Alan Berliner, Wide Awake
The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia each year. One of those people is filmmaker Alan Berliner. Having made the personal documentaries The Sweetest Sound and Nobody's Business, Berliner decided to turn the camera on himself and his family once again to follow his attempts to overcome sleeplessness in HBO's Wide Awake: Portrait of an Artist as Insomniac. TVGuide.com recently discussed the project, which premieres tonight at 8 pm/ET, with the New York City-based cineaste.
TVGuide.com: How'd you sleep last night?
Alan Berliner: Actually, last night, I had a terrible night's sleep.
TVGuide.com: So it continues?
Berliner: Yeah. It's gotten better, but every night is an adventure for me.
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Oscar Nuñez, The Office
In the hilarious third-season premiere of NBC's The Office (Thursdays at 8:30 pm/ET), Oscar Martinez was unceremoniously outed by Michael, and subsequently awarded paid leave by Dunder-Mifflin to curb any litigious thoughts. In reality, the accountant's portrayer, Oscar Nuñez, took a leave from the show to exec-produce and star in the Comedy Central series Halfway Home. But now that he has returned to his cubicle, TVGuide.com decided to check in on the Cuban-born funnyman.
TVGuide.com: When did the Office writers officially tell you Oscar would be gay?
Oscar Nuñez: It was toward the end of the first season. At first, it started as a rumor. The actors started saying, "Oscar might be gay" when we'd read the scripts,
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Peter Krause, Civic Duty
For five critically acclaimed seasons, audiences knew Peter Krause as the troubled prodigal son who returned home to run his late father's mortuary on Six Feet Under. Since the HBO series concluded, the Minnesota native has been working on various projects, including Sci Fi's The Lost Room and the provocative thriller Civic Duty. Opening this weekend in limited release, the indie stars Krause as a recently laid-off accountant who begins to suspect that his new neighbor may be an Islamic extremist. TVGuide.com spoke with the actor about Civic Duty as well as Dirty Sexy Money, a "can't miss" pi
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Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri, Saturday Night Live
Despite stumbling through much of the 1980s, NBC's Saturday Night Live returned to its place as a comedic touchstone in the 1990s. The ratings and critical response at the time didn't always show it, but in retrospect it's hard to argue with the results. Revisit the roster of talent that passed through the halls of 30 Rockefeller Plaza during the decade and names like Chris Rock, Tina Fey, David Spade, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell immediately jump out at you. And from "Wayne's World" to a request for "more cowbell," numerous sketches from the time still resonate in the cult
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Bill Walton
The 2007 NBA playoffs kick off this weekend, and to prep for the upcoming two months of hoops action, TVGuide.com caught up with ESPN/ABC analyst and color commentator Bill Walton. The Hall of Fame big man was kind enough to not only break down the playoff picture, but also fill us in on why two-time MVP Steve Nash is comparable to... the Grateful Dead?
TVGuide.com: What's the big story going into the playoffs this year?
Walton: In the Eastern Conference, there are a lot of stories. Can Miami repeat? Is Dwayne Wade healthy? For Detroit, can Chris Webber be the one to put them over the top? This is a team who's been at the top knocking at the door for a long time, and they only have one championship to show for it. Is this a team for the a
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Joe Rogan
Not so long ago, Joe Rogan was talking people into eating bugs and jumping out of planes as the host of Fear Factor. Since then, he's returned to his stand-up comedy roots with the CD Shiny Happy Jihad (released April 10) and a new Showtime special airing tonight at 9 pm/ET. He's also been no stranger to confrontation — serving as a color commentator on Spike TV's broadcasts of UFC bouts and advocating a crackdown on comedians he believes plagiarize material. TVGuide.com spoke with the candid comic and, well, got an earful.
TVGuide.com: Your Joe Rogan: Live special starts off with a microbiological metaphor for Los Angeles, and you deal with existential issues throughout. It's not quite what you'd expect from a guy who hosted
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Henry Rollins
Talk shows have been around since the advent of television broadcasting, but there's never been one quite like The Henry Rollins Show. Provocative, confrontational and seemingly unable to pull his punches, Henry Rollins returns to the IFC this Friday, April 13 (at 11 pm/ET), to begin his second season, accompanied by guest Marilyn Manson. To mark the occasion, IFC is preceding the premiere at 9:30 with Henry Rollins: Uncut from Israel, a documentary chronicling the former rocker's trip to Tel Aviv for a spoken-word gig. Rollins recently gave TVGuide.com a piece of his mind.
TVGuide.com: In Uncut from Israel, you say that Israel is "up against the real." Is that part
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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, Tori & Dean: Inn Love
At the beginning of this month, Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott celebrated the opening of their bed-and-breakfast, the Chateau La Rue. Named after Spelling's pet pug, the establishment is not only a new business venture for the newlyweds, it's also the focus of Tori & Dean: Inn Love, a reality series premiering tonight at 10:30 pm/ET on the Oxygen Network. TVGuide.com caught up with the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star a few days after the Chateau's opening to chat about the series, awaiting her firstborn child, and the transition from Hollywood's glitz and glam to the fields and farms of Fallbrook, California.
TVGuide.com: I heard the baby is due any day now. How are y
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Dick Vitale
The 2007 NCAA College Basketball tournament is officially under way, driving even the most casual hoops fan into a state of excitement known as March Madness. Yet when it comes to frenzied fandom, no one holds a candle to Dick Vitale. After leaving the coaching ranks in 1979, Dickie V began his college-basketball broadcasting career with a then-fledgling cable sports network known as ESPN. Since that time, the Passaic, New Jersey, native has become a household name with his signature brand of unbridled enthusiasm. To celebrate this athletic rite of spring, TVGuide.com recently spoke with Vitale about the tourney, endorsing Hooters, and his latest nomination to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
TVGuide.com: Do I even need to ask if March is your favorite month?
Dick Vitale: You know, March Madness to me is so unique in that it captivates fans of all ages and creates such an unbelievabl
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William Fichtner, Prison Break
William Fichtner is that rare sort of actor who can move effortlessly between the television and film worlds without missing a beat. His current TV gig is playing conflicted FBI agent Alexander Mahone on Fox's Prison Break (Mondays at 8 pm/ET), and come March 23 he can be seen in the feature thriller First Snow, starring Guy Pearce. TVGuide.com spoke with the Long Island native as he prepared to shoot the second-season finale of Prison Break.
TVGuide.com: You play Guy Pearce's buddy and business partner in First Snow.
William Fichtner: Yeah, I'm the buddy. Everybody's got to have a buddy. Really, that's what he is. The first time I
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