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A Very Harold And Kumar Xmas 3D Is A Huge Waste Of Greenery
The other night, I attended a press screening of A Very Harold And Kumar Xmas 3D and found that there is, in fact, a limit to what I am able to laugh at when stoned. More »
Kal Penn’s Therapist Kevin Has Worn Out His Welcome On How I Met Your Mother
We need to talk about Kevin.
Not the creepy shooter that Ezra Miller plays — though that movie looks scary as hell — but Kal Penn‘s character on How I Met Your Mother. While we were initially excited to see the Harold & Kumar star pop up on the usually witty sitcom, Kevin has become such a drag that he makes Ted look bearable! More »
Neil Patrick Harris Doesn’t Forget the Little Guys, Joins Up for ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas’
You can credit the Harold & Kumar stoner comedies with rejuvenating Neil Patrick Harris‘ career: In 2004′s Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harris played a fictionalized version of himself as a drug-addled playboy. Audiences loved seeing the guy they knew as cute Doogie Howser hilariously spiraling out of control. The next year, he introduced us to Barney Stinson (very much the same character, minus the drug habit) in How I Met Your Mother. His part in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) was even bigger: ‘Shrooms, branding hookers, and getting shot dead.
He could’ve let it go there and walked away from a franchise that helped establish him as a comic actor. More »
Kal Penn Leaves His White House Job to Play Robin’s Therapist on ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Two years ago, Kal Penn abruptly left his regular role on House to work for President Obama in the White House. We’re talking really abrupt — the only way the producers could permanently get rid of his character Kutner was to make the doctor commit suicide even though he’d exhibited no signs of depression. But when the President calls, what else can you do?
However, How I Met Your Mother apparently has more sway than state affairs, because Penn’s back into acting, and his first gig is a recurring role on the sitcom. More »
Crushable Books: ‘Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House M.D.’
The philosopher Jagger once said “You can’t always get what you want.” If Barbara Barnett, author of Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House M.D. were to finish up that stanza, she might counter with the argument that sometimes some might find that they get what they don’t need. Say for instance, a 429 page Wikipedia entry in book form. Which nobody really needs per say, but as a House fanatic, I am all too happy to display it on my shelf prominently so people can see in book form what TV shows I like to watch. More »
‘Harold And Kumar 3′ Begins Filming, But Will NPH Live On?
Hollywood never lets a successful franchise go until they bleed it dry as a bone, so it’s not that surprising that John Cho and Kal Penn are revising their roles as the smart stoners in a third Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle film. The rumors surrounding the movie originally involved it being A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, though that has yet to be confirmed.
All we know so far is that filming has begun, and comedian Patton Oswalt… More »
Kal Penn Takes Look At Real World, Goes Back To Obama (Maybe)
• Kal Penn says he was contractually obliged to leave the White House in order to make Harold and Kumar 3, but that he plans to return to politics afterwards. We think it’s because Time Warner can’t send the Secret Service after the guys that mug him. ( Vulture)
• Nightmare On Elm Street opened and killed the competition. With its razor claws. Sorry, How To Train Your Dragon. (Variety)
• Gabriel Aubrey is not at all happy being separated from Halle… More »
Kumar Gets Help From The Prez – Even though he no longer works for Barack Obama, Kal Penn‘s mugging yesterday is now under the jurisdiction of the secret service. It must be nice to have friends in high (no joke here, move along) places. (TMZ)
Kal Penn Robbed At Gunpoint In D.C.
Kal Penn may no longer be working for President Obama (which we’re hoping means that they can find a way to bring him back on House…maybe as a friendly ghost that helps solves diagnostic medical cases?) but he’s still hanging around D.C. which is not, um, the safest place in the world. Which the Harold and Kumar actor recently found out when he was robbed at gunpoint this morning. Kal told police he was stripped off his wallet and other… More »
Katy Perry And Russell Brand Party With The Easter Bunny
Katy Perry and Russell Brand backyard BBQ’d with the easter bunny this weekend. Also some friends. (People)
When asked about the current excellent crop of female performers, Jennifer Lopez said in an interview that it’s “it is great to be seen as somebody who was at the forefront of that little girl movement.” Hmmm way to toss yourself a compliment, Jenny from the block. (MTV)
Tiger Woods is back playing the field…. err, he teed in Augusta to gear up for the… More »
Mischa Barton, cast of Bhopal: Prayer for India wanted for premiere
Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton and Kal Penn are wanted for the India premiere of the Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. While there doesn’t seem to be a timeline on the premiere, a story by DNAIndia.com says the makers want the people of India. The film, directed by Ravi Kumar, is based on the true story of the about one of the world’s worst industrial accidents ever in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. On Dec. 3, 1984, a… More »