He-e-e-e-e-re’s Danny!

In the last couple of years he’s burst through the door like no one since Jack Nicholson in The Shining. In Pineapple Express, he was sick funny as Red, a freakish low-life dealer who never starts a fight he can’t lose in an extremely painful manner.
And in a cast of bright comic actors, he managed to steal a corner of Tropic Thunder for himself as the lunatic pyrotechnician.
Danny McBride has a special talent for taking your average everyday dumb-ass and making him into someone you hate to love. That’s what he’s been doing as the star of the new HBO comedy series East Bound and Down, in which he plays an ex-major-leaguer working as a gym teacher.
Vanity Fair article HERE

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Pregnant M.I.A. to perform at Grammys

M.I.A. slated to perform, give birth during Grammys
The very pregnant singer, who is up for this year's record of the year Grammy, is scheduled to deliver her little one on the same night she'll be performing at the awards ceremony. Still, M.I.A. isn't canceling her set. Should her water break on stage, a golf cart will be on hand to shuttle her out of Staples Center.
M.I.A. has been nominated in the category of record of the year for Paper Planes which became hugely popular last year after appearing on the Pineapple Express soundtrack as well as remixed versions in this years darling, Slumdog Millionaire.

Kissing Sean Penn

James Franco gives an interview to Lynn Hirschberg of the New York Times in which he discusses 'Pineapple Express' which he says he basically sees as a love story between a drug dealer and his client. They also talk about 'Milk' (in which he plays slain San Francisco supervisor and openly gay Harvey Milk's lover Scott Smith), and Franco offers up the answer to what will likely be the most frequent question he gets on press junkets:

"Gus van Sant had been a hero of mine since I was a teenager and Sean Penn as well. And so it was a chance to work with two of my heroes. I will be asked what it was like to kiss Sean Penn about a million times and the few times I run into paparazzi that's their new annoying thing.
It was uncomfortable. Especially like the first time we did it. We didn't do it many times but the first kiss of the film he had on — he grew a beard but he needed a slightly thicker beard so he had some hairs intertwined in his real hairs and so we kissed and those kept getting in my mouth, and it was just kind of uncomfortable, and not that fun...
When I saw Spicoli, I just wanted to make out with him!"
watch the interview HERE

Cheech and Chong Reunion Tour

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are seizing the moment.
Thirty years after firing up the stoner comedy genre with their first feature, “Up in Smoke,” the duo are reuniting for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.
If the box office success of the “Harold and Kumar” flicks and the anticipation for Judd Apatow’s pot-fueled romp “Pineapple Express” are any indication, pop culture would welcome a fresh dose of Cheech and Chong. And given the strong biz that top comedy tours are harvesting these days, the box office potential for such a legendary team is no pipe dream.
Plans for the Live Nation-promoted comedy tour, dubbed “Hey, What’s That Smell?,” will be unveiled Wednesday at a news conference at West Hollywood's Troubadour, where Cheech and Chong’s druggie buddy act first gained traction in the early 1970s.
From 1972-85, the pair released ten comedy albums and nine features, all of which were helmed by Chong.
Since they parted ways in the 1980s, Marin has carved out a niche as a character actor and has become a prominent Latino arts advocate. Chong’s career has been choppier, hitting a low ebb in 2003 when he was arrested and subsequently served a nine-month prison stint after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia through his Nice Dreams branded water-pipe business.
more HERE

Have You Heard?

Amber Heard, 22, is quickly joining the ranks of Hollywood’s sexy leading ladies...
This summer, Amber will star in the much-anticipated comedy-thriller Pineapple Express.
more pics HERE

Pineapple Express - The Trailer

Pineapple Express - The Plot:

Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both.

The film is directed by David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls). The screenplay is by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg from a story by Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg. Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson produce.
the trailer is HERE