Posts with tag mother
Posted Jul 10th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free, Army Wives

Kim Delaney is not Quinn Cummings, but the actresses share one thing in common: Marsha Mason as a mom, on screen that is.
Army Wives has cast Marsha Mason, Oscar-nominated actress for
The Goodbye Girl, as Claudia Joy Holden's mom. She will be appearing on at least two episodes this season, visiting Fort Marshall and her daughter, the general's wife.
Marsha, who is actually has been Oscar-nominated as Best Actress four times in all (
Cinderella Liberty, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh), will guest on
Army Wives as Charlotte Meade, Claudia's socialite mother. Her relationship with her daughter is strained and her visit comes without warning.
Continue reading Marsha Mason to guest on Army Wives
Posted May 7th 2008 1:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, How I Met Your Mother, Reality-Free

One of the things that I love about
How I Met Your Mother -- there, I said it, I love the show -- is the mystery surrounding who "mother" is and whether we've already seen her on the show or is she still to be introduced. It's not just the
Lost fans that are watching scene by scene, shot by shot, frame by frame to uncover clues. Take this very cool
observation by a blogger at Seat42f.com.
If you look at the picture, the green boxes, you'll notice that the framed handwritten letter/poem/writing in the background of Stella's home (left), is the same as the framed letter/poem/writing behind the kids in the opening of the show. According to the blogger -- who has HD and studied the scenes closely, it's definitely the same artifact.
Continue reading Another clue in the search for HIMYM's Mother
Posted Mar 7th 2008 9:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Casting

Michael Ausiello at
TVGuide.com has been playing with his calculator, or maybe it was an abacus. Anyway, Mike has used some oh-so-creative math to add two and two together to get a major revelation on a CBS sitcom. Okay, here's the scoop.
Mr. Ausiello has gotten an exclusive casting tidbit from How I Met Your Mother.Alicia Silverstone, star of
Clueless on the big screen
, Miss Match on the small, has been signed for a series of episodes, a mini-arc.
Continue reading Is Alicia Silverstone the mystery girl on How I Met Your Mother?
Posted May 1st 2007 10:21AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, Episode Reviews
(S02E20) Up to this point, we've seen how his upbringing, home life, and troubles at school helped to shape Chris' worldview, but this is the first episode where we caught a glimpse of what made Chris want to be a comedian.
Since this series is a somewhat fictional take on Chris' life as a kid, we don't know if the real Chris Rock sneaked downstairs to eavesdrop on his parents listening to Redd Foxx albums, but one assumes young Chris was probably exposed to the legendary comedian at some point, not to mention the likes of Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and George Carlin.
Continue reading Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Dirty Jokes
Posted Jun 9th 2006 8:09AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Retro Squad, Comedy Central, Strangers With Candy
Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of your favorite shows, in order, every week.
(S01E02) In 1990, Alice actress Linda Lavin directed a CBS Schoolbreak Special called "Flour Babies" about a group of high school students given sacks of flour which they were assigned to care for as if they were actual babies. Strangers with Candy used a similar concept for this episode, but instead of flour, the students are given actual babies. Jerri tries to talk her way out of it, insisting she's already had plenty of babies, just none she's carried to full term. Reluctantly, she accepts the baby and soon nicknames it "Dizzy" because it fell off her dresser into a laundry basket. Before all of that, however, there's a great opening scene with Noblet and Jellineck where they roleplay in the bathroom, pretending to be widows and then suddenly tearing each other's clothes off for some hot gay sex.
Continue reading Strangers with Candy: A Burden's Burden