Mtv Movie Awards

When MTV asked Samuel L. Jackson to host the 1998 MTV Movie Awards, to be shown tomorrow night at 9, he thought it would be easy. "I thought it'd just be a matter of putting on some really cool clothes, showing up and reading the monitors," a slightly raspy Jackson said in a telephone interview after last week's rehearsals for the show. Instead, he found that the rehearsals - plus the commercial clips, filmed with John Travolta, Nicolas Cage and their likes, and an appearance in a giant pineapple suit - were "a lot of work.

* EMMY AWARDS. 8 p.m. tomorrow, Fox. LOS ANGELES - There's more than Hollywood ego on the line at tomorrow's 63rd prime-time Emmys. After disappointing performances by a pair of major trophy fests this year, the TV ceremony could prove an awards season reboot. For producer Mark Burnett, the successful reality TV czar ("Survivor," "The Apprentice") who is tackling his first big awards show, it's a chance to play hero or risk being the goat. He can't take any cues from the double thud that marred the 2011 season.

What makes great rock music possible? Routine. At least that was the case for Wolfmother, the Australian power trio that is tearing a loud swath through America this summer, including a post-show performance at next week's MTV Movie Awards and this Sunday's show at the Theatre of Living Arts. Roommates Chris Ross and Myles Heskett had jammed together for years with Andrew Stockdale, a friend who lived near them in Sydney. The guys would simply pick up whatever instruments they felt like playing and noodle around.

1999 MTV Movie Awards, 9 tonight, MTV. Twinkies, Tootsie Rolls and Kudrows? You can't help doing a double-take as you pass a catering table backstage at rehearsals for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards. The cable music channel sure knows how to treat "Friends" star and show host Lisa Kudrow, you think to yourself. They've even had a candy bar named after her. Upon closer inspection, though, the candy turns out to be Kudos. Just the same, MTV knows how to keep the help happy. The annual MTV Movie Awards - consisting of such off-the-wall categories as best kiss, best villain, best fight and best action sequence - are the evil stepchild of the Oscars.

Big weekend for Sandra Bullock . She appeared, surprise!, Saturday night in L.A., at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards, to accept the "Troops Choice" Award for Entertainer of the Year from presenter Robert Downey Jr. Girl was looking mad stupid good, too, in a tight, leather minidress. Do not try this at home! Especially you men. After a well-deserved standing O, she said: "Did I win this for being entertainer of the year, or did I win this because of the spectacular IED explosion that became my personal life?"

How does America's Got Talent, which is basically a bad copy of The Gong Show, the most monumentally vapid series that ever aired, make such compelling TV? First of all, Talent has upgraded at several skill positions, bringing in Jerry Springer as MC this season and replacing bland female judge Brandy with the fiery Sharon Osbourne. Then it lets its freak flag fly. In the season opener, Osbourne got so mad at fellow jurist Piers Morgan that she stormed off the set. Morgan had just offered some withering criticism to a 9-year-old dancer so tacky she made the kid in Little Miss Sunshine look like Shirley Temple.

QUOTE "I didn't have a concrete sense of what I wanted, but my mantra was 'No potpourri.' " - Actress Claire Danes, on decorating her Manhattan loft, in Architectural Digest If you're like Tattle, you turned off Monday's "Tonight" show immediately after Elton John told host Jay Leno his joke about the two black lesbians (and no, we're not going to repeat it here). Anyway, we missed all the fun. Leno's next guest was Angie Harmon, who plays hair-tossing prosecutor Abbie Carmichael on "Law & Order.

TEEN WOLF. 11 p.m. Sunday, MTV. Moves to 10 p.m. Mondays the following night. THE FIRST SIGN that MTV's newest scripted show is, as programming chief David Janollari puts it, "not your father's 'Teen Wolf' " is probably the brief sight of half a dead girl - the top half - illuminated by what looks to be the flashlight app from an iPhone. Michael J. Fox never even got to text, much less stumble over dismembered bodies in the woods. But compared to MTV's controversial remake of the British adolescent drama "Skins," its new "Teen Wolf," which premieres Sunday after "The 2011 MTV Movie Awards," is practically housebroken.

Over the last year, sight unseen, Snakes on a Plane grew into a campy cyber cult, based primarily on its perfectly hiss-terical title. Fans have created an online flood of mock posters, trailers, sketches, taglines and T-shirts for the movie. But with the film finally opening tomorrow (with special 10 p.m. debuts today at a number of local theaters), the big question is: Does Snakes have legs? "The thing about Snakes on a Plane is that people don't have to see the movie to enjoy the title," says Brandon Gray, president of the ticket tracking service Box Office Mojo.

The Republican National Convention is a trade show. An odd trade show, in that there are only three products - a candidate, a message, an image - but they are being sold, hard. Like salesmen who stay on point and ignore the competition, the Republicans make it evident that these are the only items in their vast inventory being marketed. When elected officials took to the podium in conventions past, the delegates were as quick to change their political paraphernalia as Sarah Jessica Parker changing outfits at the MTV Movie Awards - or, to use a Greatest Generation analogy, Loretta Young.

* EMMY AWARDS. 8 p.m. tomorrow, Fox. LOS ANGELES - There's more than Hollywood ego on the line at tomorrow's 63rd prime-time Emmys. After disappointing performances by a pair of major trophy fests this year, the TV ceremony could prove an awards season reboot. For producer Mark Burnett, the successful reality TV czar ("Survivor," "The Apprentice") who is tackling his first big awards show, it's a chance to play hero or risk being the goat. He can't take any cues from the double thud that marred the 2011 season.

TEEN WOLF. 11 p.m. Sunday, MTV. Moves to 10 p.m. Mondays the following night. THE FIRST SIGN that MTV's newest scripted show is, as programming chief David Janollari puts it, "not your father's 'Teen Wolf' " is probably the brief sight of half a dead girl - the top half - illuminated by what looks to be the flashlight app from an iPhone. Michael J. Fox never even got to text, much less stumble over dismembered bodies in the woods. But compared to MTV's controversial remake of the British adolescent drama "Skins," its new "Teen Wolf," which premieres Sunday after "The 2011 MTV Movie Awards," is practically housebroken.

L INDSAY LOHAN may have finally gotten her wake-up call. Unfortunately, it did not come from the front desk at the Chateau Marmont - it came from a ticked-off judge. So, soon Lindsay will be hanging with real mean girls. Judge Marsha Revel yesterday sentenced the former teen star to 90 days behind bars for violating probation in a 2007 drug case because prosecutors said she failed to attend court-ordered alcohol- education classes. Lindsay burst into tears after the sentencing.

Big weekend for Sandra Bullock . She appeared, surprise!, Saturday night in L.A., at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards, to accept the "Troops Choice" Award for Entertainer of the Year from presenter Robert Downey Jr. Girl was looking mad stupid good, too, in a tight, leather minidress. Do not try this at home! Especially you men. After a well-deserved standing O, she said: "Did I win this for being entertainer of the year, or did I win this because of the spectacular IED explosion that became my personal life?"

TO ALL Sarah Jessica Parker-watchers out there: a medical bulletin. The "Sex and the City" star has had surgery, and . . . It's gone. Yes, it's true. Her mole is gone. Maybe. As first reported by Fox News, Parker was still attached to her chin-skin appendage when she showed up for the MTV Movie Awards on June 1 but, in a mystery that oiled the squeaky gossip wheels, when she was snapped at the All-Star game on Tuesday, the area below her mouth seemed to be growth-less.

How does America's Got Talent, which is basically a bad copy of The Gong Show, the most monumentally vapid series that ever aired, make such compelling TV? First of all, Talent has upgraded at several skill positions, bringing in Jerry Springer as MC this season and replacing bland female judge Brandy with the fiery Sharon Osbourne. Then it lets its freak flag fly. In the season opener, Osbourne got so mad at fellow jurist Piers Morgan that she stormed off the set. Morgan had just offered some withering criticism to a 9-year-old dancer so tacky she made the kid in Little Miss Sunshine look like Shirley Temple.

Over the last year, sight unseen, Snakes on a Plane grew into a campy cyber cult, based primarily on its perfectly hiss-terical title. Fans have created an online flood of mock posters, trailers, sketches, taglines and T-shirts for the movie. But with the film finally opening tomorrow (with special 10 p.m. debuts today at a number of local theaters), the big question is: Does Snakes have legs? "The thing about Snakes on a Plane is that people don't have to see the movie to enjoy the title," says Brandon Gray, president of the ticket tracking service Box Office Mojo.

What makes great rock music possible? Routine. At least that was the case for Wolfmother, the Australian power trio that is tearing a loud swath through America this summer, including a post-show performance at next week's MTV Movie Awards and this Sunday's show at the Theatre of Living Arts. Roommates Chris Ross and Myles Heskett had jammed together for years with Andrew Stockdale, a friend who lived near them in Sydney. The guys would simply pick up whatever instruments they felt like playing and noodle around.

The lovely, languid actress Laura Dern and the handsome, harmonious Ben Harper were married last week in a Christmas-themed sunset ceremony in Los Angeles. The nups, reports Us Weekly, were held at the former home of Gregory Peck with 150 of the couple's closest family and friends attending. Christmas trees, candles and ornaments were hung by the altar with care. Dern, 38, and Harper, 36, have been together four years. They became engaged last year, just before their second child, Jaya, was born.

When the MTV Movie Awards, held last weekend, are telecast Thursday at 9 p.m., a shot of rapper Eminem exposing his rear end to the audience won't be one of the show's high(low?)lights. Gee, after that hullabaloo about Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, you would think a simple mooning during a full-moon week wouldn't bother anybody. Eminem, who performed at the Saturday night taping with his group, D12, appeared onstage dressed in a long red wig and jeans in a parody of Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose.