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9 items from 2012
'Celebrity Apprentice': Teresa Giudice and Lisa Lampanelli are fired
6 May 2012 9:40 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
With NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice" nearing its May 20 finale, taskmaster Donald Trump is ready to narrow the playing field to the final two contestants during Sunday's (May 6) episode. And sounding like the makings of a "MacGyver" episode, he only has a hair dryer, 2011 "Celebrity Apprentice" winner John Rich and runner-up Marlee Matlin to help him do it.
So who got their walking papers? "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice got blown away as the losing project manager during the Chi hair dryer task, and surprisingly, winning project manager Lisa Lampanelli got the boot following the most important interviews of her life with John and Marlee. As for who that third firee is ... more will be revealed in the first 10 minutes of the May 13 episode.
For now, let's get to The Aubrey O'Day Show -- or rather the task to create an ad for the new Chi Touch Digital Touchscreen Hair Dryer. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Actor Askew Dead At 80
13 April 2012 9:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Character actor Luke Askew has passed away at the age of 80.
He died at his Lake Oswego, Oregon home after a long battle with ill health on 29 March.
Francis Luke Askew first attended the University of Georgia and honed his acting skills in several Off-Broadway plays.
He later made his feature film debut alongside Michael Caine and Faye Dunaway in Hurry Sundown and he subsequently played a sadistic prison guard in Paul Newman's Cool Hand Luke.
He also took on the role of Sergeant Provo in John Wayne's The Green Berets but Askew is perhaps best known for portraying the wayward stranger who led Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper to a hippie commune in 1969 classic Easy Rider.
Askew additionally appeared in several hit TV shows throughout his career, including Walker, Texas Ranger, MacGyver, The Six Million Dollar Man, Everwood, and most recently Big Love. »
Michael Wincott to join “Alfred Hitchcock in the Making of Psycho” as Ed Gein!
25 March 2012 11:03 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
By Scott Mendelson
HollywoodNews.com: Variety broke the story, but since they have a pay-wall, I’ll link to The Playlist. I’m not one to comment on every bit of casting news as it happens, but this one is personally exciting so I’ll share. Most of the hub-bub about Fox Searchlight’s Alfred Hitcock and the Making of Psycho has focused on the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as Mr. Hitchcock and his wife. But buried in the flurry of casting news is what I can only pray is a comeback role for one of my favorite character actors. Among those joining the cast is none-other than Michael Wincott, who will be playing real-life serial-murderer Ed Gein, who allegedly served as the inspiration for Norman Bates (arguably more-so in the original Robert Bloch novel than the Hitchcock movie). Anyway, »
- Scott Mendelson
Review: Fan Favorites: MacGyver
7 March 2012 10:36 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
CBS Home Entertainment this week released seven Best of samplers from their library after letting the fans pick which episodes should be included. On Monday and Tuesday we looked at the six sitcoms but since the last one was a one-hour action show, we set that one aside.
Since its debut in 1985, MacGyver has been a fondly recalled series for both its inventiveness and for its appealing lead acting, Richard Dean Anderson. What’s interesting is that a cocreator for this was Henry Winkler who, 20 years earlier, became a smash success on Happy Days, also a part of the set. The show was popular enough to make through the 1991-1992 season and the lead’s ability to take common place elements to get out of tricky situations was popular enough to be parodied elsewhere.
The premise had Anderson play Angus MacGyver a secret agent, employed by the Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles. »
- Robert Greenberger
Stars Power At Carnival
19 February 2012 10:34 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Rio De Janeiro (AP) — As millions watch the sequin-clad samba dancers at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival parade Sunday, at least a few eyes will turn toward the stars, or at least toward the VIP boxes hosting celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Fergie.
The Carnival parade has been attracting top celebrities for much of its 80-year-long existence. Many are brought in by attention-hungry Brazilian advertisers hoping to share some of the glow of the world's biggest party.
This year, beer company Brahma is promoting Lopez while hair care company Head and Shoulders is hosting Fergie. Neither will actually parade in the all-night-long event, but they're expected to watch and perhaps wave from the posh VIP seats at the Sambadrome as 13 samba schools pull out all the stops in a fierce, sweaty competition before tens of thousands live and many more watching on television.
The numbers of top-tier celebrities in »
- AP
Charlize Theron Does Vanity Fair Shoot in Risque Bikini
2 February 2012 10:00 AM, PST | TooFab | See recent TooFab news »
It doesn't have to be a hot day for Charlize Theron to put on a sexy bikini!"Not a lot of people would get into a bathing suit in the middle of the night down the street in L.A." the gorgeous "Young Adult" star says in a video from her latest Vanity Fair photo shoot.Theron looks incredibly hot in the risque suit, which she wore for a shoot with famed photographer Terry Richardson.During the shoot, Charlize also opened up about her childhood crush."I was so in love with Richard Dean Anderson from 'MacGyver,'" Theron admits. "I'm from a second-world country, what do you want from me?"Check out more from the magazine's Hollywood issue here. Read more »
- tooFab Staff
TV Director Rich Dead At 86
30 January 2012 11:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Emmy Award-winning director John Rich has died at the age of 86.
He passed away after a brief illness at his Los Angeles home on Sunday.
Born in Rockaway Beach, New York, Rich studied at the University of Michigan and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He went on to direct a number of popular U.S. TV shows throughout his career, among them The Brady Bunch, Mister Ed, Gilligan's Island and The Jeffersons, and he won two Emmy Awards for episodes of All in the Family and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Rich also directed Elvis Presley in hit movies Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go.
He later teamed up with Happy Days star Henry Winkler to produce the series MacGyver and eventually retired from the industry in 1999. »
Saluting The Best TV Mullets
4 January 2012 12:22 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Love them or hate them, mullets are a part of our mane history. And TV characters are no exception to bad hair days.
Luckily, the simultaneously crop-top, free-flowing style is mostly in our past. (Right, formerly-mulleted, newly-engaged Mario Lopez?) But some are in our small screen present, like Dog Chapman of "Dog the Bounty Hunter," (premieres Wed., Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. Est on A&E) who is still rocking the business in the front, party in the book. To celebrate Lopez's engagement and Season 8 of "Dog," we're taking a trip down TV mullet memory lane.
Who can forget Jo's (Nancy McKeon) epic Flock of Seagulls-esque style during the later years of "The Facts of Life"? And how many times did MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) save the day while his glorious mane blew freely in the wind? Plus, there's Elvis-loving Uncle Jesse's (John Stamos) mullet, which is basically the king of mullets, »
- Chris Harnick
Saluting The Best TV Mullets
4 January 2012 12:15 PM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Love them or hate them, mullets are a part of our mane history. And TV characters are no exception to bad hair days.
Luckily, the simultaneously crop-top, free-flowing style is mostly in our past. (Right, formerly-mulleted, newly-engaged Mario Lopez?) But some are in our small screen present, like Dog Chapman of "Dog the Bounty Hunter," (premieres Wed., Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. Est on A&E) who is still rocking the business in the front, party in the book. To celebrate Lopez's engagement and Season 8 of "Dog," we're taking a trip down TV mullet memory lane.
Who can forget Jo's (Nancy McKeon) epic Flock of Seagulls-esque style during the later years of "The Facts of Life"? And how many times did MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) save the day while his glorious mane blew freely in the wind? Plus, there's Elvis-loving Uncle Jesse's (John Stamos) mullet, which is basically the king of mullets, »
- Chris Harnick
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