Although he's appeared in a number of movies, including Tombstone and George of the Jungle, Thomas Haden Church is still best known as "That Guy from Wings." For five years, Church kept viewers in stitches as Nantucket Airport's resident eccentric, Lowell Mather. Now he's doing the same thing on the big screen in Sideways, the touching and hilarious road movie from director Alexander Payne (Election).
Church plays Jack, a self-absorbed, aging TV star whose career has been on the decline for some time. Hmm... did the role remind Church of anybody in particular? "I didn't really base my performance on anyone," the 43-year-old actor demurs, "but in 15 years of being in and out of Los Angeles, I certainly know a lot of guys like Jack.
"I remember when I moved to L.A. in 1989, I immediately got cast in a TV movie called To Protect and Surf," Church continues. "We were cops on the beach with cool hair and guns. I w
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Poor Steven Weber. Back in 2001, the Wings star endured critical scorn for his self-titled NBC sitcom, later aptly renamed Cursed. Afterward, he did a brief supporting stint on Once & Again and 10 months in Broadway's The Producers. Tonight at 10 pm/ET, the 43-year-old stars in ABC's The D.A. — a four part limited-run drama series about a morally ambiguous Los Angeles district attorney. Here, he tells TV Guide Online how it feels to make his television comeback.
TV Guide Online: The last show you headlined — Cursed — was hated by critics. What's your take, in retrospect?Steven Weber: Look, they were right! They saw what it was — a mess! I'm the first to admit that. It was an educational experience for me. I'm lucky to still be getting more opportunities to work, re
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