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Traci Lords Makes Porno and More Movie News | Today's News: Our Take | 1/16/2008
Traci Lords will help Zack & Miri Make a Porno, says the Reporter. Also joining Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks and Jason Mewes in the Kevin Smith comedy are Craig Robinson (The Office) and Ricky Mabe (Beautiful People).... Juno's Ellen Page next will play a teen from a small Texas town who forsakes the beauty-pageant circuit to become a roller-derby queen in Whip It!, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut.... Also per Variety, Forest Whitaker is in talks to front Patriots, a real-life-inspired... read more
Episode Recap: 300 Patients | ER | 12/7/2007
As we celebrated the landmark 300th outing of ER tonight with a rare episode directed by series executive producer John Wells, I was thrilled to see the powerhouse acting of Maura Tierney and Goran Visnjic as the centerpiece of the episode. For those of us who have been fans since that very first episode 14 years ago (is that even possible?), it is gratifying to see this show still telling compelling, heartfelt stories about characters that we care about. I haven’t always liked where the... read more
Forest Whitaker Gives TV an American Gangster | Today's News: Our Take | 11/5/2007
Forest Whitaker and Marc Levin are executive-producing for Showtime Mr. Untouchable, a drama series that will tell the true-crime story of Harlem heroin lord Leroy "Nicky" Barnes (played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the current box-office hit American Gangster). Whitaker's project has no connection to Ridley Scott's feature, Variety notes, but instead is based on Levin's just-released documentary of the same name. The series will chronicle how Barnes built a wildly successful drug empire in the... read more
In the Works: Forest Whitaker's Arms Deal, Dr. Phil 2.0 | Today's News: Our Take | 10/8/2007
Former The Shield player Forest Whitaker is set to direct and executive-produce a new FX drama pegged as The Sopranos set in the world of arms dealers, says the Reporter.... The Doctors, a tentatively titled spin-off of Dr. Phil, is being eyed for a fall-2008 syndication berth.... NBC has ordered a pilot script for Outsourced, a comedy about a customer-service manager who, when his department is outsourced to India, travels east to train his replacement.... Scribe Zach Helm (Stranger Than... read more
Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson Are Best BETs | Today's News: Our Take | 6/27/2007
Dreamgirls cast mates Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson were the big winners at Tuesday night's BET Awards, grabbing a pair of statues each. Beyoncé was named best female R&B artist and won video of the year (for "Irreplaceable"), while J-Hud topped the new-artist and female-actress categories. Among the other winners were Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), who took home male-actor honors, Ne-Yo, who was named best male R&Ber, Gnarls Barkley, who was best group, and T.I.,... read more
At the Movies: Vegas Wedding for Kutcher and Diaz | Today's News: Our Take | 5/16/2007
Per the Reporter, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher are in talks to star in What Happens in Vegas..., a rom-com about two strangers who, following a night of debauchery, wake to find themselves hitched. It's like that Friends episode, only... actually, I have no end to that sentence.... Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, employing motion-capture technology, will each direct one film in a trilogy based on the adventures of Tintin, says the AP.... Forest Whitaker, you've won an Oscar! What's next... read more
Ask Ausiello | 5/9/2007
Is it Emmy time for The Shield's Walton Goggins? read more
Ask Matt | 5/4/2007
The Shield this season is just fantastic, especially Walton Goggins. Is Forest Whitaker gone already? It seemed like the read more
All Hail The Queen and Helen Mirren! | Ask FlickChick | 4/23/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick. See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk! Helen Mirren richly deserved the Oscar she received for starring in this week's DVD Tuesday pick, The Queen, but I was disappointed that her costar Michael Sheen wasn't even nominated. For my money, the only thing better than Peter Morgan's subtle, witty screenplay (which earned him an Oscar nomination; Morgan also scripted The Last King of Scotland, which earned Forest... read more
At the Movies: Fraser In, Weisz Out of Mummy 3 | Today's News: Our Take | 4/12/2007
Per Variety, Brendan Fraser has finally signed on the dotted line for The Mummy 3, but leading lady Rachel Weisz took a big, fat pass. The follow-up, penned by Smallville's Miles Millar and Al Gough, features Jet Li as the baddie.... Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis are out to reinvent Barbarella as "a free, modern gal who survives in a futuristic world through her intelligence, fighting skills and sexuality." Hate to say it, but Lindsay Lo just found a franchise (intelligence can always... read more
Cat Scratched: Forest Whitaker Exits Broadway Revival | Today's News: Our Take | 4/12/2007
Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and director Kenny Leon have led a mass exodus from a planned, all-black Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was to also star Phylicia Rashad (as Big Mamma), Audra McDonald (Maggie) and Anthony Mackie (Brick). Sources tell the New York Post that the staging's "inexperienced" and "inept" producers — two hedge-fund managers who, for instance, wanted to replace four-time Tony winner McDonald (whom they derided as "a regional theater actress") with... read more
April 10, 2007: I Framed a Guilty Man | The Shield | 4/11/2007
So the fact that Forest Whitaker wasn’t going to be around after this episode was not a well-kept secret at all, but I wasn’t expecting the situation between him and Vic to go down like this. I think I was somehow expecting Kavanaugh to get a surprise beating or take a bullet, although then again, he’s too smart for that. But it seems like he wasn’t smart enough to realize that no one plays both sides quite like Vic Mackey. Jon’s downfall of course was when he started... read more
Forest Whitaker May Wear Shield Again | Today's News: Our Take | 4/7/2007
The Barn might not be done with Detective Kavanaugh just yet (or vice versa). Per the Los Angeles Times, in a conference call to talk up his final appearance on The Shield Forest Whitaker said "the possibility is there" for him to return during the FX drama's final season, which starts filming in June. "It's a matter of timing," added Whitaker, who since earning an Oscar as The Last King of Scotland has already lined up at least two films. Indeed, as series creator Shawn Ryan noted, "Forest... read more
"Idol Gives Back" Adds Housewife, Lotsa British Peeps | Today's News: Our Take | 4/5/2007
Fresh from Fox:"The original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, along with Hugh Grant" — as in American Dreamz? — "Keira Knightley, Forest Whitaker, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Radcliffe" — Emma must be holding out for a bigger per diem — "Teri Hatcher and Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), are scheduled to appear on 'Idol Gives Back,' a two-night special airing Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25. These celebrities join previously announced talent Gwen Stefani, Josh Groban,... read more
April 3, 2007: I Hung My Head | The Shield | 4/4/2007
I thought of many ways to begin my first blog for The Shield, and I think the best way is for you all to join me in saying two words: hell, yeah! Honestly, I've never been this excited for a new season of a show. I certainly haven't watched every show in existence, but of the ones I have, this might be the only one without a misstep somewhere along the way. So, you'll have to pardon me if my emotions get the best of me at points. What can I say, I'm excited! But first, before we chat, a moment... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/3/2007
As FX's taut cop series The Shield returns for its sixth season (tonight at 10 pm/ET), it does so with arguably the clea read more
Ask Matt | 4/2/2007
Do you think Forest Whitaker's Oscar win will enhance the viewership of The Shield this season? It is one of my favorite read more
At the Movies: Departed Baddie Joins Indiana Jones | Today's News: Our Take | 3/28/2007
Ray Winstone (Jack Nicholson's bearded right-hand man in The Departed) has joined the fourth Indiana Jones film, playing Harrison Ford's sidekick, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter.... Oscar winner Forest Whitaker is in final talks to join James Ellroy's cop drama The Night Watchman, about an alcoholic LAPDer (Keanu Reeves) pitted against his longtime mentor.... Denzel Washington will produce and may star in Journal for Jordan, a drama inspired by the 200-page journal a U.S. soldier had... read more
Roush Review | 3/28/2007
The clock is ticking for Vic Mackie and Tony Soprano, infamously iconic characters who blur the line between hero and vi read more
The White Shadow | Kyle's War at Home Blog | 3/16/2007
This week’s episode of The War at Home is entitled "The White Shadow." In it, my character Larry starts writing music and for some reason Dave decides that he can rap over it. Michael Rapaport really liked rapping — in fact, he wrote his own rap for this episode. In an attempt to bulk up, Dean's character decides to stop m-----bating. For this story line we had Tila Tequila come on the show and, within the context of a wet dream, rub her breasts in Dean's face. Dean thought she was... read more
A Likable Host for a Long, Low-Key Oscars | Roush Dispatch | 2/26/2007
The one thing I realized as Oscar night droned on and on for nearly four hours: If I ever had to choose someone to be stranded with for hours on end (say, like those poor Jet Blue passengers a few weeks ago), it would have to be Ellen DeGeneres.Keeping her cool, and her genuine aura of chipper goodwill, throughout three costume changes (in suits from red velvet to all-white to royal blue) and what seemed once again like an overindulgent excess of movie montages (we definitely could have done... read more
February 15, 2007: Crisis of Conscience | ER | 2/16/2007
Thankfully, tonight’s episode brought us back to the interesting cases and patients that draw out the best and the worst in our favorite ER doctors and nurses. We were also treated to some more superlative guest-acting. Sean Young is certainly no Forest Whitaker, but she was poignant and sympathetic in her portrayal of the mother suspiciously dying from liver failure. Though I wasn’t the least bit surprised that the hateful older son was complicit in her scheme to slowly kill herself... read more
Road to Oscar: Big Wins for Sunshine, Other Faves | Today's News: Our Take | 2/12/2007
With the Oscars just weeks away, some last-minute wins at other awards shows:• Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker earned top acting honors at Sunday's BAFTAs, aka the British Academy Awards.• Little Miss Sunshine and The Departed (where's my DVD?!) were the big winners at Sunday's Writers Guild of America Awards, in the original- and adapted-screenplay contests, respectively.• Cars was named best animated feature at the 34th-annual Annie Awards, but Flushed Away (aka the "mouse got... read more
February 1, 2007: Murmurs of the Heart | ER | 2/2/2007
It looks like 2007 is turning out be a very good year for Forest Whitaker. The Oscar nominee (and, by most accounts, front-runner) has turned in yet another bravado performance as the mentally unstable former ER patient Curtis Ames. I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that later this year, this gifted actor will be adding an Emmy to his growing collection of acting accolades. Whitaker really has an uncanny ability to capture the humanity and vulnerability of emotionally tortured... read more
Short Cuts: SNL, Letterman and More! | Today's News: Our Take | 1/31/2007
Bill Murray, the very first guest on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, will help Dave celebrate 25 years in late-night TV this Thursday on CBS' Late Show.... Following the Feb. 3 combo of Drew Barrymore/Lily Allen, Saturday Night Live will feature Oscar front-runner Forest Whitaker as host, and Keith Urban as musical guest.... Fox has announced a Feb. 27-28, after-Idol premiere for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, its new, self-explanatory quiz show. read more
LIVE SAG Awards Blog | Live SAG Awards Blog | 1/29/2007
9:48: Reese always looks great. She could use a little lip color, though. Rachel McAdams looks adorable next to her boyfriend nominee Ryan Gosling. What's up with the pink streaks, though? Eh, I'll let it go.... They should have been together since The Notebook, so I'm glad those two found each other again.9:50: Forest Whitaker gets a standing ovation for his lead acting performance. In fact, I think Leo DiCaprio was the first to jump to his feet. Forest is so soft-spoken for someone who played... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/29/2007
Who was conspicuously MIA from the Screen Actors Guild Awards press room? Who was afraid he would bore the reporters to read more
As the Globes Slowly Spins | Roush Dispatch | 1/16/2007
I sure hope you didn’t skip 24’s literally explosive Night 2—seriously (as Shonda Rhimes would say), how dark is this new season already?—for the Golden Globes Monday night. All the flowing wine seemed to have loosened and thickened nearly everyone’s tongue, resulting in long speeches that combined with a sluggish pace and an epic number of ads to push the show beyond the 11 pm/ET cutoff time. (You know an awards show is badly time-managed when the seriously big winners... read more
January 11, 2007: A House Divided | ER | 1/12/2007
In one of his well-known speeches, Abraham Lincoln declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” — a sentiment echoed in tonight’s episode title and story lines. And boy, all of our favorite ER docs and nurses were definitely facing some sort of domestic or personal turmoil that spilled over into the workplace. And isn’t that just the way we like it? But first (how very Julie Chen of me), let’s start at the ending. I nearly jumped off my couch when... read more
Road to Oscar: Labyrinth A-mazes Major Critics' Org | Today's News: Our Take | 1/8/2007
The National Society of Film Critics has spoken, and named Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth best movie of the year. United 93's Paul Greengrass, meanwhile, took best-director honors. Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren (or "WhitMer," as the shippers on YouTube are calling them) claimed the lead-actor slots, with Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) and Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) sweeping supporting. read more
Ask Matt | 1/8/2007
Do you know anything about the recent speculation that ER will leave on a cliff-hanger while NBC promotes a new show in read more
Road to Oscar: Chicago Critics Are Loopy for Departed | Today's News: Our Take | 12/29/2006
Stop me if you have heard this prattle before: The Chicago Film Critics Association on Thursday lauded Martin Scorsese's The Departed with honors for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, continuing the crime drama's veritable sweep of the pre-Oscar kudosfests. Likewise, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker copped the top acting trophies, while Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) took supporting honors. Letters from Iwo Jima and An Inconvenient Truth... read more
Road to Oscar: Florida Favors Departed, Queen, King | Today's News: Our Take | 12/27/2006
There is yet even more kudos for The Departed and Martin Scorsese, which earned best-picture and -director honors from the Florida Film Critics Circle on Tuesday. Sweeping the lead-actor categories, again, were Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), while Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) copped supporting wins. Winning the documentary, foreign-language and animated categories were An Inconvenient Truth, Pan's Labyrinth and... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 12/19/2006
Nominations for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held Jan. 15, 2007, were announced Thursday morning in Beverl read more
Globes-Trotting: Following the Buzz | Roush Dispatch | 12/14/2006
The best thing you can say about the Golden Globes nominations is that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association isn't afraid about welcoming new kids to the party, especially if they've made a little noise along the way.On the plus side, that means shining some love on deserving candidates like America Ferrera and Ugly Betty, a show and a performance that would seem tailor-made to the Foreign Press's presumed concerns about diversity in entertainment. Likewise Masi Oka, who gives one of the most... read more
The Road to Oscar: NY Critics Put Up a United Front | Today's News: Our Take | 12/12/2006
Hot on the heels of Sunday's kudos handed out by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the American Film Institute, the New York Film Critics Circle has awarded its best-picture honor to... United 93. In other categories, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) solidified their positions as front-runners in the Oscar race, while Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) and Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) copped supporting honors. read more
L.A. Film Critics: Eastwood's Letters Gets an A | Today's News: Our Take | 12/11/2006
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has picked Clint Eastwood's second WWII-themed release, Letters from Iwo Jima (in theaters Dec. 20), as the best movie of the year, while The Queen took five honors, including best actress for Helen Mirren and best director for Stephen Frears. Also on Sunday, the American Film Institute unveiled its 10 Best list. On it were, natch, Letters, Dreamgirls, United 93 and Borat. (What? No Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny?) Their best-actor prize was shared... read more
National Board of Review Loves Clint's Letters | Today's News: Our Take | 12/7/2006
Speaking of the awards season... Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, the companion film to this fall's earlier-released Flags of our Fathers, has been named best picture by the National Board of Review. Martin Scorsese was named best director for The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) nabbed the top acting prizes. Volver won best foreign film, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was declared top documentary, and Cars led the animated-entries... read more
November 9, 2006: Jigsaw | ER | 11/10/2006
Between Luka toting adorable Joe in his Baby Bjorn and Abby’s reactions to the various nanny candidates (as well as Morris and Pratt’s reaction to the Brazilian hopeful), this episode got off to a deceptively humorous start. However, the tension was quickly ratcheted up when Curtis Ames strolled back into the ER hoping to negotiate a settlement in the wake of the malpractice verdict. Now we have Luka’s nemesis stalking an oblivious Abby in the park, and you know this isn’t... read more
November 2, 2006: Heart of the Matter | ER | 11/3/2006
Now that is what I call a dream. Yowza. I think we have established that Parminder Nagra and John Stamos have some chemistry. (For more on the lovebirds, check out the ER cover story in the new issue of TV Guide Magazine.) I was almost disappointed that Ray interrupted the proceedings. But how can you not love a guy who shows up to fix your cable before his 7 am shift, with Krispy Kremes in tow? Neela may be dreaming of Gates, but I think this love triangle is going to heat up once Ray gets a... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/10/2006
In town to promote read more
Ask Ausiello | 8/2/2006
Thank God for FX and its Famke-love. Any news on what Famke Janssen's character will be on The Shie read more
Ask Ausiello | 8/2/2006
Thank God for FX and its Famke-love. Any news on what Famke Janssen's character will be on The Shie read more
Ask Ausiello | 6/28/2006
My husband is driving me crazy. When does the new season for The Shield begin? Those mean people at FX are maki read more
Ask Ausiello | 5/31/2006
I was quite pleased with the choices for the Dream Emmy Ballot. I especially loved all the Scrubs nominees! You read more
Ask Ausiello | 5/24/2006
Forrest Whitaker and Kenny Johnson should be shoo-ins for Best Supporting Actor Emmy n read more
Ask Matt | 3/17/2006
What do you think Vic's fate should be on read more
Ask Matt | 3/10/2006
Forest Whitaker had better win the Emmy for his amazing performance on the Feb. 28th episode of read more
Ask Matt | 3/3/2006
I think The Shield is o read more
Ask Ausiello | 2/22/2006
Hey, Michael! Love, love, love you on the TV Guide Channel! And Sirius would be crazy not to give you your own show. OK, read more
Ask Matt | 2/20/2006
Hey Matt, bring on the Emmy for a thinner (he looks great), smiling, soft-spoken (he scares the bejeezus out of me) F read more
Ausiello Report | 2/17/2006
You know that nasty smell permeating throughout TV land? It's most likely the stench of death. As if regular readers of read more
Ask Matt | 2/13/2006
I've been a little surprised when reading your e-mail columns to see so little discussion of read more
The Watercooler | 2/8/2006
The Shield Now we co read more
The Watercooler | 1/25/2006
The Shield I once w read more
Ask Matt | 1/23/2006
Matt, I watch a lot of television. I mean a lot. Many even call it an unhealthy obsession. Since I watch more tel read more
Roush Review | 1/4/2006
Has The Shield?s crooked and combative Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) finally met his match? read more
Ask Ausiello | 12/21/2005
With Vic Mackey's showdown with Forest Whitaker just a few weeks away on The Shield, what's the scoop ther read more
Roush Dispatch | 12/2/2005
Now that the dust has settled a bit on all the 2006 midseason changes that will be kick in as soon as the holidays are o read more
Ask Matt | 11/7/2005
Any scoop on the upcoming season of The Shield? Anything on read more
Ask Ausiello | 10/5/2005
Anything on The Shield?Forest Whitaker's deal almost fell through because, rumor has it, he wa read more
Ask Ausiello | 9/28/2005
During the season premiere of Nip/Tuck last week, FX aired a promo for The Shield that referred to the read more
Today's News: My Take | 9/26/2005
It's not Glenn Close, but this'll do: As first hinted in read more
FlickChick | 3/17/2005
Question: I'm such a longtime Clint Eastwood fan that I should know the answer to my own question, but when did he start read more
Ask Matt | 10/13/2003
Question: I was just wondering if you had any news about UPN's new version of The Twilight Zone. I really enjoyed the ne read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/24/2003
Katie Holmes has chosen her first post-Dawson's Creek project. The actress has signed on to star in the Forest Whitaker- read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/14/2002
Beware the ides of March! That's when HBO's Six Feet Under kicks off its third season, and as co-star Freddy Rodriguez t read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/6/2002
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of... Forest Whitaker?! Yes, that read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/16/2002
Clint Eastwood was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission on Monday... Frasier's Kelsey Gramme read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/5/2002
Production on the live-action Fat Albert feature was "temporarily" halted on Thursday as a result of creative difference read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/27/2002
Forest Whitaker knew Panic Room would be a great movie, but only as long as David Fincher (Fight Club) directed the susp read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/22/2002
During Sunday evening's broadcast of the 74th annual Oscars (starting at 8 pm/ET on ABC), host Whoopi Goldberg probably read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/18/2000
Showtime and ABC are joining forces to bring Anne Rice's best-selling novel, Feast of All Saints, to the small screen. A read more