Posted Jun 28th 2008 2:09PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Reality-Free
No, it's not Adrien Brody's snarky older brother. It's
David Pasquesi, one of the stars of Spike TV's first original half-hour comedy,
The Factory.
Looking at
Pasquesi's IMDb page, he's done a fair amount of TV and film work, but the majority of his experience comes from both theater and improv. He currently does shows and occasionally teaches at Chicago's IO (Improv Olympic). Back in the day, he honed his improv chops under the tutelage of the legendary Del Close and was part of the class that developed The Harold. An improv geek's reaction to that would be "Holy crap!" and everyone else should be thinking, "Who's Harold?" Yeah, don't worry about it. If this interests you though, check out
this great interview he did back in '06, all about his work in improv.
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Posted Apr 28th 2008 1:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: In the Limelight, Celebrities, Samantha Who?, Reality-Free
The name Melissa McCarthy doesn't ring a bell? No, she's not Jenny McCarthy's sister (she's her cousin). You probably know Melissa under the name Sookie St.James, Lorelai's best friend on
Gilmore Girls.
This gifted actress has appeared in over 20 different TV and movie projects in the past 10 years but mostly devoted her time to
Gilmore, appearing in more than 150 episodes of the series.
The 37-year-old actress from Plainfield, Illinois, first performed on stage. She started her acting career by doing stand up and improv in New York. She attended The Actors Studio, where she studied drama. This led to a bunch of acting gigs in stage productions. When she moved to Los Angeles, the actress joined
The Groundlings as a main cast member of this improv and sketch troupe.
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Posted Apr 15th 2008 6:00PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: In the Limelight, Lipstick Jungle, Reality-Free
Good chemistry between TV couples is a rare commodity, but when Robert Buckley and Kim Raver heat up the screen as Kirby and Nico on
Lipstick Jungle, there's some major fireworks flying around.
Much of that spark can be attributed to Buckley, who inhabits the role of Kirby so well that it hardly seems like he's playing a part. Buckley took over the role from Will Toale, who played the part in the pilot episode.
The 26-year-old actor really hasn't been on the TV scene all that long. He got his start playing two roles on MyNetworkTV prime time dramas: photographer Michael Bauer on 2006's
Fashion House; and Matthew Wakefield on 2007's
American Heiress.
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Posted Apr 7th 2008 11:07AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: In the Limelight, Psych, Reality-Free
The other day was actor James Roday's birthday; on April 4, he turned 32. For the Texas born star of
Psych, life is quite nice right now.
Psych is coming back for a third season on USA this summer, and starting the other night, episodes from season two will be showcased on NBC. Oh, and he's dating Maggie Lawson, a.k.a. O'Hara, his co-star on the show.
There's a fine line between charming and obnoxious, amusing and annoying, cute and cloying, funny and trying too hard. James Roday veers close to the line. He's a daredevil of a comic actor, daring to be almost too much to take. But like other actors of his ilk, he succeeds in flying close to the sun, but never burning his wings. Like Jim Carrey or Robin Williams, James Roday is willing to push the comic envelope. So far, he's proved to me that watching him is always interesting, arresting and fun. While he may never reach the box office glory of Carrey or cop an Oscar like Williams, he's definitely going to be a TV star for today, tomorrow and down the road.
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Posted Mar 25th 2008 11:25AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Video, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Heroes, Reaper
Some of you know her as Candice Wilmer, the
Heroes character who had the ability of illusion (she could mimic someone or an environment), others know her as Andi from The CW's
Reaper. With roles like these, you have to admit that Missy Peregrym is a TV star on the rise.
25-year-old Melissa "Missy" Peregrym was born on June 16, 1982, in Montreal, Quebec, but was raised in British Columbia, where
Reaper is shot. As it is the case for many actors, Missy never dreamed of being an actress when she grew up. Actually, she wanted to be a coach. After graduating, she took on a job as a basketball coach. Peregrym eventually made it to the business by first being a model for print advertisements and then appearing in TV commercials for companies such as Mercedes Benz and Sprint Canada. These commercials paved the way for her first gig on TV: a guest starring role on FOX's
Dark Angel.
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Posted Mar 21st 2008 2:43PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: In the Limelight, Eli Stone
When I first saw the commercials for ABC's
Eli Stone, I didn't recognize Jonny Lee Miller. Then, after watching the first episode and liking him, I decided to find out who he was. Imagine my surprise when I learned that I had seen him, multiple times, in a variety of roles. And he was British! I was duly impressed and intrigued. Jonny Lee Miller was a helluva an actor, a chameleon who could be as convincing as a junkie named Sick Boy in
Trainspotting as he was a San Francisco lawyer named Eli.
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Posted Mar 4th 2008 10:27AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Lipstick Jungle
While the casting for the ladies to play the power brokers on NBC's
Lipstick Jungle was imperative, no less attention was paid for the men with whom those women would be romantically entwined. For the character of Joe Bennett, the enigmatic, high-powered, complicated Prince Charming with a dark side, producers had to be looking for just the right combination of sexual appeal and sensitive undercurrent. They found the right guy when
Andrew McCarthy was cast. The former Brat Packer could be the find of the TV season; the new McDreamy.
Continue reading Andrew McCarthy: In the Limelight
Posted Feb 28th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Prison Break, In the Limelight
Mysterious. Mesmerizing. Interesting. Dynamic. Compelling. Any and all of these words accurately describe actress Michelle Forbes. She is one of the finest actresses in television, and yet she has maintained a distinct quality that makes her as elusive a performer to come around since Garbo! Intensely private, there's not much known about the Austin, Texas native. (However, I can tell you that she collects clocks -- broken clocks. As she told me, quoting the movie
Withnail and I, "Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.")
She's currently making HBO's new drama
In Treatment appointment TV, drawing her loyal following to find her latest work as she did in
24, Prison Break, Homicide and
Battlestar Galactica. And that doesn't even take into account the millions who first discovered this chameleon when she first burst onto the scene in
Guiding Light, and then
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Posted Feb 18th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Law and Order, Daytime, In the Limelight, Celebrities
This season,
Law and Order was looking for a way to get some new energy and interest in the long-running NBC Emmy-winning series, so on the judicial end of the show, they promoted Sam Waterson's Jack McCoy to DA and cast Linus Roache as Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter. Roache is one of those familiar faces that you've seen on other shows, maybe a movie or two, but here on
Law and Order he's making you sit up and take notice. At least that's how it is for me. After watching the first two new episodes when the show returned recently, I wanted to know more about this guy. For starters, why did he remind me of a young Bobby Kennedy?
Well, it turns out that Linus Roache played Robert Kennedy in the mini-series,
RFK. The Kennedy connection was even alluded to in last week's episode; at the end of the show, after McCoy had to defend his decision to prosecute overzealous New York City cops by taking the stand in open court, Roache's character, Cutter, gives him a tie pin that once belonged to RFK. With the last line of the show, Cutter says, "I found it on EBay."
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Posted Feb 13th 2008 11:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Lost, In the Limelight, Celebrities
Sonya Walger is a busy actress nowadays. Not only does she guest star from time to time on ABC's
Lost as Penelope "Penny" Widmore but she appeared in a few episodes of FOX's
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and is starring in HBO's
Tell Me You Love Me, show that will return for a second season later this year.
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Posted Feb 4th 2008 12:00PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Gossip Girl
If you were asked "Who is
Penn Badgley?," you would probably say something like "Isn't he the guy from
Gossip Girl?" Yes, he is. Others would probably answer with "The curly haired cutie from
The Mountain?" Again, correct. But what did he do before that? Silence would probably be the most popular answer since it seemed as if he first made his mark during the canceled-rather-fast WB's
The Mountain. But what may surprise most is that Penn Badgley has been in the business for almost 10 years!
Continue reading Penn Badgley: In the Limelight - VIDEO
Posted Jan 28th 2008 11:04AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, In the Limelight, Celebrities
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If you've caught any of the first few episodes of
Cashmere Mafia, you probably know that the main reason to tune in each week is this actress in the above picture. I thought my reason for watching would be
Lucy Liu (who I love and who is ever so gorgeous) but she's been less-than-impressive and her storyline is bland and annoying. Instead I have fallen in love all over again with
Frances O'Connor who plays the quirky, intelligent Zoe Burden on the show.
After the jump, I have some information about her life, some filmography and some excerpts from interviews.
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Posted Dec 28th 2007 1:04PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Private Practice
When you hear the name "Shonda Rhimes" what words come to mind? I'm pretty sure those words are "Grey's" and "Anatomy." But what you may not know is that before writing gripping TV series such as
Grey's Anatomy and
Private Practice, Rhimes also put pen to paper for
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and -- you'd better be sitting properly on your chair before reading this -- Britney Spears's
Crossroads! Can you believe that the Emmy award winner wrote that terrible and rightfully
Razzie-nominated
Crossroads?!?
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Posted Dec 24th 2007 2:36PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Video, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Ugly Betty
Oh, Marc St. James, how are you so fabulous? Do your multiple layers of plaid infuse you with superstar powers? Does hanging around all the beautiful people of
Ugly Betty automatically make you awesome by association? Ah, the real fabulous answer most likely lies in the fact that fabulous Marc is portrayed by the fabulous actor, Michael Urie.
It's tough to shine on-screen when one's partner is often the ultra-glamorous superstar Vanessa L. Williams, but Urie manages to hold his own just fine. Dare I say it, he even manages to outshine her every once in a while. I guess the folks at TLC saw something in him too, because he will soon be on the channel as the host of their new reality show,
Miss America: Reality Check (premiering January).
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Posted Dec 3rd 2007 12:03PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: In the Limelight, Celebrities
Melinda Clarke is one of the best vixens on TV.
Last Tuesday, she appeared on The CW's
Reaper as the Devil's mistress. This guest starring role had a few of the TV Squad bloggers wonder what her age is (she's 38 in case you were wondering) since she looked so good and young that she could have passed for Sam's girlfriend on the show. TV Squadder
Joel even said "She would have topped my '
hot over 40' list if she were just a skosh older." That got me thinking that maybe it was time to put Melinda Clarke
in the limelight and let everyone know who she is and of the dominatrix roles she played!
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