Hasselhoff-related stories
Posted Jul 9th 2009 12:03PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: OpEd, Music and Variety, America's Got Talent
It wasn't another "Susan Boyle moment," but singer
Barbara Padilla closed Wednesday night's America's Got Talent from Texas with a performance that seemed almost too polished for what's supposed to be an amateur competition.
The wife, mother and cancer survivor stepped to the microphone to sing
"O Mio Babino, Caro" from the opera "Gianni Schicchi." Most classical music fans associate that song with the immortal Maria Callas. While Padilla didn't necessarily challenge that diva, she did belt the performance out with impressive power and control.
Padilla is too pretty to play the "Boyle angle" of presenting a local slob who surprises everyone with her unexpected ability. Her hook is "the mom who beat cancer to live out her dream as a singer."
Continue reading Operatic Texan serenades America's Got Talent
Posted Nov 20th 2007 4:22PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Celebrities, Casting
Reuters Canada is reporting that David Hasselhoff is in talks to reprise his role as the titular character Michael Knight in the updating of the classic series Knight Rider. In the new telefilm / back-door-pilot, Justin Bruening (All My Children) has already been cast as Mike Tracer, the estranged son of Hasselhoff's Knight, who never knew his father.
Just added is fellow soap-star Deanna Russo of The Young and the Restless. She'll play Tracer's former girlfriend Sarah Kamen. In the film, she sets out with KITT (that's the talking car) to find her father, recruiting Tracer along the way. Does she know he's the son of Michael Knight? Does Kitt? Maybe KITT is vampiric now and needs Knight blood to survive; Hasselhoff will be trapped in the engine block, barely alive. "FEED ME, MICHAEL!"
Continue reading David Hasselhoff may appear in Knight Rider sequel series
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