TV Guide: Jennifer Beals

Listing: Devil in a Blue Dress

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Listing: The Twilight of the Golds

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Video: Walk-On Role of a Lifetime

Showtime — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:49:41 -0500

At its annual Women's Event gala, NYC's LGBT Community Center auctioned two walk-on roles in an L Word promo, starring alongside creator Ilene Chaiken and cast members Jennifer Beals, Rose Rollins and Daniela Sea.

Video: Jennifer Beals

Showtime — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:00:03 -0500

Jennifer Beals talks about Bette's relationship with Jodi and how Tina fits in.

Video: 13 Moons

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:45:13 -0500

The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los Angeles-based comedy concerning superstition and intersecting lives. Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's (Steve Buscemi) career, and the fact that his estranged wife, Suzi (Jennifer Beals), has just been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, Lily (Karyn Parsons), just serves to compound Banana's despair. Teaming with sidekick Binky (Peter Dinklage) to enlist the aid of bail-bondsman Mo (David Proval), Banana and Binky discover that Mo is currently negotiating the release of hip-hop mogul Lenny's (Daryl Mitchell) wife, Sandra (Rose Rollins). The hapless group soon teams to help Mo by finding a suitable kidney donor for the bail-bondsman's ailing son, and though they quickly happen across a drunk (Peter Stormare) who fits the bill, the trouble comes in keeping the prospect in the hospital. Doing their best to help Mo's son under increasi

Video: Anniversary Party

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:42:35 -0500

In this Dogma 95-inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and Sally Therrian, a couple who have recently reconciled after a yearlong separation, and who decide to throw a sixth anniversary party in their honor. They invite a bevy of Hollywood types, including Skye Davidson (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young, beautiful, Ecstasy-pushing actress appointed to play a character based on Sally in the new feature film based on Joe's successful novel. Also featured are Cal and Sophia Gold (played by real-life marrieds Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates), the former a co-star of Sally's and the latter her best friend who has given up the business to raise a family; Mac (John C. Reilly), the director of the new film and his actress wife Clair (Jane Adams), who has continued working after the recent birth of their child; Judy and Jerry Adams (Parker Posey and John Benjamin Hickey), the Therrians' managers; and Gina (Jennifer Beals), Joe's ex-girlfriend, who is often re

Video: Body And Soul

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:35:19 -0500

Former boxing great Ray Boom Boom Mancini brings years of experience in the ring to his role in this drama. Charlie (Mancini) is an up-and-coming boxer who decides he needs to move to the big city if he wants to be a contender. With his best friend and manager Tiny (Michael Chiklis) in tow, Charlie heads to Reno; en route, Charlie falls for Gina (Jennifer Beals), an attractive hitchhiker, though Tiny is certain she's up to no good. In Reno, Charlie's skills as a fighter attract the attention of Johnny (Rod Steiger), a veteran trainer who thinks Charlie has what it takes to be a champ. Johnny is able to arrange a meeting for Charlie and Tiny with Dumas (Joe Mantegna), a boxing promoter who controlls the fight game in Reno. Charlie soon learns that fame and fortune could be his for the asking, but is he willing to give up his principles and betray the people he cares about in exchange for a shot at the big time? Body and Soul is a loose adaptation of the 1947 classic starring John Garfield, though beyond the fa

Video: Flashdance

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:24:19 -0500

Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala). The film's signature scene is, of course, Alex's water-drenched dance audition, largely performed in long shot by her dance double Marine Jahan. Essentially an old-fashioned backstage yarn, Flashdance was given a contemporary spin by its pulsating, musical score featuring the Oscar-winning Best Song, Flashdance...What a Feeling, (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Out Of Line

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:05:57 -0500

A beautiful parole officer falls for a seductive ex-con with predictably tragic results in this thriller from director Johanna Demetrakas. Sworn to uphold the law and never let personal issues take priority, Jenny (Jennifer Beals) walks a fine line between desire and duty when her relationship with an ex-con takes a dangerous turn. Despite Jenny's better judgment, she allows herself to become intimately involved with the ex-con whose all-consuming vendetta drives him to one again break the law and go on the lam. With Jenny in tow and the police hot on their trail, the renegade parole officer and her lawless lover must stay one step ahead of the law to keep their love alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Twilight Of The Golds, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:29:49 -0500

Co-written by Jonathan Tolins and based on his original stage play, this Showtime drama concerns the possible role of genetics in determining sexual orientation. Suzanne Gold (Jennifer Beals), a medical-school dropout who manages a clothing store, marries genetic researcher Rob Stein (Jon Tenney), the son of Orthodox Jews who disapprove of what they perceive as their son's meddling with God's prerogatives. When Rob submits his and Suzanne's unborn son to his colleagues' experimental test procedures, the baby appears to have a 90 percent chance of being homosexual. Suzanne confides to her mother, Phyllis (Faye Dunaway), that she fears for the added burden her new family will face. Mom's got a big mouth, and before long Suzanne's father, Walter (Garry Marshall), and gay brother, David (Brendan Fraser), are weighing in with their conflicting opinions about whether or not Suzanne should abort the child and what such an action would mean about David's place in the family. The strain of such a decision ruptures exi

Video: Faery Tale Theatre: Cinderella

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:27:01 -0500

Originally aired on Shelley Duvall's family-oriented HBO television series, this lively retelling of the classic tale features Jennifer Beals as the good-hearted slave girl who overcomes all to become a princess. Matthew Broderick plays the handsome object of her affection. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Devil In A Blue Dress

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:25:56 -0500

Denzel Washington stars in this adaptation of the novel by African-American crime author Walter Mosley, the first of his stories to reach the screen. Ezekiel Rawlins (Washington), known to his friends as Easy, has just lost his job at an aircraft plant in post-WW II Los Angeles, a time when good-paying jobs for black men are hard to come by. He's wondering how to make his mortgage payment when he's approached by De Witt Albright (Tom Sizemore), who describes his job as doing favors for friends. It seems that a woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals) has gone missing; Daphne is the former girlfriend of wealthy mayoral candidate Todd Carter (Terry Kinney) and a known habitu of the black jazz clubs and night spots on L.A.'s Central Avenue. Albright offers Easy $100 to help him find Daphne, and while he doesn't have any detective experience, the price is right, so Easy agrees. After a passionate affair with a friend of Daphne's, Coretta James (Lisa Nicole Carson), leads to that woman's murder, Easy enlists th

Video: Indecency

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:09:01 -0500

In this made-for-cable thriller, an unstable woman (Jennifer Beals) is drawn into the web of a scheming co-worker and the estranged husband (James Remar) of her boss. When her boss turns up the victim of a supposed suicide, things just don't quite add up. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.

Video: Roger Dodger

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:32:45 -0500

Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a caf in Greenwich Village and made his pitch. Eventually, Scott would agree to executive produce and star in the film, and was responsible for bringing Jennifer Beals and Isabella Rossellini onboard. Scott stars as the eponymous Roger, a successful New York ad man and self-proclaimed master of reading and manipulating women. The film begins with Roger out for drinks with his co-workers and demonstrating his verbal gifts. Words are my stock in trade, he explains as he expounds. But he soon learns that his boss, Joyce (Rossellini), wants to end their clandestine sexual relationship. Roger gets another shock when his teenaged nephew, Nick (Jesse Eisenberg of TV's Get Real), shows up unannounced the next day at his job. Nick explains that he's in town for an interview at Columbia and soon admits that he wants Roger to take him out and give him a crash course on women. Soon

Video: Something More

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:08:42 -0500

In this romantic comedy, two guys who've discovered Age 30 in their rear-view mirror try to unravel the mysteries of life and love in beautiful Saskatchewan. Sam (Michael Goorjian) is a guy in his late 20s who is looking for the woman of his dreams but isn't having much luck. His best friend Jim (David Lovgren) isn't nearly as fussy as Sam; he'll take a chance on any woman that seems moderately attractive, especially ones that Sam has expressed an interest in. Sam likes to pass himself off as a moody intellectual, but this act doesn't get him very far with Kelly (Chandra West), an insurance investigator who seems a bit flaky on the surface but soon works her way into Sam's heart. However, Jim, true to form, has to make a play for her as well. Jennifer Beals appears in a supporting role as a waitress who gives Sam lessons in how to sound deep and pretentious. Something More was shot in 1997, but it didn't emerge from the editing room until 1999 for its initial Canadian release. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: L Word: The Complete Second Season, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:42:49 -0500

Season two of Showtime's lesbian-oriented seriocomedy series The L Word finds the formerly blissful relationship between control-freak Bette (Jennifer Beals) and supplicative Tina (Laurel Holloman) on hiatus due to Bette's infidelity, with Tina hiding the fact that she is once again pregnant. Having come out of the closet, Jenny (Mia Kirshner) splits with her husband, Tim (Eric Mabius). Wisecracking Alice (Leisha Hailey) and hyper-defensive Dana (Erin Daniels), who is engaged to her new manager, Tonya (Meredith McGeachie), try to hide their affair from their tongue-clucking friends. And the footloose Shane (Katherine Moennig) avoids getting serious with seductive deejay Carmen (Sarah Shahi), despite secretly harboring feelings for her. In other developments, Bette's straight half sister, Kit (Pam Grier), opens up her own nightclub, The Planet, and urges Bette to mend fences with their father, Melvin (Emmy nominee Ossie Davis), who is dying. Tina, who is disenchanted with Bette, nonetheless enters into a relat

Video: L Word, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:42:47 -0500

Sometimes described as Sex and the City meets Queer as Folk, the weekly, 60-minute Showtime comedy drama series The L Word teased its viewers as to what the L stood for in its opening credits sequence, in which a long list of possibles rolled past the screen: Laughter, Lattes, Luxurious, Lullaby, Libido, etc. Of course, the letter stood for Lesbian -- in this case, a tight-knit group of very attractive lesbians, all living and working in Los Angeles. The episodes focused on the relationships between the principal characters, their family members (some accepting their sexual preferences, others looking askance), their friends, and their outside lovers. Jennifer Beals topped the cast as Bette Porter, an art museum director and unabashed control freak, who in the first season lived with her longtime partner Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman), who chose to stay at home and assume the housewife role -- and, after being artificially inseminated, was both wife and mother in the relationship. (Ultimately, Bette and Tina

Video: Vampire's Kiss

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:32:35 -0500

Vampire's Kiss follows the story of yuppie literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) as he descends into madness and vampirism. Loew believes he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals) and is slowly becoming one himself, despite the contrary opinion of his therapist (Elizabeth Ashley). He then begins to wage a campaign of escalating terror against his secretary and first potential victim, Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso, looking appropriately baffled). Alva begs her parents to let her stay home from work to avoid her unusual boss, but they force her to go on that fateful day, and the plot unfolds. Vampire's Kiss became a cult item on the basis of Cage's outrageous performance: at one point he actually eats a live cockroach. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide.

Video: Grudge 2, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:03:51 -0500

Japanese horror specialist Takashi Shimizu returns to the mythology that terrified audiences the world over with this terror-inducing sequel to the hit 2004 frightener. When a cursed Tokyo home is burned to the ground, the baneful spirit once confined within its walls is suddenly unleased to terrorize anyone and everyone who crosses its dark path. Original producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Taka Ichise return to help Shimizu realize his hair-raising vision with this tale that finds Karen's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) sister, Aubrey (Amber Tamblyn), teaming with spellbound journalist Eason (Edison Chen) to investigate the spectral mystery. Meanwhile, the ghostly grip of Toshio (Oga Tanaka) and Kayako (Takako Fuji) tightens on a Chicago housewife (Jennifer Beals) halfway across the globe. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Jennifer Beals

The Daily Show — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:54:00 -0500

Jennifer Beals ice skates at a third grade level.

Video: Moment of Zen - Making Out

The Daily Show — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:53:56 -0500

Jon Stewart makes out with Jennifer Beals

Video: Jennifer Beals

The Daily Show — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:22:30 -0500

Jennifer Beals and Jon Stewart once had a kissing scene in a film.

Photo: The L Word - Season 5, "Lights! Camera! Action!" - Jennifer Beals as Bette

courtesy Paul Michaud/Showtime — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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Photo: The L Word - Season 5, "Lookin' at You, Kid" - Jennifer Beals as Bette, Marlee Matlin as Jodi

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L Word, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin

Photo: The L Word - Season 4 - cast

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The L Word, Katherine Moennig, Janina Gavankar, Rachel Shelley, Laurel Holloman, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner, Marlee Matlin, Cybill Shepherd, Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Daniela Sea

Photo: The L Word - Season 4 - Marlee Matlini, Jennifer Beals, Cybill Shepherd

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The L Word, Marlee Matlini, Jennifer Beals, Cybill Shepherd

Photo: The L Word - Season 4 - Jennifer Beals as Bette

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Photo: Jennifer Beals of "The L Word" at the 2003 Showtime TCA Presentation

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Photo: The L Word - Season 4, "Lexington and Concord" - Jennifer Beals as Bette

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Photo: The L Word - Jennifer Beals as "Bette"

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Photo: The L Word - Season 4, "Lez Girls" - Jennifer Beals as Bette

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Photo: The L Word - Season 4, "Lassoed" - Jennifer Beals as Bette

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Photo: The L Word -"Layup"- Marlee Matlin as Jodi, Jennifer Beals as Bette, Jon Wolfe Nelson as Tom

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The L Word, Marlee Matlin, Jennifer Beals, Jon Wolfe Nelson

Photo: The L Word - Laurel Holloman, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley, Erin Daniels, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner and Jennifer Beals

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The L Word, Laurel Holloman, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley, Erin Daniels, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner, Jennifer Beals

Photo: Jennifer Beals

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Photo: The L Word - Laurel Holloman, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley, Erin Daniels, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner and Jennifer Beals

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The L Word, Laurel Holloman, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley, Erin Daniels, Katherine Moennig, Leisha Hailey, Pam Grier, Mia Kirshner, Jennifer Beals

Photo: The L Word - Jennifer Beals and "Olivia Windbiel"

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Photo: The L Word - Jennifer Beals as "Bette"

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Photo: Jennifer Beals - 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

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Photo: Jennifer Beals, Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda - The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards - InStyle/ Warner Bros Golden Globe After Party

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Photo: Jennifer Beals - Showtime Presents The Premiere Screening Of "The L Word"

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Photo: Jennifer Beals - Opening Night of "Sly Fox" on Broadway

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Photo: Mike Nichols and Jennifer Beals - The Film Society of Lincoln Center Honors Dustin Hoffman

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