Question: In another blog on TVGuide.com, someone was bemoaning having Jim and Pam together on The Office, saying, "Did we learn nothing from the Moonlighting debacle?" Not being a viewer of The Office, I cannot weigh in on the specifics of this situation. But I'm tired of Moonlighting being cited as the reason no couple has been allowed to get together on a TV show for the last 20 years. In my opinion, the reason Moonlighting failed to work once they put Dave and Maddie together is because by that point, Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd couldn't stand to be in the same room with each other. Their chemistry was gone and their loathing was evident. After a while, manufactured excuses to maintain sexual tension take their own toll on an audience. Add that fact to everyone claiming that, post-Moonlighting, couples must be kept apart at all costs, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once the couple finally gets together, people look for what they were told was going to be there: a ...
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Per Variety, Jesse Metcalfe is on The Other End of the Line, a cross-cultural romantic comedy about an Indian call-center operator who journeys to San Francisco to be with a man she has only met over the phone. And the guy lives in San Fran? Better buy a round-trip ticket.... Robert Downey Jr. is joining Jamie Foxx in the biopic The Soloist, playing the Los Angeles Times columnist who discovered homeless violin impresario Steve Lopez.... Oliver Stone is returning to 'Nam, tapping Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum for a pic about the My Lai massacre.... Have a murdery Christmas! A Dec. 21 wide release has been set for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd.
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The original U.K. version of The Office is now and for the first time being offered through Netflix and Vuze.com.... Extra's Mario Lopez will host the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant, airing live on NBC Aug. 24.... Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, who birthed Eddie Murphy's daughter in April, secretly wed beau Steven Belafonte in June, it has been uncovered.... Bruce Willis' new mystery honey has been ID'd by Page Six as 1998 Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal. Oh, how the ladies love the chrome dome!
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Per Variety, Lauren Graham and Greg Kinnear are wife and husband in Flash of Genius, a drama about — and I do not kid you — the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and how years of legal woes suffocated his marriage.... Patrick Wilson is joining Sam Jackson and Kerry Washington in Lakeview Terrace, a thriller about an interracial couple harassed by a racist LAPD officer.... Per the Reporter, Mischa Barton is (well, duh) the most popular girl at a Catholic high school and Rumer Willis is her best gal pal in the dark comedy The Sophomore, pegged as a teen take on Chinatown. Rumer's dad, Bruce, plays the principal.... Vivica A. Fox will star in Three Can Play That Game, a sequel to 2001's Two Can Play That Game (aka "Zero Can Remember It").
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Denise Richards, who hooked up with Richie Sambora (much to gal-pal Heather Locklear's horror), and soon after filed for divorce from Charlie Sheen, parted ways with the rocker in March, her rep is now confirming.... The Office's John Krasinski and Rashida Jones appear to have rekindled their 2005 romance, New York Daily News spies at Monday's Shrek the Third premiere report.... Bruce Willis, 52, is now dating Playboy Playmate Tamara Witmer, 23 (aka five years older that Rumer Willis).... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Ed Sanders has built himself quite a family. Wife Gioia expanded their clan to six with the May 5 arrival of triplets, all girls.
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