Tom Hanks
Get ready to jet-set to The Eternal City for a behind-the-scenes look at Angels & Demons. From Rome's St. Peter's Square to the Pantheon, TV Guide Network will take you on a tour of some of the historic locations included in the prequel to the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. Watch interviews from the movie premiere with star Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard to see what they had to say about the thriller. Plus: Find out if Hanks will reprise the role of Robert Langdon in the next Dan Brown adaptation: The Solomon Key.
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Mad Men courtesy AMC
In case you hadn’t heard, AMC’s Mad Men is not only a hit with the Emmy voters (the most nominated drama this year, with 16) but it’s a bona fide critics’ darling, walking away with three Television Critics Association Awards over the weekend at the 24th annual ceremony in Beverly Hills. Mad Men won for new program, outstanding achievement in drama and program of the year, prompting Emmy-nominated co-star John Slattery to quip (during one of the show’s several acceptance speeches), “How glad I am that the message of smoking, drinking and whoring Mad Men puts across has registered with the TCAs.”Jon Hamm, also an Emmy nominee, thanked reality shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love (all three seasons) and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader “for pushing the envelope so far that way that there was a place kind of on this side for us to sneak in.”HBO’s epic John Adams miniseries won two awards, for Paul ...
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The Da Vinci Code courtesy Sony Pictures
Angel Demons prequel to The Da Vinci Code will have to re-create scenes inside Rome churches after the Vatican banned crews from shooting there Production began on the film starring Tom Hanks earlier this month Producers had requested permits from Vatican officials to shoot in Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria two key locales in the filmRome diocese spokesman Father Marco Fibbi told Variety the Vatican took issue with the films message regarding Christianity We often provide our churches to productionsbut not when a film pursues a type of fantasy that damages common religious sentiment as is the case of The Da Vinci Code he saidThe Vatican rejected similar production requests from The Da Vinci Code filmmakers several years agoAngels Demons crews will use the former Royal Palace at Caserta in Naples to double as Vatican church interiors JR Whalen
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Isal Fisher in Wedding Crashers by Richard Cartwright/New Line
Wedding Crashers nymph Isla Fisher has signed on to star in Confessions of a Shopoholic, a Disney com based on the Sophie Kinsella novels (shop Amazon).... Also per the Reporter, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of Dawn Treader has had its release pushed back a year to May 7, 2010, due to "the challenging schedules for our young actors".... Leslie Nielsen, Marion "Mrs. C!" Ross, Jeffery Tambor and Brent Spiner have joined Josh Bell and Sara Paxton for the Scary Movie-esque action-hero spoof Superhero.... Tom Hanks is producing a thriller based on the new bio Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal.... The AP reports that Matthew McConaughey will replace Owen Wilson in Tropic Thunder.... To avoid a May 2009 showdown with James Cameron's Avatar, Variety says DreamWorks has moved up its own 3-D pic, Monsters vs. Aliens, to March 27.
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HBO is finalizing a deal with Tom Hanks' Playtone shingle to adapt Vincent Bugliosi's 1,632-page Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy into a miniseries. Per Variety, the 10-part series will put to bed, once and for at least 10 nights all the assorted conspiracy theories, while establishing that Lee Harvey Oswald in fact acted alone. The mini will span Oswald's journey from becoming an assassin to his own murder on live television.
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Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
If you were ever a fan of Bosom Buddies, and you now watch CBS' Two and a Half Men (Mondays at 9 pm/ET), not many a week goes by where a line delivery or physical flourish from Holland Taylor doesn’t harken back to the days of Kip, Henry, and the Livingston, Gentry and Mishkin ad agency. Taylor's Ruth Dunbar was a role that would pave the way for many more women to be reckoned with. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to take a walk down memory lane with Taylor, dropping such names along the way as Hanks, Clooney, Pfeiffer and Sheen.
TVGuide.com: Do you know what I have on my desk right here?Holland Taylor: What?
TVGuide.com: The just-released Season 1 DVD set for Bosom Buddies.Taylor: [S
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Talk about a Dreamgirl: Beyoncé tops AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007 list, followed by Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, "virgin supermodel" Adriana Lima and Jessica Biel.... CBS has greenlit production on an eighth season of Big Brother.... Feb. 13 marks the DVD releases of Steve Martin: The Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection and Tom Hanks: Comedy Favorites Collection.
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I sure hope you didn’t skip 24’s literally explosive Night 2—seriously (as Shonda Rhimes would say), how dark is this new season already?—for the Golden Globes Monday night. All the flowing wine seemed to have loosened and thickened nearly everyone’s tongue, resulting in long speeches that combined with a sluggish pace and an epic number of ads to push the show beyond the 11 pm/ET cutoff time. (You know an awards show is badly time-managed when the seriously big winners are forced to hurry through their speeches.)Anyway, to have had a good time, it looks like you really did have to be there this year. And partake of the bubbly.Imagine the collective yawns and groans across the land when that international bummer Babel (this year’s overly contrived Crash) took home the best drama trophy, handed out by Arnold Schwarzenegger on crutches that could have been a symbol for the whole wobbly though star-studded evening.But enough about movies, with this except...
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Further proof that people are just plain weird: In a new Gallup poll, only 12 percent of respondents said they would go out of their way to see Tom Cruise movies now, while 26 percent said they'd go the extra mile to catch a Mel Gibson flick. Furthermore, 34 percent said they wouldn't see a Cruise pic period, while only 15 percent have sworn off Gibson. Elsewhere on the chart, the far-less-controversial Tom Hanks and Reese Witherspoon were ranked our favorite actor and actress. No doubt my personal faves, Mark Feuerstein and Judy Greer, were right behind them.
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Mark Steines leads the Gold Rush.
Survivor exec producer Mark Burnett has finally found a way to give away more than a million dollars without the mandatory starvation diet. This time, instead of making people sweat and backstab on a tropical island, he's partnered with AOL in a new online competition called Gold Rush. For seven straight weeks starting Sept. 13, you can head over to aol.com/goldrush to compete in pop-culture challenges, some which lead to clues found in various commercials, magazines and CBS shows.
"It's like The Da Vinci Code," explains Entertainment Toni
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