Monthly Archives: April 2011
In the animated comedy adventure Rio, opening Friday, Jamie Foxx voices a canary who loves the ladies and sings I Want to Party. “It’s typecasting,” brags Foxx, who won an Oscar six years ago for playing Ray Charles. Foxx, 43, … Continue reading
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Tagged Audrina Patridge, Jamie Foxx, Rio, The Hills
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Jared Scott Tesler, Rochester, N.Y. Oscar-winning Dame Dench, 76, released And Furthermore in mid-February and says the book is not an autobiography but rather a chronicle of her time in the theater world. On acting, she tells us: “I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Amd Furthermore, Dame Judi Dench, J. Edgar
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Jan Dartt, De Pere, Wis. Champion, a 25-year TV weather vet, has been rising at 4 a.m. and traveling the globe for GMA for five years. He’s 49 — “Whew,” he tells us, “though it feels older at 4 a.m.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Good Morning America, Sam Champion
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Carole Clark, Corning, Calif. Corwin, 43, has been working as a science and environmental correspondent for NBC and MSNBC. He can be seen on the Today show and the NBC Nightly News discussing, say, bluefin tuna, or the USA’s disappearing … Continue reading
4.17 Jennifer Garner 39 4.18 America Ferrera 27 Conan O’Brien 48 4.19 Ashley Judd 43 4.20 Ryan O’Neal 70 John Paul Stevens 91 4.21 Tony Romo 31 4.22 Jack Nicholson 74 4.23 Lee Majors 72
Our comic book superheroes are an all-American bunch, but a majority of them are played by actors not from around these parts. Green Lantern star Ryan Reynolds is from Canada, Christian Bale (aka Batman) and Henry Cavill (the new Superman) … Continue reading
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He’s done so much TV, movie and stage work that Ben Shenkman has started seeing hybrids creep in. His acclaimed turn in the HBO miniseries Angels in America — which garnered him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 2004 — … Continue reading
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“Everyone dismisses it as a strip show, but it wasn’t that at all,” actress and first-time director, writer and producer Leslie Zemeckis says about the topic of her new documentary. For the first time, Zemeckis uncovered the mystery and truth … Continue reading
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Olivia Wilde took a long break from House to shoot the big-budget Western Cowboys & Aliens, but those at Princeton Plainsboro Hospital remained aloof to reality — as most TV characters do. In the season six finale of House last … Continue reading
He’s starring in a new show called Chaos, but Freddie Rodriguez’s life is anything but bedlam. When he’s not on the set of the CBS drama (Fridays, 8 p.m. ET/PT), Rodriguez, 36, spends time with his wife, Elsie, and two … Continue reading
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Tagged 24, Chaos, Elisha Cuthbert, Freddie Rodriguez, Happy Endings
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Marie Farme, Newark, Calif. According to his record company, Cook, 28, is in the studio with producer Matt Serletic (Rob Thomas, Matchbox Twenty, Collective Soul) working on a sophomore album expected later this year. In the meantime, you can check … Continue reading
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Tagged American Idol, David Cook
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Dorothy Biller, LaPorte, Ind. A rep for the show says studio singers are carrying the tune, not the cast members of the CBS sitcom. Season 8 of Two and a Half Men ended early as star Charlie Sheen was fired … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men
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Leigh Seymour, Brooklyn, N.Y. After nearly 11 years of doing autopsies and announcing her findings in the kind of authoritative voice that gets recognized by fans, Tunie tells us that medical examiner Melinda Warner is “very much a part of … Continue reading
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Tagged As the World Turns, Law & Order, Melinda Warner, Spring Awakening, Tamara Tunie
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4.10 Haley Joel Osment 23 4.11 Joss Stone 24 4.12 Claire Danes 32 Shannen Doherty 40 4.13 Max Weinberg 60 4.14 Sarah Michelle Gellar 34 Loretta Lynn 76 4.15 Emma Watson 21 4.16 Lukas Haas 35
What do you know about what happened in pop culture this week? Try your hand with this quiz, then check the answers below. 1. Where did Charlie Sheen open his tour, My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option? … Continue reading
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With action scenes reminiscent of the Ocean’s trilogy and comedy a la The Office, Fox’s new sitcom Breaking In has it all — including several Star Trek-inspired quirks. Christian Slater (True Romance, Heathers) re-emerges from his television slump as Oz, … Continue reading
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Say it with me: “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.” Even with the fifth and final season of Friday Night Lights out on DVD today, loyal fans of the show will never forget that mantra. Whether the show was on … Continue reading
Not surprisingly, horror buffs James Wan and Leigh Whannell bonded over movies as first-year film students at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia when they were teenagers. However, one came a lot more prepared than the other. “It … Continue reading
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What do you know about what happened in pop culture this week? Try your hand with this quiz, then check the answers below. 1. Which of the following sites played April Fool’s jokes on their viewers? A. Hulu flash-backed to … Continue reading
World Wrestling Entertainment has its biggest day of the year this Sunday when WrestleMania XXVII hits the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. If you want to get more personally involved in an epic smackdown, though, you can also pick up WWE … Continue reading
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