Matthew Fox, Lost
Matthew Fox has sealed up his plans for summer hiatus, and this time he's taking on a real-life airline tragedy. The Lost star has signed on to join Matthew McConaughey in Charlie's Angels director McG's as-yet-untitled big-screen drama about the 1970 plane crash that killed members of the West Virginia-based Marshall University football team, most of its coaching staff and many others. Both Matthews will play team coaches.
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The Book of Daniel's Garrett Dillahunt and Aidan Quinn
Surprisingly — or not? — the American Family Association, which has smote irreverent series dating back to Charlie's Angels, is taking issue with the new NBC drama The Book of Daniel (premiering Jan. 6), in which Aidan Quinn plays a clergyman with a colorful clan and who, by the way, occasionally chats with Jesus (played by Garrett Dillahunt). AFA biggwig Rev. Donald Wildmon slams Quinn's character for being a "drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her midday martinis," takes issue with (shocker alert) the show's portrayal of homosexuals, and pegs the drop-ins by Jesus as "very unconventional." Wildmon's obviously a Willem Dafoe loyalist.
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Question: I have a question that could only be answered by a great one, namely you. In a rerun of Charlie's Angels (I know, I shouldn't admit to such things, even when home with the flu), the Angels were talking to a dark-haired man who was very familiar. I think he was a regular on the show. Who is he, and could he possibly be the same actor who was on a show that aired in the mid-'90s about a priest and nun who solved mysteries together? I can't remember the name of the later show, but the nun was a street kid before she became a nun. It's amazing how once you start wondering about something it really sticks in your mind.
Answer: Ah, Rika, your flattery is appreciated, but the question can be answered with just the slightest flex of my unearthly TV abilities.
I'd venture to say that no two actors in TV history have been confused with one another more frequ
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Question: What were some of the more popular shows of 1976?Answer: Well, since we're actually talking about two seasons in any given calendar year — for example, the tail end of 1975's fall season and the first half of 1976's — it's a whole host of programming. But because I like that time-capsule stuff, I'll give you a taste.
The Top 5 shows for September 1975-April 1976, together with each one's network and rating (percentage of total TV households in the country at that time) were: All in the Family (CBS, 30.1); Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC, 28.0); Laverne & Shirley (ABC, 27.5); Maude (CBS, 25.0) and The Bionic Woman
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Circa 2004, Cheryl Ladd is recurring as James Caan's wife — aka Mrs. Big Ed — on NBC's Las Vegas (Mondays at 9 pm/ET). But she'll always be best loved as Kris Munroe from the campy '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Surprisingly, she almost turned down the TV gig that made her famous.
"That is true," Ladd says. "I had come very close to getting the role of the daughter on Family, another of Aaron Spelling's shows. It was a very well-written, prestigious show. I was seeing myself as a serious actress; I didn't see myself in Charlie's Angels. And then, to replace Farrah Fawcett
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