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Dear Everyone: Please Stop Focusing On Octavia Spencer’s Weight
Octavia Spencer won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress last night, so you’d think her Google news search results would be flooded with accolades for her acting. Imagine my surprise, then, when the overwhelming majority of headlines focused not on her performance in The Help, but her weight. More »
Viggo Mortensen Is Unrecognizable On The Cover Of T Magazine
Does this look like the 53-year-old hottie who played Aragorn to you? More »
Gossip Girls‘s Jessica Szohr To Star In Teen Werewolf Movie
Will playing one of Gossip Girls‘s most hated characters hurt her career? More »
Gerard Depardieu Gets Drunk, Urinates On Airplane Carpet
This does nothing to dispel the stereotype of French celebrities as rude, chain smoking misanthropes who will pee on carpets that don’t belong to them just because they can. More »
‘Spider-Man’ Actor Reeve Carney Tapped To Play Jeff Buckley In Biopic
Don’t worry, they didn’t fire Gossip Girl hottie Penn Badgley. There are two Jeff Buckleys now. Ain’t showbiz grand? More »
Parting Tweet: Paper Gives Seth Meyers A Taste Of His Own Medicine
You have to admit he walked right into that one. More »
Parting Tweet: Matthew Lillard Wants To Punch Some Guy In The Face
Apparently, some guy named David Thorpe wants to travel back in time to the nineties and punch Matthew Lillard circa Hackers in the face. Them’s fightin’ words! More »
Captain America’s Dominic Cooper…Revealed!
With all the fervor over Captain America‘s studly star Chris Evans, it would be easy to forget anyone else is in the movie at all. But to do so would be a huge mistake, because the supporting cast includes Dominic Cooper, a great actor (and heartthrob) in his own rite. In this, his Hollywood blockbuster debut, Cooper plays Howard Stark, the brilliant inventor who helps turn regular guy Steve Rogers into a patriotic übermensch. (And who, in Iron Man, grows up into John Slattery and fathers the title character.) Here are some things you might not know about him. More »
10 Actors Who Learned A New Language for a Movie
Actors are known for going to extremes for movie roles – Christian Bale lost a scary amount of weight for his role in The Machinist, and Renee Zellweger famously packed on pounds for Bridget Jones’ Diary. Depending on the star, learning a new language is better than having to gain or lose a bunch of weight. More »
Has a Movie Ever Ruined an Actor for You?
I have absolutely nothing against Keith David as a person. The talented, prolific actor lent his voice to one of my favorite animated shows — he was Goliath on Gargoyles — graced us in Coraline as The Cat, and was probably fantastic on the otherwise poor superhero series The Cape. But every time I see him in something, I feel a brief shudder.
I blame Requiem for a Dream. Darren Aronofsky‘s bleak film, something of a cautionary tale about drug use, featured David in a small role as Big Tim, a man who puts Jennifer Connelly‘s character in sex shows in exchange for heroin to fuel her habit. Think Connelly getting it on with another girl while men in business suits jeer above them, all with Big Tim as the perverted gatekeeper. More »
Video: Meet Jesse Heiman, the Extra Who Has Been in Every Movie
Remember Ricky Gervais‘ 2005 series Extras? It was the painfully funny tale of an actor who doggedly paid his dues, always aspiring to break into Hollywood but perpetually falling short. It looks like Gervais has a counterpart in Jesse Heiman, a 33-year-old actor who has appeared in seemingly every movie and TV show. Many of his roles, starting with 2001′s American Pie 2, have been vague — Beer Bong Student, Monopoly Game Piece Thief, Winking Comic Book Nerd — and/or uncredited, but someone has slavishly updated his IMDb page with every appearance. There’s also this great video picking him out of the crowd in Glee, The Social Network, and Arrested Development. (The fact that it’s set to “Lux Aeterna” from Requiem for a Dream makes it all the more epic.) Considering the breadth of his Hollywood career, I think you can assume that he’s havin’ a laugh. More »
Gallery: Actors Who Really Got Into Their Roles
Big Love star Chloe Sevigny is preparing to play axe murderer Lizzie Borden for an HBO miniseries — which is a great choice, considering her capacity for portraying deadly, emotionless women. Although screenwriter Bryce Kass is only halfway through the script, Sevigny is committed to the project: She’s even staying at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast in Fall River, MA, the town where spinster Borden hacked up her father and stepmother in 1892. (Sing the song with me: Lizzie Borden took an axe / Gave her mother 40 whacks / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father 41…) More »
Ryan Kwanten…Revealed!
We may know him as the handsome Jason “Dumber than a bag of hair” Stackhouse on True Blood, but native Aussie Ryan Kwanten is more than a pretty face. His latest project has been revealed as The Family, in which he’ll be tackling the role of America’s most infamous cult leader, Charles Manson. You can also catch the 33-year-old blondie in the upcoming nouveau-Western Red Hill, and co-starrred with Mischa Barton in Don’t Fade Away . But what do you really know about Ryan (besides that he looks awesome without his shirt on)? Here are five fun facts you can use to impress your friends! More »
Across the Pond: 5 British Hotties
It is amazing how quickly time flies. I read in a state of perplexed surprise that Romeo Beckham (the middle child of the Beckham clan) had apparently just signed his first fashion deal – designing sunglasses under the stewardship of his mother, the fabulous Victoria Beckham. He is eight years old. I remember the media furor when he was born.
People are growing up way too fast these days. I know I sound like my mother (although I assure you, I’m not digging an afternoon of bridge and tea just yet). All this talk of young stars in the making led me to think about actors whom I had seen a few years ago, people whom I recall thinking had star quality. As I wondered if these potential actors had ‘made it’, I was pleasantly surprised to discover they have blossomed into bright, intelligent individuals. And they’re easy on the eye too. Here’s my list of top five British eye candy – sorry, I mean actors. More »
Sean Gunn In KGB Super Bowl Ad
Lots of people who don’t care about football now watch the Super Bowl (which aired last Sunday, February 7) for the ads. And lucky us, we found a Gilmore Girls’ Sean Gunn, who played the unforgettable town weirdo Kirk, featured in one of them! The ad is for a service called KGB; Sean appears in the first few seconds of the commercial.
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“The Good Wife” 1.14 ‘Hi’
The Good Wife, 1.14 ‘Hi’
Air Date: February 9, 2010
Preview Video
Here’s another preview of The Good Wife that doesn’t include a glimpse of Cary Agos (played by Matt Czuchry, Logan on Gilmore Girls). Boo! It does however, include quite a bit of his love interest, Kalinda. On tonight’s episode, Alicia gets ready to prepare for Peter’s possible homecoming and has to defend a man accused of murdering his babysitter.
If you’re a fan of Cary, Matt’s character, the blog CBS… More »
Sebastian Bach In “Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp”
Did anyone catch Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp last night on VH1? You may have seen a familiar face: Gilmore Girls alum Sebastian Bach, who played Gil, the lead singer of Lane’s band Hep Alien. Since Gilmore Girls ended Sebastian’s continued to play music and do bit parts in film and on T.V. Now, he apparently wants to lose some weight, joining a motley crew of celebrities including Kevin Federline, Bobby Brown, and Tanisha Thomas. Oh, to be a fly… More »
Will Lauren Graham’s “Parenthood” Role Just Be A Reprise of Lorelai Gilmore?
There’s only one month left before Lauren Graham’s T.V. show Parenthood premieres on NBC! Allison Waldman of TVSquad posted another promo from the show and asks if Lauren’s role as Sarah Braveman is just a remix of Lorelai Gilmore. A TVSquad staff member saw the pilot and has this to say:
According to Joel, who saw the pilot, Sarah is no Lorelai. She’s not chummy-chummy with her children. She’s a lot tougher and more of a mom than a buddy. That… More »
“The Good Wife” 1.13 ‘Bad’ Discussion
The Good Wife 1.13 ‘Bad’
Air Date: February 2, 2010
Discussion
All I want to know this week: did he do it?!? This week on The Good Wife, we focused more on the case than the characters. At least that’s how it felt to me. Perhaps I was simply more interested in the case. A high profile murder. Did the husband do it or not? Such a creep, but a murderer? I just don’t know!
Other thoughts:
- Was Alicia pleased to know her husband,… More »
Liza Weil To Guest Star On “Anyone But Me”
In December, I posted a promo video Liza Weil (Paris on Gilmore Girls) did for the popular web series, Anyone But Me. I’m happy to report that Liza will be guest-starring on the show in a multi-episode arc starting this month! Liza will play the role of a pregnant psychiatrist named Dr. Glass.
In an article posted on Newteevee.com, I learned that Liza has a personal connection with show creator and producer Susan Miller. They met in a theater workshop… More »