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Breaking News: Juliet Landau stars in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE play on June 4 & 5

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/23/2011
Juliet Landau as Blanche Dubois in the play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Juliet Landau has found a wonderful way to honor women’s rights worldwide and the legacy of playwright Tennessee Williams. To celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of Williams’ birth, Landau is producing and playing Blanche DuBois in a staged reading of Williams’ landmark A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, with the proceeds going to the organization Equality Now. The production is directed by John McNaughton (MAD DOG AND GLORY, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) and also features Matt Williamson as Stanley Kowalski, Tara Platt as Stella and Yuri Lowenthal as Mitch, with Cyrus Farmer, Seidy Lopez, Amy Jennings, Angel Fajardo and Cody Bushee […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Bonita Friedericy on CHUCK & the Season 5 renewal – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Bonita Friedericy | photo courtesy of Bonita Friedericy

In Part Two of our exclusive interview with actress Bonita Friedericy, she tells us more about playing General Beckman on CHUCK, plus when she realized the show had a cult following and her other recent projects. ASSIGNMENT X: Beckman does show up in person occasionally, but most of the time, she interacts with Chuck et al over a computer monitor … BONITA FRIEDERICY: I’m playing a part that actually is pretty much on a monitor. I’m always either on a video camera or it’s floating away from me onto the reactions of others, which I find extremely amusing. This is […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interviews: Devin Kelley, Todd Williams & Billy Lush are THE CHICAGO CODE finest

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Todd Williams and Devin Kelley in THE CHICAGO CODE - Season 1 - "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"| ©2011 Fox/Justin Stephens

On Fox’s THE CHICAGO CODE, which has its series finale tonight at 9 PM, a group of police officers under the direction of Police Commissioner Colvin (Jennifer Beals) are trying to take down corrupt Alderman Gibbons (Delroy Lindo), while other beat cops, unaware of the operation, go about the daily business of stopping crime. Devin Kelley and Todd Williams play patrol officer partners Vonda Wysocki and Isaac Joiner, respectively, while Billy Lush plays undercover officer Liam Hennessey. The three actors stand together to talk about their experiences working in CHICAGO. [Editor’s Note: These interviews took place before the recent announcement […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE CHICAGO CODE doesn’t silence actor Jason Clarke

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Jason Clarke in THE CHICAGO CODE | ©2011 Fox/Justin Stephens

Jason Clarke has been so good at playing conflicted Rhode Island politician Tommy Caffee on three seasons of Showtime’s crime drama BROTHERHOOD, and now Chicago-born police detective Jarek Wysocki on Fox’s THE CHICAGO CODE, which has its series finale tonight at 9 PM, that people may be surprised to learn the actor is actually Australian (this may come as less of a surprise to viewers who know Clarke as Jenek from FARSCAPE.) In a soft, lilting accent very unlike Wysocki’s tough tones, Clarke talks about his time filming CODE in Chicago, including some startling incidents that he observed while doing […]Read On »


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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 1 – “A Golden Crown”

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Harry Lloyd in GAME OF THRONES - Season 1 | ©2011 HBO/Helen Sloan

Stars: Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Sean Bean, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Aiden Gillen, Jack Gleeson, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Jason Momoa Writers: Jane Espenson and David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s novel “A Song of Ice and Fire” Director: Dan Minahan Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: May 22, 2011 World-building is a slow and tough process, but GAME OF THRONES is doing the work adroitly, balancing information about the Seven Kingdoms with the engrossing character drama. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DO NOT DISTURB

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/20/2011
DO NOT DISTURB movie poster | ©2011 Warner Bros.

Rating: Unrated Stars: Diva Zappa, Eric Balfour, Troy Garity, Lindsay Pulsipher, Jason Alan Smith, Mali Elfman, Harris Goldberg, Maureen Flannigan Writers: Mali Elfman (“Maids Sequence”), Laura Henry (“Prom”), Christie Ko (“Duccios Madonna”), Jon Mann-Krieger (“Intrinsic”), Brandon Nicholas (“Death Takes a Holiday Inn”), Petro Papahadjopoulos (“Rocketman”), created by Mali Elfman Directors: Eric Balfour (“Duccios Madonna”), Laura Henry (“Prom”), Jon Mann-Krieger (“Intrinsic”), Brandon Nicholas (“Death Takes a Holiday Inn” and “Maids Sequence”), Petro Papahadjopoulos (“Rocketman”) Distributor: Warner Bros./Gravitas Ventures Release Date: May 1, 2011 Hotels lend themselves to anthologies of both the literary and cinematic varieties. Back in 1995, Quentin Tarantino, Robert […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS movie poster | ©2011 Sony Classics

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson Writer: Woody Allen Director: Woody Allen Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Release Date: May 20, 2011 Woody Allen has been writing and directing movies since 1969’s TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN (or 1966’s WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY? If one counts his before-its-time MSTK redubbed take on a Japanese spy film). He started out as a farceur, then did comedy/dramas, then tried straight drama and by 1980, he made a movie called STARDUST MEMORIES where aliens told his onscreen alter ego (played by Allen) that […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Actor Bret Harrison on BREAKING IN, REAPER & V

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2011
Bret Harrison in BREAKING IN - Season 1 | ©2011 Fox/David Johnson

Fox’s half-hour comedy BREAKING IN, trying out a Tuesday slot tonight after a run Wednesdays at 9:30 PM (even though it was canceled last week by Fox), concerns a high-tech security firm that is hired by various companies to evaluate weak points by, per the title, breaking in wherever it can be done. Bret Harrison plays Cameron Price, the firm’s newest hire, who has been more or less blackmailed into taking the gig by the firm’s mysterious boss Oz, played by Christian Slater. In some ways, Cameron and his situation don’t appear too far removed from Portland, Oregon native Harrison’s […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: CHUCK actress Bonita Friedericy on Season 4 and beyond – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/16/2011
Bonita Friedericy in CHUCK - Season 3 | ©NBC

On CHUCK, the Josh Schwartz/Chris Fedak-created NBC series that has its Season Four finale tonight at 8 PM and will be back for Season Five, the title character (Zachary Levi) is an electronics store employee turned super-spy, thanks to a ton of arcane information downloaded into his brain. His team consists of actual super-spies Sara (Yvonne Strahovski), who is now also Chuck’s love, and John Casey (Adam Baldwin), plus Chuck’s nerdy best friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez). They all take their orders from General Diane Beckman, played by Bonita Friedericy, the exceedingly stern but often compassionate authority figure who gives them […]Read On »


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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 1 – “The Wolf and the Lion”

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Sean Bean in GAME OF THRONES - Season 1 | ©2011 HBO/Helen Sloan

Stars: Mark Addy, Alfie Allen, Sean Bean, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Aiden Gillen, Jack Gleeson, Iain Glen, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, Rory McCann, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Jason Momoa Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s novel “A Song of Ice and Fire” Director: Brian Kirk Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: May 15, 2011 In “The Wolf and the Lion” episode off GAME OF THRONES, we don’t actually see any of the Dothraki, but we hear a lot about them, because King Robert (Mark […]Read On »


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