AngelinaJolie-related stories
Posted Dec 6th 2008 11:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
I guess I'm not surprised to hear that Oprah Winfrey has been named the most powerful woman in entertainment. You can read the full list
here, in
The Hollywood Reporter's 17th annual "Women in Entertainment: Power 100" special issue.
OK, here's the thing about this. I really do get why
Oprah is powerful. She's in charge of her own show (remember years ago when she fought to gain control and fired a bunch of people?); she's launched a bunch of other shows, including
Rachel Ray, Dr. Phil, and maybe Dr. Oz coming up; she opened that school for girls in Africa; people read the books she recommends; they buy the stuff she likes; and she even had a hand in getting Obama into the White House.
Continue reading Dear Oprah: Power doesn't equal popularity
Posted Oct 17th 2008 4:25PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free
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Posted Mar 21st 2008 2:43PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: In the Limelight, Eli Stone
When I first saw the commercials for ABC's
Eli Stone, I didn't recognize Jonny Lee Miller. Then, after watching the first episode and liking him, I decided to find out who he was. Imagine my surprise when I learned that I had seen him, multiple times, in a variety of roles. And he was British! I was duly impressed and intrigued. Jonny Lee Miller was a helluva an actor, a chameleon who could be as convincing as a junkie named Sick Boy in
Trainspotting as he was a San Francisco lawyer named Eli.
Continue reading Jonny Lee Miller: In the Limelight
Posted Feb 18th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Law and Order, Daytime, In the Limelight, Celebrities
This season,
Law and Order was looking for a way to get some new energy and interest in the long-running NBC Emmy-winning series, so on the judicial end of the show, they promoted Sam Waterson's Jack McCoy to DA and cast Linus Roache as Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter. Roache is one of those familiar faces that you've seen on other shows, maybe a movie or two, but here on
Law and Order he's making you sit up and take notice. At least that's how it is for me. After watching the first two new episodes when the show returned recently, I wanted to know more about this guy. For starters, why did he remind me of a young Bobby Kennedy?
Well, it turns out that Linus Roache played Robert Kennedy in the mini-series,
RFK. The Kennedy connection was even alluded to in last week's episode; at the end of the show, after McCoy had to defend his decision to prosecute overzealous New York City cops by taking the stand in open court, Roache's character, Cutter, gives him a tie pin that once belonged to RFK. With the last line of the show, Cutter says, "I found it on EBay."
Continue reading Law and Order's Linus Roache: In the Limelight
Posted Feb 3rd 2008 7:45PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Sports, OpEd, TV Sports
Wow, a bullet curving right past someone's [Angelina Jolie's] head and rustling her hair. I saw that when it was in The Matrix. Wow, Angelina Jolie is a bad ass. I saw that in Tomb Raider and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Ooh, James McAvoy looks unsure of himself. I saw that in The Last King of Scotland. A movie about assassins? I saw that in Grosse Pointe Blank and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Morgan Freeman is wise and sage. I saw that in, uh, everything Morgan Freeman has ever been in.
But I'll give you one good reason I'll see this movie anyway: James McAvoy. That man is on fire.
Continue reading Universal Pictures presents: Wanted
Posted Jun 15th 2007 1:55AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
The always lovable Tony Snow shared some more stuff about the never-ending Alberto Gonzalez business. Apparently, the firings were
not based on performance and, not only that, Snow claimed that he never said the firings were based on performance in the first place. You'd think that, by now, these folks would be more careful in claiming what they have or haven't said in the past because
The Daily Show has magical montage-making abilities to highlight contradictions. And I think Tony Snow was actually wearing the same tie in those contradicting clips. I have no idea why, but I feel like that's insult to injury... As if the tie should have the memory of his speech from three months ago. Perhaps this is a sign I need sleep.
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 14, 2007
Posted May 8th 2007 3:03PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Early Looks
ABC had garnered a fair amount of press over this one because of the obvious tie-in to the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie movie. The big news is that the creators of the movie are back for the TV show. Doug Liman (
The Bourne Identity, Swingers) and Simon Kinberg (
X-Men: The Last Stand) have signed on to try and transform their movie to the small screen.
Continue reading Mr. & Mrs. Smith -- A look at the pilot script
Posted Jan 2nd 2007 12:01PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Industry
Sometimes the wheels of TV production turn mighty slowly. In August of '05 Adam posted about Doug Liman signing a
deal with NBC. Then, last January there was talk about his first project being a
series adaptation of the movie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith. A year later, and the show is finally
getting the go ahead for a pilot, but not at NBC. Somehow the show has now ended up at ABC. Liman, who directed the big screen version, will direct the pilot. It will be written by Simon Kinberg, who wrote the movie. Kinberg says of the series, ""It's essentially
Married With Children with guns." Casting is under way with nobody officially attached to replace Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at this time.
I'll be curious to get a look at it, just because it's Doug Liman, but my real hope for the show is that it will somehow lead to a DVD set of the completely unrelated CBS show, also called
Mr. & Mrs. Smith. You might remember that from the fall of '96, starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello.
Posted Sep 19th 2006 1:24PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, Industry, Programming
If you thought ABC learned their lesson with
The One, you were wrong. Like the little train that could, they keep chugging up reality TV mountain, confident that eventually they will get a little piece of that low production cost/high ratings action. The latest attempt comes from the producers of
Last Comic Standing and is called
The Imposter.
The show will search out the best impersonators in the country, whether they be actors, athletes, or musicians. The details are still being hammered out, but once the best impersonators are found they will all be brought together. Then they will compete in some sort of contest to determine the winner of an as yet undecided prize.
I suspect we will see an Idolesque first couple of episodes consisting mostly of the insane people that show up for a casting call like this. In fact, I think you can get even odds that
Man-Faye will be there. Plans call for a summer 2007 debut. And chances call for a summer 2007 cancellation.
Update: The Angelina Jolie lookalike pictured here is Tiffany Claus. You can find out more about her, and see more pictures at
her website.
Posted Jun 17th 2006 9:13AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, News, Celebrities
Now back in Los Angeles after giving birth to baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt at a resort in Africa, Angelina Jolie recently sat down for an interview with CNN's golden boy, Anderson Cooper.
According to E!, she talks to Cooper about being terrified during the c-section ("I just wanted to hear her cry"), Brad Pitt in the operating room during the birth of their daughter, and about her work with refugees. You've got to give Angelina credit for using her celebrity powers for good. She put Namibia on the map and is doing a great job of getting the media to agree to cover both her personal life and her pet charity projects.
The interview coincides with World Refugee Day and it airs on Tuesday, June 20 at 10 pm on
Anderson Cooper 360.
Posted Jun 2nd 2006 9:16AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Cable, Programming, Celebrities
VH1 wasted no time in putting together a special about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby, who is exactly six days old. This Sunday, the network will air
The Fabulous Life Of: Brad & Angelina's Baby. Granted, they had a few months to get this thing together and all they really needed was a gender and a name. But, geez! What can we possibly learn? It's doubtful the special will have any more information about the baby than what we already know: her name is Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt and she was born by c-section. What we will find out, according to the
press release, is what free stuff baby boutiques are sending to Brad & Angie. It will also include some composites of what baby Jolie-Pitt may look like in the future.
I can think of other ways for VH1 to spend time and money... perhaps helping the children of Namibia have access to education?
Posted Apr 26th 2006 1:09PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: NBC, News, Celebrities
While the
government of Namibia is
kicking paparazzi out, Angelina Jolie
invited
Dateline NBC's Ann Curry in to her and Brad Pitt's little hide-away. Curry will be reporting on
Jolie's new cause, to give all the children of the world access to an education. But, you know the real reason we'll be
watching is to get the scoop on the Jolie-Pitt baby.
The interview airs Sunday at 7 pm.
Posted Jun 20th 2005 1:59PM by Karina Longworth
Filed under: Cable
I do not miss
Celebrity Deathmatch. The 90s MTV series, which dropped Claymation celebrities in the ring for quip-filled combat, never really did it for me - I loved the premise but felt the execution never really lived up to its potential. But now it's coming back on MTV2, with all new episodes (and all new clay-rendered stars), but without the input of creator Eric Fogel. So, I don't know - maybe whoever takes over will be able to do something interesting with it. I have to say, part of me is really dying for a Claymation catfight bewteen Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. The very, very sick part.
Posted Jun 8th 2005 5:44PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, News
OK, so I was actually going to watch the hour long
PrimeTime Live interview with Brad Pitt last night, but I had laundry to do. Hey, I don't mind Brad Pitt. He seems like a cool enough guy, but I just don't know if I could take an hour long interview (an
hour) with Diane Sawyer giving him that half flirtatious/half "tell us the real story" expression. Luckily,
Slate's Dana Stevens gives us a blow by blow of the show at the link below.
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