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Patricia Kara: Deal or No Deal's Suitcase No. 9 Opens Up
Patricia Kara, who beholds suitcase No. 9 on NBC's Deal or No Deal, is putting her money where her months are, by way of a calendar whose proceeds will benefit a worthy cause. Kara shares a peek inside her eye-catching endeavor, as well as offers tips on how to be the guy who "flips her latch". TVGuide.com: How did it get narrowed down to you and Tameka Jacobs as the only suitcase models on the syndicated Deal or No Deal?Patricia Kara: I really don't know what the rhyme or reason was, other than we probably are the two loud-mouthed ones. [Laughs] TVGuide.com: Or maybe you two happen open your cases with an extra-special flourish...?Kara: You know, that might be it. Or not. TVGuide.com: If one of you calls in sick, how is it decid
Disaster Movie Star Kim Kardashian Names Her Favorite Butt
What has been perhaps Kim Kardashian's best week ever started off with a near-disastrous injury, and now wraps up with a Disaster Movie (in theaters now). TVGuide.com spoke with Kim about going Dancing with the Stars, her spoof-filled big-screen debut, and the well-known celebrity backside she herself most covets. (Hint: It is <I>not</i> the one that she finds to be "adorable.") TVGuide.com: Congratulations on your Dancing with the Stars gig.Kim Kardashian: Thank you! I'm so excited.... TVGuide.com: And you struck gold with Mark Ballas for a partner.Kardashian: I know.... I just hope I don't make him go crazy after the whole foot thing. TVGuide.com: What exactly happened with your foot injury? Something
Howie Mandel Details the Daily Deal or No Deal
If tonight's season premiere of the prime-time Deal or No Deal (8 pm/ET, NBC) reignites your hunger for cash-filled suitcases, glam models and Howie Mandel's sexy-smooth dome, you're about to be sated quite nicely. Starting Monday, Sept. 8, a syndicated daily version of the red-hot game show hits the airwaves, streamlining the game play, yet serving up even more of what makes the series such a big Deal. Mandel shared a look at the half-hour version's tweaks and twists as well as previewed the nighttime edition's upcoming thrills. TVGuide.com: The last time you and I spoke was on the Ferris wheel at the Times Square Toys R Us....Howie Mandel: Oh, I remember that! So this time we
The Office's Rainn Wilson Is Ready to Rock… Naked
The first thing you have to wonder as Rainn Wilson — aka The Office's Dwight Schrute — disappears into his big-screen role as The Rocker (in theaters today), is whether he boasts a wealth of experience as a music man. "I got to thankfully live through the shortest-lived high school band ever, Collected Moss," he shares. "We played two gigs. One was for a batch of 11-year-olds, and the other was for a battle of the bands which we didn't even get into." "That," he emphasizes, "is how bad we were." Nonetheless, Wilson says it just took two sticks and a kit to find his rhythm as Robert "Fish" Fishman, an almost-very famous drummer who begrudgingly joins his teenaged nephew's band. "The first thing I started to do was take drum lessons, and that totally opened my mind to who this guy was," says Wilson. "When you dru
Sexy Mad Men's Set Secrets Revealed!
As part of this year's Television Critics Association press tour, TVGuide.com was invited to tour the set of AMC's Mad Men, escorted by several cast members. We were sternly warned to "not touch or take anything," as much research, effort and care has been taken to populate the 1960s-based set with all manner and size of period-appropriate detail. According to series creator Matt Weiner, Mad Men employs "an unheralded amount of artists" to give the show its dead-on, transporting look and feel. So, with hands in pockets, we strolled through Sterling Cooper, the Draper residence and the production's prop and wardrobe departments. Here is what we observed: IN THE (TWILIGHT?) ZONED: Asked to cite his influences for Mad Men's aesthetic, Weiner named such films as Hitchcock's North By Northwest and Love with the
Circus Performer Antonio Sabato Jr. Faces Death!
Antonio Sabato Jr. has quite the juggling act going on these days, balancing his derring-do as a Celebrity Circus performer (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET, on NBC) with his return to Port Charles by way of SOAPnet's General Hospital: Night Shift. Sabato shared with us a look inside the two gigs, one utterly foreign and frightful, the other familiar and fun. TVGuide.com: Obviously there are a lot of reasons why to do Celebrity Circus, and reasons why not. How did you arrive at your own decision to give it a shot? &nb
Rescue Me's Peter Tolan Finds Laughs in Finding Amanda
Did you hear the one about the compulsive-gambling TV writer who ventures to Vegas (of all temptations!) to rescue the hooker with a heart of gold? Sneaking into theaters this weekend, Finding Amanda stars Ferris Bueller himself, Matthew Broderick, as said sad screenwriter, with American Dreams girl Brittany Snow playing his casino-walking niece. Rescue Me cocreator Peter Tolan, who wrote and directed the indie comedy, shares the origin of this unorthodox tale. Plus: How he himself won big with a Belmont Stakes gamble! TVGuide.com: So you've got the prostitute, the trip to Las Vegas, the struggling TV writer... How did those ideas come together? Where's the germ of truth here?Peter Tolan: I'm luckily not a struggling TV writer, but my wife had gotten a call from a family friend whose child was in trouble in Vega
What Has Lost Alum Cynthia Watros So Spooked?
There was a quiet spell following her dramatic exit from Lost, but Cynthia Watros' workload has gone from 0 to 60 in recent months. Tonight at 10 pm/ET, she stars opposite Eric Roberts in the second installment of NBC's Fear Itself anthology series, and later this summer, she'll surface on TBS' The Bill Engvall Show. TVGuide.com invited Watros to preview her new gigs as well as ponder future spooky appearances by Lost's Libby. TVGuide.com: You've been keeping busy lately!Cynthia Watros: A little bit, yeah! TVGuide.com: On the one hand, you're serving up some horror. On the other, you're doing comedy. Do you like striking that balance?Watros: I like to juggle both ends. It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time. TVGuide.com: In Fear Itself's "Spooked," you play a woman who hires Eric Roberts' P.I
John Walsh Previews Most Wanted's 1,000th Capture
This Saturday at 9 pm/ET, America's Most Wanted will broadcast its 1,000th capture in 20-plus seasons. As such, the show will originate from Times Square and also highlight some of the greatest captures in the long history of what many deem TV's first "reality series." Host John Walsh previews the milestone episode. TVGuide.com: Congratulations on capture No. 1,000.John Walsh: Thank you. It's a big milestone for us. Beyond a milestone, actually. It's a serendipitous thing because the 1,000th capture is an NYPD case. The guy was caught in Richmond by U.S. Marshalls, so we're going to film from Times Square underneath the Jumbotron, right on "the Deuce" [42nd Street and Broadway]. It's going to be a wonderful night to celebrate 20 years and 1,000 captures. TVGuide.com: Standing in Times Square, don
Morgan Fairchild Checks Out Men in Trees' "Morgan Fairchild"
The male-dense berg of Elmo gets a much-needed shot of womanhood when TV-serial icon Morgan Fairchild descends upon ABC's Men in Trees (tonight at 10 pm/ET). Playing "Morgan Fairchild," the blonde beauty will seek to secure rights to Marin Frost's life story. TVGuide.com invited (the real) Fairchild to preview her visit to Alaska, tell Morgan apart from "Morgan," and reflect upon '80s fashions. TVGuide.com: Men in Trees is working off quite a lag time. Hopefully it hasn't been so long since you filmed this episode that you don't remember it at all.Morgan Fairchild: Oh, I definitely do. I had a great time on the show. They were very, very nice. TVGuide.com: When, if ever, was the last time you played yourself?Fairchild: I play myself every once in a while. I played myself in Holy Man wit
Kaley Cuoco: Big Bang Is Back with a… (You Know)
You may have forgotten, thanks to the seemingly endless WGA strike, but this is the "season of the nerd." And inarguably TV's dukes of dorkdom are Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (resuming its freshman season tonight at 8 pm/ET). Playing beauty to the geeks is Kaley Cuoco, with whom TVGuide.com chatted about the "new" season ahead. TVGuide.com: First off, just to be clear, this is not the CBS sitcom guest-starring Britney Spears.Kaley Cuoco: No, it is not. That would be How I Met Your Mother. TVGuide.com: But you know what you could do to totally trump them? Guest-cast Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend, "Kristen."Cuoco: Oh, you are bad! That’s very funny. I don’t know if anyone would go for that, but I'd sure think
Elizabeth Mitchell: Lost's Juliet Kisses Jack and Tells!
It was a genuine, tender moment that all but made up for the somewhat silly "Stop the nerve gas!" antics that preceded it. Lost's Juliet, haunted by Ben's obsession, shared a rain-soaked lip-lock with Jack. Luckily for "Jacket" fans, more of the same seems to be on the horizon. Elizabeth Mitchell shares with us what's ahead, names the episode she deems "perfect" and talks about returning to work after the strike. (Lost airs Thursdays at 9 pm/ET on ABC.) TVGuide.com: What was with that bait-and-switch you did for the TV Guide cover shoot? I saw you and Naveen [Andrews] and thought, "Oh, Sayid is going to pop up in Juliet's flashback or flash-forward" and... no such thing.Elizabeth Mitchell: You know, it was more wishful thinking, wasn't it? I called it "a little fantasy episode." TVGuide.com: It was a hot p
Lost's Jorge Garcia Discusses the Joy of (Oceanic) Six
In Lost's Season 3 finale, we learned that both Jack and Kate make it off the island (and that one of them grew a horrific beard). Then, in this season's premiere, Hurley was found to be alive and (kinda) well in the future, himself also a member of the "Oceanic Six." TVGuide.com spoke with Jorge Garcia about his good fortune to be among Lost's living. TVGuide.com: After the season premiere, in every forum available to me, I was saying that you did your best Lost work in that episode.Jorge Garcia: Oh, right on! Thank you very much. TVGuide.com: Were you glad that the premiere really addressed Charlie's death, which naturally would have a drastic impact on the original castaways?Garcia: I was. I'm glad it happened. Last season, you didn't get to see Hurley grieve for Libby until well into the sea
William Fichtner Talks About Porn (and the Prison Finale)
Before he ever strapped on (ultimately disgraced) FBI agent Alexander Mahone's holster, William Fichtner made a porn film... within the plot of The Amateurs, an engaging little indie that slipped in and out of theaters but is now available on DVD (shop Amazon). TVGuide.com invited Fichtner to reflect on the film's extremely fun shoot, as well as preview what's ahead on Fox's soon-to-conclude Prison Break. TVGuide.com: I interviewed you a few years back, just as Invasion was about to... you know, vanish.William Fichtner: Oh, yes, I do remember that! [Laughs] TVGuide.com
On Sarah Connor, Brian Austin Green Gets into Some Heavy Metal
Tonight at 9 pm/ET, Beverly Hills 90210 alum Brian Austin Green joins Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as... well, his role is extremely hush-hush. But I think I have a bead on it, so let's waste no more time and get this Q&A under way to find out what's what, shall we? TVGuide.com: So, are we at a point yet where Brian Austin Green can discuss with any detail his Sarah Connor Chronicles character?Brian Austin Green: No, no, not really. Not until after Monday's episode. TVGuide.com: You son of a gun....Green: I swear, it's not me. [Executive producer] Josh Friedman would wring my neck if I gave anything away. He lives the character and he's really excited about
Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson Is Full of Secrets
E!'s The Girls Next Door are back from their Super Bowl break this Sunday at 10 pm/ET, and the setting this time around is Jamaica. What sort of trouble did Hef's three girlfriends get into down there? TVGuide.com invited Kendra Wilkinson to preview the tropical getaway, talk sports (of course) and reveal her fascination with a certain someone's derriere. TVGuide.com: OK, truth be told, I have actually never seen any of the Girls Next Door naked. Am I the lesser for it?Kendra Wilkinson: That's not really for me to say. Not everyone is going to be interested or curious to take a look, but I'm proud of the pictorials we've done for Playboy and I hope the people who do check them out like what they see. TVGuide.com: Tell me about your recent trip to Boston for the Cha
Ted Danson: Has Arthur Frobisher Done Enough Damages?
The first season of FX's outstanding Damages is now out on DVD (shop Amazon), ultimately raising the question for even more people: Will Arthur Frobisher live to snort more you-know-what off you-know-which-part of you-know-who? TVGuide.com asked Ted Danson to weigh in on his Golden Globe-nominated and deliciously villainous run... and whether it might continue. TVGuide.com: First of all, congratulations on your Golden Globe nod. How does it feel to knock one out of the park on a brand-new cable drama?Ted Danson: Your words, not mine, but I'll go along with it and say, "Fantastic!" It feels fantastic. I have to say that it almost feels like it rejuvenated my interest in acting. I had a ball. It was so beautif
Naveen Andrews Teases Lost's Return: Sayid Will Surprise You!
For lots more on Lost, read our fresh character profile of Jack, check out Jon Hein's look at the Season 4 hype, Matt Roush's preview of the "action-packed" return, use our Strike Survival Guide to get up to speed, and flip through our assorted photo galleries. Wha
Karl Urban: From Comanche Moon's Old West to Star Trek's Exciting Future
Premiering Sunday, Jan. 13, at 9 pm/ET, and then continuing Tuesday and Wednesday night, CBS' Comanche Moon miniseries — based on Larry McMurtry's best-selling Lonesome Dove prequel — follows Texas Rangers Woodrow F. Call (Karl Urban) and Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Steve Zahn) as they deal with the tensions of life in the Old West. TVGuide.com spoke with Urban (the Lord of the Rings films' Eomer) about his latest wild venture. Plus: The best sneak peek he could let slip regarding his role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in the much-anticipated Star Trek origin film. TVGuide.com: What drew you to this project? Obviously, playing a young Tommy Lee Jones is not to be taken lightly.Urban: Yeah, well I didn't approach it like that. That'd be a mistake. I based my performance on the lite
Playmate Tiffany Fallon's Apprentice Ouster: The Bare Facts
When it came to hawking streetcart wieners, Playboy Playmate of the Year Tiffany Fallon came away as the loser, and thus became the first famous face fired by Donald Trump on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice (Thursdays at 9 pm/ET). TVGuide.com grabbed a few minutes with Tiffany the morning after her televised tanking to talk about why she didn't hail Hugh Hefner, Ivanka-as-Playmate and the "big" news she planned to share... had she stuck around. Tiffany Fallon: I'm still recovering from my "demise." [Laughs] TVGuide.com: Awww. You did seem genuinely bummed riding away from Trump Tower in the Town Car.Fallon: I was. I was surprised that I was so gracious because as soon as I got home, I got really upset, like, "I don't deserve to leave! I was just getting started!" The girls were just getting to know
Girl Next Door Holly Is Ready for Her Birthday Suit
Is Hugh Hefner's No. 1 girlfriend (of three!) ready to go solo? Holly Madison talks about that, her birthday plans for this Sunday, the Playmate she'd like to date and much more in her latest Q&A with TVGuide.com. E!'s The Girls Next Door airs Sundays at 10 pm/ET. TVGuide.com: Someone's got a birthday coming up on Sunday, right?Holly Madison: Yes, I'm actually going to Disneyland with a bunch of Playmates today to celebrate. And on Sunday, we're going to show Moulin Rouge at the mansion and have a dinner night. TVGuide.com: Will everyone be costumed up for the Moulin Rouge theme?Holly: Maybe... I don't know. I'm letting people come wearing whatever they want. TVGuide.com: Or nothing at all.Holly: Yeah! [Laughs] TVGuide.com: I understand there'
