Year: 2006 (Page 50 of 228)

P.S., I love Spike

October 2, 2006 /

“Buffy,” “Angel,” and “Smallville” alum James Marsters has landed his most high-profile movie role to date, starring with Hilary Swank in the film adaptation of best-selling Cecilia Ahern novel “P.S., I Love You.” The book is about a widow whose late husband leaves her 10 tasks to complete in order to work her way through the grieving process; Marsters will play the best friend of Swank’s deceased husband.

With a built-in audience of the book’s legions of fans, plus a supporting cast that includes Kathy Bates, Gina Gershon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Denny from “Grey’s Anatomy”), and potentially Lisa Kudrow…this is one project to keep an eye on.

Actors, Actresses, Movie Dramas, Movies, News

Dwight’s boys can swim…or can they?

October 2, 2006 /

The October 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly contains an eyebrow-raising tidbit about one of the subplots discarded from last year’s season of “The Office:” an unintended pregnancy for straitlaced head accountant Angela.

According to executive producer Greg Daniels, during a typically awkward Dwight-Angela encounter in the Dunder-Mifflin kitchen late last season, Angela left the room after muttering, “I’m late”…but she wasn’t referring to having someplace else to be at that time.

So why was the storyline cut?

“It was a big move, but we had it in a show that had a lot of other big moves,” says Daniels. “I don’t know if we’re ever going to end up using it.”

Probably a wise decision. It’s hard to wring comedy gold from an accidental pregnancy under the best of circumstances, and while the idea of an actual, physical coupling between Dwight and Angela may be funny to some…it’s the stuff of nightmares to many, many others.

Thus, in lieu of starting a due-date pool for Angela just yet, we’ll have to content ourselves with enjoying NBC’s ode to the oddest romance on television:

“My animal deserves a lot of loving,” muses Dwight. And he’s just the man to give it to her.

The Office, TV, TV Comedies

Turns out breaking up is surprisingly EASY to do.

October 1, 2006 /

Who doesn’t enjoy reading the dirt on a messy Hollywood break-up? I mean, hell, the entertainment media machine would come to a standstill if all romances were happily-ever-after storybook affairs. Leave it to Jim Parish, then, to put together a book that highlights the “best” of the bunch. Parish, whose last book tackled the life and times of some of Hollywood’s biggest flops (“Fiasco“), tackles the Tinseltown relationships that went belly-up, getting as current as Pitt-Aniston and Hawke-Thurman, but going as far as back as Hollywood’s glory days.

It’s an educational ride through cinematic history. You hear loads about Bogie and Bacall, but the tale of Humphrey Bogart’s third wife – Lauren Bacall was his fourth – is fascinating…if tragic. Mayo Methot was a substance abuser, but she also was the victim of paranoia and schizophrenia, resulting in her stabbing Bogie in the small of the back with a butcher knife and slamming his head against a concrete sidewalk. Yikes. There are also the tales of famed romances like Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, and Orson Welles and Lana Turner.

Well worth checking out.

Actors, Actresses, External Entertainment, External Movies, External TV, Gossip

The Office: Party in 308!

September 30, 2006 /

So Pam is ready to date, only she’s just not ready to date Jim. Michael assumed that Jim left Scranton because of him, but Jim explained that he left because Pam shut him down…twice. It’s obvious that Jim is pretty hurt by that and I think Pam is going to have to make the first move, because he has to be a little gun shy at this point.

I was wondering how they’d get Jim involved with his old office, and the paper conference was the perfect opportunity for Michael and Dwight to interact with their old co-worker, to typically uncomfortable results. Michael was insistent about hosting a party in his room, but it never really happened – people kept “filtering in and out.” I was hoping for some more awkward interaction with Jan, but since he’s got a girlfriend, he’s no longer on the prowl.

Pam’s date was a complete bust, which really isn’t a surprise considering Kelly was the one who set her up. At what point does Pam break down and call Jim? It turns out that Toby – the HR guy – has a work crush on Pam, but he wasn’t able to pull the trigger and ask her out. On a side note, it’s always great to see Kelly and Ryan in a non-office setting – he still hasn’t been able to extract himself from that relationship, and I hope he never does. His expressions are just too funny when they’re together.

Dwight and Angela provided a few laughs this week with all of their “monkey” talk and Angela’s visit to Dwight’s hotel room (much to the surprise of Jim who secured a key to Dwight’s room in the hopes of pranking him, but instead caught an eyeful of Angela on the bed). Viewers who stuck around for the tag caught a treat when Dwight and Michael turned on the black light in the hotel room. There was fluid everywhere. Dwight said, “That’s semen, blood or urine.”

Michael replied, “God, I hope it’s urine.”

External TV, The Office, TV, TV Comedies

TV DVD QT, Vol. 1

September 29, 2006 /

With multiple seasons of TV shows coming out on DVD, it’s gotten to the point where there’s only so much you can say. I mean, is “What’s Happening: Season 3″so dramatically different from Season 2…? Since we don’t want to let these releases go by without a mention if they’re being sent to us, however, it just makes sense to start up a new feature on Premium Hollywood: TV DVD QT.

Let’s get rolling, then, shall we…?

Hart To Hart – The Complete Second Season: Self-made millionaire Jonathan Hart (the ever-suave Robert Wagner) and his super-hot wife, Jennifer (Stefanie Powers), manage to get wrapped up in more thefts and murders than any normal couple ever would, inevitably solving every mystery that crosses their path…with the help of their stogie-smoking manservant, Max (Lionel Stander), of course. The plots are often ridiculous, but the chemistry between Wagner and Powers makes the show consistently fun to watch. No special features. Booooooo!

Bewitched – The Complete Fourth Season: Few people fell in love with the “Bewitched” film starring Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman, but at least it kickstarted the release of the original TV series on DVD. The fourth season still has Samantha Stevens (Elizabeth Montgomery) teamed up with her original Darrin (Dick York), and their daughter Tabitha (Erin Murphy) continues to grow up…and cause mischief with her powers. This is the last season we see Aunt Clara, due to actress Marion Lorne’s passing. Best episode? As ever, it’s one featuring Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur: “The No-Harm Charm.” No special features. Hisssssss!

The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete Fourth Season: What else do you need to know besides the fact that it stars Bob Newhart? Well, how about the fact that most of the original cast comes back to do audio commentary…? Newhart and his TV wife, Suzanne Pleshette, do commentary on “The Longest Good-Bye” with guest star (and Pleshette’s husband) Tom Poston, while Newhart and co-star Marcia Wallace (she played Carol the receptionist on the show…but you may know her as Edna Krabapple on “The Simpsons”) chat on “Who Is Mr. X?” Even one of Newhart’s most famous patients, Mr. Carlin (Jack Riley), shows up to talk about “Over the River and Through the Woods.” Good times and funny stuff.

The Flintstones – The Complete Sixth Season: It’s the last season of this venerable animated sitcom, but you’ll know it as “the one with the Great Gazoo.” Still, you can’t say it was an example of jumping the shark; even in its last year, “The Flinstones” still had several brilliant episodes, including appearances by Tony…sorry, Stoney Curtis and, as it happens, both Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York from “Bewitched.” It’s also the year of the Way-Outs, as well as when Pebbles and Bam-Bam sing “Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In.” No booing or hissing here; this set does have special features – a featurette on the series and its tie to popular culture, as well as one about the history of the Great Gazoo – but you probably won’t watch either of them more than once.

External TV, Reviews, TV, TV DVDs

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