‘MOB WIVES’ GATHER WITH JOY BAHAR FOR A TRAIN WRECK

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

MOB WIVES star Renee Graziano chats with reunion host Joy Behar between takes - Photo credit: Elizabeth Black/ VH1

After all coming together for Big Ang’s dinner on the season two finale, the Mob Wives sit down with host Joy Behar for an intense and explosive reunion. 

In part one, Renee and her sister (MOB WIVES executive producer), Jennifer address the questions swirling around Junior becoming an informant for the FBI. Ang reveals the truth about her ever changing body parts and Carla finds herself on the defensive as Ramona and Karen question her integrity and morals. Even though Karen and Drita called a truce, Ramona and Drita’s simmering animosity boils over into complete and utter chaos.

MOB WIVES Season 2 Reunion – Part Two Airing on VH1 Sunday, May 27, 2012; 8:00 PM ET/ PT

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NEWSFLASH: OSCARS WILL STAY IN HOLLYWOOD!

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

Academy Award arrivals

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and CIM Group announced May Day that the Academy Awards® will remain in Hollywood under a new 20-year deal.

Concurrently, in a separate agreement, Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) and CIM announced a 20-year agreement  to name the Dolby Theatre™ — the iconic theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center®and home of the Academy Awards since 2002– a showcase of technology innovation.

“Our ability to swiftly conclude two significant contracts with global entertainment leaders affirms Hollywood as a thriving district, the Dolby Theatre as the ultimate entertainment showcase and Hollywood & Highland Center as a cornerstone for both the local and entertainment communities,” said Shaul Kuba, Co-Founder of CIM Group, owners of the Hollywood & Highland Center.  

CIM is an investor in communities throughout North America and the largest commercial real estate owner in Hollywood.  In 1998, CIM Group identified Hollywood as an emerging urban district that meets the firm’s strategic investment guidelines and is headquartered there.  Since then, it has acquired and developed a portfolio of properties that include office, retail, hotel and multifamily residential properties.

Under the new contract with the Academy, the Dolby Theatre will host the Academy Awards through 2033.  The Dolby Theatre features 3,400 seats on four levels and 20 opera boxes, one of the largest stages in the United States with state-of-the-art infrastructure designed for a variety of programming including live broadcast.

“The Academy’s Board of Governors believes that the home for our awards is in Hollywood. It is where the Academy and the motion picture industry are rooted,” said Tom Sherak, Academy President. “We are pleased to have a new agreement with CIM that will continue our longstanding partnership.”

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HOLLYWOOD DOGS: FROM RIN TIN TIN TO UGGIE AT THE ACADEMY

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate canine stardom with “Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie” on Wednesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The evening will feature Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, animal trainers Sarah Clifford and Omar von Muller sharing behind-the-scenes secrets, and a screening of Clash of the Wolves (1925), starring Rin Tin Tin, with live musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla.

'Uggie' and 'Rin Tin Tin' courtesy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®

Man’s best friend has gotten a wonderful publicity boost from the movies. Canine cinema mythology has enhanced human appreciation of the dog’s loyalty, heroism, humor and intelligence from the earliest days of film with such immediate audience favorites as Rescued by Rover (1905) and The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905).

More than any other four-legged actor, the dog has achieved a unique stardom with such long-lasting box office stars as Strongheart, Teddy, Lassie, Pete the Pup, Benji and particularly Rin Tin Tin. The original Rinty (there would be several over the years) was rescued in Germany during World War I by a U.S. soldier, and with his molding for Hollywood stardom, Rinty became one of the biggest box office draws of the late 1920s. The popularity of Rinty’s films would practically underwrite a struggling studio known as Warner Bros. and afford a young writer named Darryl F. Zanuck some of his earliest success.

For more information visit www.oscars.org.

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ROSIE O’DONNELL AND FRAN DRESCHER MIX IT UP ON ‘HAPPILY DIVORCED’

Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin

HAPPILY DIVORCED - Pictured left to right: Rosie O'Donnell, Fran Drescher, Rita Moreno. Photo by: Evans Vestal Ward/TV Land

Rosie O’Donnell is making an appearance on Fran Drescher’s hit sitcom Happily Divorced (Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, TV Land), just in time for Mother’s Day.

O’Donnell plays Fran’s (Drescher) junior high school buddy, who convinces Fran to spend a day of fun with her mother Dori (Rita Moreno) rather than chowing down at her mom’s favorite restaurant. Her mother’s idea of a good time is relentless shopping for wedding dresses for Fran.

 

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‘THE CLIENT LIST’ GETS A SECOND SEASON

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in the new Lifetime Original Series, The Client List. ©2012 A&E Television Networks, LLC. All rights reserved. Photo Credit: Michael Desmond

Jennifer Love Hewitt is sitting pretty. Her new series The Client List just got the go-ahead for a second season, President and General Manager of Lifetime Networks, Nancy Dubuc announced Monday.

“The Client List represents everything we want to be — fresh, exciting and original with attitude,” Dubuc said. “We love Jennifer and this series – and are equally thrilled that they have connected with our audience.”

“I couldn’t be happier about Lifetime’s decision to renew The Client List for a second season,” Hewitt added. “It has been so much fun working with such a great cast and crew on the wonderful stories we tell – and I’m ready to see where The Client List takes all of us next year.”

The show has become an instant hit since its April 8th premiere – and an additional 15 all-new episodes have been order to air next year.

The Client List airs Sundays, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Lifetime.

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CLAIRE COFFEE’S ‘GRIMM’ REVEAL BEGINS TONIGHT

Posted on April 13, 2012 by admin

Pictured: Claire Coffee stars as Adalind the Hexenbiest in 'GRIMM.' -- (Photo by: Scott Green/NBC)

Claire Coffee is beautiful – that is until she becomes Adalind the Hexenbiest on the hit TV series Grimm (Fridays, 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, NBC). Then she’s positively striking…frighteningly so. And it’s about to get oh so scary as her character develops.

“Tonight there’s a huge fight,” Coffee tells us.

That fight will lead to some important reveals, one of which is Adalind’s beauty regime.

“It’s pretty gnarly,” the actress laughs. “It involves leaches. [The production] made leaches so I had those on my face. I couldn’t look in the mirror. They looked too real. They’re scary – and appropriate.”

If you’ve been watching the show, you already know that Adalind has a super-secret association with Police Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) as well as having placed a spell on Detective Hank Griffin (Russell Hornsby).

Now both of those storylines are about to become clearer to fans.

“Hank’s under a spell and you’ll find out why I’ve put him under that spell and what I hope to gain,” she promises. “It all culminates into that huge fight with [Detective] Nick [Burkhardt] (David Giuntoli) in the middle of the forest in Portland.

“A little bit more of Captain Renard’s (Roiz) character will be revealed tonight and you’ll meet my mom (Jessica Tuck), who comes into play with my relationship with Renard. Every episode forward from this one is more about him and the network of people that he represents.”

The beauty of Grimm is that regardless of which episode you watch, you’ll be up to speed immediately. No episodic game playing is involved. Sure, the base of Detective Nick Burkhardt (Giuntoli) being a descendant of the Brother’s Grimm is an unfolding mystery, but each episode has a satisfying resolution that keeps the fan base satisfied and entices new viewers into the Grimm world.

“They’ve definitely laid the groundwork for all these mysteries in such a way that it doesn’t feel confusing,” she points out. “But you do want to know what’s going on and it gets to the root of it.”

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‘TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD’ CELEBRATION AT THE ACADEMY

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin

1962 "To Kill A Mockingbird" courtesy ®The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will showcase a new digital restoration of To Kill a Mockingbird in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The evening will feature an introduction by talk show host Tavis Smiley and an onstage discussion with Oscar®-nominated actress Mary Badham. The digital restoration is courtesy of Universal Pictures, which is marking its centennial this year.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) became as much of a classic as its source, and the defining film of Gregory Peck’s career. Produced by Alan J. Pakula and directed by Robert Mulligan, the film features Peck as a Depression-era lawyer struggling against a prejudiced system to exonerate an African-American man falsely accused of rape.

For his iconic portrayal of Atticus Finch, Peck earned his fifth Best Actor nomination and only Oscar. Co-star Robert Duvall made his film debut as the mysterious Boo Radley, while a 10-year-old Badham also made her first screen appearance as Atticus’s daughter Scout.

The film unfolds as a coming-of-age story, as Scout learns about injustice, human frailties and the definition of heroism. Badham’s Oscar nomination for her performance made her the youngest actress with that honor at the time.

To Kill a Mockingbird earned a total of eight Academy Award® nominations and won three awards. In addition to the aforementioned, it received Oscars® for Black-and-White Art Direction (Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Oliver Emert) and Adapted Screenplay (Horton Foote), and nominations for Black-and-White Cinematography (Russell Harlan), Directing (Mulligan), Original Score (Elmer Bernstein) and Best Picture (Pakula, producer).

For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.

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JENNIFER LAWRENCE INTERVIEW IN ‘ROLLING STONE’

Posted on March 28, 2012 by admin

 

Jennifer Lawrence on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' courtesy Beth Furtwangler / Wenner Media

Jennifer Lawrence has a way of making a first impression, as several of her Hunger Games co-stars and friends tell Rolling Stone. “I was on my bus,” says Woody Harrelson of first meeting Lawrence when filming The Hunger Games, “and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifer comes on, and she goes, ‘Hi, Woody, I’m J— is that a sex swing?’ Her first sentence to me.”

Another Hunger Games co-star, Josh Hutcherson, also had a memorable first experience with Lawrence. “When I got cast, she called me up for one of those five-minute ‘Excited to work with you, blah, blah, blah’ things,” Hutcherson says. “The conversation started with her saying, ‘Think about a catheter going in – ouch!’ and then turns into a 45-minute rant about zombies and the apocalypse.”

And then there’s Zoë Kravitz, who appeared with Lawrence in X-Men: First Class and who is one of her best friends: “I’d met her a few times, and she was like, ‘You should come over and we’ll hang out.’ So I go over to her apartment, and she opens the door in a towel. She’s like, ‘Come in, sorry, you’re early, I was about to shower.’ And she drops her towel and gets in the shower, and starts shaving her legs, totally naked. She was like, ‘Are we here yet? Is this OK?’ And I was like, ‘I guess we’re there!’”

The Jennifer Lawrence article is in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands Friday.

Online excerpt and photo shoot video at www.rollingstone.com.

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EVERYTHING GOES BETTER WITH VAMPIRES IN ‘HOT IN CLEVELAND’

Posted on March 23, 2012 by admin

Georgia Engel (l.) guest stars with Betty White in a new "Hot in Cleveland" this Wednesday March 28th on TVLand.

 
this episode of Hot in Cleveland has Joy (Jane Leeves) dates a guy who she thinks is her teen crush Rick Springfield (played by Rick Springfield) and Victoria (Wendie Malick) wants to fire the cleaning-averse housekeeper (Rhea Perlman). Meanwhile, Melanie’s (Valerie Bertinelli) date with a pretentious professor (Craig Bierko) makes her feel insecure and Elka (Betty White) is fed up with her writing partner Mamie (Georgia Engel).
Hot in Cleveland premieres Wednesday, March 28th at 10pm on TVLand.
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KEVIN ALEJANDRO IN A ‘BREAKOUT’ ROLE ON ‘KINGS’ POST ‘TRUE BLOOD’

Posted on March 23, 2012 by admin

Kevin Alejandro guest stars on "Breakout Kings." Photo courtesy of A&E.

Kevin Alejandro, may have bit the dust on True Blood, but he’s already picking up new acting gigs to keep himself in the game.

Alejandro is best know as Jesus Velasquez, the smokin’ hot love interested to Lafayette Reynolds (Nelson Ellis) on the HBO Vampire dramedy. But now, since his on-screen boy-toy offed him on True Blood, he’s transitioned into a guest starring stint on A&E’s drama series Breakout Kings.

Word is he’ll be doing a heap of killing of his own on Kings – but it appears that his character believes each victim needed butchering.

Sure Kings a one-off role, but let’s face it, dead doesn’t mean dead on True Blood, so perhaps it’s possible that Alejandro could return for season five…if the producers deem it necessary (pretty please).

OK, so I may be delusional, but it’ll be great to see Alejandro back in action.

Alejandro’s episode of Breakout Kings airs Sunday, March 25th, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.

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