News

Another day, another Bachelor alum wedding!

AshLee Frazier tied the knot to her longtime boyfriend Aaron Williams on Sunday in Houston, and her friends flooded her wedding hashtag —#AAWilliamsWedding2017 — with photos of the stunning ceremony.

“The beautiful bride @ashleefrazier & groom Aaron! Beyond happy for you two!” gushed fellow Bachelor alum Elise Mosca. “Absolutely stunning wedding! We are so grateful we were able to celebrate with ya’ll! Mr. & Mrs. Williams!”

From Coinage: The Bachelor Engagement Rings Cost How Much?!

Frazier, who made it to the final three on Sean Lowe‘s season of The Bachelor in 2013, married Williams at his...

Robin Williams' three children have settled their legal dispute with the late actor's widow over Williams' estimated $100 million estate. The agreement, which still requires a judge's approval, ends a bitter eight-month feud between the two parties that found them arguing over real estate property as well as personal items like photographs, over 50 bicycles, fossils, toys and his awards, including Williams' Good Will Hunting Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, six Golden Globes, two Emmys and five Grammys. As part of the agreement, his children will retain the awards, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Second #6862, 114:22

In an unnervingly comic touch Frank approaches the closet where Jeffrey hides loaded up with his props, which include Dorothy’s blue velvet gown and his gas mask. He is the exterminator now, inhaling his chemicals, approaching Jeffrey and, ominously, the camera. For Frank has seen us, now. The invisible camera has been called out, hailed, interpolated. Frank stares back at us, returning our gaze, just as the bandit, gun in hand, did in Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 film The Great Train Robbery:

Out of the shadows he comes, Dorothy’s tortured, neck and wrist bound husband at his side like a soft wax museum figure from an imaginary film lightning-bolted from black-and-white into anamorphic Technicolor. In your dream, Frank is successful; he dispenses with Jeffrey, and then hunts down Detective Williams and Mrs. Williams (sparing Sandy), and, upon returning to Ben’s place, reloads his gun,...

Second #6345, 105:45

Sandy, in her room, on the phone with Jeffrey after the naked, bruised, Dorothy has just revealed—in front of Jeffrey, Sandy, and Mrs. Williams—that Jeffrey “put his disease” in her. This frame comes from a shot that lasts just under one minute and that is so completely and dramatically sincere as to give lie to the notion that Blue Velvet is somehow a parody or an instance of postmodern Camp. Sandy’s question to herself when she gets off the phone with Jeffrey—“Where is my dream?”—offers a momentary gap in the film. For if most of the time we are with Jeffrey, experiencing the unfolding narrative largely from his perspective, in this shot we find ourselves alone with Sandy, who is free from Jeffrey’s totalitarian desires.

On the wall behind her is a poster—which appears near the beginning of the shot—of Montgomery Clift,...

Second #6204, 103:24

Fragments. Frames. Pieces of a puzzle:

1. “Sandy please. Sandy.”

2. Dorothy naked, but still wearing her wig. A performer.

3. Her performance before Sandy and Mrs. Williams.

4. The lamp in the corner. The trapped bird.

5. The flesh of Dorothy’s arm.

6. “Nothing can be achieved in the art of film until its form is understood to be the product of a completely unique complex: the exercise of an instrument which can function, simultaneously, both in terms of discovery and invention. . . . The camera provides the elements of the form, and, although it does not always do so, can either discover or create them, or discover and create them simultaneously.” Maya Deren, from “An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film,” 1946.

7. The blank familiarity of the suburban home.

8. “We did Blue Velvet in total freedom.” Isabella Rossellini, 2008.

9. “The power of cinematic language juxtaposes spaces and images which disturb the familiar with...

Second #6157, 102:37

“Mom . . . is Dad home?” Sandy asks. If Blue Velvet were a comedy (and it approaches one at moments like this) there might be canned laughter following this line. After all, Sandy has just entered the house with the local nightclub singer, naked, bruised, and clinging to Sandy’s new boyfriend Jeffrey.

Jeffrey in the realm of women: Dorothy (the bad one), Sandy (the good one), and Mrs. Williams (the dutiful wife and mother). What we’re looking at here is pure, raw, sex, unrestrained by custom, duty, or conventional notions of morality. Sandy knows it; it shows in the thrill that registers in her splayed fingers. Mrs. Williams knows it too, and wants to cover it up. (“I’ll get a coat to put on her,” she’ll say in a few moments.) She is played by Hope Lange, whose portrayal in Peyton Place (1957) of Selena Cross, who is raped by her stepfather,...

Hey kids? Can you come in here a minute? Southland and I need to talk to you.

We know you guys really miss Steven Frank. We miss him too. But Steven has a family of his own to look after and other responsibilities, so he isn't able to recap Southland any more. Now this doesn't mean he doesn't miss you or that he loves you any less.

With Steven stepping back, AfterElton has asked me to step in. I know I won't be able to fill Steven's tremendous shoes but I hope I can do the show and its fans good enough service.

In last week's season 4 premiere we were introduced to two new regulars: Officer Jessica Tang (Lucy Liu), Officer John “Cuddlybear” Cooper's new partner who was tasked with evaluating his street readiness following his back surgery (and who had her own demon to overcome in the form of...

Robbie Williams proposed to Ayda Field on Christmas Day, December 25, 2009. The "Angels" singer, who married the actress last Saturday, August 7, jokingly asked the actress to marry him during a live radio show in November, but didn't officially pop the question until a month later, when he took the blond beauty to the place where they first met.

"Really early on Christmas Day morning," Ayda said. "Rob says we have to go for a drive and see if the Coffee Bean is open. I'm thinking, 'This is really strange.' And then we pulled up to the house, which we were having renovated, and the car stops and he tells me to get out of the car."

"He handed a card to me and inside was a playing card, with 'Happy Christmas Mrs. Williams. I love you, Robert' written on it. And written on black marker pen, on all four queen cards,...

Robbie Williams calls his fiancee "Mrs. Williams". The 'Morning Sun' singer refers to Ayda Field by the moniker because he feels as though he is married to her already. Referring to the actress during an interview with UK station Heart Radio, he said: "That Mrs. Williams over there, Ayda. Well as good as, eh babe?" Robbie - who is believed to have got engaged to the American beauty at the end of 2009 - also revealed Ayda gets upset when she sees newspaper headlines claiming they are in no hurry to set a wedding date. He added: "We were reading some stuff and saw the headline 'Robbie Williams in no rush to get married'. I looked at her and she...