Tonight on “The Challenge: USA,” things get heated between two rookie players, and the competitors brace themselves for host Tj Lavin’s favorite challenge of the season: trivia. This episode titled “A Really Good-Looking Underdog” airs Sunday, August 27 on the CBS (streaming on Paramount+).
See Alyssa Lopez (‘The Challenge: USA’) on going home ‘over a little hat trick’: ‘There’s nothing else I could have done’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Among the cast members are three people who previously won their seasons: Michelle Fitzgerald (“Survivor: Kaôh Rōng”), Josh Martinez (“Big Brother 19”) and Chris Underwood (“Survivor: Edge of Extinction”). “MTV Challenge” vets are Wes Bergmann, Tori Deal, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, Amanda Garcia, Jonna Mannion and Cory Wharton. How will these six all-stars now fare when competing with CBS reality favorites? In the end, only one man and one woman will emerge victorious, taking home $250,000 each. Follow our live blog and see the current team breakdowns below.
See Alyssa Lopez (‘The Challenge: USA’) on going home ‘over a little hat trick’: ‘There’s nothing else I could have done’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Among the cast members are three people who previously won their seasons: Michelle Fitzgerald (“Survivor: Kaôh Rōng”), Josh Martinez (“Big Brother 19”) and Chris Underwood (“Survivor: Edge of Extinction”). “MTV Challenge” vets are Wes Bergmann, Tori Deal, Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, Amanda Garcia, Jonna Mannion and Cory Wharton. How will these six all-stars now fare when competing with CBS reality favorites? In the end, only one man and one woman will emerge victorious, taking home $250,000 each. Follow our live blog and see the current team breakdowns below.
- 8/28/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Alyssa Lopez became the sixth contestant eliminated from “The Challenge: USA” on Thursday night, following her loss to Cassidy in the arena. In the game “Block Heads,” each woman was locked in a metal cage they had to roll around the arena to collect flags. Once they had four flags, they raced to a monitor to decode them and get a combination that would free them from their cage. In the end, Cassidy pulled off the win and sent the “Big Brother 23” star packing. Watch our exclusive video interview with the eliminated contestant above.
Alyssa wasn’t the main target in the house, but just one anonymous vote putting her name in the hopper was all it took. “I wasn’t surprised,” she told Gold Derby. “I had nerves the entire show being there. I didn’t have any nerves when I went down. I am that friend that always has bad luck.
Alyssa wasn’t the main target in the house, but just one anonymous vote putting her name in the hopper was all it took. “I wasn’t surprised,” she told Gold Derby. “I had nerves the entire show being there. I didn’t have any nerves when I went down. I am that friend that always has bad luck.
- 8/25/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
It only took one vote to send Alyssa Lopez home in The Challenge: USA Season 2. In “Operation Hat Trick,” named after the vets’ big move, the focus turned from vets vs. rookies to Big Brother vs. Survivor. After Green Team won the daily and nominated Chris Underwood and Cassidy Clark for elimination, Johnny “Bananas” DeVenanzio, Tori Deal, Josh Martinez, Cory Wharton, and Faysal Shafaat put five names in a hat and randomly picked one as their votes. That was the only vote for Lopez, but her ball came out of the hopper, and so she faced off against Clark and lost in Block Heads. (Each was locked in a cage that had to be maneuvered around the arena to pick up flags. Those flags then revealed a code to unlock the cage.) Below, Lopez talks about that loss, why she wants to take time off from The Challenge: USA,...
- 8/25/2023
- TV Insider
This pair of Laurel and Hardy capers sees them first struggle to deliver a piano up some stairs, then appear in a comedy in which Stan doesn’t realise world war one is over. Peter Bradshaw explains why The Musicbox and Block-Heads are a couple of fine messes to catch this week.
Read Peter Bradshaw’s five-star review: Block-Heads and The Music BoxTicket details for the Laurel and Hardy roadshow
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Read Peter Bradshaw’s five-star review: Block-Heads and The Music BoxTicket details for the Laurel and Hardy roadshow
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- 11/13/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Two classic comedies put Stan and Ollie through the wringer yet again – in the aftermath of the first world war and as piano deliverymen scaling perilous heights
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s Block-Heads is their 1938 gem, now rereleased as a double bill with the sublime The Music Box. It is an anarchic succession of vignettes and catastrophes: the sheer absurdity of their connection is part of the comedy.
We start in the trenches of the first world war, where Stan is ordered to guard the trench when his comrades, including Ollie, are sent over the top. On the signing of the Armistice, Stan is simply left behind and guards this trench for 20 years in a peaceful meadow. But when he is finally discovered and reunited with Ollie, it is as if precisely nothing has changed at all, and they soon return to their tense domestic bickering.
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s Block-Heads is their 1938 gem, now rereleased as a double bill with the sublime The Music Box. It is an anarchic succession of vignettes and catastrophes: the sheer absurdity of their connection is part of the comedy.
We start in the trenches of the first world war, where Stan is ordered to guard the trench when his comrades, including Ollie, are sent over the top. On the signing of the Armistice, Stan is simply left behind and guards this trench for 20 years in a peaceful meadow. But when he is finally discovered and reunited with Ollie, it is as if precisely nothing has changed at all, and they soon return to their tense domestic bickering.
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- 11/12/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Film's golden era was tarnished by appeasement
Nazi Germany loved movies, and their leader was, as in so much else, fanatical about them. In his private cinema at the Reich Chancellery Hitler watched a movie every night, then gave his invited guests the benefit of his opinion on it. He loved Laurel and Hardy, for instance, noting how their comedy Block-Heads contained "a lot of very nice ideas and clever jokes". Yet he regarded movies as something more than entertainment; he saw in their power to seduce and bewitch a vital instrument of persuasion. His propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, saw it, too. After watching It Happened One Night, he wrote in his diary: "A funny, lively American film from which we can learn a lot. The Americans are so natural. Far superior to us."
If this eye-opening study of Hollywood and the Nazi elite is to be believed, that superiority was purely a technical one.
Nazi Germany loved movies, and their leader was, as in so much else, fanatical about them. In his private cinema at the Reich Chancellery Hitler watched a movie every night, then gave his invited guests the benefit of his opinion on it. He loved Laurel and Hardy, for instance, noting how their comedy Block-Heads contained "a lot of very nice ideas and clever jokes". Yet he regarded movies as something more than entertainment; he saw in their power to seduce and bewitch a vital instrument of persuasion. His propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, saw it, too. After watching It Happened One Night, he wrote in his diary: "A funny, lively American film from which we can learn a lot. The Americans are so natural. Far superior to us."
If this eye-opening study of Hollywood and the Nazi elite is to be believed, that superiority was purely a technical one.
- 10/16/2013
- by Anthony Quinn
- The Guardian - Film News
There's an old adage that "short people live longer," and Karl Slover was a testament to that. The diminutive actor and singer, most famous for playing one of the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz," passed on yesterday at the age of 93.
The Associated Press reports that Slover, born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech Republic in 1918, died of cardiopulmonary arrest at a hospital in Georgia. He was still appearing at events as recently as last week.
In addition to his most famous role as the first trumpeter to herald the Munchkin mayor's entrance, Slover had three other roles in the 1939 fantasy classic: a soldier, one of the sleepy heads, and one of the singers of "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." He was 21 at the time, the shortest of the Munchkins at 4-feet-4, making the mere 5-foot Judy Garland a towering giant in comparison.
Other parts included the...
The Associated Press reports that Slover, born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech Republic in 1918, died of cardiopulmonary arrest at a hospital in Georgia. He was still appearing at events as recently as last week.
In addition to his most famous role as the first trumpeter to herald the Munchkin mayor's entrance, Slover had three other roles in the 1939 fantasy classic: a soldier, one of the sleepy heads, and one of the singers of "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." He was 21 at the time, the shortest of the Munchkins at 4-feet-4, making the mere 5-foot Judy Garland a towering giant in comparison.
Other parts included the...
- 11/16/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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