Trump Takes Credit For Discovering Gaga

First Published: December 22, 2011 3:49 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Lady Gaga / Donald TrumpLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Should the Little Monsters be thanking Donald Trump for discovering Mother Monster? The reality TV star/real estate mogul says the Miss Universe pageant helped launch Lady Gaga to stardom. I own the Miss Universe pageant, he writes in his new book, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again. About four years ago, during what you call half-time, we always have an entertainer. Weve had a lot of great people, and you dont pay them anything because its one of the biggest audiences and my people told me, Nobody knows who she is, but theres this woman with good talent named Lady Gaga. I said, I dont care if you like her, put her on. So we put her on it was live all over the United States and all over the world and the next day, nobody was talking about Miss Universe, everybody was talking, Who was the woman, who was the entertainer? She was unbelievable, Trump continued in his book. The singer performed what would become her first hit, Just Dance, during the ceremony in Vietnam, where Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza took home the crown. Shes been very gracious about it, he added. I dont want to say we made Lady Gaga, but she was incredible and that was her break. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Netflix dwarfs digital movie rentals

The proliferation of devices for streaming video hasn't driven much uptake of movies for so-called "iVOD" rentals, according to a new study. NPD Group found that digital storefronts providing a la carte pickings including Apple's iTunes, Amazon Instant Video and Walmart's Vudu prompted only 5% of streaming-device owners to rent movies. Connected TVs, game consoles, tablets, smartphones and other streaming gadgets are likely doing the majority of long-form viewing via Netflix and other subscription VOD options. They also may be bypassing over-the-top TV options entirely, renting titles on cable VOD. To wit, 56% of iVOD movie renters are also Netflix subs and 43% use their pay-TV provider's movie VOD offering. "The industry is teeing up excellent services for Internet movie rental, but they simply aren't getting noticed by many consumers," said Russ Crupnick, senior VP, industry analysis for NPD. The data may also give an indication of where the growth of video streaming on gaming consoles is coming from, as Nielsen reported year-over-year increases Wednesday across XBox 360, Sony Playstation 3 and Wii. Microsoft Zune and Sony PlayStation Network are two virtual stores that offer iVOD options among other content offerings within their respective console's content ecosystems. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

George Lucas's Indiana 5 MacGuffin Problem, and 5 Other Tales You'll be Talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition in the Broadsheet: The plug is attracted on Paradise Lost (for the moment)… Some Weinstein award horses sniff the backlash… Universal can get within the Jennifer Aniston business… plus much more. · I guess that George Lucas being from ideas barely counts as news, along with the record: There’s still no real peg to keep Indiana Manley 5’s story on. Or, in Lucas’s words: “I told [Steven Spielberg] in regards to the story, however really haven’t found the MacGuffin yet. I'm speaking about, I realize exactly what it’s about, however i must search for a MacGuffin that suits to the arena we’re used in.” Poor George is stumped! Can anybody available help old Stumpy MacGuffin? [Vulture] · “STUNNER! Legendary Pictures Postpones The month of the month of january Start Alex Proyas-Directed Paradise Lost,” shouts the headline at our sister site Deadline. I'm speaking about, totally! Why would anybody think carefully about letting Alex Proyas go a reported fifteen percent around the $120 million budget to evolve John Milton’s poem with **Bradley Cooper **inside the lead? Seriously! Be stunned, already. [Deadline] · I’m no conspiracy theorist, but… Oh, who the hell am i held kidding: The timing from the slur campaign against My Week With Marilyn — in which the boy of Marilyn Monroe’s former manager calls the film’s source material “a complete lie” in addition to prompts skepticism from lead actress Michelle Williams herself — might be a strange as experts honours as well as the Golden Globes hammer out their faves of 2011. Clearly, The Weinstein Company has both this film as well as the Best Actress leader The Iron Lady. Harvey wouldn’t sabotage one for your other’s sake, would he? [LAT via Moviefone] · Also studying the first stages of backlash: The Artist. Here’s Glenn Kenny: “[T]he undeniable fact that this movie continues to be introduced the most effective Film of 2011 by various experts’ groups usually — there’s few other word with this — insane.” Worth a read, and don’t worry: No Uggies were hurt inside the writing from the review. [Some Came Running] · Universal, which has ridden the Jennifer Aniston express to both box-office glory (Wanted) and Oscar-evening recognition (Changeling), is within business while using celebrity and director Luc Besson. The studio will distribute the duo’s untitled “large-scale dramatic thriller” — with sci-fi elements — which commences shooting next spring. [Deadline] · This tribute to Charles Grodin’s late-evening TV legend may be the finest possible stalling device I am able to offer you today. The Johnny Carson exchange alone —”I’m just trying to find warm physiques!” — will brighten every day immeasurably. [Splitsider]

Top Moments: Virgins' Horrifying First Hug and Mother's Large Twist

Virgin Journals Our top moments each week: 15. Worst Christmas Surprise: Andy is just requesting trouble around the Office when he invites his new girlfriend towards the Holiday party at Dunder Mifflin where, just in case you didn't remember, his ex-girlfriend still works. And guess what happens he will get in the stocking? Trouble. Around the advice of the equally damaged-hearted Robert California, Erin will get wasted in the party and ends up inside a close hug (and perhaps more?) with Robert, much to Andy's chagrin. Just what had you been expecting, Nard Dog? 14. Worst Break-Taking Moment: After not sleeping with anybody apart from her boyfriend Spencer in additional than six years, Jess is naturally worried that they will not be adventurous enough between the sheets on her new guy, Paul (the equally adorkable Justin Lengthy), on New Girl. Regrettably, Jess ranges from adventurous (see: bondage-like lingerie) to disturbing in five seconds flat when she gently chokes Paul as they are making out. Remember, Jess, you cannot have sexual intercourse with him if he's dead. This is not Clerks. 13. Saddest Blindsiding: Annie finally decides to check the romantic waters with Auggie on Covert Matters, taking his hands and telling him that he's the only person she would like to speak to after returning from Stockholm. The usually intuitive Auggie, however, totally misreads her and, after giving her his Corvettes, drops a bombshell: He will Eritrea to pursue rapport with Parker. Annie's heartbreak is compounded because Auggie, being blind, can't see her teary, crumpleface reaction. "I'm able to literally hear you smiling," he informs her. 12. Best Gift: Exactly what does Leslie Knope love most? The Parks Department, Pawnee and sweets. (Perhaps you have seen just how much whipped cream she puts on her behalf waffles?) So her Parks and Entertainment team pulls together to obtain her two perfect gifts: a re-development of the Parks Department made entirely of chocolate as well as an offer to operate her campaign for City Council. Performs this mean Leslie Knope 2012 lollipops have been in our future? 11. Sealed having a Crash Award: Chuck and Blair fans, rejoice! Blair - finally - helps make the decision we understood she'd and selects to get along with Chuck on Gossip Girl. Bad the paparazzi get wind that Blair is departing her prince within the dust and chase her limo right into a road block just like Blair and Chuck share an intimate hug. The end result? A fiery crash as well as an unknown fate for Chuck. It may be worse - Blair might have selected Serta. 10. Worst Temper Outburst: Don't awake the animal! Sleeping beauty Kim Kardashian flicks on sister Khloe when she wakes her as much as say goodbye on Kourtney and Kim Take NY. "[You are a] dumb, little, evil f---ing troll. You've no clue just how much I personally don't like you. You are disgusting," Kim texts Khloe. "[Kim thinks that] I am spiteful, I am jealous of her existence," Khloe states. "It's crazy that they thinks this way, but additionally sad." Inform us about this - particularly when Kim discloses the main of her frustration: Khloe is not encouraging of her relationship with and marriage to Kris Humphries. Uh, well, she wasn't wrong. Team Khloe! 9. Oh, Mother Award: After Sophistication briefly gets lost (also known as "that point Sophistication got baptized without telling anybody and butt-called her mother 12 occasions") around the Good Wife, Alicia involves hard realization that they can no more juggle as being a good lawyer, a great single mom along with a good girlfriend. Regrettably, there's only title she will manage to shed, so Alicia breaks track of Will, telling him "I can not,Inch as tears stream lower her face. Will anxiously waited fifteen years to obtain left like this? 8. Best New Mystery: On Homeland, everything appears to visit based on Barbara and Saul's intend to take lower Master when Al Zahrani helps orchestrate a conference inside a public square. A guy fitting Walker's description arrives, but Carrie's instincts immediately let her know something's wrong. It works out that Master has really employed a destitute lookalike to transmit in the place and before Barbara can perform anything about this, Master remotely detonates a explosive device within the man's brief-case. Barbara is hurt, but she's bigger seafood to fry: There is a mole within the CIA. Who's it? 7. Greatest Disappointment: After enhancing its 4th season to some breaking point, Sons of Anarchy is out with a little of the whimper. Like Hamlet, which Sons creator Kurt Sutter has reported being an inspiration, the show forces prince Jax to request: "To kill or otherwise to kill Clay?," the guy who killed Jax's father and purchased popular on Jax's fiancée. Ultimately, the mixture of the deus ex machina - Romeo is dealing with the CIA! - and also the Irish Kings' disinclination to cope with SAMCRO without Clay forces Jax to help keep that old guy around some time longer. Or as Hamlet might say, "To become... ongoing?" 6. Worst Drunken Hookup: Remember that certain time attending college whenever your mother found visit and she or he embarrassed you before your buddies? That's nothing in comparison as to the Boardwalk Empire's Jimmy Darmody experienced. Grieving following the murder of his wife Angela, Jimmy flashes-to the origins of the relationship at Princeton. But even throughout individuals fledgling times of puppy love, Jimmy's mother literally came between your couple. While going to Jimmy, Gillian will get so drunk she will barely stand. When Jimmy helps her undress, Gillian kisses her boy and, because of their own intoxication, it does not hold on there. No surprise poor people boy went off to fight within the war! 5. Dying Becomes Her Award: Poor Purple! First, Tate attempts to pressure a suicide pact on her behalf on American Horror Story. Then, when she would like no a part of that, he decides this is an optimal time for you to show her (and also to us) that Purple is really dead. Yup, she OD'd on individuals pills she required two days ago, and Tate has squirreled away her rotting corpse - that is disgustingly teeming with flies - within the basement. Between this and Tate impregnating her mother, maybe Violet's best dead? 4. Most Chilling Follow up: When Bree discovers from Chuck the analysis into Alejandro's disappearance has become formally arrived on Desperate Average women, she gets she's nobody to show to, so she rents a dull motel room where she contemplates suicide. She sits alone in a table having a bottle of alcohol along with a gun, and all of a sudden includes a vision of Mary Alice sitting across from her. She informs Mary Alice that they is really unhappy and asks if she's happy after carrying out suicide. "I am not unhappy," Mary Alice states cryptically before vaporizing, departing Bree to create her choice. Do not do it, Bree! There's still over fifty percent the ultimate season left to visit. 3. Large Women, Do Not Cry Award: The X Factor has had several dramatic eliminations (see: Astro's face-served by Simon Cowell), however it was way worse when 13-year-old Rachel Crow will get the boot. She falls towards the floor sobbing and screams "Mother," for cripe's A minimum of Rachel's reaction is much more age-appropriate compared to judge Nicole Scherzinger, who takes happens also sobbing, but will be so troubled that they states nothing when Steve Johnson shoves the microphone in her own face. Is the fact that a cry for Rachel or perhaps a cry for attention, Nicole? We actually can't differentiate any longer. 2. Best Bait and Switch: So Robin wasn't pregnant in the end how I Met Your Mother. (Why did not she simply take getting pregnant test again?) Actually, she discovers that they can't ever conceive, she informs her supposed future children, Ted-style. Wait, what? Though Robin hasn't wanted children, she becomes overcome with sadness in the option being removed, that leads you to definitely think that she must've adopted individuals kids, right? Not a chance! The children are only a figment of her imagination, and she or he never grew to become a parent. Could it be an inexpensive stunt? Possibly. But it is also a precise portrayal of her infertility: She's not losing children she manages to lose the concept, the idea - the vision - of these. 1. Most Terrifying Hug: We have all seen the infamous and unbearably awkward first hug from Virgin Journals right now, but what none people were ready for may be the continual lip-lock/jaw workout between Ryan and Shanna at their wedding. "The hug was, um, tough to explain," Ryan's mother offers charitably. Other have referred to it variously as "just like a mama bird feeding her chick," "nursing-like," and "chew-y." Let us just hope that practicing to achieve perfection with this charming youthful couple. What were your top moments?

Summit Approaching Eco-friendly Light Commitment On Steven Soderberghs The Bitter Pill

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment is within final discussions to create a eco-friendly light commitment around the Bitter Pill, the Scott Z. Burns script that Steven Soderbergh will direct as his next film. Production will begin in April on the thriller with a budget within the $$ 30 million range. Deadline says Summit was the leader for any script that wasnt distributed broadly, a minimum of initially. David Linde’s Lava Bear and Vital were another initial places (producer Lorenzo di Bonaventuras deal can there be), though a couple of equity bankers mulled the project too. Soderbergh sparked towards the film after Warner Bros stopped The Guy From U.N.C.L.E. after arguments over budget and difficulty locating the lead after George Clooney dropped out while he was getting surgery. The film is really a potboiler within the Jagged Edge-Fundamental Instinct mold in regards to a troubled and depressed lady who's taking serious amounts of prescription medications to handle the anxiety all around the pending discharge of her husband from prison. Burns authored it in the past and arrange it at Miramax underneath the title The Unwanted Effects, planning to direct it but never getting there due to his busy scripting schedule that incorporated the Soderbergh projectsContagion, The Informant! and also the Guy From U.N.C.L.E. The offer was looked by UTA and Anonymous Content.

X Factor Backstage Report: Emotions Run High

Drew Ryniewicz, Simon Cowell Thursday's double elimination show was a dramatic night for Fox's X Factor, and that drama continued after the cameras stopped rolling.When judges Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid and Nicole Scherzinger voted to eliminate constant Drew, she broke down in tears, left mentor Simon Cowell speechless and caused host Steve Jones to throw up his hands in frustration before introducing a clip package. "I was exasperated!" Jones told TV Guide Magazine minutes after the show. "I really wanted Simon to say something for the audience. And I honestly thought I was off-camera."After the live show concluded, the inconsolable Drew was joined on stage by all mentors and contestants, with Abdul holding her close and reassuring her. As the judges left the stage, Cowell did not say a word to the judges as he stormed off, while a sobbing Drew sank to her knees in the studio hallway surrounded by her family members."It was my least favorite [episode] yet," sighed Jones. "I really don't like to make people cry."Expect the tears to continue next week as the final five sing two songs to stay in the competition, and special guests Mary J. Blige and Lenny Kravitz perform during the results show.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Acad shortlists 10 animated shorts

Ten animated shorts have advanced in the Oscar voting process, including, not surprisingly, Pixar's "La Luna," which most auds won't see until it plays in front of "Brave" next summer. From the 10 finalists, Academy members from the short films and feature animation branches will select three to five nominees. The 10 films, in alphabetical order by title: -- "Dimanche/Sunday," Patrick Doyon, director (National Film Board of Canada) -- "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, directors (Moonbot Studios LA, LLC) -- "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat," Matthew O'Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.) -- "La Luna," Enrico Casarosa, director (Pixar Animation Studios) -- "Luminaris," Juan Pablo Zaramella, director (JPZtudio) -- "Magic Piano," Martin Clapp, director and Hugh Welchman, producer (BreakThru Films) -- "A Morning Stroll," Grant Orchard, director and Sue Goffe, producer (Studio AKA) -- "Paths of Hate," Damian Nenow, director (Platige Image) -- "Specky Four-Eyes," Jean-Claude Rozec, director and Mathieu Courtois, producer (Vivement Lundi!) -- "Wild Life," Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, directors (National Film Board of Canada) Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com