Let me start off with a disclaimer: I’m not familiar with the Robert Littell novel of the same name on which The Company is based. However, based on the Internet buzz, I know a lot of fans of the book have been very much anticipating this miniseries. So what I ask of you, readers, is that you be as understanding as you can about my lack of foreknowledge, while still feeling free to tell me what’s what when I get it wrong. Thanks in advance. [end disclaimer]Well, we're only a third of the way in, but so far, I like what I'm seeing. Even abridged as it must be for TV, this is clearly a complex, multilayered story. The Company is juggling a large cast of international characters who are constantly double- and triple-crossing each other, but thankfully, I didn't have to strain too hard to keep it all straight. I don't know if the novel's focus was so squarely on the characters of Jack (Chris O'Donnell) and Yevgeny (Rory Cochrane), but the friends-turned-enemies situation set u...
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Chris O'Donnell, The Company
Despite having more than a dozen films under his belt at the time — from the serene (Circle of Friends) to the bombastic (Batman Forever) — the gig that Chris O'Donnell credits with putting him in The Company, TNT's three-week, six-hour miniseries about the early CIA (premiering Sunday at 8 pm/ET), was his turn as a dreamy (though not McDreamy) veterinarian on Grey's Anatomy.
"I had a fantastic time doing it, and I think I got a good 'pop' off it," O'Donnell says, fondly recalling his run as Meredith's onetime paramour, Finn. "I've known [executive producer] Ridley [Scott], and we've talked in the past about working together. When they were
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Eddie Murphy by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Yesterday Scary Spice filed a petition in Superior Court to legally establish ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy as daughter Angel's father and to get him to cough up some damn child support already. The baby, said the singer less frequently known as Melanie Brown, "will always know that she was planned and wanted by both of us." At least for the short while it took to conceive her. In other baby news, yesterday on Today, Chris O'Donnell revealed that he and his wife Caroline Fentress are expecting their fifth — yes, fifth — child. "We're just starting to figure out how it works," he said. "I think I know why this is happening." Well, like my mama always said, acknowledging the problem is the first step toward solving it.
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Ellen Pompeo, Chris O'Donnell and Patrick Dempsey by Michael Desmond/ABC
Meredith and McDreamy called it quits (again!) in the Grey’s Anatomy season finale. So could the heartbroken doc wind up back in Finn’s arms when the show returns? TV Guide caught up with Finn's portrayer at a TCA panel over the weekend in L.A.“I’d go back for a while,” says Chris O’Donnell, who played the ex Meredith dumped for Derek. “It’s a great show. They’re having wonderful success, and I was really grateful to be a part of it.”Weighing in on the drama that ensued after his departure, O’Donnell says, “My stuff was in and out. I was not part of their ongoing crew that had any kind of drama there. My experience was fantastic!” — Reporting by Dana Meltzer Zepeda
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Chris O'Donnell and Julia Ormond have been cast in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery as the title doll's parents, and Joan Cusack has signed on to play a nurse who lives at the boardinghouse Ormond runs.... Variety reports that HBO is in talks to film the Broadway hit The Year of Magical Thinking, with Vanessa Redgrave as grieving playwright Joan Didion, for future broadcast.
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Question: I would like to start off by saying I am a huge Grey's Anatomy fan but am very disappointed that the show keeps making digs at veterinarians. Last season Cristina made the comment, "He's not a real doctor — just a vet" or something to that effect. In the season-opener Callie was explaining to Chris O'Donnell (who plays a veterinarian) not to take it personally. "It's just a doctor thing. Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school... " Do they not realize that veterinarians go through the same amount of school (four years of high school, four years of college and four years of vet school)? Maybe someone should remind Grey's Anatomy that statistically it is harder to get into vet school than med school and that many doctors are doctors because they couldn't get into vet school. Thanks for listening.
Answer: Rant acknowledged. But really, don't you think Chris O'Donnell's portrayal of McVet is sympathetic enough to make your case already? Besides ...
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Question: I'm just curious, if Kidnapped takes off, how many weeks can they keep this story running? Can they search for Leo for, say, five years?
Answer: Given the disappointing early numbers, this is a problem the show would be lucky to have. If by some miracle Kidnapped does get a decent run, the idea is to resolve the Leopold kidnapping case in the first season. In future seasons (should there be any), the lead investigators (Jeremy Sisto, possibly Delroy Lindo) would take on a new kidnapping. This question more accurately applies to the conspiracy-dense Vanished, which spins a much more open-ended story around the disappearance of the senator's wife. (Again, a story I'm not convinced we'll get to see to its natural end. ...
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Question: I don't watch reality TV but have found Dancing with the Stars enjoyable, addictive and my one guilty pleasure each week. Frankly, I'm amazed by what these people are able to do each week. I have always loved good dancing, and DWTS makes me smile. But my question is, who in the world picks the atrocious musical accompaniment to the dances? This week's episode, with the tango and jive, really brought out the poor musical choices like a big red flag; the tangos especially were disserviced by the awful musical choices. Every week I shake my head and find myself wondering, "Who in the world thought that song would work?" What do you think?
Answer: I don't disagree, but it doesn't really bother me. The whole show is so cheesy, but in a good, fun, guilty-pleasure way, from Tom Bergeron's corny jokes to the very presence of Jerry Springer in the competition. The fact that the music is so jukebox generic is just so much more marzipan clogging the arteries. (By the way, even if ther ...
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I f---ing love this show. There -- I said it. And to use the title of the episode, "Time Has Come Today" for all us Grey's fans to rejoice -- we finally saw our season premiere! I want to say right away that I really enjoyed all the flashbacks -- and not flashbacks to scenes we've already witnessed ("previously on Grey's Anatomy"). It had a sort of Lost feel to it with the backstories -- not completely Lost-like since most of the scenes were things they've alluded to before, but it was great to finally see them:- The very first time Izzie and Alex said "Seriously" to each other.- George introducing himself to Meredith in an oh-so "I'm Dorothy -- the small and meek" way.- Meredith flashing way back to her childhood and recalling her mother arguing with Dr. Webber at an amusement park.- Cristina meeting Burke for the first time.- Derek throwing Addison out of their home ("We're not 'Derek & Addison' anymore!").- Derek's first meet-n-greet with Meredith at the bar.Those last two we...
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Question: I keep hearing rumors that Chris O'Donnell is going to be extending his stay on Grey's Anatomy next season. Is this true?
Answer: Yeah, that was the part of the multiple-choice Grey's riddle that was true. He's in talks to increase his Season 3 episode order from two to six. And although I made up the stuff about Addison and McSteamy reuniting in the sack and Izzy coming face-to-face with her long-lost daughter during November sweeps, both those things could very well happen. And if they do, I'm going to demand a consulting fee from Ms. Rhimes.
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