Bill Paxton, Big Love
What's a fella to do when he has Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and (that's right, and) Ginnifer Goodwin for wives (other than invest in Hallmark stock, that is)? Big-screen star Bill Paxton talks with TV Guide about getting some real action as a Viagra-popping polygamist in HBO's new dramedy Big Love (Sundays at 10 pm/ET).
TV Guide: You're a big-screen actor with a solid career who's never done a TV series. Why make the exception for Big Love?
Bill Paxton: What I saw right away was that this was a brilliant way to take an alternative lifestyle as far out there as polygamy and use it as a prism to examine contemporary society and mores.
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Jill Hennessy, Crossing Jordan
Although Jill Hennessy, the star of NBC's Crossing Jordan (Sundays at 10pm/ET), sure steamed up the Jan. 8 episode with Jerry O'Connell, the ME's future with Woody looks, alas, complicated. TV Guide asked Hennessy about the duo's dynamite dynamic and more.
TV Guide: So are we ever going to see Jordan and Woody [Jerry O'Connell] do the deed? It seems like every so often...
Jill Hennessy: They dance us around like puppets every season, it seems. Like moths to a flame, and when the heat gets too hot, they pull us away. But the episodes [airing now] are ones where Jordan and Woody get a lot more… intimate.
TV Guide: Details, please!
Hennessy: I can't get too specific, but th
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Jill Hennessy, Crossing Jordan
Although Jill Hennessy, the star of NBC's Crossing Jordan (Sundays at 10pm/ET), sure steamed up last night's episode with Jerry O'Connell, the ME's future with Woody looks, alas, complicated. TV Guide asked Hennessy about the duo's dynamite dynamic and more.
TV Guide: So are we ever going to see Jordan and Woody [Jerry O'Connell] do the deed? It seems like every so often...
Jill Hennessy: They dance us around like puppets every season, it seems. Like moths to a flame, and when the heat gets too hot, they pull us away. But the episodes [airing now] are ones where Jordan and Woody get a lot more… intimate.
TV Guide: Details, please!
Hennessy: I can't get too specific, but
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Kyra Sedgwick knew all the reasons she shouldn't take the starring role of Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson on TNT's edgy new procedural series The Closer (Mondays, 9 pm/ET).
It would stall her blue-chip independent-film career. It would be shot in Los Angeles, a city she hates. It would keep her 3000 miles away from her New York City apartment, her husband of 16 years, Kevin Bacon, and their two children, Travis, 16, and Sosie, 13.
"I thought, 'I can't do it,'" says Sedgwick, who was ultimately swayed by her mate's indefensible logic. "Kevin said, 'I won't work for four months. So why can't you?'"
Since then, Sedgwick, 39, has come to love everything about the shrewd, often obstinate Brenda, from her perennial dieter's ability to glance at a glazed doughnut and instantly gauge the calories to her outmoded fashion sense. "She's a really bad dresser — right out of the '70s Talbots," says Sedgwick, sitting on a director'
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