2009-07-10

Happy Birthday, Earl!

Today is Earl Hamner's birthday! He turns 86 and is still in great condition. Congratulations, Earl. Thank you for giving us so many hours of great TV Entertainment.

If you're interested in what Earl has to say about gardening... he has posted a new entry on his blog 3 days ago.

Susan Sullivan Photos

Last year, Susan Sullivan did the play "Buffalo Gal" in NY (read our news dated 2008-08-4). I have found some nice photos taken at the Buffalo Gal Opening Night After Party on August 06, 2008.

"Thirtysomething" DVD Release

Great news for fans of Ken Olin (Christopher from Falcon Crest's season 5): His TV Show "Thirtysomething" comes to DVD on August 25, 2009.
The First Season Box Set is filled with Bonus Material and the episodes are restored from the original film print.
After being fired from Falcon Crest, Ken Olin landed the role of Michael Steadman on "Thirtysomething".

Product Description from amazon.com:
In 1987 we were introduced to a group of couples, of friends: 'thirtysomethings.' A dream cast of characters that from the very first episode resonated with a nation of people who knew these people all too well. Michael (Ken Olin, Brothers And Sisters) and Hope Steadman (Mel Harris), the suburban 'new-parent' poster children; Elliot (Timothy Busfield, The West Wing) and Nancy Weston (Patricia Wettig, Brothers And Sisters), a couple whose marriage is falling apart; Gary Shepard (Peter Horton, In Treatment), the perpetually 'twentysomething' thirtysomething; Melissa Steadman (Melanie Mayron), Michaels cousin and a struggling artist; and Ellyn Warren (Polly Draper), the driven but restless career-chaser.


thirtysomething channeled the consciousness of baby boomers into a running commentary on what it really meant to be on the cusp of success and failure, marriage and divorce, adulthood and parenthood. Every week the show blurred the lines between television and film, drama and comedy, hard reality and twisted imagination. Each episode of this truly groundbreaking series was its own unit yet somehow fed a larger, growing experience from week to week.

At last, the experience comes to DVD with 21 original episodes restored from the original film elements. Go behind the making of this landmark television series with all-new interviews, commentaries and conversations with the creators, cast and crew.

Bonus Features:

Featurettes With thirtysomething Creators, Cast and Crew

* From thirtysomething to Forever Making thirtysomething

* A Conversation Between Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick

* Couples & Friends

* Cultural Impact

* Commentaries by Creators, Cast and Crew

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2009-07-09

Mariska Hargitay's latest On-Set Fall

Yesterday, Mariska Hargitay fell on her first day back to the New York City set of Law & Order: SVU.

According to RadarOnline.com she's already back on the horse, however.

Sources told the website yesterday that Hargitay was injured on location at NYU, filming scenes with new cast member Wentworth Miller, when a scratch found her in the nearby University medical center for examination.

A spokesperson for Hargitay tells the actress did experience a minor fall, but no injury was suffered and she's already back on-set.

Hargitay just renewed her contract for another season of the Dick Wolf hit, where she stars alongside actor Chris Meloni.

Leslie Caron on Stage

The Paris production of A Little Night Music starring Leslie Caron (78) will have a five-night run at Theatre du Chatelet, February 15-20, 2010. Lee Blakeley will direct.

Caron (as Madame Armfeld) will be playing alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Lambert Wilson in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1973 musical.

Although final details have not been announced, A Little Night Music is expected to open on Broadway this fall in a transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s hit London production starring Hannah Waddingham as Desiree.

Mariska Hargitay opens up about lung injury

For the first time since she injured herself on the set of Law and Order: SVU last October, Mariska Hargitay is opening up about what happened: She was doing her own stunts that day, as usual, when she landed in a way that began a microscopic bleed in her lung tissue. Mariska was eventually admitted to the hospital in January, where an X-ray showed that her right lung was 50 percent collapsed.

“I began to panic,” she tells Redbook in their August issue. “I was so scared.”

After a medical procedure was performed to prevent a more serious surgery, Mariska was assured she was okay, but then, she says, “on March 5, it happened again. I was one out of 1,000, statistically.”

The experience made Mariska look closely at the value of her life and what was at stake.

“I had so much to lose, so much to live for,” she says. “I have so many blessings, and I’ve learned from all of my experiences and my losses.”

Carla Gugino unhappy with Hollywood's treatment of aging actresses

Carla Gugino (37) has admitted that she doesn't like the way aging actresses are treated in Hollywood.

It is bizarre, certainly in Hollywood, when you hit 23 [and] people start to ask you, 'How does it feel to get older?' the New York Post quoted her as telling Moves magazine.

It is absolutely surreal because, as a woman, when you hit your 30s it's just the beginning of owning yourself and being in your own body, she added.

Gugino said that one of her friends was told by a dermatologist, Your face is very expressive-let me know if you want me to do something about that. I mean, wait a minute-isn't an expressive face a good thing?

"Hotel" DVD Release

Remember 80s series "Hotel"? A classy TV Show that had a lot of people from "Falcon Crest" as guest stars. The First Season of "Hotel" will be released on July 21, 2009.
In the first season, Morgan Fairchild and Roy Thinnes made guest appearances. In later seasons, Ana-Alicia, Abby Dalton, Margaret Ladd, Parker Stevenson and several other FC stars starred in "Hotel".

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Brett Cullen in new movie

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brett Cullen has signed for a role in "The Runaways," a movie about Joan Jett and her band.

Cullen will play the alcoholic father of Runaways member Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning). The role will draw from the story of Currie's father, whom she documented in her addiction memoir "Neon Angel."

Other stars in this movie are Tatum O'Neal and Kristen Stewart.

The film is announced to be released in 2010.

Shauna Sand cheated on Lorenzo with A.J.?

I really don't know if this is true but the Star Magazine reports that Shauna Sand cheated on her former husband Lorenzo Lamas with his son A.J. when they were married.

A source told Star that the reason the couple split when they did was because Lorenzo found out Shauna “was sleeping with A.J. Lamas, his then-18-year-old son!”
The source dished: “Shauna came on to A.J. It was the ultimate betrayal. Lorenzo had no idea; he was in the dark about the whole thing. He thought Shauna was acting like a mom to A.J. He had no clue that she was his son’s lover!”

The source also added that the affair went on for months before Lorenzo filed for divorce from the former Playboy model.