Triumph the Insult Comic Dog wants his Golden Collar Award: Calls his competition ‘fixed’

Once Martin Scorsese successfully lobbied to get Blackie, the Doberman from Hugo, on the ballot for the clearly prestigious Golden Collar Award, you knew it was just a matter of time before other press-hounds instituted their own publicity campaigns. No surprise then that Triumph the Insult Comic Dog has mounted a “No Justice! No Poop!” effort to get on the ballot. In a video, the wise-cracking pooch says, “While I understand that awards shows are trivial, and there are more important things we should be focusing on — like whether Gisele is a crazy b—h — it is a tragedy that my work on the Conan O’Donnell show has been overlooked. Like many of the nominees, these awards have clearly been fixed.”

Watch his mildly NSFW plea and takedown of the competition below.

Does Triumph get your vote? And does Bert know about Ernie?

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NYC Comic Con: ‘Vampire Diaries’ cast talks romance (fingers crossed for Bonnie and Damon?)

Image Credit: Quantrell D. Colbert/The CWCast members from The Vampire Diaries joined executive producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec at New York Comic Con on Sunday and, naturally, a big chunk of their hour-long Q&A session focused on the show’s romantic webs that may just get a little more tangled by the end of season 2.

Right off the bat, Katerina Graham was asked whether her character, Bonnie, will find a love interest. “Everyone wants Bonnie to get some! There is a chance,” Graham told the cheering crowd. Plec immediately jumped into the conversation and offered this tease: “Bonnie is going to be getting interest from somebody that she already knows, and she will meet someone new who strikes her fancy.” This is big news! PopWatchers, who do you think is the character that we already know that develops — or acts on — an interest in Bonnie? Personally, I’d love to see a Damon/Bonnie romance go down on the show, and I’m curious to hear what you all think. (Remember, as Katherine told Stefan in the season premiere, hating someone sounds like the beginning of a love story, not the end of one.) Later in the panel discussion, Plec joked about Damon’s sex figure status and said, “I think by the time the series is over, Damon will have slept with every man, woman, and child.” I choose to believe that means that a Damon/Bonnie hookup is likely at some point in the series (hopefully sooner rather than later). 

Of course, we can’t discuss romance on TVD without bringing up Elena and Stefan… and Damon. There’s lots of fan buzz calling Elena and Stefan soul mates, which is a term I don’t like to throw around lightly, or ever, really. Plec emphatically agreed that Stefan and Elena are soul mates, but was quick to point out that “we don’t know if they’re going to end up together yet” and note the tricky truth about love, “you don’t always end up with your soul mate.” Very heavy, but also kind of sad, and totally the reason why I won’t use “soul mates” myself. So does this mean that Damon and Elena could wind up together? In any case, Plec reminded us that right now, things are looking good for Stefan and Elena, comparing their special bite-me moment last episode to a “monogamy commitment.” “Their relationship, at that moment, has never been stronger,” Plec said. How long will that strength last? Would you rather see Elena with Stefan or with Damon?

More fun teaser tidbits from the panel:

• In the next couple of episodes, Bonnie and Elena will recapture their friendship. Witch Bonnie will be using her power for good, and will be a really good friend to Elena. “The intensity is measured by how much Elena is in trouble. She’s capable of anything to protect the people she loves,” Graham said.

• We may not have seen the end of Lexi, or of John Gilbert, for that matter.

• Katherine will likely not be in every episode moving forward — an attempt to keep up her mystique — but her back story will be explored throughout the season, and we will begin to find out where she’s been all these years. Williamson called her the “ultimate survivor,” and said that Elena will be learning some life lessons about survival from Katherine.

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NYC Comic Con: Eric Bana and Joe Wright talk ‘Hanna’

Image Credit: Marc Susset-Lacroix/WireImage.comIf you’ve seen director Joe Wright’s last three films — Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist — Hanna might come as something of a shock. Based on a few minutes of sneak preview footage shown today at NYC’s Comic-Con, the movie has no corsets, no string instruments, and no country mansions. Instead, it’s got guns. And spies. And a deadly teenager (Saoirse Ronan) who was raised as an assassin by her father (Eric Bana) and sent on a mission to find a CIA agent (Cate Blanchett).

In other words, it’s not something you’d expect from a guy whose movies usually appeal to the Masterpiece Theatre demographic. “Everyone thinks I’m all classical music and period films,” Wright tells EW. “It was very exciting to get the gloves off. I really enjoyed all the action stuff. It’s like pure filmmaking.”

For action-movie vet Eric Bana (Star Trek), the thrill of the movie was in the freshness of its story. “When I read the script I felt like I’d never seen that film,” says Bana. “It felt totally original. And that’s getting harder and harder to find, so when you do, you jump on it.”

Hanna hits theaters April 8, 2011.

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