Per the Reporter, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson hook up at a wedding in the indie romantic drama Last Chance Harvey.... Ghoulishly Yours, a biopic about Tales from the Crypt and Mad Magazine publisher William M. Gaines, is bound for the big screen.... Per Variety, Anna Faris is a former Playboy bunny determined to make a lame sorority popular in an untitled Happy Madison-produced comedy.... Warner Bros. has grabbed screen rights to the bestselling fantasy book series The Shannara, and also optioned a script for a live-action take on the ThunderCats animated series.
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David Hyde Pierce, Bette Midler and Marcia Wallace do The Simpsons
After 18 seasons and 400 episodes, Fox's The Simpsons (Sundays at 8 pm/ET) has attracted more than 350 celebrities to offer their voices to animated doppelgangers. Some have played themselves (Steve Buscemi, anyone?), some new characters (Reese Witherspoon as Rainier Wolfcastle's daughter, for instance), some old characters (Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who reprise their roles from 24 on May 20) — and in one instance, a mix (Elizabeth Taylor played herself and voiced Maggie's first word). Throughout, producers have attract
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Question Having recently seen Dreamgirls and having been blown away by Jennifer Hudsons performance as Effie I was surprised that the recent awards nominations have recognized her in the supporting category rather than the lead category I felt she was more of the lead than Beyonc was as Deena This reminded me of the Oscar nominations for All About Eve when Anne Baxter refused to be in the supporting category and was nominated as lead actress along with Bette Davis Had Jennifer Hudson andor her people pushed for the lead category would the nominations have turned out differently TVAddictFlickChick Whether an actor or actress is considered for a supporting or lead nomination is determined by a films producers they submit performers for Academy Award consideration in specific categories It has been suggested that there would be more integrity if the nominating branch of the Academy decided categories because that would take studio politicking out
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Question: I don't know if you're a fan of either Natalie Portman and/or Dustin Hoffman, but I thought I'd let you know I just watched them film a scene for their movie, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, on the beach in Toronto.
Answer: I'll do you one better. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst were shooting a scene for Spider-Man 3 outside my apartment last night — and I snapped this exclusive picture to prove it!
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Amanda Bynes bends her gender in She's the Man.
In the new comedy She's the Man (in theaters now), Amanda Bynes plays Viola, a soccer star forced to get her kicks by masquerading as her twin brother, Sebastian. Along the way, of course, all manner of hunky guys and ironically attracted girls find themselves mesmerized by this gal in disguise. Was Bynes able to pull it off? Should Felicity Huffman be looking over her shoulder? And more to the point, is the perky What I Like About You star ready to kick some Natalie Portman butt this weekend? Here's what Bynes shared with TVGuide.com in a fun one-on-one.
TVGuide.com: Seeing She's the Man almost — and my AP English teacher will be happy to hear this — made me want to actually read Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, on which it is loosely based. Or at least revisit the CliffsNotes
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The likes of Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr. are scheduled to appear on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio this spring — perhaps signifying that the series is back to profiling, you know, actual actors.... Tonight at 7 pm/ET, TV Guide Channel premieres Idol Tonight, a live preshow airing before each of this season's remaining American Idol telecasts.... Sci Fi Channel presents V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask, an inside look at the making of Natalie "I'll Kill Your Dog for Fun" Portman's new film, on March 16 at 11 pm.
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Question: I'm curious to know your opinion about Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, now that the finale has aired. I was disappointed with the storylines, despite some very funny moments in each episode. My favorites were "The Bow Tie" and "The Ski Lift." The finale, while clever and funny at times, just didn't make it for me. I love Curb and hope that "The End" doesn't portend the real end of this outrageously funny comedy. Do you have any inside scoop about the future of Curb? What are your thoughts about how Season 5 compares with previous seasons? I especially missed Susie Greene's tirades at Jeff and Larry this fall. Thanks for a great column.
Answer: You're welcome. I ran hot and cold on Curb this season, sort of like I did when the show first premiered. Without a strong throughline this season, it felt a bit more formulaic watching Larry make the worst of bad situations, to the point where he became unbearably annoying some weeks (the Bingo episode was probably the nadir). There
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Curb Your Enthusiasm So the big question for a lot of people was how Larry and his crew could possibly top last season's Producers season finale. Well, how about by finding out he's adopted, finding out he's not adopted, dying and then being resurrected after annoying his hosts in heaven? That'd do it, I say — and it did. The finer points: How great was Bill Saluga's Louis Lewis, once he finally came out of the coma and steadfastly refused to donate a kidney to cousin Richie? ("What're you, crazy? I'm not giving anybody my kidney. I just woke up! What, I'm gonna start giving things away now?") The whole seesaw thing with Larry's adoption — pretty darned funny, I must admit, between him celebrating the ways of the gentile and trying to get used to drinking milk with meat. (I was raised in a kosher household and even though those habits and pra
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Question: Any spoilers on Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Answer: Dustin Hoffman will be appearing in the season finale, and he won't be playing himself.
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