John Goodman
John Goodman has joined the cast of Fox's new comedy pilot The Station, Variety reports.
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Produced by Ben Stiller, Station centers on a group of covert CIA operatives in South America who are tasked with installing a new dictator. Goodman will play ...
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Speed Racer screengrab courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Got the need for speed? Then you probably won’t be disappointed with the new trailer for Speed Racer. Not only does the big screen adaptation of the animated series have an awesome cast (Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox), visually, the flick looks like it’s going to be a mock-speed ride bursting with more colors than a Crayola factory. Watch it now! | More online videos
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Roseanne patriarch John Goodman has checked out of Malibu's Promises Treatment Center, following treatment for an undisclosed reason, says ET. "For my family and myself, I voluntarily took the necessary steps to remain sober the rest of my life," Goodman says in a statement.On a related topic, the TV Guide News Report has new details on Dirty Sexy Money star Samaire Armstrong's outpatient treatment for personal issues.
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Kathy Griffin by Steve Jennings/Bravo Photo, Andy Samberg by Dana Edelson/NBC Universal Photo
Gold mixed with blue at Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony. Though HBO's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee took home the most kudos — five statues in all — several major wins either were born of or unexpectedly led to salty language.Where to start? Kathy Griffin, whose Life on the D-List won best (non-competition) reality program, mock-scoffed at those who thank J.C. for their good fortune by saying (and I apologize for sharing this on a Sunday morning), "Suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now." Also using salty slang in accepting her award was Elaine Stritch, named best guest actress in a comedy (for her turn on 30 Rock). "It's kind of obvious how long I've been in this profession," said Stritch. "And I can't get over that I still feel the way I do. It's unf--kingbelievable."Another veteran actress, Leslie Caron, was Stritch's counterpart in the drama race (for her appearance on Law & Order: SVU), while Stanley Tucci (Monk) and John Goodman (Studio 60) ...
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Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights by Van Redin/NBC Photo
Remember how Charlie Brown used to end up on his back every time he went to kick the football after Lucy pulled it away? Well, that was me, in the pre-dawn of Thursday morning at the TV Academy building in North Hollywood, as the first Emmy category (for best drama series) was read aloud. Amid a gaggle of impatient media crews and anxious publicists, I once again felt sucker-punched by the cluelessly inexplicable whims of the Emmy nomination process. (Go here for a list of nominees.)The football analogy applies because, once again, the Emmy system dropped the ball, failing to acknowledge NBC’s critically worshiped freshman underdog Friday Night Lights, instead finding room for ABC’s cartoonishly lurid freak show Boston Legal (on the basis, so I hear, of a rare detour into quality with a post-Katrina episode). A chagrined Academy source tells me that Friday Night Lights came close, but speculated that it may have flown too far under the radar in a way overcrowded field. Hea...
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Per Variety, Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin are near deals to star in Nim's Island, a fantasy pic about a young girl who, when her scientist father is lost at sea, communicates electronically with a reclusive author. Breslin has also booked the period film American Girl.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman are in talks to play the parents of Emile Hirsch's Speed Racer.
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Per Variety, now that the character has been reconceived as a 25- (versus 20-) year-old, The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson has replaced Teresa Palmer as Hayden Christensen's leading lady in the sci-fi thriller Jumper.... Friday Night Lights' Peter Berg is set to direct Tonight, He Comes, in which Will Smith stars as a superhero in existential crisis.... With World Trade Center now behind him, Oliver Stone next may bring to the big screen Jawbreaker, a look at how America responded to the terror attacks by invading Afghanistan. In other words, the first one was free, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Step Up's Jenna Dewan has joined the Revenge of the Nerds remake.... John Goodman will play a drug-ring boss in the vigilante drama Death Sentence.
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A star is scorned: Roseanne
Question: I've seen you cover behind-the-scenes problems with stars and producers before and wondered why you never wrote anything about the mother of all "difficult" actresses, Roseanne. Was she as bad as so many people said? Thanks.Answer: Why didn't I? Because nobody asked, Laurel. But since you just did, here you go.
"Bad" is a relative term, and no more so than in Hollywood, where condemning someone for bad behavior is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500. Was Roseanne truly bad? It depends on who you ask and when you ask them. Certainly she had her detractors — and she sure could call attention to herself.
When the show launched on ABC in 1988, Roseanne Barr's story was already a good one. A poor girl who found her true calling in stand-up comedy with routines built on being a mother and housewife, her series was solidly in the
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I just watched some West Palm Beach bitch named Sophie boss around her mother, drop the F-bomb like a trucker and threaten her friends, all over a Moulin Rouge-inspired birthday party. If there was any ounce of me that ever wanted to have children, it's now as withered as this demon seed's soul. The worst thing is, even with a $10,000 stylist who had to work around a gut that would look slim on John Goodman, Teenzilla still ended up looking like the hooker version of Dee the sassy sister from What's Happening!! and had absolutely no idea that about 30 seconds after this show aired, she would become a walking target for her formerly terrorized classmates. And just knowing that makes it feel like it's my birthday. So thanks, Soph. I hope you got everything you wanted… and deserve.
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