Sinead O'Connor Seeks a "Very Sweet Sex-Starved Man" Online

Sinead O'Connor Sinead O'Connor is "in desperate need of a very sweet sex-starved man" and she wants everyone to know it.The Irish singer has taken to her blog and Twitter to snare a potential suitor and to lament the current lack of romance in her life."My sh---uation sexually/affectionately speaking is so dire that inanimate objects are starting to look good as are inappropriate and/or unavailable men and/or inappropriate and/or unavailable fruits and vegetables. I tell you yams are looking like the winners," she writes. "Needless to say what I do for a living makes it hard for me to find men that only want me cuz they like my (legendary) arse. Yet I am in the peak of my sexual prime and way too lovely to be living like a nun. and it's VERY depressing."When can you next catch Sinead O'Connor on TV, online or on demand? Add her to your Watchlist and you'll know for sureO'Connor then lists requirements for her future beau and an email address for applicants. Among the conditions: He can't be younger than 44 (her age); can't be named Brian or Nigel; can't use hair gel, hair dryers or hair dye; and must have stubble. "Stubble is a non-negotiable must. Any removal of stubble would be upsetting for me," she says. "Must be very 'snuggly'. Not just wham-bam."After fielding complaints, O'Connor lifted her ban on Brians and Nigels, encouraging them to apply, along with lesbians, who will "also be very much considered." As for her sexual preferences, the singer details rather explicitly that she would perform anal sex. Watch videos of Sinead O'ConnorO'Connor further amended her age requirements - to the 38 to 55 range - after penning an open letter to Irish TV host Ryan Tubridy. "Any man wishing to make a case for himself must be between 38 and 55 (that's cus Ryan is 38) un attached, and aware that he WILL be dumped at the drop of a hat if either Ryan, Adam Clayton, or Robert Downey Junior stake a claim," she warns."I want to 'make lurve,'" O'Connor adds. "Sweet and filthy LURVE. With sweet and filthy men. If u don't have both sweetness and filth don't apply. I want 'sweet lurve' with music on. Say it again Sinead .. Like u really mean it this time.. I WANT TO BE LURVED STUPID BY SWEET FILTHY MEN WITH MUSIC ON. Ok? We clear? Ahem... Good. Now I wanna know what music you'd lurve me with."

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Friday Box Office: Rocked Like a Hurricane

Most expected depressed box office numbers this weekend, but even negative nellies probably didn’t expect to see this. With Hurricane Irene battering the eastern seaboard, all three new releases stumbled badly on Friday, with opening days ranging from $2.3 million (Our Idiot Brother) to $4 million (Colombiana). Said one industry insider to Deadline: “Any way you slice it business is getting creamed this weekend.” Thanks, Mother Nature! Your Friday box office is here. 1. THE HELP: $4.2 million ($86.4 million) 2. COLOMBIANA: $4 million (new) 3. DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK: $3.4 million (new) 4. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: $2.5 million ($142.3 million) 5. OUR IDIOT BROTHER: $2.3 million (new) [Estimates via Deadline]

Alex Winter Spins Napster Tale As Docu

Alex Winter, who started his career as half of the Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure tandem before transitioning to director of commercials and TV shows, is finally helming a movie about the formation of controversial music file-sharing service Napster. The surprise is that after 10 years of trying to make a narrative feature, Winter’s shooting it as a documentary backed by VH1, the same division that made 2008sAnvil: The Story of Anvil. Winter originally made his deal with Paramount’s MTV Films and wrote a script, only to watch that division crater and see his birth of a technological revolution storyline drive The Social Network, which even had early Napster pioneer Shawn Parker in a key role. Rather than scrap Napster, Winter is going back to all the sources for his script, armed with a camera. The rise and fall of Napster and the birth of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology created by Shawn Fanning when he was a college student, changed music to movies, and made possible everything from Julian Assange, WikiLeaks to the iPod and Facebook, Winter told me. It became an expression of youth revolt, and contributed to a complete shift in how information, media and governments work. And it is a fascinating human story, where this 18-year-old kid invents a peer-to-peer file-sharing system, and brings it to the world six months later.” Technological Luddites like myself equate Napster with the rampant piracy that hobbled the music industry and killed the album, forcing bands to tour if they want to make money. Winter said a documentary format allows voices on both sides do some venting, but he maintains that Fanning’s intention was a pay system similar to what Apple’s iTunes became. Nobody wanted to deal with this college kid and the music industry took a hard stance and focused on shutting him down, Winter said. It’s a gray area. I can understand Fannings side, but I can also empathize with the horror that Metallicas Lars Ulrich felt when a single that wasnt even finished ended up on the radio. Winter said that Napsters Fanning and Parker are participating, as well as a group of label heads and musical artists hes still pulling together. The films being produced by Maggie Malina, an exec at MTV Films when Winter first pitched the pic. As for the question Winter inevitably is asked in any interview, he said that he and Keanu Reeves have a Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure sequel script by original scribes Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. He realizes they’d better get moving to avoid it being a geriatric adventure, but said its early days on that project.

You Can Just Call Her 'Katie'

It looks like Katie Couric has settled on a name for her new ABC talk show that debuts in fall 2012, and we bet you can guess it. Following the likes of Anderson (Cooper), Ellen (DeGeneres) and even Oprah, Couric's syndicated program will be called simplyKatie. TVNewser has the news as well as some promotional material, including a shot of a smiling Couric standing arms folded in front of a wispy, pastel-colored background -- a long way from her spot in the network anchor chair at CBS News.The New York-based daytime talker, which will be executive produced by Jeff Zucker, is only part of a far-reaching deal Couric signed with ABC in June that includes work for ABC News.

Tony Scott remaking The Wild Bunch

Not content to let his brother Ridley hog all the headlines with his upcoming Blade Runner follow-up, Tony Scott is making waves in Hollywood with the announcement that the Unstoppable director is planning a remake of blood-spattered western The Wild Bunch.According to Deadline, Scott is currently in advanced talks with Warner to helm their update of Sam Peckinpah's bruising classic. Ocean's Eleven producer Jerry Weintraub is already on board, while L.A. Confidential writer Brian Helgeland has penned the screenplay.Before he gets stuck into The Wild Bunch however, Scott's next project will be biker flick Hell's Angels, for which the director is pursuing Jeff Bridges to play the lead. Bridges is earmarked to play gang leader Sonny Barger with the film focusing upon his relationship with a young drifter.However, if Scott is successful in bagging his man, it will probably mean that Hells Angels won't begin filming until next summer at the earliest. Bridges is currently touring his new music album, before shooting R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds and turning his hand to fantasy film The Seventh Son.Scott should have plenty to keep him occupied in the meantime, though. As well as the aforementioned projects, he's also attached to direct the Top Gun sequel, an adaptation of John Grisham's The Associate and long-awaited crime flick Potzdamer Platz.

Leo reads part on the 'Side'

Melissa Leo has signed on to appear alongside Zachary Quinto in a benefit reading of Warren Leight play "Side Man" in East Hampton later this month. Leo and Quinto will be joined by five thesps, including Angelica Torn and Frank Wood, who appeared in the play's original Broadway cast in 1998. Reading will benefit legit troupe Naked Angels, which was involved in the early development of the play. Quinto, who had an Off Broadway stint last season in the revival of "Angels in America," plays the son of a struggling jazz musician played by Wood, who won a Tony for his perf. Leo has signed on as the musician's alcoholic wife, a part played on Broadway by Edie Falco. The success of "Side Man," which won the 1999 new play Tony, helped launch the career of playwright Leight, who went on to become a busy TV scribe on skeins including "In Treatment," "Lights Out" and two editions of "Law and Order." Reading, set for Aug. 28 at East Hampton's Guild Hall, is helmed by former Naked Angels a.d. and playwright Geoffrey Nauffts ("Next Fall"). Next up for Naked Angels is a fall staging of Zayd Dohrn play "Outside People," co-produced with the Vineyard Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Disney pulls 'Lone Ranger' reins

''The Lone Ranger'' was always envisioned as a high-profile tentpole for Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. But the Mouse House and producer are now trying to rein in the costs of the actioner before the price to produce the pic gallops away from them. Despite reports that Disney has pulled the plug on the bigscreen adaptation that will have Gore Verbinski helm Armie Hammer as the masked man and Johnny Depp co-star as Tonto, the pic is far from dead at the studio, sources close to the production told Variety. Both parties are looking to trim the film's escalating budget to get it closer to the $200 million that Disney was looking to spend to make the movie, currently skedded to shoot in October. Film will shoot in New Mexico, which will offer the studio tax breaks. Scrutinizing the budget shouldn't come as much of a surprise, with studios often combing over a film's costs before a film gets the greenlight, especially at cost-conscious congloms. Disney has been high on the prospects of working with Depp again on a potential new franchise, after the fourth ''Pirates'' pic hauled in more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. ''Lone Ranger'' already has been dated for a Dec. 21, 2012 release, and the film started promoting Depp in the film as far back as 2008. But Disney chief Robert Iger hasn't been shy in wanting to lassoe in higher production costs at the studio. In an earnings call with investors this week, he said rising pricetags of Disney's pics might cause the company to reduce the number of films it produces moving forward. But he added that, ''We feel we're better off by reducing the size of the slate and making films that are bigger and increasingly more risky.'' The studio is currently opening its coffers to finish ''John Carter'' and ''Oz, the Great and Powerful.'' ''Lone Ranger'' was expected to be one of the tentpoles that Disney was expected to start promoting Aug. 19-21 at the D23 Expo, held at the Anaheim Convention Center. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

REVIEW: Opportunist Glee: The 3D Concert Movie Deserves a Slushie to the Face

One of the running gags in Fox’s effervescent hit high school series Glee is that no matter how things occasionally come up roses for the show choir freaks and geeks of McKinley High, there’s always someone, slushie in hand, waiting to take the Gleeks down a peg or two back to cold, brutal reality. Ironically, it’s that same multicolored frozen treat, globbed at the screen in slow-motion over the end credits of Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, that underscores a similar, sad burst of recognition that’s perhaps been long coming: For all the uplifting, inclusive good that Glee inspires in its young target demographic, it’s a property that’s become high on its own self-projected, self-congratulatory fantasy of “fuck the haters” do-goodingness. And there’s nothing more that Glee needs or deserves right now than a slushie to the face. Forget the ugly media storm over who is and is not graduating next year or who found out about it on Twitter or who blamed it all on egos and miscommunication (to the point that a potential spin-off for leads Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, and Chris Colfer was taken off the table seemingly out of spite); Glee as a property has more immediate problems to address in its first big-screen outing, a 3-D spectacle no less touted as a definitive cinematic experience for fans of the show. For starters: Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, filmed in performance during two 2010 East Rutherford, NJ, stops at the tail end of the Glee Live! In Concert! Tour, can’t make its mind up about what, exactly, it is. That identity crisis makes Glee 3D bizarrely uncomfortable to watch. (Say what you will about the show; its teen protagonists at least, for the most part, know who they are.) Glee 3D purports to be a concert documentary, but while director Kevin Tancharoen (of Fame remake fame and the Mortal Kombat Web series) dutifully mixes a ton of performances from the stage tour with backstage moments with the cast and copious footage of excited fans in and around the venue, he only partially conveys the experience of being at a Glee live concert. Instead, Tancharoen spends a surprising amount of time interviewing a handful of Glee fanatics at home, outcasts or misfits all, who credit the show with inspiring them, saving their lives, etc. There’s a bubbly teen girl who loves being a real-life Cheerio despite her dwarfism. The gay kid who credits Colfer’s Kurt for emboldening him to come out of the closet. The withdrawn young lady whose obsession with Brittany coaxed her out of her shell (and, were she instead an older man, might be cause for a restraining order or three). It’s like an episode of MTV’s True Life, which is fine and all, but we’re here to see the stars of Glee, not their adorably uncynical fans; Tancharoen spends so much time with these real-life Gleeks instead of advancing character or story from the show through any sort of narrative that it soon becomes clear that this isn’t a movie about Glee, exactly — it’s an ode to the cult of Glee. Setting aside the implications of that glib, self-serving conceit, what makes this worse for fans of the show who were hoping to see some sort of narrative from their beloved motley crew of singing heroes is the fact that the star-driven material is relegated to the performances. No, you’re not going to see Rachel and Finn stammer about their feelings or hear Tina rave about Mike Chang’s abs. Musical numbers, aped from the show right down to choreography and costuming, clip along with businesslike expedience, so you’ll have to bring your own context to the theater or else be lost wondering why Heather Morris is dressed just like Britney Spears singing (or apparently lip-synching, appropriately enough) to “I’m a Slave 4 U,” or how the kid in the wheelchair is able to suddenly leap to his feet, magically able-bodied, to gyrate to the tunes of “The Safety Dance.” Watchers of the show have seen this all before and understand why these things are happening. Nonfans, good luck following along. It’s not all that terribly complicated, anyhow.

Desperate Housewives' Executive Producer and Cast on the Final Season: All Bets Are Off

Desperate Housewives Birth. Death. Marriage. Divorce. Tornadoes. Shootings. Plane crashes. Cancer. Yes, the women of Desperate Housewives have been through a lot. But they ain't seen nothing yet. "You get to do story lines that you wouldn't otherwise do because you don't have to worry about the ramifications," executive producer Bob Daily tells TVGuide.com of the series' final season. "So people can move, people can die, people can have babies and you don't have to worry about the babies growing up. It will definitely change the way we approach the back-half of the season." Marc Cherry: The end of Desperate Housewives is "bittersweet and lovely" Series creator Marc Cherry and ABC boss Paul Lee announced Sunday that the upcoming season would be the last for the sudsy drama. Although the series still performs ratings-wise (last season averaged 11.8 million viewers), cast and crew appreciate the advance warning. "Something that Marc and I have been talking about for a couple years now is: How do we end the show in the classiest way possible where it doesn't feel like we're being pulled off stage, that we're going out on our terms?" Daily says. "Marc felt very strongly, in particular, about letting us know in advance so we can plan the season." According to Daily, the main story line already in progress for Season 8 will hark back to the first season in a big way, including more on-screen appearances by series narrator and long-gone housewife Mary-Alice (Brenda Strong). "The end of the first episode is a big sort-of tie-in to the DNA of the show so fans will really enjoy the little drop at the end of the first episode," Daily says. "We did that thinking, if it were the last season, it would be a nice bookend." Dana Delany: I would love to return to Desperate Housewives As the show draws to a close, prepare to see many more old characters returning to Fairview. "One of the things I'm definitely looking to do this year is bring some of the old favorites back. Some of the kids; like I'd love to bring back Julie. We have to find a way to bring as many people back. Maybe not early in the season, but down the road a little bit." Marcia Cross already has her own list of familiar faces she wants to see back on the lane one last time. "I do want to see all of my fellas again," she says. "I have had the best male co-stars. I want them all back, dead or alive, so even it's just a fantasy, dream sequence." The other big question is how the cliff-hangers set up at the end of last season - Lynette and Tom's split, Bree's new relationship and Carlos' accidental murder - will weave into each character's larger farewell. "I'm sure there are things that they knew the viewers want, which is for Tom and Lynette to get back together. But I do like that it's kind of up in the air and maybe they won't," Felicity Huffman says. "Maybe outrageous things happen. Maybe one housewife kills another housewife. Maybe Tom shoots Lynette in the head. I don't know." Check out photos of the Desperate Housewives cast Despite the high body count on Housewives over the seasons - thanks in big part to the show's infamous disaster episodes - such a gruesome ending doesn't sound very likely. "Because people have such a kinship with these characters, we feel very protective and there's not going to be an explosion. We're not going to kill them all," Daily says. "We want to make sure people feel like Wisteria Lane is going to be taken care of." The cast may already be planning their own exodus, but they still admit to being surprised by the news, including Huffman, who says she first heard of the show's impending demise from Cross. "Hope springs eternal. It could have gone for two more years," she says. Daily, however, is confident the show is going out at the right time. "It's a family and it's always hard to say goodbye. But nobody said to me that they thought it was a bad idea," he says. "Now everybody is excited to give it a great send-off." Desperate Housewives returns on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on ABC.

NBC Gives Existence to 'Frankenstein' Reboot

Jack Esten/Getty Images1957's "The Curse of Frankenstein" NBC is following in FX's actions and going through the horror genre, having a script order for Frankenstein. The script, referred to like a modern-day undertake the legend of Frankenstein, is going to be composed by House executive producers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner for Universal Media Galleries and BermanBraun. The script order follows FX's series order for Glee duo Ryan Murphy and Kaira Falchuk's "psycho-sexual" horror drama American Horror Story, which Forex topper John Landgraf known to like a "breakthrough commercial bit of television that will be copied broadly if people discover it." Universal Galleries is the owner of the intellectual property privileges to Frankenstein, in addition to such other classic figures as Dracula, the Wolfman and also the Mummy. The legend of Frankenstein was initially told via Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. The very first film project, directed by J. Searle Dawley, arrived 1910, with reboots including Universal's 1931 Boris Karloff starrer. Universal was behind a number of films featuring the classic figures from 1942-48. The smoothness was notoriously spoofed via Mel Brooks' 1974 spoof Youthful Frankenstein. The storyline was modified for TV in 1973 with Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason and Jane Seymour. Other takes have incorporated the TNT telefilm in 1993 with Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit NBC

Keck's Exclusives: Desperate Housewives Casting A Girlfriend for Tom Scavo

Doug Savant This is going to be hard to watch. With their marriage having crumbled at the end of last season, Desperate Housewives' one stable couple, Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Tom (Doug Savant), will enter the series' eighth and final season as a separated couple on their way to divorce. Executive producer Bob Daily confirms to me that both will be seen dating new people. The series is on the lookout for a fortysomething Kate Walsh-type actress to play the recurring role of Jane, Tom's new girlfriend, who will prove a threat to Lynette. And that's not all. This Jane tramp has a hot daughter named Chloe who is described as a hard-bodied yoga instructor in her early twenties. Now we just know either Tom or one of Tom and Lynette's ginger sons is going to take an interest in this PYT. Oh Lynette, we feel for you. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Lucille Ball Remembered by Hollywood

Hollywood took to Twitter to remember Lucille Ball, whose centennial birthday was on Saturday, August 6.our editor recommendsLucille Ball: Celebrating 100 Years of the 'I Love Lucy' StarMila Kunis on Sexism in Hollywood, Looking Up to Tina Fey, Lucille Ball The redhead actress, who is most well known for her starring role on I Love Lucy as the mischievous and gregarious housewife, is often remembered as one of the most creative and influential actresses of her time. Ball died in April 1989. She was 77. STORY: 'I Love Lucy': 5 Things to Know About the Series Today's actors, comedians and TV writers expressed their praise and love for the actress on Twitter. Actor Danny Devito, star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, wrote, "That woman could make me laugh! I know she loved Taxi, I met her once upon a time, I know she would love Sunny!" Park and Recreation star Rob Lowe was asked by a fan if he ever got the meet Ball. "Backstage at the Oscars," he responded. "She loved fellow actors. A true Titan." STORY: Lucille Ball: Celebrating 100 Years of the 'I Love Lucy' Star Kristie Alley also expressed her love for the actress. "HAPPY 100th Birthday Lucille Ball! You are my idol and role model! I had the pleasure of playing Password with my hero.. One and ONLY...LUCY," she tweeted. "She was tough, smart, a brilliant comedian and a walking master class in comedy," wrote Joan Rivers of Lucille Ball. She attended Lucy Fest, a celebration in Jamestown, NY, on Thursday. Dancing with the Stars' Julianne Hough credited Ball with helping to inspire women in the entertainment industry. "Happy 100th birthday to the woman that made us all laugh... And still does," she wrote. "Miss Lucille Ball... Every woman's inspiration!" Comedian Kristen Schaal wrote, "Lucille Ball definitely staged her death and is going to surprise us all before midnight tonight!" "Happy 100th birthday, Lucille Ball. May the Queen of television comedy live on forever," wrote TV producer Dan Schneider (iCarly, Victorious). Actor Brent Spiner expressed his belief that Ball's legacy will continue to stand the test of time: "Today would've been Lucille Ball's 100th birthday. She'll still be funny in 200 years." Related Topics Danny DeVito Rob Lowe Twitter Lucille Ball I Love Lucy

MRC joins 'As She Climbed' team

Media Rights Capital has joined Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch to produce Jonathan Lethem's 1997 novel "As She Climbed Across The Table," which has David Cronenberg attached to direct and Bruce Wagner adapting.A rep for MRC confirmed that the confirmed that the company's come on board "As She Climbed Across the Table" but had no comment whether the project will be part of MRC's five-year output deal with Universal. MRC's financed "The Adjustment Bureau," "Elysium" and "30 Minutes Or Less."Cronenberg's in post-production on "Cosmopolis" with Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard. He also helmed "A Dangerous Method" starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley.Film Rites is in post on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Cold Light of Day" and Zaillian's a writer on "Moneyball." Wagner was the executive producer and co-writer of Tracey Ullman's "State of the Union" series on Showtime and adapted his novel "Still Holding" for Epix.Lethem's other novels include "Gun with Occasional Music," "Chronic City" and "Motherless Brooklyn."Cronenberg is repped by WME and Sentient Entertainment. Lethem and Zaillian are repped by WME. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

MasterChef's Joe: Cooking Is not Child's Play

MasterChef Hello MasterChef fans! Monday evening the rest of the eight amateur cooks faced another demanding team challenge -- cooking for 200 hungry kids! Anybody who's a parent or gaurdian knows how frighteningly hard children are to impress. Actually, if you're a father or mother of three, that always means you'll finish up making three various things for lunch! This concern really boiled lower to knowing your customer. Pressure to win them over was intense, but ultimately, the red-colored team emerged victorious. Initially we idol judges had serious concerns for that red-colored team. Not able to wrap our heads around the thought of a fried chicken nugget hamburger, we feared these were creating a huge mistake. It appeared a little gimmicky and created ideas of fried Twinkies or Peanut bars -- or worse -- school cafeteria food! However the red-colored team had strength within their capability to be flexible and take our constructive critique seriously. Realizing that their initial idea wasn't likely to work, they'd the sense to create a change for that better and labored together like a unit to make it happen. Christine did not appear to become a terribly assertive or decisive leader, but a minimum of she understood when you should heed the recommendation of teammates, which regrettably, is much more than I'm able to say for that blue team. With Christian manning the ship, nowhere team may have been screwed right from the start - prepare he sure can, but play nice with other people? Less. Kids read between your lines plus they know when things aren't quite right. Sitting on nowhere team's side from the block just felt oppressive. Honestly, I am not really sure whose food was truly better on that day -- it had been obvious the children loved both, but positivity and cohesiveness was the vibe from the red-colored team, and you've got to think about the result which had about the children. For that blue team, hostility and dissention among the ranks is exactly what was unintentionally being promoted to individuals kids. Ironically, Christian stated it themself, it was on some level a recognition contest -- and also you can't fool kids -- they see behind the façade and understand what the real thing is. Performing an effective soufflé puts the worry of God in seasoned, highly regarded chefs, because they are among the hardest things to obtain right -- a genuine test of a person's ability with the cooking! At this time within the competition, Gordon, Graham, and that i felt they might or should have the ability to handle it. As Jennifer, Adrien, Christian and Derrick started work, The truth is that our very own various insecurities began for the greatest people. Fear crept for the reason that nobody would produce something of quality, but that may not have access to been further in the situation. All soufflé's were shining good examples of perfection -- cooking at its best! This is exactly what you want to see within this competition, and what we should expect came from here on in. Much towards the dismay from the so-known as peanut gallery upstairs, there is not a way could we eliminate anybody depending on that which was help with. Who understood soufflé could be their savior? Stay tuned Tuesday at 9/8c on Fox because the cooks have a journey back to their personal childhood, and Christian's ego pushes one person in the MasterChef team too much. Thank you for reading through everybody! Joe