Johnny Depp. Photo: Entertainment Weekly

Here is the new cover of Entertainment Weekly about Johnny Depp’s latest movie, the “Alice In Wonderland” remake.

We kinda wish Johnny would have been on the cover sans the Alice make-up.  What do you think?-Dr.FB

Johnny Depp. Entertainment Weekly Cover

Johnny Depp is one of Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Of The Decade” issue.

I must say, this is a much better photo of Johnny than the one People Magazine used for it’s Sexiest Man Alive Issue. Agree?-Dr.FB

Entertainment Weekly Iron Man 2 Cover

Digging Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. on the cover.  Mickey Rourke, not so much.

Regardless, looking forward to the movie, so that means looking at the photos and not reading the article.-Dr.FB

Ryan Reynolds On Entertainment Weekly Cover. Photo: EW.com

Ryan Reynolds wants to make sure that he is on your must list this weekend and all summer long.  It also seems like he may be bringing something back to popularity and no, I am not talking bout his floaties.

Along with those washboard abs is Ryan’s “Macho Man” chest hair.  Yes, above that cut and on those abs and higher is hair, which most men have either been waxing off or shaving off.  Wonder if it might be making a comeback.

We are not sure if Ryan is on your “must list” but we have a feeling he is definitely on your “to do” list.-Dr.FB

Natasha Richardson, Entertainment Weekly

From CoverAwards comes the news that Entertainment Weekly has quickly updated their latest cover in light of the terrible news of Natasha Richardson’s accident. Subscribers will still get the original cover with Paul Rudd, but newstands will have the cover above. EW’s managing editor Jess Cagle said the decision was made because:

“I think the newsiest story in the magazine should go on the newsstand cover, which is why we put Natasha on the newsstand cover.”

Entertainment Weekly has confirmed our story that Chris Weitz is the new director for the Twilight movies.-Dr.FB

Brooke Smith Let Go From Grey's. Photo: ABC.com

Wow.  Brooke Smith who plays Dr. Erica Hahn was just let go from Grey’s Anatomy.  Her character recently discovered she is Gay.  Discovered?  Hmm. 

ABC sources tell E! some of the upcoming gay story lines are either being erased from the script of being heavily downplayed.

Melissa George, who just joined the cast as a bisexual lover for Sara Ramirez’s character Callie.  That storyline will now go nowhere. 

Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes issued this statement to the media after Entertainment Weekly broke the story:

“Brooke Smith was obviously not fired for playing a lesbian. Clearly it’s not an issue as we have a lesbian character on the show — Calliope Torres. Sara Ramirez is an incredible comedic and dramatic actress and we wanted to be able to play up her magic. Unfortunately, we did not find that the magic and chemistry with Brooke’s character would sustain in the long run. The impact of the Callie/Erica relationship will be felt and played out in a story for Callie. I believe it belittles the relationship to simply replace Erica with ‘another lesbian.’ If you’ll remember, Cristina mourned the loss of Burke for a full season.”

Wonder if this has anything to do with Grey’s slipping ratings.  God, I hate election year television.  Aside from late night comedy shows, everyone suffers.-Dr.FB

Parody Is Right On! Covers: New Yorker & EW

Jon Stewart On Sarah Palin:  Everyone likes new and shiny. We’re bored. What’s great about that is [Democratic VP candidate Joe] Biden is an absolutely eccentric character. That’s how powerful Palin’s story is — it has cast the first African-American presidential nominee, the oldest [non-incumbent] presidential nominee, and a really wild cork vice presidential candidate completely out of the picture. The press is 6-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it’s just ”Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!” [Mimes a mob running after her.] Because they can only cover one thing.

Colbert on McCain last week saying our economy was strong and then a few hours later saying it was weak:I’ve got one for you. McCain said, ”The fundamentals of our economy are strong” and ”Our economy is at risk.” One was at 9 a.m., the other was 11 a.m. Our joke was ”You can be strong and at risk, too. Like, a muscleman who wouldn’t wear a condom. What’s the worst that could happen?”

Stewart on if this election is any different than the previous two.:  I was convinced an Obama/McCain campaign would be measurably different on almost all standards. And to watch it become Bush/Kerry, Bush/Gore, has been one of the most dissatisfying experiences.

Stewart on the economy: We were in this huge credit crisis, out of money. Then the Fed goes, We’ll give you a trillion dollars, and all of a sudden Wall Street is like, ”I can’t believe we got away with it!” Can you imagine if someone said, ”I shouldn’t have bought that sports car because it means I can’t have my house,” and the bank just said, ”All right, you can have your house. And you know what? Keep the car.” [He throws up his arms joyfully and shouts] ”Yeaaaaah, I get to keep the car! Wait, do I have to give the money back?” ”No, it doesn’t matter.” ”Yeah, I’m gonna get another car! I’m gonna do the same thing the same way, except twice as f—ed up!”

Colbert on the economy: The idea that Lehman Brothers doesn’t get any money and AIG does reminds me very much of ”Iran is a mortal enemy because they have not achieved a nuclear weapon. But North Korea is a country we can work with, because they have a nuclear weapon.” The idea is, Get big or go home. How big can you f— up? Can you f— up so bad that you would ruin the world economy? If it’s just 15,000 who are out of jobs, no. You have to actually be a global f—up to get any help.

It’s sad a majority of americans get the news from Stewart and Colbert.  They do the job that the news stations just don’t.-Dr.FB

The Entertainment Weekly Stewart Colbert Cover. Photo: Ew.com

We are so loving it, we had to show you the full cover.-Dr.FB