Author: Deb Medsker (Page 14 of 70)

Wanted: Hungry, older Latino male

Pop quiz: Whom would you cast as Hurley’s father on “Lost?”

If you said, “Someone who’s the right age, Hispanic, and has a constant case of the munchies,” you’d be right in line with the producers’ way of thinking…as that’s exactly who has won the role.

Personally, much as I have a soft spot for the actor in question, this one feels like a stretch to me…but what do you think? Any alternative suggestions?

And for the record, no voting for Ricardo “Khan” Montalban. He is simultaneously too old, too tall, and too skinny for this role. Besides, we are still hoping he will show up in that other J.J. Abrams project, complete with massive pec-plate, and thus be much too busy to appear in a piddly little network TV show.

Jeremy Piven refuses to hug it out

Apparently still upset over losing out to Jack Black for the latter’s star-making role in “High Fidelity” back in the year 2000, “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven recently demonstrated his ongoing resentment in the most childish of manners:

Black told Howard Stern on Sirius that as he talked to a director at a recent premiere, Piven “stepped in and all of a sudden he was talking to the director and I was standing there facing the back of his head. I was like, ‘Whoa, dude! What are you doing? You just cut me off’ . . . He turned around and there was this strange, awkward tension.”

Our only advice to Mr. Piven on this topic is as follows: Dude. It’s been six years. You’ve won an Emmy. Can’t you just let it go?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Heckled by a pair of African-Americans during a recent stand-up routine, former “Seinfeld” star Michael Richards unleashed a fusillade of f-bombs upon his detractors…and then threw in the n-word several times for good measure:

The 57-year-old actor-comedian, best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit TV show “Seinfeld,” was performing at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood Friday night when he launched into the verbal rampage, according to video posted on TMZ.com.

The tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn’t funny.

Richards retorted: “Shut up! Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a f—— fork up your a–.”

He then paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.

“You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now mother——. Throw his a– out. He’s a n—–!” Richards shouts before repeating the racial epithet over and over again.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Expect Richards to receive a “thanks for taking the heat off me” fruit basket from Mel Gibson’s camp any day now…which is ironic, actually — given that, according to Mel, the cast of “Seinfeld” is responsible for all the wars in the world.

Fox: “Even WE have standards. No, really!”

Staring down a backlash of epic proportions, Fox finally blinked.

In the wake of news that at least a dozen of Fox’s own affiliates would refuse to air “If I Did It,” O.J. Simpson’s upcoming “hypothetical” confession interview special, Fox parent company News Corp has scrapped not only the two-night, sweeps-capping television program but also the book release that program was scheduled to promote.

Never mind how utterly reprehensible it was for News Corp and its broadcast and publishing offshoots to ever back this project in the first place; we’ll let that slide for the moment. For now, let’s just chalk one up for the good guys, taking pleasure in knowing that the morally bankrupt have lost this round.

And let us never speak of this again.

And the Emmy for best casting decision goes to…

…whoever lined up the venerable veteran chosen to play time traveler Hiro Nakamura’s father in an upcoming episode of “Heroes.” Even Masi Oka, the actor who plays Hiro on the popular NBC series, has described the casting as “absolutely brilliant.”

Don’t want to know who it is? Then don’t click on the link. But, really, you want to click the link. You know you do. And it will be ever so very rewarding.

So go ahead. Click the link. You’ll be glad you did.

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