Christopher Plummer

Question: Any news on what the cast of Everwood is up to now that the show is over? If I can no longer watch them on one of the best shows on TV, I'd like to follow their careers.

Answer: Compiling a list like that seems really tedious and time-consuming. In other words, it's the perfect job for TV Guide's summer intern, Northwestern senior Laura Moore! Here's what she found out:

Emily VanCamp: According to her publicist, "Emily's moving to Los Angeles for the first time since she started acting. Her experience on the show was an incredible journey and, though she’s very sad to leave her Everwood family, she is excited about the opportunities ahead and is ready for a new challenge." Last summer, Em shot the coming-of-age indie film Black Irish, starring Will & Grace's read more

Question: I'm really confused by the fact that Syriana was nominated in the Original Screenplay category — am I crazy, or wasn't it based on a book by someone who used to be in the CIA?

I recently noticed that Gladiator was nominated for best original screenplay, when in fact it was virtually a scene-by-scene remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Stephen Boyd and Christopher Plummer. Why did it qualify as an original script? — Sami

Answer: The on-screen credit for writer-director Stephen Gaghan's Syriana screenplay says that it was "suggested by the book See No Evil by Robert Baer." Baer was a high-level, Middle East-based CIA officer, and his 2002 nonfiction book generated a lot of controversy by ta read more

Question: I saw a movie about 20 years ago with a bank teller and a sadistic bank robber. At the end, the robber winds up in drag (I don't remember why) and gets shot; the teller gets away with a lot of money. Do you know what it was?

Answer: It was a witty crime comedy called The Silent Partner (1978) and starred Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer as the teller and the thief, respectively. The story's twist is that the teller actually scams the robber by withholding a chunk of cash during the holdup. The hard part is keeping it once the thief realizes that he's being accused of having stolen more money than he actually got away with and goes back to settle the score.