The Jane Report 2-2-10
MTV did an online poll asking fans to vote for their favorite performance at Sunday night’s Grammys and Pink came out on top with 33 percent of the vote. Pink had a big advantage because producers had her perform solo. Most of the rest of the night’s performances were mismatched collaborations that were mediocre to horrible. The Lady Gaga/Elton John duet came in second. …
Preliminary numbers show the Grammy show drew an audience of 25.8 million Americans — the biggest audience for the telecast in six years. In fact the audience grew by 35% over last year.
Conan O’Brien is reportedly shelling out his own cash to some ex-staffers who didn’t get jack from that $7.5 million separation deal from NBC. According to sources close to production, Conan’s stagehands from “The Tonight Show” were not covered by the NBC severance plan. But Conan is promising to pay his nearly 50 person crew at least six weeks severance out of his own pocket. The union for his former crew, IATSE Local 33, says all the members who worked with Conan are “very happy” with the way he handled the whole mess.
30th Annual Razzie Award Nominees. Winners announced Saturday, March 6, 2010:
Worst Picture of 2009
All About Steve
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Land of The Lost
Old Dogs
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Worst Actor of 2009
All Three Jonas Brothers - JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3-D CONCERT EXPERIENCE
Will Ferrell - LAND OF THE LOST
Steve Martin - PINK PANTHER 2
Eddie Murphy - IMAGINE THAT
John Travolta - OLD DOGS
Worst Actress of 2009
Beyonce - OBSESSED
Sandra Bullock - ALL ABOUT STEVE
Miley Cyrus - HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE
Megan Fox - JENNIFER’S BODY/ TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE/FALLEN
Sarah Jessica Parker - DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?
Matthew Fox (Dr. Jack Shephard) says he’s is done with TV when “Lost” wraps up this year. He tells Us magazine, “I’m either going to make movies with filmmakers I want to work with or I’ll be doing something else entirely,” adding that his lifestyle doesn’t require him to earn “millions” of dollars.
The NFL is expecting more than 100 million Super Bowl viewers. That would shatter last year’s record of 98.7 million viewers.
CBS has banned another Super Bowl ad. The network has rejected a potential Super Bowl ad from KGB, a company that answers consumer questions via text message for .99 cents apiece. The ad features two wives calling in KGB agents because their golfer husbands get their heads stuck where the sun doesn’t shine, after debating the merits of global warming. “Next time your husbands don’t have a clue make sure they text KGB,” says one of the agents to the wives.
The house in San Francisco, where the Tanner family supposedly lived in “Full House”, is for sale. The house was shown in the opening credits, but the show was filmed on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif. The real estate website, Zillow.com lists the house at $1.4 million, but the asking price is $4 milllion. Bonnie Spindler, who is listing the house, says she hopes the house sells to a “Full House” fan.
There is an amateur video making the rounds on the web that shows a disheveled looking Nick Nolte searching trash cans and dumpsters along the Venice Boardwalk. Apparently he wasn’t dumpster diving though. He told the guy who shot the video that he was looking for a bag someone had swiped from him. A mumbling Nolte hints at what may be the reason he was so eager to find the bag –his stash! “Somebody’s probably swallowed a bottle of Xanax by now,” he says.
Gen. Larry Platt, on a flight from L.A. to Atlanta yesterday morning, did an impromptu performance of “Pants on the Ground” after some other passengers recognized him and begged him to do it.
A studio version of “Pants on the Ground” has been sent to radio stations all over the country, but according to TMZ.com, General Larry Platt has nothing to do with it. Apparently Larry’s former manager Jason Mills and a producer named Carlos Thornton recorded the song, and they say they don’t need Larry’s approval because it’s “promotional” and not for profit.
BIRTHDAYS
Shakira: 33
Christie Brinkley: 56
Morgan Fairchild: 60
About 75 stars got together Monday to re-record the 1985 charity anthem “We are the World” to aid Haiti. As he did 25 years ago, Quincy Jones is helming the project. The original raised more than $30 million for USA for Africa.
Michael Jackson’s brother Tito is being sued for a tribute concert performance that never happened. A Detroit promoter says he fronted $7,500 for the show. Tito says he never saw the money.
Ronnie Wood is taking anti-craving tablets to help him stop drinking. The Rolling Stones rocker is reportedly taking a Campral tablet every day to help him cope with the withdrawal symptoms.