How do you follow up an Emmy-winning hit like “Dick in a Box”? With a tribute to mothers everywhere, just in time for Mother’s Day.
Kudos to Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson for signing on to play the “loved” mothers.
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When Marlo Thomas turned up as Rachel Green’s mother on “Friends,” ’60s TV aficionados had a good laugh at the appropriateness of the casting, since Ann Marie – Thomas’s character on “That Girl” – could easily have been Rachel’s mother, given all of their similarities. By the fifth and final season of “That Girl,” things had finally gotten serious between Ann Marie and her longtime beau, Don Hollinger (Ted Bessell), with the two of them at long last getting engaged…not that we actually saw them tie the knot by the end of the series. (Apparently, Marlo didn’t want to send a message to young women that marriage was the ultimate goal for them.) Virtually every episode this season features a recognizable guest star, but some of the bigger names include Cloris Leachman, Regis Philbin, Alex Rocco, Dick Van Patten, Milton Berle, and Marlo’s daddy, Danny. Meanwhile, fans will be glad to find that Marlo has returned, along with series co-creator Bill Persky, to contribute a foursome of audio commentaries, including one for the final episode. Kudos to Shout Factory for successfully putting out the entire series of “That Girl” onto DVD; it might not be the funniest sitcom of the ’60s, but it’s an important one that deserves to be remembered.
…and “uncomfortable” is an understatement.
By now you may have heard about Thornton’s interview (along with his band, The Boxmasters) with a Canada’s QTV where he takes exception to the host mentioning his acting career in the introduction. If you watch Thornton during the intro, you can see him shake his head a couple of times. For the first six or seven minutes of the interview, Thornton acts like a petulant child, giving short, ambiguous answers to direct questions. Then he goes off on a tangent talking about a monster magazine contest that he entered as a kid. Finally, around the seven-minute mark, he tells the host why he’s acting the way he is.
Thornton keeps asking the host, “Would you ask Tom Petty that?” The thing is — Billy Bob Thornton is no Tom Petty. Thornton is best-known as an actor who sees himself as a musician. Tom Petty is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
I feel for the host — he simply introduced Thornton and the rest of the band, and has to deal with pissy Billy Bob for the rest of the interview. He didn’t ask him any questions about his acting career and it’s completely understandable why he would mention Thornton’s history as an actor in the intro to give the interview context. It would be really odd if he just started the interview without mentioning it at all.
Thornton later says that Canadian audiences are like “mashed potatoes with no gravy” and canceled their two remaining Canadian shows after being booed in Toronto.
George Wallace has been doing stand-up comedy since the average Premium Hollywood reader was in elementary school…or possibly even longer than that. (You make the call: his first TV appearance as a stand-up was on “The Mike Douglas Show,” and it’s fair to suspect that he’d already been doing comedy for a few years before that.) Once in awhile, however, he takes time out of his residency at the Flamingo in Las Vegas to do a TV appearance or pop up in a movie. Wallace took a few minutes to talk to Premium Hollywood in connection with a guest spot on his buddy Byron Allen’s myNetworkTV series, “Comics Unleashed,” which airs tonight at 9 PM EST, and we asked him about his stand-up, his memorable appearance on “Seinfeld,” and several other topics of note. In return, he provided more than enough laughs to remind us why he placed in Comedy Central’s list of the Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
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You can’t look at the New Releases rack of your local video store these days without happening upon four or five dozen flicks (at least) that have bypassed theatrical release and gone straight to video. This is a particular annoyance for horror aficionados, who’ve seen their genre of choice end up as a sad collection of remakes, quick-turnaround franchises, or sometimes both. Thank goodness, then, for Lionsgate and their After Dark Horrorfest series, which provides brief theatrical releases and high-profile DVD releases for both up-and-coming and established filmmakers. Director Craig Singer found sufficient success with his first After Dark venture, “Dark Ride,” to find his way back into the fold for the latest round of Horrorfest films. But Singer’s “Perkins’ 13” is a bit more adventurous than the usual motion picture, as he explained to Premium Hollywood in a discussion which also tackled some of his other works, including “Animal Room,” with Neil Patrick Harris, and “A Good Night To Die,” with Michael Rapaport.
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