For 24 fans who hope to once again see Jack Bauer and the American way prevail over unheard-of evil this season, there is some bad news ... and some badder news.
The simply bad news first.
Speaking with TVGuide.com at Saturday night's GLAAD Media Awards, Cherry Jones (who plays President Allison Taylor) teased that with this week's "game-changing" episode, "We have Mr. [Jon] Voight fully in the Darth Vader chair," wreaking havoc as Jonas Hodges.
"He's moving into high gear," warns Jones, "which means ...
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Perez Hilton might not be the most vicious blogger in town anymore. Roseanne Barr lashed out against Hollywood's favorite couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, last week in a blog post on her Web site that originally started as an attack on Jolie's father, Jon Voight. The screed was tied to Voight's political support of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain. After comparing Voight to used feminine products, she set her sights on his "evil spawn" and her "vacuous hubby". (Pitt and Jolie actually remain unmarried.)Barr took aim at the couple's charitable donations to poor countries and their multiple adoptions. "[They] make about $40 million a year in violent, psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children, trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more," she wrote. "Do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who s...
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It would appear that so-and-so, who to date has been touted as Jack Bauer's (and thus America's) next big nemesis, is merely doing someone else's bidding. Oscar winner Jon Voight has been cast on 24 as the person behind Season 7's terrorist threat, says the Reporter. Voight's character will be introduced during the two-hour prequel movie airing Nov. 23, and then be featured heavily during the back half of Jack's next bad day.For more on this, see In Touch Weekly's cover story: "Angelina's Heartbreak! Dad Chooses TV Role Over Attending Twin Grandchildren's Birth!" — Matt Mitovich
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