While The Essentials (Saturdays at 8 pm/ET, TCM) is all about celebrating classic cinema, the series gets a very contemporary cohost tonight when Charmed vet and cult-film favorite Rose McGowan joins Robert Osborne to discuss March's top-notch titles, starting with 1969's The Apartment. She can also be seen this weekend in Quentin Tarantino's 2007 action flick, Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof (Saturday at 9 pm/ET, Starz), and from what we can tell, this lovely and well-informed Rose is capable of rising to any occasion.
TV Guide: With your edgy résumé, this isn't a gig most folks would imagine you doing.Rose McGowan: Misconceptions abound about me. I guess I'm not one of those people who demystifies everything by discussing their personal life. But there are different aspects to me and I've been really obsessed [with film] for as long as I can remember.
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The Rachael Ray Show on Jan. 18 will tape on location at New York City's Bryant Park ice rink (aka right across the street from TV Guide's snazzy new offices).... One Tree Hill fans have the chance to win a walk-on role and hang with the cast in Wilmington, N.C., via an "Ultimate Fan Weekend" promotion. Go to cwtv.com/macys for details.... Rose McGowan replaces Carrie Fisher as host of The Essentials when the TCM series returns in March.... With this year's Globes a bust, Steven Spielberg will instead receive the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement in 2009. Provided the strike is over by then. And provided he doesn't tank his career during the next 12 months.
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Jessica Simpson has renewed her deal with Proactiv — to the tune of $3 mil, Page Six hears — and will star in new commercials to break out before Christmas.... History Channel premieres Bob Woodruff's Baghdad Diary on Nov. 17.... Rose McGowan is engaged to Robert Rodriguez, who directed her (at the very least, apparently) in Grindhouse, a source tells People. Yeesh, you only have to sleep with the director, kids.... My Girl Anna Chlumsky's bid for a prettier last name is closer to fruition, as she is now engaged to Army reserve member Shaun So.
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Per Variety, Martin Scorsese is looking to direct The Departed's Leonardo DiCaprio in a film adaptation of Long Island stockbroker Jordan Belfort's tell-all autobiography The Wolf of Wall Street.... Fire up the CGI! 300 helmer Zack Snyder is reteaming with Warner Bros. on the zombie action-thriller Army of the Dead.... Rose McGowan, star of the upcoming Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse (which recently eeked out an R rating), will play B-movie staple Susan Cabot in the biopic Black Oasis.
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Are Horatio Caine and Marisol Delko heading for a wedding on CBS' CSI: Miami (Mondays at 10 pm/ET)? Perhaps even en route to "happily ever after"? Or, in light of the nasty line of work that the good lieutenant is in, might this story go from a vow... to a kill? TVGuide.com rang Alana De La Garza, who plays Horatio's lady love, to get up to speed on CSI: Miami, a possible Smallville encore and her other TV adventures.
TVGuide.com: We go back a few years, Alana, and you haven't been keeping me posted on your TV gigs this season. Instead, I get press releases saying, "Alana's do
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