The Liverpool Goalie

Jo Idstad is thirteen. Jo is a good student at school, but he is convinced that life is dangerous. In order to survive at school, he has to avoid deadly dangers at all costs which, according to him include his roughneck classmates, life-threatening sports and pretty girls. Hed much rather stick to his preferred activities such as solving mathematical equations and swapping football cards. These are the tricks that help Jo keep his life under control. But then one day, a new girl, Mari, joins his class and nothing is the same again.

Kathy Griffin Fires Back at A&E's 'Hoarders' in New Emmy Campaign Ad (Exclusive)

Kathy Griffin is firing back at A&E, which used her quotes to promote its reality show Hoarders in an Emmy campaign ad.our editor recommendsKathy Griffin, Bravo End 'My Life on the D List'Kathy Griffin Coming to BroadwayEXCLUSIVE: Kathy Griffin Dares to Be Thrown Off CNN's Live New Year's Eve BroadcastKathy Griffin Avoids CNN Ejection, Resolves to Offend Willow Palin in 2011 Last month, A&E debuted a print ad for Hoarders -- which is nominated in the reality program category alongside Bravo's Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List -- that used boldfaced quotes from Griffin touting the A&E show. STORY: 2011 Emmy Award Nominations The blurbs included "My favorite new show," "I'm obsessed with Hoarders" and "Hoarders is so f#*@ing fantastic!" -- all with Griffin's name's printed underneath. In fact, Griffin regularly mentions her obsession with the A&E show and has even talked about it in her stand-up specials that have aired on Bravo. But, as you might expect, she's not ready to let the ad go without a response. STORY: Kathy Griffin Among Guest Judges on Upcoming Season of 'America's Next Top Model' Bravo is set to unveil its own Emmy campaign ad for D-List on Friday in which Griffin is shown surrounded by stacks upon stacks of newspapers and magazines with the lines, "Quoting me in an Emmy ad? Bravo, Hoarders. BRAVO." For her part, Griffin told The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive statement why Emmy voters should award her the statuette over her A&E competitor. "I went to Wasilla, knocked on Sarah Palin's door with Levi Johnston, marched on Washington to repeal DADT ['Don't Ask, Don't Tell'], had a pelvic exam on camera, entered the underground world of toddler pageants (where I am still the reigning Little Miss Mature Lady Grand Supreme BTW) and got acting lessons from Liza f---ing Minnelli," she said. "Hoard that, bitches!" STORY: 'Same Name': Kathy Griffin, Mike Tyson and Reggie Bush Accept CBS' 'Freaky Friday' Challenge This marks Hoarders' first Emmy nom in the reality program category and Griffin's sixth. D-List previously won the award in 2007 and again the following year. Also nominated in the category are CBS' Undercover Boss, Discovery's Deadliest Catch and Mythbusters and PBS' Antiques Roadshow. Related Topics Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Kathy Griffin Awards Bravo Emmys 2011

Imax to bow second screen in Singapore

Imax Corp. is expanding in the Southeast Asian market with a second giant-screen theater in Singapore set to open in 2012. Shaw Theatres, one of Singapore's top exhibs, inked an agreement to install an Imax theater system in the new JCube entertainment complex. The agreement comes after the success of Singapore's first commercial Imax venue, the Shaw Theaters Lido Imax, which opened in May and has already generated more than $1.4 million in gross box office Shaw Theaters, which owns six multiplexes in Singapore, has been operating cinemas in the city-state since 1927. Imax has 560 theaters in 46 countries. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

O'Hara, Moayed join 'Lear'

O'HaraMoayed Gilliam Kelli O'Hara, Arian Moayed and Seth Gilliam are probably the thesps to possess became a member of the cast from the approaching manufacture of "King Lear" at Off Broadway's Public Theater, where they'll appear opposite Mike Waterston because the title character.O'Hara, noted for her Broadway tuner output including "South Off-shore" and "The Pajama Game," will have talking daughter Regan within the show. Moayed, lately nommed for any Tony for his role in "Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo," is cast because the upstanding Edgar while Gilliam ("The Wire") seems as his jealous half-brother Edmund.Michael McKean and John Douglas Thompson are also aboard for that production, to become staged by helmer James Macdonald ("Top Women," "Drunk Enough to express I Really Like You?"). "Lear" was last seen in the Public inside a 2007 revival that starred Kevin Kline.The most recent "Lear" is going to be among a number of Bard choices this year in the Public, the organization which produces the Shakespeare around the block series every summer time. More compact-scale stagings of "Love's Labor's Lost" and "Titus Andronicus" are also on tap."Lear" starts previews March. 18 in front of a November. 8 opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Will End 'Desperate Housewives' In May 2012 After 8th Season

EXCLUSIVE: It's a sad day for the smart and sassy suburban women on Wisteria Lane and the worldwide audience of approximately 120 million who watch them. We've just learned that ABC will announce on Sunday at the Television Critics Association's press tour that this 2011-2012 season will be the last for long-running Desperate Housewives. Key castmembers are starting to be told, and we hear that Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria are shocked and saddened since the ABC Studios series created by Marc Cherry was expected to continue until 2013 after the longtime showrunner had said that he wanted the show to go for 9 seasons. ABC also contracted withthe show's four starsfor the next season after lengthy salary negotiations with the quartet this past season. In addition to signing them for this coming season, ABC also got options on them for Season 9. But when this season's premiere episode is broadcast on Sunday, September 25th,it will be the first for the series without Cherry at the helm. He stepped down at the end of last season as executive producer/showrunner and is expected to be a consultant on Season 8 while focusing on development of other series. Cherry also was slapped by former castmate Nicolette Sheridan with an embarrassing lawsuit over a purported slapwhich is still winding its way through the Los Angeles courts. Her claims of battery, wrongful termination, and unlawful retaliation will be argued in front of a jury. Since the provocative and profitable dramedy's premiere on October 3, 2004, the show has been a hit with viewersandcritics alike: a solid Nielsen performer as well asa multiple Emmy andScreen Actors Guild award winner. The series premiere drew 21.6 million viewers and the show's first season finale attracted over 30 million viewers.Since 2006 and continuing into 2010, it was the most-watched comedy series internationally, with an average viewership of 51.6 million viewers across 68 territories.Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning show for 2010, with $2.74 million per half hour.

Ben Promote is John Gotti Junior.

When Travolta Qantas Video was lately cast as John Gotti in approaching gangster flick, Gotti: Within The Shadow Of My Dad, the question on everybody's lips was who does be playing his boy?That question has been clarified, using the Mechanic's Ben Promote confirmed as John Gotti Junior. He'll join a cast which includes Al Pacino and Kelly Preston, and can re-team together with his director on Liberty Levels, Craig Levinson."Craig Levinson was the very first director who required an opportunity on me," stated Promote within an official statement. "I've got a career due to him. I'm deeply honoured for that chance to utilize Craig and also the amazing cast he's putting together to assist bring the storyline from the Gotti family towards the screen."Variety reviews that Levinson is presently working hard re-writing the script initially composed by Evaluate This author Leo Rossi. The project is not without its share of troubles, with Joe Pesci (once cast to experience Gotti's second-in-command) filing a suit from the production on the pay dispute.The film follows the tests and hardships of "Dapper Don" John Gotti, the boss of recent York's well known Gambino crime family. The actual-existence John Gotti Junior. is becoming a consultant about the project, that is set to start shooting in The month of january.Source: VarietyIs Promote the best guy to do the job? Share your ideas below.

Samantha Ronson Charged with Drunk driving

Samantha Ronson Samantha Ronson was arrested on two misdemeanor Drunk driving counts, Us Weekly reviews.She was stopped at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Baker, Calif., for speeding and was handed balance tests after showing signs and symptoms of being impaired, a police officer told playboy. Take a look at photos of Samantha RonsonRonson, who dated Lindsay Lohan off and on for 2 years, accepted that they had drank late the prior evening and was on her behalf way home from Vegas. "She was friendly and talkative," the officer stated. "She was cooperative through the whole ordeal."The 33-year-old DJ was launched Monday mid-day.