Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards, the director and writer of the Pink Panther series and Breakfast at Tiffany's, died Thursday morning. He was 88.
Edwards died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., from complications of pneumonia.
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The Sound of Music
Hear that? That's the sound of a Sound of Music reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, along with co-stars Charmian Carr (Liesl), Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich), Heather Menzies-Urich (Louisa), Duane Chase (Kurt), Angela Cartwright (Brigitta), Debbie Turner (Marta) and Kym Karath (Gretl) will reunite ...
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Steve Carell
For The Office star Steve Carell, the idea of saying goodbye to Michael Scott after seven years is bittersweet.
"I'm sure I'm going to be very nostalgic," he told TV Guide Magazine at the June 27 premiere of his new animated movie, Despicable Me. "These are some of my best friends in the world. But it will be good for everybody, I think."
Carell announced in May ...
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Question I just caught up with Showtimes Dexter and since I know from the podcast that youve been watching it too maybe you can answer my question In the last episode theres some kind of weird-looking Christmas thing on TV all you see is Santa and a couple of stiff white reindeer flying through the air Was that a real movie or TV special or was it made especially for the series PeachyFlickChick Its for real and its a loopy little Mexican number called Santa Claus 1959 in which Santa must battle a second-tier demon named Mr Pitch for the hearts and minds of the worlds children The film first made its way onto the childrens matinee circuit yes there was a time when theaters would book kiddie movies for the weekend and parents would drop off their little darlings to see them courtesy of Florida-based impresario K Gordon Murray I highly recommend the site The Wonder World of K Gordon Murray for in-depth info about his nutty re
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Hello, this is Kate Flannery, the boozy redhead from the best show on TV, The Office. OK, maybe not the best show, but the best ensemble of a comedy series, according to the Screen Actors Guild. We won, fans. We won, and itfeels good and crazy, and I'm sore. (That award weighs 35 pounds!)I am here to talk about "Ben Franklin," the episode airing this week. There is a shower for Phyllis, but the big news is... Meredith yells at Angela!!!!! A new moody Meredith moment. Can you say alcoholic? I knew you could. How about that, sports fans? This is a funny episode written by Mindy Kaling aka Kelly Kapoor. It was fun to tell my old pal Angela to shut up. I am contractually obligated to keep my mouth shut, but they are showing this clip in the promos, so I'm cool.The new episodes have been a lot of fun to shoot — especially because we just found out that we are going to be back for a full fourth season. Ahh, job security. It keeps me very grateful.Speaking of grateful... we won a SAG...
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Yes, that was my shout of glee that woke up the neighbors Sunday night when Chandra Wilson was named outstanding female actor in a drama series for Grey’s Anatomy. At long last, Miranda Bailey has been given her due, and the wonderful Ms. Wilson rose to the occasion with a rapturous acceptance speech, acknowledging how unlikely it would be for someone with her skin, her nose, her height, her weight, to be accepted in this industry. (I think I also yelped in delight when the entire Grey’s cast took the stage for its well-deserved ensemble acting award.)This on the same night that Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera also took home an Actor trophy. Another unconventional, but absolutely right, choice.I tend to enjoy the crisp, fast-moving SAG Awards telecast—aside from those pretentious opening monologues in which the likes of Marg Helgenberger (revealing an astounding lot of cleavage, right up there with Marcia Gay Harden), Jada Pinkett Smith and Freddie Rodriguez remind ...
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9:01: The history of Julie Andrews is still rolling, and I'm actually learning a lot. Did anyone else know about her books and donations? 9:04: Dick Van Dyke's bow tie is huge! But how can you not love him, right? Who better to present the life-achievement award to Julie than him? Eddie Murphy's right... the British actors do sound really distinguished when giving their speeches — Julie didn't even flinch. Patrick Dempsey looks bored, though. Sit up straight, doc, the camera is always watching!
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Julie Andrews will be honored with the lifetime-achievement award at the 43rd-annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, being held Jan. 28.... G4 has ponied up $16 million for shared syndication rights to Cops.... The amount of time people spend watching TV shows via video-on-demand or DVR recordings has doubled in the past year. The same study by Leichtman Research shows that 12 percent of U.S. households now have DVRs, versus 3 percent two years ago.... Sources tell the New York Post's Page Six that Scarlett Johansson was a "nervous wreck" when she recently braved her first Brazilian waxing at the Oasis Day Spa. What's more, the crew of aestheticians reportedly couldn't stop admiring the actress' body. Not news per se, but a fine thought to start off a Monday morning.
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Question: Do you know the name of the first-ever made-for-TV movie?
Answer: Like all "first" questions, this one is thorny. Generally speaking, the first two made-for-TV movies are considered to have been The Killers and The Hanged Man, both of which date from 1964 and were made by MCA-Universal under the aegis of superagent-turned-media-mogul Lew Wasserman. Wasserman, who shepherded Universal into the world of television production and distribution, saw an opportunity to leverage one of the company's assets — a huge library of old movies — by remaking them for TV. The Killers was a remake of a 1946 film starring Burt Lancaster and based on Ernest Hemingway's short story
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Hot to launch a stage revival of The Sound of Music — and now that his first pick, the impossibly hot Scarlett Johansson, has declined the lead role — producer Andrew Lloyd Webber is considering using a reality-TV competition to find his new Maria, says the New York Post. Meanwhile, Julie Andrews has christened Cameron Diaz her choice to fill her nun's sensible shoes, should there be a big-screen remake of Music — provided that "My Favorite Things" be rewritten to include "Hair gel/and Angels/and young boys named Justin."
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