Patricia Hearst and Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars
The CW's Veronica Mars (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET) is fraught with fictional mystery, intrigue and danger, but tonight's guest star knows all about the real thing. Patricia Hearst, newspaper heiress and victim of one of the most infamous kidnappings in history, has been enlisted by Mars mastermind Rob Thomas to play Selma Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of Hearst College and a member of the school's board of trustees. TVGuide.com discussed the Mars visit with Hearst, and also got her take on why her abduction still holds the public's interest.
TVGuide.com: Were you at all reluctant to play a character with a background similar to your own?Patricia Hearst: Yes. I wanted to know exactly what it was about, because I'd n
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John Waters
Before he played charming oddballs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands and, well, insert most of his acting résumé here, Johnny Depp was your garden-variety teen idol on Fox's 21 Jump Street. Back in 1990, cult film director John Waters gave Depp his big-screen break — and a chance to send up his Tiger Beat image — in Cry-Baby. And since the Cry-Baby Director's Cut DVD is out today, TVGuide.com has a chance to touch base with Waters, for some "I knew Depp when" reminiscing and chatter about the rest of his freaky film exploits.
TVGuide.com: Cry-Baby was perhaps the most mainstream or "ready for prime time," of all your many wacky movies.John Waters: I disagree. Pecker is probably my nicest movie. Just 'cause Cry-Baby is a musical, people forget that I have a very dysfunctional, disturbed family in it. I have an ingenue who drinks her own tears becaus
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