Falcon Crest Blog

2008-01-24

Morgan Fairchild: Men in Trees

Some new information about Morgan Fairchild's guest appearance on Men in Trees:

According to TV Guide, Fairchild will guest-star later this season as herself. "She shows up in Elmo and decides she wants to buy Marin's life rights," reveals MIT creator Jenny Bicks of her one-episode stint, which will air in February 2008.

2008-01-23

Gallery Season 1 ● EP #005 'Tony comes home'

It's Mariska Hargitay's birthday today!

Mariska (pronounced Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. She is the youngest of their three children. In June 1967, Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr. were in the back seat of a car when it was involved in the fatal accident which killed her mother. The children escaped with minor injuries.

Mariska majored in theater at UCLA but dropped out before graduating. Her first motion picture feature was the cult favorite, Ghoulies (1985), where she gave a memorable performance as Donna. She also appeared in Leaving Las Vegas (1995), credited as 'Hooker at the bar', and in Lake Placid (1999) as Myra Okubo.

In 1999 she was cast in the role of Det. Olivia Benson in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999), the first spinoff from the excellent franchise of "Law & Order" (1990) (which also has two other spinoffs, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001) and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005)). This show deals with sex crimes and the detectives who solve these cases.

Mariska speaks English, Hungarian, French and Italian. She married actor Peter Hermann on August 28, 2004. They divide their time between New York and Los Angeles.
source: imdb.com

Mariska Hargitay 1988 on "Falcon Crest"

Mark Snow: New DVD Release

Good news for all fans of Falcon Crest composer Mark Snow (61) who composed most of the score of FC's seasons 6 & 7: The movie "Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501" (for which he wrote the soundtrack in 1990) was released on DVD on January 8, 2008 in the US.

Synopsis:When a passenger plane crashes after a bomb scare, there are many unanswered questions, which can only be attributed to "pilot error". The pilot's wife, Diane Halstead, is convinced her husband could never have caused the disaster, but nobody will listen to her.
Written by Rob Hartill.

Stars in this movie are: Cheryl Ladd, Jeffrey DeMunn, Douglas Sheehan & Jim Metzler.

Morgan Fairchild: Men in Trees

Morgan Fairchild (57) recently filmed an episode of the ABC series Men in Trees with Anne Heche. It is not yet scheduled when this episode will air.

2008-01-21

Bill Conti Interview

Here's an interview with Bill Conti on youtube:

Bill Conti: New movie

Falcon Crest composer Bill Conti (65) wrote the score for the upcoming movie "Hold-Up" with Tony Devon and Tom Mason which will premiere on September 10, 2008 in the US.
It's a movie about two New York City detectives who find themselves the suspects in their own investigation.

Another good news for all Bill Conti fans: the label Varèse Sarabande released another CD of Bill Conti's scores: It's the soundtrack from the movie "Neighbors" (1981) in limited edition of 1500 copies (the CD also includes the unused score by Tom Scott).
Neighbors was originally scored, per John Belushi's demand, by Tom Scott (a founding member of the Blues Brothers Band) and, prior to release, was completely rescored (in 7 days time) by Bill Conti (after test screenings of the film had gone poorly). "Tom Scott's efforts resulted in a skilled and stylish score melodic and dark, in a wonderfully gothic sense. Conti's score is absolutely wild and utterly madcap. Conti works overtime in an effort to actually make this comedy funny." from Varese Sarabande liner notes.

By the way: the orchestrator of "Neighbors" was Peter Myers, who wrote the score for many Falcon Crest episodes.

2008-01-20

Jane Badler at the Golden Plains Festival

For all the people who were wondering was Jane Badler (Meredith Braxton from FC's season 6) is doing these days: What less people know: Jane is not only a great actress, she's also an excellent singer. Jane Badler (54) has been singing since she was five. She started singing professionally at 18 with various bands. One of her first gigs was her own show at the Playboy Club in New York.

For the last six years, Jane has focused on Jazz and Cabaret.
Recently, the Australian singer and actress has been singing with the Band "SIR".
On March 10, 2008 Jane and SIR will be playing at the Golden Plains Festival in Victoria, Australia also featuring Ween, Sharyon Jones,Iron @ Wine and Beurit.

You can check out two songs and some great photos on Jane's MySpace Site.

Besides her singing career, Jane is still acting. She has just finished the movie "Under a red Moon" with Richard Norton. Check out the Official Website to see the Trailer and Cast Interviews.