John Goodman is ready to return to television on a full-time basis.
Goodman, who stars in the new film What Planet Are You From?, says he misses the perks a half-hour sitcom like Roseanne. Goodman tells TV Guide Online, "I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy. I like [doing] the '22 minutes a week, nobody gets hurt and you get a live audience' deal."
In fact, Goodman recently closed a deal with Fox and the producers of 3rd Rock from the Sun to return to the small screen as, of all things, a gay man. "They pitched an idea, but to be fair we don't have a script yet or a cast. But as I know, I'm going to be gay."
In the meantime though, Goodman is enjoying his recurring cameo role on Now and Again. "I [didn't] know if that was a one time deal. I told the creator last year when I only worked about three or four days on the pilot, and then they threw me in front of a train digitally, bastards! I said
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Hunky Vin Diesel says dressing up like a superhero in the new sci-fi thriller Pitch Black was a childhood dream come true ? except for the painful costume contact lenses and occasional punch from co-star Cole Hauser.
"They found a 1960 Plymouth, took the hubcaps off it, painted them blue, stuck them in my eyes, and said 'Deal with it,'" Diesel jokes about the lenses he had to wear during shooting. "The contacts were prototypes. At the end of the day, we had to fly out an optometrist from three hours away to take them out because no one could take them out. And we kept the optometrist there the whole shoot so that I wouldn't damage my eyes too much."
Diesel also tells TV Guide Online that he tried to "center" himself and prepare for the movie's intricate fight scenes by practicing yoga and pilates, but the buff actor still wasn't quite prepared for a real h
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Margot Kidder is brutally honest about her public battle with mental illness but she still refuses to reveal the horrors that she believes have been the main cause of her problems.
"A lot of it has to do with certain traumas in childhood, which I prefer not to talk about," the actress, who suffers from bipolar disorder, tells Natural Health. "But really it was a combination of everything: not eating properly, not sleeping, certain genetic things. There were others in my family who had perhaps some mild symptoms of it."
The 51-year-old actress, who made headlines back in 1996 when she was discovered suffering from delusions in the backyard of a stranger's home, says she now keeps herself under control with a combination of stress-reduction techniques, improved eating and lifestyle habits, acupuncture and a focus on vitamins and minerals known as orthomolecula
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Actress Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That, Dawson's Creek) has a confession to make: She's got a thing for Sinbad.
"I'm obsessed with him," Cook tells Bikini of her fondness for the stand-up
comic and former late-night talk show host. "I don't know why. I just think he is the nicest man ever. I saw him in the Gap. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to say all these things and I get up there and all that comes out is, 'Hi. You're Sinbad.' To which he said something to the effect of, 'Yeah, I think so....'"
Twenty-year-old Cook also admits to the magazine that she's a big-time worrier. She certainly doesn't need to worry about getting work ? the hot young actress has upcoming roles in the movie version of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
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Actress Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That, Dawson's Creek) has a confession to make: She's got a thing for Sinbad.
"I'm obsessed with him," Cook tells Bikini of her fondness for the stand-up
comic and former late-night talk show host. "I don't know why. I just think he is the nicest man ever. I saw him in the Gap. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to say all these things and I get up there and all that comes out is, 'Hi. You're Sinbad.' To which he said something to the effect of, 'Yeah, I think so....'"
Twenty-year-old Cook also admits to the magazine that she's a big-time worrier. She certainly doesn't need to worry about getting work ? the hot young actress has upcoming roles in the movie version of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
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Tobey Maguire loved being enigmatic in Wonder Boys, playing a college student who fascinates his creative writing teacher (Michael Douglas) and confuses him by making up stories about his life. "The movie is so surprising," Maguire explains. "You don't know what's going to happen next. Like when the dog gets shot, you wonder, 'Where did that come from?'
"I guess it's a little bit dramatic," he admits, "but I play a guy who's read a lot of books and watched a lot of films, and he feels like he's the hero in his own movie. He could have given the dog a kick but I guess he thought it would be more heroic to shoot him."
Maguire says no dogs were harmed during the production. "We carry a dead dog around for a good part of the film, but they actually gave us this weird stuffed animal to [hold]. They'd be sa
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What do you do if superstar Harrison Ford invites you to split a bottle of tequila? Take it from actor John Spencer: Just Say No.
Spencer, best known these days as Leo McGarry on NBC's The West Wing, says he was preparing for 1990's Presumed Innocent with Ford when his co-star suggested they share a bottle and get to know their characters a little better. Spencer, a recovering alcoholic, politely declined, saying he couldn't drink tequila. Then Ford invited him to join him for a few beers. When Spencer told him that he also couldn't drink beer, Ford finally seemed to get the hint.
"But we found ways of bonding and we worked at that relationship and it caught," Spencer tells TV Guide Online. "He's still someone I consider a great friend."
How great a
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Late actor Telly Savalas's personal life was as much a mystery as some of the plots on his popular TV detective series, Kojak, according to family and friends.
"He always used to say he was a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and there was a side of him that maybe we shouldn't know," says daughter Christina Savalas Kousakis on this Tuesday's A&E Biography on the star (8 pm/ET, 9 pm/PT). The special reveals that even close family members knew little about the details surrounding the bald actor's life, such as the little-talked-about military past that led some to believe he might have once served as a spy.
"He showed the world one person but I think if you really wanted to get to know him, that was a very closed area," says Willa Ward, who worked with Savalas during his early acting days in theater. His second wife, Lynn, says that her late ex-husband was
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Robert Downey Jr.'s scene-stealing performance in Wonder Boys is a distressing reminder that he's currently in prison due to his drug addiction.
Co-star Michael Douglas says that during filming, "[Downey] was great. We had no problem whatsoever. I consider Robert the most talented actor of his generation I know. My heart goes out to him. It's an unfortunately long sentencing for someone who only hurt himself."
Director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) had complete faith in casting Downey: "We had a long talk where I asked him all the tough questions and told him my concerns, and his responses were so heartfelt and
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Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about former MTV queen Jenny McCarthy, the tell-all celebrity now admits to having sex in the Grand Canyon and giving a lap dance to octogenarian actor Kirk Douglas.
McCarthy, who stars opposite Douglas in the movie Diamonds, tells Maxim that she gave the veteran actor and recent stroke victim a surprise lap dance during his 80th birthday party on the set of the flick. "We even got pictures of me shaking my booty in his face," she confesses. "I figured, what the hell, when you turn 80, wouldn't you like some little hottie to give you a lap dance?"
McCarthy admits she's a sucker for little old men ? they're "so wise and cute," she explains ? but the real love of her life these days is Diamonds director and new hubby John Asher. And she says the best thing about being in a relationshi
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