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With less than a week away from the season 5 premiere of Dexter on Showtime, The New York Times has published a fantastic article on the show which features interviews with the cast, crew and makers of Dexter. Here is a photo of Dexter star Michael C. Hall and some excerpts from this new piece from the NY Times:

MICHAEL C. HALL plays a character who has, by his own count, murdered more than 60 people. He has also done battle, in a kind of Ultimate Serial Killing Championship, with a succession of bloodthirsty adversaries, one of whom turned out to be his own brother. So when Mr. Hall announced in January that he was undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma — shortly before accepting trophies in January at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild award ceremonies wearing a knit cap on his bald head — it was hard not to feel a shiver at the coincidence: the star of the Showtime series “Dexter,” the most death-obsessed show on television, contracting a potentially fatal disease at 38. For Mr. Hall, though, any resonance between television and real life was trivial. There was another parallel that struck much closer to home: his father’s death from prostate cancer at 39. “I think I’ve been preoccupied since I was 11, and my father died, with the idea of the age 39: Would I live that long? What would that be like?” Mr. Hall said last month, over breakfast at a restaurant off Los Feliz Boulevard. “To discover that I had the Hodgkin’s was alarming, but at the same time I felt kind of bemused, like: Wow. Huh. How interesting.” Mr. Hall received his diagnosis while Season 4 of “Dexter” was still being shot, and his calm, studied approach included keeping his condition a secret on the set until production had wrapped. He began treatment the next day, and the cancer is now in remission. (He turned 39 in February.) Production on Season 5 was in full swing when we spoke; his illness had caused no changes in the “Dexter” schedule, and he had even managed to shoot a movie, “East Fifth Bliss,” in the East Village during the show’s hiatus. His hair had grown back, and the only possible sign of concern for health was his breakfast order: a lonely cup of chamomile tea. If anything, he said, he felt an extra energy after the effects of the chemotherapy wore off. That could come in handy in the new season, which begins next Sunday night. Dexter Morgan, police forensics expert by day and avenging-angel serial killer by night, will be going through some big changes.

This NY Times profile on Dexter continues, after the jump …

Earlier this month Detroit’s own Eminem and his Brooklyn BFF Jay-Z played a set of stellar concerts at Comerica Park in Detroit, MI on the first leg of the Home and Home Tour and last night Em and Jay played the first of two shows on the second leg of the tour at the new Yankee Stadium in NYC, NY. In Detroit, Jay-Z played first while Eminem closed out the show. In NYC, Em took to the stage first … here are a few photos from his performance last night:

While I was not able to be in attendance last night, I am quite sure that Eminem put on a stellar performance in NYC last night. He was absolutely phenomenal in Detroit a couple of weekends ago and gave THE best performance at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. As for Jay-Z, well, since he was on his home turf he really turned it out. Jay brought out a few friends to perform with him during his set last night. After the jump, check out some photos of Jay-Z and friends on stage and read all about the show itself …

With just one week left until the 2nd season of Glee premieres on Fox, excitement and anticipation for new eps of the show are quickly reaching a fever pitch. The New York Times was given all access on the Glee set recently so that they could provide exclusive behind the scenes photos of show in production. The NYT photographer, Todd Heisler, happened to be on set for the filming the much ballyhooed Britney Spears Episode titled Britney/Brittany … here are a few photos that were snapped on that day along with their accompanying captions:

The script for Episode 202, “Britney/Brittany.”

Extras hit their marks for the “. . . Baby One More Time” performance.

Stills from the Britney Spears video “Me Against the Music,” which the production team used as a template for its own re-creation.

Heather Morris as Britney Spears in a dream-sequence homage to “Me Against the Music.”

Heisler also snapped photos of the cast and the set that are completely non-Britney Spears Episode related. Check out some of those photos, after the jump …

Last night Detroit, MI played host to one of the biggest hip hop concerts that ever was as hometown boy Eminem and NYC’s Jay-Z played the first of their Home and Home Tour shows at Comerica Park (home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team) in downtown Detroit:

The whole night was just beyond huge … I’m having a hard time processing everything that went down because A LOT of shizz went down in Detroit Rock City last night. After the jump, check out photos of Jay-Z‘s concert set as well as Eminem‘s closing concert set which included guest performances by Drake, D12, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre — additionally, you can read a report on last night’s show from the Detroit Free Press and check out a couple videos from last night’s fun …

We are just a few days away from the live telecast of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards and that means that the folks putting together the show are in the final stretch of preparations for the big to do. As you should be well aware, Jimmy Fallon will be hosting the Emmys this year and he shared with the LA Times a bit of info about some of the preparations that he is doing for this Sunday night’s show:

The Emmy Awards may be less than a week away, but Jimmy Fallon has yet to lose his cool over hosting Sunday’s 62nd annual prime-time event. “We’re getting the final touches on the opening thing that we’re doing. It’s really fun,” Fallon told us … “I’m at the Nokia Theater all day long now, from now until the Emmys. Just getting ready. It’s a long process, a lot of rehearsals, stuff like that” … Fallon was disappointingly tight-lipped about what audiences can expect from this year’s telecast, saying only that a lot of our “favorite TV stars” will be “helping him out” during the show’s opening segment. He also would not reveal which nominees he was rooting for. But he did make one thing clear — the Emmys won’t share many similarities with his late night talk show. “There’s no Roots, sadly. The Roots didn’t come with me from New York. Kind of miss them,” he said, referring to his show’s band. “I think if it’s too much me, it takes away from the fun of the Emmys. My job as a host is to keep moving fast and to let the other people shine, the nominees. Make it a fun night for everybody.”

You know, I really love Jimmy Fallon. Not only is he always funny but he really strikes me as a really kind, really down to Earth guy. My friend Tony and I were at the live taping of America’s Got Talent last night to watch Kylie Minogue perform her new single Get Out Of My Way yesterday afternoon and Jimmy came out to do a short bit for the show as well. He was really funny, yes, but he was also very kind to the audience yesterday. I can’t wait to watch him host the Emmys this Sunday night. After the jump, check out a short video of Jimmy‘s impromptu interview with the LA Times …

Just last week we started hearing about a new Prince album titled 20TEN that is scheduled to be released for free in publications all across Europe in the coming weeks and today, in conjunction with that album release, we get to hear from Prince himself in a new interview with the British newspaper The Daily Mirror. In much the same way that Prince has been promoting his albums for the last few years, Prince invited the reporter into his home to spend the day with him in order to get a taste of Prince‘s life, ending with a sit down interview to cap off the experience. For the most part, this latest interview/experience with the Daily Mirror played out in the same way but it’s the quotes that Prince gave to the paper that are getting all the attention this time around. According to Prince, the Internet is “completely over” in an “outdated” way. Now, how could the man who released his last album online via a website that charged $77 for access and only a few years ago distributed his music EXCLUSIVELY on the Internet at NPGMusicClub.com say such a thing? Well, read on to find out:

Prince agreed to his first British newspaper interview for 10 years before his eagerly anticipated new album 20TEN which, in the biggest music giveaway of the year, will be released free in the UK only in the Daily Mirror this Saturday. The interview almost doesn’t happen. Then it’s on as long as I can meet him the very next day at his home town of Minneapolis in the US Midwest (and I’m ordered not to bring a camera, mobile phone or tape recorder) … “Hi,” he says, “I’m so glad you could come.” His voice is deeper than I expected, he’s certainly small (5ft 2in at most), looks almost half his age (52), and is dressed immaculately, if oddly, in white silk trousers, flouncy green silk shirt, an ivory tunic and white pumps (which, I suspect, are stacked). “You must come and listen to the album,” he says. “I hope you like it. It’s great that it will be free to readers of your newspaper. I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.” He explains that he decided the album will be released in CD format only in the Mirror. There’ll be no downloads anywhere in the world because of his ongoing battles against internet abuses. Unlike most other rock stars, he has banned YouTube and iTunes from using any of his music and has even closed down his own official website. He says: “The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

While I love Prince‘s music more than most music I’ve ever heard in my life, I cannot help but shake my head at the silliness that the man spouts in his interviews these days. To be clear, the man is a musical genius … it’s when he goes into social commentary that he loses me. The full interview can be read HERE and it is chock full of religion (“young people, don’t have enough God in their lives”) but no commentary about his past (“I don’t talk about the past”) or about the late Michael Jackson (“Next question”). In recent years he has railed against You Tube and even his own fans who dare to use his image on any of their websites in much the same way that a crotchety old person might vehemently oppose something not quite understood. His assertion that the Internet is “over” is absolutely ridiculous … what he should say is that his involvement with the Internet is over. Prince is very lucky to live with the kind of wealth that affords him the luxury to give away his albums and to wage war with his own fans without fear of reprisal or financial ruin. While I love the man’s music, I do my best to steer clear of his opinions because it’s stuff like this “the Internet is over” bologna that just makes him look old, outdated and “over”.

Prince played a concert in Berlin, Germany yesterday where no interviews were given, no commentary was espoused and I understand it was a fantastic show. After the jump, check out some photos from his performance …

Courtney Love and her new incarnation of her band Hole performed a show at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC this week that reportedly went on for over 3 hours … and according to the review by the Washington Post, pretty much everyone in attendance felt the show was 3+ hours too long. Here are some deets from this debacle of a Hole concert:

“You get the Bruce Springsteen set, sorry.” Courtney Love muttered those words at some point during Hole’s show Sunday night at the 9:30 club. It’s hard to remember exactly when. Time seemed to stand still for so much of the evening. If she meant that we were in for a nearly three-hour concert, then yes, her statement was true. If she meant that we would experience a well-oiled rock-and-roll machine and everybody would leave feeling satisfied they got their money’s worth … let’s come back to that one. It’s safe to say the people yelling “Bull[expletive]! This is bull[expletive]!” didn’t feel like their $45 was well spent. There were more than a handful of patrons shouting and cursing at the endlessly controversial, occasionally coherent 45-year-old rock trainwreck. Many more simply headed for the exits. Three-quarters-filled at the start, the club was no more than a quarter packed by the excruciating end. Make no mistake – this was an astonishingly awful performance that had few moments of redeeming musical value. Song titles, lyrics, guitar chords – Love remembered only some of them, and infrequently. Then again, what was really the best-case musical scenario? A competent recreation of songs more than a decade old, played by Love and her latest hired hands? Is that what people wanted to see – Courtney karaoke versions of ’90s MTV buzz clips? Maybe. But probably not. Perhaps a bit more professionalism would have been nice but in 2010 you pay your $45 hoping for the Courtney Love Experience. And Sunday night was an experience like no other. She took the stage nearly an hour past the advertised 9:30 start time, smoking a cigarette, rambling for a minute about how she was late because she had just been hanging out with a senator friend. (Leave your best guesses in the comments.) She also introduced an assistant, Lisa, who was on stage for the entire show filming Love on an iPhone. Not on the side of the stage. Not filming a few songs. The entire show, on stage, often directly in front of Love. Love, naturally, played to the camera more than her fans. She preened, she constantly sang in its direction, she looked like she was trying to seduce it. Love and Lisa huddled before, during and after songs, conferring about what angles to shoot, like they were Bogdanovich and Kovacs. When one fan near the front complained that Lisa was being obstructive Love quickly snapped, “[Expletive] you, she’s with me.” She introduced “Someone Else’s Bed” as a “deeply emotional song” and spent the first 30 seconds of it instructing Lisa where to situate herself to get the best angle of Love giving it her faux-heartfelt best. The between song chatter was more than just chatter. Ten minutes without playing a song? Sure, let’s do that a few times. She talked about her courting style (“I never chase”), being anorexic and bulimic, quizzed fans on the meaning of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s lyrics, twice mentioned how The Washington Post hated her new album “Nobody’s Daughter,” and name-dropped a “TMZ” episode’s worth of celebrities, from Trent Reznor to Diablo Cody to George Clooney, even Douglas Fairbanks. She asked what the lamest Hole song was and cursed at people when they gave the wrong answer. When Love got around to singing, her voice sounded as if something died in her throat earlier in the day. Love has a blood-curdling howl, by far her most effective asset as a performer. She just should have used it more on Sunday. During the choruses of “Miss World” and “Violet” – two of her best and most popular songs – she turned the microphone to the crowd and didn’t even bother singing. Other times she skipped lines in order to cough, or take a sip of water or just … not sing. Of the nearly 30 songs (or song fragments), not even a handful were completed without some minor disaster … “This is a really weird show,” Love said in perhaps the understatement of the night a bit earlier. “I can’t tell if it’s really terrible.” Courtney, let me tell you something. In just the past year and a half, I’ve been to about 400 shows. I’ve seen some really terrible ones. And this was really the most terrible. No question. But the vast majority of those 400 shows, I went there, I saw it, and almost immediately forgot I was there. I’ll never forget this night with Courtney Love, no matter how much I may want to. And isn’t that really what she’s always wanted?

I was able to see Hole perform live at the start of this tour back in April and at the time, I was pissed that the show as too short (it clocked in at about 45 mins.) It sounds like I got lucky. If you are interested, you can read the full Washington Post review HERE … it goes into great detail about how painful this concert was to endure. I’m telling you, I would’ve been among the folks who left early. I had hoped that C. Love might be ready to make a serious go of her music career again but, alas, it seems that she is gone to us forever. I’m sure she’ll piddle her way thru more live performances but it won’t last … hopefully. The woman is just a wreck … I think she needs a long vacation … better yet, she needs permanent retirement. Unfortch from her p.o.v. she prolly thinks she’s being “rock and roll” when in fact she’s only finding new ways to embarrass herself for public entertainment. Sad.

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Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Mike The Situation Sorrentino and Vinny Guadagnino are featured on the cover and in the pages of the new Queer Issue of the NYC newspaper The Village Voice but they claim that they were tricked into posing for the cover of this particular issue. Despite their initial chagrin at being “tricked” to pose for the cover, the JS guys claim that they are down with the gays:

The Jersey Shore boys love all their fans—including the gay ones. So it was a little surprising to read this morning that our pals Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Vinny Guadagino were upset to find shirtless photos of themselves on the cover of the “Queer Issue” of New York City alternative newspaper the Village Voice. But just like Kathy Griffin, our favorite self-described “guidos” love their gays. “I don’t give a s–t, man,” Vinny just told me about being on the newspaper’s annual gay-themed issue. “I’ve done so many photoshoots and they’re pretty much all the same. “I go in there, do my thing, take my shirt off, get my hair and my make-up done and they dress me,” he continued. “I take the pictures and wherever they end up, they end up.” A report in today’s New York Post claims that the Village Voice tricked the trio into doing the photo shoot by not telling them when the pics would actually run. “I know MTV and it’s in their judgment to make sure they don’t end up anywhere too crazy, but the Village Voice?” Vinny said. “That’s awesome.” The accompanying Voice story, headlined “The Guido Ideal,” examines gay life on the Shore. “As long as I look good,” Vinny said, “that’s all I care about.” Way back in December, The Situation told me that he doesn’t mind his same-sex loving fans. “I’ll be honest, I like the attention,” he said, “I’m flattered if there are guys with different preferences that have crushes on me.” Besides, being a “Queer” coverboy does have its perks. Vinny bragged, “I got a free pink hoodie out of it!”

You know, these guys may be attention whores but at least they are equal opportunity attention whores. I don’t know any gays who are particularly fond of the “guido” look that these yo-yos like to promote but, hey, different strokes for different folks. I gotta say, much about what these guys (and the entire Jersey Shore phenomenon over all) do kinda bugs the crap out of me but if they can be “totally down” with the gays then I guess I can be down with them … to a point.

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Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the famed Jackson family, is speaking publicly for the first time — since the sudden death of her son Michael Jackson shocked the world just about a year ago on June 25 — in a new interview with the British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror. It should be clarified that Katherine‘s interview is meant the promote a new book that she has published titled Never Can Say Goodbye which is an intimate look at MJ‘s life in photos culled together by Katherine herself. Here are a few excerpts from Katherine‘s new interview with The Daily Mirror:

The world remembers its biggest superstar… and three children mourn the father they adored. Nearly one year on from the death of Michael Jackson, his mother Katherine talks today for the first time about bringing up his daughter and two sons – and how the family still struggle with their private grief. His daughter Paris, 12, has turned her bedroom into a shrine to her “Daddy”, where she is surrounded by his photographs. And his boys Prince, 13, and eightyear-old Blanket bravely talk about wanting to make him proud – and then lapse into silent moments, when they are missing him. All three spend hours listening to their father’s hits. Katherine says: “They don’t have any friends. They don’t go to school, they have private lessons at home – but that will change in September, when they are due to enrol at private college. But they have their cousins and aunts and uncles around them constantly, and that’s helped them immensely. “To them, it’s normal, it’s the life they have known. They have a certain time to go to bed, then they get up and get dressed for lessons. They practise karate and swim, which they love. It is 80-year-old Katherine’s first interview since her son died of suspected cardiac arrest at his Beverly Hills home on June 25 last year. “Each one of them is like Michael in a certain way,” she says. “It has been a daily battle to cope with our huge loss” … It is his daughter, she reveals, who is showing real musical talent – and who expresses her sadness in the most poignant way. “I wanted to hang pictures of flowers or ballerinas in Paris’s room, the sort of things I expected a girl would like,” Katherine says. “But she went into a closet and she brought out seven or eight pictures of Michael, and she told me, ‘No, I want daddy hanging in my room’. So she goes to bed looking at him and wakes up looking at him. She said, ‘I always want to be able to see him’. Paris has that lovely way, just like him, and I see his talent in her. Whatever she does, she is very good at it. She’s a good artist, she plays the piano and she wants to be an actress. Prince is serious about a lot of things. He wants to be a camera-man or produce movies. “He is dedicated to that, like Michael was. And Blanket is very playful, like Michael was” … recently Katherine’s husband Joe – accused of being a brutal father – claimed that she was to blame for Michael’s death, because she refused to tell him to change his lifestyle. Michael would have listened to her if she had intervened, Joe complained, because he was a mummy’s boy. Katherine always kept her own counsel, but she has compiled a book of family pictures and anecdotes that, she says, will tell the truth about Michael and, hopefully, silence the malicious gossip.

“Michael was so misunderstood,” she says. “I treasure my memories of him and wanted to share them with his fans in my book. I remember when he brought gifts for me – a watch, a necklace and a ring. I’ll never forget how he smiled when I opened each one. He was so generous. I want the world to know that real Michael Jackson – a loving person. “Many doubt that, because of the child molestation accusation falsely laid on him, but in truth it was just greedy people after money. The first child, Jordan Chandler, whose father accused Michael, ended up saying he regretted not getting a chance to say sorry to Michael. Then the father committed suicide – I think his conscience was bothering him.” One year on, with Michael’s doctor Conrad Murray facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, Katherine also says she has never accepted that her son died of natural causes. “He was too young for that. I heard from people that he was taking prescription drugs but I never saw my son in any way drugged… he was always himself. If I could see him again, I would want to know one thing, ‘Who did this to you?’” … Now, they are preparing to gather again – this time sombrely at Michael’s grave, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, for his own poignant anniversary. It has been, Katherine says, a year of such sorrow, demanding extraordinary strength from the family … Katherine says: “I hope that the next year will be better for us all. Michael’s death brought us closer and I want us to be even closer still. I know Michael would have wanted that, too.”

While it is very interesting to hear from mama Katherine herself, this interview (which can be read in full HERE) doesn’t really shed that much light on any new information. She did reveal that the kids will be going to school for the first time ever this September, I sincerely hope it is a smooth transition for each of them. In case you’re interested, Katherine‘s book Never Can Say Goodbye can be ordered from THIS official Jackson website.

So … what do y’all think of this new interview? Do any of y’all find it interesting or insightful?

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Michael C. Hall, who was spotted on a date with his beautiful wife and co-star Jennifer Carpenter a couple of weeks ago, sat down for a little interview with the LA Times to talk about Dexter right as the 5th season of the show is going into filming production. In this new interview, MCH talks about the delicious darkness that plagues his Dexter character and hints a bit at what’s to come in the upcoming new season … here are a few excerpts:

Why do you think Dexter as a character has connected with audiences, despite his objectionable actions?
I think audiences relish the opportunity to identify with these central, even glaring, flaws. I think all of us have a shadow that we carry around — whether it’s as formidable as one that inspires you to be a serial killer …. But I think there’s something on a metaphorical level that resonates with people.

Aside from the strict code that Dexter lives by, what else keeps him relatable either for you as an actor or for the audience?
For me, it’s always been about what separates him from the rest of the world that makes him interesting: He lacks authenticity. We all struggle with issues of our own relative authenticity or inauthenticity. We all know what it’s like to behave compulsively and just feel like we’re not really in a place of choice when it comes to certain behaviors. The fact that he does take responsibility for his affliction is something that I think is admirable in spite of how it manifests itself.

Is there anything that you’re hoping to explore with Dexter in the next season?
Well, I’m certainly interested in going through the aftermath of the enormous mess that has been made of Dexter’s world at the end of the fourth season. And I think the relationship to the code, to the father, what happened at the end of the fourth season is sort of a revamped version of Dexter’s origin story. But in this case, he has some responsibility for what happened. I don’t know if that’s going to lead to his complete mental collapse — doubt it — or rehabilitation — I doubt that too. But how will he move forward? It’s the question that everybody who watches is probably pretty interested in.

The sociopathic side of Dexter seemed to be pretty in check during the last season with his idyllic suburban life. Do you think he’s progressed?
There is some sort of undeniable development or progression toward humanity, but I think that every step he’s taken on that front has been a pragmatic step, one that he needed to make in order to continue to live a life that allowed him to indulge in his primary compulsion. Yes, I think undeniably Dexter is someone who has taken unique responsibility for his darker impulses, not killing indiscriminately. And does experience what seems to be a genuine connection to at least the children in his world. It has so much to do with the way Dexter frames it. He has to frame that progression and that learning and those different kinds of behaviors within a context that allows him to continue to do what he does without ending up in an insane asylum.

You can read the full text of this interview HERE. But while this new interview is interesting and all, I’m more interested in what’s going on on the SoCal set of Dexter this week! MCH was snapped on set filming a scene with … well, someone you might not expect. So as not to spoil anything for those of you who wish to remain unspoiled, I’ll leave the reveal behind the cut. After the jump, check out the VERY SPOILERY photos that show who Michael C. Hall was filming new Dexter scenes with on set this week …