Maureen Ryan-related stories
Posted Aug 23rd 2008 9:07AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Entourage, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Last season on
Entourage, when Vincent Chase decided to put his own money into
Medellin it was a major risk and he knew it. He was rolling the dice on his career, taking a leap of faith by choosing to do a controversial biography of a vicious Colombian drug lord. In Spanish. Directed by a hot-headed genius/madman named Billy Walsh.
Vinney was playing with dynamite. It wasn't good for Vincent's career, but it was great for
Entourage. Failure is always funnier than success, isn't it?
Well, as bad as viewers thought
Medellin seemed to be based on the brief scenes we saw last season, in the September 7th premiere on HBO, the media weighs in.
At the Movies' critics Michael Phillips and Richard Roeper filmed a
fictional review of Medellin to be shown in season premiere of
Entourage, and it's not good. In fact, if they were stilling using the thumb-o-meter,
Medellin would get two big thumbs-down.
Continue reading At the Movies meets Entourage in season premiere
Posted Jun 27th 2008 5:43PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Reality-Free, Burn Notice

In case you didn't know it,
Bruce Campbell is my new BFF. Ever since my
visit to the set, I have a new appreciation for the man. So, it pains me to report that Bruce recently was filming in Miami when he came up lame.
While chatting with Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, creator Matt Nix was talking about the new season of
Burn Notice -- more on that below -- when he casually mentioned
Bruce Campbell was hurt on the set. "He actually just pulled his hamstring doing a stunt, I just got a call, he's on the way to the hospital."
Continue reading Bruce Campbell injured on Burn Notice set
Posted Nov 17th 2006 3:30PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Ugly Betty
Chicago Tribune television critic Maureen Ryan has spent the past week regaling readers with
"Betty-palooza" - a treasure trove of
Ugly Betty-related interviews and features.
The centerpiece of the
Betty fest is a nice tribute to the Norman Lear-ish quality of the series' concerns with class and ethnicity, but the big fun comes in the forms of revealing interviews with Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Ana Ortiz and the show's creator Silvio Horta. There's also a
piece on Justin's sexuality and
Marc's guide to being the perfect assistant.
Continue reading Betty-palooza at the Chicago Tribune