Friday, July 31, 2009

Seriously/Funny: 24 Comedians Who Played It Straight t

With ''Funny People,'' Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen join the line of jesters who took a detour in

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Sayonara (1957)

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role, Buttons won an Oscar playing a dedicated Air Force sergeant whose
marriage to a Japanese woman is outlawed by the strict U.S. military.
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Rogen, Apatow let loose an revolting reality

Commit to memory while Katherine Heigl called her break, hit movie Knocked Up "sexist"? Well, that comment (like many of the things she says) is coming back to bite her. Co-star Seth Rogen and writer-director Judd Apatow lit into the Grey's Anatomy star in an appearance on Howard Stern's radio show today.

The couple pokes fun at her new movie The Ugly Truth, sarcastically saying it looks "uplifting for women."

It "looks like it really puts women on a pedestal in a beautiful way," Rogen joked.

Apatow says she never apologized for the Knocked Up remarks, and that he still doesn't understand where they came from. "We never had a 'fight,'" while filming he said. "Seth always says, it doesn't make any sense ... she improvised half her (lines)."

Pro Ashley Tisdale, new movie, new music and new goals

L. ANGELES — Sharply has been let loose.

Ashley Tisdale, the actress who brought High School Musical's snobby bad-girl Sharpay Evans to life, steps outside the Disney fold this Friday, starring in Aliens in the Attic, her first post-HSM feature. And she's not stopping there: Tisdale's sophomore album, Guilty Pleasure, aimed at a more mature audience, hit shelves Tuesday.

In Aliens in the Attic, Tisdale plays college-bound high school student Bethany Pearson, whose family's vacation home in Michigan gets invaded by pint-sized aliens. She shot the film just before High School Musical 3, knowing it would be the first thing fans see after she finished the Disney trilogy.

The New Jersey native, 24, says she's taking her career to the next level but is in no rush to grow up or out of her niche.

"I'm easing into it," she says. "If you go too far, that can kind of hurt you. So I just take baby steps. Once you're playing the older roles, you're there forever after that. You can never go backward. So I'm taking my time getting there."