Jane Fonda-related stories
Posted Mar 10th 2008 12:00PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Awards, Emmys
Have you noticed lately that the new faces cropping up on TV series in starring roles are often actors you've never seen before -- or if you have, it was in a supporting role of a feature or a foreign TV show? Think about it, Lee Pace as the Pie Man on
Pushing Daisies, Jonny Lee Miller on
Eli Stone, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in
New Amsterdam, Michelle Ryan in
Bionic Woman, all of these leads are relatively new faces. That's one way to cast series. Another is for big stars to take to TV, if not for the first time, than for a return.
In an interesting article at IGN.com, blogger Travis Fickett points out that there used to be a line of demarcation between the worlds of acting:
film actors vs. television actors. But nowadays the stars are going back and forth a lot more fluidly.
Continue reading Ten actors I want to see on TV
Posted Feb 18th 2008 4:19PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Industry, Daytime, Big Brother (US)
This is no laughing
matter. John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United, said today that CBS must apologize for an insensitive remark made on the Julie Chen-hosted reality show
Big Brother during last week's episode. One of the contestants, a man named Adam, said that if he was the show's big winner, he would use the money to start a hair salon for people with developmental disabilities. Adam went on to say he wanted a beauty shop "so retards can get it together and get their hair done." When Sheila, another contestant, protested, "Don't call them that," Adam declared that, "Disabled kids. I can call them whatever I want. I work with them all day, okay?"
According to CBS's
Big Brother web site, Adam is a public relations manager for an unnamed foundation. The 29-year-old is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, but is now living in Delray Beach, Florida.
Continue reading CBS owes an apology for Big Brother faux pas
Posted May 9th 2007 6:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Charlie Rose: Stanley Hoffmann and Kevin Spacey - The Daily Show: Michael Beschloss
- The Colbert Report: Salman Rushdie and Jane Fonda
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Lindsay Lohan, Tom Dressen, and The Kooks
- Jay Leno: Antonio Banderas, Aqualung, and Brady Barr
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Evangeline Lilly and Joe Rogan
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Howie Mandel, Criss Angel, and Patrick Wolf
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Steven Wright, Dinosaur Jr., and Carrie Ann Inaba
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Harland Williams and Joseph Arthur and the Lovely Astronauts
Posted Apr 12th 2007 2:43PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Celebrities, Talk Show
As we've mentioned before, Larry King is celebrating 50 years in the news business, and all next week CNN is going to mark the occasion with a week of special Larry King Live shows. Here's the lineup:
- Monday, April 16: Oprah Winfrey
- Tuesday, April 17: Katie Couric
- Wednesday, April 18: 50 Years of Pop Culture - a look at everything that Larry has covered over the five decades, with hosts Anderson Cooper and Ryan Seacrest
- Thursday, April 19: Former President Bill Clinton
- Friday, April 20: A special hour hosted by Bill Maher
Continue reading Here's the lineup for CNN's salute to Larry King
Posted Dec 7th 2006 2:04PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, TV Royalty, OpEd, The Colbert Report, Festivus, Celebrities, Comedy Central
... nine Colbert moments
Mr. Stephen Colbert had a great run in 2005, when
The Colbert Report debuted and took off like a mighty eagle... with a disturbingly dedicated fanbase. This past year somehow managed to top all that, making Colbert and his show absolute pop culture giants and easily one of the biggest hits of 2006. I've been a fan ever since I first saw the man many years ago on
The Daily Show and
Strangers With Candy, so I feel like I've seen his career positively explode before my very eyes. Ohh, my boy's all grown up.
Now now, let's move on to my list before I get even more sappy and awkwardly maternal (the fact that Colbert's over twenty years older than me does not help the strangeness). Here are the top nine
Colbert Report moments of 2006!
Continue reading On the 9th day of Festivus, TV gave to me
Posted Oct 17th 2006 6:39PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, Web, The Colbert Report, Celebrities, Comedy Central
I know this aired last week, but I thought it was one of the finer moments on the now one-year history of
The Colbert Report (it first aired one year ago today...):
During a special episode Colbert called "A Salute to the American Lady" (which he was "mandated" to do for various reasons), Stephen interviewed noted femenists Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, who were starting a radio network called
GreenStone Media. The interview was about the role of feminism in today's world. But, instead of talking to them in a normal setting, he decided it would be more appropriate to talk to them during a cooking segment.
So there's Colbert, Fonda and Steinem, talking feminism while wearing aprons and making some silly-looking apple pie. Both women even followed the suggestion on Stephen's apron and kissed the cook (Jane kissed Stephen more than once... that minx!). It was a simple but funny juxtaposition, and the fact that both Fonda and Steinem got the joke made it even better. The video of the segment is after the jump.
Continue reading Colbert cooks with Fonda and Steinem - VIDEO
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