danica mckellar-related stories
Posted Dec 18th 2009 8:00AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
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This week we have spoilers for:
90210, Bones, Chuck, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)
Note that
Spoilers Anonymous will go on a small hiatus for the Holidays. The next column will be published on January 8, 2010.
Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous: Chuck, NCIS, The Big Bang Theory and more!
Posted Dec 2nd 2009 4:30PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
Does it take a brainiac to play a brainiac? No, of course not. But when Danica McKellar guests on
The Big Bang Theory on January 11, that's what they'll get. Not only is Danica well-remembered as the nearly-perfect Winnie Cooper on
The Wonder Years, Kevin's neighbor and the girl he always adored, she's also smart as a whip. She has the degrees to prove it.
A couple of years ago,
TV Squad put Danica In the Limelight. Ryan learned that Danica had graduated Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics. She is the McKellar in the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.
Continue reading Big Bang Theory meets the Wonder Years
Posted Oct 9th 2007 1:46AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews
(S03E03) To all the members of the fairer sex who are reading this review, I will let you in on a little secret: every breathing straight male on this planet wants to ride the tricycle.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it: the dream of being with two women is one of the things that keeps us breathing and makes us feel alive. Few of us ever get to ride the trike, and those that come close often buckle under the pressure ("I'm not an orgy guy," Jerry said in the face of "the ménage" on
Seinfeld). But to even get a chance? That's what Wild Ted Mosby faces in this episode. And, while it wasn't as funny as it could have been, one thing saved it: The Belt.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: The Third Wheel
Posted Mar 28th 2007 6:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Web, Celebrities
Did you ever think when you were watching a pre-teen Keshia Knight Pulliam play a no-longer-cute Rudy on the last years of
The Cosby Show that she was going to grow up to become a slamming hottie? Neither did I. But if you've seen her act or host one of those child star clip shows recently, you know that's exactly what happened. She's one of the more surprising entries on
this list of ten child actresses from 1980s TV shows that became hot adults, courtesy of our new best friends at Wikia.com.
Continue reading Child actresses from '80s TV that became hot adults
Posted Nov 7th 2006 7:11PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Programming, Web, Celebrities
I realize that Danica McKellar is probably sick to death of being called 'Winnie Cooper', but how else was I supposed to get your attention? The actress, famously known for her role on
The Wonder Years, will star in a funky online/broadcast experiment for LMN television, a sister network of Lifetime. McKellar will play the title role in
Inspector Mom, a movie about a stay-at-home mother who bakes cookies, runs a carpool, and chases down criminals. She's either a 30-something Veronica Mars, or a 30-something Jessica Fletcher.
Here's where it gets funky:
The movie version of
Inspector Mom airs on November 18th at 8 pm. Then the mystery moves to the internet,
LMN.tv, where 8 short video segments will be released through April.
Posted Jul 14th 2006 8:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Yes, I'm a girl. But I'm not blind. I know that Danica McKellar, the actress who played Winnie Cooper on
The Wonder Years, is drop-dead gorgeous. She's also wicked smart. As you may remember from
Ryan's retrospective earlier this year, McKellar graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics. She's putting that knowledge to work by writing a book for middle-school girls about how to master math. It's called 'Math Doesn't Suck' and it's being published next year by Hudson Street Press. McKellar said she wants to help break the stereotype about how only geeks are good at math. OK. So she probably wouldn't enjoy my headline.
If you're not into math books for middle school girls (and I would totally question you if you were), you can see McKellar soon on the Lifetime series,
Inspector Mom, and on her new Yoga DVDs,
Daily Dose of Dharma. You just saw the word 'yoga' and forgot everything I wrote about math, didn't you?
[Via
TV Tattle]
Posted Jun 14th 2006 7:21PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Celebrities
If you were a fan of The Wonder Years back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, you probably had a bit of a crush on Danica McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper, the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage). And, after the show ended in 1993, you probably thought that she would go on to bigger and better things. Instead, she dashed your hopes by dropping out of the entertainment business for a bit while she completed her degree in mathematics from UCLA. She came back recently in shows such as NCIS, How I Met Your Mother, and, in a recurring role, The West Wing. But, that still wasn't enough. You wanted more Danica.
Continue reading Winnie Cooper -- mystery solver
Posted Jan 6th 2006 8:39AM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, CBS, TV Royalty, OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, In the Limelight
For just about every guy growing
up in the late eighties and early nineties, Winnie Cooper was your dream girl. She was gorgeous, intelligent, funny and
always kind of had that "damsel in distress" aura about her. She was one of the best parts about tuning into
The Wonder Years, and so was the actress who portrayed her,
Danica McKellar.
Danica started acting early, with a couple
of guest appearences on
The Twilight Zone, before landing the role of Winnie
on
The Wonder Years. The show had a great, award winning five year run, but
once it ended, Danica did what many child stars fail to do: bow out gracefully. Besides doing a few voiceovers for
cartoons, Ms. McKellar spent the next couple of years at UCLA. In 1998, she graduated from there Summa cum Laude, with
a degree in Mathematics. Remember the next time you use the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem, because she actually
discovered that! Yea, I've never used it either and I have no idea what it means.
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