Spiderman
One of the world's most popular superheroes, Spider-Man has starred in at least half a dozen cartoon series (and one live-action show) over the last 45 years. The latest version, Disney XD's Ultimate Spider Man, premieres Sunday and puts a new spin on the famed webslinger by placing him in a universe with other Marvel Comics characters.
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Kyra Sedgwick
Tonight's bracing premiere of the seventh and final season of TNT's top-rated basic-cable series The Closer involves a chest-thumping rap star, lifeless bodies by the handful and an interrogation scene like no other. Viewers are also introduced to the season's ongoing plotline, which hovers over the show's various murder cases: a wrongful-death lawsuit against the LAPD's Major Crimes deputy chief Brenda Leigh Johnson that threatens to take her whole team down with her.
"I've always said the way she ...
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Kyra Sedgwick
Jeers to the Screen Actors Guild Awards for overpraising The Closer.
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Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick lets out a big "Ha!" when asked how Brenda Leigh Johnson, the Georgia peach—turned—Los Angeles police babe she plays on The Closer, has changed after six seasons on TNT. "That's the wonderful and fun thing about Brenda," she says. "The woman really hasn't evolved."
On one level, Sedgwick is right. The Closer returns tonight for five episodes ending with ...
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J.K. Simmons and Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
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Question: I absolutely love The Closer! It's one of my favorite shows and I am always so eager to watch that I usually don't even wait for my DVR to get ahead enough to allow me to skip commercials. This season started off with a bang and I've loved it, but I'm a little concerned. What will happen if Brenda does become chief? On one hand, as a woman, I think it would be great for the character to be a female Chief of Police in Los Angeles. On the other hand, I am afraid for what that would mean for her position as a "closer." If she gets some distance from the cases, how can she possibly get all of those confessions that have the audience on the edge of their seats? Plus, I have not enjoyed the rather jerk-like qualities this whole process has brought out in Pope. I know he's got his heart set on being chief, but it seems a little uncharacteristic for him to be such a jerk now when he has not gone completely into that territory before. Please tell me that whatever is in the works is going to maintain the same quality of scripts and keep Brenda right in the middle of the action! Do you have any insight into the rest of the season or what impact this whole development would have for the future of the show? — Beth
Matt Roush: Now that's a true sign of devotion, watching a show in real time, not DVR time. I'm very fond of The Closer as well....
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Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, The Closer
Of all the attractive evils in the world perhaps none is more insidious than the desire to blame others for our own misfortunes. If history is any judge, scapegoating never loses its appeal and, especially in economic downturns, it can be extremely dangerous for those poor souls (or social groups) blamed for events over which they had no control. What's tragic about falsely assigning responsibility for disasters (like lost wars and financial collapse) is that pointing fingers and screaming does nothing to address the real problems. But gleaning what I can from cable news shows, determining who is to blame for a calamity is more important than getting out of one. Which is exactly where we find Assistant Chief Will Pope in The Closer's next episode, "Off the Hook" ...
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The Closer
Garbage bags stuffed with bodies boasting neither heads nor hands, mysteriously missing human organs (perhaps black-market booty?) and a steel magnolia of an LAPD deputy chief lassoing in her increasingly short-tempered police squad — all this and more is going down in the swanky new Major Crimes Division murder-room set of TNT's The Closer on a sunny June afternoon in Los Angeles. Whew! It ain't pretty, but it sure is exciting.
"After all these years, the scripts are amazing yet again," says Golden Globe-winning star Kyra Sedgwick, who plays the Southern ace interrogator Brenda Leigh Johnson, as she puts aside a victim's photo...
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Mary McDonnell
Sorry Brenda, the boss lady's back: Battlestar Galactica vet Mary McDonnell will reprise her role as Capt. Sharon Raydor on The Closer's upcoming sixth season, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
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McDonnell's character often clashed with Brenda (Kyra Sedgewick) during Season 5. McDonnell will appear in a minimum of ...
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JK Simmons, Lee Tergesen
Hey, Vern — Toby is back!
Lee Tergesen will reunite with fellow Oz alum JK Simmons — and vex Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda along the way — when he guest-stars on TNT's The Closer, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
In the season premiere, airing June 8, Tergesen will play ...
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Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3 courtesy Columbia Pictures
Provided that taut Tobey Maguire doesnt go to pot or unless he is recast with like Jake Gyllenhaal or Vincent Chase Spider-Man 4 is a go and being eyed for a May 2011 release date Nobodys signed anything on any dotted lines and I dont think theres an actual script yet but as we all know [thats just a detail] The Closers JK Simmons aka J Jonah Jameson tells us In films they work backwards They announce that Spider-Man 4 will open on say Memorial Day 2011 they start the marketing campaign from there and at some point theyll write and cast the movieAside from Maguires involvement and the matter of a director Maybe Sam [Raimi] will direct again Simmons muses the big question surrounds No 4s No 1 baddie My vote goes to Lizard Dylan Baker has played Dr Curt Connors twice in Parts 2 and 3 though some spec it could be Vulture too ugly I say or Kraven ditto Whats your take What villain do you want to see wailing on the wall-cr
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