Joan & Melissa LIVE at the Academy Awards5:30: I'm so glad my colleagues over at the channel have decided to go blue for the red carpet. Setting the tone for the evening, Joan Rivers begins with a slightly disturbing scene in which she spreads 'em for Matt Dillon in Crash and groans a lot. And she warns us that there are many more such scenes from the nominated movies to come. Next she gives a nod to Isaac Mizrahi's infamously presumptuous Golden Globes coverage at rival E!. "I would never be so presumptuous!" she declares while she pokes Lisa Rinna in the boob. Instead of groping her interviewees, she'll be using cards to indicate whether they are wearing underwear and/or have real breasts. This'll be interesting.
5:33: Joan gives her own thank-you speech tailor-made to offend her entire crew: "We are color-blind here at TV Guide. Right, black person?" Then she fills the time
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose grossed a head-spinning $30.2 million over the weekend to debut atop the box office. It marked the third-biggest September opener in history, behind Sweet Home Alabama and the first Rush Hour. Rounding out the top five were The 40 Year Old Virgin (No. 2 with $7.9 million), Transporter 2 (No. 3 with $7.2 million), The Constant Gardener (No. 4 with $4.8 million) and Red Eye (No. 5 with $4.6 million).
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Question: I just saw Red Eye and there's something I don't understand: What was the exchange between the main characters, Lisa (Rachel McAdams, who was amazing) and Jack, about his last name being rude? I also thought the actor playing Jack was phenomenal; what's his claim to fame? Or was this movie his big break?
Answer: It's not that his name, Jackson Rippner, is rude. It's that it's menacing, sounding uncomfortably like "Jack the Ripper." And since Red Eye (2005) is a Wes Craven thriller, I don't think it's giving away too much to say that the suggestion isn't without meaning. Rippner is played by up-and-coming Irish actor Cillian Murphy, 29, who was studying law when he took a sudden career detour into acting.
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Steve Carell's The 40-Year-Old Virgin got lucky at the box office over the weekend, opening at No. 1 with $20.6 million. According to exit polls, Virgin drew an audience that was 54 percent easy and female; the pic was expected to play mostly to young, sexually inexperienced men. Among other new openings, Wes Craven's airborne thriller Red Eye landed at No. 2 with $16.5 million, Disney's pigeon-pic, Valiant, got pooped on at No. 7 with $6.1 million and Supercross: The Movie crashed into 15th with just $1.3 million.
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Most people remember Colby Donaldson as the guy who pretty much handed over the million-dollar Survivor: The Australian Outback prize to Tina Wesson, but now he is out to prove that nice guys don't always finish last. While many of Colby's fellow reality alumni are toiling away on Kill Reality or Battle of the Network Reality Stars, he is featured in Red Eye, the new Wes Craven thriller opening in theaters this weekend. Colby, who also surprised more than a few people with his comedic timing on a superb episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, gives TVGuide.com the story of how he's managed to outwit and outlast all thos
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