Fran Drescher stepped out Saturday, June 21st to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Cancer Schmancer, a charitable organization she started that is dedicated to educating women on the early detection of cancers. Famous friends, family, and cancer survivors alike came out to support Drescher in her celebration of wellness and the fight against the disease.New mom Angela Kinsey of The Office arrived hand-in-hand with her best friend and fellow actress Rachael Harris. Upon arrival, the two greeted Drescher with warm hugs and stories of how cancer has touched their lives. When asked what event could pull Kinsey away from her new baby, she told TV Guide, "It's a cause that's very close to my heart. My mom is a cancer survivor, so I wanted to come support Fran and as well her fight against cancer." She also took a moment to gush about motherhood, exclaiming, "I love it and it's hard for me to walk out the door. I’m not going to lie. It's just nonstop, I just think about her all th...
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Her recent TV endeavors include very public disputes with cohosts (on The View) and disturbing turns on cable dramas (Nip/Tuck), but now Rosie O'Donnell wants to get back to the ha-has (remember she started in stand-up?), in the form of a new sitcom.According to a video blog posted on Rosie.com, O'Donnell and onetime Nanny Fran Drescher are working on a "fun, happy, family comedy" (as Drescher put it). "Fran and I have a new sitcom, but we can't talk about it, right?" said O'Donnell. Indeed, the Mouth's spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, tells the Los Angeles Times it's "way too premature" to discuss the prospective project, though Ro herself confirmed it to a fan on her site.No word yet on whether Tom Cruise will guest-star. — Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Best Criminal Intent so far this season, hands down. After a couple of sensational episodes dealing with murdered beauty pageant contestants and murderous country singers, we finally got one with some real feeling. And a Thanksgiving episode, no less, from a franchise not exactly known for spreading around the holiday cheer.For me, the crime was really secondary this time out, so we’ll get to that a little later. The heart of this episode was clearly Goren’s relationship with his cancer-stricken(?) mother, whom I don’t believe we’d met before, but immediately explained a whole lot about what makes the beyond-quirky detective tick.Seeing Goren in plainclothes throughout the episode was strange enough, but watching him be openly emotional, even vulnerable, was something else altogether. However, while at first it was touching to see Goren’s concern for his hospitalized mother — including bailing on an in-progress search to rush back to her bedside — ...
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Well, tonight's hour makes it two freak-show episodes in a row. After last week’s Liza-fest, this time we got a whole motley crew: a country-punk producer with a fragile spleen, a bouncer who based his life on Batman and Mortal Kombat, and then the usual assortment of cokehead strippers and sleazeball club owners.And while this sideshow act made for an entertaining look into the seedy business that’s birthed recent monstrosities such as Brooke Hogan and Paris Hilton, it wasn’t exactly deeply resonant drama.Miss Western Pennsylvania may have slept with her producer and then had her husband unknowingly off the poor little guy, but she did it all for love. Really. Just like hubby did it all for love — and bragging rights with his tobacco-chewin’ clan back east and assuaging his bruised ego. But for love, too.I didn’t exactly feel anything, but I’ll admit to being surprised when Miss Western PA pled to orchestrating the whole murder. I had pegged the h...
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The Great White Way will get a lot of freckles when Julianne Moore returns to the New York stage in David Hare's The Vertical Hour, making its world premiere Nov. 30.... Per Playbill.com, Scrubs' Judy Reyes completes the cast of Neil LaBute's off-Broadway play Some Girl(s), joining Eric McCormack, Fran Drescher, Maura Tierney and Brooke Smith.
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