julia roberts-related stories
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Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free
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Posted Dec 8th 2008 7:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Reality-Free
There are three things I know about Katherine Heigl.
1. She stars in ABC's
Grey's Anatomy.
2. She's
not afraid to speak up if she thinks the show's writers have screwed up.
3. She'll never let you hear the end of it if you
pronounce her name wrong, and she'll hunt you down like a dog.
Now there's a fourth thing I know about Heigl: she's the fifth highest paid actress in Hollywood.
Continue reading Wait a second, Katherine Heigl makes HOW much money?
Posted Feb 23rd 2007 2:02PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: ABC, OpEd, Talk Show
Millions of dollars have been spent in an effort to find the second coming of
Friends.
I have a suggestion for all those executives who continue to scratch their heads in their corner offices, wondering where on earth their next hit TV show is going to come from. Stop ignoring the stars that have been under your feet on Hollywood Boulevard and
throw them some money to film their daily lives and interactions with each other. Some real stars too... no more past their prime 80's sitcom actors!
If you ever wonder why Oprah gets paid the big bucks, her special last night is a good example. She's figured the above idea out and made some pocket change on it last night in the first ever
Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special.
Besides the fact it took someone so long to come up with this concept, I cannot believe that Julia Robers and George Clooney have never been romantically linked together...
Continue reading Sexual tension between George & Julia is good TV
Posted Jun 13th 2006 11:59AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Celebrities
I guess I'll just be blunt right off the bat here: what the hell is wrong with
Esquire readers?
The mag
asked readers to name the people they'd like to have dinner with, and the winners were...Jay Leno and Condoleeza Rice?!
Some of the others that made the list I can understand: Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, even stars like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie (you could ask her about world hunger and her kid). But I think that after eating dinner with Jay Leno for just five minutes I'd want to punch him. He'd probably just be laughing all the time, cracking jokes, and spitting food all over the place. I mean, really, what's his dinner appeal? I would think late night hosts like Letterman and Ferguson and Rose would be more interesting.
As for Rice: eh. Maybe
Esquire readers misunderstood the question. Maybe they thought it said "
what would you like to have for dinner?" Then the Rice answer would make sense.
Posted May 25th 2006 9:28AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: CBS, Talent, Programming, Celebrities
It was recently announced that the 60th annual Tony Awards will go hostless this June 11, because "the 60th Anniversary show is bigger than just one host". Or maybe no one wanted to step up and take the chance of getting ripped apart by the public if things don't run smoothly. Anyway, instead of following the lone emcee tradition, this year's show at Radio City Music Hall will be carried by 60 different stars, including Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Bernadette Peters, and Hank Azaria.
Back in 2004, MTV's Video Music Awards went hostless, and I remember feeling somewhat disoriented while watching it. Whether this was because I was watching MTV or because it was hostless, is still up for debate.
Posted Apr 27th 2006 1:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: NBC, Music and Variety
OK, so People is coming out
with their annual "100 Most Beautiful" list, and all the usual suspects
are on it: Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Halle
Berry, Scarlett Johansson, and for the guys, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matthew McConaghey. But among the 100 Most
Beautiful People In The World is ... the 26 supermodels that hold the briefcases on NBC's
Deal Or No Deal.
Now, I don't have the issue in front of me, but did the 26 take up 26 spots in the top 100 (boy, that would
really make People's job easier) or did they just include them as "one?" That would seem like an insult to
the women, eh? That they're all lumped together and interchangeable.
Wouldn't it have been funny if they
picked 25 of the models, and just didn't tell us which one they left out?
Posted Apr 22nd 2006 10:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, Programming, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
I've
bitched before
about how the networks seem to have given up on Saturdays. But tonight ... tonight's a little ridiculous. I'm watching
ABC right now, and guess what it's playing?
Pretty Woman! That's right ... a sixteen year-old movie, that
TBS AMC won't touch because it's not fresh enough, is taking up a piece of a major network's schedule.
And it's not even Christmas!
Of course, I'm watching the stupid thing (nothing else on ... maybe the NBA
playoffs, but ... eh). Here's what I'm learning from this experience:
1. Julia Roberts is the least
convincing hooker I've ever seen.
2. Early '90s double-breasted suits look kinda silly now.
3. Richard Gere
never did anything for me as an actor.
4. Jason Alexander was actually thin once ... once.
5. This is the
movie that inflicted "The King of Wishful Thinking" upon us.
6. This movie isn't nearly as funny as I
thought it was in 1990.
7. I really,
really need to get a girlfriend.
Posted Apr 22nd 2006 4:12PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
ABC is showing Pretty Woman at
8 (not sure why - it's 15 years old and has been seen by almost everyone by now).
- CBS has a new
48 Hours Mystery on Marilyn Monroe at 8, follwed by Nicholson in Something's Gotta Give.
- NBC cancels Celebrity Cooking Showdown, but tonight at 8 there are two eps? So all the fans (both of you)
can get caught up. It's followed by a Law and Order: CI repeat.
- FOX has the Subway Fresh 500 all
night. No, that's not a new big sandwich, it's NASCAR.
- Also at 8: if those celebs above cooking isn't
enough for you, John Corbett joins Emeril on Food Network for some "Country Cookin."
- At 8:15,
IFC has Shallow Grave, followed by new eps of The Henry Rollins Show and Samurai 7.
- At 9, TLC has a new Trading Spaces, followed by two new eps of Tuckerville.
- At 10 (or
after Braves baseball), TBS has Back to the Future II.
- NBC has a repeat SNL at 11:30,
with Natalie Portman and Fall Out Boy.
Posted Apr 10th 2006 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Talent, 24, Celebrities
Rather fascinating
interview
with
24 star Kiefer Sutherland in the new Rolling Stone, where he and the interviewer talk about everything
from why he looks forward to the day when he doesn't have to do the show anymore (though check out
this news from earlier
today!), why he drinks a lot, his neat freak habits, and the weird giant warehouse he lives in.
He also
hates foods with certain textures. I can identify with that. I freak out if I ever touch a peach. All that fuzz.
*shiver*
Posted Dec 31st 2005 11:14AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Talent, OpEd, Law and Order, Things I Hate About TV
I am going to limit this rant to
Law and Order since it is the primary offender when it comes to putting
guest stars on its many, many shows. It's as though the writers can't help but make every single celebrity guest star
the guilty person! Do they know it is a dead giveaway to the viewers? If I see Dean Cain, Fred Savage, or Dana Delany
as a seemingly minor character in the beginning of the show, I know they'll end up on trial or at least be the guilty
ones by the end of the episode. Last night, I was watching a rerun of
Criminal Intent where Lee Tergesen from
Oz appeared as a minor character in the beginning. Guess who ended up being guilty of murder? Surprise,
surprise. I remember Julia Roberts being on the original
Law and Order during season nine, does anyone
remember whether she was guilty?
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