E! host Debbie Matenopoulos is alleging her estranged husband, Jay Faires, hasn't been fully honest about money he's earned prior to their split, which she is entitled to as community property, court documents filed Feb. 10 show. "I believe [Faires] is or may be entitled to much more financially than what he has so far disclosed," Matenopoulos states in her filing. "I have also discovered that [he] may have other bank accounts, foreign and domestic, that he has not disclosed." Faires's attorney, Gary Fishbein, denies the allegation, telling People: "My client has made full disclosure of his assets. She's just wrong in her allegations.
- 2/18/2009
- by Ken Lee
- PEOPLE.com
Debbie Matenopoulos is denying her estranged husband's claims that she "pays for nothing" while living in their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles home. Jay Faires, a music executive, is seeking spousal support from the E! host to help pay the mortgage. "I am incredibly offended by these gross accusations and false claims that have no merit," Matenopoulos tells People in an exclusive statement. "I am very proud to say, not only do I currently pay my own expenses, I also did so for the entire duration of our marriage."Faires, 45, who filed for divorce from Matenopoulos on Nov. 12 after five years of marriage,...
- 1/28/2009
- by Ken Lee
- PEOPLE.com
Debbie Matenopoulos's estranged husband is seeking spousal support from the E! host, saying she "pays for nothing" related to their multimillion-dollar Los Angeles home after the pair "continuously lived beyond our means," court documents show. Jay Faires, 45, an L.A. music executive who makes $37,500 per month before taxes, is demanding that Matenopoulos, 33, either help pay the mortgage, agree to refinance, or move out and sell the home, according to his filing. "Notwithstanding the fact that [Matenopoulos] earns at least $225,000 annually, she had her lawyers send my lawyer the cable bill and her cell phone bill to pay," Faires says. "If...
- 1/27/2009
- by Ken Lee
- PEOPLE.com
TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos says she is hurt – and surprised – by her husband's divorce filing, which she learned about from Internet reports. "I am extremely saddened by the dissolution of my seven-year relationship with my husband," the host of E!'s Daily 10 tells People. Jay Faires, a music executive, filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, according to Los Angeles court papers filed Wednesday. Faires, who wed Matenopoulos, 33, in July 2003 and separated from her in March 2008, is requesting that the court not award Matenopoulos spousal support. "I am not a proponent of divorce and I believe in working things out," says Matenopoulos,...
- 11/15/2008
- by Ivory Jeff Clinton
- PEOPLE.com
E! television host Debbie Matenopoulos's husband has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, Los Angeles court papers show. Jay Faires, a music executive, is requesting that the court not award Matenopoulos spousal support. He indicated their property rights are to be determined. The couple married in July 2003 and separated in March 2008, according to documents filed Wednesday. They had no children together. Matenopoulos, 33, a former co-host on The View, is a two-time Emmy nominee and current host of E!'s Daily 10.Who's your Favorite Star Under 35? People.com and the People's Choice Awards are counting your votes! Click here to vote now!
- 11/14/2008
- by Ken Lee
- PEOPLE.com
The ever-busy Rob Zombie has released a new single online. War Zone, the title track from the upcoming Marvel Comics feature Punisher: War Zone was just released on the film's official site, and Fangoria Musick has it for you right here.
Punisher: War Zone hits theaters on December 5th, with the soundtrack available November 25th. Read the Official Press release below.
Lionsgate Releases Punisher: War Zone Soundtrack With New Single “War Zone” From Rob Zombie Lionsgate (Nyse: Lgf) is pleased to announce the upcoming soundtrack release to Punisher: War Zone, from Marvel Comics’ latest film adaptation of fictional vigilante and deadly antihero Frank Castle. The lethal motion picture soundtrack features a powerful collection of A-list rockers including the first new music in 3 years from Rob Zombie in addition to heart-pounding songs from rock icons such as Seether, Slayer, Slipknot and Rise Against. The fifteen-track album attacks stores on 11/25/08. The film opens nationwide on December 5th,...
Punisher: War Zone hits theaters on December 5th, with the soundtrack available November 25th. Read the Official Press release below.
Lionsgate Releases Punisher: War Zone Soundtrack With New Single “War Zone” From Rob Zombie Lionsgate (Nyse: Lgf) is pleased to announce the upcoming soundtrack release to Punisher: War Zone, from Marvel Comics’ latest film adaptation of fictional vigilante and deadly antihero Frank Castle. The lethal motion picture soundtrack features a powerful collection of A-list rockers including the first new music in 3 years from Rob Zombie in addition to heart-pounding songs from rock icons such as Seether, Slayer, Slipknot and Rise Against. The fifteen-track album attacks stores on 11/25/08. The film opens nationwide on December 5th,...
- 10/25/2008
- Fangoria
CANNES -- William Friedkin cranks up the aesthetic meds in Bug, a garden-variety variant of the psycho-solider genre which should snare first-weekend horror fans as surely as a No-Pest strip. Lionsgate, with another one-word title, will be challenged to lure mainstream viewers with a title mug like Bug.
A genre film torched with psychological accelerants, "Bug" is narratively compacted into a single motel room, a cinematic space akin to the cramp of a Santa Monica Boulevard no-Equity theater. As such, there are no chases through Brooklyn under the train or spinning heads, but Friedkin swirls the formulaic story to its most intense inner dimension. With his vigorous camera compositions and a talented cast, he manages to straddle a wickedly fine line between taught portrayal of paranoia and parody of paranoia.
The slug on "Bug": Mysterious Western stranger saddles up with vulnerable pretty lady in out-of-way motel, and together they must fend off the black hats. In this cracked case, Agnes (Ashley Judd) cocktails at a shitkickers' bar, pines away in a seedy motel room and gets crank phone calls, she thinks, from her wacko ex-boyfriend (Harry Connick Jr.) , who has been just sprung from the pen.
In steps the Mysterious Stranger, a stray named Peter (Michael Shannon) picked up by Agnes' co-worker roustabout (Lynn Collins). Peter Is a bit stiff with the womenfolk, but in a physical manner that sexually repressed Agnes readily appreciates. After one night of less-than-tender bliss, Agnes wants him to stay. A protective male, Peter spots a tiny bug in her bed and immediately goes into full-stage bug alert. He convinces her that they have a "bug problem," one far beyond the common insect nuisance. These bugs are part of a diabolical Army experiment gone awry, he tells her: His blood has been infected with larvae in a V.A. hospital run by Nazi imports. Soon, Peter has the place encrusted in tin foil. Weirder, he begins to mutilate himself, trying to purge his poisons. After that, "Bug" gets grosser and grosser.
Admittedly, when synopsized, "Bug" sounds like high camp, but it is smartly and convincingly fleshed out, at least enough to fit inside and burst the seams of generic dimension. Screenwriter Tracy Letts has spun a psychologically taut thriller based around the co-dependent needs and neuroses/psychoses of the lead characters.
With her low self-esteem and loneliness, Agnes is rife for a savior, and Peter's messianic mania injects her with a huge boost of self worth. Judd's ripe performance, coming out of her cocoon into a blaze of rhapsodic psychosis, is this entertainment's most stirring element. As Agnes, she quite convincingly descends into megalomaniac delusion, swelling into, err, an Agnes of Bug state of disgrace.
In his role as the wounded vet, Shannon recalls a young Tim Robbins in his wacko roles, as he whirls and catapults into a deadly state of delirium. As the lout ex-boyfriend, Connick is an apt pretty-boy knucklehead, while Collins brings out the intelligence of her honky-tonk lesbian character.
Under Friedkin's savvy directorial hand, technical contributions are well-realized, though the opening-scene bursts of helicopter blades too sharply clue us to the disabled-vet scenario to follow. Throughout, "Bug" is braced by cinematographer Michael Grady's charged camera movements and visceral compositions. It's also smartly buzzed by the music: Composer Brian Tyler's appropriately weird score and musical supervisor Jay Faires' smartly odd selections help orchestrate our emotions.
BUG
Lionsgate
Credits: Director: William Friedkin; Screenwriter: Tracy Letts; Based on the play by: Tracy Letts; Producers: Holly Wiersma, Kimberly C. Anderson, Malcolm Petal, Gary Huckabay, Michale Burns, Andreas Schardt; Executive producers: Malcolm Petal, Kimberly C. Anderson, Michael Ohoven, Jim Seibel; Co-producer: Bonnie Timmerman; Director of photographer: Michael Grady; Production designer: Franco Carbone; Editor: Darrin Navarro; Music: Brian Tyler; Musical supervisor: Jay Faires; Costume designer: Peggy Shnitzer.
Cast: Agnes: Ashley Judd; Peter: Michael Shannon; Jerry: Harry Connick Jr.; R.C.: Lynn Collins.
No MPAA rating R, running time 101 minutes.
A genre film torched with psychological accelerants, "Bug" is narratively compacted into a single motel room, a cinematic space akin to the cramp of a Santa Monica Boulevard no-Equity theater. As such, there are no chases through Brooklyn under the train or spinning heads, but Friedkin swirls the formulaic story to its most intense inner dimension. With his vigorous camera compositions and a talented cast, he manages to straddle a wickedly fine line between taught portrayal of paranoia and parody of paranoia.
The slug on "Bug": Mysterious Western stranger saddles up with vulnerable pretty lady in out-of-way motel, and together they must fend off the black hats. In this cracked case, Agnes (Ashley Judd) cocktails at a shitkickers' bar, pines away in a seedy motel room and gets crank phone calls, she thinks, from her wacko ex-boyfriend (Harry Connick Jr.) , who has been just sprung from the pen.
In steps the Mysterious Stranger, a stray named Peter (Michael Shannon) picked up by Agnes' co-worker roustabout (Lynn Collins). Peter Is a bit stiff with the womenfolk, but in a physical manner that sexually repressed Agnes readily appreciates. After one night of less-than-tender bliss, Agnes wants him to stay. A protective male, Peter spots a tiny bug in her bed and immediately goes into full-stage bug alert. He convinces her that they have a "bug problem," one far beyond the common insect nuisance. These bugs are part of a diabolical Army experiment gone awry, he tells her: His blood has been infected with larvae in a V.A. hospital run by Nazi imports. Soon, Peter has the place encrusted in tin foil. Weirder, he begins to mutilate himself, trying to purge his poisons. After that, "Bug" gets grosser and grosser.
Admittedly, when synopsized, "Bug" sounds like high camp, but it is smartly and convincingly fleshed out, at least enough to fit inside and burst the seams of generic dimension. Screenwriter Tracy Letts has spun a psychologically taut thriller based around the co-dependent needs and neuroses/psychoses of the lead characters.
With her low self-esteem and loneliness, Agnes is rife for a savior, and Peter's messianic mania injects her with a huge boost of self worth. Judd's ripe performance, coming out of her cocoon into a blaze of rhapsodic psychosis, is this entertainment's most stirring element. As Agnes, she quite convincingly descends into megalomaniac delusion, swelling into, err, an Agnes of Bug state of disgrace.
In his role as the wounded vet, Shannon recalls a young Tim Robbins in his wacko roles, as he whirls and catapults into a deadly state of delirium. As the lout ex-boyfriend, Connick is an apt pretty-boy knucklehead, while Collins brings out the intelligence of her honky-tonk lesbian character.
Under Friedkin's savvy directorial hand, technical contributions are well-realized, though the opening-scene bursts of helicopter blades too sharply clue us to the disabled-vet scenario to follow. Throughout, "Bug" is braced by cinematographer Michael Grady's charged camera movements and visceral compositions. It's also smartly buzzed by the music: Composer Brian Tyler's appropriately weird score and musical supervisor Jay Faires' smartly odd selections help orchestrate our emotions.
BUG
Lionsgate
Credits: Director: William Friedkin; Screenwriter: Tracy Letts; Based on the play by: Tracy Letts; Producers: Holly Wiersma, Kimberly C. Anderson, Malcolm Petal, Gary Huckabay, Michale Burns, Andreas Schardt; Executive producers: Malcolm Petal, Kimberly C. Anderson, Michael Ohoven, Jim Seibel; Co-producer: Bonnie Timmerman; Director of photographer: Michael Grady; Production designer: Franco Carbone; Editor: Darrin Navarro; Music: Brian Tyler; Musical supervisor: Jay Faires; Costume designer: Peggy Shnitzer.
Cast: Agnes: Ashley Judd; Peter: Michael Shannon; Jerry: Harry Connick Jr.; R.C.: Lynn Collins.
No MPAA rating R, running time 101 minutes.
- 5/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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