oprah Winfrey Though no official toxicology report has been released stating that the late Whitney Houston died from substance abuse, the singer's sister-in-law and manager says she believed drugs would take part in her demise. "The handwriting was kind of on the wall," Patricia Houston says in a special interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday on OWN. Winfrey asked if Patricia thought that drugs would end up taking Whitney's life. "I would be kidding myself to say otherwise," she said. Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hilton hotel room on February 11. Oprah Winfrey to interview Whitney Houston's daughter, family Still, Patricia said the pop diva was turning her life around and drugs were less of a worry for the family recently. "Things were really changing with her, very much so. It wasn't about substance abuse or anything like that relative to the latter days... I was afraid for other things." Winfrey will also interview Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, who will share her memories of her mother, as well as how she would like her mother to be remembered. The family will also address the rumors surrounding Houston's sudden death at the age of 48. Check out an excerpt of Winfrey's interview with the Houston family, which will air Sunday at 9/8c, proceeded by a re-airing of Whitney's final TV interview with Winfrey from 2009. First Look: Patricia Houston on Whitney Houston's Death

It's Official: 'Moonrise Kingdom' will open Cannes

AndersonWes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" is positioned to start the 65th Cannes Film Festival.Cannes delegate general Thierry Fremaux introduced Thursday the film happen to be selected for your fest's exclusive opening-evening slot, even though it remains unclear whether it may have in or from competition.Cannes starts May 16, within 24 hrs "Moonrise" is slated to start in French theaters through Studiocanal. A Croisette berth has made an appearance likely since Focus Features introduced the pic would open May 25 Stateside.An ensembler occur sixties Colonial and including Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDorman, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban, "Moonrise Kingdom" is Anderson's live-action follow-around his 2009 stop-motion toon, "Fantastic Mr. Fox."Fest has tended to start with U.S. studio/niche-division game game titles lately, for instance Disney-Pixar's "Up" (2009), Universal's "Robin Hood" (2010) and also the new the new sony Classics' "Evening amount of time in Paris" (2011).Fest runs May 16-27. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

REVIEW: There's Some Spooky Stuff in Quiet House, But It's Mostly Just Arthouse Wigwaggery

Quiet House is not only a horror film but an important Little bit of Social Commentary, because you will find when you're getting for the movies third-act twist. Basically, it's not recommending that you simply watch a afraid womans face for a lot of one hour half an hour -- in sort-of real-time, surprisingly -- without any allegedly justification. This can be good-for-you, arthouse-style horror. Which does not necessarily mean it's usually useful. The gimmick goes similar to this: A young lady named Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) is proven rattling round her familys lake house in many extended takes made to own effect of real-time. We view her wandering with the water as if lost in the dream coming back for the house to greet her father, John (Adam Trese), whos remodeling the joint by getting a watch toward selling it being puzzled each time a mysterious dark-haired beauty round her very own age, Sophia (carried out by Julia Taylor Ross), appears in-front door, declaring that of all the fun occasions the two had as kids -- Sarah cant seem to bear in mind an issue. But she does tell Sophia, inside an very apparent bit of horror-assistant dialogue, The phone lines arent setup and our cells dont exercise here -- information that will later, clearly, prove useful for an individual to know. Other activities happens: For instance, Uncle Peter (Eric Sheffer Stevens), whos helping his brother and Sarah repair the house, eyes her with somewhat inappropriate lasciviousness and states, Provide you with credit -- I cant overcome how grown-up you are. Then Uncle Peter will require off, and Sarah and her father still wander the inky shadows in the old homestead, their faces illuminated only with the camping lamps they tote around. Minutes later -- or possibly could it be several hours? -- Sarah learns a noise upstairs. Father increases to analyze, and many types of seems well until theres an ominous thunk. Many of the relaxation in the picture is certainly a long study of Sarahs face, that's generally twisted in to a mask of fear and dread. It takes forever for products to begin happening in Quiet House. So when they're doing, you would like they wouldnt. The look can be a remake in the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda, directed by Gustavo Hernndez, which developed a mild splash at Cannes a few previously in line with the primary one-shot gimmick. Chris Kentis -- who also made the 2003 shark-sadism drama Open Water -- and Laura Lau did the refashioning here, and no matter the films defects may be, you'll find stretches that are fantastically suspenseful and atmospheric. Thats thanks simply for the pictures appear design: Once we hear actions treading perilously close to Sarah, we could tell the person is shod in heavy boots with rubbery soles the appear from the disposed of bottle moving across an uneven wood floor is hollow and mournful from time to time the house groans a little, as if in denial in the problems its hiding within. However theres the music activity, because of Nathan Larson, which isn't really music, but really a small, migrainey hum. And poor Elizabeth Olsen: Her face is luminous and compelling alone -- she need not do much. But she's lots of unbroken minutes to accomplish Quiet House: One second shes grimacing, the next shes practically biting her wrist to keep from screaming, the next shes to grimacing again. Please! Theres merely a lot an actress are capable of doing to fill these endless extended takes. Ultimately, Quiet House just is taken away just like a highly accomplished bit of arthouse wigwaggery -- together with a indication that careful editing, rather than languorous love of your stuff, might be the heavens strict friend. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Your Mother Will Enjoy These Approaching Film Comedies

Your Mother Will Enjoy These Approaching Film Comedies By Pete Keeley March 7, 2012 Photo by Getty Images Annette Bening To date as moms go, mine features a pretty great spontaneity andapart from the frustrating disinclination to like any film that does not finish happilygood type of movies overall. There is however one class of movies, that people call "parent comedies," where our tastes diverge. They're movies that parents everywhere find stomach-bustingly funny while possibly coaxing a little chuckle or two utilizing their children. "Father in the Bride" with Steve Martin, "Home for your Holidays" with Carol Hunter, "Fulfill the Parents" you obtain the look. They're about families, all the primary figures are gone 30, and they are largely missing of jokes about sex (erectile disorder excepted) or drugs (Nowhere pill excepted).So whereas my mother hates "Napoleon Dynamite," "Austin Forces," and each Will Ferrell movie ever, I don't think I've come across her laugh harder than through the scene in "Mrs. Doubtfire" when Robin Williams throws an apple at Pierce Brosnan's mind and qualities it with a "run-by fruiting." Have you been bending finished laughter throughout that scene? If that is the situation, you almost certainly have kids who is able to election.Well, now moms everywhere will be in luck, must be textbook parent comedy is within the pipeline. "The design of Love" stars Annette Bening just like a lady who falls for just about any guy who bears an beneficial resemblance to her dead husband. Fellow cast people include Robin Williams and Erection dysfunction Harris. One factor does produce pause: Diane Keatonwho has starred in mother-beloved comedies than anybody in historywas initially installed on play in the lead. Why did she out? Her participation may have skyrocketed this film to the parent-comedy stratosphere. With Keaton and Williams, this factor is a warmer ticket in comparison to Eagles undertaking on Leno. Bening might be too edgy. We'll see. Monika Mikkelsen and Heidi Levitt are casting before an April come from La.One more comedy set to begin shooting later, "Identity Crook," sounds hilariouswhich means my mother will in all probability hate it. It stars Jason Bateman, he of "Arrested Development" fame (Mother verbatim, circa 2005: "How is this funny for you personally?In .), just like a guy which has his identity stolen having a lady and really should deal with the lower sides that result. The titular crook is carried out by Melissa McCarthy, who was simply recently conned from the Oscar on her behalf performance in "Bridesmaids" (a film I don't even have to know my mother's opinion on). Regardless of the plot specifics being scarce, you can otherwise this could happen being great.Maybe I am in a position to convince my mother to find out it with me at night essentially remind her Diane Keaton comprises a cameo. Your Mother Will Enjoy These Approaching Film Comedies By Pete Keeley March 7, 2012 Annette Bening PHOTO CREDIT Getty Images To date as moms go, mine features a pretty great spontaneity andapart from the frustrating disinclination to like any film that does not finish happilygood type of movies overall. There is however one class of movies, that people call "parent comedies," where our tastes diverge. They're movies that parents everywhere find stomach-bustingly funny while possibly coaxing a little chuckle or two utilizing their children. "Father in the Bride" with Steve Martin, "Home for your Holidays" with Carol Hunter, "Fulfill the Parents" you obtain the look. They're about families, all the primary figures have left 30, and they are largely missing of jokes about sex (erection disorder excepted) or drugs (Nowhere pill excepted).So whereas my mother hates "Napoleon Dynamite," "Austin Forces," and every Will Ferrell movie ever, I don't think I've come across her laugh harder than through the scene in "Mrs. Doubtfire" when Robin Williams throws an apple at Pierce Brosnan's mind and qualities it with a "run-by fruiting." Have you been bending finished laughter throughout that scene? If that is the situation, you almost certainly have kids who is able to election.Well, now moms everywhere will be in luck, must be textbook parent comedy is within the pipeline. "The design of Love" stars Annette Bening just like a lady who falls for just about any guy who bears an beneficial resemblance to her dead husband. Fellow cast people include Robin Williams and Erection dysfunction Harris. One factor does produce pause: Diane Keatonwho has starred in mother-beloved comedies than anybody in historywas initially installed on play in the lead. Why did she out? Her participation may have skyrocketed this film to the parent-comedy stratosphere. With Keaton and Williams, this factor is a warmer ticket in comparison to Eagles undertaking on Leno. Bening might be too edgy. We'll see. Monika Mikkelsen and Heidi Levitt are casting before an April come from La.One more comedy set to begin shooting later, "Identity Crook," sounds hilariouswhich means my mother will in all probability hate it. It stars Jason Bateman, he of "Arrested Development" fame (Mother verbatim, circa 2005: "How is this funny for you personally?In .), just like a guy which has his identity stolen having a lady and really should deal with the lower sides that result. The titular crook is carried out by Melissa McCarthy, who was simply recently conned from the Oscar on her behalf performance in "Bridesmaids" (a movie I don't even have to know my mother's opinion on). Regardless of the plot specifics being scarce, you can otherwise this could happen being great.Maybe I am in a position to convince my mother to find out it with me at night essentially remind her Diane Keaton comprises a cameo.

Can Oscars provide ABC a lift?

The cast of Cirque du Soleil performs onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards.Ashley Judd in "Missing"Kristin Chenoweth in "GCB" Thanks to hit reality competish The Voice, the weeks No. 1 series in 18-49, NBC is currently ahead of ABC for the season. Big ratings for the Oscars on Sunday lifted ABC to a rare primetime ratings victory last week and, the net hopes, should help kickstart its spring sked. ABC doesn't benefit from monster football ratings like the other nets, so it relies on its entertainment series and the one-time shot of the Oscars to provide a jolt. Sunday's telecast of "The 84th Annual Academy Awards" averaged an 11.7 rating/27 share in adults 18-49 and 39.34 million viewers overall -- nearly double the net's highest-rated same-night demo score for any program this season (a 6.1 in premiere week for "Modern Family"). And the Alphabet used the kudocast to shine a light on its midseason hopefuls, which will roll out beginning Sunday with "GCB" followed by Thursday dramas "Missing" and "Scandal" and Wednesday comedy "Don't Trust the B in Apt. 23." ABC will need a good showing by one or two of them to catch or pass NBC and avoid falling into the basement for the season. The Peacock, aided by the Super Bowl and now with primetime's top demo draw in "The Voice," still holds a roughly 8% advantage on the Alphabet in adults 18-49 with nearly three months to go (2.68 rating to 2.49). Overall for the week of Feb. 20-26, ABC won rather easily in adults 18-49 with a 3.2 rating/9 share, followed by Fox (2.4/6), CBS (2.3/6), NBC (1.8/5), TNT (1.5/4) and Univision (1.4/4). For a second straight week, NBC showed double-digit gains while Fox fell off by double digits. ABC also prevailed in adults 25-54 (3.9/9 to 3.2/8 for CBS) and total viewers (10.7 million to 10.1 million for CBS). For ABC, the Academy Awards virtually matched last year's 18-49 score while growing 4% in total viewers (Daily Variety, Feb. 28). The show skewed older than usual (median age of 52.8 vs. 50.6 last year), faring best among key demos in women 25-54 (16.6 rating, up 7%) and worst in males 12-34 (6.2 rating, down 21%) While the Oscars continue to under-index among African-Americans (making up less than 8% of its audience), viewership among blacks was up 20% year to year (2.96 million vs. 2.47 million). Elsewhere for ABC last week, "Modern Family" (4.8/12, 11.54m) and "Grey's Anatomy" (3.1/8, 9.06m) hit season lows, but since they are the leaders in full-week DVR playback this season, it's hard to knock them too much. And Friday's "Shark Tank" remained strong (1.8/6, 5.86m), bouncing back to match its series high in the demo for a regular episode. Fox was down more than 30% from the same week a year ago (when it aired one extra hour of "American Idol"). The music talent show posted more declines and is looking much more mortal in its 11th season. Wednesday's two-hour seg (5.1/14, 16.10m) led the night but was merely the No. 3 series of the week in 18-49. CBS claimed the week's top scripted show in demos with "The Big Bang Theory" (5.3/16, 16.20m), which beat "American Idol" head to head by about 27%. Other standouts for the net included 10 p.m. dramas "Hawaii Five-0" (2.9/7, 10.40m) and "CSI" (2.9/8, 11.91m) as well as Thursday rookie "Person of Interest" (3.1/8, 14.56m), which tied "Grey's Anatomy" in 18-49 for the first time. NBC had the week's No. 1 series in 18-49 with Monday's "The Voice" (6.0/15, 16.04m); the show following it, "Smash" (2.3/6, 6.47m), dropped off some more in its third week but stabilized on Monday of the current week despite a softer "Voice" lead-in. On cable, AMC's "The Walking Dead" (3.8/9 in 18-49, 7.04m) was primetime's No. 1 drama despite facing the Academy Awards. On the same night, the NBA All-Star Game on TNT (3.3/9, 7.07m) was down 17% in the demo and 22% in total viewers vs. last year when it aired the week before the Oscars; one day earlier, "NBA All-Star Saturday Night" dominated the night for TNT (2.9/9, 6.24m). Discovery's "Gold Rush" wrapped its second season on a strong note (2.0/6 in 18-49, 5.06m) -- standing as Friday's No. 1 show in 18-49 as well as in all male demos; in men 18-49, it doubled up dramas "Grimm" and "Fringe" in men 18-34 (2.6/8 vs. 1.3/4). The second annual "Hall of Game Awards" on Cartoon Network, hosted by Shaquille O'Neal, drew 2.59 million viewers Monday -- including year-to-year gains of roughly 90% in boys 6-11 (to 886,000) and kids 2-11 (to 1.47 million). Also Monday, VH1's "Basketball Wives" (1.5/4 in 18-49, 2.54m) kicked off its fourth season by matching the franchise's top demo score. Contact Rick Kissell at rick.kissell@variety.com

Alan Ball Steps Down as Showrunner of True Blood for Season 6

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times on last week's Parenthood. Jasmine (Joy Bryant) professed her love for Crosby (Dax Shepard), just as his sister, Julia, (Erika Christensen) learned the heart-breaking news that she was not going to be a mother again. And don't push those tissue boxes away just yet. "I'm really proud of the finale. It was one of those episodes where so many things come together and it's got good humor, it's emotional," showrunner Jason Katims tells TVGuide.com. "It's a nice mix of seeing some things come to a really satisfying ending and on the other hand, opening up... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Erika ChristensenJason RitterJoy BryantLauren GrahamPeter KrauseRobert GreenblattJason KatimsParenthood

Oscar Flashback: Best Picture Nominees Of fifty years Ago Get New Existence

Hollywood remains busy this seasoncelebrating the Academy Award nominees to find the best Picture. Of 1961. Clearly there is lots ofattention paid out towardthe nine nominees to find the best Picture of 2011 too but the amount of of those are we able to be talking about but nonetheless watching on large or little screens fifty years from now? Would they manage to offer the same endurance and influence that Oscar’s crop of bestpicture nominees within the Academy’s 34th year? Consider the nominees. West Side Story, Judgment At Nuremberg, The Hustler, The Guns Of Navarone, Fanny. So when there has been nine nominees because you will find this year, this list most likely may have incorporated Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Splendor Inside The Grass, El Cid and La Dolce Vita. In 2062 whatwill we be saying aboutThe Artist, The Descendants, Moneyball, Hugo, Evening amount of time in Paris, The Tree of Existence, Very Noisy and very Close, War Equine andThe Help? Maybe there's major corrections, elaborate boxedhome entertainment sets, hands and footprint occasions at Grauman’s Chinese, specialevenings within the Academy,new books devoted for their dissection, Broadway adaptations? Well people are exactly a couple of of the methods the remains remembering the Oscar-laden sounding 󈨁. West Side Story was the season’s large champion , producing 11 nominations and winning 10 including Best Picture, a substantial sweep for your musical that recently loved a effective Broadway revival and contains been chronicled in more detail in the recent book, Something’s Coming, Something Good: West Side Story as well as the American Imagination by Misha Berson. The filmgrossed an thought $43 million (just like $300 million today) andaccording for the book is rated by American Film Institute one of the two finest musicals available , second only to Singin’ Even Though It Is Pouring down rain.MGMhas released a more elaborate 4-Disc50th anniversary Blu Ray package tocelebrate the film and, fifty years after its opening Russ Tamblyn, who carried out Lick additionally to Supporting Oscar individuals who win George Chakiris (Bernardo) and Rita Moreno (Anita) got their hands and feet prints in November at theChinese theatrewhere the film initially opened up. According to Berson , “Since the 1961 release, the film has maintained its status becoming an all pervading classic together with a combination-cultural, universal crowd pleaser. Inside the second decade in the twenty -first century, it’s still frequently examined at film festivals at repetition cinemas focusing in classic movies”. Consider Judgment At Nuremberg, Stanley Kramer’s effective think about the Holocaust as seen using the prism in the famous Nuremberg Nazi tests. It absolutely was almost uncommon to handle that subject within the timein this kind of large , all-star Hollywood movie and ittoo received 11 Oscar nominations, winning two for Abby Mann’s adaptation of his Playhouse 90 TV play and greatest Actor Maximilian Schell. The film co-starred Spencer Tracy,Burt Lancaster,Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich while others.On October the Academy of motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored it getting a unique 50th anniversary evening that Schell travelled in from Europe. Only at that screening Rabbi Marvin Heir referred to as film ” a trailblazer andSchell told tales of the making. Tom Brokaw, Alec Baldwin and co-star William Shatner brought recorded remembrances in the daring film that Heir saluted due to its “genius from the director and cast”. Consider The Guns of Navarone. Request any kid who had been elevated circa 󈨁 which probably tops this list of favorite adventure movies – ever. Gregory Peck , David Niven and Anthony Quinn starred inside the sensational World War Ii -set epic which has been thoroughly digitally restored by Columbia now just released on Blu Ray in recognition of the 50th. American Cinematheque situated a worldwide premiere screening in the restoration on October 21st within the Egyptian in Hollywood. It received 7 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and won for Effects. Consider The Hustler. In their just released autobiography co-star Piper Laurie produces of her disppointment while using film. She's possibly the only person. It remains a classic, acquired nine nominations including Best Picture, Laurie to find the best Actress (which she terms “unbelievable”), Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott (they declined) and won for Black & White-colored Art Direction and Cinematography. It even sparked a follow-up 25 years or so later , The Color of money that finally did win Newman an Oscar as’Fast EddieFelson’.Fox released The Hustler recently in the pristine Blu-ray edition and Warrior director Gavin O’Connor has co-written a stage adaptation to think about to Broadway later this year co-starring Renee Zellweger. The fifth nominee Fanny (5 nominations)was an attempt from director Joshua Logan to recapture the miracle of 1958′s large Oscar champion, Gigi, by reteaming its stars Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier alongwith Best Actor nominee Charles Boyeris alone in the 󈨁 crop being largely neglected. Just a little distributor finally has put the original Warner Bros. release on DVD and Caron described it remains a person favorite but what film prints exist aren't in great shape. It is good to find out that certain restored. It's 1961′s forgotten treasure. Ironically possibly most likely probably the most lasting and beloved movie of 1961, Breakfast At Tiffany’s , wasn't a Best Picture nominee at allbut did manage 5 nominations includinga Best Actress jerk for Katherine Hepburn and won for Original Score which is legendary song , Moon River. The form and designs inside the film are actually forever copiedits constantly selling out revival house tests andParmount just launched it on Blu-ray and recently opened up a substantial restoration within the Academy and TCM Classic Film Festival. Several recentbooks are actually written recently on its making including Mike Wasson’s Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and Sarah Gristwood’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Condition 50th Anniversary Companion. It's been the subject of the 90′s rock hit, “Breakfast atTiffany’s” with the band Dark Blue Something. Will any 2011′s selection understand this kind of love and attention and attention half-century from now? I'm going to be writing a follow-around this informative article in 2064. Stay up-to-date.