Category: Actresses (Page 258 of 258)

Two of my favorite actresses return to TV…

…and, by “favorite,” I mean they’re hot. (I’m not going to make any claims as to their actual acting abilities.)

First off, Ashley Williams is being added to the cast of “How I Met Your Mother,” which, incidental to her inclusion, is a damned funny show. (Neil Patrick Harris is hilarious, but so is Jason Segel, for that matter.) Williams was the sole reason I kept watching “Good Morning, Miami,” an otherwise-awful show…but she’s so damned cute that I kept coming back week after week solely to watch her.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, “Gilmour Girls” is bringing into its cast a woman who has the honor (relatively speaking) of being the only woman I ever had enough of a crush on to buy a poster of and tack it on my wall…and that includes Debbie Gibson. Ladies and gentlemen, I speak of the cherry-stem-typing maiden from “Twin Peaks” herself: Sherilyn Fenn.

Okay, so she doesn’t look like that anymore. She’s still eminently watcheable…

An SNL star is about to be born

Every once in a while, someone stumbles onto the stage at “Saturday Night Live” that forces you to stand up and take notice. As I was skimming through last week’s episode, starring Eva Longoria (who seemed like a good sport), I fell in love with a girl, twice.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Kristen Wiig.

In the show’s first skit, a very unfunny fake awards show on spam email, Wiig did a hilarious impression of “Will & Grace’s” Megan Mullally. A few skits later, during a parody of ’50s holiday specials, she went one better, doing the funniest Judy Garland you will ever see. Wiig is tall, she’s gorgeous, and she has to be making the other women on the cast nervous. Surely, Maya Rudolph is working out eight hours a day to get rid of her baby weight in order to get back onstage, and if her presence prevents Rachel Dratch from doing one more Debbie Downer skit, then the world is already a better place.

Jennifer Marlowe or Bailey Quarters?

Oh, yeah. I am speaking about the two ladies of “WKRP In Cincinnati” here. I was only six years old when the show debuted, and man there was a whole lotta press for Loni Anderson in her role as Jennifer Marlowe. My older brother had a poster of her up in his bedroom (along with one of Wild and Crazy Steve Martin in his classic white suit with a fish in the jacket chest pocket), and I used to gaze at it quite a bit. Yep, Anderson was hot stuff.

But, as I got older and revisted the show through reruns, I couldn’t help but realize that it wasn’t Anderson, but rather Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters who was the hot chick of the show. The glasses were sexy, the attitude was sexy…hey, blonde bimbos with boobs just didn’t do it for me anymore, I guess (or maybe it was just that weird-ass helmet hair Anderson seemed to have on the show). Anyway, my point is that the world needs some more Bailey. However, according to IMDB, Smithers hasn’t been seen on screen since 1987. What a shame. And why the hell was she married to James Brolin? Ah well, guess memories of Bailey will have to do. I’ll take ’em.

I love Pam.

I don’t mean I love Pam. I mean I love Pam like I love warm crab legs and an ice cold beer on a Friday night. I love Pam like Ron Burgundy loves scotch. Who’s Pam? I’m talking about the receptionist on the US version of “The Office.” I am a big fan of the original UK series, and while the US version continues to improve, the UK version is superior in just about every way – except for Pam.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked Dawn in the original. But Pam is great. I suppose a lot of the credit has to go to the actress who plays Pam, Jenna Fischer. I see from her IMDB profile that she also appeared on “Six Feet Under,” “Cold Case” and one of my all-time favorite (and prematurely cancelled) shows, “Undeclared.”

What’s so great about Pam? Well, she’s cute but doesn’t know it, she’s got a sick sense of humor and she likes to mess with people. Just about the only thing wrong with her is that she’s engaged to a guy who, on their first date, accidently left her at a hockey game.

She’s eight months pregnant!

Shame on you, J.J. Abrams. The sight of Sydney Bristow – in the third term of her pregnancy – running around conducting CIA field ops is absolutely absurd. First, Jennifer Garner gets her former beau (Michael Vartan) kicked off the show because he wasn’t friendly with her new guy, then she gets knocked up and the producers are forced to work her pregnancy into the show’s storyline. They should have waited to start filming until after she gave birth – I can’t believe I’m typing this – so the show would at least have some of its credibility after killing off its best character. Hear that? It’s the sound of “Alias” being deleted from TiVo season passes across the country.

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